Scenes from the last Glibs meet-up.
A shockingly not-horrible day yesterday. The temperatures remained in two digits, I had a very pleasant morning walk along one of our canals, and watching the fish, SP and I made pizza, and we had our usual enjoyable conversation with our Glibs buddies. So not Heaven yet, but not Hell. Me not being intimately familiar with the goyish afterlife bullshit, I figure Purgatory.
There’s no shortage of birthdays today: for example, a very binary fellow; a guy who was hypnotic; Sloopy’s spirit animal; “Bab’s your uncle“; a guy whose legacy is generations of shitty cars; proof that lightning can strike twice in the same place; a guy who had the shining; a rather chaotic fellow; a rather synthetic fellow; and a guy who should have been the Team L candidate for president.
Before starting, I do note that, as predicted, the name William Jennette has vanished from the news. I wonder why…
I… I… I… am torn. No Gripping Hand here.
Team Blue continues to show that it’s the party of youth and vigor.
It’s clear why Team Blue unpersoned her.
Damn Jews target hospitals, kindergartens, and COVID test centers. They missed the Milk Factory, apparently.
Dig into this a bit and you’ll find a union. Funniest quote: “The first noose appeared on the property on April 27 and on April 29, five more ropes “that could be interpreted as nooses” were found on different floors”
“I’m one of the good ones! Don’t kill me!”
And I’ll leave you with a great piece of creative vandalism (h/t Kristen)
Old Guy Music came up when I saw something on Twitter asking what was the Number 1 song on your 6th birthday. This was mine.
Huh. I had no idea you hated Drew Carey.
Maybe ten years ago, there was an ad-hoc movement to draft Drew Carey for NRA president. Nothing ever came of it, but wouldn’t it have been cool if it had?
Did they ever approach Carey and what did he say? You can’t have a candidate unless the candidate is willing.
The perfect Presidential candidate.
08/25/1963,
Honky Tonk Women, The Stones!
69 I was 6 years old,
In ’69 I was 21…
That was my first concert, Jackson Browne at the Santa Barbara county bowl in 1978.
I get either Melanie’s ” Brand New Key” Or Mclean’s “American Pie”
Freezing fog, this morning.
Sounds like you’re playing D&D
Can’t be. He didn’t give his character’s pronouns, gender expression and mental illnesses yet.
I don’t think there’s a 57 sided die.
It’s 43 degrees in San Diego North County . What’s with this shit?!?!
74 degrees in Montgomery County, OH. Come on up!
80 on the way to 90+ again here. ?
Anybody have any experience with the LP Mises Caucus? I’m evaluating getting involved but there seems to be a Sheldon Richman style undercurrent of Jew-hating going on.
Steve Chapman was the only reason that Richman wasn’t the dumbest and most tiresome person writing for Reason.
I can summarize every article Richman ever wrote: “Hey, the US overthrew Mossadegh in 1953!!!!!”
I had blocked Chapman from my memory.
Now I’m triggered.
This chxck has gone full “+ power!” spending an entire segment explaining that Hamas has zero culpability because they have no power in Gaza, only Israel does. Retired reporter, eternal NPR panelist and current journalism prof.
Even the other carefully selected progressives on the panel were aghast. They will not be the ones invited back.
To be honest, she might be a lecturer, not a prof.
So Israel is the one building and launching shitty rockets into its own territory.
Logic checks out.
Yup. Bennie Netanyahoo is stirring up violence to distract from his corruption investigation.
That’s almost as stupid as “the Jews did 9/11”
But if (((they))) didn’t do 9/11, how did all of (((them))) know not to show up to work that day? Check-MATE International Banksters!
No experience, but Angela McArdle is pretty cool. The LP needs a good shakeup.
I loved her in the original cast of Annie! 😀
I “liked” their Facebook page so I could watch their posts and updates. Yesterday evening one of their organizers sent me a Facebook message to which I have not responded.
I’m a bit wary of getting involved.
I knew Richman and Rothbard back in the day. Neither was a Jew hater. What they opposed was Israeli Jews stealing land from folks who had lived on the land for centuries. Same as a libertarian can oppose stealing land from Native Americans without hating the White man.
