Come onnnn, rain.
We’ve got some thunder cells coming through this weekend. It has brought temperatures down a bit. There are flash flood warnings, but I would be thrilled with some good old fashioned monsoonal moisture to dampen things up and wash some of this smoke out of the air.
Oh, so you don’t have to swab peoples brains anymore?
Who doesn’t miss Alaskas former first MILF?
And I leave you with Dusty on the vocals.
“Super-Spreader Sex Houses”
Dibs on the album name.
a middle-aged dude starfished face up on these people’s shmancy leather couch, completely naked. Goddamn it’s good to be going back to normal!
Yup, totally normal morning in my house.
TMI dude.
Be more French.
I hate everyone in the Alaska story.
Even Kelly “Chew” Tshibaka?
I missed her mention in it.
An article about Talcum X but not one picture of him.
The original at the NY Post has a picture of him.
Thurgood Marshmellow
Wonder what his wife thinks being married to a white guy.
Also, how he keeps systemically robbing black people, fits perfectly. 😀
I’ll take “No Shit” for $100 please Alex.
Behind the Rise of U.S. Solar Power, a Mountain of Chinese Coal
Aaaand much of that coal comes from the US.
I wasn’t aware of that. This site is full of quite the group of people.
China’s US coal imports jump 748% in Q4’20 amid Australian trade dispute
A major freight rail line runs through the town that Mom lives in in Western Montana. At least daily there is a train with 100+ cars of coal headed west and another with a similar number of empty cars returning east.
NARRATOR: “They are not going to coal plants in Seattle”
Only one per day? The coal crunch is still going on. A few years back it would have been at least one each way per hour.
We live two blocks from that line on the other side of the mountains. The traffic is may down a bit, but there is more than on train a day
Pretty much 24 trains per day, on average. However, they are not all carrying coal.
I can not confirm nor deny that i may or may not be running said coal trains on said railroad in the general direction of seattle to possibly go to a particular country that may or may not be commies.
As i type this…
Yeah, exporting the pollution to China is kind of the whole point – while hiding that fact from credulous, or ignorant, greenies.
They should have replaced Alex Trebeck with Alex Jones.
Alex Smith.
We do that here, with states. Cali mandates a certain percentage of our power to come from “renewables” and then exempts power purchased from other states. Then, we purchased a shit load of power from other states and that enables us to meet our goal of whatever percentage they pulled out of their asses this time. It’s a great way to save the planet, if you really don’t care about saving the planet.
New York is pursuing the same con.
What’s totally fucked up, is they apply it to the energy companies and make them live up to it. The meager amount of renewable we get from them costs the percentage of their income that the legislature determined. That means they can’t afford to maintain the existing power poles and viola, forest fires. Then, they blame the fires on global warming and actually increase the percentages and make the problem worse. That’s the one skill they possess is to make things worse.
I’ll totally miss Dusty, he helped me with my Blues Bass style, and all points, in between,
I got to see them three times, so I’m grateful for that. All three times, BTW, they were twice as loud as the opening acts. Twice, at least. They really screwed over Jeff Healey on the Eliminator tour. He was mixed so poorly that you tell he was frustrated. Then ZZ came out and shook the floors.
I’m a fool for this song, I believe.
Stockings are yummy, between is better,
Yes, but I may not want to admit it.
“You’re terrible, Muriel.”
Well, it’s only pure grain alcohol!
With my can of dinner and a bunch of lies!
Have Mercy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BLof0G2sSw
Nobody give me trouble cause they know I got it made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIrhcOIYfA8
You didn’t have to squeeze it but you did
But you did but you did
And I thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlSvVxLYjw
Old Man sits and thinks about his home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi23gO8u_Uw
106 degrees and wildfire smoke in Spokane.
Vegas is getting a nice monsoon summer. I absolutely love it.
I’ve been watching the temps in Vegas because I have friends there I might visit. Our temps have been running pretty close to yours.
It still remains 30F cooler at our home in NM than in Thompson Falls, MT.
We ditched the smoke around SLC. That is a bit of relief.
Some pedant on this site pointed out that my statement should actually be “30R (Rankine)” cooler.
Celsius/Fahrenheit are absolutes while relatives are represented by Kelvin/Rankine.
Sorry, will do better next time.
I guess that became a heated discussion.
It’s just convention to avoid confusion between deltas and readings.
And I take your point, but, as far as semantics and pedantry go, K and R are the absolutes because zero on both scales means no energy or motion.
Funnish story: French boss got a job with the French automotive firm I worked for. Youngin thinks you can just google anything and get a masters in four minutes which is a handy attitude to hold if you need to believe you’re a genius and I’m stupid. I explain that he can’t even grasp the concept of superheat or translate it from R to K (but somehow he’s my boss). Oh you can? Convert 5C to F. Clackity Clack Clack: 41! Chinese guy behind me hides his smile and runs away so he can’t be heard laughing.
Just goes to show, knowledge and understanding are two separate ideas.
I had the former for many, many, years before I had the latter.
