Its that time of year again. Where the weather is warm enough to finally go outside and play baseball.
Oh right, most of you are in a frozen wasteland.
Nevertheless, my youngest had his baseball tryout last weekend. Sure they called it a “skills evaluation” but I convinced the boy it was a tryout. The problem? He missed a week of school after a mild case of nom nom nomicrom and another extracurricular required a negative test the day prior. No problem its outdoors and the baseball crowd leans yokelish right?
Wrong. After a brief negotiation with the coach running the tryouts we agreed the boy could get his turn after all the other players leave. So people are at least being less stupid about it. I turned in the background check paperwork to be an assistant this morning so I am certain I will have to deal with this jackass again.
He hit 4/5 pitches and fielded all but one ground balls so at least it was worth waiting in the car for two hours…
¡Enlaces! ¡I will say nothing about Ukraine!
Taco prices on the rise… like damn near everything else.
I’m surprised there aren’t as many jokes about dead journos as there are about lawyers, because then I’d have a witty lead in.
Please, like that’s the worst thing you can catch at Carnival.
Those retards finally do something American.
That had to be quite the eruption.
You know what’s weird? I have never played White Zombie. Let’s change that.
So how’s El Salvador handling the BTC implosion?
Setting up power plants to harness the energy of monetary fusion?
Still chill.
In recent pictures the President of El Salvador has turned his ballcap inside out to what is known in Spanish as “el rally cap”.
I will say nothing about Ukraine
The Ukraine.
“El” Ukraine
Mykraine.
Thems Wekraine?
MarineKraine?
iKraine – Now with Bauhaus inspired architecture.
Ukrainx.
Ukranian doesn’t have articles.
Then what do they print in Ukrainian magazines?
Right now Ukrainian magazines transfer ammo.
Well played.
Ukrainian magazines are places where you go to buy things.
On topic with article one as well as an answer to OMWC’s marinating question about how to spice or marinate the items in his freezer.
https://www.homesicktexan.com/2009/07/cow-head-barbacoa.html
By the way a decent cookbook as well.
One great lamentation of the loss of a local restaurant (pre-‘vid) was that I could never convince the girlfriend to try the hog’s head.
Of course, she got freaked out by Mabel’s BBQ having both pig ears and pig tails on the menu. Both were good, and appear to have been removed from the menu in the current times.
Barbacoa is always the first taco I would order when re-visit TX. Eat it while it’s hot or you will regret it. My wife is pretty good with unusual foods. She spent some time in South America and ate a lot of goat and guinea pig.
At some point it really came down to if it tasted good I would eat it.
The girlfriend is not adventurous. I’ve at least gotten her to try thing she previously told me she didn’t like. Some of which she still doesn’t like, others she’s a big fan of now.
She spend time living in Scotland and ate at Pizza Hut. She had never heard of a Scotch Egg until I made her try one here in the states.
I’m not sure what’s worse, Scottish food or Pizza Hut.
Genius of the “and,” d00d. Genius of the “and.”
haggis pizza?
Haggis pizza with a black pudding stuffed crust
‘The girlfriend is not adventurous. I’ve at least gotten her to try thing she previously told me she didn’t like. Some of which she still doesn’t like, others she’s a big fan of now.’
Go on…
Still seems pretty damn stupid
Cuck motherfucker.
Governor Glenn Youngkin called on parents to follow school mask mandates in areas that have defied his executive order in an interview with radio station WRVA on Jan. 24.
Youngkin told host John Reid he was confident the courts would rule in the administration’s favor and ultimately allow parents the choice to opt out of local school mask mandates.
He said parents should “maintain trust in the legal system” as the several lawsuits challenging his executive order go through the courts.
listen to principles, there, I fixed it.
Part of me is disappointed, but I’d rather give the various local school boards a fair trial followed by a fine woodchippering.
By fine, I hope you mean slow and precise to concentrate on extremities first. Drugs to be administered to force consciousness to be maintained. In the end they roll themselves into the machine to end their misery. I’m kidding. 10 years at hard labor will work for me.
No, like finely shredded rather than big chunks.
