Another day to pop some corn and enjoy the madness. I managed to get out for a hike yesterday right after links posted, which saved me the triple-digit temperatures that characterize a mild spring day here. As usual, lots of groups of housewives out, no distancing, no masks. I of course got in their faces, screaming that they want to kill my Grandma and that they were typical Trumpies. Anyway, yadda yadda, and after SP paid my bail, I got back in time to sit in on the Saturday night Zoom.
Oh, yes, birthdays. One who would seem particularly appropriate to celebrate; a guy who was a step above gymnast and was actually a gymnopedist; a guy who could have been Rickey Henderson if it had been allowed; our first clue that Robert Bork was a statist asshole who cared more about his personal ambitions; the answer to many Baltimore Colts trivia questions; an actor who could only play one kind of role, but did it perfectly; and arguably the sickest stand-up comic since… well… ever?
On to the news.
Gentlemen, start your conspiracy theories.
There was one name that, if you saw it in a cast, guaranteed that a movie would be funny. Now he’s gone. SP and I watched For Your Consideration last night in his honor. Yes, he stole that movie.
“Rare public criticism.” Fuck you, Barry, you worthless, no-class piece of shit.
I thought Germany was the model?
Old Guy Music really should have run yesterday (Woody Herman’s birthday), but I’m just contrary. In any case, buckle in tightly, this is a heart-pounding ride. After listening to the two tenors just scorch, I was exhausted.
Remote drilling while listening to Bluegrass Sunday morning on wnrn.org (apparently I’m supposed to be PT’ing right now….). I’ll get right on that walking around the neighborhood this evening.
The 23-year-old man was arrested for violating Hawaii’s mandatory 14-day quarantine rule and for “unsworn falsification to authority,” the Hawaii governor’s office said in a statement.
How many politicians and bureaucrats could we lock up for making provably false statements to their authority, i.e. the citizenry? Ah, but it doesn’t work that way, does it?
They aren’t even following their own rules.
The news on the Flynn front is it appears that they knew it was Flynn on the recording before they submitted unmasking requests. They used the unmasking requests as a parallel reconstruction.
They probably originally got it via CIA spying or our illustrious overseas intelligence partners. Either way, it’s an endrun around several laws.
Given the identities of the unmasking requesters and the fact that the positions many of them were in wouldn’t have cause for unmasking, it’s obvious they were being fed information to guide their requests. Congress is fundamentally unserious about this though and nothing will come of it, at least on their end. Hell, they just reauthorized this kind of nonsense with an expansion of scope.
The entire system is corrupt. McConnell can eat a bag of dicks for pushing on an expansion of the spying powers.
And Trump will sign it ironically enough as would anyone else who has a reasonable shot at being the pres. It’s a sad state of affairs.
Wrong. NPR assured me that people are unmasked every day so it is no big deal.
If that’s really the case then the fact that it’s not a big deal is a big deal.
The defense on the unmasking requests seems to be that it was obviously such a suspicious transcript that everybody needed to unmask Flynn.
Personally, I think the fact that Obama has been making media statements a lot lately shows that he’s worried.
I was talking about this on TOS, but I really don’t get this reasoning that there was no reason to unmask. First, let me say that I see ZERO reason why people like Brennan or Comey (or anyone else in the intelligence community) should be unmasking Flynn. There was no intelligence reason to unmask him. He was not breaking any laws by asking an ambassador not to escalate on sanctions, so there was zero reason for intelligence officers to know his name.
On the other hand, I can see why a lot of Political operatives in the state department would have good need to know who Flynn was. Imagine you are looking at an intelligence report that says “Hey the Russian ambassador was talking to US Citizen 1, who is asking them not to retaliate. There is discussion of what the next steps are.”
In order to do your job- even in a benevolent “we are fantasy operatives with america’s best interests at heart” way- it is important to know who had that conversation. In order for you to do anything with that information, you really need to know who was making these statements. Was it someone in the current administration? Was it some random guy off the street? Some rich executive? An official from the incoming administration?
Again, even if you assume that they are good faith actors, who want to support the incoming administration, they need to know if the person talking to the ambassador was someone who could legitimately set policy for the incoming administration.
I definitely think that Flynn was railroaded. I think the unmasking by intelligence operatives was wrong. And leaking this info to the press is illegal. But the unmasking by, say, Biden, or an ambassador to Germany does not seem to me to be the smoking gun that people are making it out to be.
This article from Andrew McCarthy is really good on this point.
So no records of any unmasking, until the White House meeting. Then they all run out and unmask him.
McCarthy thinks that Flynn was taped by either the CIA or a friendly govt, neither of which need to mask his identity in the first place because of current rules.
I know nothing about the firings of the IGs but if Romney is against I’m all for it because fuck that guy.
Yep, Pompeo murdered him.
Mittens speaks.
The most establishment establishment guy complains that Trump is chipping away at the establishment. Does anyone care what he or Obama have to say about anything?
Susan Rice was flapping her gums on TV this morning and from the tone I think she is under the impression that she will soon be back in power….somehow. Good luck with that Susan.
