Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazingly wonderful day it always is!
Special Counsel Durham investigating Pentagon cybersecurity contractors in Russiagate origins probe
US nuclear submarine engineer and his wife are charged with passing secrets to a foreign government
‘Third World’ NYC drug store shelves empty amid shoplifting surge
California mandates gender-neutral toy aisles for large retailers
Lawsuit challenging Arizona civil forfeiture approved to move forward
Lumber prices have risen 50% since August
Texas toddler found alive in dense woods four days after going missing
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Happy Indignant Peoples’ Day!
Finally, it’s me day.
I’ll do my best to promote Indig Nation.
Southwest Cancels 1,800 Flights Days After Pilots Fight Vaccine Mandates; Airline Claims ‘Bad Weather’
Two guys I should cut bait on were bitching this morning about their flights. One guy is currently stuck in Minnesota, the other is worried about his weekend trip.
Of course, the issues is antivaxxers and not the mandates.
The issue is clearly the mandates. But up until now no one has really felt the pain. Welcome to the pain train. I have a feeling we’re just getting started.
whaddup doh ?
O-H….
M-Y…
Who let George Takai work Swiss’s keyboard?
GOD, it’s full of stars!
Kentucky and Wake Forest in playoffs?
OBE, can you confirm the Jacksonville ATC walkoff?
Cannot. ATC smartly just nods their heads and plays mum is the word when they do stuff like that. If they did, and we have a very liberal sick leave policy; especially with covid.
I checked their normal haunts on the internet but those have gone pretty quiet during covid times. So they must have moved onto a different message board.
Interesting….thank you.
Typically when a story like this gets out, we get some administrator lackey to send out an email assuring us it wasn’t as you read. So come Tuesday, that will be interesting to see if they do that.
FAA already Tweeted basically “nothing to see here”
I was speaking more internally, not the public spin. We will get a “don’t talk to the media!” when they know it was really bad. Haven’t yet.
I just had a huge old write-up to post and accidentally hit something to refresh the page. Basically, it appears it only affected SWA and a smattering of other airlines had normal cancelations that don’t stick out. This seems more of a coordinated effort of the air and ground crews of SWA than anything.
Yeah I heard nothing unusual on JAX approach & departure frequencies, nor ZJX. Except a lack of SW callsigns.
Yep, the claims are for ZJX, not JAX.
Here is the official FAA response:
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county/flight-delays-blamed-limited-staffing-jacksonville-air-traffic-control-center-weather/OHOVJKKIHNHOHBNKHVVBZA34YI/
The FAA put out a vaccine “incentives program” to actually try and discourage this type of event from happening. I pointed out that controllers are pulling 60+ hour work weeks for the past 18-19 months and anyone person taking off unexpectedly creates a hole. Those can be covered fairly easily, unless multiple persons are taking off for ‘their vaccine shots’.
I just had a huge old write-up to post and accidentally hit something to refresh the page. Basically, it appears it only affected SWA and a smattering of other airlines had normal cancelations that don’t stick out. This seems more of a coordinated effort of the air and ground crews of SWA than anything.
Yeah, just affecting Southwest screams it wasn’t air traffic controllers.
On the other hand, this is getting my hopes up.
On the gripping hand, I’m happy I’m driving to Florida for my Florida trip.
I’m listening to JAX ATC archives right now. So far traffic seems normal (I’m at 5:30pm local on Oct 10). Definitely no weather issues, though. Like, none.
The military needs the airspace. And they’re not talking about it because it’s classified.
ThEy ARe MoVinG tHe AliENs frOm ArEa 51!!!!!!!!!!!
To FL to breed with Florida Man?
*shudder*
Fox News is on the case!
Heh, outside of 9/11 and a presidential TFR, I have never seen the military take over whole swaths of airspace that isn’t already designated as such.
Ummm….
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2021-05-18/gps-interference-testing-remains-problematic
TFRs. I know their GPS testing is screwing up airspace.
Yeah, it’s a huge problem.
Step 1: Get everyone using GPS as the prime guidance source for enroute and terminal navigation.
Step 2: Remove the only backup nav system available to non-airlines (VOR airways).
Step 3: Do GPS jamming testing at random locations and time all over the country, making it potentially unsafe to navigate.
Yesterday lots of folks across southern NH reported hearing booms. At about the time the boom happened, I thought something hit my house. When I checked, I saw no evidence of anything hitting my house.
Paul Raymond with the New Hampshire Department of Safety told WMUR that the FAA Regional Operations Center had no military plane activity over the state this morning.
I’m expecting in a few days the military will say something along the lines of, “Oh yeah, it was us. It’s classified so we won’t say anything more.”
Why they chose weather and FAA as the scapegoat might come back and bite them in the ass. Easy to counter because the FAA tracks weather delays and cancelations and you can monitor ATC (pay attention to clearance, not the local controls). I say that because clearance delivery is handling the PDCs and filed flight plans. If there were weather delays/cancelations, that is where you would hear it. Perfect place to hear it is traffic management, but they are all on interfacility lines that are not broadcasted.
Some major airports’ ground and clearance delivery frequencies are available on LiveATC, but there is not nearly as good coverage as tower, approach, and center frequencies.
California mandates gender-neutral toy aisles for large retailers
I am disappointed the mandate doesn’t apply to clothes.
Southwest is a mix of sick-outs and vacations. A lot of crews will not get the shot and will be fired next month, so they are using up vacation and personal time. Others are refusing to fill in for the absences.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/10/10/more-info-surfaces-on-southwest-airlines-flight-cancellations-and-pilot-push-back-against-vaccine-mandates/
Common sense refusenik control
But a key aspect of enforcing this requirement, differentiating it from some other OSHA regulations, will be the reaction of employees at risk of catching Covid in the workplace, who will serve as a force multiplier, experts say.
“The vast majority of employees want everybody to be vaccinated,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University. “It’s only a small but vocal minority who don’t. What you have to do is capture the attention of the silent majority and have them blow the whistle on any employer.”
“Encouraging whistleblowing is an extraordinarily important part of it,” he said, adding that OSHA “doesn’t have to set foot inside most employers.”
The Stasi need your help, Citizen.
Expose the heretics. We only want to help them understand their duty to Society.
“The vast majority of employees want everybody to _____”
be vegan
vote Democrat
follow sharia
…
The vast majority can fuck off.
Let’s go, Brandon.
?
I must work at an outlier. The noisy ones in my shop are full throated mandatory brown shirts. The silent majority here are all normies who don’t give a shit one way or the other.
Luckily for me the brass has said they won’t make any decisions until OSHA actually publishes a rule.
I think Prof. Lawrence Gostin should get out of his ivory tower and deal with regular people (who would call him Larry instead of Lawrence). Then he might realize his assumption that the rest of the country is as scared and paranoid of the Rona as he and his fellow geeks are is incorrect.
