Linkstasyyyy….
Lovely summer so far. Gonna warm up to 100 next week though. I hear some places are even warmer. Who would want to live there?
- Turnabout is fair play.
- Oh please let it be Lizzie. Please, please, please.
- The mob claims one of it’s own.
Two versions of Black Betty tonight.
Reposted from dead thread..
DOOOOOOM
https://money.yahoo.com/earlystage-mortgage-delinquencies-hit-21-year-high-170612193.html
Who could have predicted this?
Question reply from there
Does that include those protected from eviction due to recent government action?
I can see that number going both ways.
It’ll be tossed out because it’s ${CURRENT_YEAR}
Everything about that DOD space vehicle screams horror movie.
Involving some sort of gene mutating alien microbe.
^^ That would really round out 2020.
Bring it. I’m about done.
In the lawsuit filed in New York on Friday, Roenick says during the 2018 Winter Olympics, he asked NBC Sports executive Sam Flood about “colorful commentary” he heard from analyst Johnny Weir “regarding the body parts of ice skaters.” Roenick says that Flood responded by saying Weir “is gay and can say whatever.”
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!1!!!11!1
Why it matters: If Biden wins in November, it’s clear that Warren will significantly shape his approach — on domestic policy in particular — whether or not her name’s on the ticket.
Fuck.
The charitable and bubbly persona that DeGeneres, 62, exemplifies on her namesake talk show has been called into question in recent months as staffers continue to leak allegations of toxic workplace culture. Most recently, a Buzzfeed report included allegations from one current and 10 former staff members claiming to be victims of bullying and racism.
HAH!
About three minutes later the operator tells the officer, “They’re calling back and advising that that female is pulling down her pants and is now urinating inside the business.”
/checks map
/sees Roseville is about a two hour drive from San Francisco
San Francisco is spreading slower than I thought it would.
In other news, I took delivery of my Ruger 57 today. I bought it on Thursday but the NH state police are still backed up on background checks. The NH State Police gave the go-ahead yesterday, and I picked up this morning.
Interesting, my Virginia background checks have been speedy lately.
Nice pick up. Which reminds me, I gotta watch gunbroker tonight.
I have to decide whether or not to up my maximum bid on a Schmidt-Rubin 1911 rifle. It’s in really good shape. The seller says the stock was sanded but I see no evidence of that from the pictures. Matching numbers, beautiful blueing, no evidence of reblueing.
Shouldn’t your maximum bid already be, you know, your maximum bid?
Normally, yes, but I’m reconsidering.
I’ve been in Roseville before. It was fairly upscale back then.
Still is.
I figured, but I haven’t been there in 5 years or so. And have no plans to go back to that area any time soon.
Ditto.
yep, nice enough place. it suffers from the same issue as a lot of nice places in California… “close proximity to shithole” syndrome.
Just about every high end place I’ve been in (Northern) California is a hop, skip, and a jump from a slum.
Ah, so you’ve been to Rocklin and Sacramento.
She seems nice.
Can you hear her now?
officers arrested the woman after finding several stolen items from a nearby Dick’s Sporting Goods store in her vehicle
I bet that urine was from a kiped Jamba Juice drink.
Points for using the word Kype. It’s a great, long lost word that I often have to explain to others.
So what does a salmon jaw have to do with the situation?
Second definition. Maybe it meant that first and it got kyped for the new meaning, dunno. See here.
I have never heard it used in such a context.
Russian bot confirmed.
I am not Russian bot, am as American as apple cake.
Schiffer said this is an example of DeGeneres not taking responsibility. He said the allegations, whether they exist on the production side or not, ultimately fall on her.
“Ellen is unwilling herself to accept full responsibility and is trying to get her senior producers to take the full hit which further shows a lack of character,” Schiffer said. “A leader steps up and learns from it, and now we’re learning that Ellen — who is considered to be squeaky clean in her persona — may be leading an organization that has stone-cold crazy racism going on within it. It’s horrifying to think about.”
Abase yourself before the mob. Repent ye of your sins.
Guilty, not guilty, I don’t care. If anybody deserves to be pelted with shit and cobblestones by a howling mob, it’s “brand consultants”.
Ellen generally tried to go for “affable host” and for the most part, people liked it. She showed you could stay friendly with people you disagree with.
But then she sat with Bush Jr at a ballgame. And she doesn’t prog hard enough.
To hear there is bullying and racism on her show’s staff should surprise no one, since anything can be called bullying or racism.
They’re destroying their bridge builders.
That’s my take on it too.
Bridges to nowhere.
Terabithia?
We don’t need no steenkin’ bridges!
This
exhumed from dead thread
unbelievable – man who lost voice box in moped accident gets transplant from organ donor
He is now able to speak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2tQPhOHGc
There are no voice samples in the video from the donor or the recipient before the accident. The recipient does go from sounding like Jimbo from South Park to talking normally.
“Its coming right for us!”
Oh, how I laughed when I watched that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3RJUMm-hd0
The duck and cover in case of lava was great too.
“Hi, kids. I’m TV’s Patrick Duffy.”
Much like if I were to get a penis transplant, I would ask for my voice box doner to be a large black man.
Right on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q429AOpL_ds
As Joe Biden rolls out new policy details and speeches around his major campaign platforms, the hand of one primary-rival-turned-VP-contender is increasingly visible: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Why it matters: If Biden wins in November, it’s clear that Warren will significantly shape his approach — on domestic policy in particular — whether or not her name’s on the ticket.
He’ll be the Hen-Pecked-Husband-in-Chief.
“Biden’s recent bold moves seem less like a political hat tip to progressives and more like he’s genuinely aiming to meet this moment and smartly consulting with people like Elizabeth Warren as he comes up with big plans for this moment,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which endorsed Warren in the primary.
“Who’s a good doggy? Here’s a treat. Want a treat?”
Isn’t it more like “bring us a shrubbery”?
“Who would want to live there?”
Me
Is Biden the first candidate to go more radical after getting the nomination?
Isn’t Biden the first candidate who has a decent chance to not make it to the convention to officially get the nomination?
Yes. Even Hillary tried to steer back to the middle after going hard left in the primaries.
Not possible because muh power structures
…
I agree, although I hate to judge before all the facts are in, it’s beginning to look like the woman may have exceeded the bounds of appropriate behavior.
Woohoo space beer!
My first thought…………
Silicone Saturday is on topic due to Spud’s intro pic.
http://archive.li/afrni
18 has that wholesome look.
For you Q – https://mobile.twitter.com/BKlara11
Thankx! ?
https://www.redgifs.com/watch/weakhardtofindelephantseal
NSFW.
So that’s how you tune into NPR.
Mesmerizing.
Those are udderly delightful.
/rimshot
That’s a bit too much yellow fat for me.
Despite the tattoos, I like #30. Huh… according to her iChive page, she’s in Boston.
#32 – Lederhosen are for men. Take that off!
There’s a real desire for representation, but a greater desire to find someone who can authentically speak to the concerns of Black communities. Many Black and racial justice leaders say that describes Warren.
She’s blacker than Condoleeza Rice, that’s for sure.
The Second Black Betty was Fucking great! Tall Cans!
Chick in the second video. Clumsy, but still a solid wood.
Also, I was cheering for the cow.
Fauci now recommends more states implement mandatory mask laws.
Fuck. That. Guy.
So, the virus gets carried in microscopic droplets whose size makes them particularly hard to filter without electrically charged fibers. That electrical charge goes away when you wash the mask, which is the whole reason why it is not practical to clean and reuse them (seriously, if there was a way to do it, hospital would have been doing it already to cut costs). And if the mask never had charged fibers to begin with, it’s like using tin foil for armor.
Of course, the real factor to consider is that this virus is only dangerous to about 20% of population (those over 60 and those with weak immunity).
And guess what? That bunch is usually not in school or the work force anyway. So why the hell as everyone on lockdown?
There is a company that’s been approved to decontaminate N95 masks. I just know about it because it’s local.
I’m to think of something that would kill a virus without electro-chemical effects. UV rays? Sonic pulses?
Oven bake, steam bath, or UV exposure. All of those will eventually degrade the mask and more importantly the filter media after some point.
Seems to me that the N95 disposable are treated with a caustic compound that, once a virus hits it, gets in the lipid layer and disrupts or destroys it. In addition to the HEPA-like filtration.
Battelle is pretty crazy. They do a lot of top-level DOD secret squirrel stuff.
Even without the electrostatic charge, you can get fairly high filter efficiencies using selective material and layering.
Then there’s the issue of viral load at exposure and exposure over time. The amount you need to get infected appears to be fairly large (no direct human challenge studies for ethical reasons, but there have been one or more done with monkeys as a substitute) as opposed to some other viruses such as measles. It also appears that the exposure amount when infected can affect the severity as well.
Fire his ass.
