SP and I mostly eschew pretentious “fine” dining, but we do make an exception on occasion. And one of them is a monthly expedition to our favorite PHX-area restaurant, a place run by a James Beard Award winning chef, whose food really does live up to the hype. Last night was December’s outing. Problem is, they have an actually good wine list, very heavy on serious Beaujolais, which we really, really like. Shall I go on…? In any case, that’s my excuse for links today being slightly limp.
You know who else might be a bit hungover? Some of today’s birthday celebrants, including a very famous conductor; a famously batshit crazy wife; a guy who had every right to say (about WW1) “I can’t see that we did any good,” then got shat on by the IRS; a guy whose illustrious career was lined with bad decisions, corruption, and total amoral incompetence; a guy who defied cirrhosis and may have fucked Mary Tyler Moore in her prime; the favorite punching bag of the press, who were totally not racist; a guy who doesn’t need to be parodied; another corrupt and incompetent sack of shit; and yet another corrupt and incompetent sack of shit; and finally, an absolutely wonderful actor, who seems to be an excellent person as well.
Let’s do some news.
Cripple Fight or Bum Fight? You decide.
This got about 2% of the news coverage of the execution of the child torturer/murderer. Huh.
This is fucking hilarious. Don’t anyone tell me about how there’s actually a difference between the Teams.
“This complicates diplomatic efforts by the Biden administration.”
How long before this is discovered to be a hoax, and that correction is put on Page 27?
And today, the ultimate Old Guy. Willie’s cover is one of the few that redefines a song.
“This is our chance to make the rubes pay attention to us for once, and we’re not going to blow it.”
Pretty much. They finally get to live out their fantasies of being Dustin Hoffman in Outbreak.
It took awhile, but I’ve come to the same conclusion.
Mornin’
*waves hi*
“”A wise man once said that no one should call himself ‘Dr.’ unless he has delivered a child.””
Does it work in reverse?
“This story would never have been written about a man.”
Yeah, sure.
“”I just caught up to this hot trash take on Dr Biden. A white guy with a BA bragging about his teaching career in academia as in part justification as to why Jill Biden shouldn’t be using her doctorate in education she earned is peak white male supremacy,” tweeted Democratic political strategist Atima Omara.”
Peak white supremacy?
Forget it, you’ll never understand due to your privilege.
Only if you don’t include literal Nazi’s in the 30s and 40s.
What about the KKK? Or the Democrats from the Civil War to the 1960’s?
The nazis controlled a government that laid waste to “lesser” people while prosecuting a war that killed countless millions. I think that is worse.
Not to defend Doc Jill (I can attest to the fact that an MS in Ed is no big whoop,) but that’s a bit extreme. Brain surgeons need not apply?
I argue that a PhD in education is actually evidence of retardation.
Bragging about a PhD Ed is evidence of retardation.
Dr. William Cosby hardest hit.
People have been ridiculing such Dr.’s my whole life. You’re not special, Jill.
I think that this take is pretty accurate. To wit:
In educated communities in the U.S. today, insisting on being called “Doctor So-and-so” is correlated with three things:
– interacting professionally mainly with people who do not have doctoral degrees, and wanting to assert one’s educational status;
– having relatively low status within the population of people who have doctorates;
– being somewhat insecure or status-conscious overall.
I would posit that there’s an inverse relationship between the rigor of terminal degree and the insistence of the recipient that she (and it’s almost always a she) be addressed as “doctor.”
?
I personally encountered one of those recently. The wife was the insistent party, demanding her husband be referred to as doctor (business administration).
Hmm… maybe I should have folks in general (and my wife in particular) as “Master”, then.
I’ve posted this article before. Even if you don’t speak German, you should get the gist of it.
Doing the Thompson Twins one better.
Robert Palmer did it better.
Actually, it’s two real doctorates; the third one is short for Doktor honoris causa multiplex for the multiple honorary doctorates the guy received.
My 11th grade American History teacher was a Dr.
She was kind of… prickly, if a good teacher. We all kind of inwardly rolled our eyes at it.
One of my high school history teachers had a doctorate in history.
He almost never talked about it.
He was one of my best teachers in high school.
My 12th grade bio teacher was a Dr.
He sucked. He never, ever had a lesson plan. He was nice enough, but not sure I learned anything in his class.
My 11th grade bio teacher, on the other hand, not a Dr., was amazing. He wore these colorful polyester sport coats. He was a great teacher – I learned so much in his class, especially about genetics.
This is absolutely 100% true, except for the “almost always a she” part. I’ve seen plenty of males do it as well.
Funny.
My wife’s uncle, who was an obstetrician who owned and ran a maternity clinic, employing a team of obstetricians, and had personally delivered over 26,000 babies during his career, never seemed to even care to be called by the Japanese title for “doctor”,
No one should call themselves Dr. unless they have a P.h.D.
A physician is not a doctor. They are a technician unless they have done actual research.
since we’re all retelling our stories because this came up again again:
FirstWife has a PhD in nursing, so………
Hello
NurseDoctor!I remember.
It seemed like so long ago.
