Scalped
The Redskins are officially out. Oh well. Everton have really shit the bed as of late. But take solace in the fat that Arsenal also suck. The spots in Europe could still go several different ways in England and a couple bottom feeders winning big could make the relegation chase go down to the last match for more than a couple teams. Oh, and Man City are back in Europe now that their ban was overturned.
Brings out your inner aspie.
Emperor Julius Caesar was born on this day. The colonialist white oppressor (ok, that’s pretty much true here) shares it with KKK racist piece of shit Nathanial Bedford Forrest, sex freak and actor Bob Crane, acting great Patrick Stewart, an even bigger actor Harrison Ford, inventor Erno Rubik, comic Cheech Marin, and tiny baller Spud Webb.
OK, on to…the links!
I won’t be living like this.
“One of the worst”, huh? Tell me, where does it rank next to sending positive cases to nursing homes?
Maybe the person who did this was just hungry. At least that’s what one “prominent” pol would say. Or she’d blame a lack of gun control. Anything but blame the perp.
Boom! Glad nobody died. Interesting to see how this happened.
Remember when the government told people this was a good idea? But that was when the virus was ravaging blue states. Now that it’s in redder places, it’s a crisis.
What a bunch of assholes. I saw this happen in real time on twitter and it made me sick to my stomach. So loving. Such tolerance.
I’m trying but I just can’t remember…anything.
This will be interesting. Well, unless Mueller seizes up mentally and/or says he didn’t write his own report. You know, the same thing that happened last time.
Big Brother is watching. Interesting to see such a “liberal” place embrace the loving hand of perpetual surveillance.
Yeah, best of luck with that. Unless deaths start to spike (which they haven’t), this will not be happening where Ilive.
The first lines of this bear some thought. Also it’s a great song.
Now have a great day, friends!
Dude… Where’s my car?
It was Redistributed for the common good.
I thought this was a Kelly Preston comment. Then I realized I was confusing her for Kristy Swanson.
Battlefield Earth was a good movie!
Blink twice if you need us to rescue you from the Scientologist compound.
Is UCS the final glib in a horror movie?
More like the bizarre hermit who tries to warn you away, but you don’t listen.
What does your sandwich board say, anyway?
“Bridge Out.”
He’s the last guy stitched to the Human Glibopede.
Why did you have to go to a weird place?
I know how to read my audience.
*Light bulb goes on*
That’s why Brochetta’s so hung up on being first!
Well, she’s with Xenu now.
Xenu’s a lucky dude.
Now I want cake.
: starts whirling like a dervish:
where does it rank next to sending positive cases to nursing homes? – that was for the common good
Oh, and you cannot go to the funeral.
I have experienced this, personally. My grandfather died of the WuFlu in a nursing home. Fuck Wolf.
Sorry, ruod. That’s real world shit right there.
Man, I’m sorry. When Banjos’ father died recently, they had to search around for a place before anybody would let more than a couple people attend. Then they had to wait a couple weeks.
But at least she got to attend. I’m sorry you and your family weren’t able to. That’s horrible.
Ugh. That’s terrible. Sorry dude.
Thank you, everyone. Ridiculous that his death was hastened by the same government keeping healthy people indoors and wearing masks.
Sorry 🙁
Me too.
When my FiL passed at end of March, we couldn’t have more than 10 people attend.
Sorry.
The media adoration of Cuomo the last week or so has been sickening. Cases are definitely up in many places. But the death rate is still 1/20th that of New York and his decision to send sick people into nursing homes absolutely caused a lot of those deaths.
Maybe they can give him the Nobel Prize next. Wouldn’t be the first time they recognized a fucking monster.
Didn’t he do that while he had an empty field hospital and hospital ship?
He certainly did. So applaud him for not wasting military resources, peasant.
He and the other Governors that did that should be in jail on charges of negligent homicide. Who killed Grandma? He did.
Negligent? No, Depraved Indifference Homicide.
Gibbets, then. They should pay but they won’t.
Cuomo would be the hero of the herd immunity crowd, if he would just own up to it.
He did it backwards. Closed the schools, but infected the nursing homes.
Cheaper than bringing in ice floes!
I can almost embrace my agoraphobia these days.
No, it’s not agoraphobia… it’s a reaction to crowds… forget what that’s called.
Not wanting to be jammed in together with hundreds of a holes?
I can just call it “social distancing” now so I’ll take the Pyrrhic Victory.
ochlophobia! Ask me how I knew that readily.
A degree in psychology?
Oh, you. (tee hee!)
So Toxeth was one of the people that went to college to figure themselves out?
Ha ha! No, took one GE intro psych class of which I remember nothing.
We know. We know. I used to love a party, too.
Libertarian-ism.
I have a strong desire not be this guy.
When they come for me, I want nice fields of fire and my flanks protected.
There’s a threshold that will be crossed where people decide wrangling with those assholes is not worth the risk, so they just eliminate them instead. Once we cross it, it’s going to be almost impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
It’s closer than people can imagine… Especially when people realize that the woke shit going down has the political class that hopes this gets rid of TrumpPutinHitler protecting the woke mob over the citizen and their rights.
Emperor Julius Caesar was born on this day – funny, he was also born yesterday according to OMWC
There have been a couple of calendar changes from two thousand some odd years ago, and records are not the greatest from that time.
It’s Caesar’s fault for not getting the calendar right.
Maybe he was like Uncle Milty and took two days to be born?
What’s the date say on his signed Social Contract?
I think saying Julius Cesar was white is racist.
He was Italian. Italians aren’t white.
They are when the narrative says they are.
I noticed this too and was about to comment. Good thing I checked because I hate when the drugs fall out of my ass.
More drugs for me!
Ever see Maria Full of Grace? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390221/
Even though it had great reviews I actively avoided that one.
Maybe the person who did this was just hungry. At least that’s what one “prominent” pol would say. Or she’d blame a lack of gun control. Anything but blame the perp. – wait you can cook on the sidewalk in NYC?
Only if you want the rats stealing your food.
You are just jealous you don;t live in Brooklyn like all the cool cats.
Rhywun is a cool cat that has no more cats. Best wishes to our resident Brooklynite who is probably in recovery after his surgery as we type.
Amen.
Seconded.
Indeed. Godspeed!
Many people who have no personal experience with crime and criminals, labor under the illusion that criminals mostly commit personal crimes for personal gain.
A lot of ‘professional’ robbers actually have jobs and regular income. They rob because they enjoy letting their destructive impulses run free. They get off on dominating and abusing other people and getting away with it. The money is a bonus.
I read the links
And for that, I thank you.
I always read the links. OCD is a helluva drug.
Except the paywalled ones. Those links suck more ass than Soccer players.
Leon’s a brown-noser
mornin’
Nice day for fishing ain’t it?
’tis
Here in SW Ohio its barely 60º, with a forecasted high of something like 82.
Everyday is a good day for trolling.
For cock suckers?
Where would the world be if it weren’t for cock suckers?
Thanks, I need to check if the tuna bite is warming back up post-storm.
Mornin’. Or whatever.
Patients without COVID-19 – either out of fear, confusion or because of difficulty in obtaining the care they need – are again staying home.
The result is a healthcare crisis in the making, said Austin oncologist Dr. Debra Patt, who said she expects mortality rates from cancer to skyrocket in the years after the pandemic because patients have delayed their care.
“They’re scared to go in the hospital unless they absolutely have to,” said Patt. “And even when the patients are willing, it’s hard to get things done.”
Sacrifices were made.
The result is a healthcare crisis in the making, said Austin oncologist Dr. Debra Patt, who said she expects mortality rates from cancer to skyrocket in the years after the pandemic because patients have delayed their care.
When they did the same for three months, they were doing their part. Now they’re all gonna die because orangemanbad!
Man, fuck the media.
I haven’t seen the numbers lately, but has the mysterious disappearance of cancer, diabetes and heart disease continued?
Wuhan cures cancer diabetes and heart disease?
“They’re scared to go in the hospital unless they absolutely have to,”
Even before WuFlu such behavior was considered “normal”.
I am going to do everything in my power to never set foot in a fucking hospital.
That’s just common sense.
They probably don’t want to have to get tested, esp. inaccurately, because a false positive means up to two weeks of isolation.
I told you, way back in the beforetimes, that Ancelloti didnt have much to work with, that Everton wasnt going to make a run.
I kept hoping I was wrong. Although I saw a table the other day, and Everton was 5th since he took over. I am sure they have dropped a spot or two since I saw that, but if he had had the whole season, I think we would be in good shape.
I never believe in Everton, if that helps.
I believe in 11th place.
There’s always next year.
5th-7th is a reasonable next year goal. All in all, this isn’t the worst year to miss making UEFA league anyway.
The Redskins are officially out.
And Snyder is really milking this. Today they are retiring the name, and then they get to drag it out a little bit more before unveiling the new name.
The Washington Leeches?
The Washington Wokes
*Tears down statue of liberty*
I’d give my right arm if Snyder just did this to troll DC government into buying that land and then moves his team to VA and changes the name back to Redskins.
I say he goes super troll with the Washington Washingtons.
The Washington Indentured Servants
oh wait, that’s all of us
They should rename the team to the “Panem Wokies”….
Washington Scalpers.
Nice. He could just change the “Red” to “Fore”
Too anti-semitic
I so hope he does that.
He can’t be happy about this.
I’d even create a team with all the worst possibly stereo-types about Indians.
I’d be crazy enough to say, ‘Know what? Fine. I’ll just sell my merch directly and take a financial hit.’
Only problem is, can the other owners gang up and steal the team like they did Sterling. The NBA literally stole a team from an owner.
all the worst possibly stereo-types about Indians
so, the Comanches?
True story: I only know one Comanche, sweet guy, of course
I’ve said before that I’d change it to the Washington Savages, just to piss off the wokesters.
The Washington Desean Jacksons.
Man the silence on him was revealing and deafening, no?
