“I Hate You a Little Bit Right Now”
Checking in on how people feel about their vaccinated partners.
Last month, Jesse Dutton-Kenny bought her first cup of coffee in nearly a year. The Oakland resident, 29, had been a volunteer in the Moderna vaccine trial. She found out about it through her partner of eight years, John Maidens, who couldn’t participate because he’s not a U.S. citizen. When the company unblinded the study in January and revealed that Dutton-Kenny had gotten the placebo, it also gave her a first dose of the actual vaccine. She dutifully waited another month for her second dose, plus two more weeks for the shot to fully kick in. Then, Dutton-Kenny went to a coffee shop, ordered a latte and a croissant, and sat outside to enjoy them both. “It was the most liberating feeling,” she said.
Maidens waited in the car.
These people are too weak and afraid to exist. All this to eat a croissant outside? Salt them like a slug and leave them to die in the afternoon sun.
Joe Biden’s hands in White House video spark green screen conspiracies
But it was not his response that got the attention on social media. Rather, it was the video of the exchange, in which his hand appeared to go through the front of the reporters’ microphones.
President Joe Biden before reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on March 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. Twitter users joked that video of the exchange was faked using green screen technology.
In a visual anomaly that more considered analysis might explain as simply an optical illusion, or a technical glitch, conspiracy theorists speculated that the video was shot in front of a green screen—the backdrop which allows digital effects or computer-generated imagery (CGI) to be later added.
While the incident did not trouble too many blue tick Twitter users, speculation from others showed the richness of the human imagination.
They should introduce him as “Real Human President Joseph Biden-man.”
Trade Group Asks California Theme Parks To Mitigate The Effects Of Screaming On Rides
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – When Southern California theme parks such as Disneyland, Universal Studios and Magic Mountain reopen as early as April, they will likely have to take steps to ensure that screaming on rides doesn’t lead to the spread of COVID-19.
The California Attractions and Parks Association (CAPA), a trade group which represents theme parks statewide, is backing a plan that would tamp down on the effects that shouting and yelling on rides, such as rollercoasters, could have in spreading the virus.
California’s reopening guidelines call for businesses to limit activities that can spread the virus, such as singing and shouting.
“Face covering usage and/or modifications to seat loading patterns will be required on amusement park rides to mitigate the effects of shouting,” CAPA wrote in its responsible reopening plan. “Additionally, on rides, guests generally face in one direction.”
Both Los Angeles and Orange counties moved into the red tier of the state’s reopening blueprint this week, which allows for theme parks to reopen beginning April 1. They have been closed since March of 2020. Under the guidelines, they will be allowed to reopen at 15% capacity, but with in-state visitors only.
Visitors are limited to groups of no more than 10 and from no more than three households. No indoor dining is allowed and tickets must be purchased online in advance.
Pathetic. Find the trade group and squeeze a plague rat’s blood right into their fucking eyes.
Maidens waited in the car.
I, like LITERALLY, heard the sad trombone.
The ultimate cuck.
Exactly. Left unsaid in the article is that his partner was on a date.
Maybe he wanted to?
When Southern California theme parks such as Disneyland, Universal Studios and Magic Mountain reopen as early as April, they will likely have to take steps to ensure that screaming on rides doesn’t lead to the spread of COVID-19.
Fuck. Off.
They’re outside. I was told that being outside magically eliminated the possibility of getting the ‘Vid from someone else? Was that wrong?
It is in California. Our governor has access to super secret SCIENCE! that he won’t share with us.
Reactions like from this trade group are the reason Newsom believes he can survive the upcoming recall election.
No, no, no. Outside the Rona will get you if you are sitting. That is why it was illegal to sit on the beaches last summer, but you could walk along them.
But…
Inside in a restaurant and bar, the Rona will get you if you walk to the bathroom without a mask, but it is totes OK to not wear a mask if you are sitting at a table.
Simple physics dude.
Only if you are wearing your mostly peaceful protest clothing.
The theme parks just need to make sure that instead of screaming, customers are chanting BLM/antifa slogans, because as we all know, the virus does not transmit in the presence of leftist rhetoric.
I hear Disney is replacing the Song of the South theme of Splash Mountain with a Antifa/BLM themed Smash Mountain.
No matter how realistic they made the animatronics, no one would believe that there were people that looked like that.
History will judge 2020+ harshly.
This girl does not give a Fuch.
The Washington Post outed Jordan Fuchs as their anonymous source for their garbage article this week on President Trump’s phone call with Georgia officials in late December.
Fuchs provided the WaPo with a fraudulent Trump quote that the paper ran in an anti-Trump hit piece on January 9th.
They planned it to do most damage to President Trump before the sham impeachment trial in the US Senate.
According to Georgia activists, Fuchs, Raffensberger and the entire Secretary of State’s office were not helpful at all during investigations following the controversial 2020 presidential election in the state of Georgia.
According to the Georgia Star News Jordan Fuchs is not apologetic at all after leaking fraudulent information to the far-left Washington Post and damaging President Trump the GOP candidates in the state.
Narrative > Facts.
I’m pretty sure that’s also who the WSJ outed as their “independent” collaboration of the story. Oddly, a quick Bing does not bring up the story I read yesterday or the day before.
“Maidens” is a fitting name for that glob of soy
HOW DARE YOU! He’s an immigrant, you bigot!
Sitting in front of a roller coaster screamer doesn’t make me afraid of getting the coof, but it definitely raises the annoyance factor for me.
What is it with people (especially tween girls) squealing at the top of their lungs on a damned amusement park ride?
It’s not just amusement park rides. Tween girls scream for pretty much any reason.
No shit story from years ago. Took our then 6-9 year olds to Disneyland on free passes from my niece. We were in line for the Matterhorn and my wife looks at me and ask “why are you looking up at the ceiling overhang” I motioned for her to look at the group in front of us. There were 14-16 year old girls wearing what I guess you could call skirts, all bending over the railing, with mother dressed the same right next to them. My wife was laughing at me cause my face was beet red. She said “at least you have the modesty to not stare and only glance.”
You get a pass to look in that situation.
6-9
*beavis/butthead giggles*
Ok Boomer.
Shpip sits with his arms crossed and a scowl while he rides.
I assume they are scared.
California’s reopening guidelines call for businesses to limit activities that can spread the virus, such as singing and shouting.
“I was going to yell ‘Fire! Call 911! Everyone out!’ but the rules said I couldn’t do it…”
That’s only allowed in crowded theaters.
Salt them like a slug and leave them to die in the afternoon sun.
It is unfathomable to me to be so completely bereft of faith in one’s own rationality that a mere word from a politician, as if a switch has been thrown, can alter the state of the world for them.
“It’s too dangerous to walk your dog or go to the grocery store.”
“All clear!”
These are people who can’t change their own tires, can’t return a shopping cart, think genetically modified organisms are bad but see nothing wrong with genetically created vaccines, and generally believe someone else should “do something” about anything that raises their tsk-tsk reflex. It’s just easier for them offload the thinking to someone else.
It is unfathomable to me to be so completely bereft of faith in one’s own rationality that a mere word from a politician, as if a switch has been thrown, can alter the state of the world for them.
In ancient times it was not uncommon for kings to claim to be gods, descendants of gods, or chosen by the gods. They spoke with the authority of the gods, and this was accepted by many people. Humanity has not fundamentally changed in the last several thousand years, so on reflection I am not surprised by this behavior.
