As I mentioned to the ZoomGlibs Friday night, we get the mail of someone who used to have our address. (I assume his forwarding order ran out.) Some of the items we get:
Hammacher-Schlemmer catalogs.
American Rifleman magazine.
AG Russell Knives catalogs.
And Friday brought us two very special holiday appeals for him. The following was one I had never seen before.
Now, not wanting to be in violation of federal law, I did not open this mail, since this piece didn’t have “Or Current Resident” on it. However, I didn’t need to read the interior missive to get the gist of this grift.
It takes much more than $.89 a day to feed my personal hungry elderly Jew.
And, Pat Boone is still alive?
Anyway, I’m skipping birthdays again, as I have much to accomplish today. So, let’s move right on to links.
- Speaking of elderly Jews, I’ll be interested in hearing how this turns out.
- Riverside and Orange County CA Sheriffs On New Lockdowns
- Well. Um. Huh.
- Nuclear sun.
- Not a vaccine, but still interesting.
And here’s a little music for your Sunday morning.
Have a great day, kids!
What nobody about? I’ll take the Second, then.
At .89 cents a day, we can’t afford seconds, sorry!
In Florida, we call this “Tuesday.”
And, Pat Boone is still alive?
Pat Boone is only 86 years young.
Heh. I always get those old crooners mixed up. Pat Boone/Perry Como Termater/ tomato.
Pat was kinda cool sometimes.
#HughGranted :-)!
Oh what’s becomin’ of me?
Pat was always writing love letters in the sand.
SNL did a great skit of P. Boone back in the way old days.
89 cents per day would buy me one Big Mac every Friday. Legit silver medal.
Nuclear sun.
Not this
That’s not the one in the sun.
Surely you were both looking for this.
https://youtu.be/RGPUBSQLgfs
I’ve seen a commercial for what I believe is that outfit several times. Dunno if it’s a grift or not. But yeah, I watch oldies channels at odd times of the day.
We still mainly get the pathetic puppies and kitties.
Nuthin’ worse than stumbling in around 0230 completely blasted, turning on the TV, and hearing Sarah McLachlan singing that stupid angel song.
I lol’d. Been there.
And then Sarah does her “appeal” voiceover in which she tells the viewer that if they act now, they’ll receive “this beautiful Tshirt.”
I can think of a lot of words for Tshirt, but beautiful isn’t one of them.
The holocaust victims, according to Sarah, are cold, hungry and homeless. C’mon Russkis, step up to the plate and provide some welfare for 75 YO plus survivors.
I checked the charity navigator listing a year or 2 ago. This guy is doing OK. $710,418 0.60% Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein President, CEO & Founder .
They have a low rating as well. charity wise.
Goes somewhere else but Pat Boone and I are fighting the claendar
calendar
I’m hungry.
Are you hinting that SP should make you a sammich?
Spud will have to do it.
*writes check for $.89
Eat up! https://youtu.be/hlOhlY7EoEU
Better than egg yolk swapping, for sure.
Assholes
I was pretty surprised. San Diego has been fairly sane up until this crap.
You must be jealous of RivCo’s sheriff.
I am jealous of any county with a sheriff who exercises common sense and can tell a law from a guideline.
Governor Newsom has made his order. Now let him enforce it.
I just hope it reduces my drive time next week. It’s really nice when 30 % of the cars just stay home.
The German government researched the claims and said that the 1935 sale of the artifacts was made at a fair price and not under duress.
Fair Market Value on that day…
It’s all about the messaging.
#joesgonnasaveus
No shit? That explains why they keep increasing stupid, bullshit mandates that have proven to be totally ineffective, never mind that everybody knows they are going to be safe from this bullshit anyway.
None of the people passing all of these “emergency” mandates seem to be the slightest bit worried about their own health as evidenced by their own personal actions. That speaks volumes about how serious they _really_ think this virus is.
They are just tickled pink about the ‘Vid.
After a couple of decades of attempting to scare the public into meek compliance with tales of the immediacy of climate change, the Statists were still making no headway.
And then, boom, the ChiComs drop COVID into their laps like a gift.
Poor old Greta didn’t get her special on Netflix made fast enough. She’s already old news. Wagons have been detached from the frail climate change horse and are now hitched to the COVID beast.
Giddy-up!
It’s on Hulu.
protection plan
We just need to use the right commands on the deniers!
Fuck off and die, assholes.
What I’ve already said about that, is that people won’t make the ‘right’ choices, so they have to be told what to do by ‘people’ in government.
Something is really wrong about that sentence, but it doesn’t dawn on the ‘people’ making the rules.
Is that fake sun fusion powered?
150 million C. How does one contain that? Very cool if true/real.
Color me skeptical, unless it achieves the temp for a microsecond like these other ones we’ve heard about.
Just what we needed, a cheap Chinese sun that breaks down the first time you use it. At least Amazon will let us return it.
I’d like to see them demonstrate its operation before a large gathering of CCP leaders… and have a Chernobyl quality disaster.
You reminded me to go waste some $$ @ Harbor Freight
My shit from Harbor Freight hasn’t broken. I kinda like them.
Clearly you haven’t bought the paint sprayer, which seems very close to single use. Oh, and the charger on a cordless drill that I got to use as a cheap screw gun crapped out after about 3 months.
The non-mechanical stuff seems to be OK.