How come Malcolm Jenkins wasn’t crying about that?
How anyone can watch sports these days and still digest all this retarded hypocrisy and stupidity I don’t know.
I thought Redskins were a type of peanut grown in Virginia.
In all seriousness, I hope he keeps the logo and just makes them the Washington Braves.
Nah, logo is gone too.
And I am now officially a free agent looking for a less woke team to follow. Fuck Snyder and the bunch for giving in to this mob of assholes.
Our owner got caught getting a happy ending… And we’re… Patriots!!
(Hahaha, even with Tommy gone, I don’t regret a moment. We had the greatest run I’m ever gonna see in this lifetime.)
The Washington Irvings
The Pounding Fathers!
The Capital Offense! (Or The Capital Punishment, to be more inclusive of the defense)
They are going to change their name to the DC Redskins.
I like where you’re going but the ‘C’ is still problematic.
So I hear they are changing the name to the more inclusive: Washington Non-European Americans.
“The Washington Pan Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere”
The Washington Diverse Equality.
Kneeling is our strength.
The Washington Boot Lickers. The Washington Receivers. The Washington Pillow Biters. The Washington Power Bottoms. I could go on and on.
Washington White Flags
The Washington Red Deers.
THINK ABOUT IT!
The Washington Red Deers.
Confusing to those of us living in Alberta.
Baseball birthdays were bad, although in at #5 in WAR is one of my favorite pitchers, and master of the circle changeup, Mario Soto.
Anyone who lives here knows you shouldn’t leave anything — not a pile of change, not a scarf — in a parked car. Tourists visiting the city’s vistas like Twin Peaks or the famously windy Lombard Street are easy marks. The city government has struggled to solve the problem.
I suppose when you publicly proclaim you will not enforce the law, people might actually break said law. Odd, isn’t it?
I know. Stupid tourists. They don’t know that when you go there, you lose all property rights to your small ticket items.
Those people are just experiencing the flavor and grit of San Francisco. It’s part of the true tourist experience…like stepping over a junkie all fucked up on heroin, or watching a man defacate in front of a local coffee house.
One of these days when my lawyer finally ends my fight with the San Francisco assholes, I will write a post about how they tried/are still trying to charge me upwards of $50K for breaking the jaw, wrist, and knee of a meth-head asshole that tried to rob me with at knife point when I was walking by Pier 39 late at night (back when I still only slept 3 hrs a night if I slept at all) about 3 years ago. My mistake was to actually go find a police officer and hand them the knife. I hope that city gets hit by a fucking rock from space and goes up in smoke.
Jeez, I’m sorry to hear that. It never ceases to amaze me that self-defense actions throughout the Western world are routinely punished by the authorities. It’s gotten so bad in Canada that you can almost expect to spend longer going through the court system than the person you tried to defend yourself against.
Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
does rental car insurance cover broken windows?
“Not sure, but it sure does create jobs!”
-Pauli Krugnuts
Tailor has a sad.
“The city government has struggled to solve the problem.”
The government has done very little, including “struggle” to solve the problem. Everyone there is ok with this situation. They refer to the homeless as if it were just a fact of nature. You know, Phoenix is a great place, but it’s 110 in the shade come summer. And the Bay Area is a fine town, but sometime a whirlwind comes through and busts the windows to your car.
The idea that putting a bunch of cameras up will do ANYTHING is a laugh to me. It is the sort of transparent lie a super villain uses to justify putting those strange mind control devices in every home. Ok, you see some homeless person smash in your window on camera. Now what? The whole reason this happens is that the police aren’t going to do anything about it. Do you really think the government is going to tolerate YOU doing anything about it?
See my comments from the overnight post. Somebody is a gonna get hurt.
Good morning, Sloop!
Thanks for delivering the piping hot lynx!
This mask insanity is never going to go away, is it? I fully expect our giant cunt of a governor to decree mandatory kabuki today, but I’m surprised Texas is falling for the hoax.
The first lines of this bear some thought.
They do. But with how quickly and completely we capitulated to the ‘vid terrors, I’m not hopeful.
Another appropriate one from the boys.
Have a great day, everyone.
And Threedoor, if you are out there, I am so sorry to hear of your troubles. I am praying for you and your family.
I’m seeing a few more masks being worn but it’s all amongst the woke brigade. People up here don’t give a flying fuck at a doughnut.
Whenever the redcurrant bush ripens I am always amazed hoe productive those little things are they are full of berries.
Hoe berries can be hazardous to your health.
Watch out for the Hoe berry stealing whores!
He was just lapsing into Dutch … hoe = how.
Doomsday cultists of the world, unite!
To many who study climate, the pandemic looks eerily familiar. At first, the new virus seemed distant and inconsequential to most people, so long as you weren’t in the eye of the storm. The rest of the world watched in amazement as China shut down Wuhan. Horror stories of patients dying in hallways in Milan shocked the U.S., but not enough to make the nation prepare. In late February, at the last Democratic primary debate before voting in the critical state of South Carolina, moderators didn’t ask about the issue until one hour and 15 minutes into the discussion, and spent less than five minutes on it.
Researchers estimate that by the time the U.S. collectively woke up to the stakes of the pandemic on March 11–the day Tom Hanks said he tested positive, the NBA canceled its season and Trump banned travelers from Europe–thousands of people had already been infected in the country. In the few months since, more than half a million people have died worldwide, including some 100,000 in the U.S., and there’s no sign we’ll be rid of the virus anytime soon.
The story of climate change has unfolded over decades, but its trajectory is much the same. For years, we’ve watched as the evidence has grown. We’ve gaped as superstorms have battered the globe from Bangkok to Houston and unprecedented heat waves have popped up, killing a few thousand here and there. As I write this, it’s 100°F in Siberia, and wildfires are raging in an area infamous for its yearlong ice. “These are the warning signs” of cataclysmic climate change, says Gail Whiteman, a professor at Lancaster University who runs an Arctic research program.
If Wuhan and Milan offered a preview of what the U.S. is now experiencing with COVID-19, where should the country look for a glimpse of a climate-changed world? Last year, I traveled to Fiji and found that for many of those living on the small Pacific Islands, on the front lines of brutal storms and sea-level rise, climate change is already the defining issue. If a storm destroys a school, students can’t learn. If the sugarcane crops are flooded, farmers lose their jobs. If sea levels rise too much, entire communities disappear. Climate concerns are at the center of their economies and the center of their development plans.
“This can’t be the purview of even 25,000 or 40,000 or even 100,000 people,” says Christiana Figueres, who led the U.N. climate-change body during the Paris climate talks. “This has got to permeate through every single corner, every single channel, every single flow of economic development and modernization. It’s got to become the new norm.”
If you survive the plague, you’ll be cooked in your own juices by global warming.
Panic early, panic often.
“To many who study climate, the pandemic looks eerily familiar”
Just because you had the same policy recommendations does not make it similar.
Same here. Reliance on garbage models to stoke panic in both cases, with the end of increasing government control of routine daily activities. The only difference is, it worked in the case of the ‘Vid.
“To many who study climate, the pandemic looks eerily familiar”
Yeah, because when you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Yep. Let no deplorable go unpunished!
That Shellenberger defection is really having a backlash, isn’t it?
Wow. That CNN headline.
They completely left Cuomo, Murphy and Whitmore off the hook for their calls that lead to deaths.
They’re also stepping up their hate of Sweden.
Looking at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ it seems to me the number of tests is not growing that much for countries like Germany and France. Are they still testing? It the bug done or just not tested.
Now Easter Europe is testing more than before and we have a bunch of new cases. I am not sure if the west is bug free or just no more tests.
It costs money to test…so no symptoms, no test!
You know what else is extremely unbelievable? New York.
That ENTIRE state has 10 – 15 cases popping up per rural county and hundreds daily popping up in the major counties. The virus is NOT controlled there- it is running through the wild. And yet somehow, deaths and hospitalizations are down?
Stepping away from the politics of this, it just seems odd. You have a virus that is basically completely uncontrolled, running through the entire state, and yet we allegedly are protecting the truly vulnerable in a way we were not doing back when this started. How is that? If you compare the New York and California social distancing (see below), they are about the same on social distancing- California may be even a little less mobile. And yet California is exploding.
Again, I am trying not to get political about this and really step out of my bias. But it REALLY just seems like there are a bunch of people who are going to get killed by this because they are particularly vulnerable. If they live in a nursing home they can be protected, otherwise not much you can do.
I read that one of CA’s recent sources was Mexico via Imperial Co. I think there was another that I forget now.
The point remains though- so Mexico brings in a bunch of people. The virus is everywhere.
I get the feeling that what is happening is people are or are not getting tested based on the media. In New York, where everyone is assured that shit is under control, people aren’t getting tested.
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/xdss-u53e/visualization
If you look at that data, you see that they are still at about a 10% positive rate in the “hot” counties. But they are only doing like 4000 tests a day. But in Florida, everyone is being driven to get tested so you see the number of positives spike.
I just cannot see any other reason why you are getting handfuls of positives all around the state. The virus doesn’t spontaneously appear. It had to get there somehow. So when you get 10 positives, there are people somewhere around there who gave it to them.
The point remains though- so Mexico brings in a bunch of people. The virus is everywhere.
I get the feeling that what is happening is people are or are not getting tested based on the media. In New York, where everyone is assured that shit is under control, people aren’t getting tested.
https://health.data.ny.gov/d/xdss-u53e/visualization
If you look at that data, you see that they are still at about a 10% positive rate in the “hot” counties. But they are only doing like 4000 tests a day. But in Florida, everyone is being driven to get tested so you see the number of positives spike.
I just cannot see any other reason why you are getting handfuls of positives all around the state. The virus doesn’t spontaneously appear. It had to get there somehow. So when you get 10 positives, there are people somewhere around there who gave it to them.
Poland’s Duda narrowly beats Trzaskowski in presidential vote
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53385021
What is the Official Glibertarian Position on Law and Justice (PiS) party? Authoritarians or just out to own the progs?
