It was quite a visit. There was food, alcohol, indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, house wreckage… a pretty typical time for us. And the food did not suck. Talk about eclectic, we went from curry to pizza, Ranch Water to aged French Syrah. But now I’m back, back with all of you magnificent bastards. And my morning coffee doesn’t have a shot in it.
My return coincides with a few birthdays, such as a guy whose name I had to memorize in elementary school; a guy who was always alright; arguably the greatest American playwright; a TV newsguy from the era when they at least pretended; an actor who was almost always a guarantee of a good movie; and a guy whose early career was so creative, and then… money.
Not a fabulous birthday collection today, so let’s see if the news amuses us sufficiently:
Ten thousand dollars. Ten Thousand. Dollars.
“What the president really meant to say was…”
Complete with pronouncements from a “professor of journalism, diversity and equality at the University of Minnesota”. No wonder tuition is so outrageously high.
Jews impatient for the boxcars to get here already.
You got the progressive government you voted for, bitches.
Old Guy Music is a soulful rework of a delightful blues tune from my youth.
Someone should introduce Thunberg to Hogg and maybe they’ll be so busy having debauched sex that they won’t have time to bother us.
Coming soon to an H&H episode…
Pretty sure that original post got this site and every participant on all the lists. Fuck it. I thought it was funny as hell.
Thurnberg and Hogg’s offspring would only be capable of running around and tripping over themselves, all the while screeching at the top of their lungs “WANNAFUD!”
I hope they don’t hyphenate their last names. A combination would be much better.
Thugg for example.
Thunder-Hoggs are on the move… Thunder-Hoggs are loose…
Would watch
I am quite certain neither of them is interested in copulating.
I’m quite sure neither is capable.
I am pretty sure that neither has enough game to pull that off.
“Gimme your pillows!”
“Gimme your rain!”
Frigid and impotent, that’d be my guess.
“Phoenix Couple’s Porch-Turned-Music Venue Shut Down By Police”
Hmmm, maybe this defund the police thing is something I can get behind after all. Just use the money to buy everybody a firearm and then give a tax refund.
Redistribute the cops’ government-supplied guns. Instead of a buy-back, it would be a give-back.
So that the neighbors could shoot the musicians instead of making a noise complaint?
Cut out the middleman.
She’s an obsession to you isn’t she OMWC?
He needs to grab the braids and yell out that old stage-coachy thing! Heyaaah! Heyaaah!
“Oohh! How dare you!”
“The episode marked a rare flip-flop-flip for the president,”
HAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHA!
Plagiarize Neil Kinnock much Joe?
To be fair, Bidet can’t remember what he said yesterday, so it’s not an *intentional* flip-flop.
It’s amusing watching the Democrats pretend to give a shit about how many refugees we let in.
To wit:
Yeah, OK. You care. We get it. ?
Biden’s handlers have run into the brick wall of realpolitik. I am amused.
I’m sure his handlers knew this was going to happen and most probably more than once. My guess is how much they are surprised that there are people from the media – besides Fox news, who aren’t kindly averting their eyes while repeating the provided talking points.
I’m also a little amazed about main-stream sources covering this, albeit briefly. Kamala Win!
I am astonished that Biden would compromise his principles to do the bidding of Team Blue’s largest donors.
“Biden” “principles”, HAHAHAHAHA
His principals are puddin’ cups and tasty num-nums.
And finger banging.
?
Tara who?
– MSM
Don’t disappoint your president! You left out the hair sniffing!
We can’t let them in. There’s covid everywhere. It would be akin to a death sentence.
This is just so appropos – ex-Democrat (like Trump) now a populist (supported by Trump) challenging the establishment Republican.
It’s almost amusing how many times “Whoops! We couldn’t access this Tweet.” appears in the article. There may be a bit of positive payoff to Twitter’s censorious ways.
Expect much more of this going forward. Reps that stood down last year are going to be primaried STEVE SMITH STYLE.
“Thunberg, Time’s person of the year in 2019 for her work on climate change”
Her work.
Apparently flying around the world crying and being a scold is now work.
“How Dare You!”
