“It’s a girl!”
I was supposed to have Spud sit in for me today while I befouled a B&B with the kind assistance of Tomb Raider. We had tickets to a show and a B&B in a secluded spot. She had tested herself for the Coof after having some cold symptoms on Monday. Lest you conclude that it’s the Prog Reflex, she had been around a cancer patient this weekend as well as an ancient boyfriend. OK, it was the Prog Reflex, but every once in a while, double zero comes up. She felt better and by Friday was feeling like, ok, I’m recovered and not going to kill anyone. She woke up yesterday miserable, tested positive, so here I am, unRaided.
Speaking of who’s here, there are, of course, birthdays today, including a less horrible Barbra Streisand; a more horrible Jen Psaki; the sci-fi version of SugarFree; a less horrible Herblock; a guy whose work was pretty cute; the greatest hypnotist of all time; the greatest Jewish rock guitarist of all time (and I could argue dropping “Jewish” as a limitation); a guy who, if it weren’t for What About Bob, would be a sure-fire guarantee of an awful movie; a leech who is likely a Packers fan; a guy whose voice is his fortune; and an exceptionally hot Jewess.
Links are my second choice in how to spend the morning.
OH NO, NOT SOCIAL MEDIA!!!! MY GOD, WHAT WILL THEY DO WITHOUT INFLUENCERS?
Have they really run this dry of things to protest?
Hilary Clinton always hated Friends.
Wait, I thought Musk was a tool of the Jews?
I am shocked that BBC’s antisemitism is official.
If it means better restaurants and more motels, I’m in favor.
Old Guy Music is a wonderful live performance of the true anthem of all of us. GodDAMN they had some energy!
“Hilary Clinton always hated Friends.”
I couldn’t decide if it was her or the vax.
I’m just trying to not be evil and not have So no one told you death was gonna be this way…. running through my head.
The article I read on it earlier this morning was very specific (tin foil mode: Perhaps too specific?) that there were no signs of drugs or alcohol. Given his past struggles, I’m sure it was the first thing that came to everyone’s mind.
🎵So no one told you death was gonna be this way….
(clap,clap,clap,clap)
Ya drank, ya choked, you drowned, they found you DOA…🎵
Given that he was 54, not morbidly obese, and so far as we know not fighting a losing battle against cancer, it’s not a weird assumption.
I saw speculation on Twitter that it was caused by a side effect of the coof vaccine, because he was all in nd then some on the vax and boosters.
This feels related.
Sorry the ‘Vid blew your weekend plans, OMWC. Thanks for the links, morning all. Happy “decorate the yard before Halloween” weekend.
I’m currently reading Douglas Murray’s “The Strange Death of Europe”.
It’s related.
I always wonder how many of them are just commie grifters but then I realize… does it even matter?
I mean… “Queer Jews for Palestine”. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Meh — different restaurants, I suppose… but one thing about working in or near Silly Valley, I think I have given Indian food a shot a few times, and most of it just isn’t my thing. naan is good, Tandori chicken can be relied on to get me through the buffet-style lunches when folks want to go out… as can basmati rice… but most of the rest of it just doesn’t suit my fancy. Not a huge curry fan at heart, I think.
And given the H1B shenanigans over the years… having them have to come illegally is surprising to me. But I guess remote work, slowdowns in the tech sector, etc. may be easing the need to pad those rosters.
There’s lots of dull Indian restaurants with cookie cutter Punjabi-ish menus. Try some of the other regions where the food is as different as, say, Swedish and Sicilian. A masala dosa or idli sambar from the south might change your mind.
Are the menus as universal as the Chinese restaurant menus that all have the same numbers for the same items?
Pretty much. And like the Chinese places, it can be quite good, but it’s nice to get out of that rut.
Dammit, I was going to run the link as “Cal score: 15 arrested”.
I say let the protestors exercise their free speech and protest on the field. Then start the game and tell the players to watch out for the protestors, but since they are part of the field of play if they get hit, they get hit. Then after some of the protestors get leveled by a lineman maybe they’ll rethink their choice of location to protest.
Apply the same standard to protestors in the street.
Where is Mike Curtis when we need him?
Oh, bravo!
“Ryder identifies as Jewish and has experienced antisemitism.”
I do hate that “identifies as” trope.
Since people without homes are now described as “experiencing homelessness”, does that mean that people who hate Jews are “experiencing antisemitism”?
and an exceptionally hot Jewess.
I thought Golda Meir was out of your age range, but you do you.
I was thinking Lainie Kazan.
a guy whose voice is his fortune;
Happy birthday Werner Brandes?