Also in Romanian duda means mulberry. Stupid things are everywhere round these parts. You do not want to park your car under one when the fruit is ripe,
There’s a mulberry tree in my yard, the birds will handle staining anything around after they eat the berries.
We’ve got a crow that I’m sure must have been insulted by the area manager because about once a month xe lets fly a monstrous shit onto his office window. I’d do the same but lack the wings. I also have to clean the window.
I hate crows. At least they don’t go after pets. I don’t remember seeing them in cities until about 20 years ago.
Why not both?
The spin in that article is depressingly normal.
That’s the real danger of actual right wing tyranny: if and when it ever comes, we won’t be able to know it because the mainstream media considers Mitt Romney and Augusto Pinochet to be the exact same person.
Pinochet was the good one.
They’re anti-EU which I would guess accounts for the win. All the So-Con stuff, IMO is likely peripheral to that.
dunno I think catholic poles are pretty socon
Very
“Being a cop is a choice. Lmao and last time I checked, blue people don’t exist. Maybe educate yourself?” one person tweeted.”
I swear. 2020.
Stan Jones has already been forgotten?
/drinks colloidal silver
Best available data
The White House is seeking to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert, as President Donald Trump works to marginalize him and his dire warnings about the shortcomings of the U.S. coronavirus response.
In a remarkable broadside by the Trump administration against one of its own, a White House official said Sunday that “several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things.” The official gave NBC News a list of nearly a dozen past comments by Fauci that the official said had ultimately proven erroneous.
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As physicians and scientists have learned more about the coronavirus, the medical consensus on how to treat it and limit its spread has evolved — and not just in the U.S. Many of Fauci’s assertions called into question by the White House official were based on the best available data at the time and were widely echoed by Trump, other members of the task force and senior White House officials.
“When you learn more, you change those recommendations,” Surgeon General Jerome Adams, another member of the task force, told CBS News on Sunday. “Our recommendations have changed.”
Millions will die.
Oh, wait…
Isn’t he a pencil pusher at this point?
They don’t get how making your boss look like an asshole by repeatedly telling him to say the wrong things (even if there might have been legitimate reasons to think them) means that you’re bad at your job and your boss will hate you?
Now trust science, you bigot.
Fauci has to be fired.
I’m almost certain if Trump gets re-elected Fauci is marked for a ‘You’re fired’!
No way you can keep under mining your boss like this and still get to keep your job. He’s leveraging his reputation against Trump as a scientist beloved by celebrities and lefties but that card is being over played.
Public health officials have been terrible throughout all this.
As stated the other day, they are below “Climate Scientists” in my regard.
I posted in the comments back in April that the administration was going to distance itself from Dr. Fauci’s Traveling Medicine Show. You could see Dr. Birx rolling her eyes whenever he fell into the media trap and started speculating.
I really liked that, IF.
More:
A New York Times/Sienna College poll last month found that 2 in 3 registered voters approved of Fauci, including half of Republicans and 4 in 5 Democrats. Trump, by comparison, enjoyed support of his handling of the crisis from only 1 in 4 voters in the same poll, including just 4 percent of Democrats.
SCIENCE, via polling.
Brixton is south of the river, so rednecky (or whatever the Brit equivalent is)? I don’t know my London neighborhoods well.
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
That was my point. Apparently people in Brixton circa 1980 owned guns. I figured that made them British deplorables.
A very black (West Indian) neighborhood, historically lots of crime and site of a major riot in ’81. Perhaps JD will come elaborate. Electric Avenue of musical fame is in Brixton.
Chav?
Brixton is what happens when your native born population is busy fleeing the island and you let the commonwealth move in. That wasn’t traditional “white flight”, that was people getting out while the getting was good. Now you have hundreds of thousands of no skilled immigrants moving into a depressed economy and going on the generational dole.
So is the apparently high gun ownership like Indiana or like Chicago?
The campaign against Fauci, who has been one of America’s most highly regarded public health officials for decades and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush, tells an extraordinary tale of administration priorities amid a national crisis and of the brutal approach it uses to discredit any official who challenges Trump’s false narratives.
White knights circle the wagons. Save the narrative!
“ one of America’s most highly regarded public health officials for decades ”
It’s like the “news reporter” is trying to plant false memories so that we can all pretend that Fauci was well recognized as an expert and household name.
He’s a useless bureaucrat like the rest of them. Just because he is a doctor doesn’t mean he’s not a socialist putz grabbing for power.
This is the guy who lied through his teeth about masks right? That’s the guy they’re feting?
Fauchi Panties were a thing…
most highly regarded public health officials for decades
You mean Mr “AIDS is spreadable by coughing”?
It’s astonishingly frightening how incredibly short sighted and foolish our leaders are. I’ve resigned myself to the fact Quebec will re-lockdown at some point. They playbook has been set: Lockdown/masks. They’ve concluded Florida/Sweden bad.
When it’s the opposite in my view.
Widespread mask wearing will bring a whole new set of unseen consequences. Just like the nursing homes blunder, the mask thing could lead to all sorts of medical issues; not to mention waste and impact on the environment.
Abbot wearing that medical mask is a scam. He’s either a liar or a complete ignoramus. The CDC and WHO make it clear medical masks suck for the wider public and to use cloth – and even there my Spidey senses tell me they only said that to throw a bone to the scared NPC-Sheep and get them off theiir backs. The effectiveness of masks is INCONCLUSIVE. BUT, if they make it mandatory and cases continue to rise maybe people will conclude it’s not worth the added cost to their budget or even better, their personal liberty.
239 scientists demanded the WHO test for aerosol transmission. They were convinced it transmit in the air. The WHO finally relented. They stand by the evidence for aerosol transmission is not clear and needs more research. Those scientists aren’t happy. Gee, where to do we see this kind of behaviour again? Shoddy science becoming accepted ‘settled science’.
It’s all political now and it’s getting extremely disconcerting as I think they can still ramp up the fear even more.
Have they considered the trade-offs?
Of course not.
Why would I trust them on this when they’re wrong about so much?
I still remember when the ‘experts’ were telling everyone not to wear masks because they didn’t do anything… so that no one would stockpile masks.
“Why would I trust them”
You’d have to be an idiot or a sheep or both.
It’s all political now and it’s getting extremely disconcerting as I think they can still ramp up the fear even more.
Take solace in the fact that the fear-mongering will end in early November once it’s served its purpose.
I hope because sleepy-headed clueless Canadians don’t understand that our policies and perceptions are being driven by the United States.
The mammoth influence America has on Canada can never be under stated. They’d never admit it but when idiot public officials here keep citing Florida and cite the CDC – Hello McFly!
I love the comparisons to Florida and Arizona. Yes, because Canada has regions remotely resembling those two states.
America is a highly transient society. I don’t think there’s a nation that moves around within itself like America does. Canada certainly doesn’t. So that’s ONE factor at play.
Plus Florida takes in so many new retirees and tourists in the millions. Arizona has a border control issue that contribute to the problems.
Canada? What the fuck do we have that comes anywhere near those added factors?
But they see what happens in Florida and think, ‘See it can happen here!”
The stupid lack of deductive reasoning just utterly flattens me.
Florida and Arizona are icky red states filled with icky people doing icky things. We civilized folk can’t possibly use them as an example!
Yeh well I, erm, did boom-boom with a chick from Venezuela in South Beach.
That’s the thing that really burns my britches. It is so fucking transparent. I am so goddamn angry right now.
Which part burns you?
And we were thankful!
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1282392296126918657
Men with top knots get what they deserve.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1282391878361546753
Wear a top knot, get Abaddoned.
Having both your arms cut off may sound a bit harsh, but it will end the scourge soon enough.
Why would that hitting her in the crotch be particularly painful?
Wear a belt with jeans, you uncultured heathen.
White canvas belt or GTFO.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1282490063893532672
LOL
The agony of defeat
Air rat eats land rat, details at 11.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1282292783676522496
Somebody’s got a crush.
That has to more than double its mass. I’m amazed it can fly.
239 scientists demanded the WHO test for aerosol transmission. They were convinced it transmit in the air. The WHO finally relented. They stand by the evidence for aerosol transmission is not clear and needs more research. Those scientists aren’t happy. Gee, where to do we see this kind of behaviour again? Shoddy science becoming accepted ‘settled science’.
Repeat after me: Better Safe Than Sorry.
Now, go to your
roomsafe space.I see UEFA care more about EPL money than actually following the rules. Fuck Pep.
An international sporting body is corrupt?
Surely not in soccer.
or auto racing or the olympics. Those 3 are all pure as can be.
City paid off the right people, we should not be surprised.
CAS over-ruled EUFA, no?
I dont understand the Financial Fair Play rules. They try to put those in place, instead of doing things like balancing out European League payments like the NFL or CF conferences do.
Let the EPL split their euro tv money fairly evenly 20 ways would do a lot more than weird rules about sponsorships.
Basically little teams that try to earn a promotion will get fucked, but the big teams will not be harmed.
SF is filled with “techno-utopian libertarians”? Explains the shitty roads.
Re San Francisco. Isn’t there an easier, simpler, less expensive fix that preserves freedom?
Ah. Right. Stop electing Democrats and far left attorney-Generals and embrace the 2A while allowing people to protect their property.
San Francisco doesn’t even prosecute criminals anymore. So why have cameras? It’s not like the the criminals will be arrested. In fact, you may find yourself in trouble for tying to protect it.
Leftists think that this slow slide into a violent dystopia is a normal outflow of human nature. Um. Yes, if you stop enforcing the law and purposely defund the police and keep voting for such people that enact such measures.
Know who else defunded the police?
Live streaming SF would be a boon for flyover states.
In fact, you may find yourself in trouble for tying to protect it.
Most likely outcome. They have to be sure to root out the last of the kulacks and wreckers.
