PANIC! PANIC! PANIC!
First confirmed U.S. case of Omicron variant detected in California
Less than a week after it was first detected in South Africa, U.S. health officials said Wednesday that the country’s first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant has been confirmed in California.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, announced the news at a White House press briefing.
“The California and San Francisco departments of public health and the CDC have confirmed that a recent case of COVID-19 among an individual in California was caused by Omicron variant,” Fauci said.
The individual was a fully-vaccinated traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22 and tested positive on Nov. 29, Fauci said. The person, who has not been publicly identified, is self-quarantining and experiencing mild symptoms, which Fauci said “appear to be improving.” Contact tracing has been conducted, Fauci added, and all of their close contacts have tested negative so far.
“We knew that it was just a matter of time,” he said.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that the state’s “large-scale testing and early detection systems” uncovered the case, adding: “We should assume that it’s in other states as well.”
He only hurts us because he is just so worried about us.
Back in my day women used to send themselves flowers to pretend they have a boyfriend.
Today they take abortion pills to pretend someone slept with them.pic.twitter.com/3f8tHIyMJY
— Marina Medvin ?? (@MarinaMedvin) December 1, 2021
What led these women to where they believe this is an effective form of protest, that this is what will change people’s minds, that a bunch of unfuckables are taking medications they don’t need–and therefore obtained illegally–and almost certainly brought across state lines. Or they are just sugar pills, making the “protest” even more hollow and stupid.
Also, they should get that little redheaded boy inside, I think he has leukemia.
Jeffrey Epstein looms over the gleefully offensive horror movie The Scary Of Sixty-First
Two young women move into an impossibly available Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, only to discover that it was once utilized by (dum dum dum) the dead child-trafficking mogul Jeffrey Epstein. That’s the grotesquely button-pressing premise of The Scary Of Sixty-First, the bold but uneven debut feature from actor-podcaster-director Dasha Nekrasova. This is clearly a film with no interest in making friends—a proud provocation made in the sturdy spirit of ’70s exploitation movies. Nekrasova borrows from the best, courting comparisons to more highbrow pictures like Eyes Wide Shut and The Tenant. But she clearly started with an aim to get a rise out of people, and working backwards from there resulted in some slapdash storytelling.
The movie feels on brand for Nekrasova, who cohosts the “dirtbag leftist” Red Scare podcast, where the r-word flies freely and Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones shows up for giggles and photo ops. Though being winkingly offensive for the lolz is a phase many blessedly grow out of after high school, Nekrasova has turned it into a shtick. In theory, it could be a fantastic fit for horror.
You had me at “gleefully offensive” but lost me at “podcast.”
via wikipedia
“Panic” drew negative reaction from critics who construed Morrissey’s lyrics to have a racist connotation. Paolo Hewitt in the NME wrote, “If Morrissey wants to have a go at Radio 1 and Steve Wright, then fine [but] when he starts using words like disco and DJ, with all the attendant imagery that brings up for what is a predominantly white audience, he is being imprecise and offensive.” Fletcher says that the lack of any explicit indication the song was about radio meant “Panic” “could be construed as reviving the racist and homophobic ‘Disco Sucks’ campaign of late 1970s America.”
…
Marr, in particular, was incensed by the article and in a 1987 NME interview threatened to “kick the living shit” out of the writer if he met him, such was his anger at the article’s slant. He also countered that “disco music” could not be simply equated with “black music”, saying, “To those who took offence at the ‘burn down the disco’ line […] I’d say please show me the black members of New Order!”
lol
I think I pulled a muscle choke-snorting at that.
“The movie feels on brand for Nekrasova, who cohosts the “dirtbag leftist” Red Scare podcast, where the r-word flies freely and Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones shows up for giggles and photo ops. Though being winkingly offensive for the lolz is a phase many blessedly grow out of after high school, Nekrasova has turned it into a shtick. In theory, it could be a fantastic fit for horror.”
The r-word? That’s retarded.
The Bee Gees were three black guys.
Do they get any blacker than ABBA?
KC from KC and the Sunshine Band would like a word.
He also countered that “disco music” could not be simply equated with “black music”, saying, “To those who took offence at the ‘burn down the disco’ line […] I’d say please show me the black members of New Order!”
I didn’t know Giorgio Moroder was black.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roeKtHFlxYI
Panic about the disco?
