Four more meetings and I need to make some graphs for a lady in Amityville, NY.
The horror.
Lets get linking!
This guy in The Bahamas would have an easier time if he knew how to swing a hammer. But he did inspire today’s music choice.
Whoa. Holy Ruger P90 Batman!
Mexico would like to know what they used before candles.
Not only is that clearly a guitar, Mexicans clearly have never seen Desperado. None of this would be necessary if not for Indiana’s loose gun laws.
Another misleading headline. They can’t ring back the dead.
Two weeks ago…how did I miss this gem from the free shit brigade?
He got COVID and survived…who the fuck cares AP?
I need a ruling here. The Bolivian Air Force may have ruined a Glibertarians.com running gag. There are currently 867 active inside jokes on this website
A couple guys in the RED HORSE unit I was deployed with did this to a CMSgt that nobody liked. In the middle of summer. In southern Iraq. He deserved it.
fist!
LOL, way good LH!
Mexico’s president presented details on Monday of a proposal that is likely to squeeze out hundreds of private power generating plants and may provoke complaints under the Mexico-U.S.-Canada free trade accord known as the USMCA.
This is a shocking development.
It certainly will generate some controversy.
The government never welcomes challenges to its power.
#resistance
Watts a few more nationalized industries here and there?
They’ll fund magnet schools for the purpose.
Ohm my god, the puns are shockingly bad!
Someone’s angling to grab more power.
Spark some strong words?
Just more current affairs.
This is more of an impedance to the grander plans
Stop resisting!
Only if they amp it up. Otherwise it may be re-volting.
Are we sure that’s even legal? We should get Coulombo on the case.
It may take a little while. I hear he went on a fishing trip and there’s an alternating current.
Yeah, he needed some time to get himself grounded.
Brown-outs in Mexico?
I’m going to wait to comment on this until Mho-jeaux is here. She’ll know how to conduct a better discussion.
I’m keeping an eye-on you.
Ohm myy!
Well, I would guess there are probably 3-phases to their plan.
A. Close private power plants.
B. Open Mexican power plants.
C. Profit.
Watts wrong?
Thanks Swissy, that getting too amped up,
He may have thrown a shunt into our plans but it will just branch the current puns and we will send it to ground!
Yeah, these comments are real joules.
What do the ZAPatas have to say about this?
Was it amazing?
Is Colombia suddenly suffering a shortage of drugs to OD on? Christ, this supply chain problem is way worse than I thought.
Helium should be available. Quick, painless and no mess.
Nitrogen. More abundant on earth, and no funny noises.
Since my predecessor did absolutely jack shit with the schedule for the remaining portion of the year and obviously didn’t refer to it when he approved leave for everyone, I am left holding the bag getting to move people’s shifts. Rookie mistake on his part really, but damn.
Plus I get to make a tech go to OKC who is absolutely bonkers regarding COVID (except around us…for some reason). FAA has said, its fine, go and we aren’t taking “its scary” as an excuse anymore. Her hold up? That the hotel she stays at might have COVID lurking about. No shit…what insanity.
See if you can make the tech fly Southwest.
They are our preferred carrier for travel. But we also offer a sweet deal to drive during COVID. This means OT for travel which is costing the taxpayer some pretty pennies.
That will have her out of your hair longer.
Now I want a Del Rancho steak sandwich.
Hand her a tent and a pass to a local state park.
Have her ride the rails. Railroad worker strike looming.
He even likes the right Brazilian soccer team. *swoon*
About that translation…
Truth, justice and the American Way
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will no longer conduct mass raids on workplaces where undocumented immigrants are employed, according to a new order by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The real problem, Mayorkas said in a memorandum released Tuesday, are “exploitative employers,” not unauthorized workers.
“Under the previous administration, these resource-intensive operations resulted in the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of workers,” DHS said about the change. While the raids attracted attention and made headlines, the agency says they “were used as a tool by exploitative employers to suppress and retaliate against workers’ assertion of labor laws.”
The announcement is part of a shift in strategy under the Biden administration that puts a new emphasis on going after businesses and employers that violate labor laws. In addition to halting mass raids, it supports the idea of exercising prosecutorial discretion to spare workers from charges if they witness or are the victims of abuse or exploitation in the workplace.
What else is there to say?
If they didn’t want illegal immigration, it would end in a week.
They are making up for the previous 4 years.
Shows that Trump’s immigration policies made an impact. Trumps next 4 years should set Lefty schemes back a decade.
Maybe they would be less exploitative if they weren’t hiring illegals in the first place? Gosh, I dunno.
Yeah — I’d have no problem with a focus on enforcement of not hiring / exploiting illegals if it meant drying up the jobs market and hence the incentive to come here illegally.
Want the labor? Get work visas like you’re supposed to.
Really lends credence to that theory about displacing American workers, eh?
The real problem, Mayorkas said in a memorandum released Tuesday, are “exploitative employers,” not unauthorized workers.
*checks out local lawn care dudes*
Trouble in paradise. We are all
Tulpaexploitative employers.“So, tell us, Jesus. Do you want to stay in this country? Because we’ll let you stay if you tell us your employer has been abusing and exploiting you.”
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
Cue all the “epidemic of human trafficking” and “domestic slavery” articles.
Not that there aren’t real cases of domestic slavery. That shit is unconscionable. But there will be a rash of stories about it that sweep the real problem away.
They can’t ring back the dead.
Well you can call but they will not answer.
Frankly, I think it would be worse if they did….
+1 Monkey’s Paw.
