I heard a rumor that Swiss and Mexican Sharpshooter will be at the same location later today. Hopefully, there won’t be a special guest appearance by everyone’s favorite rapesquatch. Or maybe that’s just three days old bad meth and worse decisions making me hallucinate. Just don’t send that very scary assistant after me, Swiss.
Man, it sure is crazy that the FAA AND the Justice Department opened investigations into SpaceX this week. It’s almost like Elon backed the wrong side in the GameStop deal.
Two deputies, a taser, and a dog. Good effort, Florida Man.
Space lasers, but are they Jewish? Anyone know if they have their foreskins?
Some soldiers apparently didn’t know the difference between ethanol and ethylene glycol. This seems to happen to young people every couple years. Weird place for it, though.
It’s almost like Elon backed the wrong side in the GameStop deal.
He shouldn’t have bitchslapped the DNC’s golden boy like that.
“The charge alleges that on or about March 10, 2020, during the Charging Party’s interview for the position of Technology Strategy Associate, SpaceX made inquiries about his citizenship status and ultimately failed to hire him for the position because he is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident,” DOJ attorney Lisa Sandoval wrote in a court document filed Thursday. The document was a request for a judge to order SpaceX to comply with an administrative subpoena for documents related to how the company hires.
Land of the Free, they said. Home of the Brave, they said.
Ummmmm…probably because the new hire would be working on government contracts that specifically state the person must be a citizen or resident? Should the DOJ investigate my company because the GOVERNMENT required them to hire a US citizen?
I’m sure I’m just losing my mind, but aren’t U.S. employers required by law to only hire citizens or lawful residents?
Yep, just my imagination.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
+1 I-9
I can’t wrap my head around that. Either the Charging Party is here on a short term visa or illegally. Either would make him/her/xer unacceptable for a long term position.
It says “ SpaceX made inquiries about his citizenship status and ultimately failed to hire him for the position because he is not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident”
So if he’s not a lawful permanent resident, why is it wrong not to hire him?
Sounds like a rule breaker who thinks he’s entitled to a job even though he’s a proven criminal. I wouldn’t want him working for me either.
Character doesn’t change. He wouldn’t have lasted long at SpaceX anyway.
It’s laughable that this is all the DOJ could come up with.
Wonder if the Charging Party has met the Subway tuna-sandwich complainant?
I’m trying to wrap my brain around that but I’m finding it rather difficult.
DOJ has an army of mind-readers on staff to figure these things out for us.
Ditto. I’ve been told in the past that “we’re not looking for foreign nationals who require sponsorship because the process is too arduous.” I guess I should be thankful that it was never the deciding factor for a candidate.
Feinstein was required by employment law to hire the CCP spy as her chauffeur.
It’s probably one of the DACA dreamers.
Regulatory agencies and the DoJ are for
destroying your political enemiesconducting legitimate investigations intohereticspeople who threaten the very fabric of democracy itself.Good morning, citizens. I trust you are well.
The laser data communication feature of the satellites is neat. Also makes that part of their operations jam- and eavesdrop-proof. Which might be why gubmint be all up his ass.
But I thought they could move “in laser-like fashion”, so intercepting the data shouldn’t be a problem, no?
#tooglib
I’ve been saying all along that StarLink is going to be disruptive to nations that control internet access, like China and even Russia.
Didn’t realize that in the US we might need an alternative to traditional ISPs so soon.
Elon doesn’t kiss leftist ass, so I am not optimistic about what the government will do to harass or ruin him. Maybe it’s time to sell Tesla shares after all, since the market isn’t really free.
Morning.
So i bought some kimchi fron the korean store and then from a russian store something they called kimchi style korean cabbage and the two products are not at all the same. Sneaky fucking russians
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13rRMdhYMZ8iYDged7nGtgQgnOWWRSO88/view?usp=drivesdk
I had something called “Russian dressing” once, which tasted exactly like I ‘member the relish on a Big Mac did.
Mayo, diced pickles, ketchup.
So… French dressing w/ relish.
Tulip, KK – gonna need a filing here.
Um *need a _ruling_ here*
And for “special sauce” you just sub the ketchup for thousand island?
Afaik, McD’s special sauce is mayo & mustard, no ketchup.
It’s thousand island, no idea what ingredients those are.
It’s different from Thousand Island.
Yes, but barely. It’s Mos Def not mayo and mustard.
Mayo & mustard! Mmmmmmm!!!
What type of mustard?
I don’t know. I thought it also had horseradish, but maybe that’s one of the “spice extractives” or I’m thinking of something else.
Steak looks yummy.
The “Chinese” food kits one gets at the supermarket bear little resemblance to food one would get in China. Apparently the genre is called “overseas Chinese food.”
⬅
Steak.
Prime strips are on sale today. I’m planning on picking up a couple.
I picked up a whole peeled tenderloin not too long ago, cause my Kroger marked it down stupid cheap. I trimmed a bit, cut 2 hunks for a roast, and sliced the rest for steaks. Since Jugsy is home briefly, I may try the Alton Brown “pan-sear/finish in the oven” approach on the steaks.
Yeah, I’m not going to grill them this weekend. Brrrrrr!
Cast iron with the stove/oven method for me too.
18 degrees last night, so no grilling for me either.
sous vide rib eye and seared it off on the stove. Delicious.
Jugsy’s going off and leaving you unsupervised again??
Tomorrow. She’s home for roughly 36 hours.
Poor thing thought business travel was “cool” when she accepted the job. Damn kids have to learn the hard way.