You can keep going back and see where the same land was stolen from the Jews too. Prior to the inception of Israel, most of that was wasteland. The Arabs just don’t want any Jews living anywhere near them. And once they accomplish that, then they would go hunt for them as far as it took to kill them some more. It’s pretty plain to see and anyone who thinks the Jews are the bad guy is an anti-semite, at this point. All land, everywhere was stolen repeatedly by somebody. Oh, and all races of people were enslaved by somebody at some point in history, too.
Yes, certainly, but where valid deeds still exist and witnesses come forward, you might want to not endorse the stealing of private property just because X or Y or Z number of years have passed.
The dog is terrified of my cane. Such a manly specimen of the species.
Well, maybe thrash it less vigorously for a while.
These euphemisms…
Not sure I’d want to own a manly dog. Sounds illegal, and more importantly, immoral.
Sorry you’re having to use a cane, bro.
Thanks. I was going to take a bike ride today, but I don’t think my foot is going to fit in the shoe.
Besides I usually remove my left foot from the clipless pedals first. That would probably sting a bit right now.
Are there any kids on your lawn you could swing the cane at? That would count as exercise, I’d say.
I wish I could get my own kids out on the lawn. They’re slugs.
That seems to be a modern condition. My daughter is very active and fit, but my son is quite the slug. Now that he has his first job, I’m hoping he will interact more with others. He seems excited about working, so that’s good.
Apparently my niece was taking a nature walk at school this past week and a tick started crawling up her pants leg.
She shrieked in terror and took off running. Then she tripped over a low rope fence and face planted in the dirt.
“Clipless pedals.” Bro, I’d use flats for a while.
Sources report
Washington’s Metropolitan police department recorded threats to lawmakers and public facilities in the wake of the 6 January attack on the Capitol, according to documents madepublic in a ransomware hack on their systems this month.
The documents also show how, in the month following the Capitol attack, police stepped up surveillance efforts, monitoring hotel bookings, protests in other jurisdictions, and social media for signs of another attack by far-right groups on targets in the capital, including events surrounding the inauguration of Joe Biden as president.
The revelation of the seriousness of the threats comes amid Republican opposition to forming a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January attack, which saw the Capitol roamed by looting mobs hunting for politicians and involved the deaths of five people.
——
A 22 January bulletin mentions that in Pennsylvania a man was arrested after “transmitting interstate threats to multiple US senators of the Democratic party”, having stated that he was “going to DC to kill people and wanted to be killed by the police”. When Pennsylvania state police apprehended him “he was in possession of a rifle, two handguns, and a large quantity of ammunition”.
A later bulletin described an incident in which a man with an illegal firearm was arrested after asking for directions to the “Oval Office”, and another man’s van was searched after he was observed sitting in the vehicle while parked outside the supreme court justice Sonya Sotomayor’s house.
The same day’s bulletin mentioned that Metropolitan police were cooperating with Capitol police in investigating “a number of threats aimed at members of Congress as the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump nears”.
The threats continued for weeks after the attack.
Almost a month later, a bulletin reported that “an identified militia group member” in Texas was claiming that if their “operation failed at the US Capitol”, there was a “back-up plan” involving the group “detonating bombs at the US Capitol during the State of the Union”.
All 100% credible and verified.
I have here, in my hand, a list of Spetznatz sleeper agents currently operating in America to overthrow our government.
Yeah I’m sure that was leaked “by a hacker”. No reason they’d put that out on purpose.
The not barking dog here is how many of those threats they find every day. This can’t be the first time someone has threatened a politician.
I’m sure Twitter and Facebook will ban it like the Hunter Biden story.
Yeah, show me the hard evidence or get fucked.
Ransomware attacks don’t result in documents being leaked, you fucking morons.
Either the “far-right” is hilariously, preternaturally inept, or… this is complete bullshit. Hm.
In my opinion, OMWC, this is the best morning music you have ever posted; thank you. This is one of The Songs That Make Me Weepy as it reminds me of my maternal grandfather.
Me too, my son (named John) was a year or two old at the time, if my memory is still working. He grew up to be 6’6″ but about 75 lbs lighter and is definitely not bad.
Good choice, OM
Anyone else not seeing this post on the main page? I can only navigate here by clicking last night’s links.
Tulsi is (totally) done now, no point standing up for whites.
That seems to be a recurring issue. For me (Opera) it goes away if I’ve logged in.
Are you on your smartphone? For some time now, it’s been defaulting to loading the main page as it was at some time between about 8-9 PM ET, so the late evening post is up, but with just a couple of comments.