What happened to BirkenStokiaScarfenstein?
Goes back to what I’ve been saying all along, WTF is wrong with bad orange man? He didn’t learn from Sessions, when will he learn?
Never. He doesn’t learn any lessons.
Except, they’re not laws. Has any state legislature voted on any of this, or are these all just illegal executive edicts?
Edicts
Look, this is a new and novel virus. Nobody knew anything about masks and how they work before this and certainly not in regards to viral respiratory illness. Those doctors who wore masks in the before times were mostly doing it for show. That’s why they insisted we NOT wear masks for the first few months. They suddenly started doing research and found them helpful. It’s some kind of science thing, where they sit around for decades ignoring the possibility of airborne virus’s and don’t bother to determine if masks might help. Then when a virus shows up, BAM! they’re caught flat footed and suddenly have to figure that out now. Sound legit to me.
As there is still interest, I’ve set up a Virtual Happy Hour for tonight. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
Yes!
Tulip, I think I missed saying goodbye to you last night. I was (natch) cross stitching and didn’t have my glasses on to see you leave.
You still have good near-sighted vision? I hate you.
If someone is nearsighted enough, they won’t go farsighted with time.
When it’s 3″ from my nose, yes. My glasses aren’t enough. My magnifying clip-ons are clumsy. So I take my glasses off and do it that way. It’s the same way I read in bed at night.
I said goodbye in comments
Thanks!
Watching the news. Stories on how to effectively wear masks. Nothing on efficacy or legality of mask orders.
I’m supposed to believe my shitty homemade cotton mask will stop the virus. But the virus can rip right through duct work, the AC, and the filter.
But it won’t stick to most dental work.
Fauci now recommends more states implement mandatory mask laws.
Masks today, masks tomorrow, masks for all eternity. Why didn’t we think of this sooner? We’ll live forever.
Remember when all of the lockdowns was about “flattening the curve”. Pretty sure the curve is flatter then RBG’s heart rate:
Cleveland Clinic coronavirus surge space was never used, now being dismantled.
Trump should have issued an executive order requiring masks nationwide in April. The Supreme Court would have quashed it by now.
You can impeach a president for an inaction, right?
I would like a threesome with Jeremy Roenick’s wife and Kathryn Tappen as well.
Sadly, what you’ll get is a threesome with Jeremy Roenick and Johnny Weir.
Leggo Q’s ears, he knows what he’s doing!
You are fired!
Real life Ms Havisham lives in 17th century mansion and hasn’t washed the bedding in 100 years. In fairness, that’s because she doesn’t want to damage it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elEp1L4J1QU
I feel like less of a slob now.
“I’m very disappointed that we as a society choose to have this unity and let the virus divide us,” said Davidson.
Why can’t those losers do what they’re told?
Malicious Compliance
And they would’ve gotten away with it too, if not for those darned kids!
teen’s tongue swells to 5x normal size
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6iSSGoedM
Problems I’m glad I don’t have for $800, Alex.
Didn’t that work out well for Gene Simmons?
It wouldn’t have worked if the tongue was so big he couldn’t sing.
Wait, I forgot, they sewed a cow tongue on him, so all kid has to do if have them cut it out and then sew a cow tongue on him. Then he gets to sleep with 1000 women a week.
Really, he’s better off trying to be a porn star. If there’s room for midgets, there’s room for him.
I mean, have you seen some of the stuff on Deviant Art?
This happened to my dog — she ended up in an ICU. Allergic reaction to some kind of sting or bite in the woods.
Since I’ll have to wear a mask for my job, and Hayek’s avatar is so cool, I found this,
https://obeyclothing.com/products/obey-face-mask-2?variant=31894239477821
Every time I went down that rabbit hole, I kept switching over to They Live alien masks. I am tempted to get this sheep mask, while waiting for the the new Glibs masks to appear.
Im not sure who it was on here that inspired me, but Im going to take a Sharpie marker to my disposable mask and write “PATHOGEN INCUBATOR”
I like the small logo, I might get away with it working the Census, almost a secret code for people I end up interacting with,
Yusef the Censor…
Ahem, Enumerator is the term you seek, it’s in the Constitution FFS!
I thought someone posted a pic of a Glibs mask recently. (SP?) Maybe they’re available from some place other than the CafePress link?
SP, on Redbubble and Originally white
I don’t know the reference.
Also I like these. Plus there was some expensive candle talk earlier. Enjoy, fake libertarian XX.
I’ve got two of them on the way.
I’m waiting for one with the #TheseMasksDoNothing larger. SP mentioned she was working on it. I can be patient and stick with my neck gaiter until then.
I want ones that say “baaaaaa”, or “are you ugly too?”, or maybe, “coffee breath, glad I don’t smoke”.
How about these if you’re looking for basic ones, or these if you need ones with a hole for a straw.
It’s a bit too big for a mask but how about a shirt that says “member when people didn’t wear masks everywhere? I member”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoQJKTc3nM
Well if we want to be more descriptive, I’ll go with:
Fuck the Chinese Communist Party, and their bitches; the Democratic National Committee!
I want to make a little rubber virus ball toy with a large label that says “Made in China”.
Today I bought some silver coins with pictures of cartoon viruses on them.
Still want with a boot stomping my masked face.
“Oh please let it be Lizzie. Please, please, please.”
As I foretold of long ago, it will be.
I haven’t been around to post today. Getting ready to play this bizarre video game, Death Standing, just released on PC.
Haven’t seen Moj in this thread, but I think she directed some PC question in my direction on an earlier thread, something about Win 10 and hardware issues.
Didn’t sound like an OS issue to me, my first question is, I mean it’s sort of like the PC gamers version of ‘show us your tits’. Show us your specs.
What’s your processor, RAM, GPU, and how much HD space is free after installing Win 10? I mean, that would actually be my first question, how much drive space is left on your OS drive?
I dunno. I don’t do PC games, but I do work in data science and our stack is 200 GPUs and 75 TB of RAM in the cloud. I’m glad I’m not the one paying the bill.
Not many peeps I know of running a cluster of VMs on their desktop at home.
i9-0099X (10 Core)
64gb DDR4 3200 RAM
nVidia GTX980 4GB ram
2TB Internal SSD
Sorry, that’s an i9-9900X
I have the Intel Core i9-10900X, which is 10 cores also.
Upgrade your GPU, bro. I’m getting by on my 1080ti at the moment, 2080ti is still insanely expensive.
At the time I replaced the motherboard, getting a new CPU, Memory and the SSD wiped out my budget.
I was thinking I needed to new video card, but… I need to redo the power supply first, I’m at its limits.
Ryzen 7 3700x (8 core)
32 GB RAM DDR4 3200 RAM
EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB GDDR6
500 GB SSD
2 x 2 TB platter drives
I left off most of my storage.
I have 3 SSDs, all of them Samsung, the OS drive is 2 TB, 64 G Ram. I really want a 2080ti, but I just might skip this gen, the most money I’ve spent lately is on the 3440×1440 120hz Gsync IPS monitor. Worth it, everything looks good on that monitor.
My monitors are getting old.
One doesn’t even have the power switch, so I let it soft power on and off.
When you upgrade to a new monitor like the 34″ Alienware I invested in, your wind will be blown, it’s unreal, thing looks better than my 4K TV. My wife will be walking by when I’m gaming, and she’s not interested at all in that sort of thing, and she’ll say ‘My God, what is that? That’s beautiful!’. I think I was playing Greedfall at the time.
‘My God, what is that? That’s beautiful!’. I think I was playing Greedfall at the time.
You didnt close pr0nhub fast enough.
“your wind will be blown”
Mind, lol.
“You didnt close pr0nhub fast enough.”
Dude, my wife doesn’t care about that. In fact, she’ll use it as an excuse to demand sex. Life as a sex slave is hard, so I tend to keep my pr0n to a minimum so I can do other stuff.
At my age, the hardest thing in this house is the water.
/Jugsy hardest hit
[blows Hyperion’s mind]
“[blows Hyperion’s mind]”
That’s going way too far.
Nerds!!!
And my i5 is just… adequate.
I had one of those before I swapped motherboards.
Meh. I’m good with 60FPS with everything maxed out. Sometimes it drops, but not often.
i5-6600K (not overclocked…usually)
MSI Z170A Gaming Pro Carbon (pretty lights)
16GB of more pretty lights.
GeForce RTX 2070 8GB (even more lights)
1x WD Blue M.2 500GB (boot/sys)
2x Crucial 1TB SSD (RAID-0)
Core i3-9100 @3.6 GHz
4 GB installed RAM
100 GB Solid State system drive
Dual 1TB Solid State drives (mirrored)
And a 34 inch gaming monitor at 3440 x 1440 resolution.
Dude, what? All my specs to track down a keyboard/mouse wireless problem?
