ZARDOZ HEARS THE CHINESE HAVE BEEN IMITATING HIS PROGRAM!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ MUST CONFESS A BIT OF DISMAY HAS RIPPLED ACROSS HIS CIRCUITS. ZARDOZ HAS SCANNED THE MEDIA SOURCES OF THE BRUTALS, AND WAS WELL PLEASED AT FIRST. DOOM! DEATH! DESPAIR! “AT LAST!” WAS ZARDOZ’S CONCLUSION. HOWEVER, IT APPEARS CERTAIN ACCOUNTS OF DOOM WERE…EXAGGERATED. WHY HAS NOT THE VIRUS-THAT-KILLS-UPON-CONTACT SLAIN ALL THE BRUTALS YET? THE ORANGE ONE EVEN ESCAPED THE DOOM.
BUT FEAR NOT, CHOSEN ONES DESPITE THE LACK OF MASS CLEANSING OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS, YOU SHALL BE GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE LINK! GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- THIS LOOKS A BIT PROMISING TO ZARDOZ. SO ZARDOZ HAS THAT GOING FOR HIM. WHICH IS NICE.
- GOOD. BUT IT IS ONLY ONE. DO BETTER.
- WHYCOME CERTAIN BRUTALS DO NOT HAVE TO SERVE IN EXTERMINATOR UNITS
- SWEEP THE LEG.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
mornin’ ya’ll
Mornin’ fellow bruised one! I think it’s funny that all the grain slaves are still attired in suits in the above image. They did a LOT of acid back in the early 70’s.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS SARTORIAL OBSERVING CHOSEN ONE. ZARDOZ HAS A STRICT DRESS CODE FOR GRAIN SLAVES. ZARDOZ PREFERS A MORE FORMAL SLAVE LABOR APPEARANCE. KEEPS THINGS PROFESSIONAL. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
No casual Friday. Got it.
Not on a Thursday certainly.
Grain slavery is one of those positions which is exceptionally difficult to convert to WFH.
Work From Hovel?
^ (insert Sean avatar here)
Miss ‘Roller Disco’? I have your fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr4O3dJcWm0
Yikes! We had a few moves back in 1980 but sadly, I don’t vote Democrat. 🙂
Thanks, Tres. Great wake-up music.
Hmmm. As were the astronauts in Gattica. And in Gattica., the penis was not used to create new life. And People were geneticall engineered so that they could be incinerated at much lower temperatures…
what is a Gattica?
They used a fifth, synthetic nucleic acid in the real version.
Gattaca is a pretty good sci-fi movie but is not as good as Dark City. Gattaca has Uma Thurman and Dark City features youngish Jennifer Connelly.
I am perfectly aware what Gattaca is thankyouverymutch. I would say it is a better movie than Dark City but both are good.
Dress for the job you want, not the job you have!
That would get me fired from the job I have.
I no shit had to wear pants last night at work for the first time since April. Goodbye khaki friends, I’ll see you next Spring…
So you were kilted before?
Unfortunately, I’m nae that bold. Wish that it were, though.
Donald Duck.
I have not been in trousers since 2018. Last winter was very mild, only 1 snowfall, so I’ve been wearing my beloved cut-off BDU bottoms from military units around the world.
54 Degrees North. I have no choice.
Want some ACUs? I have a whole bunch I need to get rid of.
Really? Yes, please. What size?
XL
It sure is nice to see someone else spell y’all correctly. The Yankees have shamed me into spelling it the wrong way, but at least one Daytonian is still holding out. There is hope.
Correct spelling == yinze.
zardoz cares not about the murder last night in SLC?
ZARDOZ CHEERS ALL CLEANSING. BUT WE NEED A HIGHER NUMBER OF CLEANSINGS TO REALLY REGISTER.
ZARDOZ PROCLAIMS TOO LOCAL! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!
Uh oh…
Zardoz thinks Chicago is minor league. SLC is like tee ball.
Now, if anyone had actually died in the debate…
OHH I just thought of alternate joke:
“Right Wing White Fundamentalist Christian murders cop in SLC”
…to be stolen by the Bee, shortly.
Make Great USSR again!
“What need is invasion of Central Asian country. What go wrong?”
There just pissed because we’ve doubled the amount of time they were in Afghanistan and we haven’t collapsed yet.
Give us a couple more months.
I notice that “mansplain” is a popular term right now. Perhaps the lying cunte Harris shouldn’t have been such a lying cunte and actually answered a question*.
*I know I am severely biased against her (for damned good reason) but is just me or did she have nothing but canned lines/lies?
And for some reason even styx thinks that the moderator was relatively evenhanded. Sure, if every Pence question wasn’t so loaded that he had to spend his time deconstructing it.
I fell asleep.
My gf watched some of it and told me this morning how horrible CommaLa was.
She was as dislikable as always. But I am told that this is because she is a woman and everyone is sexist (never mind that me, and I am sure others, think the same about that dishonest sniveling weasel Tim Kaine, who is in fact a dishonest, sniveling weasel).
How has that guy not been outed as a pedo yet?
Creepy dude.
How has that guy not been outed as a pedo yet?
No witnesses; he probably eats the evidence.
With the assholes the problem is always with the people that see that the uppity cunte is an asshole…
Pence evaded some questions, in fact a couple obviously so, but on balance he handed Round-Heels Harris her ass.
But now, this morning, Trump says he won’t attend the second Presidential debate because the commission decided to take it virtual. That’s a bad mistake. The Biden people will be crowing about it for the next week.
Trump is fucking up. He’s fucking up and he’s going to lose. He’s letting the other people make the election about him and not about Groper Joe. If you let your enemy define the terms of the battle, you’ve already lost. Trump is now giving up the best chance to hammer Joe on his own record, and it makes him look like a wuss.
Reagan could run on his personality. Trump can’t; he’s an asshole.
The tweeters is already full of strident calls to have the debate anyway and just give Biden 90 minutes of uninterrupted air-time. The Short-Fingered Vulgarian screwed the pooch on this one.
Not necessarily. Letting Biden speak for ninety minutes would really hurt Biden.
I think he should push back. There is nothing unsafe about properly socially distancing the debate. They could do the debate outside. There is plenty to do that they could without going virtual, and going virtual would make it so easy for them to mute him, which he really doesn’t need.
Actually, he really does need it, but coming from his own
brainhair, not moderators.Refusing to do battle on wildly unfavorable ground IS pushing back. Letting Biden set the terms of debate to whatever the hell he wants would be a terrible idea.
There’s gonna be a debate counterproposal from Trump.
Is it bad that I am starting to like Trump precisely because he is an asshoe?
The next debate is a week away.
Trump is complaining loudly that the rules are being changed mid-stream.
It’s his standard negotiating tactic.
His position will change 5 or 6 times over the next 5 or 6 days.
The debate will happen. Trump is incapable of walking away from a chance to talk on national TV.
This Dominoe’s ad got him dead to rights.
I disagree. The debate needs to happen, but needs to happen in person. Virtual is horseshit. Biden will be on a prompter and they could cut Trump’s feed when he is “lying”. He needs to push back on the terms.
They could do the debate outside.
I never understood this logic. If the virus is in particles of moisture from your breath wouldn’t it move farther in a breeze?
Zardoz or Swiss?
Santa is real and I’ll break anyone that says different!
Swidoz
Everytime I edit this @#$% something goes wrong. Thanks – all corrected.
If you think I am getting on the wrong side of our contributors, no thanks!
I’m more afraid of some of the contributors getting on the wrong side of me. *shudder*
Well…yeah.
Nice hidden first link, Zardoz! You just know he did that because now in addition to being a narcissitic sociopath he has the roid rage now. Pretty soon he’ll be Hitler in the bunker! (adjusts menstrual yarn pussy hat)
SWEEP THE LEG.
Some people need to realize that alligators, like bears, are vicious killers that are not to be fucked with.
He’s a Southern Gator. He don’t cotton to any miscenagation!
They totally eat people!
Get that gator a body bag… a body bag!!
