At least they’re playing
They’re playing soccer in Germany. They’re playing baseball in South Korea. They’re even driving cars around in circles and doing some stupid shit in the process. Baseball is looking at possible opening dates. And it looks like college football is on for the fall (with a few possible exceptions). Sports is alive, albeit on life support. Let’s just hope Cuomo isn’t put in charge of sports reopening and chooses it is best to put them collectively in nursing homes.
BLWAAACH!!!!
Jazzman and shoe polish aficionado Al Jolson was born on this day. He shares it with wildly overrated actor (IMO) John Wayne, English actor Peter Cushing, the brilliant Miles Davis, dull as dirt sportscaster Brent Musburger, Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, redneck extraordinaire Hank Williams Jr, astronaut Sally Ride, annoying dude Bobcat Goldthwait, musician and scarf-wearer Lenny Kravitz, actress Helena Bonham Carter, and vocal genius Lauryn Hill.
That wasn’t a bad list. Not great, but not awful. Anyway, let me clean off the dust and get to…the links!
Thank God nobody was menstruating.
I think not wearing a mask is the least of this dude’s problems. Well, actually, that’s no problem at all in an outdoor environment. But they had to throw that in anyway.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. I’m no fan of hate crime legislation, but they definitely need to dive in and investigate the investigators here and see what took them so long to bring charges.
I’ve been on some bad first dates, but nothing like this lady. The police should have respected the wishes of her prospective beau.
Nice outfit.
The retardation going on across the pond is breathtaking. Rather than demanding this dude be fired, who aren’t people up in arms about still being locked in their homes after well over a month? Brits gonna Brit, I suppose.
If this level of hypocrisy surprises you, then you need to wake up from your coma. This is how our elite political class have always acted. In this case, I’m not the least bit sympathetic. Fortunately, unlike the last link, people in the great state of Michigan Up North are up in arms about not being allowed to do something completely safe.
Chicagoans, defying the lockdown, return to normal over the holiday weekend. In fact, they went above and beyond.
Wherever there is a government grant program, expect there to be plenty of fraud to go along with it. I sincerely doubt they weren’t alone. They were just dumb enough to get caught.
They are coming…
I’ve lost count of which plague we’re on. But I know we’re getting close to the end. I’m getting ready to start putting blood on my doorway every night just to be safe.
Here’s a great song from a brilliant album. And even if you don’t care for the genre, there’s plenty of songs to listen for in the sampling. Enjoy.
I want to thank everyone on here for their sympathy, thoughts, and prayers during the last 12 days for Banjos and her family. It’s been a challenging and depressing time for them as they grieve. I also want to thank by fellow Glibs overlords for picking up the slack as we went through the death of her father. You guys taking care of the links through those days helped us to do what we needed to do a lot more than I can easily put into words. Thank you so very much.
And with that, I wish you all a wonderful Tuesday and start to, or continuation of, the work week.
We’re in Iowa this week. Stuff is opening back up. No piles of dead bodies in the streets yet.
Why leave bodies in the street when you can pile them up and stand on them? As predicted here and elsewhere, they are hand-wringing that the Wuhan Virus death toll (attributed, at least) topped 100,000.
Well who cares about Iowa? None of the good important people live there
Wrong.
Kinnath and RAH are both there and they are both very important.
Iowa is extremely underrated.
What you trying to say about Iowa?
I saw Bobcat live once (circa 1991) and he killed it. He improvised most of his show.
Kevin Meaney opened for him, it was before he did Uncle Buck on TV, so my circa was about a bit too late. Lets go with Spring of 1990 instead (Uncle Buck debuted in Fall of 1990). He was very good that night, but every time I saw him after that (TV specials, etc) I realized he only had one set of jokes.
They got old fast.
Yeah, never got it.
“they are coming…”
And right after that they die.
The retardation going on across the pond is breathtaking. Rather than demanding this dude be fired, who aren’t people up in arms about still being locked in their homes after well over a month? Brits gonna Brit, I suppose. – there was a comment going online the British are starting to learn it sucks to be ruled by the British.
They’ve turned into the Scots, post-Jacobite.
Sloop-Man! Good to see you back! Condolences to the Little Woman. Hearts strong for our fellow Glibs!
Seconding all of the above. You must be softening up in your old age that you can commiserate with those folks up north.
I’m a smart-ass but tissue soft. I can’t help myself.
Oh, I was referring to Sloop and Michigan.
Hypocrisy of elected officials, Virginia edition. Hypocrite and shitbag Gov Northam photographed multiple times at Virginia Beach without mask and in close proximity to other unmasked people. There are far more photos of this than are included in the article indicating that this went on for some time and with multiple people/groups. Says he should have done better, yet still expected to impose state-wide mask requirement for shopping (etc) today.
The understanding side of me says they’re just stupid. The rational side of me says they’re really that mendacious.
What bothers me is that the general public has not turned against him.
If Ranking Roger were alive, he’d be pissed!
At least he wasn’t wearing blackface this time.
They know the masks are a placebo to placate the weak minded sheeple demanding them so they are going to insist on it to get things back to normal. That’s been the case for weeks it’s an effort to convince the biggest pussies in our society the water is warm. It’s embarrassing,
Let’s just hope Cuomo isn’t put in charge of sports reopening and chooses it is best to put them collectively in nursing homes.
And if he did it would be the fault of the Republican administration. Of course, I mention the political party of the current president to depoliticize it, not to politicize it.
Wedding videography company denies refund after man’s fiancee dies, proceeds to harass him online
https://thepostmillennial.com/wedding-videography-company-denies-refund-fiancee
Nonrefundable fee is nonrefundable. News at 11.
yes but a partial refund can be a good will gesture. And mocking the death and inventing a suicide is a bit gauche
My attention span and site loading speed are such that I didn’t read the whole thing. I stopped at what I was looking for, which was the word “non-refundable.”
Saw something about a bad review and a defamation suit.
The Non-Refundables was the name of a friends punk band.
Both parties are asshole.
Yeah, squabbling over money is a bad look for the dude. Don’t you have bigger things to worry about.
Whoever runs the company seems to have completely lost their fucking mind, though.
Disagree. Bad business is bad business, and reading the article:
“Even before the incident, many photographers took to an online platform to share their bad experiences while working for the company. Many said they struggled to receive payment while others did not get paid at all. One user said, “I eventually got paid… but only after emailing twice a day and threatening legal action.”
The man behind the company appears to be Jessie J. Clark and this isn’t his first time in a situation like this. In 2013, Clark who was already accused of scamming over 92 couples received criminal and civil charges.”
Some people just have to go.
But buyers for those types of services should do their homework.
Doing your homework in this case is difficult when your subject uses multiple names and several different business names, probably to prevent him from a constant stream of negative-reviews.
Methinks I should’ve RTFA.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Glad to have you back.
The NHL is trying to cobble together some bullshit 24-team finish to the season. From what I’ve read it seems fucking retarded. Testing the players every damn day, living in a quarantine bubble for weeks or months at a time. Give it a rest, boys. The virus panic beat you.
Our governor is starting to make noises about not lifting restrictions until there is a vaccine. I don’t see it happening, but I’ve given up trying to make predictions. So over this.
The Beasties, however, never fail to bring a smile.
All my best to you, Banjos and the fam. Have a great day!
Still waiting to see if there’s going to be baseball this year. Although considering the league wide DH part of the agreement, I’m guessing there’s quite a few people who don’t want that to happen.
I worry that it wont go away next year.
For 2020, sure fine, but the NL needs to dump it before 2021.
The players union wants it in, so it’s here forever. The only possible way the union relents is if the owners agree to a two-team expansion by a certain year. That’s going to be a hard sell with so many minor league teams having zero cash flow and several colleges dropping their baseball programs over the last couple months.
The whole professional baseball system needs to be blown up. I blame collective bargaining – it essentially forces everything to be centrally planned. It wouldn’t be as much of a problem if the union and teams would agree to a max number of professional contracts (60, plus some long-term-injury slots) a la the NHL. This would make practically everything below the AAA level independent. Which opens up opportunity for guys like Scott Boras to become independent team operators with higher-level talent with contracts that could be sold to MLB clubs. But I don’t think the union wants anything to do with that, and the owners probably don’t want agents owning independent teams (although I don’t see that being a long-term problem).
