Last time in The Shoe
The Patriots shut out the hapless Falcons last night. Antonio Brown (allegedly) made a logical decision based on his age and overall health. Ohtani and Harper are your baseball MVPs for this season, unsurprisingly. League soccer is back this weekend after the latest international break. And I’m on my way to Columbus tonight to watch Ohio State take on Sparty in a top ten showdown and what will hopefully be a memorable Senior Day for Chris Olave, who is one TD catch from tying the OSU all-time record. And that’s sports.
A true champion
English king Charles I (who was executed by Parliament) was born on this day. He shares it with president James Garfield, archaeologist and discoverer Hiram Bingham, band leader Tommy Dorsey, Indian PM Indira Gandhi, HOF catcher Ray Campanella, TV’s Larry King, businessman Jack Welch, TV magnate and large landowner Ted Turner, fashion designer Calvin Klein, actresses Meg Ryan and Jodie Foster, sprinter Gail Devers, motorcycle racer Jeremy McGrath, and the Twitter douchebag Jack Dorsey.
Not a bad list. Now on to…the links!
[inappropriate cackling]
Way to go, Supreme Court. You bunch of pussies. Now states will continue to eat away at free association and will continue to compel people to do work they may not want to do. And no, I’m not being anti-gay. I’m being pro-free association.
Meet the new gestapo. Same as the old gestapo.
Austria is going full retard. You never go full retard.
Wolfgang Mueckstein, the country’s health minister, said that kindergartens and schools would remain open for those who needed to go there but all parents were asked to keep their children at home if possible.
“We do not want a fifth wave,” Schallenberg said, according to ORF. “Nor do we want a sixth or seventh wave.”
I’ve got bad news for you, Wolfgang. You’re gonna have a fifth, sixth, and seventh wave anyway.
The jury’s still out on this one. Funny they only mentioned a blurb about the guy who was following the jury bus and didn’t do a deeper dive into what appears to be an attempt by a major media outlet to track down and find where jurors live. The whole thing has become a fucking farce.
I’m liking this guy more every day. And no, I’m certainly not referring to Lebron.
DE…oops, I mean REFUND THE POLICE!!! Portland does an about-face in the wake of a rise in violent crime.
“These poor youths” -the left
“This is what happens when we don’t have a $15 minimum wage.” Or that’s what people like AOC would lead you to believe. To me it just looks like a bunch of shitbags stealing luxury goods.
I’ve got a better idea than either of these proposals: just get rid of public schools and give the tax money per student to the parents so they can all send their kids to the school of their choice (or homeschool them, obviously).
Two billion?!?!?! Why not ten billion? Or a hundred billion? Or a billion billion? It’s all made up numbers anyway. And this isn’t defending Scott. Just pointing out the absurdity of the lawsuit that should be aimed solely at NRG and Live Nation.
Here’s a lovely song for you to end the week with. Hope you enjoy it as much as I will.
Now have a wonderful Friday and an even better weekend. Go Bucks! Beat Sparty!!!
With a handle like Wolfgang Mueckstein, what else could he say?
Man walks down the street with a name like that, people know he’s not afraid of anything.
I expected him to blame the jews.
That’s worse than Jeffrey Shitbucket who lives down the street. Good guy though.
“Kamala Harris’ communications director is leaving”
I love it when a plan falls apart
Is there a promotion in the near future for Astrid? That would be delicious, the reaction of the other two.
whaddup doh
O-H…!
I-O!!!
Gonna freeze my ass off this weekend.
“We do not want a fifth wave,” Schallenberg said, according to ORF. “Nor do we want a sixth or seventh wave.” – how the fuck are you going to stop it if the first 32 lock-downs didn’t work. I feel I am taking crazy pills
Here- Ill do it for you.
Crazy Pills
^^
And mandatory vaxxes for everyone? Get fucked, Austrian pols.
I wonder what my austrian coworkers think… several were not down with the vax
They’re from Germany Jr. They’ll fall in line like good little menschen.
According to Sting, love is the seventh wave. Austria is against love.
Oh man, I could have happily gone the rest of my life without hearing any of that dream of the blue turtles shit.
Thanks a lot.
Eh — I rather like Fortress Around Your Heart… ah, well.
^^
Yes!
And if I built this fortress around your heart
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire
Musically and lyrically that song is so tight.
I can’t even with this.
Fortress around your heart is a fantastic tune.
I dig the melody for Russians.
Maybe it’s just his pretentiousness at the time that turned me off. I’ll have another listen.
It was the height of the pretentiousness wars. Sting couldn’t just let Phil Collins pretentiousness go unchecked. It would have been madness.
Recommended: All the odd tracks + Fortress. In fact, start with Fortress.
DrOtto – how can you leave the most pretentious of them all off the list?
Pro-coal power too!
And possibly anti-urban?
“Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one”
I had a friend in high school who was a huge Don Henley fan. She was a total prog, and fit pretty much every sterotype you can imagine for that demographic.
Don Henley
Sunset Grill is super pretentious. I still like the song, although that might be due to an association with where I was when it came out.
However, there are some solid, non-pretentious tracks on Building The Perfect Beast. I really like this one.
What the hell is actually going on with the current administration? Because there sure seems to be a lot of infighting, backstabbing, and general chaos.
It’s a short bus version of game of thrones.
We’re not at Trump levels of all of that yet, but we seem to be heading in that direction.
The difference with Trump was, almost everyone knew who the enemy was; now, it’s a free for all.
Deep State uniting to reject the outsider versus Deep State factions fighting over the $trillion spoils.
Deep State cage match to determine who is the power behind the throne.
Given the College Democrats rat fight, I have to wonder if this is the Progressives’ new normal, especially as that crop of morons age up. Always looking to out victim each other and tear down past wrong think does seem like it would turn into just this sort of backbiting mess of incompetence….
And God help me, that’s probably me being optimistic and hoping this all implodes. 😉
I hate these asshats, but that’s absurd.
Fighting for a larger share of a shrinking market.
Death Spiral, ACTIVATE!
“Portland does an about-face”
A little late for those that actually suffered. Maybe some compensation for the victims…
You mean the politicians who were held accountable right? They’re the real victims through all of this…
Neph – left you a note on the movie thread. Don’t know how helpful it is. Good luck.
Yep… saw that this morning. Planning on reaching out to the guy today.
The “conservatives” on SCOTUS are a massive, cowardly disappointment. Overly concerned with not being “too disruptive”.
Has it ever been different?
Exactly, not since Marbury v. Madison. On the other hand, today’s court wouldn’t author a Dred Scott, they would’ve handled it on far narrower grounds (under MO law he was a free person and once freed, no return to slave status).
“Last year, Portland recorded 55 murders, nearly triple the total of 20 in 2016. ”
I wonder if they’ve heard about Chicago.
My kind of town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoKn7vkSMBc
Isn’t Baltimore still the per-capita king of killing?
I believe St Louis has Baltimore beat.
Portland was safe and sleepy until recently. While the total number pales compared to Chicago, it’s pretty startling when that rate triples.
Minneapolis is at 87. Get busy, Portland.
The lockdown will start Monday and initially will last for 10 days, Schallenberg said.
And starting Feb. 1, the country will also make vaccinations mandatory.
Do you know what other Austrian – oh, never mind.
“We do not want a fifth wave,” Schallenberg said, according to ORF. “Nor do we want a sixth or seventh wave.”
It’s endemic, so…
Not yet… at least according to the SCIENCE:
Fauci: Boosters could see COVID reach endemic level in U.S. next year
What, did he change the definition of “endemic” too? Like he did with the definition of “vaccine”?
I think it was just pointed out that the tiny country of Ireland has almost 100% vaccination rate and more than double those covid cases per day.
Those numbers he proposed are not achievable.
Those numbers he proposed are not achievable.
Feature, not bug. Never ending control.
Related
https://summit.news/2021/11/19/official-public-health-england-data-says-covid-infection-rates-higher-in-vaxxed-then-unvaxxed/
Forcing people to do the thing that causes higher covid rates, then stripping them of their rights. Orwell would be impressed.
Impfstoff Macht Frei
The whole thing has become a fucking farce.
It was always a farce. No reasonable prosecutor would have brought charges.
it is a bit high profile for zero charges.
Yep, that would’ve just opened the door for the state AG to take over, or federal charges (which are still likely to come). All just as bogus of course.
Never leave room for another prosecutor to stand on the dead bodies.
French fry vodka may sound like a late-night college party experiment, but it’s actually the latest offering from Arby’s — and you’ll be able to sample it in Connecticut.
