We do have something momentous today to follow last week’s momentous event. And that event was SP and me not watching opening day of the football season. And we’ll be doing other things on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays the rest of this year- and I will skip the Ravens’s opener for the first time in the team’s existence. Congratulations, NFL, you drove off two life-long fans by deciding to go political. I feel like the guy who was in a deep and intense long term relationship when he finds out that his longtime love is simultaneously fucking the next door neighbor and crushing puppies to death. I sincerely hope for the NFL’s demise, though I have no illusion that this is going to happen. Just hope.
And there’s hope any time a baby is born. Usually futile, but every once in a while, the baby ends up an actual human of note. And babies born on this date who did so include the spiritual father of most American politicians; a guy who, unlike our current crop of government physicians, actually did something; a guy whose name ended up being an ass-sex euphemism; a famous serial killer; the father of bluegrass; and the one and only Velvet Fog.
Abandon all hope, ye who read the Links.
Little bit of a threat here? But have no illusions that Team Red is any different.
Wait, I was just assured by the NPR newscast that there was no evidence of arson! And of course, Facebook also wants to protect our vulnerable minds.
So far, this mail in voting thing seems to be going smoothly.
“I made a Yankee in my pants.”
Old Guy Music features one of today’s birthday honorees. And a guy who, in his genre, was the Beatles, Duke Ellington, and Robert Johnson, all rolled up in one. This is just… the purest music I may have ever heard.
As with baseball, Ive given up on football this year.
mornin’
There’s always Mexican wrestling. I mean, they already have masks…
And it’s more realistic.
You misspelled Wrasslin’
Keepin with the idea of Bill Monroe, that reminded me of something:
“Whats the difference between a violin and a fiddle?”
A violin has strings; the fiddle has STRANGS.
Lo, these many years ago, Tom T worked in a music store. One day a good ol’ boy came in and asked for “guitar wahrs (wires.)” Tom thought he meant the cables by which you plug a guitar into an amp or mixer, but eventually figured out the guy wanted guitar strings. IIRC, the two of them became friends and bandmates.
Mornin’, homey. We gave up on NASCAR, haven’t watched any MLB, and likely won’t watch any NFL – unless we decide to make an exception for Packers/Bears. We’ll wait patiently and hope our beloved Mythical Fire-Breathing Reptiles (AKA Dayton Dragons) come back next year. Already paid for our 2021 season tickets with the money meant for this year’s nonexistent season.
What I miss the most is BIG10 football. And Im not too optimistic about UD basketball either, this year.
For me, NFL games are really just an excuse to drink beer on Sunday afternoons.
You need an excuse for that?
I gave up on NASCAR a few years ago which kind of sucks since I’ve been going to Darlington my whole life. It just got boring. I pretty much stopped closely following the NFL when we gave up our Panthers season tickets but I’ll still listen to games on the radio. All I really have left sports wise is college football and they seem hell bent on destroying that too.
“Philadelphia Eagles at Washington Football Team”
???
Gotta watch if only for the lulz
Eagles changing their name, for one game, to “Buffalo Soldiers” so you won’t know if you should root for Black Cavalry Lives Matter or Brave Native American Environmental Stewards.
Why not a drug-running motorcycle gang?
So many links!
Nice to see the French yellow jackets back at it.
Killer BeesMurder Hornets!‘Make sure you get your ballot and get it out on time’=suppression, got it.
I got that mailer here in Ohio. Does this mean my vote doesn’t matter?
It’s obviously tainted.
I will get to the links in a second….
posted in dead thread regarding the pancakes….
“Mrs. Suthenboy makes pancakes with finely ground oat powder mixed in cottage cheese. I dont know the exact recipe but they are damned good and taste just like pancakes.
She just walked in….let me ask
2 cups cottage cheese
1/4 cup oat powder….oatmeal ground up in a ninja or other type blender
3 eggs
2tble oil
sweetener and cinnamon optional – she uses Splenda and cinnamon
takes longer than regular pancakes to cook.
I use lots of butter and maple syrup
These are quite good and dont give you that bloated/ I ate too much feeling that flour pancakes are prone to give you.
She warns you….if you eat these afterward every time you hear the Daisy cottage cheese commercials you will crave pancakes. Ugh…that damned Daisy jingle is the worst ear worm
Sounds interesting. I bet a dash of fresh ground nutmeg would go well with that.
Why yes, I bet it would. Will try.
Say, UPI, I hate to be a bother but would you care to tell us what they’re protesting now?
Being French?
I seem to remember it morphing rather quickly into the usual lefty stuff. I find UPI’s complete lack of interest in exploring that pretty remarkable. “Some people shouted some stuff.” OK, thanks for that.
Well, it was all in French so who knows what they were saying?
As if they know.
Current Front Porch Cat, AKA Grady McCloud, is almost certainly going to become an Official Cat. Late last night, Tom T checked, and Grady was still out on the front porch – long after the evening ration of food was eaten – and happily accepted some petting. Tom T said, “I guess we’d better take him to the vet” for all the usual shots and neutering. This morning, no sooner had I settled down in my usual spot on the back porch than Grady came around the corner, walked around the futon chaise, and wandered into our garage through the back door. After a quick check of the premises, he’s settled down and is washing himself next to my legs here on the futon. We’ve been chosen.
Uh, congrats?
Thank you. Yes, congratulations are in order. Since Grady and Current Official Cat, AKA Snot, have been interacting through the screen door without apparent hostility, we have hope that they’ll get along when both are inside – as long as Grady accepts that Snot is Alpha Cat. Grady seems mellow enough.