Baseball birthdays are pretty awful today, the best modern player is Mike Morgan, who managed to stay above replacement level for 22 years. 22 years, 26.2 WAR. That is an ugly way to make a ton of money.
He peaked at $3.375MM in the mid 90s because the Cubs are morons.
His next contract after that one was with the Reds for $500k*. Who may or may not have got their monies worth.
*Which I believe was minimum salary for a veteran player at that time.
I’d eat a bag of dicks (not really) for that kind of dough. Failed ballplayer. 🙁
Right now, free agent contracts pay about $8-10MM per WAR*. Morgan was a 1.2 war/yr player for 22 years. In todays game, that makes you very, very wealthy for being very, very mediocre**.
*source: some quick googling
**mediocre relative to other MLBers. Compared to all humanity, Morgan was an absolute elite baseball player. He made it to the majors at age 18. Until that day, he was probably always the best player on the field.
Yep. I was good enough to get scouted and might have got some free tuition but even back then I knew my limits. Too small to be a “Show” catcher. Probably would have turned me to the outfield.
1-WAR free agents NEVER get paid $8MM per year. They average about $2-3MM. The free (agent) market pays per WAR on a logarithmic scale, not a linear scale – exactly what one would expect from a typical supply/demand curve. It amazes me that so many writers at stathead sites like fangraphs still can’t figure this out.
That’s something I remind myself from time to time – no matter how terrible a major league player is, for most of his life he was the best player on his team.
The best player I ever played with or against was a kid who threw high 70s fastballs when we were in LL majors. He went on to be a star closer in college. Was a 15th round pick of the Cubs, and…..never made it past AA. A kid in my sister’s graduating class was the biggest star on a fantastic team that won the state championship. At least 3 or 4 kids from that team played professionally. This one was a first-round pick of the Twins. Never made it out of the minors because he simply couldn’t hit worth a damn at the pro level. Fantastic glove at SS though.
That is why I find it entertaining when people say that x really good college football team could beat the worst team in the NFL. No. No, they couldn’t top tie college teams, on average have, what? At best 5-10 guys that will get drafted and one or two that will be first round picks at the pro-level. A team composed entirely of those guys would absolutely crush a college team. The speed and athleticism of the guys at the pro level is well beyond that of the college ball level.
That is also why [insert latest speed read college offense] will never take off in the NFL either.
Read option/RPO is a gimmick in thr NFL because the edge rushers are 4.8/40 runners. In college most are 6.8/40 runners.
Mike Morgan! What did he play for, 15 teams?
Bill knows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REQOMrZXlBs
I was looking at trying some refrigerator pickling, and got stuck with the disagreement on whether the jars need to be fully sterilized, or merely clean. I reread Tulip’s article, and it implies clean is merely good enough. Of course there are other sources which go full panic over insisting you fully sterilize the jars.
What’s the risk threshold, how long does it take for horrible stuff to grow in the salt and vinegar brine?
a bit of mold never killed no one. I doubt my mother ever sterilized the jars… Also salt brine >>> vinegar
Botulism is a dickens.
I don’t think I want to eat pickled refrigerator.
It’s shockingly popular.
It takes longer than it does for diary products to go bad at that temperature, if that helps you make a decision.
How long did it take Anne Frank to go bad?
Well, apparently if the pages destroyed by her father are any indication, she was a bad, bad girl indeed.
que?
The Diary of Anne Frank was expurgated. Pages where she was having… those kind of thoughts were removed before transcription/publication.
I can’t stand to read my old diaries. So cringey.
I read my old journals and think to myself that was a great, well-adjusted guy with completely understandable delusions of grandeur.
We don’t use a pressure cooker anymore. Boiling the jars top down in a pan for about ten minutes will kill pretty much anything. Chuck the lids in there while you’re at it. Softening the rubber makes for a better seal and if it’s just pickled vegetables, an ice bath isn’t really necessary. Don’t re-use the lids from old mason jars, buy fresh ones every year. We’ve been canning for decades and have had very few failures.
Mrs F hand washes, then a trip trough the dish washer. Lids/rings in the boiling water. Refrig cucumber pickles last a year, unless we eat ’em all first. 60 quarts right now. She uses warm mix and many of the refrig ones are sealed anyway. Beet pickles go through the water bath and on the shelf.
Wifey is a farm girl. She knows the score.
I got a buddy at work who uses a pressure cooker to can venison.
He’ll put some veggies (carrots, potatoes) and raw venison cubes and the canning process cooks the meat and makes it’s own gravy.
Open it up months later and pour over egg noodles…
Holy shit it, is delicious.
Imma say, if one of those went bad, you’d probably not have any trouble telling it went bad.
There’s a difference between clean, sanitized, and sterilized (just adding the third level of sanitized in there, which may give you more piece of mind – StarSan is cheap and effective). And if you’re not sterilizing the ingredients, then the glass is the least likely cause of contamination.
You’ve mentioned Star-San before and I was inspired to pick some up at Restaurant Depot/Jetro. It’s the tits! So much less expensive than the ‘bottle wash’ we were getting at Bed Bath Beyond for the SodaStream bottles, and I keep some handy for growlers. I never even thought to use it for canning; I always use the sous vide on the jars and lids. Thanks.
If you are doing refrigerator pickles, and NOT canning, clean is good enough. The vinegar and salt will preserve it in the fridge for up to a month or so. If you want something shelf stable for about a year, you need to sterilize and can (pickles are ok water bath canned). Often with a pressure canner.
I’m not canning, and I don’t need shelf stable. Either I eat them relatively quickly, or I toss them and don’t use that recipe again.
Then clean is fine
yeah, refrigerator pickles = salad
What about refrigerator pickled eggs? I have a hard boiled egg I put in some pickle juice…3 months ago?…that’s safe to eat, right?
That does not sound like a good idea.
So why did you put the egg in the pickle juice?
I wasn’t brave enough to pickle gristle lumps.
Don’t agree to this, Donnie.
The second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will take place virtually amid the fallout from the president’s diagnosis of COVID-19.
Trump says he will ‘not waste my time’ with a ‘virtual debate’ after CPD announces changes
Trump tells Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo a virtual debate would be ‘ridiculous’
It is a ridiculous thing, and now all the fucking lying donkeys are acting like Biden was always game for debates and they had not been looking for a way to avoid risking Biden showing he is senile and getting worse on TeeVee.
These people want rigged debates where they get to win the thing, and because orange man bad doesn’t let them, they prefer not to let him have his way.
Fuck everyone that says they need to do this cause of Rona. It’s a fucking excuse to hide the Biden stupidity.
Nah, if it’s virtual, the Biden campaign won’t be able to resist telepromptering the answers and he’ll get caught by 4chan enhancing the image off of his cornea.
It’ll be entertaining.
” Commission on Presidential Debates”
Who the fuck is that? It’s obviously a bunch of leftist and democrat lackeys. Fuck those people.
If she had won, they wouldn’t be telling you you’re a racist sexist for thinking she’s unliable.
unlikeable*
But she is.
She can’t be, she gave Biden a zillion point bump in the polls less than 3 minutes after the debate ended.
‘Likely Democrat voters who answered the phone after 9pm and didn’t hang up, but actually talked to the pollster rated Kamala as The New Messiah.’
Credible.
Somebody who got curbstomped in primary debates (except, perhaps, when she accused her now-running mate of racism; where’s the campaign on that, BTW?), lost her home state, and accumulated, I think, zero delegates to the nominating convention is suddenly a hignly popular and motivating candidate?
Whiskey Tech Start Up Bespoken Spirits Slams Traditional Whiskey Production Process
https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-styles/american-whiskey/whiskey-tech-start-up-bespoken-spirits-slams-traditional-barrel-aging-process/
As noted by the brand in their announcement, “in Kentucky alone, there are more than 9.1. million barrels of bourbon and other spirits aging right now — a number that has grown nearly 85% in the last ten years. Each year, nearly 20 million gallons of that product is lost to evaporation due to the wasteful, time-consuming and antiquated barrel aging process. The Bespoken Spirits method is a sustainable answer that keeps products out of wooden barrels in electricity-run rickhouses.
