Sunday morning. It’s eerily quiet. Did people damage themselves last night and sleeping it off? Are they all at goyish church this morning? Has Chicxulub returned?
Birthdays today include a guy who made your bumpers possible; a guy who… hey, does anyone have some filter jokes?; the one guy who wasn’t angry; one of the extinct old fashioned liberals, you know, the honest ones; a guy who actually DID herd cats; the godfather of glam; a guy who coined the best quote ever about Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner; a fantastic jazz singer who ought to be better known; a piece of shit who would have been much better AFTER the woodchipper; a guy who symbolized everything wrong with the ’70s and ’80s Team Red; an absolutely fantastic drummer; an equally fantastic guitarist; one of the inventors of Shake and Bake; a woman whose nipples shook the world; and a guy who proved that a successful entertainer doesn’t have to actually be entertaining.
Let’s go all newsy and shit.
Well, this will help keep the White House liquor bill down.
At least he was wearing his mask.
Not a good look, guys. Uh, gays.
“Horrified.” No one hurt, but they mourn the building.
Old Guy Music will get you hopping.
I just wanted to dedicate this First to my one true love. The one who never let’s me down and who always leaves me breathless. My one true passion. This one is for me.
Man was not meant to be awake this early.
Word of the ban came out Friday when the Gay Officers Action League said in a release it was disheartened by the decision.
The group called the ban an “abrupt about-face” and said the decision “to placate some of the activists in our community is shameful.”
Hello Irony my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.
“I just wanted to dedicate this First to my one true love. The one who never let’s me down and who always leaves me breathless.“
Sorry dude, I’m taken.
So Liberace had the hots for R. Jackson and Steinbrenner? 😉
Ted S in drag.
::takes a bow:: My dream is to outdo him in posting cringe-inducing music links.
Keep dreaming.
It would be difficult to top you, but not impossible. 😉 [Disclaimer: yeah, I like this one. I’m a classic musical theater nerd. So sue me.]
Ah, but it is impossible.
Counterpoint: Such things are happening every day.
Heh I just saw him perform that on Ed Sullivan, on one of the old-people channels. I have fond memories of seeing that show in Germany when I was a teen.
Was it performed in German? If so, did it last about as long as a production of Wagner’s entire Ring cycle?
Probably – but I don’t remember.
Morning.
I hope CP is feeling better this morning.
Indeed! Anyone happen to know what time zone he’s in, so we have a clue when he might be up?
Wha’ppen? Did Demi’s caboose explode and cause an environmental disaster?
::guffaw:: Don’t know about that, but he said he felt “like shit,” couldn’t eat dinner, and felt feverish. He was very worried it might be contagious. Do I recall correctly he has elderly parents whose health worries him?
Shame about the cops. Are the Navy guy, the construction worker, the Indian chief, the cowboy, and the leather guy still welcome?
They know there’s no need to feel down.
Only if the march is inside the YMCA.
Probably cancelled because the guy that wrote the song had no problems with Trump using the song.
“’YMCA’ is everybody’s anthem and go-to song for fun. As for the president’s use, I have not granted permission for use at his rallies because permission is not required,” Willis told Bloomberg News through a spokesman.
“If I were a Trump hater maybe I’d sue him simply out of spite,” Willis said. “I am not, and I’m not going to have my lawyers sue the president. But he should at least do the ‘YMCA’ dance while he’s at it.”
The Israeli government says the building contained Hamas military intelligence assets. We have called on the Israeli government to put forward the evidence. AP’s bureau has been in this building for 15 years. We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building. This is something we actively check to the best of our ability. We would never knowingly put our journalists at risk.
How does the AP ‘actively check to the best of our ability’ whether or not someone is a Hamas agent?
Any Hamas agents raise your hand. None? Ok we’re good.
They didn’t see Hamas Murder, Inc. on the building’s directory. Ergo, they weren’t there.
AP: Hello new tenant! Are you a Hamas agent?
New Tenant: Certainly not. Death to Israel!
AP: All right then, carry on. Death to Israel to you as well.
And what would they have done if they did recognize a Hamas agent?
Patted them on the back, probably.
“How does the AP ‘actively check to the best of our ability’ whether or not someone is a Hamas agent?”
Is it listed on their Covid passport?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/vietnam-vets-killed-during-secret-pacific-mission-get-maine-memorial-nearly-60-years-later
You would think that after 50 years everyone involved would want the truth of the matter publicly known. What a waste of human life and experience. It amazes me how people still put so much trust in our leaders and governments.
A friend of mine, SFC Hester, was on that flight. Friends (like me) called those the first casualties of the VN War.
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Fourscore, I am sorry to hear this.
So many gone…
Sorry.
The really sad part is the 60K that followed and more friends gone.
I’ve had two dental implants. I don’t think I have more confidence in a robotic installer.
I have four, holding down my entire lower. They required hair-raising surgery that I doubt I would have entrusted to a machine, however sophisticated. Oh, don’t ask me about the robotic cancer surgery (that didn’t work).
