This will part some fools from their money
Does this even count as sports? I guess it does, but I’m still skeptical its anything more than a grift. Elsewhere, Conor McGregor cashed in big on an investment. And Chelski played Real to a draw in their UCL semifinal first leg. The other semi kicks off today. And that’s sports.
Sizzling
English king (born in Norway) Edward IV was born on this day. He shares it with president James Monroe, actor Lionel Barrymore, tire magnate Alberto Pirelli, Austrian businessman Oskar Schindler, writer Harper Lee, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, writer Terry Pratchett, car collector with a giant chin Jay Leno, pitcher John Cerutti, idiot Elena Kagan, another pitcher Tom Browning, infielder Barry Larkin, golfer John Daly, hockey great Nicky Lidstrom, and the lovely Penelope Cruz and Jessica Alba.
Not a bad list. Now on to…the links!
Not so fast, fed.
Wait, why isn’t this considered racist? I mean, isn’t expecting black people to have identification in and of itself a racist act carried out just so they can be kept from a specific activity? Or does that kind of scare-mongering bullshit only apply when there’s votes at stake?
This will sell well with the gimmedats. After all, what could be more fair than stealing from the people who pay 90% of the taxes already so you can buy votes from the people who pay the other 10%? Lol, I’m just kidding. This money is all gonna be manufactured out of thin air and the resulting inflation will fuck over everyone.
You know, you can always just send your kids elsewhere rather than bitch about it. It is a private school, after all.
“Rayciss!”
Blacks hardest hit. Of course, they make it sound like the marketing, most of which can’t be done anymore, causes black people to pick up the habit. Huh, it’s almost as if the current FDA thinks black people aren’t smart enough to ignore the marketing. And that, my friends, is as racist as saying blacks can’t figure out how to get a drivers license or find internet access.
I can’t come up with a clever thing to say about this one. But it’s pretty funny. Well, not funny, but bizarre. It ceased to be funny when I reads the dude could face a long time in prison for something that shouldn’t even be a crime.
These experts can kiss my whole ass. Tell them what: they can get ten of their friends to cut their meat intake to four pounds a year and I’ll offset the whole group.
Bwahahahahahahahaha! If you think this will incentivize people to visit your crime-ridden city, you’re sadly mistaken.
Oh thank you, benevolent overlords. As if the overwhelming majority of sane people weren’t doing this already.
Now this is funny. For real. Because it had a happy ending.
I absolutely love this song.And here’s a live version. Hope you enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends.
“Wait, why isn’t this considered racist? I mean, isn’t expecting black people to have identification in and of itself a racist act carried out just so they can be kept from a specific activity? Or does that kind of scare-mongering bullshit only apply when there’s votes at stake?”
Not wanting voter ID is about keeping transparency in elections as difficult as possible to be have. Transparency would kill their ability to steal these…
Morning, Sloopy.
They dropped the charges against the VHS Bandit? I’m shocked.
Are they forcing her to do community service of rewinding tapes?
When DVDs first became a thing I would always tell the kids at blockbuster that I had rewound them. The looks on those kids’ face was priceless.
Do you rewind streaming video? Be courteous to the next viewer.
I always drag the little handle all the way to the right so the next viewer has to move it to the beginning, else they end up looking at the next suggested video in the queue.
My little brother built a ‘DVD rewinder’, probably could have made millions selling it on infomercials.
It’s whisper quiet!
Local video outlet relies on unconventional late fees to punish tardy renters.
I’m appalled!
I can’t figure how a single tape resulted in felony charges. Is it because businesses are allowed to tack on late fees that exceed the value of the rented item?
I seem to recall that VHS tapes started out prohibitively expensive to purchase, hence why rental stores became a thing.
Yup. Early video recording were stupid expensive. I thnk Star Wars on laserdisc was over $100, 1980’s money.
I recall tapes were $50+ in the 80s. The story says the rental was in 1999. Prices were much lower by then, though rental stores probably paid a higher price.
I heard rental stores paid the same price as anyone else, maybe just very slightly cheaper by buying in bulk. I’m only aware of Blockbuster having a special deal. They got their movies dirt cheap and cut the studios a percentage of sales in return. That’s how they dominated everywhere and drove all the local places out of business. They opened a new store something like every 19 hours.
There’s a somewhat interesting doc on Netflix about it.
Hastings was always my go to. It’s where I bought my
Magic cardsporno mags.The last one I remember seeing is still an empty storefront in a shopping mall near where I used to live. It shut down, I don’t know, five years ago, six? Same with the empty former Kmart around the corner… man, this town is a mess. You know what we need? More lockdowns.
First movie I bought on VHS would have been around 1981 – it was John Wayne’s True Grit, and I paid $85 in 1981 bucks for it, at the Woolco in Cedar Falls. That was with my employee discount.
Technology usually gets cheaper over time.
I still have the tape. It’s kind of a dogged sentimental possession now.
I didn’t know tapes cost that much, I always thought it was the VCR that was expensive. I remember my parents renting the VCR at the rental store when we rented tapes. Had it’s own carrying case and everything.
I remember your average old time rental agreement with these places warned you about the late fees/charges and pointed out avoiding those would result in criminal charges. It was in the contract, specifically to make people feel the cost of not complying could get real serious.
‘Does this even count as sports? I guess it does…’
No, it isn’t. It’s a cynical cash grab that would only interest the lowest common denominator. I love boxing, did it for years…this holds no appeal for me, couldn’t care less.
But, but he’s a STAR on the intertoobz!
I have absolutely no idea who the Paul brothers are or why I should care about them.
Fantastic music choice.
We have/had “Geezer-Fest” in our city for some years. I think the old guys playing the old tunes are rather sad and I’m an old guy. Just call me Mr. Weston…
I could t find the live version I wanted to play. And that’s not a song you can play the studio version of. So here we are.
Ten years from now I’ll be raided by the feds for growing my own tobacco and having a chicken coop in the back yard.
They’ll get you when you take your chicken for a walk.
Nah, it’ll be when I choke it in view of others.
“Phrasing?”
You stepped on my joke, TH.
Get your joke off my lawn!
chicken fight!
BOOOOCK BOOOOCKBOOOCK BOOCK BOCK!!!!
SIV?!
When you find yourself in danger,
when you’re threatened by a stranger —
when you’re ‘fraid that you might take a lickin’…
Bawk bawk bawk bawk….
There’s is one name you should learn,
when there is no one else to turn to —
BAAAAAWWWK for Super Chicken!
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.
It’s the fact that you let the chickens smoke.
How else is he going to get smoked chicken?
Baked chicken sounds like a waste of good herb.
The cool kids all “spatch cock” it now. Sounds kinda dirty and dangerous. I’m in!
You don’t complain about BakedPenguin. BakedChicken may be equally as charming. Welcome BakedChicken!
BP is a sweetheart!
Judi loves him!
But it makes them look much more Kool!
Buh-KAAAAK! ? ?
That nested well. ?
“I can’t come up with a clever thing to say about this one.”
Follow through to the high-stakes singing competitions
Yep.
So the poor little birds are exploited for the benefit of junkies getting a gambling fix.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Great version of a great song. Thanks!
