41-Year-Old GOP Congressman-elect Dies of COVID-19
The story has been going around. I just put a link so that you can jump to the comments and watch Slaties touching themselves and groaning in pleasure that this poor guy died. And the ones hoping his wife dies too.
You stay classy, Slate.
Japanese Researchers Are Making Wooden Satellites Because We Have a Space Trash Problem
Floating around the Earth is a bunch of satellites. Cool for GPS, monitoring weather patterns, and the internet—not so cool for space junk. This is why Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University are teaming up to create the world’s first wooden satellites by 2023.
You might think metal satellites burn up on re-entry, but as it turns out, it’s not that simple. “We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere burn and create tiny alumina particles which will float in the upper atmosphere for many years,” Takao Doi, an astronaut and Kyoto University professor, told the BBC when speaking about the project. “Eventually it will affect the environment of the Earth.”
How delightfully twee. Japanese hipsters in sock-caps recycling barn wood into Wes Anderson satellites, Beatles covers playing in the background. Gwyneth Paltrow shits in it and off it goes on a bespoke rocket that runs on yarn.
Nurse suspended after stripping off PPE to have sex with COVID-19 patient
A male nurse in Indonesia has been suspended after admitting that he stripped off his personal protective equipment to have sex in a toilet with a man infected with COVID-19, according to reports.
“It is true that there has been a suspected incident of a same-sex relationship between a health worker and a COVID-19 patient at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital,” said Asep Gunawan of the National Nurses Association.
He said the nurse “must follow legal processing,” the Indonesia Expat reported.
The incident in Jakarta came to light when the patient boasted about the romp on his Twitter account Friday, according to the UK’s Sun.
He uploaded a screenshot of WhatsApp messages between the horny couple — including details about lubricants and the size of their genitals, the news outlet reported.
The patient also posted an image of the nurse’s PPE lying on the floor as the pair got it on.
What’s worse, they danced on TikTok afterward.
Space termites?
Tribbles.
I’ll take the space termites.
Sarlacs, chewing on the power cables.
Tribbles are born pregnant!
Their bodies, their choice.
:reads the first few lines of the Nurse story:
:thousand yard stare:
I just put a link so that you can jump to the comments and watch Slaties touching themselves and groaning in pleasure that this poor guy died.
That’s unity for you.
I didn’t last long in the comments. How this story somehow relates to Trump is beyond me. Yet, in Slateworld it’s yet another indictment of him. I’m confused.
Trump : COVID :: Bush : Katrina but on steriods
And the guy apparently had a heart attack related to the covid treatment, it wasn’t the covid itself that got him.
“Details of the shocking incident, which could see both the nurse and the patient prosecuted under Indonesia’s anti-pornography laws, emerged after the patient boasted about the fling on social media…
If convicted, the crime carries a sentence of up to 10 years each.”
Yikes!
The kicker:
“The patient was found to still be positive while the nurse tested negative, officials said.”
So we can probably guess who was Tom Seaver and who was Johnny Bench then…
(I know, I know, I’ll stop acting like I’m 12 😉 )
I’d WELL AKSHUALLY that it’s COVID-19 not AIDS but honestly nobody is acting that way so why bother with the midwit correction.
Indonesia, bruh.
“Anti-pornography”. That’s a cute euphemism.
They’re pretty hardcore anti-gay over there still, aren’t they? Prison, execution etc.
IIRC, they even neutralized an opposition leader by spreading the rumor he was gay, and that led to imprisonment and torture at the very least.
The guys in the story above we’re taking risks with their tryst, but COVID-19 was not the main risk.
That was Malaysia but the culture is very similar.
Apparently it’s not illegal, but still very much frowned upon.
He died of a heart attack while he had covid, but whatever gets the lefties off.
If you’re within 50 yards of someone who has covid when you die, that’s a covid death.
BÖC has a new album out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdntHAhTv0
Damone: “No, I don’t have any Blue Oyster Cult. I ate 34 pairs last time, where were you?”
You can just see the smirk on the “author’s” face when he typed that part, as if to say “See what happens when you greedily want to reopen the economy? You brought this on yourself!”
Yep.
I’ll pass on reading the article. Reading the NH subreddit is bad enough.
According to FOX News he died of a heart attack.
If you google him, there are dozens of headlines from Forbes, to The Daily Mail, to the WSJ. Every single one of them says he died of Covid-19.
Except FOX.
Isn’t that literally true? And these people still consider FNC a right-wing boogieman?
Real Journalism(TM) is repeating whatever the AP news wire tells you to print, apparently down to the headline.
…Washington Post confirms.
What’s worse, they danced on TikTok afterward.
Off with their heads.
“We are very concerned with the fact that all the satellites which re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere burn and create tiny alumina particles which will float in the upper atmosphere for many years,” Takao Doi, an astronaut and Kyoto University professor, told the BBC when speaking about the project. “Eventually it will affect the environment of the Earth.”
Isn’t this exactly what Bill Gates and the Lizard People want to do, to combat global warming?
It’s different when they do it.
I thought the Lizard People were creating global warming.
Speaking of lizard people. God bless our MSM.
So thats why we haven’t heard from our resident lizardfolk
The lizard people gave up and went home. This planet wasn’t worth conquering, too crazy.
