Cat attacks pilot on flight to Qatar, forces plane to divert back to airport
A flight leaving from Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum was forced to return to the airport last week after a cat reportedly attacked the pilot of the plane.
The flight, operated by Tarco Aviation, was headed to Doha, the capital of Qatar, when the incident took place, reports Sudan’s Al-Sudani news. A source for the outlet claims the plane had been in the air for approximately 90 minutes before it was forced to turn back to Khartoum International Airport.
The plane returned safely, but the severity of the pilot’s injuries is unclear. A representative for Tarco Aviation did not immediately return a request for additional information.
Meanwhile, it is believed that the cat “infiltrated” the aircraft the night before the flight, when the plane was stationed in a hangar for cleaning, Al-Sudani reported.
“Get a ‘U’ for your country’s name!” the cat terrorist screeched as he tore the flesh from the pilot’s face.
RBG could be honored with a monument at the U.S. Capitol
On the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, the majority of monuments depict White men.
But soon, the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could become a permanent fixture.
A bill introduced Tuesday by the Democratic Women’s Caucus — including co-chairs Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fl.), Rep Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) — and by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in the Senate, would construct a monument of the feminist legal titan in a “place of prominence” at the Capitol. A monument of Ginsburg, who died in September, would be a tribute to her lifelong fight for female equality.
And when it gets torn down in the 2029 Incel Riots, that’ll be OK, right?
Crowd rallies around gay men detained on Mexico beach
A crowd of people on a beach in Mexico rallied around three men who were being detained by police after someone reportedly complained about “obscene acts of exhibitionism.
The incident on Zazil Kin beach in Tulum on Feb. 21 was captured on video by Maritza Escalante Morales. It shows a crowd of supporters saying “I’m also gay” and “no to homophobia” as police detain the men.
“We are gay, and they are taking us for that,” one of the men says as he’s being lead onto a patrol vehicle in his bathing suit. The man was handcuffed to another man.
The couple from Canada were kissing on the beach, local news reports said. Police arrived after someone reported “obscene acts of exhibitionism.”
Officers pressured by the crowd let the men go.
Deep down, I’m convinced a Karen was involved. Or the Mexican equivalent. Consuela?
PSA
I received the first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine on Friday and I experienced a medium-severe allergic reaction. As I have had severe allergic reactions in the past, I was already going to be watched for 30 minutes after getting the shot, but it only took a few minutes for symptoms to appear (shortness of breath, eyes swelling shut, tongue numbness and swelling.) I alerted the medical personnel at the vaccination site immediately and as a first line they gave me a whopping huge dose of Benedryl.
I did not improve as fast as they thought was safe and I was loaded into an ambulance and taken to an ER. My symptoms were already abating, so they took no further action beyond drawing quite a bit of blood and checking it for various things. They released me after three hours and there have been no lasting effects.
But I cannot take the second dose, nor can I take the Moderna version of the vaccine. I have been recommended to seek out the Johnson and Johnson one-shot version, hopefully by the end of the month. We’ll see how that goes. It is not going to be distributed through the large vaccine site where I got the Pfizer shot, so I might be on the hustle in some podunk CVS.
Sucks about the allergic reaction. Good luck with the follow-ups!
My coworker’s wife had the same reaction and a similar ambulance ride.
Just more proof that SF is mostly virus.
It’s SCIENCE!
I don’t know that there’s a big rush on getting a second dose. You’ve got a clinical risk factor or two for the ‘Vid, true, but one-dose Pfizer is supposed to get you into the 80% zone, I believe, with the second dose getting you only a marginal improvement to the 95ish% zone.
Because zat ist ze procedure! You must follow ze procedure!
I just want to go back to spitting in people’s mouths in public.
‘Neanderthal thinking’: Biden criticizes Texas, Mississippi for lifting mask mandates
They did have bigger brains.
Cat attacks pilot on flight to Qatar, forces plane to divert back to airport
“I’m in love with this mothafuckin’ cat!”. ///CatsOnAPlane
Sorry about your vaccine reaction SF. Though it seems odd you got it. I thought the virus was scared of you.
He later read some of his works at the virus. It died.
Technically it’s not really alive since it can’t reproduce by itself…
By that standard, I’m dead as well. All of us, really.
Keynesian disciple confirmed.
Hayek shields up!
Neither can a large swathe of multicellular organisms. They need a partner.
I can’t either. Otherwise I’d have 5,000 kids.
Slacker.
That’s what I was thinking.
After my experiences at Blacks Beach in San Diego, I’m not particularly surprised they managed to offend someone in a majority Catholic community. To say it gets hedonistic is to put it mildly.
What I never understood is the combination of sand, zinc oxide, and processes involving friction.
I’ll just say that a lot of gays need boundaries, particularly wrt public rutting, etc.
There’s something exhilarating about bodysurfing and looking back up the swell of the wave only to see a buck naked dude on a surfboard flapping in the wind and bearing down on you.
“Bearing down” heh.
SEA SMITH CONFIRMED.
Stop tapping into my brain, Scruffy.
You’d prefer a great white to be closing the distance?
How do you know he wasn’t white?
How do you know he wasn’t great?
the majority of monuments depict White men.
So lets ad a white woman. ///CapitolGroundsSoWhite
add*, even.
We should make sure she never read a Dr. Seuss book first.
That leaves Kagan out….