“Rooted in material and sustainability science, Bespoken’s proprietary ACTivation technology extracts the key elements of the barrel that enhance aroma, color and taste (ACT), managing the critical chemical reactions with precision, control, and speed, and enabling billions of bespoken recipes within days, not years.”
What a bunch of douchebags.
Gabh do làmhan damn Beurla de m ’uisge-beatha
Just wait until they make the proper donation to the proper politicians (especially with that whole “angel’s share caused mold plagues!” thing)
So they’re following in the footsteps of Cleveland Bourbon?
As a side note. Don’t buy Cleveland Bourbon, it is… not good. I’ve had friends who sung its praises, which makes me think there’s QA issues in the process which means I’m not gambling on a potentially crappy bottle for ~$40.
I didn’t think “bespoken” was a word?
in hipsterish everything is a word.
Or have wordish properties.
“I have had bespoken!” declared the King of Tears.
It’s the past imperfect form. Where’d you learn to grammar, bro?
Is it possible to misspell a not-a-word?
Why, whatever do you mean, my good man?
shenanigans !!!
check your edit privilege
Do words have spellings, or do spellings have words?
Nice callback. <3
*answers in twerk code*
“Bespoke” means “custom,” generally used sartorially.
So … “Bespoken Spirits” … ? I’m not sure how a beverage meant to be distilled in large batches is “bespoke”.
Yes, bespoke is a word. I have never seen “bespoken” before, however.
Me neither. I’m guessing it’s a deliberate misuse to be cute.
Some people will do anything to encuten their languaging.
Legit LOL. Indeed.
Some people will do anything to encuten their languaging.
Including sarcastic/emphatic doubling *honk* *honk*
Good morning, Zardoz!
Was there some sort of Brutal debate last night?
SWEEP THE LEG.
Decent fall and recovery, though. I giver her a solid 7.
Lots of death and (potential) destruction in the lynx today.
Why yes, I do have a song!
Have a great day, people (and Stone Heads)! Let’s remember that there is nothing new under the sun and chill a little.
That’s not how you manplain.
Best assessment of Kommo-LA…
Oh how I have learned…
Wallace added, “Here is the other things on voters’ minds what if Trump takes a turn for the worse and this guy takes over. He had to look presidential tonight, and he just looked limp and lame.”
…to despise Chris Wallace.
“I think going into tonight, the Biden campaign had one concern, and it wasn’t whether or not Kamala Harris was going to be sufficiently likable,” he said. “It was whether or not people were going to be able to at the end of the night to envision her as being a heartbeat away from the presidency, which she in terms of her knowledge, command of the facts, her policy, would she seem presidential? And I don’t think she did anything at all tonight to disqualify herself in that sense. So, if they came into the night leading, I think they left the night — the Biden campaign did — with the lead.”
Astute observations, you dishonest hack.
I’ve always despised that hack. Even other Fox commentators have stopped hiding how biased and despicable he is.
I’ll admit i didn’t watch the debate, i watched Malices reactions, and his thinking is different from others “mainstream” thinking. But it sounded like Pence slaughterd her. The one clip i saw Pence sounded smooth, calm and deliberate.
Wallace is a propogandist, so i’m not going to take his word for it.
Malice is brutal.
I’m still laughing at this one.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1314075934090297344
This is another great one
Uffda. Sure glad Brother Keith is staying above the fray as Minnesoda’s AG. I’m sure he had nothing to do with a threatening letter sent to a group trying to hold a conference/talk on voter fraud. I’m sure the ACLU will be lowering the boom on the AG’s office any second now for infringing on 1A rights of private citizens.
The letter was sent after they asked the Minnesoda Sec of State if he wanted to join the panel.
When the inmates run the asylum, expect more crazy and nuts, not less.
Minnesota’s COVID guidelines
Uh huh…
The proper response is “fuck off”.
Executive Order 20-74 requires venues like yours to establish and implement a COVID-19 Preparedness Plan using the guidance for its specific industry.
No fuck you. Gov One Man Gang has spoken and you will submit a Preparedness Plan
Styx makes this point that i made to my wife immedeately after the debate last night.
After the debate i pulled up YouTube, and what is the clip that “The Hill” wants me to see “Fly lands on pences head, goes viral”. Ok, Pence murdered her. If all they legacy media wants you to think is “The most exciting thing is that a fly landed on pences head” then they want you to avert your eyes from the wreckage of Kamala Harris.
The stupid bitch won, you hear! She won…
/progtard
Needz moar blood filling up an eye.
Had exactly the same thought. Saw the fly stuff, knew it must have gone pretty poorly for her. Then came the stuff about how her expressions were so amazing. LOL, OK. She must have come across as very unlikeable, so the last resort was to capture some stills where she didn’t look the same way she came across to viewers.
She must have come across as very unlikeable, so the last resort was to capture some stills where she didn’t look the same way she came across to viewers.
She often seemed to have the wrong expression at the wrong time, as if she was trying to human but doesn’t quite know how. When she was replying to an anecdote by Pence about how the Obama/Biden administration dithered when trying to rescue an American from ISIS (leading to her death), she started off by smiling while giving condolences, instead of adopting a more appropriate somber expression.
Also, her voice, condescension, and general demeanor is annoying. I don’t think she’d ever win a national election on her own.
Taylor Swift has thoughts
The change we need most is to elect a president who recognizes that people of color deserve to feel safe and represented, that women deserve the right to choose what happens to their bodies, and that the LGBTQIA+ community deserves to be acknowledged and included. Everyone deserves a government that takes global health risks seriously and puts the lives of its people first. The only way we can begin to make things better is to choose leaders who are willing to face these issues and find ways to work through them.
I will proudly vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election. Under their leadership, I believe America has a chance to start the healing process it so desperately needs.
Yes, but why Joe Biden?
Those aren’t thoughts.
I liked her better when she was pretending to be a country music singer.
Perfect response
Ha, yes it is.
Isn’t one of her demonstrated characteristics the talent for always picking the wrong guy?
The woman who sued a guy for inappropriate touching is endorsing Joe Biden? ?
Thoughts require sentience. I’m not seeing it here.
The lady who made a career singing about her poor choices in men?
https://imgflip.com/i/4cfune
Dammit! ALWAYS REFRESH!
Reminds me of a quote from (I believe) Adam Carolla: “she looks like she’s thinking something stupid at all times”
Did Malice change his name to Malice or was he just lucky?
I believe he changed his name, which weirdos on line use as some form of attack on him.
You care correct.
His actual name isn’t as cool.
I kinda want to see a SF take on Kamala Harris after the debate with her interns.
“A fly?! I said release a bat!”
People care so much about the issues, which is why the majority of the replies to this tweet are about the fly.
Well, it is easy for you to say that the virus no big deal since you get meds the average person can’t. Wait, what’s that?
I want everybody to be given the same treatment as your president because I feel great. I feel like … perfect.
I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it. This was a blessing in disguise.
I caught it, I heard about this drug. I said, “Let me take it.” It was my suggestion. I said, “Let me take it.” And it was incredible the way it worked.
I think if I didn’t catch it, we would be looking at it like a number of other drugs. I want to get for you what I got. And I’m going to make it free. You’re not going to pay for it.
No such thing as “free”, Donald. But you’d think that Dems/leftists would be lavishing praise over this development.
NPR actually said Trump wants to make it free but “hasn’t explained how he will pay for it.”
So suddenly the people peddling candidates that want to tax and spend to the tune of tens of trillions have become fiscally responsible?
Is there nothing bad orange man can’t do?
A first time for everything.
Oh, with green energy of course.
Maybe a trillion dollar coin?
A prescient waring I am afraid is being missed because people are too stupid….
In a world where Leon is supreme dictator the phrase “No one could have predicted that” justifies the summary execution of those who spoke it.
Events that no one actually could have predicted, the appropriate response is just “HOLY SHIT!”.
40 year old jazz pianist Tadataka Unno has been left unable to play the piano or hold his infant, after an attack by eight people in New York.