They should get better at their gaslighting.
Headline slug in the URL: girlfriend-nashville-bomber-warned-police-he-was-building-explosives
Current Headline: Feds probing if Nashville bomber believed in lizard people conspiracy
All the news that’s fit to constantly rewrite
*Mr. Lizard (PBUH) nervously flits about the warming rock*
Did anyone ever hear from him? I miss him (and Vhyrus, etc)
Good choice on BOC!
And the Top.Men at Ars will explain why you are wrong.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/wooden-satellites-an-intriguing-idea-but-wont-solve-space-junk-problems/
The incident in Jakarta came to light when the patient boasted about the romp on his Twitter account Friday, according to the UK’s Sun.
Self-selection. Bye.
Old school advice. You commit a crime two times. Once when you do it and once when you talk about it.
Nowadays, don’t put it on the internet.
Seriously. WTF was he thinking? They don’t take kindly to your kind round those parts.
I doubt it was his first such post. It probably only got any attention because of the nurse/PPE/COVID aspect. Then the police had to “do something” to protect public morals once it got enough attention.
I keep having to remind myself that the pro-lockdown people (regular people, not politicians and elites) think that the economy is an area of life dealing with money and what-not, and that you can just take it or leave it according to personal choice.
“I don’t follow sports. Not interested.”
“The economy? Doesn’t interest me. Just send me a check.”
They don’t understand that “the economy” is the name we give to denote the entirety of humans interacting with other humans.
You’re in the economy whether you realize it or not.
Come now. Next you will tell me that the market economy is just the innumerable and incalculable decisions made by individuals on a daily basis and cannot, in fact, be micromanaged by a small team of elites that know what is good for you.
The economy is the government handing out jobs and money to white folk.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
The economy’s us! You don’t need a mechanic. Put away the wrenches, the economy’s organic.
That was awesome.
Good stuff.
I’ve shared that link with a number of people who are starting to figure out that our current course as a country is not going to end well.
Those 2 videos have changed some lives for the better.
From the AM links: Nah, fuck off.
Make a difference right now by committing to stand with science and pledging to take the vaccine when it’s available. Show your support for science and your commitment to protecting others.
Sciency but not the scientific method. SCIENCE!
Show me the science behind it then
They’re too busy erasing the science behind viruses.
So true.
Going into engineering, I never thought I’d feel embarrassed about my chosen profession the way a lawyer or politician should.
But now I’m in SCIENCE!! A once noble field that is now dumbed down and weaponized in furtherance of the enslavement of us serfs.
Rest assured though; I’m sure that the civil engineers who were admitted to meet PoC and gender quota and who took Historical Studies in Mathematics instead of calculus have designed a perfectly good bridge there.
Just drive on across it. It’s held together by hopes and dreams, and the consensus of the design reviewers was 7 to 2 in favor of the bridge being strong enough.
Blaming engineers for faulty constructions has a dangerously racist history in western civilization.
I mean we already count the spreadsheet wizards in Industrial as “real” engineers. Might as well just sell out and have poetry engineering.
Ah, good old imaginary engineers.
i-ngineers?
I’m having a little fun. For whatever reason, when I went to school, the EE were the biggest nerds, followed by us in ChemE, then the ME (probably because they got to do cool shit with cars and rockets), then Civil, then Industrial.
Given my struggles with PChem/quantum dynamics, I don’t think I could have cut it as an electrical engineer.
We always ribbed the IE guys for not being real engineers. Mostly because a lot of people who washed out of the other engineering disciplines, but not hard enough to end up in the business school, usually ended up in IE. My brother took that exact track and now works at a big defense contractor.
That said, it was always friendly ribbing because the IE guys usually ended up in management pretty quickly.
Exxxactly. The old joke, what does an ME call an IE after graduation? “Boss”
i-ngineers
Given my struggles with PChem/quantum dynamics, I don’t think I could have cut it as an electrical engineer.
Likewise, I wouldn’t have done well as a ChemE. Reynolds numbers and thermodynamics and all that stuff was Greek to me.
I started out as a chem E major because I loved high school chemistry: the anatomy of atoms and molecules, interaction of forces, etc.
Then learned that Chen E was a lot of fluid flows and pipe pressures and snoresville (to me).
So I switched to EE. And to this day I get to go back to the pure electromagnetic field theory and analysis to do nutty things with electrons.
The engineering part is still a dream job; the dealing with parasite people is an unfortunate necessity.
I really wanted to take almost every class in the ECE program. All fascinating stuff.
Aerospace Engineering truism: You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist.
I work with quite a few aerospace engineers.
They seem both brilliant and dumb at the same time. Lots of book learnin’ but very little common sense.
Being a brain surgeon doesn’t hurt, though.
Actually, in med school, we’d joke that the neurosurgeons (brain surgeons in popular culture) weren’t rocket scientists. But you could be assured they could make a damn nice birdhouse in their home shop. Great technicians, but there’s not a lot of brainy parts in cutting and sewing.
“I used to not be able to spell engineer, now I are on.”
Just drive on across it. It’s held together by hopes and dreams, and the consensus of the design reviewers was 7 to 2 in favor of the bridge being strong enough.