No, desktop with Firefox.
With my phone I do have to re-reload the homepage to see new content for some reason, but I always assumed that was an issue on my end (cache?) rather than the site.
I only get it on my phone (Firefox); not my tablet (also Firefox) or desktop (Brave).
It happens daily on my phone, but my pc works normally, both chrome
It happens on my iPhone with Brave too.
Started doing that about 2 months ago; bit of a nuisance.
Clearing your cookies seems to help but the problem will recur when the next article’s posted.
When Tulsi was running for prez, I couldn’t support her views on domestic issues because she wanted the government to enact compassion for the less fortunate.
If the scales fall from her eyes and she realizes there are previous few things the government should be doing at all, she might successfully draw sane, disaffected people from both parties.
So approximately 25 votes then? Doesn’t sound like a winning strategy, I’m afraid.
No but it might affect which issues get discussed in debates and such.
The documents also reveal how law enforcement agencies secured the cooperation of private companies, from ride-share companies to hotels.
A bulletin includes the claim that “FBI [is] working with Lyft and Uber to identify riders to and from the protest locations”.
The same bulletin carries detailed figures on reservations in hotels across the capital leading up to the inauguration on 20 January, which was secured by an unprecedented mobilization of law enforcement and the national guard.
Two days later, another bulletin said that “MPD’s intelligence division has conducted extensive outreach with security directors of area hotels”, who they asked to be “vigilant for evidence of suspicious activity and firearms possession by hotel guests”.
Big Brother is watching you.
Yup. If you’re gonna do this kind of activism, you need to air-gap everything you have and everything you do from your ordinary life.
In particular, your phone needs to be a burner that’s only powered up for the event, and has never been physically near your home or car.
Same with the credit cards – either pay cash for everything, or set up an alias account that you only use for activism work.
The reason that the left is so successful at street protests, is that they’ve already done all this prep work well in advance.
And increasingly, they’re getting metropolitan law enforcement and prosecutors that aren’t doing this sort of intelligence.
The reason they are successful is that lefty city mayors, councils, and governors, as well as the lefty lapdog media aren’t interested in opposing them.
True, but that was all part of the prep work.
I larfed.
https://mobile.twitter.com/joinryze/status/1394374934936293380
I larfed too. Then I had a sad.
My house value has allegedly increased by quite a bit since I bought in 2018, but I’m not excited about that because even if I sold it and moved to a cheaper state, the houses there will be way up too.
*sits in rental… waiting*
Yahoo link broken for me.
Heh, *files article under probably really happened*
Also, her fucking eyes. Jesus.
Thats one ugly…..w/e
Huh, it’s almost like a lot of American Jews are leftists first and Jews second or not at all really. It’s fine to think Israel acts with too heavy a hand vis a vis the Palestinians but to become antiIsrael is just stupid. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” means something.
Catholics tend to be like that too. They overlook a lot of important stuff from they religion when it’s time to vote.
* their *
True that but the Jews, of all people, should know better. The Palis would happily genocide all of the Jews in Israel if given the chance I think. Even though they do have some legitimate grievances their vision of what should happen can’t be allowed to happen. Their goals need to be reigned in.
Sad but true.
Nancy “Abortion is a sacrament” Pelosi agrees.
So, there were a couple of unrelated shootings in a particular Albany neighborhood. The most interersting thing about it is the police chief’s statement:
A close runner-up is:
Sounds like JB has a better handle on what’s going on than the chief. Also, love the name.
“Juicy Boulevard” would be a great name for a strip bar.
Or pr0n actress.
Typically, these homicides tend to result in the loss of human life.
Maybe they could be Incorporated
The real question is; what does Delicious Avenue think?
No shit, Sherlock.
I’ll always associate Burnside with his former fiancée Lottie Moon, an Oxford, Ohio resident who reportedly stood Burnside up at the altar. He later saw through the disguise she was wearing as she spied for the Confederacy in his camp. He didn’t have her executed. Sucker.
::reminisces about sitting in rapt attention listening to Dr. Shriver’s stories in “History of Miami” class::
A less well known Burnside: RL Burnside
I remember old guy music from when I was young. Not a country music fan but it reminds me of this one that I like.
https://youtu.be/ztvmyW8BWxE
Good morning, Old Man and a good morning to the rest of you lunatics!
