Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing year it always is! I hope your next year will be even more wonderful than the last.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book sealed by court
Wildfires raze at least 600 homes, a shopping mall and a hotel to the ground in Boulder, Colorado
Dems Reportedly Give Up Dream of ‘Insane’ Tax on Ultra Wealthy
Deadspin Publishes Bizarre Attack On Sage Steele, Claims Candace Owens Isn’t Black
Colorado governor reduces 110-year sentence for truck driver in crash to 10 years
Amazon’s Alexa tries to kill 10 year old.
That’s all I got for the year. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Well, I’ve been thrown off. I just got an email from a guy who shares a first name with one of my direct reports and a last name with another, so I was unsure of why someone from my team was sending me this almost random sounding email about a process we don’t monitor. Took my a while to realize it was someone from another agency entirely.
Ha.
There is a guy at my company who shares my first name and four out of the six letters in my last name.
I only know this because I get occasional emails from boss-boss forwarded from him.
Thankfully I have a very unusual last name.
When I was young, we had a phone number that had two numbers flipped from one of the local print shops. We got a ton of wrong-number calls.
Once the local off-brand phone directory misprinted the number of a pizza place with my number.
That was a bad year.
The Green Pages?
Or the Beige Pages or something. I’m repressing the memory as hard as I can.
Hahahaha – when we were in San Diego there had just been an area code split and our number in the new area code (858) was the number for a pizza place in the old 619. A year? No, we got calls for pizza for many years.
My phone number in Jr year in college was one digit off from the Secret Service
Who was President?
George H W Bush
“Ghislaine Maxwell’s little black book sealed by court”
This is my shocked face.
I am at a loss as to what legitimate purpose this could possibly serve.
“Justice” was never the purpose of this exercise.
On the other hand, they could just be names in your address book with no foul intentions intended. I think we all keep contacts of folks who aren’t involved in the foul businesses we orphan-enslaving, Zardoz- worshipping Glibs get up to.
Yeah, I would expect the addresses and phone numbers in any address book to be redacted.
And I would also expect that a social climber like this would have the names and numbers of every rich person who is involved in philanthropy.
Of much more interest is the flight manifest, particular particularly for flights headed to the private island.
It’s probably not true. Where’s the link to the court order?
I’m sure it is true, the pilot logs were entered as evidence with massive redactions.
Happy New Years Eve y’all.
Next year will be better, right?
Well, I’m hoping covid will be over.
It was over two years ago.
Well, I just had it in December and despite that, my ass is clenched waiting to see if the Supreme Court decides in January I should be vaccinated anyway (or tested?) for something that wasn’t pleasant but I did kick.
Thats both of us. If I knew today that I had to endure another 2 weeks like that, I may re-think my position on a vaccination that reduces the symptoms. However, since none of them have convinced me, Ill stick with whatever natural immunity my body has put together.
You only endured two weeks like that because the official government stance is to withhold treatment for the illness.
^ This.
If you had become gravely ill, they would have put you in a hospital, watched you die, and blamed it on your lack of vaccine or booster shots.
My employer has been pretty good about not forcing it on us. There was the hilarious two week period in June or July where they did do the bracelet thing, report your vaccination and get a bracelet that allows you to not wear a mask. Of course, it was short-lived and now everyone wears a mask when not at their desks (because, well who knows).
They still haven’t said anything about the possibility of it going into effect in January.
Someone linked an article last night that mentioned Deblasio’s mandate for all private employees that supposedly took effect several days ago. Amusingly, it has not been mentioned in the local press that I have seen since the original announcement. I have a feeling that it isn’t going anywhere – unlike Deblasio who retires in fifteen hours and twenty-eight minutes.
Add me to that list, except the covid part. According to work memo it will be Feb 20th if SCOTUS doesn’t do the correct thing. According to my direct boss, we are in a satellite depot with 5 people, one of us will have to be certified to test or go to a testing site. Will have to see how onerous the testing will be and how much they will enforce the mask BS. Told my direct that I wouldn’t wear a mask, he said then I would have to write ya up. Well, do what ya gotta do, (callin’ it you’re job ole hoss sure don’t make it right) this is my line in the sand.