Also, you realize this is lifted directly from Ayn Rand, right? When they drill the world’s longest train tunnel that doesn’t need ventilation and everyone on the first train to attempt it dies.
“But it’s corrupt at its core. Everybody’s lying to everybody. You think white people don’t know mediocrity when they see it? You think they don’t know they’re deferring to undeveloped people out of some kind of etiquette or hope of absolution? What do you think they really think? You think they don’t know thuggery when they see it? You think what’s going on in Philadelphia right now, that people are not sitting there seeing this is barbarity? You think they don’t know barbarity when they see it?”
– Glenn Lowry.
Glenn Lowry is a Black economics prof at one of the ivys, and here is the conversation that that quote comes from.
https://quillette.com/2020/11/19/victimhood-or-development/
The whole thing is really good, I heartily recommend it.
Pfizer/Moderna = Science all of a sudden?
If only Monsanto had been smart enough to come up with a probably pointless vaccine instead of feeding the world, they would’ve been loved instead of hated.
“Harrold Sr. and Keyon Jr.’s mother, Kat Rodriguez, held a rally in Manhattan for their son on Wednesday, alongside civil rights attorney Ben Crump (right) and Rev. Al Sharpton (left)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9099551/SoHo-Karen-22-falsely-accused-14-year-old-black-boy-stealing-phone-gives-interview.html
Sounds like the kid is guilty, unless the woman get Gloria Allred as her lawyer.
Not wading into this one. So, so tiresome.
Every time a story is made about race instead of whatever it is actually about, it fuels a desire for segregation. If you can’t report violations, or take defensive actions, when a person of another race, ethnicity, creed, etc. is involved, then you will only want to live near people like yourself.
We had a send off to my boss today. Even though she said I don’t want any fanfare. I tried to honor that with not showing up.
She is the reason I got my job and my advancements and…wait for it…actual merit based raises in the government. She always hated the automatic raise bullshit and never recommended anyone for a raise if all they did was their jobs.
One of the very few FedGovs that tried to xome in severly under budget cause she knew baseline budgetting is a crock.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9098971/Hilaria-Baldwin-grew-4M-home-heart-Bostons-upscale-district.html
Who would spend $4M dollars to live in Boston?
I assume even in Boston, you can live a nice life in a home with $4M homes.
Lots of people. Harvard Med School professors, like her mom, for one.
I used live down the street from that Beacon Hill place. It’s an awesome neighborhood, steps from the river.
There wasn’t an audience when my balls dropped either.
Like so many other time-honored traditions, New York City’s customary New Year’s Eve celebrations have gone out the window this year because of the pandemic.
For the first time in more than a century, crowds will not flock to Times Square on Dec. 31. But there will still be ways to celebrate — or to wish good riddance to a year that most would rather forget. Here’s what to know.
Biden can’t come soon enough to save us.
Wonder if Salon has its pulse on the NY politico that shutdown the ice rinks but lets him and his buddies have all the ice time they want.
Real Journalism(TM) is repeating whatever the AP news wire tells you to print, apparently down to the headline.
Speaking of Real Journalism, the Bozeman paper (site) has yet another inspirational tale of some public health heroine in a county with a smaller population than most of the buildings in mid town Manhattan who is just flat exasperated by those dumb hillbillies who don’t fall at her feet and worship her selfless devotion to telling them what to do.
Those suicidal cretins don’t believe her when she says it’s the most contagious thing ever, for some reason.
No link. You’re welcome.
Let me guess, she moved there from LA or Denver or such? In her 40s? Because, of course, every protocol that may or may not make sense in a major metro area is perfectly applicable to rural Montana.
“Dawn Wells, best known as Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, dies at 82 of COVID-19 complications
‘Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale’: Other than Tina Louise (center) – who played movie star Ginger Grant – Wells was the last surviving member of the cast of the legendary series, as they are seen on the show in 1996 with Bob Denver who played the titular role”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9100001/Dawn-Wells-best-known-Mary-Ann-Gilligans-Island-dies-82-COVID-19-complications.html
At this point, I’m not buying it. Especially at that age.
Note these days it’s always “covid complications” rather than the disease itself. But they all still get counted as covid deaths, need to keep those numbers climbing, can’t reduce the panic levels.
“His legendary status was cemented in stone with starring roles as Orlando ‘Ozone’ in Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo; seen in 1984”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9100047/Dance-icon-Breakin-star-Adolfo-Quinones-Shabba-Doo-dies-aged-65-negative-COVID-19-test.html
Must have been the boogaloo bois that got em.
One of those racist Boogaloo boys?
BREAKING: Somebody didn’t die of you-know-what but we’re gonna make that connection in your head anyway!
FFS.
I follow the Merriam Websters “Word of the Day”. They are generally terrible and not very good, but they have an easy interface for making it easy to get a notification every day. Noticed something about the last few days words of the day: Franchise, Suffrage, Constitution, Prerogative.
Since we know that Websters is not beyond political chicanery… it makes you curious.
There was a solid window of time (a couple weeks, maybe a month) when seeing any result in Urban Dictionary would also tell you the “word of the day” was “Fuck Donald Trump”.
It’s all about the clicks.
BOC for the win!
In retrospect I am glad they didn’t go with Purple Oyster Cult.
