The first oh, fuck off of the post…
Harry Potter, The Joker and Wonder Woman Don Masks In COVID PSA From WarnerMedia
As the COVID vaccine continues to roll out across the country, it’s essential to remind people that wearing face masks is still necessary to help keep the virus at bay. The new vaccine might prevent people from getting sick, but it’s unknown whether it can prevent the virus from spreading to others.
WarnerMedia, the Ad Council and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are hoping to drive the mask-wearing message to audiences both young and old with a new spot that uses classic characters in scenes from popular films in the WarnerMedia universe.
The 30-second PSA features memorable moments from WarnerMedia films, played out with one caveat—all the characters are wearing masks, no matter the circumstances. Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort wear masks during their final battle in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”; Pennywise from “It” sports a smiling clown mask as a red balloon floats in front of him; and the Joker dances in the popular stair scene from the “The Joker” with a mask that matches his suit. We also see Dr. Evil from “Goldmember,” Rick and Ilsa from “Casablanca” and Wonder Woman from “Wonder Woman,” among other familiar characters.
Seriously, fuck off. I get it. I’m an anti-masker. I’m a COVID denier. I’m stabbing your Grandma to death. I. Don’t. Care.
We need to have a DISCO SUCKS bonfire of mask -Karens.
Self-sequester period extended for all UC Berkeley residence halls
The email reminded students that they must stay in their room except in case of emergency or to obtain medical care, comply with testing requirements or receive food from the Cal Dining kiosks. Lunch is available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and students can pick up dinner and breakfast between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Unlike the previous self-sequester, students are now unable to leave their room for solo outdoor exercise, according to the email. Campus is working with the city of Berkeley to determine whether outdoor exercise is permitted.
“Right now it is critical that you avoid gatherings — large or small — even with your residential household grouping, whether indoors or outdoors, and even if your most recent COVID test is negative,” the email states.
And these people are going into debt to get this elite high-security B&B experience.
(OK, that’s not how I really feel. I’m sure most B&Bs would be worse than this.)
France seeks to set age for sexual consent at 15
PARIS (AP) — France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a wave of online testimonies about rape and other sexual violence by parents and authority figures.
“Finally!” was the refrain Wednesday from victims and child protection activists who have long pushed for tougher laws and greater societal recognition of the problem.
France’s lack of an age of consent — along with statutes of limitations — have complicated efforts to prosecute alleged perpetrators, including a prominent modeling agent, a predatory priest, a surgeon and a group of firefighters accused of systematic sexual abuse.
Calling such treatment of children “intolerable,” the Justice Ministry said “the government is determined to act quickly to implement the changes that our society expects.”
“An act of sexual penetration by an adult on a minor under 15 will be considered a rape,” Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said Tuesday on France-2 television. Perpetrators could no longer cite consent to diminish the charges, he said, though exceptions would be made for teenagers having consensual sex.
The change still needs to be enshrined in law, but the announcement is a major step.
Damn, France, you pervy.
Where’s Polanski going to go now? I kid, I doubt this will be applied to the monied.
WB/DC already did a whole heroes wear masks BS commercial based on the TV Arrowverse characters. Supergirl obviously needs to wear a mask…
OMWC perks up, decides “too old.”
Well, we know who ain’t visitin’ France anytime soon…
Woody Allen?
Roman Polanski?
As the COVID vaccine continues to roll out across the country, it’s essential to remind people that wearing face masks is still necessary to help keep the virus at bay. The new vaccine might prevent people from getting sick, but it’s unknown whether it can prevent the virus from spreading to others.
Every single face covering comes with a disclaimer that it does not stop the spread of disease. I wonder why that is…
So it just suppresses symptoms is what they’re saying? Bullshit, they’re just saying that because people who’ve had the vaccine (or COVID) aren’t easily identifiable and they don’t trust people.
to help keep the virus at bay
Mission: Failed
At what point do we stop pretending that we can accomplish something so counterfactual?
Never.
The cases/hospitalizations are falling–the policies worked.
The cases/hospitalizations are rising–some people didn’t comply with the policies.
And when docs make counter recommendations based on clinical experience or the stats are crunched those informed skeptics will be barred from getting the word out and even kicked out of their professional associations.
Tom Woods, in his daily mail on the 9th, said facebook shut down the official facebook page for the Great Barrington Declaration.
Woods’ mail says there is another page set up from the Declaration’s supporters, but it is much smaller.
It’s going to be around forever or at least until we’re FAR more technically advanced than we are now. Implying it can be wiped out if we just do the right thing is nonsense.
I am beginning to understand how Bill Murray’s character must have felt in Ground Hog Day. No matter how many days have passed since this shitshow began, if we just do the same things we did yesterday, it’ll stop tomorrow. Then we go to sleep, wake up the next day, and do it all over again. Neither masks nor lockdowns have any measurable effect but we’ll keep doing them.
And even though we have a partially effective vaccine now, we get to endure months of vaccine communism as various soviet councils fight over who is more deserving to receive it today.
The new vaccine might prevent people from getting sick, but it’s unknown whether it can prevent the virus from spreading to others
Decades of immunology thrown out the window. We used to know that the risk of transmission from asymptomatic people was negligible. I think the data on the ‘Vid is consistent with that.
But no. Thou shalt go masked, even if not sick or vaccinated. Because ordinary human activities and interactions must be proved to be perfectly safe before they can be permitted.
