As October draws to a close and the temperatures ratchet down here, I have been doing everything I can to stay far, far away from the drama and intrigue enveloping our business: a stormy relationship, on and off, between two of the kids, where each is trying to enlist allies. An announcement from one of our loud bisexuals that she now has a boyfriend and is conflicted. An announcement from one of our fragile snowflakes that she’s now switched from a boyfriend to a girlfriend, but fears that she has bisexualphobia. Much terror from one of our girls that there is a malevolent ghost in the basement storage room and she WON’T go down there. I just work at the grill and try to pretend that none of this is happening while internally laughing my ass off.
What IS happening, though, is birthdays, including the guy who couldn’t wait to wipe his ass on the freshly-written Bill of Rights; a guy who cursed- a LOT; a guy who inspired a shitty pop tune; the prime example of disgusting shitheads whose art is undeniable; a guy who figured that “Angelo Siciliano” was not a memorable name; star of the shittiest cult movie ever made; a guy who wasn’t bright but was one helluva badass; a pioneer of TV news people’s incorrect belief that they’re doing something important; the truer version of The Day The Music Died; a brother-in-law of several dummies; one of my teenage fantasy women who was stone cray-cray; the nemesis of Peggy Hill; and a hatchet face who managed to marry a money dude.
Let’s do links while I pretend I don’t hear the kids talking.
- Odds, anyone? Lay the money down on the Groper Guinea or the Revenge of the Woke!
- “Potentially” Aren’t we having a bit of a problem already? Nah…
- Oh, what a triumph! The British used to measure how many survivors retreating from the Khyber Pass they had…
- Proof again that the snowflakes I work with aren’t any more stupidly silly than the Official Teams.
- Of course it was the Jews.
- Leaders of the nations of the world need to join hands and… raise taxes.
Old Guy Music features a birthday lad, one who died way too soon, yet left an outsize mark on jazz. Donna Lee is a wild-ass Charlie Parker tune, and Brownie makes it even wilder. Fuck, this is GREAT playing.
An announcement from one of our loud bisexuals that she now has a boyfriend and is conflicted.
If she’s bisexual, why is this a conflict?
Because she’s a buysexual and he’s too broke to buy her anything.
Don’t poke that bear. Just shake your head and walk away.
grizzly haz a sad.
Pillsbury doughbear?
Because cishet males are icky. If one must have a boyfriend, is should be a transboy, or at the very least a genderqueer or an enby.
That makes as much sense as the rest of this nonsense.
star of the shittiest cult movie ever made;
Not Roy Scheider?
It amazes me that you’re able to survive all that weapons grade bullshit. I’d probably start yelling incoherently or just walk out while muttering under my breath.
I find it entertaining, but I’m a sick puppy.
Yeah, drama isn’t intended to amuse.
I’d be hiding bodies in SF’s crawlspace.
You don’t do that already?
I don’t really interact with people all that much anymore. The 4 year old doesn’t say anything that stupid, the 1 year old only has a handful of words, none of which could be combined into anything as stupid as that, and the wife is securely me-sexual.
and the wife is securely me-sexual.
She only wants sex with herself? :-p
No, she has a thing for obscure versions of the windows operating system.
She fucks Clippy?
“I see you’re trying to have an orgasm…”
You understand why I prefer the company of The Dozer to most people.
Thread fail, I read Ted as replying/questioning Sean.
Global minimum tax sounds like collusion. I thought collusion was bad.
“When WE do it, it’s cooperation. When YOU do it, it’s collusion.”
It is one of the reasons I’m really rooting for Musk — humanity needs a frontier to get away from the collectivists somehow, and they’ve claimed everywhere on this planet now. (Yeah, you could try Antarctica or an ocean settlement — but you know damned well they’d come for you for messing up the “pristine environment” or some crap… Mars first, then the Belt.)
Yeah, the worldwide mass hysteria over “this virus” was a clear indication that there’s nowhere to run. I have a feeling they’re just getting started.
I hear things are pretty chill out in Amish land. Wi-Fi might be a problem though.
We feel pretty much like we’ve escaped. Yeah, there’s this hilariously stupid woke shit in the three blocks of our town, but the surrounding rurals are sparsely populated, and mostly by solid folks (including Amish and Mennonites). We could be in a whole ‘nother country from NYC and Albany.
“Free at last, free at last”
Thanks, OM, I look forward to your sanity on the week ends. 2 new houses coming to fruition near by. NoDak is looking better and better. Need a permission slip from Mike S first hough.
Keep up the good work
You’re always welcome. Jimbo’s application will be denied, however.
Embrace the power of and
Ok… I’m at a loss – what pop tune did Admiral Halsey inspire?
Rock You Like a Hurricane?
[hands SDF-7 a butter pie]
Thank you — never been a big McCartney fan so hadn’t heard of it. And there’s apparently some recent act called Halsey, so a web search for “Halsey pop song” was all about them. Much obliged.
Though listening to it — I’m not sure I’d call it pop, even for the 70’s…. dirge folk, maybe?
