Now, now. Keep your social distancing, boys!
I wonder how many people will gather together to watch the UFC Pay-Per-View event this weekend? I wonder how many people will blame Dana White for spreading The Corona afterward? Also, I doubt there will be any overlap of those two groups.
Oh look, another trophy!
Robespierre was born on this day. The French revolutionary shares it with Arctic explorer Robert Peary, psychology pioneer Sigmund Freud, Bank of America founder Amadeo Giannini, silent movie actor Rudolph Valentino, football coach Weeb Eubank, moviemaker and actor Orson Welles, useless British PM Tony Blair, The “Say Hey Kid” Willie Mays, framed boxer Rubin Carter, soccer legend Graeme Souness, actor and hypocrite George Clooney, NHL goalie Martin Brodeur, and diminutive slugger Jose Altuve.
Waiting for the Altuve and Astros pile-on in the replies to…the links!
I guess they figure they’ll make up for it on volume. Don’t worry abut demand being down and the government bringing in less tax revenue, right? It’ll work this time!
Time to install the new software patch.
Here come the exploding heads. I hope she’s ok. But she needs to retire if she can’t do her job.
Here come the exploding heads (part 2). I hope he’s ok. And I hope he never retires until he’s not able to do his job.
Some teachers don’t quit even during the lockdown. Not a good look, dude. Not. A. Good. Look.
I think all municipalities need to do this, actually. But to cover their bases, not to get more federal money.
If you want to be taken seriously, as you say, you might want to speak a little less nonsense. Gotta admire the effort though.
Don’t get too excited, it’ll be filthy again in a couple hours.
Well its about freaking time! I mean…why hasn’t this been happening since…forever?
Here you go, children of the 80s. And the rest of you should enjoy it too.
Now go out there and have a great middle of your week, friends!
Here come the exploding heads. I hope she’s ok. But she needs to retire if she can’t do her job. – well it depends if democrats fancy their odds of taking the white house and or senate
If somehow Trump is able to replace RBG before the election the gnashing of teeth at McConnell will reach peak levels.
To be fair one month before election is not the time to replace supreme court judges.
But dems will get in power and pack the court anyway so who cares.
Solution – replace RBG with Rand Paul. Watch heads explode. Paul then hugs his fellow justices Kagan and Sotomayor.
If that happens, i think Rand is duty bound to French Kiss them. For Liberty.
GIRD YOUR LOINS FOR MECHA-GINSBURG!
*calls Robert Smith*
I hope they deny her pain meds and seize her house.
Jesus, Sloop. You are knocking it out of the park with those main page images.
I’m doing my best this week.
And that is good enough for me.
“Some teachers don’t quit even during the lockdown. ”
He really cares about those children.
Some teachers don’t quit even during the lockdown. Not a good look, dude. Not. A. Good. Look. – I say keep the spirit of public education alive
Ginsburg is such a tease. After Biden/replacement wins we get to look forward to the Thomas deathwatch.
I am not sure what Ginsburg thinks she is accomplishing.
She’s entitled to a lifetime appointment. I just think her diminished health should have given her reason to question her own ability to do her job thoroughly. And if she respected the office, she’d step down because it’s obvious she’s only sticking around for political reasons.
Correct. I think she is trying to hold out against the inevitable. She should give it up already.
Well she could have stepped down while Obama was in office so i’m not entirely sure itsonly for political reasons. I hear stories about old people dying after they quit working. Maybe granny Ginsburg is afraid of that. I think her husband is dead so she is probably lonely at home. Once she is off the court the progs won’t have anything for the old lady, she’ll just die alone then have some montage on the news about all she ”accomplished”. As much as I hate her opinions, I kinda get that she wants to die in the saddle.
I wonder if dumb-stick Harry Reid even regrets his nonsensical decision.
Also, I would not put it past the TDS crowd to pull a weekend at Bernie’s stunt. They are that far gone. If there is anything we know it is that nothing they say or do can be trusted.
She is joining the court remotely via video? Sounds legit.
Don’t give SugarFree any ideas! *shudders*
Dude, come on. She’s a high-profile Supre Court Justice. The chances of anybody faking someone in that position being alive when they’re dead is so close to zero you couldn’t slide a sheet of paper between them. You’re more likely to have your ass eaten by Alex Jones.
It would make a funny movie though. But not as funny as the original.
Thurgood Marshall was dead for a little while before his clerks admitted it.
FDR also had his wife and cabinet run the country for a while.
There is a small window of time for some posthumous jiggery-pokery for any opinions assigned to her but unissued at the time of her actual death. I don’t think they would be able to fake votes on cases.
…or, what Tonio said.
+1 Max Headroom stutter.
Remember Justice William O. Douglas?
“At age 76 on December 31, 1974, while on vacation with his wife Cathleen in the Bahamas, Douglas suffered a debilitating stroke in the right hemisphere of his brain. It paralyzed his left leg and forced him to use a wheelchair. Douglas, severely disabled,
insisted on continuing to participate in Supreme Court affairs despite his obvious incapacity. Seven of his fellow justices voted to postpone until the next term any argued case in which Douglas’s vote might make a difference. At the urging of Fortas, Douglas finally retired on November 12, 1975, after 36 years of service.”
From Wikipedia
You mean the Thomas “Suicide” Watch?
Ugh. The freakin’ mask is to help keep you from spreading cooties. It doesn’t keep you from catching them.
I saw some studies that it can. Like you have 70 to 90% chance of getting it with mask compared to without.
What kind of mask? How does it need to be worn? How often does it need to be cleaned or replaced? Does it work inside a certain distance? Can it spread other infections more easily?
I’d be hard-pressed to believe any study could have been done with any efficacy in such a short time and on the heels of months-long advice from the CDC that said they were useless.
What kind of mask? – cotton.
How does it need to be worn? – on the face
How often does it need to be cleaned or replaced? – soak it in 70% alcohol for 15 min at the end of the day
Does it work inside a certain distance – probably
Can it spread other infections more easily? – I assume it depends
1. Thread count and number of layers doesn’t matter?
2. Over just the mouth? Both the mouth and nose? Can it not be spread through tear ducts as well?
3. So you should keep it on continuously for 12-16 hours? Could that not at some point diminish breathing capacity or trap other items that are unhealthy?
4. “Probably” isn’t very scientific a term.
5. Needs more study to weigh benefits/risks.
Needs more study to weigh benefits/risks.
How precautionary Principle of you.
Well as I said 70-90% which is not much. I do not think one should wear a mask 16 hours but only in places where social distance can be there are bigger crowds. Off course over both the mouth and nose. And probably not being a scientific term is irrelevant. Probability can be used in science. If it is more likely to help than not, why not wear one when possible? I don’t get the anti mask sentiment.
I don’t get the anti mask sentiment.
And I don’t get the pro-mask sentiment when the CDC showed evidence in March how cloth masks are completely useless but show no evidence now when they say they “may help slow the spread”.
“And I don’t get the pro-mask sentiment when the CDC showed evidence in March how cloth masks are completely useless but show no evidence now when they say they “may help slow the spread”.”
They were lying because they didn’t want regular people to buy up medical masks.
If they don’t work for regular people, then how could they work for doctors and nurses?
It is rather hard to have any sort of hard evidence in this. It may help. So if I can wear one I will. Not all day everywhere necessarily. Maybe because I don’t trust anything the CDC was saying in March. Also Asian countries seem to have good results with masks. Not all cloth off course.
And I’m not trying to be a dick. I’m just saying that I think a lot of the cloth mask wearing is an appeal to authority…and that authority maintained for the longest time, and with scientific evidence given, that cloth masks are completely useless.
What changed? They don’t say. They just said they may work without offering the reasons for them to do a complete 180 on previous advice. Advice they (previously) gave with scientific evidence.
Personally I wore a mask from the start.
Off course there are also single use masks that are well single use. But those need to be produced in large numbers to be available at a decent price
The CDC came out in 2007 and recommended face coverings for the general public during an influenza pandemic. They memory holed that recommendation earlier this year in a bald faced lie to try and prevent people from buying up masks.
Put this here as well, since the comments fall off the wall on small screen. Analysis of different fabrics and composition. Some can be quite good.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
I think if he’s tested negative, he’s not spreading any cooties.
OTOH, better safe than sorry?
“There’s so much we don’t know.”
Correct. It’s like the prisoners dilemma in real life. I wear the mask when out because I’m high risk for contracting COVID at work and being asymptotic.
asymptotic
Wow, that’s really high risk.
I mean to say I could be infected, feel fine and spread the virus to people at the grocery store who then would get sick. If I was WFH I probably wouldn’t wear a mask.
Yeah I get your point, I was just making a pathetic dad joke about the autocorrect from “asymptomatic” to “asymptotic”. By the way I’m working as an Uber driver for a few hours a day since I’ve been laid off. Think I should wear a mask? I have an old N95 mask I used when I worked for the construction company.
I would use it – if naught else, to put your riders at ease – “see, I care about your health!”
/+5 stars and a tip
Also, change your Uber handle to The Bandito.
Lol, I didn’t even notice the autocorrect. I agree with Swiss, although the kind of people using Lyft right now probably aren’t as concerned.
As Florida Man approaches zero, COVID approaches infinity.
“We don’t anticipate having [coronavirus] cases from November, but if we found that we had cases in November, we might want to look even earlier,” Derevyanny said. “Again, we don’t anticipate that, we just want to cover our bases and make sure that we have the most complete data we can for COVID-19.”
Gotta keep padding those numbers.
I am beginning to suspect that the commie cooties are mostly theater to cover for huge power grabs. Just suspicious, mind you.
My wife voiced that same opinion last night.
A woman in my church small group bi-weekly (every 2 weeks, not twice a week, not sure on correct term) meeting said the same. No one responded, “that’s crazy!”
It’s world wide though. I think this is more mass hysteria and government lurching decision to decision based on media coverage.
DING! DING! DING!
My friend’s little brother died tragically when he fell off a train platform in Chicago about 25 years ago. Anticipating he’ll become a COVID 19 death if Cook County’s past history is anything to go by.
I’m more curious to know who he’s been voting for these many years.
Why? We know exactly who he has been voting for. Though I am curious how they got someone who died before they were old enough to vote, registered.
