Disclaimer: In no way resembles anything to do with our actual lives
Well, supposedly it’s Sabbath, but I’m not feeling very rested, restive, or restored. But in the vein of that root, we did have the adventure of one of our staff being arrested. Being under 21, speeding, and having both alcohol and a couple pounds of weed in your car is not a wise judgment. And in a delightful flourish, she made an escape from the jail worthy of The Shawshank Redemption. She asked if she could use the bathroom, and when they let her out, she kept going.
So nothing woke, but the day to day of dealing with a couple dozen slightly over-ripe teenagers.
And some former teenagers have birthdays today including the guy who invented the cigarette coupon; William Shakespeare; the original relentless self-promoter; a real hottie; the quintessentially American filmmaker; a piece of shit who was the architect of American socialism; a physicist who was actually an interesting person (and I still have a well-thumbed copy of his quantum mechanics book); a piece of shit who is a disgrace to pieces of shit; one of SP’s heroes; the guy who made first contact with alien intelligence; the Nobelist who wasn’t a nudist; a pioneer of slow and plodding movies; and a chick who got famous for sticking a crucifix in her twat.
On that note, let’s check the wire.
Oh no, a washed up third rank comedian and the sister of someone famous are outraged!
If I see Brad Pitt, we’re fucked.
I love the expression “oral threat.”
The newest member of the DNC speaks out.
Wait, I had his voice for my Waze app. I’m lucky to be alive.
Old Guy Music is a birthday performance by an absolutely awesome band. Nat Adderley shows what a cornet can really do, but then JJ steps in…
whaddup doh
I got some extra sleep after naked time this morning. That’s what’s up.
That Gorsuch article is nothing but whine and “me, me, me.”
I don’t have the stomach for WaPo but didn’t the Wise Latina herself already deny the narrative the MSM conjured up? Why are they still talking about it?!
Because when they get caught in a lie they just double down.
The bad choices just keep going.
For some people, they never stop.
They just can’t stop
?
Also couldn’t stop
We Will Never Stop
Hopefully, she don’t stop
Hopefully, she don’t stop either.
Is she single? Sounds like fun.
So, you’re hiring?
I see hizzoner is blaming the latest cop death on FedGov not banning guns enough.
Yeah the article I read is rife with mentions of “illegal guns” – it’s almost like gun bans don’t work on criminals or something.
But yeah, Adams is a Democrat so he has to say that.
The civilian’s gun discharged.
Car thermometer says -12.
Daisy’s owner is back from vacation, so time to take Lily to the park.
That’s why you never let Arnold drive.
https://youtu.be/ZExMMvNUFHI
Anybody remember his TV show, Big Brother Jake?
Drilling from home this weekend. We got pretty much nothing up here this time around but it looks like they got hammered – would hate to have had to try the bridge/tunnel to/from there this weekend. Even folks in NC got more snow too.
However…saw Zuby promoting this new show on his twitter – think I’d heard of the books but never looked them up. Show looks like a lot of fun for young libertarians – also by the same crowdfunding production company behind The Chosen. Pretty cool. Just watched the first ep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt-QIflZTik
“they” being Norfolk…
Drilling from home this weekend.
Enough with the euphemisms….
also by the same crowdfunding production company behind The Chosen.
Robby Benson was terrible.
Barbi Benton was terrible? C’mon, man.
/Cleans glasses.
Oh Robby Benson
Kids and their hijinks. Make ya laugh, don’t it.
At least she’s not a domestic terrorist. Yet.
For better or worse, I don’t have direct knowledge of this, but from what I’ve read and heard, cops really don’t like when you do that, and I’ve tried to live my life in such a way as to avoid pissing off cops as much as possible. It sometimes doesn’t end well.
I hate cops. Always have. Always was snotty, combative: every speeding ticket (not that I care about the money, it’s all about hating cops) was an epic oh you’re saving the world you little toady sort of exchange.
But QI keeps being ratified, extended….the more obvious the overreaches, the less our judiciary seems to care. I’m almost afraid of cops now: I’m driving the speed limit more, I don’t want problems. I think about my truck being liquidated to fund a clown suit for a DARE initiative just because I smarted off and got the broken taillight Terry stop anal probing where the dog alerts to a picagram of dooby ash that fell out of a friend’s trouser cuff 18 years ago and it turns me into a little bitch nobody because, even though I’m the most boring and legal guy in the world it can go sideways in an instant.
Given how often cops can get away with killing unarmed people by saying “I was afraid for my life that the suspect might have had a gun,” at what point does it become reasonable to automatically think one’s life is in danger if a cop approaches you?