My current company:
1. We encourage vaccination.
2. If OSHA passes a rule, we will follow it (duh, they arent going to fight it).
They aren’t pushing it because we would lose too many people is my assumption.
Why would your company follow an obviously unconstitutional rule instead of fighting it, especially if it means firing a bunch of good employees?
Because big companies don’t fight against the Feds.
They may lobby and whatnot, but they aren’t going to fight.
Because the fed has dug itself into commerce like a tick, and can make life a living hell for any company who doesn’t fall in line.
Winter is coming.
Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Let’s go Brandon?
Winter is here. Snow at pass level from yesterday evening. Guess who’s driving today?
Too bad the Wuhan Flu Shot doesn’t do a damned thing as far as transmission rates or anything, you idiots…. Maybe you just need to accept that stuff goes around and we can get on with our lives like we have with every other disease in human history….
Gostin is a piece of shit bar none. He never fails to support the most authoritarian public health measures.
Wow, that’s good news, but five miles and nobody encountered him? That is some dense woods.
Those woods are dumber than a box of rocks.
Lawsuit challenging Arizona civil forfeiture approved to move forward
It’s an Institute for Justice case. So thanks to those who contribute.
IJ is my Amazon Smile recipient, so I contribute small amounts fairly frequently.
I didn’t know that aisles even had a gender (in English).
Alternatively, does that mean Barbie dolls are banned? Or can they be sold if they put a word balloon sticker saying “Hi, I’m Barbie! I’m nonbinary and my pronouns are xe/xem/bunself!”
GI Joe comes in a dress and Barbie has an assault rifle.
/thinks back to when people swapped out the audio chips in GI Joe and Barbie
Go on…
It means Barbies and GI Joes mixed together on the same shelf. Little Timmy shouldn’t have to experience the shame of wandering into the girl aisle to get his Barbies.
but how will xer toughen up in anticipation for the bullying at school?
Re: Lumber prices.
This is for 2″x4″x8′
5/2019 – $2.55
8/2020 – $5.07
2/2021 – $5.73
4/2021 – $6.98
8/2021 – $3.79
10/2021 – $3.68
Interesting, so the futures got a bit a spike but the retail price did not? I don’t know what’s going to happen but no matter what, things is happening.
Yeah I frantically went to google to see how my local Lowes is pricing 2x4s. I’m guessing the retail side hasn’t had to start hiking the price just yet?
They got up to $10 at the Home Depot a few months ago here in NY before coming down a bit lately.
Saw skirt steak at King Kullen yesterday for $25.99 a pound.
In addition to higher prices, availability is scarce. Where as you could get as much as you wanted on 5/19
https://www.homedepot.com/p/2-in-x-4-in-x-96-in-Prime-Whitewood-Stud-058449/312528776
Local showing 2,200+ in stock.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/2-in-x-4-in-x-8-ft-Stud-Douglas-Fir-Stud-Common-1-5-in-x-3-5-in-Actual/1000028847
Local showing 2,100+ in stock.
I dunno if I count that as scarce.
The White House says the evidence supports the effectiveness of mandates. It released a report Thursday asserting that vaccination requirements in many organizations have helped push their employee vaccination rates to more than 90 percent — a “substantially higher” rate than the 63 percent of the working-age population who are fully vaccinated.
Biden implored companies not to wait for the requirement to go into effect.
Coercion works! Just grab those bastards by the scruff of the neck and march them down to the clinic.Give ’em a swift kick in the ass, while you’re at it.
“Fear works! Make them afraid.”
Oh, wait…
New White House Chief of Staff Tarkin wholeheartedly approves….
It’s amazing what is possible when you put a gun to someone’s head.
Where there’s a whip, there’s a way.
Singapore flattens covid curve – along the wrong axis.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/087/341/758/original/7ce784f1fde8f829.jpg
Obviously they’re just not vaccinating hard enough
“My message is, require your employees to get vaccinated,” he said in remarks Thursday. “With vaccinations, we’re going to beat this pandemic finally. Without them, we face endless months of chaos in our hospitals, damage to our economy and anxiety in our schools and empty restaurants and much less commerce.”
Magic potion is magic.
With vaccinations, we’re going to beat this pandemic finally.
That has never been true. That is not how it works. Vaccination during a pandemic, especially for a respiratory illness, only drives the pandemic.
I’m so glad that the entire history of virology/epidemiology has been forgotten.
I’m trying to avoid the feelings of existential fury that these assholes are getting away with the big lie. But it’s getting harder and harder.
On the plus side, went to Texas Roadhouse in Winchester yesterday for a little post-USPSA red meat and beer. The place was packed, and there were only a handful of mask dead-enders even among the staff.
It looks to me like, except in the highly neurotic urban cores, the pandemic *is* beaten.
Mornin’, fellow reprobates.
Thanks for the banjo(s) music, Banjos!
“The Consumer Federation of California supported the law, saying: “Keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate”
They are confusing cause and effect. Guns and stuff are in the boys’ section are there because boys prefer them, just as dolls and stuff are in the girls’ section.
I guess they feel there is still too much toxic masculinity out there which needs to be eradicated lest it become a danger to the New World Order.
Yes, it’s just another part of the “war against boys” you sometimes hear about.
Boys are just tiny men and we know all men are scum.
Hey!
And of course the idea that retailers could figure this out themselves and if it really *was* better for the consumer (driving more sales, hence a competitive advantage) that they would have already done this never crosses their dictatorial little reptile brains… (No offense to Mr. Lizard, may he continue to bask in the Florida sun or whatever he’s been doing….)
Orbital bombardment… Incoming!
Compulsory sales will be next – you cannot buy a boy toy without also buying a girl one.
Madonna hardest hit.
?
I believe you can still rent one.
Can I still get a sex dwarf?
Hasbro must produce equal amounts of male and female Star Wars action figures. And must change their name to Hasxem.
* And must change their name to Hasxem.*
Bravo.
Lumber prices have risen 50% since August – deja vu and all that. this too shall pass. Also who needs lumber? not me
I do.
I’ll trade you some sheep.
Also, I debunked this above.
I only use 2×4 for my bonfire
I have a homebrewer buddy who makes “Two Sheep for One Wheat” beer.
🙂
I was at 11th Hour Brewing in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago late on a Saturday night, and a group of gamers had taken a table and were playing a game of Catan.
gamers – I would think gamers would be offended at catan players being called that
It is a gateway game….”Hey, you liked that one, so…”
I am going to just build my house out of straw anyway.
/1st Little Pig
As I said in a different thread houses should be made of brick anyways.
Absolutely!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rrBx6mAWYPU
*nods vigorously*
/3rd Little Pig
/doesn’t live in an earthquake prone area
How about wolves?
https://www.militaryimages.net/media/m1-does-my-talking.1714/full?d=1521486835
You could: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7h1SKGWSpmU
GI Joe comes in a dress and Barbie has
an assault riflea massive erect cock.Excuse Me It’s Ma’am Barbie?
