Who you got?
The field is set. And it looks like Gonzaga is the favorite to win it all. Which makes no sense to me, seeing as they have played maybe one or two decent teams all year. Either way, it’s gonna be a wild tournament, and I’d be willing to bet there are at least a handful of forfeits because of the corona. Liverpool finally won a league game yesterday. UCL Round of 16 matches today and tomorrow.. And that’s sports.
Problematic
Big birthdays today are president James Madison, early photographer Anna Atkins, comedian Henny Youngman, outfielder Lloyd Waner, war criminal psychopath Josef Mengele, comic genius (to the French, anyway) Jerry Lewis, game show host Chuck Woolery, Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, Heart’s Nancy Wilson, football great Ozzie Newsom, rapper Flavor Flav, quarterback Rodney Peete, and baseball players Curtis Granderson and Brandon League.
Not a lot on that list. Oh well, on to…the links!
And they wonder why nobody trusts the media. The best part is that they still believe the whole thing was criminal.
Hypocritical asshole
Get a load of this asshole. Why does he hate the established democratic process so much?
Cages. They’re called cages, remember? Either way, the “mess” was “inherited”, right? Even though the numbers have swelled dramatically in the last two months.
I guess they don’t give a shit about optics. And why should they? It’s not as if they care his decision-making was responsible for more deaths than 9/11. Or about the cover-up, for that matter.
I have no idea whose bright idea this settlement was. One would have thought they’d have waited until after the criminal trial.
Meddlesome prick
“No freedom for you. But we can talk about it, at least.” Lol, what a joke these people are.
Good news! Hopefully the people dumb enough to be moving there are leaving Texas and simply heading home.
More good news! For real, too. Live life, people. Live life.
Here’s a great song. And a great video too. Enjoy it!
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
sup’ fam
Howdy.
Imagines Sloopy saying that in a Minnie Pearl voice, wearing a top hat with the price tag still attached….
No dress?
‘Sup
Got any for those of us behind the evil curtain?
Yes: there are roads that leave the state.
Aside from that, I got nothin’.
And I’ll be on one this weekend!
It’ll be interesting having a sixty degree temperature change on the way there. I’d offer to meet, but I’ll be too busy with family I haven’t seen in a year and the puppies.
The existence of the roads isn’t news.
I wrote up a ruleset for a winter shooting sport that I’ll present to KF&G at the April meeting. It’s basically cowboy-ified Steel Challenge. Shotguns and lever guns will be allowed.
Hrmm… I might just need a lever gun.
Yes.
Got any recommendations?
Henry rifle for new production.
If you’re looking at older, used stuff probably Suthen or Animal would be better suited to make recommendations.
Get an Official Red Ryder carbine action two-hundred shot range model air rifle.
If they’re still even legal in New York.
You’ll shoot yer eye out.
Marlin 1894 in .357, .45 or. 44mag
I put off buying a Henry until they made a .44 with a loading gate.
Now I’m waiting until the Ruger Marlins come out.
That, and I have to build a fence and need the money
I sank my flexible savings into replacing the disks for my NAS.
I’d have to do something like spend
stolenfederal funds on firearms…Also: I find there to be something tremendously satisfying knocking down steel with a shotgun. Leaving trenches in the snow, etc.
Have a safe trip!
I will try. Some of those midwest states have annoying traffic.
Well, if you get bored after a while, let us know.
Will do. My brother is distributing puppies on the way down, but I think he’ll have five (and the mom) when he shows up. That’s a lot of entertainment.
Enjoy the trip!
Off work today for the wife’s birthday. I can never remember. Was Lloyd ‘big poison’ or ‘little poison’?
“Little Poison” because he was so short.
How short was he?
5’9″ (or 175 cm if you’re eurotrash).
The story I remember is a little old lady with a thick accent was trying to say big person and little person and person sounded more like poison. Don’t remember where I read that and don’t know if it’s true.
Re: the Washington Post article.
Is there any reason to believe anything that the legacy media reports, anymore?
Remember when, sometime last year, ABC (I think) showed a video, claiming that it was our Kurdish allies getting slaughtered because Pres. Trump pulled troops out of Syria, and then had to admit that, no, it was footage of a live-fire exercise in Kentucky, and that they knew what it really was before running the original story?
That’s easy — no. A more difficult question is “was there ever a time when you could believe a newspaper or broadcast news report?”
Not since before Pulitzer and Hearst, I guess.
The very first contested election (Adams – Jefferson) featured partisan outlets openly shilling for one side or the other. At least then they were honest about it, I suppose.
I have heard that there were 2 calls? And the correction is to the one not with Raffensperger? Could that be true?
The Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.
This is just 15 miles from my house.
Good morning, Sloop.
Yes, Chauvin is completely fucked. Here’s some coverage of the jury selection yesterday.
Minneapolis leadership is staggeringly awful. I assume that the Monopoly money coming from DC emboldened them to hand out such an outrageous amount. Just fucked up.
Almost as fucked up as that Genesis video. Nightmare fuel there. Good song, though.
LOL. After your comment, I knew which video that was before I clicked.
I still think he’ll be offered a plea bargain to a lesser charge, take 10, serve five and a change of name. Move to Idaho
I gotta be real witchu- I always hated that stupid song.
The other side of that coin is that I hate myself for liking “Take Me Home” by Phil Collins, but I blame nearly 2 decades of business travel.
They’re both good songs.
This is the correct answer. I never got all the late-Genesis/PC hate. OK, there are a few stinkers but a lot of great tracks too.
I always wanted to hate “Home Sweet Home” because it’s Motley Crue but just couldn’t.
10 Take, take me home / ‘Cause I don’t remember ?
20 GOTO 10
What you did there- I saw that
Toxteth is a basic bitch.
lol
Heh.
I got the lyric slightly wrong: “SO take me” ad infinitum.
Makes me want to fire up the ol’ Tandy 1000
Not the
Trash EightyTRS-80?TI-99/4A or GTFO
I had that. My mom picked it up a garage sale for like ten bucks.
Same sound chip as the Tandy 1000.
