In the links yesterday we found out Bundy was back. No, not one of the fun Bundy’s like Al or Ted…
This is my review of Hop Tea.
What? Was it the crude joke about Ted Bundy or the fact I am reviewing Hop Tea?
These guys are in the news again, sadly. The irony in all of this, is Idaho actually has a large number of cases relative to their tiny population because of the ski resorts. The unfortunate nature of being principled is how often we are stuck defending crazy people. While gathering in a large group will probably exacerbate the problem, its not all that crazy. The country was indeed founded by religious zealots seeking a place to practice their quirky religion. The first amendment explicitly protects freedom of religion and assembly; they are certainly justified in exercising the second amendment in order to 
defend those rights. Something they have a pattern of doing in the last few years. Not to belittle the worthiness of their cause, but it might have helped if they didn’t pick an issue most of the country finds either spurious, or is part of a lifestyle which they cannot relate and form an intelligent opinion.
Its just that while I can agree with them from a fellow traveler standpoint, it seems so likely they’d happily stay home if Trump asked them nicely, which makes me doubt their motivations. Then again technically, the CDC under team Trump recommended quarantine and avoiding crowds…
These guys are entertaining though, whatever happens I am sure it will be front page news if the right people get their ass kicked. Hopefully nobody gets their ass kicked.
This isn’t beer? No it is not; as much as I hate to say I miss it, that is my new workstation. Hop Tea is a curiosity I found at Whole Foods while I picked up a Chantilly Cake from their bakery. It’s different and sort of grows on you after a while. I haven’t been drinking beer as is my usual habit for Lent so it was a welcome reprieve when I wanted to drink something besides water. I simply ran out of beer to review, which won’t be a problem for next week.
Bundy isn’t taken very seriously here. As for commie flu, new cases in Idaho are down 55% in the last week. Life is different when you don’t live in an anthill.
The problem with Bundy is the old ‘enemy of my enemy’ situation and a Federal Govt that has shot, shit on and torched their credibility. That is why he gets so much attention.
News from the front: After the park closure last week, I assumed by arteries had been stress-tested enough for a while and stopped watching the news. Apparently our Supreme Leader declared that I now have to wear a face mask to get into any store. So I had go to the one place I saw selling them and dish out $20 for a 4-pack. Planning a hike in the Delaware Gap National Forest this afternoon as that appears to still be open.
The wife found a pattern online and sewed a bunch. They took her about a day to make maybe 20 or so for family and friends.
We have the “must wear a mask” order in effect as now as well. Pretty weird yelling “where’s my mask?” as you head for the door…..
Is there any convenient place to look up all these tyrannical orders by state? I’m having trouble keeping up.
AFAIK, il Duce DeWine hasn’t even declared masks mandatory in Ohio. I don’t have any, and I don’t intend to wear one unless my employer requires it or I’m forced to wear one in order to go buy something I can’t get along without. Even then, I may write or draw something rude on it.
Walking in from a cold parking lot to a warm store meant my glasses fogged everything I exhaled for the first 5 minutes. Artery walls barely held again.
I’m curious if we’ll see some stories about people wearing confederate flag masks. Seems pretty predictable if you know how the media is.
I saw someone driving today who had a mask hanging from their rear view mirror…
I’ve got one on the passenger seat. Dad has several since he does some woodworking (nothing near the level of I.B. McGinty), and he left me one should I be someplace where masks are mandatory. Haven’t put it on yet, and will probably reuse it if I do have to wear it. That, or I’ll get the cheap scarf I have and use that like a bandana.
When I went out yesterday, most of the people I saw were wearing masks. I wanted to give a fist bump to the few who weren’t (including the Sam’s Club employees), but that would have been gauche.
Not if you use the right hand.
I never know which is the correct one, and I end up punching them
How sinister
He just left that hanging there, didn’t he?
Right over the plate.
Reminds me – we were supposed to go to our first Single A game of the season tonight. : (
Did I miss something? Thought this was at the discretion of store managers (Murphitler issued a very strongly worded suggestion, IIRC). At Fairway yesterday most were wearing masks, but a few (self included were not). Surprisingly, the non-mask wearing minority were actually practicing proper social distancing, while the mask-wearers were knocking one another over in their hurry to get whatever they were getting.
Like the old highway safety rule: Drive as fast as possible to reduce your time at risk.
Heh. And then wait at the
toll boothcheckout counter for 1/2 hourPeople-watching, the mask wearers I saw were jittery and paranoid, trying to rush out of there.
Those of us unmasked folk were going about business as usual, and not particularly bothered.
I generally try to keep my mask on by
mimicking what all you meat puppets dofollowing social norms. But that is getting harder as thebizarre herd behaviors of prey animalssocial rules keep changing.heh.
nice article the other day btw.
Thanks.
*Shrugs* I tuned out of the news, but the sign and guy at the door of the store said I wasn’t getting in without one. Of course once inside, I saw all kinds of nonsense – loose bandanas, hunting balaclavas, and a guy wearing a sweatband across his nose and mouth.
a guy wearing a sweatband across his nose and mouth.
*slow clap*
Let me see your balaclavas wearing out
Come and keep your comrade warm
I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
I’m sure this has been posted before, but it’s all I got this morning.
I had the mask (and the hat) but when I got to the store I noticed that nobody going in or coming out was masked.
So I left them off. No use in being a jerk when they already agree with you. People were still keeping their distance inside, and the aisles were marked as one-way.
We held good Friday services online last night. Communion and everything.
It was great for the family. We practiced religion the old fashioned way, with a patriarch leading the ceremonies. That part was good.
Watching our amateur musicians online as recorded by our amateur cameramen and sound mixing by our amateur producer….. not so much. 30 minutes of music by people that you would walk out on if they were playing at a bar is bad enough in person. Over the internet? Yeah…. didn’t enjoy that.
