Moving on.
Leipzig is into the Champions League semifinals, thanks to the United States of America. Barca play Bayern today for another spot. I don’t know much of what else is happening in sports because I glazed over once the Big Ten presidents decided to fuck the players, coaches, and fans over. I’ll try to get back into things over the weekend.
BOO! BOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Famous dentist, gambler, and gunfighter Doc Holliday was born on this day. He shares it with baseball player Cupid Childs, TV inventor John Logie Baird, other baseball player Paul Dean, boxer Dick Tiger, legendary baseball manager Earl Weaver, musician David Crosby, comedian, banjo player, and native Texan Steve Martin, writer Danielle Steele, cartoonist Gary Larson, basketball player Magic Johnson, race car driver I’ve thrown chicken bones at Rusty Wallace, pitcher Mark Gubicza, the lovely Halle Berry, pretty lady with a horrible voice Mila Kunis, and football/baseball player Tim Tebow.
Good list today. Something for everyone. But now…the links!
Uh, what? There’s a Sixth Amendment, you know. Check this out (FTA):
“[P]articularly given the nature of the charges, the Government’s strong desire to protect the privacy of the alleged victims, and the lack of any legal precedent for the defendant’s request, the government respectfully submits that at the present time—eleven months prior to trial, nearly three months prior to the discovery deadline, and more than four months prior to the pretrial motions deadline—there is no basis for the defendant to demand the Government disclose the identity of its witnesses,” prosecutors wrote.
Hear that? There’s no legal precedent to the Sixth Amendment challenge they’re making. Look, this woman is sleazy. But if we only preserve rights for popular criminal defendants, then we have no rights.
Enjoy the mob, Portlanders.
This is just fantastic. No, really. When the police can no longer do one of the legitimate functions (protecting property) of their job, then the mob becomes the de facto ruler. And that rarely ends well.
Yeah, I can’t see how this could possibly have negative consequences. I mean, how do people come up with these ridiculous numbers? Why stop there? Why not double that? Or go ten times that? Hell, propose stealing everything from every white person ever. It’s about as realistic.
Interesting lede. Also interesting that two of the four are not politicians. And the other two are sociopaths. Come on, women. You can do better than this. Step up your game.
What a boob. Also, I notice in the photo there are a lot of people not wearing masks. Fortunately they’re protesting so they can’t spread anything. Or something.
This will definitely win hearts and minds. Especially after looting businesses and smashing the windows of the Ronald McDonald House. Nice work, dumbasses.
You hate to see it. No seriously, you hate to see it. Because those people are moving somewhere else and will likely vote like retards once they get there.
Dangerously slow, perhaps?
We’re Number One! We’re Number One! Well done, Houston! Although I am surprised it’s I-45, seeing as more Asians live in west Houston closer to I-10. And seeing as you can’t drive faster than 20 mph half the time you’re on 45.
Here’s a great song for you. Hope you enjoy it as much as I will.
Now have a great day and an even better weekend. Mad Scientist is Eastbound and Down headed my way with a delivery. Looking forward to it and to seeing my buddy.
“race car driver I’ve thrown chicken bones at”
????
Not sure what wasn’t clear there. He’s a race car driver and I’ve thrown chicken bones at him at Richmond, Martinsville, Charlotte, Rockingham, North Wilkesboro, and possibly at Bristol (since I was so inebriated at the last one I may not have had the motor skills necessary).
But why?
Because he’s Rusty Wallace and that’s what was done back in the day.
Do you ask a fish why he swims? Do you ask an eagle why he flies? For the same reason, you don’t ask a NASCAR fan from the 80s-90s why he threw chicken bones at the #2 car.
The key difference is I make the presumption that the human can understand the question being asked and respond.
The fish and eagle don’t know what I’m saying.
And you think the NASCAR fan does?
At Martinsville, during the pre-race tailgate, a group across the lot burned an effigy of Rusty Wallace. That man was hated.
It’s a southern thing. I suspect he was also waiving the Battle Flag and taking a break sitting on a polished off box of wine after.
Sufficient explanation?
I was thinking this.
Long tradition of throwing chicken bones at NASCAR races. One reason you don’t want to sit in the lower stands is the view is bad. The other reason is to not get chicken bones thrown on you.
There’s a Sixth Amendment, you know.
Like anyone give a shit about that dusty old document these days.
eleven months prior to trial, nearly three months prior to the discovery deadline, and more than four months prior to the pretrial motions deadline
Do you not know how many way there are for a person not kill themselves in that timeframe?
They’re just trying to avoid wasting everyone’s time.
Prosecutors ask judge to deny Ghislaine Maxwell’s request for accusers’ identities
Something something right to face your accuser.
Something something speedy trial.
Something something the procedure is the punishment.
In this case it is about keeping her from divulging information that might hurt the deep state’s effort to deny the American people a president they elect that isn’t part of their shitshow.
Yeah, that too. Lolita Express didn’t fly itself to Creep Island.
Predicting the future:
In a shocking turn of events the NY Atty’s office announced that, in exchange for an immunity deal, the chief witness will be one William Jefferson Clinton.
Further in the future:
Bill Clinton didn’t kill himself memes are all the rage with the kids these days.
So sloopy, I hope your couch is comfortable. I mean… we have an excuse for not reading links.
I just got glared at for a good three straight minutes.
Then I got an explanation.
Shit. Why didn’t somebody warn me?
Maybe this picture of a 53 year old Cleveland girl will make you feel better.
Swear to God, some of these ladies went down to the Crossroads…
Is she mad because the bag of drugs left a stain on the carpet?
Or because she wanted more kids and he shot himself in the balls?
“If we leverage the full force of the criminal justice system on individuals who are peacefully protesting and demanding to be heard, we will cause irreparable harm to them individually and to our society,” Schmidt said in a statement.
Democracy!
People keep demanding that they be heard. Why do I have to be the one to listen?
There is no right to be heard, only to speak.
All aside, this is nothing more than a chickenshit attempt at a communist revolution.
This revolution is like being stuck living with a chick I hate only because I don’t have a new apartment yet.
Hate bang her, man!
Blue haired and unshaven pits. Hate bang would be the only option.
Granny fucker…
That sentence just put me in a shame spiral.
Yep. It bears all the hallmarks. Violent protest, silencing of dissenting voices, police on stand-by while rioters run rampant, Newspeak and a compliant Media.
“eleven months prior to trial”
That’s the part that gets me. If she’s found not guilty on all counts, she will have spent a year and a half in jail during her “speedy trial”. So much for the Sixth.
Roberts says, : pulls lever: “As long as the government is acting in good faith its ok!!”
Government never acts in good faith.
Let me remind you of Justice Thomas’ opinion in United States v. Bean – justice delayed indefinitely isn’t really justice denied, not until a definitive ruling has occurred, and if it never occurs, no injustice!
As I said below I am not a lawyer, and I don’t know the particulars here but isn’t it often the defense that asks for later court dates?
If there’s one thing Maxwell doesn’t like, it’s having to wait for things to mature.
Ba-dum-tish….
LOL
https://www.hiyoooo.com/
Not a criminal lawyer, but I would think there’s a difference between dragging your feet when your client is out of jail v. in jail.
Besides, the longer the delay, the higher the chance she won’t kill herself.
The problem with ruleb of law is that prosecutors are expected to make whatever arguments they can to win. So they will always argue to weaken your rights.
In some theory in my head, we should only need one lawyer who represents truth, and is both prosecutor and defense. In reality, is would look like the Cardassian system.
Such a lawyer would of necessity be paid by some collective mechanism, almost certainly by the State. And he who pays the piper calls the tune. So, no this would be a terrible idea, unless you think the European system (which is basically what this is) is more friendly to individual rights than the English system we use.
How do the regular ass people of Portland put up with this shit? Someone has to be running the bars and strip clubs, and whatever other businesses Portland has. They all can’t be unemployed antifa goons.
True, many are employed antifa sympathizers.
The mob is small but has a loud voice that is greatly amplified by their media, political, and corporate supporters. ?♂️
I will reserve judgement until this fall’s elections. If the majority of their political support isn’t tossed out on their asses, it’s game over.
What’s the option when you have consistent “voting irregularities” in certain areas?
And what if NYC keeps De Blasio?
NYC can’t keep Deblasio unless he pulls a Bloomberg and gets the city council to allow him another term. There is worse waiting in the wings, of course.
At the end of the day, it’s a problem with machines, inertia, and stupid, ignorant voters. Plus the Dems’ supernatural talent at taking advantage of all of these. There is no solution I can see short of a very slow, incremental swinging back to some level of sanity.
I’d also add flagrant voter fraud (such as precincts reporting more votes than registered voters) that goes unprosecuted to that list as well.
THERE IS NO VOTER FRAUD GOING ON!!!1!!eleventy!!
/the progtards that know they can’t win without that
There’s no alternative to vote for (assuming they were even inclined) in Portland. The “non-partisan” offices at the city and county level, which means the activists and machines control the elections in the primaries. For many of those, there isn’t anything to vote on in November, because if the top candidate achieves a majority in the primary, there isn’t a general election. That’s the case with the county DA. He’s there for another four years at least.
I agree, there has to be a backlash building, and it will surface eventually.
There really aren’t too many “regular” people in portland.
Oh. Fifty-four year old woman. Not clicking.
There’s no pic, so you’re safe.
Also, Halle Berry turns 54 today. But I have a sneaking suspicion this protester doesn’t look like Halle Berry.
I’ve a sneaking suspicion that she’s not Elizabeth Hurley, either.
In other words… the cigarettes, the protests, and the police brutality had nothing whatsoever to do with her arrest. But that wouldn’t be interesting.
“Some crazy old bag-lady” doesn’t write headlines by itself.
“If we leverage the full force of the criminal justice system on individuals who are peacefully protesting and demanding to be heard, we will cause irreparable harm to them individually and to our society,” Schmidt said in a statement.
“Demanding to be heard” is quite the catch-all.
When your demand to be heard oppresses random strangers, you might be an asshole.
↑ From Jeff Foxworthy’s new act
Pre-Canceled.
“Demanding to be heard” is when my little daughters used to sneak up and try to face-fart me. I taught them well..
