Good Morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely morning it always is!
Trump working on declassifying Spygate docs.
McAfee indicted on tax evasion.
That is all I have for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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About The Author
Banjos
Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.
Morning Banjos.
I’m in an almost zen state watching the fog shroud the neighborhood around the office, I don’t want to ruin it with current events.
Morning, Glibs time, Banjos
Trump is baaaack.
First with comment that references Banjo’s links.
You should see this view. It’s pretty much the only time Albany itself is pretty.
‘You should see this view. It’s pretty much the only time Albany itself is pretty.’ — UnCivilServant
Pics?
I’m at work, why would I have a camera?
Use the one implanted in your left eye?
I found a camera, but I’ve got no way to post pictures online from the office.
(We go through a proxy that filters a lot of otherwise innoccuous sites)
‘I found a camera, but I’ve got no way to post pictures online from the office.’ — UnCivilServant
Offices are so 2019. / jk
Seriously, shame cannot share view.
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It’s not the greatest picture but I’ll see about sharing it when I get home.
That’s likely a preventive measure implemented to stem all the child (and donkey or other animal crap bored people that don’t do any real work, watch) porn flowing through government servers otherwise…
Oh, I know exactly why we have a proxy.
I used to manage the proxy.
I just had to point out why, at an otherwise fully functional computer, I have difficulty sharing a simple image of trees in fog.
Thanks, UnCivilServant. Look forward seeing. Donation not taxation.
Forewarning, I missed the hight of the fog, so it had dissipated a bit by the time I took the picture.
Fog, sunrises/sets, you’ll never have the camera there in time, get used to it.
You don’t like the view on the viaduct from hell going into the Empire State Plaza?
Having worked in Albany before, I agree that the only time it’s pretty is when something is obscuring the view.
Fog, snow, hand in front of the face…
You know who else really disliked (((them)))?
Van Morrison?
A good many of (((Them)))?
Like Van Morrison?
Ferdinand and Isabella?
Henry Ford?
Charles Lindberg?
My Mother’s Step-father?
Mel Gibson.
I thought he just liked making snuff films about (((them)))?
Roger Waters?
According to Ezra Pound, all Brits.
Hadrian?
My grandmother?
‘During World War II, the SS and other German occupation authorities concentrated urban and sometimes regional Jewish populations in ghettos. Living conditions were miserable. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.’
‘New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday that the city will re-impose a COVID lockdown, which will include the closing of schools and nonessential businesses, in several neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations. The city had just opened all public schools this past week.
The lockdown will last two to four weeks in parts of Far Rockaway, Queens and Kew Gardens in Queens; and parts of Borough Park, Midwood, Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn,’
‘During World War II, the SS and other German occupation authorities concentrated urban and sometimes regional Jewish populations in ghettos. Living conditions were miserable. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.’
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ghettos
‘New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday that the city will re-impose a COVID lockdown, which will include the closing of schools and nonessential businesses, in several neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations. The city had just opened all public schools this past week.’
‘The lockdown will last two to four weeks in parts of Far Rockaway, Queens and Kew Gardens in Queens; and parts of Borough Park, Midwood, Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn,’
‘The announcement was made on the second day of the Sukkot holiday, when Orthodox Jews do not use electricity and would not have gotten news about the upcoming closures until sundown on Sunday.’
https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/322481/new-york-city-to-shut-down-9-neighborhoods-many-with-large-orthodox-populations-due-to-covid-case-spike/
‘Cuomo really dislikes Jews.’ — Banjos
Donation not taxation.
Bill de Blasios’ “wife” hates (((them))) and Cuomo hates uppity folk no matter what they happen to be. Woodchippers Ahoy!
How the post should read …
‘During World War II, the SS and other German occupation authorities concentrated urban and sometimes regional Jewish populations in ghettos. Living conditions were miserable. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.’
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ghettos
‘New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday that the city will re-impose a COVID lockdown, which will include the closing of schools and nonessential businesses, in several neighborhoods with large Orthodox Jewish populations. The city had just opened all public schools this past week.’
‘The lockdown will last two to four weeks in parts of Far Rockaway, Queens and Kew Gardens in Queens; and parts of Borough Park, Midwood, Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn,’
‘The announcement was made on the second day of the Sukkot holiday, when Orthodox Jews do not use electricity and would not have gotten news about the upcoming closures until sundown on Sunday.’
https://jewishjournal.com/news/united-states/322481/new-york-city-to-shut-down-9-neighborhoods-many-with-large-orthodox-populations-due-to-covid-case-spike/
‘Cuomo really dislikes Jews.’ — Banjos
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lOBOT IS SURROUNDED!
Tee hee… The call (of the shofar) is coming from inside the shul. I expect some non-compliance leading to a PR disaster as NYPD is forced to round up Jews en masse.
But Trump is the anti-Semite.
McAfee indicted on tax evasion. – more and more presidential by the day. Although I think I unironically believe he would not do a worse job that trump or biden.
Much worse? Probably orders of magnitude better. Plus, imagine the parties at the White House!
Write in McAfee? Donation not taxation.
The way 2020 has gone I am mightily tempted to vote for the “Snort Coke Off Of A Fat Stripper’s Ass Party”! Jaysus, McAffee. You’re supposed to wealthy. Why all the stank?
Stank whores have a charm all their own?
*Leans down and wafts a little with a limp-wristed flourish* Nope. Cilantro is gross, too.
Think of WInston’s mom, dude!
Good luck uninstalling McAfee when his term expired. You think Trump might not go…
I got rid of it.
Mind you I’d gotten plenty of experience doing a clean uninstall and reinstall when I was still trying to get it to work, so I just applied what I learned there to purge it.
Right. It always leaves registry entries and DLLs still installed.
#FreeJohnMcafee
With every 5 tabs of acid?
Tempting. Haven’t done a tab in 25 years.
Mornin’ Banjos and the rest of you! I want to be that dog on the trampoline at least once more in my life.
Here you go, Son, you’ll feel better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqGWTxwZEA
Don’t be that way, Dad. Life is terrible enough as is.
I want to be that dog on the trampoline at least once more in my life.
That’s the sentiment I was struggling to understand while watching him.
Please skip moderating this comment. Do not post.
Hoes mad. – Celebrities is where I get all my opinions from so I agree with everything
If they’re so smart, why can’t they avoid the public eye?
Even Captain America is afraid of COVID.
Anyone old enough to serve in WWII should be.
OMG, should we freeze everyone until COVID is over?
I don’t get it. What’s the basis for the outrage?
This doesn’t even make sense.
Orange Man Bad?
So, Trump.
I haven’t spent a whole lot of time thinking about him because what would be the point in doing so? My opinion/conclusion from what I did hear/see/read as that he was basically a fairly typical salesman/schmoozer who was in the right place at the right time.
However, from the way NPR was reacting today maybe he really does have some talent at actively manipulating people? There was one newsreader who was angry about his portico video (which I haven’t seen yet) but there were five others who ranged from despairing at its effectiveness to actually impressed and (almost?) swayed by it.
To be fair, actively manipulating the average person is not that difficult, especially for people with no sense of shame aka politicians. The only sad thing for me is that I should be a lot richer than I am by selling some bullshit or other to the masses. I read a lot on health and nutrition and such I should be able to come up with some bullshit sup to sell.
That works really well here in the US, get some fad diet set up – get a couple of “Health” mags to publish glowing stories about it… $$$$
I’m not disagreeing with you. What struck me is that this seemed to be working on NPR employees. Changing the mind of someone who hates you is flipping difficult.
Depends on how you’re trying to change their mind. If you get someone angry/upset, it will usually cloud their judgment and reasoning, and can be used for some quick cons to provide a distraction.
Changing the mind of someone who hates you is flipping difficult. – yes but then again, less capable of rational thought than average
Of course. He managed to activate some positive emotional response in these people.
So what you’re saying is you should start an Onlyfans?
Reagan seemed to have one leading up to the 1984 Olympics. Most of those commercials were downright creepy. I mean darkly Nationalistic and that was when we were actually worried about getting immolated.
It’s Morning In America Again” was dark?
“YOU ARE IT!” Usually followed by a Marine commercial. Come on, Man…
I’m writing a self-help book called: “The President doesn’t Give a Shit About You” I think it will sell poorly, but those who apply its lessons will be happier than those who don’t.
I’m writing a self-negation book entitled “Nobody Gives A Shit About You” and I’m taking it door to door to every Psyche ward, jail, and half-way house that I can find in a fifty mile radius.
King troll
I somewhat agree with you, with a couple of caveats:
1) Much of the “racist dogwhistles” and other nonsense that Trump “gets away” with is stuff that was not very controversial 10 years ago. Right towards the end of the Obama administration, the elite really pushed the window such that public figures could not say many many things in public without being accused of a lack of decency.
2) Much of what drives Trump’s fandom is that he is saying stuff that wasn’t particularly controversial in many adults’ recent memory. And they are still angry that some deeply held convictions have been rendered untouchable by media and the cancel culture. Trump doesn’t have to manipulate people, he just needs to say these things and refuse to get canceled.
3) Trump is actually somewhat hit or miss. That photo op with him holding the bible in front of the church after the park was cleared out was cringeworthy. Not because of the mob in the park, but because Trump standing with a bible in front of a church, saying nothing, is comedy. But instead of letting that stand for itself, the media often amplifies Trump’s most effective messages, because (see #1 and 2) those are the messages that the media thinks are the most controversial.