Mine is boosters. Will not take. I’ll wear a mask if you pay me enough, and that’s it (the sole exception being to fly to visit my parents, and if my plans for detaching from the office work out, not even that).
Just got an email from my employer. They are gearing up to fire the unvaxxed like me the minute the Supremes give them the go-ahead. The fact that they are down to skeleton crews in some departments due to vaccinated people getting covid while I’ve never taken a sick day doesn’t seem to matter.
Their bankruptcy will come as a surprise to everyone.
Another casualty of COVID!
“US records more than 512,500 daily COVID cases and breaks world record for SECOND day in a row: Viral hurricane threatens to paralyze nation with flight delays, supermarket closures and hours-long lines for testing holding up daily life”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10357685/US-records-512-500-daily-COVID-cases-breaks-world-record-second-day-row.html
Viral Hurricane is the name of my new mathcore project.
It’s not holding up my daily life.
Is viral hurricane just a really bad cytokine storm ?
I thought it was the new Carpenter Brut single.
Is Carpenter Brut on top of the world?
I think it’s I. B. McGinty wears.
Those vaccines are working great!
Kudos to Joe for shutting down the virus.
Look, just imagine how much worse it would have been if people didn’t get vaxxed!
It really does seem that now is when we’re getting the spread that everyone was predicting back in March 2020. My niece (vaxxed), just popped positive for ‘vid.
Happy New Year!
Next year better be better.
“The sports publication, which was impressive once upon a time”
Citation needed.
There are many ways to impress.
Once upon a time it was easier to impress with stupidity, for example.
They did have a sizeable reader base. It will be interesting to see how long Defector actually lasts.
Global warming; there’s nothing it cannot do.
It can’t make people smarter nor honest.
Oh, I think certain groups/people are very honest with each other about how much money its netting them.
That Deadspin article might as well be written in cuneiform.
It can’t make people smarter nor honest.
It’s a fair cop.
My “studies” Degree belies that fact!
Formergeneral spouts vapid nonsense
I’m a huge fan of Secretary [of Defense Lloyd] Austin, a huge fan of the team that he has put together and the uniformed military under General Milley. They’re just superb. And I am confident that the best men and women in the U.S. and in our military will be outstanding. I just don’t want the doubt that has compromised or infected the greater population of the United States to infect our military.
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I had a conversation with somebody about my age and we were talking about civics lessons, liberal arts education, and the development of the philosophical underpinnings of the U.S. Constitution. And I believe that bears a re-teach to make sure that each and every 18-year-old American truly understands the Constitution of the United States, how we got there, how we developed it and what our forefathers wanted us to understand years down the road. That’s an important bit of education that I think that we need to re-address.
I believe that we need to wargame the possibility of a problem and what we are going to do. The fact that we were caught completely unprepared – militarily, and from a policing function – on January 6, is incomprehensible to me. Civilian control of the military is sacrosanct in the U.S. and that is a position that we need to reinforce.
Are civics lessons ‘weak tea’ to stave off an insurrection?
A component of that – unsaid – is that we all know each other very well. And if there is any doubt in the loyalty and the willingness to follow the Oath of the United States, the support and defend part of the U.S. Constitution, then those folks need to be identified and addressed in some capacity. When you talk to a squad leader, a staff sergeant, a nine man Rifle Squad, he knows his men and women very, very well.
We just need more loyalty oaths. And fewer Republicans.
I like how he alludes to a liberal arts education as a means to instill a uniform understanding of what America should be. I guess we threw that old “How to think, not what to think” canard over the side long ago.
^^^ see above comment.
And… I’m out.
Apparently the Afghanistan withdrawal (and lack of any consequence to the upper brass for it) is consigned to the memory bin now if he can make that statement.
TL;DR — superb, my ass.
Civilian control of the military is sacrosanct in the U.S. and that is a position that we need to reinforce.
And yet everybody in the Beltway Class celebrated when the generals hid the truth from Trump about the number of people in Syria.
And apparently they don’t have a problem with the executive branch conducting a political purge of the military.
And he thinks a different part should be defended than those he speaks of, which makes him correct and them DOODEY HEADS!
Enjoyed your Power-point, Friend!
CPRM does a great job entertaining some of the most discriminating people in the world. Certainly I discriminate as much as I can to whoever needs it the most.
How’s the hip 4/20? Getting around?