“I’d say please show me the black members of New Order!”
Well, Peter Hook thought he was Italian.
Interesting, because not much later Marr teamed up with Bernard Sumner from New Order on a project called Electronic.
You’re just disappointed no one else brought that up.
He would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling Glibs.
Look at you pulling the deeper cuts! You gangster!
Back in my day women used to send themselves flowers to pretend they have a boyfriend.
Today they take abortion pills to pretend someone slept with them.
*sensible chuckle*
“‘I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger’: Alec Baldwin weeps as he denies pulling trigger on gun loaded with ‘a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be the property’, during George Stephanopoulos interview”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10262871/Alec-Baldwin-sit-intense-revealing-prime-time-interview-Rust-shooting.html
Nothing more convincing than an actor crying.
Like a red SUV, that gorram gun just fired itself?
Precisely.
Gorram == wrong Baldwin.
I know — I’ve just been rewatching Firefly and don’t like to actually curse more than I have to. So it is a useful word.
But he definitely did point a gun at someone and pull the trigger. I’m starting to think Alec Baldwin’s character in The Edge is just his actual personality.
I’ve never seen it. Did he play a complete asshole?
Yeah, he’s a complete asshole. I really like that movie but I haven’t seen it in a very long time. I sure it has aged poorly, might end up enjoying a rewatch for unintentional camp.
Just watched it again last week. The bear following and hunting the men down was a little silly. Like jaws in the woods.
It just wanted their pic-a-nic basket, Boo Boo.
Probably mistook them for Leo DeCaprio
STEVE LOVE THAT MOVIE.
Lucky for he didn’t point the gun at his own head. It might have fired by itself, heads would have exploded.
‘I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger
And yet you did precisely that.
And if he would never do that, was he even holding the gun?
Apparently the gun jumped into his hands, swung around and pointed at a couple people and dropped the hammer, all without his even knowing what was happening. It’s a magic gun.
Isn’t this still under investigation? I bet his lawyer is so happy he is shooting his mouth off in interviews while this is under investigation.
https://youtu.be/tMIg_vPs5N8
I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t his lawyer’s attempt at getting his “testimony” into the trial without having him waive the 5th and take the stand.
I guess that’s his only possible defense. I can’t believe anyone would buy it, though. Of course he pulled the damn trigger. I would think an examination of the gun would show whether it was defective, in any event.
It’s also SA, so he also had to cock the hammer.
OMG! They may have used recycled bullets!
RECYCLED!!!
Laying down the battlespace prep for the “the gun just went off by itself”
Hard sell in any case. Really hard with a single-action pistol.
Agreed, but coupled with Baldwin claiming he didn’t pull the trigger…they will muddy the waters with hopes of a woefully ignorant media and jury pool.
But did he have the boosters? SCIENCE says the boosters will set you free!
Be nice to know if the mild symptoms are normal. The doctor from South Africa seems to expect it, though she cautions the higher risk groups haven’t been observed with it yet. One could really hope a wide ranging, low impact variant that triggers an immune response against the variants in general could shut the booster boosters up already. (I know, I know… Holy Writ won’t allow for immunity outside of their Church now…).
“experiencing mild symptoms”
Someone who is barely sick at all, after taking a “vaccine” that is not that at all – PANIC! DOOOOOM!
The fuck is wrong with these “journalists”?
Nothing is wrong with the propgandist
Rocket scientists nod in agreement.
I suspect a narrowed gaze is vernier.
I can calculate the telemetry of this thread…
Obviously you had a specific impulse to do so.
You had to thrust that one out, didn’t you.
If I didn’t, I’m sure y’all would have given me an attitude adjustment.
Well, this has been a gas, but we might be exhausted at this point.
If the individual had only mild symptoms, why did xe even go to the doctor? It’s like they want a Covid-19 merit badge or something.
Probably a forced test while entering the country…
Probably didn’t. I suspect mandatory test on entry even for US citizens — that’s certainly what Greaseball Gavin is trying to imply.
I don’t believe mandatory tests on entry are in place right now. Even foreigners are required to produce a negative test before they board a plane heading to the US–not after their arrival here.
Hmm… maybe, maybe not? Shrug… not worth worrying about any more anyway.
I don’t believe mandatory tests on entry are in place right now.
