Coming soon to all of European soccer
Leicester have solidified their position in the top 4, Serie A have called off all games due to the Coronavirus, the UCL matches are going on as scheduled, many in empty stadia, and that’s abut it for soccer. Gonzaga held off USF to hang on to a #1 seed for now. They’ll lose it if they can’t beat St Mary’s tonight. And more teams punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament.
The Sharks may be forced to play in an empty arena. And your winners last night were Buffalo, Winnipeg, Florida, Vegas and LA. Also, locker rooms won’t allow reporters, which should have been done years before the Wuhan virus got everybody into a massive panic.
Legends
King Ferdinand II was born on his day. He shares it with racist asshole James Earl Ray, corrupt soccer admin Sepp Blatter, acting legend Chuck Norris, 1st Canadian female PM Kim Campbell, religious scholar (according to the NYT) and giant fucking asshole Osama bin Laden, motorcycle enthusiast and football coach Bobby Petrino, inbred Prince Andrew, actor Jon Hamm, pop musician Robin Thicke, actress Olivia Wilde, and new country singer Carrie Underwood.
Right, now…the links!
The volatility of the market continues apace. It’s almost as if it’s reacting irrationally to every little piece of news. And it’s almost as if the players involved know this. So let’s see how it all plays out: will the media deliberately force it lower with incessant fear-mongering or will Trump deliberately push it higher with incessant money-pumping? (Although I’m always happy when taxes are cut, so this one is good. I do fear, however, a lot of bailouts are coming, which is bad.)
More of this, please!
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this will continue. I wish it would speed up, actually. But I’m still happy to see progress.
Remember this the next time a union school teacher tells you they care about kids first. Because I guess they can’t negotiate while still doing their job. Hopefully this backfires and the school district fires them all and hires replacements.
That’s it, everybody. Start heading to Savannah. Or just stay home and get drunk in your local bar. Which would make that just a normal day in Southie, wouldn’t it?
The Chicago way. What’s the total taxpayers have been fleeced for at now, I wonder?
Come on, dude, and release it!
Man, somebody really wants this movie to never see the light of day. I wonder why?
But at least she didn’t use a gun! So that will make progressives happy.
This will be the first of many such local stories. Well, local in the sense that I live there. I’m still stuck in boring Kansas for a few more days.
This should be the Wuhan virus theme song! Just kidding, but it does rock.
Now go have a great day, friends!
Glorious Tuesday become Monday!
You just looking for a catbutt?
I think you should catbutt sloopy. I couldn’t figure out why my browser wouldn’t reload to today.
TPTB are amicable toward each other.
But a TPTB catbutt war would be a lot of fun for the rest of us.
Until the catbutt truce.
When Elephants fight, the grass gets trampled… be careful what you wish for.
When elephants fight, the ivory dealers get cheap product.
*SOWER OF DISCORD*
Elephants eh? I knew you were a bunch of Republicans
Do porcupines fight?
I don’t think so, but I’m more interested in how they mate without impaling each other. I’ll look up some documentaries for this evening. Purely scientific curiousity.
You just want to watch porcuporn.
*SOWER OF DISCORD*
Hail Eris!
I have a gift for the best of TPTB:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.timetoast.com/public/uploads/photos/6380066/golden_apple.jpg
Hot (SFW)
I miss my cat 🙁
Two and half years since some jerkwad ran her down and she died in the arms of a kind stranger.
I’m sorry. : ( Would you consider adopting another? (And keeping it indoors?)
I might do, but my old girl was wild. She originally came to us by free will because apparently she wasn’t too find of her owner’s place. She would have been very sad to be kept indoors. She was an excellent rat-killing machine. I think if I had a kitteh from kittenhood I’d keep them as an indoors cat. Where I live now my neighbors lost one of four cats to traffic, and another one of the three remaining has been hit twice and had surgery on his pelvis. Some folks that live further up the road have lost two cats in the past year or so. I’m definitely interested in kitty-proofing outside so they have somewhere to roam around and chase butterflies, but don’t go out into the street to get hit by traffic, or out into the fields at night to get shot by lampers or get busy with the feral farm cats.
We’re only a couple of houses away from a main thoroughfare state highway, so kitty roaming is not a viable option. Fortunately, the new kitty shows no interest in going out. The last one was cured of his curiosity by getting pinned between Mr. GT’s leg and the door frame during a getaway attempt.
That made even me a little sad.
Shit. That’s awful. My kittehs stay inside the Thunderdome.
They very lucky to have ol’ Daddy Festus to keep them safe.
Half the commenters sat out the start of the week, so it feels like Monday to me.
Well, like, there’s no objective reality anyway, and like, if Prince doesn’t* believe in time, then I guess neither do I.
Saying “didn’t” is like a microagression against us anti-timers.
Hey, time change Mondays be rough on people.
I was traveling through the incubator that is the Atlanta airport, and I’m fine.
/Nephilium died while posting this message
Did someone say Glorious?
I cant recall a time in my life when I havent been in love with Debbie Harry.
THIS
The rapping part of Rapture is cringey however.
I wish more people could admit this.
Wait, I thought that is what it was known for, being so gawdawful.
Agreed. Post-punk white girls rapping was only cool when The Waitresses did it.
Alright, I’ll fight this. If not for that rap, would anyone have known of Grandmaster Flash or Fab Five Freddy? Would hip hop have gotten out of New York? Her rap might be weak, but it blew open a musical genre.
I think you mean, “Would anyone white have known of…”
I think they were already known.
As long as it eventually got to the west coast, where it became decent, is all that matters.
If I got to choose a coast I got to choose the East
I live out there, so don’t go there
But that don’t mean a nigga can’t rest in the West
See some nice breast in the West
Smoke some nice sess in the West, y’all niggas is a mess
Every kid already knew Rapper’s Delight. Which was two years before Rapture.
And without Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch, we’d never have had Death Row Records.
OK, Boomer.
Womb Raider…
corrupt soccer admin
Can you name one who isnt?
Probably not. I suppose that was unnecessarily redundant and unnecessary.
Also, the boyfriend/husband/whatever beating the hell out of Petrino is much more believable than the motorcycle accident. Considering how he looked and she was uninjured…yeah…no.
You can name one?
…
I got nuthin’
The recent Deep Dive podcast from IJ touches on this being kind of a misconception, with such legal expenses supposedly being covered by insurance. I get that it must be a lot more complicatd than that and certainly welcome any ACKCHUALLLYYYYY replies to this, probably involving ever increasing premiums having a knock-on effect into more aggressive taxation and petty fines from the authorities in question to pay for the cover they need to deal with all the suits that generates, and the whole ourobouros chugs along until it becomes some sort of singularity? I don’t know, I just wanted to seem smaht by using the word “ourobouros”. Happy Muesday. The libertopian dream of an 8 day working week will be realized!
“Self insured” “Self Insured Retention” “Deductible”
Yeah… the taxpayers take it in the shorts.
What insurance carrier would be dumb enough to write a liability policy for the Chicago PD?
Exactly this, sloop. My niece worked as an underwriter for a municipal insurance company IN CHICAGO and they never issued a policy to any Chicago entity because the risk was too high.
Glibs of the Year?
HERO!
Hmmm…
.08 * 27.5 = 2.2%
Umm…no. I am guessing this is somewhere with a crazy low legal limit.
Even .02 * 27.5 = 0.55 which is feasible, but still deadly.
Probably a typo. 2.75?
Next you’re going to tell me Michael Bloomberg couldn’t have given everyone a million dollars.
Maybe he had a CDL?
Hunter Gibbons, 56, and Ashley White, 19,
Nice.
