Nothing in the sports world to bring up. Sorry.
Soccer moms taking control again.
Well what did you expect to happen? You don’t think these people want their kids to have normal life again? You don’t think they want to have a say in what their kids are taught? You don’t think they want to see shelves full and prices stable? This is inevitable, CNN.
This ought to be interesting. You know what else is gonna be interesting that’s not getting nearly as much coverage? The EPA “wetlands” case. Watch that one as well. It’s huge.
A woman’s gotta eat.
Oh the humanity! This is almost like hugging people in a gay bar in Florida two days before testing positive. Except, you know, this one is front page news about a has-been and in the other case the timing wasn’t mentioned even though it’s a high profile congresswoman. Also, what business is it of a judge to speak of her vaccination status in a civil trial that has nothing to do with it?
If this was a limbo contest, he’d be kicking ass right now. Unfortunately for him (and fortunately for the rest of us), it’s not.
Well, this should be a bigger story. Let’s see how long before it’s overruled though. It’s not as if the NY courts aren’t packed with progressives.
Being deployed to combat sagging poll numbers?
Well, this isn’t good. Especially with those tanking poll numbers. Because that’s what the whole Ukraine-Russia thing is all about anyway.
I’m confused. How is this anybody’s fault but him and, to a lesser degree, the person who sold him the drugs?
I’d like to see this succeed. But I’d prefer to see some competition out there that runs them out of business.
Here’s a rollicking tune. Hope you enjoy it. I will.
And I hope you enjoy this fine Tuesday, dear friends.
Condoms for glasses? She is gonna get sprayed, right?
cheap safety glasses against fluids.
It’s to prevent her from getting cockeyed.
The goggles- they do nothing!
I thought it was a photo of Senator Hooker-Boots but that’s just how I roll.
Could be much much worse — I thought it was Hillary of all people.
“I’m confused. How is this anybody’s fault but him and, to a lesser degree, the person who sold him the drugs?”
This way they can blame someone other than themselves or their kid for fucking up…..
He was a victim, thus he died in the most noble manner possible. Fucking sick.
I disagree only on the lesser degree part. Is there no honor among drug dealers?
Personal responsibility? Fuck that shizz…
We are all guilty because society made him do it.
The affirmative action case is a can just begging to be kicked. Again.
The article mentions a 6 – 3 “conservative” majority on the court. I’m familiar with Thomas and Gorsuch, but who are the other four?
“Conservative” is the new “sometimes not rabidly leftist”.
I thought “domestic terrorist” was the new non-leftist tool?
Conservative = domestic terrorist.
Get with the program!
I’d be fine if we could get “consistently liberty-minded originalist” even if the decisions occasionally went against my preferences.
That puts Thomas out.
-1 girl’s underwear search
Everybody has their own peccadillos.
Placing one of your own pubic hairs on the Coke can of your intended is a sure-fire way to entice the Ladies! Works 100% of the time 60% of the time!
I still don’t understand that anecdote, F.
There was a case where grade school kids were step searches because someone lost a necklace or they were searching for drugs. I forget which.. Basically Thomas thought you could do that as the school was acting as the custodial parent of the child, therefore no rights infringement.
Not a good look from a liberty perspective.
It was a check inside a pre-teen girl’s underwear by a principal searching for an illicit aspirin. The Court ruled correctly, 8-1, with only Thomas dissenting because drugs.
“illicit aspirin”
OFFS!!!
It was ibuprofen, dude. Totes different.
Anita Hill accused Thomas at his confirmation hearing of sexual harassment. One of her stories involved a pube on a Coke can. It’s fine, Miss O’Grady, it usually takes a moment for me to parse some of your comments.
I wouldnt mind a split decision. UNC loses and Harvard wins on public/private grounds. And the latter being a frredom of association decision.
I’m not sure that distinction is meaningful given all the federal student loan and aid money Harvard collects.
That, should be, a separate issue.
I hate the “if you receive one ounce of government benefit” argument. Its advanced ROADZ!!!
I’ve known for a long time the Supreme Court was useless, but couldn’t explain why.
When the NRA would trumpet some narrow win for the 2nd Amendment, it never seemed like a real victory.
After reading Anatomy of the State, it gave more credence to this.
Yesterday, driving to my appointment, I was listening to Peddling Fiction. I am way behind and he was playing excerpts from the Vax mandate case.
Listening to the “Wise Latina” was so infuriating that I have to get screened for high blood pressure. (I have never had high blood pressure)
I think I need to quit listening to podcasts.
Anyone got a link or an unambiguous search term?
Trump signed an XO curtailing the overreach of the EPA. Biden signed an OX reversing it. Games.
Signed OX.
If only Trump had gone for the center square…
He is certainly snarky enough to take Paul Lynde’s place.
Likes to laugh at his own jokes too!
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/19-35469/19-35469-2021-08-16.html
Blink your eyes three times if you’re safe.
What a sanctimonious twat.
And that judge should be tossed out onto the street.
Now do the seven Democratic city council members who were caught flouting the Commandments yesterday.
Look, they know better then the little people. They are of the body.
Now talk about how the “vaccines” don’t prevent infection and don’t prevent transmission.
I wonder how many of them pounded their little puds over Palin, forgetting of course that she was the running mate of that great American maverick (and good kind of Republican) McCain?
McCain was no longer a good Republican once he was nominated for president, at that point, he had become “literally Hitler”.
I ‘member that.
But he got better, after he lost.
Newspaper seen in my cartoon on McCain.
Brilliant, sir, Brilliant.
I would have thought the paper would dedicate more column inches to Zardoz’s advice section.
Nice really liked the praise of Castro headline.
I’m surprised that the local rag actually covered the ruling. I expected them to quietly bury it.
There have been some twists in the local news. They’ve started including the bad behaviors of the decedent in “cop shoots citizen” stories, though they’re keeping the same template.
A [county] grand jury has declined to indict [cop] for the [date] shooting of [age, town of residence] [decedent]. The [DA] said [cop] used reasonable force and was in fear for his life when [decedent] stabbed him in the face.
^That one was an actual report.
The most recent one was about a [decedent] that was “armed with a knife and a large dog.” AFAICT, the cops did NOT shoot the dog. And the [decedent] threatened to cut the dog’s throat if the cops came any closer, so I’m glad he’s dead. If the reports are accurate.
Has a president ever resigned ?
Oh, yeah but now I’m resigned into believing this one won’t.
He might get the 25th. But not until after the senate is no longer 50-50.
I seriously doubt DOCTOR Jill would let it happen. She’ll have to be dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House at some point.
I’d pay good money to see that.
I’d pay good money to hear a few private conversations between Jill and Kamala.
“I will bitchslap you ho!”
“Oh no you wont bitch!”
DOCTOR Jill Biden reminds me of how Dr. Sanchez introduces himself in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
DOCTOR Sanchez.
Wait..I have more things to say…
“You’re acting like an ape. A wild ape.”
I wonder if I still have my DVD.
I hope Fox News gets tipped to film the perp-walk.
Anyone else read The Last Centurion by John Ringo?
Hopefully by the hair.
As Omicron began storming the country in December, the president and the vice president changed their own masking protocols. At the advice of their personal health advisers, they largely ditched the black surgical masks they previously sported and began wearing KN95’s weeks before the CDC updated their own masking guidance.
The change reflects a dynamic within this White House — one that’s dictated everything from internal operations to the president’s travel schedule and could very well scuttle his ambitions to criss cross the country more this year. They’re terrified of JOE BIDEN getting Covid.
Some current and former White House officials foresee a potential political and policy disaster if the president were to contract the virus, even though he is vaccinated and boosted. Covid protocol critics and vaccine skeptics would have a field day with Biden catching Covid and use it to further undermine trust in the administration’s efforts to combat the pandemic. The 79-year-old president would likely take at least a few days to recover—in addition to placing himself in quarantine—which could exacerbate concerns about his age and health.