The fast-food restaurant chain, which specializes in roast beef sandwiches, is releasing two flavored vodkas, with flavor profiles inspired by its original curly fries and newer crinkle-cut fries.
https://www.ctpost.com/food/restaurants/article/Arby-s-newest-menu-item-is-vodka-16609672.php
I don’t know what an Arby’s is but that is disgusting
Arby’s is the best fast food available in America.
Incorrect. Not even top 10
My top ten:
Arby’s
Wendy’s
Popeye’s
Long John Silver’s
Whataburger
Captain D’s
…
…
I don’t know, I don’t eat much fast food beyond that. I like KFC to an extent, but there are plenty of better fast chicken places, but I can’t think of any of their names.
I’d like to be able to list some taco places, but out here in the east, about the only place I can think of is Taco Bell, which makes me shudder even to type the name.
Also, special honorable mention for Quizno’s (RIP)
I liked Quizno’s.
Potbelly’s is a decent substitute. Or was. Haven’t been in years.
Do you count Zaxby’s as fast food? Because if you do, they damned well should be there. Closest one is in Salt Lake City — and I seriously sometimes contemplate using a 3 day weekend for a family drive that includes getting some again.
I have never eaten at Zaxby’s. Maybe I should make a list of fast food places to try around the country.
I wouldn’t put Zaxby’s above Popeye’s – at least based on the one I ate at. That said, Popeye’s has enough bad franchisees to make me pass over them these days.
If you’re ever in Brooklyn, you need to visit Roll n Roaster
looks good!
Roast beef and cheese fries.
And Spumoni gardens for some spumoni.
I miss LJS.
Now I have to search out a “pub” when I want fish & chips, and usually at least one of those two is terrible.
Don’t you have any around you anymore? We still have a few, usually combined in the same store with an A&W.
I miss Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips, from which I gained my lifetime love of malt vinegar.
There’s still one Arthur Treacher’s left. It’s southeast of Cleveland.
Ooh, we should have a meetup there
I don’t know that I can compile a top ten off the top of my head, but I can pull a handful of contenders I’d rank above Arby’s (and I don’t dislike Arby’s… it’s probably in the 10-15 range)
-Whataburger
-Taco Bueno
-Chicken E/Golden Chick
-Potbelly’s
-Tim Horton’s
-Raising Cane’s
-Jimmy John’s
-In-N-Out
-Chick fil a
-Zaxby’s
-Sonic
-Moe’s
-McAlister
There was a semi-fast-food taco place that we found in Arizona (somewhere between the Grand Canyon and Phoenix) that we really liked about 15 years ago, but I can’t remember the name. I wonder if it was Taco Bueno.
Chic fil a is good, I don’t eat there much, so I forgot about it.
Tim Horton’s is probably the best breakfast fast food, although Wendy’s breakfast is beginning to rival it. But I wouldn’t consider it a competitor to Arby’s.
I can’t stand Moe’s, maybe because the locations near me are loud and have mediocre food. But I had colleagues who always wanted to go there for lunch, so it must be popular.
Sonic’s good, but there’s none around here that I know of, and I’ve only sampled their menu a few times.
Jimmy John’s is excellent, but for some reason I classify it as “sandwich shop” rather than “fast food.”
The others, I’ve never heard of or never had the chance to try.
taco place that we found in Arizona
Ifn’ you’re looking for fast food Mexican in Arizona or southern California, you can’t go wrong looking for a small, brightly painted brick/adobe structure with a walk-up window and a drive through and are open 24 hours. Generally have a name something along the lines of Alberto’s, Aliberto’s, Rigaberto’s, or some variation thereof. Best damn burritos you will find anywhere. I almost never eat fast food, but when I do that’s generally where I’ll go (or Five Guys for a bun-less burger – burgers are the only thing that’s better without buns….).
@ putrid, Rambertos as well, any of them are great burrito shops, and I find headed south from Upland to SD they just get better.
thereare zero real Mexican restaurants here, excepy maybe my house.
@Yusef – I spent some… formative …. years in San Diego. By far the best there. I don’t even like drinking (LIE!), but I’d go out drinking just to get that 2AM Alberto’s with extra hot sauce – ‘home’ made sauce in these little disposable plastic cups BTW, not some little packets. Man, I’m starting to wonder if a weekend off keto might not be advised here.
YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!
1) Whataburger
2) Wendys
3) Hardees
4) Rally’s (and/or Checker’s depending on your part of the country)
5) McD’s (but only for Filet o Fish)
honorable mention- BK. But their gut-bomb breakfast sandwiches are #1 if I still ate such things.
Locally, Penn Station, Frische’s and Skyline.
Donatos for pizza
I like Hardee’s (and Carl’s Jr) but don’t have any nearby. I put Whataburger on my list because my time in TX brought me a real appreciation for it, but I haven’t had one of their burgers for nearly 20 years.
Never eaten at a Rally’s.
McDonald’s can bite me (although I occasionaly slip and get a Filet o’ Fish, which is decent).
Rally’s is damned near inedible up here. Skyline is near inedible everywhere. Pub cut pizza is a monstrosity.
Of course, I live by what may be the epitome of 70’s terribleness when it comes to fast food:
Cap’n Taco
It used to be a local chain, before Taco Bell came into the area and crushed them. Consider that for a moment… local chain crushed by Taco Bell. The last surviving location still exists, and for a while (before the ‘vid lockdowns) had actually contract brewed a beer that they could sell. I mean who doesn’t want a Cheeze Bang, perhaps even a Chicken Bang, followed by a Crab Meat salad?
Finally McDonalds on a list. Two large strawberry shakes and two big macs to go.
So,Arby’s is the least stinky turd?
And db…LJS and Cap’n D’s?
I wouldn’t feed that shit to my dog.
We only went to LJS for the hushpuppies.
Mmmmm…hushpuppies…
I have a thing for greasy fish and chips, hence LJS. Captain D’s because, well, it’s OK, and I was struggling to think of names of fast food restaurants.
I miss the days of H. Salt Esquire Fish & Chips. But that was an aeon ago.
I ‘Member
I don’t know about the best, but they have the meats.
Arby’s is a fast food restaurant (started in Ohio, like far too many others) that started with a “high end” marketing goal with roast beef sandwiches. They are most well known for their two main signature sauces (Arby’s Sauce – Very sweet and thin BBQ sauce; Horsey sauce – Horseradish sauce), Jamocha shakes, and curly fries (spiral cut seasoned fries).
Lum’s started as a Miami Beach hot-dog stand but was a national chain by 1976. They boiled their hot-dogs in beer.
I fucking love hot dogs almost as much as Christopher Walken. That sounds like my kind of place.
I fucking love hot dogs almost as much as Christopher Walken
ZOMG – I though my friend and I were the only ones who remembered that bit. Still makes us laugh.
The director, David Cronenberg, said that he would never work with me again.
Jamba Juice started out as Juice Club, down the street from the pizza place I worked at in college.
I’m assuming you could make a fermentable mash out of French fries. The starch would already be partially broken down, wouldn’t it?
That’s not what they’re doing.
They’re soaking fries in vodka to try to infise fry flavor in the spirits.
I’d prefer that to be their focus, rather than finding new and interesting ways to rule us.
And also, why is it that so many administrations void their political capital through overreach and missteps? One would think they’d learn the lessons of the past.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
What kind of people seek out public office? On the federal level for certain, only the worst kinds of corrupt incompetents barring very few exceptions.
Scum rises to the top…
The one I knew personally was a thrice failed businessman who could bury any company he got his hands on.
He was perfect for politics.
Because they haven’t decided what kind of metal the $E coin would be made out of, and there isn’t enough titanium to mint a billion $G coins.
I’ve got a better idea than either of these proposals: just get rid of public schools and give the tax money per student to the parents so they can all send their kids to the school of their choice (or homeschool them, obviously).
Whoa whoa whoa, slow down there! We gotta protect the phoney baloney public education administration jobs!
There should be a rule if the mandatory vaxing does not work and it turns out the vax has bad long term effects, the whole government of Austria gets life in jail no parole. They need to sign up on that before any mandates. It is insane how politicians in this world bare 0 consequences for fuckups.
How about we skip all those intermediate steps and just jail them now?
^^^^…And this, my friends, is how you get Liberty.
This is exactly the kind of systemic racism that San Francisco has so valiantly fought over the years.
The Poles can’t catch a break.