-South Park cops
I’ll be 56 come December. Fingers and toes crossed!
Did that last week…
Don’t feel much older though.
And happy early birthday to you then.
All the “you may also like” suggestions are really weird, and coming from me, that’s saying a lot.
How can they both be arrested for DUI?
They were both in the drivers seat.
They were both on the drivers side?
timing fail
/bows to robc
Hey, I just discovered an old Thought Not Sermon I was working on at one point but never posted. Not sure all the presidents are here, I think, but most of ’em are.
125) Best—Presidents whose legacies are mostly positive with few or no flaws: George Washington, Calvin Coolidge
Good—Presidents whose legacies are mostly positive but not entirely untarnished—Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan
Mildly favorable—Presidents whose legacies are generally positive but mixed or simply didn’t do that much: John Adams, William McKinley, George H. W. Bush
Mixed—Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt, Bill Clinton
Neutral to mildly unfavorable—Presidents who were basically non-entities or were in over their heads or clueless but did little long-term damage: William Henry Harrison, William Howard Taft, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter
Unfavorable—Presidents with mostly negative legacies but resulting in little permanent damage, or who did not cause harm to the country but did little to stop it—Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama
Bad—Presidents whose legacies are mostly damaging but may have had some redeeming qualities: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George W. Bush
Villainous—Presidents who did incredible damage to the country with few or no redeeming qualities: Woodrow Wilson, Richard Nixon
Nice run down.
Where might Trump fit at this juncture?
Oh, man. Mildly favorable, I think. Definitely a corrective to what came before, but too disorganized to really change much in a permanent way. Despite all the noise about him, I haven’t seen anything that makes me think he’ll be remembered much 50 years from now.
I’d put in mildly unfavorable but could see it both ways.
If prison reform works out, maybe that could help?
“think he’ll be remembered much 50 years from now.”
Upsetting the DC Apple Cart will keep him remembered for a long time.
You think freeing the slaves is bad and damaging!!!! / Result of public education.
Well he did say ‘redeeming qualities’!
He must like Lincoln’s white supremacy.
Well, it was a major accomplishment.
It was also an accident. He didn’t want to do it.
Man, you’re really looking to start a brawl here, aren’t you?
I’m still trying to figure out what that has to do with the unfortunate couple in Purcell, OK.
Just like there can only be one president, there can only be one driver at a time. Some may be more bad than others, but charging them all with being bad at the same time is wrong.
Why would Nixon be villainous but LBJ merely bad?
Both Bush fuckos belong in bad.
The betrayal of public trust. Although I’m not sure I considered lying about the Gulf of Tonkin incident at the time I wrote this. I could see moving LBJ down.
Nixon just got caught.
And got caught doing a helluva lot less than Obama did openly.
Nixon also ended the gold standard, instituted piece controls and in general ducked around in the economy. Those things I consider his bad legacy, not Watergate.
^This (as well as founded the fucking EPA)
…and OSHA, and the Endangered Species Act, and the Clean Air Act, and…
” Ulysses S. Grant,”
Does Teapot Dome mean nothing to you sir!??!?!??!!???!!111??>**
**-has no idea if Teapot Dome was a legit scandal, or something brewed up by nefarious actors to make Grant look bad.
Damnit. Warren G. Harding administration. I fail history.
It was a legit scandal – the Secretary of the Interior actually went to jail – that would have been laughed away as nothing during the Obama Administration. Harry Reid and the Clintons both did far worse.
James Polk?
Started a war, expanded our territory, punched out after 1 term. Used to sit on the White House lawn and talk to anyone who walked up. Probably somewhere in the middle along with Grover Cleveland.
I might move Madison down a tier or two. Bumbled into the War of 1812, achieved nothing during the war, bumbled out of it.
Where’s Zachary Taylor, the scrubbiest of all presidents?
You forgot about Tyler.
I’d bump FDR and DDE both down one.
FDR was about as fascist as most of the other world leaders at the time. *cue – “You know who else…?”
DDE weaponized the CIA.
I always include W. H. Harrison in the “best” list.
+31 days as President (shortest tenure)
In all honestly Abe Lincoln should be bumped up. Yes, I know everyone’s complaints about the Constitutional violations and all that, and those should definitely keep him out of the top tier, but abolition is definitely a big plus and more than that keeping the union together was long-term beneficial to the country. The knock-on effects from having a broken up US are so greatly negative that having kept it together should give him massive favorability, even for someone who supports secession as a concept.
I flat out disagree. The cost to keep the union together was to ditch the republic all together. Lincoln saved the Federal Government, and since then the nation has not been a union or republic, but a runaway government posing as some union.
“I will keep the union together, by denying that it is a union of sovereign states, instead it is a sovereign federal government in control of the states!”
In short, the emancipation is what pushes Lincoln from being villainous to bad with redeeming qualities.
Except, remember, emancipation was only effective in the states that rebelled, which were not under his jurisdiction. It was a PR move.
Yeah, but he did advocate for the 13th amendment, so I’ll give him that.
I think that this is baked in from the moment the US breaks up, really. If peaceful secession is allowed, all the slave states eventually secede in protest over the now ascendant Republicans abolishing slavery. West Virginia might not even stay, as their main objection was fighting their countrymen. This creates a large rival to the US on its home continent, something IRL it did not have (excepting the brief period of civil war). Disputes are inevitable, considering the CSA claimed land owned by the USA in the west, land they probably end up taking if the USA waves the white flag at Sumter. From there things are even more speculative, but fierce national rivalries are not generally conducive to the maintenance of small government in either party. Given the nature of slave states it is probably that the CSA continues to expand, possible taking territory from Mexico (which was smaller and weaker than it at the time) and in Central America (see the filibusters) and the Caribbean. The European powers would attempt to play the USA and the CSA off of each other to contain the two, and when the 20th century rolls around, who do those two nations side with if they get drawn into the world wars? Basically, I think the potential for damage both to the US and to the world at large that was avoided by keeping the country together makes it a good thing on balance.
“Richard Nixon”
He did open up business with China, so Nixon is responsible for the Corona Virus.
Oooh So instead of Wuhan Virus, we should call it Mao’s Revenge.
That Old Vulcan Proverb.
True story: JFK once crashed his car into the White House while 69ing Marilyn Monroe, but the press covered it up.
I think if they find meth and a “crack pipe”, it.may akshuallly be a meth pipe. Also, when do they tell us Hunter Biden changed his last name?
shocked face dot jpeg
If you google the headline, several stories come up with different locations and dates, but every single other detail (names, quotes, etc.) the exact same. So Im going to say this is fake. BUT DAMMIT, I WANT TO BELIEVE!
Monday Morning Links
Either I am recovering from a week long bender or I died of
Wuhanslant-eyecoronoavirus.You wish you had Corona.
Not as fetching as green tatas…
Here, Feestus
Sorry about the typo.
Lol.
Wifey drives a Nissan Juke. Even uglier.
Recession, by definition of bureau of statistics is two or more consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.
Was at joe or MNG who argued on TOS against that definitiion.
I don’t know. It’s probably not a great one, but it’s better than “Dow Jones loses x% in value”
really?
what would you propose instead?
I got nothing.
I got a coffee and a trail of ants from the living room window to the toddler’s chair.
Pretty much normal with a toddler/teenager
The toddler won’t slide a plate of food under it’s bed for two-and-a-half weeks.
This time of year I start to get one or two ants in the kitchen on a scouting expedition. If there’s something left accesible to them the message gets back to the colony pretty quick and they’re out to clean up, so it pays to keep it clean, and let the recce ants report that there’s nothing there.
