Not so sure about #2 or #6
The second week of the CFP rankings are out and I still don’t understand Bama at #2. Or why Penn State isn’t rated while two teams they beat who have the same record are in the teens. Oh well, I guess it’ll all work itself out. College basketball got off to a start last night. The Buckeyes won but looked like ass. Duke beat Kentucky in a matchup of teams virtually all of America hate. Kansas worked over Michigan State. And a bunch of other games were played. OBJ has cleared waivers and is a free agent. People are still bitching about Aaron Rodgers. Meanwhile a pair of vaccinated Cleveland running backs tested just as positive as Rodgers did, making them just as contagious as he was. The Cal-USC football game is postponed until December because of the COVIDs, but nobody really cares. And that’s sports.
Irvine had it figured out
Big birthdays today are German clergyman Martin Luther, He shares it with British King George II, actor Claude Rains, baseball player and manager Jimmy Dykes, singer Jane Froman, brilliant inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, actor Richard Burton, writer W.E.B. Griffin, actor Roy Scheider, economist Robert Engle, King Crimson’s Greg Lake, actor Hugh Bonneville, F1 driver and playboy Eddie Irvine, and country singer Miranda Lambert.
Right, now here come…the links!
But remember: they’re only interested in going after billionaires. Because they’re sending a few hundred bucks here and there on Venmo, right?
PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!
This is gonna cost somebody a ton of money. Also, the other parents here are much better people than these two. Because they’re dealing with this privately instead of airing their assholery to the rest of the world. Now I feel bad for both of these babies.
Remember that idiot kid in Houston who tried to roll coal and instead rolled over a bunch of cyclists? He’s finally been charged. Which seems about right to me.
So much for executive privilege or separation of powers. There is literally no legislative purpose to this matter, which is the province of law enforcement and the courts. But whatever. Maybe now all the Feds involved will be outed.
An accurate representation
Brian Williams is leaving NBC at the end of the year. Now he can dedicate his life to tracking down those guys. who shot RPGs at him.
Alright, alright, alright…and you’re cancelled. That’s what is inevitably coming to the guy Dems thought could become Texas’s governor just a few months ago.
None of this would be necessary if the media were reporting the trial accurately. Well, maybe not. Some of these rioters and looters have received their Christmas lists, so some stores are gonna get cleaned out to fill those orders.
Lol, this is the best story he could come up with? There’s no way all Californians are dumb enough to buy it, are they?
Still too high. That goes for just about every other politician, if I’m being honest. Except Massie and maybe a few others. That dude is the tits.
Here’s a quality song from the greatest age of music. Enjoy it.
And enjoy this fantastic Wednesday, friends!
Homer seems to not know firearm discipline there….
It’ll be fine as long as he keeps the head bobbing bird away from the trigger…
If you’re among the millions of people who use payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Square, and other third-party electronic payment networks, you could be affected by a tax reporting change that goes into effect in January.
Payment app providers will have to start reporting to the IRS a user’s business transactions if, in aggregate, they total $600 or more for the year. A business transaction is defined as payment for a good or service.
So that’s basically everyone using the app. All your moneys are belong to us.
Tax every transaction, and make sure you know where people keep the government’s money….
What stood out for me was that this was part of the “American Rescue Plan” crap (I believe that was the hand-out-goodies-to-people pork fest that PPP first pushed when they took office.) God only knows what else was snuck in there we haven’t heard of yet. Constitutional amendment to limit Congressional bills to one topic and no spurious amendments or riders (and honestly, I’d get rid of the whole “reconciliation” loophole they’ve been using since ACA too) is really needed these days. Bloatware like sneaking a whole new OS in when you push a Solitaire update…
We the people definitely need congress to stop passing these omni bills and go back to a bill for each porkfest they used to have to do. We are getting fucked so hard now because we let them do this shit,
I just made a large purchase on Gunbroker, and the guy insisted on a money order. I wonder when those will get taxed at the source.
My old man has been giving out early estate disbursements… nothing major but the extra money has been nice.
I wonder if I will have to claim it as income?
And what about people who sell cars? I know of one or two retired guys who drive down to Tennessee to get a rust free car and then flip it up in Michigan for a few grand profit.
Cash only from here on out I assume.
I wish I could insist on a money order, but my potential clients would be NO.
I wonder if I will have to claim it as income?
It would fall under the gift tax. Knock yourself out.
You should be able to exclude $15K/year from your income.
Thanks, RC. I wasn’t planning on claiming anything unless I have to. Family cash is well Dutch Mafia-style; never spoken of.
As an aside, our tax preparer messed up our 2019 return. And it’s been a constant battle with the IRS ever since, even though we paid the tax and the preparer paid the fine. IRS still sends us nasty grams that always seems to drop on a Friday.
I think you can still exclude any amount over $15k/year from income, but, if over $15k/year, it just has to be reported and goes against the lifetime cap. So barring a few states, it doesn’t matter unless the estate is anticipated to be 8 figures.
Can also gift father to child/ child’s spouse and mother to child/child’s spouse for $60k/year without reporting as another workaround.
I’m not a tax guy, but I think people are confusing who gets
taxed for gifts. Gift taxes, if any, are generally paid by the
donor. The exclusion amount is the amount per year
per donee that can be excluded from the lifetime gift tax
amount.
I’m not a CPA. Talk to a CPA.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/frequently-asked-questions-on-gift-taxes
“But remember: they’re only interested in going after billionaires. Because they’re sending a few hundred bucks here and there on Venmo, right?”
Reality is that there are not enough super rich people that team blue feels are the enemy to fleece to pay for what they want. They HAVE to rob everyone that is productive to pay for their intended spending. More importantly, they can’t play the reset and globalist game they want to if people have the ability to hide their money from them, so they need to be able to track everyone’s cash.
They obviously have no intention of actually paying for their spending, so control over people’s finances is obviously the real purpose.
A teenage driver who drove his pickup into six cyclists in Texas this year, severely injuring the group, has been charged with six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, authorities said.
I’m glad they finally got a handle on the situation.
The wheels of justice turn slowly.
I’m glad they finally got the investigation in high gear.
Keep it up — Swiss will start the morning with a narrow gaze, not that it will be very differential.
Stick a fork in this thread
Don’t blow smoke up our asses, they’re not really going to prosecute him.
Don’t worry, they will shift soon.
I’m on the edge of my seat about it.
Not me, I’m just coasting from here.
I’m waiting to hear all the facts from this kid’s spokesman
The coal rollers are some of the biggest douchebags on the face of the planet. It’s a thing around my area too and it sucks.
Some douchebag rolled me a couple of months ago because I was leaving too large of a following distance to the next car in the left lane. He really needed to move up that extra hundred yards and crawl up the next guy’s ass so he could do the same speed as before.
On one of the charity rides I did (MS Buckeye Breakaway), there was an asshole who rolled coal on a couple of packs.
Satisfy yourself with the knowledge that he’s screwing up his injectors and will eventually be facing an expensive repair bill.
Everyone will forget about it in a few months and the cycle of harassment will start over again.
You mean the packs of cyclists that go half the speed limit six wide and refuse to go single-file so cars can get past safely? Yeah, they’ll be back soon.
Half the speed limit would be an improvement. Around here they rarely get to a quarter.
Just imagine how slow they would be if they wore regular clothes instead of a spandex unitard. Probably at least 1 mph slower, I bet.
Do they walk on sidewalks that way too?
They cycle on sidewalks complaining about the slow pedestrians.
You missed the /sarc on this thread.
You forgot “while dressed as ninjas, riding at night, while ignoring stop signs and traffic signals”, Sloop. At least, that’s what they do around here.
*narrows gaze*
That’s an interesting theory the prosecutor is pedalling.
To whoever takes OBJ, have fun with him.
Yeah — I hope the babies are young enough this isn’t too traumatic. I get wanting to swap back to the biological parents, but at the same time — these were brought to term normally, nursed and raised in their other families… has to be very confusing for the tykes.
Way to weaken the conspiracy theories that the elite is a bunch of Satanists, there Gavin. “We couldn’t miss Devil’s Night, after all! Oh, and masks, vaxes and trunk-or-treat only for all you peasants!”
Re: Kamala’s ratings — that they can find anyone with a positive opinion of that screw up, and that a larger percentage are so blinded by party to continue to approve of the Biden admin in general (ok, I guess he’s doing a good job if you *want* to ruin the country… so I suppose I should cut them slack since that’s what they obviously want) is bloody depressing.
Good morning, Sloopy et alia…
Re: Kamala’s ratings. The Hill did a story on that as well. The harshest part of the piece was on biden where they buried the lede. In a recent USA Today poll about what the respondents wanted the POTUS to do in the next the year the leading response at 20% was to resign.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/580857-at-28-percent-approval-say-goodbye-to-kamala-harris-being-plan-b-to-an
“But remember: they’re only interested in going after billionaires.”