I kind of feel bad for her, she’s a kid on the autistic spectrum with an obsessive, irrational fear of climate change, and her parents and handlers are deliberately stoking and exploiting that fear for their own agenda and aggrandizement. It’s basically child abuse.
Is she taking the boat over here again to testify? Or was that a special collector’s edition gimmick?
Time’s person of the year
If that’s the best honor somebody has, it may just be better to leave it out. This isn’t 1955.
Good morning, Old Man!
I’m glad you and Spud had a good time. You didn’t miss much – the world is still pretty fucked up.
No wonder tuition is so outrageously high.
Well, at least the hockey team is improving.
I hope y’all have a great day!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-philips-funeral-watch-online-live-stream-2021-04-17/#app
Anyone planning on watching?
I’m not, just curious if anyone here finds it interesting enough to watch.
No. I’m nominally a subject of his royal highness but once his corpus is in the ground, all that means is that I have to raise the tattered Flags in front of my sites to full-mast. Just an additional chore. I’ve better things to ponder then some geriatric finally kicking off.
“I have to raise the tattered Flags in front of my sites to full-mast. Just an additional chore.”
So I guess we’re not doing phrasing anymore?
Well, just a little while ago he was talking about snow-blowing his hot neighbor’s driveway, so I’d say that’s a categorical “no.”
And you would be right. I’m as pure as the driven snow. Festus sees with the eyes, not the hands.
The masks look stupid so am just listening. Anglican hymns always nice. So glad Nutmeg couldn’t come.
Credit card company is mad I haven’t used their card recently. They will cancel the card soon if I don’t use it. Perfect excuse to purchase a new firearm or accessory. Should I make a rational and practical decision or just roll the dice and do drunken Gunbroker bidding?
I wish I knew more about the subject but as a friend on your left shoulder, I’d say go crazy!
Go buy something really unusual two states away and see what they do.
AFAIK, it’s to your advantage, credit score-wise, to keep the account open, so I’d say buy something with the card & pay it off right away. (Credit limit on card adds to your total access to credit $$$.) So if you have to buy something, it might as well be a gun, amirite?
I assume you’re not actually asking me about this, right?
That’s odd…
At least they warned me. Capital One, with whom I have an IRA, money market, savings and checking accounts shaved $5k off my card limit due to a low amount of purchases and total dollars used. No warning. No late pays and a great credit score. Pissed me off.
Capital One offers are the ones that make me say, “wanna know what’s in MY shredder?” In the past, at least, I believe they would neglect to report your credit limit to the bureaus, so the bureaus would assume that your current balance was, in fact, your credit limit, so that would hurt your score.
I’d say ditch ’em ASAP and find yourself a good local credit union, but I work for a local credit union, so I may not be the most objective source.
Seconded on the credit union. I throw my business their way whenever they’re competitive
I’m lazy, they weren’t wrong about my usage, and I’m pretty tied up in their system. It is also the only time they’ve done me wrong. I’m gonna give them a pass this one time only.
Thirded. Local credit unions are much better to deal with.
Cap 1 did that sort of thing to me, too. All of a sudden, I had a “restriction” on my card. I didn’t feel like untangling what that meant so I let them close it.
I only use Amex.
Negatives: not every place accepts them.
Pros: They take care of a lot of shit the time my cc was compromised, no fuss no muss
We’ll have to keep an eye, but we’ve had good luck with them. We’ve had it for nearly 20 years at 3.25%, so no way are we dumping it.
Drunken Gunbroker bidding is always fun, and far be it for me to get between a man and his fun, but I’m curious what a rational and practical decision might be?
Don’t ever give up your guns.
WTAF, Ontario?
He’s the dumb one that didn’t die from a crack-attack. We have actual Socialists running our Provincial Government here in BC and they have never gone this far (yet). He’s out, next election and Ontario turns hard left. What a disaster.
Not if they learn from us and get massive paper ballots, drop boxes, and dominion voting machines.
Going full “papiere bitte” I guess.
And note the Nuremberg defense in the comments.
I actually have more hope for Canada and even Europe than I do the USA. Maybe they will finally revolt. Here, I just don’t see it, we’re totally fucked.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/04/the-week-in-pictures-riot-preseason-edition.php
Thanks for these, Yusef! I always forget Saturday…
I’m too busy as of late to drop in on Saturdays, but our Tee time isn’t til 1:30 EDT, so I’m here, then off to the Brewery for lunch,
Texas Chili and a fine Porter, Tasty!
