Obama Sharply Scales Back 60th Birthday Bash Amid Rising Concerns Over Delta
Former President Barack Obama was planning a huge bash this weekend to celebrate his 60th birthday. But now he’s slashed the guest list amid concerns about the COVID-19 Delta variant. Some of the hundreds of guests had already arrived, or were on their way, to Martha’s Vineyard for the Saturday party when Obama canceled the big bash and transformed it into a gathering for “family and close friends,” according to a spokeswoman.
More than 400 people, including former administration officials, celebrities, and Democratic Party donors, were planning to attend the party that included a medical “coronavirus coordinator” charged with collecting proof of vaccination and negative COVID-19 tests. Among the celebrities expected to attend were several big names, including Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg. The party, which would have also included some 200 staff, was planned as an outdoor gathering that followed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protocols. “They’ve been concerned about the virus from the beginning, asking invited guests if they had been vaccinated, requesting that they get a test proximate to the event,” said David Axelrod, a former top Obama adviser. “But when this was planned, the situation was quite different. So they responded to the changing circumstances.”
I find my sympathy lacking. In fact, given how many graduations and proms and summer camps and birthdays and anniversaries and weddings and childhoods and a million other happy occasions the Democrat-driven COVID panic destroyed, Barry and Michelle can just suck a dead possum’s asshole for all I care.
Ken Burns Responds to Criticism Around Diversity in Documentary and PBS’ Reliance on the Director
Ken Burns, a PBS mainstay and award-winning documentarian, has responded to criticism around his relationship with the public broadcaster and diversity within the larger documentary community.
Speaking to The New York Times Sway podcast host Kara Swisher for an episode titled, “Is Ken Burns Taking Up Too Much Space?” the creator of popular documentaries Baseball, Jazz, The Civil War and the upcoming Muhammad Ali documentary responded to criticisms around white documentarians like himself being the arbiters of narratives around Black figures. Burns defended his work on projects like Jazz and his latest doc focused on the famous boxer and activist, arguing that as someone who explores American history, he can’t escape covering race.
“My beat is American history and what I found over the years is that every story, regardless of whether it’s obviously this — Muhammad Ali — is going to intersect with race,” he said. “We know when we were founded, and we know why we were founded, we know our catechism: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. I’m a third of the way through the sentence and you have got to stop because the guy who wrote it owned slaves and didn’t see the hypocrisy and didn’t see the contradiction. So you can’t deal with American history, which is what I’m interested in in my heart — I cannot do this without touching on these stories.”
Sweet pale strips of Ken-flesh for “allies” to consume. You can never be too Woke for the Woke. There will always be someone with eyes more wide-open and with teeth ready to rip and tear.
Dogs know when humans are lying to them
Dogs may be able to tell when humans are deceiving them, according to a new study.
Specifically, researchers found that dogs react differently to false information given to them by a misinformed human than they do to a human who is flat-out lying to them.
The findings suggest that dogs have a “theory of mind” that they use to explain what their owners are up to. Children typically develop this ability around age 4.
“Although every dog owner thinks that their dog ‘understands’ them, such a sophisticated level of reasoning about the mental states of others had never been scientifically shown in dogs,” senior author Ludwig Huber, the head of the Comparative Cognition unit at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, and lead author Lucrezia Lonardo, a doctoral student at the Messerli Research Institute, wrote in a joint email to Live Science.
whaddup doh
Crankin’ the hog. You?
I believe that’s “optimizing my resistance to prostate cancer” now.
I try to live a healthy lifestyle.
Is that actually a thing?
Some study told me what I wanted to hear, so, yeah, SCIENCE!
We are all men of science now.
Yes. Like anything else, you have to exercise it to keep it healthy.
Also, if you’re TRULY concerned there are these products. [probably NSFW even though totes legit health products]
I’m sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the practice of “pegging” becoming fashionable.
None whatsoever.
yo I beat my dick so much it thinks Im Chris Brown
I appreciate a commitment to a healthy lifestyle.
Okay, I busted out laughing at that one. Nicely done, TC.
The alternative is “choke it like Im Ezekiel Elliot”
So dogs are smarter than at least half the American population.
Obviously
That’s setting the bar pretty low.
Dogs may be able to tell when humans are deceiving them, according to a new study.
You can only pretend to throw the ball so many times before they catch on.
Depends on the breed.
Can confirm. My Aussie’s bathtub is right off the living room where we hang out all the time. But when it’s bath time, he somehow knows, and will not enter the living room so I can shut the door and keep him in. I have to sneak his bath towels in when he’s otherwise occupied, then pretend to be just hanging out. Once I have him trapped in the area, he’s then resigned and will get in the tub voluntarily. But getting him trapped in that room takes all the deception I can muster. He. Just. Knows.
My sheepdog pretends he’s deaf. It’s fucking hilarious.
Dogs can smell really well. Your dog knows he smells, so his bath time is imminent. Your dog is looking for body language from you and you are giving it away without knowing.
Kind of how animals can tell theyre in trouble based on tiny inflections in your voice.
I teach my dogs to sit, lay down by hand signals only. Once dogs get used to that, other training like healing is really easy.
Well I know what cake I’m baking my wife for her next birthday
New meaning to the term “sugar tits”
I remember Kara Swisher’s name. She made bank off All Things D along with Walt Mossberg. Back to doing podcasts for NYT. Is that a step up or down?
Podcast is always a step down. Always. Homeless to podcast: step down. Prison riot to podcast: step down. Deceased to podcast: step down.
[Tearfully checks product return window on pro audio equipment.]
That’s a step up.
This is absolute poetry.
Has he, though? I’m not seeing any numbers on how big the party will be. I’m guessing he and Michelle consider all the invitees to be “close friends” anyway, for values of “close friend” to politicians and sociopaths.
Not the donors!
For a politician/sociopath, those are their closest friends.
Counselor! So nice to see you!! How’s the family??
What they mean by that is they’ve added Slash to the guest list.