The twitteratti would be very confused. POC: Don’t Fear the Reaper would probably be interpreted as a threat.
[points, does Donald Sutherland shriek from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”]
CA Rep Kevin Kiley posted this update in the Newsom recall effort:
That last paragraph takes the cake. Really, Gavin? You’re going to complain that the CA GOP is what’s keeping CA businesses closed?
CA goes red in 2028?
Just not the red you are thinking of
The quickest way is for the Governor to not use his power arbitrarily. The second quickest way is probably assassination, followed at third by recall. I suppose resignation in shame could make 3rd place, but that’s less likely than not using power or assassination.
Where does Sepukku fall into this?
Somewhere between assassination and resignation in shame?
I’ll buy the sword if somebody wants to pick up shipping.
You think his handlers let him anywhere near edged weapons or tools? I wouldn’t take that bet. He’d be like Rupricht in DRS.
Gavin! What did I tell you about running with katanas!
Ask Budd Dwyer.
This is horrifying: CHILDREN OF THE GREAT RESET
They will all grow up with compromised immune systems.
It looks like a mashup of The Wall and Brave New World.
That kid at the table eating alone…shit is sad
My son won’t talk about his experience at school. I can’t imagine my first year of highschool spent on video then in person then quarantined then video again. So fucked up.
OTOH, my eldest just skinned his elbow trying to chase down our neighbor who is riding one of those little motorcycle go-karts. And now he, his brother, and one of the younger neighbor boys are pretending (I assume, its been pretty cold) to taunt wasps in the backyard. The future is here, its just not evenly distributed. We’re still doing the past where gangs of roving neighbor kids go from yard to yard.
Have I mentioned lately how much contempt I have for public elementary school teachers?
They have a desire to control (that’s why they chose defenseless children to dominate) and COVID-19 has given them a taste of MOAR POWER.
They will not relinquish it lightly.
It is damn disturbing.
Some tidbits heard on my teens’ classrooms:
Teacher A diagnosed with cancer spends all instruction time telling her 15-16 year old students how the pain is unbearable.
Teacher B has on several occasions, made overt comments that he wishes to die.
Teacher C has yet to actually teach, instead has gone over how to submit homework and assignments (4 months into school)
Teacher D…this one I wasn’t sure what to do. Kids were learning about ego, super ego, ID and it came upon the sexual aspects of it. The teacher initially glossed over it in what I thought was a proper fashion given the audience of 15-16 year olds. Then, the smartass son of mine asked “what do you mean ‘self-exploration'”.
The teacher went on to describe his daughter, aged I am guessing younger than 10, and her ‘self exploration’ My son shut his computer down before he could hear anything beyond the teachers daughter on the couch with her hands down her pants.
They are sick fuckers.
I find this navel-gazing online objectionable. I know I teach college which is somewhat easier than high school (or middle, or elementary), but I feel like I have some kind of leadership in the classroom (regardless of online or in person). And part of that is not spewing my concerns all over the students. Fucking stand up and be an adult. Cry on your colleagues shoulders if you have to, but don’t dump on the students.
“Fucking stand up and be an adult.”
This is the issue at hand. In a school, they are insulated from the parents and can act no where near an adult while captivating their audience.
Now that their capabilities are streamed into every home in the nation it is quite clear we have children teaching children — which you would think people can put two and two together to realize that, but they don’t.
The horrifying thing is the entire agenda that the globalist stared many years ago. At first it was Agenda 2021, and then Agenda 2030, now it’s the Great Reset. It’s the exact same thing and the first goal is to reduce world population to 500K worldwide. From the current population of 7.5 billion.
So, how do you reduce world population by 85%? Just let your imagination run wild. But one thin is for sure, it will involve murdering billions of people.
If that is OK with you, get onboard. Otherwise…
So, how do you reduce world population by 85%?
WWIII with principal adversaries of the US and China goes nuclear?
Now that 30 minutes have passed:
Bayern München news for Rhywun
I’d be down with that as long as I don’t have to drink it or wear it.
Probably not how i would want to be described, in an article about Horse Semen.
You’re strangely fascinated with my views on a team that I’m mostly indifferent to.
I thought you were annoyed that they win all the time, and since I’m a fan by virtue of my relatives all coming from Bavaria (Dad’s cousins who came for my sister’s wedding back in ’88 were stunned that I knew who Franz Beckenbauer was), I figured I’d keep engaging in a little friendly ribbing.
😛
Well, yeah, I am annoyed at that one thing. Otherwise I would probably be a fan because Bayern is my Heimat away from home. And München is wonderful.
Checklist for journalists – if you find yourself doing one or more of the following:
1) Cheering on the death of a politician you know almost nothing about other than they are of a different political party
2) Cheering for a virus killing people, and hoping it does more of the same
and
3) Knowingly padding the number of deaths attributable to that virus, because you want to improve its status
Well, your moral compass might be slightly broken
Their definition of “moral” is beyond redemption.
OBEY
EXTERMINATE
“Japanese Researchers Are Making Wooden Satellites Because We Have a Space Trash Problem”
Muh Astronomy!
Well shit. We can’t send any more satellites into space, because it’s blockin muh view using this earth based inferior device.
So fuck you if you need faster internet to, I dunno, work?