I don’t know why we get excited about SCOUTS. All the right wing shift is ephemeral. The left will not abide by it.
I’m not. This virus panic showed we don’t really have rights.
Sure you have rights. Didn’t you read the opinion by the Michigan judge? You have rights, and liberties, as long as it is convenient for society. You know in some places you’re not even allowed to borrow those rights as your own. And in America we let you have them as long as you don’t get in the way.
“These rights are inalienable except in cases when we decide there’s a really good reason for you not to have them.”
“There are four main sub-groupings of coronaviruses that account for about 10 to 30 percent of common colds. Most people have been exposed to these coronaviruses before and may have developed some immunity against one or more following infection, but immunity doesn’t appear to be lifelong.”
So some number or three times that number?
“According to Conrad High’s website, Flores teaches engineering.”
High schools teach engineering?
Oh yeah. Gotta learn how to drive the trains.
Some of the schools here do. Hell, my son’s school had a robotics track.
Of course he had something like 1800 kids in his graduating class.
I’ve mentioned this before, but during the first SARS outbreak, Shanghai and other major Chinese metros disinfected entire subway stations and cars every night with bleach. If it’s taken NYC this long to start doing that, then maybe we do stand to learn something from China, excluding the whole welding people into apartments thing.
Sometimes you can learn what to do by watching others. Sometimes you learn what not to do by watching others.
*puts tongue on icy aluminum flagpole*
“football coach Weeb Eubank”
Big fan of anime was he?
*blearily narrows gaze*
Thanks for my first “meh-heh” of the day… It’s going to be one of those ones.
“Investigators plan to put tissue samples from the selected cases under a microscope to see if the pneumonia deaths were viral or if the heart attacks involved thrombosis, potential signs of coronavirus infection, Derevyanny said.”
That doesn’t sound very accurate.
Doesn’t need to be. We just need a really big number of deaths to pin on BADORANGEMAN.
In other words, they are going to go back and count all the flu deaths.
Paris, France found a case back in December, so good for Cook Country for doing something right.
Lets not get too far out over our skis…lets see what they do with the “information” they “find”.
Agreed. It would be nice to know how far back this goes. Not just for the deaths, but to see how it actually spread.
“I honestly think that everyone is a socialist and they just don’t know it yet! To me, socialism is really about believing in people and human worth.” –Radha Jagwani,
https://twitter.com/TeenVogue/status/1257325379813072897
Oh this could be fun…
What socialism means to me: Death, suffering and believing that individuals have no worth.
Not Lesley Gore? https://youtu.be/atY7ymXAcRQ
Human Worth like “How much for the strong, tall one”?
How much for your women?!?
“How much for the little girl?”
Paging OMWC
*Catches shrimp in mouth
“Human worth” – From each according to their abilities…
Everyone is an orphan and all orphans are equally miserable.
I think I read recently that based on online readers, 90% of teen vogue readership is 25 and over.
They have readers? Subscribers? I don’t think I believe that. My bet is that the commie rag is being held afloat by some commie org whose money comes from wealth useful idiots or the ChiComs.
The old scam was to buy subscriptions to each others’ publications to provide inflated circulation numbers to advertizers who then got scammed out of cash for nonexistant reach. It would not surprise me to hear the same sort of shenanigans were still going on as best as they can manage.
Almost all print media is dead. Teen Vogue isn’t unique. “Circulation” for most is little more than the diminishing number of people who forgot to cancel after setting up an auto-renewal.
The problems solve themselves when credit cards expire.
If anyone wants free magazine subscriptions…
http://cdn.mercurymagazines.com/100-10001/index.html
Legit. I got free magazines from them for years. I still get email offers for more free ones, but I’m not really interested anymore.
No thanks, I don’t need my house looking more like a hoarder’s paradise than it does already.
The enormous piles of bodies generated by socialist governments would like a word…
state capitalism my dude
*Ahem* “Not real Socialisms!”
Something something tragedy something something statistic.
Banal platitudes are not “socialism”. Miss me with that nonsense.
socialism is really about believing in people and human worth
It’s exactly the opposite. It’s about believing in systems, and valuing humans as if they were interchangeable cogs in a machine.
This making the rounds among bishop/national/regional leadership staff
The author calls for churches to not allow singing when churches meet again to protect against the corona. Spends most of the article incorrectly insinuating that the ‘rona is an airborne illness like TB when it is in fact a droplet illness like the flu. Yes, singing will introduce droplet into the air as will personal conversations and a sermon. Corona can also be spread via hugs, handshakes, and touching doors and pews. Just another “authority” trying to save just one life and lacking the understanding of transmission and the impact of her policy recommendations.
Maybe we should have zoom church, so that no one will die in a car crash on the way to church. Maybe we should encourage people in the third world not to be Christian as that can be a hazard to their health. Here in the US we can encourage people not to be Christian because that is triggering to some.
That said I wouldn’t be surprised if my wife’s state or national synod recommends or demands no singing.
This seemed appropriate:
https://babylonbee.com/news/worship-team-replaced-by-animatronic-band-from-chuck-e-cheese
I could have chosen from a dozen others, the Bee likes mocking worship bands.
Heh, I’ve visited a few flashy churches that are concerts with a sermon for an intermission. But singing and music can be the highlight or a very engaging part of the service if done right.
I actually am a terrible singer and usually just mumble the words at church, but I take issue with removing a huge part of church over the virus and its possible risk
Gah, it’s the worst. You have to stand, and watch some wannabe rockstars, can’t really song along because who’s heard these terrible songs, and awkwardly sit again when it’s mercifully over.
Church hymns are mostly lovely. It wasn’t broke, and they ain’t fixing anything.
Listening to an Earth Wind and Fire show doesn’t help create an atmosphere of solemn awe.
Singing hymns is the only thing I miss about church – traditional Protestant hymns and certain good ones from the late ’80s/early ’90s edition of the UU hymnal.
Obligatory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=whIYv3_CvqU
“Powers doesn’t expect many people to return to her gallery in the coming weeks. She won’t hold any openings or events that encourage large crowds. She said she hopes the people who do come are relieved of the stress and anxiety they’re experiencing in their everyday lives as they struggle to adapt to a new normal.”
TAKE YOUR “NEW NORMAL” SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS AND TWIST IT SIDEWAYS
“TAKE YOUR “NEW NORMAL” SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS AND TWIST IT SIDEWAYS”
QFT.
She had what, 9(?) people show up all day. She’s not in business for the money… I smell a well-heeled Husband behind the scenes.
Eh, the margins in fine art are incredibly high. She sells a few pieces a month and she’s turning a profit.
Probably right but my snark-o-matic is set to live fire this morning.
I worked in a specialty antique shop. 9 people is a good day. With the margins those places run, you don’t have to make many sales to stay afloat.
Do you think his body doubles get access to his 2,000 woman harem?
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/kim-jong-un-photos-spark-wild-theories-about-a-body-double/
what is the point of a 2,000 woman harem if they all look the same?
Lacist!
2,000 identically attractive women….yeah, Hell on Earth.
Imagine only 10 of them give good head and you have to figure which before you pick one
“You each have 30 seconds to show you are good at this….ready…begin!”
He’s dead. That’s Zombie Kim, they just covered up the decay with makeup.
To answer that question, I recommend watching the Absolute Mad Lads episode on Saddam’s son.
Ass Wednesday is brought to you by the unknown poets of the Middle Ages who first associated the heart symbol with sex and love based on the female buttock.
http://archive.li/WVHwt
So it’s an ass not a heart?
“A professor of psychology who studied the symbolism, origin and history of Valentine’s Day said the traditional double-lobed heart symbol on candy and cards is inspired by the shape of female buttocks as they appear from behind, according to Discovery News. The “essential literary and speculative evidence from mythology and secondary sources” leads to the theory, Prof. Galdino Pranzarone of Roanoke College in Salem, Va., told Discovery News.”
https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-heart-shape-came-to-be-and-why-is-it-considered-the-symbol-of-love
So this is setting a fart on fire?
https://www.heart.org/
LOL
Mmmkay so risking her health by going in to work. I wonder if her risk-taking will be reflected in her votes and rulings on COVID shutdown cases.
Well, it is a lifetime appointment. But I have long thought that older judges (unsure what age) should have to pass an annual mental acuity test administered by a neutral third party. This is based on observation in my professional career.
I’ll say one thing for the old bat, she’s the John McClain of the judiciary; pretty much indestructible.
“Neutral Third party”
Are they hiding with the unicorns? Any body with the power to remove unwelcome justices will be infiltrated and corrupted.
There are no perfect solutions, UCS. The process would need to be super transparent, ie tests videotaped and made publicly available. Opportunity to retake the test, etc.
The tests are actually quite simple and hard to manipulate. Example: at beginning of test the examiner tells the subject that he is going to say three words and asks the subject to remember them. The words arevchosen at random from a standard list. At the end of the test the subject is asked to recall those words. Either your short-term memory works, or it doesn’t. But sure, if you claim that “elbow zebra pizza” is somehow personally impossible for you to remember, or that the test was somehow manipulated, you can try again next week with a different tester and set of words.
Ginsburg has said she would like to serve until she’s 90, if her health allows.
I thought she was 92
Online all hands meetings are even more fucking boring than real life. Good think I can leave it in the background and dick around the internets
Exactly. I have 2 of the darn things this week. I will be reading here, of course…
Now the general manager praises the strict quarantine rules
I’m kind of mixed. Our CEO has been doing daily briefings for a half hour every morning since the lockdowns started. In a company of 100,000 employees, where our policies and actions were being forced to change multiple times per week, this was pretty amazing. Every day, a leader 5 ranks above us has been explaining how benefits are changing, giving updates on store/office closures and other policies. At times it is a bit of a bore, but I don’t see how employees can complain that they are not in sync with their leadership.
The morning meetings are now becoming a little more “PR” than useful (In fact, they broadcast it live on Twitter every morning), so I usually do my morning workout while it is on. Overall, I’m pretty glad they set these up. It has been amazing to see the company go from standard retailer to launching an app that allows online reservations to the store via app, and even allows you to photograph the UPC of something you are buying at the store to get charged to your account, instead of having to go to a cashier.
