Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely fantastic day it always is!
Trump to launch his own social media
Democrats reportedly drop free college tuition from Biden’s spending bill
Democrats May Be Forced To Scrap Tax Increases From Their Budget Due To Sinema’s Opposition
Manchin denies he’s considering changing parties, calls report BS
US Marshals: We’re Looking to See If the January 6 Defendants Are Being Deliberately Mistreated
Record 100 ships waiting offshore at LA ports with cargo
NIH changes story, confirms it funded Wuhan experiment that made bat coronavirus more dangerous
Gunman in 2018 Parkland school massacre pleads guilty to 17 counts of murder
Laundrie family lawyer says it’s likely remains found in Florida belong to Brian
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Democrats reportedly drop free college tuition from Biden’s spending bill”
Right. They are temporarily shelving this idiotic idea. They will not give up on funding the indoctrination train.
“Record 100 ships waiting offshore at LA ports with cargo”
Someone should tell press agent girl-chucky that Pete is not doing his job and we need government to solve the problem created by government!
I’ll bet if we fire a bunch of dock workers and replace them with gender studies majors the problem would be fixed on no time!
Pshaw — No need to complicate it, stick to the plan! Fire every experienced worker, and bring in the National Guard! They can do ANYTHING!
NIH changes story, confirms it funded Wuhan experiment that made bat coronavirus more dangerous
Fauci lied, people died. I wonder why this isn’t all over the MSM?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Well yeah, it’s not like it’s something important, like a phony Russian piss-hookers story.
Like what, with a virus? **sinister chuckle**
You are joking about not knowing why, right?
Of course.
He broke the law, and lied to Congress – also against the law. So Fauci will be indicted.now, right? Rule of Law and all that.
Shut up you fucking serf. The rules are to keep you in check, not to fuck around with your betters!
If he is tried, it will be by his peers in the House of Lords.
Congress is too busy subpoenaing Bannon, who wasn’t anywhere near the White House the last 3 years, for testimony before the Jan 6th committee. You can’t expect them to pay attention of a dedicated civil servant’s mis-statements when they are so focused on something else.
I suppose he’ll get the Roger Stone treatment. Hope they remember to invite CNN.
I’ll bet he has a server in his bathroom too!
That would only be extremely careless. Not the grossly negligent required for action.
No reasonable prosecutor…
NIH changes story, confirms it funded Wuhan experiment that made bat coronavirus more dangerous
But trust what we are telling you now.
Because there’s really no issue with the US government funding Chicom bioweapons research.
It’s worse than this. The Obama admin went to great lengths to score huge PR from banning US research of this kind, then gave Fauci the power use back channels and other less than reputable people to funnel money to this research in China (which has hostile intentions against the world). When the shit got loose, the people that needed to protect their asses lied about not knowing this was happening in Wuhan, and even went so far as to censor those that pointed out it had been man made. They freaked out when they heard about the virus getting loose (because of the real scary shit they were researching), then, when they realized it was not one of the real lethal strains, they politicized the event to move the globalist rest into overdrive (and get rid of the orange dude). And here we are now constantly being told to bend the fucking knee..
? I hate this ?
And nearly half the country is just fine with it. We are doomed.
More specifically, country is doomed. A peaceful breakup without a civil war, holocaust, holomodor, etc. would be the best possible outcome at this point.
There will be no breakup. At least not one that works in any way other than to let the fucking marxist/fascist break us apart to make us even weaker and less able to fight back. People that believe this breakup shit is possible are deluding themselves. We either fight and retake the country or we are doomed to live under the yoke of tyranny.
I agree. but I think the breakup talk does push the discourse somewhere better or at least more interesting. Retaking the country? That’s dangerous, gets you on a list.
A peaceful breakup would be the best, but it’s tiny winged unicorns will fly out my butt first.
Blood soaked self-righteous sociopathic megalomaniacs don’t just say “My bad. Let’s just everybody go our own way.”
I don’t think they have the balls to do what would need to be done to prevent a schism and because of that it can be done peacefully. Fifty years down the road there might be a war between the successor states but that could be avoided too.
Not going to happen. They (proggies/leftists/Dems/globalists) mean to rule you.
75% doesn’t equal “nearly half”.
The Obama admin put a stop on the funding. The Trump admin allowed it to go thru. You can just stop right there as to who is to blame at the top.
I fully believe that Trump just trusted the bureaucrats on this. It’s a result of his inability to take control and put competent people in charge who could reform the agencies.
Besides, it’s got the kind of big project thinking that appeals to people like him.
In any case, they’re obviously unreformable.
Yeah, I believe it slipped thru under Trump, not that it was anything deliberate from him or his appointees.
Bullshit. The work in Wuhan began as soon as the Obama admin passed the law banning that research in the Us, and Obama was president when that happened and blessed it. I will absolutely not be surprised that the first time Trump found out about the shit happening in Wuhan it was because the machine was left no option but to brief him on the virus getting out, and I bet they gave him a briefing that hid how fucking evil what they were doing was too. He was sabotaged by the machine at every turn, because the machine had an agenda they felt he was undermining.
Fuck the machine.
Also remember that Trump actually was the first to stand up against China since the mandarinate decided to sell us out to them as part of the globalist movement. You really want to make the case he decided to do something like this when it was blatantly obvious it would help the ChiComm weapons program? If you told me he had ordered them to do it because he knew the idiots there would let out a virus in turn killing a ton of the people supporting the ChiComm CCP, I might have to worry you might be right, but otherwise, there is no chance the one guy that actually did things to fuck over the CCP was bought & paid for by them. The guy the CCP owns is in the WH right now doing Obama’s bidding.
The Obama admin put a stop on the funding.
Sure, sure they did. Hey, I want you meet my friend, Mr. George C. Parker.
Hmmm.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2017/12/feds-lift-gain-function-research-pause-offer-guidance
Because they would never lie.
Blind hatred of Obama is just as dumb as blind hatred of Trump.
Blind hatred of Obama? Fuck, this was the most destructive presidency in my lifetime. Even worse than the peanut farmer’s stint. And while many think Biden will take that crown hands down based on what is going on, I am convinced Obama is pulling the strings on that fucking idiot. And I remind you that we got Trump because of the abuses under Obama and people realizing it would get worse if they let Clinton take over after him.
I guess you didn’t live through W‘s presidency?
I lived through LBJ’s presidency and we haven’t had one come close to that fucker.
W was a fucking stupid statist asshole, but Obama makes him almost decent by comparison. And while LBJ was a fucking evil shitbag, the fact that he was willing to accuse his opponents of fucking sheep – even though that was false – make him a quintessential political giant. The shit we have today where they accuse each other of being racists, sexists, homophobes, and whatever other shit is just lacking in creativity. I almost pine for someone to accuse their opponents of fucking sheep again…
I can back that sort of candidacy up.
A speedy trial.
Social Media is the Enemy
Fascism is the enemy. And team blue and their realignment to work with these tech oligarchs to remake us in their vision makes the whole cabal our (the freedom loving people’s) enemy…
S-M-I-TH-E
Another cryptid?
SOCIAL SMITHE MEME!! AND BY “MEME” MEAN RAPE!!!
Dammit!
SOCIAL SMITH LOVE TO SOCIALIZE! AND BY SOCIALIZE, MEAN…
SOCIAL SMITH HAVE ONE WEIRD TRICK. CLICK HERE SEE WHAT IS!
COPS IN CASCADIA HATE STEVE SMITH ONE WEIRD TRICK. BY TRICK, MEAN…
SOCIAL SMITH CLICK LIKE, BY CLICK LIKE, MEAN…
ICON UP, BUT NOT THUMB UP
Mistreatment is A-OK, just don’t get caught doing it deliberately.
See, accidental mistreatment is covered under qualified immunity, I’d guess. Deliberate mistreatment might expose someone to censure. But don’t worry, the people who investigate mistreatment are usually the same people who end up with reputational costs if deliberate mistreatment is found. At least in this case, it’s a slightly different branch of law enforcement doing the investigating.
It’s only deliberate if they had specifically been told that doing something is wrong. I mean at this point, they all know that inserting a broom handle or club into an anus is wrong, but I don’t think they’ve been told that Maglites are also wrong. So how would they be able to know that before doing it?
Qualified Immunity should be something that appalls those across the political spectrum.
That’s the beauty of the current victimology – it isn’t the crime, it’s who the victim is. QI is only a problem when it shields cops from what they do to “good” people (those who revel in being a victim) and it isn’t a problem at all when it shields abuse of “bad” people (those who think white thoughts like accountability).
Rule Two: No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abbos in any way at all, if there’s anybody watching.
Narrator: The January 6 defendants are being deliberately mistreated.