Irreparable harm? You mean like if you put me in charge of responding to rioters and I borrow Napoleon’s solution?
I don’t recall what he did, so I’m going to assume, that he shot the rioters.
He gave them a whiff of grape.
So my assumption was correct.
But what did you expect from an artillery officer?
When all you have is a cannon…
You’re in a good position? It’s not called King of Battle for no reason.
It’s called the king of battle because it can only move one square at a time.
It’s called the king of battle because it can only move one square at a time.
It almost always moves two squares in order to hide in a corner.
“Also interesting that two of the four are not politicians.”
Are you sure about that?
I’m still trying to figure out which two aren’t sociopaths.
That’s easy, it’s the two that aren’t psychopaths.
I made it to the bottom of the page without seeing one that I admire.
Quoi?
I didn’t watch. Oh right, because I couldn’t. Well, not in English.
FWIW, the CBS thing is free for a month. Alternatively, you can watch the replay in the evening on…some CBS sports channel.
But yeah, I wish Fox still had CL coverage.
CBSSN has it. I think it might be the first soccer coverage they’ve ever run.
*looks*
Oh, I see a repeat at 9pm. I did not see it because I was only looking at the live schedule. And the stream, which I’m not going to fiddle with, is hidden from the live schedule I use. (It’s visible at the non-mobile URL.)
“What a boob. Also, I notice in the photo there are a lot of people not wearing masks. ”
Somehow I don’t believe that clicking that will show me the same kind of content which I expect from Q.
at the present time—eleven months prior to trial, nearly three months prior to the discovery deadline
I am not a lawyer but that sounds like what’s her names lawyers want the disclosure earlier than the deadline for them to be handed over, I have no idea if this is common. I can see the need to set some time frame, I imagine in a perfect world the defendant gets all the ‘discovery’ instantaneously but in reality they gonna take some amount of time to put together. Is three months too long? If your trial is in 3 months and one day sure if your trials 9 months out maybe not.
It stinks to high heaven. They want to break her.
Prosecution should have all evidence in hand at the time of the indictment (since the investigation typically concludes at that point). Meaning there is no legit reason for them to sit on it all that time. And they are ethically obliged to submit everything they have, condemnatory and exculpatory.
^^ it’s really this simple ^^
In our civil trials, the discovery deadline is typically a year out. In no universe would we be allowed to withhold anything until the deadline.
“Meh, [terrible argument]”
Oh, now I get it, thanks for the explanation, very helpful.
Not a trial lawyer, but I believe that there’s usually an agreed upon discovery schedule, at least in civil cases. Not really sure how discovery works in criminal cases.
Economist proposes slavery reparations of up to $12TRILLION – equivalent to $800,000 per black household or half of American GDP
This whole concept is such a farce. Someone needs to explain to the ‘tards pushing it that slavery existed in every culture, worldwide, all through human history. We are all descendant from slaves and slave-owners and we don’t owe each other anything because no one alive in the US today has been (legally…) a slave or slave-owner.
because no one alive in the US today has been (legally…) a slave or slave-owner.
What about Kamala Harris’s firefighters?
My father had 18 months stolen out of his life courtesy of the peacetime draft.
I’m sure lots of other men were similarly enslaved.
My dad as well.
I wonder how hard they worked. Without a “Lucille” I mean. I’ve run crews of completely unmotivated workers and “cat herding” would be easier. More akin to trying to shovel pig shit with a fork. She didn’t get any satisfaction from it except for a tingle of power over others.
Convict firefighter crews get paid, they just get paid very low wages. You get out of prison, get to do hard work in challenging conditions. You’re out in the world, so its easier to get booze, drugs, get laid. You save some town from a wildfire, there will be women there who want to show their appreciation. It’s also voluntary, you can quit anytime.
But when she conspires to keep someone in jail longer than they should have been, then they’re effectively enslaved for their labor.
Oh sure, I’m just saying the convict firefighter crews have pretty stiff competition to get into them.
I’m having more and more issues with criminal justice and and a lot of the traditional libertarian policy positions on it. With the glaringly obvious caveat of removing victimless crimes from the law books, what should be done with repeat offenders?
Like, take the three strikes laws. The problem with them is that you can use the three strikes up on victimless crimes. That’s terrible, and should be changed. Might be a good incremental reform: amend the three strikes laws so that they only apply to violent crimes. Drugs, DUI, shoplifting, etc doesn’t count.
Recidivism is driven in large part by criminal records making it impossible to get a good job. OK, sure. But what’s the solution? Say they purge all criminal records. Well, private companies will spring up that maintain those databases. Because people don’t actually want to hire criminals, all else being equal. Are we gonna add criminals to the list of protected classes in the anti discrimination laws?
Do we radically alter the punishment model? Get rid of prison, go to some combination of corporal punishment and victim compensation? Is the primary issue that prison acts as a grad school and training camp for hardened criminals.
Like, to me, saying “Eliminate all the victimless crimes on the books, and encourage everyone to arm themselves for self protection against is actual criminals” is one of those, well, glib responses that doesn’t seem to square with reality very well.
It really begs the question why do taxes matter?
Taxes are the things we do to each other when everyone turns away from an abusive relationship.
“no one alive in the US today has been (legally…) a slave or slave-owner.“
There’s probably a few. All immigrants, though.
Ilhan’s family were reputedly slave-owners.
Playing along with this asinine take for just a second:
You get 800,000 bucks lump sum, and then never ever again does a “white” tax dollar go to a “black” tax recipient. Ever again. No more transfer payments, no more boosted funding for inner city schools, no more housing projects. This is a settling of an account. Because that’s the premise, that this 800k puts you on an equal footing with the wypipo.
Imagine all the political infrastructure we can get rid of then. We’d be stupid NOT to pursue this.
Black household gets $.08. Newly created Race And Culture Institute Studying Multiculturalism gets 11.9999 trillion.
“Race And Culture Institute Studying Multiculturalism”
Which will be fully staffed with lily white leftist college grads with otherwise unemployable degrees.
That is a great tune! Keith Moon going spastic. You’re not as pretty as Banjos but you always bring the good links. Have a great day!
lolwut
On what planet does the average honkey household have a net worth like that?
Have you ever spoken with a professional grifter?
Remember – math is racist.
We’ll just put them into some sort of servitude to those they owe money to. So they can work off their debt.
Well, most of the Billionaires are white, and he said average…
That’s just mean.
I’m in no mode for puns.
Well, that’s a deviation from the norm. Feeling all right?
Their derivative nature is outside my tolerance range today for some reason.
The average US household net worth is $692,100*. Median is $97,300**.
*source: google search
**source: also google
I expected the median to be negative.
I see very different figures here.
The average net worth of a white family is $123,400. Median is $61,200.
Look up in the page:
Urban: $751,300 and $99,000
Rural: $276,300 and $87,900
That aligns more with my numbers than the race based ones.
Something is wrong somewhere in there.
See also the age and education break downs. The race ones are the only ones that don’t look like they average to around $600k.
And “homeownership status”. Which is odd, since I would expect the great majority of the $$ is tied up there.
Whatever. I’m way below average, so I’ll feel free to excuse myself from this exercise if that’s OK with Mr. Darity.
With the Fed propping up housing prices over the years, there is a grain of truth that the poor have been screwed somewhat. That being said, that is a class problem not a race problem.
Yep on all counts.
The entire difference is between those who have equity in their housing and those that don’t.
And the biggest blockade to building equity in your housing is sky-high property taxes in the D-cities. A few years ago I read a study about tax delinquent properties in Detroit. They managed to find a couple of the people who “owned” (read: abandoned) those properties and they all said the same thing: they bought the house (120K typically) in early 2000’s thinking they could maintain the house as a nice place to live, no illusions of flipping for profit – but the property taxes doubled in less than five years and they could no longer afford the house since their job wages would no longer cover the mortgage+taxes and the taxes scared away every potential buyer even at a distressed price. Abandoning the house and forfeiting the little-and-dwindling equity they had in it was the economically sensible thing to do.
If white people are so racist and genocidal, do you really think plopping a 12T$ tab on their plate is such a wise idea?
It’s important to be morally correct than logically consistent.
I’d be willing to compromise. Say, $12T in Confederate money.
The USD will be as worthless if this proposal ever succeeded.
Were the cigarettes lit?
Diversity!
What? Right wing women aren’t special.
Diversity fail. 3 white women and a Black man.
Best name on that list: Wilma Mankiller
At least they admit that Ginsberg is a politician and not a Judge.
“The teenager stabbed and set on fire in the Bronx had recently been dating his alleged killer’s 14-year-old sister, law enforcement sources and the family said Thursday.
Adones Betances — who lives about five blocks from alleged victim Winston Ortiz, 18 — was enraged by the age gap between the two, the sources said.
He’s accused of stabbing Ortiz three times before dousing him with gasoline and lighting him on fire on the fifth floor of a Highbridge building near their homes Wednesday afternoon.
Police said Ortiz was stabbed twice in the back and once in the chest and suffered burns over 90 percent of his body.”
https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/bronx-teen-set-on-fire-was-dating-alleged-killers-14-year-old-sister/
Yikes!
The 14-year-old is new info since the previous day – I didn’t think the story could get any worse. What the hell is wrong with… everyone?
The lockdowns are making people nuts.
What’s worse is that this story would not have been surprisingly out of the ordinary pre-plague.
“Hear that? There’s no legal precedent to the Sixth Amendment challenge they’re making. Look, this woman is sleazy. But if we only preserve rights for popular criminal defendants, then we have no rights.”
Yeah, but she might say things that could be dangerous to our top men class if it exposes how they were fans of Epstein and his entertainment establishments. Sport fucking is for real yo!
NPR to the rescue
Despite opposition from the oil and gas industry it aims to help, the Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era rule designed to reduce climate-warming methane emissions.
Methane is the main ingredient in natural gas. But when it’s released before it burns, say from a leaky valve at a drilling site, it’s far more potent than carbon dioxide. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the oil and gas industry is the largest source of methane emissions in the United States.
The Trump administration rule would eliminate a 2016 requirement that oil and gas companies monitor and limit methane leaks from wells, compressor stations and other operations.
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Under the EPA’s new regulations, methane will be regulated indirectly through another rule aimed at limiting volatile organic compounds from being emitted.