SJWednesday: Sentences I Never Heard Before
I think The Matrix needs to be shut down for maintenance.
We’re patching it live, why else do you think we want so many people indoors?
As a woman, … having a penis
I’m gonna file this in “Shit that women will need to figure out on their own”.
Oh, I bet it did.
Just not the good kind. Smart career move, chopping it off.
Why I chose to have a pimp
https://medium.com/@lydiacaradonna/why-i-chose-to-have-a-pimp-af7780a2625c
Legally, Bryan is my pimp. Under his instruction, men are sent into the vinyl room he provides for me and I have sex with them. He takes a chunk of the proceeds. I resent him for this, particularly considering the poor attempts he and the other staff make at advertising us, which is theoretically what I am paying him for. From a moral viewpoint, I hate the man. It enrages me how little work he does, how much he earns by charging other men for access to my vagina. As a leftist, the mere concept of a boss extracting the surplus value of my sexual labour makes me mad. As a trade unionist, the fact that I am met with the blanket statement of “you chose to work here” whenever I express discomfort about a rule change makes me livid. As a hooker, I hope business is good enough for me to work there indefinitely.
Sex work abolitionists, hold onto your pearls: I like my pimp.
According to the article he also pays the rent and takes care of the facilities. But of course a leftist would not recognize property ownership even though she claims ownership over her own body for purposes of income. The cognitive dissonance reigns supreme.
A pimp’s overhead is different than that of a square.
[golf clap]
Heh heh
Ban Rape! Oops… Rent!
Can’t do that. She needs to charge for renting out her . . . holes.
Sex workers of the world unite!
You want us to die of the Vaganus virus!
“surplus value of my sexual labour”
I think they have a pill to fix that.
“Rose, 21, English, giant tits”. – she’s for you Q.
Although I find giving clients descriptions is strange I would expect you look at them then pick.
Buyer beware.
“Some merchandise may not be in stock or match the description”.
Can I backorder?
That incurrs a premium services fee.
“Phrasing!”
No, but you can tape this picture to the back of Rose’s head.
At least read enough to know about the concept of “Surplus Value”. I guess. Most of socialism seems to stem from the emotional reaction of “Not getting the best deal” possible. Most of the time when doing an exchange you are paying more than the minimum the seller would take. But you are also paying less than the maximum you would pay. It’s why i don’t get to up in arms about missing out on a good deal. Most things are good deals already.
I seem to recall a few years ago arguing that the easy to grasp concept of absolute economic value (that is a thing has the same value to everyone, as exemplified by some arbitrary price) easily leads to the notion that profit means having to explit someone, somewhere along the way. The idea that the merchant places a lower value on the product than you do and each of you can come away feeling like you’ve gained is not intuitive to a lot of people – myself included.
What I’m now starting to wonder is where there’s a correlation between a dislike of haggling and an iniution towards absolute value – ie, the feeling that if he’s haggling, he must be trying to cheat me and the only options are to walk away or shoot the fraudster.
I hated that about the vendors in Mexico. “Dude, just sell me me your shit! I’m hungover, sun-burned and just want a tortilla!”
Well, it’s reinforced by a system of set prices. If the price is the same for everyone, how can the value be different.
Map/territory and all that. Plus the difficulty of understanding how prices arise, change, and serve as discovery signals in the economic process.
If he takes a chunk, he’s a manager. If he takes it all, he’s a pimp. Learn the game trick.
Is she free to quit without fear of violence? Because pimps use violence.
She could also be an independent contractor and is being charged a facility fee, much as most haircutters rent their booths/chairs from the haircutting place (flat fee) and pay a percentage of each cut to the shop owner.
Doesn’t a pimp also step in the second a John tries to rough the hooker up? Having an on-call bodyguard ain’t cheap.
Doesn’t have to be a pimp. Nobody wants they hoes beat up. Bad for business.
“The Libertarians say that leftism supports government intervention on economic but not social issues, and rightism supports government intervention on social but not economic issues. Unfortunately, this isn’t really true. Leftists support government intervention in society in the form of gun control, hate speech laws, funding for the arts, and sex ed in schools. In fact, leftists are sometimes even accused of being in favor of “social engineering”. Meanwhile, conservatives lead things like the home schooling and school choice movements, which seem to be about less government regulation of society. ”
https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/
Libertarians say what now?
Libertarians say what now? – fuck off slaver?
Or to go back to the quote from the early morning threaed
Libertarians – rather a collection of marshmallowbrained psychopaths and misfits taking their hatred of humanity too far.
Libertarians – rather a collection of marshmallowbrained psychopaths and misfits taking their hatred of humanity too far.-
Nailed us!
No one else will.
*Laughs then cries*
Reee! Why don’t people believe us that orange man is bad!?!
If you’ve ever spent even a little time with someone that literally shits their pants you would be quite sanguine about keeping company with an individual that only occasionally sharts himself.
Assemble the troops! Get that number down!!
Sounds like the last poll may have been a fluke. Or maybe this one is. Single points of data are not very useful.
In the ultimate “Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining”, NC gov and his health secretary state NC can begin Phase 1 Friday as all the data is trending in the right direction, expect the trends are actually not
Hospitalizations: Up for the past 10 days. Each day has been a record over the previous
Percent positive: The rolling average has been about the same/flat at 6% for over a month. If you look at only the data of the past 10 days the change has technically been “down” from a few days of 10% to a few of 8% to 6 then 7, but the overall picture remains largely unchanged.
Cases: Down, but the previous 10 days included the state’s highest report day ever, and the daily reported numbers over the past few days are still higher than when the Gov extended the cower at home order
Deaths: Deaths are trending down. This is the only truth the Gov and HHS sec cited yesterday, but again the daily deaths are about the same as 10 days ago.
Proof once again that the lockdown and EOs were political. I think the reason for the obvious lying to reopen the state is that Wake county has year round schools, and the schools have to reopen in July or the Gov would face a HUGE backlash and probably loss in the upcoming election.
Not seeing it. New cases and new deaths show a downturn (small and recent, but still). When you are on the backside of the bell curve, you will see days that look the same as earlier days on the upside of the bell curve.
Flat percent positive tests is actually with being at the peak, at least if they stay flat for awhile (which is what it looks like).
The hospitalization graph is cumulative, so it will never go down. I don’t see new admissions, so its hard to say, but it looks from the cumulative graph like they have been slowing.
All told, to my eye the data is flat to down.
“A rare summary of the entire Magical Art by the most famous Masters of this Art” is 18th century illustrated book on demonology that gives the names of various demons. It is written in German & Latin & dates to around 1775.
This is Allatou, she is the demon of ‘Illicit Acts’.
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1257700069568110592
Allatou needs a bra.
Allatou, wife of Nergal, menail in His Infernal Court.
Is this the shitstain that initially predicted millions of deaths from Kung Flu and kicked off this panic?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11560746/professor-neil-ferguson-lover-lockdown-strained-marriage/
What a shitshow.
don’t question your better pleb
Yup.
Her husband is exactly the beta you think he is.
Submitted without comment.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/porn-icon-maitland-ward-opens-21980810
She makes the odd appearance in your Chive links. She seems to suffer from the genetic malady we know as Selmalita Hurlensis that grants beauty to those of more advanced years or maybe she just has a shrine to Allatou to keep the girls afloat.
What a cunte.
A Dallas hair salon owner in a contempt hearing for re-opening her business under lockdown told the judge that “feeding my kids is not selfish.” Her comments came after the judge offered her the opportunity to avoid jail time by apologizing and admitting her actions were wrong.
“I have to disagree with you sir when you that I’m selfish [for re-opening the salon].” Salon Á la Mode owner Shelly Luther told Judge Eric Moyé during a contempt of court proceeding broadcast on the internet and tweeted by CBSDFW reporter Andrea Lucia, “because feeding my kids is not selfish.”
What is the legal basis for demanding that a plebe apologize to their betters or face jail time?
It’s the court doctrine of “I’m a judge and can do whatever the fuck i want”.
I believe it’s the ancient English common law principle of fuck you, that’s why. I may have the Latin wrong.
Uckfay ooyay atsthay eyeway
Protip: If you write your confession in Pig Latin, the cops can’t beat you.
Damn. Is there a fund where we can donate to her. Anyone who fuckin stands up to a judge in his court room deserves a round of applause for the bravery of the act. Fuck you Eric Moye, telling people that they need to starve or else they are being selfish.
Is there a go fund me? Is there?!?! There’s more than you can shake a stick at!
https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=homepage_norma/search&term=Shelly%20Luther
So does GoFundMe vet these groups?
Now that right there is a wannabe tyrant.
society cannot function where one’s own belief in a concept of liberty permits you to flaunt your disdain for the rulings of duly elected officials.
If everyone stopped listening to elected officials it would be Anarchy!!! People wouldn’t know what to do. The leviathan is there to protect you from that scary and dangerous world.
Nevermind that his statement is a direct contradiction of the 1A.
Wannabe? He *is* a fucking tyrant. Inside his courtroom he has godlike powers. It’s sickening and terrifying.
Now that right there is a
wannabetyrant.FIFY!
This will get you off the couch.
https://twitter.com/RWNutjob1/status/1257768599978033153
SJWednesday: Please Come Into Our Cave
Put a bullet in the base of their neck?
I hadn’t even read further into the piece, but looks like I called it:
Progs/commies love themselves some false consciousness.
I think the whole thing puts a big damper in their theories. You want me to trust the powers of government to a bunch of people who were duped into believing they were equals by people who meant to oppress them? Seems like a bad idea to me.
It’s guaranteed to fail as soon as the revolutionary leaders gain their power. It’s the ultimate con.
“We promise Utopia, after you give up your rights to the State, but first we’ve got to go thru this little transitional period where you cannot question our judgement or powers. Just trust us.”
They aint called useful idiots for nuthin’.
‘We may be opening too quickly!’
it never stops with these people. Quickly or not the virus doesn’t give a shit.
So why continue to pretend?
And I want these little Napoleon Granny Savers to do one thing now. Produce EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE social distancing and masks work. If you want a ‘new normal’ have the decency to ‘fucking love science’ and produce some. It’s all I ask if you’re going to bust balls.