I always found menthols harsher than regular cigs. ?♂️
But yeah, what marketing? I haven’t seen a cigaret ad in decades.
I’ve seen them recently… but then again I’ve been perusing public domain pulp magazines for reading material. I was surprised to see how ommon the spelling of ‘cigaret’ was.
Nicotine implacement cylinders.
When I was a kid at the bus stop, some little asshole lifted a few cartons of “Kojaks” from the local corner store so it was “Who loves ya, Baby!” for about a month.
What about cigarette vending machines? Those were the days.
You’re right, I had completely forgotten about those. Damn.
A couple of the older bars in the area still have them. Last one I checked the price on was $7.50 a pack (exact change only).
30 quarters?? Or did it take dollar bills too?
1 $7.50 bill
It took bills, $1, $5, and $10 IIRC.
I remember them.
When I was a kid, the bowling alley had a couple of them. At least one was out of sight of the main counter, so a seven-year-old could have bought them. My mother, who wouldn’t let me buy candy cigarettes, never said a word about the vending machines that dispensed the real thing.
I remember them in the waiting areas of every Denny’s-type place (Sambo’s!).
Ha! That’s been disappeared!
I remember them next to drink vending machines in the lobby of many buildings.
We went to Hooter’s every day to use their machine. No one carded. But they definitely had a markup.
I bought one ion the early 200’s. We were going to use it to make money in the fraternity house basement, We didn’t make money, Just used our own product. Fiance sold it for $300 last year. Thank god, moving it sucked, it weighed like 400lbs.
My father-in-law quit smoking over a .50 increase in the price of smokes in the vending machine at the mill where he worked.
Seriously. Never smoked another cig in his life.
“Q. Why DO black people like menthol cigarettes? A. Nobody knows.” https://www.cc.com/video/s6ew40/chappelle-s-show-i-know-black-people-pt-1 (@ 1:45)
Even better is half the ads referenced in the article are for non-menthol cigarettes.
Baseball birthdays (I am going to repeat Mr. Inca some):
We start and end with members of the 1990 Reds World Series Champions.
HoFer Barry Larkin, who was born in Cincinnati, played his entire 19 year MLB career in Cincinnati, and, I assume, still lives there. His only detour was to play college ball for Sloopy’s favorite team in Ann Arbor.
Red Lucas, Pedro Ramos, Matt Chapman.
And we end at #5 with Tom Browning, who threw a perfect game on the last day of the 1988 season, when everyone just wanted to go home for the winter.
I was in attendance for what was probably Larkin’s single best game of his career. 5 for 5 and at least 3 astounding defensive plays.
Gold gloves are a funny award, as they are primarily reputation based. Larkin should have been winning them over Ozzie, late in the wizard’s career, but didn’t due to Smith’s reputation as a defender (well fucking deserved too). Later, Larkin won them when his defense was in decline and they should have gone to someone else.
Sometimes Twitter is a cesspool.
This is not one of those times.
Some of my favorites:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ea/9f/40/ea9f405f5e78f2e4abec1cc08a9d25c4.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/eb/83/3b/eb833bb4a2a8d1e82598e61b1e01c050.jpg
For whatever reason, this one kills me:
http://www.jankeweb.com/greenwich/pictures/f1007-penguin_banana.jpg
That one is great.
“Beware of Doug” is a personal favorite.
Along with “CAT FUD”
https://twitter.com/cpettway79/status/1387228407692513280/photo/1
^^^THIS!
That’s a good one.
cat with the peg legs next to the fish bowl containing a piranha
Doug? Is that you?
“The real reason dinosaurs went extinct”
“Ethel! Over here, peas the size of your brain!” Or words to that effect (I’ve forgotten the name, but ‘peas the size of your brain’ sticks with me).
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6b/7c/47/6b7c47322843d5d76c08ceb40b0b190d.jpg
Bet I can give you the line and you will mentally picture the cartoon.
“Bummer of a birthmark dude”
and probably my all time fave
“Scientific peer pressure”
“It’s a mammoth.”
“We should write that spot down.”
Wait a minute! Isn’t anyone here a real sheep?
YES!
I like “The Far Side”.
“Animal Nerds”
My all time favorite.
It’s tough to pick one, but I think this is mine.
I might have to pick this one, because it was the inspiration for a platoon mate’s nickname.
Very close second.
I’m so thankful that the guinea pigs can go outside without a mask now.
You laugh all you want. Outdoor mask wearing in these parts has declined from 75% to 30% in the last week between the new CDC proclamations and the Salon article.
Biden to propose free preschool, community college in address to Congress…as part of his American Families Plan.
Doesn’t this overlap with all of the infrastructure?
When everything is infrastructure, yes.
In entertaining to me news, the girlfriend and I got our letters from the White House telling us about the grand new stimulus payments that were doled out. Notice Date of April 15th, with a passage saying that if I don’t receive the money within 7 days of getting the letter, I should reach out to the IRS. Unless there’s been another stimulus passed, I got this cash back in March.
But it’s got a fake Biden signature at the bottom…
The ever efficient Feds…
Speaking of which, the current feedback that I got from the IRS on my 2019 returns is that they’re still processing stuff from last July. So that means they should get to mine roughly in October of 2020 almost a year after I submitted it.
This year’s return apparently been touched. Normally I would not care – but I am owed $ back. Get to it ya lazy basterds!
The Fed took their money out of my account right on schedule. Still waiting on my check from the state.
I mistakenly overpaid both fed and state (by a lot). Did an amended immediately and got my refund(s) a month or so later.
I got the letter a few weeks back saying I’d get the ~$1400 thing (card, I think), and it still hasn’t happened.
Make sure you read the agreement on the card. My kid got that. They recommend you use the card as another debit card. Only they charge you $2 for every transaction. This thing is a racket to let whomever colluded with our government rob stupid people blind. My kid, on my advice, went to the bank, paid the $5 transfer fee, and moved all the money into his savings account after I showed the bank teller that that was something they could do despite his dissention.
Buyer beware…
The push to give up red meat is growing. https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/why-epicurious-left-beef-behind-article
Fuck these people. They really want rationing.
None of them have ever experienced actual hunger.
It’s right in the Great Reset marketing materials. The fucking plant-based cult is incredibly well funded and absolutely ruthless.
But pork is still good, right?
/makes plans to go get the Triple Pig – “A 12-inch sandwich roll stuffed with thinly sliced smoked ham, our famous pulled pork, and a bunch of bacon. Topped with Carolina Style vinegar-based barbeque sauce, then grilled up Cuban style.”
Can i get that in a bowl with some cheese on top?
They offer cheese as an add on for the sandwich, no reason they wouldn’t serve it in a bowl. But it may be cheaper just to order their smoked meat by the pound at that point.
I’ll have one as well please; with a big dollop of coleslaw on top.
This guy gets it.
My mouth is watering.
One of my favorite local joints offers the Big Boner: a deep-fried, bacon-wrapped hot dog topped with pulled pork, baby back ribs, coleslaw and bbq sauce.
It’s been going on for a long time. I watched several British history of food shows. In every one they said that the WWII rationing diet was the best diet. If I hadn’t watched them all close together, I wouldn’t have noticed. They used almost exactly the same wording. I am generally not a conspiracy theorist, but damn. (Too lazy to find link, but I reviewed the shows for Glibs, and noted this then.)
