Monday Afternoon Links – Is Anyone Alive Edition

by | Jan 3, 2022 | Daily Links | 318 comments

‘vid zombies will soon be roaming the Earth!

Not sure what there are more of out on the interwebz; Stories about how we have all died because of OMGicron or, MUH INSURRECTION ANNIVERSARY!!!! They have both bored me to tears. Therefore, I will do as I often do…look around for other stupidity in the world!

  • We’ll get right on that, Your Presidentness. I suspect 4 out 5 “The View” hosts would nod in agreement.
  • Femicide” Add that to your Newspeak, Edition 11.
  • Surely a Drumpf supporter done it! Or, it is Rijksdag Vuur?
  • Bunch of Swiss Weirdos.

Enjoy. Or not. I am not your supervisor!

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

318 Comments

  1. Not Adahn

    I suspect 4 out 5 “The View” hosts would nod in agreement.

    And why shouldn’t they? Trump is a nazi and Iran is a LGBT paradise with free Gender Confirmation Surgery!

  2. Yusef drives a Kia

    “I am not your supervisor!”
    but what if I need supervision?

  3. Count Potato

    “The participants were recruited by invitation and the data was then weighted so that the results are representative for the entire population.”

    Not a statistician, but that sounds like bullshit.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Except for prisons, there we toss a trans-male in with the females without blinking an eye.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Interesting, very good clinical results from using antiseptic mouthwash/nasal rinse twice daily as a preventative against COVID. The studies are using a dilute betadine solution, but gargles including cetylpyridinium chloride are also recommended.

      https://c19pvpi.com/

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Gilmoooooooooooooooore!

      • Ownbestenemy

        That was floated back in 2020 sometime too. I have been seeing a bunch of recycled articles, like the deer one, being tossed back into the media to scare the citizens.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        As I was discussing with Warty in our demigods chat, betadine seems like overkill for an encapsulated virus. A hypertonic saline solution seems to do the trick just as well, but I get nasal irrigation with salt water doesn’t sound as sexy to the DIY health crowd.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Picking your boogers and eating em is healthier

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Having mistakenly irrigated with non-saline solutions on occasion, saline sounds much better.

        I haven’t seen any numbers on that though.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        There was series of British studies in the early days of the pandemic that looked into saline irrigation and had overwhelmingly positive results. Which is why you never heard about them. The study group was called, I shit you not, ELVIS. You can google it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Thanks, I’ll look it up.

      • Sensei

        I swear I first read that as “You can gargle it”.

      • DEG

        HM, you’re alive!

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Kinda sorta.

      • l0b0t

        Well, it’s always nice to see you here. You are missed in your absence. Happy belated New Year.

      • DEG

        “Kinda sorta”?

        You’ve been eating enough ass, right?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Thanks, l0b0t and RCD!

      • TARDis

        Kinda sorta.

        He’s been here over an hour, and not one link to make us recoil in [redacted].

        Imposter! Hello, Tulpa.

      • Ted S.

        Nobody’s forcing yo to click on HM links.

      • MikeS

        I miss them. And the cummies. Gawd I could go for some cummies right now.

      • R C Dean

        Always glad to see you drop by, HM.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        ^^ Seconded.

        All in favour, say “aye!”

      • Mojeaux

        Aye!

      • DEG

        Aye!

      • slumbrew

        ay-yup.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Aye!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oy!

      • Count Potato

        +1

      • MikeS

        ?

      • Mojeaux

        nasal irrigation with salt water doesn’t sound as sexy to the DIY health crowd.

        I saw a very annoying church member who is a very annoying health nut at Walgreen’s in the rx line. I was shocked to see her there and she was embarrassed to be there. This is a lady who annoyingly lectured people ad nauseam about health and wellness without medication. I was less tolerant of her annoyingness than everybody else.

        I said, “Sooooo what’s up?”

        “Well, my sinus infection won’t go away.”

        I said, “I presume you have tried saline rinses.”

        She flushed. “Oh, yes.”

        “And now you’re here for antibiotics.”

        “Well, yes.”

        My work was done, but I gave her an out because I’m not a COMPLETE bitch. “My husband and another friend of mine try that and it never works completely. Don’t feel bad.”

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m docking you one glib point for not being a complete bitch about it.

      • Mojeaux

        *hangs head in shame*

      • TARDis

        -1 extra point for feeling shame and not slapping Scruffy.

      • ron73440

        I do a daily nasal rinse and it really helps with my headaches, I still get them, but usually Goody’s will get rid of it.

        Without the rinse, a few times a month the headache laughs at the Goody’s.

      • Count Potato

        A neti pot should be as salty as tears. You could probably put some betadine in it, but straight betadine sounds like a very bad idea.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I believe it’s a 1% solution.

        Snorting straight betadine would be a good way to get some color back into my nostrils though.

      • Count Potato

        I’ve been putting a pinch of cetylpyridinium chloride mouthwash in my neti pot after I get back from the pharmacy. It makes a lot of foam though.

      • Heroic Mulatto

        The Doctor/Internet guru promoting betadine suggest a .4 to .8 percent solution. There are a lot of instructables on how to dilute it down that idiots are going to fuck up.

        It would be much easier to use Ponaris (https://www.ponaris.net/), which already is .5% iodine. Plus, astronauts used it!

      • Count Potato

        So you are saying I should use Tang?

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Poon-Tang, to be precise.

      • hayeksplosives

        I buy the Neilmed rinse bottles and pre-measured packets of finely ground salt (for fast dissolving).

