But as for me, I say “meh”.
Rainy, Monday, and a full inbox. Meh.
- Try to work your way through the Reuters spin, editorializing and “reporting” and see what is at issue here. Simply put, the EU says they are superior to national governments.
- More “weather“.
- Get back to me when it reopens.
- Is this like being the “number 2” of Al Qaeda?
Meh.
Meh
Harrumph is more my style
+1 Gov. LePetomane
I didn’t get a harrumph outta that guy!
+2 My Secretary, Miss Stein
Humbug.
Thanks, by the way, to everyone for the birthday wishes, and links and stuff, in the last thread. Hopefully I’ll write a similar reflection for you all at seventy and eighty. And so on.
Happy birthday! Congrats on your excellent property.
Congrats, youngster. Sorry I missed your post. Will catch up.
Animal, since you’re still hanging around, question about Alaska housing: are houses in Alaska typically built on basements, or crawlspace, or slab?
Sounds like a conversation for Glibs Afterdark…
Wait, that’s a thing?
The night crew is…interesting.
I’m usually not able to hang round for “night” in the Zooms, although one of these days it looks like I’m going to have to. Being two to four hours behind most of you, time-wise, will help.
Of course in another couple of months “night” here will fall around 3:30 PM.
Typically? Well, I’m far from an expert, but the ones I’ve seen are either on slabs or (like ours) a crawlspace. You don’t see too many basements, at least not out in the sticks where we are.
Mind you our crawlspace is more of a stoop-space, with plenty of room for storage. Mrs. Animal (4’11”) can walk around perfectly upright, but I (6’1″) have to duck to move around.
Thanks. The wife and I bat around the idea of moving to Alaska (not really serious, at least not yet). Just curious about construction habits up there.
I add my birthday wishes, to you Q, Necron and anyone else I may have misses.
insert comma where appropriate.
Grummun needs a full basement for his… interests.
Happy birthday!
Yeah, salutations on the anniversary of your arrival into this world; should’ve mentioned that last post.
Happy birthday, today is my 56.
Barely broke in!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
If you get bested by the Poles, you weren’t that good to begin with.
You hear the one about the Polish and the EU? Yeah, never saw that one coming either.
How many Poles does it take to… leave the EU?
If you get bested by the Poles, you weren’t that good to begin with.
Oh, I dunno. The Ottoman Empire was pretty solid back in the day.
+3,000 Winged Hussars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYhYO02f98
The Poles on their own? But in a commonwealth with the Lithuanians? Now they ruled a goodly part of eastern Europe for a couple of centuries.
900 years bro, stomping the Rus into the Mud, HAHA! no wonder they are pissed,
I wonder if national law being trumped by “EU law” – whatever the hell that is – was part of the bargain from the beginning, and if so, why in the hell any of them signed up for that.
IIRC the EU was initialy billed in the 90s as a economic cooperation zone but mission creep has made it into a supra-national government.
Well, yeah, there was the EEC before that but I want to know if countries knew what they were getting into when it morphed into the EU.
???
The EU became exactly what its original detractors said it would.
The Anti-Federalists are sitting in the corner. No ones ever listens to us.
Someone mentioned the other day that Rotten Tomatoes isn’t allowing audience scores for the Fauci Circle Jerk Movie. Well, they apparently opened it up…and well…
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fauci
Makes sense on why they were not allowing it when the documentary first dropped.
Various chants of F*** you Fauci on the reviews?
From the very high level overview…lots of people saying “open minded but this is just propaganda”. So either people have gotten smart on how they post reviews or serious people saw through the curtain.
It’s amazing to think that no one at Disney said “Maybe this is a bad idea.”
See Rebel’s remark below…is it really that amazing?
Most people will still happily lap up Star Wars garbage.
Let’s go Fauci!
[double clap as is commonly used after the “let’s go” cheer]
It’s “The Last Jedi” of documentaries.
So, do you suppose anybody faps to Fauci?
Rule 34.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/the-guardian-proclaims-dr-anthony-fauci-sexiest-man-alive/
No, just no.
Coming to an adult video soon.
“I’m here to give you your injection.”
Cue –Slap Bass.
I know someone that worships the ground he walks on. She’s a Johns Hopkins grad and works in public health.
I don’t think I’m understanding. The doc has a 91% fresh rating.
Audience score..those normal people that watched it and gave their opinions. Not the ‘professionals’ that rated it.
Those critic reviews…
*gales of laughter*
And that’s one of the tamer ones.
91% critics rating… 3% audience rating.
Will of the people, right?
Ohhhh, okay. Thank you, guys.
You probably don’t waste your time with the culture wars. This is something so prevalent it’s become a meme. Every time we get some woke/sex swapped/race swapped preachy installment from woke Hollywood, Inevitably the critics rank it in the high 90s, while the normies rank it low 2 digits or less. There are many examples of this….
“The scientists said that grapes were crushed by bare feet at the site and compartments were made to ferment the wine.”
