Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Arizona’s Maricopa County supervisors, state GOP Senate reach deal over routers in election audit
Manchin wishes to delay 3.5t monstrosity until 2022.
Senate parliamentarian says Democrats cannot include immigration reform in reconciliation package
Biden Administration Warns States Federal Debt Crisis Might Trigger Recession – so let’s spend another 3.5t!
The media sure loves missing/dead attractive white women.
Democrat’s new tax hikes contain subsidies for journalists.
Colorado officials warn of inflated COVID death statistics
LOL.
Judge Orders to Evict Long Island Man Who Did Not Pay Mortgage for 23 Years
The Photo That Sums Up the ‘Far-Right’ Rally
Conan says NBC tried to ban Norm Macdonald from his show
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“It was one thing when we could use it as a cudgel against OMB, but times are different now.”
I am not paying attention to any statistics because they are ALL being “massaged” to allow the people in power to scare people silly. And the fact that they are fucking around with the facts tells me that their priority has nothing to do with healthcare, and everything to do with pushing some (political) agenda…
and by massaged, you mean tortured.
And by tortured, mean…
Manchin wishes to delay 3.5t monstrosity until 2022.
Good. Even better would just to kill the thing forever but we all know that’s not really an option for these vile creatures. With what’s happening in the world a gigantic unfocused wish list style tax and spend bill is guaranteed to be a disaster. The only people upset by this are insane ideologues and people with their own items on the wish list. This bill offers nothing but bullshit and pain for the average working American like me.
By 2022 that $3.5T monstrosity might only be able to allow the racket to piss away $1.5T in adjusted dollars (for inflation), so they will then have to spend $9T to make that difference up!
/enterprising team blue crime syndicate rep
It really is criminal how these political creatures see spending. It’s looting on such a grand scale it makes BLM looting seem inconsequential and small.
Why do you think they don’t even bat an eye at the $2 billion destruction/looting/damages that those peaceful protests caused? They are in the business of stealing trillions. Billions are pocket change to them….
Besides, “Make the insurance companies pay in the name of social justice!” does real well on the polls. Of course the idiots that then get mad when the insurance company tells them all that their premiums across the board have gone up, they will assume that they are being gauged by the evil profit seeking business, never making the connection their support for the fucking evil shit and politicians supporting this criminal activity has to the rise in premiums.
Multiple public officials in Colorado are warning that the state’s official COVID-19 death count is skewed due to the practice of conflating patients who have died directly due to the disease with those who have merely tested positive for it prior to death.
No
fucking
way.
But that’s just Colorado, right? Surely the other 49 states wouldn’t count COVID-19 deaths in such a deceitful way?
Pffffttt…everyone was scammed. I feel bad for the 2-5% of people who will never, ever let go of the virus paranoia. I mean I feel bad for the people who have to interact with them.
They will serve a purpose. They will shamble about with their masks for years serving as a visible reminder to everyone else why you don’t let shit get out of hand as we did with this.
Yes.
From your mouth to god’s ears.
I feel bad for us, since that “2-5%” you are talking about is requiring masking indoors, vax cards to enter a bar/restaurant starting in 3 weeks, and is now floating mandatory COVID vaxes for elementary aged children.
^this
That 2 to 5 per cent is running the country.
But if they didn’t have the ‘vid, the other thing wouldn’t have killed them!
What? A grand piano dropping on their head?
Exactly! Without the sniffles, she would have heard the piano falling, and she would have had better balance to dodge it! Thus covid was a necessary cause of her death!
#logic
and it’s like, ‘Oh, well that was a typo. They just got put in there by acciden.'”
What they did there was seen.
OFFFS!
Just buy NPR some printing presses and be done with it.
We’ve been doing it up here for decades. Who the fuck buys ad time on the CBC? I wonder why they love the Liberal Party the way that they do.
This site should qualify – it was founded on the basis of reporting news that was #TooLocal!
Depending on the details, I can offer free subscriptions to my newly created local newspaper.
How much of that thing is personal adds looking for freaky shit?
Not enough.
Unless it is 90% ball gag, gimp, and clown porn, no tax payer should be forced to pay for that drivel!
Clown makeup can hide a multitude of sins.
So true!
Democrat: “I want someone else to pay for my NYT and WaPo subscriptions. How can I word this so everyone still has to pay for their own WSJ subscription?”
The “lefty” sites are always ready to shut you down if you use an ad-blocker. The “righty” sites don’t seem to give a fuck. Make of that what you will.
Great, more tax loopholes!
Killer links Banjos. The Evergrande story is now going mainstream, contagion is spreading. I think we have a real one. People have been warning about this since 2018. But no one ever listens to Cassandra.
May your Monday be ever grande
I read about it over the weekend, it could get real fun, real fast,
First they block the Suez canal, and now this!
China was loved by our Wall Street élite, because they envied the CCP’s power to simply lie about the economics (or lack there off) going on so they could inflate GDP growth and the value of investing in China. The whole thing is a house of cards, but because the CCP denied real financial auditors from doing that, these crooks kept propping up the CCP and enriching its members at the expense of the American economy and its people’s wellbeing & future. The big problem I see – beyond the fact that all that wealth they claim exists because of China investments is only a fraction of what they pretend it is – that China’s laws make it impossible to repatriate any investments (or profits). When China finally is forced to take it in the teeth for all the cheating, a lot of these Wall Street types and members of our credentialed kakistocracy will go down with it.
Hopefully they do.
I’m not underestimating their capacity for avoiding accountability though. They’ll happily fuck over the pensioners and granny and ask for bailouts.
They are too big to fail. There is a definite agreement with government that when this happens, those that are in good standing (the ones government chooses as the winners) will be bailed out by taxpayer funds. Those not on the naughty list (being on that list is what makes you a winner to the government) will be sacrificed on the altar of virtue signalling. But have no doubt the connected will end up even better off when the shit they have been doing blows up in their face, because our kakistocracy is about protecting itself and those it deems deserving.
The hell they will. I’m old enough to remember 2007, when a bunch of shitheads crashed the world economy…and got bailouts.
I was saying that they will go down with China when the shit hits the fan for China, and I stand by that. I also pointed out earlier in the post those of them that were in the people in power’s good graces would get bailouts on the tax payers dime. These two events are not mutually exclusive…
Remember too that many of the same shitheads are still in the financial World. They tried to blame average Americans for the Great Recession but average Americans feel the impact of Moral Hazard when they make shitty financial decisions.
These financial fraudsters repackaged worthless mortgages into securities and then lied that the securities were ALL GOOD.
Their bailouts should have been a wood chipper.
On that same note: Because American vehicle manufacturers got bailouts from their shitty vehicle designs/business models, these companies are still doing the same stupid shit because there is no Moral Hazard for them.
Case in point is lane assist. This complex system is part of the many “safety features” put on nearly every new car. Many people dont want these items but the cost is being put across all new vehicle sales. These systems require chips, which are in short supply and add maintenance costs. I know first hand because when I called to get a quote for an alignment after buying new tires, they asked if I had lane assist. Lane assist added 4 times the cost to an alignment.
People do conveniently ignore history when it suits their nefarious purposes.
The USSR also demanded that all Commie business, research, science, education, agriculture was portrayed as the World’s best! Anyone in charge who was defeatist about this Commie policy was sent to the Gulag or shot. It produced predictable results because nobody wanted to give bad news for the Commie system.
When I see the picture of the Fed Boys at the “rally” I remind myself, We actually pay these idiots to do this shit,
We need better help, sheesh,
That picture is turning into fodder for great memes.
Yeah but with their rates these are still some pricey memes. Glowies are worse than useless.
What kills me is that we are making memes instead of pointing out this was a clear setup by the deep state in order to try to manufacture something (like the Jan 6 bullshit) to allow the criminals running our country define America’s most existential threat as being those that oppose the corrupt government entities that have destroyed this country and its future.
Everyone paying attention knows it. Everyone glued to CNN and the mainstream news (like my mother) will never believe it.