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For some reason your imgur links don’t work on Firefox.
Sorry – It may have defaulted to “Hidden” when I put the image up. I think I have it reset to public, if you care to try again.
No; it worked when I opened it in Chrome on my Linux box, but not Firefox on the same box.
Odd. I use Firefox. Go figure.
Grady even more mellow.
That’s what you get for feeding them.
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Good morning, Old Man!
And good morning all you wonderful non-commies.
Good lynx this morning. I sure love being threatened by my neighbors over fucking voting. Adds a little spice to the otherwise bland routine.
Fuckers.
I also got one of those vote-by-mail things yesterday. In classic USPS style, my carrier drove up and delivered my mail, followed by another truck to deliver the voting notice. You can’t make it up.
If the fucking masks and social distancing are so effective, what’s the problem with in-person? Personally, if I vote I want to see the thing disappear into the machine. Ballots in Minne have a funny way of turning up in car trunks…
And of course, Facebook also wants to protect our vulnerable minds.
Dude, if people find out what’s really going on, it’s curtains for the elite.
Or not. I’ve lost a little faith in my fellow man.
But not Bill Monroe. Holy shit is that a great clip! Excellent selection for a Sunday morning.
I hope you all have a fantastic day! I’ve heard rumors of sunshine and 70!
70 maybe, no sun yet,Mornin’ all!
Where you at, homes?
44 north, far,far away
Area code 906?
i honestly don’t know, not being coy, just discreet
You should check out that little place that sells nothing but cheese. There’s also the Uranus Fudge Factory.
Way past there, WAAAY past,
The only change I am making to my NFL viewing is that I will make sure I get to the bar after the Anthem, not because I don’t want to see any kneeling or whatnot but because the idiots at my bar shush everyone and expect you to stand at attention.
In a bar??!!
Sheesh.
Damn, you got a bunch of assholes down there. I’m planning on getting to the bar a bit early to be able to get a seat. With the reduced occupancy, that may be an issue.
I go for the night game, the Browns crowd has usually dwindled by then.
*pops over to Twitter to check on riots*
JFC!
*runs back to Glibs*
It’s too early for that shit.
We’re not making it to November without major bloodshed. Be safe out there Glibs.
My only take on the links….
Three old men in a Nursing home, one 75, one 85, one 95 years old.
75 – ” I can hardly piss anymore. Damned prostate…..”
85 – ” You think that is bad? I cant shit anymore. Damned constipation….”
95 – ” You think that is bad? I piss and shit every morning at 6am like clockwork. ”
Other two – “What? How is that bad?”
95 – “I dont wake up and get out of bed until 7am.”
So, 1 old man in the nursing home, with 2 kids…Got it
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/09/police-vomiting-man-causes-hundreds-of-dollars-of-damage.html
Bizarre.
Brutal.
Joe Biden continues to lose notes, mind
It’s almost sad.
Almost.
The good news is that he will soon have no mind left to lose.
Guess we’re gonna have to tell him that he’s got no cerebellum (or cerebrum either):
https://youtu.be/Xi7f6_Bg9Hc
If by “sad” you mean “hilarious”, yes it’s sad.
I worry about things like that as well. I’m guessing that those afflicted don’t know they have a problem? That’s my other worry, forgot what the first one was.
“Being dead and stupid are the same. Everyone but you sees it.”
When my first husband was studying for the ministry, part of his “clinical pastoral education” (essentially chaplaincy training) was in a hospitals’ Alzheimer’s/dementia unit. (The other part of his training was in the oncology unit. Would have been hard to pick two more brutal areas outside of pediatrics.) He learned that the worst period for a dementia patient was the window of time when you’re aware of how much you’re slipping and forgetting. Eventually, you’re not aware of that anymore, and it’s not so emotionally hard on you – just on your family.
“Trump uses Fox News interview to accuse Biden of taking drugs“
Aricept and Cognex are drugs. I’m going to say partially true.
Mornin’.
France gets back to normal
So, the country is on strike? Oh, wait, that’s Italy. I’ve got it, they’re all on vacation!
Top striking nations. France is #1 but Italy not in top 10. Canada and USA are.
https://www.statista.com/chart/20167/the-countries-which-go-on-strike-the-most/
Another list:
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Strikes
Echoes of Ry Cooder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46sRuj99Cw
Matches my mood
Thanks for that! For a few minutes I was sitting on a porch looking out at a swamp and smoking my pipe. Back in NJ now, unfortunately.
“We will not be mocked. Even in the slightest.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/09/dangerous-naivete-hbos-coastal-elites/616315/
“ravages of COVID-19”
Fucking kek
Wait… Bette Midler “plays” a raving lunatic liberal and that’s supposed to be satire?!
Her character is nice and well intentioned. That is satire for her.
She plays a semi-reasonable raving lunatic liberal so, yes, it qualifies.
Wow. Seems like the movie struck a nerve.
“Their provincialism is the real ill plaguing the country, Coastal Elites argues—never mind the ravages of COVID-19, the steady violence of a racist criminal-justice system, or the worsening threat to voting access. ”
“Less than two months away from a potentially catastrophic election, is it really unreasonable for someone like Miriam to be upset by a president who intentionally downplayed the danger of the coronavirus and who won’t commit to accepting defeat if his opponent is voted in? Like many other tone-deaf Trump-era satires, Coastal Elites misdiagnoses the dangers facing the country.”
*facepalm*
How can you expect me to not have TDS while Trump is president??!!
They’re saying they won’t concede the election under any circumstances and they’re accusing accusing Trump of this. They…ah, fuck it, what’s the use?