There is a fairly large group of people that care about what Obama has to say on any given issue. I don’t like it but that is the case. Romney on the other hand is almost universally reviled which is a very good thing.
And yet the people of Utah voted him Senator.
In their defense they also elected Mike Lee. At least we aren’t electing Hirono or Sanders.
Sanders makes sense if you subscribe to his worldview.
Hirono is just fucking nuts.
And you completely left off Sheila Jackson Lee. To be fair, she was probably thrown overboard when Guam started listing.
I love how the left reviled him and now trot him out whenever he happens to say something that bolsters their cause. TDS makes strange bedfellows.
The left always takes up with failed Republican presidential candidates and even former Presidents: see John McCain and George Bush (both of them). As long as they can use them to club the current demon over the head.
Yep, and they will do it with Trump too. Like, I will see it in my lifetime, I guarantee it. In the 2040 Presidential election they will be referencing Donald Trump as “pugnacious, combative, controversial, but politically much more moderate than The Extremist Nazi Racist Libertarian Who Wants Children to Die that the Republican Party is running in 2040.”
well I am pissed in bothe the US and English meaning (albeit being only 3pm)
Got stopped by the cops driving home and in all the fucking quarantine nonsense I had forgot to renew my yearly technical inspection for my car. Now I got a massive fine and need to go to a government owned station to get my car reinstated to be able to drive. Godfuckingdamnit . I was 2 days overdue too. 17 fucking years I have been driving and always did that shit on time. I had a 2 day overdue once and the fuckers stopped me.
La naiba!
Sounds like you have my kind of luck.
5 whiskeys in as of 15:25 o’clock. I was doing 72 in a 60 kph zone that is why they stopped my. I am always so careful about these things did not get a ticket since 2004. And this only happened because I intentionally took a different longer route home because I did not move my car much recently and the engine gets buggy if I don’t drive it for long, and I took a route that I could drive without, 3 lanes each way no traffic lights intersection or pedestrian crosswalks. the fucking cops were probably camping there because most people drive there slightly faster than the fucking limit. I should have fucking know. This is going to be a fucking bitch to fix.
So you can actually fix that through bribes as opposed to facing process?
no. the bribing went down the last few years.
Also, sorry this happened to you.
Vehicle inspections have been suspended here because of the ‘Rona. Inspections are performed by private, state-licensed inspectors, generally one of the mechanics at your neighborhood repair garage.
Inspections are performed by private, state-licensed inspectors, – here as well, I was planning one next week. Unless you get caught with and expired one, which means you need to go to the government agency.
Highway cops here generally drive unmarked cars – but they always ride in pairs and both wear a white safety helmet so I have learned to always check out any car doing the speed limit (or close to it) when passing. More than a couple times I have spotted them in time to slow down. Unfortunately, it took me a while (and a good deal of money) to figure this out.
The police around here have been sheltering in place. It’s like Mad Max out there on the highways. Fricking glorious.
They’re around in my area but they don’t seem to be pulling people over for traffic violations unless they’re doing something that’s absolutely nuts. Considering the percentage of them that probably meet the medical definition of obesity it’s a good move on their part.
Funny, recently around here the mayor announced severe budget shortfalls(unpossible!)…and wouldn’t you know it, cops are saturating the highways and pulling people over left and right…
Stay off 210, Mo!
I’m not Mo, but I’m MO who usually drove 210 to/from the office in the “before times”, so I appreciate the advice. Are the cops mostly State Patrol or KCMO?
KCMO and Clay County Sheriffs.
Can confirm. 152 between Liberty and Platte Woods is lousy with them.
I have seen lots of cops out lately. I have also been lapped doing 80 in a 55 (yesterday). I’m coming north off the 291 bridge from Sugar Creek toward Liberty. It’s 55. I’m doing 80. People zooming by me like wildfire.
You know somebody got Sugar Creek to stop putting a cop in that median just south of the 291 bridge. It’s totally blocked off so they can’t do that anymore. Pretty sure that was the only way Sugar Creek was making any money.
Anyway, I’m a speed demon on a slow day, but even I didn’t feel comfortable going over 80 on that stretch. I’ll let them get the ticket.
(I used to go 210 to work when I lived by the winery and worked downtown. Then I’d hit 35 at NKC Hospital, get off on Front Street and take the back way into River Market [Berkeley Park now]. Take the same route home. I avoided lots of traffic like that. Anyway, the night the Paseo Bridge dropped, I got home lickety-split. NOBODY knows how to get out of downtown without the bridges.)
You probably passed me leading up to the bridge… I usually drive 65ish thru there due to Sugar Creek cops.
In the US the cops know that your annual (or whatever) inspection wasn’t done on time by entering the license plate number in their system. They are not looking for a sticker on the windshield.
So they expect you to get your car inspected during a lockdown? That crap all got extended until after the lockdowns are lifted over here.
not all places that could do it were closed during lock-down so no extension
Gotta keep the citizens safe and the revenue flowing!
