OK, after a week of this, SP and I are through with quarantine. Now, officially, we don’t have the Coof because we weren’t tested. So “quarantine” has involved going to work as usual, going to the store as usual, and doing our part to promote herd immunity, just in case. You can tell from the piles of corpses around our house and in downtown Mayberry. I think they’re setting up mass burial pits in the Wegman’s parking lot, and we had to step over the bodies to make our way through Walmart.
Speaking of bodies, many were originally extruded on this date, including a guy who beat Darwin; a guy who actually didn’t kill his wife; the guy who wrote my favorite math book; a woman who added “sped redn” to the English lexicon; a guy who got Van Johnson acquitted; a funny guy who has outlived Betty White, Forrest Tucker, and Ken Berry; another career leeching piece of shit; another Very Serious TV Journalist; a guy who sold a few records; a guy who continued to get laughs post-mortem (in a famous group interview); some dude in a wheelchair not named Ironside; a talented freakshow; and a guy with a remarkable bladder.
And on the subject of eructation, let’s piss out some Links.
“Answers to the name of ‘Snacks.'”
Fact Check: It’s only tens of thousands.
Stupidity cuts both ways. Crazy idea, inspired by the last two stories: rule on law and constitutionality, not policy preferences. HAHAHAHAHA, not gonna happen.
Being a lawyer in Chicago means steady work.
Now all we need is a milk truck accident and we’re set.
Nice that he started in on the grift this quickly.
Old Guy Music is the song that made me sit up and take real notice of kd lang. Holy shit, what a voice and what a performer!
Being a lawyer in Chicago means steady work. – bunch of bastards the lot
Fact Check: It’s only tens of thousands.
Tens of thousands in America. If he’s talking about global deaths from the flu, Gorsuch was right.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815659/
The problem with flu cases and flu deathes is no one really ever counted them accuratly
Exactly. It’s probably far less for the flu and far more for the common cold than what’s reported.
Nice that he started in on the grift this quickly. – if a person is the best qualified for a job they should not be denied based on their relatives
How big was the pool he picked from? Probably was 2 and his sister didn’t want the job.
There’s a reason I never wanted to go into business with either of my brothers.
I learned early when me and my brother “split” a paper route he initially wanted, but was too young to get alone. I had that route 3 years, he split it with me for about the first 2 weeks.
Many on social media criticized and mocked Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch after he incorrectly suggested on Friday that the seasonal flu kills “hundreds of thousands” each year in the United States.
And how did those very same people react to Sotomayor’s “10 million” blabber?
“COVID-19 is unprecedented,” U.S. solicitor general Elizabeth Prelogar responded.
/em>
The hysterical response to it is unprecedented.
It was my little daughter,’ said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. ‘She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don’t bear her any grudge for it. In fact I’m proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.’ – this makes the case for retroactive abortion really
She will probably get an award at her next Young Pioneer meeting.
Have you read 1984? I’d imagine it wasn’t available before the curtain came down but no idea if such literature became popular there afterwards.
I bet if the Feds offered hospitals cash for flu deaths, we could get those numbers up there.
^ This guy gets it.
Good mornin’ OM
I don’t read German but I’m sure I understood what that sign said. Biden needs to do that in Spanish and put them on the border, for all the good it would do.
No song for Elvis?
I learn a lot on week ends, reading the Wiki reviews from your commentary. Thanks.
“Gorsuch: ‘the flu kills hundreds of thousands of people every year’ NO IT DOES NOT. STOP GETTING YOUR MEDICAL STATS FROM FOX NEWS,” Elie Mystal, a justice correspondent at The Nation, tweeted. He went on to link to accurate data about flu and COVID-19 deaths.
Where did he get “accurate” numbers about the plague? Not from the CDC, that’s for sure.
Elie’s info is correct because he capitalized his retort. That’s how I know. Besides he got it off the internet and not from Fox News.
I’ve paddle-boarded and swam in the Wekiva, along with its feeder Rock Springs Run, several times. Gators, yes. Dangerous cuz of them, meh. However, it would be easy for the current to push a swimmer beneath thick floating vegetation in places, if one wasn’t paying attention.
Saw some cool things there: a gator swimming beneath my board in the crystal clear water, a male deer walking in the thick floating vegetation and chowing down, baby gators riding on momma’s back.
Sounds like an emotionally healthy adult. I trust her judgement.
As with last night’s post, I hope Mom writes her out of the will.
Nothing like airing out the family laundry in public
Attention whores.
‘Tis a gift to be peaceable.
I’m with my (((near-neighbors))) in the cover pic.
I will not comply.
My neighbors are like State Farm. Works out well
Like a nosy neighbor, State Farm is there?
Nah, that’s the Jehovah Witnesses. Seems like you can’t outrun the long arm of those folks.
It’s far too accurate, of course.
We’ve gone from rolling our eyes at our crazy uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to turning him in to the Thought Police.