Embattled migrants from the Middle East are desperate to enter the European Union but are being exploited by the Belarusian government of Alexander Lukashenko in a geopolitical gambit that is stoking major tensions within the European Union and on NATO’s eastern borders.
The migrants have been stymied at the Belarusian border as they try to make their way through Poland into Central Europe while facing tear gas and water cannons from Polish border security. Increasingly frustrated, the migrants amassed at the border began throwing stones at Polish border officials in response to their repressive tactics. Belarusian forces, meanwhile, are effectively encouraging the migrants to head to the border in a blatant move to cause trouble with an EU and NATO member state.
It sounds like they are using the wrong kind of cannon.
Won’t someone please think of the lawyers!!
Finally, someone stands up for that lonely profession, historically lacking in advocacy.
How hollow points work.
Schroedinger’s ammo box there?
Love it!
I think you may have pointed me to this, but it’s on topic here https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests/
The internal injury must be catastrophic.
[insert cat butt]
In the responses, there is a cutaway gun (Giger print). Do you suppose that’s based on a real gun, or just Giger painting semi-random springs and bits?
It appears to be cobbled together from examples of real guns.
I’m not sure. I’m seeing elements of a firing pin block system, but can’t see how it would work, exactly. There’s no locking mechanism for the breech and barrel that I can discern, so it would be a straight blowback action, but I also see no recoil spring mechanism.
I’m guessing he looked at a schematic, not really understanding how a handgun is supposed to work or the mechanical necessity of certain things and glossed over them for art’s sake.
This aside is a prime example of why I love this place and all of you.
The British had cut-away Martini-Henry, Lee-Metford, and Lee-Enfield rifles to train armorers and as a testing tool for armorers to test questionable parts.
I saw a transferable M16 that was a cut-away training unit. Purely a collector’s item, but fully functional, used to demonstrate the internal workings of an AR15 (full auto).
I think more than just the British had these ideas.
The British cut-away rifles were, I think, also fully functional.
In case you were wondering if mask /
socialphysical distancing theater was intended to ever end…Public health experts have warned that this flu season might be more severe, following last season’s mild flu activity.
Flu cases saw a significant drop during the 2020-2021 season according to the CDC — likely due in part to people wearing masks, practicing frequent hand hygiene and socially distancing to help limit the spread of COVID-19.
“As we head into respiratory virus season, it is important to take every mitigation measure we can to prevent outbreaks of the flu, RSV and COVID-19,” Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, chief medical executive for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement. “Wearing masks, washing hands, social distancing and getting vaccinated for the flu and COVID-19 will help prevent the spread of illness.”
Of course, once politicians gain control over you, they will never give it up voluntarily.
What is going on with this administration? Lots of infighting and backstabbing? Power mongers all trying to crawl over everyone else?
If you are going to recreate the USSR you have to do it right.
Free association? If we let people have that the next thing you know we wont be able to segregate the schools.
Wait…whut?
Austria going full retard? It’s not like they haven’t done it before.
As for the MSNBC guy working hand-in-glove with BLM to harass jurors…wont the MSM people be surprised if the commies do manage to come to power. I can hear it now – “No comrade! You are making a mistake! Dont you know who I am?”
“Of course we do. That is why you are standing in front of that wall.”
More than Lebron turn a blind eye to the fact that China is a slave state. They always have been a slave state and everyone knows it.
Refund and hire who? What idiot would take that job?
If you paid that lot $100 per hour to work and they would still be out robbing and looting. No cops? No prosecutions? You get robbing and looting.
What I find rich are the commies that bitch and point accusing fingers at businesses that close up shop and leave jurisdictions like that one.
I am with Sloopy on the schools.
Idiot 18 yo me -“But Grandaddy, I dont start trouble!”
Grandfather – “You dont have to, all you have to do is be there.”
Possum Released Without Charges After Holding Woman Hostage
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3nxn5/woman-calls-police-after-being-held-hostage-by-possum
Police in Dunedin, New Zealand responded to a call late Sunday evening from a distressed woman who said she was being held hostage by a possum.
“At about 11pm on Sunday night, the occupant of a Blacks Road, North East Valley, address phoned Police in distress, stating a possum was holding her hostage,” Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen told Motherboard. “When she would exit her house and attempt to reach her car, the possum would charge at her, and she would flee inside.”
The woman, who has gone unnamed in the New Zealand press, told Stuff that she originally thought the possum was a cat.
Possums (from kiwiland) are different than Opossums (from ‘Merica).
which one goes for the throat faster?
Honestly, they’re both pretty cute
If you want to find one of those ‘cute’ NA possums just find a dead cow in the woods and give it a hard kick.
AHHH!
That brings back a bad memory, one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen.
…I’ve never found a dead cow in the woods. Actually I’ve never found a neglected cow carcass anywhere. Various discarded cow parts, sure, but never an entire cow. Either the local scavengers were too efficient, or the people managing the herds were.
I have found deer carcasses from bowhunters who were too lazy to track down their kills. Never found a possum in one though.
A docent at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History used to have her pet possum with her, it was quite friendly and soft.
In the US, possum and opossum interchangeably refer to the same animal. But in the south pacific, they just use possum.
I thought opossums were the Irish ones
nice
No, those are higher-status Japanese ones.
It’s the difference between o’ and o-
And the disappointing ones are the Oh, possum.
I’m pretty sure if the UK had a Charles I (Hell, even a Charles II) on the throne today, the world would be a much better place.
he would do exactly what the queen does. nothing.
“We do not want a fifth wave,” Schallenberg said, according to ORF. “Nor do we want a sixth or seventh wave.”
Learn to surf.
Charlie don’t surf.
Wolfgang sounds like a Surf Nazi name to me.
The Economist everybody.
No one sees inflation coming. it’s chief weapon is surprise
And an unwavering loyalty to an activist monetary policy.
But it makes that comfy chair more and more expensive….
Kind or raises the question of basic competence there. Must be nice to work in a field where no one seriously expects you to be right about anything….
We didn’t see it coming, but the good news is inflation is good.
I heard GDP and consumer spending is up.
“Nobel Prize”
Well if you want to be always wrong, economics is a good choice and intelligence is the next best field.
Good grief.
Nobody saw it coming except … anybody who understands that creating a massive amount of fiat money to pay for massive spending is gonna cause prices in the devalued currency to rise a lot.
Aka actual economists.
The multi-state Transportation and Climate Initiative is falling apart
Not enough states joined the derp and the few that did are balking at increasing gas prices even more.
Some Konvid Karen in the office is complaining about the lack of masks in common areas and such, apparently. I thought everyone that wanted to was all vaxxed up, so I can’t imagine what the problem is to the extent HR feels the need to email everyone about it.
Leave a box of masks in the common areas.
Halloween masks.
The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-covid-lab-leak-theory-just-got-even-stronger
The midwit meme will never get more accurate than this.
https://twitter.com/RealYeyoZa/status/1461361556914991115
“Mers coronavirus is 35x more deadly than Sars-Cov-2..So why would any responsible scientist create a chimeric Mers virus with an unrelated bat coronavirus that could infect and potentially kill millions more people than Covid?”
“Yet that is precisely what researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were doing three years before Covid erupted. These inherently dangerous experiments, known as gain-of-function research (GOF), were conducted with the approval and financial support of the US NIH.”
https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1461489895667494912
sadly, behind a paywall
The MERs research is truly terrifying. MERs is no joke.
These idiots were playing with fire while soaked in gasoline.
No shit. Remember when people were concerned that the Large Hadron Collider might create a black hole and swallow part of the earth?
MERS gain-of-function research is orders of magnitude more dangerous than that.
The really funny part of this joke is that that research never stopped! I’d be shocked if GoF MERS isn’t next in the batting lineup. Might as well bring back smallpox or try to make rabies airborne.
Humans are so fucking stupid.
Yes they are.
The Azores are looking better all the time.
I think you mean “evil”.
This is all biological warfare shit.
Bonus punchline:
Since our political and scientific “elites” are all either in on it or on the CCP’s payroll, no one involved will ever face any consequences and they’ll get to just keep fucking around until they make the plague they’ve always wanted to. Wiping out 50% of the population will sure make the green cultists happy.
According to my greenie brother, the preferred number is 90% of humanity gone.
He seems to think he’ll be one of the 10% in that new paradise.
The elect, of course!
The parallels between the Greens and Calvinists have been noted.
TULIP!
Prolefeed: They always think they will be the ones left to watch lions and lambs lie down together. It is some sick shit.
“OHHH, The FOLLY of it! The H-H-H-HHHHUBRIS!”
