Summer is showing signs of finally winding down. I can tell because we’re due for three days in a row with temps below 100°. Of course, it goes right back to thee digits after that… Since the servers aren’t here, I can’t blame the sudden chill for crashing it. In any case, we’re back.
And with our return, we can celebrate multiple birthdays, including a guy who, unlike Lavoisier, managed to keep his head; a guy whose name is on the money; an artist whose works were always on extended tour; one of the greatest geniuses of American music; a legend of American cinema; one of my favorite singer/songwriters; the woman behind Pat; a guy who managed to lose his head; a guy who is intent on making Cuomo the second worst governor; and the patron saint of dick pix.
Next… news.
NEJM says, “We can be just as political as Lancet.”
“We got her this time, for sure!”
Apartheid state imports Africans.
Meddling in our elections! The horror!
I like this guy. Wish I were qualified to work there.
Wait, I thought Rush Limbaugh was supposed to be dead or something?
Old Guy Music features a birthday boy, doin’ the quirk he do best. This is absolutely profound music. And should give you an appreciation for Charlie Rouse as well.
Summer is showing signs of finally winding down. I can tell because we’re due for three days in a row with temps below 100°. Of course, it goes right back to thee digits after that – pleasant 20 degrees here… chilly in the morning. also rain. proper autumn.
Good morning Pie, Old Man & fellow glibs.
Are you wishing people a good morning or observing the fact that it is a good morning in your area? as Gandalf would ask.
Yes.
Good morning, PieInTheSky and Cy. And you, too, Old Man. Belated but profuse thanks to SP for resuscitating the site.
The magnitude of this failure is astonishing. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering,1 the United States leads the world in Covid-19 cases and in deaths due to the disease, far exceeding the numbers in much larger countries, such as China. The death rate in this country is more than double that of Canada, exceeds that of Japan, a country with a vulnerable and elderly population, by a factor of almost 50, and even dwarfs the rates in lower-middle-income countries, such as Vietnam, by a factor of almost 2000. Covid-19 is an overwhelming challenge, and many factors contribute to its severity. But the one we can control is how we behave. And in the United States we have consistently behaved poorly.
Meh… there are several countries in Western Europe with worse rates. And US is expected to be worse due to the fat fuck factor y’all got going.
Off course US could have done better. I assume the crisis of leadership refers to those states sending the sick to old folks homes…
The federal government has largely abandoned disease control to the states. – it is incredibly hard to have a unified response for a country the size of US though…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was the world’s leading disease response organization, has been eviscerated and has suffered dramatic testing and policy failures. – right… what were they saying in January I wonder…
No need to close the border and don’t wear a mask?
What it comes down to is that the only way to have a truly unified response for something like this is for the fedgov to so far overstep their bounds that the division of power between localities, the states, and the feds would be shattered (more than it already has been). Those docs are begging for authoritarianism but it seems like everything’s on the table when it comes to Trump. The politicization of medicine on the part of the medical community might be the stupidest thing to come out of this thing so far.
Would’ve been nice if they didn’t incentivize maximizing the death toll. They lumped in the flu and pneumonia, just they seem close-ish. Then they paid extra to hospitals if their patients died of the dreaded ‘vid. Of course, this being an election year with most hated R president has nothing to do with any of this.
The politicization of medicine really concerns me. There is no telling how far it will go.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from this is that we can uncritically accept the health pronouncements coming from China.
That editorial has been making the rounds among Johns Hopkins grads. It’s depressing to say the least.
I’ve probably lost a few friends over it because I’m not inclined to keep my trap shut when they post absolutely unscientific claptrap like that.
The numbers cited are ridiculous. Anyone who buys them deserves ridicule and doctors should be intelligent enough to know better.
Doctors are highly trained artisans.
Highly trained =/= intelligent.
Most of them know less about statistics than my undergrads.
Probably similar to how our infant mortality rates are so bad because we don’t just ignore premature births like everybody else. It’s about reporting incentives.
I think there is definitely an element of ‘Get Trump’ in there too. If in your mind this is all Trump’s fault, why not pile any possible reportable death onto the stack?
