Welp. It had to happen sooner or later. WebDom has flown the coop today. And by flown the coop, I mean gone back home to her real life. It was great fun having her here, in SPite of the fact that she and OMWC gang up on me for SPort.
We did a couple day trips over the past week to Sedona and Tucson. I hadn’t been to Sedona in about 20 years. It has certainly become even more crowded, but it’s still just as beautiful.
Anyway. You come here for links to ignore, so links you shall have.
Sad news from North Texas. Hope all local Glibs are safe.
“In Socialist America, better to waste vaccine than use it without ‘equity.’ “ H/T and quote Brett L
OFFS. More evidence that politicians are assholes everywhere. But we knew that.
This is why people hate cops and prosecutors.
OK, I am out before my blood pressure spikes anymore. have a great afternoon, kids!
I may as well….
sup’ fam
So I’m late, ‘Sup Tres
Tall Cans!
she and OMWC gang up on me for SPort.
Go on…
Second link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/houston-doctor-fired-covid-vaccine.html
That’s how you know this whole thing is a sham.
Thanks.
Chaos in Virginia as it is revealed that Gov. Northam doesn’t have a plan for vax distribution, and his health department is getting all pissy with CVS pharmacy who is willing to take-on vaccination because equity, access, pharmacy deserts. Whatever you do don’t ask how come they didn’t have a plan ready months ago; you don’t need to have the vaccine to plan its distribution.
Article paywalled for me because I visit there a lot but everyone else can probably read.
Don’t tell me: Its Trump’s fault.
AZ has done a decent job, at least compared to many other states. And still the pols here deflect the slightest complaint to “lack of federal plan/leadership/whatever”. Useless cuntes, the lot of them.
Ding, ding, ding! Folks, we have a winner. Yes, it is because now-former Pres Trump held up the vaccine.
Incompetent assholes
Meanwhile, the legislative session has been a complete shitshow as the Democrats have been ramming thru whatever they want and completely ignoring the Republicans or accusing them of being racists, etc…
I was told, since I was an essential worker, I could get the vaccine through work, but I’d have to drive 2hrs on off shift hrs when I’d usually be sleeping. I don’t give shit, you die when you die, you never get to choose the time. “Mr. Pay it safe..” It might not be technically ‘ironic’, but that won’t stop you from dying from a UTI when ‘odds’ said you should have died in a car accident.
Daygum link, Mr Play it Safe.
Has Northam imposed hoods in addition to masks yet?
I think it’s going to be a toss up on who goes first, bureaucrats, administrators, lawyers or politicians.
VCU already vaccinated all their staff, not just the ones on the medical campus. I love how they are jumping young, healthy people ahead of me. Also, damn govt.
I meant first to the gallows, but your comment makes sense too.
Those will be counted as covid deaths.
The media.
Some people can’t wait to get vaccinated, others don’t want to get it at all.
I’m taking a wait and see approach because too many people I know have had bad reactions. My doc is okay with that, because reasons. A nursing student friend (thirtysomething) is also holding off until it’s mandatory for him. All the old(er) people I know are desperate for it.
Second.
Just not interested. Already had my share of shots, vaccinations, immunizations. Someone else’s turn.
Damn sure am not gonna stand in anymore lines…
My wife is a teacher. She can get the vaccine now but has opted out. She tells me the teachers that have taken it are having bad reactions.
“Oh shit! I just realized I’ll have to go back to work!”
Ha. They’re still in virtual so they still have to work.
“In REAL LIFE!”
This shit has been going around for a year and I have yet to get sick from it. If it hasn’t gotten me yet, I don’t think it will. I am skeptical about the vaccine and don’t plan on ever taking it. Who knows what kind of long term affects it could possibly have. No thanks for me.
“He spends his time volunteering at a nonprofit health clinic for the uninsured, haunted all the while by the realization that no matter what, it will still be out there: the story about that Pakistani doctor in Houston who stole all those vaccines.”
ALL those vaccines? From the sound of it, it was a vile that only got one ‘legitimate’ use and he made sure it didn’t go to waste because some top men were to busy trying to see who they can get to bob-their-knob on who will be the chosen.
I’m not even liking the odds that a grand jury will indict him if they get anything close to the full story. Of course, only the prosecutor gets to speak to the grand jury, so that odious sack of vile will probably tell them a pack of lies to get her indictment. Still, its in the paper, so the jurors should know that this doc gave vaccines to people off-schedule rather than throw them away.
Don’t they ask prospective grand jurors the same voir dire questions they ask petite jurors? Like, have you read any newspaper stories about the case?
No. I was on a grand jury panel (I cried and whined and they let me off). An ordinary grand juriy sits for weeks or months, generally only meets a few days a week, is not sequestered, and looks at any number of cases.
I’m well, not going to get the vaccine. I have weird allergies. Also good news. No more Curfew in Ohio. 🙂
I read that article on the doc that utilized the rest of the pokes. Trying to say he ‘stole’ it is beyond the pale. The doctor did what doctors should be allowed to; administer medicine to their best of their knowledge. Of course, we saw how the State interferred with that early on in 2020 with the whole Chloroquine ‘bans’ they imposed.
” a judge dismissed the charge as groundless, after which the local district attorney vowed to present the matter to a grand jury. ”
What a ghoul. Who is the local district attorney and why is his/her name conspicuously absent from this story?
It was in the NYTimes Article at least…
Harris County’s district attorney, Kim Ogg
Why does that name sound really familiar?
https://abc13.com/harris-county-district-attorneys-office-prosecutors-resign-documents-from-kim-oggs-leak-in-prosecutor-resigns/6414691/
That maybe?
Or this?
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/06/25/harris-county-district-attorney-kim-ogg-under-fire-for-job-threatening-email/
But hey, the people voted her back in…so, she must be a good person..
I’m just waiting until someone is stampeded to death trying to get the last dose. Or there’s a riot when people have been waiting in line for hours in the cold and the vaccine runs out when there’s still a big crowd.
“Fifty Shades of Greene
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘openly cheated’ on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym
But despite the tawdry flings, Taylor Greene stuck with her husband Perry as she made her unlikely rise that has turned her into the most talked-about Republican in Washington, D.C.
Neither man denied the affairs when approached by DailyMail.com.
Craig Ivey, the tantric sex practitioner, said: ‘I will not respond to anything about this,’ while the other man, Justin Tway, said: ‘I have no interest in talking about anything to do with that woman. Everything with her comes to no good.’
But others say the new representative from Georgia’s 14th Congressional District was brazen about her affairs which she carried on a decade ago while working in gyms in Alpharetta, Georgia, some 35 miles north of Atlanta.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9246917/Marjorie-Taylor-Green-openly-cheated-husband-men-gym.html
Nice gossip rag you got there…
“Craig Ivey, the tantric sex practitioner…”
/considers updating resume, sending to women of Congress
The odds of someone getting back to you that’s bangable are so slim as to make that a bad idea. What if Maxine Waters decides to respond?
*crosses fingers before opening response message*
Please let it be Sinema, please let it be Sinema, please let it be Sinema…
For physically attractive, I think she’s the pick of the litter.
