This was the fourth installment I posted on my blog regarding vaccine mandates. This one is pretty DoD specific, but here be linky if anyone wants it.
If you’re a service member, or family member of one, who hasn’t taken the mandatory vaccine, I know: your anxiety meter is pegged. Mine, too. Take a deep breath.
There is some good news out there. An Army message – the relevant page of which is posted here – at least acknowledges that there are procedures for filing for exemptions and that those should be honored. I’ll take the good news even from people I don’t otherwise trust. More importantly, hold them to their word. “3.D.8.B.1.F. (U)… Commanders will not take adverse action against soldiers with pending exemption requests.”
It’s right there in the message, so everyone who has any medical exemption under 40-562/AFI 48-110/etc. should file for one post-haste. I’ve said it before, but go to the regulation, ¶2-6 and look at the list of exemptions that apply. The first paragraph discusses pregnant women. Pregnant women were excluded form the ongoing clinical trial for the Pfizer vaccine. (Yes, you can find the clinical protocol. It was an exhibit to our motion in court – it’s a massive document. Get a PACER account and you can pull it down. It’s 146 pages, as a PDF anyway.) But the point is, if you give it a moment’s thought, you can probably imagine it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to INCLUDE pregnant women in your first ever clinical trial for the first ever mRNA gene-modifying technology for an injectable biologic. In fact, you would kind of have to be a little daft to want to do that, at least from my perspective. So, if anyone repeats the mantra that it’s “safe and effective” in regards to pregnant women, you’ll know they are brain dead and have no idea what they’re talking about. They’re just repeating the propaganda; don’t get worked up. The clinical trials for the Pfizer vaccine have not even been completed – and won’t until 2023. Anyone acting like they have definitive answers (“the science!”) is lying. You don’t judge vaccine safety – any vaccine – before it’s even completed a single, clinical human trial. You know how else we know it hasn’t yet been deemed “safe and effective” as those words are used by the law and required by regulations? Because the FDA said so in their letter that they were extending the EUA for the Pfizer vaccine. A vaccine that is under the authority of an EUA is, by definition, an “unapproved product” under 21 USC §360bbb-3. That’s what the FDA is claiming the authority to do all of this shucking and jiving under – the Emergency Use Authorization statute. None of this is how FDA biologics approval works normally. Anyone pretending otherwise is either a liar or a moron, so don’t bother wasting your time on them, either.
The most important thing to know, however, is that once the FDA extended the EUA for the Pfizer vax, something else happens automatically – and there’s nothing the FDA or SecDef can do to change that. (Here is where being an old fart and having suffered under the prior Anthrax Vaccine debacle helps). The anthrax vaccine first caused a mess in the Gulf War in 1990. The DoD had gotten a bunch of waivers from the FDA rules regarding informed consent (21 CFR 50.23(d), if you care to know where it used to be found). The crux of it was that the DoD wanted to use a bunch of different experimental, investigational, and approved drugs – but for an unapproved uses (i.e. indications, in FDA-speak) – in anticipation that Saddam Hussein actually had Chem-Bio weapons during the first Gulf War. Needless to say, it was a complete disaster and a lot of service members wound up with Gulf War Syndrome. Congress did what it does – hold a lot of hearings, not a ton else – except that by 1997, after the DoD had screwed up deploying a vaccine against tickborne encephalitis in Bosnia, Congress had seen enough. An excerpt from the book I wrote about this exact subject:
Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), introduced a bill on the floor of Congress to provide some small measure of protection for service members. In its original form, the bill imposed three requirements on the DoD: Either prior to, or within 30 days of, administering an investigational new drug, the DoD would have to inform military members that
- The drug being administered is investigational;
- The reasons why the drug is being administered;
- The potential side effects of the drug, including side effects resulting from interactions of the drug with other drugs or treatments being administered to the individual.
Representative Kennedy’s remarks made it clear that the bill was the direct result of inquiries into the Gulf War and what he perceived as a DoD cover-up of possible chemical exposures of U.S. troops. He noted that the trust between soldiers and the government
… has been called into question. One need merely read newspaper articles surrounding the Persian Gulf War to see what I mean. On February 28, the New York Times ran an article entitled: “Pentagon Reveals It Lost Most Logs on Chemical Arms”; “Missing From Two Sites: Gulf War Veterans Now Raise Questions of Cover-Up or Criminal Incompetence.”
U.S. v. Members of the Armed Services, p. 50.
Why does any of this matter? Because right after that law was passed, the DoD went straight ahead and announced the mandatory anthrax vaccine program anyway. It was while I was in law school as a Marine officer, so none of this is ancient history to me. I got commissioned in 1991 as a 2nd Lt of Marines. By 6 years in, I was well aware of what had happened to the guys just in front of me – the Gulf War vets – and I was finishing up Naval Justice School as a judge advocate in 1999 when the mandate came down from on high – and hard: Get the vaccine, or else. I was a young judge advocate and got assigned a number of those cases.
