A barefoot hobo
I’ll merely mention here that there’s a lot of good football on this weekend. And very little of it will come from the NFL slate. But more on that tomorrow. The whole Covid toe thing from Aaron Rodgers was a quality troll of the WSJ. And the FS1 basketball coverage needs work. That game last night was unwatchable bad…and not just because Ohio State kept turning it over and the officials called way too many fouls. Get it together!
An abbreviated list of big birthdays today with just the heavyweights: Dutch privateer Piet Heyn, automaker Karl Benz, Pope John XXIII, “old time hockey” great Eddie Shore, baseball great Joe DiMaggio, Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet, and the best receiver of all-time Cris Carter.
Yoink
OK, on to (an abbreviated version of) … the links!
You’re almost there, guys. But something tells me you’re not gonna take the next logical step and admit this takes man mostly out of the equation. So let’s read on:
“We’re talking about the early 1900s, and by then we’ve already been supercharging the atmosphere with carbon dioxide,” he said. “It is possible that the Arctic Ocean is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought. This will require more research, of course, because we don’t have a solid grip on the actual mechanisms behind this early Atlantification.”
::sigh:: You dumb bastards.
You’re almost there, guys. But something tells me you’re not gonna take the next logical step and admit government does a shit job relative to the private sector. So let’s read on:
Added Lazarre-White: “The only entity that can respond to the level of inequality that produces food insecurity and hunger in our country is government. No private philanthropy can do that. Certainly no independent nonprofit can do that.”
::sigh:: You dumb bastards.
Good riddance. Also, why do they keep referring to multiple people in the story by using “they” and “them”? There’s only one person being referenced. Oh yeah, that’s because words no longer have meanings.
Yikes. I wonder if he’ll still get a mental health pension after he beats the rap.
Whiny asshole
LeBitch. This dumbass becomes more unlikeable every day.
Who names a kid “Pip”? Also, not every day should be “bring your kids to work day”, lady. And government shouldn’t be setting financial policies for private companies.
“Government says red light while man is still moving”. Christ, what a fucked up place.
Doing some music to give thanks today. This one is for Banjos. And this is for you guys. And this song is just so beautiful it needed to be played. Hope you enjoy them.
And I hope you all enjoy this Thanksgiving Day. May the blessings of friends and family bring you all joy.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow glibs. I have appreciated all the snark, spleen, venting, humor, NSFW, and all of the good cheer.
Enjoy the day the best way you can.
I’m also very thankful for the Glibs site, TPTB, all the contributors and commenters. I’m entertained and educated daily.
I’d like to second that sentiment. I’m sorry I haven’t been here much in recent days, but thank you all for being so fun. I love that this dark little corner of the internet exists.
Have a good thanksgiving everyone.
#metoo.
Pater, Mater, Bro, and the gang are gathered up this year. Classic meal incoming. Here’s to my internet friends, wishing you all a good holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving one and all. As Mrs. Animal is still recovering from her recent hospitalization, we’re not cooking here. Our favorite local watering hole is putting on a Thanksgiving dinner this afternoon, so we’ll just go over there and observe the holiday with our fellow Alaskans.
As I’ve said many times, this community is one of the few reasons I still have any faith in mankind. Have a great holiday, enjoy every moment, enjoy everyone around you. Make every moment a golden one.
Will there be pie?
There always is
and punch?
Michigan 48 Ohio State 34
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Id say “kill him” but he’s already un-dead.
Is that not a realistic football score?
Colin cowherd always guesses 27 26,,,
I don’t think it’s realistic for this game.
More like Michigan 49 Ohio State 21
Amirite Pie?
Pie loves LeBron James.
You still want to take his side?
I certainly fucking don’t and that is slander right there. I despise the little bitch
Fake news.
Nobody loves LeBron James.
Barry McCockiner loves Lebum
I don’t love LeBron – but those were not the “young fans” I was expecting. They were a couple of goddam adults.
Ohio State 34, Michigan 10
Michigan will do a bit better than Michigan State since they’re at home.
“A Newark Police Officer struck and killed a nurse with his car and then drove the body to his mother’s house seeking advice before returning to the scene with the body, officials said on Wednesday.”
he’s probably a white supremacist.
White Hispanic.
Good news is that it appears he avoided the DUI.
I don’t think qualified immunity is going to cover him on this one.
No, but a half-assed investigation by his “brothers” and a few dozen of them glaring at the jury during the potential trial might.
Never fear fedgov is on the case because of the city’s respect for civil rights.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/information-about-department-justice-s-consent-decree-newark-police-department
Are there any large cities’ PD that aren’t under a consent decree?
“he’s probably a white supremacist.”
Nah, just a good fella.
This will require more research, of course, because we don’t have a solid grip on the actual mechanisms behind this early Atlantification.
And, of course, by research we mean wild unsubstantiated speculation.
And, of course, by research we mean wild unsubstantiated speculation paid for by your tax money, suckers!
FIFY!
It is a deeply complicated question that will requires years of research, so many years that I might just retire on this grant alone.
Added Lazarre-White: “The only entity that can respond to the level of inequality that produces food insecurity and hunger in our country is government. No private philanthropy can do that. Certainly no independent nonprofit can do that.”
First thing we do, let’s kill all the farmers.
“About four in 10 households with Hispanic/Latinx or Black parents reported food insecurity”
Bull.
Shit.
I think he meant in NYC. Which is ironic since they are a locality with one of the highest tax rates in the nation and the most bloated government apparatus out there.
Yeah, what’s the point of keeping them poor if we can’t use them in phony stats to beat you over the head with.
We also have bodegas on every single block, selling groceries, produce, hot food, and (quite often) weed. For those under 18, the NYC Board of Education provides cost free breakfasts and lunches to anyone who shows up to a public school; lunches are provided all Summer as well. The only people food insecure in NYC are so by design. Hell, there are so many delivery services here, I can get a chopped liver on rye and an ice-cold bottle of Yoo-Hoo brought by a nice fellow on an electric bicycle at 4 in the morning. Food insecurity… GetThaFukOuttaHere!