The one encouraging sign is that there are a few high-school and college players now willing to consider foreign leagues for a few years to avoid the current collectively-bargained limitations.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/12/relegation-promotion-in-baseball/
Havent checked yet to see if you were in this thread. But it is relevant.
You first posted in it, so nevermind.
What is crazy is that sports teams should be very, very low on people in danger of dying from the CV.
I could maybe see worrying about big crowds, but the teams/players? They have a 0% chance of croaking even if they get infected. Too bad the PR flacks for the leagues don’t man up and tell the Karens to shut the fuck up.
Free tickets for the post 65ers, solve 2 problems at once
Trump is the first president to really do something about SS’s insolvency problem.
Fine by me. Better than no hockey.
IKR?
“I think not wearing a mask is the least of this dude’s problems. ”
Can we give this guy an honorary Darwin award if he agrees to the vasectomy?
Thank God nobody was menstruating.
That does attract bears.
Another Titty Tuesday is on the books.
http://archive.li/2EWAe
GT, I saw in the last thread that you need to do payroll today. Don’t forget the 60 hours I worked last week. 🙂
Stevie Nicks. Good God she was gorgeous for a hot minute. I think the cocaine stopped her from eating the rest of the band like Anne Wilson did.
Yep, just her voice could get me hot. Example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwgg1Pu6cNg
Of course, YMMV
Walter Egan wrote Magnet and Steel about her: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2RamSFoo0jw
Polina Knoroz | Saint Petersburg 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXihTOA5Q4k
there is something hot about a chick who can work a pole, I just can’t put my finger on it
But you’d like to…
Meh.
Allison puts her to shame.
Meh – I disagree
How can you be more wrong than this?
I…cannot comprehend.
Every time on my phone. The Norwegian and Latvian ones are the most interesting, thus far. Italy is a close third… Fucking Google.
The “Pole-Fitness” Academy has opened again. Every night at 7:45 I get to slow go as I drive past. Young milfs in yoga pants!
Gyms were able to start opening last week, the one I went to was going through the opening process today. They’re sending out private links to sign up for classes, and limiting class size to 20 riders. I was planning on suspending my membership for the summer, but will probably keep it to help them make it through the summer. For reference, the previous class sizes were 40-50 seats, most of the classes I attended had 30-some seats occupied.
I’d like to think of a dirty pun, but my Russian is lacking. (As is my English)
Does anyone know a good source to check for how long you can reasonably store certain materials? Like say, pressurized oxygen, pressurized acetelyne, liquid gasoline, etc?
Government approved best before date or actual storage time?
actual storage time
I’ve tried to “over-winter” gasoline for small engines, and discovered that it would no longer support internal combustion the next spring, so my rule of thumb is around six months. That’s when I discovered the joys of fuel stabilizer.
I don’t know of any official sources either.
What about oxy-acetylene tanks?
The pressurized gasses are good for a very long time.
Months? Years? Decades?
Decades appears to be the answer.
Decades or more if there is not any significant contamination sources. Oxygen might have some issues before acetylene. The quality or purity might decrease over time, but for industrial use like welding it would have no issues.
Older engines seem to take it better. The new ones die. A few squirts of carb cleaner get them back up top speed. I’ve got a roto-tiller that must be at least three decades old and he starts first pull every time. Dude I work with drove his classic car to work last night. 1969 Buick “Wildcat”. I’m not really a car guy but I’d never heard of that make and model before. I just about came in my khakis when he fired it up. Two owners, him and his Dad.
My Grandfather owned a Wildcat (before I was born). I’ve heard he always described it as a “shit and get” car. I use that term as often as possible now.
What does that term supposedly mean?
Fast.
*Phrase not term, my apologies.
And it is to describe what happens when you hit the gas and floor it.
My Dad had a ’67 Wildcat 2-door convertible in navy blue (soft-top was white). Hated the power steering in it — sloppy as Hell. Couldn’t believe how “tight” steering felt when I tried driving a Japanese car just a few years later. Rack-and-pinion was a revelation to me.
I want a ’69 Wildcat bad. Buick basically tightened up the LeSabre coupe, then threw a 435 “wildcat” engine in it, named, not for cubic inches, but torque output.
Back in the the day a friend had ’66 Wildcat coupe with a professionally built 425 that was a low end torque monster. One day he pulled up to my house in it after having ore work done on the engine and claimed he could lift the front wheels. I bet him $20 he couldn’t. On the attempt the rear axle broke, pretty certain I would have been out $20 otherwise. Those old Buicks were ‘lead sleds’ but if you had enough money you could make them fast.
That was the first car my parents owned that I remember. Not sure of the year. I was born in 1969, so that was close.
They next got a ’77 Buick Electra, which I drove in High School.
My dad also bought a ’77 Electra. Black with red velour interior and spoke hub…er wheel covers. Pretty sure that’s where I got my love of luxury cars, that interior was comfortable. It had the Olds 403, which was big for the times.
My second ever car after my first piece of crap Malibu died after six months was a 1966 Buick Skylark. It had the Wildcat 375 engine in it. It was fast. I did things in that car that should have killed me, but I never got in an accident. Sold it after a couple years as I wanted a pickup for camping. Dude from the ghetto bought it and within a week it was stolen and wrecked. Loved that car.
Gasoline has a benzine additive to help it start an engine and a lot of that additive will evaporate over a few months. The engine can run fine without the benzine but starting is the problem.
What year was that added to the formulation?
Is there a concise history of gasoline additives somewhere we can reference?
I’m pretty sure that was from the beginning of internal combustion engines. I heard this from a chemical engineer I used to work with. IIRC – he said you could keep the benzine additive in a small sealed container and add it when you wanted to use the gasoline.
He brought this topic up during a discussion about future dystopian movies like Mad Max – that without a source for the additive – or some other more complicated method to get an engine to start without it – you wouldn’t have all those vehicles running around.
Then I have to ask what’s the difference between starting state and running state where the benzene stops being necessary?
I am neither a chemical nor mechanical engineer, so take it for what it’s worth, but my understanding is that benzene is one of many additives that increase octane rating and reduce knock. It competed with tetraethyl lead as the primary additive for that purpose until lead was banned in fuel in the 1970s.
Though, calling it an additive is a bit of a funny thing. Benzene is present in crude oil and raw distillates like gasoline. It is actually removed from modern gasoline (because it’s more useful for other things, like making plastic) during refining and then re-added later on at a lesser concentration if the fuel blend calls for it.
“difference between starting state and running state”
A hot chamber.
The benzine is more volatile at room temp than pure gasoline. Additives like benzine, butane, ethanol et.al. are the differnces in winter vs summer blends and affect vapor pressure and octane ratings.
Note: I don’t know what gasoline you’re talking about, but keep in mind most of it has corn ethanol included. I suspect (but cannot state conclusively) that pure gasoline will keep better.
This would be mid 20th century, potentially leaded gas, not modern crap.
And if you live anywhere there is a Country Mark station, they still sell real gas without the dumb corn in it. It’s amazing that the very farmers around here that survive by selling corn to make into fuel don’t want to fill up their equipment with that fuel.
The farmers sell corn. If it’s misused down the line, its only their fault when they advocate mandates.
I fully understand not wanting to use corned gas.
How did Iowa survive before the ethanol boondoggle? That was GWB’s doing, no?
The ethanol mandates began in the 20th century, so before GWB. Just blame Nixon for the EPA.
Before too long, it may become practically impossible to get gasoline that isn’t mixed with ethanol that has a reasonable octane rating. The EPA keeps banning or restricting everything else that increase octane rating.
Clearly the answer is to ignore the EPA, and shoot shovel and shut up when their agents show their faces.
I think enough EPA agents buried in the same place would count as a superfund site.
As long as you drill a few airholes in your trunk, UCS, your girl friend should be fine.
Justice Department launching investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s death as a hate crime
I’m skeptical of this entire situation. And thought-crime should not be a thing in our legal system.
You can’t chase someone down and murder them.
End of discussion
Unless you have a badge.
No, but it doesn’t become international news without the mind-reading aspect.
Right. The point is to piss people off on both sides, and it’s succeeding admirably.
You can’t run at someone and grab their weapon and expect everything to be roses. *Not* the end of discussion because the discussion must continue as new info is available.
There is more nuance here that everyone seems to be missing.
By bringing the shotgun into the equation the killers brought lethal Force in. The fact that the victim struggled does not paint him as less of a victim. They initiated lethal force, there was a struggle and he died. That was murder.