We’re in the woods, so it’s not a matter of if, but when. Usually it isn’t until April, but the mild winter has sent them out scurrying early. That and I just laid down a mulch bed right in front of the window they’re coming through so I’m sure they’re exploring the new digs.
It’s all sugar ants, so no big deal. Just need to get out there and spray sometime this week.
Nuke the fuckers from orbit, yo.
“Get to work! Lazy Farmer!”
“Tellurian lays off nearly half of its workers, shuffles executives”
I don’t know, I feel like this is the same as the stock market. Crash isn’t because of coronavirus, it’s because the market was ready to tumble and was waiting for something to happen. Same with the shake out in oil/gas–it’s been needed for a while, oil price crash is just the inciting event.
124) I noticed in the restroom at work there are signs up on the mirrors now about washing your hands—no need to explain why. Coronavirus, 24 hours a day! But the strange thing is, it seems to be working—I had to wait in line for a few seconds for a sink to open up so I could wash my hands. That’s never happened before.
Makes me wonder, will the coronavirus outbreak actually save lives, with all this handwashing, and staying home from events, and so forth? Sure there’s a new disease added to the mix, but all the precautions will help hinder the spread of the old diseases, as well. With everybody doing all the little hygienic things they were supposed to be doing all along, this could be the best flu and season in years. What else—hepatitis, maybe? Maybe TB in cities where that’s come back. Sure we get the daily count of coronavirus deaths, but isn’t it possible the overall infections disease death rate will decline in 2020?
You could genetically engineer some sort of super predator mutant that hunts humans and after 6 months people would just accept it as the new normal. You can’t stay scared forever. That’s why new hobgoblins need to be constantly invented.
This man gets the tents of modern day marxism..
tents=tenets…
Well, I think the commies put their showers in tents, so this probably works.
I’m a custodian. I figger I’m pretty much immune to everything, at this point. I don’t get colds or flu’s and if I do they last for a day or two. China is Asshole!
Even the Chinese people agree with you.
Yesterday, we got a full page memo from the Saaaaaaaaaaaafety Department telling us how to wash our hands.
But I can’t remember the whole “ABC song”!
Pretty certain the word will come down from on high to disinfect every doorknob. What good that will do once I walk away remains to be seen.
In order to keep those doorknobs clean, you’ll have to remove them and store them somewhere safe.
Meany!
-1 The Bourne Legacy lab shooting scene
At my work (in a small-ish town in Ohio) the maintenance guys have been instructed to wipe every single door handle in the building with Lysol three times a day.
ABC song, here you go!
https://youtu.be/ho7796-au8U?t=16
No people are gross. There are plenty of gross people to spread germs
I’m sure cities like San Fiasco have started handing out hand sanitizer to the homeless reminding them to use it after shitting on the sidewalk.
Boston strong my ass.
Cleveland Strong! Year 178 of the parade.
Boston Strong means we hide in our houses like little scared bitches while the police try to find a pair of murderers.
I was in Boston for college when that happened. Me and a buddy took a walk around Beacon Hill to get some fresh air since classes were cancelled. Got hassled by a cop who alleged that he had a coworker who got “his balls shot off fighting the bomber” and that the bomber looked a lot like me. Told us to get off the streets or he’d bring us in.
This was two days before they shot the MIT security and went on the run. Needless to say I didn’t believe much of the info they were telling the school after that.
Comply with authority citizen, or we will make you pay…
will the media deliberately force it lower with incessant fear-mongering or will Trump deliberately push it higher with incessant money-pumping?
Yes.
I just want another payroll of my 401k buying cheap.
^^ this.
Buy low. Sell high. You never go broke making a profit.
BTW I have lost no money in the stock market, because I have not panic sold any stock. It will not just bounce back, but go higher once the people hoping to crash the economy so democrats win an election (funny how hurting Americans to win power seems to always be the team blue agenda) are finally ignored.
Yearly bonus is coming this Friday. Hope things have stayed low till then.
They’re going to be pushing on a string.
It’s not 9am, but its beer o’clock for this dude. Up all night on the dumbest project in the world. Playing with starting a legit radio station, with rights to stream music. Turns out, everything needs to be properly tagged. 3,435 albums on my hard drive collected over twenty years. Most badly tagged. That meant running through and fixing tens of thousands of files worth of meta data. My eyes hurt. My soul is broken pieces.
It’s what you get for doing things!
/goes back to staring at cubicle wall
Ha ha!
/wfh
3,435 albums is quite a few. It almost covers every King Crimson live album.
Damn, I’m missing a couple.
#metoo
I dig Fripp but damn he’s a noodler…
Back in the early days of the net, I remember I had at least one decent app that would (assuming you had some sensible file structure, like %Artist%\%Album%\) would update all of the tags for your audio files through a DB lookup. About the only thing it was really bad at was Genre, I think it would have tagged 95% of my collection as Alternative Rock (if I hadn’t limited it to track name, album name, and artist name).
Artist/album is a terrible file structure. You can never find the good songs and you’re spending all day clicking through folders instead of building aplaylist.
That’s for storing the files. You would have songs built out in playlists in your file structure instead of being built in whatever app you’re using for a music library?
No.
I name them artist – song and keep the whole lot in one directory. In pretty much every case ‘album’ is superfluous data and I can just skim down one directory while building a playlist.
And there is no need to have an app keep a music library, because there it is.
Yeah, you need to catalog bu album since a lot of artists have GH albums or songs with multiple recordings.
Also, it makes it easier to play some double-songs that are listed individually but are always played together (think Queen and Pink Floyd).
Try listening to them individually some time.
You’ll find they don’t need to be shackled together.
You’ll find they don’t need to be shackled together.
Maybe people like them that way. It might explain why, you know, they’re played so frequently that way instead of individually.
Nope. There’s live albums and different versions of the same song by the same artist (off the top of my head, I have at least three different versions of both Zipgun Bop, Barflies on the Beach, and Hey Pachuco all by Royal Crown Revue). Then as sloopyinca mentions below, greatest hits albums, compilations with various artists, and other similar releases cause duplicates in your structure.
And something to manage the library is necessary if you want to search for something, and have a large enough library.
Recorded live? *delete*
And there’s nothing that prevents multiples, simply annotate which one is which.
And you know filesystems are searchable and sortable as-is.
UCS: You can have the few live albums I own when you can pry them from my cold dead hands. The Caught in the Act album (Royal Crown Revue) is glorious.
I don’t want them.
You can keep them.
But how would you play an album if you stored them a different way?
Why would you play an ‘album’ what is this 1959?
Yes. yes it is.
Actually, it is more like 1973.
In ’59 most popular music came on 45s and LPs were used for classical music and and started expanding into show-tunes.
LP Albums really didn’t hit their stride until the ’60s.
This is supposedly one of the first rock albums with no ‘filler’
1957.
1) Some works of music may be divided into different tracks/files but form an intrinsic whole–the movements of a symphony, for instance.
2) From the mid-1960s to the 1990s, many rock and pop albums, while perhaps not as cohesive as a symphony, were nonetheless not meant to be mere assortments of songs, but were arranged to complement each other best by being played in the order presented on the album.
Until some dipshit in the studio decides to re-order a concept song on Caress of Steel.
The “album” would simply be a playlist.
Sure, but you would have to build that for each one. I think the DB idea below works best, you can have an album column and a track number column (along with whatever other info you would want) and build a playlist on the fly via query.
Right. The music library runs the DB. The files are downloaded/ripped/etc. to the file structure. With the right tags, the DB gets built automatically when it scans (or you tell it there’s new files).
Of all the things to start a lively committed discussion here, I never thought it would be how to store audio files.
If you did them as a playlist, the double-songs wouldn’t properly blend together when you played Brain Damage/Eclipse or We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions.
Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid
Feeling That Way/Anytime
Intruder/Pretty Woman
Any symphony ever recorded
The list is pretty long
On the other hand, if you grew up in the 8 track era, you are used to songs being chopped up.
File structure is generally a terrible way to organize data.
True, database makes much more sense, then with a query you can organize in whatever form you want. Just need to figure our what fields you need.
Too easily lost and too much work to maintain, and not terrible portable across platforms.
points 1 and 3 make no sense, and 2 is a wash with any other organizational system.
I can take my usb stick with my filesystem of organized work, media, and documents and plug it into any OS out there and have everything in the same place I left it. Trying to drag a database around is a lot messier and a lot more work.
Until you’re talking about enough data and enough users to necessitate a networked server, it’s just not worth the effort.
Nerds.
*opens Spotify*
This was written about me:
https://www.theonion.com/desperate-pandora-employees-scrambling-to-find-song-are-1819571692
What are your 100 favorites?
*narrows gaze*
But do you have the 16-disc version of Fool’s Gold?
“My soul is broken pieces.”
Pre-existing condition ;^) – had nothing to do with staying up all night. Coverage denied.
Good morning, Sloopy and thanks for the lynx!
Especially Debbie.
What the hell is magic about 1000 people? Again, if this virus is so scary, shouldn’t we do the whole social isolation thing?
How weird is that for the players to play in an empty stadium/arena. It will give them a nice peek into the future, though, of playing in the Beer League.
Have a great day, y’all!
Does playing in an empty stadium eliminate home field advantage?
with enough games, we may find out.
Some, I guess, but there is still travel.
Nah, just play home games…
How weird is that for the players to play in an empty stadium/arena.
I bet the Tampa Bay Rays office phones are ringing off the hook from players asking what to expect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
Kind of sad because they are legit good team.
Yeah, even when the Yankees are in town they can’t fill the stadium.
1000 is an arbitrary number, and yes should do more social distancing (not isolation!) but probably need some adjustment to get there. Look at the people who are breaking quarantine that are either infected or households with infections.
At this point, there isn’t much expectation of containment, it’s about slowing the spread and keeping infection growth from overwhelming hospitals. That’s when things turn ugly for everyone, not just those with covid-19.
TOS has had some really good, and really awful Coronavirus Articles lately
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
The union already had begun mobilizing community support.
Forcing parents to have to make other arrangements for their children, including missing work, is sure to drive support for petulant “teachers”.
Yeah. Striking for pay, all those selfless teachers only care about the quality of teacher the students get. It’s really for the children.
The striking teachers were on an overpass above I94 on my commute in this morning. Schmucks.
Really. Did the police stop the parents from throwing them over the side?
Kids safe for another day, at least
Maybe the teachers don’t realize they are the paid babysitters and if that isn’t happening the people have to write another check they might start to get upset.
Initially, the SPFE pursued mental health teams in every building — 300 more employees by the district’s count at a cost of $30 million a year — as well as 50 interpreters to work with students and families plus additional staff to work with special-education students
That’s a lot of scratch. Are they starting from zero?
Dow Futures are up 800.
Or just stay home and get drunk
in your local bar.I can drink green Bud Lite and listen to Dropkick Murphy’s without paying a premium and have to be around people.
Toronto doctor tears a big one into corona fear:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/doctors-facebook-post-coronavirus-150007495.html
Adjusting my tin-foil chapeau, doesn’t this all seem so very convenient if one wanted to take down one “Orange Man Bad? They’ve been saying for years that the only way to defeat him is to have a recession. Well, here we are. Russians and Saudis working as one, “Pandemic” and then cats and dogs sleeping together.
Here’s my problem with global conspiracies. I can’t get 10 people to show up for a dinner reservation on time, but multiple countries are coordinating multiple disasters to take down one guy?
More of “never let a crisis go to waste”
Meaning, you don’t need a conspiracy when your enemies are willing to throw every crisis at your feet.
Trump is partly to blame for the fragility of the economy, by pressuring the Fed.
Russians and Saudis are at daggers over Iran, but agreeing they need to stop US frackers from burying them… so they have this weird contradiction in actions. It didn’t work before, it won’t work now.
China is getting it in the shorts via the outbreak, not so much Orange Man Bad.
Western companies need to stop doing business in China.
Hasbro, for example, split for Vietnam and India.
Far better to deal with than those authoritarian dicks in China.
Hit ’em in the wallet.
Do business where you can….but learn the problems of concentration risk, sketchy rule of law, etc.
but learn the problems of concentration risk
Hopefully at least some businesses learn this lesson. It seems like so much of the tech industry has been hit hard by having all of their eggs in the Chinese basket, but I don’t know if they’ll learn.
Meh, Russians and Saudis have their own domestic problems to worry about. Trump is not the center of everyone’s universe.
Only that of the Hat and the Hair.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8092679/Demi-Rose-strips-revealing-leopard-print-bodysuit-sexy-photoshoot-Miami.html
Pretty face, nice tits, deplorable ass.
BREAKING: Q Follows Womens Golf
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8093205/Golfer-Paige-Spiranac-26-says-shes-accused-ruining-game-sexy-clothes.html
*Breaks out Big Bertha*
I guess body-shaming is only bad when applied to land whales.
Golf bores me less today. Thanks, CP!
I used to have a subscription to the Golf Channel. Plenty of hotties but they all have to compete against Korean stumps that seem better at the sport.
Dead-threaded the comment about my pal’s 71 challenger when we were talking about “Vanishing Point” with the 383 Hemi and slap-shift. The first and only time that I’ve driven 140 mph. God damn that was a lovely little car. 18 year old’s being 18 year old’s. I wish I could do that again on bias-ply.
CNN✔
@CNN
“What the White House press secretary is touting — that President Trump works a lot and doesn’t sleep — are just the sort of things that make you more vulnerable to illness, not less so,” @CillizzaCNN writes. https://cnn.it/2TCveAi | Analysis
You care about Trump’s well-being now?
They just care about having something to criticize.
That certainly explains the ratings. Who the hell wants the tiresome negativity 24/7?
CNN: we’ll say whatever we want cause we’ve got the worst takes around.
No.
Mr. Mika, Peddler of fake news
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and political consultant Rick Wilson both fell for a fake President Donald Trump tweet Monday where Trump appears to claim that the “sitting president” should be shot from a cannon if the Dow Jones plunged.
The fake tweet claims to have been posted in 2015, before Trump became president. In it, Trump allegedly wrote that “if the Dow Joans (sic) ever falls more than 1000 ‘points’ in a Single Day,” the president at that time “should be ‘loaded’ into a very big cannon and Shot into the sun.”
Scarborough and Wilson retweeted the fake post after the Dow Jones fell around 2,000 points Monday. Trump, however, never actually wrote that tweet. Numerous outlets, including Reuters and Snopes, previously fact-checked the tweet as made-up.
But Trump did tweet before becoming president so it was somewhat true. / Snopes
This guy journalists.
“The Warren campaign became synonymous with liberty green so much so supporters are getting the hex code tattooed”
https://twitter.com/politicsndesign/status/1237331653694910464
So Warren supporters are getting tattoos of what will like to normal people to be a random string of numbers and letters? Maybe they should also get a tattoo of the license plate number of Warren’s tour bus.
I still see Wellstone! bumperstickers up here.
He crashed 17 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wellstone
WWWD?
Combust, apparently.
I will always respect Wellstone for one reason: He was the single vote against the PATRIOT Act in 2001.
And he was only going to serve 2 terms. MN got lucky but Klubuchar is the penalty, so there
Child: Grandma what’s this tattoo for?
