And another day passes with general discontent and mistrust on a sharp upswing. Good. We need more of that. In the meantime, follow these great examples shown here.
If I seem in a slightly good mood, it’s because of a delightful evening last night. SP and I had a great dinner, a great bottle of wine, and watched Richard Jewell, which we thought was a terrific movie. Perfect date night.
Birthdays today are, as usual, a mixed lot, but let’s honor the guy who made sure we can’t have a quiet day at the lake; the original Drug Warrior; a governor whom I knew when I was a kid and continued the Maryland tradition of corruption; an actress who really knew how to give head; a guy who was either Flo or Eddie, can’t remember which; and a guy with the best hair in the NFL.
Lest we forget, here’s some news items:
“Time to make a meaningless and useless gesture!”
I guess now that the balloon is destroyed, a different stupid symbol had to be chosen.
And what would Sunday be without Old Guy Music? This time one of my favorite Austin bands. Western Swing at its best.
Good morning.
Jayne Mansfield came down with a very bad chest cold.
The doctor who treated her recovered nicely.
Gotta love the bullet bras of the 50s.
As a teenager I thought that was the natural shape of female anatomy. It kept my dreams alive for a few years.
Rusty, my eyes are up here.
Hehe
not worth it !
/ HeMan SMU Haters Club
““So wait, there’s even more data showing that we completely fucked up the story and panicked everyone needlessly?””
while this story is seriously hitting my bias confirmation centers of my brain, I do have to wonder how accurate the antibody tests are. for example if they’re picking up antibodies related to non covid 19 corona viruses.
Also in today-in-suspect-data:
They’ve managed to pump up the official deaths by 50%.
thankfully they’re keeping track of the fake and real numbers.
New York is quickly heading towards China on my “Places I don’t trust the data one bit list”.
this is a really odd phenomenon…
Normally they lump in deaths from coronavirus and others under “flu-like illness” in the record books, and tons of illness and death gets attributed to influenza that is really “flu-like illness”.
But this year it seems that flu is going to get lumped in with Covid-19 in many cases.
As usual, follow the money.
COVID is just so much more fashionable.
Yes, that had been an issue with serology testing to isolate from other coronavirus antibody reactions. The test used in the Boston study explicitly warns about that. Some are apparently more selective (less likely for false positives).
I saw Flo and Eddie in the early ’70s. They did a bit where they imagined rockers doing commercial jingles, reworking “Rhiannon” as a pitch for Big Mac, for example. My favorite for some reason was Joni Mitchell pitching Janitor In a Drum.
hey did a bit where they imagined rockers doing commercial jingles,
It’s so easy, isn’t it?
Heh. There was an NSFW aspect to the Flo & Eddie versions. Not made for TV.
Better : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMbl1ntpIXQ
But that wasn’t a commercial.
?♂️
So something like this, which has of course been relentlessly parodied on Youtube.
Deservedly so. I hate that commercial with a white hot passion. Likewise the “Go Your Own Way” one, whatever drug it’s for. I suspect Lindsey needed the money.
There’s also the one with the guy who became a cheerleader for whichever drug got his cholesterol (I think) numbers down, but I can’t remember which drug it is.
All the drug commercials are bugging the shit out of me. It seems like there are more of them than ever.
And the brand names are getting stupider. I think they’ve resorted to using a Random Syllable Generator to come up with them now. “Taltz”?? WTF??
Drug commercial (NSFW)
I work in healthcare advertising and I hate all of those spots as well. Terrible.
^^Yass
Morning OMWC, good music choice, I thank Ole Yamaha for allowing me to fish these days without getting tired. Lots of good stuff to start the morning.
When I was in Finland, there were guys trolling for salmon in fast running streams by rowing against the current just enough to stay in place.
I guess it was supposed to be relaxing.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-fisherman-trolling-using-a-traditional-wooden-rowboat-at-river-oulujoki-24494546.html
STEVE SMITH ONCE MEET JASON. HIM LATER WONDERED WHY JASON RUN AWAY CRYING AFTER.
OF COURSE BY MEET MEAN RAPE.
While I was not going to go to church anyway, it is a quiet Easter. The mayor’s office did bring holly bread from church to every house in the village (it was fed to the ducks and coots here). but it is very sunny and I have started to tan a bit.
Blessings to your ducks and coots, Pie. : )
Did the Easter bunny bring you chocolate?
we orthodox don’t have that heathen rabbit thing
According to police records there were 3348 fines for breaking quarantine last night, the highest being 20000 lei, for burning tires in the middle of the street while drunk
Is there a specific ordinance for that violation?
“There oughta be a law against burning tires in the street while drunk!”
Did they publish the police blotter there? Cause now I kinda want to read the police blotter for Pie’s town.
Google sucks. What is holly bread?
Having not much to do I spend a bit of time looking at the lake fauna and I am confident that i finally identified the water rat that keeps swimming about. It is what is locally called a bizam, Ondatra zibethicus, which seems to translate in Americanese as muskrat. First time I saw it a while ago, from a distance, I thought it might be a nutria. But for most practical purposes, there is not much difference between one and the other, a water rat by any other name.
Muskrat
+1 Greek fisherman’s cap
where do you people find these?
It’s an American 1970’s thing, you wouldn’t understand.
It was very popular in the 70’s. Those of us of a certain age immediately think of it when the word “muskrat” appears.
C and T
Not quite C and T
How did I know that before I pushed the button?
I bet you found Toni’s hair sexy back in the day.
(Toni’s going to join the Fourscore club next month as she’s a few weeks away from her 80th birthday.)
Wore the K-Tel record (as only available on TV, allow 6-8 weeks shipping and handling) out. I guess Toni liked a man in uniform but hey, I wore a uniform at that time.
Muskrats are noticeably smaller and have nicer fur. I trapped and sold a whole lot of muskrat pelts back in the days when wild furs were still worth something; I was getting $2-3 for a green muskrat pelt along about 1975.
Muskrats were introduced into Europe as fur animals, along with raccoons. The raccoons, being raccoons, have been rather troublesome.
Seems to me that raccoon fur is too stiff and wiry to make a good pelt. Maybe it’s warm?
I like raccoons. When I was a teenager, we rescued two orphaned babies, and one of the neighbors raised them as pets. Outdoor pets. We used to have several families living around my street here (I had a helluva time keeping them out of my mangos), but I haven’t seen many since Irma. I think a lot of them did not survive the storm.