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/05/16/homemade-goodies-by-roz-kosher-bakery-philadelphia-close/
Covid claims another victim.
I suspect it wasn’t “jobs” they went on.
And Big Bakery rejoices.
+1 Bimbo
The coronavirus pandemic could claim another piece of Philadelphia history.
Nope. It’s not the virus claiming another victim; it’s the government’s response.
I know “journalists” are mendacious propagandists, but sometimes I do wonder whether they even have the intellectual capacity to grasp the distinction.
https://babylonbee.com/news/oops-ap-reporter-forgets-to-remove-hamas-headband-before-going-live
Wait, I thought the Bee was a parody site? How did actual news make its way in there???
I know “journalists” are mendacious propagandists, but sometimes I do wonder whether they even have the intellectual capacity to grasp the distinction.
Wondering if journalists have the intellectual capacity to grasp that distinction is like wondering if water is wet.
Last night at the brewpub I had a brief chat with the manager. She said they’re having trouble finding workers, but said something along the lines of being able to manage with what they have. I asked if it was unemployment keeping people from coming back to work as Sununu has still not killed the extra Covid money. She hemmed and hawed and moved on to other topics.
If a keto recipe calls for cauliflower rice, what would you use? I’m thinking about getting a bag of the “riced cauliflower”, thawing it in the microwave and then mixing it in as directed in the recipe – I haven’t seen anything else that fits the bill that I can recall.
I’ve made my own and used the frozen. It’s ok, but I don’t do a lot of it.
“Ricing” it yourself does give better results, imo.
All you need is a grater. Even as a #lazycook, it doesn’t take much effort.
Yeah…seeing it now. I think the thing that kept throwing me off was “cauliflower rice” vs “riced cauliflower”.
Buy cauliflower and rice it yourself?
I think I would prefer not to eat at all.
Riced cauliflower doesn’t sound very appealing, does it?
One of my regular Atkins frozen lunches has mashed cauliflower instead of potatoes. Fortunately, the turkey has a LOT of gravy. The cauliflower needs the gravy a lot more than the turkey does.
Velveeta + microwave. We use enough velveeta to make it into a slurry. Throw in some hot sauce and it’s tasty.
+1 can of Hot RO-TEL.
It doesn’t taste like much of anything but gives rice-like texture to your “rice” bowl (or whatever), without all the carbs.
Stuffed peppers. Never tried making them before but assume it would have been normal white rice otherwise.
This.
Defund the CDC.
I hear HAMAS has been operating in the CDC buildings.
I think you meant CNN.
Why not both?
Carpet bomb them both just to be sure.
Best idea I’ve heard all day.
Creating Nonsense Narratives. This… is CNN
There are about half a dozen tree rats lurking near the base of our next door neighbors’ bird feeding “station” – two feeders hanging from either end of the crosspiece of one of those old-fashioned “T”-style clothesline supports. I’m curious to see if the squirrels can “hack” the system, since we just yesterday hung a feeder from our own clothesline support.
Yes, yes they can. Just accept that you have a wildlife feeder, not a bird feeder.
I went inside briefly to “do a fluid exchange” (including getting an iced mocha latte refill.) When I came back out, the neighbors’ bird feeders were gone. For a while, I wondered if the squirrels had made off with them, but my neighbor had just taken them to be refilled. I DID wonder, though…
Unless you’re hunting squirrels, you don’t want a ‘bird’ feeder.
The goal is to provide some “Cat TV” so that the felines give us some moments of peace when they’re not pestering us for attention nor playing too rough with each other. I suppose they’d find squirrels entertaining, too.
I thought you could keep the squirrels away by greasing the lines with peanut butter or something. Not that that sounds like something I would want to do on a regular basis.
Pellet guns work great on tree rats.
And raccons. Unfortunately, mine’s a pump action and by the time it’s ready to go, my quarry has gone too.
“does anyone have some filter jokes?”
No, but “A priest, rabbi and polynomial walk into a bar….”
Sorry, can’t HEPA you out here.
I can always count on finding the low pass here.
How about a philter instead?
How about : “The guy who promoted inequality“?
R. Budd Dwyer walks into a bar …
The internet is for cat videos (and pron).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PBCpv-1qVD4
This is the first.
::squeals like a schoolgirl:: SOOOOO!!!!! CUUUUUUTE!!!! ::faints from OD of adorable::
Honeymoon? What honeymoon?
You can thank Biden’s focus on expanding government at the expense of everyone else. Democrats (alone) passed his $1.9 trillion COVID “relief” bill — which had little to do with either — in March, as things were finally picking up. Throwing money into the economy without much consideration of its necessity directly led to the inflation we’re seeing now, with the money supply up by 25 percent over last year.
That “relief” bill also extended the $300 weekly federal unemployment supplement to Sept. 6, meaning nearly half of people getting checks make more by staying home than going back to work. Employers coast to coast have cited it as a reason they’re having trouble hiring.