There’s a real easy way to put the green screen allegations to rest- release the rest of the raw footage, not just the clipped part. But I suspect the truth is, even if it’s not a green screen, it’s all staged and choreographed and as soon as the clipped portion is filmed, Joe stops walking and goes back inside. Or he goes back for off the record chitchat and so on.
I have seen some people show photos from another angle, but i can’t be bothered to find them.
I saw one on WaPo’s site and it wasn’t much better. And it too clips off before and after awfully quickly.
Straff linked an alternate one earlier, but that also had his hand going in front of a mic (different one that time).
Why not get any of the reporters/cameramen that were there and ask them to comment on it. Surely there is at least one anonymous source willing to spill.
The clip I saw, he heads off to Marine One right after the alleged encounter with the press.
What strikes me as odd is that he is all by himself. When was the last time you saw a President on his way to Marine One with no entourage?
Never mind. A quick scan of photos of Presidents embarking Marine One shows its not that unusual.
Yes, he walks over that direction and it ends. Doesn’t show him boarding or anything further.
I looked at it pretty closely. It sure does appear that the mics were added in post filming.
The focus on his right hand is near perfect but the mic that is in front and then behind it is never quite in focus. It’s as if the mics were filmed as they were too close to the lens and then edited in. The computer fudged up the masking causing the visual issue.
There is a famous Youtuber who’s entire channel is dedicated to looking at these things and pointing out fake videos by looking at the artifacts you can find in them. However, he is a self declared Skeptic, who rarely seems to be skeptical of the party line. I imagine he’ll post something that will explain how it is real.
His forehead also disappears earlier in the video, but I’ll concede that it could be due to compression of the video or something like that.
Not even parody: Biden Says Mask Wearing Must Continue Until Everyone Has Learned Complete Obedience To Government
Migrant Child Dreams Of Someday Crossing Border To Enjoy Dr. Seuss Books, Pepe Le Pew Cartoons, Aunt Jemima Pancakes
They are a better breed than all us hokey un checked masses. Surely Blue Checked people are too sophisticated to engage in silly conspiracy thinking.
I like the ‘blue tick’ as a descriptor.
Left wing parasites works as well.
Do we have any Alabimianses? Alabamians? Albumenians?
Anyway, be safe with them tornaders.
Isn’t Alibaba Chinese?
So, how long before John gets fed up with Jesse and pitches her down a flight of stairs?
While the incident did not trouble too many blue tick Twitter users, speculation from others showed the richness of the human imagination.
True believers’ faith remains unshaken.
Surprised, I am.
. . . speculation from others showed the richness of the human imagination and the paucity of imagination and curiosity of blue tick Twitterati.
You had to denigrate Iron Maiden with that video? For shame SF. For shame.
I didn’t make it, you nard.
You make all that is unholy and tentacular.
You mean testicular?
You posted it.
I thought it actually mashed up pretty good.
And to think I liked you.
I thought it was an improvement to both songs.
Of course you did.
“Face covering usage and/or modifications to seat loading patterns will be required on amusement park rides to mitigate the effects of shouting,”
Wrap their heads tightly with Saran Wrap as they load.
Do I have to think of everything?
Problem solved. Time to call it a day.
All your children are belonging to us.
A group of current and former teachers and others in Loudoun County, Virginia, compiled a lengthy list of parents suspected of disagreeing with school system actions, including its teaching of controversial racial concepts — with a stated purpose in part to “infiltrate,” use “hackers” to silence parents’ communications, and “expose these people publicly.”
Members of a 624-member private Facebook group called “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County” named parents and plotted fundraising and other offline work. Some used pseudonyms, but The Daily Wire has identified them as a who’s who of the affluent jurisdiction outside D.C., including school staff and elected officials. …
At the same time, other parents who believed that causing young children to focus too much on race could diminish tolerance and harmony, rather than improve it, were gaining traction. Groups called the Virginia Project and Parents Against Critical Theory held a webinar called “What is CRT and its impact on Loudoun County Schools” on March 7.
“I wanted to share that I’m very concerned that the [anti-] CRT movement for lack of better word is gaining support,” Barts wrote to the “anti-racist” Facebook group March 12. She said she hoped to “call out statements and actions that undermine our stated plan to end systemic racism.”
In response, a local mother named Jen Durham began what turned into a massive thread, writing:
This is a call for volunteers to combat the anti-CRT activities of the P.A.C.T. folks, the stoplcpscrt website, and the like. Looking for folks who are interested in volunteering to organize, lead, execute, and donate regarding the following points:
The CRT proponents are so very lucky that the people they’re against aren’t even a fraction of the evil they accuse them of being.
But they are hoping that changes.
Were I a parent in that district, I would take that as a challenge – those teachers need to be taught something.
This seems to be teetering right on the edge of an actual criminal conspiracy.
It probably does violate some criminal laws, and most certainly, every teacher on that group should be summarily fired. But they won’t be, and no charges will be brought.
Correct. It’s Loudoun County, a once nice place now overrun by government drones and government-adjacent locusts.
When we lived there (right across the creek in the poorer Prince William County), it was hard to keep track of the line of demarcation between the greater Washington sphere of influence and the de facto start of the state of Virginia. It moved westward on a daily basis as more government drone hives were hastily thrown up.
hackers who can either shut down their websites or redirect them to pro-CRT/anti-racist informational webpages
There’s your criminal intent.
That was my thought.
Someone in one of the Loudon anti-CRT groups must have enough money to hire a lawyer and file a criminal complaint…
On the edge? It is an open conspiracy to harass.
The real takeaway line is “Find a way to gather donations for these efforts”
Uh huh, they totally arent going to deposit those donations in their own bank account.
I imagine teachers, being public employees, are also graced with the rights of “Qualified Immunity”.
We don’t need no steenken badges.
You know who else compiled a list of those “disagreeing with … its teaching of controversial racial concepts”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
William Jennings Bryan?
Abe Lincoln?
FDR?
So close…it’s Woodrow Wilson
DNC?
SPLC?
The CCP?
The NBC, ABC, and CBS?
“As part of the school system’s racial initiatives, Loudoun pays 93 teachers $3,820 extra a year to take on additional duties as “equity leads.” For Dr. VonEnde Coleman, that appeared to mean joining the mob against parents. “As an equity lead at one of the high schools, please let me know how I can help,” she wrote.”
So they are paying people to be racist?
Anti-Racist == Reverse Racist == Racist.
“There is little evidence that Loudoun in the years preceding the schools’ racial focus was the site of widespread unrest of any kind. Black residents have a median income of $112,000, and the semi-rural county has precisely zero areas resembling inner cities. Blacks make up only 8% of the population, yet voters chose a black woman to chair the county board of supervisors.”
It’s like a jungle sometimes, It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
Broken glass everywhere.
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care.
Black residents have a median income of $112,000
So oppression. Much discriminate.
Hm, problematic use of the word “jungle”. It’s a dog whistle. On the list you go.
– Furious 5
“Don’t push me, ’cause I’m close to the edge. I’m just tryin’ not to lose my head.”
“…or a technical glitch…”
What the hell kind of technical glitch makes objects snap from in front of to behind each other in one frame? A glitch in the matrix?