So it just suppresses symptoms is what they’re saying?
The first vaccine in history that merely mitigates symptoms, rather than tuning your immune system to actually beat the infection.
I was 8 when Disco Demolition Night happened. I remember it quite well.
Finally, a sane person. She is 100% correct. It’s not a good idea to ignore the fact that people voted for Trump for reasons other than racism.
She represents a district characterized by economic decline — Toledo, Lorain and parts of Greater Cleveland.
But these places and the people who live in them, says Ms. Kaptur, are largely invisible to her Democratic colleagues in the House who are busy forming caucuses around identity politics. They don’t get her part of America and they aren’t interested. She says that one colleague told her people should just move away.
At least Bill offered subsidized career training to the coal miners, etc… The Dems since Obama have basically just told them to go get fucked.
They learned nothing from Hillary’s defeat.
Not true. They learned how to cheat more effectively.
FORTIFY!
Zombie Sam Kinison is now a Democrat congressman?
KDW just popped a boner.
I’m a little disappointed. When I read the name I thought it was this person: https://images.app.goo.gl/TVBHr2X5Qetmi75F6
Still, good for her for saying out loud what others won’t.
I still think that if either party decides to ask why people voted for Trump, and then addresses those issues, they will win the next election cycle in a landslide.
they will win more legal votes in the next election cycle
in a landslidebut lose in a squeakerBecause they are easily swayed by empty populist rhetoric and “USA USA USA!”
That’s easy rhetoric to get swayed by when the alternative is flagellation.
I’m not even on camera.
I’m sure most B&Bs would be worst than this.
What? Doesn’t compute.
Idolatrous ass-licking continues unabated
President Joe Biden ran his presidential campaign on the underlying promise that he would be an entirely different leader than Donald Trump. In keeping with that, following his Jan. 20 inauguration, Biden’s administration has been unravelling Trump’s policies.
Since he took office, Biden has signed more than 40 executive orders and actions with focuses ranging from health care to the economy.
Some orders, like the reversal of Trump’s ban on transgender people joining the military, undid work from the previous administration. Many others relating to the coronavirus are exclusive to advancing the goals of the new administration.
Biden’s slew of executive orders has been met with pushback from conservatives, against both the number of orders issued and the president’s past quotes about them.
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Blah blah blah “only a dictator” “Yes you are” “No I’m not” “Nyaah nyaah nyaah!” et c…
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Biden’s comment was not about the use of executive orders in general, but was instead related to the use of executive orders to legislate what he said he believes should require approval from Congress.
The quote has been twisted to imply that he believes the use of executive orders in general is bad.
Our ruling: Missing context
USA Toady complaining about missing context is so ostentatiously absurd it boggles the mind.
TMITE, indeed.
“We’re not opposed to executive orders, per se; just the ones we don’t agree with. We can’t afford to sit around twiddling our thumbs waiting for those idiots in Congress to get things done. We need a strong President who has his finger on the pulse of the
nationpeople who matter to wave his magic pen and phone.”“It’s okay when we do it” would be more honest and far more succinct.
If anything, Biden’s executive orders have been more far reaching and intrude further on the other branches than Trump’s, which primarily sought to roll back Obama’s overreaches.
If Biden’s handing out EOs the federal decriminalization of marijuana would be a nice one but I’m not going to hold my breath.
I believe he actually has the authority to move it from Schedule I to Schedule IV.
Trump’s ban on transgender people joining the military
A lie.
I feel better knowing that my tax dollars will be going towards the unnecessary mutilating surgery and chemical unbalancing of the mentally ill.
Not really a lie. The list of “limited conditions” under which a trans person could be admitted were basically equivalent to not being transgender. Whether the policy was a good idea or not aside, it was indeed effectively a ban on transgender people getting into the military.
Hmm. I thought it was a ban on paying for tranny treatment. I stand corrected.
You know, I read it all again and you might be closer to right.
As I read, you could feel transgender, and even be diagnosed as gender dysphoric, but you couldn’t try to transition. So, I guess, if you were born a dude, but felt like a woman, and were content to cross-dress and tell everyone to call you she/her, as long as you didn’t get on T or get the chop you could stay.
Though those behavior might qualify as “transitioning” so who knows.
Klinger did this seventy years ago.
What is that list?
AFAIK there is nothing stopping anyone from enlisting who declares themselves a man, woman, or hamster. There is no medical condition called “transgender” that I am aware of. Like RC hints, the only distinguishing characteristic is the drug cocktail they take. Drugs that are not medically necessary.
I just linked the Wikipedia article above, but here’s the relevant part of the order:
I’m skeptical that “gender dysphoria” is an actual medical condition. But whatevz.
I’m of the opinion that the military can pick and choose whoever the hell they want for any reason. That includes any of a wide variety of medical OR mental conditions they surely screen for.
“I’m skeptical that “gender dysphoria” is an actual medical condition.”
Brains can be sorted into two types male and female. Sexual dimorphism has a bimodal distribution, such that most men have some typically female traits, and most women have some typically male traits. Gender dysphoria is a plausible result of a person having an opposite sexed brain.
basically just an extension of the rules that apply to anyone. You can’t join (or re-enlist) if you have a medical condition that requires special attention or would affect your ability to be statioined anywhere in the world. The military can’t affort to cater to everyone’s “specialness”.
