You know you do.
IT’S NOT EXACTLY A PRESENT, BUT: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a crucial swing vote, doesn’t sound like he’ll give the green light to President Joe Biden’s planned $2 trillion social and climate spending plan anytime soon. Money we don’t have for shit we don’t need.
CALIFORNIA CHILDREN ARE PROPERTY OF THE STATE: Children at Barack Obama Global Prep Academy in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) were apparently vaccinated against the coronavirus without the consent or knowledge of parents, according to a mother. “The lady that gave him the shot and signed the paper told my son, ‘Please don’t say anything. I don’t want to get in trouble,’” Maribel Duarte, the mother of a 13-year-old boy who was clandestinely vaccinated, told NBC4.
PERPETUAL VACCINATION PUBLIC HEALTH STATE: Three is the new two.
THE STREISAND EFFECT, HOW DOES IT WORK? Yorktown, VA boat captain who won a festive lights display after decorating his boat with illuminations saying ‘FJB, Let’s go Brandon’ was stripped of his gong two days afterwards after the message was deemed overtly political. “If we allowed politics to interfere with events, we would also lose our nonprofit status, and all these organizations below us would be dissolved,” said Yorktown Foundation Director Walt Akers. Or maybe you’re just a big, giant pussy, Walt.
ONE WAY, OR ANOTHER: President Biden will sign an executive order that demonstrates how the United States will leverage its scale and procurement power to lead by example in tackling the climate crisis. The executive order will reduce emissions across federal operations, invest in American clean energy industries and manufacturing, and create clean, healthy, and resilient communities. What they can’t achieve through legislation, they will smuggle in via the back door of federal contracts. We have recently seen how any company that sells so much as a paper clip to the FedGov is adopting company-wide vax mandates, even for non-FedGov servicing divisions. This will be an effective mandate on electric utilities because there is no way to know whether the Kilowatt-hour consumed by the FedGov was generated using icky coal, or virtuous solar. The word “nuclear” does not appear in the press release.
GIFT IDEA FOR THE GLIB IN YOUR LIFE: Virtue Signal, the game of social justice. (h/t to AWOL Glib ChipWooder who supported this back when it was just a Kickstarter glimmer)
HOLIDAY GIVING OPPO: Patriot Freedom Project offers financial support to the families of those imprisoned on charges related to their alleged participation in the activities of Jan 6. This is direct support for the families, not a legal defense fund for the defendants.
Money we don’t have for shit we don’t need.
C’mon, man. It’ll cost zero dollars.
Americans are just unwilling to pay for things they don’t want.
An absolutely, infuriating statement.
It’ll cost zero dollars AND it’s already paid for.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/sep/24/biden-says-spending-bill-will-have-zero-price-tag/
Can I return it for store credit?
Will you accept Kohl’s cash?
Helmut Kohl?
Is it still worth something? I have a jar full of Merkel Nickels, but all I can buy with them are windmills and solar panels.
Maybe Solyndra stock?
The executive order will reduce emissions across federal operations,
Cut emissions by cutting spending.
That would at least reduce the energy consumption of the money printers.
If you send your kid to Barack Obama Global Prep Academy, you have already consented to whatever they want.
Maybe, just maybe, one set of parental eyes will get opened.
This time will be different.
Ha! Ha ha ha ha!
…Oh, wait, were you serious?
Yeah, I think maybe the brown eye.
Almost spit my dinner all over my computer, thanks.
It takes a village, and if your village decides to forcibly vax you, well. It was for your own good.
Just another news day, shit flying all over, money we don’t have for things we don’t need, sheesh,
/Tall Cans!
Children at Barack Obama Global Prep Academy in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) were apparently vaccinated against the coronavirus without the consent or knowledge of parents, according to a mother.
So, LawGlibs, what type of crime is this? I’d think it would count as assault, but I’m not certain. I doubt anyone will be prosecuted, since it’s California, but I’m curious what they should be prosecuted for.
Child abuse, attempted murder, assault, and whatever it is when they commit a crime under the color of law.
Oh and racketeering.
Wouldn’t it technically be battery, since physical contact was initiated?
I’d also guess intent to defraud.
Off the top of my head, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress for the kid. Negligent infliction of emotional distress for the parent.
And the kid supposedly had a medical condition, I think asthmatic
Which, oddly enough, might have protected the kid against Covid until he got the gol-dang vaccine.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/people-with-allergies-may-have-a-lower-risk-of-developing-covid-19-heres-why
If it were my kid?
Probably kidnapping and premeditated murder with a special circumstances modifier…
special circumstances
Dyslexia made me read that as “special circumcision”. Which I think is also on point.
Well, if I just glans at it, I’d say things are certainly coming to a head.