Willie Nelson. One of the great crossover artists in popular music, the Texas legend pulled off a Martin Luther King Jr.-like achievement by uniting hippies and rednecks in a single audience. An inadvertent hero to tax resisters everywhere, Nelson brought the battle against puritanism to the very roof of the Carter White House, where he famously smoked dope to relieve his—and our—national malaise.
2003 was such an innocent time.
Something, something, black Santa and ho ho ho
And when will autocorrect start capitalizing black?
I am tempted to start writing it not as “Black” but as “BLACK”. I wonder how those who self-promote themselves to be the judges of wrongthink would react to that? (I only wonder. I don’t actually care.)
Listen, Sugar Tits. You have millions of economic innumerates following you on Twitter. We know how to grift. Let’s monetize this.
Now that Trump is effectively done, the Lincoln Project needs a fresh source of rubes. AOC has gobs of them
I agree with both of these takes.
True
“AOC rails against $7 minimum wage and gives ‘shout out to my fellow radicals’ as she cooks Whole Foods meal while wearing controversial $58 ‘Tax The Rich’ sweatshirt”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046227/AOC-rails-against-7-minimum-wage-shout-fellow-radicals-cooks-Foods.html
Speaking of hangovers – how is the sobering up from being drunk on conspiracy theories coming? Taibbi as usual has some good perspective…
Start with the headline: Supporting the 2020 U.S. Election. YouTube in its company blog can’t even say, “Banning Election Conspiracy Theories.” They have to employ the Orwellian language of politicians — Healthy Forests, Clear Skies, “Supported” Elections — because Google and YouTube are now political actors, who can’t speak plainly any more than a drunk can walk in a straight line.
taibbi.substack.com
Conspiracy theories! The problems with the election are as numerous and obvious as crop circles . . . they are literally EVERYWHERE!!!!!1!1!1!
Speaking of obvious conspiracies, how else do you explain 98.28429739% of Trump’s lawsuits getting tossed. That, sir, is no accident. The fix is clearly in when a man’s own appointees reject him over and over and even Republican governors can’t even deliver wins. How else do you explain all the people who voted against Trump and ignored the entire downballot!!!! Well!?!!?111? Don’t tell me that millions of people made special trips to vote against the most libertarian president of all time and didn’t go on down to check off dog catcher and court clerk. It’s a scam buddy, pure and simple.
Even Barr won’t behave: our poor president left alone and undefended and only able to tweet his objections. What else could it be but a conspiracy when every attorney a man hires can’t make progress, can’t do his job, won’t stay in line!?
WHY OH WHY IS THE PRESIDENT FAILED BY THESE ATTORNEYS11111!1! It’s a fix, a clear, epic fix of historical proportion!!!!!!!!!!!!
The entire American Bar – captive to the Illuminati (who control the real Kraken).
Country Charlie is gone, I’m guessing he kissed an Angel Good Morning.
I’ll miss him but at least I can listen to his cds. RIP Charlie.
We can’t outrun the long arms of the calendar.
Willie lives!
“At least four protesters are stabbed during violent clashes between Proud Boys and Antifa after 15,000 Trump fans attended the Million MAGA March in DC while a demonstrator is shot at a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in Washington state”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047473/Proud-Boys-BLM-fight-Stop-Steal-rally-DC-protester-shot-Washington.html
“Alex Jones says Joe Biden will be removed ‘one way or another’, while Rudy’s star witness Melissa Carone says Trump is the ‘best president we’ve had’ in front of 15,000 protesters at the Million MAGA March”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047641/Alex-Jones-says-Joe-Biden-removed-one-way-Million-MAGA-March.html
This video is purported to be a bit of the DC violence.
https://mobile.twitter.com/rooshv/status/1337977677320478720
NPR this morning is stating the Proud Boys leader went to the white house yesterday and they are a symbol of how right wing extremist groups have grown under the Trump years. They attack random people minding their own business in the streets if they think the person is a liberal.
Defund NPR.
NPR should be have a MOAB dropped on them.
Here are some screenshots of their partisan hackery.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1337188907214123009
And most of the country will never hear about it.
Surely they provided specific examples of such with context.
Proud Boys leader…symbol of how right wing extremist
He is a black Cuban.
Wow, I thought I was showing up late. Where is everybody?
“Florida Gators star Keyontae Johnson in critical condition in hospital after collapsing in the middle of the game – months after testing positive for COVID”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046577/Florida-Gators-star-Keyontae-Johnson-critical-condition-collapsing-middle-game.html
That’s some implied cause and effect.
Like many of his Florida teammates, Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 during the summer. Although the cause of Johnson’s ailment was not immediately known, the coronavirus can lead to myocarditis, a viral infection of the heart muscle. At its most severe, myocarditis can lead to sudden cardiac arrest and has been a documented cause of death for young, otherwise healthy athletes.
The Southeastern Conference mandates strict protocols, including rigorous heart testing, before players can be cleared to return to play following positive COVID-19 tests.
When the cause of his collapse is known (if it ever is), and shown not to be the ‘Vid, this will be memory holed.
