Don’t have a lot to say this afternoon, really. I’ll get right to it.
You know how Texas was blacked out over the past couple days? They did as well as the Mexican states a lado de el rio. Mostly due to the gas pipeline freezing and the increased demand.
Online Carnival sounds especially pointless.
Probably good advice.
Any volunteers?
Cuba plans to test…its own vaccine. Hopefully it doesn’t cause gigantism.
Peruvian government predictably vaccinates itself. Outrage predictably ensues.
I don’t know if Corey Taylor went for the Jesse James look on purpose, but he nailed it.
I expect nothing.
You are the humble bragger of firsters.
What are you talking about? I was answering Mexican Sharpshooter’s question from the front page.
You are confused. You called UCS a Firster. Not even a lowercase firster. He’s not even a seconder.
Peru != Cuba.
It’s the BBC, I expect them to not be able to tell one latin american country from another.
/yesIknowwhathappened.
Close enough for government work.
Whatever, all those Mexican countries look the same.
Ima gonna let you finish, but Lima tell you something about Peru first…
You’ve bean nice to me so go ahead.
He’s just trying to sell you an old Pinto.
Will you garbanzos knock it off!
Do me a fava and bring over a nice bottle of chianti and we can talk.
As long as we can get smashed and fried
He asked for a lawyer, and they brought him an avocado.
We can save the trouble of Online Carnival by just drinking a lot, turning off Safe Search, and googling pictures of boobs.
But where are you going to get some VD?
That was like two days ago.
Turn off ad blocker as well?
You just described every day of the week.
Will there be a Brazilian zoom filter that hides all your pubic hair during an online Canival party?
A reverse merkin?
Here in the US government is also vaccinating their employees first, they are just being more subtle about it. VCU (a state-run university) vaccinated all of its employees, not just the ones who work for the medical college. Bookkeepers for the academic campus, too.
The federal government also is quietly getting its people onto the vaccination lists. A former coworker at the agency from which I retired told me that HR was arranging vaccines for everyone through CDC although some have had to drive like three hours.
I’m as cynical about the vaccine as anyone, but also pissed that they are vaccinating young, healthy people instead of the old and high-risk.
Can confirm about FedGov. I can go jump the line and get it at being a relatively healthy 40 some odd male. I am not and wife and I are in discussions if they make it mandatory for us about how we are going to do that.
Exactly. Why should I risk my good health trialing this vaccine?
There are multiple vaccines out there which makes things even more complicated. One of the health care professionals I know is delaying vaccination until it becomes mandatory.
This.
I don’t want it.
Why on earth is VCU vaccinating all employees except those at the medical school?
Re-read, bro. They vaccinated ALL employees. I can see making a case for vaccinating everyone who works for MCV (the medical campus), and for VCU health systems. But the employee I know who told me about this is a bookkeeper for like the school of business; totes unessential. My greater point was that this is how government is stealing that base — if the agency does anything that could be considered an essential function (ie, MCV hospital) then ALL employees of the agency get treated like they are essential. Which is typical govt BS.
I’ve been told that the smaller physician chains (like TPMG) are unable to get any of vaccines for their patients. The scuttlebutt is that the major hospital chains (Sentara, Bon Secours, Riverside, etc…) are greasing political coffers to make certain the vaccine is available to their practices.
If you don’t vaccinate young, healthy people, you’re killing Grandma. That’s just Science.
Pharmacy chain CVS was also supposed to get vaccines, but their is massive pushback from the usual whingers because 1) evil corporation and 2) pharmacy deserts in poor neighborhoods and “neighborhoods of color.”
They need to allow it through any distributors to people that want it (which doesn’t include me, not until the J&J one is released anyway). This bringing down others’ access in order to equalize lack of access is murderous bullshit.
“pharmacy deserts in poor neighborhoods ”
That’s what happens when people burn them down.
I’m gonna throw this out there because it needs to be said. Repeatedly. Stat’s are for Virginia.
Number of deaths age 0-29: 13
Number of cases age 0-29: 179898
number of deaths age 30-39: 53
Number of cases age 30-39: 87923
75 percent of my office falls into these categories (also in Virginia). The entire office was offered the vaccine. Only myself and the few anti-vaxxers didn’t get it. Everyone else felt it was their moral duty… Despite no evidence the vaccine reduces the spread of the virus.
We are essential workers, who are given the same priority as the elderly and infirm. essential workers probably make up 75% or greater of the entire work force. The statist fucks responsible putting the at risk in the same category as the majority of the working population should be kicked in the head.
The VCU employee who told me this is over 65 and has health problems. I find it ironic that she got the vaccine as a (clerical, non-medical or adjacent) university employee for a state university which has suspended in-person classes, when she SHOULD have gotten it sooner as a senior person with pre-existing health conditions. But again, because VCU happens to operate a medical school and hospital as part of its enormous state university operations, every fricking VCU employee including the twentysomething who stripes the athletic fields is an employee of an essential agency and gets to jump ahead of the elderly and infirm.
Since it’s not technically a vaccine, are they still considered anti-vaxxers?