Representative Christopher Shays, a vocal opponent to the waiver granted to the FDA, rose as the speaker pro tempore in the House on 16 June 1998. He pointed out that there had been 13 hearings in three and a half years looking into Gulf War Illness. During this time, various agencies had testified in order to “try to get a handle on the problems that our Gulf War veterans have faced when they returned home. Out of the 700,000 that have returned, almost 100,000 have had some types of physical problems to deal with and have sought to have their illnesses be dealt with by the Department of Veterans Affairs.”[19] Mr. Shays noted that after 11 hearings, there had been a number of findings and recommendations made, among them that “the VA and the Pentagon did not properly listen to sick Gulf War veterans in terms of the possible causes of their illness[;] [that] there is no credible evidence that stress or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder caused the illnesses reported by many Gulf War veterans[; and] that Congress should enact legislation establishing the presumption that veterans were exposed to hazardous materials known to have been present in the Gulf War theater.”[20] Most importantly, Congressman Shays recommended that “the FDA should not grant a waiver of informed consent requirements allowing the Pentagon to use experimental or investigational drugs unless the President signs off and approves.”[21] This recommendation would become the cornerstone of a new version of Representative Patrick Kennedy’s first modest legislation. Interestingly, all it really did was seek a return to the “common rule” set forth in the DoD’s own regulations, the DHHS regulations, the FDA’s regulations (prior to the waiver), the Nuremberg Code, and the federal statute passed which codified the Nuremberg Code. All of these regulations and laws have always stated that “the informed consent of the subject is absolutely essential” and all of them stated a presumption that “informed consent is feasible except … in certain limited circumstances, usually when the subject was incompetent or incapable of giving consent or in a life-threatening situation where the subject could not consent.”
Id., p. 54. That law was the cornerstone of Doe v. Rumsfeld, 297 F.Supp.2d 119 (D.D.C., 2003), a decision in which a federal court judge found that the DoD and FDA had circumvented their regulations (more than once) and forced service members to take a vaccine that was “unapproved for its applied use” – in violation of 10 U.S.C. §1107. I know because I helped work on some of those cases, including Doe I. Not long after that litigation, including appeals and subsequent opinions, in 2006, the Congress passed all of the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization statutes, 21 USC §360bbb-3. Interestingly, they also passed another “mirror image” statute: 10 USC §1107a, which again gave the non-delegable authority to waive service members’ rights to informed consent right where it should be: in the President’s hands as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. In other words, Congress enacted two statutes that covered two kinds of drugs: drugs that are FDA-approved, but “unapproved for their applied use” – meaning that they’re being used for some use or indication that they don’t have approval for; OR “unapproved drugs,” which means anything that the FDA hasn’t granted a full-license to yet, including if it’s under an EUA. The first kind fall under 10 USC §1107’s requirements, and the latter – like Pfizer’s BioNTech – fall under 10 USC §1107a, but either way, both invest the President as Commander-in-Chief with the sole authority to waive service members’ right to informed consent.
That awesome responsibility is his and his alone, in his role as Commander-in-Chief. He CANNOT hide behind the FDA, or the SecDef playing word games to try to step into the CinC’s shoes. 1107/1107a both say clearly in text, and by their legislative (and real-life) history, that in the all-volunteer force, after what has happened historically to service members with unapproved drugs, biologics, and the wreckage that results, the President has a non-delegable responsibility to put in writing why he is doing that to citizens who have voluntarily given up many, MANY Freedoms that other citizens do not have to. This is all a very traceable, historical and legal phenomena that goes from Vietnam draft end in 1973, 1977 MKULTRA admissions on live TV that soldiers were experimented on in a joint CIA-Army program for 12 years spanning the 50s and 60s, a lawsuit by one of those soldiers – Stanley Robinson’s 1987 Supreme Court heartbreaking loss that upheld Feres – and then it went right into the Gulf War workup and the waivers of 50.23(d) that begat Gulf War Syndrome, begat 10 USC 1107, then anthrax begat Doe, which gave us all the EUA statutes, but ALSO Congress added 1107a – reaffirming that if either of those two types of unlicensed drugs are to be used on the all-volunteer force, ONLY the President can do so.
Now here’s the most important part of my argument: THAT’S THE WAY IT SHOULD BE as a matter of moral correctness. The President SHOULD have to look the people in the face that have voluntarily given up their Freedoms and pledged their lives to his discretion, if necessary, but NOT to be EXPERIMENTED UPON. SO… the President needs to stand up and be a f****ng leader and accept the responsibilities that come with it. If the President claims the right to lead Free Men and Women, and to call upon their bodies and souls to endure the Nation’s wars, to give up their freedoms and endure great hardships, to endure random drug testing, loss of liberty, etc., while the rest of the citizens get to stay home and eat popcorn, then He – and HE ALONE – needs to explain exactly WTF he is doing and why his troops need to stick an unlicensed product into their bodies.
Period. That hasn’t been done. QED.
The FDA can’t name-change drugs, do dipsy-doodles, or substitute away President Biden’s – or any President’s – obligations as CinC for him. And neither can a lesser official like SecDef Austin. And NEITHER CAN A COURT. It is a matter of obligation that inheres to a leader of this country’s Armed Forces – that is how it works if you want to claim the authority to lead free men and women who volunteered for service in an (allegedly) free country. It’s a matter of moral correctness – it may be one of the few times ever in this country’s history that Congress has ever gotten a statute so correct. The only thing a court can and should do is the same thing that the judge did in Doe v. Rumsfeld – hold government officials accountable to their legal responsibilities and obligations to the citizenry. That’s the highest calling a court has in this country… though they’ve lost their way on that – (but that’s a rant for a separate time and place about our black-robed politicians on the bench).