If you haven’t tried it, the reverse sear is really the best way to go for a perfect steak. In my experience, other methods such as searing first, or sous vide have too much moisture on the outside of the steak to really get a good sear without some sort of fat addition to the pan/outside.
https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/03/how-to-reverse-sear-best-way-to-cook-steak.html
Smoker works really well in place of the oven, but does give the meat a slightly different texture.
I add fat regardless, but I agree with everything you said. Another solid article:
https://amazingribs.com/tested-recipes/beef-and-bison-recipes/how-grill-better-steakhouse-steaks-recipe
Reverse sear was the original plan but the oven was occupied with baking sweet potatoes.
I used the Serious Eats sous vide streak technique, with some oil in the pan for the sear and a chunk of butter at the end.
I need to pull the trigger on a new double oven range.
Steak was a bit too rare but tasty
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13zugtROIk6ZlUPhxDRp2Z1Rj2QC7Czv1/view?usp=drivesdk
Too rare? That looks over cooked to me.
Also bought some kimchi the last stop at the grocer, haven’t tried it yet.
Only until the President goes night night. Anyone found to be suggesting that it is indeed “morning” after 9:30am will be brought before the Tribunal and sentenced to re-education. His Presidential Slumber occurs only at night. Presidenting is too important not to work every hour of the day, which begins at 7:00am sharp.
So, I found out through a neighbor that VCU is vaccinating all their employees. Not just MCV hospital personnel, but every single employee, even the bookkeepers on the academic (ie, non-medical) campus who mostly work from home. These government employees are getting vaccines while high-risk citizens (elderly) are still waiting.
…and they aren’t even holding classes anymore.
Go Ralphie, great job
I’m not being hyperbolic when I say it: their goal is a feudal society where government workers, and the Right Sort of people who work for nonprofits or woke corporations get special privileges. There’s student loan forgiveness for nonprofit workers already, and now they’re getting preferential medical treatment.
also all employees will turn autistic
And what happens to those that refuse?
I was told at work I was deemed ‘essential’ and could get the vaccine as a priority if I wanted (we were 1 of the 2 departments that worked during the shutdown, I got a fancy paper to show coppers I was commuting to my ‘essential’ job if I were ever stopped, thank goodness it never got that stupid here). I’m like, naw, I’m good.
Some animals are more equal than others.
“…apparently didn’t know the difference between ethanol and ethylene glycol. …. Weird place for it, though.”
Ft Bliss? Essentially El Paso, TX. It’s a weird place under any circumstances.
GIs will drink anything. Mennen’s is a drink of choice for some people in remote areas.
C’mon, man! You know how much fun I had in Juarez when Id get sent to White Sands to do an ARTEP ?
I still tell people about those experiences, and I qualify it with “look, if you’re 19 years old, single, and have a pocket full of cash, its impossible to NOT have fun in a grimy border town.”
We were so drunk and feisty one night, the Border Patrol refused us entry to the US and told us to sleep it off in Mexico. Juarez was awesome; it was also almost always restricted to US Army personnel, We had to make the most of our rare visits.
When I was at Ft. Hood, any long weekend was at a minimum a trip down I-35 to Laredo. I still fondly remember piloting my 77 Old Cutlass (with no a/c), hauling 3 of my idiot friends, and leaving a trail of Texas Pride cans all the way to the border.
I grew up there and I’ve been a teenaged grunt with a pocket full of cash in a number of similar locations. But in this day and age I’m pretty sure anywhere south of the Rio Grande is off limits.
When I was in Huachuca in 2004, Mexico was off-limits for all folks in training.
Mexico nothing. When I was at Ft. Bragg in 1969, Fayetteville was off limits for anyone in training. It was called Fatalville then.
The “discrimination” hooey with Elon probably goes on at every large country in America but those don’t make the news for whatever reason. ?
company ☕
[edit fairy swishes by, nods approvingly]
I… can’t… even…
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/famed-gamestop-bull-roaring-kitty-is-a-massachusetts-financial-adviser
“The saga has drawn the scrutiny of Congressional lawmakers, the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is being probed by the New York Attorney General.”
yeah.. because “Reddit user DeepF***ingValue” is the real enemy.
From their perspective, he absolutely is.
It is obvious that across all of the institutions, the entrenched interests view the rabble as potential usurpers.
Quick, light the Preet Signal!
DFV has a feature article in the WSJ and Fox Business is acting like they’ve uncovered some secret.
Also, he worked in marketing for Mass Mutual, not as an advisor.
I should think any good lawyer could use DFV’s hour-long video from July, explaining why he thinks GME is undervalued and why he’s going long, to get any legal action quashed.
My favorite comment from somewhere: “DFV should worry more about the Temporal Police than the SEC”
Timecop is the best cop.
Any good lawyer is going up against the banking giants and the FedGov that does their bidding.
He’s fucked. Probably from a mugging gone wrong where his wallet isn’t taken or an unexplained “suicide”.
But if he’s actually guilty, then so is the entire Fox Business and CNBC networks ,including Kramer. That guy goes on TV every day telling people to SELLSELLSELL AND BUYBUYBUY.
Stocks are at an absurd level so there are guaranteed to be a lot of short sellers out there. The GameStop thing has them soiling their shorts because they don’t know who the rabble might go after next.
We’ll do the same thing to JUSTICE we did to SCIENCE
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are vetting civil rights lawyers and public defenders to nominate as judges, embarking on a mission to shape the courts after Republicans overhauled them in the last four years, according to senior party officials and activists.
Democrats have a wafer-thin Senate majority that gives them control over appointments. They believe they have two years to make their mark and fill a growing number of vacancies before a midterm election where the party in power historically loses seats.
Some are preparing for a Supreme Court retirement as early as this summer, with most of the speculation centered on 82-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer, a Democratic appointee.
