OK, well, this is an abbreviated edition. I’m exhausted and OMWC and Spud are passed out.
Gosh, let’s just start off this morning with something uplifting.
Here’s a link for ‘sloper: Oops
NASA contributes this.
I’m sorry, Colorado.
Because Christmas is all about tourism, after all.
And music.
Have a nice day!
Why would you even set bail?
He could be innocent?
I’m assuming he doesn’t have any kids left, so he’s no longer a threat
Polis, Reason darling, utterly unserious.
*confused dog stare*
Did NASA use their death ray on the boat storage? Perhaps a subtle reminder to the citizens of Michigan to obey. 😉
Space Force was ever so pissed.
We are not doing well this morning.
Well, you’re awake and able to form complete sentences, so that’s something.
It’s reassuring to know people even older than me can still get hammered.
“Here’s a link for ‘sloper: Oops
NASA contributes this.”
Same link?
*drinks more cofeve*
Careful, Facebook might ban you for using the word “sloper.”
HajjPilgrimage is a big part of religion for some.“I’m sorry, Colorado.”
Couldn’t he just wash his hands first?
That wouldn’t work as well for the Mastervirus Theater video
Should have used some Mountain Dew.
“The Church of the Nativity has always been a powerful draw for an economically distressed part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.”
How do you occupy your own country?
Ask Texas, Louisiana, …
High-five for count potato!
Marina employee Tony Caruso said he waxes boats between seasons.
No shame in that, Tony.
“Aaaay! I wax boats on my own time! Who da fug is askin’!”
I love when my brain is better than Google. I went looking for a Pontiac Trans-Am commercial, a Clio award winner form 1983, that featured a Brooklyn character named Lou Patanza – “This Trans-Am is the BEST! Lou Pantaza doesn’t lie! Lou Patanza speaks the truth; come ask me, I’ll tell ya right to your face!”
But, I can’t video of it anywhere on the tubes. Sigh…
*looks around*
*ponders going back to bed*
Why wasn’t Polis wearing a ballgag? Whoever filmed that is as good as dead, now.
“Johns Hopkins professor slams the FDA for ‘holding up COVID vaccine approval’ and dubs agency’s progress ‘Operation Turtle Speed’ as another 2,607 die, hospitalizations hit a record 101K and new model projects 539,000 fatalities by April”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9020393/Johns-Hopkins-professor-slams-FDA-holding-approval-COVID-vaccine-red-tape.html
“Dr. Fauci says vaccinations for healthy Americans will NOT begin until April as COVID surpasses heart disease as the leading cause of death in the US”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9020689/Dr-Fauci-says-vaccinations-healthy-Americans-NOT-begin-April.html
Heart disease causes around 650,000 deaths per year.
It also is probably the primary factor in a significant number of “COVID deaths”
Have any other mRNA vaccines been used on an entire population?
Oh shush you
I remember the story where the nice aliens gave us a vaccine to prevent all diseases only to cause mass sterility and doom the human race.
That was back when the FBI had honest Agents like Mulder.
“Up until December 2020, no mRNA vaccine, drug, or technology platform, had ever been approved for use in humans, and before 2020, mRNA was only considered a theoretical or experimental candidate for use in humans.”
Well, it’ll be the entire population less at least one. I’m out.
Metoo
#metoo
Oh goody, a scary new model.
Mornin’ SP! Thanks for the web-site and the links! The music link was *kissy fingers*. I hope that you corral those bad boys and have a wonderful day.
I must say, the music certainly kept my blood pressure steady whilst reading the links and surfing the net. My tits are quite calm.
Pollyanna Pence gets schooled
Vice President Pence traveled to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on Friday for a briefing, saying America is “in a season of hope” and “help is on the way” with emergency use authorization for the first coronavirus vaccine potentially less than two weeks away.
But what Pence heard from some of the nation’s top public health officials was a grim assessment of the current state of the pandemic.
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“Hospitalizations are still rising. And it’s a real problem. Health care providers are overstretched, beds are full,” Walke said, providing the “very tough advice” for Americans to stay at home during the holiday season. Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC’s director, said the focus now is just on trying to prevent the health care system from becoming completely overwhelmed.