Ok… It does get poppy around the butter pie bit. But dear Lord that was horrible. Paul needed to call his dealer and ask for a refund on the drugs that inspired that one.
Scroll to the 2nd half.
I think I remember this. Ugh, why couldn’t it stay buried in my head like it was since whenever it came out.
Admiral Halsey’s grandnephew Brett Halsey became a B-list movie actor in the late 50s.
“Admiral Halsey” was also a character’s name in Seth MacFarlane’s recent sci-fi series “The Orville.” A sly wink to McCartney’s “Uncle Albert,” perhaps?
Would it help if you told the scaredy-cat that the ghost in the basement is gender fluid?
Well, it is almost certainly on the spectre-um.
I geist it takes all sorts to make the world go round.
Sheet, another thread of puns.
I need more beer. I cant get into the spirit of this thread.
Come back later and resurrect the thread.
What happens when you goose a ghost?
You get a handful of sheet.
Swiss is going to give all of you a haunted glare.
*Mass Narrowed Gaze*
‘”Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it,” the Lincoln Project said in a statement.’
Ah yes, I’m sure your average republican voter is mightily impressed with the hard hitting demonstration of condemnation for anyone opposed to total democratic control over every level of government in this nation.
Bill Kristol and his warmongering, neocon controlled opposition ilk can’t fuck off fast enough.
Grace Slice may be cray…but that voice completely skews the hot/crazy axis.
I blame Paul Kantner for making her that way.
Today in youtube recommends
Charlie Taylor Interview: Blank Fire Guns for the Movies
269,174 views
Nov 5, 2018
Forgotten Weapons
2.24M subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnOUrRTf6jg
based on the comments it is recommended by youtube to a bunch of people
Last time I got on YT my feed was flooded with recommendations for videos about slavery and Black History month. Not sure what prompted that considering it’s Halloween. Guess they think I don’t feel enough White Guilt at the moment.
a stormy relationship, on and off, between two of the kids, where each is trying to enlist allies – is this what kids call it these days….
. I just work at the grill – can your place consistently cook a med rare steak? Because none of the places near me can
I can cook you one fuck of an excellent breakfast burrito.
And telling the closers here that they can get coffee flies over their heads.
excellent breakfast burrito. – what kind of ketchup you use on that?
It’s worse- what the locals love is Jalapeno Ranch, so that’s the default sauce. WebDom and I make a New Mexico red chile sauce, and that’s what the cognoscenti order.
Not sure if we even have ketchup.
I never had authentic Americanese Ranch dressing
Jalapeño ranch?
On eggs?
*hurk*
Anything on the menu keto?
Just gut it like a perch. Same way I handle calzones or stromboli.
I demand to be catered to.
I need to get over to https://www.marcos.com/menu/ and try their pizza bowls.
I don’t find myself in their vicinity often though.
avocado toast hold the toast. I am sure they have an egg in there. Maybe bacon
Ask for it rare, so when they overcook it, it will still be medium rare.
Of I do I still often get it medium. I am just not the type to send it back though I should sometimes.
I grill the best steaks.
They say it’s 10,000 hours of experience to become an expert at something.
Judging by your posts, you’ve got that covered.
Med-rare perfection – Let steak dry/age overnight in the fridge, heat cast iron skillet (I use #5 on a 6 level gas range), salt & pepper steak, drop a pat of butter into skillet just ahead of steak, cook steak under bacon press or weight for 3 minutes per side (S&P the uncooked side before its only flip), remove to plate, top with a pat of Kerry Gold butter and let sit for 5 – 10 minutes. I also like to take the fatty trimmings and fire them in the toaster oven until crispy.
Burnt pepper. ?
Salt first then sit in fridge over night (24 hours is good).
Pepper after cooking. Fresh ground black tellicherry.
I also don’t believe in needing butter for cooking a steak in a cast iron pan.
That way sounds delicious as well. For me, most food is merely a delivery vehicle for butter.
I thought I was the only one who disliked Harold and Maude.
Hate the whole thing, but the union bit is like the cherry on the shit sundae.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ev-tax-credit-increase-12500-biden-build-back-better/?utm_source=reddit.com
If it was all about the planet how are union made autos better?
JFC what a scam.
Will anyone call this POS out on tax cuts for the rich?
I’ll get my EV when the tax credits exceed the purchase price. If I can get the tax credits up front or even just a wash I’d be happy.
Making Apple Pie Like a Pastry Master with Gianluca Fusto
Italia Squisita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEq21wAsLvc
Partial honesty…
In my capacity as a communications consultant, I worked w @ProjectLincoln to coordinate today’s Youngkin action in Charlottesville. I join them in the fight to defend our democracy from rightwing extremists and call for Glenn Youngkin to denounce Trump’s ‘very fine people.
…but some lies will never die.
Not as long as the money is still flowing to keep his mouth in motion.