Our journalismists couldn’t possibly work in those conditions. They practically die when Starbucks can’t get their orders right.
But enough about the government. Good on your kid for the try out.
The Government is not that organized.
Heh.
They should spend 6 days crying about it, declaring a national emergency, seeking therapy for their trauma, and then write a best-selling book about how much danger they’re in, like CNN and Jim @Acosat did.
“I turned in the background check paperwork to be an assistant this morning so I am certain I will have to deal with this jackass again.”
You’re assuming you’ll pass the background check?
If asked, we’ve never heard of him.
I don’t think they care I want to overthrow the government, they’re just making sure I’m not a pedophile.
Yeah, but look at the crowd you’re hanging out with.
“Those retards finally do something American.”
Then by God let’s make them a state!
Aren’t they all descended from people like Ponce de León?
Yes and they are very ashamed of it?
Yes Drake, he was also a white male.
The brazen open corruption of our political class is really something.
Companies Linked to Putin’s Pipeline Contributed to Schumer Campaign: Senate majority leader blocked sanctions on the Kremlin-backed project.
Dare to dream
Lets just start with buckets of hot and sticky stuff with boxes of pillow stuffing and see how thing proceed from there.
I don’t think the My Pillow uses feathers.
Brandon strikes again.
As a result of the @US_FDA’s abrupt decision to remove the EUAs for two monoclonal antibodies, monoclonal antibody treatment sites will be closed until further notice. Full press release is below.
DeSavage responds.
Of course, they refuse to review the evidence on other therapeutic treatments or just deny that they work at all.
This, more than anything else, has been a crime against humanity.
The most important thing is “limiting the spread of misinformation”
I wonder how many of the people supporting this support “right to try” laws.
I doubt most people even know what that means.
Right to try laws only further the spread of misinformation. Why, there might be a statistical anomaly and the peasantry might think they’d actually disproved the words of our Top Men.
So let me get this straight. They are banning monoclonal antibodies because they are not as effective against Omicron. Of course “not as effective” isn’t quantified. However, I can believe that effectiveness has declined since the antibodies are based on the original variant. Meanwhile, the vaccine also isn’t as effective against Omicron since it was developed against the original variant, but not only is it not banned, we are expected to get boosted. How does this make sense?
Furthermore, I would expect the monoclonal antibodies to offer a wider array of protection than the vaccine since the vaccine was only for the spike protein, so I would expect the decline in effectiveness to be greater for the vaccine. I don’t know if the numbers back that up, but I don’t expect the FDA will share those numbers with us either.
Shut up and take your booster
Part of that sounded like the opening statement to a presidential debate.
SHUT FATS!!!!
/presidential rejoinder.
That DeSantis response is blistering.
That’s completely fucked.
He said they’re fighting it. I’m not sure what options there are, but if this is overturned Biden just stepped on yet another rake.
Biden follows the Sideshow Bob strategy.
This includes the insane cackling. To be fair, there are few politicians I can’t see doing that.
This is one of the many reasons I’m not a governor. My response would be more along the lines of “Screw the FDA, screw Washington — we’re doing it anyway.”
The owner of my gym was just talking about it. His mother is in FL and has covid. She had an appointment today for the antibody treatment. His sister got a text cancelling the appointment a flipped out – the clinic told her to call Biden.
I feel like leftism has been tried in South America once or twice before. I wonder how that went.
Uruguay says “We’ll keep our private banks open to foreign investment.”
That is a puzzler. I hope someone in South America can research it and get back to us.
Only once or twice?
It was really zero times. They’ve never tried real leftism.
True
Ain’t that something.
And that’s the reason that the FDA made that decision since these two monoclonal antibodies don’t work against Omicron, that it would not be a good idea to administer to anyone, because all you will have is the risk of a potential adverse effect with essentially no benefit from the actual therapeutic effect.
So just like the “vaccine”.
“There is a monoclonal antibody, sarilumab, that actually does work against the Omicron, and that’s a monoclonal antibody made by GSK.”
Curious…
Oh, well Fauci said they don’t work, and he knows everything there is to know about science, so that settles it.