Pence said the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna could get preliminary authorization from the Food and Drug Administration the week of Dec. 14 and said doses could be delivered quickly. “Within 48 hours from the FDA approval, we could be vaccinating people literally in all 50 states and territories all across the country,” Pence said.
But Dr. Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director for infectious diseases, delivered a grim dose of reality. “The week of the 14th is only the beginning of the beginning,” Butler said. “This will be a marathon and not a sprint.”
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“We’ll need to continue these mitigation measures — the spacing, washing our hands, wearing a mask — probably well into the spring until we get more widely available vaccine,” Walke said.
What a sad, deluded fool, thinking there is anything but bad news and gloom on the horizon. We’re nowhere near the light at the end of the forest.
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
They will continue until Pence is in Gitmo on January 21st.
Health care providers are overstretched, beds are full…”
I see that we’ve moved on from garbage computer models, to just outright lying.
“What changed your mind, Nancy? Pelosi says it was NOT a mistake to refuse $500 billion COVID relief before election but admits she will now settle for less than the $2 trillion she wanted
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday it was not a mistake to refuse Republicans’ $500 billion offer on COVID relief before the election although she is willing to accept a smaller deal now. Pelosi refused to hold a vote on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s measure this fall as she and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer pushed their $2.2 trillion proposal. But, on Friday, the speaker said she was willing to hold a vote on a $908 billion COVID relief package proposed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers earlier this week. Pelosi said the fact Joe Biden won the presidential election and that there are promising vaccines near completion that sparked the change. ‘A new president and a vaccine,’ she summed up at her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill as the reason behind her decision.
And she denied that not passing the smaller relief package before the election was a mistake.
‘That was not a mistake. It was a decision, and it has taken us to a place where we can do the right thing,’ she pushed back when a reporter questioned her on the issue. ‘It’s about how we address the needs of the American people. In a scientific way, and we have to do it in a way that recognizes people need food on the table, they need to get their rent paid. They need money in their pockets. They need their unemployment insurance to be, they do not need a whole cabinet of other things that are on the agenda that have nothing to do with meeting their needs,’ she said.
‘So we’re very pleased that where it is and as I say, with a Democratic president committed to a scientific solution for this with the idea that we will have a vaccine – it’s a complete game changer from that.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9013031/Biden-Democrats-swing-bipartisan-virus-aid-bill.html
What kind of drunk bullshit is that?
The kind where she slaps you across the face the night before and wakes you up with a blowey three hours later?
Listen, I can understand the Kellyanne Conway thing, but that’s way over the line!
Lived life is lived with purpose. I didn’t say that I liked it but I also did not turn down the BJ. That was my Ex, by the way so you can turn dirty thoughts out into the aether where they belong.
“Black Irish” they call them. I met her at the roller rink when I was 15. I was smitten. Smote. Ten years later she started making my life a hell on earth.
“Federal court restores DACA and orders DHS to accept new applicants immediately – dealing a huge blow to Trump’s three-year bid to end Obama’s ‘Dreamer’ program
Donald Trump’s three year battle to overturn the rules regarding undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children was dealt a blow on Friday night, after a judge in Brooklyn fully restored the Obama-era program. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9020353/Federal-court-restores-DACA-reopen-time-applicants-immediately.html
A clear overstep on the part of the judiciary.
We have an overabundance of kings in this country. While the legislative branch fiddles away, the judges and executive burn the separation of powers down.
Under Trump every federal judges have: made past presidential executive orders law, enshrined an order that was illegal as unrepealable, given themselves Nationwide jurisdictions, and appointed themselves as prosecutors in complete contravention of supreme Court precedent.
Well that is something the Supreme Court can address, benchslapping that stuff back down the judges throats.
I misread “substitution” as “submission”. Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? Did I take a left turn at Alburquerque?
One guy can be used to completely refute everything, if you can just find him
A Wyoming Department of Health official involved in the state’s response to the coronavirus questioned the legitimacy of the pandemic and described a forthcoming vaccine as a biological weapon at a recent event.
The “so-called pandemic” and efforts to develop a vaccine are plots by Russia and China to spread communism worldwide, department readiness and countermeasures manager Igor Shepherd said at the Nov. 10 event held by the group Keep Colorado Free and Open.