It’s called “Curiousity” not “Necessity”
…said many a BUG lady.
How hard is that? Just click on This PC and look at how much space is left on your HD. Seriously doubt it’s your hardware, unless it’s ancient.
AMD Ryzen 7 4800 H with Radeon Graphics 2.9 GHz
16.0 GB (15.4 GB usable)
64-bit, x64-based processor
476 GB memory / 318 GB available
My hardware is brand new.
Is that last line memory or storage?
She’s talking about disk space.
Do you need to install drivers for your mouse and keyboard, or are they plug and play? I know you want to blame Windows 10, but I think you are looking up the wrong tree there. I have never seen an OS Win 10 issue with plug and play devices.
Are you using MS drivers or manufacturer provided drivers for the keyboard/mouse?
It says MS drivers.
You may want to download the manufacturer’s drivers. I’m guessing it’s using generic drivers for the time being, which may be having an issue the longer it’s running.
Okay. I will do that tomorrow, thanks.
Yeah, I think you’re onto it there, it’s not an OS issue.
/buffs fingernails on shirt
/pours a drink for Hyperion
“/pours a drink for Hyperion”
*drinks up*
Im not sure who it was on here that inspired me, but Im going to take a Sharpie marker to my disposable mask and write “PATHOGEN INCUBATOR”
Probably me. Do it!
I’ll probably go with “Vote for Daines” for starters.
*Governor Monkey-See-Monkey-Do Bullock is term limited out of the Governor’s Mansion, so he’s running against Daines for the Senate seat. Daines is an idiot, but I don’t despise him viscerally, as I do Bullock.
Canadians say no to baseball, and then get sanctimonious about it:
“This is about Canada wanting to continue to distance itself from a dysfunctional neighbour who seems to have lost touch with reality.”
https://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/opinion/2020/07/18/the-blue-jays-had-to-lose-this-game-it-was-the-only-safe-call.html
Yeah. I saw the Jays aren’t able to play home games at home. Washington is looking for guidance and following the rules.
This is one fucked up baseball season.
Sportsball is dead, all of it. It’s over. Why any organization would surrender total control to people who are not buyers of their product and destroy themselves is beyond me, but that is where we are.
Canada’s #1 national sport is hockey. Canada’s #2 national sport is America-bashing.
Fun fact: Canada’s official national sport is not hockey, it’s curling.
I would expect a hate filled comment like that to come from Ted’S.
Hockey’s in the top 5, for sure. The rest are curling, sketch comedy, pretending not to speak English, and alcoholism.
the modest Canadian photo ever – Mountie playing hockey
Not bad, but there’s no French-speaking moose eating poutine.
“Canada’s #2 national sport is America-bashing.”
Funny, that’s Eurotardia’s #1 sport. Jealousy is an ugly thing.
#2 in Europe, behind soccer.
Good thing we have Alaska as a defensive zone for them. Maybe we should give Russia open border access as long as they mass along the Canadian border. They’ll turn into Italy/France in no time.
Apologies to Canuck Glibs.
funny fat magician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XoCvn4fnXw
anyone have experience with DIY sticker/tee shirt maker?
https://www.amazon.com/Cricut-Explore-Machine-Bundle-Beginner/dp/B06XNS3C5J/ref=sr_1_4?crid=20YMDVE0HGN63&dchild=1&keywords=cricket+maker&qid=1595114033&sprefix=cricket%2Caps%2C302&sr=8-4
News hopefully you don’t need to use.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/14-women-tell-what-its-like-having-sex-with-a-micropenis
Buzzfeed? They’re still in business?
anyone have experience with DIY sticker/tee shirt maker?
No, but Speedball makes screen print kits.
Screen printing is not that hard to learn. It would definitely work for masks, if that’s where you’re headed..
A bit more than I need, if I had the space….
No, but Speedball makes screen print kits.
But where are they going without even knowing the way?
snowmobile vs Ferrari drag race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Ragxvt-mU
With those Speedball kits, all you need is a decent sized work (or kitchen) table. It’s real basic.
I want to do Hats, stickers and Tee shirts, can I do hats? I’m almost to the point of having my logo embroidered,
I have never done hats.You can screen print hats, but you need special platens and screens. You can do coffee cups, for that matter. I have only done shirts and other flat stuff.
funny do nothing machines – my favorite is at 1:20; all it does is turn off the switches the user turns on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o9OL_y71W0
This seems like a good spot for my favorite music video.
Please kneel, good and faithful friend.
[dubs with rubber chicken]
Now arise, *Sir* EvilSheldon, Knight of the Derp Table!
You are the 7th recipient of this prestigious award.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjDaPOWdx6s
not quite perpetual motion machines, including one that uses beer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hYYdmjuDac
Refund the police!
https://mobile.twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1284626248681918464
??
I liked this tweet mentioned further down the page.
Dont worry, this guy is making sure no one forgets what is really important.
https://twitter.com/UniversalFem/status/1284500352104947712?s=20
So Covid is not a threat for non-elderly and non-immunodeficient? Seems like we should only quarantine the ill and vulnerable.
Many doctors have been saying that from the beginning.
Sorry, I don’t see how that would negatively impact the chances of badorangeman winning a second term.
In the world of forensics, black lights matter.
Black streets, apparently don’t.
Defund 90% of the government, you know, the dysfunctional and useless parts? That will fix things.
Here’s a start:
DEA
DOE
DHS
DOD typically runs 16% FWIW
But I’d have to think about how much I want to cut the DOD’s budget. With the DEA, there’s no thought required, close the doors.
I would ax any dept that has more than 1 word after “of” as well anything with “bureau”, “agency”, “service”, or “commission” in its name.
The deficit last year was about 1 trillion or 1/4 of the budget. So an across the board cut of 25% would be enough to balance it and once held flat, it would eventually give a surplus because of inflation and economic growth.
Of course, I guess it’s less painful to give millions of Americans a 100% cut in their jobs.
Reading a novel last week where a main character goes on several rants about how goverment is less needed than ever with our current technology, but still keeps getting bigger.
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.”
-some fucking white male
Don’t forget the CDC.
And ATF and…
I think infectious disease control is a legit federal responsibility- as least so far as sharing info, clearing house for supplies, etc.
So they only get their budget cut by 99% or so.
These the poor saps Do Blasio sent out to guard his street painting? You can see their enthusiasm. They waited until she had wrecked it good the half heartedly tried to grab her without getting painted.
What is the penalty for painting asphalt black?
The NYPD have made their feelings about Hizzoner pretty clear:
Police turn backs on DeBlasio at cop funeral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUVVj-Lz5uo
Nice.
Also interesting that the street is shut down because of a meaningless graffiti vandalism that interferes with the legitimate striping that directs traffic on the street.
I’ve been working on getting my screen print stuff out and organized to sell. Now I’m thinking about maybe doing some of these
That would look Sweet! all Yellow! I think i’m going to stick with the heat transfer cutters, Ihave too many hobbies as it is, so I’ll start out small,
Dad took a turn. VA doc is really cool but not looking good. One thing I am taking away from this is get your shot in order so your kids don’t have to scramble finding infromation.
Sorry to hear that man.
Sorry man. And yes – my dad was very organized and it was still a pain.
Sorry dude.
Sorry.
Sorry to hear that. My condolences.
Still want with a boot stomping my masked face.
Muddy boot prints, maybe? Interesting…
I’ve been trying to think of one. I liked the sheep, but that’s waaaaay better. Just don’t think I could away wearing it at the school.
Our county is now under a face diaper order.
Went to the market in our little cow town today. Mask use has maybe doubled from 10% to 20%. Most, but not all the employees were wearing.
Last night at the ice cream parlor neither the customer (me) nor the two sweet young ladies working there wore the bacteria collectors.
Lucky.
Pretty much everybody where I am wear the masks in shops, with the shops having signs on the outside claiming it’s the law.
No Ted, it’s by order of,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/231a2d1Any9Nk6YW7
Doubtless in what passes for big cities here things are different. I’ve cut way back on my trips “to town”.
Put it on, walk in, take it off, like everyone else…………….
Go on…
I’m not in a big city. By the time you add the decaying city and strip-mall towns around it, you’re at maybe mid-five figures.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MVQ0eOMY7z4
https://mobile.twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1284619091593039877
Go get yourself some cookies.
??
Malta Goya – yummm.
Captain Trollface.
“He ain’t black.” – Joe Biden
Watching the Rampage movie today, and the gf says she’s never heard of the video game. How is that possible? I thought I knew her…
Told her we’ll fire up the retropie tomorrow and play some.
Australian camel mating ritual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdnPQrqniIE
Like rabbits and cane toads, they were purposefully introduced and then got out of control.
Australians seem to be slow learners in this regard.
Well, they’re Brits the Brits didn’t want.