Good morning!
Was Arnold driving the Prius?
Bitches make threats, oral or otherwise. This is just another way to look at, “Keep your gun concealed unless you’re actively using it.”
I was hoping that Cawthorn ‘cleaning his gun’ was a euphemism, but no, he really was doing regular preventative maintenance. Although I guess that could be a euphemism too…
I don’t have the stomach for WaPo but didn’t the Wise Latina herself already deny the narrative the MSM conjured up? Why are they still talking about it?!
Let me guess. She is so wise and wonderful, she is trying to shield Gorsuch from the consequences of his heinous barbarism by lying on his behalf.
Oral threats?
This is what I think of: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wqon7FMlFVM/UgzxgD19bWI/AAAAAAAAjsA/89hTmpPH058/s1600/Dude+Where's+My+Car+12.jpg
Better than anal threats.
Sticks and stones
Time for porn music
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2022/01/the-time-of-day-you-take-a-covid-test-matters-according-to-a-study.html
The science was wrong the whole time, bars should never have closed early.
🙄
and a chick who got famous for sticking a crucifix in her twat.
Relevant
I had no idea that the Airplane! Scene was spoofing an actual (ahem) movie scene.
The AIrport movies get progressively worse/more ridiculous until the spectacular The Concorde: Airport ’79, which is one of those “so bad it’s good” movies.
Bookmarked!
Airplane! Is apparently almost a scene for scene remake.
I did see my inclusion in your essay: you started your year of chess by taking me out twice.
I’ve spent the last month or so experimenting with my five minute game (which may be ruining my focus on proper opening) and like it in a pinball gunslinger sort of way that I guess is more video game than brain-vs-brain.
So nothing woke, but the day to day of dealing with a couple dozen slightly over-ripe teenagers.
Eventually, reality intercedes.
Jailbreak
Crafty, that one is.
Here I was expecting this.
How dare a Republican broadcast what responsible gun ownership looks like?!
I can’t imagine a scenario where someone in a wheelchair might need to defend themselves with a gun.
But! But! A first responder was offended!!! He must don the sackcloth and ashes and humbly beg forgiveness for this unconscionable affront against one who sitteth at the right hand of the Father!
Salami Hayek
http://bitelabs.org/
No.
Not even some Rachel Weisswurst?
that’s fucked up
also fucked up: Jen Lawrence looking kinda yummy there, not that I’m thinking about ordering
“Oral threat”
Madeline Kahn at the train station: “No tongues!”
Conversation with the same girl yesterday (she’s still at large):
“So we have training at 6:30 tonight.”
“Oh, can I do it Monday instead? I’ve already got an appointment to get my knees tattooed.”
Wut?
??
… the bad decisions just keep coming.
Like working for OMWC?
One good decision
Stop mocking my future wife.
On Your Feet or on Your Knees
You gotta text me which one – I have a suspicion.
She’s one of the vory? I was under the impression that only men could get stars?
Somehow I get Irving Kristol and Irving Schiff confused in my head, though they totally not the same. Their kids are totally dissimilar as well. Good start for a Sat Morning. Thanks, OM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Pjyu3AfMc
“He’s a great songwriter ’cause he was smashed by a truck. I like people that weren’t smashed by trucks, OK?”
A first responder who was in the meeting was apparently offended as well, saying that Cawthorn acted like a child.
Look at me look at me look at me!
Wow, crypto markets are imploding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZoVVe9d-qo
Cash raising and the threat of a central bank crypto
Ain’t just the crypto markets. I never understood Bitcoin et al, just didn’t like there was any there there.
True. Now do the Federal Reserve.
The dollar is in a vague and general way associated with the performance of the US economy, and the federal govt’s ability to tax. It ain’t much, but it is something. The real reason it hasn’t imploded is being the world’s reserve currency – which the Fed may yet fuck up.
Don’t know about crypto, but the only line items in my brokerage account that have a net positive change from purchase price are my one share of pepsico and the index fund linked to the S&P 500. The rest are all grossly in the negative. I am down close to 15-20% from the initial cash input.
I guess I’m not selling anything anytime soon.
No one* beats an index long term.
*Insert about 40 caveats here
Time to buy!
Actually my fun money fund is empty after a gun purchase (and subsequent lake accident), so I’m gonna miss out on this buy low opportunity.
Yeah, I automatically buy a couple hundred in BTC every paycheck, plus I earn about 30 AMP a day staking it. Just, wow…
Meh. Look at the long-term chart for BitCoin. It does this periodically.
