Me, today.
I am finding less joy and getting more wrath out of the site lately. So I am going to take a break – but that need not interfere with the Links! Priorities must be maintained. So enjoy, ignore or whatever you’d like to do with these:
- Pikers. We do this in the TRILLIONS.
- Good on ya, OZ weather guy – although I think we all know Jim Cantore would do this too.
- I know nothing of this. Really.
And finally – An Actual Music Link. Not the Rickroll I so badly wanted to do.
Uf wiederluge mitenand.
UPDATE: INSTANT CLASSIC from Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us). Go read comment 28 for … “The Sound of Science”.
Monday Afternoon Takin’ A Break Links
It’s been a manic Monday for me.
My emoji broke the comment.
Was it a bangle?
Susanna Hoffs?
It was eyeballs going to and fro.
Feel better soon.
I am finding less joy and getting more wrath out of the site lately.
Sorry to hear that.
Me, too. You are one of my favorite people on here, and I shall miss you. I do hope you return soon.
Me three.
Yes, take care of yourself Swissy.
“While ordinary people are suffering, Venezuela’s newly wealthy – known as the “bolibourgeoisie” – continue to live it up.”
Sounds kind of fishy.
With Swiss taking a break, the puns can stew in their own juices.
Codswallop!
*averts eyes*
Garum-pum-tssssh!
I guess “nomenklatura” was already taken
Good on ya, OZ weather guy
Wow.
Surprising revelation is surprising
It’s been 11 months since schools first shut down across the country and around the world.
And most students in the U.S. are still experiencing disruptions to their learning — going into the classroom only a few days a week or not at all.
To respond to this disruption, education leaders are calling for a reinvention of public education on the order of the Marshall Plan, the massive U.S. initiative to rebuild Western Europe after the devastations of World War II.
It won’t be cheap, they say.
You could knock me over with a feather.
*rolls eyes*
Great. So I’m sure that they’ll push for higher property taxes to “reinvent” the government schools that my children don’t attend, and that will not be any better, but likely worse, than they were in the before times.
Great. I look forward to that.
As a government undertaking it will, of course, cost more to do less.
Yeah, another technocratic solution will do the trick.
We can bitch about this, but come on, teachers aren’t giving up their summers.
Was it the puns?
Imagine the strain on his eyes.
Must have been causing serious crow’s feet.
Michigan Man.
GAINES TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A 26-year-old Michigan man was killed in an explosion that occurred during a baby shower, according to Gaines Township authorities.
A small cannon device that was fired in the backyard of a home by the homeowner blew up, spraying metal shrapnel that struck an unidentified Hartland man who was standing nearby. The man was taken in serious condition to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, where he later died.
Three parked cars and the garage where the baby shower was being held were also struck by shrapnel.
So you are saying the party was a blast.
These gender reveal parties are getting out of hand.
Lessee, pink for girl, blue for boy, rainbow for undecided and all black for corpse.
It’s a girl.
Shameless self-promotion.
https://madlibertarianguy.net/2021/02/08/this-is-not-an-accident
Apparently I’m as bad as SF on links.
FUCK!
Thanks, Count.
Good article MW. You know that we sometimes re-publish pieces that have already appeared elsewhere if they are submitted to us by the author.
I’d be happy to allow anything on my site to be re-published.
I’d also be happy to write something just for us Glibs here too. Maybe something that isn’t quite so dependent on a particular event. Something more timeless, like reloading, or Beowulf.
Please do (either). Let me know if you need help with submitting, formatting, etc. You can HMU on the Glibs Contributor Forum, or email me at tonio at this domain.
“Tonio@thisdomain.com” doesn’t seem to work. ?
Did he say “.com”?
tonio (at) glibertarians (dot) com, mofo.
I know.
Just being a dick, lol.
So, I’m not disagreeing with anyone, but what’s the current believable story on AOC’s whereabouts? Was she actually in the Capitol at one point when the riot started and then evacuated to her office building? Or was she never in the Capitol at the time of the riot?
She was never in the Capitol at the time of the riot. The “fact checks” defending her state that she never (technically) claimed to be in the Capitol when the “rioters” were there. She got all askeert of the cop who was securing her office building. Which may be the least stupid thing I’ve heard her say, to tell you the truth. Sounds like he was seriously on edge.
Why would he be on edge? Nothing had happened at that time.
Sounds like he was seriously on edge.
I’d be worried about setting off someone as temperament, sociopathic, and with as a big a soapbox as AOC.
He did nothing. She’s milking the anti-Trump sentiment as much as possible. Notice that no officer has come forward saying he’s the one who checked on AOC? That’s because there probably isn’t one. Words from them are always lies. Always. It’s part of their “lived experience”
“Joe and Jill Biden get BOOED by Super Bowl fans during pre-game video message to honor the 463,000 killed by COVID”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9236635/Joe-Jill-Bidens-call-Super-Bowl-LV-moment-silence-interrupted-boos-crowd.html
HA HA
Nice.
I had the TV on mute when the Bidens were on.
Between the way the announcers had been told to really hit the DOCTOR Jill Biden, and her condescending tone, like she was addressing a room of toddlers, the broadcast very nearly came to an early end. I left the room, so I missed the booing.
I heard laughter more than anything else.
Sorry Swiss.
I’ll try to send some happy thoughts in your direction.
“Congratulations! You’re number 16 in the queue.”
*sigh*
If the queue is for two years of getting raped to death, I guess maybe that’s a win?
“Husband, 42, is sentenced to 16 years in prison for beating camgirl wife to death with Lucid Absinthe bottle after his iPhone proved he had taken 18 steps when he said he was fast asleep”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9237809/Husband-slain-Alabama-online-model-sentenced-prison.html
So absinthe does not make the heart grow fonder?
So bad I larfed.
Absinthe definitely is not lucid.
Points for that one.
Making sure every child can read and do math is not the only purpose of school.