Trump’s talent is exposing people – look at the Rubin links, she’s supposed to be the tame conservative at the Post. He keeps exposing the deep state, the rampant corruption at FBI and CIA in particular. Whether anything is ever done about is another question, but now anyone paying attention knows their government is rotten to the core.
mornin’ Banjos!
Im gonna try to work out on the patio today. Should be a great day to be outside.
How about “no”.
Office of the Governor of California
@CAgovernor
Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend? Don’t forget to keep your mask on in between bites.
Do your part to keep those around you healthy.
Touch your face and put a mask over it while you eat. That is sanitary.
That…that is… *sadly shakes head and wanders off*
“Who could have predicted an upswing in food poisoning illness from this?”
This isn’t a joke? Enkidu wept…
Oh, it’s a joke. Just not intentional.
In between bites…lol. i need to talk with my sis in Cali on how that is going.
Hoes mad.
TDS mixed with lack of perspective is a dangerous cocktail.
The screeching from the Hollywood set seems somewhat more hysterical than usual.
Are they upset about being denied the pleasure of chortling over OMB’s funeral?
And they are also upset that Trump just demonstrated that COVID is not especially dangerous to the general population.
Yup, we desperately need a lot of sick people looking to us for salvation. Truly, truly disgusting.
From Straff’s tweet last night:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TexasLibertas/status/1313284784349736963/photo/1
Yup. Actually have a Libertarian running. I’ll check his platform but doubt that I would vote for him except for a lark. Our District is solid Tory Blue. The Conservatives that call themselves Liberals usually win by a two to one margin.
I like it.
to Rhywun: thanks for that cover of “I’ll Be There.” I liked that version quite a bit. Funny that most of the comments on the youtube link are saying they found that version because of a medical commercial.
No way in HELL can debate commission allow Oct 15 debate to go forward. They will be responsible for exposing people to a deadly disease.
Isn’t that outside the accepted incubation/infection period? Stop moving the goalposts, you cunte.
It is very easy to provide adequate distance between the candidates and whatever other covid voodoo theater in order to have the debate.
Trump should publicly tell NASA to lend Biden an astronaut suit so he can be at the debate safely.
/imagines Biden trying to moon jump around the debate stage.
Those things weigh more than Gropey Joe does. He wouldn’t be able to move, let alone moon jump.
‘Those things weigh more than Gropey Joe does. He wouldn’t be able to move, let alone moon jump.’ — UnCivilServant
Problem? Stand talk 90 minutes.
#THATSTHEJOKE
‘#THATSTHEJOKE’ — pan fried wylie
Ah. Thanks, pan fried wylie. Donation not taxation.
Do you have any idea how many pushups that guy can do???!??
I’m guessing, not many. He might not weigh much, but those pipecleaner arms aren’t going to even move that.
That’s it! Pushup Contest Time!
You do that. I’m not going to descend to that level.
Lies. Joe is playin’ possum! He’ll breakdance in that costume!
Maybe they think ‘broadcasting aerosols’ means the virus can be transmitted over TV and streaming services?
Already got my tinfoil on
Eureka! Foil masks!!!! Big money, here I come!
Use copper foil and a whole new market opens up
“Copper Infused…for your good health!”
Yeah it doesn’t even have to be pure copper, just, like, homeopathic amounts
Brett Favre nods knowingly.
‘Yeah it doesn’t even have to be pure copper, just, like, homeopathic amounts’ — db
https://www.coppermask.com
I’m investing in Big Tooth-pick!
I’d rather see Saran Wrap masks on plenty of folks…
“they will be responsible for exposing people to a deadly disease.”
I guess, then, the election should be called off too – – until a 100% vaccine is developed — wouldn’t want poll workers, etc. exposed to any deadly disease. If governors can endlessly re-issue emergency orders, then maybe Trump should too until he tires of being BadOrangeMan.
He won’t give up until the final squinch.
Trump working on declassifying Spygate docs.
Can’t this be done by E.O.? Seems like the president should have final say.
Also, I want to know what is going on at Area 51.
Area 51 is a decoy. It’s a distraction to keep people from noticing what’s really going on.
So you know about Area 52 too…
Area 52 is where they store the kidney stones and the reason that I keep passing blood in my stool. 52 Channels and nothing on. Godspeed, Scruffy!
Human kidney stones are like gems to the aliens. We use them to buy all the latest tech upgrades.
Oh, and sorry to hear about the excess probing, Festus. Those are wildcat stone miners who don’t really know where they come from.
Sounds like area 34
Well sure, someone enjoys that but it sure ain’t me.
‘So you know about Area 52 too…’ — Scruffy Nerfherder
‘Forget about Area 51. That’s old news. A joke. The newer, hipper secret facility is Area 52, and Ancient Aliens has the scoop.’
https://hiddenremote.com/2018/09/01/ancient-aliens-area-52/
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Area 69
‘Area 69’ — AlexinCT
According to GTA, Area 69 does not have a runway.
Donation not taxation.
I BLAME YOU AMERICANS FOR THIS
It is time reparations are paid for Roma slavery
Romanians continue to actively deny the history of Roma enslavement in Romanian lands.
Margareta Matache
Margareta Matache
A justice activist and scholar from Romania, director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights’ Roma Program, and a Harvard instructor.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/5/it-is-time-reparations-are-paid-for-roma-slavery/
But the agenda of Roma integration is not enough for us, any more. We now demand justice, reparations, and anti-racist policies. – justice at the same level of every citizen. For the rest no, fuck off
The forced labour of Roma slaves constituted a central element in the development and growth of the Romanian economy; – horseshit. they had some effect sure were not that many – less than a tenth of the population – and Romania was underdeveloped until after liberation. And most of the locals were serfs tied to the land , better than slaves to be sure but far from free. Also Romania was made poor by hundreds of years of heavy tribute to the Ottomans and Tatars, which also took a lot of Romanians as slaves, when do we get reparations from that?
For instance, the Cașin monastery in Bacau was built in the 1650s by 800 Romani slaves. Should the Orthodox Church not pay back the Roma for having built Cașin and other properties from scratch? – fuck no.
But the time has come to remember the past and correct the present, through reparations and power-sharing. It is time for descendants of enslaved people across the world to rise in solidarity and demand compensation and justice. – fuck off. The past is the past and there is no repairing it. It is one thing to advocate for knowing history – sure – and to encourage actual tolerance. This shit is another thing entirely. I don’t want to diminish slavery and how bad it was – it was probably hell – but that was generations ago.
Haven’t they already stolen enough to cover that?
I do not want to comment on criminality and such…
I want to comment on criminality, or more specifically the glamorization of criminality. One thing that makes my blood boil is when pickpockets get depicted as fun-loving rapscallions. Fucking PICKPOCKETS! Creatures so loathsome that death by slow slicing* isn’t painful enough a punishment. The only thing I can see is how much damage they’re doing to their victims when they waltz off with all their cash and identification. Especially for tourists with no local support system or knowledge. There is nothing I hate more in the petty crime spectrum than pickpockets.
Sorry, I got off on a tangent.
*also known as the death of a thousand cuts
Carry a front pocket wallet, man.
Here’s the thing – I’ve never actually been hit by a pickpocket. I’ve taken more than enough precautions to avoid it. But that doesn’t make me hate them any less.
The thing about pickpocketing is, it actually requires some training and skill to pull off successfully. That’s the reason it’s a dying art among the professional criminal class.
I had an old-school pickpocket tell me that his average take for a successful lift was in the $1k range. Cash, working the cards then selling them as blanks, selling the IDs, etc. Not a bad take.
I don’t care. That they would spend so much time honing that skill just makes them even more vile people deserving of all the suffering that can be inflicted upon them.
Or use your prison wallet…..
Wait, wait wait. Everybody doesn’t carry their wallet in their front pocket?
There are some morons who sit on their wallets.
I switched years ago and will never go back.
I have this one, but I’d probably go with one of their models with a dedicated bill pocket next time.
There are some morons who sit on their wallets.
Do they carry two? For balance.
They do not.
Morons.
your wallet will soon be a chip in your forearm
Fuck that noise.
Plus, that’s even easier to steal from since it can be done from a distance, covertly.
Criminality is much more than that. A quite disproportionate amount of the violent crime, robberies, forced prostitution, are of a certain minority. But this is not the topic…
Yes, I know. I got off on a tangent because of my own emotional biases.
‘Especially for tourists’ — UnCivilServant
Victimizing tourists victimizes tourism industry city/region crime happens. Donation not taxation.
Eyes up, be aware of your surroundings, make brief eye contact with all suspicious persons. Give “predator” not “prey” signals. Pickpockets at tourist places make their living doing it. Like most people on most jobs, they’re doing the least work possible. They’ll find someone who is eyes down and completely unaware of who is around them.
Thieves are despicable even if they aren’t stealing from you.
This reminds me of being in the Boston subway 10-12 years ago. Waiting for the train must have been 100 people, the majority Asians. There were only two people who didn’t have their total concentration on their phones: me and the guitar busker (playing Piano Man – how stupid is that?). I said to myself “Pickpockets must be loving smartphones.” I couldn’t believe how easy it looked to just take the wallet out of an oblivious college kid’s purse
Noted that you didn’t gender the College Kid.