What about *69-ing the dead?
I’m not into cold-packing but as long as it’s not my relative, go ahead.
I guess I can kind of understand an native American not liking Columbus – their ancestors came here, killed all the people who got here earlier, and were doing okay when Columbus showed up.
But an African guy in the Bahamas? I know some of his ancestors got screwed, but would he really rather be in Africa?
were doing okay when Columbus showed up
Well, except for the periodic starvation, constant low-level warfare, and consequent rape, maimings, killings, and slavery.
And human sacrifice.
^ this, watch some Dan Carlin,
Yeah, but other than those minor inconveniences they were doing great.
Relevant
But enough about the modern world…
We’re they doing ok though? They were still fighting with other tribes, chewing on deerskin to soften it enough to wear, they hadn’t figured out how to smelt iron or write stuff down (except for Mayans (who then went under), Aztecs were sacrificing people, eskimos were ass raping kids as a cultural norm, the Mississippian culture (mound builders) were plowing all their wealth into graves. Etc etc.
Unless the rest of the world had a Prime Directive going on, the overthrow of the Americas was going to happen inevitably.
Those with the Weapons rule those who do not, it’s ever been so,
/ROME!
AmerIndians mostly welcomed Europeans. By the time we realized governments lie, cheat, steal, and enslave you it was too late.
To be fair, our grandest form of government were multi-tribe councils.
The MSM just doesn’t carry enough water for the Democratic Party.
Speaker Pelosi gets upset with reporters for not doing a better job selling the House Democrats’ $5.5 TRILLION tax and spend package to the American people.
Wait…when did it move to 5.5? Wasn’t it just 3.5 last week?
Inflation affects us all buddy.
that number probably includes the $1.5G that the Rs already agreed to.
That gets it to $5TT. Where’d the other $500BB come from?
Confident prediction: when the dust settles, the Repubs will compromise for $6TT.
Nothing left to add.
Inflation.
OMG the replies….
Yep. DON’T YOU DARE TAKE AWAY OUR MONEY. Fuck it seriously…just get this all over with.
This is one of the reasons I tanked a retirement account in order to buy a house outright last week. It will be harder for them to take my property than to take my money or just devalue it to the point it doesn’t matter.
Exactly, if Shit goes down, it’s yours, Molon Labe.
To be fair, everyone who has a mortgage will own the land when the shit hits the fan.
I get spending retirement funds on land but Its a free-for-all in the apocolypse.
The wife and I closed on a tiny house in small-town Iowa last week.
We are officially slum lords now.
I’m showing this to my wife. This is exactly what I told her. I want to buy land. She’s not convinced yet that keeping our money in a retirement account is bordering on stupidity.
Everyones retirement accounts will be nationalized or vaporize.
Land is important but owning outright or with a mortgage will still effectively be your land once everything goes tits up.
Whoa. Holy Ruger P90 Batman!
Huh?
Ah, you mean next to Salma.
Thank you, Señor!
Yes, and please, don’t point that at the extremely hot lady you’re standing next to.
Obligatory Desperado.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOu07gRpEA
Not this Desperado?
They will be dismissed and put on a list.
A substantial number of the military’s most elite operators, including Navy SEALs and fighter pilots, are seeking an exemption from the vaccine mandate, and many of those individuals are planning a change of career if an exemption is not granted, the Daily Caller has learned. Active members of multiple branches of the armed services, who spoke to the Daily Caller on the condition of anonymity so they could speak freely, described being subjected to pressure campaigns and experiencing worsening morale as the Pentagon rolls out its mandate before the end of the year.
Davis Younts, an attorney representing dozens of troops who are seeking religious or medical accommodations for the vaccine mandate, said that most of his clients are not going to comply with the mandate even if they aren’t granted an exemption. “My clients, the guys I’m representing, and the SEALs I’ve spoken to, are what we’re calling ‘hard no’s’… that means you’re going to submit a religious accommodation request, you’re going to submit a medical exemption based on where you’re at… and then if it’s not approved, they’re not going to take the vaccine.”
The direct consequences for refusing a lawful order to get vaccinated are unclear as of now, and will likely vary from case to case. Republicans on Capitol Hill have wrestled with the Biden administration and Pentagon leadership on whether or not those who refuse the mandate can be dishonorably discharged, and the Army has said that “continued failure to comply could result in administrative or non-judicial punishment – to include relief of duties or discharge.”
The mail from HR on the mandate dropped today.
I *think* I’m spared (for now at least) as I don’t work with parts of the company directly dealing with the Fed / contracting. (It calls it out, so I’m assuming I’d know if I was part of that). If I cared to go onto a site I’d have to do jab or testing — but since they pushed me to be remote, I’ll just avoid that issue. We’ll see what really happens.
Kind of annoys me that the email starts off citing the Fed contracting Executive Order then says “to comply with the federal law” though — it explicitly is NOT a law, you ninnies… even kids who paid half attention to Schoolhouse Rock would know that.
Yeah, I’m getting really annoyed at this push to claim it’s a “law”.
When did these guys become ‘operators’?
Hello Operator!
almost like they want to create a “dark” army, careful boys, they will bite!
Cubans are kind of like Mexicans, right?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/untenable-and-unsustainable-miami-mayor-stands-by-manager-s-move-to-oust-police-chief/ar-AAPqKpX
Maybe Art Acevedo can be the new sheriff of Loudoun County. WTF is wrong with that place anyway?
Miami, as fucked up as it is in general, is relatively sane politically.
/UMiami, MS Physics
I’m confused with all the Arts.