Not only is she racist for reading it, but a speciesist too.
https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2015/02/what_dr_seuss_has_to_do_with_o.html
Isn’t she the idiot that wrote her master’s thesis on why communism failed in the US? She claimed communism failed because the wrong people were in charge. You cant make this shit up.
I think my favorite was when Obama explained away the disastrous economy being the result of a run of ‘bad luck’.
“They released me after three hours and there have been no lasting effects.”
Oh, that’s good. Sorry, about the medium-severe allergic reaction though.
The video was surprisingly good.
Glad to hear you are ok.
“Using COVID-19, Congress Bans USPS Vape Shipping
Banning the USPS from shipping vaping products will make it harder for smokers to quit & harm small businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earlier today, the text of a 5,500+ page package of COVID-19 stimulus, government funding, and tax extenders was released by committees in the U.S. Congress. This comes just hours before members are expected to vote for the package to become law.
Buried in this massive bill is a provision (see page 5,136) that will harm public health and small businesses by, among other things, banning the United States Postal Service (USPS) from shipping vaping products to adult consumers. And due to sloppy drafting, the effects of the law will be felt beyond the world of nicotine.
The new law redefines the word “cigarette” under the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT Act), which is part of the federal Jenkins Act, to include “electronic nicotine delivery systems.” Despite the inclusion of the word “nicotine,” the definition used in the bill is so broad that it appears to capture vaping liquids containing CBD and standalone devices intended for vaping THC or other substances.”
https://vaping.org/press-release/using-covid-19-congress-bans-usps-vape-shipping/
Also, from what I can tell so far, UPS, FedEx, etc. are going along with it voluntarily.
“Shipping Tobacco
The following update will become effective April 5, 2021:
UPS is prohibiting the shipment of Vaping Products throughout its U.S. network (including import and export). For the purpose of this prohibition, Vaping Products includes any and all noncombustible liquid or gel, regardless of the presence of nicotine, capable of being used with or for the consumption of nicotine. All related vape devices, products and accessories are included in this prohibition.”
https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/packaging-and-supplies/special-care-shipments/tobacco.page
Next, Guns, Ammo…
Big Tobacco is laughing all the way to the bank.
^This^
I guarantee that is who wrote this bill. Tax collectors were only too glad to go along.
Yep. It’s fucked.
That said, vape businesses are already ramping up delivery, both from manufacturer/distributor to stores and individuals.
This isn’t a massive money industry, so it’s gonna take a while, but they get it.
I wish I knew about this sooner. It’s not like I don’t follow the news.
Apparently, many of the vape shops didn’t even know.
Not an accident. This was designed to put the industry out of business.
Fuckers can fuck themselves with a chainsaw
SF, that musical mashup is positively brilliant. Thanks for linking it.
He’s the only person I ever actually hit the subscribe button for. His stuff is amazing.
Yeah, he’s gotta have an amazing musical imagination to pull some of his stuff off. I particularly liked his Hip to Be The Sandman mashup.
Or the Mexican equivalent. Consuela?
Carmen.
At least you won’t have to take the second dose of the same vaccine. I’ve heard that the second dose causes more side effects. It’s especially true for Moderna’s vaccine but I think it’s true for Pfizer’s one as well.
Here some testimonial from Ben Stein.
That’s what my co-workers have reported. Fever, chills, the squirts, headaches, etc. Many said it was like having the worst phase of the flu compressed into 24 hrs.
My wife got the first dose of the vaccine. I’m not sure which one. She is still having symptoms, including swollen lymph nodes, a week later.
I had no side effects from either dose. I chalk this up to already having a highly tuned immune system, due to my poor personal hygiene.
Also, can the fashion trend of hot ladies wearing bike shorts, crop tops, and Eisenhower jackets come back please?
Why the jacket?
Gotta leave something to the imagination.
Oddly specific. l0b0t has a type.
I’d be also happy for baby doll dresses with combat boots to make a comeback.
Cyndi Lauper fan?
More Veruca Salt or Courtney Love minus all the STDs .
Or her voice. Or her personality. Or her face and body.
Let’s go with 1995 Melissa Auf der Maur instead.
Where’s the link for your change.org petition?
The vaccine is just one of the things that have tried to kill me. And it failed… like all the rest!
A-HAHAHA [cough, cough]
Arizona was another. When I took Neph and Tulip for a hike, we stopped and genuflected at the SugarFree Memorial Cactus.
Since SF is still alive, I can only assume the “Memorial” is because the cactus died.
I look forward to your Lovecraftian transformation. All hail SugarFreethulu!
SugarFree is more machine than monster now.
State Aid in American Rescue Plan Act Is 116 Times States’ Revenue Losses
Preliminary data suggest that states closed out calendar year 2020 with only $1.7 billion less revenue than they generated in 2019 (a decline of less than 0.2 percent), not counting federal assistance, while municipal governments actually experienced substantial revenue growth due to rising property values. Yet the American Rescue Plan Act sets aside $350 billion in additional state and local aid. Increasingly, federal proposals to provide a cash infusion for state and local governments has become a solution in search of a problem.
Is that more than a start on propping up the Illinois public pension system?
If they used it to fund their pensions, sure.
They won’t. They’re probably not allowed to.
Not to worry. That’s a bailout for another day.
Never. Accept. Their. Premise. Or. Apologize.
The company that was hired to set up the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida last weekend has taken full responsibility for the design of the stage that resembled a Nazi insignia.
In an exclusive statement to the Forward on Tuesday evening, Design Foundry, a stage design firm based in Hyattsville, Maryland, said it “had no idea that the design resembled any symbol, nor was there any intention to create something that did.” The organizers of CPAC have announced that it will not use the firm for future events.
