“Meh”
No sleep, aches…a real “meh” day. I fully expect the links to reflect this… so, lets go see.
- I don’t know the Arabic words for “Muh Democracy!”
- I am sure the requisite shaking in boots is occurring. Or not.
- I thought this was just an American thing? At least its back….right?
- Your stationary bike will soon track you. But for whom, seems to be the question.
The comments are all yours.
“I thought this was just an American thing? At least its back….right?”
I though so too, but they were probably going to drink anyway.
Does Mexico also want Cinco de Mayo back?
As long as the French don’t try to take Moscow in the winter they should be OK.
They can have Moscow, abandoned. Now what?
Freeze to death as nature intended?
It’s almost like Moscow hasn’t learned anything. Going to war in Winter in that part of Europe sucks.
Winter wars are for the tropics, man.
Interestingly, there is speculation they are waiting for the ground to freeze because it has been warm winter. Their tanks do fine of frozen ground. Muddy ground is a problem for them.
February 15th is the day of maximum freeze.
But a series of boycott calls had made it highly unlikely the 329-seat parliament in Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone would be able to clinch the necessary two-thirds quorum.
Then, on Monday afternoon, with only a few dozen MPs in the chamber, an official speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed to AFP that “there will be no vote to elect the president”.
The turmoil comes after October polls were marred by record-low turnout, post-election threats and violence, and a delay of several months until final results were confirmed.
How long until the US government decides to stick its dick back in Iraq?
Ireland will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a parade through the streets of Dublin for the first time in three years next month – and organisers hope the green-festooned festivities will energise a tourism sector hammered by a tough lockdown regime.
Good. But it should never have stopped.
“How long until the US government decides to stick its dick back in Iraq?”
We should never have left, ’cause we should never have been there in the first place.
Costa Rica, maybe, then occupy them for the next 75 years, in case El Salvador wants to start something.
Not its dick, ours. And our children’s. And our grandchildren. And so on.
And the money will enter an Iraqi economy that suddenly is among the freest in the world. Iraq has no tariffs or duties, a flat tax rate of 15 percent, no restrictions on capital investment, few regulations that are being enforced, and a new currency that’s actually strengthened since its introduction last December.
fake news: Iraq is perfect; Paul Bremer made it so; Presidential Medal of Freedom……….QED
ugh
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-bumpy-road-to-democracy-in-iraq
Well we are in “lockstep”.
US and Germany ‘in lockstep’ over Ukraine, Biden tells chancellor – live
My question is it OK to use the word “lockstep” with regards to anything German?
Are the Germans in lockstep with not being able to keep the lights on because they’ve shut down their nuke plants and therefore are reliant on Russian natgas? I hope so because that’s the game they’re playing.
Yeah, I don’t think the US and Germany are in “lockstep” here. Unless something has changed since yesterday.
They’re probably just referring to our State Dept knowing exactly what the Germans are going to do because we shamelessly and unapologetically spy on their leader. Based.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24690055
I’m no fan of the US intelligence agencies, but I just can’t get worked up about them spying on a world leader. Friend or foe.
Comments are yours? OK. I have a link dump.
Canadian Feds call for meeting about trucker convoy
The federal government is calling for the trucker convoy protests to end, and are proposing a special meeting with provincial and municipal governments to plan next steps, including enforcing existing provincial sanctions, as the demonstrations stretch into their second week in the nation’s capital.
“These blockades and occupations need to end. Unlawful activities are not the way to offer meaningful involvement in government policy development,” said Transport Minister Omar Alghabra on Monday.
Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said during the federal update—the first of its kind since the convoy protests kicked off—that the federal government wants to strike a “trilateral table with municipal and provincial partners.” Blair said that this table would allow the various parties responsible for managing the standoff to keep lines of communication open and respond efficiently.
“The only meaningful involvement in government policy is what we can just ignore!”