+1 Free
two day10 day shippingI still get stuff in 2-3 days. There’s a warehouse here though. I remember the good ol days when I could get same day on a lot of things. Well, I still can if it’s Wholefoods. But Amazon’s customer service has went from the best ever to pure shit.
Hey, you stole my line.
Also, everybody will be hungry an hour later.
Magnetic fields contain and compress the plasma, holding it well away from the physical structure of the tokamak. Usually lasers are used to heat the plasma, while the magnetic bottle contains it, causing pressures to rise to the conditions needed for actual fusion to occur. The extreme heat radiated from the fusion reaction is partly used to keep the reaction going, and partly collected by the physical containment, which acts as a heat exchanger. To date, ignition (self sustaining fusion reaction without external energy being used to maintain the reaction conditions) has not been achieved.
From what I can tell, the Chinese reactor isn’t really expected to achieve ignition, but to provide data. The ITER in France is expected to be the first to achieve ignition, if the design works out.
It will form a blackhole in the middle of the planet and suck us all in. Because SCIENCE!
“Is that fake sun fusion powered?”
The important question here, is does it output more power than the power consumed to make it work. And the answer is obvious since we don’t have fission power and it’s still 25 years away.
From Westernsloper’s link:
Humans often don’t behave logically. Their decisions don’t always follow the evidence.
Those are among the ideas that Gaurav Suri considers in his work studying decision-making and motivation. He’s an experimental psychologist and a computational neuroscientist at San Francisco State University.
Not surprisingly, choosing the right words matters a lot when it comes to public policy.
You have to play to their deepest fears and superstitions.
Didn’t Joseph Goebbels pretty much settle all of this?
I guess none of the people who work for government are human, or else they might be no better at this than the rest of us.
Two words come to mind …
something, L P, something
Something as basic as how public health officials talk about wearing a mask — for example, as “protection” instead of a “mandate,” could make a difference, Suri says.
But you have to call it a mandate, or people might think they have a choice.
That’s no sun …
Ain’t my sun and I ain’t paying for him.
Dat baby don’ look like me!
Say, I may be crazy, woman, but I ain’t no fool!
In 1935, and he was in Amsterdam… seems hard to imagine that they have a great case, unless the property itself was somehow detained in Germany.
It may have been a deal to get exit papers for some relatives.
Prussia was under Nazi control in that…Prussia was a German state (since the fucking proclamation of the empire in 1871) and the Nazis were in power. Did the author think the Nazis took Prussia like they took the Sudetenland or something?!
Gell-Mann Amnesia is never going to be a problem for me again.
I have finally found what I am going to do with my beard.
INDUBITABLY! Save the strays for fly-tying.
You have a beard?
I probably have drugs falling out of my ass but.
Goodbye!!!
https://www.msn.com/es-cl/deportes/futbol/45-times-lenny-and-squiggy-had-perfect-timing/vi-BB1bFkM4
I had to kick one of the stars of that show out of my house because she was doing heroin with my porn star girlfriend, once. Good times.
Betty Garrett?
Don’t leave us hanging.
The most famous one.
I just found out that the first appearance of Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest’s character from Spinal Tap) was with Lenny and the Squigtones.
+ Hello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AcBqfMH4fU
Artificial sun
Article is a little light on details.
successfully powered up
They achieved fusion? They created the magnetic bottle? They booted up the control workstation?
plan to use the device in collaboration with scientists working on … the world’s largest nuclear fusion research project based in France
They plan … to steal French fusion technology. Let me know how that works out.
Historically modern China has done a lot more technology stealing than innovating so that makes more sense.
It must be weird working on the project knowing that the powerful people are expecting glory for China in return for all the money they’ve spent, but also that the goal is not obtainable.
Nervewracking, I would say… In a country where a very public failure can have life-span-limiting consequences, everyone on that project has to be thinking how to avoid blame when it goes south.
Blame will be the least of their worries is a fusion experiment goes south.
But the nifty safety helmets will surely save them.
Pattern recognition
In a recent study, we asked Republicans and Democrats to explain why news sources would ever publish erroneous news stories. They tended to characterize bad stories in outlets they perceived to be ideologically opposite to their views as intentionally “fake” rather than the result of accidental incompetence. And the stronger a person’s self-reported desire for order in the world, the more that person preferred to view objectionable news stories as intentionally fabricated. Similarly, the election fraud narrative can shield people from the idea of blind chance deciding their fate.
Maybe it’s the steadfast refusal to acknowledge or learn from those “accidental errors” that makes it seem to be a pattern of willful, intentional deceit.
^ and was just confirmed for CNN by Project Veritas.
Well, that and the fact the “errors” all go in the same direction.
Also why I’m skeptical about the Covid death number. We have plenty of examples brought up of people dying of Covid in a car crash or “with symptoms that seemed to align” but no positive test, but you never see any reports of deaths that should have been marked Covid but weren’t.
Well it’s an opinion piece so of course it’s going to be slanted, but what shocks me is that it assumes the premise that every fake news story is an accident.
Why are you shocked by a deceitful op-ed being obtuse about something against the Narrative?
I am… inspired… by your avatar.
“accidental incompetence”
Unless every journalist only ever writes one story before being fired and replaced, incompetence cannot be perpetually accidental. Also, a typo or grammar mistake is an accident anyone can make, including a detail that reveals a confidential source is incompetence that a professional is less likely to commit, but a decision to spike a story or to run a story that hasn’t been vetted is deliberate and cannot be called either accidental or incompetent.