Mrs. Animal has a racoon fur coat I bought her some years ago. It’s soft, warm and quite nice. You’re right, most of the year raw raccoon pelts are on the stiff side, but prime winter pelts are nicer. Processing probably makes a difference.
Muskrats here are brown, have not seen a green one. Then again green may not be the actual color.
He meant the pelts were not tanned.
Yes – A “green” pelt is just removed from the animal, maybe salted a bit, but not tanned or in any way processed. Back when I was trapping most fur buyers (well, the one fur buyer in our area) preferred them that way.
we did equal parts salt, borax, and alum
It’s also Chase Winovich’s birthday. Another NFL hair master.
This guy used to work for me. Nice enough person, but…
I’ve lost any sympathy for these deranged people.
No shit.
Stay broken and get the hell out of the way of the rest of us putting our lives back together.
“refusing still to do everything possible to fight this God damned virus”
I hear burning down apartment buildings with the infected or suspected infected is effective to fight the virus. Until we do that we aren’t doing everything possible to fight the virus.
No evidence yet that God has damned this virus.
I guess that depends on which god you’re talking to.
We have found the source of the virus. It obviously originates in freedom. Eradicate that, and we’ll all be safe.
Well son, if you can’t do anything, then you could at least STFU.
“God I am just completely broken right now”
TDS is very lethal and there apparently is no cure.
I have a FB friend who said “He’s going to get us all killed.”
https://twitter.com/taylorrharrell/status/1250947979411931138?s=19
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White Privilege is violating the Governor’s Executive Order and standing on the Capitol steps with assault weapons and guns without being fined or tear gassed by police yet Black and Brown Detroiters were fined $1,000 for going to the park.
Unreal.”
Maybe they should have gone to the park with “assault weapons”
That aside, they do have a point that the police like to pick on the poor.
This. Those assault weapons you disdain are what keep the cops civil.
She seems like an intelligent young lady.
I’d also point out that the protestors are exercising their First Amendment rights, while the people going to the park are just going to the park. Messing with either is wrong, but the park-goers will have a harder time claiming a specific Constitutional protection for what they’re doing.
-10th amendment ?
-1st amendment freedom of assembly
So the point is that everybody should obey the Governor of a state that has (according to this Tweeter) de facto banned black people from exercising their constitutional rights to bear arms and assemble?
Who runs Detroit, anyway?
Master Blaster?
DONT LOOK IT UP
Saw Asleep at the Wheel open a New Year’s Eve show for the Avett Brother’s. Didn’t know much about them until then. They were very entertaining and top rate musicians.
Haven’t done it in a while but we used to play the an old Mose Allison song, “Your Mind is on Vacation” a la the Asleep at the Wheel version.
Love their style.
“Still, it’s kind of sobering that 30 percent of a random group of 200 people that are showing no symptoms are, in fact, infected. It’s all the more reason for everyone to be practicing physical distancing.”
Amazing how they can still draw all the wrong conclusions.
Look fat, do you want to draw this out forever or not?
It’s going to be drawn out no matter what.
“It ain’t much of a gig but the money’s good”
Let’s say that 30% is 3x too high, and only 10% are infected.
That means, even taking the IHME prediction of 60k dead, a 0.18% mortality rate.
If that 30% is correct, that’s a 0.06% mortality rate.
Either way, it’s ludicrous to shut down for. We’re 100% working on sunk cost fallacy right now.
Ohioans keep fighting the good fight. Note that critical detail is not “angered by governor’s restrictions” but “not maintaining physical distance.” ::Kif sigh::
Subjects, not citizens.
Is Rob Long a Glib? Excellent stuff.
LOL
And he speaks Chinese! Who better to get the inside scoop from China?
Linky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DivHqBN89g
Yes that was great.
Sixty-four of the participants tested positive – a “sobering” result, according to Thomas Ambrosino, Chelsea’s city manager.
Unless those 64 people were dead, I’m not sure why that isn’t good news.
Because people are idiots.
Because everybody can get the virus, and you’re not safe!
Dad and I had local news on at dinner last night, and the Santa Clara (I think it’s that county) numbers were presented not as most people will get the virus with no symptoms, but “95% of us haven’t had it and are still unsafe!”
You won’t be safe until you’re dead!
Fear of asymptomatic vectors, I suppose.
My retard neighbor had a party with loud music up till 11:00 last night. I was all dressed and about to go talk to them when they turned the music off, so either some senses came to them or someone else beat me to the punch.
They can live next to me. 11pm is okay for me usually, and especially if they don’t complain about my power tools and hammering then we can be mutually noisy neighbors who don’t bother each other.
Yeah, I wouldn’t give it a second thought before at least midnight.
Apologies if drugs exit my ass aided by gravity, but Spuds for the win?
Chaysus facking squirrels H. Cristo
We always invited the neighbors when we had parties, and turned off the band at Ten, Cops and parties don’t mix….
I’m not one to call cops on something that is easy enough to fix by a conversation between neighbors.
hence the invites, if nothing else, they know what’s coming,
This is why I will never live on less than an acre again. I can still hear when my neighbors are having parties, but I can’t hear if I go inside.
My neighbors always invite us, hoping, of course that we won’t come. Its their way of signalling that they are having a party and it may get a little noisy.
We just shut the doors/windows. Party on, kids! They are good neighbors
I’m beginning to suspect that the neighbor diagonally behind us sold his house to a fraternity last fall. They were whooping it up yesterday afternoon, which we could hear while we had the front door open. Happily, they seemed to have knocked it off before dark. We’ll see what spring and summer bring. If they don’t disturb my Saturday & Sunday back porch mornings, I’ll count it as a win.
I’m still going with the end of this month as the de facto end of all this nonsense. If the current restrictions continue into May we’ll see almost complete disobedience, on a scale way too big for them to handle.
Speaking of distancing- on the news last night (I wasn’t paying very close attention) I think I heard them say “regular” flu numbers are down substantially, because…
Tadaaaah! You guessed it; social distancing. We’ll never be free again.
*it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with intentional miscategorizations, now, could it?
Anyone calling this the new normal deserves no less than a punch in the mouth, unless actually in a position of power, in which case something more permanent may be in order.