But I bet that delivery driver expects you to pay for that liver on rye with a Yoo-Hoo! See, capitalism drives food insecurity!
Food insecure is all about massaged definition. I looked at an cut of meat at the last grocery trip, decided I could skip it due to the price and picked another cut. I’m food insecure.
Shall I pull that NYT video out of yesterday’s afternoon links?
Any organization that continues to use Latinx should be thoroughly ignored after having been repeatedly rejected by nearly 100% of Latinos.
I wonder what the next euphemism that white elites will use to signal to each other how “tolerant” they are will be.
“We have a tendency sometimes to assume the charitable food system will just sort of pick up all the pieces — and they’ve done a heroic job during the pandemic — but that’s supposed to be a workaround,” Waxman said. “It shouldn’t be a primary safety net for anyone.”
IOW, people were getting fed and Waxman and Lazarre-White are butt-hurt about that because it wasn’t their precious government. I think that private charity should be the primary safety net and that government should only get involved as a last resort.
that government should only get involved as a last resort.
That is unfortunately the camel’s nose under the tent.
I make a point of pointing out to my children how fat all of the homeless seem to be down here in Central TX and that the few they see that are scrawny are so because they’d rather rail meth than eat and it’s not for a lack of food.
LeBron wouldn’t be quite so loathsome if the NBA didn’t kiss his ass like they do. He could beat someone to death with a 2×4 on court and not get a lengthy suspension.
He basically punched a dude in the face deliberately and gets a game off. The guy he hit gets two days off for reacting in a normal manner for someone who got sucker-punched.
NBA officiating is worse than old-school WWF or WCW officiating.
Are the results just as scripted? I’ve quit watching the NBA, and I was a die-hard Laker fan (and Celtics hater) from my youth to middle age. LeBron is just today’s Jordan and for me that is when the league started the we only enforce the rules on regular players, not the superstars.
They are not but the NBA is losing its appeal bit by bit, but at least they are trying to eliminate stupid free throws (James Harded hardest hit). I am a lakers fan, but a very mild one, I have never been able to be an actual fan of any sports team anytime in my life. I was a casual fan of Barcelona, AC Milan and Lakers over time, now I watch neither. For lakers I wait the end of the lebron era. And the team is no fun right now. I would rather watch the bulls or the warriors.
The main thing I hate about sports is the fawning adulation certain practitioners get. It’s why I don’t watch anything sports-related that isn’t actual gameplay, but even during matches it’s inescapable.
And yeah, this guy is a prime example. I don’t even watch basketball and I can’t stand that prick.
Blatant ball fondling of chosen athletes is indeed annoying.
Happy Thanksgiving to all you wonderful people who entertain and teach me shit on a daily basis. God bless you all and extra thanks to Sloopy for taking time out on the holiday to get us the links.
Seconded.
whaddup doh’
Something for you Clash haters
A masterpiece. I give thanks today for that song and for the fact that The Clash existed.
Good one. Thanks, Brooksie!
Who names a kid “Pip”?
Mr. and Mrs. Pirrip?
And the Tooks.
What you just done did there, i had done seen it.
*claps*
“Fool of a Took!”
Short for Pippen (with parents that were big time Bulls fans)?
I thought it was short for Phillip or Phillipa.
I give thanks to all of you and for having a place to share my thoughts and learn more through others. I don’t agree with you guys all of the time (No True ‘libertarian’) but our Venn diagrams overlap in tremendous ways.
Today remarkably went incredibly well. Longest/hardest day of the week and, though I doubted it from the get-go, it went shockingly well. Thanks to me for that and more (and curse me for other things). A couple of hours before sleep. An easy day tomorrow and my prep is 95% done. Should be hella cakey. After work I’m gonna go to the doc to check out my stitched finger. I was wrong earlier, as none of the stitches have actually fallen out yet. Hurts a bit today, but really because it’s better and I’m more used to not thinking about it. I’m a teacher and a drummer, and making emphatic congratulatory drum sounds on the tables has gotten me in trouble. Only hurts for a second and then it’s fine again. No biggie.
I’m gonna ask the doc about my rib. I actually think it very well may be cracked. Nothing big. But it hurts in a specific way that just reminds me so much of a cracked/broken bone. Hey, I was wrong about my finger, so maybe wrong about this one as well. Really would just like to make sure it’s not doing anything serious. It’s a rib right over my heart and it seems prudent to just get it checked. Won’t be bothered if it’s broken–just another positive I can add to the Broken Bone list! Just seems prudent.
Then at 7pm I have my first online psych consultation with my new therapist from BetterHelp. I really like that I can message her at any time and she’s always been good about responding in a swift manner. Far cheaper than most psychs and FAR easier considering that I live in Korea where the obvious language barrier would make it impossible. I am fine-as-rain living around and working here, but medical/legal shit? Uh…ya don’t ever learn that vocab. I’m pretty excited. I shall see how it goes.
Thanks to you all!
Who names a kid “Pip”?
The Cheerios?
A late eighteenth century Cockney family?
Name’s Pip, fancy a nice chimney sweepin’ guvnuh?
? “Thank you.”
?
Missing from the food insecurity article are pictures of actual starving people. Looks to me like those folks can get plenty of food. They just pick the wrong foods like the rest of us.
*bails after a couple paragraphs*
I feel like they just cut’n’pasted this from every other Thanksgiving.
Thankfulness is out, confessions of blood guilt are in.
Not in my timeline.
They only make those bad decisions because they are allowed. The government needs to ban junk food and require everyone eat broccoli.
Hey, we got a shill for Big Broccoli.
Happy Thanksgiving to all the American Glibs, and to all the Glibs from elsewhere around the world, I wish you a pleasant day/night. Whatever your plans, whether you’ll be alone, with family, or with friends (your “chosen family,”) I hope you enjoy yourselves.