But some large oil companies want the Obama rules left in place.
Shell, BP and the Exxon Mobil Corp. have big natural gas portfolios. They worry that if methane emissions aren’t controlled that could undermine arguments that natural gas is a cleaner-burning fossil fuel than coal.
“The negative impacts of leaks and fugitive emissions have been widely acknowledged for years, so it’s frustrating and disappointing to see the administration go in a different direction,” said Gretchen Watkins, Shell’s president in the United States.
President Cartoon Villain is forcing those guys to vent methane into the atmosphere! They will no longer be allowed to monitor or maintain their valves and pipelines.
“According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the oil and gas industry is the largest source of methane emissions in the United States.”
Fire them all.
Bigger liars: gun grabbers or greenies?
More methane is produced naturally in North America and the Gulf of Mexico in a day than man produces in a year.
You and your fucking need to cite real facts! PANIC! YOU MUST PANIC!
How the fuck will people accept marxism if they are not scared into it, huh?
methane will be regulated indirectly through another rule aimed at limiting volatile organic compounds from being emitted.
Sheep hardest hit.
EPA is on board with draining the swamp.
Horseshit. They only “oppose” it because they want to curry favor with the next Democrat administration.
at this time we are inclined to move those resources back to counties where prosecution of criminal conduct is still a priority,
Sick burn.
Sane Portlanders are likely planning to move their resources elsewhere as well. And I’m not so sure they will continue to vote for the same shit once they leave. Getting slapped in the face by reality has a way if waking you up.
You ascribe a lot more self awareness & a will to actually fight stupidity to people that are more inclined to want to be part of the popular clique than actually being smart.
Getting slapped in the face by reality has a way if waking you up.
We are talking about ultra-proggies here, so they likely think the bad things are the fault of Republicans, systemic racism, and ORANGEMANBAD. They will continue to vote for the same stupid shit.
Many will. But up until now the consequences of that stupid shit have been primarily economic, which is annoying but can be dealt with if you earn enough. This is no shit actual violence, and .many will wake up to the reality that you cannot buy your way out of this. /incurable optimist
I had a conversation with my girlfriend about the sudden discovery of systemic racism in Minneapolis, where I asked her when the last time was they had any republicans in charge of the city. She fell right into that trap and was really mad when I pointed out that it should be a clear red flag that the asshats talking about this systemic racism have been in charge for decades and have done nothing about it. She got even angrier and we had to stop the discussion when I pointed out that people that benefit from the idea/illusion of systemic racism will never have an incentive to really fix it. She got mad when I told her that the ability to keep using the topic as a means to keep and gain more power just makes solving the problem something they have no interest in. She knows it is true, but she prefers to pretend it is not so, because challenging your beliefs in the liberal dogma in even one place might cause you to have to challenge your entire belief, and proggies don’t want to go there. Admitting you are part of an emotion based marxist cult and for that reason show a lack of commons sense is hard to swallow, I guess.
Being “red pilled” can be painful.
Wonder how many of these guys were Republicans
ugh
wonder how many of these guys were Republicans
At the reservations, the Santee were badly mistreated by corrupt federal Indian agents and contractors; during July 1862, the agents pushed the Indians to the brink of starvation by refusing to distribute stores of food because they had not yet received their customary kickback payments. The contractors callously ignored the Santee’s pleas for help.
To be fair, I’m sure they required kickbacks from everyone, not just injuns.
Cupid Childs was born on 8/8, so feel free to replace him with Mark Fidrych.
Not according to my sources.
I trust baseball-reference.com when it comes to details like that.
But he was born in 1867, so who the hell knows?
Wikipedia has the 14th as well.
I’m digging my heels in here. Wikipedia is never wrong.
MLB.com says the 8th. I say the only way to settle it is for one of you guys to go find his grave, hire a necromancer and ask.
I dug “The Bird”!
Word.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/forced-isolation-may-be-the-only-way-to-stop-resurgence-of-virus/ar-BB17VSNH?ocid=uxbndlbing
Yeah, and winning the lottery may be my best chance at retiring early, but it doesn’t mean I’m going to hole up at home and buy lotto tickets to the exclusion of living life right now.
These control freaks might as well stop telling us the lockdown/shutdown/mask theater is for our own good. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Technically, if everyone isolated for a few weeks entirely separate from everyone else, and never interacted with a bat ever again, it would end.
But that is just fucking stupid.
Also, one generation of monogamy (real monogamy, not the serial kind) would end all sexually transmitted diseases too. For a while.
If everyone isolated for a full lifespan, truly isolated by having no contact closer than say 30 feet with another human being and disinfecting every surface before touching it, it would wipe out every disease affecting humans.
Reproduction might be problematic. The next generation would all have DNA from STEVE SMITH.
Reproduction would be impossible. That is the mechanism I expect to wipe out human diseases.
Forced. I like that they use that word.
Bloomburg, of course.
Top men will tell you what to do so they don’t have to worry too much about having to avoid riff-raff like you when they go about their day (cause you KNOW they have no fucking plans to stay locked up like they demand you be), Suttenboy.
Normally I wouldn’t mind being put in the hole.
Two in the pink, one in the stink!
I was curious about the “record” deaths in Victoria, so followed through to find this:
And an implication that it was all in nursing homes.
Nice try, Bloomberg. People have to be seeing through this… right??
I don’t deal with people very much but it seems to me that we are basically ignoring the dictates and going about our separate ways.
No. People are still falling for this. Anecdotal, but I’ve got several acquaintances who are planning to isolate themselves until next year. One of the girlfriend’s friends gets packages delivered in the garage, where they sit for x number of days before they go out to bring them into the house. These are people in their 30’s/40’s who have no comorbidities (that I’m aware of). They truly believe that to get the COVID is to die.
Board up their windows and doors.
Like I said yesterday, even the “official” line is you don’t catch it from groceries (and by extension, packages). People are now more freaked out than the “experts”.
Yep. And they show no sign of backing down on this. I’m sure they think I’m a dead man walking at this point. I’m waiting for them to start bathing in sanitizer daily, or build some sort of stillsuit type device to keep them immersed in sanitizer at all times. They are convinced the hospitals are at capacity, and the death rate is being under-reported.
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
This will definitely win hearts and minds.
And create quite a mess.
“Bison knocks a woman unconscious, drags her across a road and rips off her pants after she crept up to a calf to take photos”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8626219/Bison-drags-woman-unconscious-ripping-pants-came-close-calf.html
This is becoming a trend.
Which part?
Some other woman got attacked by a bison while getting closer to take a picture, recently.
Through my bleary just-waking eye, that said “Biden knocks a woman unconscious” so I had to reread.
It was funnier with Biden.
Especially the “drags her across a road and rips off her pants” part.
How do people not understand that these are wild animals, very big, very powerful, and not fucking pets?
…and born with the ‘the best defense is a good offense’ mentality.
They are aggressive as hell, especially with calves. The woman deserves a Darwin Award of some kind.
Yeah, the idea to approach a bison when it has a calf is insanity squared. That animal sees no difference between you and a wolf coming for its calf.
29 She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
30 May not deal in doubt or pity — must not swerve for fact or jest.
31 These be purely male diversions — not in these her honour dwells.
32 She the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else.
33 She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
34 As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate.
35 And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unchained to claim
36 Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
37 She is wedded to convictions — in default of grosser ties;
38 Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies! —
39 He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
40 Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
PRAIRIE SMITH!
STEVE SMITH GLAD TO SEE HIM’S WILDLIFE/HUMAN INTERACTION CLASSES WORKING! HIM REMEMBER BISON, HE GOOD STUDENT.
I can’t feel sorry for people like that.
No sympathy from me either. Not a big fan of lists, but she should be on the “Too Stupid to be Allowed to Vote” list.
On the teevee they’re saying Biden wants everybody to be forced to wear a mask for the next six (?) months, bcause it will save 40,000 lives.
Whose
modelass did that number get pulled out of?They announced they want masks to be mandatory for three months and a nationwide contact tracing program.
They’re certifiable.
It’s funny. I keep seeing articles where doctors say this is not like the flu. I know Covid-19 is strange and more aggressive (it’s novel after all), but when all is said and done it may very well be slightly more aggressive than the flu as Fauci said in the beginning. Fauci was accurate early on. What happened? Who got to him? Is Big Pharma indeed the ones pulling the strings? There’s no reason for lockdowns and masks.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMe2002387?articleTools=true
And how do they arrive at 40 000 lives? What’s the study?
Fauci has a financial interest in the vaccine manufacturing.
And more and more research and treatments are indicating there may not even be a need for it. HCQ, RFL-100 and other discoveries.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/08/13/nanobodies-against-the-coronavirus-something-new
They can’t push this forever.
They just need to keep it going until November so they can use fraud by mail to get rid of ORANGEMANBAD.
this is not like the flu
It’s literally the same class of virus.
The more they say what it ain’t – the more you know exactly what it is.
Sounds like something Will Rogers would say.
No it isn’t. The flu is caused by an influenza virus which is a member of class (Insthoviricetes). One third of what we call colds are caused by coronaviruses class (Pisoniviricetes). You have to go all the way up to the Kingdom level to have commonality, which means basically they are as closely related as humans and possums.
Possums are in Mammalia, which is a common class as humans.
Perhaps you should have picked an invertibrate, such as the lobster.
D’oh yes I stepped on my own snark. You are correct.
“Who got to him? ”
Remdesivir failed, is what. He stood to make millions off that.
They have carefully curated an alternate reality with the relentless news, tv commercials, social media etc in which COVID stalks the land, claiming 10% of lives in every village.
If you’d been under a rock for a year and then dropped into present reality, you’d marvel at how the government created a bogeyman to keep us subject in line, even though it’s actual existence is a myth.
COVID19 is the new Krampus. Daddy and mommy government use threats of CovidKrampus to keep adults docile and compliant.
And do you see how frustrated they get when it won’t attack the bad people – all those red-staters. I love how quiet all my California friends have become given the virus doesn’t care about their virtuous politics.
They get ANGRY if you dare suggest the news is actually better than they perceive.
Sorta like climate change. Good news is seen as bad.