I had a Sgt working for me that couldn’t re-enlist because one of his children developed a medical condition that could only be dealt with by major hospitals.
would affect your ability to be statioined anywhere in the world
There are exceptions. Former Peace Corps workers aren’t supposed to be sent to countries where they worked.
Back in the day – as well as right now – I thought that the primary test for qualification to be in the military should be simply: “Are you deployable to a combat zone?” If the answer is “no,” you’re back on the block.
The Marines rejected me because i have a tattoo that goes up the side of my neck. I didnt cry about it. I found something else to do.
Visible ink is no longer a bar to enlistment.
It’s part of the Ad Council’s ongoing “Mask Up America” campaign that began in July 2020 in partnership with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The Ad Council can go fuck themselves.
A significant number of students remain in quarantine, according to an email from UC Berkeley student affairs. The email added that the self-sequester will be lifted when campus is sure of the ability to reduce virus transmission.
“Self-sequester”. Fuck. It’s house arrest. UC Berkeley Student Affairs can go fuck themselves.
Fatima Benomar, whose group Les Effrontees has pushed for stronger laws against sexual abusers. “This will make adults more responsible.”
New laws will make adults more responsible? Go fuck yourself.
Later in the article:
Under current French law, sexual relations between an adult and a minor under 15 are banned. Yet the law accepts the possibility that someone under 15 is capable of consenting to sex, leading to cases where an adult is prosecuted for sexual assault instead of rape, and therefore faces a lighter prison sentence.
If this is accurate, it sounds to me like France effectively has an “age of consent” law. If the person under 15 doesn’t consent, the crime is rape. The person under 15 consents, the crime is sexual assault. Both result in jail time.
“Self-sequester” means its voluntary. If UC-Berkely has any sanctions for breaking their house arrest, its not “self-sequestering”.
I didn’t get much past that point in the article. Based on past experience with other university’s student affairs, I’m certain they’d love to impose sanctions on those that don’t obey.
except in case of emergency or to obtain medical care
I assume nookie constitutes emergency medical care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs
As the COVID vaccine continues to roll out across the country, it’s essential to remind people that wearing face masks is still necessary to help keep the virus at bay. The new vaccine might prevent people from getting sick, but it’s unknown whether it can prevent the virus from spreading to others.
Completely unprecedented biological phenomenon. The witch doctors are flummoxed.
“Ogg at loss. Try drink elephant piss. That always help.”
Every single face covering comes with a disclaimer that it does not stop the spread of disease. I wonder why that is…
Just don’t call it a germ incubator.
“NBA FORCES Mavericks to play national anthem after owner Mark Cuban scrapped it because it doesn’t ‘represent all communities’: ‘Woke’ billionaire rolls over and says he’s ‘good’ with the order ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9244343/Dallas-Mavericks-stop-playing-national-anthem-games-owner-Mark-Cubans-orders.html
The U.S. or Chinese anthem?
The Cuban anthem of course.
Mark Cuban may be the dumbest self-made billionaire ever.
And for that reason I’m out.
I don’t know. I would be ok without nationalistic rah rah at the beginning of games.
Yes, but your objections are not stupid.
^
I kind of agree, but if I were running a team I don’t know how I’d end it without looking like an asshole, especially these days.
Not that I mind looking like an asshole. I manage that all the time. It’s just on this particular subject.
JaimeRoberto
That’s not what I meant!
I guess I would argue that playing the anthem before all kinds of events cheapens it. For example, they played it before my daughter’s gymnastics meets. They play it before some of the organized bike rides I’ve done. It’s overdone. It should be reserved for special occasions like the 4th of July. Maybe they should still keep it for baseball, because I still like yelling “Play ball!”
I don’t think it was a bad idea. By not playing it, he eliminates the fight over people kneeling, and they can just get on with the game.
That what he should have said instead of further destroying the NBA’s reputation with average Americans.
And without spouting lefty critical race theory wokism. If you do something not-stupid for stupid reasons, you’re still stupid.
My brother and I had a talk about this last night. He is like my dad and very conservative and feels like we’ve gotta be “patriotic” at these things. I told him that Cuban is an ass-hat and his reasoning is way off (and the NBA is a crap league), but then I asked why it should be necessary to play the national anthem at the beginning of every game. That got him thinking. I think I am making some headway with him.
*shrug* It’s a ritual and people like rituals. They don’t like being treated like deplorables by assholes like Mark Cuban.
The France article is not clear. Is there no current age of consent? How do you prosecute it if not already law? Are they lowering it and increasing penalties (that in and of itself odd)?
See DEG’s comment above, it’s a little complicated.
Rick and Ilsa from “Casablanca”
If I had not already been a rabid anti-masker before, that would have pushed me over the edge.
People who fled real authoritarianism would gladly submit to the *right brand* of authoritarianism. You know, because Soshul Cuntrack.
Unlike the previous self-sequester, students are now unable to leave their room for solo outdoor exercise, according to the email. Campus is working with the city of Berkeley to determine whether outdoor exercise is permitted.
You came here to get an education. Observe, and learn.
Got ones, fives, tens, twenties.
Got them fifties, got the hundreds. Baby I got plenty.
Gonna need a barrel (BARREL) full to get a loaf of bread.
Don’t contradict the party or you wind up dead.
Pitbull is a first-generation Cuban-American whose family escaped Communism under the rule of Fidel Castro.