Poor people and retirees who buy stuff at the thrift store or at estate sales and resell it on eBay hardest hit. What an infuriating crock of fucking horseshit.
Gimme the keys you cocksucker motherfucker ahhhhh!!
The best single Baldwin scene to ever be filmed.
I loved his “Oswald was a fag” crack towards the end of the movie.
Yep – this is exactly what they’re going after here.
“None of this would be necessary if the media were reporting the trial accurately. Well, maybe not. Some of these rioters and looters have received their Christmas lists, so some stores are gonna get cleaned out to fill those orders.”
Why do you think the media is going to so much effort to misreport this whole shitshow? It’s a travesty that this kid, whom by now everyone that isn’t 3 cans short of a twelve pack clearly understands when watching the prosecution’s case, is being forced to undergo this trial because the political class is using it to hide its stupidity and to feed the angry mob of marxist/fascist morons that claim to fight fascism, some red meat. If this kid doesn’t get off scot free and also gets a penalty against the people that forced him to spend money to defend himself, justice is dead.
Narrator: “Justice is dead.”
If the prosecutors were ethical he wouldn’t have been charged with shit excepting maybe, and I do men maybe, the gun charge. When they were developing their case they had to know it was hot garbage but they charged him anyway. Our justice system is politicized and fucked.
It’s not a justice system. It’s a legal system.
More like an illegal system.
If the prosecutors were ethical
What planet are YOU from?
Just an observation, not an expectation. Prosecutors are scum for the most part.
Earth. The State’s Attorney I worked for was quite ethical. Needless to say he lost his go at a third term. I stuck around for 2 months under the new one, then left.
If the prosecutors were ethical he wouldn’t have been charged with shit excepting maybe, and I do men maybe, the gun charge.
I don’t recall, was Grosskreutz’s weapons violation a misdemeanor or felony? It is hypothetical, because he will not be charged.
I think it’s a class whatever misdemeanor that’s more serious than most misdemeanors but not quite a felony. Not positive though to be honest.
Armed while intoxicated, Misdemeanor A.
Wis Stat 939.51(3)(a):
“For a Class A misdemeanor, a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 9 months, or both.”
“Lol, this is the best story he could come up with? There’s no way all Californians are dumb enough to buy it, are they?”
Enough of them were dumb enough to prevent this asshats recall, so you might have to rethink your comment about them being bright enough to see through another stupid ruse/lie, Sloop.
Did they, though? This year they did away with (local) polling places. Turned up at my usual site without my mailed ballot (didn’t know I was supposed to bring it) and came away feeling I had been treated like a provisional voter. At least I wasn’t informed that I had already voted.
Oh yes, and voting machines this time, speaking of an itch to de-register.
He also argued the request by Congress was an invalid fishing expedition.
It is. Dems have been on one since Trump was elected.
Crime syndicates will crime syndicate, man…
Why is anyone surprised?
Matthew McConaughey REFUSES to give Pfizer shot to his three kids aged 13, 11 and 8 and says he’s against vaccine mandate for children
How to lose and election in ten seconds.
What do you mean? I can’t imagine vaccine mandates are actually popular. If he’s going for left-center populist then it might be shrewd.
I guess that reference experienced a failure to launch.
But I’d think the party would prevent him from getting the nom.
This. He’s dead in the water for the primary now.
He shouldn’t run against the party of Lincoln.
If you aren’t in lockstep you may as well be Joseph freaking Goebbels. He’ll be torn apart by the left and the righties who might have considered him as a change candidate don’t want any mandates. He’s done.
Unfortunate, this makes me sympathize with him. And his part in True Detective, that’s just excellence. When Rust Cohle says “Of course I’m dangerous, I’m police. I can do terrible things to people..with impunity.” Masta peace 10/10
“may as well be Joseph freaking Goebbels”
Whut? Goebbels would be wildly popular with today’s Democrats.
I’m pretty sure he’s taken over Cronkite as the media figure that modern corporate journalists admire the most.
Note: anyone can vote in Democratic primary in Texas and if the Republican is just a retread I often do.
Not in Texas.
There’s no way all Californians are dumb enough to buy it, are they?
Certainly not the Californians who didn’t vote for him, but for those that did – absolutely.
I don’t know on this one. I have yet to see any convincing evidence that he suffered a side effect from the booster. Circumstantial, suspicious behavior, sure; timing is right, and it’s out of character for a politician of his type to dodge the public eye. I’ve no doubt that if he had issues that could fade/be managed in a short period of time that he’s evil enough – and that crosses the line into evil – to do that and come out still pushing shots in the birth canal during delivery. But I also wouldn’t put an amount of money that matters to me on that proposition. Maybe that makes me a dumb Californian. But I’m not a Californian!
Hasn’t Kamala been somewhat MIA too? I try not to follow politics too closely lately.
er, AWOL, anyway.
Nah, she’s meeting with Macron, because protocol demands that he only meet with the leader of the US.
Sure that might be the stated reason, but really it’s because, being an effete Frenchman, Macron can’t stand to be ensconced in a lingering shart cloud.
Le Petomane disagrees. The French find it quite funny.
Gee. I wonder why that might be?
I try not to follow politics too closely lately.
Me too. Unfortunately, politics seems want to follow me. And by follow, mean….
I managed to put a bell collar on politics while it was asleep, so I like my odds.
He’s fine. Just lazy and entitled.
If athletes like Rogers just get the vax, everyone will be healthy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GwbFjOIxkCeF/
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1458126345725227008
LOL
McConaughey refuses to endorse a vaccine mandate for kids.
Close Matthew but no cigar.
“In theory, the only people who should be worried about the rule change are those who weren’t reporting all their business income in the first place.”
Like the kid that mows lawns and babysitters. Damn deadbeats. They’re a burden to society!
I always pay my dog walker/dog sitter with an envelope of cash at the end of the week. Taxation is theft.
At least those kids will grow up hating the IRS like all correct thinking Americans do. I’d take a job as a mafia hitman before I’d take a job with them.
We’ve gotta do SOMETHING about those kids selling lemonade! For the children!
There is a scene in “Son of Flubber” where the tax man goes after the paper boy, and then admits throwing his own mother in jail over failure to report taxes on jars of homemade jam that she was selling.
Because they’re sending a few hundred bucks here and there on Venmo, right?
Between this and the new cars actively monitoring drivers for “drunkenness” I can no longer labor under the delusion that government is anything but a perpetual assblast. These are stupid ill-conceived ideas that only have utility insofar as they enable evil people to do evil things.
Good morning!
We can also no longer labor under the idea that America is a free country.
I used to do the “It’s a free country” thing earnestly, then tongue-in-cheek, now not at all.
It’s too sad to even joke about now.
Canada was done forty years ago.
Forty!
I am afraid I don’t know much about your country, F, aside from pairs of us in sixth grade being assigned to make a diorama about each province.
There’s a 54-40 or fight joke floating around in there.
^^
OT: Joy… the snoozed e-mail for concert tickets I had to get a refund for (they were mandating proof of vaccine or a negative test to go to a concert) just popped up. That’s like the shitty feeling that all of the Amazon/Google photos “memory” notifications were like for the past year and a half…
“Remember when you could go places and do things? About that…”
This is what The Who were singing about fifty years ago.
The biggest change is the increased visibility the IRS will have into business income transactions, both those that have always been reported by the income recipient and those that haven’t been.
Finally, all those of off-the-books billionaires will be forced to cough up their FAIR SHARE!
Rittenhouse trial day 7 update:
Holy shit what a day. Started out boring. Prosecution finished up their case, nothing special. All the facts are out there, its just repetitive testimony from forensics confirming what was seen on video. Only thing of note was the full on shots of the dead bodies. Probably effective emotionally. Prosecution rests and then the shit hits the fan.
Defense instantly moves to dismiss the curfew violation. As it turns out, the prosecution never actually bothered to prove or introduce evidence of a curfew being in effect. Judge says he’ll review the record over lunch comes back and throws out the charge. The one slam dunk charge gone because ADA Binger is a moron. It’s great.
First defense witness isn’t much, just confirmed that the car source owners were lying and they did have permission to be there, but then we get #Grambo, which actually trended on twitter for a bit. 59 year old sweet woman was actually there with Kyle and the others in the car sourse that night. First I’d heard of it. She’s a badass, very working class, no nonesense woman. When she has to quote what Rossenbau was saying she turns and apologizes to the judge and then drops multiple n-bombs like it’s nothing. She was packin that night as well.
ADA Binger, still being a dumbass, decides to cross this woman hard and its a bad look. She constantly corrects him and tells him he’s wrong in a matronly way. A very bad look for the proseciton…and it gets worse.