If myocarditis were as common as the panic-mongers want it to be, we would have been seeing all sorts of news stories of young people suffering from it. Yet we haven’t.
And if you don’t think we would have been seeing such stories, think back to the screaming media panic over teen vaping.
Myocarditis is also a potential complication from all of the other respiratory infections that have been ignored the last century. COVID is not special in that regard. It also often resolves on its own over time.
Funny how quickly that went down the memory-hole.
Bigger moral panics always crowd out the smaller ones.
The ads are still on TV in my neck of the woods.
Now it’s some bullshit about heavy metals.
Heavy metals that collect in your lungs and then transform into a giant metal monster that bursts out like an alien and kills the world. Or something like that, except now the human is a hip BLACK dude.
Everybody that gets the Rona dies!!
So does everyone who doesn’t get the Rona.
It makes you wonder how people were able to die before the ‘Rona happened?
Everyone knows that Hank Gathers is just a myth.
But Col. Hunter Gathers is very real. 😉
months after testing positive for COVID
The propaganda runs deep.
That’s just shameless.
“New Jersey congressman urges Nancy Pelosi to BAR 126 Republicans from the House for backing Donald Trump’s failed Texas lawsuit, claiming they violated the Constitution by trying to ‘install a dictator’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9046821/A-New-Jersey-lawmaker-called-Nancy-Pelosi-BAR-126-members-backed-Trumps-Texas-lawsuit.html
I’m no civics expert, but that’s retarded.
Old man yelling at clouds, literally.
I…um…what? Censure that cunte because she is explicitly violating the provision of the Constitution that states all State delegations must be seated.
Is CNN arguing that the Biden administration requires conflict in the Middle East in order to be effective?
Surely acknowledging that Morocco controls some empty area of sand which their forces already occupy most of will have as many negative externalities as the Treaty of Versailles.
the process has undermined consensus among America’s allies.
Well…darn.
Requires it, but the MSM won’t talk about it so leftists can pretend to be anti-war.
An honest to God, populist revolt against the TMITE and the establishment, as in, standing ones ground and telling them to shove it, is the way forward. As far as this translates into politics, I feel it will only gather enough traction when centered on Bad Orange Man, for all his ills. Whether that’s via a complete upending of the Republican party to sufficiently marginalize the Lincoln Project appeasers and collaborators, or via splitting off to form a new party and taking away the bulk of his voting base, I don’t know. The first one would be very difficult given the entrenched dynasties that have metastatized in the establishment, but the second would seem to just split the vote and hand a sure victory to democrats in 2024. Hmm. I’m missing a lot of the pieces of this puzzle.
Populism and libertarian don’t really go together, do they? Well slap my ass and call me Sally; the last four years, and especially this one, have given me a lot to consider. Was Krugabe right when he said that libertarians had “thrown in with Trump”? I think there’s a marginal amount of truth to that, in the douche vs turd sense, with the alternate position being the conscientious abstainer refusing their implied consent, or voting LP in a fit of madness. Hell of a choice.
It’s a choice of going down the toilet swirling to the left, or to the right (even if that might be ever so slightly slower). There is no point in pretending otherwise, that there is some great awakening the American people are on the verge of. That suddenly, 100M people will stand up demanding liberty, because the truth is, while they might want it for themselves, most of them are perfectly fine with “hey buddy, stop doing that” for everyone else.
We’re I feeling especially ornery, I might be tempted to call you out as “low-energy Juris”, and a “big, fat mess” for that kind of attitude. It echoes the cynical attitude of progressives toward human nature. Maybe it’s not a majority (and never will be), but there are enough good people who, although mixed in with the rest of the Republican crowd, stand firmly for core libertarian values, and make a concerted effort to fight back against such demoralization.
It’s not cynicism it’s reality but there’s nothing wrong with being an optimist. The vast majority of Republicans pick their libertarian values like they’re choosing at a buffet and those on the left are even more hopeless.
I suppose if I was feeling particularly Ted S.-like I’d be ornery about that sadly misplaced apostrophe. [s-e-g]
Realism isn’t always comforting, as narratives, myths and conspiracies are. We are a decadent society, and reversing decay is no easy thing. Even 9/11 was terribly temporary in it’s tonic effect. And sadly, for the good people you note, there are an equal number of people that want nothing to do with responsibility for themselves. They are easy pickings for deceitful power-hungry lizard people.
If we had a decent elite, they might pull us through, but I’m certainly not investing hope in that.
Concluding that it’s hopeless lets you off the hook.
It is more a matter of avoiding delusions. If that means there is no hope, then that says something about humankind.
Calling a PHD of anything Doctor is common with Germans from my experience, also demanding one be called Doctor having a PHD in anything other than medicine in the US is usually an asshole.
Hell, even the medical doctors I know wouldn’t insist on being called “doctor” outside of the professional setting.
I think demanding someone call you a doctor even when you’re in medicine means you’re probably an asshole.
