IT EARLY
CHEESE PERSON HAVE GO HELP MOM IN OTHER TOWN. SO STEVE SMITH SEE FUNNY GLIBERTARIANS NEED LINKS BEFORE SP HAVE REPAIR SITE! IT ALMOST AFTERNOON BREAK, SO STEVE SMITH GO USE COFFEE MAKER AND SET LINKS. BY USE COFFEE MAKER, MEAN…
- STEVE SMITH SAD…NO HURT MURDER HORNETS, THEM CRUNSCHY AND TASTY!
- WHAT SEE ABOUT TWO NUMBERS…? HMMM.
- YES, IT FALSE, IT NO STEVE SMITH ON ROAD TRIP! *WINK, WINK* BY ROAD TRIP, MEAN…
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There will be less tearing of you can relax a bit. Maybe.
Relevant
Camping supplies should always include a small bottle of conditioner or baby oil, it’ll just be better for everyone involved.
Vaseline — for foot blisters, of course.
You can get it in 55 gallon drums.
Great joke- “If you went camping with friends, got drunk, and woke up with a condom in your ass, would you tell anyone?”
“No.”
“Wanna go camping?”
Hey hey, I’m appropriating that for the guys at work tomorrow.
If it were true that it was really false, then wouldn’t Twitter be banning the sharing of that photo? But they aren’t so it must be false that it is false.
Sounds true to me.
Oregon surpasses 42,000 coronavirus cases, no new COVID-19 deaths reported
Just wait two weeks.
Get Lucky
SWING SMITH?
As long as its Heather Graham dressed as SWING SMITH I am game.
Man she was fine but I prefer Boogie Nights Heather Graham.
Roller Girl > Austin Powers > Swingers > Scrubs > Anger Management
Surprisingly catchy, for RAPE-SQUATCH.
Surprisingly catchy, for RAPE-SQUATCH.
You’ll be surprised when you get caught.
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Checked out his website, he’s out on tour, he was just down the road last weekend, I don’t know if I’m upset that I missed him or really glad.
also seems like an all right dude for a rape-squatch, if a show gets cancelled because of the ‘vid he lets the venue keep the ticket money and gives everyone that bought a ticket a t-shirt and concert dvd and whatnot on his own dime.
Don’t worry, the number of total cases will begin to go down once Biden is elected.
Is it just me, or is that about 120 more pediatric and NICU beds than should be needed for COVID coverage?
Closer to 125 more beds than are needed for COVID. Pediatric hospital admissions for COVID are vanishingly rare. I’m pretty sure there has never been a NICU admission for COVID, ever.
Of course, pediatric ICUs can be used for adults. That’s what we did with ours during the peak in AZ.
How did you get the grownups to fit into those little cribs?
Bonesaws
Chainsaws
There is a how to video on this called Boxing Helena.
I must leave for a meeting so I can’t wait the requisite half-hour. Hopefully ZARDOZ is merciful.
Mammary Monday continues its triumphant return with bouncing bodacious busts and beautiful bountiful breasts!
https://archive.is/BAAQA
I think you know what my response is.
Too much ink.
#8 seems clean and is probably a virgin too.
She’s infibulated.
Just another Mammary Monday
I wish it were Sunday
That’s my fun day
I don’t have the runs day…..
You dont drink on Sunday afternoon ?
This boilerplate ought to work:
“This is OT, and less than 30 minutes in. But, I have to do something in IRL. So, DO NOT look at until 3:30.”
Then it’s on them if they peek.
does OT even matter for the links? I thought it didn’t.
I don’t like surprises.
NOBODY LIKE SURPRISE SMITH.
Whats the best prize? A surprise! /off to finish my day at work.
I suspect this isn’t as comforting to most people as they hope.
Well I am sure if we were to poll the American population they would probably say 3-4% of the population die from murder hornets.
Every
Day
DOOOM!
That’s only half as many as have died from Covid.
So when will the bee suit mandates issued?
I wear my bee suit to protect you!
put your pants on, your holiness! nobody wants to see your “stinger”
You better not be calling me – The Pope – a WASP!!!!!
Them’s fightin words
Just wear the damn bee suit!
Hey don’t be worried, it only kills people sometimes.
How many people are killed by hornets in the U.S.?
62 per year, from hornet, wasp, and bee, according to the CDC.
They don’t seem to distinguish among the three.
But if you calculate the death rate by dividing the number of people killed by Murder Hornets by the total number of Murder Hornets and then compare that to the number of people killed by Covid-19 divided by the total number of covid virii, you can see that Murder HOrnets are orders of magnitude more deadly than the ‘vid.
And since it’s already been established that the ‘vid is so deadly that we need to lock down the world until it’s eradicated, SCIENCE! tells us that the only SCIENCE!tific thing to do is lock down the planet until we exterminate all Murder Hornets.
Please don’t give the CDC any ideas.
Well, probably best to stay out of the Upper East Side just to be safe.
I suspect this isn’t as comforting to most people as they hope.
Indeed. That’s more people killed by “murder hornets” per year than are killed by sharks. Like, almost ten times more.
I make fun of them, but hats off to our NoDak neighbors! Hope Mike and Matt get a direct payout
I imagine it gets challenged by various state employee unions.
Not that any of them have missed a paycheck…
Almost like it was designed that way.
“Biden: You can frack for natural gas but you can’t burn it
In one of the rare instances where the media has bothered to ask Joe Biden about anything of substance, he was forced to give an answer during the last presidential debate about whether or not he was planning on banning fracking. He flip-flopped on that issue yet again, saying that he would not be banning fracking, likely because he’s aware that the polls in Pennsylvania are hanging by a thread at the moment. But as C. Boyden Gray points out this week at Real Clear Politics, Joe Biden’s answer wasn’t just at odds with previous statements by both he and his running mate. He’s also directly contradicting information published on his own campaign website. Despite trying to clean up the mess caused by those remarks by saying we couldn’t get rid of fossil fuels “for a while,” that depends entirely on how long you think “a while” might be. Uncle Joe still has a promise on his website claiming that we’ll be done with fossil fuels by 2035.”
