Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely morning it always is!
Southwest cancelled 350 additional flights on Monday.
Growing number of likely voters believe that cheating tainted President Joe Biden’s 2020 win.
Wisconsin’s election probe zeroes in on Democrat machine tactics, rule changes.
Georgia asks DOJ to investigate largest county over alleged destruction of election documents
China denies WHO access to bat caves in search for COVID origins.
Maybe, but I don’t trust any on the statistics.
US headed into another recession if consumer sentiment trend continues, economists say
Raising Cane’s Sending Corporate Employees to Work in Restaurants as Fry Cooks and Cashiers.
63 year old woman continues to embarrass family.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Suck it Bro
Good Morning All
Hope your day goes better then mine.
*clicks on 63 year old woman article*
If you had shown me one of those photos, I don’t think I would have known it was Madonna without the article. That’s an astounding amount of plastic surgery.
And a huge amount of makeup too. She’s more cursed doll than woman at this point. I hope she can just go full plastic cyborg and never die.
I have lost a lot of respect for her lately. The Madonna I remember wouldn’t have strutted around with rigid butt implants visible.
#meneither
Those fish-lips… gah!
Maybe, but I don’t trust any on the statistics.
Possibly, but I don’t trust anything. Good morning!
You know the drill, it would have been worse with Trump.
Well, you can’t let them see the Bat Computer.
But checking out what costumes are down there would at least give us an idea as to what timeline/alternate earth we’re on.
I kind of prefer the Blue Morpho to Batman, but that’s just me.
I only very recently watched the last two seasons of Venture Bros. Man that show was phenomenal all the way through.
Yes. There are few shows that have been as dedicated to quality. Although I thought it weakened a bit when the setting moved to NYC, and all the old villains were revealed to be second-raters at best. But they way they handled The Monarch’s arc to keep him relevant was well done.
No spoilers, but there were some very obvious loose ends from the early seasons that were tied up nicely, although I wish something different had happened with the Jonas Venture Sr. character. But it probably was not to be, as the whole story wouldn’t have happened without his character flaws shaping future events.
The first season was a bit rough, as they were still just a fairly basic Johnny Quest spoof at that point. I’m more surprised that they didn’t really have a grand plan, and just winged it for most of the seasons (per reports online, and the writers own admissions). That probably is the reason for the huge delays between seasons though. At least we’re supposed to get a movie to wrap up the loose ends.
They may not have had a grand plan, but I’m pretty sure they had a good outline and good character profiles. It’s a character driven series, so as long as those are laid out well, it’s probably easier to write without a big framework.
Is it out from behind a paywall? Boy I’d love to see that.
Your library may have it on DVD. Mine does.
Every season is on Hulu. I think the starting tier is like $8 with commercials. You could binge it in a month and cancel the subscription.
Or you can just use Google to easily pirate it. Either way, you’re doing yourself a disservice for not watching it. It’s the best.
It would have been easier to hide their malfeasance if everything wasn’t so clearly labeled.
Sure, Trump said a lot of wacky things, but Biden has told many falsehoods about the virus as well. He stated , for example, that “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the ICU unit and you’re not going to die.” And then, shortly after those comments, Biden contradicted himself and added that even if vaccinated people do “catch the virus,” they are “not likely to get sick.”
Further, when discussing the delta variant, Biden stated that vaccines “cover” the delta variant insofar as people will not contract the virus if vaccinated. “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,” Biden said .
Magic potion is magic.
Joe Biden fucking loves science.
Worst. Simulacrum. President. Ever.
Can we recast the spell?
Or at least a high level dispel magic?
It’s important to separate job functions
That’s bad even by our standards.
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2021/07/27
Southwest cancelled 350 additional flights on Monday.
I guess there is more than one way to get the plebs to stop traveling by plane.
Joe is just continuing his work of healing the earth that The One started.
A growing number of likely voters believe that cheating tainted President Joe Biden’s 2020 win over former President Donald Trump, and even more feel that a key Democratic election reform scheme will increase fraud.
In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 56% of respondents said, “It’s likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, including 41% who say it’s ‘very likely.’”
C’mon, man. Joe is the most popular president in history.
Those numbers is crazy. But I don’t trust polls enough to drag out the “It’s Happening!” gif just yet.
Rasmussen polls tend to oversample Republican voting. Knock a few percent off for that, and you get “Republicans believe cheating occurred. Democrats don’t.”
The poll numbers are still too high. Apparently a solid 40% of people are total morons who would follow Joe into the Wuhan bat caves to lick bats.
That’s the only way you’ll get true immunity!
What they mean is that Trump’s cheating made the race closer than it should have been.
Morning, Banjos.
Groupthink
Some of the most serious early failings, the report suggests, resulted from apparent “groupthink” among scientists and ministers – which meant the UK was not as open to different approaches on earlier lockdowns, border controls and test and trace as it should have been.
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When Covid hit, the government’s approach was to manage its spread through the population rather than try to stop it – or herd immunity by infection as the report called it.
The report said this was based on dealing with a flu pandemic, and was done on the advice of its scientific advisers on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).
But the idea was not challenged enough by ministers in any part of the UK, indicating a “degree of group-think”.
aka hundreds of years of practical experience and accumulated knowledge.
But this is the age of New Beginnings. History is dead.
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
The only way to progress is to realize that history has nothing to teach us, that it is filled with all kinds of wrongness and only new thinking can lead us to nirvana.
Interviews with more than a dozen witnesses, officials and lawyers who have interacted with retired Justice Mike Gableman and his staff suggest a strong focus on the role election bureaucracies played in changing the rules — without legislative consent — for how ballots were sent out, filled out, collected and counted.
VA Dems are currently trying to change the rules for
absenteemail-in ballots signature matching requirement even after earlycheatingvoting has begun.Georgia’s top election official on Monday demanded that the U.S. Justice Department open an investigation into election management in the state’s largest county after officials in Fulton County disclosed they had shredded at least 300 voter applications for its upcoming municipal elections in apparent violation of the law.
Seems like the role of the state doj.
Yes, but we need the more corrupt Feds to pretend to investigate this.
if Biden were held to the same standard Trump was, he would be exposed for his lies and incompetence.
