Shade is something that basically doesn’t exist here. Yet somehow, I’m shady. Is it because of the way I look at scantily clad females? Is it because of my flouting of “health” mandates? Is it because of my outré views of the State and authority in general?
Nope. It’s because we don’t have any fucking trees or clouds, and a blast-furnace sun. People here don’t vie to park close to building entrances. Instead, they fight over some meager shadow provided by scrawny, dying saplings. Or cast by a fat old Jew. Fat old Jew shadows are bigger and better.
There are still birthdays today, including a guy who knew his boundaries; a guy who was nothing if not diverse; yet another guy who should have won the Nobel; an Irish guy who spoke flawless Yiddish; a guy who inspired John Waters’s first movie; winner of the Jan Brewer Sound-Alike contest; a commie who suddenly became a grasping capitalist when those millions could be his; The Squad’s spirit animal; a cartoon music guy who was no Raymond Scott; “Very pretty, Colonel, Very pretty. But, can they fight?“; an apparently good-humored punch line to many jokes; a piece of shit ready to retire; and a Canadian piece of shit who is still inflicting himself on us.
Those are the headlines, now the rumors behind the news.
NPR is nothing if not reliable in phraseology, framing, and spin.
Experts. We are wall-to-wall experts.
The Israelis are far more patient and tolerant than I’d be.
Sounds like insurrection to me.
A refreshing antidote to the “OMG THE EARTH IS ON FIRE!” media coverage.
Old Guy Music is a great old John Hartford tune sung by one of the very best voices in bluegrass. Oh, and she plays guitar like Billy Strings.
The vaccine is turning people into pumpkins!
*waits for knock on the door*
I do not have monkeypox on my 2021 apocalypse bingo card.
?
I miss the Great Ebola Panic of 2014.
Dont worry, there is always another one just around the next bend. I cant count the times I have lived through the end of the world.
Not even net neutrality got us… I’m vaguely disappointed.
Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer?
I don’t care. I’m just happy I can finally use spray antiperspirant again.
I still think the Y2K Bug is going to come back around. When the airplanes fall from the sky and the appliances explode, everyone will think Covid wasn’t so bad.
Lockdowns!!! It’s the only way to be safe.
There’s another one coming in 2038, FWIW.
Meh. Emperor Harris will have shipped us all into green energy work camps by then.
How many 32-bit devices are still around?
Billions.
e.g.,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M
^^^ ‘nix apocalypse!
How about a return of acid rain?
They could get that keyboard playing kid to revamp “Chocolate Rain” as “Acid Rain” for the public awareness campaign.
It would be epic.
This keyboard-playing kid?
I bought a bunch of cars from them, when they first started. They didn’t much care how much they got for them because the cars were all free for them. Kind of like how the Dems are treating the whole country now. I made a bunch of money selling those cars, minimum double and mostly tripling my money.
Woohoo! I got somebody to click that link! 😉
LOL
I want the killer bees we were promised.
I think I found the old SNL sketch in which Edwin Newman was training a bartender to be a network TV news anchor to the strains of “Terrain in Maine is stained with acid ra-ain,” but I can’t get the damn vid to play. 🙁
Maybe it’ll play for you guys. /weak outdoor wireless signal
Nope. No worky.
We had a hand-me-down PT Cruiser that eventually (just shy of 200K miles) died of a cracked block. We gave it to KfK, got nice tax deduction and were quite happy with the deal. About 3 months later, I see the car parked in a local shopping center, my aftermarket valve-stem caps, unique dents and all. The free market is an awesome thing.
Surprised nuclear winter was not mentioned. Cures global warming AND population bomb. What’s not to like?
Bhadelia cited findings by the Kaiser Family Fund survey that found 54% of Americans either believe in or cannot distinguish whether a common Covid vaccine myth is fact or fiction.
That’s some fine journalisming.
Is her first name Amhelia?
lol
It strikes me, yet again, how scary authoritarian many high caste Indian women are. Seems to me that whenever I hear a particularly tone deaf appeal to authority or condescending dismissal of the concerns of the masses, there’s some 1st or 2nd gen female Indian immigrant saying it.
I know just enough about that culture to paint with an overbroad brush, so I’ll not go so far as saying that their culture is fundamentally incompatible with individual liberty….
Ditto here. I have noticed the same.
What is it tyrannical/authoritarian countries? Why do they have such population explosions?
“survey”
SCIENCE!
We must ban the Covid misinfo followed by the climate change misinfo, the Russian collusion misinfo (We all know Trump did it, right?), the lab origin misinfo, and the everything that goes against the officially government sanctioned narrative misinfo. The slippery slope vacancy isn’t really a fallacy.