So what os everyone drinking? This is not bad for the price though the vivino rating seems a bit much
https://www.vivino.com/US/en/domini-veneti-la-casetta-valpolicella-ripasso-classico-superiore/w/2151834?year=2015
We’ve been concentrating on local stuff, which is not a handicap. Last few nights, some of the single-vineyard dry Rieslings from Forge (Seneca Lake) and Dr. Konstantin Frank (Keuka Lake), a wonderful Cabernet Franc from Weis (Keuka Lake), our house white (Dr. Frank’s Rkatsiteli), and Saperavi from both Frank and Weis. Had a mediocre Syrah from Seneca Lake- I love cool-climate wines, but this place is just not Syrah country.
how local is that in driving hours?
Keuka Lake is about 45 minutes. Seneca Lake is about 1:20.
Given the climate can you get a decent dry wine?
Not saying you can’t….
Given the climate can you get a decent dry wine? – you can get decent dry wine everywhere even perish the thought Australia
All the ones I mentioned were dry.
Just my morning coffee.
Then there is this liar and historically illiterate asshole.
Hayes said, “You feel quite clear there is essentially a fundamentally illiberal authoritarian faction that’s formed that has gained control of the Republican Party.”
Gallego said, “Correct. But this has been going on for a while, Chris. Now a lot of people are seeing it. Let’s begin. You know this goes back prior to this election. When you saw the Tea Party movement, and you were at the protests of the Tea Party, I was at the first one observing them, you saw people trying to overthrow, start overthrowing the government because they didn’t like the fact that there was a Black president. We saw the rhetoric they were using. You saw the legislation. For example, in the statehouse, they were putting in legislation to overturn the right of citizens to vote for the U.S. Senate. They wanted to have the state legislators do that from now on. This has been an existing part of the Republican Party. The problem is the Republican Party and the corporate overlords always thought they could contained it. Now it’s taken over. Now Trumpism is in charge.”
Gallego added, “The only real way to defend ourselves right now is for us to have a very vigorous democracy where we get out the vote and stop all attempts for them to actually disenfranchise us because the coup is ongoing. It’s not armed but now it’s armed with legal briefs, armed with different ballot initiatives to diminish peoples right votes, other legal means that, unfortunately, could have bad results, more so than what we saw on January 6th.”
Idk if my bp can take much more of this, at least for today.
^^ how you entrench “extremism”
Those idiots actually *believe* in federalism, limited government and individual freedoms! And our globalist chamber of commerce puppets have lost control of them! We can’t have THAT!
“you saw people trying to overthrow, start overthrowing the government because they didn’t like the fact that there was a Black president”
I had to punch out there. So stupid.
He even sounds like he’s reading something he (poorly) memorized.
FDA Authorizes Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Children Ages 5-11
The US government and its agencies are destructive and illegitimate.
If vaccinations for younger children are approved by the CDC, and then in Israel, about 1 million more Israelis could potentially be vaccinated against COVID
I have said this before, but I really thought the jews, of all people, would know better.
Lots of (((them))) do, but they tend to live in unfashionable neighborhoods.
“Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it,” the Lincoln Project said in a statement.
It’s innuendo, all the way down.
Why are people still listening to them? Aren’t they the pedo run orginazation?
Still have $$ in the bank to spend?
Over a dozen LGBT Afghans reached the United Kingdom after interventions from foreign minister Liz Truss and gay rights organisations, the British government said Friday.
There are rug-munching rug-makers?
Okay, I snorted a little when I read that.
How many lines equals “a little”?
“Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it,” the Lincoln Project said in a statement.
The Lincoln project has failed to condemn pedophilia, puppy torture, rape, murder, etc. The organization should do this on a daily basis, whether or not any of these things is relevant to it.
I shouldn’t laugh at this but I laughed at this
https://youtu.be/EW6C6OIYdLc
When your speech about ending gun violence is interrupted by gun violence.
That is epic.
Couldn’t help but notice all the empty store fronts as the entourage is walking down the street. Hopefully the gun fire is just range practice.
It’s St. Louis. The entire downtown area is a firing range.
Complements of CRT.
Loudoun County mother: “My six year old somberly came to me and asked if she was born evil because she was a white person, something she learned in a history lesson at school.”
“Of course not, honey. Your teacher is an evil, lying cunte.”
I am not sure I buy “my 6 year old said” stuff
Yeah, Things That Didn’t Happen for $600, Alex works both ways. Unless other students come forward and corroborate when and where this occured, I call bullshit.
Considering current affairs, this is not out of the realm of possibility for me. It makes more sense than some kid bleating about some politician or something like you get from leftist parents.
*shrug* We know they are teaching that, and it seems perfectly reasonable that at least one child would have questions about it at home.
⬆⬆
I’ll I’m saying is that what most likely happened was the teacher was giving a lesson about slavery in America and gave the boilerplate speech about slavery being evil and wrong and white people shouldn’t have done that, not singled out all the white six year olds and told them they were inherently evil because of their skin color.
The kid probably took it the wrong way then told mommy what they learned, mom gets only one side of the story(from a child, no less) and jumps to the worst possible conclusion.
Dude, have you seen what goes into CRT lessons? They are absolutely teaching segregation and that whites are oppressors and black are victims. This whole kerfuffle is about the school boards trying to hide that from parents.