Now, does that mean if the DoD shows up with Comirnaty that you have to take it? Not necessarily. If you have prior immunity, now you can assert it and you have every right and expectation to be medically exempted from the vaccine under ¶2-6, which is where we started this whole thing. Circle of life and all that. And one of the most infuriating aspects of the government’s behavior in all of this is the random, completely contradictory and hypocritical positions regarding when they acknowledge “natural immunity” or pretend it doesn’t exist. For example, many military doctors have told us (privately) they’re being pressured not to grant any medical exemptions for people who can show they’ve already had Covid. This is because of Lloyd Auston’s near-gibberish level memorandum regarding what counts as “fully vaccinated” – which is a complete non sequitur to whether or not you should take a vaccine if you can show you already had Covid. Now consider these two gems:
First, the CDC does recognize natural immunity: for international visitors! People coming from other countries were allowed to come into the United States, as long as they could demonstrate either (a) that they had a negative Covid test within 3 days of flying here, OR (B) they could show they previously had Covid with a serological test of some kind. So, if you’re an international traveler, no need for a vaccine because – ! you can show you’ve already had Covid! https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/fr-proof-negative-test.html
Somehow, however, not so much for you, healthy young Americans in the U.S. military.
Second gem, illegal immigrants also don’t have to be vaccinated! In a lawsuit by the Arizona attorney general filed a while back, AG Mark Brnovich points out that the federal government’s own policy is NOT to vaccinate illegal immigrants, even the ones who are released into the United States to await hearings that may not happen for years. Arizona AG Suit. Read the whole thing, but p. 2 of the complaint spells out that there is no federal vaccine mandate for illegal immigrants. If correct, this would mean that both legal travelers and illegal immigrants evidently have more rights than service members to forego a vaccine. See? It’s #SCIENCE!
This is what you’re up against and, unfortunately, your Commanders can be pitted against you because many of them care about their careers more than your well-being. That’s just an inescapable conclusion of their actions in seeking to enforce this garbage on people they allegedly are supposed to protect and serve. Unfortunately, the dominant feature of government service now is the exact opposite of what it should mean – they are completely unaccountable to us, the citizenry. Our leaders see us fundamentally as their servants, to shut up and do what we’re told, rather than seeing themselves as public servants, even though it’s right in the flipping name, working for the public.
So, what can you do? File those medical and administrative exemptions, no matter what the Chaplain or your command says. Make them do the work to explain why natural immunity only counts for foreigners and not healthy American military members. Hang together. Don’t put that garbage in your body if you don’t want it. Be resolute and make the government do what it will. There are 700,000 or more service members who don’t want this. If you stick together you are a force. If you cave, you’ve learned to bend the knee to something you know is wrong, illegal, and immoral. I know they threaten your life will be over and you’ll get a “DD”. No one is getting a “DD” for a single specification of Article 92 for refusing this vaccine. The military doesn’t even do 2500 courts-martial in a year any more. If 10,000 people insisted on courts-martial the system would collapse.
We’re continuing to push forward in our suit, and others have been filed, as well, and continue to be filed pointing out how wrong this is. A judge in NY granted a TRO against the state on behalf of healthcare workers trying to implement a vaccine mandate and providing no religious exemption. That’s a plain violation of Title VII. LAPD has filed suit against the county’s vaccine mandate there. More are coming. You are not alone in this. Hang in there.
Semper Fidelis.
You have a long and treacherous road Ozy and I am sure all those uniformed (and families) members are glad you are on it.
Unico? is that you?
Damn fine work Sir!
Thanks for the work Ozy.
First, the CDC does recognize natural immunity: for international visitors! People coming from other countries were allowed to come into the United States, as long as they could demonstrate either (a) that they had a negative Covid test within 3 days of flying here, OR (B) they could show they previously had Covid with a serological test of some kind. So, if you’re an international traveler, no need for a vaccine because – ! you can show you’ve already had Covid! https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/fr-proof-negative-test.html
I did a little digging. I think this just applies to the testing requirements for entry to the US that every air passenger, regardless of vaccination status, has to go through. All noncitizens which have not received an exemption have to be vaccinated.
So looking at other countries, they recognize prior infection and recovery for 12 months after test or diagnosis. See Norway, Sweden, Denmark and I believe others.
CDC?
It’s insane that the US doesn’t recognize natural immunity.
On the other hand, there’s lots of money in those vaccines. Senators Pfizer, J&J, and Moderna have to get paid.
^^^ They are all lobbying to both the government and the media that we need to keep this going. It should make people question, but it won’t. I was hoping that the Dopesick drama series would help though, cause it is following nearly the same path in regards to how pharma will push a drug (for everyone, when it should be targetted).
Lie that you have a miracle cure
Get found out that you used dubious methods and sources for the backing of the miracle product
Get found out that you had favorable people inside governmental regulatory apparatuses
Make billions if not close to a trillion
Hide behind the government and say “did I do that?”
