Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Testimony from Generals contradict what Biden claimed in interview.
The bills always end up costing far far more than initially claimed.
Congress has until October 18th to raise the debt ceiling.
Perfect timing with our current labor shortage.
AZ Audit could not find the identity of 86,391 voters.
New Jersey will pay the people who have been paid not to work to return to work
Auto industry set to lose $290 billion in revenue this year amidst shortage of computer chips
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and mosey along.
whaddup doh
Like Ghostpatzer, I saw a fox this morning too. Well, my dog noticed it first. Then he yowled and yanked on the leash with such force it dragged me down a small hill on my heels. The morning is crisp and cool like autumn should be. Abundant sunshine and I have lots of work to do today. Good morning.
Mornin’! Good omens abound!
I can only imagine what my husky would do if he saw a fox.
“Will A Vaccine Mandate Trigger The Great Resignation?”
No.
Dunno. Seems like it’s having a non zero effect. Unlike the actual vaccines…
They’re not actual vaccines.
🙂
“On Sept. 9, Biden authorized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to craft a rule requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to mandate workers to either get a COVID-19 vaccine or submit weekly tests proving they aren’t infected with the virus. It is unclear if the rule, which hasn’t yet been published, will include a requirement that employers pay for the weekly tests.”
One would think that would at least require an act of Congress.
Separation of powers? What a quaint idea.
Nah, it just needs one federal judge. Come on man, where have you been for the past decade?
The act of Congress was creating OSHA in 1970 to absolve themselves of their Constitutional duties of Article I, Section 1.
This right here.
Seconded.
The king has decreed it – on what grounds do you dare challenge his majesty?
I think if any of the kings of old tried to do something like banning the use of horses, it wouldn’t have worked.
On the grounds that I’m smarter, better looking, and more fun in bed.
Congress probably already passed a law allowing it. “Make any other rule” is beautiful to a bureaucrat. There’s plenty of it in the USC.
Congress has until October 18th to raise the debt ceiling.
Debt is but one of those “obligations”. A default on debt payments would be a choice on how to handle a debt limit. Cutting spending on other programs would be another choice.
Also note that the US has defaulted on debt twice in the last 100 years.
That is a great article. Thank you.
That’s plenty of time to make some money manipulating the stock market with fear.
Happy National Coffee Day.
☕
Tall Covfefe!
Don’t torture me! I haven’t been able to stomach coffee since 2014. Started drinking it when I was 9. Stopped dead at 50.
That’s horrible.
You dropped dead at 50, and you’re still posting here? That’s some awesome coffee!
I would be suicidal if I didn’t have my caffeine blast every work day.
Why do they need to raise it when gubmint spending costs nothing…
“We talk about price tags. It is zero price tag on the debt we’re paying. We’re going to pay for everything we spend. … [E]very time I hear, ‘This is going to cost A, B, C, or D,’ the truth is, based on the commitment that I made, it’s going to cost nothing.” –Biden
And… https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1441924106765602819?
A 4 day old tweet? That’s in the past, dude. Live in the now.
Sweet!
/sprints off to max out all my credit cards
If you’re buying 5.56 and steaks, it’s not money wasted.
Ideally one should consume steaks and 5.56 at a similar rate.
Might have been shared already but relevant
My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars.
There is no inflation. Voter fraud is a myth.
It doesn’t cost anything but it does include tax increases.
Testimony from Generals contradict what Biden claimed in interview.
And nothing else will happen. I’m in strong “won’t be fooled again” territory when expecting any accountability from these creatures.
They lied for a good cause.
Everyone is assuming Biden lied. There’s also a non-zero chance the generals are lying to throw Biden under the bus and cover their own asses.
It also could be Biden couldn’t remember.
Good point.
Both. Embrace the healing power of Both.
IE, the simplest answer is that Biden cannot remember shit, and so the generals are free to “embellish” what was and wasn’t said.
I’m inclined to believe they (the generals) are lying. They also claim to have been SHOCKED at the collapse of the Afghan army they’ve been training, oh, for what, a DECADE. Gentlemen, you had loads of time to assess that force and that you didn’t find it lacking morale and competence speaks to your own fucking blindness.
I’m disinclined to personally blame Biden for anything. I don’t think he’s making decisions. The fuckups belong to the faceless bureaucrats propping up our meat puppet president.
Don’t underestimate that ass hat. That has been a problem since he started to run for President. He is a calculating, shallow opportunist who absorbs the ideas around him and attempts to implement them to stay relevant.
I guess blame isn’t the right word. I don’t want to give him credit. He is less evil genius and more just craven, demented, and power hungry with a chip on his shoulder for always being second fiddle in the DNC machine. Now that it’s his time he’s determined to do something with it but he’s mentally gone and unable to go anywhere without his handers’ permission. It’d be tragic if it weren’t fucking us all over and tearing down what little credibility these institutions had remaining.
It’s the gravy train to the big rock-candy mountain but we’re the punks that get buggered. No short-handled shovels? My brown, winking eye.
The lie is the least of the problems and they calculated it will amount to nothing.
They could be lying. They could be professionally incompetent. But really, it’s probably both.
Say, has Milley been cashiered yet for bypassing the chain of command and talking to putative enemies?
I could swear I read something about that a few weeks back.
You don’t understand. Diplomacy is the domain of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Like unions, business groups of varying sizes disagreed on the impact the vaccine mandate would have. While small business groups opposed the rule, big business rallied behind it.
And there you have it. Yet another tool for big businesses to eliminate the competition.
But the Democrats care about the little guy! They keep saying so!
Can’t turn the crank on your employees if they can just walk down the street to a competitor who won’t abuse them.
I’m still hiring.
Yeah but you’re in Quakertown or something. I wish you the best though. Hiring is a huge focus at my employer at the moment. Even paid for some billboard time on 22. Lots of variation in how “ready for a fucking job” these candidates are. Personally, I’m going to Blue Mountain Ski Area’s job fair this weekend to see if I can pick up a resort gig I can use to pickup a skier gf this winter. After all, I am a legendary ski instructor and it would be a sin to let my talents go to waste.
Best of luck!
I like your plan. Best wishes!
Morning, Banjos.
No foxes in my house. No signs of Mice either, so there is that.
It’s funny to me that despite all the efforts of homeschool, charter schools, school voucher advocates nothing, and I mean nothing has been more destructive to the grip of public education than covid policy. I think the public school advocates know it too. They’re becoming increasingly shrill in their denouncements. I sense their fear, smell blood. So, uh, silver linings? Public education is fucking dying. Women and minorities hardest hit.
To be fair, since woman are most of the government-school teachers, they *are* hardest hit.
I wasn’t being facetious.
I guess that could be interpreted wrong. I am not gleeful at the destruction. I am hopeful because any true education reform will necessarily have to come with some painful destruction and rebuilding.
I have trouble reconciling this with what colleges are doing.
Colleges will be next on the chopping block.
Once the college scam is revealed that most of what you learn/have to take for an undergrad degree is worthless in the real world, less people will go to college. Well, maybe not but if colleges prevent all the fun stuff about college, then they will find enrollment rates lower.
Grades 9-12 really need to step up college prep and real world business prep classes. This way whichever way kids go, they have some basic skills to get them going in life.
Millennials and early gen Zers got bilked out of billions of dollars to pad Lefty academia coffers and they are not very smart.
Thank you for the wonderful GIF, Banjos! For all of them, really. And the linx!
Yeah, I’ve laughed at that one in real life more than a few times.
Biden faced widespread criticism, comparing his prior remarks, made during an interview back in August with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos, with statements the generals gave today — statements which appeared to directly contradict what Biden said.
I, for one, am shocked that Backturner Biden would lie.
I love the phrasing “appeared to”. They plainly contradicted what Biden said, no inference or “appearance” necessary.
Via Gateway Pundit, the original source cited by the link above.
