I am sleep-stunned this morning. My body keeps trying to slip back into the realm of Morpheus, despite caffeine and loud noises. I had something I was going to toss out as a topic, but I left it in Dreamland.
I can definitely say that this event in 1998 or 1999 is the definite answer to the question: “what’s the highest you’ve ever been in public.”
In case of accident pull pin
Women always complain about back seat driving from their male significant others, but…
I guess a mid-90s one hit wonder for music.
Women always complain about back seat driving from their male significant others, but…
And the article shows the same picture twice because…?
Female photographer?
Also, do people not look up directions on their phone before setting out? Or, if you know well ahead of time where you’re going, before leaving home?
Not always.
In case you missed the first one.
Anyway I got a nice laugh out of that one – good find.
It was a real grenade?
Considering what journalos refer to as assault rifles, I’m prepared to believe it was a smoke bomb, firework, or maybe a Buzz Ball.
Fishing weight.
take a number?
Novelty paperweight.
Orange wine?
What is that crap?
Maybe it was an old Mickey’s Big Mouth.
Only one way to find out…
“Officers didn’t buy the woman’s claim stating they “felt it was her excessive blood alcohol level” that led to the unusual crash.”
Lulz.
I recall many many years ago (1998?) driving through Greece with my ex.
We had maps and Michelin Green Guides and still managed to drive into an “alley” that was essentially somebody’s roof.
We backed out carefully and marked up modern Greece as “fucked up beyond recognition”.
“somebody’s roof”
O.o
We had a similar experience in Spain several years ago. The street just kept getting narrower and narrower. I started thinking of that scene in European Vacation where the Griswolds are fleeing the German villagers.
Following the GPS, eh? You should have taken the alternate route, onto the elevator. An extra minute or two, but easier to navigate.
Delta airlines diverted a shipment of 5 million honeybees and they got left on the tarmac and they died.
Hartsfield can be a hive of scum and villany…
Hartsfield can beAtlanta is a hive of scum and villany…FTFY
Five million bees in the hold of a passenger plane. What could possibly go wrong?
They forgot to cast Samuel L. Jackson?
Nick Cage was the pilot?
” 5 million honeybees and they got left on the tarmac and they died”
Helluva funeral. Black arm band(s) at my house today.
Forget the questions, someone give Brett another beer?
If it was Europe, I was ready to give the driver the benefit of the doubt — I could easily see those little windy roads immediately turning into stairs.
Or maybe I’ve just watched The Bourne Identity too much or something…
I swear I’m not trying to strike fear in the denizens of Chumptown with a solid week of reinforcing my Dictator For Life status — upper left just really screwed me:
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Nice. That’s as close you can get to Chumptown without falling in.
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Philly Broad St run live on the news. Must be fully vaccinated to participate. Still saw a couple masks on runners.
Fucking retards.
Special olympics, then?
Okay thread-winner
Comedy show
As well as jokes, Biden praised the role of journalism in American democracy. “I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that you, the free press, matter more than you ever did in the last century,” he said. “You are the guardians of the truth.”
He also “mocked” Trump. He’s a wartime President. Much brave. How rally.
Stealing a bit from the Critical Drinker — but all I can think of that.
Remember that tradition of aelf-depricating humor at the press dinner?
Yeah…
I suppose when you live it, it really isn’t that funny.
At least the important people are showing up.
Good grief, Charlie Brown.
And nary a mask to be seen…except for the help.
Nicer than San Francisco
A U.S. congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the courage of the Ukrainian people in remarks during a visit to Poland on Sunday, a day after a surprise trip to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymr Zelenskyy.
The American legislators assessed Ukraine’s needs for the next phase of the war, with Pelosi vowing that Washington would stand with the country until it defeats Russia.
I hope she didn’t have to dodge any sniper fire. Or step over any piles of junkie scat.
WTF.
Is President Z going to be the new ring that all the Dems have to kiss during election season?
Pelosi is second in the line of succession. She needs as much experience making deals in Ukraine as Biden.
“The American legislators assessed Ukraine’s needs”
Digs out Taxpayer checkbox, runs printing press up to 11
How dangerous is it really that they’re able to get a congressional delegation to Kyiv?
Sean Hannity’s lapel pin density is getting into North Korean General territory.
The worst thing about Hannity is that he is boring.
Also the sound of his voice.
Also that he still can’t string a complete sentence together.
Zing.
I figured there was a reason Tucker and him don’t banter any more.
Did you know he does martial arts?
I knew he reminded me of Steven Seagal somehow.
Sick burn.
Yeah. Boringkwando
I was listening to the Red Letter Media commentary track for The Return of the Jedi. For me, the first half of that movie (rescuing Han) is peak Star Wars. The special edition additions ruined some of that, of course. You can still watch the original scenes,
like Sy Snootles’ song, instead of the furry cockroach with a uvula.
Speaking of that scene, what was Jabba going to do to the dancer? Something unpleasant for her, obviously, but from whence comes his enjoyment? Also, why does he find her attractive? It seems the other dancer would be closer to what he would like.
Great set up for the rancor, though. He hits a button, she falls, screaming, you hear some ferocious growls, along with her screams. Very intense.