Biden claims the jobs numbers show his two other big proposals ($5 trillion total for “infrastructure” and “families”) are desperately needed, but that “medicine” would mean more disasters, not least because they’re (partly) paid for via huge tax hikes on investments and business.
He’s also adding fear and gloom now, by refusing to rule out making his planned tax hikes retroactive.
——-
It’s stunning how much success Biden has managed to reverse in not even four months. With long lines at the pump, slowing growth and rising inflation, it’s looking like the Jimmy Carter era — except that it took Carter years to produce the disasters that this president has fostered in scant months.
Somebody recognizes him for the senile blunderer he is.
How are Biden billions wrecking the economy in ways that Trump bucks could not? What evil magic is that? How does the economy know the flavor of the latest printings?
And the cause and resolution of the gas lines are obvious and direct things . . . that have nothing to do with Biden.
Glibs throw around “mendacious” and howl about incompetent journalism, but this is cherry-picking, unhelpful, and not terribly true in very much the same way we decry.
Biden sucks, but critique still needs to be fact-based; I object.
Trump bucks were a terrible idea, but continuing it in the face of steadily reopening states is even more terrible.
As far as the pipeline goes – no, that’s not Biden’s fault. However, gas prices were already surging since the first thing Biden did in office was shut down drilling and pipeline development. Pouring gas on a fire, as it were.
When the girlfriend heard about the rising gas prices and the states having no supply, her first reaction was, “What did [Biden] do now?”
I had to explain it wasn’t because of his policies, just poor IT management.
Huh. I guess I should have read the comments before commenting on the links.
Related
“Get Ready for In-Car Ads”
https://gizmodo.com/get-ready-for-in-car-ads-1846888390
Ford is working on a system that uses the various cameras that are found on cars now that will recognize roadside signs and advertisements and will pipe related ads straight to your entertainment system. Oh hell no!
Oh, please let that include political ads too!
The more I hear about how new cars will invade our privacy, the more I think Factory Five should offer a kit car that is a reliable commuter.
https://www.factoryfive.com
That truck’s pretty sweet.
Unless something has changed about building kit cars that I’m not aware of there are two major issues with building those kits – 1) getting one registered can be quite tricky and expensive and 2) insurance for them is also crazy expensive.
Don’t get me wrong – I love those cars and would love to have one as a daily driver. But the best route to get to something heavily customized is to start with a frame which is already registered.
Some states are friendlier than others.
I think I’ll be ok in my 15 year old GMC truck with manual windows and locks, no cruise, no wifi, no aux port etc. No ads for me.
After experimental vaccines become mandatory, so will cash-for-clunkers.
Quite possible.
How it is in CA with commercial trucks already.
Barf
Does that meant that the vehicle is free?
Don’t text and drive but please be distracted by these advertisements on this 7″ touchscreen right next to you.
Nap-caused carry-over for Lobot, if you’re still around…
Really? I always imagined the A train was much slower than that. But I guess there is Express service?
Maybe worth considering… except I have to go to NJ which adds another half hour from
Midtown. Oh, the A goes to WTC. Even better. Where in the Rockaways would be a good place to look to rent?The numbered streets start over by the Nassau County line and go up as one heads west. Anything above 40th is gonna be ok, above 59th is nicer, above 116th is pretty posh (some of the most expensive houses in Queens, including one cool place that has gone from $8 mil down to $5 mil in its 8 years on the market). The subway runs from 67th down to 20th, with a shuttle over to 116th. The ferry landing is at 110th.
Cool, I’ll keep that in mind. I do need to move.
So- last night, bartender A was all in a snit about waitress B not masking up Friday night. I think the debate went something like, “Governor announced new rule, based on new CDC rule.” “Doesn’t matter. I’m Mommy, and Mommy says mask!” Mutual footstampingt ensues. Blah blah blah et cetera.
The only real surprise to me was finding out waitress B is actually smart enough to figure it out.
MEM mask rules were removed starting yesterday, but the majority of restaurants cling to them.
I think it’s fine that the places I once patronized have whatever stupid rules they have.
What would be grand would be to have a way to celebrate places where the stupidity does not endure.
What would be grand would be to have a way to celebrate places where the stupidity does not endure.
There’s a topic in the forum for collecting info on who’s masking and who isn’t.
We don’t have the density of geographic representation to have solid coverage, but it’s a good reminder when I need to go out for something.
Also: The Mask Map.
Hey, neat.
I’ve been prioritizing my spending at the places that fought against the shutdown orders and mandates.
I’ve also cut out one local brewery that was doing temperature checks for guests on St. Patrick’s Day.
‘We cannot in good conscience celebrate Eid with the Biden Administration while it literally aids, abets and justifies the Israeli apartheid government’s indiscriminate bombing of innocent men, women and children in Gaza.’
Didn’t the Biden administration just pledge to give the Palestinians tens of millions of dollars and didn’t the IDF just go out of their way to give notice to innocent men, women and children to evacuate a building before they destroyed it?
The thing about paying tribute is that it never ends.
The Israelis are the WYPIPO of the ME. Therefore, everything is their fault and they are always wrong.