The Disturbed remake, while not particularly original, gets the vibe of the song better. Genesis comes off as too light and airy for the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV4oYkIeGJc
Linking to a Disturbed video has made my morning. Yay!
/fighting a sinus infection.
According to Robert Barnes on the Viva Frei podcast, the settlement is part of fixing the trial. Otherwise it wouldn’t have happened during jury selection. Also, it is the largest wrongful death settlement in MN history (wrongful death usually pay out in the $2M -$5M range with $3M being the largest MN payout prior to this one), $500K is going directly to the grifters running George Floyd Square. And the settlement, to put it into some perspective, is equal to 3 1/2 years of the Minneapolis Police Department budget.
Brother Keith is not using anyone in his office on this trial, he hired (at taxpayer expense) a bunch of hot-shot private prosecutors. The shitheeled cop tried to plead guilty to Manslaughter 2 with a 10 year sentence but AG Barr shitcanned that because he still wanted to go after Chauvin for FedGov stuff. This whole thing is a farce.
Otherwise known as “the new normal”.
I thought the new normal of pants lengths in 2″ increments was bad.
If you have an odd inseam, you can hem the cuffs.
Thank you
33″ waist is incredibly hard to find, nowadays. 34 swimming or 32 squeezy pants.
Odd size waists and inseams are difficult to find anymore. I have a 31″ inseam, which means either letting 32s drag on the ground or hemming them an inch.
When we were kids wearing hand-me-downs, stringed lower cuffs on your jeans was considered “cool”. Mind you, we did grow up in the Holler. We always grew up into them. Well, most of us.
The plea was for 3rd degree murder. But everything else you said was spot on.
I also think that the hot shot lawyers are working for nearly free because they see an opportunity to burnish their credentials as the ones who brought Chauvin to justice.
And the settlement, to put it into some perspective, is equal to 3 1/2 years of the Minneapolis Police Department budget. Are you saying the Minneapolis police annual police budget is $7.7 million ($27 million/ 3.5)? There’s no way.
That’s what Robert said on the Viva Frei podcast on Sunday night, I could have misremembered so I’m trying to find it now. A quick search shows city pd budget at around $180M per year. Sorry.
That’s what Robert said on the Viva Frei podcast on Sunday night, I could have misremembered so I’m trying to find it now. A quick search shows city pd budget at around $180M per year. Sorry.
I found it and I did not misremember. The whole show is worth a listen but I’ve queued up the relevant bit – https://youtu.be/pL_qA7HKd6g?t=2608
From the Texas partiers story:
A tweet from Regina Phelps starts: “can you say superspreader event?”
If the media reports an uptick in COVID19 cases, then refer back to the ABC and Washington Post stories for a reminder that the media cannot be believed.
The media won’t be happy unless people die and they can preen about how stupid we all are for trying to live our lives.
When you hope for people to die to score a political point….you need to do a little self-reflection. But, I don’t hope for too much of that.
OBEY
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Unity
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Heeling
The Washington Post has added a lengthy correction to a bombshell report from early January that had said then-President Trump told Georgia’s top elections investigator during a phone call to “find the fraud” and that they would be “a national hero” if they did so.
You just can’t find good anonymous sources these days.
Would Trump have a libel case here? Because he’s the kind of guy who would sue WaPo over this.
I’m guessing they put in just enough “according to an anonymous source” disclaimers to avoid such a thing.
Probably not – but the discovery would be worth it.
He’s keeping his head down and his powder dry for good reason right now.
Since when is he even capable of keeping his head down?
Not Adahn,
Did you see that Cree is hiring heavily just west of you? I thought I’d let you know.
No I did not. I’ll look into it, thanks!
I had two recruiters contact me this week. They are building a new SiC 200mm fab. I believe it is the first of its kind.
two hundred milimeter? Those are huge circuits.
Checking the exernal recs now.
Also, back in 1989, I knew a guy with a wolf named Cree. Now I see hat Cree has a prduct named “wolfspeed.”
They have a facility in Undershitland?
Oh, it’s Unterschleißheim
He’ll be going Huron about that all day.
NONE OF THAT!
*narrows gaze*
Triggered! How dare they use 1/16th of my Heritage for their evil Capitalistic ways! Why, I oughta Souix!
Just don’t Crow about it. You Navaho how Swiss might react, Hopi didn’t trigger anything.
God damn is Pritzker fat! I had no idea.
We don’t call him Baron Harkonnen for no reason.
I laughed.
FEYD! Lovely Feyd!
I thought it was the penchant for small boys and spice mining.
*widens gaze*
*golf claps*
California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a new campaign Monday denouncing a recall effort against him and blasting the calls for his ouster as a Republican-backed movement supported by “anti-vaxxers, Q-Anon conspiracy theorists and anti-immigrant Trump supporters.”
A new website launched by Newsom, a Democrat, to combat the recall effort seeks donations and support and is accompanied by a 30-second ad that calls the effort a “power grab.” The spot blames “violent White supremacists like the Proud Boys, who attacked our nation’s Capitol on January 6” for the push that threatens Newsom’s political future.
Fuck off, you lying cunte.
“I cannot defend anything I have done, so I will throw out a squid’s ink of leftist bugaboos!”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki called the situation “heartbreaking” and “not acceptable,” adding, “I think the challenge here is that there are only — there are not that many options.”
She said the president’s critics “are not putting forward a lot of solutions.”
Enforce immigration law. Finish the wall. Discourage illegal immigration. This is not exactly difficult.
And cut off the feedstock of future Dem voters?
When the Republicans are in charge, it’s their problem. When they’re not in charge, it’s also their problem. Being a Democrat is good work if you can get it.
Back when I lived in Austin, The Yellow Rose gentlemen’s club billed credit cards as “RPM Dining.”
Same idea, if you want to bill lunch to your office supply account:
https://www.ubereats.com/ca/toronto/food-delivery/good-fortune-burger-college/SlS7Rn6dQ1SVb59NxiWt5A
I have never been to such a place in Austin. I was always a perfect “Gentleman” when I visited the town. I have the credit card receipts to prove it.