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Pelosi and a half-dozen U.S. lawmakers met for three hours late Saturday with Zelenskyy and his top aides to get a first-hand assessment of the war effort to date. Speaking to reporters Sunday in Poland, the delegation members were unanimous in praising Ukraine’s defenses so far, in painting the battle of one as good against evil and in assuring continued long-term U.S. military, humanitarian and economic support.
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“This is a struggle of freedom against tyranny,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California. “And in that struggle, Ukraine is on the front lines.”
Fweedum!
The Dems are going to milk this until November, I guess.
Have they tried fortifying their elections?
The message has gone out to the Hive Mind, and it is “send weapons“.
This is an impressive piece of work.
I almost didn’t stay around for the first punchline …”undisclosed conflict of interest”.
It really is amazing, particularly in light of the firehouse of propaganda we have experienced these last few years.
Perhaps our new ministry of Truth will work to prevent these sorts of things in the future?
Yeah, by kicking the content creator off Youtube.
First the left embraced Big Pharma, now the Military Industrial Complex. Is someone just playing with them, seeing how far they’ll go?
“Ok, they’ve taken the bait. Now let’s see if these chumps will defend child grooming.”
You know that I have been fascinated by the rise of propaganda in the press over the last decade. I keep looking for an honest broker in the press.
Everyone in the media went to college. Even a few years ago, they would have been proud to tell you about their reading history. Every one of them would tell you that they had re had read their Orwell and Huxley and proudly denounce authoritarian states as depicted in 1984 and Brave New World.
2022, Biden announces a ministry of Truth, headed by the ministry of magic villain from Harry Potter, Delores Umbrage.
This is a layup, people! And even Reason is having a hard time giving them the full throated condemnation they deserve.
This cannot be reality. There is no way the country that used to view national ID cards as anathema has moved all the way to bland acceptance of a Ministry of Truth. It just cannot be.
“I keep looking for an honest broker in the press.”
Diogenes, is that you?
…
“Uripedes.”
“Uripedes who?”
“Uripedes trousers you pay for dese trousers.”
I heard it as:
Tailor to customer: “Euripides?”
Customer to tailor: “Yes. Eumenides?”
Lazy writing.
I guess increasingly detached and insular “elites” is a hallmark of a post-peak empire.
The first time I heard Jimmy Dore say “Americans are the most propagandized people in the world, and don’t know it”, I thought about North Korea. But even if there is an exception here or there, the furor over the potential of free speech on Twitter kind of proves him right.
I saw someone label the new MoT commissar as “Scary Poppins”.
Heh, heh.
“There is no way the country that used to view national ID cards as anathema has moved all the way to bland acceptance of a Ministry of Truth.”
Recently renewed my NJ driver’s license. Looks pretty much like the old one, with one addition. On the top on the new issue is this inscription:
“Not for Real ID purposes”.
Oopsie, about that national ID…
https://www.dhs.gov/real-id
I intend to postpone making my OH DL a “Real ID” for as long as I possibly can. Aside from the principle, it’s a practical PITA for me – I changed my name both times when I got married, and I’m pretty sure I have to scrounge up the documentation for each time, i.e. marriage licenses & divorce papers. (I have a copy of the latter, but neither of the former.) Considering I haven’t flown commercially since 1983, I’m in no hurry to go through that much hassle just to renew my DL. Can I be a conscientious objector?
If I don’t get one this year I can’t buy alcohol, tobacco or Cannabis in MI. no kidding.
And I need my Birth certificate, from California, fun times GT!
Serioulsy?!?!? Did they pass a law that every store has to ID? Here in Missouri I don’t get carded at the local and especially the “Haji” conveince stores. One of the main chains says they ask for ID from everyone, but I went to one in a small town and they didn’t, which is good, because I don’t show my ID to buy fucking alcohol. Was at a small town which had an independent C-store with a sign that said they ID everyone, I tried to get some beer and they did ID me, I just said “I don’t play that game” and walked out.
Fweedom!!!!111!!11!!!!
Whoever is operating Joe sure is feeling their oats. They must be shaking their heads in amazement and wondering what horrors they can throw out there next. It probably helps to have the entire weight of the media and every national institution on your side.
“A common stance among Harvard liberals was that conservative viewpoints don’t matter because they’re just wrong,”
And there you have it.
“Reality has a liberal bias.”
They’ve been pulling that shit for decades.
“Reality has a liberal bias.”
Its true, though. Unfortunately, there is nothing more illiberal than the left.
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This makes me angry, because I see it as being deliberately caused.
“You’re crazy. That’s just a conspiracy theory.”
“You’re crazy. That’s just a conspiracy theory.”
“You’re crazy. You are peddling conspiracy theories! Something about malice and incompetence.”
“Oops. You were right, and now we’re all dead. My bad.”
404 try again
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/we-are-precipice-global-food-crisis-goya-foods-ceo-warns
Well…… shit.
We won’t be able to, cause we wont have anything to eat
You’ve got to lower your expectations.
Well, at least there hasn’t been a recent huge string of unexplained fires in food processing facilities.
Just like the string of church burnings.
And 5 million honeybees being left on a tarmac to bake to death
Remember “preppers”? Pepperidge Farm remembers…
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Pepperidge Farm still produces food, right? Right???
“Pepperidge Farm still produces food, right? Right???”