Nothing matters but political appearances. That’s what made this nation great.
To be honest, I’d rather see Biden go out from a massive stroke (or a massive head trauma from a tumble) than from the Chinee chickenpox.
As long as the fall down the Air Fore One steps is caught and uploaded to youtube.
Needs catchy background music ala “America’s Funniest Videos”.
Yakety sax.
I’d be perfectly happy if he holed up in a clean-room for the next three years, and took Mrs. I’m the Vice President with him.
I’m a little confused as to which of the presidents is in charge of vice.
I have to think that Hunter has a good chance in that crowd. There’d be a lot of elbowing to get in front though
I’d rather see Biden strangled nearly to death by Hunter in a crack rage, then slowly finished off by Commander’s nibbles, as he lay bleeding out and alone on the floor behind the Resolute Desk.
Of course they’d wear KN95 rather than N95 masks…
“https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-takes-cases-future-affirmative-action/story?id=78255962”
Affirmative action is a great tool to pretend to help minorities by giving the vast majority of beneficiaries access to an ultra-expensive school they are very unlikely to be either qualified or prepared to thrive, let alone succeed, in, all while making them borrow a huge amount of cash from the government to pay for just the first year, so that then they end up failing out disillusioned and destitute, with their chances at success in life drastically reduced.
I highly recommend Mismatch. Pretty much lines up all the damage affirmative action does to its “beneficiaries”.
Open, unrepentant (but polite!) communist has some thoughts on affirmative action.,
Thank you for linking that. That was a very good read and he totally nails it.
That was swell!
And it lets us continue to ignore political landmines like parenting and shitty public schools.
Great way to make more seem voters…
If your were a smart kid who might have succeeded against the odds, only to fail out of Harvard and get into a massive amount of debt, that might make your somewhat resentful, and looking for others to blame.
Has a president ever resigned ?
There was that one guy, but he did it for the good of the country. Don’t get your hopes up.
UCS- in case you didn’t see it at the end of the dead thread.
Check for highway dept webcams along your route to see what the road conditions look like.
I don’t think Maine has any. They get coated with salt, then eaten by moose.
FDA is all over this. Now do the vaccines.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/fda-curbs-antibody-drugs-sidelined-omicron-82448293
“If you would’ve told me two years ago that I would be alienated from the Democratic Party, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Angie Schmitt, a Cleveland writer with two young children, said in an interview.
///WalkAway
“I hated (Donald) Trump and what the administration was doing,” she said. “But I just don’t think people realized what a big deal closing school for a year was.”
Learn to identify propaganda.
Yup. Every time I have talked to one of these recent converts, I welcome them to the flock and ask them why it took them so long. Usually you get a question about what you mean, from them. Then you can point out that most of us picked up that we were being fucking lied to by our experts and government more than 18 months ago, were then accused of being anti-science, deniers, conspiracy theorists, and down right evil for not caring about the poor people affected, but held strong until the liars no longer could keep passing bullshit to those that easily fell for their crap. And then I stress these experts and the political class that wanted to get rid of a guy that was not controlled by their machine, were lying on purpose, for personal gain, and not because they thought their lies would actually be helping the vulnerable or the spread of the disease. Some people get hard red pilled after that while some will be uncomfortable about the fact their delusional world view makes them prone to being taken advantage off. In either case, it is a good thing.
“some will be uncomfortable about the fact their delusional world view makes them prone to being taken advantage [of]”
These people are really Hoffer’s True Believers. They will never change their mindset, just convince themselves that the Top Men were just wrong this once about this one tiny thing, and really want the best for everyone. It’s sad and frustrating to have to share a world with these people.
You know I kinda read that as I’ve been inconvienced and had to deal with my children all day, every day.
^^^ Circle gets the Square!
“I hated (Donald) Trump and what the administration was doing,”
But please don’t bother to provide any specifics.
“I’m just a simple moron animated by party propaganda and hatred of the other.”
Mean tweets bro. Mean. Tweets.
Stupid is as stupid does…
BTW, I bet if you ask her where electricity comes from she will give you a stunned look then answer, everyone knows it comes out of a wall…
One of the comments quotes 1984 and perfectly describes way too many people:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions.
The justices will hear appeals from a conservative student group that has been challenging the use of race as a factor in undergraduate admissions at Harvard University, the nation’s oldest private college, and the University of North Carolina, the nation’s oldest public state university.
Seems cut and dry to me.
Affirmative action is not legally defensible under current circumstances. That doesn’t mean it’s not contentious. In my lifetime (and perhaps even in my parent’s) it’s been one of those things that’s just so. We shall see.
MPR ran a story about how there was no discrimination against Asians since there are disproportionately represented in higher ed.
Some get in so they aren’t excluded.
Just call it reparations and that will solve the dilemma
If you really want to give reparations, end the whole public school racket and let parents pick where they send their kids. There is no more destructive and racist system than the public school system. It has been designed to hold back our elite’s competition, but cause the most harm to minorities. I doubt this solution will help all minorities, but at least it will give the people that know and want better a chance.
Not public schools.
Government schools.
People that defend things like affirmative action are people that believe two wrongs equals a right. Yeah, you can say this is just stupid, but I tend to believe there is more evil than stupid involved in that sort of shit.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan, who is presiding over the case, announced that “Ms. Palin had tested positive for coronavirus” just as her case was about to get underway Monday.
“She is, of course, unvaccinated,” Rakoff added.
Of course.
Depraved indifference.
Motion for a change of judge, filed.
Judicial ethics violation complaint, filed.
Have either actually been filed?
O f course not. That’s just what I would do.
So much
condensationcondescension.The prerogative of the self-righteous.
There are plenty of “the Elect” that believe healthcare should be withheld from “the Unclean”. Now everyone else gets to see how they have been treating smokers for the last 30-odd years.
But don’t dare suggest that the obese bear any responsibility for any of their health issues.
“Beautiful at any size”! Right, Tres?
Sarah Palin dined at NYC restaurant two days before testing positive for Covid
And? No one is “vaccinated” because it is not a vaccine.
The former Alaska governor is not vaccinated, a judge said Monday.
And? What business is this for the court?
None and none. He’s tainting the jury pool (assuming that a jury is involved) or just trying to sway public perception. Incredibly unprofessional, at any rate.
Rolling Stone
@RollingStone
“They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young,” Neil Young wrote in a letter to his manager and label, “Not both.” Young demands Spotify remove his music over “false information about vaccines”
https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1485757517523308548
I’m pretty sure Rogan gets a shitload more streams than Neil Young music nowadays.
While he’s at it, let’s see Neil make that offer to Gaia too.
♪♫ “Old man look at your life…”
“I’ve seen the needle and the damage done…”
What happened to you, Neil?
Well…. bye
The worst of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young has spoken. Fuck that fucking guy and his shitty voice.
He has his swimming pool full of boomer bucks and his new squeeze to keep him warm. Whatta cunte. Threw over his wife that helped raise their kids, including a developmentally disabled one for Daryl Hannah. The hypocrisy from this guy would scare buzzards off a shit-wagon. Fuck you Neil, you haven’t made anything good since the 70’s.
Um, what about when he partnered up to jam with Pearl Jam 25 years ago to show how relevant he still was?
Fuck you Neil, you haven’t made anything good since
the 70’syou first picked up a guitar.Not every Boomer thinks this guy was a genius, even if he was a Canadian.
Thank god someone else will say it. I struggle to think of a more overrated musician on this planet. Jack White maybe?