Why would, considering Acevedo’s track record, any city consider hiring him?
Ask Houston and Miami.
I didn’t see anything at Power about the Mexico thing yet, but here’s something relatively local to my area:
https://www.powermag.com/collaboration-brings-the-energy-for-pennsylvania-community/ 57% efficiency is pretty damn good.
I sit on my deck at 7500′ with impending snow, smoking a cigar and drinking champagne on my 40th birthday. Yes, I was born on evil Columbus Day (trad.).
https://archive.is/0Wmd8
Titty Birthday Tuesday.
Well happy birthday to you and may you enjoy it to the fullest…
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy birthday, my brother!
Make it count!
Happy Birthday, Q.
Hope your day is a bust, I mean filled with busts.
https://archive.is/C9Sxx/94a3c9fd30099969e4cecd798a8bfd606732df02.jpg
NSFW.
Yes I know it’s early for Glibs After Dark, it’s my birthday, SUE ME.
Happy birthday! Thanks for buoying our moods in these dark times.
No matter what they take from us, tits are eternal.
Happy birthday! Nice gif(t)s, too.
Happy birthday!
Birthday Cheers young Man!
/Tall Cans! for Q!
https://archive.is/MCmfn/863218849b557e265837e19fff27ae24b805ff94.webp
NSFW.
Happy birthday, Twoscore!
Ride it til the tits fall off buddy.
Q for the lawyers:
In re: the LCPS covering up the rape in the bathroom, aren’t school officials “mandatory reporters” who are required by law to tell the cops when a sexual assault has occurred? Or is that not a thing in VA?
Only if said assault doesn’t contradict THE NARRATIVE.
In all seriousness, if people don’t get fired/lose their jobs/get sued into penury I formally call on G-d to give Loudon County the Sodom & Gomorrah treatment. As a birthday wish.
Yeah, that is beyond fucked up.
This says “yes,” but is not an official site and their link to the Code of Virginia is broke.
http://www.vacc.org/docs/laws/LAW-%20LPC%20Mandated%20Reporting%20.pdf
My guess is that it’ll turn out that the school authorities did all they legally needed to do regarding reporting, but colluded with their bosses to cover it up.
Yes, teachers are mandatory reporters.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/admincode/title22/agency40/chapter705/section40/
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/63.2-1509/
Of course they are:
Failure to report a rape is a class 1 misdemeanor, one step below a felony, with penalties of up to 1 year in jail and/or a $2500 fine. I can imagine no dispute whatsoever that there are people who should be criminally charged for failing to report this case.
How are you at writs of mandamus?
In Virginia? Non-existent. My Virginia license expired more than 20 years ago.
So, the mandatory reporting means that the school employees have to notify the school administration, and someone has to notify social services. But there is nothing requiring that anyone tell the victim’s parents anything about that.
About 90% of the time, its the parents being reported. And telling them you are reporting them is likely to result in more abuse of the child.
Magic potion is magic
Conventional wisdom says that if you’re vaccinated, and you get a breakthrough infection with the coronavirus, you can transmit that infection to someone else and make that person sick.
But new evidence suggests that even though that may happen on occasion, breakthrough infections might not represent the threat to others that scientists originally thought.
Ross Kedl, an immunologist at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, will point out to anyone who cares to listen that basic immunology suggests the virus of a vaccinated person who gets infected will be different than the virus of an infected unvaccinated person.
That’s because vaccinated people have already made antibodies to the coronavirus. Even if they don’t prevent infection they still “should be coating that virus with antibody and therefore helping prevent excessive downstream transmission,” Kedl says. And a virus coated with antibodies won’t be as infectious as a virus not coated in antibodies.
An unvaccinated person, however, can infect you even if he does not have the virus at all.
SCIENCE! tells us so.
the virus of a vaccinated person who gets infected will be different than the virus of an infected unvaccinated person
What?
Even if they don’t prevent infection they still “should be coating that virus with antibody and therefore helping prevent excessive downstream transmission
Oh, OK. I forgot about the studies demonstrating viral antibody coating. No wonder I flunked virology.
I must have been asleep when they covered the M&M Theory of Virology.
Melts in your mouth, not in your hand; that’s why masks work.
So, if the virus is coated with antibodies (Narrator: that’s not how antibodies work), wouldn’t that mean that transmitting that virus is actually inoculating the other person with antibodies? Wouldn’t that be a good thing?
FWIW, I preferred El Mariachi to Desperado.
The story of how he made El Mariachi is amazing. Done on a tiny budget with a borrowed camera. He subjected himself to pharmaceutical trials to raise funds.
“The US$7,225 production was originally intended for the Mexican home-video market…”
Yeah, heard his tale on Howard Stern in an old interview when Stern could be entertaining. It is one one the few interviews where I listened to the whole thing.
All three, they are in my collection, and they all treasures to me, what a great Tale!
“Tne thousand dollars?, you wouldn’t kill me over ten thousand dollars”
/Mutters, oh yes I would,
Hey, buddy. Quit doing that.
Prosecutors say a man attacked a Lakeview woman who asked him to stop pleasuring himself on the street as she walked her dog. It happened on the 2000 block of West Belmont around 11:40 a.m. Wednesday, October 6, according to prosecutors.
“I saw a pregnant woman walking towards him and warned her,” the victim wrote on a neighborhood message board. “That’s when he proceeded to run at me with a closed fist and punched me in the head and I got knocked to the ground while still holding on to my dog.”
