It’s Sukkos! This is not a particularly well-known holiday amongst the goyim, but it’s a Torah-mandated harvest festival lasting seven days. Like any good Jew holiday, it features the usual set of weird and arbitrary rules and rabbinical profit centers. Basically, you’re supposed to build a Levantine version of the Gilligan’s Island huts (the “sukkah”). In order for it to be religiously legit, there’s of course all sorts of rules to follow in the construction, and they’re arcane and complex enough to encourage the diligent Jew (the “sucker”) to buy a rabbinically certified prefab sukkah (this is a real thing). Now, once you have your kosher Sukkah installed, you’re supposed to stay in it all week, and follow the ritual of The Four Kinds.
The Four Kinds involves special Mosaic incantations over four shticks specified (loosely) in Leviticus, namely the lulav (basically, a palm frond), the esrog (a fruit that looks like a lemon grown near Chernobyl), the hadassah (a piece of wood), and the arav (a piece of a different kind of wood). Of course, once the rabbis came along, a new set of arcane and complex rules (are there any other kind in rabbinic Judaism?) around the Four Kinds developed, and in order for a diligent Jew to make sure he’s not going to piss off Yahweh, it is recommended to buy a complete rabbinically-certified Four Kinds Kit, which is a real thing.
Those who have read my past Jewsday posts have been exposed a bit to the Sadducee versus Pharisee fight over Jewgold, absolutely reminiscent of current rent-seeking in government (Super-short recap: Sadducees wanted Temple Priests to get the graft, Pharisees wanted rabbis to get the graft). The Pharisees won, complex rabbinical law has accreted onto relatively simple and straightforward Yahwist law (think case law versus Constitution), and in long-standing Middle East tradition, the winning rabbis have honed religious power and control for fun and profit to an atom-sharp edge. Sukkos is a perfect encapsulation.
So besides Shabbos and Sukkos, there’s birthdays today, including a guy who was neither Clark Gable nor Marlon Brando; a guy who left quite an Impression; a woodwind player who should have been much better known; the lowest possible common denominator in TV “journalism”; another ridiculously incompetent politician who got there via family; a reminder of the days when Sports Illustrated wasn’t about trannies; a guy whom I have many jokes about; and a bunch of dull actors and sportsballers that I’m too lazy to make up links to (I mean, does anybody actually give a shit about Michael Douglas?).
Whatever. Let’s get to Links before I turn this into a full-blown Jewsday Tuesday on the wrong day.
The King of Stupid Ideas gets support from President Depends.
This has to have created much (((laughter))).
“Wish we could jail and shoot ours, too.”
I want to see which Glib is missing.
In case you’re in the mood for frozen food for dinner.
Old Guy Music today is a realization that it has rained practically non-stop since we got here six weeks ago. And it’s fucking great music.
Sliding in… just in time…
L’chaim !
Jew stuff on a Saturday? Isn’t that frowned upon? Or is it appropriate?
I don’t know how this stuff works…
Just don’t touch any light switches today. You’ll be fine.
If there are boobs involved, it’s always appropriate!
*checks links*
Ok guys, where are the boobs?
Just to make it worse, I’m at work cooking bacon.
You need this t-shirt, Old Man.
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.35407142.4324/fc,550×550,creme.u2.jpg
Better yet, print it on an apron!
Zombie Walt Disney is not how I expected the world to end.
Remember that disaster flick 2012? it was a typo.
Its 2021
“Letters were also placed inside polka dot envelopes and sealed in zip lock bags and left at cell towers located in the Upper Peninsula.
The letters, which had a return address of “Coalition for Moral Telecommunication (CMT),” ordered that their software be updated to stop the spread of porn, the affidavit stated. His letters also demanded $5 million and gave the companies 6 months to meet his demands.”
I guess he never heard of cable.
I really thought with all of the real shit the world is having to deal with lately that all of the bullshit jaded made up problems might finally move to the back of the line. Yet here it is, a person that thinks “I’m going to save the world. It’s the PORN fault!!!”
“Man tried to bomb phone stores to prevent spread of porn, prosecutors claim”
George Metesky is alive and well and living in NYC.
the hadassah (a piece of wood),
I thought it was an Esther.