I have it on good authority that Joe Biden is a consummate politician and public servant, whose only desire is to improve the lives of every American, no matter its race, creed or color.
Joe Biden is a meat puppet that flaps whichever way the wind blows. Although 1990s Joe Biden is pretty much the same leader as Trump, funny that.
Uh, you sure about that second sentence? Chief architect of the Patriot Act?
That’s 2000s Joe though.
I thought they (whoever They is) had kept that handy since the 90s, since OKC or Waco.
Maybe, I was a little tyke when all that happened.
NPR had a bit on this new and completely impossible economic event called “stagflation.” That has apparently never happened before, especially not when a democrat was president.
Fast-food chain Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is sending a significant number of its corporate employees to work as cashiers and fry cooks amid labor shortages.
So it’s more like Razing Cane’s, amirite?
Razzing Cainites
Think of the lives which could have been saved if only they had had doordash and work-from-home during the bubonic plague.
Our current bunch of leaders would be banning all anti-biotic treatments of the plague, and forbidding the use of pesticides to kill fleas.
“The only way to deal with the black death is a daily regimen of whipping oneself for your sins and killing the cats.”
NPR had a bit on this new and completely impossible economic event called “stagflation.” That has apparently never happened before, especially not when a democrat was president.
We’re much better at finagling GDP numbers than those dopes back in the Nixonian stone age.
Our models will save us.
The Performance was a smashing success.
Russian actor Yevgeny Kulesh was crushed to death during a set change at Moscow’s world-famous Bolshoi Theater this weekend. Kulesh went in the wrong direction during the descent of a ramp and was trapped underneath.
Still dead.
‘Velvet Underground’ Review: Rough-Edged Rockers Todd Haynes’s new film celebrates the New York band fronted by Lou Reed that had a small audience but a large impact.
For whatever reason preferred Lou Reed solo.
Speaking of Women of Maturity…
Do human growth hormone treatments work as effectively for women as they seem to do for men?
Speaking of which-
*furtively side-eyes Shatner*
Yeah, what the hell is that guy on and can I get some.
Get the shot, snowflake.
NEW VIDEO: Time to stop coddling the morons who won’t get vaccinated.
And first, we stop calling them “Anti-Vax” or “Makers of a Personal Choice.”#
We start calling them what they really are:
SNOWFLAKES WHO ARE AFRAID OF GETTING THE VACCINE!
Because insulting people is how you convince them you’re right. They don’t care whether you get the vaccine they just want to feel morally superior.
Keith apparently thinks that he can turn around the ‘snowflake’ epithet, and all those deplorable hillbillies will just instantly fall into line.
I somehow doubt that it’s gonna work.
Keith doesn’t think.
I think he’s actually deranged in a clinically definable manner.
How to Win Friends and Influence People!
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I take all my medical advice from certified lunatic sports commentators.
“Of course I’m afraid. You think I’m reluctant because I’m happy?”
Look at that arm bro, he’s tatted up and shredded.
“ Growing number of likely voters believe that cheating tainted President Joe Biden’s 2020 win.”
While I’m sure there was plenty of cheating. I think the real problem with mail in ballots is there are millions of people who don’t know a thing about government who would stay home on Election Day. They vote for whoever their media/social media overlords tell them to. Dems know this and have an army mobilized to help them vote.
The result was that too little was done in the early weeks to stop Covid spreading, despite evidence from China and then Italy that it was a virus that was highly infectious, caused severe illness and for which there was no cure.
“The veil of ignorance through which the UK viewed the initial weeks of the pandemic was partly self-inflicted,” said the report.
So what you’re saying is you initially lacked the unconstrained hubris to pretend it would be possible to “defeat” a virus.
It’s not HUBRIS it’s VISION.
Specifically, hindsight.
Heh.
TRUMP CELEBRATES COLUMBUS DAY!
Glad to hear that some have tried the higher extraction temperature for brewing coffee and found it an improvement!
195 for me. Couldn’t get to 205!
Tasty, though.
A new front in the war on freedom
A federal lawsuit has been filed against a second Wisconsin school board over the school district’s COVID-19 protocols.
The civil lawsuit filed Monday by Gina Kildahl in the Western District of Wisconsin U.S. District Court seeks an injunction that would order the Fall Creek School District to comply with Centers for Disease Control COVID-19 guidelines for K-12 schools.
According to the lawsuit, the Board of Education for the Fall Creek School District voted to end many of their COVID-19 mitigation policies, including a mask requirement, for the 2021-2022 school year. Two of Kildahl’s son’s classmates at Fall Creek Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19 in the span of five days, on Sept. 20 and Sept. 24, with one of the classmates not wearing a mask to school. Kildahl’s son, who wore a mask to school, tested positive for COVID-19 on Sept. 27, and missed two weeks of school while in quarantine.
Kildahl’s lawsuit states the district violated her son’s equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, writing that the Fall Creek School District and the Board of Education’s “reckless refusal to implement reasonable COVID-19 measures” was the cause of Kildahl’s son’s COVID-19 infection, as well as other COVID-19 cases in the school district among those who attended classes in-person and then spread COVID-19 throughout the community.
I wonder if the CDC is encouraging these lawsuits and coaching the plaintiffs like the EPA does.
OFFS. Was he sick? Was it a false positive? Who the fuck knows. QuArAnTiNe!1!
I’d sue the mask company.
$5 says “wore a mask to school” means he ditched it as soon as he walked around the block from home.
Kids are surprisingly compliant these days.
JFC…
What happened:
Bomb scare that led to emergency landing caused by passenger’s camera
The spin and overreaction:
No charges for passenger in LaGuardia emergency landing
Did they use a criminality-sniffing dog or what?
The crazy woman was NOT detained or inconvenienced in any way.
He was holding something that was scary and black with a button that goes “click”.
I flew last week. The covid theater layered on top of the security theater was pretty unbearable. I flew for $40 rather than driving for 12 hours each way – and it was barely worth it.
If you see anything, do everything!
Dammit, I need more coffee. I just spent 5 minutes responding to comments in the dead thread because I picked the wrong tab in my browser.
I’m sure the zombies appreciate the attention.