Not sure about that. Picked up a loaf of PF bread, and the nutrition info states that the product is made with genetically modified sugar, soy, and wheat. OMG, frankenfood!!!
GT, picked up a boxed set of Little House for Mrs. Patzer, thanks for the reminder.
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IIRC, the offending passages (that caused the children’s lit org to take Wilder’s name off their annual award) were in LH on the Prairie, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if a motivated prog found other reasons to “cancel” the series. After all, LIW’s daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who arguably helped shape the books into the classics they became, was ***GASP!!!*** a (proto?)LIBERTARIAN!!!
I love those books. Everything goes wrong, all the time. Except in Farmer Boy.
I have read that In real life, Alonzo and Laura moved to Missouri and bought an apple orchard, and only then did they become well-off. Laura wrote for magazines and, as you mentioned, her daughter Rose talked her into writing her childhood stories.
What is interesting to me is how important Christmas was to them. The holiday is mentioned at least once in each book.
If you haven’t already read it, I recommend On the Way Home, Laura’s real-life diary of the Wilders’ journey from SoDak to MO, with both a Foreword/Intro and an Afterword/Epilogue by Rose.
No, they got well off after Rose’s career blew up and she dragged Laura with her.
Almanzo had a bad case of diphtheria justafter they were married and disabled him so he was working through a lot of pain and semi paralysis. He was a young man too.
Rose, Ayn Rand, and Isabel Paterson are considered the mothers of the libertarian movement/party. Funny thing, though, they didn’t get along. Rand brought her ego into it and drama ensued.
Every variety of cookie still seems readily available except Mint Brussels. ?
thanks, I think
Yeah well that guy is a Trumpian fascist. The media told me.
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LOL that one is a gimmie.
#metoo. May never happen again.
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What did I win?
How about some propaganda masquerading itself as science?
https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/p/fiction-disguised-as-science-to-promote
It’s even designed to divide society further.
The observation still applies: if the vaccines actually worked, what do vaccinated people have to be afraid of?
Long, but worth the read. The jobs aren’t actually vaccines.
“If the Canadian Medical Association Journal does not promptly retract this article, they will have made themselves an embarrassment among scientific publishers.”
Quite the contrary. They are heroes in the service of Minitrue.
Jabs, FY autocorrect.
Let us celebrate the glory of international communism
U.S. resistance to celebrate International Labor Day — also called International Workers’ Day — in May stems from a resistance to emboldening worldwide working-class unity, historians say.
“The ruling class did not want to have a very active labor force connected internationally,” said Peter Linebaugh, author of The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day. “The principle of national patriotism was used against the principle of working-class unity or trade union unity.”
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Despite International Labor Day’s U.S. origins, said Linebaugh, many Americans, still view May Day as strictly a holiday enjoyed by “communist countries.”
In the former Soviet Union, May Day was an occasion to honor workers’ contributions with giant parades in Red Square, a tradition that has dwindled in the decades since — a fading remnant of the Bolshevik Revolution that’s lost its meaning in modern Russia.
“Some of the workers of Czarist Russia also celebrated May Day, but quickly within 10 years, say by the 1930s, it becomes [for] the Soviet Union a day to display military hardware, military weapons,” Linebaugh said.
As for Americans this year, he mused, “How it will be celebrated this day?”
“I’m not sure. I think it’ll be exciting to pay attention to see the ways in which its history is remembered.”
For a day that celebrates reform and revolution, political discussions and petitions, said Linebaugh, there’s something in it for everyone. Well, maybe not.
“There’s nothing in it for the capitalist class,” he said.
Throw off your chains. Unite for justice. Strive to create the workers’ paradise.
All my workers in Eastern Europe get two days off for this horseshit.
Maybe those Americans are familiar with May Day’s commie origins. Just spit-balling here.
The workers’ paradise needs your employer to force you to return to the urban office.
“There’s nothing in it for the capitalist class.”
Except, of course, for the increased business at restaurants and other service and entertainment venues from people getting the day off.
The observation still applies: if the vaccines actually worked, what do vaccinated people have to be afraid of?
And how does it come to be that every -unvaccinated- person is presumed to be a seething cauldron of viral infection? It is nonsensical on its face, but the health experts unhesitatingly broadcast this barefaced lie and the media repeat it unquestioningly.
I have family members who bought in so fully that they are still banning those of us who are unvaxxed (and have Covid antibodies from infection) from attending their daughter’s wedding. We all kind of pity them as mental victims of Fauci’s lockdowns, just like those kids who committed suicide. They were in New York state, locked in their homes, feverishly wiping down delivered groceries. I almost don’t blame them for cracking.
The last two years have certainly made me reappraise the resilience of the American spirit.
“It could never happen here” – yeah, I used to believe that too.
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Investigators with the Waco Police Department and the FBI are conducting a joint investigation and looking for the suspect involved in an aggravated bank robbery Saturday at the First Convenience Bank inside the Walmart at 600 Hewitt Drive.
The bank robbery happened at approximately 9:45 a.m. Police officers dispatched to the store learned the suspect demanded money, threatened the bank employees, claimed to have a handgun, and tied their hands.
No one was injured during the robbery, police said.