Thanks, Trump.
What was the site that many of you were using yesterday to follow the SCOTUS oral arguments reik… riek… something?
Rekieta Law
Thanks.
It was the least I could do.
Be careful it is one o them far right youtubes
I’m already on FSB correction FBI (it is easy to confuse the two) lists for visiting this site. What is one more.
The Guardian is sourcing its news from Teen Vogue.
Perfect.
I always imagine Madonna singing, “What are you looking at? Teen Vogue, Teen Vogue, Teen Vogue”.
And it didn’t even have any advice on butt stuff in it.
That’s Dierdre’s gig.
It’s a reliable source.
Malarky
Despite a number of prominent economists praising the president’s performance, the public continues to view the Biden administration’s efforts as a failure. Sixty percent of the 1,895 people surveyed for a recent CNBC/Change Research poll “disapprove” of how he has handled the economy.
The president’s critics have largely pointed to America’s historic 6.8 percent inflation increase when knocking his performance, especially as supply chain concerns did not largely materialize during the holiday season.
“Joe Biden and Democrats are leading our nation down a dark economic path of fewer jobs, higher prices and less opportunity,” Florida’s Republican Senator Rick Scott said in October. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tweeted in December in response to his opposing the Build Back Better plan: “It is unthinkable that Senate Democrats would try to respond to this inflation report by ramming through another massive socialist spending package.”
While the price of gas and groceries has indeed experienced a rise, Gary Burtless, an economist with the Brookings Institution, previously told Newsweek that in terms of America’s pandemic recovery following the pandemic’s onset, he is “surprised at how good things have turned out to be from an economic standpoint.”
He’s an excellent President. Best one we’ve got.
He’s just saving the economy from gentrification.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmaztS5gCDA
Yea it’s just gas and groceries going up. You know, two things that the poor spend a huge chunk of their pay check on.
Maybe if the cast of Hamilton sang it, the poors would understand how inflation and empty shelves are good for them.
in terms of America’s pandemic recovery following the pandemic’s onset, he is “surprised at how good things have turned out to be from an economic standpoint.”
The economy has recovered better than expected after Democrats shut it down in spite of Biden’s policies.
today in youtube recommends
How A $10,000 Hermès Birkin Handbag Is Professionally Restored | Refurbished
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xprFLWjtk0
$10k?
That sounds like one of those “made from the skins of Gentile babies” products.
Fallout 4 – I thought I had explored everywhere in Nuka World. Nope, found the Dry Rock Gulch employee area last night.
rule on law and constitutionality
Eight pairs of eyes blink uncomprehendingly. Thomas’ eyes do a Marty Feldman.
Relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i55v-5WRADk
You mean Mantan Moreland?
“America is the only leading economy in the world where the economy as a whole is stronger than before the pandemic,” Biden said. “(Republicans) want to talk down the recovery because they voted against the legislation that made it happen. They voted against the tax cuts for middle-class families. They voted against the funds we needed to reopen our schools, to keep police officers and firefighters on the job, to lower health care premiums.”
Stronger than before the pandemic?
I suppose all that government spending has really boosted GDP.
Biden cut taxes?
I’m not even sure how that’s supposed to be spun that’s such a bald faced lie
The real reason Biden was “fortified” into office: “We tell him what we want him to think and say, and if he believes it when he repeats it, then technically he’s not lying!”
The only thing I can think of is child tax credits, maybe? Was that a thing?
I would call that “social engineering” before I would call it a “tax cut”.
We have a 1 year old. I’m not sure we’ve gotten anything, though perhaps we won’t see it until we do our taxes.
“…saying that his father had been hinting at doing “something big”, Teen Vogue reported.”
Isnt that the publication that offered a butt-sex primer for girls, too? I mean, teen Tres would have been on board. Adult (in age) Tres is glad he doesnt have a daughter.
Not just girls, you cishet bigot.
Ewe! Keep the sheep out of this
It surprised me not when I found that exactly zero of the kids on staff had ever read Orwell, and all but one had never even heard of him.
Orwell is a dead white cisgender male so who gives a fuck about what he wrote?
Pie gets it. I’m sure Orwell has been yanked from the Language Arts curriculum of public schools in favor of Maya Angelou and Ta-Nehisi Coates. And whoever else the Grievance Studies minors now getting teaching certificates were fed in college.
What?
“never even heard of him”
What the hell? And these are college kids? We read Animal Farm in high school.
They never hear “Orwellian”?
They assumed it had to do with holes in the ground where water comes out. Which made context tricky, but then it was old people talking anyway.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/island-man-rescued-from-home-wrecked-by-landslide-4616845
Eek.
Island man – I expected a smallish island but it does not seem so
Homo australis.
Island man, what you wanting with the white man’s world?
Reference
Wow, that Guardian article was disgusting.
Well it is the Guardian
True.
I just can’t get over the idea of ratting on family short of murder or rape. Being a rat-fink snitch is no way to go through life.
