Hey there copper top.
You guys…
You guys…
You guys…
You guys…
You guys…ah screw it you probably already know.
…the are bringing back the Hi-Power. Okay, FN Herstal still makes them, but its a new trick for Springfield. They even gave it two extra rounds of capacity and left out the magazine disconnect 98% of gun owners will remove!
The weather turned, and we all know what that means: migrants! Lots of them headed for Texas, apparently.
Mexican soldiers “accidentally” crossed into the US and detained. They got lost.
Okay, I’m not one to entertain female soccer players complaining about how much they’re paid considering their revenues, but capping it to $2000($100US) a month is a bit much.
Did he misspeak or troll? You decide.
To be fair, I ignore news reports on most things, let alone Joaquin Guzman.
Here’s a trendy tune. Enjoy your Tuesday.
Yeah, right out the damn gates I’m going there because this is just too damn good.
And just like a SF production, it’s the little things that make it so perfect…
Vaccines won’t give you the HIV virus. They will give you an Immune Deficiency, with you Acquired by taking the vaccines and boosters. Tough call.
Are people with actual AIDS getting these shots?
Whether that’s actually the case or not remains to be seen. There’s no need to knock them based on something unproven as they’re crappy enough as they currently stand.
It’s proven. Somebody had a link to a pretty good study a fww days ago. From the UK I think.
https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/10/22/uk-data-show-covid-vaccines-actually-prevent-full-immunity-as-deaths-among-fully-vaccinated-surge/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_Da5GzBqlmHb1VmI2.9XmWwyU2Cea6DaGEpOFFG4S7Q4-1635282231-0-gqNtZGzNApCjcnBszQg9
Thanks for the link. Don’t know if that’s really definitive but that’s certainly a concern that needs to be looked into.
Australians were working on covid vaccines that made recipients test positive for HIV. The Aussies shut down their covid vaccine program after that. I think it was not an accident. The available covid vaccines have a strong effect on the immune system after injections. Probably it was picked up by some HIV tests.
Colombian security forces have captured the country’s most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right.
President Iván Duque likened the arrest Saturday of Dairo Antonio Úsuga to the capture three decades ago of Pablo Escobar.
I will go out on a limb here and predict that like the capture of Escobar, drug trafficking from Colombia will continue.
It did?!
Of course, the politicians just captured the guy that wasn’t giving them kickbacks.
My wife saw a Biden “I did that!” sticker at the gas pump yesterday here in Swalwellandia.
The peasants are revolting.
But are they rebelling too?
I’ll say. They stink on ice!
Buy a bunch of these and stick ’em up anywhere you have a right to. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=let%27s+go+brandon+sticker
I love those. Wonder how long it will stay there and whether it will be removed by the merchant or by customers.
I’ve been tempted to put those on empty sections of supermarket shelving, which are becoming more and more common, but can’t quite justify that since it’s vandalizing private property.
Get it as a magnet?
magnets are expensive but you can buy cheaper magnetic tape and stick the sticker to it…
For instance https://www.amazon.com/s?k=magnetic+tape+strips+with+adhesive+backing
I don’t like the vandalism aspect either. I’d probably use Scotch tape so it’s easy to remove.
I have to give the Biden Administration some credit with having the cajones and indifference to say, “Lower your expectations.” If the GOP can’t run with this and win, then they are truly the Stupid Party.
Yep. If the republicans don’t run on “raise your expectations” or “expect more” or, hell “Bring Back Basically OK,” they deserve losing.
Make America OK Again.
Now that would create quite a stir.
That’s kind what I was looking for. It implies that we’re both being asked to accept that poor results are OK, as well as highlighting the idea that the Dems and their hangers-on think the US is not “OK.” It’s “problematic,” it’s “toxic,” it’s not something to be proud of, but to be ashamed of.
If you can’t run on building people up and a positive image of the country against the shit we’re being forced to swallow, we’re so far gone as to be unrecoverable.
I was referring to Jaime’s use of “OK”, which if used by Trump or a Republican would immediately be called a white supremacist dog whistle 🙂
ooooohhhhhhhh.