From the sidebar of that Nazi artwork one: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2020/12/05/Demonstrators-protest-tunnel-plans-near-Stonehenge/8221607193352/
Nothing in the article tells you anything about the tunnel location, depth, etc. or the site characteristics and why there might (not) be any negative impact. Just platitudes and the bare minimum of others’ talking points.
Anyway, time for snark:
With a name like that, probably not *your* ancestors.
Fucking hippies are in power now and we’re all paying the price.
I wonder, can neopagans be considered indigenous people? Normally, I’d find the proposition laughable, but if you can be transgender why can’t you be trans-indigenous?
I would think there’s a good case that Bretons are the closest thing to indigenous people in the UK.
Earth was settled in waves of migration. Are we going to peel back the layers until we find the original “Dibs!” For each continent?
The tale of the noble First Inhabitants is pretty much based on “Me first! Finders-keepers!”
Indigenous just means last man standing by the time of the present day. The Palestinians, the Navajo, the Celts, the Bantu, etc. they all get to claim “indigenous” status because they survived (through luck, better planning, conquest, etc.) whereas any group that could contest their claim has no or too few or unaware living descendants.
Hell, didn’t the Celts displace the ‘native’ Picts in the “British isles”?
Well, the Picts were Celts. But the Celts were not a unified people (to this day) so it’s a bit fuzzy. And yeah, the Celts/Picts only get indigenous status because they were the last ones standing by the time the Romans started paying attention.
(I think we’d be in broad agreement here; this was an elaboration not a counterpoint)
Color me skeptical, unless it achieves the temp for a microsecond like these other ones we’ve heard about.
More like a flashbulb than a sun?
I’m out. Tonight is going to murder me but it was well worth it. I got to hang out with my pals and taught the GD a thing or two. Judi never yelled at me even once. I’ll call that a win and maybe see you fair folk on the sunny side of Monday.
Turning back the clock?
Wildlife, nature and the climate will benefit from the biggest shake-up in farming policy in England for 50 years, according to government plans.
The £1.6bn subsidy farmers receive every year for simply owning or renting land will be phased out by 2028, with the funds used instead to pay them to restore wild habitats, create new woodlands, boost soils and cut pesticide use.
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Farmers will also get grants to improve productivity and animal welfare, including new robotic equipment. The goal of the plan is that farmers will – within seven years – be producing healthy and profitable food in a sustainable way and without subsidies.
The environment secretary, George Eustice, acknowledged the damage done to the environment by industrial farming since the 1960s and said the new plans would deliver for nature and help fight the climate crisis. Farming occupies 70% of England, is the biggest driver of biodiversity loss and produces significant greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution.
The radical changes in agricultural policy are possible due to the UK leaving the EU, whose common agricultural policy is widely regarded as a disaster for nature and even critics of Brexit see the changes as positive.
And then the Corn Fairy waved her magic wand, and they all lived hungrily ever after.
It’s amazing how the discussions going on in Europe with Britain leaving a financial union never approach a free market possibility. Same for “Scexit”, Scotland leaving the UK. It’s just a battle for a number of different complex reshufflings of subsidies and currencies controlled by outsiders.
The £1.6bn subsidy farmers receive every year for simply owning or renting land
Negative land tax?
I don’t believe a word of any of that.
Oh, it’s the Guardian.
It’s England really the best place to be growing corn? I figured they would start exporting orphans again
Food production per capital has increased every single year of my life. If global warming’s going to hurt agriculture, it certainly hasn’t yet or is being outpaced by human innovation.
“If global warming’s going to hurt agriculture”
It isn’t.
But that’s on account o’ them evul pesticides/herbicides/GMOs which will kill us all!/prog purist
Milwall strong!
Well, they didn’t choose that name by accident, y’know.
Good for them. Maybe people are seeing through the hazy fog of all the happy “End Racism!” silliness to the bullshit those Marxist grifters are pushing.
Oh go fuck yourself. People are getting tired of the divisive social justice crap and just want their sports back.
Apropos of nothing…
except maybe crooning
A version for all you picker Glibs.
Enjoyed, thanks to both of you.
The lyrics in this one are bananas.
“Trump campaign trolls the media at Georgia rally by making ‘RiggedElection!’ the WiFi password”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9022571/Trump-campaign-trolls-fake-news-media-RiggedElection-WiFi-password-Georgia-rally.html
Of course, he did.
It’s good work if you can get it.
OFFS!
“Isaac Newton’s unpublished notes on the secrets of the pyramids are set to fetch a six-figure sum – despite being partially burned by his DOG
The notes appear burnt around the edges, which allegedly happened after his dog, Diamond, jumped on to a table and tipped over a candle.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9023149/Isaac-Newtons-unpublished-notes-secrets-pyramids-set-fetch-six-figure-sum.html
I’m no zoologist, but that sounds like a cat.
Everyone’s a critic.
No-shit tragic loss
A massive fire gutted a historic church in Manhattan that is home to “New York’s Liberty Bell,” which rang out to mark the birth of the U.S. in 1776.
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A statement posted to church’s website said there had been no loss of life, but that congregation was devastated by the damage.
“We are devastated and crushed that our beloved physical sanctuary at Middle Collegiate Church has burned. And yet no fire can stop Revolutionary Love,” wrote the Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, the church’s senior minister in charge.