Exactly how fortified is that? Are these forms merely printed to omit the state/local ballot questions, or are they coded so that dots in the right positions for votes in state and local races won’t tally. IOW, could someone hack the system by putting dots where the non-listed vote choices would go?
And WTF is there even such a thing as a federal voter registration form, anyway?
Quiet you! The 10th is just perambulas!
From said form under state instructions for Arizona.
So saying it isn’t required on the federal form is incorrect. If you’re wrong about that, I wonder what else you might be wrong about?
Saying what isn’t required on the federal form is incorrect?
Ah, okay – proof of citizenship is not required, but identity still is.
For all those Federal elections that are spelled out in the Constitution.
Blame the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
*grumbles incoherently*
Having to prove citizenship and residence in any particular precinct is racist voter restriction/suppression. John Oliver said so.
Scalia authored the opinion in the case involving Arizona. Go figure.
Scalia also was okay with some degree of infringement on the peoples right to keep and bare Arms.
All judges that I have ever seen an opinion from have violated their oath to support and defend the constitution.
Denying bail violates the 8th amendment. Every defendant has a right to nonexcessive bail. The founders did that to prevent endless detention pending trial that the state sets the date for.
return of the $1 trillion coin
Progs always trying to find a way to get around laws that block what they want to do.
They wouldn’t be progressives otherwise.
It’ just a little “Breaking the Law”. “Just the tip, I promise!”
Ah, it’s the coin bullshit again…fuck it, let’s just mint fifty of the things. If we’re going to plunge into fiscal disaster let’s have a little fun doing it.
LOL never change, CNN.
They keep saying we should be like Denmark. Lower taxes and less economic regulation sounds good to me.
OK then, let’s be like Denmark
The move puts the country at risk of default, thereby potentially tanking the economy and delaying payments to millions.
Unlike debasing the currency at an exponential rate.
Spending beyond means has zero effect.
That’s fucking “crumbs”. Do better, NJ.
I’m still receiving “hero pay”. I won’t complain overmuch but doesn’t monopoly money have strings attached? Everything costs more and not by a little. Those fucks want to burn it down, burn it down to the gwound.
Shouldn’t they be encouraged to train at bigger businesses so they can be strapped down and injected?
If they go over $600, it would have to be reported to the IRS. Because the rich need to pay their fair share.
I looked that up yesterday. It’s been in the House committee since February. Hopefully it doesn’t get out of committee.
A nonpartisan budget watchdog says Democrats’ massive budget reconciliation bill could cost much more than the $3.5 trillion price tag they give it and casts doubt on whether it will actually be paid for as they claim.
What’s a few trillion among friends?
Brown-eyed girls (IYKWIM) on Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.li/0I7We
Avoiding the important question: who the fuck pays for porn?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16259285/my-husband-x-rated-sites-denies-porn-problem/
People do or all the companies would have gone out of business.
I think there is something left unsaid by this lady. Why does he want the porn? A satisficed man would not need that much porn. If she was not using sex like a weapon or has lost her attractiveness, I am sure he wouldn’t have a need for stimulation elsewhere. I don’t want to badmouth women in general, but too many of them have become not worth the effort for guys with their heads filled with what THEY expect from their relationships and no sense that it is a two way thing, forcing too many men to look a ways of finding alternatives. Even married men…
“We now estimate that Treasury is likely to exhaust its extraordinary measures if Congress has not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by Oct. 18. At that point, we expect Treasury would be left with very limited resources that would be depleted quickly,” Yellen wrote in a Tuesday letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
I think it is time to stop pretending that the “debt ceiling” is a ceiling.
“It is uncertain whether we could continue to meet all the nation’s commitments after that date,” she added.
Fuck you, cut spending.
Doesn’t your credit limit get raised every time you max out your card?
I think those words never compute with the morons that believe government exists to be given power to solve all problems (especially the ones government creates in the first place)….
Listen fucko, you’re going to ruin it for all of us!
https://twitter.com/xrayspexray/status/1442922177875955713
Most honest work of ‘Art’ I’ve seen from the modern styles.
That the “Take the Money and Run” story?
/not clicking on Twitter links
Still more legit than Hunter.
Take the Money and Run
Take the Money and Run
My house is filled with modern art. Right in front of me is “glass, half full of water” and “television remote that has fallen on the floor”. I’m fortunate that I can afford such art that the poors have to pay to see in a museum.
This is art:
https://twitter.com/f_piazzoni/status/1442223754747301889
You gotta love the Italians.
That statue makes me want to plow her fields…
So much for female agency and empowerment.
The Theranos Trial: Elizabeth Holmes’s Defense Works to Undermine Central Prosecution Witness
Oh, that poor little flower of womanhood.
When they were out there bilking people she was the epitome of the strong, intelligent, creative woman. HEAR HER ROAR!
Now that the woke hoax blew up, she is a woman being controlled and abused. I think it is called the Hillary Clinton defense…
“Arizona’s Prop 200 was passed in 2004. To register to vote, citizens were now required to provide proof of U.S. citizenship and identity. Arizona changed its State registration form to accommodate the new law. Democrats resisted and started using the Federal Voter Registration Form, which doesn’t require proof of U.S. citizenship. In 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that AZ must accept this Federal Form. However, those voters would only receive ballots that list Federal candidates – President and Congress. These are classified as “Federal Only” voters in AZ. It’s bullshit. Democrats exclusively use the Fed Form in AZ to bypass citizenship and other ID issues.”
OFFS!!
Sorry, Tonio, I guess I’m not recognizing National Coffee Day enough.
Great save!
“Federal Voter Registration Form, which doesn’t require proof of U.S. citizenship”
This seems insane. Of course, it’s wholly by design.
Get your vax or else!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/28/truth-being-ignored-victoria-australia-records-867-new-covid-cases-375-in-hospital-and-95-of-those-hospitalized-are-vaccinated/
As Blackjack said, they’re not actual vaccines.
My umbrella doesn’t work unless you use yours.
Ironically, the best argument for them seems to be that they’re glorified therapeutics. So why can’t we use actual therapeutics…
Because those are Generics and don’t generate as much money!
Somewhere in the bowels of the NIH there’s a
map of Iraq divided up by oil companiespie chart with the allotted profit percentages for each of the vaccine manufacturers.They make a difference, just not for the better.
https://thecovidblog.com
Re Biden lying about what the generals said: “No. No one said that to me that I can recall.”
Now I don’t know about y’all but I find that extremely believable. The man has dementia.
Doesn’t matter. This administration is just openly doing what all administrations of the past did because they know a feckless Congress and a complicit media will play political whack-a-mole and carry their water respectively.
So assume they told Biden to keep troops and he overrides them with a contrary order… Why listen to him? It might be too much to expect generals to know how to manage up, but they didn’t seem to mind doing so when it came to resisting OMB’s orders. For this reason, I believe the generals are lying.
Trump said in a recent interview that Milley told him it’d be cheaper to leave all that equipment behind rather than ship it out. I think Milley was all in on creating a clusterfuck.
Maybe Miley’s just incompetent. He seems to be a dull witted political hack more than anything else.
So back story on Milley. He is a post vietnam soldier who saw no real combat but encouraged america to get into armed conflict over and over.
Mattis recommended some air force general for JCS. Trump went with Milley after a meeting in which Milley lied about his positions on topics to get the job. Trump said he didnt want to go with an Obama appointee Mattis. Little did Trump know that Milley was one side of the same coin.
Trump did the best he could with the traitors that presented themselves for these govt positions. Trump then started outing these fucking traitors once he realized how evil these bureaucrats are.
Comey is done. Mccabe is done. milley is done. Hillary is done. Brennan is done.
What the generals said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqP61lGsXOM
GT, Grosspatzer, and anyone else who likes cheese. Regarding comments in the previous thread, there is a sheep’s milk feta from Bulgaria (comes in a big white can) that is absolutely divine. It might be my favorite feta cheese.
Goat’s milk is unpalatable but goat cheese is good stuff! Don’t have any brush-ups with sheep cheeses or milk. Probably tastes like lanolin.