America’s doctor™️ has spoken. There is no one I believe more.
SCIENCE has spoken.
KNEEL BEFORE SCIENCE
I’m glad you corrected your oversight MS. ??
????
What a jackass.
The food is terrible and comes in such small portions.
He needs to be caned all the way into the nearest gator pond.
Sent back to Canada in just his bathing suit.
Freed even noted, again unironically, that thousands of Quebec residents have explored moving to Florida since the pandemic began, and observed how easy it was to receive a free PCR COVID test in the Sunshine State. Such tests in Canada, Freed noted, are both expensive and hard to come by.
Free healthcare isn’t free? Weird.
They ain’t free here either.
I saw that article last night. It was hilarious. “Oh sweet freedom, please we need some of it. Wait a second, there really is freedom here. Not freedom like this, oh no, that’s a bit scary. Let’s get back to safe Canada, eh?”
Wanker.
As long as he does the second part of fucking off back home. That goes for all new yorkers, new jerkers and anyone else showing up on these beautiful shores who doesn’t want what they ostensibly came for.
/new resident
Let’s see what is going on in Quebec – https://youtu.be/PtTqEV5aWWY
Holy shit. Fuck that.
IKR, even NYC isn’t that crazy.
Of course not.
Freedom of speech is Finnished.
Two Christian leaders in Finland stood trial in Helsinki on Jan. 24 for publicly stating the Bible’s teachings on sex and marriage. Longtime Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola defended in court their decision to write and publish, respectively, a pamphlet explaining Christian teachings about sex and marriage.
In the trial’s opening arguments, which will resume on Feb. 14, Finnish prosecutors described quotations from the Bible as “hate speech.” Finland’s top prosecutor’s office essentially put the Bible on trial, an unprecedented move for a secular court, said Paul Coleman, a human rights lawyer with Alliance Defending Freedom International who is assisting in the Finns’ legal defense and was present during Monday’s trial.
“The prosecutor began the day by trying to explain that this case was not about beliefs and the Bible. She then, and I’m not kidding, she then proceeded to quote Old Testament Bible verses,” Coleman said in a phone interview with The Federalist after the trial concluded for the day. “Trial attorneys, Finnish trial attorneys who have been in and out of court every day for years, said they didn’t think the Bible had ever been read out like that in a prosecution.”
Never before has a Finnish court had to decide whether quoting the Bible is a crime. Human rights observers consider this case an important marker for whether Western governments’ persecution of citizens for their speech and beliefs increases.
There are a ton of Christians in the US who have no clue this is coming. They’re still under the misapprehension that we’re living in a late 20th century secular pluralistic culture that has respect for the core values of western civilization, even if there are fights going on about the particulars.
Its going to hit them like a ton of bricks when the attempts to force Christianity out of the public square hit full stride.
Never forget that the
publicgovernment schools were started (in part) due to filthy papists teaching children Catholicism.Nah, there is a yuuuge cohort of Christians that will applaud this. They’re already embarrassed by the backwards nature of the Bible and having the government force their church into becoming a proper Good Person’s Club will be welcomed with open arms.
My parents literally switched denominations because their particular UMC didn’t join the proggie split and they heard about a Lutheran church that was so progressive they had the first black preacher in Houston!
Know what is amazing, nothing in my bible school and church goings ever gave me the idea I could rule over another person’s life or their decisions and their sin was their own. I must have gone to a weird fucking church.
Me, a catholic, with our many African priests: yeah okay.
there is a yuuuge cohort of Christians that will applaud this
From my perspective, there are four main groups.
1) the social clubbers – they’re the evangelical half of the clique that is embarrassed at the backwards Bible thumpers. They’re why the SBC has started losing membership of conservative churches.
2) the progressives who happen to be Christian – large swaths of mainline Protestants and Catholics fall in this bucket. They’re also embarrassed by the Bible thumpers.
3) the clueless middle – they’re the ones talking about unity right now. Can’t we all just get along? Just wear that mask so that those other people stop complaining.