The Palestinians are the good brown peoples of the ME. So they’re victims and therefore always right.
With this admin, woke American politics are going to the ME. Nothing could possibly go wrong, just sit back and enjoy kids!
The more I hear about how new cars will invade our privacy, the more I think Factory Five should offer a kit car that is a reliable commuter.
I think all those old-time racers had it right with the three foot rule: Your car can have a maximum of three feet of wire. do as you wish with it.
Maybe the other glibbies have been sent to re-education camps.
Good morning!!
Darnit, I ended up at a de-education camp.
I did my 12 years in an uneducation camp
So 32 hours after the second shot no side effects. Most people i know my age had fever chills muscle aches. Older people did not have many symptoms. Maybe i am an old soul
The celebrate i am having an overpriced beer.
Mikkeler burst ipa.
Recently I discovere I like IPLs
Mikkeler makes quite a few good beers. I prefer their stouts and sours over their hoppier offerings since they don’t (or at least didn’t), put dates on their bottles.
My cardiologist predicted that my side effects would be minimal. He was right. “See, you’re old. Old people have shit immune systems. So your body surrenders to the vaccine without a whimper, just like it’s French.”
Nearly a direct quote.
I went to the gym 45 min after to lift heavy and had half a bottle of red wine and a scotch in the evning. I credit my lack of side effects to that
Random issues I don’t recall noticing last year when I moved in – a lot more bird crap on my patio. It looks like there are birds nesting in some of my covered gutters – it’s been a little drier the last few weeks – they may get a surprise when we get more rain.
Is there an herbal/scent alternative to keep them away from the patio (like the anti-mosquito stuff I’m trying to get started), or would I get more results from a plastic owl?
Or worse, you might because of the clogs their nesting causes.
Yeah….I’ll have to wait and see – my current ladder is a little short to get a good view. Can’t see anywhere else they could be though around the eaves. And being close to the river, we do get seagulls in this vicinity – haven’t seen any in the neighborhood though – but some of these craps are almost seagull size…may be a flight path….
Next year, I may pay someone to add some wire screens over the gaps.
If the birds are flying rats aint nothing you can do.
I doubt a plastic owl does stuff for more than a little while
From general observation around the neighborhood, the spiky, porcupine wire contraptions seem to be the most effective but they’re very ugly. All of the local plastic owls are festooned with bird feces, so I don’t think they do much good. By us it’s a competition to see which bird is the worst – pigeon or seagull?
It took 14 years for the birds to figure out our owl was plastic. This is the first year we need to make some other considerations.
That truck’s pretty sweet.
Needs moar flathead Ford.
Yeah, you wouldn’t want to have too much more than about 60 hp.
Ooh, zing
National security expert and ex-Trump administration official Miles Taylor criticized Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s claims that the GOP is a “big tent party,” on Saturday, and instead called for a third party of “renewed” Republicans.
Speaking on MSNBC’s The Cross Connection, Taylor slammed McCarthy and the GOP after the party moved to oust Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney from her leadership role as conference chair over her repeated criticisms of former President Donald Trump.
“As they kicked Liz Cheney out of the party for telling the truth he said ‘we’re a big tent party,’ and Elise Stefanik said the same thing,” Taylor said.
“As a group of white people stood on the stage they said ‘we’re a diverse, open, big-tent party.’ It’s false. The GOP has not been a big tent party. It’s like a little tiny one man camping tent that Kevin McCarthy sleeps in every single night,” he continued.
Taylor, who served as chief of staff to the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen under Trump’s administration until 2019, is a vocal critic of the former president and has repeatedly pushed for the GOP to break away from Trump’s influence. In 2018, Taylor penned an explosive New York Times essay stating that there was an internal “resistance” within the Trump administration.
Such brave. So honor.
If Trump did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Naming the effort, “A Call for American Renewal,” the group is calling for the GOP “to rededicate itself to founding ideals—or else hasten the creation of an alternative.”
“[W]hen in our democratic republic, forces of conspiracy, division, and despotism arise, it is the patriotic duty of citizens to act collectively in defense of liberty and justice,” the letter said.
“We, therefore, declare our intent to catalyze an American renewal, and to either reimagine a party dedicated to our founding ideals or else hasten the creation of such an alternative.”
Now get out of the boat and take that beach!
Is it any wonder the state of conservatism in this country when the Reps had people like this at the helm ever since Goldwater got screwed? Neocon shitbags the lot of them.
‘it is the patriotic duty of citizens to act collectively…’
Oh, you fuck right off.
You know those DNR orders you can sign at a hospital? Maybe the police can have a Do Not Respond list people can get on if they hate the police so much. Then they should proudly post a picture of their form on Facebook when they sign it.
I’d have no problem with getting on that list. Choosing between a response by the Donut Squad versus an angered SP with her usual armament, I’m going with the latter.
If they’d free up the self-defense laws I’d be fine with it.