Current rules require a negative test within 3 days before your flight for the anointed, and within 1 day before your flight for the unclean. So not “on entry”, but to be allowed entry.
But the individual tested positive 7 days after arriving in the US. And he had to test negative a few days before boarding the plane. He was probably required to test again in the US because of his employer’s policies or something. But it’s not because the federal government required him to retest.
Ah, copy that.
I went through SFO the same day as the Omnicron Zombie. There was no testing for inbound passengers at SFO. We did need a negative antigen test prior to boarding the plane, however.
Sorry to hear you’ve got the ‘vid now. I mean, the same building with the most super spreader variant yet?
It’s worse. I’m dead.
So we should Stop — You’re already dead?
What is the r-word?
reticulated?
Rhabdophilia?
ranunculaceous?
rigger?
No..it is ragger, the word was ragger
No… the answer was “raggers”.
Thread winner there, Sir Locomotive Rodent.
Republican.
retest?
The individual was a fully-vaccinated traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22 and tested positive on Nov. 29, Fauci said. The person, who has not been publicly identified, is self-quarantining and experiencing mild symptoms, which Fauci said “appear to be improving.” Contact tracing has been conducted, Fauci added, and all of their close contacts have tested negative so far.
“Individual”. “Their”. ARGH!!
That’s pretty common usage.
Um… ack-tually I thought that was proper grammar when the gender is unknown. And they’re obviously trying to obscure the identity of the individual, hence no gender given… :shrug:
It was “he”, and still is, depending who you ask. I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone call a country “she”.
Yep.
Other than Demi Rose, you mean….
+1 patriarchy
“Michigan high school gunman Ethan Crumbley, 15, met with his parents and teachers on campus to discuss ‘his behavior’ THREE HOURS before he opened fire in hallways: Teen’s journal detailed how he wanted to shoot up the school”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10262809/Michigan-high-school-shooter-15-refusing-speak-juvenile-center.html
Ethan Crumbley?! Oh, come on. That’s a Dickens waif.
I guess the meeting didn’t work.
Or was the catalyst…
He just looks like a kid that would be bullied.
“Wall Street execs beg JPMorgan to CANCEL 20,000-strong conference in San Francisco because of out-of-control ‘smash-and-grab’ crime”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10262997/Wall-Street-executives-beg-JPMorgan-CANCEL-person-conference.html
We need some sort of Logan’s Run program for hippies.
Here’s a wild thought… all of y’all just cancel and see if that wakes them up. Kind of like a free market or something….
I can’t for the life of me figure out where the DailyFail gets it 20k number. it’s not the NYP article it cites.
It’s your typical WS industry conference. You call your sales person at JPM and get a “free” invite. Your firm pays your lodging. What you want are one of the private meetings with the C-Suite. The regular presentations are interesting and all, but generally fairly well known. It also gives you an excuse to talk to your clients and competition at the same place.
When you were in your 20 and 30s they were great, they were OK in your 40s and they suck after that.
Nobody wants to fly and deal with crime ridden SF. So if they whine loud enough they hope that can get thing cancelled and get the private meeting over the phone or video conference.
It’s easy to forget that woke has been with us for a long time.
A tragic loss…
Exclusive: Antifa are mourning the apparent suicide of violent Portland #Antifa member Jacob Camello/Andrea Mun (pronouns it/its). The sex worker was arrested at a riot in April & charged w/felonies, but the case was dismissed. Antifa have been vandalizing public spaces to mourn.
#Antifa are encouraging violent extremism in their Twitter eulogies for Jacob Andrew Camello/Andrea Mun (it/its), a violent Portland trans antifa member who reportedly killed itself. Camello was a rioter who also did sex work on the side. It called for violence in its writings.
Wow, someone actually using the pronouns it/its. I thought that was the highest sin against tranniedom and all the adjacent isms. Does that mean it’s now okay to use “it” when one is in doubt?
Of course not. And because I’m gender fluid my pronouns change every 20 seconds. It is YOUR responsibility to keep up and not offend me, bigot.
Mentally ill person commits suicide. Film at 11.
Not on its back?
*snorts*
I think face down is probably more likely.
It’s a real shame.
He identifies as an ice cream sandwich?
#Antifa are encouraging violent extremism in their Twitter eulogies
That can’t be right. Twitter doesn’t allow that.
