Shopping yesterday was a hoot- I could clear out the crowds by going into a coughing and wheezing fit. This is a step up from my usual tactic of farting loudly, then looking panicked. I can’t imagine why SP finds me embarrassing.
But what’s embarrassing is the string of B-listers whose birthdays are today, including an actually interesting freethinker (OK, he’s the A-lister in this crowd); a mediocrity in the tradition of born-into-wealth “intellectuals”; an ambitious Jew-hater who got his reward on night; another mediocrity in the tradition of born-into-wealth “intellectuals”; the Pride of the Democratic Party; a rather enigmatic jazz player; an expert in rice second only to Norman Borlaug; a mediocre writer who managed to hook up with a couple of real talents; a mediocre political consultant cum pundit; a mediocre pianist and bandleader who somehow got famous; an actually talented actor; and a mediocre “comedian” whose shtick is sanctimony rather than actual humor.
Now it’s Hour of the Wolf news.
Big light in sky, later to appear in east.
Sonic booms scare minority groups in Sector R.
And there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.
Those are the headlines, now the rumors behind the news.
Old Guy Music today is an insane piano trio. Hear how much louder the Jewish guy in the middle is? That’s why he was indeed The Lion.
Are they going to have to reissue that propoganda poster about the mountain of dead bodies in New York surmounted?
The one with Coumo’s GTO and his stick figure family?
I take some umbrage at your classifying all those people as B-listers. Rice is important. Everything else is minutiae.
Woke up to another terrifying dream last night. I was being interrogated for beating a subordinate again.
I figured you were sailing away to China in a little rowboat to find me.
‘Lil too much dreamin’ man.
More dreamin’
Or this would be acceptable.
George Patton would like a word.
It’s interesting, there are a number of different stories about who saved his ass after that. One version credits Eisenhower, and another I’ve seen says it was Secty of War Stimson that over-ruled Marshall and Ike.
I’ve seen both versions too, and I’ve read a lot about Patton. He was far too good an attacking general. Guy was basically a living weapon, and too valuable to leave in the holster.
Was the terrifying part that you were being hassled for administering a well deserved beatdown? Ambiguity.
Top scientist has a shitty car.
You know. I kinda had a thing going.
Fuck sparrows, they make nests behind my shutters and shIt on my car.
They displaced native songbirds and are pests, I had thought?
English sparrows, which are not actually sparrows but weaver finches, have displaced native songbirds and are pests. They are not protected and can be killed in any legal manner. True sparrows, like song sparrows, chipping sparrows, fox sparrows and so forth, are lovely little birds to have around.
“The Trump administration maintains that the Act should apply only to birds killed or harmed intentionally, and is putting that “clarifying” change into regulation. ”
That rat bastard!!!!
Killing hate birds is still ok, right?
From that article about birds, there was some hand wringing over Trump moving towards drilling in the Arctic. Why is that so scandalous? The place is a literal waste land.
OMB!
Why do you hate Santa Claus?
I wanted—and felt compelled—to take a moment to explain my absence from the site. While I’ve only nominally said anything about it, I am a Christian. Something I am to be first and foremost in my life. And, I have been failing at that. Admittedly, this election took a toll on me, when it really should not have. This is initially why was absent. However, it did have the effect of getting me to take stock, and re-orient my life and my focus. I am beginning to take seriously that which I had neglected, and even hidden.
In my time on the site, I was angry. All the time. And not just here; everything I did was tinged by it. Not that the site, or any of you, were what angered me! It was simply the case that I was an angry person, and I could easily stir it up when I participated. So, it’s truly not you; it’s me. It became pretty clear to me that, as God started removing it, and other issues/sins in my life—yes, a still-ongoing process—that I could no longer make a home at this site. I’m just not compatible with what I was when I was here. I belittled my wife while I was here, refusing to even call her my wife in most occasions, to my shame. As well as complaining about issues surrounding my mother’s health and ongoing issues, also to my shame. What I brought to the table here was rarely, if ever positive or uplifting, and for that I am truly sorry. And, again, this was a problem of my making; I am not blaming anyone here for my problems.
This all said, I won’t be participating any more here. I have not given up my belief in liberty, smaller government, and the attendant issues. However, I will no longer pursue them in political settings, or, have that as a focus of my life. If you’ve had any exposure to Christianity, you may have heard or read the phrase, “Don’t store up treasures for yourself on earth”…it’s in Matthew 6, by the way. That’s what I was going for so long with my life, and I’ve needed to change it, to be true to my Lord, and to others. And, for me, that precludes further participation here. It’s simply not beneficial for me, especially in how I treat others. To the extent anyone may not have noticed it, I am thankful for that small mercy.
I do want everyone here to know that I care about each of you, and want what’s best for everyone. That my definition of “best” will most likely conflict with so many others around here is partly why I’m making my exit—Iron sharpens iron, and I’m not at the point where I could have the effect I want to have. If that sounds strange, or out of place to you, just know that that is somewhat the point.
I apologize whole-heartedly for all that I have hurt or disappointed in my time here, and I hope you can forgive me for my transgressions, especially in my off-site dealing with some of you. All of it has weighed heavily on my heart. I hope that you will forgive any sort of trespass I have caused—even if this simply sounds like nothing more that melodrama. But I knew I needed to provide a final summary of things, considering my time and past participation here. Know that things are definitely improving in me and my life; with my wife (I love her dearly), my job, and with my Lord (Most of all!). Know that I pray for those here, and that, even if you don’t believe as I do, it is meant in kindness and love. Should anyone need anything from me, the powers here have my permission to give out my email, and I’ll do what I can to help or give. Sorry to hit and run (ahem…), but I’m about to start a rather busy day, so I am posting this, and then off on my next adventure!
