Game 6 tonight!
The Chiefs got back to .500. Von Miller is on his way to L.A. Derrick Henry is gonna be sidelined for a while. Everton continued to suck yesterday as they dropped to 10th. The World Series is back with Game 6 tonight. The Astros are gonna try to force it to 7, but I’m not overly confident. Oh, and UCL matches are back today as well. So some good stuff going today, but not a ton of it. Enjoy what you can.
The first non-Vampire Romanian to make it to the site
Frontiersman and “bar-killer” Daniel Boone was born on this day. He shares it with dessert proponent Marie Antionette, presidents James Polk and Warren G Harding, Shia leader Aga Khan III, Romanian leader Gheorge Tatarescu, HOF infielder Travis Jackson, actor Burt Lancaster, pitcher Johnny Vander Meer, Greek baseball player Al Campanis, tennis great Ken Rosewall, rocker Keith Emerson, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, outfielder Willie McGee, hockey defenseman Jason Smith, and rapper Nelly.
Right, now on to…the links!
“Undermining democracy by being part of the majority” – CNN
Well this is certainly an interesting way to spin it. Another wild be to say that the Dems don’t have a majority in the Senate and these two are voting in a bipartisan manner with a simple majority. I guess “consensus” means something different than it used it. CNN gonna CNN.
Not a good look, L.A. County. Not a good look at all. I’ve got a better idea for you: get rid of qualified immunity and then you don’t have to pay when your idiot cops and/or firefighters do something this fucking stupid.
How disgusting. Never in my 51 years on this planet have I seen a company use a currently-popular phrase to sell their product. It’s simply unheard of! This definitely sets a dangerous precedent.
All eyes are on Virginia as Election Day is upon us. Strange that Team Blue are already complaining that 300,000 ballots are stuck at the post office. Be prepared for them to get delivered on an “as-needed” basis.
She needs to just tell them to fuck off. Let them sue her and let it go before a jury…with a big, fat “emotional distress” countersuit.
Let her teach! Let her teach! Let her teach! Attica! Attica!
Let the lady use her talents. I mean…right?
I’m sure the city isn’t worried. Eventually a court will side with the mandate (which isn’t a law), and force these people against their will to get a shot or stop getting paid. I’m curious if they’re still planning on taking the retirement benefits away from people who decide to call it quits.
Oh well. They have insurance. That’s the rallying cry, right leftists? Well, sorry you can’t get your food as easily anymore. Enjoy your fucked-up leftist utopia.
Man, this sucks for their customers. The worst part about it is how the weather affects their planes a lot more than the other airlines. It’s uncanny.
Going a bit more modern for today’s song. Hope you enjoy it, friends.
And I hope you enjoy this lovely Tuesday.
SQUIRRELZ!
First! Let the lady use her talents!
Damn! And here I was trying to reference an actual link and everything….
You’re still miles ahead of Brochettaward.
“Strange that Team Blue are already complaining that 300,000 ballots are stuck at the post office.”
How could they even know that?
Cause those are the ballots they pre-filled for the people that were going to have a problem getting thee ballots in cuase they were either dead or unwilling to do this on their own?…
Because by “post office” they mean their campaign office. and by “stuck”, they mean “sitting there if needed”.
Loaded up in the trunk of a station wagon?
Probably already under a table at a counting center.
They are going to steal the election bigger than shit. They know it, we know it, everyone knows it. Say something about it and you are a domestic terrorist.
How did we descend into a chicken shit banana republic so quickly?
Covid?
It doesn’t matter who votes, it only matters who counts the votes, etc. etc.
How does the meme go again? Oh, right – always have been.
When it happens and when you notice can be separated by a long interval.
Very true. Also the interval between ‘when you notice’ and ‘when you admit it to yourself.’
Good to see you about, Suthen – seems you’ve been scarce for a bit.
At some point, the decent people of this country will have enough, but will it be too late? I’m on the fence…
As a glowie asked Charlie Kirk: “When do we get to use the guns?”
Ideally we do not have to. And we need to refrain, but the opposition wants such violence to use as a pretext.
A plant provocateur. That is not how we do things here Charlie. Get back to your FBI desk.
“Never in my 51 years on this planet have I seen a company use a currently-popular phrase to sell their product. It’s simply unheard of! This definitely sets a dangerous precedent.”
The fact that the fucking people now experiencing the vapours went far worse about the orange guy just a little while ago should tell you that this is about spoiled fucking cuntes silencing those that would make them feel like the idiots they are.
the vapours
You going Canuck on us, Alex?
I was showing solidarity with the crown or something…
Nods
I knew my brother from another Canadian mother would appreciate it!
“A Georgia woman says she received an emergency room bill for nearly $700- despite not receiving treatment and leaving the hospital after seven hours without ever getting to see a doctor.”
I went to the ER, never saw a doctor, got tired of waiting, and they sent me a bill. The hospital tried billing me, telling me I saw a doctor. Then they gave up after I asked for his name.
It was the ASSMAN! That doctor….
Hey! The Assmans back in town!
Kramer- you know it!
They should have just randomly given a common doctor’s name. Like this:
https://youtu.be/q2yqUyRXGhI
Doctor Proctor…
Metro MN is watching the elections, to have POLice or no POLice. Plus watching VA, the metro makes MN blue and could change as more people move out of town.
My Minneapolis lib girl last night told me she was going to vote against that defund the police nonsense after telling me about all the car jackings from just the last 24hrs and the fact she is in fear every time she drives anywhere, and that she couldn’t understand why anyone would not do so too. Then I asked her which politicians she would be voting for and there was a short silence before I pointed out that if she kept voting for the people of the same party, the ones that keep causing these problems, she was not really doing anything to stop the stupid…
She hemmed and hawed and then told me her neighbors would give her the stink eye… I told her that her neighbors would if they were smart vote the right way too, then pretend they voted for the people that have turned the city into a dystopian hellhole. She actually told me that she couldn’t see them lying to her about what they did. I told her that having met them I believed they were smug prius driving assholes that felt their farts didn’t stink and would have no problem lying to others to keep up the expected appearances. She told me I was mean. I told her I hope she doesn’t have her dogs in the car or get hurt when they carjack it cause they kept doubling down on the stupid and lying political team blue class..
A: Who told them?
B: Who cares what they think?
You must not be too familiar with team blue tribe dynamics and the joy & pleasure they have canceling and humiliating each other?
That reminds me of the flyers we received letting us know our voting grades compared to our neighbors. I am so happy to know my neighbor got an A for voting in every election for the past few years.
You live next door to a cemetery?
That would be an A+.
Either way, the Polis will stay.
New cartoon needs scheduling for anyone with The Power.
My boss listens to ‘country music’ at work, I hate that damn Applebee’s song. So here is a Glibs country song for your morning.
Watched it earlier.
I for one will be purchasing the dolphin milk.
Shit, I meant dolphin cheese…Great Lakes dolphin cheese.
DA FUQ?
New H&H on YouTube.
Some guy on the internet made something.
Somebody should report you to the Geneva Convention for making me laugh so hard that I am hurting, man…
Does whale milk have lactose?
Asking for a friend.
No clue but you could tell the ladies you produce that when milked? Cause everyone wants to save the whales…
Whale’s milk, not used for human consumption, is one of the highest-fat milks. It contains, on average, 10.9% protein, 42.3% fat, and 2.0% lactose, and supplies 443 kcal of energy per 100 grams.
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/m/Milk.htm#:~:text=Whale's%20milk%2C%20not%20used,of%20energy%20per%20100%20grams.
Nice. Glad our conversation resulted in something!
I told you I’d take care of the marketing.
?”My wife ran away with my best friend, and I miss HIM!”?
What happens when you play a country song backwards?
The guy gets his woman back, his dog back, his house back, his truck back….
Is that the right order?
the steel panther of country
A compliment all-around.
I hate that damn Applebee’s song.