4) the culture warriors – an amalgamation of politically and theologically conservative groups that are aware of the impending troubles. These groups usually occupy their time bickering with one another in various settings, but the bickering has really quieted down as many of the groups have recognized the need to start building a coalition. See Andrew Torba and his Gab parallel economy movement as the most glaring example.
The first two groups will nearly completely fall away from the faith when the troubles come. The lion’s share of the third group will fall away as well. Only the fourth group will retain most of its members, and that’s because they’re already teetering on the line of social ostracism.
Many people who recognize the coming challenges are predicting a revival in the church. I disagree. We’re about to see a cleansing of the church. Within a decade, Christianity will be, at best, a ~30% minority in the West, and I do believe that there will be some level of persecution. Maybe that’s just social disfavor, but I think it will be more than that. Probably along the lines of that hate speech case, but on steroids.
You’re probably right. Man, I hope heaven is real.
I popped on Gab for the first time in a couple months to see what was going on there, and within the first 5 posts, Torba addresses exactly what I’m describing here.
I somewhat disagree. I think that attempt has been made, and the pendulum is slowing.
Really?
Internecine warfare
The day after a judge struck down New York state’s mask mandate, the state attorney general’s office tried to block the ruling from going into effect — citing “irreparable harms.”
On Monday, a judge ruled that the state’s Department of Health did not have the authority to enact such a mandate without approval from the legislature.
But Attorney General Letitia James’ office filed a motion to stay the ruling. If granted, that stay would mean the statewide mask mandate would remain in effect during the appeals process.
“The Order, if not stayed, will allow individuals to refuse to wear face coverings in indoor public settings where the risk of COVID-19 spread is high, including in schools where many children remain unvaccinated against COVID-19,” the court filing states.
I want to see an honest-to-god shooting war between state agencies in Albany.
Maybe that’s why UCS left town.
Hell yeah. Roll cameras.
Horrible, horrible freedom!
Already been doing it lady.
6,000 barrels of crude?
Based on past experience, I’d say the micro-flora and -fauna in the surrounding ocean will chew through that stuff within about a month.
And it was what, a 3 ft wave at that point? More like someone just oopsed?
High lime prices are hitting the pockets of Mexican consumers by bumping the cost of tacos. The price of the citrus fruit has skyrocketed 153% in annual terms, according to the Economy Ministry.
This also implies Dark n Stormies are getting more expensive.
The world-famous Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro will be held in late April rather than the final weekend of February, as the number of coronavirus cases in Brazil spikes and the omicron variant spreads across the country.
Fuck. I’m not sure which is worse: this or Germany cancelling Oktoberfest.
Random thought:
I wonder what life would be like if they had cancelled the invasion of Poland.
Carnival has far more scantily clad women. I’m going with carnival closing being worse.
But Dirndls!
Yeah, scantily clad women are great in youth, Dirndls are great in age.
Will they cancel Oktoberfest for the third year in a row? It goes without saying that those not up to date on their vaccines won’t be allowed.
Unfortunately, they probably will. Fuck. It’s enough to drive me to drink.
We must secure our source of fish tacos.
The mayor of New Orleans canceled Mardi Gras last year; the source of her authority to do so was never contemplated. Instead of parades, there were “house floats” (people decorated their porches and threw out trinkets and gave drinks to passerby.) If there are no parades this year, she may have a riot on her hands.
They should hold the parade and let them try to stop it…
“My responsibility as Governor is to protect New Yorkers throughout this public health crisis,” Hochul said in a statement, “and these measures help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and save lives.”
The Constitution is just a fucking piece of paper.
No, they don’t. And the numbers show it.
I think it’s a violation of their own constitution, but I’m not sure. How hard would be for a deep blue state to use its actual legislative body? It’s been two years.
One might ask the same of Congress.
Being terrified of doing their fucking job seems to be a feature at all levels now.
“My parents weren’t penniless, they were fiercely stubborn’: Walking Dead star Alicia Witt breaks her silence after her parents were found dead of hypothermia and reveals they refused her help and hadn’t let her inside their home for ‘over a decade'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10441099/Alicia-Witt-breaks-silence-month-parents-dead.html
Sad.