THIS
The problem with far too many of these 60s&70s icons is that their output was based on their awakening from the callow self-interests of the teenage mind into a world where life just might be about more than the immediate satisfaction of your gross desires/appetites, the universe was mysterious, being an adult wasn’t nearly as much fun as you thought it would be and your precious existence will come to an end someday. The same awakening that hundreds of generations before the Boomers also experienced, yet when (ferinstance, and yeah I know I’m opening up a can of worms here) Joni Mitchell sings The Circle Game we’re all just so enchanted with her and her “genius,” while the Psalmist came to the same conclusions thirty-odd centuries ago (and that’s just someone who was fortunate enough to have his or her ruminations written down for future generations to discover).
Boomers and their singer spokespeople’s world-views are one of the things I spend time apologizing for to my nieces and nephews. The Western pop/rock/punk/whatever music of the 1980s was far more creative, and at least it was honest when it was being materialistic.
Yeah, I said it.
Circle Game isn’t a brilliant insight, it is a brilliant vocal performance – both her original rendition and her later, lower-octave version.
He made a lot of good music way back when and I was a huge fan. Mind you, I was still a teen so take that for what it’s worth. I find him nearly unlistenable nowadays. Pardon me, I need to change out this onion hanging from my belt.
Mr. Van Zant and chums said all the needed to be said about Mr. Young back in 1973.
https://youtu.be/6GxWmSVv-cY
Apocalypse porn
Seattle doctors say hospitals are reaching their breaking points as they deal with a crush of COVID-19 patients amid the latest surge fueled by the omicron variant.
Between Jan. 13 and Jan. 19, there has been an average of 64 new hospitalizations per day with a total of 449 during the week, according to county health department data.
This is a 460% increase from the 80 hospitalizations that were occurring over a one-week period just a month ago.
Additionally, 19.9 per 100,000 residents have been hospitalized over the seven-day period, according to health data.
As of this weekend, UW Medicine — which has four hospitals across its system — reported more than 200 COVID-19 patients for the first time ever.
By comparison, at the end of November, there were about 30 patients infected with the virus across the system, according to Dr. John Lynch, an infectious disease expert at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and UW Medicine medical lead for the COVID-19 response.
“I think we’re closer now to a crisis — like a true crisis in health care — we’re closer than we’ve ever been during this entire pandemic,” Lynch told ABC News.
He said this is due to several factors, including the number of patients getting sick, hospitals reaching capacity, an exhausted health care workforce and the frustration of COVID patients being admitted to hospitals who are unvaccinated.
Those hospitals would be empty if not for HighlyContagiousUbertron!
Bring back double masking
Not what I expected/ X-Men fan
You wanted hot Darkseid/Granny Goodness action? (confused former comic shop manager)
I would read an article about being a comic shop manager.
How many were admitted because they had COVID?
How many have been discharged? The sleight of hand makes it sound like they are just piling up in hospitals, not, like every patient, coming and (eventually) going.
Who the hell knows?
The CDC has made the data difficult to obtain and interpret. By design of course.
The only person I know who was put in the hospital for covid got out the next day. He has a plethora of health problems and is hospitalized 3-4 times a year on average. He is vaxxed.
Seattle has vax passports, masking in schools and all indoor locations and one of the highest vax rates in the country.
We all know the restaurant’s real sin was allowing Ms. Palin in the door, regardless of her vax status.
Just like the judge is offended by her presence on his docket as anything other than a defendant.
The left really wishes it could permanently banish or end those people that hurt the left’s narrative and expose the whole thing as a criminal enterprise. It’s really as simple as that.
But not before they learn to love Big Brother.
As they pointed out in 1984. Disappearing the resisters before breaking them and making them love big brother doesn’t have the same satisfaction factor.
How many fingers do you see?!?
At least they are not asking you “How many fingers do you feel up your ass” cause that might be even more humiliating for some…
Enh. 3-4% like that butt stuff.
“Wiggle them again, I’m not sure yet!”
You can always avoid the rules if you are wealthy enough.
President Biden’s approval rating has tanked to a new low of just 39 percent as his administration contends with a number of domestic and global concerns, a new poll shows.
No chance it is close to that high.
“This is a new low for President Biden as he struggles to solve a myriad of issues,” pollster Mark Penn said, according to the report.
Curiously the issue were mostly caused by the admin.
“But I just don’t think people realized what a big deal closing school for a year was.”
Sounds to me like she’s mostly just mad about losing the free daycare.
*did not RTFA
This may be paywalled, but if anything meets the definition of neoliberal apologia for war, this is it.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-last-liberal
Should we care? Yes. Should we start WWIII because our government supported a coup 10 years ago? Nah.
I love this part. The hubris drips off of it and he avoids the question masterfully.
“principles are flexible” and “must be adapted”
Um, what?
In other words, the elites will decide when, where, and with how much force the “principles” will be applied. Don’t worry yourself about it, just give them your support for their noble undertaking of saving the ignorant deplorables from themselves.
I call bullshit. You should care about things you can actually do something about. There is absolutely nothing sacrosanct about the current borders of countries and like fucking climate – they change throughout history. So the infantile mindset that thinks what is now must always be needs to be called out for exactly what it is.
Very much this. ‘Caring’ about things that you can’t afffect turns you into an anxiety-riden mess.
“So the infantile mindset that thinks what is now must always be needs to be called out for exactly what it is.”
G. K. Chesterton would have a word with you about a fence.
That’s not really what I’m speaking to – they aren’t dealing with that kind of reality, but a reality they imagine.
Killing random strangers isn’t *always* bad.
Well, that settles it.
Nuke Moscow. It’s the only way to be sure.
Colonizer! Cancel that man, post-haste! What the fuck would he know about people from the East craving Western values? Has he ever met an Orthodox Christian? Fucking world builders will be the death of us all.
You know, if we really believed in Western values and in Western civilization, maybe we shouldn’t have toppled the previous Ukrainian president and installed a regime that the Russians were never going to find acceptable over a trade deal.
New York judge strikes down state mask mandate ruling that Gov. Kathy Hochul overstepped her authority in imposing a rule that needed to have been passed by the state legislature
Still wouldn’t legitimize it imho.
That would require a different case in front of a court to show why it was unconstitutional even for the NY congress to do something like that….
Tard Tuesday: WAR, IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE
Putin, PUTIN, P-U-T-I-N!!!!
/Xi’s sockpuppets
Hope? Who in the hell hopes for that? Why can’t these morons ever deal with real people in the real world? It is only the voices in their head they argue with.
Dunno. I think I would enjoy giving you a humiliating beating, then watching the cops drag you off. The cavity search before you get booked in gives me a bit of a chuckle, too.
This is what we get from years of Russian collusion bullshit.
So much this.
I understand they’re frustrated. Their guys were too clever by half. They thought they were going to pull a fast one and “take” the Ukraine out of Putin’s orbit. But, they pretty much always only had their pecker in their hand. They, rightly, weren’t willing to fight over it. Putin was. And they looked utterly ridiculous, like anyone coming to a fight with their pecker in their hand would. They couldn’t have admitted their plan had an obvious failing (it was negated by an adversary willing to fight) and so they’ve spent the last eight years sulking with their bruised egos and demanding that Putin make their fast one work the way they wanted to.
I don’t want Putin to “win” against America. I just don’t want to get into a contest where there is a winner and a loser between us and another nuclear armed power. And the only ones who really seem to be making this one are them and the people they support.
I’m pretty sure Russia, in all of its iterations, traces its legitimacy to the Kievan Rus while the concept of Ukraine as a sovereign state only dates to the 1990s. I don’t know why anyone would expect Russia to abandon an important part of Russia.
Russian control of Sevastopol dates to the 18th century.
Our geniuses at State thought they could end that arrangement and nothing would happen.