I’m so thankful for this site and for the friends I’ve made here that I can’t express it adequately. I’m also thankful that the only food I have to prepare for the modest family gathering at my sister’s & BIL’s house is the green bean casserole – a dish so simple even I can make it.
What GT said.
Thank you, heavy on the funk
Obviously — someone with great expectations for them.
And to chime in — thanks for this place to the Elder Gods ^W Glibs and to the community of all y’all misanthropes. Having this little haven of sanity to come read every day really helps, even if I lurk more than contribute. Have a great nap watching the football games. 😉
Is the Egg bowl a game, or a table decoration?
Thank you, Sloop for song #3. I’ve listened to it literally hundreds of times and it meant a little more hearing it this morning. Thanks to you and the other founders for herding this bunch of mangy cats into a community. I must be blessed to have stumbled upon this bunch of snark, wisdom and feeling. Once again, Thank You! You got me through some dark times and I hope that I can return the favor however I might.
You should hear the reggae version.
Ugh. That’s Zappa’s bratty kid, isn’t it? I hate ska and reggae.
You hate reggae? you’re dead to me….
Happy thanksgiving F!
Festus gets it.
Thank you
knew you would step up to the plate, Friend! Happy Turkey Day and say hello to your Dad for me!
Viking misogyny
Sweden’s first-ever female prime minister, Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, has resigned just hours after being appointed, deepening political uncertainty.
Andersson said Wednesday that she was forced to resign after her budget bill failed and the Green Party quit their two-party coalition government. She had been announced as leader earlier in the day to a standing ovation by some sectors of the parliament.
Instead, lawmakers in the Riksdag voted in favor of a budget tabled by the opposition that includes the anti-immigration right-wing party of the Sweden Democrats.
Andersson told reporters she hoped to be reappointed prime minister as the head of a single-party government.
\What do you expect from a country which ruthlessly murdered all their plague patients?
*actually sounds like a fairly standard and predictable procedural outcome, but don’t let that get in the way of the headlines
Eliminate one from Thanksgiving…FOREVER
https://twitter.com/hpcollect/status/1463209002683277315
is green bean casserole a thing or something added for easy elimination?
It is not only a thing — it is one of my favorite dishes. Lose the Mac & Cheese — that’s too pedestrian for major holidays (and usually gluey anyway).
UCS praises his own mac and cheese but i never had US style mac and cheese
He made it at GT’s house when I was there, but I didnt stick around long enough to sample.
I think she made quick work of the leftoevers.
He did. It was delicious. I did.
As much as I love mac & cheese – and I do love mac & cheese to the depth of my being – I don’t associate it with Thanksgiving. I guess I can take a day off once a year in favor of the other more traditional dishes.
Green bean casserole is definitely a thing. It is de rigueur for American Thanksgiving for two reasons: 1. It gives non-cooks such as myself something to prepare within our limited capabilities, and B. It gives you the once-a-year excuse to buy French-fried onions, use what you need for the casserole, then eat the rest as a snack food without guilt. (You can’t just let them go to waste!)
Also, as I’ve said before – use Golden Mushroom soup instead of cream of mushroom. You’re welcome.
Can I cast a genocide spell on “cream of” soups?
I have had green bean casserole once in my life because I was curious about it and it wasn’t…optimal. It’s never been part of my family’s Tday, so I didn’t know what the fuss was all about.
I don’t need an excuse to use French fried onions. When they had the caramelized ones (since discontinued because they found out, “Oh, Mojeaux likes those, so zap. Gone.”), I would eat them straight, but my favorite thing was to put them on a loaded baked potato.
I had no idea what green been casserole was until I moved to New England.
Eliminate the ham
Cocotte d’oignons croustillants aux haricots verts et champignons is one of my favorite dishes.
^Homple gets it.
Green bean casserole can be made as simply or as extravagantly as the cook desires, You can make it all out of the can or make it all from scratch with fresh green beans. (I really like the Romano, or Italian green bean)
ps: french fried onions chopped in a food processor with bread crumbs and hazelnuts make an excellent topping for any vegetable gratin.
pps: french fried onions (or ff jalapenos or beets, I like them all) make for an excellent sandwich.
For the first time I payed with google pay using my phone. I am unsure how safe it is but it can be convenient
All your accounts belong to us!
are they?
Convenient? Certainly; Safe? Probably; Private? Uh-uh.
For Rhywun
An 82-year-old man driving through Boston was surrounded and attacked last week by a mob of people riding dirt bikes and ATVs. Now, the Massachusetts State Police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the perpetrators.
The attack happened last Thursday around 7:30 p.m. The victim was driving his 1996 Buick Century when he was surrounded by 30 to 40 dirt bike and ATV riders.
The mob forced the man to the curb and began smashing his windows, state police said. He managed to drive away but was followed by several riders who, according to police, began striking and kicking his vehicle.
While trying to get away, the victim got stuck in traffic. He then rolled down his window and asked the occupants of another car to call 911.
The plague is spreading.
What are the odds this old geezer drove through their party without realizing?
It seems to be escalating and here I thought that the colder temps would mitigate these. Fool me once…
It’s the human manifestation of broken window theory.
People motor through Boston on dirt bikes and ATVs?
It’s like they want to cosplay Mad Max and are even encouraged to do so. I’ll be dead soon enough.
Its a cultural thing, brought about by rap music. Dirt bikes and other off-road equipment in urban settings was all the rage here this summer.
Generally the rider is young and stupid, and the equipment exceeds their ability. Plenty of crashes where the operator ran out of skill and options at the same time.
*steeples fingers*
Plenty of crashes where the operator ran out of skill and options at the same time.
Hmm, presuming then that these are stolen and not owned by the operator.
Paging Dr. Darwin – Dr. Charles Darwin, pick up the white courtesy phone, please.
The doctor is in and he is pleased.
And Philly… at 2am…
I hate those things
NYC too.
Plus knobby tires on asphalt on full on off road bikes.
In a previous year I would say something’s missing from that story but nowadays I’m not so sure. Random mob attacks seem to be hot now.
Whew. For a second I thought Brooks was saying you drove a Buick.