Yahoo Japan and Sanspo report (translation: Google Translate) Unno was attacked by eight people on September 27th, after leaving a subway station near his home. One teenage boy attacked him near the ticket gate, and when he fled the others joined in the assault. Unno said one of them said something about “Chinese.” No suspects have been arrested.
No money was taken, but after being taken to hospital for emergency treatment it was discovered the attack left him with a broken right collar bone. He also suffered bruises on his head and body. Unno reportedly stated his injuries have left him unable to play the piano, or hold his four month old son.
https://nicchiban.nichegamer.com/2020/10/japanese-jazz-pianist-tadataka-unno-left-unable-to-play-the-piano-or-hold-infant-son-after-eight-person-assault-in-new-york/
I would be generally suspicious of attacks for being chinese but I would not rule it out either
My first thought is “Insurance fraud” I need more evidence of the initial claim.
My first thought was: “Teenagers”.
I thought “youths” was the official vaguery?
Yutes.
It’s absolutely possible that this was a racially motivated attack. They do happen.
It’s more likely that this attack was a gang of feral assholes, motivated by nothing more than the sheer pleasure of hurting someone. Those are a lot more common.
When I first moved to NYC in 2005, the big news was a murder, committed with a machete, on a subway platform during a brawl between 2 rival gangs (1 Dominican, 1 Trini). Several wounded, 1 dead from a machete fight inside the subway station, during the early evening hours. My first thought is violent predation by feral NYC residents, not ethnic animus. Racialism may be involved but I tend to doubt it, those attacks are usually saved for the Jews.
My first thought was that they got the machetes from Indiana.
Rather than a whip?
Like Clockwork Orange-man-bad?
The “reddits” say the station was in Harlem. I’ve been unable to find confirmation of where the station was.
A Japanese article says only “Manhattan”.
Sensei says, “plausibile”.
https://www.mcall.com/news/police/mc-nws-charges-filed-allentown-elections-judge-bickford-20201005-agyesiv4avfhlb2atjhow3hkk4-story.html
I’m not commenting on the charges. Click for the pictures.
Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market
but I was not that curious anyway so no matter
I blame the EU.
One more try then.
gah why would you do that ignorance is bliss
Is… Is… he wearing a priests tab?
WTF?
How do they spill so much ink on election stuff and fail to address the elephant in the room (it’s right there in clown-paint and a cleric’s collar)?
GAH!
It’s useful to remember that it is usually the least qualified, most insane portion of our citizenry that seek out positions like this where they can validate their life choices by fucking with yours.
#V127—THE THOUGHT LEADERS ISSUE: #JenniferLawrence
“Voting is the foundation of our democracy and our freedom. And I would consider this upcoming election the most consequential of our lifetime.”:
https://twitter.com/vmagazine/status/1313935063655030785
Geeze, who’d have thought that a holywood actress would blather out the same brain dead talking points the rest of her friends do.
What they mean is this is the most important, because all the other ones in the past are sunk costs.
‘Geeze, who’d have thought that a holywood actress would blather out the same brain dead talking points the rest of her friends do.’ — leon
‘The truth is DEMS have accomplished NOTHING in the last 3 1/2 years other than Devising ways to take TRUMP DOWN’ — Kirstie Alley
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kirstie-alley-trump-media-coronavirus
Donation not taxation.
are Lawrence and Alley friends?
“I feel like we should stop calling feminists ‘feminists’ and just start calling people who aren’t feminist ‘sexist’ – You are either a normal person or a sexist.” Maisie Williams
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https://twitter.com/the_female_lead/status/1313744918368653313
Don’t listen to the sexists trying to smear non-feminists, aka normal people.
Jennifer Lawrence is cute and has been in some good movies. She is not in any way, shape, or form a “thought leader”.
^^ If you’re looking to people who play make believe for your thought leadership, you’ve gone wrong in life somewhere
Hm…It is amazing how quickly voting can remove freedom isn’t it?
I see the Bee is pulling no punches.
Kamala Harris’s Ratings Plummet As People Realize They’d Have To Listen To Her Voice For Next 4 Years
Biden Confused By Woman Of Color On TV Who Isn’t Stocking Grocery Shelves
MIKE PENCE: LORD OF THE FLIES
https://mobile.twitter.com/beeple/status/1314048720040865792
The fact this is what the usual lame stream media people are focused on tells you how desperate they are to change the fucking subject that their harpy was owned.
I am just linking twitter art here
So some good news for those of you in Minneapolis:
Surly’s Beer Hall employees did not vote in favor of unionizing.
NLRB needs to step in. Clearly the voters were intimidated by the members who voted against it. This is why they failed to unionize. Simple Majority votes are not enough to secure voter rights. We need to Unionize ALL employees as a right!
From an earlier report, NLRB has already been called in. Since Surly announced they were indefinitely closing the Beer Hall, that was clearly a retaliation against the unionization effort, and in no way related to the mass closure of restaurants, bars, and breweries that are inexplicably sweeping the nation since some time earlier this year.
Whew.
Winning hearts and minds.
On the ground in Wauwatosa for @townhallcom and some in the BLM crowd are smashing storefront windows. …
Some rioters in Wauwatosa, WI are now smashing windows of homes. People in the crowd tried to stop them from targeting homes. …
The BLM crowd marched towards a line of police officers in Wauwatosa and began to throw projectiles. Police fired tear gas and pepper balls in response. …
As the BLM crowd was marching through the neighborhoods of Wauwatosa, one man came out to tell people to get off of his property, telling them there are people who most likely support BLM. One guy drove on his yard with a motorcycle.
While i do think smashing windows of homes is more frightening, i don’t like the implication that we are all accustomed to people going aorund smashing windows of businesses.
Just a question: At what point would it be justified to use deadly force in a case where some members of a crowd approach a residence holding Molotov cocktails or fireworks? How close to a residence or occupied building could they get before a reasonable person would stop them by any means necessary? At what point would such a presence constitute a threat to life?
They draw back to throw and you can drop them before they release. imho, of course. What the legal matter is I am not sure.
The legal matter? After your pulse ceases.
I don’t know man. You’re at a point where any form of self defence has been criminalized. Sure maybe the people being prosecuted right now will get off (Kyle Rittenhouse will not end up getting 1st Degree Murder conviction is my prediction), but the fact that they are being prosecuted and the people who are threatening them are getting off scott free clearly only serves to incintevize Mob Violence and individual submission to it. There is no way around this. Any Cop on a Police Force and Any DA is smart enough to know this, so we can only assume it is intentional.
Things are going to get worse before it gets better.
As for the specifics of your question, I’d say people carying around molotov coctails have nothing but the intent to arson and are always an impending threat to life and limb. It might sound harsh, but i’d say that if you are in a mob and carying molotov cocktails, you are probably fair game to be shot on sight.
Not saying you’d not go to jail, i’m just saying IMO you shouldn’t have to wait till they light the thing to say “Hey i think that guy is going to commit arson”.
I’d consider making the case that holding a lit Molotov is a serious threat. It’s a firebomb that will go off, regardless of where it’s placed. Holding one within throwing range of a residence has the potential to constitute a mortal threat.
I think thats pretty much what i’m getting at. I don’t think you have to wait for them to be lobbing it at your front door to justify in shooting an arsonist.
“Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.”
I don’t know, man. I never really thought that could be quite true, because even when I was a no-nothing 18yo in karate, I knew somehow that the process was the punishment.
know-nothing*
True. There are plenty of other things they can co-charge with, if they don’t think they can get a trial jury to convict on the homicide charge.
Getting an indictment from a grand jury is barely a speed bump.
Should Trump win reelection, this is a question a lot of people should be prepared to ask themselves. I have a steel fence and gate around my front yard, so if some members of the angry mob coming down my street are on my front lawn, they didn’t wander onto it by accident.
I live out in the middle of nowhere. No one walks into our neighborhood.
It’s never a bad time to look over the home security situation. I just ordered a set of door cameras for the condo.
So you will be able to see them braking in? Me, I am buying more lead…
More like so I can easily identify who’s outside, before I open the door.
“Your Honor, the footage clearly shows the mob endangering my family…”, can’t hurt.