China is very proud of the Biden administration. I mean, they should be. They certainly spent enough money on it.
Yeah, money they got from us buying their cheap landfill bound junk.
How about misinformation on guns?
I guess the misinfo that the 2nd is an individual right? Oh, absolutely…
Don’t forget election misinfo.
According to my model…
Covid vaccinations in the U.S. have already prevented roughly 279,000 deaths and 1.25 million hospitalizations, according to an analysis published last week by researchers at Yale University and the Commonwealth Fund. The report suggests that without vaccines, Covid would still be topping cancer and heart disease as the leading cause of death in the U.S. — even into the summer, when respiratory viruses typically fade into the background.
SCIENCE!
We gots our top conjure wimminz on it.
It’s been so politicized who the fuck knows what the truth is now? Considering the source I’m just going to assume it’s typically slanted garbage.
“typically slanted garbage.”
THE CCP SEES WHAT YOU DID HERE.
I don’t buy that for a nanosecond.
54% of Americans either believe that or don’t know if it’s fact or fiction.
Ministry of Truth.
Not so far fetched, now.
Some people took the book as a warning and others as a how-to.
Bhadelia told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” she believes social media companies can do a lot more to stop disseminating disinformation.
“They need to invest a lot more resources, and better enhance their balance of taking that information down more quickly, invest more resources in changing their matrix, because, right now, what gets on top of your page is not what’s correct, it’s what’s popular,” said Bhadelia, an NBC News medical contributor
She also suggested that social media companies form more partnerships with public health bodies in order to get the right information to people.
Public-private partnerships will bring forth a new and perfect world, in which no doubt or confusion will exist.
These entities are no longer private, they’re defacto government actors either via agreement or by bending to coercion.
⬆
*gives Bellamy salute*
Now there’s a name.
Yeah, it’s like I hardly see any vax commercials anymore. ?
“I’m your city’s doctor”. JFC, that guy is ubiquitous and insufferable. Guy named Chokshi, but I think of him as Tchotchke.
The John “Legend” one irritates me the most.
That’s not for you.
He looks like an experiment gone wrong. I guess some female is into that.
Ah, yes, because this is a budget issue, not an issue of law
Damn near everything can be tied back to the budget.
It’s like the magical commerce clause which allows the federal government to do whatever they want.
The whole dreamer thing could have been codified in law, but Pelosi so hated Trump that nothing he suggested could be considered.
Yep. He wanted to play ball and she took it and went home because…OMB
One thing im adamant about is that people who get here illegally, regardless of age, should never get citizenship.
We can talk about “path to legal residency” but citizenship must be reserved for the people who due the immigration process the long, slow, legal way.
Otherwise what’s the incentive to do it legally?
Incentives are white supremacy.
Well, I’m paying out a bunch of hefty incentives – including one for me – with our next pay, so bring it on! ::dons white hood::
There’s a counter to the “do it legally” argument. Our immigration policies are totally corrupt and unfair. They are administered by the same corrupt assholes who run the whole rest of the government. There’s huge masses of people who flatly are barred from entry, regardless of any choices they make, and not for any decipherable reason.
As an example of how unfairly these laws are applied, I knew a guy who was an outlaw biker. Not a very cool dude and probably mixed up in some seriously shady shit. However, there was no evidence proving him guilty of any crime. The cops hate those dudes and will stop at nothing to harm them, again, regardless of evidence or guilt. They tried and tried until finally they found out that he was brought to America from Hungary as a two year old kid. They busted him and deported him. He was 40 years old and stuck in Hungary. As far as I know, he’s never returned to the US.
Ouch.
You do speak the truth. If the state or its paid thugs are against you, they can dig long enough to find any excuse to persecute you.
We all commit federal crimes daily without even realizing it.
Three felonies a day.
“I knew a guy who was an outlaw biker”
Ok.
I straddle the line, but I prefer to hang out with yuppies. They eat better and go to prison less and they are way less apt to cause injuries. Oh, and they make way better motorcycle shop customers, too.
Brother, you ain’t lyin’. A friend was the manager of the merchandise shop at HD Manhattan; that place made money.
Look, and despair
Co-founder of MotherNation Cait Zogby said she and her wife planned not to find out the sex before birth, but when Zogby learned she was pregnant with twins, she and her partner “very comically regressed to the reptilian part of the brain that needed to be reassured of survival. Knowing everything we could about who was in there gave us a sense of control,” however false, she said. She and her wife knew that sex did not correlate to gender, but Zogby was struggling with perinatal depression and felt naming — using family names that happened to be very gendered — was “an added avenue for connection.”