In sports, I think it highly unlikely, but would laugh my ass off if Miami came back and won.
Since posting last night didn’t work – this guy is a hell of a weatherdude. https://twitter.com/DempMcgee/status/1314733358103093249?s=09
Good follow too.
It’s like the entire medical establishment was just waiting for a way to completely discredit themselves in the eyes of half the public.
Personally, I approve as doctors get too much deference as it is.
A colleague went to a doc in my neighborhood recently (a doc I’ve been to previously and thought her bedside manner was curt). He said she ranted about the uselessness of masks and the whole COVID mess.
I think I need to give her another try, despite her lack of warmth.
Mrs. Spartacus’s GI specialist is downright aspy. But he figured out a treatment that worked after three years of our bouncing around different specialists, so we’re willing to work with him. Besides, as a mathematician I feel pretty much at home talking to him.
as a mathematician
. . . one gets comfortable with the grade inflation, confirmation bias, and the utter randomness that dominates so many processes/phenomena that you can give yourself permission to relax, not hope for much, and not get so bent out of shape by mistakes and lousy situations.
I remain stunned at how many people can survive traffic and the spectacle of the stupefying inability of most people to simply merge from an on-ramp, and then think that those same drivers suddenly become infallible once they get to the office and lace up their steel toes, turn on their laptops, light their bunsens, or pull on their robe and wig.
Anyone else having intermittent trouble accessing the site? All other websites I try work consistently, but starting sometime before the total crash yesterday I’ve been getting occasional issues having the site load. Got it again this morning for a few minutes.
Yes.
Yes, it’s been happening off and on for a while.
But a law professor at a Catholic university should never say anything about possibly the most controversial SC case ever!/prog
Of course, she should never say anything. Just like a presidential candidate who takes the 5th regarding expanding the size of the Supreme Court.
I’d hire a free-style 6’7″ Jewish rapper to appear at my break-up. It’d be a nice way to defuse the situation. He could take a riff from Simon and Garfunkle, 50 ways to leave your lover.
You dumping the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla?
Simon only — Art had nothing to do with that abomination.
That poor rappin’ Jew is gonna get a lot of confusing phone calls in the next couple hours.
I’m certainly tempted to send him to my in-laws in Philly.
I would send him to Deblasio.
Mornin’ all.
More than 60 Coinbase employees have taken an exit package after CEO Brian Armstrong said in a controversial blog post last month that the company would not participate in social activism.
I imagine the board meeting went something like this:
CCEO: We have too many engineers doing woke bullshit on company time. Can we fire them?
Glib board member: No need to. Just post this on your blog, they’ll leave on their own.
Did you see the package they got for leaving? Shit, I’ll take 6 months pay, thanks.
Now you know what it’s worth to not have those assholes around. They ruin everything.
Great point. Smart move!
Nice. And some woke outfit like Google will no doubt snap them up. They can afford the overhead of 60 more useless twits.
Exactly. Google or Amazon will hire these folks in a snap, taking that leave package will get you considered pretty quickly by HR.
Six months pay? Yeah sure, I can’t stand being apolitical, gimme money.
I wonder if it was really a voluntary RIF with a twist to get people to raise their hands.
Am I crazy or is CNN dancing around the fact that the Senate has an abortion litmus-test for confirming SCOTUS judges?
TMITE is dancing around the fact that TMITE has an abortion litmus test for the SCOTUS.
It is a sign of the times that I can actually untangle this gobbledygook. I wish I couldn’t.
OFFS!
Let’s see… carry the zero… I get less than half of “Americans” (which ones? who knows?) would condemn the target of this article for his devious actions. Great work, Forbes.
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to the rest of you magnificent bastards!
I couldn’t finish the NEJM article.
Tell me more, oh wise ones. I thought my opinion of the medical establishment couldn’t get any lower. I was wrong.
What is it with proggies and their obsession with polls? From the Coinbase article:
Start your own businesses, dipshits. Then you can virtue signal your way to bankruptcy!
Sweet Jesus, the talk radio piece from the Cato weenie is awful!