People lie. Ask the man who knows.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s announcement Thursday that fully vaccinated people largely no longer need to wear a mask has left many Americans wondering: If there are no enforcement measures, won’t people just lie about their vaccination status?
Public health officials have admitted that the honor system will play a large role in the new rules.
“I mean, you’re going to be depending on people being honest enough to say whether they were vaccinated or not and responsible enough to be wearing … a mask,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top epidemiologist, told CNN Thursday.
If you honestly believe that scrap of snot rag protects anybody from anything, you’re too dumb to talk to me.
If I’m vaccinated, I don’t care whether they’re lying or not.
I think that also makes her a vaccine denier.
If vaccines work, why should she care?
Covid vaccine is never going to be better than flu vaccine. Too many variants.
On the bright side, it’s also extremely unlikely to kill you so it’s no big deal.
Probably not true.
A swing dance in Boston is going to start up again with outdoor dances.
Proof of vaccination required before you can attend.
HIPAA HIPAA HOORAY!
And while businesses and politicians say they trust Americans to be honest, experts on human behavior aren’t so sure.
Michael McCullough, a psychology professor at the University of California, San Diego, said the new guidance will enable unvaccinated people to flout rules with “impunity.”
“Many will lie. Many are lying, have been lying,” he said. “In some ways, this is a really perfect recipe for lots of people to be dishonest about whether they got vaccinated. They can say, well, everyone who really is worried about it has gone out and done it, and my personal risk is low.”
Oh
my
GOD!!!!
Murderers walk among us.
They can say, well, everyone who really is worried about it has gone out and done it, and my personal risk is low.
And they would be correct.
Again, those who are vaccinated shouldn’t care. Those who are not have every opportunity to get vaccinated (Publix is taking walk-ins now) if they are worried about it.
If I’m vaccinated, I don’t care whether they’re lying or not.
What’s wrong with you? Where is your outrage? Why can’t you see the need for iron fisted KONTROLLE?
That’s my real problem–I have no desire to tell other people what to do. And I’m not a big rule-follower.
Yet somehow I became an administrator at a public university. It just doesn’t add up.
They’ll claim it is about protecting society at large.
But soon, imo, everyone who wants the vaccine will have had the chance to get it.
I’ve received several “but what about people allergic to vaccines”?
I looked this up. The number of people in the US allergic to vaccines is 400. That’s not per capita or anything. That’s total. lol.
So there are only 400 people with egg allergies who can’t take the egg-based vaccines?
I’d be interested in the source for that number. It seems remarkably small for such a general claim: “The number of people in the US (out of ~800 million) that are allergic to (any of the numerous) vaccines (which are not all made the same way and may contain any number of different ingredients).”
My wife, for what it’s worth, is allergic to the tetanus vaccine. Last time she got one, they told her don’t ever get one again. We don’t know what other vaccines she may be genuinely allergic to, but when she went to get the ‘vid jab, they heard “allergic to [any] vaccine” and told her to leave the building immediately.
Outrage is exhausting. I have better things to spend my energy on.
Yet somehow I became an administrator at a public university. It just doesn’t add up.
It’s good camouflage. No one would think to look for you there.
*shrugs* Anyone who isn’t to the left of AOC knows to avoid that shit like the plague anyway.
Anyone who isn’t to the left of AOC are fewer than one would think
There’s a good piece by Tal Bachmann at Steynonline today, referencing Erich Fromme and his theory on why some people need to “escape from freedom” and why they need to take yours away too.
The psychology of the whole thing is oddly fascinating—why are some people unsuited to freedom? “…when it comes to human beings and their social environments, there’s a sweet spot between freedom and its absence, and we’re not in it.”
https://www.steynonline.com/11294/tal-bachman-we-have-met-the-enemy-part-iii
Interesting. It’s kind of a chicken-or-egg argument. Wokeism makes people isolated, anxious, and insecure, about as well as anything.
What I don’t understand, is why more people, when confronted with wokeism, don’t simply laugh and reject it out of hand?
(P.S. – I like my spelling of wokeism better. Wokism sounds like the condition of having a wok.)
Either way, the Chinese are behind it?
That’s my real problem–I have no desire to tell other people what to do.
That’s the real tell. There are a lot of people out there who are angry and disappointed by the relaxation of the mask rule. They have been betrayed and sold out.
Speaking of which, it’s that time again:
DID THE CDC RUSH ITS DECISION?
Chuck Todd’s breathless concern trolling starts now.
But, but, but…I thought the CDC was SCIENCE? How can SCIENCE be wrong? *bites lip, eyes get weepy*
Atupid rain is costing me money
Stupid goddamnit
There is also a dog who barks at every thunder
Rain rain go away
https://youtu.be/T5Sof1M-tLQ
Sea Urchins
https://youtu.be/2dHyfKprouE
XTC
Radio played Dear God this morning. I should dust off that album (probably my oldest CD).
It’s a fantastic album. Do your ears a favor and listen to it today.
Skylarking is an amazing album. Actually, most of theirs are. I dug out Black Sea the other day and it was even better than I remember.