Shepherd was introduced as and talked about being a Wyoming Department of Health employee in the hour-plus presentation in Loveland, Colorado.
Shepherd’s baseless and unsubstantiated claims undermined Wyoming’s public health measures — and public exhortations — to limit the spread of the virus, as well as its plans to distribute Covid-19 vaccines in the months ahead.
Even so, Wyoming officials including Gov. Mark Gordon, who at a recent news conference called people not taking the virus seriously “knuckleheads,” declined to comment.
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Researchers have worried for months that politicized skepticism of COVID-19 vaccines could hurt their efficacy. Vaccines are more effective if most of the population is inoculated.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and Texas State University wrote a paper in July stressing that concern, the Star-Tribune reported.
“If poorly designed and executed, a Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the U.S. could undermine the increasingly tenuous belief in vaccines and the public health authorities that recommend them — especially among people most at risk of Covid-19 impacts,” the researchers wrote.
It’s a plot by the Nazis to wreck public safety and kill all the coloreds and the gays.
What’s funny is that they have no problem reporting on this random state level official, but when the president claims election fraud, they act like it’s their sacred duty to never report on a conspiracy theory.
We’ve run out of tin-foil, Leon. I’m afraid that you’ll just have to wrap a rag across your face for now. It’s the best that we could do in such short order. Cheers!
And they have no problem using loaded words like “baseless” is a supposedly straight news story.
Knuckleheads? He was channeling Charles Barkely ?
“The culture is ailing. It’s time for a Dr. Fauci for the arts.
When a president calls a meeting of the Cabinet, most vital sectors of the economy — from soybean farmers to auto manufacturers — have an appointed government representative in the room, a secretary of agriculture or transportation, to speak for them.
You know what doesn’t get a seat at the table, and never has? The arts. And in this crisis moment, when a pandemic threatens ruination for museums, theaters, concert halls, opera houses, dance studios, cineplexes and amusement parks — and the 5.1 million arts workers who staff them — the time has come to rectify this glaring oversight.
Now, more than ever, we need a secretary of arts and culture.
As President-elect Joe Biden rolls out his circle of close advisers, the notion is gaining momentum among leaders and advocates of nonprofit groups and for-profit companies: that someone should be named to coordinate arts funding, unite assorted agencies and underline the value of arts and entertainment to the nation’s financial, social and psychological well-being.
A national advocate. An Anthony Fauci — but at the Cabinet level — for the arts.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/biden-fauci-secretary-of-arts-cabinet-post/2020/12/01/a04f3bf8-2da3-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html
Remember as you go through life, whenever you have a bad idea, someone is being paid to have a worse idea.
In two years will people remember ST Fauci so fondly? Once OMB is gone and science can speak truth again without being sacrificed to the alter of DNC electoral power politics?
Yes yes… a Ministry of Culture… exactly what we need. It goes so well with our burgeoning thoughtcrime laws.
Go fuck yourself, grifter.
That comment I made about Democrats and bad ideas. Insert here.
Man’s bottomless, inextinguishible need to point his finger at someone and assign blame
A Kansas son’s obituary paying tribute to his father who died of Covid-19 is going viral for excoriating mask refusers.
In the death notice, Courtney Farr, the son of the late Dr. Marvin J. Farr, who died December 1 at Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas, wrote that his father was “preceded in death by more than 260,000 Americans infected with Covid-19.”
Describing his late father as a man born into the Great Depression and having survived World War II amidst great sacrifice, Courtney Farr said Marvin “died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.”
“He died in a room not his own, being cared for by people dressed in confusing and frightening ways. He died with Covid-19, and his final days were harder, scarier and lonelier than necessary. He was not surrounded by friends and family.”
Go get your boat waxed, Courtney. Maybe you’ll feel better.
“He was not surrounded by friends and family.”
That is very sad, but you can’t blame the virus for that.
Ding-ding ding!!
Well, blaming the responsible parties would require some capacity for self-awareness.
I’ve said it elsewhere:
“This would have been over if you people just wore a mask!!!” is the Dolchstoßlegende of 2020.
No mention of age. Born in great depression. Trump just smothered another young man in his sleep.
81 at least, then. And died “with” covid. Fucker could have had stage 4 lung cancer.