I said it on the last thread, it is a live MST3000 scenario, or at least looks like it.
I want some robot/human snark.
Thought that was why we are here
Touche.
“The Hands of fate pass throoouuggh the microphone” – Torgo voice
The Master approves.
*black cat runs by thread
It’s a glitch in the Matrix!
*flees with PM of New Zealand*
Unless the video I saw had been doctored after after fact, I didn’t see anything that is typical of lossy compression or limitations of a camera itself. I saw what looked like a hastily put together mash up of two plus videos.
The mashup is horrible, doesn’t work at all,
Blech
She said she hoped to “call out statements and actions that undermine our stated plan to end systemic racism.”
And what of your completely innocuous and beneficial unstated plan? When will you provide details on that?
Of course, none of what she wants has anything to do with calling out statements, etc. Lying cunte is lying.
Do they have a stated definition of systemic racism?
Systemic racism is unfalsifiable. And that is how you know it is bullshit.
Redlining, Jim Crow, slavery, etc, are all real identifiable things that can be traced back to legal decisions made, and thus people can, in theory, be held accountable. But systemic racism, along with its idiot child micro-aggressions, speaks more about the mental state of the accuser than any identifiable or tangible issue that can be corrected.
“Sex addict Georgia gunman, 21, killed eight people – including six Asian women – at three massage parlors because he wanted to ‘eliminate temptation’: Porn fiend was on way to Florida ‘to shoot more’ when cops rammed his Hyundai off road”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9369859/Four-people-shot-dead-two-spas-Atlanta-hours-three-killed-massage-parlor.html
“Joe Biden says he’s ‘making no connection’ between Atlanta shooter and the race of his victims but warns against the ‘very troubling’ uptick in crimes against Asians”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9372977/Biden-making-no-connection-shooter-victims-race-concerned-anti-Asian-violence.html
Well, he was driving a Hyundai.
The reporting on this story is pretty vague. Initially it looked like the locations are massage parlors selling sex. Then it looked like at least one location was a legitimate shop and one did aromatherapy. Has there been any reporting that actually discerns what these locations are?
The only real uptick is in anti-asian crime reporting.
Correct, and as I mentioned in the last thread, they’ve been building the framework for this since they did their demographics analysis on the election. Somebody didn’t get as much support as they expected from the Asian demographic, so it’s time to play politics.
Looked it up right now. Asians went from 65/29 Dem lean to 61/34 Dem lean. That’s not a demographic they want getting into the 50s
Pushing CRT and “affirmative action” should really help keep them on the planta – I mean on the team.
Not to mention telling them they have to give up seats in good schools to more deserving people of diversity.
How does the Jewish vote break out by party these days – because they had the Asian treatment before the Asians did (or the Asians are getting the old Jewish treatment – whichever way you want to look at it).
The Reformed are heavily Democrat and the Orthodox are heavily Republican, FWIW.
Also it should be noted that several Asian-American Republicans won back House seats in California from the Dems. That had to have caused a little discomfort for the Ds, given that California is one of their biggest strongholds.
NPR is still pushing the “anti-Asian hate” aspect of the story.
Is Georgia still doing the death penalty? Will Biden permit it?
Today I went on a mission to find a little private cemetery that was founded in 1865-ish. Supposedly where “the Green Lady” can be spotted.
It was located, oddly enough on a hill, with terraces cut on the side for graves. There was a set of old concrete steps that went up the side. It wasn’t all that spooky, not with a house right next to it… and the rumble of traffic on the road below.
But there was one grave, embedded in the ground, that was completely worn away. There was a little white doll/figurine resting on the gravestone along with some flowers. Now that was creepy. When I edit it all down, I’ll post a video (probably this weekend).
Ooh, sounds somewhat interesting.
There is a cemetery just like that near my Dad’s hometown. It’s very steep to walk up, but there is a tiny track to the top of the hill that one can just barely drive.
I love cemeteries. I document them for Find A Grave.
There’s a large historic cemetery in town (actually pretty much ALL of the cemeteries around here are historic) but it’s just chock full of… bluebirds. More bluebirds than I had seen in my entire life up until that point.
On the drive into Vermont there’s this cemetery with what I can only describe as a barrow in it. It’s a big hemisphere with a door in the side leading in (I assume), and covering the top of it are other graves.
Looking forward to it.
The first vid was pretty good but your partner needs to work a little more on her enunciation for the vids – should be easy to re-record bits if necessary. When I record using my cell app, I just repeat what I just said and then its easy to cut the bits I don’t like out in post.
St. Patrick is canceled.
Google has a lovely doodle today honoring St. Patrick, patron saint of all Ireland, whose feast day is today. It’s a tightly focused design, colored with a series of greens and a pop of complementary violet and gold, done in the spare, trendy, minimalist near-“kawaii” style, which is big among web designers today. It’s also clever, using pictures to illustrate each letter of the Google logo into a well unified whole. It’s definitely the work of a pro who’s well schooled in UX/UI design.
There’s just one problem with it: It completely leaves out … St. Patrick.
Nothing, zip, nada. And there sure as heck isn’t any hint of what St. Patrick was about, which was bringing Christianity to pagan Ireland in the fifth century.
But St.
MaewynPatrick was an evil white. It doesn’t matter if he was a slave for much of his life.This is historical tricknology.
There is a fish in the ΙΚΘΟΣ style.
I read that as IROCZ.
Chi, not kappa, if I’m not mistaken.
And upsilon instead of omicron, too.
Well look, i aint some Greek Scholar, it’s not my fault the Greeks didn’t know the right way to spell Fish.
It’s this, isn’t it?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9369727/Demi-Rose-flaunts-signature-curves-poses-palm-tree-print-bikini.html
Nope. Natural beauty.
“Natural”
Silica is found all over nature,
However she got them, they look really big.
Anyway, Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Count Stereotype! Will you eat the potato now, or drink it later?
This just cracks me up, every time I see it. Bitch put on so much fake ass, she can barely walk.
Apparently, she’s been getting trolled.
EF and I started an antique booth, focusing on art, along with mid-century items, records, and etc.
And I’m learning that people – at least the ones who frequent this store – really aren’t into art. Five days and we’ve sold one tapestry/painting. And a few records and odds and ends. Still business is better than I thought it would be.
People want furniture.
That sounds like fun!
What an utterly detestable pussy.
Many of the couple’s most rigorous practices, like washing their groceries, were adopted at Maidens’ request
Yep.
Jay-sus. World’s biggest pussy.
Cripple fight!
Woke leaders of EMS service in Minneapolis decided to change the uniforms of the first responders from ones that look a lot like the Shefiff’s uniforms because they don’t want to look like LEOs. Rank and file is not pleased.
Normally I would have sided with Rand & File, but then read this:
Yeah, that is why I downgraded this to Cripple Fight. C’mon man! Why not complain that the problem isn’t the uniform, it is that people think it is OK to attack LEO’s?
I’m no copsucker, but I’m at the point where I’m ready to unleash the Police and the Sheriff’s deputies until order has been restored. This mostly peaceful protesting has to stop.
Are the peaceful Love fests still going on in Minneapolis?
We have our autonomous zone, but it is being kept on the down low for the most part. I don’t think the Minneapolis govt wants it known that it has lost control of part of the city.