This idea that the revelation of a baby’s sex can feel like a surprise — welcome or not — is something I heard from many mothers, including those who waited for the big reveal until their baby was born. A Christian mother of four whose husband works in the church told me, “I think it just feels more special waiting longer,” that feeling of “holding your child with the news” is better “than simply being told.”
When I was pregnant, other women who opted to “wait” to find out the “gender” often repeated to me a similar line as a way to encourage me to do the same: “It is one of the last great surprises in life!” I was troubled by this rationale, which implies there are only two choices: early gratification or delayed. And what exactly is the revelation here? This logic seems to assume that to know the biological sex is to crown the baby as a person. But what does it say about our understanding of personhood that we feel the urge to assign a baby a gender before we can imagine them as human? And why are we so desperate for connection this early in the long game of parenting?
This steaming load of ostentatious gibberish is brought to you by the Deep Thinkers at Vox. You have been warned.
What you pasted is enough to make me need meds. I’ll pass on the link. All I want to know is who got the psycho preggers? He needs to be gelded.I don’t care care how his DNA was delivered.
Internet Brony porn and a turkey baster most likely.
Mystery solved.
Vox…
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
You put the warning at the end? *sigh* *takes Ibuprofen* *makes sign of the cross, prays for no brain damage*
You could have hovered over the link.
Knowing everything we could about who was in there gave us a sense of control
Note that she uses “who”, not “what”. There’s not just a clump of cells in there.
*faints*
“the revelation of a baby’s sex can feel like a surprise — welcome or not”
I think we all know what sex baby would not be welcome.
The music…very nice. Thank you OMWC
I like Molly.
Some sweet singin’ & pickin’ goin’ on there. 🙂
The banjo player looks like Dave Baker, one of the judges on Forged in Fire.
She’s terrific.
Yes she is. Generally I think other’s taste in music stinks cuz, you know, it is an objective science, but in your case I make an exception. Very nice choice.
Agreed!?
It’s hysterical twats, all the way down
A former Trump administration official is calling the Republican Party the “No. 1 national security threat.”
Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, made the comment during a Thursday interview on MSNBC’s “The Reid Out.”
“I’ve spent my whole career not as a political operative. I’ve never worked on a campaign in my life other than campaigning against Trump. I’m a national security guy. I’ve worked in national security against ISIS, al Qaeda and Russia,” Taylor said.
“And the No. 1 national security threat I’ve ever seen in my life to this country’s democracy is the party that I’m in — the Republican Party. It is the No. 1 security national security threat to the United States of America,” he said.
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Taylor worked for the DHS from 2017 to 2019 and at one point served as chief of staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Weeks before the 2020 election, Taylor revealed that he was the anonymous author of an op-ed in The New York Times titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” which was published in 2018.
Taylor said on Twitter that he stands by his Thursday remarks.
“I stand by my statement. Unless my Party reforms, its extremist elements represent the leading threat to our democracy,” he tweeted Friday
Obviously, if a Republican candidate wins an election, DEMOCRACY! has been usurped.
His 15 minutes of fame are all gone. So sad.
Stunning and brave.
Whoa, another one who’s “..not a political operative.”
I guess ‘political operative’ must be the Journolist Word of the Day.
I just got here and I was reading bottom up from the thread and had to scroll back down in a double take fashion because of that.
Just the same as the CDC and president and news all using “Pandemic of the unvaccinated”
Pure propaganda
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/second-week-row-covid-19-vaccination-deaths-covid-19-deaths-us-according-cdc-vaers-websites/
“Safe, effective, and free. ” ?
Go ahead, censor me.
It really says something that more people are dying from the vax than the vid and it can’t be found on any major media source. BTW, the VAERS system is reportedly on catching around 10% or less of the real cases. This number could be 100k.
Misinformation on Facebook killed those people.
By no means am I suggesting it isn’t right to question prevailing narratives, but I find their method used to declare Covid vaccine deaths to be complete nonsense, honestly.
Having a heart attack within the week of getting a vaccination *could* be related but could not be. I probably need a bigger picture of the age/shape of recipients and usual chance of death.
Same as covid deaths. But we know the government is absolutely lying to us. About everything.
Vax death numbers, may be fuzzy, but I truly believe it’s real and under reported. Long term effects? Who knows?
That’s why almost all clinical trials last for 5 years or so before a drug or device is approved for the market. This one? 6 months? And they are still liable if it harms you.
But it’s an emergency! That’s why you have to totally waive your rights if it kills you. Human rats everywhere, let the experiments begin!
In fairness, this is a measure of people who have died postvax, not necessarily from the vax.