Now I’m sad that this t-shirt is apparently no longer available. 😞
Indonesia doesn’t let Jews in? I know the govt has changed a few times since I was last there but that sounds a little weird.
Well, Indonesia is a Muslim country, so I guess its no great surprise.
Too many Hitler cafe’s.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/nazithemed-cafe-in-indonesia-reopens-keeping-the-swastikas-and-images-of-hitler-it-pledged-to-remove-9554643.html
I played https://squaredle.com 10/29:
63/63 words (+13 bonus words)
📖 In the top 48% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 2
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That IS the new hotness on campus.
Well it’s been 80 degrees in VA most of this week but looks to get below freezing in a couple of days…thankfully I’ll be in SD for that part of the week. Hopefully not too much trouble with my tire air pressure while my cars in the airport lot but at least they have a pump near the exit.
Speaking of high Temps this weekend. Our church did have a men’s ministry “beans and bullets” event yesterday on a guys acreage. Did some shooting, had some burgers – pretty good time hanging out. It was cool enough in the morning when we did pistols – just some basic target shooting/familiarity. A number of folks brought some pretty nice rigs and we got the chance to try them out.
Rifles and shotguns after lunch was a little trickier. This was my first time trying my AK-AR…and it may have been the warmth or the steel cased ammo, but I got a few shots into the first mag before my BCG locked/jammed forward. Haven’t had any luck getting it loose yet – if the cool-down overnight doesn’t help, I’ll need to take it to a smith I think.
There were some very nice rigs other folks brought though including a number of nifty cans….(rural VA ftw) and another guy who brought a WWII surplus Yugo 8mm Mauser.
Can you get the upper off? Maybe tap the bcg out with a cleaning rod?
Easy to separate but I already broke a cheap shotgun cleaning rod – it’s in there tight. May have a legacy m16 rod set somewhere.
A little frustrating to say the least…not sure what this says about my home gun skills….Definitely leaning towards setting aside more garage space and picking up tools in the future – but not much good unless I can shoot more regularly. Did find out about another private club in the area but sounds like it may be full already…maybe something for post-reserve retirement if I stay in the area.
Another Pleasant Valley Squardle, yay….
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🎯 Perfect accuracy
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63/63 words (+8 bonus words)
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I posted mine above, but it went to moderation cuz I included a special puzzle link too. *sigh*
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Yeah, I’ll get to the main event some time.
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🔥 Solve streak: 2
One tourist was killed and three others were injured when a glass bridge shattered in Indonesia on Wednesday.
Those Alfred U. ceramics technologies would have helped, for sure. Probably should forgo the temperature sensors, though.
This is amusing – defending dark matter against an alternate theory on the basis that science builds on past theories. Dark matter was only postulated when the last theory couldn’t balance the cosmic books. It was the ultimate accounting stop-gap.
Much as the Big Bang was mocked before it displaced the previously dominant theory?
This professor doesn’t know how science works. Sometimes going from wrong to somewhat less wrong means tweaking the existing wrong theory, sometimes it means scrapping it.
Sure, until the tweaks are nothing but a Rube Goldberg pile of elaborations. We strive for both accuracy (to observations) and elegance. Dark matter was pure accounting – the books don’t balance so let’s invent this stuff that can’t be seen. I’ve always thought that was a BS tweak.
“Dark Matter Lives” will be the next big thing.
Well, it serves as a hypothesis, not unlike the Higgs Boson before the Far Hadron collider was able to confirm. But this is how theoretical physics works. If there are gaps, then coming up with an idea of what fills them is both an accounting, as you say, and a possibility.
Dark matter is the new luminiferous aether.
I was expecting Rachel Weitz as the hot Jewess.
Well given OMWC‘s predilections, you would expect the more child-like.
I could support this notion.
First unofficial day of winter tomorrow. Mid 70s now, dropping about 30 degrees by sunset.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/germany-students-university-augsburg-demand-gloryholes-lecture-halls/
OMG. LOL.
“The future leaders insist “strangers would come together to create a shared experience”
Well, they’re not wrong.
The future leaders insist “strangers would come together to create a shared experience and living space and connect on a level far removed from everyday life.”
This has to be a troll. The phrasing is a dead giveaway.
Given the general assumption about Germans lacking a sense of humor…
people wished for a gloryhole in the lecture hall center ten times on the AStA wish wall. This wish was listed most frequently
Looks like it started as a goof, for sure.
OFFS what a pile of bigoted stupid.
a guy whose voice is his fortune
Mel Blanc?
I have never watched Friends. Or Seinfeld. Or that bar one.
