Hold on, Dear Glibs. Hold on tight. This is a rough one.
Rodham Is Pantsuit Nation Erotica
Hillary Clinton’s most ardent fans have probably dreamed of the scenarios laid out in Curtis Sittenfeld’s seventh novel, Rodham, which casts the former Secretary of State as the leading lady in a shoddy bonkbuster, and Bill, the cad turned villain who captured her heart, but got away. The plot that Sittenfeld has created for Rodham hinges on a simple question: what if Hillary Clinton rejected Bill’s marriage proposal and struck out on her own?
Yummy. Self-serving political stroke material for the hot flash set. “Without that horrible old Bill, she would have been a star!”
Or a no-name lawyer who defended child rapists. You know, whichever.
Let’s keep going.
Sittenfeld’s Clinton appears fully formed at her Wellesley College commencement speech and then jumps immediately into her relationship with Bill, to whom she refers multiple times as a “lion.” Their initial attraction is magnetic, and plays on Hillary’s desire to feel wanted by a man as charismatic and handsome as Bill. The effect that Bill had on Hillary’s life is undoubtedly profound. He’s portrayed as her intellectual equal and a sparring partner that recognizes her for her intellect as well as her body and its pleasures—the latter of which is rendered in rapturous, erotic detail.
“Your outsides are attractive all by themselves. I don’t know if I’m supposed to say this during the women’s movement, but you have great tits. And your little waist, and your nice soft bum, and your delicious honey pot…”
I joined Bill in bed, and when I was lying on my back naked and he was lying on top of me naked, he looked at me and smiled. He said, “Hillary, I really enjoy discussing theology with you. I also enjoy doing lots of other things with you,” and then he plunged inside me.
“Delicious honey pot.”
The rational mind can only assume that Bill is saying her cooter is full of bees.
“Then he plunged inside me.”
Hot! Right, ladies? Ladies? Don’t you love to be plunged? Like as unto a clogged toilet or a slow-draining sink of soap-scummed desire?
And then:
“Please don’t get pulled over,” I said, and after that I really couldn’t speak. I was writhing against his fingers. I lasted about two minutes, and then I was saying as quietly as I could, “Oh, baby. Bill. Bill. Baby, I love you so much.” He stopped moving his fingers and just cupped me, and I whimpered incoherently.
Bill and Biden do have something in common: a love of the good old America fingerbang.
After this, Bill tries to get road head. No, seriously:
He lifted his hand off me and gestured toward his own lap, where he clearly had an erection.
Finally free of Bill after he fucks his boss’ daughter, Hillary rises in political power. And this is key. The summary of the book is that Bill was the only mistake real Hillary ever made, the only blot of mustard or uncooked potato in her biography. Free of Bill, her path to power and popularity was relatively smooth sailing.
An appealing fantasy for the addle-brained, ignoring the essential Hillary of Hillary to spin a comforting yarn for the election eve bawlers.
But, wait! There’s more!
I Read A Bunch of Rodham Sex Scenes So You Wouldn’t Have To
And the truth was that when he was thrusting into me, I had such a strong sense of wanting him to come inside me, wanting no barriers between us, wanting the things we did with each other to be different from the things we did in the rest of our lives, with other people. None of this was remotely like what I’d felt with Roy or Eddie. I’d regarded their semen as, if not disgusting, then as messy and mildly regrettable, like a spilled glass of water.
I fall back to a quotation, my mind in retreat:
“Drenching the neck of my womb like a hail of birdshit.”
-Warren Ellis
The New Black Panthers are out on 14th St trying to shut down Yum Yums pic.twitter.com/fUrSivrnd9
— Stephanie Mencimer (@smencimer) May 19, 2020
Just to make it clear… These are the New Black Panthers* protesting a closed Chinese restaurant in Washington D.C. over the treatment of African people in China by the Chinese government. OK? OK.
*New Black Panthers because the members eventually age out of participating and are replaced, much like the Latino boy band, Menudo.
Jamie Lee Curtis moving behind the camera with Blumhouse for horror movie about climate change
“I’m 61 and my motto now is: ‘If not now, when, if not me, who?’” Curtis said in a statement. “I’m excited to have a creative home to explore my own ideas and others. Jason and his team have made me feel welcome. Comet is ready to bring these stories to screen life.”
Curtis is writing the film, titled Mother Nature, alongside Comet’s Head Of Film and TV Development, Russell Goldman.
I guess she burned through all the money from those commercials for that yogurt that makes women poop. A lateral career move, at best.
Comet is ready to bring these stories to screen life.
I knew you could swab your toilet bowl with the stuff, but it can produce films too, evidently.
I’m pleading for a comet right now.
Comet, will make your teeth turn green,
Comet, is made of gasoline,
Comet, will make you vomit,
So buy some Comet, and bomb it, today!
/popular elementary school playground hymn back in the day, sung to the “Bridge over the River Kwai” March
+1 Colonel Bogey
*Whistles
Worst.Morning.Links.Ever.
Should sugarfree get off your lawn now that you are an old man?
Ha! It was just bad timing/luck on my part. I was about to eat breakfast.
Best.Morning.Links.Ever. Unless you count the OMWC ones that set me off into the wormhole of ennui.
I joined Bill in bed, and when I was lying on my back naked and he was lying on top of me naked, he looked at me and smiled. He said, “Hillary, I really enjoy discussing theology with you. I also enjoy doing lots of other things with you,” and then he plunged inside me.
Okay. That there is some extraordinary prose.
The “plunged” really salts the steak.
Stick to seafood metaphors when discussing that part of the female…
That really drives home how grateful we should be for SugarFree, now that we’ve seen Hillary erotica written by someone without talent.
I’m pretty sure this is George Lucas writing under a pseudonym.
I hate the new normal.
>.>
It’s only normal if 7you let it be.
Who am I kidding? There are a lot of people who are just eating this up. Larping Doomsday is almost as titillating as reading Hillary fanfic.
Of course all the doomsday larpers are people who haven’t been thrown out of their jobs or had their businesses shut down. But the people wanting to feed their families are the selfish ones.
Jamie Lee Curtis moving behind the camera with Blumhouse for horror movie about climate change-
Blum house has the worst haunted houses/mazes at halloween horror nights.
Their “horror” movie series on Hulu is full of mediocrity and sadness. I have the feeling that the climate change movie will end up there as an Earth day release.
It wasn’t on my radar but I typically pass on blumhouse movies. Why is it so hard to get decent horror flicks?
Edit: except for happy death day, but that’s more comedy than horror.
Poor old Jamie Lee has been “trading” on that one nude scene since I was a teen. Stupendous boobs, though. Nearly perfect.
There was a terrible movie called “Love Letters” with nudes and sex scenes with James Keach.
When both your parents are rich movie stars, and they recognize you have talent and desperately want you to become a star too, they will spare no expense to help you. And so what do you do if your daughter has XXY chromosomes, meaning she probably won’t develop much in the way of female secondary sex characteristics, in the early 1970s? You get the absolute best plastic surgeon known to Hollywood, long before breast implants were commonplace, to give her spectacular breasts, spending a fortune so they look nearly perfect.. And she becomes a star, and Festus remembers her breasts to this day. Money well spent, Tony and Janet!
Are You judging how some parents decide to raise their kids? All paths are equally good.
Very few children are XXY genetically, meaning they are born essentially half woman, half man, like Jamie Lee Curtis. That’s what this is about, not parenting style.
Just trying to make a joke.
Quit your day job!
I never thought of that about JLC.
When you think of it, combining what Chet said and watching movie stars lose it over climate change, it’s almost they’re indeed replacing an unfulfilled life based on superficiality with something like climate change. It gives the a sense of purpose. Problem is, they’re not intellectually equipped to deal with it because they never focused on developing their critical thinking skills. They were busy getting boob jobs.
Dreams crushed, Doc! I’m a nice glib! HOW DARE YOU?
Horror comedy seems to be the new rage. Thankfully, we get some great gems from it (Tucker and Dale, Teeth, Zombeavers).
I’ve long thought that the PG-13 rating has done more to kill horror films then anything else.
What is hilarious is that people are treating this like it is some sort of novel idea. Let me guess- human hubris has ravaged our virgin earth, until finally she fights back with [wild animals|zombie plague|serial killers|natural disasters|giant bugs] in gruesome ways?
That is so well known in film school you can only interpret this climate change focus as nothing more than marketing to the new generation of horror fans, so I can’t get mad at them for trying to make money.
You left out pollen.
Killer bees are bringing home the pollen, I’m doomed.
It’s The Happening crossed with Eat. Pray. Love.
*AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!*
And pirates?
https://assets.memedrop.io/memes/IuMjXJLffuGI7iJgfirHo17CEkcPVOaaeqf20BKJ.gif
Why don’t they do the story about how one of the founders composted his gf for gaia?
I can deal with the nut punches, the authoritarian shit lords, and the clear and rampant corruption that gets mentioned in the links. But this? I will never be the same.
Hillary is pretending a “soft moment” with Bill but she’s secretly got a tentacle jammed up stripe-shirts urethra, feeding. I’d wager that hand over Hubby’s heart is also drawing some power. Loading…
Meanwhile, in Michigan
The flooding comes amid the coronavirus pandemic, forcing officials to juggle two public safety crises at once. Shelters have been established, and flood evacuees are being screened for the illness.
Any emergency order issued in response to the coronavirus crisis is suspended if it impedes emergency response efforts, the governor’s declaration said.
The National Weather Service in Detroit said a flash flood emergency continues in Midland County through 7:30 a.m. ET Wednesday.
The Tittabawassee River set a record Wednesday morning, surging at Midland past the old mark of 33.89 feet, set in September 1986. The river still was rising, and is forecast to crest there around 38 feet by around 8 p.m. ET before slowly receding.
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Teams are trying to screen people arriving at the shelters, Bone said, and emergency personnel have plenty of personal protective equipment and are wearing masks.
Masks are available for everyone going into the shelters, he said.
“To go through this in the midst of a global pandemic is almost unthinkable. But we are here, and to the best of our ability we are going to navigate this together,” Whitmer said.
“Please, to the best of your ability, continue to wear a face covering when you go to a shelter or go stay with a friend or relative,” Whitmer said.
Just as long as you can keep your priorities straight.
“Any emergency order is suspended if it impedes emergency response efforts,“
Straight outta “Yes, Minister”.
Do they not realize how ridiculous they have become?
They do not care, because the media will never call them out on it.
I don’t know what I expected….
Is there an 8 page pictorial included? An autobiography? Inquiring minds want to know what to avoid.
Have any naked pix of Hillary?
The Geneva Convention is still in effect dude.
I’m thinking there will be an iCloud leak right before the convention. Boosts her profile and will kill the old white guys COVID doesn’t get.
You are a sick dude.
She was kinda bitchy-hot back in the nevermind. How do you think she ensnared that horn-dog Bill?
Threesomes with Janet Reno fucking both of them in the ass?
*?
I’m pretty sure she told Bill that if he stuck with her, he’d be president. And said that she was ok with him boinking as many other women as he wanted as long as he was discreet.
I’ve said it before, but if Bill had been on his own, he would have been – at best – gov of Arkansas (probably AG is my bet). Hillary would have found some other dude to manage.
They were the perfect couple. He had the public charm and charisma, she had the drive and ruthlessness. What is funny is that Hillary never seemed to realize that the combo didn’t work in reverse. She couldn’t be the public face because people naturally hate her.
Bill has natural political instincts in addition to the charm and a gift for reading the room. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hillary thinks she got him the presidency, but she would be kidding herself.
Well, insofar as she managed his indiscretions and political image externally, she did help there as his Holiness pointed out, but the fact that she believed that because of that she also could just walk up and take the job was laughable. She is the very definition of a harpy. I am certain that even the people that supported her did so out of expediency rather than any sort of belief that she was presidential material.
Bill doesn’t have the drive Hillary does. Once he was a big wig in Arkansas and could get all that hillbilly poon, he would have been happy enough.
Hillary is the one who pushed him. And they also were in the exactly right place at the right time. None of the other big DNC stars wanted to run against Bush in ’92 in the beginning because they thought Iraq made him a shoo-in. Then after the primaries had begun, the economy turned bad. So Clinton had a great issue and no DNC competition.
Re: The New Black Panthers
Apparently they’re also in our neighborhood. The old lady down the street called my wife in a mild panic because a bunch of young black men dressed approximately as the ones in the mentioned tweet came pouring out of a strip mall property pumping their fists and chanting “Black Power” last night. She was on the sidewalk with her walker at the time.
Now that I think about, that’s where the Tops China takeout place is. Maybe this was a nationally coordinated thing.
When I was biking on Saturday, I passed a protest that I think was a Black Lives Matter one (they were yelling “No Justice, No Peace”).
I guess the New Black Panthers aren’t powerful enough to protest outside the Chinese Embassy.
Problem with protesting Chinese places is that you are hungry for justice an hour later.
Zing!
“hungry for justice”
That’s a weird euphemism, man, but I’m not sitting in judgement
The best part is that these will be logged as “part of the rising tide of racist incidents against Asian Americans in the wake of Corona virus” without mentioning who the racists are.
And we haven’t even gotten to today’s HnH. Well done, SugarFree.
He’s just softening up our defenses for the main attack at 11.
He’s gonna plunge the HnH in at lunch time?
Fourscore – as an owner of a real honey pot – is probably in the fetal position now…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtQOY-0sViQ
Honestly, I think the only thing he can do now is merge his Hillary fic with Subaru Horror Theater. Anything less will pale compared to the horror he just shared.
Good morning, SF!
Yes, we were given fair warning, but still, that was pretty uncalled for.
*shudders*
But to close it with such a fun and fabulous song, well, you can color me impressed!
I hope each of you gets what’s coming to you today! Head on a swivel, folks!
“I hope each of you gets what’s coming to you today!”
Fuck you too, man.
So negative.
What if what’s coming to you is a lost supermodel with daddy issues? What then?
Santa emailed me and let me know exactly what I deserved.
You threatening me?
Back at you Tundra. *sends sizzling positive vibes
Thx, Sugarfree for perusing the horrific depths of the internet underdark so we don’t have to. Also Train in Vain,
Great song! Added late to London Calling, so it didn’t make the original album track listing.
IIRC, they thought it was too commercial. I believe that was also the album where they “mis”-named Terry Chimes as “Tory Crimes”.
It was. Which is why that album sold so many copies!
Regarding Chimes, wikipedia tells me it was their debut:
Still funny as hell!
Basically the first Big Audio Dynamite tune?
These are my links!
Time for an updated BABYDOOM pic, dude!
How is the little shitlady-in-training?
It is! I’ll get one up next.
She’s awesome. Rolling over like it’s her job. Which is cool until bedtime and she decides to monkey it for a half-hour.
She also really loves dogs. She watches ours constantly. Still the happiest baby.
So adorable!
Nothing better than babies and dogs. Here’s an old pic of my little shitlord with his best pal.
Time flies, dude. Enjoy!
That’s one nice pal they have!
“This is my design!” Updated photos of the bebe would be cool. We’re laughing our asses off right now but most of us are family men.
I don’t know if you are referencing Moira Rose or not, but Schitt’s Creek is a funny show.
“Hannibal” which ended stupidly and too soon.
“her body and its pleasures—the latter of which is rendered in rapturous, erotic detail”
This should not be protected speech.
No need to post the fap links. SF killed that like it had dirt on Hillary.
I went back and checked and yes, there was a a crypto about Hillary’s vortex of Hypno Pants. God damn. I bow before the fucking Master.
One of the most horrific sentence fragments ever stated.
Lord help us all . . . it’s Wednesday, we aren’t done with SugarFree’s tales for the day. I don’t know how much more I can take.
On a related note, I won’t be eating lunch, so I might lose some weight. Is this SF’s version of Glibfit?
I will get you ripped. Your abs are going to be cum gutters when I’m done.
hawt
Glibfast
Legit LOL.
Muzzled!
In interviews with CNN, CDC officials say their agency’s efforts to mount a coordinated response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been hamstrung by a White House whose decisions are driven by politics rather than science.
The result has worsened the effects of the crisis, sources inside the CDC say, relegating the 73-year-old agency that has traditionally led the nation’s response to infectious disease to a supporting role.
Rising tensions between CDC leadership and the White House over the perception that the agency has been sidelined has been a developing story in the media for weeks. But now, mid- and higher-ranking staff members within the agency — six of whom spoke with CNN for this story — are starting to voice their discontent. Those six spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
“We’ve been muzzled,” said a current CDC official. “What’s tough is that if we would have acted earlier on what we knew and recommended, we would have saved lives and money.”
Muzzled so effectively they are reduced to whining to CNn nonstop and leaking their reports to the New York Times before they even hand them in to their bosses.
1: Fauci wasn’t calling for a more aggressive response earlier.
2: That’s water under the bridge and irrelevant to what we do going forward.
3: Do they recommend putting Typhoid Mary in the assisted living facilities?