Ru Barbie?
Aqua has a sad.
sloopy is usually absent from the links when the Astros lose. Yes for some weird reason I googled MLB results though I have no notion of it. But I assume the other team got more first downs or something.
They got a late field goal in the third period.
is that called a bunt or a punt?
They bunted, but icing was called.
You get two minutes in the dugout for that.
And 15 yards?
No, you have to bat from the spot of the penalty.
Why are you misspelling bint and pint?
Dammit! I should have gone with bunte and punte.
It would be funny if bunt and punt didn’t rhyme.
Is the federal vax mandate a bluff? Biden announced it, but it still isn’t a rule.
https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/4951535/
Not a bluff. Pure cover. Announce a regulation…busineses rush to “get ahead of the curve”, OSHA either slow walks it or doesn’t ever publish a rule, business points to government, government points to business…inertia takes hold and now it’s a ‘standard business practice’.
Will that work? I think current events are exposing some flaws with this plan.
Does seem that this is precisely the plan. Any whoever is pulling Big Daddy Gubmint’s strings, well, I’ll give them that it seems to be pretty effective. Everyone is talking about this non-existent mandate (not a law) as if it’s a done deal.
My personal “only hope” is that my current employer continues to remain silent, until such time there’s an illegal mandate in place. I know for a fact they are desperately understaffed, and they can’t afford to lose the several handsful more that they would to this.
US nuclear submarine engineer and his wife are charged with passing secrets to a foreign government
Plot twist the undercover FBI agents are actually foreign spies who infiltrated the FBI
Yeah, I figure the foreign nation must have been Russia.
Because China already bought or stole all our tech years ago.
I was thinking Bulgaria myself
Huh. I would’ve gone with Pridnestrovie.
Australia?
If Russia had wanted it so bad, they should have offered to produce it for cheap, then we would have handed it over to them just like China.
Voodoo talismans covering the face to ward off evil spirits. Magic potions.
SCIENCE!
Plot twist the undercover FBI agents are actually foreign spies who infiltrated the FBI
Triple double agents!
‘Third World’ NYC drug store shelves empty amid shoplifting surge
Honestly this is what some socialist claim socialism is. You just go to stores and take whatever you want and socialism replenish it, as scarcity is a creation of capitalism and does not really exist.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is asking Gov. Ralph Northam to waive the witness signature requirement for absentee ballots cast by mail in this fall’s election.
Fortify!
Of course they are.
Someone show me the part of Virginia Constitution where the Governor can just ignore the law.
All together now: “The FYTW Clause”.
If there was ever an audio theme for this site, a clip of that would be it….
I believe it is in the FYTW clause, which is written on the back in ink that responds to citric acid. Someone get Nicolas Cage on the phone.
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These people are trying to trick me to call a number which probably overcharges me
Hot wimmenz are waiting to talk to you! Call now!
I rather go to Pridnestrovie for that
Variable Speed Limit
Remember, it is reckless driving at the lower of speed limit + 20 or 85.
Fizzbin!
We have those around here. They are stupid, since the freeway will say “45 MPH” when it’s total gridlock. You ain’t doing 35, let alone 45 or 65.
Sounds like a way for State
Revenue AgentsPolice to extract more money from drivers.His mistake was sending the information to a landlocked ally of the USA?
Please tell me we didn’t sell our screen door technology to the Norwegians!
Men who wanted to highlight their suitability as long-term partners preferred to present themselves on their dating profiles with dogs rather than with cats.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1446709977884807169
Scientific articles whose first author was male were more often retracted for fraud and plagiarism, while female authors more often stumbled over “errors.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1446114590920560651
Was that tweet peer reviewed?
124 times
Happy indigenous day.
Enjoy before it gets taken down
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_at9dOElQk
Uffda. That is quite the tour de force of wrong think isn’t it?
*checks wall calendar*
Yup, still Columbus Day. Suck it, the left.
Huh. I had forgotten there was a table-dance involved.
OMG, PP takes a toke off the peace pipe. Hell, that there even is a peace pipe.
And what sounds like Broderick Crawford voicing the chief.
And the geekier kid tries but turns green. This shows that smoking is tuff and manly.
That squaw turned Peter red. Seems legit…
I’m flying to St Louis next week. Hopefully the flights will be uninterested.
most of my flights are generally indifferent
Once again, Minnesoda is being overlooked by the big media outlets! No love from Banjos for our big mass shooting?
We should be getting the same hysteria as when people get shot in a bar on the coast right?
I guess I’m not that upset about the lack of coverage. Only 1 dead person? We need the govt to fund some basic marksmanship classes for our youth.
The shooter(s) weren’t white is my guess.
Or at least used an AK-15 with a barrel shroud that goes up.
And a thirtymagazineclip
There are of course no names or mugshots of the three suspects, including the convicted felons with lengthy criminal records
None of them have been formally charged yet, so that is normal.
Why would you take people into custody for mutual combat?
Do you want guys shooting fireballs out of their hands or ripping someone’s spine out with their bare hands? Because that’s what you get if you let people play the live action version of Mutual Kombat.
And what if I do?
You need to optimize your powder charge for your barrel length to prevent that.
Also: gun reviewer shits on expensive guns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKoHFl6K8jM
CrimeWatch Minneapolis is on it
The victim is very attractive and is posing with a cute kid. You’d think the media’d be all over it.
One dead? In Chicago and NY, that is a day that ends in “y” Actually, any random hour in a given day. Why would there be national coverage?
Your spidey senses have deteriorated.
The local media is hawking up “gun violence” in Little Beirut. It’s clear it’s about pushing for gun control, not actually doing something about shooting (drug/gang related) or crime in general.
Bipartisan Redistricting Committee Gives Up
I’m not surprised they couldn’t agree considering the Democrats insistence on maximizing the number of non-white majority districts.
MISS POLONIA 2021 – WSZYSTKIE KANDYDATKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tnydhsaM0g
For some reason I read that as Miss Polonium.
1st show in Chernobyl?
Tickets are already half sold!
So did I; I figured that was a very Eastern European thing.
You eastern Europeans are alright.
I’m just hanging out waiting for the big snowstorm. I don’t think I’ll be going very far for a few days.
*returns from trip to Shenandoah*
*reads headlines*
I see the world is still stupid.
I was reminded of this program today.
A big thank-you to the professor of engineering and technology ethics who showed us the whole run of “The Ascent of Man.” I got the feeling at the time that she was a leftist, but that meant something a little different back then. If only the leftists of the 1980s and 1990s had realized what they were creating.
This should be the lesson of postmodernism, instead it’s “Nobody knows anything for sure, so the ends justify the means.”
Southwest Cancels 1,800 Flights Days After Pilots Fight Vaccine Mandates; Airline Claims ‘Bad Weather’
It was actually clear, wasn’t it?