AOC’s extension cord yields a LOL
LOL @ ammunition stakes poker.
Greenwald bringing the heat.
Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One
He really seems to loathe Maddow. I can’t fault him for that.
Do you think Maddow looks enough like a man that Greenwald could hate fuck her?
Two paper bags, and a plastic sheet to separate them. It has to be the back hole.
‘Let’s express this as clearly as it can be expressed. Any journalist who treats unverified stories from the CIA or other government agencies as true, without needing any evidence or applying any skepticism, is worthless. Actually, they are worse than worthless: they are toxic influences who deserve pure contempt. Every journalist knows that governments lie constantly and that it is a betrayal of their profession to serve as mindless mouthpieces for these security agencies: that is why they will vehemently deny they do this if you confront them with this accusation. They know it is a shameful thing to do.
But just look at what they are doing: exactly this. These are not journalists. They are obsequious spokespeople for the CIA and other official authorities.’
TMITE
Any Magic the Gathering nerds in here? I may have fallen into a trap.
I’ve been playing on Arena for free. I think I threw $5 at it at one point.
I spent yesterday buying/building a trick commander deck, going with Sisay Weatherlight. My brother in law has sucked me back in. I’m hoping to crush all of their hopes and dreams while we drink and be merry.
I’ve been avoiding the decklist style posts, and just sticking with building decks with some decent synergies. I’m way too out of touch to do well in the drafting games anymore, but I can hold my own in constructed.
Biden has little beady eyes:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-biden-went-his-own-way-on-afghanistan-withdrawal/ar-BB1fEQzu?ocid=msedgntp
and uh isn’t this Trump’s plan? Anyhoo….
Yes it was. This is so fucking tiring.
Hell, I’m shocked they didn’t reflexively do the exact opposite of Trump’s plan just cuz.
It was amusing for a moment to watch the entire left go apeshit over the fact that he was going to do what they’ve been claiming they want to do for 15 years. The cognitive dissonance was causing some of their faces to melt. The parade of ‘experts’ and Democrat war mongers was delicious.
Meh, setting up a timeline that your successor has to finish doesn’t buy you any credit in my book, It’s like the budget proposals that “balance” the budget 5, 10, 15 years after the guy’s going to be out of office. Either do it or not, you don’t get accolades for something you were going to do. Sounds like a six year old, “No fair, I was gonna do that”
Ignore the fact that the generals slow-walked Trump’s orders and that Trump expected to still be president.
Still on Trump, he was the CIC .If he couldn’t have been arsed to do his job because he was too busy owning the libs on twitter (or surrounded himself with incompetent advisors/swamp creatures) , he gets no pass from me.
Sure, whatever. I’m not really a Trump fan, but he was one man against entrenched bureaucracies while under unprecedented constant attack, but sure he should have somehow overcome all of these obstacles single-handedly. You don’t seem like a bad guy, but your constant knee-jerk devil’s advocate contrarianism gets really tedious.
The semantics for “meh” seem to track negation well – or is it a contrary-forming operator?
Ouch! That’s gotta sting.
USC’s Richardson said journalists have to think about the effect these police videos have on followers; she shields her children from them. She said she understands why showing them is necessary, particularly when the footage contradicts official reports, but she looks forward to when scenes of suffering don’t have to be aired.
“I equate it with lynching photography,” she said.
Danielle Kilgo, a professor of journalism, diversity and equality at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, said she sees the value of videos helping to make police incidents more than he said-she said stories. She understands the reasoning behind freezing the Toledo video just before he’s shot but also worries that doing so leaves room for conspiracy theorists to thrive.
Yeah okay.
Erm, why the hell are you sitting your small children down in front of the evening news? Is the
child abuse factorypublic school not enough leftist indoctrination for them?This wouldn’t be a topic of “interest” if the media wasn’t propagandizing the issue.
I’m working today – on opening the neighborhood pool… which means getting working with two of my neighbors: a radiologist and a part-time carpenter; both who are much better at everything than me. I’m just muscle.