It was just a freak gasoline fight!
+1 yougoogly
Would someone please erase that lab from the face of the earth already? Really, one well placed neutron bomb 10 feet over the roof would put a stop to this nonsense.
Does Israel have bombers with that range?
There’s a youtube interview video of Daszak from December 2019 where he is bragging about doing exactly this, splicing genetic material into coronaviruses in order to make them more deadly so that they could then “figure out how to fight them and prepare for the next pandemic.”
The arrogance and recklessness of all involved is just staggering.
A “furin cleavage site” sounds like Q perusing Asian beauties while in an Old West saloon, though…
https://archive.md/dUHB0/2bea9ca1a70ba6b0d548661861a5505f68dcff15.jpg
NSFW.
Safe enough for my work… WFH (on the non-work computer).
Giddy up!
It is startling the alacrity with which Q can locate porn containing very specific elements.
No meetings today past the usual four stand-ups in the morning! ?
There is still time to start stacking.
Dateline November 22, 2021:
Bitcoin committed suicide yesterday with 4 shots to the back before setting itself on fire.
That’s foreshadowing action from the Feds, which I think we all knew was coming.
Also around the holidays every single year bitcoin plummets mightily as some people cash it out for spending. Good time to buy.
They are deliberately destroying the US dollar and now they want to bitch because people are fleeing to other forms of currency? Did her colostomy bag start backing up to her brain?
What we need is the New Soviet Man.
I swear….these fucking idiots.
“Kamala Harris’ communications director is leaving the administration”
She has got to be one of the worst people to work for in DC; and that’s saying a *lot*.
Once a Friday Funbag, always a Friday Funbag.
https://archive.md/ugdNd
“ Why not ten billion? Or a hundred billion? Or a billion billion?”
Listen you heartless right wing nutter, a quadrillion or get the fuck out.
I saw the lunar eclipse this morning. Me and the lady got up, went outside in the cold for a few minutes. Then back to bed. Couldn’t get back to sleep, but I suppose it was worth it.
Are you me? Except I went back to sleep.
Greater openness to casual sex was associated with greater well-being in men, but only if they succeeded in acting out their desires
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1461346131519041536
TLDR: Guys who fuck and forget are happier people.
At least until it catches up to them.
This text on the tragedy of the male sex drive is one of the best the great Roy Baumeister has written.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/897142350031486976
Other groundbreaking research found that the sky is blue and water is wet.
In latest studies the Pope is not catholic, and bears shit in the #5 Truck Stop. (Avoid that one)
There was some discussion overnight about rice cooking methods–when to rinse and when not to. I never do, as I like my rice to stick a bit, or contribute to thickening the sauce/curry/whatever it’s involved with. My GF seems to like to rinse it but doesn’t always.
What are your preferences?
Always prefer sticky rice.
I generally don’t cook rice.
You need to put an ellipses between “cook” and “rice.”
It depends on what the rice is going to be used for. Pilaf and risotto are both rice dishes, but are prepared very differently.
OK yeah pilaf needs not-sticky rice. I’ve only made it from the box though. 🙂
Rice is not food, it’s a dessicant.
I’ll take that as a vote against rinsing…
We have a rice cooker. Put rice and water in and turn on. No rinsing.
My wife is Okinawan, she always rinses it and we have a Japanese rice maker.
That thing is 22 years old and still going strong. (The rice maker, not my wife)
You enslaved a POC woman? you goddamn oppressor
My Zojirushi is the only rice cooker I’ve encountered that was worth having.
That’s what ours is.
When she picked it out, I balked at the price, but she HATED the $25 steam/rice cooker I had gotten her, so I bought it.
I think it was $200, which was a lot for us back then, but we have definitely gotten our money’s worth.
Honestly, cheap rice cookers work less well than a pot on a stove.
I’ve got a better idea than all: Do away with government schools, let the parents keep their confiscated property tax money and spend it how they see fit (or not) for their children’s education.
Hey is that faint laughter I hear across the Internet?
Upon further review, that is pretty much exactly what Sloopy said in the links. I’m so used to the argument being framed as “either send your kids to be indoctrinated and get a shitty education because you’re already being forced to pay for it, or you can still pay for it then also pay a huge premium to get your kid a proper education, sans indoctrination”. When someone actually makes the point “hey it’s my money, let me choose the product”, it catches me off guard.
Sloopy’s sounds more like an intermediate solution, vouchers with no public schools. While yours sounded more like, just burn the fucking system to the ground, taxes and all. Which is the better option, but sloopy’s can be passed, at least in part.
My daughter, for example, attends a charter school, so that is about 1/4 of the way down the path.
Range:
Public schools
Charter schools
Vouchers
Vouchers but close all public schools (the sloopy plan)
Separation of school and state (the iL plan)
Yeah.
While I love that idea, it obviously has a zero chance of happening.
Start with vouchers or tax rebates.
Incrementalism is to step down that ladder. 40 states allow charter schools now, it is nearly ubiquitous. Some places have vouchers, that is where the next big push needs to be.
The question I like to ask, (which excludes supporting the final step, but I don’t think that one is realistic anyway) “Do you support public education or public schools?” Vouchers is a way to support educating the public. With enough successful private schools, it becomes possible to move to the next step — vouchers without public schools. But it is one step at a time.
“Do you support public education or public schools?”
In any discussion about schools with friends I always pointed out that the two are mutually exclusive.
Bumper sticker, “If you can read this thank your parents”
Even the kid on the corner selling stuff understands supply and demand (and inflation)
I correct anyone who refers to “public schools”.
“You mean government schools, right?”
Damn y’all, and your logic and shit.
But yeah, I agree. And I don’t even have a horse in the race, except it galls me that my property taxes are being used not only to NOT give kids a solid education, but also to groom them to be the next generation of the cancer infesting this country currently.
My interim solution is backpack funding. Divide up the schooling budget by the number of students in the state. Each school gets paid a share based on the number of students they have enrolled. The real weakness in backpack funding is it doesn’t help homeschooling parents (without opening up a section that will be abused heavily by the worst actors), nor those of us without children who are paying taxes for schools. It does introduce competition, gives a big leg up to private schools, and provides an incentive to make the parents happy.
When pushing against CRT and mask mandates in school came up in Reopen NH and Reopen PA related groups, I told folks that stopping these things are good first steps. The end goal must be to abolish the public schools, otherwise the usual suspects will come back with something else.
Some people got it.
Lets brew Wednesday, only 2 days late!
Whitbread XX xpt
Replace the goldings with something citrusy or piney from the PNW and it would be a modern American IPA. I think it looks delicious as it is.
Probably want to drop the invert sugar, and replace the Fuggles with a bit more alpha acid heavy strain, but I’d drink that as it was.
I thought about replacing the Fuggles too, but, nah, they work fine. I see no reason to drop the invert sugar. I know Americans have a thing against it, but not sure why. Especially invert #2 to give a tiny bit of color.
The dislike of sugar in beer is probably a holdover from the German influence more then anything. We know the pilgrims fermented damned near anything that had any sugars in it that could be extracted. I use it based on the style I’m going for and the final target ABV. Nothing against the Fuggles, just seems wasteful to need to use almost half a pound of them when you could get away with probably a couple of ounces of Magnum.
Yeah, its why whenever I make a traditional German beer, I intentionally find some way to violate the reinheitsgeboten.
Which is another word to prove slumbrew’s sokal hoax theory.
The biggest advantage to using a higher alpha acid hop up front is to cut way down the physical amount of hops. That is 7 oz of Fuggles in 5 gallons.
Probably want to drop the invert sugar, and replace the Fuggles with a bit more alpha acid heavy strain,
Admit it – this is just some sort of Sokal Hoax, isn’t it?
be quiet, people believe we are using real terms. Like trub. Pronounced “troob”.
Next I am going to start making shit up about “hot break” and “cold break”.
Clearly entirely made up:
Vorlauf — At the outset of lautering and immediately prior to collecting wort in the brew kettle, the recirculation of wort from the lauter tun outlet back onto the top of the grain bed in order to clarify the wort.
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of
Quantum GravityWorting“‘Many Portlanders no longer feel safe,’ Mayor Ted Wheeler said. ‘And it is our duty, as leaders of this city, to take action and deliver better results within our crisis response system.’ ”
Translation: Violence and crime are no longer politically useful so we have to stop it.
I guess nobody told these blue city shitheads that once you create a monster, it’s very difficult to control it.
Imagine my shock.
