Ah, the loverly fall weather is here and I finally get to read about a “bomb cyclone” happening on the other side of this fucking rock we call “America”. Is this what it’s like for the rest of the country watching the northeast taking nature’s loads to the face every winter?
Special thanks to Bill Gates for paying for the article today:
It’s 7:38 a.m. on a Tuesday — specifically Oct. 19, 2021 — and you’re taking a taxi from Kennedy International Airport to The New York Times building. If you’d taken that ride very early this morning, when there was no traffic, it would have taken less than half an hour. But during today’s morning commute it was more like an hour and 15 minutes, to cover about 16 miles.
This trip will run around $70 if you happen to be a normal human being that will tip the driver. If you are a shit heel like Krugman, its about $60. What a wonderful way to explain supply chain economics to the plebs: by first pointing out you can afford to not only fly directly in to New York, but also the cab faire to your posh office in Manhattan.
What caused this snarled traffic? We could see major delays on the Long Island Expressway and at the Queens-Midtown Tunnel; I don’t know what they were about. It could have been accidents, or stalled cars, or just the kind of random traffic backups that always happen once highways are sufficiently congested. At a fundamental level, however, the specifics aren’t the point. The reason it takes much longer to make the Kennedy-New York Times trip during the morning commute than it takes off-peak is that this is what happens when more people are trying to use roads than the road network can easily handle.
And now you understand the basics of the supply-chain problems that are driving up many prices and may interfere with your Christmas shopping.
There has been excellent reporting on the details of the logistical mess that has created shortages of almost everything, with much coverage focusing in particular on the logjam at the Port of Los Angeles; that gateway and the adjoining Port of Long Beach are the entry points for 40% of U.S. seaborne imports. But it’s important not to let the details obscure the big picture.
You see, the supply chain hasn’t broken down — U.S. ports are actually unloading a record quantity of goods.
This only appears true if you deny the evidence of your own eyes and ears. The ships are clearly queued up off the port of Los Angeles but why aren’t they being unloaded? For that answer you would have to pay attention to that other Manhattan-based newspaper that is saying the opposite is true.
The reason everything is delayed is that people are trying to buy more stuff than ever before, and their demands are outstripping the supply chain’s capacity — the same way that morning-commute traffic in New York outstrips the road network’s capacity. And once things are that stressed, small disruptions tend to snowball into large delays.
In an accompanying chart, you can see real spending on durable consumer goods — everything from cars to kitchen appliances to exercise equipment — expressed as an index with the start of the pandemic set to 100.
There was a huge surge — a 34% rise over 13 months! — that has only partly receded. I’ve also sketched in the pre-pandemic trend, to show that this was really far outside previous experience.
What accounts for this surge? Overall consumer demand has been strong, boosted by stimulus checks. But that has happened during previous economic recoveries. What’s special this time is that demand has been skewed: Consumers are buying fewer services and more goods than usual. Or as we might put it, they’ve been forgoing experiences and acquiring stuff instead. Another accompanying chart shows consumption of durables and services since the beginning of the pandemic, with durables outpacing services since April 2020.
Why the skew? It’s not a mystery: We’ve been afraid to indulge in many of our usual experiences and bought stuff to compensate. People ate out less, either because indoor dining was banned or because it didn’t feel safe, so they remodeled their kitchens. People couldn’t or wouldn’t go to the gym, so they bought exercise equipment.
Prices are a signal of overall incentives. As the homosexual econ man’s outfit explains with the rise in the price of new cars. The cars themselves are no different but the price is reflective of an overall shortage of the computer chips new cars require to operate, therefore a drop in supply. If there is no change in demand, the price will rise relative to it simply because there are fewer finished cars to sell.
Furthermore the supply chain related price shocks are a simple cause and effect of idiot political decisions made a year ago. Where the factories were shut down, access to ports limited due to virus fears leading to labor shortages, the ripple effect has made its way to the supermarket shelf.