“But, we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong!”
It it actually possible to mistreat an insurrectionist that poses an Existential Threat to Our Democracy(tm)?
Room 101?
Do you know how hungry we have to be to eat their faces? A few weeks in solitary and they get quite the stank.
The final progress report submitted by EcoHealth in August described a “limited experiment” in which a modified bat coronavirus made mice “sicker” than than original virus, Tabak told Comer. “As sometimes occurs in science, this was an unexpected result of the research, as opposed to something that the researchers set out to do.”
Right. Serendipity.
The joy of science – something completely unexpected happening in the middle of your experiment.
My painter friend can’t work. No paint. I guess he hasn’t tried lowering his expectations.
I had a comment but wasn’t logged in when I pressed enter. So I lowered my expectations.
Good morning. Don’t let them lower your expectations.
Obligatory:
https://youtu.be/atfDg4fLcks
Also appropriate for a paint shortage
https://youtu.be/rqOhU3Eipzw?t=4894
NPR ran TWO different “lower your expectations” stories last night. One was “stop eating beef for climate change, and it’s too expensive anyway.” The other was “Produce is really expensive and Americans are too spoiled and shouldn’t expect to get any produce they want at any time of year.”
Build Back Better
I think it’s Build Back Bolshevik.
Stolen.
What is the chocolate ration?
It’s been raised to 20 grams from 24 grams.
Dammit. And I bungled my editing too.
It’s been raised to from a half ounce to a quarter ounce.
Social Media is the Enemy
We have met the enemy, and he is that guy over there. Git ‘im!
?And we’re living in the Twilight Zone?
Twilight Zone, baby!
Good start to the day there!
I figured, this would be the obvious one.
That is the greatest song titled Twilight Zone, of course. I was just intending my text to be read to the tune of “Allentown.”
Never really paid attention to the lyrics for that song before. That’s pretty dark.
The song was vintage Cold War. An agent sent to kill being abandoned to die by his people…
+1 Pogo
I thought the enemy was Justine?
Justine Bateman can lay siege to me anytime.
eh…
oh, why did you do that
I was curious to see how she was holding up…
And then felt obligated to share.
Shit happens. Live hard, look like you lived hard…
A shitty picture of a woman who is now, what, 55? No plastic surgery, I am betting not so bad in real life.
Then again, I am 50 with more than a few miles on me.
Iggy Pop! There was a thread about him yesterday.
But, what Zwak said.
Coming soon in the news: Backend internet providers refuse service to Trump Social media app, banks refuse to process transactions for them, etc. etc….
He can just build his own internet and banking system. Jeez.
Everyone is Revolting
I’m probably an acquired taste, but I don’t think I’m revolting.
Nah, you stink on ice!
Speaking of that…
After that gods awful Spaceballs animated show, I do not have high hopes.
Oh no. The man is going to destroy his legacy if he pens that. Pretend it never happened if it comes out.
So I had to look up a source for that “musical note emoji” above; found a place called emojipedia to get it. Featured in their “latest news” sidebar is a link entitled “Why Is There a Pregnant Man Emoji?” Nope, not clicking.
That’s not Beer Belly Man?
LO>
Donald Trump Launching New Social Media App
“Trumpbook will be the greatest, most classiest social media app, maybe ever. Big league.”
The 18th worst thing that Nikolas Cruz did was give us David Hogg.
Are you saying that if Cruz hadn’t scarred Hogg with all that ultra-violence, we’d all be getting 8 great hours of sleep because of the awesome new pillows we’d have?
Perfect song for today – Everything’s Explodin’
Moring music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOkG_lW3pUg&ab_channel=BcjR
“We have been working with the marshals office,” he said. “As a matter of fact, they’re in there today doing an inspection of the jail and talking with many of the Jan. 6 folks that are there to make sure that we are continuing to do that.”
“We’ve investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong.” – The Feds
Now that the Biden admin is crashing and burning and it’s becoming apparent that the Dems will likely be destroyed in the midterms, it’s not surprising to see the beginnings of some attempts at ass-covering.
Be careful with that midterm prediction. I expect some serious effort to “fortify” the election will be done, and when that likely fails (because too many people are done with them right now) they will turn the mandarinate against the people as punishment…
A lot can happen in a year. Bad stuff seems to happen more quickly than good stuff, though.
Things to remember about midterms:
– They are turnout based, even more so than presidential elections
– While the president’s party usually regresses, it usually isn’t by as much as the polls would seem to indicate
– They are more easily “fortified” since the number of people voting is substantially lower.
Turnout doesn’t matter when you do mail in ballots and ballot harvesting…
…and early voting. But vote-by-mail fraud is where they’re going to make up the numbers.
What happened with the attempt at changing the rules after voting had already started?
Yep. Never get cocky. This can, and most likely will get worse. The Republicans are no saviors either. I see no significant improvement in shrinking the size and scope of government in the future either way.
No, they are the stupid party and never press their advantage when they gain power.
They would actually have to believe the shit they peddle as the opposition party to do them Tonio. They like their big and totalitarian government allowing them to fleece the tax payer just as much, but they want to be discreet about it. Team blue gave up on being discreet. Team red is just team blue but following the speed limit instead of doing close to 200 mph in a 35 mph zone because they strapped a rocket to the roof of their station wagon/minivan….
The Geneva Man is coming to make sure the camp is up to snuff – https://youtu.be/ZKc2GJk2OLQ?t=4320
NIH changes story, confirms it funded Wuhan experiment that made bat coronavirus more dangerous
Fauci lied to Congress and nothing else will happen.
I find “the NIH and he Pentagon funded a PLA bio weapons program that resulted in a pandemic that killed millions, and nothing else will happen” to be worse.
Just wondering who thought it was a good idea to fund another country’s dual use bioweapon research, especially when it’s a country we’re not exactly best pals with…
The ones who are on that country’s payroll.
This (everything about this) is one of those things were so many of us, and our friends and neighbors, are still puzzled because they’re stuck with the old assumption that the US government is on the side of the Americans. It’s not. It belongs to the CCP/globalist-elite crowd, and the Americans are the enemy.
Every bit of it makes perfect sense once you get that.
Taxes – https://youtu.be/vZ0B_5N28vY
I thought he already tried this? Maybe not.
I think he announced his intent to do this in the past, but never actually launched it.
Gunman in 2018 Parkland school massacre pleads guilty to 17 counts of murder
That’s one speedy trial.
Pfft, it’s not like he stormed the Capitol looking for Nancy and Sandy.
Since the Insurrectionists(R) refuse to admit their guilt, their trials will take longer.
Never let a crisis go to waste:
“Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold sent $2.8 million in federal emergency COVID-19 mitigation funds — almost half of the CARES Act cash allocated to her office — to a politically well-connected, Washington D.C.-based public relations and lobbying firm to produce a set of TV ads to educate Colorado voters about the 2020 election procedures.
Attorney General Phil Weiser directed around $250,000 to no-bid contracts for a handful of his campaign contributors or their firms, from a pot of money controlled by his office that’s intended to help protect consumers from fraud.
Both are examples of government spending that has little to no oversight, from what are called “custodial funds,” which end up with state agencies to spend, but which don’t come from the state legislature’s general fund budgeting process.”
Anyone that believes government solves problems is an idiot. The assholes running government at all levels create problems they then hurry to pretend to be able to solve (and never do) so they can then rip the productive people off as shown above…
That sort of behavior won’t end until the offenders end up hanging from a lamppost.
In their perverted little minds, they probably think they’re doing good by helping to re-educate the people and assure their capability to take care of them in the future.
OPM – Other people’s money!
Let’s Go, Brandon: Biden: “I commuted every single day for 36 years as Vice President of the US.”
SHAMA-DELAMA-DEPRESSURE!
My butt’s been wiped!
“I’m here!”: @VP shouts “Surprise!” upon arriving at her own surprise birthday celebration
This administration is more ridiculous than anything that ever aired on VEEP.
*cackles*
VEEP best scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqgURrZt1h0&ab_channel=BlueG
Trying not to hate, trying not to hate, trying not to Okay, Fuck it! She is reprehensible. She’s like the stench from the reptile pit at a second rate zoo. Gawd! So repulsive!
LOL.
#GIRLBOSS
Relevant
RIP to The Great GREAT Jessica Walter
Evil old Joe needs to be removed from office. That was pathetic. He’s like your Grandpa harping about the Jews but he’s actually dangerous. Wake Up!
Hey Festus I read yesterdays links late yesterday and see that youre not feeling great. Just to let you know theres people out here who enjoy your comments and humor and who are rooting and praying for you to feel better.
Thank you, Friend. The black dog has been nipping at my heels since I was a toddler. It just happened.