The British were the first invasive species the British introduced to Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s
It turns out that germ/virus plush toys have been a thing for a while:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5575245/Toy-company-turns-sexually-transmitted-diseases-charming-stuffed-animals.html
Yes. I gave my friend the clap for Christmas one year. Along with a pair of (wire) strippers.
I forget the guy’s name, but he was some gay celebrity. His quip was “I got the clap so many times they renamed it the applause.”
demolition derby, small car heat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL2VyoBEc1I
Reminds of Camp Swampy parking lots at quitting time on a Friday.
ZONK!
Poly rope to hold down the hood!
So, a normal day in Russia?
/Good stuff!
Ah, Russia. Formerly known for their exploits in literature, math, science, architecture, and music. Today known for dash cam footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxyhulJYz5I
Oldie but goodie
Good, but I like this one better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlxdnyfkWKQ
It’s incredible that we live in the age where you can say “no, the *other* bear riding in the sidecar of a motorcycle video”.
Doubtless in what passes for big cities here things are different. I’ve cut way back on my trips “to town”.
I went to Livingston Thursday, I guess, right after Bullock decreed masks for all. I was all, “WTF is going on around here?”
I haven’t been back to town since.
The epic jump from space – world record parachute jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9oKEJ1pXPw
Kroger will be requiring masks on the 22nd. My question is, if it is so f*cking important, why not NOW? I told my wife, I will start going to Publix only, right across the street. If they do the same, I will be spending money at Amazon, even though Bezos is the WaPo overlord.
This pandemic will cause a spike in Independent Thought Alarms.
It’s not a pandemic. It’s an over-hyped flu season. And most people are too stupid to have independent thought. Still, if more people cross from left to right than the other way around, we may survive another election cycle.
Unfamiliar with the reference, I see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHn5ZcwqyY
It doesn’t seem to have done so so far.
I dislike mask mandates from Government, Stores requiring masks don’t bother me at this point because huge chunks of the populace are screaming for mask mandates and as a business you have to cater to your customer’s perceptions.
Masks get you laid. I’ve seen the research on xhamster.
Starting at 3rd column, how many of those stated purported goals are in play or achieved today?
https://cns7prod.s3.amazonaws.com/attachments/communist_goals.pdf
Easier to read version
https://edberry.com/polymontana/the-45-communist-goals-1963/
in a similar vein
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1. “Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.” Well, we’re working on this one. The federal government owns huge amounts of land and is acquiring more. Private property rights are being eroded deliberately in the name of protecting the environment.
2. “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.” Need I say more? Before Ronald Reagan’s tax law changes we had exactly that and many Americans support the idea of taxing the rich more than the less-rich.
3. “Abolition of all rights of inheritance.” We haven’t gone all the way on that one, but heavy estate taxes are a step in that direction. Estate taxes are purely punitive because they are taxes levied on assets on which multiple taxes have already been paid many times.
4. “Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels.” Well, our forefathers confiscated the property of those who supported the British during the Revolution, and, under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and other civil statutes, property is being confiscated right and left in the name of the war on drugs.
5. “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state . . . .” Pretty much done. See the Federal Reserve Act.
6. “Centralization of the means of communications and transport in the hands of the state.” Seen a private road or bridge lately? Who licenses all radio and television? Only the First Amendment saves the print press from federal licensing, but I suspect that hate-speech laws will soon follow hate-crime laws, and that will erode that freedom.
7. “Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state . . . .” Well, the government runs many businesses and some folks would like to see it run more.
8. “Equal obligation to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.” We’ve escaped this one mainly, in my opinion, because of the Second Amendment (the right to own firearms) and mechanization.
9. “Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of distinction between town and country.” Pretty much done, because big corporations dominate what’s left of agriculture and mass communications have more or less erased cultural differences.
10. “Free education of all children in public schools. Abolition of child factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.” Done.
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https://mises.org/library/marxism-lives
I dislike mask mandates from Government, Stores requiring masks don’t bother me at this point because huge chunks of the populace are screaming for mask mandates and as a business you have to cater to your customer’s perceptions.
The stores are begging the government to do their dirty work, so they can offload responsibility.
And has anybody, anywhere, given the slightest thought to and end point? Is there any meaningful milestone for when we might be set free?
No.
Early November is the rumor.
Even if the Dems run the table and gain total control everywhere, mask mandates aren’t going away based on elections.
They’ll go away when either the virus numbers decrease, there’s proven commonly available vaccines, or better therapeutics. Or people embrace complacency and say fuck it.
Or don’t go away at all.
Masks will be the new fashion accessory. Just like t-shirts.
What are stores supposed to do? We have one group of people who have decided masks are the cure to the black death and anyone not wearing one will kill us all, and another group who have decided that wearing a mask is surrendering to communism. I don’t like wearing a mask. I avoid it as much as possible and get the frustration with being ordered to do something, but on the list of things that I see as signs of the end of the Republic masks don’t even register. If we had been ordered to wear masks in March instead of shutting down the economy we’d be much better off.
Rioters allowed to run rampant = threat to the republic
Monuments torn down to erase history = threta to the republic
Government ordered business shut downs = threat to the republic
Vote by mail with no security provisions = threat to the republic
Runaway spending = threat to the republic
Protests allowed/churches ordered closed = threatto the republic
Masks? about as big a deal as 5000 other stupid mandates we deal with, seatbelts, prescription rules, etc.
I disagree. Wearing a mask obscures non-verbal communication, which is most communication. It further obscures your identity- your individualism; you look like every other cog in the machine.
Ok, fine. By all means refuse to wear it. All I am saying is I don’t like boycotting stores who mandate masks. The stores are caught in an awful position and in my opinion a store mandating masks is not making a political statement they are bowing to the desires of the masses who have bought in to the mask superstition. I am not advocating that superstition. My mask sits over my car visor and comes out only when I go in to a store that requires one (all of them now because I live in a ‘red’ status county), or if I have to meet face to face with a client that wants me to wear a mask (I ask).
Wife had taken off with all the masks so I had to go to the beer store without one. I took my handkerchief out and put it over my nose and mouth. The beer store owner about had a shit fit. Covering my mouth with four layers of cotton was not good enough. Putting on a bandanna with one layer of cotton is perfectly fine.
We are living in bizzarro world.
When the store asks me to wear a mask, I will do so. When the government orders it, it raises my hackles, and it should. Give em an inch and they’ll steal a mile. The various govenors, mayors, etc, have limited powers, even in an epidemic. And illegal activities, even small ones, by the government have to be squashed. The lesson the government learns isn’t that the people will go along with temporary orders during an emergency, they learn that the people will cower and act like serfs if scared enough.
This virus is simply not that dangerous, and pretending that it is has now become political.
Oh, and it is a distinct violation of my freedom of speech. It reinforces the lie that this is some radically dangerous virus that we must all give up our rights in order to fight.
1764 Greenville Acts – Threat to the colonies? Probably not.
1764 Currency Act – Hmmm, well, (you might say), they were still British subjects
1765 Stamp Act & Quartering Act – That one stings; taxes to pay for the British Army overseeing them and you must HOUSE them – you would probably concede that’s a direct threat to the colonies
1766 Declaratory Act – A giant “fuck you, that’s why” that says Parliament can do whatever it wants (essentially)
1768 Townsend Acts – Along with the seizure of Hancock’s ship, it results in some resistance and 2 Brit Regiments being deployed: seems like a direct threat to the colonies
I could go on and on, but you get the point. By the time we get to the Tea Party, that final act – by comparison to what preceded it – could be justified with the same exact logic you’re using. It wasn’t that thing ALONE which led to the violence, it was all that preceded it.
So maybe we should be cheering resistance wherever we see it? Rather than saying, “Aw, c’mon, man, it isn’t that bad, look at how often you took it in the ass previously? NOW you’re gonna complain? It’s just symbolic.” Sometimes the symbolic is what matters – sometimes the “hill to die on” winds up being something symbolic rather than the actual thing worth dying over.
I get your point JF, but I think you’re missing the forest for the trees on this one. We (as Freedom Lovers) should be cheering resistance wherever we see it. This also seems (to me) to be a part of why Progs win and Liberty loses; they take anything that moves the needle in their direction, while we argue about whether this is “really the hill to die on” and then wonder why we’re slouching towards the camps.
What do we do, though? They won’t let us in the store without a mask. They’ll fire me if I refuse at work.
A quasi libertarian buddy said to me “You libertarians are always laughing about ‘virtue signaling’ yet a big bunch of you think you’re some kind of Rebel by refusing to wear a mask. I’m not going to disrupt my errands or things I enjoy by running all over town looking for a grocery that doesn’t require a mask or a restaurant where the staff doesn’t wear masks. You rebels are as much virtue signalers are some soyboy wearing a BLM t-shirt.”
That is pretty much what I am getting at here.