“The executive order will reduce emissions across federal operations, invest in American clean energy industries and manufacturing, and create clean, healthy, and resilient communities.”
Almost all of it will go into biomass, or solar panels and windmills that take more fossil fuel energy to manufacture than they produce over their lifetime.
Oh, there’s a lot of “biomass” in there, alright.
It’s nice knowing my morning constitutional is helping to solve the energy crisis.
I thought methane was a greenhouse gas.
It’s true, most “green energy” is burning trees.
“The lady that gave him the shot and signed the paper told my son, ‘Please don’t say anything. I don’t want to get in trouble,’” Maribel Duarte, the mother of a 13-year-old boy who was clandestinely vaccinated, told NBC4.
According to Duarte, her son was offered pizza in exchange for the shot.
School always has pizza day. Kid needs to learn to negotiate.
Kids. They’d sell their little souls for a slice of pizza.
Yeah, the good news is that kids are starting to wise up.
The word “nuclear” does not appear in the press release.
Nor does the word “hydroelectric”. That the two most reliable/efficient “clean” power sources are routinely ignored makes it hard for me to take the climate crusaders seriously.
Nor does the word “hydroelectric”.
That’s a dam shame.
Give it up, it’s water under the bridge.
Go fish!
“Patriot Freedom Project offers financial support to the families of those imprisoned on charges related to their alleged participation in the activities of Jan 6. ”
So how long before their payment processing gets cut off?
Virginia law enforcement officers should donate anonymously.
I bet it chafes PayPal’s butt every dollar that they process for those people.
Good.
They’re crying all the way to the bank…
We need a little Christmas
Virtue Signal, the game of social justice.
LOL. That’s a funny idea. Has anyone here played it? If it’s executed well and the game is fun, I might pick it up.
I have, but that was when it first came out, so not sure if this version is different. The rules were complicated (but so is being woke, so…), but once play started it kinda made sense…? Didn’t actually finish the first and only game my kids and I tried, unfortunately.
That said, it *is* really funny, and a great concept. I just think they had the wrong number of cards for each category and the rules should’ve been tightened up. I guess we should try to play again.
There are some updated rules. From what I remember the rule changes were mostly clarifications/fixes. I don’t remember all of what changes. Plisade, if you played an early enough version they might have fixed the things you think needed tightening up.
It’s been a while since I played it. It is a fun game.
Oh, I have an expansion pack of extra cards. The Problematic Card Pack. I think that’s the one with that has the Rooftop Korean card.
I have not played the Deplorables expansion even though I have a copy of it. That’s an add-on to Virtue Signal.
Thanks for that update! I will order the latest and try again. Gotta support this worthy effort.
The new rules are up on the website hier.
Thanks for the feedback, both of you!
I bought the original and 2 expansion packs to hide until Christmas. It’s the only surprise I have since we pretty much “gave ourselves” a TV for Christmas.
They’ll never stop unless some outside force compels them to.
I’ll go warm up the (((space laser.)))
You have access to the Death Star of David?
May the Schwartz be with you!
Circumcised Rods from God!
Mentioned here before, but another glibs gift idea.
https://www.concordaerospace.com/products/jewish-space-laser-activation-panel
Yeah, if “only” 😉
Sorry for early off topic.
Sold our house today. What a weird process it is now. It took about 4 weeks. The first week we got an offer sheet half filled out with money coming for a Dominican bank and a lender we never heard of – that didn’t sound great. Last week we got an offer from a couple with literally no money who had an approved loan for basically the full value of the house and we would have to pay their closing costs. Finally, yesterday two different couples showed up who were serious. The better offer was $5 over listing price and a guarantee that they’d cover up to $20k over appraisal if it came in low. The other offer was $30k over list but only promised $5k over appraisal.
Since there is no way our house would appraise for the last offer, we took the one that was $5k over list.
Congratulations. What state are you moving to?
South Carolina. Renting at first.
Congrats for fleeing NJ!
Congrats.
Are that many people fleeing New York that you have a stack of offers like that?
I mean who else would buy a house in NJ?
The buyers are moving back here from Colorado.
Real estate market is still nuts, you just don’t hear about it as much because it’s become the norm.
We got an offer that was 50K above asking (In NY), no inspection. But the bank/loan vehicle was questionable, so we didn’t actually go that route, as we had other good offers as well without the bank risk.
It’s hard to discern the bs offers from the real ones.
And another mortgage crisis is inevitable. I saw people approved for huge sums who have no business borrowing that kind of dough.
The amount they’ll loan me at 0% or 5% down is absurd. Multiple times what would be responsible.
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Congrats on getting out!
Congrats! Great feeling, innit?
Yes it is.
Thanks everyone.