Gma: :Sigh: it was when Grandma was excited for a presidential campaign.
Who?
You know child, I don’t remember.
“Grandma” wouldn’t have any children that survived.
So goddamned stupid.
You know who else tatooed ID codes on people?
Lol. Nice work, my GSD-owned friend.
GSD-owned
I see you understand how it works.
You know who else liked to tattoo numbers on people?
You know who else . . .
Dammit!
La Liga to play behind closed doors for at least two weeks: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51815623
When did Libertarians hollow out the government?
Seeing as the CDC didn’t have funding cut….
“There were fine people on both sides…”
But Trump has PROPOSED a funding cut* for next year. Same thing, right?
* Government-defined “funding cut” which means the budget still rises but not by as much as they thought.
Maybe if the CDC spent less money on stupid shit like trying to ban vaping they’d have more time and resources for pandemics.
I love how government failures somehow always count against libertarianism.
In this particular case, it’s even more aggravating since the purported core mission of the CDC is to prevent communicable disease. Yet for decades they’ve been expanding their scope to smoking, teen date rape, bicycle safety, obesity, motor vehicle safety, violence prevention, opioids, safety in the home, safety on the sports field, carbon monoxide poisoning, climate change, epilepsy, arthritis, ad infinitum….
Don’t forget gun deaths!
Congress actually managed to ban them from researching that a while ago.
But I guarantee they want to, desperately. Every public health major/official out there is a walking , talking authoritarian wannabe.
Don’t kill their fantasy world.
we just didn’t government hard enough. dastardly libertarians, who clearly pull all the strings in government, just want people to die.
I think the real hypocrisy is:
Leftists: “Making sure immigrants go through designated checkpoints for some basic vetting is exactly like Nazi Germany”
Also Leftists: “Trump won’t give our government the tools it needs to protect us from the Coronavirus!”
Tard Tuesday: Is It Humor If This Is What You Actually Believe?
schools are where students learn math, science, and history
Assuming facts not in evidence.
“schools are where students learn ”
Facts not in evidence
Kids minds are like sponges. They are always learning. Now what they are learning… that is a different question.
Kids on the corner learning about Supply and Demand, smarter than Krugabe but no Nobel
Ooh, got an even better one
noting that “schools provide many students their only ready access to health care and food.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/hillsboro-middle-school-student-among-new-coronavirus-cases-but-oregon-health-officials-warn-against-closing-schools.html
When I broke my arm we made sure to go to the
hospitalschool.That’s pretty ducking comical seeing as a kid is more likely to require health care from attending school than he/she is to receive it there.
So not much different than from education?
The feds are going to shut down state schools?
The amount of vitriol towards a fucking Secretary of Education is really only explainable because she is opposed by the teachers Union.
The old canard of accusing libertarians about being “anti-education” because we oppose government schools, and particularly FedGov involvement in K-12 education.
Yes, and we are also obviously anti-food because we oppose government control of the food supply.
Now you got it!
Someone’s got something! Initiate quarantine panic!
Decontaminate! Decontaminate!
Elert! Elert! Elert!
Foreign election interference.
“I see this as really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not just in American politics, but for left-wing politics around the world,” Vancouver student Quentin Rowe-Codner told the CBC. “I decided to start making calls and texts and I found that to be good and rewarding. But I started a little bit isolated just doing it on my own.”
Rowe-Codner did some research and discovered that foreigners are actually allowed to volunteer for any U.S. campaign. This seems to contradict the outrage over election interference, particularly that of the Russians, which we’ve been spending so much time and money investigating and trying to prevent.
The 22-year-old student at Simon Fraser University has organized four “bank-a-thons” for his fellow students to “get together and campaign.”
These foreign students are also using tools on the Bernie Sanders campaign website to do it. According to the CBC, volunteers “can access an automatic dialing and messaging system” through Bernie Sanders’ campaign website, then they can “get a batch of phone numbers for American voters and start making calls and sending texts.”
Why don’t you get a job instead?
Work is for deploraplebs.
Dude’s a walking caricature.
Quentin Rowe-Codner
Yup.
That’s the character that called Brendan Fraser a dirty sheeny in ‘School Ties”, no?
I thought it was the latest hire at Jacobin.
These foreign students are also using tools on the Bernie Sanders campaign website to do it. According to the CBC, volunteers “can access an automatic dialing and messaging system” through Bernie Sanders’ campaign website, then they can “get a batch of phone numbers for American voters and start making calls and sending texts.”
Maybe the journalist is just eliding some information here, but they make it sound like it’s super easy to start making calls on behalf of at least the Sanders campaign. Seems like way too good of a trolling opportunity if true.
gah. Sifting away. See you guys later.
Skating away?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2RzVhw4rE
Sail away?
I’m Sailing Away
Finally
Sailing…
Sailing.
SAILING.
*I’m* sailing away
Fading away?
Not fade away!
NOT FADE AWAY.
Fly Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvuL5jyCHOw
Drift Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A69BertdSt4
Slip Sliding Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUODdPpnxcA
Walk Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_4iQDYDVNo
nice!
Roll Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_8YykEHkQ
Skateaway.
https://youtu.be/xQBKUPwG_Gk
Gouge away…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wHoD8azJ28
Tard Tuesday: I NEED MY DADDY
And then they would bitch about his speech if he had given one.
We are without leadership. We have been without leadership for three years.
Beat me more master! please!
Any one of the previous American presidents in modern times would have already given a prime time address to the nation
Lessee, we have 26 deaths to date in the US. Did Obama give a prime time address when we hit 26 dead from H1N1 flu?
Nah, didn’t even declare a national emergency until over a thousand were dead. Quick Google does not show that he ever gave a prime time address.
So, to summarize: Fuck off, you fucking fuck.
Some of us don’t need a leader. .. we are already married.
Tard Tuesday: According to sources…. no scratch that, according to my brain lint….
Not going to go to Daily KOS, but suffice to say, how can you argue that the policy isn’t racist? They asserted that Donal Trump’s team is full of white nationalists, so obviously the policies will be racist.
I actually went to the source article from Politico and looked for an “according to sources familiar…” line, but they’re not even bothering with that anymore. It’s just argument by assertion.
Just out of curiosity: does anyone know (short version) why Italy has been hard hit by Corona? Or is it just the first domino?
Also, BBC News called the Italian health care system “one of the finest in the world.” True/false/partially true?
Compared to the NHS, maybe.
Well one thing is they are an aged society so lots of elderly. Other than that I think there was a period with lots of gatherings and such.
one of the finest in the world.- how does one measure these things?
Not sure what they used, but some metrics for measuring the quality of healthcare systems include a measure for “financial fairness”, or the degree to which everyone pays the same amount regardless of how much in healthcare resources they’re consuming. So there’s a baked-in preference for socialized systems, and I’m sure they use those metrics as evidence for how great single payer is.
Some local journo wrote a blog about why does Romania;s president not go visit Romanians in Italy as if this would help at all or would be possible. Visit how? Get them all in a room?
Useless acts are all the rage these days.
See Twitter.
So a question for any home espresso making glibs should there be any.
I use a moka pot and was thinking of buying a cheap espresso machine to see how I like it. I am not a coffee nerd but I like nice single origin hipster roaster coffee. I wanted to start with a cheap espresso machine to see how it works, but I have a coffee friend who says it will not be in any way relevant because cheap espresso machines are useless crap and are not even close to the expensive ones. I am not sure I wanna spend a lot of money though. Is there a machine in the 100-150 dollar range that makes decent enough brew? Or is any under 500 device a waste of $?