All projection, all of the time. Bet your last dollar on it.
Canadian officials ‘downplayed’ it too. I called the embassy while I was in Rome in March and they were all like,’Huh? We’re heading to the Trevi. Come with?’
Ironically, in some ways they were right.
Just about every government on the face of the planet trivialized it from what I saw.
Dammit, why didn’t they stick with that?
They would have had it not been for that piece of shit Neil Ferguson at Imperial College and his faulty models plunging the world in a panic.
That guy should face a harsh justice.
“catastrophic election”
To be covered by TWC?
Nothing perturbs the sanctimonious more than mockery.
When they mock themselves, they give themselves the benefit of the doubt. When they mock others, particularly conservatives, they’re not so forgiving.
I usually just skim the links without commenting these days and chat with the discord glibs about the day’s news, but these first two links are misleading. The team blue one was from 2018, and the team red one was from 2014. Where did you dredge these up?
Let’s try to avoid scaremongering. If it’s happening now, surely there’s more recent content.
Nice catch.
I don’t know if scaremongering applies though. Both barely got a “meh” out of me.
Enjoyed the college games yesterday/last-night; Georgia Tech with a deserved win!
Cool. I had no idea the GE College Bowl was back. Where can I find it?
Well now you would expect GT to whip FSU in that venue.
::lifts chin, pulls shoulders back:: Why, thank you!
Oh….you mean,,,,
Never mind.
I really enjoyed having college football back. Part of me kept expecting it to get cancelled at the last minute, so the rain delays during Tech’s game were even more frustrating than normal. I can’t wait for next week – we have our home opener against UCF and I’ll actually get to watch from the stands.
Bobby Dodd retains the record site for most wins by a single (home) team, which is recorded in some places as 476.
Neyland has only 464.
That poor little girl from the Atlantic. Why are other people allowed to not take her phobias seriously? This is the most catastrophic election ever. And she’s a hypochondriac. And President Cartoon Villain has wrecked everything the Ascended One accomplished.
For a few minutes I was sitting on a porch looking out at a swamp and smoking my pipe.
Was it a corncob pipe?
*Narrows gaze with eyes made out of coal*
Big protest here. 50-80 000 range.
Happy people aren’t buying into the bull shit.
Link doesn’t link
You want me to dig them up?
Pay me.
Pictures show a long massive queue but here are a couple of videos in Quebecois fashion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCJ7GQ3jDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1733&v=gBEKm1s5oTE&feature=emb_title
Funny. Not a hint of violence but they still get called ‘crazy conspiracy theorists’.
There are 80,000 people in Canada?
#fakenews
60,000 were Americans that fled the country in November 2016.
Pfffft! FORGET THAT.
There are 80,000 Quebecois who will actually tell their government to get stuffed?
Good for them.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2020/09/juneteenth-is-now-a-nj-state-holiday-who-gets-off-what-will-be-open-and-closed.html
Nice to see our legislature taking care of important business, I thought they were on extended sabbatical. Who knows, maybe now they will get around to reining in the out-of-control autocrat in Trnton who cratered our economy and making the difficult budget cuts needed to stave off bankruptcy.
*scans horizon for airborne porkers*
You know who won’t get that day off? ER staff.
Pretty fair take on a topic of discussion here recently. A film intended to criticize sexualization of children still sexualized children.
The part I found more disturbing was how it was marketed. Netflix capitalized on the pedo titillation aspect and not the social commentary.
Also the name, “Cuties”, sounds more like titillation than social commentary.
Yeah, filmmakers don’t have to victimize people to talk about victimization. I don’t think any of those rapey ex boyfriend Lifetime movies involve actual rape.
Nonsense. They talk about rape in those movies, and threaten rape. Words are violence. Ergo, they raped women on TV.
Let’s ask Jodie Foster.
It’s strategy, is what it is
President Trump’s campaign says it knocks on a million doors a week. Joe Biden’s campaign hasn’t knocked on any doors to talk to voters for months. In lieu of in-person meetings, Democrats are focused on conversations they can have virtually.
“While you might hear our opponent spend a lot of time talking about the millions of door knocks or attempts that they’re making week to week, those metrics actually don’t have any impact on reaching voters,” Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, told reporters in a call last week, downplay the clear door-knocking disparity. “Our metric of success, the numbers we look at and use, are conversations.”
In August, she said the Biden campaign had 2.6 million conversations with voters in battleground states. Those conversations were virtual, over the phone or via text message, or in person “when that is safe and is warranted,” she said. (The campaign also intends to begin door-to-door visits soon, not for any face-to-face meetings, but to drop off campaign literature and voter education materials.)
The Democrats’ strategy of mainly organizing from home via laptop or cellphone and forgoing traditional door-to-door canvassing is somewhat untested, but they’re banking on the assumption that it’s more effective in a pandemic.
Democrats say they’re not door knocking because safety is their main priority, and they don’t want to put people at risk of contracting COVID-19.
We’re not just cowering in fear, honest. We’re spamming. Spamming and twatting. That’s how elections are won. You just wait and see.
Democrats: We’re not cowering in fear. Republicans are by going out there and working and living!
Are there any undecided voters left?
I mean, I believe some voters will switch after watching Biden debate Trump, but I don’t see how door knockers or flyers are swaying anyone.
Door knockers around here are usually working for the House candidate
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/L8LZPH0GVZ8
I’d have been disappointed had that been anything else.
I dont know about switching….probably just not show up.