I saw an interview with a woman who said that her nephew was shot and killed in the no-go zone last weekend and the paramedics were refused entry to help him.
And when they still get attacked in the new uniforms they can make up some more excuses for the idiots attacking them.
Re-opening with masks and cootie-inspired “seat loading patterns” is not re-opening. I won’t play along with that.
Reading that excerpt from the amusement park article leaves me with the feeling that I’ll never again visit an amusement park that doesn’t have a bunch of over-the-top, chickenshit disease protocols. I’m not looking forward to a log flume completely filled with hand sanitizer.
I have a solution that will make amusement parks 1000% better. Alcohol sterilizes, so mandate that everyone has a drink before they get on any ride. Sure, there will likely be more puke. But there won’t be any screaming teenagers, and there will be dramatically fewer Karens.
Speak softly and carry a big pool noodle
President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin will “pay a price” in the wake of a new report from the U.S. intelligence community that concluded the Kremlin interfered in the 2020 White House race.
In a segment from his interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that was taped Tuesday and aired Wednesday, Biden said he had told Putin in January — during their first call as foreign counterparts — to expect repercussions for potentially seeking to sway the most recent presidential election.
“We had a long talk, he and I,” Biden said. “I know him relatively well. And the conversation started off, I said, ‘I know you, and you know me. If I establish this occurred, then be prepared.’”
Biden declined to elaborate on the consequences Putin would face, saying that “you’ll see shortly.” But he maintained the U.S. could “walk and chew gum at the same time” with regard to its Russia foreign policy.
CONSEQUENCES, I tell you!”
‘I know you, and you know me. If I establish this occurred, then be prepared.’
I seriously doubt that is what was said.
Is that the one where he stole straight from Baby Bush about looking into Putin’s eyes to his soul? Or after he spent much of 2012 saying Russia wasn’t the threat since Romney actually said they were? Can’t keep up with this gaffe free administration
the U.S. could “walk and chew gum at the same time”
Unfortunately the president cannot.
Well the dead neither walk, nor chew gum.
I highly doubt the US can, either.
We are quickly becoming the laughingstock of the world, at least behind our backs.
Narrator: That’s just what Putin and that Pooh guy wanted.
I can’t believe our president is peddling these insane conspiracy theories. I have been assured that the 2020 election was the safest most secure election ever.
A sternly worded letter no doubt
Biden got money from the Russians as well as the Chinese. I am sure Putin has proof locked in a safe somewhere.
Russia pulled recalled its ambassador due to Biden’s ‘cowboy’ comments:
“The Russian ambassador to Washington has been summoned to Moscow for consultations – in response to Biden’s insulting attack on Putin. This is an exceptional step in diplomacy, the next is the recall of the ambassador and the lowering of the level of diplomatic relations. Moscow is clearly determined to reassess the entire set of relations with the United States.”
And to think we were told that the adults were in charge now.
I’m sure it’s common part of smart diplomacy to have the two largest nulcear powers degrade diplomatic relations.
During the North Korea follies, in the space of something like seven days, Trump managed to be both a weak-kneed pansy kowtowing to a murderous dictator, and a sabre-rattling maniac initiating a nuclear war.
The only right way to do diplomacy is whatever somebody with a 20-year career in the State Department says it is. Otherwise, how else will they turn that into a 30-year career, a comfy position on a corporate board after “retirement”, and a double-dip pension?
What about Iran? Didn’t the same report that said Putin tried to fuck with the election also say that Iran tried to sabotage Trump’s chances in the election?
And you know that intelligence report was 100% on the up and up because it found that China totes stayed out of our election.
I give it a week before Sen Whitehouse says that the report was an inside job by Trump appointees and they should be investigated! Trust the institutions!
#StopAsianHate!
I can’t believe you are contributing to this, especially today of all days.
This is gonna be the STIFFEST note of protest you ever saw!
Those people in that vaccination story in their 20s and 30s, hypochondriacs paralyzed with anxiety….
“That ended two weeks after Dutton-Kenny’s second shot. “My response lately has been like, ‘Well, I’m fully vaccinated and I don’t want to wash the groceries anymore, so I’m not going to help with that—and if you’d like to continue, feel free. I want my time back,’ ” she said, in a voice so gentle and kind, you’d never know she was begging off an arduous task she’d faithfully completed for her partner’s comfort for a year.”
My idea of food safety is scraping mold off old back-of-fridge offerings.
And the article is in Slate’s high style of “interview a bunch of people in my immediate circle.”
^THIS^
You are 29 and changed your life completely because of the Rona? Have you not looked at the stats?
And how many times have they come out and said you can’t get the Rona from food packaging and she’s still washing it?
Sigh.
Why look at stats when the governor is FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE!?!?!?!?!?
It’s entirely possible that dude(ish) was a germaphobe pre covid. But… cuz covid. TMITE
Trump was all talk and bluster when it came to pulling our troops out of Afghanistan, but he did set a date of May 1. Biden however is starting to buckle on that.
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Biden tells @GStephanopoulos it would be “tough” to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by May 1, a deadline set out in a deal former Pres. Trump’s administration made with the Taliban. https://t.co/rIe2ms8sSv pic.twitter.com/oEeCCpqh23
And of course, that time frame was too tough because of OMB
Tammy Duckworth
@SenDuckworth
I don’t want my daughters to have to grow up in a country that won’t protect them from firearm violence.
People are dying and Congress has a duty to act.
My colleagues and I introduced a ban on assault weapons.
Enough is enough.
Congress has a duty to uphold the Constitution. Sadly that is the last thing it will ever do.
Then Senator, due your duty and draft an amendment to the Constitution or get a States Convention going. Otherwise, pound sand.
It’s so nice of you to care about your daughters’ bodyguards like that.
No Bodyguards for Congresspeople who propose gun control.
But then who would protect them from Buffalo Horn Man and the heavily armed White Neo Nazi Insurrectionists?
I don’t want my daughters to have to grow up in a country that won’t protect them from firearm violence.
Laws don’t protect, they punish. Offensive firearm violence is already illegal. And owning a gun is not an act deserving of punishment. There’s nothing more to be done on this issue.
I’m pretty sure murder is already illegal.
Can’t be, because if it was illegal – people wouldn’t do it. DUH!!!
Those people in that vaccination story in their 20s and 30s, hypochondriacs paralyzed with anxiety….
The sort of people who could drown in 3/4″ of water because they’re too stupid to turn their heads.
If the government told them that turning their head could cause them to spread or catch the vid, they would gladly drown.
Normally that would be Bee material but it is too truthful.
Yes, he walks over that direction and it ends. Doesn’t show him boarding or anything further.
They cut the part where he walked into the wall of the sound stage.
I don’t want my daughters to have to grow up in a country that won’t protect them from firearm violence.
Try being a better parent. Or move to Guam.
Sigh… I’ve only seen glimpses about Guam, and i’m afraid to even know what happened that makes it relevant.
It’s going to tip over.
That is racist sir!
Paddy’s Day Wednesday nearly quittin’ time theme music.
Me likey that song, it is on my normal rotation
This is currently on.
Oh shit. This means I have to get drunk tonight, doesn’t it?
You don’t have to, I have this whiskey to share instead if you want.
Yup.