There’s no pat answer. It’s all about what you, as the defender, can articulate in court.
Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy. Can they hurt or kill you right at this moment, have they expressed the intention to do so, and are there no other ways out of the situation? If the answer to each of those questions is ‘Yes,’ then you are probably legally in the clear.
I understand, for de-escalation reasons, and i do think you should try to de escalate things. But I don’t think you should be punished for standing your ground.
But I don’t think you should be punished for standing your ground.
Better not live where a democratic prosecutor gets to decided weather or not you should be prosecuted.
Nor do I. I recognize that de-escalation requires two parties, and that trying to flee will sometimes just get you shot in the back.
But I also recognise that if I shoot someone, it’s going to be fucking awful, and the precise degree of awful is gonna be mostly out of my hands. I might end up impoverished and unemployable. I might end up losing all my friends and family, who don’t want to be around a ‘murderer.’ I might end up spending the rest of my life sucking off the other convicts in the showers at Wallens Ridge.
It’s not right and it’s not fair, but I’ve never thought that the world is going to be right or fair.
So, ima do everything possible to avoid shooting someone. That includes practicing avoidance and de-escalation, whenever possible.
Words of wisdom.
From a purely theoretical/technical perspective, I think carrying a molotov doesn’t cross the line.
Lighting it, though, should give license to anyone in range to drop them in their tracks.
Lighting it shows imminent intent to commit a violent crime that its reasonable to assume could result in death or serious injury.
And self-defense extends to defense of others. So somebody out of throwing range for the molotv has the right to drop them, in defense of others.
Of course, whether that right will be recognized in the legal (not justice) system is a different question.
I absolutely agree that de-escalation is the best policy. Best way to win a fight is not to get in one in the first place. I’m mainly thinking about situations where mob psychology takes over, and negotiation or reasoning fails.
Also, you can retreat into your home, but once a mob sets your home on fire, you are screwed.
Also, you can retreat into your home, but once a mob sets your home on fire, you are screwed.
In the extraordinarily unlikely event that I a mob shows up at my house, my “trigger” will be lit molotovs or someone trying to light one. Those will be my targets, for exactly the reason you cite. Of some help may be that AZ does not have a duty to retreat.
I remember reading a section in one of PJ O’Rourke’s books that was about Northern Ireland in the early ’90s. One of the interviews he had with a Belfast cop always stuck with me – “This is an acceptable level of violence.” Seems that’s where we’re headed, when a certain level of violence is simply accepted as normal.
I’ve been growing more fatalistic lately. Really starting to seem that there will be two paths possible in the future – either submission to the Marxist scum, or killing. A whole lot of killing. There’s not going to be any peaceful de-escalation.
^^ I’m in the same place. a lot of dying is going to happen. It’s our choice who bears the brunt of that cost
one man came out to tell people to get off of his property, telling them there are people who most likely support BLM
This is probably a plus in the eyes of the peaceful protesters. It means they probably won’t be shot. If they went into an actual racist part of town (if there really is one) the local racists would shoot their asses.
So, in reality, that might be somewhere in the range of the average flu season at about a tenth of the projection while doing everything you can to inflate the numbers.
“The models tell us that if we do not do the kinds of things that we’re talking about in the cold of the fall and the winter, we could have from 300,000 to 400,000 deaths,” Dr. Anthony Fauci warns. “That would be just so tragic if that happens.”
Fuck off, slaver.
It was documented before this pandemic that Fauci had a limelight problem. Why we insist on listening to him is really only explainable by the fact that he tells one half the country what they want to hear.
Roundabout August, they promised me 400K deaths by the New Year. Now they’re hedging on that?
Why now may be a good time to buy a house in Switzerland
https://www.thelocal.ch/20201007/why-now-may-be-a-good-time-to-buy-a-house-in-switzerland
Buying a house in the middle of an ongoing pandemic might not feel the wisest of ideas but there are reasons why it might be a good move in Switzerland right now.
According to a Swiss comparison portal Comparis, mortgage rates have been decreasing in the past few months, making the purchase of a house or apartment cheaper than before.
Between July and September 2020, indicative rates for 10-year fixed mortgages decreased from 1.11 percent to 1.05 percent.
For five-year loans, the rates are now set between 0.91 percent, as compared to 0.95 percent three months ago. And for two-year terms, they dropped from 0.89 to 0.86 percent.
These are significant “historically low values”, Comparis said.
From realtor.com
Apartment 581.26 sq ft
USD $681,683
Croix de Rozon, Bardonnex, Geneva (canton)
House 1,625.36 sq ft
USD $1,188,856
MARTIGNY, VALAIS, Address available on request
Haha, good one, Pie. And we thought shit was expensive in SanFran.
There’s one problem – I don’t want a house in switzerland.
And the Swiss probably don’t want you to have a house in Switzerland either, for that matter.
well if you had 100 million you would. I know I would.
Not me…
Best place to be. Middle of Europe, quiet, clean, low tax
I prefer shitshows…
Oh, you’re moving to Berlin then?
The only problems is that it’s in Europe.
You know you want to kick back in the Alps and bitch about how much sugar Americans eat while they fire their guns and can’t read.
I do, so I can sell it and buy 10 houses here.
Have fun with your new high stress venture in real estate.
(((they))) are getting out of control again
The violence in out streets must be stopped! Soon the Amish will join in with them! Tanks, tanks is always the answer!
Shabbat sabots?
Make no mistake, one of the first people to go when Biden comes to office will be Fauci. He’s been a useful tool for the democrats, but when the time comes for Biden to ascend to office, he will no longer be needed.
Drunken rant: The US has created a society where meritocracy is considered evil and as a result you’ve got a giant underclass of dead-enders that see the only way to have meaning in their lives is to destroy the system. Of course they will fail in their stated wish to create a society where goods are distributed solely on the criteria of need because who the hell is going to determine what “need” is? How does the US deal with the multitudes of people that are basically at a dead end and are hearing the siren call of those who blame meritocracy itself? Mix in some legit unfairness in the system and it’s going to be a long haul to convince these people that there is a better way. It may not be possible at this point precisely because it takes time to build up a system based on fairness, but only the blink of an eye to destroy it.
Drunken rant – dude it’s not even 5 pace yourself.
The US has created a society where meritocracy is considered evil – not a fan of meritocracy myself
who the hell is going to determine what “need” is? – The special subcomitee on needs off course. do you even understand socialism?
it takes time to build up a system based on fairness – fair is in the eye of the bemolotov thrower
What would you prefer other than merit to advance? Race? Political affiliation? Family ties?
I prefer liberty. people do what they like as long as they don’t harm others. The classics really.
Liberty and meritocracy may not hump each other, but that aren’t bad neighbors, either.
meritocracy + politics = !liberty
Don’t be deceived – meritocracy is about who rules; that negates the liberty aspect.
I’d perfer people only got advanced by my say so, and that that was dependent on a large enough bribe.
The people pissed at and desperately working to get rid of the quasi meritocratic system that used to exist, in favor of a system that removes any ability to measure their performance and hold them accountable, are the members of the credentialed expert elite class running things today (using appeal to envy & greed of those that produce nothing). These credentialed experts, inept and inefficient, are mad the serfs demand these credentialed morons actually produce value. They want an aristocratic system where they and their offspring stay in power, pick other winners and losers, and nobody can hold them accountable. No matter how fucking horrible they are.
A lot of those idiots were told that if they took out giant loans and got a college degree, they’d be rolling in dough and everyone would listen to them.
Once they graduated they realized that:
1) There are a lot more “experts” than required
2) No one is paying what they think they “deserve”
3) Even with a degree a job actually requires work. Hard work if you want to get ahead
4) Those loan repayments really put a damper on what sort of fun you can have
5) For some reason companies tend to listen to people who have real world experience and (worse) make you report to them and obey those old dinosaurs
Given that the people who find themselves “unexpectedly” in this position are the same people who have a hard time understanding what the consequences of their actions are, I’m not surprised that they are pushing for a new system. Surely this time they will be at the top of the heap.