I do that too. No doubt they were also your most insightful comments.
pre-coffee? I’d be surprised if they were in English
Is it even good coffee? How many tattoos does the roaster have?
The lawsuit compares Fall Creek’s school to a “COVID-19 snake pit,” and Bangstad said that while the virus probably won’t kill children because they are young and healthy, sick children can still bring the virus home.
“They are now becoming vectors through which this delta variant will explode in communities,” Bangstad said. “It’s kind of like this manufacturing plant, you know, putting out carcinogens in the air and giving people in the community cancer.”
SCIENCE!
You can’t stop the
signalspread.Can’t stop stupid, either.
Interesting workout routine.
Probably would.
looks up there on the crazy
Crazy – as well as energetic and flexible. It is a quandary.
She seems passionate
Y’all are crazy to even think about.
If there’s anything funnier on the Internet today can you let me know?
https://twitter.com/jasongillearn/status/1445544723733569539
You want me to watch a video with sound? It’s bad enough you asked me to open a twit.
IT’S MA’AM.
transcompetent
Go fuck yourself.
I thought Paul Lynde was dead?
Paul Lynde – never heard of xer
He was very funny – back when being a barely closeted gay could be a running gag.
Sort of the Liberace analogue of 60s-70s American actors.
obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ByxyIAWrQ
A rat bastard.
this is fine
Not like they’d find anything there, anyway…CCP has probably set off a bat bomb in the caves and eradicated them all–except the ones they have relocated for further research…
Epic trolling on Poland soccer pitch…
Nice.
Poland does really well on the internet.
they aint winning no champions league though
“China denies WHO access to bat caves in search for COVID origins.”
They won’t find the one they are looking for in a cave. They should try a lab instead.
yeah, that too.
“Look! Behind that stalactite! It’s a secret lab!”
That’s the point, I suspect – can’t let them confirm there’s no trace of covid in those caves.
Contempt of Congress? That’s like the national pastime.
Former Trump White House strategist Stephen Bannon’s choice to buck a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol could tee up a big decision for a Justice Department determined to strike an independent tone.
The House committee has said it may refer Bannon for criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice (DOJ) if he doesn’t appear for a deposition slated for Thursday.
Such a move would place Attorney General Merrick Garland in the center of a debate over whether to go after a former right-hand man of Donald Trump after vowing to restore the reputation of a department that was deeply politicized under the prior administration.
Yeah, can we please go back to the way the DoJ was politicized in the Obama administration?
after vowing to restore the reputation of a department that was deeply politicized under the prior administration.
Progjection thy name is Merrick.
Let’s see, Bannon was fired by Trump in August, 2017. And this committee is concerned about what happened on Jan 6, 2021. Either this was planned a very long time ago, or they have no legitimate reason to haul Bannon in and they are doing so as pure political theater.
Meanwhile… https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/576200-capitol-police-whistleblower-accuses-leadership-of-failures-on-jan-6
+1 wingman
Thank Zeus that guy didn’t end up on the Supreme Court.
Baseball birthdays: HoFer Joe Cronin, Sid Fernandez, Jose Valentin, and questionable HoFer Rick Ferrell.
Jose was underrated. Made a lot of annoying throwing errors, but also got to a lot of balls most SSs wouldn’t have. I think he would’ve gotten paid a heckuva lot more if he played nowadays. He was part of a stretch of fun-if-ultimately m-unsuccessful Sox teams – lots of homers, little pitching outside Buehrle.
Now that is a different way to put it.
Well, looks like I can put another tally in the lost for other reasons over the past 18 months. One of the girlfriend’s friends hasn’t been seen since Friday. She lived at home with elderly parents, and left without her keys or phone. No recreational drug or alcohol use that I was ever aware of.
Friday is no so long ago though…
Oh no.
That’s just rude. I you’re going to disappear in a way that will call attention to it (like vanishing from your parent’s home) at least bring your phone so your body can be recovered.
Not to be flip or callous, I worked very hard planning my suicide (back when I was actively looking to die — I haven’t been that way for almost twenty years) because they are extremely difficult to do in an ethical way. I have very strong feelings on the subject.
I haven’t been personally in that situation, but there are few ways to accomplish the task without placing heavy burdens on others.
A’la Brad Delp
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/brad-delp-details-emerge-about-his-tragic-suicide
Clearly planned to minimize risk/cleanup to others.
As contrasted with my friend’s uncle, who spray painted the contents of his skull all over the back wall of his parents’ house and left an audio tape as a gigantic “fuck you” to everyone.
CWAA
He had some issues and it’s a tragic story, but he really fucked up his loved ones’ minds for a long time with that one action.
Nope, I’m there with you. FFS, at least leave a note of some kind.
Girlfriend just let me know that she took her computer, so there’s that at least (assuming it’s Win10 or Apple, she didn’t seem to have the technical interest to turn off their location settings). No significant other that anyone knew about either.
The crazy woman was NOT detained or inconvenienced in any way.
She’ll be invited to the White House and awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
Better safe than sorry, abundance of caution, et c…
I haven’t liked Madonna’s look since her quasi prostitute curly haired fashion stage in the ‘80s. The way she looks now though, Jeez…
I’ll take Body of Evidence and call it a career for her. Brother was on a date with his girlfriend and was trying to set me up with the younger sister. 13 year old me couldn’t handle that movie along with the environment too well.
Ah, around the Vogue days. She looked alright then too I suppose.
I remember watching some of the filming for that. The days when you could shoot a movie in downtown Portland without needing to evict the bums.
I’m just gonna say it, Madonna, especially naked, hairy underarms Madonna, has never done anything for me. I also like her music as much as I like Michael Jackson’s music. Prince was superior to Michael Jackson, and nearly every female singer is better than Madonna. Hell Cyndi Lauper had more depth.
“They are now becoming vectors through which this delta variant will explode in communities,” Bangstad said. “It’s kind of like this manufacturing plant, you know, putting out carcinogens in the air and giving people in the community cancer.”
We sent a team of reporters up there to do some interviews, but everybody in a fifty mile radius of that school is dead. The reporters have not returned.
