Harlow
I’ve got no sports today. Almost nothing of note happened yesterday and I doubt it’s enough to fill a paragraph. If you’ve got something, talk about it in the comments, but I’m moving on to birthdays. Alexander Graham Bell starts theist off. He shares it with baseball player Wee Willie Keeler, Italian con-man Carlo Ponzi, sexpot Jean Harlow, Star Trek’s James Doohan, singer Re Styles, football and bobsled legend Herschel Walker, “rapper” Tone Loc, and the lovely Jessica Biel. That list was as skimpy as the sports.
Biel
Let’s see if we can overcome this weak start and find a nice selection of news for…the links!
Chris Matthews calls it quits in the face of sexual harassment claims. Dude has a serious tingle up his leg issue. Fortunately he has enough free time to see a doctor for it.
Praying for Nashville. I guess they’ll be blaming it on global warming climate change climate chaos this morning. Because tornados never happened before.
One of these guys is irrelevant. The other has no idea where he is.
The Dem establishment finally got their shit together to stop Bernie. But is it too late? Will they be defeated because they’re hypocrites? Does any of this matter, since Trump’s real opponent is the coronavirus? Why do I keep asking questions?
Wait, some sensible advice from the government? Holy shit, it is! Color me shocked. But don’t worry, when this is over, the Surgeon General will probably be telling us vape pods are the devil.
Wait, what the fuck is this? They were going to make public every person who had an interest in a private business just because of what that business was? Sorry, but that sounds a little fucked up. The government has no business making public the records of private entities.
Wait, what the fucking fuck is this shit? Just for comparison, Roger Stone got 4.5 times this sentence for lying to congress.
Looks like Apple is gonna be ponying up for throttling speeds on old phones. Don’t care, because I upgrade my phone every time a new one comes out, suckers! Hey wait, maybe I’m the sucker…
Um, how you gonna fight it, with really small bullets? Oh, it’s Iran. So they’ll just shoot anybody who might have contracted it.
Hadn’t heard this in a while. And if you hadn’t either, well now you have.
Now go have a great day, friends!
If coronavirus is what brings down the mullahs, I’m going to laugh heartily.
I’m reading this now: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-links-speculation-open-thread/
I also have to go to the hospital today. It’s just for a follow-up visit, but I was thinking of canceling it.
Taking prepping advice from vox.com?
No
I had not considered this.
Kiss them babies candidates!
Just tell them God decided they shouldn’t be in power anymore.
It’s spreading through their parliament. I, too, will chuckle.
At least 23 Iranian MPs and the head of Iran’s emergency medical service have reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus, in the latest spike in cases in the Islamic Republic.
According to BBC Persian, the 23 lawmakers, out of the 290-member chamber, may have been infected due to their contact with their constituents across the country, which has reported the highest number of cases outside China, where the virus originated in December.
The head of Iran’s emergency medical services, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, has also been infected with virus, the ILNA news agency reported.
Biel
Speaking of feeling tingly…
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One of these guys is irrelevant. The other has no idea where he is.
The Dem establishment finally got their shit together to stop Bernie”
By get their shit together you mean, they resigned themselves to backing a senile old man.
They finally decided to stop splitting the
nonnot-nearly-as-insane-as-Bernie wing.I’m not saying they backed the right guy. I don’t see one in this campaign, but they finally got a decent strategy.
Jessica Biel has that Julia Roberts “swallow you whole” mouth thing going on.
I think gaga reflex is more important that mouth size
gag reflex goddamnit. This site really needs a 10 second edit
That sounds like fighting talk, let’s dance!
Sounds like you want a bad romance…
Maybe he was just born this way.
The ability to suppress her gag reflex is pretty much required if you want to Poker Face.
You are correct. It’s a semi-voluntary reflex which many people learn to control. Those who are so motivated, anyway.
Hey y’all I haven’t been around for a minute because I’ve been prepping for my move from NYC to northern Idaho.
Hitting the road in about 15ms. Youngstown, Ohio is the first night’s stop. Goodbye New York City you beautiful shithole
Cour D’lane?
I hear there’s some nice vacant land up near Naples. Something ridge…
Yep. CDA, mom lives there. We brought her in 2018, we are following
Outstanding! CDA is beautiful country, just beautiful.
How are the wine bars?
White supremacist confirmed
Be fair. He could be a Rajneeshee with a bad sense of direction.
Speaking of them, was watching a Mandopop music video and one of the characters is reading one of his books. Strangest place I’ve seen that turn up.
https://youtu.be/3q6D0wMX_H0
Used to hunt on a ranch near their enclave. A little odd to see all those Rolls in the high dessert, but at least the Raj were wearing a safe color for hunting season.
Sounds wonderful. Whatever the downsides might be the freedom and open spaces would be worth it to me.
You’re only driving six hours a day?
Yeah, I’ve got 2 housecats with me in big cages. The wife is the boss, I’m just cross country Uber at this point
Emergency food supply?
That would be Slammer (for the cats)
Gotcha. Probably makes for a more relaxing trip. Although Youngstown won’t be all that much fun.
Good luck with the kittehs. I’ve participated in a cross-country move involving multiple cats. Wasn’t pretty.
Wave as you drive by.
And make sure to use all your fingers when waving.
STEVE SMITH USE ALL PREHENSILE LIMBS WHEN “WAVING”
Look at the MN nice on this guy.
How is anything but Nice to help outsiders wave properly when driving through Minnesoda?
Uffda. Just trying to help that poor ex-NYer interact with us prairie rubes.
The two finger wave is standard outside the city limits. It is known to avert the rape of city slickers…..sometimes.
Good luck and don’t die of dysentery.
Sorry to hear you’ve got to stop in Youngstown. Depending on when you’re stopping, there’s quite a few good food options in Pittsburgh.
Happy trails, Slammer!
northern Idaho – sounds cold
So your apartment is available. What’s the rent?
“Why do I keep asking questions?”
You became a judge?
‘“Why do I keep asking questions?”’
“You became a judge?”
Sloop no doubt wanted us to think of the same person, Count Potato.
Why do I keep asking questions?
Why am I stopping? No one else stops.
Influx of country songs featuring tornadoes in 3… 2… 1…
So even if the trash moves from their trailers to Nashville the tornadoes still find them?
Yes. It’s not the trailers it’s after. We live a couple miles south of the tornado strike. Went outside when the tornado siren across the street wouldn’t stop at 2 am only to find it raining, but not a bit a wind. Went back to bed and pulled a pillow over my ears. Sadly, some friends lost their apartment, but everyone is okay. A few others were not so lucky. I am currently pricing out one of those ‘drop in the ground’ shelters. Kinda speedy, but may be worth it.
spendy…and speedy
I am currently pricing out one of those ‘drop in the ground’ shelters.
Prepper CONFIRMED.
They weren’t unusual in North Texas (aka Tornado Alley) when I was growing up. Spent a few evenings in the neighbor’s as a kid.
North Texas had some nasty tornadoes.
Tard Tuesday: IT’S HAPPENING
Click and bear witness.
DU;DC
Comedy Club on TV all day today.
So FiveThrityEight now has Biden beating bernie @ 30% odds. I think he comes crashing down after today, because Sanders is still going to make out like a bandit today.
Even if Biden does well today, does anyone expect Biden to really win? The guy can’t give a speech and not fuck up basic phrases.
Yesterday, I caught a bunch of liberal media types who were giddy because they think Pete and Special K dropping out will push Biden over the top. Again, even if that were true, you still have Biden?
Bloomberg is there to spoil it for biden, and warren is there to spoil it for Bernie. Neither needs to be popular, just popular enough to keep Bernie and Biden away from a majority.
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#MeToo
Then some rando judge on Monday (linked below) orders her to testify on the email server? To me that looks like a hit on Hillary to keep her from another run.
My new prediction is Michele Obama. At a brokered convention she is put up and everyone swoons.
*orders “Wookie 2020* t-shirt*
How many voters will be wandering the streets this November when the Wookie doesn’t win and she tears their arms off?
That is as horrible a thought as anything Sug has written.