I think it’s for me because I’m always complaining about the assholes blasting around here at all hours with their stupid dirt bikes and ricers. Sometimes they just park in their driveways and roar the engine over and over for fifteen or twenty minutes.
If you don’t mind the slight feeling of pressure these work well.
https://electronics.sony.com/audio/headphones/headband/p/wh1000xm4-b
No worries. Brandon’s energy policy will bankrupt them soon enough.
An old man driving a Buick?
Stereotypes exist for a reason, I suppose.
GNX?
Hey, I’m only fourty one…and I like my Park Avenue.
It a hat worn while driving said Buick?
Cam Master.
And in adventures with neighbors… Even though there are windows to the outside, my bathroom and kitchen have some vent like things e.g. some column spaces running behind the walls vertically with an opening in each room . I live in a small building with 4 apartments, one per floor and so there is a vent structure for all 4 kitchens and one for 4 bathrooms. My downstairs neighbor renovated her kitchen and connected the exhaust of her kitchen hood to these vents as if they were chimneys, so everything ended up stinking up my kitchen. Fanfuckingtastic.
Sometimes it just don’t pay to live in an apartment
Could be worse, she might have vented her bathroom into your kitchen.
In the US you can’t combine those vents, your apt. sucks
wait if you have like 10 apartments you have 10 parallel vents? What if they don’t fit in the wall?
I am unsure why those vents exist given all rooms have windows, vents are usually when a room has no window.
Anyway the building is form 1939 so maybe they had their reason back then.
Persecution of the innocent
Germany’s Covid-19 crisis continues to rock the nation with the grim news on Thursday that the total number of deaths has now surpassed 100,000.
The country’s new incoming coalition government is resisting a lockdown, for now, however.
Germany reported a massive number of new Covid cases on Thursday, with over 75,000 new infections in the last 24 hours (and up from 66,884 on Wednesday), while the death toll has now reached 100,119 after 351 more people died from the virus during the previous day.
Government officials have been watching rising cases with alarm for weeks now, and the country’s outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly pushed for a two-week lockdown during a meeting on Tuesday with the country’s incoming coalition government.
According to the Bild newspaper, the new government alliance of the left-leaning Social Democrats and Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats pushed back against the idea, preferring instead to wait and see whether tighter Covid restrictions announced last week would work to help lower infections.
Wait and see? What madness is this? Hundreds (nay thousands!) will die as you dither and pander to the devotees of suicidal individualism.
“Grim News” Where the fuck have I heard this before?
I thought it was supposed to be a Grim Milestone.
“…351 more people died from the virus during the previous day.”
How many people died in that same time from non-CoVID stuff ?
Died with, or from?
My guess on the non-covid deaths would be somewhere north of 340 but how will we ever know? The numbers that have been shoveled at us mean nothing.
Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe
https://www.samizdata.net/2021/11/adam-smith-father-of-the-fringe/
“On Monday night I attended a screening of Dominic Frisby’s film Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe at the IEA.
It is a documentary about how the government-subsidised Edinburgh Festival was usurped by amateurs who just turned up, organised their own venues and ticketing, and put on their own shows. The fringe festival was, and remains, a triumph of the free market. This is in spite of many of the performers being somewhat left-leaning. In the film, one comedian being interviewed points out that doing comedy for a living is very entrepreneurial, and that during the 80s most comedians were mocking Thatcher whilst doing exactly what she wanted.”
*crosses arms* “That’s not funny!”
during the 80s most comedians were mocking Thatcher whilst doing exactly what she wanted.
And surreptitiously giving thanks that she helped allow them to ply their trade profitably.
And this ar15 meme is back
https://twitter.com/NinjaDeFuego/status/1463745132923015181
Inanimate objects are…..animate?
While Merkel had proposed a lockdown, to begin on Thursday, which would have seen shops, bars and restaurants close, the idea was rejected by the incoming government who said it would have been interpreted by the public as a “bad political trick” by the old and new government, Bild reported Wednesday.
Poisoning the well? MEEE?
Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
My most unpopular opinion is that there should be no age restriction on voting.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1463578242280046599
Now I assume trolling but imagine… But it does echo somewhat a view of some pro natalist conservative that adults with children should have extra votes… But that does no imply the kids voting.
From the replies
Lynn Schlatter
@lynn_schlatter
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Replying to
@mattyglesias
I see your “no age restriction,” and raise you “no citizenship restriction.” If your life is affected by government decisions, you should have a say in the election of government officials.
So all those poor fuckers that we bomb in the Middle East get a vote now?
Well, do they really know what’s in their best interests anymore than the average American voter? /s
We’re just freeing them from the burden of breathing.
Wait… do Americans get to vote in all the other country’s elections now too? That could get entertaining.
Voting is the communion of the democratic religion.
It is not trolling. Many on the left want kids to vote because they know kids lean left.
Until they get alt right radicalized on tiktok. The social media is teh evul
But seriously you have to be a moron to think 8 year old can vote. Except the Ice-cream for Breakfast Everyday Party which my niece would definitely vote for
Well, we are talking about Sadbeard
And the same reason they want non-citizens to vote.
they know kids lean left
The Hitler Youth would like a word.
I’m voting for Harris. Also, I wanna be a fireman AND an astronaut.
No, his most unpopular opinion is that his opinions are worth anything to anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together.
Meanwhile, incoming Finance Minister Christian Lindner stated that Germans should avoid all unnecessary contact this winter “to preserve all of our health in this pandemic.”
Disband Parliament.
How many people died in that same time from non-CoVID stuff ?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Take your whattaboutisms someplace else, mister. This is serious.
Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to award Congressional Gold Medal to Rittenhouse
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/583068-marjorie-taylor-greene-introduces-bill-to-award-congressional-gold-medal-to
Alright, I’m out. Gonna go eat some moose stew! Haven’t et moose since 2006. By the look of the packaging it shan’t be too gamey. Looks like the guy is either a pro or he hired one. Wish my poor old bung-hole well!