Don’t sell yourself short, somebody needs to be around to drink the beer.
Not so bad. You might learn something. Plus you get to do positive things. Make it fun!
“Another day, another mass shooting, boo hoo hoo.”
Welcome to Joe Biden’s America.
I’m in the doghouse with my wife. While she isn’t a Branch Covidian, she does believe that the shut downs were necessary. She was able to do her job away from the library and still drew a check. I finally had enough of her Covid doom and gloom and was like….”how dare you say that the shutdowns were necessary when you still drew a check while other people’s lives were being destroyed. Do you know how selfish and toned deaf you sound right now?”
She got up and said,”I’m going to take a shower.” I’m gonna have apologize like crazy and buy some chocolates.
Don’t forget the condoms…
*buys Ed a doghouse shaped mattress*
Yeah, I get the impulse, but that was some 5 alarm fire you were breathing right there.
I’ve been good at not saying anything for a year but this morning I couldn’t do it anymore. What frustrates me was that she was like yeah it seemed like she has no realization at how devastating it has been for a lot of people.
“Essential jobs” was one of the most evil fucking cons pulled on us.
Did you know, Mushroom growing is Essential? you need to feed the starving Childrens with food that costs a dollar an ounce you know…
If you buy jewelry, you might be able to skip the apology.
You were supposed to go shower downstairs. She knows what’s up. Everybody knows what’s up.
Fuck that. A real Firster would have entered the shower with her. No apologies.
Oh…and, obligatory.
https://weidelonwinning.com/blog/16-things-to-never-apologize-for-again/
#12
Very much like Herr Doktor Petersons’ Rules. We’ll be watching you, Comrade.
Hail Lobster!
Truth hurts.
Unless the sole objective is access to nookie, I don’t see the problem. In fact I admire your restraint.
She was asking you to take a shower with her.
But don’t be the first to climb in. ::recalls a famous Janet Leigh scene::
You have nothing to apologize for unless you yelled at her. If you did, apologize for yelling, not for what you said.
Do NOT apologize or buy chocolates or jewelry or flowers or anything else when you’ve done nothing wrong. That sets expectations you can never meet. She’ll get over it.
“People have different news needs,” said Jen Sabella, co-founder and director of strategy for Block Club Chicago.
This is the sort of arduous cogitation that wins academic awards.
I’m gonna have apologize like crazy and buy some chocolates.
No doubt. But she sounds like the sort of person who can recognize the kernel of truth at the center of what you said. Hopefully it will sprout.
Thank you all so much. That was an emotional write-up and it means so much that you guys read it and gave me kind, positive thoughts and feedback. I’m on Day 3 and it’s not been a big deal at all. Just the determination to actually do it, though that’s embarrassing/shameful to say it took this. But here I am. I actually went out to the local ex-pat bars to hang out with all my friends. I didn’t even think about not drinking real booze, though I was nursing my non-alcoholic ones.
Great thing about that– good LORD my pool game is so much better when I’m not drinking. I’m not a great player by any stretch but I can make some good shots. Those little things you notice help make it easier. Always look on the bright side of life, indeed. It matters.
Biggest question: my AST liver levels. Apparently 4-40 is ‘normal,’ while mine checked in at 433. The doc did say that with the current meds and no alcohol should greatly improve these levels, I was wondering if anyone has any personal knowledge/experience with levels that high. (I don’t mean to pry, if you don’t want to talk about what you’ve been through then absolutely do not.)
Just trying to have as much insight as I can. Thank you guys so much again. Incredibly difficult to express how meaningful/lovely/important much your responses were. This place truly is the greatest, and you’re all the reason why.
I wasn’t there, but if I had been I would have told you to wash your fucking hands.
Legit lol.
Strictly out of spite for you…I shall continue those hedonistic ways.
Several years ago I had to go to the doctor due to unusual fatigue and weakness, to the point I could barely climb a flight of stairs. Turns out my liver values were way high from excessive drinking. Stopped boozing and did what doc said to and things eventually got back to normal. By the way, milk thistle supplements really help with liver function.
Yeah, I hear they work, the milk thistle. I I have fatty liver now because of all the drinking. 3 years ago my liver was 100%. Hopefully they work, the liver can repair as long as you don’t get to the cirrhosis stage.