Yeah. This strikes me as something that won’t wind up working, because people like their meat. But in the future when it is known that much of this push was communist propoganda, you’ll get the same reaction then as we do now about the “Red Scare”. It is insiduous that the way schools teach the cold war is to mock those who lived then as being scare of commies under every bed, when there were actual communists who really did want to take down the US in favor of the USSR.
My mother tells stories about my grandmother and WWII rationing in the US. One that I remember was that she used corn syrup as a sugar substitute because of rationing. Does that make corn syrup good?
The 1940s House (BBC) was good about showing the hunger and monotony. I can’t imagine it extending into the 50s, besides comedies about stolen pigs.
Won Churchill his only election to lead the government; it was the lead issue for Conservatives. Labor of course simply didn’t wish to relinquish that control.
Democrats here resisted the end of rationing here too – TEAM RED made huge gains in Congress because of it. Might have been one of the few times they showed some stones.
How I learned to love macaroni and canned tomato soup. Staple at the Fourscores, once a week, back in the days
Corn syrup and white bread, that’s for supper.
“Now you kids get out of the kitchen”
Epicurious is the aggregator and skinsuit of Gourmet (RIP) and Bon Appétit magazines.
Fuck whatever our readers want.
Tell them what: they can get ten of their friends to cut their meat intake to four pounds a year and I’ll offset the whole group.
Already covered:
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https://fhsarchives.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/spottedowlhelper_1.jpg
Penelope Cruz….. yes please
Make up helps.
I was traveling for work yesterday so didn’t get to check the site out.
BRAVO to Tonio and The Hyperbole for their work yesterday. That Mr. Weston sounds pretty shady…
Yep! That made a shitty day a little brighter.
When glibertarians.com puts together a kickball team, Hype gets to design the uniforms.
Indeed! That was a delightful read. Also, I would absolutely wear a Lemurs jersey, either baseball or hockey style; Hell, a rugby shirt with an embroidered Lemurs patch would be divine.
YES!
Morning glibs!
Morning, Leon.
Ontario schools are cancelled. Trudeau fucked up, he trusted the Chinese Government…
If everyone cut their beef consumption back to only 4 lbm a year, the beef industry would crater and people would pretty soon be able to eat zero lbm of beef a year in the US. You’d have to go to South America to get a steak.
You know who else had to go to South America?
Pedro de Valdivia ?
RC Dean?
Just until the statute of limitations runs.
Simon Bolivar?
The cast of Anaconda?
Henri Charriere?
Butch & Sundance?
Hernando Cortes?
Joe? (Does Mexico count?)
Bernardo O’Higgins?
Confederados?
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?
Well they can fuck the fuck right off with that notion! Festus walks between 10 and 15 miles per night. Festus needs his beefy protein! Yeah, it’s a t-ball comment.
So you’re saying you’re ready for a Bullshot?
“Beefy protein”
Im gonna let that slide….low-hanging fruit
(thats 2 right there)
Friend Tres, you shall never live down “Baby-Head” and good catch on the twofer!
I’ll likely eat 4lbs of beef today. I’m hooked on burgers and can’t stop making them.
Universal preschool- because some children have been allowed to slip through the cracks of government indoctrination and obedience training.
Next, a ban on homeschooling, and an imposition of federal educational curricula.
For the children.
Sincere question – Are they capable of turning this back or have we just run into the hall of mirrors?
Two part answer. No and yes
I’ve asked that question to doctors, they all seriously acknowledge we’re at the bottom of the slippery slope
That seems optimistic.
President Joe Biden will announce a roughly $1.8 trillion plan to invest in universal preschool, free community college and expanded access to child care in his joint address to Congress on Wednesday night, the White House said.
“Invest”…
So you think this is more of a payoff for services rendered by the Teachers Unions, rather than a payment to secure future services?
“free”
I watched several British history of food shows. In every one they said that the WWII rationing diet was the best diet.
Well, duh. How many fat people do you see in those newsreels?
A society without fat people is a society you don’t want to live in, generally.
Nobody’s Fat in Aspen
https://open.spotify.com/track/2TftPh24WiVHgAzJL41Yzq
Somalia FTW!
I hear they had ‘camps’ where people could go and “concentrate” on their diet. Or lack of.
They are welcomed to live it…on their own.
Hey, it is like all the rich people saying the government needs to raise their taxes. They can’t do these things on their own. They need the force of government to get them to do what they believe is right.
Gifts to the United States, PO Box…
I recall reading that some grateful old immigrant couple did just that with their estates, maybe in the aughts? I just shook my head at their long lack of perspicacity.
Shirley MacLaine in “What a Way to Go!”
Gifts to the United States, PO Box…
oops; WTH?
That’s because they were the first to be eaten.
I had a snide comment and then I overrode it. I originally thought that you were referring to the British and then it clicked. Snark is Hard!
“ Lol, I’m just kidding. This money is all gonna be manufactured out of thin air and the resulting inflation will fuck over everyone.”
When you deficit spend like a mofo and it’s mostly funny money anyway why even bother with taxes at all? Just eliminate taxes and at least we’ll get to have fun while we drive this thing over the cliff.
Look jack, taxes are for punishing our enemies – got it; there is no reason for taxes otherwise, certainly not to fund the govt.
“Invest”…
Yeah, just when like you “invest” a few thousand bucks of embezzled money on whores and cocaine in Vegas.
Well, Im not an accountant. So I dont know what the ROI is. But that certainly wouldn’t be ‘wasted’ any more than gas in your car.
Or more wasted than I am right now.
The minty-flavored cigarettes are heavily marketed, easier to get hooked on and disproportionately harm Black Americans.
So we can’t allow them to make their own choices like adults.
White liberal/progressive Paternalism is another way to say “The Party of Jeff Davis”
Half of the smokers I knew in the Marine Corps – which was most of them, at least in the early 2000s it seemed like at least half of Marines were smokers – smoked menthols. That was all races.
GPC Approved generic menthols from the Commissary were the sin-sticks of choice for many during my ’80’s/’90s service. They sold for $6 per carton but always had a $2 off coupon. They could be sold in the field for $1 per pack. Good times.
I loathe smoking….but I saw the value of a carton of Marlboro Reds in Afghanistan.
I never smoked until I was in the Marines Corps….. I smoked menthols. I quit smoking ciggs in 2009 – thanks to e-ciggs. The only thing that worked in getting me off the coffin nails.
When you deficit spend like a mofo and it’s mostly funny money anyway why even bother with taxes at all? Just eliminate taxes and at least we’ll get to have fun while we drive this thing over the cliff.
We covered this yesterday. Taxes have nothing to do with funding the government. The tax code is for social engineering. And punishing your enemies.
What is the use of government power if not to reward friends and punish enemies?
ah dammit
Kevin Andre McKenzie is just the latest alleged would-be songbird smuggler busted using the hair-accessory method to bring in the coveted creatures, which are used in high-stakes singing contests popular in Brooklyn and Queens,
What?