Your thinking of a Natalie.
Some floaters just never flush right.
Robert Wagner concurs.
No, Joan Collins.
Here’s a screenshot.
“His letters also demanded $5 million and gave the companies 6 months to meet his demands.”
There we go.
Extremely irresponsible to reanimate Walt Disney. He’s not fully vaxxed.
Old Man: How could you forget to mention the Halloweenification of Sukkos? Oy…
There are “Sukkos Spirit” stores on the interstates now?
Excuse me? I asked for bacon egg and cheese on a bagel.
I bet Lily would like wonder dog.
Probably. She likes other dogs more than people.
That’s not an irrational decision.
My dog likes people more than other dogs.
Same here.
For researchers who rely on representative samples of the US population, that demographic shift was a major problem with no obvious cause and no immediately clear way to fix.
Researchers who PRETEND to rely on representative samples, that is
This. The only people doing those surveys were fairly internet savvy young people strapped for cash.
“Now, once you have your kosher Sukkah installed, you’re supposed to stay in it all week, and follow the ritual of The Four Kinds.”
If only (((they))) would stay there all week. A positive side effect of Covid is that I am working remotely, so not in NYC for the annual fall ritual of being accosted by bearded men in fur hats proclaiming “ARE YOU A JEW????”.
I like those guys because when I say “no” they say “thank you” and move on, rather than hurling curses and threats at me as one would expect.
Maybe you can engage a Black Israelite for that.
Ask them for information on how to join. Tell them you’re very outgoing and would be very good at asking strangers if they are Jews.
Long-standing Prolific survey-takers complained on Reddit that Frank had made it difficult to find paid surveys to take on the overrun platform.
“Now it’s just another bullshit site to spend hours and make pennies on,” wrote one user, who said they had previously made $30 a week on the platform.
Tragic.
“The first and largest of these research platforms is Amazon-owned Mechanical Turk, which was released in 2005 as a general-purpose platform for crowdsourcing work on repetitive tasks.”
Mechanical Turk? That rings a bell…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
Oh, right. It’s an old scam.
“55 Years After His Death, Walt Disney’s Frozen Body Will Be Thawed December 2021 In An Attempt To Bring Him Back To Life.”
Now do Biden.
I knew a woman that was a diet & fitness freak, that often said “I treat my body like a temple”.
I told her, “no wonder old, jewish, men hang around you on Saturday evenings”.
My body’s a temple as well. Falling over, covered in vines, and looted centuries ago.
Biden has said that he wants tax hikes to level the “playing field,” while assuring that “the superwealthy are still going to be able to have their three homes.” In a unique move, White House economists released their own analysis this week of just how much America’s 400 wealthiest families pay in taxes. On average, they pay about 8.2% in income taxes annually, far lower than the average rate of 14.3% that the Tax Policy Center found in 2015. The White House’s methodology notably factored in assets — not just wages — into the billionaires’ incomes, similar to the net worths taxed under Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax.
Pick a number, any number.
“…are still going to be able to have their three homes.”
Bernie says “you better miss me with that shit”.
once you have your kosher Sukkah installed, you’re supposed to stay in it all week, and follow the ritual of The Four Kinds.
Like a back yard campout? Are there s’mores?
Gone fishin’
The House select committee has launched a sweeping investigation into January 6. As part of that, the panel has sent requests for information from a number of federal agencies, including the National Archives, the custodian of the Trump administration White House records.
The committee asked for “all documents and communications within the White House” on that day, including call logs, schedules and meetings with top officials and outside advisers, including Rudy Giuliani.
The committee issued its first round of subpoenas on Thursday, targeting Trump’s close aides and allies.
Four subpoenas are going to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, former adviser Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller who had also served as an aide to Republican Rep. Devin Nunes.
There’s gotta be something in here we can use against Former President Cartoon Insurrectionist.
“As President Biden has said, the events of January 6th were a dark stain on our country’s history, and they represented an attack on the foundations of our constitution and democracy in a way that few other events have,” White House spokesman Michael Gwin said in a statement to CNN.