Anyone been to Disney World (the Florida one) lately? We were planning a trip in November to celebrate my 50th birthday. But some relatives just came back, and told a tale of woe including a long walk around a parking lot for a temperature check, and mask police calling you out if you so much as poke out a nose. If it’s that bad I’d rather keep my fond memories of the place and try next year.
It’s that bad.
Plus you better get a second mortgage on the house as you’ll be maxing out the credit card just so the kids can say “hi” to some degreed theater major wearing a rodent costume.
I’ve been there many times, starting when I was a little kid. So I expect that. What I don’t want is to get less for the same price. I’ve also heard they are cutting out amenities at hotels and not reducing their prices.
I have fond memories of going to Disneyland including a couple overnight visits. The prices went up too much for me to try to recreate those memories for my children. A Disneyland annual pass was only $99 in the mid 90s. Now it is ~$1,000. Day passes were ~$25, now >$100. I’ll save the money and find other memories for them.
Yep. As teens in the 90s, living 20 minutes from it, we had annual passes as our ‘hangout’. Fuck that noise now. Only time we would go is if our niece could get us family passes and sadly, cause of Newsom, she is out of a job.
The spousal unit is a true Disneyphile, but even she got tired of their bullshit. We didn’t renew our annual passes when they expired in December after having had them for more than two decades.
I was sick of their general wokeness and their ostentatious safetyness kabuki. Wife’s annoyed by the long lines, lack of housekeeping in the hotels, and creeping expenses (i.e., used to be that you parked free at Disney resorts if you were staying there. Now it’s $20-30 per night on top of your room charge).
Maybe we were just Disney’d out after all this time. Maybe we’ll be back after this latest moral panic ends and the company comes back to its senses. Maybe… but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Yikes. Glad I’ve never liked anything Disney.
Back when I had a pass, Disneyland charged for parking. It was a $20 add on to the $99 pass.
The Russian ambassador to Washington has been summoned to Moscow for consultations – in response to Biden’s insulting attack on Putin.
Diplomatic brinksmanship- it’s back, baby!
He better watch out. The last time the president got this tense with Russia, the VP had him murdered.
Biden needs to get busy and taunt the North Koreans some more. Sistah Kim will come over here and rip his tongue out with a pair of vise-grips.
So this little tidbit was floated today at my kids’ private school….
After having to retrieve my phone after violently chucking it through the window, I sent an uncharacteristically terse (for me) email back, with the message being “Hard fucking pass.”
Time to start up an importer business focusing on masks made by the poorest countries with designer names on it.
Nike brand masks!
In my box of goodies, I had a picture of me as a teen when I was in my graphic arts class with the Nike logo upside down and the statement “Don’t Do It”. Probably was not original but it was 1996 so maybe it was.
On the other hand, it does immune systems some good to be exposed to some of this stuff. If they sterilize their entire world, when the kids grow up they won’t be able to travel out of country without getting violently ill.
Yes.
It does.
The last thing you want to do is not develop an immune system. That’s just plain madness.
Did those precautions include not opening, or opening at a fraction of their capacity?
Would they care to speculate on how those precautions could reduce those diseases, but apparently had little effect on COVID?
My guess is not taking into account that employers and schools have shifted to a “if you are sick, stay home” mentality, which is different from “its just a sniffle, suck it up and get to class” from the past…but masks!
Would they care to speculate on how those precautions could reduce those diseases, but apparently had little effect on COVID?
Doesn’t matter. Metric was measured and it can be spun in a positive way to the unthinking masses. #GettingABonusThisYear
Nope. We’ve been fully open since August, minus a 3 week stint in November/December when governor useless closed us down.
We’ve had zero cases of community spread at the school.
But generally not because of the precautions, but because relatively few people have actually had it at all.
2 kids in elementary. 2 in middle school. And about 10 or so high schoolers. A school of just under 600. Then about a dozen employees, give or take. And all of them caught it somewhere else, most of them never actually having been to school after catching it until they were done with it.
At only 1 point did any students in the middle or elementary school have to quarantine because of exposure. A small bubble in the high school did (the basketball team).
I don’t credit their Covid precautions at all for our not having any Covid. It was never a problem within the school community to begin with, inside nor outside of school. If you’re not bringing it to school, kids could have been spitting in each other’s mouths continuously and they still wouldn’t have passed anything. Masks have dick all to do with it.
And the other stuff? They actually need to be exposed those things so they have a functioning immune system.
I am guessing it is more nonsense. What happened is that many people with those other maladies failed to seek medical help because of the cootie panic. Not being counted is not the same as not being there.
Things that are bad mmmkay falling out of my backside?
Father jailed for referring to biological female child as his daughter
This is in Canuckistan. Coming soon to the USSA.
Good God help us.
So I should stop telling my teens to not be pussies and calling them Nancy?
So the courts identify a daughter as a son and identify words as violence. Identity uber alles.
Meanwhile, in some other parts of the world, girls get acid thrown in their faces when they try to go to school.
That is just their cultural /Joe Biden
Teenager tantrum style contrarianism Uber alles.
Forget the he/she business. When did it become the prerogative of the state to enforce through law upon others whatever a teenager determines to be so? Are we going to be ruled by children and their codependent enablers now?
“Judge orders father to buy child new Fender Guitar, because he identifies as super famous rock star”.
Can it at least be a PRS or a Kiesel or something cool?
No. And no love for Jackson? …for Martin?
Jackson is fine, if that’s your gig.
I don’t play acoustic guitars, so Martin is out.
Tom T actually has matching Martin electrics – a guitar and a bass.
Any experience with Hamers? Those are his favorite electrics.
Taylor. C’mon, man!
::fistbump:: (or whatever the kids are doing these days)
Dude.
Don’t trash Fender, you piece of s**t!
Although PRS is tits. Gotta admit.
Lol. This argument is dumber than the pizza one.
Buy whatever the fuck you want. Fender basses are the bomb.
Not trashing.
Just don’t want guitars made to play the music of 60 years ago.
We’re going to need more woodchippers
There aren’t enough woodchippers on the planet, I fear.
That’s not Canuckistan — that’s the Lower Rainland™, which is communist-occupied British Columbia.
Why do you think I moved away from that shitehole and back to Alberta?
Wow. Don’t read the details if you want to keep all your valuable unbroken.
Holy shit, as an American we think this shit can’t happen here but the Left are working on that.
Not your backside….
St. Paddy story from when we were in Seattle. We were bellied up to a little bar on Post Street, the bartender a dual citizen between Ireland and here was serving us. A tourist strolled in to grab a cold one and asks the bartender “Can I get a Black and Tan?” For the next five minutes the bartender rants on the history of the drink and the next time he goes into an Irish Pub, to order a Half&Half.
https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/why-you-should-never-order-a-black-and-tan-in-ireland/
I wonder if German bars get uppity if a customer orders a French ’75? Are there any other drinks with martial names that could be provoking to one side or another of a conflict? Now I kinda want to make some.
Would be interesting…similar to an Irish Car Bomb I would assume.
Alright, we need to craft the Mau-Mau. What should be in it? Gin? Coffee?
That is Nephs area
Fallacy of appealing to authority.
Beethoven couldn’t hear when he wrote the 9th.
Surely a non-expert on alcohol can come up with a decent drink.
Ugh…fine. Tea, to add that British flair to it.