I mentioned to Big Gay Jeff at work about how New York and Pennsylvania ordered nursing homes to receive Covid patients. He’d never heard of it. This week Festus is getting a little more shine.
The media is freaking out about Trump taking HCQ because somebody might take it and get heart arrhythmia.
Meanwhile, Cuomo et al are forcibly putting known carriers into captive populations of the highest risk populations and causing thousands of deaths, yet they ignore it.
I think it’s safe to say that I despise the mainstream media now. Their lack of morality and principle is galling and abhorrent.
They are fucking disgusting filth. They aren’t honest brokers, now they weren’t before but this whole thing has exposed them as worse than scum. The bleating about the children catching this Kawasaki disease has done it for me. They are disgusting sociopathic fearmongerers and I haven’t an ounce of respect for anyone in that profession.
Saw Cavuto puling the “you will die” shtick. I used to think he was one of the more decent ones.
“And nothing else ever happened…”
Trump taking HCQ
At the direction and supervision of a doctor, just like anyone else should do when taking drugs.
Cuomo et al are forcibly putting known carriers into captive populations
But Cuomo is totes the best and NYC is a model for the country, or something.
Hacksawing the Economy: How Lockdowns Are in the Tradition of Civil War Surgeons
I have no interest in the opinions of medical bureaucrats.
When this first started, I said there were two sets of people here- the Staycationers who are playing “Zombie Apocalypse on the Prairie” when not on their zoom meetings, and then the Amputated- those people watching all the frivolous Staycationers pat each other on the back for earning a paycheck and shaming those “Non-Essentials” who would dare wonder how they will pay rent next month. That article just reinforces things for me.
Obamacare X 2
In interviews with CNN, CDC officials say their agency’s efforts to mount a coordinated response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been hamstrung by a White House whose decisions are driven by politics rather than science.
I certainly take the “Center for Politically Charged Medicine” at their word when they talk about being driven by politics. They are experts in turning political things into fake medical ones.
My theory:
If they don’t marry, Bill is never President and she is never heard of. Although he probably doesn’t lose the 1980 Governor’s race.
Other hints about the book indicate she has at least three failed runs for President but is elected in 2016 (the true point of this barf.) So it seems to be a truly counter-logical alt-history.
I’m planning on a full review when I get a copy.
I mean, they don’t call it porn for nothing: a portrayal designed specifically for particular subjects’ sexual arousal, offensive and completely unrealistic.
You mean step siblings are all super hot and hooking up all the time?!? Pornhub, you got some splainin’ to do!
Everyone has a ten-incher, too. Par for the course.
Logical alt-history: she wins in 2016 if she listens to her husband.
Which is some sort of delicious irony.
He had political acumen, she was driven. The combo got him to the presidency.
But it is obvious, in hindsight, why he was never really dangerous…power wasn’t an end for him, it was a means to an end. His goal was more poon.
I always got the feeling that he never gave a fuck about any of it.
No mention of birtherism, I bet.
If they don’t marry, she still flunks the Bar Exam in DC and goes back to Illinois instead. Without Bill to rescue her from her various capers, she eventually does hard time for embezzlement or something similar. Spends the rest of her life working at a DMV after parole.
I will pick this up today:
https://cz-usa.com/product/cz-97-b-45-acp-black-aluminum-grips-fo-front-sight-10-rd-mags/
I’m sure it won’t be tragically lost in a fire after I crash my car on the way home.
Lucky!
Probably one of the best sleeper guns out there. Great, underappreciated value.
Nice.
Of course not. It’ll be lost on your tragic boat accident on Lake Fuck You.
OUT. STANDING.
Ass Wednesday will have you wanting to plunge into these ladies; my new official favorite euphemism for coitus.
http://archive.li/R2MwK
Nobody is fapping today. Don’t waste the bits.
#32. All the rest are second best.
What a shock. Shutting down supply chains and implementing onerous rules may cause places to stay closed.
I’m looking forward to see which locals are ignoring the rules tomorrow.
I’m planning on a full review when I get a copy.
Doing the jobs sane people won’t do.
Not for nuttin’, but plunged my depths like a slow-draining sink of soap-scummed desire might be the hottest prose ever posted here. Or even anywhere.
I dunno man “Drenching the neck of my womb like a hail of birdshit.” is pretty damn poetic.
No description of the Huma, Hill-dawg lesbian cuckold scene. 0/10 would only read again if really needed to jerk off.
Just so you all know: Blumhouse makes shit movies.
No need to thank me.
Nice hot take johny come lately.
There. That’s a bit newer.
5 months yesterday!
Or two days ago.
awwww
Our first Grandson is driving now. Soon to see new babies for certain.
cute
SJWednesday: So Problematic
Problematic language is the use of any words or phrases that have specific, derogative meaning toward a specific marginalized group of people.
This includes women, people of Color, trans* and LGBQIA+ people, various immigrant groups, and a multitude of others – any group that doesn’t have legitimate power and authority within our society.
Let me try this:
Racism is believing that certain groups of people are inferior, or superior to another simply because of their race. The only groups that count as people for this purpose are Minority groups.
All they want to do is make sure they can use any and all excuses to silence anyone that could call them out on being fucking bullshitting lying assholes.
It’s also likely that the response to this was one of frustration or defensiveness, or maybe even just pure outrage against “do-nothing slacktivism” or comments about how language policing is an infringement on their freedom of speech and First Amendment rights (neither of which arguments I can morally justify supporting
I cannot morally justify letting you have the right to say what you believe.
any group that doesn’t have legitimate power and authority within our society
So, that would be nobody.
And I suppose it’s not at all bigoted/racist/sexist to assume that none among the groups mentioned have such power or authority.
neither of which arguments I can morally justify supporting
Because you are a wannabe tyrant.
Now I’m *sure* I’v e seen this on PornHub.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/covid-19-nurse-gets-too-22056476
Gramps looks happy.
They should do a study comparing recovery rates.
That’s going to be the New Normal when it comes to dating.
Nurses are hot and ready to party
https://soundcloud.com/bobandtom/nurses-are-hot-and-ready-to-party-duke-tumatoe
“Yummy. Self-serving political stroke material for the hot flash set. “Without that horrible old Bill, she would have been a star!””
She would have been a fucking nobody. The ONLY reason she got to make a run at the office was because she was still married to Slick Willie (talking about the dude, not his tool, cause everyone knows Janet Reno is Chelsea’s dad).
The Horror!
Call me crazy but a powerless govt? That is even scarier than a pandemic.
And since Republicans on both the Court and in the legislature have rendered Evers’ administration powerless in issuing any new statewide mandate
Maybe if he had been willing to work with the legislature rather than twice (remember he tried to shut down the election by fiat) try to assume powers he did not have maybe they would have crafted some laws to work with him.
But let this be another reminder. Left/ Right. They don’t care about limited government power in the executive acting like a dictator. They want the person who is going to do what they think is the “right” thing to have unlimited power to do so.
Think any of these whiners would have been OK with Scott Walker having unlimited power?
pfft Scott Walker isn’t going to do the “right” thing. So of course not. Only the righteous should have total and absolute power.
You get a satrap!…You get a satrap!…You get a satrap!
Also, given the fact that GA, FL and TX have opened and not had heaps of dead people appear, why does Wisconsin need to be locked down?
Minnesoda has moar lockdown and moar deaths and moar unemployment. Maybe that should tell you something?
If WIsconsin’s numbers stay the same or go down, I’m worried that Minnesoda might fall into the huge memory hole that develops as the alamistas try to pretend that they were never wrong about anything.
Today’s numbers:
County-by-County Status:
The Central Florida case counts include 371 from Brevard, 167 Flagler, 257 Lake, 1,699 Orange, 629 Osceola, 766 Polk, 442 Seminole and 612 Volusia.
Florida Status:
The Florida Department of Health reported 46,944 total cases with 8,494 hospitalized and 2,052 deaths.
Iowa and SoDak had no lockdown, NoDak had a minimal lockdown
BUT THERE WAS A HOTSPOT OUTBREAK IN A PORK PLANT!!!!!
Iowa put in place some pretty severe restrictions on non-essential commercial business, but did not fully lockdown the state. The state has been incrementally removing restrictions and is expected to loosen up a few more today.
Iowa has not been great, but clearly has been better than Minniesoda.
More 80’s! Or whatever. Another Girl, Another Planet.
A perfect pop gem!
The ‘Mats pay homage.
Johnny Thunders, too.
Tundra, you’re on a Replacements jag today? I’ll make the obvious contribution: Alex Chilton. Sorry, no Big Star.
Well, SF started it and I’m always up for more.