Meh. If you think of it as simply bubblegum country pop, it is what it is. I mean the song has a pretty sweet sentiment and I’d rather have to deal with it on the radio than a song about eating ass.
Nice one. And….
“In May 2020, she filed for divorce with her husband of four years Daniel Zamora, calling the relationship “broken beyond repair.””
Having your wife leave you over a 13–year-old has to suck.
“Having your wife leave you over a 13–year-old has to suck.”
Boy or girl?
In this case it was a boy.
I bet the guy suffered from some rare diseases like Kneezels, Toelio, and Small Coxx….
The depraved ex-elementary school teacher assisted education staff at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, but only in supervised group settings, the DOC said in a statement to Law & Crime, which first reported the assignment.
DEPRAVED, I say!
Good grief.
Loaded up in the trunk of a station wagon?
Well, axially…
“Well, sorry you can’t get your food as easily anymore.”
I feel bad for the people losing their jobs.
It’s SF, there’s no reason to feel bad for anyone there. They are living with what they have chosen.
Mid article, it basically states according to their analysis, Walgreens claims are overstated. Then concedes they may have not reported all the thefts. The city of Austin is now claiming petty crime is going down. Right after they quit responding to petty crime calls. How many times are you gonna bother calling the cops if they don’t show up or do anything if they do show up.”
Charles Hurt: America’s First Elected Black Governor Warns Democrats Ahead of Election Day in Virginia
McAwful called for resignations before he knew the chain of events would result in the Republican speaker becoming governor. He is now seeking Blackface’s support because he knows it is principals over principles. Still, Wilder’s criticism can’t be good for McAwful.
What is this blackface nonsense? It is pointless and it isn’t funny at all. I dont get it.
Wilder never struck me as a dishonest man.
No Sleepy Joe naps at climate meeting link?
I am disappoint.
He wasn’t napping… he was resting his eyes!
Who wouldn’t nap rather than listen to hours of that drivel?
Yeah, I’m not going to cast the first nod in his direction.
^^^THIS^^^
That shit is bad fiction. If they were not planning to ass rape everyone in it’s name, we would all be bowing out..
Consequences!
“The folks who are out sick and really aren’t sick — the folks who are faking it — are doing an immense disservice to the people of this city and to their fellow members of service,” de Blasio said during an interview on Spectrum NY1, adding, “We will make sure there are consequences for that.”
The FDNY-Firefighters Association, which opposes the mandate, suggested firefighters could be taking sick leave due to reactions to receiving the vaccine over the weekend.
But the mayor said the city was looking into whether the firefighters’ union had coordinated any “sick-out.”
“If the union coordinates — in any way — a job action, that is a violation of the Taylor Law,” de Blasio said, referencing a New York State Law that prohibits public employees from striking.
The mayor said the city was willing to “go to court immediately” over any alleged Taylor Law violation.
“There’s a certain point where responsible, decent people who say they believe in American values need to recognize there’s been due process, democracy has happened,” de Blasio said of the mandates. “The people spoke.”
DEMOCRACY! is when elected officials rule by decree. That’s how America works.
I’m sure he has the same stance on teachers who did ‘sick-outs’ for hosts of left-wing causes, right?
Stop complaining. The despots followed their despotic procedures.
DeBlasio demonstrates he has no clue what due process is or what actual American values are.
He is rich. And he KNOWS he is smarter than us fucking poor. So by that grace he has the right to rule by decree!
DEMOCRACY! is when team blue elected officials rule by decree. That’s how America works.
Fixed that. And everyone knows team red asshats would like to be able to get away with what team blue cuntes do, but they are too pussified to do it hard.
Communist pretends to know what due process and American values are. Lol
The folks who are out sick and really aren’t sick — the folks who are faking it — are doing an immense disservice to the people of this city and to their fellow members of service,
Ahh, don’t worry, Bill, all those buildings have insurance.
there’s been due process, democracy has happened
These things are not the same.
They need to learn their lesson, so I would guess yes. Just like I have heard that they plan to take away unemployment benefits if you’re fired.
I’m sure that will go over well after the last 18 months of enhanced benefits.
Yeah, if you needed anymore proof that these people should never be allowed near the leavers of power it is the image created when you look at whom they choose to reward with tax payer funded lucre and who they punish by withholding their due promised in contracts…
they punish by withholding their due promised in contracts
You know, I almost wonder if an enterprising hedge fund manager couldn’t turn that into an event of default. Short the city’s muni bonds and force a default out of it. I really don’t have confidence enough in the courts to be sure it would work. But, it would be hilarious to see that happen.
I think they’re using the “unpaid leave” as a workaround on that. They’re not firing anybody, therefore those people who won’t tow the lion will technically still be employed. They just can’t go to work or collect a paycheck.
Gee, if that’s legit I wonder why companies have never before been able to use mandatory indefinite unpaid leave to avoid any and all unemployment claims?
Just went back and re-read the Friday mandatory vaccine e-mail for the company I work for. No mention of what happens if you’re not vaccinated. Interestingly enough, they mention that it only applies to people working on Federal contracts (I don’t), but the bosses have said it applies to the entire department. One section offered for us to look for other open positions in the company to transition over to.
Still waiting to hear back on requirements for my personal belief/medical exemption claim.
Evil. Pure unadulterated evil to do that to people. *glares at employer*
That’s how NYC is rolling. It doesn’t get any scummier than that.
They’re fixing the glitch.
I called you to my office to let you know that you quit effective immediately.
I have retroactively accepted your resignation.
“Undermining democracy by being part of the majority”
Undermining Democracy, perhaps.
Democracy means rule by Democrats, duh. Like it’s right there in the name and probably in the Constitution too somewhere, hard to say about the last part since that document is so long and complex and written in ancient white-man-ese.
“‘It’s anti-black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant’: Squad member Cori Bush launches extraordinary attack on fellow Democrat Manchin for his opposition to Biden’s $1.75T Build Back Better plan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10153917/Manchin-shatters-Bidens-hopes-passing-spending-packages-week.html
Nothing “extraordinary”about it.
We’re all Klansmen now /in their fevered imaginations
Holy Damn she’s throwing every freaking body blow in the Democrat arsenal, isn’t she? Wonder if that’s a good sign?
Maybe they just got tired of profit.
I responded to a tweet of one of these investigations. They went off reports to police of theft. I pointed out that if the police won’t respond, the business will stop reporting. Just like driving an uninsured vehicle. No need to report any kind of accident, since all it will get you is a ticket for not having insurance.
I was waiting for the muh-racist food-desert angle but I guess they were uncharacteristically unconfident in their mind-reading abilities this morning.
retail theft was likely not the lone factor contributing to those shutdowns
I’m sure high taxes and labor costs also contributed.
Every insurance company on the planet is raising insurance premiums on SF retailers. Actuaries don’t have to just count police reports, they can look at other associated data. But that goes over the heads of journalist simpletons.
I am surprised insurance companies haven’t started to abandon the state. No insurance company can be making money there, with all the regs and crime.
The vast majority of everybody is on board, and we’ve got a guy from one of the Trump-iest states in the country, who is trying to represent his people, and we have a very idiosyncratic other senator. It’s just a lot to balance.
It’s almost like senators are supposed to represent their states, not the party.
We really have devolved into a place where the parties have the power, instead of the institutions.
Congress and the Presidency are just tools for the parties to wield their power.
Congress should have flipped the fuck out when Biden announced his vax mandate. He has zero right to do something like that. He is only supposed to enforce laws written by Congress.
Instead they roll over because the Dem party has control of both.
+1000
Signing out for now. Thanks for the crunchy links, Sloop! I wish that some of us wouldn’t be so fucking hard on the others. We’re all friends here, aren’t we? Anyhow, I’m off. Be good! Behave!
Today, in sports…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10153901/Women-strip-lace-teddies-nipple-pasties-annual-Lingerie-Fighting-Championships.html
That is far better than the WNBA. Thanks, Count!
