uhhhhngg….
So a few of TPTB are a bit…stressed. And tired. We are hoping Sloopy can get his Big Thing done successfully. OMWC had yet another flat on the van, and I had to resort to a third cup of coffee this morning. Quelle horreur!
I tried to get SEA SMITH in to cover, but he seems busy these days. I would stay off any ships in Asian waters…
Thus, you are reduced to having me do the links one more time:
- Should we be expecting a DEFINITELY NOT SPACE SMITH succession in the Kingdom soon?
- Bees!
- What is it with lefty protests and all the public defecation?
First because, i don’t know…..
Wait, I thought the Murder Hornets were going to kill all of the bees?
The Bees kill the hornets, this is known and scary to watch,
I seem to recall that European bees get their whole hives decimated by a few dozen hornets, but Japanese bees have a way of killing hornet scouts so the main force doesn’t attack. It’s really a sight to see to see.
Surround and overheat them to death.
Pretty cool, I think. Japanese bee scientists must have been working on that solution for years.
Have you ever seen a Cicada Killer, a big hornet-type bug, take down a cicada? They sting them in mid-air then carry them off. Gross but cool.
“the only good Bug, is a dead one”
/Would you like to know more?
Got a cicada killer up my shirt when I was a teen. Bastard stung me five times.
I didn’t know they stung.
That ovipositor ain’t just for laying eggs.
You have to really piss them off.
Apparently, being trapped in a teenager’s shirt really pisses them off.
“Technically cicadas don’t bite or sting; they do however pierce and suck. They might try to pierce and suck you, but don’t worry, they aren’t Vampires nor are they malicious or angry — they’re just ignorant and think you’re a tree. Just remove the cicada from your person, and go about your business. Cicadas also have pointy feet, egg-laying parts (ovipositors) and other sharp parts that might feel like a bite.
Cicadas don’t have jaws (mandibles) like a wasp, mantis or ant, built to tear and chew flesh. Cicadas don’t have stingers, like bees and wasps, meant to deploy venom and paralyze or otherwise harm their victim.
Cicadas obtain sustenance by drinking tree fluids, which are relatively watery compared to human blood. Drinking human blood would probably kill a cicada.
Caution: Don’t hold cicadas in a closed fist — you can hurt the cicadas, and they might try to drink from your hand meat.”
Cicada killers, not cicadas
Oh, those definitely sting.
The other hazard of getting something like that in your shirt is beating yourself to death while trying to kill it.
*chuckle*
For any of you who are familiar with the Order of the Arrow, I was on the ceremony team and in full makeup when it happened. I’m trying to serenely and seriously escort new inductees to the campfire when the bastard goes up my leather shirt. I hand my torch to one of the inductees and proceed to flail and beat myself while running away.
Into the dark woods I might add.
“Is that dance part of the ceremony?”
Of course!
NEVER… BREAK… CHARACTER
That’s why we did our initiation in the Egyptian desert. No wasps to worry about. (Just snakes. And scorpions. And possibly unexploded ordnance from various Arab-Israeli wars.)
Once – it was glorious.
Can’t Believe DeBlasio would do that, just for a photo op.
“During his daily briefing, the mayor said NYPD officers were sent in because the protest movement which began a month ago had been growing smaller. He also said he was not influenced by President Donald Trump’s threats to send in federal agents but was a health and safety issue they had been looking at for days.”
Yeah, sure, you’re Mr. Public Safety, asshole.
That’s really hard to believe. More likely he put his finger in the wind and realized it wasn’t blowing his way.
a health and safety issue they had been looking at for days
Yeah, real worried about “health and safety”. I mean, when we have a health and safety issue, that’s what we do: we look at it for days and days before we take action.
Haaaaang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on!
*sigh*
damn squirrels
O…
Cananda?
Hit that theme music.
I like this version better.
You know who else had Boat issues in the Gulf of Tonkin…?
Because you beat me to it, I’m awarding you the coveted [golf clap]
Vietnamese Fishermen?
Mattel?
“‘Is that the best they could come up with?’ NFL fans troll the Redskins as they reveal their new name for 2020 season is ‘Washington Football Team'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8554039/Redskins-officially-called-Washington-Football-Team.html
That’s just pathetic. Why not call them the Washington Footy McBallfaces?
Welcome to our new, woke future.
I was really upset when I thought football was going to be banned because of TBI/wokeplace safety issues.
I’m becoming less so.
Should be Washington Total Football Team
Washington Savages or Lobbyists
I like the idea of OL being able to play kicker in a pinch.
Washington Pussyhats. They can wear them instead of helmets. I foresee no problems.
By the way, when do the white WASP europeans rise up in protest of using Patriots as a mascot?
Seems appropriative.
Maybe they are waiting for all this to blow over so they can go back to the Redskins. Would that be a form of Indian giving?
I was thinking they were waiting for it to blow over because no matter what name they chose, it would be wrong right now.
They may as well go full woke and get rid of the problematic “Washington” part right now. “Most Northwest State of the Contiguous 48 Football Team” has a nice ring to it.