OT Personal update: I was in a panic last week about not having a place to live once my condo closes this coming Friday. I have instead landed a technician position in Austin, TX and will be renting a house about a mile and a half from my sister and BiL north of Austin. I’m getting a roughly 50% pay raise, and a lower cost of living than NH. I’ll probably buy a place of my own in a year or so.
HUGE relief!
I’m going to miss spontaneous snowboarding trips in the winter though. Now I’ll have to plan for them and use PTO.
Whew! Sounds as if it could hardly have worked out better short of winning the lottery! Congrats!
Congrats!
You’ll probably meet the “Traces of Texas” guy hanging around a dart throwing bar in Austin. He’s hunkered down deep right now though. Say hello from me, I know him well.
I lived in Temple for years and years.
go you!
Congratulations. Prepare for climate shock. But the nearby Hill Country is beautiful.
Congrats!
Congrats! There are times I wish I could imagine moving back to the US and Austin would be one of the few places I would consider.
My wife wouldn’t come with me if I chose any place where the snow stays on the ground for more than a few weeks and I wouldn’t consider any place where I couldn’t own any gun available in the US. It’s also one of the few places where I have relatives who I can stand to be in the same grid square with for more than a couple minutes.
Congratulations!
That’s great news. Congratulations.
Congratulations!
Maybe we could put together an Austin / Central Texas Glib meetup.
Awesome blossom! Congrats!
Yep, Pompeo murdered him.
Sounds legit. Menendez knows a thing or two about disrupting investigations.
I saw the other day that someone who annoys me was opining on something or the other, I don’t know what it was or what they said because I ignored it.
^ I am ignoring this comment.
Did you say something?
I don’t understand. How do you know they were talking if your were ignoring it? I think a talk with the FBI might help you straighten your story out.
*scrolls past leon’s comment*
I got back in time to sit in on the Saturday night Zoom.
But you left before the real stupidity started.
I had to bow out of taking part in these – the Mr. was spooked about what he’s heard about Zoom security issues. From what I’ve heard since, though, I don’t think I can drink enough to keep up with y’all anyway.
It takes practice to drink as much as some of us. I have heard about the security issues but I figure if someone wants to hack my computer there is not a whole lot there that is worth their time so the joke is on them for wasting their time.
It’s bad enough the NSA watching me fap, but I’ll be damned if I’ll invite the Chicoms to watch too.
Most of the security issues are the same as any other conference call/screen share system. If there’s no password on the meeting, anyone can join. If someone has the meeting number/password, and you don’t use the waiting room, they drop right into the meeting. If you click on random links shared in chat (especially ones that are UNC shares) bad things can happen, and you don’t have control over where your packets are routed when they go out on the internet.
If there’s a preference for a different meeting system, I can change it to something else.
I’d characterize most of the annoyance expressed here more as good natured exasperation.
I saw Willie Mays and Ray Dandridge in 1951 at their first game with the Mpls Millers. Ray was amazing, even in that first game, doing stuff that the Mpls people had never seen. Unfortunately he was considered too old to get called up to the Giants, Willie did get the call and went on to a super career.
I know I’d be honored if a has-been politician used the occasion of my college graduation to take cheap shots at the sitting president. (Granted, said president IS another politician, but still…) Whatever happened to spouting off meaningless feel-good platitudes, especially to kids who are setting off into a world hurtling toward record unemployment and economic misery?
He’s a bigger piece of shit than we normally give him credit for. Empathy? Decorum? Nope.
At least nobody had to listen to that while sitting under the broiling sun?
HBCUs… He’s not even descended from slaves.
Steve Kerr was my commencement speaker.
I liked him until he got TDS and became a shill for the ChiComs.
I’m very interested in this question.
I come from a very conservative school, one of decorum, where style is valued as a primary tool of leadership. I enjoy naive notions that elected officials could do a great deal to, if not raise the level of discourse, at least firm up a base level of behavior. I don’t expect anyone to behave well, I’d never support any laws regarding decorum, many of my standards are of an arbitrary and inherited nature, and I know that some of the worst people in my own culture have had fabulous manners (I expect you to die, Mister Bond). But I’m old, abundantly british, and I love old ideas about signalling dignity and competence; to behave well is to speak my language . . . and whether that is a dying language is matter weighed in the markets of conduct everywhere and constantly.
But my read on Glibs is that it runs a firm 70% that decorum in politics doesn’t matter, the national stage is a shitshow, where’s my popcorn. Against that landslide showing, it’s hard to imagine that, to the extent that this place is intellectually honest, many are going to be surprised or disappointed by the latest politician to lower himself. There’s no question about rights and freedom; the only question is whether one consistently applies their expectation.
I’d rather we lived in a world of Stan Musials than Billy Martins, but I’m resigned to a loneliness in this regard.
I’d rather live in a world of Willie Stargells.
I’ve been carding out old games. PIT is one of my favorite clubs, but I’ve only seen games from 1979, 1992, and 2006.
The players have ratified the DH for the NL; my era in most things is almost past.
I am so tired of this shit.