Concern troll central
After months out of the classroom, Sarah Gross, a high school English teacher in New Jersey, is eager for schools to reopen in the fall.
But she’s skeptical about how that could happen safely as Covid-19 cases rise across the country.
“I desperately want to go back to my classroom,” Gross told CNN. “But I think that a lot of people who call for schools to reopen — especially because we need childcare or the economy to restart — don’t have any idea of what schools look like today.”
Teachers who spoke to CNN said they are trying to puzzle out an avalanche of unanswered questions about schooling amid a global pandemic. As coronavirus case numbers rise, they are weighing the risks to students and colleagues, their families and themselves.
Decisions about whether schools will reopen, and in what capacity, have mostly been left to school districts, with some guidance from state officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But as President Donald Trump, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other politicians pressure schools to reopen, there are no easy answers.
“I think a lot of times people forget that kids don’t go to school by themselves,” Gross said. “The schools are run by a lot of adults, and a lot of those adults are especially vulnerable to coronavirus.”
“Obviously, in a perfect world, we would love to be out there in the classroom. Everybody wants that. But until you can guarantee 100% safety, we should keep the schools closed. Keep sending me paychecks, thought.”
Ok, fine. It’s distance learning then. But since you claim you want to be in your classroom, you need to go to the school every single day and stand in it to monitor your students progress for the normal duration of a school day. And you can’t take personal electronic devices and the school-issued computer can only access the learning programs you’ve given the kids.
If all this gets even 20% of people to start reconsidering the value of government schools, it will all be worth it.
If I were the GOP, I would be creating a helping hand for all the distance learning kids. For every state that declines to open full time, the kid gets the NCLB money to spend on distance learning equipment, and/or home care so the parents can work. Or they can go to another school.
Watch how fast teachers get over their risk aversion then.
“But until you can guarantee 100% safety”
The flu is far more dangerous to kids than Covid. They never wanted 100% safety before.
Right. It’s not about the children.
As the K-12 school year bears down, seemingly impossible, it’s notable how quickly everyone has essentially admitted that the hundred-year history of compulsory school in America was mostly a subsidized childcare effort meant to drive business, employment, consumption, debt, &c.]
https://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1281951417230655488
seems accurate
Mammary Monday is back, but mostly front.
http://archive.li/9a4Fh
Washington lizard skins!!!
Skin-suits.
As long as their cheerleaders are as hot as either of the V lizard chicks.
https://i.redd.it/8muao9lrz1a51.jpg
“I eat cloaca.”
Re: the naval ship
Did any check out the location of the Japanese air force?
Japanese? I’m pretty sure it’s the Spanish who dun it.
Are they trying to reclaim California? I might be okay with that.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8516901/Demi-Rose-puts-racy-display-jungle-print-cut-gown-star-studded-party.html
“shares it with KKK racist piece of shit Nathanial Bedford Forrest”
*downloads copy of Forrest Gump*
Harry Turtledove made him a hero in The Guns of the South.
He was a brave man and a competent commander. People are never just one thing.
He also had a change of heart concerning race late in life
On July 5, 1875, Forrest became the first white man to speak to Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association, a civil rights group whose members were former slaves and a precursor to the NAACP. Although his speech was short, he expressed the opinion that blacks had the right to vote for any candidates they wanted and that the role of blacks should be elevated. He ended the speech by kissing the cheek of one of the daughters of one of the Pole-Bearer members.
So many questions
Besides their health concerns, teachers are imagining the myriad scenarios that could play out as the start of the school year approaches — for many districts, in a matter of weeks.
After New Jersey released its guidelines for the fall, Gross said she and her colleagues began collecting questions in a Google Doc. Now, after circulating it among other teachers, there are nearly 400 questions.
Some seem basic, like, how will shared instruments in music classes be cleaned? But others are more terrifying, Gross said, such as: “If a teacher contracts Covid and it can be contact-traced back to the classroom, will the pension system pay out their life insurance to their surviving family members?”
Jillian Heise, a 40-year-old elementary school librarian in southeast Wisconsin, wondered how outbreaks could derail whatever plans schools have in place. What happens, for example, if she tests positive for Covid-19?
“Does the whole school shutdown? Because I’ve been in contact with every classroom if I’m going in person,” Heise said. She also raised the following questions: What if a teacher has to quarantine? Does the class have to quarantine as well? Will they learn at home? Does the teacher have to teach if he or she is quarantined? Would the teacher be paid?
MILLIONS WILL DIE!
Well yes but it will help reduce the carbon footprint
Can you imagine that the homeschool moms group that my wife hosts at our house will now be in our backyard instead of living room due to the increase in participants?
For certain school arguments, I bookmarked this just earlier this morning:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_236.55.asp?current=yes
I would have thought a rich country like the US could afford to not so drastically under fund education
For $15k each, a group of a dozen kids could easily fund a high quality teacher.
This is why backpack vouchers are such a terror for the entrenched interests. If the backpack vouchers were for the full amount, I could run a 1 room school in a strip mall for 20 kids at a salary that would let it be my only job.
Yep, PJ O’Rourke made this point about 30 years ago in one of his books.
Live streaming SF would be a boon for flyover states.
“Welcome to the Monkey House.”
Manhunt in Germany for man who disarmed 4 police officers
Hundreds of German police were involved in a manhunt Monday for a 31-year-old man in camouflage clothing who disarmed four officers at gunpoint a day earlier and then fled into the forest with a pistol, knife and a bow and arrow.
Were the cops armed with bow and arrow?
No kidding. The rate this story is unfolding, there’ll be hundreds of disarmed German police.
You’d almost think they were French soldiers!
Rambö.
Sie zogen das erste Blut!
I hope the local Sheriff backs off and doesn’t push him.
The man reported said he just wanted to sleep and was last seen with a Romani girl in a Mini Cooper headed to Paris.
Instead of focusing on the out-of-control coronavirus disaster in Florida and other early opening states, the White House is trying to destroy the reputation of one of America’s most respected public servants, Dr. Anthony Fauci, for telling the truth about how bad things are getting.
Let the lionization of Dr. Fauxchi begin.
And I wonder what demographic of people these positive commie-cough cases are…In Florida…In the summer…Never mind the other context that is lacking from this claim.
De Sanctis, like Sweden, has to hold the line.
The average age of people getting it is in their 30s. This is a GOOD thing.
I stand by Sweden will have the last laugh.
But they will never get the credit. People have already concluded deaths could have been prevented and so Sweden messed up. They will NOT consider the intangible successes. Just the metrics they select.
No deaths in Tokyo despite the “OMG, the spike!” That they aren’t even giving us the death numbers is a big tell.
We had 10 in Canada yesterday.
TEN.
That’s a Bo Derek 10.
And people are still like, ‘OMFG!’
Personally, I’ve checked out. The idea of being part of a proud community and nation is completely dead to me. The flag? Why would I sing the anthem when I know people are all too ready to give up everything connected to freedom for safety? Worse, ready to take it away from those who disagree under various empty slogans of ‘we’re in this together’! I look at people with quiet disdain and distrust. Especially the ones in the masks. I see sheep masks.
Know what else is telling? If media is pushing the masks, then you know it’s bull shit.
Look at this graph. Give you one guess which part the US media is focusing on.
https://twitter.com/yinonw/status/1282470983094251520/photo/1
California is right there with AZ, TX and FL – which state is not part of the narrative?
It is the Feast of St Henry the Exuberant, patron saint of urinary tract infections.
https://twitter.com/RevRichardColes/status/1282552642615627776
I am disappointed there was no stream of fire coming from under his robe
Fun fact: why is Romania full of mulberries? The answer is autarky.
Mr. Ceaușescu wanted Romania to be self sufficient in silk production, so had mulberry trees planted and schools started to grow silk worms, with the school children spending some time going through the town/village picking mulberry leaves.
Leftist leaders love playing Civilization with real people.
i never thought I’d say this… But this makes me really want to be Ghandi!
You get a nuke! And You get a Nuke! And you get a Nuke!
There’s a Dr Suess joke waiting to be made in there.
Any serious guesses on what the Redskins will be?
The Imperial City Praetorian Guard?
It should have been the Warriors, change nothing else, just the name. If they change it to some woke bullshit, as has been rumored, then that’s the death knell for all the other American Indian themed teams.
The NFL is rapidly going the way of the NBA. Both will be relegated to the dustbin of sports.
I do hate to be a dick, because I know that pro sports fandom is important to a lot of people, but the world would be better off if pro sports wasn’t a thing.
Funnily enough, when I was a kid I was very much not a big sports fan, I only really came to it as an adult.
It has ceased to be a thing for me.
UFC. They are going to clean up. Fight and nobody cares about the woke stuff when the octagon is rockin’.
Why? Why would the world be better without entertainment that a lot of people happily fork over money to see and that often exemplifies the pinnacle of physical achievement and teamwork?
Not to mention it rallies communities, creates or enhances friendships, employs a lot of people, and generally benefits society.
The one thing that all 8 of my family could agree on. Packers suck. Bringing families together is worth something.
^This
I really enjoyed sports as a social event, and as something to provide a topic of conversation. If I’m by myself, I always find something better to do than watch them though.
Would it be any less entertaining if it were amateur sports at the club/town level?
Commies attack a church in Troy, NY.
For Festus and UCS
Vegas Sunrise on top of the Airport Surface Surveillance Equipment
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/ZqrH_tlyRFCpCNgyjY4mrw.U_ycnEE0kb6m9pjiK95kvU
Purdy.
Thank you.
Nice
I’m currently reading a Victorian reissue of an 18th-century jestbook. 49 jokes from the original text were omitted on account of the “greater delicacy observed in modern society & conversation.”
But which gags were too rude for the Victorians? Let’s find out!