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/10/26/biden-can-frack-natural-gas-cant-burn/
What about lighting your own farts?
Did you obtain them by fracking?
Would that be something like an enema?
That’s how STEVE collects natural gas.
Under the Biden administration, farts will be considered a Class IV environmental hazard. If you need to fart, just follow this easy process: fill out your online application and send in your $200 application fee (personal checks accepted only), wait 3 to 6 weeks, and, if you’re approved, you’ll be able to apply that application fee towards the $500 environmental impact fee, and then you’ll be free to schedule an appointment at a state-franchised, women- or minority-owned, fart extraction facility. Extraction facility costs are not regulated by the federal government and may vary from state to state.
How many people die in hospitals?
Ban hospitals!
Ban death.
More people die of death than any other cause.
I thought we did.
Then COVID came along to chastise us for our hubris.
The Republicans will never allow it, they profit off of death!
What’s with the hate for the dead? You people are anti-deadites.
They are trying to cancel Día del Muertos because covid.
And the dead are very reliable in how they vote!
Trees are the #1 cause of forest fires. Mr. Trump, cut down these trees!
“Jared Kushner accused on race after saying ‘complaining’ black Americans have to ‘WANT to be successful’ in order to benefit from Trump’s policies
‘Complaining’ black Americans have to ‘WANT to be successful’ in order to benefit from Trump’s policies, says Jared Kushner”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8880745/Black-people-want-successful-Jared-Kushner-says.html
Accused on race?
“ce Cube sat down with Jared Kushner to discuss his ‘Contract with Black America,’ which calls for banking, prison and police reform, the creation of ‘baby bonds’ and the removal of Confederate monuments”
Baby bonds?
Keeps the little bastards from running around knocking things over.
Because if their bond gets pulled they lose their license?
“Shaken, not stirred“
Certainly is a racial remark, but it isn’t racist.
Yeah, basically says we’ll facilitate your success but we won’t give you shit. He could’ve said it better though. I’m not too thrilled about the monument removal I must admit.
A real scandal that is responsibly being covered by our journalistic betters
Imagine! Having rallies with more than 250 people and then not responding to local authorities who are only trying to keep us all safe.
The Russians fucked up my link!!!!!
The edit faery has been locked out due to pending upgrades.
The link still works, I can live with it. I’ve been responsible for far, far larger blunders in my life.
“Superspreader event” is the new dog whistle for those people.
According to that story:
I’m going to assume that none of those 19 cases ended up in a death or hospitalization because I didnt see any wall to wall stories about Trump killing some poor Iron Ranger who was just driving by when a cloud of Rona engulfed his car and killed him.
I have noticed a slight shift in tone among the Covid Maskers. The bullying seems to have been replaced by pleading — a sign that they are losing and trying desparately maintain control.
New favorite tactic: “Just for a little while longer.” But don’t ask them how long either for a date or a metric.
Two months.
Masks would help. As a practical matter, it’s easier to wear a mask in the winter than the summer. A mandate can be expressly limited to the next two months.
In NY, MA and CA, the mask mandates have been in place for more than six months. And the cases are rising. Actually, they were falling and rising and falling and rising again.
On the NH subreddit, I still see lots of folks posting insulting things directed towards those that don’t wear masks. Folks there think that masks are what will save us until we have a vaccine. Folks think mask wearing is helping NH, and they are completely ignoring that places with mask mandates that have increasing cases.
Yeah, I know, it’s reddit. Sometimes I stray from the porn.
Yeah, I know, it’s reddit. Sometimes I stray from the porn.
And you are punished accordingly. Stay on the right path, and all will be well.
You’re right.
Queues up r/stacked and r/recoilbutts to get get started….
I fucking love unfalsifiable science.
So speaking of outlawing death, my MIL had open-heart surgery today to remove a (benign) tumor from inside her heart (very rare). Fucker was as big as an egg.
Anyway, so she’s in recovery now and the surgeon said she will be feeling much much better when she completely recovers. No more perpetual shortness of breath and fatigue.
Glad things went well.
Excellent news. May her recovery be swift an unmarried by complications!
Wow! So glad the surgery went well, and I hope she recovers as quickly as possible!
Glad to hear that!!
Are we talking medium or large egg?
And without the obstruction of blood flow, yeah there should be an improvement.
This is why they always use fruit.
Fucker was as big as an egg
The tumor or her heart?
Just fooling with ya! Hope she gets better.
Pffffft! A heart itself is not much bigger than an egg!
/slight exaggeration
Smaller than an ostrich egg
You can get a decent idea how big your heart is by looking at your fist. Its probably a little bigger.
So, not really that much bigger than an egg.
You have tiny fists.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your MIL, Mojeaux.
Glad she’s OK.
Good news! /forgot what that looks like.
I’m glad things went well.
Great news. Best wishes for her speedy recovery.
Glad to hear!
I wish her a speedy recovery and a world worth recovering for (ok, it’s an aspirational goal not a plan).
I think that’s an omen. I must consult the chicken bones.
Good news
Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery!
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“Parents create ‘Mom Code’ agreement to avoid testing their children for COVID-19 so schools can stay open in Utah – as Gov. Herbert reveals state cases are at an all-time high
A group Utah parents reportedly created an unwritten agreement to avoid getting their children tested for COVID-19, which has been dubbed the ‘mom code.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8880877/Parents-create-Mom-Code-agreement-avoid-testing-children-COVID-19.html
Son is at boarding school. They wanted permission to randomly test him for COVID. That was a huge NO.