Yeah, she’s not bad looking. I think AOC’s cute too but that’s only because I used to date a girl with beaver teeth back in the day and I guess that developed into a bit of a fetish.
HEYAH ?
Something about women who can clean all the kernels off a corn cob in one fell swoop disturbs me.
Yeah.
“She’ll ‘pop the cap from your bottle, know what I mean?”
wink, wink, nudge, nudge
Everything with her comes to no good.
So, messy break-up.
But despite the tawdry flings, Taylor Greene stuck with her husband Perry
Makes it sound like he was stepping out on her.
I love how “no comment” = “neither man denied the affairs”.
“Neither man denied having sex with a donkey.”
“Neither man denied trying to overthrow the government.”
etc.
“Both men denied having quit beating their wives.”
I dont believe a word of that.
Pinning a scarlet letter on a Congress woman. How progressive.
“Openly cheated”?
Sounds a bit like an open relationship to me, or maybe her husband has a cuckold fetish.
Reading the article:
Her attorney L. Lin Wood, has previously said that an article about the allegations published by the New Yorker magazine was ‘intended to smear her with false accusations, half-truths, misrepresentations, out-of-context statements, and agenda driven lies.’
Lin Wood? This is going to end well.
I’m starting to wonder if Lin Wood is on the DNC’s payroll.
Pretty sure you’re on to something there.
Some pics about the first story:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9250043/Multiple-injuries-people-trapped-cars-100-vehicle-pile-Texas-freeway.html
The first rule of driving on ice is to not drive on ice.
Agreed. I was half way to hockey practice last night, the first indoor one we’ve had in months. Right after a toll booth, my car started to fish tail. I slowed down and a few trucks blew past me. That was enough. I got off the highway and took the back roads home.
I’ve heard this sentiment many times, but still don’t get it. I’d rather drive on the divided highway that receives the most attention, rather than on a ‘back road’ where on-coming traffic is a worry.
Speed. While the highways are top priority to be de-iced, if they are bad all the roads will be bad, but drivers will be going slower on the side roads, meaning if an accident does occur it will be less damaging.
Going slower, but driving head-on towards you, where no one knows where the center line is or where the shoulder is.
I’m with Gadfly on this one. Its a close call, one where I don’t think there’s a good answer. You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Same. I’ll take back roads whenever possible because I can go as slowly as I want because nobody else is driving on them.
Yesterday I was really really really hurting for a manual transmission, though. So much better when first gear is your friend and you don’t have to use your brakes.
What Gadfly said. It’s much easier to correct a skid going 25 than at 55. On a 2-lane road, if you go slow the people behind you might get pissed, but they won’t blow by you going 70.
The other factor is that the highways are north of me, closer to the lake, and I went home more south so there hadn’t been any precipitation.
People slow down when the back roads get icy. Trucks will still blow past you doing 70+ on ice. They then have difficulty stopping when you hit traffic.
So, you’re more scared of the people that drive for a living driving past you that the idiots that can’t drive driving at you?
No, I’m concerned that when we hit a slow, they won’t be able to stop in time. When I get off onto our local roads, the vehicles are lighter and slower.
Looks like a number of those people who drive for a living plowed into that pile-up.
RC Dean beat me to it.
One time I had reason to drive across Nebraska on I-80 in the winter. There was some bad juju on that road, lemme tell you.
On my way home, I saw almost a dozen semis jack-knifed in the median. The only cars I saw were Jeeps and pickups. So…people who drive for a living aren’t exactly the most dependable bad-weather drivers ESPECIALLY if they don’t do it very often.
Looks like a number of those people who drive for a living plowed into that pile-up.
Yup, and the heat map of fatalities and serious injuries will be centered on them, too.
So your Good Ol’ driving home with his case of Bud Light is going to take more care than the guy who’s literal job depends on him getting his load off on time? (Phrasing, am I right?)
Don’t know how many different ways we have to say YES WE ARE MORE SCARED OF PEOPLE THAT DRIVE FOR A LIVING DRIVING PAST US before you get that we’re fucking serious.
So your Good Ol’ driving home with his case of Bud Light is going to take more care than the guy who’s literal job depends on him getting his load off on time?
There are more variables at play than just experience. Danny DUI’s pickup isn’t nearly as much of a deadly threat to me in my car as Tommy Trucker’s fully laden 18 wheeler. The big wide lanes can give people false security. Its harder to get into the ditch from the highway.
Things develop quickly, and sometimes experience doesn’t dictate whether you’re wrecking or not. I’d rather be wrecked by a car my own size than by an 18 wheeler.
I trust professional expert truck drivers about as much as I trust professional expert public health officials at this point.
Danny DUI’s pickup isn’t nearly as much of a deadly threat to me in my car as Tommy Trucker’s fully laden 18 wheeler.
This. That fully-loaded 18 wheeler is between 5-40x heavier than personal vehicles, which means they have 5-40x the momentum and 5-40x the force of impact in a crash. Acceptable risk calculation includes likelihood of event as well as severity of event.
My wife interned in a drug rehab clinic. She said at any given time at least half of the patients were truck drivers.
Make what you will of that.
Their bodies are broken early. Drugs so you can fucking function. Like pro athletes.
New trucks are better, but it ‘s not a healthy lifestyle.
#metoo
I remember one time I was driving on I-90 when an storm hit. So I proceeded very slowly as a bunch of cars whizzed past me. As I continued along I noticed every single one of them crashed on the side of the road.
Something similar happened to me. I was driving back to New Hampshire from Pennsylvania in a snow storm. Somewhere in New Jersey, a guy in a pick-up flew past me. I think I was on I-287. The speed limit was 65, and I thought given the conditions the 45 I was doing was pushing it. I think, given how quickly he passed me, he was moving at about 70.
About a mile or two later I passed him. His pick-up was nose-first into a concrete barrier.
This.
People are stupid assholes. Stay away from them.
The second rule of ice driving is that it’s easier to tow you out of a ditch than peel you off the bumper of a truck.
More evidence that politicians are assholes everywhere.
New Zealand politicians could demonstrate it in the last two years even more than usual.
Bayern claim the Club World Cup over Tigres (from Monterrey MX).
Was this really any surprise?
Poor me. Pour me another drink…
Country singer Morgan Wallen posted an apology video Wednesday evening that discussed his sobriety and his efforts to make amends for saying the N-word to a white friend after a night out in Nashville.
Naggers?
“The video you saw was me on hour 72 of a bender, and that’s not something I’m proud of either,” a solemn Wallen says in the video, posted to social media and sent to TMZ. “Obviously, the natural thing to do is to apologize further and continue to apologize because you got caught, and that’s not what I wanted to do.”
“I let so many people down who mean a lot to me, who have given so much to me, it’s just not fair,” he said. “I let my parents down and they’re the furthest thing from the person in that video. I let my son down and I’m not OK with that.”
Impressive.
The only correct way to apologize is to kiss Jesse Jackson’s ass.
You’re not proud of being able to go on a bender for 72 hours?
I agree with the face-tatted Maori dude.
Neckties are literal nooses. I hate wearing them. In fact when I had to wear them in hugh school for game days, I choose the most ugly ties I could find.
That’s why cops wear clip-ons.