This was mine.
This was mine.
*barfs*
Here’s a fun site that will tell you the number one song on all your birthdays. As I scrolled through the years, it became clear why punk and alternative became my path. WTF millennials?
Having a summer birthday makes for some godawful sonic cheese.
Yeah. According to that website my birthday songs suck.
Likewise.
That website gave my the Beatles, we can work it out.
Yep, and by a wide margin too. 6th birthday = WAR. I think we moved back to Bumblefuck, Florida that year.
Somewhat related – my eastern neighbor is putting a garden and was playing the worst top 40 hits from the past four decades. Like it had “Macarena” in the mix.
#1 on the day I was born: Mr. Sandman.
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
You were born in 1991?
Mine was the sounds of silence. Most number one songs have me longing for the sound of silence.
Light My Fire.
*barfs again*
Things were better on my 25th.
alternative
Or as I called it in college, “failure music”. Because any time an artist became commercially successful, the original fans would accuse them of selling out.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
Not putting my bday in some random website.
Heh. You’re not a!one.
Never ask a woman’s age, even if she’s mythical.
^This guy gets it.
Reminds me of an old joke:
Q: If a woman was born on May 23, 1961, how old is she today?
A: 29. You never ask a woman her age.
Another old sexist joke:
Q: What are the three fastest forms of mass communication:
A: Telephone, television, tell a woman.
…and a gentleman never brags about his conquests…
Huh, the site won’t let me type in my first or sixth birthday, only lets me scroll back the calendar a month at a time. I’m not scrolling back 35 to 40 years at a month at a time.
#1 on my birthday – Andy Gibb, ‘Shadow Dancing’. *sigh*
#1 on my 18th birthday – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, ‘Tha Crossroads’. Okay, I feel a little better now.
#1 on my natal day: Ray Charles, Hit The Road, Jack.
“One common theme that we are seeing with these homicides is that they are involving young men who are not resolving conflicts in non-violent and peaceful ways.
“C’mon, everybody! Join hands, and sing.”
We need another musical ‘West Side Story.”
https://6abc.com/nj-mass-shooting-new-jersey-bridgeton-party/10681750/
Keeping it real in NJ.
Obviously all those Indiana guns.
All those Indiana guns on those Indiana nights
Bonus Link: Sleight of Stump
That was cool. Thanks!
I am sorry, was something going on other than Alyson Hannigan with short hair, because that was all I noticed.
Poll shows
More than half of Republican Party voters, 53 percent, said they think Donald Trump is currently the “true president” of the United States, not Joe Biden, a new poll shows.
An Ipsos/Reuters poll published Friday addressed “The Big Lie” election fraud allegations touted by Trump and his most fanatical supporters since his November 2020 loss to Biden. This most recent poll of more than 2,000 U.S. adults found that 56 percent of Republicans still believe the election was “rigged or the result of illegal voting.”
Eighty-seven percent of Republicans surveyed said it’s important for the government to place new limits on voting to protect future elections from fraud, and 54 percent agreed the Capitol riot was led by “violent left-wing protestors trying to make Trump look bad.”
One-quarter of Americans from all political affiliations said they think Biden’s victory was the result of illegal ballot-counting or election rigging, compared to a 55 percent majority overall who say it was “legitimate and accurate.”
Sounds legit.
Even taking those numbers at face value that means 45 percent don’t think it’s legitimate and accurate. Seems like they’d want to shore that up.
Math is hard
“Polls show” that the majority of Americans will say stupid assed shit whenever we ask them to.
Why bother polling such a question at all? It wont change the outcome, its just shit stirring,
Reinforcing the important attitudes we’re gonna need to smash the system and start a new, fairer and more just one which includes camps to reeducate these wrongthinking thugs.
Yeah, good luck with that Minneapolis.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so goddamn heartbreaking. Fuck you, proggies. I will never forgive what you did to my city.
Good luck to them but what lunatic would want to locate a business there?
I am wondering what the insurance rates are now for stores in downtown Minneapolis.
Civil unrest exclusions are part and parcel of any inland marine policy. And if not in place already, they will be going forward.
Is 612 the number of genders they recognize?
Who doesn’t want to come downtown and enjoy a nice bonfire?