“The reason I can have this conversation is because my family comes from Communism, they fled Communism, they had everything taken away from them, everybody got murdered, everybody got killed,” Pitbull said during the appearance, which took place in September.
“That’s the reason me, being a first-generation Cuban-American … I look at freedom and I appreciate that s***,” he emphasized. “I appreciate opportunity. I appreciate anything that you give me. … And, that comes from the fact that when Castro took over everything, and I’m looking at what’s going on right now — the only person here that’s hot … it’s Castro. He’s going, ‘Y’all did it with a virus? S***. Y’all took over the world with a virus? Y’all gotta be kidding me.’” …
“In this day and age, I’m hoping that people see: as quick as you get it … come quick, leave quick,” he said. “When it comes to this technology, that’s exactly what it is. You got instant gratification and think you can touch many people, as quick as they [are] gonna pull it from you.”
Later in the appearance, Pitbull floated unsubstantiated claims about the pandemic and the government and Big Tech’s response to the crisis. Speaking of online censorship, Pitbull said that, to him, that “smells like” “Communism.”
Now I like the guy…amazing the patriotism shown by 1st gen immigrants compared to the rest of us.
They’re cancelling Pitbull? NOOOOO!
OFFS! He “substantiated” it right there, you morons. Bit of a word salad, but it’s in there.
Not to be picky, but Pitbull was born in U.S. to parents who came here from Cuba. They are the “first generation Cuban Americans.” He is second generation.
No, they are immigrants – he is first generation, i.e. first generation born here.
Concur.
I am first generation, my dad was an immigrant, as a 12 YO
No, according to the U.S. Census Bureau definition, the immigrant to America is the first generation American.
It is a common mistake to consider otherwise.
“Georgia prosecutors open CRIMINAL probe into Donald Trump’s call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to ‘find’ enough votes to overturn his defeat in blow on day 2 of impeachment trial”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9245869/Georgia-prosecutors-open-CRIMINAL-probe-Trumps-call-secretary-state-Brad-Raffensperger.html
This is never going to end…
Unfortunately Trump puts asses in the seats and attention whores are to glom onto him until he’s in the ground.
And there isn’t a bigger attention whore in existence than your average elected prosecutor.
He really screwed up on that one. The proper venue for that kind of talk is during a Zoom meeting with tech and media overlords.
*zing*
Possibly the worst possible outcome from all this will be setting the precedent of indicting a former President. Even if its justified, it creates the worst possible incentives. There’s a reason why every teetering dictator is given asylum somewhere, and its a good reason. Better that a bad ruler ride into the sunset than lash out in xer possible death throes. I’d like to see more of them swing, but asylum somewhere is better than the piles of dead bodies you will get otherwise.
I wonder when Georgia prosecutors are going to open a CRIMINAL probe into the shenanigans that happened at that Atlanta polling place.
I don’t.
“unable to leave their room for solo outdoor exercise”
I guess they need to get Jailhouse Strong Calisthenics programs going.
https://www.amazon.com/Jailhouse-Strong-Josh-Bryant-ebook/dp/B00FJHWFHK
They’re paying for that “privilege”. Amazing.
Its UC-Berkely, so I’m not surprised they do it outdoors rather than in their bunks.
“A 63-year-old Texas woman was scammed out of $100,000 in a catfishing scam where she was led to believe she was dating pop star Bruno Mars.
Alleged fraudster Chinwendu Azuonwu, 39, a Nigerian national and permanent resident of Houston, appeared in court on Tuesday accused of impersonating Mars on Instagram as part of the scam to swindle the victim out of her savings.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9245577/Woman-63-believed-dating-BRUNO-MARS-swindled-100-000.html
I guess he had that uptown funk.
He was gon’ give it to her
Well, that took an unexpected turn.
“The Trump-ordered sale of TikTok by its Chinese owners to US companies Oracle and Walmart has been put on hold while President Biden reviews the executive order that strong-armed it.
In what could be a huge gift to Beijing, the new president was reported to have stopped a landmark action by his predecessor Donald Trump who called the app a threat to national security.
Last year, as TikTok erupted in the US amid a spike in social media usage thanks to the pandemic, concerns grew with it that ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns it, was using it to gather intelligence on American consumers.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9245797/Biden-halts-TikToks-sale-Oracle-Walmart-review-Trumps-anti-China-executive-orders.html
Looks like that CCP money given to Gropey Joe is actually getting results.
And this would only be the third or fourth “huge gift to Beijing” in the last couple weeks.
Pelosi Preemptively Announces Articles Of Impeachment Against Candace Owens
Op-Ed: Today’s Youth Simply Don’t Have The Work Ethic To Build The Gulags Needed For Their Communist Ideals
What those Commies need to do is stop shouting about Russia and Trump and go talk to Putin and ask him nicely how to be big, good, scary Commies. They need to put down their phones and stop their tick-tocking and learn how to be proper, evil Commies — the threat America deserves. And then they need to come back here and try to destroy this country and its freedoms properly — Red Dawn style — so we can have the big war against Commies this country needs.
They need some self-respect. And then I’ll finally strangle them. For being Commies.
That guy’s got my vote.
I need to start wearing a hat.
That 2nd one is one of the best articles in Bee history, and that is saying a lot. Just great, all the way thru.