There has long been speculation that there are some very serious whales in the BitCoin market, with the volume to move it. Which they use to periodically pump and dump, and then buy at the bottom, rinse and repeat.
There are also algorithmic reasons having to do with mining rates and the like
I’ve already got an appointment to get my knees tattooed.
That’s a euphemism.
‘Goro bit Yakei in the face in 2019, a move that caused her bottom to flush bright red — a sign she was ready and willing to take him as a mate.’
60% of the time it works every time…Oh, hello officer. What’s with the handcuffs?
Mornin’ OMWC, and thanks for the lynx.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said on January 7 that the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia were actually Jewish, and that their conflict with Iran harkens back to 7th century battles between Muslim and Jewish tribes.
Wow, (((they))) are really playing the long game.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-jogger-martial-arts-fight-off-attacker-wanted-body-for-fantasies
Wut? Oh, Florida.
Flesh for fantasy?
???
Ladies, he’s single! And smells like a frat boy!
Stale beer and Axe?
I swear I hadn’t clicked the link before I posted that.
lol ?
It’s effing cold out. There will be no outdoor grilling this weekend.
There is an endless parade of horror stories in the news. Shootings, rape, carjackings, organized smash-and-grab, people pushed in front of trains… on and on. Other than standard issue editorial desk sensationalism, what the fuck is going on?
My theory: we are currently living in the equivalent of one of those rat colony behavioral experiments, in which the rats (us) are subjected to unrelenting stress designed to bring about long term elevated adrenaline levels. We have been subjected to two years of fearmongering and psychological torture, and a lot of people are cracking. Simple annoyances which might ordinarily be brushed off with a simple, “Oh, whatever. Get a grip.” have devolved into mortal combat.
Public Health, FTW!
Your theory seems sound to me. Been thinking the same. Even petty anti-social behavior is way up.
Related: Road construction is CIA psyops.
Sure as hell feels like it. Last time I drove cross country, EVERY damned 10 miles was 3 miles of “roadwork” where they closed a lane — and not a gorram DOT worker ever in sight. (Hey jackasses — how about you close a lane only when you’re WORKING a damned site, not the entire damned state… looking at you, Tennessee!). So obviously felt like it was one big exercise in “How can we screw up traffic more?”
We’ve been brainwashed to interpret everything unpleasant that happens to us as a deliberate harm caused by “somebody” and thus merits revenge or even pre-emotive violence.
And we’ve also been told that American society is the worst thing that the world has ever produced, so why would anyone want to preserve it and its principles? BURN IT DOWN!!!
Part of it is the easy access to communications. Every act results in headlines somewhere on some level.
Susie’s twitter ” Jamie skipped school today”
“Jamie skipped school today and missed the exam”
“Jamie skipped school today and his girl friend had an exam”
” Jamie’s girlfriend missed 2 period and had an exam”
James gang robs a bank in MN, Omaha hears about it 2 weeks later.
Toffler and the Third Wave
Well, just broke my phone. Looks like I’m pissing away a couple hundred bucks later today.
ugh
everything is a beating now: no inventory, thin staffs, so stand in line for excuses, incompetence, or at best substitutions
after I’ve grown accustomed to the perfect people-free transaction that is ordering a trusted branded product from a trusted warehouser (not Amazon) and having it dropped on your stoop the next day and then two months later the even more perfect Order Again!
well, at least your phone has not be determined by the State of California to cause blisters on mice or you would be stuck like we were last night with the sterling service at Walgreens:
* drive through to pick up prescription and a side order of Claritin D
* YOU HAFTA (because people love to be told what they “have to” do) COME INSIDE FOR THAT
* she’s got federal cooties
* SHE HASTO ORDER IT CURB SIDE
* I go inside to simplify and speed things up
* WE CAN’T SERVE YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE IN THE CAR WITH COOTIES
* drive to different Walgreens; I go in: I need Claritin
* IN THE STATE OF TN THE PHARMACISTS MUST ASSESS THE PATIENT
* leaves without argument and wonders why other Walgreens told us to order curbside when that was never going to work; go for take out phở while reminding NewWife I’m being nice and putting off a lecture on the moral of this story (how government and the national Karen Army fuck up everything) to some later, healthier, happier day
You know, we’re living in a society!
it was equal parts buying a car from Puddy and standing on line for the Soup Nazi
I would so, so happily let the damned meth labs back at it and let idiot high schoolers Darwin themselves if they’re going to and revoke the laws against Claritin, *real* Benadryl and Robitussin and get the damned paint cans out of lockup. Oh — and fraking GAS TREATMENT shouldn’t need a “Check if this person can buy it”.