I bought a small block of Pecorino (= “sheepy”) Romano recently because I’m like “it’s a Romano, right? And I like Romano”.
I honestly don’t know if that is how it was supposed to taste or if it had gone bad. It was inedible. Kind of puts me off on the idea of sheep cheese.
Thanks lobot, will need to try that if I can find it; Mrs. Patzer is a big fan of feta. Will be having some Lamb Chopper for lunch today. Yum.
“Atalanta” brand. In my area that’s distributed by Kroger, It’s yummy.
Thanks, but I’m not all that fond of feta. Any good hard cheeses?
Buh? It’s the best beer drinking cheese. Also great in an olive mix.
But, yeas: Manchego is the most famous hard sheep’s cheese.
https://dancingewefarm.com/product-category/products/cheese/
better cheesemakers than them however are:
https://www.nettlemeadow.com/cheeses/
I can personally recommend “sappy ewe.”
+1 on Manchego.
Even Trader Joe’s makes a decent one.
Manchego cheese is good.
Cow’s milk makes the best cheese, but sheep and goat can both be good. They’re both used locally here, and also used mixed.
For Q in case he likes cheese…..
will look at it for sure.
S’okay. Steven Colbert was dancing around last night with a dozen fags wearing tights and needle head-gear. This is reassuring.
F, is it true that to get married in Canada now you have to get vaxxed?
Tall tale, so far as I know. Soon? Perhaps. Lucky for me, I’m not getting married, ever.
I heard that only once, from a nameless young conservative podcaster.
I’d forgotten that you aren’t married.
I’ll do the death bed confession thing for legal reasons just like the neighbor did.
I’m old enough to remember when a president lying was a big deal.
Or when at least some admin is forced to fall on the sword.
You know that if the president (or any criminal) doesn’t have a (D) next to their name, THEN it is a big deal. If the perp has a (D) next to their name, then the problem is with you for not bending the knee and giving out the ass…
Impeach him!
We made kind of a big deal out of Slick Willy and his intern escapades. I think that was the last time though.
Yet, that nothing to do with running the country.
Perjury has nothing to do eith running the country?
If you cant trust your fellow Americans to some degree, then whats the point?
Its like the 2nd Amendment prohibiting any infringment of the peoples right to keep and bare Arms. All Arms: tanks, rifles, grenades, bombs, jets, lasers, swords, brass knuckles, any ammo….
You have to trust your fellow Americans will want to be law abiding too and if they arent, you have the 2A to protect yourself. Same goes for protecting yourself from tyrannical govt..
If you’d stopped playing the Nintendos then we wouldn’t be in this kettle of fish!
It depends on what the meaning of the word “lying” is.
Will A Vaccine Mandate Trigger The Great Resignation?
I will not be taking the jab so I guess I’m going to make my employer fire me it comes to that.
10 cents a can and I live semi-rural. How can I feed my family on 10 cents a can? We need to up the beverage container tax to $2 per can! Thataway, I kin feed my fambly!
So movies don’t lie…it’s the cans!
Stay away from the cans!
NY hospitals fired about 10% of their staff yesterday.
And nothing else happened.
Did it actually happen? Sheesh, I really thought it was a bluff or my imagination or something. No one can afford to cull 10% of staff right now, least of all hospitals.
Locally – for you & me.
100 walked off and 668 got deferrals out of 17k ish.
100 is far less than the 1700 that would make up 10%. It sucks but I think SLUHN can fill 100 positions.
69 News? Hmmm …
Also some hospital in NC canned about 175 people…
Houston area hospital lost 150 that either quit or fired back in June
So on as the world turns
Maybe (local mega hospital) will struggle because every (local mega hospital) is doing the same thing. Weird.
Apparently, they are “suspended” until they comply next week.
And the numbers are all over the map with many of the cited hospitals obviously, frantically attempting to minimize the damage.
TW: Snotty NY Post tone.
I think when push comes to shove a lot of people will just get a shot. However, in the current labor shortage, if just 2-3% of people quit, or a higher percentage quit in key fields (like health care), we’ve got a big problem.
The tendency is also for those who were forced to want to see the same thing done to others: “I had to do it so they should have to too.”
What’s being done is very manipulative and nefarious.
I have a few choice words to describe what is being done but I wouldn’t want to jeopardize our family-friendly rating.
We can let Rocco from Boondock Saints say it best.
NSFW
I’m going with 10% average across all industries…
A little hospital economics:
There is a huge nursing shortage right now – lots of nurses bailed early this year, burned out by the pandemic (we’ll leave aside for the moment all the “front-line heroes” twaddle). This has led to an arms race on hiring, but most hospitals are struggling to replace what they have lost, and we see a lot of job hopping to cash in signing bonuses, etc. Turnover is still very high.
So, we go to the “spot market” for nurses – travellers. A year or so ago, we could get travellers for $75 – $90 an hour (what the agency charges us; the nurses get a fraction of that). Right now, the rate is well north of $200 an hour, above the point where we lose money. So a lot of hospitals are not even trying to be “fully staffed”, but have picked a staffing level (and capacity) they can live with. Hospital capacity is definitely down. And the willingness of hospitals to replace nurses that are gone due to the mandate is limited, so you can expect the mandate to reduce hospital capacity even more.
What could possibly go wrong?
Fits right with the Kungflu hysteria that hospitals are “at capacity” with covfefe patients.
“I think the primary disruption is going to be the employee relations issue in the meantime and how that’s going to affect workplace morale,” he continued.
Whatever could that mean?
During the Maricopa county audit, Cyber Ninjas were unable to identify 86,391 voters. Democrats and no selected party votes made up a whopping 73.8% of the votes or 63,757 ballots total. Not selecting a party makes monitoring of nefarious registrations nearly impossible to verify.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
[shrugs] I don’t have a party affiliation either. So I must be up to nefarious things?
I mean this one probably doesn’t mean much. This would be very difficult work.
Our elections are set up to make a full audit and trackability impossible by design. That’s so because this benefits the people that want it to be harder for us to make sure votes are legit.
Well we used to have trust in our local institutions that conduct elections. Or in the case of Chicago and certain others – trust that the fix was in.
The problem in New Jersey is that the federal government has been paying people not to work — a problem that New Jersey intends to counteract by . . . paying people to work instead.
Clown world.
I’ve been away for a few days, but in catching up, I read I.B. McGinty’s article on cornholing his neighbors, and really enjoyed it. I’m more into metalworking myself, but I love reading about others’ woodworking projects, and could see myself setting up a wood shop some day and trying my hand at it. Back in the sands of antiquity, I remember really enjoying wood shop classes.
Anyway, his passing mention of metric vs imperial units got me thinking about dimensional lumber standards in the US vs EU (and Australia, and presumably other metric based countries), and from what I can find, basically metric dimensional lumber is close to identical to imperial measure, but specified in metric units.
US dimensional lumber standards – PS 20-05
So, in the US a nominal 2×4 is actually 1-1/2″ (38mm) x 3-1/2″ (89mm), by the “voluntary” standard published by the US Dept. of Commerce.
In Europe and other metric countries, it’s a little harder to find the standards, but it seems they still sometimes commonly refer to “2×4″ lumber (anecdotes I found from Norway and Australia). Their nominal dimensions are, for instance, 48mm x 98mm for a 2×4, but the actual dimensions are still the 38mmx89mm that corresponds to a 1-1/2″ x 3-1/2″ 2×4 in the US.
Additionally, framing standards seem to be 400mm centers for studs (15.75″) and sheets of plywood are generally 1200mmx2400mm (47.24″ x 94.49″). The plywood dimensions being in multiples of 30cm (300mm) makes it somewhat easier to do mental divisions like 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, while maintaining the span standards of the imperial measurements of 16″ and 24”.
So, like railroad gauges and the perhaps apocryphal claim that they trace back to Roman carriage wheel tracks, it’s likely that lumber specifications will remain the same basically forever, and never truly be specified in metric units–only nominally, and if trends continue, the building trades in other countries will keep calling a 2×4 a “two-by-four.”