It does repair, I had fatty liver as well, but now it’s back to normal.
Sam-e worked for my dog.
Gah. Alone again until Monday. I won’t see another human unless I order in. This is no way to live. I’m set. Got my beers and ciggies but it feels, well, kinda empty. You guys are a great help but I remember being a social butterfly. I remember when people used to seek out my company.
If you hit the road now, I bet you could make it to the Dayton area by Wednesday! 🙂
He’d have to find a wendigo to sneak him across the border.
Is that a Canadian “coyote”?
That was the joke. 🙂
Oops! Sorey! Wouldn’t dream of stepping on a joke – scanned the definition but didn’t see any reference to that colloquial usage. I owe you a beer. 😉
No worries. Hope you all enjoy your mid-Ohio get together.
Make BC Oregon Territory again! 54-40 or fight!
“Bystanders held onto Reyes until an IRS agent who was in the area arrested him”
wut
White knight rides to rescue
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough on Friday slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for spreading “lies” about the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci.
Scarborough weighed in on Jordan’s latest attack against Fauci during a House hearing on the pandemic after the network aired a clip of the heated exchange from the day before.
“It’s so personal and it’s really personal. They have lied about Dr. Fauci. They have spread conspiracy theories about Dr. Fauci. They have said the most preposterous things. It is personal,” Scarborough said of the incident.
“They’re trying to attack the messenger, who has been warning them, while they’ve been lying through their teeth to the American people, who has been warning that a lot of people could die,” he continued. “And a year ago, they kept saying, ‘Open things up,’ ‘Everything’s fine,’ ‘What is this? No worse than the flu.’ No worse — over 550,000 people are dead. And the lies continue. The scapegoating still continues.”
The former GOP lawmaker from Florida also pushed back against Jordan’s assertion that the American people had their civil liberties revoked as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
“No personal liberties were taken away,” Scarborough said. “The Supreme Court has reviewed the cases. The courts have reviewed cases. It’s sheer idiocy playing for the lowest common denominator.”
If Morning Joke says it, you can take it right to the bank.
I have nothing witty to say. I hope Scarborough gets caught in a fire only to survive in agonizing pain for a week with no medication until he finally dies from his wounds.
One lit by Dredd Scott, Fred Korematsu, and Charles Schenk.
If Scarborough’s eyes were any closer together the man would be a cyclops.
^this is a reply with all the dignity that Joe deserves
Isn’t he kinda-sorta believed to be involved in a murder? That squint-eyed fuck should be getting reamed instead of jumping that fine-assed piece of quim.
During multiple rounds of questioning at a House Oversight and Reform coronavirus subcommittee hearing Thursday, Jordan pressed Fauci on the idea of herd immunity and when Americans can expect to go back to normal.
“When do Americans get their freedom back?” Jordan asked. “We had 15 days to slow the spread, turned into a year of lost liberties.”
Jordan said Americans’ First Amendment rights have been “trampled” throughout the past year because of public health restrictions like mask orders, curfews and capacity limits on businesses.
“We’re not talking about liberties, we’re talking about a pandemic that has killed 560,000 Americans,” Fauci said.vvvv
tl;dr- Fuck your liberties. OBEY.
The past year has been a shining example of gerontocracy in action.
“Thunberg, Time’s person of the year in 2019 for her work on climate change”
What esteemed journal is her ‘work’ published in? Because SCIENCE!
Piers Morgan to US on frequent mass shootings: ‘Just admit you don’t care’
You’re right. I don’t care at all what you think.
Congratulations, Piers. You’ve finally accepted what I’ve been saying for ten years. I don’t care.
Now you can go move along in your healing journey, and I can stay where I am because I’m not a whiny bag of insecurities. Hopefully we can never interact ever again.
A lot of these older ‘liberals’, Piers and Bill Mayer for example, have just realized how batshit crazy the cancel culture crowd really are.
Yup. Sadly, tribal affiliation and the popularity-contest nature of modern entertainment seems to still be their major concern.
Greenwald is an interesting comparison, and the biggest difference seems to be that Greenwald wants to be an actual journalist. Morgan and Mayer seem to be plenty comfortable in their entertainer role.