The contrast in the platforms is so stark it is unlikely anyone subscribing to one will switch to the other. Like last time I think the votes are virtually carved in stone.
There are some people who are conservative who hate Trump and think Joe is a moderate. One of our neighbors has signs for the R House candidate, the R Senate candidate, and Biden.
“Those conversations were virtual, over the phone or via text message,…”
But most were vie Ouija board, AMIRITE??
I would see if they count the response of “Fuck off” as a conversation.
ooo… Bill Monroe. Love it.
Almost makes me forget how much I hate wearing masks and all the nonsense that goes with it.
Love this place.
“REVEALED: Michael Bloomberg will spend at least $100M to help Joe Biden win Donald Trump’s adopted home state of Florida”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8727813/Bloomberg-spend-100M-help-Biden-Florida.html
“Trump slams Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue after it was revealed $346M in donations came from untraceable ‘unemployed’ donors and asks ‘money laundering anyone?'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8726765/Trump-slams-Democrat-fundraising-platform-ActBlue-untraceable-unemployed-donors.html
Every single stump speech, Hillary screeched how we need to get the money out of politics and reverse Citizens United.
Also, doesn’t any money donated to BLM go to Act Blue?
Act Blue actually runs the money transfer network (I think) so they get a skim before they pass it on.
Act Blue runs the donation platform for BLM. Someone pointed out in their terms of service they can keep donations that are not “cashed out” by the organization. Given BLM is not transparent on what they spend their money on several people suspect they are acting as a front to funnel money into the Democrats.
Money launderers for anti-American activities.
While she outspent Trump by every measure.
And didn’t little Mikey spend a shit ton on his own failed bid?
Bigly
“I thought Mini Mike was through with Democrat politics after spending almost 2 Billion Dollars, and then giving the worst and most inept Debate Performance in the history of Presidential Politics. Pocahontas ended his political career on first question, OVER! Save NYC instead.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1305140931042009095
How does a man that smart not understand the concept of diminishing returns?
“More than 100 BLM protesters shut down George Washington Bridge in Manhattan and then violently clash with NYPD outside their precinct on another chaotic night in NYC”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8727013/More-100-BLM-protesters-shut-George-Washington-Bridge-Manhattan.html
“Young revelers pack Washington Square Park in Manhattan AGAIN after Governor Cuomo slammed NYU and NYPD for not doing enough to crack down on the massive parties”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8725753/Young-revelers-pack-Washington-Square-Park-Manhattan-AGAIN.html
Meanwhile, businesses are still closed.
That kissing couple doesn’t know how to kiss. That looks like they’re eating each others’ face.
Bath salts are a helluva drug.
I’m totally bamboozled by road blockage and vandalism. You get a permit if you wish to block a public way. Do it without a permit or start a fire, you go to jail. Any mayor who can’t manage to these simple ideas should be pilloried.
I’m not a conservative; I’m not a reactionary; I’m not unsympathetic; I’m very patient and flexible. But I am taxed to build these roads and employee these cops: I have paid for order.
Disrupt and destroy. There is nothing to be sympathetic to. Their goal is to tear down western civilization. The values and ideas western civilization is founded upon, what we call ‘the enlightenment’, must go. They intend to replace it with a medieval system. Hayek did not use the word ‘serfdom’ by accident. Coolidge nailed them perfectly.
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.” – Calvin Coolidge
The current press for segregation is really all I need to see.
By sympathetic all I mean is that I understand that other people see things other ways and will have their own grievances; I’m totally comfortable being in a minority (a capable, safe, armed minority) and in my bitter rivals having their say in public. I’m sympathetic to dissent per se, not the message in question (surely that could not have been thought otherwise).
But I insist that the line should be drawn at civic order. That’s a fair expectation and a good rule for all sides.
“I insist that the line should be drawn at civic order.”
That was my point…they have no intention whatsoever to adhere to civic order. Disorder and chaos is their goal.
I understand your point. You said you were bamboozled by road blockage and vandalism. I was pointing out that their goal is not the one they state. Mayhem and fear is their goal. They are straight up the very definition of domestic terrorists.
I fear, genuinely fear, that the many people who say “In the end we are going to have to shoot them” are correct.
I don’t fear shooting them, if it comes down to it. I fear our corrupted government’s response.
I was born and raised in the Heights. Learned to shoot pool at the PAL in the 34th precinct, cops were cool in the ’50s. What a shitshow, those assholes would have gotten a severe beat down back then. And not from the cops.
Everyone is busy hiding behind the sofa. It is no accident these types are taking over the streets at this moment.
Non stop political ads, already. Senate and governor? Most important vote ever!
My favorites are the ones based on wealth envy. We hates us some rich folks, up here in Montana.
Invasion of the Pod People.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/09/pods-are-here-poor-kids-need-them-too-editorial.html
“Date night in NYC for AOC: Squad member strolls through trendy Meatpacking District in all-black ensemble with boyfriend Riley Roberts”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8726489/Date-night-NYC-AOC-trendy-Meatpacking-district-boyfriend-Riley-Roberts.html
Do they sell men’s clothes where he got that shirt?
*snicker*
AOC’s jacket (sold out) was in the $450 range, as compared to a similar one by the same company. Good for her! She’s well into the raison d’etre of being a congress person. Quick study.
You misspelled “blouse”.
Add their IQ’s together. Double or Triple digit sum?
“Double” might be generous.
“Shirts versus blouses”
Two things:
The fact that someone as dumb and unaccomplished as her is one of the 435 is truly depressing. If her district reelects her, the AF should just drop a MOAB on it.