“given how many graduations and proms and summer camps and birthdays and anniversaries and weddings and childhoods and a million other happy occasions the Democrat-driven COVID panic destroyed”
yes sir, indeed sir
Superchunk? Wow, there’s a blast from the past.
Hey, buddy . . . ,
diversity within the larger documentary community
Anybody else notice the constant references to the *insert characteristic here* communities?
It’s as if they’re some monolithic block. I suppose it’s to provide a platform for those who purport to speak for the “community,” but it’s an irritating turn of phrase and it seems to me presumptuous.
True, And I for one demand representation for the Glib community in the hall of power.
Which identity group do you represent?
Hog Crankers Local 201
We’ve filled that quota.
Short fat misanthropes in my case
Filled that quota too.
Howsabout tall, charming, and witty?
Here?!
I’m here. Sorry I’m late.
I am that quota here.
I wouldn’t belong to an identity group that would have me as a member.
It’s as if they’re some monolithic block.
Disparate impact falls apart when you start analyzing individuals. That’s why you always get this post-hoc analysis going on. If you ask people about why they decided to zig instead of zag, their answers tend to center on preferences and what’s best for them and their families. When you aggregate the data, it’s easy to point out the disparities.
This aggregate* post-hoc analysis.
I don’t feel bad for Barry, he’s had enough star-studded parties to last several lifetimes. Though I wonder what “scaled back” looks like. Going from 400 to 350?
Dogs and humans have evolved together. It is biologically advantageous for a dog to be a good companion to humans (if not, they are out in the wild fending for themselves). But it is cool to see what types of behavior they can prove.
If the virus were truly deadly, say along the lines of an ebola, Id encourage the Obamas to invite as many of their asshole friends over to hang out.
Maybe cull the herd a bit.
Masque of the Blue Death
[golf clap]
Beware and shun the unvaccinated masses.
When you go to the airport, you see two kinds of security rules. Some apply equally to everyone; no one can carry weapons through the TSA checkpoint. But other protocols divide passengers into categories according to how much of a threat the government thinks they pose. If you submit to heightened scrutiny in advance, TSA PreCheck lets you go through security without taking off your shoes; a no-fly list keeps certain people off the plane entirely. Not everyone poses an equal threat. Rifling through the bags of every business traveler and patting down every preschooler and octogenarian would waste the TSA’s time and needlessly burden many passengers.
The same principle applies to limiting the spread of the coronavirus. The number of COVID-19 cases keeps growing, even though remarkably safe, effective vaccines are widely available, at least to adults. Many public agencies are responding by reimposing masking rules on everyone. But at this stage of the pandemic, tougher universal restrictions are not the solution to continuing viral spread. While flying, vaccinated people should no longer carry the burden for unvaccinated people. The White House has rejected a nationwide vaccine mandate—a sweeping suggestion that the Biden administration could not easily enact if it wanted to—but a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults is an obvious step that the federal government should take. It will help limit the risk of transmission at destinations where unvaccinated people travel—and, by setting norms that restrict certain privileges to vaccinated people, will also help raise the stagnant vaccination rates that are keeping both the economy and society from fully recovering.
Flying is not a right, and the case for restricting it to vaccinated people is straightforward: The federal government is the sole entity that can regulate the terms and conditions of airline safety. And although air-filtration systems and mask requirements make transmission of the coronavirus unlikely during any given passenger flight, infected people can spread it when they leave the airport and take off their mask. The whole point of international-travel bans is to curb infections in the destination country; to protect itself, the United States still has many such restrictions in place. Beyond limiting the virus’s flow from hot spots to the rest of the country, allowing only vaccinated people on domestic flights will change minds, too.
Limit their travel. If that doesn’t work, off to the camps!
A bold plea for increased profiling.
Fuck you Juliette. You don’t get to decide my rights.
She’s a protege of Janet Reno and a member of the CFR. She’s the very definition of an authoritarian.
And it turns out she’s tied up with the NSO Group, the Israeli company that was selling spyware to third world dictators so they could use it against their enemies.
Ban Private Schools (or whatever the headline was) was a recent article of theirs.
“no one can carry weapons through the TSA checkpoint”
Air marshals can, of course. I believe that federal law enforcement on duty or doing prisoner transport can. Also federal security details for VIPs, I believe.
And the repeated tests of the TSA system where they identified handguns, large knives, and hand grenades at abysmally low rates.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover-airport-screening-tests/index.html
And flight deck officers (pilots) authorized to be armed.
And any other LEO that has preapproval and a need.
Note the stolen base – that COVID-19 poses a sufficient threat to restrict travel.
Show your work on that one. If flying, driving, using mass transit, taking a train, are all “not rights”, then I suppose travelling at all is “not a right”, either.
I’m eagerly awaiting the collision of vacks restrictions and disparate impact on minorities. Now that we’ve mandated vaccines, I wonder if our D & I crowd is going to notice if we fire, as seems likely, a disproportionate number of minority employees.
Dont the anti-gov’t “sovereign citizen” types use the “Im free to travel Im not conducting commerce” when they get stopped with no tags or valid license ?
I wonder if our D & I crowd
Didn’t even slow down the Title IX onslaught, not even when it was clearly and openly known. Nope. Acceptable collateral damage that was.
Race has taken over as King Factor in the grievance warz.
I was talking about how many black young men were getting thrown under the Title IX bus because the white girls regretted sex with them.
And we know that the no fly list is totally accurate
I guess we’re just pretending to ignore all the recent stories of vaxxed people getting the ’vid anyway?
or “we’re just going to ignore”
Ugh I need another drink.
The unvaccinated will still be required to pay burdensome taxation to subsidize the vaccinated using air travel, Im sure.
I was sorta hoping that the Obama birthday bash would serve as a soft walking-back of lockdown policies.
Somehow I suspect that the event won’t really be scaled back that much, basically give them an excuse to not invite certain people (life imitates art, after all). I can’t wait for the photos of unmasked ppl to start leaking.