Really sad. I can totally see how that happens, too – can’t keep up with the cleaning but too proud to let anyone in to actually see it.
I know some old couples where that could totally happen.
Hat tip to her. Most people just bitch about social security insolvency. She’s doing something about it.
Think globally, act locally.
Way too many people take the cop out and give their geezer parents money for heat and food.
Was I not supposed to do this?
Ohio Turnpike snowplow damages at least 40 vehicles, injures 12
I’ve seen snowplows in Alaska do that, but they spray to the right. You want to avoid being on the roadside when they pass.
They do it in Alberta on roads like Highway 2 between Edmonton and Calgary (a 300-kilometre-long stretch). And they do it at speed. Produces an impressive plume of snow to the right of the plow. Albertans generally know better than to be within a quarter-klick or so of a plow when it’s doing that.
I saw it in Animal’s area on the highway between Anchorage and Fairbanks. The trees beside the road were taking a beating.
Just pushin’ back the bankings – https://youtu.be/1-_ql8kuNYs
That’s called malicious compliance. “You want me to go plow the median? Okay, I’ll go plow the median.”
“”The wingnuts of the Right have no institutional power” is such a cop out. Millions of people sit on YouTube all day long, with conspiratorial grievance-mongering from right-wingers their only source of information. If this isn’t “power” then nothing is.”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1485745671349350401
What?
Beats me.
If YouTube commenting is the ultimate expression of power then we’re all screwed.
Are you saying Lars doesn’t rule? Because YouTube comment sections disagree.
Twitter is still a window into a nonsense hell. Film at 11.
Man, Claire Lehmann’s sunk far and fast in the last 18 months or so. I’m not sure Quillette will ever fully recover from her dunder-headedness. She had such promise, back in the day.
I guess that’s what happens to Australians who feel they have to defend every decision their dumb government makes.
The real Claire was black bagged in 2019. This is just a crudely assembled robot Claire controlled by PM Morrison in an attempt to keep Oz from descending into a Mad Max dystopia.
I’m going with this explanation.
Imagine if they found this place. Oh the power we have.
The 1st Screaming Orphans are the toughest shock troops the world has ever seen.
Were they finally allowed to sharpen their sticks?
Neverending story
The next Covid-19 variant that will rise to world attention will be more contagious than omicron, but the real question scientists need to answer is whether or not it will be more deadly, World Health Organization officials said Tuesday.
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“The next variant of concern will be more fit, and what we mean by that is it will be more transmissible because it will have to overtake what is currently circulating,” Van Kerkhove said. “The big question is whether or not future variants will be more or less severe.”
She warned against buying into theories that the virus will continue to mutate into milder strains that make people less sick than earlier variants.
“There is no guarantee of that. We hope that that is the case, but there is no guarantee of that and we can’t bank on it,” she said, noting that people should heed public safety measures in the meantime. What’s more, the next iteration of Covid may also evade vaccine protections even more, making the existing vaccines even less effective.
Yeah, okay.
Great more experts making predictions. Bonus points if they used a model.
According to my model, my model is correct.
“What’s more, the next iteration of Covid may also evade vaccine protections even more, making the existing vaccines even less effective.”
Get your boosters.
When they are wrong, no one will remember this.
What position is the boy gonna play, Señor?
The weird thing about tryouts is that they never bothered me when I was the subject, but I did not like watching the kids go through theirs.
You know how it goes, everyone either is suited to play second base or outfield.
Lol. I played catcher then first. It was awesome! I thank my father for steering me in those directions, plus letting me bat left-handed. That extra step toward first was a godsend!
He can play all infield positions except for first. He’s a bit of a runt. Likely due to my wife’s insistence on buying organic milk.
Haha. I was a 5′ 9″ first baseman. He’ll be fine.
Local paper shows a little love for local GOP representative. Of course it is only because his RHINO butt got kicked out of a meeting of “Far Right Activists”.
RHINO is now pressing charges of assault against the guy who told him to leave and grabbed his arm when he tried to continue trespassing.
I’m sure his constituents will all side with this pol now that he’s been manhandled by crazy birds.