NH back on top of Freedom in the 50 States index
After a year in second place, ‘Live Free or Die’ New Hampshire is back on top of the Cato Institute’s “Freedom in the 50 States” index, knocking Florida out of the top spot.
The Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom in North America has also ranked the Granite State the top state or province in North America for the second year in a row.
“Our primary focus here in New Hampshire has always been on opening as many doors of opportunity for our residents as possible,” Gov. Chris Sununu said regarding the new Cato analysis. “We ignore the politics and simply focus on delivering results that have a positive impact on the lives of Granite Staters and their families. As the first state to hold the number one spot for both economic and overall freedom, it’s clear that New Hampshire’s approach is the right one.”
Missing from the quote:
I suspect the real reason he decided to run for reelection for governor in 2022 is to get revenge on people that have been pushing back on him.
Sununu rejects calls to close schools
As COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise amid the cold-weather surge, Gov. Chris Sununu said Tuesday there are no plans to close schools due to the worsening pandemic.
Good cause it makes no difference and there is a world of data to back that up.
Who is missing?
State police responding to reports of a white SUV driving erratically on I-95 through Portsmouth at 9 a.m. Tuesday clocked the vehicle driving at 114 mph and pulled it over, officials said. Troopers determined the driver, identified as Craig Cooper, 51, of Amesbury, Mass., was intoxicated and when they brought him to Rockingham County jail he assaulted two corrections officers, police said.
Archive link in case you run into the Union Leader’s paywall.
Not it.
What did Romans call concrete?
I tried asking the internet, but I got answers that didn’t make sense and secondary checks seemed to indicate them to be incorrect.
opus caementicium?
https://www.romae-vitam.com/roman-concrete.html
Don’t know how accurate of course…the internet is too full of truths to tell.
Lincoln warned of this.
Make sure you are clear when you say “A little off the back of the head”?
Was Abe Lincoln honest?
I’m not sure the term was ever set in stone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
Two sources calling it the same thing would lend a bit of credence
You nearly got me.
Oncretekay
Pig!
Nashua, NH boondoggle
Nashua residents did not realize how they were going to be taken to the cleaners on this Performing Arts Center. Aldermen Dowd stated in 2017 that he did not care how much it cost but that he wanted the PAC no matter what. Well, this administration has really given it to the Nashua taxpayers.
Nashua is overrun with Massholes anyway. They like paying taxes I hear.
When I moved to NH, Nashua’s city government was split between Republicans and Democrats. The spending cap was a big deal. The usual suspects in the city hated it and looked for ways around it. After an attempt to amend the cap failed, the Nashua Republican Committee imploded with infighting and internal drama.
Now Nashua’s government is dominated by Progressives. There was a little push-back in the last municipal election, and interestingly enough, one of the Progressives lost reelection to the Board of Aldermen.
We’ll see what happens, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Nashua keeps going down the tubes.
“Live Free and Pay Your Taxes”
Oxymoron or new state motto, let’s vote on it
Changing people’s minds isn’t the point. The point is to be seen protesting in a way that makes the conservative strawman that lives in their heads really really mad.
Yes, some people are just so immature. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go take some abortion pills to trigger the cons.
I see the culture of death is alive and well.
Build Black Better
On Black Friday, the official Black Lives Matter Global Network shared an Instagram post calling to ‘support Black-led-Black-serving organizations.’
‘We’re dreaming of a #BlackXmas. That means no spending with white companies from Black Friday until New Years Day’, the official blackxmas.org site states.
The group suggest three ways for its supporters to take part in Black Xmas: Build Black, Buy Black, and Bank Black.
The group is encouraging its followers to ‘buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses’ claiming ‘white-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life.’
So glad all those capitalist global corp CEOs spent all this past year groveling to those Commie weasels who would obviously rather put them up against the wall and divide the spoils.
That said — more power to them. Want to segregate yourself into your own micro-economy? Have at it. Just don’t try to force anyone (hah!).
Obligatory
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4lpu_9iKE
I don’t think that there is anything inherently wrong for a group to decide to network with each other. Most immigrant groups do that when they first get to America.
After a few generations, the groups have done well and their kids are corrupted by American attitudes and will do business with anyone.
My kids laugh because my wife insists on buying Samsung phones and LG appliances.