Speaking of Kellyanne…
“Kellyanne Conway: ‘It Looks like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will prevail’ ”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/05/kellyanne-conway-says-it-looks-like-joe-biden-won-election/
Farr wrote that the response has been “vastly positive, but I have seen a few negative comments, including claims that I made my father’s obituary political.”
“Well, his death was political,” Farr wrote. “He died in isolation with an infectious disease that is causing a national crisis. To pretend otherwise or to obfuscate is also a political decision.”
claims that I made my father’s obituary political And in what way is that incorrect?
Blow it out your ass.
Christ, what an asshole.
“Milky Way galaxy map unveiled as astronomers reveal Earth is heading toward a black hole
25,800 light-years away is a huge distance so Earth won’t be anywhere near Sagittarius A* for a long time.”
https://nypost.com/2020/12/04/milky-way-galaxy-map-unveiled-as-astronomers-reveal-earth-is-heading-toward-a-black-hole/
It doesn’t say how fast the Earth is moving though.
Not soon enough
astronomers reveal Earth is heading toward a black hole
Assuming that this is the same article from a few weeks back, this statement is 100% bullshit. Using a different measurement technique, they refined the measurement they took between Sag A and Earth. The refined measurement was marginally closer than the previously measured distance.
TMI Filled With Idiots
Good morning, SP!
And good morning to the rest of you lovely people!
A storage facility near me burned down a few nights ago. Is this some bizarre war on recreation?
What’s not bizarre is your musical selection. Strangely soothing and hypnotic. Thank you!
I hope you all can shake off the ‘vid blues and get out there and do something groovy! I’m gonna hit the trails and listen to Rippetoe’s latest. He’s become my favorite crabby podcaster.
The nature center five miles from my house is having a free admission day! (It’s usually $10 for adults.) Their gift shop is one of my favorite places to go Christmas shopping, and I might just walk a trail or two while I’m there. Plus there’s a new-&-used bookstore just a few miles from there.
Perfect! Have a great day, GT!
Thanks! I will, and I know you will too!
An Anthony Fauci — but at the Cabinet level — for the arts.
Why didn’t I think of that?
A national scold reminding us to ingest our propaganda for our own well-being.
Your mother could hold a baby without dropping it?
legit chuckle.
Bazinga!
I’ll believe in the alien lizard invasion thing before I’ll ever believe that a Fauci-like human is in any way an epitomic leader of any sort. Dude has zero rhetorical style, he’s not physically attractive. He’s a winy little turd and when he speaks my bullshit meter dings a five alarm fire.
Heads rolled.
Don’t forget- things can always get worse
Alright, I’m out for now. Have the best day that you can manage and God bless us Sagittarians!
You’re very entertaining and it is appreciated. Have a good weekend.
Sean bait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geiq5izDJv0
Everyone can appreciate the first ten seconds, then it goes to the hot SIG-on-SIG action
“makes an ideal safe queen and excellent at instagram flexes”
Nice range.
I didn’t recognize him at the time, but his squad was kind of my least favorites.
Interesting. I hate the color on the scorpion. Sig sells axg black lowers though.
I have some thoughts right now about buying a 320 and ordering that lower.
Still won’t be as nice as my P228 tt.
“Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are set to host an Apple docuseries ”
https://twitter.com/THR/status/1335101634498732032
No.
Must miss TV.
“The gender gap here on this vaccine poll is remarkable.
69% of men say they’re likely to take the COVID vaccine.
51% of women say they’re likely to take the COVID vaccine.
Gotta wonder how this ties into social media and online wellness communities.”
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1334908838051504130
Fact checkers, ASSEMBLE!
False reports and claims about COVID-19 cases can cause people to ignore the serious consequences of failing to take precautions that might affect them, their family members and friends.
Bob Anderson, chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch at the National Center for Health Statistics at the CDC, said false claims put people’s lives in danger.
“In this particular instance, this misinformation may cause people to not take this virus serious, not to do their due diligence in terms of preventing the spread,” Anderson told Newsweek. “That’s the biggest risk of misinformation.”
The Claim
In late November, the student-run Johns Hopkins News-Letter published a story, since retracted, about a study claiming that there have been no extra deaths, known as “excess deaths,” in the U.S. this year from COVID-19 compared to deaths expected in an otherwise normal year.