Maybe I’m the idiot, IDK, but from a realpolitik perspective, wouldn’t it make more sense to strengthen ties with Russia as a hedge against the PRC?
If nothing else, it would make more sense not to drive them into the arms of the PRC.
I’ve never heard anyone explain with any clarity exactly why it is in America’s interest to encircle Russia and put military pressure on them.
Do they actually think that putting nuclear tipped Tomahawk missiles five minutes from Moscow is going to improve the stability of the world?
Because the guys doing these decisions think they’re God’s gift to the world. They think they’re the cleverest ones in the room and they can outwit anyone who comes down the pike. They think that they can pull whatever fast ones they want and everyone’s just going to go along with it because they’re just so damned smart. Encircle Russia and put military pressure on them? Sure why the hell not. Those old guys who said that might not be such a wise move were just a bunch of old white guys who weren’t nearly as enlightened or sophisticated as our new elite. Probably slave owners, even.
They believe coercion is what keeps citizens in line, so why not countries?
Except they don’t really have the wherewithal for coercion. That’s why I said they came out with their peckers in their hands. They’ve made abundantly clear that they aren’t going to war with Russia (Biden even greenlighted Nord Stream II just a couple of months ago). Once that’s decided the rest is just sound and fury signifying nothing. Putin understands that. I don’t think these guys do. And that might actually make the situation more dangerous than it might otherwise be.
And in reality, the vast majority of these idiots have little taste for real coercion more locally. Oh, there are the truly bloody-minded few, but most can’t understand why anyone would resist.
Big missile, little dick?
Maybe the judge in Palin v NYT will order her into a plexiglass Eichmann Booth in the courtroom, so she doesn’t kill everyone with her unvaxxed metatoxins.
She’s the same age as me and I would welcome my unvaxxed metatoxins.
My kids attend two different NY schools. One sent an email saying masks were optional today, the other left a message saying ruling will be overturned so mask still mandatory.
I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think that’s how rulings are supposed to work.
Both my kids’ schools are still requiring masks. I also, just 10 minutes ago, got a text informing me that a student in son’s 2 grade class just tested positive. Son will given 2 free tests to take home. One test for tonight, one for 5 days from now. If he is negative on tonight’s test, he can go to school for 5 days then test again. We really aren’t that far removed from Theodoric of York Medieval Barber
This is what happens when people with education degrees try their hands at public health policy.
I’m coming to the conclusion that “public health” is like macroeconomics, useless at best, incredibly destructive at worst.
Perhaps if they limited themselves to clean water and sewage systems.
^^^^
I think I came to that conclusion in the early 2000s. Ever since the SARS and H1N1 scares early in this century, I have been convinced that it was only a matter of time before the public health mechanisms would be abused badly in the way that 9/11 led to DHS and the known abuses of liberty it has enabled. It took less time than I expected.
‘Public’.
It ruins everything.
Exhibitionists disagree.
Scruffy, I’m surprised at you. You know there is no such thing as “public” health. Did “Public” have a fever today? What did Public’s doctor say?
It’s just like putting “public” in front of “restroom”, “education”, or “servant.” It’s all the same.
The “public” is nothing more than a construct – it doesn’t fucking have “health” short of the aggregate of every individual’s personal situation, which is treated case-by-case.
It’s all a giant mindfuck of propaganda that we’ve all fallen for. Same-same for “society’s” needs… the sleight of hand has already happened the minute you even agree to talk in those terms.
I’d say record the second message and share that with Fox or another friendly news org.
That is sort of the governor’s position – they immediately appealed the court decision which supposedly means that her illegal mandates are “still in effect”.
Frankly I think at this point there is enough confusion in the air and disgust in every quarter not filled with Karxns that you can probably tell the elites to blow it up their ass.
they immediately appealed the court decision which supposedly means that her illegal mandates are “still in effect”.
That rather depends on whether the lower court decision was stayed pending appeal. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren’t. Its not automatic.
Who knows?! But good point.
US orders 8,500 troops on heightened alert for potential Europe deployment amid Russia concerns
Nothing distracts the plebs like a war.
The Pentagon ordered 8,500 troops on higher alert to potentially deploy to Europe as part of a NATO “response force” amid growing concern that Russia could soon make a military move on Ukraine. President Joe Biden consulted with key European leaders, underscoring U.S. solidarity with allies there.
Obviously we have to ensure Ukrainian territorial integrity. But fuck US border integrity.
It has to do with whether we still believe in Western values and in Western civilization—and if we really think those values and that civilization are worth defending and sacrificing for.
Let’s impose those “values” by force on countries with no evident desire for them. That’s what freedom and democracy mean.
Good grief. KDW goes ahead and drops the mask (literally). Vaccine travel mandates for the public good. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/against-covid-theater-for-vaccine-pressure/
National Review has not gone out of business yet?
Go fuck yourself Kevin. If you’re scared, stay home.
vaccinated people who suffer from breakthrough infections are less infectious than non-vaccinated people are.
Well there’s an assertion without evidence.
He cites a study. Let’s see if you can spot the problem with it.
“The” problem? I see about four, and I know little about study design.
True. I was going for the applicability of a study on virus strains that no longer exist though.
As if covid vaccines would be the last restriction imposed on domestic travel.
Heh – Somebody is keeping National Review afloat? This kind of back-stabbing crap is why they turned off their comments section and lost almost all their readers. There are conservative blogs getting more hits than NRO these days.
Comments are on this piece of drivel.
90% are calling him out for baseless assertions and swallowing the narrative.
He’s lost what little respect I had for him during the plague years.
He’s old and scared.
He really should have fit in better at the Atlantic.
Vaccines are not magic, and they have proved more effective at preventing hospitalization and death than they have at preventing transmission of the virus per se. But relieving pressure on health systems and reducing transmission, even modestly, is a very great benefit.
Yes, ignore the impact of firing healthcare workers with natural immunity.
And ignore the data coming out of Denmark and Israel that suggests the vaccines are now causing more cases and hospitalizations.
And completely ignore the different risk/benefit ratios at different age groups.
In China, Fight Club has a different ending: instead of Ed Norton blowing up buildings, he’s arrested by the state. Lord of War too: instead of evading justice Nicholas Cage is…arrested by the state.
Can’t quite put my finger on the pattern
https://twitter.com/gerryshih/status/1485596952721256448
Actually, that kind of lines up with the books.
Did you see they’ve gone to sequels in comics? I think they were up to Fight Club 3 last time I was at a comic store.
Yes, I read the Fight Club 2 graphic novel. It is terrible. I haven’t tried 3.
The pandemic is over!
We won!
Let the war begin!
It’s dumb!
‘We did it, Joe.”
*cackles*
*shudders*
I have never fought in a war, but my veteran friends assure me it is much more disruptive and unpleasant than receiving a free, safe, effective vaccination against a potentially deadly infection.
Eat shit and die, Williamson.
Effective? I hope it is safer than it is effective.
And FREE? When did conservatives start believing in free lunches?
It is the European conservative way. US conservatives are just getting more civilized. Like opposing guns and being for free healthcare
a free, safe, effective vaccination against a potentially deadly infection.
Except it’s not a vaccine, it’s not safe, and it’s not effective. I’d prefer to take my vitamins to boost my natural immunity.
Its also not free.
If I don’t pay for it it’s “free”, right?
– average voter
Got a bunch more texts from one of my group chats with Matt from Gourmeltz and others about folks getting forced out, Delta dudes with myo, and a lot of related tissues. Reserves are purging a lot of folks this qay.
That sucks.
I hate all this bullshit.
I have been going back and re-watching the original Transformers cartoon. In an episode I watched this morning the Transformer’s computer, Teletran 1, was damaged and began saying random things. One thing it said was the quote from 1984 about the the chocolate rations being increased.