Next up is photochad. He has a speech impediment of some kind so the first impression is he’s kind of slow, but oh no he ain’t. The testimony isn’t much, again he was taking pictures that night and just confirms what we’ve all seen with our eyes, but then. He talks about his meeting with Binger and his co-counsel Krouse (sp?). He says, he made his statement. Then they showed him video and told him (they say asked nicely if he had suddenly recalled anything new) to change his statement to include some stuff from the video. I ain’t a lawyer but that sounds majorly unethical to me and I’m sure the jury.
The cross is a bloodbath. When you’re spending your cross not arguing the case, but arguing you didn’t do anything unethical, you have a problem. And they couldn’t shake this guy at all. Somehow we started talking about bloggers and gossip sites that are “bias” against ADA Binger. Krouse is doing the cross and is the most unlikable guy ever. He’s been unlikable all trial, but he just came off as a bully here. Talking over this soft spoken, very straight forward earnest guy and accusing him of lying. It was glorious and while it had little to do with facts, the prosecution looks like a true clown show.
This whole trial is a circus and we’re getting our moneys worth, that’s for sure.
This whole trial is a circus and we’re getting our moneys worth, that’s for sure.
Shouldn’t even be happening in the first place but it might as well be entertaining if it is.
Ans yet, this is how the press lies about what happened at the trial…
Seriously, there is no news from team blue media: they assign their lemmings what they need to believe, and that stuff is pure bullshit.
Good summary. I am quite enjoying the show.
I’ll enjoy it right up to the end when the jury convicts anyway out of fear for their lives..
I hate that this is even a possibility. This would be the mother of all gut punches.
It’s not a possibility it’s a certainty. I’ve heard multiple lawyers state it’s very common, they call it the compromise conviction. They’ll get him on one of the lesser charges, of which he’s also not guilty, to try to assuage the leftist mob.
As one of them said, “And that’s not justice”.
At least this time it will not be conviction of 3 separate charges describing 3 separate sets of circumstances describing one person inducing death on another person revolving around the death of a single person.
But it’s still horseshit.
The judge’s apparent blithe unconcern for jury tampering and intimidation is very concerning to me. Maybe he’s letting the trial go to shit for the prosecutors because he believes the jury will convict anyway, out of fear?
I am bad at reading judges but he didn’t strike me as any kind of activist. I did catch him perusing a fund raiser cookie catalog during a break. I think he’s just kind of checked out.
None of this would be necessary if the media were reporting the trial accurately.
Narrative > Facts
Someone at AP didn’t get the memo.
https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-racial-injustice-wisconsin-kenosha-homicide-21bc78b702c2998ba227216aeebed2c5
There’s no way all Californians are dumb enough to buy it, are they?
I mean, they DID re-elect him in the recall.
Er, see comment 9.1.
Or rather, they elected to not recall him.
Biden has an approval rating of 38% and Harris has an even worse 28% approval rating.
81 million totally legitimate votes.
I hate that.
It is up to 82 now, inflation.
OK, how many legit votes did Biden get?
Nobody knows.
And that’s the problem.
I mean, there are people that honestly enthusiastically vote D. Then there were a LOT of people that flat out hated Trump and would’ve voted D, regardless of who it was, to be done with Trump. Then there are the phantom votes – the truly questionable ones. There may well have been enough of the first two that the latter didn’t really matter. I don’t know, and neither does anyone else.
I don’t know, and neither does anyone else.
Like I said, that’s the problem.
The audits that have been done didn’t produce a definitive count of illegal votes (to some degree because the election officials refused to cooperate to some degree, which is another waving red flag in any audit). But they have shown illegal activity by the election apparat, and a non-zero and potentially outcome-changing number of “questionable” votes.
We have the highest-stakes elections in the world (if you believe elections matter any more), and the weakest election security of First and likely Second World countries.
*Matthew bends beer cans into origami figures* “Ya see, vaccine mandates are a flat circle… “
Why does a revelation like this, which I see as something good for the country in general because we get a reprieve from the people that want to turn us all back to the days of lords and serfs, just make me think about how team red will find a way to fuck things up or fuck us over anyway?
I laughed, bitterly.
“And I’m gonna need you to – uh – take the booster in a couple months.”
Muhahahahahaah stolen for future social discussions.
Also, Luscombe noted, there’s a fair chance your business transactions may be reported in duplicate — for instance, if you’re a freelancer or independent contractor, you might get a 1099-K from your payment app provider, as well as a 1099-NEC or 1099-MISC from your client for the same transaction
“Again, the taxpayer will have to explain to the IRS that the two 1099s are for the same transaction,” he said.
No problem.
Now that’s how you solve your government overspending problem: double (and if possible triple) tax the fucking productive people!
It’s just transitory: Kraft Heinz Raising The Prices Of Their Snack Foods Up To 20%
Is Secretary Frankenstein still married to the Heinz fortune?
I bet the ones that see lower increases, and maybe even the ones that get the top increase, will also have their package size shrunk…
The water was cold!
All that fine-detail transaction reporting will come in handy when we go to a VAT like every civilized country.
Filling in for Pie?
The poll found that Harris is more unpopular than both congressional Democrats (29% approval) and congressional Republicans (35% approval), which is pretty hard to do as members of Congress often receive low marks in public opinion polls (overall congressional approval is at 12%).
Coming soon, to a Presidency near you…
Ana Kasparian has a moment where she is not a cunte.
Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks has admitted to being wrong about her judgment of the Kyle Rittenhouse case based on video evidence…that has been out for months.
Did… Did she just not bother to look up the case before commenting on it?
No. Research and honesty are not exactly the M.O. of TYT.
Shouldn’t have made that easily avoidable mistake in the first place but a mea culpa is better than nothing.
Now that’s surprising.
@rebelscum
Let’s Brew Wednesday: http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2021/11/lets-brew-wednesday-1881-whitbread-x.html
A mild from the 19th century. Pale, boozy, and hoppy, exactly what no one thinks of as a mild today.
In beer news, local brewery just opened up yesterday. Specializing in German beers and food (the owners already had a German restaurant across the street from where the brewery went in). I stopped in yesterday, and the place was packed. No distancing, no dividers, people stepping up to the bar to order a drink, in standing room drinking said beer. I was disappointed in their Kolsch (not much there at all), but their Rauchbier was excellent. They’ve already done two collaboration beers (one of which got them a medal at a local beer fest), both with breweries that have opened in the past 2 years.
They seriously undersized their parking lot, and I have a feeling the neighbors in the area are going to start complaining about the cars parking on the street if they stay busy.
Meanwhile, back at the plantation
Californians hoping to ditch their masks should prepare to be disappointed, Gov. Gavin Newsom suggested Tuesday when he told attendees at an economic conference in Monterey that a winter COVID-19 surge is coming to the Golden State. “I know you’re sitting here with masks and going, ‘Why the hell I do I still have this mask on?’” Newsom said at the California Forward conference in Monterey. “For good reason.”
Move to Florida if you don’t want to wear a mask, you fucking ungrateful ignorant slobs. I’m SCIENCE!-ing my ass off, just to make your miserable peon lives better. I could be relaxing on the terrace of a winery with my important friends right now.
“a winter COVID-19 surge is coming to the Golden State”
I have read the pig entrails to see into the future. The angry virus gods will return with avengeance once the Sun has crossed the line of the Solstice and the time of darkness descends upon the land. Only by remaining faithful and demonstrating that faith by displaying the talismans of our blood oath do we have a chance at appeasing the angry gods and surviving.
So it is written, so it shall be done.
Also: instructive in that if you’re waiting for your overlords to give you permission to stop wearing them, it’s never gonna come. Just stop fucking wearing them en masse and this all goes away.
I have been saying that since “2 weeks to flatten the curve”.
To be fair to the twit, I expect a winter surge as well. That’s the pattern for respiratory corona viruses like cold and flu, after all. Why that matters when the masks are f’ing pointless on the other hand…
This orca-heavy area seems mostly over it. I see masks in the “worried well” (psychotherapeutically) zip code though.
I read that as orc-heavy at first. I didn’t realize you lived in Middle Earth.
orca-heavy area
*Tres perks up*
Where is this utopia? We are masking, locking, and now passporting harder than ever, even though the vax rate is 85% in our county.
For good reason
He’s right though. The reason is to demonstrate your obedience.
effing do it, without any regard for illegal fiats from overreaching piss-bags.
Figured the SacBee could use a little copy-editing.
Ass Wednesday is the one day a week when my shitlords of posterior preference can go hog wild.
https://archive.md/YdrAr
How’s the baby, Q?
Got her 9 month check up today actually.
She’s a super happy little lady; we could all learn a lot from her. First thing in the morning when she wakes up, it’s a big smile and the smiles keep coming all day. She’s started pulling herself up and is absolutely *determined* to start walking like Mom and Dad (though she’s still a bit small). Once she puts her mind to something, nothing is gonna stop her, but with a big smile.