Anti-RNAers?
Today, in frivolous lawsuits
In a press release announcing the suit, the NAACP said that, “The insurrection was the result of a carefully orchestrated plan by Trump, Giuliani and extremist groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, all of whom shared a common goal of employing intimidation, harassment and threats to stop the certification of the Electoral College.”
“They succeeded in their plan. After witnessing Capitol police barricading the doors of the House chamber with furniture, Congressman Thompson and fellow lawmakers donned gas masks and were rushed into the Longworth House Office Building where they sheltered with more than 200 other representatives, staffers and family members.”
The suit accuses the defendants of a coordinated plan to undermine the democratic electoral process and to block the legal votes of millions of ballots cast by Black Americans.
“If you ain’t voting for me, you ain’t black.”
If that was a carefully orchestrated plan, I’d hate to see what a bunch of Germans could do.
They probably could have made headway in that lawsuit if they didn’t say “carefully orchestrated plan by Trump, Giuliani…” because even terrible judges are going to want to see that proven.
That was my thought. It has to be shown they were working together in order to prove this, and I assume there is zero evidence to show cooperation of any kind.
Wait! I got it! It was coordinated via Parlar but Parlar, before being wiped from existence by order of Trump and the US Air Force and using their patented chemical compounds to produce chemtrails and erase the cloud!!!!111!!11
[claps OBE on shoulder, presents roll of tinfoil]
You just levelled up, bro.
I would say I intentionally made that read like a nutter comment..but I just am that bad at writing.
I’m really pissed off (like Nick, yo) about the smearing of OathKeepers as a terrorist group and a militia. AFAIK the only thing they’ve done as a group is promise to NOT enforce unconstitutional orders, like gun confiscation and loading citizens into cattle cars for transport to internment camps. For some reason that really, really pisses off progs.
^^THIS^^
Apparently they’re all whites supremacists too. Even the not white guys!
Not just following orders is Nazilike behavior. If we tell you to kick in that person’s door, shoot his dog, and confiscate his guns then by god you better do it.
“I’m really pissed off…”
Let it flow through you, T.
Anger can be power.
“They succeeded in their plan.”
The Electoral College wasn’t certified?
The Capital was burned to the ground and every member of Congress was killed, or something.
They also now retain 1% of government seats. Haven’t you seen the news!!
Yep. I heard that when a gang of roustabouts temporarily occupies a government building, they are head of the government. It’s just like Capture the Flag. Also, when someone swipes a lectern from a legislative chamber, they hold a communication pipeline to the nation.
Someone rifled through some papers on the Senate floor. Mission accomplished.
How did they succeed? The Electoral College vote for Biden was certified. It was delayed all of a few hours.
Democracy, Tonto, Dead Cop, (never mind the dead girl), Trump FLAG!!!!
That is how.
Thanks, Señor!
I don’t know if Corey Taylor went for the Jesse James look on purpose, but he nailed it.
I assume you were referring to the former Mr. Bullock, but he actually looks quite a bitthe real thing! like
No…the asshat from Monster Garage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WGQzQ0cP-8
Said asshat was indeed Mr. (Sandra) Bullock for a bit.
I forgot about that. It totally taints Sandra Bullock now,
Yeah, but now you know she’s got some freak in her though.
Even wildly successful women still like asshole “bad boys”, apparently.
He fucked that up in a most spectacular fashion.
I’m not wildly successful, but yeah. I neither need nor want someone to take care of me, so I can afford to go for a bit…”higher risk” if I want to.
It totally taints Sandra Bullock now
You shut your whore mouth about America’s Sweetheart!
https://i.redd.it/elhtpxd8gg261.jpg
I’ll be in my bunk.
Wait I thought Julia Roberts was America’s Sweetheart?
Julia Roberts is the harbinger of doom.
From her ginormous mouth, Cthulhu will emerge.
She lost that gig to Sandy a while ago, though she’s probably due to age out of that position soon (though she’s aging well).
Her too, and Natalie Portman.
Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton
Sure thing, grandpa. May as well just throw out Shirley Temple.
May as well just throw out Shirley Temple. I would think that is more OMWC stomping grounds.
7th! Howdy!
“His gleeful support of violent white supremacists led to a breach of the Capitol that put my life, and that of my colleagues, in grave danger. It is by the slimmest of luck that the outcome was not deadlier. While the majority of Republicans in the Senate abdicated their responsibility to hold the President accountable, we must hold him accountable for the insurrection that he so blatantly planned.”
Pull your skirt down, Panicky Pam.
His definition of “blatantly” sure has a big umbrella.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
Link fail.
Try this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/normative/status/1361444772808908801
Love this reply:
“Skim just about any fringy right wing board and you’ll find countless people fantasizing about doing violence to leftists. It’s disgusting, but I doubt any of those people get arrested on that basis alone, nor should they be.”
Right cause its sunshine and rainbow from the lefties.