        My ENT doc told me to fill with hot water just a bit shy of the fill line so that the solution would be a bit hypertonic, and use water as hot as I can stand.

        Daily use was utterly required when I lived in Minnesota and in San Diego. The desert living has significantly improved my allergies and subsequently my sinus health. Ahhhh. Even my psoriasis has completely cleared up! Nevada, where have you been all my life?

    • l0b0t

      OPP (Orleans Parrish Prison) has (since the 1980s, perhaps earlier) a wing they call the Nellie Jail. Alphabet people arrested in NOLA are put there to keep them from being abused by the other inmates. Who new sleepy old NOLA was so far ahead of the curve?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Down wit’ OPP? You know me!

      • l0b0t

        Nah, this OPP. Not that OPP.

      • DEG

        PA prisons had similar wings back in the 80s, which also might have been around earlier. Those wings also housed child molesters, HIV positive prisoners, mentally retarded prisoners, and geriatric prisoners.

    • rhywun

      Only 14% of men consider themselves exclusively male and only 6% of women exclusively female. And 12% cent of men and women perceive themselves as equally feminine and masculine.

      In the same article.

      Fun with numbers! ?

    • Sean

      Expensive. It means expensive.

    • Sensei

      It’s just a different kind of mask shaming now.

    • limey

      “…the physical barrier tendered by a mask is known to reduce the spread of virus particles,” Ferrer also said.

      Repeated ad infinitum without evidence.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Not only that, we have boatloads of evidence that they don’t work.

      • R C Dean

        Note:

        “Reduce the spread of virus particles” =/= “Reduce the spread of infection”

        Except, perhaps, at very high levels of reduction of the spread of virus particles, levels not achievable in the general population with any mask.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Now it’s getting fun. I did some light sanding and staining in my shed with an N95 on for maybe 30 minutes over the weekend and couldn’t wait to rip the thing off. Wearing one for 8 hours a day would be pure torture.

      • rhywun

        Good. Maybe we can finally put an end to this stupidity.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That is good insight. I think if the majority of people were to be forced into an N95 mask for long periods and be hounded to not touch it, not pulling it down, etc, they would say screw it. Then again, that is wishful thinking.

      • grrizzly

        That’s why I was always in favor of anal testing for covid.

      • R C Dean

        I’ve seen people wearing N95s with the bottom strap cut, so they just kinda hang off the nose.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Yeah, I had to do N95 training for the phone company (asbestos) and there is no way some teachers are gonna wear them for a day, let alone an hour.

        But, fuck ’em. They bought this with their union dues.

  4. Count Potato

    “France remains one of the European countries with the highest number of femicides per capita. ”

    One of?

    • UnCivilServant

      It is definately in the top fifty.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Four thousand and twenty people who reported contracting Omicron in the study – which equates to 95.6 percent of total cases – had received at least two doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Twenty-eight percent of the Omicron-positive group had also received a third dose or “booster” shot.

      Just 186 people contracting Omicron were unvaccinated in the entire sample, showing that vaccinated individuals were over 21 times as likely to contract the COVID-19 variant.

      That calculation of risk is wholly wrong. It depends on the vaccination level of the population being studied.

      I think the current numbers are something along the order of -12% efficacy at three months for vaccination. So an increased risk, but not 21x. That’s some Pfizer-level math.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Let me enjoy my bias Scruffy…geesh

      • R C Dean

        TW: Wiki.

        As of 16 December 2021, 60,679,186 people have received at least one dose (73 % of total population), while 58,174,724 people have been fully vaccinated (70 % of total population).

        Sure looks to me like an increased risk. As the Scruffster noted, the mathematical illiterates at the National Pulse botched the math.

        The interesting question is, why does the vaccine make you more susceptible to the OMGicron variant?

      • robc

        Did they do age and health adjustment? Young and healthy are less likely to be vaxxed, for good reason. And, even if they get it, less likely to notice or care enough to get tested.

  5. Mojeaux

    “Femicide” = new word for annoying popups and invasive not-letting-you-read-the-article websites.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Not sure what’s special about that terminology – pretty sure it’s the same format for most crimes – homicide, patricide, fratricide, etc.

      • limey

        Patricide and fratricide denote the relationship of the killer to the victim, whereas “femicide” is just a Newspeak propaganda term to confer a special status to female (and M2F?) murder victims based on the idea that all the murders of these women are a result of “systemic” bias or some sort of institutional sexism regardless of individual circumstances because they are first “women” (marginalized group identity) before they are individuals? Am I doing it right?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I was going to point that out and glad you did. The way I read it, it is an increase in deadly femme fatales.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        So, Black Widow killings?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yes

    • Nephilium

      Maybe you need to update the fembrowser on your femputer?

    • Not Adahn

      Now do “misogynoir.”

  6. Ghostpatzer

    Could there be a pattern to the “femicides”? Wouldn’t want to ruffle any feathers, but I hear there is a certain culture in which this sort of thing is considered to be acceptable. Former French colonies IIRC. Nah, that couldn’t be, I’ll turn myself in for reeducation forthwith.

    • Mojeaux

      That is why I wanted to read the article and then it wouldn’t let me.

      • Sensei

        “There is a crucial lack of training when it comes to taking complaints with regard to gender-based violence. This should be mandatory for anyone dealing with vulnerable people who come to them to report an attack or fear of an attack.”

        Nothing some web based training and role playing can’t fix!

      • Mojeaux

        Srsly.

