Been a super busy (and frustrating) day here, wrestling with government websites and financial services websites. No, it cannot be easy to accomplish anything if you are an honest human, you silly girl. Criminal who doesn’t mind skirting things? No problem!
Anyway, enough about my day. Let me provide some links for you to ignore.
OK, so this seems to indicate no Christmas Eve Midnight Mass and no New Year’s Eve celebrations in Ohio.
OK, so this is cool.
OK, so this won’t impact Mojeaux, because she only writes quality sex in her fiction.
OK, so this is amazing.
OK, so this is mostly paywalled, but still interesting.
OK, so now I’m back to wrestling with other people’s badly designed websites and badly overreaching regulations.
Have a great afternoon, Glibs!
I knew the lanks were comin!
“OK, so this is cool.”
No it isn’t! Wait… what?
I stand soooo self corrected, that is totally cool. I keep having these dreams about owning and flying my own copter. Then I wake up only to once again find that I still cannot afford one.
http://www.rotorway.com/
You should inspire yourself be prepared by changing your name to Stringfellow Hawke.
Fist!
Oops, just a little premature exclamation.
You can get an ointment for that.
In my defense I lasted about 4 minutes.
Turd!
It is unclear how the decision would impact the spy agency’s worldwide counterterrorism missions that often rely on the U.S. military for logistical support and personnel.
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller sent a letter to CIA Director Gina Haspel outlining the decision, according to the former official, who characterized the action as both surprising and unprecedented.
Maybe they’ll have to knock it the fuck off.
I’m sure there will be an emergency funding bill that gives the CIA a huge budget to make up for it. Because we can’t let the terrorists win, and China increased their military budget by a larger percent than we did. For the children.
We can’t be safe unless we’re meddling in every 3rd world shithole on the planet.
Good luck. But the whine and tears from the spook supporters are still delicious.
Wait, I thought Delta Force shot Haspel in Germany or something.
I guess she still get mail in Gitmo?
I’m wondering if it is a turf war and the net effect will be nothing.
Right at the end of the bad sex fiction writing article, there was a video ad showing pictures of Stephan Colbert and Rachel Maddow.
Now I must drink.
The article also contained the requisite insults toward wrongthinkers (ie. the non-left).
We’re you able to confirm that they are two different people?
That will prevent even bad sex from being possible. Who could get it up after watching those two?
I saw that ad last night and wondered why anyone would want to watch that.
“OK, so this seems to indicate no Christmas Eve Midnight Mass and no New Year’s Eve celebrations in Ohio.”
I find it amazing how a face diaper can improve someone’s looks that much. Now if he would just cover the entire head and wrap it in duct tape and cease breathe for a long time, then finally a win for Ohio!
The numbers keep surging up even after we started doing this curfew thing. We need to extend the curfew longer!
Fuck. DeWine.
Do ineffective things harder.
Hammer, only tool, nail, yadda yadda yadda.
For those who want the full list of what DeWine suggested that us Ohioans do:
Gov. Mike DeWine announces 21-day coronavirus protocols to avoid hospital ‘holiday tsunami’
But if you have tickets to the Browns game on Monday, you can go without violating the curfew.
Insane.
I’m worried the Clown Prince will levy similar restrictions. Baker is tightening his grip in MA. Speaker Hinch died of Covid. I see Sununu bringing similar insanity to NH.
How does that fucktard get elected? Ohio went for Trump by 8 pts or more last two elections.
He was elected for the first time two years ago. He isn’t up for election again for another two years. And he was running against this asshole.
Keep in mind that DeWine replaced that other cunte Kasich.
So, the problem is that Ohio cannot find a non-cunte to run for governor?
Hyperion: Local news has already been worrying that DeWine may be threatened when he runs for election in two years by other Republicans running for the nomination. I may have to register just to be able to vote against DeWine twice.
I may have to register just to be able to vote against DeWine twice.
🙂
Do it.
OK… it didn’t work so well in NH as the Clown won the primary and the general, but I did enjoy voting against him.
Ohio also keeps electing Sherrod Brown, one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate. There’s a reason it’s considered a swing state.
DeWine has already “recovered” from COVID-19. His test today was negative.
I can’t decide if “Holiday Tsunami” sounds like forgotten sixties surf-rock or the latest Carpenter Brut track.
“Do ineffective things harder.”
Well, at least that’s something you can count on government for.
About that ruling, it seems odd that it says ‘Muslim Men,’ in the headline. I think you might have an equal protection issue if that is the case.
Look, it’s OK as long as they’re not white Muslims.
Chechens have a sad.
I don’t know, that one Tsarnaev brother got a pretty nice Rolling Stone cover, and he was a white Muslim terrorist.
“If these stories are true, they mark a serious setback to a very strong and effective relationship between the CIA and the Defense Department,” said Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense, retired CIA paramilitary officer and ABC News contributor. “A relationship that has resulted in countless successes in the last 20 years, especially in the area of counterterrorism such as the bin Laden and al-Baghdadi operations, but also in many that will remain unknown.”
Assume an efficient and successful program.
…AND A CAN OPENER!
Sure hope we don’t have 20 more years of these successes.
A young man/woman could build a whole career around these 20 year success stories and move into government with those credentials.
/Gov Walz-
“We believe the curfew, along with mask-wearing, have had an impact…”
I believe they haven’t.
IT HAVE IMPACT. NOT HEALTH IMPACT…MAYBE BAD ONE.
Tell you what, Obergruppenführer DeWine why don’t you believe in one hand and shit in the other and tell me which one fills up first.
We… disagree!
So Gautleitern Wolf must’ve been violating curfew to catch the COVID?
Much like a teenager’s driving sklls…
So, I saw this commercial the other day and thought many here might enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDjlrVTPPQI
Yes. Thank you.
HAHAHAHA they used the Redskins colors, too
https://pasteboard.co/JElaSpw.jpg
Today, @OHdeptofhealth
is extending the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in Ohio until Jan. 2, 2021. We believe the curfew, along with mask-wearing, have had an impact, and the next 21 days are extremely critical. We must all do everything we can to slow down the virus.