The suspect is currently at large running away on foot toward Hewitt Drive, and then east on old McGregor Road, police said.
Who says Americans have all lost their sense of initiative?
It doesn’t say how much he got. Probably not enough to retire in South America.
Should be an easy case. The culprit kind of stands out in a crowd.
One of the latest episodes of “True Crime Garage” mentioned that robbers get about $200 – $300 on average from robbing banks.
“Grab a chair, grab a beer. Let’s talk some true crime.”
Used to be $1200, the banks must have tighened up monetary controls
Maybe. It’s also possible that bank robbers are getting savvier, and refusing bundle money (which may contain dye packs and/or marked bills).
The Captain talks about working as a teller, and the guy next to him getting robbed. He talks about the various protocols they were supposed to use. Try to hit the silent alarm. Don’t give the robber’s note back to him. Stuff a dye pack in the bag, or the bundle of marked bills. I think he said that when you pick up the marked bills, it triggers a silent alarm.
The story was about a bank robbery in Vegas where an FBI agent happened to be doing some business at the counter. When the robber (at a different window) handed the teller the note, she screamed out that they were being robbed. The robber started to flee, but the agent fired his weapon, hitting the door. The robber stopped, and the agent started to take charge. When the agent’s attention was diverted, the robber managed to get his own gun and shot the agent five or six times, killing him, then fled.
I’ve never worked in a branch at my credit union employer, but at least in the past, my understanding was that pulling the “bait money” – the banded bills with the dye pack hidden inside – out of your teller drawer would trigger the silent alarm.
Fun story (because it didn’t happen to me): Once, some time after one of our branches had been robbed, the local police department finally released to us the recovered cash. One of our managers went to retrieve the bags of cash, and while he was driving back to the office with said bags in the back seat of his car, one of the dye packs went off. ?
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in case you missed it, apparently your club holds a monthly USPSA match. Since my club has gone from 3/month to 1/month, I need more opportunities.
Also, since this one costs more, I’m not going to show up early and set up, which means I can finally wear my Glibs jersey.
I have honestly checked out of news for months now and made the mistake of turning on NPR during my hungover store run. JFC shove keeeeev right up your ass. Don’t care. The funniest thing is the pretending that Joe Biden is actually in charge of anything. Seriously, do THOSE people really think that?
The further adventures of the cultural suicide squad
The Justice Department on Friday challenged an Alabama law that makes it a felony for a doctor to administer gender-affirming health care to minors.
“This lawsuit challenges a state statute that denies necessary medical care to children based solely on who they are,” the department said in its complaint.
The complaint filed Friday alleges that “the new law’s felony ban on providing certain medically necessary care to transgender minors violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.”
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Alabama’s Senate Bill 184, which Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law earlier this month, states that medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care to people 18 and under could face up to 10 years in prison.
The measure is part of a larger movement by Republican-led states to impose restrictions on the lives of transgender youth in the US. Despite the legislative push to end this kind of treatment, gender-affirming care is a recommended practice for people who identify as transgender, meaning they identify with a gender that is different from the one assigned at birth, or gender-diverse, with a gender expression that doesn’t strictly match society’s traditional ideas about gender.
Crazy right wing nutjobs are at it again. Who doesn’t believe in “affirming” childhood dreams and desires? What a bunch of evil authoritarian spoilsports.
Da fuq?
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Necessary medical “care”? Stop the planet; I want to get off.
And if your child identifies as a dinosaur…?
Hmm, I must have a defective copy of the Constitution – it seems mine says the general police power (and things like family law and health regulation) aren’t granted to the federal govt.
It is the civil rights issue of our era. Joe said so.
This is the logical progression of civil rights laws–one grievance group after another gets sacred status. Trannies are sacred people now, next up for promotion are pedophiles. What follows, I can’t guess.
“What follows, I can’t guess.”
Let’s just say the sheep are getting nervous.
People for the Erotic Treatment of Animals
Is there a depopulation agenda, or isn’t there?
If there *was* a depopulation agenda, how would it differ from what is being done, now?
It’s eugenics rebranded.
Notice how the vast majority of the girls suffering from ROGD are “undesirables”; depressed, adjustment problems, upheaval in the home, etc. The kind of problems that millions of teenage girls have gone through millions of times before and come out the other side just fine. However, they’re vulnerable to propaganda at a delicate age and delicate situation so you can kill two birds with one stone: sterilize an untermensch while simultaneously creating a foot soldier for your cultural jihad.
From what I can tell many of them are from good homes. Part of the problem is the parents are told if they don’t do something their child will die. “Would you rather have a dead kid, or a trans kid?” So they aren’t necessarily bad parents, they are ignorant and scared.
Yes. I’ve been reading several testimonials from detransitioners and quite a few are from well-adjusted homes but their parents are terrified of getting that knock on the door. Sounds like it’s about equal to the number that come from broken homes, however. There’s a huge detransition movement going on. I believe Reddit had a r/detransition sub-forum with 25k followers until it got nuked. I can’t confirm anything about reddit though.
I didn’t hear it got nuked, but last I heard it had 28K followers. Of course, that doesn’t mean all of them are people who detransitioned.
Lots of young girls (especially) getting sucked into the trans bullshit by predatory lunatics on social media. Then, 5 or so years later, when they begin growing (in a delayed manner) the confidence that comes with being an adult, they’re horrified to realize what they’ve done to themselves simply because they were insecure teenagers.