    • Heroic Mulatto

      From (https://www.facebook.com/pg/feminicide/posts/)

      – Saturday January 1st in Nice (Maritime Alps) Lisa T. (45 years old) was killed by her ex-partner (60 years old) by strangulation.

      – Saturday, January 1st in Labry (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Muriel Pinchi-Marchetti (56 years old) was stabbed to death by her spouse Yves (five years old) at his home.

      -Saturday January 1st in Bellevigne-les-Châteaux (Maine-et-Loire), Éléonore Places (27 years old) was stabbed to death by her companion (21 years old) at the home of her brother.

      -Wednesday, December 29 in Besançon (Doubs), Corinne (56 years old) was bitten and stabbed 9 times by her husband Philippe (61 years old) at their home.

      -Tuesday, December 28 at the Hamau de Beauséjour on the commune of Roura (Guyane), Mary (quinquagénaire) was shot down, with a hunting rifle, by her husband Jean-Marie Thecua (59 years old) at their home

      -On Monday, December 13 in Sommepy-Tahure (Marne), Katy Reybois (43 years old) was stabbed to death by her spouse Jerome Vanegue (47 years old)

      Why it’s just like reading the Algiers White Pages!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Muriel Pinchi-Marchetti (56 years old) was stabbed to death by her spouse Yves (five years old) at his home

        How very French…

      • Heroic Mulatto

        Ha! I didn’t see that. The person posting makes a lot of errors in the English translation (or it’s just Google Translate). I had to correct a lot of his/her errors. The original French is “Yves (quinquagénaire) “

      • Ghostpatzer

        Cultural appropriation is everywhere!

      • Heroic Mulatto

        If Looney-Tunes has taught me anything, it’s that rape has a long and storied tradition in French culture.

      • Ghostpatzer

        It’s not easy for a skunk to get some, I’ll give Pepe a pass.

    • Not Adahn

      Have the femicides reached either the number or rates as androcides?

      Or are they talking about diverting resources in order to help a privileged minority?

  7. juris imprudent

    …look around for other stupidity in the world!

    Never to be disappointed either.

  8. DEG

    Noir from Nous Toutes believes a sea change needs to happen in the way that French society thinks about gender-based violence.

    “It must happen across media, education, the judiciary – everywhere. We need to start thinking of it as a systemic issue rather than an individual issue. In the media, for example, femicides are often described as a fait divers (sensationalist news) rather than as a systemic, patriarchal issue. Education is clearly a key part of the change that need to happen.”

    How about better self defense laws and more guns in people’s (especially women’s) hands?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Education is clearly a key part of the change that need to happen.

      Yes, of course. Where shall we send the grant money?

      • DEG

        Right. I forgot. Grifters gotta grift. I should have thought of the grifters. Wouldn’t want them to be left out.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nothing says our science is right and we are speaking the truth than boxing out different opinions. Eventually people have to see this right?! RIGHT?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      No, spotify still has the full podcasts (with video).

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      No, i watched it last night,

  9. Father Callahan

    “I do a daily nasal rinse and it really helps with my headaches”

    When I was in my 30’s I was having recurring headaches, always on the same side and extremely painful. I thought maybe it was a sinus problem so I got a neti pot and using a saline rinse but the headaches didn’t stop. Eventually I discovered I was losing hearing on one side and got scheduled for an MRI. The MRI revealed an acoustic neuroma the size of a big egg (5 cm in the largest direction).

    Turns out, sometimes it is a tumor.

    • Count Potato

      Yikes! Hope you are better.

      They did an MRI of my head and didn’t find anything.

      • R C Dean

        I recall getting a sonogram for a slight heart murmur. The tech was having a hard time getting everything lined up. I told him “Well, I did go to law school, so its probably very small and very hard at this point.”

      • invisible finger

        No! The heart in my chest!!

    • DEG

      “Intentional lack of access”?

      Huh.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If the group was a bunch of quadriplegics protesting that Everest doesn’t have a mobility ramp, I could buy the “lack of access” argument.

    • Father Callahan

      I do pretty good. The tumor was removed in 2011. I have no hearing in my left ear and my balance is not 100%. At my doctor appointment after getting the results back from the MRI the doctor had me close my eyes and march in place. I must have looked quite wobbly because he told me that I’m lucky I have big feet. Actually he told me that after he looked at my MRI he first went to the front desk and asked the receptionists if I seemed to be having trouble walking.

      • Father Callahan

        Not meant to be a reply to this comment. Maybe I’m not doing all that good.

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

    • Spudalicious

      So Sherpa’s are colonialists? They seem to be climbing up and down that thing all the time. And getting paid handsomely to do so.

      • slumbrew

        They’re Asian, so they’re really white.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        So, you are saying everyone is snow blind?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Because of progress made in academia, black people are no longer terrified to be surrounded by so many white snowflakes. That is why this team will succeed where so many others have failed.

    • Sensei

      The NY Post actually has the video. Since it’s a picture of a death I’ll refrain from posting it.

      He like tries at least a half dozen times to jump the barrier. His iPhone, naturally, makes it over, so he get more frantic trying to get over the barrier.

      Finally catches as he goes over and the rest as they say is history.

    • rhywun

      Does ‘kill’ not imply agency in England?

      • Sensei

        Good catch. Obviously the MTA wanted him dead for fare evasion.

      • Rat on a train

        The fare gate did him in. Remove them!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Rider #1: Life ain’t fare!
        Rider #2: Fare ain’t got nothing to do with it.