I flew on a Southwest flight yesterday that went through a thunderstorm. Make of that what you will.
According to a report from RealClearInvestigations, Special Counsel John Durham has shifted the focus of his investigation into the origins of the Russiagate conspiracy to Pentagon cybersecurity contractors who may have misused their government security clearances to provide Democratic operatives with damaging (albeit false) information about former president Donald Trump.
John Durham did not kill himself.
And even if we find out the contractors were Crowdstrike employees and they were doing everything they were accused of, there won’t even be an apology much less jail time.
https://www.takimag.com/article/living-in-the-age-of-jim-snow/print
The most glaring example last week – the black man (18) who brought a .45 to school and shot a bunch of people – charged with assault and out on bail.
Kyle Rittenhouse, meanwhile, is being charged with 3 murders.
See – white supremacy in action, white men shoot straight!
2, 10, 7, 12 (in that order)?
Yes, yes, fuck you cut spending, but I am playing along and trying to pick the best 4.
I thought it was well established shoe0nhead is a moron
she can’t even count to nine correctly.
First rule of Socialism is never talk about Plan 9
She forgot #9, so yes.
But still one of the least annoying socialists.
Are you saying she spaced out on plan 9?
2, 6, 10, 12
Shit, I completely missed 6.
I don’t get the hate for RCV.
It’s still voting.
I actually missed that one. I might replace 10 with that one. And if “Guns4All” means handing out guns paid for by taxpayer money, not simple freedom to own whatever, then I’d switch 12 for 11.
I wouldn’t trust guns4all. It sounds like the government picking the default weapon for everyone and then slowly banning everything else.
I lean toward 7 for the last one just because if we’re going to pay people for childcare, I’d rather it be the parent than the current alternative.
SMART GUNS!
stay@home parent UBI is not UBI is it?
What is the Official Glibertarian View on time and temp for brewing green tee? I do 85 to 90 C for 3-4 minutes
First use Fahrenheit.
^
I deal in degrees Freedom, not degrees Commie.
That sounds like the best country club ever.
You like to golf in 90 degrees C weather? Might I interest you in some real estate inside this charming volacano?
Yeah, but I’d just skip to the tee for the brewing green.
I don’t know about tea, but coffee brews best at around 205F (96.1C).
I start my V60 pour at like 90 and goes down to 88 till I’m done
The optimum extraction temperature for coffee is something like 205F to avoid bitterness and get the most flavor. I read that somewhere and played around with temps–it seems to be true for me and most coffees I brew. But I’m not really an expert;, I just go by my personal taste.
Really. I’ve been using around 175-180 forever.
If you go much higher than 205, you’ll extract a lot of bitter flavors so be careful.
I got 175 from the AeroPress instructions and just kept using it even though I’m not using the AeroPress currently, just pour over.
It never occurred to me to push it as high as 205 but now I wonder if I can get better results at higher that 175.
Experiments shall commence tomorrow.
I use about 190 for the Aeropress.
I’d like to hear your results. It’s possible that I prefer more bitter coffee than others, so I hope it works out for you.
I found this on the stages of boiling water.
Interesting.
I was thinking
Nucleate
Critical Heat Flux
Departure or Transition
Film
Shrimp eyes — the stage when I start taking water temperatures before doing my single infusion mash for brewing beer. I usually target somewhere around 164 degrees.
It’s a mystery for the ages
“There is a malaise,” said Sarah Longwell, a moderate Republican strategist who became a vocal supporter of Biden in 2020, and led the focus group of Democratic voters. “People don’t feel like their lives have been improved. They did sort of feel that promises aren’t being kept.”
Nearly nine months into office, Biden and his team contend that the ravages of the pandemic are starting to recede due to his actions. They point to polling showing strong support for his legislative agenda, anchored by physical infrastructure and social and climate spending packages. They note how rare it’s been for Democratic lawmakers to break ranks, even during this current, difficult period.
But Biden’s standing with Americans has plummeted, with his average approval rating plunging by nearly 15 points since late June. He’s seen a drop among Democrats and even more with Republicans, but the decline has been particularly steep among independent voters. In the same time period, the president has scrambled to salvage his domestic initiatives amid infighting among Democrats over their size and sequencing. He has presided over a chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan and faced criticism for his response to the inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
But it’s the pandemic that looms over it all, making it all the more difficult for the White House to turn back the slide.
Longwell said she was struck by how similar the concerns of Democrats sounded to Republicans, and also by how little Democrats in her surveys blame Republicans for standing in Biden’s way. It’s a point echoed by nearly a dozen strategists who have compiled or reviewed research into Biden’s precipitous decline.
A pandemic of incompetence, maybe.
LOL
That moment when the seas began to recede
Followed by the tsunami.
A pandemic of incompetence, maybe.
In this society I’m afraid that is endemic.
We’ve forgotten fundamentals in this country. And the gods of the copybook headings with terror and slaughter return.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg
Fucking obstructionists! We have a man, and he has a mandate!
I’m sure Mayor Pete over at the Dept of Transportation will straighten out the port backlogs in no time.
Yeah, that’s not a fancy new initiative. These fuckers in government want flashy, but don’t realize that “infrastructure” is actually dirty, boring, and essential to get right. They don’t GAF about doing what needs to be done, only what gets them attention and rewards their donors.
Oh, and the only way the government can possibly improve the situation is to get out of the way, but they don’t do that kind of thing.
blame Republicans for standing in Biden’s way.
Why it is almost like GOP reps are elected to represent their respective states and districts.
Minnesoda officials (and their press organ) spin, spin, spin on nursing home workers quitting because of the mandatory vaccine mandate
Think about how much safer and healthier the elderly and infirm will be if the filthy unvaxxed are gone and the residents have to fend for themselves.
US nuclear submarine engineer and his wife are charged with passing secrets to a foreign government
I though the Clintons were out of the game.
– but they were actually dealing with undercover FBI agents
IOW they did not sell secrets to a foreign government.
US nuclear submarine engineer and his wife
That would be Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. I’m sure they still need to kick 10% to the Big Guy though. And no way Hillary isn’t getting her beak wet.
Stealing the secrets is the easy part. Selling them to “not the FBI” is damn near impossible. I really think the wife put him up to it, like a modern day Adam and Eve, I guess the FBI is the serpent.
IOW they did not sell secrets to a foreign government.
The government has finally accepted they are foreign controlled?
Will White, Orlando Hernandez. Yeah, its a bid list today.
At #6 is Buttercup Dickerson. the 19th century could be cruel.
I bid on the first guy
He died 110 years ago, so probably a poor bid.
Its a BAD list today.
Timothée Chalamet took to social media to give us a glimpse of his look as Willy Wonka in the upcoming 2023 film, Wonka.
https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1447293024095068162
Tamerlane Cumberbatch is having a real surge in his career lately.