Not to mention Trump’s unilateral trade war with China. Many companies anticipated a second term and began moving factories elsewhere. Once they decide to roll that ball, they can’t exactly move it back.
So what can help resolve problems with the supply chain? Emergency measures, like trying to mobilize resources to keep the ports open 24/7, might help a bit. In the longer run, investments in infrastructure could help much more: U.S. ports, rail lines and so on are shabby compared with their counterparts in other countries and could be much improved.
But the biggest thing that could bring fast relief would be undoing the skew in demand by making people feel safe buying more services and fewer goods. The way to do that is by getting the pandemic under control, above all by getting more people vaccinated.
And how can we get more people vaccinated? Mandates. No need to spend time here rebutting claims that requiring workers or customers to be vaccinated is an assault on liberty: Sorry, but freedom doesn’t mean having the right to expose other people to a potentially deadly disease.
It absolutely is an assault on liberty. If the government told you in order to write these retarded columns, you would have to cut off your own balls and eat them so that you could not further contaminate the gene pool with your retarded ideas you might have a different view.
Sorry, but freedom doesn’t mean having the right to expose people to potentially catastrophic Keynesian drivel.
At this point we can also dismiss claims that requiring vaccination will disrupt the economy: While many people told pollsters that they would quit rather than take their shots, in practice employers that have required vaccination have experienced only a handful of resignations.
Bullshit. Bullshit. Bull-fucking-shit. You just spent several paragraphs telling us how fragile this supply chain is, and how easily it is interrupted, only to hand wave thousands of workers quitting over vaccines as if that won’t compound the problem at all? From the American Trucking Association:
“Now placing vaccination mandates on employers, which in turn force employees to be vaccinated, will create a workforce crisis for our industry and the communities, families and businesses we serve.”
The federation warns that motor carriers it represents – who it said supply 80% of the country and move 70% of all freight tonnage — could lose up to 37% of their drivers.
You can’t suck your own dick and eat your own asshole at the same time doofus.
In other words, what our economy needs now is a shot in the arm — or rather, millions of shots in millions of arms. And vaccine mandates will provide those shots, in addition to saving lives.
What a fucking clown. “We would be prosperous, if not for these wreckers and Kulaks. Lets step on their faces until they do what we want!” – Krugabe
And how can we get more people vaccinated? Mandates. No need to spend time here rebutting claims that requiring workers or customers to be vaccinated is an assault on liberty: Sorry, but freedom doesn’t mean having the right to expose other people to a potentially deadly disease.
The time for talk is over, dipshit. Come and make me.
Ignore what is happening in Ireland and Israel. Since they have been quite busy ignoring the fact that lockdowns and mask mandates didn’t do jack shit, why not just ignore the spread of the Fauchi Virus in countries with the highest vaccination rates on the planet. Just shut up and take a booster every six months.
Sorry, but freedom doesn’t mean having the right to expose other people to a potentially deadly disease
This shit again. I’m with Trashy…come and make me
Now do excluding AIDs patients from society…
Hey, Fauci tried.
THaT’S DiFFeReNT!
freedom doesn’t mean having the right to expose other people to a potentially deadly disease.
Now do the flu/cold/strep/bronchitis/etc., never mind the fact that has been admitted that the fake vaccines do not stop the transmission of convid. And you don’t get to experiment on me (which violates some code from some time that was established for some reason…) because you are afraid of getting the sniffles.
Yeah.
“No. Now what, pussy?”
Why not mandate people go to work?
That’s the thing about people like Krugman. They’re too chickenshit to do it themselves. They’ll just send out men with guns to enforce their edicts. And then proceed to display their contempt for the very men they sent out to coerce you. It would be nice if the men with guns saw how much contempt the men issuing the dictates had for them before they went out bullying people into submission. But, I’m not hopeful.
The men with guns are hired and promoted on the basis of their ability to ignore the contempt from the men issuing the marching orders. Sometimes a conscious one slips through, but not often enough to make a difference.
Well, that really depends on how long his tongue is, doesn’t it?