The furnace is still working!
packaging – you did not shoot it yourself? How unlibertarian. Anyways bon appetit
Enjoy the treat. Moose is wonderful meat. (Just don’t let your sister get near its mouth.)
You don’t have your butcher remove the teeth?
Yes, she has a freakishly large mouth. But Id like it entered into the record that Billie Piper really takes the wrinkles out of my love-sausage.
That is all.
Rose Tyler has three kids. Where has the time gone???
I see you find Fairuza Balklike maws attractive.
Did she plump up?
“Government says red light while man is still moving”
Boy, is he strict!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcokL59jeqU
“there might be a flaw in the models scientists use to predict how the climate will change.”
*MIGHT* be *A* flaw? The entire discipline is a joke of half-baked models and childish assumptions.
GIGO
Gigolos in, gigolos out?
Great Indigo Glowing Ogre
Gassy Individuals Giving Orders
“Scientists” warn- of course they do
Scientists have said a new Covid variant that carries an “extremely high number” of mutations may drive further waves of disease by evading the body’s defences.
Only 10 cases in three countries have been confirmed by genomic sequencing, but the variant has sparked serious concern among some researchers because a number of the mutations may help the virus evade immunity.
The B.1.1.529 variant has 32 mutations in the spike protein, the part of the virus that most vaccines use to prime the immune system against Covid. Mutations in the spike protein can affect the virus’s ability to infect cells and spread, but also make it harder for immune cells to attack the pathogen.
The variant was first spotted in Botswana, where three cases have now been sequenced. Six more have been confirmed in South Africa, and one in Hong Kong in a traveller returning from South Africa.
Dr Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London, posted details of the new variant on a genome-sharing website, noting that the “incredibly high amount of spike mutations suggest this could be of real concern”.
In a series of tweets, Peacock said it “very, very much should be monitored due to that horrific spike profile”, but added that it may turn out to be an “odd cluster” that is not very transmissible. “I hope that’s the case,” he wrote.
The never-ending panicdemic.
“The B.1.1.529 variant has 32 mutations in the spike protein, the part of the virus that most vaccines use to prime the immune system against Covid.”
I can’t imagine why these mutations would be successful, but then I am not a scientist.
That’s a lot of mutations! ?
They’ll be successful because they avoid the vaccine provided “immunity.”
Whoever thought that narrowly focused artificial evolutionary pressure would cause something to evolve? Now go get your booster.
The best and biggest study of masks that showed a small effect of surgical masks looks ridiculous when looking at absolute numbers rather than relative risk. 340k people over 2 months, only 20 fewer symp cases in mask arm.
https://twitter.com/MSmelkinsonPhD/status/1463685971157917699
Q: What’s the best part of the turkey?
A: The breast!
https://archive.md/DjDD4
You know — I honestly expected you to throw up an archive of big breasted turkeys today for some reason. Just to mix it up.
Many on the left want kids to vote because they know kids lean left.
Only age and bitter disappointment can teach people to distinguish between stated intent and actual outcomes. Many never learn.
“Many on the left want kids to vote because they know kids lean left.”
You know what else leans left?
green bean casserole?
That’s the bitter disappointment.
I mentioned this before but I hate The Cadence® Quantus™ Extraction Solution.
You know what else leans left?
That building in Italy?
Only when pictured from the back side.
Wishing everyone here a happy Thanksgiving. Special thanks to TPTB for providing an oasis of sanity in a crazy world.
Seconded.
Whoever thought that narrowly focused artificial evolutionary pressure would cause something to evolve?
Those “scientists” who claimed a few decades of poaching caused elephants to “evolve” to become tuskless?
Powerline, now with Turkey girls!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/mid-week-in-pictures-special-thanksgiving-holiday-edition.php
I would wish the glibs a happy thanksgiving but I not sure all of you properly decolonization decolonized the holiday
“sure all of you properly decolonization decolonized the holiday”
Wut?
When your apartment was built, my people were still living in Romania.
I’m gonna get some takeout turkey today while exercising my 2nd amendment protected, God given rights. ?
Gobble gobble you beautiful people!
I would wish the glibs a happy thanksgiving but I not sure all of you properly decolonization decolonized the holiday
I may have imagined it, but I think I saw/heard an ad referring to “Feast Day” recently. Maybe they were pushing kitchen appliances.
Or, maybe, they were red-washing the most American and sacred of all holiday traditions.
The anti-racist/racist holiday?
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2021/11/vaccine-thanks-for-those-who-make-em-take-em-and-give-em-out-jersey-journal-editorial.html
🙄
Odd, though, they did through some credit to Trump too.
*throw
Whatever.
You’ll never get me up in one of those (again)
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday directed federal prosecutors across the country to prioritize the prosecution of airline passengers committing assault and other crimes on board.
This directive came the same day millions of Americans hit the skies for Thanksgiving Day travel — and amid record levels of unruly, criminal passenger behavior on planes.
The Federal Aviation Administration reports that as of Nov. 23 there were 5,338 unruly passenger reports sent to the agency. An additional 3,856 mask-related incidents reported in which passengers caused problems over COVID-19 mask rules.
Federal law prohibits interfering with a flight crew. That includes assaulting, intimidating or threatening them while on board. Garland said in his memo problematic passengers do much more than physically attack employees.
Wear the mask, or the plane will fall out of the sky and everyone will die and it will be your fault. Every death will go in the book as plague-induced.
“That includes assaulting, intimidating or threatening them” Can we still mock them?
I crack myself up. OBEY.
Follow the science!
Thank Christ that Trojan Horse motherfucker will never be on the Supreme Court.
I gotta give McConnell credit for that.
I honestly expected you to throw up an archive of big breasted turkeys today for some reason. Just to mix it up.
That project was abandoned when the turkeys wouldn’t sit still for the tattoo artists.
ZING!
we’ve already been supercharging the atmosphere with carbon dioxide
4%. Human contribution is 4% of the annual CO2 pumped into the atmosphere. By the way, 4% is the margin of natural variation.