One thing that needs work: she’s not so much into the solid foods. Very picky and even if something she likes is on the menu, she won’t always go for it. This unfortunately leads to lots of waking up for formula in the night and tired parents.
So… you’re saying she’s obsessed with breasts? Can’t imagine where she came by that, Q….
Snark aside — serious thanks for the mental image of the happy little q-ette. Moments of joy like that really help (me at least) when fighting the crap we’re all fighting. On our front, about a month and a half back, a little black and white kitten decided I was an easy mark^W^W^W friendly looking and I took her in. Bounding silly kitten antics help me smile periodically during the day.
During the pregnancy, Mrs. Q’s tits went from a 34DD to a 36G. She decided not to breastfeed due to medication she takes for asthma having some small risk of going through the milk, so we’ve done formula. Since the birth, her tits have settled back to a 34F with no apparent sagginess/loss of perk. I don’t know whether to attribute that to the lack of breastfeeding or just good luck but it definitely makes me happy.
I predict some siblings…
Since she opened back up for business there’s been a fair amount of practicing.
Boomshanka. May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman.
Neil is the best!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZHvqZhWcUE
Aw. ? Novelty for the win!
*Gets* her 9 month check up; it’s only 8 am here doi.
As long out as she was in.
One thing that needs work: she’s not so much into the solid foods. Very picky and even if something she likes is on the menu, she won’t always go for it. This unfortunately leads to lots of waking up for formula in the night and tired parents.
It’ll come with time. Our 1 year old didn’t really get into real food until 10 months, and even then it was a process. Our 4 year old had some issues, and has always been a bit picky. Salami was her first “real” food, of all things.
SJWednesday: Give Us More Of What Doesn’t Work Or Else
Re the bolder parts: Their brains are broken is the charitable analysis.
I would submit that article as evidence of intellectual murder.
“He attributed the term to Friedrich Engels”
You can stop right there; pretty much anything that comes after this is guaranteed to be bullshit.
It’s worse than bullshit. It’s pure cognitive dissonance without a shred of uncertainty.
Yeah, is ad hominem really a fallacy? Seems a fairly reliable heuristic IME.
Exactly.
Also, the guy arguing for a “people’s vax” is a big ol’ bed-wetting doody-head.
I ask anyone that tells me they are a marxist if they read Marx or Engels. About 85% of them never did, which explains a lot of why they think that idiocy can work or is good. Of the other 15% that did read them, I find that 90% of them never understood what Marx or Engels were really peddling, which explains again why they think that shit is a good idea. The remaining 10% are the evil fucks that understood exactly what Marx and Engels were foisting on humanity and see it as a means to an end…
I don’t know much about M and E, except that M gave away his bride’s dowry on his honeymoon??!! And that he’s buried on the unpicturesque side of the cemetery.
Marx grew up in a rather nice house. You have to pay to get in.
This is because there is still a prevalent belief among politicians in market fundamentalism or that the market should have primacy over people’s health and human rights.
We have to impose health tyranny to keep you free.
can overcome current vaccines
I am shocked that a respiratory illness, which mutates constantly, can overcome something that was not considered a vaccine until the definition was recently changed.
people understand that we can only be safe when everyone, everywhere is safe.
Miss me with your marxist nonsense.
Psalm of the day
Psalm 140:1-11
There is a new Michigan HHS commercial for the vaccine that made me a little sick to my stomach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67LgCedvEdY
It’s for vaxxing kids.
Odds are this has been mentioned here and I missed it, but Cook County: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKTv60DXml4
Disturbing…
Judges instructions to the jury:
Don’t be misled by what you think you may have seen in this courtroom. Don’t allow the demeanor of the prosecutors, or the apparent weakness of their evidence lead you to an unjust verdict. We all know what really happened. A depraved and bloodthirsty vigilante took it upon himself to derail racial justice. Go now, search your consciences, and bring us a verdict which will allow the country to breathe a sigh of relief.
Based on what I have seen from this judge so far, I would be absofuckinglutely gobsmacked if this happened. This judge looks like he knew this trial was a theater act based on how he smacked around the fucking prosecutors and their bullshit, but maybe they can get to him by threatening him or his family.
California’s COVID rates have started to tick up after months of decline. In the most recent week for which data is available, 2.3% of COVID-19 test came back positive. That’s far below the pandemic-high of more than 17% during last winter’s surge, but Newsom says his administration is bracing for a grim few months, including preparing to bring in hospital staff from out of state.
Pay no attention to the actual numbers. He has a premonition.
“including preparing to bring in hospital staff from out of state”
Given the net outflow of people from CA, that may involve some pretty hefty incentives.
Also: instructive in that if you’re waiting for your overlords to give you permission to stop wearing them, it’s never gonna come. Just stop fucking wearing them en masse and this all goes away.
People should start mailing their used masks to Newsom at the governor’s mansion.
Maiesiophilia.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16652219/boyfriend-wants-more-sex-pregnant/
How does the joke go again? The guy that pointed out he liked dating pregnant chicks cause he knew sex was a sure thing and there was zero risk of pregnancy…
Globally, women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than men, as they make up a majority of the world’s poor and depend most on natural resources.
In the United States, one subgroup of women are particularly at risk: pregnant women, @CaraKorte
reports.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1458127457186422789
It is patriarchy the more pregnant a woman is the more vulnerable xer is and the shitlord wants to oppress xer and take advantage
They want you destitute.
Biden nominee Saule Omarova saying the quiet part out loud. On the oil, coal and gas industries:
“We want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle climate change.”
Energy independence gives the serfs too much freedom. The green movement is about letting the elites drive around in their Teslas and the serfs be forced to use mass transit but only if they pass the vetting/border checks…
Your social credit card has been declined.
The woman is a straight-up, no-shit communist.
The fact that she was even considered is batshit insane. Even Yellen thinks she’s nuts.
Didn’t she get her college degree in the Soviet Union?
Her undergrad was from Moscow State on a scholarship named after Lenin.
But the real kicker is that she wants to basically end all private banks, switch everybody to the Federal Reserve and nationalize it. In effect, she wants a fully socialist system backdoored through the Fed.
Nothing like one stop shopping for government cronies to skim off the top and track everyone’s finances. Where anyone thinks the Fed has been given the authority to do that escapes me — but I know that’s so passe these days. Sickening.
So she is an actual commie…
So she’s a nominee? Let’s just see how many of the GOP fakir losers vote to put her into whatever position she’s nominated for. As long as they can parlay policy into insider trading riches they don’t give a fuck.
Revenues are high in the mean time.
I mean looking at all those cabin in the woods YouTube channels do you really need electricity?
I say people lived in penury for 100000 years of history, penury should be good enough for us. We can take comfort – so to speak – that the chosen ones will keep their luxury and will allow us to watch and admire them.
Four legs good, two legs better.
People wonder why I’m preparing for our society to never return to normal. This is why. Maybe there will be a short term pushback against the excesses of the left. Maybe not. Long term, they’re gearing up to destroy the economy and even the “moderates” are getting on board. I’d much rather be on a homestead when the power gets cut than in the middle of the suburbs. I’d much rather have chickens and goats in the backyard when the food supply is broken than a neatly mown lawn. I’d much rather be surrounded by people who know what self-sufficiency looks like than people who are going to panic and start doing evil things.
Maybe it doesn’t happen for a couple decades. Maybe I’m planning for something that won’t happen for most the rest of my life. It’s coming, though, and I’m not optimistic about it being some distant crisis.
You’re weird but I dig it.
I’m getting there, trshy. Mrs. Dean maybe not so much, especially given that she grew up on a farm and doesn’t exactly have fond memories of the grind that is living on a farm. On the plus side, she is a fan of rural living and small towns.
Currently planning to stay where we are (exurbs, I guess, of Tucson). Zero possibility here of even having much of a garden, much less livestock. I am kinda poking around for a small town destination if we decide to leave. We’re also beginning to look seriously at solar, likely next year. Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s any possibility of getting our own water well.
there’s any possibility of getting our own water well.
Newly acquired small plot of land, looked into a well. Given depth, pump power requirements, quoted something on the order of $61000. Yes, 3 zeros. Le Sigh. Might hook into the local communal well and make sure I remain heavily armed enough I can take control of it should the need arise! Definitely going full off-grid solar. But I’d rather be in the opposite situation – can live without electricity if someone decides to cut it off because I had too many people over for Thanksgiving; water not so much.
For us, its a permitting problem. I have no idea how deep the water table is where we live.
And the bad thing about drilling wells in much of the country is, you could wind up with a an expensive yet dry hole in the ground. We never put a well in on our Santa Fe property before we sold it for that reason. It would have been 800 feet, most likely, and we were quoted $45K.
I’m with you, trashy. That was a part of the reason for the move to Kansas.