Uppity plebes thinking they have a say in their own lives… the nerve!
Fuck off, asshole.
If you listened to anything else, you wouldn’t be in this situation. As it is, you demonized anyone who dared to disagree,
They should meet with Gordy, declare peace.
It would seem like a small part to concede and let the truckers do what they do best.
I’ll be surprised if they conceded anything at the federal level.
Their only plan is to coordinate a crackdown. That’s it. No intention of doing anything to actually resolve the situation. How they plan to forcibly remove hundreds of semis remains a mystery.
One wonders what their response to a boycott by truckers of Ottawa would be.
As I said before, Trudy is just stupid enough to think he can win this with brinksmanship.
It’s going to get dicey.
Truckers are already blocking border crossings and slow rolling other crossings. If they uproot the protest expect to see more of this. Then there will be real problems and not imagined ones.
‘One wonders what their response to a boycott by truckers of Ottawa would be.’
I like this idea a lot. Seems like it’s be effective and not infringe on any rights, as relates to this mornings discussion.
What would they boycott? A total boycott would see people starving quite quickly. That’s a bit worse than honking.
Nothing! 99.99% of truckers support the mandates!
THIS Transport Minister Omar Alghabra ?
https://twitter.com/OmarAlghabra/status/1270046572080963584
See also: doublethink.
Ottawa police chief won’t resign
Ottawa’s police chief says he has no plans to resign amid criticism of his handling of the trucker protests that have occupied the city’s downtown for more than a week.
“Absolutely none,” Chief Peter Sloly said when Newstalk 580 CFRA’s Leslie Roberts asked whether he has any plans to step down.
Joe Rogan take notes. If you engage at all, a simple middle finger will do.
First thought — the comments will be full of just “Meh” since you asked in the picture.
Second thought — hold up, this is glibs… more contrary than a herd of cats. More likely a ton of “You aren’t my boss!” responses.
Hope the rest of your week goes better, Swiss. Headache here — but got some solid work done today, so feel like it was more than a meh at least.
NH State Rep. Klein-Knight ran into some trouble for using a naughty word in a conversation with a black activist at the State House. She some defenders. One pushing a novel excuse.
State Rep. Rosemarie Rung (D-Merrimack) released a statement Monday morning defending her statements on behalf of embattled Rep. Nicole Klein Knight (D-Manchester) who, Rung says, is a victim of antisemitism from her fellow Democrats.
“She had been under immense stress from antisemitism and felt threatened by others because she is Jewish.” Rung wrote.
It’s just the latest shot in a circular firing squad among New Hampshire Democrats and progressives over the past two weeks, with charges of “racism” being met with accusations of “antisemitism.”
Rung has been under fire for days since suggesting that Klein Knight’s use of the “N-Word” more than 20 times in a State House conversation with an 18-year-old Black activist might have been in “self-defense.”
Identity politics is cancer.
At least the left will destroy itself over it.
I wish I shared your optimism.
They do keep redefining themselves into a smaller and smaller box.
According to a Rogan subject tweet, Tulsi Gabbard and Russell Brand are now Right Wing.
They called Sam Harris right wing! HA! I can’t think of a more milquetoast, boring, voice of the status quo, establishment “liberal”.
Bari Weiss?
That list is retarded.
It also doesn’t list all the entertainers and athletes who are Left.
I know. Cherry picking much? He’s got thousands of episodes. I think that totals to less than 100. What is the criteria for this list?
Let’s have a little more NH State House drama
Rep. Tony Labranche (I-Amherst) left the Democratic Party earlier this year, telling NHJournal: “I’m changing my affiliation to independent because of the undemocratic nature of the state’s Democratic Party’s leadership. The irony is that the ‘Democratic’ party is the least democratic institution I’ve ever been part of.”
He reiterated those claims in a letter he emailed to the entire House Democratic Caucus late Friday night explaining his decision to leave the party. (Read the entire letter here.)