“We believe”. Hmmm….
The judges felt that the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to justify exposing it to bad sex as well.
Bad sex is better than no sex.
Except if crazy is involved.
Well crazy is okay during, its the running away after that will get ya.
Occasionally great during, I could do without the stabbiness after.
It’s like foreign intervention. You have to have an exist strategy. And when that goes out the window so do you.
exit*, even.
No, you had it right the first time. sigh
Works either way.
“We believe the curfew, along with mask-wearing, have had an impact…”
Assume an efficient and successful program.
…on small businesses…
“this seems to indicate no Christmas Eve Midnight Mass”
That’s just racist against Italians and Hispanics.
What about the Pollacks and the Ukrainians?
And us Mics?
Ribbon mics are the best.
They needs lots of gain though…
*Micks, dammit.
And if by gain, you mean whiskey, you are correct.
I don’t know. It doesn’t seem popular with Irish?
Ukrainians have a different Christmas, so they should be OK.
There are Ukrainian Catholics.
Probably just Polaks who don’t know any better.
What are the Irish and the Polish? Chopped liver?
They are white – a very pasty white at that.
Italians is definitely wypipo.
*goes off on tangential rant*
“Hispanic” definitely isn’t a race, but a nebulous, mutable wastebin of immeasurably wide-ranging ancestries, considering Spain itself was already a mixture of various European and middle Eastern people and culture, even before you introduce various degrees of integration with indigenous peoples of South and Central America, etc. The reductive, blanket label of “brown (bodies)” by the race hucksters is one of the most egregiously and ironically racist tropes of modern times. To reduce people’s heritage and identity down to a politically useful narrative is garbage.
So how does it feel being immune to the ‘vid?
Speaking of CIA missions, has anyone seen Gina since the election?
“Virginia will go into a modified stay at home order,” Northam said during a briefing with reporters.
lol get fucked, Cuntman
Good luck enforcing that one.
They’re looking forward to the challenge.
Defund the police!We need police raids on homes to protect people!Jeezus I hate this place.
You’re fucking kidding me. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
I knew Northam was a douche, but *&^#$%&*^!!
“That includes private residences”
I’d like to see them enforce that.
Who the fuck was so goddamned stupid as to think that was constitutional, let alone enforceable?
Pretty much anyone in government.
And enforcement will be how? Actually I know it isn’t enforceable except when someone tries to sue the state and/or business when they contract it. See! We even mandated it!
Just more nonsense for me to ignore.
Pretty much. It’s quite liberating, telling the government to eat shit and die.
Virginia is an anthill and Northam is your typical six year old sociopath with a magnifying glass. And there is still a sizeable contingent of people within the state who genuinely believe that the governors are doing everything with our best interests at heart, backed by #science. I didn’t read the order previously because I had no intention of complying with it, and now I’m just mad.
What they did there…
“…a tremendous opportunity to provide zero-emissions, air-transport solutions,”
Horseshit.
“Bad sex in fiction”
Objective measures of subjective judgements. Seems legit.
DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDEM.
STEVE SMITH SMART. HIM KNOW SMART WORDS!
I like this new avatar, STEVE.
FOREST LAWYER, LIKE ALL LAWYER, KNOW LATIN. BADLY.
“The online defense news outlet cited multiple officials as saying the intent behind the move is to see if Defense Department personnel “detailed” to the CIA should be diverted from counterterrorism missions and toward missions related to competition with Russia and China.
A Defense Department spokesman indicated that the shift away from supporting the CIA’s counterterrorism missions was in line with the National Defense Strategy that pushes the military’s focus away from the regional wars in the Middle East towards near-peer competitors like Russia and China.”
I’m not sure what I think about that. Don’t they have enough guys for both? I’m against the endless wars in the ME, but actual counterterrorism seems legitimate.
actual counterterrorism
Whether CIA wallahs poncing around in foreign countries actually reduces terrorism is, well, unknown.
We’re both 5’2″, but only one of us has a complex about it.
And only one of them has read the Constitution.
Perhaps she’d deign to explain to us just why we have hundreds of thousands of service members drawing hazardous duty pay?
Perhaps she’d deign to explain to us just why we have hundreds of thousands of service members drawing hazardous duty pay when we are not at war* with anyone?
*Per a Constitutional declaration of war, of course.
Hahaha, this guy thinks Congress has a job besides throwing money out of helicopters.
We can go without paying our military and create a new nation. Happened before, will happen again.
Hazardous duty pay is for many things besides combat duty. Anybody on parachute status, EOD status, serving in the MFO, etc. receive hazardous duty pay. That doesn’t add up to 100,000’s though. Maybe she is adding in family separation pay, flight pay, submarine duty, sea duty, recruiter status, and a host of other special pays into the total. But even then 100,000’s seem stretching the point.
A few years back the military tightened up hazardous duty pay. The rule was one day in a designated hostile fire area = one month of the pay and one month tax free income. That was abused the hell out of starting during the Balkans. Many a REMF came down from NATO HQ, EUCOM HQ etc. to Bosnia or Kosovo on the last day of the month and stayed overnight for “important business”. That resulted in two months tax free income and two months HAZ pay. When Afghanistan and Iraq started the scam continued- plus going to Kuwait or Qatar counted. After several years of this the rules changed to prorate the pay and tax bennies to actual days “in the zone.” Many of us actually in the shit holes for 12-16 months got a laugh out of that.
In VN we had visitors from Thailand and other jurisdiction, often towards the EOM for combat pay. Many GIs in Korea were getting DMZ duty on EOM for the same reason. Not sure if that still applies in Korea though.
So with minimums what are we looking at maybe 120 mile range? And something tells me it isn’t going to recharge as fast as my Tesla which only gets to around 80% with any kind of good speed.
The price of helicopters needs to come down though. There are lots of commies out there, and every household should have one for efficient disposal.