They are far more likely to end up at the top of the pile…
Pile of bodies this sort of “revolutionary societal redesign” always produces…
Hotness, duh.
Then you could enjoy getting screwed.
It’s after 11 PM here so I’d say he’s a little behind and needs to catch up. We don’t all live in Romania.
We don’t all live in Romania.
This is what gets me out of bed every day.
How to unlearn racism: Implicit bias training isn’t enough. What actually works?
https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1314189122265849857
Why do you keep dredging this stuff up?
Twitter toxicity is gonna kill you.
It is Scientific I’ll have you know. Why do you hate science?
Here’s another one for you
This Black British hiker is tackling exclusion from the outdoors
https://twitter.com/wef/status/1313426303119503362
The Brits are pulling a China and welding people side?
Me threatening my boss that I will be getting a lawyer and suing the shit out of the company when he told me they were tracking attendance to voluntary diversity events I have been avoiding at work (which I have been told by attendees have been incredible shitshows) and how my lack of attendance “could” (meaning would) impact my compensation review coming up, yesterday?
You’re a braver man than I
That does sound much like a hill to die on. Especially as those are “voluntary” because they can’t legally require you to attend.
They don’t want to make them mandatory for fear they will get sued for that that, so they are “voluntary” but attendance is checked…
Fuck that. Speed dialing the lawyer..
So is the boss an actual top-level type person, or just a middle management shlub? If the latter – you’ve mostly put him between a rock and a hard place (NTTAWWT).
This. My manager is pushing hard that we hit our “voluntary” pro Bono hours this year. Its clearly not her message, but from 2 or 3 links up the chain. Doesn’t mean that she’s not going to feel the fallout when she pushes me on the topic, but I try to keep in mind who is just a messenger and who is the real force behind the initiative.
It is always from up the chain..
And I am not holding the manager accountable: I know this comes from higher ups. My suit would be against them, not the manager.
In case you missed this prescient event….
Now why do you think that happened, huh?
it’s amazing how coordinated the global slide to authoritarianism is. it feels like the 30s all over again.
I’m trying to tie in 2020 with the 1960s, because I’ve heard comparisons. But I cannot remember the 60s because I was a little kid when we fake landed on the moon.
So I started reading the book ‘Radical Son’ to see if it makes any sense.
We know the proglodytes were around back in the 30s doing their evil. If we go by that schedule, I guess we get WWIII sometimes in the mid 2030s.
It’s more about the cultural surround than the radicals, but I highly recommend Joan Didion’s book of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Published in 1968, iirc.
I’ve read the TMITE coverage of last night’s debate. Here it is:
A fly landed on Pence’s head.
Camela said ‘I’m speaking!’
Fact check: Everything Pence said: FALSE!
That’s it.
You can tell that Pence wiped the floor with Harris because they’re babbling about a fucking fly as if it means something.
this
Every question to Pence: “Me. Pence, when did you stop beating your wife?”
You know it’s going badly when you hear shit like this from TMITE:
Fact Check:
Pence just took a bunch of flimsy talking points from the Trump playbook.
WTF does that even mean?
Harris also stretched the truth at times.
Translation: She lied out her ass every time she opened her mouth.
Trump’s Charlottesville comments, Trump’s taxes, green new deal, fracking, muslim ban, covid response, recent tax cuts, the economy, etc.
She basically lied every time she opened her mouth.
She basically lied every time she opened her mouth.
Which you said…I should read to the end.
I see Biden got an enormous poll jump last night 5 minute after the debate.
And we thought debates, especially the VP ones, do not affect polls.
Well let me tell you, everyone watched that debate and Camela knocked it out of the park! And BAD ORANGE MAN BAD!
The polls are now controlled by an algorithm that gives a Biden Bump when an expected event is going to happen or has happened. Are they even talking to anyone? I seriously doubt it. If they are, it’s just a front. The polls are now 100% fake news.
Stuff this crowd is familiar with but no harm in repeating: How Biden’s Anti-Gun Policies Go Beyond Buying AR-15s
If that sounds far-fetched, here is a direct quote from the so-called “BIDEN PLAN TO END OUR GUN VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC”: “Biden will enact legislation to prohibit all online sales of firearms, ammunition, kits, and gun parts.”
Those are his words, not ours.
“[A]ll” online sales of – not just functional firearms or ammunition or even build kits – but “gun parts” would be banned under a Joe Biden administration.
Think about that.
We all know that experienced gun owners like to customize their firearms to their personal preferences and anatomy. We also know that certain high-wear parts will eventually need to be replaced by anyone keeping up his or her skills with regular range practice.
What is so threatening about the purchase of innocuous and commonplace parts like sights, grips, triggers, handguards, firing pins, choke tubes, plus any number of springs, screws, bushings, or other utilitarian hardware that it has to be completely banned from the Internet?
Pity the gun owner living in rural Alaska, Montana, or Wyoming who just wants to replace the stock grip panels on a revolver so it better fits his hand or to add night sights to a self-defense pistol or to change the spread of a shotgun with a new choke. Any of these usually simple operations could necessitate an hours-long round trip to the nearest gun store if Biden has his way.
I’ll also note the distinct lack of the topic of 2A/guns at the debates so far. I suspect the leftist moderators know it is a losing issue.
What was it? 1 million new gun owners in 6 months? Yeah i think 2A is a loosing issue right now.
Lol moderators.
The ‘moderators’ along with the polls are the latest additions to the democrat party.
If the democrats get their way they will enact England style laws regarding weapons. Zero guns, and you get arrested for carrying a screwdriver or rolled up newspaper. They want you disarmed completely because they have plans for you. Plans they know you wont like.
Who is stupid enough to think different?
Progtards?
I kinda wish Trump would bring the issue up and challenge Biden to confirm his plans to restrict gun ownership – citing specific points like these above – just to get it on live TV how Biden crawfishes away from the issue.
Yep. This wouldn’t hurt me personally at all. Not a bit. *shuffles through invoices from Brownells, LuckyGunner, Ibejiheads, and Shooters Connection, all from this past week*
The Republicans might go along with this bullshit because they’re a bunch of spineless assrags, but they’re not making my misery a centerpiece of their campaign. The Democrats are.
So if Biden wins, 3-D printing is going to really take off?
I think boating accidents involving 3-D printers will take off. No way does 3-D printing of guns or gun parts stay legal.
3-D printers are awesome! You can do all sorts of cool things with them!
Govt: To save the children, all 3-D printers will be required to have a P-Chip installed so that only govt approved items can be printed.
Alligators dont have moods. They are not friendly or unfriendly. They are reptiles. They are hungry, afraid, or not. That’s it. If you get within reach of their jaws or tail you are fucked. That girl needs to find a different job.
I see the Ruskies have plans for Dumbfuckistan https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/putin-touts-common-values-shared-by-democrats-and-communists
and then there is something about Kyrgyzstan
Wait, wut? That is a Korean BOY band? Ooooookay then.
You never tried to cuddle and alligator and show it affection. It would not longer be a threat to you.
Once a gator gets over two and a half feet long there is no real handling of them. They are pound for pound so much stronger than a person it is like trying to handle a machine. What you see in alligator ‘shows’ are just gators toleration.
It is a giant meat-eating, insanely powerful lizard with a lizard brain.
maybe the gators round these parts are better behaved
I’m assured escape from them is quite easy. https://youtu.be/kmH0PP_zAKo
Huh… I expected a short clip from “Pitfall”.
I LOVED both Pitfall and Chopper Command on my 2600. I played those all day long.
I beat Pitfall once. Most disappointing victory screen ever.
I also did have the E.T. 2600 game…
So, my 77yo uncle died yesterday from various cancers and other diseases. No condolences, be happy. He was in a lot of pain and my aunt probably got a good night’s rest for the first time in who knows how long.
She’s in high spirits today (she always is looking on the bright side of things), but let me tell you why. My uncle was a wallpaper hanger for a living and their company vehicle of choice was a hearse. They had lots of funny stories about driving the hearse (including how scared some people were of death/hearses). They’ve lived in Charlotte for 50 years, as that’s where they moved to get away from my uncle’s dad and my gma, and they are going to have a memorial for him on his birthday (12/31), which is slated to be a big blowout party. I said, “That’s very southern of you.”