Speaking of random numbers
California, which at one point was the country’s epicenter of COVID-19, is now the state reporting the lowest positivity rate per 100,000 people, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. As of Saturday evening, 24.99 new confirmed cases were reported for every 100,000 people in California, Johns Hopkins University data found.
The state reported a daily average of 8,172 new cases over the past eight weeks, and averaged 92 deaths due to COVID-19 complications per day during that same time period, according to the California Department of Health. As of Saturday, more than 77% of California’s population is vaccinated, according to the state’s Health Department.
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Trailing close behind California in positivity rates are Maryland, reporting 25.34 new cases for every 100,000 people, and New Jersey, reporting 26.74. Florida currently has the highest positivity rate in the country, with 262.30 of every 100,000 people testing positive for COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins.
I love the way they blithely extrapolate “per cent of tested” to “per cent of general population”. That’s totally legit.
Goddamn that was either cute or terrifying.
That Maricopa thing? I’ll believe it when I see it.
Oh, I’m sure it will happen as described. The question is who now has the hard drives and will the special master personally extract this data, or is the SM going to get files from the County’s IT dept?
If they know what data will be looked at, then they know what data they have to massage.
I think they are going to hire Crowdstrike to do the extraction.
Brenda Bock, the county coroner for Grand County, told Attkisson that in November she processed a murder-suicide case “and the very next day it showed up on the state website as COVID death.”
“And they were gunshot wounds,” she continued. “And I questioned that immediately because I had not even signed off the death certificates yet, and the state was already reporting them as COVID deaths.”
Plague-induced stress. Anybody can see that.
And don’t forget, if the ambulance crew didn’t need to spend time on covid protocols, they might have gotten there in time to save them.
??
They won’t recognize you if you aren’t wearing a suit. Reminds me of the military trying to blend in with civilians.
Power to the Glibronis!
MUZZLED
A group of former and current Republicans said Sunday that their ad criticizing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) pandemic response was pulled from airing during Saturday night’s University of Texas-Rice football game. “Despite being cleared by ESPN’s legal department, 10 minutes before kickoff, we were informed that the ad would not run,” the Lincoln Project, founded to oppose former President Donald Trump, said in a statement. “When asked why, we were told it was a ‘University-made decision.’ Did Greg Abbott or his allies assert political influence to ensure the advertisement was not broadcast?”
A spokesman for Abbott said the governor had nothing to do with pulling the ad, and the University of Texas did not expeditiously respond to a request for comment, The Dallas Morning News reports. “Abbott is a University of Texas graduate. He appoints members of the school’s board of regents.” The ad, “Abbott’s Wall,” says you could create an 85-mile-long wall of caskets from the more than 60,000 Texans who have died from COVID-19, or fill a cemetery that stretches between Austin and San Antonio.
The Lincoln Project said it spent $25,000 to air the spot nationwide on the Longhorn Network, and it “will be filing a Freedom of Information request with the University of Texas at Austin and Greg Abbott’s official office to determine if any communications were made between the school and those within the governor’s office in regards to this First Amendment-protected speech.” The group said “several sources” had informed it “of the political panic inside the governor’s office and campaign organization.”
Greg Abbott kilt them folks just as sure as if he pulled the trigger his own self.
The Lincoln Project is still a thing? How the hell do they have any credibility left?
They really didn’t have any credibility to begin with; my question is how do they have any money left?
Look at which team blue politicians and team red never-Trumpers funnel money to them, and you will know.
Shouldn’t they be off on some sexual misconduct escapade? Oh, and fundraising to enrich the leadership.
I love that “formed to oppose former President Donald Trump” morphing into opposing every Republican they can find. Oh I suppose they love them some Lynn Cheney.
That’s fucking stupid even for the Lincoln Project.
The Lincoln Project, founded to funnel money to its founders so they could spend more of their time soliciting boys foe sex…
Yeah. It’s a pedo org, clear and simple.
“I texed them at 2:30am just before I hit ‘publish.’ They didn’t respond until hours later. “
Straining credulity in the opening sentence, it’s a bold move Cotton, let’s see how it plays out for them.
NPR was spinning Milley’s story in the Woodward book this morning. “Milley accurately stated that JCOS make phone calls to foreign generals all the time.”
I’m sure they share launch codes too.
Clever spin. I have no doubt we have generals that confer with other generals of foreign nations. But hey NPR, lets focus on the content of that call…you know, like you guys did in the years between 2016-2021 with a certain other person.
“85-mile-long wall of caskets…a cemetery that stretches between Austin and San Antonio”
JHTFC. Bad writers love those contrived measurements using shit placed end-to-end.
If all the girls at the prom were laid end to end, and they probably were….
So the Lincoln Project wants to build a wall?
Neither Texas nor Florida have seen any results especially worse (nor better) than other large states (and similarly populous countries in Europe and the Americas). Targeting them is purely about hiding any evidence that shows masks, lockdowns, and now vaccines don’t really do anything.
No Squatter’s Rights in New York? Time for a protest, everyone deserves rights.
Plenty good squatter’s rights in NYC. Check out the sidewalk steamers, they don’t call it the Big Apple for nothin’
Jobs!
Fencing around the Capitol installed ahead of the “Justice for J6” rally on Saturday started coming down on Sunday afternoon, according to footage shared by several reporters on Twitter.
“And just as fast as it went up, the fence erected around the Capitol for the ‘Justice for J6’ rally is now coming back down,” tweeted Associated Press reporter Mike Balsamo along with a video of construction workers hauling away sections of fence.
Joe Biden’s America. Putting people to work, one manufactured crisis at a time.
Joe falls to pieces – https://youtu.be/iuZTk1hdpMs
But are they good union jobs? An indication would be that separate groups are required to put up and take down the fencing.
Economist Dean Baker argued in the piece that the minimum wage ought to keep pace with overall economic productivity.
The Ministry of Plenty will get right on that.
Isn’t minimum wage supposed to be for unskilled labor – the lowest productivity variety of labor there is?
There should be no jobs that don’t pay enough to support a family of four in a middle class lifestyle. Once we achieve that, we can increase the family size.
That will leave to much lack of equity. We’re going to have to raise disability & welfare payments to match.
lead to/leave too.
Whichever. Meh.
All jobs should pay a living wage! A highly skilled worker should NOT get paid more than the turd polisher since labor is labor! The only labor that is “more equal” than all labor is that of the top men…
I see you are familiar with the labor theory of value.
“Economist” Dean Baker.
Apparently now you can be an economist without actually understanding economics.
See also, labor theory of value.
The county coroner put down a disease my dad didn’t have as the cause of death. But that was 7 years ago, so it wasn’t COVID.
(He died of a UTI, but had MS, but the coroner put MD as the cause of death. Top. Men.) (Those sound like college football teams listed like that. ‘UTI was the under dog, but came out on top over MS. Next week they travel to take on MD.)
The coroner just knew your dad would have wanted to be one of Jerry’s Kids.
Elected position, right? And probably not qualified to be dogcatcher?
And BTW, there IS, sadly, a school that goes by “UTI.” Fortunately, I don’t think they offer any medical-related training.
I’m sorry man. Not great. Which MD is that in this context?
/Ignorant
Maryland? Took a wrong turn in Baltimore?
It is my understanding (based solely on Homicide: Life on the Street, and years of hearing casually reported murder stats, that there are many wrong turns to be taken in B-more.
Try The Wire next.
Every. Single. Time.
If you ever find yourself in the Inner Harbor, don’t wander off.
That’s the problem with Bodymore. Most cities, there are a few places that you don’t go, and outside of those places you’re pretty safe. In Baltimore, the places you don’t go are scattered all over the city, and constantly shifting.
Think of what the country would look like if the lowest paying jobs, think of dishwashers or custodians, paid $26 an hour. That would mean someone who worked a 2000 hour year would have an annual income of $52,000. This income would put a single mother with two kids at well over twice the poverty level.
Fucking double entry bookkeeping- how does it work?
Real and nominal value; what’s the difference?