Yup. She steps in to save the centrists from Bernie by getting the DNC to declare Biden addled.
Bloomberg is there to spoil it for Biden? As in he’s intentionally trying to get Bernie in or he thinks he really has a shot himself?
If he’s doing it for anything but his ego, Bloomberg is drawing off both Bernie and Biden votes. There’s a sizeable percentage who don’t want a full-on Socialist and think Biden is a brain-burnt molester.
Ego is my guess. I can’t see him doing it to help Bernie. There are people that prefer the boot stepping on your Big Gulp forever.
I think Bloomberg and Warren think they can take it in a brokered convention. Bloomberg has a better shot because $$$$$.
Bloomberg should offer Warren some beads for her endorsement.
Sec. of the Treasury would fit her revanchist lust.
I doubt he will. Wall Street hates Warren.
Of course, I don’t think they believed that they would get a Sanders nomination, so maybe they’re desperate enough to play along.
I’m gonna totally disagree here for two reasons:
1. Warren is younger and a woman
2. Mini Mike already played his hand by saying he’d keep plowing money into the campaign of whoever is against Trump. Had he said he’d only spend on his own campaign, that money would have been more valuable a bargaining chip for him.
There numbers are all over the place. The switch between Saturday and Today is amazing. I guess post SC poll numbers came in.
Re trumpvirus panic:
He’s often a hack, but sometimes he can get the correct level of subtlety
Dude should have moved to California.
Wait, some sensible advice from the government? Holy shit, it is! Color me shocked. But don’t worry, when this is over, the Surgeon General will probably be telling us vape pods are the devil.
Is this like that Animal House scene?
Leave me out of this.
Sports: Arsenal beat Portsmouth in the FA Cup.
FA is a highly overloaded term for me. Field Artillery? Frente Amplio?
They’re talking about something British so I figure it must be Fcuk All
If it’s British, it must be Fanny Arse. I think it’s instructions on the proper, hygienic, order of usage.
Meh, I looked and didn’t deem it newsworthy. Arsenal are scrubs.
I forgive her, but Banjos did not mention them crashing out of Europa.
I posted it for the Portsmouth news.
They are 3rd in League 1, 3 pts out of guaranteed promotion in 2nd, with a game in hand.
I see that Coventry City is leading League One, I miss them being in the PL, I don’t know why.
Teams that should always be in the PL, but arent right now:
Coventry
Sheffield Wednesday
Nottingham Forest
Leeds United
Rooting for Forest – they’ve got a bit of work to do but they might make it.
Leeds looked like a lock for automatic promotion, then looked like they’d fold again. But they’ve righted the ship. I think they’ll filament get back up.
I’d like to see PNE make it to the top flight. They were the favorite club of a great guy who used to run my old league 30 years ago. He’d be in his 90s now, so I assume he’s passed away. He was a hard drinker and smoked two packs a day.
So they’re going to be promoted to League Zero?
Yes, and that makes the PL, league -1.
Which one of the two English cups is the real one? This one or the other one? Because one of them has to be fake. In the good old days when the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup was in place the winner of which English cup played in it?
This one.
The League Cup is a joke. Not sure why they hvaent got rid of it, it cant make that much money.
“the Surgeon General will probably be telling us vape pods are the devil”
Well, they are. Open system vaping is way better.
US surgeon general urges caution, not panic, on new virus
Buzzkill.
Tard Tuesday: PANIC
That would be like saying, “let’s get rid of all the aircraft carriers, pilots, engineers, weapons techs, aircraft mechanics, support staff and boatswain’s mates because we’re not at war.”
Squid fetish confirmed.
Or maybe, and just hang with me for a second, we pare down to a small military composed of only the most effective wartime soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines that does nothing but train, plan, and experiment for the next war that is dual hatted as both a small deployable force for quick emergencies, and as cadre for a wartime army.
MUH-REEEEENNNSSS!!!!!
OOHRAAHhhh!
“No one need eleven choices of uh aircraft carrier.”
/Boshie Bernie
Ask the average American worker. The stock market hitting 29K did absolutely nothing for them but make things more unaffordable.
*checks 401(k)*
Dumbass
but make things more unaffordable.
um…. does this person know the source of inflation?
Is it deregulated banks? Capitalists? Kulaks? Wreckers?
tRump!
You are an upper class yuppie though not the average worker
Wow, that fucker is retarded as shit.
Agreed. Too much to unpack, too little time.
Thank you for wading into the fever swamps for us, Scruffy.
What would it take for them to urge panic?
Nice musical choice — though for some reason this is my favorite off that album.
We have a couple SEs — but I sincerely doubt it will be worth it to even participate in the settlement. $25 is not worth dealing with legalese for me in the slightest.
I would have preferred a settlement where Apple promised to make a SE2 that doesn’t suck (same form factor including the headphone jack, etc. but updated processor/RAM/whatnot like the SE was in its day).
Don’t get adults messing with kids, adults who have STDs of any sort who keep messing around (or for that matter why we can’t as a group practice what we preach for one bloody generation and known STDs way, way back… I know, I’m on the prude side… ah, well). The world is a seriously messed up place when it comes to that sentence.
Morning, Sloop!
When I think of the band Material Issue I think of this song (and the original ) version.
The story behind “Kim the Waitress”.
Oops – I mixed up my links.
Here is the original.
I have one of the phones on the list too. I wonder what the process will be.
BTW the thing turns itself off once in a while even when it’s sleeping. No “high power demands” required.
Wait, what the fucking fuck is this shit?
It was a dude instructor, so it’s bad. Had it been a chick instructor, the boy would’ve been a willing participant, so no crime.
/is this how it works
I’m not sure if in General it does, but if her name is Katie Hill, then yes you’ve got it nailed.
To be fair, every female dance instructor I’ve ever met was hot.
“Conner, who ran the “Infamous Dancerettes” team in Memphis, pleaded guilty in November to charges of criminal exposure to HIV, statutory rape by an authority figure and solicitation of a minor.
He was sentenced Friday to nine months in prison and four years of probation, WREG said. He will also be on the Sex Offender Registry for life, WREG said.
Conner also has two similar cases pending with sexual partners ages 17 and 24, prosecutors said.”
So there would be one fewer charge if this happened in California.
Dancers are freaky.
Hi Sloop!
One interesting story from the world of sports: Leon Draisaitl hung four on the Preds last night. Man, that kid is something.
I hope all of our Nashville Glibs are safe, as well. Scary shit.
Nice song choice. I have’t heard that one in many years, either. That was 29 years ago. Valerie is probably pushing 50!
Have a great day, people!
Draisaitl Steve Smith’d us last night. The place was rocking to start the 3rd and was almost empty with 5 minutes left. Deflated.
Tard Tuesday: UP IS DOWN
I see history happening… Bit like putting a frog in cold water and heating it up. By the time it realises it is cooking it is too late to escape.
*spits out coffee*
These people use Orwell as an instruction manual.
The whole idea of “deconstructing the administrative state” is to tear down democracy.
Further evidence that the word “democracy” just means “Government that i like”, or even more generally “something i think is good”. These people are litterally praising administrative bureaucratic state, and saying that it is democracy to have unaccountable partisans who thwart the will of the people and look at the people with disdain as having nothing to do with government.
Yep, the mask is off.
Not that they’re smart enough to realize that they were wearing masks in the first place.
They have now redefined the word “democracy.”
Youth pastor wanted colleague, judge killed, police say
And you thought the Catholics were bad
Say what you will, no priest ever knocked up an altar boy.
It wasn’t for a lack of trying
[golf clap] for NA
I have seen the term youth pastor on the babylon bee thing but have no idea what it means
There’s usually a separate pastor for youth services at Protestant churches. It’s also commonly a dream job for ephebos.
Only at very big churches.
I can’t think of a church I attended that didn’t have a youth pastor. Whether the church was a couple hundred or a few thousand, the youth pastor is usually the second hire after the senior pastor.
Not my church – pastors aren’t cheap. The giant Methodist church in town has a couple of ministers, one of them might be assigned to “youth”.