My dad got pickpocketed on the stairs at the Bratislava train station. One stopped in front of him to “tie his shoe” to distract him, and one behind him took his wallet. I had told him to keep his wallet in his front pocket, but old habits die hard.
When I was backpacking through various sketchy places around the globe I always kept my passport and other valuables in a small, nylon bag suspended by a string inside one trouser leg just below the calf. In jeans it didn’t show up so much and would be difficult to get to quickly without a strongarm approach. I usually had a small amount of local currency in a pocket for expenses. This was before credit cards were useful anywhere outside the US and when ATM’s did not work across international borders.
Traversing England, My passport and cash reserve were kept in a fairly flat wallet under my shirt hanging from aneck lanyard. Not as unexpected a spot as the trouser leg, I admit.
I kept my passport and anything I really didn’t want to lose in a money belt under my clothes.
So, this is the latest scam the Gypsies are trying to run?
Tying this to the waiter conversation from last night:
We often had large tables of gypsies. From a waiter’s perspective, they were a lot of work, but they did tip well* The management HATED them because of the asterisk.
*they tipped well as a percentage of food billed, but not as a percentage of food consumed. Lots of sending partially eaten plates back because “it wasn’t right” and the like. And then saying items on the bill shouldn’t have been there and getting them comped.
“This food is terrible. And the portions are so small.”
Fargin’ Gypsies. Sure, the young women are fine but why would you put up with the constant thievery and death curses?
the young women are fine – the don’t age well in general
I watched both seasons of Suburra. Can confirm.
Is that the overseas remake of Subaru Horror Theater?
I’ve only seen “Thinner” and that chick was hot as molten steel. Of course I’m being racist!
Mob series set in modern Rome. The four factions involved are one of the Italian organized crime types (camorra? Whichever one is in Rome) a Gypsy crime family, the Church and the city government.
Starts off with a archbishop ODing in an orgy.
What? No gangs of rapefugees?
Funny you should mention that…
One of the plot points is manipulating the system in order to screw over the other faction by having their territory seized to set up a refugee camp and also which faction is going to control the supply contract to run said refugee camp.
Literally is modern Italy.
“Trump working on declassifying Spygate docs.”
Why does he need to work? Order it. You are the fucking president. And tell the deep state assholes slow walking this that if it doesn’t happen by x date, they will be held liable.
Fuck…
“Dear CIA Director I appointed. You have 3 days to release all related documents or you’re fired.”
“TRUMP FIRES CIA DIRECTOR TO COVER UP RUSSIA COLLUSION!!
Relevant….
‘“Trump working on declassifying Spygate docs.” Why does he need to work? Order it.’ — AlexinCT
FTA: ‘is this intel that [Devin] Nunes floated the possibility of temporarily shutting down U.S. intel agencies until they turn over those documents.’
Before declassifying, ‘docs’ need officially ‘found’. Then, even President Donald J. Trump and D3evin Nunes (R-California 22) political coversomeone they choose certify national security not harmed release recommend declassify.
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STEVE SMITH
‘will talk about spacewalking, being an astronaut and excelling at teamwork as part of the Virtual Astronaut lecture series on Tuesday (Oct. 6) at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT)’
https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-steve-smith-virtual-astronaut
Isn’t he infringing on SPACE SMITH territory here?
‘Isn’t he infringing on SPACE SMITH territory here?’ — AlexinCT
Preexisting formal agreement? STEVE SMITH act defend territory STEVE SMITH?
Donation not taxation.
NO TALK ABOUT SPACE SMITH!
FIRST RULE OF RAPESQUATCH, NO TALK ABOUT RAPESQUATCH!!
Too many rules!
ONLY ONE RULE IN FOREST OF CASCADIA
I wonder what he means by Teamwork….
GROUND AIR SEA SPACE! TEAMWORK!
“We know religious institutions have been a problem,” Cuomo said Monday. “We know mass gatherings are the super spreader events. We know there have been mass gatherings going on in concert with religious institutions in these communities for weeks. For weeks. I don’t mean little violations.”
Concentration of Jews has been a real problem.
Now do BLM protests.
‘Concentration of Jews has been a real problem.’ — Rebel Scum
Camps?
That’s the joke.
‘That’s the joke.’ — Rebel Scum
Ah. Thanks, Rebel Scum. Donation not taxation.
Good morning, Banjos!
And thanks for the tune. I will be listening to that ridiculously good album today. It brings back a flood of great memories.
Good for Trump. Bad for rationality.
On a street a block over, I’ve noticed a brewing cold war. One neighbor put out the Biden sign. Then one put out a Trump sign. Two more Biden signs. Three more Trump yesterday. I’ll be interested to see today’s score. People are weird.
I would think McAfee has decent enough lawyers to avoid prison. Anyone know how and why he got popped? It goes to show you, though – if the State wants you, you are toast.
Have a great day, peeps! You all deserve it!
He went to a place that extradites?
That boat needs fuel and he needs more alcohol.
That’s what tenders are for.
He is allegedly a murderer.
Yes, but his claim is that he was being framed by a local gov’t or rival of some sort, right?
“That’s what tenders are for.”
Tender nub-nubs?
“…ridiculously good album today. It brings back a flood of great memories.”
I’m a weiner, I’m a sinner
Do you want my autograaph?
I see that the narrative has been set.
“It’s not a real show of strength but its a performative show of strength,” Stelter said. “This is what strongmen do in autocratic regimes. Of course, thankfully, we are in a democracy. This is the kind of thing you see from strongmen who want to appear to be leading. It’s a ‘dear leader’ sort of approach. And I think that is what we are seeing on our television screen. Meanwhile, there are big questions about the cover-up. You know, why won’t they tell us about his testing history, when he was tested? We’ve moved from this possibly being a cover-up to actually being a cover-up. And whether the President is at Walter Reed or back at the White House, reporters are going to keep demanding answers to those questions.” …
Maddow said, “President Trump returned to the White House tonight after three nights spent in the hospital at Walter Reed. He staged a kind of performative return that may have tried to be a sort of triumphant ‘I beat the virus’ thing with Marine One landing right next to the White House. The president then tromping up the stairs into the White House. This may have tried to be a sort of triumphant return impression, but the real impression it created was something almost opposite to that. I mean the president walking up the stairs to the South Portico, but then turning out to face the cameras while he was- could be plainly seen really gasping for air, huffing and puffing, mouth breathing, and trying to pull in air while his chest sort of rose and fell with difficulty, looking out at the cameras.”
When will Biden be releasing the list of medications he is taking? Shouldn’t the American people be told if he is taking something that is given to onset-Alzheimer patients?
You have to elect him to find what’s in him.
I think every parent has the right to know what meds their children’s teachers are taking. I shouldn’t have to subject my child to a teacher on anti-depressants.
Biden is the reason they are going crazy about early voting. They know the fucker isn’t going to be able to go the distance and want those votes in before even the stupid lefties realize that they are on the verge of President Harris.
“Tromping” I’ll give Maddow this, she ain’t dumb. That’s a great point to put across even though I don’t care fore her take on almost anything Trump.
Central fatness and risk of all cause mortality: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of 72 prospective cohort studies
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3324
Mind that waist circumference glibbies
How can we with all the luscious recipes being shared, the beer reviews, etc. etc.? It’s a plot to wipe out the glibertarian community I tells ya.
Phil Maffetone is a cranky old man, sometimes, but he has always said quit worrying about all the high tech body fat shit and get a tape measure. If your waist at the bellybutton is more than half your height, you are too fat.
Uh oh. 71 inches x 36… Better start cleansing!
If you need to understand their mental state and allegiance, just look at one of them telling you where they felt safer…
These fuckers hate this country.
I felt safer reporting in North Korea than I currently do reporting at The White House. This is just crazy.
This person should be committed. He is clearly out of his mind.
In the side bar: ‘Murica.
“I felt safer reporting in North Korea than I currently do reporting at The White House. ”
I know how to fix that – send them back.
Translated: “In the DPRK, I don’t mind kissing dear leader’s ass!”
Not sure if this has been thrown out there. Trump’s covid case…
total and complete cover for a serious threat on his life.
The doctors involved wouldn’t even have to know just swab someone’s nose who has it and submit as sample.
Your tinfoil hat, sir. It is stylish and fashionable. Well done.
Your newsletter – I can haz subscription?
But why? How does that make him safer? Why claim all his aides getting it?
Because the one that betrayed him is going to die of it? /double tinfoil
That explains the reason future Hat and Hair didn’t show up
These people think the rest of us are fucking the enemy and care very little about keeping a country of laws. Relevant text:
“The emails show State Department officials under Trump openly worried a year before the 2020 election that the emerging storyline that Vice President Joe Biden may have engaged in a conflict of interest by presiding over Ukraine policy while his son worked for a corrupt Ukrainian gas company might prove to be “the mother load [sic] and main thread to play out, possibly thru Nov. 2020.”
The illegal monitoring was, in fact, ordered specifically to counter that narrative as well as another storyline that involved the liberal megadonor George Soros, the newly unredacted passages of the emails show.
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch first raised concerns earlier this year that the U.S. embassy in Kiev run by then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch had created an “enemies list” by ordering the monitoring of social media accounts of prominent Americans last year when the Ukraine scandal about Joe and Hunter Biden first surfaced.”