“Missing accountant, 39, whose firm is being investigated over $43m fraud, is filmed heading to her son’s football game hours before her dog was abandoned on 28th floor of L.A. high rise and she vanished into thin air”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html
There is a lot going on here.
um…not how those cameras work…
The owners of the apartment building are refusing to cooperate with investigators and hand over footage without a warrant
Good. That should be the default response.
More Beer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPUERk9DvBg
Cold Beer! By the best Carbondale band ever…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeikCz0f00g
Voted ✔️
The little old lady in front of us was a pill.
She was full of right wing talking points and the school board candidates kept engaging her. I really should have given her a “Let’s go Brandon.”
Very few masks too.
You deserve a sticker.
🙂
I never take the sticker, except today because it was a nice old lady giving me one.
/Start Porno Music
https://pasteboard.co/oJr9jqD3X8sE.jpg
She was full of right wing talking points and the school board candidates kept engaging her.
🙂
I gave a little money to some candidates in Pennridge. One of the PA facebook groups for pushing back on the governor pimped their campaign. I looked into them and liked what I saw. I also know some folks in the Pennridge School District, though they might take offense at these candidates. Hopefully these candidates win.
Gun dealers are marketing weapon parts and ammunition using a right-wing slogan widely understood as code for profanity directed at President Joe Biden.
Eat your heart. PSA is on point.
PSA is awesome.
They’re going to start manufacturing steel cased commie calibers in the US.
They’re also doing other very big things in the near future. (Well, AFAIK, their parent company is.)
I agree. They get alot of hate in the AR community, for some reason, but I personally love their commitment to innovation. In house Glock clones? check. A decent US made AK? check. Coming soon: steel cased ammo. Oh and not to mention all your AR15 and AR10* needs. As a company, theyre almost like Kel-Tec, but with better quality control.
*Ok, their AR10 is proprietary, not working with either DPMS or Armalite builds, but whatevs. Unless that has changed lately.
From last night’s thread:
I wasn’t calling The Hyperbole a troll, I was saying Hyperion and I troll each other about the Chiefs and Raiders, that’s all. Sorry for confusing everyone by calling him Hype.
And sorry, The Hyperbole but Hyperion has been around longer so he gets the nickname Hype…just like how I’ve been around longer so I get TH. ?
Fuck him and his pickles.
Better yet, fuck him with his pickles
To late I demand someone is catbutted
OK, YOU THEN.
Brittany Zamora. Def would.
She might be looking for a pen pal and then who knows…just keep her away from your family reunions when she gets out.
When you write to her in prison, use a crayon and make you ‘e’s backwards in that cute kid-like way. Total turn on for her.
I had a bird for dinner, must have died a natural death, had no evidence of trauma. It was an excellent example of living off the land. OTOH, Mrs F did not share any dumplings, she is not nice that way.
Thanks, Jimbo
Grouse so stupid I get them have a tendency to fly into poles or power lines. I just scoop them up.
Tell Mrs F that she needs to share or you will report her to the local authorities for domestic abuse.
She said as long as she doesn’t get reported to Mrs Jimbo she’s safe…
Truth
Topic: Does don’t stick it in crazy still apply if she’s in prison and can’t get to you?
Discuss
+1 Conjugal Visit
Topic: Does don’t stick it in crazy still apply if she’s in prison and can’t get to you?
Discuss…
-1 early release
All eyes are on Virginia as Election Day is upon us.
Anecdotally there are zero Terry McCunteface signs in my definably middle / lower-middle-class neighborhood, and I didn’t see any in the other similar neighborhoods while traveling to my polling place. Likewise along the road at the polling place there were only Youngkin and Coyner signs (haven’t seen any for the opposition delegate candidate either). I guess Dems do not rise early.
Be prepared for them to get delivered on an “as-needed” basis.
I suspect the election has been sufficiently fortified.
Of course it’s been fortified, and they won’t even try very hard to hide it. Because the MSM will label anyone questioning it as white supremacist conspiracy theorists.
^^
https://twitter.com/CraigStrath2883/status/1455301071425916935
HA HA
‘They called it a visiting fee’: Georgia woman who was billed almost $700 for trip to ER says she didn’t even see a doctor and LEFT after waiting seven hours
At least they didn’t put her on a vent.
Heh.
Did some shopping yesterday. Eggnog is already out.
Careful… you may get a disorderly conduct or aggravated riot charge.
I’ve seen there’s already Christmas commercials out, and the one local radio station has already shifted to Christmas music.
The radio station I worked at switched to ALL Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving. Glad I don’t have to listen to that anymore.
Does it even keep two months?
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, you monsters!
Why you have to peddle racism is everywhere and fortify elections…
Mighty nice school administering Lou
The woke students staged a walkout. I was way ahead of my time. I staged all sorts of personal walkouts during my high school years.
That’s deserving of no more than a talking to with the teacher. Quoting something is in no way equivalent to using it.
IIRC, a teacher got busted for simply reading a passage from a book with a wrongthink word in it.
The fall of Western Civilization can’t come fast enough.
The fall is on, you must be talking about the bottoming out.
“A Minneapolis teacher is on leave after district officials say they used a racial slur”
That reads like the district officials used a racial slur. I hate this use of “they” to refer to an individual.
And of course no discipline for the student-vandals, meaning they obviously where POC.
Spurious ‘h’ slipped in [to what should’ve been were] because some Cockney wasn’t using it.
Good on ya–the Law of Conservation of H’s must be obeyed.
Nature abhors an h-vac
uumI’m guessing Huckleberry Finn is not part of the curriculum there.
After SHE used a racial slur
“They” refers to multiple people, 2 at minimum. Fuckers.
The newest talking point I’m seeing is “Let’s Go Brandon is a childish code phrase. Just say what you mean.” They miss the point that people *were* saying “Fuck Joe Biden” and now “Let’s Go Brandon” is just mocking the admin and medias attempt to spin his unpopularity.
The real objection here is the mocking of the media. The media is serious people. They don’t like to be mocked.
The left is terrified of memes.
They fear what they don’t understand
They get pissy about home truths they know but don’t want to acknowledge. Zero self-reflection whatsoever.
“Strange that Team Blue are already complaining that 300,000 ballots are stuck at the post office. Be prepared for them to get delivered on an “as-needed” basis.”
“Lower your expectations.”
-Psakster
My expectations are that Team Blue will lie, cheat, and steal to gain power, and that Team Red will let them get away with it. I’m not sure my expectations can get much lower.
Tomorrow will you drive around this town, and let Titty Tuesday chase us around?
https://archive.md/jiHb3
Hey! Jealousy!
Early voting at record level in Minneapolis
Since this is a blue on blue election, it will be interested to find out what faction controls the vote counting machinery.
From opening time to noon it is group one: then after that, it is the other group?
So, if government accepts a religious exemption from something, anything, doesn’t that imply that the government has established a religion? I’m wondering why my own privately held belief, a morality *not* given to me or accepted by an “established” religion, is any less valid than one that is. If such a belief is only valid if it comes from an acceptable list of religions, doesn’t that very list establish religions?
I put in for a personal belief exemption. If they want to call it religion, they can.
I would think that being willing to get fired would be pretty strong evidence of deeply held beliefs though.
You said it yourself “establish religions”, there is nothing in that ‘constitution’ that precludes that. It only talks about ‘religion’. PWND! /libs
If such a belief is only valid if it comes from an acceptable list of religions, doesn’t that very list establish religions?
Don’t let “religious” throw you for a loop. There’s no list, no qualification for it to be a religion.
It has to be a strongly held belief that deals with “bigger questions” about existence, morality, etc.
Well, I suppose I just don’t know how a “religious exemption” works. I see that the DoD and the IRS have either lists or guidelines for recognized religions and churches. Are you saying that a “religious exemption” from a legal standpoint regarding the vax mandate can include “personal belief” exemptions like Trashy submitted above?