Where’s the damned onion for my belt this morning, anyway?
we’re resorting to logic?
Nancy’s astrologer ain’t gonna like this
Really? Francis Bacon as Shakespeare?
I’m an Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford believe myself.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_Vere,_17th_Earl_of_Oxford
Have you seen Upstart Crow? If not, you may like it. https://youtu.be/A8M8qTclbho
I have indeed! I enjoy it thoroughly.
The guy who plays Shakespeare’s father, Harry Enfield is side-splittingly hilarious as Prince Charles in “The Windsors.”
Ooh… He also had his own show Harry Enfield and His Chums – https://youtu.be/U8Kum8OUTuk
The Kristol dogshit didn’t fall far from the tree.
https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/08/bill-kristol-says-lazy-white-working-class-should-be-replaced-by-new-americans/
Kristol is the definition of lazy himself. Horton handed him his ass during their debate, primarily because Bill obviously didn’t take it seriously enough to prepare. He’s living on his old status as designated propagandist and apologist for the warfare state.
I made the mistake of reading a politifact “fact check” about some politician’s statement regarding the adverse developmental effects of face masks on young children.
The whole thing was infuriating; dripping with condescending self-importance.
Bottom line, “it can’t be right, because we don’t agree. Also, his so-called “reference” was not a peer reviewed study from a source we approve of, it was just a bunch of idle speculation by people who do not have the politifact Stamp of Approval.”
I assume that’s how all of their bullshit fact checking works. If we don’t agree, it’s wrong.
Meanwhile, they’re no better than a bunch of snake handling revivalists, spouting their doomsday cult fire and brimstone.
I think it was Facebook? who openly stated that their “fact checkers” are nothing of the sort. So yes, it’s probably the same bullshit everywhere.
Yep. It was lawsuit brought by John Stossel against Facebook. Viva Frei breaks it down – https://youtu.be/URZTVfmuhJI
Facebook’s defense was literally (and I use that word correctly) “Well, that’s just like, our opinion, man.”
I’m a little surprised your hate for Vinson didn’t include that his death led directly to CJ Earl Warren.
At least Warren had the courage to lock up the Japs and save a generation from the horrors of sushi.
Driving Coach Arnold:
“What are you Waiting for, you sissy? Are you gonna let some puny light bulb tell you how to live your life? Go! They’ll stop and let you through.”
C’mon!
The dollar is in a vague and general way associated with the performance of the US economy, and the federal govt’s ability to tax. It ain’t much, but it is something. The real reason it hasn’t imploded is being the world’s reserve currency – which the Fed may yet fuck up.
Full Faith and Credit!
I crack myself up.
MMT is about as sound as bitcoin.
My personal investment portfolio took a $7k whack yesterday. So I placed a few stock orders with the cash I had in there for this eventuality and will now wait and see. I’m not retiring for 15-20 years, so I think it will be OK.
I’m wondering if the stock market is starting to figure out that Americans have lost faith in America, that we’re not having babies at replacement rate anymore, and that we don’t have each other’s backs as we once did.
Numbers sum up things that surveys do not.
Throw in rudderless “leadership” and an impending Russian show of force, and it’s not exactly confidence inspiring.
I’m wondering if the stock market is starting to figure out that Americans have lost faith in America, that we’re not having babies at replacement rate anymore, and that we don’t have each other’s backs as we once did.
Those kinds of realizations tend to come on suddenly and dramatically. I’m guessing it’s just some of the supply chain and employment issues catching up with the market.
Markets wear out, tastes change. Individuals’ priorities change. We’ve seen the crazy fads before but now maybe we feel that we are no longer in charge of our own lives.
The governmental imposition of the Green policies without concern about our lives is an example of what some of our betters erroneously think/feel if right for us.
I think you’re hitting on what makes it different now than it was a couple of generations ago when “old” people yelled at clouds.
There’s always been a “this generation will never amount to anything” grumbling in the background, but what is truly different now is that the government has been slowly amassing more control over individuals’ lives, and the last two years saw it got really, really personal and extreme.
maybe we feel that we are no longer in charge of our own lives.
That chump effect article from a couple years ago looms large.