You give me enough money and I can get an “empirical study” to say whatever you want.
What people aren’t getting is wearing masks and social distancing are measures meant to keep at bay a virus. They’re not rooted in any kind of science and as such it doesn’t give them the right to impose others to follow their demands. Shaming people into a behaviour pretending it’s science and we’re together is the very definition of sheep herding and mob rule.
Thousands of London bars, restaurants, cafes and gyms face financial disaster in less than two months because they do not qualify for emergency grants to help them survive the coronavirus crisis, according to a campaign launched today.
Only businesses with a rateable value of less than £51,000 can access the central Government funded retail, hospitality and leisure grants (RHLG), which are worth up to £25,000 and are distributed by local councils.
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/thousands-of-london-restaurants-and-bars-on-brink-of-collapse-as-they-do-not-qualify-for-governments-a4432081.html
Well, if they can’t survive two-months of a self-induced shut down then they don’t deserve to be in business!
Oh fully agree. Capitalists are incapable of proper organizing a business for sustainability.
Only the State can plan commerce well enough to endure a shutdown.
if business owner are so smart whycome they can’t print money?
They also need to be paying a living wage, provide health care, day care, college credits, paid time off, paid sick time, profit sharing, and…
maternal leave don’t forget that. Also pay equality. And prevent harmful speech.
And paternal leave too!
“President Donald Trump has been mercilessly mocked for touring a factory without a face mask while the song Live And Let Die blared over the sound system.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8292165/Trump-ridiculed-touring-Arizona-mask-factory-Live-Let-Die-blares-speakers.html
The mob would wear a hat made of corn and cat bones if they were told it would scare off the Rona.
They’re cultists.
Over at TOS a commenter described it perfectly saying they’re Branch Covidians.
Masks aren’t mandatory in AZ…
For good reason. Anyone walking around in 110 degree heat with a mask on is choosing minor protection over a relatively trivial threat while exposing themselves to great risk for a significant one. Actually saw an elderly woman and her mask being loaded into an ambulance on the walking/jogging trail a few days ago (she seemed okay enough) and this was at 7:30 am. The mask thing is just not gonna work here. At least not until fall.
“‘To be shamed for having boobs in 2020 is nauseating’ Jessica Simpson compares herself to Jayne Mansfield in THAT iconic photo after Vogue writer claims her ‘breasts were on a platter’ at Met Gala dinner in 2007”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8290411/Jessica-Simpson-compares-Jayne-Mansfield-iconic-photo.html
“Holly Madison dresses as Princess Leia for May the Fourth: ‘You know what day it is!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8290845/Former-Playboy-bunny-Holly-Madison-posts-sexy-Star-Wars-cosplay-selfie-slave-Leia-garb.html
‘To be shamed for having boobs in 2020 is nauseating
Woah, wait one damn second. Who is shaming women for having boobs. I’m as libertarian as they come, but that shit needs to be outlawed.
Madison looks like a fembot.
Well, considering the flesh to plastic ratio of her body….
“shamed for having boobs”
I don’t think you’re being shamed sweetheart.
Then again, Jessica did always have tits about three times the size of her brain.
Two things. Here, elementary schools have been allowed to open up. Parents have the choice as to whether they can send them or not. People who say, ‘what’s the point?’ because it’s the end of the year are missing the point. The big picture is to get people to stop being scared and get the kids out there. They keep saying September as if the Rona ain’t gonna be around. It very likely will, what then Brown Cow? Just take your medicine, rip that band-aid in one shot and get out there is the way to go.
And in quirky North American insider news not covered: The French school boards agreed to do with little complaining. The English side have done nothing but bitch, moan and challenge the government. My wife is part of the English school board and we’ve told her how unimpressed we are with them wasting political capital on this.
Also. Can we stop torturing hair and grooming salons as well as physical therapists and sports masseuses for the love of God?
Now it’s just cruel. Give them an est. date at least.
Amazon. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I’m not impressed they shut down their customer service centre. At all.
“I don’t want an investigation. I want a coronation of Joe Biden[…]I don’t want justice, whatever that may be. I want a win, the removal of Donald Trump from office, and Mr. Biden is our best chance”
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/politico-founder-martin-tolchin-i-dont-want-an-investigation-into-tara-reade-allegation-i-want-a-coronation-of-joe-biden/
Points for honesty I suppose.
Man. When i was a kid it always seemed like the left was “cool”. They could never do wrong. They never screwed up or did something stupid. What happened to that “Left”? Nowadays the are as prone to do or say something as colossally stupid as the Right back in the days of Chimp Bush.
THe PaRTieS SWiTCHeD!
It might just be me, but the Left never seemed cool in any way to me.
Not sure that a guy who belongs in a memory care home is the Democrats’ best chance to beat Trump.
Liz Truss under increased pressure to rule out chlorinated chicken, as US trade talks open
Farmers fear food standards may be sacrificed in a trade deal
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/05/liz-truss-increased-pressure-rule-chlorinated-chicken-us-trade/
I propose a compromise chloroquinenated chicken
Saw you didn’t particularly enjoy the Chita. Well, waddayagonado?
It was not bad per see, and mostly what I expected. Light mild smooth lacking in complexity. I would say the kind of whiskey a not serious whiskey drinker likes.
The rye I got was also mediocre.
These are people that can tell the differences between types of tofu. They make subtlety look obnoxious.
meh. Lack of complexity does not always mean its subtle
I meh your meh and claim victory.
I feel sorry for them, having eat that much tofu.
That’s why Chita is blended with Yamazaki and Hakushu to make Hibiki.
(I like the smooth sweetness of Chita)
Ferguson V Khabib is a fight I’ve been looking forward to for years. They’ve had to cancel it 4 or 5 times due to injuries already and it’s finally going to go one during a PANDEMIC! Gotta love that attitude and I hope Tony slicing up Khabib with his elbows.
“Elon Musk has branded the British scientist whose alarming report predicted two million coronavirus deaths without a lockdown a ‘moron’ and a ‘tool’ – after he was caught breaking his own social distancing rules to see his married lover.
The billionaire SpaceX and Tesla tycoon is among many Americans who oppose strict social distancing measures and are voicing their anger at Professor Neil Ferguson for his hypocrisy.
Musk also rubbished Prof Ferguson’s ‘fake science’ which on 17 March forecast apocalyptic death tolls in the UK and US if both governments did not enforce social distancing.
The Imperial College London scientist’s worst-case scenarios of 2.2million victims in the US is credited with spurring President Trump and the White House into action – the CDC issued social distancing guidelines days after Ferguson’s report reached American experts.
But the 51-year-old last night quit Britain’s top scientific body after it was revealed his left-leaning lover Antonia Staats, 38, left her $2.5million home and traveled across London to spend the night with him. Ms Staats had an open marriage with her husband. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8291849/Elon-Musk-leads-anger-hypocritical-bonking-Professor-Lockdown-Neil-Ferguson.html
I heard that drugs fell out of Ferguson’s ass.
Ms Staats had an open marriage with her husband.
That is clear, what is unclear is if the husband knew that at the time….
For once I support Musk.
They are tools and criminals as far as I’m concerned for the pain and suffering they inflicted far worse than anything to virus ever did.
And don’t think they’re stopping. They’re going to keep ratcheting up the fears. Now apparently the kids are vulnerable.
This FAKEdemic (sorry. Couldn’t resist) has made us realize something. Other than the depressing fact people are easily fooled. I have a friend who just swallows whole anything the authority’s all him. He’s one of those ‘I stopped using plastic water bottles because we all gotta do our parts’. It doesn’t register in his mind he’s really one level above agreeing to turn that gas knob.
Anyway. My sister made the observation that the younger doctors that have come through the daycare are not very bright. More than any other parents, they’re the ones who tend to come in with foolish thoughts and ideas. They’re doctors but dumb at the same time. I have a feeling some of these medical people being venerated or listened to aren’t very wise and are just focused on ‘what could happen’ leaving them vulnerable to ‘worst case scenarios’. So if the political class backs this up, it signals to the people to think in those terms. Only a sober, skeptical and free mind can, erm, inoculate against this foolishness.
Also. Already two divorces among her parents.
Just told my daughter that the people who run her school are also the ones that are putting out the CV 19 warnings. Sometimes the red pill doesn’t need a spoonful of sugar.
Random question, do you speak to her in English?
Half the time. If we’re around others, we only speak in Japanese.
‘Ugh. Authorities.
That article is poorly written. I had to read twice to figure out who was having the cross town trysts. Now I see it’s the doctor, not Musk.
And Musk is right that the other guy is a tool.
I think the internet joke of the day with this was something like
most epidemiologists do it with models. Ferguson did it with Staats .
Or something like that
or this
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1257790710226485248
I wouldn’t be surprised if Fauci gets called out and fired worse than this douche. He’s a career bureaucrat who lives by Pournelle’s Iron Law.
I keep reading that “polls show overwhelming support for the lockdowns!”.
1) I’d like to see how the question was phrased
2) I’d like to see how they’re selecting respondents
3) Even if accurate (which I’m incredibly skeptical of), who fucking cares? Basic rights are not subject to majority vote.
I’v seen them generally phrased as “Do you approve of Gov ________ Handling of the coronoavirus”. And also more recently questions about approval of the protests.
point 3 is the big one. Just remind the same people that Slavery was very popular and that abolitionists made up only 1-3% of the population even approaching the Civil War.
Polls cannot measure the unknown but real number of people like me who refuse to take polls.
Then there are also the people who want to please the researcher, or think that the “poll” is actually government monitoring and want to give the “correct” answer.
Well she’s got a splitting headache.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1257481332965416967
Peace was never an option..
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1257771401886535684
Lol. I wasn’t sure whose side the driver was on at first considering he almost ran her over.
This is how you become gay btw
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1257764093546639367
Ouch. I could see that coming before she swung
Texas Salon Owner Refuses to Apologize to Judge for Working to Feed Her Kids During Lockdown
The Judge is an absolute statist motherfucker. Are Judges elected in Texas?
WOW. Moye is a piece of shit loser.
She’s in the moral right. The judge opened the door to questioning a person’s morality when he called her ‘selfish’.
