Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another fantabulous day and the links!
Biden nears 100 executive orders estimated to cost taxpayers almost $1.5 trillion
Is the FBI Falsifying Reports to Exaggerate White Supremacy Threat?
FBI whistleblower alleges Jan. 6 cases manipulated to create illusion of national crisis
House, Senate panels start this week considering changes to 135-year-old Electoral Count Act
Kamala Harris Has Been Given Her Next Assignment to Fail
Migrant Encounters At The Southern Border Surpass 2 Million, Shattering Previous Record
Mayor Adams says migrants could be housed on cruise ships
Global Meltdowns Over Cost Of Living Keep Getting Worse
US housing market in ‘deep recession’ as homebuilder confidence tanks: economist
IRS Gave Tax-Exempt Status to Soros-Backed Group Accused of Targeting ‘Trump Republicans’
Denver offers cash, goodies to homeless, but only for women, trans or “non-binary”
US could face beer shortage after extinct volcano contaminated the country’s largest CO2 reserve
Beyond Meat Executive Arrested For Allegedly Biting Man’s Nose In Road Rage Incident
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Not my Beer!
You can have cask ales?
Natural carbonation works just fine🍻⛈
It will be interesting to see how styles change if there is a big switch to bottle/can/keg fermentation.
The hazy trend will at least help cover the shock to most people who aren’t used to floaties in their beer.
Lol!
I’m pretty sure the soda market uses more CO2 than beer.
OMG now the corn syrup industry will crash and take everything else with it. You know it’s the keystone.
Soda prices have nearly doubled here in mid-Michigan, and sales/discounts have vanished. I may have to give up my Diet Coke addiction ;-\
I’m having trouble even finding Coke Zero or Pepsi Zero on the shelves at any price. I’m considering buying a small soda fountain if I can get a deal at a restaurant close out.
You could put a Diet Coke button right on your desk, a big beautiful button.
I recall seeing on a distillery tour, I think it was Kentucky Peerless, that they use closed stainless fermenters. They captured the CO2 and sold it. It would require a capital investment, but it seems like every brewery could do something similar. I suppose I am grossly underestimating the capital cost.
The article mentioned it…problem is 6 months wait to even get the equipment for that.
“Biden nears 100 executive orders estimated to cost taxpayers almost $1.5 trillion”
it will cost us a lot more than that.
“Is the FBI Falsifying Reports to Exaggerate White Supremacy Threat?”
Yes. And they are also lying constantly to hide the fact they favor the people (and party) that lets them do whatever corrupt shit they want vs. the guy that they know will come after them for massive abuses of power and their criminality.
This assumes a disjunction that seems highly unlikely, yo put it mildly. TheFBI are not particularly distinct nor distinguishable from the people and part you set them off from. They are those people and that party.
I’m thinking they are mostly RINO buttheads like John and Dumpfy.
“Mayor Adams says migrants could be housed on cruise ships”
And tax payers will be made to foot the bill for that luxury cruise.
Is it a cruise to Venezuela?
For the tax payers, it sure as hell is…
Exactly what I was thinking.
All inclusive
“Global Meltdowns Over Cost Of Living Keep Getting Worse”
You serfs will own nothing, and you will like it… –
Judge SmailsKlaus & his buddiesFTF the jaded and cynical.
Don’t forget crazy.
There is this bizarre myth on the left that homelessness is just a lack of homes and that it is a problem that can be solved. Jimmy Dore keeps repeating “the money sent to Ukraine could have solved homelessness”. Um, most of those dudes had homes but chose a life of degenerate substance abuse. And you can’t solve mental illness either, unfortunately. My main problem with them is all the trash they throw everywhere. There is a spot on my commute where completely able-bodied men post up in the median and beg. They trample the flowers and leave a permanent mound of trash there.
This is what triggers my rants at the TV screen when the perpetual Prop 27 (or the 27 vs. 26!) ads come on when I’m just trying to listen to the Drinker or Drachinifel.
“Prop 27 guarantees more money for the homeless, giving XXXX ‘non-profit’ a permanent fixed income stream! Isn’t that wonderful!”
Like — a) All the damned money thrown at homelessness before in California has done anything but feed the problem,
b) Guaranteeing an income stream for all these ‘non-profits’ sure sounds like ‘funneling money to our cronies and slush funds’ to me and
c) Why soak gambling to do it in the first place, assholes?
Fortunately — my default position unless there’s really solid proof in the other direction on any and all CA props is “No. Hell no”. Just sick of the ads already and we still have months to go.
The problem, it seems, is that we just didn’t throw enough money at it. And when the problem worsens we just go back to get more money.
I hate homeless inc.
Homeless non-profit execs could not be reached at their cabanas in the Caribbean for comment.
It will be like the dedicated revenue streams for education that haven’t helped students.
“Denver offers cash, goodies to homeless, but only for women, trans or “non-binary””
is this so the government agencies can collect information of who to bang (and who not to) for the top men?
Yeah, fuck that “equal protection under the law” bullshit, nobody pays any attention to the constitution anyway.
“FBI whistleblower alleges Jan. 6 cases manipulated to create illusion of national crisis”
Would anyone not part of the cult, and thus obligated to feign a fainting spell, be surprised about this considering our recent experience with the Kung Flu?
“Biden nears 100 executive orders estimated to cost taxpayers almost $1.5 trillion”
That should be illegal.
Congress consistently lets them get away with it.
FWIW, it’s already unconstitutional. (Stop laughing.)
“House, Senate panels start this week considering changes to 135-year-old Electoral Count Act”
Libtards: DEMOCRACY…
Yeah, we are a republic, on purpose, you fucking evil morons…
And of course, down near the bottom of the article:
Because of course they have. Because “civility” or “social contract” or “bipartisanship” or some stupid thing.
Psst, GOP: They’re pushing this to bury you. You need to start assuming that is the motivation every time – because it is.
GOPe has nothing to worry about. They’re more valuable alive than dead. They’re probably happy to have the prog-fascists knock out their primary competition.
This new tactic seems to be the bomb with team blue cause trusting the voters when all you have done is fuck them in the ass, seems to no longer work for them…
Look, you don’t get to extend the one-party state utopia by allowing other parties to participate. Sheesh.