We have been smoke free here for most of the summer. Looks like the front pushing through the PNW is moving the smoke our way today.
Watching Fantastic Fungi on Netflix. Thought of Yusef and his former gig
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bacon-may-disappear-california-pig-141827828.html
I can’t even.
More bacon for Iowa. If California doesn’t want it, then fuck’m.
wut
Blue states and cities pay through the nose “for their beliefs” (or more accurately, the beliefs of the activist machine) all the time.
2018 was the year they really upped the cheating game. I doubt anyone really cares about the living conditions of pigs. That’s what the ballot harvesting voted for not the people. BTW, we can eat Foie Gras again here, despite them pulling the same scam with that.
Boo-f*cking-hoo.
“Sex should be removed as a legal designation on the public part of birth certificates, the American Medical Association (AMA) said Monday”
https://twitter.com/WebMD/status/1421312166108581888
OFFS!
Enh, it’s all in your head anyway.
So, we have to ask the kids when they turn 5 and then start injecting them with hormones to prevent them from becoming the wrong dozen types they could have chosen from?
*retreats further into the few dark corners of society where these nutjobs don’t reign supreme*
Totally scientific. Not a hint of politics.
https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1416373661892812801
Same as it ever was.
“The Biden Justice Department on Friday sued Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott seeking to overturn an executive order prohibiting the ground transportation of illegal aliens who could be carrying COVID-19.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s team argued in U.S. District Court that Abbott’s order interferes with the federal government’s ability to address immigration.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he would contest the order and “keep President Biden out of Texas business.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/biden-doj-sues-texas-over-executive-order-banning-transportation-sick
Depending on how the order is written, Biden may get an education on federalism. Abbott can direct state resources not to be used for that purpose. Enjoy reaping what you have sown Team Blue.
“The Los Angeles Unified School District this week announced that students and employees returning to in-person instruction in the fall would be forced to undergo weekly testing even if they’ve been vaccinated against SARS-Cov-2.
“All students and employees, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, returning for in-person instruction must participate in baseline and ongoing weekly COVID testing,” Interim Superintendent Megan K. Reilly told media this week. “This is in accordance with the most recent guidance from the Los Angeles County.””
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/los-angeles-students-will-be-forced-undergo-weekly-testing-even-if-theyre
It’s the teachers that will be the most hated group to come out of this pandemic bullshit. They lobbied for and got, regular checks to cover child care for themselves, while refusing to run classes and causing most people to have to stay home and watch the kids instead of working. It doesn’t get much more cold and calculating than that. How to be hated, 101.
I hope people remember. More than that, I hope a lot more LA parents opt for charters or home school.
We’re supposed to go on the company HR site and tell them our vaccination status.
I’m ignoring it for now. Hoping to avoid it until I receive and accept a new job offer.
They never asked me for proof of measles mumps and rubella vaxx. Not even the flu vaccine (which seems far more analogous) . Why this shit?
Why this shit?
Fascism. Legitimate, no shit, fascism. Why expend the effort entangling the government tendrils into the power centers of these big companies if not to wield that power coercively?
I’m sure antifa will get right on that.
yeah, that’s been funny* that the people who totally would’ve been storming the beaches to punch nazis, are writing tweets about how the unclean antivaxxers need to be ghettoized.
*well, no, not really.
Worse, they are showing up at anti-vax protesters to defend literal fascism.
Yeah, we were asked to voluntarily submit our status, prior to my vacation. Now, it’s a no shit, tell us or you’re fired thing. Then it’s a ” you’ll get tested every week until we can weasel this EUA into a permanent approval and then get the shot” thing. I’m distraught by it.
I saw a small Recall Gascon protest at an intersection near me. All Asian women, it looked like (and I’m not in an LAUSD district, btw). Warmed my heart and I honked as I went by.
Insane.
The fucking vax mandate is getting under my skin. it sure seems like it is violating numerous accepted rights. I work for the government, so there’s no “private company” exception. They are going to punish me for not complying. Without due process. And they’re only forcing those who they have existing leverage over to get it. And, I was hired under a contract. This was not a requirement of me when I agreed to the contract. It’s only the fact that the judicial branch has gotten so evil and political that gives me pause. In the 90’s and prior, I’d feel confident of a win in court. Now, I dunno.
I am sure a mandate would be ruled constitutional. We are in sideways world where the vast majority of the population is at no risk of death or serious injury from Covid but shit done gone sideways thanks to a well executed propaganda campaign. I will refrain from my real thoughts on this because I sound worse than Alex Jones.
“cabal” is starting to come out of my mouth in earnestness. That scares me.
Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark, that is for sure.
Everything I sign, I’m going to write in, “under duress” and “due to coercion” on it. Even just for the testing. I want everyone to know that I oppose this. I want to sue the fuck out of them, but I fear every court is too far gone. The only reason I am complying is to spare my family the hardship of me being unemployed. I’m really pissed off at this. I don’t want to allow my government to force me to take a drug I don’t need and I don’t wamt to accept a punishment for not doing it. If I was single, I’d take my chances.
At this point, I share your pessimism about the court system.