But the hearse story that always stands out to me is when my cousin started driving to school in one. After school, he would leave the parking lot first, turn on his lights, let everybody else line up behind him, and he would lead the “funeral” procession out of the school parking lot.
Anyway, if I drank, I’d toast one to my quirky Uncle Frank. *raises glass of ice water*
Sounds like a great guy! If I ever die, I want people to have a good time remembering me.
He was awesome.
*rasies glass of water with mo* To the life that lived!
‘Problem is, I cannot find that quote or even anything near it by ol’ Honest Abe.’ — Ownbestenemy
Does not matter. From 2012:
Six Reasons Why Politicians Believe They Can Lie
Do politicians really think they won’t be caught when they lie?
Posted Sep 24, 2012
Jim Taylor Ph.D., author, The Power of Prime
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/201209/six-reasons-why-politicians-believe-they-can-lie
Donation not taxation.
Well, since you can’t/won’t I will raise one in his memory now.
May his memory be a blessing. Also, may the party be wild, crazy, and full of the zest for life.
A life well lived is something to celebrate.
That’s great!
I can remember a similar situation with a good friend’s mother in HS. She’d suffered for so long. I recall chatting with him in the church at the casket with us all actually feeling better because it meant the suffering for both his mother and the rest of us would finally start to end.
Yeah, I think the caretakers get lost in people’s minds. My aunt was exhausted taking care of him and it’s as much a release for her as it is for him.
“He’s in a better place now” is nice.
“Hey, now you don’t have to stay up all night being a full-time nurse” is better.
I’ve always found “He/she is no longer in any pain” to provide solace.
Carly Simon has a lyric, “Death is only a horizon.”
My aunt tells me, “Death is the worst word in the English language.”
Me: “I think it’s ‘penis,’ but whatever floats your boat.”
Her: *guffaw*
Glad to be able to make someone laugh.
^THIS^
When my mom passed away last year, we all felt so much better because she was finally done suffering and we wouldn’t have to sit by watching a woman we all loved deteriorate.
I heard the opening softball question to Tan Hillary and her stumbling thru what was an obviously canned response and called it a night.
There was something about a Lord of the Flies?
My hatred for the media has to be at peak hatred at this point, something something millions of burning suns.
No shit.
I watched about 15 minutes.
I said to my wife ” Could she be any more smug and condescending?”
A minute later she went into her “history lesson.”
Holy Shit! She got more smug and condescending!
She even explained what the words “debt” and “bounty” mean.
And thank god she did! Have you met people who suddenly think she’s great? They need all the help they can get.
*looks at news, looks at projected hurricane path, prays for SMOD*
Goddammit
Just face it, God hates Louisiana.
The swamps and the gators weren’t enough of a hint?
Don’t forget the cottonmouths!
I don’t think they get as far North as Sutheboy, but NOLA has an unbelievable seasonal termite problem. In the French Quarter, they swarm the streetlamps and completely cover them; there are clouds of termites to bat your way through on the drunken stumble home.
Kottonmouth Kings! (For Yusef)
Only because all those rednecks. If they just get woke, they will be spared.
You know that the hurricane has the commie cooties? SCIENCE!
That does suck!
She said out loud what they all believe… And then they lecture us on how many poor people have died because of bad orange man…
Sure.
No, you don’t get it. Mother Gaia is on the side of the righteous woke, because they are trying to save her from the rednecks in flyover. So she gave the gift of commie cooties.
That might explain all the clothes rending and feral screaming I have seen by the mob that though Gaia was gonna use the Kung Flu to kill bad orange man, only to have him keep working through the ordeal and then thrive from it. But we keep getting told they are the better and more moral people, because they care about the sheep…
“working through the ordeal and then thrive from it.”
Although Biden went up another leventylevenleventy!!!! points in the polls.
I decided 40 years ago if she caught fire I wouldn’t bother unzipping.
If The King himself could obey his draft notice* AND turn down an offer to be in Special Services, AND make E5 in 2 years, certainly these young lads from BTS can do their part.
*SLD – mandatory conscription = slavery and is immoral and wrong.
The first thing that pops in my head when this subject comes up are all of those German, American and British boys shooting at each other from trenches in WWI. All boys who would have been drinking buddies had they not been drafted.
I had that same thought the year I was working in Tokyo. Pearl Harbor came and I thought about the fact that if 50 years earlier we would have been fighting to the death in horrible tropical jungles.
Instead we were all getting along great.
Hey L0b0t, you wouldn’t happen to have DinoSaucers, would you?
I do not, but I just found a link in the dead link section of my forum. I’ve made a request of the OP to upload it again. I’ll let you know if it comes.
Squee! (and thanks for The Tick)
Oh, and thanks for the MV link
What forum?
It’s here, but I don’t think membership is open at the moment. Started as a Reddit group that was eventually banned.
Worth it to that guy, obvs.
You have her contact info?
Erm, asking for a friend..
LOL. Her smile in the Mug shot (?! She was arrested for this?) reminds me of the Mr. Yang from Psych.
Now *those* are some crazy eyes…
So Durham, NC city council just passed a resolution about reparations and racial equity. FML. I’m hoping it’s just a virtue signal before the election (I can’t imagine it’s anything else). We just bought a house in Raleigh six months ago, and I really don’t want to have to sell it, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to let them redistribute even more of my stuff than they already do.
Some little town up here (Springfield MA? ) is filing criminal charges at people defacing their BLM street “mural”
It’s kind of amazing how few of them are required to make themselves an national problem.
There were several news stories here in Cleveland about a Black man defacing the BLM street murals with “graffiti” saying things like: “BLM is Marxist” and “Stop killing each other”.
Most of the news stories left out the part that it was a local Black man doing the defacing.
Uncle Toms are the worst.
Apostates are always worse than infidels.
Gaah!
GenZ is in the marketing departments of formerly reputable companies.
Well do you?
Such cultural appropriation #OMGWTFICANTEVEN
I don’t know what dem words mean, but it sounds like you impugned my momma.
Time to dissolve the marketing departments.
^^
Complete with yuru-chara!
https://handling-solutions.eppendorf.com/liquid-handling/games-and-quizzes/
Pucker up Buttercup!
Uhuru will decide Mt Kenya succession, Kikuyu elders say
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/other/uhuru-will-decide-mt-kenya-succession-kikuyu-elders-say/ar-BB19Mhne
Kikuyu elders have said there is no political vacuum in Mt Kenya and have warned leaders against engaging in early campaigns.
Speaking at a press briefing at Bowling Green restaurant in Nairobi, the national chairman of the Kikuyu Council of Elders Kimani Maigua said those who have been camping in several regions endorsing leaders should stop as they are disturbing the existing peace. He cited the Kenol violence on Sunday where two people died.
“The President is the kingpin of Mt Kenya region and when the “Michuki” period comes, the community will pronounce itself accordingly, ” he said.
The national and county leadership of the council of elders and Kiama Kiama are the twin leadership groups within Mt Kenya region.
right…
Reads the expert.
I don’t know what dem words mean, but it sounds like you impugned my momma.
Note how matter of fact and unremarkable this is to them. Distasteful, but not unusual.
I didn’t realize Nichelle Nichols was still alive.
Needs more Mau-Mau insurrectionists.
Huh, I commented on an acquaintance’s Facebook post about this article.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812?fbclid=IwAR0y5A9-OQNZsl40JxrFIfwJENuHdQSEZAYrWcN7HAjJ4cLsy2emBaC_iUk
“I think I can safely ignore an article that takes China’s COVID numbers at face value and praises their authoritarian response which included welding people into their apartments.”
He nuked my comment. Didn’t even know you could do that.
For some strange reason, nowhere in the article do they mention Sweden.
If you look at Europe and the Americas, in nowhere that is remotely comparable to the U.S. has there been “orders of magnitude” better results. There’s a cluster of countries around the U.S. and another around Canada, and that second cluster is primarily less populated countries. Precisely zero of the “best” 25 countries are in Europe or the Americas. Japan is the closest thing to a comparable country they’ve got but it’s also an island chain and so they’ve got considerably more control over entry and exit.