*Neph above
I am also an ordained minister (in an Agnostic church), but figure I’ll leave that as a last ditch effort, sticking with personal beliefs to begin with.
“And the Lord said to me BIBELUJAH! Thou shall walk amongst the masses. Amongst the rich, the poor, and the INSANE! And thou shall say to them: FUCK YOU, YOU ASHHOLES!”…
Copy that. I’ll look some up. I’d be good with a personal belief exemption for myself, but I’d also be required to administer such a policy at my plant. I suppose I could obtain the same exemptions for my employees who wanted it.
I wouldn’t be good with faking a religious exemption. And I still don’t know that I’ll submit to weekly testing.
From the EEOC:
Thank you so much!!! I’ll be preparing some document, ready for when the time comes, and will reference this.
Feel free to pull more info on this from my exemption form in the forum. It has some more context and argumentation around this topic.
Worship totalitarian socialism, and you are supporting the government sanctioned religion….
Yeah, I ranted something similar the other day. IMHO, the First should have been written to clearly state that Freedom of Conscience and Freedom of Expression shall not be violated. Not to enshrine a pseudo-class of Clergy and Journalist that the court can pretend have special rights you don’t get if you don’t have the right job description.
But again — if they can twist the 2nd and pull something like Wickard out of their collective rears, they’d spin anything I can imagine however they want anyway.
So damned depressing….
Word on the 1A rewrite. I guess they were working with what they knew.
“Teacher locked up for sex with 13-year-old student taught fellow inmates”
But *what* did she teach them IYKWIMAITYD?
Yesterday afternoon we were in the Charlotte airport flying home from a house hunting trip. It was a beautiful clear-blue day – and I noticed the American departure board had a bunch of cancellations that couldn’t possibly be weather related.
Who are you gonna believe, the media parroting some PR flack covering the company’s ass for their tyrannical mandate or your lying eyes?!?
The real tell was that not a single flight on the board was delayed. I’ve had flights cancelled for weather – after a few delays were they tried to wait it out. Never on a day were it was sunny and calm in both locations.
If ta flight is canceled and it is not weather related, the airline has to pay to accommodate any and all passengers impacted. That’s the law. The exception is weather. So that’s why you can have “weather” events that impact only one or a few airlines having problems with getting enough crew for a flight…
I smell a nice class action lawsuit.
At this point they must be figuring they will pay less for that (and only the lawyers really make out) than they will accommodating the river of people fucked over by their insistence on the jab.
LOL
As if the courts will do a damn thing.
Accountability is for little people.
There’s competing interests for the bar in this case. They love themselves some class-action action.
Nothing to see here, peasant!
The airlines have their own internal weather departments, they don’t use the standard forecasts we see on the web–even the aviation forecasts. That, combined with their policies on what constitues flyable weather, can allow them to say that the weather is unsuitable *for them to fly*.
It’s 71 and sunny and we *only* fly when it’s 72 and sunny!
“San Francisco Safeway cuts hours, allegedly due to ‘off the charts’ theft[…]District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman told KPIX and Hoodline that the shutdown is part of a larger trend in retail theft.”
Not to worry; King Newsom will simply issue a decree that all stores must remain open at all times and any losses due to theft must be paid by the owner. I mean, if he can force people to inject experimental drugs, forcing their stupid Deplorable businesses to stay open should be a piece of cake right?
Election Day in NJ. I guess we’ll go through the motions. I’m sure there are stacks of ballots somewhere just in case – they probably won’t even allow it to be embarrassingly close for Murphy.
And tomorrow, vaccine mandates courtesy of our Dear Leader.
And tonight we sign with the realtor to put our house on the market. Moving might cost us both our jobs – but we’ll probably losing them either way.
Thank you for coming.
McAuliffe campaign staffers blocked the media from asking the former governor any questions after his election eve rally this evening
Transparency!
Juryeonggu (주령구) is a 14-sided Korean drinking game dice from the Unified Silla period, about 668 to 935 AD. The hanja, or Chinese characters with Korean pronunciation, for the name ju-ryeong-gu are 酒令具, meaning “liquor”, “command”, and “tool”. A die made of oak was found in a pond in Gyeongju, South Korea in 1975, but was accidentally destroyed while drying in a dehydrator. However, since there were photos taken of the die before it was lost, replicas could be made.
http://www.dellacivetta.org/goldandjade/2020/07/05/juryeonggu-14-sided-dice/
Sam-jan-il-geo (三盞一去) : Drinking three glasses of liquor at one time
Jung-in-ta-bi (衆人打鼻) : Having one’s nose struck by many companions
etc
I don’t like this drinking game.
Korean Dungeons & Dragons drinking game? And da fuq is a 14 sided die?
Accidentally posted this in the overnight thread:
I sent an email to my favorite HR person about the message that came out regarding vaccine status yesterday. Got a relatively quick reply back. Evidently they don’t have any kind of a plan; they put this message out to get something out ahead of the OSHA rule, which she says is expected to be released sometime this week. She says it was based on the “President’s comments,” whatever that means–he’s not OSHA, so why would they base any policy on anything he said at a press event?
It is supposed to be completely voluntary, but anyone who declines to disclose their vax status will be required to have weekly testing done. No details at all yet on who pays, how that gets reported, or whether it’s required for remote workers.
I also asked about exit strategy; whether they have criteria set that will terminate this requirement: nope.
She sounded very uncertain about whether the OSHA rule would really require much at all.
So, is it possible that the OSHA rule might be so toothless as to allow companies very wide latitude to do what they feel is best? Our CEO stated that our new policy is an attempt to balance employee health concerns with personal choice in vaccination. Which is way better than most CEOs are saying, it seems.
“She says it was based on the “President’s comments,” ”
These comments?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnG0POEDt6g
Was that “SHAMA-DELAMA-DEPRESSURE”?
OSHA rules have a fairly specific process for proposal, review, and implementation. If they release a rule this week, it will have been done without any of the regulatory requirements.
Of course, Roberts will just call it a penalvax.
Right, like all government regs, they are supposed to release a draft rule, then have an open public comment period, then a time when they’re supposed to read and consider all public comments, then a final rule publication. What I don’t know is whether OSHA can issue a rule on a temporary emergency basis. If so, I’d expect plent of legal challenges to it. If not, the required public comment period will be an absolute flood that will bog OSHA down for a while, hopefully.
I thought they were using an emergency process that allowed OSHA to bypass much of that process.
That’s what I was afraid of, but does that imply a temporary nature to the regs?
I don’t know.
I know that OSHA has a bad track record of court challenges when OSHA has used the emergency process in the past. Something like six losses out of eight cases, all hinging around it wasn’t appropriate to use the emergency process for what OSHA wanted to do.
Exactly this. It avoids public comment. That is part of the reason OSHA has such a poor track record on appeal.
I don’t know what it is about HR lackeys but they sure like those rules; apparently ones that aren’t even legal.
This one is a good person–oddly our HR department is full of solid folks. We have a relatively small HR force for the size company, so they have to actually work and don’t have time for BS.
Dear Author,
Your claim is likely bullshit but if not, your husband is an idiot who voluntarily tore up a winning Powerball ticket and flushed it down the toilet.
Sincerely,
Every Straight Man on Earth
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16601878/threesome-with-woman-desires/
I am not sure if you believe that, but I think you underestimate the anxiety many men would face in this situation
I bet her husband sees through her façade and knows she would end up going lesbian on him and then dumping him for another woman. That or she will demand, after he has had his one chance, to be gang banged by a bunch of dudes with nick names related to carrying massive manhoods…
Waay back in the mists of the punk rock dayz:
EF and I had a friend who apparently asked us – clumsily – if we were interested in a 3-way.
Apparently the question was phrased so poorly that EF & I didn’t even understand what she was asking.