But the point is… you can worship just fine without rendering all the costs to your fellow citizens imposed by all the social distancing moot.
Also…. our Sunday school class / bible study is working really well via Zoom. And my wife likes it because I can’t crack nearly as many jokes.
How long before internet gatherings are forbidden because FYTW? That seems to be the rationale behind a lot of the late breaking ‘orders’ coming. from the hired help.
Can’t argue with that….
I’m getting to the point of saying “bring it”. If I keep having to tolerate stupidity, I will have to bitch-slap the hell out of the person dishing it out.
We haven’t been doing that. We probably should, but Mr. Mojeaux is hesitant to perform such ordinances, as he came to the church late and he just doesn’t have much experience doing such things.
I’m going to the Park at Sunrise Tomorrow and read some verses, Loud!
We always had a guy like that in the quad when I was in college. He was convinced that we were all doomed to hell.
TBH, I’m not always convinced he was wrong.
This fooferall coincided with my packing, which has led me to perus my old books. Reading about the history of religious dissent in England. while modern churches are being forced to shutter has me very ill at ease. William Tyndale was burned at the stake about 400 years ago for having the temerity to publish the Bible in English. I don’t really know where I’m going wit this, and I’m pretty drunk already, but I’m getting scared.
William Penn was acquitted by a jury for violating a law prohibiting religious assemblies of more than five people outside the auspices of the Church of England.
Communion and everything.
So you opened a bottle of wine and got good and drunk?
Ran out of beer? Does not compute.
I’ve tried a few teas and seltzers. Didn’t do much for me. I rather drink a high Life if I had to choose.
I’m with you…. don’t put weird crap in my beer. Personally, I’m offended by a shandy.
Still, I’m glad we finally live in a world where we are allowed to try this stuff. And I’m glad I have you guys to try things that have a 90% chance of completely sucking in my stead. After you adventuresome guys settle on the winners, I’ll follow your lead….
The guy is probably right (assuming he didn’t have it already). There is talk of people getting hall-passes, yellow-stars, whatever, if they have recovered or test positive for anti-bodies.
Mark of the Beast…….
I’m actually surprised I haven’t heard much from the end of days people.
How would you be able to tell them apart from our leaders and their enablers in the media?
By biblical plague standards Covid is a disappointment.
For whatever reason, I read this as you making a point about strange bedfellows and opposing philosophies on the same side of an issue for entirely different reasons, and it brought to mind something. I have a long-time client who is a TERF and she’s a little pissy about being lumped in with conservative Christians about the trans issue, just like every other TERF in existence.
On to my point about the Kung Flu: I believe that one silver lining of this is that it has put issues of “identity” aside. The country is on lockdown, and so seems to be every other topic but Kung Flu. Nothing is getting traction, not even a presidential campaign.
My question is: After this is over (if it’s ever over), will all this other bullshit come back, since it’s been shown that it’s totally irrelevant to life?
It will come back x10. Disparate impact!
Unfortunately I believe this is true. The people making their living or jollies off of grievance mongering won’t give it up.
Absolutely.
I thought we had reached the peak some 30+ years ago when a person from the EEOC came in to our workplace and gave us a training that asking a female to come to a group outing at the water cooler using this form was sexual harassment:
Dude: “Hey, Lisa! A bunch of us are going to Applebee’s after work tomorrow.. You wanna come?”
Lisa: No, I don’t think so..
Dude: Come on, everyone is going to be there… it will be loads of fun!
Lisa: No, thanks. I have other plans.
Dude: Cool. See you later….
This was an example of harassment, because she said no and he asked a second time. And no means no.
Some 60 year old lady at my table raised her hand and said that was crazy. “If every guy who asked me out had taken no for an answer the first time, I never would have gotten married.”
And I thought “well, that’s it. We are about to turn the corner.
Seems pretty quaint now….
Your example is deeply offensive to me as an anti-social jerk! Don’t lie to me and claim group outings are ‘fun’.
It never left. Seattle Times today, above the fold:
“Early data in King County hints people of color hard hit by virus”
Yep.
SOP for the left. Lump any opposition in with the most despicable people possible (usually projection). Libertarians are Nazis dontchaknow.
It’s already happening. The Michigan attorney general was on the news Yesterday whining about disparate impact and “we aren’t doing enough for the black communities.”
Expect this to ramp up significantly over the coming days.
Funny how aren’t doing enough for the black communities will actually come out as aren’t doing enough to the black communities.
I can’t keep up, though. In the middle of data showing that the effects of the virus are disproportionately severe in the black community, the black US surgeon general made a video specifically for blacks encouraging them to avoid smoking and drugs during the pandemic. Immediate outrage among the usual race hustlers. “Why are you singling out blacks? Your message should be to everyone!”
I guess you should never single out blacks except when you should and not then either except if you are the correct person but you might not be, but why aren’t you helping your community right now?
It’s easier to not try to make sense of it.
How is a video supposed to help? What’s needed is some big cash payouts to
the usual race hustlerscommunity organizers to assist their local communities.That was one of the most brilliant bits in Bonfire of the Vanities.
“The Michigan attorney general was on the news Yesterday whining about disparate impact and “we aren’t doing enough for the black communities.”
Shirley,
Clearly the lack of willingness to help and resultant repression that the Attorney General refers to is partially derived from the still-dominant patriarchy, who collectively view “Political Correctness” as a threat to their old systems of abuse. This is sarcasm meant to introduce a video I first watched not too long ago.
I can recommend a Political Correctness “Debate” featuring, in alphabetical order, Michael Dyson, Stephen Fry, Michelle Goldberg, and Jordan Peterson (from May 19, 2018) to those of us who have two hours of time and the willingness to listen.