No. It’s unverified for sure, but it’s people who have reported adverse reactions to this vaccine, up to and including death. Somebody has to actively report it. It also supposedly only catches about 10% of the actual adverse reactions, or at least that’s the number NHS gave about prior vaccines.
“Safe, effective, and free. ”
Look, if we can’t even get you deplorables to take a completely 100% safe vaccine, how are we going to get you in those boxcars for your own good?
Not just FREE, they are getting corporations to bribe people to take it! How awesome it must be.
https://www.wfmz.com/video/reading-steps-up-vaccine-efforts-especially-in-children-city-officials-say/video_e14c6731-f073-5112-9e5d-55932b806408.html
Stickers, ice cream, and cheap sunglasses. There is no punchline.
There’s a jabline, however.
And here I thought it was illegal to offer inducements to get people to take something that is still under an EUA.
Black Riffle Coffee, alienating their own customer base since 2020:
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1415931737411096577
They’re not big fans of Rittenhouse or of the people who think he was justified it seems.
Never heard of it, but it sounds racist.
A lot of the libertarian and conservative podcasters I listen to at work were advertising them at one time is how I’m familiar. I’ve never had it myself to be honest.
Me neither. It’s very pricey.
But to me this all is Mixing Business and Politics Is a Terrible Idea, Vol. MCXIII.
Doubly so if you built a foundation on a certain political bent and then you switch course but I’d much prefer a coffee company that concentrates on, you know, coffee.
You’re not missing anything. BRRC was a short con from the beginning, selling cheap shitty coffee beans to the segment of the Boomercon base that gets a semi over the Thin Blue Line flag. Fuck them.
Rittenhouse wuz the bad guys on this show, so anything or anyone bearing that name is, like, totally evul!!!1!
I like Deathwish Coffee.
They are probably raving lefties do I plan on avoiding learning about their politics.
I just want coffee. Cofeve. Whatever.
We get our beans fresh-roasted from this local guy, who started out selling at our neighborhood farmers’ market. From our many conversations with him, I believe he could easily be One Of Us. 🙂
There was an old Italian cafe/roasters in Carrol Gardens, Brooklyn that I loved; I would get all my catering coffee there. The old man died and his kids sold the place; it now has Hipsteritis. Nowadays, I’m quite fond of 8 O’Clock brand in most of its flavors – whole bean, fresh grind, French press, 5 tablespoons of coffee + 5 teaspoons of sugar (for 20oz. press) = perfection.
HA! Wrong link – https://www.eastonecoffee.com/
8 o’clock is my go-to for value. Or Lavazzo if it’s on sale.
Illy is my splurge coffee but holy crap it’s expensive.
I’m sippin’ Lavazza right now, because it was sale. Also, the Lavazza One-Point espresso pod machine is what I used for catering (the pods are 2 packs and wholesale for about $0.75 per); it makes a fantastic espresso and has a steaming wand. It fits perfectly into a milk crate but it’s made from some thick stainless and brass, with lots of aluminum inside so it’s quite heavy.
I’m not a coffee connoisseur, so I drink Chock full of nuts
I adulterate my undoubtedly high quality coffee with sweetener (the yellow packet stuff) and non-dairy creamer, so yeah – I’m no coffee connoisseur either. My coffee guy would probably cry if he knew. 🙁
Chock full o nuts?
*grabs crotch*
How you doin’?
Heading down to Ocean City NJ shortly. In addition to the usual shore amusements, there is also excellent coffee:
https://www.oceancitycoffee.com
Their French roast is exquisite.
Wave at Cape May for me Patzer.
I want to go t Cape May this fall
Left wing coffee, right wing coffee…
…all sourced from the same Guatemalan Oompa Loompa locked in to a “fair trade contract” for the next decade who will certainly become poorer because of rising commodity prices.
MS gets it!
They are white, not black.
https://kodokids.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/wiffle_balls-1024×1024.jpg
“I’d much prefer a coffee company that concentrates on, you know, coffee.”
I dunno, anyone that blows women’s clothes off is alright in my book.
Hospitals are SWAMPED with new plague victims. They’re showing up everywhere. Each of them, panting and wheezing horribly, knocking feebly at Death’s door.
Couldn’t we pretty much eliminate the deadly new wave of Covid by simply turning off the TVs around the world for two weeks?
Just 2 weeks. To flatten the curve.
For the greater good. Let’s do it.
Flattening some democrat pols and TMITE might be more effective. Definitely calls for tanks. That’s the mistake the insurrectionists made on Jan 20, they forgot the tanks.
F15s are the hot new insurrectionist tool, I hear.
