TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY OF A SENSELESS TRAGEDY: On this day in 1994, in Detroit Michigan, Tonya Harding attacked rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.
LATEST PUBLIC HEALTH SCARE – FLURONA: A coronavirus testing site said it has detected its first “flurona” co-infection of the flu and the coronavirus in Los Angeles County.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Callisto is a demonstration to see how Amazon’s Alexa technology and Cisco’s Webex teleconferencing platform could be used on future crewed missions. Callisto would allow astronauts to use voice commands to access data, adjust spacecraft controls and interact with teams on the ground. Uh-huh.
MUH TRAINZ: Amtrak holds passengers on train for more than thirty hours during snowstorm, food ran out, toilets overflowed. Remember, Glibs, Amtrak is a federal government boondoggle.
*cough* BULLSHIT *cough* How the fuck does using a wrong pronoun affect one’s “sense of safety?” Is that pronoun pointing a gun at you? Point #6 cuts both ways but they don’t care about offending others, only about controlling their speech. Point #7 is the only one that is accurate and should be thrown back in their faces. Snappy comebacks, courtesy of TBTB:
- “I don’t care about your mental illness.”
- “I’m sorry you did not receive an adequate amount of attention as a child.”
- “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”
- “I prefer not to torture English grammar and usage.”
- “I honestly don’t give a shit. Not playing your stupid games.”
ROMANIANS USING GOVERNMENT RULES TO FIGHT BACK: When Romanian grocery stores put up fences to create separate shopping areas for vaccinated and unvaccinated people, people from the vaccinated, I’m sorry, documented™ side of the store did not have access to the emergency exits due to the positioning of the fencing. As such, the store not only lost face for its creation of such dangers, but it also lost time and money as its legal department and managers argued with the various inspectors. In the end, the store, for all its efforts, was forced to pay a massive fine even after taking down the fences.
MISES INSTITUTE on ‘SOFT SECESSION:’ Soft secession also sidesteps the thorniest issues: what to do about federal land, federal entitlements, debt, the dollar, military bases and personnel, nuclear weapons.
Why, what happened a year ago?
Democracy Died In Darkness.
“Sorry, Jeff, I can’t do that.”
“Stop thrusters”
“Playing Hush by Deep Purple”
[Edit Fairy blesses you, adds link you forgot.]
“Amtrak is a federal government boondoggle.”
So is Greyhound in practice, due to regulatory capture.
On this day in 1994, in Detroit Michigan, Tonya Harding attacked rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.
I don’t see what this has to do with the Meandering MAGA Meemaw Insurrection of J6, 2021.
Nancy Kerrigan was the elite, and Tonya Harding was the working class.
Entertainingly enough, local news:
Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic medalist, to skate in Mentor
Will she sign a crowbar at the meet and greet?
Nice avatar graphic.
Apparently, the left still can’t meme.
I agree with everything on that list.
I am not an ally, a friend, or someone you can trust.
Yes.
Your sense of safety is not important to me.
Also true. I can’t help you if pronouns have any bearing on you feeling safe. Seek help.
/goes and grabs his Straight shirt (site NSFW).
I like their “Led Zeppelin” t-shirt with a picture of KISS on it.
has detected its first “flurona” co-infection of the flu and the coronavirus
No one ever contracted more than one thing at once. And which coronavirus? There are several.
“Flurona” might be the stupidest thing out of all the stupid of the last year.
Narrator: Nobody was testing for the flu last year. And probably almost nobody is testing for it this year.
JFC
Jesús H. Enough of this bullshit. Yes, there was testing last year and yes influenza rates went down.
A midnight train from Georgia has been trapped on the tracks in Virginia for more than 30 hours…
As an NYC NJTansit commuter I’ve spent untold hours on stuck trains. From experience I know to avoid rail travel in the snow if at all possible.
Planes, trains, and automobiles. Do not travel in blizzards.
Just as I’ve seen idiots blaming Youngkin for the I-95 disaster, I’ve seen idiots saying those stuck on I-95 should have taken a train.
Odd, I heard that song in my head today, but I didn’t know about the incident.
What was Gladys Knight & the Pips first draft lyrics for that song, Alex?
Thanks. Great song, and relevant. I’ve been remiss with the tunes of late.
From experience I know to avoid rail travel in the snow if at all possible.
Especially if Hercule Poirot is on the train.
I must confess, I love trains. Even Amtrak. Especially Amtrak.
Favorite train adventure:
Was in Baltimore visting a friend on President’s Day weekend in 1979, expecting to return on Monday. 2 feet of snow changed that, there was no way out, airports, roads, and rail were shuttered for two days. On Wednesday, I got the first NE corridor train (standing room only) to home sweet home in NJ. Struck up a conversation with a dude while having a smoke in between cars. Turns out he had some coke he was willing to share, I had a twenty dollar bill which I used to grab the last two six packs of Buzzweiser from a porter headed toward some poor souls who are probably still wondering what happened to their beer. Standing between cars on the way home was never so enjoyable.
In the old days on Amtrak I avoided the “smoke and choke” car as much possible.
Now the LIRR had the bar car when I was first taking NJTransit. That did make me rather envious. Although you can still grab one at the station.
That brings back memories. When I was working my co-op job on Wall St. I’d actually wait for the train with the bar car (really just a guy who’d wheel a cart into the last or second-to-last car).
You’d see the same people there all the time & got friendly-ish with a few, including a sketchy dude who worked on Fashion Ave – always fat stacks of cash. He was usually, “I’ll buy, you fly”, which worked just great for broke 19-year-old me (I did, however, have a good fake ID).