Missus just came back from her boat people relatives in CA. Disappointed that the grand children do not “Speak a single word of Vietnamese and the kids wear jeans with holes in the knees” How quickly they learn.
Jimbo, my LG refrig is coming next week, maybe some parts were made in VN, touch all bases.
Biden Family Christmas Stocking Photo Leaves Out Hunter Biden’s 3-Year-Old Daughter, Born Out Of Wedlock
Now that’s some cold shit.
Jeez.
Breaking News: Trump disowned Mary Trump /CNN reporting on Christmas stockings
I guess she’s no Tiffany Trump.
Fiend. The poor little girl doesn’t deserve that.
I used to feel bad for that girl. What a tragedy to have family disown you because of politics. The kid didn’t do anything wrong.
Now? I feel happy that she – as the daughter of a stripper – isn’t going to be dragged down into the mud by being associated with the Bidens.
I’m sure it’s because she’s been very naughty and Grandpa Joe and Dr. Grandma didn’t want to increase their carbon footprint by giving her a lump of coal./sarc/snark
These are not the statistics you are looking for.
We now know why Facebook decided to change its “race-blind” hate speech detection algorithm last year to allow more anti-white hatred.
The Washington Post reported last week that an “April 2020 document said roughly 90 percent of ‘hate speech’ subject to content takedowns were statements of contempt, inferiority and disgust directed at White people and men.”
They viewed this as a failure of the system because white people are supposed to be the targets of all hate.
Ugh… the comments are a cesspool.
Child covid study…
“Severe disease course or death is low,” in fact the “case fatality could not be calculated, due to an absence of cases” for children without comorbidities.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v1
So everything we knew 18 months ago…
In the last 18 months 621* children have died WITH covid. As is probably not a surprise, I am guessing 621 of them had comorbidities.
621 is slightly less than 1% of all causes.
*data about a week old, so its probably up to 623 or something.
At the historic run rate for drownings, there have probably been 750 or so children who have drowned in the last 18 months. “If it saves just one life”, we should fill in all the swimming pools and outlaw recreational boating, right?
Well, obviously the Fulton County machine is going to spin back up. Hope they check all their water pipes before 2022.
More seriously — hope GA doesn’t allow the fraud again, last thing anyone needs is that clown getting actual power.
In regards to the early thread where Cyto and others were wondering why all of the media outlets came to the conclusion that Chris Cuomo had to be fired all at the same time—- I watched a Tucker Carlson clip on Cuomo and he mentions that the elite and the media get their ideas and talking points from the Atlantic. He said that as soon as they wrote that Cuomo should be fired that it was a foregone conclusion that everyone else would start to beat the same drum. Dont know if its true but thats what he said.
Is it wrong that now I really really want someone to hack the Atlantic and troll them? Of course… how would we be able to tell most days, I know…
Laurene Powell Jobs is the queen bee of the media world?
https://twitter.com/Kukicat7/status/1466114636642598916
I guess they learned from the Germans.
Time to sink a French flotilla.
The Inca Empire: An Indigenous Leviathan State
They sound like a bunch of colonizers.
THE FALL OF VERSAILLES
Just don’t lose your head.
“Climate change turned Venus into a hellscape. Is Earth next?”
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1466112417457446913
SCIENCE!!!!!
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. Now we know the real cause of Climate Change!
women are from Venus
I guess that explains the hot flashes, then.
I loved the Neil Stephenson line in Cryptonomicon — “It’s one of those books that once you have read the title, you don’t have to read the book.”
I may have not got the quote exactly right.
So they admit that climate change is driven by natural forces?
No. It was time traveling off roaders. Or aliens. Take your pick.
Sweet mother of God the stupidity in that article and Twitter comments.
Not all the comments…
“All those oil and gas rigs on Venus must’ve been the culprit. They clearly needed more wind turbines and solar panels.”
Lol
I just assumed it was the toxic cloud farming corporation ran by Landonis Balthazar Calrissian III that was the main culprit.
Anyone notice that Venus doesn’t have a moon?
Climate change acidified the atmosphere, reached out and dissolved the moon. The heat of reaction is still manifested in the extreme temperature of Venus’s atmosphere.
Also…you know…25 million miles closer to the sun.