Tanks on the ground for the mop up work.
“Officials arrest ‘Roman gladiator’ who stormed Capitol while filming it for his mom”
Was he a real Ninja… errr, I mean gladiator?
Did he ever fly on a jumbo jet as a kid? Maybe meet the pilot?
Probably was wandering around after auditioning for a Village People tribute band.
“Who’s in the on deck circle?”
The important thing is that the disease name is racist and must be changed or we’ll loot the CVS!
Blasphemous depravity
Tennessee’s decision to cease vaccine outreach to teenagers while in the midst of a pandemic is “incredibly disturbing,” the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
“I find this incredibly disturbing. Not only is it disturbing for Covid, but it is disturbing for all vaccine-preventable illnesses,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in an interview Thursday with CBS This Morning.
The state’s department of health reportedly decided to cease adolescent vaccine outreach for all vaccines, not just for Covid, effectively ending all government communication or education initiatives to teens in the state about vaccines.
The decision made headlines when the state’s medical director for vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization programs at the Tennessee Department of Health, Dr. Michelle Fiscus, was fired after she sent a memo to physicians outlining state policy that allows minors to seek medical care without parental approval.
Misinformation and seditious twaddle.
Dictatorship of the Health Expertocracy is the only thing between us and extinction.
It’s no longer about healthcare anyway. It’s about health equity. Let me translate that. Everyone is equally sick and unhealthy, yay! Equity!
/Same old Marxism
I that those people. I never want to hear the word equity again in my life. It I were Supreme Overlord, there would be the death penalty for even speaking that word. Well, that’s a little extreme. Exile to Pluto would be OK.
::hides paperwork for home equity loan::
Did they figure in the inflation costs to that?
Oh, I forgot, inflation isn’t real. Well, OK, it’s real, but it’s not bad or anything. /Krugabe
Isn’t she the one who went on TV about her sense of dread about another wave in the spring? A wave that never happened. Wasn’t that misinformation? She should be deplatformed.
Silicone Saturday for your Onanistic pleasure you lecherous deviants.
https://archive.li/judJL
Thar she blows! Talking point, off the starboard bow!
“I am not a political operative, I am a physician,” Fiscus told MSNBC. She said she was told she was “poking the bear” and that she needed to work on her political awareness after publicizing the public document. Republican lawmakers likened the state’s adolescent vaccine outreach to peer pressure, she said.
Tennessee has one of the worst Covid vaccination rates in the country, fully immunizing just 38% of its total population, according to CDC data. The state is also seeing increasing Covid cases, with the average number of daily new cases spiking from 177 to 418 in just the past two weeks.
“We now have our most hesitant population being rural male conservative whites, who really do hang their hat on this political ideology that Covid-19 isn’t real, isn’t a threat, or that getting the vaccine somehow props up the left-wing part of our political system,” she told MSNBC.
It’s them damn white hillbillies who have politicized this by refusing to blindly obey their betters. We only want what’s best for them, the poor deluded dolts.
Politics has nothing to do with it, you stupid Republikkkins.
If the whole fucking state is generating 400 “cases” a day, and only about 1% of them might have anything to worry about, maybe, just maybe, it’s not a very concerning threat. And this is in the one place with the lowest vax rate on top of it.
*checks the official propaganda page on ‘vid deaths in Tennessee*
Sure enough, the average daily death rate from the ‘vid is 5.
I have this feeling that the modified virus was supposed to be a lot more deadly than it was. And it seems that somehow corrupt asshats like Cuomo and Fauci somehow expected that. Thus all the panic about filled up hospitals and shortages of respirators and all that. But the vid turned out to be sort of a dud.
I’m sure the next one really will kill a LOT of people. Feature, not bug.
They’re seeing Covid “cases”. So? Is anyone actually endangered? If so, isn’t it still up to them whether they get the vaccine or not? Let Darwinism work if they really believe in the need for the vaccines, and in their effectiveness.
And as to those “case” numbers, aren’t they easy to tweak simply by increasing the number of cycles the test sample is run through until a positive result is obtained?
This “pandemic” is pretty weak sauce unless you’re over 70 and have pre-existing health issues.
I find it amazing that they’re still making comparisons to the vid and the Spanish flu. China doesn’t have the best engineers, don’t buy a car from them. Like my Korean friend said when the lockdowns first started, ‘don’t worry, it was made in China, it won’t last long’.
Go.
Fuck.
Yourself.
“Isn’t real”
Strawman.
“Isn’t a threat”
It isn’t, for vast swathes of the citizenry.
“Props up the left wing”
Using a manufactured threat narrative to push mail in voter fraud via ballot harvesting.