Assistant State’s Attorney John Gnilka said James Caesar, 26, punched the woman repeatedly and continued to punch her after she was on the ground. Bystanders intervened, and Caesar ran away, he said.
The woman showed the police a picture she took of the man, and cops located Caesar nearby. He punched one officer in the face and tried to bite another cop’s hand, according to Gnilka.
Surprisingly, he was not shot by the cops.
Some dog.
You should name your dog Shithead!
My first thought, too. Somebody did that to Mrs. Dean while she was walking the Dean Beasts, we’d be picking pieces of perv out of their teeth for a week.
Pro-tip: Don’t talk to mentally-disturbed individuals yanking it on the street.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Eh, the ability to handle violent social deviance isn’t something that we pop out of the womb with. And a lot of that cultural knowledge is being lost, or out-and-out perverted.
A class on recognizing and avoiding dangerous people should probably be taught in schools. But I’m sure you can imagine how that would end up.
OMG yes. The headlines would span six columns.
“Republicans. Conservatives. Libertarians. These are the ENEMIES IN OUR MIDST!
Lesson One: how to spot these atrocities, these . . . wastes of human DNA.”
They are making me take a drug test for my stupid part time ski instructor job. During a labor shortage? This is silly.
No more meth for you.
Well yeah, that’s why I am getting the job.
Of course they are. Don’t you know the street value of that mountain?
As soon as you take it…go outside and smoke with the rest of the ski instructors
Yep
Why yes! I take drugs! Is the test to determine my ability to identify them?
They mean test it for quality and freshness. Nothing to worry about.
Drug testing ski instructors? Why don’t they drug test Cheech and Chong while they’re at it?
I’m guessing this isn’t CO since it’s legal there….
They are making me take a drug test for my stupid part time ski instructor job.
They just want to be sure you’re taking enough.
OT – more GlibFit-related: Twisted my ankle stepping in a dip on our blacktop driveway Friday morning. It doesn’t really hurt anymore, but it’s still a little discolored and VERY puffy. When I go to the Y tonight, would a recumbent cross-trainer have little enough ankle movement not to aggravate it? https://www.nustep.com/product-category/t4-series/
Up to you, but looking at it, and having a recumbent stationary, I think you’d be going full rotation on the ankles on that.
The foot pedals just go back and forth, not around like a bicycle.
Try it. It will only heal if you use it. Personally, I would just walk on the treadmill.
First thing I’d do is fix the driveway.
But a recumbent trainer might actually be worse than a stand-up, because the step can rotate independent of your vertical axis.
The dip was one of two where my front tires usually land, but I’d parked off to the side from where I typically park. But we do kinda need to get the driveway redone. Our OCD neighbor across the street just got his driveway completely re-blacktopped over the weekend, and he’s as anal about his driveway as he is about his lawn. We’ll ask him if he’s happy with the job they did, especially after winter. Gotta save our nickels and dimes for that – mucho dinero!
Motherfucking varmints made a nest in my car engine again. Other than parking in a different spot, any suggestions to keep them out? I drive at least a short distance almost every day, so they must set up housekeeping real quick.
Get a cat.
Nah, then the cat will move in
What kind of varmints? Sean had a list of things that squirrels (and I assume other rodents) dislike, smell-wise.
Not sure, but odds say squirrels. There are armies of them up in the trees right next to my car.
IIRC, dryer sheets, cayenne, peppermint oil, predator urine.
Here’s the list Sean provided.
https://pestpointers.com/scents-that-squirrels-hate-and-how-to-use-them/
I’m still liking the squirrel heads on stakes idea, myself.
https://pestpointers.com/scents-that-squirrels-hate-and-how-to-use-them/
Maybe some sort of noncorrosive repellant spray?
https://toolknows.com/best-rodent-repellent-for-cars/ ?
At least I got them this time before they did damage. Last time it cost me my entire KOVID Kash check from Big Daddy Trump to fix the air handler at the fricken dealership (because all the small local mechanics were forced to shut down, while the dealers were allowed to stay open)
I think I might try my own capsaicin spray when I get back from my shooting & chilling cabin week. Thanks for the suggestions!
You could try some of this stuff.
Worked reasonably well for me back when I lived in the accursed Lower Rainland™.
They go in there for the heat. I doubt this is an option, but leaving the hood up is a cheap/simple fix.
Happy Otoya Yamaguchi day
https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/posts/15305412
wow
I remember that pic. Epic!
Yamaguchi.
Mmm…Kristi Yama-goose-me.
Alert the FBI.
Also if in NYC and want non-sushi everyday reasonable Japanese food I can recommend:
https://ootoya.us/
Damn.
Late reply, but +1 Runaway Horses
In Provincetown, Mass., this summer, a lot of vaccinated people got infected with the coronavirus, leading many to assume that this was an example of vaccinated people with breakthrough infections giving their disease to other vaccinated people.
Kedl isn’t convinced.
“In all these cases where you have these big breakthrough infections, there’s always unvaccinated people in the room,” he says.
Those sneaky bastards!
They’re everywhere. Please inform Homeland Security if you know of any unvaccinated people and where they might be hiding.
OFFS.
Show your work, assholes.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/full-time-politicized-gun-control-advocate-part-time-police-chief-art-acevedo-to-be-fired-in-miami/
*points & laughs*
Where will this hyper-politicized aspiring gun-grabber land next?
*sigh* He’d be a perfect fit for Chicago.
It was a good day.
Did you get to use your AK?
Tundra: Machine Gun Tours for all your mag needs. Colfax just west of Union.