Thank you all for my time here,
Digby.
We sinners are going to miss you.
Sounds like you’ve got your priorities straight. I never noticed you being bad to anyone. I hope you can make amends with your wife. No shame in going to couples therapy or meeting jointly with your pastor or something.
We’ll miss you. You’re welcome back whenever you want.
You have never disappointed and your presence here is always a gift. We have quite a few dedicated Christians (not me, obviously!) who have balanced this with their spiritual urges, and I hope you can get to a place where this is possible for you.
The door is always open, there’s always a place at the table for you.
peace be upon you and whatnot
Sir, you will be missed. If not by many at least by me as you were one of the few constant posters during the time of day I am generally here.
I believe I understand your reasons for leaving and can respect them. I can only hope that you will find a new “you” who can be in this place and not be effected so negatively.
Fare thee well.
If you offended me in the past, I’m too Aspie to have noticed.
In all seriousness, I hope you find what you need and continue to be well.
Sorry you are leaving. I think we are all dealing with anger here, each in our own way. This is a place where I can vent a bit and have a laugh at the expense of the chattering classes. If it ever came to the point where this place were making it worse, I would have to leave as well. I hope everything works out for you.
Till we meet again in the gulags.
Be well.
Sorry to hear that you are leaving but glad to hear that you are improving yourself. Do whatever you need to do, you will be welcomed back if you ever reconsider and decide that it would/could be positive for you to be here.
As an ordained minister in Ohio, Im willing to offer you absolution for any of your sins for the low, low, price of 750 ml of Crown Royal and a 30-pack of Milwaukee’s Beast Diet.
Amen.
Be well and come back anytime.
You were (are) always a welcome sight in the early mornings. If you are ever in MN stop and stay for a while, Boring but that’s the way we are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy0kNX5xrnE
with any luck…
[Sad sigh] Digby, you will be sorely missed but I’m glad you’re doing what’s good for you. I hope to see you back one day but until then, vaya con Dios, good sir.
Peace, Digby.
We’re gonna miss you.
I enjoyed your company here and you will be missed. I never took offense at anything you said. Hope you resolve what’s bothering you. We’re always here for you.
Hey Digby,
Let me first off say that I completely get it. As another “icky Jesus follower” here, I’ve felt the tension that exists. It’s 100% NOT that this site is incompatible with the faith. That’s not it at all.
It’s a group of friends with a lot of things in common, not including the faith. It makes it very easy to start embracing the similarity and to subtly (or not so subtly) ignore the things that are differences. I’ve noticed that shift in priorities in myself at times, and have stepped back a few times to reorient. As Dave Ramsey says, “you are the average of your 10 closest friends.” He may be exaggerating, but that subconscious pull exists… almost imperceptibly conforming you to those you surround yourself with. I pray that God reorients you in a way that allows you to maintain the relationships that you’ve built here, but I also know that there are higher priorities placed upon you in life.
I’m a bit spoiled in that I have access to the source code for Monocle. I see something that is acutely leading me in the wrong direction, I code up an off switch. User mute? Yep, I was struggling with being considerate and generous to those I disagreed with, and was getting grouchy in real life. Twitter blocker? I was making myself angry and stressed out clicking those things. It is still quite hard at times to get my heart in the right place, especially because the good is the camaraderie here, but the conversation can be consumed by day-to-day politics and other things that Christians ought tread carefully around.
It’s not easy to avoid getting caught up in anger as of late. It’s hard not to center ourselves around the excesses of “a crooked and twisted generation”. I’ve fallen down on a repeated basis, and don’t feel like I’ve met the Christian calling of setting myself apart in word and deed. Heck, a simple example is that I cuss like a sailor here, but not in real life. I often do not “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 4.
It’s particularly difficult for me to see you leave for these reasons because I’ve felt led in the past to try to gather together a group of Christian glibs to do Christian things together. Y’know, like a Bible study or something. I completely fell down on that, with every excuse in the book ready at my disposal. The reality was much less favorable to me: laziness mixed with a touch of cowardice.
Anyway, we’ll miss you here. I hope that you can drop in on occasion and let us know how you’re doing. If you ever want to grab a meal or just catch up, let me know: 5v8tz4onh9so@opayq.com
Well, (I think it was Raphael forgive me if I’m implementing the wrong Glib here), and talked about starting a back to basics catholic church, the problem is finding a cave to hold our services in.
I may not be religious myself, but I understand. (I’ve been on something of a self improvement quest myself recently and have had to steer myself away from behaviors that are bad for myself and those around me)
The night shift will be lonelier without you, but do what you gotta do. And we’ll keep a light on for you.
Digby –
Sorry to see you go, but I understand for sure that it is hard to find and maintain a healthy balance. For me, there are times when whatever it is that I’m struggling with must be removed completely from my life because I don’t have the will in myself to avoid the temptation (see: junk food).
As another believer here (Orthodox Christian, in my case), I would encourage you – as you seem to be doing already – to re-dedicate yourself to the seeking of the Kingdom, and the rest will come as grace is given.
A week or so ago I had (was given?) a bit of an epiphany as I was in my morning prayers, when it struck me that the world cannot give me peace…so why am I looking to the world to provide it?! I had become caught up once again in allowing politicians and “leaders” to both disrupt and then become the source of my peace – an impossible thing.