Don’t give up bro… the alternative is worse.
I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned yet so just wanted to throw out that the proposed $10,000/year cash reporting requirement is functionally the same as $600/month (instead it’s now $833/month). They just pulled the same bullshit trick of taking the target number (X) and presenting it as X over time to make it seem more palatable. Just like the 10 year budget.
It isn’t the fucking number that matters – they could set it at $1M – it is the warrantless surveillance.
So much this.
The warrantless surveillance is nothing new. The warrantless surveillance for petty exchanges of cash is.
My bank submits a 1099 for the interest they pay on my deposits. No problem with that.
I have huge fucking problems with the IRS doing big-data collection on the inflows/outflows of my account. I would have a big fucking problem with my own bank doing that.
The reporting threshold has been $10k/transaction for as long as I’ve been aware. They’re just adjusting the threshold, not adding some new type of surveillance.
1970, the Banking Secrecy Act
Which of course, means the exact opposite of secrecy.
That is for cash in/out of an account.
Of course we don’t know what the proposal really is because there is an awful lot of confusion. It isn’t like there is actual language written down, but I’ll bet there are at least a dozen PPTs floating around Congressional e-mail servers.
The only part Ive seen written down was a broad proposal. (https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/General-Explanations-FY2022.pdf)
So, after reading it over again, it looks like the $600 was a red herring. It sets a de minimus account size threshold (balance under $600 and annual transactions under $600 means no report). What appears to (be proposed to) actually happen is this:
Receipts: $14,501
Receipts – Cash: $6500
Receipts – Foreign Accounts: $5000
Receipts – Same Owner Accounts: $3001
Outlays: $12,501
Outlays – Cash: $11,501
Outlays – Foreign Accounts: $0
Outlays – Same Owner Accounts: $1000
I thought it was $600/transaction initially. Now, so long as you’re buying breakfast and lunch every day ($28/day = $10k/year), you’re getting monitored.
Yep – this will impact a small business owner like me. I use a lot of cash to buy. And get checks for payments.
That and early inheritance disbursements.
I can only see the number of questions I’ll get.
It will shut down a massive underground economy of tutors, house painters and handymen who just get by and live on cash. The damage will be horrible.
That’s totally OK. There are plenty of approved corporate options for tutoring, painting, and handymanning. Those people will do just fine working for a company that will ensure that everything is properly reported, and that a suitable portion of the profits is donated to the correct re-election campaigns.
Blood soaked self-righteous sociopathic megalomaniacs don’t just say “My bad. Let’s just everybody go our own way.”
They do not say, “Live and let live.” Fanaticism demands enthusiastic conformity. Or it’s the ditch for you.
“Live and let live.”
The battle cry of fascist, right-wing, authoritarian, racist, misogynist, bigots.
You may not like her support for the warmongering assholes back when, but she hit the ball out of the fucking park on Critical Race Applied Principles (CRAP).
As expected, the comments are retarded.
So, the rallying cry on the left is “70% of Americans…”
*facepalm*
https://twitter.com/search?q=%2270%25%20of%20Americans%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
Made-up number is totally made-up.
Tribe is just a propagandist for the Party at this point.
Marching orders have been issued.
The media needs to do a better job of selling it.
– Nancy Pelosi
Jesus what a cesspool of vapid stupidity. I feel stupider for having clicked that link.
Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who is part of the 70% of Americans who support passing the voting rights act and carving out the filibuster to get it done.
Bs number is bs. But by all means lets further destroy any semblance of checks and balances.
What do you call a system in which 41 Republican Senators, representing just 21% of the population, can stop voting rights legislation backed by 70% of Americans?
Someone missed USG 101.
That number is definitely pulled out of someone’s ass. I have seen recent polls where 75% of people support some sort of voter ID, and that crosses all races and political parties.
Well- I just reviewed and sent my offer to purchase a piece of property in Idaho. Right now, it looks a lot like an EPA Superfund site, but there’s gold beneath the surface.
Fingers crossed.
Radioactive gold?
Well, that would make it easier to find, right?
Now, you just need to find a gold digger.
Thot Thursday likes pleasure spiked with pain.
https://archive.md/T1cZ2
It’s my aeroplane?
How the fuck does this cunte have a platform?
But what they’re saying is no, that person can’t be allowed to win. Only the people that they decide should be allowed to win can. That is the opposite of believing in multiracial democracy. That’s the same problem we had after the Civil War. I feel like we still have it.”
Reid added, “The Republican Party, they don’t believe, they do not believe that non-white voters have the right to choose the president of the United States or any other officers. I don’t see any other way around it.”
I get that history is nuanced and often difficult to contextualize, but jfc…
Well, you’re paying attention to her; I think that means she has succeeded.
She’s just unbelievably stupid.
Tim Scott, Condalizz Rice, and myriad other Black Republicans say “shut the fuck up, fool!”
Looking at race alone, only 25% of the country is nonwhite. Something, something, minority rule.
Yeah about that NIH retraction. It comes with a huge caveat.
Peter Daszak is the fall guy for Fauci and Collins.
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1450996489862459394
Ha, you were expecting otherwise? Of course they shift the blame.
I certainly wasn’t expecting otherwise.
My first reaction was “There’s a catch to that admission, there has to be.”
It’s like the DNA analysis attached – look at all of this other stuff, see it has nothing to do with COVID.
You don’t get to the top of a big organization without doing the dirty work and putting yourself in a position to take the blame off your superiors as you work your way up. If you successfully avoid getting caught, you have a chance at the big jobs. If not, you insulate your superiors. That’s what they promote for.
Or, in the grand tradition of Rome, you set your boss up for that fall.
I know cutouts and money laundering when I see it, and that funding was laundered through cutouts. Amateurishly, to be sure.
And the current line that Daszak’s EcoHealth operation violated the terms of their grant doesn’t wash, either. That shit is microscopically scrutinized. They knew exactly what it was being spent on.
Hell, they put the condition in that if the research yielded the results (it was allegedly not supposed to) that would escalate bio-safety concerns.
They take great pains to point out that the specific viruses experimended with under the NIH grant are genetically far removed from SARS-CoV-2 and state that they could not be the progenitors of that virus. No mention of the fact that money is fungible, and other labs within the Wuhan organization may well have been working with other viruses than the ones listed in the grant.
“experimended?” gah.
Yeah, it’s guaranteed that they spent many lawyer-hours parsing exactly what this admission would be and how they could put the camel thru the needle of legality for themselves.
They continue to use bureaucratese – likely to have evolved, unlikely to have been developed as a bio-weapon. You know kids, there’s a lot of room between those two statements.
Particularly when you consider that Fauci spent quite a bit of time and effort redefining “gain-of-function” in the regulations so that the offending research narrowly escaped the new definition. That was his whole defense when Rand grilled him in front of Congress.
Rand was so close to getting it right, and then he had to try the grandstanding soundbite move and fell on his face.
How did he fall on his face?
He didn’t let Fauci incriminate himself properly. It was there, but Rand went for the wrong question. I guess that’s being a doctor vs. being a lawyer.
He didn’t say what JI wanted to hear.
Fauci could have said “Yeah, I killed babies! I killed ’em because I liked it! And there ain’t nothing you assholes can do about it!”
and Rand would not have gotten the soundbite he was looking for, because TMITE.
NYT: Rand Paul unfairly accuses Saint Fauci of harming children with little evidence.
“They take great pains to point out that the specific viruses experimended with under the NIH grant are genetically far removed from SARS-CoV-2”
They aren’t. Anyone can go read the papers they published.
Err, since the whole purpose was genetically altering viruses, wouldn’t that actually mean they were successful?
6 months later
US Marshals: We’ve determined that indeed, the January 6 Defendants Are Being Deliberately Mistreated. Everyone carry on now, thanks.
The people who have been in jail 9 months and counting for allegedly trespassing? Pretty safe bet.
“The people who have been in
jailsolitary confinement for 9 months and counting for allegedly trespassing? Pretty safe bet.”FIFY.
Alright, Friends. I went to bed sad rather than angry yesterday. Today I go to the land of nod with fire in my guts. We need to wake up or it’s all over but the crying.
The fight has barely begun. Gird your loins.
See if there’s someone adoptable from the local shelter. Dog, cat, orphan…
Smacked my head on the cupboard door. Eat some samosas and go sleeping. Fight the good fight, if you can!
Non-compliance, passive resistance, living a good life and being happy. Those are your weapons.
Fauci is very much making me question my opposition to the death penalty. Not that anything will happen to him.
We need another Nuremburg trial.
Say “You’re fat.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16451466/wife-too-much-weight-scooter/
Is he complaining that with inflation he can’t afford enough flour to roll her in?