The “Bogeyman” is the bane of my golf game. I need a vaccine. Stat!
That number came to him while he was stuck in traffic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Myjh6SB0og
“Hillary Clinton says she’s ‘ready’ to serve in Biden’s administration: Former Secretary of State hints at a return to D.C. and ‘wants to help fix the US'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8626477/Hillary-Clinton-says-shes-ready-help-fix-shes-called-serve-Biden-administration.html
OFFS!!
Didn’t The Hat just say it?
I had almost given up on them trotting Herself out at the last minute to save the day
So she’s ready to go and turn the foundation assassins on the marxists and the people committing voter fraud?
She is concerned that president Kamala in a fit of jealousy actually divulges her campaign’s role in the whole Russiagate fake scandal they tried to hang Trump with and she needs to be there to cock block that attempt…
That’s already been revealed. Nothing happened.
She still owes favors.
Also, ///Loading.
She still has shit to cover up.
There are still Muslim children drawing breath. Got to fix that.
Now i know the Dems art trying to throw the election.
Now we’re primed for the media latching onto some Kamala dirt, she withdraws, and Hillary steps in. Dems maintain woke creds cuz a WOC was their first pick.
I’m having a hard time imagining the bribe that it would take to get Harris off the ticket.
She’ll get the VP slot after Biden bows out, making herself our ruler with Harris being reinstalled as VP – Then everyone is a winner! Hillary gets SJW credit for righting a wrong by giving Harris what she was entitled to, and it further infuriates the right, so hopefully some unhinged far right winger (authentic or manufactured) does something with a firearm and they start off their administration with an executive order confiscated everyone’s icky bang sticks.
I like the Biden-bowing-out angle. We’re being primed for something.
Various DemOps have already telegraphed it. “Ready to lead”, that kind of thing. Actually, I think Biden himself said that.
plata o plomo
Vince Foster and Seth Rich, had a hard time imagining such a ‘bribe’ also.
“Dr Fauci tells Matthew McConaughey that the death toll would be ‘enormous’ if the US tried to achieve herd immunity – as new CDC model projects 189,000 American fatalities by September 5”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8626097/Dr-Fauci-warns-death-toll-enormous-tried-herd-immunity.html
CWAA
Has there ever been a virus that broke contain and spread across the country like this, but didn’t end in herd immunity?
Progressivism?
Parasite, not a virus.
Talking to celebrities is a sure way to lose credibility in my view.
Next up. Fauci talks to Clooney.
Go do your damn job Tony.
He’s been doing for forty years. Fomenting fear about basically harmless disease if you weren’t in the cross-hairs. Remember AIDS? I knew no straight person that caught that disease except for one that got it from a blood transfusion.
Herd immunity is what we’re going to get, regardless of what they do.
Ding, ding, ding!
I keep telling Wifey that it needs to run its course.
Speaking to a friend I hadn’t spoken to in a while yesterday and Fauci came up. Brought up how everyone is saying what an awful year 2020 is and how everyone wants a “do over.” Then I brought up that this has undoubtedly been the best year of Fauci’s life.
If there was any justice in the world Fauci would be homeless under a bridge when this is all over.
I could imagine far worse fates for him but maybe that’s just me. Something woodchipper something?
Alright, alright, alright.
Ass, gas, or grass, nobody rides for free.
From ‘splosives’ link:
But other countries facing sustained spread like Australia and the U.S. are not broadly enacting the policy despite its proven track record. Their unwillingness — or inability — to do so underscores the challenges faced by liberal democracies whose populations are less likely to tolerate measures that require individual sacrifice for the greater good.
Will there be reparations?
“…individual sacrifice for the greater good.”
It always seems to be more about the individual sacrifice. Instead of the greater good we always get mass graves.
If we murdered every person on earth there would be zero new cases. Do I have to think of everything?
individual sacrifice
+1,000,000 / Mao
I love the quotes when “intelectuals” underscore that the problem with liberal democracy is that there is generally some deference to the individual. Mein Gott!!! It’s our fatal flaw!
individual sacrifice for the greater good.
Which is fine if it is voluntary on the part of the individual. Heck off, commie.
Not holding my breath.
Barr said, “I’ve said, there are going to be developments, significant developments before the election, but we’re not doing this on the election schedule. We’re aware of the election. We’re not going to do anything inappropriate before the election, but we’re not being dictated to by this schedule, what’s dictating the timing of this are developments in the case, and there will be developments. Tomorrow, there will be a development in the case. It’s not an earth-shattering development, but it is an indication that things are moving along at the proper pace, as dictated by the facts in this investigation.”
I saw that interview and thought the same thing. I also saw the story where that douchenozzle Romney blocked senate subpoenas for Comey and ….uh…either Clapper or Brennan.
Unless they start indicting people who very clearly committed egregious crimes (think Clinesmith and Brennan), then I’m gonna give up having confidence in the investigation.
Barr’s objective is to protect the institutions. Not to deliver justice.
native Texan Steve Martin
Sure, but does Waco really count? If you’re gonna runnoft to Cali, you need to at least have Carol Burnett cred (San Antonio).
I don’t hate Waco, but, when I’m there I can’t prove to you in any way that I’m not actually in Hattiesburg or Ruston.
So… the spinning for Kamala has begun.
Isn’t that cultural appropriation and bad?
Also, I have been told she is a “moderate”.
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/moderate-kamala-harris-just-cosponsored-climate-legislation-with-aoc/
It’s hard to overlook, when that is about the only thing they have mentioned since she was picked. Can’t be looking at her past, can we.
Also I don’t know how well “She’s an immigrant” will play. (yes i know that isn’t what they are saying, it is what people are going to hear). It might be backwards, and wrong and racist, but i don’t think a large portion of Americans (in the places that matter, i.e Michigan, Pen, Florida) are just jumping to put and immigrant in the Office. For people who’s sole job is to do what it takes to reach the American people, i don’t get it.
I’d be inclined to believe that they are trying to court their own left wing followers, except this week they have shat on them day after day.
I love the bit about Indians finally being politically recognized – Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal don’t count, they were off the plantation.
Shhh. I’ve been informed by National Review that that “plantation” talk is bigoted right-winger stuff.
She immersed herself alright.
More like inserted.
Trump’s mother was an immigrant.
Drinking wodka and viskey at home
/Fourscore remembers
The immigrant thing is really stale. Who cares?
Big fucken deal.
I need commentary from straff and Tejicano.
I’ve often remarked that I’m guilty of cultural appropriation for learning a language spoken by another race. I really can’t keep up anymore.
Yes, the one thing in serious danger of being ‘overlooked’ is Harris’ ethnic background.
I thought her family already immersed itself in the African experience when they bought slaves and made them work the plantation in Jamaica?
Not immersed, molded. They molded the experience, and she continued the family tradition through malicious persecution.
No mention of her privileged teenage upbringing in the toniest neighborhood of Canada. That must have put a severe crimp on her plans to “immerse herself in the African-American experience”.
Scott and I disagree on lots of things, but this time I agree with him. I like this:
https://www.econlib.org/the-wheel-of-ideology-revisited/#comment-254750
Seems kind of familiar.
Blazing Saddles now has a 3 minute disclaimer before the movie to give it “Context” on HBO’s streaming service.
“The raucous comedy is a satire on American racism, depicting the bond between Cleavon Little’s black sheriff and an alcoholic gunslinger portrayed by Gene Wilder.” “Racist language and attitudes pervade the film,” says Stewart in the clip.
No Shit.
Is there going to be a disclaimer before Schindler’s List about how the movie portrays the horrors of Nazi Germany and their treatment of the Jews in the Holocaust?
Give people a little credit.
Uppity Wigger hit me in the head with a bike lock.
Best reason to have the movie on DVD, so you can enjoy the funniest movie ever made without the SJW horseshit.
Just ordered it. I can’t lose access to that one.
When your DVD player breaks you’ll discover that there is now a mandate for content identicode technology that disallows playing unregistered or unapproved materials.
/hope it’s a joke.
Isn’t that pretty much what the region coding was for? IIRC, my first CD ROM drive would only play 3 other region disks before permanently locking to region one.
Region coding would be a piker compared to the content control system which can dynamically de-authorize wrongthinkful materials.
Yep. Another reason I will never stream fiction.
They will eventually come after those of us that have the DVD because we love the movie and know eventually they will edit or ban it.
Give people credit? No, we must treat every adult as an infant – spoon feeding them pablum.
Hell, if you let people just think for themselves, god knows what kind of awful thoughts they’ll come up with.
Is it seriously a full 3 minutes long?
The worst part is that in this day and age I can’t tell if you’re making a funny or this is reality.
The unfunny gag is longer than the bean joke?
Blu-Ray came in the mail yesterday.
Bizarre conspiracy theories? We haz dat.
While QAnon bubbled on the fringes of the internet for years, researchers and experts say it has emerged in recent months as a sort of centralized hub for conspiracy and alternative health communities. According to an internal document reported by NBC News this week, Facebook now has more than 1,000 of these QAnon groups, totaling millions of members.
Users like Rein Lively who started off in wellness communities, religious groups and new-age groups on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during the pandemic were then introduced to extremist groups like QAnon, aided by shared beliefs about energy, healing or God — and often by recommendation algorithms.
And while anti-mask sentiment has surfaced in a variety of ways for a number of reasons, viral videos of anti-mask confrontations have become causes for celebration in conspiracy circles, embraced as examples of people taking the fight against their shadowy enemy into the real world.
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Cooped up inside her home and losing work due to the pandemic in the weeks before her outburst, Rein Lively filled the time she would’ve spent hanging out with friends and emailing clients by diving down conspiracy-fueled rabbit holes on Facebook and Instagram, worsening her feelings of isolation and fear.
Some find themselves believing in elaborate conspiracy theories about Bill Gates, 5G wireless technology, vaccines and masks, which researchers say are in part pushed by an algorithm and shared community members that group all of the theories together.
Within days, they begin to believe that President Donald Trump is waging a secret war to save trafficked children from a cabal of Satan-worshipping baby eaters who control the United States government.
The plague is making people (at NBC) paranoid and crazy.
Life would be so much easier if I were crazy enough to believe in conspiracies like Rushun Collision and Qanon. Instead I have to watch in despair as people try to out stupid each other.