At the Catholic high school I went to, there were trends to the ties chosen. Some went with famous (naked) art prints, others went with the ugliest ties they could find, others found the minimum requirement to qualify as a “tie”.
We had “uniforms” which were simply a standard pair of slacks, shirt and clip-on tie from JC Penney; plaid skirts and plain blouses for the girls. Uniforms are actually a good idea because they eliminate all the dress code interpretation hassles, and hide the difference between the rich kids and the poor.
That was grade school. In high school, the shirt and pants had to be specific colors for the boys, and the skirt and blouse had to be specific colors for the girls. Shoes had to be brown or black dress shoes for both.
So the only places to put any real splash of personality was socks or ties (boys)/leggings (girls). FFS, even our dress down days mandated button up shirts for the boys (which most of us got around with flannels/work shirts, as was the style at the time).
Tangental – a number of years ago some male co-workers had to explain to some female co-workers the appeal of plaid skirts. For many of us it dated back to school uniforms and fond memories…
*shifts uncomfortably in chair*
Those female co-workers all wore little plaid skirts on the same day the very next week.
Man, there was a lot of sleeping around at that company.
That is awesome.
It’s why the Tilted Kilt was a hit with me.
hide the difference between the rich kids and the poor.
The kids figure it out, or at least at the Catholic schools I went to they did.
Hand-me downs vs. not hand-me downs is one way.
I was often the only non-faculty on campus wearing a tie back in high school. I was a bit of a clothes-horse in my teens. I switched it up with vintage finds from South Florida’s amazing thrift store collection (having many elderly residents means many estate wardrobes go to the Goodwill/Salvation Army/local church) and some nice bolos (the leather with pewter skull and crossed bones clasp was a favorite). Now I only wear a tie (or long pants) for job interviews, weddings, and funerals.
You from SoFla?
Born and raised in the 305.
Sweet! I was born at Mercy Hospital in the Grove as Fisherman’s Hospital in the Keys had no birthing facilities. Monroe and Dade Counties when I was wee; Sarasota and Charlotte Counties until Army nabbed me.
I was born in a Mercy hospital. Many ancient years ago. Not sure which of the Egyptian dynasties that was in. I hear they are now bankrupt.
My tie from my dress blues is still tied from the day I graduated basic…
I also kept my uniform tie knotted for the duration. I’m so glad I rarely had to put it on. I hate those things.
Yep..maintenance, so the only time I had to wear that uniform was when I got an award, promoted to NCO and when I got my ass handed to me by a shit head captain.
I only wore for graduations, changes in command or unit inspections. Awards and promotions were in duty uniform. Blood rank has more of an impact with pin on rank than shoulder boards.
Harder to get pinned by sew on.
Dress blues, clip on bow tie
“‘I thought I could lick it off’: Man who superglued a SOLO CUP to his face for idiotic ‘Gorilla Glue challenge’ ends up in the ER – after accusing mom who got adhesive stuck in her hair of lying”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9250395/Mans-Gorilla-Glue-Challenge-attempt-ends-ER-cup-stuck-face.html
LOLOLOLOLOL
Oh great, another “challenge”.
Just waiting for the Gorilla Masking Duration Challenge
Someone is challenged, that’s for sure.
I hope these people don’t breed.
Sorry, Idiocracy was a prophecy.
Interesting article on theories as to why the human brain has been shrinking since the stone age.
https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/biol100/2018/03/20/why-are-our-brains-shrinking/#:~:text=John%20Hawks%2C%20an%20anthropologist%20at,size%20of%20a%20tennis%20ball.
They breed the most…that is the ironic part. I think a movie did a bit on that…
twice
https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA
She sounds like the Gorilla my dreams.
*pigsnuffle*
President Joe Biden warned lawmakers Thursday that China is aggressively outpacing the United States on infrastructure.
“They’re investing a lot of money, they’re investing billions of dollars and dealing with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation, the environment and a whole range of other things,” Biden said he told a bipartisan group of senators whom he met with in the Oval Office.
“They have a major, major new initiative on rail and they already have rail that goes 225 miles an hour with ease,” he explained, adding that he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping for two hours on Wednesday. “They’re going to, you know, if we don’t get moving, they’re going to eat our lunch,” Biden said after the meeting with the members of the Environment and Public Works committee.
“We just have to step up. And so what I’d like to talk to these folks about — since they are the key committee — is how we begin this. I’ve laid out what I think we should be doing,” the president added.
Infrastructure. Trainnz.
And this little piggie went “Wee wee wee!” all the way to the bank.
Fuck you, you moron. Where are the meaningful marginal gains to be had from major infrastructure projects in this country? Are we (“WE”) going to build a fifty billion dollar tunnel under the Hudson river from Hackensack to midtown Manhattan, so Manhattanites can flee more easily? What’s the payoff on that, and be sure to show your work.
Trains, during a pandemic!!!
Great idea.
Why work from home when you can ride the train?
Can I stay on the train to work? Just pick me up in the morning and drop off in the evening.
There are people who do that. Some chick on Long Island wanted out of the house so she works on the LIRR going back and forth.
Of course, the solution is to invite those Chinese firms to come and build us infrastructure.
Double bonus for China: All that shit will fall apart after a few years. Their quality of construction is fucking horrible and they are notorious for cutting corners.
Union jobs?
Xi Jinping has to be laughing his ass off, knowing that he has convinced Biden that there is a High Speed Rail Gap and that he’ll commit the USA to ruinous expenses to catch up, never realizing that China has completely turned the US strategy to spent the USSR into submission via an arms race 180 degrees.
I can see Xi’s face as he’s talking to Biden on speaker phone and having trouble keeping the smirk turning into laughter, while the 1/2 dozen aides standing by are on the floor with tears of laughter running down their faces and saying something like “He’s serious” or “He’s putting us on, right?” . Biden’s staff is behind him, eyes rolling.
High speed rail? May want to look at what happened with our absurd SF to LA $100 billion boondoggle with nothing to show for it in CA before you flap your gums further, Mr President.
But I guess Joe has been listening to Thomas Friedman, who seems to think high speed rail is what the US needs most right now. ?
dealing with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation, the environment and a whole range of other things
Since the environment was brought up, this is a good time to be reminded of the fact that China produces 30% of global CO2 emissions, nearly double what the US produces. So anyone who thinks that China is concerned about the environment is a good candidate to be sold a bridge.
Scurries to move goalposts from per-country to per-resident-of-country. /prog
Anyone have the link to the article about how China’s railway was paralyzed because it ran on Adobe Flash?
I #WhiteKnighted for Lady Z about the North Texas weather, I can’t be assed to care about anyone else, I limited shits to give here!
Congrats?
It’s like you people don’t even get the jokes! Fine, I’ll turn over my comedy card.
Well, I thought it was funny.
It wasn’t that I thought it was funny…geesh *kicks can down the road*
…I laughed.
I am about 45 miles west of Fort Worth, dry roads here at 6 am and all day. I’d make a comment about Texas drivers and ice if this weren’t so tragic. We don’t get much snow, but often there are just sheets of ice on the roads when the weather turns cold. That is a horrific scene.
Trains, during a pandemic!!!
One occupant per car, and multiple masks are required. You can’t be too safe.