“Barry and Michelle can just suck a dead possum’s asshole for all I care…” Why I come here.
If it was a catalyst for the shunning of the measures fantastic, but it isn’t and we know Barry and Meeeshell don’t believe everyone should share their privledge.
You mean like Newsom, Whitmer, Wolf, the Texas Democrats, Fauci, and all of the others who have been caught breaking their own rules and restrictions did?
So many questions.
Has it been “scientifically shown” in humans?
Why on earth would a pack animal not have the ability to comprende what the other members of the pack are up to?
How “sophisticated” does the “reasoning” have to be to figure out, from nonverbal cues, that somebody is lying to you?
What lies are you telling your dog?
Just the tip.
Dude . . . .
Seconded
What? I assumed you were feeding him Snausages. I don’t know what you’re thinking, you sicko.
“Good dog”, for starters.
https://vetography.blogspot.com/2016/02/getting-tutored.html
Bookmarked. Last week I took Jugsy’s boxer, The Dozer, in for a look @ a growth on his ear, and annual maintenance. I walked out $300 light in the pocket. She threw a fit (all the way from Queens, NYC) “$300 for what ? You were there not even half an hour!”
Ill send this to her.
The ‘false-belief task’ has been reproduced many times in human studies. There is strong evidence for a ‘theory of mind’, in my opinion. Particularly with the problems autistic individuals have with the task and the commonality of structural differences in the pons and cerebellum they have compared to neurotypical individuals.
HM, always glad to see you drop by. Got a link to a layman’s overview of “false-belief task” and “theory of mind”?
Forget all the intellectual crap, when’s the next Thicc Thursday?
He said we’d have trouble with the task.
Does anyone want to tell him?
A bill requiring photo identification to purchase firearm ammunition in Pennsylvania is intended to keep loaded guns out of the hands of minors, according to its sponsor, Democratic state Rep. Brian Kirkland.
Current law prohibits ammunition from being sold to anyone the seller has reasonable cause to believe is younger than 18 or 21 depending on the type of ammunition. However, sellers are not required to verify the buyer’s age by asking to see an ID.
The legislation would require all ammunition buyers in Pennsylvania to provide an official form of photographic identification with every purchase of ammunition. It would reinforce current law, ensuring ammunition is not sold to children, without infringing on any individual’s Second Amendment rights, Kirkland said.
Maybe they could do something like a literacy test, too.
Also, if poll taxes are so bad, how come there’s an excise tax on firearms and ammunition?
So blacks can’t buy ammunition?
22LR is pistol ammo!
Great.
I have had to repeatedly tell my brother over several decades “Never lie to a dog. They will remember, and then treat you like the asshole they perceive you to be for the rest of their lives.”
As long as the dog knows I’m the boss, I don’t really give a flip what it thinks of me. Treat me like I’m an asshole? Look into my eyes, doggie. I dare you. Okay, so I only had to stare down one dog once. It was a chow. I really hate those fuckers.
Otherwise, dogs like me and I pat them on the head and call their owners to come get them.
I was just thinking about all the lies I told the dog right before he went away.
That do story is gold!
The majority of the dogs chose the bucket with the food in it.
Get the fuck out of here!
Superchunk is also gold.
Driveway to Driveway.
So will Twitter and Facebook be employing dogs as fact checkers? They couldn’t do worse than they are now, if you assume their intent is to actually check facts.
I wonder if Obama will be giving copies of his books as parting gifts for that party.
Everyone gets an iPod loaded with his speeches.
That is reserved for VIPs.
But first you have to listen to him drone on about himself for hours.
So if Obama is scaling back, does that mean Pearl Jam could be available for my 60th birthday party instead?
Yes, I was born the same year as Obama.
They might count years differently where he was born.
Maybe VH or DLR, if you save Brooke Shields from drowning.
“VH”
OK, I’ve got some bad news.
Heh.
‘s OK, just get Petty or Prince to fill in.
Former President Barack Obama [slowly takes his hand out of the cookie jar]
Commies are always after your kids.
“It’s time to take a different strategic approach, and that means the right kind of mandates. And the Key to NYC Pass to me is exactly the right kind of mandate,” de Blasio said, touting the city’s vaccine passport program which forces private businesses to discriminate against unvaccinated individuals.
“[It] gives people the opportunity to live life fully — the freedom to — to live life fully simply by getting vaccinated. Even the first dose gets you in the game,” he said, touting the ease of showing proof of vaccination via a vaccination card, the NYC app, or the Excelsior pass. …
“We’re also looking forward to the point where kids can get vaccinated at a younger age. That 5-11 group. That’s not that too far away. That should be this year, in the next couple of months, so that’s going to help as well,” he said, promising further details to come on NYC’s vaccine passport program.
Children are not susceptible and therefore do not need to risk it. This is child abuse.
“… and that means the right kind of mandates.” is about all I needed to read
Democrats are the party of child abuse. Have you seen their “leader”?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/sick-girl-touched-creeper-joe-biden-camera-confirms-groped-pinched-nipple-metoo/
Jesus. What a fucking perv. And now they’re going to make things very bad for that poor girl.
What I’m hearing is that de Blasio wants to penetrate your children and pollute their precious bodily fluids.
“which forces private businesses to discriminate against unvaccinated individuals”
I remember when government mandates forced private businesses to discriminate against individuals on the basis of color. For reals.
I wonder how much trouble I’d get into if I mentioned that on social media?
We need a variation on Jim Crow for this. I’m drawing a blank.
Jim Corvid?
Folks, we have a very strong contender here. Very strong.
I like, but maybe a little too brainy – how many people know crows are corvids?
Today on glibertarians.com, I learned…..
Masturbation is a critical component of GlibFit?
It just never gets old.
That’s their problem, not ours.
That’s the beauty, they don’t have to know and it still works. At worst they think it’s a typo but still get the meaning.
Masturbation is “THE” critical component…
I didn’t. I’d say if it’s a bit brainy, just dumb it down to something like “Jim Crovid”, a portmanteau of crow+covid.