Thread
Down pointing backhand index
:
https://twitter.com/VictorianHumour/status/1281988894536413184
Lots of Ye olde narrow gazes there. I liked this one:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcrVsvqXoAAe8H8?format=png&name=small
After the pandemic was declared a national emergency in March, many states banned non-essential medical procedures, and the number of patients seeking care for other ailments took a nosedive. Hospitals and medical practices were hit hard financially.
Fearmongering for political gain has consequences.
Well, Twitter has kicked me off the site.
I have nobody to blame but myself. Someone made a comment that they should televise a Kanye-Trump debate but wondered “if somebody could translate retard”. I replied that Biden spike retard but probably couldn’t translate it to understandable English.
The person I replied to was not banned and their tweet is still up.
Seems legit.
CANCELL SLOOPY. I will call your employer to get you fired.
You know, Sloopy’s boss is Sloopy
Look man, Dems can’t be retards. Everybody knows that.
*points at AOC*
*points at Schiff*
*points at…
Fuck it. this would be a real long post.
You are better off pointing at the not retards there, and that list seems to be exactly zero long.
Then again, if you repeat the exercise with team red, the count there of the not retardeded, while not zero, will be statistically the same.
Another voice silenced.
Hmmm. I can’t believe we allow commenters on this site who Twitter has banned.
I thought it was a requirement for membership here.
Can’t be. I was never on twitter, so I haven’t been banned.
I’d have to create an account in order to get banned. *Starts to make joke then realizes most of you guys have accounts and stifles it.
So, how do you learn retard? *Tempted to put a comma after “learn”* 😉
Read HuffPo
Watch Don Lemon (pronounced as if it were a French word!) on CNN.
@Derp:
André-Gustave Citroën’s name was a Franked up version of his grandfather’s adapted workname: Limoenman was a produce trader.
When I worked for the French in the automotive supply game, I was encouraged to pronounce the last n in Citroën to help direct my comments at the company and car, away from fruit. Of course, a former father-in-law had learned in Brasil in fifties and since taught me that Citroën is indeed a lemon.
You succeeded where I have so far failed. That they have not banned me has me puzzled.
Yes he did. He may have done enough already, though.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ecuzt1BUMAAVbwe?format=jpg&name=medium
If you are still on Twitter, you should be trying to get #DefundRacistEd to trend.
All the criticisms of “Systemic Racism” that impact police must be doubly true for Public Education. Police outcomes for blacks disproportionately bad? Same for Public Education. What is more likely to normalize racism in the impressionable head of white suburban kids? Police, who they never see except at parades, or the schools that raise them for 12 years of their life?
“I have nobody to blame but myself. ”
You could blame Twitter.
Nah. Their site, their rules. I should have suspected it might get me kicked off even though it was replying to someone else saying the same thing. So my actions led to it.
Personal responsibility is so passe’.
Their site, their rules, which they only enforce when they feel like it.
Word on the internet is that Ol’ Remus has passed away.
That is a real shame. I really enjoyed his blog. He featured classic art that I really enjoyed, nostalgic Americana ads, quality links, and common sense commentary.
Cool site, new to me. Pity about the very limited archives. What was the cause?
Cancer reportedly. He lost his wife earlier this year. Bracken and others are trying to assemble an archive.
Very Lileks.
A third person, who identified herself as a high school student, added, “I am so sorry for your loss but you didn’t have to use a racist hashtag.”
Black cops lives don’t matter?
#HongKongLivesMatter
“I’m sorry, but…” means “Not sorry”
“identified herself as a high school student, added, “I am so sorry for your loss but you didn’t have to use a racist hashtag.”
We went from actual racism being racism, to the somewhat well intentioned effort to point out coded racial bigotry, to now the straight up assertion that racism is whatever the Left decides it is.
At some point, a lily white commie is going to shoot a black cop, and somehow pointing this out will be racist.
Save us, Big Nanny!
A group of 83 of the world’s richest people have called on governments to permanently increase taxes on them and other members of the wealthy elite to help pay for the economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.
The super-rich members, including Ben and Jerry’s ice cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield and Disney heir Abigail Disney, called on “our governments to raise taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently”.
“As Covid-19 strikes the world, millionaires like us have a critical role to play in healing our world,” the millionaires said in a letter shared with the Guardian. “No, we are not the ones caring for the sick in intensive care wards. We are not driving the ambulances that will bring the ill to hospitals. We are not restocking grocery store shelves or delivering food door to door.
“But we do have money, lots of it. Money that is desperately needed now and will continue to be needed in the years ahead, as our world recovers from this crisis.”
——-
“The problems caused by, and revealed by, Covid-19 can’t be solved with charity, no matter how generous. Government leaders must take the responsibility for raising the funds we need and spending them fairly,” the letter says. “We owe a huge debt to the people working on the frontlines of this global battle. Most essential workers are grossly underpaid for the burden they carry.”
The group released the letter ahead of this weekend’s G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting. They called on politicians to “address global inequality and acknowledge that tax increases on the wealthy and greater international tax transparency are essential for a viable long-term solution”.
Only government bureaucrats are wise and noble enough to dispense money to the deserving. Private citizens could never contrive to create and run an effective program aimed at helping people.
People like this are among the most evil. “Raise my taxes, but don’t really, i’m just calling for you to raise taxes on the upper income middle class, but don’t want to look like that’s what i’m doing”
Neither of those assholes have steady income to tax. Their wealth is tied up in stock and investments.
Yeah Abigail Disney probably lives in a Disney owned property, rides around in Disney owned transportation, hell probably eats Disney meals on a lot of occasions.
Oh, and as always when these people speak up:
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
No one is stopping you from donating as much money as you would wish.
Good News! You can raise your own taxes right now. Immediately, substantially, and permanently!
Step 1: Fire your accountants
Step 2: Send as much money as you think the government needs, or heck send all of it, by check or money order to this address:
Step 3: Voila, and bask in your newfound righteousness as you have single-handedly done your part to further whatever cause you think giving the government more money will achieve!
(Disclaimer: The above steps do not involve forcible coercion against your neighbors, which may disappoint your blackened socialist hearts, and are not guaranteed to result in any improvements in governance, but neither is increasing the tax rate you impudent simpletons)
Party pooper. Where’s the fun in that?
True. It’s just not the same until everyone suffers. It is better that Abigail Disney never have to make any of her own hard choices in life than that other people be afforded the same freedom she has today.
Can we brand them with a scarlet H on their foreheads?
People might mistake them for holograms.
Fuck you, start stroking extra checks.
They’re just trying to ensure fewer people are able to join their club by limiting competition. They can all fuck off and die.
Interesting to see such a “liberal” place embrace the loving hand of perpetual surveillance.
Leftists love authoritarianism. They just want to be the ones in charge.
“Boom! Glad nobody died. Interesting to see how this happened.”
My guess is that while these people are forced to attend regular bullshit woke training about how to be less racist, sexist, homophobic, and to worship Gaia, they barely if ever are being thought the ins and outs of what it takes to fight a ship. Especially safety. That shit would take away time from the woke indoctrination time.
You mean like this?
Yeah, that’s what made em go do that sort of shit.. The fact that he missed out on the “wokeness splaineng traineng”…..
“Couldn’t sleep last night, so went down a rabbit hole of face mask history.
So researchers have known since at least 1919 that masks, when constructed properly and used appropriately, protect people from respiratory infections.”
https://twitter.com/MoNscience/status/1281908894361686016
I thought it first caught hold with the British Army in the Crimea. Florence Nightengale putting Lister’s ideas into practice. Hm.Nevermind. Wikipedia says he was the guy who pioneered instrument sterilization and gloves but did not do masks.
In the years since then, the issue has been studied ad nauseum and the problem is that these masks only block the largest of droplets. Tinier and aerosolized droplets get vented out of the top and sides of the mask. Every study performed on the effectiveness of surgical masks in the surgical theater has failed to find any increase in infections in unmasked surgeries (most find a slight decrease). Every study testing there ability to prevent respiratory infections has shown no evidence of their effectiveness. The _one_ study that compared surgical masks to home made cloth masks in a health care setting found a 13 fold increase in influenza like illnesses in the cloth masked group.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data
The reason why the recommendations were what they were at the start is because that’s what all the actual scientific literature said. The “lie” was that they needed them for the healthcare workers; they don’t need them (for the most part, certain workers need N95 masks) either but have become dependent on them as a crutch.
However after about three weeks of lockdown it was clear that much more of this would be a disaster on a truly epic scale and so we had to open up. We had, however, absolutely terrified the populace to the point where simply saying “open up” wasn’t gonna get it done. And so we decided that the masks would be our “shoes off at the airport” to make people _feel_ safe. so they’d get out and do their jobs again. Except for the teachers who appear to be arguing that they should continue to get paid for the next 5 years without actually working.
Yep. This is exactly why they were saying that the masks were not needed in February and March: people had been wearing face masks in Japan and Korea for years but their flu rates were not better than in the US.
“If we do not all join together and unite in this one cause for a short period of time, of adopting a mask, what it will lead to is the necessity of having to close Texas back down,” Abbott said to CBS19. “That should be the last thing that any government wants — the last thing that any business owner wants.”
Moving the goal posts and assuming the leftist narrative. The GOP is useless.
But they’re all the way at the back of the speeding train!!!! If you give them a super majority they might even go talk to the engineer about maybe, possibly, at some point in the future stopping the train on a siding for enough time to everyone have a little lunch.
“…a short period of time,”
It’s been half a fucking year. You’ve had your chance, so now you can fuck off.
If it doesn’t wear the mask, it gets the hose.
How long is this “short time” exactly? This has been going on for the better part of 4 months already.
November is only 4 or so months away
So if Biden wins – miraculous cure? If Trump wins – masks yesterday, masks today, masks forever?
My bet is that as soon as Biden wins the Wuhan Flue will be a thing of no concern unless it is to give the powers that be even more power to fuck over people’s freedoms and empty their wallets.
Yes, the news cycle will immediately move to speculation about what Trump is doing to stay in power, and all the things that Biden will do to reverse this damage, including having immediate *totally legal* conversations with foreign ambassadors.