I would say closer to 0.04%.
Rotting algae in the Atlantic alone is probably exponentially more than man produces. Toss in a volcano or two and….well, you get the idea.
What would really help the warmista’s case is for them to continue with a 100% perfect record of inaccurate predictions and more foaming-at-the-mouth decrees that we should all suffer by dramatically decreasing the quality of our lives. That should help.
Out gathering went from 8, to 4. Teen#1 broke up with gf…so she isn’t eating with us and all the boys want to go to their sister’s. I’m aiming for 1-2, hers is at 2-3.
No matter cause we always told them there is a seat and a plate for when you want it. Oldest though is heading home today.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all, wifey says same!
Federal law prohibits interfering with a flight crew. That includes assaulting, intimidating or threatening them while on board. Garland said in his memo problematic passengers do much more than physically attack employees.
“They prevent the performance of critical duties that help ensure safe air travel,” he said. “Similarly, when passengers commit violent acts against other passengers in the close confines of a commercial aircraft, the conduct endangers everyone aboard.”
American Airlines flight attendant Paul Hartshorn, Jr., a spokesman for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants told NPR earlier this month that flight crews are mentally and physically exhausted after the last two years.
Thought crimes are the worst. Don’t be unmutual, Citizen. We have picayune rules for a reason. Follow them, or else.,
The flight crews can tell which of the pax dont really love Big Masker inside. And it hurts them deeply.
Finished the 10:00 spiced coffee and pecan pie, and soon will be off to the first Thanksgiving Dinner. A bit of sleet at the dog park, but still a good time was had by all who matter.
The Try channel had improved over the years in getting realistic simulacra of the items they’re supposed to be trying. This time, only the cherry pie is WTF is that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0X4rgL3asc
Sounds busy.
I slept in and just woke up.
Then again, a steak doesn’t take turkey times to cook.
I was really lazy, we did a roast chicken for dinner last night, so the carcass was put into a crock pot overnight to make stock. Today the plan is to make chicken soup. I’m attempting to convince the girlfriend she can handle it so I can just relax and play video games all day.
I’m fairly certain I’m going to be tapped to make the soup.
Good luck!
I got drafted for chopping up the vegetables. Real thing I just heard in the kitchen: “I didn’t think we would need to add much salt, because of how much celery we added. Celery is salty.”
Is it too early for me to shift over to alcoholic beverages?
Good lord, man! It’s afternoon where you are. I’d say you’re late.
In fairness, still fighting off a cold. This means I’ve got cellared beers (which I probably won’t delve too deeply into with my jacked up senses of smell and taste), Sierra Nevada Celebration, and a big pile of meads. This evening, I may finally try a cocktail recipe I’ve been sitting on for a while now the Scotsman’s Slumber:
3 ounces Scotch whisky
6 ounces strong beef bouillon
Juice of half a lemon
The girlfriend has now learned that one of her high school biology teachers was a moron (said teacher said celery salt is made out of just celery, and that celery was high in sodium).
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I was up by six as always, and made an apple crisp at 10 so we could get the turkey breast in the oven in time for a 4PM dinner.
https://archive.md/RlVXH/dd066ee59001394ee65741e4a8d8465d355785a6.jpg
I’m going to Sisters first, then over to Angela’s to help her finish cooking, I was just going to stay home, not anymore, oh the Snowstorm just started,
Snot City!
SMDH. All he could ever do was catch touchdowns. ?
Jerry Rice is the GOAT. Articles like this help to make the distinction between the two.
I agree about Rice. But can you imagine if Calvin Johnson had ever had a competent QB, much less Montana and Young.
For sure. He likely would have put up some monster numbers. Randy Moss would probably own the record book if he had top tier QBs throwing to him for his entire career.
…and if he wasn’t such an entitled prick.
Don Hutson is GOAT. He basically created the route patterns modern WRs use.
Not sure what happened with the link. This is the article I meant to link to.
…and a threading fail. I better just go eat turkey and drink wine.
The Arctic Ocean has been warming for 16K years, more or less. The only scam more transparent than the global warming canard is Hunter Biden laundering money through his paintings for Creepy Joe. It is pathetic really.
” This will require more research, of course,”
Of course it will.
Only government can fix hunger. Who can argue with that? We have no end of historical examples of….oh wait, never mind.
Even now there are limits to what people will swallow from the left. They are working on it though, have no fear. Soon you will be a pariah for not accepting pedophilia as normal.
Cop is a bit touched and criminal type. This is a new one on me.
Some sports guy is an asshole. Also a new one on me.
“…the mother of all parliaments…”
Uh huh. How many times will all of the UK fit inside several of our states?
Land of the Magna Carta too. How did that turn out?
Dont think for one second that what the radical left has in mind for this country looks very much like North Korea.
BTW, what the fuck is a squid game? *DDG’s it*
I still dont quite know what it is or why Porkchop would be upset about it.
Squid Game is a South Korean show. Despite being a dark show with anti-rich themes, it also shows a South Korean society that would probably look pretty good to North Koreans, despite focusing on the negatives, and one character is a defector from North Korea who is trying to get the rest of her family out.
Happy Turkey Day everyone, especially to those overseas who totally dont get it.
Also, last night was my first night sleeping with a cpap machine, so that was fun.
You get used to it. After 8 months, I’d say I’m pretty happy with mine.
I can’t sleep without one.
Of course, I have been using one since the middle 90s.
Been on the cpap for 15 years, it gets better. Beats the hell out of falling asleep at the wheel for sure.
Happy tryptophan day, Glibbies.
The Mojeaux household has much to be grateful for this year. We are in a good spot in life. There are things we need to work on, but overall, I haven’t been this settled on a Thanksgiving Day in, oh, forever.
Brought over from dedthred, Akira’s comment because it’s resonating so hard for me right now.
I sure hope so because I’ve been on that downhill slide for a couple of years now. XX is 18. XY is 16. No children children around. Family problems, stress, money problems—it all casts a pall over everything. I hate those movies where the poor, beleaguered parent(s) are struggling to come up with cash for presents, but they are able to keep a happy face for the children. I can’t do that. I wish I could. Now that our crises have pretty much passed, I can’t get that holiday feeling back.