At the end of my co-op he finally broached the subject of whether I was interested in moving pounds of weed when I got back to Mass. Which partly explained all the cash.
Oh god, I got stuck in that car once for an eight hour trip.
I think I inhaled the equivalent of ten packs at least.
My Amtrak is totally useless story (even in the NE corridor)
1993. Im flying from NJ to KDCA (Washington national ) In a rented Cessna 172 with 3 friends for a technical convention and event.
We hit a goose on the right wing just south of Baltimore airport (KBWI).. so I declare an Emergency and land.. big dent in the right wing.
The FBO had rental cars.. but, sorry you must be over 25 years old to rent. and I was 24. .. I call home and the airplane rental agency.. the 6 seat airplane was down for maintenance.. and flying down two four place aircraft would cost more than taking Amtrak or renting a car. They said, go to the terminal, Alamo doesn’t have the 25 year limit… so we go to the terminal… and yes Alamo has the same 25 year limit.. The Airlines from BWI go to LGA. Other Airlines go from DCA to EWR (newark).. but we would need to take a bus down to Washington to get there.. Cost via airplane is the same as Amtrak, but not with the extra hour and bus fee.
so we take Amtrak.. 4 hours to Metro park…. and the cost for four was more than the round trip cost of Flying our own 4 seat plane from NJ to Washington. this made it clear that Amtrak was not a viable transport system, I have always flown or driven those distances.. the train is not useful.
At least a goose died.
Yup. For those who are unaware, 40% of the NYC subway is above ground. Those parts shut down when there is a snowstorm. There is even winter snowstorm map showing it.
I didn’t know this about the NYC subway. A significant part of the Boston subway is above ground too, but it’s always a shit show when there’s a snowstorm and unexpectedly they cannot clear snow from rail track right away.
Callisto would allow astronauts to use voice commands to access data, adjust spacecraft controls and interact with teams on the ground.
This is how it begins.
VR doesn’t work in noisy environments.
Hey Callisto! Play Farts and max volume!
*Chaos begins
William Burroughs – Words Of Advice For Young People.
“I don’t care about your mental illness.”
I am getting close to saying this outloud.
Greenwash!
Most people know that everything we read on the internet is 100 percent true, which makes Google an arbiter of truth in a discomforting way; you’re only as right as Google says you are. That’s why big oil companies are buying ads that look like legitimate search results. Exxonmobil, Shell and Aramco are among the biggest buyers of these tricky ads, according to the Guardian.
After analyzing Google search results for “78 climate-related terms,” the Guardian found that nearly 20 percent of ads featured on the search engine were placed there by oil companies, and these ads are designed so that search engine users can’t easily tell that they are, in fact, ads.
This greenwashing is especially harmful because people who are looking for information on climate change get these ads mixed in with everything else. The Guardian says that over half of search engine users reported being unable to tell the difference between paid-for ads and normal search results.
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However, Shell’s net-zero strategy relies heavily on carbon capture and offsetting, according to a Carbon Brief analysis, which says: “Despite its ‘highly ambitious’ framing … Shell’s vision of a continued role for oil, gas and coal until the end of the century remains essentially the same.”
Those bastards. Using our terminology correctly to confuse us.
I should submit a pull-request for Eyepiece for a ‘Disable Gizmodo, etc.’ button. And a ‘Vox Media’ version.
I read them on purpose for a view into what the current orthodoxy of the left is going to be.
Vox usually (sadly) is a leading as opposed to lagging indicator.
I stopped reading Eater since the Vox-stink crept into every. single. article.
Plus the Boston coverage was 90% just reposting things from the ‘Boston Restaurant Talk’ site.
That’s interesting because California, New York, et al.’s net-zero strategy relies heavily on outsourcing energy production and industry to Russia, the Middle East, and China.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT*
*Joe Biden’s unofficial campaign slogan
On this day in 1994, in Detroit Michigan
If only Nancy had access to a personal ED-209 as her bodyguard, this whole incident could’ve been avoided.
My younger sister tested positive for flu and Covid in November. She got a call from the Indiana department of health about it.
In other stupid Covid news, my tournament in St. Louis this weekend has been canceled. Two of the four teams dropped out, and at least 4 of my teammates have the virus.
Sorry to hear that.
Ugh, sorry about both.
Sorry.
Well, that bites. ?
my tournament in St. Louis this weekend has been canceled
Bummer. Hope your teammates are not actually sick.
My younger sister tested positive for flu and Covid in November. She got a call from the Indiana department of health about it.
Just got a call now? Good thing it takes months to transmit pathogens, otherwise this could be a real problem.
They cancelled it in kind of a slow motion car wreck kind of way. Last week one team dropped out, then last night we heard they were just dividing us all into four teams and having a mini tournament, then a few more of my teammates dropped out, then another team dropped out, then it was canceled.
My teammates are all ok, sick for a few days and that’s it. I think one just had a positive test. Funny how all of us were required to get vaccinated, but just about all of us got Covid anyway.
My sister got her call in November. They told her this is the first time they ever hear of that happening. She was pretty sick for a week, but she never had to go to the hospital.
I’m going to LMAO when the same thing happens to the Australian Open after they made such a huge theater out of only admitting players onto the continent who have taken the sacrament.
Sorry about your tournament.
Glad everyone is OK. Sorry about the tourney.
Glad nobody got really sick. My daughter returned to school today, and immediately we got a COVID email. How the Hell do you have an exposure figured out on the first day back? Was is preemptive?
I can hear you talking, but I’m not really listening
*raises hand*
You are heard… and ignored.
Am I doing this right?