Cool, Alan is still around? He always used to have a booth at the western 3-gun events – good times!
He was when I was going there a few years back. I love that place.
Thank you! I need some stuff (and apparently yet another CCW class).
More studies are emerging that suggest there’s something different about the virus coming from a vaccinated person, something that may help prevent transmission.
Whatever it is, University of Colorado’s Kedl says it’s one more reason getting vaccinated is a good idea.
“Because you’re going to be even more protected yourself. And you’re going to be better off protecting other people.”
They are extremely enthusiastic about those shots, aren’t they?
It’s almost like we’re the guinea pigs in another phase of testing.
When I was asked if I was going to get the booster here at work, I said “No, I’m a Moderna test subject, so I can’t take the Pfizer booster.”
“My wife went ballistic when she caught me sending nudes to my ex”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16399439/my-wife-went-ballistic-sending-nudes-ex/
G-d that bitch, can’t she just loosen up?
I guess it depends on whose nudes he was sending.
NBD. He sends nudes to everybody.
“Hey Mom! What do you think of my big, hard cock? You birthed this! Well done!”
Here’s an idea: don’t comply!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-jersey-gov-murphy-caught-maskless-indoor-ball
q-ette’s a bit far from 2 but if someone demanded she mask up I would politely decline. And if it came to it, I’d move.
Schepisi is my State Senator. She’s actually not horrible; in NJ that equates to a “British 10”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOLtTGvsbM
Nice legs.
That’s some ’70s-tastic fashion for a 1980s music video.
Where’s my First of Firsters? Dammit dood, I need a partner in lame schtickville.
From all the hints he dropped, most likely waiting for his first child to be born.
Or maybe…her first child?
*hears whistling sound overhead*
I wouldn’t have guessed in a hundred years that he was having an actual kid.
I, for one, am stunned to find out that Terry McCunteface is a liar.
It’s crazy how the left is so adamant about running away from this policy they’ve been pushing hard for so long.
And an asshole. My only hope for the selection is that Terry has all the personal charisma of a Canada goose.
I believe the word you’re looking for is “transformative”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that she’s “disappointed” Democrats must lower the price tag of the $3.5 trillion social safety net package and suggested they may have to make some sacrifices.
“We have some important decisions to make in the next few days so that we can proceed. I’m very disappointed that we’re not going with the original $3.5 trillion, which was very transformative, but whatever we do, we will make decisions that will continue to be transformative about women in the workplace,” she said at her weekly press conference at the Capitol.
Pelosi stressed that the final package, despite the lower cost, will still be “transformative” and “will produce results.”
Economic suicide is transformative, right?
“will produce results.”
I suppose inflation qualifies as a result.
It brings on many changes.
And you can take or leave it as you please?*
*offer not valid in Columbia.
But Howe did they succeed?
Two hundred and forty-five years ago, in a forgotten battle that saved Washington’s Army, a handful of American soldiers accomplished a feat exceptionally rare in history. They successfully prevented an amphibious landing by thousands of British soldiers.
On October 12, 1776, while crouching behind a woodpile, Colonel Edward Hand gazed in astonishment at the sea of Redcoats in front of him. Married to an American, the Irish immigrant doctor had resigned his position as a surgeon’s mate in the British Army immediately before the Revolution began in 1774 and thrown his support to the Patriot cause. Although he and his twenty-five expert marksmen faced more than four thousand British Redcoats intent on landing, Colonel Hand maintained his composure.
Under cover of the morning fog, Lord William Howe had transported his troops by sea up the Long Island Sound to Throgs Point in the Bronx in hopes of trapping the Continental Army in Manhattan after the Battle of Harlem Heights. Fortunately for the Americans, high tide made the peninsula more of an island. To step foot on the mainland, the troops had to cross either a single bridge or a narrow strip of land wide enough for only one or two men at a time.
Howe? Courage and a defendable choke point. Hesitation on the part of the Brits. Military history is probably full of such incidents. For example, at Burnside’s Bridge during Battle of Antietam, Union forces could have easily taken the bridge on their first foray but troops seeing the first guys in line fall will frequently halt, regroup and retreat when pressing ahead would have been the right thing to do.
Seems like Eastern Europe may be the place to be.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/hungary-fans-banner-knee-england-25200098
/lights Pie signal
My son came home from college for the weekend. He’s headed back to Gettysburg, PA. He just crossed the Susquehanna on his way back.
Susquehanna Hat Co
Does anyone know where Bagel St is?
LOL, thanks. Haven’t seen that one in a while.
My youngest is on his way to Scranton, stuck in traffic on I-84. But he’s got some salt bagels, can’t get decent ones there.
We visited Gettysburg 3 years ago, he really liked the school, and we liked the town. Hope your son is doing well.
Same and thanks!
Obligatory Chapin.
https://youtu.be/OGldNpngDws
Lol, i didn’t truly appreciate that tune until I drove the Central Scranton Expressway from I-81 into the center of town. One mile of steep twisting downhill excitement worthy of an amusement park. I can absolutely see a rig losing it on that stretch of road
You know the man who told me about it on the bus as it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania, you know he shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and said, “Boy? It sure must’ve been somethin’! Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas! Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds–of mashed bananas.”
Between Lox Ave. and Schmear Way?
Heaven, although it does not go well with GlibFit.
Just got directions & details from the VRBO owner, so Tulip & I will be live on Zoom from a roaring fire in western VA this weekend. Plus I could shoot my pew pew shooter for y’all if it’s not too dark.
hawt
I may have to stay sober enough for this one.