My family and I have substantially adjusted medium- and long-term goals and expectations based on the presumption that this culture is going to become actively hostile to us at some point, either for being white or Christian or not woke or financially responsible. Why walk into the chump trap that is inevitable? They’ve trial ballooned all the stuff they’re going to do. Free college, 401k confiscation, racial apartheid and reparations, massive income taxation, wealth tax, nationalized medical tyranny, increasingly politicized institutions, enviro regulation and taxation, etc. All of that will be paid for by chumps who thought that the stock market would average 7% forever and that politics was just a side show.
Stop mocking my future wife.
She’s good at bad decisions.
A day late about Meta Loaf, but he was a bit player in the aftermath of the Kennedy Assassination. His story.
I stayed up way too late last night after finally feeling good enough to get out of bed and rejoin the world.
But now I’m up too early. Sitting in the medical-grade lift chair/recliner thingy I bought for the spouse last year, next to the gas fireplace, happy cat on my legs.
Kind of a good way to kick off the weekend. I just wish I could get up and make hot cocoa now, but His Feline Majesty would be disturbed if I did.
I made a meme! ?
I don’t get it.
Whenever I sit with cats, they tend to be on the armrest of the chair.
You are indeed lucky then. When the little black cat wants to be on my lap, he will not be denied. And he has the unfortunate (for me, anyway) tendency to then flop over on his side and immobilize my right arm.
Accurate!
Maybe he found it in a bathroom stall
The FBI is working to fill a “primary gap” in its investigation into the Colleyville, Texas, hostage standoff: finding out how the hostage-taker acquired his gun, FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno said during a Friday news conference.
“We are actively focused on that piece of the investigation,” DeSarno said. He added US officials are also working with their international counterparts in various countries to learn more about the suspect’s background.
The man who authorities say took the four hostages Saturday, died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to medical examiner records released Friday.
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The FBI is treating the standoff as “both a hate crime and an act of terrorism,” DeSarno said Friday, adding Akram committed a federal hate crime “when he forcibly kidnapped four hostages while they exercised their right to worship.”
“This was not some random occurrence. It was intentional. It was symbolic, and we’re not going to tolerate anti-Semitism in this country,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday at a virtual event hosted by the Anti-Defamation League. “We recognize that the Jewish community in particular has suffered violence and faces very real threats from, really, across the hate spectrum.”
What? I thought they said there was no reason to believe it was targetted hate. Boy, am I embarassed.
Yesterday’s Nintendo chatter inspired me to dig my Wii U out of the closet. The first half hour was spent cleaning off accumulated cigarette smoke that I didn’t used to notice.
Did it still work?
Haven’t tried yet. I’m waiting for the controller to charge up.
I’m sure it will work, all the component are in pristine condition after a little wiping down.
My main concern is will it connect to their network. No idea if it’s still current.
I guess there’s only one way to find out.
Everything seems to be working fine. ?
I also found a plastic shopping bag containing a Wii, a broken controller receiver, a Wiimote protector but no Wiimote, and two Gamecube controllers.
I need to stop being such a pack-rat.
Go buy the parts you need and plug that shit in!
Guh. My Wii U supersedes that junk. Also I hated the Wiimote with a passion. I bet it’s in a different box with other junk I never unpacked when I moved here nine years ago.
The WiiMote hurt my wrists every time I tried to use it, and the bottons were too small and too close together, so I always ended up pressing more than one. Worse, several buttons where below where the base of my thumb rested when naturally holding the thing, so any actions which required them were more or less impossible without using the other hand. It was one of the worst controller designs I’ve had to suffer through.
That was even before the motion control problems.
And now I remember that I hate the Wii U controller only slightly less. The secondary screen is useful in a couple games but really I just want a standard controller that is light has well laid-out. *heads over to Amazon, wonders if I order one, will I receive it*
I’ve got a Sega Dreamcast sitting around here somewhere…
You’ve almost got me curious to dust off my Wii U. I bet the remote batteries have leaked.
Advetures in hair trigger outrage
The Senate GOP leader sparked an uproar Wednesday while explaining his opposition to Democrats’ voting rights legislation.
“If you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans,” McConnell said at the time, implying that Black voters are not Americans.
At least he didn’t accuse them of not being authentically black based on their voting preferences. That would really piss people off.
Democrats pounce!
The Senate GOP leader called the criticism an “outrageous mischaracterization” of his record on civil rights.
This would have been a better response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
implying that Black voters are not Americans
They are reaching for that one.
All Americans voting percentage: 55%
African Americans voting percentage: 55%
Ergo. African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.
All percentages made up for purposes of illustration.