I noticed they weren’t accosted or harassed by any Nazis. How nice they get to to enjoy civility.
Alright. Meet the Press is on the Global Warming beat. You don’t think those fires out there are part of some natural cycle, exacerbated by years of suppression and fuel buildup, do you?
Talking Points supplied by Gavin Newsome and his too small jacket:
https://youtu.be/4eJqWqs5q8Y
It’s hard to believe that shitheel got elected governor. It’s not like nobody knew what he is.
Smug, “Not my fault” guy. He’s ready for national level politics. Nancy must be careful.
“Trump LIED! People DIED!”
Why didn’t he stoke the panic, like a true statesman?
Plenty of scientific studies show masks would have saved people.
Bullshit. Models are not scientific studies, you clown. And models which are constructed to show masks are effective are propaganda.
I’ll say this, whatever we knew about masks, we knew long before this virus came about. Every researcher had an idea about them and would happily tell you it last year. To pretend we were caught flat-footed on the respiratory virus/face masks nexis is either blatantly stupid or mendacious.
We already knew from multiple randomized clinical trials that they weren’t effective at stopping virus transmission. Everything else is just noise.
In early March as this thing was ramping up, I checked the CDC for its recommendations on the best way to deal with this thing. I can’t find the link (probably memory holed), but the general summary was:
1. Masks aren’t necessary or even desirable.
2. Gyms and grocery stores are probably pretty safe. The biggest risks are long term exposure (IE living with someone who is infected) or extremely close contact in crowded spaces.
3. Hygiene is important, especially washing ones hands.
4. Stay home if you have symptoms.
Within a month all of that was abandoned in favor of “lockdowns uber alles” plus masks everywhere.
Half a year later those initial recommendations seem pretty much on the money. Almost as if we’ve had experience dealing with respiratory viruses before.
Before the CDC changed its guidance for expediency last winter, from 2007
https://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2007/r070503.htm
My alma mater…
https://mobile.twitter.com/nocontextcfb/status/1304816711355437057
This woman’s voice makes me want to slap her.
Looks like NVidia is going to replace Intel as the preeminent American chip manufacturer. They’re getting ready to buy ARM from SoftBank.
Intel basically tread water for almost a decade.
Reminds me of IBM during the 90s.
Trust SCIENCE.
Don’t worry, there are experts here to tell you what SCIENCE wants you to do. Listen to them.
The ABC pulled Bluey episodes Teasing and Flat Pack over ‘racial connotations’. Here’s why
My daughter loves this show, we’ve noticed a common trend of episodes disappearing from Disney+ then reappearing missing scenes. Karen’s ruin everything.
Some of the scenes they have removed:
A pony taking a massive shit (which was hilarious)
One of the characters asking where babies come from
Character asking why he has a pot plant in is belly(this probably needs more context)
Things are being disappeared sans notification all over the place. A couple of the best Always Sunnys went poof a couple of months age and there’s certainly more to come.
The horse scene for context.
https://mobile.twitter.com/blueymoments/status/1140212753245720576
“The viewer complained the episode included “a term with racial connotations and a problematic history for Indigenous Australians”.
That term was “ooga booga”.”
Expunged because of one viewer complaining. The corporate boardrooms are full of pussies.
OFFS!!
And an episode of Community.
Drow lives matter!
Oh, no. We don’t have a one size fits all plan imposed by Washington. We’ll never survive without one.
And we especially have to slap that uppity bitch from South Dakota into line. She’s skewing the curve something awful.
Oh yay. Stroke is on.
Poor boy. Unjustly removed from the investigation over some meaningless pillow talk. Not fair.
And Trump is under the thumb of the Rooshun mob.
Speaking of people who need to be slapped…
Repeatedly, with a sock full of nickels.
*wades back into Twitter*
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChadoftheChaz/status/1305037101742710784
Don’t play in traffic.
Glad the doggie is okay.
Yeesh.
I don’t know who the asshole is who came up with “let’s go block traffic”, but they should have a special reservation in hell. With violent attacks on motorists and cars, it creates a completely untenable situation.
I cannot know what the driver was thinking… but it would certainly be reasonable to be fearful of the mob. And I have no idea what that idiot was thinking, standing in front of a truck on the street when the driver is clearly indicating that he is proceeding whether you like it or not.
He will probably be prosecuted for attempted murder. But I don’t know which way I’d go if I was sitting on a jury. Context is everything… and that video does not look like a dangerous mob is gathered, it looks like a handful of idiots are blocking the crosswalk and an impatient driver has had enough. But these videos are always quite selective in what they do and do not show. The judge will have a massive role in whatever case is brought. State of mind should be critical to the case – and if I were the defense attorney I would be looking to introduce video of every incident from Reginald Denny forward as reason for escaping the mob.
“But I don’t know which way I’d go if I was sitting on a jury.”
I do.
I just can’t even imagine telling my mom That I was blocking the road with a bunch of friends because the cops are dicks and I want free healthcare and college from the government, when some random person didn’t respect my demands and tried to just keep going down the street. SO I intentionally blocked his car and started banging on it with sticks. Then he ran me over and left.
My mom would have said, ” Did he kill you, because if not, I’m coming right down there to kill you myself you retarded little prick. And, I’ll kill all of your retarded assed friends also. Next time you get a bright idea like that, just pound on your hand with a hammer instead, that would be more sensible!”
“I regret getting caught. They weaponized my truthtelling against me.”
You look good up there on that cross, Stroker. Hold still while I get my spear.
The book was an easy read, sez chuckie.
Most fiction is.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1304954293448069120
Enthusiasm.