It’s never too dark when there are muzzle flashes!
Weapon mounted light.
Got too cold outside, now I’m in the basement playing Cyberpunk. Where is everyone? Do I need to post more titties?
Sure, the Redheaded ones definitely,
East coast driving home time.
How did they crash a virtual meeting?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teakvetenadze/2021/10/11/netflix-suspends-employees-for-crashing-meeting-amid-chappelle-transphobia-controversy/?sh=55cee701317f
Maybe like a party crash, as opposed to a Computer crash?
I’ve only seen parts of Chapelle’s newest. Part I saw was him asking the LGBTWHTEVER people to not attack black people. Super lame and weak take. How about they lay off everybody?
He had some bad takes, but it’s worth watching. Besides being hilarious as usual, the end is where it all comes together.
This is really good, not the Bee,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgIhlRbFd9E
Where are our armchair antiauthoritarians of yore?
As I have previously argued, Republicans like DeSantis (who is vaccinated, by the way) are functionally conducting human wave attacks against Joe Biden’s approval rating, sacrificing their own loyal base for cheap political wins. The extent to which this is a conscious calculation may vary, but the practical effect is that the pandemic continues; Biden is blamed for it; and that (probably) does more damage to Democrats’ vote totals than the GOP loses in dead voters.
This ruthlessness must be met with bold, uncompromising action to save life rather than end it. A minority of Republicans insist they absolutely will not choose to get the vaccine? Fine. Force them to do it.
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No doubt Biden hasn’t already taken this path because of the predictable Republican response. Fox News and all the Republican governors would scream bloody murder at the prospect of quasi-forced vaccination. After some short-term backlash, the resultant end of the pandemic and rapid economic recovery would impede their plan to win back Congress and the White House in the next two election cycles.
It’s always wise to take the reaction of one’s opponents into account in politics. But this is a fight worth picking. A recent CBS poll found 55 percent of Americans think private businesses should be allowed to mandate vaccination, and 57 percent would prefer to vote for a politician who supports mandates. This is a great wedge issue (even a quarter of Republicans support mandates), and it would put Biden on the winning side of a culture war battle that makes the GOP look pro-pandemic. The sooner he implements mandates, the sooner Biden can enjoy the credit for conditions finally returning to normal.
Yes, by all means. No travel. No work. No food. Drag the kicking and screaming refuseniks into the street, strip them naked and forcibly vaccinate them in public. Shame them. Humiliate them. Only then can the healing begin.
That’s what leadership means.
i read this story in a book somewhere, they called it a prophesy, Maybe My Flying Spaghetti Monster God was right.
Love it.
Republicans aren’t REALLY opposed to vaccine mandates. They just want to hurt Biden’s covid recovery.
Speaking of which, go look at graphs of Southern states. The delta variant is wrapping up shortly. Surprised Biden isn’t trying to take credit for all that but the timing is a little off.
But where are the stacks of Bodies? The entire thing is a scam and a lie
Love the totally not creepy at all illo of Pretend Dr. Biden attached to the little totalitarian’s article.
Writers like that act like DeSantis is some kind of anti-vaxxer and is hypocritical for having accepted the vaccine into his life, but they fail to notice that Florida’s vaccination rate is less than 2 percentage points below California’s and ahead of IL, MN and MI, states with Dem governors. They need to reassess their assumptions.
There’s nothing terrifying at all about someone who refuses to acknowledge the agency of anyone who disagrees with him. It’s almost as if they would be willing to justify any kind of action against them for their own good up to and including exterminating the ones who cannot be brought into the light and redeemed.
A minority of Republicans insist they absolutely will not choose to get the vaccine?
I don’t think it is only R’s.
Force them to do it.
It’s your funeral…
a culture war battle that makes the GOP look pro-pandemic
It is not a matter of being pro or anti. The disease is endemic and is never going away.
The sooner he implements mandates, the sooner Biden can enjoy the credit for conditions finally returning to normal.
The intention is to never return to normal, you deluded, ignorant tyrannical cunte.
“Pro pandemic”. Didn’t know straw men could get COVID.
I note that Yahoo’s disabled comments. Because of course they have.
Because nothing says “community” like us talking and you listening.
They all got got tired of being ratio’d. CNN, Yahoo, etc.
If you want to end the republic, a lot of cops (I presume that’s who would drag people into the street), and a shit ton of health workers this course of action sounds like a plan. Fucking crazy shit and fundamentally unserious thank God but Yahoo, you sacks of shit, just because it’s been written doesn’t mean it needs to be published.
The intense pressure they are putting on the unvaxxed makes you think they are worried about the long term effects and want it done before conclusive evidence comes out. “ Welp, we are all in this boat now and there’s no point in looking back now.”
They want to remove the control group.
Desperately
Maybe but maybe you’re assigning rationality to the irrational and I’m not sure which is worse.
Could be they are thinking this on a sub/unconscious level. Most authoritarian boot lickers don’t follow “Know Thyself” despite thinking they are oracles.
As an unvaxxed, I look forward to being paid to impregnate 20% of the worlds women one we find out the vax sterilized people.
I like how this:
comes after this:
Where did the quasi come from?
The present situation is quasi.
It will be enforced by the Quasi Stasi.
From the bell tower?
Welp, I’m out. Nice knowing y’all.
On this day in 2019, we were at lake Wallenpaupack.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/CEsG_rS5QCyrca9JpVFGXw.9AWbIVCHSaOdlZwuETOvus
Peeping foliage, and having a good time. Seems sooooo long ago. ?