After a year that saw a surge in child hunger, a mass racial uprising and an attempted insurrection, parent and student groups said they want schools to become more safe, supportive and just.
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And, students are asking for different content in the classroom. An organization called Student Voice has been holding virtual listening sessions with high school students. Maya Green, 19, has conducted some of the sessions. She said, “A lot of students spoke for the desire for a decolonisation of school curricula: speaking to the real and often violent history of America, encouraging empathy in learning and really just celebrating the diverse experiences and diverse identities of students.”
Sounds legit. Sure, why not?
As long as teachers all make $200k.
The inmates are running the asylum.
The self-esteem movement has doomed us.
celebrating the diverse experiences and diverse identities of students
Learning any math, literature, history, any useful skills, etc. optional.
My son copied and sent this to me. It was written by a high school senior and mistakenly published on the school intranet.
“Orange is my favorite color. There are not a lot of people I know who have this as their favorite color. My favorite time of year is when the leaves change in the fall. That sea of orange makes me feel warm even if it is chilly. Also, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. When I think of Halloween, orange is immediately one of the colors that comes to mind. Pumpkins, candy corn, leaves. They’re all orange or have that color within them. This color makes me so happy. I don’t really know how to explain it. Whenever I see something orange, my eye is immediately drawn to it. It reminds me of the sun, citrus, and butterflies which are associated with summer. Maybe that’s why I love the summer so much! “
damn, that kid really loves orange.
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/TN-pXWHqAAM?t=25
That kid is going to be freebasing circus peanuts.
Orange Crush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSmOcmk7uQ
My favorite color is also orange, and, no, I have not met many people who consider orange their favorite.
Seriously, my 4th grader writes better than that.
This is just above “Look at Spot. See Spot run.” level shit.
Honestly, the writing isn’t that bad.
For a 4th grader. Had a single student of mine shown up to freshman composition and turned this in, I’d have literally asked them, “What the fuck is this?”
It is above that? You might want to go back and read that again.
Amanda Gorman has much to fear.
Secret, coded Trumpist message?
That’s actually a funny thought. The school is to the left of left of woke. Just being accused of supporting Trump would cause wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments.
I’ll take things that never happened,
Alex Aaron Katie Ken Mayim Bill.Fucking tags.
Lol sure the kids did. I would say you could count them on your hand that actually even know what the fuck that even means or why they want it.
Surely you don’t mean to suggest that school curricula should not be determined by a handful of brainwashed woke kids. I mean that’s crazy talk.
There’s that fucking “empathy” again. When did that become such a big thing?
The needed something to fill the hole left by “reason”?
Ah, now it makes sense.
[golf clap for RC]
Isn’t that how we got here?
Do you want Glibs? Well, *that’s* how you get Glibs!
“an attempted insurrection”
OFFS!!
I heard something today which the defense team or whatever needs to get straight and on record.
How many weapons were found on Jan 6? If little to none were found, how would these ‘insurrectionist’ hold the capitol once they seized control?
And even if they seized control and could hold it, they still wouldn’t be the government.
Stop injecting reason, when emotion will suffice!
Sorry. I’m not very empathetic.
None of them explicitly stated that their was to take over the government, unlike some other rioters from way back in history. By that, I mean a couple of months ago.
Yes. Yes it fucking is.
Not if you want to fully usher in the dark ages it isnt…and that is what they want.
An educated class ruling over the superstitions masses.
No shock to persons on this site but I know plenty of people that still rely on their ‘local’ news to provide timely and relevant information.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/08/las-vegas-sun-publishes-radical-anti-gun-biden-interview-full-year-after-took-place/
Oh…they sat on the interview for a year.
We do this in the TRILLIONS.
It sounds more impressive in rubles.
“President Joe Biden’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour would cost jobs and raise the costs of good and services but would lift nearly one million out of poverty, a nonpartisan budget agency said in report released Monday.
The wage hike would would cost 1.4 million jobs by 2025 and increase the deficit by $54 billion over ten years, the Congressional Budget Office said in its findings.
In its cost assessment of Biden’s ‘Raise the Wage Act of 2021,’ the non-partisan agency also said a minimum wage increase would lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9237825/Bidens-15-minimum-wage-cost-1-4-million-jobs-lift-1-million-people-poverty.html
Until whatever threshold is considered “poverty” inevitably goes up. Why can’t these idiots understand how money works? The only way to increase prosperity is to increase production.
CUT TAXES AND ELIMINATE REGULATIONS, YOU STUPID ASSHOLES!!!
$15 says that it “raises them out of poverty” until the poverty threshold is redefined to account for the guaranteed inflation.
We need an income distribution curve with no upslope!
That was my first question.
My second was whether that 900K was net of the newly unemployed 1.4mm people, or whether they bucketed them separately.
Isn’t the “poverty line” pretty much the bottom quintile of earners?
Under that metric, I could find the impoverished in a ballroom full of CEOs.
Also stop counting the 90% of those people in “poverty” who are actually supported by someone else.
Until whatever threshold is considered “poverty” inevitably goes up. Why can’t these idiots understand how money works?
Add iron law here about foreseeable consequences. They aren’t stupid and know exactly how it works.
It’s all intentional. Regulation concentrates power over the economy in their hands and reduced prosperity makes more people dependent on the government. This is a feature, not a bug, of their economic policies.
a nonpartisan budget agency said
Uh huh…
increase the deficit by $54 billion over ten years, the Congressional Budget Office said in its findings.
I need to see this math.
“Glenn Greenwald has slammed what he calls the ‘junior high hall-monitor tattling’ among the ‘woke’ media, dubbing it ‘Stasi-like citizen surveillance’.
The journalist, part of a team that won a Pulitzer for reports about government surveillance programs based on leaks by Edward Snowden, shared his thoughts on what he calls ‘authoritarian “reporting”‘ on Substack Sunday.