“The President is deeply committed to ensuring that something like that can never happen again and he supports a thorough investigation into what occurred,” Gwin said. “That’s why his Administration has been engaging with Congress on matters relating to January 6 for several months now and will continue to do so, including with the Select Committee.”
“Hey, look over there!”
And that is why they were hiding video evidence from the American people for eight months.
Also banning “unofficial” videos from Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc. when almost everyone has a phone with with a video camera.
50 degrees, heavy fog, but only nine dogs at the park.
I’ll try to get a pic of Lily and Daisy going at it. When that happens, the park trembles
Bitch fight!!!
Nine Dogs at the Park sounds like a small Frisbee Golf social club.
Up to fifteen
Also a social club
Arf!
In enraging coronapanic news:
Whining over a politician pointing out the low vaccination rate of certain non-White demographics
I can’t wait for the blame game to really start ramping up in ’Merica.
Yeah; I also listen to the English service of Israel Radio, and throughout the last 18 months there’s been this undercurrent of how awful the Haredi are for still wanting to have their religious ceremonies with high attendance. About two weeks ago, though, there was an interview about the low vaccination rate of Israeli Arabs (in Israel itself, not the West Bank and Gaza), and of course the reason behind it was that these Arabs are right to be distrustful of the government; a government which makes it difficult for Arabs to get health care in general anyway.
I hear the same sort of divide from Australia regarding Aboriginals and immigrants, and from New Zealand regarding Maori and Pacific Islanders.
Curious – do you listen via shortwave or online?
Most of the broadcasters are no longer on shortwave.
Quite a few got rid of their foreign-language services entirely.
Do you know of a good central source for links to reliable international (English language) news? SiriusXM choices are mostly mainstream American, with some Canadian & BBC thrown in.
Back in the 80s, when we lived in SE Asia, Dad would listen to Voice of America every morning on SW. We’d check BBC every now and then – more frequently for special programming like Chronicles of Narnia or things like that.
Honestly…haven’t done any deep dives on the content in a decade or so, but I don’t think VOA or VOE has been completely corrupted by the snowflakes, but I could be wrong. I know it’s govt propaganda, but at least for the time I don’t have a point of comparison.
Not many other folks really have the resources for worldwide radio broadcasting any longer – websites and streaming content seems to be the focus where you can access nearly anything – absent content blocking/firewalls like the CCP.
Not really. My interest in international broadcasting was always more about the things we don’t see in American news, so I preferred the programs that were domestic-focused rather than world news. So, history programs and things on traditional culture/roots music were always my favorites.
That, and the chance to keep my German from getting rusty. Being able to find German services from countries which weren’t native German-speaking was always interesting too.
There’s also the intellectual exercise of spotting the bias, although that can be maddening.
“”Our far north and Indigenous communities are running at a vaccination rate of less than 50 per cent — an area of exclusive federal jurisdiction,” Moe tweeted. “I hope … [Trudeau] will work with Saskatchewan to increase the vaccination rate in these critical communities right away.””
First nations, minorities and rural folk not trusting the government? Say it isn’t so! There must be some reason for this!!!??! I know, it’s all their fault those backward hicks!
Sure. I’m just point out the obnoxiously predictable hypocrisy of how the media and much of government is running a vilification campaign against vaccine refuseniks, until the refuseniks are of favored ethnic minority groups, at which point the talk suddenly changes to “vaccine equity” and other such nonsense. This story, however, seemed like an escalation to me.
Being a devout Jew sounds exhausting. Then again, so does being a devout Catholic.
Maybe it’s my childhood Protestant Privilege speaking but if you honored Christmas, Easter and Passover, you were good for the year.
Christmas, Easter and Passover
One of these things is not like the others.
In my insulated Evangelical upbringing, Passover was a big deal. Don’t ask me why.
Fun fact: I was once grounded from television for over a year. The only exception being the required viewing of the Ten Commandments…the particular version of Christianity I was raised in was very Pro Jew. Sure, they denied Christ and were thus condemned to Hell but it was our responsibility to preserve their existence and culture…it was a weird dynamic.
You’re (((my))) kind of goy.
I forsaked Christianity nearly fifteen years ago…watch you back.
Ha!