The correct way to do this is to tell her that she is NOT big boned…
“After conducting a thorough inspection and review of the conditions under which the prisoners are being held, I can only say I hope to be treated that well when the mob drags me from my office and brings me before the Revolutionary Tribunal.”
“NIH changes story, confirms it funded Wuhan experiment that made bat coronavirus more dangerous”
Alternate headline: “Fauci no longer useful to the Left, bus being prepared under which he will be thrown”
Speaking of that, the thorn in Trump’s side about Ukraine has a WaPo bit up worrying that Biden is losing the fight for democracy (presumably in Eastern Europe). Sorry kiddo, that narrative is no longer of use.
/looks at the injury report and lineup for the Browns/Broncos game tonight.
Alright… looks like the Browns are going to be fielding basically their pre-season squad.
Hit this guy up for all your vaginal orgasm needs.
https://drstuartbrody.com
Seriously, if I had known I could build a career and get a higher doctorate from basically saying “Women who orgasm from sex are happier” dozens of times, I would have chosen a very different career path.
To wit:
https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/cjhs.261-A3
I would be a field anthropologist, going out into the wild to test out my theory, and telling all the ladies they should help out in the name of science!
This is a better racket than that year I spent telling the ladies I was writing a book on whether fondling tits or rubbing ass was what made the ladies want to jump in the sack. Women sacrifice a lot in the name of science…
Watching a Timcast episode on Youtube, they just showed me an advertisement for a dating site for older distinguished gentlemen of means to find young and nubile latin women looking for action…
They must be fucking looking at my responses to Q’s posts on this site!
Sure Q. Easy to come up with such controversial theories.
The tricky part is to prove them experimentally. Think you could pull that off?
In my experience ladies will go to great lengths to help science..
Q’s significant other however, might not appreciate his scientific endeavors…
He can hire Fauci to help him explain that nothing wrong was done.
Why do you hate Q that much, your holiness?
“Baby, I was just doing a double-blind study!”
With 2 chix?
And two blindfolds!
I received an invite to a corporate dinner. It includes a note that proof of vaccination or negative test is required. That’s a negative. I really don’t want to go in DC anyway.
As much as it annoys me, proof of negative test is a valid public health measure.
Testing and treatment should have been the focus from the beginning, but the CDC fucked up royally on the test approvals.
Testing and treatment = no emergency vaccine and massive taxpayer slush to Big Pharma
Non-starter.
I disagree on the valid public health measure thing, Scruffy, but I’m on mobile and can’t be arsed to go into details on why.
I agree if we’re talking PCR tests cycled at 40 times. They’re worse than useless.
But basic screening does have some utility, particularly since the vaccinated can carry higher viral loads without symptoms.
“particularly since the vaccinated can carry higher viral loads without symptoms”
I doubt that.
The claim is not that the vaccinated carry higher viral loads in general, it’s that they do not develop symptoms until they reach a higher viral load than an unvaccinated person (so long as the vaccines remain functioning, which is about 4-1/2 months at current estimates).
This was the basis of the CDC reissuing mask guidance for the the vaccinated back in July.
Alright, do any other communicable disease throughout modern history. When has someone needed to present a negative test to anyone to go somewhere?
Only in highly specific situations where it was warranted.
We don’t do required tests for TB or any other contagious diseases (yet).
Tests, even as minor as they are, are intrusive medical procedures. Coerced or forced acceptance is not voluntary. Add it up and required testing is just as wrong on principle as required injections.
I agree to some extent.
My point is that testing has a role in active infection control. When the pandemic was in the early stages it could have slowed things down and allowed more time for the development of protocols and therapeutics.
Now that the virus is endemic, it’s not of much utility.
And I can’t equate testing for an active infection with forced medical treatment on a legal or a moral basis, particularly forced proactive medical treatment which is what vaccines are.
“Laundrie family lawyer says it’s likely remains found in Florida belong to Brian”
Least surprising news of the day. It was extremely unlikely that an inexperienced, scumbag wife-beating soi boi could survive in the Florida swamp and evade detection for that long. After more than a couple of days, the probability that he killed himself approached 100%.
This week on Naked and Afraid…
I called it a couple if days ago. Sadly he probably did kill himself. I would rather he be mauled to death by bobcats and alligators.
I find it difficult to believe that the killer of a young girl would be mauled to death by a cougar
::Swissy Squint::
Thank you, your Lordship.
Huh.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/at-least-4-other-bodies-were-found-during-the-nearly-2-month-search-for-gabby-petito-and-brian-laundrie/ar-AAPMTrr
“Dexter” was a documentary.
I hear he is coming back…
“Imported Mexican onions are blamed for salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 650 people across 37 states and hospitalized at least 129
They can be identified with stickers or packaging indicating that they come from ProSource and the country, Mexico.
The CDC also urged consumers to throw away any red, yellow or white onions that do not have a sticker or packaging indicating where they were grown as a precaution.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10114583/More-650-people-ill-salmonella-129-hospitalized-outbreak.html
No, I’m not throwing out all my onions.
Cook the fucking things and you are fine..
Just wear them on your belt.
Sure, but what if the salmonella swim up your body?
None of my onions I have in the house have stickers. Because they cane from a farm 3 miles away.
They use Mexican labor, though…,
The CDC
Is there any part of the bureaucracy that actually sticks to its own lane anymore? Or did salmonella suddenly become a communicable disease?
What I choose to take as a positive sign: Just left my dentist’s office. Unlike last time and despite posted signs to the contrary, I wasn’t asked to mask up to walk down the hall, nor was I asked about my COVID shot status.
I had the same experience yesterday at the supermarket. I have not put on a mask despite the store’s sign encouraging people to do this for months now, and usually was a lone wolf when I did that (nobody gave me shit however). But yesterday I saw more than half of the people not wearing the mask, including a good number of the employees whom up until then always were forced to chin diaper up…
People are refusing to comply…
I think I mentioned this last week — went to my primary care doctor for the first time in 2 years, not for a check up, but for a specific issue. Not once did he ask whether I ever had Covid, whether I needed a test, or my vaccination status.
I’ll be going back in a couple weeks for a proper yearly check up, and maybe things will be different then, but I took it as a positive sign that it never even came up.
I need a covid passport to eat in a restaurant starting Monday.
My weed dealer when I was a teen – “You ever get caught whacking off?” Me – “No!” Weed dealer – “You must have a really great hiding place!” Ba-dum-tump! (shut up, I bashed my head again)
We need another Nuremburg trial.
We’ll have none of that divisive McCarthyite hate speech. You’re talking about the finest minds of our generation; men whose entire lives have been devoted to making America a better, safer place.
“Magnificent Mile no more: Chicago is blighted by shoplifting as ANOTHER American city goes down the toilet because its left-wing AG stops prosecuting shoplifters who steal less than $1000 of goods”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10112809/Chicago-blighted-shoplifting-shoplifters-prosecuted-steal-1000.html
Who thinks legalizing theft is a good idea?
Soros
That’s been on the agenda of every single one of the DAs he’s helped get elected.
Dumped 7 or 8 hundred-thousand into the Loudon County Atty race to get the cunte there elected.
There has been commentary about her from former colleagues that her stance on issues changed dramatically once elected. I’m wondering how many strings come with the Soros money and how they communicate it.
Politician doesn’t stay bought? Where is my shocked face?
“Who thinks legalizing theft is a good idea?”
Soros-backed AGs? In reality, no one thinks theft is a good idea; the aforementioned AGs just think that the societal chaos that results from legalized theft is the good idea.
I think it’s the entire Democrat machine at this point.
Not a peep from any of them about this.
These fucking assholes don’t think legalizing theft is a good idea at all, brah. In fact, they know it is a terrible idea that will cause devastation, chaos, and lots of pain.
That’s the effect they want however, because you need to make people as desperate as possible before they will accept tyrannical government in return for some half-assed promise of a return to normal…
They want you to know how bad it *could* get…
The left hates economics and tries to believe that it is the basis for all societal ill. They cannot seem to grasp that much of what keeps a well-functioning society working is trust, either through shared ethics or policing. They really believe that it is ok for a starving man to steal bread.
This is going to come to a head in Chicago soon. There’s shoplifting and shootings on the freeway, and the mayor is about to lose 1000 cops because of her vaccine mandate. People are avoiding the city in droves. Say what you want about the Daley’s being corrupt, but they were always cozy with the cops, and knew they needed to bring in tourist cash to keep that machine going.
Legal shoplifting will be a great way to get provisions when the unvaxxed become unemployed.
The CDC also urged consumers to throw away any red, yellow or white onions that do not have a sticker or packaging indicating where they were grown as a precaution.”
“This onion is bad. Therefor, all onions are bad.”