Finally, given the specifics you shared on dealing with anger, I’d share with you a quote from one of the early Fathers on the subject:
“The first step toward freedom from anger is to keep the lips silent when the heart is stirred; the next, to keep thoughts silent when the soul is upset; the last, to be totally calm when unclean winds are blowing.” (St. John Climacus)
You were never anything but enjoyable on the site, far as I saw. Best for everything to you in your next adventure! I will miss our late night interactions.
I’m sorry to see you go. You do what you need to. I’ve always liked seeing you around here.
just know that that is somewhat the point.
That hits home more than most of us would care to admit. Take care of yourself and your family, that is far, far more important than anything political, least of all these stomping grounds.
Awwww.
While I get it, I will miss you on the late nights I’m actually here. Purely selfish, I know.
I am trying to get the anger out of my life, too, but this site’s erudite silliness relieves that. I don’t click on political links or participate in political discussions because they will make me mad at things I can’t control and my real life already gives me too much of that.
I have 2 places to go on the internet where I feel like I have actual friends, and this is one of them, especially now that Zoom is in the equation.
Please do what you must to find peace. Godspeed.
Sir Digs, I wish you and your family the very best. Thank you for your time and friendship, and while I can’t recall any transgressions, you have my full hearted forgiveness for any. You also have my admiration for ordering your life as you feel God calls you to. Revelations 3:15 came up for me last night and I’m reminded of it now.
Good luck to you.
Bad luck for you, you just got elevated to my #1 Fren on the site!
I can’t stand pressure!
I’ve had similar ideas, and for similar reasons.
However, this is one of the few places where my ideas aren’t viewed as hateful, idiotic, racist, or any number of foul adjectives you can think of. It’s also one of the few places where I can get actual news that contradicts THE NARRATIVE and isn’t some wack-job/aliens killed Kennedy/Illuminati conspiracy site. Where else do you go – TOS, where they literally were posting defense of lockdowns yesterday? FoxNews? Late Night TV? The insanity, hate and hypocrisy of the AM radio guys? 24 hour networks, mainstream papers and major networks that literally refuse to cover stories that reflect poorly on the political left? The news-banning “open platforms” called social media?
I also noted that my rage is primarily stemming from COVID-panic related measures that have done their best to keep me away from church, essentially cancelled my son’s Boy Scout activities, cancelled my children’s athletic activities, cancelled my 20th wedding anniversary trip to Europe, kept me away from my parents for the better part of a year, and in this latest round of lockdown- cancelled band practice (sorry, limit 5, we have 6, and NO SINGING). In short, a lot of the things that balanced me out, gave me joy, and helped put things in perspective or allowed me to ignore the insanity of our ruling class have been taken away by a power-mad governor, a lazy legislature that doesn’t even have the balls to do their job and sign off on this nonsense, and a judiciary that is supine.
Here in Glibertopia, the blend of news, satire, recipes, book reviews, interesting writings on all manner of subjects, beer reviews (and, yes the occasional photo-essay posted by Q) is something special. So while the links can be rage-inducing, the community makes it tolerable.
You will be missed. Go with God.
Uncle Joe already has such a busy Day One and now he has to roll back Trump’s bird holocaust too?!
The coronavirus testing numbers that have guided much of the nation’s response to the pandemic are likely to be erratic over the next week or so, experts said Friday, as fewer people get tested during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and testing sites observe shorter hours.
The result could be potential dips in reported infections that offer the illusion that the spread of the virus is easing when, in fact, the numbers say little about where the nation stands in fighting COVID-19. The number of Americans who have tested positive passed 13 million Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
“I just hope that people don’t misinterpret the numbers and think that there wasn’t a major surge as a result of Thanksgiving, and then end up making Christmas and Hanukkah and other travel plans,” said Dr. Leana Wen, a professor at George Washington University and an emergency physician.
Battlespace prep- You children misbehaved, and now you must be punished.
“Heads we win, tails you lose.”
I thought it took two weeks to show up. Thanksgiving wasn’t even 48 hours ago.
Start worrying now.
“The numbers are meaningless but we need to keep pumping them up anyway lest the serfs get strange ideas.”
Here’s what we were told in Ontario just the other day:
“If Ontario maintains its current growth rate, Brown said, it’s expected the province will see a similar number of daily cases by the end of December to what it has seen this week, in and around the 1,500 mark. That’s well below a range of 4,000 to 6,500 daily cases that was presented as a possibility in the province’s last round of modelling.
‘If, however, it goes in a very bad direction and we see from today on that kind of growth we were seeing two weeks ago, you will see a north of 9,000 cases [by the end of December],‘ Brown said. ”
I know that things aren’t nearly as bad as we said they’d be but believe us when we tell you that they COULD still get even worse than we said before!
Blows my mind how many still trust even a single word of what any of these fuckers say.
I said (to co-workers) a few weeks ago that the current “surge” would peak around thanksgiving, just based on the duration of the earlier ones. I will still stand behind that.
Yep, I said exactly the same thing (although because I am north of the border I called it “late November” ? ).
Another Canuck! I count at least four now but I must be missing some.
Sources familiar with BEAM state that he may be a Canuck living in Edmonton, Alberta (otherwise known to people in the 905 as “Upper Rubber Boot, Alberta”).
Yeah, I included you.