Viewing the country in a positive light is passe.
db, you could be a political consultant with a mind like that. But knowing you, you probably couldn’t live with yourself.
I appreciate the spirit in which the comment was made, but I feel icky somehow 🙂
like, run a montage of Biden saying “build back better” and his minions saying “lower your expectations” for the first half of the commercial, then play a positive montage of republicans saying things like what I wrote above or similar. Is there a good way to do the “Build Back Basically All Right” thing without sounding too snarky?
There always is. Those people run the commercials by people to see who it resonates with, and who it offends.
Build Back Basically All Right
You better make sure your candidate enunciates the fuck out of that slogan. Even if he does, I’d put the odds at 4 to 1 that the MSM and the fact checkers agree they said “Build Back Basically Alt Right”
Bring back malaise!
I like “Expect More.”
Seriously. Look what happened in 1980 (for those of us who remember).
But it sure is a different country now. Back then, Carter was widely mocked by pretty much everyone.
Now, we have half the country with the heads in the sand.
TMITE
In 1980, we knew the election results before my bedtime and believed them. That will never happen again.
So you’re saying the GOP won’t run with this and win.
Washington Generals
They’ll run with a less clever version than db’s, and will squeak out some wins. But they will not press their advantage, gormless SOBs that they are.
I mean, the republicans have the opportunity to force the democrats to own the negative side of everything, but only if they (reps) can stay positive and offer a better vision. But they’re so used to attacking from below, that I feel like they won’t know what to do.
One could almost imagine a conspiracy of political consultants and ad agencies intentionally convincing Republicans to always go low, hurting themselves more than their opponents.
They have no one to blame but themselves. Even when the voters have put them in power, they have done nothing.
My bet is that they will campaign hard on “Repealing Obamacare” because that is just how dumb the GOP is.
Please don’t depress me with the truth. I have happy movie reviews to write. The Cave of R.J. will just sink deeper into the earth.
And repealing gay marriage and outlawing abortion and putting the 10 commandments up in courthouses…
You know, stuff that United the country.
You’re assuming legitimate elections,Ed. To coin a phrase – lower your expectations.
One of the greatest things about living in the People’s Republic of Illinois is that you are trained from birth to have lower expectations when it comes to politics.
To be fair, the Biden administration didn’t say that. A Washington Poat editorial did in an attempt to cover for them.
I suggest that when a Dem Party propaganda outlet publishes something, it can be safely attributed to the administration.
Mexican soldiers “accidentally” crossed into the US and detained. They got lost.
Operation Pancho Villa got lost looking for a Mexican restaurant.
I have an FN-made, Browning branded Hi-Power which I love a lot, except for the hammer bite and the magazine safety. Mec-gar makes 15 round magazines that work fine in it, so it’s not really a mod to the gun itself to improve capacity. I’ve been thinking for a long time about changing the fire controls to remove the mag safety.
The gun itself is beautiful: hard chromed frame, black coated slide, Pachmayr grips–it’s an early factory iteration prior to when the Hi-Power Practical was made–mine has fixed instead of adjustable sights. It’s a great gun. I wonder if the fire control parts from the Springfield could be modded to fit–they removed the mag safety and also supposedly eliminated the hammer bite, which is supposedly just a hammer modification rather than changes to the frame.
If they do fit, I imagine they’d make a killing selling spare parts for existing guns, but I am not familiar with that market at all.
I have a ’69 T-series, that my father bought new when a Ph.D. student. Beautiful bluing, walnut grips, rowel hammer, truly a work of art. And the hammer has never bitten me. Does yours have the rowel hammer or a spur?
“A few months later, Facebook removed dozens of accounts, some used by employees of Bolsonaro and two of his lawmaker sons, for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” ”
That can go on your permanent record.
With the internet we all now have a permanent record.
“That’s quite the perp-walk.”
Four different uniforms?
“It was the biggest news story of the last fifty years, and everyone had to get in on the act.”