One of the reasons that I am suggesting watching this video is how quickly the discussion/back and forth devolves (it quickly looses any semblance of a debate). Stephen Fry describes himself as someone who is left-leaning around this point, and tries to explain why he is questioning the effectiveness of “Political Correctness”.
I think that this video is appropriate for several reasons, including Mexican Sharpshooter’s exchange with Mojeauex.
LOL I’ve slept since then. Which exchange?
“LOL I’ve slept since then. Which exchange?”
Mo: “For whatever reason, I read this as you making a point about strange bedfellows and opposing philosophies on the same side of an issue for entirely different reasons”
MS: “…Oh yes.”
The video for which I provided a link may support both of your point(s).
The unprincipled are defending a lot of bat-shit crazy politicians, for what it’s worth.
Come back with a vengence. They will compile lists of dead by gender, race, etc and show how the US let all them die for Capitalism!
…Oh yes.
There’s also quite a few different hop waters out there as well.
I’ll ship a six o Michigan locals to anyone who can finish a full bottle of Heineken 0.0.
You realize there are people who drink Bud Lite Chelada and Red Dog, right?
At least those have alcohol
If you have a bottle of water and say to yourself “what this needs is some hops!”…. you might have a few issues.
Yeah, hops taste tarrible.
/hides his hopped bourbon
And you guys get your nose out of joint over pineapple on pizza…..
The Bundy’s are an easy scapegoat at this point for a lazy and corrupt ass media to point at and deride. These are the same assholes who are helping sell CCP propaganda about this frigging virus.
This may have been linked already, but it is a good read. I’ve been thinking for over a month now that large numbers of people already had Commie Cough. Looks like next week large scale antibody tests are coming out. I will get one when I can.
https://spectator.us/covid-antibody-test-german-town-shows-15-percent-infection-rate/
I have no particular sympathy for the Bundy cause. They had no claim to the land they were using, and they disagreed with the terms that others abided by. They went to court and lost. Tough.
That said, I had the distinct displeasure of dealing with the BLM LE agent who led the charge against them; let me tell you that insufferable prick was a terribly inadequate description of the guy. He actually was such a dick that he managed to get himself fired from the job in which I dealt with him (before my scheming to make that happen could kick in too). So, I may have no sympathy for the Bundy cause, but I do for the way they were treated by BLM.
That is kind of my feeling about them as well. I think they got treated like shit by the BLM, but they have the distinct whiff of grifters themselves. That doesn’t invalidate their complaints, it just makes them unsympathetic, and that is to me, someone who is partial to liberty. If you already aren’t at least libertarian minded you likely have zero sympathy for them or their cause.
Sort of like some of the people getting arrested for violating house arrests. Criminals or ex-criminals so it’s a useful charge for cops to use on unsympathetic people who haven’t done anything else illegal. And it establishes that those charges can be brought and used for everyone else.
I hear that more often than not. BLM deserves all the hate they get.
As several people have pointed out over many years, in 1776 we traded one tyrant 3,000 miles away for 3,000 tyrants one mile away.
This guy was so bad that all of his subordinates hated his guts too.
Wasn’t that a Big Bopper song?
+1 wiggilin’ walk
I don’t know. Personally, I’m more of a Ritchie Valens fan.
If you like that old rock n roll, rhythm n blues, rockabilly, etc. And if you like it real greasy, tune in to Fools Paradise hosted by Rex on WFMU 91.1 or follow the link. He’s on air right now, broadcasting from a fur lined bunker, several miles below the Earth’s crust. Every Saturday at 1pm EST. Hi, I heard something great on WFMU that I thought you might like:
“Have Love Will Travel” by The Imperialites
I heard it on Fool’s Paradise.
You can listen to WFMU here:
https://wfmu.org
Or better yet, download the WFMU app.
Yo no soy marinero…
…soy capitan
On the topic of FYTW orders banning being in the middle of a lake or riding a bike on a lonely train right-of-way:
I ran in to this phenomenon in business. We had a problem in accounting that needed addressing. After a few meetings, an approach to address the situation was devised and a set of procedures put in place. We built some reports to support that effort.
Fast forward a couple of years. I got a call about some of the data on those reports being wrong. The “situation” was temporary. The thing that drove that need had gone away after a few months. So I investigated.
They were still following the procedures. In fact, they had built upon them and beefed them up quite a bit. Someone figured out that it would be better if they had this group review one part.. another person figured out that having sales sign off on this other part would be better…. It was about ten times the size of the process I had left behind.
And nobody ever stopped to ask “why are we doing this?” Once it got started, supporting the process became the objective. In reality, the need for the process had been gone for two years. Everything they were doing was a waste. It took a long time and several high-level meetings to get everyone to agree with that assessment though.
That’s the phenomenon at play when they close down a public park. The objective moves from “stopping the spread of the virus” to “making sure people shelter in place”. And the same thing happened with the masks. The police were more concerned with enforcing the mask order than with containing the virus, so they physically wrestled some dude off of the bus – definitely putting a lot of people at more risk than the dude without a mask.
Most people can’t see the big picture. Drives me nuts, but it is true.
I will bet good money that some admin somewhere asked “Why are we doing this?” and was told to shut up and do what she was told.
Chesterton’s Fence rears its gorgeous head again.
This is true. People get caught up in the process as it’s own end. It’s supposed to be a tool.
Numerous times in my career I just stopped issuing a report. And no one ever asked where it was.
That is government bureaucracy in a nut shell, and why they’ll terrible at long term solutions (just one of the reasons). Media says world unfair and something must be done. Congress makes new laws and creates giant bureaucracies to administer based on one size fits all rules they put in place. Congress moves on to next manufactured crisis. Bureaucracies can’t/won’t adapt to changing conditions. Much easier to stick with SOP even if their counterproductive, than to stick your neck out for change only to get your head chopped off for ruffling the wrong feathers. You definitely don’t won’t to solve the problem less you put yourself out of cushy government. More experience with the problem just means you’re closer to that sweet pension and you definitely want to keep your head down then.