Lots of people hated their late stuff, but not me. It was obvious pretty early on that they would not remain a punk band for long.
One of my faves:
All shook down.
The band was pretty much done by this album, but I think it deserves more attention than it typically gets.
Probably my favorite:
Duh.
Here Comes a Regular
Hey Tundra! I was gonna buy tickets for “Geezer-Fest” this year because April Wine was head-lining. Sadly, no more. Stupid pandemic…
Relative to SF’s post: My roommate in the ’90s had recorded an album with Jim Dickinson at Ardent. Jim gave him a cassette copy of all the outtakes from Pleased to Meet Me, including Beer for Breakfast, long before they were released officially. It was great, but for some reason really warbly.
Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take out the Trash is my favorite punk rock album of all time. One of my favorites, period. And Tommy was only 13 years old on a couple of the songs.
Nice! I loved that record, too.
Tommy is less than a year older than me. When I’d go see them, it blew my mind that the kid up there was my age! Amazing life.
If you haven’t already, check out Trouble Boys.
They were assholes, yes, but they weren’t posers.
Sweet, I haven’t read that one. I did read All Over But the Shouting a long time ago and loved it.
I was in high school when they broke up for the first time and never got to see them. The reunion tours weren’t close enough for me to hit either, so I’m jealous. Did you ever get to see them when Bob was still in the band?
Sure. But I grew up in Minneapolis, so it was easy.
I think I’ve told it before, but there was a fun show back in 1983 where the ‘Mats weren’t even the headliners (it was the Suburbs). There was another small band from GA just making their debut as well…
I think I probably saw more Bob shows than Slim shows, actually. I missed the reunion as well, but that’s cool. I’d rather see old acts that still make new music.
Well I got my car registration back only cost me 5 hours of my time and a bunch of money. Fucking cops
Also it was my first day in the office. Relatively empty and I did not much move from my desk so no major issues. Off course it was pointless since none in my team was there but still.
Without Bill to rescue her from her various capers, she eventually does hard time for embezzlement or something similar. Spends the rest of her life working at a DMV after parole.
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
Lol
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAX5kWGFy9N/?igshid=190gadaut3cmw
HAH HAH!
Awesome.
Hehe. There was a time when most lesbians would’ve lol’ed at that. Maybe still the case.
SJWednesday: Believe What They Said, Not What They Did
It’s informative to note here that family law in the Soviet Union took one step away from the family unit in 1918, and then multiple steps backs towards it over the course of decades. There were millions of homeless kids after the Revolution and after the Soviets weakened family law early on. By 1936, abortion was banned and by 1944, divorce was up to the discretion of a judge and medals were awarded to women who produced 5 or more children.
Mojeaux’s erotica is exponentially better than that Rodham crap, but I believe even she couldn’t make a sex scene involving Hillary or Bill truly palatable.
sex scene involving Hillary or Bill truly palatable.- maybe if it ended with a murder-suicide
*gauntlet thrown*
You did note who wrote the initial thread, right, GT? Sugarfree is a reborn HP Lovecraft without any of the Christian scruples. Now, the many, many tentacles can go anywhere.
Sorry, SF, but it needed to be said.
I have no issue with this description. It is foolish to argue with the truth.
If you are gonna do Bill and Hillary and make someone love it, you are gonna have to go full fetish. Those folks will love anything that stokes their own peculiar fires.
No offense to those present.
I wouldn’t even try.
Thing is, I don’t think Hillary likes dick and I think Webb Hubble was a surrogate for a sterile (or as good as) Bill. I feel so sorry for Chelsea, though.
Bill is charismatic. I had a couple of clients who worked with him and each (independent of each other) said he makes YOU feel like YOU are the only person in the world RIGHT THEN and MAYBE FOREVER.
OTOH he also has to rape to get what he wants, and in those cases, it’s probably power. Somebody said no. OMG NO YOU DON’T SAY NO TO ME, BITCH!
As for me, he looks like the uncle I loathe who is touchy feely handsy when he isn’t being a loud braggart deadbeat. So…I don’t get it.
Aww, man. Thanks for the Hillary porn. Spent a half hour lying on the floor after tweaking my lower back tonight. Nope, not from that. Lift with your legs, people. Is hot then cold or cold then hot? At least I can hobble around now.
I hate when i throw my back out. Litterally have to crawl out of bed.
Hot then cold, always
Sorry, Straff! I find “whimper in place” usually works for me. Feel better!
thx
Finally got to attend my first concert in months. Foreigner was headlining.
The venue has a new policy of taking everyone’s temperature before they’re allowed in.
If you’re hot blooded, they’ll check it and see.
No idea what they would do if you’re cold as ice.
Well are you willing to sacrifice to find out?
Heh
Heh
What are you playing head games with us? Concerts are all online now or on the juke box over the fearo.
Whelp, as mentioned yesterday, Wifey is bored and foraging. Today I shall try False Solomon’s Seal with Bernaise sauce. It smells a lot like asparagus. Pray for Festus!
False Solomon’s Seal
I heard it tastes best if you clubbed the babies yourself.
have you considered slipping her a mickey ?
Fuck that shit! She’s getting things done around here!
Aside from the poisoning.
So they installed a thermal camera at my work. My temperature is 33 degrees Celsius which is interesting to say the least
You like vampire jokes, don’t you?
Glad to hear they are finally taking precautions against the vampires.
But they still invite him in.
I’ll translate for the rubes. 36-38 is normal for humans, so pie is dead. SCIENCE!
Undead.
I for one think (much) younger Hillary Clinton was kind of cute in a kind of virgin librarian you just know is going to end up an old cat lady kind of way. Probably an unpopular opinion around here but there you go.
Kind of cute in the way that just about every 20-year-old college girl not morbidly obese is kinda cute.
Kind of cute in the way that just about every 20-year-old college girl not morbidly obese is kinda cute.
Donald Trump has a sad…
“Grab her by the Dewey Decimal”!
If I was the guy in this story I’d just say that the drone wasn’t wearing a mask and they feared for their life.
Seems like if your property gets destroyed when trespassing, you are in the “stupid games, stupid prizes” category.
Does she die in the fire?
Jamie Lee Curtis.
My scene would go something like this. She’s trapped in a house that catches fire. She thinks it’s because of climate change but really it’s the neighbour who fucken can’t stand her guts. Then the fire engulfs her embracing her while caressing her hair…
The end.
Or. As the fire burns all the climate change heroes blindly run in to try and save her – Mark Ruffalo, Ted Danson, Greta, Bill Nye etc. – at this point the fire smiles and says, “Come to me my children….”
That took a dark turn, Muppet.
I take a lot of those.
Plot bunny!
the hot flash set
Excellent. This is why you have so many simps.
Wait. Someone a simp for SF or for HRC?
Yes
Fun-fact! Most of the females that work at my sites are menopausal. The young ones are clocked into the half-moon boogie. They all menstruate at the same fucking time and I can look up at the Moon and know when this will happen.
Muzzled! cont’d
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has posted 60 pages of detailed guidelines on how to reopen the United States from coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home orders on the agency’s website.
The guidance was a slightly shorter version of a 68-page document shelved by the White House last week after concerns it was too specific.
Still, the latest CDC document was very descriptive, providing a detailed road map for schools, restaurants, transit and child care facilities on the categories to consider before reopening.
The guidance was posted without fanfare amid reported tensions between the agency and the White House.
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A CNN review last week found that the guidelines in the original version were far more strict and detailed than the White House’s own road map toward a return to normal. Based on the original guidance, “no one who is reopening meets the criteria for reopening,” a senior CDC official told CNN at the time.
The original CDC guidelines were the result of a request from the White House’s coronavirus task force, specifically Dr. Deborah Birx, a senior CDC official told CNN earlier this month, noting that the White House did not plan on implementing the agency’s guidelines.
The final document comes as both White House and CDC officials describe a growing sense of mistrust and animosity between the two groups over how quickly the US should reopen and how the government tracks data on the virus.
In particular, Birx has become increasingly critical of the CDC, making clear in recent meetings that she is more than frustrated with the agency, according to two senior administration officials. Specifically, Birx believes the way the CDC gathers data on the coronavirus is antiquated, causing inaccurate and delayed numbers on both virus cases and deaths.
Those bastards in the White House have imposed a gag order on the CDC. They aren’t allowed to say anything.
If only somebody would pay attention to them.
Here’s the problem as a decision maker, from asking for input from scientists. If you don’t take every bit of advice, they feel like it’s because you hate science.
Said it from the start, don’t put doctors in front of the camera.
Once they come out, they don’t want to go back in.