Images of the CPAC main stage — which featured Donald Trump’s first post-presidency speech on Sunday — went viral online as observers noted its resemblance to the Odal or Othala Rune, a symbol emblazoned on Nazi uniforms. After the conclusion of the event, Hyatt Hotels released a statement saying that it had addressed the concerns with the conference organizers and denounced the use of such symbols as “abhorrent.”
Design Foundry said that the American Conservative Union approved the stage design, which was “intended to provide the best use of space, given the constraints of the ballroom and social distancing requirements.”
The only appropriate response from the American Conservative Union would be “The complaints are retarded and you’re retarded if you buy into them.”
I’d give extra credit if they added “When we get in charge, you know how we’ll deal with undesirables like retards…”
The proggie-great OWH Jr provides all the legal rationale necessary.
Not mentioned: Design Foundry is run by Biden supporters and has done lots of work for Dems.
The revolution eats its own. yawn
It is a five point star, it doesn’t resemble the othala rune, FFS. Like everything else that comes from the left it is gibberish.
Excellent. Got my taxes done today. The return would have been nominal, but we get a rebate from not receiving Corona stimulus 2 makes it a big return.
We got stimulus 1 before we filed taxes last year. But 2019 was a year we won a lawsuit and recovered a not insignificant amount of stolen funds (that was then taxed) and so it shows our “income” as roughly 7.5x our actual income. Since last year was normal (except for capital gains we had to pay on what we had to sell in order to pay the massive tax bill), we’ll get a rebate included with the return.
At least we’re getting back even a small portion of the almost 2x our annual income sized tax bill we paid last year. It’s not much, but it’s something.
Sorry to hear about vax woes. A nurse friend says he thinks it will end up being a yearly vaccine like flu. Ugh.
Which I never get either.
Because, of course it will. There’s money to be made here.
This too.
“Which I never get either.” I’m with you Sean, never have, never will, flu, Covid, fuck that,
#dittoes
I’ll let everyone else be guinea pigs.
Pharma company execs treated for prolonged erections.
The flu vax has never been mandatory, yet they’ve still had supply problems year after year. I’m sure everything will be fine when they make the COVID vax mandatory.
And “free” to boot.
You already paid for it (with taxes), why you not want it?
Can I get a “free” puppy instead?
And when it gets torn down in the 2029 Incel Riots, that’ll be OK, right?
And that would differ from the 2019 riots, how? Seriously, if you think about it for just a moment, incel ranting is just socialist ranting applied to the field of sex and relationships.
I don’t want socialist sex redistribution. The quality would be atrocious.
And the portions so small!
No, they won’t be small. And that’s the issue.
But socialism makes everything scarce. So if there is a socialist sex revolution, within a few years nobody will get laid. Except the nomenklatura, of course.
There was a whoosh, and you missed it.
He was speaking to the quality of options once people won’t have to work at attracting someone.
Huh, I was assuming he was talking the similarity between Winston’s Mom and the Holland tunnel.
“EXCLUSIVE: Anti-racist zoom seminars, asked to reflect whether they are a white supremacist and their children told white heads are dangerous places for black people: Parents’ fury at lessons in wokeness but who are too terrified to speak out”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9295325/Overwhelmed-parents-say-schools-bombarding-kids-anti-racist-agendas.html
Well, imaginary nazis are living in their heads, so doesn’t it even out?
It is amazing how racist the anti-racist agenda is. I’d have fun with the cuntes running this particular shitshow if I had kids.
I think the norms are finally starting to catch on to their BS.
Dare to dream that the left gets bitch-slapped for this?
Poor cat was left all alone in an empty cockpit with no food or water or litter box all night?
“It’s like Meowschwitz in there.”
+1 Serpentine
“‘I can feel its f***ing feathers!’ Rep. Ronny Jackson had 4-6 drinks on presidential trip to Manila where he said a junior female staffer had ‘great t**s’ and demanded she come film him eating fertilized bird eggs in his hotel room”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9322547/Rep-Ronny-Jackson-wanted-aide-film-eating-fertilzed-bird-eggs-Manila-trip.html
Oddly specific.
he said a junior female staffer had ‘great t**s
Well? Does she?
There is no mention of his political party. I assume he is on Team Blue.
Nope. Team Red, from TX. Opposes mask mandates, too. I think we know why this hit piece from 7 years ago was published.
That sounds like something HM would do…
Biden tightens $1,400 stimulus check income limits amid pressure from moderate Dems
Under the latest proposal, Americans earning $75,000 or less would receive the fully promised $1,400 payment. But the checks would phase out faster for individuals at higher income levels than in the version passed Saturday by House Democrats, with individuals making $80,000 a year or more and couples making $160,000 a year, or higher, no longer qualifying for the money.
Lol, let’s alienate those who just gave us control of the Federal government.
What was the limit for not qualifying before?
Around $100k I think?
The $5k phase-out spread makes no sense, but what do i know.
I don’t think there was one for the $1200 Trump checks.
There was. I want to say $120K?
Yeah, being above the initial cut off meant you got a reduced amount.
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/1400-600-1200-stimulus-checks-how-the-3-payments-differ/
ah. thanks
cool! thanks
This of course, on top of the gotcha that $2,000 checks actually means $1,400 + $600 = $2,000 (for some of you), even though that’s not at all how we sold it in Georgia.