I bet the druglord mumbled “I will rape your daughter with your son’s dick”
Looks like the Air Force puke (the guy in the flight suit on the right?) is the most un-sat fucker. Checks out.
I ignore anything that the AP has to say, FWIW.
The AP does very little of its own reporting. It is a news sharing and aggregating service. Those too-local stories that sometimes get picked up by them are from small-town papers that are members.
Yeah. Proof there’s derp everywhere, and the AP is on it.
juris imprudent posted this morning:
https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/
Yes, this needs more visibility.
I feel like it can get all the visibility it wants, but nothing will come of it. Whats the point? I get angry and nothing happens so I get angrier.
I’m only half way through it and wow. This needs to be (and won’t be) spread far and wide.
He should be apologizing for that hair, the sunglasses, the tatts, oh hell, all of it.
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The Blackhawks (the NHL team, not my team) fired their GM today. Not because the team sucks, but because in 2010 a coach sexually assaulted a player, and management pushed it under the rug. The report came out today, and the NHL fined the team $2M. There are lawsuits involved and potentially more people are going to face consequences. I didn’t think anything would distract from the worst start in team history, but here we go.
I’m surprised how long after #metoo started how long it’s taken to hit sports. I can easily see the major leagues simply collapsing from all the weight of all the bad behavior that’s about to come out.
I think they’ve just been trying to wait out some of the worst offenders’ (playing) careers. It’s not like they’re going to be playing when they’re 40–wait a dozen years if you can and the problem goes away, from the perspective of management. It’s a different story slightly with actors, musicians, producers, politicians, who will be wanting to continue their careers and need a paycheck after a pro sports player is long retired and living off investements.
So what you’re saying is that Tom Brady wants to play until he’s 50 because he’s hiding a lot of stuff, and it ain’t just his soft balls.
I can’t wait to see Tony Dungy get shitcanned for his anti-gay remarks.
Let’s distinguish between #metoo “I felt uncomfortable” claims and actual sexual assault. Yeah someone who covers up actual sexual assault should be fired.
Thanks for posting that article.
The noon one? You’re welcome. I had fun writing it.
yes, good article and I’m glad you linked in the youtube vid. I guess I had visualized something more like an old fashioned wooden sled, lol, because that was very impressive.
At the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue NW and S Street NW, several pedestrians had to dodge a tour bus failing to yield on one side of the intersection, while a large SUV prepared to go from another.
I’m telling you, it is Death Race out there. If those vehicles didn’t stop for those pedestrians, they would have hit them!
http://www.sjgames.com/car-wars/
I had some good friends who played Car Wars and other RPGs but after one or two sessions they determined I was too nerdy to be part of their clique.
I find that difficult to believe.
As expected.
They feel it in their gut. That’s some mighty fine experting there.
No cases of myocarditis were found in the children’s study, though it was too small to detect the potential risk, according to Pfizer and BioNTech.
Not even trying to hide anything.
The real study hasn’t started yet.
Not in either kid?
At the risk of having drugs fall out of my butt, there was an active shooter incident at the Boise Town Square mall yesterday.
Missing from the story, any information on the perpetrator.
[EF scrubbed erroneous, potential self-doxxing link for you.]
Bah. Operator error.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10130125/Shooting-Idaho-mall-leaves-two-dead-five-injured.html
I bet it was the anti-gay landlord of the mall. He snapped and went after the delinquent tenants in the mall.
The landlord just went and got his weapon and told people he was going to do something about the Rent Boise.
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Boooo. Boooo. Boo.
Idaho Statesman was already running a do something about gun violence editorial yesterday evening.
The Idaho Pravda can go climb a tree.
Thank you, edit faery.
“‘It’s calculated: Bob Woodward says Trump associates who convened at Willard Hotel ‘war room’ on Jan 5th may have engaged in a conspiracy against the government and could be prosecuted”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10133015/Woodward-says-Trump-associates-convened-Willard-war-room-Jan-5th-broken-fraud-law.html
So it was the Russians?
Was the meeting called by Ray Epps?
Maybe they can hang this on Carter Page?
If this was true, they did a poor job carrying out their objective.