Two years? The government will keep doing irrelevant shit for a century or more, at the cost of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars a year.
In the morning lynx Pie asked about piles of dead bodies buried in New York. Of all places ENB from TOS provided an explanation.
Yeah, but how does that explain Trump’s responsibility for killing homeless people? And what does that have to do with xenophobic restrictions on immigration anyway?
#IStillReadReason
#IdoToo. I sent them a decent check in the early 10’s, before they went entirely loopy, and before there was a Trump to go all DS on.
Whatever, still need something to read on the can.
Kind of a feel-good story: Virus-Panicked Liberal Gun Buyers Are Getting Angry When They Discover Their Own Gun Control Laws
Enjoy your gun laws California.
That’s exactly what I told my wife when she mentioned the crazy lines at the gun store. Those idiots think they are going to trade money for guns. Nope. Probably have the orders lifted by the time they can actually take one home.
Can’t find that loophole, dickheads? Mwahahahahahaha!
Bundy isn’t taken very seriously here. As for commie flu, new cases in Idaho are down 55% in the last week. Life is different when you don’t live in an anthill.
I lived in Ketchum. It’s about as much of a representative sample of Idaho as Kuala Lumpur.
Just got an email from Farmers insurance stating they are discounting auto ins premiums by 25% for April, that’s kinda cool.
bum-ba-dum-ba-bum-bum-bum
5% better than USAA!
Well, I do imagine the cower-in-place orders are affecting the actuary tables.
Do I see an internet explorer icon open?
We have to use IE for our company’s VPN only programs. I also had a legacy service running on Silverlight that I finally replaced.
But when I see my colleagues browsing the web on IE, I have to smack their hand with my ruler.
Wait, does that actually run on any supported versions of Windows?
Yes. They may have added Edge, but they didn’t remove IE.
I see – guess there are too many legacy apps that depend on it. Internet Explorer, the new Cobol.
Edge is even worse. Even the internal company website won’t work with Edge.
So I have to keep IE, Edge, and Chrome.
No single one of them works across all other programs.
Me too, except Firefox instead of Edge in that list.
At work, IE is the primary because of the many internal website that only work with it and it’s just easier that way. General browsing is on my own devices so not losing a whole lot there.
Know how to make it worse? Have a government run IT dept. manage it. Ours kicks in and out like Sybil’s personalities.
Seems really stupid that they made the Edge icon look so similar to IE.
If they changed it too much, all of their home users would complain that their internet was gone.
Hahaha true
And the winner of the browser wars? Eastern Airline’s Browser.
And nobody ever stopped to ask “why are we doing this?”
And the means become an end in themselves.
Numerous times in my career I just stopped issuing a report. And no one ever asked where it was.
Haha. I had a professor in business school who said, “If you want to know if your reports are worth doing, stop sending them out and see if anybody asks for one.”
+1 enterprise application inventory
As a reporting analyst, I object to this entire discussion. Demanding I justify my existence is beyond the pale.
The urge to hoard takes another toll. I just paid about a 40% premium to get another case of 9MM luger delivered to my house.
Will this crises never end!
I don’t think ammo prices are going down anytime soon.
Until after the first Tuesday in November.
9 is about the only ammo I wasn’t stocked up on prior to this whole thing. I have enough though:)
Well, I only had about 2000 rounds in the house. So I grabbed another 1000.
Lol. Awesome.
Since I have no place to shoot, I have not been consuming ammo.
I have been enjoying dry-firing the Beretta with the new grips, so I’ve gone ahead and ordered the G-type conversion kit. This may wind up being an even better gun than I thought.
I put the G conversion on my Storm which I do prefer. Unfortunately, my impatience caused my to scratch the slide. Not really that noticable except to me but still bummed me out. At some point going to get the slide cut for an optic so it will get refinished then. Waiting for Landon to come up with co-witness sight option which they’re working on.
I bought mine used, so there is a bit of wear already. Bruniton is a really nice shade of black.
Yeah, I like the Bruniton as well.
I have no place to shoot
Not even out in the woods?
I don’t have any acquaintances that own woods up here.
Tales from the Fresh Market – week 5.
Foot traffic noticeably up. Roughly half the store had masks, including staff. We were part of the not masked.
Frozen veggies still have bare spots and the salad shelves were very low. Glad to see people are eating healthy. ?
The only new things I noticed were two signs at the doors.
“Max occupancy 75″. No one there counting.
” if you don’t feel well, don’t come in. “. Or something to that effect.
I went to Giant today. 90% were wearing masks. I had a scarf wrapped around my face. Frozen veggies were scarce – nothing I wanted. Not much flour, but they did have 10lb bags of store brand all purpose, so I got one of those. Good selection of meat, dairy and eggs. Poor selection of ice cream – no vanilla. No lines and it wasn’t too busy.
Oh, we don’t give a damn…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-stay-at-home-order-now-bans-visits-to-friends-relatives-governor-says
Isn’t it nice how politicians reveal themselves? We could’ve been guessing about her true nature for years.
She exposed that with her campaign and the subsequent road maintenance fiascos. She’s a Karen in a management position.
They’re all rubbing their genitals raw with all the power fapping.
Want to be shocked even more? On the TV just now she was reported to be on Biden’s “short list” for the VP nomination.
She is now having her staff search out Joe’s favorite fragrance so she’ll smell ‘right’ when he sniffs her hair. And shopping for little girl outfits for the interview.
If I had been asked nicely to stay at home, I probably would have been OK with it, because I can work from home so it’s not a big burden and I have family members who are at risk, so family gatherings aren’t happening for the time being anyway.