SCIENCE!
We don’t have an onion shortage, it’s just that people are buying too many onions.
C’mon Brooksie. This isn’t a black and white situation. This is a much more nuanced story. There are a lot of layers to it.
I cried when I Red that,
Someone wants all the yellows for himself!
I shallot engage in this so I will peel off before Swissy arrives.
*narrows gaze*
C’mon, man! This is America, gawdammit! Listen, Jack. I’ve been getting it done in the senate for 100 years. And I got friends on both sides of , uh uh uh, you know the thing. So we have to come together and, uh uh, oh, anyway…I pooped.
“What are we doing?” …
“This is the United States of America, dammit!” Biden shouted. “What are we doing?” …
“They have understandably believed there is no possibility of my getting this done. This has been declared dead on arrival the moment I introduced it,” he said. …
“Last four years you’d hear every month is, you know, infrastructure month,” Biden says. “Didn’t do a single damn thing. Nothing. I mean, nothing for four years.” …
“I got on pretty well in the Senate for all those years. A lot of Republicans friends as well as Democratic friends. For real. … We used to travel a lot,” Biden recalled. …
“It does. not. increase. The debt.,” he emphasized slowly, despite widespread skepticism that both bills will be able to pay for his radical tax and spend agenda.
“When you talk about the number, we shouldn’t even talk about the numbers because it’s all paid for,” he said.
“It does. not. increase. The debt.,” he emphasized slowly, despite
widespread skepticism that both bills will be able to pay for his radical tax and spend agenda.the facial insanity of the statement.“When you talk about the number, we shouldn’t even talk about the numbers because it’s all paid for,” he
said. yelled from the nuthouse.yelled
from the nuthouse.at the clouds.It’s too bad there are no onions for his belt.
My house has a simple deck – 16X20 foot sitting on some sort of risers just above the ground.
We got a quote to replace it with composite: $9800 (kaff!!). $7800 for wood. Kaff!
They’ll knock $500 off the price if I remove the old deck myself.
Don’t worry, that inflation is transitory.
Transitory as in the transition during the Great Reset.
I might just have to go begging to my neighbor, who built his own deck for some help on material costs and how to build one correctly.
I put an add on marketplace for someone to come and remove my deck boards (treated lumber) for free and they could keep them. I had 5 or 6 replies within a few minutes. All gone that day.
See how much it costs for a slab patio.
I believe the original patio – 1961 – was slab concrete. And then someone built this structure above it. I should do a partial dismantle and confirm; and see in what shape the original concrete is in.
I’m gonna guess a rectangle.
That sounds like a decent deal. I looked at replacing my wooden deck a few years ago (so I could stop having to waste a couple of weekends ever 3 years to restain the shit). My deck is 16 x 34 and they wanted over $30K because they would need to order extra beams due to the sizes they needed with quite a bit of waste being generated. Needless to say I am still staining the old deck…
Just buy the materials and reassign a few orphans from the coal mine to work on the deck project.
Who thinks legalizing theft is a good idea?
Property is theft, man. The injustice must end.
Physicians and the Vaccine Tyranny
Anyone denied early treatment who dies of covid has really been killed by intentional malicious medical malpractice.
killed by intentional malicious medical malpractice.
As opposed to the usual third-leading cause of death in this country?
I have made mistakes in my life. I have never intentionally killed anyone or let somebody die out of self-interest and indifference.
That was the as opposed to I was alluding to, medical mistakes.
Related:
Washington state suspends a physician assistant for prescribing ivermectin
Because it works.
Joe Rogan makes Sanjay Gupta his bitch.
Peter Daszak is the fall guy for Fauci and Collins.
Fingers were pointed.
This will go nowhere.
Today, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a complaint and motion for an injunction against the Fairfax County General Registrar and three members of the Fairfax County Election Board for violating Virginia election law. The case is brought on behalf of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, a local organization that promotes election integrity. The lawsuit explains that Fairfax County is violating Virginia law by accepting and approving applications for absentee and mail-in ballots that do not include the last four digits of the applicant’s Social Security number, as required under Virginia statues.
The requirement to provide the last four digits protects the right to vote. It ensures that nobody loses their right to vote because a ballot has been sent to someone else.
Fairfax County is not only violating Virginia law, but also the Virginia Constitution. The Constitution’s Anti-Suspension Clause requires that laws passed by the Virginia’s legislature are supreme to any act by a local government employee or even the Governor himself. This is important because it restrains election officials in Virginia from disregarding and replacing election administration laws.
At least they’re getting ahead of it instead of waiting till after the election.
In PA prior to the election (’20) there were suits filed by the right with counter-suits from the left; at the state SC the left won (mostly but not entirely).
Let me just throw this out there: the problem with inadequate voter identification is not that an individual voter “loses the right to vote” because someone else got a ballot intended for them. The problem is people who are not permitted to vote being able to vote, whether or not they are using another’s identity to do so.
Scenario 1: Legal voter doesn’t GAF, someone else votes in their name (in addition to voting him or herself, and possibly others who DGAF)
Scenario 2: Fictional and/or dead people’s ballots cast by others (who also vote in their own names, and possibly other people’s).
Scenario 3: Real person disqualified from legally voting (underage, non-citizen, felon status, etc.) able to get a ballot and vote, and the votes counted as valid.
Framing the issue as “denying a person’s right to vote” is foolish, because the real problem is excess and illegal votes. Most people who “lose their right to vote” in the way suggested never even know because they don’t bother voting in the first place, and others vote in their stead. The likelihood of the others being caught is extremely low, and the penalties for doing so are insignificant, and so do not deter fraudulent voting practices.
This doesn’t even begin to touch the problems of vote harvesting.
Ms. Cruz is a total PILF.
Topical..
Damn, was replying to Brooksie’s comment about finger pointing and Brooksied it.
Today is the 60th Anniversary of my first marriage, a day that will live in infamy. I thank dog I learned how to untie that knot, even if it was expensive it was worth it.
As someone that terminated their marriage after 23 years and recently celebrated his 33rd anniversary, I feel your relief that you did the right thing….
House Democrats had floated increasing the top income tax bracket from 47% to 39.6%, the corporate tax rate from 21% to 26.5% and the corporate tax rate from 23.8% to 28.8%
Cant they at least afford a free intern to read thru the article before it is posted?
I understand the first mistake, but have no clue what the 2nd is referring to.
The objective is to say confusing shit so you can’t tell them they lied after the fact…
But basic screening does have some utility, particularly since the vaccinated can carry higher viral loads without symptoms.
But the vaxx puts little tiny handcuffs on the virus bug thingies so they can’t hurt us. Unless, of course, one is Unclean and has for some inexplicable reason refused to accept the Holy Sacrament.
Then it’s ultra lethal inescapable DOOOOOM.
I am reminded of a hoary old “joke” which has been circulating for decades.
Introducing the new Simplified IRS 1040:
How much did you earn last year? _______
Send it in.
Today is effectively my last day at my job. Tomorrow I turn in my laptop pretty early in the day. The company is giving me a free day off. I start my new job Monday.
My current employer sent out a mail saying that since we have Federal contracts, we count as a Federal contractor. Everyone must get vaccinated by Dec. 8th or be put on unpaid leave. Very few exemptions for religious or medical conditions. My employer will not provide a testing alternative.
When I asked my new employer when I accepted the offer about vaccination, mentioning that I had had Covid, the VP of Engineering said, “I’m not sure it’s legal for us to ask you about that.” He assured me it would not be a problem.
Now on to the links:
The newly formed company will soon be launching the social media platform TRUTH Social, which was billed in a press release as “a rival to the liberal media consortium.”
Like Gab, its app will get pulled from the app stores.
In what appears to be a major concession to moderate Democrats, President Joe Biden reportedly told House progressives Tuesday that tuition-free community college will not be included in the final version of a multitrillion-dollar spending bill to fund the president’s economic and climate agenda.
It’s a baby step of an improvement.
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s opposition to the corporate and income tax hikes is reportedly forcing Democratic senators to search for other ways to finance their sweeping budget.
Ohhh.. nice.
“It’s bullshit,” Manchin said when asked by a reporter about the report from Mother Jones. “I have no control over rumors, you guys. No control over rumors.”
It came from Mother Jones? Let me see if it was ENB’s husband…
/clicks link
Nope, someone else.
Judge Royce C. Lamberth called for an investigation into the conditions of the prisoners and the US Marshal Service has acted upon that request (via NBC4 Washington):
“Procedures were followed”.
The number of 100 vessels at anchor in the sea is a dozen higher than Friday and breaks a former record of 97 on Sept. 19, according to Capt. J. Kipling Louttit with the Marine Exchange of Southern California. The Marine Exchange is responsible for coordinating shipping traffic and piloting the vessels into port.