What can I say? I’ve grown so cynical that I don’t believe anybody’s anecdotal outrage story anymore.
Take a look at what’s happening in Loundon County. To call these anecdotal one-offs is highly inaccurate. There’s been story after story revealing the CRT curriculum, with photos and video. Teaching white children that they are evil is completely in line with this systemic effort by the left.
dune meme
https://twitter.com/lv99ron/status/1454330770852495361
There is no patriot purge…
Those programming decisions are ones that are apparently agreeable to Murdoch. If they were not, he could easily reverse them. The same goes with The Journal’s decision to publish Trump’s letter promoting the Big Lie. He could have stopped it if he wanted.
In fact, Murdoch is known for being hands on, especially with regards to the opinion arms of his media organizations, which he has often used to advance his personal viewpoints.
This context makes Murdoch’s decision to at least implicitly green-light content promoting 1/6 trutherism and election denialism so intriguing. If he wanted to put an end to it, he very well could. But he is not — and that is notable.
…but purge this patriot.
President Joe Biden’s first day at the Group of 20 Summit began Saturday with the President achieving one of his core objectives for the global conference — an endorsement of a 15% global minimum tax from world leaders.
The tax is a chief priority of Biden’s that the White House believes would end the global race-to-the-bottom on corporate tax rates. The new rule will be formalized when the leaders release a final G20 communiqué on Sunday, when the summit ends.
“Today, G20 leaders will support the establishment of a historic global minimum tax. We expect to see the GMT formally endorsed in the Leaders communique on Sunday,” a White House official said.
Race to the bottom. Take that, world.
But “globalism” is a “conspiracy theory”, remember.
Isn’t his pledge utterly worthless the minute a Republican takes office?
If he doesn’t get it through Congress, yeah — I thought a 15% minimum corp tax is in the current iteration of the “Infrastructure” bill, so that may be how they’re planning to do it.
If done that way, though — any subsequent Congress can change it. It won’t be a treaty obligation via the Senate that I would think folks would be more leery about changing on principle.
Oh — and forgot that of course, like DACA and whatnot — Executive Orders and non-treaty treaties by a Dem == Absolute Fixtures, by a Rep == Illegal overreach by the Executive. So says the wraiths on the benches….
Now that I have gotten myself all worked up because of observing that the world is full of dishonest, tyrannical cuntes, I guess it is time to make breakfast.
burrito?
Chopped potatoes are in the oven. Gotta let those get further along and then frying sausage and eggs.
I’m getting my blood hot now up because soon I have to go power wash a house with temps in the forties. The rage with sustain me.
Ain’t it grand that the most ardent devotees of DEMOCRACY! are hell bent on imposing an iron-fisted centralized world government?
Sounds like some insurrectionist talk to me. And you’re probably a holocaust denier* too.
*Which, in seriousness, is a strange accusation mostly lobbed at people that 1) support the existence of Israel, 2) never stated such an opinion and 3) are the most likely to believe it happened. But I suppose words are simply weapons for leftists. ///Truth>Facts
And you’re a “fascist” if you oppose it.
“In our judgment, this is more than just a tax deal. It’s a reshaping of the rules of the global economy,” a senior administration official said.
I got a baaad feeling about this.
I should order more ammo. And bacon jerky.
*deletes comment, western style*
Biden should stop sheepishly throwing these ideas out there and just cut to the chase already.
He’ll just ram it down our throats, if ewe know what I mean.
Great Reset and tanks. Without the tanks the sheeples could rebel against saving American democracy.
It’s always thirty seconds ’til midnight for these people
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday warned that a win by Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin in Virginia’s gubernatorial election could doom Democrats in the 2022 congressional midterms and even the 2024 general election.
Harris gave the frank analysis, which is likely to be cited often by Republicans if Youngkin does win, while campaigning for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe in Norfolk, Va.
“What happens in Virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024 and on,” Harris said during a 16-minute stump speech.
The world will end if you don’t do what we tell you!
So
fucking
tedious.
Yeah, but the good news is that they are going to save you. By taxing you to death and stealing the pennies from your dead eyes.
And allow me to translate for heels up:
Got.to.cheat.harder…
Saw today that the biggest county in Virginia is not looking at the last four digits of social security on mail in ballots.
I’d only be shocked if a county in NOVA is not allowing illegals to vote at least 3 times.
2 minutes is better than 30 seconds.
3 minutes is even better.
OFFS… after that Youtube gave me what must be their new single about “climate change”. You’d think after spouting the same lefty gibberish for four decades and none of the fever deams coming true that they’d have mellowed out by now but nope.
They’re no different that the religious fundies who kept predicting the rapture and apocalypse and changing the date 3000 times a year, while I was growing up. The difference is that the lefties are way more fervently religious.
Every Iron Maiden song is some lecture about how we destroyed the native peoples.
Which is rich coming from some lime-sucking Brits.