Welcome to public schooling. Snitching is encouraged.
*feeling slightly validated that I’ve never procreated*
There are moments when I wonder if it was a moral thing to do.
Just for the record, I’m not trying to shit breeders. I like The Breeders: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-e6PPpb430
I’m just saying there are probably millions of families who have children conditioned to betrayal of the blood for the sake of the current power structure of the State. The idea sickens me.
That’s on them trigger hippie.
It’s your responsibility to raise your kids right. I think my son will have a great life and has already experienced a lot of joy. I think that is a moral good.
The funniest thing for Lefties is that when they created a few generations of family snitches, their kids will tell on them for being Commies.
That’s what happens when you brainwash kids to follow state tyranny. When you teach kids right from wrong, they factor in family interests and what “crime” it might be. Telling on your parents if they were going to shoot up a school or something. Not going to DC to protest. Then the US Capitol was inexplicably closed due to Commies that run this country, so we went inside. Oh, and I brought a few guns because the 2nd Amendment protects that right. Oh and I told the corrupt govt and cops to go fuck themselves because they had closed a public building for no good reason.
Just opened a bottle of this
https://www.vivino.com/US-CA/en/cave-de-mazenay-santenay/w/8242355
decent
Negoc? Apparently they also sell Montagny and Maranges, both of which would end up in my shopping cart as well as the Santenay.
Negoc? – first I ever encountered but seems they have some of their own vine but also traders
I’m not spending $30 on a Pinot Noir.
I got a good discount and bough it for 65 Lei or 15USD.
Also good Pinot Noir is usually above 50 USD
What if it’s in a box?
Yeah, good ones cost a lot more than that in general.
Zing
“All the secretary is doing here is to say to providers the one thing you can’t do is to kill your patients,” Kagan said bluntly to Jesus Osete, an attorney representing states challenging the health worker rule.
Everybody knows the slightest contact with an unvaxxed person can only end n certain death.
“the one thing you can’t do is to kill your patients”
The hell we can’t.
?
Yeah I laughed when I heard that. I wish someone were on their toes to shoe just how many people the medical industry kills right when that was said.
Think how many people will be saved if we just ban doctors. /Corona logic
If he would have just done this one thing on his way out. What a pussy.
https://rumble.com/vrxzct-video-title-the-semi-inside-story-of-why-trump-refused-to-pardon-snowden-an.html
Trump is a twat.
So many opportunities to stick it to the agencies and he failed to do so.
If you go in with the idea that he’s always been a Democrat until the time came to run for office, the complete failure to significantly end idiot agencies and programs makes perfect sense.
I knew he was a 80’s/90’s Democrat, I was just hoping that some of that trademark vindictiveness of his would show itself.
He never ran as a Democrat politician when he ran for office. It was always Republican.
He was registered Democrat for business probably. No Democrat I know ever acted like Trump.
Yea, trump just suddenly became the best President in US history. He has thought about his positions for years/decades.
He tried. According to federal law the President cant fire tens of thousands of federal employees.
Maybe he could have done more but he did so much that the Democrats started Civil War 2.0 to get him out of office. That says a lot about what he did to limit the federal govt.
Bruce Willis films – ranked!
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/06/bruce-willis-films-ranked
The Jackal didn’t make the list? ?
Putting any movie, other than Pulp Fiction and Die Hard ahead of the Last Boy Scout is criminal. Terribly underrated movie. Perhaps representing the pinical of action adventure genre.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1479719083130208256
The good old days.
man those cars were ugly
They’re like bulldogs, so ugly they’re adorable.
We drove to Florida in one of those every summer. Ours was solid dark brown. All the seat belts were permanently shoved deep into the seats of course. We’d put the back seat down and play back there while Dad drove.
Chef Dan Richer owns Razza, one of New Jersey’s best pizza restaurants. Richer makes everything from meatballs to bread to pizzas — a whopping 400 to 600 a night — in the popular restaurant’s wood-fired oven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuBxs1eW0u0
Pro tip: Avoid NJ.
Looks good, I’ll try it.
Looks up address – Jersey City – hard “no” to ever going there.
That’s near my office that I don’t go to any more. I’ll check it out if the world ever returns to its senses.
Rules are rules, they said
Novak Djokovic has had a strange couple of days. The world’s best tennis player has spent the past 354 weeks ranked at No. 1 and the past 48 hours held in visa limbo at one of Melbourne, Australia’s more notorious detention facilities. He now awaits deportation after his entry into Australia was denied. What began as an airport visa kerfuffle has escalated into a full-blown standoff between the Australian government and an apparent choice Djokovic has willingly made: to not get vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Rumbling began when Craig Tiley, the Australian Open’s tournament director, announced in November that all players competing in the 2022 contest would need to be fully vaccinated to play. At the time, Djokovic was mum on his status and vague in his responses when questioned about what he planned to do. He remained that way until Tuesday, when he posted an upbeat message to social media: After what Tennis Australia called “a rigorous review process,” he’d been granted a medical exemption from the vaccine by Tennis Australia and the Victoria Department of Health and was on his way to Melbourne to defend his title. The love and support poured in. So, too, did the fury.