I’m with Tonio on this one.
Jim Corvid is very, very good out of the gate.
It’s like Bugs Bunny cartoons – it works on multiple levels. The idiots will react to the letters and “typo” – the smart kids will correct them.
The distance from “Jim Crow” to “Jim Corvid” is just a little too long, as far as instant association of the two by the listener/reader. I’m going with “Jab Crow”.
Aww, I’m actually blushing here…
Glibs distributed cogitation, ACTIVATE!
James Covid?
Jab Crow.
I think this is my fave so far.
I’m more angry that he’s a smarmy asshole than at the edicts, which I fully expected.
You didn’t expect him to be a smarmy asshole?
Yeah, that came out wrong.
I made it four miles, but I may have pushed too far. I was in just such a bad mood that I picked a route that could not be short-circuited and could only be completed.
Give yourself a rest tomorrow.
Nice work.
Good job. Walking fixes a lot of stuff.
Now it’s time for a different daily health exercise.
A: I’m not back to pre-surgical endurance.
B: I have a road trip coming up where most (all) of the planned stops involve a good deal of walking.
For now, I am best served by making sure I’m in a suitable shape for that.
https://www.kusi.com/la-city-council-to-consider-requiring-vaccinations-to-enter-indoor-spaces/
No.
And fuck you.
No determination has yet been made on whether such retail restrictions would extend to grocery stores.
Wow.
Do it. DO IT!
In the whole “laboratory of democracy” tradition, I am all in favor of lefty crapholes passing the most vicious vacks mandates they can think up. I want NYC to pass a “jobs program” of welding the unvacksed into their homes. I want LA to set up camps in hte desert to “concentrate” the unvacksed. I’m sick of this namby-pamby slide into totalitarianism. Put on your best lace panties and let ‘er rip.
LOL.
Careful what you wish for, though.
Why not? If the bright line is going to be crossed – let them step boldly forward. It reduces the adjustment for range.
City, not county. SM, BH, CC, WH, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, et alia could presumably do as each liked.
I don’t believe Santa Monica will let itself be outdone by the city of LA. Back in January there were big digital road signs everywhere in downtown SM threatening heavy fines to anyone not wearing a mask outdoors. Beverly Hills had “Cover That Face” banners on every other lamp post.
Hence presumably.
allegedly? theoretically?
Cop: Sir, you can’t enter that residence without a vaccine passport
Guy: But…this is my house.
Cop: Do you have a passport?
Guy: No, but this is my house
Cop: (unholstering gun) Sir, step away from the door…
“…the guy who wrote it owned slaves and didn’t see the hypocrisy and didn’t see the contradiction.”
He did and many of the other founders did. That is what the 3/5 compromise was all about, a first step in getting rid of slavery. This guy is a historian/documentarian?
Dogs lie their asses off. They deceive other dogs and humans. They are fully cognizant of the concept of deception. They are highly social creatures, of course they can detect lies in humans and other dogs.
I saw something the other day about how they can smell your mood within seconds of interacting with you. Of course they know when you are lying.
Suthen: Nice doggie…
Ridgeback: Fuck you, cracker. I’ma goin’ down fightin’.
Yeah, you’d probably know better than any of us on that score.
Crazy isn’t just for people. I feel awful for him but he didn’t give me a choice.
Dogs lie their asses off.
Indeed they do. They are hilariously bad it, mostly.
“Antivaxxers” is dishonest in this context but I won’t hold it against you even though I would gladly hold it against you, if you take my meaning.
“There’s still a large group of people who are anti-vaxxers or just don’t listen to the facts. It’s a real shame,” the former “Friends” actress told InStyle. “I’ve just lost a few people in my weekly routine who have refused or did not disclose [whether or not they had been vaccinated], and it was unfortunate.”
“I feel it’s your moral and professional obligation to inform, since we’re not all podded up and being tested every single day,” the 52-year-old added. “It’s tricky because everyone is entitled to their own opinion — but a lot of opinions don’t feel based in anything except fear or propaganda.”
Correct but not how you mean.
She drank the Kool-aid.
Get that? Her opinions based on her feeling are the correct metric by which to determine what opinions you are allowed to hold.
That is some kind of arrogance. I wonder how many cats she has.
I wonder how many people she shunned in the past because they thought vaccines would give their kids autism?
Still would.
I concur. Id split her in two like a piece of dry hickory.
#metoo
“I’ve just lost a few people in my weekly routine who have refused or did not disclose [whether or not they had been vaccinated], and it was unfortunate.”
Yeah, it’s not the unvaxed who kick the vaxed and the non-disclosers out of their social circles.
Intellectual dishonesty is what this all about. It’s not a loss of civil rights, it’s choosing to care for others, being responsible, etc.
Someone at the Blaze did some heavy lifting on why vax mandates are illegal and Jacobson is complete horseshit. He whiffs on the one legal reason that’s my wheelhouse: the Nuremburg Code. The Nuremburg Code’s adoption into federal law, as well as the adoption of the treaty by Congress, nullified Jacobson. There’s no logical way around it. That’s what the Doctor Trials at Nuremburg were about. I’m writing a piece about that at the moment. I’m going to post it up, but this guy did a bunch of good work. Dershowitz is 100% wrong on this issue, for the same exact reason he whiffed on torture warrants (unsurprisingly). It’s a philosophical blindspot for him, which amazes me.
https://www.theblaze.com/blaze-news/horowitz-why-dershowitz-is-wrong-to-apply-jacobson-decision-in-support-of-vaccine-passports
*ahem* Someone around here may have mentioned that a week or two ago.
(paraphrased) “The reason it is illegal is because of a some dude named Josef Mengele”
That Holmes sure was a piece of work.