In his email, Labrance repeatedly reiterates his decision to leave “has nothing to do with the leadership of the caucus.” Instead, he says, the party “did not have my back” when he faced backlash over being “a young, gay, and progressive man holding office” in New Hampshire. In particular, he calls out N.H. State Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley — who is gay — over his treatment.
“The Democratic Party claims to stand with the LGBTQ+ community and other minority groups, yet when the youngest openly LGBTQ+ legislator in this country’s history reached out for help I was ignored,” Labranche wrote.
Buckley and the NHDP declined to comment.
Ugh what a drama queen.
*Jazz Hands*
One more bit of NH State House drama
Late Friday, progressive Democrat Rep. Manny Espitia (D-Nashua) issued a quasi-apology for his suggestion that Black men are in danger when they engage with State House security officers.
“A statement I recently made in which I referenced the “heightened dangers Black men face in this country in the presence of law enforcement” has been misrepresented in a news article to imply that I was calling the integrity of our Protective Services personnel into question,” Espitia wrote to his House colleagues.
“I apologize for not choosing my words more carefully, and I appreciate you providing me the opportunity to make this important clarification,” Espitia said.
Why is he apologizing? He’s a Democrat and his statement fits the narrative.
Paying your indulgences for all to see shows your moral purity.
The Arabic word for Muh Democracy is inshallah.
Really? I thought it was Submission.
“Ottawa police arrest seven people and open 60 criminal investigations into ‘Freedom Convoy’ for HATE CRIMES as they seize fuel and supplies for 1,000 vehicles: Mayor declares state of emergency over ‘totally out of control’ protests”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10480717/Canada-police-act-rein-protests-against-COVID-measures.html
Identity politics are cancer.
Not drama, just a report on some legislation considered at NH State House committees: Your State House 02/04/22: Communist Victims Day, Homestead Food Operation, Slapping down DHES…
“Sydney Sweeney takes the plunge in high-cut crop top as she enjoys frozen treats with pals… after revealing she asked Euphoria creators to cut back on ‘unnecessary’ topless scenes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10481595/Sydney-Sweeney-takes-plunge-high-cut-crop-enjoys-frozen-treats-pals.html
“Sydney Sweeney goes topless while wearing glittering rhinestone briefs in retro bathtub shoot… as she talks relating to her rebellious Euphoria character Cassie”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10486253/Sydney-Sweeney-goes-topless-wearing-glittering-rhinestone-briefs-retro-bathtub-shoot.html
I have no idea who she is.
I do. She’s Sydney Sweeney.
Says so right there.
She just screams “child actor headed into full blown cocaine meltdown and burgeoning porn career”
We live in hope…
Looks like a mopey high-maintenance 17-year-old.
If she doesn’t understand why she’s doing the topless parts she’s must have been absent the day sex ed was taught in her biology class
I can’t figure it out either.
“In total, Rogan utters the word 24 times in 23 separate clips, which were recorded before the host left his longtime platform on YouTube for his exclusive deal with Spotify in 2020.
JRE Missing, a website that automatically detects deleted episodes of Rogan’s podcast, detected 113 missing episodes.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10483973/Spotify-CEO-Daniel-Ek-released-statement-announcing-company-stand-Joe-Rogan.html
So what’s with the other 90? Also YouTube cared more about money than their own rules because any smol would have been banned for that.
The American attitude to racism and the use of the n-word is utterly retarded.
Alex Berenson:
It’s a moral cudgel. They will use it until it’s no longer effective.
It’s the third rail of American culture. And it’s getting worse the more the left controls the narrative.
Apparently, 90 of removed episodes neither had “the n-word” or any covid “misinformation”.
First through heart, and you’re to blame
You give Firsting…a bad name.
I won’t let people speculate wildly as to who I’m referring to. It’s all of you besides me.