In it Greenwald points to New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz, who falsely accused a tech investor of using the word ‘retarded’ during an online chat she was monitoring.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9237011/Glenn-Greenwald-slams-culture-junior-high-hall-monitor-tattling-woke-media.html
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship
Although Taylor Lorenz is retarded, so I could see why she would be over-sensitive.
Greenwald is doing God’s work.
*does tiktok dance*
CDC: ‘Just Because You Got The Vaccine Doesn’t Mean You Should Go Outside Or Ever Experience Joy Again’
Texas To Vote On Whether To Force All Other States To Secede
Headline #1 is practically real and not satire.
Two is funny but been said before.
Yep, with #1 I didn’t even think of the Bee.
they sat on the interview for a year.
They didn’t want to be accused of election interference. Letting people know what a candidate really intends to do is not fair.
They were just controlling the flow of information. You know, standard election fortifying.
“Democratic ‘Squad’ member Ayanna Pressley says she felt a ‘deep and ancestral’ terror while she was barricading herself in her office during last month’s Capitol riots as she slammed white supremacist mobs.
The Massachusetts congresswoman spoke her fear in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday – exactly one month after the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol.
‘As a black woman, to be barricaded in my office using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark, that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me,’ Pressley said. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9237807/Ayanna-Pressley-felt-ancestral-terror-Capitol-siege.html
Good thing Lincoln freed all those unpaid office workers.
Idiot #1: I WAS MOST AFRAID!
Idiot #2: NO! I WAS MOST AFRAID!
Idiot #3: NO! I WAS MOSTEST AFRAIDEST!
*repeat ad infinitum*
You forgot “those cameras on? And are they recording?”
Water bottles?
Being terrified and barricaded in her office is familiar to her? She’s done this before?
Ancestral memories dude. It’s right there in the quote.
So she’s a [Bene Geserit] witch!
It’s her shared experience with slaves who’ve been dead for 160 years. She shared it in an “ancestral” way.
These people are fucking retarded.
*Taylor Lorenz intensifies*
I have a deep ancestral way of breaking from my supposed government but you call me an insurrectionist if I express that.
These are some of the lived experiences we’ll be hearing in the impeachment trial.
When I went to mass with my Catholic wife in the before times, I felt the ancestral terror of my Huguenot ancestors being exterminated. The bread is like a club to my head.
My English ancestry is constantly terrorizing my Irish ancestry.
As my English ancestry terrorizes my Scottish ancestry.
My English ancestry gets bombed by my German ancestry.
Mit Bier?
Ja. Unt I can’t decide whether to drink it cold or room temp.
photo
That’s easy. Drink it cold, until they shut off the electricity for non payment, then you drink the first two cold and the rest progressively warmer.
My Norse ancestry rapes and pillages my English ancestry.
Or maybe that was SVEN SMITH.
My wife (English/Irish) and myself (Swedish/Norwegian) have that argument…
I said at some point my family probably raped and pillaged your family but look how far we have come.
Oh crap, I forgot about my Viking ancestry. Hell, my body, like love, is a battlefield.
At least you aren’t Japanese-American.
My Welsh ancestry wants my French and Spanish ancestry to get bent.
My French and Spanish ancestry replies “Come here, and let me ravish you again.”
I hope they put this on CSPAN, and a lot of people watch it, and realize how not normal these people are.
Mutually exclusive.
I thought they were number 1, now that nobody watches cable news anymore?
I wanted to say “The News” but this thing is going to be edited more than a Michael Bay movie.
I can see it now
This is what the people want and those that didn’t know they wanted it are being bombarded with ‘trusted’ news agencies pumping out the propaganda that they indeed do want it.
It was dark at 2:30 in the afternoon?
I have ancestral memories of the Roman occupation of Brittania. It’s okay for me to act out on contemporary Italians, right? And fellow Americans of Italian ancestry?
Come on out to L.A. We have riots about every 10 years where people actually kill others, burn buildings, loot and terrorize the whole 4 million of us. Oh, and we don’t have any personal police force. The public police force we do have doesn’t lift a finger until the danger subsides. That’s my lived experience.
The four seasons of California: Fire, Flood, Quake, Riot.
favorite Rick role
My class is over. My time here was enjoyable because masks are optional and no one says anything to anyone if you wear or not.
Restaurant seating has no closed areas or separation.
Bars…I sat at a bar, with stangers and talked. As an introvert…I really missed it.
They placed ketchup bottles and S&P shakers at the table…no single use bullshit.
Class we had to walk in with masks but once in the seat, didnt have to wear them. All the instructor were equally aghast at the theater.
Now back to Vegas in the morning, but I will be going to Trappers and enjoying their bourbon bar tonight.
Where is this magical land?
I want to go to there.
IIRC, Oklahoma City.
You wanna rethink that?
The Bee is on a roll:
138,000 Points Suddenly Awarded To Losing Team At Halftime
Fox News Analysts Declare Tampa Bay Super Bowl Winners Four Minutes Into First Quarter
How many weapons were found on Jan 6? If little to none were found, how would these ‘insurrectionist’ hold the capitol once they seized control?
“Go ‘way, or I shall taunt you some more.”
All it would have taken was one of those guns that weighed as much as 40 boxes, with the thing that goes up.
Unity/healing/etc.
“We have Trump terrorists — and call them by their name — they are Trump terrorists. We have Trump terrorists that beat cops to death. We have cop killers in that crowd,” Scarborough emphasized. “We have MAGA terrorists in that crowd that used the American flag — the American flag that so many people have fought and died for. that they held up at Iwo Jima at the beginning of a long and bloody battle, that has gone before all of our troops of liberation through the years. They used that American flag to brutalize… a police officer. And they are worried about people kneeling. You can have that debate. Mika and I have had that debate, all right? But here, if you’re on the side you can’t even kneel while the national anthem is being played, but you’re saying, ‘Let’s just forget about the fact that they used an American flag to brutalize a police officer,’ something is wrong with you. Your values have completely, your American values have collapsed because you’re worshipping a weak leader who has done nothing but lose in the last four years.”