In addition to forming a new commission to study structural changes to the judiciary, the Biden White House has asked senators to recruit civil rights attorneys and defense lawyers for judgeships. Officials who work on the issue say they’ve seen an outpouring of interest and have begun holding sessions to offer information and advice on navigating the confirmation gauntlet.
They’re going to “repair” the courts. They keep using that word…
By “repair” they mean fix. As in the veterinary sense.
“The saga has drawn the scrutiny of Congressional lawmakers, the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is being probed by the New York Attorney General.”
I’m shocked. SHOCKED! to find out there is gambling going on in this casino!
SP is still asleep.
Swiss is still asleep.
Tulip is still asleep.
WebDom is still asleep- with Sharpie-drawn dicks on her forehead.
that was one helluva orgy
That wasn’t very nice of Tulip to do that to poor WD.
I saw that coming. Poor girl.
Le sad
“I call it repair the courts,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, said in an interview. “We have to make sure that we are filling vacancies with credible, neutral, fair-minded judges, rather than the political operatives that we saw so many of in the Trump years.”
Every single thing the Republicans have done for the past fifty years has been specifically intended to further their explicit agenda of racist oppression.
That’s an excellent starting point for a new era of collegiality and co-operation.
I’m looking forward to “for every regulation we pretend to eliminate, we’ll make 7 more!”
Unity
Oh fuck it, hand me a torch and pitchfork, I’m joining the populist mob.
Good. I was beginning to question your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
To be fair, armor guys arent the brightest. But, “One warrant officer, two noncommissioned officers and eight enlistees were injured in the incident, the Army said.”
When Swiss wakes up, ax him how he’d handle the discipline, since he had a command and all. Im betting its not going to be pleasant for the WO and the NCOs.
I expect that the higher ranking soldiers in this case were unsuspecting participants. Probably one of the non-rates mixed some juice with what everybody else expected to be vodka or some such and then it was shared by all.
“You scored some booze? Cool! What brand is it?”
“Prestone.”
https://sharpmagazine.com/2021/01/26/gordon-and-macphail-scotch-whiskey-bonhams-auction/
Outside my budget.
“ If you’re racking your brain for a Valentine’s Day gift, consider one of the rarest and finest scotch whiskeys on the planet.”
If you can afford it at $60k per bottle, you really don’t have any problems.
White House counsel Dana Remus told senators in a recent letter to recommend candidates for district court vacancies within 45 days of a vacancy, so they can “expeditiously” be considered.
“With respect to U.S. District Court positions, we are particularly focused on nominating individuals whose legal experiences have been historically underrepresented on the federal bench, including those who are public defenders, civil rights and legal aid attorneys, and those who represent Americans in every walk of life,” Remus wrote in the letter, which was obtained by NBC News
On its face, this is completely unobjectionable.
Unfortunately, I expect their candidates to be “public interest” lawyers who have spent their careers fighting capitalism and private ownership tooth and nail.
Like the above DoJ lawyer with a complaint AGAINST SpaceX for actually following the law.
The disappointed applicant was probably a Chinese spy, which explains the Biden administration’s dudgeon.
Hah, that’s what I jokingly told my wife. Well… half-jokingly.
QFT
The future is now.
https://www.pal-v.com/en/press/worlds-first-flying-car-hits-the-road
Next up, robot maids.
+1 Rosie
flying-car-hits-the-road
So it immediately crashed? Not a good look.
Just as long as it looks like we’re doing something
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday night that mask-wearing will be required on all on all public transportation beginning Monday night.
The mandate issued by CDC division director Martin S. Cetron was made after President Joe Biden issued an executive order Jan. 21 that called for “immediate action” on mask-wearing for “all forms of public transportation.”
It applies to all public commercial transportation — planes, trains, boats and buses — and to transportation hubs, such as air terminals, train stations, subway stations, seaports and bus depots.
It also covers ferries, subways, taxis and ride-hail vehicles, the CDC said. Operators and transportation workers must wear masks, too.
How many masks will they be required to wear?
I think we’re up to 19 now. And N95 underwear.
Would an N95 pair of drawers contain my Milwaukee’s Best Light-induced flatulence? And if so, where does it go? What happens when I take them off ?
No, and you have to change them every 15 mins so you’ll find out soon enough.
Curious where it wasn’t already required for the last ten months.
PS. Some of the options listed are NOT public transportation. I wonder how they square that circle.
Commerce clause FTW! There’s NOTHING it can’t do!
/Filburn concurs
You know how close we are to his farm, right?
Could hit it with a 5-iron. Wasnt it where Mumma’s orchard used to be ?
I have channel 7 on. Katy Anderson is just a blonde Jenna Deery.
Change my mind.
*whoever at their HR hires that “type”, I approve
Filburn Foundation says most of the land was sold for residential development near the Mall.
I knew I was close, and it was on Shiloh someplace not too far.
And in what sense are taxus “public” transportation?
Biden used his first days in office to also mandate mask-wearing and social distancing on all federal properties. While stopping short of mandatory mask-wearing in all public situations, he has encouraged mask-wearing “across America.”
How is he going to kiss my ass properly with a mask on?
No hope, no relief
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday despite having completed a full course of vaccination against the virus.
Lynch tested positive more than a week after taking the second of two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and days after his office learned that a staff member had tested positive. Although both of the vaccines approved for use in the U.S. were tested to be around 95 percent effective in preventing infections, experts have cautioned that even those who have been vaccinated run the risk of becoming infected.
“This afternoon U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch received a positive test result for COVID-19 after a staff member in the Congressman’s Boston office had tested positive earlier in the week,” Lynch’s Communications Director Molly Rose Tarpey said in a statement. “Congressman Lynch had received the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine and subsequently received a negative COVID-19 test prior to attending President Biden’s Inauguration.”