That’d hold water (maybe) if the vaccines weren’t essentially a therapeutic which is what they are. The idea that it prevents transmission rather than mitigates symptoms has been largely dispelled so the vector claim is a horseshit claim that’s used to demonize a group of people.
The latest thing that NPR is pushing is that the coofshot coats the virii that you sneeze out making them less infectious. So while the vaxed can get sick, only the unclean heathens can spread the plague.
Say what now?
If they were less infectious, wouldn’t that mean they were less likely to replicate in vivo and therefore wouldn’t be replicating in the host?
These goalposts are getting dumber as they keep moving.
Nono. These are mucosal antibodies, so they only affect the virus as it’s checking out.
Wait, they’re admitting the existence of mucosal antibodies now? I remember when that was misinformation.
Lord have mercy, that’s idiotic.
That sounds very sciency.
It’s true! There’s never been a breakthrough infection caused where they’ve been able to prove that the sickee was never exposed to an unvaxxed!
Why, you’re right! Failure to prove a negative *is* proof positive!
In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 56% of respondents said, “It’s likely that cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, including 41% who say it’s ‘very likely.’”
That is a significant increase from April, when 51% said “Biden’s election was tainted by cheating.”
It looks like there might be some noise due to different questions, but from what I can figure, the change probably understates the shift (“tainted” versus “affected the outcome”). If these numbers are right, I think they’re going to have to start looking to pull out a different narrative. The numbers shouldn’t be growing, if the “fringe lunatic traitorous conspiracy theory” narrative was doing its job.
There was no cheating, and in any event cheating helped save democracy.
I think they’re going to try to push the latter narrative. Yeah, it will mean admitting fraud. But enough of the population is brainwashed enough to accept it. The argument would go something like “Sure, there was fraud. But, the fraud only supported the will of the American people, since, even without the fraud, Biden won the popular vote. And, as we saw from the January insurrection, a Trump re-election would have been an existential threat to American democracy.”
I think enough people might go along with “noble lie” argument to at least keep the status quo basically unchanged.
I love how everyone has forgotten that DC was boarded up prior to election day 2020. That wasn’t out of fear of rampaging Trump voters.
If Biden was doing a good job the numbers thinking that would be lower regardless of whether the claim is true or not. When people are convinced you suck on one thing they’re less likely to cut you slack or give you the benefit of the doubt on others.
It’s one way to absolve oneself from the responsibility of voting for the asshole. You can say, “Well, if Biden hadn’t cheated, Trump would have won, and my vote wouldn’t have made a difference. Plus, I was fooled by all the media lying to me. Not my fault.”
Yeah, it’s sort of a psychological defense mechanism.
You’re right. Short memory spans are a propagandist’s greatest asset. People who can remember more than a week or two ago have a nasty habit of remembering things that are inconvenient to the narrative.
There’s a mask loophole for Democrats.
It’s probably in the fine print somewhere.
“Flight delays & cancellations occurred for a few hours Friday PM due to widespread severe weather, military training, & limited staffing in one area of the Jacksonville en route center.”
Amazing how committed to this (easily falsifiable) lie they are.
On the bright side it is good for the environment
JStark did more for gun rights in 6 months than the NRA has since their founding in 1871.
https://twitter.com/NotGovernor/status/1447410208800661504\
Although, if someone wanted me to actually fire the gun in that photo, I’d stick it in an old tire and pull the trigger with a string, from a safe distance.
So long Jon Gruden, you said some icky words in some private conversations, you deserve to die of Gonorrhea and rot in hell. Want a cookie?
antibiotic resistant Gonorrhea I assume.
I mean there is no such thing as a private conversation anymore
Sure there is. This is one. Even though anyone can read it, it’s still private in the fact that it is between people who know context. So when I call you a filthy Romanian Vampire it’s not the same thing as me calling all Romanians filthy Vampires.
this is targeted harassment.
Hurled into the void as a distraction to the real shit going on with the league.
At least he can say he wasn’t fired because he is an awful coach (he is).
America Needs Higher, Longer-Lasting Inflation
Inflation is good you see.
Inflation is good. It leads to full employment and helps government pay down debt. Also stops asshole from saving money to a point they think they don’t need no government welfare no more.
The arrogance of these guys. Just ignore the damage it does to savers and people on fixed incomes. And ignore what happens when maturity premia start naturally doing when inflation ramps up. They really have it in their head that they can control it, like they have some dial they can turn to keep it in check.
Wow, just wow…
They’re actually arguing that price and wage inflation correspond to interest rates on debt and because we need higher debt interest rates to quell bubbles, we also need price and wage inflation.
Not mentioned is the alternative of ending the massive increases in the money supply because that would mean cutting government spending.
This is one of the more fundamentally dishonest takes on macroeconomics I’ve ever seen.
The dishonesty was visible by the “evolution” of their claims over time. Six months ago, it was “Oh, all you doom and gloomers with your crazy ‘inflation’ talk. There won’t be any inflation!”. Three months ago, it was “Well, sure there’s rising prices, what you might call ‘inflation’ right now. But, it’s only a transitory phenomenon as our economy gets back to business as usual from a year-long hiatus.”. Now it’s “Inflation is a good thing!”.
I don’t know, the whole field of macroeconomics is based on one set of lies or another.
The whole premise is that it allows higher wages…but doesn’t loop that into the equation of inflation. As if it is a separate force that magically sits outside of economics
Until we spiral the drain like the 1980s. Just wait until 80% of your income goes to rent kids!
Hmm… If it makes some young ones realize the error of their ways, it might be worth it…
Breathtaking. My politics is whatever gets us the opposite of this. I hope it’s being bad on purpose.
According to Taiwan’s health department, more death from the vaccine than from covid.
https://medicaltrend.org/2021/10/10/taiwan-death-from-covid-19-vaccination-exceeds-death-from-covid-19/
But anyway, here he was admitting to harassing trans writers in 2020.
https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/1447390566376001537
whenever I run into threads like this I am always somewhat fascinated. It shows conversation is impossible. The guy literally highlights an accusation from tweet one and claims tweet 2 is admitting it. And no one can make him admit that is not the case.
Why is he harassing Jesse Singal?