Fewer than one-third of Republicans, 30 percent, said they are confident that absentee or mail-in ballots were accurately counted during the November presidential election. By comparison, an overwhelming 86 percent majority of Democratic Party voters said they believe such votes were counted with accuracy. Thirty-nine percent of Republican respondents said they “strongly agree” that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.
Why question the methodology when the outcome was what you wanted?
“Equity”
It’s like that Time article never happened.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0bg67GmTVXY
Crazy kitteh.
You really shouldn’t feed your cat methamphetamines.
She’s kind of cute. Likes a little pretending.
I’m surprised the narrator didn’t mention a lot of stuff getting broken.
Halloween kitteh year-round!
Black cats are the best!
“Show me the butt!” 😉
My husband announced last night that he’s ready for a new kitteh (Molly is gone for good; I’m pretending someone who doesn’t know about microchipping took her in rather than the coyote meal alternative theory.
I said OK, you wanna browse the humane society website? Turns out there was no need; he’d already scoured the site, chosen a cat, and was filling out the form.
🙂
I can’t get the website to allow me to set up a phone interview screening though so I’ll try calling later today.
You’ll be posting pics, right?
Yes.
He knows you should interact with the cat before committing, right?
When we went to the Humane Society (this was in The Before Times,) we went into the “cat room.” There was only one cat in there at the moment – a “medium-haired” black tom. There was only one chair in the room, so I let TT have it. I sat on the floor, and the kitteh marched over and plopped himself on my lap.
I may be partial (completely!) but I think it may be best to let the cat pick you.
I think it may be best to let the cat pick you.
That was my dating philosophy for awhile too.
Good advice, GT. Worked with my mom’s.
What’s it look like? Can you manage to keep it an indoor cat?
He looks (or looked, when we first brought him home) like this with his eyes open on TT’s lap, and like this with his eyes closed on MY lap. (The bare spots near his nose are long gone, but earned him the name “Snot.”)
He shows no interest in getting out, which is good since we’re just a couple of doors down from a main drag. He does, though, love to watch the “tall screen TV” (full-length screened front door,) especially when the neighborhood hussy pussy, Gracie, comes around to flirt shamelessly.
Yeah, he knows the cat will pick us. That’s why we like to get a one or two year old cat: do it has its little cat personality established.
Due to Covid (though I can’t figure out why) you have to choose a pet online to get an appointment at the brick and mortar. So even if this cat is insane, once we are in the door we will have other options.
Our old kitty picked us by sticking her paw through the cage and hooking his shirt 10 years ago.
Awwwww! 🙂
Just the method I was thinking of.
For SP, or anyone interested, here is the wonderful comedy TV series about The Bard of Avon – Upstart Crow
I’ve watched several of those. Curtiss also was involved in Blackadder so there’s a bit of that flavor.
I particularly liked their 2020 Christmas special making fun of COVID laws and behaviors, substituting plague for COVID.
“It’s like the Royal Alchemist says – ‘You’ve got to follow the superstition and wear your plaguey beaks.'”
That’s the one I remember, very funny!
9 to 5 by Dolly Parton. I can dig it.
I watched that show dozens of times when it made the rounds on HBO in the eighties.
I didn’t understand why passing a cigarette around made the three ladies giggle so much as they described their revenge fantasies about their boss…
The weed?
Maybe I should have threaded, but the song was #1 when I was born.
Yeah, the weed. I was just a kid.
+1 good BBQ
So the venue for commencement made it CLEAR masks were MANDATORY.
Yeah, not so much. Thus far, I’m seeing maybe a 50/50 split. I heard one little shitlord punk say I AM NOT WEARING A MASK.
We need more shitlord punks.
My son’s commencement was the same yesterday. Everybody put the masks on to get in but afterwards I’d say at least half of them came off.
Oh the unmasked didn’t even bother to put them on to get in. Me, I didn’t think about it. I was too worried my wallet sized purse wasn’t going to be allowed. (Clear-bag venue, but they said wallet sized purses were okay).
How can you function with a purse only the size of a wallet??
;:thinks about “Everything Bag” that sets off the seatbelt alarm when set on the passenger seat of her car::
https://twitter.com/MoriahJovan/status/1396463112556093443?s=19
Did you have to put it through a tiny slot to be allowed to carry it in, the way the Post Office checks letters for size and thickness? 🙂
Heh, no, just slid it across the security table, TSA style.