The statement also said churchgoers would meet digitally for services on Sunday, as they have since social distancing was put in place in March.
The church congregation’s history goes back nearly 400 years. Its first building was built in 1729, and the church moved to its current East Village location in 1892.
The church housed several Tiffany stained-glass windows and a skylight dome. Those were apparently lost in the fire.
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In a tweet, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the Middle Collegiate Church an “icon of the East Village.”
“I can’t count the number of times I walked past it and took in its humble beauty,” de Blasio tweeted.
“Humble beauty” my ass. What a retard.
I don’t think you’re supposed to see the sky when you look look at that big window in the front.
Also- “Revolutionary Love”? WTF?
“Rush Limbaugh says Trump supporters are coming across as ‘kooks’ in their legal efforts to overturn the election and demands President gets serious and lays out evidence before its too late”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9022447/Rush-Limbaugh-says-Trump-supporters-coming-kooks-efforts-overturn-election.html
I’m going to have to agree with Rush here, even though I’m just a working man. So far it seems like a pretty fly by night operation based on the witnesses getting the limelight. If if they are going to stick it out they need to bring in the big money now before it’s exit stage left.
That loony chick from Michigan needs to be coached by the team to take her sass down 90%. She’s entirely unbelievable and comes off as insane.
I first thought she was crazy then someone suggested that she was drunk, so I watched her testimony again and yep, drunk, still probably crazy, but definitely drunk. Bad sign when Rudy starts trying to rein you in.
If we’re talking about the blonde Michigan chick, still would.
In retrospect, a far more cost effective maneuver for the Trump campaign would have been stationing multiple paid poll watchers in the biggest cities in swing states. With standing orders to watch 24/7 and refuse to leave a counting place until every other poll worker in the building left first, and then stand guard outside all night until they reopen.
They should do this in the senate election coming up. And if anyone asks you to move say “fuck off”. and tape everything.
That’s just it though, it’s supposed to sound insane now so when the real evidence hits everyone will be blown away, or something.
which conspiracy theory explains why Trump lawyers can’t even occasionally prevail in front to Trump-appointed judges? Is it Democrats in the EPA, lizard people, or aliens?
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/10/13/itsaliens.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg
Trump may have nominated them but the Senate confirmed them. Contrary to popular opinion, and this is true of Democrats as well, being nominated by a President to hold a position in the judiciary does not imply a life bond of loyalty. Indeed, once you’ve been confirmed by the Senate, you are now part of a completely independent branch of the government that doesn’t answer to the executive at all (almost all checks on the judiciary branch are held by the legislative branch; the executive has only the pardon power to check the judiciary). You could be impeached by Congress but that’s about as likely as getting struck by lightning if you haven’t committed blatant misconduct (and even then, you might still be more likely to get killed by bad weather). Moreover, since they had to get approval of the Senate, Trump’s appointees to the judiciary were all chosen from existing judiciary or judiciary-adjacent positions (e.g. prosecutors, solicitors, etc.) and were all palatable to establishment conservatives (many coming straight from the Heritage Foundation’s recommendations).
That having been said, the fact they disagree with Trump doesn’t prove them or him right or wrong.
being nominated by a President to hold a position in the judiciary does not imply a life bond of loyalty
In fact, anyone even contemplating that should be smacked upside the head with a Louisville-slugger cluebat. You want a banana republic? That’s exactly how you get a banana republic.
Agreed. We are better off if our institutions cannot be easily captured by a charismatic strongman, whoever that might be.
I think the biggest point of contention w/r/t people who believe in the “deep state” and those who do not is that, while none of these people owe their loyalty to a man, they do owe it to a system: the one that enriches themselves. Further, the conflation of that system with the ideal of America is the rhetorical sleight-of-hand that digs under people’s skin.
Though that’s all a bit beside the point at hand.
I see what you did there, but I can’t play. You chopped down all the good lines with a hatchet, axe, and saw.
Prolefeed – posting the jeans/booty pics that Q couldn’t be arsed to getting doing on a lazy Sunday. Mask TW – don’t look at the upper third of pic #23.
#42 is a nice two-fer:
https://thechive.com/2020/12/05/those-jeans-are-lookin-like-a-tight-squeeze-44-photos/
or
https://archive.is/PdnAK
Not in any way politically motivated
A New Jersey restaurant that played host to a Republican gala Thursday evening has been shuttered by city officials.
Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop posted the order closing Maritime Parc to his Twitter accounts Friday.
“The establishment … has been ordered CLOSED until such time as the operators prepare and submit a written operational plan to the Jersey City Division of Environmental Health describing how they intend to comply with Governor Phil Murphy’s Executive orders … regarding capacity mandates and mask wearing,” the order reads.
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The event, officially billed as a fundraiser, was put on by the New York Young Republican Club. A keynote address from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was dropped amid mounting criticism of the event. She was later replaced by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Manhattan GOP Chairwoman Andrea Catsimatidis and right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe were also in attendance.
“It is also beyond the pale that Rep Matt Putz – I mean @RepMattGaetz – would participate in this. What a fool,” said Gov Murphy in a tweet. “Matt – You are not welcome in New Jersey, and frankly I don’t ever want you back in this state.”
He added that the event would also be investigated by law enforcement.
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Gabriel Montalvo, a board member and activism chair of the New York Young Republican Club, said he had no regrets about attending the event.