Where we’re at in my family is that we’re not getting the shots. Full stop. We will deal with consequences as they come, but that is our decision. I’ll gladly shove a qtip up my nose as often as they’d like me to. Of course, it’ll be at their cost.
From where I sit, DEI still feels like a bigger threat than vaccine mandates. The lawyers I interact with aren’t talking about covid all the time. It comes up, but more in a “weird times, don’t you think?” context. DEI is omnipresent. It is the religion of the lawyer, and everything is being framed around it. Whether it’s my company, our competitors, industry groups, the law firms we work with, or even our business clients, DEI jargon is dripping out of their mouths. Projects are justified through DEI jargon. Almost every conference and CLE has DEI jargon woven into it. Almost every decision has to be passed through a DEI filter.
It’s not lost on me that we have a racially antagonistic strain of thinking propagating through the same institutions and mechanisms as a strain of thinking focused on forcing medical experimentation on unwilling civilians. I’m getting some profound whiffs of “Axis” with what’s going on right now. It may not be swastikas and rising suns yet, but all of the real lessons of WWII are being unlearned at a blistering pace.
I read a book called, “the Ominous parallels” back in the early nineties, by Leonard Piekoff. It delves into just that concept, but at a way earlier stage in the progression. Here’s the Wiki page for it. Scared me some back then. Imagine now.
What percentage of the people at work do you think actually believe that stuff, as opposed to pretend to believe it?
Does it matter?
If everyone is willing to lie to each other, if not themselves, does it really matter what their ‘true’ state of belief is, however you define ‘true’?
^^ this.
I know there are some who don’t believe it. I know that they put on facades and try to navigate the system the best they can without exposing themselves as heretics.
It’s the old Soviet shopkeeper anecdote told by [I forget who]. I don’t really believe it, but I know that I’ll catch negative attention from others if I don’t at least give it lip service. Others may or may not believe it, but they know they’ll catch negative attention if they don’t at least give it lip service.
Of course it matters. If it turns out that most of them know it’s a crock, they can speak up about it. The trick with this game is that the left is confident that everyone is afraid to – even when nobody’s buying it.
Yes, it’s the Soviet shopkeeper thing, exactly.
Answering your actual question, I’d say that it depends on the scope. In my department of 12 people, I know for a fact that 5 of them are true believers. I suspect that another 3 are some level of sympathetic to the DEI message. Beyond me, I can think of 1, maybe 2 that are potentially in the skeptics camp, and I’m not sure about the rest.
The numbers are less optimistic when you expand out from my department. I think you get to a pure majority of true believers very quickly and a 65-70% majority of true believers when looking across legal as a whole.
“Of course it matters”
I’m not sure it does. If they believe, they can presumably be convinced they are wrong, it’s not necessarily a constant fixed state of belief. The same way they *might* speak up. If they act *as if* they believe it, I don’t see that as very different from actually believing.
In favor of it mattering, maybe if they don’t ‘truly’ believe it, it’s easier for them turn it off if someone speaks up. Depending on what happens to that one brave soul. But if that person is crushed, they will in all likely hood continue the lie – and we’re back to if the result of the lie is indistinguishable from belief, does it really matter if the person truly believes or is just willing to act as if they do?
(Not convinced either way, though I’m inclined to think it doesn’t matter at a fundamental level – though maybe an ethical one ; really thinking it through more carefully as I type….)
I don’t know any true believers in my circles at work. But none of this stuff comes up, ever, so *shrugs*.
It matters because if people weren’t afraid to speak up, they would soon enough realize that nobody outside the elite actually believes this shit.
Trashy:
The shopkeeper anecdote is from Vaclav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless”, which Ozymandias wrote two articles about.
“Of course, it’ll be at their cost.”
You mean our cost.
DEI?
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Fuck all those things.
Divisivity and Exclusion
…and Inculcation?
I used to work for the government and have a family but im retired now. If it makes you feel any better im sure i would have chosen to get the shot to keep my job also. Also would have refused if i was single. Sucks man.
Last time I looked, this was supposed to be a Libertarian site.
This mandate shit should make your blood boil and [redacted phrasing]*.
Reluctant collaborators are still collaborators.
*Not quite there, yet.
I’ll start off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Drunken hangout. at 20:00 Eastern.
I’m. In the waiting room but not admitted. How do I fix?
She is red hot TONIGHT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWXWqbEmWXE
Could you imagine a modern day Pompeii? Everyone would be slumped over a phone. The dudes would have man buns and the chicks would all have Groucho Marx eyebrows. Everyone would have a mask, worn improperly on their face. Nothing but vape pens and 25 dollar smoothie cups, everywhere. Future generations would just shake their heads and call us savages.
The future archaeologists would, of course, attribute the masks, buns, phones, etc. to some “religious practice.”
And they would be right.
+1000. You fucking nailed that one. It amazes me how every new archaeological find, I mean every site is a ‘ritualistic’ site. I have no idea how ancient people got anything done when they spent all day toiling to build a new site for rituals. They got nothing done. Now we just document shit all day to comply with regulations, so nothing gets done. Imagine where we’d be now if we ever focused on real work? I mean the first part of the 20th century we made all this progress, and now we’re right back where we started.