They are in full blown “get orange man gone so we can hide the criminality” mode. At the risk of getting a visit from the SS, I am now rooting for Washington D.C. to be nuked (preferably while Trump is elsewhere).
Just so we all know, Kayleigh is fine … and also asymptomatic.
“I’m feeling great,” she said. “I’m having no symptoms. You know, I’m very blessed to have a mild case or really just an asymptomatic case. You know, my heart goes out to all of those who have been affected by this and all those who’ve lost their lives.”
I am trying to figure out how many of the WH people with this are having more than a mild case, but not getting the picture…
What is obvious is that the people that were hoping Trump would die to show how scary the Kung Flu was are now up in arms because he not only shook it off, but told people the thing was not as serious as they have been told, and that freaks the credentialed expertise class the most, cause if shows them being morons.
Vapors engulf youth hockey league when a dad walked his son into hockey practice with a rifle slung over his shoulder.
The reporter didn’t know why the guy was carrying his rifle, but that is irrelevant! Hockey Moms are aghast! Needs to be a LAW!!!
So sounds like he didn’t break any laws, but they sure as shit are going to get him somehow
They named a town after Carol Vadnais?
Kinda dumb but probably completely legal. Gotta be a little careful in those rinks, though, as some are on school grounds.
Just because its legal, doesn’t mean you should do it.
‘Desperate attention seeking’ is probably close enough to the truth.
“Kid, you stay here, I am going hunting. Back when practice is over.”
China is asshoe.
15 Percent of Tibet’s Population Transferred to Chinese Training Centers as Mass Labor Program Expands: Report
“Training Centers” is a cute name for them.
Holy shit
Arbeit macht frei!
They have started doing the same shit to the Mongolians too.
They keep tightening the noose, pissing off more and more. I wonder if they’ll succeed. Typically these things don’t end well for the governments that do them, but the power disparity is pretty huge.
When the Three Gorges fails, the CCP is done. Between now and then, they’ll keep doing horrific things.
When that happens I wonder if the NBA will sit stunned, trying to figure out whose dick they’re supposed to suck now.
I haven’t heard anything on the flooding or the dam in a couple of months. Possibly the crisis has passed, at least this year?
I suspect the reported crop failure could be a disaster all its own, of course.
Given how much the dam moved, it does not have a solid foundation. There’s no way to fix that without draining the reservoir and digging under the dam. Even then, whatever fix they throw at it will not be as good as doing it right the first time, and would only be a bandaid.
It will break, and I’m not talking centuries.
“And you can’t go to a 7-Eleven without running into a dammed indian. That’s dots, not feathers, just to be clear.”
“The American public, the blinders have been taken off. They’ve all of a sudden seen a hell of a lot clearer. Geez, the reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home is because some black woman was able to stock the grocery shelf.”
Robert Bird applauds his buddy’s choice of words..
Funny part is that I think he was trying to be genuinely complementary with that. And I’d actually agree that he’s probably right and that it probably is a complementary thing.
Just that his side has made the world so super-sensitive to any mention of race, assuming it’s all always derogatory, so that now everybody thinks it’s cringe-y and using it to bust him.
Good for the female Hate Bird, good for the male Hate Bird.
A flock of Hate Birds flew south over the trap range last weekend.
Nobody took a shot. Hunting is prohibited on club property.
It’s not hunting, it’s pest control.
Last year some guy killed a bunch of Hate Birds on his property and people lost their fucking minds.,
Oh yeah. Absolutely hold ’em to their own standards. Just funny that he’s getting dinged for it.
I mean… yeah? Its just that, you know, Joe’s not very articulate. Here’s a more articulate version of the same thought from someone ‘on our team’.
https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2020/10/work-from-home-socialize-via-zoom-is-the-height-of-elite-priviledge.html
Well, he got excoriated when used other people’s words.
Wow, that trump video has almost every audio clip I need to write the cartoon! Good thing I was lazy!
So in Romania you had veterinary doctors who had 5 years of university and veterinary technicians which had a 2 year professional school. Not the ministry of agriculture, the minister being also the vice president of the veterinary medic’s association, wants to make it illegal for technicians to diagnose or treat animals without a medic supervising them, which means being employed by a veterinary clinic run by a medic. A lot of minor things were handled by technicians. It is also making illegal for people to apply any treatment to their pets or livestock without a prescription from a veterinary medic. Off course this is defended as making us more as some western country without any clear reason as to why this is good.
Government is about picking winners and losers…
Also we had veterinary pharmacies and the law says that they can only operate if more than 50% owned by veterinary medics.
Those Vet Medics made a fine investment in buying politicians.
Obviously your livestock was too affordable.
MIT Scientists: Nuclear Fusion Energy Could Be Closer Than Thought – Ten Years?
I’m curious what happened to the Lockheed mini-reactor rapid prototyping scheme for fusion development.
It’s currently powering the Trump-bot that was exchanged for the original shell at Walter Reed
I’ll give em 15 I am a generous fellow
It’s always ten years out
Doesn’t say shit. “Compact, High Field, DT Burning Tokamak”, isn’t anything new, unless it’s so compact and highfield that they can get to previously unimaginable power densities. Doesn’t sound like it.
The charm of the American South: like the Mediterranean, it skipped the Industrial Revolution.
Both went from agriculture & commerce/artisanal prod., respectively, to the technological age without going through large industries & the associated constipated N. European culture.
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1313059408935608321
Short response ’cause meeting:
– We missed the first part. This geographical difference (mostly lack of water power near the coast) between the north and the South is THE defining difference in the historical/economic/cultural differences between the 2 regions.
– We got a later part. The result was “mill towns” and it’s a mix of good/bad. Mostly bad.
The Swiss have lost their minds.
One of the world’s richest cities is instituting a minimum wage which proponents say is only relatively sumptuous.
Geneva, which by most metrics ranks in the top five for the globe’s priciest places to live, has approved a minimum wage which would be considered lavish elsewhere but is intended to just get food on the table for its poorest workers.
The Swiss city voted in a two-thirds majority Sunday to introduce a minimum wage of 23 Swiss francs ($25) an hour for a 41-hour workweek, CNBC reported. That adds up to somewhere in the range of $4,100 a month, or $53,300 annually, making it the highest minimum wage ever.
is only relatively sumptuous
Over The Top Fucking Opulent or GTFO
Greater Than Fucking Opulent?
goddamit, I was thinking of an acronym before I hit post, and it was right fucking there, argh.
at least the overall tax is under 20 of that
20%
See what happens when you get on the wrong side of the rösti ditch?
I was gonna ask if Geneva even counted as Swiss, what with speaking French and all. But I guess you covered that.
I bet some go as far as to say if you live outside of Uri/Schwyz/Unterwalden you aren’t really Swiss.
I lived in Aargau, so probably only slightly better than the Frenchy areas.
Liz Two not Glibertarian…
‘Queen Elizabeth is weirdly frugal – the millionaire British royal eats Kellogg’s cornflakes out of Tupperware, recycles bedsheets, uses 40-watt light bulbs and wears US$10 nail polish
Worth US$500 million, the British head of state is an oddly frugal royal, setting an example for all: reminding staff to turn off lights, only using a few of the rooms at Buckingham Palace, saving wrapping paper, giving practical gifts, recycling bedsheets and living on a basic diet of fish and veg
Patti Sunio
Published: 1:00pm, 1 Oct, 2020
Updated: 1:00pm, 1 Oct, 2020’
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3103679/queen-elizabeth-weirdly-frugal-millionaire-british-royal
basic diet of fish and veg – and as far as I know a bunch of booze daily
Booze is vegan.
so is fish
It’s Ok to eat fish, cuz they don’t have any feelings.
Bivalves are basically plants that happen to be made out of meat.
*mind blown*
When they say “recycle bedsheets” do they mean taking a sheet you’ve been sleeping on, sending it though the laundry, and then putting in on the bed again?
And that’s seen as somehow out of the ordinary?
She has them unwoven and then uses the thread to produce cloth for her tailor.
You don’t dispose of your bedsheets after each night? You wallow in your own filth night after night?
Says the muppet who lives in a garbage can.
Yeah, but there’s no grungy bedsheets in there, ya slob.
I’m confused by what exactly is frugal about the cornflakes coming out of a tupperware? Wouldn’t getting them out of the original packaging be even more frugal than having a special plastic box for them? Or is tupperware the most frugal option suitable for royalty, because crumpling the bag and tab-based closures just aren’t sufficient for noble flakes.
Is it the cornflakes themselves that are frugal? Like, she could be eating a bowl of diamond dusted fairy wings in unicorn jizz for breakfast, if money were no object.
Smoked salmon omelets garnished with caviar are pretty great for breakfast, along with some champers.
The horror! Good for her as she sounds like every grandma that ever lived.
Makes me like her way more.
Corn flakes were the only thing in Britain I could bear to eat.
I had no problem finding decent food.
what part of the country were you in?
From London to Edinburgh and back. I exaggerate, though. There was that one diner in Piccadilly that served spaghetti with steak. That was … new.
Also, Pizza Hut, where the locals were horrified we ate with our hands.
I ate at a “Mexican” restaurant in the Birmingham area. Oh my, was that awful. They couldn’t even get chips and salsa right.
My first reaction to that is “Why would you go to England for Mexican food?”