Think of a $20 Happy Meal.
That’s actually consistent with the “Scandinavian” model that Bernie fans are so fond of, although there seems to be a big gulf between how it actually works over there and how they plan to achieve it in the USSA.
The idiot Bernie fans don’t understand how deep the income tax reaches into the Scandinavian middle-class. The rich will pay for it all!!!!
Because we all know there would be no costs that would need to be balanced out.
Hell, why not make minimum wage $50/hour? Then everyone could make 6 figures and everyone would be well-off financially!
Why stop at a $50/hr wage? That still requires people to work…
FREE SHIT! Fuck work…
/economic illiterate morons
Oh no, if you did that, then the wrong sort of people could afford Sidwell Friends, and that’s just not on.
I wonder why nobody has thought of this before!
“To each according to his need; from each according to his ability.”
I see parallels with exchange values. It doesn’t matter if your currency is valued higher or lower than another. What matters is the stability of the exchange rate and purchasing power in country. Paying 1,000 Yen in Japan for something that costs $20 in the US is a bargain. Getting a %10 raise is an improvement if prices are only increasing %1 but a loss if it is 20%.
What happens when a bunch of these people immediately spend that additional money on cigarettes, alcohol, scratch-off tickets, conspicuous luxury items, and vacations? Because in my experience, a large percentage of poor people are blowing tons of money on at least a few of those things instead of saving or investing.
And don’t forget the latest smart phone.
Michigan Man Wins $30K In Lottery, Buys $20K Gold Chain, Gets Robbed
HEY! I don’t smoke cigarettes! …I vape.
$2 Million Michigan Lottery Winner, Whose Story Changed Food Stamps Law, Found Dead
“such as fireworks, a slot machine and swords.”
Sounds like Florida Man but okay.
https://www.studyfinds.org/vaccines-salad-growing-plants/
Can someone please pass the tin foil?
So GMO vegetables? It will be interesting to see the reactions of the pro-vid people.
What in the everloving fuck?
Just dump it in the water supply and get it over with.
Can “required to eat your broccoli” be far behind? I’m mean Roberts is a gimme ‘yes’ “vote”. As long as they don’t start genetically engineering cows – and pigs, and wrens, and badgers, and newts – to be vaccine carriers I’m good. Ah who am I kidding, they’ll just outlaw meat.
New line on IRS 1040
Did you eat your broccoli? If not add tax penalty.
Enjoy your Moderna Brand Canned Peaches
Call me paranoid but fuck that.
But ate the peaches for free?
Bitcoin is melting down today which means all other crypto is melting even more. Good, possibly. I’m more than ready for a return to the economic splendors of 2009.
Won’t it bounce like last time? Not long ago, I noticed Bitcoin was about $50,000, then days later was about $35,000. Looked again last week and it was in high $40s.
Pretty f-cking volatile for any average person to speculate in.
Hopefully. It is still up 300% over the year and at prices last seen in August.
Baker acknowledges that the policy would cause mass unemployment if implemented in the present economic order; however, he recommended fundamentally restructuring the economy such that wealthy Americans earn less income.
We could call it the “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”. That’s got a nice ring to it.
I’m a Teacher. I’m About to Quit.
The entire thing is hysterical.
Aren’t teacher unions opposing vaccines for teachers? I mean they want all those little germ factories vaccinated, but not them.
In Minnesoda the teachers demanded to jump the vax line and got their shots before old people. Then they still refused to go back to school.
The only good side of that debacle was I knew a bunch of liberals who finally figured out how shitty a governor King Walz was when he let that happen.
So they’ll hold their noses the next time they vote for him?
Well of course. What else could they possibly do?
Support a primary opponent. Don’t have to get your hands dirty voting for a Republican, but can still toss him out.
But you’re whole argument is they aren’t paid enough anyway. Are you saying they aren’t qualified for any positions that pay more?
Also, the whole only working like half the year thing…
I would quit my job if I could afford to.
How are you not dead
^^
The average Teacher salary in the United States is $59,934 as of May 27, 2021
For 10 months of work. The same pay rate for 12 months of work would be $71,921.
Boo fucking hoo.
At a full year of 2,080 hours, that is $28.81/hour. For the actual hours worked it is probably in the high 30s.
BUT SHE HAS A PHD.
My wife has a masters. I have a bachelors. I am paid significantly more. Some people would have trouble trying to identify the reason (she makes significantly less the 0.77 for every dollar I make).
That’s part of the problem – encouraging expensive credentialism among the educator class that is wholly unnecessary to the performance of their jobs.
And probably detrimental
Don’t forget the pension!
Median household income in 2018, ~$61k.
Straight out the gate with the “MAGA” kids….whew. Yeah…never heard this one about MAGA or anyone for that matter “…that slavery never happened.
I will give her credit…she did lay into her ‘bosses’ and the sheer amount of them…but she doesn’t equate that to why her pay is so low; cause that is why..they have to pay each of those 6 figures or more.
And there it is.
Exactly. It’s a problem that she doesn’t see as her boss the people who have the greatest claim to it.
Well of course. Our military leaders dont think civilians control the military eventhough our constitution specifically sets it up that way.
They have no idea what we do.
Mebbe so, self-important narcissist, mebbe so. But we do know what you are SUPPOSED be doing, and you’re not!
One of my favorite Malice quotes.
^^
And the thing is, most people have 1 or 2 teachers that they do give that veneration.
But the bulk….
Yep, this right here,^
A good and effective teacher is worth their weight in gold. The average teacher is not just useless, but outright toxic.
OFFS
I thought $15 (or is it $26 now) was a living wage. My wife and sister are teachers. If you calculated their hourly wage based on working 2,080 hour year, they both make more than 26$/hour. Of course, they don’t work that many hours, so it is more.
You forgot that they have to buy desks, books and clothes for every kid in their class out of their own pocket!
The miserly school district won’t even pay for a roof on their classrooms.
The idiocy and misinformation about school district spending is insane.
My friend briefly worked for a school district and he related this story to me: District A got a new school building. District B was whiny about it and complained, but they were told that their current building is perfectly adequate. District B was so incensed by this that they purposely stopped doing maintenance on the building, then complained that they need a new building now. They got a new building.
And just one more anecdote from me: I was in a coffee shop and overheard a woman at the next table saying, “Some kids are going to school in the same building their parents went to school in. i mean, there is something fundamentally wrong about that!!”
“Some kids are going to school in the same building their parents went to school in. i mean, there is something fundamentally wrong about that!!”
I bet this person would call herself an environmentalist and is worried about human impacts on the planet.
“If you and your dad are in the same grade at school…”
Our school district did this. A new building was voted down, so they stopped maintaining their building for a few years and put it on the ballot again (only half a new school this time. It’s a K-12 and the HS/MS part was built in the 20s, the elementary part in the late 60s, so they tore down the older part and kept the newer part)
NYC is spending 42K per student this year. For reference, that is up from around 25K two years ago, which was already double what any other city was spending.
Holy shit…
Damn. People in Stafford are complaining that $10k is too low because the state average is $13k.
I was born in the same hospital as my mother. I don’t know how I survived.
I thought $15 (or is it $26 now) was a living wage.
The fact that I lived comfortably on less than $12K/yr less than a decade a go makes me highly unsympathetic to claims that you need $15 to be paid a “living” wage. Inflation has been bad, but not that bad.
I don’t see what their pay has to do with illegal medical experiments on children.
Like her calling MAGA kids assholes, the unclean are an emotional crutch because they know they are full of shit with the argument.
She is the archetype of an educated idiot.
Romans did bad things by modern standards -> Romans were bad -> We should avoid Roman philosophy
Of course she makes no mention of the Sophists, primarily because she is one.
https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/sometimes-the-obstacle-isnt-the-way-and-your-ego-isn-t-the-enemy-e8d0bc599691
There it is.
I’m not super informed on the intricacies of stoic philosophy, but I thought a main thrust of it was that you should control what you can control and not worry about what you can’t. You can’t control social forces, so why would stoicism talk about them?