Here’s a good cut.
https://youtu.be/NQYBij6nkcc
The Verlaines
https://youtu.be/luBqfOHd6jQ
Unrest
https://youtu.be/b5JpTkM0olA
The Chesterfields
https://youtu.be/mHoFCHPODS4
Das Damen
It’s still too dangerous!!!!!!!1
It’s too confusing!!
Tell us what to do, Big Nanny!!!!!
Make us behave, like good little boys and girls.
Tell us what to do, Big Nanny – give me $5000
“Mixed” families; some vaxxed, some not.
What should they do?
Fuck?
I’m going with lying, I’m fully vaccinated, now Fuck yourself, it worked at Meijer yesterday, and the sheep whos stared at me? they got Resting Bitch face Bob, who can make women cry and Men run in fear…..
I thought i was fully vaccinated but now in the local news thay are starting to say a third dose was needed
I’m fully vaccinated, for Measles, mumps polio and rubella….
Heh,
Dip-tet!
They’re saying the Pfizer one will need a booster shot in 3-6 months – haven’t heard it for any of the others.
The whole circus is going to start up again by next winter. I don’t know why the public hasn’t caught on to that yet.
People are stupid.
Baaa… baa… baaa..
That’s tempting… But I also think this creeping authoritarianism into our personal business needs to be fought loudly, and hoping others will fight that fight is hopeless. We are in the right here, we can’t be afraid to tell the truth. Be the change you want to be in the world.
I never saw the phrase Ollie ollie out in free! Typed but i always heard oxen and for a moment i thought i was wrong all along but a google tells me i was not and this is a fake phrase
I always heard oxen.
Ditto
I suspect it started as something like, “All ye, all ye, come in free”, but then hundreds of years of kids teaching kids led to massive linguistic drift.
Thirded. It’s oxen free where I grew up.
Oxen here.
Stolen from the Scandinavians
Originally, in Mpls, circa 1945
“Ole, Ole, in free!”
Used to call kids home after their curfew, with no punishment
Poor Liz Cheney. Why is Trump’s robot army persecuting her?
Just think how far you have to have fallen to actively carry water for the daughter of Darth Sidious.
Heiress to the war machine
Oh, Chuckie, you tenacious little badger.
Is there a doctor in the house? Does anyone know what causes feeling feverish with normal temperature?
I had a bit of a sore throat earlier in the week, but that could have been from vaping, changes in weather, etc.
Felt OK Friday, no symptoms, then couldn’t sleep that night (I have chronic insomnia). Saturday and this morning, feeling feverish with normal temperature. Haven’t eaten since Friday.
Covid? Other than that, dunno. Sorry you’re feeling lousy.
That’s what I’m worried about. Not for my sake, but because I have to take care of a high-risk family member.
Walmart carries home Covid tests, 2/$20 (spit); can someone bring you one?
That’s an idea, but I doubt it anyone could bring me one.
I would if I were local. Any other glibs near you?
I don’t think so, but I think there is a place to go get tested when I feel well enough to drive.
Doesn’t Wal Mart do home delivery for a minimum amount? Just add some other groceries or shit.
You need to eat, even a glass of milk or an ensure drink, or you will get worse, see a Doctor now!
Fwiw, I don’t think my doctor works on Sundays.
Urgent care centers and ERs do.
Fwiw, my husband’s Adventures in Brain and Heart Surgery began with chills, lack of appetite, and a low grade fever that came and went at random intervals.
He decided to try and power through it instead of going to the doctor. That was in January.
Just sayin’
Urgent care. Or call a nurse helpline, explain what’s going on, that you have high risk family members. They’ll tell you to go to urgent care, so you may as well start there. Then you can put the worry aside and focus on getting better.
Hydrate
I second this. Get some nutrients in you – even junk food is better than nothing. One of the worst medical incidents I’ve been through was directly caused by not eating because I was too tired/in pain to feed myself. Choke it down if you have to.
I made my husband drink Atkins shakes (what we happened to have) when he refused all other food. At least it was something, and it had vitamins etc.
He still ended up dangerously low on sodium; the doc called us and told me to rush him to the ER when he got the sodium count back with the other blood work.
Anyway, if your illness seems different than anything you’ve had (more fatigue, lack of appetite, malaise) get thee to urgent care.
I was gonna suggest even broth and saltines at this point if real food isn’t working for him.
Sprite.
Thanks, I ate a piece of toast, and a glass of milk.
You ate a glass of milk? Man, that’s not going to help.
Probably to many things cause that to be able to tell on the interwebz
Lyme disease symptoms, wood ticks are out in MN
Good call.
My dog just came down with something called anaplasmosis. Poor dog couldn’t even stand up for a couple days.
Deer ticks are asshoe.
Allergies? When mine act up badly, I’ll feel sick but won’t have a fever.
I hope you get better soon.
I think bloody marys are in order for breakfast. Tomato juice, splash of pilsner, splash of lime juice, horseradish, worchestershire, tabasco. Tito’s vodka. Salted rim. Garnish with a celery stalk, hunk of swiss cheese, and a little dill pickle.