/no offense to our Limey
‘It’s always thirty seconds ’til midnight for these people’
Sometimes almost literally:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-doomsdayclock-idUSKBN1FE2GL
That was funny stuff.
“was moved forward since the 2016 election of U.S. president Donald Trump.”
These are serious people.
Twice. They moved it forward for him twice in less than two years.
How did we survive? The insurrection should have hit the midnight.
We’re already dead. This reality is just a perverse purgatory.
America shrugs, asks, “And?”
*chants ‘Let’s go Brandon!’*
It’s a murky green toad world outside. Only fit for frogs and ducks. I think I’m staying inside. Let’s see, food – check, beer – check…
“You gonna bring this home, right? Yes you are,” Harris told the crowd, warning them that “Tuesday is a critical day that will determine whether we either turn back the clock or move it forward.”
Glenn Youngkin will PUT YOU IN CHAINS!
She forgot ‘American Democracy will end!’. She really is lame, isn’t she?
+ Fweedom
*cackles*
We have to save American democracy by replacing it with a vast bloated incompetent centralized nanny state.
That would be a bonus in any case.
Notorious ‘Halloween’ villain Michael Myers accused of being ‘homophobic’ in latest movie
Well… he is the villain.
OFFS!
Pro-tip, the media: Ignore that raving lunatics that make up “LGBT activism”.
I remember somebody I know getting in a huff about the shitty Freddy vs Jason movie because Freddy called Kelly Rowland “dark meat”.
They were all onboard with him as a child murderer in life and a teen murderer in death/dreams but a mildly racist comment towards the girl he was about to kill was a bridge too far.
I hope they don’t start digging into Stephen King novels because there aren’t enough fainting couches in the world to calm them down after that.
Reminds me of the people who get their jollies being voyeurs to all forms of human misery and suffering, but one puppy gets it and they’re the buddha all of a sudden.
Hell, we went down to the arboretum the other day, and there were a bunch of preschools and charter schools having field trips. I’ll cut out all of the depressing social observations about the teachers except for one. It should be grounds for dismissal for a teacher to wear a shirt that says “Less people. More dogs.”
So — not a fan of John Wick then?
But dogs are domesticated animals. If we had less people to provide for them we would have less dogs by default.
Something tells me this person didn’t think that through before the shirt’s purchase.
*raises hand*
People have given me VASTLY more grief than dogs have. And with only a very few exceptions, vastly less joy. Why shouldn’t I value dogs over people?
FEWER. Jesus, they can’t even word-usage correctly.
Hey, I twitched when I read that too.
In modern society, murdering people is ordering a coffee at Starbucks. Homophobia or perceived homophobia is a left wing not only death penalty, they will end your line and delete you from history, level sin.
Good morning, Glibs!
Remember when the whole “One World Government” was a loony conspiracy theory?
Good times.
Also Good Times.
Have a great day, peeps!
? Love them
From a couple years ago.
They still rock.
I remember when it was ‘The New World Order’ according to the babbling Bush Pig.
Then it was Agenda 2021, then Agenda 2030, now The Great Reset.
Also Good Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esYHU7JsSdQ
you saw people trying to overthrow, start overthrowing the government because they didn’t like the fact that there was a Black president.
Incapable of looking beneath the surface, or merely so dismissive of his audience that he assumes they are a bunch of malleable dolts incapable of looking beneath the surface?
Were there people whose sole objection to Obama was the color of his skin? Probably. But i doubt there were many so-called Tea Party-ers running around saying, “I’d be perfectly okay with all this stuff if a white guy was doing it.”
And now you see it even more because they like it even less that there is a black female vice president. Most popular VP ever. Tanks, we need tanks on the streets to save American democracy. Tanks is always the answer. Until we have our very own Tiananmen Square, the revolution cannot be televised.
They would love to have that fig-leaf to hide behind now.
Whatever happened to the 2 white dudes in Denver that were arrested because they were going to shoot that black* president at a convention or something ?
They went back to their desks at the local FBI branch and had a good laugh.
Oh….not much of anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_assassination_plot_in_Denver#Criminal_charges
I agree the pacing drags at times, but it was always fun to see the orangutan drive the pickup truck.
+ right turn, Clyde
I came here to say this
Silicone Saturday at your service!
https://archive.md/26QO8
They were all onboard with him as a child murderer in life and a teen murderer in death/dreams but a mildly racist comment towards the girl he was about to kill was a bridge too far.
“You don’t have to be so mean.”
Sorry hon, this is the horror movie theater. The Care Bears retrospective is down the hall.
Thanks, internet!
Good police work there, Lou.
REDRUM across the belly would have been accepted by the judges, too.
Heeeere’s Johnny!
During my morning walk I was thinking about all the folks who were told this week that they were subject to vax mandates at work because they Fed contract adjacent. Started thinking that someone down at the Fed shop must have started making some calls.
Seems like a lot of people got hit in less than a week. Smells rotten to me. Somebody must have been calling companies and saying “Nice Fed contract there. Be a shame if something happened to it. You know that guy working on a help desk two states over technically is part of the workers on this contract and needs to be vaxxed.”