Tarpey added that Lynch “remains asymptomatic and feels fine” but will continue to “self-quarantine and will vote by proxy in Congress during the coming weeks.” It is not clear when Lynch had the second dose of the vaccine, but maximum immunity to the virus is achieved at least one or two weeks after completing course of either approved vaccine. Pfizer has stated that protection can be expected a week after the second dose. Tarpey declined Newsweek’s request for further comment or details.
That’s it. We’re all gonna die.
Honk honk.
Lazy journalism (again). Tested positive, but “remains asymptomatic and feels fine” ? Maybe a false positive test? Also, doesn’t it take a couple weeks after the second shot before the vaccine is fully effective? And the congressman looks old. I looked him up and apparently he’s 65 years old, but looks much older to my eyes (may have some health issues?). It’s known that vaccines are less effective for the elderly. The 95% effective rate is an AVERAGE across all the ages tested in the trials, which had only a small contingent of elderly.
Mostly peaceful peace prize
“They have had a tremendous achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice.”
Its all fun and games until we come burn down YOUR Autozone and loot Target.
OFFS!!
Can somebody troll this by nominating that buffalo headdress guy?
Public health experts have stressed that those who have been fully vaccinated should not assume that are immune and continue to practice preventative measures like wearing face masks and maintaining social distance in order to protect themselves and others. Photos of Lynch in Congress and elsewhere in the days after the inauguration show him wearing a mask.
The vaccine does nothing?
So what’s the fucking point?
You might say the same thing about masks. You aren’t going to get people to think either way.
“So what’s the fucking point?”
The point is that our Overlords can keep this going indefinitely to demoralize, isolate and atomize society to the point that people will put up no resistance to the totalitarian shit that’s going on as we speak.
Or to get a few of us to snap and do something violent, so they have an excuse to pass even more draconian shit.
To protect the last person on the planet who hasn’t been stuck yet.
Thanks for the (only slight) hangover, Zoom Glibs! I only have vague recollections.
So you’re the wrong person for me to ask “what I missed while I was @ work” ?
Something from Tonio about sucking nipples, an extended discussion of strip clubs, and how hawt curmudgeons are. That’s all I got.
It was highly intellectual & boring, at any rate.
I concur.
*cough*
Get off my lawn ?
A true curmudgeon would be more definitive…
“FUCK OFFA MY LAWN!”
I got through 4 beers and was out like a baby,
I got through 4 beers then, out! Fun time though
Hair twins!
I finished off my burger and fries and was asleep by 8pm. I had every intention to come back to the zoom.
Glad you joined us!
For sure even if brief its always a good time
Schizophrenic, under the influence, seriously bad judgement, or some combination thereof? Pro tip: the homemade neck tat my provide a clue.
Place your bets, people, in this round of What Type of Florida Man is This?
A generic one.
I watched Charlie Wilson’s War last night.
Highly, highly entertaining.
Silicone Saturday wants your stonks.
https://archive.li/i59T7
#1
Since Yufus isnt around, Ill enact his usual Saturday labor:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/01/the-week-in-pictures-reddit-hood-edition.php
What? Ya beat me to it,
Sup homie?
22ºF, waiting on snow, Jugsy is home, and tall cans & AIGS for breakfast/supper!
18, no real snow, bored as hell,
And I wanna get ill,
Ill? Try the Covid.
I need to go to place where my homeboys chill,
elohel
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-25-at-3.53.44-PM.png?w=996&ssl=1
Not really obligatory but here it is anyway.
The polar bear eating Bernie and him sitting in Archie’s chair…those are funny.
So my dad finally retired yesterday after more than 40 years in the same job. He’s in his 70’s and could have retired 10+ years ago but he liked his job and didn’t see a reason to stop. Then the Plague came and fucked everything up. Personally, I think he should have done it a while ago and I think he’s happy about it now. He just says he wished traveling was easier so he could take advantage of all the free time. He and my mom will probably go on some road trips soon though.
Grats to the Old Man!
Grats to him! I bet your mom’s thrilled to have him at home all the time …
hungarian romanian gypsy music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXvbsZsrxy0&feature=emb_logo
When the mob speaks, I listen
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s police chief has banned officers from using “Thin Blue Line” imagery while on duty.
Chief Kristen Roman informed officers of the ban in a Jan. 15 email that was made public this week.
The department faced criticism in November over a photo posted to its Twitter account that showed a “Thin Blue Line” flag displayed at the police department’s office.
The “Thin Blue Line” flag, which resembles an American flag but has a blue stripe, is a sign of support for law enforcement but has also come to signal opposition to the racial justice movement and a symbol of white supremacy or support for the Blue Lives Matter cause.
Roman said that the flag has been “co-opted” by extremists with “hateful ideologies” in the promotion of their views that “run counter” to the department’s “core values” and that it impedes “our efforts to build trust.”
“Guided by our core values, my responsibility to ensure your safety as best I’m able, and by what I believe in my heart is the right thing to do under present circumstances, I am moved to enact specific measures to distance UWPD from the thin blue line imagery and the fear and mistrust that it currently evokes for too many in our community,” she wrote.
She said she understood the complexity and sensitivity of the issue.
These people all need to just go DIAF.
Unity!
“a symbol of white supremacy”
The American flag has been co-opted by some elements, too, so let’s ban that. Or at least take off every star that stands for a state that once had slavery.
I actually don’t mind the ban, but the reasoning is hot garbage.
“Thin blue line” is mutually exclusive to “protect and serve”. There, I said it.