“What could go wrong? Russia scientists ‘are trying to extract prehistoric viruses from 50,000-year-old animal carcasses frozen in permafrost'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9266565/Russia-scientists-trying-extract-prehistoric-viruses-50-000-year-old-animal-caracasses.html
Doesn’t sound like a very good idea at all does it?
I would absolutely visit a preserve with Ice Age animals.
STEVE SMITH LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT!
We could put it on an island, and just make sure all of the animals are female, so we won’t have to worry about them getting out of control.
*taps nose* slumbrew is onto something here.
But they are going for the viruses here, not cloning cave bears and dire wolves.
Now, theoretically modern organisms should have inherited immunity to old diseases. That’s one of the problems with backwards time travel is that you’d spread some modern disease to people who don’t have immunity.
So you’re saying Covid was caused by time travelers from the future?
I think that’s called the Syphilis Effect.
Don’t worry. It’s 2021 now. Everything will be fine.
Wait, I saw this episode of Stargate…
“Power-drunk: LA health inspector is caught on camera clapping her hands and dancing after INCORRECTLY shutting down brewery on Super Bowl Sunday over COVID guidelines”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9265959/Los-Angeles-County-health-inspector-caught-camera-dancing-telling-brewery-close.html
CWAA
How people like this aren’t “escorted” out is beyond me.
Feet first.
What you did there…
Needs moar woodchipper.
You’ve managed to convince me that off the books justice isn’t always a bad thing.
And mandatory conscription. Can’t stand in place for more than 5 minutes without acting like a five year old on a sugar high? Grow up and act professional in a public setting.
I will actually defend this one. That looks like a bored government drone left alone cause she just booted everyone from the brewery. Or she is happy. I don’t know, this one doesn’t get me I guess.
Maybe we could get Jeff Gillooly’s guy to handle this?
I keep seeing this and I don’t get the outrage at her dancing. Yeah fuck her for being part of the system that is shutting down businesses and what not, but she appears to be alone in the place waiting (by some accounts for 20 minutes or so) and is killing time by milling around an yes (gasp) dancing but maybe “You’ve got the Love” was blaring over the sound system.
Yeah fuck her for being part of the system that is shutting down businesses and what not
That’s enough for most of us.
Then for sure knock her for doing her shitty job. But Hype is right here. Just like I wrote above, she is a bored government drone bidding her time waiting for something it looks like. This type of thing is just as much propaganda from the right as all the shit the left does with their media.
uh….biding her time….or maybe she was bidding on something. I don’t know.
The outrage is that it gives the appearance that she has an agenda instead of just doing her job.
Meh, if she immediately gave a fist pump and started shaking it in front of the owner like she just kicked his ass in a game of foosball I’d agree. But the video just shows her killing time.
And Nero just wanted to hear a tune.
Dock that woman a day’s pay for dancing on the job. Unprofessional. We don’t pay her to twirl. She’s on the taxpayers’ dime, I expect her to sit in an empty booth and catch up on work emails.
If I’m the business owner, “I’m here to crush your business. While I’m waiting on that, I think I’ll shake my booty.” is probably a tad infuriating.
It isn’t even that there was an agenda, it’s that at the very basic level of She Has No Idea What She Is Doing. The dancing is a symbol of how tone-deaf she is. Acting like she is having a victory dance over majorly inconveniencing a struggling business is beyond bad taste.
Acting like she is having a victory dance
I just don’t see that, she was alone , no one else was around, she wasn’t fist pumping or doing cart wheels, she was merely grooving to whatever music she was hearing, right wing snowflaking is just as stupid as left wing snowflaking.
Are you actually an Aspie?
Probably.
Right now we are arguing about it. This means that what she did was debatable and at the very least has some bad optics. The dancing is unprofessionalism at the very minimum and smacks of retaliation at the far end of the scale. Gov’t workers work for the taxpayers and should know how to comport themselves at work, and should also know that they are always being watched, as this shows.
It isn’t as bad as Newsome’s eating out sans mask during his mandates, but it is in the same vein.
In no way is it remotely professional or acceptable for someone in her position to dance while she is on the job. Period. Full stop. If you’re bored because you just demanded that a dozen forms get filled out, find a seat and look at FaceBook or something. She acted like a child, and should be shamed for it.
Shamed yes, unprofessional most likely, but was she doing a ‘happy dance’ cause she shut the place down? Doubtful.
I would say “unknown” rather than “doubtful”. She strikes me as somebody who would do a happy dance for shutting down a business.
“Senior Democratic congressman SUES Donald Trump accusing him of inciting the January 6 MAGA riot, using anti-KKK legislation to go after him and Rudy Giuliani
A Democratic congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and of conspiring with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent the Senate from certifying the results of the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden.
The lawsuit from Mississippi’s Rep. Bennie Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is part of an expected wave of litigation over the Jan. 6 riot and is believed to be the first filed by a member of Congress.
It seeks unspecified punitive and compensatory damages.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9266369/Democratic-congressman-sues-Trump-role-Capitol-riot.html
No way they let the subject of their Two Minute Hate just disappear in to the sunset. In order to have any legitimacy, they must be seen as attacking him.