I loved the full English breakfast buffet at my hotel, and the food at Bugman’s Bar (at the Games Workshop headquarters in Nottingham). I found the Heathrow food kiosk “Eat” to be funny but mediocre. I didn’t look for new world food, because I didn’t trust them to get it right.
When I’m in foreign countries, I’m approach eating like a dog. Try everything, you can always throw it up later if it doesn’t agree with you.
My in-laws think I’m awesome because I’m willing to try anything. I think at times they have slipped me the Korean equivalent of lutefisk just to see if I’d choke it down.
W00t! Minnesoda powers everything with electricity produced by wind power! Oh, wait it was according to an “analysis”. So yeah, I guess we still burned coal and used some nukes.
I am so looking forward to hearing about this from my proggie sister. Of course she won’t want to hear from me about all the times that wind power isn’t producing. Or that the energy can’t be stored. Or about the fact that a lot of the turbine blades are past their life expectancy and disposing of them is a big problem.
I know, I know, set up a power plant that burns windmill parts for fuel!
grind them up and dump them in the ocean.
And fuck our ocean thermal energy conversion plant??
That would be a nice add on program. Sort of like the one where they grind all the birds that are killed by the wind mills into fertilizer.
“According to this analysis by Climate Central”
I wonder who Climate Central is.
“An independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the public.”
I see. More nebulous bullshit but no names, no sources of funding etc.
You can bet your ass they are a front group for pols and their cronies putting their snouts in the tax dollar trough.
Good morning, Banjos
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8810363/Demi-Rose-showcases-ample-assets-tiny-gold-sparkly-bikini-Maldives-getaway.html
Nope. Svelte waist.
‘Mornin Banjos
Tech titan John McAfee has been indicted for tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns, according to charges announced by the Department of Justice Wednesday.
The June 15 indictment was unsealed following McAfee’s arrest in Spain where he is pending extradition.
Sad.
Liberty Defense Fund of NH is live!
The announcement from Reopen NH:
ReopenNH has been a politically active movement from the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, working with the People of New Hampshire to urge elected and appointed government officials to honor the Constitution and the rule of law while protecting our most vulnerable. We will continue to focus on this critical effort in the months ahead by supporting our endorsed candidates for election on Nov. 3 and by advocating for changes to existing law to prevent further abuses of power like we have experienced during the protracted, no-longer State of Emergency.
At some point this summer, it became obvious that we needed an effort outside of ReopenNH to support and raise funds for legal proceedings in the courts. A group of leaders of this organization started work on a new initiative for that purpose. Today, ReopenNH is breaking the news that the Liberty Defense Fund of New Hampshire has launched at LDFNH.org and is ready to protect the freedom of the people of New Hampshire by supporting effective advocacy in the courts.
We urge you to support the Liberty Defense Fund of New Hampshire, which has applied for 501(c)3 status, by visiting its Web site and donating to support legal actions, particularly surrounding the COVID-19 overreach of state government. You can also join the initiative’s mailing list to stay informed about the cases they support and their progress. Thomas McLeod, a ReopenNH board member, will be the chairman of the new initiative.
What does it mean if you feel like you have a fever, but don’t have a high temp?
Last night I kept feeling hot but my temp was 98.6 or so.
This late morning it read 96.9
drink more whisky
That is the correct answer.
I can’t stand whiskey.
Anyway, I’m concerned. My nose has been running a bit too, although maybe that could be the weather.
I can’t stand whiskey.
Figures. More of a vodka guy I assume?
That and rum.
You may be going through “the change”
98.6F=37C is the threshold for high temperature in Russia. You can get a sick note from a doctor. And in these trying times, Aeroflot won’t let you fly with this temperature. I personally feel a bit unwell when my temperature is 98.8. But it’s considered normal in America.
That’s odd. in the U.S. 98.6 is considered perfectly normal.
98° will never be normal.
98.6?
おはよう、バンジョース!
Has this made the rounds yet?
Dreyer’s announces new name for ‘derogatory’ Eskimo Pie months after pausing production
Maybe with this name change the Eskimos will stop rioting.
Have you ever tried to set an igloo on fire?
Yes. It smelled of burning plastic.
I refuse to buy any Edy’s Pie.
You don’t want any of this sweet, sweet pie?
Well I stayed up way too late again. So glad to see EF and LH rejoin the ranks. Hope that all of you have a better day going onward and upward. For now I bid “adieu”.
G’night Festus.
Adieu!
Goodnight, festus.
Biden the Uniter.
“I’m going to do what I’ve done in the past: I’m going to bring all these interests together: peaceful protestors, police chiefs, police officers, the police unions as well as the civil rights group – in the White House,” he explained during a town hall on Monday night. “And sit down and decide what are the things that need to be done to improve and help police officers?”
“I’m the only one who’s talked about increasing police budgets. When your husband goes on a call that is, in fact, a 911 call, is better if he or she has with them a psychologist or psychiatrist with them, someone who knows how to deal with someone who’s not all there,” the former vice president explained. …
“The idea is you get the police, you get the law enforcement together, with the community, so they know one another,” he said. “Because that kid walking across the street with a hoodie on may be the next [inaudible]. It doesn’t mean that child is going to be trouble.”
Sounds like an excellent way to kick off a good old-fashioned White House brawl. Sell tickets!
OMG! The ableism! #icanteven
Beer Summit in the WH. Fixes everything. Obama proved it.
I posted the story yesterday about the three Minnesoda yutes who died after they crashed the car they were joy riding in. The car they were in had been car jacked, but still no word yet on whether they were the ones who jacked the car or not. But this new story has pictures of two of this kids (in the video) and one of their fathers swearing they were good kids.
Maybe these are the kids that Biden was talking about? The good kids who just happened to end up in a stolen car that had been car jacked?
What is with sites these days that want me to enable ten thousand different javascript sources just to render images?
You site does not need that much code.
This is a problem with the way javascript is these days. People install 2 packages, which each depend on 10 packages, which in turn each depend on 10 other packages ….
And its “faster” to load those packages asynchronously in the browser so you just load them all up individually via CDN’s and then you get 2GB web pages.
TV news station sites have been cancerous for years. Possibly, as a class, the worst sites as far as clutter, ads, misc. garbage goes.
Those little fucks beat up a 75 year old woman.
I’ve seen more than a couple of practical shooting youtubers who claim that they don’t clean their firearms, just keep them lubricated.
LIEZ!
They must mean they don’t clean the bore (which I can totally believe) or maybe even that they don’t detail the slide. But I did a really meticulous job on the magwells last night and sweet mamajama the difference is freaking night and day.
Also, I goddamn hate shooting S&B ammo. I could have made a pencil with all that residue.
“I don’t clean my guns, I have servants for that.”
Maybe they mean a detailed disassembly and cleaning which is a pain in the ass and can lead to troubles if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Depends on the part you’re talking about. My two 2011 guns have never had so much as a patch down the bore. That’s on the advice of the manufacturer.
But I disassemble and clean the magazines every time they hit the ground.
That’s for pistols. For precision rifles, different methods apply. There’s a certain amount of voodoo in this game…
I had been cleaning the magazines. It helped, but not nearly as much as cleaning the magwell did. I have been extremely wary of messing with the fire control components even though they are kind of a horror show visually. I think there is a spring out of place, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting anything (and is half of a symmetrical arrangement — I’ve tried popping the other half to where it seems like it should go, but it doesn’t want to).
I don’t blame you for not wanting to mess with the fire control group. That’s a whole lot of small parts.
On my old Shadow 1, I would just spray it out with Gun Scrubber and put a few drops of lube on it, and call it good. Never gave me any trouble.
The only problem I have with the CZ is the mags not always dropping free.
My Berettas and Rugers will legitimately shit the bed if they get too dirty.
My two 2011 guns have never had so much as a patch down the bore.
I’ve never heard of such a thing. What’s the reasoning?
Maybe I just carried over my rifle cleaning drill to my handguns, but if I clean one thing, its the bore. Then the mags and mag well, just because it gets grimy. Field strip and clean slide, etc. not all that frequently.
See, I could completely believe that the bore is the least important thing to be cleaning on a gun that’s shot more or less constantly.
Basically it’s that the bore on a handgun doesn’t really need to be clean to shoot well, so cleaning just accelerates wear on the barrel. I’ve heard the same thoughts from an Olympic smallbore rifle competitor, he said that the barrel eventually reaches a point of equilibrium. Every shot blows a little crud out, and puts a little crud back in. Consistency is important.
I do clean the chamber with a brass scraper. A build-up of carbon fouling in the chamber area can lead to function problems.
This also doesn’t apply to high-powered rifles, which are a different beast entirely.
Yeah, handguns don’t need a clean bore, unless you’re shooting lead bullets, then it’s a good idea to shoot a few jacketed rounds to scrape the lead fouling out (do NOT do this with polygonal rifling!)
I have a friend who has gone nearly 40,000 rounds in his 2011 without cleaning the bore. I have well over 10k in a couple of 1911s. I field strip and clean the internals when stuff feels sticky, and I lubricate it without cleaning a lot, but I don’t bother cleaning the bores anymore.
With rifles, it’s recommended by many not to clean the bore until the groups begin to open up a little.
Huh. I guess this make sense as long as you aren’t using a corrosive powder.
Now that’s some creative thinking and nice business for 12 years.
City auditor: Ex-employee at Austin library stole $1.3 million in printer toner
Also typical government controls.