“It is a shame and an embarrassment that NJ Gov. Murphy threw a tantrum and had local officials and authorities close a business,” he told The Post. “If BLM and Antifa can march … in the thousands and take over bridges, highways, and streets without any word about public safety from these same hypocrites, then there should be no reason why we cannot enjoy a dinner.”
Our concern is purely the safety of the people of New Jersey. I’d shut down my own mother if the situation warranted it.
Matt – You are not welcome in New Jersey, and frankly I don’t ever want you back in this state.
Matt’s response should be “Shove it up your ass, you fat, hairy Mussolini wannabe. I’ll do what I damn well please.”
I love how leftist governors always fall back on the “we don’t want you here” ad homs against their political opponents. Cuomo pulls that shit all time. Yeah, no. You don’t speak for me, asshole.
““It is also beyond the pale that Rep Matt Putz – I mean @RepMattGaetz – would participate in this. What a fool,” said Gov Murphy in a tweet. “Matt – You are not welcome in New Jersey, and frankly I don’t ever want you back in this state.”
We elect people who have never graduated high school emotionally.
We elect people who have never graduated high school emotionally.
Which tells us something about the electorate itself.
I tested positive for the vid.
I’m diabetic.
And I’ve head colds worse than this.
RIP
/most people
Seriously though, I hear it gets worse after a few days and then it’s over.
I think I told the story last week of how everyone in my grandmother’s nursing home got it last week despite being locked down for 9 months.
She had mild symptoms for 2 days and was really pissed they sent her to the hospital for a cold.
She is 94.
Hope you feel better soon.
Thank you.
“Doctor” Birx is on Meet the Press. What an awful, obnoxious whiny voice.
We’re all going to DIE.
ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD111!
Testing prevents infection! WTFSRSLY?
“Thanks for sharing these dire warnings.” Thanks for these titillating scary campfire tales.
This guy debunked that in August: https://www.kusi.com/justin-hart-discusses-new-study-that-found-asymptomatic-transmission-is-rare/
“Be sure and tell ’em Large Marge sent ya!”
Large Marge.
https://archive.li/e85wB/8cf3abde3f7439bdc414a3a2b23f38756cae4a72.jpg
I notice the chick tattooed on her arm (Harley Quinn?) is fairly svelte.
I am jealous of any county with a sheriff who exercises common sense and can tell a law from a guideline.
Why is this here? Wtf, WordPress?
Bonus T&A since prole already smacked you upside the head with lubricious declivities.
https://archive.li/VKToA
“Why did Joe Biden ‘outperform’ the Democrat Party, Senator Manchin?”
Slander, Chuck. Lies and a willful campaign of misrepresentation by the media.
Those dumb fuck voters just don’t grasp our awesomeness.
a willful campaign of misrepresentation by the media.
Maybe the rest of the Dems should chip in to buy ball-gags for The Squad, so they aren’t saying shit the media just repeats?
Why did Joe outperform reality?
I love Rockets, 11:17 EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xJAGFR_N-c
Mandatory? No. Obligatory, perhaps.
President-elect Joe Biden said Thursday he does not believe the coronavirus vaccine should be mandatory but added that he will strongly encourage Americans “to do the right thing.”
“I don’t think it should be mandatory. I wouldn’t demand it to be mandatory,” Biden said at a news conference in Wilmington, Del. “Just like I don’t think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide.”
“I’ll do everything in my power as president of the United States to encourage people to do the right thing and when they do it, demonstrate that it matters,” he said.
The president-elect’s latest comments reflect his push to set an example for the American people in combatting the coronavirus pandemic. Biden revealed this week that he will ask Americans in his inaugural address to wear a mask for 100 days in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. He has also said he is willing to take the vaccine publicly.
We’ll ask. Nicely. And if that doesn’t work, maybe some public hangings will help the yokels see the light.
wait. Didn’t he just say he would make masks mandatory for 100 days?
well after all the at risk people have probably been vaccinated anyway?
What he meant was “I’ve been told I don’t have the constitutional authority to mandate masks nationwide”
Since when have any of them let that stop them?
Apparently that’s easier to do at the state level than the federal one, thank god.
Would Jesus wear a mask?
Let me see if I get this right. If I get the vaccine I won’t need a mask?
If I get covid-19 and recover, like 99.7 % of the people, I won’t have to wear a mask?
I’ll do whatever Jesus would do
So after the virus mutates rendering the vaccine useless, then what?
I hope you all enjoy permanent mask mandates and having your lives run by health bureaucrats.
Further: now that they’ve seen what they can get away with, “health emergency” will be the new clarion call to check off all the items on the Commie wishlist, no legislation required. ZOMG CO2 is a global health crisis! Time to ban fossil fuels! ZOMG MUH GUN VYLENSS! BAN BAN BAN! ZOMG physical money spreads germs! Ban cash! ZOMG SOOPERSPREADING! Ban all non government sanctioned gatherings, including private and religious events! ZOMG REPUBLITARDZ ARE DENIERS! Ban membership in opposition parties!
Have you considered renaming yourself The Greater Hyperbole?
yes they mutate but not as quickly as you think. A lot of people don’t understand that the “cold” is way over 100 viruses and that a vaccine for one wouldn’t work for another. They aren’t even all the same type of virus. and then when 4 or 5 mutate that’s tons of more research every year.