Why? Why the fuck do we allow this? What can I do? God I am just completely broken right now. I can’t stand it, but I don’t know what to do.
My advice: get good and likkered up, and start a big tire fire.
Non-coronavirus-related nut punch:
Students expelled from government school for wrongthink video made at home
Sounds like they’re more concerned about their own reputation than ruining lives. I am shocked!
Get read for the “you are literally a nazi for defending these kids”, and “free speech is hate speech”.
It’s hard to explain the following things to most people:
1. Defending free speech is not defending the kids’ actual opinions, just the right to express them, no matter how disagreeable
2. Questioning whether a state-run school has authority to discipline students for speech made outside of school hours
3. Free speech is what allows disagreeable speech to be challenged in a meaningful way – censorship can never offer an honest rebuttal
Basic liberty 101 preaching to the choir stuff :\
Was this a stupid and offensive thing to do? Yes
Should they have been disciplined by the school? Probably
Is expulsion an appropriate punishment? Absolutely not
Sadly, the GED stigma has returned, since the high schools will graduate literal morons, people start asking the question “what the hell did you do that you had to get a GED?” whether out loud or in private.
Also, per Rhywun’s comment, everybody involved in the school and district is engaging in throat clearing and social signalling rather than an appropriate response.
Should they have been disciplined by the school? Probably
While stating up front that I didn’t read the entire article, I don’t get this. When did school acquire the ability to go in loco parentis for things done when school isn’t the guardian? It’s like getting a speeding ticket for driving too fast on your driveway.
Village idiots in charge of the village.
I don’t understand why they need to be disciplined even if it were on school grounds. Getting their asses kicked by a couple of black students would be just as effective.
If their actions brought the school into disrepute, it seems to me the school can punish those actions. I guess the bigger problem is that social media takes something petty and narrowly shared and turns into something gross and widely shared. I think discipline is a joint responsibility, where school takes first crack for things that happen at school, and parents for things that happen outside of school, but neither is inherently off limits to the other. If your out-of-school actions are disruptive at school, are the schools supposed to throw up their hands? Similarly, if you misbehave at school, are your parents supposed to ignore it?
All that having been said, this does presume that people care about the school and its students above their own image.
I think discipline is a joint responsibility, where school takes first crack for things that happen at school, and parents for things that happen outside of school, but neither is inherently off limits to the other.
The complicating factor is that the school is a government agency. Parents can do some things that the school can not. Schools are guardians for the limited time and purpose of the educational day.
Private school? Completely different story. The limit of their authority is defined by contract, not by the Constitution.
There is no U.S. Constitutional provision about public schools. Some state constitutions mention public schools, though typically only in a vague way (thanks, Horace Mann), while others don’t mention it at all. A strange legal framework has been erected based upon the fact that the state made schooling compulsory and so therefore there has to be some form of Constitutional protection built in. Yet this is mostly legal fiction created for the sake of balancing competing interests that are entirely ad hoc and based upon divining which parts of the Constitution apply and which don’t. To paraphrase Scalia, the question of what a public school can or cannot do is not one a judge can consistently answer, as there is nothing in the Constitution to speak on the subject. Does the First Amendment apply to schools? Some say yes, others say no, the judicial precedents have said “kinda, sometimes, except when it’s the other way around”.
A public school is a thing that has no legal home. What is its purpose? What are the limits of its authority? How should it be funded? What are the consequences of these choices in the long run? Ask 10 people and you get 11 different answers.
All of which is to say, the only way I can assess a public school is as a broken private school.
If their actions brought the school into disrepute, it seems to me the school can punish those actions.
Change the word ‘school’ to the word ‘prison’, consider ‘at home’ to be ‘on parole’.
F*ck the school and its “reputation.”
Does this apply to all schools or just public schools?
Should it get fucked because of the people who run it, the fact that children are compelled to go there, or some other reason?
Only schools that compel attendance.
I think the analogy to prisoners and parole is useful — we punish parolees for violations of the law and/or for violations of the conditions of parole. Under what circumstances, if any, does the school have the right to establish conditions for behavior when not on school property?
Private schools can presumably do so contractually. Public schools, with compelled by statute attendance, seem to me to have no grounds for punishing any behavior off school grounds outside the legal force of truancy.
Don’t bother. Everything after the first couple paragraphs is about the school going apeshit.
People read the article? I assumed we did the normal thing, and simply read the link. Maybe the headline if the link was too obscure….
Also, many states make it extremely difficult to obtain a GED presumably to discourage kids from dropping-out, taking the test and moving-on.
They said words that will counteract our magical incantations of goodness and summon demons! Cast them out!
We humans give ourselves waaaaaaaaay too much credit. Still just as big a bunch of superstitious idiots as we were 10,000 years ago.
I love the “it’s hard to believe in this day and age yadda yadda” comments. It’s hard to believe what, exactly? That high school students can be idiots? That behavior adults find unacceptable is appealing to young people? That kids with no life experience will take risks that people with more to lose won’t? That people find caricatures and racist stereotypes funny? That you yourself were at one point not so different?
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!!!
https://www.wfmz.com/pennsylvania-to-start-curbside-pickup-at-liquor-stores/article_5ee87ab6-c4c5-5763-a567-60a24899d8a3.html
This will be a clusterfuck. Guaranteed. My local is one of them, I’m glad I won’t have to participate anytime soon.
They’ve been doing that at most local stores here for a few weeks. The big Walmart sized store is open and you can just walk in as usual. They have a shopping cart guy outside wiping down carts and all the employees are wearing masks. The customers, just like everyplace else, are mostly ignoring social distancing. Maybe half wearing masks.
I’ve been using Drizly more often than usual. It’s expensive, but I ordered 2 more 12 packs last night to beef up my stock and I got a phone call about 20 minutes later that it was at my door. Opened my door, beer!
You won’t be safe until you’re dead!
Something something sweet release
The phrase “the living will envy the dead” looms in the distance.
“Jason always has his mask and gloves. Be like Jason.”
I wish this large-breasted weather girl had a less awful voice.
Turn off the sound.
I never saw Network, this is neat,
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”
Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, “I’m a HUMAN BEING, goddamn it! My life has VALUE!”
So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell – “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… You’ve got to say, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”
That was on yesterday. Don’t suppose you get TCM?