Every general is a political officer – meaning, he’s a political beast as much as an officer, since his advancement depends on Congressional sponsorship. Every star just makes them more political and less officer.
As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it.
The generals – Paul Eaton, Antonio Taguba and Steven Anderson – made their case in a recent Washington Post Op-Ed. “In short: We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time,” they wrote.
Paul Eaton, a retired U.S. Army major general and a senior adviser to VoteVets, spoke with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly earlier this week.
Believe him.
He has looked into the heart of America’s Fighting Man, and what he has seen terrifies him.
So am I. The last one almost gave us Hillary.
Is it just me or has she been resurfacing again in the media? Just go away already Hillary.
She still believes.
Yes, she’s hilariously trying to put the brakes on the Dem’s self-destruction.
Listen to meeeeee! After all, I’m the person responsible for Donald Trump winning the presidency!
The funny part is that she has a point.
Right?
DeSantis could win in 2024, and Biden’s generals will instigate the coup?
THERE IS NO DESANTIS, ONLY TRUMP
That’s what I was thinking.
#methree
That is exactly what they are setting up. Repub President = coup. And the military has a sacred duty to install the Democrat, I mean, duly elected, President.
DeSantis is pretty neocon on foreign policy. I’d bet they could find a way to coopt/tolerate him.
Now a Rand Paul/Thomas Massie would not fly at all.
Well, our rulers have just removed any doubt that they are untouchable. I think we can safely conclude that Epstein and Maxwell were running an international trafficking and pedophilia operation. The one thing you’d think couldn’t be covered up. They had numbers of clients. Not a single one of whom will be prosecuted. Or even exposed to public shame.
The entire thing has been buried. Epstein’s files “lost”. Maxwell’s files sealed by the court. All to no public outcry. Large chunks of our ruling class colluded in this. This and the treatment of the January 6 protestors are their proof of concept for their two tier society of untouchable global elites and disposable serfs.
Plan accordingly.
Sometimes I’m glad that I got old and never had children of my own. Right now is one of those times.
They are so confident in their corruption they don’t even try to hide it.
Yep, that’s part of what sparked a series of fiction I’ve got going for here. The idea that open corruption must be tolerated because there is no institution that will stand against it.
No reasonable prosecutor…
And the jail guards getting cut loose. I think it not impossible that they were told someone was coming into the jail that night, and that they needed to make themselves scarce (this may not in truth have been a great deviation from their typical behavior). They got assurances of a perfunctory investigation with no chance of actual prison time, and paid something for the trouble.
GENOCIDE
South Africa lifted a midnight to 4 a.m. curfew on movement with immediate effect as it believes the country has passed the peak of its fourth Covid-19 wave driven by the Omicron variant, a cabinet statement said on Thursday.
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“While the Omicron variant is highly transmissible, there has been lower rates of hospitalisation than in previous waves. This means that the country has a spare capacity for admission of patients even for routine health services,” the cabinet said.
I’m not gonna lie. South Africa is not a country I would previously have thought of as an example of sane and rational public policy.
What’s a few necklaces between those of us that agree to disagree?
And The Covid comes in the Niiiiiiggght!
Estonian health officials believe the island of Saaremaa has reached herd immunity
South Africa has a kick ass medical system. That’s where the first heart transplant was done.
They had one. Do they still? No idea.
Still? That happened long before the ANC took over. I’d assume the medical system went downhill, along with everything else.
We should amend the Iron Laws with two new ones – “Never get comfortable, someone is always after your crumb no matter how paltry and insignificant!” and “No matter how wise you imagine yourself to be, there is always someone just a little more cunning than you!”
Thanks for the links, Banjos! Banjos gifs are the finest gifs but I’ll put Sloop’s hula-hoop girl right up there as well. Happy new year’s eve!
Have you seen Rachel Lust? She is amazing – https://youtu.be/EGuvNtS5kb8
That’s insane. I’ll be in my bunk.
Thanks, Buddy! I sorta needed that! Someone linked a hula hoop hippie girl a few months ago and I just kept watching it over and over and not for prurient reasons (although she was mighty pretty) but more for the joyful expressiveness.