Sugar cane and bananas are amongst Kenya’s major crops, so maybe dark rum with Banana Bols. A shot of cold Kenyan coffee perhaps? It should be a very dark drink.
Dang that sounds good
That does sound good.
Mike Bloomberg Is Not Going to Like What’s Happening in Virginia
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/03/12/well-it-looks-like-virginia-dodged-a-bullet-on-gun-control-and-we-can-thankthe-democrats-n2586192
Article about the surprising reluctance of VA Dems to push gun control in VA this season. I was fully anticipating AR bans, magazine capacity restrictions, and universal background checks. Didn’t get any of that.
“Their media-manufactured myths actually led to nonwhites arming themselves who in turn are not for gun control and are certainly not turning in their firearms to the government.”
I never thought of that. Did it really happen? If so it’s great to see them eating their own once again.
I recall reading something like 40% of first time gun buyers in 2020 were minority or female. Huge if so but could be completely misremembering.
I think Bloomberg spending had a lot to do with Montana going (Hard) Red last election.
I would have thought they stocked up on guns for the same reasons as everyone else: rioting in the cities and the continued, obvious fraying of the social fabric of this country.
I’m puzzled why the VA Dems don’t do the obvious anti-racist thing – pass gun contro laws that apply only to whites. That would solve their problem with minorities, wouldn’t it? And imagine the swooning from the DemOp Media!
Definitely seems like they’ve been doing nonstop strafe bombing runs on American culture.
All of that will pass at the federal level so VA Dems won’t have to take any criticism.
I’m not convinced it will, even if they burn the filibuster.
There are too many red state democrats for that to happen. WV would eat Manchin alive. I’m sure there are others.
This is the guy we sadly cannot see because of governor is a dickhead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQmSbxlcVRs
Also this band, but I don’t like them for their lead singer, she is annoying, the fiddler though..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7RpngyZuWM
I didn’t notice a fiddler, I was too busy looking at the hot redhead on the left.
I may be a few Guinness in and yes I enjoy her show very much.
She’s a bit of alright
I really miss the live entertainment…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHuMKbGG35o
It really is a fun place to go on the weekend or when there is soccer/rugby going on.
Plus they do a huge St. Baldricks drive and put their money on the table.
🙁
I just installed new disks in my NAS.
Forgot that even blank disks will be “resynced” by the stupid computer.
They’re 8TB drives… it’s taking forever.
I just installed new disks in my NAS.
Whoa, dude! Family friendly, remember?
Did you replace all the drives or just some of them? The disks might be blank but if they’re being added to an existing array, they’ll still have to get all the data and parity blocks.
All the drives, new raid array. I already backed up the data to an external drive. That copy step is not what I’m on. It’s still initializing the array, and it looks like it’s going through every damn block on the disks.
Yeah, but all new disks right? (Squeals like a wee girl in empathic excitement)
All shiny, new 8TB disks.
Hmm, could be initializing all the stripes or checking for bad blocks. If your NAS vendor offers a guarantee, they’ll want to be sure there are no bad blocks.
My NAS vendor is… me
It’s a linux box which runs DNS, pihole, samba, and I don’t remember if it also provides DHCP or if I went back to using the router for that.
I’m pretty sure it’s initializing the stripes.
ZFS, BTRFS, other? There should be an option to not verify blocks on initialization. If you are using a filesystem that does block checksums, it can be handled at write time. Also a mirrored configuration is often faster to resilver than a parity configuration.
It’s the hardware controller that came with the otherboard, once the array was created, it set the array up to be initialized on boot by the OS. I did not see too many options to customize the parameters.
Ah. I used ZFS on Linux with standard SATA drive connections when I ran my own NAS. I didn’t have performance issues running software RAID.
Does the controller offer block checksums?
Have you encountered any that don’t?
“Otherboard.”
I know it’s a typo, but I like it and am going to use it on a going-forward basis. ;-)
“Where’s the controller for this bit?” ”It’s on one of the otherboards.”
RAID parity (5, 6, …) is only block parity bits: data block A XOR data block B = parity block C. If you lose a block it can be recreated from the other two. What happens if there is an error for a block? If you lose A but C is corrupt you get a corrupt recreation of A.
BTRFS and ZFS provide additional checksums. They can checksum metadata and each block individually. A read from a block compares it to the checksum. If they don’t match, the filesystem knows there is corruption. It can then try to repair for the other blocks if they aren’t also corrupted. It will self heal for any read. They also use copy on write so changes aren’t committed until they have been verified.
These euphemisms are getting weird.
Don’t you mean ‘wired’?
Hopefully not SMR drives. Those will take a long time.
Not as far as I can tell
Spec sheet says it’s CMR.
WD pissed off a lot of people hiding those details for some Red line drives.
Seagate Ironwolf.
Not sure if it’s any good.
They have a good reputation. I replaced WD Red with Ironwolf when the drives aged out.
So NASCAR decided to leave it to the fans to name the race in Kansas this May. To keep the bots away, fans had to contribute a dollar to charity in order to vote.
Race fans, to their credit, channeled their inner Boaty McBoatface.
So, are they actually going through with it?
Looks like it, if they do they’ll have more integrity than the NHL at least, when Columbus got an expansion team, they did a ‘name the team’ thing and an ‘alternative’ newspaper ran a campaign to name the team the “Mad Cows”. I forget the details but it was gaining some steam and the NHL pretty much said Nope “not gonna do it”
Since they asked people to back their votes with money, they’re in a pretty tough spot to cancel.
The only league(s) with good names is MiLB.
Some of them are awesome.
That gives me hope for humanity.
So much awesome. If they actually do it, I’ll watch the race.
Me too – I don’t normally watch races at that track. But I need to hear the announcers say “Welcome to Buschy McBusch Race, live from Kansas Motor Speedway”
Dispatches from the Front
(The Front being in one of the freest states – TN – in a county with no Kung Flu restrictions, that when active were not enforced, as of Monday)
Grabbed some chow at the local Publix grocery store. 100% of customers and workers, less myself, were tucked snug as a bug into their adult grade security blanket fuckface masks.
Ooh! Can you recommend any maskless TN getaway locations for a vacation from Ohio? Would love to visit Memphis if there’s live, maskless music or the general Smokies vicinity, likewise maskless.
The two OH state park lodges we’ve visited are pushing discounted stays, but why would I vacation someplace where I’d have to mask up every time I stepped out of the room?
We (Tennessee) do not count Memphis as our own. Uber Gatlinburg is cool. Chattanooga is chill. But Nashville, 2nd and Broad(way), is where it’s at for honky tonkin.
So, I got an email saying that Home Brew Con will be virtual only again this year. Apparently, the organizers think that San Diego will still be locked down in June.
Yusef Makes Cookies!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/QYSWSvRN2awdmFVi6
I got home from work and was bored,
Like 3 dozen,
You have your priorities straight, two different glasses on top of the sink ready for whatever beverage that may come to mind. Oh and nice cookies /nohomo
I like Cooking and baking, Fortunately my Sister’s Family loves to eat, I can’t eat it all,
/thanks!
/nohomo
Meh.
“Homo, no homo . . . I’m the guy with the cookies.”
Nice. You keep a nice kitchen, too.
why Thanks, and that’s it, there is a pantry to the right, I bought the Granite top Islands from Amazon, I like it, tight and easy….
I like it, tight and easy
As do we all.