I’m still hoping they do an internet contest to rename the team.
I would vote for the Washington McBoatfaces.
I’d by a fucking jersey.
At first I thought The Onion was behind this. Now I think Dan Snyder is trolling us.
Washington Trumps. I mean, if you are gonna troll…
Edmonton Eskimos are also now just Edmonton Football Team.
“What is it with lefty protests and all the public defecation?”
Maybe a little it of the protestors are homeless and mentally ill?
Just pulling ideas out of my ass, here…
Just pulling ideas out of my ass, here…
That’s how lefties engage in thoughtful debate.
That was a dirty crack.
It’s a hairy mess, that’s for sure.
Or maybe they aren’t offended by $hit due to an impaired sense of smell… cuz they’re sociopaths and all.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120920115739.htm
You can’t fool me this time! This is a CIA setup by Trump!
Dammit!
I guess there is a wee bit o’ groupthink going on here.
hehe. Yeah, maybe.
Maybe there’s an Airmobile division he could send in to help?
I finally managed to get craigslist ad numero uno up. Good grief what a pain in the ass.
Hey, C-list- why isn’t there a way to edit “category” for fumblefingered dummies like me who didn’t realize the thing defaulted to “antiques”?
And- you’ll let me set up an account with NO password, but you won’t accept the password I might actually remember, because it’s “too weak”?
First thing we do, let’s kill all the web designers.
A men
“FuckCraigslist1!”
In other news, I took a 3/4-full coffee can of change to the bank and came away with almost 175 simoleons.
Good on you. I’ve never gotten anywhere near that much. Did that include pennies?
Nice! Did you go and leave any at the Maxis Man statue?
That’s enough for a hooker and a Philly cheesesteak.
Or 3 boxes of ammo.
I think most calibers are more expensive than that.
Box of 20.
That must have been a huge coffee can.
Brooks has big cans.
Chock full o’Bucks!
What is it with lefty protests and all the public defecation?
Maybe some of the protestors are from Saudi Arabia, and are full of Holy Shiite?
But it’s always Sunni in Saudi Arabia.
Shia, Sunni, Whahabb you
Uh oh, Swiss is going to throw his gaze from a roof.
To avoid his wrath, let’s distract him with tasty cheese.
…that would work.
Since we’re doing Heinlein references today, the situation in Portland (and other places) is about five years away from the “abandoned areas” described in I Will Fear No Evil
Didn’t they also have “Public Defenders” in that book as well? Single user firearms that were bright yellow, and pinged some mercenaries/private security when they were fired?
And I’ve got more (change).
Keep it Barack……
Disabled freighter adrift, Gulf of Tonkin
Seen that movie. Don’t recommend it.
Really long one, IIRC.
That was the one where Hanoi kept getting bombed by us, right?
About 1/3rd the length of the Afghanistan one.
My latest Contract (USG) requires a mask in most situations, I hope they don’t notice this,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3RHbgFLfz9voWp8B7
Obey!
/ht Hayek
Nice
“A judge today has ordered the unsealing of a vast tranche of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, which could shed light on his friendship with powerful men accused of having sex with his victims.
Judge Loretta Preska said that 80 documents – which will run to hundreds of pages – should be made public within a week.
The documents will include depositions from Ghislaine Maxwell, which could explain her alleged role in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8553717/Epstein-flood-gates-open-judge-rules-explosive-Ghislaine-Maxwell-docs-unsealed.html
I can hear all the assholes puckering.
Oops all the hard drives broke!
I suppose it’s too early for that *It’s happening* gif.
Don’t get my hopes up.
So, she has very little time left to live?
As long as I’m bitching and moaning, I hate this Dell wireless mousy with a red-hot fury.
Dell pissed me off some years back. I don’t remember how or why, but I remember that I hate him now and refuse to buy Dell products any more.
Just get a Logitech wired mouse.
Logitech MX Master
Works on pretty much anything
RACIST!!!!!!
I had a much more basic Logitech wireless mouse which appeared to be possessed. Turns out the USB dongle was the problem.
I reverted to a wired mouse.
I have always preferred wired mice, but I still wonder if any are made outside of China. Evey time I see ‘Lenovo’ on my mouse, I am reminded that I sent the chicoms $5.
What is it with lefty protests and all the public defecation?
Would you really expect other from troops of howler monkeys?
I always have three cappuccinos in the first half of the day. Is it considered too many?
Yes. Drink plain black (no sugar) coffee brewed in your Mr. Coffee.
Mr. Coffee?! Look at you, Mr. Fancy. I boil a billy, m8.
The 34-year-old prince, who is popular among many young Saudis, has won praise at home for easing social restrictions in the conservative Muslim kingdom, giving more rights to women and pledging to diversify the economy.
To the king’s supporters, this boldness at home and abroad was a welcome change after decades of caution, stagnation and dithering.
But state control of the media and a crackdown on dissent make it difficult to gauge the extent of domestic enthusiasm.