“but if I had to compare these threats against those from radical Islamic terrorists—it’s radical Islam that we must monitor more closely regarding future attacks”
Seems to be much less of those in recent years.
Radical islam is not as dangerous as people that oppose the abuses of power of the deep state. And nothing is as dangerous as the made up AGW crisis shit.
This morning has been weird. *sigh*
I missed commenting on Plisade’s article. Which I liked.
Also, I have the same exact knife. Two, actually. And some other variants of the Blur – including shiny & fashionable colors.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/gkbpQS67TXSW3uqk8AsoRg.zFO0MeXf5JqD1D3oKqRJ85
Also, never bring a knife to a gun fight.
Glad you liked it. For the next installment I’ll try to remember to include a pic of my other “tactical” knives (all practical; I’m not a collector). But yeah, the Blur is the shizzle.
I tried carrying around a Spartan Enyo. Great knife. Decent sheath.
Don’t know why I needed it. Stopped carrying it and just kept my folder, which is currently a CJRB Feldspar.
I missed the knife article last night too. I have 6 -7 nice blades – most are Spyderco’s. My favorite is a Zero Tolerance ZT-0562 flipper – a Hinderer clone. Cool looking knife and opens as smooth as butter.
Nice looking knife.
For conflict mgmt purposes, I prefer the gravity assist to flipping (but you can flip a gravity assist, too). Flipping open requires more space unless you’re crazy efficient with it, and you can’t open it secretly, like behind your silhouette, if need be.
That said, I have had instances in which my opponent made an unforeseen move that unintentionally blocked my Kershaw’s blade from opening fully, and I had to flip it open from there. This happened when I started the fight with the blade closed, initially using just the handle for strikes (which I’ll cover in part 2). Such are the times when your own fingers get cut. But shit happens.
Knives that don’t require 2 hands to open are illegal in some states.
In Nebraska it is illegal for convicted felons to own a knife.
“Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan is sounding the alarm after a whistleblower explained a shift in the FBI’s priorities.
In a letter sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray Monday, Jordan is demanding answers about why the Bureau is allegedly distributing resources away from child sex abuse cases in favor of political witch-hunts.”
Seems a bit too perfect.
Stokes so-con piety and paranoia! That is pretty perfect, for political pandering.
That’s just a way to draw attention to the main issue. Got to scare the suburban mommies into caring about it.
This I believe. Field offices have been “interviewing” Joe and Sally Sixpack over Facebook posts that indicate they were in DC on Jan 6th and literally nothing else, not in the Capitol building, not planning a riot, nothing.
A letter! Making demands! I’m sure that will get all this sorted out.
Um… it’s because Biden has commanded every department to do exactly this. To make rooting out wrongthought (i.e. political enemies) the central focus of their activities.
Of course we know from Trump’s tenure that the Bureau (and other fed agencies) only comply with presidential orders they agree with.
Blah blah blah radical Islam.
“Why won’t they panic over my hobgoblins?”
You can fuck right off, too.
Yes. Have been from the word go. Prosecute them, everyone associated with them, and their handlers at the DoJ. Any that are still alive.
Jim Jordan was on TV last night talking about how the Republicans will have hearings if they win in November.
Oooh – hearings!
The only way to fix this is to make the budget for the FBI zero, fire everyone in the agency from new recruit to the Director, and bar all of them from federal employment ever again. Burn the records and sell all their property.
I’d subscribe to your newsletter if you expand that to the full IC, moving what little we actually need (SIGINT mainly) back into the respective military branches, and chopping 70% of the Pentagon to start.
Salt. The. Earth.
That’s a decent start. Shouldn’t the records be made public though? I understand that there is sensitive information in there but reporters need to see how the sausage was made, who was blackmailed, who they had killed, etc.
It won’t happen. You’re asking DC pols to expose all their evil doings to the world.
The only way to get them on board with getting rid of the FBI is to give them a way out of culpability. Pick your poison, corrupt pols that you have a chance to unelect or bureaucrats that never go away and can jail you on a whim.
That’ll happen when pigs fly over a snowed in Hell.
Excess mortality in the EU climbed to +16% in July 2022
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20220916-1
Maybe that will solve the “housing crisis”. Unless of course they import millions of immigrants. But I think people from tropical lands will be less attracted to Europe when the economy crashes and houses aren’t heated.
Daily Ray of Hope
* Very similar to watching Fourscore at the Honey Harvest
Kid is much, much braver than I ever was — especially at Junior High dances. 😉
Altar Boy 1 did a somersault and finger guns pointed at me when he was introduced at a 4 year old soccer match. So proud of him.
If only he didn’t have his hand in my pocket…
Elon Musk Proposes Starlink Access in Iran as Protests Spread
Is the other one hailing a taxicab?
Giving a,
Hi five?
Puerto Rico is a corrupt shitole
Hurricane Fiona is just the latest in a series of events that manifests the impossible political situation in which Puerto Rico finds itself. As an unincorporated territory, without representation in Congress, it cannot advocate for itself and must rely on the good graces of others. This is not a foundation on which to create a lasting democratic society.
That’s why we need to make it a state.
I’d rather release them to their own free will.
Ditto. Should have done so shortly after the Spanish American war. Ditto with the Philippines, instead of the stupid war there no one talks about to subjugate them.
I’m as patriotic as the next guy — but boy there is some stupid and evil shit done in our name repeatedly in the past. Wish we’d actually learn from it instead of going “THIS time we’ll rebuild them afterwards and they’ll be so grateful and model allies!” (Don’t start me on the handling of the native tribes…. if you’re going to make treaties and call them sovereign nations, then you can’t run their internal affairs and ship their people around at your will, assholes. How we broke treaties in the early 1800s should have made us a pariah among the nations for 200 years. Pure bullshit).
What nations? The ones actively subjugating the people in Africa? The more civilized nations in the Middle East, with their medieval practices? Oh, what about Imperial China? I bet they were libertopia in the early 1800’s.