Here she is! The music and background really make the scene https://youtu.be/3NFWgG4_6NI
Truth to tell, I could go to any Country Fest 30 miles out of town and witness the same thing. Same (mostly) polite crowd, same music, same atmosphere. At least that used to be the way things were. Now we’re locked down tighter than a long-tailed cat’s asshole in a room full of rocking chairs.
Jest wartched it agin! Don’t judge! Yesterday was a very bad day.
Just got an email from my employer. They are gearing up to fire the unvaxxed like me the minute the Supremes give them the go-ahead. The fact that they are down to skeleton crews in some departments due to vaccinated people getting covid while I’ve never taken a sick day doesn’t seem to matter.
Don’t try to muddy the water with facts. The narrative has been carved in stone.
“Transgender Antifa rioter has federal case for assaulting Portland cops dropped after she completed just 30 hours community service”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10356143/Portland-Antifa-rioter-federal-case-assaulting-cops-dropped.html
OFFS!!
Faake, portland doesn’t have any police left.
I’ve noticed some transgenders try harder than others.
Was she at least held in solitary confinement without bail or trial for a year?
Mornin’ all. The world is still crazy, I see; thanks for the updates, Banjos. I’ll be “celebrating” the New Year at home while my wife and kids are partying it up at the Jersey Shore. Fuck covid, and fuck the CDC/Big Pharma. As invisible finger pointed out “You only endured two weeks like that because the official government stance is to withhold treatment for the illness.” Official government stance, backed by force as always.
Yeah. The black pill is trending strong with your Canadastani friend this morning. Sorry for your troubles.
Meanwhile, down on the plantation
The “Madden NFL” video game franchise promoted by legendary NFL coach John Madden “dehumanized black athletes” and helped create a digital “plantation,” a college professor claimed this week.
Andrew McGregor, who teaches history at Dallas College in Texas, further claimed that Madden “profited off of Black athletic labor and glamorized the violence inherent in the game.”
Since posting the comments Tuesday, the same day Madden died at age 85, the professor, who is White, has locked his Twitter account, the Washington Examiner reported.
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But several of the posts were saved by social media users, some of whom reacted to the remarks.
“I have a lot of opinions on John Madden,” McGregor wrote in one post. “The creation of the Madden video game was not a great development for the U.S. It further glamorized violence and dehumanized black athletes, helping to establish plantation cosplay that has grown worse in the era of fantasy football.”
Not fair. We hold the rights to plantation cosplay and exploitation of black people foe political and financial gain.
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1808598163.6345/flat,750x,075,f-pad,750×1000,f8f8f8.jpg
Imagine living hand to mouth off the crumbs of the owners like these poor exploited laborers, it’s appalling. I should start a GoFundMe. Who’s in?
*Looks up from scrubbing their toilet bowl*
Andrew McGregor sounds like an actual no shit racist.
Some of the comments above have coalesced in my head thusly:
Ghislane Maxwell was chosen to be the sin eater. Her soul has been sacrificed. Now the book can be closed.
That’s good!
Ya reckon the National Endowment for the Arts will award a grant for THAT painting or sculpture?
Life imitates Caddyshack
A $51 million superyacht, Utopia IV — owned by multimillionaire JR Ridinger —rear-ended and sunk a gas tanker in the Bahamas on Christmas Eve.
That was no yacht, ’twas SEA SMITH.
You sink a ship and don’t even pick up the survivors?
What an asshole.
“Icky people on my yacht? Never! “
Serious law of the sea violation.
They might have to explain their underaged sex slaves aboard.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
Dude’s kid Tony is dating Mr. Increadible’s daughter…. He has a lot on his mind…
Big hitter, the Utopia.
Mockery and scant regard
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) backtracked on a few more facets of COVID-19-related guidance this week, leaving the agency open to more social media mockery.
This week the CDC admitted its initial estimates about the prevalence of the omicron variant were way off. A few days earlier, the agency also revealed it was shortening the length of quarantine for COVID patients from 10 days to five if they were asymptomatic at that time.
Those walk backs followed a series of other confusing announcements from the CDC, including fluctuating guidance on masks. The agency initially said only unvaccinated individuals should wear face coverings, until July, when the CDC changed course to say vaccinated individuals should resume wearing masks in certain situations.
The zigzagging nature of the CDC’s COVID guidance prompted Twitter users to share some of what they believed to be the CDC’s next “recommendations.”