Who initiated contact with who? (hint: the ‘victim’ ran at the guys in the truck, which was not mobile at the time, this is a detail that is obviously up for further discussion, but it is an important detail nonetheless.) I have refrained from giving an opinion on this for some time because it seems that everyone has incorrectly bought the “they chased him down and shot him” narrative that, to me, does not hold up to scrutiny. The simple presence of a weapon does not equal murder.
And they recently arrested the guy that took the initial video of the event and charged him with murder. Does that seem ok? Unless I am missing something, it seems wrong.
If the victim was posing a physical threat it might be a different story. These two idiots chased him down and threatened him with a gun. I’m not going to scream “cold-blooded murder” but it does appear they initiated it and should come up on charges. Let’s see how it plays out in the courts but I think they’re guilty of manslaughter.
threatened him with a gun.
Carrying a gun is not ‘threatening’.
Pointing it at someone is. Not to mention chasing him down. They pursued him with the intent of Mayberry citizen arresting and will pay the price for their mistake. There will be no winners on either side in this case.
Not to mention chasing him down.
They were in pursuit in an attempt to make a citizens arrest, which unfortunately went badly. They had already called the police. You don’t set out to murder someone after calling the police and telling them you are tailing someone. And Aubrey did run at them, not vice versa. Why he did that is a question that will hopefully be answered in the future. As things stand, I simply cannot buy the “racist murders ran him down and lynch him” narrative.
Pointing it at someone is.
But did they?
I will probably leave this one alone for now. There are questions and information that are still outstanding. And, as stated, I do not buy the narrative as is.
Racism doesn’t have anything to do with it. This is about initiation of force.
I did not bring up race and it’s not relevant imo. Maybe in the two goons’ heads and the victim’s but I’m not a mind reader.
But did they initiate force?
The last thing I’ll say is that this seems like a scenario where it seems probable that all parties involved made poor decisions resulting in an unfortunate end. Time will tell.
“Carrying” versus “brandishing” seems to be one of those things that’s in the eye of the beholder.
If you stand in a public road way, holding a weapon, and you issue a challenge or a direction to another person traveling down that road way, you’re issuing that challenge or direction with the backing of lethal force. No matter how politely it’s phrased.
If you draw your weapon before the other is openly threatening or hurting someone, you’re responsible.
The father was out of his truck with shotgun in hand on public property. That’s initiation just as much as if I decide to draw on a guy walking thru a parking lot.
Well, Wyatt Earp there and his son are a couple of assholes for sure, so there has to be charges here. I don’t know if it’s murder until we know the rest of the story.
For some reason, I’m always doubting the medias narrative until there is no further doubt that what they are saying is 100% accurate.
I was once trespassing accidentally on someone’s property. I was just taking a walk and got a little lost, so while I thought I was still on my neighbors property, I had accidentally wandered onto someone else’s property and next thing I know there’s some dude coming at me with a shotgun. I decided to not take a run at him. He says ‘who the hell are you and what are you doing? This is private property! I said ‘Whoa man, I’m sorry, I was just walking and I thought I was on []’s property. So it turned out OK since I didn’t decide to just take a run at him. He still threatened to have me arrested for trespassing, but decided not too I suppose, since I didn’t get a visit from the cops.
“You can’t chase…”
Avoid Chicago. Something like 85% of the murders are never solved. Obviously you can chase (or not chase) someone down and murder them.
True. I’m mixing up “Can’t” and “Shouldn’t”
As a practical matter, anyone attempting to make a citizen’s arrest can safely be assumed to be in the wrong.
I’ve been giving that whole Ahmaud Arbery story a wide berth. I’ll bet that it ends up another Trayvon Martin case, nobody in the story is innocent, and it wasn’t the story the media is trying to sell.
There is video of two guys gunning down a dude that is running away from them.
Yep – “Jogging” 15 miles from home in work boots in a neighborhood that had a bunch of robberies – no good guys in the story.
Read that the only recent burglary was a handgun stolen from the truck of one of the shooters (the son).
One of the shooters kept a gun in his truck? And it got stolen? Now that’s a surprise right there…
Well was he a threat for the guys who shot him or just running away? Otherwise if he was running a way on the street I have difficulty seeing a private citizen just shooting being justified.
He could be the scumbag that was breaking in and stealing from people, that still doesn’t allow you to randomly shoot someone who is trying to avoid you. Particularly if you don’t even know if the guy you shot is the guy you’re looking for. If the two guys were cops who shot someone running away from them, you’d have a different take.
This
Arbery was not in the process of committing a crime, threatening anyone, nor is he responsible for the escalation because the men were pursuing him with drawn weapons. He had the right to defend himself from men who were coming at him on a public road. The choice to try to disarm the shooter was stupid but doesn’t absolve the guy who shot him.
This isn’t the Trayvon case where Zimmerman drew his weapon after he was getting his head bashed in.
Meanwhile – the Breonna Taylor was quickly swept under the rug. Cops killed her when they did a no-knock search on the wrong house. They are still trying to prosecute her boyfriend for shooting one of the home invaders.
Properly accredited king’s men. Makes all the difference.
It’s national news. There is a federal investigation and discussion of federal legislation to disallow no knock raids.
discussion of federal legislation to disallow no knock raids
More kabuki. Nothing will be done.
It is the next Trayvon. There’s a reason that clear cut cases like Kathryn Johnston don’t get the same press. That’s why I’m giving it a wide berth too.
“That’s why I’m giving it a wide berth too.”
Same here. Main reason being that the media have a narrative to push and that rarely turns out to be the whole truth.
This is ridiculous. Trayvon martin was a stand your ground case without video in which Zimmerman was getting his ass beat, these hicks were same thing but with video and knowingly engaged this guy because they were assholes. Zimmerman was an asshole wannabe too but there is no video and the confrontation according to him was much different. These guys came at him guns drawn and attempeted to perform a kidnapping, Zimmerman by his account was just seeing what the kid was up to and ended up getting his ass kicked.
“Egg Man” is my favourite sloopy, you’re the best!
“Yo, they just got my little cousin esé!”
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1260663220756512768
Justin Amash
@justinamash
Epidemiologists cannot know the specific actions of each individual in a community. This kind of knowledge is not knowable to any scientist. The top mistake being made by state governments is their imposing uniform rules that limit the use of local knowledge to fight the virus.
Amash says something libertarian in the most benign and generalized manner and his followers lose their minds. This thread is a good summation of why Amash will not be back in Congress.
Jesus the comments are worse than I though. I am starting to believe more and more that most leftists are not just misguided but scumbags
You can only be misguided for so long.
It’s a cult. They’re true bleevers. Even if you can show them clear unquestionable evidence that they are wrong about something, instead of realizing they were wrong and moving on, they’ll double down on being wrong.
Agreed.
That many people can’t possibly all be looking at the long game, chuckling and twirling their mustaches, plotting for the downfall of capitalism.
They’re zealots and blindly believe, caught up in the mass hysteria of a 24/7 tent revival.
“caught up in the mass hysteria of a 24/7 tent revival.”
Yep, if only the believe hard enough, scream at the sky loud enough, surely bad orange man will disappear and utopia will appear, just like during the Obama admin. Anyone remember the utopia? Yeah, me neither. Like I told one sad disheartened prog about 6 months into the Trump admin ‘It’s almost like nothing changed’.
And Amash offers the most polite way of saying “central planning does not work” and is more then differential to the “I’m a scared” people. This just shows that Amash’s ‘curious’ positions on the mentally challenged brand of John Bircherism and impeachment didn’t gain him supporters, instead it cost him supporters.
The white liberals only like Amash when he’s spouting their faith.
Most of the answers seem to be central planning totally works because science.
97% of scientists agree.
White liberals only ever like anyone spouting their faith.
They’re like Jihadis.
Everyone with half a brain knows that central planning and socialism are complete failures. This has been proven every time it’s been tried, but no matter how disastrous the results, they will just continue on, it’s going to work this time, we have the right people! That wasn’t real socialism! It’s never been tried!
Amash will be forgotten within 2 years. Good.
Omphalophobia (from the Greek word omphalo, meaning “navel”, and phobos, “fear”) is the fear of Belly Buttons. Some people looking at belly buttons look unpleasant to them. Sufferers would not touch their belly buttons, or even the whole belly at all.