My wood can’t be measured in cm’s. We’d be here all day.
Can confirm. I worked at a mill that used Metric for the German and Japanese market. They went great guns for about 15 years and grew too big.
“cornholing his neighbors”
You did this on purpose.
That’s it. I’m out. Have the best one you can manage.
However, the Business Roundtable, a large coalition of Fortune 500 executives, applauded Biden’s mandate. The group – which includes Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook among others – said many of its members had already implemented the mandate.
“Business Roundtable welcomes the Biden Administration’s continued vigilance in the fight against COVID,” Business Roundtable President & CEO Joshua Bolten said in a statement. “America’s business leaders know how critical vaccination and testing are in defeating the pandemic, which is why so many have invested resources in encouraging and incentivizing their customers and employees to get vaccinated, including providing paid time off.”
“Over the past several weeks many companies have decided to implement a vaccine mandate for some or all of their employees, a decision we applaud,” Bolten continued.
STRONGER TOGETHER.
Govt and business working hand in hand. That’s what made America great.
Bound together we are unbreakable!
The fascists won.
A long time ago, yes.
Are the arrows still broken, or is it just me?
Previous/next article working
top of the page arrow in the bottom right-hand corner working
Up & down arrows on left hand side not working
It’s not just you that is broken.
To address something from the dead thread, about why leftists are (in many if not most instances) authoritarians at heart:
My wife is all about deference to legitimate * authority, with “legitimate” defined as “anything but stuff Republican politicians tell me to do”. A recent incident – I was driving my wife to a doctor’s appointment, and made the mistake of paying attention to directions from someone with no mental map of roads.
Me: “I turn here, yeah?”
Mrs. Prole: “No.” Two seconds later, when I’ve missed the turn, “Yes.”
So I take the next turn, which puts me on the ass end of a narrow lane by the clinic, painted with one way markings that, technically and legally, mean I shouldn’t enter there. But there’s no traffic coming at us, paint on the road ain’t my boss, and the drop off point is right there. So I pull into the lane to drop Mrs. Prole off.
Mrs. P: “You can’t drive here!”
Me: “I can, and did. We’re here!”
Mrs. P shoots me stinkeye, but gets out and goes in the clinic.
As I’m heading out to run an errand, I see a big jacked up pickup truck that screams “Conservative, and damn proud of it”, driving the “wrong” way down the lane I’d stopped at the other end of, blithely passing a sign marked, “One way. Do not exit here.” I give him a “Good on ya, mate” nod.
Collectivists and authoritarians (which most but not all leftists are) tend to obey paint stripes and leftist politicians, because one does not go against the Borg.
Individualists view paint stripes and pretty much all proclamations from politicians as suggestions, to be ignored if they don’t make sense given what’s going on that moment, and actively resisted if the proclaimee appears to have bad intentions.
My wife is like this too but she’s an establishment Republican.
Like Italians, who won’t wait at a red light if no one else is coming. “The light, she is stùpida.”
When I feeling upbeat about the future of humanity, I walk to my office. And walk through a lightly used intersection with a stop light. And see a not insignificant fraction of pedestrians stop and wait, pushing the crossing button, for a green ‘walk’ signal in their direction. Wide open, lines of sight for at least 1/8 mile in each direction, not a single car in sight in any direction. But they will wait for the light. Some will tentatively proceed when I just walk through, some won’t. Lack of faith in the future of humanity restored.
It’s cultural. People here in Eastern PA will just cross the fucking street. People in Sacramento would not cross without a WALK signal. I think it’s highly correlated with places where you can make a left turn without an advanced green arrow.
Or the likelihood of getting a jaywalking ticket.
This is anecdotal but I was a jaywalking scofflaw in Sacto for more than 6 years. Made me feel like a main character or something watching those fools wait at an empty street for the sign to tell them to cross I tell you what.
Red light arrows was a point of contention with the Mrs and I for years. Went away when the locals put in sensors that will flip them to flashing yellow when you are waiting and no one is coming.
My wife would get very upset if I took the left turn on a red arrow even though it was late at night and the street was deserted. The Altar Boys would always break out into a chorus of “Breaking the Law” which didn’t help.
Wait a cycle…if safe to proceed it should be treated as a stop sign.
Vegas has blinking yellow on most streets for left turns.
LOL someone raised ’em right.
You didn’t get the “integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking” speech in boot camp?
My wife doesn’t use turn signals when there’s no one around. As a result, rather than being an automatic muscle memory, it’s something she has to consciously remember and unsurprisingly, forgets to use even when there are other cars around.
A nearby intersection used to flash red/yellow at night. It was changed when sensors were installed. Now there are times when you sit at the red with no cross traffic waiting for the light to change.
I also find that bravery to fight the fight that requires real sacrifice is lacking in most Lefties.
I wont wear a mask or get the vax and will kill anyone who tries to force them on me. I will make that sacrifice.
I got a vaccination the other day. Am I supposed to post it on social media? Include a picture of my vax card? Start berating people who choose not to get one? I’m afraid my “insufferable douchebag” skills may be lacking.
Just post about it here.
I’m curious about your reasoning on getting it (I assume you mean a COVID vaccine), since you posted that you tested positive, and probably have developed a natural immunity to the strain the vaccine was designed to emulate?
They are requiring it for me to play hockey. So I did the minimal (one shot of J&J). I was always more “hesitant” than “against”, and I have seen that natural immunity + one shot is pretty robust.
The Mrs., on the other hand, has had a bad reaction to a vaccine. So no way she’s getting this one.
Got it, understood.
You need to get vax jewelry.
Don’t you need to write a “I used to be a vax denier like you, but now I’ve seen the light!” article? 🙂
An apostle, of sorts…
Wouldn’t it be more of an epistle than an article, then?
Don’t make come over there and give you covid.
Praise be the clean! Now go forth my children and spread your good deeds
I started to write The Vaccine Creed, based on the Nicene Creed, but when I got to the part about Levine and “made, not begotten,” I quit because the whole damn thing is just too real.
Ok now THAT’S how you do insufferable douchebag.
Vax tattoo now.
I’m partial to the “tramp stamp”
I could get a syringe tattoo on my penis, and watch the number of cc’s increase.
That seems not painful at all. Do it.
Then I could be like “Hey baby how about a booster?”
NSFW, but relevant.
Even more relevant: The Needle (Dr. Ring Ding).
Don’t Ever Trust the Needle
Nah mon.. mine says “Welcome to Jamaica. Have a nice day”
Did you make sure to take a selfie while smiling while wearing a mask during the injection?
So now that I’m one of “the elect”, I have to say I just don’t get it. I don’t feel superior to anyone, and I’m not about to go out and get jewelry or anything. I made this choice based on my own personal risk factors. In real life, and also here, I know people who were all in from the beginning, some who had to for work, and some who won’t ever get one for a variety of reasons. I understand all those positions. I guess it just underscores how fucked up our country is right now.
True. There seems to be no room for “live and let live” anymore. The totalitarian world view.
I don’t feel superior to anyone
You don’t get the point of being a social creature, do you? It’s all about where we are in the social hierarchy. It’s like you can’t even be a fucking low-level primate.
I dare anyone to make it through this. It’s got to be at least 1,500 words.
‘A very scary thing to tell someone’: The debate over gender pronouns in schools, explained
What sad, pathetic lives these people have to worry about such things.
The cure for this is to make them have to really work to get even one fucking meal a day and avoid others from murdering them after using them up. First world problems only go away when people have real problems…
How the hell are teachers, or anyone for that matter, going to keep hundreds of people’s pronouns straight? This is about control and forcing people to bend the knee. It’s a form of bullying plain and simple.
I’m amused by it. Let the games continue.
Also you typically only use pronouns when the person being spoken of isn’t around. For the most part, who would know? My teachers all called me by my name. Who is ever directly addressed by pronoun?