The opposite was an old scam, popularized by Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Like anyone sees a teller to cash a check anymore.
In high school, I worked at the Holiday Inn. You could always make a few dollars converting a salesman’s bar tab into “Laundry services” on the final bill.
Every time I see life returning somewhere else, and read our fat whiny governor still blame everything on OMB, I want to scream.
He’s taking it very seriously, as he’s really slimmed down.
At some point the public needs blame. When the public elects one of the Pritzkers Governor, what precisely do they think the end result will be? When having “wealth beyond the dreams of avarice” isn’t enough to fulfill someone, you best believe they’d love to get their power boner on.
And folks on the left still scoff at the distrust and dislike of “the elites” from flyover country.
Cheap governor by the pound. NJ says, “We’ll see your Pritzer and raise you a Christie”
That would be an awesome sumo match.
A bit on the light weight.
Would rather see a jello wresting match between Pelosi & Clinton?
My favorite Brit-Pop take on 80’s politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1HC8pHZw0
Great song ?
Terrified grandmother captures image of ‘horned demon’ standing over her toddler granddaughter’s bed – after setting up camera when the girl was heard telling someone to ‘go away’ in the night
“Tory says the two-bed condo is only around 20 years old, so she’s surprised it would harbour such a dark presence.
The cardiologist lives with her four other children Jonathan McKenzie, 19, Melissa McKenzie, 17, Travis McKenzie, 16, and Nicholas McKenzie, 13, a few minutes’ walk away from Ryan and his partner Alicia Johnson.”
What’s crazy is the headline isn’t the most unbelievable part of this story.
What’s crazy is the headline isn’t the most unbelievable part of this story.
Is it the cardiologist part?
Yup
Can anyone explain this to me? I saw a post on Ace of Spades that included the two images linked here (I’ll link the actual post in a reply due to the link limit).
The first image purports to be a chart of ratings for various TV programs in the news market, including CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC across all demographics (total audience).
The second image is supposed to be an “in-demographic” chart showing ratings only within the supposed target demographic (P25-54, which I take to mean persons 25 years of age through 54 years.
The total audience chart ranges from 1 million to a bit over 3.5 million viewers. The “in-demographic” chart scales from 0.2 million to around 0.5 million viewers.
What doesn’t make sense to me is that the “demographic” viewers are apparently such a tiny fraction of all viewers. Shouldn’t it be the case that the primary demographic should make up a large portion of the audience for a show? Have they misjudged their demographic badly? Are they much more popular with people outside their demographic?
This seems like it should be a big deal for TV networks and demographers, because they sell advertisements based on the target demographic, and you would think advertisers would want some assurance that their ads are getting in front of the eyes they are paying for, not some other group less likely to buy their products.
What am I missing?
Here’s the link to the article.
In broadcasting terms “in demographic” is the key advertising demographic, and not the show’s viewership demographic. A show with low in demographic numbers has cheaper advertising rates.
OK, so that goes along with my idea that if the network wanted to boost ad revenue/prices, they would target their programming to appeal more to the advertising demographic–they might sacrifice some overall viewership, but make more money overall on the better targeting.
yes, but, legacy media outlets have lost their minds.
The target demographic have jobs, children, etc.
Everyone else is either too young to care or re tired.
The only other thing I can think of is that the targets have money?
Target demo is the spendiest, which is why advertisers want them.
What I meant in the first line is that the target demographic is too busy to piss time away watching news.
THIS
Texas partygoers go maskless in packed clubs to mark end of COVID-19 restrictions
Reading the comments in this link was disheartening. It’s the same where I live – no shortage of people who are “true believers” in the effectiveness of the mask. They comment online and unabashedly write how they hope all the “non believers” get sick and die.
It’s just because they’re so filled with compassion for their fellow person. Well, you know, at least those who aren’t knuckle dragging, xenophobic, anti-science, racist, uncouth, god bothering, uneducated, anti-science, transphobic, Islamophobic rednecks.
Ahh, Nancy. Member when Anne was the hot sister before she ate the rest of the band? My high school crush resembled her and then the Ateys happened to them.
“We’re not getting rid of masks,” said Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the head of the Illinois Department of Public Health. “We think masks have to continue to be a mainstay.”
Virus theater now! Virus theater forever!
Derek Chauvin judge is considering trial delay after ‘unfortunate’ timing of $27M wrongful death payout to George Floyd’s family by Minneapolis mayor that defense claims has ‘tainted the jury pool’
“Unfortunate”…
My layman’s take is that this could strengthen a defense motion for change of venue.
Doesn’t matter, it won’t be granted. The mob must be satiated.
Qualified candidates only need apply
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) pledged Monday that he would appoint a Black woman to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) should she choose to retire before her term is up.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid, the governor said that he had several candidates in mind for a potential replacement for Feinstein, 87, who has faced pressure from some progressive Democrats to step down and is no longer the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her current term is up in January 2025.
“We have multiple names in mind, the answer is yes,” Newsom said, responding to Reid’s question as to whether his candidate would be a Black woman.
These people are more obsessed with race than Jefferson Davis.
To be fair, a Hello Kitty doll or a plate of leftover Spaghettios would be an improvement over Feinstein.
Ling-Ling is out of a job. Why not her?
Swalwell is pushing Fang Fang (because his ling-ling is doing his thinking for him)
Sorrey – https://youtu.be/xZhQpyr2FBw
Does this mean the real governor of GA is moving to Cali?
That Newsom should do this – https://youtu.be/su3HiXOjrfA
Lying shitstain is a liar and a shitstain.
Lemon said, “The next big battle, you know it is going to be over the GOP to restrict voting rights. A lot of these bills target Black and brown voters. Is this only going to get worse as demographics continue to change and Republicans are increasingly in the minorities? Is their effort is going to pick up to disenfranchise voters, especially those of color?”