I’m reminded of a joke election ballot claiming to be for some dictatorship. Iraq under Hussein or North Korea. I can’t remember which. One choice was for that country’s ruler, the other was, “Kill my family and torture me”.
No one was hurt in the sting-less operation.
The bee story didn’t rate a narrowed gaze?
During his daily briefing, the mayor said NYPD officers were sent in because the protest movement which began a month ago had been growing smaller. He also said he was not influenced by President Donald Trump’s threats to send in federal agents but was a health and safety issue they had been looking at for days.
The real reason is some Jews showed up?
Is it just me, or does that make no sense? Why would the fact that the protest is dwindling be the reason you send in the cops?
Because the cops wanted to go home safely that night. Breaking up a riot when you’re outnumbered 10-1 is dangerous and when it’s 2-1 much safer.
It doesn’t make sense.
Video shows thousands of bees swarming a Jersey Shore beach on Tuesday and gathering peacefully on a towel.
I don’t do bugs, bro.
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1285640184244195335
Rand: Because No One Else Knows What The Fuck Is Going On.
omg the comments. Tell my family I love them. Living as a vegetable isn’t living, so just pull my plug if it comes to it.
Replies are vicious,
Geeze. The Replies, i got taken down a path about Why “School Choice” is racist. Because it takes money away from the public schools, and if only they had that money they wouldn’t be so bad.
Like what the hell is this supposed to mean?
Isn’t the utter failure of public school administrators to fix their problems a reason to support vouchers, not oppose them?
GET BETTER TOP
MENPEOPLE!!! Duh? Don’t you ever progress?The only thing any of them associate with balancing a budget is more taxes. It’s been prove again and again that if you cut taxes, you get generate MORE revenue, not less. But they’re so dumbed down they’re incapable of learning. Simple talking points is their intellectual limit.
No, it hasn’t been proven again and again. The empirical evidence is mixed at best.
Indeed, if you are on the positive side of the Laffer peak then lowering taxes will increase revenue. But if you are on the negative side of the Laffer peak then lowering taxes will decrease revenue.
Of course, the Laffer curve is a model and even if it is a useful model it’s hard to know where the peak is at any given time/place/tax code.
There’s no one on Twitter who understood a thing he said.
One of the replies led me to this “fact check” which is notable both because the fact is not actually checked anywhere but also because of the great whataboutism. The whole thing can be summed up as: “Did Obama double the debt? Argle bargle, George Bush.” Apparently when they updated it in 2019 they didn’t bother to notice that they included no actual numbers for the end of Obama’s second term, I guess because it would be confusing to include facts in a fact check.
“Obama doubled the debt”
“You must be thinking of George Bush”
“No, I’m thinking of Barack Obama”
“But George Bush doubled the debt”
“Yes, and so did Obama; they both doubled the debt!”
[head explodes]
Did that include pennies?
It did. Lots of’em.
And now I’m reminded of my brother’s “spare change” story. When he was an 18-year-old bartender, he scored one of those giant Galliano bottles. He threw all his change in it. By the time he decided to cash it in, it weighed about three hundred pounds. He’s lucky it didn’t break through the floor in his room.
AOC Pulls An All-Nighter Studying For Covid Test
Protesters Clarify They’re Only OK With Secret Police In Communist Countries
Bees. Hmm, that seems familiar…
Rally in Harrisburg protesting Gauleiter Wolf’s latest restrictions
No more masks. No more restrictions.
And, they said, no more tyranny.
That was the rally cry of several hundred people who gathered on the Capitol steps Wednesday, calling for Gov. Tom Wolf to lift all coronavirus-related restrictions.
Organizers called the “Pennsylvania Assemble for Freedom” event a gathering “to call out the governor, and to demand to be set free from any and all restrictions and to return freedom of choice to ‘We the People.’”
This blog post includes a picture gallery from the rally.
I don’t know, up until now no reason was required for impeachment.
PA legislators haven’t gotten the memo yet. Their attempt to impeach Gauleiter Wolf has actual reasons in it.
Do they have enough of the legislature to actually boot him? I’m unafmiliar with PA impeachment law, and don’t know what the thresholds even are.
I doubt it as impeachment in Pennsylvania requires a 2/3rds vote of State Senators present.
The Republicans have gotten a few Democrats to join their side, but not enough to overturn any of Gauleiter Wolf’s vetoes of bills limiting Wolf’s emergency orders. If they can’t get enough Democrats to join them for overturning a veto, I doubt they can get enough on board for an impeachment.
2/3rds vote of State Senators present
That could be arranged, for a price.
Shut up, deplorable, the pandemic is RAGING!
“return freedom of choice to ‘We the People.”
How quaint.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8552645/Lottie-Moss-goes-braless-puts-eye-popping-display-tiny-cropped-cardigan.html
That is a weird bikini.
You can’t fool me, that’s a Real Doll.
I go braless all the time, and they’re not putting pictures of me in the Mail.
There’s a great one in the Post Office, however.