You can make the argument for these sorts of things within various work settings, simply to help enforce a certain “chain of command.” The chain of command involving me and Jill Biden is the same as the chain of command as me and the homeless person sleeping at the bus stop: none whatsoever.
I think demanding someone call you a doctor even when you’re in medicine means you’re probably an asshole.
This is it, full-stop. Titles are for your profession and not outside of it regardless of MD, DO, PhD, or the myriad ‘fill-in-the-blank’ doctorates. Universal exemption when dealing with the government.
I like this “no center seat use” on Delta, not hot on the whole face diaper.
One of my favorites.
If you haven’t yet, you must see ‘The Death of Stalin’. Funny, and well written movie. You get a good clear sense of how ruthless the Old Bolsheviks were. Towards each other.
Yah, on my wish-list.
“MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell accuses Fox News of trying to ‘overthrow the Trump administration’ and says network staff should go to prison at Stop The Steal rally in DC”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047957/MyPillow-CEO-speaks-Stop-Steal-rally-accuses-Fox-News-trying-defeat-Trump.html
Does this mean he is going to pull his commercials?
I think he sees a market opportunity; there are alternative uses for pillows.
Way to take the air out of the room.
market opportunity
He’ll rest easy if it works out.
“‘We will never back down to the Satanic pedophile, globalist New World Order and their walking-dead reanimated corpse Joe Biden, and we will never recognize him,’ Jones continued.”
He seems a bit ambivalent.
I don’t mind whatever insanity bedevils Jones’ mind, or even that he shares it with people. I just prefer to neither indulge in it, nor in any other way be associated with it.
My hair hurts.
On the other hand, the Chignard Julienas was worth it.
Been there
“This sub-headline is the most Media-in-2020 thing ever:”
https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1337772441918189568
OFFS!!!
Always stay on message.
I assume the story argues the investigation is a political hit.
I think the Lincoln Project is in its own alternate reality at this point. How many card-carrying GOPers are actually supporting those clowns?
They’re just leftists who like war returning to the fold. If they can identify the right enemy to bomb they’ll get along just fine with the AOC faction.
The money all came from big Democrat supporters. The only reason it wasn’t 100% false flag was because they could find a few semi-legit mouthpieces willing to take their 30 pieces of silver.
Seriously, if you were looking for a front to syphon off money to forlorn hopes, I don’t think you could have done better than the Lincoln project. How much did they raise to oust Grahm and have him win by 10 points?
It’s almost as if they really did represent the Stupid Party isn’t it ? Even if funded by the Evil Party.
How many card-carrying GOPers are actually supporting those clowns?
I’m guessing Romney and ilk. Any of the GOP swamp who loudly demand a return to reasonableness and great concession speeches.
I wonder if it comes with a blanket?
What you did there – I see it.
“the process has undermined consensus among America’s allies”
Heaven forfend!
*succumbs to the vapors*
According to Wikipedia, Clinton & Bush both recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the region. Bipartisan letters from both the house and the senate asked Obama to do the same.
Apparently the main concern is that Western Sahara would not be a viable state.
My guess is that Morocco refused to pay a significant tribute to the Obama administration to get his royal seal of approval. In Chicago politics, nothing of value to someone else is given away for free, even if it is meaningless to you.
That is one of the stupidest lines. Someone has to lead. Since we have the money and the military, that someone is us. I get soliciting your friends’ opinions but they don’t get to decide for you.
Nice birthday list, Old Man. Enough sacks of shit to keep Mrs. Presky happy for a few years.
Admit it, you just want to hit this Jew on the head with a bag of sugar.
Might cure what ails you, no?
“most in the profession, or at least the vast majority of those interviewed for the piece, believe that masks and some form of social distancing should continue for years, if not forever”
…thus finally admitting in public what many of us have been saying for months; the oligarchy has found a shiny new toy and they’re not going to give it up.
Even suggesting that deserves an excommunication.
Atomize people and fill the void where personal relationships used to be with sweet sweet government. Sounds like a plan.
Definitely nothing to be read in to the fact that this aligns very nicely with the communist hatred for community and family.
Slutty Sunday comes in pairs.
https://archive.li/drHtg
Yes to all. And with 8 you get 2 pairs. Or is it 4 pairs? //teehee
I have a PhD. I do not make people call me “Dr.” This is not because I don’t think it counts but because I don’t want to be an asshole.
Jill Biden, for a myriad of other reasons beyond title vanity, is an asshole.
Dr Tits it is.
I was waiting for this. Took you long enough.
I know. I blame not being hungover.
I’ll allow it.
*spit take*
Maybe it’s just me, but I like ‘Dr. Knockers’.
Dr. Double Dee?
My mindset is that it’s okay in the professional setting where the title is appropriate. Demanding to be called doctor outside of it, is asshole.
I have several co-workers who has 30-something step daughters who demand the honorific. From what I understand, they are quite arrogant. My co-workers basically say, “Make me.” That’s my point of view too.
Moderately Hungover Links
You’re telling me…
Virus Avoidance Is Not the Whole of Life
I, for one, welcome our new health-tyrant overlords.
Cripple Fight or Bum Fight? You decide.