The CDC now recommends two cars per occupant for extra protection.
[golf clap]
very nice
I don’t have time for your feckin virtue signalling.
This week, the entire rugby squad of the team from Ireland unanimously refused to “take a knee” before they played against a Welsh team in the first round of the Six Nations tournament.
As an “anti-racism” message played over the public address system on Sunday before the kick-off of the match, the Irish team remained standing. Their action followed nearly half of the 30 players for Saturday’s England versus Scotland match also refusing to “take a knee.”
Go Ireland.
Hi SP!
Sorry your little girl had to go back to real life. My son won’t be back for the summer, so I’m starting that slide into a much different life.
Not sure how I feel about it.
Ties suck. I support Tattoo You guy.
The story about the kid who was ass raped by law enforcement and the criminal ‘justice’ system makes me want to start fires. Metaphorically, of course.
Have a great rest of your day, SP!
Musical selection from the aforementioned album:
Hang Fire
It’s not that ties don’t suck. They do, and probably shouldn’t be mandatory, but who am I to tell a body (be it business or gov) how they should set their dress code?
But I can’t abide the rhetoric. Ties suck. They are NOT, however, a “colonial noose.” Fuck that guy. You can’t tie every goddamn thing under the sun that sucks to wHiTe SuPrEmAcY!! Fuck that.
So while I can sympathize with his sentiment that ties suck, fuck him and his rhetoric. It’s enough to say that ties suck. Trying to say they suck because whipeepo is bullshit, and he can eat a bag of dicks. I’m sure there are relatives that he would have, but who were subjected to actual colonial nooses, who would loved to have worn a fucking tie instead.
“Jazz Keyboard Legend Chick Corea Dies at 79”
https://glidemagazine.com/253567/jazz-keyboard-legend-chick-corea-dies-at-79/
Fuck.
I saw Chick and Bella Fleck at a little coffee bar in Vienna, a few years back. That dude could wail on a keyboard.
Bela Fleck rules.
The first time I saw the Flecktones is a top 3 concert experience.
Very sad news. My introduction to him was the Return To Forever lp, notable for its musicians, musicianship, and the rather astonishing fact that the recording is all first takes.
^this album right here, says it all about the man, and Jazz at the time,
Not so much for jazz records, especially from the 60s and 70s.
Most jazz tracks were done in 1 take. Many still are.
Beato’s doing a livestream right now about Chick, and playing one of his recordings.
When you can’t even lie competently.
Impeachment manager exhibit incorrectly identifies Charlottesville, VA, as Charlottesville, NC
Please, please tell me the defense is going to play the entire “fine people” video. I’ll bet 90% of the Dems haven’t seen it. Not that it would change anyone’s mind.
No, just the edited version.
I showed the full context to a person that continues to believe Trump praised neo-nazis and white-supremes. ///MeOrYourLyingEyes
Maybe they should take up their entire allotted time playing “but not the white supremacists, who I condemn totally” on a loop.
The trial is a sham. It doesn’t matter what Trump’s lawyers say. The verdict has already been decided.
If I was his lawyer, I would be very tempted to say something like:
“Well, if that weak shit is all they’ve got, I say we go right to the vote. The defense rests.”
So oppressed
Tanden shared stories of criticism and doubt she’s dealt with over the years.
While serving as policy director on Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign, Tanden once led a meeting where others in the room turned to a junior counterpart, a young white male, for reassurance, she claimed.
“Someone actually checked in with him verbally and said, ‘Does that makes sense to you?'” Tanden told NBC News of the incident.
“You know it’s just because it was not their perception that an Asian woman would be the leader of this meeting,” she added.
Or maybe it was just a colossally stupid idea.
My impression of Neera Tanden is that she’s one of those high caste Indian women who are fucking intolerable to work with.
There’s a significant number of those who are physicians around here. Arrogant, uncaring, and only worried about what they’re being paid.
it was not their perception that an Asian woman would be the leader of this meeting
If nobody thought she was leading the meeting, then it sounds like she should have done a better job of leading the meeting.
Does that makes sense to you?
Maybe because he was a subject matter expert? Or had raised a question that had been addressed? Or just wasn’t just a raging cunte nobody wanted to engage with?
Well, you were in a meeting. Were the others not supposed to chime in on what was being discussed?
“it was not in their perception” And you’re a mind reader, too?
“Hey Steve, Libya should be forced to turn over their oil to repay us for the costs incurred in bombing them? Does that make sense to you?”
“You know it’s just because it was not their perception that an Asian woman would be the leader of this meeting,” she added”
Rule of thumb working in the corporate world: If you always mention you gender or race within the context of your job, chances are you are incompetent as fuck.
My accounting senior manager is this tough Polish broad who is probably one of the most intelligent and hard working women I’ve ever worked with and she’s never once mentioned her gender within the context of her work.
And of course I’m sure they’re doing some serious fucking gymnastics trying to explain why a Democrat policy meeting resulting in “racism” is somehow Republicans’ fault.
“Has anyone else noticed that the best/fastest news about America is in the Daily Mail?”
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1359875418858221568
Sad news from North Texas. Hope all local Glibs are safe.
That is sad. Looking at the pictures, it seems the big pile-up happened in the toll lanes, which FYI are the express lanes, with the speed limit being up to 10 miles higher than the surrounding highways (which range from 65-75, meaning the toll lanes have people going over 80MPH in them), so my guess is people were treating them like normal and going quite fast, and since the express lanes are separated from concrete barrier that basically turned them into a concentrated canyon of death.
meaning the toll lanes have
peopleambient traffic going over 80MPH in themThere are people going 100 in the express lanes. I’ve felt like I was standing still going 80 in the express lanes on 635.
At least eight people were killed in highway crashes across North Texas Thursday morning, including one involving roughly 100 vehicles in Fort Worth that killed five people and injured dozens of others as overnight sleet made for treacherous driving conditions across the region.
This is not good.
“I will adorn myself with the treasures of my ancestors and remove the colonial noose around my neck so that I may sing my song,” he said as he removed his tie.
My first impression is he is the Maori version of Al Sharpton. If I’m right, he can go fuck himself.
In early 2019, the state joined the motion, though it said it “has not and does not agree that the defendant is innocent of the crime or that he was wrongly convicted.”
Washington state government can go fuck itself.
Someone should tell him that those in an actual “colonial noose” never had the option to just take it off. It was taken off of them. Once they were dead.
The rhetoric is so fucking infantile.
Fuck that guy and his bullshit “wHiPeEpO” rhetoric.
“BREAKING: Twitter suspends accounts of Project Veritas, James O’Keefe
The account of Project Veritas has been suspended from Twitter as of Thursday, and the investigative outlet’s founder, James O’Keefe, also had his account restricted.
These accounts were targeted after Project Veritas released a video showing Facebook Vice President Guy Rosen admitting that the social media platform “freezes” comment sections on posts where they suspect, but have not necessarily have confirmed, that “hate speech” is taking place.
“We have a system that is able to freeze commenting on threads in cases where our systems are detecting that there may be a thread that has hate speech or violence,” Rosen said. “These are all things we’ve built over the past three-four years as part of our investments into the integrity space, our efforts to protect the election.”