Gore said, “Absolutely. This is really and truly un-American Don. This is a naked effort trying to suppress Black, brown and indigenous voters. Suppress any kind of votes from people who they think will not go for the far-right, promote the interests of the wealthy program. Let me give them their credit. I think they actually believe that this country would be better if the wealthy and powerful had more control over all the decisions.”
Isn’t that literally the leftist position?
There’s a lawsuit currently going on in Ohio over the Census:
In court filings, Census Bureau officials say Ohio lawsuit seeking on-time data asks the impossible
Dude… deadlines are just another way of the MAN keeping us down.
Any attempt at making the elections secure will be painted as racist.
The only thing you can do is ignore them and move on. They’re not going to stop, ever, or at least until they create some actual no-shit racists that start lynching politicians.
Exactly – don’t play their stupid, childish game. Just move on and address adults.
I can’t snark at this anymore. I’ve been beating my head against the wall since 2006. You do you, Dems… Ending the wars used to be something that party appeared to consider. Now they are the stupid and even more evil party. My fence-sitting is done. Canadian Politics is done like dinner so I enjoyed watching your brand. I guess I’ll swear it off like I did pro sports a few years ago.
“if the wealthy and powerful had more control over all the decisions.””
Well, you know we can’t leave it up to the lower classes to know what is in their best interest.
I know too much about the bachelor…
So the guy actually picks the “racist” antebellum party girl, but then dumps her because of the pictures? Chris Harrison, knowing this before the finale airs tries to do damage control and he gets thrown under the bus as well.
My hope is that whoever was actually watching will now stop in the future.
See Grammy Awards. This is what happens when you have the boot on the neck and kow-tow to the minority opinion.
It’s just because they’re so filled with compassion for their fellow person. Well, you know, at least those who aren’t knuckle dragging, xenophobic, anti-science, racist, uncouth, god bothering, uneducated, anti-science, transphobic, Islamophobic rednecks.
The mask is our equivalent of the swastika armband in 1939 Germany. You don’t want people to think you are an Enemy of the State, do you? Wear the damn swastika, if you know what’s good for you.
It’s Springtime for Biden and Democracy…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/mediaviewer/rm501913345/
I look forward to the mask burning parties. Maybe I should just repurpose them as moon floss.
I heard talk of a mask mandate protest in NH which involves burning masks. I think it is tomorrow, but that’s St. Patrick’s Day.
Great song. But I always thought those puppets were a bit creepy.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/12/woman-says-she-found-true-love-had-children-with-rollercoaster/
You know, they really should clean those seats… even once really.
Higher intelligence comes with some real downsides.
A story with a lot of twists and turns about an up and down relationship.
Also Sloopy, congratulations on ridding yourself of that camera hogging police chief of yours. Hopefully you’ll get a better one next go around.
Houston’s gain is Miami’s loss. Wondering why he stopped short of Havana?
Just another run of the mill story about cops shooting a suicidal man (the dude lived, so happy ending).
I’m only linking because I thought the cop’s PR flack was extra funny.
It tickles my black soul to hear a guy defending his goons with “our officers respect the sanctity of life”.
Narrator: They shot the guy in the back as he walked away from them after refusing to comply
Fine tuning the narrative
“We’re looking at this carefully,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters. “As soon as we put out our guidance, among the biggest challenges that we were aware of was the fact that schools were having a hard time with the six foot guidance, and that, of course, prompted more studies to say: Is six feet necessary in the context of mask wearing? We’re taking all of those data carefully and revisiting our guidances in that context.”
Monday’s visit was a chance to recast the debate away from questions about priorities and the influence of teacher’s unions and onto the avalanche of resources tucked into the relief bill President Joe Biden signed into law.
The first lady’s tour was part of a larger coordinated and carefully planned campaign to own the bill’s narrative; or, as Vice President Kamala Harris put it on her swing through Nevada Monday, to give folks a lowdown on what is actually in the bill and what they are going to be getting out of it.
Hundreds of miles from central New Jersey, Harris visited a vaccination site at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas where she chatted with a nursing student as the student received a shot in her arm. Then she popped by a plant-based taco joint for lunch telling the workers that small businesses are the “life blood of the economy.”
They putting Doktor Jill out there to educate the hicks and show them the light.
CNN
@CNN
Masks save lives
Masks can help protect pandemic gains
Masks safeguard even the vaccinated
Masks are a sign of respect
Masks will help the US return to normal
Masks are a virtue signal that is damaging to one’s health.
My youngest has been fighting a cold/sinus issues since Friday. She said a girl at school had it and then passed it on to a bunch of other kids in her grade. But they have social distancing and masks at school. *scratches head*
That’s what the Muslims say about burkas
Masks safeguard even the vaccinated
They really think people are stupid enough to buy that?
Based on experience I wouldn’t say they are wrong.
Relevant.
Yes, and they’re usually not wrong.
the Post said Thursday in a 129-word correction published atop the story.
I looked for evidence of the correction on their front page. Nope. Couldn’t find it. I had to run a search for it, and it is behind a paywall. Here it is if you want to read it.
You know what was on the front page? Though to be fair, near the bottom. Amon Bundy refused to wear a mask before entering the courthouse for his trial. He wasn’t let in, and was arrested for failing to appear for his trial.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a new campaign Monday denouncing a recall effort against him and blasting the calls for his ouster as a Republican-backed movement supported by “anti-vaxxers, Q-Anon conspiracy theorists and anti-immigrant Trump supporters.”
Go fuck yourself.
“We’re not getting rid of masks,” said Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the head of the Illinois Department of Public Health. “We think masks have to continue to be a mainstay.”
Ezike’s remarks came during an Illinois Senate Health Committee hearing. She told senators the governor may unveil plans for a phased-in reopening later this week, news the governor’s spokeswoman confirmed.
Pritzker and Ezike can go fuck themselves.
For many revelers that meant one thing: the masks were off and the party was on. In fact, Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth made Texas headlines after celebrating the moment they could ditch the masks at a sold-out concert for 3,000 people in the packed club.
Good.
It’s his own damn fault for being named “Amon Bundy” in the first place! You know who else was a terrible misogynist? That’s right, “Al Bundy” from that reprehensible Fox series. Ted Bundy wasn’t very nice to women, either. #CancelBundy
I miss “Married with Children”.