Ho fight.
Lincoln Project Founder Asks AOC to Work With His GOP Anti-Trump Organization
Lincoln was about domination. A socialist would fit right in.
Trump deal with Morocco is yet another headache for Biden team
I read a few paragraphs and failed to see what the “headache” is. I assume it is because it is bad for the warfare state.
How long before this is discovered to be a hoax, and that correction is put on Page 27?
Word. No one says “negro” anymore.
Mystery of booming sound in New Jersey apparently solved
A true king.
Essentially just a vortex cannon ?
Another night of little to no sleep. Made even more better by gale force wind.
And now- Chuck Todd’s overblown hysterical sermonizing. Can life get any better?
Despite President Cartoon Villain’s worst efforts, salvation is coming, in the form of a Joe Biden administration.
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/1337884128130314240
What?
One of my little bastar – uh- cats discovered that he can open the tabletop oven. God forbid there be a tiny morsel of a breadcrumb that might escape his reach. Dude is a total carbo. I have seen him run off with a loaf of bread. Another time I was wondering what happened to some hotdog buns I had bought while putting away groceries only to find him under the bed with his head buried in the bag.
When we still had Hans (RIP), I always had to buy banana nut bread at the grocery store so he could have his morning fix and stay out of my shit.
“Deciding who gets the vaccine first.”
It’s a crypto-Stalinist wet dream. Especially the part about forcing people to take it.
“ALL that documentation about efficacy and safety! Why aren’t anxiously waiting in line?”
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to all of you.
Thanks for the lynx. AIER has been consistently awesome throughout this whole mess. What I’ve been reading about how – maybe – we can resume life late next year just pisses me off. I hope there is more sanity among the unwashed masses than the Cathedral.
From the Iran article:
Uh, what kind of action, exactly? My prediction: bombings in Syria and Iran before next fall. War mongers are stoked.
Now that’s a good Old Guy music selection. Something about WN always makes me think things are gonna be all right.
Enjoy your Sunday, people!
SCIENTISTS, dammit!
Berobed anointed High Holy Wizards of SCIENCE have deemed this fit for you.
And don’t pretend you can just toss that mask. We want to see your visible pledge of loyalty and obeisance.
We want to see your visible pledge of loyalty and obeisance.
You are going to be disappointed.
I understand that Gov. Cunteface’s new orders do no take effect until Monday. If it is so imperative why the delay? ///rhetorical
“AUSTRIA: An Austrian MP tested Coca-Cola for Covid-19 and the results were positive.”
https://twitter.com/apexworldnews/status/1337657361889169410
New Coke comes with corona and tastes like Pepsi.
Its a cute PR stunt, but flawed on so many levels. I still got a sensible chuckle, tho.
We have to get them darkies in line.
“Yes, @NYGovCuomo sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched.
I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years.”
https://twitter.com/LindseyBoylan/status/1338125549756182529
Will he be brought low by a Twitter accusation of being a misogynistic twat rather than for screwing up and killing thousands as well as wrecking his state’s economy? Strange times…
No way. He’s a prominent Dem therefore his sexual harassment doesn’t count. See also: Tara Reade (remember her?)
FTA: “He looked at me kind of almost puzzled or shocked,” she said. “He said, ‘Come on, man, I heard you liked me.’”
Im not sure if I believe that or not, but I laughed.
Is this a sign of a return to ‘normalcy’?
First shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine leaves Michigan facility
Footage of the vaccine transport
Uh oh that’s not good.
I actually have access to this first batch and can get it if I want. I’m torn between the risk/lack of necessity of taking it vs. having a ready-made excuse to tell people to STFU about my refusal to wear masks.
I guess I could just lie that I’ve had it.
Did I read that the manufacturer still isn’t sure that it can prevent you from spreading it?
Better get used to the mask hysteria.
They’ll try and seize on that but it’s a losing game. You’re 95% protected then wearing a mask is a waste of time.
Yeah, they’ve already said masks aren’t going away.
They can try, but the argument is just much weaker.
There’s not a good faith debate going on here. Do you think that somehow, after 9 months of de-facto martial law and hardly a peep from the populace, we’re gonna get a popular uprising covered by the neutral and unbiased media when masks don’t go away after the vaccine is introduced?
Nah, it’s gonna be more of the same, more of TMITE carrying water for the totalitarians. More deferred hope from the masses, and more indignation from the prog left against anybody who dare step out of line.
I known you’re a libertarian and don’t like to be compelled to do anything but take the vaccine. The risk is low and then you can fight harder not complying with stupid rules.
I am in no way in a group that will be offered the vaccine early but I am thinking no to ever taking it anyways. Hell, I don’t get a flu shot. The rumors floating around on this thing are a bit disturbing even if partially true. Question to those in the know: is it true this is the first rna vaccine of this kind and it may have severe detrimental affects in the long term by changing your immune system?
could be since there’s no way to know long term effects. I’m confused though by what mechanism it would fuck up
your immune system. I don’t see how that’s scientifically possible but also am not an expert.