      • Count Potato

        I didn’t know it did here.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Eh, it’s kinda like saying someone was killed in a motorcycle accident.

    • db

      Every man has his price

  10. rhywun

    Not a flake here. Try again, winter.

    • l0b0t

      We got some light flurries over here in the mid-morning, but it didn’t stick. Now it’s just brutally windy (I had to pull in a bunch of stuff from the back yard) and cold.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, it is that. Although I suspect our mid-west friends would laugh at us.

      • MikeS

        ’tis correct.

      • Nephilium

        Light dusting of snow here. Not even enough to cover the grass completely.

    • Rat on a train

      9+ inches here. Multiple trees down in the neighborhood with a couple across driveways. Fortunately we still have power unlike some nearby areas.

      • slumbrew

        9+ inches here.

        Nobody likes a braggart.

  11. Not Adahn

    Placed an order for $700 of steel targets.

    I kind of indulged myself. Currently we’ve been using knockdown 8″ circles and 10″ squares. I ordered hanging 8″ circles, but instead of squares I ordered 6″ x 11″ rectangles.

    If questioned on it I’ll claim it’s to make things more challenging.

    • Not Adahn

      And now I’m rethinking my post heights.

      Anybody who knows about anatomy got an idea of how short someone has to be before their eyeball is less that 5′ off the ground? When standing.

      • R C Dean

        I would guess less than 5′ 6″.

      • Not Adahn

        Divide by 25.4, carry the 2, multiply by 12…

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Just multiply by .79.

      • Not Adahn

        To be fair, I will be reimbursed by the club.

        $500 left in 2022’s budget!

    • UnCivilServant

      🙁

      Now I’m imagining some of our less practiced shooters trying to hit the narrow targets…

      • Not Adahn

        They’re made in FL out of US-produced steel.

      • Not Adahn

        Honestly, I find more errors in height rather than windage. Usually.

      • l0b0t

        That would likely be me. I’m not bad with long arms but need a lot more handgun practice. I once shot one of the arms of my uncle’s brand new chronograph.

    • DEG

      She didn’t say, “Get Vaccinated!”

    • Ghostpatzer

      Viagra will wake up a lot of things, apparently.

  12. UnCivilServant

    Evening, Glibs.

    I made it to Maine, if not for the rapid onset of dusk, I’d have hours left to wander.

    I did get to the post office before they closed, probably the only day on my visit I’d have the chance at that. I wonder if the NY State Police will notice that I mailed my background check forms from three states away while claiming to live in new york.

    • Not Adahn

      For your pistol license?

      • UnCivilServant

        No, for the job I already have, and have had since 2008.

      • rhywun

        You need a background check to work for the state?!

        How come it doesn’t weed out all the criminals that pretend to work in the state house?

      • UnCivilServant

        They may not have to go through one.

      • Not Adahn

        If you can’t bribe your way past that, you’re unqualified to be in the NYS leg.

      • juris imprudent

        Doesn’t apply to elective office holders?

      • rhywun

        It should.

    • UnCivilServant

      I kept arguing with myself whether I should get good boots for the smithing class. I ended up buying a pair of Red Wings made in the USA because the snow boots I owned were both unsuited to the task, and didn’t actually fit my toes. (I’ve had those for years because I only wear them out of desperation). I was mostly arguing over the price tag, but I concluded that if they lasted me, it would be worth it. So far they fit better than my sneakers. Except up the ankle, because I’m not used to having material above the joint.

      • UnCivilServant

        Of all the god damn cables I remembered to bring, a USB-C cable was not one of them.

        Guess what my phone charges with?

      • Count Potato

        Fortunately, you can buy a USB-C cable at a gas station.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s still an additional expense and side trip.

  13. Old Man With Candy

    So, poll: SP and I have been laid low. Coughing, sneezing, mild fever, weakness, so nasal drip. Is it severe colds? Seasonal flu? Omnicron?

    No way we’re getting tested. We think Spud brought whatever-it-is as a gift.

    • Sensei

      Obviously its because you didn’t mask up.

      Hope you all feel better.

      • Old Man With Candy

        A mask would have improved his looks.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m guessing mold spores, if you had the same kind of thaw we had here.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      That’s the ‘vid.

    • l0b0t

      Son had to be picked up early from school for vomiting. The nurse was able to find 1 ChiComPox test to give us. The schools are supposed to be giving out free tests on demand but my kids’ schools have too many white students for the NYC Office of Inclusion and Equity, so they haven’t been given any yet. The school the ex works at (in Jamaica, Queens) has boxes and boxes of them.

      • Mojeaux

        I didn’t think vomiting was part of the vid equation. That sounds like a flu to me.

      • l0b0t

        Yeah. I think he caught what I’ve had since December 22nd.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Is it severe colds? Seasonal flu? Omnicron?

      Yes

      • rhywun

        “America’s first rare triple infection! Grim milestone! Tremble!”

      • Ghostpatzer

        America’s first rare triple infection!

        Is that a new figure skating move? I thought we pulled out of the Winter Olympics.

      • Ghostpatzer

        OMWC gets no respect!

    • TARDis

      People still believe in the gom jabbar? Three peeps from work out for positives. No symptoms.
      XX is puny with it though. Vaxxed, of course.

    • KSuellington

      Funky cold flurona. Without a doubt.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        A wild variant at that.

    • Tulip

      Feel better soon.

    • Count Potato

      Why against testing?