This guy gets it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFgs0hA0eS0 = 1:20 big chunky fish has a sad with a hook and line in it’s mouth. Excuse me for being a “vegan faggot” but what sort of mitigation is there for preventing this or is it pretty common* for fish to wind up like this? Ocean fishing glibs expertise appreciated.
*relative term
That grouper Won! Limey, hes still swimming and not someones dinner
Dangit, Grouper. That’s the one. Thanks, Yufus.
Hooks like that will rust away in a surprisingly short period of time and the fish will be fine. At least around here hooks are required by law to be made of iron that rusts quickly and easily.
The likelihood of it happening is pretty high as in it can happen each time you try to set a hook and you lose your rig. Fish mouth parts aren’t quite like ours though and I don’t know if it bothers them that much.
I can’t watch youtube where I’m at right now, but I’m going to assume there’s a hook stuck in a fishes mouth swimming around somewhere and or caught. Some states require carbon based steel hooks to allow the hooks to rust out and just fall out. Other places allow stainless steel hooks that will never deteriorate and pretty much just become piercings.
Thanks for responses, sea-faring glibs. I’m learning about things.
Last night Mrs. Suthenboy made a dozen egg rolls from scratch. She fried them up and put them on a plate on the kitchen counter. Then she heard the dryer ding and asked me if I would help her fold the sheets that were dry. We were gone for three minutes. When we went back in the kitchen to serve our plates up…no egg rolls. Not one. The dogs were all in the living room and refused to make eye contact with us. They stared at the ceiling and said “hmmm hmm hm hmmm hm, it wasn’t me. Nope I had nothing to do with that.”
Dog cabbage farts all night. This weekend didnt start right.
Ugh.
Memories of Bella stealing my burgers, first time she yankiing the tray off the stove, second time she was stealthy and I didnt notice til, damn dog!
I knew a guy that named his dog ‘Damned Dog’.
Bella was damn smart, she could pick her meds out of the hot dogs I put it in,
Our favorite was wife made tacos. She put them on the table for my serving and I went to grab a beer and when I went to the table they were gutted.
I said real funny babe, you didnt make me tacos!
Shadow, our dog was standing licking his chops with that look of “what?”
I apologise for laughing at your misfortune, but that’s hilarious
It’s sentient. It’s ravenous. It’s coming for YOU!
New data showing that two COVID-19 vaccines are far less effective in South Africa than in other places they were tested have heightened fears that the coronavirus is quickly finding ways to elude the world’s most powerful tools to contain it.
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“From an evolutionary biology perspective, this is totally expected and anticipated,” said Dr. Michael Mina, a Harvard epidemiologist. “But it never feels good to be validated on something so scary.”
Researchers once believed it would take several more months, or even years, for the virus to develop resistance to vaccines. They said the speedy evolution is largely a result of the virus’ unchecked spread.
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One early sign that this process was underway was the significant number of people who were contracting the coronavirus a second time. It appeared that the training their immune systems received during the first infection was failing to protect them from new versions of the virus.
Scientists at Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech worried that the same thing could happen with immunity induced by their vaccines. In laboratories, they took several versions of the virus and exposed them to blood samples from a small number of people who had been vaccinated.
I think the virus came from outer space. It was sent as a first-wave assault by space aliens coming to enslave and devour us.
That’s the only reasonable SCIENCE-tistic explanation.
What a bunch of horse-fucking shit.
“From an evolutionary biology perspective, this is totally expected and anticipated,” said Dr. Michael Mina
Dr. Dingleberry has it exactly backwards. If this were true we would all be sick with a dozen or more kinds of flu and cold all of the time. We would all be dead thousands of years ago. What a lying fuckwit this guy is.
Andromeda Strain!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1+1!!
Error 601?
“the coronavirus is quickly finding ways to elude the world’s most powerful tools to contain it’
IDGAF, just take some extra vitamin C and leave me the hell alone.
New data showing that two COVID-19 vaccines are far less effective in South Africa than in other places they were tested have heightened fears that the coronavirus is quickly finding ways to elude the world’s most powerful tools to contain it.
Didnt somebody post an article here the other day about how the SA trials were the only ones that were double-blind, and that there were other defects in the other trials, too?
Maybe it had to do with faulty initial trials but it’s not unexpected that the vaccines (or the immunity conferred from getting it for that matter) will be less effective against a fresh strain and they’ll have to tweak it every year because the disease is going to be endemic. See also: The flu.
Yeah, that’s not surprising. If anything, a quickly reducing effectiveness is the baseline expectation.
It piques my interest that they’re finding less effectiveness in the one place where they did legitimate, rigorous initial trials. Perhaps some of the delta is more rigorous measurements in SA?
Well, it’s made the world stupid and ripe for the picking, that’s for sure.
Ffs. This is not the first, only and worst respiratory virus. Get a grip.
These fucks want people to think the human immune system ceased to exist in January 2020.
Good morning, peeps!
What’s up?
Gonna break down a brisket today. Fix the tub in the grooming trailer. If i can get that done then lay down the flooring.
Wow! Ambitious!
What type of flooring?
We have left over engineered vinyl plank. Should be easy.
OMWC has one of those for when the van is in the shop. Also a grooming wagon for the Amish chicks, who aren’t quite so amenable to the van.
LOL
I don’t get the objection, the van is parked the whole time.
Morning Glibs.
I have to remember not to go to happy hour before Glibs happy hour.
My brain hurts.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MrCPIrs90eg
This may help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq4Gw5NwTME
“a symbol of white supremacy”
The American flag has been co-opted by some elements, too, so let’s ban that. Or at least take off every star that stands for a state that once had slavery.
Make the blue go away, and the stars disappear. And then we need to get rid of those red stripes, because they symbolize the blood sucked out of black slave bodies.