No, it would be wasted nowadays, no one to watch TV with,
I find it interesting because almost everything he complains about has improved since then.
“Still, it’s kind of sobering that 30 percent of a random group of 200 people that are showing no symptoms are, in fact, infected.”
Great! That means we can end this charade and let people out of prison!
“It’s all the more reason for everyone to be practicing physical distancing.”
Fuck. You.
Some random mormon missionary friended me on facebook. I don’t get it no common friends or anything, i am not active at all on facebook haven’t posted shared or liked anything in years. Weird.
What kind of name is keyan anyway
I blocked them on my phone. I don’t know how “I’m an evangelical and happy with my faith” got translated to “bug me every 3 weeks by phone”, but it did. I guess I’ll have to be less cordial and more direct the next time they show up at my door.
They got recalled from their overseas missionary work. Maybe they’ve shifted to doing it online. A new missionary position as it were.
Asleep at the Wheel, now with more Willie
Something mellow with AatW, Willie, AND The Manhattan Transfer. (Desperately wish I could find live video of TMT and AatW doing Choo Choo Ch’Boogie. I know it exists somewhere. Maybe an old episode of Austin City Limits?
He added: “Still, it’s kind of sobering that 30 percent of a random group of 200 people that are showing no symptoms are, in fact, infected. It’s all the more reason for everyone to be practicing physical distancing.”
Maybe I’m wrong but…isn’t this good news in a way?
Going into stores they ask ‘do you have symptoms?’. Talk about a pointless question these days.
Seriously? Anyone who pulls that on me doesn’t get my business.
“Yeah, I got some. Here you go“
😀
It’s extremely good news, assuming the test is accurate, of course.
This is when you check your pocket and pull out a middle finger. “Is this a symptom?”
♬ Sunday, Slutty Sunday ♬
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Last night, I watched Lego Movie 2. Wow.
Wow good or wow bad?
Or maybe this kind of wow?
Or maybe this one?
I had no idea there was a second one.
It is very good. Not as surprising after the first one, but still very good.
But the Batman Lego…. if you haven’t seen that one, definitely grab a copy for your shut-in enjoyment. Really fun.
The opening credits well let you know that you are in for a very creative sendup of superhero movies.
How long until they claim this is a coronavirus-related death
After all, normally he would have been at the training facility if he weren’t forced to self-isolate.
Growth Without Virtue
https://americanmind.org/features/the-coronacrisis-and-our-future-discontents/growth-without-virtue/
But the Marxists and the libertarians—rehashing the dead binaries of the 20th century—are both wrong. Their tired theoretical frameworks do little to explain our current economic crisis, and are even less useful in providing a solution.
Right. The immaginary libertarianism in conservatives heads is totea failed.
I’m pretty sure libertarians can explain why the government ordering businesses shut down has a negative effect on the economy. Hell, Marxists can explain it, too.
“do little to explain our current economic crisis”
EXSQUEEZE ME? A libertarian saying “Listen Fat, if the government forces vast swaths of the economy to shut down, we’re gonna get plunged into a depression” does little to explain our current crisis? If the author is so stupid as to not understand that, then I don’t know what I can do to help.
You dont have virtue Q. Virtue means liking B cups, for example
If liking big tits is bad, then I don’t wanna be good.
I’ve been a lot of this on the left. The economic crisis was ALL self-induced straight from government yet they act like we had a choice and that the crisis has its origins elsewhere. Let’s gather all the ‘experts’ to discuss it in a show of fake intellectualism.
“Christopher Rufo is the director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. He has directed four films for PBS, including “America Lost,” which tells the story of three forgotten American cities.”
I know someone who is lost too.
The Discovery Institute? Rolls eyes so hard they pop out of head and keep spinning in the air.
Thing is, some libertarians do not feel like repeating ad nauseam that just because i think something should be legal does not mean i think it is good. Just like boob implants, honestly.
libertarians have shown themselves to be grotesque Ayn Rand caricatures, with CNBC’s Rick Santelli arguing that “maybe we’d be just better off if we gave [coronavirus] to everybody” and Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick insisting that grandparents should be willing to sacrifice themselves for the economy. – are these people actually libertarians?
The automakers and the banks, having been bailed out in 2008, appear to have learned nothing, except that moral hazard has become the default policy of the federal government. – this one almost gets it.
I swear communitarian conservatives are just as daft as collectivist lefties.
Dan Patrick is about as libertarian as Dick Cheney. As for Rick Santelli, the assignation seems to be more about his role in kicking off the Tea Party movement than any longstanding professed belief in libertarianism.
????????? trust and obey ????????????
I watched Rick Santelli’s comments – he was logically suggesting that we let the virus run its course and be done in a short period of time rather than shutting down the entire US/global economy.
IMO, the soundbite doesn’t mean expose all the old people and fail to provide isolation guidance where necessary.
And yeah, I find Santelli’s response here and elsewhere quite libertarian.
From the article:
“In Japan, there are nearly 4,000 companies that are more than 200 years old, and a number of companies that have been in continuous operation for a millennium.”
They see this as a good thing? For some reason, an institution surviving for hundreds of years is a goal. Why? Because that means they have stuck around. Why is that important? Because they are old! Um…ok.
Yeah, maintaining systems that provide benefit to the participants is so stupid.
Leave to progressives to blame the wrong person. Sure Trump ‘could’ have done better but how is he any different than most leaders in the West? Not that much. In fact, I argue Justin is WORSE because he actually let identity politics play into his decisions just like NYC did.
They’re going to completely miss the point and chance to keep the focus on China and the WHO. In their stupid parochialism, they become useful idiots and vulnerable to propaganda. You know, assholes like Charles Pierce. I accidentally ended up on that immoral hack’s Twitter account. What a pile of stupid progressive nonsense.
Gatekeepers my ass. These gatekeepers would let the barbarians in without a fight.
As the internet told ys, all women leaders were great all men were bad. We need all wymminz in power
Something, something, South Dakota, Las Vegas, and South Korea…
Watching ‘Once were brothers’. It’s too bad it was made with pretty much all the members of The Band dead except for Robertson.
Still. What a band.
To me, always the best one to come out of Canada and Helm just added to its soul and brilliance.
“So far, no transmission of the virus in supermarkets, restaurants or hairdressers has been proved.”