Narrator: Piers Morgan doesn’t care either.
“I Shoot a Bunch of 3D Printed Guns – Do My Hands Survive?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/i-shoot-bunch-3d-printed-guns-do-my-hands-survive
Spoiler alert: Yes. Pretty neat.
$350 for the printer and the materials? That’s getting to the point of being actually useful. Maybe I need yet another hobby to clutter up the gun room…
I’ve been thinking about that as well, unfortunately the link in the article to the $350 parts and printer article is 404 errored. I’ve seen some other resources online, I’ll have to find them again. My experience with a cheap CNC router has left me a little skeptical, however.
Yup, I noticed that too. Something to think about, though. There are plenty of fun and interesting gun-related things you can print other than complete guns. I was thinking about 3D-printed Can Cannon projectiles the other day…
Notice the link to that is no longer there.
Refresh!
“Seconds later, the suspect gets back on his bike and is seen flying up into the air after being struck by a Hyundai Sonata.”
We have to ban these assault cars!
ET got hit by a car?
Well, it may have been an alien.
The 50th anniversary will have the cars digitally edited into electric vehicles.
excellent
“Facing condemnations from within their own party, the Biden administration quickly backtracked Friday on a decision to keep U.S. refugee admissions limited to 15,000 this year.”
Betting that none of them will be from Taiwan. Because those may not want communism or vote for it.
People are shitty, deceitful, bereft of good faith for even their friends and family, petty, vindictive, opportunistically spiteful. The worst offenders are always the most heavily protected from any just consequences.
This thought brought to you by limey. Have a Saturday, everyone.
But ironically I’m all for a voluntary, free “society” in which genuine relationships based on trust and reciprocity are allowed to emerge and flourish. I must be a crazy person holding two totally independent ideas simultaneously and somehow not seeing the problem with that. Uh oh! I just found the gaping flaw in my libertarian thinking! Oh no!
I too, am a misanthropic humanist.
❤️
Yeah. You know how in Germany in the 1930s, folks just sort of went along with this whole exterminate the Jews idea? Sort of reminds me of something happening today…
You’re going to lose your Disney role with talk like that.
“NEW YORK (AP) — The image that many Americans have of 13-year-old Adam Toledo is frozen in time: He is standing in an alley with his hands up as the gunshot that killed him is heard.”
I’m sure it was a good shoot, because he probably had one of them assault airsoft rifles. Check… nope. Well, then he probably had a butter knife that looked like a scary assault knife. Checks… nope. Well, he probably had a poptart chewed into the shape of a gun… nope.
OK then, we can definitely say he make a furtive movement. Good shoot!
The camera footage a split second before the shooting shows the gun in his hand which he dropped while he turned toward the cop. So in this case I actually would say it was reasonable for the cop to shoot.
FWIW, the cops said he tossed a gun that was found nearby.
He tossed it behind the fence, so the cop couldn’t see when/that he dropped it.
This one is close call, but I’m leaning good shoot.
It was an absolutely defensible shoot. Watch the video and then look at the stills and say that your reaction would have been different. This is a very good article (as usual, City Journal puts up) on it.
https://www.city-journal.org/adam-toledo-shooting
Fap fap fap
The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and France.
The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal. It is bigger than Chicago (2.7 million) and equivalent to Philadelphia and Dallas combined.
And the true number is believed to be significantly higher because of possible government concealment and the many cases overlooked in the early stages of the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019.
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Worldwide, deaths are on the rise again, running at around 12,000 per day on average, and new cases are climbing too, eclipsing 700,000 a day.
“This is not the situation we want to be in 16 months into a pandemic, where we have proven control measures,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, one of the World Health Organization’s leaders on COVID-19.
In Brazil, where deaths are running at about 3,000 per day, accounting for one-quarter of the lives lost worldwide in recent weeks, the crisis has been likened to a “raging inferno” by one WHO official. A more contagious variant of the virus has been rampaging across the country.
Apocalypse porn makes the “journalists” all tingly.
“The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million”
OK. Let’s put this in perspective.
What is the world population today? And what was the world population in 1918. How many people did the Spanish Flu kill? Just asking questions, because SCIENCE!