Coronavirus news will be relegated to the 20 second spot at the middle of each hour, where the news agencies have discovered that “despite rapidly increasing cases, the death rate remains low”.
the mask thing is just theater. It’s one thing to say it may help which it totally might, but to say it’s the cause of the spike is absolute lunacy. The reason for the spike is they never went got to their true burnout rate yet.
Turns out we shouldn’t have locked down at all nationwide and just protected the nursing homes because this doesn’t end till burnout is achieved at 15-30% depending on density and population. IF we had to lockdown in places you wait till it’s incredibly bad and keep your powder dry. Are politicians are complete morons and people against the lockdowns were screaming this from the beginning.
They are not complete morons. They are pragmatists. Look at Cuomo. He fucking locked everyone in their rooms for 3 months and he is a hero despite having the worst death rate in the country. Politicians know that nobody cares about results. They care about DOING SOMETHING and speaking with authority.
If you realize that they have blamed everything BUT the real reasons for this issue and that’s by design- admitting that it is happening because of their support and encouragement for the rioting mobs, would not play well – then you understand this lunacy about masks.
“Donald Trump’s chief of staff has begun an aggressive campaign to root out leakers from the White House, according to a new report, and yet the president has been reluctant to act when leakers are ‘outed’ and close to him.
Mark Meadows, who in March became Trump’s fourth chief of staff in a little over three years, has told staff of his scheme, Axios reported.
Meadows has been deliberately feeding false information to key people, to see what appears in the media.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8516145/Trump-desperate-WH-leakers-staff-phones-searched-false-information-planted.html
HA! But the plan to leak false leaks was a false leak to begin with! Now Trump found those leakers!
Going to be difficult to identify them if everybody knows about it.
And not a minute too late, what with 7/8 of his Presidential term over.
“Meadows has been deliberately feeding false information to key people, to see what appears in the media.”
When you’re having to run counterintelligence ops against your own people, it’s a sign that the office should be completely gutted and replaced.
With what? The entirety of DC is stocked with assholes.
I dunno, maybe import some lesser assholes from Oklahoma or Wyoming?
Or, go with me here, maybe…just don’t replace them?
Bigger enemy of humanity, woke multinationals or MSM?
Hmmmmm…. tough choice.
My gut says that a severe economic downturn will correct the multi-nationals. The MSM is a bunch of whores that will chase a dollar like an early shift stripper.
It’s the US education complex that’s the biggest.
I go with both…
All three.
I mean, the MSM is basically a small collection of multinationals…
True.
This makes no sense. MS was not one of the original 13 colonies/states.
More on MS flag change.
Like people in Mississippi can count.
“China announces sanctions against Rubio, Cruz over Uighur Muslims
The measures come just days after Washington sanctioned a Communist Party secretary and other Chinese officials
China on Monday announced sanctions against a number of U.S. officials, including Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in retaliation for legislation intended to punish senior Chinese officials over Beijing’s alleged treatment of minority Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, according to multiple reports.
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the sanctions against the U.S. officials, would begin on Monday. The Republican senators — both prominent critics of China — were listed by Hua as targets of the “corresponding sanctions”.
It’s not clear what the new sanctions against U.S. officials will entail.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-announces-sanctions-against-us-sens-rubio-cruz-uighurs-issue
They won’t be allowed to buy low-quality chinese crap.
YOU CAN’T SANCTION ME! THATS WHAT WE DO!!!
No more trips to KTV.
You could make the case that every NFC East team is offensive.
How about the Packers? A clear jab at how gay Aaron Rogers is.
Philadelphia Eagles – Nazi Symbology
Washington Redskins – Duh
New York Giants – Hurtful to people like Andre
Arizona Cardinals – Anti-Catholic Cat Calling?
Dallas Cowboys – Gay Sub-cultural steryotyping
Arizona is in the East?
Arizona.
Arizona.
Well they were…
He was having 1980s flashbacks.
I was in Arizona when the Cardinals came to town.
I stopped watching the NFL decades ago, but I thought they had realigned and put Az not in the East.
So I was slightly confused.
Cowboys= Sexist, racist and prejudiced in favor of the employed
Patriots= Nationalist
Eagles = Nationalist
Redskins = Racist
Raiders = Glorifies violence, racist (associates black with criminality)
Seahawks = Association with Francis Drake who was a slave trader
49ers = sexist, racist, insensitive to Hispanics (White influx to California)
Chiefs = Racist
Packers= Prejudice in favor of the employed, homosexual slur
Steelers = Prejudice in favor of the employed, Steel workers history of racism and exclusion of blacks
Vikings = Sexist, glorifies violence, racist (Blond white guy? really?)
Giants = Ableist,
Browns = racist
Broncos = sexist
Buccaneers = Cultural appropriation, glorifies violence
Ravens= Racist, associations with Asatru which is problematic
Dolphins = Speciesist, Porpoises are not dolphins and exploitation of marine mammals is evil
Saints = Religious bigotry, judgmental exclusion of sinners
Bills = Racist (Buffalo Bill put actual Indians on display) sexist, anti-environmental
Cardinals = Catholic supremacist
Jets= Racist association with white washed Hispanic street gangs, anti-environmental, militarist
Rams= Sexist
Panthers = Racist association with the Black Panthers
Lions= Sexist (Lions are flat out a symbol of sexism, rape, enslavement of females, male chosen infanticide instead of female)
Texans = Racist
Falcons= Ableist association with eyesight and strength, glorification of violence
Chargers, prejudice in favor of the employed, anti-environmental
Bengals = Racist use of a Nationality
Titans = Ableist
Jaguars = Cultural appropriation, glorification of violence.
We should just stop the hate.
Bravo. Change them all to versions of “Rough Riders” like the CFL.
Ban everything but the Lingerie League!
The Rough Ride hers.
“Racist association with white washed Hispanic street gangs”
LOLOLOL
I’m not saying it’s gaslighting, but…
Why? Why are the European Union, Canada, New Zealand and others flattening the curve while American cannot?
The answer is found in two factors. One is the most dangerous myth surrounding Covid-19: that there is a tradeoff between beating the pandemic and restoring the economy. The other factor is a President who not only appears to believe that fallacy but is prepared to do whatever it takes to conjure a sense of normalcy for the sake of winning re-election.
First, the myth. It may seem counterintuitive, but combating the contagion is not contrary to helping the economy. Public health and economic growth are not incompatible; they go hand in hand. Fighting the pandemic is an indispensable step in returning to growth. There is no tradeoff. We all want the economy to recover, but allowing the coronavirus to surge is not the way.
Without the necessary measures — physical distancing, wearing face masks, etc. — the virus spreads like flames on dry brush. It will burn the economy to the ground if we don’t act. That is becoming achingly clear as we see cases spiking, fulfilling the prediction of epidemiologists who warned it was a deadly mistake to reopen too soon.
New York Times data shows that states like Florida, Texas and Arizona — all of which reopened early and aggressively — most aggressively, are becoming the new epicenters for Covid-19, with Florida reporting 15,299 new cases on Sunday — the highest number reported in a single day by any state since the pandemic began.
President Donald Trump pushed relentlessly to reopen, on the mistaken belief that it would fire up the economy, and devoted Republican governors quickly obliged. Reopening creates a flicker of economic activity, a fleeting illusion of recovery, followed by an explosion of disease and death, which demands further shutdowns.
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If the entire country had continued a strict lockdown beyond a few weeks in the spring tens of thousands of lives could have been saved. We wouldn’t have close to 70,000 people diagnosed with Covid-19 in a single day, as we did on Friday. Americans would not be banned from entering Europe. The myth about reopening restoring the economy is killing people.
Tens of thousands of lives! Could have been saved!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but “flattening the curve” alters the slope, but does not appreciably change the area under the curve. i guess it depends on where the goalposts are.
Part of me wants us all to go broke so these assholes are begging for table scraps like the dogs they are.
I never understand the logic of these arguments.
So if all these livelihoods were going to be shutdown by disease anyway, why did the government need to forcibly do it?
I know someone living in New Zealand – their approach didn’t make sense to me, because they pretty much cannot allow any outside travel in now.
I talked to her last week, she told me she’d had the worst flu she’s ever had the past 2-3 weeks. She hasn’t been tested for Covid, but I wonder if they ever really eradicated it
Noooooope
The goalposts are where they always were – Nov. 4.
Ding, ding, ding!!!
No comment about Trump refusing federal aid to Minnesota?
oorah!
There was in the previous threads I believe
I made a point of telling my woke Minnesoda girlfriend that she would be paying for the damage done. She was not happy when I told her people like me that know better should not bail out stupid people like her for remaining silent on the fact destruction of property and looting are not acceptable protests.
Vaginal speculum for applying leeches
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co91167/vaginal-speculum-for-applying-leeches-vaginal-speculum
::squirms and shudders::
Hmm, odd fetish, but whatever floats your boat
“and after the procedure, everyone went fishing!”
I saw someone pumping a “electoral map” that showed “how bad it could be for Trump” if Biden won a bunch of states he isn’t going to win. People were of course very wet.
Wokesters don’t do well with reality…
#FauciIsAHero is trending.
I don’t like the new Icons we are being told to replace the old ones with.
LOL. Apple just cancelled the trade-in on a phone I sent to them. It was in excellent condition. Guess they decided they didn’t need any more of that model. Assholes.
I guess there are tons of people who flip cell phones now, but I don’t know how their offers compare to Apple’s
Ghislaine & Epstein… How DEEP Their Pedo Connections Go | Andrew Schulz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaObOJ2Jbg
“1-Year-Old Dead, 3 Others Shot During Sidewalk Gathering Near Brooklyn Park”
Wuhan Flu strikes again.
Some animals are MORE equal!
Forgive me John Moses Browning, for I have purchased a 1911… made in Turkey.
Gun store report: My area has a fudd and a tacticool gun shop. This purchase was at the former.