Very high value to weight/volume ratio. Good thinking on their part.
Seems like there’s a problem with the vetting procedures.
Read through the spin. They were well aware of his earlier convictions. Either they ignored those entirely or they have a standing policy of a 10 year look back period.
Both of those are a problem with the vetting procedures.
Boo, you should be hit in the mouth and the nose for that. You know, the standard 3 hole punch.
Plus he can always claim he was going through so much because some homeless guy was trying to print out pornhub.
If he sold off paper too, it would back up that claim.
Because he didn’t, now he’s going to get reamed.
His rap sheet’s gonna be a mile long.
If he had stuck with the toner, he probably wouldn’t have been caught. The other stuff was the big giveaway is my guess.
Yep. Got stupid.
Boss, we seem to be spending 20% of our yearly budget on office supplies.
Well we better make sure we request more for next year or they will reduce our budget.
How’s that working out for you?
Like they will learn from this instead of doubling down on calling anyone that points this out of having ulterior motives…
Not necessarily just public sector. Back in my retail days, there was a guy who would come in the first week of every month and purchase several hundred dollars of printer cartridges. He would return them for store credit the next day. It went on for months.
It eventually came out that he was building up the store credit for his personal use, while expensing the credit card payment on the printer cartridges to the company he worked for.
I worked for a short time at Radio Shack in the before times. Minimum wage + commission.
Totally sucked, not only because I got stuck helping the customers who wanted a $2 IC chip or resistors (because I understood those) but because the manager would schedule himself and his toadies for the prime selling hours. The rest of us got scheduled for the times when no one was in the store and you’d have to clean up and restock.
One of the other regular guys had his friends come in and buy all sorts of expensive computers and cell phones (this was in early ’90s so a brick cell phone was $500). After that he got a huge commission check and quit. Then his buddies all came back and returned the stuff they had bought. None of it had even been opened.
The manager flipped out and stormed around the store for a week. Best yet was the ex-employee had gotten a job at a shoe store just down the mall corridor from us so the manager had to see him every day. I think the manager tried to get Radio Shack to go after the guy, but corporate told him that it wasn’t worth their time.
The rest of us peons thought it was awesome.
I worked at RS late 80s early 90s. I was full commision or minimum wage for hours worked. Whichever was higher.
There was a certain art to figuring out how to segment customers. I actually had a good manager and he was OK with us pointing somebody at the “force feed” aka resistor section and say there you go while you helped another customer.
I usually sold most of the PCs in the store.
*Chuckles*
I like that he’s speaking to a fence
And then they will produce a poll that tells you Trump-Hitler-Putin is behind by 15 points…
Cue outrage.
Flu season is coming up! Many people every year, sometimes over 100,000, and despite the Vaccine, die from the Flu. Are we going to close down our Country? No, we have learned to live with it, just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!
He has identified the next move of the petty tyrants.
OFFS. I dare them to identify the misleading part of that tweet.
A big hospital system in Minnesoda is closing a lot of facilities and eliminating 900 jobs. Wonder why?
The wife of a buddy works at one of Fairview’s hospitals and she said the pandemic has been brutal. Non-Covid people are staying away in droves.
Someone is optimistic.
Virginia Voters! Your Governor wants to obliterate your Second Amendment. I have stopped him. I am the only thing between you and your Second Amendment. Working hard in Virginia. It’s IN PLAY. Better Vote for your favorite President, or wave goodbye to low taxes and gun rights!
Um, yeah bucko, what exactly did you do in VA? Because I can’t remember anything. At all.
Flipping between channels last night, there were two football games, I saw a bit of Biden’s townhall. He sounded much better than usual.
Also, he’s still going on about the “both sides” thing, and the media is still covering for him. Maybe Trump needs to tweet “GO READ THE TRANSCRIPT. WATCH THE VIDEO” or somesuch.
Not shocking anymore. He premised his entire campaign on that lie.
If you are going to start bringing actual facts into the discussion, you might as well call out Biden for claiming that the story about Hunter getting millions from that Moscow mama was debunked.
The fact that Hunter was wired millions from her is pretty solid. Why she sent that money might be up for questioning, but not that he got that money.
The Burisma payments to him is an absolute fact.
Fact Check: Mostly False, Burisma disputes the amount they paid Hunter Biden and his father.
(Note, it’s still in the millions)
$14.1 million – not the $14.2 million claimed by those dirty liars.
China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign
The ChiComs are not only behind the virus itself, but much of the lockdown politics. The Swedes and the SD Governor were among the few who resisted the Chinese social media assault.
Thanks for that article.
If the Chinese have achieved anything in the last six months, it’s to draw attention away form themselves and create turmoil in their rivals.
Bookmarked for later. I have thought that the shutdowns were definitely us mimicking the CCP and how pleased they must be for us purposefully fucking over our economy. Especially as China was going to be taking a hit to theirs.
Thanks
Sitting here waiting to find out if my rotator cuff is fucked, reading a book where people are doing nornal things without wearing a mask and social distancing wondering if or when things will ever get back to normal. It’s frightening how fast we’ve gotten used to the masks and stuff being closed or with limited hours. We refer to the Before Time semi-flippantly, but this is really serious.
Some things are better though. My kids’ shrink-ish is doing all appts via Zoom. Mine does hers by phone. That is very convenient. Yesterday I drove around doing errands while XX had her appt. I can live with that.
Things will be back to normal.
Even here, I see a lot of people simply ignoring the illegal mandates.
“Sitting here waiting to find out if my rotator cuff is fucked”
How does it feel?
Feels fine, but I have no strength in certain classic RC positions. It’s acting like the right one did before I got it fixed. I am confirming it is or is not jacked.
Verdict: Impingement, big bone spur, no tear. Getting a shot and exercises. May have to have surgery in the future but not now.
Yay!!! Did not want surgery. One was bad enough.
Our wal-mart just extended its hours to 10pm! we truely live in the lap of luxury.
That’s what I mean. Thay’s pathetic that we feel that way.
We are now asking, “What are we allowed to do?”
Er, I can live with that change, not that I’m okay with the circumstance that brought it about.
I do think there is some good in this. We’ve been forced to try things like work from home, online school, and online doctor appointments. Some of that will go away, but some of it has been proven to work and will stick around. I also do my kid’s shrink appointments by video, and that’s been saving me a lot of time. I think more people working from home is good. And I think cheaper, online college is going to hurt big universities (also a good thing).
Yes. I would expect my conservative company’s work at home policies to be permanently changed for the better.
I expect other companies will realize this as well.
My company’s execs were very anti-WFH. That has changed over the past six months to where HR is being directed to determine how many positions don’t need to be done from an office. I expect the next step will be pay adjustments.
The bad thing about WFH though is companies find out who’s truly extraneous and whose jobs can be done overseas.
yep. the “I forgot you even existed” factor is a big one.
That said, the biggest change is going to be broadening hiring capabilities within the US. Now we don’t need to restrict our candidates to within X miles of an office where we have a department presence. If the best candidate lives in the middle of Montana, we can hire them.
Silicon Valley and NYC are fucked. Why would I pay 1.5-2x to hire a candidate near HQ, when I could save comp and ben costs and hire somebody in Charlotte?
Or ‘save’ even more and hire someone in Calcutta on the cheap.
I know of one company who isn’t disappointed by their attempt to outsource jobs overseas. And that company really did have a lot of Americans doing absolute scut work. Outsourcing worked for them because the Indians didn’t need to really talk to anyone or use any personal initiative. Just follow the script.
Every other company I know who’ve tried to outsource is at best underwhelmed by the experience (at best) or aggravated beyond belief by their experience.
The problem is that those companies never officially announce what a disaster it has been. They quietly move jobs back and let the overseas stuff die on the vine. Publicly admitting how bad it went would cause too many head aches. From management who are desperate to prove they didn’t waste millions of $ to worrying that the woke crowd would accuse them of racism by implying that Indian or Chinese can’t do the work.
“Every other company I know who’ve tried to outsource is at best underwhelmed by the experience (at best) or aggravated beyond belief by their experience.”
I saw the trend of the outsourcing movement back 30 years ago at GE, when they send me to India to set up their own global outsourcing company after getting shafted by Infosys (GE deserved it for firing their own people and signing a contract with Infosys to give them exclusivity only to have them triple their costs practically a couple of months after GE let most of their own people go). Managers saw this as a quick way to create “savings”, on paper. You replaced one person in the US with as many as 4 or 5 off shore for half the cost! It didn’t matter that the product they delivered was sub par or wholly unworkable, and people like me (managing Tech Lead/Architects) would have provide them with specs that were basically pseudo code and still had to rewrite 90% of what came back. These managers would already have cashed their sweet bonuses and moved on leaving someone else to deal with the shitshow. The effort became excruciatingly tedious and tendentious, because 90% of the product created was so bad it was unusable. Worse was me pointing out that I could do the work myself, to the right standards & quality in less time than it took me to create the pseudo code specs, work with these people to create low quality code that semi worked, then spend time cleaning up the hot mess to make it semi workable (you would have to start from scratch to make it decent). Needless to say, I eventually had enough of that crap, went out and found a new job elsewhere, then went back and told my boss to lay me off (GE was moving IT operations to Kentucky and I had no desire to go there). It was nice to collect both a new paycheck and severance that way. Of course, my ex spent it all faster than I could make it, but that is not relevant to this story.