Nashua, NH Performing Arts Center boondoggle in the news
IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME coming, but Nashua will soon have a performing arts venue to rival any facility of similar size in New Hampshire and beyond.
Aldermen recently voted 12-3 to approve a $5.5 million bond for the Nashua Performing Arts Center and another $2.5 million bond for a nearby public parking lot. That’s in addition to $15.5 million previously approved to convert the former Alec’s Shoe store on Main Street into a 750-seat performance and function facility.
The idea has long been a part of the city’s master plan. In 2016, the Alec’s Shoe property became available and coincided with a consultant’s recommendation that the arts center be located in the heart of the Main Street district. The idea was put to a nonbinding referendum in 2017 and squeaked by with a vote of 5,167 to 5,012.
That’s not a very meaningful gauge of public sentiment one way or the other, especially when you consider only 10,730 ballots were cast out of 57,000 registered voters, with turnout of a little less than 19%. The main concern among opponents has always been a fear that taxpayers will end up with a boondoggle on their hands.
Supporters, citing their consultant studies, are convinced the bonds can be paid down with the additional tax revenues to be generated from development the arts center will attract. That requires a leap of faith, but time will tell.
Manchester, NH school board hands out raises to executives
The Manchester school board has approved raises of up to 5% for top school officials, over objections based on the district’s precarious financial outlook.
The vote was 9-4 in favor, with Mayor Joyce Craig among those opposed.
“In my view, it is unconscionable for the school board to give 5% and 2.1% increases to our highest-paid executives while we are facing a potential $9 million shortfall in the coming budget year, with the real possibility of program reduction, school closures and teacher layoffs,” board member Jim O’Connell said Wednesday of the Nov. 23 vote.
Copies of the contracts were not provided by the school district until Dec. 8.
Board of School Committee members extended the contracts and approved raises for Manchester Superintendent John Goldhardt, assistant superintendents Amy Allen and Jennifer Gillis and Chief Financial Officer Karen DeFrancis.
Nashua, NH considering curfew to combat Lil Rona
Some Nashua business owners say a proposed 9:30 p.m. curfew would financially cripple them and their employees.
James Rafferty, general manager of The River Casino and Sports Bar in Nashua, told the Nashua Board of Health on Wednesday that his business doesn’t even start getting busy until 9 p.m.
“The economy is so important,” Rafferty said. “We need to put that in the front of our thinking.”
Nashua sits on the border of Massachusetts, which already has a 9:30 p.m. curfew. City officials say Massachusetts residents are traveling to Nashua at 9:30 p.m. to continue their evenings at city bars and establishments.
“The burden of COVID in the community is high and growing, so something has to be done differently than what we are doing now,” said Dr. Stephanie Wolf-Rosenblum, a member of the Board of Health. “This is all about risk reduction.”
The spirit of Simon Legree lives on
The coronavirus pandemic was expected to trigger the severest housing crisis in U.S. history. By one estimate, as many as 40 million Americans were at risk of eviction.
Then in September, the CDC made an unprecedented announcement: Most evictions had to be halted through the end of the year. Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the CDC, signed a declaration that said evictions could get in the way of the nation’s attempts at curbing the coronavirus.
But the moratorium is failing to keep many families in their homes during the crisis, according to eviction records, housing advocates and legal aid attorneys. Tens of thousands of people have been evicted since September because the CDC’s policy has been applied inconsistently across states and some landlords have ignored or challenged their tenants’ attempts at using the protection, experts say.
“We’re still seeing mass evictions, even with the CDC order,” said Daniel Rose, an organizer with Housing Justice Now in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Despite an order the CDC pulled out of its administrative ass, landlords continue to pretend private ownership is a meaningful concept.
Oh, the shame of it all. What is this country coming to?
Maybe stop preventing people from making a living and being able to earn enough to pay their rent?
Maybe we could use CDC salaries to keep the landlords solvent.
the CDC made an unprecedented announcement
I’m still pissed off by that. Even ignoring the unconstitutionality of executive agencies making law, on what planet is that within CDC’s remit?
Where the fuck does the CDC get the constitutional authority to issue such an order?
Article F
Section Y
Subsection T
Clause W
NH National Guard to set up shop at Exeter, NH high school to administer Covid-19 vaccines
Exeter High School will serve as a regional hub for the New Hampshire National Guard to administer COVID-19 vaccines to first responders through at least March.
Mary Cook, public health emergency preparedness manager for the Seacoast Public Health Network, said the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the National Guard, along with her organization did a walk-through of the campus Monday. She estimated the vaccine will be ready to be given to fire, police and EMS personnel by either the end month or early January.
Cook said coordination of vaccinating first responders is being handled by DHHS, and the National Guard will administer the doses in a drive-through set-up. She said members of the Seacoast Medical Reserve Corps may be called up to assist the National Guard. There will be other vaccination sites around the state.
Second to last link from my NH link dump… Member of NH Governor’s staff tests positive for Lil Rona
A member of the Governor’s Office tested positive for COVID-19. The individual has not been in the office since Wednesday of last week, and is feeling fine.
On Thursday morning, the individual woke up with a fever and immediately began quarantining. Contact tracing was conducted to determine close contacts 48 hours prior to symptoms, and found only one close contact within the Governor’s Office, and they are currently quarantining.
If only their boss had been cautious…
And the last one is news that is really going to fuck up efforts to end the State of Emergency. The usual suspects are jumping on it to use it to bash anyone that wants an end to the State of Emergency, business restrictions, mask mandates, etc.
Speaker Hinch had Covid when he died
An autopsy revealed newly elected New Hampshire House Speaker Dick Hinch died of COVID-19, officials with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced on Thursday.
N.H. House Speaker Dick Hinch died from COVID-19, medical examiner finds
I briefly discussed the statistical sillyness in the Texas election lawsuit. Here is a better fisking…
https://reason.com/volokh/2020/12/09/more-on-statistical-stupidity-at-scotus/
My impression is, without having read the briefs, that the schwerpunkt of the Texas case is the illegality of the election procedures (as in, altered via administrative and judicial fiat) in several states, with the remedy sought being the legislatures of those states deciding which slate of electors to send.