I’m absolutely unsurprised at how poorly NJ’s great cannabis legalization has gone. The issue from Day 1 has always been how was the state going to get it money from it and who were going to be the lucky winner with the right connections who got the licenses. However, this actually surprised me.
No Black Owners Have Been Licensed Since NJ Legalized Marijuana
SLD- There should be no licensing or affirmative action.
But If you are going to do it I would hold some aside for Black owned businesses. They’re the group most hurt by the war on drugs and should be allowed to wet their beak in return.
I’m of the same opinion. I thought that black owned set asides would have been a given.
Random drawings, if there is some sort of permission granting
“According to Harmon, the commission requires that applicants maintain site control while its members consider their application. In other words, applicants must have legal access to and control of the real estate at which their businesses will be operated. This means that many applicants are hit with mounting monthly lease payments which can’t be deducted as a business expense, especially considering that marijuana use is still prohibited on a federal level, he said.”
Well, that sucks.
Sell it out of a van down by the river.
“Hey, it’s where I live”
“New Jersey residents can’t grow marijuana at home.”
So it’s all about money.
Just like everything else in the world.
You think the mob would allow that?
The Mafia doesn’t exist! It’s racism against Italians!
/Mario Cuomo
France’s Emmanuel Macron to meet with Putin in Russia, warn against Ukraine invasion
I am sure it’ll go something like this.
I thought this was just an American thing?
Ain’t nothing more Irish than drinking green Bud Lite while listening to Dropkick Murphy’s.
At least its back….right?
Last I heard is that the Paddies are Dublin down on coronatarianism.
I mean we have a lot more Irish people than Ireland. The US gets to decide what is and isn’t Irish.
Ahhh Put a Cork in it, friend, yer spewing Blarney!
*narrows gaze*
A tiny bit of non-meh news from my little corner of the world: No more masks or temp-taking at my workplace, not even for the “unclean.” ?
Good for you and your enlightened comrades.
that means you don’t have to take temps, right? So yay for getting that off your plate, iirc.
Yup. Wish this had happened while I was crazy busy last month.
Honestly, I’m going to kinda miss running around saying good morning to everyone. ?
You’re an oddball.
You’re just now figuring that out? ?
Actually, though, it’s not a bad way for an introvert like me to interact with others – it’s quick, task-oriented, in & out, but if a topic of conversation happens to come up (“How ’bout them Bengals?”) it’s not bad. And I have a built-in excuse to make even those conversations brief.
So outrageous that it’s not true.
BIDEN: Gun manufacturers are “the only industry in America that is exempted from being sued, and I find it to be outrageous.”
We’re just gonna – uh – keep doing the, you know, the thing. And that, my friends is – uhhh – how we’re gonna do it, Jack.
Biden: “I don’t want to get going because I’d keep you here too long because you know all what I’m about to, what I’ve said, and you know what I’ve done, and you know what we’re doing, and I know what you’re doing.”
Now get your COVID vaccine that we’ve absolved manufacturers of liability for use.
Say it with me, kids – The gun industry is not exempt from being sued!
The gun industry is, however, the only industry under constant threat of lawfare over gin’ed-up ‘misuse’ of perfectly legal products. The automobile and petroleum industries should probably take note…
I wonder why Remington send me a check as the result of a class action suit. Because they like me, I guess.
There are already several lawsuits against “Big Oil” for exactly this reason. And several of them haven’t been laughed out of court yet.
Don’t know about “Big Auto”.
Majority of Canadians want COVID restrictions lifted: Poll
All is proceeding as foretold.
These women have no meaning in life if they can’t scold people over wearing a mask and carrying a pass around.
In marketing, this is known as the Alpha Karens group.
The Ur-Karen
The ST:TNG nerds will appreciate this one.
Yeah, that episode bugs me in general. If a warp core breach can cause temporal loops, you’d think they’d be popping up all over the place.