I agree. It’s not right to compare it to the flu, as the IFR is lower for the ‘vid.
The whole piece is a whiny, low T masterpiece.
“I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon.”
Bravo, Old Man. This is the dumbest thing I will read all day.
Which brings us to Thelonious. A genius who helped me get a chick. I knew having a few jazz cassettes mixed in with my regular stuff would pay off.
I hope all of you have a fantastic day! It won’t be as warm here as yesterday (80!), but I can live with sunny and mid-60’s. I love autumn in the people’s republic.
Mornin’ Tundra. Monk helped you get a chick? That usually was quite the opposite in my experience. “What the fuck is that noise?” *door slams*
Yep. Freshman year in college. A super nice and smart chick came over to my dorm and was browsing my fairly extensive music collection. She was a musician and loved Monk. We ended up dating for awhile!
Ah, to be young again. Monk never did the trick, but Tom Waits… Fond memories of one of the most depressing songs ever recorded, two lost souls embracing shared misery.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HkOMiA_uGso
China was faced with the first outbreak.
I wonder why that would be the case? We should get a crack crew of investigators together to study this. There must be a reason.
Breaking news: scientists decide to become activists, cannot understand why the public no longer sees them as scientists.
“This is the dumbest thing I will read all day.”
It’s still early.
Bold statement at the breakfast hour.
Old man music FTW.
0When the little patzers were very little, their favorite program was Blue’s Clues, which featured a bit where Blue would magically jump into a picture as Steve sang “Blue Skidoo, we can too”, set to the opening figure of this Monk gem. Uncredited, of course.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0CthOfSMM
I was going to cue up a version of Blue Monk, but this one just got to me.
I was walking through the living room once while my niece (probably 6-7 at the time) was watching cartoons. I did a double take as I heard a familiar song. Nickelodeon used the musical portion of this song for the intro music for a show called Cartoon Kablooey. I laughed my ass off when I heard that.
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“Take talk radio’s role in spreading Covid denialism. At each stage of the backlash against government recommendations for fighting the pandemic, talk radio hosts prepared the way for broader conservative resistance.”
And thus does the NYT (the original publisher of the article) begin the case for the deplatforming of talk radio. From the admittedly little I’ve heard it wasn’t so much Covid denialism, a loaded term in and of itself, but an understandable concern with the ancillary effects of the lockdowns but if you take any contrary stance you’re a denialist and probably question those Holocaust numbers too you filthy bastard.
Comply! It’s for your own good!
^This is what it is in a nutshell. They probably have a template for this theme. Today they plugged in “Covid” and tossed it on the website.
“backlash against government recommendations”
Except in many places they are not mere ‘recommendations’ but executive orders having the force of law, a fact they continuously elide.
Bring back the Fairmess Doctrine!
So they are taking on Governor Murphy in NJ who has leads the nation in per capita deaths?
Of course not, he’s an authoritarian prick so he’s golden. I mean, at least he tried, amirite?
I dream of Murphy as the Jack Nicholson character in “Little Shop of Horrors” emerging from the dentist’s office missing a few teeth. Would be a much better look IMO.
Nowhere in that screed do they mention Sweden. Surely they just forgot.
It’s my favorite response to the freakout brigade: “Explain Sweden”.
I must admit, I am absolutely flabbergasted at the response of the medical peeps in my world. They all turned into fucking Hawkeye Pierce or something. Moralizing shitheads completely incapable of discussing tradeoffs or statistics.
Sad, really.
It is sad.
Virtue signaling has become more important than intellectual integrity.
Sweden got lucky because all of their neighboring countries behaved responsibly and locked shit down.
/progderp
Sort of the inverse Indiana effect?
Sweden did worse than its neighbors! Pay no attention to other countries in Europe!
– Some Proglodyte idiot.
Good morning, a glorious 61 degrees, Im in my shorts its so nice, time tour the fall color, and play some disc, seize the day!
I tried to seize the day once. I did not like it
Today in ‘vid practical jokes:
LOL!
That guy is going to get chastised by Straff for his foul mouth.