Yay! Good for you.
We are in the closing process too. The buyer’s loan is approved and we’ve signed about everything on DocuSign.
Soon I will be mortgage-free…
LOL. I’m pretty sure I know somebody on the board of the organization that hosted the boat parade. It’s based out of a marina that is literally a mile away from where I grew up.
And knowing him, he would be just fine with the FJB theme.
And Walt Akers is one of those guys who’s on the board of about ten local foundations because he likes being in charge and feeling important. He works down the street from me in an extremely bureaucratic organization funded by the DOE. He’s got plenty of time to do the other stuff because they don’t actually work.
“Mr. Lebowski.”
“I think it’s coming,” said McLaughlin, a partner at the national law firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. The same companies that felt strong enough to require vaccines in the name of protecting their workforce will “apply that same rationale to the booster,” she said.
Or maybe not.
GE, 3M, and Verizon have also stopped forcing vaccinations…
Oracle did too.
#winning
*twiddles thumbs, looks impatiently at inbox*
Sorry.
Thanks!
They’ve been slow playing it every step of the way, so I’m sure they’re still discussing it behind the scenes. With Oracle stepping back, I’m sure much of the tech sector is going to be following over the next week.
Unfortunately, my “don’t unnecessarily jeopardize your job” line for starting the exemption process is tomorrow, so I may be forced to show my hand before they backtrack.
My partner showed his hand back in August, never heard back from the HR and keeps teaching in person in a state school in–of all places–California.
Best wishes!
Links to actual news stories/press releases?
GE: https://dailygazette.com/2021/12/08/ge-pauses-vaccine-mandate/
3M: https://www.koxe.com/2021/12/08/3m-suspends-vaccine-mandate-ahead-of-protest/
Verizon Covid-19 vaccine policies were updated today. But you need an employee login.
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/v-team-coronavirus-resource-page
Megacorp has been very quiet. They literally waited until Dec 7 to say that those scheduled to be fired on Dec 8 would stay on the payroll through the holidays and would be fired at the new FedContractor date in Jan. They have said nothing about the injunction that was put on the executive order.
That is great news.
Check your privilege, whitey.
This is a cult. This is Critical Race Theory.
A bunch of old hippies trying to get in on the latest fad.
They probably still don’t bathe often enough.
Hopefully they those actually tattooed on their faces, to show their true faith in the one true religion!
they *got* those
We only write on people’s faces if they fall asleep in the team van.
You are only safe if you are touching your bunk.
Before or after shaving their eyebrows?
One eyebrow…don’t you frat?
It’s called a fraternity. Do you call your country a cunte?
“Do you call your country a cunte?”
Rather frequently these days, sadly.
Once there were empires, ruled by emperors.
Then there were kingdoms, ruled by kings.
Now there are countries…
At Burning Man, you don’t want to fall asleep with your shoes on.
Why are my comments being eaten?
/Testing 1,2,3,4,
Testies confirmed
That was a funny show, short run didn’t exhaust the concept.
WORDPRESS HUNGRY?
Also, Ethical Skeptic has a great article up about the start date of the Wu-Flu, its spread, etc. It’s really feckin’ good. By looking at the genetic profiles and mutation rates, drift, etc. for both Delta and Omicron, along with a bunch of other data, he calculates the release from WIV and one compelling theory about how the virus raged around the world. Fascinating.
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-concealed-sars-cov-2-presence-in-china-as-far-back-as-march-2018/
If you *really* want to learn about this virus, this is the article right here.
Thanks. Got as far as the nine key avenues, will attempt to finish when I have more time.
Rooftop Korean lass – Would.
I also backed the Virtue Signal project. I don’t remember where I heard about it. It might not have been here. I also backed the “Deplorables” add-on and their new project, Portland Occupied Zone.
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a crucial swing vote, doesn’t sound like he’ll give the green light to President Joe Biden’s planned $2 trillion social and climate spending plan anytime soon.
Say no. Just say no to it.
LAUSD Interim Superintendent Meagan K. Reilly said in the September mandate announcement, “The science is clear – vaccinations are an essential part of protection against COVID-19. The COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective and requiring eligible students to be vaccinated is the strongest way to protect our school community.”
Go fuck yourself.
With employer vaccination requirements already widespread, workplace experts say it’s possible some companies will convert their full vaccination requirement, now two shots, into a three-shot requirement as the omicron variant emerges.
Heh. A Boston area Swing dance I used to go to has updated their definition of “fully vaccinated” to effectively require booster shots. I will continue to not go to their dance and instead travel to PA for monthly dances.
Speaking of which: meet-up at the Oaks, PA gun show next week? Check the forums.