Do smaller congregations use volunteer youth, music, etc ministers?
We have a Sunday School run by volunteers. The Choir Director also leads a youth choir.
Not necessarily – our church has one and it’s medium sized, I’d say
In our area, just about every church has at least one.
Typically a Protestant thing, but here is an overall summary. TL;DR is that it is exactly what it says on the tin — a pastor specifically running youth programs / youth ministry for a given church.
Babysitters for kids at church.
Can it not be replaced by a couple of PlayStations?
A handful of Veggie Tales games is not enough to keep them occupied for long.
Not really that anymore. Most churches have pretty robust youth programs that go way beyond babysitting programs during services. They typically do a lot of community projects and fellowship events geared toward growing their faith and dealing with situations kids face that adults don’t, which typically aren’t addressed during services.
Well it’s either a fake story or the hit man was going to be in for a rude surprise. Youth pastors are paid with Mountain Dew and Doritos. No way he had 5 grand to pay.
I might be judging from the sidelines here, but I think he has fallen away from the faith.
It sounds to me like he’s being way overcharged. How can you attempt to kill somebody if you’re behind bars and they aren’t? Conspiracy to commit murder? Yes. Attempted murder? No.
Also, that dude is nuts.
Pennsylvania combines treats attempted murder and solicitation of murder as thr offence:
Every – Ev Er Y – organization that involves adults and youth will have to deal with preditors using the organization to access children. The Catholic Church’s behavior shocks the conscience not because of the kiddy diddling. But because an organization that abrogates to itself moral authority looks at kiddy diddlers and says “This is fine, but the kids gotta go before he causes a stir.”
Every – Ev Er Y – organization that involves adults and youth will have to deal with preditors using the organization to access children.
Ted Bundy joined the Mormon Church in Utah
arrogates, although the dioceses did abrogate their duty of oversight.
Blah. Thanks. Brain no worky. Stick to small words.
Another thing I heard a lot of yesterday was outrage that early voters couldn’t change their votes. How unfair is that? Just because their guy/gal dropped out is no reason to disenfranchise someone.
All of them handwaved away the logistical nightmare of actually letting people change their votes. They were simply mad that Biden couldn’t get those sweet votes that had already been cast.
None of the concern trolls suggested that maybe early voting was a bad idea and should be done away with.
My hope is that CA or TX is close. Like FL 2000 close. Then we could watch Bernie and Biden lawyers argue over ballots. I’m sure the Biden lawyers will push to include Special K votes in Biden’s totals because she had dropped and endorsed Biden. Surely all her supporters would have blindly voted for whoever she endorsed?
If they’re close, they won’t go through recounts. None of these states have winner-take-all primaries anyway. So you might be talking about two-delegate swings. It’s not worth the effort to recount them.
The system they have in place is a clusterfuck. I’ll let one of their mouthpieces explain it:
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/2/21142609/super-tuesday-2020-polls-delegates-contested-convention
Sure. That would be fine if you were dealing with adults who abided by the rules/results. The problem is that the Dems (and especially Bernie Bros) aren’t necessarily going to accept the results if they aren’t what they want.
Given the bitterness that is festering, I can see things get ugly.
Don’t get me wrong. I am NOT saying that the sore losers will have a point and be justified in complaining. I’m just saying that expecting spoiled 2 year-olds to abide by a set of rules when they don’t get exactly what they want is crazy.
You’re probably right.
Also, what makes it extra-hilarious is these are the rules Bernie and his followers fought for after the superdelegate setup pretty much cost them a chance to win the Dem nomination four years ago.
Hah! I had forgotten that Bernie has chosen his own doom.
aren’t necessarily going to accept the results if they aren’t what they want.
This. Along with my comments below about Bernie bots whining about their plurality, the fact is that this really amounts to a threat of “if you don’t seat our candidate, we won’t go along in the general”. Which they are totally fine to be doing, but lets not give it some moral credence about a “stolen election”.
I can’t wait for all of the ‘ballots’ they start finding in car trunks for Biden.
Or Bloomberg. I suspect that his actual plan is to buy enough votes so that Biden will have to take him on as VP. IOW, he’s buying the 2020 or 2024 nomination through the back door. As it were.
I’m starting to wonder if maybe Biden is a Trojan horse candidate. The person the Democrat party really want to get into office will run as Biden’s VP. And after he gets into office Biden steps down to put the real chosen one on the throne.
Except I think that Special K dropped out when Biden promised her the VP slot. I can’t believe any secret cabal is so inept that they want her to be President.
I think that’s the point when the D-machine saw Biden’s potential. Not what he could do himself but how he could be used to deliver their candidate of choice. He’s a good middle-of-the-road politician who they could use to get into the oval office. After that he can step down and let the VP take over. So the VP is the real candidate – hopefully that won’t be Herself.
None of the concern trolls suggested that maybe early voting was a bad idea and should be done away with.
Or, you know, accept the consequences of early voting, that it is a known risk you might vote for a dropout and if you want to have the convenience of early voting you shoulder that risk like an adult.
Personally, I’m in favor of early voting since I live in a populated area and there’s no way I’d be standing in line for four hours just to vote (early voting lines are about 10 min with regular voting lines being 45 min, so I estimate putting it all together would be a mess).
it is a known risk you might vote for a dropout
Or that something comes up shortly before the election that changes your mind.
Early voting and (especially) vote by mail are giant security flaws. Vote by mail basically involves completely breaking the chain of custody on a ballot, the original sin of election security. Once that ballot is dropped in the mail, there is absolutely no way to know who actually votes it. The ballots are clearly identifiable while being mailed and can easily be stolen or just “lost”, and that includes both outgoing and incoming ballots.
Allowing ballot harvesting (activists go around and “collect” ballots from “voters”) is just the cherry on top – the chain of custody isn’t just broken, you know the ballots have been handled by people who should under no circumstances ever touch a ballot that isn’t their own.
What a fucking farce.
Ballot harvesting is one of those things I can’t believe exists, as it seems like a gilded invitation for fraud. At least with mail in ballots supposedly the chain of custody is pollsters>government mail>voter>government mail>pollsters, although in practice that too is a very weak system (but not one I see us being able to do away with, as the elderly and invalid are too sympathetic).
A chain of custody that involves the mail is acceptable for some, even many, purposes. Mostly because of practicality and because typically you can’t easily tell from the package what is inside, so interception/interference is highly unlikely.
Neither of those reasons applies to voting by mail. Unlike, say, shipping evidence or medical samples, there is a very well established and much more secure alternative for voting. And, the envelopes say in giant letters “BALLOT ENCLOSED”, both ways.
Beto for Gun Czar! TX may be the wrong place to start.
NPR ran O’Rourke’s endorsement of Biden <en Espanol. And of course they dropped into NPR-accent when pronouncing “Beto.”
Alles in Ordnung.
Bobby Frank? Why has he crawled out again?
Because everyone is on the same page and singing in harmony now.
The only thing that could make that skate boarding gif better would be an AR.
I don’t usually link stupid memes but for some reason this one amused me
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1234685501312864257
Oh, Canada!
His Buttigieg & Kobluchar playing “weekend at Bernie’s” with Biden is also good.
So who is behind this move?
Somebody is worried about Herself stealing the nomination in a brokered convention. Worried enough to risk a failed robbery attempt.
Do you think Drugs may or may not fall out of her ass at the deposition?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
No. I don’t expect drugs to fall out of her ass because she wiped her crack with a cloth or something.
She bleached her bits?
The bleaching is not for mere vanity, but a vital step in a lengthy process to clear parasites, barnacles and creeping vines.
Don’t shove potatoes up there!
Those aren’t vines, they’re tentacles! If she doesn’t keep them trimmed back, she’ll develop pedipalps.
If they are tentacles, why are they blooming?
OH GOD! THEY’RE BLOOMING!
Good Lord. This thread took a dark turn.
Does bleach kill Elder Gods?
Lots of factors. It will kill up to 95% of the offspring of the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young if properly applied, but that still leaves 50 young and a pissed off Shub-Niggurath.