What a mendacious, lying cunte.
He’s just bitter because Mika makes him her little bitch every night.
Strap-on. Just saying.
Strap-on wiffle bat? Kinky
+ 1 pegging
Aren’t at least some of them decent people? Fine, even?
“We have Trump terrorists that beat cops to death. We have cop killers in that crowd”
Bullshit
We do know we have a citizen killer…cause that was caught on tape.
I look forward to his forthright correction when Sicknick’s autopsy is released and the US Attorney announces the case closed with no charges.
bwahahaha
So, when is the law suit coming? You know, like the one against Fox right now? For having opinions and such?
The worst part of it is that nobody is going to challenge this mendacious lying cunte’s comments. They’re visibly, objectively full of shite. But, they’ll be accepted as completely true in the media. People won’t know it’s not true because it won’t even be challenged.
That’s the whole point.
If you don’t have verified facts to support a narrative, you can’t challenge the narrative.
Ding, ding, ding!!! Folks, we have a winner!
Tell him what he’s won, Rufus…
If it’s not an all expense paid trip with STEVE SMITH, I don’t want it.
And they are worried about people kneeling. You can have that debate. Mika and I have had that debate, all right?
You could hit that one out of the park with a Wiffle bat.
Remember Daniel Uhlfelder (you don’t, but that’s okay)? Dude was the self-appointed King of the Karens, donning a Grim Reaper outfit to shame Floridians who had the audacity to… go to the beach.
That bit of silly performance art notwithstanding, he then decided to sue Governor DeSantis to force him to close said beaches. The Circuit Court tossed the suit as frivolous, whereupon Uhlfelder appealed the decision.
The First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee was, shall we say, not pleased.
(Full order in .pdf form to be found here).
Apparently at the beginning of the pandemic a theory circulated among the top men that coronavirus could spread across the ocean. I read about it only recently. That’s why some of them closed beaches. When you’re on a beach in California, what’s on the other side of the ocean? China! Makes perfect sense.
Just like the radiation from Fukushima!
That’s the sound of Science.
*slow clap*
Hello virus, my old friend
I’ve come to lock you down again
Because a power softly creeping
Seized control while you’re sleeping
And the fear that was planted in your brain
Still remains
Within the sound of Science.
In quarantine I sit alone
Small apartment made of stone
‘Neath the glow of a laptop screen
I think of how things used to be
When my breath was stopped by Fauci’s double mask
I had to gasp
And heard the sound of “Science”
*roaring applause!*
And in the vaccine line, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People masking without thinking
People fearing without doubting
People losing jobs but Karen didn’t care
And no one dared
Question the sound of “science”
This verse I barely need to change.
“Fools”, said I, “You do not know
“Science” like a virus grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of “Science”
Imma affix my seal of approval to this. Top notch.
Wow.
And the people bowed and prayed
To the Fauci god they made
And CNN flashed out its warning
In the lies that it was forming
And the sign said, “The words of the experts are written in the New York Times
while despair climbs”
And whispered in the sound of “Science”.
*applause*
Bravo.
Oh, that is brilliant.
*insert standing ovation gif*
+1000
lol
well done
Everybody knows viruses carried on the jet stream stop at the beaches.
El. Oh. El.
Oooooh. Summarily is a judicial smackdown. It just gets worse from there. I’ve read a lot (thirty years worth) of appellate opinions and this is one of the most smack-downy smackdowns ever.
I’ll be in my bunk for a while.
I too am a fan of reading legal decisions.
I concur with your assessment. Scalia wrote some great lines, but he never really called out anyone for just being an asshole. Not quite like this.
The repeated failures of the appellants to meet established deadlines to me makes it look like they absolutely knew there was no chance they could win the argument, and were attempting to get their appeal thrown out on technicalities, which they could then use in public to claim the court never considered the merits of their claim. The Court giving them extra time and forcing them to try to defend themselves is a beauteous example of giving them enough rope to hang themselves.
Appellant: We have a really bad faith argument and want you to let us off the hook easy because we missed a deadline
Court: No, this sounds really interesting. Please, do go on…
That’s true, if they took a tactical maneuver here to cover themselves.
But my experience in the federal appellate court (11th Circuit), is that even when there isn’t a great reason to grant an extension, they’re granted.
Get your cards ready
The U.S. will reengage “immediately and robustly” with the U.N. Human Rights Council, the State Department says, citing an order from President Biden. The move reverses the position of the Trump administration, which withdrew from the council in 2018.
The change is part of Biden’s plan to reshape U.S. foreign policy to center “on democracy, human rights, and equality,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement early Monday.
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Even with its flaws, Blinken said, the council provides a way to promote basic human rights that are under attack. He cited “freedoms of expression, association and assembly, and religion or belief as well as the fundamental rights of women, girls, LGBTQI+ persons, and other marginalized communities.”
Bingo!
“Now give us your guns and if you express a belief that is contrary to the state you will be designated a terrorist.”
I’m sure the current members of the UNHRC agree. They include such human rights luminaries as:
China
Russia
Uzbekistan
Pakistan
Sudan
Libya
Cuba
Somalia
The Bee weeps.
You forgot Venezuela and Eritrea.
From Wiki.
And here’s the territory they fought a war with Ethiopia over: https://images.app.goo.gl/suCmpxMHkQWhKZhbA
Probably 100k dead on both sides.
if we arm Eritrea, then we won’t have to pay her, and everyone can go home
It’s right there in the name! Just like the ACLU and antifa.
Biden’s plan to reshape U.S. foreign policy to center “on democracy, human rights, and equality,”
As opposed to, say, the interests of the United States.
Finally I can be proud to be an American again.
https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-recalls-how-she-survived-terrorists-seizing-nakatomi-plaza
You can’t fire me, I quit
SAG-AFTRA this weekend voted to permanently bar former President Trump from readmittance to the union after he resigned last week.