A few months later the friend blurts out to us: “And you turned me down!”
Me: “What are you talking about?”
Sour grapes
Many Republicans appear to have bought into Trump’s lies about nonexistent widespread fraud in an election he lost.
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Democrats and independents mostly see Republican griping about voter fraud as sour grapes.
When asked about states’ efforts to conduct additional recounts of the 2020 presidential election results, 53% overall said those took place mostly because state officials didn’t like the outcome.
And when Biden loses in ’24, those Democrats will be gracious in defeat.
“lies about nonexistent widespread fraud”
I realize I may be setting a Kafka trap, but the outrageously and overly vociferous denials of ANY FRAUD EVER HAPPENING EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE says to me that they doth protest too much. Further: they unpersoning and canceling of anyone who even suggested the numbers were a little suspicious. If our Dear Leaders are so certain that fraud NEVER EVER EVER EVER HAPPENS then shouldn’t they welcome the Deploranazis wasting their time and money trying and failing to prove it?
I remember the days when Dems would go on and on about the Rooskies and their single FB ad tipping the balance towards Trump.
Democracy means democrats win. Otherwise there was something wrong with the election…
Democrats will be gracious in defeat.
They literally challenge the legitimacy of any election they lose. Just ask GA governor Stacy Abrams, or even Terry McCunteface about the Bush/Gore election.
The only time they talk about coming together and overcoming the divisions is when they win. Otherwise it is scorched earth time… See the few days right after the 2020 election before they decided they needed to censor people pointing out there had been some real crooked shit in that election.
Well, Hillary got to blame the recounts on Jill Stein. Maybe Trump should have had Kanye file the suits?
Didn’t we just learn that the state helped illegally cheat in Wisconsin nursing homes and there were no consequences?
And when Biden loses in ’24, those Democrats will be gracious in defeat.
Surely just as gracious as they were in ’16.
Get a load of this white-supreme pizza. ///Let’sGoBrandon
The Hat takes another Victim Of Color.
If only saying it would make it so: Terry McAuliffe Falsely Claims Critical Race Theory Isn’t Taught In Virginia
Can you even define critical race theory? I though not yokel
If only saying it would make it so: Terry McAuliffe Falsely Claims Critical Race Theory Isn’t Taught In Virginia
“These are not the curricula you’re looking for.”
Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trolls-will-be-jailed-for-psychological-harm-2dccb2cct
Trolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate.
Ministers will overhaul communication laws by creating new offences in the forthcoming Online Safety Bill, the flagship legislation to combat abuse and hatred on the internet.
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has accepted recommendations from the Law Commission for crimes to be based on “likely psychological harm”.
Nope this won’t be used to punish wrongthinkers. Nosireeee
The moon… it mocks me. I WILL NOT BE MOCKED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B81U7Vunhuc
I remember when SNL was funny. Man that’s been a long, long time.
Norm’s SNL stuff would not pass these days
A very long time indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LeJfn_qW0
Amazing such a country made
Little Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Q5dSbBczE
and League of Gentlemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIrTTv_Isho
Welp it’s time to put on the 20 year old flight jacket and do some garage working out. A nice balmy 39F out right now. Iron ‘n’ steel feels considerably colder.
God didn’t talk to you. He would have told me.
I know Juan Williams is a leftist hack, but good lord…
After white supremacists spilled blood in defense of keeping up Confederate statues in 2017, the GOP candidate for governor of Virginia, Ed Gillespie, said the monuments should stay up as a matter of heritage and history.
His TV advertising featured threatening images of Latino gangs, labeled illegal immigrants, involved in murder and rape.
The racially loaded “Culture Wars” campaign, straight from then-President Trump’s playbook, gave Gillespie a push, but he ultimately lost the race to Democrat Ralph Northam.
Now Virginia Republicans are back with a new and improved “Culture Wars” campaign for 2021. The closing argument is once again full of racial division — but this time it is dressed up as a defense of little children.
The rallying cry is “Parents’ Rights.”
Apparently Juan doesn’t think parents should have any.
The people that love statism of any kind have become desperate. They have always been unprincipled cuntes but knew to hide it, doing a relatively good job of that with the help of a complacent/complicit media. The desperation caused by Trump ripping away the security blanket they hid behind to look like they were well meaning, showed us a disease addled lunacy permeating these people’s brains, and the damage done when a single guy, attacked and opposed by the entire machine, managed to still do better than all the assholes of their credentialed elite expert class of idiots, has caused them to stop caring about projecting the appearance of propriety and sanity. They must put the boot on our necks now, before we decide we have had enough of the lies and abuse.
There’s a particular odor of fear among the technocrats. They sense their moral authority has slipped away and are resorting to force instead.
That can happen when you skin-suit what was once an unquestionable moral authority. Eventually the skin rots and exposes what is underneath.
Exactly. Who knows better than these charlatans that their supposedly “elite” education is nothing but a scam and that the bureaucracy is riddled with credentialed incompetents from top to bottom?
They are like the crew on the Titantic. The first to know the real extent of the damage and hell bent on getting a good seat in a life boat.
Trolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate.
“But M’lud, I was merely asking questions.”
I suddenly identify as trans something so I was punching up really.
Is trans-moron or trans-snowflake an accepted category?
Apparently Juan doesn’t think parents should have any.
Children are the chattel property of the state. Just like their parents.
https://twitter.com/d08890/status/1454968976929402882
I remember I was annoyed when the Dune trailer used crusade instead of jihad. This is both good and bad.
I laughed.
https://twitter.com/IntentPerson/status/1455247354848681985
didn’t scroll far enough but yes
Cultural appropriation. Which reminds me: should we accuse transgenders of “gender appropriation” to fuck the whole system over?
Mathematics.
A mathematician emerges from a cave, walks up to you, hands you the slip of paper below, and asks “What is zero to the power of 0?” What is your answer?
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1454996588661719041
Pi
My gender
“SUPERCUT!
@TuckerCarlson’s 1/6 special causes mass triggering before even airing”
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1455253539324841999
I don’t know if these people believe what they are saying, or it’s just propaganda.
Why not both?
It’s probably a mix of retards and liars.
If all these people are so good at knowing what’s in something before they’ve seen it, I wish they’d pass on some stock tips or winning lottery numbers.
Expressing disagreement with the prevailing
propagandanarrative makes you a domestic terrorist.Damn. That was next level hyperventilating about disagreement with their propaganda. They are scared.
Voting machine fraud & election office lockdowns – in 2004: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/03/hitchens200503
At least we know he didn’t blame God.
Dr. Jason Johnson
@DrJasonJohnson
Part of why Biden’s poll numbers are low is because Americans feel like they were punched in the gut on January 6th, and he hasn’t fight back on our behalf. He should be talking about terror just as much as Bill Clinton and George Bush did for 20 years.
https://twitter.com/DrJasonJohnson/status/1455313704531243010
Aaron Wells
@Aaron__Wells
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14h
Replying to
@DrJasonJohnson
Biden’s numbers are low because he is clinging to the last vestiges of neoliberal capitalism before it implodes and turns to either social democracy or neo-fascist theocracy (Texas). Stop catering to the privileged. Agressively support the economically disenfranchised masses.
these are both takes I suppose
Twitter, giving a voice to the deranged since whenever it was….
neo-fascist theocracy (Texas)
When did islamofascists conquer Texas?
I’m not sure, but it sound like we need a Reconquista of Texas. And we all know what nobody ever suspects…
OK now I’m all but certain that Youngkin will win and the Repubs will take at least one side of the legislature…
Virginia’s Election Will Reverberate … in Virginia
By what chain of reasoning do you reach that conclusion?
Honest question. I have to go back to work, so I”d rather not get into an argument.
Because Bloomberg says if he wins it will not have national consequences. QED.
Yup. Spinning the loss already
When a party talks about it “just being local” they are minimizing what is about to happen. Someone smart enough to see it, wants to contain it as much as possible.