Most surprising — the prices have NOT increased since before the shutdown, and also the merch on display has not decreased, but rather diversified. Apparently Zack’s noticed what other people here have mentioned wrt the changing nature of the gun-buying community had have added gaming pistols to their inventory. In addition to their standard selection of Ruger/S&W/Glock/Kimber, there are now *gasp* X5 Legions? CZs? I almost left with a 97B (have the red/green fiber optics always been standard on that?) but instead went with the $399 M1911A1 clone. It’s now in gun jail waiting on its permission slip. That latter part HAS changed apparently. Usually Saratoga County only takes 2-3 days to get an amendment done but the salesguy said that it’s currently running 3 weeks.
Also, salesguy? Do not hand me a gun and then stand directly in front of me, especially now that there are plexi sneeze shields on the counter so I have to twist my body 80 degrees to take a sight picture.
” It’s now in gun jail waiting on its permission slip. That latter part HAS changed apparently. Usually Saratoga County only takes 2-3 days to get an amendment done but the salesguy said that it’s currently running 3 weeks.”
That law is so stupid.
Don’t even get me started.
What really grinds my gears is now I have two legitimately good competition guns, but if I were to introduce someone to the sport by taking them to a match and letting them use one of them, I’d be a felon.
Well, it ain’t the first time Lincoln has targeted journalists and opposition political representatives.
The Lincoln Project, having just raised $16.8 million, is reportedly set “to expand ground operations” and begin targeting other Republicans who have supported President Trump:
And by “Target other republicans” they mean: Pay each others companies with money donated to them by moderate Dems. I’ll give it to them, they know how to grift.
I have some inside information on that “Car runs over people in Provo, UT” And the shooter is pretty much fucked.
Watch this space?
“After 90 hours of research and testing of 58 different models, we think the Magic Wand Rechargeable is the best vibrator for most people.”
https://twitter.com/wirecutter/status/1282489959979589632
“research”
“Our testers consisted of 7 people with vaginas”
OFFS!
Front holes dammit! How many times are you people going to use that outdated and transphobic term?
Vibrators don’t fit in everyone’s front hole
AKA “women”.
Get a load of JK Rowling over here.
Wait, didn’t they just say they used them on 58 different models?
Yes they used 7 different vaginas on the 58 models. I want to know the quality of the vaginas here to really make a determination.
Obligatory
Also relevant.
“..its an electric ear cleaner…”
So I’ve come across this little tidbit a couple of times on the derpier parts of lefty social media. Any of you misfits want to help me dissect it?
So far I have:
The guy completely misrepresents the Law of Very Large Numbers, turning it on its head.
He also assumes that:
a) everyone in the country will get the WuFlu (they won’t),
b) that the Case Fatality Rate is 1%, when it’s a fraction of that, because
c) the CFR is the same across all demographics (it isn’t).
The writer also brings up non-fatal results from the Commie Cough, apparently using the time-honored “let me pull this number from my ass” method. ~33 million people with permanent respiratory damage? Go long on iron lung manufacturers!
There’s got to be a few glaring errors that I’ve missed. What have y’all got?
It would seem that asymptomatic precludes lung damage. That’s just the obvious problem with his BS.
It doesn’t(*), but the study it’s based on has a number of problems to my lay eyes.
They’re just making shit up now and they know it. This morning, I caught a blurb somewhere, where this ‘expert’, most trusted you know, like CNN is most trusted in news, this guy is saying we have to wear masks for YEARS to come. FUCK.OFF.
“Permanent respiratory damage” is such a vague term as to be meaningless. Everyone who has ever had a beer has “permanent brain damage” in a very vague sense. Our organs can sustain a bunch of “damage” before we even much notice it, much less before it becomes a problem.
The CDC estimates the IFR at 0.26%. No virus in the history of ever has had an infection rate remotely close to 100% so taking the entire US population is galactic levels of stupid. The higher the number of the population that does become infected, almost axiomatically the IFR has to plummet.
And no one has explained to me how any of the “other countries” have “solved the problem.” Seems like the best that could be said is that they’ve delayed the onset of “the problem.”
What we do know is that an absolute metric fuckton of people are testing positive for this without the slightest idea they were even remotely “sick.”
My (wild) guess is that the US can afford more testing than other countries.
Ask said asshole touting that how that works out with the petri-dish level results from the Princess Cruise and the USS Theodore Roosevelt. In terms of infection rate, etc. – all of the numbers. You will get a resounding “uh”.
This branch covidians are the absolute worse. The long term damage meme that’s taken hold while predictable has already started to make my blood boil. 9000 people have died under the age of 55, just 9000. All virus’s can have adverse affects on your body that doesn’t mean they definitely do. My mom had a strain of strip that attacked her ear drum and caused her to lose all hearing in her ear. This scare mongering is disgusting. The only thing worse are the gleeful articles written about some dead guy who said he didn’t believe it was real on facebook before dieing. I hate these sanctimonious pricks so much.
The informal law of large numbers just says that a small likelihood applied over a large population leads to a near certainty that at least one member of the population will be affected. For example, if COVID-19 has a very small case fatality rate but a very large number of people get it then you can reasonably expect at least one of them to die. The formal law of large numbers says that, for certain distributions, the average of a large number of trials converges to the expected value (and there are different levels of formalization). So a 1% CFR and 100% infection rate equals a 1% excess death rate. That is a correct application of the law of large numbers. It is also terribly naive.
As they say, all models are wrong, but (only) some are useful. The law of large numbers is the naivest model there is; it predicts as output the very same thing you give it as input. As it is, essentially, the identity function, it is extremely (indeed, entirely) sensitive to the modeler’s assumptions. So, in short, you are right to challenge the assumptions.
“Democrats have said Graham is wasting the committee’s time when the panel should be taking up issues including the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and racial discrimination in policing.”
But Democrats didn’t waste anyone’s time spending 3 years investigating something they knew was just made up. OK.
I have purchased a 1911
Welcome to the Flock.
“One of us. One of us.”
Yeah, The collection was incomplete. I still need a decent stainless one made by Colt, and a bright nickel one for pimping though.
Now you’ll have to get yourself a 2011, too. Ideally one with an all-metal frame and grip.
I took my Atlas Nemesis .40 Limited blaster out to a local USPSA match this past Sunday. God I missed shooting matches. The sunburn and mild dehydration were total worth it.
First one is the 26th for me. So looking forward to it.
Yeah, the Honest Outlaw seems to really love his Atlas Hyperion.
Or is it an Athena?
I read the “Big Brother is Watching” San Francisco article. The surveillance network in question is being paid for by a private individual and being installed on private property with the agreement of the property owners and being monitored by groups of private citizens who volunteer to do so. Individuals defending their property when “Big Brother” fails to do so seems about as Libertarian an idea as possible.
What am I missing?
There are no ‘experts’ involved? How can they possibly do it right?
As you say, the fatality rate he’s using is vastly overstated. the fatality rate (which if i remember correctly isn’t even 1%) is only calculated by confirmed cases. So if someone catches it and never gets testsed, it helps up the fatality rate. Since we know that most people are asymptomatic, then the fatality rate of 1% of the US population is absurd. It would be 1% of maybe 20% that show symptoms.
I read yesterday that during the Avian Flu, the low end of the estimated IFR was 0.1%. In the end the actual IFR was 0.02%.
The CDC today updated their case fatality rate to .65%. Which is extremely high and the highest they’ve estimated it. But we will see.
it’s definitely under 1%.
It may also boost the fatality rate since if someone gets shot in the head after they had a positive test, the death will be counted as a covid death. Blatant dishonesty is the rule of the day.
The photo used for this story, headlined “Nevada Legislature pumps brakes after COVID-19 case reported” is an interesting choice. Also the tag line for it is not so subtle.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/nevada-legislature-pumps-brakes-after-covid-19-case-reported/article_9b743dce-c3de-11ea-923f-cbf19e65f2b7.html
Pretty much everything in the Pacific Timezone is a shithole.
I know. Here is a fun thing. A local lady is campaigning on the Nextdoor appy thing and me being bored and drunk, I engage. She is laying out all the ‘republican’ platitudes of “lower taxes, crazy democrats!, etc.”
I asked her a simple question: If you were in the State Congress right now, would you have moved to have a special session under blah blah blah and begin questioning the governors perpetual emergency powers?
Her answer “its the democrats! They don’t want to do it and they are in the majority and are the only ones that can call a special session outside of the governor”
My reply was “now I know not to vote for you because you don’t know your own state’s constitution and you are obviously just trying to ride on who can scream the loudest on who is craziest”.
She blocked me. Who needs [insert whatever authoritarian cause you can think of] when you have Republicans.
https://twitter.com/govkristinoem/status/1282115759653695488
tfw, you’re jealous of a horse
There are very few women I’d be willing to put on a saddle for…
…but not zero.
No more NFL for me.
The Washington Redskins announced Monday they will change their team name and logo after about 87 years of using it, in the wake of corporate and public pressure to ditch the moniker over racial connotations.
The Redskins did not announce a new name.
Change it to the Washington Paleskins.
Washington Smoothskins?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m75OSHbzb8s
Problematic
Washington Kiddie-Diddlers
That’s more a Seattle thing…
Washington Commie Cock Suckers
Well, the Bullets aren’t using that name anymore…
That was my first thought. Then I remembered that “Fightin’ Whities” merchandise sold well.
Is it still available?
The Washington AssDrugs
I’d rather watch that sport where the Turkic peoples fight for possession of a goat skin than the NFL at this point.
It would be less bullshit..
Arghanistan, isnt it? Although it may carry over into Turkey too.
Yep. The Turkish sport is oiled-up dudes fighting to remove each other’s tight leather pants.
That doesn’t sound the least bit gay.
Sounds very Greek.
CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!!!
Is that church getting protested the some one that leaves you fliers?