Lemme guess…. A gritty “reimagining” of the origin story of one of the iconic screen characters of all time…. It’s dark…. It’s chocolate…. It’s WONKA!
‘Third World’ NYC drug store shelves empty amid shoplifting surge
Did they stop prosecuting for up to a certain value like Commiefornia (or wherever that was)?
Yes. With the new bail reform youre back on the streets the same day. People are making a living robbing stores and selling the stuff on Amazon.
Lumber prices up 50% since August? So still less than May?
Yeah. I’m actually feeling optimistic for once.
We locked our house price in April, so that is good. Builders have lumber, what they are struggling with is framers. That is the bottleneck right now.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Saturday a bill requiring large retailers to provide gender-neutral toy sections, per the Los Angeles Times.
I am not aware of anything that previously stopped a girl or boy from going down any particular toy aisle.
Bigoted parents that force their views upon their children. Only government can force their views upon their children
Govt doesn’t have to force one thing on you – it can just remove all of the options.
???
And they do this through regulation. Businesses are just extensions of the government at this point, a way for them to launder their unpopular mandates.
Fuck, I’m going to be forced to steal Barbie clothes along with my shoplifted GI Joes.
1 – I’ve never seen a store label their aisles “girls toys” or “boys toys”. They label them things like “dolls”, “sports equipment”, “art supplies”, “playhouse”, etc.
2 – Sex/Gender is fluid and doesn’t exist, yet to promote that claptrap they have to resort to traditional gender stereotypes and they don’t even notice it.
All true.
The White House has never disputed the notion that Biden’s political fate is tied to his handling of the Covid-19 fight. It’s why they quickly moved to pass a $1.9 trillion relief bill upon taking office and placed such an emphasis on getting people vaccinated. But recognizing a hurdle is different than clearing it. Early, bullish proclamations about the country reopening proved to be premature, as did the belief that they could use persuasion, access and education to increase vaccination rates.
Biden’s job has been complicated by some Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, who have spread anti-vaccine conspiracies and rejected vaccine and mask-wearing requirements in predominantly red counties. But public health experts have also criticized the administration for being confusing with its messaging and slow to adopt new approaches. A recent push for vaccine mandates has led to an uptick in vaccination rates, but tens of millions have still not received a shot.
Spare the rod and spoil the
childslave.The best obedience is compulsory obedience.
including former President Donald Trump
Ummm…what? Trump has been pumping the vaccine hard since the very beginning.
They know that. Trumps supporters know that. Democrats know that. But no consequences for pushing propaganda so why not?
You know who else pumped hard since the beginning?
Peter North?
Dutch windmill makers?
Jim Cramer?
Hans and Franz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAalP0jeqV4
The problem with the vaccine is that you can’t trust Trump or at least that is what respected grownups have told us.
If Biden were really in charge, by this time we would have been told that we had herd immunity and that the Rona was just a bad flu. The MSM would have taken their orders and spiked stories about breakthrough infections and “surging case numbers”.
That this hasn’t happened tells me that the Deep State doesn’t care if Biden goes down in flames. They are going to ride the Rona panic as long as they can to take away our basic freedoms.
including former President Donald Trump, who have spread anti-vaccine conspiracies
Broski literally still hypes the vax.
but tens of millions have still not received a shot
I intend to remain in that category.
Mammary Monday won’t put up with any more of your shit.
https://archive.is/83Pi6
Lumber prices have risen 50% since August, and 2 experts say the resurgence will continue through early 2022
This is a petrifying prospect, to say the least.
Despite my wooden facade, I am laughing on the inside.
Frankly, I’m board by this story.
It is a very poplar topic!
I pine for the days of cheap lumber.
Of course you wood.
What a sap!
All I can muster is a plank stare.
You all are aspen for a narrowed gaze.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
I had some projects planned to spruce things up around the house, but knot at these prices.
Shh, not after Swiss planed down this board.
she can’t even count to nine correctly.
Did she lose a finger?
*2
/pedant
I would prefer that my framing lumber be standard lengths, TYVM.
It’s a conspiracy, man! Big saw is conspiring with big lumber to make sure you need something to cut to length! Look it up!
I remember when Random Lengths sold out. Used to be a local publication.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/10/11/terrified-virginia-democrats-seek-to-change-election-laws-after-voting-has-already-started-n455021
Sure, change the rules mid-stride. Worked for 2020 and California.
We always change the rules in the middle of the game.
Australia has fallen.
Additionally I saw that the Aussie Cossack has been arrested.
Already own a trained arabian hunting falcon? Collateralize it. Secure a loan financing another falcon. That falcon? Collateralize it too. There’s no end to the number of falcons you can buy. The bank bundles its interests into a Falcon Backed Security and sells it. EVERYONE WINS
https://twitter.com/FalconryFinance/status/1446873636485287941
“A tight, stable gyre” FTW
“Falconry Finance”. Band name, album name, or Mutual Fund ?
I finally got some time to read farther down in that thread. It’s beautiful.
Amtrak employees to join the ATCs.
Amtrak announced it will require nearly all of its 18,000 employees be fully Vaccinated by Nov. 22. Multiple sources are reporting that train crews have now joined the protest started by Air Traffic Controllers and Southwest pilots and employees. Rumors that American Airlines pilots are next.
More of this, please.
I have a couple of friends who fly left seat for American and to hear them tell it, the ranks are PISSED at the requirement.
Good, I hope they stay that way and fight. We need them to.
One of the two already got vaxxed because her husband is in his 70s and she was concerned for him possibly catching something she might bring back from a flight. The other, I’m not sure, but I think he did too for other reasons. But regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not, they’re angry at being forced now. Whether that will translate into action on behalf of their unclean colleagues, I’m not sure.
This is all on top of some bullshit actions by American to prioritize original American pilots over former USAir pilots that a lot of them are pissed about.
Well, I had been planning on visiting my parents ins a couple of weeks…
Start walking now.
I’m taking the advice of my fellow Glibs and staying off Facebook. But these days I’m very tempted to post about how great our country is doing, all due to Biden, the best and brightest the Democrats have to offer.
Honestly that might be the best way. Do it as unironically as possible. Make everything you post be about that.
But I stay far away from social media, this place excepted.
I consider us to be “anti-social media”.
Wouldn’t it really be more social anti-media?
I left Facebook in January of 2008. Best decision ever.
Maybe you’re just lousy in bed.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16373437/she-says-faking-orgasms/
Any Glibs live in San Antonio? This Friday though Sunday I’ll be there for a hockey weekend. I’ve rarely played for our A team because it’s always stacked, but this year we’re missing a lot of players and there is room for me. This is my first A team trip this year. I’m nervous, but I also know some of the other teams won’t have their best players because a lot of them are training for the Paralympics.
Any Glibs live in San Antonio – you a cop?
No, I’m not really good at persuading people to do stupid and illegal things.