I saw the same thing play out, over and over, in company after company, where the “geniuses” with MBAs would convince the company it was lucrative to outsource work, cash in and move up, then leave other people, and often the company (they moved to another company to implement the same disastrous practices), to deal with a massive amount of technical debt and huge problems a decade later caused by work that was done on the cheap and was of low quality. I usually was the guy that ended up having to do whatever was possible to keep the bad code working, and while it paid, you quickly got tired of explaining to people with no technical expertise why bullshit claims on paper were not materializing (their MBA teachers told them this shit worked, so the problem HAD to be the other people involved). This was one of the main reasons I never stayed at a company for more than 5 years (I saw the writing on the wall, and left).
Anyway, I now work for a company that I had been on the verge of leaving, but decided to hold off since they have actually done something different upon realizing how bad the outsourcing effort hurt them, and are now working hard to bring the work back inhouse. They still have the problem that their HR is easily bamboozled by people with the right credentials rather than looking for people with the right attitude, but I can work with or around that. They are only keeping onshore outsourced people (these tend to be the ones that actually have learned how to do the work to a decent enough level that their product isn’t crap right out the gate) and have drastically cut any work done by offshore (now they only maintain the crappy systems they put together the first time as new ones are created back here).
Note that this company isn’t doing this because it is the right thing, but because they have realized that if they want to stay competitive and in the business, they couldn’t keep doing business as usual. It is one thing to subject internal users to crappy systems, and a completely different one to do so to external customers with other options. The whole working from home thing has also allowed them to recruit people anywhere that were qualified without incurring great costs (moving). Lets see how long this trend works, and if others are forced to join this movement, but the good thing is that those that don’t do this will sooner than later cause their own demise.
Plus the time difference in India makes things awful when working from the east coast.
The east coast is least bad for India. I could meet with my Indian clients at 8:30am local and still be within reasonable work hours for them. Now in Central time, I push back to 8am (did so this morning) to try to keep it out of the later evening. Pacific time is nearly incompatible with IST.
“Moment Trump appears to gasp for air after tearing off mask on return to the White House: Biden leads critics accusing Trump of downplaying COVID by telling America ‘don’t be afraid of the virus'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8808171/Donald-Trump-leaves-Walter-Reed-three-nights-COVID-treatment-White-House.html
That’s not proper mask handling.
The first breath after removing a mask sounds like a gasp because it’s impossible to breathe with that shit on.
Also he’s dying of covid. clearly.
So…I thought South Park was joking with the kids sitting at desks individually surrounded by plexiglass. A guy at work though just confirmed his kindergartner (!) is back at school and not only sitting at a desk surrounded by plexiglass, but the poor bastard still has to wear his mask all day.
Remain fearful, citizen.
They’re not just for students anymore:
‘Igloos’ could extend outdoor dining through winter at Brighton restaurants.
A couple of places here in Cleveland have started setting up the igloos. We’re reaching the tail end of outdoor dining without patio heaters and the like. Sitting outside in the mid-40’s trying to eat is not a pleasant experience.
I think you mean “Eskimo Shelter”
Or Ysqymaux, or whatever the PC spelling is supposed to be.
That’s absurd. ‘Eskimo’ has always been a xenonym meaning “people who make snow-shoes”. It is a fairly accurate descriptor, and pretty darn inoccuous as xenonyms go (example, Mohawk – ‘they eat animate things’, ie cannibals)
Just make sure it is a big igloo.
This has reached the point of ritual child abuse.
In nudity news:
Way to be a stereotype, jackass.
Still would.
Would what? Read it for the articles?
LP is so worried about a “fascist problem” when they really need to be purging the nudists and the exhibitionists.
Ugly naked people and Marxist apologists.
What’s not to like about the LP?
Gay Twitter users take over Proud Boys hashtag with photos of their love
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/gay-twitter-users-proud-boys-hashtag/73-b80578f0-5fe3-484a-8f3e-c221ad8cc542
Right out of the gate: “Gay men across the country are flooding twitter with photos depicting their love. They’re taking back the term Proud Boys from the far-right extremist group that President Donald Trump told to “stand back and stand by” when he refused to condemn white supremacists in last week’s debate.”
Gee, why are media outlets at all levels disliked so much?
the far-right extremist group
Except they aren’t.
when he refused to condemn white supremacists
False.
” the far-right extremist group
Except they aren’t.”
That seems pretty fair. They aren’t white supremacists, but they are far right.
You mean they are not to the left of people like Mao or Stalin?
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1313177488516763648?s=21
Wait, are the Proud boys anti-gay? I gotta be honest, they seem like a group a gay dude would fit in with just fine. And aren’t they all about the Greek traditions?
Jinx!
Named after a song from Aladdin, no less.
Huh. I had always assumed that the Proud Boys already trended heavily gay…
https://mobile.twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1313255716078133248
Hmm.
While we’ve all been focusing on the presidency, the Senate has moved out of toss-up range and Democrats are now nearly 2:1 favorites. A long way from a sure thing, but trending poorly for the GOP.
Yeah, sure.
I’m still standing by my Dems take everything prediction.
But if they don’t i’m sure it will be a constitutional crisis.
If they win I think we are truly and utterly doomed. Not because of dumb fucking leadership, but just the fact that winning will mean the tactics they won with aren’t ever going away. It’s going to be looting and mayhem every two years in places with no end in sight.
possible. I wonder how much people are willing to overlook the rioting because they _hate_ Trump so much. One thing for sure is that the left has not only been able to keep the fire of hate burning over 4 years, but have been able to stoke it to higher and higher levels.
I’ve been so wrong about politics, so i wouldn’t trust my opinions. I was certain that they wouldn’t be able to keep up the hate for 4 years. I thought at some point their base would be exhausted of it. But nope. It seems like they have been able to fire it up even more than before.
Pretty much the entire DC metro. My acquaintances up there are blinded.
Trump leaving isn’t going to end this. Him leaving isn’t going to make politics “normal” again. They hate him so much they are trying to replace him with someone noone thinks is of sound mind or will make it 4 years.
His arrival wasn’t the source of the problem. His departure won’t fix anything.
His arrival wasn’t the source of the problem.
Correct. Progs “pounced” on an opportunity to speed up the revolution. I think they were a bit premature, but Trump (more, the anti-woke movement) forced their hand. They were at risk of losing control over the society, so they have to act now.
I think they were a bit premature,
We’ll find out before the end of the year. I suspect the Kovid Kaos may do more to increase their chances than anything they’ve aimed at Trump.
Once they get both houses and the Presidency, I think we can officially usher in hard left one party rule.
If they get both houses of congress they are going do whatever it takes to maintain their hold on the senate ie dc and Puerto rico. The electoral college almost becomes a moot point at that point.
I think they will pass federal legislation requiring mail-in voting, ballot harvesting, etc. With their fraud machine firmly in place, they don’t need PR or DC.
Of course, they could well make them states anyway. With a sufficiently packed SCOTUS, a simple bill should suffice.
I wonder how much people are willing to overlook the rioting because they _hate_ Trump
If you are in the Hate Trump camp, the media provides ample rationalization for downplaying the rioting (its hard to fathom how little play its gotten) and to displace blame for it (the approved video sources always frame it as a violent reaction by cops or normies, and its all white supremacists anyway).
TMITE
our fellow citizens want to live in a tyrannical dystopia and they are going to get it good and hard.
You have been successfully demoralized by the media.
Looking at the polls I see Hillary has a 97% chance of winning. How can you argue with 97%? That is completely realistic. There is no point in showing up to vote for Trump. 97%? Might as well just let them have it. Resistance is futile.
So i might trigger some reactions/agreement from Leap, but this is a part of my problem with the political forcasting/modeling. The ideas is that in 97% of their simulations (i’m just running with the number, i don’t remember what 538 had forecasted) Trump lost and Hillary won. So then that gets translated to 97% chance of winning, which isn’t really what is being indicated.
And when Trump wins, does that mean it was just a super random fluke? or was the model wrong? You could say that maybe the model was wrong because it gave someone who ended up loosing such low odds, but that is a bit like saying the probability of rolling a 6 on a dice can’t be 1/6 because i just rolled one and i got a 6.
It depends on how the die is manufactured. On the ones where they have pits in the face, the side with the one is the heaviest face, and tends towards being on the bottom, making a result of six more likely.
They don’t carve shallower pits on the higher number faces?
Not on the cheap dice.
There are balanced dice for places like vegas, but most of what you’re going to get will not be balanced to any meaningful degree, and will bias towards a particular set of faces.
the problem with things like this is that they are impossible to verify. it could be 97% it could be any other random number. SO what is the point?
538 had forecasted about a 75% chance of Hillary winning last election.
If they can’t be falsified, then I guess their only value is as entertainment?
Exactly. Election Forecasts are pretty much their for the entertainment value.
I don’t know if they are falsifiable or not, the fact is that each election is unique, and so if your model predicts the “wrong” answer, its hard to say if your model was wrong, or it was just a fluke, because you can’t repeat the experiment.
so there is no point to the models other than getting the modeler some $$/publicity from the press.