A Utah man accused of choking and stabbing a woman after meeting her on the popular dating app Tinder asked police to shoot him after reporting the killing, according to court documents.
A strange way to go about suicide-by-cop. Also, they should have shot the asshole.
That happened in the town next to where I grew up. Rival high school and all that.
Points for creativity.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/man-murdered-25-year-old-22085944
Ladies, if you’re recovering from a snake bite caused by your husband’s blatant murder attempt, don’t continue to sleep in the same room with him, especially if he has ordered a second venomous snake online.
I guess you’re not the kinky type.
I know I’m a horrible person for saying so, but I kinda feel bad for the snake.
YouTube has deleted every comment I ever made about the Wumao (五毛), an internet propaganda division of the Chinese Communist Party. Who at Google decided to censor American comments on American videos hosted in America by an American platform that is already banned in China?
https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1265077232176775168
“Wumao”
I am so stealing that.
Musk and Thiel should team up and create new media platforms to compete against these assholes. I just don’t get why it hasn’t already happened.
Because it took a long time for Facebook to figure out how to make money.
There was some discussion about the death rate and the denominator problem the other day. Let’s not forget, the numerator is probably wrong or even a lie as well. I remember hearing doctors say they were pressured to put Covid-19 on the death certificates with no test.
The numerator is wrong in both directions. How many covid deaths were missed in Dec and Jan? And Feb, for that matter?
I have no faith in either the numerator or the denominator. At least I know which direction the denominator is wrong.
The denominator is wrong in an exponentially larger value, though.
New York openly states that thousands of victims they added to the score were never tested.
At one point it was estimated at one-third of the total deaths.
Interesting interview of Matt Ridley by The Jacket: https://reason.com/2020/05/03/what-its-like-to-be-a-rational-optimist-in-a-pandemic/
TW: TOS
I am dubious on Ridley. Born in the purple and fucked up royally in the real world as a bank chairman
But she defeated the Alien!
Like 4 times!
I know there is a lot of competition at the top but this may be the best story yet
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-refuses-to-wear-mask-at-michigan-plant-since-they-got-him-the-wrong-ninja-turtle
Well of course it’s (((our))) fault!
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-embassy-in-france-tweets-quickly-deletes-anti-semitic-imagery/
Was there ever any doubt?
What can’t you Jews do?
Find the messiah?
At least 12 did.
Those Chinese ambassadors to France know their crowd they have to play to.
10 more Commie cough deaths marked down on the list.
At least gun violence is down.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is trying to give all workers a minimum of 10 days paid sick leave per year as Canada starts to prepare for a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/26/americas/canada-coronavirus-national-sick-leave/index.html
See Rufus, Mr Trudeau does have your best interest in mind
He’s a degenerate piece of shit. It never ends with this degenerate piece of shit.
/woodchipper voice.
By the way, I’m in Quebec so this may not happen to us because labour laws are (mostly) a provincial jurisdiction. 10 paid sick days is VERY expensive for small businesses.
My understanding was that this was supposed to be put in place centrally for all provinces.
There you go…they’re going to milk this to no end.
“Canada’s top doctor repeated her assertion Monday that a second wave of the virus could be worse than the first and encouraged public health officials to build up capacity for testing, hospital beds and personal protective equipment in order to prepare.
“I think you can never be overly prepared and we have to just keep going with some of these capacity developments and that goes for lab testing as well,” said Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer during a press conference Monday.”
This twat was compromised the second she said closing air travel was ‘racist’ way back in March. The cynicism and arrogance of these incompetent assholes is stupendous and appalling.
“a second wave of the virus could be worse than the first”
Well, the Spanish Flu was, so that proves that it will be.
I love the way the Branch Covidians flip-flop between “ITS NOT THE FLU, TRUMPTARD” and “OMG, its just like the Spanish Flu”.
“Well our office personnel had explained this to the man and he replied, ‘I am the husband to the governor, will this make a difference?’ ”
Yes, we dislike your wife more now.
What’s the point of prestige and honor of an office, when you can’t use it for personal benefits
When she’s VP, she’s going to fix that.
So he’s a dumbass just like his wife.
I’m actually sort of surprised that she didn’t make some poor Guard unit get her boat out of storage for her. Call it “training”.
That and I could see her locking down the town where she’s got her cabin to keep the riff raff around. Why no pics of her and her family on the beach like that fat bastard Christie?
Banjos, again, condolences. I’m so sorry.
Wait, for what?
*gestures up at the article inconspicuously*
Ooh. I passed over the last paragraph. I lost my mom two years ago, so sympathies from someone who understands.
Dave’s not here man. *tokes another
Was there anything posted here about the Libertarian Social Signalling and Outreach Candidate that will go nowhere Jo-Jo?
She seems like a decent person, but won’t win hearts and minds.
What the fuck happened to Jacob?
The LP is going nowhere (so, business as usual).
It’s like they want to lose. They might have gotten a few more votes in 2016 with her instead of GayJay and his loyal to Hillary sidekick Mild Bill.
There were A LOT of shenanigans leading up to the convention. Hornberger placed first in initial voting, but as they whittled down candidates the “pragmatic caucus” when all in on propping up anyone but Hornberger (too anti-war for the neocon adjacent “pragmatic caucus”).
There were some hilarious attempts right at the beginning to ensure Hornberger didn’t win, including Sarwark asking the MI delegation to see if Amash would accept the nomination by unanimous consent. That motion failed. Then after the first round of voting when Hornberger placed first, Sarwark offered a motion to make him the nominee by unanimous consent. That also failed.
I don’t understand the last sentence. Who’s the “him” in Then after the first round of voting when Hornberger placed first, Sarwark offered a motion to make him the nominee by unanimous consent.
Is “him” Amash or Hornberger?
Sarwark offered himself as the nominee
Here’s a thread on all the motions and the voting
https://twitter.com/RealCarlMenger/status/1264376086110048256
https://twitter.com/RealCarlMenger/status/1264248681202671626
Relevant part. Damn that’s a long thread.
I was wrong. The SC delegation suggested Sarwark as the nominee and he accepted. It was shot down 207-701
Still an asshole for accepting at that point.
What an asshole.
All the shenannigans makes it clear that the rumors about the LNC trying to sabotage things to keep the mises caucus out are true. I went to the state convention (not a national party member) and unfortunately it looks like the “Big wigs” in the state are a bunch of prags. We did get one Jacob guy tho.
Can you give a refresher on the different factions? I haven’t seen them described since the last time there was an election.
Really there are two factions. The Radicals and the Pragmatists (there’s the 3rd Mises Caucus, which is rather large, but they and the radicals are quite similar.) The Radicals are about being radical and staunchly principled, and push to have a more radical platform. They will often be calling for seeping abolishment of agencies, etc. Often if someone is accused of being a “purist” they are a radical. The Pragmatists are more about incremental reform, and gaining political power. If someone is accused of selling out for cocktail parties with their lefty friends, they are probably a pragmatist.
/ end stereotypes.
The thing is that Nick Sarwak and a few members of the National Commite were intentionally trying to sabotage and fuck around with the convention to ensure the misses caucus doesn’t gain power in the party. However this blatant politiking pissed of quite a few pragmatists, and why you saw a rejection of Sarwaks agenda over the weekend.
The problem with the LP is that they actually sort of believe in what they are preaching. How do you run a successful campaign if you aren’t going to reward your cronies with gobs of filthy govt lucre?
“Well sure, you can be head of the Dept of Education for a donation of $500M, but you realize we are going to abolish that dept right?”
I think the current head of the DoE is fine with that.
Of all of Trump’s cabinet, she is the one I would keep around.
I was disappointed at first, but giving a look at some things, I’m actually pleasently pleased with the ticket.
1. Jo is a libertarian, much more so than GJ.
2. When GJ and Weld got the ticket Reason pronounced how this clearly was a resounding loss for the radical wing of the Party and the future direction of the party. If so then Jo and Spike show a renunciation of that path and a reconciliation of the two halves. It shows that the radicals hold more power now than they did.
3. Sarwak bitched out and refuses to chair the in person convention.
Furthermore, needles to say: this isn’t 2016. The LP really blew it, and this is not the “historical opportunity” that they had in 2016. I do not expect Jo to do as well as GJ. Not because she’s worse candidate (she’s far better), but after 4 years the lines are pretty starkly drawn. Either you are for Trump or against him. This year is not going to be a good year for 3rd parties. However I think she can do a better job at building real growth rather than what GJ brought.