Well if they shop real hard and get a judge to actually hear this case and they actually win, it gives credence that they need their Patriot Act 2.0
Why is the NG still in DC?
Oh, now I see why…
Do all of the business owners and residents in downtown Seattle get to sue the mayor, the governor, and whoever else let CHAZ go on?
I had an discussion with my neighbor and what ‘insurrection’ means and I said that the organization BLM, by their own words, are engaging in insurrection and when that CHAZ place was going on, that was more an insurrection that what we saw at the capitol.
Their reply ….
Their reply ….
“That’s different because shut up!”?
Pretty much but more like “no because those didn’t happen in the cradle of Democracy! STOP DEFENDING TRUMP!”
There actually is a lawsuit against the city of Seattle.
Of course SCOTUS precedent maintains that the city doesn’t can’t be held responsible for riots.
But the neat twist, that has wings, is that the city provided material support for the riots by providing lights and medical supplies to CHAZ, making them a party to the riots every bit as much as the rioters.
It’ll be interesting to see how this goes.
A local restaurant filed suit against the city here, as well. There will be an avalanche, I think.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/federal-judge-allows-21-businesses-to-sue-democrat-run-seattle-over-devastation-caused-by-autonomous-zone/
There you go. To bad that the mayors and governors won’t be held personally accountable.
Or, you know, ‘too bad’.
Will be interesting to see if the courts grant him that elusive standing that we ordinary folks never seem to get.
I’m no law knowing type person but my first thought was indeed, “he has standing?”
Maybe Trump will say that since he was President on Jan 6th he had sovereign immunity?
That, too. This is going to be a whole new realm of law.
But, as always, the process is the punishment. How much is this costing him to defend against frivolous lawsuits?
I wonder if he can have the Solicitor General defend him because those were official actions he took while in office. Not that he should trust them, but think of the seething that would cause. Heads would explode like the aliens in “Mars Attacks.”
Looked like Kavanaugh was a wasted appointment, but either Trump lucked out or was playing the long game. One of these cases will surely end up before SCOTUS on either standing or immunity.
The commission said it was seeking to make up for the shortfall by bringing on line more electricity from hydroelectric and coal-fired plants as well as gas supplied by tanker ships.
That’s an idea. How about allowing fracking in Mexico?
The COVID-19 pandemic forced Rio to shut down its famed festival and threaten legal action against those who defy the ban to party.
This is sad.
Researchers are working long shifts on Cuba’s best shot to solve its coronavirus crisis: Soberana 2, the island’s domestically-produced Covid-19 vaccine.
Hopefully it works better than the jeep carrying Fidel Castro’s remains.
“These people who were part of our government failed to do their duty as public servants,” Sagasti said in a television broadcast. He said he was furious at the attitude of “many public officials who took advantage of their position.”
What’s the point of having a fancy-schmancy government position if you can’t take advantage of it?
Useless information
Polling conducted by Gallup from January 21 to February 2, which was published on Monday, showed that 63 percent of Republicans think a new third party is necessary. That’s a significant jump from the previous high of 54 percent recorded by Gallup in December 2018.
Meanwhile, a plurality (40 percent) of Republicans and independents who lean Republican want the GOP to become more conservative. Just about a third (34 percent) want the Republican Party’s politics to stay about the same and approximately a quarter (24 percent) wish the party’s views would become more moderate.
63% think a new party is needed. Nobody knows what that means, or agrees on what it would look like.
Thanks, Gallup. That was incredibly enlightening.
Just like everyone thinks some congress-critters have been in office too long, we spend too much money, and Epstein didn’t commit suicide.
You know how Texas was blacked out over the past couple days? They did as well as the Mexican states a lado de el rio. Mostly due to the gas pipeline freezing and the increased demand.
FTA:
That wasn’t a great idea. Of course, this is something like the coldest winter in 30/40 years in Texas, so I can see them not expecting this type of fallout. But Mexico needs to shape up: they’ve got so many natural resources, yet they stubbornly insist on using them sub-optimally and staying much poorer than they could be.
If I am not mistaken , PEMEX is state owned. I imagine allowing fracking is against the interests of many in the state.
Mexico has ports and beaches on the Atlantic, Pacific, the Gulf thereof and the Caribbean. They have a climate ideal for agriculture and plenty of land to grow high value crops. Plus lots of mineral resources.
And it is still barely above Third World status. Thanks, Kleptocracy.
He should have a neck wrestling bout with the neck meme guy.
Online Carnival sounds especially pointless.
Indeed. The internet is already as wild on a day-to-day basis as any potential online carnival could hope to be.
I have to imagine the internet is already far more depraved than an online carnival would be.
In bad news, someone decided to try to steal my identity for unemployment fraud.
On the bright side, they were not that skilled, so I got several mailings about it before any claims were made.
#metoo
I understand there’s been a huge wave of attempted UB fraud – they’re going for quantity over quality, and hoping people just won’t notice or respond to the automatic mailings.