I’ve already seen at least one article blaming the VA election on “white backlash”…
backlash
IT WAS JUST HORSE REINS!
Maybe they can coax Van Jones out of his Bezos enabled 100 million dollar retirement for a reprise.
…against a white outgoing governor and the prospect of a white incoming governor…
Also, I voted for Winsome Sears. Must be a white-supreme thing.
“Love how PSA is in touch with the current Let’s Go Brandon situation,” says one of the comments below the product description. “More than half of America and other parts of the world are chanting. The current administration is destroying our country.”
🙂
A Republican hasn’t won statewide in Virginia since 2009, and early polls had McAuliffe with a single-digit lead. But in the closing weeks of the campaign, Republican Glenn Youngkin has focused on local issues like education and the economy, gaining momentum.
If there is going to be another electoral rebuke of lockdowns, it’ll be here.
The depraved ex-elementary school teacher assisted education staff at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, but only in supervised group settings, the DOC said in a statement to Law & Crime, which first reported the assignment.
“Depraved”? The US gymnastics coach that molested gymnasts was depraved. From what I remember of this case, this woman is far from depraved.
“The reporting obligation itself is a minimal intrusion,” Mitchell wrote, “particularly considering that police officers already are obligated to provide medical information to their employer.”
It’s just the tip.
A Safeway spokesperson told Hoodline, which first broke the news, that the cutbacks are “due to an increasing amount of theft at the store.” Earlier this year, the company reportedly grappled with high rates of grocery carts being stolen from storefronts.
Cut your losses and close the store.
Why can’t I be a journalo? I’d love to ask Commissar Malcom some followup questions to her response about Rona re-infections
“So, natural immunity in some people wasn’t an effective prevention against re-infection, but you are saying that the vax would have stopped it? Can you cite any studies supporting that?”
I love the anecdote that “proves” that no one is safe from the Rona:
False positives give crazy lady multiple opportunities to play the victim card.
No form of acquired immunity is one hundred percent. An infection rate compared to the fully valued would be in order but remember this is a propaganda piece.
Fully vaxed, not valued. The fuck Apple?
Apple knows that only vaxxed people have any inherent value. Any un-vaxxed are unhuman and can be eliminated with no moral qualms.
EF’s guitar teacher came down with the ‘rona – twice! – and he was vaxxed before both.
Is he still fretful?
Just a little high strung.
That’s gonna strike a chord with Swiss.
Hopefully he doesn’t snap from the tension.
He’ll definitely put a whammy on this.
Getting the virus twice? Guess it pickup’d where it left off.
I’m gonna tune in tomorrow for an update. Fretting too much today
It was only because someone, somewhere, was unvaxxed. It’s fucking loving science!
Two bouts, eh? Upper AND lower?
Climate change – there really is NOTHING it can’t do!
The rallying cry was once “kill the heretics” – I propose we modify it a little… kill the hysterics.
Something something “fair trial”.
Fast forward to last month. Rittenhouse prosecutors sent a subpoena to DeBruin. He later agreed to meet with ADAs T. Clair Binger(D) and Jim Kraus(D). DeBruin said at first, Binger was very polite and friendly. “We want to form a good partnership with you, since you’ll be helping prosecute many cases,” says Binger, a once-failed DA candidate. DeBruins said Binger’s attitude quickly changed to that of an adversarial role when DeBruin refused to change or add to his statement, that he signed over a year prior. “Whose side are you on?” Binger sternly asked. Binger then asked DeBruin to identify people in the many photos he took. He didn’t know who they were at the time, but now knew some of them. Binger asked him to change and add to his statement the identities of some of the people, but he didn’t know who they were at the time, so he refused. He didn’t want to lie. “We have no use for you!” Binger said. “We won’t put you on the stand, so Richards (Kyle’s Lawyer) will be, and he’ll be harder on you than we would!” With this, the meeting ended.
And I’m sure the state bar is up Binger’s ass over this flagrant subornation of perjury…
No reasonable prosecutor…
Today I learned there are men who believe Jews, as a group, are interested in how often they ejaculate so they can promote docility and nonviolence. I mean, admirable goal if true.
https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/1455308679293587456
Today they learned that there are stupid people.
Don’t even get them started on the hole in the sheet thing.
How exactly do they expect the jewish klan members to see anything if they don’t have a hole in the sheet?
Space chilis.
They wanted to stress test the toilet system’s vacuum seal capability?
Speaking of which, do they just dump a frozen 500 pound ball of excrement whenever the tank fills up into orbit? And does it pose a problem for other satellites or does it re-enter the atmosphere, heating up and turning into shit mist sprinkling over large areas? Inquiring minds want to know…
Blech!
“space taco”
Allll-right. Giggity.
Apparently Youngkin made a play in Loudon.
he fairgrounds in Northern Virginia’s wealthy suburb of Loudoun County were packed Monday night, buzzing with high energy as lines of cars rolled in to see Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin.
Youngkin is concluding his 50-stop “Win with Glenn” bus tour in Loudoun, the county at the center of the national debates over education policy issues such as Critical Race Theory, transgender policies in schools, and the requirement that students wear masks.
Seems like a similar difference in the Youngkin/McAuliffe rallies like the Trump/Biden rallies.
NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!
https://twitter.com/SophNar0747/status/1454447717388853255
BRO, THIS IS HOW CRY-BULLIES AND GRIEVANCE-CULTURE WARRIORS KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT.
I was a single person trolling them with nonsense and they deleted the tweet.
I’M NOT EVEN FROM THAT STATE, LET ALONE A COLLEGE STUDENT THERE.
Just wait until he/she/it gets extradited to the UK under the Troll law….
This stuff would just go away if we brought back dueling and horsewhipping.
Seems like a similar difference in the Youngkin/McAuliffe rallies like the Trump/Biden rallies.
McAuliffe’s voters are just being smart SCIENCE! lovers and sheltering in place. They’ll be there when it counts, just like Biden’s hordes of voters.
“Unlike some other things, you get COVID once it doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t going to get it again,” she said.
Like the common cold, and the flu?
I have jury duty this month and went yesterday. Back at work today for a 90 minute diversity training.
I would take jury duty for a year.
Aella
@Aella_Girl
I ate poop! With the help of @sentientist
I ate 23 pills of poo from a donor with a “stomach of steel” (who was also kind enough to poop into a blender). I had no negative effects or nausea. This was a DIY fecal transplant to hopefully help my really persistent stomach issues.
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1454952550327848964
It’s only poop if it’s from the le pupu region of France. You probably had sparkling bile.
?
South Park did it.
I accidently drank my own urine once, do I win the internets?
“accidentally”
We told him not to use a mountain dew bottle to pee in.
It looked like Mountain Dew… he swears by that…
Code Red?
He should definitely see a doctor if it was a Code Red bottle.
Yeah right, I think she’s full of shit.
cue that ackshually meme
To tp or not to tp, that is the question
re: fecal transplant
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
You’re right. Heroic Mulatto knows the proper methods for this type of therapy.
Yeah, it’s got to be diluted multiple times so only the essence remains.
I want to know what they did with the blender.
Sounds like a new Tik Tok challenge. Go for it, kids!
I will predict a fairly decisive Youngkin victory that will send the Dems into a tizzy and more infighting before the midterms.
In other heartwarming news I saw this on the RealClearPolitics list this morning and could not believe it was from Newsweek. I’ve been reading articles like this for over a year now but they were all from AIER or Spiked! or the like. Glad to see this getting a more mainstream showing. It’s amazing how many people are ignorant of what these two have been saying for over a year now.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/how-fauci-fooled-america-opinion/ar-AAQbFiu
Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., is an epidemiologist, biostatistician, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, Ph.D., is a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. Both are Senior Scholars at the newly formed Brownstone Institute.
How did they possibly get past the gatekeepers at Newsweek?!