President Gabrielle Carteris said in a statement Sunday that the union’s national board passed the resolution during a Zoom video conference.
“Preventing Donald Trump from ever rejoining SAG-AFTRA is more than a symbolic step,” Carteris said. “It is a resounding statement that threatening or inciting harm against fellow members will not be tolerated. An attack against one is an attack against all.”
The union, whose members include actors and journalists, first announced it would initiate disciplinary hearings against Trump in mid-January, accusing him of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and endangering members of the news media.
Well… OH YEAH?
An attack against one is an attack against all.
That is some fine cult dogma there….granted both sides are cultish to be sure.
Great, now I can’t watch BH 90210.
Melrose Place was superior.
Don’t be a Brenda!
Relevant
What a bunch of film actors.
+1 Ahwric Bahrdwin
threatening or inciting harm against fellow members will not be tolerated
I missed the part where Trump threatened or incited harm against actors.
Of course, by the time they kick out everyone who “sexually harassed” someone, they won’t have many members left.
Is this the most unsurprising headline?
Thousands of maskless Tampa fans flooded the streets, celebrating the Super Bowl win while risking a superspreader event
It’s darkly humorous how all of these media outlets have found the source of terror that they truly support.
In 2001, there was some hesitation towards getting behind the War on Terror, not much but it was there.
With COVID, they’re fully on board with going total security state.
I’m just tuning into a replay of the overnight Australian Open (tennis) action and the stadium is well-populated with mostly maskless people. In Melbourne. You know, where they were locking people in their apartments a few weeks ago.
Meanwhile all over the US, Karen-journalists are maks-shaming everyone in sight.
I have no idea what is even going on any more.
Well, they basically memoryholed all the Sturgis is going to kill everyone narrative and I suspect they are hedging their doomporn bets with this one also.
Why hedge?
They’ll never get called out for it. When it doesn’t happen, their screechings will simply disappear in to ether.
Oops…wont be hedging.
Turns out, being shameless pays off.
It was dark at 2:30 in the afternoon?
Democracy was dying, so yes.
Truth is stranger than fact.
I wonder if they realize that their changing language slightly doesn’t actually change facts.
Truth > Facts = Alternative Facts
Rigging vs Fortifying
They’re literally doing the exact same things they denigrated at length (4 years).
They haven’t cared about facts for decades, bro. It’s all about the feelz, and the narrative now.
Meh, she’s an idiot but, depending on where her office was it might have been dark. My campus office is on an interior hallway with no natural light. If the lights are off at noon, it’s basically pitch black in there.
The new aid package would be worth around 500 billion roubles ($6.74 billion), the first government source said.
$6.74 billion? Are they running out of checks in the checkbook? That’s kinda small.
“It’s infuriating, but some Swiss banks continue to do as they please. Switzerland remains a money-laundering paradise,” laments Mark Pieth, criminal law professor and expert in international corruption.
It’s not just crooks that benefit from bank secrecy. Some folks might want to hide money from tax authorities.
If I can verify a Swiss bank that gives the finger to the USG, I’d put something in it in a heartbeat.
Apparently, those Swiss banks can do many things. Do they come with tweezers?
I know I’m late on this but how in the hell do they justify keeping people in their homes and businesses shut down even if we all got vaccinated?
My wife made some limp dick excuse that perhaps they are doing that because despite being vaccinated you can still be contagious. I looked at her and was like……you’re smarter than that, stop listening to the news and your fearmongering family. What makes me even more upset is that they want this shit to last for years and not have to deal with the unpleasantness of risk. Fuck that. Life is not risk free and asking others to give up their freedom and liberties because you’re scared is bullshit. They can go fuck themselves.
Well either they are evil and know it will drive elements of ordered society to buck the system and it gives the excuse to drop the Homeland Terror bill they want to….or…..I don’t actually have an or to put here.
I try not to be cynical and believe that there is some underlying sinister plot but fuck man, I’m starting think that these people are actually fucking evil and want to crush those value liberty and freedom.
Since I will probably get the vaccine (J&J when approved/available), I’ll take that card and shove it anyone’s face that wants to give me shit about fucking masks.
You could just wear an armband.
I took a picture of my card, since the idiots at the CDC made their official card too big to carry in a wallet.
Or attach it to a big chain and wear it around your neck like Flavor Flav. Vaccine, boyeee!!!
It’s basically the “herd immunity” argument: The vaccine works. Totally works. Because, Science! Except when it doesn’t work, which is always soft-blamed on the person who received the vaccine but, somehow, failed to gain immunity.
Therefore, we can’t do away with masks, ever. Because even the verifiably, multiply-vaccinated people sometimes still get the ‘Vid. And don’t you dare question the efficacy of the vaccine you know-nothing, anti-vaxxer.
There is a kid (late teens, early 20’s) who is at the Snap Fitness I go to late at night. When I get there, he is the only one in the place and he is dutifully wearing his mask while working out.
He gives me the stink eye because I don’t wear my mask (we spend all our time at least 50ft apart). I keep waiting for him to say something. Or to rat me out to management. I really am itching to call him a dumbass.
I think that a depressingly large percentage of our population have no issues at all with mask mandates. They actually see it as a net positive. I keep getting told I’m a jackass because wearing a mask “isn’t that hard”.
In Minnesoda we completely shut down gyms during Lockdown 2.0. When King Walz reopened, he added a new condition that you had to wear a mask while exercising (during Lockdown 1.0, you only had to wear one to/from locker rooms). Even though we are pretty much back at our summer levels of Rona the extra restrictions have not been lifted.
*Looks around while driving*
Yep. The assholes wearing a mask while in the car by themselves should be all the proof you need to verify this hypothesis.
I wear a mask while in the car by myself on the way to the pharmacy. It’s just easier that way.
You’re likely to see me wearing my all-fabric/100% useless-filtration-device mask on my face in the truck on my way home from work, at least till it gets warmed up. Its been cold here.