Blocked
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/JQT_1-O8RDWM4wVNSo6_dw.-QfVAxPLJ3gQaLdCJ8nhpz
Hole #4 base camp,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zUbUpMz6bXZ3BZXZ9
Ditto
Works for me. Autumn awesome.
Wife’s uncle had a place in the Hideout not too far from there, had some good times back in the day. Poconos are gorgeous.
Gorgeous!
And yes it does.
A weekly Mass. update.
According to the latest numbers, the vaccinated now account for 44% of all Covid deaths in Massachusetts. Last week it was 41%.
Knew Dave Smith was going through some kind of trouble, but today he finally released an episode and his newborn had to have open heart surgery. Rough to listen to, but it sure helps put things in perspective. My kid was in ICU for a week after she was born and we didn’t get to take her home for a month after that. Listening to Dave talking about it brought me back to that time. Wishing Dave all the best.
Yikes, straff, I didn’t know that. Sounds like she shook it off, and then some.
I listened to Dave’s episode while I was walking today. It made me really fucking grateful for my healthy kids.
I wondered why he was in NYC so much lately. I assumed his wife just wanted to be near the hospital or something. Never occurred to me that something was wrong.
Go Victor!
It was scary, but not open heart surgery scary. V is for Victor!
I can’t remember where I used to see this bitch, must have been Fox or CNN or some other dogshit news network:
“Susan Estrich: Here comes the ax, and I say, ‘Hooray’”
https://www.joplinglobe.com/opinion/susan-estrich-here-comes-the-ax-and-i-say-hooray/article_fb2c6088-286a-11ec-be11-9fc8e9d22697.html
Holy shit do I hate these kinds of people.
She starts almost every other sentence with “I”. Self absorbed POS.
I can’t help but imagine her flicking her bean to the thought of people losing their jobs and as a result their financial security and all that comes with it. I just wish she was better looking.
I can write fast, particularly if I don’t have to think too much.
Having breezed through your article I gathered that you think very little, if at all.
Watch me.
People like her bring out the worst in people. Then I realize I sound a bit like they do. Just a bit, and I feel bad about it. “Words are violence, so I may harm you. Silence is also violence, so I may still harm you. Not complying with our wishes is a crime punishable by violence and deprivation.” I briefly wish them harm too. Soon I feel better, calmer… because I have a conscience, unlike this shit filled cunt.
Good Lord, how many of them are there?
Humans are mostly garbage. Accept it and move on.
Everyone has those impulses, the good people suppress them through their better nature though. She, on the other hand, wrote an article celebrating those impulses. She’s scum.
Millions. And they all want cake.
There’s enough of them that violence will be the correct answer.
Self-defense is a thing, TARD. And at some point, the people keeping their hands clean behind the scenes and egging others on to attack you become legitimate targets.
???
How does that meme go? ‘Always has been…’
Don’t start nuthin’, won’t be nuthin’?
Were in civil war 2.0 now and war is hell. Democrats started this civil war too but many innocents will suffer.
Fuck. Off.
and DIE? And die, right?
*slurps cheap bourbon*
What was I saying? Never mind. I’m better now.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJtohZSsfY
Estrich has been around forever. She was a big Hillary supporter.
https://www.creators.com/author/susan-estrich
“presidential appointee on U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council”.
That’s rich. Who better to memorialize the Holocaust than a Nazi POS who advocates giving the ax to a large segment of the population?
Right here at the top:
“Four more meetings and I need to make some graphs for a lady in Amityville, NY.
The horror.”
Okay, we need a ruling here. Can a narrowed gaze be imposed as pun-ishment for content, or is it restricted to comments?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/white-house-tells-states-to-prepare-for-covid-vaccinations-in-young-children/ar-AAPqZsU
They are fucking desperate to prick little kids.
What does prepare mean? Order tiny bodybags?
It means buy body armor because they’re going to need it.
There will never be a compromise possible with these people. They have proven that repeatedly. Divorce is the only option left that doesn’t necessarily have to include mass violence.
that doesn’t necessarily have to include
They necessarily mean to rule you, so…
The obvious paranoid answer – they (whoever they are) know that the vaccines cause long-term immune system damage, and they want to get the latest generation of Health-As-A-Service subscribers signed up as early as possible.
Tin foil ain’t what it used to be. I honestly can’t come up with an alternative rationale for giving this jab to little kids.
The alternative rationale is more stupid: a monomaniacal focus on checking the “do something” box for this issue.
Not paranoid – spot on. Heath care is sick care. Big Pharma will die if you get super healthy.
Kids are already developing a ridiculous number of chronic diseases. These evil fucks are ramping it up.
Smoking already saved my life once. Maybe this is round 2?
https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/06/08/does-smoking-prevent-covid-19-we-dont-know-some-journalists-dont-want-find-out-15588
That would be hilarious.
This was in the news back in Spring 2020. Got memory-holed right quick. Central direction of research is a bad idea; there may or may not be anything to this, but the door was slammed shut before anyone could find out. How many other possibilities have been suppressed?
How many? All but one – Merck’s patented new breakthrough drug, Mecterivin.
How though? Did anyone read the FDA rejection of boosters? I don’t see how they approve it.
What’s that acronym again? Uh… oh, FYTW. Yeah, that’s it.
And the evidence that mRNA vaccines significantly elevate the incidence of cardiomyopathy is piling up. The Scandinavian countries are pulling it for men under a certain age.
Commies in America spreading the chinese commie biological weapon. Who needs foreign enemies when you have “Americans” doing criminal shit like medical testing on kids.