And then we’ll be left with a plain white flag, which is a perfect symbol of our collectivist future.
Good God, don’t let these people find out why there aren’t that many black folks in Arabia and other former Ottoman areas, they’ll stroke out.
I figured there would be some stars left, for states like Nebraska or Alaska or Nevada that never had slavery. But then there is appropriation of Native American land, or raping the environment, or voting for Trump, or some such outrage. It might leave a white flag, but then white suggests white supremacy.
Maybe just a hammer and sickle flag, or black with silver lightning bolts, or let AOC design it?
“Maybe just a hammer and sickle flag…”
I think. you are on to them.
No! You keep the red and a few stars, and then add a hammer and that thing that death guy uses!
Then it is perfect!
Someone finally discovered that the KKK uses/used the American flag. It’s like symbols mean different things to different people and are therefore up to interpretation.
let AOC design it?
A pudgy, grasping, childish hand.
Speaking of Etsy-
I dont think they get it. People would rather get bent over by pinko shitweasels than have anyone actually look out for the interests of citizens here. Mention Trump and people still start foaming at the mouth, set their hair on fire and run around in circles waving their arms. Ask them why and you get gibberish.
Before the election I had half of a dozen people tell me “I like Trump’s policies but I hate him so much I am going to vote Biden.” Goddamned.
We dont vote for people, we vote for policies. Idiots.
I’m not sure he had any, he just made shit up as he went along. What he espoused was warmed over 90s Democrat policies, then he enacted some shit Rand talked into his ear sweetly, and what ever other trash floated to forefront of his mind.
If all he did was kill the Paris Accord it was worth having him in there.
Biden put us back in…i.e. rape you on behalf of third world dictators.
All I’m trying to point out is how the ‘Right’ has let the ‘overton window’ shift. Now a 90s democrat is the savior of the ‘right’, and that is seen as a win?
I can get the Reagan apologia, he seemed to have believed, but not fought well for, goals that would let freedom prosper.
But Trump at best was a stop-gap to a farther slide leftward, but allowing that to be the new ‘right’ is scarier to me than anything Biden of Kamala can do, because it means people who value freedom are forever fucked.
You are correct. Conservatives are relatively spineless and powerless. I may just despise them more than commies. Well, maybe not. I would just kick their ass rather than shoot them.
When I think democrat I think JFK and Tip O’neal. I disagreed with them on a lot of things but I never thought of them as anti-American.
You are correct, it is sad that Trump is the new face of the right.
Someone once asked me if I was a conservative. I answered ” I would have to move over to the left quite a bit to be considered a conservative.” They had no idea what I meant.
Yeah, that throws folks for a loop, to call big government ‘conservatives’ left. Like there is no smaller government than 1980. Nothing before was ever smaller. Certainly the government was never smaller than before the New Deal! The world didn’t exist before that! Just savagry…
IIRC that thing doesn’t mean shit until the Senate votes on it and even in Present Day I find it difficult to believe it would pass.
We dont vote for people, we vote for policies. Idiots.
I don’t think I could be restrained around such people.
“You realize that when you turn off your government sanctioned propaganda broadcast, the meanie Trump can’t actually hurt you, right? However, when you elect somebody who is part and parcel of a ‘fundamental transformation’ of our society and economy, that hits you whether or not you beat off to political theater, right?”
This idea I keep seeing everywhere – from both sides! – that Joe is some sort of serious, statesmanlike leader is just laughable on its face. Have none of these people ever actually watched him in action?!
“Mask-urbate! Use face coverings during mutual masturbation to reduce your risk,“
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16728
If you’re wanking it in the same room with someone else and they’re returning the favor with all of the heavy breathing that entails while wearing a surgical mask you may as well just let someone sit on your face..unless you’re wearing an N95, more effective yes but check to make sure your partner knows CPR first.
Whoops, misthread
And for God’s sake dont pop bubble wrap.
Punitive, all of it.
People do still kill themselves on a fairly regular basis, doing breath play. This advice is beyond foolish.
“REVEALED: Heir to Publix Super Markets chain bankrolled MAGA rally before Capitol riot with $300,000 donation alongside Alex Jones who gave $50,000 to event that was organized by Trump supporter who charged $730,000”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9204875/The-woman-bankrolled-Capitol-riot-MAGA-rally.html
Also, fried chicken.
WAIT A FUCKDOG MOMENT! I watched that Rally (out of curiosity and looking for audio clips) I didn’t see no Alex Jones!? Why didn’t I get to see the Fricken Gay Frogs!?
He was there shooting for his show. And he was one person trying to tone down and diffuse the situation when he saw the riot beginning to happen.
Alex Jones, voice of reason.
Ironically, from my limited exposure, he often is. I’m on board when he says a globalist cabal is trying to create some sort of commu-fascist society because those people are talking about it out loud. He loses me when he says those same people are going to merge themselves with machines to make themselves gods.
He loses me when he says those same people are going to merge themselves with machines to make themselves gods.
Eyeglasses, dentures, pacemakers, calculators…the groundwork to godhood is already laid.
Andy Kaufman has a sad.
Little whoop for 50K. He didn’t even get to be on stage with the Hat to wax poetic about gay frogs!? Dumbest timeline!
True, I’ve seen clips where he was trying to do just that, I think on a Paul Joseph Watson segment.
Just another reason to shop at Publix other than the fact that their subs are to die for.
“Publix deploys fleet of deadly nuclear submarines, will Biden do nothing to stop this MENACE?!1eleventy?”
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9203717/Demi-Rose-showcases-underboob-TINY-white-crop-Ibiza.html
Nope. Jaw-dropping physique.