The suggestions are outrageous. The problem is apparently inspectors will be harassing stores now. I hope it’s temporary but I can see it being one of the bad outcomes of this sheer utter madness.
If the child-care one is anything like ours, we need to seriously tell everyone to fuck off.
They lay down one-size rules as if they’re autistic idiots without considering one iota the nuances of each business or place.
The idea of separating kids six feet apart is not only retarded beyond belief and impractical (especially since, you know, Coronzilla doesn’t kill them), it’s actually bad fo their development. In fact, in my view, these son of a bitches and adults who blindly swallow their bukkake screwed kids over because of their fears.
What we did to kids is shocking and criminal.
Change my mind Karen you twat.
If your business can’t fit the one size fits all requirements… you really don’t have a right to be in business.
*polite applause*
I hate this. Delete it before they actually use it.
He speaks truth. They absolutely will use this.
I WEAR A MASK TO SAVE YOU HOW DARE YOU NOT FOLLOW THE RULES!
Goddammit
CDC link
OMG THE CDC IS BEING MUZZLED!!!!
Tempest in a Communion cup.
This is why I drink straight from the bottle.
“Hillary, I really enjoy discussing theology with you. I also enjoy doing lots of other things with you,” and then he plunged inside me.’
The idea that people probably actually believe Hillary can discuss theology is repulsive.
When a mobster like Sammy Gravano calls you degenerates, you’re pretty degenerated.
I bet she knows her Shoggoth from her Tsathoggua.
Last night a friend was telling me he got an email from the gym he goes to telling people who play tennis to pick up the ball with their feet and the racket to avoid using their hands. He asked, ‘how do you serve?’
Then this I came across:
https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-coronavirus-mainly-spreads-through-persontoperson-contact-and-does-not-spread-easily-on-contaminated-surfaces-153317029.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sb2dpbi55YWhvby5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAELPFYbmsPim30TLUdEprPx4gBopIRMyzb_MZ6EJjxEqhGGiCo98xaCYC787cgAwdVNwwXfW8VxwthlSooQrYuntDN9AMb7NzrynmFALt2rmK8w7Xx_3AlsJsqJRLIcYfwVXrEpTe2gt6n_z95VkoL-AFxo2arGinIeZstem4R95
We live in retarded times my friends.
I’m sure I can find articles that refute that one. It seems like we’d have a firm grasp of the properties of transmission by now but we just don’t.
Maybe.
We are two weeks away from people just telling these people to fuck off and going about their business. I can’t wait for the surreal momment where baseball is being played in empty stadiums and every bar around the stadium is packed with people watching the game on tv.
Since Tundra has all the musical chops, I’ll just post a link to a funny picture of a famous musician
Justice delayed is justice denied
The Oregon Supreme Court has kept statewide virus restrictions in place by halting a judge’s order to end them in a lawsuit claiming the governor exceeded her authority when she shut down in-person religious services.
Baker County Circuit Judge Matthew Shirtcliff ruled Monday that Gov. Kate Brown erred by not seeking the Legislature’s approval to extend her stay-at-home orders beyond a 28-day limit. Brown’s lawyers appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court, which just hours later put a hold on Shirtcliff’s decree until the high court’s justices can review the matter.
Presiding Justice Thomas Balmer gave both sides until Friday to submit legal briefs. He did not give a timeline for a decision.
It’s almost as if the Oregon Supreme Court had their ruling pre-written and were merely waiting for the opportunity to use it.
But now, there will be plenty of time to consider the arguments.
By the time they issue the ruling it’ll be superfluous and they’re well aware of that. What a pathetic abdication of their responsibility…
Made a martini to take the edge off and I over poured the vermouth. But overall carpano dry is actually a decent mixing vermouth for the price.
what if Hillary Clinton rejected Bill’s marriage proposal and struck out on her own?
She wouldn’t have even come close to becoming president.
recognizes her for her intellect as well as her body and its pleasures
Ew.
So philosophical question for the glibs.
Lets say someone wants to build a huge wind turbine on their property. In which cases can the neighbors rightly complain about it affecting their property and prevent build:
The vibration can be measured in some way on their property
It causes a strobe effect on their property due to the sun
It is unaesthetic
It kills area birds
If it collapses bits of it can end up on your property
The neighbor is a smug environmentalist
Anything other
Quietly smother them in their sleep.
The vibration can be measured in some way on their property
It causes a strobe effect on their property due to the sun
It is unaesthetic
It kills area birds
If it collapses bits of it can end up on your property
If you don’t want it, you should buy up the property
The neighbor is a smug environmentalist
Oh. You should have left of with this. You have the right to kill your neighbor then.
You got most of them – they will have also have bought off all the local politicians so nobody will ever listen to your complaints.
https://vtdigger.org/2013/07/04/lowell-mountains-wind-project-the-great-divider/
those things are a fuckin eyesore
From that article… people are complaining that it kills bats.
I’m calling bullshit on that one. I might be wrong, but my experience with bats says there is zero chance that a bat is getting hit by that thing. We used to play with bats with our BB guns. You can shoot at a bat overhead and he’ll dodge your BB and then chase it up and back down. Anything that can do that isn’t getting surprised by a giant fiberglass propeller.
I once knew a barn cat in the Florida Panhandle who would delight in catching bats. She would get up onto the roof and wait for the bats to make their nightly foray out through the dormer windows. Then, she would pounce; landing on one from above and killing it on their way down to Earth.
That’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read.
My hand-raised mean-as-hell uber-predator cat would do that with birds. Wasn’t a large drop, but it was dead before she hit the ground.
I view all of those as a a positive.
First, apply Coase, and see where that leads.
meh I think libertarians to easily just say Coase to avoid tackling the issue.
Considering Coase wasn’t a libertarian…
But., no, Coasean bargaining should always be the first attempted solution.
My order of operations:
1. Coasean bargaining
2. Do nothing
3. Pigovian taxation
99. Government regulation
One of the big parts of #1 is properly defined property rights.
Most of the time Coasean bargaining will work. When it doesn’t for the vast majority of remaining case, do nothing is the right answer. In some teeny tiny fraction of cases, a pigovian tax might make sense. And honestly, there is never* a need to go past that.
*true crimes might be the exception, but I wasnt really considering those in the domain of problems being solved.
Coase wasn’t a libertarian – never said he was.
Government regulation – i am not talking regulation. I am saying a judge telling wind guy you cannot build that period.
That would depend on the property rights defined to minimize transaction costs for coasean bargaining. And the judge would never say that. If the right to build doesn’t exist absolutely, it could be negotiated with the neighbors.
The judge saying “no, it can’t be built period” is a form of regulation, IMO.
I don’t see it like that. regulation is a rule in advance you know you cannot break. Judgement is case by case.
I’ll ask another one: what is the generator’s power output?
The reason I ask is for it to have the effects on your list to affect me as the neighbor the wind generator is probably too big for a suburban house. In which case my next question is can I get in on that?
Otherwise yes, if you can prove that would have deleterious effects on your property I see no issue with keeping your neighbor from building it through legal means. I assume an arrangement can be made to make all parties happy.
Now we are literally tilting at windmills.
windmill is a denier term
Weirdly honest opinion piece in the NY Times that criticizes Trump for not seizing more power for himself during the corona crisis.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/opinion/coronavirus-trump-orban.html
Donald Trump Doesn’t Want Authority
The coronavirus crisis offered the president an opportunity to consolidate power. It turns out he only wants attention.
And why i don’t get up in arms over his attention seeking.
Once again, demonstrating that for many, the NAZI!!! screeching we’ve been hearing for nearly four years is just theater.
From Drake’s Mises link:
Surgeons justified fetching out their hacksaws, because otherwise many soldiers would die from their gangrened wounds. It didn’t matter how many soldiers died from unnecessary or botched amputations as long as surgeons didn’t get blamed for deaths from gangrene.
Politicians in many states are justifying their COVID-19 shutdowns with rationales that resemble those surgeons’. It doesn’t matter how many individuals lose their jobs, businesses, or robust health due to the shutdowns. As long as politicians claim that things would be worse if they had not amputated much of the economy, they can pirouette as saviors.
I used a similar analogy (amputation) the other day.
“You go to the doctor with a sprained ankle, and he rushes you off to the hospital and amputates both of your legs. No more sprained ankle. Never another sprained ankle. You’re HEALED.”
Anything other
Noise?
So odds Biden goes with Frau Karen from Michigan as his VP choice? It makes sense electorally her being from a swing state and it gives her an excuse to leave fucking town before the mob burns down the mansion.
My bet is Lynch.