Biden doesn’t do anything besides sign whatever paper his operators put on his desk and try to read what’s programmed into his teleprompters. Jill has to help him find the bathroom and to zip up when he’s done. Also zip down before he starts.
A lot of helicopters have been flying over lately. Why aren’t they dropping money over the residential areas and turkeys over the shopping districts?
“Grim rise of pandemic alcoholism: Two hospitals saw 34% increase in patients suffering from alcohol withdrawals when admitted for other conditions during the COVID-19 crisis”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9321479/Alcohol-withdrawal-rates-hospitalized-patients-rose-34-COVID-19-pandemic.html
They should put a bar in the hospital.
*checks lock on “Top Secret” filing cabinet*
However, the lesson won’t be “the lockdowns caused untold mental and emotional health issues along with the financial crash” it will be “we need to work harder to ban alcohol.”
/being cynical doesn’t mean I’m wrong
I give that a 11/10 chance of being the narrative out of it. “See! We tried to limit your alcohol for a reason with curfews and shutdowns”
Keith Olbermann
@KeithOlbermann
Why are we wasting vaccinations on Texas if Texas has decided to join the side of the virus?
I didn’t realize the virus is sentient. Why are you such a dishonest, retarded hack?
*whispers* “They all are.”
46% of Texas voters went for Biden. Fuck those people says Olbermann.
Why are you upset? Isn’t red state genocide the path to world peace, you wet-brained hack?
I once worked on an Applebys commercial in which Olbermann was the principal. We shot overnight at the Times Square location on a Friday night. The normal insane difficulty of filming overnight on a weekend in Times Square was compounded by Olbermann’s inability to remain sober enough to say his lines. We were scheduled for 8pm – 4am, we wrapped it at 9am. Fuck Olbermann!
At least he could have had the decency to be a fun drunk like Orson Welles or (I have to presume) Shatner.
I wanna hear moar celebrity stories!
Matthew Perry in F on AA from JFK to LAX several years ago. He was lying on his flat seat covered with a blanket during boarding, presumably hiding from the boarding pax. He was screaming in horror when we hit the turbulence before landing in LAX. An airport or airline employee met him on arrival and immediately took him to the ground thru a door next to the gate. No walking walking for him thru the terminal.
This cunte is still talking?
Swalwell said, “Yes. Congressman Gosar went to a white supremacist event this weekend. Congresswoman Taylor Greene continues to align herself with QAnon conspiracies. There was the insurrection reunion at CPAC this weekend where Senators Cruz and Hawley attended and did nothing to denounce the big lie. So, again, that just emboldens and inspires people who have already been radicalized and want to take arms against their government.”
He added, “Right now, the threat is within. It is within the United States, and it is within the two bodies of Congress because legislators have not completely denounced this big lie.”
He concluded, “If you look at the CPAC conference, the number-one issue when they were polled at that conference this weekend for a conservative organization, the number-one issue those attendees cited was election integrity. That really concerns me that they believe that our elections are not secure, but they believe that because Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, and others continue to perpetuate this myth. That makes all of us less safe because people feel they have to take arms against their government because the election was fraudulent.”
They want free/fair elections. The horror. And what was the narrative about 2016 that you cuntes, without evidence, spent years perpetuating?
“So, again, that just emboldens and inspires people who have already been radicalized and want to take arms against their government.”
*throws Chinese tea into harbor*
Swalwell is truly awful. Given that he falsified evidence during the impeachment, some defense lawyers should review all the cases he prosecuted when he was a prosecutor for similar behavior. I bet at some point he sent a black man to jail on the basis of falsified evidence.
Duke Nuk’em cant wait to start shooting Americans. That guy really needs to be in a different line of work.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1367156363433029644
Suspended for Pepe.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvhVxmuWYAgQFd4.jpg
LOLOLOL
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
That’s fucking comedy.
“They wanted to show they’re not coastal elites until they discovered they were all coastal elites.”
I assume they had token non-coastal, non-elite speakers, just like conventions have to have at least one of each race/nationality/creed/etc.
I’m sure. But when actually placed on a map, you’ll see a smattering on the coasts, which a few scattered dots in between, which would highlight the sparseness of said tokens.
OMG that’s awesome!
(sent to my Pa for a LOL)
Perfect
Joemala today was good.
Sorry to hear about your allergic reaction. I hope you have no further negative side-effects from the vaccine.
If I grow an extra penis from the Johnson and Johnson shot, I am definitely starting an OnlyFans.
I have a feeling that double penis privilege would get you canceled.
I could make sounding videos with a tuning fork!
You still can. Just turn it around.
Then this guy (NSFW – Reddit) must’ve been cancelled by now.
I think I won’t click on that.
Good way to meet immunized ladies with double vaginas?
Jokes on you!
The new mutant penis will also be white!
But if you did manage to grow a second mutant cock that was black, you’d have to go by the stage name Ebony & Ivory
Good news for you.
There’s now a woman with two vaginas on Reddit.
Yikes – I would rather have the covid than the shot.
Saw a friend at the gym on Monday who was out for a month with the covid. He was pretty sick but when somebody mentioned the vaccines he said “I’m not putting that shit in my body, and now nobody can make me.”
now nobody can make me
I have a feeling the joke will be on him.
That ship sailed a hundred years ago.
4 1/2 COVID-19 vaccines in less than a year, but face herpes still ravages the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area.
Sorry to hear that SF. My family won’t be going near those shots.
It is not going to be distributed through the large vaccine site where I got the Pfizer shot, so I might be on the hustle in some podunk CVS.