Fauci: Joe Rogan’s comments about young healthy people not needing a vaccine ‘incorrect’
Rogan:
“Are you healthy?” Rogan said during a recent episode of his podcast. “Are you a healthy person? Like, look, don’t do anything stupid, but you should take care of yourself. You should – if you’re a healthy person, and you’re exercising all the time, and you’re young, and you’re eating well, like, I don’t think you need to worry about this.”
Rogan also suggested that COVID-19 is not “statistically dangerous for children.”
Fauci Responds:
“You’re talking about yourself in a vacuum,” Fauci said of the podcast host. “You’re worried about yourself and the likelihood and that you’re not going to get any symptoms. But you can get infected, and will get infected, if you put yourself at risk.”
So if you want to only worry about yourself and not society, then that’s okay,” Fauci said. “But if you’re saying to yourself, even if I get infected i could do damage to someone else even if i don’t have any symptoms at all, that’s the reason you have to be careful.”
Fauci has also said that getting the vaccine doesn’t guarantee that you can’t pass on the disease still. In other words the exact opposite of what he is saying here.
He is known and admitted to lying to get people to do what he wants them to do, and everything he says should be analyzed in that context.
Yeah, about that lying little fuck.
Meanwhile, Fauci and the CDC vastly discount the long-term risks from the experimental treatments that they had to revise the regs for in order to call them vaccines.
There is no rational reason to vaccinate children and young people. In fact, if you want broad spectrum herd immunity from further variants, this is exactly who you want to catch COVID. The vaccines do not provide sufficient immunity to variants in order to prevent future infections.
Sort-of like what happens with the flu?
At least with the flu you can argue that there is some risk to youth. COVID presents almost zero risk to them.
True.
I’m in the age range where the flu is more deadly than COVID-19, and I don’t get the flu shot since I think my immune system can handle the flu. Why would I get the covid shot?
That was from the episode with Dave Smith. I was listening and knew he was gonna get hammered for saying it. It works every time: if you want to know the truth, look for what you aren’t allowed to discuss.
Yeah well, they can get fucked…that truth is so self-evident that it hardly needs to be stated. I’d have more respect for Fauci et al if they just admitted it and said that the young just have to accept some additional risk for the team because that is what they’re thinking.
This has nothing to do with risk from the virus. This is all about furthering the fucking pretense of public health as a supra police power.
Yep, Dave Smith was on fire in that episode and there were plenty of great soundbites to choose from…but of course they zeroed in on this one.
This part of the conversation was also about how you cannot have an honest conversation about vaccines.
Who pays any attention to the duplicitous dwarf anymore?
So if you want to only worry about yourself and not society
Fuck Fauxchi and fuck society.
I seem to recall that asymptomatic transmission is vanishingly rare, and has never been shown to occur due to casual contact in public.
You lying little shit.
Never forget: Fauci is the man who, as an act of #Resistance to Trump, violated a decision (by St. Obama, even!) to cut off gain-of-function research, and set up and funded the research that led to this pandemic. Of course, when both China and the US want something covered up, it gets covered up, so this will never really break into the public consciousness.
“Never forget: Fauci is the man who…”
…said “no need to wear masks” and then reversed himself within a few (?) weeks.
Most generous interpretation – “THE SCIENCE” changed in a couple of week. I think we can dismiss that out of hand; even if we are convinced masks help prevent the spread, that didn’t change in a couple of weeks.
So either he believed they work and was willing to expose everyone to illness and death to accomplish some other goal, or is simply lying his garden gnome ass off now to further some other goal of his. Either way, he’s a dishonest hack and I can’t fathom why anyone would listen to him, let alone remove their lips from his taint long enough to call him the nations ‘foremost infectious disease EXPERT!’. I think of him more as the Platonic Form of upward failure in the federal bureaucracy.
Americans will have no choice but to reduce meat consumption if President Joe Biden is going to slash greenhouse gas emissions by half in the next 10 years, experts say – even if the president is mum so far on how he’ll actually achieve that goal.
I have at least 5.56 choices.
To do that, experts say meat will have to be a target because of the greenhouse gases emitted in producing and raising beef – especially methane.
There must be a real reason the powers that be want to reduce the populations consumption of some of the highest energy dense food…
It’ll be done incrementally and most won’t notice. You will probably but normies will just think you’re a nut.
They already do.
It’s hard to believe Joe Biden will even be alive in 10 years.
Or 1.0
Relevant.
The real reason is money – the fake meat production will be controlled by a few deep-pocketed fellas.
Money always has a lot to do with it. “Impossible Burger” is selling pretty well right now.
Just yesterday I read something (here?) about how much money people make doing diversity and inclusion training at schools. All of a sudden the people with “useless” degrees are making bank because the politics turned their way.
Hasn’t Al Gore invested in Impossible?
And somehow all that byproduct from vegetable production (leaves, stems, stalks, etc.) just rot without producing any methane whatsoever.
I’ll quit eating meat when China and India get their shit together.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) again delayed the deadline for enforcement of REAL ID requirements, the latest pandemic-related extension for the program aimed at establishing a consistent security standard for issuing driver’s licenses and other identification.
Congress could just… .repeal REAL ID. I’m certain they’ll get on it right after they repeal Obamacare.
President Joe Biden will announce a roughly $1.8 trillion plan to invest in universal preschool, free community college and expanded access to child care in his joint address to Congress on Wednesday night, the White House said.
A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you’re spending real money.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, menthol cigarettes currently make up 36% of all cigarette sales in the United States, the highest proportion since major tobacco companies have been required to report such data.
Menthol cigarettes are behind a big tax windfall in NH. When MA banned menthol cigarettes, folks crossed the border to buy them.
Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady on Tuesday said the city will launch a COVID-19 vaccination passport program next month for admission to select concerts geared toward young people, in another effort to “incentivize” residents to get their shots.
Fuck off slaver.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased its guidelines Tuesday on the wearing of masks outdoors, saying fully vaccinated Americans don’t need to cover their faces anymore unless they are in a big crowd of strangers.
Abolish the CDC. I’m not sure which is more dangerous to freedom nowadays – the IRS, DEA, BATFE, or the CDC?
I see that Nick Fuentes was put on the no-fly list. Of course Civil Rights Left is going to be all over how this is a travesty right?
Pffffttttttt….the ACLU is too busy celebrating people who actually threaten violence and call for killings. They don’t have time to defend the rights of wrongthinkers.
https://thepostmillennial.com/student-body-president-of-virginia-commonwealth-university-has-history-of-violent-extremist-racist-online-posts
Life, Liberty and Property are not Civil Rights you dummy!
Yay my school!
I get so much spammy crap from VCU about student government, blah blah blah. I’ve never opened one of those messages. They go straight into the trash.
Nothing to worry about – Nick Fuentes is a Bad Guy (which is true) so it’s all OK. It will never be used against anyone but Bad Guys.
It’s being to punish nonviolent political dissidents now. Who could have seen this coming?
So if you want to only worry about yourself and not society, then that’s okay
Cool. And we’re done.
Floyd Mayweather is very effective, but goddamn his fights are boring to watch.
Regarding meat, I highly recommend Sacred Cow.
It gives a much more nuanced view of meat and argues pretty persuasively that regenerative agriculture centering around livestock is critical to healthy people and a healthy environment.