You?
Can you imagine the shit-show if English used different pronouns for “male you” and “female you”? I can’t think of a language off-hand that does this, but I bet there are some.
I believe Semitic languages have gendered second person. On the reverse there are languages that don’t have gendered third person. My wife still has problems with he/she because her native language is nearly genderless (but does have inclusive/exclusive we).
They aren’t addressed directly and that is exactly the concern – what are other people saying about me that I don’t hear.
Nah nah nah none of their business? No, that never works.
Who is ever directly addressed by pronoun?
This guy?
Hey You!
Attention whores.
Attention whores and petty bullies.
I know that on the whole, people give what they get, but that’s still just a weak excuse.
more people need to identify by the pronouns fuck / off / cuntes
The only winning move is not to play.
“Look at meeeeeeee!”
Hilarious. When I was a young man, I had long hair and constantly people would call me “Miss.” so what? It was a minor annoyance. These kids have nothing real to stress about, so they have to make up shit.
In high school we watched a documentary on schizophrenia and one example was a guy thinking”Jesus Christ was a man with long hair, I have long hair, I must be Jesus Christ.”
After that my friends started calling me Jesus Christ, since I had the longest hair of any guy in school.
After high school, I grew my hair out. I also acquired the nickname of Jesus for a while. Being under 130 lbs at 5′ 10″ helped with the dying on the cross look.
Mornin’
A nonpartisan budget watchdog says Democrats’ massive budget reconciliation bill could cost much more than the $3.5 trillion price tag they give it and casts doubt on whether it will actually be paid for as they claim.
In other news, the Sun rises in the East.
The revelation of the date gives Congress just three weeks before the U.S. could default on its obligations — something that has never happened and a prospect that economists fear could generate chaos across the financial system
LET IT HAPPEN!
However, the Business Roundtable, a large coalition of Fortune 500 executives, applauded Biden’s mandate. The group – which includes Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook among others – said many of its members had already implemented the mandate.
They don’t want to lose employees.
My research has failed me. I’ve been trying to find out the origin of the astronauts used in the modern iterations of the Always Has Been meme template, but can’t seem to find it.
Anyone have any idea what the source of that part of the image was?
By the looks of it, an 8 year old.
Not the original, the photographic level ones further down
One piece of good news, I get Thursday off for National Slurp The Indigenous Day! Pay me to stay home, get drunk and shit-post? Oh fuck yeah. Thursday runs into my weekend. I’ll be crawling by Sunday but it’s a price I’m willing to pay.
She Was A T-Bone Talkin’ Woman, But She Had A Hotdog Heart!
Present for you – https://youtu.be/UG3ExHB133k
Great moments in parenting?
“How can you witness the death of a child and not cooperate? I don’t understand that,”
Obviously, he can’t bring his child back to life by testifying and might get killed himself for doing so.
This cunte can fuck all the way off.
Despite the media doom and gloom, the truth is Hochul needs to be commended for her spine. And every other Democrat who wants to see this pandemic actually come to an end (which should be all of them!) should follow suit. Staffing shortages are a pain, especially during a pandemic, no doubt. But staffing shortages are a minor issue compared to the damage being caused by the unchecked spread of COVID-19, which is increasingly due to one cause: right-wingers who have made refusal to get vaccinated a culture war and identity politics issue. Unless such folks start tasting real consequences for their behavior, the U.S. is going to see another dark winter, as the virus continues to wreak havoc on our economy and health care system. Putting up with staffing shortages is a small price to pay to make sure that Trumpers — a class of people clearly unused to the idea that actions have consequences — actually start feeling real pressure to get vaccinated.
These dread-inducing headlines and anecdotal stories about health care workers quitting are concealing what is actually the far more important story: Vaccine mandates work.
Vaccine mandates work.
In purging unpersons, not in stopping the ‘rona.
Why didn’t you label that as Marcotte? WHY?
A real Trump fan would have been vaccinated by now.
It’s time to launch Amanduh into the sun.
“pandemic actually come to an end”
It’s already over. It’s an endemic. Coronaviruses cannot be cured.
Uffda
That isn’t even the most smug and virtuous tale in that story.
Why go to a bar then?
They want to be safe, not inconvenienced!
/looks at people at amusement parks and casinos wearing masks, face guards and gloves.
It’s funny, back when most bars were filled with smoke, I don’t remember anyone walking into a bar and saying “Hey, you all have to stop smoking in here because it’s bad for my health!”
Well, there were people who said it, and got it coded into law.
There were people who went to the legislature and eventually got their way. I don’t think there were many who walked up to the bartender and demanded that everyone else stop smoking immediately.
I left a few restaurants because their idea of smoking/non smoking areas was “is there an ashtray on that table”. I enjoy the smoke free areas now, but don’t like how we got there.
I was never big on smoking with my meal but banning smoking in bars was just criminal.
You cant compromise with lefties because they never stop infringing on your right ot be left alone.
It’s my right to not get sick that I’m concerned about.
That isn’t actually a right. But you do have the right to avoid businesses that are scary to you.
She said no, ‘I don’t believe in the science.’
shitthatneverhappened.txt
A convenient paraphrasing.
She actually said, “No, I’m not a neurotic chickenshit.”
If it did happen, that is an excellent troll move to get people like Jim to leave.
I don’t believe anything labeled “the” science either. Science, I believe, but “the science” is guaranteed quackery.
Science doesn’t care if you believe. The Science does.
That’s because something called “The Science” is actually a religious cult.
It’s my right to not get sick
You better take that up with God then pal.
I don’t believe in the science – unfortunately that is not an option as the church of science does not accept heresy
And I”M sure that without his few dollars that bar will now fail. He’s the only person in Wisconsin that wants to go out drinking. OO)
“I’m all for personal rights, but holy smokes,” he said. “These filthy people need to be stopped from wrecking our utopia. They need to get on the train and go to the quarantine camp so they can’t make me sick.”
Hello my fellow antivaxxers! Shall we we deny some science together?
*clap*
Smart, a restaurant designer
LOL. Must be swimming in work right now.
Look, if I can make a baker make me a cake, why can’t I make my dentist get the shot?
a bad tooth can get seriously infected it is not just about living with toothache. Get some pliers a bottle of whiskey and have someone pull it out
She may find out the risk of a dental abscess is greater than Covid.
It’s my right to not get sick that I’m concerned about.
Curious. Feel free to never travel anywhere again and you will still likely catch one of the thousands of reparatory pathogens in existence.
She said no, ‘I don’t believe in the science.’
Fake quote is fake.
Or she was being a smartass and it went right over this guy’s head.
I like “I’ve never been to China, so I’m safe, right?”
He’s wearing the magic talisman on his face – how could he possibly get sick????
Notice he said he lost friends. Doesn’t say they died. Maybe they got tired of his B.S. too.
“It’s my right to not get sick”
CWAA.
Auto industry set to lose $290 billion in revenue this year amidst shortage of computer chips
I was hoping this would lead to a bigger bonus for me but shit keeps fucking happening. Weather cov and other stupid shit
Why didn’t you tell us you and Warty were getting into local government?
https://www.romania-insider.com/health-ticket-campaign-cluj-napoca-2021
Warty would tell you body-weight squats are pointless
Warty is wise.
My favorite Warty health advice:
“Don’t want to be a fat fuck? Quit eating fat fuck foods!”
That and vehicle manufacturers produce garbage vehicles with overly “safe” features like lane assist, autombrake, etc.
Some of this are supply problems, some is covid, and some is lack of buyer interest in nee nanny state over-priced crap.
I too saw a fox this morning, which is very rare to see in these parts.
Portents of glad tidings? I have seen this individual fox at least three times. He’s a Tod. On the other side of the creek by the convent lives the Vixen. They used to be more rare, but not lately.
I’ve only seen one around, and not in my yard. Only seen one skunk and one possum too.
Too many damn skunks around here the last year. See them crossing the road every night on my way to work. And there is always at least one fresh road kill every night. That fresh country air!