May your cups overflow on Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.md/2ma3f
Charles Booker, a Kentucky Democrat seeking to unseat GOP Sen. Rand Paul in November, tweeted a clip of McConnell’s comments and added: “I need you to understand that this is who Mitch McConnell is. Being Black doesn’t make you less of an American, no matter what this craven man thinks.”
McConnell on Friday called such criticism “hurtful and offensive, and I think some of the critics know it’s totally nonsense.”
Leaders of the free world.
I think we can finally retire that phrase.
“I have had African American speech writers, schedulers, office managers over the years,” he added.
I bet they were really good friends, too.
STFU, Mitch. You can’t win this game.
lol right
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you lovely people.
The sun is out, the coffee is hot and life is good.
Mornin’ Mr T.
Second cuppa, had breakfast with a spoonful of honey, sitting by the fireside, chatting with old and new friends.
A little dust on the patio but no hurry, gonna be Spring one day.
Yep. A spoonful of Emily’s finest every morning!
Stop and frisk 2; authoritarian boogaloo
An 11-month-old girl was struck by a stray bullet that hit the parked car she was in on a street in the Bronx Wednesday. Last night, two police officers were shot, one fatally, as they checked out a domestic dispute call in Harlem. The suspected gunman also was killed.
These cases, and those of hundreds of others over the past year, have frustrated residents and police alike. They want the gun violence to stop.
New York City mayor and former cop, Eric Adams, has vowed to put an end to it. Among his strategies: reinstating the controversial plainclothes police unit. It’s special anti-crime street unit with officers dressed as civilians.
“The plainclothes anti-gun unit is going to zero in on guns and gangs. We’re going to use precision policing to identify the gang members, the crews,” he said. “We’re going to target them.”
Maybe they should focus their efforts on prosecuting and locking up the small number of people who actually commit those crimes, instead of institutionalizing catch-and-release.
Tell that to the voters who elected the DAs and the state pols who put those policies in place. The mayor doesn’t have many options here and shuffling the cops around is one of them.
At my job I work with U.S. diplomatic missions abroad. Since the beginning of this administration, we have “lost” two of our missions (Afghanistan & Belarus). We’re about to close up shop in Ukraine now. If Kazakhstan flares up again, maybe that one will be shut, too.
It’s a good thing to save millions in tax money, but also an outright foreign policy disaster. How many other Presidents have had to shut down this many diplomatic outposts?
Also, all that tax money that we poured into these countries to shore up “democracy” clearly worked great. ?
In this context, is “diplomatic mission” synonymous with embassy?
Kind of. The agency I work for is loosely connected to State Dept and they have their offices located inside Embassies.
I’m sure that the people I work with in Ukraine, who are mostly local staff (foreign service nationals), will be laid off. Any Americans I work with in Ukraine will probably be evacuated as “non-essential”.
I’m sure it worked great for somebody, maybe not for the stated purpose but whatevz.
The graft & grift is strong where I work, no doubt.
I’m re-reading “A Peace to End All Peace” at the moment.
Conclusion: we will never learn.
It’s a little depressing. We are monkeys with cool toys.
“This has all happened before. It will all happen again.”
(everyone should read that book. It goes a long way to help to understand the pickle(s) we’ve been in for the last century)
Also Now It Can Be Told.
Can you imagine the world today had we never participated in that shit show?
Cool…I don’t know how I didn’t know Groves wrote a book, especially since it was undoubtedly cited in Richard Rhodes fabulous “The Making of the Atomic Bomb”
Gibbs, actually. One of a handful of British war correspondents in WWI. Horrifying book.
As I’ve written here before, I’ve always found government fumblings laughable. Maybe others grew up differently, but it was right there on the news every night: lie after lie, body count, your uncle comes back fucked up, and it’s all for nothing in the end. I stopped laughing sometime right after kindergarten. One Star: would not buy again.
And then along come neo-neo-cons like HRC: she cut her bones being right about how wrong a war was but then …………..
What difference, at this point, does it make?
“And the beat goes on”
Ah, not to worry, we’ll find more windmills. We haven’t even really got started in Africa. It’s a really good investment opportunity but we have to get there before the “Silk Roaders” leave us in the dust
Muh international health strike force
The United States, the World Health Organization’s top donor, is resisting proposals to make the agency more independent, four officials involved in the talks said, raising doubts about the Biden administration’s long-term support for the U.N. agency.
The proposal, made by the WHO’s working group on sustainable financing, would increase each member state’s standing annual contribution, according to a WHO document published online and dated Jan. 4.
The plan is part of a wider reform process galvanised by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted the limitations of the WHO’s power to intervene early in a crisis.