And also, all this is a distraction so we can forget just how shitty the Biden/Harris Regime is.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be able to forget just how shitty the Biden/Harris Regime is if I hit my head with a sledgehammer carved out of xanax.
Great song choice, Señor!
That’s quite the perp-walk.
The dude to the left of the perp looks like he’s about to shoot the pilot in the leg. Must be a tribute to Alec.
For me, the bass line in that song is an ear worm.
“Furious parents and conservatives have told Barack Obama to apologize to a Loudoun County, Virginia, couple and their daughter who was raped by a skirt-wearing boy in a school bathroom in May, after the former President called the row encircling it ‘fake outrage’ and a ‘phony trumped-up culture wars’.
On Monday, juvenile court judge Pamela Brooks ruled that the boy – who has not been named – did force himself on the 15-year-old girl on May 28 in the bathroom at Stone Ridge High School in Leesburg, Virginia.
The case drew national attention because the boy was wearing a skirt at the time and the girls’ parents – Scott and Jessica Smith – said it was what they feared might happen more if Loudoun County Schools starts allowing boys into girls’ bathrooms frequently as part of a progressive transgender policy.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10132499/Loudoun-County-parents-tell-Obama-apologize-rape-victims-dad-fake-outrage-claim.html
Barack Obama: Fuck dem kids.
Oh and the Bee went there.
““You should be ashamed of yourself young lady,” said the first black, foreign-born US President while winking at a fawning journalist.”
Damn, gloves are off.
This is way, way more pointed than they usually are, and I absolutely love it. Go for it, Bee.
What a national treasure.
“‘Guns don’t kill people Alec Baldwin kills people’: Don Jr. is slammed for selling $27.99 Tees mocking actor for accidentally shooting dead cinematographer on Rust set”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10131651/Donald-Trump-Jr-slammed-selling-27-99-T-shirts-mocking-Alec-Baldwin-gun-tragedy.html
LOLOLOLOLLL
Yeah, that is really poor taste. How in the world did he think it’s a good idea to do that?
Now that I know what he can do, I wouldn’t mock Alec Baldwin either.
This reminds me very strongly of Norm Macdonald lambasting OJ every other night on Weekend Update. Making fun of the killer is not the same thing as making fun of the victim.
I think it’s close to, if not on par with, politicians and activists climbing on top of bodies to make political points about gun control after shootings.
That’s how I feel on this one too.
I think one can focus too much attention on it, and perhaps this crosses some kind of line there, but the target is richly deserving. Even if it was completely “accidental” (whatever that truly means), the only people who deserve sympathy are the deceased, the wounded, and the families thereof.
Y’all haven’t answered the most pressing issue. Can I wear my “Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my guns” shirt or not?
https://www.volksfolks.org/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=i8l6ih12iop3m1r6js9hlp4460&action=dlattach;topic=7651.0;attach=2521;image
Frankly, I don’t care if its in poor taste. If the culture war is going to be fought in the gutter, its going to be fought in the gutter. The more mockery and abuse are heaped on people like Alec Baldwin, the better, as far as I’m concerned.
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The claim was among the most bizarre that the president, who contracted the virus last year and remains unvaccinated, has made about immunization against the coronavirus to date. He spent months sowing doubt about vaccines, especially the one produced by Chinese firm Sinovac.
So he was ahead of the curve, information-wise.
He spent months sowing doubt about vaccines, especially the one produced by Chinese firm Sinovac
That company sucks, it’s right there in the name.
Jesse Kelly’s troll game is improving.
That’s excellent.
Deadspin trying to let everyone know they still exist:
“The blacks can’t think for themselves, so that’s why they need us, the benevolent white liberals to make decisions for them or at least point them in the right direction.”
You’re welcome. It really is our burden, but we bear it gladly. As long as it’s not any real inconvenience anyway.
And the kicker is that most of the people at my church (majority of parishioners are black) are hesitant about getting the vaccine along with believing that only a biological woman can give birth. Try being transgendered and going into Auburn Gresham on the Southside of Chicago. If you’re lucky, you might get called a lot of terrible names but chances are, you’re gonna be chased out of the neighborhood.