According to Twitter, Project Veritas’ video showing Rosen violated Twitter’s rules against “posting private information.”
The suspension of Project Veritas comes as conservatives continue to raise concern over the censorious power of big tech companies, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Amazon. Project Veritas had also leaked a call involving Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last month where he explained that Twitter would be ramping up censorship as time goes by.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-twitter-suspends-accounts-of-project-veritas-james-okeefe
Surprised it took them this long.
Same
seconded
Unprecedented!
“This is unprecedented,” Bernstein said of Trump’s Senate impeachment trial. “This is a seditious president of the United States who has undermined the very basis of our democracy, who does not care about loss of life. It’s the same president who was negligent in homicidal terms because of his handling of the COVID situation and not handling that in a way that would save American lives. But let’s talk about one other thing. Did this event we witnessed today in these horrible videos is about the presence of evil. And the evil here is an evil president of the United States.”
“What we know is that this Republican Party is enthralled to the evil of Donald Trump, including undermining the very basis of our democracy, the electoral system,” he added. “They have aped his words for months about a rigged election. They allowed this terrible undermining of the process to go forward up to the point of the day on January 6 some of them were still talking about that we needed to see if there was some kind of rigged election here. This is unprecedented. One of our political parties has become hostage to an undemocratic, seditious President of the United States and the evil that he has wrought, including with COVID as well. It’s all of a piece, and we need to look at it in terms of both the law, the facts and the moral dimension.”
President Evil, He Who Shall Not Be Named.
I’ve heard Pentecostal preachers give calmer and more rational sermons…
[standing ovation]
The stench of “unity” is getting stronger every day.
This. I am convinced that they want a civil war followed by a recreation of the USSR. They despise our system based on the idea of limited power. They want a totalitarian hell.
They’re hoping that they can continue to ratchet up the pressure without the right turning violent. Thats why they’re going nutzo about insurrection. They want their overreaction to have a chilling effect on right-wing violence going forward.
They don’t realize how many people find each additional step to be all the more noxious. They’re creating exactly what they’re trying to avoid by pushing too hard.
For once the left is behind the reality. They’re still in the rhetorical aggression mode, ignoring that a large portion of the right has disengaged from the process and is gearing up for troubles.
Have you tried to buy ammo lately?
Unfortunately, yes.
^^ this
No worries, y’all won’t be needing it soon without any guns. Beta is coming.
What guns?
I lost them in a freak boating accident.
“undermining the very basis of our democracy”
Hey, whycome the Trump people no be able to fortify democracy too?
Raskin: “Pres. Trump is not even close to the proverbial citizen who falsely shouts ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. He is like the now proverbial municipal fire chief who incites a mob to go set the theater on fire, and not only refuses to put out the fire, but encourages the mob.”
I cannot even express the contempt I have for these cuntes.
Violent rhetoric for me, not for thee.
I’d like to see a crowded theater, most of them have been shut down.
“He is like the now proverbial municipal fire chief who incites a mob to go set the theater on fire, and not only refuses to put out the fire, but encourages the mob.”
No, guy. You’re thinking of Ted Wheeler, Whitmer, Walz, etc.
“but encourages the mob.”
How quickly the events of the summer of 2020 have memory-holed.
Gina Carano Rehired By Disney After She Identifies As An Abusive Male Director
Disney has apologized to Gina Carano and rehired her after she announced today that she identifies as a problematic, abusive, toxic male director.
“I’m not a Republican actress — I’m actually a toxic, abusive, gaslighting director of many popular shows and films over the years,” Carano said. “I am finally ready to come out of the closet and live my truth.”
“What we know is that this Republican Party is enthralled to the evil of Donald Trump, including undermining the very basis of our democracy, the electoral system,” he added.
We know this because those people did not vote for Joe Biden for President. If that’s not a direct assault on DEMOCRACY! what is?
*Gasp* Fox News guest Dave Ramsey: “You have a mental health problem” if you need a stimulus check
“I don’t believe in a stimulus check,” Ramsey told Fox News host Bill Hemmer. “Because if $600 or $1,400 changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already. You’ve got other issues going on. You have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”
“And that’s not talking down to folks,” he added. “I’ve been bankrupt, I’ve been broke and I work with people every day who are hurting. I love people. I want people to be lifted up.”
Ramsey concluded: “It’s just peeing on a forest fire.”
The full quote is always less exciting.
Journos: There is a reason we take things out of context. ///Clickbait-Hoo-Haha
Ol’ Dave ain’t afraid to state his opinion. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s generally entertaining and informational.
I miss this kind of no nonsense advice what with all the cancelling going on.
if $600 or $1,400 changes your life, you were pretty much screwed already. You’ve got other issues going on.
He’s not wrong.
Why do you hate the poor?
Other than the obvious reasons, I mean?
Doesn’t he realize that $600 will buy 600 lotto tickets? All those people will be on easy street any day now.
I’ve heard Pentecostal preachers give calmer and more rational sermons…
Does that mean they’ll bring out the snakes tomorrow?
Motherfucking snakes, in a kangaroo court!
Never gonna happen…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHxfzDQguqI
The stench of “unity” is getting stronger every day.
Unity smells like… mass graves.
If we are unified then there is no need for elections.
I’ll be in the minority in not minding a tie. Even liking them.
The big caveat – having shirts that actually fit in the collar (it took having them made-to-measure for me, which is pretty reasonable these days).
I find that most people who “hate ties” really hate having a collar that’s too tight.
A well-dressed man in a suit and tie is pretty hawt. *fans self*
Is that why my wife always insist I wear a three-piece suit?
99% sure.
Plus she wants to undress you with her eyes.
Seems like it would take too long like that.
I have no time for blue balls.
I’m a tie guy. My shirts fit and I know how to tie a tie, so it doesn’t “choke” me. Plus, it adds color/texture/interest.
In an emergency, it can be used as a tourniquet or an improvised weapon, as well.
Improvised weapon I’d what my gentleman’s walking stick is for
Some just don’t know how to tie a tie. Luckily someone is here to help.
Yep. I think I commented before that if your tie
is uncomfortable, you’re probably not being
honest with yourself about what your necksize is
and you’re buying shirts that are too small.
Speaking of which, I need to decide on black or
red for dinner and drinks.
I have (or had, anyway) a 17 1/2″ neck and a 32″ arm, which is not something that anyone makes off the rack. Affordable made-to-measure has been a game-changer for me (J. Hilburn, in my case).
favorite stripe: Argyle and Sutherland (because I’m exactly that sort of bastard)
best brand: Robert Talbott makes a beautiful knot and then just falls flat like it has never been tied . . . over and over
honorable mentions: Gitman Brothers and Brooks Brothers
I need the extra long. Some longs are cheap and don’t have the width at the right place to produce a proper know: don’t skimp.
Yeah, I have a fat neck and collars suck. I don’t care enough to expend the time and money looking for something that fits right.
Yup, everyone – he passed the bar.
LOL
He also sicc’ed the DEA on a woman who wouldn’t sleep with him any more.
I just love the line “I’m not a cat”. Hey, too bad – you coulda made millions with that act.