I’m sure those wines had an exquisite nose.
Gives a new meaning to toe jam now doesn’t it….or is that where that comes from?
Look, you don’t have to pitch yeast when your grape-stompers’ foot fungus can do the work for you.
^ the comment I expected to find, and was not disappointed.
My dad says when he was a kid, his dad would have friends over to get drunk and make sauerkraut. They’d cut up the cabbages and put them in a barrel, then it was my dad’s job to get in the barrel and stomp it all down with his bare feet.
“If we don’t uphold the principle in the EU that equal rules are respected the same everywhere in Europe, the whole Europe will start collapsing,” said Vera Jourova, EU Commissioner from Poland’s neighbour, the Czech Republic.
The EU better quell these uppity Pols with lighting speed.
Do you know who else quelled the Pols with lightning speed?
Someone with the requisite amount of flair?
Mongol hordes?
Lennox Lewis?
James Dean?
Strippers ?
In keeping with upthread….
This goes out to all the Glib attorneys and grammarians.
Missing Apostrophe in Facebook Post Lands a Man in Defamation Court
Okay boomers! /all of the internet
*puts OBE on the list*
*giddy* one more and I get FBI bingo!
You Just Made the List, Buddy
I found the missing apostrophe!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zXP_pr7np-o
Great tune!
Could have been a Dangling Participle.
Good. People are finally listening to me.
Southwest cancels hundreds more flights Monday amid vaccine mandate
The pilots are all a bit under the weather.
I noticed the sudden shift when it was “ATC! Weather!” and now every news report is about the mandate. So good on the air/ground crew? Couldn’t quite spin or hide it?
There has been a conspicuous lack of commercial planes in the sky this entire trip, but it’s especially noticeable today. We noticed it last week when playing a road trip game and getting stuck on “plane” for a couple hours, but even driving past Louisville Airport, we didn’t see any planes in the pattern and have only seen two planes and two contrails in the 2.5 hours since.
Don’t count contrails…weather may not be conducive for their creation. Traffic looks normal in and out of KSDF.
That’s correct, the contrail behind the one plane we saw at altitude was quickly dissipating. However, I figured it would be dishonest to say “we only saw 2 planes!!” when we did see evidence of more planes.
I’m not sure if the light traffic in this area (central OH, middle KY, middle TN) is normal or not. We live under approach lanes for DAL and DFW, so it could just be us not being used to what it’s like living far away from major airports. I was also driving, so I had a limited view of the sky.
two contrails in the 2.5 hours since.
The government isn’t pumping harmful chemicals and biological agents into the atmosphere? WTF?
Drinking wine was commonplace in the region during the Byzantine Period, particularly due to the lack of clean drinking water. Wine was also used as a “concentrate” to improve the taste of the area’s water.
I’m not the only one that sometimes waters down wine.
Very much used to be a thing. I believe that Socrates mentions it.
You mean we are just discovering that people used to cover up rancid or tainted food and water, respectively, by adding pleasant flavors to it? What new information!
Uh, sometimes? I find it too strong on its own, whether red, white, or rosé.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_QG6tr9mjo
Mammary Monday is a genital blitzkrieg.
https://archive.is/5NyD9
Wish they were numbered…#3 and #22 can overtake my land any day of the week.
Hey Swiss, Last night we received a pallet of IRN BRU, and now have them endcapped at 10 for $10. I’m drinking one right now; it’s not bad. Like an overly sweet cream soda.
*cues up a Rebus book in the Kindle, looks for a bottle of Bell’s*
I got diabetes just reading that.
Dude. That was one of the worst things I ever tasted. I spit the first mouthful into a garbage can.
It is remarkably similar to the flavor Champagne Cola, a staple offering from Caribbean and Central American bottlers. Far too sweet, I wont be able to finish the bottle.
Jock juice!
Legend.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/1024525/just-a-quick-reminder-that-mickey-mantle-was-quite-possibly-the-most-savage-human-being-to-ever-walk-the-earth
That guy fucks.
Russ Hanneman makes me laugh every single time.
“You’re not worried about the lawsuit?”
“Shit, no – I’ve got three nannies suing me right now – one of them for no reason.”
So great.
I really want to see the original script as written before Peter Gregory (Christopher Evan Welch) died.
What a loss Welch was, such unfair timing – that was his breakout role.
Thank you, Florida
So great.
Up til season 6 it was a great path to rewrite the story and I didn’t mind that last season, but to think how it would have all been done if he just didn’t die. What a selfish bastard. Poppy seed futures FTW
And basically writing him into Monica probably saved it.
You mean Laurie? (Monica is the hot-ass underling).
Laurie was a decent save but couldn’t pull off the high-functioning on-the-spectrum thing nearly as well.
Speaking of Monica, Sex Drive is a guilty pleasure.
No I meant Monica. They basically wrote much of Peter’s vision into her outlook and influence throughout. At least how I saw it.