Who is that masked man?
The one with the nice rack? That’s Ted Sexy.
I tell you, there’s no justice in this world.
I’ve never seen a woman wearing a bra under a bikini top, and believe me, I’ve been looking.
Can one of our Russian Glibs call the Tula factory and have them send me a few cases of 9×19? Thanks.
Aren’t they considered below average quality?
Not sure, but the ones from the Tulpa factory are known to be substandard.
You would say that…Tulpa!
/Inspector Tulpa at your service!
Tulammo>wolf
(brown bear>tulammo though)
Wolf is just a distributor. They repackage ammo from Tula, Barnul, SK, and other manufacturers.
Yes they are, but my gun cycles them no problem. It’s omnivorous, just like it’s owner.
Let them know I’ll pay a supermarkup over their usual price. I’ll even pay up to $0.16 round!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8553875/Demi-Rose-puts-racy-display-goes-without-bikini-bottoms-boat-Ibiza.html
My condolences for your impending suicide.
Over Maxwell’s objections, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan said the presumption the public has a right to access large portions of the more than 80 documents at issue outweighed Maxwell’s arguments for keeping them under wraps, including that they could prove embarrassing. […]
Preska also said personal identifying information contained in the documents, as well as the names of many “non-parties,” will be redacted. […]
They include flight logs from Epstein’s private jets, deposition testimony in 2016 in which Maxwell’s lawyers said she was asked “intrusive” questions about her sex life, and police reports from Palm Beach, Florida, where Epstein had a home.
NH NEA says no return to school unless you meet our demands
The New Hampshire National Education Association has a simple message for the state’s school districts and the Sununu administration about returning to classroom instruction in the fall: It’s our way or the internet superhighway.
On Wednesday, the NEA-NH released its Principles for Reopening, which it says “serve as a set of minimum requirements to be met when negotiating any return to in-person instruction. District plans that include any amount of in-person instruction need to follow these steps before beginning such instruction or allowing staff and students into a school building.”
“If, after working together with the district, it is determined these requirements will not be met, students and staff must return to remote instruction until their school can be made safe,” said NEA-NH President Megan Tuttle.
Polls consistently show that while parents are conflicted over how to balance their fear of COVID-29 with the adverse effects of keeping their kids out of class, a majority say they’re ready for their children to return to the classroom.
Note: Typo (COVID-29) in the original.
you could also have done that inline as “COVID-29 [sic].”
Don’t tell Gauleiterin DEG how he should post!
Salty.
Typo (COVID-29)
Not a typo – advance planning.
Sorry for the paywall – but like no shit… Amazon despite being filled with progressives of all kinds is utterly ruthless.
Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products
I’m not surprised… I read their terms of service.
Sounds like they took a page out of Microsoft’s book. In the good old days, “partnering” with M$ was guaranteed to make you disappear in short order (looking at you, SQL Server).
I was about to say the same thing. Microsoft was notorious for that in the 90s.
The current crop of people running these startups have no idea about that stuff from the dark ages.
Although their bankers should so maybe this was the best end stage they could come up with. There was an interesting long form article I read about Netflix. I’m pretty sure it was Amazon that was looking to buy. They got out a meeting with them and realized Amazon with a bad taste in their mouth. So they essentially doubled down and here we are.
Part of the reason I loved HBO’s “Silicon Valley” so much.
My favorite Amazon move was when they got patent on blocking in store price comparison requests. So if BBY wants to stop their customers from comparison shopping with Amazon, they might be infringing on Amazon’s IP.
They also bought a warehouse automation company and basically stopped supporting and selling equipment to the company’s previously installed base.
Classy!
A startup I worked for was purchased by Cisco for a price that I thought was low. Though I was not involved in the negotiations, I suspect they went something like this: “We’ve been a customer of yours for years. We know exactly how your product works. We could recreate it and take your customer base. Or you can sell out to us. Here’s our price.”
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in Manhattan said the presumption the public has a right to access large portions of the more than 80 documents at issue outweighed Maxwell’s arguments for keeping them under wraps, including that they could prove embarrassing.
Something something compelling prurient interest.
US Attorney tells Philly Mayor, “Your restrictions are unconstitutional”
Mayor Jim Kenney’s policy of prohibiting large permitted events like the Mummers Parade while allowing spontaneous protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis is “plainly unconstitutional,” U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain told the city administration Wednesday.
“The subtext, of course, is clear: the city has seen a surge of protests inspired by the killing of George Floyd and does not want to be perceived as prohibiting those gatherings, regardless of any possible public health consequences, but has decided to prohibit other forms of protected speech,” McSwain wrote in a letter to City Solicitor Marcel Pratt. “The First Amendment, however, does not allow the city to pick and choose like that.”
And if he just ignores it?
Barr has talked about going after states whose Lil Rona restrictions “infringe on civil rights”. My take on this situation is this is a warning shot.
If someone sues over not being able to hold a large gathering, the US attorney and DoJ will be on their side against the city.