But certainly avoiding the “maybe it happens because we tried something else” could have been avoided by using oh…. I don’t know… the fully functional random number generator sitting there — “Mr Data — pick a random heading and speed and put us on it!”.
Kirk was better anyway. 😉
Wrong. They should have rerouted power thru the auxiliary couplings and modulated the main deflector beam.
Duh.
Never modulate the main deflector beam. It causes full protonic reversal.
Uh oh…you crossed the streams
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
aka My One Night Stand With Halle Berry
There is no “quantum flux”. There’s no “auxiliary”. THERE’S NO GODDAMNED SHIP. You got it?
The Enterprise’s warp core overloads, causing a rift in the space-time continuum, resulting in Gozer and Q switching places, the Titanic popping into existence at Utopia Planitia just as the Enterprise hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and Data is suddenly confused as to why he is on all fours, wearing a corset and getting plowed by a filthy cowboy…
Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
Segregate the unclean.
After being escorted into gymnasium, maskless students were told to put the masks on or leave.
They left, given ‘mental health’ day.
“I’ve been denied access to education.”
“I’ve been denied access to education.”
Well, that’s debatable.
They’re getting the best education possible at the moment.
No need to bring a trailer. Its already got one.
No idea what year this is, but this is an FJ 40/Landcruiser in what I believe is “survivor” condition. I’m about 90% sure that’s the original paint. And the interior looked bone stock, too. The matching trailer is the real cherry on top.
Sadly, I haven’t seen it for a few years. I don’t think the doc who drove it is still at the hospital. The new queen of that parking lot is a McLaren.
Holy Mother of God
I figured it would go high, but wow, just wow…
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2002-toyota-tundra-10/
Saw that. Mind blowing. That 72 FJ40 went for 38K, too.
8,000 miles, no electronic crap, that price seems, well not unreasonable.
In These Uncertain Times.
I suppose. But still….
I blame the government. It’s illegal to build new simple vehicles.
I just bought a 2017 Nissan Titan. It only has a few annoying features (parking and blind spot alerting) that can be turned off. I can afford a new one. I chose not to buy a new one that was fully of mandated electronic horseshit.
I paid 100 bucks more than that for a 21 Tacoma 4×4 Off Road with double cab that had 4 miles on it. It obviously has more electronics, but I didn’t get the tech package. It still has analog speedometer and tech and actual knobs and such for the climate. That’s an insane price,
even for that low of mileage.
The absolute lies about the Ottawa protests are in-fucking-sane. There are many livestreams to watch what is actually happening. They really do think everyone is a moron.
Like what?
Why can’t we just admit there are no such thing as Canadians?
I had to leave Twitter for a couple of days because of the lies and also because some people’s willingness to accept those lies really bothered me.
And also the advocated for the mandates and lockdowns know that this is slowly coming to an end so instead of going with the flow and ending these mandates, they’ll do whatever it takes to maintain illusion that they were right.
I had to leave Twitter for a couple of days
That’s a good start. Now try for a week.
“One day at a time, friend. One day at a time.”
I know that Twitter is a small subset of the world but holy fuck, you would think that everyone hates a free society and would rather be under the boot of an all knowing government.
With Twitter, you just need to realize that everyone who is not a blue-check is there to troll everyone that is.
The real problem with blue-checks is that they think Twitter is for real.
Good news – VR safe spaces at last!
Meta establishes four-foot “personal boundary” to deter VR groping [Updated]
VR just got way less fun.
Black Market VR just got more interesting.
What about the people that are only using this so someone will molest them? Does anyone think about them? #metooplease
VR Kanojo
Not an AI. I want the mysterious touch of anonymous strangers! I don’t live in a city with a subway system, VR was going to be my only outlet.
VR groping…tech writers should have just ignored this. There was no groping, no rape, no nothing.
*sigh*
Anxious, panicky people are exhausting.
Yes, yes they are.