I’m beginning to suspect that the neighbor diagonally behind us sold his house to a fraternity last fall. They were whooping it up yesterday afternoon, which we could hear while we had the front door open. Happily, they seemed to have knocked it off before dark. We’ll see what spring and summer bring. If they don’t disturb my Saturday & Sunday back porch mornings, I’ll count it as a win.
Not directed at you, G T, but that reminded me…
It has mostly dropped off the radar, but for a while in Bozeman there was a big outcry against short term rentals (because fuck your right to use your property as you deem fit) and one of the most popular arguments was, “What if that house gets rented to a bunch of philistine louts who think vacations are just an excuse to have a long noisy party? In my head, my reply was always, “if you won’t allow your neighbor to have control of his property, I hope he sells it to somebody who is an obnoxious noisy asshole, all day, every day, all year ’round.”
Much talk of Victory Gardens on the news this a.m. I wish I liked vegetables. I’d totally grow stuff. We don’t even eat that many potatoes (dunno why, really). What we do eat: onions, iceberg lettuce (doesn’t grow here), and green beans. Mr. Mojeaux eats roma tomatoes, but I’m intimidated by those. XX would eat a whole watermelon patch but I can’t stand that stuff and it’s expensive in her quantities. I told her if she wanted watermelons, grow them. We have land and I bought her seeds and tulle to keep the critters out. But noooooo.
I like vegetables, mostly. Maybe you don’t cook em right. When i was young i disliked many, because my mom did the romanian thing and cooked them to death. Now i cook most a little bit and i like them. I especially discovere asparagus in the last year. My mom even planted some but it takes a few years to get the real deal. Now there are 3 whole spears growing. Next year there will be more.
That is not just a Romanian thing. Lots of Americans cook their vegetables to within a second of becoming gruel.
There are two things i hate. Squashes in all forms and cooked cauliflower. I love pickeled cauliflower – on my phone not sure spelled right but you get what i mean. Also am i unsure of okra but that is rarely seen in Romania. Almost never really.
Okra is disgusting.
MOSTLY my thing is texture, not taste. I really hate the texture of most things, e.g., oranges. I love orange juice and orange-flavored things. I HATE eating oranges.
Fried okra is a gift from G-d.
^!
Are you me from a different timeline?
I actually like cauliflower, but not enough to grow it. I can’t eat it in those quantities and no one else will. It’s why I don’t make chili or ham’n’bean soup.
grow Pot?
Strange coincidence…. I actually did baked potatoes for dinner last night.. Old school, in the oven baked potatoes. Crispy skin coated with coarse sea salt. Fixin’s bar of butter, sour cream, bacon, cheddar, broccoli…
It was really good.
And of course I ended up making a pot of Mac n’ Cheese after the fact because the 7 year old refused to eat a baked potato. Sometime between last week and this week, “I hate potatoes” became a thing, apparently. And no, “French fries are potatoes, you know” didn’t help at all. So screw it… mac n cheese it is.
I will have baked potato from time to time. We all like potatoes, but not enough to keep a bag around before it goes bad.
I should say also: I would grow it and CAN it like my mom did. She was still of a generation that prided herself on how much she put up for the winter. It saved our bacon many a time, I will tell you this.
Also, I like beets.
Commence snickering.
Beets are awesome. If you like something that tastes like untextured dirt.
And you like okra, which is another word for “slime.”
obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMfRG1FnsRA
Pickled beets, cold dead hands
Fact: Bears eat beets.
My son’s girlfriend is a lovely, farm-raised, Iowa girl. When the Covid nonsense started, I asked whether her family had everything they needed from a supplies standpoint (they are from a teeny Iowa town). Her response: “We haven’t stocked-up AT ALL. We just have the cellar of food we canned last year left and only one chest freezer.”
So cute.
I filled up our one chest freezer last week and am now venturing forth to fill up the other one that we just got. It’s 8 years old, but it’s a Whirlpool and it’s 21 or 23 ft3, I can’t remember, but it’s GINORMOUS. Not a bad deal for $200.
Beach Boys “Vegetables” https://youtu.be/iRSrrFOTlDY
let’s ask any vegetable.
Iceberg lettuce and roma tomatoes? I guess you don’t like flavor.
The latest trope I’ve heard is that if you don’t 100% accept as gospel the ChiCom explanation of where the virus came from, you’re a right-wing nutjob. Even posing the possibility that the virus came from the Wuhan Virology Lab (which, based on ample evidence posted all over the place, seems at least plausible) you’re, at best, a Breitbart-reading lunatic and, at worst, a BADORANGEMAN fellating Nazi.
Rebel Media went through the government’s recent aid package and lo and behold they sent 800k to the very lab in Wuhan where it’s alleged the virus originated.
Enemies of the people all around us.
Canada is China’s concubine.
That is the very same aid that the left is using to claim that Trump caused everyone in the world to die by cutting foreign aid for epidemiology research.
Not Pope Jimbo, though.
Jokes on you! I bought a new bike and am back out on the road.
I had to put the bike together myself because all the assembled bikes at Walmart were completely sold out. I talked to the guy working there and he said that the assembly guy came in twice a week and there were usually people waiting to buy the bikes he put together.
Turned out that it was pretty easy to put together. Most of it was already done. Just had to assemble a few big pieces.
Did you install the training wheels yourself?
Training wheels? I just have my orphans run along side me and help balance me out.
Wave to Tundra as you zip by on the new Schwinn. As an aside, be careful who you have a meat up with. You never can tell…
No need to warn me about being careful during meat ups. Lesson learned (along with the difference between Tindr and grindr).
Wow good or wow bad?
Wow good.
Ummmm… ok?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/instagram-model-sends-message-future-21890623
“regularly shares photos of her sunny holidays and gorgeous physique.”
Gorgeous physique? Yes. However, the whole “sunny holidays” instathot thing = expensive and uber high maintenance. Pass.
I like the vacant expression, reminiscent of the new fad of silicone doll sex toys.
“A women who describes herself as ‘an escort and porn star’ says that having sex with up to 40 men a day in the back of her camper van is an ‘essential service.'”
Find something you love to do and you’ll never work a day in your life.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/seven-man-day-hooker-says-21889635
“Kirie Redfield advertises *unprotected* sex at £30 for 15 minutes on an adult website.” (emphasis mine)
Ewwwwwwww…
Insightful, as usual.