It’s amazing that wanting to not starve is considered selfish. She has to die for exactly who and what here? Moye, that piece of shit totalitarian, is working. If anything the selfish and evil ones are the people pushing for more lockdowns.
It’s one thing to say, ‘hey keep it shut’ and another to add, ‘keep it shut and you’re selfish for not agreeing to be sacrificed’.
THIS is what’s bothering and angering me about all this. Two people have said as much to me and it would be more I’m sure if I’d engage.
The sanctimony is repulsive.
The sactimony of the people who are still collecting a check or are financially secure is what’s repulsive to me.
I say it’s more than repulsive. It’s immoral. Here’s why: Your actions is directly leading to the misery of another person. You’re preventing them from earring a living and this is about as immoral as you can get. Out of sight of mind? Someone should bring someone in the flesh in front of their faces and have them answer to their faces why they support a shut down.
His worship of the state and complete disregard for the woman’s civil rights was pretty horrifying.
Yes they are. The R judge in Harris county ushered in straight ticket voting and every R in the county lost their offices.
Hint: You dont have to pass an IQ test to get elected.
Straight Ticket Voting = “I’m either too stupid to choose for myself or can’t be bothered to read up on anything before voting.”
This is why no one should live in Wisconsin. They have no compunctions like decent people.
Written by someone that has no fucking idea what “force” means.
Hehe. And for some reason has mind reading power – ” appeared to have no compunction”. Have you no compunction, Sir?
I do not understand how you can think “Removing rules about what you can and cannot do” as “Imposing that other people Have to not social distance”. Because it is slate, i’m going to assume this is a wilful misrepresentation of what is happening.
Anything which is not prohibited, is mandatory.
It’s like that with guns, drugs, alcohol, smoking, and any number of things.
I’ve been encouraged by the number of people I talk to who are on the “if you want to shelter/mask/distance, go for it, but don’t close businesses” bandwagon.
The idea that if businesses are open, the cops are going to kick down your door and drag you to the stores and force you to let people breathe on you is weird, to say the least.
If there’s another massive wave of shut downs all these immoral assholes are next in line to get the ‘salon’ treatment.
Learn to code?
That’s a disgusting perspective.
Email from one of my kid’s teachers this morning:
Poor CK, no one ever believes him.
The Kermit family has had this issue since the 70s.
It’s not easy being
greenCatholic.AIUI, it’s not supposed to be.
I’d change it to Hermit the Masturbator. Or a more direct ‘Fuck You Miss Piggy’.
Coronavirus: Ibstock pub landlord fined after drinkers found in cellar
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-52560032
“Where was I supposed to put them after you said we couldn’t go outside?”
If it continues, it’s all going under ground.
And the politicians will be part of it just like with the Speakeasys.
The people are so scared now, politicians created a monster and can’t get it under control.
All because they put too much faith in medical doctors.
I’m only checking in for a bit this morning so Tundra knows I’m not in the clink and my wife is alive and well.
This is only about 8 blocks from me. My wife is freaking out about it. I’m not helping either, because I’ve been walking around with those hand squeezer exercise dealies.
At least he didn’t violate quarantine to drive out and properly dispose of the body.
Hah! I was going to text you thins morning!
We had another murder a few blocks away a month or so ago. Never thought MG would get so murder-y.
Good to hear you’re still free(ish)!
I wonder if it was premeditated or a wave of fury.
Dude must have banged his share of lonely housewives in his day.
I gotta admit, I really miss milk delivery. The days when my parents would order some ice cream to go along with the delivery seemed like Christmas morning.
Growing up having Milk Delivered was fairly popular in our little town. Almost everyone had a box for the milkman to drop the milk off at.
I grew up in a house that a “milk box” built into the wall next to the side door. Probably hadn’t been used since well before I was born.
Same here. When I was a kid it was packed of styrofoam to try to provide some level of insulation.
Same here. Although it was still being used through the late 1960s, IIRC. You had to get up early on winter mornings to retrieve it, otherwise the milk would be partially frozen and would have popped the top of the glass container.
We delivered our milk though cows’ teats.
That is impressive, but I’m reserving judgement until I find out what the churn rate of his customers is.
The key is working for cash so you can skim off some of the profits before you file your taxes.
Seems a cheesy way to do it.
Where there’s a will, there’s a whey.
Sees graze narrowing, skips comment
If his business succeeds, he’ll probably end up in the dreaded 1%.
*narrows gaze*
Being an IL resident, Switzy has zero tolerance for dairy hijinks.
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Release the conspiracy theorists!
Researcher ‘On the Verge’ of Coronavirus Breakthrough Found Shot Dead In His Home
is that a reliable site?
The links go to the local Pittsburgh news – so yes, this guy was really a researcher at a prestigious university and was really murdered. Who killed him and why are the open questions.
The cure relied on an audit of the Clinton Foundation?
+1 botched burglary?
SJWednesday: Shit Anti-Natalists Say
I see. You might want to see a therapist. Coming to grips with ones mortality is something that well adjusted people are capable of accomplishing.
This is like saying “Fuck those Ice cream makers! Making fucking Ice cream just so that it can then be devoured? What is the point?”
If said (unbalanced) individual doesn’t want to reproduce, it’s no skin off my nose.
Maybe not reproducing should be considered a public service, in her case.
It might even be an evolutionary adaptation. Her body could be saying, “I’m nuts and miserable. This probably shouldn’t be passed on to future generations.”
That person needs some Jesus.
I don’t think food, properly prepared using ordinary hygiene, is a vector.
That person needs some Jesus.
Or Xanax. Possibly thorazine.
Jesus Xanax!
Nikki?
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., lashed out at Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday for calling the upper chamber of Congress back into session despite warnings against doing so by the Capitol physician and worries that the virus could worsen in the Washington, D.C., area.
“The Republican leader has called the Senate back into session despite the District of Columbia appearing to be reaching a peak phase,” of the virus, Schumer said. “If we are going to make these fine people come into work in these conditions, the Senate should focus like a laser on COVID-19 … but the majority leader has scheduled no hearings on COVID-19.”
Home of the brave.
I want to see these guys fight. Somebody get me Dana White.
“these fine people come into work”
There can’t be more than a dozen tops who meet that descriptor.
And that’s if you count the cameraman for CSpan and the security team.
Are about to live in a cold, grey, soul-crushing world with no bars, restaurants, opportunities or creative art where people stand in long ration lines with pockets full of dollars not worth the paper they are printed on doled out by government?
I think I have seen this movie before.
there is no meaning in those things. they are empty.
We need to go back to subsistence agriculture and like it.
I recall reading a 12th century travel guide for pilgrims visiting Rome. What struck me was the idea wandering into a city of fallen marvels, where the Forum was a cow pasture, and the Aqueducts seemed to a traveler an impossible marvel, the likes of which would never be seen again.
I wondered if there would ever be people in North America, someday, looking at the collapsed ruins of city skylines and feeling the same way. After the past month, I worry if those people will be my grandkids.
Yeah. Sci Fi is full of stories of finding highly advanced lost civilizations. For those people it was kinda a reality. Makes me think of the historian (Dan Carlin?) who talked about how every story of Alien Invasion and Abduction is pretty much what happened to the Native Americans when the Europeans arrived.
I don’t think we build well enough to leave ruins that will impress future generations.
I mean we have a couple of hundred of years of marveling but you are largely correct.
The Hoover Dam is expected to last about 10,000 years even if everybody vanished. We did pretty good on that one.
Plus Twinkies.
“We still can’t figure out why these bizarre people wanted to stop up a river in the middle of a desert.”
“Yeah, who would want to store up water were there is none?”
“So far from where anyone should be living…”
Who’s to say it’ll still be a desert 5kyr from now.
And, you damn up the water where the water is. Would you build a damn next to your house and transport water from the river a hundred miles away to fill up your reservoir? Keeping the reservoir right next to where you generate all your surface runoff pollution?
oh, so you’ve heard of “the new normal”?
Yeah I still don’t think people are going to put up with this shit for very long. This is still the land of hundreds of millions of guns.
Owned by a few thousand people…
At least the climate is (mostly) nicer than Moscow’s.
In a world where we just had documentation that the highest levels of our government were conspiring to destroy a high-ranking officials life from what appears to be partisan political reasons, CNN is prominently featuring this
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/us/man-wore-kkk-hood-grocery-trnd/index.html
All while eschewing coverage of the Flynn scandal.
And I don’t note this article for its highlighting of someone in a Klan Hood. That is extremely rare these days.
No, the interesting aspect here is that they are choosing to push racism in a world where it is extremely rare, to the point that they are cheerleading the police for wanting to arrest and charge this person with a crime.
I have no clue what possible crime you could imagine charging a person with for wearing a mask into a store at a time when they are being ordered by the government to wear a mask in the store. But there we are.
Also, bonus points for only covering the racism angle because orange man bad.
KKK Hoods are a hate crime. Owning one is like owning a bump stock. We know it is evil, so why do we need to bother with legislation?
There will be at least 8 at my house.
Khabib will probably do what he usually does, but I give Tony a 1:3 chance. Who you taking?
Definitely Khabib. Gathje would have to break Ferguson’s legs early. He’s kind of in that odd place where he’s good, but not quite a contender….really just fighting for money.
But I wouldn’t put money on that.
Love me some Gathje. Korean Zombie comes closest, but I’ve never seen another fighter with such blatant disregard for his own safety.
Jeez. I just realized that Gathje replaced Khabib. Damn.
I honestly bought the fight before finding out who was on it.
Either way it’d be a fight worth paying for.
Now the other fight, I can see myself putting money on Cruz. In the “he might surprise everyone” but probably not, sense.
He’s blown out both his knees, right? Cejudo is cringy, but damn good.
I assume dangerous things such as these are in fact illegal in the us?
https://twitter.com/SergePaiu/status/1257234795765075968
“It shoots through schools”
ow
Anything Bullpuped should be illegal.
Wah?!? Steyr Aug, Tavor, RFB, no love?
It’s unnatural. All rifles ought to be like God and his messenger, Moses Browning, intended them. 😉
I got to play with an original AUG once. The most ergonomic rifle I’ve ever held. The thing molded itself into my arm like it was designed by Moties and just aimed itself.
Was that your defense at trial?
Why not? Guns kill, this is known.