Just don’t wear a mask. Apparently that’s the now the key to getting good service at CVS.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbucks-target-among-companies-to-still-mandate-masks-in-texas-despite-lift-on-covid-19-restrictions-11614800113
“as more scientific data emerged showing that face coverings help slow the virus’s spread”
Where is this data? Is it peer reviewed?
“more scientific data emerged showing that face coverings help slow the virus’s spread”
No, it fucking doesnt. Making shit up is not ‘scientific data’.
I like fishing, shooting, camping, and…lipstick, apparently. WTF is wrong with me?
That’s the start of a pretty good rainbow party, there.
MLW?
New Yorkers will have to flash a ‘COVID passport’ to prove they’ve been vaccinated or had a negative test to enter sports arenas, theaters and businesses under new pilot program
Meh, if it only applies to pilots I’m not going to make a big deal about it.
A state without legal MJ should not be allowed to create a “higher pass.”
Do they also need that passport to get into a group care home?
Excelsior Pass….
So sexy sounding.
Future Zombie Pass is more apropos.
SF, here is a vid for your combat boot and babydoll dress look comment above.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2up7su7CeMU
I honestly forgot all about Whale. She looks like a stabber. I’m trying to swear those off. Trying.
She gave me the wrong kind of crazy vibe, but I liked it when I was young and dumb.
In a Hit&Run flashback, Dagny T. asked me why guys are attracted to crazy girls and I told her, “They put out.” I think she thought I would come up with something more philosophical.
Because Melissa Auf der Maur and Courtney Love were perfectly sane?
By the way, SF, sorry to hear about the allergic reaction. That’s no joke and I’m glad you’re safe.
Warty would be mad if I succumbed to a mere vaccine shot. I don’t dare disappoint him.
My brother has the same side effect and a steroid fixed it.
I would not bother to get another vaccine. A single shot of Pfizer is more effective than Johnson and Johnson and will get you over 80% immunity easily in a couple weeks.
The mRNA vaccines contain an enormous amount of (quasi) genetic material — way more than a live virus vaccine — and some people are skipping the second shot.
No. I want MOAR! MOAR!
Everyone in this story is dumb and stupid.
Local teacher uses some of his time in the bully pulpit to laud a black trans person during the “someone important” segment that is sent to students daily. Uptight parent records it and sends it to The Daily Wire site. Everyone gets pissed. Some want teacher to not talk about trans people, some want all trans all day, fire the teacher!, give the teacher a medal!.
The quote I wanted to share though is this:
I wasn’t even hating her until she got to the part about parents not having a right to care about what is being sent to their kids as part of their “education”. If you are arguing that secrecy is required, you are on the wrong side.
Public education is just like public property — it belongs to everyone except you.
Anyone in for a Glibs meet up in China?
https://nypost.com/2021/03/03/china-makes-covid-19-anal-swabs-mandatory-for-foreigners/
Pass.
Not that I am ever going to visit there again.
This is where we need Trump.
The US should now require visitors from China to not only provide an anal swab, but a nasal swab as well. And since times are tough, the same swab will be used for both samples (nasal first please!).
The Olympics are going to be fun.
Looks like they’re gonna try again with SN10
Liftoff!
Touch Down!
Fuck yeah!
5 minutes YAY! thanks KK!
I missed it 🙁 last I heard they had an engine problem and announced a cancellation. That was around 1700 eastern
Go watch the replay…its wonderful. Haven’t found the replay of it popping on the pad though.
Try NASASpaceflight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQkk3ojNfM
Thanks KK. Not bad and looks like not all the landing feet deployed. It looked like he hit pretty hard also on the landing even if it stood upright for a bit.
The opening narration of Star Trek has a split infinitive, and it drives me nuts every time I hear it.
/nerd
My ethics professor in college used to point that out. He thought it would be more dramatic if said correctly: To go boldly…
The argument against split infinitives comes from a ridiculous
attempt to force English to fit into Latin grammar. The Germanic
languages have a long history of separable verbs, and there’s
no particular reason for the infinitive to not be separable as well.
Yup, it’s a perfect example of someone pseudo-educated using that pseudo-education to show off.
No comment.
?
Ya!
/I was terrible with grammar
OK, I read this candidate bio in local proggie web site because the dude was wearing a mask. Who wears a mask when running for a political office?
The guy is everything you can hope for in a candidate for Minneapolis City Council (could have been written about a young Tundra):
What really made this profile share-worthy with you guys is the fact that he is also a member of the Socialist Rifle Association. I haven’t seen a website that is as ugly as that one for quite some time. Bonus points that the main topic on the home page is that they had a security breach last September.
That’s like something from the Bee.
Though I’m largely on-board with that final paragraph.
If you read the profile, there might be hope for him. He’s young and dumb. If he gets more experience in real life and maybe a decent mentor or two, he might turn out OK.
If he wins that City Council seat, though, he is doomed.
I wonder how many of us would need to become members of the Socialist Rifle Association in order to take it over from the inside?
Turn-about is fair play.
They have taken over every other organization.
“a $25 minimum wage that would apply to companies with 10 or more employees”
Well, that would be one way to break up large companies.
Of course that would end up being only on paper. Companies
would just create a wholly owned subsidiary for each work group.
…(could have been written about a young Tundra)…
Dude. Public transportation? Me?
As if.
The rifle part I’m cool with, though.
Getting the place ready has inspired me to actually get work done around here.