Not sure how important statistical foofaraw is to that argument. But, I haven’t paid much attention, because there is no way SCOTUS will stick their dick into this election.
It’s utterly irrelevant.
In the GA lawsuit which factors into the Texas case, Trump’s legal team asserts there were 200,000 illegal votes for Biden cast and counted. They are broken down, but for simple, one group is 60k votes cast by underage voters. That is several times over the 11k vote margin for Biden.
I didn’t read the 1600 page lawsuit, but presumably they put forward evidence for why they think 60k votes were cast by underage voters. I would just like see the straightforward accusations of fraud like this refuted. But it’s not. Instead the 60k ballots by underage voters is completely ignored and buried by hysterical shrieking of “no evidence” and pointing to irrelevant statistical bullshit by the media.
The Ohio AG has taken exactly that approach – the issue isn’t voting per se, it is the executive and judicial usurpation of what per the Constitution is exclusively a matter for the State legislatures. Ohio does NOT support the remedy that Texas seeks.
What does the Ohio AG want?
To be reelected as a Republican while actually being a democrat. It’s what all Rinos want.
Good question. I had just skimmed this.
Although Ohio does not endorse Texas’s proposed relief, it does endorse its call for a ruling on the meaning of the Electors Clause. More precisely, Ohio urges the Court to decide, at the earliest available opportunity, whether state courts and state executive actors violate the Electors Clause when they change the rules by which presidential elections are run.
That’s the decision SCOTUS needs to make on its way to providing or denying relief. If SCOTUS says, yeah, courts and administrative agencies can’t change election law, then what?
Then everyone will know that SCotUS said you can’t do that.
Yeah, pretty fucking empty.
Then everyone will know that SCotUS said you can’t do that, but nothing will happen if you do.
I might be misunderstanding it. I thought their argument is that it is all of the state’s business in a national election, since one state cheating is disenfranchising the states who followed the law. That sort of makes sense, but I’m not a lawyer.
So even Rudy, and the rest of Trump’s lawyers don’t accuse anyone of fraud – directly. They’d have to back that up, and they can’t.
Read the article wrt to the Ohio AG – he makes the point that the Constitution is already clear, and further abuse of that isn’t a good solution.
They arent called the stupid party for nothing.
That is the dumbest statistical analysis I have seen. Which leads to the question, why not use the good statistical analysis that is out there?
A friend at the gym was just taking about a friend in the hospital with pneumonia. 7 covid tests so far – 2 positive 5 negative. The 2 positives will probably help keep the state locked down.
So at best, the tests are wrong 28% of the time?
The nice thing is the put him in the covid wing – so he probably will get it (if anyone there actually has it).
OFFS!!
I’ve heard numerous times now that the tests cannot accurately test for Covid 19 because whatever it is they are actually testing for returns too many false positives. That’s why we have to keep testing, gotta pad those numbers! 7 tests, 5 positives for one person, that’s 5 more cases!
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has talked about the PCR tests.
At the Reopen NH legislator summit, he said the number of cycles of doubling virus material is key. Using 40 cycles, which is typical in the US, is too high, and results in false positives. He says PCR results should include the number of cycles so folks can judge whether or not the results are good.
I was just watching this clip from the guy who invented PCR.
https://gab.com/pen/posts/105358157384746146
It looks like it was recorded in 1989, but they’re talking about current events…
Witches! All of them!
As long as that helicopter can get me and my hockey back up to Chicago twice a week I’m all for it.
Hockey BAG.
We used science to make Thanksgiving as safe as possible. Here’s what happened next
We ate with the windows and doors open and the fans on, and masked except when actively putting food in our mouths.
That is insane.
What happened next
See below.
JFC…
Oh for fuck’s sake.
I’m surprised there isn’t a Dakota.
I take back any unkind thought I’ve had about fashionably trans teenagers. If you want to mutilate your bodies and sterilize yourselves because that’s the fad of the day, go for it and God bless, you twisted fucks. But quit it with the fucking masks already.
Voluntary eugenics. A noble sacrifice.
These are the dogs’ names.
Perfectly cromulent names.
Whatever you say, Cooper Mackenzie.
(I shouldn’t poke fun, kiddo number 1 has a name that only the likes of Sloopy and others who have lived in C’bus would have heard).
You named your kid Funderburke?
Schlichter.
There was that trend about 25 years ago where the girls were named after dead Presidents (Madison, Taylor) and the boys were named after medieval occupations (Cooper, Hunter, Mason).
Same thing happened to our generation. Remember elementary school, where every class had three or four Jennifers?
There were at least 4 other Kristens in my class, along with other variations using “Kris”. As contrarian and deliberately anti-trendy as I am, I don’t mind it.
I once met a Jennifer who was so tired of being just one of many Jennies that she decided to go by “Niffer.”
Win one for the niffer!
Remember elementary school, where every class had three or four Jennifers?
Yes.
Nope. No idea what you’re talking about.
There were three Michaels (who all went by Mike) in my class in grade school.
Lol. I married one.
27 Jennifers.
4th grade about, circa 1946, 5 Roberts, 5 Carols
There were 12 of us at Thanksgiving. We did the exact opposite, and got the same results.
Six of us, zero precautions, no infections.
It’s just that none of y’all have tested yet. Otherwise you would know that you’re now all infected and must be sent to the camps for your own good.
I have been obsessed with the coronavirus pandemic
I think I see the problem.
and the fans on
Blowing what droplets you might exhale around the house. Good strategy.
And as it turned out, the precautions we did have in place worked.
Well, except for these precautions:
My sons Mackenzie, 24, and Cooper, 21, live nearby and have been what I call “COVID-conscious” since the start. Both kids work and study from their apartments, have small friend pods, have excellent COVID hygiene, particularly with me and anyone who falls into a high-risk group, and both had stayed mostly bubbled at home the previous two weeks.
can have it, be contagious, but have no symptoms at all
Who caught it from him? If no one caught it from him – what makes you so sure he was contagious?