Bathing Suit Try-On Haul (How To Pick Flattering Bathers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08C_9Wj3Wbo
I think when it comes to how to pick flattering clothes, the standard rules apply. Be attractive. Don’t be unattractive.
The insurrection continues.
President Trump today at the ‘Texas Loves Ashli Babbitt Rally’ — “I offer my unwavering support to Ashli’s family, and call on the DOJ to re-open the investigation into her murder on January 6th.”
Any support for his supporters who have been in a gulag for 9 months? The ones he could have pardoned but didn’t.
He could have pardoned them, but then they wouldn’t be useful pawns to play.
He probably believed that they murdered a cop.
He had great people working for him, the best really!
Respiratory viruses can wreak havoc in a facility housing a vulnerable population.
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/10/families-reach-62m-settlement-after-deadly-viral-outbreak-in-nursing-home.html
“The families alleged in the wrongful death lawsuit that the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation did not immediately notify parents about the outbreak that began in September 2018, then waited too long to transfer infected children to the hospital, despite pleas from their loved ones that they receive a higher level of care.
A total of 35 children were infected and 11 died from an adenovirus, a typically mild illness that wreaked havoc on the weakened immune systems of the disabled children who lived at Wanaque. One employee also was infected.”
In 2018. So despite this experience our esteemed governor decided to order COVID patients to be returned to nursing homes. And claims there was no way to know this would have a bad outcome.
Lumber prices have risen 50% since August
Lumbar seemed okay but there are massive supply shortages across the board at both Lowes and Home Depot. I’m in the middle of a tear down to the studs renovation of several rooms. So far I’ve had to go to 5 different Lowes/Home Depots across 5 cities in 2 states to get what I need. It’s unbelievable. One Lowes will be completely out of 2 gang boxes. Another will have 2 gang boxes but no ceiling fixture boxes. Then only the third has windows in stock. Same thing with doors/outlets/etc.
That sounds like a back-breaking job.
I fortunately have a crew who is handling most of the work itself. I put on the GC hat though.
When you spend all day straining at the lumbar, you need a nice cold cervicaleza to refresh yourself.
“cervicaleza”
Is that when you do a cervical exam using a beer bottle?
I saw that video when I was in college.
I’m also seeing more restrictions on either home delivery or ship to store, making it necessary to go to all of these places. Although a lot of shipping is still working.
The cabinets normally have a 10 day turnaround. I ordered in early September and am hoping to receive them by mid November.
Some clients of Mrs. Dean are looking to replace their washer and dryer. They were told a one year delay. No idea what kind they were looking for, since there seem to be at least some in stock.
I’m quite certain that this is rather inappropriate.
Poll worker in Milwaukee was caught telling voters in Spanish to vote for Biden
You are a bigot. You just don’t understand the exotic and intricate unknown language of Spanish.
Vamos Brandon!
Legit LOL
“Vota por Biden” isn’t exactly a tough code to crack.
Sconnies. [and wondering why it wasn’t the MN glibs that dropped that]
I was gonna buy 2x12s for wall shelves, but Lowes only had them in 10′ or 12′ lengths (can’t remember which) and they were $40 each. I told the employee that was too expensive for that much wastage, and he was like, yeah, the prices are crazy. I decided just to buy bookcases. It was cheaper and easier than my project.
I wanted 8′ length.
no one needs more than 6′
And the Romanian drops from the top rope! BOOM!
2x12s aren’t available within a 100 miles from me. Consider yourself lucky you can get 10′ or 12′
I initially read that as 8″. I need more coffee.
From what I hear, 8″ also produces too much wastage.
8″ can be tough to fit without proper preparation.
How *you* doin?
ATTN: Tres.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/fashion-beauty/plus-size-model-calls-herself-25152594
THINK ALL FIREWOOD IS THE SAME?
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I did not think all firewood is the same tbh. there are different sorts of tree, more or less dry etc. Who thinks all firewood is the same?
From the site
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4 excelsior fire starters
4 pieces of heart pine
8 pieces of kindling
1 Box of Cigar Matches
Each firewood box is 17″ x 14″ x 16″ and contains up to 50 pounds of kiln dried wood
That seems to be 60 to 70 US dollars depending on the tree
Conniving entrepreneurs striving to separate idiot-hipsters from their money – I like it.
what would you say is the correct price for up to 50 pounds of quality firewood?
I get mine for free, plus the cost of running my chainsaw and the opportunity cost of my time. So many trees here.
do you kiln dry?
Nope. 100% natural sun-aged firewood right here. No artificial preservatives, and it’s CO2 neutral.
“open air solar kiln”
Back to Politico:
Specifically, Clyburn blamed the sustained intraparty fighting over the Build Back Better plan for hurting the president.
“On substance, the president’s programs are what people seem to want. Like everything else, it’s the sausage making that’s causing problems with the polls,” he added. “There are one or two [senators] that will keep him from getting to 50.”
Who doesn’t want the Democrats to destroy the economy and the currency with their Free Lunches For All agenda?
NOBODY, that’s who.
The nation is being run (into the ground) by a bunch of delusional idiots.
I’ve been thinking of the question of who’s in charge behind the scenes. It would have to be someone with some balls. I can’t see squishy moderates taking charge, it would have to be someone more radical. And looking at the latest push to sic the feds on parents at school board meetings, I think I’m right.
The nation is being run (into the ground) by a bunch of delusional idiots.
And you’ll be able to say the same thing when the other party is in charge.
I think it’s become abundantly clear that whoever gets elected is incidental; The Agenda will continue as planned. The only distinction is whether the bureaucrats work in the open or behind the curtain.
It’s really silly to blame the bureaucrats – they are the least imaginative people you’ll ever find. Their only agenda is to keep their paychecks coming and bitch about the appointees (if they are high enough level to see them). That’s your grand conspiracy.
That is likely true for the majority, but remember the #resist people? A lot of DC swamp dwellers among them. The appearance of a “grand conspiracy” as you call it (which I never claimed existed) is an emergent property of bureaucrats doing exactly what you’re saying. Lots of petty functionaries keeping the gravy train flowing. It just so happens that a particular ideology is much more lucrative than the other.
They truly believe that they’re the saviors of us all. The arrogance is pretty astounding when you encounter it in person.
Bullshit on the ideology – the DoD doesn’t run on proggie wetdreams, but it sure operates on the same principles of human behavior. Every department runs on the basis of self interest, ideology is just a convenient (temporary) alignment.
the DoD doesn’t run on proggie wetdreams, but it sure operates on the same principles of human behavior
Over time, the proggies have learned to hitch their wet dreams to those same principles. Entryism creates a monoculture of compliance. Safetyism weaponizes the desire for security and the natural risk aversion of bureaucrats.
I agree with Q that this flocking or herd behavior can give the appearance of a conspiracy, but its really just an emergent property of people in a particular environment which has evolved? been constructed? to be an engine of totalitarian conformity.