‘Taint far from the truth, sir…. No it taint…
And now you understand the basics of the supply-chain problems that are driving up many prices and may interfere with your Christmas shopping.
Krugabe have big brain. Him special.
Free-market economic theory is muh-racisms.
In other words, what our economy needs now is a shot in the arm — or rather, millions of shots in millions of arms. And vaccine mandates will provide those shots, in addition to saving lives.
No, We need cuntes like you and the government generally to fuck off.
Again, Why weren’t the ports open 24 hrs to begin with?
Night time is when you smuggle in your illegal goods. You don’t want too many witnesses.
Yeah…that was actually a somewhat surprising revelation even though I did some port logistics courses 5 years ago. I saw the throughput numbers and assumed we had operations similar to the rest of the world.
BTW CPRM re: Rodriguez and guns – have you watched his old $10 film school documentaries/commentaries? ie. For El Mariachi – using real guns, automatic weapons, but because he had blanks, he had to repeat the frames to make it look like they were firing in auto – since a blank won’t complete the cycle.
…* – won’t complete the cycle if you don’t use an adapter.
You can make a concealable adapter with a tap and and some threaded stock.
My BiL and I modded his M1 carbine to do this. (He’s big into doing WWII re-enactment stuff)
Worked like a charm.
But you would never want to fire live rounds with the plug installed.
I watched the ones that were available back when Once Upon A Time In Mexico came out. I don’t remember that one being out then, or maybe (most probably) I was just drunk when I watched it.
Being California — I’m assuming some deal with the longshoreman’s union or the trucker’s union so they can do less work and bribed the appropriate “regulatory” board.
About the only believable part in the above is “our ports are shabby”.
I bet just like most infrastructure, we spend way more money per, and get way less in return, than in similar countries. We’re probably the most corrupt developed country out there at this point.
Urban decay is chic.
I am astonished at how fast the cities have truly gone to shit. Like past the point of no return shit.
It’s OK, we’re gonna replace the worn out stuff with modern high rise low rent apartments so the urbanites can use light rail to grocery shop conveniently.
I don’t know anymore, I thought I was cynical before the COVID regime, but it has shown me I was not cynical enough.
They really are going to blame everything on the unclean.
Unvaxxed is like climate change, there is nothing it can’t be blamed for.
I, too, blame the illegal immigrants.
Wait…that’s what it means, right?
No, try to keep up, those are the special unclean.
We need to blame those Trumper unclean.
Never mind how many of the “unclean” weren’t Trump voters/supporters.
That’s not what corporate media thinks.
Saw a youtube ad full of Trump, his wife, and their daughter, and they were all bragging about getting vaccinated and urging others to do the same.
They seemed to think if Trump endorses it people will be more willing to do it.
No mention of him getting booed at his event when he urged vaxxing.
I’ve seen folks on the Reopen NH channel claim that Trump and his family were never vaccinated and none of them ever supported vaccination.
When corrected, they claim the injections were saline and the support was all part of the plan for Trump to triumph in the end.
I miss the old days of conspiracy theories.
NORTH DAKOTA DOESN’T EXIST!!!11!!!11
Roberto Calvi, Frank Nugan, the Bank of Siam, and Prescott Bush agree. #MakeBCCIGreatAgain
North Dakota doesn’t exist, it’s true. I’ve never been there. I’ve never seen a photo.
MINOT AFB IS A SOUNDSTAGE!
I thought it meant blame the children.
The crisis event that will cause them to label us “domestic terrorists” is coming soon. My best guess is sometime around the Dec 8th deadline. They can sense the opportunity to push this to the next level and they won’t let it go to waste. Whether the crisis event is real or a false flag doesn’t really matter. Either way, they’ll use it to ramp up the discrimination against the unvaxxed.
But the biggest thing that could bring fast relief would be undoing the skew in demand by making people feel safe buying more services and fewer goods. The way to do that is by getting the pandemic under control, above all by getting more people vaccinated.