‘Jump-kick man’ who was filmed kicking Kyle Rittenhouse in the head before the teen shot at him is revealed as a career criminal with an open domestic violence charge for ‘throwing his girlfriend to the ground and attacking her’
One of the many heroes brutally targeted by white supremacist Rittenhouse that day.
Is today the day Kyle goes to prison for life and the left rejoices?
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
The state knew his identity and withheld it. Probably one more reason to declare a mistrial.
Don’t know if the judge has the guts to stand up to the mob, though.
Doesn’t look like anyone does.
They were turning their lives around by marching for justice and heroically trying to stop a mass shooter.
He’s a BLM ally rioting in the suburbs of Wisconsin. This is my shocked face.
And the current people walking under the BLM banner in Kenosha – Black Lynch Mob?
If msnbc manages to fix the jury, probably. Is there a scenario where the trial ends, the jury foreman comes out and talks to the press and says they acquitted because the evidence made it apparent kh was defending himself?
No. And the answer is no because the commies outside the courthouse want weregild for one of their own getting gunned down.
Traffic frozen in spots in NW DC due to climate change protesters
Disrupting people’s commutesThrowing a tantrum is an effective way to gain support.They’re really helping the climate causing all those cars to idle.
That’s not their goal anyway, their goal is to gain attention and feel as though they are doing something noble and important.
Wait, I thought we liked gridlock in DC… 😉
While wearing their super warm clothes. Climate change will warm their dear hearts up and they’ll need shorts/t-shirts for dress up.
“Clinton and Trump voters differ substantially in their attitudes and behavior towards opposing voters.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1461668445070704649
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16778011/sex-with-my-household-appliances/
I do nazi how Germany has failed to learn from its history.
Germany will limit large parts of public life in areas where hospitals are becoming dangerously full of COVID-19 patients to those who have either been vaccinated or have recovered from the illness, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
The move is necessary to tackle a “very worrying” fourth wave of the pandemic that is overburdening hospitals, she said.
“Many of the measures that are now needed would not have been needed if more people were vaccinated. And it isn’t too late to get vaccinated now,” Merkel said. …
Merkel said the federal government would also consider a request by regional governments for legislation allowing them to require that care and hospital workers be vaccinated. …
In a show of unity, finance minister and chancellor-in-waiting Olaf Scholz attended Merkel’s news conference.
“To get through the winter, we will see drastic measures that have not been taken before,” he said.
At least not for a few generations…
More likely, it was the same measures they took last winter and gosh gee they didn’t “work” then either.
They just didn’t do it hard enough!
35% is a lot of unvaccinated to be pissed. i gotta think there are political consequences to this.
Verpiß dich.
Can Free Food Lure Workers Back to Their Dusty Downtown Desks?
It is going to take a lot more to get me to voluntarily go back to the office.
Unpopular opinion: covid patients should never have been put in ICU. Just give em a bunch of whatever may work, mostly vitamins and minerals aspirin and whatever drugs may work, and hope for the best.
By putting them in the icu the hospital actually gains immense power over them tom and they cannot be removed.
But i sound like a conspiracy theorist.
I don’t think that opinion is unpopular around here. The zero middle ground between “Send ’em home and tell them to ride it out” and “Incubate in the ICU!” has been harped on more than once. And once Pfizer’s subscription model *cough*… And once the vax enters the picture, the lack of theraputic treatment became even more commented on.
?
Where’s the $$$ in that?
Well, other than we actually save the majority of our ICU patients. Believe it or not, even though we aren’t doing what we could with medication etc., we have improved how he handle ICU patients. Most if not all would die without the ICU, and we send a lot of them home rather than to the morgue.
Model Bruna Lima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1LlqzwshdU
MARTA | Relaxing in a Beautiful Spanish Villa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGjG0KsmNh0
What does a spanish villa and the Atlanta transit system have to do with each other?
I really like the “______ Area Rapid Transit” model of naming these transit systems, but as far as I can tell nowhere beginning with ‘F’ has adopted this nomenclature.
Cleveland of course, had to go against the grain. We have a Regional Transit Authority which runs our buses and light rail (poorly). Hell, you’d think Cleveland Area Rapid Transit would have worked better.
“I was riding a FART the whole way to work this morning. It was a great relief when I finally let go of the FART and walked the rest of the way.”
I have criticized the abbreviation FoCo for Fort Collins (FtC is clearly the correct one), but I rally like TransFort for the transit system.
But, seeing Neph’s comment, F-Cart wouldn’t be bad either.
Glib-fit
There’s those furin cleavage sites again….
I love it man. We’re trying to legislate away intelligence. We’re trying to legislate away ambition, hard work, talent. We think through the force of law and social engineering, we can make the less intelligent, smarter. We can make the untalented, have gifts. We can make the mediocre, exceptional.
It’s the very nature of humankind that some will rise above in certain facets. I wish I was born a great writer. Plus I wish I had fantastic technical skill in the language of machines. I felt like I saw a lot of current technical trends coming, but, lacking any ability to speak of, I couldn’t capitalize.
Throwing me into a gifted person’s school because of the color of my skin would not have magically given me the talent I lacked, it would have brought the others down, and it would have humiliated me. Radicalized, even. Instead I stayed in the “normal person” school, where I did just fine, got in a field I like, and now live a prosperous and comfortable life (until I get fired for refusing the jab).
I quote that great modern philosopher, Judge Smails, when I say, ” The world needs ditch-diggers too”.
Your God-given abilities don’t care about your melanin content, they truly don’t. It’s an oft-repeated point, but I’ll make it again anyway: when this is the first, last, and only thing you ever notice about a human being, WHO IS IT that’s the racist, again?
{soapbox} /demount
I guess Harrison Bergeron is now a how-to manual along with 1984.
Equity is sawing the tall guy off at the knees so everything’s supposedly fair and then no one can reach whatever’s on the top shelf. It’s bullshit that’s as obvious as the nose on your face.
I my company’s DEI training, equality was explained as “Everybody gets a box to stand on, doesn’t matter if you need the box or not, evertything is equal so everyone gets a box” with that picture of people watching a game from outside the fence.
I might have fucked up, but I answered the survey after we completed it honestly.
They said they wanted honest feedback and that it was anonymous, so I took them at their word.
“Why are we helping these people watch a game they didn’t pay to see? Break down the boxes to make the fence taller and have the freeloaders buy for tickets.”
Did you bring your breaking down boxes gloves?
I am amused that the universally used picture illustrating “equity” is a bunch of freeloaders.
So, what they’re saying is that the basket height in the NBA should be lowered to accommodate midgets.
It’s madness.
All the lefty cities are doing this, too. All to distract from the uncomfortable fact that all the smart-kid schools were full of Asians and whites.
Parenting practices seem to have little or no impact on children’s personalities, contrary to some of the best-known theories in psychology.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1461639134297079809
The idea of the blank slate vis a vis raising kids was discredited some time ago. It’s about 20% nurture vs 80% nature. Bad parenting, like really bad parenting, can completely wreck an otherwise sound personality though.
Austrian death panels.
It’s all the fault of the covid deniers, the anti-maskers, and the evil anti-vaxxers. They are forcing the hand of these brave politicians and bureaucrats who are selflessly protecting us against the horrible might of the extreme far right menace that is the anti-vaxxer/masker, their misinformation terrorism, their biological terrorism, and their petulant mewling whinging and whining about “freedom”. They are so petulant and obtuse in their complaints that we know they do not even begin to understand freedom! Freedom means doing what’s right for your comrades, and taking the shot! Anyone who doesn’t take the shot is literally trying to kill you.
It’s triage. If you find yourself doing nationwide triage during peacetime and no natural disaster, the problem is government policies.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “It is not acceptable that the two wealthiest people in this country, Mr. Musk and Mr. Bezos, take control of our space efforts to return to the Moon, […]This is not something for two billionaires to be directing.”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1461339202579226624
because bureaucrats are so much better at it
Fuck That Commie POS Bernie Sanders
You know… I’d kick in some money to send him to the moon. As long as it was a one way ticket.
As long as he has to buy his own life support system.
Buy? No, he has to get the govt issue one.
I wish that commie kook would go away.
“Private individuals should not do things I do not approve of!”
I can see the red face and the spittle flying just from reading that.
Thank you, it’s the image I was going for.
lol, you made see it too. Disturbing but accurate
Of course….it is Granpa Gulag. Who coulda guessed?
“Granpa Gulag.” I’m stealing that.
I guess Harrison Bergeron is now a how-to manual along with 1984.