I’m suspicious the collision that formed the moon had something to do with it as well — the Earth’s rotation / molten iron core / magnetic field shielding us compared to Venus’s environment seems likely to be a factor.
Or the atmospheric pressure that is 90 times that of Earth
We are pinging the NASA Enforcement Division servers with this line of scientific talk
“The camp Ellis speaks of is the Howard Springs Quarantine Facility, where he and 39 other indigenous people from these areas have been taken to isolate for two weeks. This is Tim Pool’s “concentration camp,” the same one that interns international arrivals including our National Olympians.
This is not America. I want you to understand that. In communities like Binjari there are upwards of thirty people living under a single house roof. That makes a mockery of the idea of self-isolation at home. So when the government realized that 39 people were probable infections, they were transferred, without protest, to Howard Springs. Of these, all 39 have tested positive, meaning that hundreds of indigenous people in their households have been spared infection.”
https://quillette.com/2021/11/28/an-outback-conspiracy/
“This is not America. I want you to understand that
.here in Australia, you are the property of the government and we can do with you as you please, and you have no redress.”In America our indigenous people have reservations about trusting the govt.
Trusting the government is a real gamble.
I can see no problem with gambling.
*hands Jimbo a blanket*
Well, that’s a feather in your cap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bFBzx7I_0
Same in Australia.
Probably my favorite 80s commie band.
#metoo
I probably owned seven or eight albums before I paid the slightest attention to any of the lyrics.
There is a reason I rarely pay the slightest attention to lyrics.
When my ears worked I couldn’t understand the lyrics because of the crappy speakers in the car and my crappy radio.
I can’t understand the lyrics now because I’m mostly deaf.
I’ve looked up lyrics on the internet but more obscure bands and songs cannot be found*,
*Like 1994, H.P. Lovecraft, and Zephyr.
Never listen to the lyrics.
Most of the population of the world prefer living on their knees. They cannot imagine any other way to live.
Oh, then this is all okay. Our bad, carry on.
I stopped reading Quilette a while ago. Used to be a decent publication that was sort of counterculture and didn’t let wokism take hold but Lehman’s beliefs about the Australian government handling of COVID turned me off.
Same. Claire lost her mind.
She’s a solid would tho.
OFFS. I can’t wade through the flowery prose.
“Urban cage” – what a maroon.
Irreproachable.
Pro-lockdown Aussies sound exactly like North Koreans if those had access to the internet. Speaking of North Koreans, in the last two years they had more freedom to walk around than Melbourne residents.
Contact tracing has been conducted, Fauci added, and all of their close contacts have tested negative so far.
Uffda. I can only imagine the outrage I would trigger if I had been the first person in the US to have the Omicrona. When the contact tracers showed up I would have told them to go fuck themselves I ain’t ratting out anyone.
On the other hand, if I ever get the boring old Rona, I have a list of assholes that I will swear to the contact tracer that I spent lots of time in a small unventilated room with.
“Am I being detained?”
On the other hand, if I ever get the boring old Rona, I have a list of assholes that I will swear to the contact tracer that I spent lots of time in a small unventilated room with.
One of my coworkers may have already done this. Someone tested positive today, and the office will now be closed until December 13 out of an “abundance of caution”. This shit will never end.
“To those who took offence at the ‘burn down the disco’ line […] I’d say please show me the black members of New Order!”
Sick burn.
I can’t believe that I have grown to enjoy the Smiths. 10 years ago I would have laughed and pushed you into a mud puddle if you would have suggested that one day I would listen to entire songs from them.
It is an acquired taste. OK, Morrissey is an acquired taste.
But there are so many good songs.
That’s what I get for trusting a random ammo seller in Indiana. Just got an email 2 days after placing an order. They’ve already charged my credit card.
I told them not to charge the cancellation fee since I will immediately dispute it with my credit card company.
Jeffrey Epstein looms over the gleefully offensive horror movie The Scary Of Sixty-First.
I read that as sixty fist. Twice.
Has anyone seen the footage of this police shooting in Arizona where a cop shoots a guy in a motorized wheelchair in the back nine times while the man is moving away from him?
Its been posted here. I think in the last thread. I saw it on the teevee last night. That cop should go down for murder 2, probably. Manslaughter, absolutely.
And of course, the on-duty cop who was standing right there when he did it, didn’t arrest him.