I moved five bookcases (and their books) upstairs, and consolidated/purged enough out of the collection that I was able to unpack four more boxes… of books from the move.
But now things are starting to make sense. Light entertainment goes on the the bookcases in the guest rooms, serious books in the living room, cookbooks in the kitchen, D&D in the office.
I’ve been working on cleaning up the house as well. I’d like to be able to invite people over again soon without just trying to hide a big pile of clutter.
The state of our house didn’t stop us from having people over.
I just throw a sheet over our kitchen sink cause apparently you need a new cup every time you get water, at least according to our teens.
Reminds self to decorated guest room
Thanks for the well-wishes, everyone!
If it helps, I can remove a handful of the pins from my SugarFree doll.
Who is publicly wishing you to fall down a well?
Probably the asshole with the voodoo doll.
Is it the shooting pains, or Mad Scientist’s cultural appropriation of voodoo that is most upsetting to you?
And we know WHY, don’t we?
Uffda. Just figured out what you were babbling about. Yeah, get better.
Let’s not get carried away.
I neglected to wish you well, so, yes – “I hope you feel better”.
Glad you’re ok
For no other reason ‘cept she’s cute and I got to play around with custom B&W conversions and some fun Nyquist filtering:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Nyquist-filtering-BandW.jpg
Love it when a plan comes together.
This never would have happened if we funded the government schools properly.
A shocking discovery came out of a Baltimore high school, where hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.
Will a 0.13 GPA be good enough for Faber?
These days it sounds like a Yale/Harvard potential.
“shocking”
?
You captured my thought exactly
But everyone of those fucking teachers and school admins are probably in line for a contracted raise of 3% this year, and next year, and ad infinitum.
I like this story about a Dakota tribe being given land back. Not because of the land stuff, but because MPR does so good of a job painting the Dakota War of 1862 in the best progressive light.
* The poor indians were just mad because the govt didn’t give them the promised food and supplied
* The bad white eyes hung 38 Indians after six weeks of fighting.
Not mentioned:
There was a reason that the settlers opened up a can of whoop ass on the Dakotas. You kill 600 settlers and rape a lot more and after you lose the war things might not go so well.
Does that mean they can rename the lake to Calhoun?
Well now I had a 2 1/2 hour long job interview last week… and they decided to look elsewhere for a candidate.
Even though I have 19 years experience with their ERP and EDI software… and I’m also a Progress language programmer.
I’m not sure why they decided not to hire me – perhaps it was my meh lack of excitement about the position. And, at my age, I can no longer feign that I give a shit. Because I don’t.
Upward and onward. EF and I are opening an antique/art booth next week. Some stuff is from our collection, others recently bought, and some done by our son and EF. And even I have gotten into the game.
It was your toxic masculinity and failure to speak in question mark voice.
In seriousness, sorry about the disappointing conclusion.
All too many people in your situation, out of work due to the recession that Chairman Xi unleashed on the world, and prospective employers uncertain about what batshit new rule the executive will hand down next.
Not even the mist shrewd observer of human nature and market forces can predict what will happen next, due to the arbitrary rule changes that could be announced any day by any bureaucrat.
Not _that_ disappointing. I was fearing going back to the corporate world. Sure $$$ and all that, but it tests my sanity too much.
In the last week I have had three ex-coworkers bug me about possibly coming to work for them.
I tried to tell them that I am in a spot where I can be fat and lazy and make decent change with a minimum of stress. Their opportunities would be fun and challenging, but also full of stress. Not sure I want that right now.
You are a victim of the market. All those coal miners and pipeline roustabouts have gotten into the EDI biz. Common as .NET devs nowadays.
Fuck, I hated working with EDI. The only thing that saved my sanity is my clients and their customers had pretty much agreed to send a very limited set of EDI messages between themselves, so it was possible to integrate.
Progress 4GL/db? REALLY?
SN10 relaunch about to happen!
Listen to that thing!!!! I’ll be in my bunk
Not yet! They may land it!
They did it! They did it!
You really blew it up, didn’t you?!
Damn you all to hell!!
You sound like my wife lol
Sorry about your anaphylaxis, man
SF, sorry about your allergic reaction. Glad you got treated in time.
The nurse who came out to our house to draw blood from my spouse/patient said when she got her Covid shot 1 of 2, she felt like total hell for a day and then bounced back. She was glad she got the vaccine; Her reasoning was that if the vaccine made her feel so awful, then she’s grateful she won’t get the disease because that must feel worse than the vaccine. Right???!!??
“because that must feel worse than the vaccine.”
Sure, let’s go with that.
My mom’s caregiver had a bad reaction to the vaccine. Her silver lining is “well, it means my immune system is reacting, so that must be good.” Whatever let’s you sleep at night.
OMG ELON YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD
Amazeballs!
Well, fuck! She just popped standing on the pad.
That was crazy!
Today was my first staff meeting since the company announced mandatory Covid testing.
I read the official notice, which said to contact HR with questions. I then offered to take peoples quesadilla concerns anonymously to HR. Got a lot of responses.
What type of test?
How often will we test?
Why are we doing this _now_? Does it permit a step closer to full reopening if the work sites?
Antibody or active virus test? Does the test cover all variants?
If we test positive do we have to submit to the phone tracker app?
Can we refuse the anal swab test?
Will we be required to take the vaccine?
HIPPA my arse.
Why does mine never have enough cheese?
LOL
Oh shit it just blew up
Yeah, they gave problems with getting all the thrust engines (which provide braking) to fire evenly.