I’m impressed that the NO answer doesn’t lead to sending him home.
He’s still a minor. They can’t do squat.
Now the college students aren’t as lucky.
Heh. Who squealed?
Again: cases are at an all time high. I think we are still hovering around 500 deaths in a state of almost 3 million. This shit irritates me.
Testing is also at an all time high 😉
Exactly. I hate how far the goalposts have been moved. And Herbert should be ashamed for following such bunk. Pseudoscience to the core.
Yeah. I’ve lost a bit of respect for Herbert. we need to Recruit Christy Noam to move here.
I’d sign that petition.
/not euphemism
I’d sign that petition.
/not euphemism
“Could ASPIRIN be the first over the counter treatment for coronavirus? Hospitalized patients already taking the drug daily were 47% less likely to die of COVID-19
Taking aspirin could reduce the risk of hospitalized coronavirus patients falling severely ill or dying, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that a daily low-dose pill could lower the likelihood of being admitted to the ICU or being placed on a ventilator by more than 40 percent.
Additionally, it cut the risk of dying from the infection by nearly half.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8881285/Hospitalized-patients-taking-aspirin-daily-47-likely-die-COVID-19.html
If true, that’s going to cause a lot of butt-hurt. “But people still die…”
See, the aspirin work, I haven’t had either the covid or died. Proof enough for me.
I feel bad for the poor Rona viruses that try to take down Fourscore.
“Hey an old timer! My buddy said these guys are great, he set up on an 80 year old in the Old Folks Home down the road and said it was the best. Sit around all day and get fat and sassy”
24 hours later
“WTF? Does this guy ever slow down? If I have to go outside to chop one more cord of firewood I’m going to die! For the love of doG, at least sit on the couch and watch a half of the Vikings”
Waittiminnit, I thought it was Vitamin D and whiskey.
Do you even SCIENCE?
It is zinc and rum.
“If it weren’t for the pirin tablets, I don’t know if I could go on.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/mediaviewer/rm3074199040
No it won’t be first because Pepcid/famotidine is OTC.
My new TV – ooh la la – came with YouTube streaming.
me: “Great! So many documentaries to watch!”
But… so many political commercials. Biden, looking like a puppet with nearly closed eyes, a jug-eared white haired Obama, and tons and tons of Vote EARLY!L!Leven!!! ads.
Biden apparently dropped over $500m on TV ads? I wonder how well these work for market ahem penetration.
Yeah, we don’t watch commercial TV networks, but we stream much content. SOOOOOOO thoroughly sick of the political ads. We mute them all from all sides.
YouTube Red is ten bucks a month if you don’t mind paying for no ads.
$10! A price too high for a Dutch man.
But I might spend $10 to watch 2.4 Hours of Le Mullets
To be fair, that should give you access to :grimaces: YouTube Music, which is a huge step down from Google Play Music. Alternately, you could do like we do and set up a family share plan that runs around $15/mo. that you can split with 6 accounts.
To be fair, that should give you access to :grimaces: YouTube Music, which is a huge step down from Google Play Music. Alternately, you could do like we do and set up a family share plan that runs around $15/mo. that you can split with 6 accounts.
Market penetration.
https://archive.li/xENn7/bb3346fb838d98ef922bdc3cfe16be6bd0a8c0c6.jpg
Don’t do it, those sprinkles look contagious.
Huh. Given your past predilections for red heads, I didn’t think you’d be into Asian stuff like that Q
Depending if you are comfortable with open source software from either the Ukraine or Russia I have a solution.
It’s been a busy day here. Is the lack of an updated home page part of the upgrade process going on?
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
You’ll need to side load it.
The Oregon Health Authority said there were no new deaths from COVID-19 to report, so Oregon’s death toll remained unchanged at 653.
Zero deaths?!?! How are we supposed to STAY SCARED!!1!!1!!!!
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Thanks SP!
The death toll could spike any day now! By the end of the week there could be 1,000 times as many deaths!
Still marvel that the media was so quiet about Sturgis once the death toll came in…
I have noticed a slight shift in tone among the Covid Maskers. The bullying seems to have been replaced by pleading — a sign that they are losing and trying desparately maintain control.
New favorite tactic: “Just for a little while longer.” But don’t ask them how long either for a date or a metric.
And they whine about the politicization of masks. Quite precious, coming from the people who politicize every single thing, up to and including the faces on consumer products like rice and pancake mix.
wear a mask like this?
“It’s in my nature.”
Anyway, so she’s in recovery now and the surgeon said she will be feeling much much better
I would think so.
Because the increased circulation to her fingers will restore her sense of touch?
wut
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/how-amarjeet-sada-became-worlds-22907715
I thought Little Mikey was the original cereal killer/Life eater.
+1 Insightful
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Bold strategy.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13019918/wife-night-jail-sex-another-woman/
Yep, that’s asking to get caught in a lie.
Talking point, ho! Off the Port bow!
The Trump administration has surrendered to the pandemic
That “surrender” line is everywhere, today.
Being realistic, and learning how to live with it is surrender. Hiding in terror is fighting nobly.
Ignorance is Strength.
Even Quixote wasn’t so quixotic.
You guys can be as negative as you want, but I think it is very nice of the progressives to try to help Trump out. If he only listened to them he would be winning this election by a mile.
Personally I think that there is enough time for Trump to “stop the bleeding” if he’d just stop focusing so much on that Ruskie disinformation story about Hunter Biden and go on TV to publicly beg for forgiveness.
“Chris Wallace grills Biden co-chair Gretchen Whitmer over the Hunter Biden scandal involving influence peddling
Whitmer struggles to respond, falsely claims that Biden has sat and answered the media’s questions about the scandal”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1320672615527149568
What is the libertarian position on burning witches?