All have been tested since and stayed negative, and all were asymptomatic
If they don’t have it, wouldn’t they be asymptomatic as a matter of course?
I’m starting to suspect this guy didn’t graduate at the top of his class.
I was walking through the rabbit warren known as Wall Drug without a mask in Sept. Fuck this fucking re-panic shit.
I’m beginning to think lockdownistas are so desperate for a moral equivalent of war to unite the country in solidarity/otherize the enemy that they’ve seized on Covid as their casus belli. Except the enemy is, loosely, Trump and his supporters/enablers, and anyone who dissents from economic destruction.
I get real white feather brigade vibes from the mouthbreathers pushing mask mandates.
This is it exactly.
Some groups of people have conflated the Coronavirus and Trump, making a sort of connection that the country is diseased. And as long as Trump is still in the picture in some way, the virus has not been dealt with satisfactorily.
And the big gov’t types are taking advantage of this to ram down our throats that only the gov’t can save us. So, it doesn’t matter that the best thing would be to let everyone live their lives, as that doesn’t take The Intervention. And that is the real reason they hated Trump so much. He represented, in their eyes at least, the disregard of Top. Men.
Carried over from a comment from Trashy’s article… devastating news today.
Every day I listen to podcasts and medical lectures by a long line of virologists, epidemiologists, aerosolologists, and infectious disease doctors. Every week, I write an essay for my friends and family in my area about what we’ve learned about COVID-19 and how to protect ourselves.
Well, aren’t you spatial?
Today, @OHdeptofhealth is extending the 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in Ohio until Jan. 2, 2021. We believe the curfew, along with mask-wearing, have had an impact, and the next 21 days are extremely critical. We must all do everything we can to slow down the virus.
Don’t feed the virus after 10pm.
Three simple rules.
“REVEALED: Chuck Schumer has had ‘painful conversations’ with oldest senator Dianne Feinstein, 87, about ‘cognitive decline’ and stepping aside – but she keeps forgetting they’ve spoken”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9039399/Chuck-Schumer-painful-conversations-Dianne-Feinstein-87-cognitive-decline.html
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
That’s the version of Groundhog Day they play on movie night in hell.
I wonder why they are putting the squeeze on Dirty Dianna?
Of course, my question is, how can you tell she is declining? She seems like the same mendacious idiot she has always been.
Because they can get two fresh screaming lefties from CA to replace her and Harris?
I suppose so, but she will go wherever the wind is blowing in the party, and right now it is blowing right to left.
I can hardly wait to see who Newsom appoints.
“Joe Biden’s younger brother James is investigated by Feds over his role in Pennsylvania hospital business – day after revelation that Hunter is also being probed over his tax affairs”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9040145/Joe-Bidens-brother-James-caught-federal-probe.html
They should investigate Joe Biden.
“Hunter is also being probed”
Paging STEVE SMITH…
“They should investigate Joe Biden.”
That one’s too easy.
They should assign a special prosecutor.
On day one, and start multiple never ending investigations and harass ol Joe to within an inch of his life 24/7, 365, for the remainder of his term. Turn about is fair play, lie in the bed you made, reap what you sow. Not my president.
The only problem is that we might end up with President Harris. On the other hand, that’s probably going to happen anyway.
On day one, and start multiple never ending investigations and harass ol Joe to within an inch of his life 24/7, 365, for the remainder of his term.
That, of course, requires a DOJ and FBI who are willing to play along. Which means, not gonna happen no matter what Trump does or what evidence is presented.
Damn right.
Whatever, Karen
As coronavirus vaccines begin rolling out — a crucial step in ending the pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people and caused economic pain around the globe — Melinda Gates is urging leaders of wealthy countries not to forget about the rest of the world.
“Everybody needs this vaccine,” Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, told CNN’s Poppy Harlow in a broadcast interview Thursday. “If we only get it to the high-income countries, this disease is going to bounce around. We’re going to see twice as many deaths. And our recovery of our economies is going to be much slower than if we get the vaccine out to everybody.”
I don’t want to look at you. I don’t care what you and your idiot husband think about anything.
Never forget Melinda was the Bob marketing manager.
I always make that point too!
Look at it this way – she leveraged that into BILLIONS.
“‘What’s the agenda, Joe?’ Socialist AOC slams ‘hazy’ Biden’s new cabinet and says it lacks ‘cohesive vision’ as he unveils Susan Rice as domestic policy chief”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9039847/AOC-takes-aim-Joe-Bidens-cabinet-saying-lacks-cohesive-visison.html
On the upside, we know she sucks at foreign policy.
Beyond achieving a world record of “YASS QUEEN SLAY” comments on twitter and throwing temper tantrums on the House floor, she has not demonstrated any degree of competence at anything that I am aware of.
She might be a competent bartender, maybe. One who actually knows how to mix a drink rather than one who just pulls draft beer.
Oh, I meant Susan Rice, but they are both awful.
What happened next
They got pneumonia from spending the day with the windows and doors wide open.
I think I’d better play some Cyberpunk 2077 since I payed for it.
I got in about 20 minutes last night. First impressions: seems the game wants to be played with a controller. Not good since I’m a K&M sort of guy. The graphics are meh, even on max settings at 3440×1140.
even with raytracing on you feel that way? I think it looks like the first truly generational improvement of graphics I’ve seen in a game for awhile.
runs ~60fps on my 2080ti, 1440P, RT ultra, DLSS auto.
“The pin-up who Trump pins his hopes on: Raunchy modelling pictures emerge of ‘Mediterranean’ Mellissa Carone as she prepares to turn star witness in Hail Mary SCOTUS bid to overturn Biden win”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9039189/Trumps-star-witness-Mellissa-Carone-modeled-ringside-girl.html
Thicc?