I’m surprised our company hasn’t gone over yet. Almost all of our work is with governments (usually state or more local).
This week they said they were going to extend the bounty program. We are at only 83% vaxxed and if you show them you vax card, they will give you $100 gift card at Target. I thought about telling them that it wasn’t worth it to me because Target doesn’t have any guns or ammo.
Seems like a lot of people got hit in less than a week. Smells rotten to me. Somebody must have been calling companies and sayin…
I don’t think it’s nearly as secretive as that. I’m guessing some regulatory guidance dropped early last week, and was sent out through the usual channels to the legal and HR departments of all contracting companies. I’m too lazy to troll the internet for the guidance.
here’s a good candidate
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that it was a secret plot.
I do think, though, that the new guidance was dropped because the Feds noticed this “loophole” and were trying to plug it.
Husband’s work is mandating it. If you get it before X date, you get $200. A coworker of his was excited about it and asked him if he was. He said, “I don’t care about the money. I just don’t want to put an experimental drug in my body. If I cared about the money, I would’ve done it when Missouri had its $10k lottery.”
Still radio silence on the vax where I work. I don’t think they want to do a mandate, but I am positive they won’t be willing to pay any $14k fines. I believe they are dragging their feet hoping something changes but I expect they will eventually cave if OSHA makes it official.
A part of me always wondered if there wasn’t a revolution because everyone was too busy at work. Another part of me wonders what’s going to happen when millions of people unwilling to get vaxxed get fired or worse, put on permanent medical leave. The quasi fired not fired thing.
Psalm of the day:
Psalm 111:4-10
Thanks! it looks like a truly gorgeous day out side, blue skies all around
Carpe! , you know, the thing!
CARPE TALL MOTHERFUCKIN’ CANS!
HEY YUSEF!
Mich v. Michigan State is on today. Since you’re “in country” Id recommend you find a bar, drink, and watch the locals react.
Ha! at least the Course will be empty,
Sup Home slice?
Jugsy is back permanently it seems.
I already need more gatorade. Damn kids….I tried to tell her “I’m not from Havana“.
Our team lead at work was really excited about the vax being available for kids. I just smiled and nodded. He sees his kid being protected. I see pharma execs getting bigger yachts filed with money on which they will roll around naked.
He sees his kid being protected
It’s a wonder he doesn’t have the poor snowflake running around in a helmet and bubble suit.
He’s a really smart guy but he’s younger. He was all in on the vax from day 1.
I give him a hard time, but I’ve encountered more than a few people like that. Its usually the confluence of three things. First, an unhealthy focus on safety. Second, unwavering trust in authority. Third, a complete inability to systematically gather information and assess risk.
Those are all weaknesses that come from sitting in a prison for 20 years “learning” from books “taught” by a government agent.
Second, unwavering trust in authority.
From what I’ve seen, it’s completely this and not really 1 and 2. I work with a lot of legitimately smart people. “Systematically gather information and assess risk” could be described a key role function and they’re damn good at it. None of them are particularly safety obsessed. However, they are all rabid supporters of the vaccine, fear the unvaxxed, and are committed leftists.
I think progressivism is almost a form of religious belief for many on the left. It supersedes everything else.
In my anecdotal experience, being good at doing that at work does not always translate to actually doing it in one’s private life. YMMV
You bring up “fear of the unvaxxed” and I think tat can’t be understated. Faucci and his minions have done a wonderful job sowing fear. A recent Gallup asked:
Results by party affiliation:
Democrats – 41%
Republicans – 22%
Independents – 26%
As far as you know, what percentage of fully vaccinated people have been hospitalized due to the coronavirus?
dammit. Part II:
Results by party affiliation:
Democrats – 2%
Republicans – 7%
Independents – 5%
The poll
Don’t leave us hangin’ here, MikeS! What was the actual count?
Wouldn’t shock me if even those numbers overstated it by an order of magnitude.
Humans have a hardwired propensity to want to believe in a higher power. We know that even prehistoric humans had belief in the afterlife through their funerary practices. Progressivism has stepped into the void left by the withdrawal of religion from modern life. Its higher power is found in experts and government. It’s not a mystery why the preferred religions of progressives are generally either none or severely weakened forms of Protestantism or Judaism. Nature worship has replaced the godhead and its priests are found in the expert and ruling classes.
Will you be signing the work place card “Sorry about your daughter, hope her vaginal ulcers clear up”?
I’ve already ruffled some feathers at work by saying loudly in meetings where people were talking about vaxxing their kids “That is child abuse”. I’m sure that nonsense will only get worse.
I see kids more at risk from whatever side-effects are still being shaken out of the trials than from “this virus”.
My kid (Tres Version 2.0)’s school keeps sending at least twice weekly updates on vaccines available to children (<18 years). For one of the few times, his miserable cunte of of my baby-momma and I are on the same side.
"Someone jabs my kid with a needle containing that, and its an episode of COPS. Someone is either in the hospital or in the morgue. Or prison."
One coworker had his daughter collapse at The Citadel during morning formation the day after getting vaxxed. Rumor is that two other gals in her class did as well.