Akers acknowledged that the foundation should have notified Berger that his theme was inappropriate sooner, and said that ‘before [they] have any other event in Yorktown, [they] are going to make sure everyone understands we are government and by IRS laws that restricts us from having any political speech.’
And for this, the IRS will give them extra scrutiny.
POZ has a Rittenouse?
Seriously if they would say that the vaccine was a therapeutic and that it is recommended for certain groups we could move on…but that doesn’t make money or confer power
You leave Lauren alone!
.@AOC: “Rep. Boebert, whatever her intentions may be for her racism and flagrant bigotry, needs to experience a consequence for her actions. […] It’s pretty simple. You threaten a colleague or you incite racist rhetoric, you do not have committees.”
.@CoriBush: “If we’re serious about tackling the systems of entrenched white supremacy that stain every fiber of this country, then we need to start right here, right in this Capitol. […] Lauren Boebert is a danger to […] her fellow members of Congress.”
“She told a dangerous joke that was dangerously full of danger and all the isms and white-supremacy you bigot. RHEEEEEE.”
All about the Benjamins!
“Adele fans are OUTRAGED after Las Vegas residency presale tickets sell out within minutes… as resale prices soar between $1K to $37K”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10293989/Adele-fans-OUTRAGED-presale-tickets-sell-minutes-resold-THOUSANDS.html
$37K???
Probably a Pfizer or Moderna executive that bought that one.
That sounds like the start of a whole genre of jokes.
Are they contagious?
Enough people will pay the inflated prices to encourage more scalping.
That is a fat price increase!
Who?
“Liberal billionaire megadonor George Soros supplied $3million last year alone to a ‘dark-money’ group supporting left-wing organizations such as BLM that are dedicated to defunding the police, it has emerged.
The Foundation to Promote Open Society, which is one of two major grantmaking foundations funded by Soros’ network, Open Society Foundations, funneled a total of $3million in 2020 to the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability (CRH), according to a search of the charity’s grant database.
Soros’ foundation bankrolls CRH through New Venture Fund, the largest of four funds managed by Arabella Advisors that pulled in a combined $1.6 billion in secret donations last year, tax forms show.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10292665/George-Soros-funneled-3M-dark-money-hub-activists-working-defund-police-grants-show.html
That’s a lot of bricks.
I’m getting rather tired of billionaires seeking to upend society.
He’s just fortifying “our democracy”.
There needs to be a spoof organization the Foundation for the Disintegration of Society that perfectly mimics the Soros one.
“Foundation to Promote Open Society”?!?
I don’t think the “Open Society” Soros promotes has anything to do with Karl Popper’s idea of the Open Society.
Indeed, Soros fits exactly with the “Enemies” of the Open Society.
Why do totalitarian assholes hijack perfectly serviceable words like “freedom”, “open”, and “liberal” and apply those words to their exact opposites?
Because it works
“Barack Obama Global Prep Academy”
How fitting.
I have grifting 2A for 3rd period. It is a 4 year requirement.
“Effectiveness of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines at preventing hospitalization from Covid drops as low as 75% after 120 days, CDC study finds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10293201/Effectiveness-vaccines-preventing-hospitalization-Covid-drops-120-days.html
Yet, I’m rocking the same measles vaccine since I was five.
That’s still better than the flu shot in the best years.
What’s the effectiveness of preventing hospitalization for the flu shot?
How many people are hospitalized *from* the flu shot?
According to the CDC: “A 2021 study showed that among adults, flu vaccination was associated with a 26% lower risk of ICU admission and a 31% lower risk of death from flu compared to those who were unvaccinated.”
Thanks.
The only time I’ve been hospitalized for flu (tested positive for Influenza A) was when there was bacterial pneumonia sneaking along with it in the background.
And I had gotten the flu shot.
That’s pretty lousy.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Thot Thursday!
Thot Thursday who?
*gunshot*
https://thechive.com/2021/12/09/red-lips-are-always-a-nice-touch-37-photos/
Excuse me for not putting this in the youtube thread, but does anyone else prefer when the narration is not underscored by constant music? That’s an annoying trend in youtube production tropes that seems to be a carry-over from teevee.
Tonio did you published that Youtube article?????? I had no idea – thought I left it in Draft!
Swiss ran amok and basically published/scheduled everything we had in drafts. We’ve been super short on content.
* sobs *
Sorry for the poor quality, y’all.
Whaaaa? It was good.
I didn’t even get to put links in, much less a couple embeds!! Let’s Game It Out (a very fun channel) didn’t have a description!!
I’m fairly certain that’s illegal.
Statist scum!
I finished/submitted the rye one.
School, prison. Tomayto, tomahto.
CHILD ABUSE: Kindergartners are forced to eat lunch outside in 40 degree weather at Capitol Hill Elementary School in Portland, Oregon.