^that is relevant to your point because they have a sermon on youtube titled “Greeks are Cursed”
Also “Jews are Cursed,” but that one would kind of be expected.
Panem Swamp Critters.
As far as the NFL goes, I’m out too.
What’s going to happen with the NFL is they’re going to lose an very large portion of their fans and the media will blame it on guess what?
Went to their Twitter feed. Lotsa people supporting it and with bad ideas to replace the name.
I wonder what real Redskins fans really think.
My main thing is that no one uses the word Redskin except in reference to the football team. Like, has anyone ever heard someone, in real life, use “redskins” the way you hear people say “wetbacks” or “coons” or “ragheads” or any other racial slur.
Honestly, I wouldn’t care if they changed it to Warriors and kept everything else. But if they change it to some completely sanitized, corporately scripted bullshit, which is the rumor, then I’m done. I don’t know if I will pick a new team, or just scale back my football consumption period.
I would cheer for the Washington Warriors, I will not cheer for the Washington Pabulums.
I have never heard anyone actually use a racial slur in real life. So I’m not sure if that counts as hearing it in the same manner.
The thing for me is 4 years ago the Washington Post did a survey of American Indians and found that only 10% of them considered the word “Redskin” a slur. I have yet to hear about an update to that survey.
So the question I have, is this another case of an enlightened white person deciding for a minority what is best for them?
Yes.
Footy McFootFace.
Washington Skins, they play without jerseys and their mascot is Jame Gumb.
“Do you want to watch football with me? I’d watch football with me.”
+1 Goodbye Horses
This ends well, I am sure….
The Fix asked Cicco why Neal-Boylan was fired, if not for her comments, but Cicco said in her statement that “we are not able to discuss specifics of a personnel matter.”
Cicco did note that the decision to fire Neal-Boylan “was made in the best interest of the university and its students.”
Yeah, sure.
Her biography page has been taken down by the university and it now shows a 404 error, meaning it no longer exists.
Not just #canceled. #erased.
I certainly hope that a nurse would think everyone’s life matters.
From the fact this shit went down, my guess is these fucking wokesters will be encouraged not to believe that…
And they want government running the medical institutions…
What could go wrong?…
“University claims statement was not reason for termination”
Sure.
‘Welcome class of 2020. First lesson and never forget it. All lives don’t matter here. What matters is identity politics. So all things being equal, if a black person is sick but a white person is dying and in need of care, what do you do? Trick question. You attend to the black person and let the white person die because they’ve had enough privilege.’
This is going to get worse before it gets better.
I’ve never been to South Africa but it seems to be coming to us.
You guys are acting like the people who are going around saying the progressive talking points actually believe it.
If you spend a large chunk of time arguing that we need a recession to get rid of the current president, and then do everything to argue for shutting down the economy, don’t bitch about people saying you are only doing so to get rid of the president.
Trudeau transitions.
https://twitter.com/UssrWas/status/1282638146698571777
I wish.
A story with a happy ending…….
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/would-be-carjacker-dies-after-exchanging-shots-with-motorist-in-downtown-st-louis/article_f8296c54-2290-50a6-ab6c-65dc06285af2.html
In other news protesters are running amok over a statue…..
https://www.kmov.com/news/man-seen-throwing-punches-at-louis-ix-statue-has-no-regrets-change-doesn-t-happen/article_03a38898-c08b-11ea-9bbe-ab2d5c112c99.html
And a different group of protesters wanting the mayor to resign…… gotta love it when liberals turn on each other.
https://www.kmov.com/news/7-arrested-2-officers-injured-during-sunday-morning-protest-outside-city-hall/article_84772b5a-c1d0-11ea-971a-df5edb29fd0b.html
One way to cheat is thwarted (for now)
On Friday a state district judge in Texas denied a request from Harris County Clerk Christopher Hollins to allow thousands of voters to vote online in the July primary run-off elections. The unusual request was made due to an increase in recent coronavirus cases.
If you want election interference, by all means, have online elections.
Anyone advocating for an election online does not want democracy.
RedskinsThere’s blood in the water. Who’s next?
If you want election interference, by all means, have online elections.
Vote early, vote often.
I know there’s a handful of anime fans here. My girlfriend is big into it, and she mentioned yesterday that it’s been a while since she came across an anime series she really liked. She mentioned Cowboy Bebop as one of her favorites. Based on that, do any of you have any series suggestions or recommendations?
Samurai Champloo?
Avatar: The Last Airbender is good. It is not from Japan or even Asia so purists would call it not anime, but it shares a great deal thematically with anime (and other Eastern animation), it quite liberally borrows from Asian culture to the extent of all writing being in Chinese, and yet because it’s a Western show it’s quite approachable, especially for people who don’t like reading subtitles.
I believe the next anime I watched after Cowboy Bebop was Fullmetal Alchemist. That, like Bebop, has an excellent dub. I’d recommend watching the original before Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood to better understand the characters, but the two tell divergent stories past a certain point (the original series overtook the manga it was based on).
Have you seen Transylvania yet? Also, I’m a big fan of The Overlord series.
Castlevania? I saw the first season, which was short but I liked it.
I’ll have to check out Overlord.
Howl’s Moving Castle
Anything by Miyazaki is good, though I think Spirited Away is my favorite.
Anybody who gambles, works in stats, invests, analyzes data, or doesn’t do any of those things but has an opinion:
I am feeling there is a market crash coming soon and I would like Mr Mojeaux to take money out of his work 401k so as not to take a bigger hit than the last dip. I am willing to take the tax bite. He is not. However, my mother lost 30k in 2008 and never regained those losses. I feel putting it in a tiny-interest-bearing savings account (SmartyPig) would be safer.
Thoughts?
You take a pretty large hit by taking it out early.
Yeah, I think it’s 10% right off the top, and then you pay income tax on it as well.
Like P Brooks said below, you should be able to convert it to a different fund/portfolio without withdrawing.
Also, the time to retirement should factor in – if someone was able to hold their position from the 2008 recession, they’d have been fine (ignoring any covid stuff)
“Yeah, I think it’s 10% right off the top, and then you pay income tax on it as well.”
Yeah, so you could take a 25-30% hit right off.
“Like P Brooks said below, you should be able to convert it to a different fund/portfolio without withdrawing.”
I moved most of mine out of high risk a couple of years ago.
But not if you take it out as a loan and repay through increased deductions from your paycheck.
I looked into getting access to my retirement recently and there are a long of list of discouragement that the government puts you through to withdrawal even a portion of a 401(k) or a 403(b). The easiest way to do is if you are paying off or readjusting your mortgage to avoid homelessness, but even then you have to prove you need it and prove that’s what you are using it for. Some medical situations apply as well.
That’s true – although I think different 401k providers have different rules on the amounts/length of time they’ll let you take a loan.
I’ve looked into taking some out as a loan to increase a house downpayment, a lot of people flatly say don’t do it, but it can certainly make good sense
Yeah, we’ve maxed out on the loans, although with COVID, the restrictions have changed and they are now allowing you to take 100% with a 1-year grace period.
With my Lost Thing, I am feeling very unsettled and insecure and hopeless.
Yeah, 10% penalty on early withdraws (plus normal Federal and State rate).
consider the less risky instruments inside the 401k:
there are probably cash-equivalents like money markets you can switch into so that you don’t hold stocks or bonds
I’m all cash for a month now
“consider the less risky instruments inside the 401k:”
Makes sense when you approach retirement age. I did exactly that.
Yeah, your portfolio really needs to change as time passes to better reflect the risk you’re willing to take on
the risk
of which your estimation should be evolving considering the horizon until you need the money versus the likelihood of business cycles taking a bad turn in a time too short in which to recover
Yep – I’ve always been meaning to do a deep dive into portfolio construction, the mathematics behind it and all that, it’s interesting stuff, I just haven’t really got around to it yet.
Mines is spread between multiple index funds (large cap, mid cap, small cap, foreign cap) and a bond index. Since I am over 60, I am about 40% in the bond index right now.
Thoughts?
You don’t necessarily have to withdraw it. Convert it into cash.
^this, leave it in the 401k but in cash, or depending on your options in some sort of crash/inflation hedge like gold (not silver), then reinvest it post crash. And don’t do it with 100%.
You long on gold? It’s so high already.
(Not a criticism; genuine inquiry.)
“That Wasp has some massive tits tbh”
https://twitter.com/DawgDinner/status/1282586233500246020
Dispatch from the travel front:
At OKC Will Rogers World airport. Employees all wearing masks. Noticed about 1/2 passengers wearing masks in the terminal. Airport says it’s at the discretion of the airlines.
This is one area that it makes sense to wear masks as if it’s the height of flu season, just like you wear a mask in the medical waiting room because of all the germs concentrated in a small area.
With air travel, you’re encountering other travelers and whatever they brought for the ride. We are about to be on a plane for a while sharing air and door handles.
Big contrast to travel last Wednesday, which was San Diego to OKC with connections in between. All masks, all the time then.
Clearly, the “science” isn’t settled.
I flew last week Charlotte to Phoenix and back, both airports required masks, and American Airlines required them in flight as well.
I think someone posted a link to an MIT study claiming the risk of contracting it wearing a mask on a full flight was like 1/4000 (if the middle seats are left empty they claimed like 1/8000) – I didn’t bother reading it, so I have no clue about how they got those numbers.
Only time I caught flu must have been on a plane.
So sorry about your dad.
Thanks.
Big contrast to travel last Wednesday, which was San Diego to OKC with connections in between. All masks, all the time then.
Clearly, the “science” isn’t settled.
Of course it is.
Science tells us- if you let people choose, some will not choose wisely.
Everything not prohibited must be mandatory.
I have no clue about how they got those numbers.
Let’s just say their fingers got stinky.
A story with a happy ending…….
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/would-be-carjacker-dies-after-exchanging-shots-with-motorist-in-downtown-st-louis/article_f8296c54-2290-50a6-ab6c-65dc06285af2.html