Another shitty day https://youtu.be/4VR8dyc6DP8
“This pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge,” the 44th President said during a virtual commencement address for historically black colleges and universities.
Not everybody can get it exactly ass backwards. That takes a special kind of intellectualism.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8327201/Demi-Rose-sets-pulses-racing-goes-braless-denim-jacket-tiny-thong.html
I admire your consistency.
“‘Coronavirus did NOT come from animals in Wuhan market’: Landmark study suggests it was taken into the area by someone already infected – as Beijing thwarts efforts to establish source of Covid-19”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8326823/Landmark-study-Virus-didnt-come-animals-Wuhan-market.html
This will only be used to shriek about Trump being wrong.
The CCP is desperately trying to shift blame and some researchers are only too happy to help them. No surprise there.
Someone please alert “60 Minutes” so they can ignore the story and stand pat with last week’s “scientific conclusion” that it came from pangolins.
I shudder to think what OMWC’s browser history looks like after finding all these anti-Semitic memes.
That sentence is unnecessarily long.
?
That’s what…she said?
4 Mojeaux (if she’s around).
http://archive.li/cDDXL/81765aa451c7e77a26eaf5ec31af5aeb1de0ef7f.webp
Slutty Sunday brings delicious dames with top quality T&A.
http://archive.li/ZwfGJ
I think 10 is the intro to a video I saw once.
The lockdown finally broke what’s left of my time sense and I hauled ass out of bed promptly at 8am this morning for work. Made my coffee, checked over system statuses, then hit glibs for some morning reading to see Sunday links. FML.
This whole thing is nuts.
Nonsensical
Publicly and privately, Sen. Angus King spent weeks seeking a national coronavirus testing plan. Sen. Lamar Alexander held a hearing where President Donald Trump’s testing czar Brett Giroir acknowledged his efforts remain “a work in progress.”
Trump has brushed off all three — a Democratic-aligned independent from Maine, a Republican from Tennessee, an admiral he appointed. He calls testing “overrated” while asserting, nonsensically, that more tests merely inflate the number of coronavirus cases.
“An astonishing failure of competent leadership,” King concluded in an interview with CNN. And it’s one that demonstrates a jarring reality of America’s fight against the global pandemic.
Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey. Failure of leadership, indeed.
Counting “cases” doesn’t make the number of “cases” rise, they claimed.
“asserting, nonsensically, that more tests merely inflate the number of coronavirus cases”
what?
I love that Trump is ignoring all the “need moar testing and tracing” BS – no good will come from that course. There are genuine reasons to utilize testing, but mass-scale testing plans are illogical and dangerous.
Mass scale testing on the federal level is stupid. We don’t need TSA-one-size-fits-all test and trace regimes. That is and should always be the responsibility of the states.
I think at this point testing and contact tracing is useless. Test people who show up sick and need treatment so proper treatment can be decided. Outside that it is pointless. The same strategy we use for flu outbreaks would work just fine.
It’s just another tool for control, like WA State’s gov requiring all dine-in restaurant customers to record their home address, email and phone number with management so they can be “traced”.
Straight up Orwellian bullshit.
In my experience the purpose of testing is inflate the sense of danger. They want us to believe they have a handle on the number of “cases,” and that it’s as low as possible. That way, the ratio of “cases” to deaths is scarier. They pretend to have tested thoroughly and caught most of the infections. It seems all the experts keep putting out ridiculous claims that 6% of the people who get this will die, based on the bogus “confirmed” cases stat. People then shriek that we must obey our emperors or else ” three out of 50 people you know will die, 3!!!!!” So shut up and wear your mask and obey the dictates of the unelected bureaucrats who are deciding this all based on obvious junk science. What’d you want to kill 3 of the 50? What if it’s you?
https://twitter.com/LivingScribe/status/1261832815378935809
wow
It would be nice to get some sort of a “win”. I’m tired of being pissed off all the time.
If you knew what day it was when you got up this morning, you’re doing better than me. Possible win?
Dennis Hopper’s father faked his death to cover up his secret identity as a spy
He’s right – this does explain a lot about Dennis Hopper.
There’s a conspiracy theory that revolves around Laurel Canyon and the Sunset strip. There’s a military movie studio in the canyon that made propaganda films during ww2. Then, it turns out a huge amount of rock stars and actors have parents that were involved in Special ops kind of stuff during the war and, of course, they ended up hanging out in the canyon. To further spice up the story, there’s a laundry list of suspicious deaths and murder-y stuff that went down around there. There’s a cadre of web slueths who spend crazy effort documenting all of this. I killed a good bit of time reading it all. It’s funny stuff.
After briefly embracing the role of “wartime President,” Trump has all but quit the battlefield in favor of cheerleading for economic revival. In the absence of reliable White House leadership, a haphazard combination of federal, state and private sector efforts has gradually boosted testing levels even without a national plan.
Oh. horror. Distributed problem solving instead of central planning. Anarchy!
If you don’t think rural Alaska shouldn’t have the same restrictions as Brooklyn then you’re a horrible person.
https://youtu.be/yZP1RodDTWk
LA times story with no spin.