What is the libertarian position on burning witches?
How does her weight compare to a duck’s?
IFLS
Is that a European or African duck?
Lacist.
Whitmer seemed a lot more sympathetic when she was on South Park. I can see why she didn’t have any friends now though.
If witchname contains Pelosi, Clinton, Feinstein, Hirono, Omar, Tlaib; burning = yes
Else burning = no
Thankfully this week I’m back to working from home, putting in a back-breaking 5 hours in. Phew! The Operations VP wants me to stick around for several weeks but I have to start looking for another job.
I’ve got a new synth track if anyone really really cares.
I care.
…Says Luke wistfully as Leia stomps out of the falcon cockpit in a huff.
*slow clap*
Meanwhile, Trump refuses to do the one thing that could make a tremendous difference but takes very little effort. He could unabashedly endorse — and model — mask wearing. A new study suggests that 130,000 lives could be saved this winter if 95 percent of Americans wore masks. Instead, the president continues to equivocate on the matter.
Guess what, Shirley- a computer model is not a study.
We entered these slanted numbers and slanted assumptions into this model and we got this slanted result. Whycome you won’t base your nationwide policy on it?
C’mon… we can get that up to 100% if we really cared.
A new study suggests that 130,000 lives could be saved this winter if 95 percent of Americans wore masks.
Let’s see, winter is about 120 days long.
The current death rate is around 800/day, and has been for two months, with, of course, some variation. Its really been remarkably stable.
Conclusion: no, wearing masks will not save more lives than will be lost at current rates.
GOP presidential candidates of late:
2020 Donald Trump (incumbent)
2016 Donald Trump
2012 Mitt Romney
2008 John McCain
2004 George W Bush (incumbent)
2000 George W Bush
1996 Bob Dole
1992 George Bush (incumbent)
1988 George Bush
1984 Ronald Reagan (incumbent)
1980 Ronald Reagan
What a shit show. Reagan had his flaws but I would be proud to vote for him these days.
How the heck did everyone else suck so far since then? Bush senior got it as the Veep of a successful presidency. Dole got it for reasons unknown; sacrificial lamb against Clinton I guess. Then Dubya Bush gets it because dynasty. Also I kind of buy the idea that Bush and Clinton are in the same little cabal.
John McCain winning the nod in 2008 should have sent a major alarm that the GOP nomination process is severely broken.
Regardless of who wins next week (or whenever the count is final), the GOP is in dire need of fixing its functionality as a party and as a nominating force.
Reforming the GOP seems like a tall order but reforming the Dems seems impossible. So how do we get the elephants to make a decent nomination?
I’d like to think we are done kissing up to social conservatives like Santorum and Bachman.
But are we ready for a Massie or a Paul?
Dole was a good guy (for a politician) wasn’t he or was he? I didn’t pay much attention to politics back then.
He wasn’t much of a glad-hander.
What you did there…..I noticed it.
He is on the advisory council of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, so he can’t be that bad.
He wasn’t a bad dude. Made some tough cuts as a Senator in the early 80s, trying to be fiscally responsible.
But he was a terrible candidate. Speaking of himself in third person, pretending to have a sense of humor that wasn’t his.
Main thing was everyone was certain Bill would win again. Who ran against him was incidental.
Both parties have had the attitude of “it’s their turn” and it’s been a disaster.
Ufda! Are we really ready to be done with Michelle Bachmann? She has a certain appeal that could get a lot of men to vote for her that wouldn’t normally vote for a woman?.
Really worked for Amy K. She is Minnesoda nicer than Michelle B.
I think that’s how we end up with a certain candidate for VP.
Lol. I haven’t seen that pic.
Funny thing is, her husband is clearly gay. I don’t know if she knows it or not.
And I voted for three of those recent turds.
These days I don’t vote since I don’t want to support/associate with any of them. I look at Biden voters like they are insane. You want to vote in this ancient guy, the man who helped promote the 90s crime bills, and who likes to grope women and children? And all the corruption? Are they blind or just stupid? Or is their news intake so biased that they never hear these stories? I once brought up Biden’s plagiarism story to a Dem friend of mine and got nothing but a blank stare.
People are weird. It is so hard for a person to admit that they were wrong and change their minds.
The vast majority of people will convince themselves that their original pick was correct no matter what evidence is given to them later. The amount of mental gymnastics they will engage in is amazing.
I was wrong about Iraq not going to be an utter shitshow. I thought it would be an expensive and somewhat unnecessary effort that eventually yielded positive results
#metoo
Meh. They ain’t Baathist Iraq anymore. Win.
Too expense, not necessary. Thumbs down.
Nobody is voting for Biden. They are voting against Trump after the 5 year tsunami of sewage from the DemOp Media.
McCain was the classic example of letting your enemies talk you into something stupid because “they want to help”.
He’s a maverick and we like him, so all the regular GOP folks are sure to love him too! Think of it GOP, for once you will be running a candidate that the MSM loves too. The cocktail parties will be EPIC!!!
Ignore the fact that he was a miserable human being and a shittier than normal politician.
We had our best shot in 64, but the RINOs sabotaged Goldwater.
The interesting thing is that the establishment used essentially the same playbook against Trump as they did against Goldwater, and the fact that it was much less successful is a silver lining that perhaps people don’t trust the establishment as much as they used to.
How the heck did everyone else suck so far since then?
Both parties have had this issue. Obama and Clinton (Bill), despite terrible policies, were good politicians, but the rest of the Dems in your timeline? Carter, Mondale, Dukakis Gore, Kerry, Clinton (Hillary), and Biden? All a mess.
I’d like to think we are done kissing up to social conservatives like Santorum and Bachman.