The answer is always “Give unaccountable bureaucrats more money and power.”
“I always knew she liked the finer things in life — something I can rarely provide. She admitted she’d had several flings with wealthy men. She missed being wined and dined and loved the adoration.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17365536/wife-has-sex-addiction/
Yeah, that sure sounds like a sex addiction, not just someone doing some gold-digging on the side.
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Self-respect. Get some, cuck.
I almost hate to do this, but here’s an interesting take on Omicron.
Someone designed this fucking thing. I just can’t understand why.
I completely agree and I have no idea either other than theories.
Omicron is perfect for “ending” the pandemic because it’s highly contagious and very mild. We should be having a chicken pox party right now in which everyone gets it, no one dies and we’re all immune. Perhaps “they” (whoever the fuck they are) are trying to see if they can engineer a solution to solve pandemics by altering a virus in this manner?
Then again, it could just be a cabal of megalomaniacal lunatics experimenting on the population for kicks (think Eros in The Expanse).
I won’t pretend to understand the genetic analysis stuff, definitely not in my swim lane. But this much I know: the coordinated response of Western governments, the outrageous censorship and subsequent defenestration of opposing viewpoints, the completely illogical “guidance” that changes almost daily, the obsession with giving the entire planet an experimental drug; all of it points to something sinister IMO. I know that incompetence usually trumps malice but there is just too much coordinated bizarre behavior and too many odd coincidences among the “elites”; something stinks to high heaven.
The children of the believers will have Biden portraits over their kitchen tables and tell their children how the government saved Gramps and Grams from That Bitch Nature with the advice of Lord John Maynard Fauci and they will all vote straight ticket until Detroit is all fixed again.
It’s time to re-read the Book of Daniel and Revelation in an attempt to discern if some of this aligns with prophecy.
Every news piece that stretches credulity about new-found depths of human behavior seems to send up a tiny warning flare: keep your lamps trimmed.
“Someone designed this fucking thing. I just can’t understand why.”
Yup.
I’m sure narcotics are probably falling out my posterior, but have the Glibs discussed this absolutely insane story? I went down the aviation YouTube rabbit hole for an hour last nite after watching the Trevor Jacob video where he fakes an engine malfunction, jumps out with a parachute, and purposely crashes it into the California wilderness. It looks like he probably did it for the YT hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYszLNZxhM
have the Glibs discussed this absolutely insane story?
Yesterday.
The pilot Glibs weighed in – that dude is going to lose his license.
For some reason I have a fascination with stories of absolute idiocy that are planned out for weeks beforehand. This is basically the Smollet story with a white adventure dude as the lead. I’d say the guy needs at least a bit of jail time for the stunt.
Now that American is the world’s largest airline, they’re determined also to be the shittiest
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2022/1/21/22895317/american-airlines-the-points-guy-app-frequent-flyer-copyright
I hate everyone involved.
Supporters say that the current reliance on voluntary funding from member states and from charities such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation forces the WHO to focus on priorities set by the funders, and makes it less able to criticise members when things go wrong.
An independent panel on pandemics that was appointed to advise on the WHO reform had called for a much bigger increase in mandatory fees, to 75% of the core budget, deeming the current system “a major risk to the integrity and independence” of the WHO.
Right. How many divisions will they have?
“It’s time for the UN to have its own standing army.”
Or, be de-funded and their buildings used for bombing practice by the USAF.
Things are pretty busy despite the vacks mandate
https://youtu.be/dvmRgN1FMK0
Omicron is perfect for “ending” the pandemic because it’s highly contagious and very mild. We should be having a chicken pox party right now in which everyone gets it, no one dies and we’re all immune.
Devil’s avocado: This is what you spread among *your* people before you release the lethal one.
To be fair, while omicron does protect you from previous strains … early strains did not protect you from omicron.
No guarantee that next winter the new variant won’t deviate from the experts always wrong predictions.
For some reason I have a fascination with stories of absolute idiocy that are planned out for weeks beforehand. This is basically the Smollet story with a white adventure dude as the lead. I’d say the guy needs at least a bit of jail time for the stunt.
The parachute, the perfect camera placements? All coincidence. It was a narrow escape from certain death.
Got a kick out of Bill Maher saying there is no need for any vaccine mandate since it doesn’t prevent spread. When did he become the left’s voice of reason? That’s how radical and dumb the left is now.
As they start to realize that the majority is turning against them, they will slowly slink back into the treeline, firing some covering arrows from time to time, but mostly hiding behind shields of statements about how the erred on the side of caution, and eventually conceding there is no need for mandates –but will reserve the right to make the same mistakes in the future with the next “pandemic.”