They’re pretty openly saying that you are the trial, and… nobody cares. Jabs in arms!
According to the FDA, you are not wrong.
“We have to pass it, so you can find out what’s in it.”
And you are correct, regardless of vaccination status, you still need to get tested. It says viral test…is that a PCR test?
Not a word in weeks from my company. I don’t know what to think of that. The hammer could come down tomorrow, or not.
I am guessing you have some sort of requirement to implement new rules or at least a timeframe. So if you haven’t had it yet, they would be hard pressed to squeeze it in given timeframes to become ‘fully vaccinated’…as of the current definition, which doesn’t exist.
And could change at any moment.
I’m sticking with my theory that the (((top execs))) are dragging their heels on this for a reason.
Its expensive in capital and personnel; along with all the regulations that will follow and the ‘what ifs’. Even in FedGov managers are asking “if an employee of mine goes out and gets a shot and gets ill afterwards, is that my fault?”
Of course OSHA sidestepping that, it doesn’t really matter I guess.
Same here. My wife is supposed to supply her vax status next week.
My sisters hospital accepted her religious exemption for the jab.
She got COVID and is interesting conducting a medical study about antibodies from those who contracted SAR-COVID19, those who dont think they had it or the jab, and those that got the jab.
FYI: preliminary results show the jab causes antibody spikes that max out testing equip just like those with natural immunity. The million dollar question is how long the antibodies last.
I have not heard of a single confirmed case of someone who never got the jab but got COVID19 and got it again. Same strain.
IIRC antibodies last for years, decades for most.
Another thing that pisses me off is that humans require some amount of germ swaps to keep our human immune systems healthy. Some people are acting like a germ free lifestyle is healthy. Its not.
Also, I love common sense winning out over hysteria. I predicted early that SARS COVID would be forever with us like the flu and everyone would need to be exposed sooner or later. I mainly based that on its survival rate of 99.95% for those under 65 years old and its infection rate around the world.
As idiots dream of living longer in a pickled state, nature replies with “I dont think so”. “You Boomers have lived long enough”.
Good show, OZY, thanks for helping my younger brethren.
If they keep up this shit and mandate more Vax, booster etc, It will be the tipping point for western Civ, we need to stand up,
Its creating more and more reasons to form tribes.
We’ve already gone over the edge. All that’s left is the crying.
Great song.
Why do you not get a feel for how you will be received when going to an event? Maybe after the boos she had a good message, who knows.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/10/27/watch-union-nearly-boos-lori-lightfoot-off-stage-n464757
Good stuff, Ozy, it’s good to know someone like you is fighting the good fight and keeping us informed about it.
You are a hero.
Seconded
Garlic, mushrooms and asparagus sauteed and then hit with a bit of red wine and reduced. Coupled with Swedish meatballs and gravy. What were we talking about?
Better have ligonberry jam on the side or GTFO.
Also IKEA Swedish meatballs suck. Mine are 15 times better.
Nick! Just got a text from a campaign worker for Azrin Awal running for city council in Duluth. I can’t believe city council positions are now worth mass texts. Also, he/she identifies with the DFL. Is the Duluth city council a partisan position?
“Is the Duluth city council a partisan position?”
How blue can blue be?
This is the same city council that approved a 5 cent plastic bag tax, banned the sale of menthol cigarettes, spent $7MM to fix a god-damned pedestrian lift bridge, built a wet hotel for the town drunks, and REFUSES TO FIX THE FUCKING STREETS!
You should probably text a dick pic back.
OK, granted. But still, do they actually campaign on party lines?
No dick pick, but I asked why she thinks I live in Duluth, much less Minnesoda. And then I said if they think a city council seat is worth texting people and that maybe they should get a life. I know, no sick burn. I’ll do better next time.
Also, Juneberry is the superior jam.
Huckleberry would like a word.
Huckleberry vodka is the only flavored vodka I will ever like.
I had some vodka infused with caraway seeds and found it delightful. It was at a Russian restaurant in Austin TX. Good place; I hope it survived Covid theater.
I’m a pie person as opposed to a cake person. The most wonderful pie on earth is a huckleberry-raspberry pie.
Having tasted it I can now die happy.
^^ Pie > Cake, though I don’t indulge often.
Pie and cake lie on orthogonal axes. One is not greater than the other. Merely different.
Like a good libertarian, I will disagree but gladly share a table while you eat a cake.
Why not both?
Cheese cake and boston cream pie.
Cheesecake is a pie disguised poorly as a cake.
Now I want a boston creme cheesecake.
Now do the other one
Ya ya…whatever
Where am I going to get a boston creme cheesecake?
Never tasted a huckleberry (I should remedy that), but my neighbor makes a mean raspberry-rhubarb pie when she isn’t senile.
Also never tasted a Juneberry.
I miss my grandma cause she made a mean rhubarb pie…
Western NoDak/Eastern Montana, huckleberry is a popular flavor for beers and such. It’s pretty good. Never had an actual huckleberry, though.
rhubarb raspberry sounds interesting. Most people ruin a perfectly delicious rhubarb pie by defiling it with strawberries.