The SoCons by and large supported Trump (an at best nominal Christian who is a womanizer, adulterer, pro-gay, and not bothered by trans people), and all he had to give them for this support was to become pro-life and promise not to persecute their churches. I don’t think we will be seeing a return to the early 2000s culture wars any time soon.
I say they run a woman, or a man with a beard. And I don’t mean like Michelle Obama. When was the last candidate with facial hair?
Thomas Dewey
https://www.quora.com/Who-was-the-last-modern-era-presidential-candidate-with-facial-hair-to-seriously-run-for-president-of-the-USA?share=1
I’m in an interrogation training class all week. Today we were asked to write a statement/timeline on what we did this Saturday. The point of it was so that our trainer could go through various verbal and grammatical markers that indicate various different opinions or feelings. So far he’s called out like 6 different examples which everyone has had in their statements… except for me. Starting to wonder if I’m a sociopath who cannot be read.
Ugh – the whole mask wearing thing is getting to me. We’re flying out to Charleston next week, and will have to be wearing masks through our airport travels.
Worst part? My neighbors, who were our weekly card playing booze buddies have gotten real quiet. They never go out, they never want to get together because, of the “fine” Michigan temps, we can’t be outdoors. They are Democrats so appear to buy into the lies about masks.
Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy
It’s Kabuki theater.
In my experience, the TSA and airport employees do not enforce masks. Like at all. The same was true with airport lounges.
I wore my mask through TSA at Rapid City, but took it off in the gate area until boarding. No one around was wearing a mask. But it’s different in the big city airports, I think. DCA was very strict. At this point in time, I can’t even go to New York in December because the Cuomo Gestapo will be waiting for my flight at the gate (Virginians are essentially banned from NY right now)
I remember when Cuomo had a shit-fit over the Rhode Island governor wanting New Yorkers to quarantine after arriving in RI.
I experienced no enforcement in BOS and LAX. At a TSA Precheck line I managed to make the metal detector ring twice, so I was “randomly” selected to go through a rapiscan. A TSA employee politely asked me to empty my pockets and helpfully suggested that I remove any face masks from there: I had two in back pockets.
We have all but banned interstate travel in much of the country.
How the fuck has the economy not completely tanked yet?!
I would like to know the answer to this question, too. I get that the impact hasn’t been felt universally, but how this isn’t rippling through the economy like a tsunami is a mystery to me.
Goods aren’t banned, and enough of the states have opened up enough to keep things going. I’ve eaten out (inside) at restaurants and gone out to the movie theater in the last two months, so other than the mask theater and social distancing things seem pretty normal where I’m at (Texas, DFW area).
Given that my state requires visitors from an ever-changing list of other states to quarantine for two weeks, I’m curious how exactly I’m getting any of those goods that I ask for.
There are lots of exceptions.
“Essential workers”
Grrrrrrr… anger rising….
I can confirm the lounges. At one point, all of California bars were shut down, except in the airport.
I wonder if the people who really buy into the mask stuff will ever admit (even if just to themselves) that it was all horse shit. Or will they maintain to their deathbed that masks worked and they don’t care what SCIENCE says now about their efficacy.
I think you know the answer. Things arrived at irrationally….
I’m willing to give people a whole lot of slack on this one. We’ve been told all our lives to cover our mouths when we cough and doctors/people working with nasty chemicals and fumes are always shown wearing masks. It’s counter intuitive to think “masks do nothing” so I don’t think it’s some kind of willful ignorance, It’s more like all the people who don’t realize The Beach Boys suck, it’s not their fault they have been lied to by everyone for their entire lives.
People who like masks may not know any better. People who like the Beach Boys are lying to themselves. The latter is much worse.
You guys are giving me bad vibrations
The Beach Boys were at least as talented song crafters as The Beatles
Damning with faint praise?
God only knows
Like all Scandinavians the whole Smith family has taken up residence in the Land Of Lutefisk and Lefse
http://www.homeofbigfoot.com/
Change of names as they went underground.
“You’ll Bury Everyone Involved’: Bobulinski Recorded Biden Operatives Begging Him To Stay Quiet, Set To Release Tues”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youll-bury-everyone-involved-bobulinski-recorded-biden-operatives-begging-him-stay-quiet
Dude better have a dead man’s switch waiting or he could well be a dead man.
I like listening to Viva Frei and Barnes, but i’m listening to them talking about the Anti-Trust case with Google, and it’s quite… Sad.
It’s like the populist conservative talking points about monopolies haven’t moved at all since the 1800’s. Breaking up google will do absolutely nothing.
Does anyone remember when Microsoft was the big evil company that needed to be broken up? Pepperidge Farm remembers!
They bring it up! and they talk about how it was a big success, rather being something so long and drawn out that by the time the judgment was rendered Microsoft has already lost huge amounts of market share.
Huh. I had no idea that went anywhere. I just assumed the market moved on – Microsoft wasn’t exactly ready for Apple, smartphones, etc.
I certainly remember. I will offer a distinction though. Microsoft wasn’t trying to play for a political party. They were just trying to get rich.
I have some resentment towards the tech companies that want to “educate” the rubes by slanting the national conversation and committing lies of omission, particularly when those tech companies are doing it on the sky.
On the sky…
Damn phone
On the sly…
As somebody who works for one, my resentment is very high. They can’t help themselves, and it makes a very hostile work environment for anybody right of Che.
Power is difinable as being able to punish your enemies and reward your friends. That does not change when it is exercised by your friends, only your feelings about it change.
definable
Yup.
STEVE SMITH PUNISH FRIEND AND FOE ALIKE!
THAT NO PUNISH, IT LOVE!
For STEVE SMITH, is there a difference between punishment and love? If so, I have failed to pick up on it, so it must be subtle.
punishment involves extending the dick spikes.
That is not subtle.