Work is obsolete, get to your camps, because we luddites, using our earth based luddite instruments need to feel special, because we are!
SCIENCE!
I sometimes wonder. If we start space mining, what would happen if we brought too much crap back to earth.
It’d tip over.
/Hank Johnson
Exactly, and that could be very dangerous for people who live in Austraila.
If it is “too much”, the prices would drop and your marginal return per unit would go negative.
Well, this requires some math. Exactly how much is too much?
IOW, there is nothing to worry about.
Even with SpaceX etc. bringing down the cost to get to orbit and back again, it’s still way too expensive for mining anything. We’ll be mining the deep sea (more so than now) before we profitably mine an asteroid or planet.
I don’t think we have to worry about that anytime soon.
“How delightfully twee. Japanese hipsters in sock-caps recycling barn wood into Wes Anderson satellites, Beatles covers playing in the background. Gwyneth Paltrow shits in it and off it goes on a bespoke rocket that runs on yarn.”
[sheds single manly tear]
That’s why I come to this website, for this sort of bile and spleen.
You want bile and spleen? Just wait until my poll tonight!
TPTB nearly came to fisticuffs over the topic.
Is there a transcript?
Lets just say there was many a denunciation, much questioning of sanity and personal hygiene, etc. It made the Pizza Wars look tame.
“CROSSFIRE 2020
America is ablaze and divided. Half the nation rallies to support demoralized officers, and the other half demands reform or even disbanding the police.
Where does the truth lie in the fog of media manipulation?
WATCH NOW: https://crossfire.movie”
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1344098082825244672
It doesn’t look like it can be downloaded though. I’m not watching a 2 hour movie on my computer screen.
IDK about demoralized. Looks like they were having fun smashing the peaceful protestors while allowing looters and rioters to go scott free. Oh and shutting down bars and restaurants.
I don’t wade into this issue much because I keep seeing over-exaggerated generalizations from both sides. But here in NYC they’re quitting in droves – which sounds like demoralized to me.
Who’s quitting in droves? Police officers?
Yes.
Yes. It’s actually mixed as for why.
On one hand they can’t make appropriate arrests for political reasons. Here I sympathize.
OTH, they also are being held accountable for abuses much more than the past. Here this is just a start to what needs to happen.
I guess I’m in the minority not worth mentioning. Y’know, the one who thinks policing should be reformed to suck less AND doesn’t buy into the woke bullshit.
Among all the virtue-signalling stupid signs I see around here, I did see a nice break from the “Defund The Police” signs – “Demilitarize The Police”.
I can actually get behind that.
What you don’t think this is the appropriate response to one man barricading himself in their home?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/suspect-taken-into-custody-after-barricade-situation-near-desert-inn-cambridge/ar-BB1ciB5s
I don’t even think we showed up in some goat-hearders village in Bumfuckistan that is shown there.
I wish those cops who are all Geardo’d up would just quit the police and enlist.
Wolf might lift restrictions Jan. 4th
Gov. Tom Wolf will lift the temporary restrictions he has placed on Pennsylvania businesses on Monday, Jan. 4, the day the measures are set to expire.
Citing a rise in coronavirus cases earlier this month, Wolf imposed temporary restrictions on a host of businesses, including a three-week ban on indoor dining at restaurants. Wolf also ordered the closure of entertainment venues, including casinos, theaters and concert halls. Retailers and most other businesses are restricted to 50% of indoor capacity. The governor also suspended high school and youth sports for that three-week period.
All of those temporary measures will be lifted Jan. 4, Wolf said in a news conference Wednesday afternoon. Businesses and restaurants will still have some limits on occupancy that were already in place on Dec. 12, when the temporary measures were imposed.
“Our mitigation efforts over the past several weeks have done what they were intended to do,” Wolf said. “The time-limited measures will expire as planned.”
Jan 6th – After restaurants ramped up their purchasing of ingredients and calling people back to work, Gov [INSERT WHATEVER NAME YOU WANT] shuts it all down again.
Analysis of the Newfields, NH anti-protest ordinance
We aren’t a home rule state (we are a “Dillon’s Rule State) which means that a subdivision of the State – pretty much anything that has a budget – can only do that for which there is an authorizing NH RSA. The Newfields Selectmen are depending on RSA 31:39-d, or so it seems, and pinning their hopes on folks will continuing to do a whole lotta hootin’ and hollerin.’
Read the ACTUAL RSA they cite (as well as asking our in-house lawyers about this).
No linky no worky
COOL LINK BRO!
Fuck.
The Inside Sources link is a good story too.
Look, all we need to know is that Donald Trump was NOT the most libertarian president of all time, maybe. So defeating him was most import to libertarians because we all know communism now is so much better that the NOT most libertarian president of all time. SCIENCE! So we can all now be happy that we’ve elected the worst corrupted commie scum of all time, because we got rid of bad orange man, who was not the most libertarian president of all time. SCIENCE!
Reopen NH is planning to join other groups to protest the Clown Prince’s inauguration in Concord, NH.