Office Prog 1 and 2 were REEEING about QAnon GOP Congress candidate. REEEING about conspiracy theories.
These people spent the entirety of 2017, 2018, and most of 2019 talking about the Steele Dossier and the Pee Pee Tape and every other bullshit.
Divine inspiration.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has released a campaign video in which he credits his Catholic faith, Pope Francis, and the example of nuns for his personal inspiration.
The short video was released August 9 on the Democratic National Convention’s Twitter account. Biden’s use of nuns as an inspirational example of “generosity to others” comes despite his promise to renew legal action against the Little Sisters of the Poor should he win election.
Biden has promised to remove freedom of conscience protections which exempt the sisters from the “contraceptive mandate,” opening them back up to renewed suits by the federal government for failure to provide contraceptives to their employees.
“This is the kind of moral conviction we need in the president of the United States,” says the tweet, which led into the video.
Democrats love Religious people. They love to trot them out and use them to try to get those bitter clingers to vote for them.
Given his habit of sniffing ladies’ hair, I’m a bit perplexed at his fondness for nuns.
The Catholic Church in the US made a devil’s bargain with big city Democrat machine politicians as a firewall against the Republican Protestant coalition.
They’re going to pay for that for a long time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianity
The original devil’s bargain. This is considered to be a triumph of Christianity, but i’ve come to see it as a triumph of the state. Catholics sing the Star-Spangled Banner and God Bless America at mass on secular holidays. No wonder that not a peep was heard from the magisterium when the Governers shut down services. Except for the very vocal support for those very policies. Lifelong Catholic, but I’m done.
Catholics sing the Star-Spangled Banner and God Bless America at mass on secular holidays
At my last church, I talked with a couple pastors about exactly that. and they didn’t even have some of the “murica, my favorite idol” crap that I’ve experienced at other churches. Their response:
“I don’t love it either, but if you want to see dozens of enraged geriatric members threaten to leave the church, take it away”
I was a little bit disappointed that they wouldn’t take a stand, but I also get it. No need to fracture the church over a couple of songs.
I get that. Distasteful as it is, the patriotic songs were not a deal-breaker for me. The thunderous silence of the “leaders’ did it. Participation in the Eucharistic rite is central to Catholicism and is not something which can be done on Zoom. Church history is replete with people who risked and frequently gave their lives to practice their faith. We are taught as schoolchildren to revere these martyrs. Faced with a situation which screamed for the courage to stand up for their faith, the hierarchy has instead marched in lockstep with the thugs who have unilaterally revoked freedom of worship. There are better examples from other denominations; doctrinal issues aside I admire the courage of those who dared to speak out.
Saying he likes commie pope is supposed to get religious people to like him?
“And there was one nun in particular, Sister Helen, large bulging woman, could throw a baseball a country mile. She’d rap our hands with a ruler if we talked in class. She used to tell stories about St Peter and St Thomas. Not the island, the guy. She’d never been to the island. That’s a beautiful place. Should be a state. So she’d rap our hands with a ruler. And my buddy Smitty would take it because he had some thing where his hand nerves didn’t register pain.
And I’d get up in the morning hoping to learn from her.
And that, my friends, is why I’m running for president of the…of the thing…the United States, which St Thomas and even St John, another guy Sister Helen would talk about from time to time, should be a part of.”
Biden playing the Catholic card has got to be the most brazen chutzpah I’ve ever seen in politics. Even worse, it fucking works.
There’s a decent chance there’s going to be a schism in the Catholic church in the next 40 years or so. I’ve got some Catholic friends who left the Knights of Columbus because they felt it wasn’t Catholic enough, and they’re not big fans of the current pope.
There are sizable number of folk who believe the schism happened with Vatican II. https://novusordowatch.org/
Catholicism might be an angle in IA which might be in play.
In the South outside LA (okay: with my relatives who are scattered from Starkville to Atlanta), the Catholic card is a duece, a tres at most, and will capture no hands. The Kennedyiscontrolledbythepope generations haven’t even entirely died off yet.
FWIW, I almost went with “playing the religion card”.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Biden is up 1% in the EC for the week; Trump continues a tiny August surge.
I wondered before when and how the Harris impact would show. This is short-run noise, but it’s the same folk with the same methods week in and week out.
In my Health Region there have been 196 cases of panda-demic and no deaths. Nobody wears masks. We’re due for something but it probably won’t kill us all. We just keep on, keepin’ on.
Dude we have 90 per day and a couple of deaths and it’s mandated.
They should end it IMMEDIATELY.
She’s coming after your .22 as well.
Tyler describes Harris as “to the core, to the very bone, anti-Second Amendment,” and says that the CRPA has been battling Harris and her anti-gun agenda since she was District Attorney in San Francisco more than a decade ago. As Tyler explains, Kamala Harris hasn’t just been a reliable vote for gun control legislation as a U.S. Senator, she wants to be a leader in the attack on the right to keep and bear arms.
During her time as Attorney General, for example, Tyler says that Kamala Harris attempted to broaden the definition of an “assault weapon” under California law to go after semi-automatic .22LR rimfire rifles and have them banned. These were the very same rifles being used by Boy Scouts in the state, but Harris apparently believed that they were too dangerous for civilian use.
No, she didn’t. That would make her sound stupid, and this is something borne of pure malice. she hates you and your rights and will do anything to deprive you of them.
this this this this
Wow. Kamala does have that “pantsuit whiff” about her, does she not? She’s full-on lost the flow and now everyone is gonna pay.
I-45
is the interstate that remembers that the greatest Texan was a Tennessean.
So you’re going to smear everyone by the accident of their place of birth? Don’t forget, he escaped Tennessee.
in case you didn’t know
a/ Houston was born in Virginia
b/ after his civilized marriage failed, he rejoined the Cherokee who, like all the other Civilized Tribes, had been effectively removed from the old South
if only he had stayed with the Cherokee continuously, I could argue that Federales flung him out of Tennessee
So, he’s not even a Tennessean, but you label him as such?
oh, it’s a secret scale we in Tennessee don’t tell everyone about: we judge and claim a neighbor based on how hot his wife is
accordingly, you’ll notice I’m near the top of the honorary Tennessean list
Go read the studies the CDC links to in support of masks.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/cloth-face-cover-guidance.html#recent-studies
Pretty weenie.
So they just assume that COVID spreads by droplet and not aerosol? Pretty weak.
That does seem like a reasonable assumption though.
An assumption is not a reason to mandate mass mask wearing CP.
I didn’t say it was.
I’ll just pull a muppet over my head and slowly suffocate. It would be an honest death.
Is this guy serious?
Schiff said, “Well, it does. It falls into the basket of a president of the United States who will break any law, rule, abuse of power of his office, who will cheat, and no strategy is beneath him. You know, this idea of recruiting a third party candidate that you hope will siphon votes from your opponent, it is an old ploy, but it is among the dirtiest of the dirty tricks. You never wanted to be associated with it. But here it is all out in the open. The president’s son-in-law dispatched to meet with Kanye. They’re not even hiding it. You know, Barbara Boxer, who was just wonderful on your show, talked about the dog-whistle in terms of the suburban households. It is not even a dog-whistle anymore. It is a whistle that everybody can hear.”
Schiff added, “This is where the president has descended to low, no tactic beneath him, no bigotry too great, no racist appeal too much, no political dirty trick beyond the pale. And the terrible thing is the Republicans in the Congress won’t say a word. They are watching their party destroyed. They’re watching the ethics of the party leader just tear their party asunder, and they don’t have the guts to do anything or say anything about it. That’s what enables this.”
Progjection thy name is Schiff.
NO FAIR! THE PEOPLE ARE ONLY ALLOWED 2 CHOICES!!! You can’t be Negotiating behind the scense!!! What do you think this is?!?! POLITICS?!
Sounds like Shiff is afraid becauese it might be a good strategy.
In stunning news, a cop who was fired for his racist decoration of a xmas tree in Mpls has been reinstated by an arbitrator.
Actually, I am sort of surprised that this happened.
Shoot a black man in cold blood -> No problem fam
Use steryotypes -> Thats it brother, you’re fired!
I smoked menthols, I eat Takis and (closest one is an hour away and I’ve only been to that location once) eat popeyes, they’s bein racist against me! They hate german/russian/english/polish mutts!
Now do ludefisk decorations. I’m guessing there would be the same outrage for promoting Scandinavian (white) things
https://twitter.com/i/events/1294022207400636416
Michael Cohen: I know where all the skeletons are buried
Lots of people know what it takes to sell a book these days. This is getting worse than the “shared universe” fad of Movies.
Yeah, I can’t keep them straight. who is the villain and who is the hero? That’s right! They’re all shit-birds!
“Michael Cohen reveals his bombshell book about Donald Trump saying he witnessed ‘golden showers, tax fraud, a secret back channel to Putin, and lying to Melania,’ and calling president ‘a racist, a predator and a con man who wants to be ‘leader for life'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8625259/Cohen-reveals-contents-bombshell-book-Trump-saying-witnessed-golden-showers-tax-fraud.html
Witnessed golden showers? Does having your lawyer present add to the kink?
None of these events actually involved Trump.
a secret back channel to Putin
Heads of state have backdoor comms for quick contact and negotiation? 0_o
Yeah did they get rid of the old Cold War hotline?
the following events are based on a true story.
And these are the same people who make fun of QAnon.
The tell-all book on Trump that I am working on will have the same veracity as his.
Idea for a prank. Do a “Anonymous White House Insider” pitch for a book. Have the first ~100 pages be the usual Washington insider DRUMPF BAD nonsense. Then, suddenly, without warning, switch it over to The Complete Hat and the Hair.
I am willing to bet an editor would get through the first 50 pages go SOLID GOLD JERRY WE GOT HIM NOW and run off 400,000 copies.
Gah! Signing off for now. I’ll get some sleep but my blood has been angered.
So they just assume that COVID spreads by droplet and not aerosol? Pretty weak.
And no dose is too small to kill you.
The two officers were fired last fall after an internal affairs investigation found that they were responsible for decorating a tree in the lobby of the Fourth Precinct station with a pack of menthol cigarettes, a can of Steel Reserve malt liquor, police tape, a bag of Takis snacks and a cup from Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen.