“This woman is dangerous, extremely dangerous,” said Pelosi to reporters. “She’s an outspoken African-American woman who doesn’t think the way African-Americans are supposed to think. We must impeach her immediately to prevent her from running and save our democracy! Good morning! Wednesday morning!”
On something related and serious to this bit, I ordered the DVD of the “Uncle Tom” documentary.
I doubt they’ve even actually read Marx — ‘cause it ain’t got no wizarding school in it. ?
From the second Bee article:
I doubt they’ve even actually read Marx — ‘cause it ain’t got no wizarding school in it.
I’ve read Marx. Fantasy novels involving wizarding schools are more realistic than the bullshit Marx spews.
Unity/healing/etc.
If Senate Republicans fail to convict Donald Trump, it won’t be because the facts were with him or his lawyers mounted a competent defense. It will be because the jury includes his co-conspirators.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 10, 2021
WHY WON’T SHE DIE ALEADY?
jeezus
Profane compact with the Eldtrich gods?
And we’re the ones with a conspiracy theory problem?
It’s vast and it’s right wing.
“If I don’t get the result I want, the process must be rigged” says woman who never has had to face the music for any of her own actions in her entire life.
I keep hearing people accuse Trump of these terrible crimes, insurrection, sedition, treason, even. If I were convinced he were guilty of such terrible crimes, I sure wouldn’t be satisfied with his punishment being not being able to hold office again. I’d want a criminal trial with real punishments. A trial, of course, where the accused is afforded due process and a right to cross examine witnesses and engage in discovery of evidence. But, none of the advocates of impeachment seem to want that. They want something they themselves readily acknowledge is a political process. And the only punishment is to bar him from office in the future.
It’s almost as though they really don’t believe their own claims.
They don’t, it’s all disingenuous which is what makes it so maddening. It’s like The Empreror’s New Clothes but everybody ignores the kid.
They don’t even want to do real criminal trials anymore.
/points at college kangaroo courts.
That’s true.
But it shows their fear more than anything else.
If he decided to run again, could they, without Corona, fortify the election enough to secure a D win?
I’m not convinced of it, and I don’t think they are either, hence the “WE MUST IMPEACH HIM EVEN THOUGH HE’S NO LONGER IN OFFICE!” stance. They’re scared of a comeback and want to ensure it won’t happen.
Can we throw them both in jail? I’d take that trade.
Will they share a cell?
Considering the inevitable leaked sex tape that’d be the result imma say no.
STOP IT, DON’T EVER DO THAT AGAIN! *pukes
The sucking pop when his mushroom penis comes out the infinite pit of her ravenous vagina.
I’m surprised you went with pop. I’d have thought it would be the sound of a meat slicer getting traction in a ham.
The Eternal Hate-Fuck
“The SF school board tonight spent two hours talking about whether to allow a gay dad of mixed-race SFUSD kids to volunteer for one of several empty seats on a parent advisory group. Their problem was that he’s white and doesn’t bring diversity to the group.
They didn’t appoint him, and now the parent group remains all moms which means women must do all the work of the group. And seven hours after the meeting started, they still aren’t talking about how to safely reopen schools.”
https://twitter.com/hknightsf/status/1359382113875755011
Being taken over by a warlord would be an improvement.
Sorry gays. Now that you can get married, you are now part of the bourgeois and dropped a few points on the intersectionality board.
The gay multiplier gets canceled out by the white and male penalties when calculating your victim status score.
You should petition the GM for a re-roll.
I’d now like to introduce the new school board chairman El Chapo and the treasurer Sammy the Bull Gravano. We’re opening back up, anybody have any complaints?
Effing Christ. Am I reading that right? The parent advisory group meeting went on for (more than) 7 hours?
Death by committee.
In this case, death by committee of woke women of childbearing age.
*readies tanto for seppuku*
An honorable death.
*stands behind Scruffy, raises katana*
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
“If you tried to say about the 2020 election what soon-to-be OMB Director Neera Tanden said above about the 2016 election: that the results were fraudulent, you’d be banned — at the insistence of Democrats and corporate journalists — from every social media platform.
That Russian hackers tampered with the results of the 2016 presidential election is a batshit conspiracy theory. It also proved to be toxic: it made 2/3 of Dems believe Hillary really won the election, but Russians changed the vote tallies.
Yet Neera spread it & it’s fine.”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1359542753194090496
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/joss-whedon-charisma-carpenter-buffy-toxic-work-environment
“Carpenter goes on to describe a closed-door meeting with Whedon in which he allegedly asked her if she was going to “keep” her baby. “He proceeded to attack my character, mock my religious beliefs, accuse me of sabotaging the show, and then unceremoniously fired me the following season once I gave birth,” she writes. ”
For all we know, she could have made all of this up but if true, Whedon is truly a piece of shit.
On a side note and anecdotal, I’ve noticed that the men who vocally all about feminism are usually the biggest pieces of shit towards women.
I think it has been established for some time now that Whedon is a rubbish individual. I don’t know enough to #believeher, but if it quacks like a duck, and whatnot.
Shit. I loved her on Angel and I didn’t like what they did with her character towards the end.
“I’’ve noticed that the men who vocally all about feminism are usually the biggest pieces of shit towards women.”
#metoo
NEW: The Biden administration is considering whether to impose domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearful that coronavirus mutations are threatening to reverse hard-fought progress on the pandemic.
Federally imposed federal travel restrictions then. Fuck you you half senile old bastard.