Yes. The existence of the behavior does not require a conspiracy, but that fact doesn’t lessen its corrosive effects on our society.
People who refer to “The Swamp” have been unfairly maligned in the same way that people who oppose vaccine mandates have been labeled and ostracized as “anti-vaxxers.”
People who refer to “The Swamp” have been unfairly maligned in the same way that people who oppose vaccine mandates have been labeled and ostracized as “anti-vaxxers.”
Because they allowed themselves to indulge in an ideologically driven narrative.
If they had played the story straight from the beginning, they would’ve made it at least a little harder to be labeled crackpots.
The latter bit cracks me up when people keep trying to make it all about Trump. Black NBA players are mouth-breathing, religious, right-wing, WHITE Trumpers eh?
I say we burn the whole thing down who’s with me?
Preet.
On substance, the president’s programs are what people seem to want.
According to who?
There are one or two [senators] that will keep him from getting to 50.
And?
By my math, there are 51 or 52 Senators keeping him from getting to 50.
That’s why we need statehood for D.C.
If only this gasbag would stop talking.
California will soon ban the sale of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers after Governor Gavin Newsom signed off on the new law on Saturday.
The move is aimed at curbing emissions from a category of small engines on pace to produce more pollution each year than passenger vehicles.
The gas-powered equipment to be banned uses small off-road engines, a broad category that includes generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers and even golf carts.
Under the new law these machines must be zero-emissions, meaning they’ll have to be battery-powered or plug-in.
There is no such thing as “zero emissions” and it is not a desirable feature.
Maybe not desirable for you, but who cares what the peasants think?
Oooh, a plug-in generator! Just what we’ll need for the next power outage!
smdh
So “solar generators”. I.e. batteries. Not like they have pollution issues on disposal and manufacture. And they are so light and energy dense!
I expect a thriving market for generators from out of state.
*ponders opening a Generators-R-Us store in Yuma*
So you will be powering meth labs then?
Once the check clears, I have no way of knowing (not to mention, no interest in) where they are or what they are doing.
So if I need to clear trees to create defensible space around my home in order to protect it from a wildfire, I will need to use an electric chainsaw? That’s fucking stupid. Do these people even live in the real world?
Rid us of this tyrannical garden gnome: Anthony Fauci Refuses To Say It’s Safe For VACCINATED Americans To Be Inside Without A Mask
Matthew Barnett
@MatthewJBar
·
Oct 2
It’s crazy to me how some people still seem to think whole brain emulation has a >25% chance of coming before de novo AGI, even after GPT-3 and a decade of very slow progress on brain scanning/emulation. @robinhanson
why?
Robin Hanson
@robinhanson
Replying to
@MatthewJBar
and
@anderssandberg
OK, so to summarize a proposal: I’d bet my $1K to your $9K (both increased by S&P500 scale factor) that when US labor participation rate < 10%, em-like automation will contribute more to GDP than AGI-like. And we commit our descendants to the bet.
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1444765968987824140
I am not sure I understand what those things mean
AGI = Anthropogenic Global Inferno
GDP = Global Dong Protrusion
GPT = Gory Proton Trellis
Surface Detail describes em-like automation. AGI-like too, but that’s the entire series.
I enjoy how these guys love arguing about the propriety, ethics, and dangers of AI, but agree so easily to a bet wherein they “commit their descendants” to honor it.
I weep at how SCIENCE! illiterate society has become.
1. Witches curses aren’t real.
2. “PhD Life Coach” is a sure sign of a fraud.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/08/husband-suing-psychic-for-failing-to-remove-curse-on-his-marriage-15391337
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx. I’m sure glad I wasn’t flying this weekend. I don’t have trip for another few weeks, so I hope this shit dies down by then.
The guy sold nuke secrets for $70K? He should have hired someone to negotiate for him.
I gotta believe that lumber pricing is being driven as much by the fucked up supply chain as by demand. It’s weird, though. 2x4s are cheap and plentiful, but plywood is still stupidly expensive. There are some houses going in across the street. It will be interesting to see how long they take to complete.
Have a great Monday, peeps!
We had three houses going up near us that ground to a complete halt for at least six months this year. I think it was/is a labor shortage, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some supply shortages in there, too.
Alright, I’ll bring it up – the US men’s national team display in Panama last night.
5 shots the entire game. 0 on target. The Panamanian goalkeeper didn’t have to make even 1 save.
That’s a fucking disgrace and it is on Berhalter for his lineup.
As I said last night, if they fail to qualify again I’ll lose my shit.
They keep alternating…they are fine, they are in trouble. Etc.
Beat the ticos and I think they are fine…again. Canada does appear to be on their last legs, they really aren’t a threat. Which is why drawing with them was so bad.
Same shit every 4 years. Touch and go until the end when they manage to eke out qualification.
Didn’t work last time. Let’s see if it does this year.
The thing is, you are going to lose some games on the road in Central America. Which once again, is why the Canada draw, at home no less, was so so bad. That was a two point gift to the field.
My idea:
Substitute the USWNT for the USMNT’s games.
They can then be paid the same as the men’s team.
Their opponents will have to let them win, otherwise misogny.
Win/win! And I should get a 10% cut for having the idea.
And give up all the benefits/security they have in the current “unfair” deal?
The women’s team would whither under the Latin Male Gaze, at least until that one with the pink hair kicks them in the balls and reveals that her dick is bigger than theirs.
a ludicrous display
Wha? I don’t think I’ve ever seen toy aisles marked as ‘girls’ or ‘boys’. Like things are grouped together, shocker.
Maybe they could label the section “Toys”?
Gee, I have no idea why they’d tie that requirement to the number of employees…
Why are clothes excluded? More and more parents are apparently choosing frilly pink dresses for little Chad and Joshua.
Or Franklin
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Franklin-Roosevelt-1884.jpg
@CPRM – you’ve got a forum message.
What’s the logic behind excluding clothes, anyway?
Monday tunes: 46 = 13 ///LetsGoBrandon
Digging the mullet.
I like it but “we need a strong leader?” Leave me out of that part.
I’ve been mostly ignoring the upcoming movies but I went and sampled some of the trailers this weekend.
My observations are that other than Dune, it’s a big pile of dogshit. The Marvel Eternals movie looks particularly insipid and stupid, even by superhero movie standards.
I saw the new Bond movie on Friday. First movie I’ve seen in the theater in years. It was kind of a hot mess, but still entertaining.
Oh, and not a single mask among the patrons.
I’m tempted to go see it, I’m just hesitant to deal with the mask BS. I guess I should call and ask if they’re enforcing it.
My local theater is demanding proof of vaccination or recent negative covid test.
It’s like they _want_ to go out of business.