^
Agreed. Jo and Spike winning is really a Pyrrhic victory for Sarwark and the Kochatarians. The Mises Caucus didn’t get their preferred candidate, but it was close. And Spike was Hornberger’s preferred VP anyways.
Don’t expect TOS to be writing about the LP ticket this year.
Wasn’t Spike supporting Vermin Supreme?
Both Vermin and Hornberger picked Spike as their VPs, from what I saw. He’s a hilarious guy, from what I can tell.
Why are y’all wasting so many pixels? Pixels are a terrible thing to waste.
Because it’s fun, and more enjoyable than hoping some right-wing socialist will stumble into doing the right thing against all his instincts.
The LP is a sick joke. I thew away my card years ago.
Chicago’s deadliest Memorial Day weekend since 2015: 10 shot dead, 38 wounded
But how many of these are “hate-crimes” that warrant national attention?
Mercy-killings to protect the victims from the horrors of COVID-19.
They’ll be recorded as coronavirus deaths, natch.
Millions of cicadas to emerge after living underground for 17 years
More noise to prevent me from sleeping.
I’m no fan of unnecessary cruelty to animals, but it seems like no one, including my Aspy libertarian self is capable of thinking logically on the matter. For instance, some local zookeeper was put in prison for feeding unwanted puppies to the tigers. Yet rats are free to snakes openly. And locking the bear in a cage is far crueler than a creature 40% the weight and 20% as strong and 2000% as drunk wrestling with it.
Locking the previously mentioned tigers in a cage was even worse. They were pacing around a chain link enclosure smaller than my home.
Pet animals are seen differently from wild animals, which are seen differently from livestock. Rationally, it’s a distinction without a difference. The rat doesn’t want to be eaten any more than the puppy does.
That said, I think Americans have a very unhealthy view of pet animals that fuels some of the disproportionate outrage whenever a pet animal (whether or not the specific animal in question was ever a pet) is harmed. If you want to get me ranting, use the phrase “furbaby” unironically. I will start throwing things.
I’ve noticed people are often more upset when a dog gets killed than when a person gets killed.
Try writing a romance where an animal gets killed. You will be badly rated from here to eternity.
*side-eyes sequel to Cods & Cuntes*
I will sit on that bench with you.
While I agree with your overall point. We do have to remember that cats and especially dogs have had a more symbiotic relationship with humans for a long time. So it does make sense that we would view them differently than a rat or cow. We’re much more emotionally invested with them than other animals.
Speaking of pets, I take it your hand is OK?
no one, including my Aspy libertarian self is capable of thinking logically on the matter.
Empathy is not rational.
As noted, we have different experiences/”relationships” with different kinds of animals. We are in a pack or pride with dogs and cats. We are in a very utilitarian relationship with livestock. Wild animals, well, it varies a lot by the amount of direct experience you have with them.
I voted for Jo in 1996, I can vote for her agaiin.
Although the Clemson thing is off-putting. But I am in-state with her, so that is neat (not as cool as living cross-town from Rand Paul, although I never ran into him out anywhere).
Rand Paul, although I never ran into him out anywhere).
My understanding is that it was pretty easy to catch him mowing his lawn.
It was a gated community, so not for me.
“Racist” Central Park confrontation. I hate this story – the woman is on administrative leave, dog back at shelter, screams of racism. She was clearly terrified.
https://news.yahoo.com/viral-video-shows-woman-calling-035007933.html
She was clearly terrified. – so fuckin what?
She’s a fucking loon and he’s a nudgy do-gooder.
She clearly said “I’m going to tell them here’s an African-American threatening my life”, which was clearly untrue.
If he were threatening her life, she’d be headed the other way instead of approaching him with phone in hand and dragging the near-choking dog by the collar.
In other words, they’re both asshole New Yorkers.
Besides which, “I’m going to tell them here’s an African-American threatening my life” is a racially charged threat, even to my jaded ears.
She was terrified. She called the cops. Now she’s a racist who will likely lose her job – that’s fuckin what.
She called the cops – with false claims of a black man threatening her. He told her not to be come near him and she was terrified for being filmed breaking the rules. I have zero sympathy.
Sounds like there were assholes to go around. Not Surprising for NY.
why i should care about assholes in a park 2000 miles away is beyond me.
I seriously doubt that level of terror was related to fear of being filmed for breaking the leash rules.
So why the fuck was it? The guy was not closing in on her.
I”m not sure why you keep swearing at me.
I am not swearing at you. Those swears were not directed at anyone. They are general swears.
I will stop commenting.
The dude’s Facebook post kind of destroys the narrative.
https://twitter.com/SpicyNoodles2/status/1265154500119101440
It’s amazing how the Left doesn’t get the “Karen Meme”. In what way is the woman the “Karen” here, when this random dude decided to play park patrol for no good reason other then being a little bitch. Which is not a defense of the woman’s screed, but that guy clearly started trouble for no reason other than he’s a “Karen”.
Don’t they teach kids “mind your own damn business” anymore?
My understanding of the Left is that they only see the Racial/class aspect of the Karen meme. I.e any white woman (preferably middle class) is a Karen.
Wait so if you ask someone to respect the local rules you are a Karen? If for example someone is trowing garbage on the street can you ask them to pick it up?
A lot of people need to learn to mind their own business. If you are yelling at someone for breaking some arbitrary rule that is not harming anyone or endangering anyone then yes you are a “Karen”. End of story.
Well as I understand a lot of people go to that area to birdwatch and I assume dogs running around can spoil that.
Also in general there are areas of parks where dogs can run around and areas where they don’t which is fine. I crashed my bike once and hurt myself because some bitch let her dog run in the only area of the park with bike trails (in most of the park bikes were not allowed) where dogs were not allowed. If I slapped the bitch I would have been the bad guy.
They closed the part of the park where dogs are allowed off leash
tough shit.
You don’t get to dictate what others do. It’s pretty simple. If you’re afraid of a dog off of a leash then go somewhere else. And if you think that’s wrong, then to quote you “tough shit”
Ok. And if that dog causes me injury me I can punt it o the other side of the lane and then cunt punch lap the owner. Deal?
GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. If you’re afraid then why would you confront them?
And of course you can bring violence if the dog is violent toward you. In the meantime if you’re afraid then go somewhere else.
Snitching and bitching is what children do. Demanding that every stupid and unnecessary law be enforced is what Karens do
if you are at the place where you can practice your activity you cannot really go away.
Off-leash dogs where they’re not expected are a pain in the ass if you’re walking your own dog on a leash.
I have had a couple of incidents where blood was drawn between dogs on and off-leash. Both times it was some dumbass woman who didn’t have her dog under control and said “I don’t know what happened. He’s never done that before!”
Off-leash dogs where they’re not expected are a pain in the ass
if you’re walking your own dog on a leash.FTFY. I really hate it. Look I don’t know you and i don’t know your dog. You can say that they won’t bite anyone, but i’ve been bitten by enough dogs in my life to not trust any that i don’t personally know.
Or dogs on those stupid extendable leashes that offer no control.
One of my dogs is not friendly to other dogs. No amount of training and behavioral has changed this. She’s just a bitch who hates other dogs. Very friendly to people, but when an off leash dog runs up to her wagging his tail she will start lunging at him.
Guess who somehow gets all the blame from the Off Leash Dog Gang?
“My dog is friendly!!!!” Mine isn’t, fucking leash yours so you don’t have to deal with the injuries mine will inflict on any dog that gets within four feet of me.
“but i’ve been bitten by enough dogs in my life ”
Leon. Mailman. Confirmed.
I got stitches and a tetanus shot after just such an incident.
There are a tiny percentage of dogs that may be trusted off-lead where there are other dogs around.
Pro-tip for you Golden Retriever owners who think your dog is ‘trained’. It isn’t.
Fuckers.
My GSD and I went through shit-tons of advanced obedience work and I still walked her on lead when we were in the city. It’s called personal responsibility.
My shelties went through 3 years of obedience and agility training.
They were never in public off leash.
My closest approach to Karening probably comes when I see somebody walking their dog off-leash in my neighborhood. It is basically raw desert with houses plopped down every three acres. There is no end of hazards for dogs. Its just flat-out stupid to walk your dog off-leash (unless you don’t particularly like your dog).