Pretty much
Many of our bullshit problems deserve to be minimized.
This is an oft-neglected piece of advice these days. I think there’s an over-emphasis on listening to and validating peoples’ emotions, as though emotions are always correct, always valid, and always indicative of reality. They’re not. And if you let them lead you around, they’ll lead you to some very bad places. “Trust your feelings” is horrible advice. Sure, most of the research shows that we make decisions with a mix of reason and emotion, but you should try to recognize which situations call for rationality and which call for emotion.
It shouldn’t be the case that minimizing or dismissing problems is a cardinal sin. People should be told when they are agonizing over something insignificant. Some people I talk to (somewhat higher percentage of women) get really offended over this advice, but they’re usually the same people who are racked with anxiety and anger over every little misfortune that occurs throughout the day.
It sounds like you lack empathy. You should try therapy.
(Yes, I’ve been on Reddit a lot lately. How could you tell?)
Don’t stick it in crazy, people.
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*gEi9rHNUlbGwk7cVNqNZSA.jpeg
Teachers have really good insurance, I’m sure I could fix her.
I’m curious about the 23-year squatter. Doesn’t he have negative possession now? How does a bank go 23 years without forcing the issue harder?
Shit. Fuck you, WordPress.
Hahahahah!! Epictetus WAS a slave, and he talked about it plenty. It seems to be one of the major life circumstances that led him to Stoicism.
Ree-hee-healy?
I’m not a teacher, thank Enkidu, but I have taught classes in various subjects. I can’t imagine being afraid of my students. I certainly can’t imagine being so afraid that I make up bullshit stories about them being allowed to strap up in class.
As long as we’re all piling on… Norm MacDonald on America’s Real Heroes.
If anybody should quit anything, that dingbat should quit teaching immediately. For the sake of the children.
I know lots of teachers who would quit their jobs if they could afford to.
But didn’t you just say…?
Oh, never mind.
This is idiocy. The most racist thing happening today is the damage done to minorities by the public schools system. If you want to fight racism, for real, and pay valuable reparations, kill the public schools unions and let the parents choose what schools their kids get to go to.
I posted this last night, but it bears repost. This is from the teacher of my two kindergarteners.
Happy Weekend ?
We’ve made it through 3 weeks already, I can’t believe it! Time is already flying by!
Our focus of learning this week included the letters/sounds Aa, Ss, Tt, and Pp. Please point out and practice these at home whenever opportunities come up (on signs, food/drink packages, TV, etc). We also focused on our identities, including our racial identities, and how each of us is unique and special. This is called diversity and is what makes our class, community, and the world such a great and interesting place. You should’ve gotten your child’s first homework assignment on Thursday. Please take a few minutes this weekend to discuss your/your child’s racial identity and something that they like, or are proud of, about their racial identity. We will be having a class discussion on Monday using the homework, so please do your best to get it done and returned on Monday. Thank you!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!!! ☀️ ?
Ask the Tutsis how they feel about that.
“Son, tell your teacher race is a social construct, like gender, and that now you want to watch the girls pee, because you identify as one.”
We also focused on our identities, including our racial identities, and how each of us is unique and special.
Setting aside the racism that this will foster, the hyper focus on individual identities I think encourages young people to think too much about themselves. Churning out self-absorbed individuals is not helping either society or the individuals themselves, IMO.
You’re not wrong.
I’m torn on that, Gadfly. If this were truly neutral language, I would applaud an effort to encourage individualism in education. I think most of us here agree there is too much focus on the collective, to the detriment of the individual. That being said, this is the camel’s nose getting into the tent with flowery language. I know damn well where it leads, my immediate challenge is convincing my wife.
This isn’t individualism.
Individualism requires the acceptance of responsibility for oneself.
These people deny agency and blame the other at all times.
BOOM. Drop that mic, Scruffy.
I’m a bit torn as well, as I would agree that there is too much focus on the collective but I think simultaneously there is too much focus on individual identity, to the extent that I suspect this is a contributor to the increase in mental illness among young people. You shouldn’t sacrifice your own identity to what others think, but you also shouldn’t make your own identity the primary focus of your thoughts or expect the world to cater to you. While I’m all about individual liberty and choice, I personally think things work best when there’s a balance between focus on the individual and on the group(s).
too much focus on individual identity
That’s just it, though. Its not a focus on individual identity, its a focus on group identity – racial, “gender”, etc. “How each of us is unique and special” isn’t about individuality, its code for privileging non-white and non-male “identities”.
^^ this.
Even as somebody who wrote an article decrying “radical individualism” on this very site, I’ll gladly cede that group identity is the much more acute problem rearing its head today. Being too individualist tends to show itself in different ways (ignoring moral duties you have to others, etc)
Hmm. Something I like, or am proud of, about my racial identity…
*examines white skin*
“I’m proud of being more intelligent than everyone, except for the Asians!”
“Democrat’s new tax hikes contain subsidies for journalists.”
That’s one way to buy favorable coverage, it’ll be a nation of tiny NPRs.
That subsidy is not as nefarious as their so far blocked attempt to create a new electorate beholden to them regardless of their ineptitude and criminal nature…
I saw that but doesn’t getting rid of that make the 3.5 trillion insane budget bill more likely to pass? If that happens we’re done, newly minted citizens allowed or not.
Going to bed now, my Lovelies.
‘Night Festus.
Baseball birthdays include no HoFers. But does include Jason Bay, who has been retired 8 years now, Henry Boyle, who has been retired 132 years, Tom Tresh, Zeke Bonura.
I am whelmed by that list.
Radio show gets a doctor who is furious about the vaccine bs on the phone. So they ask for other doctor’s opinions – and the flood gates open.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QCU3ZjkYr8S5/
That guy is ticked off.
Good, we need more of that.
Righteous. What’s going on is criminal. Absolutely criminal.
Sooperspredder
US fears that this week’s annual world leader jamboree at the United Nations could spark a super spreader event will highlight the stark inequality of global access to Covid-19 vaccines — even as developed nations begin offering booster shots.
Scores of presidents, prime ministers and foreign ministers are set to ignore an American suggestion to stay home and address the UN General Assembly virtually and will converge on New York City in person this week.
The possibility that the visiting delegations might themselves pose a health threat will be an important reminder that while nations like the United States and major European powers have pushed ahead with vaccinating tens of millions of their people, many smaller, poorer nations, which lack pharmaceutical industries, have not been able to secure or make their own vaccines.
A mass die-off of world leaders; it’s hard to keep a straight face.
It is just as hard to pretend that UN delegates are world leaders with a straight face.
I unilaterally declare war on the UN. I expect they will surrender unconditionally and disband.
Riiiiight… we’re supposed to believe that there are world leaders not named Bolsonaro who haven’t been pricked?
What, is Macy’s having a big sale? Fifth Ave. is all the world’s stage.
We also have people who think they’re our bosses, aka parents who show up at school board meetings to tell us “what your real job is.”
Psst- I’ve got some news for you, Shirley…
Technically, she is right, in that in any sane world, the parents would be the customers.
Charter/private/etc schools realize the parents are the customers.
Yeah, we aren’t their bosses. She said so much worse crap in that piece. Parents exact pressure on the school board, the school board tells the 10000 administrators and they tell the 100 teachers. That point of hers, I am okay with.
11 injured in 7 weekend shootings in Minneapolis
That was not because of the Honey Harvest. I’d like to think that our superior marksmanship would result in a much more impressive body count.
I’d like to thank the Fourscores for putting up with us for another year. The HH was a blast.
Tundra would have laughed his ass off because while I was flirting with the wives of Fourscores neighbors, Kinnath got Mrs. Holiness tipsy on his super awesome mead and Pissed Off Nick completely charmed Mrs. Holiness. If our swagger wagon had a front bench seat, there is no telling what sort of shenanigans might have happened on the drive back!
Between Fourscore, Kinnath and PONick, my wife has come around on you Glibs. She realizes that I am the outlier and the rest of you are fine people.