Wife’s parents have plenty of acres (by my standards) near the Ozarks – same small farm my bride grew up on. Town of 1500 or so.
Fresh water, ponds have fish, plenty of deer, turkeys, ducks, etc.
That’s our bug-out plan. Drive south for about 4 hours when it starts hitting the fan and wash our hands of it.
I could live like that – EASILY.
I used to have a bug out locations – my parents’ cabin on Lake Michigan – located in a tiny county with a total population of 10k. And filled with farmers and hunters. There was enough firewood to heat the house, and it was enough off the beaten path (and not viewable from the lakeshore) that it was fairly hidden.
But the old man received an offer that was too good to turn down. We still have some land up there but without anything there, it would make for some cold winters.
Wife’s parents have plenty of acres (by my standards) near the Ozarks
That’s where we’re looking. Springfield-Branson corridor and anything up to an hour east or west.
Wife wants to be within a half hour of a Target/Walmart/whatever. I want to be far enough out that we don’t have to deal with the traffic.
^I’m on 30 acres of paradise. Stocked pond with bass, target range, hiking trails, garden, orchard. Have jersey’s, donkeys, goats. Thinking about getting an Angus calf in the spring. Can do whatever I want, whenever I want. Have a couple excellent guys renovating the house right now for cash… no licenses, no code inspectors, no fuss.
Even if society does return to normal, I wouldn’t trade it for living in the suburbs.
I don’t know if I’m too keen on all the politically like-minded people withdrawing from society and leaving me to fight this shit alone.
There’s no fighting it — part of being of this mind politically is accepting that truth. For whatever reason we’re at one of those forks in history and there’s no room for PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE to exist.
Article.
some fun background work music: 60s-70s Japanese Instrumental Cinema Funk Breaks & Beats
One man’s freedom fighter is another man’s scammer.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb9by/adam-mosseri-dead-instagram-account-locked
“A scammer said they managed to lock down the head of Instagram’s account using a fake obituary.”
Speaking of “Awaiting the overlords’ permission”:
There are a lot of people doing exactly that. It’s the “Mommy Says” school of citizenship. Don’t question, don’t resist. Mommy knows best, and until she gives the All Clear you have to wear the talisman and show everybody what a good little boy or girl you are.
Making decisions, especially difficult ones with consequences, frightens most people. Having someone make the decisions for you allows you to absolve yourself from both having to consider you made a bad choice and consequences. These tend to be the people that think government solves problems instead of creating them and making them worse so people like them become perpetual supporters in the racket.
QFT.
“But the bell rang!”
“Well, what am I sposeta do?”
“I dunno, the bell rang!”
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/580884-consumer-prices-rose-09-in-october-62-percent-in-past-year
Amusing that the Dems thought, post-election, that they could just turn the economy back on with the flip of a switch. It’s almost if they have a disconnect between what drives the economy and their own (fiendish) plans.
As an aside, EF and I have pulled back on our spending.
Buy another (most likely used) car to replace my aged Infiniti? Nah… we’ll wait. Even new car prices, with no incentives, makes buying a budget car out of EF’s comfort zone.
Get work done on our house? With the price of lumber and the general shortage of construction workers, everything is more expensive than we think with long wait times.
Even food ‘n’ booze, pulling back with cheaper alternatives.
“Buy another (most likely used) car to replace my aged Infiniti? Nah… we’ll wait. Even new car prices, with no incentives, makes buying a budget car out of EF’s comfort zone.”
Considering your savings are already taking a beating because of this inflation, and the bill that just forced new cars to now have those alcohol checkers, used car prices will be going through the roof. This might be the time to transfer your deflating savings into tangible assets (and used cars are going to be gold, which is why I foresee another government program to destroy the lot of them), so my advice is you rethink this decision…
For my current “job” I really would like a new Corolla hatch… something I could beat on for years, though the performance downgrade vs the M35x will be annoying.
Looks like you have some thinking to do sir.
I test drove one of those a couple of years ago. It was a decent enough ride but was surprisingly small.
That’s a concern with a 6’8″ son and two 50+ pound dogs. Economical and roomy are two words that rarely meet in the automotive world.
Lightly used Scion XB if you can find one.
Honda Element?
Oddly enough I’ve owned both!
The Scion xB (second gen) was a thirsty little car, getting some pretty bad gas mileage. Any higher RPMs and the large 2.4L engine would get trashy. The little amount of sound dampening used – budget wheels after all – meant highway driving was tedious. It did, however, take a 55mph hit from the side and let me walk away unharmed.
I would have kept the Element we owned ‘cept it was a very cheap version with no arm rests or even cruise control! But that back space was roomy and the fold down backseat was great for lunchtime naps.
I have a 2nd gen XB with a manual and your criticisms are valid. Sorta thrifty but not really and unrefined but bulletproof for the most part.
Which will make me very cautious in driving habits…
Anyone here ever take a defensive driving course he* wasn’t made to? I tried and failed yesterday to block a speeder on a two-lane road.
*statistically, mes amies
bah, sorry, four-lane barrier-divided highway
Oh god…citizen enforcer. Just move to the right lanes.
White traffic signs are mandatory, like speed limit signs.
“Slower traffic move right” is also a white sign, which is mandatory.
Impeding traffic is usually a violation of the rules of the road.
Youre violating the law too and being more dangerous than a “speeder”.
I tried and failed yesterday to block a speeder on a two-lane road.
Why?
Spite?
Does the revision make any difference?
After dark. Acura sedan, him. Used his signals!
I wouldn’t do something that dangerous without a good reason.
He slipped in in daring diagonal fashion? Hence my original question, honestly. I wouldn’t do that to anyone but I might like to escape that way sometime.
I used to be a vigilante driver. Now I just get out of peoples way, don’t drag race anyone, and try to stay out of crazy driver situations.
I’m a big fan of getting out of the way. To me, defensive driving is never picking a fight, flowing through traffic like water.
Ditto.
We were driving on the interstate in C-bus a few weeks back, and one car cut off another car, which was evidently quite offensive, because they spent the next half mile swerving at one another and running one another off the shoulder and other insane shit. I took the first available exit and found an alternative route to my destination. Not gonna even share the road with that particular brand of lunatic.
This is sort of why we pulled the trigger and got the tractor and some implements. There have been shortages reported, they had 0% financing. Now is the time to go all in on the garden. (getting 6 more sheep this weekend). We feel it can only get worse
The president has no control over prices. And anyway, all those trends bean because of Trump policies.
/progs
Began, that is…
Pretty much – the president doesn’t control this, and it’s all the fault of the last president. Mind you, this isn’t limited to progs.
Whip inflation now
I have one of those buttons! Dug it out so that it would lie just above my keys.
Romanian inflation hit 8.2% this year. Which is not that special round these parts
“Amusing that the Dems thought, post-election, that they could just turn the economy back on with the flip of a switch.”
Never was their plan. These people believe government’s priority isn’t a solid economy but making sure whatever economy exists allows THEM to pick the winners & losers. To do that they need to tax people silly and then spend on the things that funnel the money to them. With the debt where it is today, they can not keep doing this unless they drastically devaluate the value of currency so they minimize the impact of the debt and then can keep borrowing money like it is raining cash at a strip club.
I was arguing with someone recently about the supply chain chaos.
They were sure that the government would just get the “supply chain people” into a room and hammer them until they fixed everything. I tried to explain that there was no secret centralized supply chain cabal. There is no single supply chain. There are millions of tiny parts of the supply chain that work semi-independently of each other.
Like you said, there is no switch that turns everything on and off.
I, Pencil…
I am always bothered about how many people think government solves problems. Especially real and big problems. We don’t have all the drama around meaningless shit like some morons telling us we have 57 genders, dividing us by race, freaking out about people refusing a supposed vaccine that doesn’t work like anything we understood about vaccines in the past, or screaming “science” while peddling a scientific consensus about the world either becoming Dune or Waterworld, because government wants to solve any real problems, now don’t we?
Yeah… it wasn’t the government that created something like Willow Run – assembling bombers in WW2 – it was Ford and an insane team of engineers/schedulers.
Oh there is a switch to turn every supply chain off.
Tyranny is that switch.
Does the perfidy of Netflix have no end? First they aired Chapelle’s deal and millions of trans people were beaten to death. That was bad, but it doesn’t hold a candle to their latest outrage.
How dare they rip off the woke Minneapolis singer-songwriter Lydia Liza and her woke version of Baby it is cold outside?!!?!
I mean that is more actual evidence than they had on Trump/Russia, so it is an open and shut case.
millions of trans people were beaten to death – with the billions dying of covid, sadly no one will notice a few million more dead.
Being beaten to death was merciful compared to the lingering death they would suffer from the ‘vid. See, it’s all in the perspective.
So here the government coalition broke down month ago and now the most “successor of the commies” party is coming into a new coalition with the so call “Liberal” party.