For some Djokovic fans, the news came as proof that it was possible to “stand strong,” to beat the mandate. Djokovic had refused to compromise on his beliefs, and he’d won (the specifics of the medical condition that qualified him for the exemption were not immediately made clear). But for countless millions of Australians and global observers, the exemption was a shocking flaunt of public safety protocols granted seemingly to accommodate the extreme privilege of a celebrity. In fact, another (less titled) player, American Tennys Sandgren, opted to withdraw from the tournament because he wasn’t vaccinated and knew he didn’t meet the criteria for an exemption.
Djokovic’s victory lasted the length of his 14-hour flight from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, to Melbourne. Though he’d been granted entry into the tournament, his exemption was not valid for entry into Australia. Border patrol held Djokovic for questioning for eight grueling hours, and on Wednesday, Scott Morrison, the prime minister of Australia, announced that Djokovic’s visa had been canceled. “Rules are rules,” he said. Djokovic was relocated to the Park Hotel, a misnomer for the asylum-seeker and refugee detention center prone to maggots, mold and building fires.
I haven’t been following closely. The world needs more individuals with prestige and fuck-you money to get up on their back legs and fight this hysterical idiocy. Djokovic will survive.
It’s completely insane to pretend naturally acquired resistance through prior infection doesn’t exist. If it didn’t we would have died out a thousand years ago.
Of course, the “Where’s your pass?” hall monitors will never willingly relent. There’s too much money in it.
They questioned him for eight hours?
If this is even remotely true, they’re even further gone than I thought. I don’t even think Lubyanka questions for that long anymore.
His state-level exemption was granted because he had the plague less than six months ago. Do catch up, NBC.
Australia doesn’t give a shit about that.
He had a positive test less than six months ago. He also failed a covid test back in June 2020 and all the virtue signallers whined and shrieked about what an evil POS he was for holding a charity tournament at the time.
ISTR a bunch of participants got the ‘vid there and nothing was ever spoken of it again because they were all fine a couple weeks later, if they were even sick.
A player I never heard of was deported for much the same reasons as Djokovic: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-08/czech-tennis-player-renata-vor%C3%A1%C4%8Dov%C3%A1-deported-from-australia/100746080
Of course, she was deported AFTER she played in a warm-up tournament.
Do any of the law type people know when the supreme court will issue something regarding the mandate oral arguments yesterday? I’m still not sure what my employer is going to do. The latest info was just a request for vaccination status to meet the record keeping requirement. It feels like they are slow walking and doing the bare minimum and hoping the mandate goes away, but I feel in limbo.
Overheard some masked coworkers this week talking about the mandate and one said “just get the vaccine. Fuck your personal freedom”. It didn’t help my morale.
It’s not a vaccine.
“We’ve ‘fortified’ the definition of ‘vaccine.’ Please try to keep up.”/CDC
Granted.
My response to your coworkers would not have been polite and probably bordering on criminal.
My coworkers rarely talk about this stuff but still I’ve had to hold my tongue a few times. I think that would be one instance where I would lose my self-control too.
I have so much pent up anger over this stuff right now Im actually afraid to encounter someone who says something like that. Afraid for that person actually. Im really not handling this mandate/vaccine situation well, its effecting my mood and life way too much. Im retired and havent even been forced into anything yet so Im not sure why.
Yeah, this is getting a little ridiculous. It would be kind of useful to know whether I will be employed in a month before I consider spending on anything more than groceries and utilities and rent.
Start searching for new jobs now? I guess your finances can handle it and it’s just you, but it’s something to consider.
If you people live in these tyrannical states – move now. The tyranny is not going to get better.
In Georgia, we dont have lockdowns or mask mandates or vaccine requirements. Business is booming so much I see Commifornia license plates all over.
When you people talk about all this COVID stuff that worries you, we just dont have those worries in this state. I dont see how you people can live in a place that piles all this tyranny on top of tyranny.
“just get the vaccine. Fuck your personal freedom”.
Either you own your own body or you’re a slave to the State you live in. Die free.
Yeah, personally I won’t be getting one of the “vaccines” and I told that to my boss. I also explained that masking and weekly testing is not an option for me.
The hear more arguments on Monday I believe.
Okay thank you. I didn’t know that. I was actually expecting to have some a ruling from the SC on Friday afternoon.
I’m in your boat, Gunslinger. My company has already requested vaccine status and mandated that to be in office, you must be vaccinated, but has not yet taken the step of mandating vaccination. I’m still waiting for that axe to eventually fall but I’ve been spared for now, which is fortunate given my wife is due with our first child in a little over two months. I’m in financial services and just saw Citi mandated it, despite having loads of remote workers, so reading that wasn’t encouraging.