I think Frau might be too controversial now, even for the Karen’s.
The move would mean Biden loses the state imo
You mean Harris? I think Klobuchar is actually the better bet. But Dems are seemingly so uncoupled from reality I have no idea.
Not enough melanin.
That is actually fairly solid strategy – based on historic tactics. I wonder if she can deliver. The DNC stranglehold on their base block of states is absolute, so they only need to peel off a couple of the swing states. There’s no politician that can deliver Florida, either way as far as I can see. That leaves Michigan as the big prize. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin….
Are any of the Dem strongholds in play? Pre-covid I would have been surprised if Trump lost much outside of the coastal blocks. Now? Who knows?
Who knows. I think this whole thing has proven the emperor has no clothes and we are all lead by chimps throwing feces at various public policy white papers at a level I didn’t concieve totally till now.
I’ve heard Susan Rice being floated around.
She might get indicted.
lmao that was just a joke.
That’s perfect. They can then use the excuse that Trump is only inditing to harm his political opponents. The lefty base would eat that up like Joe Biden’s son.
…like Hunter Biden ripping though a pile of cocaine on a stripper’s booty?
also wtf does she bring to the table electorally? 80% of the country probably couldn’t pick her out of a lineup or know what she did.
Black and woman, that’s about it but those go a long way.
Rice is looking for legal cover by putting her name in the political basket.
She knows she’s under investigation, so she thinks she’ll get protection by declaring herself a candidate.
But Biden may have to put her on the ticket to buy her silence.
Remember that memo she wrote on inauguration day to cover her ass? More of it has been declassified.
Newly declassified paragraph has her fingering Comey as the guy accusing Flynn of being a Rooskie spy.
Rice is a proven liar, but she is also not a standup gal. No G. Gordon Liddy.
That was the declassified bit.
People are underselling this bit.
Comey was deciding on his own with no legal basis and no authority, to not provide the incoming administration with the intelligence it required to do its job.
That’s borderline treasonous. An unelected bureaucrat denying the legally elected administration critical information because he didn’t feel like it.
And that’s taking Comey at his own word.
Comey should be in jail.
It tells me that the rats are starting to turn on each other.
Somebody is going to flip shortly to save their own skin.
25/75. With vig, 2/10, maybe 2/12.5.
Checking betting, Bovada has this:
Kamala Harris +150
Amy Klobuchar +415
Elizabeth Warren +700
Michelle Obama +750
Stacey Abrams +900
Gretchen Whitmer +1000
Susan Rice +1600
Catherine Cortez Masto +1800
Val Demings +2000
Tammy Duckworth +2500
Hillary Clinton +3000
Michelle Lujan Grisham +5000
Andrew Cuomo +10000
Tammy Baldwin +10000
Tulsi Gabbard +10000
For anyone who doesn’t know, those odds are meant to be divided by 100. So +150 means Harris is considered to be a 3/2 favorite.
I would bet good money that Kamala is not going to be it. She burned the bridges several times with biden during the primary.
Fortunately Biden forgot this long time ago.
Since they are going to try to bounce Biden in the first three months (if he wins) for being senile, the VP is going to go to who the DNC really wants to be the next Pres. Either Hillary or Warren in my book.
“CNN spoke to 6 current CDC staff members, and many of them say….”
Well, at least they tipped their hand. They went trolling to find anyone to fit their narrative, and got a couple of takers. Nice that they don’t report what the rest who were not among the “many” say.
4 in 5 dentists….BUT WHAT ABOUT THE 5TH ONE?!?
Can we not also deduce that only 2 of the 6 agreed with the CNN narrative? They claim to have talked to 6. If they found 3, they would have said “…and half of them say”. If they found 4 or 5, it would have been “…most of them say”. Does that make sense or am I just drunk already?
It makes perfect sense. CNN cooks the narrative on everything.
Does anyone really believe the CDC needs any special input from the president to do its only job?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8338185/Demi-Rose-showcases-pert-derri-tiny-red-thong-sizzling-throwback-photo.html
that derrière is not pert
Maybe she’s got one of those talking Jim Carrey asses and it is rude and pert?
“I guess she burned through all the money from those commercials for that yogurt that makes women poop. A lateral career move, at best.”
She was good on Scream Queens.
Is Yum Yums owned by the Chinese, or are the owners just Chinese?
Anyone remember True Lies? Arguably the perfect action comedy popcorn flick?
I was 16 years old when that flick came out. Between the hotel room striptease and the limo catfight between Jamie Lee Curtis and Tia Carree, I had a boner for five days. Fond memories…
That was a good movie and people shouldn’t forget about Trading Places either.
They show it a lot on movie channels.
Trading Places is one of my all-time favourites.
‘Those men tried to have sex with me!’
A truly great movie. When he’s stuffing that smoked salmon down his shirt, I just die every time.
Drunk, angry, wearing a Santa suit, and smelling like smoked salmon is no way to go through life, yo…
Don’t forget the stunning performance turned in by
Senatorcitizen Al Franken.The family that runs it has been here for three generations.
The Ownership of Swans in English History: Does the Queen Own all the Swans?
https://legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/05/18/does-the-queen-own-all-the-swans/
Secondary question: does the queen own Canada geese ?
WORST sugar cookie recipe evar. ?
If a sugar cookie cannot be enjoyed without icing, it’s not worth making. If the icing doesn’t improve it, and I’ve spent time and ingredients, then I’m Ragey McRageyface.
They turned out great. This was no Pinterest fail.
ETA: XX loves them. Fine. She can ice them and eat them.
Also, brownies are to be fudgey, not cakey. That’s why God invented Texas sheet cake.
Discuss.
I don’t know what a sugar cookie is but I have no wish to know and no one should consume those things.
Teach XX to eat 90% chocolate like a real man for desert
You and my husband with the chocolate. I am not a chocolate fan.
Ghilabaldi 93% or GTFO, Utah girl. Best with macadamias, cashews will sub,
Utah girl? Do what now?
College confusion
he most important factor in the reopening decision is the safety of students and faculty members. As Michael Sorrell, the president of Paul Quinn College, recently wrote in The Atlantic, “Rushing to reopen our society and our schools is a mistake that will ultimately result in hundreds of thousands of citizens falling sick and worse. We should not let our own financial and reputational worries cloud our judgment about matters of life and death.”
At JMU, Alger’s contingency-planning task force is thinking about a nation with a vaccine and one without, a nation with robust testing and one with the lackluster capacity the United States has now. But university officials will also be relying on data and health experts to decide how to reopen, Alger said. College presidents across the country have offered a version of this same statement. Unfortunately, the data sets are unreliable. The official numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and individual states often don’t match up. The CDC counts every individual test—whether or not a person has been tested multiple times—whereas many states count only the raw number of people tested, but that alone does not explain the difference. The discrepancies in testing data make it difficult to truly know the scale of the crisis.
That Sorrell guy; what a drama queen.
Unreliable data sets make it difficult to know what’s going on? Don’t let that stop you. Panic early, panic often. SCIENCE!
Absolutely, we shouldn’t let financial ruin concern us. We still checks in our checkbook.
I wonder how many of these colleges were already in a bad spot financially before the pandemic hit and are looking at a shutdown with govt bail outs as a godsend?
There was a lot of rumbling earlier this year about 4 year colleges starting to feel the pain as more and more high school students were deciding that borrowing thousands of dollars for a degree that might not pay off wasn’t a good idea.
Maybe these schools were looking at declining enrollments and wondering how they could still pay all those administrators of bullshit. If the govt keeps them on lockdown, they could get bailouts and keep their “revenue” at levels that could sustain them?
I was just having a random thought.
When I was a kid, a lot of the shows we watched were “family shows”. And most of those had some element of a morality play involved. They’d have a lesson about lying, or bragging or bullying… usually as an integral part of the story. Sure, there were Norman Lear sitcoms where a character would be given lines to read that came directly from a pamphlet, but I’m talking more about the Cartwrights and Little Joe learning about honesty, or Sheriff Andy Taylor teaching his boy about standing up to a bully.
Is there anything in that genre today?
Sazae san, Doraemon, Crayon Shinchan, Sukkato Japan to name a few. But you were talking about the US, right?
They don’t speak much Japanese, so probably US would be better.
Seriously, it is wild how much morality is on display in Japanese TV shows. I suppose something like Breaking Bad has some kind of lesson, but I haven’t seen it. Hell, even Three’s Company used to have some kind of lesson.
The Waltons, Leave it to Beaver, even Happy Days…
I can’t think of any today beyond a few PBS kids shows and even those are weak.