I don’t see Barr doing jackshit, he’s a certified Bush era swamp critter.
Yeah, Barr says a lot of shit. He said that weeks ago. No cases filed that I know of.
Kinda like no indictments in the attempted coup, either.
He’s just playing us.
He’s only playing Trump, no one else believes any of it. Trump will wake up out of a diet pepsi and McMuffin coma in a few months and fire him, after it’s too late to do anything about all this shit.
“diet pepsi”
Do you even Hat and Hair dude?
I thought the DoJ got involved in a few cases, like the Kentucky travel ban and the Kentucky case about church services. Digging into the cases, I am wrong. One interesting bit about the travel ban case: Initially the Kentucky AG was a defendant, but filed a motion to make himself a plaintiff when he decided to oppose Gauleiter Beshear’s orders.
The Feds got involved with a case in Michigan.
Also, I found a statement of interesting about a Hawaii Lil Rona panic case.
“statement of interest”
The First Amendment might not allow it, but I’m sure Roberts could be convinced.
Ya’ll know what happens when you’re working and in a hurry, you misspell the word Analyst? You get Analust. You’ve been warned.
I’ll just save everyone the effort here:
STEVE SMITH HAVE ANALUST AND BY ANALUST MEAN RAPE ANALLY.
In unrelated news, it seems the editors of an obscure site caled Glibertarians have accepted the novella I sent them and it will be serialized starting next thursday.
Nice!
Yes! Enjoyed your previous installment.
Nice!
Cool. Can’t wait.
::marks calendar::
Obscure? They get HUNDREDS of hits daily!
…all from two IP addys but still.
Enjoy your royalty checks.
The New Hampshire National Education Association has a simple message for the state’s school districts and the Sununu administration about returning to classroom instruction in the fall: It’s our way or the internet superhighway.
On Wednesday, the NEA-NH released its Principles for Reopening, which it says “serve as a set of minimum requirements to be met when negotiating any return to in-person instruction. District plans that include any amount of in-person instruction need to follow these steps before beginning such instruction or allowing staff and students into a school building.”
“If, after working together with the district, it is determined these requirements will not be met, students and staff must return to remote instruction until their school can be made safe,” said NEA-NH President Megan Tuttle.
“Hey, remember that contract we signed? You have voided it. Have a nice day.”
What this country needs is a good Government shutdown at all levels.
“For breach of contract, we are terminating all teachers who do not return to the classroom as per instructions. Their positions will be permanantly eliminated. On an unrelated note, we are hiring Lectors to give factual information to interested persons. These positions do not fall within the NEA-NH negotiated contract and are not union-represented”
“The Blue Jays can’t find a place to play, Washington has no nickname, everybody’s going to make the MLB playoffs, the DH is in the National League, the NBA is playing without 8 teams, Fox is airing games with fake fans, and there’s an NHL team named “Kraken.” Great job, everyone.”
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1286397109298700290
The Blue Jays can’t find a place to play
What’s the problem? No fans are allowed anyway, any local (or remote) location with sufficient infrastructure to support a video feed would suffice. Pretty sure our local HS could handle it.
Black tentacles matter.
You can’t say that!
Top officials of the World Health Organization on Thursday slammed “unacceptable” comments made by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who alleged that China had co-opted the WHO.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the claims made Tuesday in London by Pompeo that China had “co-opt international institutions like the World Health Organization” were untrue and a distraction from the global coronavirus pandemic response.
“The comments are untrue and unacceptable and without any foundation for that matter,” Tedros said at a news briefing from the United Nations agency’s Gevena headquarters on Thursday. “WHO will not be distracted by these comments and we don’t want the international community also to be distracted.”
Tedros has repeatedly defended the WHO against criticism of its response to the coronavirus. U.S. President Donald Trump and others have alleged the U.N. health agency has a favorable relationship with China, where the virus emerged at the end of 2019. Tedros reiterated comments on Thursday that the politicization of the pandemic is one of the greatest threats to the global response.
“I feel the need to say something as an American, as a proud WHO employee,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who was born in New York state and is head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, added. “I have never been more proud to be WHO. … We are firmly focused on saving lives, as Dr. Tedros has said, firmly focused. We will not be distracted.”
Them’s fightin’ words. Mobilize the WHO invasion fleet.
Mobilize the WHO invasion fleet
Hopefully John Paul Jones will be in command when they begin to fight – or is he still with that other band?
“unacceptable”
I don’t think that word means what they think it means.
IOW, what are you going to do, pissants?
We will not be distracted.
Except when our CCP masters tell us to be distracted, in which case we will fervently ignore whatever they tell us to ignore.
Interesting accusation considering socialism requires a police state.
Sanders said, “I don’t want to get people too nervous here, but we have a president who really does not believe in democracy. This is a president who is trying to suppress the vote. This is a president who has contempt for Congress, ignores what Congress does. This is a president who does not respect a free press in America, the First Amendment. He thinks the media is an enemy of the people. And now what this president is saying is, I don’t care what mayors say, I don’t care what governors say, I am the president, I will send federal troops or federal agents any place in this country.”