The Logo channel has it in rotation.
Still amusing.
“Logo channel”
The LGBTQ+ channel? Does not compute.
that was huge in Romania in the 90s. It even spawned a local ripoff.
Catch-19
Try in absentia, convict and sentence – all without confronting his accusers. God bless the rule of men.
/deletes about a dozen e-mail replies to a customer that boil down to: Your lack of planning is not my emergency.
Long story short, they decided to provide some old customer numbers to new customers… and didn’t tell anyone on the phone system side. So they’re complaining that the old customer’s greetings are still there.
They didn’t delete the old greetings? Or reset to a default?
Who manages this company?
These are part of the corporate phone system, so they don’t have access to update any of that. But somehow thought that the greetings would automagically change with no one doing anything. As to why they have customer specific greetings on certain inbound numbers, I’ve got no idea. That was from before I started supporting them.
Spend your days waffling around.
Meet the Waffle Man.
He waffles EVERYTHING!
You mean The Waffler?
You waffled the link.
/kicks a rock; stubs toe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXFR1L_gOg8
Some of his creations look delicious.
Americans are weird
You have no idea.
Stop by.
there is a pandemic goddamnit
There is a bit of a seasonal cough.
Saw a clip from The View where some twit was complaining that the whole Cuomo story was taking the attention off of Gov. “Death-santis” and the other madman Kyle Abbott. These are the places where half the country gets their info from.
I mean Florida does have a lot more deaths than it should
Well the median age down there is like 90 so theyre doing ok.
No, they don’t.
If you count it is warmer there and sunnier so there should be no deaths unlike new york where it is coder, then yes they do
so there should be no deaths
If you just want to make up ridiculous metrics, than sure, you get whatever result you want.
But that’s not science and it’s not logical.
Why would you even watch a split-second of that?
do not kink shame people
My wife was watching Fox n friends and they ran that clip out there to anger me.
My fiancee and I are watching the Illinois/Pritzker situation a bit nervously these days. We’re slated to get married in a few months near Chicago, and our reception is a public facility (owned by the local park district, IIRC). We’ve been told by the church that they’re not gonna hassle us as far as masks, but who knows with the reception venue. And that’s if the gathering sized is increased. Right now I am fairly certain it’s 50. I may end up needing to add a line item to the wedding budget of “bribes”…
Wait do you want to get married or not? I am unsure what outcome you are rooting for
Wouldn’t marrying a bride wearing a mask be the very definition of buying a pig in a poke?
Just kidding! Double T’s gal was at the honey harvest and charmed everyone.
That’s very kind — she would be very flattered to hear that. I, on the other hand, only came to HH for the poo and fart jokes.
Well I only came for the poo jokes and farts.
And while you two idiots were off making fart noises, I had a nice chat with the lovely lass.
Dopes.
Which Ward?
The reception is out in Oak Park. Do the cities authoritarian tentacles extend that far? The only issue seems to be that this is a state-issued directive, and that the venue is following their edicts to a ‘t’. When we’ve visited my parents over the past few months in the south suburbs, it seems to me there’s a good chunk of bars and restaurants that don’t give a damn what Pritzker says.
POLITICO
@politico
Two and a half months in, President Biden has surprised some of his former colleagues and allies with a largely gaffe-free White House debut after a lifetime of verbal stumbles.
Strange things happen when you barely appear and speak publicly.
If a gaffe happens and no journalists report it, is ti a gaffe?
They seem to blissfully unaware of the multiple videos of Biden stumbling and brain-farting.
I went looking to link this one
https://youtu.be/GdNm-rvodZU
And it seems to have been edited out and memory holed for some reason…
I am regretting canceling my vaccine appointment. I suck at making decisions.
Can’t just reschedule?
Nope. No spots. I sort of took advantage of a glitch in the programming platform to schedule. In the sense that it did not work properly for everyone due to to many accesses but I get up very early and got one.
Now I am on a waiting list with no idea when I will get in.
It’ll come. Wife has been trying to get one for a while and picked up a slot tomorrow evening.
As I said yesterday it matters if travel is dependent on vaccines and if I get the opportunity to go somewhere and cannot due to no vaccine. My appointment was for first vaccine 24 march second on 21st April, so by 1st of may I would have been done. Now I hope to be done before June but who knows?
there are some 400k people on waiting lists… theoretically Romania should get 2.5 mill vaccines in April but who knows?
Here in Canada they have managed to terrify the Oldsters with conflicting news about vaccines. The Greater Good!
I’m skeptical that vaccination will open any doors to international travel in the short term. Maybe next year.
I figured the travel would be opened up in two weeks.
Two weeks, AKA one year
I am regretting filing my taxes.
I’m approaching month four and they still haven’t started processing them.
I’ve already gotten my meager refund.
Neener Neener.
What about my meager refund?
I don’t owe you any money.
You don’t?
*checks ledger*
Oh, wrong Sean.
I’ve already scheduled the withdrawal from my account.
Incompetent assholes
My mom got her refund yesterday for last years filing. They apparently “put a hold” because my dad died and couldnt sign it. And despite the proper docs for that situation, they just … stopped processing. Didn3t tell her of course.
“We’re from the Government and we’re hear to help!”
Works that way. I’ll just leave it alone.
When your government actually works in the shared interests of all people.
https://twitter.com/grrristle/status/1371290696011948039
Well shit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaphet_Kotto
RIP
That sucks. I’ve been a fan of his since I was first aware of him Alien/Live And Let Die era. His episode of Death Valley Days is very, very good as well; that cat had some chops.
81? My guess would have been 20 years low. Wow, did not crack.
He had quite a few memorable roles, but he’ll always be Alonzo Moseley to me.
“Are you Agent Moseley?”
One of the Top 10 best movies for me. I hate De Niro now, but he and Grodin were just genius together.
And Yaphet Kotto was great as the feeb. (Actually, everyone in that movie was great from “Joey Pants” to his rat assistant to Marvin.)