In late November, the student-run Johns Hopkins News-Letter published a story, since retracted, about a study claiming that there have been no extra deaths, known as “excess deaths,” in the U.S. this year from COVID-19 compared to deaths expected in an otherwise normal year.
The Facts
This year, there have been nearly 300,000 excess deaths attributed to COVID-19, as of early October, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
The story was published on November 22, then taken down, with a retraction published on November 27. The retraction said the study cited in the story “has been used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.”
Anderson said taking down the story was warranted.
“The study was retracted by the newsletter for a reason,” Anderson said. “It’s because it wasn’t very good at all.”
The student-run publication said its decision was made “to stop the spread of misinformation,” and it acknowledged that it had inaccurately claimed that there was “no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths” and that number of total deaths were “not above normal death numbers.”
The story, titled “COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data,” reported on a webinar by Genevieve Briand, assistant director of the master’s in Applied Economics program at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The webinar was predicated on Briand’s analyses of publicly available data from the CDC.
In its retraction, the Johns Hopkins student publication said Briand is neither a medical professional nor a disease researcher.
Take that, you uncredentialed obfuscators! You’re killing millions of innocent peepul with your campaign of disinformation and anti-SCIENCE nonsense.
Never mind the whole point of the story was to ask whether those “attributions” were correct; don’t let that stand in the path of the narrative.
“Bar owner in Los Angeles CA is livid to see that mayor Garcetti has approved an outdoor dining area for a movie company directly across from her outdoor dining area (which was shut down)”
https://twitter.com/jakecoco/status/1334993874276786178
“Same thing in NYC, where studio audiences are allowed for SNL but Broadway and restaurants suffer.”
https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1335025431532228616
“LA completely shut down, all travel on “on foot, bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, auto, or public transit prohibited” – but an exception if you work in “music, film and television production””
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1334389792113475590
That’s the same exemption written into every California gun law (with the addition of exempting LE). Fuck ’em.
Come on everybody, say it with me… “We’re all in this together!”
Fuck off, collectivist scum.
And yet, when you share stories like this with the Branch Covidians, they appear to have no problem with it.
Evil or stupid?
Why not the two?
I’m increasingly coming to believe that stupidity and evil are two sides of the same blackened denari…
Hey! SNL audience members are essential workers!
Probably not the only reason you have to pay people to come watch the show.
Multiple ridiculous theaters.
What’s tough about that advice? He can advise us all to get buzz haircuts, and it’s not harsh because no one is going to act on that “advice.”
Same here.
I find the inclusion of the suggested emotional response right there in the headlines to be an annoying new trend.
“Alarming trend”, “spikes ominously”, “harsh advice”, etc.
Just the facts, ma’am.
The “tough advice” is going to turn into “baton-wielding cops” if the king’s subjects don’t take it. They’re just buttering us up for it with that kind of language.
All of the talk of unity sounds so much to my ears like “stop resisting”.
Remember how conservatives complained about a “War on Christmas”?
“While charges against Robert Kraft were dismissed, an immigrant masseuse accused of giving him a handjob has to pay $31,573 and spend a year on probation”
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1334243756300791813
So he’s the only one that got off?
Twice apparently, a twofer!
If Kraft were a mensch, he’d pay her fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoDse9WV9po
Nancy Pelosi (from up thread) on why she refused to settle for $500 billion Covid relief before th election, during which she held out for 2.2 TRILLION dollars, then agreed to the $500 B after the election.
What the hell kind of doublespeak is that? “A place where we can do the right thing”? So not signing wasnt a mistake, but signing is the right thing to do?
Does she hear herself?
What the hell kind of doublespeak is that? “A place where we can do the right thing”? So not signing wasnt a mistake, but signing is the right thing to do?
Now that there is no danger of President Cartoon Villain getting any sort of credit for “helping” we can take whatever can get (for now).
You got to get yore mind right, Son.
The Oregon Medical Board suspended the license of an Oregon doctor who said he refuses to wear a mask in his clinic while also encouraging others to not wear masks.
Dr. Steven LaTulippe told a pro-Trump rally in November that neither he nor his staff wears a mask while working in their Dallas, Ore. clinic. That violates a state order requiring health care workers to wear a face-covering in health care settings.