What do they plan to use for fertilizer? Brawndo?
Uh, cow shit maybe?
I meant the Top Men pushing veganism. I should get up and make café au crème de vache.
real men drink coffee which contains coffee, water and nothing else
This guy gets it.
Am not even a fake man so it’s cool.
Coffee needs booze too.
Ah, gotcha. Brawndo would be an improvement over the synthetic fertilizers they use now. Mono-cropping is horrific for the environment.
Yes?
“As we build vaccine confidence and convenience, we’re interested in thinking about ways to incentivize people to get the vaccine,” Arwady said. “I would hope that for most people their main incentive is to be able to stay healthy, keep their families healthy, keep their communities healthy — but we also know, younger people in particular may be excited about the idea of getting into events, for example, that might be limited to people who are vaccinated.”
So we are building a new tiered society. I suppose I’ll remain in the non-“vaccinated” caste.
*looks up from cleaning a chundered stall last night, waves desultorily, goes back to work* I am in a caste.
Seems like if you are really building confidence and convenience, you wouldn’t need to incentivize people.
How about quit telling people that after they are vaccinated they still have to wear masks and social distance, and all the other bullshit. If nothing changes, why bother?
Blood pressure warning. Predictive policing.
The IJ is suing. Personally, I think any cop with that attitude deserves a double tap to the face.
What’s the use of having 720,000 laws if you can’t enforce them in an arbitrary and capricious manner?
I can’t comment on this because everything i want to say will be a violation of my principles.
I’ll do it for you.
*Wild threats, profanity and voicing a desire to urinate into the gas tanks of their squad cars*
*redacted*
I’m more and more onboard with dismantling law enforcement. The small amount of good they do does not come close to outweighing the evil.
Replacing them with community organized brownshirts as the Left wants to do is not a better tradeoff though.
I’d settle for Constitutional Amendment requiring all criminal laws to have a clearly defined victim.
Or as Neal Boortz put it:
‘Neither the federal government, nor any state or local government shall make any activity a crime unless said activity violates another person’s right to life, liberty, or property, either through force or fraud.’
As we all know, the definition of “rights” goes well beyond what a libertarian would claim it was.
“But perversely, being a frequent victim of crime or a witness is also given “additional weight” and, like the other factors, increases the chances that a victim or witness would be listed as a prolific offender. ”
Criminals don’t victimize strangers and strangers don’t just happen to witness crimes. So if you’re a frequent victim or witness, that means you associate with criminals and are likely a criminal yourself. At least that’s how most cops operate. Yet another reason to not call the cops when you’re a crime victim.
Learn to love eating insects glibs. It is for the best.
Cicadas are about to emerge here. I’m not dreading the actual cicadas, but I am dreading the recipes for cicadas the Washington Post always pushes when the cicadas emerge.
How long until “Doctor” Fauci or DOCTOR Jill warn that cicadas can transmit chicom-19??
Never. Instead they’ll announce beef transmits Covid and e coli.
HANNAH PALMER and AMANDA TRIVIZAS take the pool all to themselves!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLleqCR0oUQ
No idea who these chicks are, looks slightly fake though, not Real Women (TM)
Those poor girls are going to have arthritis in their spines before they’re thirty.
talk about FLBP
They’ve got the looks. You got the brains. Let’s make lots of money.
There are a lot of opportunities, if you want you can make them.
Can you imagine the blonde at a full sprint? Aye caramba!
CDC says many Americans can now go outside without a mask
I never stopped.
Me neither, just more proof that they live in some fantasy world bubble.
They’ve got heavy coverage of the Elizabeth City protests on the local news here. It’s replete with 19 year old white girls wearing masks outside who are oh so eager and overjoyed to tell the news about how much they care.
For a guy with a rap sheet that was apparently 180 pages long.
That seems to be a common theme.
Feelin’ mighty low, Globs. I’ve never seen the like of this circus of inanity. It used to be that we could point and laugh but now the fingers are targeted at us. I have no idea where this ride is headed but I wanted off last year. I hope that you all have outstanding days and that everyone one of us get through this in spite of ourselves. Festus loves ya!
I’m finding getting only 3-4 hours of sleep a night keeps my mind off politics… or anything, really.
The fingers have always been pointed at us.
We’ll get through.
Right back at you with the love, Festud!
Ditto,
RushFestus! It seemed like, at least to me, by the 1990s, civilization was generally improving. First Amendment fights had largely ceased to be about the fundamental right to speak and had dwindled to minutiae of rock/rap lyrics and arcane campaign finance law. Television/film was more diverse than it ever had been, but it wasn’t wielded like a cudgel. Communism was on the run and Russia had not yet been looted by globalist Mafiosi. Then it unraveled and here we are. Eh, la, la… Love ya, brother F.“… the high-water mark where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.”
Where did we (GenX) go wrong? We had a golden opportunity to continue that post-Cold War trajectory. Did we allow ourselves, in our exhaustion & apathy, to be overruled & outnumbered by Boomers & Millennials?
We were almost always going to be outnumbered, just as a matter of the number of people in the generations before and after us. The middle children of history…
The ’21 baby bust could have interesting effects someday.
Sorry KK… ? …reality bites.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t pretty much every species experience periodic “die-offs”?
Meanwhile, in Canukistan…
About 900 Internet users in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, lost service for 36 hours when beavers chewed through an underground fiber cable in what network operator Telus called a “very bizarre and uniquely Canadian turn of events.”
“Our team located a nearby dam, and it appears the beavers dug underground alongside the creek to reach our cable, which is buried about three feet underground and protected by a 4.5-inch thick conduit. The beavers first chewed through the conduit before chewing through the cable in multiple locations,” the statement from Telus said, according to a CBC article posted Sunday.
That’s one big, brown beaver.
That video still gives me nightmares
That’s pretty local for me.
Sadie’s Big Beaver Restaurant.
SuperDuperWonderful musical choice today. The last time I saw them was at the House of Blues in NOLA. They closed with a 10 minute version of Curtain Call and for 10 or so minutes, all was right in the World.
That’s it? Isn’t the album version like 17 minutes?
I just discovered this product today. Unfortunately, it is unavailable.
You can’t
yell fire in a crowded theatersay “Fuck you, Coach” on SnapchatSo now the Supreme Court is being asked to establish the rules for disciplining student speech in the internet age. And that is no easy task.
The Mahanoy Area School District contends that in the modern world of social media and COVID-19 lockdowns, there is no practical difference between student speech that is disruptive at the school itself and speech outside the school, whether it’s across the street from the school or online.
Supporting that position are national associations that represent school boards, administrators, superintendents and principals.
“When you’re talking about online speech,” says their lawyer, Gregory Garre, “it really doesn’t matter where the student hits send on his or her iPhone or makes the post. Whether it’s in the classroom or in a Starbucks across the street from the school, the impact of that post is the same.”
But ACLU lawyer Witold Walczak says that this argument would give schools the right to curb student speech for all kinds of reasons — cultural, political or even religious.
That horse left the station, sailed over the horizon and exploded in a fireball visible from space.