Being ordered to stay at home has me in a white hot rage.
House arrest is basically what we are being told. I’m pretty sure there isn’t a state constitution in this country – not even California’s – that gives that kind of power, least of all unilaterally and exclusively, to the chief of the executive.
Just wait until we’re only restricted to our homes for five days of each week. We’ll be able to say how much better it is then when we were all restricted to home every day of the week!
Same. I rarely leave my house except to go to work or grocery store anyways, so very little has changed for me. I’m still pissed though. Especially for all the people out of work.
Yep. Mostly a homebody and higher risk family members as well.
That’s been the biggest problem all along. The lying, the heavy handedness, and the refusal to treat adults as adults rather than serfs.
Same here. My biggest beef with the state mandated lockdown was nearly everything that could shut down and stay in business was already doing it.
That wacky Rand spews nonsense about that quaint notion of “freedom of religion/assembly.”
So…you’re saying I chose to go to church, but everyone else was forced to be there?
Pish posh…you can still worship…just not how you see fit.
You’re free to worship the state!
Don’t try to use logic. You’ll just be disappointed.
Speaking of tea, I still get mine (mail order) from these guys in Austin. They have a Sloopy & Banjos story. After dating less than a week, he asked her to marry him. She said yes, and they’re still married 13 years later.
Nice link you got there
Better?
Nope.
http://teaembassy.com
Cool. Ill check em out. Our local tea and spice store is categorized as grocery so they are still open thank god
Good Lord has it been 13 years? Damn, time flies.
Hopefully this starts a trend.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/boeing-plans-limited-return-to-work-next-week-after-coronavirus-shutdown-reports
Also-
How convenient, that we can hoist the flag of Idaho racism, because a group of black skiers happened to be in town.
Everybody knows how insular and backwards the denizens of the People’s Republic of Blaine County are. What a bunch of stereotypical low-forehead troglodytes.
Cops are using illegal stay home orders to arrest people reporting on their actions.
https://www.wlfi.com/content/news/Lafayette-police-arrest-2-for-violating-governors-stay-at-home-order-569537671.html
You can still enjoy your first amendment rights under our terms
Just like the USSR guaranteed any number of rights!
That website is cancer for my browser.
Just wait until we’re only restricted to our homes for five days of each week. We’ll be able to say how much better it is then when we were all restricted to home every day of the week!
Something something chocolate ration.
Just seen on Facebook.
Dear Clinton family, Whitmer has dirt on you. Sincerely, Michigan residents.
Haha! That’ll get em!
Anti-Science Party
Republicans in America trust President Donald Trump more than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for medical information pertaining to the coronavirus, according to a new poll.
The poll, which was conducted by CBS News, asked 2,025 U.S. residents whom they trusted for specific medical information about the outbreak. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
According to the survey, 80 percent of Republicans trust Trump for coronavirus information, compared with 74 percent naming the CDC as their trusted source. Among Republicans, “medical professionals” scored the highest percentage of trust, at 85 percent.
Of the remaining Republicans, 20 percent said they don’t trust Trump, 26 percent said they don’t trust the CDC, and 15 percent said they don’t trust medical professionals.
These percentages change drastically for Democrats. According to the poll, only 9 percent of Democrats trust Trump for coronavirus information, while 86 percent named the CDC as their trusted source. As with the Republicans, medical professionals scored highest, with 92 percent of Democrats choosing them as their trusted source for coronavirus information.
At this point, if the CDC issued an urgent press release warning me not to drink paint thinner, I’d go look for some sort of independent verification.
What does this measure? Trump’s credibility? Republican’s credulity? Or the CDC’s credibility?
I think I know the answer.
Hard to see how a nation so hopelessly divided can heal.
Everyone could try just agreeing to disagree and leaving each other the fuck alone. Too bad most people are assholes who feel the need to force everyone to live the way they decide, at gun point.
I had a boatload of liberal friends contend that the CDC was *wrong* when it said masks weren’t necessary. Like we know the science better than they do!
Now that the CDC has changed its tune, are they still wrong?
IDK, would the CDC still being wrong be bad for Trump?
Dunno. I’m done with the political bullshit.
It’s not that the CDC was wrong, but they were flat out lying in the misguided attempt to try and rations face coverings for healthcare workers because there wasn’t and isn’t enough.
CDC from 2007
https://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2007/r070503.htm
Please don’t drink paint thinner.
“Please don’t drink any more paint thinner”.
The poll also asked American citizens if they felt that Trump was doing a good or bad job in handling the coronavirus outbreak, while showing how these percentages have changed over the past week.
According to the poll, 47 percent of citizens believe Trump is doing a good job handling the outbreak, a 4 point decrease from 51 percent the previous week.
The poll showed a 3-point increase in those saying that Trump was doing a bad job handling the outbreak, from 49 percent the previous week to 52 percent.
These percentages changed drastically when considering political party affiliation. The poll showed that 15 percent of Democrats believe Trump is doing a good job with the pandemic, while 85 percent said he is doing badly.
No shit, Sherlock?
Thats ground breaking news!
Gotta love Drudge and the link baiting….
Link headline: Former FDA Commissioner: ‘Far More Deadly than Spanish Flu’…
Actual article? If this was happening in 1918
Couldn’t we say the same…Spanish Flu not as deadly…in 2020?
That’s not how you get page views!
I had the CBS sports radio national feed on while cooking (black bean soup) and Boomer Esiason of all people noted that it wasn’t Trump with the national lockdown and he also took a swipe at DeBlasio for being asleep at the swtich. Kinda sad when he has a better sense of what’s going on than the vast majority of the press.
The entire sports industry is suffering along with average Americans, whereas the press is having a field day whipping people up into a frenzy to pump up their readership/listenership/viewership.