Nothing to see here… move along citizen…. nothing to see here…..
The letter shows that “NIH — and specifically, Collins, Fauci, and Tabak — lied to Congress, lied to the press, and lied to the public,” Richard Ebright, lab director at Rutgers University’s Waskman Institute of Microbiology, tweeted Wednesday night when sharing the letter. “Knowingly. Willfully. Brazenly.”
Unless they come out on the bad side of the factional infighting, nothing else will happen.
G’luck on that new job man.
Thanks!
ditto
+1
Sorry last night didn’t work out.
Everyone must get vaccinated by Dec. 8th or be put on unpaid leave.
If the feds do try to enforce such a mandate and the company sets a date and stipulates unpaid leave I intend to count back from that date and take any and all remaining pto I have available. I see it as earned income anyway.
Congratulations!
I don’t believe there is a testing option under the EOs for federal employee or contractors. That is only under the OSHA regulations that have never been issued.
I don’t think people realize what a broad net this stupid “federal contractor” thing casts. According to my HR lead, any single company with any single federal contract triggers every single employee of that company to be jabbed. The reasoning being, that if you work at the same company, you might somehow come into contact with the contracted employee, who then is in contact with federal workers.
Put into perspective: I work at an international company with 600 or so employees. Our Mexico City office has a contract for work at the US Embassy in Guadalajara. I’m in the Midwestern United States, and have never set foot in Mexico City or Guadalajara. I have never met the persons doing work for the Embassy, and I couldn’t even tell you their names.
My line of work involves working in the field for some, however my particular occupation makes me a desk jockey, and I do not visit project sites in person, ever. I’m strictly support.
According to my HR woman, none of that matters. Because of an incredibly loose connection with workers in a whole other country, I’m required to get jabbed.
Whether true or not, that seems to be my company’s perception. That’s how I’m going to end up losing my job that I love so much.
That’s how I’m going to end up losing my job that I love so much.
sarcasm?
I don’t think so… cause I carry the same sentiment. I love what I do and Bradon has deemed me unworthy of the position, not on merit, outcome or failings but because we didn’t bow to his shriveled penis when commanded to.
Normally, it would be. In this case I mean it, I have my dream job, i.e., it’s the best I could hope for with my particular skill set. I’ve spent 20 years paying my dues to get this job, and my first day was April 1 2019. I got to enjoy one year before the pandy hit. And I had no problem with the year of WFH either. I never feared for my job since 2019, but the past few weeks the rhetoric from HR has started to ramp up and I’m pretty sure I’ll end up being fired from this job I worked so hard for.
I do and did. There are several pre-covid wage & hour/EEO rules that “only” apply to federal contractors, but apply to the entire company not just the contracting portion.
That doesn’t appear to be the case in my company. I know they have several federal and state contracts. Still no official word on requesting vaccination status, requiring vaccinations, or anything regarding weekly testing.
Last all hands meeting they specifically pointed out that any vaccination mandates were being pushed by the US government, not the company.
Thanks for the good wishes on my new job.
Congrats on getting out and congrats on the new job! If y’all need a patent attorney, hit me up. ?
Thanks!
I’ll keep you in mind if needing a patent lawyer comes up.
Ah, Australia.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/killer-ice-hailstones-falling-over-25256823
Holy shit
When I lived in OK, we’d get hailstone clusters several inches across. I don’t know if the shape made them less dangerous because of greater drag, or more dangerous because they’d be kind of spiky.
Holy shit indeed – those pictured hailstones are huge.
The Aussies fucked up. They should have started posting on social media their plans to go outside their house. That would have gotten the goons to storm outside only to be clobbered by that hail.
Yeah, sure. ?
-NIH changes story, confirms it funded Wuhan experiment that made bat coronavirus more dangerous”
So, uh, prison?
No. Fauci’s long history of ALWAYS telling the truth will save him here.
I mean it isn’t like the man has ever been caught lying to the public before. Cut him some slack.
Truth is like science, it evolves over time.
You think they would admit they were behind this, and thus that they KNEW the virus came from the Wuhan lab in contradiction to the censorious bullshit we had for a full year against anyone pointing this out, if there was any chance of them being held liable?
“If you created an algorithm to create the perfect MAGA ad parody, they couldn’t do it this well”
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1450866380761440257
booba good
She is gonna trigger Q and Tres…
She needs to work on her holstering.
She needs to stop shooting bottles.
So, I guess she should stick to cans.
Who’s going to clean up all the broken glass?
Creating jobs!
The Burning Man Org, presumably.
They have orphans, erh, I mean VOLUNTEERS, for that.
She looks fun!
https://nypost.com/2021/10/20/tufts-university-student-dies-after-hot-dog-eating-contest/
That’s sad.
This really puts things in perspective. I wonder if they’ll ever have a hot dog eating contest ever again.
This is actually a nightmare for all those involved. Wishing them well in dealing with this grief.
Australian Football League: “all the way with the NBA!”
https://www.afl.com.au/news/685424/no-jab-no-play-afl-releases-vaccination-policy
Whew, finally some breathing room so they can begin to clear away the stacks of dead footie players.
Also over at Breitbart:
Well, everything he says is a lie, so not sure if this could be trusted or not, but if somehow he accidentally told the truth, this is terrible news. Hillary most affected.
Treated for a “Urological” infection in LA even though he lives in NY…
Eh, UTIs are common at that age. They also have almost zero physical symptoms outside of the mental effects.
He probably started hallucinating while on travel.
Imagine what Bill might say if he did start hallucinating.
He might even tell the truth. Can’t have that situation.
“I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton”
Hillary in the hospital:
“Well Bill, your philandering ways have caught up to you again. We’re gonna have to jam a giant tube up your urethra”
*whispering to nurse* “oversize it by two sizes. That fuck deserves it.”
What if he is into that?
It’s probably incredibly painful with his bent penis and all
Bootleg wood, if I recall
More dogleg.
He doesn’t have the stone for that.
I expect more information on this story to drip out.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/10/20/82-vaccinated-singapore-records-highest-daily-coronavirus-cases/
Emphasis added.
Phallic jokes?
I see we’re still playing case-demic.
I wonder just many years a mass hysteria like this can keep feeding itself.
According to Asshat Murphy, it’s a crisis that will last our lifetime.
Chinese food is just 90% filler.
This is what will happen in any area that has had extremely low rates all along. Eventually Australia and NZ will have to go through the same thing.
For a city-state with a large ethnically Chinese population, calling it “Chinese coronavirus vaccination rate” is confusing (what about the “Malay coronavirus vaccination rate?”). The next sentence cleared it up (the virus is Chinese, not the vaccination rate), but still. Editorial policies are brainless these days.
Let the bullshit that leads to nobody being held accountable begin…
The worst and vilest sorts of people are at the top of the bureaucratic mandarinate selling us out to the CCP and the globalist cabal, and they will never allow the system to hold them accountable. But anyone getting in their way will be made to pay.
Nuke DC is a good thing.
“A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn’t stop them.”
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1450394397619666945
It was just some random crowd, apparently.
Guessing they were told not to.
More or less:
I suspect Portland PD is giving the people what they want, good and hard.
There’s also been a push to target officers involved in the past riots, along with other actions that led officers to resign from the assignment en masse.
But they sure do make a convenient scapegoat for twitts.
I hate those guys!
“Youths”, I suspect.
They just need some midnight basketball!
Or, since it’s Portland, midnight soccer.
Ah, twitter.
I’m sure Jack will be along in a moment to label all the misinformation.
Good morning Banjos!
You found some juicy lynx today!
US Marshals: We’re Looking to See If the January 6 Defendants Are Being Deliberately Mistreated
I don’t think they are being accidentally mistreated. It’s an absolute travesty. No charges, no trial, nothing. Soviet-style.
Wow. They don’t seem like duplicitous assholes at all. They’ll turn those papers over within the five days for sure.
Doesn’t the thought of Fauci being perp-walked warm your cold libertarian hearts, though?
On the long list of things that make me weep for my nation, locking people up without trial for 9 or 10 months for trespassing and nobody really giving a crap is pretty high up there.
On the plus side… The reporting tying Muslim domestic terror “plots” to the Whitmer kidnapping plot and then to the “insurrection” plot is beginning to come together reasonably solidly. Maybe people will finally start thinking again soon.
Something my family and neighbors don’t get. It isn’t Joe Biden or Pete ButtButt that will be firing people….it will be first level managers, me, firing people I have worked with for over a decade.. If I get the vaccine or the exemption I will be putting people out of work or face insubordination for refusing to do so.
This is what I call socialism 2.0: production isn’t owned by the state, instead the bureaucracy can threaten companies to do their work; the latter taking the brunt of the blame.