This case should never have been filed in the first place. The kid should have received an ass whooping from their parents for being a sore loser instead of taking it as an opportunity to improve, or better still been afraid of getting one so didn’t do it in the first place. Now, absentee parenting coupled with enabling and the school’s we can do whatever we want defense leads to no good outcome. I hate everyone in the story.
I hate everyone in the story.
Is there any other response that evens come a close second?
I don’t really get this one. The girl said fuck the team and the coach should be forced to keep her on the team? That seems a little ridiculous.
Before reading the article, I assumed disciplined meant she was put in detention or suspended from school, which would absolutely be wrong. But getting kicked off a voluntary extracurricular sports team for badmouthing the team isn’t even in the same ballpark.
If this were a private school, i could understand completly, but because we have to have our public garbage schools, you get the same problems and absurdities that you get with any “Publicly” Owned thing.
The part that i don’t care for is the schools assertion that it absolutely has the right to police and punish speech by students anywhere and at anytime.
Back in the day, having this kind of tantrum in front of the coach would have you thrown off the team. Having the tantrum after school, and only your buddies hearing it, would have no effect at all. Even if one of your team mates told the coach what you said, the coach may call you in and ask if you wanted to be on the team or not? Tweeting puts the statement on record and it was about a school-sponsored event.
If she had said “Fuck Trump,” then the 1st amendment applies as far as school discipline matters. Obviously this is a tough case or it wouldn’t be going to the SCOTUS.
Hoping PA Republicans build a host of competitive districts instead of carving out safe ones. The unfortunate reality is, there will be safe Dem seats and they will go to the worst kinds of Dems.
No no no, i saw a ReasonTV piece about how California’s One Party state actually makes it more competitive.
[eyeroll emoji]
No, here’s what will happen. The 18 seats are currently held by 9 Republicans and 9 Democrats. The PA House and Senate, controlled by Republicans, will draw new districts that will favor a 9 Republicans and 8 Democrats result in 2022. Gov. Wolf, a Democrat, will refuse to sign off on the new map. The map will eventually go to the PA Supreme Court, 5-2 Democrat majority, which will then draw its own map to favor the Democrats and, unconstitutionally (per PA constitution) impose it. Republicans will whine and bitch but Supreme Court’s map will stand, probably “because it gives better representation to minorities.”
Then, in the 2022 election, the end result will be 10 Dems and 7 Republicans because the virtue-signaling suburbs will be upset at the “racist” tactics of the GOP.
I mean the SCOTUS has pretty much declared that state constitutions aren’t even worth wiping their ass with.
Well if PA SC can ignore the law then we should be able to as well, and impale their sorry asses.
Sadly, I’m not willing to bet against this.
“The only thing that comes to mind is getting out on porches and doing more retail politics. We were terribly afraid of endangering people if we did that. But in my heart, I believe that it cost us” last year, he added.
Fuck. If you don’t get out and meet voters (knock on doors, hold events), you will lose.
In NH, Republicans at the state level and their volunteers went door to door.
Republicans at the Federal level and their campaign folks didn’t because they were afraid of Covid. Democrats at all levels also didn’t go door to door because of Covid.
Voters liked that Republicans at the state level and their volunteers went door to door. It was a return to normal.
Republicans at the state level did well. The Federal Republican candidates got their heads handed to them. Of course, the reason isn’t their unwillingness to do what is necessary to win elections. It’s cause of voter fraud.
And RE: the PA redistricting: The PA Supreme Court is on deck ready to go!
Thanks for proving her point.
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann blocked Rose McGowan on Twitter and cursed at her after she posted a video explaining why she went on Fox News to warn against the cult-like aspects of politics, which she said are “most especially” found among Democrats.
“If you can’t tell the difference between the Republican Death Cult and the Democrats, let me summarize for you: you’re full of sh*t. And blocked,” Olbermann tweeted.
Yes Keith, you most certainly are. And utterly unselfaware to boot.
Olbermann appears to be mentally ill and a threat to society.
He went after Robby last week…when Robby was 100% correct.
Perhaps we can get a red flag order against him.
I am sure the address tonight is going to go well.
Reporters asked Biden questions about Russian President Vladimir Putin, new pandemic guidelines, and about the devastating COVID-19 outbreak in India.
“You chose to wear a mask as you walked out here,” a reporter said. “What message were you sending by wearing a mask outside alone?”
“By watching me take it off and not put it back on until I get inside,” Biden responded.
“Look, I’m sorry,” Biden said a few moments later. “I’m going to — this is the last question I’ll take, and I’m really going to be in trouble.”
A few moments later the press conference was over.
There’s no sense making fun of Biden for walking out with a mask, dramatically removing it, and saying – in effect – “We no longer need this outdoors.”
I’d much rather see reporters asking him, next time he’s with a foreign leader, questions about Hunter, about his own sexual harassment background,
his ties to China, kids in cages, etc. and all the other sorts of irrelevant questions they demanded Trump answer while holding a presser with a foreign leader.
“I’m really going to be in trouble.”
He’s now admitting at press conferences that his minders are going to come down hard on him for slipping up in public. No soft-serve ice cream and Wheel of Fortune after dinner tonight, Joe! He should just start blinking S.O.S. in Morse code at his press conferences.
Its more likely that Dr. Jill Biden punishes him. Think of her like Nurse Ratchet.
Instead of having an actor dramatically remove his glasses before doing or saying something important, in the future the actor will remove his mask.
Randy Quaid
@RandyRRQuaid
I’m seriously considering running for governor. The prosecutorial corruption in California (esp Santa Barbara & the Bell scandal) is rampant; and I promise that if elected I will clean up the District Attorney Offices throughout the state.
I guess we need a little redneck heroism.
He’s going to fly right into the belly of the beast and blow it up.
I pictured this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/mediaviewer/rm2843441152/
I’d say as far as the CA governor’s race is concerned, the shitter’s full.
I thought he ran away to Canada or somewhere a few years ago.
He crazy.
So he’d fit right in.
[sigh] And a new entry for the reading list.
Oh, and the author’s photo is in there too – redhead, very pretty and clearly very smart.
Her point about it not being “Artificial” is stupid, since “Artificial” is generally anything that is created by humans. All artificial things use natural resources, fuel and human labor.
I’ll agree that “Computational Decision Making” is probably a more precise name, but doesn’t get you the SiFi cred.
Language is a human creation – does that make it artificial?
…yes?
Art, artifice, artisan, artificial… they all require human action.
Then so is reason, and science.
Yeah, I get this, but it’s a semantic point that just rubs me a bit wrong.
Hell by the standard of “human action” sex is artificial.
Hmm. I think i would classify language as artificial. Yes we have had it for millennia, but it isn’t quite a natural resource. Though that line of thought means that i would have to consider domesticated animals as artificial, and i don’t really like that.
Hold on to your hats
Idaho wants to make it illegal for schools to teach students how to think critically about racism
And THAT is how you write a headline, boys and girls.
A bill that would ban teaching critical race theory and other similar teachings in schools in Idaho is awaiting Gov. Brad Little’s signature.
The bill, HB 377, passed in the state’s senate on Monday after passing through the house last week. It would prohibit public schools from teaching that “any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” which it says can be found in critical race theory.