These people want us to emulate a fascist, authoritarian regime with no independent media to verify that the numbers are accurate, the crackdown measures had no unintended consequences, there were no human rights abuses, etc. They shouldn’t just be ignored, they should be denounced as traitors to liberal democracy.
Oh, nuking comments is common. My dad does it to my comments on his political posts on the regular. I always consider that a win.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/920998774/a-pbr-seltzer-spiked-with-thc-hits-shelves-aiming-at-the-canna-curious
Vermont maple growers need to jump on this stat!
Syrup Weed? Weed Syrup? Just plain weed?
THC infused products. I was tying to think of something up here that would be the equivalent of Cali and hard seltzer.
Ooh! Frank’s Red Hot!
2.5 mg to 10 mg? I’ll give it a try if they push it up over 100 mg.
Dude.
100 would kill me.
I’m already dead inside. I’ve gotten my mitts on one of these before and I would likely disregard all other methods for a steady supply.
https://www.muvfl.com/product/thc-inhaler
That’s beautiful! And reasonably priced…
10mg just about destroys me in edible form and I’ve been getting high for three decades.
Supposedly it has something to do with the enzymes in your liver, but who knows. THC research is so skewed by the government War on Drugs money.
Interesting. 10 is more than enough for me, too.
Then you just need to drink a 12-pack.
Commie-la
“I thought that wasn’t even a contest last night, she was terrible,” Trump said. “I don’t think you could get worse. And totally unlikable. And she is. She’s a communist. She’s left of Bernie.”
Trump warned Biden was mentally declining and would not be president for long if he was elected.
“Biden won’t be president for two months, he’s not mentally capable of being president, everybody knows that … and this monster that was on stage with Mike Pence who destroyed her by the way … everything she said was a lie,” Trump said.
The president reminded the audience that Harris was rated further left than self-described Democrat socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“She’s a communist, she’s not a socialist, she’s well beyond a socialist,” Trump said.
She is the worst, maybe ever.
Biden won’t be president for 1 month because he’ll get a knife in the back or some cyanide in his Geritol and vodka toddy.
Apparently, Camel is the chosen one.
I’m liking the theory that they leave him in office until the midterms, so Kamala can be eligible for two full terms after she serves out Biden’s term.
If they capture the Senate and hold the House, by 2024 the election process should be sufficiently restructured to make the Presidency a Democrat property.
Even my doom-oriented mind hadn’t considered that yet. I mean, assuming they can get two years out of him.
RBG’s handlers snicker at your comment.
Giving her an ideological motiive is probably giving her too much credit. Harris will do or say anything to have more access to the levers of power.
So, the polls now have the dems so far ahead in the House, the Senate, and POTUS, that it is impossible they don’t get a supermajority again next year.
Ponder that. You’d better have a major boating accident planned after Nov 3 and probably best to just move here:
New Paradise
So given that Biden wins, how long does he make it after being declared the winner before he no longer holds the office of president? 1 week? 1 Month? Does he make it to inauguration?
Less than 2 months.
I think you are underestimating Jill Biden. No way you are going to dig her out of the White House that quickly.
Thats Hero Doctor Jill Biden to you peasant.
At least now I know where I’ll die. Asleep in my bed…shot during a no knock firearm sweep.
Does anyone believe those polls?
House and Senate? Who knows.
I do think that at least some polls are being used as battlespace prep to either fend off claims of voter fraud if Dems win, or makes claims of cheating if Repubs win, though.
That’s my thought. They may or may not have “accurate” polls that aren’t made public, but I think they’re preparing themselves for the possibility of Trump winning. In that case, the plan will be to claim he cheated, and these polls putting Biden up by double digits will be part of the evidence.
North Carolina Law Says Cunningham Must Remain in Senate Race Amid Infidelity Scandal
People are already voting so it’s too late for them to pull a Torricelli switchero.
I wonder how many early voters are going to be calling in and asking if they can get a new ballot and change their vote?
Its gotta be non-zero, although I bet its not very many.
Either way, this guy going down in flames will at least hold the Senate for Republicans.
Maybe not. McSally looks like a second-time loser in AZ right now. So the two races nullify each other as far as control of the Senate goes.
AZ has somehow transitioned from a Red state to a deep Purple state. One Dem and one Repub Senator (soon to be two Dem Senators), a majority Dem House delegation (5-4), and a Repub state government.
Nate Silver.
No
There’s no way voter polling is swinging that wildly this close to an election.
Maybe. I keep vacillating on Trump. I really don’t like him, but I’m afraid of the Dems, so I go between voting for OMB or leaving it blank.
I’ve resigned myself to no good choices, so I’m going to pick the slowest road to the gulags.
^^^^THIS^^^^
Always unfortunately, this…
It’s almost 100% due to
1) low sample size
2) adjustments to their weighting algorithms; and
3) variability within the margin of error
The fact that (as some have pointed out here) some of these pollsters are not adjusting the partisan makeup of the election throws a lot into question.
I’m skeptical of the weighting in the first place. A lot rides on the accuracy of their presumptions
Maybe it is because of the fact that KEN BONE IS VOTING FOR JORGENSON!!!!!
The Libertarian Moment is upon us. The Jacket and The Sweater will lead the Inauguration Parade in January.
no
Debate review….
You know, adding a laugh track to the debates would be a legitimate public service.
Oh FFS.
Stop calling everyone heroes!
You, sir, are a hero for bringing this to our attention.
/starts working on a spandex costume
I just found out about it as it was included in an e-mail from the local board game store.
Isn’t Winston’s mom a heroine? Or is she on heroin?
Pienso que es los dos.
Not all heroes wear drapes.
And I guess not all heroes have drapes that match.
Well we were given an idea of what to do with them from a reddit post yesterday.
“Does Pence have pink eye? Vice President appears at debate with a bloodshot eye – which experts say is a symptom of COVID-19”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8819267/Does-Pence-pink-eye-Vice-president-appears-debate-symptom-COVID-19.html
Did Trump fart in his pillow?
I’m so fucking sick of experts.
So Biden had the Super Rona back during the primary debates?
“‘I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate’: Trump REFUSES to take part after Commission announces remote format and claims ‘I don’t think I’m contagious – I want to do a rally tonight!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8819177/Second-debate-Biden-going-virtual-amid-Trumps-COVID-19.html
Couldn’t they just put them in separate booths or whatever?
6 feet with mask stops covid in its tracks. I mean, that’s what the science says. Why shouldn’t Biden follow the science?
Masks are a bad idea for a debate. No idea why negative air pressure wouldn’t work, even if Trump had super ebola.
No that has changed now. CDC revised and say can travel up to 12 feet!
“Is he on drugs? Trump gives two different answers about whether he is on steroids during almost hour-long phone interview – and blames Gold Star families for infecting him”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8819293/Trump-claims-cured-interview-COVID-hospital-treatment.html
Is he on drugs? LOL
Imagine if the media, and I know, it is the DM, actually stuck to honest criticism of Trump, I would probably fall over and die.
Telemundo deletes their Twitter insta-poll after 16000 votes and Pence winning the debate.
Either they realized twitter polls are a bad idea and the Trump team has a solid digital game -or- they didn’t expect their readership to like Pence.
Didn’t they have a poll with 60% of viewers saying Trump won the debate?
Yep. Not that it means anything..neven whoever is left reading Drudge had Pence winning it .
Either no one is lying or everyone is.
Drudge is still a thing? Why?
Or maybe Hispanics don’t like being explained what words mean?
My in laws are legal immigrant Hispanics. They hate illegals because they cheated to get in and don’t respect the laws of the land. Some of them are conservative and some progressives, but all of them hate the fence jumpers.
One of the guys named Jesus who I grew up with was offered both a scholarship to Yale and an appointment to Annapolis.
*Hispanix
I think that’s a Swedish salsa band.
We can’t join the True Sites until we have a SugarFreex, or something.
There are already too many distros out there, IMHO.