Skanky maybe, white trashy?
That’s the way
Uh huh uh huh
I like it
Uh huh uh huh
I say it needs some Confederate Railroad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXs0m32A8E
Heck yes, and a some late Hank Jr because I had it on earlier today.
Cut off jeans and cowboy boots
Long blonde hair and dark brown roots
After she embarrassed Dems, they had the journalist wing of the party fulfill their responsibility of digging dirt on their enemies.
How did drunkenly asserting obviously false accusations embarrass Dems?
The formal legal position of almost half the state’s is that this election was fraudulent.
If her allegations were “fake” they would investigate then charge her with perjury. Since they arent
…they went with character assassination.
Prediction: The usual suspects won’t decry slut shaming in this case.
Would have.
Still would.
Fun show about
Grifter Welfare QueenTed Stevens Airporthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dqQli_E5q0
(and the audio/visual alignment says “government operation!!!”)
That seems an odd choice of dedication for an airport.
Lots of jumbos & cargo…it’s a really interesting airport
I may watch it. I’m backed up on my youtube subs for a few weeks but I might have some time over Christmas. Earlier this year I watched a load of aviation documentaries, and one that I suppose was ballpark was following a C-5 crew on making some kind of record-breaking flight delivering hardware to Afghanistan. That was interesting. They were all interesting. I like planes.
Ps – RIP Chuck Yeager. I suppose he has a very strong connection to this part of the world.
I like the little taxiway that crosses a road over to the Lake Hood airport PALH 2200′ gravel airport + seaplane base.
https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2013/01500AD.PDF
So you can land and take off if the area is IFR and taxi back home, but still normally fly out of the small field.
I have a friend that was always in and out of there when he was right seat in the 747 cargo.
You’ll see the seaplane base in one of the early scenes in the link I posted…really pretty for being in the middle of a major airport!
A bit of sad news. Henry the cat (better known as Henri, le Chat Noir) has died at the ripe old age of seventeen.
He became an internet celebrity cat through a series of films, the proceeds of which raised money for animals in need.
Cat videos are, after all, why Al Gore invented the internet.
Aw, dang. Grumpy Cat died earlier this year, too, IIRC
Tardar Sauce, AKA Grumpy Cat, passed in May 2019 at the age of seven. Lil Bub followed her across the bridge last December.
Troy Senik has the Chinese respiratory ailment. RIP, Hoover Institution podcasts.
De-cootie-fication
When the White House welcomes a new first family it gets a thorough cleaning in the five hours allotted for the turnover. But with a global pandemic raging — and an outgoing President whose orbit is rife with people shunning public health guidelines and coming down with Covid-19, this January 20 is expected to include a deeper, more exhaustive cleaning, according to a White House official.
It’s one of many changes expected around how the White House operates when President-elect Joe Biden takes over. His campaign has diligently modeled public health guidelines with mask wearing and social distancing even as he campaigned against outgoing President Donald Trump, who instead held large rallies packed with people, many of whom did not wear masks.
While there are not “firm plans” for execution, the agency in charge of things, the General Services Administration, is handling what will be a “thorough disinfecting and cleansing” of every surface in the 55,000 square foot mansion.
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Press have witnessed some of the current cleaning, which involve staff in full hazmat-looking suits misting widely used areas such as the briefing room.
These misters are now a frequent and welcome presence to those who work in the building, as science has determined the highly contagious coronavirus can linger on surfaces, as well as be passed through air.
The misters, and the cleaners, will have to tackle the White House’s 132 rooms, which consist of 16 bedrooms, 35 bathrooms, six levels of the residence, 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases and at least three elevators.
Burn it down, and bring in some FEMA trailers.
The Hat is probably busy crapping in a bunch of hidden nooks and crannies.
And I’m assuming Harris’ team will be right behind the cleaning crew, trying to contaminate everything in sight.
Lick the pen and the phone. That ought to do it.
That’s what Willie Brown said.
Kinky. I’ll bet he had a whole cupboard full of air freshener what for displacing the stank in his office. Those were the days.
I hope they did that after the Clinton administration…
“science has determined” = whatever follows is bullshit
Aloha
Welding is going great. My 2nd night they already let me try to stack beads. I’m stick welding 7810, for those curious. I have a real good feeling about this. 1 week down, 17 to go.
OPFOR is great. I had a lot of fun wearing out one interrogator after another. The only one that gave me a run for my money was a native speaker of Arabic. She pushed me around like a broom til I said uncle. It turns out being stubborn and argumentative is a kind of superpower.
7018?
Ps – excellent work. I’m about done on MMA for now. I hate chipping slag out of fillet welds. I have a sweet burn on my neck where a piece landed and I couldn’t get it out. We’re onto MIG now which I already have experience of so I’m in my comfort zone.
Yeah, that’s it. I mixed up the numbers.
Native Arabic speaker? Pics or GTFO.
And as it turned out, the precautions we did have in place worked. Cooper and I are COVID-19 negative. And Kenzie had a rough week but is getting better. We’re all getting better.
So- your freakish hysterical paranoia was unnecessary. But don’t let that seep into your consciousness.
Continue to pretend you’re making midnight sorties against SS headquarters with the French Resistance. Your bravery will be recognized by those who truly matter. You will receive your Medal of Honor in the War on Commie Sniffles.
We’re all getting better.
Two of you were never sick. Exactly how, then, are you “getting better”?
The more I read, the dumber this guy looks.
That’s a woman.
Which kind of explains the entire tone of the article for me.
MA: Prisoners to get first crack at coronavirus vaccine under Charlie Baker’s plan
Cynical take: He’s looking for guinea pigs to do the long term testing that the vaccine trials didn’t have time to.
Great minds.
Give it to the underbelly of our civilization first, and then take note. Assuming the denizens of the underbelly don’t simply refuse to take the vaccine, of course…
Or he wants to avoid embarrassment if too few people get a vaccine at the beginning of the vaccination campaign.
Soon to go down in history as this generation’s Tuskegee experiments.