I did live in the USA for most of my adult life and almost as long as I’ve lived in Canada though, I returned here just a couple of months short of pulling even I think (but have widened Canada’s lead by a handful of years since then)
That’s the whole thing, right there. If you can’t say whether its, 1.5k, 4k, 6.5k or 9k, the you are just winging wild guesses out of the air. Stop predicting because you suck at it. It might be zero, or, it might be infinity. All depends on you guys wearing depends on your faces and avoiding each other everywhere except protests ( and the right kind, of course!)
More like, “We hope you peasants don’t correctly have the epiphany that “cases” is a bullshit metric that should be ignored.”
Now that’s some old guy music I can appreciate.
My lefty FB friends have gone from 8-10 hive mind memes a day to nearly zero since the election. I guess they’re studiously ignoring how swampy the announced cabinet picks are, plus no directives have been issued from Central command.
Good luck to you, Digby.
Nancy Mitford was the only good Mitford sister, apart maybe from Debo.
Jessica too lefty? She exposed the funeral industry.
Love U and Non-U, though How to Get on in Society is the most memorable part. “Phone for the fish-knives, Norman…”
I had never heard of this family before today. HOLY MACKEREL! This is tragic (from Wiki).
::clicks link::
I haz confuze. I grant one-time permission for someone to mansplain this to me. Am I supposed to tell you what the frequency is?
My best guess is playful gibberish just for fun.
Eneral o not erious a atter of ersonal aste.
Don’t forget to inflate your shoes before exiting the bus.
Firesign Theatre quotes
Lum and Abner go to Mars – https://retro-otr.com/2016/08/lum-and-abner-a-rocket-ship-to-mars-421026/
The Swedish case highlights the complex task governments face in rolling out vaccines against the coronavirus, especially at a time when rabid social media misinformation is feeding scepticism in state institutions and even about the disease itself.
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The effectiveness of vaccines are also widely agreed upon and they have led to the eradication of many diseases.
Just take it, for the good of all mankind.
My brain hurts.
But yes, it is going to get, uh, interesting after the vaccines are released.
Sure will. I have no plans to retire in the near future, though I am already past “retirement age”. But there is no way I will get a vaccine created and vetted by a political process, so if/when my employer requires proof of vaccination to continue employment, i’m done.
Ben’s hurts too
“rabid social media misinformation is feeding scepticism in state institutions”
Sure. Nothing to do with the incompetence and hypocrisy of the people running those state institutions.
It’s possible to believe in the efficacy of vaccines in general, especially those that have been around for decades, while still being skeptical of ones that are in development but being pushed for political reasons.
I wonder how the folks who raised a ruckus about vaccinations a decade or two ago feel about this. Haven’t heard a peep, you would think that people concerned about effective vaccines in use for decades might be a wee bit skeptical about a new, rushed-to-market product.
Safe and effective? Either? Neither? Sometimes a placebo is all we need…
Hour of the Wolf News – was expecting stories of poor working people as told by rich Hollywood stars. I haz a disappoint.
WaPo reporters almost attaining Obama-era levels of fawning over Biden’s cat
Betting markets still have a Trump victory above zero likelihood. If that happened the meltdown from these kinds of people would be the funniest moment of the century.
Watching this sanctimonious prick‘s brain melt would be most rewarding.
It would really help if his legal team, whoever they actually are, put verifiable facts in their pleadings.
Or at least examples. “Our poll watchers were not allowed to..” How about a time-stamp and incident report? “At 2343 on 11-3-2020 our poll watchers in ‘CITY’ were removed from the room where ballots were being counted and not allowed to return until x-time.”
More hard hitting journalism, speaking truth to power
Now do Nancy Reagan’s psychic.
I said before here that, purity aside, I found people who defend various forms of libertarianism do a poor job of it. I watched a bunch of Joe Rogan Experience #1569 – John Mackey and this guy seems to me to do a much better job though a bit on the bleeding heart side for my taste
Betting markets still have a Trump victory above zero likelihood. If that happened the meltdown from these kinds of people would be the funniest moment of the century.
WANT
Just a fun Biden speech mashup.
I was just now reading the Thanksgiving post about SP beating her medical condition, whatever it is. This is great news – as our official den mother, web guru and idiot wrangler, you’re an indispensable part of this whole crazy thing, and I’m really happy for you and the old man.
Excuse me, I have something in my eye!
Wait, what? I missed that, and it is great news indeed. L’chaim, SP!
Pennsylvania Judge Rules 2020 PA Election Likely Unconstitutional – Trump Case “Likelihood to Succeed” – Gives State Legislators Power to Choose Electors!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-huge-judge-mccullough-rules-2020-pa-election-likely-unconstitutional-gives-state-legislators-power-choose-electors/
From the ruling:
There will be appeals of course and who knows how this will turn out, but can we finally end the Dem and MSM talking points that there is no evidence of election fraud and no possibility of recourse through the courts?
There will be much wailing.
Nope. There’s battle lines being drawn. Nobody’s right if everyone’s wrong.
Paranoia strikes deep.
Into your heart it will creep.
While Im at it, have a cover.
s/heart/life/. Don’t step out of line!
From the ruling, it cites the PA Constitution:
(a) The Legislature shall, by general law, provide a manner in which, and the time and place at which, qualified electors who may, on the occurrence of any election, be absent from the municipality of their residence, because their duties, occupation or business require them to be elsewhere or who, on the occurrence of any election, are unable to attend at their proper polling places because of illness or physical disability or who will not attend a polling place because of the observance of a religious holiday or who cannot vote because of election day duties, in the case of a county employee, may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the election district in which they respectively reside.