Ah, gotcha – Lauri had the aspie-ness but, yes, Monica did indeed morph into Peter outlook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWzkK0qgdzE
It could be any dude, as long as you really want to fuck him. It could be a a twink, a bear, an otter, a circuit queen, a chub, a pup, a gipster, a daddy chaser, a leather man, a ladyboy, a Donald Duck.
Pure poetry.
Looking at IMDB, Chris Diamantopoulos is criminally underutilized.
I had no idea that a gipster is a thing.
I assumed some of those were made up, but no. Or they’re a “thing” now, anyway.
I read ‘gimpster’ and thought I had a chance at something
Well…
The whole bull pen?
Related:
“She has got a reputation for going for any bloke with a pulse.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16387636/revenge-on-my-cheating-wife/
Damn straight.
Poland’s constitutional tribunal ruled against the central tenet of European integration last week, sharply escalating a row over fundamental values between eurosceptics ruling in Warsaw and most of the other 27 EU countries.
Simple solution: PoExit.
Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds more flights Monday after the airline was forced to ground nearly 2,000 flights over the weekend, blaming the issues on weather and staffing amid speculation that the debacle is tied to the company’s recent COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
/Checks US radar map
/see most of the country is clear of storms.
I’m no pilot, but it seems like flying through clear skies is tough. So many options on where to go, so many things to see….
which is believed to have produced almost 530,000 gallons of wine per year
530,000 gallons of wine is a good start.
Simple solution: PoExit.
I think you mean they shold Pol Out.
I want to boo you. I really do but all I can do is clap.
Someone should poll the Poles about PolExit.
Orange Man Bad.
While Donald Trump has held several rallies since the January 6 Capitol insurrection, his rally in Iowa Saturday was the most alarming by far. …
Saturday’s rally in Iowa, though, was different. This one was attended by longtime Iowa US Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, Iowa Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Ashley Hinson, and other mainstream Republican officials. Some of these very same people, who just nine months ago were slamming Trump for his role in the Capitol riots, were now only too happy to be seen supporting him. This is politics at its worst — and at its most dangerous for our democracy. …
You don’t need to be a historian to recognize the danger in a political party showing blind loyalty to one person. These GOP elected officials just several months ago rightly criticized Trump and his role in the false election claims that led to the January 6 attack. With their presence at his rally this weekend, it seems they’ve now changed their tune. …
But who knows what Trump whim will be the next litmus test for remaining in his good graces? When even Grassley, Iowa’s longest-serving US senator, thinks it’s “smart” politics to no longer criticize Trump for his un-American attack on our democracy and instead praise him in a pursuit of an eighth term in the Senate, it’s clear that the party is no longer defined by policy ideas but by absolute loyalty to Trump and his influence. To put it bluntly, today’s GOP is how democracies die.
*faints*
Agreed, but you turn a blind eye when its your side.
Now do Obama.
I’m no cocksucker.
Politician worship is gross, no matter which team.
They seem to have forgotten the eight years before 2016. Ypu know when they were worshipping an empty suit that occasionally spouted empty platitudes?
+1 Tingle up the leg
The Democrats are way more captive to Trump that the Republicans. They are still willing to give up everything, including what little integrity they might have left, to get rid of him. On every issue they ask, “What would Trump do?” and then do the opposite.
Even when Trump’s policy was sound.
Don’t worry my former governor and Bush lackey is on the case!
We Are Republicans. There’s Only One Way to Save Our Party From Pro-Trump Extremists.
Its windy season here in Vegas. 28 sustained, 35 knots gusts. We have a piece of equipment called the WindTracer that is a laser that detects dust particles in the air to determine wind speed/direction and dry air microbursts. It fails every time it is windy. So ironic..
See also: LIDAR (prolly the same thing) that determines exhaust gas opacity (visible emissions). EPA swears by it.
Its useless.
They’ll never print more dollars though.
because math
I doubt Dimon did. So he’s on exactly the same footing as the people he’s ridiculing.
we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
“The defense of Taiwan is in our own hands, and we are absolutely committed to that,” Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told Australia’s ABC. “If China is going to launch a war against Taiwan we will fight to the end, and that is our commitment. I’m sure that if China is going to launch an attack against Taiwan, I think they are going to suffer tremendously as well.”
Wu warned that one of the things that Taiwan needs to prepare for is that China may try to impose a blockade around Taiwan, which he suggested would be an even bigger problem than if China were to launch an invasion.
Taiwan is one of those few issues where it’s hard to stick to my principles of non intervention because it would be a huge fucking blow is the CCP invaded China. But at the end of the day, it’s not in our interest or problem to fight the world’s battles.
Would be nice not to lose the world’s supply of semiconductors.
I think it’s gonna happen, though. I think China actually wants a war. They are in even deeper shit than us.
That’s the other issue. Trump for all of bombastic nonsense correctly identified China as a giant fucking nuisance that need to be dealt with but the issue is that our elites power and money are tainted by CCP’s money.