I didn’t get to it yet in this watch-through, but there is also an episode with Middle Eastern country named Carbombia.
Cobra commander used to tell people to watch out for his spitting cobra?
Lebanon.
Rock ‘n roll.
“They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young,” Neil Young wrote in a letter to his manager and label, “Not both.” Young demands Spotify remove his music over “false information about vaccines”
Covid propaganda has broken people.
I heard Neil Young whine about him.
I heard Neil Young put Joe down.
Neil Young should remember,
Spotify don’t need him around anyhow.
Baby, it’s cold outside. My truck said it was -19 deg F.
/global warming
Last week it was -20 on my way home, tried to stop for gas, but the pump declined all my cards; went back later when it was warmer and everything was fine. Luckily I had enough gas to wait until later.
Cold cash only.
This morning, during my 3:30 AM sleep mode malfunction, I turned on the teevee news. Good grief, it’s nonstop terrorporn. The stories, the ads… everything will kill you.There is no risk too remote to work yourself into a lather over.
Household pets are a grave risk to your family’s health and wellbeing.
Ticks! Mosquitoes
Sledding. There was this little girl who hit some sort of post and suffered life threatening injuries! It happened to her. It will happen to your precious babies.
It’s impossible to keep track of he deadly threats which surround us.
Don’t leave the house without a helmet.
I feel like it’s an improvement to return to the old standby local news terrors like sledding and Halloween apples with pins in htem.
*thinks back to all the near misses I had while sledding*
“Damn that was fun. Let’s go again!”
“Don’t leave the house
without a helmet.” Just stay home and watch the news, they’ll give you all the socially acceptable excuses you’ll need to do nothing with your life.The Stanford drug story is sad, but then they go and make me hate them by suing for no good reason.
Reminds me of a woman who was hit by a train on a bridge.
They were filming a movie and the director didn’t clear it with the train company.
A train came rolling through and they were unable to get off the tracks in time.
She sued the film company and director, I’m with her there.
She also sued the train company, kind of lost my sympathy for her then.
Seems legit.
So, if you’re unvaccinated in Quebec and walk into big box store you will need to be accompanied by an employee who will make sure you’re not there to buy socks or a toaster oven.
SCIENCE!!!
It isn’t feeling quite apocalyptic enough these days.
Pennsylvania Woman Who Came in Contact with CDC Monkeys After Crash Is Experiencing Cold-Like Symptoms, Pink-Eye and a Cough
super
She’s getting rabies shots because a monkey hissed at her? Bullshit.
Hypochondria is a real and tragic thing.
Yeah, complete load of crap. Further:
1) Rabies symptoms are not pink eye and a cough
2) If you’re showing symptoms at all of rabies, it’s too late and you’re dead.
Bullshit, I’m just too lazy to write up the Too Local article on it.
There is the Milwaukee Protocol:
https://www.mcw.edu/-/media/MCW/Departments/Pediatrics/Infectious-Diseases/Milwaukee_protocol.pdf?la=en
but you ain’t the same person coming out the other side if you even manage.
OK, “If you’re showing symptoms at all of rabies, it’s too late and you’re dead… unless you win the lottery.”
Better?
Good summation
If she starts feeling like she wants to eat bananas and climb trees do we have to worry about “Planet of the Apes” coming true?
YAY! We’re finally gonna get our zombie apocalypse. We all know it’s supposed to start in PA.
When I attended a major university in the centre of PA, my GF at the time was in biochemistry and told me of the “secret” basement floor in one of the buildings that housed all manner of live test subjects. They tried to keep an extremely low profile to avoid protests against monkey research. I sometimes fancied it would be the start of something big.
This started out as a fun story, damnit. Then the CDC and state troopers shot the escaped monkeys and clammed up in response to all questions. Now it’s a terror story.
I’ll forget about it in a week.
I’m guessing that the monkeys were being transported illegally and without regard for all of the bazillion regulations that the CDC requires for everyone except themselves.
Almost certainly; no one can follow all the pertinent regulations in place at any given time for any given action.
The Brooklyn hardware store I once worked at still has about 100 gallons of genuine Red Lead marine bottom paint in a partitioned section of the basement. Thanks to a combination of FedGov, StateGov, and NYCGov regulations, it can’t be transported or disposed of.
I wonder if it could be stolen. A convenient outage of security cameras…
Jesus! I feel a caper brewing… that stuff is like chloridians to boat owners, just mind that one vat.
I do dream about the Hawaiian Shirt Adventures of Lolbot and Festus, though.
#metoo
I would love, love, love to have that Dodge Power Wagon. https://youtu.be/aClyUL_Amfw
This sounds more like The Stand.
This sounds more like The Stand.
I was expecting this.
I wish people would stop licking random monkeys
Outbreak from the Virus’ perspective.
At the time it came out I made a joke about them being from one of Fauci’s projects but I didn’t think it would be real!
Another conspiracy theory comes true.
I’m just surprised at how low the turnaround time is getting.
Titty Tuesday brings some strokin’ material for Festus:
https://archive.fo/XegGn
and (((babes))) with guns.
https://archive.md/TmlHX
You know my weakness too well, Q! I’d break under even the threat of torture.
CRAZY—When 7 Wisconsin hospital workers quit to work at another hospital for better pay & work/life balance, the 1st hospital didn’t try to match the 2nd hospital’s offer. It instead got a judge to issue a temporary order blocking the workers from leaving.
https://twitter.com/greenhousenyt/status/1485355704651337730
Libertarians will not admit it, but this is what happens with unregulated private healthcare
“In the complaint, lawyers for ThedaCare wrote that Ascension had “shockingly” chosen to “poach” the employees during a stressful time for health care. More COVID-19 patients are hospitalized in the Fox Valley now than at any other time during the pandemic, according to Wisconsin Hospital Association data, and ThedaCare has canceled non-emergency surgeries to make space. ”
Poaching should be illegal
I wouldn’t go THAT far. Never the less, steaming or braising are better in my opinion.
Is it poaching if you’re hungry and with your Dad?
“Go out and put the spears in the truck, suckers should be running tonight”
huh, missed it by *that* much
Huh. I thought “adscriptus glebae” was gone with the 13th and 14th Amendments.
I thought that was gone with the discovery of penicillin.
*golf clap*
Of course, they will provide exactly as much care with their new employer as they did with their old. One searches in vain for the “public interest” here, In fact, the judge has managed to remove them from the health care workplace entirely, because there is a healthcare worker shortage crisis.
There’s a reason for the joke “What do you call the guy at the bottom of his law schools class? Your honor.”
Also, possibly, “Mr. President.”
Wait… are you stealing Winston’s shtick now?
This is basically clickbait.
The “temporary order” was on a Monday to a Sunday.
Yes they will win over this ridiculous legal action and be allowed to change jobs.
Maybe he just sucks
Arizona Democrats are growing increasingly alarmed that the drama surrounding Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will make it harder for her counterpart, Sen. Mark Kelly, to win re-election in November.
It’s an unintended side effect stemming from the intra-party outrage that Sinema kicked up after her decision last week to block a major voting rights bill that sits atop President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda.
Now, Sinema is the talk of Grand Canyon State politics when Democrats very much would rather the focus be on Kelly, ahttps://www.businessinsider.com/kyrsten-sinema-filibuster-democrats-mark-kelly-arizona-senate-race-2022-1 former astronaut running in a tough 2022 midterm cycle where Republicans need to pick up just one Senate seat to win back the majority.
“I do think that Kyrsten Sinema is making it significantly more difficult for Mark Kelly to get re-elected,” said one Arizona Democratic Party official, who requested anonymity to speak bluntly about the race.