They want to sell copy. This will be controversial. Note the like/dislike ratio: Close to even but with a slight edge to likes.
I’ll take that as a positive sign that the Fauchi shine has well worn off now. I find it amazing how many people still buy the Vid myths that have been obvious almost since the beginning of The Panic. But then again I read non mainstream stuff and have looked at medical journal reports on stuff like masking, which the vast majority has no desire to do. I do think the truth will eventually mostly get out, it may just take a decade. I hope it moves quicker than that.
You must have missed the fact the left gave up on trying to win voters over and has been focusing on making sure they own the vote counters KS.
I would predict a commanding lead at the end of today that gets whittled down more and more as mail-in ballots get counted, until the McAuliffe squeaks across the line.
Based purely on my cynicism and the way these crap-tastic dominated by found/absentee/mail-in ballots seem to be. They gave themselves til Friday so they don’t have to lie about a water pipe this go around…
^^ this is also my bet ^^
The only quibble I have is “squeaking across the line”. I think it’ll be a very slight Youngkin lead from the live counts, only to be quickly swamped by a massive mail-in advantage to McMachinePolitician. I’m guessing 51/47 or something like that by the end of it all.
We can all agree fortifying will pull McAwful to victory.
It won’t be enough in this case. I predict Youngkin by 2 points.
mail-in ballots get counted
Needs more scare quotes.
I would be shocked, SHOCKED! if it actually went any differently.
*surveys smoldering ruins of once-prosperous and happy land*
“What happened here?”
“DEMOCRACY!”
Well it was the Democrats that busted the union before.
Good morning, Sloop!
Thanks for the meaty lynx.
Election day is here and I am not participating. I don’t know the players, don’t know the issues and don’t give a fuck.
Freedom!
Back home, the idiots are trying to officially get rid of the cops. I think they will fail, but holy shit, if they succeed…
I know some of the players, some of the issues, and I do give a fuck.
However. I will never vote again in a system that includes “vote by mail”.
One of the issues this year is to make “vote by mail” permanent which means I will likely never vote again because there is no way in hell that doesn’t get enthusiastic support from all the usual lazy grifters.
Sunny autumn morning, cold, leaves flame red on my little cul de sac outside my front office window, pumpkin spice wax melts wafting through the room, and I am listening to Messiah.
leafy
Nice picture
Such vivid imagery, I can’t Handel it!
Reading the teal leaves (part 2)
Democrats Don’t Need a Result in Virginia to Know They Have a Problem
Political pundits have drafted their narrative options for late Tuesday night. All that’s needed is an election result to determine which one to run with.
In one scenario, Virginia elects Democrat Terry McAuliffe to his second, nonconsecutive term as governor, defying a late charge from his well-financed opponent, Republican Glenn Youngkin. In this case, McAuliffe’s strategy of yoking Youngkin to Donald Trump will be remembered as a stroke of genius. The midterms will be fine for Democrats.
In the other, Glenn Youngkin rides his late surge across the finish line and bests McAuliffe. McAuliffe goes down as a stupid idiot for focusing so much on has-been Donald Trump. The midterms will be a disaster.
eh – the mid-terms are gonna suck for the Democrats. It’s harder to “fortify” HoR seats; that and the “historical” loss that almost all presidents have to deal with when in power.
I would say that the midterms not sucking for the Democrats would be a strong signal that the electoral system is even more fucked than we think.
No Trump, no motivation – it really is that simple. The swing voters will do what swing voters always do.
It’s always great to see Dems lose if only to see their meltdowns and doubling down on their stupidity.
Both of those narratives are easily seen as cover stories for the real power struggle, the one inside the uniparty. Will the last vestiges of the Clinton machine be purged in a McAuliffe loss? Will the empire strike back against the Trumpian rebels with a Youngkin loss?
Not on offer – a narrative where a McAuliffe loss is a rebuke of leftism, or a Youngkin loss demonstrates a Repub can’t win without the Trumpists.
The first cut is the deepest
Kyrsten Sinema epitomizes 21st-century political corruption — but she didn’t cause it
When Bobby Kennedy went after organized crime in the early 1960s, one of the things he learned was that the Mafia had a series of rituals new members went through to declare their loyalty and promise they’d never turn away from their new benefactors. Once in, they’d be showered with money and protection, but they could never leave and even faced serious problems if they betrayed the syndicate.
Which brings us to the story of Kyrsten Sinema
Has there been any actual evidence that Sinema actually sold her vote on the issue? Has anyone actually investigated how exactly her refusal to join the looting of the Treasury will play out with Arizona voters beyond the most progressive of the local Democratic base? I hear all this talk, even from the media. But, you’d think they’d at least bother to come up with some sort of story to lend some sort of credence to their claims. Even if just for form.
Since when has that mattered?
You have no standing so the law is moot.
A Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Virginia’s most populous county improperly accepted applications for absentee ballots.
A lawsuit filed last week by the Virginia Institute for Public Policy said the Fairfax County Office of Elections accepted applications for absentee and mail-in ballots without the last four digits of applicants’ Social Security numbers in violation of Virginia law.
The Fairfax County Office of Elections argued that Virginia law stipulates that such a challenge can only be brought by an “aggrieved voter,” the candidate for office, the candidate’s campaign, or the chairman of the candidate’s political party.
Judge Michael Devine on Friday found that the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, as a nonprofit organization, lacked the standing to sue.
the candidate for office
If Youngkin is worth a damn, he’ll jump on this.
You can’t sue until there is harm. Once there is harm it is too late for the courts to do anything.
Pretty sure that non-profit was full of aggrieved voters…
Man I wish I had some coding skills. I’d write my own meta-crawler to scour the web. I want to tabulate how many news items in the past 12 months have started with or contain the phrase
“A [xxxx] judge has dismissed a lawsuit….”
Then I’d love to compare it to the past oh I don’t know 15 years or so. Would be fascinating I’m sure.
“With that stroke, over the loud objections of the four “liberals” on the court, corporations were absolutely deemed as “persons” with full constitutional rights, and billionaires or corporations pouring massive amounts of money into campaign coffers was changed from “bribery and political corruption” to an exercise of the constitutionally-protected “right of free speech.”
These assholes probably have no problem with public sector unions using taxpayer’s money to fund campaigns and lobby against laws that would actually benefit taxpayers.
That was for Kinnath
Corporations have always been “persons” for legal purposes. Its kinda one of the main points of incorporation.
Weirdly, donations by corporations to campaigns remain illegal (PACs being the workaround). The SCOTUS decision that McCain-Feingold’s restrictions on political donations do not infringe the 1A is still “good” (for certain values of good) law. And note the stolen base – considering billionaires as people with Constitutional rights is now badthink.
I have asked a number of lefties and lefty adjacents to tell me the actual issue at hand in the Citizens United decision. Not one of those who a few seconds before was telling me nonsense about “corporations now becoming people” have been able to give me a basic description of the case at hand that so riled them up that they considered it one of the major issues of our time. It is always fun to tell them it’s about banning a film before an election and see them sputter.
Yeah, but it was film that painted the Clintons in a bad light, so it was right to block it.
My follow up to that is to tell them that the lawyer representing the government said under questioning by the Justices that the government also had the authority under the law in question to ban books. They typically change the subject on that note.
And that the US Government attorney said that the same law that prevented the film to get released could also be used to ban the release of a book.
Family legend has it that I’m related to Daniel Boone.
Today went very well. New semester and the hardest class of my year has FINALLY (with repeated requests) been split up, so the lower middle school level isn’t mixed with the intermediate level. We played blackjack because we don’t have a book. They had a good time and actually laughed and showed emotion, while listening the entire time. Some of them even talked. But they all were engaged. Such a huge difference.