I didn’t go to the theater (not sure what to make of what looks like “Self Serve Popcorn” and whatnot around here — and it was coming to iTunes early enough), but picked up Free Guy and watched it last week. Pretty much a fun movie, a little stupid politics as a throw away line from time to time, but not bad enough it can’t be ignored.
I think I will remain a lapsed Catholic.
As far as I can tell, Francis is a lapsed Catholic as well.
BURN!
Nancy too, otherwise she’d still be spilling her guts in the confession box.
What we need is a reformation.
Go on. Im inquisitive….
The dog was like, “hold up, I know exactly what to do”
https://twitter.com/BasheneA/status/1446710191500808192
See, I would have interpreted that as the dog going to perform an emergency tracheostomy. The people in the replies must be cat owners.
I never seen that spelled with an s but it seems a legit spelling
C. Anacreon can clarify, but I assumed that you’d be putting in a stoma rather than simple removing the trachea.
Yeah I’m sure this will make it more likely for her to support your bullshit.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10078933/Liberal-activists-plan-bird-dogging-Senator-Kyrsten-Sinema-runs-Boston-Marathon.html
*eyeroll*
Still would with extreme prejudice.
I’d have to see the activists first.
Ducking questions look bad, specially when someone is known to have a stand on the issue. Pol subjected to this should stop and tell the activists why they aren’t supporting whatever legislation. Let the cameras catch the pol’s remarks and then the activists will look foolish when continuing to harass.
Yes, it is clearly time that someone ask these tough questions on camera and then post the responses on YouTube.
Thank you, thank you everyone.
Hey, I can’t recall who was the poster who always used that line on TOS?
Lone Wacko.
Yes, I have spent too much time on the TOS and this site. Why do you ask?
Ah, yes. How could I forget!?
LoneWacko.
https://youtu.be/zrX9Ca7LSyQ
Given your skill-set and her cleavage, of course you would.
We’re still alive, Swiss!
//White Sox-related fist pump
Probably rain out today…heh.
I Hope that series goes 5, I think those are the two best teams in AL.
The autumn rains are here. I am in heaven.
Humidity is finally easing off a little here. Not quite heaven yet but we’re getting closer.
Its perfect out on the east end of the island. Nice breeze all day and sweatshirt temps at night.
Wonderful.
Once again the focus will be on race and not what actually is alleged to have happened.
Ohio police probed after man screaming ‘I’m paraplegic’ dragged from car
They get right to it in the first sentence of the article.
TMITE wants us to have another “national conversation”, I guess.
Race > Disability in the hierarchy of identity politics.
Yes, the important thing here is the race of the victim, not the fact that the police have the power to victimize anyone like this.
FAHHHHHHHHHHHH-Q
Coercion is coercion.
“It isn’t a firearm ban” specifically. Its a requirement to take measures to keep the communities safe from the hazards of freedom loving people.
Well, being vaccinated certainly doesn’t seem to be a measure to keep the workplace safe, etc., based on the decline in vax effectiveness, since its a pretty targeted vaccine for a variant that is rapidly being displaced.
Our best composers write film scores for the same reason bank robbers rob banks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTmBeR32GRA
You know what’s really weird is that I didn’t even know that movie was released yet.
In France and some other EU place. Not in the US until the 22nd.
They should be commissioned by the aristocracy, like the good old days.
That soundtrack is missing something vital.
TOTO?
Cool. Bookmarked.
Just a quick chime-in on the ATC and vaccine mandates.
1 – Yes, those “hiccups” in the ATC system were absolutely the result of people who do not want to get the clot shot. I have it on pretty good authority.
2 – Pilots were a huge part of the anthrax vax fight and they’re even more prevalent in this one.
3 – SWA pilots filed for an emergency TRO and claim that since the suit filed, they’re being retaliated against, so this is going to get shitty in a hurry. I’ve got a copy of the filings but haven’t gone through them yet.
4 – I’ve been contacted by groups of pilots that include both Delta and AA folks, as well as maintainers, ground-crew, etc. IOT to sue. I think another firm is going to handle it, but I’ll likely be helping. That’s coming down the pike soon.
5 – Sidney Powell put her name behind a lawsuit that was filed in fedl district court in Pensacola – an interesting choice of venue. I have a copy of both the complaint and the TRO motion and they’re very good. It’s the first one I’ve seen addressing the govt’s bullshit claim that a vaccine can simultaneously be EUA and somehow “interchange” with a licensed vaccine. It’s an attempt to retroactively license an EUA and the complaint does a great job of explaining why that’s impermissible.
I think there are well over 20 separate lawsuits attacking the vaxx mandate in various forms, but you’d never know it from the media. This is being intentionally buried. I wonder what they’ll do if a judge grants a PI or order – how will the Media spin that? Or will they just ignore it and pretend it didn’t happen? Crazy times.
I wonder what they’ll do if a judge grants a PI or order
*fires up the “Judge X Did Not Commit Suicide” memes*
Welp, there goes any hope I might have had.
There is exactly how the media will spin it.
Really bad choice on the part of plaintiffs.
Only reason I question this Ozy is we aren’t up against the hard deadline yet for getting the clot-shot. Today is our drop-dead to get our first round of Moderna. 17th is Pfizer and Nov 8th is JJ or final rounds of the others. People are just starting to submit their medical/religious accommodations and we won’t see responses I am guessing until Nov 9th, when they can lay down the discipline hammer.
Only thing I can think of was that NATCA (air traffic’s union) published their MOU on attestation and vaccine requirements last Friday and that triggered them to either run out and get the shot or sick call.
Starting now, in terms of ATC, seems…odd.
I agree with Q that this flocking or herd behavior can give the appearance of a conspiracy, but its really just an emergent property of people in a particular environment which has evolved? been constructed? to be an engine of totalitarian conformity.
Self-selection plays a major role. Nobody goes to work for the government so he can leave us the fuck alone.
Toss in some bitchin’ intentions, and away we go. Next stop, Hell.
Bitchin’ Intentions! Bitchin’ Intentions!
I coerced my neighbors!
Bitchin’ Intentions! Bitchin’ Intentions!
Now I’m in all the papers!
I LOL’d. Good job.
I now have the original stuck in my head.
Mornin’
According to a report from RealClearInvestigations, Special Counsel John Durham has shifted the focus of his investigation into the origins of the Russiagate conspiracy to Pentagon cybersecurity contractors who may have misused their government security clearances to provide Democratic operatives with damaging (albeit false) information about former president Donald Trump.
Prediction: Nothing else will happen.
The emails show that at first Toebbe remained wary but that he came to trust the undercover agent due to the hefty amount he was going to be paid. It was agreed he would receive $100,00 in crypto and was paid $70,000 before he was caught.
He is cheap.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Saturday a bill requiring large retailers to provide gender-neutral toy sections, per the Los Angeles Times.
Go fuck yourselves.
I wonder what they’ll do if a judge grants a PI or order
Commence smear campaign against “activist judge thwarting Will of the People”.