#ReopenNH is taking part in a multi-group effort to protest the governor at his inauguration, which starts at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, on the State House lawn. Be there a little early, bring your pots and pans, megaphones, and protest signs, and be ready to march around to let him know how displeased you are with his usurpation of powers. Please make as much noise as you possibly can to make sure he knows how displeased you are. #rebuildNH
And…. nope
The Clown Prince is a liar. I’ve seen videos of the protest and know a few people who went. No one trespassed on private property. They were on the public way and in a public park the entire time. A few I know carry guns, but had those guns concealed or holstered/slung. In other words, not threatening.
Reopen NH’s response.
Eventually the courts will have to hear these grievances but I suspect they will follow the SCOTUS route and we the people are let to do what we want to do.
The courts in NH have completely backed the Clown Prince.
That is hard. Same here in NV. Absent legislature, executive making all the decisions, courts backing that up.
So that leaves the people to either accept it and say we used our system or to say we will live free. Both lead to bad outcomes I fear.
There is a bloc in the incoming legislature that wants to push back.
We’ll see how it works out.
The legislators I know, who all want the state of emergency to end, aren’t as optimistic as they used to be, but they think there is a chance of the legislature passing a resolution ending the state of emergency.
At least yours are talking about it. Mine, that are republican have thrown up their hands in their responses to me that the state legislature is democratic and it is fruitless to even attempt to stop the Guv.
That is some scary notions to me, who funnily believes in republicanism forms of government afforded to my state.
It really boils down to who controls the weapons of the state, who can get the cops to enforce their will. Executive orders or legislation?
And.. more coverage.
Looks like the protestors gave him exactly what he wanted.
Not faulting the protestors here…
“Strong multi-generational family units are harder to control than vulnerable individuals. Feminists are useful idiots and proxy warriors of a greater battle to destabilize society, reduce personal liberty, and make tyrannical rule easier.”
https://twitter.com/RRR0BYN/status/1344392684220383232
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/why-more-women-are-choosing-to-be-feminine-not-feminist/
*slow clap*
Probably the best writeup of complementarianism and the futility of feminism that I’ve seen in a while.
No shit. I have only been saying this for 20 years.
You devious bastard!
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters in the Capitol earlier in the day that the move was an attempt “to kill the checks — the $2,000 checks desperately needed by so many American families — by tying them completely to partisan provisions that have absolutely nothing to do with helping struggling families across the country.”
Unprecedented procedural chicanery.
The $600 was attached to rainbows and unicorn chocolates that is known.
lulz. Mendacious moobs is mendacious.
If that bill had more pork in it we would have to put a apple in its mouth.
[golf clap]
NPR. We won’t tell what happened. We’ll also tell you how you should feel about it.
… in a patronizing, up-talking whisper
I always hear it as a haughty, breathy whisper
Depends on the reader.
Unlike the 5,500 pages of apparently non-partisan provisions that have nothing to do with “helping struggling families across the country” that are already in the bill.
On the dead thread I said the collapse of their power will be economic before it will be political. But I’d still laugh if they can’t even pull off the cash handouts they know they need to make.
“Demilitarize The Police”
That works for me.
But, they can’t fight the War on [Abstract Noun] without their MRAPs!
The police militarized because of things like the North Hollywood Shootout and the WTO protests turning violent.
Yet nowadays, despite having all this equipment, they’ll stand outside like schmucks as schoolchildren get shot and they’ll let violent “protestors” run rampant.
As someone who was listening to Pacifica Radio back then, I’m amazed how many people think antifa is a recent thing.
I listened every day for years, but stopped during their celebrations on September 12 2001.
The underlying feelings of Antifa are the ‘idea’ that Joe expressed it just takes a new name every now and then…
They mistakenly believe that the gear will make them brave.
Demonopolize the Police.
De-unionize the police.
Oh hell yeah.
De-unionize every public sector job.
+1
Thanks so bloody much, JFK.
Forged in Fire marathon! YAY!
I just watched the redemption one….that was good.
No symptoms in our family as of yet. Teen’s GF family are all sick apparently and went and got tested today. We will know in 2 days their results.
Hopefully your family stays well, and your kid’s girlfriend’s family gets well soon.
I have given my son an inflated ego (he marveled at his ortho photo on how ‘sexy’ he was) and we typically have very strong genes and rarely get sick.
Told him, lets see this through first before we gloat.
KTLA reports on current conditions in local hospitals using footage from New York in March
And isn’t that New York footage actually an Italian for Spanish hospital?
Well…not exactly the same..but yeah news has been doing this shit.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cbs-news-italian-hospital/
This is the most disappointing headline-article mismatch ever.
Nurse suspended after stripping off PPE to have sex with COVID patient
tl;dr: This ain’t Pornhub.
Y’know, I’m really stupid and should actually look at the headlines.
But who reads the headlines?
Oh yeah. I love that BOC song.
I saw Heavy Metal at the midnight theater when it came out in ’81. Half of the movie was ducking 7oz beer bottles being tossed across the theater, the other half tossing them back. I had a pretty good arm back in those days.
That was a good movie.
The South Park cat piss homage was gold too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrmrw9udmVY
Well that settles it.
Grrr.
Alyssa Milano
@Alyssa_Milano
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Dec 28
Anti-maskers are the same people who think they need an AR-15 for “protection”.
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK: A MASK WILL PROTECT YOU *MORE* THAN AN AR-15 WILL.