I hate PSD (partidul Social Democrat_) with a fury and if PNL (Partidul National Libera) allies with them I aint never voting for them again, not that I much did lately. They decided to increase the number of ministries to be enough graft for everyone., from 18 to 21, and are now quibbling who gets what.
PNL was almost as corrupt and incompetent as PSD last few years in power. The so called new young anti-coruption party USR (Uniunea Salvati Romania) is making some noise and when they were part of the government coalition seemed to do some good things towards ending grift, but they are now the first party to propoze mandatory vaccine certificate for all employees, public and private. So I aint voting for them anytime soon. I think my voting days are over.
Most urban people my age, hipsters in particular, will scream at me for not voting USR but they look like they will evolve in a vein similar to western progressive left, which urban hipsters think is an improvement from the kleptocratic parties we have, but I certainly do not and may prefer the former. Insert appropriate C. S. Lewis quote here.
Thought of you when I was reading this. Good news is you too came blame the Russians for your troubles.
In Romania, Hard-Hit by Covid, Doctors Fight Vaccine Refusal
*rummages around in large top hat*
Copy-pasted from goodreads.com. Not checked against original text.
droll
?
I for one, welcome our new mob overlords.
Judge in Kimberly Potter (Tazer Ooops Cop) trial reverses course and will allow live streaming of trial
Yup, no impact at all.
When do I tell my current employer I have accepted an offer? I mean I’ve done this before. But you can never be sure if they’re going to show you the door or if they’re going to whip up some fun last two weeks of a departing productive employee tasks for you.
Just go to the new job and after a while your current employer will figure it out when you stop coming.
Based. But I really like my coworkers. I don’t want to rug them like that.
I guy I knew hated his job and his boss. He got up from his desk and told people in the open space: hey I am going to the corner store for chips, does anyone else want anything? Left and never came back.
We had a dude from an Ivy League school IT program my company hired, despite me pointing out that he wouldn’t stay with the company once he realized this was not the sexy shit he wanted to be doing, that left after 2 weeks by doing a code checking with the comment: “Fuck this stupid company, it’s stupid people, and [his bosses name here] in the ass”.
We found the comment during a security scan and when we checked in with his boss, they realized he had not been to work for a month (they were still paying him too!). I think he was correct about the comment he made about his boss.
>> whip up some fun last two weeks of a departing productive employee tasks for you.
which can easily be pushed off… I mean what are they going to do, fire you? 😉
Be kind, give them notice now.
I will do my best. I feel like the CEO will be saddened. He’s like a puppy.
Probably. Fortunately, you’re not dating him, so it’s not a breakup. It’s the end of an arms-length business transaction.
I have heard from some friends that more companies just pay you the two weeks and let you go. Why have an employee stick around that might not be happy where they are at? Of course my friends are in my head and I am just telling you how we would let an employee go if they put in their two weeks with our business. Don’t need you screwing things up cause your head isn’t in the game.
Serious note, tell them now. As LH said, even if they dump work on you, won’t be your problem in two-weeks or you just accelerate that timeline cause of it. Thanks for the work, I am leaving tomorrow now.
Forward all vital emails? Backup copies of everything for replacement? have ready for sup.
Make copies of keys?
2 weeks notice minimum, more if you’re high level.
Don’t burn bridges that you don’t need to.
I torched my bridges with a flamethrower /and it felt good
Same. But my bridge burning days are over. Also my current employer is a supplier to the contractors I will supervise in my next position. There’s a continuity and locality that is worth preserving.
Give your notice now, then. The fact that you will be working for one of their buyers should make them behave.
https://youtu.be/1sCo5GaDq7k
^this right here,
The best part of the last two weeks at a place is having all the people still working there drop by and vent about the fucked up shit that is going on. They will drop all sorts of dirt now that you will be leaving. Your cube will become a confessional where they can get all sorts of stuff off their chests.
I give two weeks notice. If my company wants to give me some free days off (which this company did, my boss collected my laptop the day before my official last day), then OK.
My coworkers took me out after work on the day before my official last day (last day was Friday, we went out on Thursday night). My boss and I had arranged to meet Friday morning for him to collect my badge and laptop. Thursday night, before I left for the bar we were meeting at, my boss contacted me and asked, “Hey, I’m going to be there tonight. How about you bring your laptop and badge? I’ll collect them tonight and save you a trip tomorrow morning.” I responded with, “Sure!” Friday was a free day off. My now former boss and former coworkers had a nice night out at the bar.
Uffda. I’ve had some epic rolloff parties. Been to a lot of them as well.
Not sure if I should be offended or not that so many people are happy to drink a lot when I am departing. I’m going with not offended, but I’m not prone to self-reflection.
Because they’re sending a few hundred bucks here and there on Venmo, right?
And let’s not ignore how Venmo so often gets used. A bunch of people are out, one person puts the bill on his or her card, and then the friends Venmo their share later. I guess restaurants will have to get used to a lot more tables doing eight separate checks.
*shrug*
I’ve never used it. I don’t use any of those services.
Wife uses it all the time. She does a bulk order of [insert product here] to get a discount, having arranged to split with family/friends. They then pay their shares via venmo.
Also, wife buys and sells stuff on FB marketplace.
Now mansplaining is men talking about men?
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1458285725707812864
I mean explaining men is in a way mansplaining
I love taking a nap while someone mansplains to me about the napoleonic wars.
So the napoleonic war was….
And promoting masculinity is promoting toxic masculinity. It’s almost like leftists are against masculinity.
It’s almost like leftists are against
masculinityhumanity.Almost.
Mansplaining is anytime a man talks and it’s not approved by the wokeriarchy.
McConaughey, 52, said that while he and his wife are both vaccinated, he doesn’t want to mandate the Covid-19 jabs for children, including his kids – aged 13, 11 and 8.
Good.
“And mom and dad missing Halloween, for them it’s worse than missing Christmas. And I woke up that next morning with something that’s probably familiar to a lot of parents, that knot in your stomach. I had no damn choice: I had to cancel that trip.”
Sure. Sure.
“ CORONAVIRUS: People Who Spread “Misinformation” About COVID-19 Vaccines Are “Criminals,” Says Pfizer CEO”
https://summit.news/2021/11/09/people-who-spread-misinformation-about-covid-19-vaccines-are-criminals-says-pfizer-ceo/
Yeah, whatever, just don’t pay attention to this guy’s stock dividends. I miss the left thinking guys like this were the Devil to be honest.
Funny how team blue morphed from the party against capitalism (marxists) to the party of the elite in the private sector’s subservience to government (fascism), huh?
It was a very short hop.
Fascism was always the compromise position with socialism.
Socialism, there’s only one seat at the table – the State. Fascism, there’s three seats – the State, big business, and (organized) labor.
Of course, big business and organized labor are both compromised and beholden to the state in any practical implementations.
Not too long ago they were against those evil drug companies making immoral profits from sick poor people. Now it’s totally fine for those same companies to take money from the government to develop vaccines, and then make $2-3 billion in profits every year from them.
You really need to be a psychopath to be a CEO sometimes.
It’s not in the job description but it may as well be.
Has Jim Carrey had anything to say about the convid vax?
There is too much stupid to unpack in this article. I don’t even know where to begin.
Korea Is Airlifting Thousands of Gallons of Urea to Keep Its Diesel Engines Going
They don’t add corn fuel but piss to their gas?
Yea, but Korean piss isn’t as powerful due to their diet.
All of you laughed at North Korea’s Juche policy. But you don’t see them having these problems there.
True. When your ag and industry is run entirely on stoop labor, you don’t need much diesel.
Diesel work is high tech work
So Brexit is to blame for the UK’s woes? How does she explain the woes of the rest of the world then?
That ship of Urea that sunk off the coast of Bulgaria a few months ago would be handy for them
I’m tired of woke crap and rona crap. How bout some old fashioned govt incompetence?
It was supposed to be $1.6M, but they decided to go cheap at $550K for 2.75 miles of a bike path. Sigh. How can they spend that much on a simple path that has already been graded and doesn’t have any serious requirements to handle large amounts of weight?
I notice that the bikers demanding a redo haven’t started a GoFundMe to raise the money on their own.
When I was in Columbus, they spent millions to build a rather modest stretch of bike path near us. Meanwhile, the nearby roads were full of potholes.
Hennepin County District Judge Regina Chu emphasized that her decision was not impacted by protesters who gathered Saturday outside a downtown Minneapolis condominium where they believed she lived. One man filmed himself entering the building and standing outside what he thought was the door to Chu’s unit. He and the protesters were demanding that Potter’s trial be livestreamed. Chu no longer lives in the unit.
This cries out for a livestream of the resident of that apartment waiting to greet those visitors in the front hallway with a shotgun.