QED,
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” –T.S. Eliot.
https://archive.is/C6IS1/8da887e985552ba761db35d3ba7dfdd054d2d9b4.jpg
NSFW.
I hereby declare, by the power vested in me, that from here on in every day is Q’s birthday.
In 1.5 months, the youngest Gen Xers will turn 40. Feel old?
Feel? yes, am? not at all, young one….
Lightning is a Bitch,
https://www.laughingwolf.net/2021/10/12/in-the-blink-of-an-eye/
My ulcers are not gone. They were unable to do the surgery laparoscopically and because of scar tissue and will have to do it robotically at some date in the future. So I got 5 holes punched in my belly fer nuthin’. Because it’s Tuesday and Tuesday hates me.
That sux. Sorry MJ.
Oh fudge. The gods must be crazy, this has to get better soon.
Around these parts, robotics is just jumped up laparoscopy. So you’ve got that going for you (the small incisions, I mean).
Takes a different machine, so they have to rebook you.
Yep. It was explained to me that the articulation is different and more refined.
Also gonna have a different surgeon.
Grrr.
I’m so sorry to hear this news, Moje.
Prayers and heartfelt thoughts of good will.
Sorry to hear that. Can they do the robosurgery soon?
As I said before, at least with a robo-surgeon, you won’t have to wear a mask, right?
Ackshually, patients don’t wear masks during surgery, at least not under anesthesia.
It was an attempt at levity
The one thing that surprised me the most going under the knife last year was how cold it was in the operating room. I hated how they bundled me up in that full gown with the tubes and shit coming out of it because it was so warm… until I got to the operating room.
Also, the hospital is one of those dumpy old buildings in NYC with the hallways and guest rooms to match, but the operating room looked like something out of the future. A spotless, dust-free future.
Shit, I didn’t get the joke at first, then realized what you meant. Oops. ?
Dang… Sorry it didn’t work out this time. Here’s to a smooth robot surgery in the near future! ?
Attn TPTB – I’ve submitted my Gurri/Lasch article for review.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_metropolitan_area_arterial_roads#Mill_Avenue
Most beautiful women I’ve ever seen anywhere, anytime. Fight me.
ASU? You bet. They can hold their own with the SEC gals. Plus, its shorts weather about 10 months of the year. Maybe 11.
Fun with numbers
https://usafacts.org/articles/preliminary-us-death-statistics-more-deaths-in-2020-than-2019-coronavirus-age-flu/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ND-StatsData&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5JSLBhCxARIsAHgO2SfaVNgqvDlw4CbZQPh8mW2eHWAt7p4pUzpjbHjI5fA514ltCGhb9E4aAmFjEALw_wcB
2020 had nominally 500,000 excess deaths.
The death rate spikes up considerably in 2020.
Broken down by age ground the 25-44 group has the highest increase in death over the 2015-2019 average.
Buried in another table for 2020 deaths, the 25-44 group is a small fraction of the deaths from Covid-19.
Thus, the pandemic shutdowns cause a 40% increase in deaths in 25-44 people while covid itself is a non-factor.
Three cheers for the people in charge.
In a just world, more than a few of the people in charge would be hanging from tall buildings by their genitals.
Actually the table of deaths overall vs covid by age group is an entirely different link.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm
2020 has 572,000 more deaths than 2019. Covid was 377,883 deaths in 2019 (per the CDC). So 200,000 excess deaths not the result of covid.
in my link below, I wrote about the lost person-hours of life not associated with COVID infection
I remember reading it and being overwhelmed.
I am not interested in calculating lost person-hours or something like that.
I see a graph showing that young healthy people (age 25-44) had the highest percentage increase in death at a time when the world was being shut down. So it is pretty damn clear the shutdowns killed lots of people.
That’s a picture that can be explained in 5 sentences in a facebook post.
You can ask almost anyone one of semi-average intelligence why a excess hundred thousand young people died when they were all supposedly locked out of their jobs and trapped at home. They didn’t die from Covid. So why did they die?
That’s the message that needs to get out. Not an actuarial analysis of person-hours lost.
FYI, I ran the numbers a while back, and almost the entirety of that balance of excess deaths is attributable to pneumonia (see fourth table in the linked article). At most there were 50,000 more deaths in 2020 over 2019 that are not explained by some sort of respiratory disease, balanced out by approximately 30,000 fewer deaths due to non-respiratory causes among the elderly (probably due to COVID being a harvesting event) for a total of about 20,000 extra deaths that need some other explanation. It does look suspiciously like the 15-44 crowd may have experienced a 15% increase in deaths due to as yet undisclosed reasons (full death statistics seem to lag about 1-2 years behind the subject year), so it is possible that the reaction to the pandemic caused these, but the magnitude is not anywhere near the impression you got.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2021/09/analysis-of-some-cdc-death-rate-data/
yeah, I forgot about that.
I should probably edit it or isse an addendum–somone, maybe robc, had an interesting alternate method of calculating the lost years
Sitting on the front porch of an Airbnb farmhouse in SW MO, enjoying the sounds of livestock, crickets, and the kid playing with her echo. The temperature is perfect, just the tiniest nip in the air, the humidity is minimal, and the only sign of human life outside of my own family is the occasional motor in the distance.
Life is good. There’s tons of stress and uncertainty when we get back home, but life is good and God is good.
just the tiniest nip in the air
They tend to be smaller.
Nice!
Who’d have thought Australia had a Fugitive Slave Act.