I also have a part-time gig that similarly isn’t mandating it, but they are requiring you to get tested if you’re not vaxxed and the company won’t pay for the tests. I am fortunately in a position with the part-time gig that I can tell them to go pound sand. It’s a shame, as I like the folks I work with, but I’m not playing the testing game unless my back is 100% against the wall.
The one thing I’m curious about is what percentage of employees lied on their initial vaccination attestation. Perhaps it’s a tiny amount, but at first our company was not requiring any sort of proof, just a simple yes or no. Then, a month or two later, they required the actual proof. It did run through my head to say ‘yes’ on the initial attestation question, given they weren’t at the time requiring proof, so I’m glad I ultimately just said I’m not vaxxed.
Yup, my company recently fired at least one, with rumors of several more at other locations for lying on the attestation.
Smart man.
Then they don’t need to provide accommodation, because you lied and they have a non religious or medical reason to fire those folks.
I decided against taking a moral stand. The hell with it. You don’t get points for that. If society wants to go mad, that’s not on me. I will be doing the “right” thing by lying and cheating the fucking bastards. “Here’s a picture of my totally legitimate card. If you doubt me, cross reference it with the database….oh, that’s right. You can’t check. Guess you’ll just have to take my lying word. Go Vax!”
oh, that’s right. You can’t check.
Are you positive about that? Are you positive they will never be able to check?
Because there is a database. Oh, yes, there is.
I’m not saying “Don’t lie”. Just be aware of the risks.
I’m sure that employers have no way to verify, and neither to resturants, stores or sporting events. Might I wind up in jail for it someday? Possibly, but the way things are going, I’m sure I’ll get to share a cell with a few fellow glibs at the quarantine camps.
You understand they have charged people for making false vax documents. I know you folks think you are smart by fighting this way but forgery, fraud, and perjury are crimes. Thats how they will get you. They want the resisters to resist using methods they can flip around on you and make you a criminal. Once they have you labeled as a criminal, they can control you. Ask Black Americans how that turned out. Democrats went from slavery to using criminal sentencing as slavery for Black Americans.
Its like lying to the cops. Never lie to them. Its a crime. Just dont talk to them. They cannot force you to talk to them. You cant talk your way out of most situations in which they want to interrogate you. Dont go to the police station. Dont call them back. Just ignore them. Tell them to fuck off.
They normally issue an opinion at the end of their judicial term. You can go to the SCOTUS website for more timelines.
It surprised me not when I found that exactly zero of the kids on staff had ever read Orwell, and all but one had never even heard of him.
Now do Animal Farm, and Lord of the Flies, and Player Piano.
OMWC Book Club; it has a nice ring to it.
I’d sub Harrison Bergeron for Player Piano. Shorter, with smaller words.
Plus, I’ve heard of it.
But yeah, we read all of those in middle school.
We read Harrison Bergeron in junior year (2011)
About half the class thought it was a good lesson in how to make things more equal, and that’s not an exaggeration.
Well, half the class WOULD be below average, at least for the group.
Jesus. We read it in like 5th grade, maybe 8th. Educational standards are really slipping. No wonder we’re ducked.
And this was in the “Advance Placement” class. Granted, it was a NYS public school so low bar.
Player Piano. Nice Vonnegut reference.
The dystopian endgame of escalating minimum wages and worship of credentials.
And The Lottery. We read that in 6th grade.
de rigueur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ajIeIeJpY
Would be a good forum topic.
the curriculum, that is. In fact, I think I’ve suggested it before.
Oops. You weren’t supposed to admit that.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/el-camino-hospital-cmo-admits-that
it is safe to admit hat now because the latest thing is the booster so fully vaxxed and unboosted is not vaxxed at all
man those cars were ugly
No can do twatter links [insert crocodile tear emoji]; what cars are we talking about?
LTD station wagon with wood paneling and sideways seats in the back.
Noted for the swinging back door that weighed three tons.
A buddy of mine had a hand me down one of those in the ‘80s. It was great for piling in a dangerous number of people for alcohol fueled underage road trips.
I had a 76 Suburban.
It served the same purpose.
googles… that looks even uglier
Uglier maybe but way less uncool.
that sounds like white male privilege to me
My Mom’s car in the 70’s.
https://images.classic.com/vehicles/9e408f6251d91ae339145bbdb2bcff4acc5f11ff.jpg?auto=format&fit=crop&ar=16:9&w=6380
[sighs wistfully] Why does Kazakhstan have all the luck?
New Study Finds School Closures Associated With Depression, Anxiety In Parents
https://twitter.com/chrissyclark_/status/1479569034081357827
Shocking.
Who could have predicted it?
Noted for the swinging back door that weighed three tons.
Nice. I had a Caprice wagon for a while. I used it as a shop truck. You wouldn’t want that “three way” rear door to fall on your toe.