Members of the medical board voted Thursday evening to suspend LaTulippe’s license immediately. According to a statement on the Oregon Medical Board website, the suspension was issued “due to the board’s concern for the safety and welfare of licensee’s current and future patients.”
Burn the heretics!
Well, if there’s anyone who knows medicine more than a doctor, it’s state bureaucrats.
No room for dissent, or even informed consent.
“State licensure (or registration, or information gathering, etc. etc.) is just there for your protection and would never be used against you!”
In a report updated in late November, the CDC reiterated that multiple studies have shown that widespread use of cloth masks controls the spread of COVID-19.
“Each analysis demonstrated that, following directives from organizational and political leadership for universal masking, new infections fell significantly,” the CDC said.
If that is true, perhaps someone would like to explain to me why each day brings an alarming spike in cases, et c.
“Studies show”
“Experts say”
“Analysis reveals”
According to my model, my model is correct. OBEY.
They could also try to explain why the packaging on the outside of cloth masks states the exact opposite.
I’m sure the FDA would give them a pass if the packaging said otherwise.
I thought claims like those are supposed to be preceded in the media with words such as “false” ” unproven” and “unsubstantiated.”
Vest reply to the Polis tweet
https://twitter.com/degrees23/status/1334650950154211328
*best
Dammit
Did he really do that? Did he seriously just spray a bunch of sheets of paper with Lysol? Please, please tell me I’m hallucinating or that it was artist’s lacquer or something…
Trying to kill the scent of the steaming pile of shit he just signed.
Nothing that Donald Trump has ever done in his life, including Celebrity Apprentice and the pro wrestling appearances, has been as clownshoes as that display. Sweet drunken Enkidu…
For those who haven’t already seen it:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/KuoYigywXCVr/
Link safe as ScrewYouTube has taken it down multiple times.
That was good. I know a lot of people i would like to force clockwork orange stlye to watch that
Another death laid at the feet of you mask denying peasants. If only you’d listened to our benevolent masters this man would still be among us.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9009337/Heartbreaking-note-man-left-family-drowning-lockdown-destroyed-business.html
Yeah, past time to get the hell out.
I mentioned a few months ago that I took in my father who had stage 5 Parkinson’s. He was totally bedridden by the start of November, and the dementia hallucinations were bad. 13 November he had a heart attack and a stroke with bleeding in the right occipital lobe at the parietal junction, right at midline.
He was discharged to home hospice on the 17th, and died at 2000 hrs on November 25. Wife and I slept for 2 days, the kids helped cook on Fri.
In other news, at the same time, we found a place down by San Marcos on an acre with an all-steel 2 bay door insulated workshop that has electric and water already running. Need to get a crossbow for the feral hogs.
We close on the 15th. Wife will be working another 10 years in the lab to pay for the cement pond she wants. We are 2 miles from the San Marcos River, I’m good with a raft and a couple of kayaks.
This place and all of you miscreants have kept me (in)sane through this whole ordeal. You all have my gratitude and thanks.
Thanks everyone. Since he was on the trans-lunar orbital trajectory team for all of the Apollo moon missions (and Apollo-Soyuz/Skylab), going to mix some of his ashes into the telescope pier at the new place.
My condolences
Thank you Mr Solo!
So sorry about your dad
+1
+2
Sorry for your loss.
Congrats on your new place, sounds awesome.
I’m sorry. That’s a hell of a rollercoaster to ride.
Sorry about your dad
Sorry.
Saturday T&A.
https://archive.li/7fVZj
In other news, at the same time, we found a place down by San Marcos on an acre with an all-steel 2 bay door insulated workshop that has electric and water already running. Need to get a crossbow for the feral hogs.
Sounds like things are turning around, a bit. Good luck.
“it sounds like she and her friend are being groomed”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13385747/my-daughter-lives-in-a-three-way-relationship/
wut
Problem #1 – Mummy is 41, daughter is 22.
I’m not saying that if you have a kid prior to your mid-twenties that you might as well just hand them over to the porn industry to raise. But I’m not not saying it, either.
Fun fact. My wife went to school with a slag that banged Ron Jeremy. But who hasent right?