Cheers
I haven’t rewatched them in ages, but I recall all three being consistently funny, with Seinfeld and Cheers getting to “really funny” pretty regularly. The last season of Cheers was brilliant, as it looked like they just put in everything they had held back until then.
Friends, on the other hand, started out funny and got less so with every season. I wouldn’t have made it past season 4 but the wife watched them all so I saw most while moving about the house.
Have you asked her what she wants on her tombstone?
Shocking
Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centres of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) grabbing flour and “basic survival items”, the organisation said on Sunday.
“This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement.
One of the warehouses, located in Deir al-Balah, is where UNRWA stores supplies from the humanitarian convoys crossing into Gaza from Egypt.
Aid supplies to Gaza have been choked since Israel began bombarding the densely-populated Palestinian enclave in response to a deadly attack by its ruling militant group Hamas on Oct. 7.
“Supplies on the market are running out while the humanitarian aid coming into the Gaza Strip on trucks from Egypt is insufficient,” UNRWA said, adding that the current system to get humanitarian convoys into Gaza was “geared to fail”.
I hope they killed all the UN gatekeepers while they were at it.
UNRWA in Gaza is about 50% Hamas, so the “break in” had a certain resemblance to the 1/6 capitol events.
UNRWA has said that its ability to help people in Gaza has been completely stretched by air strikes that have killed more than 50 of its staff and restricted the movement of supplies.
Even before the conflict, the organisation had said its mandate was being jeopardised due to a lack of funding.
Fuck those parasites.
Established in 1949 following the first Arab-Israeli war, UNRWA provides public services including schools, primary healthcare and humanitarian aid in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Institutionalized dependency. A proven success, worldwide.
Del Valle admitted to visiting Clover’s mother’s home, calling his office line at least 10 times within a 90-minute span and attaching ‘a note outside his door that said, “Here lives a pervert.” The investigation also found she once keyed his car, contacted his friends and posted a photo of his partner online.
“If I had the opportunity to do things differently, I would do them differently,” del Valle told the outlet, adding she was “not proud.”
Del Valle agreed not contact Clover, his family, or friends in 2020, but she allegedly violated that order the following year, resulting in the nine-month suspension.’
Imagine being a student who thinks to themselves: I need more of this person in my life.
Attention whores would get plenty of attention from her.
Grab that tar baby, Elon
Early on Saturday morning, Musk replied to an X post by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who on Friday blasted the Israeli military for the blackout.
“Cutting off all communication to a population of 2.2 million is unacceptable,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “Journalists, medical professionals, humanitarian efforts, and innocents are all endangered. I do not know how such an act can be defended. The United States has historically denounced this practice.”
Musk responded, “Starlink will support connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza.”
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The blackout has increased fears over what the Israeli military might have planned for Gaza. “This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations,” Deborah Brown, senior technology and human rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
Ocasio-Cortez’s post had been in reply to Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the U.K., who wrote:
“I have been trying to reach my family in Gaza for hours with no success. All telecommunications and internet have been cut, while Israeli strikes is literally destroying Gaza from air land and sea. How many more innocent people: children, parents and grandparents will be murdered before the world steps in?”
Have you learned nothing from your experience in Ukraine? Let the UN and the rest of the NGO parasites use tin cans and string.
Newsflash, Sandy: Israel is at war. If I learned anything from Hogan’s Heroes, it’s that stopping the enemy’s communications is near the top of the list of priorities.
Suicide pact
A former industry executive criticized the tentative deal struck between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and Ford earlier this week, accusing the labor union of having no regard for automakers.
“First of all, this is not like other labor negotiations,” Bob Lutz, who has worked for all three of the “Big Three” automakers facing strikes, told host John Catsimatidis Sunday on “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM. “This was a gun to the head from a government-sanctioned monopoly called the labor union.”
“And in the past, the UAW always had a realistic respect for the needs of an automobile company to stay competitive,” he continued. “This time they did not, and I think a lot of what had to be given back was exactly the same things that caused the American automobile industry to be in big trouble in ‘08.”
That’s okay. Everything is going according to plan. We’ll get our electric rickshaws from China.
You’d think Lutz would understand that the American Taxpayer is ready with checkbook in hand when these negotiations tank the auto companies – again.
Chrysler/Stellantis just bought a Chinese electric car manufacturer to determine what “technology” they are using to build them 30% cheaper than we are able to. I’m pretty sure the technology is no labor union contract.
*face-palm*
“So where does all the pollution from your factory go?”
“Right here, in this pipe that goes down to the river.”
While I agree Winona is cute. The last movie I saw her in, she currently looks decidedly mentally unstable. I don’t think it was part of the role either, she straight up looks crazy now. But, she has kept things tight, which is nice.