I don’t care enough to look but did Newsweek fact check Kagan? That being said, how can so many supposedly extremely intelligent people make so many mistakes on basic pertinent facts of a case of such importance to so many people? It seems that everyone here has a more accurate understanding of the numbers involved than the average Supreme Court justice. Doesn’t fill me with confidence on any of their decisions I must say.
I am positive that Gourch was the only person that pushed medical and statistical misinformation. /NPCBot(end)
No-one, of course, observed that all of that is irrelevant to constitutionality. The SC is not supposed to rule on whether something is a good or bad policy, only if the policy is CONSTITUTIONAL.
We discussed that yesterday, its just we are too smart for public consumption. The medical information doesn’t even belong in the court. It should be an exercise of law and the limits of government power.
Exactly. The Democrats are trying to enter prejudicial and emotional medical information, false information to boot, into a claim of state overreach where they are violating the Constitution.
If they were having that discussion, OSHA wouldn’t exist.
Oddly, the top comment on Fox site was just that – the SC needs to rule if things are constitutional or not.
Nice that we’re not the only ones who remember that.
Or that even if they’d all presented correct information, it’s not the place of the judge to present evidence in trial.
To be fair to the hacks on the SCOTUS, they all know or should know that there is zero constitutional authority (as in enumerated in the US Constitution) that allows govt to mandate vaccines, masks, or lockdowns.
Interstate regulation of commerce is the only thing remotely close and regulation does not mean banning or shutting down. Its means slight govt interference.
The interstate commerce enumerated power was to give the federal govt a way to help manage a problem that states could not solve. States like Georgia and Florida have solved the COVID “problem”. Dont require any masks, lockdowns, or vaccines and go about your normal lives.
“We wish we could impose this mandate but *shrug* our hands are tied.”
That should have been the default for most federal/state laws. The respective constitution ties our hands to not implement/strike proposed law.
Don’t know how a SCOTUS hearing looks (are clerks feeding them the info?) but I’ve sat in on a Congressional committee hearing and there was constant paper passing between congresscritters and their aides as the testimony went on. I can see how someone would be overwhelmed by the data that is required to make sure you pass every “fact check.” That’s why power point presentations can be effective – you show the data and you show the footnote that indicates where the data came from. Then the questioner has to argue with the data from, say, Congressional Budget Office, and not with you.
No, they didn’t.
But the Ingrahm article on Sotomayor didn’t mention Gorsuch’s error either.
So everyone sucks.
I’d sub Harrison Bergeron for Player Piano. Shorter, with smaller words.
No reason it can’t be both.
Vonnegut was a damn good writer, before his brain turned to mush.
That being said, how can so many supposedly extremely intelligent people make so many mistakes on basic pertinent facts of a case of such importance to so many people? It seems that everyone here has a more accurate understanding of the numbers involved than the average Supreme Court justice. Doesn’t fill me with confidence on any of their decisions I must say.
Seriously. How hard could it be for a Supreme Court Justice’s clerk to call around Washington and get some statistics? Who walks into court (on either side) that unprepared? It’s not like HHS is going to tell them it’s classified.
Every single person involved in that hearing – Justices, clerks, lawyers, you name it – is fully immersed in the DC/DemOp Narrative Bubble. Nobody called out the incorrect statements of fact because every single one of them believes they are true.
I don’t care enough to look but did Newsweek fact check Kagan?
As I commented above, they made no mention whatsoever of Sotomayor’s preposterous claim about 10 million dead.
Or Beyer claiming if we had 100% vaccination rate there would be no mo vid.
Or the notion that when machines spew whatever is why OSHA regulates so why not humans when they spew virus.
“Why is a human being not like a machine if it’s spewing bloodborne viruses”
I dont understand how people are still making claims like this. Where are they telling people that the vaccines actually stop the spread?
I’m fine with OSHA saying that sick people shouldn’t come to work. Deal?
Wait, they just reduced quarantine? Huh.
This is the inspiration I need to finally pull the transmission out of my avatar today.
Dammit, twas supposed to be a reply to Sean’s Twatter link regarding the station wagon.
Penis song/The naval medley – Monty Python live Mostly (Sub Ita)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR4Whf1WRVU
I can only find a full version of this song subbed in eyetalian and I always wonder if the managed to find enough Italian slang for penis/vagina or just randomly translated and it males no sense to Italians.
“We’ve ‘fortified’ the definition of ‘vaccine.’ Please try to keep up.”/CDC
SCIENCE! is like a greased pig. Hard to pin down.
Get it straight, it is a uniquely effective vaccine now. Whatever that means.
Djokovic- they should have snuck him into Australia in a sealed shipping container. Like Lenin.
This is the inspiration I need to finally pull the transmission out of my avatar today.
Put a 5 speed in it.
https://youtu.be/pKjWKq5Hsfo
When you need to get the groceries home before the ice cream melts.