Not all jaws drop for the same reason.
Tucker is on point here.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/30/fncs-carlson-this-is-the-most-sweeping-and-audacious-assault-on-civil-liberties-in-american-history/
Though I’d contend it is not the MOST sweeping assault…yet.
I tried to watch last night in the bed room but wife came to bed….she cant watch Tucker. She gets angry and starts ranting and raving so I had to turn it off mid-show.
She put The Smithsonian channel on. That is good for going to sleep to.
You are correct. Not the most sweeping…yet. They will get there, dont worry.
Anyone got a car or music podcast that they like? I’m getting tired of politics.
Car Talk reruns?
Ballistic Radio
Shoot Fast Podcast (on a short hiatus, but there are lots of archived episodes.)
The Perfect Double (extremely inconsistent schedule, but still fun if you like practical shooting gossip.)
The Adventure Zone, maybe? I usually only binge that one on long road trips.
Thanks to both of you!
There is actually a ‘local’ shop that advertises their podcast in their commercial; I hear commercials but I don’t really listen to commercials, son I don’t know what the fuck it is.
And they run commercials for the shop during the podcast?
PERPETUAL MARKETING MOTION!
If you’re interested in beekeeping beyond Honey Harvest, this guy does a weekly Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txkVNKiqI4k
Political Beats from NR? The political is a misnomer; merely political writers doing deep dives into classic rock bands.
Since a lot of us were gamers. have you considered NADDPOD?
You should start at episode 1.
“The origin of AIDS revealed? First person ever infected with HIV was a starving World War One soldier who caught the virus in Cameroon while hunting chimps, expert claims
Previous studies found the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in chimps first crossed over into humans in South-East Cameroon at the start of the 20th century. Simian immunodeficiency virus can be fatal to chimps and is exactly the same as HIV, the only difference between the two is the host it lives inside. HIV is an example of zoonotic transmission, where a pathogen can cross from one species to another, like Covid-19, bird flu and cowpox.
In the acclaimed first edition of his book ‘Origin of AIDS’, published in 2011, Dr Pepin concluded HIV likely infected a hunter in Cameroon at the start of the 20th century, before spreading to Léopoldville, now known as Kinshasa in the Congo.
Now, a revised version of this ‘cut hunter’ hypothesis has been published which states the original ‘Patient Zero’ was not a native hunter, but instead a starving World War One soldier forced to hunt chimps for food when stuck in the remote forest around Moloundou, Cameroon in 1916 — giving rise to the ‘cut soldier’ theory.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Professor Pepin reveals how colonialism, starvation and prostitution helped create the ongoing AIDS epidemic.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9202531/First-HIV-case-soldier-World-War-One-caught-virus-hunting-chimps.html
#SCIENCE!
Professor Pepin reveals how colonialism, starvation and prostitution helped create the ongoing AIDS epidemic.”
*sigh*
Horse shit.
Wouldn’t it be far more likely that it was due to an African person eating bush meat as they are wont to do. Talk about erasing black people from history…
Someone, probably an African, fucked a chimp. Subsequently they visited a whore house. That is how it got into the human population.
No one wants to say that because RACISM!!! so they come up with pretzelly explanations to make the truth go away. Racism has nothing to do with it, of course, but there you have it.
If HIV-like viruses exist among the other primates for them to supposedly jump to us, then wouldn’t it stand to reason that some HIV-like virus has probably existed for more than the 5mil years since the late-Homo branch split from Chimps? So there was already an HIV-like virus evolving along with the chimps that would become Homo-
The “AIDS Virus” is just the c.1980 strain detected by human science.
Too bad viruses don’t leave fossils, the best we have is molecular clocks right? The whole “somebody fucked a monkey” thing is just irresistible to the idiot mind. Bunch of retard monkeyfuckers.
…go on…
“BLM is submitted for a Nobel Peace Prize for fighting against racial injustice…. but the summer of violence and riots carried out in its name are glossed over in the nomination”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9203889/Black-Lives-Matter-movement-nominated-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html
Prize is a joke, anyway.
+1 Awardee responsible for the deployment of 27K munitions.
Nobel Mostly Peaceful Prize.
LOL
Kudos to the Fail for stating the obvious for a change.
Likely party responsible for the DC pipe bombs, which turned out to be placed the night before the planned rally
1) antifa
2) false flag deep state
3) FBI infiltrator/informant prodded and instigated group
4) rando whack job
5) anti government crazy
6) all other crazies
7) Trumpista
50/50 Number 1 or number 3
I take that back. Antifa are scum of the earth but they haven’t made pipe bombs that I know of. The FBI has a history and fondness for false flag bombs.
A lot of messy overlap there, but yeah it’s awful suspicious.
One is pretty plausible, perhaps enabled by two. In any case, it will be used to justify all of the War on Domestic TerrorTM law that is in the pipe.
As that would indicate that they were placed by people looking to kill Trumpistas I’ll go with 1 and six at fifty percent and the FBI at forty percent, ten percent to random asshole or false flagger.
Has anyone seen a picture of these supposed pipe bombs? I wonder if they will turn out to be like the “pipe bombs” made by that “white-supremacist” Seminole guy.
I often wonder if what they refer to as ‘explosives’ found in raids is just a couple of propane tanks next to the grill. Assholes gotta asshole.
Before the election I had half of a dozen people tell me “I like Trump’s policies but I hate him so much I am going to vote Biden.” Goddamned.
It saddens and depresses me to know there are people out there who seriously believe Biden is in any way less of a narcissistic sociopath than Trump.
Trump’s children turned out OK. Biden’s chillens are dope heads.
Do the math.
Biden had 40 years to learn the veneer of proper politician public behavior
Look Fat, Biden’s a good guy and a saint. C’mon man!