Wasn’t she arrested for shoplifting some time ago? I think she might BE crazy.
Yeah, like 20 years ago. But she didn’t look crazy then, but she definitely looks crazy now.
Doesn’t pretty much every child actor end up that way?
When Halloween Goes Woke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5XadagbtH4
I don’t understand the coof testing when someone feels sick. Just stay home, you’re sick and no on wants it, whatever it is.
Maybe they would treat it differently, or be more careful not to spread it.
“EXCLUSIVE: Neo-Nazi domestic terrorists are targeting critical power stations with guns and explosives in co-ordinated attacks as they seek to destroy the American way of life, watchdog warns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12677557/Neo-Nazi-domestic-terrorists-targeting-critical-power-stations-guns-explosives-ordinated-attacks-seek-destroy-American-way-life-watchdog-warns.html
Sounds like bullshit.
Yeah, why is this the first we’re hearing about it? This would be 24/7 news if it were true.
Feelz trumps logic, every time
Like many booming metros, Tampa is finding that more people equals more garbage. In response, officials there are leaning into an approach popular in Florida: Set it on fire.
“All areas that are experiencing growth are going to find issues of capacity” for managing waste, said Jack Mariano, the commissioner of Pasco County, just north of Tampa’s Hillsborough County. “Everybody’s facing: Where are we gonna put the trash?”
In September, Pasco authorities approved a $540 million plan to add a fourth boiler to the county’s waste-to-energy facility, or WTE, boosting capacity at the incinerator complex by around 50% while feeding more power — from a turbine spun by steam heated through garbage burning — to the electric grid.
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WTEs have been around for decades, but their technology is getting cleaner and safer, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and ongoing research. Regulators have required substantial upgrades over the years, including to the Pasco plant, built in 1989. Many of the facilities are eligible for tax credits expanded by the Inflation Reduction Act, an Energy Department spokesperson said.
Justin Roessler, Pasco County’s solid waste and resource recovery director, said the incinerator there already includes “rigorous air pollution controls” such as activated-carbon injection to filter harmful gases. The site’s emissions are monitored continuously for anomalies, which are reported to regulators if detected.
The expansion plan includes outfitting the boilers with new technology to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, a local official said. When the project is finished, Pasco will boast “the first waste-to-energy facility in the country to have a CO2 limit in its permit,” Roessler said. “We are very proud of that.”
Still, waste-to-energy plants handle highly hazardous materials, and even the cleanest operations emit federally allowable levels of noxious chemicals formed during combustion. Lately, residents’ concerns over the potential health risks have drawn more scrutiny.
Icky contaminants. We’ll all die.
A group of residents sued Covanta in March over the Miami-Dade fire, saying it exposed them to health threats or has already made them sick. In June, following a complaint filed last year by the environmental advocacy group Earthjustice, the EPA launched a civil rights probe into whether state environmental regulators knowingly harmed the health of Black and Latino communities.
The Earthjustice complaint alleged those groups are disproportionately likely to live near Florida’s waste incinerators, and that officials withheld safety information on their emissions from people with disabilities or limited English.
Earthjustice chisels out their legal briefs on stone tablets to reduce their carbon footprint.
“Fury on streets of NYC: Pro-Palestine protestors storm Union Square and climb on George Washington statue chanting ‘long live Hamas’ – after shutting down Brooklyn Bridge and plastering stickers over Starbucks saying ‘Zionists are terrorists'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12684923/Fury-streets-NYC-Pro-Palestine-protestors-storm-Union-Square-climb-George-Washington-statue-chanting-long-live-Hamas-shutting-Brooklyn-Bridge-plastering-stickers-Starbucks-saying-Zionists-terrorists.html
CWABOA
a more horrible Jen Psaki
Happy birthday Bill Moyers!
The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they’ve won. The rich are getting richer, which arguably wouldn’t matter if the rising tide lifted all boats (however) the inequality gap is the widest it’s been since 1929; the middle class is besieged and the working poor are barely keeping their heads above water. – the Marshall Flash
it did Bill: it lifted all boats, even boats that deserved to sink
States’ policies can encourage different ways of handling trash. Earthjustice attorney Dominique Burkhardt said Florida municipalities “are very entrenched in burning waste,” but noted alternatives that can cut down on how much garbage winds up in either WTEs or landfills.
She pointed to a solar-powered composting plant under development in Baltimore, backed by $4 million in EPA grants, that is set to process 12,000 tons of organic material per year. It comes on the heels of a 2021 state law requiring large food waste producers located near composting facilities to separate their scraps.
That sounds like a scaleable market solution. How long ’til Earthjustice starts suing them?