In the last few years, National Review‘s Kevin Williamson has become one of my favorite authors. I don’t agree with all of his policy positions, but man, does he have a talent for turning a phrase.
Here, he hits the nail on the head re: bailouts for badly-managed state pension systems.
He is a great writer.
HE’S ALSO CALLED FOR THE SYSTEMATIC KILLING OF ALL POOR WHITES!dkfasdlkfdsljfsdklj!
LOL
KDW and Charles Cooke are why I subscribed.
https://twitter.com/Salon/status/1261928985799413760
Contemporary truth management?
From the “more tweets” section: Stephen King (the scary book guy) says: “Obama’s on now. Ladies and gentlemen, that’s what a real president looks like!”
He’s actually right. Real presidents are always lying and deflecting, trying to get ahead of the curve on the new revelations of the horrendous misdeeds they committed while in office.
re Erik Satie. Mornings around my house would go something like this.
Sister – who battled mental illness all her life – would to go the piano and start playing Satie.
Mother – in the kitchen cooking.
Mother: WILL YOU PLAY SOMETHING UP BEAT!?
Sister breaks into a scene changing The Flintstones tune.
Mother continues to cook satisfied.
Brother: Ma, do you know what she’s playing?
Mother: I’m not stupid.
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What a degenerate, classless piece of shit Obama is.
He was somehow involved a soft coup and now he’s under mining a sitting President.
Fucken piece of shit.
“Authorities became aware of his social media posts from citizens who saw posts of him — on the beach with a surfboard, sunbathing, and walking around Waikiki at night,” the statement said.”
Hawaiians are snitches, eh?
Hawaii has reported 638 coronavirus cases and 17 deaths.
In an effort to stop the spread of the virus, the state requires travelers to the islands to self-quarantine for 14 days, without leaving their hotel room or residence. They are required to fill out a document acknowledging that violating the quarantine is a criminal offense punishable by a $5,000 fine and up to a year in prison, according to the state’s transportation department.”
Totality reasonable and proportional to the threat.
Assholes. Is it me or is everyone’s an asshole? I get the preventative angle but this is full blown police state stupidity.
Who can afford that?
That would be much pleasanter in an AirBnb than in a hotel.
Hawaii’s unemployment rate is 34%. It’s dying.
Tourism is a major business.
What other business do they have (other than the Defense Department which is not a business)?
And yet a significant number of the locals absolutely resent the tourism industry. It is a mentally incoherent position to take, much like my teenage daughter resenting the hell out of me while dependent on the food and shelter I provide.
But teenagers grow up and find that reality is a bitch. Many kids return to the fold after a brief visit to the outside and find independence means responsibility too.
More success on the second try and finally three and they’re out (mostly)
Oh yeah, I get the young kids. but what is Hawaii’s excuse?
It’s not just Hawaii. My grandparents had a cottage in a resort town. The level of acceptance was – local – long time cottage owner- newer cottage owner- annual vacationer- first time tourist. Of course without the tourists and cottage owners the residents would have to drive 30 miles to get groceries or get their kids to school but haters gonna hate.
The Shopping Cart Theory
I can’t wait for you savages to try to explain yourselves.
I only return my shopping cart if I can knock over an old lady or toddler in the process.
Or bang up a couple of cars along the way and then push it hard into the carriages because I like the sound it makes.
Tragedy of the commons!
/Ethically Superior
I always do
Same here.
I always return the cart.
I always return the cart and IMO a major blink for those individuals who don’t.
I always return mine and sometimes even take one from the corral on my way in to help out the cart retriever person.
But you have to think about all the jobs you’re taking from the cart retriever people and perhaps even a street person that uses a shopping cart as his/her personal valet.
When the dust settles that unemployed greeter will be envious of the shopping cart retriever.
$15 is $15, maybe not quite the same as downtown but…
Almost always return it;
One time it was thunder storming and I had two kids I was trying to get in the car so I left it next to mine.
I’m glad people aren’t responding well to Bill Gates. A leopard doesn’t change his spots and I pray he doesn’t get a vaccine I hope his money is misspent. Fuck him and his wife.
Stay in your lanes assholes. You numbskulls fricken supported Common Core. I don’t believe for one second this guy cares as much as he claims. His caring is directly connected to how much power it brings him. Gates is pimping Digital ID and he needs to be told to fuck off.
“Stay in your lanes assholes.”
What is his lane?
I don’t know but it ain’t this one. Honk honk.
Trump offered Bill Gates an administration role as Science Advisor early in his term. Bill said he had better things to do with his time and proceeded to mock Trump.
Gates is a comic book maniac.
Want to escape? Don’t move to Montana.
In Montana, “there’s still kind of this unawareness of racial issues,” Meshayla Cox, the program, events, and outreach coordinator for the Montana Racial Equity Project, told me before the pandemic. She pointed to a recent incident in Bozeman where a black woman took issue with the language a white police officer used during a traffic stop. “No place in the US is exempt from the effects of racism,” Cox said. And as white people must confront their biases, as they come “face-to-face with larger numbers of black and brown folks, we start to see those same problems that we thought were just apparent in bigger cities and the South play out here.”