NFL free agency and draft is saving their collective hides right now. Once that’s over, then they’re done for if this nonsense keeps up.
I don’t even care that much about sports, save for laughing at TSUN getting whupped by THE Ohio State University, but it’s good mostly non-political background noise for the car or office.
The XFL is dead in its cradle, baseball is on hold, and NASCAR has resorted to having its drivers compete at video games. People can’t go to movies or live theatrical or music performances or even congregate anywhere, whether in a church or a bar. Trying to strangle such a huge chunk of a culture has to have consequences. (Thank goodness for the ingenuity of those finding ways around it, such as social Zoom gatherings – again, kudos to Neph – or musicians live streaming shows from home.)
” NASCAR has resorted to having its drivers compete at video games”
Really?
What you are saying is “Boomer is okay”.
Our little town’s Suturday-before-Easter Easter-egg hunt was cancelled, of course. But around noon there was an impromptu parade as all the county’s emergency vehicles (not a very impressive collection except for the 1930-something fire truck they keep around for such occasioins) paraded around town with sirens blaring. Most of the vehicles had bunny ears on their roofs. One guy drove a pickup with his two hounds riding in the bed. The poor dogs were wearing bunny ears – they looked embaressed.
It was pretty cool.
The egg hunt would have a classic Montana egg hunt – we’ve got a Spring snow storm today.
That’s awesome! Were folks practicing “social distancing” while watching it?
Remember this? 18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead in Ohio
Sounds about right for Zanesville.
That’s where my dad is from.
That incident came up at our last staff meeting when people were talking about the lion dude Netflix show.
Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming?
We’re on our own.
18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears,
Oh my.
Belgian-Dutch Study: Why in times of COVID-19 you should not walk/run/bike close to each other.
It can also live on paper for three hours!
Safety first!
Sounds like the safest thing to do would be to set your hair on fire and run rapidly in a circle.
“…a considerable distance e.g. 20 meters for biking.” Went for a bike ride yesterday. At one point the nearsest person might have been 3 miles away. Is that OK?
But which way were the prevailing winds going??
I can’t wait to report you to the authorities.
So if I shoot everyone that gets to close, that’s viable self-defense?
Yes. I am a lawyer and I am saying yes.
Ahem from this morning.
You guessed it – Frank Stallone
Anybody got a funny headline idea? The best I got right now is: Biden Claims Mandate of Mortal Mulberry
I don’t know if I can bring myself to mock a guy who appears to have mild dementia.
My news clips are best read in the voice of Walter Winchell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RS3MsxWFWY
Fun fact: the Morse code is just him pressing randomly on a telegraph key. He thought it added verisimilitude to the broadcast.
AntiFa Protesters Show Faces After Trump Recommends Wearing Masks
[opera applause]
Antifa Searches for Mask Alternative Now That Everyone is Wearing Them
CDC Touts Record Low Number of Deaths Unrelated to Coronavirus
Frantic CDC Warns That the Virus is Coming From Inside the House
Cool mouse pad.
I’ve had it for years. Exactly one person knew what it was—he was an armorer while he was in the Army.
Hah! Didn’t look at the picture closely initially.
At first, I thought it was the Empire logo from Star Wars. Now I realize its the star from an M16’s bolt.
[reflexively searches for q-tips]
+1 5.56 mm, gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed, semi auto or 3 round burst, handheld, shoulder-fired weapon
I remember having to shout that nursery rhyme a few times.
Servicing Field Marshal Milius
This is a great photo
That sounds like cool testosterone filled afternoon. I’m sure they went to a strip club afterwards:)
I don’t think he thought this cover story through. Like no one was going to call the hospital.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-texts-lead-to-florida-mans-murder-arrest-in-wifes-disappearance
In some good news state senators are pushing back against DeWine.
That is good news. The situation is untenable. Hopefully DeWine understands that. I’ve been watching the 7 county Central Ohio numbers everyday. Have not had a reported death since 4/6 out of 2M people (18 deaths total). We only had 1 day with more than 2 deaths when we had 3 on 3/29, two weeks ago. New cases peaked 3/25 in Central OH at 65, and we’re basically down to half that and dropping. No reason for anything but nursing homes to be shut down here. This things basically going to have mostly fizzled out by 4/20. I’m interested in what he has to say by the end of this coming week. Also, fuck Husted.
You know who else fizzled out on 4/20?
My Grandma?
BURN
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1248266822970941441
Why are people arguing with communist party officials? That like arguing with DNC party officials on Facebook.
The China man should challenge Americans to say that they like Trump in public and at work. The Chinese can say that they like Xi and nothing bad happens to them.
I saw that earlier.
food for thought
Suppose Nixon never went to China. How would history be different? Perhaps communism would have collapsed there too. The real consequences would have been economic. Without cheap Chinese manufacturing, the US would likely still be the top industrial power in the world.
Millions more Chinese peasants would be dead.
Why? Please explain.
China’s economic rise is a direct result of trade with the US, coupled with Chinese economic reforms starting in the late 70’s that introduced some level of Capitalism to their markets. There’s nothing else to explain the Chinese miracle. Trade with us lifted millions of Chinese out of abject poverty. Millions do remain in poverty but there has been significant progress. The volume of trade and the economic reforms couldn’t have happened without each other.
Add on- what if extending recognition to China included recognizing Taiwan as an independent country? Of course, Chiang Kaishek and the KMT would have been just as opposed to that as well.
Not convinced. There will always be locations with comparative advantage; perhaps it’s possible one of the other SE Asian nations would become a low-cost manufacturing base. In some ways, Vietnam’s like that for textiles, ferinstance.
Let me speak for every American CEO that ever contemplated China – [drool]a billion, untapped consumers[drool]. Our fucking greed to tap that market. No one ever considered the costs, just the profits.