Map shows the names of Donald Duck’s nephews in European languages.
https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1371416016631300096
I had no idea there were different names
Child abuse.
What we know about COVID, children, and the mRNA vaccines:
1) COVID is much, much less deadly than the flu in children.
2) The mRNA vaccines do not prevent catching COVID, they only lessen the symptoms and you can still transmit the disease.
3) We have no idea what the long term effects of the vaccines are in adults.
4) The rate of severe symptoms from the vaccine appears to be higher than the rate of severe symptoms from COVID in children.
In short, this is ethically abominable.
counterpoint: with a vaccine the child will be able to wear just one mask
The mRNA vaccines do not prevent catching COVID, they only lessen the symptoms and you can still transmit the disease.
No vaccine “prevents” catching the disease; its not like the virus bursts into flames immediately on contact with a vaccinated person. Vaccines prime your immune system to react more quickly and stay ahead of the vaccine’s growth curve.
While it is theoretically possible to transmit the disease after the vaccine has taken full effect, to my knowledge there are no confirmed cases of this happening. Reports of people who get sick with COVID after being vaccinated are almost all, as far as I can tell, people who got sick within a short period after the first vaccine, before it has had a chance to take effect.
The vaccine has value, as far as we know, and unfortunately the Branch Covidians are caught in a bind. They both want to demand everyone get vaccinated, and that everyone act as though the vaccine is ineffective (mist mask and social distance).
Now, the long-term effects are completely unknown. The studies on the vaccines have all been trashed because they all told their participants if they got the vaccine or the placebo, so they aren’t double-blind any more. And, of course, most of the placebo recipients have exited the studies by getting vaccinated. There is speculation that mRNA vaccines set you up with a greater chance of a (likely fatal) “cytokine storm” if you get sick later on, but right now its just speculation.
Picked up a bottle of aberlour a’bunadh batch 65 for a decent price (240 RON)
I like it
As well you should! Good stuff.
Hard time is always the answer
The Federal Aviation Administration will extend its stricter enforcement against unruly passengers — specifically targeting those who disobey masking policies — after receiving more than 500 reports of misbehaving passengers since December, the agency said Monday.
“The number of cases we’re seeing is still far too high, and it tells us urgent action continues to be required,” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said.
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While the increase in travel is good news for the struggling airline industry, the uptick in passengers could mean an increase in in-flight incidents.
The FAA’s Dickson said he has instructed agency officials to consider both civil fines and criminal charges for reports of unruly passengers.
“I have decided to extend the FAA’s unruly-passenger zero-tolerance policy as we continue to do everything we can to confront the pandemic,” he said in a statement. “The policy directs our safety inspectors and attorneys to take strong enforcement action against any passenger who disrupts or threatens the safety of a flight, with penalties ranging from fines to jail time.”
The stepped-up enforcement had been set to expire at the end of the month but will now remain in place until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifts its order requiring face masks be worn on mass and commercial transit modes.
Don’t you remember all those dead airline passengers last year, before we required masks? Wear the mask like a good little sheeple, or we’ll put you in get-pounded-in-the-ass prison. We know what’s best for you.
Titty Tuesday jiggles into your life.
https://archive.is/Rz3w0
Mince, peas & carrots, boiled tatties and Yorkshires by Dan B
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1371195709928669187
or
Belly Pork with Yorkie Pud Puds by Carol C
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1371202608447303683
what would you choose?
third option
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1371209476183896065
I’d choose….to eat something else.
^^ Yup
The first one looks like shepherd’s pie without the crust. The second just looks like somebody got sick on a plate.
Upthread I saw a note about not being able to find in-between pants sizes like 33″ waist and 31″ inseam. I bought jeans from this company and they have 31″ inseam and 33″ waist sizes. Actually made in the USA at a reasonable price as well.
https://dearborndenim.us/collections/men/jeans
I sadly moved to a 34 waist. I remember when I was 32 🙁
What I wouldn’t give to have a 34 waist again
You’re just not wearing your pants low enough.
Shit. I remember when my waist was under 30. Of course, I was a teenager at the time. Now I’d be happy with a 32.
I left Army in the 1990s with 29” waist, 34” inseam, and the ability to knock out around 100 push-ups or sit-ups in 2 minutes. Now, I take a size 34/34 and I get winded answering the telephone.
^^ sigh
In boot camp I remember our drill instructors informing us we would all have a 30″ waist or lower when/if we graduated. They were able to whittle me down to a 34″ and 190 lbs. Which didn’t last long – I was back to a 36″ and 205 a few months later. I’m big boned…. 🙂
Somewhat related – I remember going to the WWII museum in New Orleans a few years ago and looking into the cockpits of of some of the planes that were on display. I was amazed at how small and cramped they were. They also had some period flight suits on display – they looked like they were made for junior high school kids.
31-32 for about 20 years now. Huzzah!
Levis does odd sizes too, though they’re no longer on my approved vendor list.
I have a pair of 31/32s that fit well.
Cool! I was 32×32 for about twenty years but grew an inch on the waist when I hit the big five-o.
The last pants I purchased have a 30 waist. Though 31 is usually more comfortable.
I read some years ago (on Slate?) about measurements of men’s clothes becoming increasingly inaccurate. If that and this 2″ increment talk are true, that’s no longer any better than women’s vague sizes.
Not true. Else someone changed my tape measure so that it agrees with the clothing numbers.
And my numbers are not flattering (just difficult to find)
Some brands came out better than others; I think I remember J.Crew, Lands End, a/o LL Bean et alia. Am not confident of my ability to find it again.
I get all my clothes custom-tailored by the manufacturer now. Fuck sizes!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ee/71/83/ee718350120b051f433bbe83200c7342.jpg
Depending on the brand, my shoe size varies between 8 1/2 and 11; I get my money’s worth via Amazon returns. These problems are compounded when searching out foreign military surplus. I think my French Foreign Legion boots (le rangers) are a size 44; I just traced my socked foot on a piece of paper and sent it to my ‘connection’.