When I caught up with Cox recently, she told me that COVID-19 was exposing the realities that marginalized communities had endured for years. Black and indigenous folks didn’t start dying at disproportionate rates because of critical health conditions just now, she pointed out. For example, in Montana from 2011 to 2015, white men and women lived more than 15 years longer than their American Indian counterparts, according to a state health assessment. And chronic conditions could make this population particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.
The pandemic “brings a magnifying glass up to the systemic racism that just exists anyway,” Cox said, in addition to the “inequities for folks who are in poverty or low-income.”
Long obtuse navel gazer about something or other. Still not sure what, but RACISM!
Not mentioned: rampant collectivist hate for businesses and private ownership.
Hold up, there are black people in Montana?
When SP and I lived in Butte, there was exactly one homeless person there, a black guy, bald, with a short gray beard. We called him Uncle Ben.
The postmaster always let him sleep in the post office lobby when the weather was bad.
Damn, we miss that place so badly.
“black woman took issue with the language a white police officer used during a traffic stop”
But we are not going to waste pixels on what that language was so you, fair reader, can determine if the woman was correct.
*unzips*
lolwut
Right!
At least it wasn’t her bio-Dad, that would be creepy!
“Needless to say”
WHY would anybody use her mother’s dildo?
In an effort to stop the spread of the virus, the state requires travelers to the islands to self-quarantine for 14 days, without leaving their hotel room or residence.
Sounds legit.
El Oh El.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-appoints-angry-honey-badger-as-new-press-secretary
Lol.
In response to the pandemic, the Montana Racial Equity Project was raising money for black college students in Montana, as well as people of color, people with disabilities, undocumented people, and people who identify as LGBTQ+ in the state. By late April, it had received more than 60 requests, Cox said.
“If we continue to see this kind of exodus of people from larger cities to small towns, or to Montana, you’re going to just see that wealth inequity and that divide grow exponentially,” she said, speculating about the post-pandemic future.
Whatever, Karen.
I think at this point testing and contact tracing is useless. Test people who show up sick and need treatment so proper treatment can be decided. Outside that it is pointless.
Testing everybody in relatively self-contained populations, like prisons and Navy ships should give us useful information about how transmittable and “lethal” it is. Maybe even how well those with antibodies resist a second dose. Testing people who randomly come into contact with a vast number of untraceable others is useless.
Dear Governor of state planning contact tracing,
Greetings. I offer my services for this task, and guarantee that I will underbid any competitor by 99%. How is it possible for me to do the job so cheaply? Well, I already know who has had contact with a corona-positive individual – everyone who has had contact with another human being since December 2019.
Yours sincerely
A person with two neurons to rub together
Hard Seltzer Segment Could Make Up 10% of Beer Category Dollar Sales by Summer
Prediction: White Claw, with his “no laws” reputation, will, with every sip of the delicious elixir, single-highhandedly convince the American people to break quarantine.
If the drunk, slutty sorority girls break quarantine, the rest will follow.
Sorority girls, soccer moms, doofus dads will band together!
We will get our hair cut!
We will eat at Applebees!
WE WILL WALK ON GYM TREADMILLS!
WE WILL SURVIVE!
Doofus husbands…
https://youtu.be/wW-FqEaU5Qg
They aren’t bad when on the River,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pFC1ZYcEi8
Canada begins vaccine inventing.
So. The CBC softens the report by saying the work will be in NS and QC but then slips in the base vaccine comes from China. A country that can’t even make a functional test kit and sent faulty masks to the world. Sounds totes legit. I have no idea what’s going on but I have little faith in anything or anyone at the moment. ESPECIALLY government officials who have been obscenely incompetent.
All I can say people is join my party. The ‘No Useful Idiots’ party.
Bah. Maybe I’m being shrill.
If there was going to be a vaccine for corona viruses (colds) there would have been one a hundred years ago. It used to be a fairly common expression to use ‘when they cure the common cold’ to mean ‘never’.
I think holding one’s breath waiting for this vaccine is probably a mistake. The testing, the vaccine…exercises in ‘look, I am doing something!’. Theater.
So all this is likely to peter out in quiet defeat?
I think this would be the best thing.
Did they think they couldn’t find vaccines for influenza? Mind you, it’s not like that was a panacea either.
That’s what people have to realize if there is a vaccine, it’s not likely to be a panacea.
I just looked it up: Flu vaccine discovered in 1938. The first vaccine only reduced symptoms.
It is probably not impossible to have a cold vaccine but I am not banking on it showing up any time soon.
Cool Papa Bell was born in Oktibbeha County MS, same as my parents.
“Two government doctors, not even epidemiologists” — Richard Hatchett and Carter Mecher, who worked for the Bush administration — “hatched the idea [of using government-enforced social distancing] and hoped to try it out on the next virus.” We are in effect, Tucker said, part of a grand social experiment.”
https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/why-life-went-on-as-normal-during-the-killer-pandemic-of-1969/
So. Do we get a ‘D’ o ‘F’ for our performance?