It’s also a class thing. I went to an auto repair shop last week. The shop only deals with German cars: Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, Audi. All the customers were dutifully wearing face masks at the reception and in the waiting room. As for the employees, only one guy who works at the reception had his mask on. All other mechanics and managers were without masks. Even when some of them talked with customers and processed some paper work behind the counter. From time to time 4 or 6 mechanics would congregate next to each other behind the counter and chat–all but one of them without masks. I didn’t even feel like waiting for my car in the waiting room with all the masked customers and was hanging out outside. But then the receptionist invited me to wait inside while pulling down his mask. Snow started falling and I went into the waiting room.
One of those groups has been steeped in places like college, taught that SCIENCE is infallible.
The other has not.
Take a big guess which one has a better sense of reality.
The younger generations have been raised to be terrified of everything and completely trusting of everything the government tells them.
We are seeing the end result of that in action.
I also think that they have been raised in an environment where there really isn’t any expectation of privacy and they have seen Nosy Nellies destroy people using intrusive technologies. They learned early that you tow the lion or you get ground up.
Old coots like me can’t fathom growing up where school administrators snoop through social media accounts to bust kids for things they did off school property.
My son who is in pharmacy school was told that any pharmacy student nabbed out in public without a mask will be suspended. The administrators said it was necessary to build trust with the public. So he wears his mask because he doesn’t want to get booted if some jackass catches him in some pic without the mask.
Depressing. This shit is never gonna end.
Australian and New Zealand governments aren’t really giving reasons although, now and then they make mention of the “new, highly transmissable strains.” Australia is saying they may keep border restrictions in place until the end of this year; New Zealand is saying mid-2022.
Ed, the Bolsheviks rounded up all of the private business owners and sent them to gulags. These shitbirds are trying to be more subtle by simply crushing businesses. All communist countries have severe travel restrictions, we just put everyone under house arrest.
It is important to keep in mind what is going on here and it has nothing to do with public health. Dont try to argue reason and facts with them. They have no interest in that, you will just be distracted.
Was the weather guy disappointed when he realized that his actions had been caught on tape? Because he had to give the body up?
“Dude, I was so close to having my own RealDoll! At least for a while before it started to stink.”
PA Rebel Restaurants
Rick Voight is taking the coronavirus pandemic seriously, so when he recently stopped at a Carlisle-area diner for a quick takeout lunch, he was surprised by what he encountered.
Inside the restaurant, the East Pennsboro Township man said a majority of customers and staff were not wearing masks, including kitchen staff. About five to six mask-less customers huddled around a cash register to pay their bills.
“These people were totally oblivious, and as we are standing there, not a blessed one of those people had any protective covering,” Voight said. “I felt uncomfortable, to be honest with you.”
What Voight said bothers him the most is how establishments violate orders and seemingly get away with it. He understands restaurants want to stay open but questions if it’s worth ignoring the rules to put the health of customers in jeopardy.
“There has to be a degree of punishment like fines. You hit people in their pocketbooks,” Voight said.
Not considered: letting customers decide if they are willing to take the risk.
Nice reporting Mr. Journalo! Who is this Rick Voight character? Why should I listen to him? Does he have some superpower that allows him to see or smell Rona viruses? Is that why he knew that those rubes were all going to die?
I wonder what Voight would say if state regulators closed whatever business employs him? If he lost his source of income, would he have the same commitment to following the diktats of public health officials?
What a grade-A jerk.
Rick Voight acts like a nebby tattletale comparable to Europeans who would rat out people hiding from the Nazis and should be publicly shamed and ostracized?
You mean like by implementing business killing measures that close them down and artificially limit their clientele for nearly a year?
Because you’ve already done that.
The only upside to this is that wearing a mask likely increases your chances of catching the cooties. Maybe we wont have to build a spaceship to shoot all of the telephone sanitizers into the sun after all.
Rick Voight is a cunt.
There is no grift in the electric vehicle market!
An article about the a new Minnesoda manufacturer that is going to build electric utility vehicles. Another win for renewable energy! See? Green jobs are going to be the bomb.
Then there is this….
Five trucks for $1.2M? I’m sure the taxpayers in Sacramento will be so proud to pay their taxes knowing that they will be saving Gaia.
You might get close to $200K with a fully tricked out truck with the crane, tool boxes, etc. Why do I doubt that’s what Zeus will deliver, and the final cost of each of those trucks will be $50K higher?
Think of the maintenance costs as well. How much more will it be to fix any problems with those trucks than it would have been with a standard GMC utility truck?
I think electric vehicles typically have lower maintenance costs, at least until its time to replace the batteries. The electric drivetrain is much simpler than an IC drivetrain.
I think that a depressingly large percentage of our population have no issues at all with mask mandates. They actually see it as a net positive. I keep getting told I’m a jackass because wearing a mask “isn’t that hard”.
Yeah. “It can’t hurt.”
BULLSHIT. It can, and it does.
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I have seen, recently, two or three young moms with little (younger than five) kids in the grocery store who aren’t wearing masks. I HOPE it is because they are taking a principled stand against their kids not being able to see their faces. If you think about it, it’s horrifying. Kids need to see their mothers’ faces.
I guess when all children are raised by the State, that will make things easier.
wearing a mask “isn’t that hard”.
Not thinking for yourself isn’t that hard, either. What a coincidence.
RC, I think I sent the email correctly. Check and let me know when you get an opportunity.
Got it.
When I go on test drives, I see multiple pregnant women. Like about to pop. More than I’ve ever seen. It’s like the threat of a virus wiping us all out set them off, and now they wanna spit out some carpet crawlers. I’m not even kidding. Everywhere I look is a fat belly mom to be.
Happened to walk past the baby stuff department while grocerizing at Meijer the other day. Saw a onesie that said “Social Distancing Fail.”
I haven’t seen anyone while getting groceries in ages.