I read an interesting take on a near-term CCP invasion of Taiwan.
First, a massive cyberattack to take out utilities, military infrastructure, etc.
Then, an airborn assault on the airfields, to use as the staging grounds for the rest of the invasion. Hey, it worked for Hitler on Crete!*
No mass sea-born assault – the CCP doesn’t have the lift, and they are too well defended.
*Just barely, due to miscommunications by the Brits and a stone-cold crazy Luftwaffe guy.
Hiya Swissy!
I meh there with you.
Lame. Why not just use Polish?
“Wyjście z Polski”
Much cooler.
Who wants to tell her?
Shouldn’t that be Wyjście z Unii? Or PolWyjście? Screw it. It’s too hard to pronounce.
Thinking I have The Rona. Haven’t tested, since I’m not sure what good that would do me.
Had had a light dry cough for a few weeks that turned into a little bit of a “wet” cough, but only occasionally. Occasional very slight fever, and no loss of taste/smell. But the thing that’s getting to me is that I’m very lightheaded when I need to be awake. A friend who’d had it a couple of months back said that was his main symptom. Makes me want to close my eyes and go to sleep all the time.
Just griping, really. So does this just go away, or what?
The actual virus is gone in 10-14 days, but there can be lingering effects. Weeks later my wife still has an unnaturally elevated heart rate whenever she works out. They think there is damage to the red blood cells. This might take a few months to resolve.
I felt like I had a mild hangover, had a mild fever, and slept a lot for about five days, the loss of smell lasted another week. My sister sent me some vitamins C and D and zinc, and I tried my best to keep my alcohol intake up to pre-‘vid numbers, those things may have helped but I also have had the life saving clot shot so I was going to be fine anyway.
Well this should help CA toy businesses out with the whole gender neutral toy organization laws noted in the AM Links.
Lego to remove gender bias from its toys after findings of child survey
Exclusive: research reveals harmful stereotypes still hindering
girls, boys andtheir parents.Meanwhile, the other day Mrs. Animal asked the second kid what her two-year-old son Bubba would like for Christmas. The answer? “Toy trucks and farm equipment.”
Boys will be boys.
We just bought our great nephew a dump truck for his birthday. He freaked out and wouldn’t let go of it for the entire day. You can argue nature/nurture all you want but some things are universal.
Yup. Mrs. A asked the same question about Bubba’s six-year-old sister and the answer was “Barbies.”
In spite of the parents, girls gravitate towards dolls, boys towards trucks and guns
I had a teacher in high school who didn’t like guns and wanted to keep his kids away from them, never buying them toy guns of any kind, or anything that was military in nature. He told us he gave up on this after he observed his two sons making toy guns out of sticks.
Mrs F talks about making dollies out of sticks and her mother would give the girls a piece of cloth to make a dress for the stick babies. Little girls grow up to be big girls.
“Researchers found what they were looking for.”
Film at 11.
Nothing to see here…
China’s military said on Monday it had carried out beach landing and assault drills in the province directly across the sea from Taiwan, though it did not link the exercises to current tensions with Taipei.
Democratically ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has complained of stepped-up military and political pressure from Beijing to force it to accept Chinese rule, including massed air force incursions into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone. read more
The official People’s Liberation Army Daily newspaper, in a brief report on its Weibo microblogging account, said the drills had been carried out “in recent days” in the southern part of Fujian province.
The action had involved “shock” troops, sappers and boat specialists, the Chinese military newspaper added. The troops were “divided into multiple waves to grab the beach and perform combat tasks at different stages”, it added, without providing further details.
That’s not “blackface”.
Bright Sheng, a professor of composition at the University of Michigan, will no longer be teaching a seminar analyzing the works of Shakespeare after he faced backlash for showing students the 1965 film version of Othello. David Gier, dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, made the announcement Friday, saying Sheng’s removal would “allow for a positive learning environment.”
Students objected to actor Laurence Olivier’s darkened skin in his role as Othello, who is a Moor in the original play. They said that Sheng, a Chinese-born American, did not provide a warning or contextualization regarding the blackface.
The correct response to the whining students is “shut up, you annoying little cuntes.”
I still don’t understand how these people gained any power.
They attacked the those fuddy duddy conservatives in the past, and everybody gave them a pass because of it.
All of those people that have responsibility, don’t want it. They want to be liked, not respected.
[turns head and spits like Clint Eastwood]
“Fine, You all get Fs, you whiny kids!”
HAHAHAHAH AHA AHA AHAHAHA TEE THGHEHEHEHAHAHHEHAH
MUAHAHAHAHA HSHSDGSHAHANSHSGAHA
I threw a “deep breath” in there between spasm of laughter, but I made the mistake of surrounding it with >< (reverse order).
Malice has some interesting commentary on progressivism in comics.
Obviously started with a question about the gayification of Superman.
That is a bit cringe.