It’s glaring how out of touch White Progressive’s and upper class blacks are with urban black people.
Think that is a chasm?
I’d like to see fans of Rashida Tlaib go to her district and try to get a Muslim baker to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
I’m going to go out on a limb here, and guess the skinhead/KKK people aren’t all that pro trans.
And crap on a cracker, I’d actually managed to forget. Damnitall….
Are you kidding me?
It Wasn’t Just Beagles and Monkeys – Fauci’s NIH Also Funded Medical Experiments on AIDS Orphans in NY City
Evil. True bald-faced evil.
Nobody was punished, never mind properly shot and/or hanged as befitted the crimes, after Tuskegee or MKULTRA, so why does anyone think it was going to stop there?
Never change USA.
Shirō Ishii
What the fucking fuck.
Some of us here predicted he’s outlived his usefulness, and would be thrown under the bus. This is what being thrown under the bus looks like.
Can they show that he himself had knowledge of what was going on, or are they going to make him “take reponsibility” for underlings’ actions (as he should)?
Because it seems like they could do real damage to the public health institutions more than just Fauci with this stuff. This is like using a flamethrower to take out a hostage-taker, potentially. Why would they do this to themselves?
This is why I’m starting to wonder if the narrative is coming apart faster than the propagandists can mend it. Presumably this information was available, but now it just blasted across the world.
Not everyone will play the evil games.
That’s a good question. I think it’s safe to assume this information was buried deep and someone decided to let it out. Unless there was some source named? A whistleblower?
Whistleblower, you say? How about a Russian disinformation campaign engineered by Snowden?
Is there something worse than despicable? Even scum would be a compliment to Fauci.
Good to know the Seattle Police are at least doing something.
Seattle police bust lucrative Lego trafficking scheme
Somebody could have stepped on them and really hurt themselves.
He really bricked himself into a corner.
They’ll have charges filed in a snap.
I swear I’ve seen this before. Are you sure it’s not a Duplo-cate post?
There is no limit to the creativity of the police there.
At the gym tonight – every tv has an excited news anchor talking about the FDA recommending we vaccinate kids against an illness they are immune to. One channel had a graph of kid covid cases – they didn’t mention %99.99 of them recovered.
Or that more kids die from drowning than Covid.
You have to use the vaccine to know if it’s safe
https://gab.com/disclosetv/posts/107169898308386302
Hey that’s how we do health care now. Ask Nancy!
Cigarette sales jumped during COVID-19 pandemic, study says
Hmm I wonder why?
You don’t say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjiUqb2SSw0
I keep getting e-mails at work from some rando who wants to buy our domain name. Normally we just ignore those, but just got the 3rd one. They’re offering $10,000.
Let’s see, our market cap is many billions of dollars… sure, let’s give up our domain for $10k. We can always rebrand.
I can’t decide if they’re that clueless or if it’s just some weird scam attempt.
I’ll give you $10,001 for it.
Sure, $10k will cover the rebranding costs, right?
/sarc
Precisely. She’s e-mailing us @.com, so we’re clearly using it.
It’ll pop right up if you search for the name. You can find us on NASDAQ.
$10k is a bit light for a total rebranding.
So what you’re saying is that you’ll take $15,000.00?
Phishing, would be my guess.
Fauci is Mengele
So what you’re saying is, he’s getting ready to move to Brazil? /Cathy Newman
The people have spoken:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCm2GVGVQAEJnaR.jpg
The people also like Bud Light and Big Macs, people are stupid. Dave is most likely much funnier than the other guy, whom I’ve never heard of, but popularity contests rarely recognize actual superiority in any objectively measurable capacity.
But they’re comedians. The criteria IS do people think you’re funny.
Point, Tulip.
There is no objective measurement of funny, nor do I need some expert to tell me what’s funny or not.
What’s the objective measurement for beers or sammiches?
That said, I suspect we are making the same point, I am merely pointing out that Couch potato is replacing your “expert” (the critics, I presume) with his “experts”…the people, neither’s opinion should matter in purely subjective evaluation.