* Has anyone seen the NoDaks? They were a noshow and we are all worried that the big city cops might have put them in the hoosegow for trying to pay for their drinks with beaver pelts.
I’m sorry I missed it. Hopefully I can make it back for next year.
I’ll text Mike and make sure they are cool.
Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick – I was only JOKING.
Can you really trust the word of people you have to pay to not shoot people that they aren’t shooting people? I would posit the answer should be no.
Can I sign up as a potential shooter?
What are the standards to qualify?
I own two guns, surely as the deviant that I am, SF is willing to pay me to not shoot up the place?
You probably have to join a gang first. They do have some standards.
*looks around*
So, do we file an application for our gang license, or what?
That could take years and I believe a crime spree is required before you apply.
Mammary Monday asks: which one of Adam’s ribs had the big titties?
https://archive.is/IKrVZ
Well this morning my Greyhound decided to act like her prima donna self, and isn’t eating dogfood. Not sure what to do. A greyhound that doesn’t eat will soon be a very, very skinny pup.
I can’t leave the food out too long or the other mutt will go for it.
Eh, kids and puppies usually can’t hold out for more than 1 meal.
Will she eat a treat? Usually if I get mine to take a treat she will then eat. Like she needs to be primed. If it becomes a regular thing, give her a snack at bedtime and it will help her eat in the am.
I’m pissed at everything about the missing girl (and now missing guy) story. And everybody involved. Mostly the guy. But his parents come in a close second for my ire. And NOT for their actions just in the past couple of weeks. They’ve spent years on this.
Super-short version that I’m sure will make everybody here mad, too: None of them actually cared about that girl. He was perfectly happy (and yeah so are millions of others) to dishonor her and her family by “living together” before they’re married. He had no more regard for her than to happily show the world that neither she nor he has any concern for her own honor or purity, or her family’s honor, or her (one day, potential) children. If he’d been a real man he’d never have done that to her, and if she’d been raised to require a real man, she’d not have been in that situation.
Did previous generations sleep around? Yep, BUT: less, and less-accepted by their peers, and they maintained plausible deniability to a much greater degree, largely for the sake of the things I mentioned above. Doesn’t make any of it right but a sense of social shame over promiscuity is a good thing that’s gone now. And this is the replacement.
I hope he hasn’t offed himself there in the swamp. I hope he’s being eaten alive by mosquitos and blackflies and ants and thrips.
honor or purity
Antiquated patriarchal concepts invent by white guys like a hundred years ago.
In seriousness, our culture is so far away from traditional ideal that, unless you specifically train your kids to avoid the prevailing wisdom, they will fall to the cultural standard, even if they have some vague conception of a different path.
Most pastors don’t even bring up sex in premarital counseling any more. They figure most couples already are on the same page. If there is an issue, on one extreme or the other, it will naturally come up in the counseling.
See A Very Brady Movie for visual evidence of this in action.
Don’t worry, I assume all (or most) of Q’s archive women are virgins. Otherwise I wouldn’t check them out.
What?
He was perfectly happy (and yeah so are millions of others) to dishonor her and her family by “living together” before they’re married.
So was she.
He had no more regard for her than to happily show the world that neither she nor he has any concern for her own honor or purity, or her family’s honor, or her (one day, potential) children.
Neither did she.
Young girls often exercise poor judgment when it comes to suitors, which is why in the olden times families exercised some say and control. But that is something that is frowned upon today.
Yeah, I know. I said “everything” and “everybody” in my first 2 sentences.
It’s just that she’s dead and I wasn’t going to get into it about her.
Almost didn’t include the last part of my second paragraph “…if she’d been raised better…” because I really don’t know – maybe they did.
Bring back dowries and we can have a discussion.
“purity” *Barf*
San Francisco has a new plan to stem a recent surge in deadly shootings: pay potential shooters.
I have a list. How much are you prepared to pay to keep these people alive?
EF made it safely to Ireland; sez she got two hours of sleep on the overnight flight. Apparently Bill Cosby taught her nothing about medicating.
Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16183489/my-wife-wants-her-mr-big/
She’s already on her way out the door, she’s just using the big cocks thing as an excuse.
Some men are just fucking stupid….
She says she won’t leave me for him because he has a wife and kids.
See, it’s not a big deal.
It’s only a two year old marriage with no kids? WTF are you even asking?
She’s already on her way out the door, she’s just using the big cocks thing as an excuse.
FTA:
Sounds like she’s already out the door, not merely on the way. She doesn’t love him, so they should make that official.
OK, niece by law and not by blood but still…. ew.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/16181365/hulk-niece-pregnant-children-wife-relative/
Gustozo…
I expected that to be from “Dear Dierdre”
Saul is his religious idol.
Yeah, she’s the niece of the mother of his two other children.
Class act.
I saw a note on the amnesty.
I’ve been assured by many that immigrants are net taxpayers.
Multiplier effect!
Uffda. Polls can sure be fun.
I’ll grant that the council didn’t do anything to start the pandemic, but it is rich to blame their poor poll numbers on a surge in crime and deadly violence as if those were just some completely random thing that happened. Nope, no reason to even ask if maybe their actions led to all that violence.
Oh, and don’t kid yourself thinking that 1/3 of Mpls residents are sane and they disprove of Boy Mayor Frey.
Nope, his haters are all proggies who think Frey isn’t far enough to the left
When did we start caring what 21-year-olds think?
Unfortunately, they vote.
Not really.
They sure would like most people to forget all the shit they did…
“Multiple public officials in Colorado are warning that the state’s official COVID-19 death count is skewed due to the practice of conflating patients who have died directly due to the disease with those who have merely tested positive for it prior to death.”
Wreckers! Refuseniks! Unperson them immediately!
As I understand it, some places (in the US, not specifically Colorado) were marking down COVID deaths even if the positive test was several months ago and the person had cleared the infection.
I consider the official “COVID deaths” number to be “the number of people who died after having a positive COVID test at some point in their lives”.
There needs to be a massive retrospective audit of those numbers before I will take them remotely seriously.
There needs to be a massive retrospective audit of those numbers before I will take them remotely seriously.
Bolded for emphasis. Or I screwed up the tags, we shall see.
And relevant in other areas, too.
I LOVED the memes from the photo of that gaggle of Fedbois. Twitter can be quality sometimes.
Four little words
Four little words — “do your own research” — are hurting the US pandemic response, CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. And it is having real consequences as personalities from Nicki Minaj to Sean Hannity continue to promote the idea.
Minaj helped raise doubts about Covid-19 vaccines on Twitter last week, claiming she would only get the shots once she’d “done enough research.” It may seem like a reasonable, even positive, attitude, and it is a favored talking point echoed by many in the right-wing media.
The problem is that most people simply don’t know how to do their own research, especially when it comes to understanding the complexities of medical science.
You’re too stupid to be allowed to think for yourself.
DO
AS
WE
SAY.
That sums up the “Follow The Science” mindset, though. Follow. Not understand, evaluate, critique, or question (all of which are crucial parts of the actual scientific process) but follow.
What they really really hate is the people who do their own research and come to a reasonable moderate conclusion (they want the extreme view on one end, and know how to deal with the extreme view on the other end). What they cant deal with is people, like me, who do enough research to back of envelope a break even point between age 40 and 50. And being above that point, then get the vaccine, while telling young, healthy people that they should consider not getting it.
My advice, not that anyone is asking, can be reduced to a simple, catchy slogan:
Over weight or over 40? Get the vaccine.
And it looks like making sure its the Moderna is the best bet too.
What they hate is people that would look at your slogan and think, “fair enough, but my research into the past 19 months think that it should be ‘diabetes or overweight and 50+’
Also a reasonable interpretation of the data.
They cannot deal with people having that personal choice to weigh their risks and life choices.
What if there are long term consequences?
Think of the disaster that would be if half the people could point at the other half and laugh. If everyone has the vax and it doesn’t work out we can face the future knowing we are all in this together.