Actually, since he couldn’t drum up any support for himself, only people critical of his take, why is he harassing himself?
Saw my mother yesterday and she told me about how 7 of her friends (aged 65-75) went on a trip down to Florida. All vaccinated, and 6 of them got covid, and one woman was hospitalized. The only one not to catch it was vaccinated but also already had the virus. I mean when are they going to stop pretending these shots work?
the shots do not stop you getting it or transmitting it it makes it less severe is the latest thing.
Yeah, about that…
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel/
Why, it’s almost as if the cyclic nature of those graphs show that the virus is going to follow a natural course regardless of all the retarded restrictions and mandates that are put in place! Where, oh where is my shocked face?
Eventually it will go on long enough that some enterprising fellow will run an analysis of the data and find that it spells out a secret code, like “Should’ve drunk your Ovaltine, bitches!”
well deaths seem lower than January. Thought this may be because many of the vulnerable snuffed it back then
The constantly shifting claims make this resemble the cold fusion debacle more and more each day.
So we’ve only got 222 more months of this before we’ve got Covid-19 down?
Ummm…that was debunked in a single weekend. One of my professors was part of the primary debunking, he gave us detailed breakdowns on it. Basically, he called his wife on Friday with “Yeah, I know is is Easter weekend and all, but….ummm…see you on Monday?”
Yes, I know that. But the media kept following it and people who wanted it to be true kept moving goalposts and changing claims every time evidence was presented to debunk the prior claims.
Until you die of a heart attack, stroke, or something bizarre like mad cow disease. But you didn’t die of covid.
“when are they going to stop pretending these shots work?”
As long as it helps them consolidate power, never.
When they get an expensive therapeutic to market? Yes I’m cynical.
Time to bring out the Titty Tuesday birthday balloons!
https://archive.li/611xV
What is the official glibertarian view of Colin Cowherd ? Or Liv Cowherd?
https://youtu.be/oSyF–mMyu0?t=146
Do people have beef with them?
his basketball takes can be pretty bad, though I assume football is more of his specialty. YouTube recommended to me a video of his betting recommendations and I checked after the games and they were mostly way off. Although I don’t fully understand the spread part and always struggle to know which of Team +3/-3 means they win or loose by that much.
I was being silly, sorry to horn in on your thread.
look pun threads have no place in a serious conversation.
If you wanted a serious conversation why did you bring up Cowherd?
I did not. Youtube did,
I can’t stand Colin. I have no idea who Liv is.
Daughter.
she belongs on the streets, twitter decided a couple of years ago, although I am unsure of what that means.
On the streets like, homeless, or on the streets like meth? Or on the streets, like a hooker?
construction worker
https://www.mysportdab.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Liv-cowherd-bio-789×1024.jpg
Ummm…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/16394028/proud-worlds-biggest-catfish-husband-divorce-me-lost-teeth-sex-drive/?rec_article=true
I don’t think that is how it’s supposed to work…
Not really anything strange about breastfeeding for 2 years. Kids still need milk.
If she said 5, then, yeah, yikes.
I know some folks who were breast fed until 5 years. It’s uncommon, but not really rare.
When they get teeth time to stop the teet. It’s just science, man.
Inflation is good you see.
Most of what he refers to I would call price shocks. The only reference to money supply growth is his hallelujah for Congress’ brave action in the absence of the Fed’s ability to cut rates.
The economy is just a series of knobs and levers.
Therein is the fundamental lie under the entirety of macroeconomics. The argument amongst the liars is to which levers to twist and what knobs to pull.
There is also this thing called “forest management”.
PG&E said in a statement Sunday night that it would conduct a so-called “Public Safety Power Shutoff” cutting power for approximately 25,000 customers in 20 counties beginning at 4 a.m. on Monday morning.
“This safety shutoff is due to a dry, offshore wind event expected to start Sunday night and bring wind gusts of up to 50 mph by Monday morning,” the utility said.
The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning affecting much of Northern California stating that gusty winds combined with dry conditions and fuels “will lead to critical fire weather conditions.”
Counties expected to be most impacted include Tehama with 5,342 customers, Solano at 4,561, and Lake with 4,008.
PG&E said it expects “minimal impact” to be felt by customers in the Bay Area and Central Valley.
How convenient.
PG&E said in a statement Sunday night that it would conduct a so-called “Public Safety Power Shutoff” cutting power for approximately 25,000 customers in 20 counties beginning at 4 a.m. on Monday morning.
Better make sure your battery-powered generator is all charged up.
How do they make sure that the power only goes out for unvaccinated people?
Are they icky rural folks? It’s probably safe to assume.
I’m trying to figure out where in my house I might get away with installing a generator. If I can safely tie it to the same exhaust pipe as the water heater, the basement would be ideal, but I don’t know if it needs a different diameter. Of course, the electric comes in on the first floor, so that means punching through the floor of the back room to connect to the breaker box, but that’s no big deal.
Trying to hook it to the echaust pipe for the furnace is a non-starter given where that’s been crammed.
also get solar panels for the social signaling aspect of energy independence.
If it’s just for social signaling, you don’t even need real panels (or you can use obsolete/damaged/end-of-life units).
Win/win!
put it in the bathroom, it has an exhaust fan, right?
Do not do that. The risk of CO poisoning is too high.
I wouldn’t even try it without an active exhaust fan, tied to a pressure switch to kill the generator if it indicated a loss of exhaust flow.
You can put a fan between the generator and the pipe. I’m worried about the need to bore a large hole through several floors and installing a new roof outlet.
If you do that, it’s best to put the fan as close to the outlet of the pipe as possible, so that the exhaust is under negative draft (pressure) along most of its length. Also, I would not seal the generator exhaust to the pipe, but allow the fan to pull ambient air in with the exhaust to dilute it and make sure there is always flow through the duct.
Also, also, I would be sure to install a pressure switch as mentioned above to kill the generator if flow in the exhaust duct is stopped, and probably a current switch or speed encoder to kill the generator if the induced draft fan quits.
I would agree.
Plus the noise.
I have always seen the large ones installed outside next the the A/C. Maybe it’s a Southern thing? Is that possible for you?
I don’t have any outside land to put an AC on, so no room for a generator either.