That’s a woman. Says about all you need to know about her “comedy”. From what I’ve heard “Nanette” was an hour of doing the Stuart Smalley “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it people like me” in front of an audience. Sounds hilarious.
I had to look it up. You’ll be surprised to hear that she “is openly lesbian, and often includes lesbian content and references to her sexuality in her stand-up routines”.
Is there something funny about being a lesbian?
Or does she launch into a Joe Pesci impersonation – you think I’m funny? You think I’m funny???
Their cats are entertaining?
And yet, she’s not the worst androgynous dyke comic from Oz – https://youtu.be/vTd0crm1rt8
From the comments:
MUHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!
Put my dog to sleep earlier… At the time I genuinely believed that would be the worst thing I would have to watch all day.
Funnier than anything in the clip.
She’s objectively not funny.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/man-survives-random-bear-attack-by-kicking-the-500-pound-animal/ar-AAPZ3RQ?ocid=AMZN
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/epic-marine-veteran-hero-stopped-robbery-progress-receives-valor-award-shows-wearing-go-brandon-t-shirt-maga-hat/
LOL
That’s fantastic
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I laughed when he dropped the “Epstein didn’t kill himself”
That guy fucks.
NSFW
https://youtu.be/_uMEE7eaaUA?t=22
Sweet.
One of those days where I’m just dragging ass and do not want to row.
Must row, must row, must row…
We have fallen in a rut with the gym. They are building a state of the art brand new one 5 minutes from the house and our current one is 15 minutes from the house. We swear we will go more often when the one that 5 minutes form the house opens. Plus it has an In-N-Out right next to it…so…a wash out.
35 minutes complete. Better than nothing.
Now, a shower & perhaps a cocktail…
“ Land dedicated to the production of coca — the raw ingredient of cocaine — jumped 16% last year to a record 245,000 hectares, a level unseen in two decades of U.S. eradication efforts, according to a White House report.”
When I was in Colombia in the late 90’s gringos were buying untrampled grams on the street for about $2.50. I can only imagine the wholesale price. Shortly after I returned home the US Guv was pushing Plan Colômbia. The idea that we would eliminate its trafficking was ludicrous. I’m not a buyer of the stuff but I believe the US retail price has come down considerably since the 90’s. The drugs won.
The price is pretty much the same, so it hasn’t gone up with inflation.
In the 90’s gas was less than $1.25/gallon.
I’m not a big coke aficionado but it’s good to know there’ll be plenty around if I ever decide to become one.
Juan Vandez ain’t packing coffee on those burros.
You don’t use burros to move cocaine, you use mules. And it goes in the mules.
Valdez, d00d. Valdez.
You of all people . . .
Ahhh.. so once the fentanyl panic subsides, we can go back to coke panic.
I absolutely must say, it is about time that the best handgun design was reinstated. Finally, we get to have John MOSES Browning’s best design, and not that WW1 Rube Goldberg contraption that a bunch of wannabe Calvarymen foisted on the US long after the greatest development in handguns, the double stack. Now, if they could only make DA too…
I wish they’d do a L9A1 replica with lanyard ring.
I bought one of the newer Made in Portugal ones about a year ago from an acquaintance. I’ve only put a couple of mags worth through it but it’s a nice shooting gun. I still prefer my CZ-75 but it’s definitely a keeper.
As I mentioned this morning, the final push is on with November 8th coming up when all FedGovs need to have attested their vaccination status (and uploaded the document; more on that in a bit) or have requested a reasonable accommodation, either religious or medical.
The language now is “the only way out of this is 100% vaccinated!” and “because we have implemented the mandate, Delta is being beaten back!” They also said 71% of DOT have shown their documents. This is the first time they publicly have said what number are vaccinated. It makes me think we have hit the point, in which we have no one else. Everyone else is refusing and are: retiring, quitting, or requesting an RA.