I have a hard time imagining a deposition that doesn’t take her right out of consideration for any kind of elective office. It can’t be anything other than some combination of easily demonstrated lies, a slew of “I cain’t remember nuffin'” mental incapacity, and possibly the Fifth Amendment, likely spiced with flashes of pure sociopathic rage.
So in Romania they were considering making vaccination mandatory for kids but there was not enough political support so they passed a law where parrents can refuse vaccination but they are then forced to attend a seminar telling them about the value of vaccination…
So compulsory training in order to send your children to compulsory schooling?
schooling?
The standard argument for mandatory vaccination here in the states is due to mandatory school attendance. Are kids not forced to go to school in Romania?
yes. But here the talk was just make it mandatory, school did not enter into it
Ok i’m going to go on a mini rant. Regarding Bernie and the “Election being stolen” from him. While i am sympathetic to an anti-establishment candidate being hampered by the establishment, If bernie crosses the finish line with only a plurality of the delegates, and then is not able to garner the majority of the votes of delegates at the convention, that isn’t “Stealing” the election. That is loosing the election like a chump because you bitched about how the plurality should have been enough for the DNC to immediately coronate you.
Ya’ll know me, i think democracy is a scam for the most part. I’m skeptical of Majoritarianism. But the idea that a plurality of voters should be dominant over a majority coalition is ridiculous. It is the Bernie folk who are closer to asking for the rules to be changed in order for their preferred candidate to win.
MAH POPULUR VOTE!
anti-establishment candidate being hampered by the establishment is part and parcel of how things work in life
^^^ This. I might be sympathetic, but that is what happens when you choose to go against the establishment. Bitching about pluralities is just stupid shit.
Especially when you are piggybacking on another party’s nomination process. A party you don’t even belong to.
When you take a shot at the queen, you best not miss.
That still doesn’t change the delicious tears that I will be feasting on.
Personally, I want Bernie to get the nod, because I want a referendum on his brand of Commie Lite, but I will also enjoy watching the DNC implode at the convention. It’s a win-win.
I’m with you. I want a straight up vote on this commie bullshit now rather than later.
My fear is that if the DNC is allowed another 10 years of quietly moving the goal posts, the commies will win. If the vote is now, I’m hoping that enough people will still vote for Trump and then the commie wing will be purged for the electoral disaster.
The issue with that gambit, of course, is that we could be horribly wrong and get ourselves Comrade President Bernard the First.
In which case, let’s just get this over with.
*starts prepping*
Exactly. I need to know if I need to start really getting serious about learning Korean or not.
Lesson 1: Colonavilus
ahahahahahaha
The gambit is still sound, as the forces for counterrevolution would be much stronger now than later.
Of course, a successful counterrevolution has a high chance of resulting in a Franco or Pinochet, so that’s not good either, but still better than a failed counterrevolution.
Democracy no longer means what an actual majority want, it now means what a majority of the right-thinkful want. The left thrives on a narrative of victimhood.
But the idea that a plurality of voters should be dominant over a majority coalition is ridiculous.
I think this is the key. Just because a group comprises the largest minority faction, doesn’t mean that it should be able to impose its will on all the other factions. I’m not even thinking of this in terms of democracy. Demanding protections from the predations of a majority is easy enough, but protections from a large minority? That should be obvious.
If bernie crosses the finish line with only a plurality of the delegates, and then is not able to garner the majority of the votes of delegates at the convention, that isn’t “Stealing” the election.
You’re right, but you’re also bound to be arguing with people who likely think Trump stole the election, so, you know, good luck with that.
The Horny Goose presents
Hot Dog Slim & The Electric Potatoes + support
First band 8:30pm sharp
No cover
Came out of class last night to find my sideview mirror busted and two deep gouges on my door next to it. I’ll bet a million it was some motherless hipster fuck on one of those execrable electric scooters. As Vincent Vega said, “If I could catch him, it would be worth him doing it”.
From previous thread:
Mazel tov to Hobbit!
Michael Caine named a daughter Dominique after The Fountainhead. The things one learns from Desert Island Discs…
I have in fact heard that recently. I ❤️ Valerie too.
PS. Jean Harlow in color: ooh.
I do have a cat named Dagny. As a human name it would probably fit in with other modern names.
UK coronavirus LIVE: Boris Johnson unveils battle plan as UK total jumps to 51
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-coronavirus-live-updates-battle-plan-boris-johnson-a4376716.html
Maybe accommodation prices fall in London and I can get something better should I decide to go.
I have a colleague who had ryanair tickets to Milano and back and ryanair canceled the return flight from Milan to Bucharest but not the flight from Bucharest
When most people infected are just going to be staying at home, and the few who do need urgent care are likely to be among those that would have contracted flu of some sort requiring hospitalisation during the winter period anyway, why on earth would they need to go to such extremes as comandeering private hospitals?
“why on earth would they need to go to such extremes as comandeering private hospitals?”
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Ah, of course.
Everywhere local is out of hand sanitizer, apparently. I wasn’t in the market for any, but two supermarkets this morning were both out and filled with various people looking for it, and buying disinfectant. Yes I went to two separate supermarkets because I want the best prices and they are close to each other.
Where I work, at every entrance there is a hand sanitizer unit, disinfecting cloths, and a sign saying “Please apply before entering.”
*waits for Winston’s Mom joke*
This is how trust issues start
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1234543648479600643
“At least 1.4 million people have already voted in California’s Democratic primary, for example, according to data collected by The Associated Press. In Texas, more than 1 million early Democratic votes have been cast.”
It’s pretty ironic that early voting (something relentlessly pushed by Leftists, easier to commit fraud donchaknow), is kneecapping their golden boy.
As has been mentioned elsewhere here, the unfortunate response will not be to end early voting, but calls for people to be able to change their vote. which inevitably will mean that they get an extra vote. Not even an aknowledgment of “well thems the consequences for voting early, if you don’t like the consequences of your actions, make better choices”.
I tend to think the halmark of Left vs Right is an emphasis on Equality vs Hierarchy. I’d say that the salient difference between Statisim and Liberty is the desire to protect people from the consequences of their actions.
Report: Mansplaining Down But Woman Confusion Up
Biden: ‘I Am The Only Candidate Who Can Beat Ronald Reagan’
“Report: Mansplaining Down But Woman Confusion Up”
+1 Man Scripts
Who needs factual information or reality-based core principles when “Happy wife = happy life”?
/shields himself
That was funny. First comment:
Rookie mistake.
Bingo!
“‘It’s really confusing,’ said Tanya Stokes, a woman. ‘I have no idea what’s going on.'”
LOLOL
Super Tard Tuesday: WHERE HOLLYWOOD?
I love how they need to explain who James Cromwell is but not “Cat Power” or “Diet Cig”.
Wow, there’s an incredible amount of foreign election interference from that list, based on what the Dems have deemed foreign interference. Every one of those foreigners, from M.I.A. to Werner Herzog to Pussy Riot are forbidden from giving to campaigns with money or in-kind contributions.
Nevermind, that ratchet only goes one way.
I’m disappointed that Jovovich is on that list. Her parents fled the Ukraine with her in tow and now she’s voting for bringing that commie shit to here.
If she wants one more vote for Bernie, she can grab her costume from the Fifth Element and spend the best six minutes of her life with me.
Here’s the thing: only morons consider celebrity endorsements when they pull the lever and I’m not even certain they do.
You know what, if Bernie wins, I’d love to see someone push through legislation enacting a tax on entertainment. A steep one, so the woke celebrities can really do their part for ushering in the Millennium.
A tax on actors, a tax on theaters, a tax on tickets, a tax on copyright suits, a stamp duty for cease and desist letters, a streaming tax, a broadcast tax, a bandwidth tax…
This is where we’re headed:
The Taxman: You just docked.
Popeye: I has.
The Taxman: Ah ha, let’s see here, that’ll be 25 cents docking tax.
Popeye: What for?
The Taxman: Where’s your sea craft?
Popeye: It ain’t no sea craft, it’s me dinghy and it’s under the wharf.