I was raised fairly strict Catholic. Spent a lot of time in Catholic school, I was an altar boy… yadda yadda. All of this Jewish stuff seems REALLY cumbersome in comparison.
the events of January 6th were a dark stain on our country’s history
Bill Clinton would like a word.
*ahem*
Considering the navy dress, it was a light stain.
It’s chilly this morning (yay!) and I’m trying not to turn on the heat. Think I’ll have a morning nap.
‘In his office in Ramallah, on Friday, September 24, 2021 (Screenshot)
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas demanded that Israel withdraw to the 1967 boundaries within one year or else face repercussions.
While Abbas had initially announced that he would travel to New York for the diplomatic meet, he later opted to remain in Ramallah, citing travel concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic.’
So, meet our demands or else in one hand, too much of a frightened pussy to take a plane ride in the other.
This is a serious person…
“Man, 20, and woman, 23, are arrested after cops find 21kg of carfentanil – enough to kill 50 MILLION people: Powerful sedative is 100 times more potent than fentanyl”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10026771/Man-woman-arrested-cops-21KG-carfentanil-kill-50-million-people.html
The only solution is to legalize everything. There is no way to keep it out of the country, and there is no way drug dealers can measure that accurately.
I’m assuming that’s not pure carfentanil, and the actual amount of active drug is much less.
It could be close to pure. I don’t think that illegal Chinese carfentanil would be the highest quality, but I don’t see why they would purposely dilute it.
Not this shit again.
That’s like 70 coronavirus pandemics.
In the USA, the govt has not constitutional authority to ban any product or service. Even the prohibitionists knew this and passed the 18th amendment to ban alcohol.
Now importation and interstate commerce of products and services are subject to regulation but regulation does not equate to bans.
LOL never change, Business Insider.
Breaking News: Unrealized Capital Gains are Not Taxed
The next step will be to tax projected future earnings.
“Mr. Bezos, our toppiest of top men have calculated that in five years you will earn a jillion dollars. We’ll want 40% of that this year.”
Pretty sure those piles of cash have already been taxed a couple few times already but whatever.
Did the value of your house go up this year? And you didn’t sell it? Well that’s an unrealized capital gain. Give us money. See you next year!
Oh, the value went down this year? Damn. Well you don’t have to give us money this year, but we certainly aren’t giving you any back. See you next year!
And I’m paying much more in real estate taxes, so bite me.
AFL spoiler…
Congrats Baked Penguin & CPRM, Melbourne win first flag (title) in 57 years: https://www.afl.com.au/news/680328/it-s-a-grand-new-flag-demons-finally-exorcise-57-years-of-pain
Checking in on it now. I was expecting an empty MCG and maybe helos targeting stray fans trying to get in.
Instead we get Perth 🙁
And then stamped his feet, demanding a cookie.
Oh, no! REPERCUSSIONS!
If you do not accede to our demands, we shall read a sternly worded rebuke into the official UN Assembly records. Then you’ll be sorry.
Astounding
Additionally, DeSantis’ office on Friday said that “any decision about the land where Champlain Towers South once stood must be made by the owners.”
“This is understandably a sensitive topic, and the Governor hasn’t taken a position on what should be done with the land. It’s not public land, so the state does not get to make the final decision,” Pushaw said.
What a monster. No wonder people hate and fear him.
This is the same idiocy as road side memorials. I’m sorry your loved one died. Bury them or create them Have whatever rituals apply. Then grieve in your private life. You don’t get a claim to someone else’s land.
OFFS.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cyber-ninjas-fail-find-election-tipping-fraud-arizona-raise-serious-concerns-over
Getting kind of sick of these stories. You can count and recount all you want. After the illegitimate ballots have been stuffed in the box, it won’t matter. That’s the issue I have with all of this. Everyone knows there was election fraud across the board. These stories are just rubbing it in our faces.
So long as you have mail in ballots the votes cannot be trusted. There is 0 chain of custody and no way to prove who is actually voting. Also electioneering will be rampant.
Yeap. My protest vote last year is probably the last one I will ever make. I’m not wasting my time again on these farcical exercises.
Ditto. At this point, voting just legitimizes a corrupt system
“If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.”
-Twain
^^
81 mIlLiOn VoTeZ!