So when I see someone walking their dog off-leash, I generally try to fill them in on why that’s a bad idea for the dog. Of course, Mrs. Dean won’t walk our dogs near off-leash dogs, because if there’s a canine misunderstanding, its going to be a big fucking misunderstanding, and the Pit Beasts are unlikely to get the benefit of the doubt. We finally convinced the neighbor who would run with her two Dobermans off-leash to leash them. They were extremely well-trained, but that only lasts until the poor impulse control kicks in.
and the Pit Beasts
*eyes dart around to see if RC triggered anyone*
The Pit Beasts.
The Pit Beasts are adorable.
That one is sticking out it’s tongue at me 🙁
Meh, asking someone to leash their dog in a public park where it’s required is not outrageous.
Bringing treats to try to get the dog to come to you in defiance of the owner’s wishes is a dick move.
Bringing treats to try to get the dog to come to you in defiance of the owner’s wishes is a dick move. – if the dog was leashed it would not be a problem.
I don’t see any reason why both can’t be considered “dicks” in this situation. But I do get why she’d get pissed if some stranger who was just criticizing me tried to feed my dog something.
I just don’t get why people don’t mind their own fucking business. If I started an altercation every time I saw someone doing something stupid/dickish, I’d spend half my life explaining to police what had just happened. Eventually they’d conclude (correctly) that I was the problem.
Don’t they teach kids “mind your own damn business” anymore?
It would solve many problems if this was a principle lesson taught to children.
Another international incident for precisely one reason. Getting really sick of these.
The only one in this story who’s not a bitch is the dog.
Karen sighting!
Central Park and NYers. The first time I was ever in Cental Park, my wife and I were doing one of those Carriage rides. There was some deranged woman chasing us, yelling at the driver ‘Free the horse, free the horse!’, and trying to spit on him.
Fuck NYC.
NBA GOAT Debate: How Do the Greats Stack Up by Height?
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2892650-nba-goat-debate-how-do-the-greats-stack-up-by-height
Over 7’0″: they misspelled Wilt Chamberlain.
I watched Kareen play a lot – he was good for a very long time, but he got his ass handed to him a bunch of times. Dave Cowens kept him under control and Celtics won in ’74. Hakeem Olajuwon and the Rockets knocked them out of the playoffs a few times, and Mosses Malone absolutely dominated Kareem in ’83.
Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
I find all these things pointless in general because there was too big a difference between the eras. Wilts time basketball was much weaker… Then gain given Wilts physical prowess, if he had access to modern training and equipment who knows.
I’m impressed that you know about classic basketball, Pie.
I would disagree with the weak era stuff. Much smaller league back then so the talent was more concentrated.
the talent was weak concentrated or not. Wilt got 100 point hungover with the entire opposite team guarding him.
He also played at least a dozen a year against Bill Russell.
that’s not saying much.
“Kareen”
I am not happy with that foul call and I want to speak to your supervisor!”
Excellent unintentional knickname. That guy bitched all the time.
Also “Mosses”. Is Drake John?
Where is that guy? Still fighting the good fight over at TOS?
Like you don’t know? You got booted from here for improper behavior. I guess you are still at TOS.
/Gonna beat that dead horse
I missed that episode.
What is the deal with Baylor?
Both Rand Paul and Jo Jorgensen went there for undergrad…is it something in the aqua? Some Baptist-libertarian conspiracy (and how come I wan’t invited to the meetings)?
Aqua Buddha has blessed Baylor. Praise be to Aqua Buddha!
Since they’re Baptists, it’s funny that there is Buddha in the Aqua.
Waco is an exciting town. Koresh, motor cycle gangs, Baylor sports teams, close to West and kolaches. I worked in Waco in ancient times, got hit from the rear by a kid with no insurance, an old lady that hit me from the rear while I was stopped at a stop sign and accused me of hitting her.
Don’t forget Chip and Joanna Gaines of Fixer Upper fame!
Yes, people go there just to shop in an HGTV stars’ store and in the hopes of seeing them. Waco has become a tourist attraction, thanks to them.
/bitter about the midcentury modern Joanna ruined with her tiresome farmhouse chic.
And Magnolia Farms!
It must be easy to renovate houses to make them all look the same and boring.
Since I’ve already messed up in the thread. Here’s a song Silence of the Lambs destroyed: Goodbye Horses.
And I messed up the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZkjka8WYE4&list=RDImKY6TZEyrI&index=6
Also
https://youtu.be/iamBhRRYfLc
So Minnesoda just had 3 really low days of CV fatalities. Good news right? Nope! Minnesoda has highest one day jump in ICU cases
This really has become Climate Change. Any good news is “just weather” and they scramble to find some negative in the numbers.
This really has become Climate Change. Any good news is “just weather”
This is a great analogy. It’s a No True Datapoint version of science and agumentation. Any datapoint that doesn’t coroborate their claim is not real, it’s just noise. But any noise in the right direction is unsullied information.
Yeah, daily numbers are dropping everywhere but they don’t report that. The always go with “DEATHS CLIMB TO…” instead.
My first thought is “reporting artifact”. Would need to confirm, of course.
My second thought is “one data point is not a trend”.
My third thought is “I bet there is approximately zero hospital capacity issue even after the “jump” in cases.
These numbers are significant if Minnesoda has only three hospitals. Which they might if they are a CON state.
I suspect Mayo alone could take every one of those patients.
RC wins a prize! No worries about ICU capacity even with one day record jump
Would Helena Bonham Carter.
Only on set?
I covet her wardrobe, though not her hair-don’t.
Why does Lady Jane never air anymore? Her and young Cary Elwes! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091374
*fans self*
Ditto on her wardrobe.
Not the Bee
On Thursday, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) confirmed a report by the Freedom Foundation that they have included those who tested positive for COVID-19 but died of other causes, including gunshot injuries, in their coronavirus death totals. This calls into serious question the state’s calculations of residents who have actually died of the CCP pandemic.
From the Freedom Foundation:
The Freedom Foundation’s original report, based on DOH documents and statements provided to the Foundation, concluded that, of the 828 COVID-19 deaths reported as of May 8:
681 (82 percent) “list some variation of ‘COVID-19’ in one of the causes of death” on the death certificate;
41 (5 percent) of the death certificates do not list COVID-19 as a cause of death, but indicate it was a “significant condition contributing to death.”
106 (13 percent) deaths involved persons who had previously tested positive for COVID-19 but did not have the virus listed anywhere on their death certificate as either causing or contributing to death.
When asked about the Foundation’s report at a press conference Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee dismissed it as “dangerous,” “disgusting” and “malarkey.” He further accused the Freedom Foundation of “fanning these conspiracy claims from the planet Pluto” and not caring about the lives lost to COVID-19.
Yet DOH officials largely confirmed the main findings of the Foundation’s report in Thursday’s briefing.
Gov. Jay Inslee dismissed it as “dangerous,” “disgusting” and “malarkey.”
Biden Strikes again
He further accused the Freedom Foundation of “fanning these conspiracy claims from the planet Pluto” and not caring about the lives lost to COVID-19.
So much for the “Party of Science”, dude doesn’t even know that Pluto isn’t a planet.
“He further accused the Freedom Foundation of … not caring about the lives lost to COVID-19.”
What is it with these fuckknuckles? They use straw men every time. Racist. Sexist. Mysogynist. Murderer. Nazi. Fascist.
I don’t know who came up with the name President Cartoon Villain but it is accurate. I am going to start using it.
It’s been that way in most states. Anyone who dies with Covid-19, died of the Covid – even accidents and heart attacks. More federal money for the hospitals.
The hurricanes are quite costly this year thanks, to global warming.
I saw some clickbait article this weekend that was bemoaning how hurricanes are really going to kill a lot of people this year, because they won’t be able to open up emergency centers where people can go because of CV concerns.
I can only hope that someone videos some Karen trying to turn away Florida Man from a hurricane disaster center because there are too many people there already and they need to keep their six feet distance.
My daughter is a nurse tech and just told us yesterday that she knows of at least two cases in our state in which both people clearly, indisputably died of other things, but were COVID positive so were recorded as COVID deaths. She indicated that folks she works with say it’s the $$.
The numbers are all bullshit, as far as I’m concerned. IMO, It’s likely overreported by a factor of 25-50%, and if you ask me where I get that number, my answer is NY. When NY had 7000 deaths or so, they suddenly announced that they were “presuming” another 3600 were WuFlu deaths. I couldn’t fucking believe that people just… said and nothing – it was right in the paper (the Post, I believe). So that is a bump of 50%. Once NY did it and got away with it, the game was over.