Fun thought experiment:
Suppose there is a big gotcha 5 years down the road with the vax. Will the unclean anti-vaxxers be as mean spirited toward the vaxxed as they are currently experiencing? Will the MSM trumped how the vaxxed are stupid and they are using up too many medical resources and we should just let them die?
Vaxxing everybody really is about removing the control group so the assholes can’t be evaluated and held accountable.
And I don’t think the reaction will be explicit if the turnabout occurs.
But it will be a mark of value to be unvaxxed if it turns out that way. Let’s say the vax diminishes reproductive health. The unvaxxed will have more worth as a partner if you want kids.
Over weight or over 40? Get the vaccine.
I’ve done a different personal calculus. I’m over fifty (ONLY SLIGHTLY!!!) and in relatively good shape (HONEST!!!). Even before the authoritarian vaccine push, I decided not to. I think your break even point above comes evaluating short term adverse event associated with the vaccine. Given the nature of those short term events (and number, which I think is significantly undercounted, unlike covid deaths), I’m very leery of long term effects from widespread vaccination. Along the lines “where did all this obesity and type-II come from? Sure it correlates with our nutrition recommendations, but it’s a mystery!” I could see a decades long rise in cardiovascular and fertility issues – “Where did this come from, a complete mystery!”. Coupled with the rapidly waning protection from the vaccines and the fact that I suspect I already had it, it’s a no go for me. Add in the condescending, authoritarian, irrational vaccine push, and it’s a FUCK YOU no go for me.
That is why I give advice and not mandates.
We need BMI passports!
*rushes to patent combination scale/thermometer/airborne particle measurement device*
I don’t want to use BMI to determine if a person is overweight! I’m no skinny-minny, but even when I was in great shape I was always 15lb overweight (at best).
Couldn’t you just use naked pics instead of BMI? If the bouncer grimaces and slams the pic-passport closed, you can’t come in.
What if the bouncer is a chubby chaser?
Tres found his dream watering hole?
They exist. It’s called sports. Also difficult hiking trails.
No, what they really hate is that there’s solid, well-researched, information, thats publicly available that runs contrary to what they say.
Arizona’s Maricopa County supervisors, state GOP Senate reach deal over routers in election audit
The deal should have been to turn the routers over, or else.
Good morning, Banjos!
You appear to be taking the opposite approach to Sloop’s ‘kinder, gentler lynx’ 😉
The mortgage story is almost funny. Some people have zero shame and an uncanny ability to game the system.
Some people have integrity.
Anyway, I hope you all have a great Monday! Mine started with an email from my steel guy pushing delivery 30 days. But hey, everything’s fine.
Sheeeeeit.
Chumps.
Missed you yesterday brother.
Your car buddy Russ was asking where you were. I think he was disappointed because I could remember about his car was that it was blue. I was no substitute for you when it came to talking about old cars.
Fourscore also wanted to see us go at in a locked cage. I claimed I’d win eventually. Mostly because even though you might beat me down initially, you wouldn’t be able to resist talking to the crowd instead of pinning me. (that is when I’d sneak up and pin you with a crafty Hollywood Roll).
Lol! That’s a fair prediction!
I’ll bet Russ was more disappointed that ttyrant’s beautiful wife wasn’t there. If you recall, she was rather smitten with his car, too!
I was trying to schedule a trip back, but it didn’t work out. I am planning to be there next year. Missing HH is like missing Christmas!
The Biden administration has issued a warning that the pending federal debt crisis might trigger an economic recession that would affect economic growth and trigger job losses across the United States.
“Hitting the debt ceiling could cause a recession. Economic growth would falter, unemployment would rise, and the labor market could lose millions of jobs,” the White House said in a letter (pdf) to state and local governments that was released Sept. 17.
It’s not a ceiling if you keep raising it. Fuck you. Cut spending.
Combined Social Security Trust Fund only 13 years away from insolvency, trustees report
The national debt is around $123 trillion (more than four times what the Treasury Department reports) when accounting for factors like amounts owed in unfunded Social Security and Medicare benefits, Truth in Accounting argues.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
At least eight dead and several injured after gunman opens fire at Russian university
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/top-stories/at-least-eight-dead-and-several-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-at-russian-university/ar-AAOCQID?ocid=msedgntp
Just some 9000 kilometers from Indiana
Stares at funny number used to measure distance…..
Tries to convert it to a real number by first converting to bathtubs full of rope and then into miles….
So about the same distance as Chicago?
*golf clap*
Just some 9000 kilometers from Indiana
One of us. One of us.
I would recommend you visit Indiana when you make it to the US, but then I cant think of a reason why.
It would be fun to watch F1 do 500 miles on an oval, instead of the Indy road course, but even more funner would be watching F1 cars doing 500 laps at Bristol.
He could visit me. But then we’d have to drive to a different state if he wanted to do something.
It would be fun to watch F1 do 500 miles on an oval
It would. Not so fun would be all the carnage as the cars’ safety systems and structures fail when they shunt into a concrete (ok, SAFER) wall at 230mph.
I wonder what it would take to get F1 cars up to oval safety standards.
Don’t have to worry about that at Bristol!
Bristol is the best. I don’t watch any other NASCAR events save the Daytona 500 from time to time, but I always watch the night race at Bristol.
Indian guns? Nyet! Rifle is fine.
Bravo.
‘The numbers are skewed’: Colorado officials warn of inflated COVID death statistics
Health officials reportedly continuing to conflate deaths “from” and “with” COVID.
This standard was explicitly stated at the outset of the plandemic.
Think of what the country would look like if the lowest paying jobs, think of dishwashers or custodians, paid $26 an hour.
Imagine how this would skew the market where engineers are paid about this amount before overtime and bonuses.
Gilmored this comment upthread:
I’m curious about the 23-year squatter. Doesn’t he have negative possession now? How does a bank go 23 years without forcing the issue harder?
Combine a committed and knowledgeable conman with the New York regulatory apparatus and you’ve got a property owner’s nightmare.
Thellusson v. Woodford says hi!
Doesn’t he have negative possession now?
Adverse possession only occurs after a set period of time of the landowner ignoring the actions of the possessor (i.e. treating the property as if abandoned). If the landowner has given conditional approval or been expressing disapproval, even if ineffectively, the clock does not start ticking. Of course, the specific details of such laws vary by jurisdiction, but that’s the general gist.
Failed presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is reportedly planning to challenge incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for Texas governor in 2022.
Beto the faux latino is exactly what TX needs.
There were more media members than actual protesters.
And most of them were glowing.
HELLO FBI undercover at a MAGA rally – where did they go astray?
1. Cuffed shorts
2. Anchor pattern shirt
3. High and tight haircuts
4. Suede sneakers
5. Chinos
6. Matching $300 sunglasses
7. Zero flags nor Trump regalia
”You blend”
Case in point.
I’ll bet they took a class to learn how to dress like that.
My favorite meme so far.
That’s gold Jerry, gold!
In the replies, and not a joke:
We hates them. We hates them all.
That just means he buried his pot o’ gold near the body.
I’m not liking this trend of defining down what a high and tight hair cut is.
This is an acceptable high and tight (and it is a bit long).
Really should only be worn by Marine Infantry. Anyone else wearing one is a poser. Even as a Marine swinging with the wing I would never have thought to get a high and tight. Maybe if you lost a bet that would be the punishment.
I really hate the cops who get a high and tight despite never having been in any branch of the military.
I only had them when deployed too long – so I let the guy who brought clippers do it.
Really should only be worn by Marine Infantry. Anyone else wearing one is a poser.
Saw a documentary awhile back about a French guy who studied WWI battlefields and was a real deep expert. Lots of US military, including Marine officers, would hire him to do tours. I’m a little fuzzy on precise details, but he was inducted as an honorary Marine or somesuch – one of maybe 5 people in history given that honor. He visited Quantico and while he was there went to the barber and got an official high-and-tight.
That’s a decent cut that anyone can wear. Now if it was whitewalls, yeah that’s the mark a hardcore.