The Taxman: Ah ha. aah-ha. This your goods?
Popeye: They is.
The Taxman: Yeah. You’re new in town right?
Popeye: If you call this a town, yes.
The Taxman: Well, first of all, there’s 17 cents new in town tax, and there’s 45 cents rowboat-under-the-wharf tax, and one dollar leaving-your-junk-lying-around-the-wharf tax, so all together, you owe the Commodore $1.87.
Popeye: Uh, who’s this Commodore?
The Taxman: Is the nature of question? There’s a nickel question tax.
Not a bunch of taxes on service, simply a wealth tax on entertainers and entertainment companies. To protect the artists from the dirty influences of capitalism and capital, of course.
Tax them? Traditionally the hot actress and musician demographic gets special privileges in a totalitarian regime. They get to shop in the party shops, live in the party districts, and perform degrading sex acts for the party leaders.
I guess they will be able to get all kinds of other diseases as well.
Officials in Washington state — where six patients at a local hospital have already died from coronavirus — are moving to buy a motel in order to house and isolate patients infected with the disease.
The US has reported nearly 100 cases of coronavirus, which causes a disease known as COVID-19, in total. As of Monday, Washington state has confirmed 18 cases of the virus, including the six deaths.
Officials have recorded several cases of community spread in California, Washington, and Oregon — people who had no known exposure to the coronavirus or an infected patient, and had no history of travel to a country where the virus has spread.
“We are programmed to receive
You can check-out any time you like
But you can never leave!”
That would be in California, not Washington.
I think the whole West Coast just figured out how they are going to solve their homeless crisis.
Give them the coronavirus? I thought it was engineered to only kill Chinamen?
And Chinawomen, and anyone with respiratory problems
I thought it was engineered to only kill Chinamen?
Actually, Iranians, but it was a joint effort.
I think whomever ate that bat in China should be nominated for an Nobel Peace prize in Economics. They may have solved just about every social program issue for the next 20 years! Homeless, retired, sick… Corona has got this!
Or the janitor who took a bat out of the trash at the Wuhan bio-research building and sold it at the market…
*Takes off tinfoil hat*
And if you throw in the lethality for people over 80 they might give Social Security a new glide path.
In all seriousness, given the age demographics, the effects COVID19 is going to have on our political class and entitlements is going to be pretty significant.
I, for one, look forward to our new AOC clone overlords.
What? Where’s my anti coronavirus pill? I paid in. I “earned” it.
No love for Hepatitis or Diabetes, eh.
They’re not the new kid on the block, but they’ve been going strong for years.
What a difference a day makes: Biden has now actually jumped ahead of Granpda Gulag in the betting odds. I wonder what they bribed BootyJudge and K-Hole with to get them to drop out. Or maybe they skipped the bribes altogether and went straight to threats.
I still say altering names is the lowest form of political satire.
It really lowers the tone around here.
Hey Q, where them girlie pics at?
Whatever you say CakeUnderground.
I typically don’t, but Klondiikebar was too good to pass up….
Whatever you say, PeeInTheSki
This was true until they fabricated a human called Buttigeig to run for President.
Only if you post it first.
Klobuchar was promised the VP slot. She balances the ticket, in a safe, moderate sorta way.
Buttgieg will get a cabinet post, though not a big one. HHS, HUD, something like that.
I think Klobuchar was also about to lose her home state. Bernie was trending towards a victory here and that would be embarrassing and potentially embolden some decent GOP challenger. (She’s never faced a decent opponent in her Senate runs).
Judging from his physique I suppose he wouldn’t want to take too big a post.
I don’t really care what shenanigans the Democrats are pulling. If it makes it impossible for that communist to end up in a position of power I’m for it. Fuck, at this point I’m in favor of his mysterious suicide by Clinton proxy.
Just like coronavirus, Titty Sooper Toosday will leave you gasping for breath.
http://archive.li/BZfgi
Jeepers! #14 makes a second appearance and steals my heart.
Bloomberg gets a tough gun question, and responds by proving he has no idea what gun regulations are already in place. And yes, his life is more important than yours.
I get threats because I’m important
And?
scotus allows for “reasonable restrictions”
Scotus also said arms in common use cannot be banned. I think the single most popular rifle pattern in the country qualifies as “in common use”.
guns sold on the internet
Are subject to the same (mostly unconstitutional laws/regs) that all other sales are.
You forgot that his body guards are also all ex-LEO’s and totes trained.
And that’s NYPD trained, an organization with a fanatic devotion to trigger discipline, marksmanship, and ROE.
Really. The ignorance on display here is almost as bad as the totalitarian intentions. He doesn’t even know enough about how gun purchases happen in the US and he wants to legislate on this issue?
Flag rape.
It’s not the first time he’s sexually assaulted a US flag.
Sadly, it won’t be the last time either.
Because his worshipers mistake his sexual assaults of US flags as “respecting” them.
Grab it by the
pussyheading.We’re gonna Hang the Muther Fucker!
/Rashida Talib Circa Nov 4 2020
“your shit is all fucked up and you talk of a flag”
Nice!
If Rubio and Kasich drop out and endorse Cruz, they can stop Trump.
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I fell asleep, too. Did I miss anything?
No, not really.
Same shit, different day.
Hillary Won, but then they impeached Trump anyway.
The Republicans were too wussified to just take it from Trump but the Dems don’t have that problem.
Trump reached the delegate threshold, though. Bernie won’t.
That’s true which makes the nomination being denied by the powers that be even more likely.
Poor Bernie. He won’t get the delegates according to his needs.
*chuckle*
A lot of DC Republicans just assumed Hillary would win easily and they were fine with that.
Is this what gaslighting is? How do you spell choker/chocker?
https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.188598290.2649/flat,800×800,075,f.jpg
That’s a shocker. Way to choker on the joke, moran.
What, like a minivan?
Maybe Trump thinks he’s gonna lock the wheels down on the Biden Express.
That Hat got a hold of Donald’s phone again…
It’s a variation of chukker. Don’t you even play polo?
It’s the dude who places the wedges under the wheels of a vehicle to avoid rolling.
Looking at the 538 breakdown of potential delegates, one of the big issues is going to be: What states do Warren/Bloomberg not break 15%? It has them collecting delegates everywhere, but if they miss numbers and only get 14%, they drop to zero. That gives Biden/Sanders more delegates.
but if they miss numbers and only get 14%, they drop to zero
What does that mean?
You only get delegates if you get 15% of a state. If you fall short of that, you’ll get nothing (and like it).
Do those delegates get reapportioned proportionally or does the top vote-getter in the state get all of them?
Reapportioned proportionally. To each according to his need.
Thanks. So they are treating Bloomberg like Spalding.
If I were casting the election characters as Caddyshack characters, Bloomberg would be Elihu Smails, Bernie would be Al Czervik, Trump would be the gopher, Warren would be Maggie O’Hooligan (because she’s wholly unlikable in every sense of the word).
I’m sure I could dig deeper into this if I wanted to. Actually, I might.
Didn’t Just Say’in Tulsi Apologist do one of those for Trump? It would be a good theme to keep up. You should do it.
I see Sanders as more of a Jack Hartounian and Trump as Czervik. But I do have an odd soft spot for the sequel.
But I do have an odd soft spot for the sequel.
The fuck is wrong with you? There’s nothing whatsoever redeeming about that sequel. It’s worse than Al Queda.
Randy Quaid, ’nuff said!
Seriously, it’s an awful film that further entrenches my opinion that Jackie Mason is not the least bit funny. My feelings are based upon time and place; a comically bad blind date in high school. Also, Jessica Lundy was a solid would.
Delegates are rewarded proportionally, but there is a 15% cutoff.
Example, state gives 100 delegates (ignoring district #s):
Biden 40%
Sanders 25%
Bloomberg 20%
Warren 15%
With those numbers, each would get delegates equal to their percentage.
But lets change it a bit:
Biden 40%
Sanders 25%
Bloomberg 21%
Warren 14%
Now, Warren doesn’t get any, Biden gets 40/86=47 delegates, Sanders gets 29, and Bloomberg gets 24.