Not saying any of them were — but breaking your word repeatedly to what you claim to recognize as other countries should make it where no one can trust you to honor it elsewhere. Hence no nation should have engaged in diplomacy with us — we were proven oathbreakers.
There’s a lot of crap that past generations did that you can waive off as “It isn’t like anyone else did any better” and all — but even by the standards of the time, breaking treaties left and right was dishonorable.
Cmd-F ‘statehood’
No matches.
They want a congressional delegation without actually becoming a state (and those icky obligations, like federal taxes).
ISTR they could become a state more or less at will – but nobody will vote for it.
Do we actually get any benefit from holding it as a territory?
My guess would be “no” but I have nothing but my gut to back that up.
I’m sure some neocon will point to national security. Why, sixty years ago the Soviets almost planted nukes on another island near us.
Originally we held it because PR provided a coaling station for the fleet. But Rumsfeld closed that naval base. Let them go their own way.
Tasmanian City Park monkey enclosure intruder possibly exposed to ‘fatal’ herpes
CDC is taking notes for their next big epidemic.
Seems to me that this winter we are going to see Europe go full Martha’s Vineyard on all their immigrants from Syria and other fun vacation spots.
When people don’t have enough fuel to heat their own homes, they are going to stop being as “tolerant” of all their wonderful asylum seekers than they were when living was easy. And deportation will be the best option for those immigrants. The other option is to just be disappeared.
This was inevitable. When times get tough, tribes get smaller and old cultural tendencies come right back to the top.
Swedes and Norwegians will be rowing over to France to plunder their nukes for electricity?
Sweden is already at that point.
Instead of food stamps, immigrants in Sweden and Norway will be given blocks of govt lutefisk.
I heard that. You are one of the people Mrs. Holiness uses as an example of what I could become if I just committed to improving myself.
By the time I was done getting razzed for turning up after all the work was done, you had packed up and gone. Oh well, I’ll see you next year.
It needs to be noted, however, that LUMA Energy is not solely responsible for the current situation, which it inherited. Both PREPA — which continues to be responsible for energy production — and the government of Puerto Rico are the historical parties responsible for the bankruptcy of the agency. Both have also been responsible for not taking the necessary aggressive steps for the development of renewable energy, notwithstanding its lip-service, condemning Puerto Rico to its dependency on fossil fuels and the volatility of the international energy markets. It is not reasonable to expect decades of mistakes, negligence and corruption to be corrected in just a year.
PR needs some 21st century corruption, like green energy.
Lots of windmills and that mythical amazing storage that is always closer than fusion reactors somehow — the next hurricane will power them for a full year!
(See also — idiots.)
Because nothing helps a struggling country become prosperous like quadrupling the cost of energy.
Nice shitlording!
The only reason I’m posting this is because it made me laugh that the one dude in the pic is right next to the only attractive gal at the pro-choice rally. (and she is a cutie). He also has a look that says “fuck, I can’t believe I have to waste a day on this bullshit just to get laid. I am for sure going to cum on her face tonight”
The one in the center has unfortunate sweat marks. And yeah..left is cutie
The historical records shows each side has opportunities.
One of the best “It’s Always Sunny” episodes
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0612820/
Hahaha too slow
‘Orning ‘ordle — DuoTri was going well enough I actually thought about the Hype Challenge (congrats again on doing yer Mom… *cough* I mean, doing the challenge yesterday!). Then I looked at the timer and realized I was already over 5 minutes. Ah well, it wasn’t bad:
Daily Duotrigordle #202
Guesses: 35/37
Time: 05:51.71
https://duotrigordle.com/
Main event started well (as well) — one of the seeds I used (because I just use whatever word pops into my head that seems likely to garner or eliminate letters instead of having a regular set like a sane person) almost gave me a 2… but I’ll take the 3. That gave me the Lowers pretty quickly… but not much on the Uppers, so ended up burning what was probably a stupid guess — but I was figuring the Quordle gods decided on repeated letters… incorrectly as it turned out. Pulled it out enough that Chumptown wasn’t even close, so I’ll take it!
Daily Quordle 239
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Days since last visit to Chumptown: 3.
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Without the FBI, Dillinger would have kept us out of WWII.
Biden nears 100 executive orders estimated to cost taxpayers almost $1.5 trillion
Democracy!
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is allegedly fabricating evidence again.
Also, today is Tuesday.
Joe Biden and the Democrats believe that numerous white supremacist fifth column groups dot the country, constituting a clear and present danger to the United States national security.
They don’t believe it. It is just the narrative. And it is ass backwards from reality.
I think they *do* believe that they can convince enough of the people that their political opponents are domestic terrorists and they can bring down the hammer on them. Just need to keep pushing (or get the Feebs to get something that will stand up to any scrutiny) for their inciting incident.
They’ll continue to hit groups like Proud Boys et al and quietly lump in some benign groups like website forums and such.
FBI whistleblower alleges Jan. 6 cases manipulated to create illusion of national crisis
The entire narrative around this small riot is intended to deceive and manipulate.
Step 1: deny this is a narrative…
That is a lot of lightbulbs
Figure $100/light + installation and that is 28K new lights. (I’m basing my estimate that I could buy a floodlight at Menard’s for $65).
You could also maybe invest in security guards?
I can buy a box of bandaids, assorted sizes, from Walmart for $3. Why does healthcare cost so much in this country?
University of Minnesota has a $3.4 billion endowment fund, they can buy their own fucking lights.
Spikes in cost of living in tandem with global inflation and dysfunction continue to inspire massive protests and social unrest throughout the globe with no sign of abating, according to a recent study.
You will own nothing, and you will be happy…Or else. ///GreatReset
Isn’t it funny how they never consider what or else might mean to them. Like there was never a French Revolution.
House, Senate panels start this week considering changes to 135-year-old Electoral Count Act
Whatever they come up with will make government worse.
Today, in crackpot theory
Yes, the “new virus” is now endemic and wholly manageable, due to mass infection and recovery. It was never going to end any other way. We knew this from February 2020. It’s the way every pandemic of this type of virus ends, all extremely well-documented over the past 100 years or, really, thousands of years.