Read the The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (who I met). Much of it is about the tertiary economy — all the accounting, legal, etc. paperwork to comply with government.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
One of my clients, back in the old times when I still used to occasion an office, whenever we’d go into her office, her desk would just be filled with stacks of paper. And it was this huge desk.
So she’d be scurrying around her desk trying to move stacks of paper around so anyone there might be able to sit their laptop down. And she’d be saying ‘Oh, this is the new HIPAA regulation, this is the new regulation NIH wants, etc, etc’.
So one day I said ‘In the near future, no real work will ever get done’. All we will do is document regulation to comply and document the documentation. She’d roll her eyes. The eye roll, that’s how you deal with deplorables who have antiquated ideas like let’s do some real work.
I tied my best friend in knots at lunch over this. He’s a banker, and every regulation he substantiates because it prevents X tragedy, most of X are caused by government perversions of markets in the first place. I keep asking him, when do you get tired to chasing in circles, when do you tire of bureaucracy that don’t remotely achieved their ostensible purposes, and when do you tire of having less money because you were taxed to implement and manage all the nonsense?
A tiny government that retreats to its constitutional franchises would fix most of our problems: there’s nothing to argue about and no one to sue over fairness or access if the government is not usurping or perverting markets.
Yeah and a lot of people with degrees from big name academia would be out of work. I mean, what do you say to someone with a degree from an Ivy league organization who nods along with how mission critical it is to add yet another gender radio button to a form? How do you take that shit seriously. I can’t do it. Just pay me, fuck it.
Motel of Mysteries
Oh those wacky French.
Bitch be nuts.
Mary Katherine Ham FTW!
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/07/31/its-a-family-show-ham-mary-katherine-ham-weighs-in-on-the-cdc-and-that-provincetown-covid-breakout/
They may as well get it over with, start naming variants of the common cold and lock the nation down every time someone sneezes. Oops, that one was allergies, you can’t be too safe if it saves only one child.
#WoodLampChipPost.
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Has anyone paid any attention to the Olympics? I used to watch them when I was a kid. I mean the entire thing. This time, I’ve only seen a few minutes of the entire thing on my wife’s News she sort of watches. And all of it I’ve seen is either someone protesting something or someone crying. WTF? Who would watch that trash? What a complete waste of time. I said the left would ruin sports and it looks like the job is nearly complete now. SMOD 2024, it’s the only hope.
Peacock has the good stuff. NBC’s coverage is hit or miss depending on whether the sport is popular or not. Gymnastics? Unbearable. Water polo? Fine.
I agree with trashy. Stay away from prime time and watch on the alternate channels. I’ve been watching women’s volleyball, that’s been great. Google even shows you when they play, your local time.
I watched a couple soccer matches on USA this morning because I was up way too early and there was nothing else on. Didn’t see any of that stuff, but soccer doesn’t allow constant interruptions for it.
Three key issues:
1) Olympics lost me when they made the decision to put it all on prime time instead of live. The internet was blooming so we all knew the outcome ahead of time.
2) Bob fucking Kostas
3) Instead of covering the sport and all the top contenders from any nation, the idiots in charge assumed we would only want to se Americans. So it became mostly elective biographical pieces.
4) Related to 3, they won’t show the best, fastest, biggest anymore. It’s all narrative shit. Give me Harrison Bergeron.
This. I absolutely refuse to watch any sports that isn’t live, with some rare exceptions like say a soccer game I’m really invested in and can’t watch it at work, and nothing at the Olympics fits that bill.
4) drives me nuts. I’m watching sport, not a drama series. It works well when they sprinkle a little of the human interest salt on top of the sport steak as seasoning. It works poorly when they serve the sport steak ground up into little bits and festooned on the top of a “human interest” salt lick.
^^^^^^^
For what it’s worth, the Miracle on Ice was not on live TV in the USA.
You missed splitting it up so that it’s every two years instead of four. It was a special event before, now it’s at best half as special. And the fucking non stop sob stories, as if we all don’t know these are all rich kids who’s parents can afford to haul them around and keep them in training and equipment. Just show us what they can do and stop telling us to cry for the girl who quit already.
I said this the other day, but they decided a few Olympics ago to try to target women as an audience growth initiative. They went all in on that targeting this time around and have taken it from occasionally hard to watch to completely unwatchable unless you pre-recorded and aggressively use the fast forward button.
When Hoda Kotb and Savanah Guthrie are doing substantial interviewing, you know it’s gonna suck.
It’s an epidemic of cry baby adult children. My wife was watching this reality TV show from Brazil before I heckled it to the point that she stopped. It’s a bunch of 20 somethings split into 2 teams who do various competitions with each other. But all these kids, and let me tell you, these are not poor kids from the favela, they’re rich spoiled kids whose parents can pay for them to not work and just play silly games all day long… anyway, all they do is cry all the fucking time about the least of perceived slights. Even the guys, it’s sickening.