“Fired Bucs star Antonio Brown smuggled OnlyFans model – who went viral for licking a toilet seat in 2020 – into his hotel for a steamy sex romp and told her to watch ‘what I do tomorrow’ – the night before he stormed off the field
NFL star Antonio Brown smuggled the influencer who went viral for licking a toilet seat into his hotel room for a steamy romp the night before he stormed off the field during a game, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Brown, 33, snuck glamorous lingerie blogger Ava Louise, 23, into the Westin in Jersey City, New Jersey last Saturday in defiance of the NFL’s Covid rules – and filmed a series of pornographic videos during the romp.
Blonde Louise, who shot to fame in 2020 after she filmed herself licking a toilet seat in a bid to catch Covid, told DailyMail.com she spent an hour with the wide receiver and snuck past security to join Brown for the sex session.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10367913/NFL-star-Antonio-Brown-snuck-woman-hotel-room-night-meltdown.html
She looks like walking herpes.
My exact thoughts.
My exact thoughts.
I’m sure he doesn’t care. He probably is walking herpes himself.
She tested positive for Covid apparently right after.
Hopefully Brady gets it and it takes him out.
This is the glorious future I was hoping for.
Thicc?
I did put a possible meetup at Gourmeltz on Feb 26th for the NoVA and Eastern VA glibs in the forum.
And I’ll be down in Columbus early in February (also posted in the forums).
Thanks!
I will put a note on the calendar.
Remember, Glibs, Amtrak is a federal government boondoggle.
It’s the DMV on wheels.
Residents from the following places soon to metastasize most other locations in the US.
1. NJ
2. IL
3. NY
Democrat-run states saw residents flee in 2021, annual moving survey shows
“No, Callisto, your other left.”
“I don’t care about your mental illness.”
“I’m sorry you did not receive an adequate amount of attention as a child.”
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”
“I prefer not to torture English grammar and usage.”
“I honestly don’t give a shit. Not playing your stupid games.”
🙂
Some of these work nicely for Lil Rona Panic Measures.
“I will not validate the delusions of the insane.”
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/3be1e492-fd03-4130-964b-b2bb2b17faca
Even the UK’s (and most countries’ in Europe) trains are run by private companies. Why can’t we be more like Europe?
Because essentially passenger rail is only profitable in the northeast corridor.
Even if they forced you to buy the whole thing you’d immediately shut down most other locations. And if they forced you to keep them open as part of the purchase there is no incentive to buy it.
You can sell it as a cost-cutting measure to the people who actually ride. Ask them if they want to continue subsidizing trains in North Dakota, Montana, and shit.
You’re not gonna believe this
Baristas at a Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) location in Buffalo, New York, walked off the job for a second day on Thursday in protest of what they say are unsafe working conditions amid a new surge in COVID-19 cases.
Workers left their positions on Wednesday at the Elmwood Avenue location – the only unionized corporate-owned Starbucks store in the United States – and say they will not return until they feel safe.
A third of employees there are out because of COVID-19, said barista Casey Moore, one of the union organizers in Buffalo.
“The store is drastically understaffed, leaving the remaining partners exhausted and overworked,” she said.
What’s the point of having a union if you can’t go on strike?
What are the chances the NLRB will fine Starbucks a bazillion dollars if they just padlock that store “until further notice”?
“The store is drastically understaffed, leaving the remaining partners exhausted and overworked,” she said.
Surrounded by caffeine though.
I’m surprised New York State doesn’t just close it for them.
“EXCLUSIVE: Pictured – the Simon & Schuster employee arrested for stealing HUNDREDS of manuscripts by authors including Margaret Atwood and Ethan Hawke whose ideas ‘he planned to use for his own books'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10373709/Mystery-solved-Man-arrested-thefts-unpublished-books.html
He looks like an asshole.
Yeah, stealing Atwood’s work not the smartest thing if he’s trying to “write” a best-seller. She is a vastly overrated writer and only published because she panders to the left. It would have been interesting to see if he could even get one of her manuscripts read if he submitted it under his own name.
“Chuck Schumer says Capitol mob shouted ‘there’s the big Jew, let’s get him’ as he recalls being within 30 feet of ‘nasty, racist, bigoted insurrectionists'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10375777/Chuck-Schumer-says-Capitol-mob-shouted-theres-big-Jew-lets-him.html
Sure, Chuck.
Is this like the Tea Party calling some Democrat a nigger and then in spite of a million cameras and a huge reward for proof, there was never a recording produced?
Yes?
The footage has been locked in a vault along with all the other FBI activities from that day.
Sure, indeed. Sounds like the pink-haired intern-written script for the guy that supposedly had explosives in his pickup awhile back.
And you sat on this information for a year because…?
I’d believe “There’s Moobs! Show us your tits Chucky!”
He forgot the part about them coming out of field, eyes fiery with rage, carrying torches, etc. Stick to the script, Chuck.
They hate him because he won’t have sex with him.
I LOL’d.
It probably happened when he got within 30 feet of a group of FBI plants with cameras.
“Big Jew”? Moobs is about 5’2″, NTTAWWT. If you’re going to fabricate shit, at least make it believable.
It appears that way.
“Ted Cruz described January 6 as a violent terrorist attack. of all the things January 6 was, it was definitely not a violent terrorist attack. it wasn’t an insurrection. Was it a riot? Sure. It was not a violent terrorist attack. Sorry! So why are you telling us that it was, Ted Cruz? And why are none of your Republican friends who are supposed to be representing us and all the people who’ve been arrested during this purge saying anything? What the hell’s going on here? Maybe the Republican party is as worthless as we suspected it was.”
Tony Harding, would or DSIC?
Woops, Tonya
I figured she pulled a Bruce Jenner.
Not even a golf clap…. That deserves a standing O.