I have a lot of trouble interacting with people younger than myself, because they all seem to be constantly freaking out about trivial shit, and they take it as a blood insult if you’re not doing the same.
*sigh*
“Throw away the mood stabilizers, cancel the Reddit account, and get a dangerous hobby.”
Overheard at my house: No, kitty, you can’t make biscuits THERE. ?
LOL. They do have a mind of their own.
The
HitlerBLM youth.A school in DC forced kindergarteners to march around with BLM signs and chant “Black Lives Matter”
I see that twitter channel has now attracted the trolls.
Not everyone is down with the struggle. A lot of wrong thinkers in Duluth, Minnesoda. Bastards who dare to shit on a girl’s dream..
Let me guess. There is no slogans rule that get conveniently ignored when necessary.
Is that what they meant by “without being performatve”? Because I honestly don’t know what that means.
I dunno, I don’t speak post-modern.
The amazing thing about BLM is how it’s obviously a grift machine that has done nothing of value. I mean think about it. The NAACP (before it was skin suited) and other civil rights organizations brought gradual change during the 50’s and 60’s but BLM has done nothing since it’s existence began during the Obama Administration except burn cities down and collect millions upon millions of dollars from corporations and guilt ridden white liberals.
Sounds like someone needs some training in diversity, equity and inclusion. Better book your flight to Duluth.
She ultimately got her wet dream, allowed to participate and all.
Papers please.
Since February 4, the mandate of imposing full and booster vaccination from Austrian citizens has entered force in the country. As a result, President Alexander Van der Bellen has signed the new law, according to which all adults residing in the country have to be vaccinated or risk being fined €600, starting from March 15.
Except for specific categories, such as pregnant people, those with health conditions affected by vaccines, and those who have been previously infected with COVID-19, the rest are required to get vaccinated, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
From March 15, authorities will begin conducting random checks for vaccination certificates, including traffic stops. Moreover, according to this vaccine mandate, which is set to expire on January 31, 2024, people can be fined up to four times a year, with fines increasing up to €3,400.
Old habits die hard, I guess.
Disgusting.
Remember folks these are your poorly paid and tireless public servants.
Rep. Jamie Raskin slapped with ethics complaint over failure to report wife’s huge stock payout
Poor guy is going to have this on his permanent record. Other than that nothing else will happen and his wife will be destroying our economy.
Lawmakers’ spouses are allowed to trade in companies or industries that their partners may help regulate.
You can tell the lawmakers wrote the rules. EVerywhere else in the known universe, that is community property, and the lawmaker has an equal claim on the proceeds.
It’s not like Putin is going to carpet bomb Kiev.
During six hours of closed meetings with House and Senate lawmakers on Thursday, the officials warned that if Mr. Putin chose the most aggressive of his options, he could quickly surround or capture Kyiv, the capital, and remove the country’s democratically elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky. They also warned that the invasion could prompt an enormous refugee crisis on the European continent, sending millions fleeing.
The officials stressed that U.S. intelligence analysts still did not assess that Mr. Putin had made a final decision to invade. But satellite imagery, communications among Russian forces and images of Russian equipment on the move show that he has assembled everything he would need to undertake what the officials said would constitute the largest military operation on land in Europe since 1945.
They also warned of enormous possible human costs if Mr. Putin went ahead with a full invasion, including the potential deaths of 25,000 to 50,000 civilians, 5,000 to 25,000 members of the Ukrainian military and 3,000 to 10,000 members of the Russian military. The invasion, they said, could also result in one million to five million refugees, with many of them pouring into Poland.
That would be problematic.
Has Poland thought about moving? Seems like they’re in a rough neighborhood.
Well half of them moved to the US at one point.
Swissy bringing the meh!
Obligatory for any story about drunken Irish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urIsx9rxZ4U
Very good thread here:
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1490220423270699009
tl;dr? The attacks against Joe Rogan are being funded by a Democrat Super PAC.
I am shocked.