And how can we get more people vaccinated? Mandates. No need to spend time here rebutting claims that requiring workers or customers to be vaccinated is an assault on liberty: Sorry, but freedom doesn’t mean having the right to expose other people to a potentially deadly disease.
We could round up all the vaxx refuseniks and other assorted wrongthinkers and intern them in rural holding facilities. That would reduce demand and take much of the strain off the supply chain.
Support your local rub & tug joints!
intern them in rural holding facilities
Camp Covid needs a good theme. Perhaps “Vaccines Will Set You Free”.
Germans already did that.
Sounds even better in German: Impfungen Macht Frei
Who are these people who think they have all these knobs and dials to finely tune the economy?
You’ll be able to recognize them more easily once they put on their uniforms.
Q posts a lot of pictures of people with big knobs and dials.
Why can’t the roads handle it? Do they suffer from depression? Isn’t this like gaslighting or some shit? Blaming the roads? Maybe it’s the asshats using the road…But MOAR MONEY will fix it!
EXAMPLE
A1: The highway entrance from my towniswas a cross traffic entrance. Meaning, to turn left onto the highway you had to cross the westbound lanes and enter the median and then turn westbound. There was a problem however, the view looking to the east on those westbound lanes was obscured by a hill. Many accidents ensued. To the west on the eastbound lanes was an even bigger hill, but it was far enough away where you could see the traffic coming before merging.So now the Government felt like they needed to act, to lower the fatality. Did they cut down the hill to the east? A bit, not much. But, their brilliant engineers came up with a plan! J turns! Now, to turn left, you have to cut across that same westbound traffic, with just barely slightly more visibility over that hill, and travel further of the other larger hill, reducing your visibility even more! Brilliant!
We need a new Robert Moses to obliterate another dozen neighborhoods for more roads.
I’m reminded of this every time Krugman pops out of his hole…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJoGEqZfFDI
this is what happens when more people are trying to use roads than the road network can easily handle.
Needz moar pack drafting.
Get rid of those expensive useless Amtrak trains that clog up the nation’s freight rail network so the rails can get more trucks off the highway.
I’ll give Krugman points in one respect — I expect the supply chain / ports issues and the road congestion issues *are* in fact similar.
Both stem from supposedly well meaning government trying to micromanage people for “climate” or because people shouldn’t live their lives in an “icky” way or some such garbage. (The CARB regs on the trucking to/from the port are similar to hybrid requirements / bike lanes / etc.)
One of the main drags here just completed some construction, they took a five lane road (center turning lane, two lanes of traffic in either direction) to a two lane road with a median. Median has flowers and shrubs planted in it, and they took the two lanes down to one, and put in a bike lane. As someone who frequently road on that street, I’d would have preferred that they kept it the old way.
Yup! That’s happening citywide here (Bloomberg didn’t get his “congestion pricing” toll plan implemented, so he appointed the lady who led Critical Mass as head of DOT), along with a blanket reduction in speed limit from a range of 30 – 45MPH to 25MPH. It’s called Vision Zero and it is the future of US urban planning.
Damn do I hate the Critical Mass assholes. It doesn’t help that almost all bike advocate groups wind up being run by assholes, to point from a local org:
Calvinist elect-ism FTW.
“Vision Zero”
*Paging the Ghost of Pol Pot. Ghost of Pol Pot to the Red courtesy phone please*
Pedestrian deaths are way up this year. It doesn’t seem to be going to plan.
Being California — I’m assuming some deal with the longshoreman’s union or the trucker’s union so they can do less work and bribed the appropriate “regulatory” board.
Safety first!
I crack myself up.
Alternately, you could make sure a basic risk analysis and statistics curriculum (as well as personal finance) was part of all those high school courses your side keeps pushing and remind people that viruses like this basically become endemic, that most of the population doesn’t need to sweat it and to get on with life. Like how every generation before us has dealt with such things….
I’d say this would be the place for an “old man yelling at clouds emoji” — but in this crowd I’m not all *that* old. 😉
I’ve been an old man yelling at clouds since before I was born!