The policy response to the pandemic is what was the outlier. After spending two and a half years watching the unfolding of the great public-health disaster of our lifetimes, it’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that this has always been about politics and the manipulation of public perceptions. The reality that we chose to see was heavily informed by media propaganda and political priorities.
That’s a terrifying reality.
For example, it’s impossible to avoid the observation that the pandemic response was motivated at least in part by the desire to drive Trump out of office.
What better way to crush a presidency than to panic the president himself into wrecking the economy that was his strongest selling point during a critical election year? It was a masterful plot and you don’t have to be a dreaded “conspiracy theorist” to see it.
Moreover, it was not just about Trump himself. It was about much larger agendas and directions that the administration was headed that threatened some very powerful interests, the investigations of which should consume years of work. Theories abound about the real reasons – Fauci and gain-of-function research, WEF and its agenda, an experiment in unleashing hipster techno-primitivism – and we are still a long way off from knowing the full truth.
Jeffrey Tucker isn’t going to get an invite to appear on Sixty Minutes. It had nothing to do with politics. Honest, decent, caring, noble public health experts saved the human race from total annihilation.
Don’t forget selfless. Fauci, the highest paid government stooge, who refused to disclose how much he and his staff get in pharmaceutical royalties, cares about nothing but truth, science, and saving lives.
“EXCLUSIVE: Bill Gates strolls through NYC with Bono and huge security detail before 30-minute meeting ahead of appearance at Bill Clinton’s global summit”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11229677/Bill-Gates-strolls-NYC-Bono-ahead-appearance-global-summit.html
Global summit is just a euphemism for bunch of assholes.
“EXCLUSIVE: A night with the Queen of fashion! Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend Lauren Sanchez sports sheer micro mini as couple joins Hugh Jackman, Leo DiCaprio, Huma Abedin and Florence Welch for star-studded party at Anna Wintour’s townhouse”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11228591/Jeff-Bezos-Lauren-Sanchez-Hugh-Jackman-Leonardo-DiCaprio-attend-star-studded-Anna-Wintour-party.html
Does she have a penis?
If that dress rides up a little more we’ll find out.
Three kids says no.
“She says she was fired from a TV gig because she was pregnant”
https://www.nickiswift.com/142729/the-untold-truth-of-lauren-sanchez/
But there is always the transvestigation people:
https://johndenugent.com/third-richest-woman-bezos-ex-a-transgender/
Yeah, I was kidding – she’s just a slightly older woman who has lost the subcutaneous fat from her face, so she’s looking more masculine these days. That, plus the aftermarket bolt-ons contribute to that tranny look.
Happens to be best of us.
S’pore restaurant imposes S$10 surcharge if child makes noise & disturbs other guests
https://twitter.com/MothershipSG/status/1572115664793632768
make it 100 …
What’s the cost for adults that act out like assholes?
^^
I’m all for kid-free restaurants. I have to hear my kids all day, so having to hear somebody else’s kids when we escape for a date night once in a blue moon is not ideal. However, most of the memorable negative eating experiences of late have been clearly drunk 20-somethings who don’t have any self-awareness or volume control.
I’d be all for a trend away from fast casual and back towards semi-formal for some of the mid-level restaurants. I remember when Red Lobster was a “nice place”.
Yes. Back when people had a bit more courtesy there were certain restaurants you expected children pitching a fit and other places where they were not expected to be taken.
Shocking…
Yep, I remember my brother being taken out to the car for being too loud in Pizza Hut.
I stood on the table and sung the national anthem while my brother threw up enchiladas at El Chico around 1971. We were never taken to a restaurant again.
Was it the Mexican national anthem?
If you had done that at Pancho’s, nobody would’ve noticed.
American anthem. That’s what played when something bad happened on TV, so I just activated and started singing. And yes, it would not have been noticed at Pancho’s.
I was also the kid who had to be shushed, taken out, etc.
Now my girlfriend will make funny faces at kids a few tables over to trigger the parents into the same response. I think it’s hysterical. Adults get away with so much.
A friend of mine has a pretty basic litmus test as to if he’ll bring his kids to a restaurant. IFF they have a kids menu, then they’re open to having children. No kids menu, don’t bring the kids there.
Eminently sensible.
A huge chunk of the problem is what passes for design in a restaurant space now. When was the last time you had, or even saw, a booth in an upscale eatery? Carpet? Or any other sound deadening feature? No, what is fashionable now is the “sleek, modern” look of faux hardwood, tables packed together, and open ceilings (with no sound deadening), coupled with an open kitchen that is in the middle of the dinning area. Food as spectator sport.
Part of this is local food and health regulations, but a big chunk of it is the aesthetic of the restaurant as a feature, and not the ability to have a decent, quiet conversation.
There also used to be a smoking section that was kid free. As a newly minted 50 year old, I have even more issues with kids in bars.
WFT Hipsters keep your kids out of bars, they are not welcome. The only time I was in a bar as a kid was when I was trick or treating or we had a private party. I don’t want to hold my tongue or be made to feel self-conscious because your 5 year old kid is sitting right behind me in a booster chair.
By the way get off my lawn and stop playing that noise that you call music!!!
I had a parent complain to me because we were swearing at the game one time at a bar. I proceeded to swear more going forward. Fuck off… this is a bar and an adult space.
I’ve never understood this. It’s not like words have some magical power that harm children. My wife and I swear. Our family and friends swear. Our children understand these are adult words and not to use them. It’s that simple.
I had my seven-year-old on my shoulders at a music festival. Two guys in their late twenties were swearing up a storm in front of me. One of them looked back at me and apologized profusely. I pointed to the stage and said, “Jesus dude, relax. It’s fucking Ice Cube up there.”
When you are used to places where no one under 21 is allowed in the bar (or the bar section of a restaurant), it is weird going to places where kids are allowed.
I saw a couple kicked out of the bar section of a restaurant in Indianapolis because they had a newborn with them. It was asleep and not a problem, it was the law that was the issue. They came in to order drinks while waiting on a table and were (politely) moved out of the room.
In Wisconsin, that kid would drink you under the table.
But his parents would have to order the drinks for him.
I remember when babysitters were a thing.