OTOH, maybe it’s just my nostalgia jones knocking on my noggin AGAIN and you know that NEVER works out right. I try to do things that will put me in that mood, but the fam doesn’t like it as much as I do, so it doesn’t have quite the same punch.
I always said I didn’t want to celebrate Christmas in a place with palm trees, but I think after the kids are gone, I’m going to see about getting my husband and myself on a cruise ship for Christmas, at least once.
The Christmas before I got married, it was just me and my mom and I said, “You know what? Christmas this year sucked.” “Yes, it did,” she said definitively. “Next year, let’s go to Australia and I will go surfing.” She said, “I like that idea.” Then I got married. I don’t think anybody in my family will be going to Australia anytime soon.
In any case, my new house is very nice but it’s oddly arranged and I have nowhere to put a Christmas tree except down in the mancave where my husband doesn’t want it and I won’t see it because I rarely go to the mancave. I have my little tree in my office and it’s cute, but it’s not giving me the vibe I want.
Maybe it’s just time to stop nostalgia-hunting.
Brisbane is hosting the Olympics in 2032. Hopefully they wont be a totalitarian hellhole by then.
Hopefully they wont be a totalitarian hellhole anymore by then.
FIFY
Yes, that is what I meant.
Make new memories that you can be nostalgic about 30 years from now.
I used to go crazy for the holidays, christmas lights and decor, all the bells and whistles, then it all went away, so I stopped.
In my house we have done both. I have done cruise ship Christmas and it was absolutely awesome. Go do it! Also we have friends Christmas some years instead of family, and we have also done nothing except for us a few times. Shake it up and you will appreciate the season more, in my opinion. Don’t mistake endless repetition for nostalgia. That can definitely be disappointing.
Oh my goodness, thank you! Yes, it’s something I wouldn’t mind doing. That, and lying on a beach in the Bahamas, reading books and listening to music.
We’ve done tropical Christmas many times. This year we are leaving on the 27th, but next year we
I love Christmas/New Year on the beach.
Yep, we aren’t even doing turkey today, and she decided to not do the corn pudding (which was her mom’s tradition). We’re just relaxing, the two of us; the ribs are on the smoker and the dogs are waiting to go for a walk. I’m thankful that there is no family drama (though I haven’t heard yet today from my ex where my son is visiting, so there is still a chance).
Our family started doing Thanksgiving in Montreal, and loved it despite there not being a peep about Thanksgiving.
Too bad Canada has gone Covid crazy, or we’d be there now.
Mojeaux, it’s been said that we can’t ever go home again. We can go back to where we started but we can’t undo the calendar. We want to, we’d like to but it wouldn’t be the same.
How many times we’ve said and heard said, “If I knew then what I know now” but that fun part is that we didn’t know and we learned from all the trials.
It’s the journey, not the destination.
How well I know. And yet…I continue to try.
Christmas is so pretty, all the lights sparkling and being cheerful. The Christmas train (for little children) (which I rode on at Macy’s when I was a small child) at Union Station and the big Christmas wonderland displays. It’s just all so magical. I like looking at pretty things and for me, Christmas is pretty.
Good morning, Sloopy!
And a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. My life is better because of You People!
Great songs, Sloop! Allow me to contribute to the theme.
Have a wonderful day, peeps!
This is very true. I sincerely second that emotion!
Third as well, Y’allins have always been there, wherever there may have been,
Thanks Glibbies!
Fourth.
Again this winter we have Blue Jays wintering in our yard. The flash of blue against the brown trees and white snow is beautiful.
Bluejays, chickadees and many, many grey squirrels, red squirrels and 1 black squirrel, all eating sunflower seeds. Five deer show up at dusk, eating whatever seeds have been dropped during the day. The little snow we had is mostly gone. A couple turkeys hung around for a day or two but the pickins were mighty slim.
We have chickadees, red-breasted nuthatches, pine grosbeaks and occasionally some magpies and gray jays. The moose we had hanging around last winter haven’t showed up yet. Ravens are always in the area but don’t generally hang around the yard.
I like having our birds around. The punctuate the day with little bits of sound and color.
I have our feeders setup right outside my office window. Blue jays, juncos, nuthatches, chickadees, and downy and hairy woodpeckers are the most common visitors this time of year. For a few weeks we had a pair of Bald Eagles come and hang out in our big cottonwoods for a few hours every day, but I haven’t seen them lately. And there’s a covey of partridge that’ll show up at random.
And then there is the one little red squirrel who has varying levels of success climbing the smooth poles holding up the birdfeeders. It’s fun to watch his successes and failures.
We have feeders set up to encourage our guinea hen flock to stay around here rather than going to the neighbor’s house.
The side benefit of others birds is a good one.
The winter bird I’d never seen before I moved here that I really enjoy are the Dark-Eyed Juncos. We have the “slate” variety, and they’re little shadow-colored puffballs.
They are fun. One of my favorites, for sure.
I used to love the mornings just drinking coffee and watching the critters in the back yard. But those were winters Before Pup.
The squirrels used to leave the same trails in the snow between the trees. No more squirrels, but I wonder if Lily will leave paths or if she’ll just bound everywhere. She’s only got about a quarter acre of open land.
We have juncos here from mid-spring through the fall, but right now they’ve drifted south for the winter. They’ll be back in March or April. In summer, we have violet-green swallows who come to feast on the mosquitos and big flocks of pine siskins. Downy and hairy woodpeckers are around all year, and we regularly see eagles. It’s great.
Happy Thanksgiving freedom-living peeps!
I stayed up too late last night, so I might just nap through the Bests/lions game. It’s probably Nagy’s last game as Bears head co-sign anyway.
Back to my audiobook now… every one have good safe fun today! I hope none of you are good insecure.
Great music, Sloopy! I’ll submit a great cover of your Zepplin song from one of my favorite bands.