“The CDC recommends you put pineapple on your pizza,” Sen. Josh Hawley’s, R-Mo., press secretary Abigail Marone tweeted in jest.
“The CDC now recommends liquor before beer, you’re in the clear,” GOP senior producer Lindsay Wigo offered.
The CDC is such a fucking clown show. How can any rational person take them seriously?
We are a tiny minority, P. Brooks. We’re the ones that mutter under our our breath “and yet it still moves”.
Ain’t that the sad truth.
I have never been a fan of sheeple, but goddamn, what else can you call people with that kind of herd mentality?
Which Glibbroad is Abigail Marone??
Some people can’t handle the truth
Right-wing commentator John Cardillo tweeted, “Dan, Remember when you and your producer fabricated memos to derail Bush 43’s presidency, but you were caught, fired, and shamed off air? Remember that truth?”
LOLOLOL
You sink a ship and don’t even pick up the survivors?
Let them get their own yachts if they want to keep their feet dry.
Just send the bouncing bubbles ala The Prisoner.
This really brightened my day – The History Guy talks about the Great Boston Mooninite Panic.
We should get the DC area Glibs to do something similar with Hat and Hair stuff cum Jan 6.
To borrow from Brooks, How can any rational person take them seriously?
That is priceless. Amazing how easy it is to gin up a panic. “Boston Strong” indeed.
Boston Chicken
I remember that.
People were seriously thinking that the Moonite device could have brought I-93 down.
I went to see “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” after the incident. Had I had the time to do so, I would have gone down to Boston to watch it.
That made me laugh
https://mobile.twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1476750780883365888
Gen x wisdom.
I hate the trend of Twitter users retweeting TikTok videos.
I hate the trend of not executing people associated with TikTok.
Even the “And why aren’t you in uniform!” girls? It was funny and cute the first couple of times. TikTok is cancer.
Certain death
“We are going to see the number of cases in this country rise so dramatically, we are going to have a hard time keeping everyday life operating,” Dr. Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, told MSNBC.
“The next month is going to be a viral blizzard,” he said. “All of society is going to be pressured by this.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, on Wednesday said cases will likely rise throughout January, a warning echoed by the governor of Louisiana, where hospitalizations have more than tripled in the past two weeks.
“We are still at the very beginning of this current surge,” John Bel Edwards told a news conference on Thursday. “January is going to be very, very challenging.”
U.S. health officials have said early data show Omicron appears less severe but have continued to push vaccinations, masks and physical distancing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has also issued new guidelines shortening isolation and quarantine periods, which have been criticized by some disease experts
There will be so many bodies piled in the streets we’ll have to use low yield tactical nuclear weapons to dispose of them.
Sounds like another Shovel Ready infrastructure project.
Sounds like a blizzard of testing, not a blizzard of actual illness.
I love the headline. Not an ounce of skepticism about the covid experts.
https://gunfreezone.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/50-cal-mounted.jpg
I have questions.
Yeah, why is the gunner’s seat so poorly situated? Shouldn’t the gunner have better support?
Also, wouldn’t the gunner be kicking the driver in the head?
The gunner is the driver. The vehicle is propelled by the 50 cal. It’s designed for tactical retreats.
I like almond milk. I take offense at being called a soy boy; I am clearly an almond boy.
Almond milk is a lil bland. I prefer the coconut almond milk blend. Unsweetened, of course.
I don’t like the texture of cashew almond milk.
Is cashew almond milk actually cashew milk? There are so many options for almond milk. I go with roasted unsweetened. Unroasted might be bland in comparison ?♂️
Almond milk is great. I like it better than cow milk.
Stability when the gun is at 90 degrees to the car leaps to mind. Especially when recoil then kicks in.
Don’t need to worry about that, the gunner won’t be able to reposition to that angle of attack, you have to reposition the vehicle.
Like “Where can I get one?”
Yeah, why is the gunner’s seat so poorly situated? Shouldn’t the gunner have better support?
Irrelevant. That Isetta will flip over as soon as the trigger is pulled.
Turn the weapon 180 and drive in reverse?
Annual PSA: Please get home early tonight, or at least be very careful on the roads. Lots of people will be drinking to excess and letting their wives drive.