It gets more complicated because the delegates are apportioned partly by statewide, and partly by congressional district. If you break 15% in congressional district, you get a portion of those ones, i think. How else did Steyer get 2 delegates in SC with only 11% total vote?
Yes, this is true, the calculation is done by district and by state, but the principle is the same, fall below 15% and lose out.
Warren and Bloomberg are both being projected to break 15% in 39 of 53 CA districts and are both at 16% statewide in polling.
Those are some tight numbres.
Also, the number of Buttigeig or Klobuchar votes cast early could have a big effect on the numbers.
Yes, Joe. I know the ‘thing’. But you don’t.
Despite his victory in the South Carolina primary, Crazy Joe Biden has been having a rough few weeks. Most notably forgetting what office he’s running for and getting caught in a lie about being arrested in South Africa. True to form, he made himself look foolish again on Monday when he was quoting—or attempting to quote—the Declaration of Independence.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” he said, somewhat slurring his speech while campaigning in Texas. “All men and women created by the—you know, you know, the thing.”
Gaffe aside, I like the founding document appeal from people that are wholly against limited government and individual freedom.
The Thing/Corn Pop 2020
You had better drain the pool!
Medical marijuana update: I really like the way I feel when I’m on it. I almost feel like a normal human being instead of the emotional wreck I usually am.
Unfortunately I can’t take it at work.
But fuck you to every person involved in prohibition for the last 80+ years. My life and health could be in a much better place if I’d had this available for the last 20 years.
Some people report success with CBD oil or capsules for anxiety. Since CBD doesn’t get you high, you might be able to tolerate it at work.
I’ve been using a CBD vape. It helps some, though not nearly as much as the THC does.
Congratulations JB! I know it’s been a long road.
I personally think you should keep a bong in the car and have a mid-morning snort – takes you through lunch, then give it a big rip before you come back from eating, gets ya through the afternoon. YMMV, however.
I’d go with concentrates, myself. No tell-tale pot-smoke smell.
I like my vapes, too, but there’s substitute for a good, ol’ fashioned glass water-pipe. Although I will give a shout out to the silicone ones that I got at a head shop in Portland. Big, tall bong and the only breakable piece is the down-spout and it’s well shielded. You can drop it, bend it, whatever, and it’s fine. They come in a couple of different sizes, too, and can be easily fit into luggage, too… so I hear.
Gah! NO, “NO substitute”
(Not worthy of asking for the edit fairy; I’m saving those wishes for the really serious fuckups.)
I hear ya – the OG combusted flowers are where I started, and concentrates aren’t the same.
The gift that keeps on gaffing: https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/biden-asks-for-support-on-super-thursday-in-yet-another-blunder/
Did he respond by taking a shot and saying “It’s Thursday somewhere!”
The GOP tricked Joe and all the minorities.
Just proves how in touch with the black community he is.
November 3rd is election day this year. What year was that article from?
2004 and it makes me sad that I had to enact that labor for you.
At least he named a day of the week. Really, it could’ve been worse.
The worst football commentator in the world makes the most.
Philadelphia Eagles fan. Hated Tony Romo his entire football career. But it’s undeniable that he’s by far the best football commentator out there right now, and it isn’t particularly close.
I agree, and I’m a Skins fan.
That’s not new, he got paid to fail at every football game when he played for the Cowboys too.
That boat in your avatar is docked 5 minutes away from my apartment right now.
Doubtful. But if it is, say ‘hi’ to my brother.
#hottake alert.
Booger McFarland got a raise?
heh
When someone said worst announcer in football, I was not thinking of heeem. There is another.
Chris Collins worthless?
(I’m not fixing that autocorrect)
Not even close to Joe Buck
https://twitter.com/philsimmsquotes
Congrats, Sloop! 😉
Nah. Romo is awesome. He has the gift of being able to read the field before the snap, and the additional gift of being able to communicate what he sees and what’s going to happen.
Plus, his commercials were some of the funniest ever. Artsy-Craftsy Tony Romo was high-larious.
Does any of this matter, since Trump’s real opponent is the coronavirus?
Yesterday I heard a radio ad (Bloomberg, of course) criticizing Trump on the coronavirus response, and he played a clip of Trump comparing it to the flu, framed as if that was a dumb comparison. Talk about playing to the low info voter. From everything I’ve heard corona has flu-like symptoms, flu-like transfer, and is less deadly than the flu, so the comparison is apt.
So far, COVID-19 is 10x deadlier than the flu.
We think. It’s more deadly than the flu but less than 10x because we have no idea how many cases are out there that haven’t been reported because the victims are minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic and don’t get tested.
It’s about as deadly as a pandemic flu (see 1957), which is where I think the death toll will end up (which was 80k in the US and 2 million in the world, which is where I figure this will end up, with the increase in population counteracted with 60 years of medical advancements).
Look, I’m trying to cause a panic here, man.
*takes off pants*
“trshmnstr’s genitals will burn up in our atmosphere, and what’s ever left will be no bigger than a chihuahua’s head.”
My Rod of God will penetrate the whirlwinds of the atmosphere, pop the crust’s cherry, and deposit its load in the sweet, sweet magma of Gaia’s womb.
Deadbeat magma dad.
Any bitch ass magma that tries to kill my Moana aint mine. I want the carbon dating paternity test!
Not in total numbers. Last I looked, flu had killed 16k Americans this season.
With many more surviving to recover.
The ratio of recoveries to fatalities for Wuhan is not looking great.
*Dislaimer – we don’t have good numbers because China is asshole.
Check back in 4 months.
I think the real issue is that nobody has any resistance to it as it is a new strain and it appears to be highly contagious.
If I were an assisted living facility operator (or living in one), I would be very concerned right now.
This.
The reality that seems to get lost here is that those who would otherwise take precautions to avoid the flu, should take those same precautions to avoid this. Young, elderly, ill, and immunocompromised are at risk. Everybody else will likely be okay.
It’ll be highly contagious until it isn’t. That sounds silly, but it could mutate it’s way out of it’s current form pretty quickly.
And the complication rate also appears to be higher than influenza. There isn’t enough medical capacity if it advances to a Wuhan (or Iran) size outbreak all at once. Even the largest estimates I’ve seen about the size of infection there were only 10% of the population before the lockdown.
Also, the transmissibility rate seems to be high than influenza. But again, since the denominator is not exactly known, it’s hard to tell
Increased testing capacity (which the CDC has been very opaque about why they’ve been having trouble ramping up) will help by identifying more cases and as it moves to community spread, an idea of how far it’s spread and monitoring for mutation (good or bad). It will also lead to sensational news stories and panic as the numbers rise, possibly dramatically like in South Korea.
(SARS-COV2 (Coronavirus) is a different virus from influenza (flu), not just a strain variant.)
So far, COVID-19 is 10x deadlier than the flu.
Maybe. Hard to say. There appears to be a population where it presents as basically a common cold (how big a population, nobody knows). Flu rarely presents as a mild condition.
The other issue is, you can’t compare US flu mortality rates with Chinese or Iranian Kung Flu mortality rates. You’d need to baseline like-for-like mortality rates for flu, and then compare to like-for-like Kung Flu mortality rates. Kung Flu seems to have a pretty nasty mortality rate in third tier health care systems, maybe worse than flu, but I haven’t seen a good comparison.
Based on the very limited data set we have, Kung Flu may be more transmissable. That’s the math – transmissability x mortality rate. We still don’t have decent data on either. I’m still betting it will pretty much fall in the range of a bad, possibly very bad, flu strain, but not ERMAGERD WE’Z ALL GUNNA DIE!
That’s how the number of flu cases is calculated in Russia. At some point in the winter the authorities decide that for the next several weeks each case of common cold is counted as flu. Doctors don’t try to distinguish a cold from the flu. If it’s the flu period then it’s flu. That’s how you get the high denominator and the relatively low flu death rate. You think that in the rest in the world the flu cases are counted much more carefully?