Meh, you’re outta there in what? Two years?
Until I’ve finalized plans to relocate, I need to look at options for the possibility that I’ll still be here.
Right now I have about $19k left on the mortgage.
Why do you need no mortgage on your house to move?
Because I am not going to juggle two payments, or two closings at the same time. I am going to buy the new place, relocate my crap in an orderly manner to prepared storage and shelfing in the new place, then sell off the old place at leasure.
Is there an exit tax in NY like NJ? Here you do not want own property in another state while selling your NJ property or else you pay an extra tax at closing. We are looking at a rental property later this week.
The plan is to sign a lease that starts in November, then immediately put the house on the market. Then… next year we are free to shop for property anywhere we want and have the cash to buy with little or no mortgage.
I do not know.
No, no, and no
Running engines require fresh air as input and outside air as output. And you have to consider the heat issues as well.
They can be professionally installed in an interior room but only with special ventilation considerations. I would highly recommend against doing it yourself.
You’d be better off putting it on the roof or on a platform mounted to the side of the house. If you have a garage, use that but leave the doors open when running.
If it’s an attached garage I wouldn’t do this either, particularly if there is any livable space above… My bedroom is above our garage and if I run the car in the garage or drive way, the prevailing wind tends to blow the exhaust more into the house than out.
Where do you jump to me installing heavy equipment myself? Especially electrical and gas. That’s outside my area of DIY-ness.
You’d be hard pressed to find someone to install anything inside a building. It would require special dispensation from a code perspective as is it not a commercial building and residential requirements usually require a minimum spacing from the structure.
That’s never bothered the contractors before. 😛
Funny story, I bought a house as a rental, and found a weird duct sticking out from the ceiling of a porch underneath a bedroom extension that was built out over the porch as an addition at some point. Couldn’t figure out where this duct went or what it was for, until I realized that it was there to hook up a heat gun or hair dryer to blow hot air into the wall above, where the piping for the shower was, poorly insulated.
It should, however, bother you since you’re thinking of selling in the near term.
Having to rush to correct a bunch of out-of-code items before you can sell the place would be no fun.
I finally found some good hazelnuts. I thought this was a lost year. Then again this is bad for my waistline
The tastiest of all nuts!
Apparently WW2 gave us the ballpoint pen and Nutella.
I can’t stand hazelnuts, you can keep them.
I am not surprised.
Chestnuts > hazelnuts.
the deepest cave in the world has 4 base camps, and it takes more than 4 days to reach the bottom, where you find a “turquoise lake, about 15 meters long and 8 meters wide, surrounded by jet-black limestone”
https://twitter.com/fianxu/status/1447255535582072832
pass
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
that seems to take a bit long to get going
It’s literally a song about an immortal man.
Whenever I go spelunking with a girl, I hope to find something wet and exotic.
That is really an amazing cave. How’d you like to be the guy who made the wrong turn and found the dead end 1500 below ground?
Looking at that cave’s vertical profile, I’m reminded a bit of the first time I soloed an airplane. As I was cleaning up from the takeoff on the upwind and turning crosswind, I thought “Oh, shit, now I’m committed to land this thing.”
Imagine you’re at the bottom, or even 3/4 of the way down, realizing you have to climb nearly eight thousand feet to get out of there!
this article was in the replies
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/flood-escape-deepest-cave-veryovkina-abkhazia
That’s pretty awesome.
That’s a no from me dawg.
*dusts off Jumars*
Lemme get my ‘biners and chocks…..
Another scalp for tolerance.
Gruden’s departure came after a New York Times report that N.F.L. officials, as part of a separate workplace misconduct investigation that did not directly involve him, found that Gruden had casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to denigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momentous changes.
He denounced the emergence of women as referees, the drafting of a gay player and the tolerance of players protesting during the playing of the national anthem, according to emails reviewed by The Times.
Gruden’s messages were sent to Bruce Allen, the former president of the Washington Football Team, and others, while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during “Monday Night Football.” In the emails, Gruden called the league’s commissioner, Roger Goodell, a “faggot” and a “clueless anti football pussy” and said that Goodell should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft “queers,” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.
Seems like the NFL is full of pussies.
what a bunch of […]
Wow, that’s not the sort of sentiment I expect from a 58 year old football coach.
Oh, wait – that’s _exactly_ what I expect a 58 year old football coach to sound like.
reminds me of the bill burr bit on the former clippers owner.
mock some of the league’s momentous changes
And THAT is the reason he is gone.
I say we reanimate Al Davis and put him in charge.
Roger Goodell soils his $10k suit at the thought.
mock some of the league’s momentous changes
In a sane world, people would recognize that, if mockery and opposition were somehow or another beyond the pale, either the changes weren’t that “momentous” or mockery and opposition weren’t beyond the pale.
None of which where in anxy context in the times article, just cherry-picked quotes. And with the little context they did give, the parts written about Michael Sam (the gay player) was in the context that Roger Goodell strong-armed Jeff Fischer to draft him for PR points.
I mean, he was wrong about Sam at least – hall of fame defensive end!
Oh, my bad – cut before the regular season and “retired” the next year. I’m sure Fischer was over the moon about that pick.
“Seems like the NFL is full of pussies.”
Yes
God morning, Banjos!
That album can’t be 23 years old, can it?!?
Maybe, but I don’t trust any on the statistics.
I don’t either. These fuckers have played so fast and loose with the numbers that I’ve noticed that even hardcore numbers people are just giving up. We will never really know how deadly the virus, variants or ‘vaccines’ are. By design.
Lots of election news today. You gotta hand it to the commies – they play to win! It would be cool if there was some actual opposition.
US headed into another recession if consumer sentiment trend continues, economists say
Gee, maybe we should unshackle the economy, huh? Nah, lets print money, raise taxes and bail out big companies, instead.
It was a good run.
A better deterrent to drunk driving than a million PSAs.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/man-penis-one-testicle-amputated-25193612
“ UK Readying New Law Mandating Home EV Chargers Be Shut Down During Peak Hours”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/uk-readying-new-law-mandating-home-ev-chargers-be-shut-down-during-peak-hours
If only energy was available in a safe and easily storable form that was readily available for use. It could even be stored as, I don’t know, maybe a liquid in a tank or something and we could give it a catchy name like “gas” or “petroleum.”