No, its fucking not, and no, you fucking aren’t.
Note the handwaving at the relevant info. And the lack of any mention of whether the new variant is actually more (or less) virulent.
72 in Uruguay today. Pretty damn rainy, though.
Boquete, Panama is in th mid-70s and quite pleasant all week. Rain on Saturday, though.
Sochi, forecast for Thursday 59 mostly sunny and mild.
Yalta, 58 mostly cloudy and mild.
While things are getting better in Florida, we need to remind you just how yucky DeSantis is for refusing to implement the same types of common sense Covid policies as responsible governors like Cuomo and Newsom.
Is this more of a penumbra or an emanation?
Protuberance, a la BOHICA.
Fuck.
Yet, he’s opening our borders. Fuck that guy. Fuck his administration*.
*None of them are legitimate anyway.
My thought exactly. Swim the Rio Grande? No prob. Drive from Florida? Handcuffs.
“…any move to restrict travel or impose new health measures would be taken in partnership with state and local governments.”
Well the state has already said fuck off and local governments would have a heck of a time enforcing anything, except the process as the punishment.
Too fucking late – my wife is in Florida now, and she’ll be back on Sunday. Bwahahahahaha
Tom Brady needed some help walking.
Heh…Good teammate getting him where he needs to be.
Florida Man?
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1359625722743066624
While COVID-19 cases in Florida have declined in recent weeks, the U.K. variant has spread rapidly in the state during that time. It now accounts for up to 15% of new cases in Florida,
That’s weird. I keep hearing about how America doesn’t do the sort of testing which would allow us to accurately identify strains.
I guess they just modeled it out, based on how many iguanas fell out of trees.
Isn’t it racist to call it the UK variant? Aren’t they encouraging violence against people of pallor by doing so?
“NEW YORK – February 10, 2021 — FOX News Channel’s (FNC) hit primetime Saturday talk show The Greg Gutfeld Show hosted by Greg Gutfeld will expand to a full weeknight schedule, announced FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott. The program will launch in the second quarter of 2021 and air weeknights at 11 PM/ET, followed by FOX News @ Night, which will move to 12 AM/ET, increasing the hours of live and original programming on FNC to 21 per weekday. A replacement primetime weekend program for Gutfeld’s 10PM/ET Saturday evening show will be announced at a later date.”
http://press.foxnews.com/2021/02/fox-news-channels-hit-late-night-program-the-greg-gutfeld-show-moves-to-weeknights-at-11-pmet/
Cool. ?
These links aren’t good for my blood pressure
Sorry, lady-bro.
I have an 8am meeting tomorrow, so I can’t have a martini(s) to get over Federal travel bans.
“Rep Raskin says Trump promoted the “big lie” that the election was stolen but didn’t Raskin promote the “big lie” that Trump stole the election in 2016? Wasn’t it Jamie Raskin who ‘incited violence’ by objecting to Trump electors?”
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1359562177955381252
You got him Rand! I’m sure he feels shame and the fair and neutral media will expose his hypocrisy!
Meh, I’m happy someone is pointing it out.
They’ve been pointing the hypocrisy out and whining and stamping their feet about it for 25 years to no effect. At absolute best, it’s red meat for the base. Anymore, it’s just posturing for the sake of posturing. It accomplished exactly nothing. Such brave. Much principled.
Sorry, I’m sick of the talk. They need to actually do something to fix our crumbling society or shut the fuck up and go away.
Politicians can’t fix society.
Of course not, but they can do mor than just play the gotcha game on Twitter.
Yes, the left are hypocrites. They operate in bad faith, they don’t care that they’re hypocrites. How about focusing on finding a way to keep them from passing a shit ton of really bad laws instead of pretending that you can shame them into conceding.
I’m not sure focusing in on Rand (as the OTweeter) is the right path.
He’s been doing what he can for years, and is constantly thwarted by both R and D.
I was giving chuck Grassley the same level of shit in the AM links for playing the gotcha game on another issue. Sorry, I guess it’s just my bugaboo, but it drives me nuts to see the GOP playing 90s ball in 2021.
The replies are utter garbage.
Praise to the Gods! I have Internet again! Oh Joyful day!
The thing that irks me so much (today) about the government covid response is the complete lack of any other ideas. It’s LOCKDOWN or MASK. THat’s it. Those are the only “answers” any of these so-called experts say. It’s an endless parade of PSAs on tv/radio– wear a mask! Distance! Stay home! And that’s it.
Do any of these “health experts” advocate getting healthy? No.
Do any recommend supplements, going outside to get sunlight, exercise (Lol no, because then they’d have to open gyms)? No.
It’s just the same tired shit we’ve had for a year. No new ideas.
You can tell how genuinely stupid all these “public health” people really are, because all they do is parrot the same things over and over. it’s got to work this time because someone said last year that it was gonna work, all our models said so!
It’s Idiocracy. And we’re living in it.
/flaunts his gym privilege.
Of course, I need to mask up while walking from the entrance to the bike, and while walking from the bike to the exit… because cardio is totally something I’m going to do while suffering a respiratory illness. One indoor bike park has a note on their website that masks are required the entire time while riding, and that full face helmets do not count as a mask.
The two issues that health “experts” have been doing for the past 40 years (besides the various non health empire building) is HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases in the Third World. It’s colored their worldview. Paternalistic we know best and zero respect for the dignity of individual human beings to make their own decisions.