That’s where we’re heading – the Brazil model. Armed security police for the pricey high-rises and gated communities. Gangbangers for the favellas. And the villages out in the hinterlands, well, they don’t have anything worth taking…
Yep. I don’t remember who (Joel Kotkin?) but one of the few non Lefty Human Geography/Econ analysts out there has been predicting that the US is headed toward a Latin American social and economic structure for a while. Our “leaders” would love that because it’s tailor made for corruption and power grabs.
California leads the way!
Judge Chu is weakminded. Even if she would order livestreaming with no protests, ordering after the protests rewards the protestors. Somebody pulls a stunt like that, the only proper response is to refuse to do whatever they were demanding.
Good luck PA Glibs.
Guy who happens to be an “activist” was just randomly attacked.
Harrisburg area man says he was beaten in racially motivated attack
TW – ad infested awful formatted local ABC affiliate website
Too bad there aren’t more real racists running around. They could get away with anything now.
At this point, everyone just assumes that these ‘victims’ are smolletting us. If you got beaten up by actual klan members no one would believe you.
Blaming a 1%er biker club from WV too. I don’t see how this will get anyone too riled up.
Paging Smollett.
“For Maxson, the events played out like a movie scene. He said he’s been a victim of racism before but never to this degree.”
Local rag has some self appointed senior “advocate” demanding more money for social security receipients because. Intrepid reporter notes that SS recipients got the biggest cola in 40 years but most of that will be eaten up by higher prices. Hey dipshit, a cola based on inflation would by definition be eaten up entirely by higher prices.
#LivingWage
Holy smokes…just realized I took a couple of laxative pills this morning by accident instead of Sudafed. Going to be an interesting day (thank god I’m off).
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ2_r-4U83M
Do recover soon!
I’m shocked no one else is this immature, so I guess I’ll be….
You’ll be staying close to the home base!
Well shit…
Sorry.
Thar she blows!
slip some in other people’s drink so you will not be the only one in this predicament
That’s gonna end in a shit covered romp on the ground as you try to beat the other person(s) off the toilet…
Oh shit!
So no sudafed? I’m assuming that was for a cold?
Sneezes and laxatives don’t mix well son.
Allergies. Half asleep and small blister packs of lentil sized pills that are orange instead of red and that’s about the sum of the visual difference don’t mix. I’ll live though.
Be positive. A good cleanout can be quite beneficial.
When you’re sliding into first, and you feel a sudden burst…
That’s amore?
I called a buddy once, and he sounded out of sorts. When I said “you ok?” he said, “I just sneezed in the middle of a huge shit. I think I ruptured something.”
This made me laugh more than it should have. You got me.
True story, too.
SpinLaunch may not be the most plausible space launch system but it is by far the funniest
if it actually turns out to work it will be even more funny that the solution to the rocket equation was just “fuck rockets”
This is *literally* exactly how it works. It’s a vacuum centrifuge
https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1458338705660280835
Who’s gonna ride that thing?
the replies are great!
Pretty neat, I always appreciate out of the box thinking.
re: Supply Chain woes
I’ve noticed that a lot of my orders – I buy a lot of vinyl record lots and art – show as being shipped, tracking number and all. But it is sometimes up to a two week wait before they even make it to the vendor’s closest post office.
And other times, especially with FedEx, I get lightning fast service.
With Christmas coming there has been an uptick in my antique booth sales; the month of October was the best we’ve ever had and November looks, so far, to be on the same track. I wonder if the supply chain problems are driving people to alternative sources for buying gifts, or this is just normal. I don’t have enough data/antique retail experience yet to say.
Well now its cash only clients. We do use a lot of digital payments and Venmo was anticipating for a bit cause they kept asking “Do you use our service for business transactions?”
We don’t have a tax on services in Nevada and we claim our Venmo income on our taxes for the business, but if we go cash only we can just decide what we want have as far as income flow.
It’s almost like they’re trying to create a cash-only black market. It will suck, however, for online sellers.
DAMN! Where’s Tonio? First witness in Rittenhouse trial is Bicep Guy’s former roommate, TOTAL GINGER BEAR!
You people watching this junk are off your nut.
Th OJ trial was much worse, months of insanity, all day, every day,
I’m interested in it from a non-political point of view.
OK, the new hotness in Minnesoda panic mongering is skyrocketing case positivity levels. That is even dumber than freaking about cases.
The reason is because even cases are falling. So you gotta use something to keep people scared. Winter can’t get here soon enough for these people. Once it gets cold enough and everyone goes inside the cases will spike again.
Let me guess, the cause is the denominator (total tests) took a nose dive…
Like many many people, I’m tired of the fear porn.
In the beginning it was a PANDEMIC – people are going to die in the streets! Two weeks to flatten the curve! Lockdowns. No Masks! Wait, MASKS EVERYWHERE.
You can’t socialize with friends. You can’t go to work. Shut down restaurants!
At least this past summer. even with the Delta scare porn, Michigan stayed open and there was very little masking going on. I wonder if that will change with winter here and more people cooped up inside? I dunno but I won’t give up keeping my work and fun going.
Today is the last nice day We’ll see for a while, it’s all changing tonight, as far as masking and crap, last summer was normal, wear them if you want, we did not.
Cheers! LH
I’m closing up my parents’ house for the winter. Last night I went out and finished raking the leaves as it was getting dark.
Around 2 am, the wind shifted and all our nice weather is being blown away. In addition to that, the wind also has blown a shit load of new leaves in the yard. Sigh. Those will be there next spring. I’m done raking.
Three degrees here this morning. It’s 0745 and the sun won’t be up for two more hours.
Totally worth it. We love this place.
Brewery I stopped at yesterday had no masks. No employees masked, no guests masked, no signs about masks, and a packed establishment.
as they say “come the revolution,” (a term we as good rightists should studiously avoid) we imagine things might be quite different
For example, in Basedistan, or Chadistan, or whatever, we would clearly ban tattoos on women
I invite you to submit your policy proposals below:
https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1458143611154018306
I am never sure which of the answers are satire and which are serious
Arbitrary bans and mandates. What is the point of a revolution, we already have that?
now we have the wrong arbitrary bans
Yeah, just leave people the hell alone. These assholes really are just the flipside of the same coin.
Peter Jackson Selling Weta Digital’s VFX Tech Division to Unity for $1.625 Billion
https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/unity-acquires-weta-digital-1235107544/
Weta Digital’s VFX and animation teams will continue to exist as a standalone entity, known as WetaFX, which is expected to become Unity’s largest customer in the media and entertainment space. WetaFX, with about 1,700 employees, will remain majority-owned by Jackson and led by CEO Prem Akkaraju.
That’s great news for game developers, especially small and indy devs. But that’s a lot of control to be giving up, and I wonder if Jackson’s effects company will end up being unhappy with the arrangement in the long term.
So is Rittenhouse related to the whiskey somehow?
Funny how team blue morphed from the party against capitalism (marxists) to the party of the elite in the private sector’s subservience to government (fascism), huh?
Well, they’re still against capitalism, then, aren’t they?
And my sense is this is mostly what they’ve always been for, especially, even the Marxists. We know what communism looks like in practice. We’ve seen it multiple times. It’s mostly distinguishable from fascism in whether you call the disposable guy doing the leadership’s bidding for a few extra rations the “owner” or the “state administrator”. In either case he knows to follow the leadership’s orders and pass whatever it is they demand on up the ladder. And that leadership class gets to live in splendor.
Really, what either gang wants is a return to the pre-capitalist days where the vast majority of mankind lives as the property of the leadership (which, for some reason, they always assume themselves a part of).
They have always been hardcore fascists. The Nazis got most of their policy ideas from here.
Fascism insists that businesses serve the state’s interests, so again, very short hop from any other form of political control of productive capacity.
OMG they called Rittenhouse???? No no no no no
I thought it was announced days ago that was the plan
They did. Not sure of the strategy.
It’s not unusual at all for lawyers to say they’re considering it and then not do it. When a trial’s going as well as this one seems to be it borders on malpractice.
They’re not obligated just because they announced it.
Oh no…he’s on the stand. Nooooooo
They’re actually putting him on the stand? He’s going to be eaten alive.
He’s sitting on the stand right now!
They were always going to.
They should be changing their tactics as the trial goes on to meet changing circumstances. The prosecution has done terribly the last couple days. Why call the kid?
Point taken
My question exactly. At this point, I see very little upside.
He’s already proven himself to be very cool under pressure. So I’m betting he’ll do fine. Still, even though they said at the beginning they were going to call him, they could easily say “Given that the prosecution has already put into evidence everything we were planning to have him testify about, we’re not calling him.”
Ehh.
His stupidity/naivete left him alone and confronted with a violent mob, no question.
Once that bridge had been crossed, I think he did pretty well. He shot who he meant to, and they deserved it. I’m not aware that he even had any rounds that didn’t hit his intended targets. Even the last one, he wasn’t muzzling Grosskreutz while his hands were up, but got on target when he went for his gun. I never saw anything that looked like panic.