It was really a Minnesota Nice “door slamming”. They guy literally held the door so it wouldn’t slam and interrupt the speaker.
he said he wants the man prosecuted on principle because the increasingly hostile — physically hostile — tenor of politics has gotten out of hand.
I’m glad American politics has always been so peaceful while dealing with tyrannical cuntes.
This is a strange day. I drove up to Mercury NV at the NNSS. I made the mistake of turning on the audiobook version of “Now It Can Be Told”—an excellent book beautifully narrated, but chilling to the bone.
The wind today is swirling and creating patterns of dust and sand across the roads, the prehistoric-looking palm trees and Joshua trees bending with the wind, tumbleweeds rolling across the deserted highways.
When I got to Mercury to pick up my new “upgraded” badge, I had to use the fingerprint scanner so they could ensure I matched the recorded prints on file. The scanner kept returning “No fingerprint detected”. A reboot solved the problem, but for just an instant there I questioned reality: was I in a dream? Or a nightmare in which I had no prints, no identity? Is this surreal landscape I drove through even Earth?
Now I’m home again, sitting by the fire and listening to the wind moan and whip in the chimney.
I have never had this weird feeling of premonition. I hope it is nothing, but I feel as if something is approaching a crossroads. Is it limited to just me and my life? Is it America? Is it the whole planet? The Universe?
Man, I need something lighthearted to read.
Don Quixote! I highly recommend it.
When the Area 51 employee who had her fingerprints removed gets concerned you know it’s going to be bad.
Mebbe she’s just becoming one of the Men in Black and no-one’s told her yet.
If so HEx, can I borrow your neuralyzer when you’re not using it?
You should have reached into your bag of orphan fingers (that had been lopped off in mining accidents) and gone “Hmmm…, now which one of these did I use when I signed up?”
Hmm. No fingerprint? Does that mean you’re a vampire or something?
I’ve been watching Peacemaker because it’s too stupid to stress me out.
I’ve enjoyed it so far.
Oh, hey! Have I got a book for you!
I loved that book, but it gave me some very entertaining nightmares.
I don’t know if the audio version would be worse or better.
Too local news – Robbing gun shops?
Local police and a federal law enforcement agency are investigating an attempted burglary on Sunday at a Hooksett gun shop.
A $5,000 reward is being offered by Shooters Outpost and Firearms Museum in Hooksett after an attempted break-in at just after 5 a.m. According to a post on Facebook, the store posted information about the incident, noting the would-be burglars “didn’t make it far” and “no guns were taken.” Due to extensive security, “they never even made it into the facility.”
2 of my kids got to attend school without masks for 1 single fucking day.
https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/nassau/schools/covid-19-mask-mandate-back-in-effect-in-ny-after-appeals-court-judges-ruling/824655/
One day unmasked. The whole Nassau community will be dead within a week, right?
I’m not even convinced children avoiding covid is a valid public goal at this point. Kids getting omicron seems like a positive for society in every way I look at it.
It was never about the children. It was about the Karens pretending to teach them.
When I dropped son this morning, I asked the principal about the ruling and she looked at me like I just took a shit on her dog.
I am curious. How do you appeal a State’s Supreme Court ruling, especially when it isn’t a federal issue or no immediate federal issue present? Hasn’t it gone through appeals to reach its final arbiter?
It’s a trial court.
In New York, Supreme Court is the general trial court. The next level is the Supreme Court Appellate Division, and the court of last resort is called the Court of Appeals.
Thank you both!
Man, I need something lighthearted to read.
P G Wodehouse.
S J Perelman.
Dorothy Parker.
Spike Milligan
Donald E. Westlake
Rep. Nolan West, a third-term lawmaker from Blaine, was uninjured in the incident, which was partially recorded on video. But he said he wants the man prosecuted on principle because the increasingly hostile — physically hostile — tenor of politics has gotten out of hand.
Like refusing to leave a gathering after you have been asked?
Thwarted, for now
The Biden administration is withdrawing its Covid-19 vaccination and testing regulation aimed at large businesses, following the Supreme Court’s decision to block the rule earlier this month.