I did not…hence the side to add a contrast to the gravy/meatballs. However, Ikea makes meatballs like McDonalds makes hamburgers and I agree, even a shitty homemade attempt will taste better.
We’re all supposed to get fired Dec. 18th. First, they plan on forcing us to get tested twice a week, on our own time at their proprietary location, and make us pay 65 bucks a pop for it via deductions to our checks, if my exemption is approved, they say they will refund the money. This all from news reports. No official notice on any of that yet and it’s been about a week since the news broke that story. Two people I know resigned, thinking they’d avoid losing retirement and paid leave.
I’m waiting to see if they approve me. My supporting documents were complete, but had no organized religion mentioned. Basically it was that I am adamantly pro-life and is evidenced by my history as a birth father, my wife being adopted and us eventually adopting a kid. I enclosed a copy of Adoption Quarterly, which featured us and had my wife act as the corroborating official. We’ll see.
I actually have a separate employment related case, which I am going to talk to a lawyer about. I’m trying to avoid being so prolific on the internet because of that one.
BTW, people like to tell vets, “thanks for your service” and I’m sure they mostly mean it, but I mean it a dozen times more when I say it to you Ozy. Thanks, and thanks to the others here who have helped or even just listened and commiserated and/or joked about it with me.
So I have two employees that are refusing and requesting accommodations. Me, being the frontline manager, have to determine if I can grant that accommodation. Twist is, I also am requesting an accommodation. Should be fun when I have to move to remove them, while myself being given removal paperwork. Good luck FedGov…good luck.
Then grant the accommodation.
I will
Sorry to hear you’re being put through the ringer, blackjack.
However, glad to see you’re still around – you’ve been scarce.
OH, Ozy. Sweet, naive Ozymandias. None of this will matter when The First comes.
Sometimes you just misread the room and look like an asshole.
I chuckled. But that’s me.
Sometimes comedy relief is needed. Sometimes.
If only he delivered.
It’s always needed.
And sometimes people get to worked up about silly shit.
Bro is not silly
What is he then?
just an annoying griefer
I fight for the souls of the non-believers as well as the enlightened. Kinnath’s words change nothing about my purpose.
And the Beatles are an overrated boy band.
Huh. I guess everyone has different opinions.
I guess everyone has different opinions.
correct
I never give the guy shit but the one time I do…MikeS comes in swinging with his middle finger.
Sorry. I see other people who I think should get some push back but don’t , and some guy spouting stupid (and occasionally humorous) shit gets multiple people criticizing him instead of just ignoring him.
As for my middle finger, I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.
Cheers
Quoth the browser – 404
Thats okay…it was a shitty punk rock band
I was expecting Jessica Rabbit.
I thought that was where the “first” was gonna come from?
NY city is going to be a shitshow starting Nov 1. My friend who is still on the FDNY said them, the cops and sanitation need to be vaxxed or get put on unpaid leave. 40% are still unvaccinated as of today. I was pissed when it happened but Im glad now that they put me out to pasture.
These are the people who kept doing their jobs in public throughout the doomterrorpanic, supposedly at great risk but really wasn’t, and now they’re being treated like dogshit. I’d be pissed off, too.
Still getting “Hero Pay” and they’re putting out feelers to get rid of me.
The people driving this shit show are completely detached from all evidence.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/winning-florida-now-lowest-rate-new-covid-cases-per-capita-nation-state-remained-open-no-mandates-no-masks-almost-no-restrictions/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
They are also detached from empathy. Inflicting a Holodomor on the unvaccinated wouldn’t bother them at all.
Neighbor update: No visit from sheriff today. Hopefully 800lb gorilla attorney is doing his job to negotiate our way out of the impending disaster that is my neighbors mental faculties. I’d like to burn her vulture friend but I don’t see how at the moment. She’s got her hooks in the neighbor and is going to steal all her stuff. I just need to get clear.
Hurray!
Unfortunately, that’s all you can do.
so lonely,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6MvV8cbh8
We’re on the Dec 8th federal contractor schedule. We’ll see how effective my exemption is. There are a few ideas for updates that I gleaned out of this article, so many thanks to you Ozy!
The main PITA we’re facing right now is that I’m going to be four months short of being able to waive into the TX bar without taking the bar exam if they fire me in early December. That means I can’t get a job with a local law firm and instead have to either get an in-house gig or find a law firm in Virginia to hire me. I’m debating hanging a shingle if it comes to that. I don’t love that option, but it’s better than paying for, prepping for, and taking a bar exam nearly 5 years out of law school. Frankly, disappearing into the Ozarks and carving out a simple agrarian life sounds better than prepping for a bar exam at this point.
I watched some documentary about how easy it is to launder money in the Ozarks. So that’s an option.
Heh, is agrarian life really that simple?
I’ve had the same thought recently about just going somewhere off grid. I don’t think the wife will go for it, though.
I’m packing everything non essential, and organising the rest, in case I lose my home I won’t be caught off guard,
Help?
Yusef! I would come and help, but they won’t let me across the border.
Did the bomb cyclone hit k Michigan?
Sorry to hear you’ve had no luck getting a job that won’t crush your (already damaged) back and won’t require the vaxx!