There was someone else’s e-mail and phone number in the information. I was half tempted to call, but that would require setting up a new SIP account at home (unless I wanted to provide the scammer with a valid number for me). If I was in the office, I would have just updated the outbound ANI to something generic and see if they answered.
What do the mailings look like?
The ones I received were from the Ohio Office of Unemployment Insurance Operations (in state envelopes), and provided me with a new temporary password for one site, and a temporary PIN for another (both on the ohio.gov website).
It was a legit mailing from the state – someone applied on my behalf.
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/05/27/massachusetts-scam-alert-unemployment-fraud/
#metoo
A couple of weeks ago, our Professional Employer Org (basically outsourced HR) contacted me and asked, “Umm…your Senior VP of IT is still working for you, right?” (She is.) Someone had applied for UC in her name. Guess someone decided to go for a pretty big fish.
Did you tell the SVP?
Oh, yes – right away, in case there was any other attempted ID theft going on. Slightly ironic, as she’s the one who lines up our regular training re: online ID theft prevention.
Something about playing woke games: Pixar’s Troubled “Soul”
Pixar’s “Soul” is, in fact, the latest in a long tradition of American race-transformation tales, each of which finds a pretext—a potion, a spell, a medical treatment, or simply makeup—to put a white person in a black body (or vice versa). One strand of the genre—which encompasses films like “Change of Mind,” “Watermelon Man,” and “Soul Man”—is obviously the legacy of minstrel productions like the 1927 film “The Jazz Singer.” But even recent, more ostensibly race-conscious works (see again “Watchmen” and “Lovecraft Country”) play with this theme in sometimes disturbing ways, as though unable to resist making white people the hero of blackness. The white desire to get inside black flesh is absolved as an empathy exercise. Blackface gets a moral makeover. It’s telling that, in most race-transformation tales, the ideal is presented as a white soul in a black body.
Skin pigmentation is the only thing that matters in life. I sit and think about it all day, every day. And the summit of my fantasies is to have dark brown skin concealing my shameful whiteness. All white folk fantasize about this. That’s all we do. We can’t even play a video game without obsessing over skin color and wishing we weren’t so pale.
It’s telling that, in most race-transformation tales, the ideal is presented as a white soul in a black body
Roger Ebert must be rolling in his grave. How could this person overlook the cinematic masterpiece that would surely displace Citizen Kane for the title of Best Movie Ever if not for systemic racism? Black souls in white bodies for the WIN!
Is it coincidence that both Watchmen and Lovecraft Country both sucked?
I think not.
The white desire to get inside black flesh
Yeah, there’s plenty of that on the ‘tubes.
the ideal is presented as a white soul in a black body
Because these assholes would be just fine with a black soul in a white body. I can already see it “erasing black bodies blah blah”.
Bold Business Owners for Liberty announcement.
Our business, while open, will support this guy. His store looks like liberty to me; wear a mask if you wan, but I ain’t forcing it on you.
Cool. Thanks for sharing that.
Okay, I started watching that, paused to come back here to comment, and then tabbed back. Couldn’t restart the video. Going viral?
Okay, it came back after several refreshes.
I had some problems watching it after I passed it out. Others I sent it to had trouble.
I found someone put a version of the video on youtube which looks like a video of a video.
Minnesoda’s Bike Engineer feels bad for Texas and implores other Minnesodans not to mock them. No really. Our DOT has a Bicycle Engineer on staff and she feels bad for Texans and their cold weather suffering.
Has anyone seen Rust to Riches on Netflix? It’s the typical buy a shitty car, fix it up, and sell it show except…the “engine specialist” is a model.
Does the model wear a hijab? Because Minnesoda’s brave, brave, brave woman who was the first high fashion model to war a hijab is calling it quits.
Noooooo….
you may want to image search Constance Nunes.
A child refugee exploited by the UN? Shocked, I’m shocked I’ll have you know…
No but I used to watch a show called “Gotham Garage”. It was a British show. Three mechanics (one of them an attractive female). They made some cool cars and motorcycles.
Senior Democratic congressman SUES Donald Trump accusing him of inciting the January 6 MAGA riot, using anti-KKK legislation to go after him and Rudy Giuliani
Oddly, they’re notably not trying to push criminal prosecutions. If Trump were guilty of what they claimed, I’m surprised they’re not going that route (/sarcasm). I mean a lawsuit for a guy trying to conduct a coup d’etat? That sounds a bit pathetic a response.
Honestly, tough, I’ll be surprised if this suit sees the inside of a courtroom. They’ve built their narrative with the media’s backing. There’s nothing in it to risk the whole thing being made a laughingstock if Trump wins the suit.
Because there is absolutely no criminal case.
They know he didn’t conspire with some outside group. They know he didn’t say anything outside the bounds of the 1A. So they go to civil court where 1) they can make virtually any claim they can dream up, and 2) if the judge allows whatever bullshit they come up with, use the lower standards in civil court.
So much for OMWC’s attempt to trademark the term “First Vegan Pedophile”. Turns out that even the big corporations can’t trademark Vegan stuff.
Does a vegan pedophile prefer only fruits and vegetables and nuts?