Yes, that was an impressive display of vulgarity.
Isn’t it amazing how many different parts of speech the f-word can be?
Fucking beautiful, really.
Fuck’n A!
After ten minutes at work, the f-word became a comma.
Illistrates the diversity of the word
Also illustrates my lack of spelling.
According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering,1 the United States leads the world in Covid-19 cases and in deaths due to the disease, far exceeding the numbers in much larger countries, such as China.
OFFS *stops reading article*
Chinese Covid cases are like American election fraud. If you don’t look for it it ain’t happening.
“Movie Business Leaders Urge Congress to Fund Theater Bailout“
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/movie-theaters-congress-bailout-1234788302/#article-comments
Eat me…
Get in line.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8825953/Demi-Rose-toys-Instagram-filters-turns-trademark-raven-tresses-PURPLE.html
Nope. Curvaceous silhouette.
6’7″ with the Jewfro.
What you just did there. ‘Twas noticed.
It’s called an Isro.
I applied for a job at Coinbase yesterday just for the hell of it. Maybe they’ll call.
Speaking of Monk, he & Gerry Mulligan are on the XM at the moment. Did I just catch a phrase of “The Shadow of your Smile” in “’round Midnight”?
Other way around. ‘Round Midnight was written about 20 years before Sandpiper.
More on the ACB thing:
“Amy Coney Barrett adds anti-abortion advert she signed and series of talks to pro-life groups to her dossier of disclosures ahead of Supreme Court nomination hearing”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8825651/Amy-Coney-Barrett-adds-anti-abortion-advert-disclosures-ahead-Supreme-Court-nomination-hearing.html
“Armstrong argued that being political creates internal division and distracts from business. Yet many critics noted the irony of a cryptocurrency company, whose mission is inherently political, balking at challenging the status quo.”
How is a cryptocurrency company “inherently political”. Also, I would argue that NOT being social activist with your business is challenging the status quo.
“I hate to ask this, but my family needs help.
My dad has spent almost 50 years paying into Canada’s healthcare system, but now when he needs it most, it’s failing him.
Time is of the essence when it comes to cancer. We’re seeking care in the US.”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1314740026262138883
Lies and propaganda. Also old people should make room for the young and not consume resources unecessarily.
So you are saying you don’t like Chinese food?
Well, Lauren, it failed me on several occasions where I had to turn to the private providers, so your predicament isn’t news to me. I hope your Dad gets the help he needs. Oh, and try to ignore all the Canuck assholes who will scold you for not “waiting your turn in line,” like you’re some kind of traitor.
I thought the site had been shut down by the deep state.
Nah. I imagine it’s where they all go to get fair and balanced news.
I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing. I couldn’t get on the site from yesterday around 6pm until just about 30 minute ago. Maybe it was just me.
It wasn’t just you. It went down right after the evening post.
I was sitting here with my wakizashi on my desk right behind my keyboard waiting for the knock on the door from the ministry of truth.
*knock knock* Are you the Hyperion from that right wing extremist racist white supremacist site where you all do not trust the experts?
That’s me.
What is TMITE?
An initialism that should be dropped.
The Media Is The Enemy
Yeah, it took me a while to catch on and remember it.
Guys, it flew right past your heads, this is supposed to be a conversation between me and the guys from the ministry of truth at the door:
The ministry of truth is asking that question, not me.
Teenage Mutant nInja TurtlEs
It was me. I got hucked for whatever reason, and then when they asked me to prove I was not a bot with the question: 1+5=? I answered 15 just to fuck with them and then the site was gone. Sorry about that.
Only for you, you bot.
Jet Pack is a piece of shit, along with WordFence and the rest. I am fine with them being tortured with rusty chainsaws and non-working captchas that pretend they’ll stop it.
US And Romania To Sign $8bn Agreements For New Reactors
Move follows cancellation earlier this year of deal with China
https://www.nucnet.org/news/us-and-romania-to-sign-usd8bn-agreements-for-new-reactors-10-5-2020
Romania has about 18% of electricity from nuclear. If we get that to 40% and 30% hidro maybe we could stop with stupid windmills but then those are to profitable for politicians
It’s interesting. While the pols are green nude eeling, the nuke industry is making headway.