Little House on the Prairies, Family Ties, The Honeymooners etc.
Even Fred Flintstone and Homer come through.
These days it’s all about dark neo-realism. Ooo. How I was an accountant who couldn’t pay my mortgage and ended working for the cartels. How do you fit Barney Rubble in that?!
Black-ish is about the last one left. Modern Family does its adjustments of Al Bundy.
The Middle….
One lesson: a total dweeb like Barney Fife could woo and win a decent looking Thelma Lou (how did she earn her living anyway). Another: that Andy apparently had superhuman power to resist jumping into bed with hotties like Helen, the druggist, the visiting nurse, Thelma Lou’s cousin, and various other chicks who sashayed through town and flirted with him. [Why am I watching endless re-runs of old shows??? Must be ChiComVirus lockdown syndrome.]
Which one of you went to the range today?
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1262940042063904776
Sheesh. If you are one of those well-trained control-your-weapon nazis… you might not want to click on that one.
So Curtis Sittenfeld is really SugarFree?
ReOpen NH is going to the beach. Details coming.
If I was making that little-known author fat bank, I’d be outta here.
The talk of re-opening the beaches has me thinking..
When I moved to Florida, the first place I went to the beach was South Beach. Now, I was in tremendous shape at the time (for me). Newly single, about 170-175 at 6 feet, very little body fat…. I was looking as good as I was going to look. And I didn’t want to skin up. That place was entirely populated by fitness models and porn stars. Brad Pitt would have wanted to go hit the gym to get back in “fight club” shape. (Then I realized that most of the guys were playing for the other team, and I felt a little better. Still, most of the women were Playmate quality and up. It was pretty intimidating)
Then I hit up a beach in Broward. A younger crowd.. lots of teens. Again, I kind of stood out, and not in a good way. But at least I was in the upper half ,fitness-wise.
I talked to someone at work about my beach experience, and she clued me in on a couple of her favorite beaches. So I headed to the beach in Delray. I was instantly transformed into a hottie. I was probably the youngest person on the beach by a decade, and I was definitely in the best shape.
Hitting up Deerfield yielded a different result…. lots of families, and a peppering of Latina grandmothers who are exceptionally confident… rocking that thong in with that 60 year old, 230lb body like she’s a Solid Gold dancer.
So here’s the question: Do other places have beaches that self-segregate like that? Florida is basically one giant beach that stretches for hundreds of miles, so there is plenty of space for people to carve out a niche. Does it work like that in the northeast? Out west?
I went to South Beach once, I didn’t notice anyone besides the topless chick with fake boobs frolicking in the surf.
NYC has few beaches so ours gets crammed with stunning exemplars of all the good and the bad that NYC has to offer. Also, having grown up in South Florida, there is NOTHING in NYC to compare to a proper Florida Beach Bunny. Brooklyn hipsters with their pale skin mottled by ink and metal doo-dads, piling off of the A train and filing past my house in their ridiculous mom-jeans cut off into short shorts (Waist well above the navel but cut so short there’s a couple inches of pocket sticking out of the hem) can’t quite cut the mustard.
No beaches in Tennessee, but the nearby lake does that with its various coves. Party cove for all the young and hot. House boat docks for the swingers. A couple of family coves. One for paddle-boarding, kayaking and the like. Nothing officially spelled out, just an evolution. Of course the summer weekends bring out the newbs and all that goes to hell.
All Your Organs Are Belong To Us
Good luck getting a working liver.
They can take a page out of the ChiComm playbook , and start offing undesirables for their parts, yo….
Who the fuck needs a working liver. I need a drinking liver.
You know, there probably would be less of an organ shortage if your family could sell them . . . but that would be cruel, people with money might get organs.
It’s incredible how the organ and tissue industry (allografts) is designed around acquiring their raw product at no cost. Organs are the focus of these campaigns but it’s all a sleight of hand. The real driver is donated tissue. If tissue banks had to pay families, the entire industry collapses because it’s not nearly as cost effective as xenografts (animal tissue) or synthetics.
Groups of surgeons being treated at the highest end steakhouses in major cities during sales presentations. There are annual luxury retreats for sales teams with open bars. I always think how many children’s bodies were needed to pay for these. Not a problem if the industry actually paid for the tissue, but they prey on parents in their grief to make them feel like their donation is selfless and needed for the greater good.
Somehow the steakhouse dinners and corporate retreats don’t make it into the brochures given to the families of the deceased when explaining where their loved one’s organs and tissue goes.
Serious question to better understand: What exactly do you mean by “donated tissue”? As distinct from organs, I mean. Comprehending organ donation/replacement is easy (parts swapping). But I don’t think I’ve ever thought about what “donated tissue” really IS, or what it’s used for.
Donated tissue is basically everything else. Tendons and ligaments are used in sports medicine repair (ACL, rotator cuff). Bone tissue, both whole and pulverized, is used in everything from dental (repairing decayed bone for implants) to spine surgeries. Skin is used for wound repair, burn repair, scar tissue resurfacing. Valves, veins, and arteries are used for all sorts of pulmonary issues.
Comprehending organ donation/replacement is easy (parts swapping).
Sorry, missed this part. Tissue is processed (cleaned, shaped, packaged) and then sold by the unit just like any other product.
Thx. Don’t think I’d ever had reason to be aware of that. I thought of (obviously) normal “whole” organs, but didn’t know that much cadaverous “material” was also used.
I did read the the wu flu meant fewer traffic accidents and longer waiting times for organs.
Lots of deaths waiting for organ transplants that are also not allowed, is more like it.
That’s going to be changing around these parts as the shut ins start mixing with those of us who have been Mad Maxing it for the past 2 months.
That’s not at all totalitarian.
At least they agreed to wait until you die. For now.
Well. I just spent my last night in Daejeon. I took a late train up to Seoul and had to take an INCREDIBLY grueling and frustrating journey to find my shitty hostel. It is private and it IS close to the station. But lord it took a lot of carrying. And my whole life is packed in these bags. It’s a good thing I pack pretty light, but that’s still a lot of weight.
I have to wake up early to get on a train to Incheon airport. Then do normal airplane stuff. Then fly for 14 hours to Detroit. Then wait a bit. Then another hour flight to Indy.
I fly out Thursday the 21st at 10:45am and get to Indy at…125pm on Thursday the 21st! That won’t have an effect at all!
But tonight is my last night in Korea for the next time being. America is probably going to once again weird me out. I”m actually looking forward to the bullshit quarantine because it’ll just be a stress-free vacation, though I do plan on exercising, getting freelance work, and taking time to get myself in order.
It’s 11:40pm here now and I have to take that train to the airport at like 715am tomorrow. No idea how I’m actually going to get rest and combine that with the ability/need to get up and lug my life down those stairs again to get everything in order to continue my exodus home.
It’s the travelers version of being chased by both mental monsters and time constraints. It’s so tempting to sleep now…but I can’t as I’m still pumping so many thoughts and so much blood. But shutting my eyes…then they will be far too hard to open on time. Many alarms are going to be set.
Here we go!
For some reason I thought you were still in Thailand. But have a good flight. Remember, do NOT slap flight attendants asses.
Hope you will be well.
You’re no fun anymore.
28 years ago today I had a similar adventure in Seoul.
We got married in Daegu and took a late train to Seoul so everyone could fly back to Japan or the States the next day. At the Seoul train station my new wife, her sister, my sister and my mother all got into one taxi and left for the hotel. They left me, my father and my best man behind with all the luggage. Well by the time we got that loaded the other taxi was long gone.
No biggy (I thought). I had been to the hotel we were going to and knew where it was. So I told the taxi driver where we wanted to go and it soon became apparent that he was taking us the loooooooong way around. So I started fighting with him. Our hotel was a block from one of the big tourist hotels, so big that every taxi has an ad for it in the car. So I pointed at that and told him to go there. He insisted he was, but I knew better. More fighting that ended with him pulling over and tossing us out on the side of the road with all the luggage.
Luckily we were next to a subway station and our hotel was on subway stop too. So after a bit of map reading and one transfer we made it to the hotel. The last obstacle for us was the fact that Korea – for some reason – refuses to build ADA compliant subway stations, so there was no escalator and we had to haul all that luggage up a lot of stairs.
When we finally got to the hotel, none of us were in a very good mood. But my wife was in the lobby crying her eyes out. When we didn’t show up in a timely manner she got worried and while she was trying to figure out what to do next an ambulance went screaming by. So she was convinced we had all been wiped out in an accident.