And donuts.
Gotta head to the grocery.
I’m pretty impressed by Crenshaw. He did a good job of keeping his cool.
Kinziger is now shrieking about the Crime of the Century.
Does anyone know what causes feeling feverish with normal temperature?
Sounds like menopause.
I had that after the second moderna shot – lasted overnight. Didn’t lose my appetite though.
the feverish feeling without an actual temp increase – not menopause….
I hear the sound of jackboots.
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
TRUMP
🙁
I went on a walk along a new route. As I was approaching home, I went “I’m not as tired as I was yesterday.” Checked the route – it was only 1.6 miles.
Dammit. Now I have to take another walk later today.
(TedS)
^^^This.
I make this correction every time someone tells me that “stupid Covid wrecked my year” or whatever grievance that they want to lay at the feet of the virus.
Some people then stop and think about it. Others immediately go on the defensive and tell me about real people who’ve died of Covid. I don’t doubt their tales, but I wonder why they are so reluctant to recognize that the government and media sacrificed them for power.
I’m probably quite the monster for saying this out loud, but people die. People are a renewable resource. Functioning cultures, maybe not so much…
I point out that I know more people who have died from the flu than from COVID.
For people in my circle, it’s been pneumonia. And I suspect the masking has made them more susceptible to catching that. And definitely the fear of catching Convid delayed them seeking treatment for the pneumonia in 2 cases.
Hope they get the pneumonia vax from now on.
It also pisses me off to no end that all of the negative effects of shutdowns are laid at the feet of an insentient virus. The amount of commercials that I hear on my radio that I’ve yelled at over the past year is astonishing. It’s now at the point where I immediately change the channel once I start to hear the Vid bullshit start. It’s weird how many people just accept as normal the reactions of governments to this thing. Their side should bear the burden of proof, not ours.
If you feel like it in these interactions, I would posit your last sentence as a question.
Elected officials are hearing from their constituents that they still prefer Trump.
DEMOCRACY! demands they ignore the people who elected them and do as we in the media say.
Well that’s usually what happens when you manufacture votes to win elections; the real people want the other guy.
the real people
Racists and rednecks? or is that redundant
Potato, potahto.
Who will rid us of this meddlesome TRUMP?
SCIENCE!
Hundreds blow whistles against anti-Asian violence in Oakland
Totally not superstitious cultists.
Nope.
That’ll work.
Oh, they mean literally?!
Someone raised the good point that why was the media not hyping their imaginary Asian Hate Crisis a year ago. Why now?
To set the narrative that any opposition to Kung Flu restrictions is couched in anti-Asian racism.
How many rape whistles got ignored because of this dangerous exercise?
They needed a new moral panic as the Covid hysteria is starting to wind down. That and the Dems saw the numbers from the last election and don’t really dig that minorities have started a (slow) movement over to the other Team. I saw a bus the other day in town that was festooned with one of those all encompassing wraps. It said if I saw any example of “anti Asian hate” that I should call the FBI.
What do you call a destroyed AP building?
A good start.
Jackals anyway.
—-Jesse Ventura
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.li/awiGj
Schools should continue to require face masks “at all times, by all people in school facilities” for the rest of the academic year, according to updated CDC guidance issued Saturday.
FUCK YOU
From the sidebar of that story
Old Guy Music is interesting.
Won’t some PLEASE think of the children!!!!
What do we do about cybercrime?
I know- we’ll blame TRUMP!
and then….
“If you’re fully vaccinated, enjoy your new PRIVILEGES.”
Eat shit and die, Chuckie.
Anchorage finally got rid of the municipal mask mandate on Friday evening. The newspaper comment section was full of pants shitting hysteria,
On the plus side, it was nice to go out for a bite on Friday evening when I got back to town and not perform the mask kabuki on my way to the way to the table.
Long time no see.
Glad to know you’re getting some normalcy.
The state-level requirements were dropped a few months ago and it was left to each borough(county)/city to decide at the local level. I think this was the correct choice, even if I didn’t agree with what Anchorage chose. There was some debate whether or not cities or boroughs without public health powers under state law could even enforce a mask requirement, but nobody ever took it it court. I talked to a municipal lawyer about it and the person said that anyone who challenged it would probably win, but nobody ever took it that far. Any challenge to a city or unincorporated community that has a native village would have opened a can worms.
The main complaint I have with localities initiating such mandates is that it’s equally heavy-handed, and it makes it harder for someone not of the locality to figure out what the rules are in any given spot.
That’s a valid complaint about the heavy handedness and patchwork of jurisdictions. It’s not so bad here there’s as most boroughs and cities are well demarcated and fairly separate. Other than people going back and forth from the Valley to Anchorage, there’s not a lot of people going from jurisdiction to jurisdiction unless you fly, which is another story. I spent all week in a place that had no mandate at the local or borough level, but each business was free to set policy and post it on their doors.
It might work better in a more spaced out state.