Doc told the coworker that the vax and birth control are not a good combination. No one is supposed to say that out loud though.
Daughter of coworker should be fine, but it is a nice story to toss out at work anytime people start talking about how great it is now that they can get their kids vaxxed.
So with this global minimum tax all the countries will raise their own money and we won’t have to ship money to them? LOL I kill me.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/10/the-week-in-pictures-brandons-halloween-edition.php
The David Hogg one made me LOL
Lol, truth!
heh
An American I know showed me this uno game. it is very stupid.
It is, but I don’t like games in general. I’m a sore loser and winning doesn’t do anything for me.
My mother loves it, but she loves games, is super-competitive, and gets salty when she loses.
I bought a marrow bone to roast and eat on toast (the marrow not the bone) it is not even doe yet and I feel guilt over the calories.
He dont eat meat but he sure likes the bone.
not even doe yet
Buck up and enjoy.
Oh, deer.
Pie’s snack
Speaking of this 15% minimum tax fantasy- which deductions will get backed out to arrive at “taxable income” subject to the minimum?
A million tax consultants get on their knees and give praise to Biden.
I’m sure the corrupt govts of a bunch of shitholes are also happy too. They went from small swampy island to being the official home of thousands of cororations.
First, an unhealthy focus on safety. Second, unwavering trust in authority. Third, a complete inability to systematically gather information and assess risk.
Those are all weaknesses that come from sitting in a prison for 20 years “learning” from books “taught” by a government agent.
Thank a teechur!
Is this a serious question?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16573882/condoms-in-my-fiance-bag-lads-holiday/
No, he enjoys putting condoms on when he jacks off because it’s an easier cleanup.
You must have nice friends than me Q.
I can see me or my buddies squirreling away some rubbers in this guy’s bag before going home. Just so we could laugh and laugh about all the shit he’d be taking.
I can actually see a friend on the trip doing that to stir up trouble.
I’m still trying to figure out how the Tiki Plot was supposed to play out.
Did those morons really think that the MSM would run with the story that Younkins supporters were all racists and all good thinkers would change to McAuliffe? Somehow no one would figure out who was behind it?
It seems like a plan put together by nerdy kids running for Jr. High class president. There had to be some adult in the room who would laugh at their idea right?
Seriously what was Step 2 of this plan?
I know the whole Tiki Torches = White Supremacy thing comes from the dooshbags at Charlottesville, but is there any reason predating that? Like White Supremacists enjoy tropical drinks and roast pigs?
Civil War 2:electric Boogaloo. Then Boogaloo became a bad word, so things like “big aloha” replaced it. Then people started wearing Hawaiian shirts for the big aloha. Then the tiki torches after the Hawaiian shirts became a sign of white supremacy.
The funny thing is, using aloha shirts and guayaberas to conceal a pistol dates back to the 80’s at least. My shooting buddies and I were making fun of the practice in college, and that was more than twenty years ago…
+1 Magnum P.I.
I just thought it was Chuckles cosplay.
I saw a white supremacist drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s. His torch was perfect.
+1 “DIT!”
Euphemism?
Did he get caught in the rain?
Did those morons really think that the MSM would run with the story that Younkins supporters were all racists and all good thinkers would change to McAuliffe? Somehow no one would figure out who was behind it?
It seems reasonable to me. The MSM has been sounding the racist message for months now here in VA. It’s the standard Dem playbook.
Fucking Republicans; how we hate them
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law on Friday that grants unemployment benefits to those who lose their jobs because they refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
The measure states that “an individual who is discharged from employment for refusing to receive a vaccination against COVID-19” shall not be “disqualified for benefits.”
After signing the legislation, Reynolds said in a statement that the new law allows Iowans “freedoms and their abilities to make healthcare decisions based on what’s best for themselves and their families.”
President Joe Biden imposed stringent new vaccine rules on federal workers, large employers and health care staff in September in a sweeping attempt to contain the coronavirus. The new rules included an executive order requiring all government employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19, with no option of being regularly tested to opt out, and an accompanying order directing that the same standard be applied to employees of contractors who do business with the federal government. The requirements have received pushback and legislative action from a handful of Republican governors, with Reynolds the most recent.
The unclean must be punished for their wickedness!
I’ve almost got my kitchen put together after the move. It’s taken me a weekand a half to do it. Not a while lot of cabinet space, most of which is deep and wide with no shelves goung way back under the counters, so I’ve had to get creative with tubs and suchlike. Had to break down and buy an Ikea cabinet, which XY put together. The very few top cabinets are 10 feet high (no lie), and I am under-tall, so I had to split some like dishes here and some there. This really is a case of not enough room for stuff, not too much stuff. Except for our plastic leftover tubs and lids. We have too many of those.
I said something about my TV maybe not being big enough for the room, so now my husband thinks he will give me his large TV so he can get a new TV. He refuses to put his large TV on the wall in preparation for this mythical day I will say, “I want your TV for my space.” So it is on its pedestal and we have cats and he says the only way to solve this disaster in the making is to buy a new TV. He’s got black Friday sales marked already.