I do feel bad for women buying clothes. That’s a nightmare.
Speaking of “news” sources- I wonder where my acquaintances get their obsession with those goddam shots. NPR, I suspect. “The magic jab will HEAL YOU, brothers and sisters!”
They make snake handling tent show revivalists look like a bunch of hard core skeptics.
Except you can’t stop wearing the mask!
My wife got the jab yesterday. She had 102 fever, aches, and chills all night. She is now on the couch with two blankets and a dog keeping her warm. Quite a reaction that is typical for the J&J jab.
Yeah, they can fuck right off with that bullshit. Pretty sure we had the first strain last November. Judi was sick as a dog for a week or so and I had some sniffles. She works in an airport. Might have been the Flu. Who fucking knows.
At least four fines have been imposed on passengers under the stricter enforcement policy, the largest being for $27,500.
The agency said individuals who are fined may respond to the agency, and it has not publicized the final amount those individuals paid.
The passengers who have thus far been fined are accused of, in addition to not wearing masks, assaulting flight attendants, shouting obscenities, and drinking unapproved alcohol on planes.
Drinking unapproved alcohol? That’s a night in the Box.
Imagine that. Airlines reduce or eliminate their beverage service and people do more BYOB than before.
So, this is a nice, disturbing look at being un-personed. He’s apparently got a whole series going at that site.
But if you check @KamalaHarris FEC records, she spent more on oppo research than anybody has ever seen.
Hillary with a tan.
Hillary actually appears somewhat authentic compared to Comma-la. At worst, they’re equally phony.
-1 Piss Hooker
“Chris Lehane, a former Al Gore and John Kerry staffer, told The New Republic that “Ace is like Bobby DeNiro in The Untouchables — he always brings a gun to a knife fight.””
That was Connery you festering carbuncle of a human being. God I hate the political class.
One off my colleagues sent me a Derby Pie. That is not a euphemism.
Derby Pie, the spotted dick of Kentucky.
Except derby pie is edible.
Hey, SD is perfectly cromulent. Sponge cake with currants inside, and custard on top.
Fuck Genesis and that song. I don’t need some Brits hectoring me about politics. I fucking hate post-Gabriel Genesis. Mike + The Mechanics are shit, too. It’s not even good fucking prog rock, and I mostly hate prog rock.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
It was decent stuff up until that album. Mama and Man On The Corner are excellent tracks.
Illegal Alien was a good one.
I dig “The Wind and the Wuthering”. When the suck began was “Duke”.
My only experience with either Genesis or Phil Collins is from the Miami Vice soundtrack, and that was the perfect music for that show/time/place.
Also, I see news about Collins getting screwed over by his ex-wife; I hope he gets the remainder of his memorabilia out of
hisher house before she sells it all.ABACAB is the only Genisis album worth listening to.
FIGHT ME!!
*balls up fists*
Well, OK…
So, PUNches at 30 paces?
“You go TOO FAR, SIR!”
/throws down one of UCS’ gloves for just such occasions
*recovers challenging glove*
My earlier snark regardless, I like In the Air Tonight, sometimes You Can’t Hurry Love.
For those in America’s hat, what is the love for bagged items? Milk in a bag, pudding in a bag, and now to find your RTU joint compound also comes in a bag.
? Not here.
She’s a big Country.
Been watching too much Jeff Thorman videos. When Canadialand becomes the 58th state, CGC will be relabeled to USG, lightweight compound will come in blue lids, and all purpose in green lids.
Milk in a bag??
It was a thing back in the 70’s. You would buy the milk in a bag, slide it into the container, snip the nipple and pour. Westrons hated it so it never caught on out here.
Is this you??
https://youtu.be/1TeRDhf41Mk
No. I’m more manly and I don’t have silly hair.
LOL, 1st comment on the video – “Anyone else feeling like he made a whole video to say he hates Ontario?”
OW!
I remember those milk containers bags – they came in a cardboard box.
They have those in MN as well. My BIL usually buys the milk in a bag from Speedway.
I used to watch this Canadian couple’s cooking show in Youtube. The guy said “looks like we’re almost out of milk!”, then proceeded to grab a plastic bag. They even had a specialty pitcher to hold the bags.
Yep! You had to buy the pitcher.
This couple’s Youtube videos are only, like, 5 years old.
Despite the milk bags, they did cool stuff like homemade Coca Cola from the original recipe (minus the cocaine)
There is a cooking show with a smoking hot girl from Quebec that features “milk bags” aplenty.
She also does “fashion shows” that require she bounce one a trampoline.
When I was a kid, my mom had a small bottle of Coca Cola syrup (or extract) in the medicine cabinet to help settle stomach aches and the like.
With real cocaine?
Yup. I never liked colas – or any carbonated beverages – as a kid, but the rest of my family drank Pepsi, so my mom would make me drink it when I had a stomach bug. 😛
Will now drink fizzy stuff, but still don’t care for colas.
Boo.
Over at the Atlantic, there’s a rambling self-congratulatory “We’re Smart and You’re Dumb” piece about their plague data tracking project. A lot of whining about how crappy the data reporting and tracking were. If only the world conformed to their prejudices and preconceptions.
Also- Former President Cartoon Villain was incompetent and made everything worser than it should have been; just accept that as fact.
Not a goddamed word about the disparity between modeled projections and actual results.
Top.
Men.Models.That business sucks- I’d rather see you starve
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber delivered his 2021 state of the city address Monday morning, during which he spoke about changing the culture of the city’s nightlife sector after incidents this past weekend led to almost 150 arrests.
“The entertainment district must go,” Gelber said, repeating his vision to replace the tourist party hub with an “Art Deco Cultural District.”
“We don’t need what we have right now,” Gelber added. “I urge my colleagues to be bold and resist the urge to make only incremental changes.”
Why can’t mayors have unfettered power to determine what is and is not a legitimate business enterprise?
Fun for he, not for thee.
Maybe the mayor should let the people who own the property and their customers decide what goes there.
You don’t generally run for mayor in order to leave people alone. You run for mayor to have the power to do the exact opposite. There are not enough wood chippers.