Fifth Column featured a story by Moynihan about his trip to Kenosha. He was there for both the Trump and the Biden visit. Neither event was large, but noted Trump hater Moynihan was clear that there was far more support and attendance for Trump than there was for Biden, despite this being a democrat stronghold and Biden having a couple of extra days to organize things.
Biden’s event was mostly press.
He also told stories about the way events are being sold to the people in the press. He said there would be two guys arguing and then 50 press would run over and surround them, cameras held high to get a shot. The next day that photo would run on the front page everywhere – “clash in Kenosha!”. He’s like, “two guys argued for maybe 2 minutes. That’s not news. That’s every bar, everywhere, every night.”
One of them was some random MAGA dude just walking over to a bunch of BLM people with the express intent of getting a rise and generating photo opportunities.
It wasn’t as good as Nancy Rommelmann’s reporting over at Reason, but it was still interesting… and on the same page. What we are being fed is heavily curated – at a level that is really hard to believe.
A few political reporters were mentioning coverage of Trump’s rallies in 2016…. that the media was missing the enthusiasm of the crowds. I didn’t see it… because I didn’t go to any rallies. All I heard about them was that they were super-violent and threatened to murder anyone who was a Hillary supporter or minority. (and then they’d show the paid agitators from HRC for Pres) I saw through the “they are super violent” nonsense… but you couldn’t see through what they didn’t show you…. the massive crowds and the way Trump worked the crowd.
Of course, that doesn’t exist because of covid. But we still have evidence of a complete lack of enthusiasm for Biden. The number 1 reason Biden supporters give for supporting him is that they believe he can beat Trump. While that ain’t great news for Trump… it ain’t great news for Biden either.
On the sports front…
I tried to watch NBA. The BLM messaging was oppressive and really drained the fun from the game. Literally everything was doused in BLM sauce. It looked like a BLM charity fundraiser, not an NBA playoff game. Maybe if I wasn’t invested in criminal justice reform and I saw all of that as some great movement for justice instead of a cynical diversion for electoral political purposes that is 100% designed to prevent criminal justice reform I would feel differently. As it was, I gave up and didn’t watch any more.
NCAA football was back, so I watched a couple of games. The lack of fans was weird, but the pumped in crowd noise was only sometimes off-putting. The BLM messaging was much more muted – with announcers going off on tangents about how amazing the players and coaches were for supporting BLM for only a few minutes. It didn’t really impact the broadcast in a major way, even though it was a bit heavy on the virtue signalling for those moments.
But college football without all the pomp and circumstance of college football was much less compelling. Play was a little flat. Still, it made for watchable sport.
Even hearing them mention any kind of support for BLM to any degree is enough for me to put it off.
Then don’t go over to ESPN. They have miles of column inches on various athletes and how they are working to support BLM. Miles of column inches on how important what the NBA is doing is. It is sprinkled everywhere. Even their NCAA football coverage – they had a writeup of the season so far, bullet points style. The had blurbs about what all the teams are doing for BLM mixed in with game cancellations for covid and starters out due to injury.
We shall see if get woke, go broke actually applies once this covid thing blows over. They are acting like they are run by a college “studies” department.
I watched a few nba games live and the replace cheerleader with bullshit messaging part was annoying.
Nice. Now it’s that sleazy fuck from the Atlantic.
“Information” about Trumpitler is coming out. Let’s have some more anonymous slander.
Didn’t the editor over there already admit that the story probably wasn’t true? Didn’t he already say that they normally wouldn’t run with such a flimsy story?
How hard is it to destroy your credibility? It seems like that would have been their Dan Rather moment.
You are not allowed to record them, violence has now been authorized.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ReaganBabe/status/1305124837610991616
They’ve been doing similar for a while because they like to control the messaging. Ultimately a practical but immoral strategy.
https://reason.com/2020/09/04/youre-not-allowed-to-film-the-fight-for-control-over-who-reports-from-portland/
“the police were filming and know who attacked me”
Now, let’s see if the prosecutor there was one of those who Soros helped elect.
What are the odds that anyone is prosecuted for assault? Less than 10%? Less than 5%? I’m not sure about jurisdiction in Georgetown. I’m assuming DC, so no prosecution.
When they touch you, the spray comes out. When they knock you down, the pistol comes out.
But really, why not record from a safe distance?
This is part of their strategy. She was at a safe distance, standing on the sidewalk.
Nancy Rommelmann details it in her article. They have a list of “approved journalists” that they pass around. They have a bunch of supporters wearing “press” all over themselves that are allowed to film. Anyone else is surrounded and blocked, Andy Ngo style.
The approved journalists have contracts with all the major outlets. This is where CNN, the NYT, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. all get their news and footage. They are explicitly curating the view of what is happening.
That way, they can spend 7 hours attacking the police to no effect, then publish only the one incident where a police officer shoves back, making it look like they are a bunch of thugs going around looking for peaceful protesters to assault.
The fact that this is all done with the explicit agreement and participation of all of the “mainstream” media outlets should give everyone great pause.
Not just contracts, but also employees of local affiliate stations or newspapers feeding this stuff too and slanting it the way they think it should be.
This is the huge irony. It’s the fucking information age. They built a superhighway to deliver it straight to you, 24/7 wherever you might be. I can get informed sitting out at the beach. As soon as we had access to all this information, we started pissing all over it. Now, we all just pick a team and run with anything that supports it and disregard anything that opposes it. Facts are quaint notion from old times.