Completely wrong, yet beloved because he was a wonderful solipsist. Believed in “might makes right” – the legal positivists. The law is what the lawmakers and lawgivers say it is. It’s probably why he’s so loved by so many lawyers, the most arrogant profession staffed by a people least qualified to hold that opinion of themselves. Notice that implicit in his opinion is that the state can draft you (that’s what the line about the best is referring to) – if fedgov can forcibly conscript people, it can certainly tie their tubes or give them the jab. He was philosophically consistent, at least. That’s where the “falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater” bullshit comes out of, too. Of course he would throw a guy protesting the Draft in jail – the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact, you know!! Complete. Piece. of. Statist-Progressive. Shit.
lawyers, the most arrogant profession staffed by a people least qualified to hold that opinion of themselves
The physicians would like a word . . . .
Complete. Piece. of. Statist-Progressive. Shit.
Agreed.
Believed in “might makes right” – the legal positivists.
Yup. They managed to strip morality out of the law. Good job, guys.
the most arrogant profession staffed by a people least qualified to hold that opinion of themselves.
I walked out of law school with a lower opinion of lawyers than I walked in with. Anybody who tells you that lawyers are smart or well heeled or elite is a fucking liar. Most of them are emotionally stunted rich kids who are indistinguishable from trailer trash* but for the cash. They happened to get a 3.8 in French postmodern ballet at a liberal arts school and eventually got a passable LSAT score through sheer repetition.
*no offense intended toward the trailer dwelling glibs. I don’t know any other racially neutral alternative to “white trash”
emotionally stunted rich kids who are indistinguishable from trailer trash* but for the cash
*sweats, tugs collar*
Doesn’t well-heeled mean well off? Seems like lawyers generally are compared to rest of population. I’m trying to figure out what you meant instead
He means bad lawyers are a dime a dozen.
I meant it as an alternative to prim and proper. I probably used it wrong… I do that a lot. ?
Which old musical is it where the dad is a lawyer and they live in a big house and struggle with upper middle class struggles like moving away? Meet Me in St Louis? Yeah, that’s not my experience with lawyers.
Anyway, point being that most lawyers I’ve been around are bitching about how they can’t pay their bills, how their significant other drinks too much, how such-and-so is such a bitch because she said something mean, and how they couldn’t remember the weekend because they got smashed and don’t remember driving home but thank God I didn’t get pulled over.
The least cool lawyer I’ve known bragged about having dinner at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
So, in my y00t, I helped my PI dad who worked for medmal lawyers. I gathered medical records and transcribed statements and interviews he conducted and suchlike. My real introduction to the medical profession gave me a bit of a sour taste in my mouth for doctors. Certain medical problems I had throughout the next 15 years only deepened that opinion.
My point: Lawyers > doctors.
“I don’t know any other racially neutral alternative to “white trash”…”
I’ve always used ‘hilljack’.
Isn’t that a Mick Jagger movie?
I don’t know that I can articulate it, but I think there’s difference between hilljack and trailer trash. Hilljack, to me, denotes agricultural. Trailer trash doesn’t. Hilljacks launch anvils with dynamite. Trailer trash launch meth labs with.. well… meth.
I’m surprised we’re not launching anvils with dynamite right now.
The term hereabouts, by the way, is “Willowbilly.”
I walked out of law school with a lower opinion of lawyers than I walked in with.
LOL. My younger brother had the same experience. He’s an eternal optimist and I’m generally a cynic, the source of many good-natured disagreements between us, and he told me that law school more than anything else he experienced (including interning for a US Senator) made him think I might be right in my general outlook.
no offense intended toward the trailer dwelling glibs. I don’t know any other racially neutral alternative to “white trash”
Plebeian? But trailer trash is fine, I think, as I’ve never took it to encompass everyone who lives in trailers but rather just those people that everyone else in the trailer park looks down on.
You can quickly figure out how much of a liar a lawyer is by asking a few questions about the US Constitution.
If they wont admit that the constitution is the supreme law and all federal and state laws must fit into its limitation, enumerated powers, granted rights, and protected rights…they are shitty lawyers. That basic constitutional law.
Then you have lawyers who advocate exceptions to protected rights, when the constitution does not provide for them. 2nd amendment does not provide for any gun control laws. None.
Then you have lawyers who think it okay for the fed or state governments to do anything as if power comes from government officials. The fed nor states have plenary powers. Their respective constitutions must grant the powers they seek.
Its why obamacare is so unconstitutional. There is no power for the feds or states to force people to buy a product or service. None. Its why commie roberts contorted the penaltax, because can tax you.
3 months ago the CDC said that 35% of the country had covid already. Since then, they’ve poisoned almost half the nation with their “vaccines”.
What the fuck logic are they gonna manufacture for the next set of lockdowns? It’s obvious they’re gonna try. Look at the daily “news” and panic porn.
They’re literally aiming for “zero cases”. They have said this.
That is the clue that this will never end.
One cannot eradicate a virus. We just have to ride it out until it mutates to something less harmful, which this one is doing. They are about to lose their pretense for the huge power-grab thus the increased shrieking and invention of new pretenses for why they can never let the power go.
A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA
by Thomas Jefferson
‘Historian’
Top. Men.
To add to this, I think one of the early drafts of the Declaration of Independence (the selfsame document he’s quoting) also contained writing by Jefferson denouncing the slave trade. Yeah, he was a hypocrite, but most people who push for social improvement are. Propositions should be considered apart from the messenger. Which is not to say the messengers shouldn’t be criticized (they should), just that it doesn’t diminish the message.
A little Googling proves my memory correct. In the first draft he wrote what would be honed to be that famous line:
And later wrote this:
It’s also worth broaching the complexities of the law at the time. It usually wasn’t as simple as just signing a piece of paper and the slave walking away free.
Not to say that any of the founders were justified in their moral cowardice, but it at least tempers the derision if you take the complexities of their environment into account.
I dont think it was hypocrisy because the realities of the time were such that many of the Founders owned slaves or had slaves passed down from their parents.
They also wanted form a country from 13 colonies where 4 of those colonies were not going to give up slaves.
The founders set 1808 as the hopeful date which slavery could be abolished. 4 slave states agreed to that.