But even now, most Chinese people are way poorer than most Americans. What’s the point of marketing to people who can’t afford your stuff?
And what are the main things US companies sell to China? Aircraft, cars, microchips, soybeans. I’m pretty sure it’s not the peasants buying that stuff.
It’s the Chinese govt buying that stuff, not the Chinese common man.
Sure, compared to Americans, they’re still very poor, but compared to their parents, they’re less poor. Less poor is the difference between eating and not eating to much of the world.
https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/04/18/heres-how-much-poverty-has-declined-in-china/
I didn’t say those CEOs were smart, I said they were greedy.
They make it up in volume?
It’s the Chinese govt buying that stuff, not the Chinese common man.
I don’t think the Chinese government needs that many cars or soybeans. Most of China’s exports, not necessarily just those coming from the U.S., are actually inputs for products China exports. While every business in China is ultimately answerable to the government, so too is every citizen, so either you distinguish all three as distinct if not separate entities or none of them. Thus, the leading consumers of China’s imports are its businesses and consumers.
Most of China’s imports are inputs for its exports*
“the US would likely still be the top industrial power in the world.”
I thought we were.
IIRC, someone here last night asserted that The Princess Bride was the best movie ever.
It’s still relevant.
The Zodiac Killer, aka the son of the probable Kennedy assassin, former Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is having a live tweeting Princess Bride party!
That was me. I also say it’s the greatest game theory movie ever.
Indeed.
OK, fess up, which one of you guys did this?
Infographic: Deadliest Disasters Of World History
It couldn’t have been any of us. It’s far too clever and subtle.
Hey!
It’s a fair cop.
“The one in the braces, ‘e done it!”
The first amendment explicitly protects freedom of religion and assembly
That ship sailed.
But we had to DO SOMETHING! It’s an EMERGENCY!
How about quarantining all the government-sector workers and letting the rest of us get on with our lives?
We could never do that to the TOP MEN. It’s us peons who have to eat it, as always.
Dispatches from the Midwestern Front: Home Depot was hoppin’ as was Price Chopper (but I assume that’s because of Easter).
Price Chopper? Can’t say I’ve ever seen one of those. I need to get out of Florida more.
That’s the midwestern Price Chopper, not to be confused with the northeastern Price Chopper.
Maybe posted already…but very on-topic
https://babylonbee.com/news/popular-new-craft-ipa-just-bottle-of-pine-sol
I cried because I had only Miller Light to drink until I saw a man with only IPA to drink.
/pours Derp and Own a shot of hopped bourbon.
“OK, what do you have to wash that awful taste out of my mouth?”
“IPA or crab juice.”
“Blecch! Uggh! I’ll take the crab juice.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMv3sh8gAc8
It’s out of production, but it’s good.
Buddy is bringing some whiskey over tomorrow that he aged…im scared
That’s what I thought of when I saw Hops Tea.
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I was down in Massachusetts for a bit today. The variable display highway signs are lit up in both MA and NH asking visitors from out-of-state to quarantine for 14 days.
Two weeks ago when I visited NH last time, only MA had these signs. At least we’re not like RI yet, where they give fines to out-of-state visitors playing golf.
https://twitter.com/ReaSofiaAguilar/status/1248824729626083328
Sound advise in hindsight
What was done there. By you. It was seen.
LOL
I’m all late and stuff, but I’m gonna weigh in anyway.
The thing about Cliven Bundy and crew is there’s such an element of showmanship to it that it feels inauthentic. I believe that they’re taking a principled stand, but I also believe that they want a confrontation so that they can prove a point. It’s a little forced I think, but it raises a question that everyone should be asking: why is the government being given the power to tell people they can’t exercise the rights protected in the Constitution? Individual liberty shouldn’t be contingent on government permission. This is what a paternalistic state looks like, and it’s what the left has been pushing for for years. If the state is responsible for protecting your health, then the state has the right to enforce behaviors that it believes helps it to meet that obligation. If you expect Daddy Gubmint to keep you safe, you can’t complain when he doesn’t let you outside for fear you’ll hurt yourself.
A much less paternalistic and liberty oriented government (and people) would have issued voluntary shelter in place suggestions rather than orders, along with advice for reducing your chances of getting Commie Cough. If you want to stay at home go for it, want to wear a mask in public go for it. If you’re immune compromised or elderly then it should be strongly suggested. But we aren’t that kind of country any longer.
I think with the fear they pumped out resulted in an ineffective social distancing tactic. People just piled into grocery stores and other big box stores. We went to Target today. They closed one entrance/exit and where forcing people through one roped off entrance exit. How the hell is that supposed to prevent the spread?
*were forcing*
I just don’t understand the mindset that the government is supposed to be responsible for health. “Public health” doesn’t make sense to me. How is it the governor’s business whether or not citizens of a state catch an infectious disease? That makes as much sense to me as holding him/her responsible for my credit score.
Exactly. If you are determined not to catch Commie Cough you can likely do so on your own. Completely quarantine yourself and only get delivered things dropped off that you pick up with your gloved hands (and dispose of the gloves once you wash what you bought). Thankfully we live in a country where you can do so relatively comfortably if you so desire. You can have all the entertainment you want on a screen and isolate yourself almost totally from the outside world. Fuck screwing over everyone else for this. Take the precautions you want for yourself, stop trying to run my damn life.
Saw this on the Powerline meme collection today. Gonna spread it around a bit.
https://imgur.com/gallery/ieDMzgv
I like it.
There are a lot of good ones in that collection.
Got a really nice 5+ lb free-range chicken from the butcher. Gonna’ roast it tomorrow and serve with mashed potatoes and a lemon herb gravy, sautéed asparagus, and a French carrot salad.
Gin martinis, probably Boodle’s or Sapphire, olives. Wine.