Look at Rittenhouse vs Rieneohl. It’s all right there on film. It’s obvious what happened. It shouldn’t even be a subject for debate. Except each side is willing to destroy all credibility if it offers them just the tiniest bit confirmation or some minute advantage. They’ll just pretend the emporer looks great in his new outfit. Fucking scary! I know it’s always been this way to some extent, but it seems like the lever has been pushed all the way into the redzone now.
Only because it and the stench of it is right in front of. your nose. It has always been this way, the dirty details just get lost in the rearview.
Look over the bill of rights. It is very specific about certain things because the founders knew Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff personally. The Democrats despise the BOR because they know they are in its crosshairs.
There were always people advocating everything that is in the Dem platform. It has always been this way. We have always had mendacious, power-mad psychopaths.
I had this realization watching the OJ Simpson trial.
Prior to that, I had heard stories of southern juries and guys accused of lynching some black dude. I always assumed that the people on the jury were winking at the KKK guy sitting in the defendant’s seat, saying “we got your back!”.
Then I watched OJ.
People really believed he was innocent. Like, deep down, actually believed it.
I ran a probability matrix for a friend of mine who believed that since Mark Furman said “the N word”, it meant that OJ was framed. I ran out probabilities for every fact that we knew for certain… facts that were not disputed by the defense. “the killer wore size 12 Bruno Magli shoes. The killer wore special edition isotoner gloves that were only sold in certain east coast stores. etc.”
The trial gave us numbers for each of those – only 200 of the shoes were imported to the US, for example.
So you could do a probability.
I made it as favorable as possible… assume every single pair of those shoes is in LA county, for example.
You then simply calculate, what are the odds that one person would have had some sort of relationship with either of these two people, however cursory, and also have those shoes, those gloves, etc.
You don’t even need to go to the obvious stuff about not being available when his limo for the airport arrived. Simple probability on those things means that only one person could possibly fit the evidence.
She still didn’t believe it. And this was a PhD in biochemistry candidate.
Of course, 6 months later the motivated reasoning dissipated and most people were able to admit that he was in fact a killer.
It was an eye-opener. People can convince themselves of almost anything – particularly in large groups. The psychological forces are extremely powerful.
When they *approach* you, the spray comes out. There’s absolutely no requirement to let the assault commence before hitting them with the spicy treats.
When they grapple with you, a small fixed-blade knife could be very useful as a ‘Get-Off-Get-Away’ tool.
Drawing a pistol in a situation like that, probably not a good idea.
I was in a knife fight when I was 13. Well, he had a knife. I got cut some, but it was no way gonna stop me. Knives are not good defensive tools. The only thing that helped him was me seeing the knife made me run away. Actually getting cut, I didn’t even notice. Other people pointed it out to me after I stopped running. I would assume that some max effort deep stabbing and slashing at vital areas might eventually stop an attacker, but not in any way as effectively as a gunshot or extreme blunt force like a bat. Just my two cents. If you’re using a knife, make sure the attacker sees it. It’s a good fear instiller.
Now chili sauce, that is a great threat stopper.
Sounds to me like the knife was a very effective fight stopper – for the other guy. Even though he didn’t know what he was doing, once the other guy saw a blade, he booked it. There are many routes to success.
As an aside, that’s pretty much how knife fights go. The whole thing with a couple vatos squaring off with switchblades in an alley, that shit doesn’t happen outside West Side Story. Knife fights usually start as fist fights or wrestling matches, and one of the fighters goes for a knife when he starts to lose.
A guy I know – hard as nails Marine, Korean war combat veteran – told me about getting in a fight in a bar in the Philippines in the 50’s. He beat the shit out of a couple guys and only discovered he’d been stabbed a number of times during that fight when he sat down in the seat of the taxi getting away from that bar.
I don’t know why you would go out and record protests, but if you’re going to do it, you’d better be able to recognize escalating situations and get out of them.
It appears that Megan was by herself. Not a fantastic idea to start with.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hollandcourtney/status/1304881730709381121
MAGA, bitches!
What you did, I like.
I used a comma, as is proper.
Those are clearly ladies with whom I’d like to party.
https://twitter.com/MrsMogul/status/1304892116519333890
LOLOL
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Those aren’t ‘Trump wigs’, they are secret clones of The Hair being trained.
https://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles-officers-critical-condition-shooting-1531552
“Crowds of protesters blocked the entrance to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, where the wounded officers were in a critical condition, police said. Some protesters chanted “we hope they die,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said on Twitter. A witness told ABC7 that some had tried to break into the hospital’s emergency room.”
Evil people.
Charming.
Did you see how CNN kept running those chants on a loop all night? You know, really pushing that story line?
No?
These are the people who want to be in charge of health care.
If the “walk-up and shoot a cop” thing continues to catch on, it’s going to get really ugly.
Eventually, a hard-line mayor will get elected and all restraints on the police will be removed.
Smoked Brisket Pie by Elky W
https://mobile.twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1293257095219949568
“Wet ass pie”
Agreed. Not very visually appealing.
Smoked brisket is a stand alone food. Adding to it only subtracts from the dish.
It is acceptable to also make sandwiches with smoked brisket.
I dont know what that is in the photo.
Is that cheese or pie crust on the top of the thing? If it’s crust, it looks pretty raw.
Also, IMHO, brisket tacos and brisket nachos should not be disregarded.
Nice, Chuckie.
When we lose our ability to “shame” a politician, we lose control of the narrative.
That crazy Trump won’t apologize for saying things we disagree with, and that’s very hurtful.
Biden commercial
Free unlimited health care for everybody. Woohoo!