OMG. This commercial is literally violence against trans people. I can’t even with this. /literally shaking
/puts a baby into J. Frank Parnell’s hands
LOL
“In Mail-In Impeachment Vote, Senate Convicts Trump 8275 To 3”
https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-praises-mail-in-ballots-for-impeachment-4642-out-of-200-senators-vote-to-convict-trump
Party of the Little Guy
Democrats on the House Committee on Education and Labor approved a $15 federal minimum wage proposal included in President Biden’s coronavirus relief package in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
“It’s a wrap, $15 #MinimumWage passes the [Education and Labor] committee after more than 13 hours of debate,” committee member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., wrote on Twitter around 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2025 would cut employment by 1.4 million but would lift roughly 900,000 Americans out of poverty, according to a study released Monday by the Congressional Budget Office.
Those jobs suck. We’d rather see you starve.
Well, to be fair, I imagine by 2025 that $15 then will only be worth about $7.25
now, so it’s a wash.
Where’s my $8 an hour raise?
/every other worker in America
Yeah, the people who are currently making $15/hour because their skills were such that they deserved twice the minimum wage are being royally fucked.
But it’s about EQUITY!!! Or something!!!
Won’t someone think of the poor printing presses!
Don’t be stingy.
We’re I currently a worker making $15+/hour, I’d be demanding not an $8/hour raise, but a 100% raise, which is what minimum wage workers will be getting.
I wonder if Brigitte Macron has weighed in with her opinion of the new consent law in France?
He was at least 15. I swear.
“Mais oui. Now come to me and love me like a teenager, mon petit chou-chou.”
SCIENCE! EXPERTS!
The detailed physical processes and pathways involved in the transmission of COVID-19 are still not well understood. Researchers decided to use advanced computational fluid dynamics tools on supercomputers to deepen understanding of transmission and provide a quantitative assessment of how different environmental factors influence transmission pathways and airborne infection risk.
A restaurant outbreak in China was widely reported as strong evidence of airflow-induced transmission of COVID-19. But it lacked a detailed investigation about exactly how transmission occurred.
Why did some people get infected while others within the same area did not? What specific role did ventilation and air conditioning play in disease transmission? Exploring these questions can help develop more pinpointed preventative measures to improve our safety.
In Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, Jiarong Hong and colleagues at the University of Minnesota report using advanced simulation methods to capture the complex flows that occur when the cold airflow from air conditioners interacts with the hot plume from a dining table and the transport of virus-loading particles within such flows.
“Our simulation captures various physical factors, including turbulent air flow, thermal effect, aerosol transport in turbulence, limited filtration efficiency of air conditioners, as well as the complex geometry of the space, all of which play a role in airborne transmission,” said Hong.
Although many computer simulation studies of airborne transmission of COVID-19 have been conducted recently, few directly link the prediction of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulation with the actual infection outbreaks reported through contact tracing.
This work is the first realistic case simulated and linked directly with the prediction of simulation.
“It was enabled by advanced computational tools used in our simulation, which can capture the complex flows and aerosol transport and other multiphysics factors involved in a realistic setting,” Hong said.
At this point, my only response is “Go fuck yourselves. You have no credibility.”
At this point, my only response is “Go fuck yourselves. You have no credibility.”
#metoo
Fluid mechanics are literally rape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdwL2DSQtx4
“Our work highlights the need for more preventive measures, such as shielding more properly underneath the table and improving the filtration efficiency of air conditioners,” Hong said. “More importantly, our research demonstrates the capability and value of high-fidelity computer simulation tools for airborne infection risk assessment and the development of effective preventive measures.”
Or, more likely, it’s all a bunch of made up bullshit which has nothing to do with actual infections.
You made this bed.
So it looks like Fauci was premature with his double mask comment and most likely was commanded to go out and tell the masses that isn’t what we meant.
Ezcept it was exactly what they meant but wanted it on their timeline.
CDC is now putting out literature that two masks are the wave of the future!
Masks now !! Masks forever!!
The only limit to “improving” the multiple mask efficiency is however many layers you can manage to suck air through apparently. Why stop at two when you can go up to a good baker’s dozen?
He didn’t make a strong command. It was overblown by the media in our headline driven world.
Treason! Sedition!
As President Joe Biden works to ramp up the supply of Covid-19 vaccines in the United States, public health officials and infectious disease experts warn of another big challenge for the new administration: A significant portion of the U.S. population will likely refuse to get vaccinated.
Even though clinical trial data shows Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines are safe and highly effective, just under half of adults in the U.S. surveyed in December said they were very likely to get vaccinated, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s up from 39.4% of adults surveyed in September but still below the 70% to 85% scientists say needs to be vaccinated to suppress the virus.
That could potentially jeopardize U.S. vaccination efforts to control the pandemic, which has overwhelmed hospitals and taken more than 466,000 American lives in about a year. Without so-called herd immunity, the virus will continue to spread from person to person and place to place for years to come, scientists have said.
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The goal, according to Biden’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, is to vaccinate between 70% and 85% of the U.S. population — or roughly 232 million to 281 million people — to achieve herd immunity and suppress the pandemic.
“The concern I have, and something we’re working on, is getting people who have vaccine hesitancy, who don’t want to get vaccinated,” he said at a White House press briefing last month.