Now that is phrasing I could get into..
As I wrote that, I saw it Coming…..
Well in that situation, that is all it takes
42 Cookies, the answer to life, the Universe, and Everything,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NL6LhQ8xmbDeoyDP7
That is an ordered person’s nightmare…7 cookies per plate and 20 nicely placed on the glass and one outlier….
Pure luck on the number of cookies, I do like order, He’s the leader, I’m being Attacked by Alien Cookies!
I’m glad I’m almost alone in the office, the end of Joemala has me rolling.
I also like that Joe’s is totally in control of his faculties when discussing grope strategy.
Those are the brain cells he decided to keep. All others were sacrificed to Baal.
Picked up the St. Paddy’s dinner from the diner — it was full of people like I’ve never seen on St. Pat’s before. At least one person there told me they were deliberately buying from them this year to help keep the place open. That’s the reason I bought two dinners.
This lamb stew is delicious. Aggies, Kiwis, and/or anyone else who has input on this: could we maybe genetically engineer a sheep without so much goddamn connective tissue?
People enjoy tradition /News at 11
This Bailey’s cheesecake is also excellent.
. . . could we maybe genetically engineer a sheep without so much goddamn connective tissue?
That’d be nice. Every time I make lamb kebabs, I spend about an hour prepping a leg of lamb for skewered bits. I’ve learned to despise lamb silverskin.
It ain’t got shit on mule deer silver skin.
The connective tissue is what makes scotch broth good.
It ain’t the silverskin that’s contributing to the broth, believe me.
Silverskin has ZERO culinary value.
Really? No collagen?
Nope. Never did God create a less-worthy piece of animal flesh to eat. If you do, it pretty much comes out the way it went in.
I had no idea they were putting women in tank crews much less fielding all women crews.
All female tank crew from 2cav crashing into a podium with a MAJGEN on it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MagPulDeezNuts/status/1371071980888199170
And once again, the Bee predicts the future.
Did I do that?
I meant to do that.
Touche!
????
There are no MOS restrictions anymore.
Hopefully the loader was male at birth.
That one hasn’t changed yet.
I’d love to watch them changing a tread in the field.
It’s difficult to drive in heels.
“While the incident did not trouble too many blue tick Twitter users, speculation from others showed the richness of the human imagination.”
Blue checks add 400 points of IQ, this is known.
Calling it an early night, as far as work goes. We’re having a neighbor over for dinner. The wife has made a corned beef. And I’ve cracked open an Allagash North Sky Stout. I’ll start in on the Tully a little later.
Sláinte! Enjoy. Corned beef from scratch is cooking now
I am semi-awake and in Korea! Daejeon for a couple of weeks in quarantine before work starts.
I have a Korean app for detecting where I am and I have to submit temperature and bullshit checks with them twice a day. But I’m here. I’m alone. I have my space. It’s been 18 months of separation from former life and society. But here I am. Good lord.
I have a 24/7 store right outside that I’ve already been to several times. Just leave my app-tied phone here and walk outside. It’s…a lovely feeling that I can’t yet express properly. This is my next step and I’m on it. I still have more. But at least I’m here.
My friend and I are doing a thing, where we write short fiction stories, this (my first) is 1000 words and the topic is An Act of Insubordination. I think my idea is giving a character a single wish. Mine would always be “I have the ability AND the choice to make anything I imagine real.” But that AND is tricky and might be TWO wishes. So the protagonist will use some legalese to clarify what can be done and what not.
I have an ending in mind. Sorry for typing so much. Hello to everyone! Nice to land in a ‘new’ place. And perfect timing. So it goes.
“I’m 37 degrees, and you people are excellent drivers.”
It has to be UNDER 37. So I just put 36.3 or 36.whatever so it’s not always the same number. It’s silly, but they are much better at keeping their laws than the US is.
And @Bob I think I am going to post it here. I want to work on my Cambodia trip and scores of others, but with my friend and I having a sorta competition, my mind is focused on that.
It is now daylight here and I believe I’ll walk around the block. It’s quite exciting. I can’t legally do ANYTHING and I just got a 1.4k check from Biden. Thanks! So stupid, but duh I’ll take free money. Almost like perverse incentives are bad!
wheres my Money? Enjoy the Freedom Little Brother, we always hope for the best for you,
Sounds Great Evan! Maybe post a story here for us all to enjoy! Glad Life is getting back to real for you, Huzzah!!!!
I watched the video – a lot isn’t right about it.
Looks to me that some of the microphones are on a different “layer” – that’s no “optical illusion.” That’s Biden’s hand passing right through the frigging mics.
There are some other weird things with it, too. I watched some video analysis of it and there’s no question that some weird shit is going on in that video.
Pish tosh! It’s just a “glitch.”
No no, optical illusion! For Pete’s sake we were given a weeks worth of “Trump’s awkward walk down a slope”, but no no no…this is just the right wing unhinged!
+1 Republicans pounce!
there’s no question that some weird shit is going on in that video.
Incompetent editing.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LokiJulianus/status/1372038332700573700/photo/1
I see defenders crowing about ‘the other angle’.
Notice in the ‘other angle’ video his hand goes through the microphone again. Good grief.
Ignorance is strength.
I noticed the same thing. His hand goes through another microphone.
“Nothing to see here!! Conspiracy theorists said without evidence!!!”
*narrator’s voice*: There is video evidence
Reminds me of the first released .pdf of Obama’s birth certificate. A crapload of hinky shit, and somebody broke it down and discovered a bunch of layers, which apparently you wouldn’t see in a straight scan of of a document.
Then they pulled that one, and released a “clean” one. Which was probably the first one run through a scanner.
*adjusts tinfoil hat to a jaunty angle, saunters off*
He’s supposed to be outside by himself. Why the hell is he wearing a mask?
They offered him extra puddin’ cups if he complied.
I watched some video analysis of it and there’s no question that some weird shit is going on in that video.
Which leads me to ask the following question:
“Why are people who work for the legacy media such FUCKING IDIOTS?”
Someone is last in every class. This is where they end up working.
See also: Jurisdiction X’s “Top Doctor”
**HEAVY SIGH**
Don’t buy that. One of the smartest Millennials I know, a young lady who’s the daughter of some long-time friends of mine, is studying Journalism at Carleton in Ottawa. This lass has brain cells comin’ out the wazoo. And yet somehow she thinks a worthwhile use of her life and talents is to lie to and/or manipulate people by selectively editing the information she reports to them.
It hurts me.
Well I wish it were a concert with people, Dropkick’s ‘Live’ set in 30 minutes
https://dropkickmurphys.com/2021/02/15/st-patricks-day-live-stream-2021-still-locked-down/
Dropkick Murphy’s are the Irish equivalents of the Beach Boys – the best shitty music of a mediocre genre.
Okay Boomer, don’t worry I have some Chicago on for you in the background.
Van and/or the Chieftains, or Tom Waits. That’s the only real Micksplotation day music.
No Dubliners? Got it.
EDM, Disco by another name,
Though quite funny listening to ‘punkers’ singing songs about freedom, anarchy, screw the man, etc while doing a show on line rather than in person.
Lester Holt’s on NBC hyping the “Asian community is traumatized by the shootings in Atlanta.” Some incel goes nuts and suddenly it’s genocide on Asians.