One data point in support of your 25-50% range — Colorado’s government health website started reporting deaths in two separate ways: deaths among people with Covid and deaths due to Covid. As of today, the former number is around 30% higher than the latter. Here’s the website for anyone interested:
https://covid19.colorado.gov/data/case-data
I can’t believe they are doing this. It undermines the narrative.
More importantly, if you look at the COVID cases by date of death, it’s pretty much a bell shaped curve that’s running close to zero deaths per day by now.
I saw a news article about a drug overdose counted as a corona death in California, and an alcohol poisoning death counted in Colorado (I probably saw them linked here somewhere).
The response to, and the reporting on, the virus has just been a depressing mess.
The alcohol poisoning death in CO is what burned the state reporting. It triggered the changes ttyrant described. CO ended up revising death from Covid down by about 15%.
They need the revenue they would have got from everyday procedures.
Fun with stats, just as a collision involving a not-at-fault but >.01 BAC driver becomes “alcohol-related”.
My aunt’s best friend died about a month ago. Had pancreatic cancer for 3 years but made it past the initial projections. But it finally caught up to her. She was in the hospital on her death bed and in the final day before she passed on – while in the hospital — she tested positive for coronavirus.
Went down as a covid death.
I should note that while in that hospital they test you basically every day.
An aggressive AG would start filing fraud charges.
So, about that upcoming mandatory mask thingy…
Of all people caught without a mask, Governor Ralph Northam was sans mask while visiting Virginia Beach on Sunday. He was there to make sure people were properly socially distancing and, if needed, wearing a mask to fight the spread of COVID-219.
The governor plans to announce on Tuesday whether he’ll make masks mandatory, an issue that has especially roiled residents, who want the state to open back up. On Friday he preached that masks “could literally save someone’s life.”
Northam posed for non-socially-distanced selfies without a mask with people who thought it was great the governor was there checking up on them.
Go to hell, you tyrannical douchebag.
Day two without air conditioning. The service tech should be here some time today.
should have called me, I can do remote work to an extent
The local folks do good work. If yesterday hadn’t been a holiday, it would have been fixed yesterday.
The wife called this morning. They will work us in today.
This weekend was the first time I had to turn on the AC here. Looks like I get to turn it off later this week though, as we’re supposed to drop back into the 60’s.
Assholes.
A group of shoppers in Staten Island became angry when a woman decided to do her grocery shopping without a mask on. Instead of leaving her be, allowing to go about her day and practicing the group shouted at her, telling her to leave the store.
“F**k you! F**k you! F**k you!” one man yelled.
“Get out of here! Get out of here!” a woman yelled, pointing towards the door.
The man could be heard screaming at the woman. At one point he even said she was “acting like a dirty pig” for not having a mask on.
I live in Illinois by St. Louis Missouri and about half of the people are wearing masks. Karens I’m sure are still snitching and bitching but fuck them.
And then drugs fell out of her ass. ;p
This is the exact incident as the guy who confronted the woman for having the dog off of its leash. If you’re “a scared” then go somewhere else. If the business demands that you wear a mask then wear a mask. But, don’t be a little brown shirt and enforce rules that are meaningless. Mind your own business.
Seriously, between the guys who shot that jogger, the guy who confronted the woman about the dog, and this gaggle of Karens people are really being inconsistent in these scenarios.
If I saw a dog off of a leash, I would leave from that area. It makes absolutely no sense to be frightened by a dog not being on a leash to then confronted the same person. Likewise it makes absolutely no sense to be “a scared” that someone has no mask on to then confront and harass them. And you’re not being threatened if you are chasing after a guy and you shoot him in the back.
These are all the same scenarios, because they have the same root cause: PEOPLE WON’T MIND THEIR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS
“Seriously, between the guys who shot that jogger, the guy who confronted the woman about the dog, and this gaggle of Karens people are really being inconsistent in these scenarios.”
“It makes absolutely no sense to be frightened by a dog not being on a leash to then confronted the same person. Likewise it makes absolutely no sense to be “a scared” that someone has no mask on to then confront and harass them. And you’re not being threatened if you are chasing after a guy and you shoot him in the back.”
They are not being inconsistent at all, it’s just that their motives are not what they say they are. The impulse for herd animals to control other members of the herd is very strong in some people. It makes them feel powerful and fulfilled. “I was justified in defeating you!”
Have you ever watched soap operas? They appeal to that aspect of human nature. Every interaction is fraught with tension as the characters are all trying to get one over on the other one. They yell at each other instead of being rational. There is all kinds of scheming and conniving. Every situation is adversarial.
In a nutshell people are envious, sanctimonious pricks.
This is why I hate them and avoid them as much as possible.
There aren’t many soap operas on TV anymore.
They’re been replaced with shows like The View, Judge Judy,etc. Where the behavior is exactly the same, only intensified.
Hey you. I haven’t seen you around in a while….maybe I just wasn’t here when you were but good to see you around again.
If I’m seen, something is wrong….
Leave Judge Judy out of this!
If the business demands you wear a mask then their employees can demand you wear it, not shoppers.
Agreed.
How many of these “brave” people yelling at this woman would run away or hide if they saw someone getting physically assaulted? These people are cowards who are trying to pretend to be their brave, because they are harassing someone. I’m not impressed.
Dog’s don’t mind their own business either.
I’m not afraid of dogs, but I have a healthy respect for them. I’ve been around and owned dogs my entire life. My father owned a Schutzhund and one of my best friends trains dogs for a living.
Dogs off-leash are rarely under reasonable control, and never under absolute control. And any dog can put a hurt on you.
They’re property and your property is your responsibility. Unless you’re in an appropriate space, leash your damn dog.
Right. They aren’t threatened, they’re looking to punish someone they don’t like because they think it will make them feel good. Fucking people…
The same mob will be braying at some immunocompromised person or allergy sufferer wearing a face mask when this is over.
Their yelling is doing more to spread any kind of germ than her not wearing a mask.
I dunno what I’d do if I happened across a confrontation like that. It would probably depend on my mood, but I can definitely imagine wading into the fray on a bad day. Silence is ascquiescence is consent is approval, and all that.
Easy solution. One cotton ball in each ear. In order for them to get your attention they have to get a lot closer to you than 6 feet in which case they are violating protocol.
If it was me not wearing the mask, I’d tell them to fuck off (I’d only not wear one if the store didn’t require it).
I’m thinking about a third party being on the receiving end of that kind of hysterical abuse.
I wear my earbuds and listen to music while I shop. And I grin at anyone giving me the stink-eye.
Funny, no one confronts me.
“MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS” is the only appropriate response. I love how we live in a society where you might get shot or assaulted and few if anyone will even call the police, let alone intervene, but when it comes to enforcing petty laws everyone becomes Captain America.
Risk analysis. Cost vs. reward.
As I said last night, people around here are very polite. ‘An armed society is a polite society’ is not just a bumper sticker.
True
https://disrn.com/news/chicago-mayor-mounts-police-raid-on-black-churchs-sunday-service
“Chicago mayor mounts police raid on church’s Sunday service”
This Memorial Day, I hope everyone gave thanks for the blessings of fascism that we enjoy in this country.
Should be noted that they raided BLACK churches. Typically the media would be all over that and screaming about some collegiate clap trap nonsense. In this case- silence.
In this case- silence.
Black, Democrat mayor.
They keep it up I don’t think the Black vote will be solid Blue soon. Blacks have been beaten up by their own voting habits #blackandblue. (copy and past ftw)
I’ll take care of it for you.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice….
I like the pastor saying “Yeah, we always lock the doors BECAUSE OF ALL THE FUCKING SHOOTINGS YOU DO NOTHING ABOUT.”
Or words to that effect.
The general election scenario that Democrats are dreading
especially Obama alumni,
Fuck you.
You should have said FUCK YOU!!!
Well that was almost it. The truth is there isn’t a fuck you big enough for them.
In LaTex there are 10 font sizes, and the largest is \Huge. That seems appropriate.
Let’s be honest, though. He was Obama’s economic advisor. Take what he says with a grain of salt.
I don’t know if I believe that, but part of me does think that because the economy was shut down for unnatural reasons it will rebound quickly.