I don’t remember ever being taken to a restaurant before an age at which I knew how to behave myself.
When I was going through cancer treatments I went for a PET scan in “the city” and afterwards felt like crap due to lack of food and the radioactive sugar they pumped in me. I stop at a Chili’s for a quick meal and take a table in a quite corner and pull out a book. Five minutes after I order a herd of mom’s and children flood the place; screaming meme’s everywhere running amok and causing havoc. Waitress comes with my drink and I tell her, “get me out of here or cancel my order, I can’t take this.” She sees my distress quickly leads me to a closed section, I guess for private parties or something, and lets me sit in there by myself. I have never been so grateful to a Chili’s waitress in my life, I tipped her >100%.
It should rattle any concerned citizen of the US – or just any rational person – that such a massive issue as a deadly pandemic could be turned on and off by perception management by powerful elites in government, tech, and media. And yet, the evidence is overwhelming that we have seen just such an operation at work over these pandemic years.
Rational people are not exactly thick on the ground.
Rational folks made the determination back in June 2020 about what this virus means in their lives. The irrational continue to be dragged about by their noses
The irrational continue to be dragged about by their noses.
I am amazed at the number of people who are continuing to get boosters despite having already had Covid multiple times. It’s become a religious rite of passage for the Left like taking communion.
Many are ignorant in the truest sense of the term. I think of my grandparents. They watch TMITE with daily regularity, slurp down its agenda, and don’t bother to look anywhere else for info. They may be skeptical of the blatantly partisan stuff they see, but they’re in that 90’s era mentality of “its good reporting with a slightly leftward editorial slant”. They don’t know and don’t care that there are 100 alternative sources out there putting the lie to TMITE bullshit.
My parents’ generation seem to be the religious ones about all this. Especially the divorced women. Both my mom and my wife’s mom fall in this category, and they gobble up the leftist agenda and the smug pretention like it’s candy. They abandoned their worldview and their morals of their youth and they live and breathe the nihilistic cynicism of the left, albeit gussied up in “kindness” and “tolerance” and the all too tempting victimhood narrative (after all, the traditional way of getting married and having a family burned them)
I made that determination after (probably…) contracting it in November of 2019.
Kamala Harris has been given some key tasks by the Biden administration, and she has been a remarkable failure at them all.
Idk that she has failed so much as not done anything.
Mayor Adams says migrants could be housed on cruise ships
How nice to be able to commandeer vessels to house illegals.
Piracy is okay in the name of the State
“Mayor Adams says migrants could be housed on cruise ships”
Prison ships. At least not hulks, like in “Great Expectations”.
Everything old is new again.
US housing market in ‘deep recession’ as homebuilder confidence tanks: economist
Yet our office is still rolling. I wonder how long before everything blows up.
Good news for me. I have managed to clear myself of virtually all debts, and am renting at a below market rate. Now I can start saving like a madman and in three years I should have enough for a big down payment on some other person’s foreclosed property.
We’re less than 6 months out from having enough down payment saved to be able to get what we want at current prices. A market drop would only increase our equity in the house and reduce the impact of interest rates.
Now we just need to hit our savings goals for the first time in 6 months… *glares at grocery and electric bills*
Three years? You should be good in 6 months or so. I wouldn’t worry too much about a high interest rate, price will be favorable and you’ll have plenty of opportunity to refi down the line.
You say that, but something in my last mortgage (signed in 2004) turned out to be an impossible hurdle as far as refinancing went. I was paying over 6% interest, and I knew in the terms I signed that I couldn’t refinance for five years after closing, but I tried to refinance in 2012 and again in 2015 and for some reason that was never well explained to me it wasn’t possible. And it was not my credit rating, which has been 700+ for going on 20 years now.
The reason is that you are a cash cow, and unless you resort to legal action they plan to service you like a bull does until they milk you for all you are worth. Mortgage rackets are the norm IMO.
Denver offers cash, goodies to homeless, but only for women, trans or “non-binary”
Old and busted: Equal treatment
New hotness: discrimination
wait are we not doing tired/wired anymore?
Seems illegal…
Morning Banjos. I’m glad you are doing the linx this morning and not Sloopy.
I don’t need to be reminded of another stellar Prime Time performance by Cousins and the Vikes.
Vikes fans were quiet here last night…
I shut it off at halftime.
Cousins is painful to watch.
IRS Gave Tax-Exempt Status to Soros-Backed Group Accused of Targeting ‘Trump Republicans’
MAGA Republicans with their Ultra-MAGA agenda are an existential threat to our Democracy.
US could face beer shortage after extinct volcano contaminated the country’s largest CO2 reserve
If you want a revolution…
Beyond Meat Executive Arrested For Allegedly Biting Man’s Nose In Road Rage Incident
I have questions but I don’t want to be nosey.
You just don’t want to face the truth.
Apparently dude isn’t Beyond Cannibalism.
Smells fishy
Liz Truss admits no US trade deal in ‘short to medium term’
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62959374
The UK government had previously promised a post-Brexit trad deal with the US by 2022.
Labour said the lack of a trade deal with the US “is costing billions in lost potential trade opportunities and holding back growth”.
Speaking ahead of her flight to the US, Ms Truss said: “There aren’t currently any negotiations taking place with the US and I don’t have an expectation that those are going to start in the short to medium term.”
But those hopes were dashed in the early months of the Joe Biden’s administration. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Trade Secretaries – first Liz Truss, then Anne-Marie Trevelyan – conceded the US had other priorities. President Biden made clear protecting US jobs came first. Resuming free trade discussions has not been on the agenda.
Why do you Americans hate trade?
Sheet-Pan Full English Breakfast
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023465-sheet-pan-full-english-breakfast
why does the NYT hate Full English Breakfasts?
I was on Big College Campus yesterday when I was buttonholed by a grad student. Our conversation went something like this:
Grad Student: Hi! Our Ornithology club is raising money to attend a seminar on corvids. Would you care to donate?
Me: Interesting… what’s your club called?
GS: CAW! CAW! CAW! CAW!
Me: (reaching for wallet) Well, as long as it’s four good caws….