Big Brother: Brazil?
Sounds like Exatlon. There’s an equivalent on one of the US Spanish-language channels.
LOL, yes!
I was amused by the first few seasons in America. That was like seven or eight years ago and I’ve moved on but the stupid thing is still on. Julie Chen is probably still doing her intrepid-reporter stance but I saw she’s added Moonves to her name gah!
I wasn’t going to watch any of it, but then I get alerts when Australia or New Zealand win a medal. So I watch that event on YouTube.
I completely stopped watching the NFL. Now if I want to see the results of a game, I just watch the replay on Youtube. No woke shit.
Amen. Chiefs win the Super Bowl in 13 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVV80kTudSM
13 minutes to last for the next 50 years. I’m not even sure they can recover from that beatdown they took from the Bucs defense, even in 50 years.
Not.One.Minute.
Hey, Gustave L.
You need to read this and learn.
https://www.rt.com/usa/530812-oregon-pump-own-gas/
This state’s political leadership has gone off the deep end and now the insanity is overlapping.
The idiotic self serve ban(*) is so necessary that it’s been suspended for three times now, after some 70 odd years of this stupidity without suspensions.
Over the top reaction to heat waves, after a single record breakbreaking weekend. The state is now responsible for every death when it gets warm. So they’re just throwing out interim emergency workplace rules.
*does not apply to card lock, diesel, and a bunch of counties now
IMDB is slitting it’s own throat. What the fuck is wrong with these retards who think minimizing the text/pictures/information displayed at one time on a screen is an improvement? These assholes want to go back to a CGA world.
It’s for the benefit of people who prefer fondle-screen technology.
Remember when they had a forum and user comments?
☹️
CGA?
OK, Millennial.
Nope.
Still don’t know what CGA means.
Carolina Golf Association. Duh!
I know what it is, I’ll guess at the acronym. Computer Generated Animation?
Actually, that was CGI I’m thinking of.
Color Graphics Adapter.
I remember when that was a big fucking deal.
OK, no idea what that is, but thanks.
I remember VGA, then DVI, and now it’s Displayport.
In between there was EGA.
CGA was relatively low pixel counts.
and SVGA
Yeah, it’s probably what I was using when I built my first PC in 91, my 386, lol. I remember I had a Sony Trinitron CRT (cathode ray tube, not critical race theory) 15″ monitor. Thing weighed like 50 lbs. Everyone thought it was the greatest thing ever.
Trinitron was the gold standard. Nearly flat CRT? Died and gone to heaven. I remember a 19″ monitor for my HP workstation. Thing took up half of a battleship desk and curved more than Claudia Schiffer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
it’s amazon now, so they’re gonna ruin it but also kill any potential competition.
Phone mode? I am truly not being singled out for punishment?
/not just you, evidently
I dunno. It’s like there’s this fear of reading text or confronting a page of mostly text. What’s wrong with a list of the actors and actresses? There’s not my contacts or IM chats. I don’t need these bubbled pictures of a half dozen people when there’s dozens in a movie.
Time for the drool bib
Bwaahahaaahhaaa, WTF? Fucking senile clown.
LOLOL
Time for that drool bib now.
I sent that link to everyone I know, lol.
Too much to do, Church and Golf, enjoy my friends , Old Man out!
aand my back blew up, God Hates me and wants me to quit disc, Fuck that,
ouch,
The interesting thing about the CDC admitting that the PCR test can also detect flu is that March ’20, literally days before his school had to close, my son and some of his friends got sick. They’d all been to a b’day party at an escape room. At the time the covid test was rare and only if you presented the proper symptoms, so the urgent care doc did the influenza test and found it was I-B. But I suspect only a few weeks later, they probably wouldn’t have bothered to test him for influenza, given him the covid test, and he would’ve “had” covid, as would all his friends. Even though they never had it at all. So I wonder, how many of those March/April tests in SoCal (and anywhere else, I guess) were even covid since I know for a fact influenza was going around?
All of them plus the CCP virus, we didn’t see the difference at the time, IMO,
And the flu, normally highly prevalent, all but disappeared for 2020. They claim it was because of the forcible house arrest and face diaper mandates, but it’s pretty clear that didn’t help at all. The covid sure got around despite it.
And we all died, film at 11
/Idiots
I’m not dead yet!
I feel ‘appy!
Ah, but you will be soon, come on, just get on this carriage like a good dead Man!
I have a few more years in me. If I continue replacing defective systems (knees, I should have picked my ancestors better), I WILL BE INVINCINBLE!
I’m gonna hang tough, but things aren’t looking for the likes of me right now, I may be well and truly fucked, very odd,
or looking good,
Paul Cooper, Fall of Civilisations, City in the clouds, part 2,
https://youtu.be/2GkNOT2Q2hk
Awesome. But it is really was another person from that part of the world who changed it all. A person named Cortes. No, not the idiot bartender, the other conquistador.
Cortes figures prominetely in the story, as it should be,
Cooper is is not an idiot, neither am I, why would you even think otherwise?
You still planning for church tomorrow?