I find the whole idea of ‘counting’ sort of silly. I have never in my life sought out medical services for a flu. Maybe I am an outlier, but really what percentage of folks with the flu go to a doctor? All these counts are projections from non-random samplings.
I’ve been treated for Influenza twice. The first time was “oh shit, I’ve never felt this bad before, better see the doc.” Second time was “oh shit, I’ve got it again.”
Influenza scares the shit out of me.
My guess is the alread-sick get over counted. My wife and kid have asthma, so at the first sign anyone in our house get to urgent care to get tamiflu. Flu really fucks up those two.
I just had the flu last month, it was one of the worst ones I’ve ever had. It lasted more than a week. Part of the joys of having three little kids. I also have never sought out a doctor or medical care for the flu, just fluids, otc medications and hot whiskey. It sucks balls. I’ve had dengue fever, cholera and salmonella and in comparison to those the flu is probably worse in intensity than the first (although dengue really lasts a few weeks so that sucks) and not as bad in intensity as the latter two.
In Russia people don’t have sick days, you are supposed to see a doctor to avoid getting in trouble at work or school.
I’ve seen that as a television ad every other commercial break here.
Bloomy is uniquely scummy even for a politician. Trying to sow panic in the population for votes is lower than whale shit.
So Bloomberg is fine with China interfering with our election.
If the “Corporate Elite!” are really so scared of Bernie, why aren’t they plowing money into Joe’s campaign?
Because he’s busy buying ads for his own campaign.
The Daily Wire✔
@realDailyWire
President Trump on Klobuchar, Buttigieg dropping out: “Probably they’ll say ‘hey look if I win, I’ll put you in the administration. That’s called quid-pro-quo, right?”
Heh.
I’ll give him that one.
*Rod Blagojevich pricks his ears up*
Always a good reminder.
Always a good reminder.
Sorry moderators, I suck at cleaning twitter posts for multiple links.
And they’re not even utopia yet. Bump that figure up to 75 or 80 percent for the Red New Deal.
Many years ago I was interviewing for a job in Spain. I started researching the tax rates and was shocked at how quickly you get up into really high marginal tax rates. Prior to that I was working for an entity in Cyprus with 0% tax rates, so I would have needed a very large raise for the job to make sense.
I met Ton Loc at Fat Burger on the vegas strip. You may kiss my ring.
Why would I?
Because you’re a Wild Thing! I know, I’ve met you.
And yet you mention this other guy first?
How in the hell would you recognize him?
Because I’m not racist and not all black folk look alike to me?
No, I’m serious.
Because he looked and sounded like Ton Loc, the man has very distinguishing features in those ares.
I mean, I know vegas is full of celebrity impersonators. But really, a Ton Loc impersonator in 2002? At 2am at Fatburger wouldn’t break character to get some food?I think chances are better that it was him. I mean, how do you know that woman you call mom is your mom?
How many towels did he hand you in the men’s room?
say what you will, but were you in Surf Ninjas?!
I don’t want to contract funky cold medina, that’s worse than Coronavirus.
I know a guy from the internet who met Ton Loc at Fat Burger on the Vegas strip.
I bet he makes mediocre cartoons lots of people love but few people pay for. He’s probably also a secret socialist plant!
Did he have some Funky Cold Medina?
Checking in on any other Nashville Glibs…we were pretty close to the action and luckily passed us over.
Passed over, like (((THEM)))?
Genuinely glad to hear that, sleeper.
Isn’t Don Escaped in Nashville as well? Hope everyone gets through this ok. The pics brought back memories of driving through Xenia as a kid. Just awful.
No problems for my area, but we are still on alert at the hospital for potential victims.
If the U.S. taxed personal income in the same way that Denmark does, all income over $65,000 would be taxed at 55.9 percent. — Tax Foundation (@TaxFoundation) February 28, 2020
The government should just confiscate all personal income over $40k. Then we would have true justice.
100% over, let me check estimates for this year…25k.
I met Ton Loc at Fat Burger on the vegas strip. You may kiss my ring.
Oh. What’s a Ton Loc?
That drink that Schumer banned.
“….Roger Stone got 4.5 times this sentence for lying to congress.”
But he raped democracy and exposed us to Russia!
No he claimed to have done so, but he was lying.
I mean, they all look alike.
“The Democratic front-runner was spotted Saturday making his way off of a private Gulfstream between campaign stops in South Carolina and Massachusetts — the latter being where he held a rally at Boston Common ahead of Super Tuesday,” the TMZ report outlined.
The outlet also included a photo of Sanders seemingly walking off the private jet that was not his. “Bernie’s been flying all over the country for different campaign events,” said TMZ, “[m]istakes like this (getting on the wrong Gulfstream) are bound to happen.”
While Sanders promotes socialist solutions to his climate alarmism, the Vermont senator spent a whopping $1.2 million on private jet travel in just three months, from October to December of 2019, The Daily Wire highlighted in February.
A man of the people.
Who wants to spend a gazillion dollars on green energy while flying private everywhere he goes.
Well, our betters need access to the best in technology, food, housing, and transportation so that they can find strength to carry out their mission of helping out the “little guy”.
His solar powered jet is going to be really expensive.
Good morning , Glibs! Thanks for the links, sloop.
I am looking forward to the super Tuesday fun.
BTW, SNL’s cold open from Feb 29 with all the Dem candidates present was the funniest thing they’ve done in years. Can’t wait to see what they do after Super Tuesday.
Yeah, sometimes they were spot on.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ten-weeks-in-jail/n9460
The problem with SNL is how much talent they tie up to produce one or two amusing moments per year.
I think anybody can write one good story, good song, or good book. The hard part is doing it over and over again and on a deadline. SNL is evidence of that.
Phil! ❤️
Tired of worrying about the coronavirus? Have some good old fashioned Big Petrochem bashing. It never goes out of style.
More than half the plastic now on Earth has been created since 2002, and plastic pollution is on pace to double by 2030. At its root, the global plastics crisis is a product of our addiction to fossil fuels. The private profit and public harm of the oil industry is well understood: Oil is refined and distributed to consumers, who benefit from gasoline’s short, useful lifespan in a combustion engine, leaving behind atmospheric pollution for generations. But this same pattern — and this same tragedy of the commons — is playing out with another gift of the oil-and-gas giants, whose drilling draws up the petroleum precursors for plastics. These are refined in industrial complexes and manufactured into bottles, bags, containers, textiles, and toys for consumers who benefit from their transient use — before throwing them away.
“Plastics are just a way of making things out of fossil fuels,” says Jim Puckett, executive director of the Basel Action Network. BAN is devoted to enforcement of the Basel Convention, an international treaty that blocks the developed world from dumping hazardous wastes on the developing world, and was recently expanded, effective next year, to include plastics. For Americans who religiously sort their recycling, it’s upsetting to hear about plastic being lumped in with toxic waste. But the poisonous parallel is apt. When it comes to plastic, recycling is a misnomer. “They really sold people on the idea that plastics can be recycled because there’s a fraction of them that are,” says Puckett. “It’s fraudulent. When you drill down into plastics recycling, you realize it’s a myth.”
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Marine plastics picked up by the currents collect in massive ocean “gyres” — the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now twice the size of Texas. These are swirling petrochemical spills, but unlike crude oil, the long molecular chains in plastics don’t exist in nature and don’t meaningfully biodegrade. “The same properties that make plastics so versatile,” the Science Advances authors, including Jambeck, write, “make these materials difficult or impossible for nature to assimilate.” Instead, bulk plastics wear down into microplastics — a category for particles smaller than 5 millimeters, or roughly the width of your pinkie fingernail — deteriorating further into nanoplastic particles.
In the open water, plastics are consumed by fish, seabirds, and mammals — which are washing up dead in harrowing numbers. Last year, whales in Italy and the Philippines died just weeks apart, their stomachs packed with indigestible plastic bags. In December, a sperm whale washed ashore in Scotland with more than 200 pounds of plastic in its gut. The pollution visible on the ocean surface represents just one percent of what humans have dumped into the oceans. The rest lies beneath, including seven miles deep in the Mariana Trench, where researchers have spotted plastic bags and measured microplastics at concentrations of 2,000 parts per liter. Without dramatic change, the amount of plastics entering the oceans every year, already intolerable, is projected to more than double by 2025.