Ferret tests positive for coronavirus in Florida
Fortunately, ferrets have a very robust immune system, so I expect the critter to mount a stoat defense against its infection.
*Looks around, laughs*
Well, I liked it.
*Kicks a rock and walks off*
I thought it was kind of weaselly.
It’s definitely the kind of joke you want to keep at marmot’s length.
I’m glad I didn’t have to badger anyone into a response.
My puns ermine alone.
Thanks OMWC. In all seriousness, I do find your posts like this very interesting because from my Christian perspective, reading the Bible with no real accompanying documents other than some commentaries, I get visualizations for some of these ceremonies and traditions, but not a lot of follow-through. (I do recall seeing the Hillel student group setting up little stalls/booths on the quad or next to the student center at UNC-CH, but I’m pretty sure they didn’t camp out in them overnight.)
Quasi-related – I’ve been enjoying catching the “Chosen” tv show (only via youtube so far, but I plan to buy the blu-rays). Very interesting presentation of the period of Jesus’ time on Earth – including periods from the OT, etc – but with a much heavier focus on the local culture and the disciples specifically – and their backgrounds (also Nicodemus features a bit heavier). Looks like 6 seasons are planned – the first 8 ep season only takes us through the Wedding at Cana – and about 7 of the disciples. You can watch the first couple eps here. Definitely presents some new visuals for some of the disciples. Matthew/Levi the tax collector absolutely makes sense in the context as something of an autist/rationalist – fits great.
BTW for Local glibs – planning to hit the Park Lane Tavern oktoberfest thing today.
Which one?
https://www.google.com/maps/search/Park+Lane+Tavern/@37.5453003,-77.4497844,232704m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1
Fredericksburg. Haven’t actually been to the other ones yet.
“are there any other kind in rabbinic Judaism?”
I’ve been getting more and more interested in Karaite Judaism of late. They make a pretty compelling case against treating the Talmud as divine law.
Interesting. I was always taught it was rabbinic interpretation.
That’s my understanding as well, however it’s always seemed to me that the “mainstream” movements treat the Talmud as being on equal footing as the Tanakh. For instance, why matrilineal descent? All of the OG Jooz in the Tanakh followed patrilineal. Seems like the rabbinic interpretation was just making it up (for example).
One of the interesting things about Unsong is that the author highlights such rabbinically revealed truths such as “angels don’t have knees” and “angels can speak every language except Aramaic.”
“Man tried to bomb phone stores to prevent spread of porn”
Why, oh why would you ever want to *stop* porn?
It’s the perfect insanity defense to his otherwise obvious extortion attempt.
Can’t stop the signal, Mal
Serious news for serious people
Selling an idea in Silicon Valley takes not only a grand vision but also swagger and bluster, says Margaret O’Mara, a historian of the tech industry.
“Being able to tell a good story is part of being a successful founder, being able to persuade investors to put money into your company,” she said.
And Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, did just that. She was drumming up investment with a dream that bordered on the fantastical when she promised to transform health care. The company’s portable blood-testing machine could analyze a finger-prick’s worth of blood for thousands of diseases, she vowed.
In doing so, federal prosecutors allege, she and the No. 2 at Theranos, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, broke the law by deceiving investors about how well the business was doing and the capabilities of its testing machines, in addition to allegedly providing false or flawed test results to patients.
In Silicon Valley, the trial has launched a debate: Since Holmes was following a playbook used by dozens of tech CEOs, why is she the only one to face prosecution when a company collapses in scandal?
Maybe because her claims could be proven to be false?
You’re obviously just threatened by
sociopathic liarsstrong and powerful women.Girl CEOs need to have their lived experiences of oppression taken into account, bigot.
Why won’t these sexist customers just buy defective vaporware!?
They brought Ellen Pao on to blame sexism.
Silicone Saturday is a huge fan of cricket.
https://archive.li/CqvZM
20… drool…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-investigating-female-soldiers-report-that-she-was-assaulted-by-afghan-refugees-at-military-complex-in-new-mexico/
*surprised face*
I think I’ll start buying goats left and right in anticipation for the RFP coming down the pipe from the DoD.