Loved the way the SA80 felt too. Sling was so much better before the M4 got issued.
Recognize there were big problems before HK fixed them, but it went bang every time I pulled the trigger (maybe a couple magazines worth). Also bangbangbangbangbang…
I was amazed to learn that it only ejected to the right and there was no changing it. Lefties in the Brit Army were just SOL.
Dumbest thing I ever saw was a left handed machine gunner sitting behind a 60. Might have been a 240 by then.
As a lefty (but shoots right), I’m not all that sympathetic.
I wonder if Halfthor can shoot one of those one handed. Probably not.
semi auto? .50 bmg? Perfectly legal.
Unless you’re trapped in Commifornia.
Not in free states.
Of course he blasted through about $50 worth of ammo and dislocated his shoulder in the 5 second video.
A 50 BMG bullpup?
Things I never thought I would see.
*goes to check on price*
Ah. Only 15,000 dollars.
The Barrett M82 is a bullpup. The concept isn’t new.
Would.
Live the idea of bullpups, but damned if I have ever seen one that wasn’t just plain ugly.
Which is no reason to not have one, but still. . . .
This may be an unfair comparison but observing the politician/medical bureaucrat angle interests me.
It reminded me of when we briefly had a fruit store in 1993. My father semi-retired and had an empty commercial space in his building. We were in the market so we figured, what the heck? Let’ sell limes. He hired a guy with years of experience to manage it to ‘teach us the ropes’. But I think one month in, we realized he knew his fruits but didn’t know how to read demand and adjust accordingly to purchases. We learned that inside a month. For example, if you see your traffic flow leads to X-sales, then instead of buying 10 boxes of lemons you buy, say, five. Better to have less than more because the waste factor can sink you. Stupid shit like that
We told my father that. He was OVER BUYING. We had stacks of lemon, cherry etc. boxes (and cherries are not a fruit you want to be rotting). I said let’s get to know the market more so as to perfect how much we buy. But the guy was insisting you over buy ‘in case’ there was a rush. I told him, since I was the driver with a truck driving licence, I’ll run over to the depot to get more fruit if we need it but spending cash and there’s no volume is retarded.
Our accountant tried to reason with my father telling him it can work if he listened to us. But nope. Gaeten was the ‘expert’. We were just kids. I lost interest and told my father he was going to close and he was pissing away good hard earned money.
Long story short, yada-yada, I still grab fruit in a store and raise it to the air and say, ‘Ah, now that’s a PAPAYA!’
“But sir, that’s a mango.”
Step aside, and let the mango through.
+1 elevator to the mezzanine
Free
I have no clue what possible crime you could imagine charging a person with for wearing a mask into a store at a time when they are being ordered by the government to wear a mask in the store. But there we are.
Thought crimes re the best crimes. It’s whatever people they don’t like are doing.
It’s like that story about the Michigan protests in which the writer simultaneously tut-tutted about the lack of masks and social distancing in the mob, and referred alarmedly to armed protesters with their faces partially covered.
Meat shortages? I say collusion and price fixing!
Everyone knows that investigations and potential prosecution is the absolute best way to stream line business processes.
Oh, and then there is this wonderful tidbit way at the end of the story:
Because I’m sure regulatory strategies have not kept other competitors out of the market at all.
JFC
It’s like the politicians want us to starve.
Ya’ think?
Cunts.
Massie has been fighting to pass an act that would have less regulation to prevent this bullshit.
Is that the guy that would put Satan in the Whitehouse to get rid of Trump, the president that has actually cut regulations?
I think I remember him.
Amash is the guy who got TDS so bad, wasn’t it?
I think Massie is still in the “about as good as you can hope for from a pol” column.
Correct.
Massie is solid.
The Swamp hates him, so I like him.
Massie is solid. – I dunno man how much does he deadlift?
Depends if he is wearing a suit.
I think that’s Amash, Suthen
I remember when farmers and ranchers were small businesses before they were strangled out with regulations. Thanks Government!
Heard it on the radio and in ag pubs. Ranchers lobby has been pushing that angle hard.
Understandably, not everyone was enthusiastic about her decision. Powers said she received a number of emails from residents telling her to comply with the shelter-in-place order in addition to warnings from the chief of police and the mayor’s office. She said she reached out to San Mateo County Health to ask what protocols she needed to follow in order to re-open but did not hear back. The county has reported 1,315 confirmed coronavirus cases and 56 deaths.
It’s a dadgum tragedy. Those people should never have been forced into that art gallery at gunpoint. What has this nation come to.
“We have employees to employ. We have bills to pay,” the letter continued. “We’ve risked everything; we’ve worked too hard and fought too long to bring our business to life, to keep it alive, and to grow it over the past 24 years to sit passively and watch it die.”
Selfish moneygrubbers. What about the Social Contract?
Where is Tony these days anyway?
His ACORN gig is up.
TDS finally killed him.
Hit by a bus.
One of the local St. Paul barber shops defied the stay-at-home order yesterday and tried to open. They apparently served a handful of customers before the cops shut them down. Somehow I doubt we’ll be seeing pictures and video of the cops shutting them down — the optics of a black barber shop getting shut down by due to a white, Democrat governor’s orders wouldn’t look too good.
https://alphanewsmn.com/barber-walz-shutdowns/
The barber shop does have a GoFundMe, for those interested.
The thing I hate about that article is all the sentences about the businessman’s charitable donations and his charity work. It’s like the above article where it’s “feeding my kids.” They have to petition the government and the media as a Noble Victim who’s Not Like Those Running Dog Capitalists.
We’ve moved so far from “I’m a free man and I can go into business for myself, and if you don’t like it you can sit and spin.” The media is painting him as a Noble Community Businessman of Color who Gives Back. The commerce is just the icky necessity that he has to do so he can give to charity.
If he was a white guy without big time charitable giving who said “I work to earn a living, and I have every right to serve customers who choose to come in, and the government has no right to do this.” he’d be an Evil Racist Nazi Libertarian AntiGovernment Extremist.
I don’t know, maybe I’m reading too far into it. I just get this vibe where every single businessman has to justify that they’re Not a Big Corporation, they’re Family Owned and Community Focused. Profit is evil, profit is icky. Where are my Randian supermen who are in business to make money?
Dude it’s on fucking steroids in my area. If you don’t work for a non-profit, NGO, agency or startup you’re persona non grata. Nothing pisses me off more than talking to someone about work and asking them what they do and thier response is they work for a “non-profit” as if a tax code designation is satisfactory answer to my inquiry.
“Oh, so you’re a deadweight loss on the productive members of society.”
deadweight loss
scammers and leeches
Just hold on a minute, there, cowboy.
As somebody who has worked the bulk of my career in nonprofits, I just want to say you weren’t supposed to notice.
I assume people who work for “non-profits” are scammers and leeches until proven otherwise.
Their livelihoods generally depend on hood-winking others into giving them money using guilt.
Pretty much.
So you prefer government programs over voluntary association?
I don’t think you’re reading too much into it. The implication is that business owners who are considered more noble for whatever reason have more of a right to do business than those who are not.
Which is a really awful notion.
Governments and a large swath of its population has bought into essential vs. non-essential. It sickening.
Yeah every business owner has to mouth the right shibboleths. Hell, the word “businessman” is suspect. You’re an “entrepreneur” or you “work for a startup.” Plus there’s the cultural divide to it. It’s not just the size thing, there’s also very much a Good Business/Bad Business divide. Mom and pop sporting goods shop that has a pistol counter are Evil Merchants of Death, but a giant tech corporation that deletes and alters messages and turns in dissidents to the Chinese Communists is a Model of Corporate Social Responsibility. If you own an independent burger joint you’re a Vibrant Part of the Community, if you own a Chick FIl A franchise you’re a Homophobic Corporate Stooge. Journalists getting laid off is a Dangerous Threat to Our Nation’s Freedom, coal miners getting laid off is Learn to Code Dirty Hicks.
I have been furious throughout this whole thing at these fucking governmental parasites with their freshly cut hair, their stage makeup, maintaining their exercise routines and their entire paychecks bloviating about “We’re all in this together”.
The thing I hate about that article is all the sentences about the businessman’s charitable donations and his charity work.
Yup. Reminds me of how every big new business opening is lauded because of the tax revenue that will be seized from it. There is absolutely a subconscious(?) mindset that businesses exist and can be justified solely to pay taxes.
…and every taxing authority is offering up abatements so the business will choose town A rather than town B…
They perfectly understand incentives and yet create the obstacles as soon as a new business opens
It’s pushed in the public school system. When you talk up jobs to elementary school kids, its always government jobs or service jobs. Cop, Firefighter, Teacher, Nurse. There’s never any effort to teach kids where wealth comes from, how businesses work. This is 100% deliberate.
In happier (?) news, mail volume is up to nearly Xmas levels at the Postal Plant which means that either consumer confidence is soaring or that people are desperately buying shit in order to stave off ennui. In my present state of mind I’ll go with the latter. Mind you, apparently half the country now works for the Government in some way or the other and they haven’t felt the pinch, yet. Titty twister is a hell of a prank, Asshoes.
I’ve been buying stuff from Amazon that I would normally just run out to the store to get – just so that I don’t go postal on the petty tyrants.
Good morning, Sloopy!
I gotta believe the virus has been here easily since November. Which makes the freakout all the worse.
I don’t wear a mask because I Stand With Rand! Fuck you, scolds. We should have been wearing them three months ago. Now it’s just retarded.
What a great song! I linked one once and Crusty claimed it flipped his gender. But we all know gender isn’t binary.
I hope each of you has a fantastic day!
Mornin’ Tundra! Don’t let it bring you down https://youtu.be/F7letrMf_nE
Hi Festus!
Blocked in the good ol’ USA, but hey,
don’t let it get you down!
Whistleblower
“His efforts to prioritize science and safety over political expediency and to expose practices that posed a substantial risk to public health and safety, especially as it applied to chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, rankled those in the Administration who wished to continue to push this false narrative,” the complaint reads.
“The people I work for didn’t do exactly what I said they should do!”
“…the best scientists we have in government…”
Well then, if they are in government…
Then they must not be good scientists.