My Dutch roommate had this one when we lived together years ago in Holland, it made some awesome espresso, which we had several times a day.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RQ3NL76?tag=duckduckgo-ipad-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1
We have this one now, and while it does not do as well as the Gaggia, it makes decent espresso at half the cost.
https://www.amazon.com/Delonghi-EC680M-Espresso-Machine-Stainless/dp/B00KA8YC6A/ref=sr_1_10?crid=333BQR7TL760W&keywords=delonghi+espresso+machine&qid=1583850937&s=home-garden&sprefix=Delongai+%2Cgarden%2C209&sr=1-10
Yesterday I took my kid to the doctor and instead of the usual hour we were out in 18 minutes flat. There were no cars and the waiting room was empty. Mrs TOK went to the Chiro and instead of the usual 1-2 hour wait, she got right in too. It seems people are self quarantining, which is probably a good thing.
I’ll beat that.
I went to the Verizon Wireless store and it was EMPTY, with NO LINE OR WAIT TIME.
I just about freaked out, right there.
I’m not doing it, but one us should test out the MVA/DMV.
12 minutes in/out, amazing…….
:-O
I usually like to spend 20 minutes minimum in and out.
That’s the usual wait time at a verizon store.
Do you usually find a lot of people hanging out in yours?
*considers countless hours that are lost forever*
Yes
The wait is usually pretty long at mine too.
Well, the neighborhood bear is awake – and hungry.
She upended the trash can and tore through nearly every garbage bag looking for food.
Yay! Spring!
Wow! Sounds early. I’ll take the bird feeders down Apr 1, unless I get help before that
Global Climate Crisis in action
Also the post was yet again an hour early. Throws me off.
Yesterday I posted a youtube when everyone already left. There was no warhammer 40000 fan around to tell me if it is any good, lore wise
I feel bad for thinking this way, but some part of me would have preferred if England had a lot or no corona cases to make my decision easier…
In Romania the plan to close schools for a week. Apparently the firm is musing letting those with children work from home. Sadly I have no spawn so I may need to come to work.
adopt a pretty (above age of consent, below age of majority) girl. Easy peezy.
I know that for most of your undead existence, there hasn’t been daylight savings, but i mean it’s been around for 100 years, you should get with the times.
who are you talking to?
Daylight slavings time is distilled evil.
I’m team standard time, but yesterday was 68 and sunny. I was almost swayed by my “extra” evening hours last night.
Hah! I just had to change time zones through travel to make everything work out for another week.
IDK, our dog has been barking when the sun comes up, so now that is an hour later. I kind of like that. (We are not early birds.)
Agree, but most of us need to shift up one time zone. I prefer the later sunsets.
Chuck that.
driving to work on the dark again. had to be more dangerous.
Not only that, you do not do it at the same time as civilized world
we’re just doing our part to save the environment.
Huh? We are the civilized world.
How insulting.
“Civilized” is a euphemism for decadent and corrupt.
Bar bar bar, eh?
Is that not an accurate description of the US?
The government stole my and Ron Swanson’s extra hour sleep.
We all know the CDC has strayed from its true mission, which is to study and curb communicable diseases. It seems to me that a totally appropriate task for them is to try to combat TDS, which is much more virulent than any physical flu or virus.
If the Babylon Bee is lurking here, I expect to see them write an article on this.
A depressing take on the economic situation.
I feel that we have officially entered a long term bear market. The amount of leverage that currently exists is simply overwhelming and a lock-up in manufacturing combined with an oil price war is going to implode the financial system. A deflationary spiral is inevitable as debt becomes unserviceable.
China is headed into full blown depression and the contamination will hit everyone. The Chinese government could easily fall in the next year.
In short, do not attempt to catch the falling knife. This is far from over and I expect we’re going to see a stock market valuation rollback of about ten years before it’s done. The Fed will go for negative interest rates and it will fail, just as it has failed in Europe.
And don’t go heavy into precious metals. They will get liquidated in order to meet margin calls in the near term.
So toilet paper, canned goods, and firearms…got it.
Seriously though, I think you’re being a little too pessimistic but we’re definitely in for some not good shit for a while.
The economy and the credit markets are intertwined. If the credit markets seize up, and they are going to, the economy stalls hard.
In the US alone, the energy sector makes up 11% of the junk bond market. Those notes are going to be unserviceable. That is more than enough to bring down any number of financial players and banks.
Corporate debt load is about $10T, or half of the GDP, a record amount by any measure. That is wholly and completely unsustainable. Companies have been taking on debt to buyback stock which has been driving the stock market. That is officially over.
We’re about to get a healthy dose of reality. On the plus side, it will not be as bad for us as it will be for the EU, China, and the emerging markets.
Or…hang on for this hot take…not. Oil has been up too high for almost 20 years, even as supply has expanded due to fracking. I don’t know what else is tanking, been busy, but I don’t think anything but start-ups and oil were in bubble territory this time, and those both needed correction. Shipping and general commerce will take a hit due to quarantines, but the underlying infrastructure wasn’t at bubble status. But what do I know, I’m just a drunk that makes cartoons for 100 other drunks.
gold:oil ratio is about 44. That is insanely high.
Oil isn’t the one in a bubble.
Explain. I have no understands.
The ratio of price of gold to oil (oz to barrel, I am using brent) usually stays in bands between 10 and 20. Any time in the past it has gotten outside those ranges, it has made for a great opportunity by buying one and shorting the other. 30 is a historically high ratio that has been hit a time or three, but it doesnt stay there long. 44 is not a number I can remember seeing.
This time may be different, but that isnt the way to bet. But when it is different, you go broke. Or, you go broke if it is insanely high for too long.
I have never had the fluidity (and balls) to actually invest in this strategy but I have followed it thru multiple cycles.
The theory of mine that it works on is that we have never truly left the gold standard.
Pricing in gold is fairly constant across time, especially for commodities. Technical advancements are different, of course.
And commodities are going into a bear market. Gold will follow.
+1 men’s suit (or 2 or even 3 these days)
Sounds dumb to me, I’m just a simple country chicken lawyer. Gold goes up and down simpatico with the dollar, more or less. Oil is pegged to the dollar, but the supply changes more drastically.
Oil should, without interference, should be below where it is today based on supply. Gold, one of the stable commodities, reflects its value as an inverse to the dollar now that they are de-linked.
In essence, petrol is tied to the dollar, gold should show where the value of the dollar should be. It isn’t a direct link, and coming up with such chicanery sounds like a way to get people to send you dollars for advice that isn’t sound.
You’re forgetting that the major funds use gold as a hedge. But when the margin calls start to roll in, gold gets liquidated in order to meet those calls. The credit markets are king because we are an economy driven by debt.
In 2008, gold went from a high of $1040 to a low of $680 before it started climbing again. Long term it may be fine, but in the nearer term it’s highly risky.
This chart only goes to 2010, but the point remains.
https://i1.wp.com/www.marketcalls.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/30-years-of-gold.png
We’re headed for deflation, not inflation.
I think this is just going to be a hiccup. Most of what I’m hearing is delay of action, not cancelation. Once the main wave of the virus circles the world and the Chinese economy gets back to work, there will be a time where everybody is catching back up, and I think that will counteract the lull.
Not to say that I think the economy isn’t precarious, but that I don’t think anybody is planning for a longer term decline yet. Basically, they’re hoping it all blows over by July.
I hope that you’re correct, but I don’t think you are.
Simply put, China is fucked and China has been the driving force holding up commodity prices (which really haven’t recovered from 2008). We’re going to find a new floor for those prices before this is over.
What we don’t yet know is how fragile various economies are versus how much an economic shock the Kung Flu will be.