You need to run over a few skunks. Maybe that way your car would smell bad enough to keep the deer away.
Living in town I used to see them all the time. Foxes aren’t so shy when they’re in town, but in the country they are phantoms.
I even saw a badger in town once, which is rare even in the country.
When I was in high school a fox pelt was worth $100 or so. There is a reason they are phantoms out in the country.
I saw a coyote hauling ass across a stubble field this year when I was out in western NoDak hunting. Amazing how fast they can run when they want to.
I’ve never seen a coyote or a wolf. That would be cool. One of these days maybe I’ll be able to visit Norte America again to see it’s wild places and wildlife.
I saw plenty of roadkill coyotes on my road trip this year.
Good.
Oblig for limey: https://www.timeout.com/london/news/london-on-screen-the-wolf-enclosure-from-withnail-i-022619
You no like the coyotes? (The literal kind, I mean.)
It is quite difficult to penetrate dense shrubbery with a soliloquy, Shakespearean or otherwise.
You don’t need no stinking badgers.
??
We used to have fox running around our neighborhood. My old mutt would make sure to piss all over the fox tracks when we were out on a walk and ran across some.
There is some deep seated wiring in our dogs’ brains that make them really hate their cousins who didn’t bend the knee to human overlords.
Imagine if dogs seceded from humans.
They used to give my cat a very wide berth. She made them go the long way around.
Foxes that is. She got more upset about dogs.
Dogs are progs? Foxes are libertarians?
Poor analogy? Almost definitely.
Uffda, we know that there are no female libertarians, so obviously there are no foxy libertarians.
A fox-related song for us Glibs who have been visited by the Vulpine spirit guide this day.
But what does it say?
Video based on a Glibs Zoom?
The obvious link
*snorts cocaine from your shoe*
I saw one too. But there are usually good-looking stay-at-home moms at the gym near the office.
get your horse and pack of beagles and go a hunting
Foxhounds you mean. Beagles are for smaller game. And don’t even get me started on Harriers.
limey seems like a beagle guy to me
Pish-tosh. I’m sure he knows when to wear plus-fours and what events call for plus-sixes.
Those are golf clubs, right?
Jk – I am generally unsophisticated in the trouser department.
right-wingers who have made refusal to get vaccinated a culture war and identity politics issue. Unless such folks start tasting real consequences for their behavior, the U.S. is going to see another dark winter, as the virus continues to wreak havoc on our economy and health care system.
Yes, Amanda. Those evil right wingers are to blame, not the shrieking hypochondriacs who accuse them of being mass murderers.
Yet in reality, it’s far from a clearly right-left thing outside of The Narrative, no?
Yep. Biggest pro-choice person I know is also anti-vax.
A lot of black people apparently became right-wing overnight.
are you saying republicans will win the congress?
Republicans have been disappointing black people since 1866. So, yeah, maybe.
Real black people know their place.
Nothing says authenticity like doing exactly what you’re told to do by people who would never meet you in person.
The idea that the ‘right wing’ is even participating in the culture war, would be laughable if the intent weren’t so malevolent.
As I confessed before, I show my proof of vaccination to get into things. I feel I should have resisted it but I am too prone to the path of least resistance.
If they require it for daily life, that makes it difficult.
I got it for work, as I was more hesitant than against.
I refuse to use it for anything outside of work, but so far that hasn’t been an issue here.
I have tickets for NASCAR in October and my wife isn’t jabbed. If they require it, we will not be going.
I will not set foot in a restaurant or stadium or museum etc. ever again until the world takes its head out of its ass.
I hope they still keep the wine festival weekend after next but I doubt it. That will definitely need a proof of vax.
I will not set foot in a restaurant – honestly it is not their fault and some trade associations protested the thing but it is the law.
Not my problem. I’m not putting that shit in me just to visit a restaurant to show my “support”.
I already have the thing, I just show my phone
I have the thing too, but I’m not showing anyone.
I’ve been out to restaurants lately, maskless and vax free. Your mileage may vary.
It’s that way here, but we’ll see if McAwful goes Newsom after the election.
I’m holding out hope that he loses. I don’t think his “parents shouldn’t tell schools what to teach” line from last night will help him.
Still, don’t know why he’d be any worse than Blackface McCoonman in that regard, and I haven’t worn a mask anywhere but my kids’ school in many months.
Maybe, but I also can imagine Blackface has held back for fear of the impact on the election.
I don’t doubt Northam wants to put another mandate in place, but he thinks it would harm McAuliffe’s chances.
Would not be surprised to see one after the election, regardless of the outcome.
You don’t live in NYC.
I don’t know how NYC people, let alone Glibs, do it.
Nobody does — it’s too crowded there.
Yes, around here, no one is asking or requiring. I sincerely hope that remains the case. The signs for masking have gone back up at Home Depot and a grocery store (and probably other places I don’t visit), but they don’t challenge you.
The only places I’ve been to that have actually required a mask are medical related places like the eye doctor, hospitals, etc.
I’m going to have some words for my eye doctor when my annual visit rolls around. I might need a new one then.
My (NJ based) dentist was ok with me not masked up.
I don’t go to concerts, sports games, festivals, etc. very frequently at all. It is absolutely no trouble for me to continue living my life without access to those things. My job and going to the grocery store are other matters.
Yes. If and when that hammer falls… well, more creative measures will be called for. Joe’s desire to make me jobless and unable to feed myself is not enough to make me throw away my convictions just yet. I have a feeling the narrative will collapse before that happens.
I think/hope/pray that you’re correct. Narrative collapse is bound to come hemingway style. Gradually, then suddenly.
We’ve been in the “gradual” stage for weeks if not months. “Sudden” should be right around the corner.
I think the private business on will collapse but enough businesses will ride the inertia and continue apace. I am still trying to figure out how he can mandate it as a requirement for work for me…they use “public safety” as the cornerstone on it.
No lockdowns or mask requirements for georgia or its businesses.
Convoy!
Good morning Banjos!
Thanks for serving up some heart lynx.
I drove by a local Chevy dealer the other day and did a double take at the inventory. I’ll bet they didn’t have a dozen trucks. Pretty fucked up.
This made me giggle a little:
How’s that working out?
Have a wonderful day, peeps!
Smart, a restaurant designer who lost friends and business to COVID-19, has “run out of patience” with people who refuse to get vaccinated.
“I’m all for personal rights, but holy smokes,” he said. “It’s my life I’m trying to protect. It’s my right to not get sick that I’m concerned about.”
I wonder if he has the right to stay out of public places.
So, he is not for personal rights whatsoever. Got it.
Just for his and his ilk.
She said no, ‘I don’t believe in the science.’
I might start using that.
Or. more correct, just say masks are unscientific nonsense.
Oh my, be still my fluttering heart!
Romania’s 29 billion Euro package from the EU for covid recovery is being approved as we speak. More civilized Europe is
I’d be fine with the Dems kicking their relatively sane members out of the party.
Need to delay the vote on the bill again. The moderates will have to trust that the party won’t renege like they do when dealing with Republicans.
We have initiated our Shutdown Playbook as of this morning. Sucks for those that were scheduled for leave and training but work will continue.
Is everyone shut in the workplace and cannot leave?
We can’t let the ‘rona escape the building.
Did someone catch the sniffle cooties?
Gumming shutdown doom.
Gumming works well
I thought that FedGov jobs had amazingly incredible bennies before, but this blew my mind.
Government. Dammit.
Ah. I should have connected the dots better.
Nice to know y’all are actually organized. Our agency has said fuckall about any details. Just “TBD”. I know I will be working (contract is funded already), but I have no idea what I’ll be working on. We are usually limited to non-O&M tasks when the Feds shut down.
If I still took the train, I bet all the federales would be giddy with the thought of a free vacation. I recall when previous shutdowns didn’t happen they were sad that they still had to work.