I just asked her if she’d have the same reaction today if that happened, or we’d find her drunk and hitting on bell boys. She said “you know I don’t drink”
Re: the jury duty thread I missed yesterday due to having shite to do:
I don’t vote and I don’t do jury duty, because I don’t believe in being ruled or forced to do anything, and also because both would be a humongous waste of my time.
No way I would get seated on a jury with my views on pretty much everything that would come up during voir dire. So, should I get a jury summons, goes right into the trash. They gotta prove I got the damn mail. Same way with the census stuff they keep sending – into trash unopened. If a census worker shows up at my door, they’ll get the same response I give LEOs that might pull me over. “I do not wish to answer any questions, and I do not consent to searches.” Then shut the door and lock it.
“The actual Enumeration shall be made within … every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.”
Said laws not to violate our rights to not speak to government officials should be so choose, SCOTUS decisions be damned. This passage puts a duty on the federal government, not on the citizenry.
I figure my one vote on a jury has far more chance of defeating government violation of liberties than any one vote I cast in an election. Wasn’t “Glibertarians” founded because of a lack of consideration being given to someone being mistreated by the government?? If we actually care, then try to get on a jury and you might find yourself in an actual honest to God situation where you can right an attempted injustice.
I got seated on a murder trial. I had already been booted from a different trial during jury selection because I had mentioned something about jury nullification.
Someone must have made a note in my file because during voir dire one of the lawyers asked if my beliefs would make me think that murder was a legitimate crime. I agreed that murder was not something I would never convict for (it was weird because the whole line of questioning very explicitly did not use the words “jury nullification”, but it was clear what we were all talking about).
Then I ended up as an alternate and didn’t get to vote. The guy was acquitted though, so that was good.
OMG I actually read that.
Plunging and thrusting is fine. Doing it in Herself is not.
Humans coexisted with three-ton marsupials and car-sized lizards in ancient Australia
https://sciencex.com/news/2020-05-humans-coexisted-three-ton-marsupials-car-sized.amp
It used to be worse
Man, Stacey Abrams has been around for a loooong time.
Coexisted / hunted to extinction, whatever. I bet the barbecues were awesome.
Weird caves in clay soils looked to have been excavated. But they were ancient… Could it be proof of alien visitation?
Nope… the burrows of giant sloths…
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/get-lost-in-mega-tunnels-dug-by-south-american-megafauna
Wait! WHAT!?!
Known for wearing sunglasses online…
Was ethereum guy’s political compass covered round here?
https://mobile.twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1262164987881152514
Jeesh SF. I’m supposed to start my day reading this? NFW!
Sandusky’s lawyers asking for a new trial
In the new motions, Lauer and Lindsay say they have come into possession of a diary purportedly kept by Kathleen McChesney, a former FBI agent who served as a lead investigator on Freeh’s Penn State team. The diary, along with emails between the Freeh group and the attorney general’s office, “indicate that there were substantial communications,” between the private investigators and prosecutors, the motions say.
The diary, which was filed under seal but has been detailed by investigative journalist Ralph Cipriano, allegedly bolsters an argument Sandusky’s attorneys have made throughout post-conviction proceedings — that prosecutors and other agents of the attorney general’s office “were leaking information and testimony from the grand jury on an ongoing basis, before, during and after the issuance of the presentment in this case.”
During jury selection, the motions also state, a Penn State faculty member who was later accepted as a juror said she had been interviewed by Freeh’s team but that the questions were only about university governance and faculty members interactions with the president and the Board of Trustees. Sandusky’s attorneys say prosecutors should have divulged at that time that they were collaborating with the Freeh team but did not.
Amendola said in an affidavit that had he known the two investigations were collaborating, he would have approached jury selection differently and would have sought discovery of statements and materials obtained by the Freeh team.
Lauer and Lindsay said they received “a copy of a document which purports to be a summary of an interview conducted” by Freeh investigators with the juror and that the interview “included something more than how the Penn State faculty interacted with the President and the Board of Trustees.”
Leave it to the government to fuck up a slamdunk case so badly that a kiddie-diddler walks.
I’m sure that the prosecutors, after a harsh admonition from the bench, will have learned their lesson.
It must suck to be the guy who saw Sandusky doing a kid in the shower but was too embarrassed to tell Coach Paterno exactly what he saw. He soothed his conscience by suing Penn State for dismissing him. Cowardly to not take responsibility for covering up a dastardly crime.
Actually the guy was a jock and former football player. He should have rushed into the shower and knocked Sandusky on his ass.
Masks Reduce COVID-19 Transmission by 75 Percent (in Hamsters)
I posted this last night, now I’m seeing Karen’s post it everywhere.
1. It’s not peer reviewed
2. Hamsters not humans two biologically and socially different creatures
3. Hamsters weren’t wearing the masks they put the masks over their cages
4. Did they test both sides of the masks for the virus? Given you have the mask touching your face if it acts as a collection bin for the virus that wouldn’t be good.
5. Is there not a better way to test efficiency of masks?
I saw a study where introducing COVID carriers into captive vulnerable populations causes a massive increase in cases and poor outcomes.
I believe it was sponsored by the states of New York and Pennsylvania.
I saw that case too. They found if you deflect and blame the Republicans then you are absolved of your misdeeds.
– Andrew Cuomo, Circa 2020
I can’t find any hamster masks for sale on Amazon. Why doesn’t anyone care about the poor rodents?
that is a ridiculous bull shit study that only proves if we all lived in mask lined cages we’d prevent covid transmission by 75%
I saw a study where introducing COVID carriers into captive vulnerable populations causes a massive increase in cases and poor outcomes.
They did it for the children! Why do you want children to sicken and die?
“Teacher jailed for 20 years for having sex with her 13-year-old student divorces her husband from prison after he stood by her during trial – as she faces accusations she groomed another underage boy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8338243/Teacher-jailed-20-years-having-sex-13-year-old-student-divorces-husband-prison.html
Sounds like she did him a favor.
some dudes have to be told it’s over.
I’m a loyal guy. By my nature and by creed.
But sometime around the second barely pubescent extra-marital affair, I think I might catch a clue….
To be fair to her, how many pen pal letters did she get from horny underage boys who are totes into hot older women who like boys with peach fuzz on their nuts? I bet a lot.
Very different perspectives from the student’s mother and the student about the affair:
versus
These don’t match up.
OMG I actually read that.
I hovered over the link, and that was enough.
They actually refer to themselves as “Pantsuit Nation”? That’s…
I am at a loss for words.
Ilhan Omar is tired of the “scary, lying, immigrant” smear.
Omar is doing her best to tap dance her way out of her latest grift (soliciting money for a local charity that she had no connection to). Looks like she coughed up the money she grifted in return for a carefully worded statement from the charity’s director saying Omar didn’t steal that money.
Wait till she gets the Valerie Plame “Secret Nazi Candidate” action.
The Human Fund?
“In a better America (or one that is much, much worse), this @VerminSupreme commercial for his @LPNational candidacy would be playing nonstop from dirigibles covering the skies in NY, DC, LA, etc… Great groove, editing, vision, message, all from a guy with a boot on his head…”
https://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/1263100832440111104
meh
BUT THERE WAS A HOTSPOT OUTBREAK IN A PORK PLANT!!!!!
I made the mistake of talking to a normie about this crap. I said something about South Dakota, and he goes off on how terrible it was, and the governor is literally murdering people in their beds. So I said, “take out Smithfield, and look at the numbers.”
Him: “What? That’s like saying you would have won that football game if the other team hadn’t scored so many touchdowns!” [implied HAH! and head nod]
Me: “Yeah, and if your football team is losing because you’re getting burned by the long bomb, you don’t fire the offensive line.”
Him: “Uhhhh…”
Even counting the numbers the “Hot Spot” isn’t.
Yes, 46 total deaths, in the lowest quartile (meaning fewer) for deaths per capita among the several states.
For all you Jennifer Rubin fans, here are some drugs falling out of me that made me laugh very much.
Or as I call her, J-Rub.
That AI is pretty spot-on.
Loan me twenty bucks, and I’ll pay you back fifteen
The U.K. borrowed at a negative interest rate for the first time on Wednesday, amid growing fears of a deep global recession and expectations of further bond-buying action from central banks.
In an auction Wednesday, the country’s Debt Management Office said it sold £3.8 billion ($4.66 billion) worth of three-year gilts at a yield of negative 0.003%.
This negative-yielding bond means the British government is effectively being paid to borrow. Investors will get back slightly less than they initially paid if they hold the bond to maturity, such is the demand for shoring up money in bonds.
What a deal.
Coming soon to a Federal Reserve near you.
Your financial planners in charge of your 401k and such will come back and brag to you about the good deal they just got you.