If you have to lead with, “I am not a political operative…” then guess what?
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Nothing quite says “not a political operative” like deliberately getting in the news to push a partisan political narrative at odds with the facts.
I’d say that Israel is exactly as tolerant as I wish the U.S. was.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/308298
Just be patient. The Xiden admin don’t have time for that tilly stuff, they’re trying to transform the USA into a communist utopia, for your own good.
Xiden administration.
Stolen.
Crisis? What crisis?
Morning, Glibs. I forgot I slept in today and got confused as to where the morning went.
Good morning, U! It IS still morning in our time zone, and still plenty of it left. (My excuse to hang out here until noon.)
Yeah, but sleeping away four hours still makes an impression.
::writes out permission slip for UCS to sleep whenever and for however long his body wants to::
Ive been up since around 8 pm yesterday. You have the whole day ahead of you.
And as to those “case” numbers, aren’t they easy to tweak simply by increasing the number of cycles the test sample is run through until a positive result is obtained?
As Blackjack (I think) asked yesterday, “Who the hell are they even testing?”
Where are those numbers coming from? Other than pulled out of somebody’s ass?
“Researchers” say [insert doomcast]. Of course they do.
Its called a Palo Verde (Green tree….the early Spanish missionaries were not creative) and I will have you know its the official tree of the State of Arizona.
It grows like a fucking weed here.
Never enough
Attorneys representing multiple environmental groups, a mining company and a Montana agency tangled Friday over a state-approved permit for a copper mine that some fear could pollute the Smith River.
The oral arguments presented to Judge Katherine Bidegary at Meagher County District Court centered around whether the Montana Department of Environmental Quality violated state law by issuing a mine operating permit without adequately analyzing the project’s environmental ramifications.
Several environmental groups filed the lawsuit against DEQ after the state agency approved a permit allowing Sandfire Resources America, previously Tintina Resources, to advance construction of the large copper mine about 15 miles north of White Sulphur Springs.
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At Friday’s hearing, Jenny Harbine, a senior attorney for the environmental law firm Earthjustice, argued that Montana DEQ violated the Metal Mine Reclamation Act by failing to ensure the mining company would have safe and stable waste impounding structures.
She added that DEQ violated the Montana Environmental Policy Act by failing to “provide reasonable assurance” that the mining company’s cemented tailings facilities would operate as planned.
“These laws are meant to protect our lands and our waters, and they couldn’t be more important in this case. The Smith River and its tributaries have irreplaceable value to Montana fisheries and residents alike,” she said. “We ask that you send DEQ back to the drawing board on the Black Butte mine to ensure these resources are protected.”
Sarah Clerget, an attorney for Montana DEQ, said at the hearing that the design for the mine’s cemented tailings facility lays out protection after protection to ensure it is safe and stable.
In the six year process of reviewing the operation permit, DEQ had 17 internal experts looking at the mine plan and approving it. The agency also employed 42 other outside experts to review the plan, she said.
They luvs them some SCIENCE!
But let’s face it; SCIENCE! can only be considered truly legitimate when it produces their desired answer.
Science must produce equity. Everything must produce equity. There must be equity.
They are doubtless frightened over the possibility that their decisions could be linked to the next Berkeley Pit.
Monkeypox? Seriously?
I listened to NPR for the short drive to the “corner” store this morning and heard the phrase “the unvaccinated” numerous times about some sports ball team and positive tests. Why didn’t they talk about this? All they say is ‘high instance of positive rates in low vaccinated areas’. I do not recall a time in my life with so much disinformation coming out of TMITE but I am kind of hungover so my memory is a bit foggy.
Rhetorical question:
Is every website but this one a complete shitshow of ads and autoplay videos? I have been playing around with browsers since Firefox broke my laptop. I am now using “Chromium” which has google as the default search engine, and all that crap really hobbles this old machine.
Install uBlock Origin. You might need AutoplayStopper, too.
You’re welcome.
I run both the ScriptSafe and NoScript extensions and on many sites, there are so many scripts from other websites that are not readily identifiable, that I get frustrated and don’t bother loading the page.
Yeah…looking at websites now is like playing space invaders. I just click them off.
“a cartoon music guy who was no Raymond Scott”
The best gift I have received in quite a while was the recent birthday present of the complete Peanuts piano music, by Mr. Vince Guaraldi. The introduction, which is all writing and no music, tells the wonderful story of how GUaraldi came to be the Peanuts music guy. And where “Linus and Lucy” came from.
All I have to do is go by the piano and start that left hand bass line and my wife is like, “NOOO!! That will be in my head all day now!” ?