Ask him if burning a draft card in public during the Vietnam War was also virtue signaling. There are plenty of stories of people getting hassled or worse for refusing to act in pandemic theater.
Yes, burning a draft card was virtue signalling. What else do you think it was? Do you think your refusal to wear a mask somehow combats the pandemic theater? As I have said I get the frustration here and agree with it, but get real. Refusing to wear a mask isn’t fighting the good fight, it is tilting at windmills. By all means refuse if you want to, the efficacy of masks is laughable and the orders are silly, but there is too much self congratulation in the “I won’t wear a mask or tolerate a place that asks me to” for my taste. Businesses are caught in a vice and demanding that they comply with our wishes is just as bad as the left demanding they comply with theirs.
OK, I see your point now. Refusing to pay income taxes publicly takes much more courage. Ditto for openly filming the police.
I think I am failing to communicate here. I am opposed to government mandates. It is the “I won’t shop anywhere that makes me wear a mask” thing I object to. The parallel with taxes would be demanding that businesses publicly refuse to pay taxes or you won’t shop there.
Hmm. There are 2 separate issues: willingly exposing yourself to punishment in protest and boycotting places which do not expose themselves to punishment.
The first can be admirable. The second, not so much.
That’s easy here. As soon as the masks were mandated, the stores were the target of enforcement. If they let you in without one, they got the fine. I only wear them in other people’s businesses.
I can totally see why businesses want a regulation. They want to just say, ” it’s not us, it’s the law!” Also, they don’t want liability. If you’re the only one saying “whatever, do what you want” and half your employees die of covid, you’re getting sued right now. So much easier to have no choice.
I chose not to go to places that mandated them early. Now that the entire county has to wear them, I’m more flexible about it.
My position has only gotten less compliant.
I know the masks are bullshit. I wear one where required so I can commerce without punching everyone out.
HOWEVER, I also applaud and support those who refuse to bend the knee.
Yes, it’s just “another” in the list of 50000 bullshit mandates we have to, but people on here have (on multiple occasions) complained that Americans are too compliant, that there is no spine left to stand up to the non-stop boot of government… so now some people finally are and your response is, “Oh, just wear the fucking mask”?
I’m glad to see people finally bowing up. Our forefathers also put up with a “long train of abuses” before finally saying enough is enough. If the mask is the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back, I’ll support those who are coming to realize what’s really going on.
so now some people finally are and your response is, “Oh, just wear the fucking mask”?
Ok, I am goingto say this one final time and then stop respondingto the strawman arguments. I am not telling people “Just wear the mask”. I am saying don’t boycott businesses that say you have to wear the mask. The businesses are just trying to survive.
JF, I think you’re missing my point. It’s not a strawman, I’m just skipping a step you seem to be missing.
Businesses respond to incentives – I agree that in this case the government is putting businesses in a really, really tough spot.
I’m also certain a ton of colonial businesses/owners had this same exact dilemma and argument about collecting taxes on behalf of the British govt. But the way resistance is galvanized is when enough of the consumers told the businesses, “Hey, you live here. With us, not them. We’re the ones patronizing your business.”
Are you getting my point? When enough businesses start to sense that the tide on masks have turned, you’ll see widespread non-compliance. Again, please see my upthread comment (and my prior article on culture). We’re seeing people “RESIST” and declare themselves Free Men and Women and you’re like, “Hey, hey, c’mon guys, this is really really tough on businesses.”
No shit. It’s tough on all of us.
Maybe this is just an agree to disagree thing, JF, but I think you’re not quite seeing the point I’m making. Let’s be like the Left and support every single tiny act of defiance, even if it does pit some of us against business owners. Maybe biz owners need to spine the fuck up like that barber in Michigan who says, “Fuck you, I’m cutting hair. Either they’ll come take me away in cuffs or I’ll keep cutting hair.”
Do you remember just a month ago when having a party at your private residence of more than X people could get you arrested? Funny that is now rescinded, huh?
They – government – won’t stop until they get the idea we’ve had enough. I’m all for pushing those mandates back the other direction as hard as possible. I’m surprised at you, TBH.
WRT the barber in Michigan, should he have just obeyed? Or did you cheer him in your heart when you saw him just say “fuck this, I don’t care”? Because I know my heart swelled with pride at that guy. And in the end, what happened? He won. They backed the fuck off.
Business owners need to sense that there is a price to be paid for compliance with government mandates, as well. For too long, there hasn’t been. And as I noted, many on here have called fellow Americans cowards and all kinds of names for not resisting arbitrary govt bullshit.
Fighting, truly resisting tyranny requires a LOT of hard sacrifice, sacrifices most people, including business owners, have grown too soft to contemplate. So maybe it’s time we harden the fuck up. ‘Cuz THAT is how you roll the mandates back.
Because I know my heart swelled with pride at that guy.
#metoo
I also donated to his legal defense fund. I might buy one or two of his books too.
I am delighted when a business refuses to comply. That is wonderful. I am less delighted that you, and others here seem to be taking the position that we should force them to comply. My point about the seriousness of the issue is not “Hey it is just another thing so wear the mask” it is that the issue is minor and therefore punishing people for disagreeing with you, or merely not being willing to fight this issue, is the sort of temper tantrum we see from the radical left, where Chik Fil A gets boycotted for donating money to Christian charities. I think boycotting a company for supporting China against Hong Kong is a reasonable decision, because the issue is crucial and good and evil are clearly defined. A store requiring masks is accomodating scared people, and trying to avoid fines and forced closure.
Demanding that others take stands is not a good thing in my view.
Additionally I believe this is a losing tactic for us. We are never going to be as visible or vocal or unified as the radicals, and if we set up competing boycotts it won’t end well.
What would be a winning tactic for us?
Good question. I don’t know that we can really ‘win’ because we are a small group and for the most part unwilling to unite as a bloc or to compromise, which makes forming coalitions difficult. I think the best chance we have would be to create the kind of grass roots involvement in Republican politics that the Tea Party started out to be and start influencing the candidate selection process/ getting some talented and libertarian leaning people into the pipeline. We aren’t getting libertopia with any tactics, but if we want to get any traction at all I think our only hope is inside the GOP. The Democrats are actively hostile to basically every thing we want now.
Jar – Our disagreement is one of tactics then, and not principle. I think we all know that the American Revolution wasn’t fought by everyone, but it was led by a small group of dedicated radicals who dragged a lot of people along with them. Sound familiar?
We’re watching what are (fundamentally) communists in our streets and in our institutions demanding obeisance. They control large swaths of culture, including what marketing folks call “influencers,” and way more politicians than should make anyone comfortable. They’ve skinsuited the DNC so far as I can tell, and they’re using the ‘original sin’ of slavery and Americans’ cultural sense of justice to demand more and more fealty. They’ve also co-opted “science” the same way, and now we’ve got what amounts to Lysenkoism in major government scientific institutions and academia. (See, e.g. climate change, IHME ‘models,’ etc.)
The masks are just another way that get people to capitulate; the useful idiots create a sense of mass and inevitability, but that can go both ways.
If we have any hope, it may be that they’ve overreached and the masses have had enough. So, while I understand your view that making businesses uncomfortable isn’t going to help, I’d respectfully suggest that the Left has proven, inarguably in my opinion, that tactic works. I would respectfully suggest you give it deeper thought. Until and unless businesses sense that they’re on the wrong side of an issue, they’ll keep
not serving black peoplebeing proxy enforcers of Newspeak. Look at the companies falling over themselves to appear “woke.” Fuck them.Please don’t misunderstand me: my sympathies lie with small business owners. My guess is most are reluctant adherents, as I’m sure many were during Jim Crow and the Revolution. Letting them know that We, the People, are sick and tired of this shit is a kind of “market signal” – yes, some businesses will get hurt. It’s unfortunate. But I think the time is past hunkering down and hoping for this to just go away.
I don’t boycott stores that require wearing masks: I shop there without wearing one. 90% of the time no one objects. But too many people prefer to meekly comply with every lunacy. It’s easier to be a coward.
During the Black Death, a lot of people thought the plague was the punishment of god, so they crowded into churches to pray.
Arrested Development narrator voice: This actually made things worse.
Some people, called flagellants, began to whip themselves in public, like the head bonking monks from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Arrested Development narrator voice: This made things worse too.
How many times does it need to be said? Protect the vulnerable and leave everyone else alone.
Exactly! The death rate, including old people, is .05%. Without old people and people with weakened immune systems, it’s probably a tenth of that! Protect the old people, and get over the fact that there’s a cold going around.
.05% is one person in 2000 who gets the disease dies. accepting the 140,000 deaths number that would work out to 280,000,000 cases.
Accepting 140,000 deaths means you believe the official numbers, which we know to be inflated. 140,000 is a maximum limit known to be above the actual number of deaths that resulted from infection.