We are all getting F’ed.
Uh, well, it is.
No comment about the passing of Phyliis George?
I think I posted it Spud’s links last night.
I saw an article about it, but since I had no idea who she was, I skipped over it.
You skip over my links?
[runs from room sobbing]
Here’s a good article about just how anti-liberty the left have become.
Liberals
When you lose Taibi…
Orange Man Bad broke them.
Excellent article…
” In fact, news that Flynn was cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller inspired many of the “Is this the beginning of the end for Trump?” stories that will someday fill whole chapters of Journalism Fucks Up 101 textbooks.”
That must be one heavy book.
HE CONFESSED! WHAT THE HECK!?!?
/NPC bot.
After seeing so many armed protesters and the video yesterday of the journalist being cursed by nearly everyone he passed on the street I think the divide is getting dangerous. Given that the authoritarian types never quit and never let up I dont see a good end to this.
Chuck Todd is burrowing into the conspiracyverse. Them hillbillies are crazy. They think there is more to the lockdowns than meets the eye!
Why can’t they understand the government is trying to save their worthless lives?
Fringe groups!
Those crazy conspiracy nuts are braiding the plague narrative into their previously existing worldview and policy wish lists. Democrats would never do that.
Does talking about these crackpots legitimize them?
Yes, talking about Chuck Todd legitimizes him.
Smirking sorority girl panelist says President Cartoon Villain lacks empathy.
Game, set and match.
These are the people who lack empathy for the people they put out of work.
As always, the projection is strong here.
“I just want to go back to work.”
“HOW CAN YOU BE SO SELFISH?!!!!!”
Sad news
Rep. Justin Amash, the independent Michigan congressman who said in April he was considering running for president as a third party candidate, has announced he’s decided not to pursue a bid for the White House.
“After much reflection, I’ve concluded that circumstances don’t lend themselves to my success as a candidate for president this year, and therefore I will not be a candidate,” he tweeted Saturday.
Amash had said last month that he was seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination, and that he’d pursue the White House to be a “principled president who will defend the Constitution and put individuals first.”
It was a decision that, as Vox’s Jane Coaston explained, brought an “angry response” from a number of groups concerned Amash would draw just enough votes away from their preferred candidate to cost him victory — as well as some concern from libertarians:
Reactions to his announcement came fast and furious, particularly from Never Trump conservatives concerned he could pull votes away from Joe Biden and help incumbent Donald Trump win reelection.
The last thing we want is anything which might reduce the chance of ousting President Cartoon Villain. The world will be reduced to ash and ruin if he gets re-elected.
Well… I doubt he’d pull votes away from anybody.
After much reflection
His assessment is largely correct
but it’s nothing that he shouldn’t have already known without a committee, nothing I couldn’t have told him ten years ago
Yes, talking about Chuck Todd legitimizes him.
Oops.
Look at all those jobs lost!
That proves the government needs to government harder. Moar helicopter money, stat!
Well good – I’m not the only one who noticed that NY and NJ are responsible for more than half the commie cough deaths around here. The one decent opinion writer for an NJ paper did too.
Forcing live-in care facilities to take active infections knowing that is where the majority of deaths occur while simultaneously telling us how outrageously contagious and deadly the disease is is not ‘mismanagement’.
Don’t forget going on the news and criticizing the facilities for being unprepared for “crisis” – that you created.
Pikers. CO has 61% of deaths from long term care facilities. Yet nobody asks Polis about this. The one article I read about the issue said the state Health dept could not get into the old folks homes early because the lacked PPE.
Meh…
81% in Minnesoda were in LTC facilities. If you add in people with at least one severe comorbity you get to 99%.
XX gave me a belated Mother’s Day gift.
I love that
Lol. That’s great:)
Let your freak flag fly ?
She’s got a sly little sense of humor I’m only beginning to appreciate.
If either of my progeny had produced that I would probably schedule the time to drink myself to death just so I could go out on a high point.
I am lucky that a couple of her history teachers have had Gadsden flags in their rooms and that they teach socialism the way it should be taught: That it has killed more people than the Holocaust, blahblahblah. I had a nice chat with one of her history teachers. The sentiment is not dead around here. Gadsden flags and molon labe stickers/flags on cars/homes are not uncommon.
Nice ?
So, in the fun facts catagory, I learned from my mother the other day that my great, great grandfather, a jew who emigrated from Prague, was an officer in the confederate army.
The more you know!
(this is seriously kinda tripping me out, and I have a feeling that it will trip others out also.)
Same here. GGGrandfather was a cavalry officer. We used to have his saber and pistol but it was stolen by a woman who married into the family then divorced out of it.
Some of other branches of family were soldiers in the war, but we have just the one officer.
A racist Jew? Who knew?
No officers, but in my (and my wife’s) entire ancestry for that period, there’s only 1 male who was NOT a Confederate soldier.