And it dovetails nicely with my points about the other stories. These people just have not got a clue.
If your takehome about a hooker working out of her van servicing 40 men per day with unprotected sex is “Covid-19 essential services irony story”, you really need to recalibrate.
As Q sez…. Ewwwwwwww…
She looks pretty rough. Im betting that thing looks like a washed wallet.
Obviously, she’s not having sex with 40 guys in a 24-hour period in an Econoline. And she doesn’t even SAY she’s having sex with 40 guys.
I’m also guessing that “unprotected sex” doesn’t mean what the journalismist wants you to think it means.
IOW, par for the course for journalisting these days.
So, Fox news and the interviewees say that a finding that 30 percent of a boston sample of people showing no symptoms tested positive for Covid-19 “Sobering”.
That’s “sobering”? That tells us that we have to double down on our efforts?
Uh…. I don’t think they understand what the implications of their results are, at all! If, in fact, 30% of all asymptomatic people have already had the disease… we’re done here, aren’t we? I mean, why bother social distancing at all anymore, if 1/3 of the people have it.
If that were true generally, the maximum number of deaths for the US would be 3x the current number – round up and add a little extra and you get 150k. That’s double the flu deaths from 2 years ago – so pretty bad. But shut down the entire economy, put 10’s of millions out of work, spend 8 or 10 trillion dollars bad? Somehow I don’t think so. Not for an extra 75k deaths, max. You could give each family of a provable Covid-19 death 10 million dollars and still come out way, way ahead with that math. (and a wrongful death suit by an octogenarian is very unlikely to see a payout anywhere close to that number. Not even 10% of that number.).
Since this is a Boston number, let’s do it for Massachusetts. They currently have somewhere near 1,500 deaths attributed to Covid-19. If that represents 1/3 of the total potential deaths, as their data suggests…. they are facing a max of 3,000 additional deaths if they stop everything and go back to normal. What is the cost of shutting down Boston and the rest of the state? How many lives would they disrupt to save maybe as many as 3,000 nursing home residents? Tough question, but I doubt they’d do all of this. Particularly not when most of that 3,000 would die within the next 3 years anyway.
I don’t know what the answer to all of this is… but I do know when the people telling me about something don’t have a clue. And if your take on “30% of asymptomatic people have already had this” is “that is sobering!”, you don’t have a clue.
Oh, it’s definitely sobering. We acted like drunks and took drastic measures and now we have to face the sober reality that they weren’t all necessary and caused a lot of harm.
SHUT THE FUCK UP MATHTARD
FOX is on. The NBC/MeetthePress signal is iffy, today.
Pence is on. My gosh what a deranged biblethumper. He just pretends to be a rational, reasonable person. Don’t fall for it, America.
I bought a new bike and am back out on the road.
Fat tire, I hope.
No, I have an old mountain bike with studded tires for when it gets snowy/icy.
I pretty much stay on trails/paths/roads now. I got one with the “hybrid” tires. Skinny enough to make road biking OK but wide enough to handle a bit of dirt/mud.
Soooo…..
Downhill Double IPA?
Maybe just Grolsch?
the comprehensive chart of men you will briefly date in your 20s
https://mobile.twitter.com/ellegist/status/1250833644643667969
“Weirdly energetic nerd seeks kinky younger tradwife”
So… Glibertarian?
I find it interesting that tradwife is such an awful kink but genderqueer unicorn furry needs to be celebrated.
The one where she took response tweets and superimposed them over the original categories was funnier.
Of course, this probably puts me on there somewhere, too.
I definitely recognized us on the libertarian end of her chart…. although I’m not sure she has the left/right bit of that chart sorted.
“Help save lives by staying home.”
Fuck off. I don’t even know who or what was responsible for tat ad.
How about “The more we stay home the sooner this will be over”? I don’t understand the logic of that – I think the opposite is true. The virus will always be out there, and our best bet is for people to get exposed and develop immunity. Seems to me the longer we stay inside the longer we put off the inevitable.
Now the NFL wants me to stay home. Don’t worry, boys, I will. And when your season comes around…
The whole thing I hate about the coronovirus debate is the completed inability to understand the position of reopening the economy. I just read a Twitter thread saying that murdering the billionaires and taking their wealth to save the economy must be the best option if there you think it’s ok to “kill people” to reopen the economy.
They really think that wanting to work is being a billionaire shill for the stock market. But these people are the same who would vote for the bailout of the billionaires.
That’s beyond a misunderstanding of arguments. That’s a misunderstanding of basic ethics and morality.
Mission accomplished
/NEA
I don’t think they are able to comprehend the distinction between the government shoveling money into already-rich people’s pockets and the net effect of billions of distributed market transactions resulting in some getting richer than others. To them, both are bailouts.
The Anti Capitalist Mentality by Von Mises is becoming more prescient by the day.
Nancy Pelosi, friend of the Working Man, is on.
Free money! Free money!
Get you some free money!
Inflation is gonna rock. I guess now’s the time for me to go buy some expensive toys while my money is still worth something.
Great. Just fucking great.
NJ woman charged for organizing protest against lockdown orders. I’m looking forward to the SC enshrining conspiracy to commit wrongthink as a new crime.
Also NJ AG this tweet:
It is all fun and games until someone loses a hand in the wood chipper
“Please stay home & stay safe.”
Kindly fuck off with the fake courteousness when you’re threatening me.
Do they really want to put on full display the fact that they only have the power over us we let them? Keep this shit up and your illusion of control will be demolished when half the population decides they’ve had enough.
Holy fuck – shut-up or lock-up!
I’m doing my part this morning sending emails to city and state officials. Some of my local officials have already responded, but are hiding behind “Governor’s orders” – um, no, I read the Governor’s orders and the items I am calling out are city discretion. Plus, stop fucking around with young people who dare to use the park!
This was exactly analogous to the infamous Schenck case.
B-B-BUT…FIRE IN A CROWDED THEATER!!!
/Fuckhead who never read the case
Lamp post time.
I heard there may be another rally at the gov mansion this week. Now I’m going for sure.
What do peppermint rolls have to do with the New Jersey AG?
” someone loses a hand in the wood chipper”
Your hand no more.
Nancy is holding out for the Total Surveillance State. We’ll thank her for it.