The idea was sound, but Diana Moon Glampers failed in execution. We can’t let one little slip-up destroy the whole program.
If the Judge and / or jury don’t do the right thing, there sure are a whole lot avenues for appeal. Just came out that the Khindris committed perjury – easily proven with photos and videos.
https://www.change.org/p/wisconsin-office-of-lawyer-regulation-disbar-kenosha-prosecutor-thomas-binger/u/29863243
Just think how much this kind of stuff occurs and then isn’t caught because there aren’t outside eyes on the proceedings. Until absolute immunity for prosecutors is crushed our justice system is going to be fucked in the worst way.
Unfortunately once you’re an enemy of the state, the actual law and facts don’t matter.
“To get through the winter, we will see drastic measures that have not been taken before,” he said.
The Australian method, then? You’ll need to dig a moat. A really big one.
Sen. Bernie Sanders: “It is not acceptable that the two wealthiest people in this country, Mr. Musk and Mr. Bezos, take control of our space efforts to return to the Moon, […]This is not something for two billionaires to be directing.”
Dear Senator Red Depends-
What is or is not acceptable to you is of little consequence to the world at large.
Apropos of something… Oh yeah, Birthdays.
She’d likely disapprove of my saying it here, but the happiest of birthdays to the one and only Gender Traitor!
19 Today? Happy birthday
21… don’t try to take her wine away.
Happy birthday GT! And good to see you TT!
Big time birthday celebration for the happy couple!?!
Happy happy Birthday! GT!
Happy birthday GT!!!!!
Happy birthday, GT!
Thanks for the heads-up TT!
X2 what my predecessors said. You’re a lucky man, according to some you are terrific.
Happy Birthday Gender Traitor!
Thank you all for the kind birthday wishes!
(TT, you in a heap o’ trouble, boy!)
What??? I never mentioned any numbers!! Didn’t even use the word!
Wow. This anecdote from @NellieBowles
about how the NYT wouldn’t publish her story on the damage done by the Kenosha riots until after the election is really damning
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1461525763765813248
Hi Sloop!
Thanks for the copious lynx and the wonderful song. Brings back good memories.
Here’s one to go with your lead pic.
This is fine.
If the Biden Administration decides to tap U.S. emergency crude reserves to push down domestic energy prices, it may not help all that much. The supplies may just be exported away like last month. About 1.6 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve — a monthly record — was shipped out in October, according to data from market intelligence firm Kpler. Three cargoes were
About 1.6 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve — a monthly record — was shipped out in October, according to data from market intelligence firm Kpler. Three cargoes were loaded onto a supertanker in the U.S. Gulf Coast and are headed to Asia.
“Given the ongoing pace of the current SPR release — 12 million barrels in the last two months and the biggest weekly release so far last week at 3.1 million barrels — it’s fair to assume more SPR barrels are going to leave U.S. shores in the weeks ahead,” said Matt Smith, an oil analyst at Kpler.
The White House has been mulling a range of options to ease soaring pump prices and Democrats are pressing for a potential ban on oil exports as well as the release of crude from the nation’s strategic reserves.
I can think of a few things to correct the situation, one is to not ship out our strategic reserves…
Why the fuck would we be shipping strategic reserves to Asia? Especially after cutting domestic production?
These fuckers in charge really do work for the nation’s enemies.
Damn good question.
Which countries in Asia? Japan, Taiwan, Commie China, North Korea, South Korea??
I’m guessing Brunei
Coals to Newcastle.
There was actually a guy who made his fortune hauling coal to Newcastle. His ship arrived just in time for a miner’s strike and the city was out of coal.
Look into “supply chain disruptions”. How many of those ships, especially in the Gulf of Mexico, are oil tankers looking for somewhere to offload?
I can’t speak to this directly, but it’s a global commodity. So it’s possible it was done in exchange for an import or redirection from somewhere else. Or physical delivery on an future, for example.
So before I get upset I’d want more information.
Faith healer
Fauci said on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” that he has believed “for some time now” that boosters are effective and should be recommended for all adults in the U.S. who received their vaccine six months ago or longer.
He “thinks”. He “believes”. “Maybe”. “Should”.
How is this senile quack not in a straitjacket, under heavy sedation?
8th grade Honors Chemistry, Mrs. Wilcox. One of my favorite teachers. I’ll never forget, one day she told us, if you’re practicing science, the “weasel words” should never come into play. At the time we didn’t know what weasel words were and and said ask Ms. Wilson.
Ms. Wilson, 8th grade English, told us they were words slipped into the language as a tool to be talking but saying nothing at all. “may” “might” “could” “possibly”.
If you think about it, these words can take a single strong statement of fact, and completely wipe away any vestige of meaning it has.
“Getting vaccinated will save your life”. Declarative statement. Can be conclusively proven or disproven. Science.
“Getting vaccinated might save your life”. This statement has no meaning whatsoever. You can literally replace the 2 clauses in that sentence with any compatible parts and have a statement. “Swimming might aerate the soil”. “Greeting cards might haunt abandoned houses”. Yes, these statements are non-sensical, yet they mean exactly as much as the statement “Getting vaccinated might save your life”.
This is our science and public health guru, the one so many cultists get on their knees and do the Wayne’s World “we’re not worthy” bit while worshipping. God help us.
A VN friend in Houston got her booster on Wed, said she was sick the whole night, chills/fever. I asked about the next booster. She said never again and her sisters/brothers agreed.
“When you’ve lost the Asians …”
Ms. Wilson, 8th grade English, told us they were words slipped into the language as a tool to be talking but saying nothing at all. “may” “might” “could” “possibly”.
As I am fond of saying, the meaning of any sentence containing “may” is not changed by adding “or may not”.
I have adopted that from you – I keep mentally saying “or may not” when I read “may”.
*mails invoice to slumbrew*
“infected” is probably more accurate than “adopted”
*retains counsel*
The Ship’s Captain Died at Sea. Six Months Later, His Body Was Still in Its Freezer.
Standard procedure when the freezer space is available.
Dumping officers overboard for the sharks is so 19th century.
“And I buried the old man, I buried him at sea”
The article about Austria failed to mention how the government intends to force all the unvaxed to get the jab. Public health stormtroopers kicking in doors and holding down screaming dissenters while someone else jabs a needle in?
Some brave country was bound to be the trendsetter. (And normalizer.)
Looks like fines first. Beatings by March.
Wow. This anecdote from @NellieBowles
about how the NYT wouldn’t publish her story on the damage done by the Kenosha riots until after the election is really damning
“Damning”
*morose chuckle*
We’re fucked. The world is being run by depraved sociopaths.
I have an image in my head of a child, face and hands smeared with chocolate frosting, brazenly (gleefully) denying that it was she who attacked the birthday cake intended for another.
“Nuh-uhh! Prove it.”
Those who still subscribe to the NYT as the paper of record will never yield their faith.
None of this was ever about “BLM”. It’s about attempting a communist takeover.
^This guy gets it^
They are totalitarians, yes; communists – not so much. They don’t even have that clear of a vision. Their whole fucking shtick is tear down what exists but they really have no clue what will replace it – spontaneous utopia apparently. Their complaints aren’t all that different than our own – it’s all about how fucked things are, not how they are going to get better. Thus my hypothetical yesterday about the political parties in the post-divorce freer states.
Their complaints aren’t all that different than our own – it’s all about how fucked things are, not how they are going to get better.
Their worldview requires a totalitarian state for things to get better. They are not particularly articulate about the moral/ethical/practical underpinnings of their uberstate.
Our (well, my) worldview requires a much smaller state, and relies on spontaneous order for things to get better once the dead hand of the state is lightened. We actually have moral/ethical underpinnings, and rely on spontaneous order for the practicalities.
And we are constantly fighting against both the right and left who insist that things would just be a little better with some ‘guidance’. They may not have a concrete form of their perfect world – but ours is a never-ending battle.
Sure, for most of the foot soldiers. But I believe the ones who are pulling the strings are full-blown communists. Hell, the founders of BLM said as much. Their media enablers are on board, too.
To be sure, under ordinary circumstances we would be outraged by totalitarianism
Mueckstein, the health minister, said many factors contributed to the current situation, including Austria’s lower-than-expected vaccination rate and the seasonal impact of the virus. But he also apologized for state and federal leaders’ initial reluctance to implement stronger measures.
“Unfortunately, even we as the federal government have fallen short of our standards in some areas,” he said. “I want to apologize for that.”
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Mueckstein, the health minister, said many factors contributed to the current situation, including Austria’s lower-than-expected vaccination rate and the seasonal impact of the virus. But he also apologized for state and federal leaders’ initial reluctance to implement stronger measures.