And that’s the thing if this is indeed the first vaccine of this kind. Who knows what it will do in the long term. I am no expert either. I just know what I read on the interwebs. And ya, we know that is all true.
! This claim about the vaccine is disputed.
It is the first of it’s kind and there is no way to know about any long term side effects, it’s still in trials.
We’ll only know about the long term side effects after it kills 80% of the population, feature not bug.
Here’s a good article on the development process.
It’s new technology, new manufacturing and a tight time frame. What could go wrong?
All for a bug that just isn’t that deadly.
Caution seems prudent.
I think if you’re not in a category that is likely to die from this then in normal circumstances I don’t see why you would bother getting it. Which is a big problem the bureaucrats have.
On the other hand, there is that siren call of possible relative freedom if you take it? Not gonna lie. It was a factor in my taking the vaccine.
I get that, but it’s like trying to stay quiet so daddy doesn’t get mad and beat us.
What about the next bug? Or the bug after that?
Freedom ain’t coming from those motherfuckers, no matter how many times we get jabbed.
It all depends, though, on whether they can win the argument.
Nobody thinks it reasonable that I “social distance” or avoid going places now.
When I’m out on the kids’ soccer fields, I’ll still often bring a face mask to comply with the rules but I get a lot of “don’t bother” from parents and the thing comes down below my chin a lot. Many of parents keep their face mask down when talking to me.
In the end, I think people wear the face mask because it’s such a low cost thing. But if people don’t think a bureaucrats rules are reasonable, they aren’t gonna really do them. It doesn’t matter what bullshit they come up with. They’ve gotta convince people. And I don’t think they will.
C’mon man, we’re all in this together.
Well, OK, not you and me but the rest of the team. I’m with you. No more vaccines, no more colonoscopies (unless there is visual evidence)
A friend’s mom, 91, nursing home, recovered from the 19.
Now, if I can get that Alzheimer’s retarding pill I’d be on that.
The worst part is wait-and-see won’t help: there will be a million claimed side-effects by the crop circle types, and the academic review will be slow and then ambiguous once released. It took them 50 years to admit they’re zapping tits too much, and I can find 100 articles that prove coffee or wine is bad for you . . . or that they’re not.
I get the flu shot usually because I think it’s low risk: I’m getting bits and bits of more and more varieties of the crap. I’m hoping it can’t hurt and is something like kids eating dirt: makes you tough.
“I can find 100 articles that prove coffee or wine is bad for you . . . or that they’re not.”
Not only that, you can find 100 studies that those articles are based on.
SCIENCE! Is no longer science when it comes to research, because it’s all biased and based on a goal depending on what the giver of the grant wants to find. And they WILL find it, or no more grants.
Corona vaccine give latent PTSD to veterans. If you or any of your relatives, friends, acquaintances, neighbors have had the vaccine you may be eligible for compensation.
Dial 1-800-Corona Vaccine-19 Comp, a lawyer is standing by.
Especially in the social sciences where, quite frankly, most are innumerate.
Apparently yo haven’t seen the beginning of EVERY single zombie movie.
There is some sort of a “trust deficit” in this country. Can you believe it?
It is rather hard to believe considering that the very same Sunday shows how complaining about that lack of trust sat on the Hunter Biden story until after Senile Joe “won” the election. Now that they’ve accomplished their mission, they can toss ol’ Joe under the bus for Empress Kamala. I mean, if they had actually reported it, their political allies would have had a much larger deficit to overcome with phony ballots! Couldn’t have that!
The trust deficit, like election rigging, is a conspiracy theory.
Yes, we don’t trust our betters – largely because the whole betters narrative is THEIR creation, not ours.
Nothing a little truth and reconciliation won’t solve.
C’mon lady, are you an amateur? You just stop taking birth control and/or use a needle to poke holes in the condom!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13458110/desperate-for-a-third-child/
Do you even selfishly devious bro?
WRT “Doktor” Jill Biden- everyone should just be like me and just buy theirs. After all only once everyone is a Ph.D and doctoral equality is achieved, can we move forward and begin healing as a nation. Evidently ULC lowered their high standards even more, and are letting theirs go for the bargain of $20. Mine was $35, but worth it for the chance to insist people call me “Doctor Cool”.
I always carry a fish around with me for a reason.
wut
Fish for a dick ?
Its like the jokes write themselves….
achtung!
So it’s old, so who knows what they’re implying:
a/ flesh makes flesh doesn’t make any sense to me
b/ flesh gives flesh might be the point: a trade
ich denke: flesh for flesh, but then why not “fleisch fuer fleisch?”
of course, our connotations were not their connotations
I’m voting “gay cock-hungry cat prefers dick to stanky vagina that smells like old fish”.
I recognized a German font, so that was my spin. But what font is Jiddisch written in . . . probably the Hebrew alphabet? Maybe I missed something?
Well, that’s different.
/Minnesoda accent
| I always carry a fish around with me for a reason.
Oh, because yours is detachable ?
I don’t even have to click it. Thanks for enacting my labor.
Glib recognize Glib, yo
King Missile!
Tall Cans!