Some sort of system where the state directs ostensibly private business to do the state’s bidding? We need a snappy name for that. Maybe a cool symbol, showing as we’re all together.
Some sort of old Hindu or Native American symbol?
I was thinking of something like a bundle of twigs? Or sticks? With, like, a blade or something in the middle.
I’m a Rod Stewart fan. Could we possibly name this after a band he was in?
Faces? That is almost perfect. Just not exactly it…
I don’t think I quite realized what was on the back of a Mercury dime until now.
Now to add a Bellamy salute.
Maybe we can reuse Hillary’s campaign slogan, “Stronger Together”.
We should class it up and use Latin – simul fortior!
Or maybe just Italian – that feels like a better fit, for some reason: più forti insieme!
My original title is Radar SS. I don’t think we think these things through.
You should axe around for a good name.
Speaking of symbols, my son wants me to put my “no step on snek” flag out now that we have a place for a flag pole now. Um, no. Not advertising my politics to the neighbors.
Wise. You don’t know what is around you.
That’s what fascism is LH: government outsourcing the decisions they make to the private sector (like they are private, shya!) as the government entities pick winners & losers and blame the private sector when shit goes wrong..
Bad video quality, but relevant
We live near Parkland Florida, so the wife has been enthralled by the trial coverage. She made me watch the plea and statement yesterday.
Here is what you missed:
Headline first:. Kid is clearly severely developmentally handicapped. Really dumb, and not in a “Ken from accounting is an idiot” way. This explains all of it. His ceiling in life with a perfect family support system was night watchman or janitor. Not a real janitor… The kind that just empties the bins.
Kid’s attorneys are not really helping him. They clearly offered minimal input on his “apology” statement. Kid clearly thought that saying the proper mantra would help, but the speech was clearly entirely his own creation.
Judge is beautiful and well spoken. Likely to get a TV deal or some such. Also did not appear to do any posturing or grandstanding for the camera. That was surprising. I was becoming a fan…. Then….
They handled his plea on assaulting a prison guard. Prosecutor stacked as many charges as they could think of and asked for the maximum. Consecutively, not concurrent. Judge questioned them on it. Why consecutive? Is that even allowed on lesser included charges? (Ok, I like this judge… Not rolling over). Prosecutor says “Nah, it’ll be fine!”. Judge imposes maximum on all charges. Consecutively. Dude got more than double the average time for murder over a simple assault.
Judge “deliberated” for as long as it took the defense to not say anything in his defense.
Everyone knows it makes no difference. He is down for the death penalty. Life without parole is his best hope, and it probably ain’t happening. But still…. The defense did not argue anything. And the judge handed down an entirely unreasonable sentence. Tough to say that around these parts, but justice is justice. And there is no way that the sentence for this fight was just. Charitably, I am going to say the defense strategy was to avoid any fuss so they could maintain sympathy for the penalty phase.
Prosecution did something weird. After the guilty pleas were entered on all of the murder charges, the prosecutor came forward and gave a long speach about what they would have proven in a trial. He detailed all of the shootings and told it as an emotional narrative. Not sure what this was in a legal sense… Maybe it is a standard part of the plea deal so the judge can decide to accept or reject it. But it played like a guy who was disappointed that he wasn’t gonna get his Marsha Clark moment and was gonna make the best of this that he could.
Prognosis:. Not sure this kid lives to get the needle. He is small, dumb, socially and emotionally stunted, weird and angry and violent. That does not seem to be a recipe for survival in prison.. particularly among the most violent killers.
told it as an emotional narrative
That kind of thing really grinds my gears. Lay out the facts. That’s all that matters.
I’m surprised it took so long.
@SDF-7:
Yeup.
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This is my shocked face. Now do $600 transactions.
@AlexinCT:
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The Dems have a history of reneging when they realize it’s not as popular as they thought it would be, so if they do do it, it’ll be at the end of most people’s loans when they have $1,000 left on their tab.
Nobody even microscopically invested in the party line is going to admit anything is different from their “reality”.
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Re music: So yesterday I found out my blood pressure is 178/110. That is not me. I rarely get to 140/90 and that’s on a bad day. Dr. Mojeaux (that’s me) thinks I have labile hypertension because let me tell you, these past 2 months have been BP raisers.
With that in mind, I have been listening to a whole lot of new age spa music. No Motley Crue or Sixx A.M. for me. Nor happy bouncy music, nor emo music (looking at you, Mary Hopkin with your “Those Were the Days”), nor R&B, not blues, not even smooth jazz, nor anything that evokes any kind of emotion whatsoever. I am way too sensitive to music.
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@The Late P Brooks: Good luck on your land purchase in Idaho! I guess you got your trailer up and functional as home for a while.
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@Festus: Be well, my friend. Do not disappear without a trace, plzkthxbai.
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@Nephilium:
Chiefs say: “It’s a building year.”
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@GT
Masks are running about 50/50 here. Went to my doc yesterday. Very few employees masked. The doctors certainly aren’t masking at that particular specialty office.
@AlexinCT
KC has signs saying “mask required”. I forget. Not “I forget”. I really do forget. And so do most of the people I see.
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So I’m a renter now, and hallelujah for that. Very nice place, responsive landlord. Wants to get all the problems squared away immediately. (He had had a renter who never bothered him at all, and when the dude moved out, the landlord saw he was operating on one light bulb, and left behind a host of routine maintenance issues to work out.)
Since this house was a model house for the development, I have a real office, right up front. One of the downsides of this place is that we are (again) the youngest family here by far, and we have very nosy neighbors who sit out in their driveway all damned day and watch the comings and goings, and occasionally comment upon them.
I have an appointment with the robotic surgeon to get back at those ulcers
My truck isn’t going to cost that much to fix.
I found a shit-ton of used 2x12s on FB marketplace for $10 a board (i.e., NOT board foot). Dude doesn’t know he’s sitting on a pile of gold. Then again, he’s in Leavenworth (not the prison) and that’s a far drive for me. I want 5 of those puppies for floating bookshelves.
We’re still moving and unpacking and trying to decide what to do with kitchen accoutrements when we now have 1/3 of the cabinet space. Also, I have 1/3 of the wall space, so I’m going to have to rotate my art more than I did before.
I hope everything’s calmed down by Christmas so my BP can go back to its normal 130/70. I’ve been taking all the bumps in the road in stride, thanks to my anxiolytic, but apparently my heart is not taking it in stride.
Despite all that, all is going forward to better times, not backward into hopelessness, so don’t cry for me Glibentina.
Didn’t mean to write a novel, but there you go.
my blood pressure is 178/110
Yikes. FWIW, I got a BP monitor for home at the advice of my doctor – “me taking a reading once or twice a year isn’t really that useful”. I check it every couple of days & it’s good to get a consistent baseline.
Chiefs say: “It’s a building year.”
Pats nod in agreement.
For some reason unfathomable to me, the Chiefs, this entire town, and My Dude thought Mahomes would solve all our problems all by his lonesome. I would think people would know better. All the teams know the tricks now, but our very young O line does not. Time for new tricks.
Good O line coaching is under-appreciated, I think. The Pats had to drag Dante Scarnecchia back out of retirement and it immediately made a difference. He just retired again and it shows.
However, the pieces are there for a solid team for the next few years – Jones isn’t exciting like a Mahomes but he’s a strong enough technician in the Brady mould that he should work out well.
My blood pressure always spikes when I’m in a doctor’s office – it doesn’t help that hypercondriac who fears the doctor will find something wrong with me (even though this doesn’t make any sense since I’m actually very healthy).
So my 150-160 over / 90 BP becomes – at home – 110/80 when using my home monitor.
Me too. Not the hypochondriac but something about getting the cuff on makes me start panicking. At my induction physical, the med tech made a comment asking if I thought someone was going to kill me.
I hate that cuff far more than needles. Needles don’t scare me, but that cuff fucking HURTS.
One of the downsides of this place is that we are (again) the youngest family here by far, and we have very nosy neighbors who sit out in their driveway all damned day and watch the comings and goings, and occasionally comment upon them.
I’d take that in a heartbeat over the alternative. I recognize the landscapers but none of the actual residents. I do recognize their dogs by bark, though.
Damn Mojo! Keep swimming. I see some Brian Eno in your future.
+1 Music for Airports
Ooh, thanks for the suggestion.
When I like to mellow out at night:
Frank Sinatra – September of my Years
Beck – Sea Change or Morning Phase
any three of the This Immortal Coil albums
The Hope Blister – …Smiles OK
I have Sinatra but my love for him from childhood till now has waned mightily.
most of Sinatra – to my ears – is “phoned it in” dreck.