I think the movers broke my table leg, but I’m not SURE they did it. It’s holding up for now, but somehow we will have to get it repaired.
Finally, I cannot find some of my precious things (including my cross stitch bag) and the garage is full of cardboard and assorted trash.
All in all, not a bad 10 days’ work.
And yes, I know I’m posting stupid off-topic shit. It’s because the links and the comments upon them are too damned depressing (getting near ZH level depressing), but I can’t quit you people.
Really hope you find your bag Mo. It’s amazing how things seem to turn up missing after a move. Not being able to find something when I KNOW it has to be around somewhere can drive me into a blind seething rage.
I’m not enraged yet. I am sad and getting frantic. And over what essentially is a stupid thing! But some of my art supplies are in that impenetrable pile, too. I can’t blame anybody but myself. I knew I should pack it myself but I didn’t and let it get packed by someone else somewhere else.
Here. This will cheer you up!
Knew it before I clicked. I love you so much.
Do it, do it again.
Do it (’til you’re satisfied)?
Great song and guitar solo.
First of all, congrats on getting things somewhat in order in only ten days. I expect to be in a similar situation at some future time, and can only hope it won’t be a total disaster. We’ve been clearing out junk for months, and somehow keep finding new junk to fill in the empty space. And thanks, the current situation is depressing, nothing wrong with something completely different.
We’re on Week 8 and the kitchen isn’t even close to being together. Stop flaunting your white privilege!
“Like Zero Hedge, but fewer antisemites!”
Of course it’s Germany.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/electrician-castrated-eight-men-kitchen-25335998
Of course.
Anyone care to visit “Eunuchmaker” and give us a book report? SF?
Mmm-eunuch.
The correct term is nullo (NSFW).
These people make the trans folks look sane and grounded.
Ich glaube, ich sehe was du da gemacht hast.
Pass.
I try to avoid the moving/purging talk because I have done such a terrible job of it. I have transported stuff no sane person would hesitate for five seconds to pitch into a dumpster.
It will take me weeks to sort and make any kind of order out of my stuff after this “move”.
I found a shop to rent (for the winter, anyway), so after the first I can try to initiate some sort of progress toward “normalcy”.
Well done, Moj!
I do decluttering and organizing for a fee, travel, and per diem. ?
No, seriously, I had my old house’s garage and basement and storage area sorted down to the last decorative wood nail — until my son started getting into stuff, which coincided with a boom in my business and I couldn’t keep up with him and my business too. I posted pix on FB and got some serious i quiries about my services.
I like shelves and tubs. Lots and lots of shelves and tubs. I kept my (wall) painting supplies in a rollaway foot locker. Heaven knows where that is.
You know the one thing that never changes no matter how warped the discussion of gender gets? Assholes. Assholes never change. Assholes are forever.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/29/22751847/netflix-employees-dave-chappelle-file-charges-nlrb
Alaska and Alabama seem to be fun.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/amazing-fetish-map-gives-insight-21388556
Anyone want to tell Fields that all employees who speak up are harassed. No workplaces really want people to speak up and disrupt things. Many will say they want out of the box thinkers, but what they really want are people who show up on time and do the work assigned to them.
If a bunch of employees walked out to protest Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, they’d all get harassed too. Why? Because they are causing shit for their employer.
I’m dying trying not to laugh at the total misogyny going on here at the coffee shop.
I decided to go down to the local coffee shop this morning to get out of the house. The shop is next to a yoga studio (which is why Tundra always drove over to meet me).
A class must have ended up a few minutes ago. There were about 10 good looking gals standing in line in their yoga pants ordering. Behind them was a guy who was in absolute heaven.
Every time I took a few seconds from leering at the women in line, I would see this guy totes ogling the women. He’s got a huge grin on his face. The shitlord isn’t even trying to disguise his Male Gaze.
https://archive.md/ogp9B
Florida School Takes Elementary School Children On Field Trip To Gay Bar
“Rosie’s menu on its website features dishes with names like Rhoda Cowboy, Ivana Hooker, Hellena Bun (with “Smack My Cheeks and Make ‘em Rosy” sauce), Georgia Bleu, Young Ranch Hand, and Willy Cheesesteak.”
I don’t even have a comment. I’m not sure whether to say something sarcastic or just laugh, so I got nothing.
The Left’s sexualization of children continues apace.
How much longer until we must show tolerance (followed quickly by acceptance) for pedophiles? If a 10 year old can decide they are actually the opposite sex, is it a huge leap to they can choose to have sex and with whom?
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/10/29/netherlands-penis-plant-blooms-Amorphophallus-decus-silvae/7521635532736/
“The University of Leiden said the penis plant, known scientifically as Amorphophallus decus-silvae, blooms only once every two decades, and the university’s botanical garden hasn’t had one of the plants bloom since 1997.”
20 years? That’s a serious case of blue balls.
At our age, the best we can hope for is a semi-annual erection.
Semi-annual? Nice humble brag.