Everything that the Left does is to project power. The Chicago Teacher Union when they went on strike a couple of years ago convinced me of the Left’s need to project their power. Lori Lightfoot was not their preferred candidate so when she won and started negotiating their contracts, despite it being a generous contract, CTU pushed the table aside, shat on her, and then immediately went on strike simply because they were throwing a hissy fit that Periwinkle (their candidate) lost the mayor’s election.
Yeah, the teachers unions run pretty much every large city in the US. Money talks.
Chicago was better when it was run by the mob. Not only were they more honest, Al Capone had the decency not to fuck with anyone’s kids.
It was a coordinated attempt from a DNC slush fund? Where’s my shocked face?
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1490737606501572611
LOL
Heh – my first thought early today was “Rumble has $100 million?”
Valentine’s cards for Glibs.
https://www.sadanduseless.com/funny-card-gallery-etsy/
We’re saved! DR. Jill Biden is coming to town to talk about the rising costs of child care.
And teaming her up with King Walz? What problem can’t those two solve?
I sure am glad we are finally spending money on Child Development research. For too long have we had no idea as a society what is good for children. Those little bastards are black boxes and no one knows what to do with them.
Creating an alibi.
Black boxes matter, IYKWIMAITYD
https://www.nj.com/education/2022/02/here-are-the-details-of-gov-murphys-plans-to-lift-nj-school-mask-mandate-next-month.html
I’ll bet more than half of the state will keep them at a local level.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of freshmen suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Disaster strikes Minnesoda!
Oopsie on the linky.
Nice link. Hey, look at this guys awesome fucking link!
This is a family site. No links to fucking!
Links to alcohol are A-OK
Update on my friend with COVID. She will be taken off the respirator on the 22nd, the viewing will be the 24th, and the funeral on the 25th. Sadly, my surgery is the 22nd and I was told to plan on a 2-night stay. I may not make it out by the 25th.
This will be the fourth funeral I will have missed due to medical issues. I missed my beloved aunt’s funeral because I was in my third trimester and it was 1500 miles away. A dear friend’s funeral I missed because I had a blistering sinus infection. I missed another friend’s funeral (COVID, came on fast and killed him) because I was over at THIS friend’s house, helping her. And now SHE’s going to die and I can’t be there.
I will be going to visit her as often as I can between now and then, but the facility has a 2-visitors-per-day rule and she’s gonna have 2-3 congregations’ worth of visitors in the next 2 weeks.
This sucks.
Let me rephrase. She does not currently HAVE COVID. She DID have COVID when I took her to the hospital in August. This is situation is a complication of COVID.
Sorry
So sorry Mojeaux.
Very sorry. It’s not common to see that the person is still alive but the funeral date is already finalized.
We had a similar situation with my Dad, as he had been very healthy prior to his burst aneurysm, and they kept his body alive for 3 days because of his organ donor status.
It’s quite disconcerting, actually.
So sorry to hear this Mojeaux. She has been fortunate to have a friend like you.
Sorry 🙁
Uffda. So sorry for your loss Mojeaux.
Funerals suck for everyone.
My sister and I were lucky in that our parents both wanted to be cremated. That gave us the flexibility to have the memorial service much later, so we had started to cope with the loss. I can’t even imagine trying to go through all that stuff while you are trying to deal with the loss of a loved one.
I hope you are able to make it. I think that it was far more important that you were a good friend while they were still alive.
I’m so sorry Mo, I pray for her and you,
Oh, hunny.
Sorry.
So sorry Mojeaux.
Where we are.
https://imgur.com/gallery/o53SDuF
There will be no reconciliation.
“Just to be perfectly clear, you’re a fucking idiot.”
Jeez, away from the comments.
It’s imgur. It’s like if you took all of the 3 digit IQ people and gainfully employed people from Twitter, killed them all, and stuck the remnants on a platform that hosts pictures.
So Twitter without the intellectual chops? Yikes.