Holier than thou
Sen. Ben Sasse is one of seven Republicans who crossed party lines to vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his historic second impeachment trial.
The effort fell 10 votes short of the 67 needed to convict but served to fortify the junior senator from Nebraska’s bona fides as a conservative with an independent streak and put him further at odds with party leaders back home.
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Sasse believes the party must take a broader view about where it ultimately wants to go.
“I think it’s important to give a frank assessment of where the party of Lincoln and Reagan is right now,” he added. “I think there’s a whole bunch of stuff the party of Lincoln and Reagan needs to do to persuade people we have a 2030 agenda, not a 20-minute Twitter agenda.”
Maybe if Sasse wasn’t such a prissy sanctimonious douchebag, I might care what he thinks.
Interesting choice of words to say a 2030 agenda. Also, need moar Lincoln and Reagan.
Let me guess Sasse wants to be sure the party tries to be even more amenable to the Country Club set. Fight the Dems for that demographic.
Meanwhile the huge block of blue collar workers that the Dems have abandoned will be ignored or even shunned because they are icky. And no one in the GOP will try to build on the inroads that Trump made in getting minority voters.
?
“Sasse believes the party must take a broader view about where it ultimately wants to go.”
From the look of it, the GOP wants to go where the Whigs went.
It is interesting cause from my view, Sasse want it to be what the Democrats/Media says it is, rather than what it pretty much apparently is, a pretty diverse group of demographics.
A ray of sunshine! Cool video of a gal skating along the beach of Lake Superior
Everyone..Vegas is completely opened up as the the County Commissioners have moved onto the important business of dumping the old racist McCarran name from their airport to the more pristine-not-at-all-mob-related-name of Harry Reid Airport. Our coffers are full, the city is humming along nicely. Businesses are flourishing and the Vegas Strip is wide open.
This was fake news: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2021/01/05/las-vegas-nevada-unemployment-rate-jobs-clark-washoe-county-covid/4143392001/
More fake news: https://www.fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/las-vegas-eatery-ricardos-to-close-its-doors-after-40-years/article_2f4faa82-8c9a-11ea-b578-2fcaf3558563.html
Harry Reid Airport? Really?
https://www.startribune.com/vegas-airport-name-change-to-honor-former-sen-harry-reid/600023787/
Yep. Like I said, we are rolling in massive amounts of tax revenue and enjoying a golden age here in the desert, so it is perfectly acceptable.
Supposedly it will be paid by private contributors, but I have seen that movie before.
Suckers. Our govt shelled out well over $3M just on signs when we renamed our airports. We went from Lindberg -> A and Humphrey -> B. Why? Because it was too confusing having them named after people I guess?
Sorry, they went to Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. Way clearer.
Maybe my new woke DOT Secretary Buttegig (or whatever his damn name is) and used-to-be awesome administrator will shoot this down….okay I kid. I am sure they will tell those private donors to put their wallets away, we got this.
Who the fuck would contribute to that? What is wrong with people?
As long as there are no exercise bands to blind the airplanes and cause them to fall out of the sky.
Wikipedia says that Reid tried to sue the exercise band maker because the band was defective, but a jury rejected the claim. Hey Harry, how about you just tuck your tail and take the loss?
Crap. I liked the old name.
Which airport will be named after Nancy Pelosi? SFO? OAK? SJC?
Is there an airport in Hell?
HEL is an airport.
Lol, looks like I’m the first in the neighborhood to plow the sidewalk and driveway. Odds that I’m the only one who owns a snow shovel are pretty high.
Just don’t dare plow a neighbor’s driveway. That is one of the markers of a Trump supporter and racist.
Instead of plowing their driveway go stomp “Make America Great” into their driveway (if they are lefties) or “BLM” in the driveways of your neocon neighbors.
Here is an example of how good the results can be
It is known.
[golf clap for the lot of you]
I’ve often plowed the neighbor’s drive and that ran through my head. I’m not a big Trumper but he had a Biden yard sign out last fall.
I didn’t own one until I moved into this house.
Hell, most Texans don’t even own ice scrapers.
Yup, i noticed the run on ice scrapers when it went out to Walmart yesterday.
We were thisclose to tossing the shovel and the sled, but I shoved them up into the attic just in case. Now I’m very glad to have done that.
Just don’t dare plow a neighbor’s driveway. That is one of the markers of a Trump supporter and racist.
If my neighbor plowed my drive without asking (I’d tell him to fuck off), I’d be pissed, because he’s an obnoxious asshole who has been a giant pain in my ass for years.
And he’d fuck it up.
5am this morning I went to start digging out, just as I started shoveling some dude with a plow was driving by, He apparently sees me with my shovel and 100 foot of driveway, stops, backs up, and clears my drive, I have no idea who he was but fuck him.
I just realized how sexist that was, as far as I know the driver of that plow was a woman. so fuck her as well.
Did you just assume their gender?
Fuck xer?
I got a new snowblower, but not enough snow to try it out, so shovels…
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Goddammit!