SIUNZZ isnt about questions. It’s about accepting the preferred narrative.
“Proven control measures.”
Think about this.
Oh, wait. Sorry, I forgot that we no longer can think.
So it looks like the corona is now getting close to the numbers killed by population size as the 1958 flu and the 1969 flu had. Of course that is something that will never ever be mentioned in the media hype, as we reacted to both of those pandemics in the way that was actually reasonable.
Read earlier in the week that, at least in this country, all cause mortality is now comfortably within historical norms, despite substantial increases in murder and overdoss deaths (though not suicide interestingly).
“Jews impatient for the boxcars to get here already.”
I suppose we libertarians will finally get to know (((y’all))).
Saturday is the RUGBY day!!
Hell yeah, going to show them young punks how its done!
If ya ain’t heard from me by Wednesday I’m dead!
“Proven control measures.”
You know, like police beatdowns of anybody with the temerity to leave their homes to buy food for their children.
The easiest way to cure a virus is to kill the host.
Silicone Saturday crushin’ it as usual.
https://archive.li/ZMWVI
#4 is glibfit
#13 is familiar to anyone unwise enough to click on a certain poster’s frequent Daily Mail links
The rest I guess are a mixed bag of mostly “5/7 – smash”
I’m happy with whatever homely honey sidles up to old limey providing I don’t wince at first contact. Beer can sometimes fix that.
#misogyny
Slurp slurp slurp
As we approach President Biden’s 100th day in office at the end of this month, some observers are flattering him with comparisons to two legendary Democratic presidents of the 20th century — Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Those names reportedly came up when historian Jon Meacham convened a group of his colleagues at the White House in early March for a private session with Biden. And since then, the aptness of comparing this new president to such transformative figures of the past has become a matter of some debate in Washington and beyond.
The sheer scale of Biden’s spending and change agenda finds its analog only in the early achievements of FDR and LBJ. But which of those administrations offers the better insight into what is happening now, or what happens next?
Roosevelt, in just his first hundred days in 1933, reversed the tide of U.S. public policy after a dozen years of Republican presidents known for their aggressively pro-business views and their defense of such social restrictions as Prohibition.
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Is Biden reaching for the mantle of FDR, or having it thrust upon him?
The new president has already signed into law a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package, the American Rescue Plan, which includes an array of health programs, but also a far-reaching assault on child poverty that exceeds anything since the 1960s.
Moreover, Biden has proposed an even larger $2 trillion infrastructure package — the American Jobs Plan — that would not only rebuild roads and bridges, but build half a million charging stations for electric vehicles, while investing vertiginous sums of money in research and development to modernize manufacturing and retrain workers and to expand home health care, improve broadband and the electrical grid.
“Even if you adjust for inflation and use constant dollars, there is far more money in what Biden is doing than in the programs Roosevelt put in place in his first hundred days,” says journalist and historian Jonathan Alter, author of the book The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.
The measure of greatness is how much of other people’s money a man is willing to spend on his political legacy.
My my my. That man’s asshole must taste just like strawberry ice cream.
Or else his courtiers all have a fetish for Gold Bond and NorthShore diaper cream…
My G-d, imagine being that much of a propaganda mouthpiece and still looking at yourself in the mirror. The lack of self-awareness/self-respect is staggering.
Managers don’t get recognition for keeping good policies. They get recognition for new policies as long as the damage occurs after they leave and can be blamed on the next manager.
Strawberry Ensure maybe…
One LOL among many out of that steaming pile.
Organs like NPR and the NYT don’t exist to provide news and analysis. They exist to confirm the world view of the sort of people who read the NYT.
Vinshaun Johnson is another young victim of gun violence, though not by police. There are the usual “he was a good boy getting his life together” who happened to be out on the street at 0430. There was one statement that caught my attention:
The photo from the vigil of his sister holding a picture of him flashing a sign also caught my attention.
Dosing out for real now. Might see you guys on the Toobin later on.
Pleasant dreams, Fes!