I was born yellin’!
Janet Yellen? ;-)
Yellen like a felon?
Screamin’ like a demon!
Just gellin’
freedom doesn’t mean having the right to expose other people to a potentially deadly disease.
Potentially deadly to a whopping one-in-a-thousand people, the overwhelming majority of whom already have one foot in the grave for one reason or another.
Notes that Brooks wants almost-dead people to die.
FTFY.
I was translating to proggie. It is all about intent.
I thought he was doing a Reverse Goldfinger.
Freedom doesn’t mean you have the right to expose other people to a potentially deadly taxi ride from the airport.
OT:
Anyone have any recommendations for wood-burning fireplace inserts? We have three fireplaces in our house. One is very old, possibly as old as the original core of the house, which was built in the 1850s. The other two are in more modern additions. The two newer ones are very difficult to operate without excess smoke. The chimney that they both feed into is rather short and the way the wind interacts with the roof and chimney is also probably part of the issue, but we have trouble establishing draft in these fireplaces and often get smoke blown back down the chimney. The older fireplace chimney works fine, but it is very small and overall not well constructed.
I’m considering putting an insert in one or more of these. Looking for recommendations for quality, performance, and service. Anyone know if an insert will really fix the draft issue or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Two words. Human Sacrifice.
The newer inserts often have a fan in them to create a better draft.
We looked at inserts awhile ago, decided that all the repair required to fix the chimney wasn’t worth it.
Chimneys don’t warm up enough to induce a draft when burning Gas, so you must install a proper B vent in the chimney or you will die of CO poisoning, period.
I’m looking for a wood burning insert, not gas, though. I’d hope a wood burner would not have that problem?
It shouldn’t, find a chimney sweep to verify there are no blockages before you fire that bad boy up.
Yeah, we had a sweep clean the chimneys last year and all is good there.
“Right-o guv’nuh. All jolly good.”
It was fine until we realized he forgot his appretice street urchin inside the chimney.
Why are you looking for a DIY recommendation? You should be hassling your congresscritter for federal funding to solve your dangerous smoke problem, for the children, and, of course, grandma and grandpa who deserve cozy fires in their old age.
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/sfh/title/sfixhs
any modern insert will work, you will need to drop a dedicated B type vent from the Chimney down to said insert, problem solved, I have done 100’s of them.
B= double wall pipe, Amerivent, etc.
Will that help a chimney with draft issues? I’m not 100% sure the draft problems are only because of the chimney, but maybe due to the way the house is vented, too.
yes it will,
Thanks
I’m switching from wood to gas, requires a ‘B’ stainless steel insert. $1100 plus installation for the chimney modification, then I need to buy the stove. My old chimneys worked fine with wood but the calendar caught up with me. I did have the foresight to install a gas furnace when I built my house, vents through the wall but I want a separate small stove in the basement for those times when I’m not using the furnace.
I’m considering putting an insert in one or more of these. Looking for recommendations for quality, performance, and service. Anyone know if an insert will really fix the draft issue or am I barking up the wrong tree?
I have some friends who highly recommend Blaze King.
Thanks, I’ll check them out.
But I was told it costs zero dollars.
Manchin and Sinema getting the HuffPo front page treatment right now:
Maddow is just mad Hooker-Boots isn’t gay enough to rush through her reeds.
Mavericks!
Fuck Paul Krugman.
Winston’s Mom isn’t just some whore you can boss around…wait…You got the money honey she got your disease…
I’m kind of a cheap bastard.
One of many articles showing up:
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2021/10/28/antidepressant-drug-fluvoxamine-may-help-reduce-covid-hospitalization-brazil-study/8580584002/
A cheap antidepressant may help reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations and provide a more affordable way to stop severe disease, a study from Brazil found.
Fluvoxamine, typically used to treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, can have anti-inflammatory effects and would cost only $4 for a course of COVID-19 treatment, compared to $2,000 for IV antibody treatments and $700 for Merck’s antiviral COVID pill.