But September of my Years – he actually seemed to care about the quality. For more upbeat Sinatra, at the Sands with Count Basie is my favorite. Again he seems to give a fuck only with some albums, material close to his heart.
He can’t sing very well. He almost-speaks everything.
Small story about Sinatra. I really really really loved him when I was in single digits and pre-teen. My dad didn’t like him for the mafia connections and also because he doesn’t sing very well. My across-the-street neighbors had tickets to see him in concert and my dad almost took them up on it to take me to see him, but I pissed him off somehow, so he declined.
I think Sinatra can sing quite well… when he wants to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfk120DyvSg
I had heard once that he went through phases of singing and almost-speaking, but I’m not sure how accurate that is.
Maybe he’s not to everyone’s taste. But, you know, I can understand the words to his songs. So many “artists” today garble the words or eat the mike or scream to the extent I have no idea what they are singing about.
Mel Torme. I will admit that I was introduced to him via Christmas music, so he has a special place in my heart.
If I may be so bold, Chill Out by KLF is my favorite sink into the chair album – https://youtu.be/bWebqCRw7o4
Another one I like
https://youtu.be/34UutDrXV2Q
Also, this is a bit out there, but I’ve been listening to this radio show for decades; it’s called Over The Edge and it was a weekly 3 or 5 hour sonic tapestry of receptacle programming (anyone can call in and be added instantly into the mix – the show’s motto was Don’t Say Hello!) produced by Don Joyce and the gang from Negativland. Many episodes are rough, many are good, some are downright brilliant (Advertising Secrets, Salute To Bob & Ray, Beneath The Sphinx, etc.). Throw on some headphones and melt into sonic wonder.
https://archive.org/details/ote?sort=titleSorter
One I like. Watching the vid is almost as hypnotic as the music.
It’s good you are in your new place. I hope it works out for you.
Best wishes with your surgery.
And best wishes for your new job!
Thanks!
As I’ve mentioned before, SiriusXM’s Spa channel is my “no kill co-workers” choice for bad days at the office.
Piped-in music in the state park lodge’s dining room was stuck on some sort of Don Henley channel for a few meals, but thankfully transitioned to appropriate-for-the-lodge’s-name-and-decor Native American flute music. Some of that might be just the thing for you.
I bought a CD long ago at Hallmark that I retired for a few years because it’s associated with some bad memories. But yesterday on the way home from the doctor, I realized it’s just what I need so I put it back in my rotation. https://www.amazon.com/A-Drive-in-the-Country/dp/B00161E0TY
I have a rental house, and my tenant died. Which, ha ha, carries a bunch of odd things with it that are expensive to take care of, as I am sure you can guess. But, while there was a security deposit, his estate is now in probate, so I needed to carry the rest of these expenses upfront.
So it goes.
I’m so sorry. I have vowed I would never again be a homeowner (much less a landlord). All these THINGS keep stacking up.
I found a shit-ton of used 2x12s on FB marketplace for $10 a board (i.e., NOT board foot). Dude doesn’t know he’s sitting on a pile of gold. Then again, he’s in Leavenworth (not the prison) and that’s a far drive for me. I want 5 of those puppies for floating bookshelves.
Lumber prices have come down quite a bit. 2 x 12s are $18 at my nearby Lowes. If that’s the same by you, you’ll probably spend more on gas driving out there than you’ll save.
Credit to these dishonest cuntes for being consistent in messaging.
The United States Senate needs to act to protect the sacred constitutional right to vote, which is under unrelenting assault by proponents of the Big Lie and Republican Governors, Secretaries of State, Attorneys-General, and state legislatures across the nation.
It is urgent. Democracy – the very soul of America – is at stake.
Today, Senate Democrats would like to start debate on the Freedom to Vote Act. Senate Democrats have worked hard to ensure this bill includes traditionally bipartisan provisions. But Senate Republicans are likely to block even debate on the bill, as they have before on previous voting rights bills. It’s unconscionable.
The right to vote – to vote freely, to vote fairly, and to have your vote counted – is fundamental. It should be simple and straightforward. Let there be a debate and let there be a vote.
More like Freedom to Cheat Act.
Destin from Smarter Every Day says we are frogs in a pot of boiling water with respect to our privacy.
https://youtu.be/KMtrY6lbjcY
Interesting twist…. Goes back to the initial invention and regulation of wiretapping in the 1930s.
Used to like watching him with the kids sometimes.
Then I found one where he sat down with Obama and I haven’t seen him since.
Q said: “Non-compliance, passive resistance, living a good life and being happy. Those are your weapons.”
This is the way. Sand in the gears, foot dragging, mockery and humor. There is a term for it that I just learned that I quite like (for obvious reasons), Irish Democracy. Don’t let the bastards get you down. Let’s go Brandon.
LET’S GO BRANDON!
>>“Non-compliance, passive resistance, living a good life and being happy. Those are your weapons.”
aka the STEVE SMITH way of living
Minus the forcible sodomy, of course.
Relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu7rPq_0kJ0
How do you tell someone “take care of the shit that belongs to you before contacting me” without saying “take care of the shit that belongs to you before contacting me”?
I ultimately said “the web team isn’t set up to edit documents produced by other teams. When the web team uploads a document to the website, that document needs to be fully cleared and finalized by the team that actually produced it.”
Is that clear enough?
Because these motherfuckers are asking me to edit documents they created. Like, it’s your document. Get it ready before asking us to post it to the website. For fuck’s sake.
(this is the equivalent of a novelist asking the printing press to edit their book)
If other web content “editors” are anything to go by, they don’t know basic spelling and grammar anyway.
This isn’t even web content – it’s official government documents. Asking a web developer to edit these things is…insane.
Seeing the written products of the federal bureaucracy I can understand why they want your help. You have demonstrated something more than simple competence and they are amazed by that.
I work DevSecOps. It isn’t uncommon to be contacted because a pipeline failed. The response is usually, “The pipeline functioned as intended. The job failed because the code failed the tests. Fix the code.”
Thank you for your service
Five military veterans on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s advisory board resigned from their roles this week, slamming the Arizona Democrat as one of the “principal obstacles to progress.”
In a letter to Sinema, the veterans expressed frustration with her refusal to change the Senate filibuster to protect voting rights, failure to support prescription drug negotiations, her opposition to parts of the Democrats’ sweeping budget reconciliation package that make up President Joe Biden’s agenda and criticized her for not voting on the January 6 commission.
“You have become one of the principal obstacles to progress, answering to big donors rather than your own people,” the veterans wrote. “We shouldn’t have to buy representation from you, and your failure to stand by your people and see their urgent needs is alarming.”
“We do not know who has your ear, but it clearly isn’t us or your constituents,” they added.
Define “progress” you preening attention whores.
If only all big donors were like Mark Zuckerberg.
Fixed it
I’d really, really like to think it’s principles and not just raw political calculus concerning AZ’s voter base. But I’ll take it, regardless.
Every politician should live in fear of their constituents, 24/7/365. I’ll take it, too.
Five out of how many advisors? I’m rather certain she could easily replace all five with veterans who haven’t become pinkos.
expressed frustration with her refusal to change the Senate filibuster to protect voting rights
That’s not what the bill does. And outside of any relevant constitutional provisions the elections are to be handled by the states.
criticized her for not voting on the January 6 commission
The hyper-politicized horseshit tyranny involving a small riot that now has hundreds of people held as political prisoners and is being used to conduct a fishing expedition against all things Trump? Fuck. Off.
I’d really, really like to think it’s principles and not just raw political calculus
I’ll accept the right result with the wrong justification. Take what you can get.
Just saw an anti-Youngkin ad saying Youngkin is the only GOP whom the NRA didn’t endorse. So, like, a pro-gun, anti-Youngkin group? Or just disingenuous fearmongering from people who are actually anti-gunners?*
Unfortunately I didn’t see who made the ad. I’ll see if it comes on again.
*I know the answer. I just thought it was a weird flex to try to rile up pro-2A people against Youngkin.
I’m going to guess it was ‘the Accountability Virginia PAC ‘
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dominion-energy-asks-for-donations-back-from-group-targeting-youngkin/ar-AAPFPk8
After a little Googling, I think that’s the one.
Elections are so slimy.
The NRA is not exactly held in high regard among my circle of 2A / A1S13 supporting associates.
Just saw an anti-Youngkin ad saying Youngkin is the only GOP whom the NRA didn’t endorse.
“That tears it. I’m voting for McAuliffe.”
Right? Like ANY pro-2A republican is going to somehow vote for McAuliffe, ever.
When you can’t generate enthusiasm for your candidate attack the enthusiasm for your opponent.
Yep. This is another indicator that Team Slimeball is worried.
Twice?