Maybe Arizonians who are not members of the Inner Party want to dump the anti gun ass kissing yes-man on his own merits.
looking at the picture in the article the chick seems to have better sucking lips than the dude
Yes, please.
That’s the Newspeak Dictionary definition for a gun control freak, I guess.
harder for her counterpart, Sen. Mark Kelly, to win re-election in November
I hope so. He is a nullity, a vote for whatever the machine tells him to vote for. A crooked crony capitalist, on top of it.
It all comes down to who the Repubs put up against him. He should be very beatable.
I am amused at the pics they choose, and how they change over time. When Sinema was a fave, they were always flattering. Now, not so much.
RC Dean, have you seen the Wisconsin case where one hospital system tried to hire a number of employees away from another, with better pay and benefits, it was sued by the first hospital, and a judge has issued an injunction denying the ability of “at-will” employees to leave employment with the first hospital?
Yeah. Judge be stupid, yo. Unfortunately, that injunction will take time to overturn. I can’t imagine there’s a defensible legal basis for it.
I looked up the case. There was a hearing yesterday, and the “additional text” on the
public records says “Court finds that ThedaCare has not met their burden. Court removes
Injunction and denies request for relief by ThedaCare.”
The case was filed on the 20th, as was a motion for a temporary restraining order.
The court then scheduled a hearing for the 24th, which is pretty fast. At that
hearing the judge removed the injunction. I wouldn’t say the judge was stupid.
The point of a TRO is to preserve the status quo and give some time to figure
out what’s going on.
The point of a TRO is to preserve the status quo and give some time to figure out what’s going on.
But the standard for a TRO is a high likelihood of success on the merits (which was nonexistent). And it didn’t preserve the status quo ante of these people being ThedaCare employees. Instead, it removed them from the workforce altogether.
The judge still did a stupid, IMO.
Good to know the situation is corrected so far! It still should be regarded as a mistake.
Since this involves directly the potential compensation of these individuals, could any party (including the state) be held liable for lost wages?
Fuck that fucking guy and his shitty voice.
No kidding. He sounds like an animal with his leg in a trap.
looking at the picture in the article the chick seems to have better sucking lips than the dude
She also wears thigh high boots, to better enable her to navigate the Senatorial bullshit.
She has a lot in common with AOC in one important way:
She is a brand. Being Senator is just a brand extension, just like being a Rep is AOC’s brand extension. Other than being photogenic, what does either really bring to the job? Sure, Sinema’s current brand is a remake of McCain’s “Maverick Arizona Senator” schtick, but don’t kid yourself.
Democrats know this:
He who controls the MILFs, controls the world!
Amen brotha..
The comely MILFS in yoga pants control the world in my estimation. “Yes, Dear”
Arthur Chu
@arthur_affect
I want constant mandatory testing for total awareness of where the virus is and uncompromising elimination of infection via total quarantine of the infected
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1485812660889210882
Arthur can shove his test swabs up his fat ass.
I want a flying car, a thousand acre estate, and a harem of beautiful women.
Mandatory tests for everyone and bullets for those who refuse to quarantine. Who the hell is that loser?
And if HE is found to be a reservoir it’s ok to terminate him?
I want constant mandatory testing for total awareness of where the virus is and uncompromising elimination of infection via total quarantine of the infected
And I want self-absorbed idiots like you to shut the fuck up and go away, but here we are.
They have gone away – they congregate on Twitter. It would be really nice if we stopped paying attention to them.
Is it a respirator virus or The Blob?
What a dangerously ignorant asshole.
I want constant mandatory testing for total awareness of where the virus is and uncompromising elimination of infection via total quarantine of the infected
Good for you.
Life attempts to return to normal, first day the son was allowed back at day care meaning both the wife and I can return to work. If I could put pictures in a comment I’d post Libertarian Candidate Joe Exotic saying “I’m never going to financially recover from this”
https://nypost.com/2022/01/25/navy-sailors-injured-in-landing-mishap-on-uss-carl-vinson/
Oh yeah, we’re ready for war with Russia.
🙄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuMe5RvxPQ&t=25s
Eh — without knowing details I’m leaning towards giving them a pass on this one. Carrier trap incidents happen, it is inherently dangerous. Should sailors have been injured? Probably not (my best guess skimming it since the pilot ejected into the drink was a missed trap perhaps due to a snapped arrestor cable and the cable is what injured the sailors? Because surely they weren’t standing in the landing path trusting in the trap — if so, yeah… that would be really, really stupid…)
Eggs, omelet, MIC bucks.
The pilot of the F-35 Lighting II warplane was recovered by a helicopter after ejecting and is in stable condition. …
The status of the Lockheed Martin-made F-35, estimated to cost around $94 million, is unclear.
I assume it crashed and burned.
The Russians have no idea what their in for if the go against our Army!
Cuck.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/4470913/brother-in-law-baby-real-dad/
Slutty women make the world go round..
Depends where you stand on the cock/cuck axis. Never happened to me but that shit is usually earth-shattering for the spurned one regardless of gender. No beuno.
No stone shall be left unturned.
Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said: “We’ve had conversations with the former attorney general already. We have talked to Department of Defense individuals.” …
“We are concerned that our military was part of this big lie on promoting that the election was false,” Thompson said. “So, if you are using the military to potentially seize voting machines, even though it’s a discussion, the public needs to know — we’ve never had that before.” …
Thompson said the Jan. 6 committee did not have proof that “an operational plan” to seize voting machines was developed.
“The draft itself is reason enough to believe that it was being proposed,” he said. “Our job is to get to the facts and circumstances of how far did they go.”
No, your job is to perpetuate the narrative because it is all you have going into the midterms.
They can just taste the power. Just a little further and they’ll have it all, they know it.
They’ve got Trump this time! The Walls Are Closing In!
“We can’t prove he’s a pig fucker.”
“I know that,” replied Johnson. “I just want to hear him deny it.”
Considering the love/hate hops are shown here, I thought some of you might enjoy this.
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2022/01/london-x-ales-hops-1880-1899.html
On Instagram, I’m inundated with ads for various brands of “hop water”, seltzer flavored with different hops. I like hops, but I can’t stand seltzer.
There’s also a couple companies doing hop tea, hopped still water (sometimes with a touch of tea with it).
Oooh… I would try hopped tea; that sounds like a good use for hops.
You can also make your own hop tea. It was used as a folk remedy for restlessness and insomnia. You can also make hop tinctures to add the flavor of hops to other things.
/realizes he should go check where his cookbook focused on hops is
And now I’m craving a 120 Minute IPA.
60 minute is okay, 90 minute is great, 120 is okay.
I HAVE DECREED IT SO.
120 is my favorite as I can sip one slowly over an hour or so and then fall fast asleep.
I like the 120, but can only drink 2 in a row.
I’ve had carbonated hopped tea (blanking on the brand). Not bad at all. Mild, refreshing, and it scratches the beer itch when I shouldn’t oughta be drinking.
It just came to me.
Hoplark.
At some point…
Just got a heads up that Loudoun County Schools are punishing kids who don’t wear masks by putting them in the equivalent of a rubber room without access to instruction.
Teachers insisting kids wear masks regardless of the Governor’s order and saying wait until SCOTUS decision.
…it’s time to grab your pitchforks.
@LCPSOfficial is having people patrol the hallways, removing maskless kids from class, and sending them to a separate location.
Epically bad decision from Title IX Officer Scott Ziegler. #LoudounCounty
Ah, the subject of a Matt Taibbi four-part investigative report and they still haven’t got a clue.
Swiss, I submitted something last night.
Scheduled.
I’m not Swiss, but thanks.
I have to decide whether to hit submit or delete on a peice.
peice?
Really, peice? That is what you went with?
That wasn’t a typo, that is what I decided was the correct spelling before I hit post.