I’m becoming convinced that kids don’t need smartphones until they’re on their own.
It’s mostly Tik Tok courtesy of the CCP.
Even if the CCP isn’t the driving force behind it, they have the blueprint to do the same amount of damage intentionally next time. Just like with covid.
I feel bad for these kids. They end up being susceptible to being preyed upon for various reasons, and the culture is such that nobody can step in and actually help them out. Whether that be the kids actually experiencing gender dysphoria or the kids caught up in the fad, they’re all being done a massive amount of harm.
IMO, this goes much deeper than the trans issue. Kids, especially teenagers, are cordoned off from community, fed into an assembly line, and expected to pop out in a certain mold. Is it any wonder that they struggle with self-image, confidence, and meaning? They can’t eat what they aren’t fed.
And this is why DeSantis is doing so well in FL. Parents are getting crippled with fear over this BS, and finally having a pol stand up and say “NO!” is getting a lot of traction, unsurprisingly.
“impose restrictions on the lives of transgender youth”
Preventing minors (whose brains are a long way from being fully developed) from permanently disfiguring and sterilizing themselves is “restricting their lives”.
“gender-affirming care is a recommended practice for people[…]with a gender expression that doesn’t strictly match society’s traditional ideas about gender”
Let’s try this: “frontal lobe reconfiguration care is a recommended practice for people with brain function that doesn’t strictly match society’s traditional ideas about mental and behavioral health”.
I’m reminded of those weirdos who want to lop off a functioning limb.
How is that not just as “medically necessary” as chopping off your boobs?
Hey, wait a minute. That sounds like a lobotomy. The government wouldn’t do that.
/Sees flashing lights out side and a knock on the door…
The knock is coming from *inside* the house!
Call it what it is: permanently altering hormone treatments and surgical mutilation
I had the fun yesterday of going to the only ER that Pahrump NV has to offer. Had difficulty breathing that has slowly gotten worse since Tuesday.
I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the facility and the staff. Really stellar.
It’s the first time I walked into an ER and was seen immediately by the nurse and shortly thereafter by the attending physician. Had similar experiences with the respiratory expert, X-ray techs, lab tech (blood draw) etc. i cant recommend going to the ER in general, but I’m glad to know that my little Census Designated Zone has a good hospital.
(Pneumonia ruled out; just asthma attack and unknown lung infection. Z-pack and prednisone FTW!)
Oh, also the attending physician told me to throw away the face mask. He wore his mask under his nose because he has to be compliant but is also not an idiot.
*flexing bicep emoji*
I had an MRI the other night, and it was funny/sad watching the machinations re the mask that everyone went through. First, it was after hours (don’t know why they schedule them at this time) so I had to go in through the ER doors. And as I didn’t have one on, I got to watch the girl behind the desk freak out and rush to get one on me. And then proceed to ignore the fact that it was below my nose as she gave me directions to Radiology. As I walked the empty halls, I let it dangle from one ear, as there was no one around anyway, but when I got to the check in desk at radiology, the clerk there had it dangling from an ear (again, no one around) and he quickly put it on as I came up. I didn’t bother, just took my paperwork, went and sat down to wait. When they called my name (stupid, as I was the only person there…) I still didn’t bother to put it on. When I changed, she handed my a special mask, “this one doesn’t have the metal strip, as that can’t go through the MRI machine.” ” do I have to wear one in there?” “No.”
So, I didn’t. And I didn’t even bother with the formality of it when leaving. The whole thing is just so stupid.
It’s very telling when you go into a clinic and everyone there is either wearing a mask sarcastically or not at all.
Medical professionals know better than anyone how useless and sometimes harmful the masking can be.
When I went to the ER yesterday, my SpO2 was 86. The receptionist and nurse didn’t say anything about it, but the doc immediately wanted it off. Partly so could breathe, but also because he wanted to see the color of my lips.
It’s very telling when you go into a clinic and everyone there is either wearing a mask sarcastically or not at all.
Medical professionals know better than anyone how useless and sometimes harmful the masking can be.
This is also the same industry that regular kills their patients by not practicing basic sanitary practices like washing hands.
I had to go into a dialysis place last week for work. I took the stupid paper mask from the dispenser before walking in, already predicting the screeching the staff would make if they saw my uncovered face. To my surprise, no one was wearing them, including the elderly patients, and the staff said I could take it off. Thank God Florida is the sanest place in the nation (which is the strangest thing about 2022).
Locally there is a door monitor, ready to pounce and offer up the mandatory mask. Even the eye clinic to get glasses adjusted requires a mask plus a plastic intervention between patient/glasses adjuster.
It’s a relief when institutions work they way they are supposed to.
Yeah, stuff we used to expect as the bare minimum is now astonishing and praise-worthy.
Welcome to 100 years ago.
How dare an educated and highly qualified expert think for himself and make recommendations to that effect?! Pull his license to practice!!!
Dude, only DC elite bureaucrats can determine The One True Path that we must all take.
And there is the tragedy of our times in a nutshell..
I’m sorry you have Long Covid.