The terrorists won.
Men do it just fine.
/ducking
*looks in wife’s purse*
It’s like a dumpster in here!
*backs away slowly*
Moar mask commentary!
The ones most unmasked are the teens (graduates notwithstanding), the old people and middle-aged. It’s the 20somethings that seem to be masked.
What can they do, they love science.
‘It’s the 20somethings that seem to be masked.’
An entire generation raised on fear. Fear of Islamic terrorism, fear of global warming,…er, climate change, fear of [Insert Republican politician] hellbent on making America a right wing ethno-state, fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of choice, fear of disease, ect, ect. We’ve done them a tremendous disservice.
Yes
My son has a very strong fight or flight response due to issues with his adrenal glands, but he isn’t afraid of his own shadow like these modern age church ladies.
One of the things I am most grateful for was having my kid in my twenties. Being a good decade younger than his friend’s parents tended to give me a hell of a lot more perspective on what a kid should be allowed to do growing up, and consequently, he wasn’t raised by fear.
Funny. I was happy to be a good decade older than my kids’ friends’ parents because I grew up in theblatchkey kid era and I let my kids have freedom the friends’ parents didn’t give them.
Maybe it’s just the era I grew up in. For I too am a latch key kid.
Yeah, around here, the younger parents are crazed with fear. My kid goes outside almost all day and has adventures. I’m not scared to let him breathe. He’s super lucky. I’ve had people call and say they got the number from him and they just want to make sure he’s OK to be out like that. No wonder they’re all pussies. Fucking trained to be that way.
Purses like that are good for concerts.
Do you know the ladies tweeting below you or is it randomly generated?
GT, ever keep the belt buckled over the empty seat?
Haven’t tried that, but that’s a good idea! So far, I’ve just hoisted the bag down onto the floor to get the alarm to STFU.
I know them.
Professionally, I take it; one of them seems to have a very different outlook from you.
My reader fanbase is mostly proggies and lefties. They’ll swallow the politics and religion for a good story.
21st century heroism
The Gen Zer from Ohio who made a splash two years ago for defying his mother to get his childhood immunizations has a message for teenagers seeking Covid-19 vaccinations and getting pushback from their parents — get one if you can.
Ethan Lindenberger, 20, got his first dose three weeks ago and said doing so “could save someone’s life.”
“Teens faced with this have to weigh things like, ‘I know vaccines are lifesaving, but I don’t want to become homeless,’” he told NBC News. “So I tell them, if you can’t have that loving conversation with your parents and you’re of age, weigh those consequences seriously.”
“Don’t get yourself kicked out or seriously in trouble … but, if you’re able to have that conversation, please get your shots as soon as possible,” he went on to say.
Summer Johnson McGee, dean of the University of New Haven’s School of Health Sciences, said she wholeheartedly approves that message.
“Ethan’s advice is spot on for encouraging teens to undertake education and straight talk with parents about their desire to be vaccinated,” she said. “Teenagers who do not share their parents’ views on vaccination are in a tough spot, but should advocate for their own decision-making to be vaccinated if they wish.”
Blind obedience to authority.
Terrorstricken hypochondria.
Obdurate rejection of logical analysis
You might think that someone in health would understand that a doctor providing medical treatment to a minor with out a parent’s approval can lead to some very unpleasant legal troubles.
But then again, these people aren’t particularly smart to begin with.
The article is stupid. It says “teens” in the title but the very first “teen” they reference is 20. So an adult. How very brave of a 20 year old. Next thing you know he’ll be getting a driver’s license to drive himself to get vaccinated if his mother will give him gas money.
17yo XX tried to get her vax on her owm but needed a parent to be present. We knew nothing of her intentions until she told us she couldn’t get it. We are not going to get the vax, XY asked us if he could get it and we said no, but XX made the decision as to her health and tried to take action without seeking approval, so I’m proud of her for that but not thrilled about the vax. She has not asked us to accompany her so I’m assuming she’s waiting until her bday. I do wonder if she’s getting it so she doesn’t have to wear a mask at work.
I’d make her read the articles at AIER on the vaccine and the ex-Pfizer VP’s testimony first.
That’s why I did it. I can’t deal with the mask all day every day in the office. That and the mandated 2 week quarantines if I go to do actual Navy work just because the facility CO can mandate whatever he wants locally.
Homeless?