Yes I am, and I’m a reformed Heathen,
Glad you feel up to it, is all.
SCIENCE!
Prophecy!</a?
Damnit!
Prophecy!
2nd link on the page. Fuck, I’m too tired.
As for caving to the tyranny, the question is do you want the pain NOW or LATER.
Pain now is losing your job but moving to a state that doesnt require the jab or getting another job.
Pain later is unknown longterm complications to this vaccine, Lefties get more tyrannical, you company fires you later for some other BS reason.
Remember, only a small percentage of colonists fought for or against the british. Most Americans were as neutral as they could be.
Freedom isnt free. Its sucks as no matter what you choose, there will be blood.
There will be blood.
I’ve fallen into IDGAF mode. I’m not gonna start a revolution, but I’m sick of playing the gray man. No vaccine, no matter what employer says. Skip/delete all the DEI bullshit. Push back on their excesses. My conscience requires no less.
I quit and did it, I’m not sure what my future holds, but no Vaccine, no way, and I’m scared,
Good for you!
If we don’t push back now, we will lose. This is the time.
Right fucking now.
Depends on the states and personal options / connections therein.
I’m going with Pascal’s wager on this one,
Watched this tonight
https://youtu.be/_sINnqU6Jf0
Virus movies have lost their thrill.
Watch this, Andromeda strain, spooky,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMbSpnlOOtE
“I brought the Fire for you!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfiPDxDRjGo
OK if no:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLG1ys2CGcI
I’m trying to get back on mrh
Well mother fucker. I cant get into the zoom . I click the link above but I’m banished to “waiting room” limbo.
suh’ fam
whats goody ?
Standard-sized Sabbath Cans !
I for one look forward to our robot overlords.
Robot arranges 100,000 dominoes into a Super Mario Bros. mural in one day
Cool ?
Well this is just Fucked Up! A hell of a way to wake up, and I’m talking to a wall at this point,
I was re-heating brisket for Jugsy and was in the kitchen.
HEY YUFUS !
Sup Tres! Text is a fucked up way to communicate, like talking to a wall,
and my back is killing me,
Counting flowers on the wall ?
Playing solitaire till 1 with a deck of 51 ?
*smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo*
Morning, gents.
Howdy TH,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WqY6VjDtbvA
Good Morning
You too!
right back @ ya
*waves*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8B0tAHrM5k
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Sky News Australia temporarily suspended from YouTube:
https://www.smh.com.au/national/sky-news-australia-suspended-and-handed-a-strike-from-youtube-20210801-p58ev1.html
“Mr Houghton said the videos deemed “unpalatable” involved debates on the effectiveness of masks and whether lockdowns were justified.”
Accept the military policing your cities AKA martial law or you’re gone.
SMH indeed. Mornin’!
Build your own globally-scaled video hosting site.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/07/31/martha-irwins-upstairs-proof-covid-vaccination-philadelphia-restaurants/
Get fucked, Nazis.
I realize the ship has sailed but how does this fit in with HIPAA I wonder? Must be the fuck you that’s why exception that seems to be written into most laws.
I hope they get stabbed.
You just gave me the 2nd line Ill say when/if the Vaccinators show up at my door: “does any of this violate HIPAA?”
Normally that would send them diving for cover but they’re protected and emboldened now. Probably better to not say a thing and just shut the door in their faces.
They’re not health care providers so no, they’re not violating HIPAA.
But they’ll be coordinating with providers though so it seems a bit murky.
As long as you stab them before line #2.
HIPAA is about 3rd party* health records handling. Anyone can ask you about your health records, you can answer any health records questions without HIPAA coming into play.
*Note that the government effectively excluded itself from HIPAA law.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/ap/ap-business/german-federal-court-sides-with-lindt-in-gold-bunny-battle/article_d451a63f-3771-5b1a-af83-336e5508b6d9.html
Huh. Color hue as a trademark.
*regurgitates chocolate in protest*
Mornin’, Sean!
How’s things on your side of the pond?
What a ridiculous ruling.
Not necessarily; this is trademark law, not copyright. What if somebody were trying to pass off good as similar to yours by imitating the logo down to the same color scheme?
I get it but this isn’t a logo, it’s a different color of foil. I don’t really have a problem with it though if the ruling applies only to this specific instance.
Harley tried to sue because other bikes made a similar sound. They (rightfully) failed. There’s a limit to what a company can claim and I think the color of the foil that wraps chocolate bunnies is beyond that limit. Just like the potato-potato sound was. Especially when the whole sound was only obtainable by installing aftermarket exhausts.
I was re-heating brisket for Jugsy
Euphemistically speaking?
He rubs olive oil on his steaks. Don’t trust him.
Or vegetable oil.
Dont judge. Well, I did eat part of a piece of pita yesterday.
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What kind of meat is pain-in-the-ass?
rump roast?
On a Sunday morning at that. Nice work.
Want me to bring you some brisket?
It’s pretty good, but it needed some kind of prison reference, I think.