Kroger has 10/$10 24 oz Milwaukee’s Beast Diet again. And I worked all night.
HEY YUFUS!
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy – W C Fields
Some additional details and context.
Blah blah blah. Moralizing twats completely mischaracterize the fundamental basis of arguments about lawsuits against electoral “anomalies”.
Totalitarianism is what’s at stake!!!!
What a despicable little weasel. Chuckie’s talking about how “shopping has changed in the Plague Age”.
“If you have quit going to the gym, maybe you ordered fitness equipment on line.”
Why would somebody quit going to the gym, Chuckie? It couldn’t be because your totalitarian shitheel governor forced it to close, could it?
Assuming you have room for a home gym (good luck in an apartment), money for equipment, and you can even find it ( gym equipment has been about as available as ammo).
All those people saying “Obama’s third term!” are nuts.
In fairness, only 22A saved you from Bill’s third and fourth terms.
Progressives are vocally complaining about it being a third Obama term. That’s not progressive enough.
Bush’s fifth term!
I like the AIER article.
Emhoff, the incoming second gentleman, defended Biden’s title and implicitly accused the publication of sexism. “Dr. Biden earned her degrees through hard work and pure grit,” he tweeted on Saturday afternoon. “She is an inspiration to me, to her students, and to Americans across this country. This story would never have been written about a man.”
Huh. My first was of folks slamming Clarence Thomas as an affirmative action appointment to the Supreme Court.
Any Glibs have recommendations for a techy/programmer/develop experienced with Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP? One of our clients implemented via an incompetent VAR and is now unable to access data. Location is Iowa in-case any relatively local Glibs have interest.
I’m sure it’s a long story, but one wonders if the access problem has anything to do with the D365 configuration at all if they can’t see anything
10am: just heard fourth magazine empties across the lagoon and up in town. The dope dealing crowd should still be asleep.
I haven’t the slightest idea what any of that means (except Iowa), but I am happy to see you around again!
How’s things?
Cold! It’s been a-bit hectic with clients and multiple Covid quarantines for the offspring (plus his job anxiety). Hope all is well in the Tundra household!
The 17-year-old has been diarrheaing & barfing all over the last couple days. I switched his food back in Oct, and all was good until Friday. There’s lots of undigested chunks of the new food (Farmer’s Dog) in it.
I putting him back on Wellness. Poor little thing shouldn’t have to deal with this. He’s too skinny, too…I may put him on puppy food.
Ugh, sorry Kristen. That’s rough – poor pup.
“Dr. Biden earned her degrees through hard work and pure grit,” he tweeted on Saturday afternoon. “She is an inspiration to me, to her students, and to Americans across this country. This story would never have been written about a man.”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Glad you can find it amusing. I think he should be bitch slapped until he is on his knees crying.
There is precisely zero grit required to get an education degree. In fact, the more grit you have the more likely you are to wash out of it due to a combination of boredom and contempt. You will never find a more coddling bunch of cliquish narcissists than in an education department. And, of course, the current strain of cultural Marxism spread through those departments like wildfire. They are self-absorbed halfwits with over-important titles and fragile, inflated senses of self-worth, and they will backstab and whine their way into power then drive out anyone who cares about teaching others instead of glorifying themselves, tries hard, or dissents from the progressive dogma du jour.
One epidemiologist declares that “[b]eing in close proximity to people I don’t know will always feel less safe than it used to.”
I guess he has never ridden the subway.
NH Restaurants closing for the winter
Some Granite State restaurants are making the tough decision to close their businesses during the winter because of the COVID-19 pandemic. News 9 spoke with two business owners about why they will not open their doors again until the spring.
Another good one:
When Do We Start Coming out of the Covid-19 Mass Hysteria?
9 months in and still not one fucking word from our betters about Type 2 beetus, Vitamin D and obesity. It’s almost as if they don’t care about their subjects…
Fumento is once again correct. Just like he was about the AIDS panic mongers back in the day.
Loudon, NH business fined for breaking Lil Rona edicts
The Loudon Country Village Store was fined $2,000 for failing to wear masks. One of the store’s owners, Dawn Plourde, said they want a hearing to contest it. She said they were following social distancing guidelines.
“Let us use some common sense and let us use our head and that’s what we’ve been standing on from the very beginning,” Plourde said. “It’s not as a business or personally that we disbelieve COVID. We do use caution. Do we require the masks? No.”
Until recently Germany was so smug about its ability to “control” the virus. And now this.
Germany to go into national lockdown over Christmas to stem surge in Covid-19 cases
They also have much stricter reporting on what constitutes a covid case from the rest of Western Europe and this has been pointed out a lot. You must have a positive covid case and it must be the primary reason you died.
Interesting. Our numbers would be vastly lower if that was the standard being used here.