It might be that you have to move to a bigger town to find a job 🙁
Good luck, and keep networking . You never know when an opportunity might come up.
Thank doG my research area is not as racist as this one is.
If 10,000 people insisted on courts-martial the system would collapse.
Don’t forget to call Foochy as a witness.
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
/Brooklyn accent
Good on the Braves for having a transgender player in their lineup.
I have a sudden craving for dill pickle chips.
Congratulations!
I’ll invite you to the gender reveal party.
???
Hey Ozy, I got a preposition for ya. No heavy lifting needed on your part. See forum in next day or two.
I got a preposition for ya
“atop”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AyjKgz9tKg
Isn’t “religious exemption” going to save many a job? Will employers be defining “organized religion” or will they take your word for it? I don’t see how many HR managers will want to get into the potentially litigious quandry of saying one religion is o.k. and another is not really a religion. I’m surprised a Glib or two hasn’t organized a religion or two, to which you can claim adherence, with the Archbishop offering a certification of your long-standing belief to your HR department. Maybe some potential to earn a few bucks but also offered as a community service. You might want to stay away from humorous Supreme Beings who are Flying Spaghetti Monsters but more vague “Universal Force, Ruler of the Heavens, Light of Light” stuff may just qualify.
There is already a religion for those wishing to be enlightened. The Order of the Firsters serves at behest of The Great Firster. Indeed, we are on the cusp of The Great Firstening.
Jesus, Bro, back it down a few notches.
Honestly… I don’t think the religious exemptions are going to go anywhere, if I’m reading the tea leaves right.
That my thought. Particularly if you aren’t a 100% work from home employee. My thought is that some/most will accept the accommodations request but say there is either no way to perform job duties with the accommodation or no work that doesn’t fall within fed guidelines.
Courts have held that individuals must demonstrate sincerely held belief, getting around the 1st amendment ban on deciding what religions are valid and which aren’t.
Maybe a religious doctrine based on the Non Aggression principle, particularly as it might apply to forced jabs with experimental drugs, would fly if one could demonstrate long held libertarian beliefs? [“Here, HR, is my voter registration card from 1980 where I joined the Libertarian Party. How much more sincere can one be than joining – 40 years ago – an obscure political party with no chance of electing any higher level office holders?”]
You know, one side-effect of all this is that the left basically gets to finish their purge of the bureaucracy and all contractors. They have picked a hell of a way to identify wrong thinkers and expel them from government service, as if they didn’t already have a stranglehold on the institutions.
If they have their way, the military, as well.
You see? This is how you make meaningful, relevant comments.
… Hobbit
The purge of WrongThink from military leadership became noticeable during the Obama administration. I believe that’s when it started too, although it might have started earlier if it were subtle.
We see the results now with the primary emphasis not on defense but on societal makeovers and outreach programs.
Southern boys have always made up a disproportionate fraction of enlisted men. My guess is that the Disney-esque recruiting ads and political correctness decrees will decrease that influx significantly.
Let’s hope our Nation’s enemies don’t get cocky and try seeing what they can get away with.
I assume Covid will be the left’s way to usher out religious exemptions for any and all reasons
“…in these trying times…”
Yep. All the freedoms go away.
It’s almost like that was the idea.
Yep. It’s going to rip a hole in the idea of Conscientious Objection.
This is why I say they are going to have to approve all religious accommodations or none. At the FedGov level. As I noted above, as a manager, the ultimate recommendation falls on me for my employees. While we will be taking the recommendations from above us, we can still override with reason. So employee A in Salt Lake gets the accommodation but employee B in Los Angeles, using the same argument as employee A, gets canned. Lawsuit heaven.
My sisters religious exemption was approved.
Y’all might not know but hospitals are immense pressure to make sure all health care workers bend the knee. Unvax rates are likely at 20-30%. This came as an utter shock to Lefties. How could the frontline medical workers ignore the horror? They know firsthand the lies the media are pushing.
Also many got COVID, so they have natural immunity.
The feds are threatening to cut medicare dollars if hospital companies dont comply. Any hospital with an ER or receives federal subsidies for rural clinics, knows this is financial suicide.
I will keep you posed with what I hear.
I will watch for updates.
See Jerms comment upthead about NY services.
Got my first weekly Covid test at work. Not too bad really. They’ll have to work harder to make this too uncomfortable and make me want to get the jab.
Anal swab?
No, brain tickle. Fortunately I don’t have much in the way of brains.
Took them a while?
The flesh between my first and middle incisions used to be numb or at least desensitized to tactile sensation after the surgery.
Now it hurts and itches, both minor, and I feel cold through the area when I drink something.
I’m hoping this just means that there was nerve damage from the surgery that has healed, but I fret that something’s wrong inside instead.
I read testicle sensation…that is all.
I have a large scar on my thumb when I almost cut it off.. there is certain times of the year where it itches like hell and throbs.
I just wish I could check on the intestine and make sure nothing’s leaking. If it’s just some inflammation, that’s not so bad. If it’s just teething pains from the nerves healing, that’s good. Of course I’m worried I went and did something that caused the intestinal wall to develop a hole where the surgery was. There’s not enough pain or any symptoms elsewhere, so I doubt I’m leaking, but I have no frame of reference for what any of this should feel like.