They sit on buckets to social distance from their classmates.
Gotta secure that kindergarten to prison pipeline early
And they want to make masking indoors a permanent measure.
Why do people move to Portland?
Because they can’t afford to live in SF with no job.
Because they BELEIVE!!!
I have watched Portland off and on over the last 15 or so years slide down from being a nice, funky place that is pretty cool, to be a stark shithole. It’s really sad, but then again, I watched the bay area do the same thing before that.
I experienced the beginning of that slide in the late nineties.
Want to see something disturbing? If you have an Android phone ask the Google assistant (push and hold the circle at the bottom of your screen) to “sing me a song”
Nice try, Fed.
I’m just trying to get everyone to get the vaccine so we can go back to normal
This is old news
a love song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WQ1tdxSqI
For OBE (pardon the obviousness): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAi4VBoBSM
Thank yee!
Many happy returns!
Biden Nukes Florida, Says Courts Can Strike Down Later If It Turns Out That’s Illegal
Biden Warns Russia That If They Invade Ukraine, America Will Evacuate Haphazardly And Leave $86 Billion In Weapons Behind
Especially like the second one.
I have pro-vax pro mask relatives in Ct. 15 year old girl fully vaccinated just came down with the virus. Cousins husband got the booster a few days ago and wound up in hospital with a high fever and “his lungs were burning.” Back home now but still has a fever.
It’s just Post Pandemic Stress Disorder. Nothing else.
https://beckernews.com/harvard-study-explodes-myths-about-vaccines-stopping-the-spread-but-its-even-worse-than-that-43431/
Positive correlation between vaccines and cases.
instagram catgirl prime minister
Now there’s a phrase you don’t get to use often enough.
So. Much. Would.
Watching it snow at Copper Mtn
https://www.coppercolorado.com/the-mountain/webcams/mountain/snow-stake-cam
They’ll probably get a foot or so. On top of dirt, since it hasn’t snowed for shit yet this year.
Children at Barack Obama Global Prep Academy in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) were apparently vaccinated against the coronavirus without the consent or knowledge of parents,
I’m glad I sent my kids to the “The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too”
It never ends . . . . .
Experimental mRNA HIV vaccine safe, shows promise in animals
Fauci has finally gotten his original goal… can he go home now?
Think how mad Fauci will be if they come up with an HIV vaccine without him because he was farting around with this Rona thing.
Just a reminder all, it appears that the girlfriend has survived the horror that is Covid, and we’ll be heading out tomorrow (if I try to keep her in the house another day, I may wind up stabbed in my sleep). On the plus side, she’s now super excited that Mr Jingeling is going to be there… she’s less happy that it’s a new Mr. Jingeling, but I think she’ll survive.
Liar. Nobody survives the ‘Vid. It’s Science.
No the pure and holy vaccinated don’t die. It’s only the unvaccinated that never survive the ‘Vid.
Good point. You will achieve immortality if you accept the vaccine into your life.
The immortality only kicks in if everyone you come into contact with also accepts the vaccine into his/her life.
Hooray for girlfriend. And you.
Does that mean that you need a Zoom guest host, or just early takeover?
Someone else will need to host. It’ll be dinner, walking about the Tremont area, watching her try to talk to the new Mr. Jingeling about the old Mr. Jingeling, and drinks.
Why don’t you just pull a Straff and host while you walk around?
I’m your huckleberry.
It’s good your girlfriend is now well.
Born to be First.
News you might be able to use.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16972152/girlfriend-cant-enjoy-sex-penis-too-long/
I really care for her but I’m worried we’ll split up over this.
Sounds like she’s the one getting split up.
Only reading the URL. Is it the girlfriend’s penis that’s too long? These days it’s hard to know.
RTFA!
She’s longing for the penis she used to have. You totally mangled that by making a bunch of shitlord assumptions.
Has he ever tried just not putting it all in? Frustrating to be sure, but if its an actual problem….
Or he could just walk around complaining about his large penis, I am sure that will get some results too.
He could shitpost hier.
Sorry bout this
TW: loud flatulence
What do you expect when your name is Kazumi Squirts?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-bought-boyfriend-sex-another-25653078
You’re doing it wrong. The knee is not what is supposed to be jerked.
Yes.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/08/kids-growing-up-in-the-covid-19-era-are-damaged/
NB: Murthy and his cabal of evil fucking “public health” ghouls can anally fuck a chainsaw for their crocodile tears BTW. You lock kids up and take away their reasons to live for 2 years then act amazed when they’re depressed, anxious and miserable. Fuck you to Hell.
Evil, remorseless fuckers. Every one of them.