Maybe he’s thinking guinea pigs?
I liked this story better when it was called Deadpool.
I love that movie.
I accepted a Job offer today,2$ more than expected, all the normal perks, Van, Iphone, etc. and a 5K signing bonus, was not expecting that, yippee for me!
I’m also going to be the guest on a Podcast next week, talking about life in the Slabs, based on a recommendation from someone, I think I know who….
“Exxxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
Yay!!!
I’m up to 50% of Cali wages, and 1/3 the cost of living, not bad for an old Man…
Yessireee! Good maths. Congrats.
Excellent!
It seems like you’ve got a new job every week now, Yufusef. Congrats.
and they keep getting better, I want a job I can stick with, and not get bored, home based, and autonomous, this may be the one….
Fingers: crossed
Tits: calm
Here’s hoping
Thankee Sir!
Awesome. ?
5K signing bonus
That’s a lot of tall cans.
…and maybe a step up from the previous refreshments….
Good news, Yusef
YAY 4x! I got your gift today, already started Jalepenos and sweet Red Peppers, oh and some Black Tomatoes, might have to vine them, but so what,
Life! Many will go into my raised bed/Bunnie proof garden in Spring, thanks so much!
Cool!
Congrats!
Nice, Yusef. Roller coaster going up for a change? Good.
Hah! no Shit, I hope I can ride this one for a while, It looks good on paper….
Go you!
I can’t tell you how happy this makes me.
Go kick some ass, brother!
‘grats!
Welding is going great. My 2nd night they already let me try to stack beads. I’m stick welding 7810
I haven’t used a stick welder in (literally!) decades. TIg or GTFO.
Seriously- Nice. It’s a skill you can always use. To steal a line from somebody around here, you’ll never say, “I regret learning to weld,”
on your death bed.
Unless you are killed in a tragic welding accident.
That killed me once, slag down my shirt, then the other shirt, then my pants and cooled off in my Chonies waistline, Scars all around,
Chicks dig scars.
I got rid of everything except my gas welding set. O/A or GTFO.
Then again, I haven’t done anything except braise HVAC in decades.
I love to Braze, it’s truly awesome to watch it flow…
The winners of the bad literary sex award are almost ALWAYS men. d00ds need to read some romance novels.
I got hired once to rewrite a d00d’s sex scenes and he was more than happy to have someone who could and would.
What can I say? We’re good at bad.
Isn’t that what Penthouse Forum was for?
Solzhenitsyn was horrible at sex scenes.
In Soviet Russia, sex scene writes you.
“Dude got an erection. Dude got off.”
/fin
4F’s
/fin
The only pronoun they use is “he”.
The winners of the bad literary sex award are almost ALWAYS men. d00ds need to read some romance novels.
Not surprising. Dudes tend to prefer the visual medium over the written medium for their smut.
I’m off to the store, so I have milk for breakfast tomorrow.
I feel like there’s an opportunity here to argue about what kind of milk we prefer. Whole being the correct answer.
Almond.
Coconut almond
Regular, unsweetened. I’m a basic bitch and mostly put it in coffee.
Coffee gets the heavy whipping cream and coconut oil.
These seem to be gaining popularity. It’s been sold out a couple times lately.
heavy whipping cream and coconut oil
Good lord…Way to ruin a cup of coffee. But I guess I am about the bitter flavor. Same with tea. No sweetener.
Coffee is best drunk black.
Damn Right Ted, for once,
Coffee needs booze.
I hold the same opinions on milk as Ron Swanson
Listen to Kevin, Kevin knows. There’s a time for skimpin’ and it ain’t on the milk.
Heavy cream (or half and half at the very least) in the coffee. Otherwise, no dairy except as a cocktail ingredient.
I’m also okay with whole-fat evap. Handy on camping trips etc.
When I’m camping, I drink it black, and usually out of those Starbucks Via instant packets that I normally wouldn’t touch with Winston’s mom. Yes, I am kind of a gram weenie.
I’m visualizing Brooks as the old guy at the end of Grapes of Wrath.
“Whole milk”, “low fat”, X%, etc are bs terms.
It is either milk or not-milk.
I often pour a tall glass of milk and spike it with cherry vanilla ice cream. On occasion, black walnut.
Big Tech 451
Which one of you is this?
Looks like Western, CPRM and Trashy had a three-way baby.
What can I say? “Wannafud” is a turn on.
FFS, Wolf just shut down indoor dining. Douchebag.
If he was across the street and on fire, I’d sprint to the closest gas station and back to throw gasoline on him.
Given the level of sense displayed by so many politicians lately, I’m surprised more of them haven’t died in freak gasoline fight accidents.
Better to see you with, my dear.
This is ridiculous we need to get this idiot out of office.
By the way he is now COViD negative.
Same here. I had fingers crossed that Alberta wouldn’t go the same route as all the other provinces, but Monkey See, Monkey Do is just. too. powerful. for our Glorious Technocratic Leaders to resist.
There are officially no sane provinces left in Canada. And my nieces and nephews are going to spend their entire lives living in an authoritarian technocratic state.
“Enjoy the decline,” I guess…
Yep, this shit is never going to end.
Fuck.
Yep, Bank of Dad is open again as this means my son is again unemployed. This time, his employer may not make it through another closedown.
Sorry to hear that Sean. Guess he wanted to get into the news cycle with Ohio.
It’s a good thing the state governments all love fucking science.
Apparently someone asked governor Cunteface what the point of the curfew is. Response: “Nothing good happens after midnight.”
Obvious irritating answer and current covid paradigm aside, That is objectively false. I have had many a good time after midnight. It is 2am that you have to look out for.
https://youtu.be/gEeJbXcxy1k
And you’re also wrong about after 2am
https://youtu.be/MLdT5nTwVWQ
Did he really say that? If he did and they don’t lamppost him for it I have no more respect for my countrymen.
I want out of here so bad. The real estate market is on fire…I would hope the developer that’s buying us out would push as hard as possible to get things moving. Show me the money!!!