*goes for the mental bleach*
I vote “foe”.
Tough times in the land of milk and honey
The slow growth in high-wage jobs, particularly outside the Bay Area, contrasts with that of other states — such as Texas, Utah, Colorado, Washington — that have continued to expand middle-income jobs more rapidly in manufacturing and in professional, scientific and technical services, a large industry classification used by the federal Labor Department to include everything from legal work to software developers to accountants.
The consequences of this distorted economy have made the state susceptible to losses in fields like hospitality and other low-end services, which suffered half the initial job losses from the coronavirus shutdowns.
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For the past three decades, California’s leaders have assumed that the state’s great advantages — superb universities, a large, diverse labor force, international connections — would help us weather economic storms. The pandemic has shown how wrong that is and how much needs to be done to meet this steadily growing economic crisis.
This will require a dramatic shift in state policy, starting with environmental and other regulatory restraints. We should continue our efforts to embrace cleaner climate standards and move forward with lower-emission fossil fuels, such as renewable natural gas, and, when the technology is more economically feasible, gradually shifting completely to non-fossil energy.
Unless trends are reversed, California’s unstable economy will continue to erode. In 2016, an estimated 1,800 companies left, largely for Texas. Between 2009 and 2016, 13,000 companies left the state. Those include traditional middle-class employers such as McKesson, which now has the contract for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine, Toyota, Nissan and Mitsubishi, which have all been moving marketing and production jobs out to other states.
Yes, keep pushing an incoherent mishmash of green wishful thinking. That will turn things around.
Idiots
We need to dramatically shift our policy strategy by stepping on the gas as hard as we can!
Keep doing everything that drove everyone away only harder!
Sane Person: I think that might be a cliff we’re driving towards.
California: [floors it] Let’s find out sooner instead of later!
Not a lie, not a damned lie, statistics!
https://time.com/5903673/record-daily-coronavirus-cases/
How many deaths in the 3rd wave?
I prefer Cold Wave
Funny, but the article does not contain either the word “deaths” or “hospitalizations”.
And then you see the people who believe the PRC’s numbers.
Clark County supports kids going back to the classrooms. People freak out!
This is FTA, and I don’t know if the teacher is talking about during virtual training these suicides happened, because TMITE and can’t bother to ask for clarification
“My high school itself, Rancho High School, had two suicides in a one week time span,” said teacher Reuben D’Silva. “So I know this is a serious, serious issue among our kids, the anxiety, the stress levels.”
D’Silva said while he understands the desire to go back to school, it should stay fully virtual for now.
Perhaps the suicides were a result of isolating kids from each other.
I think my county had one infant that passed and it was highly rare disorder coupled with the VID, if I remember right. Can’t find numbers, but I am guessing no one between 6-18 have died in Vegas. Yet this teacher is willing to sacrifice students to sit at home and barely do his job and maybe toss a couple teens in the suicide volcano. What a prick.
“The slow growth in high-wage jobs, particularly outside the Bay Area, contrasts with that of other states — such as Texas, Utah, Colorado, Washington”.
I can’t imagine the growth in the Seattle and Denver areas holding up much longer. Those places are going full commie.
Please don’t send them here. We are close to a tipping point where Salt Lake County will run the state to ruin.
My county is trying to do the same to Kansas.
This^^
I was just in Denver. I went to the RiNo district, and it was essentially shut down. I saw a lot of signs that this was a once great city in decline.
So something i’ve been thinking about. If Biden wins and they take the senate, I have no doubt that the Dems will run completely through their playbook, which would include: Adding new states, Packing the court, and ensuring that elections will always come out blue.
I think the only reasonable reaaction by conservatives would be to secede if they do that. We are no longer talking about “Playing within a set of agreed rules”. Regardless of who’s fault it is, if the left proceeds with this, the right _cannot_ go along with it, as it is just making government into a farce and riding roughshod over the large minority. The left likes to pretend that they are a super majoirty, when we know that even if biden wins, there will still be 60 Million + people who voted otherwise. They mean to dominate and rule.
I think the only reasonable reaction by conservatives would be to secede if they do that.
Ah, so you predict hateful sectarian violence, too.
I don’t like it, i just don’t know what can be done if the Dems try to cement their power than for ht 60+ million who are being dominated to leave.
It’s coming. The election only impacts how soon, and who starts it.
Nullification should be tried before secession. The flaunting of national marijuana laws and immigration laws have shown that it is possible. The right leaning states should ignore what the Dems try to do (assuming, as I do, that they will be stepping over the line – both Constitutionally and morally). And if something clearly unconstitutional is passed, such as gun control, the states that object should arrest any federal agents that try to implement such laws in their borders.
Yup, it may soon be time to resist.
(although I think that will be put off a while by T Dog winning and the Elephants holding onto the Senate).
+1 Calhoun
From the Alien and Sedition Acts to the Fugitive Slave Act, there were lots of things that the Fed Gov did that people promoted nullification for. But it is kind of sad that the only thing that nullification actually overturned was a tariff.
So how exactly do we think the Dems can immunize themselves from electoral defeat? Are they going to outlaw all other parties?
I’ll grant you, they want power, and some of them would do anything to get it – but I can’t indict every person registered as a Dem as that despicable.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1320795960750952449
Mail in voting is completely secure!
Given the early numbers and location, he probably destroyed more Democrat votes than Republican.
Given that it was a ballot dropoff box, and that it was in Boston, this can be assumed a fact. The Republicans have been much more suspicious of mail in voting than the Democrats (I think the stats were something like the Ds requested absentee ballots 3x as frequently as the Rs this go around), plus Boston is solidly Blue.