No, we don’t know the rate of infection, so we don’t know the death rate.
I think that your wrong by 2 zeros, but I’ve been drinking. But you gotta move the decimal point two places to the left. I think it’s a 50/50 chance of one death per 100k? Math is not my thing.
Percent is per hundred. 1 per cent is 1 in 100, .1% is 1 in 1000, .05% is half of .1% or 1 in 2000.
If you accept that 140,000 have died (yes I know UCS, that is why I said “accepting the 140,000 number, I am aware that it is likely inflated) a 1 in 2000 death rate would indicate that 2000 times as many people had the disease as died from the disease. 2000 times 140,000 is 280,000,000. (add three zeroes and double).
Pretty sure the .05 % number is the percentage of all Americans who’ve died. .05% of 330,000,000 is 165,000. Of course the CDC has chosen to include pneumonia and influenza to pump up the numbers and the media likes to assert that the numbers are under counting covid deaths, because its good for the panicky feeling most new laws are based on.
Nobody knows and ever will know how many people actually have gotten the dreaded ‘vid, so the case fatality rate will always be bullshit.
That makes sense. And yes, I think you are right about us never knowing how deadly this disease is, and of all of the crap in our current world I think the willingness of ‘scientists’ to fudge data for agenda driving is probably the most destructive trend out there. We have literally made science unreliable.
Ok. You’re right.
The End is Nigh!
I’m not kidding, so have a good time before the whole Shit house goes up in Flames!
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/feds-right-wing-media-paint-portland-as-city-under-siege-a-tour-of-town-shows-otherwise.html
Disingenuous Jedi mind tricks
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07/saturday-evening-protests-planned-at-holladay-and-peninsula-parks.html
Some new stuff uploaded to our new Redbubble shop this afternoon. Special design requests are accepted. Just email me.
FuckOffMaskSlaver gets you a rousing golf clap.
They wouldn’t let me put it on a mask. That was disappointing.
Do a boot print, like Drake said.
I suppose that a cat butt mask is right out…
Oh, a cat butt mask would be awesome!
Then it looks like you’ve got a cat in your mouth.
True, if the graphic is too realistic. Best to keep it simple & stylized, a la the keyboard emoji.
^(^
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Gotta have the ears.
OMG. Squeals like a middle school girl. That is the ticket.
“Look at my butthole! Look at IT!”
Preorder ready!
/all hail SP
Are you telling us what to do, Mister ilium?
Holy crap! the shipping is terrible!
Just ordered my Glib masks. I love the “this mask does nothing” logo. Thank you for doing it!
Masks sold on Redbubble are for general public use only and are not intended for use in medical settings.
More legal info here.
Interesting disclaimer…
Its to avoid being sued when someone wearing one of their masks gets a disease.
I know, acknowledging the relevance of “this mask does nothing”.
Ordered mine too.
We’ll see what the SAAAAAAAAAAAFETY department at work thinks of it.
How sane people view mask mandates
Stay away from cans! He hates cans!
Masks? about as big a deal as 5000 other stupid mandates we deal with, seatbelts, prescription rules, etc.
I see it as surrendering to superstitious idiocy. An unconditional surrender of Western Rationality. We have given up on objective reality, in favor of the voices in some people’s heads. And it really really pisses me off.
YMMV
I’m going back outside. It’s a gloriously beautiful evening, the kind which I will absolutely, disconsolately miss when I leave. I’m drinking Full Sail Amber Ale. Made in Oregon, but I drink it anyway.
Sure it is. So was the shutdown, but that one actually cost us a lot. So is banningthe stars and bars and smashing monuments, and claiming that Trump is a dictator and going to kill trans/brown/black people, and claiming “All lives matter” is racist. The masks strike me as orders of magnitude less important, and punishing businesses for giving in on that makes no sense to me.
I guess what Jarflax is saying is that Kramer should have worn the ribbon.
///Loading is a horrifying image. Luckily I found a portal via the Veil of the Force.
only B2 stealth bomber crash caught on camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zZFD1KAl64
A billion taxpayer dollars pissed away? For what? An idle threat, and patriotic graft.
My word! Are you implying that the US military sometimes, occasionally, once in a while, perhaps, maybe spends money in a less than ideal fashion?!
I WON’T HEAR OF IT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNAXNgGTTG8
Okay. And they didn’t say fuck you? No sympathy. Those fucks will shoot you dead. We’re fucked.
In the words of Ulysses Everett McGill, damn we’re in a tight spot! But all hope is not lost. I know this because I have aired my grievances and pushed back and it hasn’t stopped me from getting promoted.
If nothing else, the Army respects courage and rewards it. It has to, because if it stopped, that would be the end.
Someone tells me to walk in high heels and I will KILL them. I hope they at least got some pussy out of it. No wonder we have not actually won a war since 1945.
We’ve also never declared war in the same time frame.
Take away these “authorized use of military force” nonsenses.
If we’re going to fight, declare war, set a victory condition, win, end.
I have been through a few rounds of SJW indoctrination in the Army, fortunately not many, and there were no high heels.
I was complimented once by an ex-Ranger who told me that I have the heart of an infantryman. He was just being nice, I think.
There was a time when I was getting asked once a month if I have PTSD. I don’t, just been in a lot of high stress situations and it shows on my face.
I’m no hero. I’ve never shot at anybody and never been shot at either. I got to do a lot of cool things though, things I’m proud of. I guess that’s as good as it gets in a military job.
I’d rather have stealth bombers than diversity seminars
When the Serbians shot down an F-117 stealth fighter in 1999, they distributed propaganda leaflets that said “sorry, we didn’t know it was invisible”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgkhOiCd6Ng
They let John Travolta fly again?
Her influence helps explain why Warren is still seen as a strong potential pick in a year when being 71 and white probably works against her.
Candidacy to be announced by a Creek in Oklahoma.
So I am thinking of making an impromptu trip to Yellowstone with the wife and kids in a week’s or so time. We found a house to rent less than an hour away that looks cool. I have never been there before. Any Glibs have any recommendations for the Park or the nearby area to check out?
– I think Old Faithful is worth the wait.
– The geyser section that is ‘before’ you get to Old Faithful (assuming you enter from the west and head toward Old Faithful) is worth parking and walking out to see, especially the vent coming out of the ground, despite the smell
– Don’t get out to fuck with the bison; they’re massive and you can get good pics from the car if traffic is ‘normal’
– I don’t know how long you’re staying, but each time I’ve been I’ve seen most of what I wanted to see in a full-day of driving the perimeter road
– The canyon and waterfall on the eastern side are gorgeous
Thanks Ozy! I think we would stay 5 days and then maybe another 2 to check out Grand Teton (staying or camping somewhere close to there). We are gong camping in the Sierras next weekend and was thinking of staying with a buddy in Reno for a night after that and then making the drive straight from there. I have three boys, 5,7, and 9 to entertain.
We were going thru the park on our way to somewhere else. Suddenly, the long line of traffic came to a stop. After a while I got out and walked to the edge of the hill to see what the holdup was.
There was a car stopped in the middle of the road with all four doors wide open. I could see the occupants where they had walked away to take pictures of a herd of elk. A mile of cars has to stop so that some idiots can take pictures of elk. If I would have been anywhere close to the head of the traffic I would have passed the stopped car at about 55MPH and would have taken two doors off on the way by.
I will never, ever, go to Yellowstone during tourist season again.
This probably applies to every popular National Park.
Did you put the car in gear and push it into the ditch?
I should have but I was about a mile back in line.
What really got to me were all of the totally complacent people behind him that were saying to themselves, “OK, this is the part where we have to sit a wait for the idiots in front of me.”
Something, something, suffer not fools, something.
Heh, heh, they would have deserved nothing else. I wonder if there will be less people due to the Vid or if the foreign tourists will be just replaced by more Muricans? It seems surprising to me that there are still cabins to book just a week ahead of time near Grand Teton.
Woman Urinates On Floor After Refusing To Leave Verizon Store For Not Wearing Mask
That’s one way to make a mark.
I was booze free yesterday and swore I’d never touch another drop. Then today I had a pint of oatmeal porter with my bison burger and now I’m 2/3 through a 6 pack of Finnish Long Drink, Strong.
Oh Well. Wiki sez:
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A long drink or tall drink is an alcoholic mixed drink with a relatively large volume (> 12 cl, frequently 16–40 cl or between 5–9 fluid ounces).[1]
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In Finland, long drink (in Finnish lonkero) refers to a mixed drink made from gin and, most commonly, grapefruit soda, although other long drink flavours include cranberry and lime. In Finland, the long drink is ubiquitously available both in stores and in restaurants, usually on draught.