“Your honor, the Kung Flu pandemic imposed a duty on the general populace to stay home, therefore unlimited mail-in voting was totes fine. The State rests.”
The pandemic did not, the state did.
Except the law was passed by both the PA house and senate ( with only one Republican voting against) and signed by the Governor on Oct 31 2019, This predate the ‘vid panic and isn’t just an executive order like the mask mandates and such. It may be found to be unconstitutional and overturned but it was the law at the time of the election, the people casting those ballots were following the rules that existed at the time.
Old Man Music on David Frost!
I remember watching this with my parents as a young patzer, strongly reinforcing my nascent cynicism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Was_the_Week_That_Was
I’m cynical about TW3 itself, particularly the episode where they gushed over JFK. The problem with the satire boom is that it was basically a bunch of socialists whining about the Tories. Like Biden’s little fans, they all went quiet once the “good guys” were in government.
Richard Ingrams wrote afterwards “If only, I thought, we could get rid of all those earls and Old Etonians and bring in Harold Wilson and the Labour Party, then there would be a new dawn. Looking back it seems incredible that I could have been so starry-eyed. For whatever faults Macmillan may have had, they were more than matched by Wilson.”
It had its faults, but I remember them skewering all sides, at least in the US version. I was 11 yrs old, who knows?
“Like Biden’s little fans, they all went quiet once the “good guys” were in government.”
Shit! We didn’t think he’d actually win. Now what do we do?
Remember all the rioting that was supposed to happen and stopped once Biden won. Yeah america, now we’ll have Riots every four years.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/protesting-americas-past-statues-of-former-presidents-other-historical-monuments-vandalized-in-4-states-over-thanksgiving/ar-BB1boKcd
No, the beast has not been leashed. Press doesn’t want to focus on it, for some reason.
Well they can’t blame it on OMB anymore since Dementia Joe cheated his way in.
And yet, they will try to vaccinate everyone.
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/health/no-need-for-vaccines-the-covid-pandemic-is-over-says-former-vice-president-of-pfizer
Where’s the Money?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7nNjk4q_FGg
Interesting pairing
Nice. Need to watch the whole thing when I have time.
I was surprised to find there was a time before Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 was the opening theme.
that first guy talks in a very annoying fashion
You are so hard to please.
excuse me for having standards
Stop drinking so type o negative!
but can we finally end the Dem and MSM talking points that there is no evidence of election fraud and no possibility of recourse through the courts?
You slay me.
Paranoiac hysteria
And while there is more good news on the vaccine front, for now Americans need to “hunker down” and prepare for a difficult winter ahead, according to Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and a visiting professor at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
“We cannot let our guard down,” she told CNN Friday night. “The vaccines will make a big difference in the spring and the summer; they’re not going to make a difference right now.”
Based on the current Covid-19 numbers in the US, the country is far from rounding the corner, she said.
“If anything, we are rounding the corner into a calamity,” Wen said. “We’re soon going to exceed well more than 2,000 deaths, maybe 3,000, 4,000 deaths every single day here in the US.”
That projection has been echoed by other experts including Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, who predicts the country’s daily death toll will likely double in just the next 10 days.
Why not 10,000? Why not 100,000?
These people should be involuntarily institutionalized as a danger to themselves and others.
Winter is coming
Not that I ever took public health very seriously in the past, but they have really revealed themselves as a bunch of alarmist crap-peddlers…
Silicone Sábado con tetas de lado.
https://archive.li/FaJLW
#15 , #15 is the ex you have been trying to let down gently, then find she has broken into your house while you are at work.
#23, #31, and #32 are all woulds for me.
Bird abuse
when first clicked I read tomi lahren instead of Tom Lehrer and was confused
When I hear “bird abuse,” I think of battered chicken breasts.
I think of choking chickens.
a mediocre “comedian” whose shtick is sanctimony rather than actual humor.
At least Stewart recognized that MSM journalists on both sides generally function as little more than PR agents for Team Red/Blue, and regularly heaped abuse on them.
Trevor Noah lacks even that.
Good morning Old Man!
And a good morning to all of you naughty free thinkers!
From the AP article:
Go fuck yourself chicken little. We’ve been listening to your caterwauling now for more than eight months. It’s boring.
Also, hard pass on the vaccine, thanks. Ozy, you magnificent bastard, I’ve read your book!
Where is Ozy, btw?
It looks like it’s gonna be a beautiful day here. I hope you all have a fantastic day!
“our calls are not being heeded”
MUST LOCK DOWN HARDER
Any jump in covid immediately and indefinitely after an event we told you not to do is because of that event. See Sturgis.
Experts: Virus numbers could be erratic after Thanksgiving
This headline should embarrass the person who wrote it, the editor who allowed it, and the journalism school they came from.
I think it’s extremely frustrating to those of us in health care to see our calls are not being heeded
Oh, grow up.
I remember the exact moment that the scales fell off everyone’s eyes. It was when the public health experts declared that protesting in large groups was vital and stood silent when there was a packed funeral for a murdered felon, after they had spent months saying that your grandads funeral just can’t happen for the greater good.
Fuck those swine.
They fell off of mine a while ago when I realized my kids’ pediatrician was a political animal that wasn’t actually that good at his job even though he’s quite a popular doctor in the neighborhood.
We took our son’s health into our own hands and got him the help that he needed while his pediatrician decided to campaign for office. What really ticked me off is that once he gave the Asperger’s diagnosis, he pretty much ignored his other health issues which turned out to be treatable once properly diagnosed.