And I thought everybody knew about Judah Benjamin (Confederate AG and Sec.of War and State).
From the earlier revolution, Abraham Simons of Wilkes County, GA is another interesting fellow to look up. 2 fun facts:
– local legend is that he was buried standing upright, holding his musket
– his fortune after his death basically stood up the origins of the Georgia Baptist Convention and Mercer University, when his widow Nancy married Jesse Mercer.
Forrest will soon be re-re-interred, the latest move is back to Elmwood.
I number amongst a tiny minority left descended from Confederates, a hater of bigotry, a supporter of both free associations and secession at will, and a grand admirer of Southern will-power and military achievement. I miss the grand statue of Forrest on horse, but I weighed him as one of the most creative soldiers of his century first and as a man of his times second . . . in other words, a Washington, Jackson, or Grant who just happened to be on the losing side.
Taibbi, from the article linked above:
“Has the Trump era really damaged our thinking to this degree?”
Are you sitting down, Shirley?
“Yes, Joe Biden raped me but I am still going to vote for him because OrangeManBad”. <——- This isn't damaged thinking, it is outright insanity. Derangement, if you will.
Ready for some derp?
Red America is abandoning Jersey in its hour of need. Menendez is leading the push back.
Hear that you red-state pricks? Send us all your money to fund our insane Governor and our corrupt state pension system that would have been insolvent a decade ago with normal accounting practices.
I don’t hear it because the link seems to be SFed.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/05/red-america-is-abandoning-jersey-in-its-hour-of-need-menendez-is-leading-the-push-back-moran.html
“normal accounting practices”
LOL
Damn, we miss that place so badly.
Every story I saw about people breaking quarantine was from Butte. Of course, the sheriff vigorously stamped that stuff out. Because authoritah!
Coronavirus: Author Neil Gaiman’s 11,000-mile lockdown trip to Scottish isle
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-52697289
Author Neil Gaiman has admitted breaking Scotland’s lockdown rules by travelling 11,000 miles from New Zealand to his holiday home on Skye.
The Good Omens and American Gods writer left his wife and son in Auckland so he could “isolate” at his island retreat.
He wrote on his online bog: “Hullo from Scotland, where I am in rural lockdown on my own.”
The science fiction and fantasy author has since been criticised for “endangering” local people”.
The SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford, who is the MP for the island, told the Sunday Times the author’s journey was unacceptable.
He said: “What is it about people, when they know we are in the middle of lockdown that they think they can come here from the other side of the planet, in turn endangering local people from exposure to this infection that they could have picked up at any step of the way?”
Mr Gaiman – whose main family home is in Woodstock in the USA – has owned the house on Skye for more than 10 years.
The English-born author wrote on his blog that until two weeks ago he had been living in New Zealand with his wife, the singer Amanda Palmer, and their four-year-old son.
He said the couple agreed “that we needed to give each other some space”.
Amanda Palmer
@amandapalmer
no, no. men are not the problem. i love the lot of them. i love everybody. the problem is just a culture that values men and their well-being far more than it values women and their well-being.
https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/1261610375356674050
I can see why he feels he needs his space.
this was it seems generated by another one pf those articles with women leaders handled covid better, cherry picking aside.
Speaking of cherry picking, picked my first batch from an early ripening tree.
I am jealous. I can only grow black cherry. The fruit is about the size of a pencil eraser.
Several thousand miles might not be enuough.
How dare he go to his own house. What nerve.
Selfish bastard. Infecting the Scottish with his Englishness.
Sassenach!
Ah yes, Mittens (the guy who fired Rick Grenell for being gay) is the moral authority here.
And why aren’t the gay rights organizations pointing out that a gay guy is the first swamp creature to have the stones to release information critical of the Deep State? You know if he was dishing dirt on Trump, they’d be all over themselves to claim him as one of their own.
He doesn’t think right.
I believe I have an Earl Morrell football card from back in the day.
On the menu today: Brunch of bacon, candied jalapeno and Gruyere croissants with a shakshuka egg. Dinner = grilled chicken thighs, collard greens and pasta salad with pepperoni, asiago, parmasan, with both green and black olives.
CNN headline:
“The Pandemic Gets Political’
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Two months ago I would have had a hard time believing this. Particularly on the coasts – every Republican Governor is in the process of opening their states (Except Baker who is sorta a Republican). Every Dem Governor is either not opening at all or doing it incredibly slowly, even in places like OR and WA where there are hardly any cases. It’s nuts.
I am only linking this stupid story about how hard restaurants in Minnesoda have it because I want to share what a journalo thinks is important.
Uffda. I guess the corporations here that make cool medical devices only count if they are diverse enough. And I love Minnesoda, but we have a “food scene”?
Hotdish and lutefisk?
The Juicy Lucy is a real thing.
My twin nieces scrimped and saved last year to get the money to open a nail salon up there. I don’t want any adult to make jokes about millennials living in their parents’ basement when these kids that did everything right are being punished for New York’s idiocy.
Here’s a Knut Wittkowski video that YouTube banned.
I knew they were going to eventually ban it.