Yeah. The absolute beatification of the Unelected Administrative Ruler is one of the more worrying developments during the Trump Era.
By the way….about shutting down schools and what not. I was in Italy when the schools shut down. But they shut down not because of science or anything like that. They shut down because parents were deciding to keep their kids home. So the government said, ‘meh, at this point may as well play it safe.’ At least that’s how I was reading it.
Then it somehow became a required action to stop the spreading. Some kind of herd copy cat thing happened. Fulfilling prophecies and all that…
The attorneys general for 11 Midwestern states urged the Justice Department on Tuesday to pursue a federal investigation into market concentration and potential price fixing by meatpackers in the cattle industry during the coronavirus pandemic.
Is there some sort of maximum IQ limit for being a state AG? They seem to be some of the dumbest people on the planet. Imbued with animal cunning and shifty self-promotion, but dumb.
“…Imbued with animal cunning and shifty self-promotion, but dumb.”
You just described every one who has ever run for public office.
“He literally ORDERED these facilities to take these patients. This is straight up commie propaganda playbook shit.”
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1258001061471834113
“De Blasio on nursing homes: “A lot of these are for-profit organizations. I think there’s going to be a lot of questions about whether they put their residents first or whether they put profit first””
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1257993862334857216
A lot of people should be wondering who was putting what first, but not about the nursing homes….
Nursing homes are owned by political cronies and often by public officials that makes the rules for nursing homes. Every one of them.
Out of state volunteers who helped NY deal with Coronavirus – bend over and get ready to pay state and city taxes.
Will they moot the lawsuit before they get a SCOTUS ruling bitchslapping their extraterritoriality claims forevermore?
I know that California will tax you on income made outside of the state, and i hear they have been trying to tax people who freelance for California employers. I think Some other States have pushed back against that.
CA taxes income “earned” in CA even for people that don’t reside in CA. Pro athletes pay some pretty substantial CA tax bills for being the visiting team there.
Convenience of the employer test say fuck you very much. Money earned inside a jurisdiction is even easier for taxmen to take.
Sick.
“We’re not in a position to provide any subsidies right now because we have a $13 billion deficit,”
Not collecting income tax from those the state begged to come and help is a “subsidy.”
Not taking is giving.
Just like with the oil companies.
Um, little things like this can easily multiply to become lots of little things which become big things which become massive, cataclysmic things.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8290869/Cops-arrest-Texas-bar-owner-six-armed-supporters-tries-reopen-establishment.html
See: Archduke Ferdinand, assassination of.
In the end of all this nonsense their should be a reckoning – https://youtu.be/stBOhNxLrbM
there almost never is though.
Gah. I’m done for the day. Birds have been singing for hours and I’m just sitting here with steam coming out of my ears. Have a great one, Glibs.
there is a lie meme spreading on the internet and now I learned this is where it probably originated
https://twitter.com/alpharivelino/status/1257182650697211904
also some NSFW things
Saw it, seems like trolling.
Out of state volunteers who helped NY deal with Coronavirus – bend over and get ready to pay state and city taxes.
New York should fine them for practicing without a (NY) license.
I went through the executive orders he issued, one required the state agencies to recognize licenses from other states for the practice of medicine, etc.
This makes me wonder, shouldn’t occupational licenses be recognized under the full faith and credit clause anyway?
Now do carry permits.
Carry permits are banned under the 2nd amendment and shouldn’t exist.
Excellent answer.
Gold star for you!
This makes me wonder, shouldn’t occupational licenses be recognized under the full faith and credit clause anyway?
I don’t know how that works. It seems to work only for Marriage and Drivers Licenses
And drivers licenses because of the interstate pacts that are in place.
Jeez man, give the bureaucracy a chance to catch up – first get the tax money, then hit them with the fines.
$2 Million home in Palo Alto vs $2 Million home in one of the most desirable suburbs of Columbus Ohio. This is why working from home and remote companies will win.
https://twitter.com/bryanrbeal/status/1257472953924624385
I actually quite like houses surrounded by lots of mature trees, especially not all in a row or excessively designed. Forest looking.
You haven’t been to Palo Alto and Columbus, have you?
it is self evident I have not
See Pie, Ohio’s not all that bad.
There are only two reasons I plan to return to Ohio – 1: glibs are there. 2: it’s on the shortest route between me and a lot of the country.
I just like the trees. Also the lake. The lake is a nice touch. I would like a property adjacent a nice lake. When I go to mom’s place I like to sit by the lake with a drink and look at nothing, the water, the wildlife and that is kinds of a tiny lake. The house seems way to big, although the architecture is decent. It can be any other place.
I’m not a collapsetarian – but I think we just got a lot closer.
Now ask a random resident of Palo Alto what they think of relaxing zoning and other regs that prop up those prices.
I think it is the to lax gun laws in Palo Alto driving the property prices.
Points to ponder as the state considers requiring everyone to stay in their houses for the rest of their lives.
So it is official from 15th may we are going back to the office, 25%. We have sort of 4 people islands, 2 on each side. The rule is no more than 1 person per island and no changing desks. This is kinda silly for my department because I work in a team of 4 which all sit at the same island which means we can never be more than 1 person from the team at a time in the office.
We need a poll to see how many glibs saw the error of their ways and are no longer libertarian after the covid thing is over.
*raises hand*
Anarchist.
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Welcome to the party.
Apathist, but I was mostly that before.
Pretty much. As cynical as I am I truly didn’t realize how close we actually were to a total totalitarian state. Full anarchist now.
My sentiments exactly.
Still a minarchist, until someone can convince me that Madison was wrong:
He’s not wrong. If men were angels, there would still be no need for government.
I wonder if Satan was just a anarchist and God got tired of his memes.
Satan is the original shitposter.
Conservatarian Glib
Just for the fun of it.
Political Nihilist.
I feel as though my previous beliefs are being proven correct.
well why are you on a libertarian site then huh?
To post tits.
http://archive.li/qcQTi/d8e55f8d47d620276ebe45b3a1da287c0cf4e9e2.jpg
Still a minarchist.
All the deep impulses that make minarchy (like all political arrangements) temporary apply just as much to anarchy. You can start with anarchy, but you can’t keep it.
The same goes for life, so I don’t find the argument particularly compelling.
Somewhat less terse: Anarchism’s fatal flaw is that it ignores or downplays elements of human nature, including our penchant for violence. Without a single final arbiter of disputes in society, many disputes will go to violence. An anarchist society will either collapse or eventually evolve into gang/warlordism.
In an anarchist society, every business is an extralegal/black market business. Consider what happens in extralegal/black market businesses – market share, contract disputes, etc. tend to be resolved with live fire. You can say this is because tehy don’t have access to the legal system, but there is no legal system in an anarchist society. There can be “voluntary” dispute resolution, but if the losers aren’t required (ultimately, by threat of force) to accept losing, then some won’t. Even organized crime has cartels where the bosses are supposed to sit down and resolve their differences peacefully. But those cartels never persist for very long. Because they guy who just saw his plan to take over somebody territory rejected, or who just saw his territory given to somebody else, will fight for it. Dispute resolution cannot happen every single time without violence or the threat of violence. Minarchy is an attempt to limit and channel that.
There is a reason why every persistent human society has some form of authority that must be accepted to live in that society. That pattern won’t change. Minarchism at least recognizes this and tries to control it. Ignoring it doesn’t mean it goes away.
Counter counter: the ultimate arbiter is always the individual. Groups don’t think, believe, or decide. The most they can do is influence.
Now, the weight of this influence may be more or less substantial, but no argument for minarchism can avoid the dilemma of individual choice.
“Ultimately”, the state may be the equivalent (very loosely speaking) of the team of physicians keeping an extremely ill person alive, but it has, to date, proven impossible to render the perverse incentives of power effectively null. The only recourse is changing how the individual relates to others, regardless of anarchism, minarchism, or ‘maxarchism’. As such, the asserted ultimate loss of anarchism is a sword that cuts all necks. It is not a special weakness of the principles of government, it is a special weakness of the person.
So, I persist in being unpersuaded that anarchism is somehow more fatally flawed than minarchism.
The fault is not in our states but in us.
Yesterday I was chatting with people on a non-political forum that has a thread devoted to the coronavirus (somehow it was my post that started it). Most of them are firmly behind the lockdown decisions. And some of them are expressing their approval of Trump because he favored the lockdowns and contempt for the governors who are reopening the states. They also now see for the first time who biased the media is against Trump. One person refused to accept that Neil Ferguson’s 2.2 million figure was an important reason why the White House switched to the lockdown strategy. I gave him a quote from the WSJ, then another one from the NYT. But he wouldn’t accept because the WH didn’t admit it. And other forum members nodded: so much media bias. I was like Alice in Wonderland: arguing that the media might be correct and not everything from the Trump WH should be accepted without reservation. I’m pretty sure these people are not typical Trump supporters. Trump gained new supporters with his pro-lockdown stance.
Trump gained new supporters with his pro-lockdown stance.
*groans*
Rap is getting weirder.
I could have better wit a bit of editing.
Fun… /sarc
One meeting wraps up and it’s time for another meeting.
Being management sucks.
Beats working, amirite?
I miss the satisfaction of completing a project and having everything working before the users come in and wreck it.
“Pro-lockdown extremists in denial about why we did it in the first place
We will be in a fight against the novel coronavirus for months, if not years, and yet it is time to declare mission accomplished on one very important goal.
The lockdowns of much of the country were undertaken “to flatten the curve” and largely to prevent the hospital system from being overrun. It was a near-run thing in New York and New Jersey, but the dikes held, thanks to the incredible sacrifices of front-line health workers.
Now, the rhetoric around the shutdowns has shifted, and not very subtly — flattening the curve and saving the hospitals are “out,” and not allowing any additional cases to emerge is “in.”
It’s difficult to remember, but flattening the curve was never supposed to be about eradicating the disease. A piece in the progressive website Vox featured a widely circulated version of the flattening-the-curve graph and noted that shutdown measures “aren’t so much about preventing illness but rather slowing down the rate at which people get sick.””
https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/pro-lockdown-extremists-in-denial-about-why-we-did-it-in-the-first-place/
This. Over and over
Well those people at Vox thought the deaths were inevitable. Now that we know we could stop them by sacrificing your children to Ba’al why would you object?