The bill also bans teachings that argue that people should be treated differently based on things like race or gender and that people are not responsible for past actions committed by people who share their same demographics.
OH
MY
GOD!
I get it now. The Critical part of Critical Race theory is that you should think critically about Racisim and pick the parts you like and get rid of the parts you don’t like.
Business Insider jumped the shark years ago. Never mind that one of the founders was banned from securities trading and was a serial loser in his own investments.
That publication has been trash for years. Just absolute garbage.
Thank you. It’s always bugged me how quickly Henry Blodget was rehabilitated.
A similar prohibition is attached the NH budget policy bill. This has displeased His Excellency the governor of NH. He claims he doesn’t like Critical Race Theory but thinks a) voters should go after school boards if they don’t like public schools teaching Critical Race Theory and b) there is no problem with state money being used to teach Critical Race Theory.
He may right about (a), but there’s absolutely no reason that (b) isn’t the state’s business, and the state shouldn’t fund something the legislature doesn’t want funded.
I can only conclude that his oppo to critical race theory is purely for show. He wants it funded, so he can’t be opposed to it.
I mean, “critical” is right in the name! What’s the problem??
Critical Race Theory doesn’t exist and is just a right-wing boogeyman, but if you don’t adhere to it you’re a racist bigot.
To TPTB in SP’s absence, I submitted something.
Mojeaux thanks for posting that Mike Rowe clip last night.
Here’s another for
yourmy delectationhttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=569429373523827
Awwwww I’m melting of the cute.
I wonder what made him explode like this.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was recently caught badmouthing several countries, including the United States and his Arab neighbors, during a profanity-laced rant that raises new concerns about the 85-year-old leader’s deteriorating health. …
When asked by an unidentified attendee at the Fatah political party’s April 19 meeting what his message to China is on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Abbas went ballistic.
“Fuck the c—t of China with a shoe!” Abbas screamed, according to an independent Arabic translation of his remarks provided to the Washington Free Beacon. “That good for you?”
After pausing for a few seconds, Abbas continued yelling: “And Russia, America, and all the Arabs. What’s wrong with you? All of you go to hell!”
Not even that good of an insult.
🙁
The shoe. I mean i’ve heard variations of the same thing but with far more gruesome evocations. Rusty Pitchfork, etc…
Aren’t shoes supposed to be super-duper-icky and the ultimate insult? That’s what the media told me when one got chucked at Bush back in the day.
Showing someone over there the bottom of your shoes is a great insult apparently. I can only surmise that fucking someone with a shoe is infinitely worse.
I gotta give it to Abbas there – “fuck the cunt of China with a shoe” is awesome. I’m gonna start using that one.
I thought he was saying Count of China. Was going to say i don’t think they have a hereditary titled nobility. At least not explicitly.
Would “the cunt of America” be Pelosi? Comma-la? Chuckles Schumer?
He had a solid start, then he lost me.
Imagine being a fly on the wall for some of Trump’s epic rants or Biden’s stream-of-consciousness blather.
They don’t have rusty chainsaws in the Middle East?
I’m kind of surprised that his hasn’t made it here:
Your honor, I’m innocent!
But the algorithm says you’re guilty.
The algorithm is wrong your honor.
Nope! Computers are infallible! Guilty!
Repeat 736 times.
Computers may be infallible, but commenters are not.
Bah!
“Computer says no.”
Buttle, Tuttle?
“We don’t make mistakes.”
Government doesn’t understand how the market works, example #8765432: they want a contractor to test a livestream on Sunday for a live event scheduled for Monday. Contractor says there will be a fee for Sunday work. Government is shocked.
Haha, maybe they could test it on Friday.
The contractor suggested testing it on Friday, but the government wasn’t comfortable testing it that far in advance. The extra $$ will have to come from the Bureau who is requesting the test and they’re all in a tizzy about paying it. LOL
sweet
Because some moron didn’t stop to consider that it would cost more and now they’re forced to justify the extra expense which they really didn’t want to have to do. They just went from thinking they’re really smart for specifying it should happen the day before to thinking “Shit, this will cost me brownie points.”
I.e. “government doesn’t understand how markets work”
“I’m sorry, weekend work needs to be scheduled in advance, or we have to charge a late scheduling fee. If you don’t confirm until Wednesday, the fee is $1,000. Friday, its $5,000.”
yup
Your honor, I’m innocent!
No one is innocent. Off with his head.
This will never end.
There are plenty of people with mental and anxiety issues. We just shouldn’t use their worldview as one based in either reality nor for policy making.
No. No it won’t.
And now, companies like this see new ways to suck at the (Queensland) government teat. So there are already constituencies that will demand restrictions go on.
That photo…. wtf?
Maybe she should stay masked with a mouth that huge.
Would keep out the flying insects.
The clown pic? It does have a bit of a molesty vibe doesn’t it?
More of a lunatic vibe.
https://www.returnofkings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/soyboy-smile.jpg
Lord have mercy
Same overly jovial eejit expressions that used to be used to flog Faceplace (of which of course I cannot find a single one).
Nope. I’m willing to bet plastic dividers and the like will be a part of most bars for the next couple years at least at this point.
And I’m already preferring to go to the ones that don’t have a single one in the place.
I should’ve went long on plexiglass manufacturers.
I figure places like grocery stores will leave them up…they spent the money on it, no point in taking them down. But restaurants and bars, ugh, I hope not.
Which is interesting because all their floor markings they have ditched out here along with out signage. So they spent money on that, but people don’t follow it.
The floor markings are still all over most of the places around here. No one has really followed them for months. Most of the places just used colored tape and the like the put the markings down though.
Achtung! Einbahnstrasse!
No one ever followed the floor markings around here.
Frankly, the standing in the checkout line markings are ones I wish people *would* follow. I freakin’ hate people who crowd me when I’m standing in line, always have. Sometimes when someone crowds up on me from behind I start swaying and then fake that I lost my balance and fall backwards a bit. They love that.
I would be fine if grocery store lanes were unidirectional and designed to discourage wrong way travel.
Poetry. Hats off to Sloopy this morning.
Seems like if you are really building confidence and convenience, you wouldn’t need to incentivize people.
The floggings will continue until enthusiasm improves.
I can’t believe that the NY Post did an entire article on smuggling finches.
Seems like that should have been just a few tweets.
That old rag? I wouldn’t use it to line a birdcage.
Smuggling finches is my new favorite euphemism.
I asked a Guyanese co-worker what was up with the smuggling. He laughed hysterically and promised to tell me about it later.
The contractor suggested testing it on Friday, but the government wasn’t comfortable testing it that far in advance.
!!!!!!!!!
The last thing you want is time to fix any problems which might be revealed in the test.
They think something will break between Friday and Monday, somehow. ?
Depending on how long it takes, the video contractor will get their extra $, and I will get some comp time.
To be fair, they’re from the government. They should expect most things to fail within a few days of being set up, based on their past experience.
Look, I’ve gotten systems set up that have lasted for years without crashing.
You are exceptional and will be handicapped for “equity’s” sake.