      • Old Man With Candy

        If it’s positive, a whole bunch of shit kicks in (reporting, contact tracing, possible shutting down our business). So as far as I’m concerned, it’s a normal flu.

      • Count Potato

        OK

      • westernsloper

        Why against testing? JFC QUIT PLAYING THEIR STUPID FUCKING GAME. QUIT BEING THOSE PEOPLE FFS! If you are sick stay home. If not go to work.

      • Count Potato

        Speaking for myself, I would want to know if I had it. Everyone’s situation is different.

      • MikeS

        ??

      • westernsloper

        What is different? You deal with old folks? We all do. You deal with co-workers? We all do. No, holy shit I can not express enough how much I am over this shit. People need to say no to testing. fuck this. It means nothing. It spreads fear. The new Omicron whatever the fuck variant is a fucking cold. Get over it. Us normal people are fucking done! Grow up.

      • MikeS

        Good. You’re fucking over it. Real fucking happy for you ‘sloper. My mom, who is currently sedated and on a ventilator fighting for her life sure the FUCK IS NOT OVER IT. Why don’t you grow the fuck up.

      • westernsloper

        Ya ok that is a bit different.

      • westernsloper

        *deletes comment

        Prayers for your mom.

      • Sean

        Prayers for your mom.

        Your anger should be directed at all the individuals and agencies actively denying her known therapeutics.

        The government response to this has been vile. Everything they do and say has been wrong. For money and power.

      • Count Potato

        Prayers, for your mom.

      • DEG

        I hope your mom recovers.

        What Sean said is right. You should direct your anger at those denying her theraputics.

      • MikeS

        May anger IS pointed at those people. And it’s also pointed at people who convinced a 74 year old overweight woman with heart issues and blood problems that she should avoid the “death jab”. I’m as untrusting of government as the next Glib, but for fucks sake some on “our side” take it too far.

      • Sean

    • Father Callahan

      It’s mostly likely a tumor.

      • Old Man With Candy

        IT’S NOT A TOOMER!

      • Not Adahn

        At least we know it’s not lupus.

    • DEG

      Get well soon!

    • The Hyperbole

      I hope SP feels better soon.

      • Old Man With Candy

        If you were westernsloper, I’d have the perfect comeback.

      • westernsloper

        I hope SP feels better soon as well.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Shut the fuck up, sloper.

        Damn, at least *someone* here knows how to be a straight man.

    • MikeS

      Get better quick. If it is the ‘vid, I hope it’s mild and you don’t lose your smell and/or taste.

    • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

      So, you are saying it…

      (puts on sunglasses)

      Potato blight?

    • db

      I hope you folks feel better soon.

      Because if you get the ‘vid, your employees will be insufferable.

  14. Certified Public Asshat

    Let’s revisit this article from April 1 (not April Fool’s related):

    The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man

    Before I go point by point through his wrong positions, let me be exquisitely clear about what is true. The vaccines work. They worked in the clinical trials, and they’re working around the world. The vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson seem to provide stronger and more lasting protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants than natural infection. They are excellent at reducing symptomatic infection. Even better, they are extraordinarily successful at preventing severe illness from COVID-19. Countries that have vaccinated large percentages of their population quickly, such as the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Israel, have all seen sharp and sustained declines in hospitalizations among the elderly. Meanwhile, countries that have lagged in the vaccination effort—including the U.K.’s neighbors France and Italy, and Israel’s neighbor Jordan—have struggled to contain the virus. The authorized vaccines are marvels, and the case against them relies on half-truths, untruths, and obfuscations.

  15. Ted S.

    No orange juice at the grocery store today. Store-brand sliced ham was also missing, and there were a lot of bare shelves in the cookie aisle.

    But no supply chain problems at all, no sirree.

    • Sensei

      NYT says no issues.

      Why Christmas Gifts Are Arriving on Time This Year

      Fears that a disrupted supply chain could wreak havoc on the logistics industry over the holiday turned out to be wrong as many Americans ordered early and shopped in stores.

      But even they couldn’t really spin it. However, since Team Biden only reads the WP and NYT – she quoted in her daily press conference and was roundly ridiculed even by supporters.

    • Mojeaux

      The shelves are bare at Walmart. Since I have a kid who works there (different kid), I’m tempted to think they just don’t have enough stockers or we go at the wrong time. They have two shifts: 5am to 2pm and overnights, neither of which minors can do because of the time. Somewhat related, he’s busied himself with re-doing the entire front registers candy/chips/impulse items while he re-prices everything. Shit going up, yo.

      • invisible finger

        Supply chain issues contribute for sure. I thought Walmart had stocking crews that went store to store. If there is a likely labor shortage, in order to hit each store corporate is instructing the stockers to follow ABC inventory as a guide and prioritizing what gets stocked in the limited man hours.

      • Mojeaux

        I thought Walmart had stocking crews that went store to store.

        From what XX told me, our store has 2 shifts of stockers exclusive to that store. When XX worked there, she would often sling freight to load on pallets for the overnight stockers. She said Walmart will probably never go back to 24 hours because they need the overnight to stock. I can’t speak to other stores and probably shouldn’t be speaking for ours.

        It’s probably a mix of not enough stock and not enough stockers.

      • db

        the other day I was at the grocery store and thought I was seeing a shortage problem–one particular shelf was pretty much completely bare. Then I realized it was where the orange juice is supposed to be and it was late afternoon on New Year’s Eve.