Big Plastic is a vast nefarious conspiracy on the part of the Big Oil and Big Drink to poison the planet and all its inhabitants with trash which will never decompose, disguised as consumerist convenience and sanitary packaging.
Oh, perfidy!
“Plastics are just a way of making things out of fossil fuels.”
It couldn’t possibly be that there’s demand for plastic, that cheap and versatile substance that saves lives through medical use, allows poorer people to afford toys for their kids, Tupperware and other food storage and delivery, etc
I’d like to pull every plastic item out of that bloviating writer’s house and see how they like the alternative.
The writer’s nearly right. Plastics are a way of making things out of by-products of the refining process. It’s actually very conservation-minded if you’re trying to avoid waste. Kind of a “every part of the buffalo” approach to petroleum refining.
No, Big Plastic is only making those products because they want to destroy the world for profit. Nobody really wants those products, even though they are spending their money on them.
he pollution visible on the ocean surface represents just one percent of what humans have dumped into the oceans.
Sounds like somebody needs to ban export to or production of plastic in Asia and Africa, since that’s where the vast majority of plastic in the oceans comes from.
Good article on the ridiculousness of plastic bans and the joke that is curbside recycling.
https://www.city-journal.org/needless-panic-over-disposable-plastic
People with comfortable lives will always imagine or obsess on some sin we’ve collectively committed so that they can fight the bogeyman and thus do penance while claiming moral superiority.
Environmentalism has really turned into quite the religion over the last few decades. I’ve mentioned the utter stupidity of what we have been doing with most plastic recycling to a few people and get surprised responses. Putting thousands of tons of food contaminated household plastic on supertankers and using massive amounts of ship diesel to cart them across the ocean to China where they will get stuck straight into incinerators is not logical or “green” in any way.
they will get stuck straight into incinerators
That’s best case. Some of it just gets dumped into . . . wait for it . . . the rivers.
Yup. That article talks about that very thing. It really is terrible that all of the focus on renewables and global warming hysteria has diverted attention and resources away from fixing actual, real and somewhat solvable problems like waste disposal in the developing world.
DONT JUDGE THE NOBLE BROWN SAVAGES IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD!! DONT YOU KNOW THAT ALL BROWN PEOPLE ARE AT ONE WITH GAIA?!?
The more you think about what the environmental movement has done the bigger a tragedy it is
From the hard-hitting journalists at Rolling Stone. ?
hard-hitting journalists
Apparently, they are hitting each other in the head with blunt objects.
My heart goes out to Nashville. What a shitty situation.
Tornadoes are especially wicked due to unpredictability (vs hurricanes), and can feel personal when your house is destroyed while the neighbor’s house is fine.
On the other hand, the local community is ready and right there to help.
due to unpredictability
Their individual unpredictability. There’s still the part where they tend to happen in the same places year after year that could be used to avoid/prepare for them. Like, I’d think in Tornado Town, they’d build underground like a sod house style. But I also wouldn’t build a McMansion 200ft from the shore in Hurricane Hamlet either.
*shrug*
If you tried to move away from Tornados, there’d be vast empty areas in Tornado Alley, which is much wider than an alley.
It’s true that tornadoes to the east and southeast (Tennessee, Alabama, etc) have more devastating tornadoes, though much less common than in Texas through Minnesota.
It’s just not realistic to move away from tornado zones. Best thing to do is have a cellar or saferoom, and to learn to watch the radar and observe the skies.
Too bad that not every state has a Gary England.
It’s true that tornadoes to the east and southeast (Tennessee, Alabama, etc) have more devastating tornadoes, though much less common than in Texas through Minnesota.
Yep. The “tornado death axis” runs from Mobile to Indianapolis.
For whatever reason, the west gets more isolated F0-2 twisters and the east gets a disproportionate amount of widespread F3 outbreaks. That, along with increased population density, accounts for the difference in tornado density centroid versus tornado danger centroid.
How does coronavirus kill you?
Is it through some sort of impaired lung function, or infection, or something else? Does it attack the heart?
Either the fever or pneumonia
Pneumonia is the bulk of it.
My understanding is it fills your lungs up with goop. You either suffocate, or your heart gives out because it has to work so much harder to try to keep your body oxygenated.
It steals your organs, sells them on the black market, and donates the proceeds to Trump.
I’d like to pull every plastic item out of that bloviating writer’s house and see how they like the alternative.
I’m sure he totes his earthen pot down to the communal well for his daily supply of drinking/washing/bathing water. There is no end to what he’d do to save Gaia.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/children-climate-change-sleep-nightmares-eco-anxiety-greta-thunberg-a9371191.html
Congrats, eco fearmongers. You’ve stolen their childhoods.
Meh, they’re useful props. Who cares?
I can remember having the occasional nightmare over nuclear war when I was a kid. It’s always going to be something.
I was young in the 80s, 2 to 12, but I remember in the middle part especially thinking every now and again that there was a chance I’d go to sleep and never wake up because nuclear war would happen overnight. Or, that I’d just be at school or playing in the yard and maybe see a flash on the horizon and that’d be it. It didn’t worry me too much, but it was there. Turns out it was pretty overblown, but that’s how these things go.
I”m almost exactly your age. The scene from Terminator where Sarah Connor is banging on the chain link fence when the bomb goes off…
HOW DARE YOU!
Either the fever or pneumonia
Pneumonia is the bulk of it.
Ah. Thx
My understanding is it fills your lungs up with goop. You either suffocate, or your heart gives out because it has to work so much harder to try to keep your body oxygenated.
Ewwww.
Basically the same course as pneumonia, really.
*doses hands from giant bottle of Purell*
Invisible BEAM of the comment stream on March 2, 2020 at 6:53 pm
Yeah, yeah . . . whatever, d00d. I keep trying to tell my extended family members this, and they keep calling hot “spicy.”
I think this goes right back to the Columbian exchange introducing the Old World to capsicums, and the ensuing naming confusion with pepper.
Another thought I’ve had about chilis based on comments I’ve seen on show’s like Bourdain’s etc. When he or other hosts visit Mexico and southward, aka Home Of The Chili, it’s often remarked how the food ISN’T THAT HOT, while the pursuit of the hottest fruit/sauces seems concentrated [pun-intd] in less traditional chili culinary cultures. The chili is relatively new in Asia, hence the really hot dishes in Sezchuan, Thai etc. The culture producing Hot Ones and Super Mega Death Sauce is mostly divorced from anything traditional, even possibly centered around what’s new and Krazy. Given another thousand years, I bet chili use will mostly calm down throughout the culinary world.
I’ve made it a personal mission to get members of my extended family to stop using the word spicy when what they mean is hot. I’ve even prepared dishes for them with extensive spicing that contain zero heating spices (pepper-related, ginger-related, etc.) to try to get them to understand the difference. It’s an uphill battle, to say the least.
‘Course, I’ve also tried to get people to stop writing “correct the seasoning” in recipes (especially if the recipes are aimed at cooking n00bs) when what they really mean is “check the salt level, and add more salt if you think it needs it.” People seem to love obfuscation.
Anecdote, not evidence, but I’m dating a (born in Mexico) Mexican gal. Her family makes stuff hot. Especially her sister. As in, mole so hot that my face was melting.
I hang out here too much. Someone on facebook made a comment about Klobuchar dropping out of the race to spend more time abusing her staff and I relied;
I thought abusing your staff was a guy thing?
and people are not getting the joke…
Election betting odds now have Dem nomination in this order:
Biden, Sanders, Bloomberg (in STEEP) decline, and, you guessed it, Hillary in 4th. Ahead of Warren and the rest.
Will she or won’t she? I bet she’d have gone against Sanders, but might balk at Biden.
How the fuck is Biden winning the election odds?
They are giving him a big bost from a) South Carolina and b) That he was endorsed by Buttigieg and Klobuchar
Texas looks to be make or break for Sanders.