The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday it will be withdrawing the vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard for businesses with 100 or more employees, according to a statement on the agency’s website.
“Although OSHA is withdrawing the vaccination and testing ETS as an enforceable emergency temporary standard, the agency is not withdrawing the ETS as a proposed rule. The agency is prioritizing its resources to focus on finalizing a permanent COVID-19 Healthcare Standard,” the statement read.
All those people cowed into taking the vaxx? It was for their own good. They’ll thank us, later.
Besides; we’ll be back.
I’m not even convinced children avoiding covid is a valid public goal at this point. Kids getting omicron seems like a positive for society in every way I look at it.
But- but- dead grannies!
The President has emphasized the necessity of getting vaccinated against the virus for months and eventually decided to use the mandate on large employers as his main vehicle for convincing hesitant Americans to get their shots.
Petulant thin skinned old man is petulant
decided to use the mandate … as his main vehicle for convincing
Huh…
WH comms team has, like, one trick in their bag
https://mobile.twitter.com/POTUS/status/1486111890547908612
One lick in the bag amirite?
Very first reply.
Is this a real person?
Tbf the ice cream helps with the dementia.
That picture is everything that is wrong with current year.
JFC.
Contingency plans
The United States is in talks with major energy-producing countries and companies around the world over a potential diversion of supplies to Europe if Russia invades Ukraine, senior Biden administration officials said on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters on a call, the officials did not name the specific countries or companies they were in talks with to ensure an uninterrupted energy flow into Europe for the remainder of the winter, but said they included a broad range of suppliers, including sellers of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Reuters reported earlier this month that State Department officials were discussing contingency plans with energy companies to ensure stable supplies to Europe if conflict between Russia and Ukraine disrupted Russian supplies.
Gas. It comes out of pipes.
If you’re relying on the Biden administration to keep your heat on, you might be in for a cold couple of months.
I’m planning on burning commies for heat.
Work meeting today:
Boss’s boss: “Anyone have any questions/thoughts/concerns before we wrap up?”
Me: “What’s gonna happen with our work in Ukraine?”
Boss’s boss: “Blah blah blah nebulous platitudes and talking points blah blah blah. This is going to have a big impact on our work”
So, why did I have to ask? Why didn’t you address the issue in your opening remarks?
They never even said anything about our Belarus office shutting down on Dec 31.
I’ve worked in this arena for a long time. I’ve never seen an Administration so opaque and dishonest with its own people. That just says to me that the whoppers they’re telling the general public are even more egregious.
Nobody believes me when I tell them how disgusting things are in DC.
Nobody believes me when I tell them how disgusting things are in DC.
I do.
Since you are here, Mark Rippetoe’s podcast this week featured a discussion of where to buy land, live free, etc. I thought you might enjoy it.
It’s the last part.
Thanks Tundra!
Your welcome. I was a little surprised at the conclusion, but after some thought it makes complete sense.
My dad, his wife, and I watch season 1 of House of Cards together, and I said that it was a very accurate portrayal. My dad’s wife was shocked – SHOCKED!!
(Kamala is a real life Frank Underwood)
Just as bad in the field. We had a very light obscure email about “stop processing firings” when the injunction went into place last weekend. Nothing pushed from the administrator, or even Mayor Pete. Quietly hiding information that people all have. Its like they don’t know how to quell the rumor mill.
“”Do you agree or disagree with this statement: The media are “truly the enemy of the people”?”
-AGREE-
White – 56%
Black – 63%
Oth Non-White – 60%
Dem – 37%
Unaffil – 61%
GOP – 76%
All Voters – 58%
58% Of Voters Agree: Media Are ‘Enemy of the People’”
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1485971164715487233
Glad that’s settled then.
The shipment of monkeys that I ordered from Amazon is running way behind.
LOLOLOLOL
code monkeys?
They like Fritos, Tab and Mountain Dew.
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niiiiice.
I had a “cold” the week of Christmas, but didn’t get a Covid test to determine if it might be the OMGcron. So, yesterday I got an antibodies test and it came back positive: 51.6 U/ml.