As a Libertarian, I would never own another person. If the founders were libertarians and not classic liberals, the USA might never have existed.
Be careful viewing history from modern lenses.
I am pretty sure Jefferson recognized the hypocrisy and contradiction.
And I am at least the 3rd to point this out. Oh well, it bears repeating.
*raises hand* 4th
It’s hard to hold down a job and keep up, isn’t it.
Not only did they recognize it, they intentionally kicked the can down the road, knowing it would be a problem later.
They had a choice. Either form a new country that included the 13 colonies, or go straight from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War.
Meant to add:
At a time when I believe the South would have held the advantage.
For sure. I think that they, over-optimistically hoped that it would die on its own.
That is just my supposition, though.
It was going to die on its own. Farm machinery was going to kill it. Slavery was already a walking dead man by the time the war started.
You can say, “thank you” to the Supreme Court for randomly declaring the political compromise – the Missouri Compromise – that the states “in Congress” had managed to work out. Yes, Dred Scott is awful on so many levels, but that decision in 1857 is what doomed the country to war. The fucking Nazgul made it impossible for it to die on its own by declaring the Mizzou Compromise an “unconstitutional taking” of property without due process.
Yep. From a utilitarian perspective, as the mechanization of farming progressed, the economic viability of slavery decreased.
Slavery was very slowly dying, until the cotton gin made cotton plantations, with slaves, a profitable venture.
Would there have been a Civil War though? Or would the 2+ resulting smaller countries been easier targets for outside powers?
Hard to say, without Virginia the Northern colonies would’ve been screwed either way.
Maryland was also a slaver state. Like Virginia, plantations and slavery were common in the coastal areas. The Mason-Dixon line is the MD/PA border.
True, but the center of power in the colonies was in Virginia, IMO.
A fair argument could be made for Pennsylvania too though.
Yeah it is funny to read and think of New York, including NYC, as a lesser state than Massachusetts was at the time.
They kind of had to kick the can down the road considering the political realities. When the Declaration of Independence was crafted, slavery was legal in every state, and when the Constitution was being ratified it was still legal in two states north of the Mason-Dixon line (New York and New Jersey) as well as all states south of it.
To put that into perspective, a quick look at the 1790 census reveals that approximately 60% of the US population at the time of the ratification of the Constitution lived in a state where slavery was legal (47% in the south and 13% in the north). The abolitionists were not going to win that argument.
It is amazing some of the claims made about the founders in the face of so much of their own writings.
These clowns do not think that any research beyond, ‘slavery bad m’kay’ is necessary or worthwhile.
They are only regurgitating Zinn and his ilk.
So I can continue to refrain from venturing into Richmond and spending money.
Several Richmond restaurants will now require a proof of vaccination or negative COVID test if customers do not wear a mask.
A handful of restaurant owners have made the decision over the weekend to once again require masks for both employees and customers. If customers do not follow the mandatory mask policy, they will be required to show a proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within the last 72 hours before dine-in. …
Last week, the Virginia Department of Health recommended people to where masks while indoors, regardless of vaccination status. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), those who are vaccinated can still carry and spread the virus to those who are unvaccinated.
I know its a triviality, but this caught my eye: “Last week, the Virginia Department of Health recommended people to WHERE masks while indoors”
“Also, Patel has seen a decrease in business over the weekend.
“It’s concerning. I don’t know that it was specifically due to that but part of me feels that it could be. ”
Gee…
Where is General Grant when you need him?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-9861651/COVID-Arkansas-governor-admits-REGRETS-ban-mask-mandates-cases-hospitalizations-surge.html
the shame of Little Rock: most serious cases in east Arkansas beg to be flown to Memphis. We know how to sew up a GSW.
Seriously, long states have weird states. Consider how many ICU beds in MEM, BNA, and CHA are occupied by out of staters.
He’s going to be ex governor if he keeps talking that shit in Arkansas.
That’s actually a lot. Our ICU is at normal (pre-Vid) census without the ‘Vid patients (call it just under 20). We’re still pretty stable at between 10-20 total ‘Vid patients, and I think around 6 in the ICU. During the main wave last winter, we were up to 50 ‘Vid patients in the ICU.
ICUs are expensive to run (you need more nurses, mainly, and somewhat more expensive doctors). They usually run at no less than 80% capacity. So, with that many ‘Vid patients in ICUs, I’m betting the hospitals have had to convert regular units to ICUs. That 1,100 ICU beds probably includes the converted units.
“19% are kids “
Horse many of those are COVID?
I’ll bet a significant percentage are RSV.
How many…
What is the current case fatality rate in Arkansas? That’s the question.
0.941% over the past week.
DIVOC is your friend. Love their population adjusted graphs.
I laughed more than I should have
https://ibb.co/BK5n5Yx
Along those lines. . . .
I’m saving that one
I wasn’t around back then but this strikes me as off. I think all of them were quite aware of it.
“He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.”
Got my interview for my promotion tomorrow morning. Damn zoom interview. Oh well, it will be hard to look things up if its a question I don’t know off the top of my head. However, pulled my written interview to make sure I don’t rehash things I wrote down.
I have a feeling some Los Angeles folks are trying to find a way out and move to NV so there are a lot of candidates. I am confident as long as my whiteness and manliness isn’t a factor.
I am confident as long as my whiteness and manliness isn’t a factor.
It’s becoming more and more of a factor with each passing day. People, especially white women, are getting pretty damn bold in their racist/sexist pronouncements in favor of DEI.
Take a look at any professional awards line-up. If there are any white men in there, you can immediately discard them as potential winners. I’ve seen it several times for various bar association, etc. awarads. The white guys never win.
For your sake, OBE, I hope all the candidates are white men. It may be the only way you’ll get fair consideration.
Apparently, our massa in Baton Rouge, John Bell Edwards, has issued some coof-related decrees that I will continue to ignore.