The kid was miles better than most cops with both muzzle and trigger discipline.
He was extremely lucky.
He was lucky. Not arguing that. But at no point, once the excrement hit the fan, can I fault his decisions or performance (based on what I know of them).
maybe the defense lawyers are sabotaging him
THIS THEORY IS BACK!
Maybe he’s well enough prepped to withstand cross. I’m sure the defense team has had him locked in a room with the biggest asshole lawyer they could find for a month rehearsing every way they could think of to break this kid.
We will find out soon enough.
I myself am somewhat pleasantly surprised when a person accused of a crime defends themselves well on the stand. But the legal profession says this is a no-no.
IANA Trial L, but it would seem to mostly come down to two things.
First is that the person needs to be able to keep their cool under aggressive scrutiny. Blowing up on the stand is a bad look.
Second is that the person needs to be smart enough to avoid blowing the case by saying something stupid or incriminating.
I would guess 90% of defendants would fail one or both of those.
One of my CJ instructors (and a longtime cop) would bring up Mark Furhrman’s testimony as an example of that. And Fuhrman had a career of testifying experience and he still blew it.
That’s not something most defending lawyers do … I hope their game plan is good.
Of course, most criminal defendants are guilty as sin and dumb as a box of rocks. An excellent reason to keep them parked at the defense table with their mouths duct-taped shut.
Was thinking that myself.
FaFu prosecutor is over there smirking. He can’t wait to take his shot at the kid.
He won’t be the first person.
Bam!
Given his performance yesterday, I think his confidence is misplaced. When you get schooled by America’s Grandma and On-The-Spectrum Photographer back-to-back, you should probably do a little self-reflection. An excellent trial lawyer I once knew told me that he was wary of doing cross examinations and generally kept them short when he did them. His theory was, the quicker a hostile witness stops talking, the better off you are, so any cross examination should be short and to a very well-defined point.
This is turning into a contest of which lawyer fucks up worst.
EF, from what she tells me, keeps the emotions in check when she is in court. There is no reason to be smirking since it is not an adult thing to do in such a serious situation.
reminds me of the recent Critical Drinker video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ92cggLMx8
FaFu has NO poker face.
That video is worth the watch. Absolutely nailed it.
Yep.
Criminal trials are usually 12 good men and true, deciding who has the best lawyer. Or in this case, who has the least incompetent lawyer.
I’m watching the Rekieta Law livestream/commentary. I have a bad feeling about this.
Interesting plan…not sure why…but interesting nonetheless. Maybe Kyle wanted this
Supposedly he wanted to.
I get that. You want the world to know you didn’t go there intending any of that, but this isn’t you just get off your chest time.
Based on the prosecutions record this far, I can seriously believe the defense figures those morons will do them another favor and make their case for them yet again…
Since they have to convince a jury, maybe the team is convinced that they can make him into a sympathetic face to dispel notions of a bloodthirsty, racist militia member.
But…but…he’s…white!
That is what the current line of testimony is trying to paint. He was confronted by someone else, but he didn’t point his firearm at him because he didn’t feel he was a threat. Portraying he wasn’t out there to cause violence or threaten anyone.
The clip of him breaking down is excruciating, and it’s exactly what they wanted. It shows him reliving the rising panic, trying desperately to avoid the situation, and getting to the point where he had to defend himself.
This cross is going to be tough…
I thought it was strange at first, but thinking back to trials I’ve seen covered or featured on shows, it seems pretty common for self-defense cases. Maybe it’s because there’s no risk of the defendant accidentally admitting they committed the act.
I don’t know. One of the things that I heard over and over again is that if Chauvin took the stand, anything he said could be used against him a Federal case.
If Rittenhouse walks, you know that the Feds will try him for some Civil Rights bullshit. And his testimony on the stand can be part of their case.
He shot three white guys, so they probably aren’t worried too much about that.
Kyle is on the stand, right now. I’m nervous for him.
If he does it right: sympathetic since he was fearing for his life. Cross-examination, of course, is the dangerous part.
Defense has him describing the events leading up. Cleaning up the school that antifa vandalized, putting out fires, preparing to provide first-aid. Gave his police-issued vest to a friend because he was only planning on giving first-aid.
Waitaminit. The police issued him a vest? That seems significant, and not just for the optics. Is the defense going to call anyone to say why the cops issued him a vest?
You would think right? I just don’t see why his team was thinking this was a good idea….at all.
Maybe that’s where he got it?
A brothel in Vienna is providing COVID-19 vaccinations and giving those who take up the offer a 30-minute session with a ‘lady of their choice’ if they get the vaccine at the on-site clinic. Emer McCarthy reports.
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRCV00AFM0
I am vaccinated myself, but it might behoove me to say otherwise.
*hands urthona a $20*
Go wild, man. No jab needed.
Heh. That cheap, huh?
Well I guess it’s easier than carrying my proof of unvaccination with me at all times.
The good news: It’s not Covid
The bad news: You have HPV and herpes simplex ten
I mean most probably already have those
prevalence of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) was 47.8%, and prevalence of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) was 11.9%
pretty sure I have HSV-1, never felt the need to mention it in any context.
obligatory
Back in his prime Eddie was the man.
Also, you could still get Covid.
that is why you never kiss them on the mouth
There is a Vienna sausage joke in there somewhere
Well grab a flashlight and keep looking?
Good morning, Sloop!
And good morning, peeps.
But remember: they’re only interested in going after billionaires.
I’m just waiting for them to outlaw cash.
Here’s a quality song from the greatest age of music.
It sure was the happiest. Christ, I think that video gave me diabetes.
Great song, though.
Visual Director: “Make sure the only colors in this movie are brown, and dingy yellowed brown”
Seriously though, what’s Hollywood’s aversion to color lately?
https://twitter.com/AnsgarTOdinson/status/1458328315371139073
STEVE SMITH MOSTLY BROWN
The
WorldGalaxy is a dirty polluted place, because TRUMP and wrongthinkers! All the worlds is brown and the skys is gray!Coffee and Grambo is making a good start for the day
https://youtu.be/B5NA5dtfKRE
https://youtu.be/GWojW4XZgTI
If it stops just ONE
DeathHospitalization it is worth it!Hundreds of children have died of Covid? I think not.
Almost as many as drowned.
Covid is no drowning children!
Or had a TV fall on them!
If it stops one positive test, it is worth it!
I’m just waiting for them to outlaw cash.
That is exactly what they want.
Didn’t India go cashless? How do gangsters operate there I wonder?
They hold a gun to a surgeon’s head?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/france-joins-canada-sweden-iceland-denmark-finland-warning-heart-related-health-risks-moderna-vaccine/
things are getting better for pfizer
Look at those other countries actually paying attention to the numbers. Now shut up and go get your shot.
So what’s different about Pfizer that it’s ok?
Deeper pockets and more hands in politicians’ pants?
Their lobbyists are better entrenched?
I think the primary difference is a lower equivalent dosage.
IOW, Moderna overdid it a bit.
That’s one way to say Pfizer contains less poison.
Better Graft.
10 November 1982. Soviet Leader, Leonid Brezhnev, died of a heart attack (aged 75). He led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1964 to 1982. His 18-year term of rule was second only to Joseph Stalin’s in duration during the era of the USSR.
https://twitter.com/FXMC1957/status/1458358784087273473
eyebrow game on point
Hundreds of children have died of Covid? I think not.
Thousands. Thousands of otherwise perfectly healthy, happy beautiful children (children who might have lived 100 years or more) are dead, because toxic individualism!
could be worse they could have been beaten to death for being trans
Or shot by Rittenhouse.
Or gotten alcohol poisoning from Rittenhouse… no wait that is a good way to go
This?
https://www.grautogallery.com/vehicles/11570/1956-chevrolet-bel-air
or this?
https://www.grautogallery.com/vehicles/11240/1967-plymouth-belvedere-ii
Belvedere, precursor to the Roadrunner,
I had no idea you could buy these so cheap.
WTF…are they putting the rifle in his hand? Are you fucking serious? Oh whew…we know that the prosecutor wants to do that….
I can’t look. I’m so worried for this kid. The trial was fun and games for me until today. This feels gut wrenching knowing how this kid’s life is hanging in the balance here.
Where are you guys watching it? I’m suddenly super curious about it, but I’d rather shoot myself than give corporate media the clicks and hear their propaganda on it. Is there a good Youtube commentator livestreaming it?
God the ADA is so fucking terrible. He is about to get dressed down.
I know it is late, but can I still lodge a complaint?
You missed one Notable Birthday
Ok… the next article is “The Pants and the Teeth”.
Nope… some things I really, really don’t need to imagine, thank you. See y’all at the Afternoon Links.