Make em pay! then Run!
The other day I looked at our old place up there, and Zillow has it estimated at $25k over what we were paid for it in May.
Back when we started the selling process, Zillow’s estimate was $30k under what we sold it for.
Hot is an understatement.
I paid about 4k over the asking price on my my Mobile because, cool terms, but it’s worth 5k more in the last 2 months, don’t know why,
I really want to make double payments when I can, so I can relax, it’s my only Big Bill,
I’m thinking of looking at property while in Florida.
A neighbor, with no addition and a pretty old kitchen, just sold for $520k. Apparently, someone heard it was coming on the market, knocked on the door and asked what they were asking. The neighbor said $519k. The buyer said we’ll pay $520k no inspection. So the neighbors took it. The buyer had missed on several houses in the market. I know another couple that got outbid on 4 houses in the neighborhood, finally got the fifth.
This is insane, I have an addition and my house is less than 1400 sqft including the finished basement. There are no garages. The houses are poorly insulated and the lots are small. I like my house, but it isn’t worth that.
I should probably start attending the Redevelopment Committee meetings, but I hate those things. Condo boards are Satan’s joke on the living.
What would Jesus do during a pandemic?
Sanctimonious hippie shit?
Weed and Hacky Sack?
That and listening to Phish while doing that twirlly rhythmless dance thing.
*shudder*
Make more wine?
Continue black market day laboring, like normal?
Hide in a cave for a few days?
“Blessed is just about everyone with a vested interest in the status quo”
I cannot begin to describe my contempt for this
lizard monsterwoman.The election was not close. There was no evidence of fraud. The states have certified the results.
Yet Trump continues to try to overturn the election at the expense of our democracy.
The emperor has no clothes.
Republican electeds who continue to humor him have no spines.
Were you expecting something different from her?
Just saw a commercial for some weight loss product, and all the “Before” people were in their undies, and they were all fully-clothed in the “After”. Something seems fishy…
?
“My teen daughter just asked me if Latinx is a race or ethnicity. I told her to read Chapter 7 of my book, Race and Racisms, so we can have an informed discussion.”
https://twitter.com/tanyaboza/status/1336815543848824832
CWAA
You are a racist if you do not exclusively view the world through the lens of skin pigment, comrade.
LOL
bellylaugh goodfeel
“I’ll take ‘Shit That Never Happened’ for a thousand, Alex.”
Let’s see…
Ugly… check
Female… check
Sociology prof… check
Born in DC… check
Lives in California… check
Self flagellating white… check
Insufferable moralizing holier than thou cunt… check check check…
She’s baaaaack.
Susan Rice, the former U.S. National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, will exit the board of Netflix to join the Biden administration.
“We are grateful to Susan Rice for her many contributions on our board and congratulate her on her return to public service,” said Netflix chairman and co-CEO Reed Hastings.
A person familiar with the situation said Rice, who was appointed to the Netflix board of directors in March of 2018, will be leaving effective Jan. 20.
As the President-elect continues to fill out his administration, he announced Thursday he has picked Rice to run the White House Domestic Policy Council, overseeing a large part of his agenda.
The level of propaganda we are seeing with this “president-elect” nonsense really grinds my gears. And Susan Rice is a total cunte.
There’s the major reason why I refuse to subsidize Netflix anymore.
It’s a slush fund for Obama and his cronies.
Who knew that what America has been clamoring for these last few years was the third Obama administration.
For Sean. The best manger scene. https://www.flickr.com/photos/g-rock/sets/72157603647848118/with/2172005683/
*wipes away a tear*
That’s beautiful, Tulip!
Talk about ta sausage party.
Double LOL, considering that Jesus was a Jew.
Nice
And the blessings of the salt-cured meats were bestowed…
A suburb where I grew up had a park where there was a Y intersection, and a park in the corner of the Y. They put up a nativity scene up in the park, with a cannon pointing through the back of the manger. A couple of years later, they finally started putting a canvas wrap around the bore of the cannon.
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Finally reading the lynx.
The CIA getting cock-blocked is more than amazing.
Their Director has been missing for a month. Something is going on there.
A functioning media might be asking questions.
Ya, that is something new and interesting.
The more conspiracy minded among us might wonder if it had to do with the rumors of CIA security shooting military during a raid on Dominion servers in Germany….
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-12-10/despite-trumps-venting-and-threats-bidens-win-is-sealed
I was expecting a 14 year old child based on the writing style but no, fully grown middle aged man with a history of partisan hackery.
“Eat shit, half of America.”
I remember when the MSM was calling on the Gore campaign to quit attempting to subvert the undisputed transition in 2000.
“Nothing to see here, citizen.”
Google: “Lets honor a black economist with a doodle”
“Good idea!
How about Prof Walter Williams, who recently died?Let’s have a long dead one with a now questionable model! 41 years is a nice round number and often celebrated as an anniversary.”https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/12/hillsboro-launches-hilight-aspiring-to-build-oregons-largest-city-run-internet-service.html
Up is down. Yeah, poor municipal networks. Often poorly planned and operated, ignoring all sorts of issues, self dealing with sibling agencies, and a host of advantages from taxing to bonding. Sadly, the reporter is usually half decent on business news but writes this up as if Goliath was the underdog.
Delta IV-heavy heading up at 8:09 EST.
It won’t be carrying any sugar, though.
Happy note. I’ve been stressed out because of attending a class plus trying to get my regular work done plus some end of year stuff I need to do before going to Florida. Today, my neighbor brought me homemade French onion soup. The bread and cheese were packaged separately with a little note with instructions. It is so good, and so, so nice to have something good that I didn’t have to make.
Good to hear, Tulip. Well made onion soup is a balm for the soul.
If you get time, let me know your approximate itinerary. Also, if you know where in FL you might want to buy land in (and its’ purpose, if any but to put a house on), pls email me. My brother has been looking for land in semi-rural & rural areas of N. Central Florida.
Will do!