Even here: US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor
Go nukes!
I’ve noticed a lot of anti-nuke editorials as of late. I take that as a good sign the situation is improving for nuclear.
Small, decentralized reactors will be a game changer. Talk about leveling the playing field.
I still have high hopes for msr but am disapoint by the slowness
What’s msr?
medium sized reactor?
Molten Salt Reactor
Miscellaneous Sex w/Randos?
Media Sucks Rectum
If you know who wins the nuclear industry is going to do very well, if not they’re done with any new construction or coming online at the very least.
Captain Atom?
Point is i dont want to hear you people say the us exim bank does not serve a valuable porpoise
Flipper?
It’s pretty good for keeping Boeing afloat and paying those sweet sweet machinist union wages.
You’re giving Veronica deRugy lots of sadz.
Don’t do it. The USA is systemic racism. Vampires will be hardest hit.
Some remastered footage of Bismarck firing at HMS Hood filmed from Prinz Eugen:
https://youtu.be/Uwtk7okZsRQ
They did an impressive job of cleaning up the film.
Neat
cool
“Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options”
But no worries, we have a leader for you, which you
maywill vote for.https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1314720707499028485
Unfortunately, this is accurate.
“Lauren Southern”
She’s one of the Proud Boys.
I thought she was cancelled?
At least in Britain.
She took a hiatus to let the heat die down a bit and to pop out a kid I think.
Thank you Ken Schulz:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xao6na
Found on that page:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7uesjp
She’s aging like fine wine.
My sincere thanks!
This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond. Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test. They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.
It’s a mild respiratory illness. And the “leaders” filed because they overreacted. Fuck off, you cunte.
Your leaders must be selected for you, for your own good. That’s all this is.
failed*, even.
*gets coffee*
Amy Coney Barrett initially failed to disclose talks on Roe v. Wade hosted by anti-abortion groups on Senate paperwork
And? That decision was horseshit anyway. It’s like leftists only care about legal fabrications that allow them to kill the unborn as opposed to anything actually in the constitution. (see: 1A, 2A, 4A, etc.)
Is that why Olbermann said she has to be arrested and removed from society?
What the fuck has gotten into these people? They sound like the real Nazis from the 1930s.
They sound like the real Nazis from the 1930s.
I have been assured that I am, in fact, a “nazi”, because I believe there are limits to government.
The main reason you’re a nazi right now is ‘don’t always agree with experts and obey!’. Nazi! Next week…. I mean Nov 4 if the correct leaders have been chosen for you, we’ll get back to you being a nazi because ‘don’t agree with 97% of scientists and obey!’. Nazi!
Meddling in our elections! The horror!
I don’t have a problem with attempting to hold leftists to their own standards.
Wait, I thought Rush Limbaugh was supposed to be dead or something?
No but he has the cancer (I think…).
The best troll of the left was Trump giving him the medal of freedom during the sotu address.
I caught a little of Trump on Rush Limbaugh yesterday. It was pretty entertaining. Though I can see how easy it is to take Trump out of context. He’s all over the place, like a squirrel with ADD.
Him being all over the place is his best and worst quality.
https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1314566705616760835
Too many “white” people eating Chinese food.
Yelp is nothing but a protection racket. I hope this latest racism reporting horseshit lands them in court so hard that all the corporate heads end up living under freeway overpasses.
I despise Yelp.
Their employees got caught writing bad reviews and then contacting businesses to get them to sign up. They should have been sued into oblivion then.
The simple fact is their gravy train, independent restaurants and bars, is taking a massive hit because of the shutdowns. This is how they generate new “customers”.
I wonder how large the fee is to get that restriction removed?
And by the way, nothing says authentic Chinese food like Vegan… Idiot.
perfect
A huge amount of this woke shit going on today would have been regarded as a crazy “slippery slope” fallacy if you speculated on it 5 years ago.