No nooses?
I am disappoint.
“Kamala Harris a thread”
https://twitter.com/M_C_Yates/status/1293300812001742855
The Bernie Bros aren’t having it, apparently.
KaMaLa Is A mOdErAtE!
mad as fuk
Bald-faced lies
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/scientists-say-the-coronavirus-is-at-least-as-deadly-as-the-1918-flu-pandemic.html
They claim that if it weren’t for treatments like ventilators, the death toll would be worse. Except the recovery rate for those who go on a ventilator is abysmal.
And the 1918 flu primarily killed healthy young people, not elderly with multiple co-morbidities.
What a retarded article. Everytime I talk to people about the wuflu and ask how many people they think under 55 have died from this. Without fail the answer is either I have no idea or some number over 50,000. it’s under 15,000 every single person no matter what there position on it has been surprised at that number.
That high?
Now do 1968.
So you are saying it is going to be racist.
The theme of the upcoming 2020 GOP convention will be “Honoring the Great American Story” and will highlight America’s “greatness, opportunity and President Donald Trump’s bold leadership,” Fox News has learned.
The Trump campaign on Thursday afternoon had back to back phone calls with Republican members of Congress, previewing the themes for the 2020 Republican National Convention, a source familiar with the calls told Fox News.
The source told Fox News that the GOP’s convention theme is in “stark contrast to the doom and gloom message we expect to hear from career politicians at the DNC convention.”
The lefts pitch to America is: “America sucks, make me your leader”
You forgot “…and you are a racist piece of shit”.
“…so I’m going to punish you.”
LOL. I love it.
The source told Fox News that the GOP’s convention theme is in “stark contrast to the doom and gloom message we expect to hear from career politicians at the DNC convention.”
Not like all those single-termer rolled-up shirt sleeve Cincinnatuses in the GOP.
Heh…
Still seething about that Minneapolis property tax article on reason.
I’ll never step foot in that city if I can help it
I think it’s great. Some lessons have to be learned the hard way. When the businesses walk away or never open, things unseen. Some times the broken windows never get fixed and we never ask why. Lessons learned.
“There used to be a _______ store here but after the fire they reopened in a suburb.”
But the story won’t be that, the story will be that racist whites left the city because they were racist.
I remember hearing that all the time when I was a good little lefty, decades ago. Some things never change.
And after another 10 years, it will be racist whites moved into the neighborhood and drove out the blacks.
“And we paid them mutually agreeable prices for the property, shut the fuck up and go away.”
That’s not a very flattering take even if it were true.
I mean, the issue with gentrification is that is driven by the immoral tax system where the State tells you your house is worth X, and that you have to pay them a certain % of X to live there.
Property taxes should be set at the sale price of a home. The value of an item is determined by the price someone is willing to pay for it on the open market. Or, as someone suggested here a while back, the property tax assessment also functions as a binding offer to buy the house, in cash.
Property taxes are basically the government extracting the value out of investment decisions made by others. If you identify the next big neighborhood, and you buy in early, the city shouldn’t get to steal money because you made a smart investment.
Free and openly arrived at sale price. A forced sale isn’t a true market price either.
It’s well down the same road as your property can be taken away because you’re not making full value of it.
“Free and openly arrived at sale price”
Well yes. That goes without saying here on Glibs, though sadly not elsewhere.
Gentrification is 100% the result of the property tax system. You get a working class family of color that’s forced to pay higher property taxes each year because the neighborhood is changing, that’s not corporate greed, it’s government policy forcing them to sell.
In a moral system, a poor black family working and living in their 120,000 dollar house pays 1200 bucks a year in property taxes, then when they sell 30 years later for 900,000 to some Amazon executive who wants renovate their charming old house, they have 900,000 bucks and buy three houses in a row on some cul de sac, and live out their golden years with their kids and grandkids living on either side of them.
‘Zactly’
One of Heinlein’s books talked about a system where the owners of the property declared a value for the property, and had to pay property taxes based on that declared value. However, the declared value was public knowledge, and anyone could tender an offer to purchase your property based on that declared value. If you then updated your declared value, you had to cover the difference in taxes owed for the past 5 (I think) years.
I dislike any system custom made to push people who just want to keep their property and not sell.
We horse folk do something similar in a claim race. A price is set for a race, and anyone can enter a horse if they are willing to have their horse claimed at that par. Enter too good a horse trying to win the purse and you can find yourself without a horse at all.
The 24 Hours of Lemons is a claim race: any car can be bought by the judges for $500, so don’t stuff a turboed Coyote in that B210 and think you’re getting away with anything.
Let’s see, rooftop party, annoying protestors on the sidewalk.
Anyone else seeing a, err, golden opportunity?
Fear no more Comrade Stalin has learned of your troubles and has rescinded the orders!
So their polling efforts told them this idea was a big negative with people, so they reversed it? Cause you know they don’t give a shit about fucking over the people they were fucking over.
Subjugation through terrorism
If the United States allowed coronavirus infections to run rampant to achieve possible herd immunity, the death toll would be massive especially among vulnerable people, the nation’s top infectious doctor said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, explained the risks during a live Instagram session with actor Matthew McConaughey.
“If everyone contracted it, even with the relatively high percentage of people without symptoms … a lot of people are going to die,” Fauci said.
“You look at the United States of America with our epidemic of obesity as it were. With the number of people with hypertension. With the number of people with diabetes. If everyone got infected, the death toll would be enormous and totally unacceptable,” he said.
Herd immunity is reached when around 70% to 90% of a population becomes immune to a disease either through infection and recovery or vaccination. When that happens, the disease is less likely to spread to people who aren’t immune because there just aren’t enough infectious carriers to reach them.
It is still unclear whether survivors of Covid-19 have immunity, though some have still suggested that allowing Covid-19 to plow through populations might help reach herd immunity more quickly if possible — but it would be a disaster for hospitals. Doctors would be overwhelmed and more people would die, not just from coronavirus but from other infections, too.
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“You can’t run away from the numbers,” Fauci said. “You can’t run away from the numbers of people who’ve died, the number of people getting hospitalized, the surges we’re seeing.”
The monster is out there. It’s coming for you. Hide. Pray.
You can die living a full life or you can die alone, cowering in your domicile.
“You look at the United States of America with our epidemic of obesity as it were. With the number of people with hypertension. With the number of people with diabetes.”
So we need to keep all gyms and businesses closed, and everyone should be sitting on their couch, sedentary and stressed out. Great plan.
There are no surges in the numbers. The guy is seeing surges that aren’t there but he wishes were there.
Maybe if you government dipshits stopped trying to scare people every goddamned day for the last 50 fucking years people wouldn’t be stress eating and they wouldn’t be obese.
It already is, you fucking moron. And where it isn’t yet, it will be.
And that is the reality they are trying to avoid. These morons think they can force the laws to bend to their will. Just like they believe they can force the laws of human nature, nature, physics, economics, biology, and so on to bend to whatever idiotic whim they champion. I have told people this from the start: if they are doing this quarantining & social distancing thing to slow the spread down and allow the medical community to avoid being overwhelmed, then that is a necessary evil. But if this quarantining is because these morons believe they can simply stop the virus from getting into the population until herd immunity is established, then they are even fucking more evil and stupid than I credit them with.
Then again, it is all politics. These arbitrary and capricious heavy handed decisions and declarations all seem to be politically motivated.
This is what pisses me off – we were told early on that the virus WILL make its way through the population and have a certain unavoidable death toll, but we could slow it down and ease the burden on healthcare resources by doing a short lockdown.
Now we’re being told that we have to do forced mask-wearing and lockdowns until there are “no new cases” or a vaccine developed, both of which could be years and years away.
A few days old, but still. These people are insane.
https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1291102100160733185
What in the fuckity fuck is she talking about?
She wants abortion delivery?
“We are still in the middle of a pandemic, yet the Trump administration is once again trying to force women to appear in-person to access abortion services.”
So they are mailing out coat hangers?
I was too slow!
Strange.
When I injured myself last weekend I actually had to go to urgent care. They wouldn’t just phone a script. Amazing about that.
I have bronchitis but they won’t give me a prescription even though that what always gets me through it. Problem is, when I set up the appointment, I have to answer yes about the breathing and coughing issues,so I am immediately shunted to COVID protocol, meaning I go to the clinic parking lot and get the COVID nasal swab test, go home, get told it’s negative, and then I’m right where I started.
And put on “the list” now by the state too thanks to the testing.
I’ve been using my emergency inhaler at least 2x hour, doing nebulizer 2x daily, and using Flonase and my prescription preventative inhaler.
Still losing lung capacity. If I finish work soon enough, I’m going in for urgent care. Screw this noise.
Get thee to a physician, stat. That does not sound good.
??? Go go go.
How is your oxygen saturation?
What, she wants it so that the doctor guides you on Zoom how to manipulate the coat hanger?
mail order abortions?
The steel on that model is too heavy-guage for the application in question.
How do you get a surgical abortion without an in-person visit, anyway?
You can’t, and even medical abortions require examinations, before and after.
“Do you have a Prius? No? Good! Go into the garage. Leave the garage doors closed. Start the car. We should be done with the procedure in about an hour. You won’t feel a thing.”
She is the rare political creature who is equal amounts of evil AND stupid.
Isn’t that what coat hangers and stairs are for?
So we need to keep all gyms and businesses closed, and everyone should be sitting on their couch, sedentary and stressed out. Great plan.
If it ruins just one life…
Just in case you thought batshit only came out of Wuhan.
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1294249825333063682
disdain I have for this president
Objective journalist…
And then lists a bunch of shit that is out of context or complete fabrication. Stay classy.
Bitch has lost her mind.
OT: I jumped over to the English language Japanese news. Lot’s stories about VJ Day, but little mention of :
“But now the war has lasted for nearly four years. Despite the best that has been done by everyone – the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of our servants of the state, and the devoted service of our one hundred million people – the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest.”
Just needs a “in principle” statement in there.
The original is in archaic Japanese used for official documents.
That’s the accepted translation, but you could make a fair argument that it isn’t truly that ironic.
I (and many current Japanese people) can’t really read the original.