It really irks us that are considered mission essential that our leave gets cancelled and all the non-essentials get a free vacation. Last shutdown nothing for us changed except we went to work like normal.
I was an on-site contractor during a previous shutdown. There were some pissed govies that only had to come in to work because the government wouldn’t allow contractors to work without a government supervisor on site.
Yep, the military is exempt from shut-downs, so we would officially be supervised by uniformed folks instead of civilians.
I still need a new phone. And I still am not sure if I should wait for the Pixel 6.
I’ve been very happy with my OnePlus 8 Pro. It’s my third from them and they have all performed brilliantly.
They are having a flash sale today on the 9.
I don’t like the 9. One of my requirements is good point and shoot photos in various degrees of light and on a test in a showroom the oneplus 9 took worse pictures than my 4 year old galaxy s8 . Also while most are made i china, I do not want a Chinese brand/OEM.
I bought the 5a and have been very happy. Sadly not available in Europe.
Not officially. But there are stores that bring it. It is 2799 lei which means ~660 USD. It has the appeal of cheapness and physical fingerprint scanner. I have no idea how much the 6 will cost. But the markup will be less. there is no official google store in Romania, but being brought from the EU it will still have lower markup. I expect the 6 will have better photos and better screen, but an underscreen fingerprint scanner. Also wireless charging which I never used but many seem to like
I am wondering if when the 6 appears the 5a will still be available… Maybe I can buy them at a fire sale if the 6 comes in cheaper than expected
Yes it will. The 5a is about two months old. It’s one of their off cycle budget phones.
I just need a phone with reasonable web speeds. No gaming.
I’ve not loved wireless charging. Heat, slower charge rate and as a result lower battery lifetime.
The 5a easily goes two days under my modest use. Also missing a lens compared to the 6, but otherwise identical camera and post processing. Easily an upper mid range or low high end camera setup.
yes but as far as I know it is 200$ cheaper where officially available
I care for a phone to have a good battery, good photos, a decent screen and to work well in all basic tasks and internet. I understand the 5a screen is bad in sunlight
I really haven’t noticed the sunlight issue with the screen.
Refresh rate is only 60Hz, but not a concern for my use case.
Also pleasant surprise – it actually carries a water resistance rating. Few Google phones do. Not sure about the new ones.
the new ones carry better. water resistance is another must have for me
For those following the Aussie dog daycare & their rescue pups, Yoyo the pittie met his new doggie sister-to-be. Yoyo is the one that started it all, when the farm owners couldn’t take him back to the shelter after seeing his behavior completely change after one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4K7xpQc6G4
That is simply amazing. What a great story!
Thanks, KK!
They will be getting a new rescue soon, once they have space.
Here’s what they built in a week in their garage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_vRmRtpP2U
More adorable dog-family behavior:
https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1442689268934012930
God in Heaven that might be about the sweetest thing I’ve ever seen.
My day is brighter. Thanks for that, NA!
Don’t know what is better…bringing the treat or laying down with her after.
And putting his head on her just to be close. My cold black heart grew three sizes that day.
I’m all for personal rights. Especially my right to have absolute control over your behavior.
The Niskanen Center – now known for leftism AND beating the wife!
Not to strip him if his personal responsibility but it sounds like he really needs to quit drinking. Some people just can’t handle it.
Know what type of drunk you are. If it is a bad drunk, stop.
Yep. I’m sorta one of those people. I stopped drinking to excess years ago because I tend to be a mean, nasty drunk. I drink all the time, but only to the point of a pleasant buzz. At that point, I ease off for a while. I haven’t been truly inebriated in a very long time.
Pardon me, but bitch had it coming. She doesn’t like his drinking, she can pack up and leave. Grab something out of my hand and you just might get my hand across your face.
“ Buried on page 168 of the House Democrats’ 2,465-page mega bill is a tenfold increase in fines for employers that “willfully,” “repeatedly,” or even seriously violate a section of labor law that deals with hazards, death, or serious physical harm to their employees.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-vax-mandate-be-enforced-fining-companies-70000-700000
Interesting what they’re shooting for in the nether regions of their 3.5 trillion dollar boondoggle bill. I don’t think they’re going to be letting this go.
How convenient.
On Saturday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House quietly tucked an enforcement mechanism into their $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” bill, passed it out of the Budget Committee, and sent it to the House floor.
Buried on page 168 of the House Democrats’ 2,465-page mega bill is a tenfold increase in fines for employers that “willfully,” “repeatedly,” or even seriously violate a section of labor law that deals with hazards, death, or serious physical harm to their employees.
The increased fines on employers could run as high as $70,000 for serious infractions, and $700,000 for willful or repeated violations—almost three-quarters of a million dollars for each fine. If enacted into law, vax enforcement could bankrupt non-compliant companies even more quickly than the $14,000 OSHA fine anticipated under Biden’s announced mandate. …
President Biden embraced an aggressive stance earlier this month when he challenged Republicans who are threatening lawsuits over what they decry as his federal overreach: “Have at it. … We’re playing for real here. This isn’t a game.”
I’m glad we fortified the last election and defeated fascism.
I really hope it goes the right way, but just got another COVID email from HR:
Please note that we are reviewing the upcoming executive order and will comply accordingly.
My hope is, they are saying the right thing because they have to, but are dragging their feet. In the same meetings they spout this shit, they also are begging us to poach our friends from other companies. They let us managers in on the fact that they are desperate to hire just over 100 more people. So they are going to start firing on top of that?
America is about government and corporations working together and compliance with executive dictates. It is known.
Exactly the same thing here.
“Get your vax please”
and
“We are hiring like crazy – bonus for referring people”
It makes my brain hurt. But I love my employer and think they are really good to their people. I feel like they are slow-walking this thing as much as possible in the hope the courts will recognize its illegality and slap Biden in the dementia-addled face. And if not it will hurt for me as well because only 2 years ago I finally got the job I’ve been gunning for for the last 20 years — great company, great position, very good pay…. As much as I hate the government it will increase exponentially if I lose this job. I refuse to get the jab because I feel pretty sure it will make my health even worse than it is, and I shouldn’t have to make that choice in order to keep working my dream job, which I toiled relentlessly to get.
I wouldn’t say I “love” mine but they do treat us pretty well and they are slow-walking it too. People have been dropping like flies all year, and I am pretty sure they don’t want even more of that.
I agree, let me edit the I love my employer line. They pay me to do a job, I do the job well, everyone is happy. But I have worked for some real shithole outfits that also paid me pennies. In the end, they are just a place that pays me money via check, insurance, and 401K contributions. And I give them my labor including nights and weekends (thank work from home!) But we were both happy with the arrangement, and now that is seriously threatened by an edict from a despot that no legislature ever voted on.
America?
Ditto to most of that. Ending people’s careers and leaving them nothing to lose sounds like a dangerous strategy.
Same at my place.
They haven’t said anything about the new order yet, but they asked everyone to email their vaccination/non-vaccination status last week for “informational purposes” and something about new ID cards. I’m not sure why they need this; they have a policy where you can be exempt from wearing a mask if you show a vax card to your supervisor – so they already have the info about who is and isn’t vaxxed (unless someone inexplicably got the vaccine but kept it a secret from them).
Same here in the federal workforce..at least for management. They know who hasn’t attested or has attested one way or the other.
“unless someone inexplicably got the vaccine but kept it a secret from them…” I have actually considered this because it is none of their dame business. I don’t have to report AIDS, hepatitis, flu, pneumonia, or any other medical condition unless I am seeking reasonable accommodation. Why the hell would this one thing be exempt from that?
The other option (at least from my work HR e-mail) was vax or weekly testing. With no timeline, as there’s still no guidelines from the feds on this.
Just saw a credit score ad on the teevee. How long ‘yil they include vaxx status in creditworthiness?
Asking such questions, according to one auto insurance ad I saw, would not be illegal but would be immoral.
Are they concerned about heart attacks while driving?
And the websites you visit.