Pet peeve: I am absolutely hating the new trend for Surgeon General and other Health Service “officers” (like 4 star Admiral Transwhats-her-nuts) wearing their spiffy military style uniforms. It reveals their authoritarian dreams and overstuffed sense of importance.
I remember C. Everett Koop appearing in uniform on occasion. Usually he’d wear a jacket and bowtie, but there were occasions I remember him appearing in public in his uniform.
Ayup, couldn’t agree more.
“we completely disrupted the lives and routines of every child in the country (including closing fucking schools and parks, assholes) and now they’re not doing so well.” -shocked face
Oof, she is built just right. Too bad shes cray cray,
How furiously are Big Pharma execs masturbating right now?
They must be sitting there thinking “Hmmm… This new variant seems to be really benign. We’ve lowered expectations from ‘prevent infection’ to ‘minimizes symptoms’. We could simply inject them with saline and then claim that our vax is totes effective and collect $$$ from the Feds”.
Actually, it would be a brilliant move to inject them with saline because you’d have all the effectiveness and none of the side effects. You could get Fauci to claim that under his leadership the problems with side effects have been solved. No more pesky blood clots or heart damage.
But by doG the money will be rolling in.
The key to successful entrepreneurship:
1. Create a product
2. Exploit a (mostly) phony crisis to say your product is the only thing that will save the world
3. Make sure bureaucrats, lawmakers and judges own hefty chunks of your company’s stock
4. Get the FedGov to mandate people use your product
5. Obscene Profit!!!!!! (no ???? necessary)
Today the eye doctor asked me if the phone number 612 555-1212 was the best number to reach me at. I said yes, but thought for sure he’d bust me for giving him the number for Information.
Nope. Just kept filling out his forms.
He wasn’t that young. Made me wonder if there is a “magic” age that remembers having to call Information for phone numbers (and paying $0.25 to be automatically connected).
I always remember the number being 411.
Landline? Or was that something that started showing up with cell phones.
I sort of remember that too, but I just remember (areacode) 555-1212 being Information.
I never heard of 411 until I moved to bigger cities.
I think that was the ringback number.
Next time try 867-5309.
I got it.
I bet more people would recognize that than 555-1212.
634-5789
If you ever are in a store and they ask if you are a member to get some kind of discount or whatnot and you don’t feel like signing up and giving your number just enter 867-5309 (with whatever area code you are in). There is a 99% chance that number is in the system and you’ll get the discount.
Obligatory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l-kJdeuz98
In wake of rising COVID-19 cases, Boston Archdiocese requiring parishioners to don face coverings in church starting Dec. 18
Merry Christmas!
I wonder if any will show up in makeshift burkas as a protest.
Well, considering Manchin is from West Virginia, giving Biden this lump of coal is about right.
If I were a tribe member with a large reservation, I would build a nuclear power plant. Because it was on the res, I bet all sorts of regulations could be avoided due to sovereignty.
Then I’d market it as “New Clear Energy: Power from Nature”. A huge campaign featuring Indians talking about how their traditional way of living has given them unique insight into developing zero carbon renewable energy.
Proggies in the cities would have no immunity to that bullshit and would demand to pay a premium for electricity from the nuke.
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ny/NYIRVcigad.jpg
One of my wife’s buddies is fairly entrepreneurial person and I always get to hear about her newest get rich plan.
A couple years ago The Plan was to invest in a business being started up by a Korean gal they knew who had moved to Alaska. The business was buying smokes on the res and then driving to Anchorage (?) and selling them there. The friend had already done it a few times and made decent money selling her car load to friends and acquaintences. She was thinking that it was time to raise some money and rent a store front.
It took me several hours and a lot of googling to prove to my wife that the whole operation was illegal. She and her friend didn’t see why that would be wrong. They bought something legally, why can’t they resell it. Gotta love those rube 3rd world Koreans who just think you can do stuff without paying off the govt.
Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn’t selling fucking legal? You know, why should it be illegal to sell something that’s perfectly legal to give away? George Carlin.
Selling fucking is legal in Pahrump…
Starting popping you popcorn, the Jussie Smollet verdict is in.
“Jussie Smollett is a dick. Any questions?”
Guilty of some charges. Trigger warning: CNN
Actor Jussie Smollett has been found guilty on five of six felony counts of disorderly conduct for making a false report to Chicago police that he was the victim of a hate crime in January 2019, an attack prosecutors said he staged.
Well, nevermind.
If he’s acquitted, white people are going to riot all over the nation, right? He did sort of try to gin up racial animosity.
Rittenhouse innocent/Smollet guilty. I might start having faith in the system. Nah.
Also, obviously we’re a racist nation regardless of the underlying facts. – Mainstream media.