“#mostlypeaceful rioters swarmed New York last night. Not wearing masks, but as they weren’t Orthodox Jews, they have the blessing of Cuomo and deBlasio
Here they harass diners in the West Village.”
https://twitter.com/gary_weiss/status/1314572193683181569
I wonder if this harassing of diners happens much in “shall issue” states. I would be so hard pressed to stand down the first MoFo to come at my family while we are out for dinner somewhere – “You are threatening my wife and children so if you don’t back the Eff off I’ll be sending you to the morgue.”
I’ve thought the same thing. However, PA is a “shall issue” state and we had the Pittsburgh dining issue. That said I don’t know if Pittsburgh restricts like Philly does.
Maybe one of our PA Glibs can provide some color.
Stay dry Tejicano and batten down the hatches!
Allegheny County used to be gun unfriendly when I lived in PA.
I remember the state slapping Pittsburgh and Allegheny County down for trying to pass municipal and county ordinances restricting firearms.
“They’re not “militias.” They’re domestic terrorists endangering and intimidating their fellow Americans. Words matter.”
https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/status/1314543058197843980
“Agreed re: the terrorist group that targeted you. Antifa isn’t “a philosophy.” They’re terrorists endangering and intimidating their fellow Americans. Words matter.”
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1314590116489433088
Get a load of this nazi defending white supremacists.
“They’re domestic terrorists endangering and intimidating their fellow Americans”
But enough about you, Karen Jong Un Hitler.
Whitmer’s going to beat this horse into the fucking ground and then she’ll send police to kidnap you if you break one of her unconstitutional pronouncements. She’s just terrible.
““One of alleged plotters, 23-year-old Daniel Harris, attended a Black Lives Matter protest in June, telling the Oakland County Times he was upset about the killing of George Floyd and police violence.””
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1314883980638916609
I’m surprised WaPo published that.
Don’t you mean (((nazi)))?
I’m not sure why this has not been discusses anywhere, that I’ve noticed.
Since I no nothing about this case, yet, I’m not assuming anything. But when I hear CNN say ‘protesting peacefully’, for some reason I get this vision of rioting, looting, and things burning.
If I remember correctly, the kid literally fired a gun at the cops and he got shot for it.
And his mum and sisters got arrested for ‘peacefully’ protesting? I somehow am not buying that. I’m not sure why, but…
For what were they arrested?
Rioting. They were caught breaking windows and looting. At least, the crowd they were in were.
I just ignore CNN, but when I chance to see something from them on this site, I basically regard it as I would a Democrat Party press release… Since there’s a very good possibility that that’s literally what it is.
“Viral clip shows Biden lowering his mask to cough in his hand
The former VP was called out for coughing into his hand in March”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-lowering-mask-cough-in-his-hand
SCIENCE!!!!!!
“You can’t make this up.
Joe Biden just removed his mask to cough in his hand.
Talk about unsanitary!”
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1314688491368964098
????
Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world.
No it fucking didn’t. The crisis is entirely of the government’s creation. Go fuck yourselves NEJM.
How did that hurricane thing y’all were having pan out?
PA men that had sex with animals need to stay caged
Three Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to having sex hundreds of times with horses, goats, dogs and a cow need to keep serving their decades-long prison sentences, a state appeals court has decided.
The men even made videos of themselves as they committed that bestiality, investigators said. And they recruited a teenage boy to help them molest the creatures.
The Superior Court panel upheld the 20- to 41-year prison terms for Terry Wallace, Matthew Brubaker and Marc Measnikoff in an opinion by President Judge Emeritus John Bender. All three had pleaded guilty in Clearfield County court to charges of corruption of minors, 730 counts of sexual intercourse with animals and 730 counts of cruelty to animals.
He should have rioted and looted while he was doing it. Then it would be OK.
Sounds like they didn’t catch the “turn of phrase” nuance about that old “…and the horse you rode in on” epithet.
“730 counts of sexual intercourse with animals”
Wow.
“Meanwhile, social media platforms announced that they will ban anyone who claims victory of a candidate for the presidency… after the presidential elections. Because that totally makes sense and censorship is apparently cool and trendy in 2020.”