Yum! Only if you have more than you can eat yourself. And be careful – if you get too close to Chez GT/TT, you may find yourself in possession of a zucchini! We ate HALF of our first harvested one last night, and the next one is hanging over the edge of the raised bed, hindering my weed whacking.
https://www.rt.com/news/530816-israel-vaccine-destruction-expired/
Just extend the date.
/FDA
Poison never really goes bad.
So now the Israelis are giving third shots to oldsters. Their government just flat out sucks.
Good morning, Glibbies! Too many of you and too little caffeine in my system to name you all, but I direct that at MOST of you (and the one not included – you know who you are!) I see we are so far linkless except for Sean doing his usual yeoman’s duty.
I could stand for our cats to be a little more “aloof,” the way I hear other cats are. The little black one waits for me outside the bedroom door, and then insists on hopping up on my lap when I’m…in the bathroom. (It could be worse – it could be the huge, fat one doing so.) And then I break his little heart by coming out on the back patio where he can not follow. ?
We have a big cat who leaps up onto my chest when I’m laying down and knocks all the wind out me. It’s not fun.
Yeah, that’s why we had to banish them from the bedroom at night. We have to shut the door even before we go to bed – the little black one goes in and “hides” under the bed (in the same spot every time, from which he’s easily extracted.) Saturday afternoon nap is their big treat – they’re allowed to join us! Yesterday the little black one parked himself on my chest almost as soon as I lay down.
How big is your big cat? Possibly Maine Coon or Norwegian Forest Cat? TT suspects ours is the latter, but we took him (the cat, I mean) in off the street, so who knows?
The big one is some kind of mutt, allegedly an American short hair. She’s about 13 lbs, which is plenty when it leaps 5 feet and lands right on my solar plexus. The little one is a Maine Coon, she’s just the runt and a she. She’s about 6 or 7 lbs.
We had to banish our felines from our bedroom too. They both ahd the really nasty habit of waking us up for literally anything. One of them was especially sinister about it. She would do something that would directly wake us up and then, oh you’re awake? Pet me! She received a few impromptu flying lessons for those tactics.
They’re both pretty smart too, I have to do a sweep of our closets on bedroom before we close the doors. They know to hide and wait a couple of hours.
One of mine would jump in bed with me and demand attention for ten minutes and then wander away bored every night. One night she fell asleep and I went to pet her and she jerked awake with claws slicing and I think she went flying as a result.
The other one completely ignored me at bedtime.
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https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/07/if-you-have-the-worst-summer-cold-ever-heres-the-reason-why.html
Nation of pussies, with sniffles.
Let’s name that variant and lock this shit down!
Bumblefuck the Magnificent
As Biden left the White House to fly to Camp David, he was asked by CBS News if he expected more mandates to be imposed.
“In all probability,” Biden responded. “By the way, we had a good day yesterday. Almost a million people got vaccinated, about half a million of those people for the first time or for their second shot. So I am hopeful that people are beginning to realize how essential it is to move.”
Biden did not elaborate on the nature of any new restrictions, or whether they would be imposed by the federal government or by state and local officials. His statement capped a chaotic week of contradictory messages from the White House about the possibility of federal vaccine mandates and the implementation of new lockdowns.
Moments later, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told Fox News that the administration was examining the possibility of a federal vaccine mandate.
“That’s something that I think the administration is looking into. It’s something that I think we’re looking to see approval of from the vaccine,” Walensky told “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier.
Only he can save us from ourselves.
“Bumblefuck the Magnificent”
lol
I kind of want to see them try this and see where it goes.
You wanna get nuts?
Nüsse
What time is it? Do any of you work?
Hey, look at this.
That ain’t a man baby, that’s a girl throw! That’s one ugly chipmunk face girl!
Chipmunk Face Girl Throw
Huh, I had him pegged as a catcher.
“Throw it at the bull!”
Swissy is on holiday
So, they party for the hole day?
A day earlier, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients denied that the administration was looking at a nationwide vaccine mandate after Biden told reporters: “It’s still a question whether the federal government can mandate the whole country [get vaccinated]. I don’t know that yet.”
“That’s not an authority that we’re exploring at all,” Zients told CNN. “But I think what the president was referring to is, his Justice Department has said that it is legal for employers to require vaccination.”
On Thursday, White House deputy press secretary Karen Jean-Pierre initially refused to rule out the possibility of renewed stay-at-home orders and school closures this fall.
“We listen to the CDC, and the experts and their guidance,” she said. “You know, our — the CDC is a body that is very well-respected, and we follow — again, we follow their guidance.”
A couple of hours later, Jean-Pierre emphatically tweeted: “We will not be going back into lockdowns. Why? Because we now have the tools to put this virus behind us. The science says the vaccines work – including against the Delta variant. We urge Americans to get vaccinated.”
The CDC caused consternation Tuesday by recommending that mask mandates be re-imposed regardless of vaccination status in areas of “substantial” or “high” coronavirus transmission, defined as at least 50 cases per 100,000 people over the previous seven days. By that guideline, nearly three-quarters of all US counties had “substantial” or “high” transmission as of Friday — including all five NYC boroughs, Nassau and Suffolk County on Long Island, Fairfield County in Connecticut, and Bergen County in New Jersey.