It plagued the early launches too.
But it won’t put them behind by years like it does with Boeing or BlueOrigin.
That was just an unscheduled second launch!
Right????
that was exciting,
Yes it was…watching those Raptors thrust vector…man…I was born in the wrong time.
D’oh
I say that at least once a week.
I am okay with that…and am I am sure the engineers are too. They fucking landed it…that was…amazing.
Sugarfree, I’m sorry to hear about these complications, and I never thought I’d address you with a non-dirty use of the term “Johnson and Johnson,” but I hope you get their shot without further problems.
Proof that masks are the key to stopping the Rona!
Or maybe not. More like proof that this is seasonal and geographic. Cool video.
I’m allergic to the tetanus vaccine, in a “Don’t ever get the tetanus shot again or you’ll die” kind of way. I wonder if I can use that to get out of taking the vaccine?
Fun fact, you can’t get natural immunity from actually getting tetanus.
Tetanus is bacterial. Strange that a vaccine helps at all,
Fact Check: False
If you’re dead, you are immune.
It would be nice to know what’s in the vaccines that might cause the reaction.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! oh, you were serious.
How about an RF ID chip 0.15 mm x 0 .015 mm?
https://thefutureofthings.com/3221-hitachi-develops-worlds-smallest-rfid-chip/
Hell, they still don’t know if the mRNA vaccines cross the blood/brain barrier or can get thru the placenta to a fetus.
This is one huge science experiment.
“RBG could be honored with a monument at the U.S. Capitol”
By all means, just as soon as we check to make sure there’s nothing controversial in her background which might have resulted in the cancellation of some other figure…
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/ruth_bader_ginsburg_eugenicist.html
They should put up a statue of Susette Kelo.
Sandra Day who!
Ooh, that makes me think of Sandra Dee for Count Potato’s movie suggestion sub-thread.
Watch her Gidget her way through the comedy “Imitation of Life”, while “A Summer Place” is a fun potboiler.
There’s an expensive toy shop in a nice area around here. They have some neat items. BUt
They had a bunch of RBG dolls and books and other cool shit for the woke proto-feminist in your family.
I swear before she died, hardly any woman in America knew who she was, or if they did know, they only thought of her as a reliable leftie vote on the court.
But she passed on under OMB so now she’s been retroactively turned into a childhood hero of woke wymmyn everywhere.
Pathetic. Worshiping a SCJ who publicly criticized the US constitution and recommended a UN document with plenty of “right to” goodie claims baked in.
Still, at least the RBG had some original thoughts in her head, unlike Kagan, possibly the least qualified SCJ ever.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evdb7eiXUAA7r6e.jpg
anti-anti-racist baby?
Yikes, dude! Sorry about the vaccine nightmare.
Do you have any food allergies? I’m concerned about my wife, as she has a bunch of severe food allergies.
Video is fantastic!
I found a bike frame. Woohoo!
Titanium, unused 2017 model.
Now I just need to find money to buy wheels for it.
Does a frame include brakes & gears & &all that shit?
no
Oh, I didn’t mean that to sound snippy, but there is the whole Shimano vs. Campagnolo thing. So they don’t come with groupsets.
And SRAM.
I’ve always used Shimano myself.
You’re harshing my buzz.
So… wife has a birthday with a zero in it coming up in July. She wanted to go to the Four Seasons on the Big Island of Hawaii, but has convinced herself that no airline will let me fly and no hotel will let me book as I won’t get the commie cough jab. Instead, she now wants to go to New Orleans.
NOLA. July heat + humidity.
Should I convince her that flying to Hawaii sans vaccine is no big deal, or just quit while I’m ahead?
Try to get leprosy so they send you there.
By July? She’s probably right.
Eh. They’ll back down when they see how much their bottom line suffers.
^^THIS.
Yeah, they’ll start off fascist (“Papieren, bitte”), but will soon find that they can’t put enough bums in seats.
YOU GET A BAILOUT! HE GETS A BAILOUT! EVERYONE EXCEPT THE TAXPAYER GETS A BAILOUT!
or in other words, they’ll mandate the vaccine and stick to it.
And if the airlines don’t do it, Congress will.
Too much work.
The next months will be all spent trying to get dudes on girls sports teams.
Then recess time.
“she now wants to go to New Orleans”
Because you have a time machine?
I think it’s very likely that people will still be allowed to fly with a negative COVID test.
I think it will also soon become apparent that blacks and hispanics are getting vaccinated at about half the rate, and even wokesters won’t be able to handle minorities not getting to fly.
^^ July is too soon for a vaccine mandate. I bet even with widely available vaccination, a negative test will be required for HI.
A not insignificant chunk of HI tourists come from Japan, which is far behind and will still be this summer. Tell your wife some internet rando told her to just book the trip.
(*make sure it’s refundable/flexible in case I’m wrong. Pretty much the entire travel industry is bending over backwards to get people to book so this shouldn’t be impossible like it might have been a year and a half ago)
Is your wife comfortable with: drunks , strippers, crackheads, aggressive beggars, rampant poverty, decrepit buildings, oppressive humidity, biting insects, and the general feeling of Sodom just before the meteor strike?
If so, I heartily recommend New Orleans. But don’t go down any dark alleys.
Or maybe it’s Sodom after the meteor strike…
Hell no! Don’t go to NOLA! That where l0b0ts come from!