    • UnCivilServant

      I think the store I stopped at to find dinner had orange juice. They were short on paper products though.

    • l0b0t

      Our Stop & Shop has no beef. Nothing. No ground, no steaks, no stew meat, no beef at all. We’ve been out for a week.

      • rhywun

        I haven’t been to a supermarket since the day before Kathy imposed her stupid latest muzzling.

        I guess I’m not missing anything.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve been several times, no one cared that I went unmasked.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Still no breakfast meats here except bacon. Canadian ham made its way back at least but sausage is rare.

      • juris imprudent

        New stupid CA law that will curtail bacon being sold in the state should improve supplies elsewhere around the country.

      • Sean

        ?

        Bacon.

      • Mojeaux

        Speaking of bacon, I am hopping on the low-carb train tomorrow.

      • Sean

        All aboard!

      • Fourscore

        Marketing opportunity. I see Mex bacon being smuggled across the border.

      • Mojeaux

        I sent my husband out for pork chops. They were $5.39/lb at Walmart and $3.79/lb at HyVee. All well in stock.

        Chez Mojeaux is well stocked for beef.

      • Old Man With Candy

        You should have a two year supply.

      • Mojeaux

        *checks freezer*

        Yep.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Your voice-to-post app is malfunctioning.

        I think you mean “you should have a two steer supply”

      • db

        I knew a friend whose mom and dad were LDS and Jewish, respectively. They had a two-year supply of bacon.

      • Mojeaux

        A 2-yr supply of bacon would bankrupt me.

      • robc

        Wouldnt that be zero?

    • MikeS

      You need to lower your expectations, Ted.

    • DEG

      Not certified face diaper free.

    • UnCivilServant

      So they admit vaxxers are sheep?

      • TARDis

        Nice!

    • rhywun

      Verpiß dich.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Well I’m convinced.

    • Pope Jimbo

      In other news, Montana, Scotland and New Zealand reach 100% in vaccinated men.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *rushes out to get jabbed*

  16. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I’ll be making short ribs tomorrow if anyone lacking cow needs a hot beef injection

    • UnCivilServant

      🙁 I’m too far away to join you.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Make sure you do a mean rub on them before braising them in their own juices

      • Pope Jimbo

        mean rub

        That is udder nonsense.!

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        He’s just trying to steer people away.

    • Ghostpatzer

      hot beef injection

      These euphemisms…

  17. Pope Jimbo

    Only 99.6% of Swiss people took a side in the gender wars? What happened to their famed neutrality?

  18. KSuellington

    Pretty optimistic piece from a crypto dude that I found through the RealClear site:

    “ For nearly two years I had feared that we were headed into a new dark age of totalitarianism and repression, that Western leaders would aspire to implement China-style social credit systems and completely takeover the economy and day to day lives of its subjects.
    Make no mistake, many establishment elites do want that. It’s just for awhile there it looked to me like they would succeed. But then my thinking started to shift around that. I realized that the entire transformational shift in the very nature of communications (Internet), power (networks) and then money (Bitcoin) meant the very architecture of society had changed so profoundly that this type of top-down, centralized authoritarianism I had feared so much was now untenable.”

    https://bombthrower.com/articles/its-2022-and-the-pandemic-is-over/

    • rhywun

      Somebody tell China.

    • This Machine

      I mean, the fatal flaw of central planning (of any flavor) is central planners. Thank God these megalomaniacal control freaks are just as human and just as fallible as the rest of us.

      In the end, we win, they lose. But damn if it isn’t going to hurt.

      But I was wrong about Omciron, in that it changed everything. It became very apparent very quickly that Omicron, with data showing 1/2 to 1/3 the lethality of Delta, was a nothing-burger. Its super-contagiousness meant that COVID would be endemic, but benign.

      Ring-a-ding-ding. Covid is already pretty much over in any place that’s not a blue zone a la what I saw over the holidays. This is, God willing, the final nail in the coffin for the people who can still be convinced.

  19. Pope Jimbo

    You know what we need to politicize more? Medical Examiners!

    The Maryland Attorney General’s Office this year is expected to begin its review of autopsies of people who died in police custody during the 17-year span that former chief medical examiner David Fowler served, a first-of-its-kind probe sparked by Fowler’s testimony in defense of the Minneapolis police officer on trial for murder in the death of George Floyd.

    The review of in-custody deaths in Maryland follows Fowler’s testimony during the murder trial of former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin over Floyd’s in-custody death in 2020, which was at the center of a national reckoning on race and policing. Fowler’s testimony blamed Floyd’s death on heart disease and drug use rather than his oxygen being cut off while pinned beneath Chauvin’s knee for more than nine minutes.

    Roger Mitchell Jr., the former chief medical examiner in the District, said he listened to Fowler’s testimony and was “confused,” a reaction that led him and other health professionals to push for a review of cases handled during the years Fowler led Maryland’s agency.

    I’d be happy with more examinations of medical examiners and the use of “expert” witnesses in trials because there is a lot that could be reformed. But I doubt that these people are interested in any of that. Seems to me that the focus will be on making sure everyone who knows how to conduct an autopsy will understand that testifying the “wrong” way will be career suicide.

    • Not Adahn

      Listen, the medical examiners are here to serve the people. And the prosecutors represent the people. Therefore, it is the job of the medical examiners to say what the prosecutors (i.e. “the people”) want them to.

  20. Tulip

    Oof, I’m already stiffening up from today’s shoveling. Tomorrow is going to be painful.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      If I could have gotten up to your place I would have helped! I like shoveling & clearing snow. I had a great time cleaning off Tameka’s Cherokee.