To be sure, the rollout has been slow going. County websites have been overloaded by people who desperately want to be immunized, and manufacturing isn’t yet fully ramped up. But the one thing that time and money can’t as easily solve is persuading people to take the vaccine.
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Fear due to the pandemic and misinformation last year from then-President Donald Trump and others about the virus has exacerbated the situation and could hinder the government’s plan to vaccinate the U.S. population, medical experts told CNBC.
“We’re in a tough spot,” said Daniel Salmon, director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “A substantial proportion of the population thinks that Covid isn’t really a big deal and it’s kind of a hoax and the numbers are being, you know, overblown and doctors are making money by diagnosing Covid and calling deaths.”
“I mean, that’s obviously ridiculous. It is not true,” said Salmon, who oversaw the federal vaccine safety monitoring program during H1N1. “But that’s what maybe a third of the population thinks.”
Obdurate refusal to do as they’re told and unhesitatingly accept our pronouncements. This is simply unacceptable. Inoculate them by force.
Maybe they shouldn’t have badmouthed the Trump vaccine before the election.
Without so-called herd immunity, the virus will continue to spread from person to person and place to place for years to come, scientists have said.
Fuck. Herd immunity can come through people’s immune systems fighting off the virus. Fuck.
Do you even science bro?
Then some good therapeutics would be nice then. Maybe they should get on that.
The only cure is mask and social distance. MASK AND SOCIAL DISTANCE!
But this virus is tricky – it’s a shape-shifting virus to escape the antibodies.
But it’s really bad at obstacle courses.
It also knows not to attack you when you sit down in a restaurant and take your mask off.
The actually bad viruses (like Ebola) snuff themselves out. The mild ones (like every corona/rhino-virus) become endemic and harmful under certain parameters such as some sort of immunodeficiency. We are all being lied to.
“Inoculate them by force” – It’s the only way to be sure.
The numbers are being overblown and doctors via medical facilities that are financially incentivized to do so are diagnosing Covid and calling deaths. Just declaring it to not be so does not make it not be so. Doctors are like any other person and they respond to financial incentives in self-serving ways, they aren’t saints.
Obviously. You know, if you close your eyes and cover your ears and/or lived under a rock for the last twelve months.
below the 70% to 85% scientists say needs to be vaccinated to suppress the virus
That is not how herd immunity works.
which has overwhelmed hospitals and taken more than 466,000 American lives in about a year
No, it has not.
Fear due to the pandemic and misinformation
Correct but not how you mean.
As part of Biden’s sweeping plan to end the pandemic, the administration has said it plans to launch a public information campaign to rebuild trust in the vaccines. “We’ll help people understand what science tells us. That the vaccines help reduce the risk of Covid infections and can better safeguard our health and the health of our families and our communities,” Biden said in a speech before he was sworn into office in January.
Yeah go fuck yourself, Comrade.
After his whole team spent months bad-mouthing “Trump’s virus”.
Fucking shameless.
argh… “Trump’s vaccine”
We’ll help people understand what science tells us.
Science is a method of discovery in which one tries to falsify an assumption by changing a single variable. Or have we forgotten all the basics?
Then some good therapeutics would be nice then. Maybe they should get on that.
Why bother? We’re all in on prevention!
We’ll stop this thing right in its tracks.
Especially if we double down on policy that so far has done fuck-all.
Today Chechnya ended the mask mandate in public. Another Russian region, Udmurtia, made the same decision yesterday.
Is Udmurtia amenable to expats?
Probably, not. I doubt many people there speak English. However, Kalashnikov lived and worked there.
This should help them maintain their status as generic white bad guys in modern Hollywood films.
Attack of the killer rears on Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.li/paXMZ
“Here is Kamala Harris joking about killing Trump and Mike Pence”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1359599423635021829
“Congressman Joaquin Castro Doxxes Private Citizens in San Antonio Who Donated to Trump
Representative Joaquin Castro, the twin brother of Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro, published the names of over forty residents in his hometown who donated to the president.”
https://thetexan.news/congressman-joaquin-castro-doxxes-private-citizens-in-san-antonio-who-donated-to-trump/
There are two of those assholes?
Considering the observed behavior of Antifa/BLM this appears to be an incitement to violence.
The people who were doxxed should ______________ and then ______________, no doubt about it.
Shouldn’t all political contributions be public record?
No.
Should any political contributions be public record?
No, should be same as secret vote. And the candidate shouldn’t know who gave the money either.
Once when I ran as a Libertarian, I said I’d have all money directed to a CPA firm and they would not tell me who contributed. I was told that would be in violation of Penna. Election Law, etc. etc.
Interesting, how would PACs and the like play into that?
That is a great goddamn song.
And no one is wearing a mask. Not even a gimp one.
This is beautiful.
https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/1359650012125421572
It really is.
Degree in BritLit too. But 1967 WAS a long time ago. https://twitter.com/percy_gryce/status/1359659212645761024?s=21
Faulkner sucks.
But yeah, it is funny.
That Death to Disco event/drunken riot/whatever was dumb as fuck. An embarrassment for all involved, and a shameful chapter in Chicago history.
Lighten up Francis.
No, he’s right. It was a stupid fiasco. Mike Veek, the White Sox guy who gave the green light, was out of baseball for a long time, but ended up as part owner of the St. Paul Saints, our minor league (and actually quite fun) team.
Here’s a short article about how it all happened.
a shameful chapter in Chicago history
So just like every other chapter?