Same here. When we moved, I couldn’t find a pediatric practice that would accept our kids as patients since they don’t have the Hep B vaccine and we will not allow the doc to give them to our infants and toddlers. Since Hep B is spread by sexual activity and intravenous drug use, it’s a completely political vaccine that poses no risk to anyone when young children do not receive them (except for the kids themselves if and only if the mother is a druggie junkie).
Six practices refused to see us, and I suspect a couple were itching to turn us in to CPS. I would bet everything I have that not a single pediatrician in any of those 6 practices have every read a published study on any vaccine. We gave up on the pediatricians and found an incredible family practice doctor that actually cares about us and critically reads the literature.
Funny thing about that. My son was born with a compromised immune system that was unknown to us at the time He was immunized with the Hep B vaccine like every other kid in California. The Hep B vaccine is cultured in yeast. He has had, from that moment on, a chronic yeast infection in his gut that was almost certainly attributable to that vaccine. Took us ten years to figure it out and he has taken years of antifungals trying to get rid of it.
Mommy didn’t hug me and Daddy was always at work!
Mommy’s all right.
Daddy’s all right.
They just seem a little strange. Surrender.
“Feelin’ all alone; without a friend, ya know ya feel like dyin’.“
The number of Kung Flu deaths doubled from 1 to 2 in just one day! Projecting this rate out, the entire human species will be dead in only 33 days!
THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THIS IS TO PREEMPTIVELY KILL EVERYONE SO THEY DON’T DIE!
For the children.
+1 torched village
Maybe you’re hot but have no personality?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13306973/fellas-want-me-for-sex-disrespected/
probably not that hot tbh
Butter face.
That’s kinda like the time my future ex and I moved to San Francisco and were driving through the Castro district, the gayest part of the gayest city EVAH, and she said she hadn’t seen any gays yet. I kinda rolled my eyes and said she hadn’t recognized any gays yet.
The author above has almost certainly met tons of guys who aren’t just looking for a booty call, but she keeps ignoring them because she is attracted to arsehole pick up artists.
Local doctor on the news: “If you have Thanksgiving with anyone you don’t live with you will get covid!”
I’m guessing he thinks “if I make the prediction more dire, surely they will then listen”.
They’re in “THE END IS NEAR” cardboard sign territory now.
The covid is under your bed and it only comes out when you turn off the light.
At work there’s a checkpoint at the entrance to the parking lot. The guard checks our badges and then points the thermometer at our foreheads.
But only if you enter before 2 pm. Being a virus is a Union job I guess.
Several fellow employees have told me that if they read high, the guards instruct them to pull over with the AC running for a while. Then they check temperature again snd wave the employees through.
Mighty fine Covid screening there, Lou.
We have that too, but there’s an option to check yourself at home and enter the number on some app they wrote. For a while there, they had me programming some of the cop cars to run the heater at some astronomical level for 20 minutes to “sanitize” the interior and kill the vid. They abruptly stopped, I assume because something bad happened with all that heat.
More police K-9 deaths, Id wager.
Nope. It was only for non K9’s. The K9’s have a system that rolls down the windows and turns on the motor/ air conditioning at a set temp. It’s very annoying because it kills batteries and it also honks the horn repeatedly. I guess remembering you have a dog is hard for some people.
THE VIRUS IS CALLING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE !
Political pollsters, weathermen, and infectious disease “experts” can make any prediction and suffer no loss of money, credibility, or even pride.
Nice gig if you can get it.
Real question is, why does the populace keep listening to these guys?
I’m doing my part by not listening!
Lalala I can’t hear you!!
It’s only gotten bad this past month for me because I started Hulu, which had commercials and Covid theatre on every ad and PSA.
Turns out you can skip past about 75% of the ad breaks on Hulu.
Wait for the commercial break to run for a few seconds, exit out of the show, click on the link to go back into the show. If it has backed up several minutes into the show (i.e., you’re not back at the start of the ad break), fast forward until you’re just past the ad break, then hit play. Hulu’s dumb AI thinks you’ve watched the whole ad break.
Stupid shit my Facederp friends post.
A photo of himself wearing a mask and his turkey, also masked.
Note that this guy is a specialist in palliative care so he deals with dying people every day. You would think he would put more priority on enjoying the days you have left.
Even if you had a roomful of physicians with no political or funding agenda, just docs working in good faith, they would disagree on how to handle COVID,
That’s one of many reasons why we don’t “heed the experts”. They don’t speak with one voice , and most do have a vested interest.
We can’t really do a scientific check on the COVID-19 response because there is no way to have a planet wide “control” group to compare the what ifs.
Except a parallel universe I guess.
This is why you need political power to back up the expert opinion that best suits your own designs.
Agreed, and I would suggest that everyone has a vested interest, in the sense that we all have criteria (interests) that we prioritize, where other people will emphasize different criteria.
And that’s OK.
The problem is that we have a few “experts” that have their interests driving their recommendations, and those criteria then become policy for the rest of us.
Whither the GOP?
Trump has changed the party in ways that will not be easily rolled back. His protectionism on trade, his hard line on immigration and his general skepticism about multilateral institutions — and American military adventuring overseas — all represent significant breaks with Republican orthodoxy.
There is little evidence these changes are unpopular with Republican voters. Trump won more electoral votes while losing the presidential race than GOP nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, and his loss was not the blowout the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) suffered to President Obama in 2008.
The Republican Party also performed better than expectations in Senate and House elections this year, greatly undermining the idea, pushed by Trump’s critics, that he was leading the GOP to electoral ruin.