He continued, “That is, Andrea, what a police state is about. That is what a movement toward authoritarianism is about. And the American people have got to stand up and say, you know what, we may have disagreements, but we are a democracy, we respect local control, we respect the role of governors. A president cannot send troops wherever he wants to quash dissent. People have a First Amendment right to protest. Now, obviously all of us hope that those protests are not violent, I think that’s counterproductive. But you cannot as a president send troops willy-nilly. That is what a police state is about. And the American people, regardless of political views, have got to oppose that.”
Well most don’t, Including the people in the ‘protest’. Everyone wants a police state to stamp on the neck of their “enemies”.
Sanders knows that full well, the old commie fuckhead spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union. The USSR, the one that had real gulags. I mean you can’t make this shit up.
And he got into politics because he wants to force the Dodgahs to move back to Brooklyn. What a champion of ‘democracy’.
*Raises hand*
I also have contempt for Congress.
Except for you, Rand. ?
And Massie!
Yup. He must be the loneliest person in Congress.
I seriously doubt he gives a shit about the opinion of most anyone there.
Projection is a helluva drug.
Maybe there’s an Airmobile division he could send in to help?
Did somebody say Airmobile?
What is it with lefty protests and all the public defecation?
Is it wrong for them to give a shit?
They’re feral animals, they can’t be housebroken.
Maybe not, but it seems they are taking, not giving. Typical progs.
Deflect. Distract. Dissemble.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to sign a national face mask mandate to help contain the fast-spreading coronavirus that’s ripping through the Sun Belt.
Cuomo said he was encouraged by Trump’s support of masks on Tuesday after months of resistance. The president also warned Americans that the pandemic in the U.S. will probably “get worse before it gets better.”
Trump adopted “a different tone” during his White House press briefing Tuesday night, which was a “good sign,” Cuomo said in an interview with MSNBC.
“We need that. We need the federal government to step up, acknowledge the problem. I think there’s been too much denial for too long and we need the commitment from the federal government,” Cuomo told MSNBC.
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Cuomo said he wants Trump to take his support a step further by signing an executive order requiring masks across the country. The New York governor said health experts who advise the White House have said that “40,000 more Americans will die because we don’t have a mask policy,” although Cuomo didn’t say who issued that prediction.
“As incredible as that is, you can sign a piece of paper that will save the life of 40,000 Americans. Why wouldn’t you want to do that?” Cuomo said.
40.000 lives? I hope it hurt like hell when you pulled that out of your ass.
Imagine if you could not sign the piece of paper ordering infected people into nursing homes. How many lives would that save?
Did a bit of napkin analysis earlier. Hong Kong flu of 1968 killed an estimated 100K in the US, which had a population of ~200MM at the time. So far the Rona has claimed ~144K with a population of 340MM. Still got some catching up to do, Rona. And that’s assuming the current numbers are accurate. They really want/need more bodies to justify the disaster they’ve created.
I could have sworn there are pics of him going maskless in GA before returning and not submitting to the 14 day quarantine.
Tell the guy you hate him and do everything you can to antagonize him, then demand he does what you want.
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton.
I would pay good money to see Patches O’Houlihan training Cuomo in the great sport.
He signed a piece of paper and killed at least 10k New Yorkers.
As long as we’re talking team names, I just wanted to say that whenever the craziness gets to the Braves again, I could be OK with changing it, provided they revert to the throwback name that honors the negro leagues. As a history buff, I think it’d be pretty cool, and a lot less unhinged than a lot of what’s going on these days. Those teams were pioneers and entrepreneurs in an era with real structural racism.
I don’t have any Braves stuff, but would totally wear a shirt that said Atlanta Black Crackers.
Just change Braves to Squaw Fuckers and be done with it. Why be a billionaire owner if you can’t have some fun?
You’ll watch the Atlamta Wokes and like it.
They won’t come after the Braves, not as long as Ted Turner is writing checks.
*sigh* It’s possible the Chiefs are next. I don’t know how long Clark Hunt will hold out.
You gotta do like FSU. Find a tribe and pay a hefty bribe… er, licensing fee.
The logo is a picture of Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas?
One of the names that keeps getting bandied about for the Indians is to change it to the Spiders.
Personally, I’d rather keep it as the Indians, best troll suggestion I saw was the Cleveland Tribe.
David Bowie approves.
The Spiders were a different team altogether and they were terrible. No thanks.
this guy has it all figured out
Off the Grid on a Homemade Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9WWzbzevTA
Looks like environmental hazard, gonna have to tear that down, here’s your overdue property tax and water bill for the last 27 years. /Canadian government any day now
Is it just me, or does that make no sense? Why would the fact that the protest is dwindling be the reason you send in the cops?
“We can probably take ’em, now.”
Stossel on pandemic doomsayers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YpfJgVZ5ow
Apparently there is something likable about Jeremy Renner.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8534839/Jeremy-Renner-flew-glamorous-women-Camp-Renner-Reno-mansion-ex-wife-claims.html
Yeah, his wallet.