You know what else itches like hell and throbs?
My anus? I should get that checked out.
Biden
Ass
Wiped
My plumbing seems to shift around when I bend over and back up. I got used to it.
Still troubling aches and pains now and then.
It’s better than the ostomy bag I was wearing for a few months.
You can understand why I’m concerned.
I want to figure out problems and determine to root cause. But I’ve got nothing but speculation and ambiguous sensation.
You’ve seen “Alien” right?
pictured
What we’re up against
The ruling: Texas District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn denied SWAPA’s request for an injunction, stating it was “premature” under the Norris-LaGuardia Act, a 1932 law that gives labor unions the right to organize and strike or use other economic means to influence management.
SWAPA also had argued that Southwest violated the Railway Labor Act, alleging the airline failed to maintain a status quo during the ongoing “major” dispute between the parties. That dispute is a previous lawsuit filed by SWAPA involving claims of unfair labor practices during Covid. “The Court agrees that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the parties’ disputes as to the complained-of policies,” according to the ruling.
But Lynn said vaccination requirements under the Biden’s administration’s mandate is a no-brainer: “Requiring Southwest employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will likewise improve the safety of air transportation, the efficiency of Southwest’s operations, and further the [collective bargaining agreement]’s goal of safe and reasonable working conditions for pilots. In addition, because Southwest is a federal contractor, the Vaccine Policy is required by law,” the judge said.
Rule of law? There’s no time for that.
I bet she went to Harvard.
This is why the union came out saying “Shut up, it isn’t a sick out – its the weather!” This is why ATC doesn’t go on the interwebs when they do their slowdowns during shutdowns – also why they operate to policy (no shortcuts, keeping people on taxi ways longer, etc).
Lets step aside the weird capitalization of “Vaccine Law”, it is an EO and EOs are directed towards executive level departments, not anyone else.
“no-brainer” and “efficiency” trump silly rights.
It’s only common sense.
This is a Clinton-era minority hire, but you aren’t going to get much better from the rightwing judges on this is my own hunch. The Bushites and few from the Reagan era remaining are going to side with the government. Most of Trump’s, too.
We already know the verdict. We just need some post hoc legalistic flimflam.
My mood tonight.
I was denied entry into the Zoom tonight. I take solace in knowing that the discrimination against my people will soon come to an end.
try again
Thanks for the update, Ozy, snd of course for all the work you are putting in.
You’re right about the numbers; if enough people refuse, and they stick together, the pro Covid vaxx lobby will have to back down.
I have to say, I never would have guessed it’d be an unproven vaccine (against a disease that’s not life threatening in > 99% of cases) that would be the vehicle that statists would ride into battle for totalitarianism in the West.
I figured Climate Change: “You can’t do this or you must do that or we are Dooomed!”
Or Nationalized health care “sorry, you’re obese, you can’t buy that item and you must log 15,000 steps daily”
Or social credit: “You are disqualified due to a FB like from 5 years ago.”
Or cashless society “You can’t buy this and you must buy that.”
But a vaccine? Nope, didn’t see it coming.
It is the perfect vehicle for fear.
Yeah and all those other things are waiting in line, tapping their feet.
The X Files saw it coming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGN6P4G5N8
Climate Change is a dead letter. They have been pushing some version of that since long before WWII, and the Malthusians weren’t gaining ground with it.
Of course it was this, in retrospect. It boils down to the same issue; humans are ruining the planet.
Apparently you are unaware of the $4 a gallon gas and the major manufacturers eliminating IC engines in a decade movement, their bankruptcies to be subsidized by the taxpayer.
hmm
We had exactly 333 posts in the afternoon links. This is a bad omen. A very very bad omen. The First could be at risk.
334
I went back and changed it.
Ass.
Ozy!
Ozy!
Ozy!
Seriously, keep on with the good fight.
https://edition.cnn.com/entertainment/live-news/rust-shooting-investigation-10-27-21/h_a71f60826b4fdbb11174ae3c15d2b192
600 pieces of evidence.
someone is getting charged.
It’ll be the girl, she’s a near perfect patsy.
/stumbles drunkenly in
suh’ fam
/proceeds to lay on floor
At least lay off to the side and not right in the walkway.
“Huma Abedin writes in her forthcoming book that a U.S. senator sexually assaulted her in her 20s, kissing her unprompted and forcing his tongue in her mouth as the two conversed in his apartment.”
You all know it was Hillary.
LOL the dates fit, I think.
“Why do you smell like albacore?”
And of course the actual event was a political climber willing to go to a powerful man’s apartment and offer up the promise of sexual favors for a fast track to the inner circle.
At some point overnight I:
A) took the trash out
B) was in a Zoom call
3) put a brisket in the crock-pot
I have little recollection of any of those events. They really need to stop giving me nights off.
So long as everything you did is on a timer you’ll be fine.
How long until some Social Worker gets shot by someone that’s spent half their life in prison when they’re handing out ‘Free Hugs’ ?