“Can you understand why people are protesting, Nancy?”
“No.”
Those dummies need to STFU and OBEY.
Evidence and SCIENCE and data! Eat shit and die, Nance.
The homeless study mentioned yesterday has removed their notation that they won’t share the data because it came from a vulnerable population. I would hope that was due to ridicule
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.12.20059618v1
Yet more evidence that none of this is real. Clearly, we are living in a dream sequence. There’s no way that people are this absurd.
The homeless study mentioned yesterday has removed their notation that they won’t share the data because it came from a vulnerable population. I would hope that was due to ridicule
Where ARE those tens of thousands of dead homeless people?
In a mass grave in NYC. Don’t you read the news?
Great- now some delusional twat is telling us Joe Biden will bring competence and normalcy back to the country.
SRSLY?
That was their new tested theme this week…
Yeah.. I really, really don’t think you want to start pushing competency with crazy joe as your standard-bearer. He was pretty mercurial before senility set in.
Just finished watching a streamed church service. It included a 2 or 3 minute video prayer for all those needing to be blessed: first responders, scientists, utility workers, teachers, homeless, parents, birds, running streams, farmers, politicians, loved ones, etc. etc. Everyone except those who saved their money, pooled it, created businesses, became employers, and built the economy that allows us to survive pandemics from the relative comfort of our homes.
I know, right?
We watched that gawdawful telethon last night, which was dedicated to helping the “Essential Workers” like the doctors, nurses and grocery store workers. Mind you, the money was raised by private companies donating to get commercials during the telethon. We people did not need to donate. Instead, we watchers were emplored to go sign up on their activism site so that we can let our leaders know how important it is to fund the WHO.
An entire damn 3 hour telethon dedicated to supporting the people who are earning overtime right now, and bailing out the one fucking international organization that didn’t do its damn job. And through all of it, they kept calling these workers “Essential” workers, implying that everyone else, including the 20% out of work, are non-essential. What a bizarre world we live in.
A long-winded rant from a non-essential. Stop breathing up all the essential man’s air, non-essential.
One observation about how awesome this crowd is…
Presumably all of these posts consisted of post… wait… 504 error… back… reload….
And still…. More posts than a weekday morning links on TOS, and definitely more interesting conversation.
So pat yourselves on the back. You rock.
Or you are a bizarre group of asperger’s adjacent nerds who have nothing better to do than this. Either way… awesome!
We’re stubborn
Hey Doom! How’s your family doing?
We’re pretty good, considering it all.
She went to the doc late in the week, the fluid is still there, but they didn’t expect much from the medicine this early.
They added Prilosec on a regular basis, the stuff just makes her not want much food, which causes more pain, and the cycle continues.
But the limb numbness is better and now it’s just the groggy feeling in the morning.
I go back to work tomorrow for a few days, and then come back home to be able to help some more during the days.
Kiddo just hit four months!
Time is flying.
Good to hear there is some improvement. I hope it ramps up now.
Time does fly. It’s such a fun time when they are that age. Get momma better so you can get going on your collection of Dad jokes!
I hope she is feeling better soon.
Thanks guys.
She’s really enjoying specific things, laughing at stuff. She really likes waking up, which is totally alien to me.
We’ll get mom sorted soon I hope.
Until it’s warm enough to hang out on my back porch on weekend mornings, this site is my Sanity (such as it is) Saver. Still hope the comment posting issue can eventually be solved, but it’s still worth the effort.
F5, the new Normal……
/sigh
I object. I’m bipolar, OCD, ADHD, deeply neurotic with some PTSD, but I am not aspie or aspie-adjacent.
NTTAWWT.
This site is like Black Widow to my Hulk.
You’re both sterile?
That too. Lol.
Nevertheless, we persisted.
Oh, I have plenty of things to do.
You People just enable me to put them off for awhile!
Was hoping you’d pop by last night to the zoom. It became surreal.
Did Brochett show up and make good on his promise to wank it on camera? ?
A giant dick made an appearance. IIRC.
Someone kept talking about Vietnamese sandwiches.
Now I know why you were pounding all that water. I’m doing it now. Head is swirling.
I was still recovering from the previous night. Did not feel great yesterday morning.
Was that a new meme, or a serious request/cry for help?
Seemed serious, based on comments late in the overnight post. (Which hadn’t been expunged per poster’s request last time I checked.)
*looks*
Yikes. I wonder what that was about.
Presumably all of these posts consisted of post… wait… 504 error… back… reload….
I’m using my Eyepiece Avoid Page Refresh feature . Haven’t seen a 504 in days.
Yeah, that’s working out pretty good. Bonus – I can make multiple comments without refreshing after each one.
Do you then have to manually reload the page to see new comments?
Yes, but you don’t have to play the waiting and hit “stop” game.
Everyone except those who saved their money, pooled it, created businesses, became employers, and built the economy that allows us to survive pandemics from the relative comfort of our homes.
Those people are a dime a dozen.
We’re stubborn
We endeavour to persevere.
+1 brace of Walker Dragoons
Good morning, Old Man!
I hope you and all of your henchmen are well!
I’m no scientist, but how is a shit-ton of people testing positive considered ‘sobering’? Unless they mean the devastation that they created through their freakout and clampdown? Becasuse that is sobering.
I’m tired of the drama.
But I never get tired of good music! Nice selection.
What I’m digging this morning.
Get out there and make it a great day, peeps!
I wish Aimee Mann was my best friend and we were in a band together.
Grooving some of that PNW flavor this morning. https://youtu.be/p0ESBKRkHWk
Ooooh. I like that!
+1 ‘Til Tuesday. Time to listen to really get myself fired-up by listening to “Voices Carry”
+1 Boy, this is scary
“‘The WHO lied and people died!’ Anger at star-studded benefit to raise $150M for group and its under-fire chief who Lady Gaga called a ‘superstar’ despite claims organization was complicit in Chinese coronavirus cover-up”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8233663/Anger-star-studded-benefit-raise-150M-controversial-WHO.html
Because everything must be politicized?
I was just wondering yesterday if that chant was going to be coming back soon.
I didn’t know that stupid thing was shilling for WHO. What a disgrace.
Neither did I. Scrolled right past it (on how many channels??) on the cable guide on general principle. Now I’m especially glad we took a miss on it.