Published in the Lancet Global Health, the study of nearly 1,500 adults with increased risk for severe disease found 11% of those who received the pill were hospitalized compared to 16% of those who received the placebo.
An expert group monitoring the study recommended stopping it early because the results were so clear. The researchers are hoping the World Health Organization will recommend the drug as a COVID-19 treatment, which could help many poorer countries. “We hope it will lead to a lot of lives saved,” said study co-author Dr. Edward Mills.
Treatment not vaccination
FLCCC has had it in their treatment protocol all along. We fucking know how to treat this goddamn bug.
But if they admit there is effective treatment, then the entire basis for the EUA goes away, and with it billions in profits and graft.
Get ready for Merck to introduce “Newvoxamine” in a couple months.
But not as treatment, only supplemental to those who are vaccinated. Can’t give an appearance that there might be treatment out there
I chuckled
?
Well, I’m on Duloxatine. I ain’t got covid. ScIENCE!
Even if it turns out to stop the vid, I would not advise people to change their brain chemistry for this purpose. I was on Fluoxitine, and it is not a pleasant experience. Duloxitine has been better for my purposes, but it irrevocably changes who you are, and really can cause suicidal thoughts when first using (as well as coming off I’ve heard).
Yeah, “antidepressant” is a bit of a red flag for me.
Fluvoxamine, the “horse antidepressant”, in 3….2….1….
Goddammit.
I found another Twitter time-sink.
https://twitter.com/arch_crimes/status/1451177714757476353
That’s the Jim Thorpe prison. Interesting place, recommended visit.
35 years ago I did my student teaching in a high school class room with no windows . Already had uniformed parking lot attendants and back pack checkers at the doors. It absolutely felt like a prison (and looked like the school in the picture) . So depressing, the wooden WW2 barracks at Fort Hood were refreshing compared to a brick windowless school.
Mauch Chunk.
Although, I rather like why the name changed.
That downtown is beautiful, but it is such a hassle to get around it during a Saturday. Plus right above it on a mountainside is one of the most beautiful music venues I ever visited Penns Peak.
https://www.pennspeak.com/
They usually have tribute and crappy country bands play there, but I’ve also seen UFO, Marcy Playground, and some great bluegrass acts.
The view off the deck is incredible this time of the year.
A good one though.
Curtis Yarvin did a long twitter thread on the inhumanity of modern architecture. I think it was last year about this time.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if that account is run by Yarvin.
Brutal!
https://www.lowbrowsing.com/uploads/1/5/6/9/15698402/mordhauscloud_orig.jpg
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-school-board-chaperones-elementary-school-students-gay-bar
Elementary school children.
Yeah, Dems aren’t grooming your kids…
If the whole of the East Florida coast, everything from Orlando to the beach, from Monroe County north to the Georgia line, were to be swept into the sea and returned to the panther, deer, gator etc., I would not shed a tear.
Would you say you were then aping a crocodile?
It’s better than crocodiling and ape.
an
ape
Ook ook.
It’s fine. It’s all fine.
To a bar. I….
Jesu Christo…
Just taking the elementary school kids to a bar….
I distinctly remember the last Rosie’s I was in. A guy walked up to my table and kissed me out of nowhere. It is most certainly not for kids.
He’s truly jumped the shark with this one.
It was just standard bullshit fare until the non-sequitur turn to vaccine mandates.
What an incredible example of an actual “cheap whore.”
I do admire his creativity, the way he weaves completely unrelated talking points together. Or at least attempts to.
He has no self awareness.
When I first moved here, I was shocked at the provincialism of New Yorkers. Now, 16 years later, I haven’t been to Manhattan since 2018 and then, only thrice since 2012.
Spend your Biden Bucks and get out of my way, you slow walking rubes!
I remember when Hank 2.0 was banned from MNF, did not know they brought him back when the regime changed, and now did away with him again. What kind of sick fucks run this shit?
They really don’t know who their audience is (was).