Statewide mask mandate. Also the senate rejected the veto override on constitutional carry. Fuckers. I have seen this tactic before. Vote yes confident of a veto. When the chance comes to override the veto, fold. Such slimy fuckers.
How do you say fucking scumbags in Louisiana Creole?
“Fuckin’ Scumbags”
My brother often uses “Trashbags”
I have tabs open with email for all of my parish, state, and nationally elected officials. Planning on writing them this evening.
Is it squishy Rs or the fact that there are no Ds who support constitutional carry? A quick look at the LA legislature breakdowns shows an overwhelming, but not veto-proof, Republican hold on the legislature (1 vote short of the ability to override in the House).
It had almost complete support of both parties. Apparently our pinko governor put a lot of pressure on the dems who were supporting it and he got three of them to flip. We are being assured that as soon as we get an R in the Governor’s mansion it will pass. I am not holding my breath.
+ 1 Lucy with a football
Ozy – If mandatory doses of experimental drugs are illegal will they try to fast track FDA approval to get around that? Is it legal to mandate the dosing with approved (non-experimental) drugs?
This^^^^. See Chapter ___ of the anthrax book. After Doe v. Rumsfeld in 2004, in which a fed’l judge found the vaccine to be unlicensed and therefore investigational, the DoD got the FDA to fix what it had done wrong over the Christmas holiday. In the hierarchy of govt agencies, the DoD throws a LOT more weight than the FDA, at least it used to. So, the DoD made the FDA jump through the necessary hoops in order to make the fedl judge’s finding moot. (Interesting FN, that fed’l judge was Emmit Sullivan. Yep. Gave us a great result in Doe v. Rumsfeld, and subsequently lost his mind with Genl Flynn.) An interesting additional point was that in subsequent Equal Access to Justice Act action, the plaintiff’s were awarded their lawyers’ fees against the govt. This requires finding that the govt’s arguments were “not substantially justified” – which falls short of saying it was frivolous, so no lawyer gets impugned, but awards the plaintiff their lawyers’ fees.
However, even if it’s not deemed experimental, mandatory vax for the population is still not the “settled law of the land.” We may be in a crazy time right now, but as I’ve said above, you still can’t get beyond what Horoqitz wrote in that Blaze article AND what I’ve said about Nuremberg being adopted into US law, including in all of the FDA regs on vaccines. Informed Consent is the law of the land, not Holmes flippant rhetorical swish about unlimited state power over the citizenry.
Thank you.
The recent DOJ memo greenlighting employer mandates to be vaccinated shows a remarkable ignorance of what “informed consent” means. The DOJ breezily asserted that employers could fire employees, require them to be tested, etc. if they didn’t consent to be vaccinated, saying the the EUA prohibitions on inducement and requirements for informed consent applied only to the people administering the vacks.
Informed consent, though, requires that nobody “induce” you with rewards or punishment. It can be obtained only when someone is fully informed of the risks, benefits, etc., and freely consents to the treatment. Telling somebody they will be fired if they don’t consent means its not good informed consent for medical purposes. The only “inducement” is the outcome of getting the treatment or not getting the treatment. IMO, any employer reward or punishment for a medical treatment negates good informed consent, regardless of whether it is research or not. But this was also cast aside for the flu vaccine, which Our Masters have long allowed employers to fire people for not getting.
Much of what has been written recently about informed consent is in the research area, where exceptions had to be made to the prohibition on inducement in order to allow payment of research subjects (often necessary to get enough subjects).
Stupid mouse.
But the only inducements allowed in research are positive inducements (payment, free followup care, that kind of thing). No IRB on the planet would approve a study that said anyone who declined to participate would be barred from, well, anything at all.
the flu vaccine, which Our Masters have long allowed employers to fire people for not getting.
I have never ever heard of such a thing.
The man has a way with words. And FWIW, I completely agree with the sentiment.
I was thinking more along the lines of, ‘Eat a bag of syphilitic donkey dicks.’ His works too though.
Why not both?
Remember when Joan Rivers said that Michelle was a man?
I was going to ask about the difference, until I remembered politicians are a subset of the latter group.
Politicians ⊂ Sociopaths ⊂ Incompetents
Central park Karen may not have just been racist. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-real-story-of-the-central-park
fuck sake.
No wonder everyone’s moving to manga or mango or mongo or whatever the hell it’s called.
Mandingo
That’s infuriating.
Also scary, how easily your life can be derailed by other people, a world full of strangers believing what they’re told to believe about you.
Yeah, that story always seemed too pat. But because TMITE, they couldn’t resist turning into National News.
The racism crap is crap. Had a white man behaved in the same way she would have reacted the same. The Christian guy acted very unwisely. I am guessing he was tired of stepping on dog shit in an area dogs are forbidden to go.
Being confrontational with strangers is always a bad idea.
This is an important point. Redemption is unavailable for those who have offended the Woke cult. Murderers? Sure. Child rapists? Why not? But if you stray from the politically correct line? You are to be assumed to eternally sinful.
Thus their hatred for Christianity. Redemption is the foundation of Christianity.
Reasonably good intuition and good at picking up on cues, yes. Not news to any dog owners. However, a dog is still a dog, and they are pretty dumb as animals go.
That depends on the individual animal. See: humans.
I have one that is dumb as a brick and another that I once caught trying to figure out how to use the keypad lock on the back door. She was standing on her hind legs with a forepaw on either side of the key pad. She was being very still and staring intently at the keypad. After half of a minute or so she started punching the keys. I thought “Shit, I better not leave the car keys laying around where she can find them. I will be getting a call from the Sheriff “Yes Sir Mr. Suthenboy, we have Boots down here. We caught her going 75 in a 45 and she doesn’t have a driver’s license.”
Heh I am reminded of several Dean Koontz novels that feature curiously intelligent dogs.
Yeah, there’s a big range. I’ve had a couple of hound dogs that just weren’t that bright and a couple of terriers that were brilliant, brilliant for dogs anyway.