“He absolutely has shifted the party, fundamentally, in a good way,” said Brad Blakeman, who served on the senior staff in former President George W. Bush’s White House.
Blakeman acknowledged, however, that Trump’s fiercely aggressive personal demeanor was ultimately a turn-off to many voters. The most likely next step for the party, he argued, would be a broadly Trump-like policy agenda tempered by more palatable presentation.
“The rhetoric is going to be toned way down, although the need to be aggressive in policy is not a bad thing,” Blakeman said. “Plain speaking is not a bad thing.”
Speculation is already swirling around possible 2024 GOP presidential contenders, if Trump does not run.
We shall see. Four years of Modern Monetary Theory and the Green New Deal will be an interesting ride.
“skepticism about[…]American military adventuring overseas”
How dare he threaten our forever wars!
The Bush wars are old enough to enlist in the army and go fight in Afghanistan. Most Republicans (voters, not pols) are done with foreign wars. But the leaders of the party are still on the war gravy train
Two different columnists in today’s newspaper were urging that “we (U.S.) do something about the on-going persecution of Christians in the Middle East.” Neither mentioned, however, enlisting or urging their sons and daughters to enlist.
Funny how “we” always seems to mean “you people, not me or mine.”
Watching what the Karens in government did to Thanksgiving this year I’m thinking forward to a month from now. I’m seeing a poster of the Grinch in a face diaper and trying to come up with the proper caption. Maybe something like “Nice to have the full power of the government on my side this time.”
There are going to be all kinds of “fun” and “clever” Christmas masks.
I’m going to wear my Gadsden one. Or my minimally compliant ones.
I refuse to yield to someone else’s paranoia. I will punch the next guy who refers to the New Normal right in the mouth.
Or kick his dangly bits. Depends on the mood.
Why not both?
I hear people constantly complaining about the good old days of air travel and how service has deteriorated in the past couple of decades. Finally someone is taking a stand and doing something about it.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/ba-stewardess-selling-sex-offering-23082772
Ha!
MissedMade it by THAT much! New cartoon tomorrow night!doctor on tv talking skiing and covid and said something like he speed on a slope is higher than the speed of covid and I am like what?
Sonny Bono was one of the first covid deaths?
Trees can carry the virus?
wut
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/onlyfans-model-21-plans-sell-23078313
I know some of you perverts have a thing for her, please tell me you’re not planning on bidding.
Tis a weird world.
I dont know about that deal. Seems fishy.
based on weird youtube recommendations I occasionally get of ethots trying on clothes I think these may be your kind of tits Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O2vJ2A8Hv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3re51D2-I
yaaaaaaaaas
Not exactly the white stuff I want for Christmas.
She already sold her bathwater.
“This is a step up from my usual tactic of farting loudly, then looking panicked.”
What, me worry ?
Back in college, I farted loudly in a packed dorm elevator and successfully passed it off on the guy (we were riding together) next to me by proclaiming “Jesus Christ Jeff, that’s disgusting”. It wasn’t my proclamation which sold it but rather his inaction to defend in a timely manner. Sorry Jeff/Lubey.
Speaking of blackness…
I can’t speak to MI/WI or Detroit/Milwaukee, but I have looked at the numbers for PA & Philly. And this is demonstrably false. Biden won PA by winning the suburbs around Philly and by massively outperforming Clinton’s results in the balance of the state (roughly 60 counties). As far as Philly goes, he was right in line with Obama and Clinton – so if there WERE shenanigans in Philly, they were in character and never raised as an issue before (or to put it another way, about as predictable as Chicago).
You crack me up! Biden massively outperformed! H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S.!
300,000 votes better? If he did as poorly as she did, he wouldn’t have won the state – it’s that simple. The problem with that reality is, you can’t explain it away with a conspiracy theory.
250K not 300K.
I think you might be stuck in a loop where the news is still “mostly true.” So last century!
I’m going by the state’s own numbers, what are you going on?
A decent chunk of the state government is skeptical of the “state’s numbers” It’s not exactly the same as seeing Elvis the other day.
Ok conspiracy boy!
You actually remind me a lot of the people that bought into the Russian collusion bullshit. They just had no other explanation, even though they swore they weren’t partisans in the bag for Clinton.
The irony is, that I can see what’s directly in front of my face.
Did you look at the second link I provided, with the ’12, ’16 and ’20 vote breakout? Or was that not in front of your face – by choice?
I do not believe the reported numbers. Showing a list of them is utterly meaningless. The vote counters are lying.
So you also don’t believe them for ’12 or ’16? What election do you believe the numbers were legit?
So, unlike the author above, you are asserting that the entire state has fradulent voting, not just Philly.
More on the disconnect between the presidential and local elections.
She didn’t Marxist enough, going door to door, with spittle flying? The results noted demonstrate just how unpopular Trump was with genteel voters in the suburbs. The conversion to Dem state house and congressional critters, in the suburbs of Philly, had already largely happened in prior elections so were not reversed this time…that had picked up steam when Bush II was prez and further when Obama ran.
In 2020 Trump received 13 million more votes than Romney in 2012. That totally shows how unpopular Trump was. Not. Trump is by far the most popular politician the GOP has had in the last 60 years.
I said “with genteel voters in the suburbs.” The results in Philly suburbs bear this out. Don’t know about where you live.
I gave you an example of a recent GOP presidential candidate who was supposed to do well with genteel voters in the suburbs. The exact opposite of Trump in style. Romney got fewer votes and a lower share of votes in PA. Also, I don’t want my presidential candidate to do too well with single college-educated female voters. They and I have different values.