This is the remake of “The Straight Story”, I bet: https://newschannel9.com/news/local/caught-on-camera-masked-woman-steals-lawnmower-trailer-alabama-logo
Oh, also the attending physician told me to throw away the face mask. He wore his mask under his nose because he has to be compliant but is also not an idiot.
You should ask him for his thoughts on masks and low grade sinus/respiratory infections.
He pretty much volunteered his thoughts, with emphasis on the great harm masking has done to asthma patients over the past two years.
They didn’t test me for Covid either. 5 stars.
Topless but SFW on Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.ph/uQ0BX
Who’s working on Sunday? If you’re working in a church, that probably ain’t safe for work!
What about the secular churches?
You mean the Presbyterian ones, or the Methodist ones?
Sadly, both are on the brink of major schisms.
Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
oops.
Safe For Wife
(but still, not really)
Re; The discussion on vanilla yesterday, my wife only uses vanilla extract she makes herself. Buys beans online (I don’t know where), splits them open and soaks them in either everclear or bourbon for ~4 weeks. I think she prefers the bourbon version. I keep a bottle of Four Roses yellow label in the house for this purpose.
The bourbon probably contains vanillin from the aging process.
Gina Maiola, communications director for Ivey, previously told CNN that the governor’s office is “prepared to defend our values and this legislation” and Ivey has touted the law as a campaign accomplishment.
In a tweet on Friday, Ivey said, “Some things are just facts: summer is hot, the ocean is big and gender is a question of biology, not identity.”
Whoa. That’s not going to go over well in the Land of Newspeak.
No sex is a question of biology. One problem with this conflict is that neither side knows what they are talking about. Which is pretty much everything once it becomes politics.
Missing a comma there.
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>”The Transgender Plaintiffs are currently receiving medical care, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for gender dysphoria,” that lawsuit stated. “If allowed to take effect, the Act will interrupt these medically necessary treatments, prevent them from obtaining future medically necessary treatments for gender dysphoria, and cause them to experience irreparable physical and psychological harm.”
Bullshit. Paging Hippocrates. Gender confusion is not cancer. Withholding “treatment” is not a death sentence, despite what these aggrieved crackpots might think.
Isn’t there a raft of evidence that the difference in suicide rates between pre and post op are negligible? Seems that surgery may not be the answer for many of these people. If only there were more conservative methods of treating people with mental health issues…
There isn’t a raft of evidence that shows anything. The sample sizes are to small, definitions vary too much, and there are many confounding variables.
Regardless,”If allowed to take effect, the Act will interrupt these medically necessary treatments, prevent them from obtaining future medically necessary treatments for gender dysphoria, and cause them to experience irreparable physical and psychological harm” is complete horseshit. In fact in regards to puberty blockers the opposite is true. They make future surgeries more difficult and cause irreparable physical harm.
Let’s try this: “frontal lobe reconfiguration care is a recommended practice for people with brain function that doesn’t strictly match society’s traditional ideas about mental and behavioral health”.
Give it some more time.
“Help us, Doctor! Our son wants to get a job mowing lawns so he can buy a motorcycle. Last week we found a copy of a book by some guy named Bastiat hidden under his mattress. We’re Democrats; how could he have gone so wrong? Fix him, before it’s too late.”
Dang. Looks like Naomi Judd offed herself. I had assumed natural causes when I read she’d died yesterday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10771135/Naomi-Judd-Grammy-winning-duo-The-Judds-dies-76.html
RIP
So sad. The death was not from ‘mental illness’ but from some other physical interruptions. My guess, without knowing any facts, would be a drug overdose.
Whichever one you’re having sex with is who you prioritize.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18420460/mum-fiancee-battling-my-time/
WTF is a “three line whip?”
Cat o’ three tails?
According to this article, beef production isn’t as bad as I had thought. I had the ide that cattle farmers were having difficulty getting appointments at the slaughterhouse.
https://www.beefmagazine.com/beef/cattle-markets-2022-and-beyond
Reality rears its ugly head
Facing possible electricity shortages, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday raised the possibility that the state’s sole remaining nuclear power plant might continue operating beyond a planned closing by 2025, an idea that could revive a decades-old fight over earthquake safety at the site.
The Democratic governor has no direct authority over the operating license for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, which sits on a seaside bluff above the Pacific midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. But the governor floated the idea that plant owner Pacific Gas & Electric could seek a share of $6 billion in federal funding the Biden administration established to rescue nuclear plants at risk of closing.
“The Governor is in support of keeping all options on the table to ensure we have a reliable (electricity) grid,” spokeswoman Erin Mellon said. “This includes considering an extension to Diablo Canyon, which continues to be an important resource as we transition to clean energy.”
Nuclear energy is not clean energy, but sacrifices could be made.
Nuke plants are the only realistic option, if you shut down coal and natural gas plants.
Just the word “nuclear” freaks people the fuck out, and for no good reason.
Although…now that engineering degrees are conferred based on affirmative action and “equity” rather than rigorous testing and demonstration of competence, maybe nukes aren’t such a great idea…
You can act just like Homer Simpson, you just can’t look like him.
LOL sure, Jan.
More likely, the governor is in support of raising his poll numbers.