Ovation. Standing ovation. I mean, it might deserve the other kind of O…. But I ain’t involved in that….
Then or now?
Because me then had better options.
And her now is a no.
But the old man version of me grades on a much different curve, and young and in shape is definitely in the yes column. So old me and young her…. Do I have an escape route and anonymity?
Then.
“I honestly don’t give a shit. Not playing your stupid games.”
This is close to the way I feel about it, but with a little bit of expansion.
“I’m not uttering things I don’t believe to make you happy. Fuck off.”
That dovetails nicely with #9.
“9. I would prefer it if you stopped being honest with me.”
That should be reworked to:
“9. In order for me to be honest, I am requiring you to lie.”
January 6 will always have a special place in my memories. It was on this day, twenty-two years ago, that I was able to witness my buddy James burst out of the room, tears streaming down his face, as he yelled “It’s a boy! It’s a boy!”
We never did make it back to Thailand.
*golf clap*
OK, that was actually funny.
Nice!
Japan Criticizes U.S. Response After Omicron Spreads Near American Bases
TOKYO—A surge in Covid-19 infections around U.S. military bases in Japan is generating tension between Tokyo and Washington after a loophole in entry rules for American soldiers accelerated the spread of the Omicron variant.
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on Thursday in Japan asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken for U.S. service members to be restricted to their bases, and regions around bases called for emergency steps to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also expressed dissatisfaction with the U.S. response and said he ordered his foreign minister to demand tougher steps at a U.S.-Japan meeting scheduled for Friday.
立入り禁止!
I’ve got an idea. How about you pay for and defend yourselves. That way you can choose to include or exclude whoever you’d like. Otherwise you look and sound like a teenager complaining to dad about the size of his allowance.
My wife said the Okinawans are blaming Marines because they don’t wear masks.
I’m not surprised. Mask wearing in Asia is completely culturally different – even pre-COVID. So I’m willing to be marginally sympathetic.
OTH, similar to a tourist based economies in the US, you’ve got to put up with both bad and good of the tourists.
Help! China just conducted an amphibious assault on our west coast!
Sorry. We don’t want to spread a dangerous virus.
“How the fuck does using a wrong pronoun affect one’s “sense of safety?” Is that pronoun pointing a gun at you?”
Words are weapons, sharper than knives.
Sticks and Stones . . . . . .
Thanks for the earworm, dick.
😉
Heheh. Super spreading.
Here’s something to counter. I linked them a few weeks back, don’t know if you heard them. Nice debut album out of a São Paulo duo.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TM69hNoK-BQ&list=OLAK5uy_l2s-UNXr_ZuSG36_p6jMga4v6jEly3KrM
I remember it. Good stuff.
That’s really excellent – thanks!
I’ll give the whole album a play-through or two during work tomorrow.
Cheers guys!
*sigh*
Virginia Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin was elected to stop critical race theory in public schools, and he has promised to do so in office. Yet the woman he’s appointed for state education secretary, Aimee Rogstad Guidera, has numerous professional and financial ties to organizations that underwrite the spread of critical race theory, a racist philosophy that pits Americans of different bodily hues against each other and smears those born into paler skin. …
Guidera was the founder and longtime chief executive of the Data Quality Campaign (DQC). She ran the organization from 2005 until May 2018, when she left to pursue private consulting. Founding DQC is the biggest and most visible education-related job on Guidera’s resume.
Yet DQC is deeply tied to the political swamp on almost every education issue possible, including the Common Core debacle and racist critical theory. These are not just associational ties, but also major financial ties.
Despite repeated inquiries, Youngkin communications staff declined to answer specific questions for this article and instead directed The Federalist to a quote published in a Daily Wire article three weeks ago about other potential conflicts of interest between Youngkin’s education secretary and his stated education policies.
*my shocked face*
Chamber of Commerce Republicans are all the same, worthless liars.
And some outlet recently reminded us that Eric “Law and Order” Adams was quoted over the summer as being “completely in line” with the new, radical leftist, Soros-funded Manhattan DA.
Psych, voters.
It’s almost like the game is rigged.
Naw, couldn’t be.
What? You don’t think the good citizens of NY could be that stupid? Pick any place around the country and show me how intelligent and informed the voters are there?
I’m just saying that we’ve got one Republican and one Democrat, both not even in office yet, that are already showing signs of fucking over their supporters.
Oh, you’re talking bi-partisanship.
For anyone interested, there are a couple of food documentaries in the Forum.
Deli Man (2014), a history of delicatessens in the US – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4239548/
Fermented (2017), Author and chef Edward Lee goes on a journey to understand the ancient process of fermentation and how it’s used in modern times. – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6865922/
Nice! Thank you!!
Ooh, thank you. These are relevant to my interests!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIbrY3SXoA8h9Qo?format=jpg&name=small
If I understand correctly the Kazakhstan outrage is caused, partly at least, when the government ran out of other people’s money and stopped subsidizing the cost of propane. I see parallels in the US when a lot of people are leaving their jobs because they have found they could live off the subsidies they are getting now.
When the US subsidies become untenable I can foresee a similar thing happening. People will have a lot of time and less (valuable) money and will be demanding that the government do something. We know we’ve already run out of money and at some point the debt will have to acted on.
Mass Formation Psychosis in a song
*insert Clint Eastwood disgusted face here*
OK, “Baby Shark” is no longer the worst thing on the internet.
You can fuck right off with that shit!
You…you have to click and see these pictures. I would say peak hysteria, but AOC hasn’t tweeted yet.
https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1478842299723526150
Holy shit!
That person appears to be real.
I’m guessing “alone” means “surrounded by dozens of cats” in her dictionary.
https://twitter.com/1rpotter/status/1478988584585547777
LOL did she break her neck with that spinning?