The music is amazing. It’s pretty incredible how many current well-known, successful jazz musicians have said that the Peanuts music by Guaraldi was their introduction to it.
Raymond Scott. Raymond Scott. Raymond Scott.
I tell you three times.
Here.
^^^::accidentally summons Beetlejuice instead::
Totally racist and not funny. I didn’t even laugh, I swear! Needz moar censorship!
My comment wasn’t meant as a rebuttal, merely an anecdote. I recognize Scott from the Looney Tunes music, which itself, was stupendous. It’s probably how most of us came to know major classical pieces. Who can forget Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam doing opera? Or Bugs ruining the conductor’s life with the glove that can hold a note forever?
I’m just saying Guaraldi was the right guy for the Peanuts. If you read the story how he got the gig, trust me, you’d feel the same way. Right guy at the right place at the right time. Schroeder is the shit and The Peanuts music is awesome. Full Stop.
How Looney Tunes influenced a generation of composers
Well, to be fair, I loved the Peanuts strips before Schultz started in on all the Snoopy crap. Then it got too pedestrian. Absolutely despised the animated versions. I can’t take more than 45 seconds before I go into a (((Hulk))) rage.
Holy Jeebus! I would rather read Gasoline Alley or Mary Worth than The Peanuts. I do like that Snoopy/Red Baron book because when I was a wee bairn, I had Richard Scarry’s Hop Aboard, Here We Go, and fell in love with the Sopwith Camel.
Not Randolph Scott?
I was listening to Rick Beato who has a video called “Why do people hate jazz?” and the Peanuts album is one of only a very few jazz albums to hit platinum.
I bought that album long ago. I ❤️ it.
I think I’ve quoted it here before, but the best line I’ve ever seen or heard about Jazz was Dame Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey.
“Is this your first experience with jazz, Lady Grantham?”
“Oh, is that what this is?… Do you think any of them know what the others are playing?”
Maggie Smith absolutely slayed on that show.
My favorite is the Miles Davis soundtrack of Elevator to the Gallows. Very noir.
IIRC, in Fleming’s novel Live And Let Die, Bond quips to Tee Hee (or maybe Whisper) – “Have you heard the one about the clarinet? An ill woodwind that nobody blows good.”
Can confirm. /former clarinet player
I got a call yesterday from a live person from some agency urging me to get vaccinated. I let it go to VM, but they left a 1:02 long message and it sounded as if they knew I wasn’t vaccinated and going on about the delta variant yadda, yadda. What in the actual fuck. Travis county (Austin) just went back to stage 3. Why, because 4 people in the entire county have tested positive for the new/improved delta variant!!!111eleventy!
Oh they know. You can bet yer ass they know.
And thanks for the Otto repair tips some weeks ago. I was able to change the alternator on POS car without removing the AC compressor. I just had to take off the idler pulley. It was a bitch getting that thing threaded back up but all good.
Install uBlock Origin. You might need AutoplayStopper, too.
You’re welcome.
Thanks. At one point, I tried using a script blocker, and sites wouldn’t load at all.
My competence level at this stuff is “absolute minimum necessary”. I guess I need to brush up. It doesn’t help that this laptop is quite long in the tooth. Right now, I’m pretty much trying to get it to a level of usability where I can take it on the road and have some confidence in it. Ads and bullshit, for now, I guess.
I am using Brave on my 7 (?) years old mac book pro and it works for my ignorant self. Never see ads and what not.
+1, Brave does most of that for you.
This little hummingbird keeps chirping at me between drinks from the feeder. I think he’s telling me to fuck off. Yeah, well I’M the one who fills the feeder, you ungrateful little shit.
She’s little and she loves you, ’til your dying day!
Noice!
Always cracks me up how BB can’t play & sing at the same time. 😀
Count yourself lucky Canadian Geese haven’t figured out humming bird feeders have sweet juice.
“ I think he’s telling me to fuck off. ”
That is absolutely what he’s saying. Hummingbirds are bastards. You just have to be the bigger person. Because you’re bigger. And a person.
I have been attacked a number of times for standing too close to the feeder. It is like someone throwing a cotton ball at me.
Try getting a Hawaiian shirt with red flowers on it. Wear that when you fill the feeder.
My stepson reportedly had ketchup-red hair as a toddler, and when the family ate out on their deck – adjacent to a large “reserve” park – hummingbirds would come and hover around his ears.
We have had a fantastic opportunity here the past week. Damesflies and hummingbirds in mid-air dance while I drink my coffee.
Nature is awesome
Sounds great.
I am using Brave on my 7 (?) years old mac book pro and it works for my ignorant self. Never see ads and what not.