Dirt is not magic. In the broad view all of the complex analysis of the economy are worthless. Economies are made of people and our economy is the way it is because of the people here and our culture. Same is true in Zimbabwe and every other place in the world.
Yes, it will rebound quickly.
To me it kind of depends on how people feel about returning to their jobs and normal economic activity.
And the media is trying their damnedest to still keep them scared.
Also, unemployment benefits tend to … of course .. extend unemployment. These won’t go away for awhile. And are quite generous.
There are a lot of very powerful and influential people who are heavily invested in the economy not rebounding. Which, as far as I know, is pretty much unprecedented. Between the DemOp Media promoting the panic, and DemOp government officials at all levels throwing sand in the gears, I dunno. How much can they affect the economy?
And of course, there’s the pattern every recession follows – steep decline, comparatively slow recovery.
I like Trump trying to take advantage of this crisis to deregulate as a way to juice the recovery, but deregulation doesn’t happen until the #Resist bureaucracy says it happens. So I’m not optimistic.
If it does it will be because of Barry’s unyielding genius. If it doesn’t it will be #TrumpRecession.
That’s actually one of the reasons it would be a nightmare scenario (not that the vast majority of partisans would care). You can still credit Obama for every good thing that happened under Trump and it’s standard politics. Truth be told, Trump probably had little to do with it any way.
But if there’s a massive contraction and then an expansion again… well… good luck with that rhetoric. Furthermore, the most stringent lockdowns were at the behest of Democratic leaders.
Savings rate is way higher than normal, which is a good sign.
The federal unemployment bonus of 600/week ends in July.
The question is how many employers will still exist to take back those souls in August.
The federal unemployment bonus of 600/week
endsis scheduled to end in July.Right now, I’d guess its a coin toss as to whether it actually does or not.
My guess is that it ends. This forces people to go back to work. So unemployment drops in the quarter preceding the election.
I do expect a bailout of employers though.
Now for something completely different…
NFL Admits Failure on Controversial Rule Change (pass interference replay)
That’s how its done. Bravo.
Good to see that somebody’s got a pair hanging.
Good to see you back sloopy.
He said he choked and then stabbed her unprovoked, according to the document. He allegedly said he had thoughts of killing himself and others daily.
Just kill yourself not someone else.
The governor of Michigan — whose strict coronavirus lockdown policies have caused infamous revolts in the state — is taking heat after her husband appeared to have flouted some of her own advice about holiday travel.
Rules for thee, not for me.
Despite the state’s stay-at-home order, the weekend’s death toll already surpassed last year’s holiday weekend, when seven people were killed and 34 were injured during the period from 5 p.m. Friday through 5 a.m. Tuesday.
A stay-at-home order is just as useless at stopping crime as commonsense gun laws? Who would have thought this?
Nationwide house arrest was never intended for the political class. They never intended for it to be. It is meant for us, not them. Every one of them that has been called out like this have the same excuse which boils down to “I am more important than you are.”
Yep. Been saying it all along. These rules are for the little people. We have an aristocracy without noblesse oblige or even a skin deep attempt at leading by example.
What’s unfortunate is that the open and contemptuous disregard for their own rules is happening too late for any of them to be primaried.
They would be replaced by an equal abomination
https://twitter.com/AllegedlyZo/status/1264949747485417472
This is insane. I cannot believe that Alex Jones gets kicked off platforms for “conspiracy theories”, while the former Democratic nominee is legitimately insane.
The Russians turned the frickin’ frogs gay.
She is asking China to help but starting out with ‘imagine if’.
She already sold us out to the Ruskies. Now China. She genuinely hates America.
Good God that woman is execrable.
Well it works for her party. If Biden fails to be nominated as president the groundwork is already laid that China helped Trump.
If Biden wins, they can say they defeated not only China but Russia while having both in their pockets or vice-versa Biden in their pockets
She openly asked a foreign power to attack the United States on television as a way of helping the democrats win an election. That should tell everyone everything they need to know about her and her party.
I might be missing the sarcasm here. But she is posing a hypothetical about What if a Dem did what Trump did during the 2016 election. Really it came off as a bunch of self centered bitching to me.
“…China, are you listening?”
She is not posing a hypothetical. She just gave a weak disclaimer and asked them outright to hack into the IRS and steal Trump’s returns.
I guess its okay when it’s Russia but not china?
Thats the whole point. She’s bitching about Loosing to Trump and pushing the Russia collusion narrative. But apparently she’s write about one thing. If the shoe was on the other foot, the Right would be crying foul.
I disagree, at least to the extent Right = Repubs. I there had been any evidence of collusion with Russia, there’s a not small number of Repubs who would have gladly demanded that Trump resign.
I believe SCOTUS is supposed to rule soon on whether Congress can get Trump’s pre-election tax returns (for which only the most credulous would believe there is any proper legislative purpose).
I wonder what Hillary’s little birdies have told her about which way SCOTUS is leaning on that one. I actually think its going to be a tough one, as it will either require SCOTUS to accept a transparent and obvious pretext, or to reject the purpose stated by Congress. Neither is a good look. You would think SCOTUS would be pissed at Congress for putting it in this position, but who knows?
Hillary Clinton✔
@HillaryClinton
I’m missing our Chappaqua Memorial Day parade today while also feeling grateful to leaders like @NYGovCuomo for making responsible decisions to keep people safe.
Wishing everyone a safe and healthy holiday. @BillClinton and I will be waving our flags at home. ??
Uh huh…
Waving flags? Bullshit.
Ten bucks says that somewhere in her house is a cross hanging upside down.
Like this nice lady who will be brewing up vaccines for us?
Good Lord I was just joking. That’s not real, is it? At this point it is hard to tell what is and isn’t real.
It’s real – she wore it on a TV interview.
Might explain why she now looks like a dude and her husband looks like an old lady.
Too bad everything seems to be video. That looks like one hell (snicker) of an entertaining site, but I’m a text guy, not a video guy.
It could be a St. Peter’s Cross.
She means waving her labia at Huma.
Tone deaf sociopath be tone deaf.
Oh, fercrissakes!! Somebody stick that old bat in a nursing home!
I aim to misbehave.
At his daily COVID-19 press update on Friday, Gov. Ralph Northam hinted that Virginians could soon be subject to a mandatory mask order as early as next week, after Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney asked Northam to take the drastic step in a letter sent to the governor.
“There have been overwhelming recommendations to wear masks or face coverings in public spaces, and I stand firm that by doing this we can all reduce the spread of COVID-19,” Stoney wrote. “As the nation’s only doctor governor, I know that you understand that this is not the time for us to let down our guard, which is why I am continuing to encourage you to make it a requirement that Virginians must wear a mask or face covering while in a public space or visiting businesses.”
Northam says that an announcement on masks could come as early as Tuesday, and it seems likely that the governor will try to press the issue despite the fact that in recent weeks he’s been pushing more for a regional reopening and response to the coronavirus pandemic. If the governor does decide to attempt to implement a mask mandate, he should be aware that his order is likely to be met with almost as much pushback and local resistance as his gun control agenda has been throughout much of the state.
When the governor puts his Klan mask on again, I’ll wear a face mask.
I’m sorry Banjos. I can only that rather than feel grief, you will soon have the ability to remember and respect the importance and influence of your father on your life.
I hope fond memories pulse through your entire existence.
I am sorry for your loss for the hardship you must be experiencing. To have helped create you, a person I have utmost respect for, I imagine that he was truly an incredible man.
He must me remembered as such.
https://babylonbee.com/news/baptists-pledge-to-only-use-non-alcoholic-hand-sanitizer
And not while dancing….
Last line:
The Baptists also warned that using too much of the alcoholic hand sanitizer can make you tipsy and maybe cause you to commit little sins or big ones like dancing.
All of a sudden I’m seeing voter fraud stories everywhere.
Pennsylvania Judge Pleads Guilty for Taking Bribes in Exchange for Illegally Adding Democratic Votes
Non-Citizen Steps Forward, Tells How Oregon Automatically Registered Her To Vote Via Motor Voter Bill And Vote-By-Mail
Before looking let me guess….democrats all?
Aaaaand of course it is. If not for voter fraud the Dems would have the status and support equal to the LP. The LP are loons but at least they are honest loons.
That’s because the voter fraud is everywhere and they aren’t being as careful they used to.
Wait now…someone over at TOS, I think it was Ron Bailey, assured us this never happens and I believe it.