      • Tulip

        It’s definitely a full body workout. I got my exercise today.

      • db

        These euphemisms!

    • whiz

      Oof, I’m already stiffening up from today’s shoveling.

      More euphemisms?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. Frigid women are not a turn on in my world.

    • Not Adahn

      Nah, too many women there.

    • MikeS

      Humorous exchange down in the sewer (i.e. comments)

      @senorkitchen
      If Alec Baldwin was there it’d be a whole different video.

      @Repeal1stA
      if you think Alec Baldwin was at fault then you nothing about firearm safety and firearm protocol for filming

      @cpt_manboobs
      you know who else doesn’t know anything about Firearm Safety? Alec Fuckin’ Baldwin.

  21. Tulip

    It may actually be cold enough for KK tonight. Down to 18.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I’ll be in my bunk. Under several layers of blankets and fuzzy jammies.

      • Mojeaux

        My husband has a heater on his side of the bed and I have a fan. Cold room, warm blankies, man. That’s where it’s at.

      • Not Adahn

        Ishmael agrees.

      • TARDis

        I dunno.

        Mr. Mojo Farts.
        Heater ignites gas.
        Fire starts.
        Flames are fanned.
        Disaster.

        I’m all about safety.

      • Mojeaux

        3. Profit!

      • rhywun

        Cold room, warm blankies, man. That’s where it’s at.

        THIS

      • db

        Yeah, that’s how I roll, but the GF likes sleeping in a sauna of a room.

      • rhywun

        Been through that battle.

      • TARDis

        Our battle ended with the onset of menopause. The ceiling fan is always medium to high.

      • Mojeaux

        The funny thing is that often, my husband has kicked off his covers. Like, dude. Why do you have the heater on if you’re too warm with the covers?

  22. grrizzly

    Earlier today I received a message from the range where I’m a member.

    The next Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for…

    All Members in Good Standing are Welcome to attend

    Please follow Covid-19 protocols, MASKS MUST BE WORN

    Then 1.5 hours later another message:

    All Members in Good Standing are Welcome to attend

    Please follow Covid-19 protocols, MASKS ARE RECOMMENDED

  23. Gender Traitor

    My work day was even more trying than I’d been dreading. Having the holidays fall on the weekend apparently induced brain damage in many of our supervisors, who somehow seemed to come up with every possible wrong way to put their employees’ time for “the Eves” and the holidays into the payroll system.

    My only consolation is that this won’t be nearly so complicated for the next two years. Maybe the next time it comes up, we’ll have gone out of business.

    • UnCivilServant

      Your credit union isn’t in financial trouble is it?

      Going out of business in those few years sounds bad.

      • Gender Traitor

        No, we’re doing very well, dammit. I just can’t stomach the thought of going through this holiday stuff again, but I won’t have retired by then, and I’d just as soon not be dead.

  24. westernsloper

    We’ll get right on that, Your Presidentness.

    Ya, not shit. I am not big on the whole drone murder program we have going but if a mutherfucker needed droning…………

  25. Count Potato

    “BREAKING: Tommy Robinson’s Car FIREBOMBED After Release of Documentary Trailer on Grooming Gangs (VIDEO)

    “These gangs are waging war on the survivors and anyone who is investigating them. Maybe this is the reason that mainstream journalists shy away from this problem. Maybe they’re all scared of these gangs. The problem is, we’re not scared. This won’t deter us. Nothing will deter us,” Robinson said.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/breaking-tommy-robinsons-car-firebombed-release-documentary-trailer-grooming-gangs-video/

    https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1478103094839939079

    • This Machine

      Goddamn. That’s intense. Good on him for having some fortitude, so long as these assholes don’t end up getting lucky and killing/maiming him.

    • Not Adahn

      $20 on false flag.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re headed straight for a race war. A no-shit race war.

    • db

      The Libertarian Party of PA sent me a letter earlier last year, saying there was an uncontested Constable election in my area and suggesting I should run, but only once I met with the local LP leadership and they vetted me. When I went to vote in November, the election was still uncontested (no candidates listed at all).

      I declined to run for the office because 1. Even if I were the only candidate, having an (L) after my name would probably ensure I lost to a write-in, and 2. I’m not a member of the LP, just registered as (L) in PA, which is not the same thing. I have no idea if anyone won that election. I even refrained from writing my own name in (which I often do), because I have met and worked with Constables before, and it takes too much time, and I already have a day job.

    • db

      Driving on I-79 through West Virginia, I once saw a big o’l pickup truck with off road gear, lifted to heaven, with a professionally printed sign across the top of the windshield that read:

      “CLEAN MUD PUSSY.”

      I didn’t want to know what that meant.

      • Sean

        No idea.

    • TARDis

      That’s very specific. If he could do that from the front, I suspect he’d be very popular with the ladies.

      • db

        Perhaps he was indicating that interested parties should step around to the rear of the vehicle.

      • TARDis

        Possibly, it is Wal-mart after all. He might not got good grammar like me. He should have written, “I eat ass out of the rear doors.”

  26. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I’m on a split workday again this week and I missed a meeting. They recorded it and my boss sent it to me to listen to since it’s pertinent to my work. It’s like torture. I want to jump in the conversation so bad. The shit they’re talking about directly affects my work. Gaaahhhhhh

    • db

      Have your own meeting in the second half of your split shift. Make sure to make some decisions and assign action items to the rest of the crew.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        And I’m going to have to sign into my virtual work desktop on the work network, because the test website doesn’t have the authentications necessary to allow us to login from outside the network. More torture.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Bidenomics

    The White House on Monday announced plans aimed at addressing rising prices for meat and poultry, including setting aside $1 billion for smaller producers.