Crazy how the Truckers Strike has turned Australia into Venezuela and there’s a total media blackout on it
Well, time to go get more canned goods, that’s our future,
“ Pfizer Says Vaccine Is Safe & Effective For Children As Young As 5”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-says-vaccine-safe-effective-children-young-5
I don’t want to sound alarmist by saying they’re coming for your kids but they’re coming from your kids.
I wonder how many at Pfizer are concerned that they might eventually be hanging from lampposts? Or are they completely oblivious?
Judging by the FDA’s action on Friday, some there are seriously worried about that.
You know what’s even safer for children as young as 5? No vaccine, because covid doesn’t even effect kids that young unless they already have some serious illness.
Saw a doctor (maybe that former Pfizer vaccine guy) estimate that the vaccine will kill 100 kids for every 1 it saves.
Acceptable losses for the cause.
Well it did save just one child
I nice take on the Fedbois,
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/09/19/disjointed-observations/
Markets are tanking today.
I wonder if the breakers will kick in?
225 years ago yesterday George Washington gave his farewell address. We have ignored every bit of advise and wisdom in the address.
https://providenceforum.org/story/washington-farewell-address/
George gave that when America was a new, weak, barely unified country. Today, we strong…can whip anyone…push people around (as long as Gen. Milley can’t get to a communications device.)
He owned slaves. That is all.
Lies, damned lies, and farewall addresses. If he wanted people to take his advice, he should have started by following it himself.
Just voted in the Canadian Federal election. My riding had five candidates, including the three usual suspects (Liberal, Conservative and ND), the People’s Party of Canada and (for some bizarro reason) the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada. I’m sure the M-L candidate will get all the votes of her family members.
For those of you who care (read: the four Canucks on this board, minus half of ’em), here’s a short primer on The Hair That Walks Like A Man™:
https://unherd.com/2021/09/the-squalid-world-of-justin-trudeau/?=frlh
Brewer Sam Adams is about to release their specialty beer Utopia on October 11. But even if you can afford it (we’re Glibs — of course we can afford it), not everyone can legally obtain it without some travel involved.
Utopias, by law, cannot be sold in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and West Virginia.
Looks like the company is at lagerheads with some state regulators.
Beer lovers foaming at the mouth?
Lol!
“…at lagerheads…”
What you did there. It was seen. ;-)
This year’s Utopias, though, was finished on 2,000 pounds of cherries, bringing a slight sweetness and tartness to the beer.
I would ban it too.
There’s quite a few beers that can’t be sold in those states. Up until only a couple years ago, Ohio was on that list as well.
Tennessee has the separate beer stores from wine+liquor stores. It was funny seeing the big store with two doors. And a glass wall between so you can see from one to the other. But, even with the already crazy split, some hi ABV beers had to be sold on the liquor side of the building. And not crazy things like Utopia, the strong Belgians, for example. I think the cut was 8 or 9 %.
Fun progression for me, using Costco as an example:
KY – Beer in Costco proper, wine and liquor in separate attached store.
SC – Beer and wine in Costco proper, liquor in separate attached store.
CO – Beer, wine, and liquor in Costco proper.
NY – Beer in Costco, wine and liquor in separate, unrelated store that is so tightly regulated the prices would make your eyes water
*shocked face*
Girls were excluded from returning to secondary school in Afghanistan on Saturday, after the country’s Taliban rulers ordered only boys and male teachers back to the classroom.
“All male teachers and students should attend their educational institutions,” a statement from the education ministry said ahead of classes resuming on Saturday. The statement, issued on Friday, made no mention of women teachers or girl pupils.
Secondary schools, with students typically between the ages of 13 and 18, are often segregated by sex in Afghanistan. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they have faced repeated closures and have been shut since the Taliban seized power.
The United Nations said it was “deeply worried” for the future of girls’ schooling in Afghanistan. “It is critical that all girls, including older girls, are able to resume their education without any further delays. For that, we need female teachers to resume teaching,” the UN’s children’s agency Unicef said.
Were you expecting something different?
Don’t forget the Kabul order that women should not show up for work unless the Taliban has determined that their job can only be done by a women.
I eagerly look forward to an army of women stepping up to end this patriarchal atrocity. The ladies can be funded by equity minded individuals such as Oprah, Melinda Gates, Steve Jobs’ widow. Let’s get this all XX military draft started, ladies.
Is the Pope Catholic?
The Vatican City State announced Monday that effective October 1 no one can enter its territory without presenting a coronavirus Green Pass, by order of Pope Francis.
The Green Pass can be obtained by showing proof of vaccination against the coronavirus, demonstrating recovery from the coronavirus, or by showing a negative rapid antigen or PCR test, the Vatican ordinance states.
The decree also declares that the Green Pass mandate extends to the Vatican’s extraterritorial properties stipulated by the 1929 Lateran Treaty, which include Vatican-owned churches throughout Italy.
The pope himself instructed the Governorate of Vatican City State to issue the mandate in order “to prevent, control, and combat the public health emergency” in Vatican territory.
Multi-Pass is the only pass.
Leeloo Dallas Multipass?
And, Lo, Jesus said, keep those icky unclean away from me!
And He called for the centurion as the leper approached him, noting that the leper had a mark of buying and selling neither on his right hand or on his forehead.
I’m not convinced there’s been a Catholic Pope since before World War I.
Try 325 AD.
Not a fan of the Nicene Creed?
Waiting for the headline from the Bee:
“Mark of the Beast required for Vatican entry”
Now that’s how you walk the walk of Jesus…keep those dirty unclean away! Let them starve in body and spirit!
The Vatican City State announced Monday that effective October 1 no one can enter its territory without presenting a coronavirus Green Pass, by order of Pope Francis.
I wonder if they are putting checkpoints up around St Peter’s Square. When I was in Rome a few years ago you could just walk through it like it was just another plaza in the city, but it is technically Vatican territory.
Perhaps there will be justice after all.
It was an all-but ugly day in court for the prosecutors hoping to put Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse behind bars on six counts, including murder. During a lengthy evidentiary hearing, the defense scored victory after victory while the government was increasingly frustrated at the judge’s rulings in favor of the defendant.
Assistant District Attorney Thomas C. Binger argued that the defendant is a “teenage vigilante” — and a “violent vigilante” at that. But that was precisely the problem with the state’s evidence, according to Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder.
The government quickly lost two motions to introduce two pieces of evidence outright. The first piece of evidence showed that Rittenhouse attacked a woman who was involved in an altercation with his sister in June 2020. The second showed that Rittenhouse has various affiliations with the far-right Proud Boys organization.
In both instances, the judge ruled that the government’s offered evidence would be far more prejudicial than it was worth.
Here’s where – and why – San Francisco Marathon runners will need to wear masks
We’re really going to pretend that this makes sense.
More like the steeple chase where you jump over junkies and land in a puddle of piss.
I hope some runner drops dead.
Bari Weiss lays a turd? She seems to be suggesting that the anti-jewish abuse is coming equally from all over the ideological/political map, but AFAICT that is not accurate, and seems to conflate a lot of what is “left” and what is “right” just to give the impression it’s an even distribution.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/everybody-hates-the-jews
Bari still has a huge blind spot or two.
Left-wing anti-semitism is more visible because the left in general has currency among the powerful. Trawl right-wing parts of the Internet long enough and you will start to find references to “early life” and “early life checks”. These are euphemisms for Jew. People on the right know they get deplatformed much more easily than people saying similar things on the left and so speak in codes; those who are antisemitic know not to say the J-words (jew, jewish, judaic, judaism, etc.) and H-words (hebraic, hebrew, etc.) because they are easy for machines to identify and thus, when combined with other factors, cause them to be auto-moderated and/or elevated to manual moderation much sooner. Consequently, “early life” (which is probably going out of vogue already, since once something becomes widely known, it loses its value as code) was adopted instead, as it refers to the number one way very online people figure out someone prominent is Jewish: by looking at the “Early Life” section of their biography in Wikipedia.