Swallowswell strikes again and is promptly bitchslapped.
You are frequently a liar (when you’re not sleeping with Chinese spies).
But here, you’re lie is exactly 180 degrees false. I was defending the right of citizens to denounce authoritarian policies. In other words, to OPPOSE Nazis (or petty tyrants), not to support them.
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: Swallwell Nuke Farts on Zodiac Killer. Yas Queen!
If a lie is 180 degrees false, isn’t that like a double negative, meaning the lie is true?
May not be false but it’s a long putt.
Lets not get all turned around because the terminology might be a few degrees off.
Let me circle back after I’ve thought about that for a while.
*Psircle Back
So the Linguistics professor tells his class, “In a language such as English, a double negative becomes a positive, in languages such as Russian a double negative remains a negative. But in no language does a double positive become a negative.”
To which a student in the back of the lecture hall replies “Yeah. Right.”
Good one!
He’s not wrong.
Carl Benjamin on the VA race: The Democrats are Coming for Your Children
Although I have been assured by T. McCunteface that Younkin is a bible-thumping book-banner, apparently one of the books that he is not fond of having in schools contains literal pornography.
Sargon’s a good guy and he’s right, here at least.
I can’t shake the suspicion that literal porn is put in school libraries by pedophiles trying to groom kids.
Same with sex education, pushed by people who get off a little by broaching the subject to children.
Husband’s work just instituted a vax mandate deadline Jan 14. *sigh*
☹️
Sorry, lass. :-(
That sucks
I know the pharmas are exempt from being sued, but does that apply to companies that mandate the vax, if there turns out to be problems from the shots down the road?
Initially OSHA said yes: If an employer mandates a vaccine, any adverse reactions are job-related and the employer is liable.
Pretty quickly OSHA flipped and said, nope, the employer is not liable.
Boo, hiss. Sorry to hear that.
Sorry.
I could be on my way home from an all-expense paid trip to NYC right now, since Jugsy is set up with hotel and a VERY generous per diem. And we both have enough frequent-flyer miles to cover the airline ticket.
If I have to show my papers to get into a bar or restaurant, Im not getting that shot.
Its a triviality, but CoVID policies prevented us from having a potentially fun few days in the Big Apple.
Here’s a refreshing story about a guy who totally *understands* economics.
https://notthebee.com/article/this-guy-ate-almost-all-of-his-meals-at-six-flags
Thank you for that. This guy is a hero.
Talk about an arbitrage opportunity!
For the 2020 season, the network will open every week with a rendition of “Rip It Up” by rock ‘n’ roll legend Little Richard, who died in May.
Great song.
Anthony Cumia doing a breakdown of Ted Cruz eating Garland alive during a recent Senate hearing on the PTA parents schoolboard terrorism memo:
https://youtu.be/9d5B-Ng3eMU
Either Cruz is the best questioner ever or Garland is a fucking lightweight. Either way it’s just brutal.
Garland doesn’t give a shit. They’ll never impeach him, he’ll never be held accountable, and he won’t get fired. So some Senator yelled at him, big deal.
Well, at least he has to look at himself in the mirror everyday. Life sentence.
I have no illusion that something meaningful will come from the exchange. It’s more that the guy missed the SC by the skin of his teeth and his performance was just pathetic, humiliating even.
Drake hit this right, but if anything, Ted Cruz can really grill some people to generate the soundbites his party needs.
As far as the Bomb Cyclone goes, here in Sodom on the Salish Sea it has been an extended typical November storm arriving a few weeks early.
I can’t speak for the coast.
But that fiery container ship must’ve been a sight to see. You go exercise your rights to maritime salvage yet?
I have no idea what this is about.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1453752698130534404
I got nothing.
Uhhhh….
ummmmm……
Yeah, I got nuthin’ too.
Stop simping for her Mitt, I doubt she wants to be one of your wives.
Dunno, but I’m pretty sure it leads to a threesome.
Better was this wonderful gem in the tweets below it.