Can someone put together a list of html tags that one can use in the comments?
A, strong, em, del, blockquote
Those are the only ones I’m aware of
Sorry, should’ve demoed the functions.
a: link
strong: bold
em: italics
del: strikethroughI used strike instead of del, but now I know, I can save myself a few keystrokes.
s works as well
wait wait wait wait.
s for strike.
but we had to spend the past twenty years replacing b with strong and u with style=text-dec….
I fucking hate the HTML standards committee.
Trying out some other formatting:
Mark: dunno what this does
subscript probably doesn’t work, nor do I expect superscript
inserted text: *shrug*
Sup doesn’t work, so I imagine sub don’t neither
Yeah, looks like the five I mentioned in my first reply are the only ones that work.. I didnt try small, but wouldn’t expect that one to work either.
I could, theoretically, enable them client side using monocle. We’d have to either modify the tags so they didn’t get shot into the ether by wordpress (using square brackets, for example), which would leave the tags in the comments for non-monoclers, or find some non-printing characters to insert as tags and convert them.
I don’t love the idea of forcing people to insert artifacts into their comments for monocle to interpret, even non-printing artifacts.
I don’t love the idea of forcing people to insert artifacts into their comments for monocle to interpret, even non-printing artifacts.
also, performance hit from parsing and rendering the page twice?
It’s already parsing the page twice to do all of the other fun stuff that it does, so this probably wouldn’t make it noticeably worse. I try to optimize where I can to reduce the processing load.
Sup? to you to. #TallCans
See, it works just fine.
I tried to use “sup” and it did not work.
#TallCans
Definitely not , as I’ve tried multiple times and keep forgetting it doesn’t work
dammit…that was supposed to be sup
Comment-rate limiter preventing the successful implementation of the TresCool tag, cancelling feature.
IS THIS THING ON???
I’m pushing my neighbor to put some thoughts together about growing up in the projects, and how government roped in community leaders (i.e. Pastors) to keep people in line, keep them poor, and keep them under the boot.
Any interest among you lot in reading about that?
Is your neighbor a hot lesbian who could still be into me? If not, then meh.
Very much so.
Yes
I am.
Anyone got a car or music podcast that they like? I’m getting tired of politics.
I don’t do podcasts, but I tripped over this guy on youtube. I personally found him kind of annoying, but at least he actually seems to know what he’s doing.
Vice Grip is better, but he’s starting to repeat himself a lot. He should go back to working on the crew cab.
Thanks! That looks like a good one.
My love of toys and John Stossel finally converged!
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Professor Pepin reveals how colonialism, starvation and prostitution helped create the ongoing AIDS epidemic.”
Stupid fucking white man
Kroger delayed my grocery order a couple hours. I placed the order on Wednesday. Ergo there should be a slot time reserved for me as such. I am only trying to stock up on beer/wine and snacks for a snowstorm. Do better.
1-3″ expected?
More than that. See below.
But probably going to be a wet mess. ///That’sWhatSheSaid
6-8? Snowpocolypse? That’s like a weekly thing here most winters, though this one has been a mild snowfall. Global Warming!
Not a snowpocolypse, but nice to get all the same. I live in piedmont Va, after all.
Ha! Got him boys! To Piedmont, VA we go!
ethlyene gycol… Fort Bliss
Well if you lived near El Paso you might consider it an alright idea. Plus soldiers can be prone to less than stellar decision-making, particularly Riggers and Cooks. As Bliss is the home of an Armored Division the latter seems more likely than the former.
I’m still not convinced we’ll see any *whispers* snow
DT thinks so.
One time they said we were in for a good 6-8″ (euphemism alert) right before I went to bed. Woke up to sunny skies.
If you do get that 6-8″ it’ll be hard. Cum Spring you’ll be so wet! You’ll be flooded! Gushing!
I…what?
Imagine that in a voice even deeper than the hair’s. I would have been so good at phone sex, why was I born too late for phone sex !?
I don’t recall seeing you on Zoom last night (phone sex operators were also a topic of conversation, IIRC)
I was at work last night.
I know – I thought it was funny you happened to bring it up. One of the Zoomers gave us an insiders’ look at the business last night
Again I’m too late for even phone sex! 40 yr old Virgin here I come!
“They” being the Weather Channel/local news? In 2018 we ended up getting a foot at my place and TWC was updating as the event was happening, giving total amounts that were already on the ground. DT is usually pretty accurate. But time will tell.
Local news
He isn’t factoring in Global Warming.
Hey Glibs, long time no post due to some personal stuff going on.
Trust all is well with everyone.
HI!!!!!!
How’s your auroras? I’ve been tracking them around the world lately. Lots of clouds in the northern hemisphere, though.
We had some good ones a few weeks ago with a KPI of ~7 or 8. I booked a weekend in the Denali area in early March to see what happens, but if the forecast is a bust I can cancel it a week out.
NICE
I’ve been watching a live cam in Churchill, and it’s been consistently cloudy, then they had a full moon the last couple nights. But the KPI has been low in general…around 2 or 3 ish.
I’m looking at Norway right now, and there’s some faint green through the breaks in the clouds.
In case you just thawed out of the ice, Biden won. The ‘pandemic’ will never end. Stock up on hooch.
It’s all terrible and gets worse every day.
Even though I knew it was bacterial since the teens meds worked, his lil’rona test came back negative.
Which is great news for wife’s business and I am going to ait on that info cause I really don’t want to go to OKC…
In other euphemisms – Pipeline is forecast to be 8-9′ today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY5RYp4sxYc
laying 9′ pipe is for pussies…er that euphemism may have gotten away from me.