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Copy that whole mess and put it in the URL and it will work.
When we first moved into our house we didn’t have a snowblower. When it snowed, I would leave before the plow came through and threw up the berm of snow in front of the driveway. Usually my wife would leave it for me, but every once in a while she’d get bored and go out there with a shovel and have at it.
The sight of my 5′ 100# wife out there trying to muscle snow out of the way would usually have some neighbor with a snowblower come over and clear it out for her. It bothered me because I did not want to be obliged to any of our neighbors.
Now we own a snowblower and I don’t have to worry about that anymore.
Our next door neighbor just bought a snowblower this year. Before that the rest of us would all take turns doing the end of his driveway because he had a bum leg. We all joke with him that if it wasn’t for his wife none of us would ever clear the driveway, but we feel bad for her not being able to escape.
A few years ago, when I blew out my quadriceps tendon, we got a really wet, heavy snowfall. The snowblower couldn’t deal with it. So my wife was out shoveling the driveway.
The three neighbor kids came over and shoveled the drive for her. While they were working, my wife came into to tell me. So I sent her our with a $20 to pay the kids when they were done.
They didn’t want the money, but eventually took it.
About four days later, a get-well card came in the mail. It included a 20-dollar gift certificate for the local pizza joint.
I am still somewhat embarrassed about being outplayed by a bunch of kids.
Got a little dusty in here after reading that. Those are some great kids.
Someone should get a parenting medal. That’s awesome.
You and the kids need to be hustled off to re-education camps. It should be (and soon will be) illegal for the kids to work for less than $15 per hour and for you to pay them less than $15 per hour. They are “scabs” and you are a slavemaster.
In Montana I had a compacted gravel driveway that made a right turn to enter the garage. After the first snowfall I placed Coke cans and Sprite cans on 6 foot stakes along the edges. I now had my channel markers. When the snows came my p/u would make regular passes up and down the driveway to compact it. On occasion I might have to do some light plowing.
The best part was in May I would have my compacted way to drive on while the yard was a swampy mess.
Most days I do not miss it. (High today 82 low last night 73.)
I learned the very hard way in WI to clear my gravel drive as best I could rather than compact it.
Because compacted snow turns to ice, and my driveway was uphill to the road, and on a blind turn. You haven’t had fun driving until you’re stuck spinning your wheels on ice with the front half of your vehicle hanging out on a blind curve with a big sign on it that says “T-Bone Me at 50 MPH”. It never happened, but only because of blind luck.
Maskless guy cooking hot dogs outside has a nice reaction to a reporter bothering him about mask laws:
https://twitter.com/KeiraSavage00/status/1361114200387375105
A perfect amount of aggression without going overboard.
nice mic, oops….
You know what urban planners really need? A new way to look at a city where good is tax$$/acre. And you guessed it, density is king!!
The good parts of town are the ones where lots of tax revenue are being raised on a per acre basis. Bad parts are where tax revenue is low.
Pretty blunt discussion where they don’t quite use the term tax cattle, but they sure imply it.
They think this is “new”?! LOL.
That job sucks- I’d rather see you starve
The QFC grocery chain announced Tuesday it will close two of its Seattle stores in part because of the city’s new law mandating $4 an hour pay raises for grocery store workers
The two QFC stores – located at 416 15th Ave. East and at 8400 35th Ave. NE – will shut down for good on April 24, the company announced.
Both stores operate at a loss and the grocery chain says it can’t afford to operate them with the new city-mandated higher wage in place.
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Seattle’s law was approved by the city council in an emergency move Feb. 1 and took effect two days later. The mandate affects any grocery store with more than 500 employees worldwide and as many as 10,000 workers in Seattle are eligible for the pay boost.
QFC is providing the mandated extra pay to all associates, including those in the two locations scheduled to close as well as its other 13 Seattle stores.
The company says it already offers its employees competitive wages, comprehensive health care and a reliable pension. QFC’s average hourly wage in Seattle is about $20 an hour and total compensation is over $25 an hour, including health care and pension benefits, the company says.
Starvation wages. Exploitation. Slavery.
Those people will be much better off panhandling.
No idea what those neighborhoods are like but I think I know what’s coming next in this narrative.
Comestible desiccated bailiwick
QFC supermarkets are great. When visiting the rellies in Bothell, we’d often go to the QFC just a few blocks away for groceries. And as a Canuck, seeing their aisles and aisles of booze selection was a real eye-opener.
QFC is owned by Kroger. If what they did to Fred Meyers is any indication, the sheen is off the apple.
FOOD DESERT!!!!
Both are in nice residential areas of the city. The first one is a few blocks away from a Safeway, so no food desert the.
Still trying to figure out how a city can dictate the wages of a single industry…FYTW? We won? On top of that…you work at QFC making 20/hour + healthcare + pension? What the motherfucking fuck.
I won’t hold my breath waiting for anyone to challenge it.
All of these unemployed people will blame QFC instead of the gov’t. Just like my Covidian bartender friends blame mongoloid anti maskers for losing their jobs.
Then they deserve their unemployment.