It is abundantly clear at this point that they are worried about the economy recovering before November.
OMB didn’t cause coronavirus, and I don’t think it was the motivating factor behind the lockdown panic. I DO, however, think that there’s a very strong “never let a crisis go to waste” element to it now.
I have no doubt you are right.
Trump will win and they still won’t have a clue why.
I mean, there are plenty of Dems who very publicly wished for an economic collapse over the past few years. It’s not as if there isn’t a track record here which would lend itself to suspicion.
there’s a very strong “never let a crisis go to waste” element to it now.
Its quite overt, Everybody has hitched their wagon to the Commie Cough hobbyhorse. I can’t even count the number of hard leftists who are saying this is a once in a century chance to Fundamentally Transform Our Society.
I think part of this is that if you repeat something often enough, people will believe it. In this case, we’ve heard “Stay at home! Save lives!” over and over. And most people bought into that. So anything that goes against that programming is going to meet some resistance.
I think you are right and most people don’t understand how flattening the curve works.
Bundesliga re-start given Merkel’s dispensation: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52557699
TOO SOON!
“Here come the exploding heads. I hope she’s ok. But she needs to retire if she can’t do her job.”
Why come she look so mad?
“NYC mayor: Other states may be reopening too quickly”
Yeah, we know, you’re so worried about them rednecks in the flyover. Just put up checkpoints at your border to not allow anyone in or out.
I thought other states were already hunting for illegal new yorkers.
Rhode Island doesn’t count, it’s barely the size of a county.
I think they are working on that.
Especially out please.
The NYC mayor needs to stick to overseeing his petri dish of a city. Just because the Commie Cough is killing his subjects at a rate of multiples of other states, and even upstate NY, doesn’t mean everybody should wait until it finally burns out in NYC to open up.
so I will attempt to make a sazerac with the new rye straffinrun made me purchase, maybe it is better that way, but I have no sugar. I usually don’t like sweet drinks though. Do I skip the sugar completely or add a small amount of honey?
If you have no sugar, it won’t be a sazerac. Might still be good with honey, but it will be an inherently different drink.
way to spoil my cocktail.
From your critique of Straf’s whiskey suggestions I thought you were a whiskey expert…then you mentioned a mixed drink.
Straight, or with ice/water. That’s it. Cocktails are for bar stock.
I have the rye which is not special enough to just sip so I decided to try a mix. I do them rarely but occasionally I enjoy one or two. Mostly martinis but some other things.
I am not sure how important the quality of the absinthe is given the low quantity. I bought a cheapish Czech one given I don’t drink the stuff and only wanted to use in small quantities in eventual mixed drinks.
Powerline, good stuff today,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/mid-week-in-pictures-giant-murder-hornets-edition.php
Good grief. 10:00 am and I am already passed buzzed.
There are three kinds of people:
1. People who like talking about themselves
2. People who like talking about other people
3. People who like talking about ideas
1 and 2 hate talking about ideas as they fear having their own ideas challenged.
I need a nap
Past…dammit.
Let me tell you about my ideas…
Do you have a newsletter?
4. People who don’t talk
(Insert picture of Coolidge here)
Yusef, I am still thinking of your lovely diorama.
Nice!
/takes a bow…
Didn’t post (I was on mobile and really don’t like trying to post on mobile), but I really liked it. The fact that it was a temporary thing just adds to its charm, IMO.
Best Chicken Wings! – 200 Year Old Recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOSMTC7L7AI
Lame judge Moye’s page:
“A lifelong Democrat, Judge Moyé is a dedicated public servant who is passionate about justice and committed to mentoring a new generation of legal professionals. Judge Moyé was honored as Trial Judge of the Year by the American Board of Trial Advocates of Texas, Dallas Chapter.”
A lifelong Democrat. Totes impartial.
The arrogance of admitting your political affiliation and then pulling that stunt on the women.
http://www.judgemoye.com
I think I would have done a worse job than she did. My line of inquiry would have cut right to the fact that the judge is collecting a paycheck while denying me and mine a livelihood I would have antagonized him and quite possibly said some very regrettable things and harsh language.
I probably couldn’t have resisted asking him if his oath of office mentioned the state or federal constitution.
“Your Honor, I cannot put my finger on the provision of the Bill of Rights that states it can suspended if a member of the executive branch declares an emergency. A little help, here?”
Would chippers be involved?
Same here. I would have gone a rant tear.
AND YOU LOOK FUCKEN STUPID IN THAT MASK!
He’s a piece of shit and pieces of shit deserve to be spoken like they’re pieces of shit because they’re piece of shits.
Judge Moyé was honored as Trial Judge of the Year by the American Board of Trial Advocates of Texas,
Ah, the Texas plaintiffs’ bar. Lefties and parasites, with zero compunction about buying judges via massive political donations.
What’s darkly humorous is that Texas reopens hair salons in only 2 days.
So will she be in jail when her hair salon is now legally allowed to operate?
Probably. And it just proves that criminal penalties aren’t really imposed for doing whatever the law forbids. They are imposed for disobedience.
YES! Couldn’t put my finder on it until you said it!
The Judge isn’t mad that she broke a law (she didn’t). He sees actual criminals every day and probably never bothers lecturing them. He’s upset because she DISOBEYED her betters.
But he’s credentialed!
https://blog.smu.edu/theanti-apartheidmovementinnorthtexas/biography/eric-moye/
He had a chance to show compassion. Instead he chose to be an authoritarian asshole. He probably got deposited a big fat pay that very day.
Open up already. Douche-slime balls are having too much fun with this. I wouldn’t let this guy rake my lawn.
‘Hi. I’m Judge Moye and I need your help!’
‘Here’s some Goo-Gone. Go remove that stubborn sticker residue on my window.’
Where’s the ACLU in all this?
Good one!
Filing amicus briefs supporting the lockdown as a guarantee of the right to be free from anxiety about the Commie Cough?
Careful buddy, some people might take this as a sideways endorsement of homeschooling.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/coronavirus-style-remote-learning-could-be-schools-wave-of-future-cuomo/
Teachers’ union thugs might have to break your legs.
I have 3 kids doing this and it’s exposed my other talking point on education.
..
Most research suggests that the average young kid can only get a couple hours of schooling a day anyway and really learn. The rest of the 6 hours? Mostly a waste for the majority of kids.
I have contended that it’s long past time schools admit that they are just day cares and allow flexibility with at least half that time. Possibly even allowing them to go elsewhere for music, arts, sports, mechanics, skills, or deeper academic specialization if that’s their desire. Every kid is different and has different gifts. One size fits all schooling is a waste of young talent.
And what has happened during all this schooling from home? The children basically blow through all the curriculum in a couple of hours leaving them free for the rest of the day. Are they learning less? Probably not. They are just learning WAY MORE EFFICIENTLY and have time to do other things.
“And what has happened during all this schooling from home? The children basically blow through all the curriculum in a couple of hours leaving them free for the rest of the day. Are they learning less? Probably not. They are just learning WAY MORE EFFICIENTLY and have time to do other things.”
Exactly. Turns out “if you complete your tasks to standard, then you’re done” means kids work hard and fast.
That’s just teaching to the test thinking.
(Which isn’t a bad thing if the test is structured to measure what is supposed to be taught)
There was a private school in Louisville that I would have probably sent my daughter to if I was still there:
Kindergarten is a 2 day program
Grades 1-2 is 3 day and for grade 3 and up is 4 days per week.
And even for those later grades, Friday is a short day, about 3/4ths of a normal school day.
So they do about 3.75 days at most per week. Monday is off day every week, they have a special home school program on Mondays where local home schoolers can get some on campus instruction in choice areas. For other students, Monday is home project day.
Nah. As long as the state can stomp on homeschooling and private schools, the teachers love it. Even less work for them. I would guess they are working half-days doing “remote learning”, and once they are converted to that mode, they will be collecting fulltime paychecks for working a couple hours a day. And they aren’t responsible for behavior problems.
What they probably don’t like is that remote learning allows parents to see exactly how mediocre they are.
“What they probably don’t like is that remote learning allows parents to see exactly how mediocre they are.”
I would think that this trumps any desire for extra free time. Right after colleges went remote, profs were already strategizing ways to hide what they were really teaching because they were horrified that the mooks paying the bills might find out that their kids’ head were being filled with mush.
News you hopefully don’t need to use.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/is-saying-a-guy-has-a-small-dick-body-shaming
No shame in Small Dicks!
Maybe the penis wasn’t the problem. Lol.
https://youtu.be/0zret7O8YoU
The real economic pain is yet to come.
What I’m seeing are construction proposals and bids being yanked at a feverish pace. The impact will hit in late summer to early fall when construction activity is just going to dry up.
It’s not just commercial. Schools, fire stations, etc… are all being pulled because tax revenue has gone to shit. We’re talking projects that were on the books already.
Yikes! I hope you are wrong.
He’s not. I supply major plumbing, mechanical and electrical wholesalers throughout North America. I recently got the smallest order ever from my largest customer. We’ve been supplying them for 10+ years.
This is not pretty.
Yeah but those people are icky and deplorable. I see them here, driving around in old work trucks. White men in tshirts. Sometimes the bumper stickers on their trucks say evil racist things like “I’m the NRA and I vote” or “Taxed Enough Already.”
They’re not important people, they don’t really matter.
Yes I’m in construction and I see the cliff coming.
I just finished up a conversation with someone who thinks Trump’s leadership during crisis has been abysmal. What should he have done? “He should have declared martial law in New York City and North Jersey and brought in the army to enforce it for a month.” Now that I think about it, perhaps NYC and NoNJ should be under permanent martial law.
Must have been some Redneck Country person who hate NYC. It’s like De Blassio. I don’t know how all these country folk who hate city folk get in power in these places, but somehow they do and make life hell for the city folk.
And if that didn’t work?
‘Duh? Isn’t it obvious? Liquidation.’
Anyone else hate the concept of “leadership?” I mean there’s obvious situations where it’s critical and very valuable, but just as a standard catch-all day to day thing, it’s a touch Orwellian for my tastes. I think excessive “leadership” is one of the things that gets us into so much trouble.
This is good.
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