“‘This is so un-American’: Internet roasts Bill de Blasio after mayor urges New Yorkers to SNITCH on those not doing social distancing by snapping their photo and texting it to the city”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8233363/Mayor-Bill-Blasio-urges-New-Yorkers-SNITCH-not-doing-social-distancing.html
CWAA
He is fucking garbage.
“snapping their photo and texting it to the city”
May it rain dick-picks
Story time-
Last week, at the tail end of a stretch of cold and snowy days, I decided to jump in the truck and do a trash run (take my trash to the dumpster from which it is picked up by the county and hauled to the transfer station) No biggy. I get in and turn the key. Crank crank crank. For some reason, the fuel seems to drain back to the tank when it sits, and it takes a bit of cranking to get fuel back to the carb. No biggy. Crank crank crank. Crank crank crank. Nada. Crank crank crank. Crank crank crank. Nothing. Not a pop or a sneeze or a cough. Okay fuck it. It’s about 26 degrees, and I’m in no mood to mess with it. Take other vehicle, run errands.
At some point, I started thinking. The last time I needed fuel (non ethanol premium) for the snowblower, I was in the truck, and because it was about on “E” when the can was full I put some of that “good” gas in the truck tank. Then it sits. What sole, solitary benefit is there to adding ethanol to your gasoline? It absorbs water. And the wheels in my head grind slowly on.
Yesterday, I went out, jumped in the truck, and it fired instantly. I think I was the victim of the dreaded gas line freeze, that day.
Blast from the past.
Yep. I remember adding HEET to my cars back in the day.
Ethanol still sucks ass, though.
That was an interesting night. Drank myself into a new time zone.
The Mr. and I were watching Ocean’s Twelve on AMC. So what did I miss? Or does what happens in GlibZoom stay in GlibZoom?
SP became chatty, other than that, I probably shouldn’t say.
BAN ME!
No, it’s spelled “banh mi”
Go phô yourself!
Oh, shit. Was that me?
“The circumstances of homelessness create the potential for rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in this vulnerable population. Upon observing a cluster of COVID-19 cases from a single large homeless shelter in Boston, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program conducted symptom assessments and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for SARS-CoV-2 among all guests residing at the shelter over a 2-day period. Of 408 participants, 147 (36.0%) were PCR-positive for SARS-CoV-2. COVID-positive individuals were more likely to be male (p<0.001) but did not differ significantly from COVID-negative individuals with respect to other demographic and clinical characteristics. Cough (7.5%), shortness of breath (1.4%), and fever (0.7%) were all uncommon among COVID-positive individuals. Our findings illustrate the rapidity with which COVID-19 can be widely transmitted in a homeless shelter setting and suggest that universal PCR testing, rather than a symptom triggered approach, may be a better strategy for identifying and mitigating COVID-19 among people experiencing homelessness."
I'm not buying it. For PCR testing to work, they would need to have an active infection.
I tested negative, and I'm thinking one reason might be because I was over it by the time I had my test.
Yesterday they were refusing to release the data because it was collected from a vulnerable population and now that has vanished. I find it hard to believe that 408 bums would voluntarily consent to having a large qtip shoved up their nose without any declinations.
*grinds teeth*
Help me out this on Pie’s link to Growth without virtue. Trying to figure out this:
“Their tired theoretical frameworks do little to explain our current economic crisis, and are even less useful in providing a solution.”
“…We have effectively burned away the most useful pages of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and Franklin’s Way to Wealth, which argued that capitalism only functions in a context of moral restraint. In fact, the entire moral vocabulary of the early liberal thinkers has become a dead language—try persuading anyone under 40 of the value of “industry, frugality, and thrift.”
Marxism IS tired. But the libertarian position which can be tied into classical liberalism isn’t. If we accept this, then his using of these classical liberal thinkers proves the point no?
“….The American consumer revs the engine of a new F-450, the American corporation juices up its stock price, and the American government prepares its money-printers at the slightest provocation.”
Talk about tired tropes. Taking facts like this and stretching them into bigger issues of capitalism strikes me as a spurious correlation. No?
“…Imagine if instead of asking Americans to “get down to Disney World in Florida,” as President Bush famously advised after 9/11, the ruling class asked every American institution—from the working-class family to the Federal Reserve—to shore up their balance sheets and always be prepared for a downturn.”
I get what he’s trying to say and this last point is a fair one. But why not do both? Why does it have to be a false choice?
totally weird: F450
Why pick one of the lowest volume series for one’s example. Rev? Rev a diesel? To what, 1200RPM? Grr Grr: what I think a cowboy is.
Yesterday they were refusing to release the data because it was collected from a vulnerable population and now that has vanished. I find it hard to believe that 408 bums would voluntarily consent to having a large qtip shoved up their nose without any declinations.
Holy squirrels Batman!
Buckaroo?
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4c12de3b-c59a-4fe9-9c0f-20c7bc1310dd
I had a V10 gasser in a F450 for work once upon a time.
sure; I’m just responding to a characterization with a characterization: I’m probably only 65% right
When Navistar was building F650/750 near Monterrey, that was a weird plant: new Fords on one side and old Internationals on the other. They got the dengue, and there is a rendering plant upwind, so: not my favorite factory.
Ethanol still sucks ass, though.
QFT
It’s a beverage, not a fuel additive.
Works pretty well with a blower.
Help me out this on Pie’s link to Growth without virtue. Trying to figure out this:
“Their tired theoretical frameworks do little to explain our current economic crisis, and are even less useful in providing a solution.”
That guy is nuts. That’s pretty much what I got out of it. His head is overpopulated with stereotypes and caricatures and hobgoblins.
Why does it have to be a false choice?
Because the writer is a simple-minded dickhole who is writing for an audience of incurious assholes?
DESIRE
If I had for real fuck-you money, my daily driver would be a Lancia Stratos. But a Delta would do, in the meantime.
Yes. That would be a fun ride.
So would this.
Lancia Stratos is the name of a combat mech, not an automobile.
Cute
That was pretty good:)
Interesting new charts and graphs on the VA COVID site. Enlightening I think. http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/
Upon further review, that Lancia is front drive only. Blech. Maybe a Group N car, but definitely not the fire breathing AWD monster. Never mind.
Runner practices social distancing.
Lol. Good music choice.
Surprised he didn’t get shot