When does the mainstream media stop being the mainstream media? Their viewership numbers continue to decline.
When does the mainstream media stop being the mainstream media?
I would say when they are only preaching to each other.
So ten years ago.
Let there be jail time. Please, Please, Please.
What am I missing, didn’t this asshat at worse lie to the police and waste some detectives times? What exactly did he do that deserves time in a cage?
5 felonies
Lying to the police I don’t care about.
Stoking the race war for personal financial gain deserves jail time.
EVERY FUCKING FALSE FLAG claim deserves fucking jail time. That’s the only way it will stop.
Lying to the police I don’t care about
But that’s what he did, your objections are just particular types of lies.
And rape is just a particular type of sex.
Rape is different from sex because it violates the Non-aggression principle. Lying to the cops, whether to “stoke the race wars’ or create a ‘false flags’, doesn’t.
Lying to the cops
Is fraud, just like it is when you lie to anybody else and they rely on your false statements. Change my mind.
I stand by my belief that false reporting should result in the maximum punishment for the crime reported.
I stand with you.
He committed a type of fraud. He deserves cage time for it. Not much I’d say, but 3-6 months would suffice.
In an abstract sense, Smollett committed a crime against justice. Justice is important enough to me, that I think that people who pervert it should be punished pretty harshly.
That said, I would be happy to trade whatever sentence Smollett gets, for a binding promise to retire permanently from public life.
I just got a gift box of various meat products from Costco from my dad’s wife. I feel a charcuterie plate coming on. Also there’s duck fat and veal demi glace.
Ohhhh, duck fat . . . /insert Homer Simpson drooling here
I’m still crossing my fingers and hoping that a cured leg of Spanish jamón will show up at our local Costco (it did a couple of years ago when we still lived back in the Lower Rainland™).
Man, that stuff’s good.
The package I just got includes “Spanish Serrano Sliced Ham”
Whaddya mean “includes”?
It should have NOTHING BUT the ham, dammit!
This modern world is such a disappointment to me.
I love that song.
Angela Lansbury’s voice … not so much.
“I’m excited to invite you to join my new @Masterclass
I’ll be teaching the skills I developed throughout my career—the challenges, the triumphs, and all the rest.
I hope these lessons will help you chart your own path with passion and purpose.”
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1468641119252758530
Are any of these skills legal?
I am back in Albuquerque now after spending the day in Los Alamos. Fortunately my host doesn’t particularly care for the mask mandate so we didn’t wear masks in his truck or in his office.
I noticed he had some Smith and Wesson mercy in his truck console so that fact plus his disdain for the Covid hysteria told me he’s a guy I can work with. He also brought up the total crock that is Climate Change hysteria. It was a good drive.
A nice drive south, glad you like it, I hope my grammar meets your expectations,
Needs more commas.?
Give me a heads-up next time and we can do lunch.
Or even in ABQ we can meet for cocktails an/or dinner.
Still planning a trip to include Pahrump.
Mask mandates are still stupid in NM but, fortunately, most folks are ignoring them.
“Pennsylvania teacher writes on FB that people who have religious exemptions should die from the virus or be shot”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1467950217802575877
Board of Directors at National Education Association
So, in an early entry to “What are we reading in December?”: just took delivery of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, a new translation by Edith Grossman (where “new” = early 2000s), and am already digging it. Don Quixote is supposed to be the first “modern novel” of the West; nobody told me just how funny it is, in an almost slapstick “Three Stooges” kinda way. I’m only a couple of chapters in, I’ll report back when I get all the way through.
(Damn, Cervantes wrote all of this out long-hand using a quill pen and God-only-knows-what for ink? Respect, dood.)
Don Quixote is the only thing I ever read in school that made me laugh. Like stupid, uncontrollable laughter.
“You might be living through The Turn if you ever found yourself feeling like free speech should stay free even if it offended some group or individual but now can’t admit it at dinner with friends because you are afraid of being thought a bigot. You are living through The Turn if you have questions about public health policies—including the effects of lockdowns and school closures on the poor and most vulnerable in our society—but can’t ask them out loud because you know you’ll be labeled an anti-vaxxer. You are living through The Turn if you think that burning down towns and looting stores isn’t the best way to promote social justice, but feel you can’t say so because you know you’ll be called a white supremacist. You are living through The Turn if you seethed watching a terrorist organization attack the world’s only Jewish state, but seethed silently because your colleagues were all on Twitter and Facebook sharing celebrity memes about ending Israeli apartheid while having little interest in American kids dying on the streets because of failed policies. If you’ve felt yourself unable to speak your mind, if you have a queasy feeling that your friends might disown you if you shared your most intimately held concerns, if you are feeling a bit breathless and a bit hopeless and entirely unsure what on earth is going on, I am sorry to inform you that The Turn is upon you.”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-turn-liel-leibovitz
You can see that the author hasn’t yet purged all of their bigotries and leftist thinking, but it illustrates just how blatant this fascistic push has gotten. Good if it opens a few minds.