They did handcuff the guy that got shot nine times, however.
Officer safety first!
Yeah, that was just sickening, the way they yanked him around and cuffed him. The guy was probably already dead, FFS.
It’s appalling. Even if this guy had a knife, as some have claimed, this is practically straight up murder. The guy’s clearly not a threat to anyone who can walk faster than the wheelchair.
48-hour-rule.
Unlike all of the media, I’m not going to jump to conclusions yet.
The guy had a long, violent record.
And was in a frickin’ mobility scooter. I don’t think I need 48 hours on this one. Bad shoot. Very bad shoot.
Definitely bad shoot. There’s no way deadly force was needed in this situation.
The Lowe’s employee was at far more risk from Ossifer Rambo than he was from Wheelchair Guy. He’s lucky he didn’t catch a bullet or two.
An off-duty cop moonlighting for Wal-Mart security….why was he at Lowes?
My understanding is that he chased Wheelchair Guy from the Wal-Mart next door. It’s also possible that the reports have the store names wrong.
Well, it sounds like it was suicide by cop–suppposedly the wheelchair guy was accused of stealing a toolbox from Wal-Mart, then when confronted by the cop, who was working off-duty as a security guard, produced a knife and began rolling away on the wheelchair, toward a nearby Lowe’s store. As he gets to the roll up door in the Lowe’s garden center, the cop/guard orders him not to enter the store, and then shoots him in the back.
I wonder about the suicide-by-cop, since he was actually “fleeing” the cops and not threatening them at all. Yeah, he was a nutter with a knife, but he never threatened anyone other than the off-duty cop. Shot in the back 9 times? C’mon, man!
I abide by that rule too even if it looks like an obvious case of police malfeasance.
You know what? I agree. I am usually in favor of waiting a goodly amount of time, and I violated my own standard here, I guess. This one just looks so egregious. I usually try to avoid watching these kinds of videos–I really don’t like watching people get killed–but it was included in something else I was watching and I was strongly affected by it.
Wait… you watch local TV news?
Only for the MILFtacular newsreaders and the weatherbabe.
One of our local weatherbabes is Audrey Puente, Tito’s daughter. She is Q-worthy in a milfy sort of way.
You San Diegans get Sheena Parvene!
You know what? I’m tired of the special treatment given to the disabled. Their own parking spaces. Spacious bathroom stalls. Outrage when they get gunned down by cops as they brandish their knives.
It’s like a genocide of the ordinarily abled.
Lol. Well done.
You know who deserves a special parking space everywhere he goes for all that he does for humanity as a Firster, but doesn’t get one? Me.
This is a war. And we’re just letting them win.
It was bad from the one time I watched. Recklessness for sure with the employee downrange, manslaughter at minimum. Regardless if he had stolen a toolbox, which is nowhere to be seen there, he apparently stole the toolbox at a different store. At least what I heard. Even worse.
I hate the phrase “slept with”.
“Did you sleep with my sister?”
“Heck no, we just had sex.”
Geez. Rough day, huh?
Depends. Was his brother asking?
No, but I did leave change on the nightstand.
I was glad to see the abortion pill protest. Too bad it came a generation too late.
Give this man a coat hanger, cause he just aired out some dirty laundry
I remember this!
Amen.
Amen indeed. Simpler, better times.
Except for the geriatric president who was going to get us into a war with the Ruskies thanks to his dementia.
*checks current news*
Fuck…
lol
Every right-thinking person trashed the hell out of Ronnie back then.
I kind of miss the old bastard.
Needs moar iron on denim patches.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1466074646240014340
LOL
I have a serious love/hate relationship with that man.
If only someone hadn’t already posted that, without even a link to Twitter. Sad!
It was still Twitter adjacent and they get the clickthrough ad revenue. Talking out my ass. I saw you posted it earlier.
Someone puts something to internet, gets lost with massive amount of many posts, doesn’t get seen and same thing — REPOST. Many such cases!
I hat to admit it but I don’t recognize the faces pasted over the “Stalin” and the cancelled guy.
The new and former CEO of Twitter?
I admit, I don’t know about 90% of the names that are bantered about. Comes from ignoring the news and not GAS.
It’s always a treat when I get to cross an item off my bucket list. Saturday, I’ll be crossing off this one:
Attending a Christmas choral concert in which all the singers are masked (not the TV program).