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/10-ways-the-media-is-gaslighting-you/
SMITE
So “We Are the Champions” is out? Why do they hate gay people?
Cop who conducted illegal search and lied about it can’t be fired
A Pennsylvania township can’t fire a police officer who conducted an illegal search but can only suspend him without pay for a year, a Commonwealth Court panel ruled Friday.
The judges made that call in upholding an arbitrator’s decision that voided Uwchlan Township’s termination of Officer Andrew Kline. Township officials appealed to the state court after a Chester County judge refused to overturn the arbitrator’s ruling.
Essentially, the arbitrator found that firing was too harsh a punishment for an “eager” officer who made a mistake in judgment.
Prosecute the cop, send him to prison, and then fire him for job abandonment for failing to show up for his scheduled shifts.
Razor blades on a Trump sign
A southeast Michigan township worker needed 13 stitches in his fingers after attempting to remove a razor-blade lined political sign that was too close to the road.
The Commerce Township worker pulled over to remove two political signs that were 9 feet within the road right-of-way, WDIV Local 4 reports.
That’s not good, although I also find it hard to believe.
Mommy dearest sells nude pictures of daughters
A woman in western Pennsylvania is accused of taking nude photos of her young daughters and sending them to a man who, in some cases, paid for them, police said.
Police on Thursday charged the woman, the children’s father and the man they say received and bought the photos.
The girls are between 11 and 13 years old, police said.
The mother was charged with conspiracy to commit sexual abuse/photographing or filming sexual acts and other counts. The father was charged with child endangerment because authorities said he had knowledge his children were being photographed.
But Netflix said that’s OK!
There is no such thing as voter fraud part 124436526523
A man has been arrested after prosecutors accused him of voting in New Hampshire illegally in 2016.
Michael L. Lewis, now 47, was arrested on Thursday in Atlanta, on a warrant issued from Hooksett in January 2019 following an indictment in December 2018.
BE MORE SCARED!!!1111!!1!1!
Although overall numbers remain low, health officials said Thursday that community transmission of COVID-19 is on the rise in New Hampshire.
State health officials said there were 79 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the state. There have been 8,879 cases over the course of the pandemic.
Two more people have been hospitalized, and officials said one more Granite Stater, a resident of a long-term care facility, has died. There have been 449 deaths linked to the coronavirus in New Hampshire.
Yeah, morning news here was all about doom and despair over covid. Expect it to get worse until the election. Trump getting it and getting better was giving the rubes too much hope.
Threading the needle. 171st post is mine.
Where in hell was that weird parade photo taken? Eez like Borat.
I’m guessing Belgium?
“The Aalst mayor’s spokesman told the BBC “it’s our humour… just fun.””
Hey (((you))), we have some showers here, get on that boxcar and we’ll take you there, it’s just fun!
So it was: 3/3/19.
Powerline blog week in pictures, Oct 10th, 2020.
My fav
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That got a laugh out of me.
PA dad accused of raping his 10 month old daughter ran google searches for “how do you know if baby is dead”
Police say the dad conducted multiple Google searches for nearly an hour before calling 911 for his young daughter who he is now accused of assaulting and raping.
Among the searches, according a police search of the dad’s phone reported by 6ABC in Philly: “If baby stops breathing,” “What if you don’t hear baby heart or beat,” “My baby isn’t breathing,” and “How do you know if a baby is dead?”
Jesus man.
That’s beyond morbid.
Trump campaign can’t have poll watchers at Philly satellite election offices
A judge on Friday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s campaign to force Philadelphia to allow campaign representatives to monitor people registering to vote or filling out mail-in ballots in election offices in a city repeatedly attacked by Trump as untrustworthy.
Judge Gary Glazer wrote in his 14-page opinion that Pennsylvania law does not allow such representatives to observe in election offices, a stance held by election lawyers, city officials and the state’s top elections official.
There are people that say we shouldn’t have the death penalty. Well, I argue that the death penalty is far too kind for some of these demons.
… meant for 56.
Is Pennsylvania the new Florida?