Oh yay…
“The task force for evacuees at Fort Bliss is implementing additional security measures following the allegation, including additional lighting and the enforcement of the buddy system at the complex where the assault allegedly took place, the statement said. ”
That the solution to the problem! God forbid anyone be held accountable or responsible or get vetted. Nope, they’re all doctors and engineers and must be let in immdiately!
Well isn’t it called Fort Bliss?
They just need to rename the refugee camp for her and that will make it all better.
To Ellen Pao, the former CEO of Reddit, who is a vocal critic of gender discrimination in tech, sexism is partially to blame.
“When you see which CEOs get to continue to wreak havoc on consumers and the market, it’s people who look like the venture capitalists, who are mostly white men,” Pao said.
Of course it is. The person who has made a career out of claiming victim status says so.
She’s made a career out of ruining viable enterprises while blaming white men for her failures.
Damn white men, evil is written in their genes. If only we could cleanse the Earth of them utopia could commence.
The party of Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer thinks there are too many white men in charge.
From last night’s thread since I posted it kinda late: Completed Religious Exemption Document
Use it if you need it. Feel free to circulate to others who need it. Please don’t tell them you got it from me.
Is it ok if I tell them I found it in a trashcan?
I’ll give you “waste disposal unit”, not one inch more. ?
But if he needs more inches, just ask.
Nice. If there is no ghost in the machine, I’m fine with throwing a sabot in it.
Cacio e Pepe: Original vs. Foolproof vs. Gourmet with Luciano Monosilio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eaNqTbDDA
I may try that
Hmmmm.
I’m betting the pig bladder will be hard to come by.
I truly believe if Walt Disney saw what the USA (and his company) were like today, he’s want to stay frozen.
Also, have they reanimated any other animals or humans? I feel like this would be a big first try.
Not that I am aware, but this was 8n the news recemtly:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16105464/scorned-wife-raids-ex-husbands-lab/
In the (only?!) picture on Tiegs’ wikipedia page, Cheryl and Christie look like they’re about to go full velociraptor, and Brooke is thinking “how do I get away from this?”
Bait and switch
As if we needed any more problems, passengers from hell are a thing now (or more a thing than before, anyway). They assault flight attendants, toss food and alcohol around, and throw their masks on the ground. Delta Air Lines has apparently had enough.
In two internal memos to employees this week, Delta said it had asked its competitors to share their internal no-fly lists, which it says would prevent crappy passengers from causing trouble on different airlines. The company has so far submitted more than 600 names of banned passengers to the Federal Aviation Administration this year.
The memos were sent on the same week that Delta participated, through the industry trade group Airlines for America, in a hearing on “air rage” held by the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure on Thursday.
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According to the FAA, the majority of the problems with unruly passengers this year are related to individuals refusing to comply with federal mask mandates. Since January, the agency has received about 3,889 reports of unruly passengers. Of those, 2,867 involved the mask mandate. As of August, the FAA had fined these passengers more than $1 million in fines for their bad behavior.
Let’s create an entirely new and bullshit “crime” and use it as an excuse to claim the need for more authoritarianism.
Not to mention a group of massive corporations deciding to shit on little guys for what could’ve been a bad day or one power hungry employee. But it’s all ok cause corporations are people and not the government! Masks work! Compliance is freedom!
Biden mandates masks on Federal property (except for special people) > Airlines enforce mask bans utilizing federal and local police agencies under the direction of an airlines employee > peoples rights get violated on whims > person loses all abilities to fly on commercial airlines and not a judge or jury in sight
IIRC Delta kind of sux. JAL doesn’t see these problems because they still hire hot cabin attendants.
PSA for all you pickers.
That’s quite catchy.
Here you go, pick up something for the missus
https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/icegreen-Airlines-Uniform-Cosplay-Selectable/dp/B07V2KJKHJ/
Airlines are pseudo-government entities at this point. I hope they all go bankrupt.
There has to be a way we can start our own Glib airline. We can get Asian flight attendants and make them wear those old 1960’s uniforms. Plus they’ll make cocktails, and blackjack!
Ah the hell with it.
…and flambé steaks and desserts…
I think that airline is called flying private.
Well, we have some pilots.
But are the planes big enough for flight attendants?
Nah, would have to charter.