Perhaps her daily racist screeds didn’t draw an audience.
Source @ Comcast: “Joy Reid will lose her 7p show in the next round of reshuffling at MSNBC.” – “She does not have a show come mid Spring” – The “decision has been made, the only thing left is messaging on the move, which will be ratings” – 1/
As was the case with Chris Cuomo at CNN, Reid has allies at Comcast, however, she is now viewed as “unmanageable” by many. Also, similar to Cuomo, it appears those allies have found out she has been “less than truthful about past incidents” 2/ (more to come).
They’re just concerned she might try to climb the Empire State Building.
Who will be the damsel in distress?
SHE WAS HACKED
If she needed ratings, I guarantee a debate with Winsome Sears would have drawn viewers.
“less than truthful about past incidents”
No way.
You rang?
Yes, TOK, the fact that the non-vaccine shots don’t produce sterilizing immunity means they are not, in fact, vaccines. That’s the whole point, the sine qua non, of a vaccine.
We included some brief points on this in our complaint and our arguments on our PI Motion. It has also been part of some of the reasoning in favorable court decisions on religious accommodation policies.
If the shots don’t stop transmission of the virus, it becomes very hard to justify treating the unvaxxed differently than the vaxxed. Also, if medical exemptions are available, why shouldn’t there be the same accommodation made for the religious?
RE: the shots and something Scruffy posted in an earlier thread today about the harms of these gene therapies –
The real problem is that the virus isn’t naturally occurring. It was intentionally modified to make it more harmful to humans. It’s a fucking bioweapon – and making a shot to ostensibly “teach” your body how to react to the lethal factor (LF) of a bioweapon isn’t actually helping anyone. Each dose is another assault on your body’s immune system. It’s like repeatedly poisoning yourself by drinking Draino and thinking that eventually your body’s immune system will adapt – it won’t.
In reality, you’re just poisoning yourself over and over again.
The real problem is that the virus isn’t naturally occurring. It was intentionally modified to make it more harmful to humans.
Lol, but it can’t get through a mask.
“Yes, TOK, the fact that the non-vaccine shots don’t produce sterilizing immunity means they are not, in fact, vaccines. That’s the whole point, the sine qua non, of a vaccine.”
Is that true? As far as I know, the Salk vaccine only prevented severe outcome (just like covid, most cases of polio were relatively minor, and did not result in paralysis), and polio was not eradicated until the Sabin vaccine, which did prevent transmission.
Count Pomme de Terre –
Generally speaking there are several characteristics that make a vaccine a vaccine. Providing sterilizing immunity – i.e. preventing catching the disease and transmission of the disease – have generally been considered essential elements of a vaccine. Otherwise, as Scruffy noted, the shot is just a therapeutic. Of course, these definitions and codification of what defined a vaccine occurred over time, but using some form of the virus itself was also considered to be an essential element.
As to polio, I did a quick look and what I found says that the Salk vaccine “efficiently blocks person-to-person transmission of wild poliovirus, thereby protecting both individual vaccine recipients and the wider community.” (TW: Wikipedia).
BUT, as to your point, the Salk did not completely eliminate polio, like the Sabin vaccine, likely because the Salk vaccine was “inactivated” and the Sabin was “attenuated.” The nature of the polio virus is very, very different than that of a coronavirus, as I understand them. I think the Salk vaccine is a true vaccine because it (a) was a form of the actual virus, (b) it prevented transmission, and (c) while it may not have completely “prevented” polio, it prevented the harm that polio caused.
Yes, it’s probably a matter of definitions. For example, humans can’t develop natural immunity to tetanus, as far as I know it’s not contagious, and the shot doesn’t prevent infection, but it’s called a “vaccine” because it will prevent lockjaw.
No vaccine totally prevents infection, because you have to be infected for your immune response to recognize the antigen and respond.
It’s a question of whether your immune system has a memory of the antigen (providing a faster response) and can shut it down before it causes disease, or allows it to become communicable if that is the vector of spread.
One of the issues with respiratory viruses like COVID is that they infect you through the lungs, and your first line of defense is an immune response in the lining of your lung tissue. This is called the mucosal or secretory IgA system. A bloodborne vaccine cannot stimulate or train this system, putting the lie to the claim that they could prevent infections. They could only create a faster immune response once the virus enters your bloodstream.
There was talk of inhaled vaccines for COVID, but I don’t know what happened to them.
IPV is fairly effective if polio rates are already low. They also have reduced side effects compared to OPV at the cost of reduced protection. That’s what’s used in the US and many/most developed countries.
Moderna CEO says people may need fourth Covid shot as
efficacyprofits of boosters likely to decline over time (CNBC)Thanks. I think a lot of the argument for vaccine mandates was that they “could” or “should” do one thing or another, but in this past month reality has reared its ugly head and all those hypotheticals have been proven to be garbage. At least it seems like public opinion is having a major shift.
My coworker was just bragging about being “triple vaxxed”.
It’s going to take LONG time for a lot of people to change their opinion.
My wife just tested positive for the ‘rona on a home kit. She’s had a cold for a few days. She refuses to get a lab test or tell her work because she doesn’t want to be tracked, shamed, or hassled.
I haven’t had any symptoms but I’m skipping the gym tonight. I’ll take the test tomorrow and have to cancel some plans this weekend if I’m positive.
zinc and quinine
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Quercetin is readily available in pill form as well.
I also just bought Lactoferrin after reading an article that says the medical community is denying that another well know anti-viral might help COVID.
I bought some the other day myself. Have you seen anything that mentions the doses they use for Covid?