Critics have accused the agency of undermining the message that the vaccines work by insisting that vaccinated people wear masks indoors anyway.
Incoherent? Us?
It’s not our fault. We’re following the SCIENCE! but it can’t walk in a straight line. It might be drunk.
They’re finally acknowledging that the vaccines cannot get us to herd immunity and they’re panicking.
We could focus on treatment, it’s worked in the past *cough* AIDS *cough*. But I guess that’s impossible because Big Pharma can’t make windfall profits. Yet. I’m sure they will eventually come.up with a very slightly modified version of an existing treatment which is now forbidden because reasons, patent it, and continue to profit.
I don’t really think this is bigpharma profits driven. I think it’s about raw power. They are testing the limits of what they can force on us. It started as a way to kill off trumpism and now it’s morphed into a way to kill off all freedom. It’s working all too well.
That’s why now is the time to take a stand.
I think a lot of bigwigs made a hail mary pass on the vaccines and now their reputations are on the line. They’re willing to sacrifice people in order to protect their careers and reputations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-01/u-s-debt-ceiling-suspension-ends-congress-unclear-on-next-step
“Unclear”
“The debt limit — the total amount that the federal government is authorized to borrow — was set at $22 trillion in 2019. It will adjust to the current level of debt — which had risen to $28.5 trillion as of the end of June — when the suspension ends, putting pressure on Congress to find a solution that will allow the government to keep borrowing.”
Oh my!
The Voxsters haz a sad
And yet, while liberal veterans of the judicial wars now have the president many of them have hoped for their entire career, Biden may have arrived five years too late. The sad reality for the new president is that he’s likely to need every ounce of political skill and institutional knowledge that he gained after decades of confirming judges to pull the judiciary back from where his predecessor left it. And he may still fail to do so.
Biden had been president less than a week when the first Trump judge handed down a decision sabotaging one of his policies. The judge was Drew Tipton, a federal judge in Texas with only a few months of experience on the bench, and the sabotaged policy was a 100-day pause on deportations that the administration announced on Biden’s first day in office.
Tipton’s opinion explaining why he blocked the deportation moratorium flouted decades of precedent. And Tipton has hardly been the only judge to behave this way during Biden’s still-young presidency.
J. Campbell Barker, another Trump judge in Texas, handed down a decision in February that, if taken seriously, could strip the federal government of its power to regulate the national housing market. In July, Judge Andrew Hanen, a judge whose nativist inclinations are so widely known that anti-immigrant plaintiffs seek out his courtroom to ensure they will receive a sympathetic hearing, struck down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that allows hundreds of thousands of immigrants to remain in the country.
The Supreme Court spent the first days of summer busting unions, protecting conservative political donors, and gutting the Voting Rights Act. The Court also spent the last couple of years laying the groundwork to strip the Biden administration of much of its power to regulate the workplace, expand access to health care, and protect the environment.
President Biden, in other words, began his presidency deep in a hole. He faces a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court, and dozens of Trump’s lower court judges eager to make a name for themselves (and potentially score a promotion in a future Republican administration) by undercutting Democratic policies. He is the heir to an Obama administration that, at least early on, treated judicial confirmations as an annoying distraction from other business, and to a Trump administration that treated the judiciary as its most lasting legacy.
And that legacy could include disrupting Biden’s entire presidency.
Save us, President Bumblefuck!
And-
J. Campbell Barker, another Trump judge in Texas, handed down a decision in February that, if taken seriously, could strip the federal government of its power to regulate the national housing market.
If only.
Die, Commerce Clause. DIE!
If this were true, we’d be in pretty good shape.
They intend to federalize everything. Private property is going to be a thing of the past if they get their way.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/03/details-behind-bidens-30-by-30-u-s-lands-and-oceans-climate-goal/
Biden had been president less than a week when the first Trump judge handed down a decision sabotaging one of his policies
Oh god the projection is strong here.
I can’t even.
“the president many of them have hoped for their entire career”
An ethically challenged, hair-sniffing, doddering old fool, this is what you’ve been hoping for? I’m running in 2024 since Joe probably won’t last too long.
There were some labor issues with the squirrels. Sunday links are up, now.
Welcome to the pinnacle of athletic achievement
An outdoor drinking party at the athletes village that broke rules designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 at the Games is being investigated, Tokyo Olympic officials said Sunday.
Organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said “multiple athletes” and other team officials were drinking alcohol at the park within the village late Friday. Police arrived after the incident, Muto said at a news briefing, without identifying the athletes or any team involved or what action, if any, officers took.
The 11,000 athletes at the Tokyo Olympics were warned before the Games that drinking alcohol in groups was a breach of the so-called playbook rules intended to limit COVID-19 infections.
Athletes were told they could drink alone in their rooms at the complex of 21 residential towers next to Tokyo Bay.
You should have skipped all those grueling practices to goof off and play grabass with members of the opposite sex, like the rest of the kids.