Seeing a lot of battle-prep and pushing of vaccinated v. unvaccinated; which is the essential v. unessential all over again. I don’t see the government mandating it but slowly propagandizing its through mass/social media to its citizens to do its dirty work.
propagandizing its through mass/social media to its
citizenssubjects to do its dirty workLet’s not kid ourselves.
^^^ That.
Appropriate fix
Yeah. I’m not sure how much it would affect me directly, but I’m very unhappy about the direction it takes us in.
I don’t think I’ve seen a worse marketing campaign than I have with the vaccines. “Get the vaccine and nothing will change! Your life will never go back to normal no matter what! Get the vaccine!”
Same as if big tech really wanted to push this stuff, Google Pictures would stop popping up notifications reminding me that every year (except for last year), I was able to travel around the country and take pictures in different locations.
“Thanks Google for reminding me that I was in Vegas two years ago (and three years ago, and four years ago…). Fucking dicks.”
Among the long list of Fauci’s bad calls on the vaccine, I would include the decision to not make the early limited supply available for max first shots, rather than requiring that it be cohorted so that vaccines were sitting in freezers for second shots while people were told there wasn’t enough for everybody who wanted one to get a first shot. Keeping in mind that the first shot, per the “science”, got you to 80% immunity, and the second shot to 95%. In the middle of a supposed crisis and a shortage, Fauci said that people should remain unprotected so that other people could get a marginal increase in protection. An excellent example, in my mind, of blinkered bureaucratic thinking.
“We need a control group”
They will implement it thru business regulations. Specifically, they will give a green light to businesses to fully open for the vaccinated.
That way they don’t have to deal with the unpopularity of implementing it directly on the average taxpayer. The businesses will do it for them in exchange for being permitted to earn a living.
And schools. Can’t step foot onto the premises without proof of vaccination.
I’m not so sure. I’ve seen a lot of businesses who don’t want to argue with customers or act as mask enforcers, so they are relieved when the local government comes up with a mask mandate. Then they can say, “If it were up to me, but the rules the rules.”
Call me a veganfaggot libtard commie if you must, but what’s so tyrannical or perverse about having minimum standards of welfare for animals, in particular how they are transported?
Nahh. Just Libtard Commie will suffice.
My minimum standard is that the meat arrive fresh, clean, and uncontaminated.
I also see a legit role for limiting what plants and animals can be imported, although I’m not sure that was the problem here.
What’s funny (at least to me) is that I read it as KFC, not JFK.
There was a non-chain fried chicken restaurant next door to a cock fighting arena in Puerto Rico. Didn’t eat there but got a kick out of it.
It’s always bugged me how quickly Henry Blodget was rehabilitated.
“He may be a crook, but he’s our kind of crook.”
They will implement it thru business regulations. Specifically, they will give a green light to businesses to fully open for the vaccinated.
Something tells me the FAA will be the test bed for how tightly the ratchet can be set.
Hmm.
*ponders strategy to short airline stocks*
Probably
Also, amusement parks, hotels, generally anything involving travel.
Cedar Point has already announced they will not require masks on rides or outside, “temperature checks” aren’t going to be done, but you’ll be asked your three questions at the gate.
Airlines DGAF because they’ll get their bailouts no matter what. Airlines are no different than public transport at this point – operating at a loss but supported by taxes for “public good” and “infrastructure”.
I am disturbed.
However, my brain is such a jumble I don’t know how to explain succinctly, but I must get this out.
When I was in NC with my mom and brothers, we were all in the car together and one brother brought up the subject of masks and vaccines. He said half the people on his flight from Seattle were protesting against wearing the masks, and that it was a violation of their rights. I don’t know if “half” was an exaggeration or not. “Wear the damn mask,” he said. “You aren’t special, vaccinated or not.” Other brother agreed. Then that moved to Trump and talking about allllllll the people who voted for him being members of a cult. Other brother agreed.
It wasn’t the subject so much as the utter contempt in their voices for … me and our mom. But they don’t know they’re contemptuous of me and our mom because neither one of us said anything. My head is always a jumble nowadays and even if I could do a proper fisking on the spot like I used to be able to do, all my sources would be dismissed as irrelevant, wrong, or part of a wacko nutjob conspiracy theory. My mom never could fisk anybody because she doesn’t pay attention to what’s really happening (e.g., she thought Biden’s infrastructure bill really meant repairing/replacing the road and bridge infrastructure). Thank heavens neither of my brothers asked if I’d been vaccinated, but I do know that “No” is a complete sentence, so that would have been that.
In short, I feel old, worn down, hurt, and fearful of the future.
I’m glad Glibs is here. But knowing what’s going on and watching the propaganda spreading and being helpless to change anything is getting to me.
My family keeps asking me, and i don’t know at what point i’m going to just lie to get them to shut up.
I hear ya, Mo. I get the same crap from my sister. I try to steer the conversation away from covid crap but she’s so focused on it she always veers in that direction. I can hear the barely disguised contempt for non covidians in her voice, and it seems like she’s a little afraid to ask me directly about it.
I’m so sick of all this.
I might just be to the point where my answer would be “I opted to have the disease instead.”
“Wear the damn mask,” he said. “You aren’t special, vaccinated or not.”
“So what you’re saying is, vaccinations make no difference. Which is fine, your call. Regardless, I won’t wear the mask, vaccinated or not, because you’re not special. So fuck off.”
Then that moved to Trump and talking about allllllll the people who voted for him being members of a cult. Other brother agreed.
“You’d think a Mormon, as a member of a religion persecuted for being a “cult”, would know better than to throw that one around.”
Hey, they want to play dirty, fuck them.
I like those lines, but I can’t come up with them on the spot.
Sorry
I’ve resigned myself to writing off some friends. No family yet.
The left’s assuming that everyone just agrees with them is one of their more annoying attributes.
Every time I have to interact with groups of my GF’s co-workers, I’m still mildly shocked to observe how closed-minded and monolithically group-think susceptible ostensibly very smart people can be. Ever since she started in grad school all the way up to today, it’s been a parade of scientists, mathematicians, software engineers, and more who uncritically parrot whatever they heard on NPR that morning.
Apropos of nothing, here is a website where Nick Cave replies to fan questions.
That’s terrific! Thank you.
I’m going down the rabbit hole now. This one about him trying to get a free piano is great.
Awesome.
Ted Cruz lands a shot.
TW: Twittter
Yes yes, The Democrats are hypocrites. It feels like the scene in Jurasic Park where Nedry shouts out the crime hes committing and says “Nobody cares”.
Jesus, the stupidity…
“ It’s different in a petition than it is a vote. Some people will sign twice. Some people will sign fake names. But you only get one vote. A signature gatherer gets signature in field, ballots are specifically given to each voter. Totally different, Ted.”
You only get one signature on a petition. Some people will vote twice. Some people will vote other people’s ballots. You know there were more duplicate ballots in NV than Biden’s margin of victory, right? Mailed out ballots aren’t specifically given to each voter; they are mailed en masse, and many people didn’t get theirs, and many were mailed to people at addresses where they didn’t live any more, and many were mailed to people who aren’t eligible to vote.
Is that a real comment? Because it is literally the same argument about voting twice with no ID.
Yep
It wasn’t the subject so much as the utter contempt in their voices for … me and our mom.
But they’re not the cultists, you are.