I have also been getting them delivered.
My transformation to a shut-in is complete.
We could have our groceries delivered, but then we wouldn’t think of the other twelve things we end up buying when we go in for the three things we really need.
I actually order more when buying online.
Do you have much trouble with substitutions and/or the quality of any fresh food you order?
No issues with the fresh food. I can tell them to ‘do not substitute’ on individual items. This can then result in an ‘unavailable’ but if it was out of stock anyway, I’d not have gotten it from the shelves. Figuring out what’s safe to let substitute is part of the process.
The labor and delivery business is forecasting a 10% drop in deliveries this year, based on a drop in demand for pre-natal care. People generally don’t have babies unless they are optimistic about the future; economic downturns typically cause reductions in deliveries.
People about to deliver now would have gotten pregnant just as the full ‘Vid theater was gaining steam, and before the riots.
Ain’t nobody going to the doctor’s lately. That’s prolly not a good metric to judge by. All I know is, all them chicks who got locked in their houses with only their dudes are now about to have little ones. It’s not my imagination.
Also, I work on the west side of Los Angeles. Those people think everything is rosy, now that Trump’s gone.
Five trucks for $1.2M?
I can assure you, if I had $500k to spend on a vehicle, it wouldn’t run on batteries. But I don’t work for the government, so what the blazes do I know?
That was s’posed to be $200k, not 500. duh.
Look at Mr. Govt Austerity!
Misers like you are why people are poor and suffering in this country.
Those trucks seem cheap. Around here, new fire trucks cost $250K (and up , depending on how much chrome whizbangs and parade gold striping the local firefighters “need” to display on their truck.) I’d have thought a flatbed with some heavy duty pumps and a few ladder racks would come in about half at total.
Those are medium-duty work trucks, comprable to an F-250 would be my guess, with whatever gear they need for their job – tool boxes, etc. Fire trucks are a whole different animal. Basically built out of stainless steel, with all kinds of heavy duty plumbing, pumps, etc., and a lot bigger than a medium-duty truck.
If you don’t have verified facts to support a narrative, you can’t challenge the narrative.
And my question is, “How long can this go on?” I mean, eventually, the Gods of the Copybook Headings have to rear their ugly heads. At some point, even the powers that be have to face reality or perish. And I have no appetite for the consequences, but at least it has to set people’s minds right, doesn’t it?
“…it has to set people’s minds right, doesn’t it?”
Check out Mr. Optimist over here.
Misers like you are why people are poor and suffering in this country.
I’m doing my part.
I think electric vehicles typically have lower maintenance costs, at least until its time to replace the batteries. The electric drivetrain is much simpler than an IC drivetrain.
I have heard that, and it might really be true, but… and it’s a big but:
Proprietary software.
You can’t take your Tesla to the guy down the street for
a brake jobanything.“Osama Bin Laden did not fly planes into any U.S. buildings.
He just asked & inspired people to do it, drew money & resources to the effort, set the timing & launched the execution from afar.
In what way was Donald Trump’s role in 1/6 ANY DIFFERENT?”
https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1358495777438466050
TDS is like herpes.
Because Trump never asked & inspired people to riot at the Capitol, drew money & resources to the riot at the Capitol, set the timing for the riot at the Capitol, or launched the execution of the riot at the Capitol from afar.
Other than that, the parallels are undeniable.
I keep wondering when these malicious retards will get their much-deserved comeuppance. Then again, I thought Maduro would have been strung up on a lamppost by now…
Yeah, that and the whole ” decades of calling for the death of America” thing. Pretty sure Trump’s mantra was America first.
Pretty sure Trump’s mantra was America first.
Why do you suppose they hate him so much?
Yowza.
We’ve got a lot of mentally ill fuckers running around loose in our country.
Not running around – holding the levers of power.
When your politics is your religion, you’ll believe just about anything.
Just think about all the stupid shit that has been blamed on Satan over the centuries and realize that human nature hasn’t changed, just our devils.
There might be a “religion” part of the brain that needs to be filled with something.
The DevilHitlerTrump made me do it.“An Iranian regime cleric in the holy city of Qom on Tuesday issued a homophobic rant against people vaccinated for COVID-19, claiming that they become gay after receiving the vaccine.
Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian wrote on his Telegram social-media platform: “Don’t go near those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals.””
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/iran-cleric-people-who-are-vaccinated-for-covid-have-become-homosexuals-658173
Whole new meaning to the term “needle dick”
It’s just a little prick.
Blackadder: Oh for God’s sake, Baldrick! I meant a little prick on your finger!
Baldrick: I haven’t got one there!
I browned up some sausage and dumped in some tomatoes with green chilis.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/OQhTojpORey-Q6HHNWY_Vg._lUB6i3Y1nPpNajtqEvfEe
After that pic, I put some shredded cheese on top and served when the cheese was melted.
Twas yummy.
Nice
Your diner is poorly defended.
Your dinner also.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtuyCEZVEAE6WwX.jpg
LOLOLOL
That’s like stealing from the government
Losi has had a surge of calls since November from wealthy clients — particularly business owners — to talk about potentially moving to a low-tax state.
“I’m not talking about seniors,” he said. “These are people who will be earning income for another 20 to 30 years.
“They see their states continuing to increase income and business taxes so they’re looking to migrate elsewhere,” he added.
While taxes are not the sole issue driving migration patterns, they are clearly a consideration.
Last year, the five states with the biggest proportionate outbound migration were California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey and New York, according to the 2020 National Movers Study published annually by United Van Lines.
Hoarders. Wreckers. Racists.
You would think that states like Illinois and California would consider that perhaps people are moving out because their taxes are too high and therefore we should lower them but nope. They would rather keep hiking them up and denying the inevitable while the lower income people whom they pretend to care about suffer the most because they aren’t able to move or advance.