Had my delayed honeymoon at Hualalai – that place is magical. It’s literally my happy place (when I fire up the “wave” white noise on my phone, I picture the afternoon spent reading on one of those shaded chaise lounge chairs, with waiters refreshing my cocktail from time to time).
I want a movie suggestion. I have a bunch in my unwatched movie folder, but they are all Korean, and I don’t feel like reading.
Battle Royale…oh you said you didn’t want to read Korean.
The one with the superhero.
Do not watch Zardoz.
I already have.
My condolences.
Modern (say, within the last five years) or from any time period?
John Garfield movies.
Booty Call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTCsE8crK0Q
Too Many Girls.
Desi Arnaz plays a college football player(!), and Ann Miller dances.
Mars Attacks!
Gunga Din (1939) if you can get over the egregious way they ripped off Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Leave Her to Heaven.
Seen it recently.
Disaster on the Coastliner
Biden with his bitter-clingers and deplorables moment today at the WH
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-mocks-texas-mississippi-for-lifting-mask-mandates-neanderthal-thinking/ar-BB1ecRRk
“The last thing, the last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime everything’s fine, take off your mask, forget it,”
Got it. So inclusive, so caring, so unity.
And we are back to personal responsibility…good to know.
“Every individual is empowered to do the right thing here, regardless of what states decide,” Dr. Rachel Wallensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Fuck you, Joseph. Seriously. What an asshole.
MS has almost a 40% black population, Biden is saying all blacks are Neanderthals! /lefty writing on DU if Trump (or Republican) made that statement
People who refuse to masks that work marginally in the best of conditions are retards, it’s just science.
Florida hasn’t had a mask mandate for some time and they’re doing just fine.
He is lashing out cause Texas and Mississippi..and word is Alabama (which means a whole slew of states soon after..are bucking the system. Follow the science that is what they are doing.
And it’s not like they’re outlawing wearing masks, they’re giving people and businesses a choice.
Silly wizzleteats; the left has never really been pro choice about anything.
And pretty much all are electing to just keep the mask policies in place for the next few months.
I live in North Texas and even our urban most county (Dallas) is projected to hit herd immunity by June, using the most conservative estimates of so called “herd immunity”.
This thing is done yo. Stick a fork in it. It’s not coming back.
“The governor’s office is getting out of the business of telling people what they can and cannot do,” Reeves said.
Good for him, the cynic in me is certain that he’s only referring to Covid BS and he’ll be happy to continue to apply the boot in many other aspects of our lives. But ‘Libertarian Moments’ don’t happen everyday, small victories and what not.
This should lead to some fun articles in the future since the “bake a cake” crowd kicked and screamed that businesses are private and are allowed to determine if they want patrons to be masked or not before the mandates came down.
Now that more states are saying they are not in that business (a little late to the game, but hey, I will take it), it will be interesting to see how it plays out when Business A says you have to and Business B says I don’t care what you wear in here.
I am sure the AP/CNN/etc will find some small shop that tried to enforce their own mask policy and some customer did something stupid and refused to wear one. I give it until 2 hours after this all goes into place.
Lololololol!
Fact Check: MISSING CONTEXT. That ONE book wasn’t canceled. Just a bunch of others. How DARE you mislead people!
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/03/fact-check-dr-seuss-enterprises-did-not-cancel-publication-of-the-cat-in-the-hat.html
An why not? The car is obviously black.
*cat
This is one of the more sinister cancels I’ve seen yet. The dude literally wrote a book against racism. Decades before everyone else was doing it and probably therefore sincere.
Its the generationY/Z folks gaining power through bitching online and being given credence to their bitching. So much like their upbringing when they whined and complained they got what they want out of their small little world and its being played out on a much larger scale now.
And that ties back to the self-esteem movement.
Nobody says “ You’re a child, nobody cares how you feel about it.” anymore.
I sure as fuck do. And so do real baseball coaches.
My kid: *Getting frustrated in the cage*
His HS coach: Son, nobody gives a fuck about your feelings. Stop being a little bitch and hit the fucking ball.
They’re attacking cornerstones of culture that taught us how to be adults. Their targets are no accident.
The Muppets? Trigger Warning.
Dr Seuss? Cancelled.
There are sure to be others.
Damn, sorry about the bad trip on the vaccine SF but thanks for the links and the great tune. I enjoyed that! I got a tetanus/Tdat shot today because I was due and seems someone is keeping track of that now so they called me in. I could not tell you the number of those shots I have had usually due to fucking myself up at work. Them: “when was your last tetanus shot” Me: “fuck if I know”. Them: “ok you are getting one.” I am a hard pass on the covid vaccine unless someone can convince me it is a better route than the treatments they have now. I suspect I had it December 2019 when I had a lung hurting cough and felt like shit. I know antibodies don’t last that long but I am rolling with some sort of other immunity until I am hospitalized with the shit.
“Report: World Needs Equivalent Of Pandemic Lockdown Every Two Years To Meet Paris Carbon Emission Goals”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/03/report-world-needs-equivalent-of-pandemic-lockdown-every-two-years-to-meet-paris-carbon-emission-goals/?sh=41578bbf6dee
David Icke was right.
except the lockdowns didn’t really reduce carbon emissions.
Great.
So every other year. Sounds wonderful.
I expected the authors to use this as evidence to condemn climate crisis horseshit, but I should have known that was naive.
“David Icke was right.”
That the Jews are lizard people?
Hey westernsloper, we inverted your plan from earlier in the week and made shredded chicken tacos out of the leftover enchilada filling we made the other day.