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In 1952, Finland was preparing to receive increased numbers of visitors connected to the 1952 Summer Olympics. As a compromise following the Finnish prohibition (1919–1932), the country was living with a strict state-controlled alcohol policy. In order to help vendors facing a wave of foreign customers, the state allowed some liberalization and Alkoholiliike, the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly, introduced two brands of pre-mixed, bottled, ready-to-consume long drinks. These were the Gin Long Drink (gin with grapefruit) and the Brandy Long Drink (brandy with Pommac), then co-manufactured with Hartwall. The latter product was discontinued in the 1970s, after which the term long drink became primarily associated with the gin-and-grapefruit beverage in Finland.
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I’ll never drink again.
And those of you who have been doing this for a while will sometimes add the addition: And this time, I mean it!
“I can quit smoking whenever I want. I’ve done it many times.”
-chain-smoking relative who spent her last years on oxygen
*checks moobs*
I’ll go on a diet when my “A’s” become “B’s”.
I did OK on the food front today and recently. I am about an hour overdue for my 4 mile run.
It would be good to have a job where I swing a pickax all day. Then I wouldn’t have to worry about what I eat.
Diet Squirt or Fresca with vodka is my drink of choice. In cocktail lore it is called a “Greyhound”, I call it a “Panty Dropper”. It sips easily.
I wonder what gin and Diet squirt tastes like?
*puts Diet Squirt on the grocery list*
A Greyhound is vodka and grapefruit juice. It is a good mroning after tipple.
Breakfast beer. I was skeptical at first, but it is pretty good.
Here’s a brunch beer.
Bonus: made with civet poop coffee.
The last time I had an oatmeal stout I just wanted to take a nap. Nothing wrong with that but it is too hot for that now. That said, I would like to try that one, but maybe, in the fall or winter.
La Paloma is tequila, Squirt (or any grapefruit soda) and salt in a tall glass on rocks. Great drink.
When I was a young man in Mexico, the waiter asked my friend if she wanted a Squirt. She replied “No Thanks, already had about five this morning.” Hilarity ensued.
Squirt is a hilarious word in itself. In a Mexican Spanish accent even more so.
And-
The mask bullshit pisses me off because it is so specifically and intentionally a public vow of fealty to the communitarians. It wears the mask because it loves its brother.
Fuck that.
“Go on, wear the stupid swastika. What difference does it really make?”
Secular Sharia
Eh, you went full Godwin there. I think the mask mandates are dumb too. I’ll wear it if I see a sign on the door or if asked.
There was a novel for young adults called The Wave, which is based on a real life experiment from a high school history teacher. He wanted to see if Nazi peer pressure and groupthink tactics would work on high school students.
Go on, guess. Guess how well they worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJQCIYs0eiI
A *coerced* vow of fealty
Mandatory masks are the same thing as TSA’s security theater.
They are put in place to keep the sheep happy because can see that SOMETHING is being done.
And to normalize the idea of government being able to do this to you.
^
So are we gonna start calling Hillary ‘testicle cheeks” from now on? Can we make this meme?
I’m back.
All I am saying is I don’t like boycotting stores who mandate masks. The stores are caught in an awful position and in my opinion a store mandating masks is not making a political statement they are bowing to the desires of the masses who have bought in to the mask superstition.
This is not personal, in any way. Lots of people look at it exactly the same way as you, Jarflax. More than agree with me, but I’m used to that. I’m some sort of libertarian.
Bottom line- I will not shed a single tear when three quarters of the businesses on Main and Park streets in Livingston, Montana are boarded up with “out of business” signs, because they bought into a load of hysterical bullshit and just dropped to their knees and sucked Bullock’s mighty Shaft of Power instead of saying, “Wait a minute. How the fuck can you get away with this?”
I seriously expect a catastrophic economic and civil collapse in this country in the near future. I don’t plan to be around in ten tears, so maybe I will miss out on the real shit-hits-the-fan Philip K Dick stuff.
I’m right there, cowering beside you P Brooks. Push has not come to shove, yet, but I really have nothing to lose. If they come for my freedom they can expect a fight. They may get dinner but damn strait I’m getting a sandwich.
*Fist bumps, Brooksy*
I used way more words upthread, but I think businesses will only change when they are incentivized to.
Think of Jim Crow laws – It’s no different. The laws were completely fucking wrong, morally, and I expect most businesses realized it. But it was “the law.”
What did it take to get rid of Jim Crow laws? Sit-ins and widespread disobedience by the citizenry. i.e. The People forced the issue, made government use hoses and dogs on them, and yes, fucked with otherwise “law abiding” business owners as a proxy for showing how wrong the laws were. THAT’S WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE MASKS.
We should be applauding it and cheering it. Sorry, JF, I think you’re wrong on this one, though I understand exactly what you’re saying and why. Those business owners are caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. But again, take a step back and look at the big picture. Notice how politicians react; notice how every time the people really push back, either the courts or some other govt rep will test and keep pushing and see if the people are serious.
John Basil Barnhill said, “Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.” I’m all for any actions that start to make the government fear the People. If the government leverages businesses to control the people and businesses go along, at some point, businesses are going to need to figure out where their bread is buttered. I don’t see any other way.
Wow, Ozy! I think I got a half-chub reading that statement…
Only a half, Festus? 🙂
Hey! I’m barrel-aged! The spirit is willing etcetara.
Tears or years? I’d give it 50/50 for me, depending on what happens.
If I can just add one thing to the mask debate.
If a store has a sign posted that says you need to wear a mask to shop there? Either wear a mask and shop there, or go somewhere else. Please don’t go in without a mask and then start shit with some random employee who didn’t set the fucking mask policy.
Not that anyone here would do such a thing, as we are a polite and civilized bunch, but still, it’s worth mentioning.
No assholes or Cuntes here! Not a one! 🙂
I AM
SPARTACUSA CUNTE!I’m an asshole…
I have had to limit myself to online ordering and pickup from Walmart because I refuse to participate in the mask charade. It is one thing for the gov’t to “mandate” something that I am fully prepared to ignore, but I will respect a business that intends to keep its head down and avoid confrontation with the government. Luckily for me my local gas-station / beer-run joint read the actual E.O. from Gov. Blackface which had the caveat about “medical conditions” such that they included that caveat on the sign they put on the door about masks. As such they still get plenty of my money. And I notice fewer and fewer mask-wearers every time I am in there. I think a lot of people get what is up.
I have to take another look at grocery delivery if NH is going ‘all grocery stores mask up’.
There’s a “do not substitute” flag which should prevent another Organic Bread Flour incident (I do not want to support the organic labelling scam and inefficient agriculture just because it’s delivered). lets hope the error rate going forward isn’t as high as that first attempt.
Now I have no reason to leave my house ever again.
Winning!
The grocery store mandating masks doesn’t come from the government, it’s the retailers jumping on a bandwagon.
I can check with the Reopen folks to see if there are stores not requiring masks.
I would appreciate it if there were a resource where I could check without having driven several hours to look at the sign on the door.
Not that I expect you to create one if it doesn’t exist.
GF and I were just talking. Trick or Treat has been on the decline for years; if Trick or Treat is canceled this year, is that the end? No more T or T ever again? Forever?
On the other hand, children who need permission to Trick or Treat have already destroyed the… *waves hand airily* je ne sais quoi of the event anyways, no?
*OMWC has sad*
Ok ok new idea from a comment I posted, I think to Ken? Discussion of the efficacy of masks that I wasn’t involved with. Ken said something about masks working because the virus is spread by droplets, that it wasn’t airborne.
I immediately imagined a bunch of little coronaviruses with little red berets on their heads.
I think that would be an amusing mask.
huh.
I have no issue with Amazon putting two orders in one box, but they claim one item in the box will arrive by 9, and the other by 8… Technically if it arrives before 8 that’s true, but they should be the same estimated time.
I sent Fuck Off Slaver to Vistaprint, lets see what they say,
/Masks
uploaded, it may get past the censors,
You should have accepted my label and rubber stamped it yourself.
didnt see it, link?
You responded and asserted that you were an Enumerator.
More Viva Frei regarding Mary Trump.
Other than not being the recipient of nepotism, why should I care what noise she makes?
I’m going rafting on the rapids with my family tomorrow. It is supposed to rain heavily tonight. I guess we’ll see tomorrow if they let us go.
I have canoed class 3 before.
Class 3 butt-puckers commence just reading that sentence. Have fun!
Rock on! be Safe
I disdain of “safety” while actually liking what I define as “safety”.
This stupid charade is killing small business and little startups. Wifey set up her stand and sold two items. Her clientele usually consist of tween girls and geriatrics. Guess who is missing from that equation? Our poor old folk are too afraid to venture outside. I wonder how many are just going to wither and die in despair before this madness ends. Politically motivated Geronticide.
What does she sell?
Photography and framing. She specializes in “barn wood” frames. It has been lucrative in the past but I’m urging her to get on etsy. She’s coming around to the idea. When Judi is sad, Darryl gets mad.