This is why I am so slow at writing articles. Stupid engineering brain.
Today is my son’s first day at the new daycare. He was awesome all yesterday on the flight down and even sleeping at our new digs without an issue. Of course, he wasn’t too happy during drop off.
It’s really rewarding being a father, but much harder in someways than I thought it would be. Hoping my wife arrives soon.
Packed everything up over the past few days and had the movers come (thieves, but what can we do?) Not sure when they’re expecting to get here, had a small disagreement about price…
Cue Funny Farm Clip I can’t find.
Do your mean that Napoleon the 14th song?
I wouldn’t trust the bastards not to hold your goods for ransom. Speaking from painful experience.
“You might be interested to know that my guns aren’t in your van. Now, when can I expect delivery?”
That’s exactly what was happening. What made it worse was I had a flight in an hour, so we really didn’t have time to negotiate anything.
I called AmEx before I paid the moving company and told them what was happening and that I would be disputing the charge. They pre-cleared me to both pay and contest the charge, thus I got my goods delivered and eventually prevailed on only paying the contracted amount. Allied took the overcharges up the ass.
They was smart. They did legitimately do some extra work which we were happy to pay for, but added on a billion dollars for wrapping and handling charges for things that were already on the quote.
I am already paying you to handle it! Grumbles.
It’s not like congress has any role here.
The Biden administration is withholding a “secret agreement” with Iran from Congress as negotiations over a revamped nuclear deal continue in Vienna, according to two Republican lawmakers.
Reports emerged late Friday that Russia proposed an interim nuclear deal to Iran with the knowledge of U.S. officials. The deal would reportedly lift some sanctions on Iran in exchange for a limited set of restrictions on the country’s nuclear program. Russia offered the deal to Iran on the sidelines of ongoing negotiations in Vienna, according to NBC News, which first reported on the document. Tehran is said to have rejected the interim deal, saying that it prefers a large-scale agreement that will provide it with billions in cash windfalls. Republican lawmakers say details of the agreement are being kept from Congress.
“Russia sent a secret agreement to Iran,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon on Friday during a press call. “Russia is trying to take the lead now in the negotiations with Iran. This is a secret agreement. We haven’t seen it.”
https://twitter.com/FlyingFastNLow/status/1485990681869013005
We already stuck our dick in but we appear to be too stupid to pull it out.
Followed. Follow Back?
Follaback Glib
Lol, is that a hornet’s nest?
yuuuuup
War analogies are ok when we do it.
Cross was discussing alleged Trump election interference with Democrat state representative Jasmine Crockett, who is running for Congress in Texas, during Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s “The Cross Connection” when the duo speculated about how to fend off Republicans who could object to future results. …
Crockett responded that “the role that Black women play in democracy” isn’t talked about enough by the media, but she will fight for them in the ongoing “war” against people who oppose liberal viewpoints.
“So there’s a bigger story that I think is brewing, and that is that Black women have consistently fought for our democracy on every single level,” Crockett said. “And I think that Black women will continue to fight for our democracy. And that’s exactly what I plan to do. I don’t plan to give up. I know that I wouldn’t be here but for those that fought before me, so I’m going to continue this fight. We can’t let up. If we say we’ve been defeated, then they have won. This is a war. This isn’t a battle, and we absolutely will win this war.” …
MSNBC’s “The Cross Connection” namesake host agreed that it’s a “war,” and took the analogy a step further.
“It is indeed a war. And I have to say, they have won some battles, Jasmine, but we have to keep our eye on the war. And everybody needs to pick up a weapon and get involved because this is for the safety and lasting of the country,” Cross said.
Uh huh. She speaks for all black women about like I speak for all white men. I’d love to see her face to face with Candace Owens.
I still want to see Joy Reid debate Winsome Sears.
^
If someone were so rude as to wag their finger in my face I would be hard pressed to refrain from breaking off said digit and shoving it right up their loud mouthed asshole.
I’m sure Putin takes you seriously.
Vice President Kamala Harris warned Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine on Tuesday, in an interview in Wisconsin.
“If Russia and Vladimir Putin violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine there’s going to be serious consequences, and we’re very clear about that,” Harris told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday.
Harris’ comment is the highest level response from the administration on the escalating tensions in Ukraine since President Joe Biden commented on the issue last week.
Russian diplomat: “Vlad, Kamala Harris has strongly warned us about Ukraine.”
Putin: “Who?”
Instead of creating a new superhero they are appropriating old ones?
Not a new trend… Jane Foster Thor… Ironheart…
Now is not the time to give up the charade because muh-science.
Bolduan asked, “What do you think about lifting school mask mandates right now?”
Hotez said, “Well, look, this is the most highly transmissible variant we’ve seen. We’ve got something on the order of measles, and therefore, if you start lifting mask mandates now, you’re basically condemning all the kids to get infected with Omicron and — and having to live with those consequences, which means some kids have to be hospitalized or possibly worse. So it makes no sense to lift mask mandates at this point. It makes every bit of sense to maximize vaccinations because we know that’s having a huge impact, especially the boosters, on reducing hospitalizations reducing emergency room visits by quite a bit. So if you’ve only gotten two doses of the vaccine, you need that third dose to stay out of the hospital and the emergency room, point one, and we need to max out vaccinating our kids, and we’re just not doing that nationally, and therefore, we invite Omicron to continue to — to linger. And so, you know, we should talk about this like it’s out of our hands. It’s every bit in our hands to get rid of Omicron, you know, out of the country right now.”
That’s not how it works. And the kids should all get *insert scare-iant*.
Well, she does have her fist balled up so she really, really means it.
Putin knows better than to challenge a woman when she’s serious, he’ll get what’s coming to him whether he likes it or not.
/Kamala calls Rev Sharpton, asks him how he liked her being all presidential and stuff.
“If Russia and Vladimir Putin violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine there’s going to be serious consequences, and we’re very clear about that,” Harris told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday.
“It’s going on your Permanent Record, young man.”
Triple secret sanctions.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/shot-show-a-bullpup-glock-rifle-from-meta-tactical/
I think I’ll pass on that.
Way too much, seems like the potential for a legal bind is there too. Why Glock refuses to come out with their own carbine is beyond me, they’d make a mint.
No kidding.
That might be the least ugly bullpup I’ve seen, though.
Speaking of pistol caliber carbines, I have unaccountably acquired a craving for an HK USC-to-UMP conversion. This is a bad idea. Financially. Pls. talk me out of it.
Get one of the Ruger pistol caliber carbines instead if you just have to buy something, they’re way cheaper. Not as pretty though.
I’m pretty sure Magpul won the Glock Wars back in 2008. https://youtu.be/enzlTEysYVU
Want!
Shorter Hotez:
“Polly wanna
crackerjab.”Looked out the window a few minutes ago. Sunny and cold.
Better than dreary/cloudy and cold.
If this isn’t peak derp, I really don’t want to get any closer.
Pretty stupid no doubt but we all know that peak derp doesn’t exist.
I love how they explain why you should be offended.
The BBC felt the need to issue an apology after Jimmy Carr told this joke on the radio – “The male gypsy moth can smell the female gypsy moth up to seven miles away – and that fact also works if you remove the word ‘moth’.”
*weird Jimmy Carr laugh*
That’s a good one.
That is funny! Now I go pretend to feel the shame…
I mean many a Romanian would be pissed at being called the G word
Would they prefer tramp or thief?
some probably would
eh a Serb he is probably one o them antivaxxers
Weekend at Bernie’s – Irish style.
Men drag dead body into Irish post office, seeking the deceased’s pension
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/men-drag-dead-body-irish-post-office-pension
I’ve heard of the Irish dragging the dearly departed to the local pub for a proper send off so this doesn’t surprise me one little bit.