I believe Jesus said something about not crowing when you do charity or philanthropy. And I think it would be more pertinent to ask if we’re past a corvid pandemic.
Now you’re just rantin and raven.
It is a scam. They will use your money to feather their nest.
I wonder if there’s some charity for fatherless youths you could join and fulfill their need of terrible dad jokes.
What do you have against these wonderful puns?
You can go flock yourself and your bigoted views on humor!
These always start out as completely credible, and then the pun hammer drops. Well done.
*narrows gaze*
The corvid pandemic is over.
“Gun violence” activist David Hogg will bless Duloot this October 1st
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.duluthnewstribune.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fparkland-shooting-survivor-turned-activist-to-headline-duluth-rally-for-peace
Anyone want to bet that he travels with a security detail…that all carry gunz?
I’d take that bet for twenty. Personal security details are extremely expensive, and Hogg is a pissant in the prog world. He might have some local cops in plainclothes doing site security, but no one is paying for his protection.
If Leif was alive today, I’m sure he’d be all about common sense axe control.
Duloot seems like an odd place for a gun control rally. Do they understand he wants to take their deer rifles and shotguns?
* Someone enact some labor for me and tell me if Hogg was an actual survivor. I thought I had read he wasn’t at school that day.
He was at the school, but not in the building. So Hogg is a school shooting survivor in exactly the same way that I am.
He’s a Parkland High shooting survivor in the same manner that the Bosslady and I survived Danny Rolling’s killing spree. We were there, but we never saw the perp and really weren’t affected in any way. Big College Town was a weird place during that time, and for weeks afterward.
I’m a Night Stalker survivor…well I lived in the SoCal area during the time so where can I sign up for my grift
That must have been terrifying.
I shopped last night at a grocery store where two people were killed last month.
If he hadn’t hitched his wagon to that shooting, I wonder where he’d be now? Just some random twink at a second-rate liberal arts school training to be a party apparatchik is my guess.
It’s revolting how he’s going to ride that shooting into a life-time of low-level grifting.
If he hadn’t hitched his wagon to that shooting, I wonder where he’d be now?
As it is, he’s the single point in the Venn diagram intersection of “People who were waitlisted by the University of Central Florida” / “People who were accepted into Harvard University.”
Visiting Marx’s tomb. Somebody had left the work of a Bourgeois revisionist on his grave so I removed it. This is true Leftcom Praxis.
https://twitter.com/Edensnightmare/status/1571114461746044934
I “leftcom” Newspeak for “lame”?
A headline you don’t read everyday.
Hong Kong Police Arrest Harmonica Player After Protest Tune Heard at Queen Funeral Vigil
Titty Tuesday unleashing with both barrels!
https://archive.ph/e4tWQ
the @UofT
job fair offers 30 minute early entry for “Indigenous students, Black students, racialized students, 2SLGBTQ+ students, students with disabilities, and any student who would be able to participate more fully with fewer sensory distractions …”
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https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1571965447662346240
That is funny. Everyone knows that those students are never on time to begin with. So letting them show up early? Sounds like some hidden white supremacy to me.
*Indian Time was a well known concept where I grew up. When my dad retired, a tribal elder told him that they all missed him on the res because he understood Indian Time. The replacement PO still thought “show up on Tuesday” meant they’d show up on Tuesday and not sometime that week.
As I’ve been saying forever, “manana” doesn’t really mean “tomorrow”. It means “not today”.
Just got an email from some random online ammo dealer offering (supposed) “clearance prices” on 9 and 5.56. “You can finance with Credova!”
Finance? Jeebus.
Be sure to use Visa, Mastercard, or Amex so they can track your purchases appropriately. Maybe Credova is an untraceable alternative for people who are worried about the new rules?
I wonder if prepaid cards are the answer to this phenomenon.
Structuring charges are coming. I think a huge a driver, perhaps even the biggest, behind the doubling of the IRS is to open a new front in gun grabbing.
I doubt they would take an anonymous prepaid card.
I’m seeing a fair number of online vendors starting to accept crypto transactions.
Ah, they are being pressured, don’t know if they folded like the others did though:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-press-credova-in-letter#toggle-gdpr
It’s a very weird idea to finance a consumable product.
That’s essentially what leasing is, yes?
I’d do it the day before the apocalypse.
Do I need to get a Discover card? Possibly a Diners Club?
If someone could invent a way to sequester the “bad” CO2 into a food-grade format so it could be used for beer, I think we could achieve world peace.
Foochy rushes to the podium
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Monday that the U.S. is not where it needs to be regarding the coronavirus pandemic, the day after an interview with President Biden was broadcast in which Biden said that the “pandemic is over.”
In a talk with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Fauci, Biden’s top COVID-19 adviser who last month announced his pending retirement from the government, said that much depends on how the country handles future virus variants.
“How we respond and how we’re prepared for the evolution of these variants is going to depend on us. And that gets to the other conflicting aspect of this — is the lack of a uniform acceptance of the interventions that are available to us in this country where even now, more than two years, close to three years, into the outbreak, we have only 67 percent of our population vaccinated and only one-half of those have received a single boost,” Fauci said.
He noted that the country is still experiencing more than 400 daily deaths due to COVID-19, though that number is down from a year earlier.
It’s not over. It can’t be over. It’ll never be over.
Cling to your superstitious terror, America.
Remember the “clingers” from the Obama era? We get to reuse that name now.
Isn’t Biden the OG mackdaddy of clingers? Especially when it comes to kids?
Bitter old man clinging to kids and COVID.
400 daily deaths. Four. Hundred.
End of the World here.
Too local news: Don Bolduc has flip-flopped his position on the 2020 election.
The NRSC (National Republican Senatorial Committee) is now pumping money into NH to bolster Bolduc. I saw new anti-Maggie Hassan ads running on the TV at the gym.
Given Bolduc has a great organization behind him that he has built up over the last three years, I think this makes the NH US Senate race competitive. I also will expect little from Bolduc if he does win since he is willing to sell out.
Addendum: As far I as I know, Karoline Leavitt still says the 2020 election was stolen. Unlike Bolduc, Leavitt has been able to raise money.