Boots, the lock picker dog in question, is half Australian Sheepdog and half Labrador. I have had a few very smart labs, one of which was Boot’s mother.
I’ve had, let’s see, 6 pit bulls. All dumb as rocks. I think the females were marginally less dumb.
I had a Newfoundland male that was very smart indeed. Very large, smart, and an alpha makes for a challenging pet.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2021/08/oregon-health-care-workers-must-get-covid-19-shots-or-submit-to-weekly-testing-governor-says.html
Not only is she issuing a directive to private parties, there is a state law that explicitly prohibits vaccination mandates for healthcare workers.
But this is an EMERGENCY!
Yea well that law was probably written like 10 years ago by old white men who were racist.
They will argue its not a true mandate because you can just be tested weekly instead.
Of course, they also strongly imply they will make it a real mandate once the vacks goes off the EUA.
I bet the nurse’s association is getting an earful from some of their members for supporting this. I guarantee you the law prohibiting mandates was pushed through with their support.
FWIW, Deblasio’s edict already does not allow for testing out of it.
How about having had it already?
Deblasio’s edict does not allow for having had it already.
Well, when I was an EMT I had to get a bunch or vaccinations. Including an annual flu shot that I was told, “It’s not mandatory, but if you don’t get you can’t work”.
“Local Costco is packed. Everyone pretty much senses more fascist lockdowns coming. Stock up.”
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1422985541100851202
I hope he’s wrong.
IANAL but it seems to me everything except vaccine development that govt has done with regards to the cootie bugs is illegal. I lean towards that being the whole point: to see how many laws they can break and get away with it until that becomes accepted practice.
I give them March 2020 as an initial panic. April and beyond was pure totalitarian overreach because they knew they could get away with it.
Sam’s trip tomorrow to stock up a bit. Nothing crazy (we learned from last year and have some more supply on hand) , but we want a bit more buffer in the reserve. Honestly, I’m less concerned about targeted shortages and more concerned about an ensuing economic collapse and/or becoming personae non grata due to our faith or our vaccination status.
ensuing economic collapse
I dug out my 401k managers number to call and see how much I can transfer to crypto. Somewhere I heard that is an option but I have no idea if that is true. I idiotically never did get into any of that because……. I am an idiot.
Same here. Meh, hindsight and all that…
That is my concern too. I really don’t want to have to buy all my groceries from Amazon or whatnot.
Doesn’t he live in SC? I highly doubt it there unless people are just worried bout the supply chain in general although the mood right now does remind me of late Feb/early March of last year.
Where’s Cernovich located?
“Orange County, California”
Local Costco was normal today. I didn’t see any sign of stocking up. Unless a sweet-ass 82″ TV is prepping.
They stock tri-tip here, which is cool.
Dogs may be able to tell when humans are deceiving them, according to a new study.
Why are people studying this?
Better than gain of function research with deadly viruses?
Plus, you GET TO WORK WITH DOGS. C’MON!
This is an excellent point.
Adventures in Online Dating
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Me: Why did the pizza burn the hipster’s tongue? Because he ate it before it was cool.
Her: Is that somehow related to eating pussy?
Me: I suppose it could be with enough effort. There are restaurants in Japan where men eat off of naked ladies. That must make for interesting job interviews.
“What did you do at your last job?”
“I was a plate.”
Her: I’ve never had sushi but I would probably be a plate
Me: Yeah, the life of an animate utensil is not for me. Which reminds me of the terrifying philosophical implications of the cursed servants in Beauty and the Beast.
Her: Anne rice wrote a version of beauty and the Beast that’s erotica. Beauty was a sex slave
Me: Kinky. Was it called “50 Shades of Grey Poupon”?
Her: [sends pic her with her underwear in her mouth]
Me: You see, that’s the sort pic that I just couldn’t pull off. Not that I’ve ever tried to entice women by sending them pictures of me with my underwear in my mouth. There’s a first time for everything though.
***
. . .
I got nuthin’.
One of my worst dates: She excuses herself to the restroom before our food had arrived. She arrives back just as the food arrives. In front of the wait staff she plops her panties down on the table in front of me just as the waiter was about to set my plate down. Half way down he had to wait for me to pick the panties off of the table. The only thing good about that date was getting to see the smirk on the waiter’s face.
And the two of you have been happily married for over 20 years.
Nope. Not that. one. She was nuts and not in the good way. That date was the first and last I had with her.
I had to go through a hundred of them before I found a good one. Once I found her I never looked back.
Me: ” You know, we have been married for 20 years.”
Mrs. Suthenboy: “How could I not know? You have been telling me that for five years.”
I am at that age where time just goes so fast I lose track.
No man ever put his hand up a girl’s skirt searching for her library card. –Joan Rivers
er, a library card
That sounds promising. I LOLd.
Of the 40 or so women I’ve messaged this week, about a dozen responded and 2 turned out to be whores. It is, however, nice to know that the local rates are affordable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How many turned out to be dudes?
So far, those LARPing as women have been considerate enough to self-identify. I saw a profile pic I could charitably describe as “least convincing drag queen ever”.
This week’s entrant to my gallery of horrors was a nose-ringed single mom with herpes and a throat tattoo.
She’s single and ready to mingle, guys!
nose-ringed single mom with herpes and a throat tattoo
I only count two of those as pretty much automatic disqualifiers.
What do you have against single moms and nose rings?
I was picturing a half bald guy with a huge, hairy belly sitting naked at his computer reading replies and tugging one out.
them: wear a mask; get vaccinated
me: stop giving money to Chinese virus labs
I bet we still are, too. I haven’t heard that we stopped.
That would be a good question to ask Saint Doctor Fauci next time he does a presser.
He gets very defensive when asked. There was the hissy fit with Rand Paul. Then again with Deucy. He really gets worked up, Dr. Iamscience.
When Americans finally admit communist china used a biological weapon on us, the commies in America can say “we paid the chinese to do this to us, so we have no casus belli”.
Late, but Humpday Zoom
starts at 8:30pm EST
tdpri