Also an option.
I guarantee if we had won the PowerBall, we would already have one on order.
Mmmmmm I really like that blue too
Or, perhaps: https://www.caranddriver.com/audi/rs6-avant
Pass.
Can go more old school and look for the 2003 version.
https://www.classiccarauctions.co.uk/events/cca-september-2017-classic-car-sale/cca-september-2017-classic-car-sale-sale/cca-september-2017-classic-car-sale-sale-session/2003-audi-rs6-avant
I had a 1983 Jeep CJ7 with a Chevy 352 V-8 in it. At least 2x the torque snapped the u-joints on the drivetrain. Looked great being towed, though.
The medical information doesn’t even belong in the court. It should be an exercise of law and the limits of government power.
But without utilitarian arguments, they’d have no case at all.
Agreed but we are where we are.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gym-should-i-exercise-covid-11641576013
Don’t you dare try to make yourself healthy! Says the medical indusrty.
Cram it, Dr. Spud.
(I pay a buck a day for this?)
I let mine lapse. Just too many like this.
But Editorial Board. Him and Her and another Him or two?
Henninger, Strassel, Baker (et al?)…
30 million acres of U.S. farmland were held by foreign investors as of 2015. Nearly the size of Ohio.
China’s ownership of U.S. farmland has grown 10x in a decade.
This is a national security issue.
Every state must ban or restrict foreign entities from owning our farmland.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1479670339902844929
I remember the panic mongering over the Japanese buying property in the 80s and 90s
Brings a whole new meaning to “molon labe”
Yeah! Those Chinese might decide to just plow under the crops or dump the milk right down the drain. We can’t let them do that!
I got ten bucks it is all corn fields and they are grabbing at some subsidies.
Worst comes to worst…they’re not exactly in a position to enforce their ownership….
in Romania some years back politicians wanted to ban foreign construction companies from building highways because they can have strategic importance… like the foreign companies can just pick them up and take them with them
Exactly. Not a national security issue at all.
Yeah, going the contrarian route here and saying whomever a private property owner decides to sell their property to is none of the state’s goddamn business.
NOTHING OUTSIDE THE STATE
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
The Platonic ideal of the establishment liberal tweet:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1479830207611682817
There are so many reprehensible idiots out there that I can’t remember them all but I know Siskind has a special status in that regard for some reason.
That tweet Salome is evidence enough, though I agree. I’m sure there’s something I read from her before.
What happened to not wanting people to be evicted? Now we’re just going to put them out of work permanently. Absolutely no negative effects to their health and well being there.
Hatred of freedom + sexism. Something for everyone!
And on the subject of eructation.
I wake up with one of those everyday.
Now, officially, we don’t have the Coof because we weren’t tested.
Heretics. You are stealing other peoples fear porn from them. We have to keep those numbers up.
They baffle economics!
The perplexing December jobs report is raising concerns about how many Americans may have permanently left the labor force because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Even so, the intense need for labor has not drawn roughly 1.7 million Americans who left the labor force in 2020 — and thus aren’t counted in the unemployment rate — back into the job hunt.
“The unemployment rate is now only 0.4 percentage point higher than it was prior to the pandemic. But with 1.7 million fewer people in the labor force than would be expected given the state of the economy, the labor market is less recovered than the unemployment rate would suggest,” wrote Jason Furman, a top economic advisor in the Obama White House, and Wilson Powell III of Harvard University, in a Friday analysis.
We’ll find those slackers and tax cheats when the paypal and etsy 1099s roll in.
‘The perplexing December jobs report is raising concerns about how many Americans may have permanently left the labor force because of the COVID-19 pandemic.’
I’m so goddamn sick of this talking point. No. The negative things occuring to us now is not because of Covid, it is all do to government action…and it seems more abundantly clear by the day that that includes Covid.
What allowed this virus to be created? Government. What funded it’s research? Government. What was too lazy or incompetent to ensure its containment? Government. Who lied about flattening the curve? Government. Who imposed crippling economic stress on countless millions of people? Government. Who forced people to inject their bodies with something that nobody has any real idea of what it may do to you ten years or more down the line? Government.
All this death, all this depression, all these trillions of dollars lost by working people worldwide while the most wealthy of us soak up most of the fiat money while our bills slowly creep ever higher,…from start to a hopeful finish…ALL of this has been created by government.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/the-week-in-pictures-dating-game-edition.php
The Nutella pasta was over the line.
I was going to make an FA Cup MacBeth joke but it was Birnam Wood in MacBeth not Boreham Wood.
I was hoping the football club was named for it.
When you need to get the groceries home before the ice cream melts.
Most excellent.
What the heck does that say in the photo?
A— Deutscher Auto Club? The DAC part is understood.
Free men be cautious
Schnupfe something? I can’t read it. Cold? sniffles?
Jews not welcome here.
Allgemeiner.
It looks like Schnupfe Coßbeck, which in guessing is a brand name of snuff or something.