“the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage”
Greatest understatement in history?
Also, I believe that speech was the first time the common people had ever heard an emperor’s voice?
I’ve read that too. Not sure how well “fact checked” that is, but given the times it wouldn’t be that surprising.
China fucked the World.
The World.
The World must fuck China.
I agree, China needs a good, hard reaming. They are as bad or worse than the Nazis the left is always going on about.
The world largely fucked itself and I dont hear any discussion of the documented fact that the commie cooties research was outsourced and funded by….us.
There is a lot of squirrelly shit that we arent getting any info on. It aint just the ChiComs that need a fucking.
In the late 90s when it was becoming clear that Clinton’s were fundraising by renting out the White House guest rooms to the Chinese, I was appalled.
When I later learned that the Clintons had given the Chinese a ton of missile related design info, I thought Hill and Bill would be shot for treason. That they weren’t was my wake up call that the media were openly taking sides politically instead of doing journalism.
My admittedly simplistic take on China is that the western rich and wealthy basically outsourced slavery to there. The CCP are excellent task masters and can easily keep their docile minions in line.
I can’t even imagine living the life of a commoner in China. I think I would rather die from a meth overdose in a trailer park in south Georgia.
Now consider that it is almost certainly a massive improvement over their lives under Mao. At least slaves have food.
Yep. I never paid much heed to the “buy American” campaigns, other than a vague frustration that while China used to be the cheap option, it has become the ONLY option for many goods.
I’m ready to pay more for non-Chinese goods now. I don’t want to fund HK oppression or line Hunter Biden’s pockets with Chinese lucre.
I’ve gotten to the point where if you don’t say outright where your product is made, I assume it’s chinese crap and don’t buy it if I can avoid it.
It has had the nice side effect of cutting down on my impulse spending.
A lot of people that had moved to China for manufacturing and were stuck there because of the corrupt rules of the ChiComm CCP regarding investments in China are seeing the current climate as a break that allows them to take the loss and move elsewhere. A lot of China’s neighbors, and especially India, now are looking like the new slave labor markets. The one good thing is that it will make it a bit harder for China to manipulate the global market and steal IP (they will not stop that until we really start fucking them for trying).
China didn’t fuck the world the states and muni’s did that. The amount of industrial shift and future disruption this bullshit is going to cause is going to be incalculable. The hollowing out of cities and municipal revenues is going to be epic. The state and local gov. have committed fiscal suicide on a level unimaginable to me. I’d be mostly all for this but given how rapid this shift has occurred is going to fuck everyone in most industries. They have totally destroyed the commercial office market, Insurance market specifically work comp is forever disrupted, fucked over commercial real estate market in the short term, possibly forever destroyed the public schools systems or hastened their decline, the entertainment industry is not going to recover for at least two years, The university system also is probably looking at draconian cuts and bankruptcies.
But pharma’s future is looking up.
What a great collection of stroke inducing links. If I stroke out, I guess my death can be considered Covid related.
*checks BP*
Mitt Romney = Worthless piece of shit. Seriously WTF Utah?
Is Mitt Romney the One Blocking Russian Collusion Subpoenas For James Comey and John Brennan?
What did happen to Mittens? He still seemed sane in 2012. Is it Trump derangement syndrome?
Desire to be liked by Dems (spoiler alert: the more you cede to them, the more they despise you)?
Or is there blackmail on ol’ Mitt? Or old fashioned bribery?
Mitt is the Controlled Opposition. He did exactly what he was supposed to do: provided a straight out of Central Casting Republican Villain for the LIghtbringer to triumph against.
If a junior writer had gone to Aaron Sorkin and said “Here’s my idea for for the Republican to run against Martin Sheen next season: a white Mormon born with a silver spoon in his mouth who was a senior financial executive.” Sorkin would have told him to branch out and make the character a little less stereotypical.
Mitt Romney is and has always been a political whore.
Anyone who inspected his track record in MA politics, even cursorily, would discover a cornucopia of instances of him betraying principals and friends for momentary political advantage.
Just remember, Trump is merely a speedbump to the decline of the U.S. government. All the incentives and all the social dynamics that were driving its death are still in play. And after Trump leaves they will still be in play. And Mitt Romney entirely surrendered to those forces decades ago.
s/principals/principles/
#%&@!!
They both work.
“What did happen to Mittens? He still seemed sane in 2012. Is it Trump derangement syndrome?”
Yes.
More importantly, Mitt is enraged and ashamed that Trump managed to win when he couldn’t, and he can’t let go of the fact he was proven wrong for playing nice when he should have kicked the Obama people in the balls (like Trump did to Hillary). It is purely and totally an inferiority complex reaction. He wants Trump to fail so he looks less like the squishy deep state moron he is.
What a contemptuous hack.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris may not be taking questions from the media, but President Trump is. The president even takes questions from the fakest members of the fake news media, one of which was in attendance at the White House press briefing on Thursday. HuffPost reporter Shirish Date, who is the senior White House correspondent for HuffPost, asked the president the following question:
“Mr. President, after 3 1/2 years, do you regret, at all, all the lying you’ve done to the American people?”
Trump was taken aback. While the president is used to hostile questions from the liberal media, reporters don’t typically make their Trump Derangement Syndrome so obvious.
“All the what?” the president asked.
“All the lying. All the dishonesties,” the reporter answered.
“That who’s done?” the president asked next.
“You have done,” answered the reporter.
“Mr Trump, when did you stop beating your wife?”
I’m sure the contemptuousness will carry over to the next administration, and Right wingers who insinuate that will be treated like legitimate journalists.
Whenever some idiot says something about Trump being a liar I usually respond with: “Ah, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. Benghazi was all about a reaction to a Youtube video” etc. etc.
He is gonna get a lot of pats on the back at the usual cocktail parties for being so brave and challenging that man!
Fucking idiots.
Surprise
In a long statement and series of Twitter messages Thursday night, a Seattle councilwoman tore into the city’s soon-to-depart police Chief Carmen Best, claiming it was “no accident” that “right-wing” figures such as President Trump and Attorney General William Barr were sorry that Best planned to step down.
“They recognize the service [Best] has provided the capitalist class in pushing back against the Black Lives Matter movement at the height of its power,” socialist Councilwoman Kshama Sawant wrote, according to Seattle’s KIRO-TV.
Best, who has been Seattle’s police chief since August 2018, revealed in an email Monday that she planned to retire, effective Sept. 2. Her announcement came after the Seattle City Council voted to slash the police department budget, including Best’s own salary.
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The councilwoman claimed that Best and other police chiefs around the U.S. have stepped down in recent weeks because the Black Lives Matter movement “has been nothing short of an earthquake in American politics, exposing the endemic racism and police violence of U.S. capitalism and putting mayors, police chiefs and political establishments across the country on the defensive.”
Sawant, 46, is a native of India and former software engineer who has served on Seattle’s city council since 2014, representing the Socialist Alternative party.
In early July, Sawant called for the overthrow of capitalism, including the seizure of Fortune 500 companies.
Property is theft. Kkkapitalism is what’ wrong with this country. Burn it all down, so we all can live together in peace and harmony.
Someone needs to tell her that CNN debunked the BLM -> Marxism link.
exposing the endemic racism and police violence of U.S. capitalism
Usually commies in the gov’t refrain from saying the quite thing out loud.
Other people’s property is theft. My property, not so much.
I just read the Reason article on Minneapolis residents being required to pay property tax in full before they clean up / demolish buildings damaged in riots.
These riots were actively encouraged by the Dem government, esp Walz. And protecting your property was effectively banned while the city also ordered cops to stand down.
Remind me again what property taxes are allegedly spent on?
(Article link: https://reason.com/2020/08/13/minneapolis-tells-residents-with-riot-wrecked-buildings-they-cant-clean-up-until-theyve-paid-their-2020-property-taxes-in-full/?itm_source=parsely-api )
I believe it’s sort of the same out in the boondocks. Small town businesses dry up, stay vacant for a while (couple years maybe), zoning laws prohibit changes. Finally taxes go unpaid, buildings run down and declared a nuisance/danger and owner required to tear down but only after the tax matter is cleaned up. A lot of vacant lots appearing on Main Streets.
Someone, maybe a Glib, said that when “The Dollar Store opens on the edge of town you know the town is dead” or words like that. Happening every where in rural MN.
I don’t know about the Dollar Store being a good indicator. I’ve seen them in some very unexpected and affluent places in my travels.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2012/1/2/the-cost-of-auto-orientation.html
It is 8 years old, but it is Brainerd, MN, so you reminded me of it.
Since the 70’s, the cities cleaned themselves up and convinced the professional class people to return. Yes – that included “gentrification” and moving the projects into other areas and blocking them off, and aggressive policing. But it worked.
Now the Dems and their commie allies have undone it all in the last 6 months. Most large American cities are now done for the foreseeable future. Whitey and professional people of all colors are packing up and leaving. Want to see the future of Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle? Take a ride through Newark or Trenton, NJ. There are still some busy office buildings (before covid), but everyone working there commuted in and got the hell out by sundown. I worked in Newark for a couple of years. Nobody worked late into the evening ever if there was a big deadline – either we went home and kept working, came in very early the next morning, or met in one of the suburban offices.
With covid and the advent of remote work, those office buildings will probably be abandoned and the cities will just rot.
I dunno where that happens but it’s not NYC. Here there are projects on some of the most expensive real estate on earth.
PS. The cities were written off in the 70s too. I’m not placing any bets on what happens this time around.
I was thinking about Baltimore and the LA neighborhoods. I don’t know NYC neighborhoods.
I remember Newark in the latter ’70s, parts of it looked like a war zone after the clean up. Depressing, never had to go back, fortunately.
“the cities cleaned themselves up”
Yeah… with borrowed money they 1) haven’t paid back (they were fortunate to roll over the loans at lower interest rates), and 2) handed the money as a gift to selected crony developers.
Nearly every one of those mayors and city council members have since left office and left the bills to the office-seeking suckers that had big mouths and not an ounce of understanding of what was going on.
I shake my head every time I see an article about Chicago’s “junk bond rating.” Sure, the Bbb- rating is “junk”, but the interest rate on that junk is way lower than the rate on a AAa-rated bond in 1998.