The sound will be amazing! Voices blending in ways never imagined. It’s a tough ticket, but fortunately my son will be in the tenor section, so I’m good. For some reason he is not pleased; I tried explaining to him how lucky he is to be participating in this cutting edge performance but he is having none of it. Oh well, he’s young, he’ll get over it.
Us old folks depend on lip reading as much as hearing. I find myself asking clerks, servers, etc. to repeat themselves as I can’t see their masked lips.
Even listening to the masked choir in church makes it hard to hear the words of the hymn. Much like singers on tv that eat the microphone and you can’t read their lips either. Oh, and get the hell off my lawn.
“Nope. Stronger COVID measures produce STRONGER ECONOMIC outcomes. That’s why jobs, growth, and economic activity are UP this year, significantly over last year.”
https://twitter.com/WHCOS/status/1466071640433954820
“It’s the equivalent of intentionally burning a house down and bragging about rebuilding it.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1466085728568418311
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Timmy from South Park produces more cogent economic analysis than you do.
Broken windows FTW!
To be sure, other states are jealous of NYC’s 14% unemployment rate.
Our latest glib traction – Wednesday Zoom will start at the usual time (8pm Eastern). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86840642537?pwd=OVdWOW1sYkRUM2YvY1BJK21ScFVxQT09
Tradition.
Oh, good. I was afraid someone else broke a hip.
New conspiracy theory or?
https://twitter.com/NancyTracker/status/1465891574668271617?s=20
Coincidence. Need to spend more time with their families. Were any of newly retired women? Inquiring minds but I probably know the answer.
From Twitter upthread – JUST IN – Fully vaccinated NBA player LeBron James tests positive for #COVID19.
Maybe he can go ask his Chinese masters to give him the ‘special, special’ vaccine usually saved for CCP bigwigs. Asshole.
https://mobile.twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1466185773728681986
?
I just made myself a horrifying cocktail. A whisky sour, but instead of whisky I used the remnants of a couple near-empty bottles of brown liquor I had around – a little bourbon, a little blended scotch, and the balance in Hennessy.
*sip*
It’s actually pretty good.
How is that horrifying? If it tastes good …
https://mobile.twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1466120291264860161
No fucking way. Never.
Like I’ve said, if refusing to play along means I never enter a restaurant or many of the other locations I am currently barred from again, so be it.
Same here. I don’t go out enough to matter to me, and the places I do go are largely businesses that flouted the COVID restrictions the first time around anyway.
https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2021/12/woman-beaten-up-in-latest-incident-of-violence-on-philadelphia-train.html
A twelve and thirteen year old. FFS. Fuck Philly.
Bernard Goetz in 3 … 2 …
No need. A Rally Against Anti-Asian Hate was held. Surely this will heal the wounds in the community.
Indeed. Silly me.
Unity! Healing!
Whew, thank heavens. Nothing to see here, move along.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/state-police-release-photos-of-suspects-in-theft-of-20k-in-merchandise-from-ulta/article_bbb822fe-52d9-11ec-8633-87f7212e1a00.html
$20k retail stolen in 40 seconds.
Is the first incidence of this type of thing in PA? I knew it was happening in CA but…
The estimated value of the theft is $20,000.
Why do I get the feeling that this number is like when the cops bust some low level drug dealer and claim to have taken $200,000.00 of crank off the streets, only going in the opposite direction. And no I’m not excusing the thieves, fuck them even if they only got $3.50 worth of Hubba Bubba bubblegum, this just smells like a bit of editorial inflation intended to stoke emotions.
“Something that shopkeepers might want to consider doing with their display cases is putting in some plexiglass or material that’s going to be a little more difficult for the smash and grabs to break into.”
OK. But how about prohibit masked people from coming into the store?
Or better still just prohibit smash and grab robberies?
“You’re welcome.”
I bought some Biden stickers with “I did this” for the gas pumps every time I fill up. I realize that they are probably removed daily but it is my little bit to sow discontent.
This is a twist on the usual postings:
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/11/download-1-copy.jpg?w=750&ssl=1
What keeps his shrunken black heart beating? What are his goals in what remains of his life?
Maybe biden wants what Morticia Addams wants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcEbTp9C0g
Showering with your pre-teen children gives you a real zest for soldiering on.