Robert Reich
@RBReich
So let me get this straight: Elon Musk increased his wealth by $36.2 billion in one day this week, but Tesla can’t afford to let autoworkers unionize?
3:30 PM · Oct 27, 2021·Twitter Web App
I’d love to drop kick that little shit to the moon.
I didn’t realize there was a fee?
despite the subsidies and sweet gov’t money (yeah I know) the reason Tesla is even marginally profitable is due to the LACK of a union and Musk knows this
Reich is a slack-jawed meat-slapper
And this is on an illiquid volatile investment.
What’s the Tweet going to be when markets go down?
It’s populist crap and Reich knows better.
He knows better but the folks who follow him don’t.
I have a good friend who is a Bernie follower and loves her some Robert Reich, which is whatever but the best part is that her husband is a VP at a private equity company and she does pretty well as a consultant. I’ve always wanted to ask her how does she reconcile what her husband does for a living with her beliefs but I know if I broached that subject, it would be a problem.
She’s not talking about people, like herself, but those that are like, really rich. Those are the ones that need soaking.
Reich is a sell-out parasite, no better than Krugman and quite possibly worse.
Whale milk.
Whale custard.
Whale gelato.
Whale béarnaise.
I keep having these thoughts but I cant remember why or what they’re connected to.
Fun Fact!
Dude, you signed an NDA!
With a BAC of 80 proof, I cant be held responsible for my actions over the past 36 hours.
I honestly dont know why people get mad at me over things I cant even remember.
Whale milk seems like it’d be good in coffee.
Is this yet another option added to the list of alternatives at hepcat coffee shops?
+50¢?
Only cage-free whale milk for me, thanks.
Heh, heh. That’s definitely an option.
HE’S A FED!
SNITCH!
5. Sex with Whales a la McAfee (PBUH)
Sex with Wales actually worse.
Catherine Zeta Jones
Norm once said something like “Catherine Zeta-Jones admitted she’s bipolar. Some days she’s incredibly happy. Other days she has to suck an old man’s cock.”
If you bang a jewish chick by the Western Wall in Jerusalem, would it be Sex with Wails ?
Worth noting, Westworld on HBO is crack for guys like me. Sci-fi and a Western?!??! Too good to be true you say? Nope! Give it a shot.
Don’t lie, you are there for the nudity.
Meh… Boobs are nice. A couple of those cast members are smoking hot too, but the story has kept me pretty entertained. The finale and beginning of the 2nd season haven’t been great, but I’m still watching.
Angela Sarafyan and Thandie Newton
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Have you watched all the seasons or are you just getting started? I may have some bad news for you…
Roughly, where do you think it starts going south?
1st season was amazing.
2nd season went off the rails.
3rd season is a cluster fuck.
Concur. I punched out after the 2nd season. Contemplated punching out before it was even over.
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I kind of liked Season 3 – the whole rebelling against oppressive tech oligarch thing. But yeah, they also made a mess of it.
#Metoo
The end of the 2nd season was mess, though.
Season 3 is a different show.
It could become an awesome corporate thriller.
But it ain’t go nothing to do with westworld.
Most precipitous fall-off of a promising show I’ve ever seen in my life. My advice would be stop watching right now and never turn it on again. You’ll always have those fond memories of Season 1.
Yep. Season One was self-contained and glorious. If they’d stopped right there, Westworld would have been legend.
Like GOT, when they outrun the original novels, HBO writers quickly mangle it.
Yul Brynner was quite good.
Sucked as Kojak tho’.
^ Gitcheegoo
I thought he was pretty good in Kelley’s Heroes.
Kind of a dick in The Dirty Dozen.
Updated Life of Julia from the Obama Era…
https://twitter.com/charliespiering/status/1453721404419960848
No daddy in the picture because Government is her? daddy.
LOL
It is a truly disturbing view of the life of a mother and child.
If Sesame Street were real life…
Stay safe out there NY glibbies…looks like you will have a reduction in basic city services coming your way.
I look forward to the tax rebates.