Could be a shock they can absorb, or not. If the latter, then the tide will go out as systemic weaknesses are tripped, and many boats will be left stranded. If the former, just a cycle of volatility in an otherwise sound (enough) economy.
I have a client whose book I am trying to get printed in China. This is not going well.
The Fed will go for negative interest rates and it will fail, just as it has failed in Europe.
I was just about to sign the paperwork to refinance the interest rate on my student loans before yesterday happened. Now I’m going to wait and see what happens at the Fed meeting next week.
I’m planning on an accelerated 4 year repayment schedule so would prefer a variable rate, but variable was bizarrely more expensive than a fixed rate. I’ve never seen that before. I guess maybe the lenders are expecting rates to drop and are trying to lock borrowers into the fixed.
Likewise with propane. Whenever the sales people start trying to push me into a fixed markup, I know it’s time to float. And vice versa.
Oops, fired that off too quickly…
Fixed price per gallon vs a fixed markup on a floating indexed price per gallon.
Premature quotation?
I think it’s Prince Edward’s birthday. And Sharon Stone’s, apparently.
Is Prince Albert in the can?
?
I like the use of “Wuhan virus” sloop. The CCP does not. I really hope the medium and long term consequences of this thing include movement of manufacturing out of China. A collapse of the party would be nice to see, but that’s a long shot and they could end up with something even worse.
Just wait till the CCP starts demanding that no one even mention china when talking about the wuahn virus. The left will get in line and say how it is so racist.
So Yellow Fever it is then?
Communist Cough
I prefer “Pooh flu” since that points at one particular individual with a moniker he hates as well.
I like Mao’s Revenge, from upthread. Sticking with Kung Flu, for now. Pooh Flu is too insidery, at least in the West.
Jimbo coined “Slant Sicks”, which is brilliant.
Lebron nods.
The left has most certainly gotten the word from the CCP and has been obeying like good little propaganda spreaders.
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/06/the-racist-art-of-naming-a-virus/
Spanish Flu, German Measles, MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), etc. Fuck off Salon.
I mean we have a disease for an entire ethnic group just called “Irish”. It doesn’t get much worse than that.
Irish you wouldn’t have said that.
K-Sue, you married into an English family? Is there any friction?
I said it doesn’t get much worse. But be thankful you aren’t a Scott
My wife is English, as in from there, but she is really a mutt, with Scottish and Eastern European being the most prevalent. My family is all from Southern Ireland, so the animosity towards the British has long receded. Two of my uncles lived there for a long time and one is still outside London an hour or so. You still find the odd individual in the south of Ireland that is still bitter, but the opposite attitude is much more common there. That’s not to say they wouldn’t like to see a united island, just that most of the hard feelings are gone. The North is a different beast.
Irish flu? Hemochromatosis?
Or just stay home and get drunk in your local bar.
That’s the more authentically Irish way to celebrate anyway.
Maybe it’s my imagination, but it’s seems like there has been a significant uptick in the number of layoffs over the last several months. That’s not going to help consumer confidence.
Last job report was good, FWIW.
273K jobs added, almost 100K more than expected. Might have been enough to shoot the DOW over 30K minus the coronavirus.
If it’s your imagination, it’s mine also. My gut feeling was a lack of true revenue/pricing growth & demand for a bunch of places with increased costs needing to be matched.
We just did a stealth layoff recently. I think we probably have a real one coming next quarter.
That said, low interest rates play into our business model, so we (the company) are all on board with the fed doing further rate reductions.
Of course, there are obvious weaknesses to a model that works best in historically aberrant interest conditions.
God To Flood Earth With Hand Sanitizer
Uninfected believers have been encouraged to flee to Kentucky, where they can board Ken Ham’s ark.
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.
Eeeeeeeeew! *Teenage girls and CPRM*
“This should be the Wuhan virus theme song!”
Wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=aY8-N8-pn1I&feature=emb_logo
Where are you in Kansas?
Hutchinson I think.
*ding ding ding* Rings the bell.
That is very far away from us KC metro Glibs.
Yeah, I’m in Hutchinson. It’s sooooo boring.
I’ve spoken of my insomnia troubles before. GT spoke of hers last night, UCS did, Festus did.
Is this A Thing with us Glibs? Another commonality besides our borderline Asperger’s?
If I didn’t drink I’d only sleep every 72hrs or so. I’m terrible with insomnia when I’m sober. thankfully, that isn’t often.
You can add me to the list of insomnia people. Or, as I’ve read more on it, I just have a natural sleeping pattern of 02:30 – 09:30, which doesn’t work to well with modern work schedules.
That’s a valid caveat. I can fall asleep naturally between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. but I don’t sleep long and then I’m tired. I thought my college graveyard stint ruined me, but that isn’t so.
If I am sitting down and doing something calm like reading or watching TV between the hours of 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., I’ll fall asleep, but that will generally be a catnap. It helps. Not much. I had a job once where I was watching TV for mentions of certain brand names (“press clipping”) and I fell asleep regularly. Very quiet environment, calm, dim lighting.
I take caffeine/ephedrine stack 3x a day to keep me awake and Tylenol PM to get me to sleep. I wish I’d known about the stack earlier than at 29. It would have made my life so much easier.
I can’t do those, again why I don’t feel bad about my vices.
If I ever took caffeine & ephedrine three times in one day, I would never sleep again. If I died, I’d become a very jittery zombie.
Mojeaux, have you thought about “detoxing” and going off the stack and Tylenol? It would probably be a miserable week, but the long-term benefits might be worth it. In a totally unrelated area, we constantly find that a lot of our patients problems are due to the drugs they are taking, and by the time we detox them, they are better and need a much lighter pharma load.
Mrs. Dean had built up quite a daily intake of misc. supplements, and when she cut them way back, she discovered that she had been basically countermedicating the effects of supplements, and is now feeling much better with very few supplements.
Absolutely not. I spent years and years and years falling asleep at my desk and getting in trouble for it. I’m not going back to the days of perpetual sleepiness.
Why I was happy New Job was 2nd shift, then I got flipped to 3rd. And the insomnia set it again.
Sounds similar to me. Unless I’m exhausted for some reason I really can’t fall asleep before 1 am or so, usually more like 2.
borderline?
I can be “on” socially and quite charming AND I have a filter. That qualifies me for borderline.
I sometimes struggle with it. I always keep Nyquil and Zzzquil stocked.
I’ve found lately that this works well for me: https://www.emergenc.com/products/sleep I prefer this to taking meds when I’m not sick.
It’s the melatonin which you can get in any number of places.
Thanks Raven, will check it out.
Not I. If I get less than 8.5 straight, I feel tired. I’d love to live like my wife, doing things at the ass crack of dawn. I’ve never been able to do that. I’d rather sleep.
I’m on that list as well.
Sadly, my prescription coverage decided the sleeping pill I was taking (moderately helpful) was not “suitable” for “seniors.” My sleep has been marginal since then. 🙁
Bernie: It will be different this time.
What democratic socialism means to me is *insert platitude*.
And there is nothing that precludes Bernie’s socialism from being authoritarian by adding the modifier “democratic”. And socialism is authoritarian by nature.
Maybe, since it seem the modifier “democratic” isn’t working so well he should try using the modifier “national”?
The USSR was a union of republics, after all. Said so right in the name, so how can you doubt it?
I tell people that the constitution of the U.S.S.R., Communist China, North Korea, Cuba, Cambodia, a slew of states in Africa, Nicaragua, and now in Venezuela, all have beautiful language, guaranteeing fairness, extolling the value of people’s lives, and demanding the delivery of utopia, yet every one of them turned into a giant shithole, murdering over 120 million people and forcing close to three billion people to live in abject misery and poverty conditions (in the name of progress), while the master class or master lived like an all powerful emperor.