Nice.
They are internet enabled so how do the devices fail? If you remove connectivity during a period of permitted charging will charging remain permitted until connectivity is restored? Or does it have an internal clock that keeps track of when charging is permitted?
it’s ridiculous on so many levels I don’t know where to start.
Also the problem of your car being connected to the charger when it shuts off – You end up de-charging instead of charging.
No car sold right now does vehicle to grid. So they won’t backfeed. So no problem there.
I went to the original article and this is only to apply to chargers at businesses. Home chargers are allowed to be overridden, but it was unsure how often that would be permissible.
It’s still ridiculous.
So if you’re not home and low on juice, you’re fucked.
This is really going to help with their big push to EVs.
Why even leave your house when the store shelves are bare?
They’re ramping up inventory shortages.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/12/cnn-on-supply-chain-crisis-consumers-cant-expect-to-shop-like-pre-pandemic-before-times/
Wouldn’t it be simpler to charge different rates at different times? Charge a premium if the load is above a certain pint.
Back in the early ’80s our local utility had what they called “time of day” meters that you could voluntarily have installed, and they would charge you variable discounted rates based on the time of day and your load at the time. So you put a timer on your hot water heater to only run at night, and ran the high load things like clothes washing and other things off peak hours, saving a bunch of money.
Climate insurrection.
Left-wing climate protesters hit the D.C. streets Monday, vandalizing a statue of former President Andrew Jackson and swarming the White House while warning President Biden to take their demands seriously.
The Build Back Fossil Free coalition took to the DC streets Monday with their five-day-long protest’s aim to spur action by the Biden administration against climate change, mainly by declaring a national emergency and ending projects involving fossil fuels.
Siqiñiq Maupin, director of coalition core member the Sovereign Inupiat for a Living Arctic, told Fox News in a Monday email statement that the protest was happening because they believe Biden needs to follow through on his campaign promises.
“People are dying right now from the pollutants, the toxins, the climate catastrophes that are happening — and we have to stop the harm,” Maupin wrote. “Biden’s election was riding on climate change; his entire election hinged on turning out people of color and Indigenous people.”
“But when it really comes to what matters, our lives are still being sacrificed for oil and gas,” Maupin continued. “That’s why we’re here today.”
Remove oil and you remove the modern world.
These people wouldn’t have even known who Andrew Jackson was other than some portrait on a 20 dollar bill if Trump hadn’t made a point of being an admirer.
Other than this guy and a few more do indigenous people really give a flying fuck about climate change as an issue above all others? Seems like they’d have more pressing issues they should attend to first.
Care or #Care? A lot of the latter very few of the former. Just like everyone else.
Human sacrifice can really keep the population down.
I wonder how those Inuit got to DC? sled dogs?
/Morons
Only the greenest non-farting sled dogs.
The have a fart counter on them, and when they get to 70% of the critical emissions level, the bomb on their collar goes off.
What a waste, just tax their owners by the fart.
Useful idiots. Their Great Reset wants to thin the herd. It’s just that no one told these dummies that 80% of them are the herd. Sheep being led to the slaughter. I just want the part televised where they all lose their cell phone service, forever.
I’m reading this in the voice of the tree-hugger from a Futurama episode. Think “earnest, clueless hippie”.
Heh. Julia Butterfly whatser surname.
(Rhywun, apologies for forgetting about NJ.)
Nah, this guy.
“People are dying right now from the pollutants, the toxins, the climate catastrophes that are happening — and we have to stop the harm”
*Eats a 72 pack of Tide Pods on a TikTok challenge*
“People are dying from these things. We are incapable of thinking about how many orders of magnitude more would die, from the inevitable catastrophes of the socialism we’re pushing as the solution, because socialism is just good people doing good things for the common good.”
Well, assuming that a couple of tens of people are dying right now, there are only eleven more orders of magnitude to go before you get to the entire population of Earth, so yeah, I guess I could believe counting to eleven is your limit.
Well, we can’t know since real communism has never been tried before.
“You can’t own property, man!”
I’m sure none of them flew or drove to the protest.
When you fly into Kabul Airport, it’s a spiral approach down into it because of the surrounding mountains. One interesting consequence of doing that in winter is being confronted by the smell that wafts up from Kabul as you descend. You can smell the burning metal, rubber, shit, , wood, fuel – whatever. Because you’ll burn anything to stay alive during the winters in Kabul. It’s mother fu***ing cold there in winter. I don’t know what the number is, but I’ll bet a non-trivial number of people die in the winters from hypothermia there. Ohhh, how they would love to have home heating oil!
The discovery of oil (dead dinosaurs) was the single greatest achievement for animal rights globally – because it killed the whaling industry. In short order. It preserved a living, sentient species of mammals that we were slaughtering for their processing as fuel. Getting it from dead animals was an absolute Godsend if you really care about “the environment” – at least, living beings. But these people can’t see that – no, it’s pure dirt worship. They want Earth to exist with no life on it. These people are the descendants of the “throw ’em all into the volcano to appease the Gods.” Fucking Death Cult.
Actually mostly dead zooplankton and algae. But, yeah. All of this.
Would not.
Christina Lopez, 42, received $4.9 million last April following the 2017 death of her son, 16-year-old Isiah Murrietta-Golding.
Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp stated, “Clearly, this family has been seasoned in this type of behavior,” as ABC 30 noted. Smittcamp added, “She has continued now to take the money from her settlement that she received from the city of Fresno to buy a home where she lives in addition to spending thousands of dollars on guns that she has in turn given to her 14-year-old son.” ABC 30 stated, “Prosecutors say she bought guns and gave them to that son to distribute to gang members.”
“Lopez faces 22 counts of gun trafficking charges including conspiracy to provide firearms to a minor for the benefit of a street gang, child endangerment and conspiracy to provide a firearm to a gang member, police said,” the New York Post reported.
Well the payout for the first one was pretty handsome, looks like she’s working on another one.
Why not, obviously pro gun, nice family woman.
Gets me thinking about why Dems are hot to control guns (I mean, beyond just disarming you).