Now to our little ‘attestation’ program. In the disclaimer and privacy act statement, it says only HR will see your documents. However, I had an astute employee say there is some language that says they will give to 3rd party for analytics. This person is one of my doubly vaccinated, super crazy covid persons, but that caught their eye and they are hesitant on providing the data if it will be spread across, for ‘analytics’. Good job FedGov…good job.
Same here. HR is demanding images of the actual cards because they claim it’s a federal requirement. They’ve already lied about how covid related information will be protected. Or not protected.
“Federal requirement” should instantly be countered with “show me the fucking money”.
That’s kind of how my company is in this mess (fed contractor).
It won’t be tied to your PHI though, we pinky swear.
That reminds me of something that occurred to me after HR claimed unvaxxed had higher healthcare costs when infected.
A) they’re just repeating something heard on the news/trade rag
B) they’re repeating something the insurer said without basis
C) the insurer is unlawfully providing HIPAA controlled information to HR, and HR is correlating to vax attestation
D) insurer is unlawfully accessing state immunization records, associating them with insured persons, and correlating them with health claims
E) HR and/or insurer is skirting the letter of HIPAA by providing semi-“anonymized” data about hospitalization costs for specific days that are being correlated with non HIPAA information such as attendance records
Several companies ago, morale was sinking so management implemented an “Ask Management” function on our internal network. It was sold as an “you can ask us why things are a certain way, or lodge complaints about your immediate bosses or even your coworkers! And it goes through 3 layers of encryption so it’s totally and completely anonymous!”
I of course never used it. A few months ago, I ran into one of my old friends there who was in HR, who had also moved on from that company. When we were drinking I just straight up asked, who really could see the comments. She told me every manager, everyone with IT, and anyone in the HR department could see every word written. What’s more, everyone in the company had a unique numerical identifier, so the entire management corps knew exactly who was writing in things. Come to find out at least 2 people lost their jobs after going scorched Earth.
Never, EVER trust that “only HR” bullshit.
*tosses again link to yet another “anonymous” HR survey*
I’m only surprised anyone fell for it.
This was a decade ago, and even I hadn’t matured my “trust-no-one” attitude then. I thought it might be legit. I had a deskmate who would sit there all day and snap her gum. Non-stop. Whether I was on the phone, had guests, it didn’t matter. Plus I hate that sound more than any sound on the fucking Earth. So, I did ask her to stop, which she never would. I contemplated complaining about her on the intranet, but something made me not do it, and now I’m glad.
Yeah, our company puts out these surveys to all employees, saying everything is anonymized. Funny how everyone’s e-mail has a unique URL to access the survey…
What if…the bigger conspiracy is that Pharmas developed a vaccine that makes humans dependant upon their products on an annual (or sooner) basis against even the most benign pathogens that normally don’t affect humans? Nah, they wouldn’t do such a thing. #tinfoilhattuesdays
Immunization as a Service.
IaaS, pronounced “I ass”.
HM hit hardest.
“A new public benefit corporation backed by billionaires Reid Hoffman, George Soros, and others is launching Tuesday to fund new media companies and efforts that tackle disinformation.
Why it matters: Good Information Inc. aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies.
The group will be led by Tara McGowan, a former Democratic strategist who previously ran a progressive non-profit called ACRONYM.”
https://www.axios.com/soros-hoffman-disinformation-tara-mcgowan-b1e7cb89a4f7-4281-8e0a-3877fe8a3944.html
“Liberal tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, a funder of numerous disinformation projects, is backing a new media venture launched Tuesday that seeks to combat disinformation, according to a report.
Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, joined ranks with financier George Soros to fund Good Information Inc., which will “fund and scale businesses that cut through eco chambers with fact-based information,” Axios reported.
The move comes after Hoffman apologized in December 2018 for bankrolling what he called a “highly disturbing” effort that spread disinformation in the Alabama special election the year prior that resulted in Democrat Doug Jones narrowly defeating Republican Roy Moore for a seat in the Senate.
The disinformation project, spearheaded by the tech firm New Knowledge, created fake online personas aimed at generating national news coverage that Russia favored Republicans over Democrats.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/10/26/george-soros-teams-up-with-billionaire-who-backed-liberal-disinformation-efforts-to-fund-anti-disinformation-media-venture/
So their old propaganda outlets burned the last of their credibility, and they need a new channel for lies?