Did a bit of napkin analysis earlier. Hong Kong flu of 1968 killed an estimated 100K in the US, which had a population of ~200MM at the time. So far the Rona has claimed ~144K with a population of 340MM. Still got some catching up to do, Rona. And that’s assuming the current numbers are accurate. They really want/need more bodies to justify the disaster they’ve created.
And, as R C pointed out earlier, without a baseline expected deaths number, it’s pretty much meaningless.
Pretty much, excess deaths would be the preferred metric.
As for accuracy, you can’t always trust what you read.
CDC report #1 says this:
The estimated number of deaths was 1 million worldwide and about 100,000 in the United States. Most excess deaths were in people 65 years and older.
Then there is this CDC report #2:
This July 1968 map, along with PHIL 15875, 15876, and 15877, demarcated the geographic regions affected by the spread of the A (H3N2) 1968–1969 Hong Kong Flu pandemic, over a 6-month period, which caused about 34,000 deaths in the United States
OK. How does the same outfit come up with such wildly different numbers?
The same way they come up with different numbers today.
What is an excess death? It’s a death that you wouldn’t have otherwise expected. How do you determine how many deaths to expect? You use a model based upon how many people have died recently.
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
Of course, where today’s numbers are concerned, there is another modeled quantity involved: the gross (not excess) number of deaths. It takes about 6 weeks IIRC for 75% of death certificates to be reported to the CDC and 20 weeks for 99% to be reported. So they also estimate how many deaths have occurred. That’s an estimated quantity minus an estimated quantity and the commensurately larger error range.
Thanks. I would still expect better after 50 years, though.
Personally, I think the wide variation is more intellectually honest. Settling on a single number just means they solved a data problem with politics.
I don’t know if any of you have tried to buy 5.56 in the last week or so, but it’s gone. Like I mean nothing under quantities under a 1000 and even then about 60 cents per round. WTF ?!?!, that’s double what it was a couple months ago.
At that price you can justify buying all the gear to reload it yourself.
But what is the price and availability of supplies for that?
Copper is running in short supply since most of the mines are shut down.
minutemanmunitions.com has it for $0.50/round.
sorry, .223
Thanks. I’ll check them out
Hey, I posted last week when SGAMMO had 5.56 at 450 for 1000.
Yep. Should have been paying attention. It’s ~500 now which is a little better than most everywhere else. Oof.
One would think a vast bureaucratic apparat such as the CDC could/would track deaths on a daily, weekly, monthly, et c basis. And that they would make that information readily available. Maybe even in a format which would permit easy year-to-yer comparison. For example, all deaths recorded on July 23, for the years ranging from 2010 to 2020. Would it really be that hard?
As someone who works with data for a living I’ve been totally frustrated with the data reporting through this whole thing.
“Cases are spiking!” Uh, what’s the definition of a spike? Can you quantify that? How many tests were run? What’s the positivity rate? If you want zero measured cases, stop testing.
“New record of daily deaths!” That’s just when the deaths were reported, not when they occurred.
“Florida is awful!” They have 1/9 the death rate of northeastern states despite a much more vulnerable population.
“Texas sucks too!” How many of their cases are from people coming across the border? Give me that number so I can judge what’s really going on in Texas (and Arizona).
“Georgia opened up too soon!” Well that one has gone by the wayside.
“Flatten the curve.” Fine, I get the logic that we don’t want to overwhelm the hospitals, but the area under that curve is equal in both cases. It’s just redistributed.
“The protests have had no effect. In fact, they may have reduced the number of cases.” Come on, man. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
/rant over
As someone whose job title is mostly Data *, I agree.
/ Right now the * is architect.
I think complicated stuff like counting is beyond their capabilities.
No. But we can’t have the plebs reading the real data and actually figure out what’s going on.
CDC depends on reporting from the 50 states and/or god-knows how many counties/municipalities. How reliable would you expect THAT data collection effort to be? And that’s without even considering any perverse incentives at work.
This is one good reason the epidemiological models are shiite, they can’t be validated with good data after the fact. I would imagine that some, smaller countries might be better at data collection, but just because a bureaucrat speaks a different language doesn’t mean he isn’t fundamentally a bureaucrat.
Hermes Conrad agrees. He also sings a catchy song to that effect.
We’d treat people like swine and make them stand in line,
Even if nobody paid us.
“Technically cicadas don’t bite or sting; they do however pierce and suck. They might try to pierce and suck you…”
Do go on.
I know, I know the Sun is hot
MosquitosCicadas come and suck your bloodLeave you there, all alone
Just skin and bone
Here. You’re welcome.
Ouch. I think that made me grow a uterus.
Most perfect voice that ever sang.
I didn’t think that it was possible to be objectively wrong about a subjective matter until now.
I read that in your voice, too.