Yep. I’m taking them too
Also, nasal irrigation and antiseptic mouthwash.
covid19criticalcare.com
Just ordered some Nigella sativa.
If you have any history of macular degeneration in your family, beware of taking iveremctin. There’s this side effect of “delayed synaptic photoreceptor response” that can happen if you have the recessive gene.
One of these things is not like the others
Vice President Kamala Harris opened her address by invoking Pearl Harbor and the September 11 attacks, saying the Capitol riot had taken its place alongside the two dates that killed thousands of Americans and launched wars.
Fuck off, you mendacious cunte. Nearly 3000 died on 9/11, nearly 2500 in Pearl Harbor. It is an insult to those victims to compare the events of Jan. 6 2021 to their horror.
In her mind, the feelings of a single Congresscritter outweigh all those deaths.
If a Congress-critter pissed itself in fear – that is far, far more terrifying then 100,000 American deaths!
The Dems are just digging themselves into a deeper hole.
It’s remarkable, really.
Peddling J6 as anything other than an small riot and especially making comparisons such as these really demonstrate just how disgusting these
creaturespeople are.And AOC valiantly fought of being raped, don’t forget that one
She knows they all want to have sex with her.
“I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, Dave.”
I can remember exactly where I was when I heard about Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. I don’t remember where I was a year ago, but like now, I suppose I was on my couch.
As for the 10 things I’m saying when I don’t use the preferred pronouns, I couldn’t even bother to read the full list. So what I’m saying is I don’t give a shit.
Roger that. I’ve long said my stand on social issues in general is simple: I just don’t give a shit what people do, as long as they leave me alone.
Translated story about Kazakhstan with interesting links. Did the CIA really try to pull another color revolution in Putin’s backyard? If so, he’s not having it and their military seems to have their shit together.
https://thesaker.is/csto-sends-peacekeepers-to-kazakhastan/
It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
We’re nothing if not arrogant.
The end result of all this may be the de facto re-establishment of the old Soviet Union under a new name. Putin now has valid reasons to put troops in the Stans.
Yep and Ukraine as well if true and if not true for that matter.
Interesting comment
https://thesaker.is/csto-sends-peacekeepers-to-kazakhastan/#comment-1003265
“U.S. Embassy is accepting applications for grants to implement projects aimed at strengthening the Kazakhstan media market by promoting professional journalism standards…”
In other words, they summoned Soros NGOs.
“We” really aren’t the good guys.
Nope, not at all.
The end result of all this may be the de facto re-establishment of the old Soviet Union under a new name.
Part of me wonders if that isn’t the end goal of our “national security” establishment with regards to Putin. Maybe the one thing they can’t accept is the possibility of a world that has reached a state of accommodation. As much of a bastard as Putin might be (and by all accounts, he’s one first rate bastard), he’s been mostly conservative and rational on the international stage. He’s shown no signs of being interested in invading the rest of the world. He wants what Russian leaders have wanted for the last five hundred years, a stable buffer between Russia and potential adversaries, access to the international shipping lanes, and internal stability within Russia. No Russian leader who isn’t insane and/or stupid is going to want much different. And, yet, it really does seem that we’re pushing him in the direction of having to get into a confrontation with us to keep those things.
I can’t figure out what our goals are other than servicing our military complex and stroking the national greatness boners of the nitwits on Capitol Hill.
We’re lunging around, poking at multiple bears, with little to show for it.
My take is that the permanent bureaucracy that Rothbard feared is creating reasons for its perpetual existence.
My take is that the permanent bureaucracy that Rothbard feared is creating reasons for its perpetual existence.
Yeah, that’s increasingly my take, as well. A general state of stability and peace with the rest of the world would be, in a lot of ways, a disaster for the national security establishment. Why not assume they’re acting to prevent that?
The 90’s drawdown had an indelible impact on the military establishment and led directly to the permanent War on Terror. I couldn’t see it then, but I do now.
And the growth of the other security agencies, thanks to GWB and the neocons, has created an even bigger monster.
Man I laugh at the people I work with that only really know the last 20 years of defense budgets. The day will come when real cuts are made and these people are going to totally freak out.
DC is unsustainable.
The growth since 2001 is just mind-boggling, and none of it creates value.
Part of me wonders if that isn’t the end goal of our “national security” establishment
The goal should be friendly relations with Russia.
We’re lunging around, poking at multiple bears, with little to show for it.
And with the purges and concentrating on things that do not involve winning wars we will get mauled in the process.
There’s a bit to pick apart in all that. Granted I’ve read some good essays on the historic chip on the shoulder of Mother Russia – but in all seriousness, before the Soviet Union, there were a lot of other nation states around. – and going back further in history. Russia doesn’t “NEED” access to the Black Sea (and they still had access – albeit blockable – before they seized Crimea. They might want access to Baikonur, but they can arrange/negotiate safe passage or alternate routes if necessary – the same way France does for launching from the Caribbean. Russia still has Baltic access as well as the Pacific – not to mention all their wonderful arctic access which is going to get even better with global warming.
They might want a “buffer” from hostile nations – but when that buffer is made up of former vassal states who now view with hostility or ambivalence at best….you brought that on yourselves.
If so, he’s not having it and their military seems to have their shit together.
There was a hilarious video matchup someone posted not too long ago that compared America’s recruitment video with Russia’s.
I don’t remember exactly, but America’s was about woman who had two moms and that the military accepted her as a person or something like that. Russia showed some big motherfucker shooting guns.
LOL!
Jesse is funny as hell.
In the replies:
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@evenkeelkelly
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@RepSwalwell
Umm he is eating…..sad attempt at a gotcha story”
Eating? I see him holding a ba… Oh my God!! Eric Swalwell ate a baby!