You have been warned
Blumenthal warns of ‘consequences’ if Republicans confirm Barrett to Supreme Court
Barrett would ‘radically and dramatically’ change the balance of the court, Blumenthal says.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued a nonspecific warning of “consequences” if Republicans move ahead with the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Monday amid Democrats’ talk of packing the Supreme Court or eliminating the Senate filibuster if President Trump’s nominee is seated.
Blumenthal, D-Conn., was one of a parade of senators to hit the floor on Sunday night and Monday morning ahead of a likely confirmation vote on Barrett Monday evening. In remarks that ran over 40 minutes, Blumenthal touched on issues ranging from health care to abortion to a request he made for Barrett to recuse herself from any election-related cases, which Barrett declined.
But twice Blumenthal alluded to potential retaliation from Senate Democrats if Republicans succeed in seating the circuit court judge and Notre Dame law professor on the highest court in the land.
Sen. Blumenthal speaks on ‘measures’ that should be considered to ‘correct’ Supreme CourtVideo
“The fact is that our Republican colleagues are shattering the norms and breaking the rules and breaking their word, and there will be consequences,” Blumenthal said early in his remarks. “There inevitably are consequences when one person breaks his or her word to another.”
Blumenthal then warned that Barrett would “radically” shift the balance of the Supreme Court and went on to speculate about how she would rule on a variety of issues, with what he said could be dire results.
The Senate Judiciary Committee member returned to his warnings at the end of his speech.
“Nothing less than everything is at stake. A shift in the balance of the court that will last for decades if we do not correct it – and believe me, there are appropriate measures that should be considered,” Blumenthal said.
A line has been drawn in the sand. Who is bold enough to step over it?
I’d happily punch that lying sack of shit Blumenthal in the face. Is that what you’re asking?
We need a
manwoman of steel! UrraStalinoKamala!I almost can’t believe that they are seriously considering court packing. It would be the final step to politicize the court, and would make it an essentially worthless institution, as who could respect its decisions? There really should be more push-back to the idea that it’s acceptable to change the rules just because you don’t like the results.
It took about ten minutes for the Dems to get the MSM to rename “court packing” to “depoliticization” and thereby bring half the county into the court-packing camp. There will be zero push-back from that half.
Dahlia Lithwick is hysterical. Quick, somebody, throw cold water in her face, or slap her
It’s easy, in the face of all of this degrading devaluing of majority opinion, to want to tune out—to look at everything happening to undermine the will of the majority and your own power to cast a vote and say “whatever.” And if you find yourself face-planting into a pit of whatever, you’re certainly not alone. But your whatever is in fact the mirror image of what Amy Coney Barrett has now told us about the rule of law. Whatever is what Lindsey Graham—who asked us to hold him to his pledge about not seating new justices before an election—has done with Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat. To answer him in kind is to accede to that logic. Whatever is the nihilism they want to seed in the world. The response to their whatevers just cannot be more of the same.
Even though she didn’t answer any of her questions, we know who Barrett is and what she will do on the court. She is exactly who she has always been, who she was seated to become, and if you are worried for your children, for the planet, for the future of anti-racism and LGBTQ rights and voting rights, your worry is not misplaced. Barring court reform, the coming years will be marked by attacks on government agencies, court-endorsed rollbacks of progressive gains, and a steady series of wins for business, oligarchs, and inequality. It will come dressed as neutral “originalism,” but it will be neither neutral nor originalist. And as Adam Serwer brilliantly details, this is not simply a conservative project; it is a project to beat back changing demographics and to suppress the power of the majority. The whatever that powerlessness engenders is a feature, not a bug, of the conservative legal movement’s efforts to tell majorities that they are of no moment.
Like Barrett’s appointment, the project of Donald Trump’s entire presidency is to remind you that you don’t have a say in your governance.
Blah blah blah tyranny of the minority!
What about those of us in the real majority, who just want to be left alone? When will we be freed from bondage to the frantic tyrannical do-gooder-ism of people obsessed with political power and control?
Fuck you, and the broom you rode in on, Dahlia.
Like i said above. The left likes to pretend that the “Minority” is some really small group. This is how they will justify their law changes, so that we never have such a minority ruling over us again.
remind you that you don’t have a say in your governance.
Now do lockdowns and mask mandates.
This is Dahlia’s United States of Whatever.
It has certainly become obvious in the past 4 years that we don’t have a say in our governance. But not in the way she means, I suspect.
When will we be freed from bondage to the frantic tyrannical do-gooder-ism of people obsessed with political power and control?
When you learn that Big Brother only has your best interests in mind, and you love him for that, with all of your heart.
[then we’ll give you the bullet]
From the dead thread:
OK, explain why FDR, whose actions directly caused the Great Depression to linger on and on, got reelected three times?
People “felt” they were doing better and FDR “did something”
Something must be done, this is something, there we must do it.
A really futile and stupid gesture must be done on somebody’s behalf.
Same reason that, if we are still wearing masks four years from now, people will say “At least President Biden and President Harris were/are trying their hardest to end this pandemic.
“mitigating circumstances other than war don’t matter”
Question for you “The Dems are going to cheat their way to victory” crowd, is their a Biden wins scenario that you won’t consider illegitimate. para ejemplo, Biden is ahead by “x” on election night before any absentee ballots are counted.
IMO, the shit and ice cream analogy applied. It could be an entire dump truck full of ice cream, but you mix in one turd and it becomes shit.
That said, I don’t know what the outcome will be or whether cheating will have a substantial impact.
I’d wager somebody somewhere voted illegally for Trump in 2016. Zero fraud seems like an impossible bar to clear.
Yeah, I figured that’d be the response. Set some de minimus bar for fraud that is insubstantial.
Isn’t that the point of your “shit and ice cream” thing? I’m not a lawyer and Latin is all Greek to me, but it sounded like you meant any fraud voids the election.
I think it’s more like pissing in a pool.