Muh-whataboutisms!: On Indigenous Peoples’ Day Remember the Indigenous Europeans That Were Conquered and Enslaved by Other Races
I just wanna spend Thanksgiving Day with food and my family
Without being accused of celebrating native casualties – Tom MacDonald
So they don’t want to celebrate Columbus Day, instead Indigenous Peoples Day but overshadow it with National Coming Out Day? Damn the natives sure get the shaft every time.
I’m coming out as a Bear proof Trash can lid, Come at me Bear!
I went on a semi drunken rant asking why Native Americans are considered special when throughout history, being conquered by other people was the norm. It fucking sucks what happened to them but fuck man, it’s time for the US government and the Native Americans to stop focusing on the past (while acknowledging the injustices) and helping making the tribes less dependent on the government and break them away from the squalor of res living.
We could start with recognition that the Indians weren’t some kind of noble savages living in perfect harmony with each other and with nature.
+1 “Illini” being killed off.
making the tribes less dependent on the government and break them away from the squalor of res living.
Step one: abolish the reservations and tribal governments. So it’ll never happen. Best case scenario is more and more Native Americans just leave the reservations until they are basically empty.
Dr. Faucism says its okay to partay as long as you have your blood clot potion.
“I think that, particularly if you’re vaccinated, you can get out there. You’re outdoors for the most part, at least when my children were out there doing trick-or-treating, and enjoy it,” Fauci claimed. “This is a time of the year that children love. It’s a very important part of the year for children.”
Fauci also encouraged parents to help increase vaccination rates among kids, as Pfizer-BioNTech seeks approval from the FDA for those ages 5-11.
“It’s a good time to reflect on why it’s important to get vaccinated. But go out there and enjoy Halloween,” Fauci said.
He added that coronavirus cases would need to go “way down” before, in his view, most vaccinated Americans can again gather publicly indoors without masks.
…For a vaccine that doesn’t actually stop transmission or protect you from the virus.
Totally Scien-tastic!
Data coming out of Israel and the UK seems to indicate it does the exact opposite.
Singapore as well.
With something like 85% vaxxed!!
It. Doesn’t. Work. Slavers.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243859
“Unfortunately what this means is that now for anyone over 30 you are more likely to get infected, yes, adjusted for the population that is vaccinated, if you are vaccinated. Indeed in the 40-49 age group you’re close to double as probable on a per-population basis.”
Shush, y’all. We just need more vaccines. I’m thinking a weekly vaccine and daily tests, mandatory?
A subscription service…
Nobody goes trick-or-treating any more, it’s not safe. Razor blades in apples, LSD-laced candy, it’s a jungle out there. Fauci wants children to die.
Would it be OK for me to give the litle T and T’ers a vaccine instead of the junk that is harmful to their health?
Et tu, 4×20? You want children to die?
LOL
What a joke that guy is. He’s the Deep State equivalent of the dood standing on the corner with “THE END IS NEAR” on a piece of cardboard.
It’s a good time to reflect on why it’s important to get vaccinated.
Blow it out yer ass.
This cunte needs to have “Casio” tattooed to his forehead.
My first inclination was to be oddly touched that we were worried about my safety and my next inclination was to be angry. If they weren’t pushing out these lies about me certainly but also about the election, none of us would have to be worried about our security. Frankly, in the days, after when the trauma for a lot of us became even greater, I was most angry with these insurrectionists in suits and ties. These colleagues of mine who knew it was a lie. Because a lot of people attacking the Capitol believed the lie, I get this asked all the time, do the Republicans believe what they’re saying? They know it’s a lie. They know the election wasn’t rigged, it wasn’t stolen, they just don’t have the guts to speak the truth, and to me, that’s unforgivable.
Isn’t Schiff the one who was on board with the discredited Russiagate? These people are constantly caught lying but instead of being a better person, they lie some more.
Brutal.
Happy Indigent People’s Day.
It’s finally me day.
Everything’s coming up Rhywun!
I don’t know why I was musing aloud about your doing business outside the five boroughs, besides the obvious stupid vax mandate. Telling Noah about the flood, I was.
Well, my office is in New Jersey so I do get out. But I don’t know what the situation is there either because I refuse to go back under current conditions.
For the font nerds.
Swiss needs to send a narrowed gaze in that general direction.
Would that be Tahoma Narrow or Calibri Narrow?
Today is Indigenous People’s Day, so Bowa Narrow, of course.
In Perpetua-ity. Now and in the Futura.
All of you….*narrowed gaze*
So I went and had a look, and on the sidebar of Twitter there’s a USA Today link:
Nurses are fleeing hospital jobs because working conditions aren’t safe
Dear God there is no shame whatsoever. I mean none. I’m rapidly approaching where I was a couple of months ago where I’m ready to say screw every bit of it and go radio silent.
The same nurses who worked throughout last year before the magic elixir arrived?
Yeah, that statement seems a bit off. As in, a bald-faced lie.
It’s just Pravda; the disappointment and stress comes from unmet expectations. Understand and expect news to be propaganda and lies. Then you won’t be so upset.