Trained intervention specialists to be tested in major part of Dayton police reform
***Kif sigh***
Good morning, homey et al!
sup’ copper-top
Im up here holdin’ down the fort
How rude of me! Mornin’ Red!
Mornin’ y’all.
How long? By noon of the first day of rollout would be my bet. Something needs to be done but this seems like a recipe for disaster.
Those hard-chargin’ social-workers and mental health “experts” now get to do ride-alongs or get dispatched to a scene, so their destiny as superior folk can finally be realized. Keeping in mind of course that these are the nerds that got crammed in lockers, tossed in dumpsters, or were made fun of for bad skin and/or cheesy thighs.
And were too weak to be actual cops.
It might do alright until a conflict devolves while they’re in transit and they try to field psychoanalyze some dude who’s just finished pummeling his wife. Once something like that happens, and it will, hoo boy.
They’re going to send some idiot with a BS in psychology to deal with a dude that’s spent most of his life in a prison rape-cage, to discuss “feelings”.
Some blue haired idiot, most likely.
WHY DO YOU HATE THE INDIGO GIRLS ??????
https://www.wgal.com/article/man-killed-after-attacking-philadelphia-officer-with-pickaxe-and-hammer-police-say/38080982
Should have sent an Indigo girl here.
Fittingly, the cops will just throw them in the trunk of the cruiser until all the bad Black men have been “neutralized”.
Ozy is doing God’s work. I just got the dreaded questions from HR yesterday. My reply was terse, “The sites that are mentioned do not apply to my function within the Company and your questions are moot. This is a private matter.” Okay, it was a little more terse than I’m letting on, basically FOS. They’re going to fire me soon, aren’t they? Ah well, never liked the job but grew fond of the clients. Life goes on until it doesn’t.
My union is the same one that capitulated down there regarding vaxxes at meat packing plants. UFCW – “Undocumented Foreign Colored Women”. They are rooting out the unclean.
-They are rooting out the unclean.
^Yeah, this…it’s a fine way to get rid of people that think for themselves and don’t unquestioningly follow orders or buy into the narrative and almost everyone’s doing it. From the meatpackers to the grocery store workers to the cops and the military, they’ll have a very compliant workforce who’ll do just what they’re told soon enough.
As to comments above – Huckleberry is the best berry because it can’t be commercially grown. Maybe it can now but you have to be out in the bush and compete with the bears for your precious jams, jellies and infused pancakes. Judi always wants to go back to this prime picking spot out in the middle of nowhere and I always say “Don’t think so.” I’m not driving 150 miles over gravel for some stupidly delicious berries that you need to crouch to pick.
Are you my Huckleberry ?
Depends. Are you going to shoot me dead? Honest question, I’ve never seen the entire movie. What the fuck does that even mean? Coming from Kilmer it seems creepy and more than a little gay.
Oh, you must see the entire movie! Creepy and gay is pretty spot on for Kilmer’s Doc Holliday. It’s not high art, but one of my favorites
Perpetually drunk is the part of the character that resonated with me.
Heh.
That too.
I hate people ?
I hate people ?
I hate people ?
Seriously, get the fuck out of the left hand lane, you window licking tards.
I hate the Lane Karens. Hall monitors with auto insurance.
Speaking of hating things…
Comcast – service package is $119.00
Taxes, fees, etc. added in – bill is $168.01
JFC.
*grumbles*
$100 to fill the Tacoma. *joins grumbling*
Mine is over $200. When I try to cut it down they give me some spiel about how it would “cost more” to dump all the shit I don’t watch. Want to ditch them badly but there are no equal or better options for broadband at my address.
I’m satisfied with the service. It’s dishonest (IMO) that fees, taxes, and surcharges compromise such a large % of the total cost.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/26/five-months-after-indictment-feds-finally-arrest-longtime-tv-cameraman-for-threatening-to-kill-rep-gaetz/
Honk Honk!
“Despite the Capitol Police’s recommendation that the individual be arrested, the DOJ refused, according to Gaetz.”
What does he have on the Clintons ?
/democracts- the party of peace
I wonder if that’s the same guy who was trying to frame him in some weird sex plot a few months ago.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2021/10/28/vatican-newspaper-warns-of-human-extinction-from-climate-change/
The Roman Church is headed for Extinction. Good riddance.
More people to worship at the altar of government. Be careful what you wish for. All men have a god.
Yeah, this…it’s a fine way to get rid of people that think for themselves and don’t unquestioningly follow orders or buy into the narrative and almost everyone’s doing it. From the meatpackers to the grocery store workers to the cops and the military, they’ll have a very compliant workforce who’ll do just what they’re told soon enough.
This nation could never have attained any sort of power, wealth or international prestige if it had been turned over to a bunch of toxic individualists who hate the government and disrespect established authority. That’s crazy.
There must be obedience. We need FOLLOWERS, now more than ever.
Nope.
“This is humanity’s big chance!”
*makes disgusted-Yosemite-Sam growl*
“I’m going to put a bullet in you and I’m going to put a bullet in one of your f—king kids too,” Huesman said, adding, “I hate you.”
Don’t sugarcoat it.
“I’m going to put a bullet in you and I’m going to put a bullet in one of your f—king kids too,”
No love for Toto?