That and fractional, even with a full house, would probably be unaffordable for most of us (I looked into it).
I would take a former military transport with no seats if it were private and cheapish. I can sit on my luggage.
I’ve flown intercontinental in a C130. I’ll buy a regular seat in steerage over that.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/the-week-in-pictures-fib-edition.php
Covfefe!
I want an adult lunchable.
Anyone recognize the blonde woman above Mr. Ed? I would guess Victoria Abril, pero me parece que no.
“Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses.”
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/
Good thread here:
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1441744598204772361
If there’s anything we’ve learned in the past few years, the Brahmins will never face accountability for anything they do, no matter how evil or criminal. Sure they might throw some junior scientist under the bus but that won’t stop them from doing this shit (for no reason that I can see).
That is exactly what many people examining COVID found. A very human specific furin cleavage protein inserted into the virus.
They published their suspicions and were roundly criticized and banned.
Yep. I remember seeing that study very early on. And those people got pilloried and the study was widely rejected.
I believe several of us linked to it here, in fact.
Fuck Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, and the UN. The faster we disengage from their bullshit the better off we will be.
Being a Jew sounds like a lot of farting around.
Depends on what you eat.
My neighbors in Colorado Springs invited me to that, it was a nice time except they weren’t actually Jewish. They later explained they were of those obscure Christian sects that celebrates Jewish holidays.
Minnowites?
Yeah, something like that.
That is exactly what many people examining COVID found. A very human specific furin cleavage protein inserted into the virus.
It’s a very sneaky and determined opponent.
I’l say it out loud:
What a crazy coincidence that:
1 – the two countries with the highest rates of diabetes on the planet (yes, China slightly outpaces the US)
2 – both of whom are facing likely destruction of their public healthcare systems
a. because more than 80% of the US healthcare costs are a result of the disease states that result from hyperinsulinimia;
b. because the International Diabetes Federation did finger sticks on 90K Chinese and determined China has 500MM prediabetics – in addition to their 114MM already diagnosed Type 2 diabetics;
were working together on research of a modified cold/flu virus that – crazily enough! of all the ways in which this virus could “mutate”! – seems to preferentially attack people with the “co-morbidities” associated with hyperinsulinimia.
What a shocking series of co-inky-dinks.
Don’t forget the necessity of paying Pfizer zillions in taxpayer money to solve the “problem” while Pfizer is one of the most commonly held stocks by members of congress.
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George pointed to a surprising shortage of labor that has developed in the U.S. even though millions of people who had jobs before the pandemic still haven’t gone back to work. If fewer people end up rejoining the labor force, she indicated, it’s unlikely that unemployment would return to a before-the-pandemic level of 3.5%.
She noted that many older workers who retired during the pandemic haven’t gone back to work and may never do so.
At the same time, a shortage of day-care workers could make it harder for some parents to resume working. Employment at day-care centers is still 10% below pre-pandemic levels, George said.
These labor shortages are playing a big role in the elevated inflation rate, particularly in the large service side of the economy. Companies have to pay higher wages, she said, and they are passing on the cost to customers.
While many of these problems are expected to fade once the pandemic wanes, George said some changes are certain to stick. And that will make it harder for the Fed to determine the level to which it should set U.S. interest rates.
At least they admit the market has nothing to do with setting interest rates.
We see a completely unanticipated and inexplicable labor shortage.
The Ministry of Plenty paying people to stay home and the Ministry of Truth’s unceasing panicmongering have nothing to do with it. Nothing, i tell you.
Now let’s try a vaccine mandate and see how that shortage gets even shorter.
surprising
I guess “surprising” has been defined down to “entirely predictable consequences of the actions taken by the government”
“a surprising shortage of labor that has developed in the U.S. even though millions of people who had jobs before the pandemic still haven’t gone back to work”
These illiterates don’t even know that “even though” is the opposite of “because”.
Or that And and But are equivalent in symbolic logic.
Blah blah fucking blah
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have just one week to avoid a partial government shutdown, and Dr. Anthony Fauci is worried:
‘The worst time in the world we want to shut down the government is in the middle of a pandemic where we have 140,000 people a day getting infected and 2,000 people a day dying.’