I’m stuck in a region with a very dense patchwork of municipalities and other localities. When each of them has a different ruleset… it gets hair-pulling since five minutes and I an in an area with a new range of requirements.
Good morning friends!
My kids hit the road back to CO this morning. It was a fun few days, but I get bummed when they leave.
I’m gonna go for a long walk and listen to some XTC (thanks EDG and Toxeth!)
Oh, I hit four different stores yesterday, all with mask signs. I went un-diapered and had exactly zero issues.
Krikey, I opened up the pork chops to prep them. 4 chops were 3.8 lbs. I wasn’t even paying attention when dude picked them out. I’m picky about which steaks I get, but pork is pork and I don’t usually have much opinion on which ones I get. These are honking big. Two to a plate big.
Don’t call it a purge
A Space Force lieutenant colonel has been removed from his command after appearing on a conservative podcast criticizing the United States military.
Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier joined The Steve Gruber show to discuss his new book, “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military,” which alleges that Marxist ideologies are becoming widespread within the armed forces. He expounded on those concerns in the podcast.
“Since taking command as a commander about 10 months ago, I saw what I consider fundamentally incompatible and competing narratives of what America was, is and should be,” Lohmeier said. “That wasn’t just prolific in social media, or throughout the country during this past year, but it was spreading throughout the United States military. And I had recognized those narratives as being Marxist in nature.”
When pressed on what exactly he meant, Lohmeier decried the New York Times 1619 Project, a historical look at how slavery formed America’s institutions, as “anti-American.”
“It teaches intensive teaching that I heard at my base — that at the time the country ratified the United States Constitution, it codified White supremacy as the law of the land,” Lohmeier said. “If you want to disagree with that, then you start (being) labeled all manner of things including racist.”
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“Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, Space Operations Command commander, relieved Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier of command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, May 14, due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead,” a Defense Department official told CNN. “This decision was based on public comments made by Lt. Col. Lohmeier in a recent podcast. Lt. Gen. Whiting has initiated a Command Directed Investigation (CDI) on whether these comments constituted prohibited partisan political activity.”
“Defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic.”
How quaint.
Now sign the Loyalty Oath.
Eh, a serving officer isn’t supposed to be appearing on a political show and publicly criticizing the institution. That’s not new.
^
This is correct. What he did, no matter the political POV, is a no-no.
Get woke or get bounced, this politicization of the military is incredibly dangerous.
I recall several of the top brass getting bounced under Obama. He purged anyone likely to be conservative at every turn.
Obama spent much of his administration overhauling the executive branch in ways that were not widely noticed and will not be easily undone, if at all.
Contrast this with the guy from the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
I got a bummed out teen as he broke up with his first GF. His choice and quite a mature on at that. The night he did it (Friday night into Saturday) he snuck out to go to a friends house at 1am to talk to a friend.
I cant get too mad cause he did what we always tell them to which is “we don’t need you to talk to us, but have a friend you can talk to”.
Ah young love.
A brutal but necessary experience.
Never gets any easier.
I dunno, it’s pretty easy when you find out she’s been fucking your (former) best friend.
-sooper dooper not speaking from experience…
Damn dude. Brutal.
It’s all good. My wife is way hotter than she was anyway.
Friend or “friend”?
That’s a bummer, though,.
For Gender Traitor
I’ll see your bid and raise you an Anka.
Just tell him to think of it as freedom. Maybe run through the fields screaming ‘FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST!’.
Prissy bitches of the world, UNITE!
“The thought of those kids leaving our museum and having the first thing they see is the undergarments and underwear of this enormous Marilyn sculpture would be highly offensive,” Grachos told the council.
The horror.
The HORROR.
The
poorpuritans will always be with us.Unless there’s a giant stainless steel and aluminum early ‘60s beaver showing under there what are they worried about?
“early ‘60s beaver”
We’re gonna need a bigger weed whacker.
Pretty shitty how the journalist lumps Trina Turk in with Grachos and Armstrong. Turk has clear objections* that have nothing to with sexism or pricey, but the focus is all on the prudes.
*no data showing the statue is a benefit, the city didn’t follow its own rules regarding closing a street.
I’m pretty sure she just talks about you after they’re done having sex.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/14956530/my-wife-is-obsessed-with-her-colleague/
“She’s literally going to be mooning the museum,” says Elizabeth Armstrong, a spokesperson for a Change.org petition objecting to Marilyn’s objectification. It has more than 40,000 signatures. Armstrong is also a former director of the Palm Springs Art Museum.
They should hang a cock and balls on it. in the name of gender equity.
“She’s literally going to be mooning the museum”
Absolutely SHOCKING. They might as well display hardcore porn.
+1 needs a Linda Lovelace statue
You know who else was a robotic world-beater?
Not sure about world beaters. But Biden is a robotic senile mess.
The Witch Hunts shall continue unabated
Well, since 6 out of 10 women believe they can take on a grizzly bare handed, I’m not so sure…
6 out of 100.
Shesh man, at least get your orders of magnitude correct.
You’re ruining the narrative.