Media Criticizes Trump For Downplaying Virus Threat By Not Dying
‘Unlimited Power!’ Cries Trump After Absorbing COVID Attack
Trump last night
As more just fall ill for a few days and don’t insta-death…they are going to have a hard time keeping up this narrative.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/06/watch-cnns-john-berman-demands-producer-not-show-trump-taking-off-mask-please-take-it-off-because-thats-going-to-kill-people/
One of the Big 3 (CBS, I think) ran with the “What sort of message is Trump sending with respect to coronavirus!” angle. See also:
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/slap-face-families-covid-19-030443232.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_02
“‘A slap in the face’: Families of COVID-19 victims slam president’s downplaying of his diagnosis”
Trigger warning: Yahoo News
Cursed pump
https://twitter.com/lukeweston/status/1313376226812129281
“Portland Antifa ambassador addresses the city council”
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1313259774239268869
I thought Antifa was an idea…ideas have ambassadors?
Weird ain’t it?
Where is the Antifa embassy? Seems like a prime place for a protest with molotov cocktails and the like.
Am I a bad person for wishing they would suddenly lock the doors and have a bunch of cops with batons storm in and go full Red Wedding on their asses?
CWAC.
Wow. Scanning the google nooz headlines, the lemmings are in a frenzy. I’m not getting near any tall buildings today. It looks like it’s gonna be raining crazy people.
Seriously, what else can they do but throw themselves into the Abyss en masse? They’re irreparably broken, and you-know-who broke them. How dare he not die a horrible agonizing death from the single most contagious and lethal plague ever set forth upon the earth?
Even if Biden is elected, they’re too far gone to recover.
Laying scumbags caught lying…. This is how you get these dirtbags.
Oh, you caught me in a lie, Please ignore that and know i meant only the best.
These people are scum…
Do not avert your eyes my child…
https://www.mcall.com/news/police/mc-nws-charges-filed-allentown-elections-judge-bickford-20201005-agyesiv4avfhlb2atjhow3hkk4-story.html
Look do what you want with your life but don’t tell me there is no election fraud.
hot take Trump is terrible at politics
he won in 2016 by facing a series of candidates who were also bad at politics, or at least at the getting-elected part of it.
subsequently he has coasted on the fact that his party has massive structural advantages in every branch of gov’t
https://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1313245583080067086
This strikes me as a: I dislike Person X, so Person X must suck at Y.
It’s like when GOP/Right Wing people say Pelosi sucks at Politics. No she doesn’t. You don’t become the Speaker of the house and get an almost perfect towing of the lion from your party, without being good at politics. She has gotten a Utah Congressman to vote for impeachment, when he knows it is going to screw him.
She’s also made more unforced errors in recent years. I’m wondering if she’s losing the cunning that got her where she is.
I agree. Nancy Pelosi v2000 wouldn’t have let the Squad embarrass her when she called for a resolution condemning Omar’s anti-semetic remarks. She would have broken all those freshwomen upstarts on the wheel.
She was an incredibly shrewd politician in her day. She has just lost a step and the tiger she thought she could control is turning on her.
I can only imagine the poor stenographer that would have to try to take notes of a Biden-Pelosi meeting.
There would be a lot of white outing of mentions of diapers that are full…
“My statement on John’s detainment.”
https://twitter.com/theemrsmcafee/status/1313452856926765056
And she stayed on and thanked each person individually that replied…wow.
Even so, they set a good direction for the interns.
Hoes mad.
You bet they are. Hollywood has largely shut down from the Vid scare. So Trumpy getting it and then making his glorious Hollywood movie style return to the WHite House must grate on them something awful. He’s downplaying the virus!!! How dare he take off his mask!!
And speaking of hoes, what does Demi Rose have to say about all this?
Those Hollywood assholes are taking it in the wallet and I’m loving it.
Let them hang by their own retard.
And normally I’d be feeling sorry for all the peripheral blue collar folk with the production, but they are solidly in the same camp. So not much sympathy there either.
Yup, there are some very small silver linings to this shitshow.
Am I a bad person for wishing they would suddenly lock the doors and have a bunch of cops with batons storm in and go full Red Wedding on their asses?
Seal the doors and windows, and gas them like the cockroaches they are.
“Unfavorable views of China (* = historic high):”
https://twitter.com/japoushter/status/1313485038307160066
Sweden, coming down the home stretch, past Korea, Sweden neck and neck with Australia, Japan wins by a nose.
Imagine how bad it would be if the Complicit Media was actually reporting on the slave labor, ethnic cleansing, and organ harvesting.
Pope Jimbo and I have discussed – the only thing that the Chinese and Koreans can agree upon is that Japan is awful.
“I met a Chinaman once. I could never pronounce his damn name. So we just called him
corn-popegg-roll. Egg-roll was a bad dude.” – BidenHuh
Local doctors are warning of the dangers of relying on testing alone to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Experts said the coronavirus outbreak at the White House serves as a grave reminder that masking and social distancing must be used alongside testing.
Even the best testing resources in the country couldn’t shield President Donald Trump and the White House from COVID-19. In recent months, Trump has said that part of the reason he doesn’t regularly wear a mask is that everyone is tested before they see him.
UW Medical Director of Infection Prevention Dr. Seth Cohen said testing can be more reactive than proactive when it comes to coronavirus.
“Unfortunately, testing does not prevent infection,” Cohen said. “To me, it’s a little bit like using a pregnancy test as birth control.”
No shit, Shirley?
Now, about those masks… Kind of like wearing edible panties as birth control, isn’t it?
Gosh, its almost like every single thing they have done – massive testing, masking/social distancing mandate, lockdowns – has been useless in accomplishing their purported goals.
So, of course, the only thing to do is double down on all of it. Only remove your mask when taking a bite of food. Even more testing of people who aren’t sick.
These people are genuinely stupid. If you can’t learn from experience or new data, you’re stupid.
Agreed. So what the hell do we do about it?
Bitch about it here, because there’s nothing else we can do.
Yup. I don’t see incremental reform or any kind of change of direction in the offing. The collapse of the system that empowers all this is the only way out.
And it will collapse. You can’t get things wrong forever.
Civil disobedience.
*AHEM* “Irish Democracy”
Whatever we do, we can’t let nature run its course. That would be wholly unethical.
Whenever I’ve mentioned herd immunity, the response I’ve gotten is “just letting it rampage through the population is not acceptable”.
But suspending civil rights, throwing 40 million (and counting) people out of work, and causing all kinds of deaths as a side effect (e.g. forcibly redirecting healthcare resources to Covid) is totes acceptable and in fact perfectly sensible.
My response is “That’s how we have handled recent pandemics that were pretty comparable. When did that change, and why?”
If its a Boomer, I like to add “You know Woodstock took place during the Hong Kong Flu pandemic. Should it have been shut down?”
This covid shit isn’t ever going away is it?
It better, because I’m running out patience.
I’m wondering if Trump just kicked COVID’s ass. Not that everybody will change their mind this instant, this week, or even this year. But possibly a significant number of people who didn’t go all in for the lockdowns, masks, and every petty measure demanded of us will either have already tired of this mask-erade or will be reaching that point in the next few months – having seen Trump test positive and basically shake it off. The idea that this is deadly peril for everybody will have had the foundation under it shattered.
“Of course, even if somebody tests negative, it doesn’t mean that they can’t be in the incubation period and doesn’t predict whether somebody will subsequently test positive,” Cohen said.
Experts stressa person can get coronavirus and even can become contagious before the virus is identified in the test.
“Just relying on testing is a hazardous strategy because you may be missing people who already are starting to shed the virus but not yet show a positive test,” Vos said.
Because COVID-19 tests can’t always correctly identify those who are positive, experts emphasize the importance to use every measure available to us to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
“Even if you test negative, people still need to obey social distancing and masking and making sure they are following all the other public health guidance out there,” Cohen said.
You can’t be too careful. Just kill yourself now, to be certain you’ll never catch the plague.
Also, even if somebody tests positive it doesn’t mean they have it.
So basically don’t worry about and live your life.
Why don’t any of the motherfuckers I work with understand ADA Section 508???
Yeah, it’s no big deal if blind people can’t read public government documents, to, like, you know, know what the government is up to.
Well, if they want to read government documents, they shouldn’t be blind, amirite?
It’s not like any of the rest of us do.
508….
:more repressed memories:
“Cuomo is using a 2006 photo to manufacture excuses for cracking down on New York Jews. It takes 30 seconds to confirm.
Slide 1: his press briefing, with photo of Jews without masks or social distancing.
Slide 2: reverse lookup of the photo.
Slide 3: it’s an AP photo from 2006.”
https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1313223503907303428
(((C)))WAA
I’ll be a bit kind here. it’s used as an example to demonstrate the density of the events. The slide doesn’t say this is current.
Still, it should have been made clear this was the case.
it’s used as an example to demonstrate the density of the events.
Why use a 14 year old picture if the events from last week are that dense? I can’t see any way this isn’t intentionally misleading.
That’s not the way you PowerPoint!
Because the the 25 year old kid who put that deck together needed a picture and that one worked.
Given the misleading crap that the governments here in the tri-state area put out on a daily basis that one barely makes me raise an eyebrow. Maybe I’m just jaded living here. No need to worry the courts here are fully supportive!
Fake but accurate!
He said in the press conference that it was a recent photo.
That’s an entirely different story.
Today I’m learning how to make the Oklahoma Onion Burger for lunch. First one was delicious but not quite right. About to make a second.
https://youtu.be/8Wm-rPBkW2o