I don’t mind leftists.
The modern “left” isn’t left. It’s complete totalitarianism.
I do, but that’s because I find their worldview to be highly susceptible to this totalitarian shit and highly corrosive to the kind of culture that can withstand assault from authoritarians.
I realize that you are much younger than me.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s when the “left” pushed for civil liberties and about every freedom imaginable (at least those freedoms that freaked out their Ozzie and Harriet parents). The socialists existed, but the cold war was still real. So socialism was never well accepted.
It all changed starting durign the Reagan years when the left split into more socially-conservative blue collar workers who voted for Reagan and the grievance mongers who started taking control of the Democratic political machine.
There was no watershed moment when it happened. But the transition culminated with the election of Obama.
So yes, I hate the modern left with a passion mostly because I remember the left from when I was young.
I’m of the opinion that the 60s and 70s were more corrupting than liberating. The time when the socialist “demoralization” phase hit its stride.
This, is why we are in the dilemma we face, the corruption of culture first, the rest is easy,
If you find sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll corrupting, then you may be right.
But, I remember segregation and keeping wives pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen.
Many good things came out of the left in that time frame.
But, I remember segregation and keeping wives pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen.
There were certainly wins for humanity that happened back then.
Of course, those particular wins are also the root of many of the issues we have today. Winning the right way matters, winning from a position of moral authority matters. We did neither in the 60s and 70s, and it shows in the way gender and racial issues exist today.
On the Jussie Smollett front, NBC News was on as I walked in the house a minute ago. They reported that he was convicted on five of six counts. Much footage of Jesse and friends wearing masks and embracing outside the courthouse. All very moving .
NBC’s reporter tells me that he is not likely to get any jail time, since he does not have a criminal history.
This is the fourth NBC story I’ve seen in the last 48 hours. Every single one of them has taken pains to tell me that he will not be getting any jail time.
I wonder why they are doing that? I mean, I have my theories as to political motivations and how they are hoping to stir people up…. But my real question goes beyond that. Why are they doing that ?
They don’t generally do that. Someone gets convicted of misdemeanor crimes you don’t hear them saying they’re not expected to see any jail time. Heck, they reveled in telling me how car Tittenhouse was going to go to jail for 400 million years because he’s a mass murderer.
They always report it in terms of what the maximum possible sentence is. Always. “He faces up to 7 years in jail if convicted”. Always..
Except this time. This time, every single time they mention it, they tell me that he is not expected to see any jail time. And out of those four stories, not a single one of them mentioned anything about potential criminal penalties. Just that he’s not expected to go to jail. They never once said how many years he faces if he gets the maximum.
All of which goes to reinforce my supposition that they have every intention of using this to generate maximum outrage and attempt to use this as a racial wedge to get people to hate each other based on team-based race politics.
Shorter cyto, they are evil.
He faces up to 3 years at sentencing.
And yes, they are fucking evil. They don’t want him doing jail time cause they helped disseminate his preposterous lie.
Hate=Money, just ask the MSM,
“…and creatin’ a nuisance.”
Are they going to seek restitution from Smollet? They should.
Who are “they” in this case?
The city of Chicago and the state of Illinois
For any expenses caused by the investigation of his fraudulent police report sure (and I want to see the accounting, I recall someone claiming it cost them 100’s of 1000’s of dollars, Bullshit) any cost generated by the states prosecution of him is on the state.
SCIENCE! under siege
The Senate voted Wednesday to repeal a President Biden-backed federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses.
The final vote was 52-48. Moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana joined Republicans to vote in favor of the repeal.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY., slammed the Republican effort to repeal the mandate.
“Some of the anti-vaxxers here in this chamber remind me of what happened 400 years ago when people were clinging to the fact that the sun revolved around the Earth. They just didn’t believe science. Or 500 years ago when they were sure the Earth was flat,” Schumer said earlier in the day.
Don’t they understand the beneficial effects of the vaccine on the body’s humours?
remind me of what happened 400 years ago when people were clinging to the fact that the sun revolved around the Earth.
Those “people” were the State, the Schumers of their day, and it was a heretic pointing out the truth of the Earth moving about the Sun.
So yes, I hate the modern left with a passion mostly because I remember the left from when I was young.
I remember the “Question Authority” Democrats.
Now they want anybody who won’t unhesitatingly accede to every crazy superstitious ritual imposed by “the experts” to be locked up.
It depends on who’s in authority.