Fuck Dan Gelber! https://youtu.be/L9htBFy4tKI
SCIENCE!
The CDC’s current guidance for schools recommends seating or desks be “at least 6 feet apart when feasible.”
But a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that 3 feet may be as safe as 6 feet, so long as everyone is masked. The authors compared infection rates at Massachusetts schools that required at least 3 feet of distancing with those that required at least 6 feet, and found no significant difference in the coronavirus case rates among students or staff in the two cohorts.
Not considered: the contagiousness is vastly less than assumed, making the whole thing a giant farce.
The should read “CDC asks Teachers Unions if 3 feet is acceptable”
I went to school with over a dozen girls that became teachers. Our Grad class was tiny, maybe 65? Looking back it all makes sense now. Our high school was just a pre-ed garbagetorium.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/489710-social-distancing-bush-lockdown-covid/
Not considered: the contagiousness is vastly less than assumed, making the whole thing a giant farce.
USS Theodore Roosevelt says “heeeeyyyy”.
The CDC’s current guidance for schools recommends seating or desks be “at least 6 feet apart when feasible.”
The CDC can fuck right off.
3 feet may be as safe as 6 feet, so long as everyone is masked
You can fuck right off, too.
Party of Wealth Envy
The Biden administration hasn’t ruled out the idea of a wealth tax in recent days as progressive Democrats lean on the administration to adopt the policy into a tax reform package.
“There is a shared view that those at the top are not doing their part, that corporations could pay more in taxes,” Psaki said of a wealth tax proposal Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., introduced in Congress on March 1.
Warren, who campaigned for president on a platform including a wealth tax, introduced an “ultra-millionaire tax” in her legislation. The tax would impose a 2% annual tax on the net worth of households and trusts between $50 million and $1 billion and another 1% surtax on any wealth above $1 billion.
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In contrast to income taxes, which are applied to a person’s individual earnings or an entity’s profits, a wealth tax charges an amount from the value of given assets. Progressive economists have long argued for a wealth tax as a means of combating wealth inequality and other ills.
Many countries have experimented with wealth taxes, though only five OECD countries, a group of high-income nations, still had their wealth taxes on the books in 2019. Most countries abandoned the policy because it is difficult to enforce, including in how to first determine people’s actual net worth.
Don’t worry, they know what constitutes “unfair wealth” when they see it. Trust them.
The Biden administration hasn’t ruled out the idea of a wealth tax in recent days – I say do it. 10% per year on wealth above 1 million dollars. No one needs more than 1 million
A tax on proposing new taxes. It’ll raise more money.
With inflation that will include everyone pretty soon.
The Biden administration hasn’t ruled out the idea of a wealth tax
Head fake for the lefties. The Dems know who butters their bread. Not gonna happen.
It is pretty easy to determine net present worth of liquid assets, such as stocks and bonds. Financial advisers do it all the time when they rake off their
1% management fee. Imagine, though, what wild fluctuations there would be with real estate investments or closely held businesses. Appraisers would be in high demand, so would IRS auditors and tax attorneys.
FTFY, you lying sacks of shit.
Not mentioned: where is the constitutional authority for a wealth tax? Because it’s not an income tax and it’s not apportioned.
I told a colleague that we couldn’t/wouldn’t do an auto-redirect on a web page, so she emailed another colleague separately without ccing me asking if he could do it. I think she thought the other colleague has more authority over the web site than I do. LOL silly girl.
Wait, a member of the Patriarchy can’t over rule you?
*confused*
Not sure if this has been previously posted, but there’s a woman in Ohio, Kathryn Huwig, who has been trying to apply math and science to Ohio’s Covid policies. I’m tracking her posts daily since I’ll be heading back to Ohio at the end of this month (currently a snowbird in Florida).
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2004745289655353/
One of the things she has pointed out is that the number of “probable” cases, which are counted as cases in Ohio, will prevent the state from reaching the 50 cases per 100,000 requirement that Governor Dewine has set as the requirement to lift the Covid orders. She has also addressed the pointlessness of testing healthy individuals and the use of the antigen tests, which have a high rate of false positives.
Counting positive antigen tests as positive COVID tests is just so obviously wrong that it has to be an intentional attempt to juke the stats.
A I understand it, they count them as “probable” until a PCR test comes positive and then it’s counted as “confirmed”.
The problem is they’re sending out a bunch of the antigen tests to colleges/universities and encouraging the students to get test at least weekly. There are incentives for getting tested: UberEats gift cards, etc.
they count them as “probable” until a PCR test comes positive
Is the rate of antigen tests that are followed by a positive PCR test (which has its own false positive problems) high enough to say that it is “probable” that if you have a positive antigen test you have an active infection? I seriously doubt it, since detectable antigens persist for weeks and months after the infection has cleared.
“The spot blames “violent White supremacists like the Proud Boys, who attacked our nation’s Capitol on January 6” for the push that threatens Newsom’s political future.”
He must be using the same ad agency that created those ads for Prop 16 (to reinstate discrimination in CA) which said the people opposed to it were a bunch of Nazis.
Jerry Lewis- mock if you will, and he certainly seems to have been a major asshole and made a LOT of terrible movies. But… King of Comedy more than makes up for it.
He was a staple of my childhood. I think my parents liked his schtick – they certainly thought he was wonderful because of the annual MD Telethon. I think it was Seinfeld on Stern who had some of the most cogent things to say about Lewis’ contributions to comedy. He’s another case of someone who can really only be understood in context of their times. Stern asked Seinfeld if Lewis was still a “comic genius” in light of some of the “bad” things he’s said and Seinfeld had some reply that was tantamount to: “Of course he said stupid shit. He’s an old person; that’s what they do! That’s what happens when you get old.” Or something to that effect. I remember having a good laugh listening to that interview.
There’s probably a ton of shit Seinfeld – one of the most “family-friendly” comics around – could be canceled for if the mob puts its mind to it.
If I were a comedian I’d keep my head down until the struggle sessions blow over and humor makes a return.