If you know nothing, Biden’s ad campaigns look pretty effective to me. They are horse shit, but you’d have to know more than nothing to realize that.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/L5OWa6FBS4GFMkP8SPVHww.AvrboxN-2kXorDTEtYCJQ-
Spotted moments ago by my gf on her way shopping.
Got off to a later start than I wanted to, but finally got the pork butt in the smoker. Tasty meat tonight!
prepare the catapult
CNN… you do you!
top headline:
TRUMP: Now I can be really vicious!
First headline under that:
“The President, who has long relished his role who amasses power by creating a climate of fear, is ramping up his divisive tactics”
The article, you won’t be surprised to learn, is filled with “repeat the big lie” tropes.
They are too numerous to list, but chew on this one:
Complete horseshit.
If they actually cared about black lives mattering, they would point out almost all the violence is from a bunch of white communists.
I must have missed Donald’s call to “dominate the streets”. Where do we assemble?
I vote for a steakhouse.
Seconded. Is there one next to the gun store?
In case anyone missed it:
“Breaking News: Man poops on Pelosi’s driveway and live-streams it.
2020 will be a year we never forget but would really like to. ”
https://twitter.com/nic0legaray/status/1304871259847626752
That is so weird..
and it leads to politifact calling a meme of Pelosi living behind a walled property “pants on fire”, as the meme they showed includes a photo of San Francisco’s most expensive house, one not owned by Pelosi.
Now, what politifact leaves out – Pelosi owns 9 properties. Her Napa Valley estate is where she does her entertaining for donors, and it includes a gate to control entry and a wall/fence.
She probably spends the bulk of her time in her DC condo, which doesn’t exactly have zero security.
All of the ‘fact checking’ sites have been coopted by leftists.
And that “fact check” of their fact check was done by me, on my own nickel, in about a minute. I simply asked google, “how many properties does Nancy Pelosi own.” An article popped right up about her various properties. It included aerial photos of some, including the Napa Valley estate. (Nice tennis court, double outdoor fireplaces… cool place for a fundraiser).
So I know to an absolute metaphysical certainty that Politifact knew full well that they were being deceptive in their “fact check”.
Everywhere she goes, she has a security detail. No fucking way is the national security state letting Replacement President #2 go unprotected.
Speaking of health
careinsurance-Some people have been pointing out, for decades, the need to break the connection between one’s place of employment and one’s health insurance. Suddenly, I have been seeing a bunch of stories about how, in these trying times, a lot of people, by losing their jobs (for reasons completely inexplicable and mysterious), have lost insurance coverage JUST WHEN THEY NEED IT MOST.
Unfortunately, this is the stalking horse for some imaginary Medicare-for-all free unlimited health boondoggle, instead of a serious attempt at a real fix. Does anybody really think a Democrat win in November will result in Medicare-for-all?
Has anyone ever had to deal with medicare?
They cover a lot… my dad is racking up expenses like nobody’s business as he pushes into his 80’s. But it is a bureaucratic mess…. and that’s when it only handles a fraction of the healthcare system. Remove subsidies for medicare and medicaid patients by high-end insurance patients and things will devolve quickly.
I’ve had the insurance where you have to go to the places that take medicare and medicaid patients as a staple. It is like going for treatment at the DMV.
The orthopedist I took my son to was actually amazing – they did “all insurance”, so they were full of medicare and medicaid patients. They don’t pay squat, so he and his staff were set up for maximum efficiency. Each radiology tech worked 4 adjacent rooms from a single connecting corner control room. Assistants shuttled patients in and out of each room, so the radiology tech could just do one after the other without pause. They all literally ran from job to job. It was amazing to watch. And the guy was actually pretty good – although I’d bet that a complicated or unusual case would stand a really good chance of slipping between the cracks.
Anyway, that’s the vision of the future if they win.
I suspect that while it might start out like that, it would be become like the DMV with sometimes indifferent and slow moving employees. I don’t see those clerks hustling anywhere, even when they’re pleasant.
Mr BIL works in medical equipment. The paperwork associated with Medicare is a damned nightmare. And a simple single line reimbursement change can make or break an entire business model.
Never mind that the third party payment system completely disassociates the affected parties from the costs. The hospital employees and doctors are completely ignorant of what anything costs or what it takes to get something approved.
But they are experts in how things must be coded and how to break things up in order to maximize reimbursement. Why enter 1 code that gets you $25 when you can enter 7, order 3 tests and a follow up visit and get $475?
It all depends on if the state takes over the health care itself, and not just the payment.
Right now, if you want to make a decent living, that’s what you have to do. But if the state takes over, the equation changes massively. Then getting paid consists of lobbying for better pay. An entirely different dynamic.
Medicare For All would require Democrats to win the presidency and not just take the Senate, but get to 59 or 60 D senators.
I don’t see that kind of landslide happening this year.
Also, on the topic of state run health care:
Quite a while ago, while reading a thing about Sweden’s horrible failure to follow the rest of the Chicken Little stampede into lockdown, there was a sob story about some poor distraught woman whose (grand)father died of the plague in a nursing home. If one actually paid attention to the details, the guy died because of standard government health care rationing policy, not because they had somehow failed to lock down properly. But pointing that out would not have furthered the narrative.
I have seen a couple of articles pop up covering the Sweden response in the last few weeks. I had been noting how they disappeared from the news after the alarmist beginning. It seems that they ended up doing about as badly as New York, without the economic damage caused by the state.
Yet somehow Cuomo is a hero?
I still have not seen any suggestions that we learn from these examples and implement policy based on them.
I am feeling a bit musical today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbEfK-LsMSc