–In the Mouth of Madness
The cause of low T. I’m having flashbacks of third grade in
Da NangSyracuse where the teacher made us sing it weekly. Women are abusers.Try this one then.
https://youtu.be/reSOp1domrU
Cute: https://mobile.twitter.com/Bud_Doggin/status/1286381885409525760
Whoa. That boy just got himself a girlfriend.
Ima send you a pic
Some good news on the COVID front.
I see the Bee has some competition.
“Flatten the curve.” Fine, I get the logic that we don’t want to overwhelm the hospitals, but the area under that curve is equal in both cases. It’s just redistributed.
THANK YOU.
At this point, the response should be “we flattened the curve, now how about we flatten some pointy heads”?
Actually, the area under the curve is slightly smaller, but not enough to matter.
/Did the math with a simple model, the logic is true for more complicated ones also.
The bad thing about self-publishing is that you’re never finished. I just found THREE mistakes in the last quarter of a book I published in 2016. Who knows what’s wrong in the first three quarters.
Dune was published in the 60s and they still havent corrected the duplicate line error.
You mean, Dune *wasn’t* intended to say “Wheels within wheels” on every other page?
*aspergian rheeing*
Was it a flat or did the tire melt?
We gots us a thunderstorm goin’ out there.
Yay.
Governor Ducey has extended the closure of gyms in Arizona because “what we’re doing is working!” So I’m assuming if the cases had kept going up instead of down he would have opened the gyms, then?
This is precisely the moment I was talking about. That is when a competent reporter asks “how do we know?” Why gyms? What evidence is there?
Now, I don’t expect every politician to be up on such details. That’s what your director of health services or whatever is there for. (S)he should be able to answer that question quite easily and in great detail.
Yet nobody asks.
Which gives me the feeling that they are just running around like chickens with their heads cut off doing whatever comes to mind. So if you don’t want me to think that the government is incompetent, please start asking actual intelligent and probing questions that reveal the decision making process.
Actually, the area under the curve is slightly smaller, but not enough to matter.
/Did the math with a simple model, the logic is true for more complicated ones also.
I suspected that. There would inevitably be some corrective factor based on time. But it bugs the Hell out of me to see them shamelessly conflating “flattening the curve” with “saving lives. Roughly the same number of (VULNERABLE) people will die, just over a longer time period.
Well you see, with the extra time they clearly expected a miracle to occur. Are you saying that isn’t rational?
excess deaths might be more under the flattened curve depending on how you model the threshold of capacity
flexible capacity and equipment is growing, so maybe they can outrun the headlights
but then there is the displacement factor (paging RCDean to the white courtesy phone!); consider a nation where there is only 1 ICU bed that has been historically full and that half the typical occupants die; for easy math, let’s suppose that that nation has 365 folks who would get the disease of which 10% go to the ICU and half die, and for easy fun, let’s have the disease run its course in one day whether make or break
a/ 365 check in, but only 182 check out in a typical year without virus: 182 death baseline due to carwrecks, angry husbands, lightning, and Darwinism
b/ IF the incremental 365 all get their virus on day one, 36 go to the ICU and at least 35 don’t get in; 18 die in the parking lot; total annual deaths = 200
c/ IF the incremental 265 get the virus over the course of a year, that’s one a day to compete with the normally unlucky; half of the normies will be displaced by virus patients, not get into the ICU at all, and die = 182; half (91) of those who do get in die anyway; normie base = 273. 182 viruses get in and half of them die, another 91: total deaths = 364.
Put in reasonable figures if you like, but you see the trend: flattening the curve must so suppress the virus load that it doesn’t displace normie ICU folk or this thing will kill a bunch-o-folk.
This is just one aspect of the jugglin’. I’m not considering how many people aren’t dying because their lives are safer while they’re home; this is just a beds-to-beds comparison of the single-ledger type that I normally criticize grievously when others do it. And I could have botched my model on top of that; it’s just something to kick around.
let’s see if I can fix one:
c/ IF the incremental 365 get the virus over the course of a year, that’s one every tenth day to compete with the normally unlucky; half of the normies will be displaced by virus patients, not get into the ICU at all, and die = 18; half (365/2-36=146) of those who do get in die anyway; normie base = 164. 18 viruses get in and half of them die, another 9; 18 viruses don’t get in and maybe they all die; so 27; total deaths = 191.
So that looks like either flattening works or I can’t do this in my head and on the fly verbally while I’m trying to watch NYY@WSH. Somebody get a spreadsheet out and get all Bayesian on it for me.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1286406849659432962
These are very sick people.
Fuck
Those poor kids.
I wake from a nap to see this shit?
Back to bed, fuck this………..
Mr. Bill
https://mobile.twitter.com/LuckiestPeopIe/status/1285500378717409281
Oh NOOOO!
The first pitch from America’s Hero!
https://mobile.twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1286441829643235328
STEEE-RIKE!! /Umpire John Rpberts
That is just awful.
HAH!
#failure
So he prepared for this show as well as he prepared for protecting the U.S.A from a pandemic. Asshole and doofus!