Let’s say QFC didn’t fire anyone or cut any hours, what would the total cost for those raises come to? The news never seems to provide that type of info.
4$ an hour increase is what? 30,40% more? For no reason other than a govt decree. QFCJFC.
Now I’ve seen it all, watching the Expanse just now, I noticed a viewscreen, made by DeWalt,
do they have Home depot on Mars?
And a Radio Shack.
Obviously the best timeline
Scott Horton on Tom Woods show all week.
I’m reading his new book, Enough Already, and it’s fucking awesome.
Purchase it.
Be warned: if you have high blood pressure, take your meds before reading.
Intermittent nice auroras tonight. Nothing like the deep purple I saw last night, tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC7-4FaSvt4
Just as appreciated. Thanks for the link KK
Was it like smoke on the water?
Fire in the sky.
Literally.
AKKKKKSHULLLY….I got nothing…well I do, but I just wanted an opportunity to do that.
I get it. Glad I could help.
Okay, enough bitching.
Another lovely image of the lovely lasses that have graced my studio over the years:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/party-wig.jpg
We had some fun with a “party wig” I have around the studio. This is the same lady I posted yesterday:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/pose-65.jpg
Always appreciated. I like your medium and art you provide.
Yup. Portrait photography is one of those things that is much harder to do well than people think.
I consider myself a rank amateur, but even so, I manage to create some images from time-to-time that I (and others) like.
What really rankles me is that, due to a variety of circs (including COVID shutdowns), I haven’t been able to do any shooting at all for the better part of 2+ years. Half of studio shooting is muscle memory, and that muscle’s almost completely atrophied. Hopefully that comes to an end at the end of February — a local model’s seen my stuff and wants to work with me. Fingers crossed. (She’s in the same boat, more or less — hasn’t done a shoot in almost a year…)
Pretty!!
Apparently my city’s mayor is Candice Bergen
https://youtu.be/32VPv2Ls2-o
Could be much worse.
Get defiled on Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.is/7Euie
DEG is going to appreciate that one.
https://youtu.be/2ymMyY4GNAE
Good. No face diapers.
Could the possibility of a viable third party be Trashy’s catalyst?
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2021/02/16/support-for-third-political-party-reaches-all-time-high-the-question-is-is-it-a-viable-option-n327857
Perot did a good job and had a significant impact, but today he would just be cancelled. The ptb won’t let another outsider in again.
It will be interesting if the DemOp Complex supports the formation of a breakaway party from the Repubs. I can see why they might.
True. “These guys are so much more reasonable than those icky Republicans ” 50/25/25 = mandate
Finally got to enjoy the winter weather we are having in SWMO. I believe that 2011 was the last time we got more than 3 inches in one shot. The daughter and I went sledding, not a great big hill, but had a lot of fun.
Did some Nat move stuff too, jumping and rolling, hung on a tree branch. Thanks againg Tundra!
I don’t know if I could take the Thanksgiving thru late March snow/winter temps, but I definitely could take December 15 – February 15 snow/winter temps. I mean actually after having a week of below freezing my body has adjusted nicely
I’m hoping that was ‘again’ rather than ‘aging’.
Regardless, I’m glad you are enjoying cold exposure. As much as I bitch, it really is a good thing!
Definitely again, LOL. Don’t type a whole lot anymore, and was never very good at it.(Proof reading also, it seems)
Sorry if I steal someone’s link, but this cannot go unmentioned.
Unrepentant commie takes explosive semi-liquid shit on the New York Times, demonstrates levels of cattiness previously thought impossible by science.
WTF does this mean?
He’s a commie. Class is everything, and people who don’t recognize it are just the worst.
But wouldn’t ‘class-never’ be a commie utopia? One class to rule them all!
I don’t understand any of this except for there being no way a Park Slope townhouse is any cheaper than you’d expect.
Yikes — and bravo!
There’s a thousand people writing all over the ‘Net who I (a) disagree violently with and (b) would nevertheless buy a beer for if I ever met ’em in person.
The NYT and all those who write for them, on the other hand, elicits the same response in me that I have to The Globe and Mail‘s (“Toronto’s National Newspaper”) coterie of journos; in a perfect world, I’d be allowed to empty the magazine of a shotgun into their faces, and might even be lauded for it on social media.
Alas, we do not live in that world, or anything even close to it, and my desires to lance these boils on the butt of civilization must go forever unsatisfied. All I impotently have left is to shut them out of my personal life, which I have, in fact, done. Haven’t read a newspaper or watched a news program in years, and I’m pretty sure I’m a better person for it.
I enjoyed that rant
That Corey Taylor song sounds way too happy. It’s fucking weird.
Question for Boat enthusiasts, will a 12 Gauge slug penetrate body armor? a fellow enthusiast is asking,
I would guess it would depend on the body armor? Those slug fish can really damage a boat though…
Yusef, if you see this, no it won’t penetrate (even soft armor) but I doubt someone being hit by it will be able to get up afterwards.
Mustang!
Nice to see you, brother! I hope all is well.