No self respecting libertarian would take on debt anyways
The lefty sites are already calling for “social credit scores”. They don’t call it that, of course. Would probably reveal too much about who their paymasters are.
I bought a piece of salmon filet for dinner and as I was getting it ready for the oven I found 4 bones. It is supposed to be boneless goddamnit.
Quelle horreur!
Sending you thoughts and prayers.
You want boneless, buy the octupus.
*cue laugh track*
Joe Biden Took His Booster Shot On a “Set” of a Fake “White House”
This is one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen yet on the “Joe Show”
But…why?
Idk, but I noticed the windows. I was wondering why the outside wasn’t distorted like it usually is.
Wait, what?
*adjusts tin foil hat*
Heh. Obviously one of Biden’s body doubles.
So the the WP actually notes the “gag”, but plays along with the photo they chose.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-booster-shot/2021/09/27/43c751ca-1fc6-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html
Kristi is having a rough week.
Well, it does mean she is available, and not terribly discerning.
I knew she was a grifter (I mean, other than her being a politician) the minute she decided the plebes shouldn’t get to decide the w33d question. She’s a fake phony fraud.
Over the last couple of months, my despair at the difficulty of acquiring property in the Black Hills has diminished a bit.
She sucks, less than most politicians suck but still sucks nonetheless.
This story is a great illustration of why the left is in permanent control of this country. First off, it’s (admittedly corroborated) speculation. And then, even if true, I’m not going to vote for her because of that? Maybe we have some Republicans here: can you confirm you wouldn’t vote for a candidate based on her marriage situation? Bubba Clinton raped girls and had sex with underage children; matter of record, not anonymous source. Obama has gay bath house sex outside his sham marriage regularly.
They got, in their day, overwhelming votes, But Repubs are going to pretend they’re above that, and not vote for Noem? OK, then you deserve to lose.
Just thinking about what would happen in the US if the government required proof of an HIV vaccine* for entry to bars, nightclubs, dance halls, concerts, any place where people are likely to meet and hook up afterward…
*assuming such a thing existed. And, why shouldn’t it? One would think that with the stunning success of the mRNA vaccine development for SARS-CoV-2, that an HIV vaccine should become available real soon now.
Oregon has a law on the books that prohibits forcing healthcare workers to be vaccinated. It dates to the late 80’s/early 90’s and no one in current year can figure out why it was passed. I’m 99% positive it was done in advance of a possible HIV vaccine and subsequent requirement. Not to worry, the state just ignored it and issued administrative rules requiring all healthcare workers to be vaccinated.
I’ve used that analogy before. All I get is “but that would be discrimination against LGBT people, but not getting the COVID vaccine is a choice so it’s OK to discriminate.”
This is absurdly inconsistent, but it just lays it out bare (for the millionth time) that the American Left is driving towards pure authoritarianism.
Why would it be discrimination against LGBTQetc people? Weren’t we told that AIDS was going to decimate the straight population unless billions $$ were spent to research treatment? It wasn’t just a “gay disease” remember??
Trying to remember who it was that told us that. Drawing a blank though. Seem to recall they were pushing AIDS vaccines to… Huh, can’t recall though. Anyway, I’m sure this person our nations foremost expert, nay even top, infectious disease expert.
Dr. Fauci (PBUH) assured us all in the 80’s that AIDS was an equal-opportunity threat and I, a young fellow who was interested in some basic PiV sex, was at just as much risk as anyone else. Also, you lesbians need to use dental dams when you go down on each other. For Science!
UCLA is assho.
Prof. Klein’s alleged offense was that he insisted on treating black students equally. He refused a request by a white student to allow black students preferential treatment on final exams. Because such a racial preference would violate UCLA’s anti-discrimination policies (and maybe even the law), Klein refused. Students then launched a defamatory campaign against Prof. Klein, and the cowards who run UCLA’s Anderson School capitulated, denouncing and suspending Klein. He eventually was reinstated — because he did absolutely nothing wrong — but not before his reputation and career were severely damaged. …
Prof. Klein has just filed a lawsuit in California state court, and among the things he wants, is for UCLA administrators to be held personally liable.
Qualified immunity FTW!
Thanks for posting that. Looks like “systemic racism” to me, but probably not what those who are concerned about “systemic racism” mean. Will have to try it out on one of the pastors who goes on and on about it but never can give a cogent example.
Ended up accidentally posting baseball birthdays on last nights thread. If you care about players born in the 19th century, check it out. There wasn’t anyone of note who played in the last 110 years.
Since we discussed the VA gubernatorial race earlier, this was interesting:
Seems like Bagman’s a little nervous.
So that thing Barry said about wanting to work from behind the scenes. . .
NEW – Pelosi: “Keep government open… to address the full #Obama agenda of building back better.”
21 employees of WHO, including doctors and epidemiologists, allegedly perpetrated sexual abuse and exploitation during an Ebola outbreak. Some even administered abortion pills to their victims when they became pregnant. My report on a “dark day” for WHO
https://twitter.com/geoffreyyork/status/1442915360408104960
“My report on a “dark day” for WHO” Like the UN, I am sure that is more of a dark existence rather than a day.
“Why do all these international organizations keep poisoning, raping, and/or murdering people they feel no connection or loyalty to?”
Wait, you go to an outbreak zone for Ebola and start fucking the locals?
If you work for the World Health Organization, you can’t get sick. You’re one of the good ones.
I mean you may die might as well get some … preferably teenage some.
Fortune favours the bold
syphilis also favors the bold
It’s not an STD, dumbass.- Dr Fauci
It is a waterbourne illness where exposure to bodily fluids can lead to transmission. Even mishandling those who’ve died of ebola can infect people.
Look, it’s hard work being at the forefront of The Science™ and fighting the most dangerous virus in the history of the world. If they want to catch some downtime by acting like the operators of Unit 731, who are we to judge?
Anti-China hysteria lies at heart of action against IMF’s Georgieva
Her fall would prove the fund has mere trappings of multilateralism — leaving others to go their own way
https://www.ft.com/content/c5083dc2-286f-4784-bc51-a8d34f88e86f
Jeffrey Sachs September 27 2021
The writer is director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University
The heated attack against IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva is not really about the alleged sanctity of World Bank data or about the quality of her management. It is about the role of China in a Washington-based multilateral institution. Many in the US Congress want Georgieva out because she is not a sworn enemy of Beijing.
According to three Republican congressmen in their letter to Treasury secretary Janet Yellen, the allegations against Georgieva “illustrate how the Chinese Communist party, in pursuing its self-interest, undermines multilateral institutions such as the fund, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations. China feels entitled to a greater say in how these international organisations operate; its lack of commitment to multilateral values demonstrates why it must not be allowed to.”
“hysteria” LOL
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair America, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
https://twitter.com/AquillaLeon/status/1443203422598074374
I always figure those are planted setup questions thought up by the writers. “Hey no one is asking this question damnit! I know…I will just make it up!”
Except Animal who uses totes real questions
But his are fun and cheeky while these are tortuous and contrived.
And her parents are worried what she might bring home! Cuz Drumpf outlawed Abortions!
all girls should know anal does not get you pregnant
Fake news! Where do you think lawyers come from? ::rimshot::
These metaphors.
All your children are belonging to us.
‘I don’t think parents should be telling schools what to teach’ – Terry McCunteface
I agree. I think schools should teach what The Drunk Libertarian Uncles want – signed a Drunk Libertarian Uncle.
He’s so slimy he makes Newsome look to be on the up and up.
If we had a sane state, that would sink him, but…
Mask slippage no longer optional.
Only the state should have the power to educate…
And the state should create an entity for the kids to be made members in that encourages these kids to rat on their parents for saying any sort of bad things about the state…
*insert Orwell quote about parents being afraid of their own children*
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother — it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak — ‘child hero’ was the phrase generally used — had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.”
Duly inserted.
Wasn’t there a teenager being lauded by the media for narcing out his parents who were physically present at the protest at the Capitol on January 6th?