I also tried Cotzbeck and Colzbeck, and none of them yielded relevant search results.
Danke, mein gut Herr.
allgemeiner = general public?
What does that say below? 107 something? an address?
I should make researching trivia into a profession, as in Desk Set. ?
Looks like 107 Sorten to me.
107 varieties of something
Danke.
The Malthusian ideologues pushing the population crisis were intrinsically hostile to nuclear power.
They hated it for the same reason that the current green anti-human movement hates nuclear power: It threatens to solve a problem they need to have.
https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1479618994017611777
The Malthusian ideologues pushing the population crisis were intrinsically hostile to nuclear power.
I don’t understand why those people aren’t dancing with glee over the plague. Maybe if it only killed the young and productive…
They are. Secretly.
Silicone Saturday will no longer put up with it.
https://archive.md/Eo0a2
I have just realized that “I love The Office” has been completely replaced with “Triple vaxxed!” on dating app profiles.
https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1479566307502739468
Stay safe, don’t stick your dick in a hole that hasn’t been triple pricked.
Frothy fourths?
Parks and Recreation is ten times better than The Office ever was anyway. OK, The Office was good for a couple years. Before it turned into the Jim and Pam Show.
Oy, yuck. I stopped watching when Pam became pregnant.
I don’t have the attention span for series anymore.
Parks and Rec had the Ron Swanson character, which was the funniest and best portrayal of a libertarian ever to grace a television show. It also had Aubrey Plaza, mmmmmm Aubrey Plaza. She played almost the same character in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, which was pretty frigging funny.
Yeah, she is a highlight of the show.
Did you guys know that that Ron Swanson actor played Tom Mason on Deadwood? He kind of plays the same guy in everything. he’s kind of funny though.
Good morning, Old Man!
Holy shit, that woman can sing. Almost makes me forget the rampant stupidity of the lynx!
I should make researching trivia into a profession, as in Desk Set.
I just watched that (again) a couple of nights ago.
Evan and I should set up a shop.
If we are reliving all of the shitty parts of the 70’s can’t we at least get the quaaludes back? Seriously, this is the future of the Dem party, a woman whose idea of a good speech to copy is from one of the most lambasted of a President who is being made look not that bad by the current one.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/01/07/vp_kamala_harris_there_is_a_level_of_malaise_after_two_years_of_covid-19.html
EL OH EL
Beware of attacking rabbits while canoeing?
I want muh Billy Beer!!
No, man, I don’t have any ludes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiojTnJHU8A
(I wish I remembered the 70s better. Youth, not drugs.)
Hey, Merle, I was wonderin’… if ya had any ‘ludes on ya?
Wow
But maybe what didn’t sell in 79 is now a winner in 21. Carter was just ahead of his time.
Key party at Suellington’s house!
Pretty much all I remember about Wolf of Wall Street (sorry, dear Marty).
No cum on the shag carpets man, I’ll never get that out.
2020-24 is going to go down in history as “how not to run an Administration”. Well, in honest history books.
Depends on who wins.
At Instapundit:
NIce
Have some blatantly illegal racism, and proud of it:
Sue!
Ahem. “I. Can. Sue.” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045152/mediaviewer/rm883068929
So if, say, United Airlines doesn’t get enough black applicants, what will they do? Just pull some dude off the street?
If airlines wanted a broader range of applicants, they could pay for flight training for underrepresented minorities. How can they hire X number of POC if those POC don’t have the proper training for the job? Our pilot friends here know better than I, but to become a pilot with a mainline commercial carrier costs in the neighborhood of $100k (assuming no prior military experience & training). Most people can’t afford that, POC or not.
Gorsuch, who was nominated to the top court by former President Donald Trump in 2017, drew widespread criticism on Twitter after he showed ignorance of the massive discrepancy between deaths caused by COVID-19 and the seasonal flu during the Friday hearing.
When I see widespread criticism of Prelogar’s opening assertion that Covid-19 is the worst pandemic the country has seen, I’ll consider listening to the twitter mobs.
A group of Chicago parents is suing the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) after teachers refused to return to in-person instruction due to COVID-19 concerns and school officials canceled classes entirely.
I wonder if this will be decided on grounds similar to the cases saying the police have no duty to protect you, only to protect “the public”.
Boxes of cereal and other food products were strewn across I-86 after a Wegmans tractor-trailer accident late Friday morning.
More supply chain issues.
Mayor Eric Adams has tapped his younger brother to serve as a deputy NYPD commissioner, The Post has learned.
I wonder if he’s smarter than Fredo.
Jackson Reffitt, a 19-year old from Texas, called the FBI weeks before his father, Guy Reffitt, stormed the US Capitol on January, saying that his father had been hinting at doing “something big”, Teen Vogue reported.
I hope Guy wrote Jackson out of the will.
Old Guy music is good. Interesting. I never paid attention to k. d. lang.