I’m not sure I’d be much of a customer. Then again I’m not part of the already identified demographics.
Tween girls love horses and old folk love farm images. Everyone likes nature photography. If she does get her ducks in a row I’ll be sure to link it here. (if that is allowed by TPTB)
They let me shill books, so, you should be okay.
for those who prefer to read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(experiment)
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The experiment took place at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, during the first week of April 1967.[1] Jones, finding himself unable to explain to his students how the German population could have claimed ignorance of The Holocaust, decided to demonstrate it to them instead.[6] Jones started a movement called “The Third Wave” and told his students that the movement aimed to eliminate democracy.[1] The idea that democracy emphasises individuality was considered as a drawback, and Jones emphasised this main point of the movement in its motto: “Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action, strength through pride.”[1]
The experiment was not well documented at the time. Of contemporary sources, the experiment is only mentioned in the Cubberley High School student newspaper, The Cubberley Catamount. It is only briefly mentioned in two issues,[7][3] and one more issue of the paper has a longer article about this experiment at its conclusion.[1] Jones himself wrote a detailed account of the experiment some nine years afterward[6] and more articles about the experiment followed, including some interviews with Jones and the original students.
…
Fourth day
On the fourth day of the experiment, Jones decided to terminate the movement because it was slipping out of his control. The students became increasingly involved in the project and their discipline and loyalty to the project was outstanding. He announced to the participants that this movement was a part of a nationwide movement and that on the next day a presidential candidate of the Third Wave would publicly announce its existence. Jones ordered students to attend a noon rally on Friday to witness the announcement.[6]
Fifth and last day
Instead of a televised address of their leader, the students were presented with an empty channel. After a few minutes of waiting, Jones announced that they had been a part of an experiment in fascism and that they all willingly created a sense of superiority like German citizens had in the period of Nazi Germany. He then played them a film about the Nazi regime to conclude the experiment.[6]
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[Nelson laugh]
Triumph of the Will.
We had to watch the movie based on this in 7th grade.
There was one character who’d always been a loser, but when he joins The Wave, he gets a rank, a little power, and he can tell the other kids what to do.
When the teacher reveals the experiment, the camera cuts to the kid looking crestfallen that he now has no special position.
That part of the movie stuck with me. There will be Little Eichmans who will jump onboard a movement that they believe will give them a bit of power and comeuppance.
The phrase “the banality of evil” comes from the trial of Eichmann.
“I was only following orders” became synonymous with the Nuremberg Defense.
It’s easy to order others to hurt and kill. It’s much harder to do it yourself. The KGB gave an award to Vasily Blokhin because he personally executed thousands of people, including over 7,000 shot by himself in less than a month. He shot then in a concrete cell with gutter to make it easier to hose away the blood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin
Gah. Nightmare fodder.
Eh, you went full Godwin there.
Mebbe.
The context, in my head, was 1935 or -6, not 1944 (and most assuredly not 2020). More of the “go along to get along” period. If you wanted to do business with certain people or organizations you needed to make a show of obeisance.
Dinesh D’souza researches Biden; hilarity ensues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f2Z30j61aw
Oh, Joe. Just STFU already.
Also – 50 comments from me?! Yikes. This what happens when I get really bored.
Bella loves Peanut butter Drumsticks! silly Dog!
You could shorten that sentence to “Bella Loves”. I’ve had a few pets like that, all heart.
Thanks, Ozy-
Think of Jim Crow laws – It’s no different. The laws were completely fucking wrong, morally, and I expect most businesses realized it. But it was “the law.”
I have been told, by more than one person, “Well they make the rules, and we follow them.” And guess what- I’m past the point of caring whether those people have jobs, six months down the road.
Am I going to make a big scene in the grocery store? no. But other than fresh cold milk, there’s not much I buy which couldn’t be sourced from Amazon. Mom and Pop can go on welfare.
As far as the bar bullshit- it’s way nicer up here in my driveway, and the music’s better.
Yes!
Yep. I don’t have to put up with terrible people and I can drink and smoke to my hearts’s desire. I haven’t set foot in a bar for 14 years.
Sorry, 12 years. There was one watering hole in Victoria that I used to treat the crew on Fridays. Cute waitresses, nondescript food and cheap beer. I was a big tipper so the servers would fight over my table. King for a Day.
Last real bar I was in had Glibs in it.
Lucky!
On the fourth day of the experiment, Jones decided to terminate the movement because it was slipping out of his control.
Huh.
It’s a lot easier to start a stampede than it is to stop one.
Needs moar cliffs.
As I said to a friend, I’m Freddy Mercury, without the Ghey
I’m David Crosby, without the talent and 100 lbs.
Fun facts: his real name was Farrokh Bulsara and he was born on Zanzibar. He was a Shirazi, a non-African Muslim who spoke Swahili. In the song Bohemian Rhapsody, there are the words, bismillah, let him go. Bismillah means in the name of god in Arabic. That word is the first word in any book written in Arabic and pious Muslims say it before they do anything.
There was a socialist revolution on Zanzibar in 1964 which abolished the old Arab monarchy. Thousands were massacred.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar_Revolution
The name Tanzania is a combo of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Tanganyika means sail in the wilderness and Zanzibar means land of black people (thousands of slaves were brought by the Arabs to work on the clove plantations).
I was on Zanzibar in 2008. There was a power outage, but I enjoyed the old fort, the street sea food, and the sea turtle sanctuary. I fed the sea turtles.
graphic and disturbing footage of the revolution’s aftermath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoRgEqtwAks
Lots and lots of corpses
The Arabic voice-over diverges from the English subtitles somewhat.
So depressing. I want Waffle House now.
It’s always open.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/18/fauci-holds-up-new-york-as-model-for-fighting-coronavirus-they-did-it-correctly.html
Fauci holds up New York as model for fighting coronavirus — ‘They did it correctly’
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci on Friday praised New York for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the state did it “correctly.”
“We know that, when you do it properly, you bring down those cases. We have done it. We have done it in New York,” Fauci said in an interview on “PBS NewsHour.”
He has no shame. He needs to be fired into the woodchipper immediately.
I worked at a small sawmill and was put in charge of the chipper. It was scary as fuck! After I got hurt in a separate incident my replacement lost her arm.
Did you used to do Dos Equis commercials? Because you are the most interesting man in the world.
No. I’ve just had a lot of shitty jobs. Shitty jobs lead to “interesting” stories. I have flirted with growing the beard out now that it won’t come in calico.
What. The. Fuck?
Ever since the term came into vogue, I’ve been trying to understand the full meaning and nuance of “gaslighting.” This has got to be an example.
I can only assume he’s about to be fired and is prepping his landing spot somewhere on cable news.
Australia’s Victoria requires masks for Melbourne hit by COVID-19
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia-idUSKCN24K02O
People in Melbourne must now wear masks when leaving their homes as Victoria, Australia’s second most-populous state, marked two weeks of triple-digit increases in new coronavirus infections on Sunday.
Melbournians not wearing face coverings will be fined A$200 ($140), said Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews.
Victoria, which has forced nearly 5 million people into a partial six-week lockdown on July 9, reported 363 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, after 217 cases the previous day.
“We’re going to be wearing masks in Victoria and potentially in other parts of the country for a very long time,” Andrews told a televised briefing.
I’m sure it’s just a 5000th thing to worry about.
“We’re going to be wearing masks in Victoria and potentially in other parts of the country for a very long time”
I realize this is Australia, but when it comes to there or the USA or any Western or Eastern or interplanetary democracy…
…don’t we get to say ‘no’ at some point?
Aussie man lost his gun in the Great “Buy back” after a school shooting there.
Saying “no” has to imply there is force backing up the “no.”
I’m just doing this https://youtu.be/-0SmXVrLlZ4
http://archive.li/hZ3Dj/f76786fc85b50277f10a353332ee8d6b245c285f.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/dwGwb/3282bbadde397828d3d2f61b5a3703a8fe4ea4c9.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/70Eom/882eee4c3b9ead2ca9f30c28a4c8bfe5639552bc.jpg
NSFW.
Best for last.
https://archive.li/r9arj/d1abbb20baf6d555e56a6ee3209c9ecccbef6097.jpg
NSFW.
This one
Valerie Bertinelli’s sister?
*zips up* What? I was just visiting friends on my current events web-site! That tissue was for cleaning the screen.
I just googled “Florida man” plus my birthday and got:
“ Florida Man Threatens To Destroy Everyone With Army Of Turtles, Police Say.”
Does not disappoint.
Okay, that’s funny! You win this time Gadget…
I listen to a lot of old soul and jazz. Every once in a while you find a gem that you don’t really know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tubBiXf7E0
last !
Hi Don! Good morning.
Mornin Glibs.
G’ mornin!