I have Brave on the windows tower. I tried to download it to the laptop and got some sort of processor(?) incompatability message.
I haven’t used a windows machine outside of work in over a decade. I know the computer geeks like them but I am not a computer geek. I am a dumb ass and mac is built for us dumbasses and works great for me.
They are doubtless frightened over the possibility that their decisions could be linked to the next Berkeley Pit.
We’ve always been at war with the Copper Kings.
At one time my father was the world’s leading expert on tailing’s dams. Occasionally they fail causing all kinds of mayhem. When individuals and companies began being prosecuted over those failings he refused to take the job. Design all you want, as soon as you go to sleep the workers contruct the dam the way they think it should be done. Fuck that.
I straddle the line, but I prefer to hang out with yuppies. They eat better and go to prison less and they are way less apt to cause injuries. Oh, and they make way better motorcycle shop customers, too.
Better customers? You want people who pay money, rather than trying to trade you weed, or a cardboard box full of stolen wrenches?
I haven’t used a windows machine outside of work in over a decade.
It was given to me, and it mostly just sat around doing nothing until recently, so I never bestirred myself to put linux on it. Windows 10 is clamoring to be allowed to “upgrade” itself. It might be time to do an elementary linux install.
I’m going out to hopefully buy a sidecar rig today. It’s a really nice ’92 FXLR with a Velorex. I love the bike and can maybe drag my kid around in it instead of having to take one of the cars every time. The seller seems sane and actually accepts cash in person, which sucks if you live in France, but is good for me.
This one. BTW, as a very experienced Harley mechanic, the mid ’90s was the pinnacle for Harley. I have zero interest in any of the newer stuff after seeing the roll out of the Twincam.
EF and I went to look at a 2013 Audi A3 diesel wagon for me to bum around in.
Passenger seat back was falling off; it looks like the driver side seat backl was screwed together – by the previous owner – to keep the seat from falling apart. There was also a big rattling clunk from the hatchback every time you hit a bump (which is every 2-3 seconds here in Michigan).
All this for a car with 48k miles: $15,995 asking price.
Yipes. Used Car prices _are_ insane.
Today I have to go to my parents 60/80 party – being catered, etc – for their 60th Wedding Anniversary, and they turn 80 this year. My eldest brother, who I don’t particularly like, is going to be there along with many other family relations and in-laws.
I’m wondering if I should smoke a bowl before I go in 😉
The answer is always yes (caution, I’m quite muggled right now).
I’m fixin to be. Only remedy for this weather.
It’s brutal today
I’m really looking forward to this expected cold front
Cloudy, light breeze, cool here in Seattle. Currently 61°, predicting to be 72° in the late afternoon.
No rain though. 🙁 We’re edging close to a record dry spell.
Yeah, but it’s Seattle. That’s like saying the weather is great in Kabul. 😉
I just got my shopping in before the afternoon heat. Well, that was the thought process. It’s hard to believe it will get even hotter.
I used to know this, but I forgot.
The Atlantic with your daily dose of Karen porn:
Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/delta-missouri-pandemic-surge/619456/
My peoples come from Greene County. My great-grandfather shot & killed a local yoot who was vandalizing his store in Springfield.
They talk about it a lot on the news, how backward all these redneck counties are who are choosing not to get vaccinated. At least they’re saying “choosing” instead of “don’t have access to the vaccine.”
I think the rate of vaccination for the whole state is less than 40%. I am proud.
forgot to add: to my eyes this is the endgame of the virus; if it’s hitting more rural pockets of the population, herd immunity is taking effect. ie transmission in more populous parts of the states will get rarer.
Not mentioned:
Hospitals everywhere are getting swamped with patients. We are at our limit, and have been for the last couple of months, with very few ‘Vid patients (we have 11 today).
I’m really wishing I had bothered to get a pool pass. Condo office is closed on weekends, so no pool for me.
I just need this motherfucking portable air conditioner kludge job to hold up for two more months, dammit.
One of these?
Love me some redneck AC, but those things pump out so much humidity
Biden says Facebook is “killing people”… but it’s definitely OTHER PEOPLE’s misinformation that is the problem.
Holy fuck these people are stupid AND lack any self-awareness.
No, they think they enough of the chess pieces. They think they can do whatever they want and TMITE will smooth it right over. I’m weakly hopeful that the backlash proves them wrong.
Tomorrow we’ll see if my prediction about Mark Cavendish comes true. He put in no effort yesterday, even though it was a sprinters’ stage. That tells me he’s saving his legs for tomorrow on the Elysian Fields.
The one time I visited PHX, I was participating in this pastime within 5 minutes.