    The Biden administration unveiled its action plan to diversify and strengthen the meat-producing supply chain ahead of a scheduled virtual meeting between President Biden and independent farmers and ranchers.

    The White House has previously pointed to a small number of conglomerates for driving up meat and poultry prices, which have been a major contributor to broader inflation in recent months.

    ——-

    The Biden administration is dedicating $1 billion from the American Rescue Plan, a bill signed into law last year, specifically for the purpose of expanding independent meat processing capacity.

    That includes $375 million in grants for independent meat producers, $275 million in additional financing available for processors, $100 million to address inspection costs for smaller processing plants and $100 million in training for workers in the meat and poultry industry.

    The administration also announced new efforts to ensure transparency in cattle markets and to ensure there is reasonable levels of competition in the industry so that it is not controlled by just a few big conglomerates.

    Profiteers. Price gougers. Monopolists.

    Trust-Buster-in-Chief to the rescue!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I blame Big Chicken for all out problems.

    • db

      We really are headed full steam into a command economy. And the damage will be perpetual until this shit stops.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Didn’t Biden promise to cut methane emissions, aka cow farts? Something tells me he doesn’t really care about meat prices. Of course his solution is to throw more taxpayer money at it.

  28. Count Potato

    “.@RepJayapal says Twitter banning a GOP congresswoman is insufficient: “Frankly a little too little and a little too late. The reality is it’s not just Marjorie Taylor Greene … if we are going to take on the disinformation that’s out there … it’s got to be much, much more””

    https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1478046806877605888

    (video)

    • rhywun

      Da, tovarishch.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Another voice crying in the wilderness

    Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday announced his advocacy group has filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reject the Biden administration’s attempt to require large businesses to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for its workers or require frequent testing.

    Pence filed the brief, which was shared with The Hill, through his political advocacy group Advancing American Freedom. In the document, Pence’s organization argues the Biden White House’s mandate is unconstitutional and would exceed previous examples of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) use of emergency authority.

    “America is about freedom and the ability to make the best decision for your family or business, and Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate must be stopped in its tracks in order to preserve freedom, protect American livelihoods and businesses, and to safeguard our constitution,” Pence said in a statement.

    ——-

    The brief from Pence’s group argues that the OSHA rule requiring vaccinations suggests “the Biden Administration is not truly seeking to mitigate workplace hazards through the [emergency temporary standard], but rather is attempting to use OSHA to accomplish an end that it has been unable to persuade Congress to support: the mandatory vaccination of the American public.”

    The Biden White House has said it does not support making the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for the public.

    The Biden White House has said it does not support making the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for the public.

    WTF? You could have fooled me.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, obvious lie is obvious.

    • db

      They just want to make it mandatory for employers to require their employees to have it. Totally different.

      It’s like how, in 1934, they knew they couldn’t ban machineguns because of the second amendment, so they just passed a law taxing the transfers at an exorbitant rate.

  30. db

    OK, so, last week I opened a bottle of wine that I made. All previous bottles from this batch tasted fine. This one tasted slightly oxidized and a little weird. I put it in the fridge with a vacuum stopper, figuring I could cook with it. This evening, I figured what the heck, I’ll sip some and see…it tastes fine. What was up last week?

    • rhywun

      Your viral load?

      • db

        hmmmmm

  31. Mojeaux

    So my son’s 4th-grade teacher died of COVID. She was young. I don’t know about comorbidities. She was “briefly hospitalized”. Another friend of mine (my age, 53) with no comorbidities died quickly from it too.

  32. Mojeaux

    30s-ish if I had to guess. My son was in her first class straight out of school and that was 8 years ago. She was one of his favorites.

    • Mojeaux

      Oops. Brooks’d it.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Mindblowing

    After implementing a coronavirus mandate for health care workers this fall, Rhode Island has now opened an option for COVID-positive health care workers to continue working if their facility is facing a staffing crisis.

    “Also, facility administrators should be using their clinical judgment in making staffing decisions. For example, a facility may opt for a COVID-19 positive worker to only care for COVID-19 positive patients,” Joseph Wendelken, a spokesperson from the department of health, told the Providence Journal on Saturday.

    What will Foochy and Osterholm say to that?

  34. Penguin

    Here is a BBC article on countries with the highest femicide in Europe. You have to scroll down to get to the graph.

    • hayeksplosives

      Pie has a lot to answer for.

      Damned gypsies.

      What shocks me are the “honor killings” in the US, Canada, and scandahoovia. They are generally ignored by the media, but by God, they are real.

      Minneapolis is particularly precarious for young women born here as US citizens but living in ethnic “communities” that leftist leave as sacred enclaves. Dammit, those enclaves of cultural preservation are what allow horrors of backwards cultures to continue. FGM, arranged “marriages”, killing of gays and lesbians—just truly awful stuff. Cultural “relativism” can eat a bag of dicks.

      • Penguin

        Cultural “relativism” can eat a bag of dicks.

        Yes. If you come here, you’re going to have to move to the 21st century. Too bad.

      • Penguin

        Or that’s how it should be.

  35. Mojeaux

    Did Trashy forsake us?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Mebbe we forsook him.  ?