I never knew that term. You make some good points. I don’t think the things Weiss is referring to are much to do with those online creeps though, are they?
I have a problem in that the debate around central banking is poisoned by (assumptions of?) anti-Semitism, like those on the left will conflate criticism of central banking practices with “shadowy cabal” type conspiracy theorizing, which in reality shows their anti-Semitism in those assumptions, and their inability to engage meaningfully with arguments they may otherwise even agree with, or at least understand concerning monetary policy etc. A little tangent there but I types it as it occurs to me.
I don’t think the things Weiss is referring to are much to do with those online creeps though, are they?
No, probably not. For one thing, she doesn’t seem to know the term (and related ones) nor does she mention any names or ideas that look familiar to me, so her references to the “alt-right” are pretty shallow. She’s an ex-WSJ/NYTer (aka mainstream journalist) and it shows.
Her ignorance leaves her argument feeling forced, but she’s more right than she knows. Of course, there’s a lot of the alt-right that isn’t antisemitic (there’s a lot of Jews in NRx), or at least isn’t overly concerned with the JQ (Jewish Question). But the part that I think you get right is that antisemitism (especially cloaked under the anti-Zionist umbrella) is more openly tolerated by the mainstream left than it is by the mainstream right currently.
spend 5 minutes on Gab and you can find them out in the open. As much as I support that site for being a bastion of free speech, there is a surprisingly loud segment of anti-semites and general racists who operate there. It’s the Drudge comments but in a social media format. IMO, it’s no better than Twitter or Facebook when it comes to repugnant people saying repugnant things, the only thing that is better about Gab is that the repugnant people don’t have institutional support from the site and from the culture at large.
/really should stop clicking over to Gab to get the latest conservative, Inc. news.
Yes, give enough people access to a platform, and before too long somebody will blame the state of the world on the Jews. It’s like an inverse Godwin’s Law. But, as Mencken said,
Hollywood is famous for the Jewish mafia and trying to cover up that it happens. Many cultures have nepotism type hiring policies.
How else do you explain talentless hacks like sarah silverman, bill maher, jon stewart, having jobs in showbiz?
Its bad enough showbiz has so many talentless hacks that are not Jewish.
Meanwhile in El Salvador.
Meanwhile in Australia.
I want one.
Hard to believe.
? https://mobile.twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1439962097958412288?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
I’ve been reading about this for a few days. Interesting that it is making more traction.
I don’t get it either. She’s basically saying there is no mask mandate. But they have a mask mandate. ?♀️
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Ask your covidiot friend why this is ok. Enjoy the stammering.
Because Rupaul won? I got nothing.
Already heard “Because we were all vaccinated and had to show proof of a negative test” to which someone asked “Then why are all the support/staff wearing masks?”
It was in a tent!
This is going to be a case study in groupthink some day.
The Israeli results are incredibly clear, yet even they can’t acknowledge them,
Elon Musk mocks Biden after SpaceX completes first all-civilian fligh
Why despite his many, many faults you have to respect Musk.
Which is interesting…
The president’s handlers had an opportunity to have a small bout of good news over the weekend and chose not to have either the VP or anyone from the administration at the launch or welcome home ceremony. At least, I do not believe anyone from the admin was there.
They are in hiding. Biden leaves the WH pretty much every weekend. I’ve seen it speculated that this is to avoid official visitor logs.
Who the fuck knows? It’s one disaster after another with these clowns and I’m positive that there is some serious internal chaos, too.
The factional infighting over Afghanistan isn’t over yet. First it looked like Blinken would take the fall, then mysteriously it was Milley being fitted for concrete overshoes, and now there’s some rehabilitation of Milley. I have to believe there is serious internal chaos indeed.
And if Afghanistan fades without the infighting claiming some scalps, well, the conflict will continue in other battlefields.
Musk is now on the wrong team. The most vocal left minority would never let Biden live that down.
People chastise Musk for accepting subsidies, but I grudgingly accept that he’s beating them at their own game.
Meanwhile in the Democratic People’s Republic of Canukistan…
Justin Trudeau says that vaccine passports are “all about” rewarding certain freedoms to people who have “done the right thing”— and that those who “still resist” simply won’t get to enjoy those same freedoms.
What to do when you’ve got fifteen thousand Haitians (freaking Haitians — really?) massed on your doorstep? Apparently, if you’re the Border Patrol in Texas, you go full “YEE-HAH!”
(A bonus of one Glibbuck is awarded to you if this started playing in your head as soon as you saw the pic)
Now just imagine if this picture was taken during Trump’s administration. I’d say wall to wall coverage except if they were covering Trump Jr.’s missing laptop, drugs, hookers, payoffs, and illegal weapons scandal.
Kamala is the border czar. This is all her domain.
Yeah but dipped out of that responsibility quickly because even she knew it was a shitshow.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/06/01/harris-team-reportedly-dismayed-at-being-held-answerable-for-border-crisis-after-biden-put-her-in-charge-1082614/
See, I am not responsible for all those people flowing in because I am responsible to find the root cause…which I did on that one trip.
Democrats sure do like their “root causes” – and then identifying the wrong ones and studiously avoiding the real ones.
“Yeah but dipped out of that responsibility quickly because even she knew it was a
shitshowfeature not bug.”I already mentioned, the clock doesn’t stop until you have their legs tied.
I thought of this.
Wtf is a “senate parliamentarian”? This is the second time I’ve ever heard it discussed, and both were during Bidens presidency. Is it an elected position? Do they belong to a party? What do they do? Last time it was mentioned (I forget exactly what it was for, but it blocked some shitty Dem bill), they didn’t even name the parliamentarian.
Its a person hired by the Senate to understand the rules and advise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarian_of_the_United_States_Senate
Basically the Senate creates rules for it’s operations and the Parliamentarian tells them whether or not they are following their own rules.
But it is only advice. With a majority they can ignore.
I believe it is the person that examines Senate rules and enforces them. No power other than to advise on the rules as they can overrule their interpretations.
Elizabeth MacDonough is the current one and is selected by the Majority Leader I believe.
“Wtf is a “senate parliamentarian”?”
Something in Europe?
d00d, refresh
Chocolate-Chocolate Chip.
That’s today’s waffles? Are you doing banana cinnamon this week?
Depends on the evergrande situation. Situation is currently Chocolate-Chocolate Chip.
Thanks, Dave. I’ll take a raincheck on those.
This rather astonishing statement was made during the hearings on the booster:
How this squares with approval of the vaccines for males under 40 is a complete mystery, but it sure sounds like the risk of getting vaccinated outweighs the risk of getting COVID for large cohorts of the population. And while its not perfectly clear, it sure sounds like this is just the risk of one side effect of the vaccines.
JHTFC
We have to wok in the missing key word here and rearrange some stuff. Let me rephrase this.
The risk of white males under 40 is higher than the combined risks of getting Covid and myocaditis at the same time. Even if you throw in earthquakes, tidal waves, global warming, all the stingy bitey things down under, and giant meteors.
Get vaccinated! /honest Joe
FIFY
Geez, do I have to stick around just to try fixing all the misinformation being spread around here?
WATCH: Protest against COVID mandates in the Netherlands
LOL.
Those white rednecks in Alabama are completely out of control. Send in the tanks! Smash those unvaccinated menaces!
“The media sure loves missing/dead attractive white women.”
Well, that didn’t take long. Where’s the boyfriend at? I mean not that he should be a suspect, his behavior has not been in the least bit suspicious.
“Democrat’s new tax hikes contain subsidies for journalists.”
Well, at least there’s no taxes in it on people making more than $40,000… errr, I mean $400,000! No new taxes on the middle class, read my lips! Let’s spend another 50 trillion, no one has to pay for it except those filthy rich! /honest Joe
Our newest woke partners in wokeness!
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“On Friday, the Taliban shut down the Women’s Affairs Ministry, replacing it with a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” and tasked with enforcing Islamic law.”
At least they don’t live on Texas.
Yeah, I mean at least the Taliban gives out free abortions with a stoning.