Roasted mixed nuts with smoked p
Have you tried the Aviation Gin (Ryan R.) ? I had it and it was pretty good in a martini . Much different in aroma to Tanqueray but kind of expensive.
…aprika and fresh rosemary. Taylor Fladgate 10 year tawny port fo desert.
You eat well E. Love the food descriptions.
I remember this guy. RIP dude.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mash-actor-timothy-brown-dead-at-82-played-10-years-in-nfl
Cute overload.
WARNING: stoooooopidly cute puppy involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9B5ixstk-c
That was so adorable it broke through my thick layer of crankiness. Thank you!
You’re most welcome. The little black puppy reminded me of our pup Minion when we first brought her home (although she’s caramel-coloured).
Some of ya’ll have articles you should be finishing…
/taps toe.
I have 1 article pending. If you have more funny headlines or ideas, I’m all ears.
What, I’m supposed to be writing stuff other then snarky comments?
I got about 3 paragraphs on paper for part two of my discussion of liberty and law and government. At this rate I’ll have it ready in 2021
You will not be able to get an internet publication license in time then. Only accredited journalists will recieve them, words are too dangerous to let anyone just use them. You need special training first.
Get busy!
I really enjoyed your article yesterday. Thx
First official CoVID death in the extended family: mom’s brother passed away. He was 82 so I don’t consider it untimely. I’d like to know if they did an honest to goodness test.
Condolences.
My condolences nonetheless. ;-(
Sorry to hear. Take care of yourself.
Sorry to hear that. Our first is imminent – MIL (72). She had a stroke last month and acquired in a rehab facility.
My condolences and imminent condolences. With only 1,569 confirmed cases in all of Alberta and 40 deaths, it’s unlikely I’ll ever know anyone who’ll die from COVID.
To paraphrase Vonnegut, there’s nothing intelligent to say when someone dies. I think that’s why most people rely on ritual.
We came from death and to it we must return.
RIP for your uncle
What really matters is, did he consider it untimely.
Condolences. We still don’t know anyone who has even been confirmed to have it.
But what I expect, after the social distancing rules are relaxed, most of us get it. All that will matter is how bad it will affect us individually, because the range of severity seems to be very wide.
. . . the range of severity seems to be very wide.
And, annoyingly, TPTB don’t have any good idea why.
It may be the same with other diseases, not sure.
But when I was a kid I got all of the childhood diseases we got back then. Mumps, Measles, Chickenpox.
Mumps didn’t affect me hardly at all, while other kids in my school got really sick.
Chickenpox almost killed me while other kids had very mild cases, just a few spots and very mild symptoms.
Go figure, I have no idea.
Thanks. He was a good dude, though I haven’t seen him in decades.
Sorry.
Oh, I’m so sorry, ‘splosives. *hugs*
Sorry 🙁
“In the links yesterday we found out Bundy was back.”
(((they))) said ‘hold my beer’. There is a large gathering of (((them))) around our local synagogue and smaller gatherings all over the neighborhood. It’s like nothing ever happened around here.
Now, farther out in Goyim territory, not too many people out. Most wearing masks, even though most of the masks look to be handmade cotton scarfs. About 50% actually obeying social distancing rules.
My sister in the heartland says flour and sugar are scarce. Weird. In my corner of San Diego, those things are easy to get. Canned goods are scarce. And of course TP.
It’s available, but you’re limited to 1 or 2 per person.
Nothing is scarce here except toilet paper. I just bought fresh shrimp and lobster about an hour ago. In fact, I haven’t seen anything yet you can’t buy, except toilet paper. Which sadly leads me to conclude that many of my fellow American are just fucking weird and sort of dumb.
Here we’re running out of french fries and burrito coverings.
Look at this racist libertopian shitlord in liberal clothing.
HATE SPEECH!
I saw that elsewhere. Bill Maher as the voice of reason? Such a strange time line we’re in.
Not the first time he’s done something like that. I say it’s the broken clock right twice a day effect.
No, not one of the fun Bundy’s like Al or Ted…
Shit. How did I miss that the first time through the article?
Boneless leg of lamb, roasted with rosemary, garlic, olive oil, Dijon mustard, lemon and white wine.
“Cheater” stuffing from a box mixed with wild rice.
Carrots and peas.
Chardonnay.
A happy spousal unit.
And lamb curry made with the leftovers tomorrow.
I hope everyone else is at least doing something special for Easter.
And I now have to explore a range of dough conditioners for homemade bread. So far, plain ol’ lemon juice is winning my “that was easy” award based on my lazy-assed research.
What is a dough conditioner?
Anything that makes the dough more acidic, which seems to have two benefits: (1) it helps the yeast to thrive (apparently they like a more acidic environment), and (2) it also seems to make developed gluten more elastic, helping higher rising and preventing some cases of over-proofing and collapse of the dough.
I didn’t know either of these things yesterday.
I also didn’t know that some commercial flours in the U.S. already had dough conditioners added (usually as dry citric acid). I haven’t seen any doughs in Canada like that, but then, I’m a n00b.
Well, when you’re laundering money, it gives the cash a nice shine and brilliance that you don’t get with just detergant.
I have 2 huge hams in the freezer I forgot to thaw, so I bought a small hunk of ham (the ones about the size of a turkey breast). I also have 2 huge turkeys in the freezer. If it’s cold next week, I’ll roast one.
Since you (a) supposedly hate cooking but (b) seem to be a good (and knowledgeable) cook in spite of yourself, I assume you know that you can cook a turkey from frozen, right? Sure has saved me a lot of hassle over the years, although mine always cook faster than the online guides say they should . . .
For truly explosive results, try frying one. It’ll knock your socks off.
I actually did not know that. However, I spatchcock the bird, so I would still thaw it out first.
The new normal?
https://mobile.twitter.com/holbornlolz/status/1247804171585073152