It’s more like insect parts and ice cream. Yes, theoretically there’s some number of insect parts ground up iny ice cream, but I don’t notice until I crunch on a cricket leg.
Pretty much exactly what you said. If Biden is ahead on election night (and absentee ballots are counted on election night, assuming they’ve come in by then) and there are not credible reports of cheating, I will consider it legitimate. I am highly suspicious of ballots discovered after the margins necessary for victory are known, so if the results change significantly after the election day count I will consider the election probably illegitimate.
BTW, I should add that I suspect the Democrats are trying to cheat (why else so fervently try to bend the rules and reduce election security?) but I also think it’s more than likely that Biden can legitimately win.
The cheating will be epic. They still ain’t gonna win.
It doesn’t matter if Biden wins legitimately, I’m still wearing a resist T-shirt everyday and dying my hair blue.
If Biden wins the in-person voting with no more obvious fraud than was committed in the last few Presidential elections, I’ll say it was legit.
But the Dem’s implausible record of victory whenever recounts or late counts are conducted makes me pretty reflexively suspicious of any Biden victory that arrives late.
They’re gonna lose.
Why else do this?
https://mobile.twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1320754736749072385
“Attorneys have established a “protest hotline” so that – from now until January 31st – protesters and organizers in DC can call for legal advice from an attorney 24/7 and have legal observers at events. “
is their a Biden wins scenario that you won’t consider illegitimate
He wins and he’s sworn in and the challenges go nowhere, which they wouldn’t. Perforce he’s legitimated as president.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/522844-biden-defends-light-campaign-schedule-during-pennsylvania-stop
Biden snuck out of his bunker. He’s going to Disney Land!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=daa9pZDxfIY
I guess the blowback on not campaigning the week before the election was worse than they thought.
FYI – Chester, PA : https://www.delcotimes.com/news/chester-called-most-dangerous-city-in-pa/article_a946b547-e3ad-5bba-b174-bdafde5c4f98.html
Chester
Also Chester: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4
Chester has always been the most crime ridden city in Pennsylvania.
I remember reading that about Chester because that is where the Philly soccer team plays.
Odd scenario, my phone brings up the glib site, but my tablet is stuck on glibfit, cleared the cache but not the cookies, any ideas? I know SP is doing upgrades,
I would clear more than just the cache. If that doesn’t work you can reset the browser.
It’s not browserside.
I updated it, no joy, Ill figure it out tomorrow, meh
My phone is doing this now as well. Going to Glibfit when it wasn’t doing it an hour ago.
Did you check the thermostat?
I laughed, good answer Ted
Somebody had to ask it.
Health Expert: Mask Wearing Will Remain Mandatory Even After A COVID Vaccine
I strongly disagree. She can fuck off.
I verily agree. She can strongly fuck off.
Seconded.
My initial reaction was fuck off bitch. Too strong?
Nope. Appropriate.
She’s a primary care doctor. She is not boarded in infectious disease. She should not be regarded as an expert in infectious disease.
Exactly like Dr. Fauci, now that I think about it.
Make me
I don’t know what it is about Indian American women, but whenever I read the most breathtakingly paternalistic authoritarianism, it’s disproportionately them writing it.
They’re from the higher castes, always.
They have overdeveloped feelings of superiority and little experience with being told to shut the fuck up.
+1 Shikha
I have no idea of her caste but *snort* anyway.
In her Twatter feed she’s whining that people are sending her messages like “stuff your mask mandate up your ass”
I’m actually surprised it’s that polite.
I think she’s right but for more sinister reasons.
The WiFi password at Trump’s rally was #WhoBuiltTheCagesJoe?
Troll level: Intergalactic Overlord
Putin is trying to compete for the title.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/vladimir-putin-defends-hunter-bidens-business-dealings
Election interference! Russia trying to sabotage Trump!
Interesting glitch in the Matrix – came back and the page was all Chafed/Glibfit. Had to dig my way back to here.
Only on my tablet, my phone works fine,
Desktop for me.
Same thing happened to me when I closed my browser (Firefox on a computer) and reopened it. I had to get back to this post from the dashboard page.
Same.
Maybe the site is trying to tell us something…
Ditto.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1320809366136696832
Wow.
Kreisleiter Wilhelm is at it again?
Jawohl.
So the New York Times did a breakdown (link to Twitter, since the NYT is paywalled) of the donations to the presidential campaigns, and found that Biden massively outraised Trump in wealthy (average income above $100K) and well educated (over 65% college graduates) zip-codes, while Trump ran even or ahead everywhere else. No wonder the Democrats feel comfortable promoting job killing policies – they are not the party of the working class.
No surprises there. The Democrats are the party of the university system.
We are icky.
The Dems are the party of the credentialed elite (the meritocracy in it’s original, and derogatory, sense). I have a running discussion with a DoD civilian about the system. The products of the system see absolutely nothing wrong with it – they can’t, because after all it has promoted them into the positions of running the system. They are immune to criticism of themselves or the system. Nothing will change until the system ceases to function. That state change is not going to come slowly or incrementally (or painlessly).
Yes
LOL Joe was trotting out his “Main Street, not Wall Street” schtick just yesterday IIRC.
Saw today a Republican congressional candidate’s sign along the interstate defaced with “ACAB” and the antifa arrows. Yeah, right wing violence is ready to erupt in the state.
Watching the Vote. What is with the Dems using a thumbs down to vote? Is that common practice in the senate?
They could just hold up their party membership card.
well 52 to 48, Not sure which GOP Senator didn’t vote for her.
Romney?
Susan Collins?
Bingo.
I’m still predicting it’s gonna go Trump 306, Biden 232, based on adding 6.7% to the current polling averages in each swing state, since that was about the percent wrong back in 2016.
That prediction could be a case of confident but very wrong.