He was eating Chinese, but he got hungry soon after.
Good lord the boot licking people go to for these politicians..on both sides.
“I don’t care about your mental illness.”
I think our society can use a bit more of this. When the hell did our society degenerate to the point that mental illness is something to be celebrated and deferred to? Pretty much, by definition, mental illness has a view of the world that is fundamentally wrong and dysfunctional for the person suffering from it. And, honestly, if we stopped indulging it, maybe, just maybe,
people would learn to compensate for their issues, rather than wallowing in them.
I understand that there are people with real, severe, psychological issues. And, honestly, I feel bad for them. But, if you’re not all that interested in even trying to work your way around your issues, that’s not and shouldn’t be my problem or responsibility. And I’m damned well not going to twist my life around trying to cater to you just because a bunch of spoiled, entitled, dysfunctionals have declared it fashionable.
Who knew that when they emptied out the state mental hospitals, all the crazies would go to social media and academia?
Don’t make fun of the mentally I’ll or treat them like garbage but they shouldn’t be coddled either. Reality is what it is and the denial of such leads to dangerous and stupid places.
“if we stopped indulging it, maybe, just maybe, people would learn to compensate for their issues, rather than wallowing in them.”
I blame Oprah.
I think Donahue did it before her.
Today was not as bad as yesterday. I did learn to stop hammering and put the metal back in the fire at a hotter temperature, so that I don’t have to hit it as often. So I’m less tired. We also didn’t have as much drawing out of material to do.
First thing in the morning was upsetting… for the metal. Then we got even more violetn with cutting and punching, before drifting the last hour away.
Sounds like a good day.
Pretty good. I’m still not happy how some pieces didn’t cooperate as much as I’d have liked. But, I got the projects done.
Tomorrow is forge welding.
The failures should be spectacular.
To level set my goals, if I can make two links of chain that are closed and interlocked, I will regard that as a success. (Assuming the example table chain is one of the projects we’re actually doing. Some of them were just ‘things that can be done with this technique’)
Will there be an article? Pics?
I will put one together after I get back home. I do have pictures.
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You must fail to succeed. Sounds like you are starting to work smarter instead of harder too. This is all good.
Amtrak could probably make money on its long haul routes in two ways:
1) Make the cheap seats REALLY cheap. Like, Greyhound cheap. Charge more for snacks & beverages. Charge a fee for economy class to access the lounge. Basically do it like Allegiant Airlines.
2) Make the sleepers truly luxurious. They seriously look like they were designed by a government committee. Bring in a designer and revamp the interior of all the sleepers. Add extended steward service where they bring you breakfast or snacks in addition to the turndown service. Bring in a top chef to design the menu and have good meals in the dining car.
1) why compete with Greyhound? Buses can be more frequent, can go more places, and passengers can more easily be put on their way when a bus breaks down.
2) would be truly expensive to bring to Ritz Carlton levels. If the super rich want to travel this way, let them buy or hire private cars.
3) Outside N.E. corridor, Amtrak makes no economic sense.
1) traffic
2) people who ride the sleepers do it for the experience, not the efficiency. Right now, the sleeper experience on Amtrak is worse than a college dorm
You’d be selling the experience. Go through the mountains, with big windows.
Chinatown buses are cheaper and nicer than greyhound.
I took the family on Amtrak from Denver to San Fran a few years ago for shits and giggles. It was quite fun. The sleeper cabin was passable/okay, but I probably would have dropped some extra cash for a more luxurious experience. I’m not sure how luxurious it can be when it’s rocking/clickety-clacking along. I also don’t know how important the pleasure cruise customer is to Amtrak’s balance sheet.
“1) why compete with Greyhound?”
Because no one else is allowed?
They’d have to run on time first.
BTW, #2 hits me in the sweet spot (as it were) – if Amtrak offered a more luxury sleeper for the price they already charge, I’d be using Amtrak.
Our daycare just sent out a notice any child with one or more of the following symptoms will need to provide a negative covid test to be allowed into school. Runny nose, fever, cough, or lethargy. These people are in child care, don’t they realize kids under the age of 5 produce non-stop snot 90% of the days in a year? Glad we are moving to a new daycare next week.
Hence the derogatory term snot-nosed brats.
It’s almost as if their immune systems are still collecting data on the endemic hazards of the world.
*shudder*
You just reminded me of a birthday party at one of those bounce house places.
They had this one inflatable section which resembled a cross between a colon and a birthing canal. The kids would squeeze through it for about ten feet.
I stood there and watched one kid streaming green goo from both his nostrils push his way through while leaving streaks of snot along the tunnel walls.
My son was right behind him of course.
Concerning ice skaters of that era, Harding and Kerrigan both sucked.
Oksana Baiul was the superior skater and artist.
How? Didn’t Baiul fall?
Mind you, I know nothing about skating, so I really am curious, but I think if you fall, you should get extra points taken off.
If she fell, she still beat Kerrigan, so no matter
IIRC correctly, she skated with a back injury and still pulled it off.
But this was her best performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le17cE77xC4
Kerrigan was a glorified cheerleader. Baiul was an actual dancer.
Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan…so many better skaters.
Peggy Fleming is where its at. One of her proteges used to go around the Power Skating school circuit and showed us hockey boys what real edge control was about.
Yep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLryZGvXJNU
Like me, skating with people that became professional hockey players, my wife skated with Michelle…and you just realize you aren’t really that good when stacked up against that.
What’s green and slides across the ice?
Peggy Phlegm.