Bernie’s implementation will be more of the fucking same. That’s a fact you can take to the bank.
You know what other country has a constitution that absolutely failed at keeping the freedoms it guaranteed?
*throws dart at map*
And I am willing to hazard a guess why it went south and looks like it is irredeemably heading to the same fate as the other commie shitholes did, but I suspect you already have a clue.
“Is it your assumption that I supported or believe in authoritarian communism that existed in the Soviet Union? I don’t and never have. And I opposed it,”
So much so, i went there on my Honeymoon to oppose it.
It just seemed like a nice place to vacation.
Death to IsraelFree Palestine.A photo of Rep. Rashida Tlaib proudly holding up Linda Sarsour’s book is making the rounds on Twitter Monday, and not so much because of interest in Sarsour’s book but more because of the T-shirt Tlaib is pictured wearing, which depicts the nation of Israel completely covered by the Palestinian flag.
I am planning a bit of a log road trip in the western US in about a month. Y’all reminded me recently how much I like Robert Plant’s “Big Log” as a theme for road trips so I would like to hear your suggestions for other music I should download for this trip.
a log road trip in the western US
With a properly rigged off road vehicle, that would be a lot of fun.
Just loop this. You’re welcome.
Akshuooly… that movie was a first date with somebody who turned out to be a big mistake for me so I prefer to forget the whole thing.
My condolences.
Yeah, I feel sorry for you too. That’s an awesome movie.
+1 instant happy
I like to listen to this on long drives.
OMG that would put me to sleep in a hot second.
Me: this and this.
Loud.
Subwoofer cranked.
Um, shouldn’t this be part of your insomnia solution?
///ducks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM51xoTC2U
That works.
I have an outlaw/road music playlist (although I have not yet put it on YouTube).
FWIW, I found Tubular Bells 2 to be quite good for long-range highway driving.
Nazi students?
SyracuseSyracuse U. protesters promise ‘escalation’ if officials don’t acknowledge ‘white supremacy’
Just kick them the fuck out, already.
That school sure as hell has fallen a long way since I got my M.E. in E.E over 3 decades ago. I have a coworker that also went there around that same time (he did a bachelors) that has a kid there, and his kid tells him this shit is being done by your usual suspect group pissing away a massive pile of money to learn nothing of value (studies types) while the bulk of the other students just go about their lives.
Toss a lacrosse ball in there and let the team sweep them out.
this shit is being done by your usual suspect group pissing away a massive pile of money to learn nothing of value (studies types) while the bulk of the other students just go about their lives.
This has been their MO since day one. Those types of fucks were on campus when i was in law school. They were there when I was in undergrad.
The concerning part is their accumulation of power. When it’s just a handful of kooks doing “look at me” shit on the quad, it’s relatively harmless. When they have control of curriculum and graduation requirements, things go in the shitter very quickly.
“The concerning part is their accumulation of power. When it’s just a handful of kooks doing “look at me” shit on the quad, it’s relatively harmless. When they have control of curriculum and graduation requirements, things go in the shitter very quickly.”
You damned well know these idiots didn’t think of doing this shit on their own, and are being directed and prodded on by the people in charge of the shitshow studies departments they are members of. And these cuntes pushing them to do this do so because it benefits them and protects them from being categorized as useless drains on society’s limited resources.
Expel them all.
“Any harm that comes to students will be on the administration’s hands.”
Everyone knows that college campuses are bastions of white-supremacy.
Nuke it from orbit.
This didn’t sit well with Jennifer Jackson, a political science professor who teaches the courses “Gender and Politics” and “Black Feminist Politics.”
“The fact that you’re saying it will take you eight additional weeks to write an email that says there are issues on this campus that deal with white supremacy is very distressing,” Jackson said.
if my life was this useless, i’d probably view public temper tantrums favorably too.
Some enterprising reporter should ask the regents, boards of governors, donors and such who supposedly manage and support these places if they really support what goes on there.
Considering the narrative is shaped just as strongly by what isn’t reported on as what is, this almost certainly won’t happen. It’d make for a good story though.
Titty Tuesday definitely won’t play to an empty arena.
http://archive.is/LxiD1
Fed up Greeks + out of touche elites + an epidemic + Turkey and Soros NGOs being asshole + Syrian invaders = violence.
The sad part is the EU elites and Soros are likely giddy over this. They soon might have some dead bodies to climb on top of and pontificate about Europe’s evil racism and hate. If a few desperate Syrians have to be used as human shields, it’s the price you pay for victory.
From Telegraph (quoted in the article) “On Friday there were reports that members of German and Austrian far-Right groups had arrived on the island. Their presence was deeply disconcerting for aid workers and journalists who already feel they are being subjected to a witch-hunt.”
I see a new video game here.
Or a mini-series. Just take Amazon’s Hunters and change up the players’ teams.
What the hell is Bloomberg thinking?
I get that Bloomberg doesn’t like Donald Trump personally.
Seem like a lot of dough to throw away because you don’t like Trump personally – and he likes Biden or Sanders more?
Bloomberg is petty and bitter about the fact that someone he considers to be inferior to himself was able to become President when he couldn’t. He’s got a massive Napoleon complex and it eats him up that he wasn’t the New York billionaire President and Trump is.
“Mr. Nail, meet Mr. Hammer. Mr. Hammer, this is Mr. Nail”
Personal vendettas can be powerful things and this looks personal. Maybe he doesn’t like being eclipsed as one of the most successful billionaires turned politicians in the US, maybe Trump managed to bed some model Bloomy had his eyes on back in the ‘80s. Who knows really?
Trump is alright (relatively speaking) on 2A and like fast food. Of course Bloomer hates him.
He likes other people who are in it for the power. Trump is an enigma wrapped in a Tootsie pop.
“Seem like a lot of dough to throw away because you don’t like Trump personally – and he likes Biden or Sanders more?”
I blame it on envy. These narcissistic types always want to be top dog. It’s the whole “If an idiot like orange man can do it, then I certainly can, and will do better” thing.
Bloomberg and Trump agree on 70% of policy matters.
Hell, Trump and the Dems agree on 70% of policy matters. He’s basically Bill Clinton with a bad haircut, after all.
I’m still convinced some of Trump’s motivation for running was personal animus against Obama for mocking him at, I think, a White House correspondent’s dinner.
:Queue clip of Obama sneering “At least i will go down in history as “President”:
MO prez primary today. If I decide to shower and put a bra on, I’ll vote for Tulsi.
Who gets your vote if braless?
Nobody. Because I don’t go out of the house without a bra on. Hence, I just never leave the house.
GT’s solution to that problem:
1. Woven fabric (stiffer is better {Isn’t it always?})
B. Busy print or plaid
III. Titty pockets
I’ve been living in my Duluth Trading flannel shirts all weekend all winter.
You’re welcome. ; )
I doubt she supports anyone in that case.
What you did there really came in under the wire.
You guys are unhooked.
But our cups runneth over.
Could I please please please get out of the House of Well Akshually… ?
Too bee fare…
Sure. But you’ll need to put a bra on. (your rules, not mine)
Oh damn. *looks at front door dolefully*
Biden told a union auto worker in Michigan “you’re full of shit” when he asked about 2A.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-on-video-lashes-out-at-detroit-auto-worker-in-profanity-laced-gun-dispute
he is a scared, senile old fogey. Sanders is going to expose him in the debate and it won’t be pretty.
I think it’s really too late for that. After tonight Sanders will be almost thoroughly defeated.
really? well shit.
what Trump will do to Sunrise Living Joe could be considered elder abuse.
Blue Collar Joe doesn’t want him to have an AR-14!