Malice interviewed Yeon-mi Park on his latest Your Welcome. It was really solid and she is an impressive young lady. Her story is unbelievably sad, but she is a fantastic evangelist for freedom.
Highly recommended.
Thx, Tundra. At least her story has a somewhat happy ending – she did escape to a free West. That’s it’s now devolving ever closer into what she escaped from is sad, but at least she’s trying to get the word out.
Listening to her, I was struck by something approaching hope. Some things suck, yes, but we are fucking light years away from being NK. The fact that she can be heard, to start with.
It’s fun to doom and gloom, of course, but I keep seeing more and more dissidents unafraid and sneaking in jabs at Leviathan. Time to sack up and be sneaky.
Sanity, in a small dose
A judge on Thursday refused prosecutors’ request to issue a new arrest warrant for an 18-year-old from Illinois who is accused of killing two people during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last summer.
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder also rejected prosecutors’ request for a $200,000 bail increase for Kyle Rittenhouse, who came to Kenosha in August as hundreds were protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.
The DA is not happy.
The DA can eat a bag of dicks.
And the circuit court has apparently provided the bag.
Why is the housing market such a disaster, ch 5,274
For the first time, LGBTQ Americans will be protected under the Fair Housing Act (FHA), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced Thursday. In a memorandum, the agency declared that it will begin enforcing the FHA to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, a new move that will extend civil rights protections to millions of LGBTQ Americans.
Passed in 1968, the Fair Housing Act traditionally protected against discrimination on the basis of “race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin.” Sexual orientation and gender identity were not explicitly included.
That should really make a dent in the housing crisis.
The Fair Housing Act traditionally protected against discrimination on the basis of “race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin.”
It didn’t “traditionally” protect against that. It was written that way. And gives no protection, for better or worse, against other kinds of discrimination.
In a memorandum, the agency declared that it will begin enforcing the FHA to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity,
So the agency will enforce something that the statute gives them no authority to enforce. “Sex” is neither “sexual orientation” nor “gender identity”. Pass an effing law, Congress, if you want the law changed.
I can totally see this logic working if it were applied to the standard proggy interpretation of the 2nd amendment — “the founders could never have anticipated that ‘arms’ could be taken to mean anything other than contemporary weapons they understood.”
Honestly, I think they are more focussed on the 1A right now. “It says “press”. If its not printed on paper, it doesn’t apply. The founders could never have anticipated that “speech” could be carried over long distances, so it doesn’t cover radio or TV, or even what you say on the phone, either.”
There is only one solution to this crisis:
https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00001c9c2pNGrqs/s/1200/I00001c9c2pNGrqs.jpg
Better this Starting at about 4:35.
HUD’s quick work announcing these extended protections comes just three weeks after one of President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day executive orders directed the heads of each agency to review “all existing orders, regulations, guidance documents, policies, programs or other agency actions” that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, and ensure that those also extend to protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Department officials told reporters that HUD is the first agency to have announced implementation of this executive order, finally giving LGBTQ Americans necessary protections from discrimination.
Yup. Endemic discrimination.
Finally, the gays will get a break and finally be able to buy some real-estate.
*looks at multimillion-dollar brownstones in the South End*
*looks, again, at housing prices in Provincetown*
Man, they work fast…
LOL. My wife and I are always joking about that because we watch some of those HGTV home buyer shows.
We were watching one recently where a gay couple from Cali were buying a house in Aspen. They wanted the alpine cabin feel, and they wanted it as near as possible to downtown while still having that alpine country feel.
The house that they chose was $790,000 and 1200 sq ft. When their parents visited, they had to sleep on the floor and there was not enough space in the kitchen for 2 people to walk past each other in any direction. The dining room was about 6x10ft.
Talk about oppressed. My wife and I had found a home in WV that we sort of liked that was that same sort of look, with the A Frame like style, all log, and all the windows in the front. Only it was 3000 sq ft and 4 acres and $179,000.
We started talking about creating our Gay Guys from HGTV realty company so that we could attract SanFran expats who will pay 1 million dollars for 200k properties.
But I sort of get it, gay couples are richer because, well, they are both both guys and mostly white, and women, especially wiminz of color get paid way less because reasons. Neve mind that is totally not true, the narrative is all that matters. Let’s give the most wealthy population in society more advantage, because social justice.
They also rarely have kids so their expenses are a lot lower.
^^^ very much this ^^^
Two dudes with no kids are also far more willing to put up with a sketchy neighborhood in return for a good price on real estate, which is why they’re often on the forefront for gentrification.
It’s because discrimination against LBGTQASDFGHJK Americans has been prohibited for a long time in Massachusetts. The new federal policy is for the gays stuck in the middle of bumfuck nowhere where they cannot even fill up a gas tank without a federal non-discrimination law.
Why does anyone give a shit if Queequeg doesn’t want to wear a tie?
MUH DAKORUM!
Who?
He was a Pacific Island character in Moby Dick.
He also didn’t wear a tie, but neither did Ishmael. Not sure about Captain Ahab.
I’ve often thought one of the best aspects of Persian culture is their reticence to adopt the necktie as formal wear.
I’m just shocked that racism exists outside the US.
Just shows how insidious the American influence is.
Well damn. One of our managers was in that pileup, and he didn’t make it. I think he had at least 20 years with our company.
Wow, sorry to hear that.
Damn, sorry to hear that.
Sorry to hear that.
Sorry, Z.
Sorry.
Lost a good friend and business partner to glare ice on roads back in the early Oughts. I’m so sorry, Lady Z.
Thanks. We weren’t exactly close, but it still feels like a big loss.
That sucks. Hate to hear that.
Oh, that is so sad. It’s always different when you know somebody.
Sorry.
Sorry 🙁
Sad news. Sorry.
Damn, sorry.
My boss-boss – who is in Dallas – was just complaining to me a few minutes ago about the weather. I think he WFH like the rest of us, though.
“Sad news from North Texas. Hope all local Glibs are safe.”
This just reminded me, once more, how everything is now based on forecasts, not reality.
Last week, all of my clients had closed for the day because of barely 2″ of snow. Because the weather media were forecasting a huge snowstorm.
This morning, I, surprised, woke up to 6″ of snow, although the weather media had forecast only flurries. All my clients were open for business.
Thinking has been suspended indefinitely, only forecasts and models matter anymore. Apparently there is not a human left on this planet who can look out the window and tell it’s raining. We’re fucking doomed as a species, it is all over.
The weather changes in the 24 miles I commute every day, sunny and cold in Scottville, then whiteout in the forest, then snow and wind in Manistee,
Weather isn’t consistent across all parts of a region, even a county,
There are significantly different weather patterns just north and south of the Ohio River here in western PA.
Manistee is on a bluff, kind of, about 300 feet higher than S’ville, and more exposed to the wind
You know where Travis City is? I used to live there and still have friend who do. I think it’s north of you. Great climate if you love snow and cold.
At least for schools, it’s because 2-income families bitched about it. Canceling school at 6am didn’t leave them enough time to make arrangements for the day.
They closed the schools and most everything else here last night. i left for work at 5 this morning and the roads were dry and clear for my whole 30 mile commute.
Good. Time for some pushback.
Destroyed Minneapolis diner sues city for negligence during Floyd riots, seeks $4.5 million
Lol. RIght.