I made the mistake of assuming this was commonly accepted this week only to have “my hospitals!” argument thrown at me.
Unfortunately, refuting the “muh hospitals!” squeal can’t be done in a single, pithy tweet or meme.
Here’s some rough numbers:
Most hospitals are running at around 95ish percent capacity (naturally, there is variation). They are designed to run at 85ish percent capacity. So, for a (to keep the math simple) 200 bed hospital, they “should” have 170 inpatients, and currently have 190 inpatients. So, that’s 20 excess patients. 200 beds is a smallish to medium sized hospital.
If they have a fairly typical percentage of COVID positive patients, they have around 40 COVID positive patients. There is variation here, too.
Probably around 1/3, maybe more of COVID positive patients would be in the hospital anyway. This percentage is rising. So, of their 40 COVID positive patients, maybe 28 are there because of COVID. I note that in a typical flu season, the number of patients in the hospital because of flu would probably be in this general range.
Before long, if not already, around 20 of their COVID positive patients will be there because of COVID. Less than in a bad flu season, and still close to on par with a typical flu season.
Bottom line: currently, COVID is placing no more of a burden on hospital capacity than the flu. Which hospitals are designed for and have managed without any particular issue for decades.
Dead thread, but don’t want to poison the the beer review; he is a sharpshooter afterall.
So, if I understand the numbers correctly, what is causing the excess ‘strain’? I read it as yes hospitals are over capacity by roughly 12% relative to the ‘average’ year. But the COVID contingent is on par with what you you’d expect for a normal flu season. So what does that 12% ‘overage’ come from? Is the COVID in addition to flu? i.e. without COVID, you’d have the normal 85% capacity with 30-ish flu patients. Now you have that PLUS ~30-ish COVID patients. Is it downstream effects of delayed treatment? Increased trauma/psychological issues? Other? Guess the easiest explanation is that we’re having a normal flu season coupled with a second respiratory virus producing similar numbers which makes it like a bad flu season.
Hospitals running at that high of capacity is because they are so short staffed, their capacity has dropped by some magnitudes of normal capacity and staffing levels.
Its why Lefties used that metric. “HOSPITALS ARE 90% FULL!” sounds scary. Under normal staffing levels hospitals are more like 25% full.
Well. we got the new washer delivered this morning. Only two weeks late, so In These Uncertain Times, not bad.
The delivery window was 7:00 to 11:00. They were in our driveway at 7:02. They were done by 7:40. Couple of Mexican guys, very nice, and they were moving. The install was a struggle because it goes under a counter, and the clearance is less than 1/16th of an inch at the top, and a total of less than 1/4 inch on the sides.
And, I learned a new trick. We have saltillo tile floors, which the feet on appliances don’t necessarily want to slide over. They sprayed window cleaner on the floor after the first couple of tries didn’t go well, and it slid right in. Mental note.
well I might have gotten the covid… and I visited my mother today. I did one of those 15 minutes tests before coming and it came out negative. but now my throat is feeling sore and I have 37.2 C temperature.
Zinc tablets, stat! And an SpO2 fingertip reader.
Paging R C Dean:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2014-mercedes-benz-e63s-amg-wagon-23/
That . . . is exactly what Mrs. Dean wants. She would prefer black, but I think she could live with that mindight blue. 53K miles isn’t bad at all.
*deletes browser history, destroys computer*
Um … No. Just … no.
Oh, yes.
It is The Best Car in the World
(I would very much like one)
SQUEAL!! That ad led me to this – https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1973-volkswagen-thing-65/
I would replace those ugly ass wheels and have that thing in Afrika Korps livery in a hot second.
I’d probably Rhinohide the whole thing in tan/FDE.
And, yeah, different wheels.
And take out the back seats and pintle-mount something . . . defensive . . . in back.
Hmmm… Rat Patrol is on the Heroes & Icons channel tonight, but not ’til midnight.
Maybe I’d better have some more chai latte so I’m sure to stay awake…
Commentary from the Edgecomb judge about Facebook from court yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YbM43ba9zA
Official explanation for why there are 119,283 “active voters” in WI who have been registered for over 100 years “does not hold water”. 569,277 voters have 1/1/1918 registration date, amounting to 1 out of every 14 voters in the system. 115,252 of them voted in November 2020
Add in the hundreds of thousands of ballots that were illegal and WI is another state that should have had its EC de-certified. You cant know who won.