Numbers game
After President Joe Biden said the coronavirus pandemic was “over” in an interview Sunday, many people were left wondering how to reconcile his comment with the fact that the U.S. is still averaging about 500 Covid deaths every day.
But disease experts said debating whether the pandemic is over overshadows a more important concern: the reality that Covid will remain a leading cause of death in the U.S. indefinitely.
“It’s likely, when we think of the causes of death in our society, that Covid’s on the list probably forever,” said Dr. Bob Wachter, the chair of the University of California, San Francisco’s department of medicine.
“Whether we call it a pandemic or not, it’s still an important threat to people,” he added.
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“As we’ve figured out how we’re going to live with this disease in perpetuity, it makes sense to contextualize it as another illness that Americans have to face,” said Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and professor at George Washington University.
Experts said Covid is likely to remain among the U.S.’s 10 leading causes of death for the foreseeable future, regardless of new vaccines, boosters or treatments that might become available.
It’s not over ’til we say it’s over. And we’re not gonna say that.
It’s not over until nobody in the country dies.
I just gotta get Death into my pear tree…
As a disease that hammers the vulnerable in particular it will remain a killer but something was going to get most of those people unfortunately and sooner rather than later.
Oh, hell, even my doctor says that when you hit eighty you have both feet in the grave, and any time you get is borrowed.
Remember when we blew up the economy because 50,000+ people died from the flu? Ah, right, that first part didn’t happen.
Lol.
500 a day? Go look at Fentynal ODs or heart disease fatalities per day you stupid, disgusting, useless motherfuckers.
Thank you for attending my TED talk.
Experts said Covid is likely to remain among the U.S.’s 10 leading causes of death for the foreseeable future
When every death is deemed a covid death…
regardless of new vaccines
love how that is just slipped in.
HERETICS! Burn them at the stake.
It’s a very weird idea to finance a consumable product.
Repl
Lend me ten pounds and I’ll buy yo a beer.
Don’t even look at he screen, just hit send.
As a disease that hammers the vulnerable in particular it will remain a killer but something was going to get most of those people unfortunately and sooner rather than later.
And, of course, they can (and do) game the numbers by shifting cause of death from other categories to the plague.
“Look- deaths from Heart disease are down, and deaths from the plague are up. That proves how deadly it really is.”
Former Romanian FM thinks the Ukraine should be partitioned.
Romania licking their chops looking at Moldova?
Ehm fuck that we dont want it
You don’t want to retire to Chișinău?
Romania will, of course, cede areas with Hungarian majorities (Harghita, Covasna …) to Hungary.
They can have em
Hogg is a pissant in the prog world. He might have some local cops in plainclothes doing site security, but no one is paying for his protection.
He’d be worth more to them dead than he is alive.
I didn’t want to mention that because it might give someone ideas.
Good morning, Banjos!
Denver offers cash, goodies to homeless, but only for women, trans or “non-binary”
” From now on I want you all to call me Loretta.”
US housing market in ‘deep recession’ as homebuilder confidence tanks: economist
I wish. Although maybe the monetary pandering to the mentally ill will help.
US could face beer shortage after extinct volcano contaminated the country’s largest CO2 reserve
This Brave New World is really starting to suck.
Fuck me, is that a great song. Thanks for the musical sunshine!
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, or IHME, a research organization at the University of Washington that regularly models Covid deaths, predicts a decline in Covid deaths over the next two months.
So some experts are hopeful that Covid could drop in the U.S. cause-of-death rankings over time.
“It would not surprise me if we have a similar magnitude of deaths from Covid as we do from flu,” said Dr. Chris Murray, the director of the IHME.
Covid death numbers could also fall if hospitals stop routinely testing people for the virus. That’s because the current death counts may include some people who tested positive for Covid when they were hospitalized but died of other illnesses.
“Having filled out hundreds of death certificates in my life, I know that some of these deaths are ‘with’ rather than ‘from’ Covid,” Wachter said.
Murray estimated that half of annual Covid deaths may fall into that category.
No
fucking
way,
dude.
The IHME model predicts a steeper drop in deaths this year if 80% of the public wears masks. Wachter said the country could also lower the death count to “half of what it is today” if more people took advantage of vaccines, boosters or treatments.
*turns green, looks for something to smash*
My model predicts I will ignore your advice.
Hey, so does mine!
Peer reviewed.
YouTube’s Dislike Button Rarely Shifts Video Recommendations, Researchers Say
Eh o rarely lile or dislike yutubz
Sounds like the “close doors” button on an elevator.
To be fair, that button works if you turn the key to firefighter mode.
Also depends on the market.
For example my friend in Japan noted that you are expected to close the door after everyone is loaded in or you get dirty looks.
I explained years of NYC elevators with a button that does nothing except for fire use.
18 best British lagers that are even better than a pub pour
https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/food-drink/beer-cider-perry/best-british-lager-good-a8124706.html
I had 0 of these
This probably won’t be the most bizarre thing you’ll see all day, but it’ll be in the top five.
A Q-tip* running for state senate in Utah has released a rap video campaign ad.
I can’t decide between “endearingly dorky” and “so cringy you can’t look away.”
*In Florida Man country, “Q-tip” is a term for white-haired little old ladies. When they’re meandering the roadways, hunkered down behind their steering wheels, all you can see of them is the poof of white hair.
Link, dammit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXyRPEscXCQ&ab_channel=LindaPaulson
I think you meant to call them Cotton Swabs.
— Unilever Trademark Lawyer
Huh. “Q-tip” gave me a vision of some skinny white twink instead.
There can be only one.
I was thinking of the guy from A Tribe Called Quest.
in US sports news, what is a keith yandle?
A washed up ice hockey player that just announced his retirement after not playing for years (playing but sucking).
You are better off asking about a Houdini, Dirty Sanchez, Cleveland Steamer, or Johnny Dangerously….
Fap fap fap
I didn’t think it was possible, but Donald Trump is more dangerous than ever.
Last week, he warned America that if he’s indicted, we would face “problems… the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen.” For a man who already incited one violent riot over his defeat in the 2020 election, a veiled threat of violence (nice democracy there—if you can keep it!) cannot be dismissed as a mere toothless bluff.