Dems see gangbangers shooting up everywhere. Repubs see good-ole boys huntin’ and protectin’ their families.
I don’t see any common ground there absent a constitutional ame— oh, never mind.
Gah! Muh eyes!
Interesting tidbit of info from my BIL who worked in the medical equipment business for years.
87% of provided medical equipment (ambulatory, oxygen, etc…) is a financial loser on the current Medicare reimbursement schedule. They’re loss leaders for the very few classes of equipment that are profitable.
However, at current reimbursement rates there is one class of equipment that makes very good money for the equipment providers whether it be hospitals or independent companies that provide it.
Ventilators
FWIW, I heard this same thing from someone – they were recounting a conversation with some health insurance expert in Tennessee.
There were (and are) all kinds of perverse incentives that drive medical procedures – see, e.g. the entire pharmaceutical industry.
Customers, not cures.
They need you fat, weak and metabolically fucked up. Otherwise their business model collapses.
Hospitals don’t charge Medicare for ventilators. We charge based on discharge diagnosis. Now, a diagnosis that gets you into the ICU is likely to also get you on a ventilator, and we can charge more for those diagnoses.
But I have a hard time saying hospitals make money on ventilators. Whether we make money on your stay in the ICU is 100% dependent on how long you are there, since we get a flat rate regardless. And vent patients tend to stay longer. Without checking, I would say you can’t rule out that we are more likely to lose money on a vent patient than one without a vent.
Vents (and much other equipment) are basically sunk costs the day we unpack them.
From what he told me, he was given a $500 spiff for every ventilator he rented to the hospital. The hospital chains around here don’t own that equipment and use third party providers like Aerocare.
Of course, simply being outside the Medicare system may make it more profitable for them as Medicare rates for equipment are pretty abysmal.
Beautiful auroras here this morning.
Purdy
Gorgeous!
42 and sunny this morning. I’m gonna have to find my long pants one of these days!
Peshtigo: America’s Deadliest Fire I blame electricity and climate change.
There were never fires before fossil fuels, it is known.
There were never fires before
fossil fuels,wypipo invented rape and started using it on Gaia, it is known.A winning issue.
Dowd has also been speaking up about his desire for more gun control in recent interviews; telling “Inside Texas Politics”, for instance, that he’s not only in favor of repealing Constitutional Carry, but putting several new restrictions in place.
Never let a crisis go to waste, I guess.
Dowd believes more Texans who carry guns elevates the chance of mass shootings…
Quantify that, chief. Give us some evidence of that.
Look, Fat, guns equals shootings. Why else do you think cops shoot so many people?
Superman yaoi is canon.
Suck it, trumpalos!
So who’s the uke and who’s the seme?
Man of steel, man of kleenex.
Did they even explain how Superman had a baby with Lois without blowing the top of her head off? Without baby supes kicking a hole straight through her womb?
Well the second issue of the fetus not hurting lois is easily explained by the fact that the kid had yet to be exposed to sunlight. Kryptonians are solar-powered.
As for the injurious conception, I suppose IVF might have been required, especially trying to hybridize human and alien.
Comic book writers are a pretty pathetic bunch these days.
Don’t worry, every few weeks, DC has another reboot crisis and the continuity gets canned. He’ll be super-straight again by the solstice.
Working off phone and hot spot sucks. Storm went through last night and knocked out the intertubes. Cox played dumb until this morning…oh. yeah, shits broke. All night last night they pretended they were doing maintenance upgrades. Just be honest you fools.
Meanwhile in the USSA…
The FBI and Biden DOJ even released a new map that shows anyone who was standing near the US Capitol on January 6th can now be arrested.
This is a new maneuver for the Corrupt FBI and DOJ.
They are now arresting anyone who stood within hundreds of feet near the US Capitol.
The Capitol was not marked that day when the protesters arrived and the protesters were NEVER warned that they were in an “illegal space.” …
At this point I would not be surprised if the regime openly declares Trump/Republican voters enemies of the state.
Just do it.
If you had asked me if I thought Garland was more corrupt than Holder I would have probably responded with no, but there it is…
Turtle Mitch saved us when he denied this guy a chance to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. What an authoritarian piece of shit.
Merrick Garland Has a List, and You’re Probably on It
Garland is a Class A piece of shit.
It should be noted that the next time a mob crosses onto the hallowed grounds, they will know the repercussions of such.
Therefore, you can probably assume that they will have no fucks to give and be looking for blood.
I’d like to issue a congratulations to our esteemed government for upping the stakes and bringing us ever closer to full-blown political violence.
*it’s happening*: The Great Southwest Airlines Rebellion?
Seemingly out of nowhere what appears to be a Southwest Airlines rebellion has taken flight this weekend. According to media reports, scores of pilots and other Southwest employees have coordinated the taking of “sick days” to use them up in advance of a Southwest Airlines mandate to get the jab or lose the job. Over Saturday and Sunday more than 2,000 flights have been cancelled, with airports experiencing full-on mayhem. …
Over the past few weeks, thousands of nurses, medical workers, and first responders have either quit or been fired for refusing to receive a medical treatment they do not want or need. The “nursing shortage” that Democrat politicians and the mainstream media had been blaming on “rising Covid cases” has been in reality a man-made disaster of historic proportions. The nursing crisis is not caused by “Covid” – cases have been in decline in the US for weeks. It is caused by the firing of medical personnel who refuse to take the experimental Covid shots. …
History may record this weekend as the turning point against the Biden Administration’s Covid tyranny. From nurses to pilots to truckers to even Amtrak workers, it appears that America is standing up and saying “enough!” Every one of our fellow citizens standing up on principle to oppose tyranny – facing the loss of their jobs and security – is owed a debt of gratitude by all who love liberty. Let’s hope that the peaceful rebellion continues to grow!
From his keyboard to God’s ear.
Welp, that didn’t work. Has to be done robotically, not laparoscopically. I don’t quite understand why. It’s Tuesday, that’s why.
Oh man, that sucks! Can they do it soon?
Boo. Sorry, Mojeaux.
🙁
Sorry.
At least with a robo-surgeon, you won’t have to wear a mask, right?
Aw hun.