I would guess it takes a generation for a city to recover from a disaster. And that’s with a health economy.
This is a twofer – the ‘Vid reminding people that cities have always been, and still are, places where disease finds a home, and the riots, reminding people that civil unrest happens in cities first and foremost.
Add a third leg to that stool. The shift to work from home meaning that people don’t need to go into the office. I have a feeling that a lot of people are going to be able (or mandated) to work from home through at least next year.
Minneapolis did back down, but the fact that they even tried it is pretty bad.
I wonder if an owner could just quit-claim the property to the city to wash their hands of it. It would be hard to walk away from a former asset, but once it turns into a liability, its the rational thing to do. Get a tax deduction, anyway.
the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage
That’s one way to put it.
The Cities: Reports from those on the ground
Journalo blames Republicans for bad economy
It genuinely surprises me how many people will pay their phone bill when they don’t have enough to buy meals for the week.
People, if you’re not gonna make it to the end of the month, priority #1 is basic food and priority #2 is keeping a roof over your head. Phone is way down the list.
also, r/unemployment is just an activist group. I saw 1 post in the first 2 pages that wasn’t about political activism.
Local/state utilities are also deferring payment for those that can’t pay right now*.
*Idk if this is universal but it is being done in my locality.
This is another reason, even if you disagree with lots of implementation details, to listen to Dave Ramsey, or someone like that. Basic info on who to pay first. It should be common sense, but he mentions how many people will send a credit card payment instead of a mortgage payment, because they are the ones calling up and yelling at you.
Looking at this map has made me understand how bad it has been elsewhere. Frankly, i’ve known a few people who were furloughed, but are back at work. Business is back to mostly usual around here.
Phones are pretty damned important nowadays, particularly if you’re looking for a better job.
But that can be a basic flip phone prepaid with T-Mobile, sprint, Boost. You can skip a month if you have to. But the phone will serve its purpose of keeping you in touch and safe, without breaking the bank.
Most of my calls are spam. 🙁
Phone is pretty high on my list for tight times, but there are a few above it.
1)Beans and Rice type groceries
2)Rent/mortgage
3)Electric/Gas (but the A/C gets turned uncomfortably high and we’re shutting off almost everything else)
4)Employment necessary transportation (if the bus gets me to a hypothetical job interview, I’m defaulting on the car)
5)Phone
2 and 3 are probably backwards depending on how well your utilities will work with you. It takes longer to evict you than to get lights turned off.
That may be true in some places, but it is not commonly true. For an example in this neck of woods you can give a 3 day notice the day rent is late, so commonly the 5th of the month, but possible as early as the 2nd, file the eviction on the 4th day, have the hearing 16-19 days after that, and have the set out 7 days later. So in Ohio it is possible to have someone out in the same calendar month they missed the rent payment, and common to have them out within 6 weeks of the missed payment.
Also, the utility company has to turn them back on if you pay. Your landlord does not have to let you stay if you offer to pay after the 3 day stage. And you can live in a dark house, you can’t use the lights when you are on the street. PAY YOUR DAMN RENT!
I used Walmart Trakphones or w/e and minute cards for a couple years. I wasn’t even broke for a lot of it, I just hated being on a plan. I spent maybe twenty bucks a month.
I’m on cricket for the same reason. I hate the idea of being locked into some plan. I pay $70 at the beginning of the month, and my wife and I get call/text/and 10gb data each. If I decided to jump ship tomorrow, there’s nothing standing in my way.
I’ll plug Ting again. Pay-as-you-go at the end of the month. I rarely pay over $25. TBF I am a light user, since I generally hate being on my phone but still. A plan is just throwing good money out the window.
These are Redditors, not people. Redditors would starve before losing their connection to the Internet.
get a job.
Somebody tell this guy that Amazon’s paying nearly $20 an hour to work in their warehouses. Be forewarned, though, they actually expect you to work.
We have a hiring freeze on cushy office jobs, but are hiring for hard manual labor – laundry, transport, environmental services, landscaping.
There’s always jobs out there. You just have to be willing to work. I think I know what these Redditors’ real problem is.
*sigh*
One of my career goals is to have an office with a door.
“Cushy office jobs” includes a lot of our cubicle-based activities.
I still want the cushy office to go with the cushy job.
Not me. That just means a job where you’re on the phone all day instead of doing anything usef— Hm.
No. I still don’t want that.
I’m already on the phone all day. I’m stuck in so many meetings I have to schedule time to find tasks to delegate.
Yeah but with an office you’ll never be able to argue that you have too many meetings again. 🙂
fight The Man!
‘Murica, fuck yeah!
This eagle is the official mascot of the Biden campaign.
Shouldn’t someone go to jail for fucking with an eagle?
He probably wouldn’t care for LA anyway.
Rioters tore down a statue of George Washington in Grand Park near Los Angeles City Hall on Thursday evening, the latest monument to fall in the ongoing left-wing demonstrations around the country.
The monument to the first President of the United States was apparently vandalized and draped in the American flag when it was toppled.
“Mr. President, after 3 1/2 years, do you regret, at all, all the lying you’ve done to the American people?”
Contrary to what they would have you believe, this person has not been snatched up and executed by Trump’s death squads.
Can Trump make his next White House spokesman be Triumph the Insult dog?
Well, Triumph is a Russian agent, so there’s that.
Mr. SMIGEL: And some of the – I’ve noticed that some people have criticized, you know – they’ve watched the show and they’ve said, why do all the dogs sound like Triumph, you know? Why do they have the same accent? It’s lame. Can’t he come up with another voice? And, well, yeah, I could. You know, I realize there are more accents in the world than eastern European. But in my head, that’s how dogs talk.
They have, for years, since I was 10 years old I used to, you know, give dogs that voice when I would look at dogs. I think it’s because my grandparents are eastern – they’re Russian immigrants and I grew up with that voice. And I think I make an unconscious connection in this – let me finish the thought because it could sound rude – but between dogs and immigrants just off the boat, because they both have a certain element of wide-eyed wonder. As if to say like, oh, look at all of this. I cannot believe this. And, you know, eventually European immigrants catch up and become jaded, but dogs never do. That’s why I can laugh at dogs forever.
Smigel can get too silly at times, but I’m mostly just gone for him and his general sense of humor. We both start from the proposition that the world is full of silly things and everything is up for skewering.
Is there a backlog?
I’d just like to point out one of those things I think is worth mentioning, that noone else ever thinks is worth mentioning, and that is the fact that there are both Rusty Wallace (happy birthday) and Rusty Wallis (king of the Honda stores) dealerships. What a time to be alive.
Earl Weaver has to be one of the most entertaining characters in baseball. He was before my time, obviously, but I like going back and seeing what I missed before MLB was sullied by strikes, PEDs, video cheating, and kowtowing to toxic identity politics. I haven’t paid any attention at all this “season”, and I don’t think it really counts. I sort of miss the big show, but it’s never going to be what it once was. DH in the NL was another nail in the coffin, although I root for an AL team.
You’ll appreciate the stories from the Umpire Strikes Back about Weaver.
IIRC, the worst insult Weaver ever leveled at Luciano was when he ran out to argue and stopped, looked at him, shook his head and said “that’s the best you can do?”. Being called fat was Luciano’s trigger – Weaver only got the “fa” out and Luciano tossed him. They absolutely don’t make them like Weaver any more.
Reason’s Favorite Democrat
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/13/insane-model-means-colorados-covid-19-policies-are-essentially-based-on-tarot-cards/
The Samet model Polisis using is, in essence, a modern-day equivalent of making human sacrifices to gain favor with the gods. If it doesn’t rain, the ancient modelers would simply say there weren’t enough sacrifices. Today’s modelers simply say there wasn’t enough social distancing. Neither system questions the claimed underlying cause-and-effect relationship.
We need more volcanoes. And virgins.
But he’s gay and plays video games.
Also speaking of Colorado, public schools in Denver are dropping the mask-
https://www.dpsk12.org/board-of-education-statement-on-learning-pods-and-their-impact-on-the-community/
4)Reject the notion of school vouchers and stipends that further siphon funds from public education.
“We ask only that you sacrifice your children for the good of the collective.”
Holy shit. Openly admitting that public schools are basically a state-run employment program. It’s insane to drop the mask during a pandemic.
“If you choose to participate in a pod, please do not hire DPS teachers”
Don’t have to worry about that. And technically they aren’t DPS teachers anymore if they decide to change employers.
In Virginia it’s legal for the teachers to double dip as long as they aren’t getting paid to provide lessons to kids already in their classes. If all the learning is remote there will be plenty of people double dipping.
The guy that created the model that the Imperial College Model was based on has said it is a “good teaching model” but shouldn’t be used for actual predictions.
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1294249825333063682
LOL This broad is nuts.
Trump: “Which is easier: dealing with the Democrats or dealing with the Middle East.”
Mnuchin: “…I’ll be hopeful that we can deal with the Democrats.”
Trump: “The Middle East is more reasonable.”
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1293940357575581696
LOLOLOL
Frontal Friday (belatedly) presents:
https://thechive.com/2020/08/14/her-bikini-top-is-too-small-aka-the-perfect-size-49-photos/
For those who share my tastes in feminine beauty, 21 and 45 are smokin’.
Justice Dept. strikes down racism
Institutional racism. I’m sure that no court would have a problem with the Justice Dept. on this.
We will continue to create a student body that is rich in a diverse range of ideas, expertise and experiences,
I’m not sure how you continue to do something you never started.
“the whole person”
There’s the right wing and their racist dog-whistles again SMDH
Translation from the Newspeak: “We’re trying to create a student body that looks diverse physically, but whose ideas are nearly in lockstep.”
“Diversity and inclusion” is the search for LETELU – Looks Exotic, Thinks Exactly Like Us.
“Non-white Marxist”
What they’re really thinking: “We’d like the ethnic diversity of the three sitting SCOTUS justices from Yale Law, but with the political diversity of views of just our grad Sotomayor.”
Like so many issues, both sides are just talking past each other at this point. They think every race has its own ideas so of course diverse colors == diverse ideas. GIGO.
Reason’s Favorite Democrat
We should go back to oracular sorcery. It’s more rational, and much more accurate, than computer modelling.