The other day, someone here mentioned that Fauci’s behavior has been called Straussian. I did a little reading and became an Internet expert (i.e. I know nothing, really) about what “Straussian” means. And I can conclude that I hate it.
The original story, which as far as I can tell is still “valid”, is that the mask protects others not oneself. However, saying or implying that you should wear the mask to protect yourself will not get you the same condemnation (by far) as saying the masks are pointless, not very effective, shouldn’t be worn, etc.
That the mask protects the wearer is an acceptable little lie, as long as people are convinced to wear the mask. Right action, wrong reason. It is acceptable to use deceit to manipulate people, as long as you manipulate them to do the “right things”. This is now our governing orthodoxy.
It is acceptable to use deceit to manipulate people, as long as you manipulate them to do the “right things”.
We’re halfway down the slippery slope of moral relativism. IOW, like you just said, Fauchi is a Straussian.
That’s a typo. Fauci is actually Scheißian.
Nice.
same people who think they need an AR-15 for “protection”.
I’m going with the Rittenhouse rebuttal.
I still don’t understand how that dude shooting 3 white felons makes him a “white supremacist hero” but I guess the definition of white supremacism has changed a bit since the last time it changed, 5 minutes ago.
Maybe he just hates kid diddlers and wife beaters.
The Proud Boys are “white-supremacists” while having members of all colors and creeds and a leader that is a black Cuban. Words mean nothing and everything, comrade.
Yeah, and he DIDN’T keep shooting at the black guy who decided to run away.
-1 Elbow
Ah Alyssa, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
Back in her earlier mask wearing days…
I miss that version, she made Debbie Gibson look edgy.
Interesting. I suppose the virus to mask comparison also works with this: A virus to a mask is like a 5.56 NATO through a barn door.
I’ll agree to her premise if we first get rid of all the people who say “LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK” like they’re fifteen year olds on tumblr.
You say that like 15 year olds on Tumblr are distinguishable from 45 year olds on Twitter.
The 15-year-olds aren’t as bitter.
She doesnt have armed security? What do you want to bet she does and they have AR’s?
It’s going to be hilarious when large sectors of the left do a complete 180 on this stuff once OMB isn’t around to be the target of their inchoate rage.
OMB may leave but us but thhe deplorables still are here. I think their screaming will only be amplified.
@Yusef, how are you doing today?
Seconded.
I’m alright, laying low, had to go to the clinic today for a UTI, should be ok,
thanks for asking!
Sigh… the 1970s was a magical time in many ways; kids television is one of them.
Anyone got the number of an ambulance chaser so I can sue NYS for my epileptic seizure?
OK… Who says this COVID business is all bad?
Pandemic Leads Dozens of Universities to Pause Ph.D. Admissions
And meanwhile close to my office in broad daylight
Group of NYC bicyclists attack BMW in broad daylight, wild video shows
See my discussion above about police retirements. No idea if this car tangled with the bike mob, but the story notes they decided to attack a cab after this.
The driver would, of course, be charged if he had reversed while they were jumping on his hood.
One of these days, the mobs are going to attack the wrong car and it won’t be right wingers inside either.
Those on the left who would be horrified if it happened to them are bending over backwards in four dimensions to deny, downplay, and rationalize away all of this crazy. I wouldn’t be surprised if the victims of all of this mob violence are still voting for those who tacitly abide it, or are so beleaguered and demoralized that they think if they vote D that it will somehow stop. There are five lights.
Ya know, limey? As recently as a year ago many here(myself included) openly mocked a laughed at the British for being so beleaguered and demoralized.
“Under constant surveillance, grow some balls!”
“Out of control authoritarian no matter who’s in charge, what suckers!”
“People openly engaging in struggle sessions for no other reason than existing? Only the wacko, weird haired lafty college kids do this. Wait until the get into the “Real World”.
“We’re Americans! We have guns and pride in ourselves and in our culture! Never submit, never surrender!”
…I ain’t fucking laughing anymore.
^^ this
“Proofreading is for fags, Murica!”
I like to throw stones at the UK because I’m very, very, very, very, very bitter about the cancellation of my trip last March. But we are absolutely on the precipice ourselves.
I think it was hk who encapsulated it very well. Something along the lines of “We as a nation lost our self-esteem. Same thing happened in Europe, we just lagged behind a couple decades”.
This is very, VERY heavily paraphrased…have I mentioned that I smoke weed and can’t remember shit?
The gas pedal is on the right…
NYC, that is the town where you are illegally. barred from arming yourself, right?
Yesterday evening I went to the nearest convenience store to buy smokes. The super cute blonde working behind the counter turned around to get my order (I didnt have to tell her, she already knew what I wanted) and I noticed she had a Glock in her back pocket.
*sigh* A Glock? I am gonna have to give her advice on hand gun choice.
Did the gun go off and cause drugs to fall out of her ass?
I dont think drugs are going to be falling out of that ass. Cute as hell and rock hard. If only I weren’t married and 25 years younger….
Oh well. Fun to think about but I am still 25 years head over heals for Mrs. Suthenboy.
At least she had something…
Don’t be gun shaming, Suthen. Not cool.
1911 or go home.
*goes home and starts polishing glock*
/don’t get me wrong, a 1911 is on my wishlist
Hoe do you polish plastic?