I’ve said it before but it has got to the point where it’s no longer enough just to keep my mouth shut to maintain cordial relationships. It’s increasingly expected to utter the “shibboleth”, to signal when tested. Ignoring or remaining ambiguous, keeping out if it, is ostracism. The worst form of this is being accosted with a very cynical, reductive, bad faith assumption that begins with “so you believe that…” and then begins to reduce what they assume your worldview to be to something almost entirely inaccurate, degrading, and evil. That used to be where a spirited debate might start, were there any likelihood that you felt their might be at least some good faith attempt to understand your arguments, rather than for your “friend” only to frame them dishonestly, and hurl accusations at you.
I recently listened to an old debate between Russ Roberts and Robert Frank. Frank would seize on some absolutist strawman caricature, and run away with it on some tirade, and then move on and shift the goalposts, spinning another unfalsifiable claim about stimulus spending.
To find out just what friends and family believe about those who might challenge their worldvi-
I return to this post after being rudely interrupted by a minor medical emergency. Everything is fine now and I don’t care to finish it.
I’m sorry you’re going through this in your personal relationships and hope that all is well.
Yeah :\
#stoic #monasteryofthemind #noguerra
Thanks, GT
So what you’re saying is that you are an eugenicist? /jk
Cathy Newman is your acquaintance?
I couldn’t think of her name and didn’t want to look it up. But yes / Cathy Newman.
Blink twice if there’s someone next to your keyboard.
Proven control measures
Dr. Rudolph Valentini knows it’s going to be a struggle to mask up toddlers but he believes the benefit outweighs the inconvenience.
“The mask is a two-way street. It protects the person wearing it and the person on the other side of the mask,” Valentini said.
The Teals said they will make the effort, but like many parents, have no problem waiving the white flag if it gets to be too fierce.
“I don’t expect him to keep it on all day. I’m not going to force it too much and make him upset,” Tiffany Teal said.
If we put masks on toddlers, we can stop this thing in its tracks.
I wouldn’t let that fucking moron Valentini take my temperature.
I dare you to try. You’ll have to bandage your own bite wounds.
Try touching my kid and I will end you.
It can’t be stopped until we slap on a mask at birth.
The 404d link or what I think they were trying to link to anyway from the printed guns article for interested parties:
https://www.defcad.com/
A nice lunch, now its time to Throw Plastic at People, try and have a great day, enough doom!
Throwing rocks at people works better.
I’m trying to get out the door to toss some plastic. Probably just field work today because of all the rain. Hopefully the field isn’t full of people.
I return to this post after being rudely interrupted by a minor medical emergency. Everything is fine now and I don’t care to finish it.
Don’t try to catch a falling knife.
Where is the Millennial Jimmy McMillan?
Biden did not greet Japan’s Prime Minister when he showed up.
And then called the recent Master Champion “Japanese Boy”
‘Hideki is clean and articulate! I ain’t racist! I’ll beat you with a pool chain! Push ups at dawn! You ain’t Black!’ The statesman Joe Biden.
I mean, his senility and lack of fitness isn’t exactly a secret. The media just assumes that their ignoring it turns it into a secret.
Is the Japanese media all upset? If not, then this isn’t a terribly interesting story. Of course, if Trump had done it, it would be worldwide news and the
Japanese would be threatening to ban their golfers from participating in U.S. tournaments.
The Japanese press will give him a pass because they expect Americans of his generation to be ignorant, conceited buffoons. They are secure in knowing that their culture is inscrutable to most westerners so this simply confirms their beliefs.
He called the Japanese PM by a diminutive form of his given name in a formal setting, which once again reveals his white trash roots.
Not to worry. Biden only used the term “boy” for a grown man because he’s old. He didn’t mean anything negative by it. Besides, using “boy” for a Japanese isn’t racist like it would be if Matsuyama was black. (All from real Twitts too)
“a guy whose early career was so creative, and then… money.”
Gotta completely disagree with you OMWC. Hammer’s Miami Vice soundtrack work was frigging awesome stuff. I’m a fan of soundtrack stuff in general, so maybe that colors my view, but that is some amazing synth work that he did in that series, not just the super cool theme, but most of the background stuff playing in all the early seasons.
OFFS! Just spotted on the TV schedule:
Set your DVR’s for 1 o’clock, 12 o’clock Central and Mountain.
I’ll save electricity by not watching.
Much science!