We could easily vaccinate against one of them and keep up with any virus if it were serious. in fact we have done so successfully experimentally. It’s just not worth it. most people won’t even take flu shots. they’re not gonna spend billions on one strain of cold that no one even would take.
Some of them are already calling racism a “public health emergency”. And therefore we must throw billions of dollars at my friends over here.
See Nevada. I don’t know when the last time you have been here but a place where people from all over the world come together, even sit at the same table, it is a hot-spot of racism like you have ever seen!
It is so bad that people of different skin color laugh and cry together when they win or lose. They might even share a drink while watching a ball-game.
The racism is so out of control here.
All of those people pretending to not be racist is the real problem.
“These Republicans who are defensively rage-tweeting “But you’re wrong! I worked my way to pay through college!!” don’t realize they sound like folks who speak of the days when Hershey bars were 5¢ at the general store.
College costs have exploded over the last 10-20 years & wages have not kept up.
It’s a totally different landscape and the fact they’re using anecdotal experience from 20+ years ago to reinforce their opinions instead of looking at current cost/wage data is disturbing.”
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1335073472809209856
CWAA
Fuck you bitch.
I think several members here are saying what Q just said ^^
I didn’t pay for College, I never went, Fuck Off Bitch!
Unfortunately, you paid for mine. GI Bill and all.
College costs have skyrocketed because of the availability of loans. This removes the incentive to keep spending concentrated on the core mission.
Any one of us could grab a college budget, pare it down by 2/3, and improve the quality of education.
No sympathy at all for any of the participants.
obviously. and it was easily predicted when the loan system was being devised.
You can easily see that there is a disconnect between the cost and who pays it when colleges put on recruiting pitches. Come see our brand new classrooms with state-of-the-art technology (that will be used to show boring PowerPoint presentations), or our comprehensive fitness facilities full of hotties, or our clean modern dormitories with private toilets and showers, etc. It’s all about facilities and amenities not academics or even employment opportunities. As with healthcare, the cost has skyrocketed because the demand is encouraged to grow without regard to price.
LALALALALA! ?
Somehow I doubt she understands how the government’s inflation of the bubble is what’s driving the increase in higher ed prices.
I doubt she understands x for all x.
Even if she did understand it, I doubt she’d care. The government using loans (which have to be paid back) instead of grants (which don’t) is a “public policy choice”. The expansion of higher education that has been funded by the government is no doubt also a “public good” unto itself that employs lots of people and provides opportunities for “green, forward-thinking infrastructure” to be built. And, of course, the power of the education complex as an indoctrination factory plays its part too. The longer people are kept out of the “real world” and in a fantasy setting instead, the more likely they are to keep their revolutionary mindset once they finally do leave the ivory tower and join the working world.
Ready availability of student loan cash also discourages universities from leading students to major in useful areas of study.
4 years of Ethnic Identity tuition brings in as much lucre as 4 years of accountancy tuition. More, if you consider that it also opens college attendance to absolute mouth breathers as potential students.
6 years of full time class load on ‘free money’ versus 4 or less years of people knowing they are paying for it.
College costs have exploded over the last 10-20 years & wages have not kept up.
Then it must not be a very smart decision to spend the money on college, is it? Economics major my ass.
Schumer and his sidekick, Pocohantas, were on TV forgiving college loans. Problem is the loaner is not very forgiving, wants his/her money. Taxpayers, thrifty parents and responsible students will not be happy.
No comments about how government regulations are leading schools to increase BS administration positions to attempt to simultaneously stay out of trouble and pander to the indoctrinated youth who believe in the goals of those regulations?
Everyone knows that regulations have no costs. They are all upside. In fact, there’s no reason to run a cost-benefit analysis because not enacting the regulation is pure cost and enacting the regulation is pure benefit.
Excellent, I need to save this reply for use later.
Well, no worries, because administrators and faculty in academia are willing to work for free, because so woke, many brave.
Didn’t he just say he would make masks mandatory for 100 days?
Well… maybe not MANDATORY mandatory. But if you know what’s good for you, you’ll wear the
swastikaappropriate ostentatious symbology so people will know you’re on the side of Truth and Righteousness and Public Health and Safety.He said “ask”, but Democratic politicians tend to repurpose words that imply consent to describe enforcement.
Well, not my president, so he can pizz right off. Viva la resistance!
He meant whatever he most recently said he meant, which is exactly what he meant until he next says what he means, whereupon he will have always meant what he means.
Let’s see now: “shall” means “may” and “may” means “shall” if the right Left leaning judge can be found.
I got that mailer over a month ago.
Also, think I have the Rona again. But the 0.5% of what 23 and me has told me is Ashkenazi makes the correct decision not to spend the cash on a test.
I found Gojira!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNdC_3LR2AI
If OMWC is paying attention: what red wine should I get that’s reasonably easy to find and <$20?
To pair with what?
I’m partial to Rioja myself.
Gamay. A good Beaujolais Villages.
Or a Nebbiolo d’Alba or Barbera d’Alba.
Don’t hesitate to try American or hybrid- our favorite cheap house red is Meat Market Red from Bully Hill.
Thanks.
Italian reds for under $20??
Go to a genteel wine shop where they will ask what qualities you like and find you something suitable.
Now the MtPers are expressing their deep Concern about the demographic (and political purity) makeup of the Biden administration.