One strongly suspects that was step one, and the “hey, pension” idea came after.
You should rename your avatar “Banacek!”
Once you understand your computer has 16 cores running at 3GHz and yet doesn’t boot up in .2 nanoseconds you understand everything they have taken from you.
Your lifetime is simply a consumable to the programmer class
We have given the programmers everything yet we get close to nothing. Silicon marvels of metallurgy are dashed against the rocks of their largesse.
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1485822027923603456
I remember a John Dvorak column from the late 1990s (IIRC) lamenting that for every increase in CPU power, there are legions of programmers writing new, increasingly bloated, versions of perfectly acceptable programs that waste all of that potential.
Now there’s somebody who dropped off the radar.
Peter Norton says ‘hold my shirt’.
He has a podcast with Adam Curry from MTV fame. No Agenda.
It’s the same for CPU, RAM, and storage. In a way, capacity begets laziness.
I am not a programmer per se but I did have this one script that needed a machine with 300 GB of RAM to work.
One of my previous companies did software development in Russia. The CEO said he chose to do it there because they were so used to programming on crappy hardware that they wrote really efficient code.
Peter Dinklage bashes Disney’s ‘f–king backwards’ ‘Snow White’ remake
Peter Dinklage is none too pleased with Disney’s upcoming “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” remake, which he accused of being insensitive to dwarves.
We really are never going to reach peak derp.
He needs Mark Norman to get involved, he is pro-midge
Napoleon Syndrome
Somebody wasn’t offered enough for a part.
“I am not playing Dopey, at least not for that money I’m not!”
Shut the fuck up, Dopey.
Lol: Dinklage, who has achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism that results in him being 4-foot-5, found the movie especially hypocritical as they were “very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White.”
He’s not wrong there.
Not the bee?
I refuse to believe it.
He’s an angry elf.
If he parties like Tyrion he and I would have got along along swimmingly when I was young man.
But he was OK playing a dwarf stereotype before anyone knew who he was.
“Why is there a dream with a dwarf in it?! Do you know anybody who has dreams with dwarves?? NO!! You can take this movie and shove it… up your ass!”
Giving Moms Money Can Boost Babies’ Brain Activity, Study Finds
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharysmith/2022/01/24/giving-moms-money-can-boost-babies-brain-activity-study-finds
Giving mothers an unconditional cash gift of $333 each month may result in their children displaying increased brain activity, according to a study of 1,000 low-income mother-infant groups published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, reinforcing previous research linking childhood poverty to differences in brain structure and function.
Researchers measured stronger high-frequency brain activity—which is associated with improved language, cognitive and social-emotional functioning—among healthy 1-year-olds whose families received $333 per month for a year.
The study included a racially and ethnically diverse group of mothers, most of whom were Black or Hispanic, drawn from the New York City, greater New Orleans, Minneapolis–Saint Paul and greater Omaha areas.
Participants reported an average annual household income of a little over $20,000, making the monthly $333 gift a roughly 20% income boost.
A control group of infants whose families received only $20 a month did not show the same gains as those in the $333 group, researchers found.
Meth and Cocaine work on toddlers too?
Nothing like starting with a non-representative sample, and leaping straight to causation. The mind boggles at the number of confounding variables that are casually disregarded.
“Boggle” is a fun game played by Peggy Hill, the whitest woman that ever lived. Coincidence? I think not!
is that where that wordle shit comes from?
I mean, maybe do some longer term studies instead of trying to extrapolate from brain activity allegedly associated with some form of development. Don’t there is any long term difference in outcomes, unlike, say, having an intact family.
My apologies for dialing up the old Snark-O-Matic. I’ve been feeling under the weather for that last while and balance issues are getting worse. I’m hoping that the last couple of days of misery is nothing but a stomach bug but I’m running a closed trial to discover whether it’s just a bad bit of potato or maybe my pancreas is shouldering arms and marching. I do have an appointment with my doctor next month so twiddly fingers will be afoot. (H/T to upthread comment from Alex)
I hope it gets sorted out quickly and painlessly. You very much deserve an upswing of the Rota Fortuna.
At best it’s just a stomach bug, at worst I hope they just put me out on an ice floe. These balance issues are not going away, though. 4X20 could beat me down the stairs lately. Thanks for the well-wishes, Friend. You are a good Man.
The Edgecomb defense is too stupid to realize they are asking questions about blood alcohol and alcohol content in beer that are leading directly to a destruction of the point they’re trying to make. This guy is sooooooooooo dumb.
never heard of the phrase Edgecomb defense
These political compass memes are getting sexual
https://twitter.com/FunkyDuffy/status/1485826390658224129
I probably wasted 225 Lei but I went and did on of the RT PCR covid tests. The cheaper antigen test was negative but those are not that accurate.
And? Are you pregnant or not?
^ Funny!
it takes 24 hours
13 seconds
https://twitter.com/AdamantAnarchy/status/1485609621867819008/photo/1
stop rubbing that in
There’s a whole genre of these lol
https://twitter.com/FreeSoilAndrew/status/1485776196122075142
I only knew the first one
I’ll just leave this here
https://twitter.com/seconds_0/status/1485810250624106497
The young lady featured the other day:
https://www.deviantart.com/khainsaw/art/The-Green-M-M-Cosplay-795512308
NSFW, I suspect. She’s kinda thicc.
Canadian photographer Francois Brunell searches and photographs similar people, but who are not related to each other. He has currently photographed about 200 doppelgangers!
https://twitter.com/eliistender10/status/1485639218026225664
He should call me. I’d be willing to sit for a photo with Brad Pitt.
Aliens.
Further proof we live in a simulation.
There’s a guy here in Edmonton who looks so much like me that people have approached me in shopping centres saying “So-and-so! How you doin’, man?” with big grins on their faces.
At least he’s a nice guy. But then I think that the poor bastard’s being mistaken for me and is suffering the consequences.
I have had two instances of this happen to me.
One, my cousin (who went to U of KY same time I was at GT) went up to a guy on UK campus and said, “Rob, what are you doing here?”
Second, there was a girl behind me in line at a Frozen Custard place in Wisconsin who looked exactly like a girl I had a crush on in Atlanta. To the point, that I almost did the same as above, I literally thought it was her at first. She had a Sconnie accent instead of an East* Tennessee one, that was the difference.
*the part that is usually in a separate insert on a map, THAT far east.
I always had this problem when I was younger. Think young Melanie Griffith, just ubiquitously, unoriginally pretty. We’re a dime a dozen.
Top o the rope humble-brag! I love you even more now, Mojo Nixon!
*deep curtsey*
If people could “check out” you from a library, what would people chat with you about for a half hour?
https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1485978259762204673
OK so that concept gives me an idea for a story
It says one of the available categories is “Fat Woman”.
Does Tres know?
Sounds like a cool idea but of course it’s only being applied to social justice bs.
These days?
Nothing, particularly in the past two years. I’ve become a singularity of boring — move past its event horizon, and all interest in and fascination with the world ceases.
You’ve been warned.
One of my favorite Clash songs.
Thanks, Sloop!
“LA will force students to be masked in non-cloth masks with nose wires, even while playing sports, even outside. (!) Vaccine mandate to come as well. Why kids have to deal with harsher pandemic policies than anyone else, still unexplained!”
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1486000935449022468
If I had a kid in school, I would end up under the jail.
In the foundation?
They would probably disappear me.
I had enough of dealing with teachers before we started homeschooling.
Oh, I can come up with a couple explanations.
Dean, if you’re still hanging around: when you took the shotgun classes, what fraction of students were using pump guns vs. semi-autos?
I think around 50/50.
Checking out dear friends. Mashed potaters as part of the experiment. Wish me and my alimentary track good will and God speed! ;-0