Oops!
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/28/939645865/biden-gains-votes-in-recount-of-milwaukee-county-requested-by-trump
At this point, I care very little about who wins. I really would like to see the entire election audited.
I agree with that – there is no question that we are incredibly sloppy with the way things are done.
Hahahahahahahahaha *deep breath* hahahahahahahaha.
I know there is not evidence to over turn it, but there is a pattern.
Just like systemic racism!
“We will take these uncountable invalid ballots, and have poll counters create brand new ballots after the election is over, and then count them.”
They openly manufactured ballots that broke overwhelmingly Dem, and that’s not fishy?
I miss the nineties too. Back when we could just vote and feel OK that most people were too scared to blatantly steal an election. Now, we’ll just have to accept what they say and be really scared of being called a sore loser. At least, it’ll be fun being the underdog again and playing defense. The high road to hell, it is!
Biden won because twice as many people showed up in person on election day to vote for trump, but Biden got three times as many mail in ballots.
Check out the requested/return numbers for ballots by party, compare to the vote totals for mail in ballots, then tell me there isn’t something fishy going on.
Where exactly do you find those numbers?
You can get the mail in ballot statistics here: https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/PA.html
Vote totals by mail in ballot are on the PA site: https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/
Thanks, I’ll dig into those.
Fatty, what should i ve looking at in those links? What tells you something shady was going on?
“Iran’s Supreme Leader vows ‘definitive punishment’ for those behind ‘Israeli’ assassination of top nuclear scientist – as former CIA director brands it ‘reckless’ amid claims Trump will strike before leaving office”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8995817/Iran-vows-descend-like-lightning-avenge-death-nuclear-scientist.html
I seem to recall Prince Rabadash of Calormen threatening the combined Narnian and Archenland forces with “The great god Tash, raining lightning in the shape of scorpions… The Bolt of Tash falls from above!”
So the Persians seem on their usual course.
The fact that a crackpot like John Brennan was head of the CIA is a bit…unsettling.
“Anti-Thanksgiving ‘decolonization’ protesters vandalize businesses, tear down statues and deface monuments during two-day crime spree across Oregon, Illinois, Washington and Minnesota”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8993907/Portland-businesses-vandalized-monuments-defaced-four-cities-Thanksgiving-Day.html
Does decolonizing mean we have to move out of our houses and in to wikiups? Hunt deer and gather berries instead of going to the grocery store? Give up the wheel? Take our sick kid to a shaman instead of a pediatrician?
I figured that decolonizing would entail some sort of colostomy bag or something.
Old guy music today is tolerable/almost enjoyable.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/En1Jp0QVgAApunO.jpg
So who is the blonde in red?
My proclivities has me leaning towards #3 in the $300 bracket, who is that?
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead
Really? she looks looks like a tranny in most of her videos, and I thought this was supposed to be right wing women….I guess that shows I’m prolly a tranny loving leftist…
Just occurred to me that Ivanka looks a lot like Julie Delpy. Where’s she been anyway?
i don’t know who most are. Can I use purchase power parity?
https://twitter.com/SatoshiMed/status/1332374733283790849
Not even a border collie.
Is that Jerry Lee?!
Malinois
“Where Have All The Lesbians Gone?
They’re coming out as nonbinary or as men.
Sitting on the couch watching TV earlier this month, my wife read to me a headline from her iPhone. “Listen to this,” she said: “There are only 15 lesbian bars left in the entire country.”
“Great,” I said, “We’ll each get our own.”
Lesbian bars have always been vastly outnumbered by bars for straight people and gay men, but in the 1980s, there were more than 200 lesbian bars in the U.S. What happened? Well, a lot of them sucked. The first lesbian bars I went to in my early 20s were dank, smoky caves where women in khaki shorts and backward caps grinded on each other to Outkast. They could have been frat bars if not for the notable absence of men.
There’s also the economic challenge of catering to a tiny slice of the population in fast-gentrifying cities. This is what took down The Lexington, an infamous dyke bar in San Francisco’s Mission District where the tagline was “Every night is ladies’ night.” The Lex closed in 2015 after nearly two decades, and where it once stood is now a cocktail bar that serves a Cocoa Puff-infused Negronis for a mere $24.
And there are the dating and sex apps. Granted, apps for gay men seem to thrive while ones for gay women tend to be both anemic and unfortunately named. The first lesbian dating app was called Brenda, which sounds about as sexy as a house full of cats. It no longer exists, so I assume Brenda moved out to the country with her wife.
Then there’s the natural course of assimilation. You don’t have to go to a lesbian bar to get a drink with your girlfriend anymore because you’ll be welcome at any other bar in the neighborhood.
But there’s something else going on right now, because it’s not just lesbian bars that are disappearing; it’s lesbian as a category itself….”
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/where-have-all-the-lesbians-gone-0a7
They went the way of the dinosaurs. Now, we should call them ” Lickalottapuss’s”
well the government should offer some sort of stimulus
HA! I had two friends (male couple) who were always dragging us to the dyke bar Angles, in Metairie, LA, because their lesbian roommate was a bartender there. Despite the fact that we were there almost every week, I’ve never been made to feel so unwelcome at any other business of any kind.
…where it once stood is now a cocktail bar that serves a Cocoa Puff-infused Negronis for a mere $24.
Gosh, wonder what kind of demographic shift that represents?
$$$$$$
Old Guy Music is good.