Hello, all. Tonight is my last solo night. Well, not really. I can get a hotel. Most likely I’ll spend tomorrow night with the Lady two floors up. I was sorry to interrupt her yesterday/this morning. She was having a BIG girls night out. They are all lovely. I think I did quite well. I got her food! And a cookie! I wasn’t to interruptive.
I’ve been sleeping a lot. Something is a bit off, but I don’t think it’s seizure shit. I just need to eat more.
Sorry. Normally, brain-damaged Ev works hard, plays well, and is productive. No one would know that there are hidden issues. That last part is still true, but homeless and unemployable Ev, awaiting legal news, is a bit different. In Purgatory, Ev doesn’t quite know what to do. And what I do is actively bad for me. I need a vacation. I’m trying to make Purgatory one, but you can imagine that the psychological stress doesn’t allow for that. Soon. I will be ‘home.’ (I think.) Even that won’t be ‘mine.’ So that’s good, but also ‘foreign’ territory. I need to CHECK. OUT. Just nothing, no background stress, no interactions, just peace and freedom. It will happen soon. Now, I just have to patiently wait. This too, shall pass. In time. Onward, upwards, always.
Newsom’s office stressed that “in the long term,” the governor continues to support the closure of Diablo Canyon as the state moves to renewable energy. Newsom first disclosed the idea to the Los Angeles Times editorial board.
PG&E announced the closing plan as part of a deal with environmentalists and union workers in 2016, citing a “recognition that California’s new energy policies will significantly reduce the need for Diablo Canyon’s electricity output.” But Newsom’s suggestion highlights that the thinking has shifted, as the state looks for reliable power sources amid a changing global climate, while California gradually shifts to solar, wind and other renewables.
Skeptics have questioned whether California’s all-in renewable plan can work in a state of nearly 40 million people.
Newsom’s suggestion comes at a time when President Joe Biden’s approval ratings have fallen sharply, and as the governor seeks a second term in Sacramento with widespread voter angst over inflation, homelessness and rising crime rates. Republicans routinely fault Newsom for the state’s power problems.
Any proposal to extend the operating life of the plant is certain to revive an extensive battle over the plant’s safety and would involve complex reviews by an array of state and federal agencies.
At least the lawyers will have jobs.
Nuke plants are the only realistic option, if you shut down coal and natural gas plants.
“Reliable” power is such a a bourgeois concept.
I accidentally posted this in Mexi’s vanilla/Musk thread instead of here.
I’m doing everything I can to find a plaintiff that will allow me to sue the Disinformation Bureau somehow; I want to tee those fuckers up in a lawsuit so bad I can taste it.
I can’t believe that anyone – ANYONE – says “misinformation” in a discussion about the 1A and doesn’t get immediately laughed at and hectored from the public square.
As if the people who wrote the Constitution hadn’t hashed over- and lived – all of these kinds of arguments about misinfo, disinfo, angry words/provocations, etc.
Like… we’re just now confronting this idea and it hasn’t already been talked about and discussed and debated to death by people infinitely smarter than the current morons.
If I’m being honest with myself, I think I don’t mind that we’re being run by authoritarians as much as I mind that they’re complete fucking morons. IOW, I would still hate smart authoritarians, but I think I’d be a lot less offended by those going along.
There is no way the Founders could have envisioned the internet /#censorshiptalkingpoints
Never mind both speech and means of producing the speech are right there in the amendment that’s notes nothing about the content of said speech.
“I would still hate smart authoritarians, but I think I’d be a lot less offended by those going along”
+NKVD Barbie singing about censorship on TikTok
You’d think given her past videos floating around the internet that would be enough to prove she has a singular goal of suppressing only speech that goes against her stated political bent.
But her political bent is in the reality-based community.
I think what a lot of people don’t understand is that they do know propaganda and misinformation works. they use it all the time with much success. Therefore they do not trust the public to consume anything other than what they want them to. They view us as herd animals that must be directed and protected from reality, much like that WEF psychopath Hariri does. The members of the herd that keep breaking the fences get put down for being a costly nuisance.
Reason’s fave government spying opponent and all around civil rights advocate Sen Ron Wyden (D-NY) is on top of it. Just kidding, his pet hobby horse is sacking Musk (and eventually all of us) with a wealth tax and making Twitter guarantee privacy somehow (maybe the DGB can do that as well).
LOL, the NSA, CIA, and FBI are so far up our assholes that they can count the polyps in our small intestines.
What Wyden et al are worried about is that Twitter’s data can be used to identify government shitheels, as was recently demonstrated: https://hothardware.com/news/mysterious-govt-contractor-alarmingly-spied-cia-nsa-tracking-billions-phones
The FBI has been using Twitter’s data to spy on users for years, but don’t you dare turn the tools back on them.
https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/1518723812057092097
My knee jerk reaction is Wyden can just start his own social media platform, if that really was his concern.
It’s the taint-sniffing enablers of the authoritarian morons that piss me right off.
Or maybe I just hate enablers more than anything, I don’t know.
If I’m being honest with myself, I think I don’t mind that we’re being run by authoritarians as much as I mind that they’re complete fucking morons. IOW, I would still hate smart authoritarians, but I think I’d be a lot less offended by those going along.
Watching them treat all of us as if we were morons pisses me off.
A million monkeys with a million typewriters would be preferable.
Grrr….