I feel like we should have the Thanksgiving Day recipe thread linked in every Thanksgiving post until the end of days…
Thoughts?
Happy Turkey Day all American Glibs! I will be eating and drinking and generally screwing around. So, Enjoy!
Happy Thanksgiving to this entire community! You are a source of knowledge, of wisdom, of humor, and of hope.
However if a pair of newbies wandered into the Glib consolidated Thanksgiving I imagine it would look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umj0gu5nEGs
Identify your favorite posters, or don’t, since I am not your supervisor.
My favorite poster is the one with the knockout girl and caption ‘somewhere someone is sick of putting up with their shit’
Trouble in Paradise
Australia is deploying police and defense personnel to support authorities in the Solomon Islands, as violent protests continued for a second day in the capital, Honiara on Thursday, despite a 36-hour lockdown being imposed.
Demonstrators from the country’s most populous island, Malaita, had traveled to the capital in a spillover of anger about a host of domestic issues including unrealized infrastructure promises, media reported. They demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.
As well as anger about a lack of development, the Solomons government has faced pressure over a 2019 decision to cut ties with Taiwan and establish a formal relationship with China.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) said between 2,000 and 3,000 protesters took to the streets on Thursday, with some setting fire to buildings and looting stores in the eastern part of Honiara. Thirty six people have been arrested, they added.Australia is deploying police and defense personnel to support authorities in the Solomon Islands, as violent protests continued for a second day in the capital, Honiara on Thursday, despite a 36-hour lockdown being imposed.
Demonstrators from the country’s most populous island, Malaita, had traveled to the capital in a spillover of anger about a host of domestic issues including unrealized infrastructure promises, media reported. They demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.
As well as anger about a lack of development, the Solomons government has faced pressure over a 2019 decision to cut ties with Taiwan and establish a formal relationship with China.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) said between 2,000 and 3,000 protesters took to the streets on Thursday, with some setting fire to buildings and looting stores in the eastern part of Honiara. Thirty six people have been arrested, they added.
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When calling for the lockdown in an address that was broadcast late on Wednesday, Prime Minister Sogavare said, “Our nation witnessed another sad and unfortunate event aimed at bringing a democratically elected government down.”
“I had honestly thought that we had gone past the darkest days in the history of our country, however today’s events are a painful reminder that we have a long way to go,” Sogavare said.
A lockdown in Honiara, which would run until 7 a.m. on Friday, local time, “will allow our law enforcement agencies to fully investigate the perpetrators of today’s events and to prevent further lawless destruction,” he said.
As well as looting stores, demonstrators set fire to a thatched roof building on the grounds of the Parliament — as it was sitting — and a police station, said the Prime Minister.
At least they’re not whining about common sense plague mitigation rules.
Grumble. Wife wants starbucks…..why!? 30 minutes in line for a shitty latte. I need to get back to kitchen to find my zen.
why!?
Wife wants starbucks…..
Fify.
I used these for craft services; they are totally awesome. The machine is around $1000, but you can find great deals on used models from office coffee services (we got 2 for $800) and the pods work out to about $0.50 each. Makes a great cup and has a steaming wand for the dairy fans.
https://www.wholelattelove.com/products/lavazza-espresso-point-machine
Happy Fucksgiving…I’m sitting in the ER with my friend. Likely appendix. Waiting for CT scan & admission. They’re letting me sit here by her bed, though, which is nice. I was certain they would kick me out.
Well that sucks, but you’re a great friend. Cafeteria T-dinner? Or no visitors there still?
Looks like 711 for me for Thanksgiving dinner. I need to run up to my friend’s place to get her some stuff when they finally get around to admitting her
Oh ugh. Sending hugs and good vibes your and your friend’s way. Any ETA on surgery?
She just got wheeled away for her CT. I imagine surgery would follow quickly if the doc is correct about the appendix.
Oh no!!! I’m so sorry. Appendices are ornery things. Is the hospital cafeteria open?
Aren’t holiday adventures fun?? ::thinks back to last year and TT’s Christmas stroke. At least he waited until later in the day:: Hope it’s something not too serious and quickly remedied!
You’re a great friend.
A sickeningly optimistic take: you’re currently living what will one day be a great story for you and your friend to share.
Meanwhile my neighbor friend is cooking my turkey for me.
Sorry.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Muschitiello said it’s not clear how much of a role, if any, human-caused climate change played in the early Arctic warming, and more research is needed.
Come on, you want to say it. Blame it on humans. We know you want to.
The petition, signed by nearly 15,000 people, was started after Walker gave an interview about their book, “A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity,” published by University of California Press in June.
“Pursuit of Dignity”. Hmmm…. intended to prevent child abuse? Hmm…..
“Mothers in the mother of all parliaments are not to be seen or heard it seems,” Creasy complained.
Fuck off.
Happy Thanksgiving y’all.
I’m thankful for all of the founders as well as the hoi poloi. You all have created a great place an should be proud.
Ok, three meals down and there’s time in the oven for the pumpkin pie. Apparently I didn’t unpack the correct pie pans, because I had at least a cup of leftover filling. I put it in a ceramic bowl and stuck it in the oven along side. Then I remembered I just got a beautiful pottery deep-dish pie pan earlier this year as a gift. Oh well.
One load of dishes done.
Lily is laying on the back steps enjoying the 34 degree weather. Between breakfast and the pies, she’s had lots of yummy eggshells today.
Off to the sons this afternoon. I made the cornbread dressing, that is my contribution.
I made it with duck instead of turkey or chicken. Damn, it is delicious.
Already I cant wait to get home. 3-6 year olds will be everywhere. I love ’em to death but it is n o mystery to me why humans reproduce at a young age. God, an hour of chasing them around and I am exhausted.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
NSFW
Thanksgiving the movie trailer.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x35qe9
Nice read from someone on the road to [liberal] Damascus.
FTA:
Feature, not bug.
New post up.
Thanks for that PSA.
I want my buttons back! Attica! Attica!!