Don’t even get me started. L.A. is drafting legislation to force supermarkets to pay 5 bucks an hour “hazard” pay, meanwhile they talked my shitty assed union into forgoing our (already approved) raises for the next year and a half. They ain’t even paying us what they previously agreed to. Icing? Long Beach did the same last week and two major supermarkets announced they are closing all operations in that city. Literally a few days before L.A. made the decision.
They want to solve the food desert problem so bad that they have to create them first.
I wish the media were interested. Seems like a story to me. Forcing supermarkets to pay extra while refusing to pay city employees even what they’re owed. Maybe I should should discuss it with the supermarket chains.
Most experts expect more people and businesses will choose to locate where they can pay lower taxes. The moves of big-name tech companies like Oracle and Hewlett Packard from California’s Silicon Valley to Texas are only the most prominent examples. Any business capable of operating remotely is now likely considering its tax footprint far more seriously.
“If a company is big enough with offices across the country, it can assign people working remotely to offices in low-tax states,” Walczak said. “I think a lot more businesses will want to offer employees remote-friendly circumstances.”
That prospect likely keeps many state tax administrators up at night. Six states, including Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, have so-called “convenience” rules that enable them to tax employees of businesses located in the state even if they don’t live or work in the state.
“Who said you could do that?”
Yeah, not sure how that’s enforcable. I bet the increase in WFH means more states adopt those rules. What a cluster when its time to file your half dozen state tax returns because your employer has offices in a half dozen states with “convenience” rules.
Crypto and ‘nomad employment’ is really gonna be a motherfucker for governments. If I’m an American citizen, working remotely in Turks and getting paid in crypto…
Hey, that actually sounds kind of cool!
I heard they have really cool whale fucking clubs down there…
Forty years in PA accounting and never had Penna. try to tax one of our workers who lived and worked out of state.
Cold as a witch’s tit outside and I have an Etsy order to ship tomorrow. Both schools are remote tomorrow because of the weather, so XX doesn’t have to show up at Cerner (which is good because I’d have to try to find a warm place to light for 2.5 hours) (good luck with that). And so the only thing I have to go out for is this package, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to tell my customer I’ll ship it when the snow melts.
Swissy, sorry you’re feeling poorly about us, but I get it. Lots of angry people round these parts these days, including me.
I’m working on “bemused detachment”, myself.
I can maintain that most days if I don’t pay attention to the news.
That’s more or less my default.
Feels a little bit like spring this afternoon, which is nice.
https://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Chicken-Wings
Are they high on bath salts?
Who serves wings with the wing tip attached? that’s stock pot material, there isn’t nearly enough meat on that bone to justify leaving it on.
It looks like the storyboards for “Attack on Titan”
That site will throw a couple bucks at anyone to write about literally anything. A “content mill” IIRC.
Pick them up and eat them. Don’t drop them in the timing chest. Simple.
The next question is even funnier.
How do I properly eat chicken in a professional setting?
I’ve seen something like that used as a test. Serve someone a finger food (chicken wings, hamburgers) in a professional setting to see how they react. Are they a leader or follower. Can they think outside the box (which usually involves just picking the food up).
There’s three forks on this table! THREE! Which one am I supposed to choose to stab the asshole who invented this test right in his neck?
All three.
One in each side and one in the windpipe.
Use the sharpest for the windpipe stab.
FUCK!FUCK! FUCK!!
I’m putting a water pump in my turbo Sky. Huge headache. It books at 8.5 hours. I got it done in 6.5. I have really good tools. Anyway, The last thing I gotta do is re-install the access plate on the timing chest. Fumbled and dropped a bolt inside. Wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but I can’t find my flexible magnet. All the new chinese ones have lights and jaws, so the wont fit down in there. You can’t get the old school small one anymore. I had to order it of the internet for Thursday. Bastards. At least I saved about 750 bucks doing it myself.
I assume leaving it there would be bad.
/notamechanic
Yeah. It could bounce up into a spinny thing and crunch all the parts up. It has to come out before I start it. There’s chains and sprockets and guides and stuff in there. Very expensive to break them.
Much more than $750 if that happens.
That’s a nice looking car.
It drives nice too. About 300hp with tuning. Water pumps go out fairly often, though.
I am fairly sure they are designed to do that….water pumps that is.
Just turn it upside down and shake it.
Works on toddlers when they swallow pennies.
I was replacing a thyratron (high-voltage precision switch-tube), normally about a 4-hour job. I was installing one of the last fasteners and dropped a flat washer into the assembly. Could not reach it with a magnet, wound up having to take the entire assembly apart to retrieve it.
Having been there, I am allowed a small snicker, right?
I cant tell you how many times I have put my hands on my hips, puffed out my chest and said “Yes, I can get that knocked out in an hour” only to have my wife reply “Sure you can. I will reserve all of Thursday for that.”
Most recently it was installing two large LED lights for the garage. It should have been a simple job but on removal of the flourescents I discovered they were hanging by wires through sheetrock. Whaat the hell? Who does that? Ok…go to hardware store, buy boxes and conduit, reinforce rafters with cross braces, install conduit and boxes….then I get to take the new lights out of the boxes and get started. My “I can knock that out in an hour” turned into all day.
Suthen, I too have come across this BUT let me introduce you to the 20$ (was 12 when i bought it but that was pre trillion dollar banter) part you should know about:
I SF’d the link of course:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Westinghouse-21-5-cu-in-Retrofit-Ceiling-Fan-Saf-T-Brace-0140000/204845573
Pandemic heats up state tax competition to attract businesses and residents
All the pandemic did was demonstrate to a lot of people that they didn’t have to be in high-tax blue states to do their jobs. For decades, these states were used to having a captive audience that they could fleece. If you wanted to work in certain industries, you had to be in the select number of cities where those industries were. So, the locales could take advantage of you as a taxpayer. And that “you had to be where the industries were” was probably true fifty or sixty years ago. Now, the advantage is, at most, marginal. Trying to keep the industries there with “convenience taxes” is only going to drive the companies themselves to move.