So when is it morally justified and prudent to start ending certain people?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/world-financial-leaders-want-to-adopt-chinas-nefarious-system-to-determine-credit-using-a-persons-internet-history/
Careful, questions like that are going to hurt your future mortgage rate.
We’re way, way past the cut-off of morality. I’m just thinking in terms of practicality and logistics now.
https://twitter.com/FenixAmmunition/status/1490700748308557827
WTF??
Saw that on another forum.
Easily the craziest thing I’ve seen in a month.
“My child is traumatized from watching the Gestapo deport her grandparents. We got our own deportation order this week and she’s freaking out. Does anyone know of a good Reichbahn station that will reassure her when we leave?”
“As the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to kill thousands of Americans each week, bioethicist Parker Crutchfield has suggested a controversial approach to battling the pandemic — namely a “morality pill.” Specifically, he suggests that widespread administration of psychoactive drugs could provide “moral enhancement” that would make people more likely to adhere to social norms such as wearing masks and adhering to social distancing guidelines.
Crutchfield — an Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law at Western Michigan University — acknowledges that the idea is “far out” and controversial. But he does note that well-known chemicals, such as oxytocin and psilocybin (the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms”) can lower aggression and increase empathy towards others, and thus potentially “boost” our “cooperative, pro-social behavior.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2020/08/30/could-a-morality-pill-help-stop-the-covid-19-pandemic/?sh=1e90c0f25b84
It also makes frogs seem more attractive.
And just like that, an ethics professor turns the movie Revenge of the Stepford Wives from a dystopian tale to aspirational.
This Perfect Day wasn’t an instruction manual either…
Call it G-23 Paxilon or something…
But 1% of the population become Reavers.
These back-to-back comments are why I like you people.
Didn’t refresh in time to see db’s reference – but good to know others are similarly broken.
Why do ethicists always seem to advance ex post facto rationalizations for abhorrent proposals and behaviors that align with their political proclivities and moral perversions? Get fucked guy.
Because their main source of employment opportunities exist almost solely because of government largesse.
Most universities are just there to launder theories in favor of government power and call it philosophy, science, or even ethics.
“social norms”
A conservative majority was elected to a nearby school district in November, and they’ve now sacked the district superintendent because he was into continued mask mandates and other stuff. So some students staged a walkout.
https://www.9news.com/article/news/education/douglas-county-students-plan-walkout-monday/73-0da0220f-772e-48b3-925e-38d75452d76e
Brings back memories of high school for me. I remember how all of the students absolutely adored the district superintendent, Mr. How-the-hell-would-a-HS-student-know-the-name-of-the-superintendent.
Are they disallowing masks if a student wants to wear one? No? Get the fuck back to class kid.
“How-the-hell-would-a-HS-student-know-the-name-of-the-superintendent”
It’s just the principal of the problem
Supernintendo Chalmers?
The teacher probably gave them extra credit for walking out.
I’m sorry, I was laughing too hard at this to continue.
What the fuck is wrong with kids these days? And what’s the over/under on the teachers “convinced” them to do it?
They can be serve detention after school. 1 day for every minute they missed class.
Times three because FYTW
By ‘students’, you of course mean ‘local Teacher’s Union operatives’…
Well, bye….
That is my high school in the video!!! I’ve never been so proud….??? It’s a super conservative place, I can’t imagine how different it must be now for anyone to mourn the firing of a bureaucrat.
https://twitter.com/MikhailViktor2/status/1490468960638177282
Embrace the power of and”?
Wait, whut?
What was it that P.J. O’Rourke said? “No one has ever had a fantasy about being chained to a bed and sexually ravished by a liberal?”
I hadn’t heard that, but that’s funny.
Ambassador Bridge is blocked by protesters.
https://inewsreport.net/protesters-block-canada-bound-traffic-on-ambassador-bridge-linking-detroit-to-windsor/