God, put me on that jury?
They did nothing during that insurrection? Oh, right, never mind, no congress critters were threatened.
It pisses me off when people claim the “insurrection” was so much worse than the summer riots because the summer rioters never attempted to take over the Capitol. In my opinion the summer riots were far worse because they destroyed businesses that sell things that people are willing to pay for as opposed to vaguely threatening people who are supported with money that I have to pay under penalty of law.
Peasant Lives Don’t Matter. I’m getting a hat and a mask.
Owner of a brewery I stopped at to lay in supplies for the Superb Owl was an old black pilled immigrant from a Communist country. We were talking about the riots and the lockdowns and he mentioned that during the CLE riots, the police came into his brewery and warned him that he may want to close up early and head home as it may get bad out. His response was, “Then why am I paying for you?”
He said the cops were not happy with the question. He then told me that he armed himself with the knives in the brewery… in case of trouble.
Then why am I paying for you?
Because we will jail you if you dont.
Cops stood down. But they’ll beat the shit out of me for not towing the lion. Fuck them.
A lot of people from communist or former communist countries are doing face palms watching what is going on here. One Russian asked me, already knowing my position, “Why are they doing this? I have seen all of this before. It is incredibly stupid to go down this road.”
Me: “You are preaching to the choir brother”
My wife is from the Ostblok and she says the exact same thing. We’re probably going to buy an apartment back in the old country, though since they are in the EU I’m not sure they will be any better in the long run.
Don’t short Trabant stock.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/11/texas-boy-hangs-himself-after-battling-depression-amid-covid/
JFC. That’s so sad.
It gets worse.
Science has weighed all the pros and cons concerning govt policy and determined this kid’s death was a price it was willing to pay.
Ugh.
“COVID killed my son. I think Hayden would still be alive today if COVID had never happened,”
Um…no, it did not. Thank the government reaction to convid.
I don’t know why people can’t see that. That is not the first time I have heard that. Government policy (illegal, btw) killed that boy.
Government policy, and the media pushing fear, death, and destruction 24/7.
Tomorrow the Boss and I are going to remove icicles from the South building, we are renting a large lift, they are 40 foot tall Man killers, and blocking our air intakes as well, should take 3 days for the entire building, pictures to come,
For no reason at all other than amusement:
Wife just fed dogs and walked past me saying “The was an old woman that lived by a slough she had so many dogs she didn’t know what to do. She gave them all treats and made sure they were fed then they took up so much room she couldn’t sleep in her bed.”
Heh.
Larf,
LOL!
My Shih-Tzu/Bichon Frise cross (15 pounds soaking wet) has a magical ability to occupy our entire queen size bed. The spousal unit thinks she’s from a parallel universe where the normal laws of physics simply don’t apply.
So, kid out out of school today and tomorrow due to inclement weather. He has to do virtual learning instead.
Fuck that. We are skipping the virtual BS. A snow day is a snow day and they cant take that from him.
Well, I passed my criminal background check, so I can now renew the notary commission I only use once in a blue moon. Yippee.
So at least OH’s AG apparently doesn’t have Glibs on a list yet.
Yet.
So you’re criminal enough to be a notary?
::considers changing screen name to The Notarious GT::
Do it.
As you wish.
w00t!!! I LOVE it!!!
Adjective subject to change without notice.
“Exxxxxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
Notorious Gender Traitor. NGT. I like it.
#metoo
#methree
Anybody wanna join The Lincoln Project with me?
Nah. Underage boys aren’t my bag. You do you, though.
I keep getting The Lincoln Project mixed up with the Log Cabin Republicans.
Nah. Underage boys aren’t my bag. You do
youthem, though.Fixed.
Isn’t that headed up by Mittens and one of them GOP twats?
I am not much of a joiner. The old “I would never join a club that would have me” applies.
Is it ok if my middle name is “Wilkes”?
Science has weighed all the pros and cons concerning govt policy and determined this kid’s death was a price it was willing to pay.
If it saves one teacher!
I will henceforth correct others who do not abandon using the world “insurrection” with regards to 6Jan2021. Pushback on the propaganda is entirely appropriate.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/02/11/stop-calling-it-an-insurrection-n2584502
It’s especially egregious hearing the supposedly stern po-faced Capital-C Conservative Thinkers throw around the word as if completely unaware of what a narrative is, how it’s used, and why you shouldn’t lob it over the net to your ideological enemies. DO YOU REALLY THINK YOUR PROGRESSIVE PEERS ARE GOING TO SPARE YOU WHATEVER HORRORS THEY HAVE IN MIND FOR THE REST OF US WHO AREN’T AVOWEDLY, EMPHATICALLY MOAIST?
Let’s not quibble over minor Constitutional matters
Progressives, union leaders and activists are demanding that the Biden administration use every tool available to make sure its massive coronavirus relief package includes an increase in the minimum wage.
But, already, there’s one place the White House has hinted it won’t go.
Biden’s team is leaning heavily against the idea of having Vice President Kamala Harris use her powers as president of the Senate to keep the minimum wage provision inside the relief package. She could do so if the Senate parliamentarian determines that hiking the minimum wage to $15 an hour does not jibe with budgetary rules that allow a bill to pass with just 51 votes in the Senate. Harris, at that point, could be the tiebreaking vote to bypass the parliamentarian.
The White House’s reluctance to consider that step has set up the possibility of an early confrontation between the president and a progressive base that has — to this point — been pleased with his work in office.
“It’s a test for how we use the power of having all three, the House, the Senate and the White House,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). “Let’s not hand-wring over this … We should use every tool in our toolbox.”
Let’s just ram this thing right up America’s ass. They’ll thank us later. And if they don’t, well fuck ’em.
The Republicans should be taken out in the street, stripped and made to run a gauntlet. They are such worthless fuckers.
Fun with numbers
About 40% of the nation’s coronavirus deaths could have been prevented if the United States’ average death rate matched other industrialized nations, a new Lancet Commission report has found.
While the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era faulted former President Donald Trump’s “inept and insufficient” response to COVID-19, its report said roots of the nation’s poor health outcomes are much deeper.
Commission co-chairs Dr. Steffie Woolhandler and Dr. David Himmelstein, professors at the City University of New York’s Hunter College and longtime advocates for a single-payer health system such as “Medicare for All,” said the report, published Thursday, underscores decades of health, economic and social policies that have accelerated the nation’s disparities.
The report found U.S. life expectancy began trailing other industrialized nations four decades ago. In 2018, two years before the pandemic, the report said 461,000 fewer Americans would have died if U.S. mortality rates matched other Group of Seven nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom.
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The commission suggested a long list of executive orders and legislative actions to reverse trends negatively affecting the health of Americans. Among the fixes: Adopt a single-payer health system such as Medicare for All, championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders during his run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
“We’re still in a very deep hole. We have 30 million uninsured people. We have tens of millions of more who are underinsured,” Woolhandler said. “The thing that would be best for the health of the population would be Medicare for All.”
The commission’s wish list goes beyond medical care to include progressives ideals such as the Green New Deal, criminal justice reform, repealing Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and increasing spending on social programs to the levels of six other industrialized nations.