Does that mean I no longer need to worry about ‘vid?
Chances are you never did.
Nice.
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True, but I’m curious if this means I’m not going to catch the new variants.
Congratulations
Where did you get an antibodies test? I was definitely exposed in early January but had no symptoms. I’m a bit curious if I now have antibodies.
Just claim it as faith. Kind of like vaccine protection. I tell everyone I identify as immune.
LabCorp. I went to their website, verified there was a local office and then ordered the test and made the appointment online. There was an initial $6 fee. I entered my insurance info, but we’ll see if they cover the $42 charge for the test.
I don’t see an antibody test on their website, just the PCR test.
https://www.labcorp.com/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/individuals/antibody-test
Nevermind – found it after googling
“WATCH: Biden’s Surgeon General claims Joe Rogan should be censored
“We’ve got to recognize that our technology platforms, whether particularly social media, these have an important role to play… These platforms have still not stepped up to do the right thing.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-surgeon-general-joe-rogan
Well, since the public health poobahs now have supreme power at all levels, seems like all he should have to do is snap his fingers and it happens.
“It’s such an important question,” Murthy replied, “because we can have the best science available. We can have the best public health expertise available. It won’t help people if they do have access to accurate information.”
Having doctors on to make medical arguments is literally domestic terrorism.
I havent heard any of these assholes give an actual example of any misinformation theyve actually heard from any of Rogans guests.
What was the awesome headline given by the Bee?
Something about horse paste and mass hysteria.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/world/snowstorm-traps-thousands-on-greek-roads/video_4fb7b350-bfa9-5f73-bd65-1a29f8969222.html
Meanwhile, in Greece…
Slaps on tinfoil…
With the FedGov mandate on the ropes with the injunction, the next logical step was to remove any therapeutics, even ones that were developed under Operation Warp Speed, so that the government can claim in court that vaccines are the only treatment available.
There is no limit to their evil. That ain’t even tin foil level thoughts.
Lamp.
Posts.
Ya, what Sean said. They have been doing it for over 2 years so no tinfoil needed. It is reality.
What if tinfoil cures covid, and that’s why it’s now aluminum?
*rolls eyes*Slaps the potato*
On an optimistic note, I am fully decompressed from DC. Too bad I have to go home on Monday. It takes me about 3 days to reach zen after leaving home (zen = normal sleeps & shits)
4S is the key to life. Sleep, shit, shower and a shave is what keeps my sanity in check.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/24/kerik-jan-6-voting-machines-00001552
So doesn’t this all go against the notion that Trump was moving into coup territory if he rejected this guy’s ideas altogether and never gave an asinine EO the chance to see the light of day?
The emailed PowerPoint again ?
Also on a more optimistic note, I was in work today to make sure my minions are doing their jobs — they are. Also to make sure I still had an office — I do. My poor techs who were on the fence and broke down and got the vaccine were parading into my office and asking “is there anything I can do? Cause this is bullshit! I felt forced to take it to keep my job”.
This is where smoke breaks come in handy and I can drop that manager’s cap and tell them “hire a lawyer”.
Good luck to your guys.
Well this and the comments give me warm fuzzies. They want us dead.
https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1486012845280022529
The people taking the 5th before the Jan. 6 committee remind me of Spock in the ST: TNG episode Unification:
The blockquote wasn’t intended to be a link.
I have good news for you…
Only guilty people need to plead the fifth, amirite?
They want us dead.
As if Alex Jones was the center of a coup?
These people are nuttier than he is.
IIRC he was there telling people not to go in… what a bunch of fuckwads.
The news is on, over in the corner.
That F35 that went into the drink after a carrier landing “mishap”? Apparently we are now in a race with the Chinese to salvage it from the bottom of the South China Sea.
uh.
Wouldn’t we loiter in the area to do so?
Remember who is in charge these days.
No Loitering.
Relevant
Sounds like a job for Dirk Pitt and NUMA.
Remember who is in charge these days.
Punchine to an old old joke:
“Paint an “X” on the floor of the boat? That’s stupid. How do we know we’ll get the same boat?”
Sic semper tyrannis
Fuck