“Unfortunately, even we as the federal government have fallen short of our standards in some areas,” he said. “I want to apologize for that.”
“Given the current infection developments, we believe there are no alternatives to even greater contact restriction than recently, so any measures that help curb the momentum are welcome,” he added.
This time is different.
Why the fuck would we be shipping strategic reserves to Asia? Especially after cutting domestic production?
These fuckers in charge really do work for the nation’s enemies.
Seriously.
We should be shipping that oil to the Saudis.
Youngkin got elected on culture war issues about race and sex
So, Youngkin chose a guy with pronouns in his bio to do his comms who also served on the Georgetown Latinx Leadership Forum and supports virtually everything Youngkin’s voters voted against
This is peak GOP
https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1461604311981600776
the future is Latinx
From yesterday’s thread.
C.D.C. Says ‘Smallpox’ Vials Found in Lab Did Not Contain Disease-Causing Virus
Which was the most likely thing given the label. But that’s not gonna generate clicks…
Gauleiter Wolf is disappointed.
#277 – The New American Dream | The Tim Dillon Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCXqxESTi5k
more serious episode than usually for Tim but for some reason it is still one pf the few podcasts I enjoy
Twitter is not real life. But it sort of is, because it gives you insight into how those most passionate about an issue feel, and those people drive political outcomes. This is the norm on anything having to do with COVID, there is something very sick in the culture.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1461370230303707148
What is wrong with people?
They have no mission in life. The drama of covid provides the only meaning in their pathetic lives.
Probably. They need a righteous cause for their own self worth.
It sure would be better if they would just go to church.
– G.K. Chesterton
As a weak-atheist/agnostic, I try to keep that quote in mind.
I am not sure I agree with Mr. Chesterton. Not everyone is motivated by fear of punishment or a desire of reward.
See: The shopping cart theory.
Dumb Asshole: “You are telling me that if you could steal a million dollars and no one would know, you would not do it? That is bullshit.”
Suthenboy: “It is not true that no one would know. I would know. It isn’t bullshit, it is just that people like you cant understand what I am saying.”
I am a pretty solid atheist. I put my grocery carts back in the corral thingy. Every time.
I agree with Suthen, I never understood the people who had ATM Malfunctions and took all the money and spent it.
I’m thinking “you know that’s not yours, what the hell are you doing?”.
And then they act surprised when the bank tries to get it back.
Hoffer has a good one to bear in mind also:
I was going to reply, but I see Suthen already neatly summed up what I was going to say. So I don’t need to reply.
^ Except for that.
^ And that.
You’re right, Suthen, that it’s not a hard and fast rule – I’d put myself in the same boat as you. I’m big on the Golden Rule and that’s not based on anticipated punishment/reward.
But it does have explanatory power for a lot of observed behavior. See, also, my comment about Greenies and Calvinists (TULIP!)
(I also _always_ put my carts back. I have special disdain for those who can’t be bothered)
I’m not sure that’s what he meant. Faith provides an important moral framework. It’s great that you have established your own, but that is certainly not common.
Most of these new religions (wokeism, climate bullshit, communism, ‘vid freak out) couldn’t survive if people truly believed in the word of God and the promises therein.
ron73440:
Dumbest thing like that I’ve ever known to happen was at a previous place of employment. A contractor was let go, however due to a paperwork issue he kept receiving checks… for six months. He kept cashing them and spending them. When the company realized they were sending payments to a dead contract, they politely requested their money back. The former contractor said he didn’t realize the payments were in error and he had spent it. The company then thanked him, and said that their lawyers would be getting in contact with him.
@DataDrivenMD – “data driven”.
Barf. Oh man does that touch a thread with me. This is “lives ruined” in a way I hadn’t pondered. And those poor kids.
Fun with charts,
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/the-geek-in-pictures-blowout-edition.php
Clearly either cheese or bedsheets need to be banned.
I find the “tree diversity” map really interesting. One of the things that comes up as a negative, between the wife and me, when considering a move to the “free-er” west is how completely different the local flora will be, and how much our expectations of what we can grow would have to change.
Some people apparently do not understand that the left is going to defame and riot no matter the verdict unless it is conviction on all top charges.
Let me clear up this tweet:
The holdouts would prefer a *MISTRIAL* or conviction on a lesser count
They know he didnt break the law but they don’t want the reputational backlash that would come from responsibility for it
Convicted on all top charges? They are still going to riot.
The only way to put a stop to this is to get serious about putting a stop to it. Cut the rioters down in the streets. Find out who is financing and planning this nonsense. Go all of the way to the top. Put them in prison.
All agents are presently busy tracking down those who even thought about buying a bus ticket to go to D.C. on Jan. 6th.
Now, now. Don’t exaggerate. Its not all of them. Many FBI/DOJ apparatchiks are piling up the overtime tracking down parents who complain about government schooling.
After which they have some school board complaints to investigate.
A few are trying to setting up a plot to kidnap a lefty governor in hopes of finding non-feds who want to join up.
Regarding the rice discussion from earlier:
Rice done correctly: 1 cup basmati, 2 cups water, 2 chicken bullion cubes, a dash of sweet basil and two tablespoons of water. Place all in one of these: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Progressive-Prep-Solutions-Microwave-Rice-Cooker-4-Piece-Plastic-Set/704254878?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222222339757369&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=e&wl1=s&wl2=c&wl3=74492039807802&wl4=pla-4578091576772178&wl5=&wl6=&wl7=&wl10=Walmart&wl11=Online&wl12=704254878_0&wl14=microwave%20rice%20cooker&veh=sem&msclkid=8620a18e8fe3143a3524c01934cfff2c&gclid=8620a18e8fe3143a3524c01934cfff2c&gclsrc=3p.ds
Microwave on high for 15 minutes. Perfect rice every time.
Dont waste that 15 minutes…brown 1lb of ground beef and drain. Add in 1lb of Savoie’s dressing mix, 1/2 cup sauteed sweet bell pepper, 1/2 cup sautéed sweet onion (dont waste the liquid from the bells and onions, add that in as well), about 1/8 cup chopped pickled jalapeños, a dash of garlic, two or three beef bouillon cubes and a pinch of ground cayenne pepper. Mix well
Add in the cooked rice and mix well. Mix, not stir. Put your spoon in along the side of the pot and scoop and lift. Dont mash the rice into goo. If it is not sticky enough for you add in about 1 cup of shredded sharp cheddar and mix well. That will glue it all together very well.
I can whip that up in about 20-25 minutes and it makes a whole meal for the Mrs. and I for two days. It is freakin’ delicious.
* wife sometimes adds in a little extra beef bouillon and water to make it soupy. A hot cup of that on a cold night hits the spot*
So, what is #10 shot supposed to be used for? It’s all I could find online. It’s a high brass shell, so I’m assuming it’ll have some oomph. I currently don’t have any plans for it except for random shotgun games, though now I’m wondering if the trap/5 stand guys would allow it.
I would guess for pests at short range. Shot that small slows down very quickly. I cant think of anything else.
Scientists mystified, wary, as Africa avoids COVID disaster
1: Antimalarials have a good track record at stopping Wuhan.
2: Africa has a younger population and lacks many of the comorbidities of prosperity which make Wuhan dangerous.
3: With the much worse diseases endemic to the continent, a but of a cough isn’t going to be noticed or reported.
4: The reporting infrastructure isn’t in place for reports which may be made.
Right in line with my thoughts.
I posted a link to a study about a year ago verifying all of that. Basically, people susceptible to respiratory illnesses in 3rd world countries were already dead before covid came along.
Covid is a disease of the old, rich, and over-weight.
And there are strong correlations between those 3 factors.
Gee, how could that be?
What’s that drug that is commonly used across Africa? You know, the same one used in certain states in India – with almost no covid.
It’s a mystery for sure.
I know you’re not talking about HORSE PASTE!
*Insert Donald Southerland scream and point*
Nah – different variants of chloroquine. Used to keep the skeeters from killing you. Also handy against flu variants like covid. I was on the stuff while in Southern Asia, they sell it over the counter.
Women’s sports is dead. I hope feminists are happy.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has published a new framework that discards rules on hormone levels for male-born trans athletes competing in women’s sports.
The new framework, titled “IOC Framework On Fairness, Inclusion And Non-Discrimination On The Basis Of Gender Identity And Sex Variations,” states, “every person has the right to practice sport without discrimination and in a way that respects their health, safety, and dignity.”