Turns out that my foolish hammer-a-nail-into-a-block-of-wood game, with many street viewers, where I did just try to have a good stand-up performance…didn’t go well! I had fun and it cost me about $10, but I over-hit the nail and slammed my finger into the block. I knew it was a broken index finger. There was lots of blood later. It started to turn blue last night and even I, a person who detests hospitals, went to the doc today. X-ray. Woulda bet $100 that I broke it. I’ve broken ~8 fingers and ~30-40 bones in total. I know what they feel like. But I got BAD NEWS!
“Your finger is intact,” said the doc. Saw the x-ray and it was. But fuck it hurts. I only went cuz I was worried about the possible infection. The cut on my finger was turning bright blue. Got two antibiotic injections and oral meds, as well. I wanted to add that broken bone to my stats! DAMMIT!
New semester started and they finally broke up my lower middle school class from their conjoined intermediate middle schoolers. It went incredibly well getting them apart. Don’t have a book yet, so just explained that I just want to talk about what they want to. But I’ll get further with them as the week/semester goes on. We just played blackjack and they loved it. It was an oddly satisfying day.
But still. My finger hurts exactly like a broken finger. I know how they feel. That ain’t a biggie. Only went to the doc cuz of the possible/likely infection. Sigh. Woulda loved to add that to my stats….Bigger Number is Better! (For bar bets.) I still find it incredibly odd how so many people have never broken a single bone. They play ‘better’ *COUGH* SAFER games than I play. Such a shame to never have experienced such things…how ever will they know what to do when something a bit physically unpleasant happens to them? It (and my hips and coma, etc….) are a great reason why the fucking faux fear of COVID is absolutely baffling to me. “THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE FRIGHTENED OF!?” Um. Try a coma. Or having your hips sawn off. Or breaking a toe, at least. Um…none of those? And THIS is what leads to proudly and gleefully root on the fundamental change of society? FUCK. OFF.
Dude, you gotta be more careful with your body parts!
While carving a pumpkin on Saturday:
Me: If I cut off a finger call 911 first. But who is the second call?
Wife: Kleinert Kutz
Me: Good, you got it.
This has become a fairly regular combination anytime I do anything that might eventually involve me cutting off a finger.
s/combination/conversation/
That is probably true! I don’t do anything remotely reckless anymore. A (theoretical) cracked index finger? Meh. Frying up bacon and getting some hot grease splatter on your hand is FAR more painful, and equally as joyful in existing in this world. Food and experience? They go hand-in-hand! I’m still remarkably fit/healthy for what I’ve done/has happened to me.
I do think that I’m just a different type of explorer. I am that weirdo-type-of person who experiences what others never would dream of because I have a (admittedly stupid) lack of fear and have a strong willingness to push myself into every single (NAP) experience that I can. Evel Knievel and I would get along, though in very different circumstances for our shared personalities.
It’s almost like the ‘Rona is running out of low hanging fruit:
The Latest PHE Vaccine Surveillance Report
That is some real Grade A horseshit right there. I wonder who got tasked with coming up with the rationalizations.
Three things from the charts:
The unvaxxed have lower case rates probably because of herd immunity. A large portion of the unvaxxed have natural immunity, which is why they didn’t bother getting vaxxed.
Two, the vaccine is clearly worthless for those under 18.
Three, the vaxx prevents hospitalization and death at a decent rate for those above 40.
I think it’s hard to make a conclusion from those graphs. If a high number of people are vaccinated, you’d expect a lot more vaccinated people to be in the hospital for anything including COVID because of sheer numbers. I think a more telling stat would be what percent of vaccinated people are in the hospital for COVID vs the percentage of unvaccinated people in the hospital.
I’ve been listening to the latest Hardcore History about the waning days of WW2 with Japan. And the Japanese soldier’s willingness to die for his country, empire, family, etc.
My grandfather was a WW2 veteran. He served in the Philippines in the later days of the war. He was a guard at a POW camp for the Japanese. There was one enemy Japanese prisoner there who was an accomplished artist; he made drawing of my mom, when she was like 2 years old, taken from photographs that my grandfather carried.
I wish I could talk to my grandfather about those days – buy he sadly died in 1976 at the quite young age of 55.
I had an uncle who fought in France. When I was in high school I interviewed him about the Depression for a school project, and that was fascinating. He passed away when I was in college, before I got interested in history and curious about such things. I’d love to talk to him about the war now.
I do, however, have a keepsake from him. He had a Luger and a bayonet that he got from a German officer. I remember him showing me those when I was a kid, and I don’t know what happened to them. But I have in my possession two bullets from that gun.
My grandfather was Army in WWII and served in the Philippines. He brought back an Arisaka (in bad shape by the time I saw it), a katana and some other trinkets. My father has them now. My wife has some Navy utensils her family kept from a visit to her village after the Battle of Leyte.
I never had much time with my grandfather to talk about his experiences. All I recall from the stories I’ve heard is he didn’t like the Filipinos.
Need to get back to listening to HCH. My grandfather was a LC commander. He was at several major landings, but refused to talk about the war. I always wanted to learn more from him but I knew to just leave it be. Instead I found his ship and traced it to all of the landings.
I should have noted that my mom still has those 76 year old drawings,
A documentary that could have been done in the past: tracking down the Japanese veteran who made those drawings; wondering how he did returning as a POW instead of dying “honorably.”
Lend me your tin foil, I’m starting to think McAullife is actually a Republican plant – and committed to losing the election. Can you offer a better explanation for being this tone deaf?
I, for one, am sick and tired of parents thinking that they should have a say in their child’s education.
You don’t have to play well if the referees will do what it takes to ensure you win.
That thought crossed my mind about AOC.. and here we are with congresswoman AOC
Either it doesn’t matter because of who is counting the votes, or the establishment lets him sink because he’s a Clintonista and they’d rather same their election rigging efforts for next year.
…a win by the Democrat will be sold as a triumph over Trumpism. It will also be a warning to the GOP that they better cuck harder if they ever hope to win another election. On the other hand, if the Republican wins, then it is proof that eschewing Trumpism is the ticket to success for the Republican Party. In other words, no matter the result, it is proof that your superiors are right, and you should shut up and obey.
I’m curious, what, exactly, is “Trumpism”?
love of spades?
He is not being tone deaf: he believes what he beliefs is good (for him and his political party) and anyone that doesn’t believe what he does about the state indoctrinating kids to be lemming marxists, is evil.
Tone deaf implies he isn’t smart or able to read people. He is just evil and doesn’t care.
I’m sure the election is fortified so he doesn’t need to care.
It was an amazing self-own.
Who’s advising him? Maybe check their bank accounts for a sudden influx of cash.
Some assholes decided to have a heart to heart next my desk. I really wish I could work from home.
Treat them to a fart-to-heart-to-heart.
Kids are home from school today for election day (my HS was always a polling place but we never got to miss school; we just weren’t allowed in the gym that day). I made pancakes, omelets, grits, and bacon. Now I’m gonna get my vote on – no to every proposal, no to all incumbents. Let’s go Brandon!
We need to make sure that our machines of death and destruction are carbon-neutral.
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration will reportedly add a climate policy czar to the U.S. military to combat climate change while communist China focuses on rapidly expanding the size and capabilities of its military.
Defense One reported:
Colin Kahl, the defense undersecretary for policy, said at an event hosted by New America that prioritizing climate change has not been done enough in the organization that he oversees.
What a steaming pile of horseshit.
Joe Biden poses an “existential threat” to America’s security.
From my observation of COP26, that will mean the Air Force should use more private jets.
Is it me or does the deranged teacher look like a slightly prettier Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
Meanwhile, in Switzerland…
>>The news of restaurateurs’ continued defiance led to the owners being arrested on Sunday morning after police had observed them serving patrons at the makeshift bar counter. The three now face charges following the announcement of a criminal investigation being opened by the canton’s public prosecutor’s office.
More doomporn, this time from the halls of Congress.
TW: May autoplay.
Both personally and nationally, I am astounded at the fundamental dishonesty, greed, and unadulterated evil I have witnessed as of late.