I groaned.
They forgot to capitalize the font names. Wankers.
Next up: Northrop Grumman!
It’s contagious.
Like a respiratory virus, even.
Heard Newport News Shipbuilding also…
I’ll find out about that tomorrow.
Oops, that was back on the 1st.
https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/vaccine-mandates-newport-news-shipbuilding/291-32420c08-164a-4349-a46e-906a8108a0de
Yessssss
You’ll like this.
That’s some balls. I love it.
You are correct. I do like it.
Maybe they are requesting “free pratique” and not actually protesting.
Sweeeeettttt
Shocking unexpected revelation
Scientists using artificial intelligence to sift through around 100,000 climate studies were trying to put a number on how many people in the world were already experiencing the impacts of the climate crisis.
Instead, they discovered something else: there is a worrying inequality in the world of climate science.
Climate change studies are twice as likely to focus on wealthier countries in Europe and North America than low-income countries like those in Africa and the Pacific Islands. That blind spot is a problem, as the Global South is and will continue to be more profoundly impacted by the climate crisis than wealthier countries.
The ability to link the climate crisis to real-world impacts has grown dramatically in the past decade, as more people face the consequences of a warming planet, including deadly floods, destructive wildfires and crippling heat. But it has been a challenge to collect and scrutinize the vast amount of research, to fully understand the global impact.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Does that mean that “climate science” is racist and can be ignored? That’s how it works, isn’t it?
Damn..my one known hold-out tech is getting it tomorrow. That leaves me alone in the fight. Not knocking him, he has little ones and a spouse I don’t think works. “If they are going to make me get it, might as well get the free time off”. Ugh. At least tell me that you are doing to cause of your family.
That’s rough, OBE. People that have the most to lose are easier to bully sometimes.
Yep and I am making sure not to somehow project my thoughts on it. Told him what he needs to do to be compliant and move on.
I think it is really shitty that the FAA magically found that asking for vaccine status and the proof is exempt from our normal procedures.
Every other medication I have no right to ask what an employee is taking or has taken. All others go straight to HR, not front lines
Let’s talk Audiobooks.
Which services/apps do you like?
Audible, I know no other, I am lame,
How are you listening? I usually do Spotify for podcasts while working out and used to do audible when listening to audio books during commute. Also, check your local library to see if they have a free service.
Thanks. Mostly in the car or out walking. I use Spotify for my pods. There are several books I’m never gonna get to, so I thought audio books might be a good solution.
Yep, Spotify and audible, simple, and functional,
Audiobooks are cheating.
Me- “Reading anything interesting lately?”
Some Idiot- “I’m listening to…”
Me *jabs idiot in the kidney with my cane*
Oral storytelling is so new age anyway.
I prefer reading to audiobooks but I also like my eyes on the road when driving,
You and me both.
I just shove a Braille trail reader down my pants and follow along, hands free.
Don’t care.
Not every book is the Bible or the Gulag Archipelago.
You’re the one who wanted to talk about audiobooks.
I went to downtown F’burg today. There are many more campaign signs than out my way which I expected. What I didn’t expect to see was as many Youngkin signs as McAwful. If not for fortifying, Youngkin could win.
Did you see the recent articles about how the democrats are going to make a last minute change to election law? I mean to save out democracy of course.
If you can’t win fair, just change the rules.
This morning I posted a link for the Fairfax County request to ignore mail ballot witness signatures. I’m sure there are other fortifying attempts.
That’s the one I was referring to. Dirty rat fuckers are dirty fat fuckers, news at 11.
World leaders will gather at a critical UN climate meeting in less than a month, and one of the issues that will be discussed is the amount of funding developed nations can pledge to help the Global South move away from fossil fuels and manage the impacts of the climate crisis.
Callaghan said this new machine learning research delivers a key message for world leaders: Climate change is already happening and the planet will only continue to warm, meaning adaptation is critical as well as halting the use of fossil fuels. The new study provides an outline of where more climate funds and climate research are needed, and it is up to global leaders to implement that.
“The world will continue to warm until we stop burning fossil fuels, and there is simply no way around that,” he said. “And what we really need to recognize is that we need to change the trajectory and reduce emissions.”
Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!11!!!!!!!1!!!
The supply chains are breaking down and prices are way up. Sounds like a perfect fucking time for throwing a bomb into the global energy industry.
EMPs for everybody!
“a critical UN climate meeting”
hahahahaaaahaaahhaaaahaaa…
“The world will continue to warm until we stop burning fossil fuels, and there is simply no way around that,” he said.
Is this supposed to be “science” or just more b.s.? I’m supposed to believe that earth has never had warming cycles that weren’t the result of mankind burning fossil fuels?
See Steven E. Koonin, or recent Spiked podcast therein.
If the United States stopped burning all fossil fuels tomorrow and plunged us into a new dark age, it would have no significant effect on global warming under even the most extreme and outrageous models.