We have mice, rats, and squirrels in and around the abode, and they wreak havoc on the garden. Before the trees woke up, I had to check multiple times per day for the squirrels digging up my containers looking for seeds and nuts. I lost my carrot crop, half my basil crop, and a few strawberries to that issue.
Then I started losing seedlings overnight. I’ve dealt with the bunny problem, so it’s something smaller than that. I’ve seen rats and mice in the backyard, so it’s one of them. For example, had 6 or 7 late broccoli that were happily growing their first sets of real leaves last night. The container is empty this morning. Lettuce has disappeared overnight a few times and is now late because of having to restart so many times. I can’t wait to get to a situation where I can build protection from critters into the system and don’t have to plan around the vermin.
My damn dog is my culprit. Finally caught him in the planters digging and eating seedlings. What the hell! At least he keeps the bunnies away
It sounds like you need fencing, and down into the ground. Rodents are good at digging.
Yup. The fence we have is in disrepair and the gate is warped enough to give them entrance. If it were my house, id run hardware mesh up the first foot all the way around the fence. Since it’s not my house, I bitch about the consequences of the shoddy fence here.
Since we finally have a home state that at least kind of reflects our values, the wife and I finally feel like writing our reps means something. First note to our new reps: dissolve the DGB (Disinformation Governance Board, if you’ve been living under a rock). Weirds me out that it’s the DGB. Sounds too much like KGB. Anyways, I’m going to be the annoying guy who writes and calls and visits my reps on a regular basis. Been waiting a long time to do this.
Get involved people. It’s how we put the brakes on this crazy train.
I’ve tried but it’s the same old bullshit line returned ‘when we take the House and Senate….’
when we take the House and Senate…
We’ll do the same shit we’ve always done – ignore you, fail to pass budgets on time, avoid conducting the business of Congress is an open and transparent way…
Knowledge Governance Board
Damn, Canada. When you put the pillow over the old woman’s face, do you say “Sorey, eh?”?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor-
Wow is that fucked up.
First, do no harm.
The hallmark treatment of when a Government decides your medical worth.
???
This is socialized healthcare.
WTF???
“A man with a neurodegenerative disease testified to Parliament that nurses and a medical ethicist at a hospital tried to coerce him into killing himself by threatening to bankrupt him with extra costs or by kicking him out of the hospital, and by withholding water from him for 20 days”
Wow. That’s uhhhhh… wow.
Also:
“for once, the government found it convenient to ignore these otherwise impeccably progressive groups”
Only surprising to those not paying attention. Progressives are desperate to dispose of undesirables, they only keep them around as long as they’re politically useful.
Sounds like shit that didn’t happen to me, or largely exaggerated. Don’t you die after a week of no water?
Medical ethicist.
Y’know, like jumbo shrimp, government work, military intelligence, et cetera . . .
THEY HAVE FREE HEALTH CARE!!!!! Canada needs to be euthanized.
Why is Canada euthanizing the poor?
Because The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ can, man.
Makes me think of this.
I’m pretty pig-headed, but I don’t know if I could, or for how long, fight that system.
In fact in regards to puberty blockers the opposite is true. They make future surgeries more difficult and cause irreparable physical harm.
The world needs
ditchdiggerseunuchs, too.We really do want to emulate the Chinese; the Imperial Chinese more than the CCP.
From HEs link this piece on Vikings and how it is a best seller for Hollywood right now.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-the-vikings-are-winning-today-s-culture-war
Interesting.
OBE, have you seen the show “Norsemen”. It is hilarious.
I have
It was a dark and stormy night
Shakespeare often contemplated how the mighty were fallen in his plays, sharing his observation that “uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
Something similar seems to apply to the title of Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Literary journalisming. Alert the Pulitzer committee!
Seems to me that the same applies to Pelosi, in spades.
Relevant to the above discussion:
“NEW VIDEO: The Truth About Trans Kids, Told By Trans Adults
It’s crazy that we have to say this, but kids *cannot* consent to being sterilized or removing body parts before they can even drive. Fullstop.
My friend @buckangel and I sit down to discuss.
https://youtu.be/f8GtmWxKbO8 ”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1520145852609798147
McCarthy embodies the dilemma that confronts Hill Republicans in the shadow of Trump. His struggle to resolve it reflects a common experience of dealing with contradiction. “Every member had a similar process,” one Republican member from Texas told The Washington Post.
This “process” may be called a pivot or a pirouette, proof of resilience or hypocrisy. But for the moment it enables members who fled for their safety on January 6 to act as though it never happened. And most of them seem to agree they need to do just that.
I’m sure this can be hand-waved away as just mere self-serving mental gymnastics, but… what if those Republicans who “fled” the scene “in fear for their lives” when later able to reflect on events with more comprehensive information (like the near-total absence of weapons generally regarded as necessary to the overthrow of the most powerful government in history) came to the conclusion they were in less danger than they originally feared?
Such as, “I hate the base of my party”? That kind of contradiction?
The First of May? I got yer Maypole right here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1GD_T-3oLU
Up to the one minute mark I thought that was the stupidest song ever, well done.
The First of May? I got yer Maypole right here.
First of May, first of May, outdoor fucking begins today!
*Not here. It’s cold and dreary and drizzly this morning.