But it gets (arguably) worse: Trump has gone full QAnon.
Last Tuesday, Trump reposted a picture of himself on his social media platform Truth Social wearing a Q pin with the words “The Storm is Rising.” As the Associated Press explains, “In QAnon lore, the ‘storm’ refers to Trump’s final victory, when supposedly he will regain power and his opponents will be tried, and potentially executed, on live television.”
They’re panting and writhing in anticipation. So hot. So wet.
BE AFRAID!
That way you will not see how badly we are fucking you over and leave us in power,,,
nice democracy there—if you can keep it!
That’s not the reference.
From now on I’m going to refer to the Democrats as “The party of Trump”. That’s all they ever talk about. Trump, Trump, Trump, MEGA MAGA, Trumpety TRUMP!
I like MEGA MAGA as the next version of the bigoted insurrectionist hater movement.
“Denver offers cash, goodies to homeless, but only for women, trans or “non-binary””
Denver’s homeless population has exploded over the last eight years. Rows of tents, trash, etc. The city has come up with a lot of ways to deal with it, other than, you know, enforcing the law. One of the city’s bright ideas has been sanctioned homeless encampments, where homeless nonprofits and the city set up domed tents, port-a-potties, etc., in a parking lot owned by a church, nonprofit, etc. Well, guess what happened over the weekend. One of them caught on fire:
https://kdvr.com/news/local/homeless-camp-fire-safe-outdoor-space-elati-denver-health/
Neighbor #1: “We were concerned about this exact sort of thing happening since they moved in,” Ostrander said. “Placing 50 highly flammable, densely packed (tents) in a lot within feet from a home — it’s just not safe and it’s really unfortunate that this happened to the people that live in there, because I know some of them lost everything, and it was really scary for the surrounding neighbors as well.”
Neighbor #2: “The reaction from the other people in the neighborhood is unnecessary,”
The bad news is I have to pull a bunch of permits if I want to change anything to my home, purportedly for safety reasons. The good news is I can live in a tent anywhere in the city and shit in the street.
*chump effect*
For my Republican friends who dislike Trump but, nevertheless, voted for him twice, your reflexive response may be, “But critical race theory!” or “But AOC!”
I get it. The left’s excesses worry me, too. But are you capable of saying that what Trump is doing goes beyond politics and is essentially damaging our nation?
What the fuck is Trump doing, exactly? Other than taunting you and sticking his thumb in your eye by his very existence?
The details on the existential crisis that Trump constantly presents are always very scant. He commands hordes of mindless followers that he can muster at a moment’s notice to bring down society. Or something.
It’s always been about what he will “potentially” do. Things that he never did while he was in office and had the chance, but in the future he COULD do those things. In other words, the whole thing is a bunch of made up bullshit they convinced themselves is real.
Next you’ll be telling me the COVID pandemic wasn’t an exiction-level event that we were saved from only by the tireless heroics of our selfless public health administrators.
You might want to sit down, R C.
That is the question; what the ever loving fuck has he done that is so, so scary? About the only thing I have scene is to not give a shit about leftist pieties and shibboleths.
But if you ask them to pin it down and say what, exactly, has been so damaging, all you get is some version of “he makes my hair stand on end!”
About the only thing I have scene is to not give a shit about leftist pieties and shibboleths.
That’s why Rush Limbaugh used to drive them bonkers, too. He’d routinely look at lefties’ sacred cows and say “Let’s have a barbecue!”
And because leftists are Very Serious People, Our Intellectual and Moral Betters, they absolutely cannot abide being lampooned or mocked.
Camaro owner tells Cars and Coffee Mustang owners, “hold my beer”.
Driver Falls Out of 1981 Chevy Camaro During Post-Restoration Powerslide
Wrong. It’s super easy not to give a fuck. Dummy.
That is approaching peak idiot.
Had a 79 in high school. Can confirm unexpected door openings. I never fell out, but it did spook a date or two.
Lordy, that’s quite a design flaw.
Apparently Dr Jillden, MD has shown disrespect for Blessed Elizabeth by wearing a fascinator to the funeral. At least she wasn’t wearing tan shoes.
Yeah, and the fake tan and fake lashes looked worse. Oh Melania, come back.
wearing a fascinator
Is that one of those vibrating pussy eggs>
1980’s head bow.
I’m still trying to figure out what vested interest we have here.
“And that’s another reason to make sure the Russians know more aid is coming and they’re not going to win this war because the United States will back off or turn its back on the people of Ukraine,” he explained.
“There’s been strong Ukrainian counteroffensives, but it’s only because of the weapons that we have gotten them. This is a critical time for momentum in Ukraine and Congress and the United States cannot let them down at this point in time,” Schumer said.
I’m still trying to figure out what vested interest we have here.
Depends on who “we” is. Defense contractors and the politicians they so kindly support? You bet they have a vested interest. People making bank on natgas futures? Oh, yeah, definitely a vested interest.
This is America’s war now. There’s no pretending otherwise.
Putin is to address Russia soon (tonight in Moscow). It’s expected he’ll announce a full mobilization.
The counteroffensive was not as impressive as first thought but they sure are playing it up for the propaganda.
More fun for the Mustangs at the next Cars and Coffee.
Here’s How the 2024 Ford Mustang’s Electronic Drift Brake Works
Ehhhhh….Delaware, like a lot of blue states, is mostly red except for the area around Wilmington. Biden’s beach house is in a a part where rich assholes from the North East have vacation homes, but everyone local is still mostly Republican (especially 20 miles away in Georgetown). Not sure how this is going to play out.
Is Rehoboth proper really Red?
I’d grant you just about everything outside the city limits is, however.
Whoops, I am always mixing up Rehoboth and Bethany.
Drift brake? Does it work on the front wheels (selectively)?
No, it works on the rear wheels. Same way you could chuck a RWD car around in snowy parking lot with the handbrake.
This has enough braking force to work on dry asphalt with performance rubber.
The County looks pretty Republican, but is nonetheless represented by Dems.
This has enough braking force to work on dry asphalt with performance rubber.
That sounds like a handbrake turn, and not a powerslide.