*Holds Beretta up and looks at sexy curves*
Bah. Having that hammer back snags on too much.
Snags on what? Cocked and locked in a holster. There is no faster fast draw than a 1911 properly holstered. One motion, 1/10 of a second from move to fire.
https://www.thesoutherntrapper.com/products/the-paddle-holster?manufacturer=Colt&model=1911__6%22__%28No__Rail%29
These are nice.
Dude… your vehicle has a feature that makes it go forward.
Watching Ad Astra for the first time. So far, it’s just Top Gun in Spaaaaaaace.
Does it have the homoertocism?
You can be my wingman anytime
Obligatory
One of my favorites!
SWORD FIGHT! SWORD FIGHT! SWORD FIGHT!
Shirtless volleyball match outside the airlock?
Oooh, that’s cold Man….
It is quite breathless
About soufflé?
I saw that at a drive in but I was stood outside the car and the audio was terrible so I only had the pictures to go on. From what I understand it’s supposed to be Heart of Darkness in space, which, as it happens, is very boring and introspective, in comparison with Heart of Darkness transposed to the Vietnam war, which was introspective and full of memorable lines and great acting.
I’m getting the same picture only experience courtesy of the infant.
I think the beginning of the movie was terrible, but it’s getting better towards the end.
I sorta liked Ad Astra. Mostly because it bucked against the idea that there’s millions and millions of civilizations Out There just waiting to be discovered, and of course we’re not alone in the Universe, you silly troglodyte! The protagonist comes to the opposite conclusion based on his father’s work for the last 30 years, and this fills him with hope and a new desire to confront his life (and his problems) head-on.
I’ve always wondered if discovering that we were truly alone would change us for the better or the worse.
In defiance of Gov Weakbrain Newsom’s “stay at home” order, we are driving to San DIego for the weekend. Just to hang out, walk around, and eat takeout in our hotel room, because why not.
if anyone (hayek? I think is No County?) wants to meet up I’m at athenaofprogtown at the evil gmail.
Toxteth is down there, Want me to ask her?
She’s napping,
ToxtethCam live feed confirms this.
(Hey Limey, very belatedly read about your crash. Glad you’re OK.)
Yes I’m well, thanks. I’m still really bummed about it. I really liked that car. She had been amazing for such a long time and never asked for anything but servicing. She deserved better than being marooned, front broken and wrinkled, cold and alone in a field until she was dragged out and hauled off to be broken and scrapped. I don’t like newer cars so much.
Right now I’m not sure when I’ll be going anywhere, and it looks like there will be mandatory testing if I want to continue with my studies. I’m hoping I can finish my course (July, if there’s no more significant delay) before mandatory vaccines are a thing, too.
How’s life? Do you have enough rotten fruit for when Gavin is pilloried?
Sweet of you to think of me, Yusef.
I’m afraid I’m busier than a one-legged man.
You could ask HE. Where are you staying?
Downtown at the Hyatt.
I thought of you today, Tox, as I stood outside in a quarter mile long line to vote. Social distancing for the win!
I voted for Douchebag and Douchebagette. Also, some dude name Bubba for Public Service Commish.
Tomorrow my daughter will go cancel out my vote. But that’s okay, my son will cancel out hers too.
The only bar I’ve been to in San Dog was Half Door Brewing co – but they had a great Irish pub menu and a great selection of stuff on tap (in 2018). No idea if they’re still in business. Gas Light district near the ball park (walking distance from the North Island ferry terminal.
If you enjoy jazz in a speakeasy environment check out Dizzy’s. Went there one night on a tour of jazz bars when I hired a smoking hot Ukranian bicycle taxi driver for the night to take me around. The best part of evening was riding in the back sipping a bottle of bourbon and watching buns of steel doing their thing. Capped off by sharing some hot tea wrapped in a blanket with my ‘driver” who turns out needed a place to stay. What were we talking about?
I don’t want to jinx it, but my oldest & dearest friend appears to be the Smithsonian’s newest curator!! She knows she has the job, but she needs to wait for an official offer from HR.
(what was NA’s 2021 prediction for Virgo?)
Yay!!!!
Way Cool!
We haven’t lived in the same place since 1986. However, if my plans fruit, we still won’t be living in the same place. Maybe it’s a good sign that she & &I will both get our wishes fulfilled – the universe has kept us apart for 34 years, so why stop now?
Virgo: 3 of Cups – Conclusion of any matter in plenty, perfection and merriment; happy issue, victory, fulfilment, solace, healing
See??? Also, she had a very tragic love in Santa Fe. Maybe moving out of there will be the healing part.
I was logged in to my credit union account today and I noticed a pending deposit of $1800 from the IRS. Hmmm, I wonder what that might be?
I keep checking mine but no joy.
This morning I reached for my phone and Mr Mojeaux said, “It’s not there yet.”
For no reason, other than I like it : Cracker’s Low.
Dogs of 2020 https://mobile.twitter.com/dog_rates
Great until fucking idiots started putting political signs on their dogs.
Since Congress is being Congress Andrew Heaton has a comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkjrsDiQcRk&list=RDCMUCcEDTBdietc2JmgN6TL8wAg&index=8