China will replace that US output — which has been steadily declining for 3 decades — in about 15 years.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/regulatory-cancer-blood-testing-acquisition-federal-trade-commission-ftc-grail-illumina-11633702933
Should have marketed it as a COVID vaccine and then you wouldn’t have worried about regulatory red tape. Don’t you 2020 bro?
Oh well, it’s not even about healthcare anymore. It’s about health ‘equity’.
As long as we’re all equally sick, that’s the best outcome.
Enlightenment ended a long time ago.
As long as we’re all equally sick, that’s the best outcome.
Dude, that’s not how equity works. We won’t have health equity until wypipo are dying in droves because they are at the back of the line.
Well, colored folk make the best slaves, those whitey keep asking for stuff like, well stuff, and even icky freedoms.
Meh.
Not Commie Enough?
Not destroying the economy fast enough? Not turning us into a 3rd world shithole fast enough? Not taxing us to death and stealing the pennies from our dead eyes fast enough?
The Dems don’t like ineffective leaders either but, yeah, a lot of their disapproval is from their estimation that he’s too moderate. Don’t worry, Kamala will take the reins soon enough and we’ll all be pining for good old Senile Joe.
Yes. The media’s assessment is that his poll numbers are plummeting because he isn’t prog-ing hard enough.
Except those numbers are plummeting among moderates and independents fastest.
Odd.
Why it’s almost like progressives are a minority in their own party.
Oh that can’t be, everyone we know is progressive. /morons
Just saw this National Review assessment and felt it was closer to the mark.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/is-joe-manchin-the-only-democrat-who-can-read-polls/
In GibFit news:
I scored two 45lb plates for $100. Woohoo! If anyone is thinking of setting up the home gym, I’ve noticed a lot more stuff. Prices are still high, but deals are out there.
This is a terrific podcast:
Why we get sick.
One of the best explanations of insulin resistance/sensitivity I’ve come across. He’s a wonderful communicator and has a lot of good suggestions. I will be buying his book.
Interesting article. I’m reading it now. I just have to ask America’s doctor about this guy first.
Why isn’t there a meme yet depicting Fauci as The Grinch?
LOL, close anyway. It’s about time.
Doc Ebenezer will see you now
Great book, highly recommended.
Bikman is very good making complex processes understandable without seemingly dumbing it down.
Haven’t heard from him in quite awhile, was wondering if he was getting canceled in the Covid era/losing his job.
Oh, everyone in the mainstream will hate him. He says you can correct DT2 in a few weeks and that animal protein is superior.
Apostate.
Struck down by tragedy
A parent has sued a southeastern Wisconsin school district after her son contracted Covid-19 from a classmate.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Shannon Jensen filed the lawsuit in federal court against the Waukesha School District and school board on Oct. 5. Jensen is seeking an injunction ordering the district to comply with U.S. Centers for Disease Control Covid-19 guidelines.
According to the lawsuit, the board in May removed a student mask requirement and other Covid-19 mitigation measures. One of Jensen’s son’s classmates allegedly came to school with symptoms in September and didn’t wear a mask. Jensen’s son was seated next to the sick student and was wearing a mask but still became infected. Jensen’s other two sons later tested positive as well.
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The Minocqua Brewing Company Super PAC is funding the lawsuit. The brewing company is owned by Kirk Bangstad, who has aired his frustrations about how former President Donald Trump’s administration responded to the pandemic. He ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Republican state Rep. Rob Swearingen last year.
If only the Republicans would desist from politicizing the virus at every turn,
Symptoms? I think we should just assume the poor child suffered horribly until the moment of his death.
So your kid got sick and stayed home a few days? That’s it?
Can we sue when a kid gets the flu or a cold from a classmate? Chickenpox?
Quiet, you! Nobody caught viruses before 2019.
And no one had healthcare before King Obama saved us.
Yes, this must begin to happen.
Varicella vaccine is usually mandatory now and flu will be, so…
This has happened in at least one other district. I guarantee its backed by Dem dark money. I think the other district may have gotten hit by a lawsuit from a teacher which basically argued that the ADA required that the district accommodate her disability by ordering everyone to wear a mask. The judge ordered it. I don’t think there’s even a religious exemption, because its now an ADA requirement.
Until Karens rule, we’ll never be safe.
If we all have to tailor our behavior to the most fragile among us we’re in trouble.
Ever seen that Seinfeld episode, the Bubble Boy? We’re all going to be Bubble Boy.
How about the Movie?
The Travolta one? I’ve seen worse.
that was Classic 70’s schlock, good times!
So… like the last 19 months?
I am finally starting to enjoy the consequences though. Like Gadsen flags hanging out of grounded airplanes, and people retiring or getting other jobs and flat out refusing to ever go back to the office. They thought they’d just lock people in their houses for 20 months and then say ‘Oh, happy times, you can come back to the office now!’. They didn’t expect the ‘No thanks, go fuck yourself’ they are getting.