Gotta propagandize it to use it
Last month Pelosi was blaming white supremacy for attacks on Asians despite the fact that in every video I’ve seen the perpetrators have not been white. They finally found a white guy killing Asians, so they have to run with it. They are going to milk it for all it’s worth just like the “insurrection”. When I put on my tinfoil hat, I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy wasn’t egged on by the FBI.
Motorcoach pr0n for KK. I’ve made ALL the wrong the choices in life to end up where I am and not where this fellow is with his gaudy coach, big truck, plane, and stripper wife. Wow… https://youtu.be/iPpZYojmX-4
I like Cookies,
OMG that is so delightfully tacky
Right? It looks like a Pier One display. Nice tv though.
If my Spousal Unit sees this, I’m screwed.
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!
Some good old Irish music – The Lament for Limerick. It makes “Danny Boy” sound like “Shiny Happy People.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl8808yy01M
Damn. I’m actually trying to keep up with y’all, refreshing, commenting… I can’t do it when I’m bored and sober at work, let alone celebrating with Model o’ Especial.
Metallica covers a traditional Irish tune which challenges some of the tired stereotypes. And by “challenges” I mean not really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsrvmNtWU4E
That Version sucks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyQ-tScuzwM
the Real Version,
I don’t have the conceptual framework for the idea of Metallica sucking, but that version is certainly…highly fascinating.
Thin Lizzy wrote it, and I hate Metallica, it’s personal,
De gustibus non est disputandum, which is Latin for “I think the song predates both Thin Lizzy and Metallica.”
Yeah, I think some guy named Trad wrote it. 😉
More than a hundred years ago…
It dates from a story in the 1600’s.
Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.li/VoZhQ
No St.Patricks Day thing?
How many redheads?
Not one.
Although nice not to see a bunch of tats.
Trying to figure out how 27 made the cut in that set….
To make up for it…even a Chive production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0javCv7yoA
I find it,extremely disheartening to see people still walking around wearing,masks after the guvnah rescinded the mandate
Their brains have been broken.
Reprogrammed.
Eh…their choice. What it should be. Want to wrap yourself in bubble wrap, go for it, just don’t make me do it.
They will gladly throw the non-mask-wearers into prison, because they have glugged the Flavor-Ade.
Neo-neocon has an interesting article that is relevant.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2021/03/16/the-cost-of-playing-the-the-emperors-new-clothes-game/
(I forgot how to do links. Something about href= something.)
They are even wearing them out of the store and across the parking lot, instead of ripping that thing off three feet before the exit.
What is disheartening is that I had hoped people were a little more informed. Even the CDC came out with a report recently that said masks dont do much to stop the spread of COVID19.
The youngsters are well and truly broken. The average age of masked freaks outside walking/biking/running must be about 22.
So the first story doesn’t surprise me that much. Outsource the messaging to the public school system and that’s what happens.
A green screen fuckup wouldn’t surprise me at all. I really don’t care, though. A slaver is a slaver, no matter how CGI’d.
That was a surprisingly good mashup! I made it through the whole thing!
If they’re going to fake him interacting with reporters, at least do a good job of it. Bunch of fucking amateurs.
What’s the point of faking this? There’s no reason to “Weekend At Biden’s” this – If he’s dead or incompetent than Harris is in charge, which according to right wing nut jobs was the point all along. I don’t understand what you think the rational for faking Joe’s continued alive-ed-ness is here.
Also Neph mentioned “The Boondock Saints” and I’ve already watched “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” what are some other good Oirish flicks to watch today?
Only thing I can think of is the pressure that is starting to bleed over to even the mainstream media for Joe “Most Transparent” Biden being unavailable. This gives a “look he stops and talks the press impromptu like Trump did!” feel to it.
I think they faked the interaction with reporters. They probably did several takes until he didn’t stumble or mumble. They they shopped in some microphones to make it seem live.
Good Oirish – My Left Foot.
I lose knives, so I limit my purchase amounts to $40 or $50. For those of you who are more responsible, AG Russell has some specials on discontinued Benchmarks.
“lose knives”
Does not compute.
It’s true. I usually find them sometime down the line, but…
I have several knives scattered about for this very reason.
You sound like you need a Lee Valley intervention:
https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/hand-tools/knives/70307-the-losable-knife?item=09A0307
DO NOT LINK LEE VALLEY!!!!
I will spend every penny I have.
Do it.
You know you want to.
(Lee Valley is five kilometres from my house. Across the street from them is KMS Tools. Man, can I spend money at those two places . . . )
Don’t hang on to evidence. Surest way to get caught.
Kershaw is my go to.
Yes, I’ve lost a bunch of them!
My latest is the Buck Spitfire. Made in the USA!
Michigan man with suspended driver’s license crashes into a state trooper’s car in a Tesla on autopilot. And the trooper’s car had its flashers on for a different traffic stop.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/03/17/tesla-autopilot-crash-michigan-state-police-patrol-car/4731376001/
OK, let’s see what’s in the Daily Mail. Hopefully they’ve gotten the Royal Family out of their system…
Try this one:
“Feeding cows SEAWEED could slash methane emissions by 80% without affecting the flavour or quality of their meat
“Researchers fed cattle varying levels of seaweed supplements for 21 days
“The seaweed is a type of algae, Asparagopsis taxiformis, found in the tropics
“When fed to bulls it reduced methane up to 80% with no impact on meat taste
“The study authors say the next step is to find a way to easily farm the algae”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9372369/Feeding-cows-SEAWEED-slash-methane-emissions-80.html
Teach cows how to swim. Duh.
LOL!
How about the usual diet of whatever-the-fuck-is-in-the-particular-pasture?
I notice they never, ever compare their bullshit to true regenerative ag.
Besides, most methane comes from the fucking oceans.
Oh, and Bill, I still won’t eat lab grown meat.
It is their natural diet to be sure….
You mean this milestone hadn’t been reached before? Anyway, now it has.
https://pagesix.com/2021/03/16/leyna-bloom-is-first-transgender-woman-of-color-in-sports-illustrated-swim/
The song link: Doood, I can’t moonwalk that fast I would pull a hammy. Loved it though.
Something I’ve noticed from my subset of friends is that the ones who are the biggest advocates for social justice issues and believe that capitalism and white supremacy are responsible for all the ills in the world are usually white upper class women. I’m thinking this stems from them feeling guilty about their white privilege, so they are the most vocal about every fucking issue to prove to themselves and others that they aren’t as terrible as their white male counterparts.
But it’s their hypocrisy that bothers me the most. They’ll rant all day about how shitty the capitalist system is but most of them come from upper class families and are the sorts who believes that traveling brings knowledge and taking selfies at the ocean while drinking some expensive champagne but expect everyone else to sacrifice their standard of living so they can drink their 5 dollar lattes guilt free.
It’s the same women who were Bible thumpers a few decades ago.
They are also vegans.
Fuck them all.
And for some reason they all go to Nashville and wear cowboy boots.
Pretty sure those are the bridesmaids.
I should not have put on this ‘live streaming’ show by Dropkick. Just makes me want to go to a concert and go nuts, cause that is what the country needs. One big concert to let loose and just enjoy the day.
“What this country needs right now is a drink.”
Isn’t that what one of your Prezzies said when they got rid of whatever-the-Hell amendment it was that inaugurated Prohibition?