Or a team on a bag skate with a trashcan at center ice…
She also aged extremely well.
https://www.facebook.com/schulzmuseum/photos/peggy-fleming-olympic-gold-medalist-and-three-time-world-champion-figure-skater-/10150880358663054/
Ice Skating is The Beach Boys of Olympic sports.
The Beach Boys can’t kick you in the face with a bladed weapon.
Just saying.
“You’ll never hear another Beach Boys song again but you have to get kicked in the face with a bladed weapon” is a trade off I’d have to give much consideration.
I’m beginning to think you were molested as a child while Pet Sounds was playing in the background.
The Beach Boys hate tickles me for some reason. Maybe because I’m a Dick Dale fangirl and he was an actual surfer.
Awe…poor hype and his wobbly ankles probably looks like Bambi on ice.
Listen to the man who saved us from despotism and rule-by-decree
Biden again emphasized the core message of his 2020 presidential campaign and the reason why he ran against Trump: “We are in a battle for the soul of America.”
The President warned democracy and the “promise of America” is at risk and called on the American public to “stand for the rule of law, to preserve the flame of democracy.”
The soul of America cries out for socialism and a strong guiding hand.
“promise of America”
Which is apparently to be
culledcoddled and controlled from cradle to grave.Why do you want adversity so much rebel..just succumb, it will be easier. Call out your sins and recognize your master and it will be all over with
He left out that he wants to devour the soul once he wins it.
“The Persecution of Novak Djokavic”
https://youtu.be/BuHCANg61Nw
I didn’t realize they actually detained him. Shame shame shame…
“Now let’s step up, write the next chapter in American history, for January 6 marks not the end of democracy, but the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play,” Biden said.
After his speech, Biden defended calling out Trump in such a direct way when asked by a reporter if he believed going after the former President would “divide more than it heals.”
The President responded: “The way you have to heal, you have to recognize the extent of the wound. You can’t pretend. This is serious stuff.”
“You’ve got to face it. That’s what great nations do. They face the truth, deal with it and move on,” Biden said.
Grind them into the dirt. Crush them. Humiliate them. That’s how you make them respect and love you.
Biden is an empty vessel composed of prions and amyloid plaques, he knows not what he does.
They say an empty vessel makes the most noise.
If so, then Biden sounds like ten thousand naked dirty Polynesian witch doctors beating clubs against the side of an empty oil tanker.
You cannot have these together…liberty and fair play. But what the fuck do I know.
renaissance of liberty and fair play
Seems more like slavery by communism.
if he believed going after the former President would “divide more than it heals.
C’mon, man. Are Trump voters even people? I mean, are they?
T-minus 1 hour til Battlebots!
Battlebots?
In the office today…now it looks like we’re expecting another 2-4 inches of snow…so work tomorrow is by no means certain…oh well.
I broke my fever yesterday and feel pretty good now.
But my employees told me to stay away.
Now I just have to figure out how to escape my family at home.\
Slip out the back, jack.
I’m hoping for a boom scenario (3-5″)
Given that it is a Friday and I don’t actually have to go anywhere – other than maybe walking down to the grocery store to pick up a couple things before Monday…I could live with another day off – just more hours to make up next week.
I went to the grocery store. I’m set. LET IT SNOW!
Well, it did drop below freezing in Texas. It will stay dry though. No snow or rain for us,
The projection for my neck of the woods is 1 inch. But every inch counts.
Are we still talking about the weather?
I love the optics of the January 6th theatrics. Who outside the too-online Twitterati sees this as anything other than Dems hyperventilating over nothing to avoid having to discuss inflation, Afghanistan, the covid narrative collapse, the manifest failure of Biden’s agenda, teachers refusing to return to work, blue cities collapsing, blue states emptying out, and the Democrat Communist Party promising nothing other than to fortify elections permanently so we’re stuck with them forever?
Sadly, a lot. A whole lot of people who question nothing. Probably 30% of the population, I figure. Makes me really sad.
Now let’s see if they comply.
https://aaronsiri.substack.com/p/instead-of-fdas-requested-500-pages
It always was: So now it’s literally theater.
Nancy Pelosi just introduced, as part of the Jan 6 remembrance…. a song by Lin Manuel Miranda performed by the cast of Hamilton
Seeing as Hamilton was America’s founding statist, this is actually quite fitting.
The irony is that Miranda is a big supporter of Oscar Lopez Rivera, a no-shit terrorist who killed innocents in service of his goal to “free” Puerto Rico, ie become the next Castro.
I’m watching “The Secret Life of the Cruise” on Prime. Behind the scenes on a cruise ship. I have no desire to go on a cruise, but it’s interesting.
I did a Disney cruise with the family and it was really fantastic. I was planning to do it again when this whole pandemic thing hit. The only thing that bugged me is I was supposed to sit down at dinner with groups of other people. We all skipped that and ate at the buffet upstairs mostly. Everything else was fantastic.
The Secret Life of the Cruise
The Love Boat was tiny compared to this thing.
This charade is such next level horseshit and the dishonesty makes my blood boil.
But, you know, truth > facts.
Take a glimpse into insanity.
https://twitter.com/dianaberrent/status/1477852389055021060
Thanks anyway.
One of the things about insanity – it spreads through casual contact.
Jesus P. Murphy, that’s an entire subsection of Twitter that’s just batshit.
I just told my wife about the girl she used to watch on 90 Day fiance and how much money she made.
I might have broken my wife, she keeps asking me “Who does that?”
And then muttering to herself about it.
Then she asks me if I would buy farts from anyone. I told her I would, only if I was going to send it to my brother as a joke.
Then she repeats the first question and the cycle starts again.
Yer right, you busted ‘er. Now you have to take her in to the nearest regional service center and get ‘er fixed up. You monster.
Ron fixes things himself!