I think we can expect a TR Project as follow on to the Lincoln one. If they’re really ballsy, they’ll go straight to Reagan.
It’s called Good Information, so we know we can trust it. It’s right there in the name. Just like Antifa means Anti Fascist. They wouldn’t lie to us, would they?
Orwell would never have gotten away with something so farcical in his work.
Yeah, you have to go to Rand for that kind of overblown caricature. [And then they keep proving her right.]
FFS. They’re not even hiding it any more, are they?
This is a big fuckin’ deal!
https://twitter.com/Sturgeons_Law/status/1451073037747449862
I’m no psychiatrist, but this broad is insane.
Also, we need to ban public sector unions.
At the end she says “obviously this is ridiculous”. Cringe worthy, but I’m missing the outrage.
Apparently it’s racist against Native Americans.
How?
From what I can gather from the replies, she was trying to teach SOHCAHTOA as a mnemonic for sin, cos, and tan (Sin Opposite Hypotenuse, Cos Adjacent Hypotenuse, etc). SOHCAHTOA sounds vaguely like an Indian name (though to me it sounds more like Krakatoa), and so she put on a feather headdress and started acting crazy. An Indian kid (casino) in class was offended and started filming. I think she got suspended. If I were the principal I’d probably tell her to tone it down a bit, starting with those pants.
If I had said “How, kemosabe” would the joke have landed?
Oh dear, I missed that one.
*inserts ‘Standing ovation’ gif* Unless, of course there’s one with the ‘woo woo woo’ war cry thing.
It’s a math class. If I were a student, I’d be pissed I had to sit through that nonsense in math class.
Chapelle ever do an NPR skit where the “N” stands for the soft “a” ending n word?
Naptha?
Nutria.
Nagga – cool brothers who annoy you.
“Senate Dems Unveil New Corporate Minimum Tax; Sinema On Board”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-dems-unveil-new-corporate-minimum-tax-call-out-amazon-over-effective-tax-rate-just
So what’ll keep them from just bailing on the good old US of A? Nothing, that’s what.
The 100% exit tax and the tax on inversions!
/Progic
If Amazon leaves, I bet they will be okay with a 200% tariff on all Amazon shipments. They have to hurt the people too, not just the corp.
I’m no fancy numbers guy or anything, but… shouldn’t it be obvious to anybody that a “corporate tax” is just a sales tax once-removed?
Yeah, that too.
Part sales tax, part deflation of my 401K, IRA and other investments, and part reduction of employment opportunities. But that’s all part of my lowered expectations.
Lowered expectations flashed me back twenty years
https://youtu.be/Lbfr9tbp-p0
You know who else unloaded on a chick’s chest while filming?
Dirk Diggler?
Sam Peckinpah?
One of the guys in the very underrated Roy Scheider movie “52 Pickup”?
Foghorn Leghorn?
Lol. Was that on Looney Spoons?
Kei Komuro?
Robert Englund in shock after accidentally plunging steel knife into fellow actor’s heart. “The assistant director assured me it was rubber” the longtime Nightmare on Elm Street actor told Variety.
Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/LYppdp_2GCk
Brutal. Funny, but brutal.
Found a lovely little 1962 FN Browning Light Twenty Auto-5 on an auction site today. 90%+ finish, oddball 24″ Skeet-choked vent rib barrel. Nice gun, and would round out my Auto-5 collection nicely. But it was listed in the regular “Semi-Auto shotguns” section and not “Curios & Relics,” so I sent an email asking about that.
“We don’t accept C&Rs,” came the reply, “but we’d be happy to provide a quote for shipping to an FFL in Alaska.”
“Sorry, you lost me with ‘We don’t accept C&Rs,’ thanks.”
What is it with these assholes? This wasn’t a big company, it was a little shop. What gives? I am an FFL, you dumbass, just limited to stuff over fifty years old, which this is.
Grumble.