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a top White House health adviser, speaking with the Washington Post’s Early 202, added that this is a time “when you want the government working full blast to address this.”
He added that he believes a shutdown would have a “profound effect” and “should be avoided, if at all possible.”
If the government shuts down, how will we keep our boot on the neck of the people?
Does this guy ever shut up?
Hmm, so we are now in the “middle” of it after 18 months and counting? They are never going to let this go unless and until there is mass civil disobedience.
Fauci reportedly told the Post that he’s “disappointed at the fact that we still have 70 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated but not yet gotten vaccinated.”
He argued there will come a time for local vaccine mandates: “You’re going to reach a point where you’re going to have people who the only way they’re going to get vaccinated is if it’s going to be inconvenient for them not to be vaccinated, and that’s where mandates come in,” Fauci said.
Embrace your inner Mussolini.
That little shit can’t die soon enough.
I can think of several DC octogenarians who wore out their welcome long ago.
Seriously – if someone put a bullet in that guy’s fucking head – I would absolutely vote not guilty if I was on that jury no matter what.
#metoo.
Clearcut self defense. The man is an imminent danger to life and health.
His single focus solution is really disturbing to me.
Yeah, the kind of thinking they’re applying to this problem is seventh-grade level shit.
Nah, even in seventh grade we knew about controls and variables.
It’s about eliminating the control groups.
Without a control group you can’t properly judge the incompetent motherfuckers.
Always remember, Fauci is a bureaucrat first. And bureaucrats excel at two things, expanding the bureaucratic empire and covering their own asses.
I hope to continue disappointing that fucker as long as I can.
Mandatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUAu3hAMFfI
It is amazing how much I get done when I don’t have to go to work.
Right? I got to fix some sprinklers, scrub some oil out on the driveway and fix two of the engine mounts of the generator.
Biden done fucked up again, CBP is pissed,
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-agents-biden-backs-claims-whipping-promises-agents-pay
Eh his handlers jumped on it for few days of political expediency and that is never good. Really hard when the photographer himself is saying you are bullahit too
All part of the plan to discredit any sort of border protection.
No I am not hiding any Jews..
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/09/23/australia_police_goes_door_to_door_are_you_aware_of_any_planned_protests_or_events_coming_up.html
That’s exactly the way people need to answer that question. And get it on video to share with the world.
Psalm 73:1-20
I have some very open conversations with teen #1. His mom did a real number on him when he was young in terms of faith and God. The type where if I pray I will get what I want. He said ‘when I was young I would pray to stop being bullied in school and God did nothing and I felt I was talking with myself.’
Your Psalms that you have posted give me good points to help explain what faith is and the comforting it can bring. How that faith could give you strength during those times to overcome that adversity.
The type where if I pray I will get what I want.
Ah, good old prosperity gospel. God is a vending machine, and if you don’t get what you want, it’s because you didn’t kick him hard enough.
Interestingly they often point to Psalm 37 and decontextualize it either as “he will give you the desires of your heart” or a super squishy interpretation of “delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
Of course, if you expand the context out a few verses, it becomes clear that God gives you the desires of your heart ONLY AFTER you repent and align the desires of your heart with Him.
Psalm 37:3-5
In fact, Psalm 37 in its entirety is an amazing call for endurance in the face of adversity. Instruction on how to look up to the eternal and seek out the Lord’s comfort when the wrongdoers hate and oppress in the temporal.
I’m glad the Psalms are helping your conversation! They’re really helping me to keep a better perspective as things go to crap in our culture. God called me to study the Psalms after finishing my last study, and I had no idea why. It was just an inclination to work through Scripture I hadn’t spent much time in. Now I know. They have been the perfect fit for current times.
Much appreciated, trashy.
You can also read that as the true desires of your heart. Yes I desire that mansion, but my heart truly desires peace.
I’ve been listening to the Lord of Spirits podcast. I started from the beginning and have really enjoyed the discussions. The hosts are Orthodox priests and are well versed in the history and mythology of the early Church.
Recommended.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/25/1040675912/michael-k-williams-drug-intoxication-autopsy-death
“Omar’s got a shotgun!”
Nice music. Too bad there’s no video. I enjoy watching Mr Ra and his friends work.