The defense of the CCTV showing the manufactured ballots in Atlanta being rolled out from under a draped table, to be counted after the poll watchers were sent home:
“I swear, baby, it’s not what it looks like! She was just modeling some lingerie for me that I was gonna buy for you, and I accidentally tripped and my dick accidentally fell inside her vagina! I pinky swear, baby!”
Splitters! CHEATS!
Two weeks after beating COVID-19, Thierry Salamin huffs as his ski boots crunch through Swiss snow near the Matterhorn peak, readying for a downhill run with his mood as bright as his blue and fluorescent yellow ski getup and the sun overhead.
The 31-year-old real estate agent from the southwestern Swiss region of Wallis can’t believe he is skiing during a pandemic, let alone one that he personally endured — and which has driven a wedge between his country and its Alpine neighbors over where people can ski, and where they can’t.
While the coronavirus resurgence has led Austria, France, and Italy to shut or severely restrict access to their ski stations this holiday season, Switzerland has kept its slopes open — a move that has fanned grumbling about an unlevel playing field when it comes to Alpine fun.
“It’s true, we’re privileged,” said Salamin, enthusing about the “paradise” of the Zermatt slopes and gesturing over the ridgeline toward Italy. “It’s too bad that people can’t go skiing on the Italian side, because those slopes are magnificent.”
The discord among countries during the worst pandemic in a century cuts across issues of health, business, economy, culture and wellbeing. But it also violates one of the key tenets that the World Health Organization promotes to help fight COVID-19: solidarity.
Those damned Swiss. What makes them think they can opt out of the most crucial battle in the history of human existence?
“solidarity”
I. Fucking. Hate. That. Word.
Every time I hear it it reminds me of the horrors of communism. It’s kinda like when “Imagine” comes on the radio, I can’t turn it off fast enough.
That word is worse than “unity” for invoking thoughts of “stop resisting”.
With a survival rate of like 98% at his age, goodness what a miracle. He should be ashamed of enjoying himself after that struggle.
I think you mean 99.98% survival at his age, and essentially, for someone that age healthy enough to ski, it’s a risk of zero.
“Tourism is our only income, it’s our life,” said Zermatt mayor Romy Biner-Hauser in an interview.
“Nobody wants to be a hotspot, nobody wants to be a super spreader,” she said. “Where is the difference (between) doing outdoor activity … (in) the sun, the fresh air, mountains, versus a shopping mall in a big city? And nobody has given me that answer so far.”
You don’t seriously expect logic or rationality, do you, Shirley?
Lol, 3 year olds… Mine was melting down as I was heading out the door to pick up chickfila because she didn’t want to go and she was convinced I was taking her imaginary friend with me. ?
Oh, ye of little faith
As Cadillac gears up to become a manufacturer of electric vehicles, it’s reached a point where it needs to start preparing its dealer network for the change. This means lots of costly and mandatory upgrades to their facilities for franchised dealers unless GM gives them a way out of their franchise agreements.
According to a report published Friday by the Wall Street Journal, that’s precisely what GM is doing. Specifically, GM is giving Cadillac dealers a choice between giving up their ability to sell any Cadillac and taking a buyout or investing hundreds of thousands of dollars into an uncertain future.
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“The future dealer requirements are a logical and necessary next step on our path towards electrification,” said Rory Harvey, global brand chief for Cadillac, in a statement. “Those who aren’t ready to make that commitment are getting fair compensation for exiting the brand.”
The trepidation from the dealer network is understandable when you look at the changes in the auto industry as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and with the public’s relatively slow adoption of electric vehicles. Add in Cadillac’s unproven record with EVs, and that leaves a lot of room for things to go wrong.
Maybe those dealers know their customers better than the technowizards at Cadillac’s New York HQ.
Excuse to trim down their dealer network. Both for the short term and when they decide to start selling direct a la Tesla.
Isn’t the car sales model enshrined in a number of state laws across the country. You can’t violate the law just to sell something!
Less dealers means less opposition to changing those laws.
“Relatively slow adoption of electric vehicles”?
For Cadillac, 99.85% of their sales are for non-EV cars. And their sales have cratered because Tesla is eating their lunch.
So, unless “relatively slow” now means “extremely slow”, not so much.