Boo fucking hoo
On Thursday evening, about 80 people lined Main Street, wearing masks and holding handmade signs in support of Gallatin City-County Health Officer Matt Kelley.
The show of support was organized after a small group of protesters have gathered in front of Kelley’s home for the past nine days, claiming their rights were being infringed by the health department’s COVID-19 protections.
“People are dying, our doctors and nurses are begging people to stay home, and our county officials are being harassed,” said Cora Neumann, who helped spread the word about Thursday’s event.
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“Gallatin County has one of the highest rates (in the state) and to see Matt Kelley trying to lead us to safety, and to see these protesters in front of his house and intimidating him and his family,” she said.
She said public health wasn’t political, and it’s unfortunate that it has become politicized.
“The past eight days have been pretty difficult for me and my family and the well-wishers last night, it was unexpected and humbling and encouraging,” Kelley said when asked about the show of support during a press conference on Friday. “I want to thank the people who turned out.”
He said it was especially helpful to his wife and kids because while he “signed up for this in some ways, they didn’t.”
Lei-Anna Bertelsen, one of the organizers for the event, wrote on Facebook that it showed what Bozeman truly values: community, compassion, justice, equality and the well-being of everyone who lives here.
“No government official or their family should have to endure threatening behavior, especially when they are doing their job well,” she wrote. “Wearing masks, social distancing and reducing in-person gatherings are common-sense actions we can all take to make sure everyone can gather for the holidays in 2021.”
Go die in a fire, you crypto-Stalinist totalitarian shitbag.
This is why SP and I are targeting Silver Bow County. Yours is irreversibly fucked.
You and SP have mentioned that you really liked living in Butte. I’ve only passed through there a couple times on the way to visit friends. What do you like so much about it? Is it mostly that it doesn’t have that type of busybody attitude that Bozeman/Missoula have?
Butte doesn’t have MSU (Bozeman) or UM (Missoula) with their populations of students, academics and the associated parasites. The people of Butte live with some fantastic views, and region sized superfund sites.
When I would have business in Butte I found the population much more realistic and freedom loving than either of the two major college towns.
Yeah, the university crowd really brings the Obey the Rules and Why Isn’t There a Law attitudes.
No government official or their family should have to endure threatening behavior, especially when they are doing their job well
“I ehm juzt following zee odors!”
So they are asking for more boots to their necks?
“People are dying, our doctors and nurses are begging people to stay home, and our county officials are being harassed,”
If you are a believer in this statement you made, why are you encouraging others to come out and congregate in your crusade?
FFS, that’s same kind of bitch-ass whining that DeWine and Acton were doing here in Ohio. Guess what, you shut people out of their jobs, destroy their businesses, and they may take it a bit personally.
I agree, that’s why it isn’t something the government should be doing.
If it’s “not political” then it can’t be voted out, which I’m not sure they’ve really thought through the consequences of.
Does schadenfreude even begin to describe what I’m feeling about this?
Speaking of mutating viruses- looking at it in an “entropic” context, it seems to me the MOST DEADLIEST EVER virus would more likely than not become less potent over time.
QUIET, YOU!
I was just thinking the other day that The Declaration of Independence could be summarized as “hey buddy- – stop doing that!”
And a drone strike is Murca’s way of saying QUIET, YOU! to bad guys.
Large Marge.
Ow, my eye!
More fuel for my speculation that Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto really was cover for the evil they’re willing to do.
Google has a rather heavy handed way of responding to dissent, don’t they?
I think if I told my employer that they had to make a bunch of policy concessions for me to stay, they would wish me all the best in my future endeavors.
Google didn’t like the paper because it’s criticism hit a little too close to home. Then again, perhaps the people that work for Google are as confused about the nature of their employment as Google is.
I’m a bad man because I hope all 1500 of those employees also receive similar emails stating their immediate resignations had been accepted.
Since she was an “AI ethicist” I’d have to spend some effort to get over my bias that she’s implicitly not sympathetic like all other self-styled “ethicists”. Also, it’s not clear from that story what her point actually is or why Google would object to it.
And not because she was a good and talented, valuable employee, but because of her identity. Let her come out today and say she’s a conservative and voted for Trump. See how quickly those supporters change from supporters to calling for her to be fired. In an instant.
Fuck all these assholes.
+1 person who identifies as an expansive ornate building
https://metro.co.uk/2018/01/10/google-criticised-talk-worker-sexually-identifies-ornate-building-7219464/
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A lawsuit filed against Google has criticised the internet giant for a presentation by an employee who sexually identifies as ‘an expansive ornate building. Another presentation came from an employee who identifies as a ‘yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin’ – and to top it all Google offers an internal mailing list catering for furries.
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Imagination Time is fun! Let’s make a chair and blanket fort!
This is exactly what Google and all other employees pushing identity politics, deserve. I identify as Supreme Overlord of the Galaxy.
Yours is irreversibly fucked.
My county is Park, which in no way contradicts your assertion.
I just had a very interesting conversation with my friend who owns a bar in Livingston, last night. The county Health imbecile tried to shut him down based on a completely imaginary positive plague test report. He managed to escape, but barely.
Meanwhile a doctor he knows told him the county called him (the doctor) and said one of his patients had tested positive more than a month before, and that he had to shut his office down for two weeks, because of it. He told them to pound sand. The world is being taken over by morons.
The world is being taken over by morons.
As Hyperion noted people insist that people will make bad decisions – so govt needs to make decisions for them; but they somehow seem to miss that includes the people in govt.