There was a good set of graphs making the rounds on Twitter showing that, simultaneously locking down works, locking down doesn’t work, not locking down works, and not locking down doesn’t work. In other words, that the virus is an agent of nature whose spread is beyond our control. But the illusion of control is so seductive and the false comfort it engenders so clamored for by a coddled, easily frightened populace that the bias will always lean towards doing “something” no matter the “unintended” side-effects, that the burden of proof has been shifted entirely away from empirical evidence.
mostly women who need to believe they’re being protected: add a guy or two and there goes your freedom
“A republic if they can keep it”
What we clearly have is a pandemic of self-absorption, part and parcel to mass psychogenic illness.
This.
I can only imagine this madness stems from the fact that the boomers are (still!) in charge. Has there ever been a generation more self-absorbed? Most of them are getting up there in years and why should they have to take responsibility for their own safety when they have the power to make the rest of the world suffer.
NBC is kind enough to inform us that at this Liverpool match YOU ARE HEARING ALL NATURAL CROWD NOISE.
*falls off chair*
All natural and vegan too.
But the illusion of control is so seductive and the false comfort it engenders so clamored for by a coddled, easily frightened populace that the bias will always lean towards doing “something” no matter the “unintended” side-effects, that the burden of proof has been shifted entirely away from empirical evidence.
Yes. And the best placebo is a highly visible placebo.
Hence, mask hysteria.
Prediction: The Biden administration quietly sets a national standard for PCR tests to not exceed 25-30 cycles and any positive test result requires a physicians diagnoses of symptoms to be counted as a positive “case”. Case numbers drop rapidly and Biden wins a Nobel Prize for his leadership. There are unknown detrimental side affects to the vaccine and Trump is accused of harming millions of people with his hasty roll out of the vaccine. Dr Fauci ignores everything he is saying now and says he tried to warn them but Trump wouldn’t listen. The first instance of a Zombie is reported in the UK mid-summer 2021. National lock downs are instituted across the globe to track anyone who might turn into a Zombie. Scanners are placed at the entrance of every grocery store to screen for zombie like symptoms.
Sounds like a good bet.
Replace “zombies” with “Papieren, bitte” and I think you’re on to something.
Bingo. Bookmark this, so you can gloat later.
New normal
A quiet revolution is happening in economists’ understanding of deficits and debts, with Democrats abandoning many of their concerns about long-term spending pressures and Republicans clinging to a queasy yes-for-us, no-for-you position on deficit spending. That revolution is a complicated one, driven by falling interest rates and by the changes to demographics, private saving, corporate behavior, monetary policy, and global investment flows behind them. But fiscal responsibility means something different today: Stop worrying and learn to love red ink.
A number of lessons have emerged from the past decade. The first and perhaps most important is to run a deficit. Or, put more technically, the United States should abandon the goal of balancing its budget when the economy is good, and it should run deficits, sometimes large deficits, in perpetuity. Not too long ago, many green-eyeshade types held that the government should run deficits to stimulate the economy when it is suffering, but not when it is doing well. Following this orthodoxy would keep Uncle Sam’s borrowing from “crowding out” the private sector, stoking inflation, and increasing interest rates. The loss of dollar dominance, bond vigilantes, and inflation spirals: These were prevalent fears as recently as the last recession.
Not so much today. Right now, the bond markets cannot get enough U.S. debt, so much so that the government often borrows for free, after you adjust for inflation.
And so on and so forty.
Do not, whatever you do, ask what might happen to interest rates if the Federal Reserve decided to stop propping up the “market” for bonds which those fixed income investors just cannot get enough of.
Don’t worry, be happy. SPEND,SPEND, SPEND!
“Democrats abandoning many of their concerns about long-term spending pressures”
An example of a a Democrat with such concerns in, oh, the last 20 years would be nice.
“Annie Lowrey is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers economic policy.”
Annie Lowrey rewrites Walter Williams books and explain Economics in One Lesson. Henry Hazlitt required to return all royalties garnered from previous writings.
Dick Cheney’s exonerated.
Now use the same line of reasoning with non-payment of taxes.
Taxes are rapidly becoming social rather than fiscal policy. The idea of adjusting tax policy to favor or disfavor certain actions (supply-side economics) has swallowed the whole enterprise and become its primary function. The government taxes to punish and reward, not to raise money.
Though, I suppose, this isn’t all that new. Tariff policy is notorious for special pleading and punitive uses. The only real difference today is the granularity of it. Modern technocracy consists of the government going over every individual’s life with a fine-tooth comb and deciding for every aspect thereof whether to tax it more, tax it less, criminalize it, subsidize it, or some seemingly contradictory combination thereof.
I can only imagine this madness stems from the fact that the boomers are (still!) in charge. Has there ever been a generation more self-absorbed?
And- what if this self-absorption leads them to a desperate yearning for importance, and for the appearance of noble sacrifice? Their parents fought a world war to stop Hitler and totalitarianism; they smoked dope and whined about Viet Nam from a safe remove. Now they play-act bravery in the face of certain doom.
And-
This: Right now, the bond markets cannot get enough U.S. debt is a perfect example of the sort of standard issue media rhetorical sleight of hand which give us all those claims about how the pandemic has shut down the economy.
Dr Fauci ignores everything he is saying now and says he tried to warn them but Trump wouldn’t listen.
Bullseye.