Good grief.
Another day, another proggie non-profit being used as some authority in a trial balloon from TMITE.
Because EO’s fix everything and make it all better.
Cootie death numbers would go down more than 40% if they only reported people who actually died from and not with the cooties.
I am not sure how these idiots think they have credibility.
I could easily inflate an average flu season with the gov’ts stated metric of “every death WITH covid is a death OF covid”*. It is almost like that was the intention in the fist place.
*And especially using a test to diagnose that, according to the inventor, was never intended to be used to diagnose illness. ///CasesCasesCases…
I don’t know if they even bother testing. Who was the doctor complaining that he was pressured into marking every death as a cootie death and he responded “But this one has bullet holes in him”?
Don’t forget: COVID deaths include not just people who died “with COVID” as confirmed by a test, it includes people who were “presumptive COVID”, meaning that had the (very common) symptoms, but were never tested.
Presumptive COVID is something the medical community adopted to trigger COVID precautions in the absence of a test. I love the terminology – not “suspected”, but “presumptive”.
We have 30 million uninsured people. We have tens of millions of more who are underinsured
Damn those Republicans for repealing ObamaCare.
The commission’s wish list goes beyond medical care to include progressives ideals such as the Green New Deal
Because nothing improves public health like impoverishing people.
OFFS-LOL
Imagine how many even more lives we could save if we commie even harder than our betters?
Let’s look at the data, shall we? Reported deaths per 100,000:
United Kingdom: 173.2
Italy: 153.3
United States: 143.1
France: 120.2
Germany: 76.6
Canada: 55.3
And the outlier:
Japan: 5.3 (not a typo)
So, the US is above median. The average of the other 6 is 97.31. Throw out the outlier, and its 115.72, with the US running 27.38 deaths per hundred thousand higher. Which gives me a grand total of 89,000 deaths more than would be expected with the average rate of Germany, France, UK, Italy, and Canada. Include Japan, and its just over 150,000.
40% of our total deaths is 188,000. So their 40% is bullshit, even if you include the outlier. Throw out Japan, and its bullshit on stilts.
Hey RC. I have the Technivorm Moccamaster 53956 in my shopping cart, ready to pull the trigger. My wife likes it, but she wants the copper one and there’s none available. I’m going to check again the morning. We like a glass carafe.
Things we like about it, is the style, no Chingy Lingy parts, and ability to order and replace any parts.
Thanks for the tip.
Some great decision making going on in this family. LOL
https://www.ky3.com/2021/02/11/investigators-say-man-accused-of-striking-trooper-in-lebanon-mo-was-upset-over-brothers-death-by-law-enforcement/
If pigs had wings, they’d be eagles.
I am not sure how these idiots think they have credibility.
Socialized medicine saves billions of lives every year. That’s just true. You can’t argue with SOCIALIZED SCIENCE!
Lysenkoism for the win.
Here’s the thing I always ask them. This was already tried in far left Cali. When the taxpayers found out what it was going to cost them, they balked en masse.
And I want to be clear, the admission from the creators of the legislation was nowhere near honest in what it was really going to cost. What the consumers were told is that they were going to be hit with a 35-40% increase in state taxes. Even that was not going to be close. Anyone who wants to be honest, this has already been done. Just look at the EU’s 50-60% income tax burden, with a 20-25% VAT tax on top of that. And even then, healthcare must be severely rationed to even attempt to cover the massive costs.
TMITE
The downside to baking cookies… I now have twenty eight of them begging to be eaten that I have to stop myself from scarfing down because I’ve had enough for today.
Close your eyes and picture a tall glass of cold milk….
John O. Brennan
@JohnBrennan
House impeachment managers providing compelling evidence that Donald Trump provoked, encouraged, & abetted the deadly insurrection at the Capitol.
Trump acted as a lawless thug, inciting his fellow lawless thugs.
Only dishonest & self-serving Senators will vote to acquit.
I have not seen one lick of evidence of “incitement” let alone any of incitement to “insurrection”. But words seem to be meaningless these days. As a commie, I am sure you are quite familiar with show-trials.
“…his fellow lawless thugs.”
I wonder who he means by that. Anyone care to guess?
The rioters at the Capitol?
I think he means you and I.
Lucy Lawless?
John O. Brennan retirement plan:
GolfFishingRVArt classesPsyops campaign to destroy any and all vestiges of influence and support for the policies and legacy of President Donald Trump at all levels of government, and further demoralize half the country, including much of middle class America, involving a relentless Leninist propaganda campaign to completely undermine any objective and truthful reportage and analysis.
I do hate that guy.
I try not to hate, but he is loathsome beyond belief.
Truth. Reconciliation.
Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “What is this Republican Party if they are not for holding accountable he who incites an insurrection against them?”
Heilemann said, “They care only about their political futures and how they perceive it. But I’ll tell you what else they are in addition to being cowardly or being actual autocrats on the side of the insurrection, in addition to that, they’re idiots because the reality is, what they learned, if they learn nothing else from yesterday, is that loyalty to Donald Trump is of no use to you whatsoever. What happened yesterday, as we saw vividly, and I think this is another thing that many of the senators got clocked yesterday, watching how close they came to Mike Pence in this video, is that there has never been a human being on earth more loyal to Donald Trump than Mike Pence. And what he got in repayment for being that loyal to Donald Trump for four-plus years was Donald Trump tried to feed him to the lions.”
He continued, “He sat there on that day when he could see clearly he’s on the phone with Tommy Tuberville. Tommy Tuberville saying they just rushed the vice president out of here with his family. Donald Trump put out a tweet further inciting the rioters. He was happy, perfectly content to see his vice president, his devoted, pathetic, totally loyal vice president killed on that day. He is the textbook definition of a monster. I mean a monster. If you think about that, through that prism, it makes vivid just the degree of Donald Trump’s monstrousness and moral depravity.”
“…being actual autocrats on the side of the insurrection,…”
How long before they start rounding up the opposition?
Only after fearless Beta gets all your scary guns.
Unity. Healing.
Moran said, “I thought Representative Raskin, they all touched on this issue, he put it most forcefully, I think, when he said if we don’t draw the line here, what’s next? What makes you think this nightmare with Donald Trump and his violent mobs is over? And not just Trump. What makes you think it can’t happen to our democracy again? This thing is now in the bloodstream of the body politic. The FBI and law enforcement recognize that we have a domestic insurgency, domestic terrorism in this country based on the MAGA movement coming out of that.”
He continued, “Obviously, not everybody who supported that is part of that. But no question, that’s where law enforcement has its eyes strained. Who is to say that if Trump is seemed to have been acquitted and exonerated and that that mob, you know, there’s no accountability for summoning it and directing it, who’s to say it’s not going to happen again?”
They want a civil war and they are working themselves into a frenzy. If they keep this up it is just a matter of time and probably not much of that.
They don’t want a civil war they have to fight themselves. They’re talking to the CCP right now about backing them up on US soil.
The way the media spins that is ‘Brave and heroic hero of democracy, Joe Biden, gets tough with China’s Xi’.
Is there evidence of that? I have been expecting that but I haven’t seen any evidence so far. Just because I haven’t seen it doesnt mean it isn’t there.