The Marching Morons, download: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51233
Ah, good ol’ Cyril Kornbluth. I featured him in a spot the not of eccentric sci fi writers.
Spot the Not: quirky sci-fi writers
1. He never brushed his teeth, and they were literally green. Deeply embarrassed by this, he developed the habit of holding his hand in front of his mouth when speaking.
2. He was gaunt with dark eyes set in a very pale face (he rarely went out before nightfall). For five years after leaving school, he lived an isolated existence with his mother, writing primarily poetry without seeking employment or new social contacts.
3. He wrote over 117 novels and over 2000 short stories, but his works were used only as filler material in pornographic magazines. He committed suicide by drinking Drano.
4. He hated flying and only flew twice in his life. He rarely traveled long distances.
5. His mother was warm but changeable of character and had an identical twin who visited them often and who disliked him. He was unable to tell them apart and was frequently coldly rebuffed by the person he took to be his mother.
6. He has a reputation for being abrasive and argumentative. He has generally agreed with this assessment, and a dust jacket from one of his books described him as “possibly the most contentious person on Earth”. He has filed grievances and attempted lawsuits; as part of a dispute about fulfillment of a contract, he once sent 213 bricks to a publisher postage due, followed by a dead gopher via fourth-class mail.
I’ve made about 200 STNs. If you’re ever dying for a re-run, I have plenty of ammo.
3 sounds like Kilgore Trout but I think it was a different KV character that drank the Drano.
1 is Kornbluth; who are the others?
All but one are Kornbluth. hence “Spot the Not”
Oops, nevermind. I apparently don’t grok the “Spot the Not” rules.
^the not
6 is Harlan Ellison for sure.
2 sounds like HP Lovecraft.
answer key from the before place
https://reason.com/2015/08/27/now-come-fears-of-copycat-shooters-kentu/#comments
scroll about 3/4 down to see
I’m a bad man because I hope all 1500 of those employees also receive similar emails stating their immediate resignations had been accepted.
#METOO
“Security will escort you from the building. Be sure to leave all company property and work materials on your desk.”
our favorite cheap house red is Meat Market Red from Bully Hill.
Meat Market? Does it come pre-roofied?
sad elephant
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/05/942214125/he-will-be-a-happier-elephant-vet-describes-what-it-was-like-to-rescue-kaavan
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Born in Sri Lanka, Kaavan arrived in Pakistan as a 1-year-old calf, a state gift during military rule in the 1980s, after the dictator’s young daughter expressed a fondness for elephants. He ended up in the zoo, where he spent the next three decades “chained and mistreated,” Khalil says.
“They forced him sometimes to drink whiskey and vodka, even in an Islamic country where alcohol is forbidden,” he tells NPR.
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Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
Elephants are tamed when they are young. They are chained to a tree. They pull on the chain but, are not strong enough to break it, so they give up after a few days, even though a full-grown elephant could have easily broken the same chain.
Aw, poor Stampy. Is this the one Cher rescued?
Ah, Bart Gets an Elephant…
“They’re playing the elephant song!”
“I like that song. Reminds me of elephants.”
There’s a zoo for ex movie animals near Monterey. For $5, you can feed carrots to an elephant. I took a bunch of dates there. Chicks like animals.
https://montereyzoo.org/
Got a lot of elephant snot on my hand.
Yeah, it’s Cher’s pet.
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It was his first contact with another elephant in eight years.
Reaching out with his trunk, Kaavan tentatively greeted a fellow inhabitant of the Cambodian sanctuary where he is beginning his new life after being rescued from grim conditions in a Pakistani zoo.
The 36-year-old bull elephant — dubbed the “world’s loneliest” — was the sole Asian elephant at Islamabad’s dilapidated zoo. Animal rights groups launched a campaign to save him from the substandard conditions there, boosted by spirited social media support from U.S. actress and musician Cher.
Kaavan arrived in Cambodia on Monday to much fanfare — including a welcome from Cher herself, who not only travelled to see him off from Pakistan, but also arrived ahead of him at Siem Reap airport.
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[Sarah McLachlan ASPCA song]
Humor from Iraq
A whore gets pregnant and goes to a midwife, who asks if she knows who the father is. The whore says: when you eat hummus, do you know which chick pea made you fart?
Now thats a headline….
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/us_world_news/truck-kills-2-young-siblings-at-florida-mini-golf-course/article_7488ee7a-23f8-51a0-a2c0-015042280c00.html?block_id=1002221
Thay truck started right up and aimed for those two kids.
I always see shit like that with car accidents. So-and-so “lost control of the vehicle”. No, he was either drunk or can’t fucking drive.
I’m struggling. I’m suffering from an intense urge to start telling any mask enthusiasts I come in contact with to soak their masks in a mixture of cleansing agents before wearing them, to improve their effectiveness. Bleach and ammonia, for example, would go a long way towards ensuring that they will not die of the plague.
Would that be wrong?
Try this instead: if someone bothers you about not wearing a mask, make a show of checking all your pockets, looking around yourself, getting on fours to inspect the ground, etc.
When they ask what you’re doing, say: I’m looking for a fuck to give, but I think I’m all out.
I do that joke about once a year to great effect.
“Would that be wrong?”
Yes, because you’re not recommending that they also drink some of the cleansing agents to increase efficacy even more. If you really case, you have to prove it.