“Athletes should not be deemed to have an unfair or disproportionate competitive advantage due to their sex variations, physical appearance and/or transgender status,” the report said.
IOC officials swapped out the 2015 framework for the new one, which reverses the committee’s earlier stance on transgender athletes. It previously stated women athletes were only allowed to compete if their testosterone levels were below a certain threshold 12 months before the Games.
Under the new framework, sex testing to verify an athlete’s gender is deemed “disrespectful” and “potentially harmful” and “invasive physical examination.”
“Women’s sports is dead. I hope feminists are happy.”
Mission accomplished. Of course they are happy. They are not ‘feminists’. They are commie pieces of shit. The goal is to destroy any and all institutions that instill discipline and strength of character overall. Organized sports is high on that list.
The Bee is busy this morning
Indeed.
On the upside, I’ve always wanted an Olympic gold medal. Time to start hitting the juice and identifying as a woman. For a little while at least.
It’s nonsense a five year old could spot.
Zuby did it.
Funny how the lefts policies always hurt the left the most.
Presented without comment.
Reeeeee! It’s not a contagious disease!
Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director, Ashley Etienne, is leaving the Biden administration to pursue “other opportunities,” a White House official tells CNN.
Does this mean Astrid is out of Joemala?
Austria announced a new national lockdown and a plan to mandate vaccinations as coronavirus infections hit a record high Friday, forcing the government to walk back promises that such blanket shutdowns were a thing of the past.
My friend in Vienna told me about this this morning. She says folks are tired of the Lil Rona Panic measures. I asked her if that means there will be mass protests/disobedience. She did not say. I also said she needs to get out.
The jury members will return on Friday morning to resume their work. Unlike on previous days, they had no questions and no requests to review any evidence Thursday in the politically and racially fraught case.
They left early yesterday. The Rekieta Law panel is speculating on acrimony between jurors. Today’s livestream
Fourteen suspects drove away from the scene in three separate vehicles. Investigators said they are following leads, including license plates numbers for the criminals’ getaway cars.
I expect not much from the police. Louis Vuitton will close the store.
She needs to get out….of Austria?
I am sure if Louis Vuitton closes down that shop they will be made out to be the villain.
She needs to get out….of Austria?
Yes.
She’s Bulgarian. She remembers the tail end of Communism and likens the Lil Rona Panic to what she remembers of Communism.
I asked her if she was thinking about going back to Bulgaria since Bulgaria didn’t have much in the way of Lil Rona Panic restrictions, and those in place were widely ignored. About the time I sent that message, the Bulgarian government introduced vaccine passports.
There is absolutely no racial component to this fraud case whatsoever, except for what the media has tried to gin up. Lying filthy whore mouths.
Unlike on previous days, they had no questions and no requests to review any evidence Thursday
Not sure how to process that, other than as a sign the jury is irretrievably deadlocked and have basically given up on trying to convince the holdouts and get a unanimous verdict. But who knows?
Its the Friday before Thanksgiving. We will either get a verdict or the jury will say they are deadlocked. Then its up to the judge to send them back for more “deliberations”, or declare a mistrial.
SE PA Glibs: Meet-up this weekend. Check the forums for details.
Splendid, I’m road-trippin’ to Indiana.
“just get rid of public schools and give the tax money per student to the parents”
Califórnia, of all places, will likely have that on the ballot in 2022. I doubt it will pass as the CTA will be tossing vast sums of money to defeat it, but it certainly stands more of a chance now than it did pre Vid panic.
I did the head gasket on my truck.
I got it all put together, but haven’t started it yet, wanted to take care of an axle leak.
Broke my rule of no AutoZone parts on my other wife.(That’s what the first wife calls her)
The spring came out when the shaft slid through(no euphemism).
So now I am waiting a week and a half for a genuine Dana axle seal and I don’t want to fumigate the garage, can’t start the truck ’til then.
Is there anything that is still normal?
Forgot to mention, it took 3 months to get the head gasket.
Thanks Biden.
I have been making “Thanks current president” jokes since Obama’s stimulus had large signs thanking the program.
It doesn’t feel as much like a joke as it used to.
I was just thinking about this, a while ago:
I referred, on many occasions, to Donald Trump as a giant flaming bag of dog shit placed on the Washington Establishment’s front porch by the American People.
What we have seen and suffered for the past year is their merciless retribution for that effrontery.
Yup, the left is nothing if not spiteful, petty, and vindictive.
As if the establishment right is chopped liver?
No, but they’ve yet to jail someone indefinitely for putting their feet on their desk.
Compared to the left? Yeah, pretty much.
What I hate about the establishment Right is that they constantly cater to the Left even though the Left will shit all over them and call the worst of the worst.
McCain and Romney were called awful things during their campaigns by the Media and the Left but yet they continue to lick these people’s asses and fight for their approval. If I was Romney and was dragged through the mud like he was, I would have a scorched Earth policy and make life as hard as possible for the Democrat’s.
“Why do you make me hit you while all I want to do is love you?”
I’m starting to feel like a woman that’s been “told twice”.
“Bitch, why you asking questions about prices increasing on food staples? It’s just your imagination.”
DC officials working to combat lack of traffic fine enforcement
Traffic enforcement is racist.
Which third state? West Virginia?
Solid, liquid, gas?
I guess you could convene at the triple point.
What, is plasma chopped-liver?
Whoooops. That mask slipped a little. Here, I’ll pull it back up.
“IOC Framework On Fairness, Inclusion And Non-Discrimination On The Basis Of Gender Identity And Sex Variations,”
Avery Brundage shrieks in Hell.
Deservedly.
How long until the jury in the KR case is hanged? Or hung, whatever.
I would not even want to speculate about the hung status of any juror.
I think its pretty likely they are deadlocked now., but its up to the judge, really. He can keep sending them back. I suspect if they are still deadlocked he will keep them through Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, but I don’t think he will keep them through the holiday.
They said you was hung!
From Sensei’s link:
<em<But there is something “mysterious” going on in Africa that is puzzling scientists, said Wafaa El-Sadr, chair of global health at Columbia University. “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said.
“Experts” “mystified”.
Africans: they baffle SCIENCE!
Since they don’t have vaccines, they don’t have vaccination holdouts which are the cause of severe COVID.
I…uh…ummm…
*golf clap*
In the unlikely event this comes up in conversation, I will be using that.
“As I understand it, the cause of the COVID problem in the US is vaccine holdouts. They aren’t really doing vaccines in Africa, so there aren’t any holdouts there. No holdouts, no problem. I think Africa’s success pretty much proves that holdouts are the problem.”
I’ll take possible explanations for $500.00
Humans have this.
What is natural immunity?
Is it because they don’t have really old or obese people?
i’m using my extensive medical training to ask these clever questions.
In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, the government has recorded nearly 3,000 deaths so far among its 200 million population. The U.S. records that many deaths every two or three days.
The low numbers have Nigerians like Opemipo Are, a 23-year-old in Abuja, feeling relieved. “They said there will be dead bodies on the streets and all that, but nothing like that happened,” she said.
The wolf is out there. Be afraid. Honest.
I would guess that neither sets of reports are accurate. The US has been wildly inflating numbers while Africa is probably under reporting.
I agree. Something has been wrong about this for a year, and nobody is saying anything. Africa and India should have been bloodbaths. Cities and population density were the big factors everywhere else, along with exposure of the elderly. They don’t have nursing homes. Grandma lives in the same house.
But they also don’t test.
And we over tested. And how much we over-reported? Who knows.
But somehow magically nobody got the flu.
Hey, Nigeria, deaths with COVID. Don’t be like Italy.
Um… what is the life expectancy in Nigeria?
*let me google that for me*
Low 60s.
It’s a mystery.
Unlike on previous days, they had no questions and no requests to review any evidence Thursday
“Your Honor, we’re a little stuck. We’d like to have Rittenhouse’s rifle, a live round and a deck of cards brought to the jury room.”
I would like the skate board. If you think I’m unarmed, you wouldn’t mind if I hit you in the head with this would you?
“Bitch, why you asking questions about prices increasing on food staples? It’s just your imagination.”
Now get back out there and peddle that ass a little harder.
The Harris Biden feud is pretty epic because of the Jen Psaki analysis.
When asked she said that Harris was the first woman of color, black woman, Indian woman, (this went on for some time) and there are old power structures of patriarchy and racism that do not accept her achievements…
In other words, she said Biden’s cabinet is full of sexists and racists.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/verdict-kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty
Big Bada BOOM!