Parallel society. Parallel economy. Parallel institutions. It’s the only way to starve the beast.
Me. Now.
Mass noncompliance and passive resistance a-la Gandhi could work too. See: SW pilots.
This is the way.
They’d better get back to work before Dear Leader Joe calls out the tanks. He used to drive a tank you know, while dodging jet fighter fire. He’s one tough hombre, he’ll call out the tanks!
Corn Pop was a bad dude.
Disagreed. See tienamen Square man for the likely end game. You can’t “moral stand” an amoral authoritarian regime.
If people like me kill tanks, yes you can…
Wouldn’t the plaintiff have to first prove he caught it from the other boy? I mean, how many other human interactions would have to be ruled out? “Beyond a reasonable doubt” seems an impossibility.
Civil suit is “preponderance of the evidence” standard the vast majority of the time. In other words, it’s more likely than not that he caught it from the other kid.
JFC, give me a Coors light instead.
For all we hear about how terrible bullying is, not how many people are eager to use the state to bully people they don’t like.
https://babylonbee.com/news/southwest-airlines-offering-free-flights-to-all-passengers-who-are-vaccinated-and-can-fly-a-plane
Put the movie on and auto pilot on. Drinks all around, hookers and blow…
I will raise you this article.
https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-changes-term-convicted-felons-to-more-politically-correct-elected-officials
https://babylonbee.com/news/disney-buys-rights-to-the-bible-plans-37-sequels
Have they figured out who Jesus is going to identify as in the first sequel?
They write Jesus out of the lead and it becomes Mary Magdalene and her Merry Band
Jesus comes back in Season 3 as the new Big Bad because he’s jealous of all the crazy sex and rock star attention the Apostles are getting. Goes all “God hates fags” and stuff.
When they did Jesus Christ Superstar in the 60s they thought they were being very forward thinking with their diverse cast of leads.
They made Judas black , Mary Magdalene Asian, and Jesus white.
Not kidding .
I’m aware of it
Jesus Christ Superstar is a masterpiece. There is no way today’s woke hacks are capable of that sort of talent. But they are capable of way more stupid. I mean like WAY.THE.FUCK more.
The Old Testament is so poorly written I never made it to the sequels, I guess I could skip the OT and jump into the good stuff but I’ve always been a bit of a completionist and I abhor not reading things through in order.
What about passengers with a second language?
Just plain folks
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on Monday attended the wedding of the president’s nephew, Cuffe Owens, to reality TV star Meghan O’Toole King.
Owens, 42, is the son of Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens. He is reportedly a lawyer who lives in the Los Angeles area.
King, 37, is best known for her role on “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” part of the hugely successful Real Housewives franchise on Bravo.
I’m not sure if that’s better or worse than a porn star.
Thanks for wasting 30 second of my life, who get’s my bill?
White trash with cringe worthy names like ‘Cuffe’? Whatever happened to ‘Cookie’ and ‘Skipper’?
Oh, and ‘Hunter’.
Sounds like a down-home exclamation.
“Well, cuffe my cookie, Skipper, did you see what that hunter just did to that deer?
There any video of that deer molestation on Hunter’s laptop? I’d like to hear about that for the next 2 years while the hapless GOP continue to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Cookie and Skipper? you know an entirely different class of white trash than I, Round here the white trash guys have normal names but get a qualifier added on – “Big Joe” or “Fat Mike” or “Huge Hugh”, the gals, much like strippers (but I repeat myself), are usually named after cities or gemstones.
+1 Chicago Tiffany……
You leave Albuquerque alone!
I once dated Truth or Consequences.
Can’t remember which one?
Met a mediocre gal in Illinois. I rated her a 4 or 5. 四か五.
That’s cold.
寒い.
YOU LEAVE ILLINOIS ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cucamonga Sue!
Scranton Finnegan
Today’s least surprising news.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/porn-star-riley-reid-quit-25185479
Guys don’t like it when the girl they’re dating has sex on camera for money.
How much money we talking? and is she paying my rent?
Gotta say, just because she stopped, it doesn’t mean there aren’t hours of videos out there of her getting plowed. Were it me, it still pretty much would be a deal breaker.
I’m willing to forgive that if she moans “taxation is theft” when I’m close.
“STEVE SMITH was better!!”
That site gave my phone an STD.
You should see a doctor aboot that,
Is that your way of saying maybe we should get tested?
Fill your fleshlight with ivermectin and you’ll be fine.
Cases have plummeted lately here. Nobody really knows why.
https://toyokeizai.net/sp/visual/tko/covid19/en.html?ismmark=a
Probably the extra ingredient Japan got in the Moderna vaccine.
Calgon?
Ancient Nipponese secret, huh?
Dude, we know how to tell Japanese and Chinese apart now.
Leaving aside the long-standing puzzle of why rates have been low all along, I think the current drop is a combination of less testing, pace of vaccination, the state of emergency and lesser measures but more so voluntary actions, and burning out in social circles.