Just because *your* parents are outlying weirdos…
Hey, because some people are stupid, we have to force everybody to conform to our “consensus.”
There are some 25 million children between the ages of 12 and 17, according to Census Bureau data compiled and analyzed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. And while the rates of death or serious disease from Covid-19 are lower in children than in adults, public health experts have called getting this population vaccinated a critically important step toward completely reopening the nation’s schools and the economy.
Why?
SCIENCE!
Understatement of the year.
I’d put money that the complication rate from the vaccine exceeds the rate of serious illness from COVID in teenagers. And nobody knows what the long term risks are. It’s the height of insanity to push this for kids.
I’d bet money the kids that have died from the rona had serious pre-existing conditions.
All three of them?
Why? Randy Weingarten.
Does she have pharma shares? She sure doesn’t seem to have a husband or kids.
Who would impregnate her?
Ewwwww….
Not even STEVE SMITH.
I bet she literally hates children, men, cis-het women, etc.
A WSJ commenter theorized that teachers don’t want to return to class because they can’t be bothered to impose discipline.
I wonder if there is a shortage of qualified teachers behind the CA “math is racist” movement.
Rather, aren’t allowed to impose discipline.
Teachers LOVE having a mute button. And, they love lounging around at home while getting the exact same paycheck. Of course they want to keep doing it. Where’s the adult in the room to tell them to fuck off and go back to work?
Discipline? They aren’t even allowed impose homework. This is on the parents just as much the school administration.
I would say it’s a combination of realizing that they are in the least respected of “professional” careers* and not really having the chops to be good at it.
*college required
Dude. A little Guardian-heavy today.
Have some pity on us.
Never change, Guardian –
“We aim to offer readers a comprehensive, international perspective on critical events shaping our world – from the Black Lives Matter movement, to the new American administration, Brexit, and the world’s slow emergence from a global pandemic. We are committed to upholding our reputation for urgent, powerful reporting on the climate emergency, and made the decision to reject advertising from fossil fuel companies, divest from the oil and gas industries, and set a course to achieve net zero emissions by 2030.”
‘…set a course to achieve net zero emissions by 2030.”’
So they’re saying they’re closing up shop in nine years? Something to look forward to, I guess.
Since the EPA declared CO2 a “pollutant” done years back, I suppose we have to quit breathing too.
PROGRESS!
Quite possibly the idea.
We are committed to upholding our reputation for urgent, powerful reporting on the climate emergency, and made the decision to reject advertising from fossil fuel companies, divest from the oil and gas industries, and set a course to achieve net zero emissions by 2030.”
That makes me want to send a letter to the editor:
“I subscribe to the Guardian just so I can use it to light fires in my wood stove.”
DO EET.
Gee, how on earth could they be hemorrhaging money?
Hey OMWC, there is a bad link for the union article. You’ve piqued my curiosity. I hope you will post the right link.
Try it now. I think I accidentally circumcised the “l” off the end of “.html.”
According to a news alert on my phone, I’m now supposed to throw myself into a panic over world population decline.
I wish they’d make their bloody minds up.
Y’all have fun now, I’m off to the Labyrinth, chasing Thunderstorms,
Seize the Carp!
Enjoy, you sef, Yusef!
Have fun! ? ⛳️ ?♀️
Say hello to the Goblin King for me.
Re: birthday links.
Chaos theory was getting very popular even outside science circles when I was in college. Lots of cool programs for tinkering with Mandelbrot sets and so forth. I especially enjoyed seeing all the Lorenz interviews and so on. He seemed like a quirky and interesting fellow.
As for GM, they were my first big interview after college/grad school. I flew to Shreveport and joined up with about 30 other candidates starting at 9 am. We were all given about 2 hours of written tests in a classroom together. Then we were processed in shifts through various interviews.
In the final interview, around 4 pm, I was a bit annoyed by the herding process, so I told the interviewer that if he asked me what kind of tree or animal I’d be, I’m walking out right now. He looked at me for about 5 seconds, smiled, and through a few sheets of paper in the trash.
A day later they mailed me an offer: $57k starting. Sounded like a lot in 1999, but it would have put me through a program where I’d move to 4 different GM locations in the US for 6 months at a stretch, and at the end I’d be told where they’d decided to put me long term.
I turned the offer down because:
1) I didn’t like the uncertainty of where I’d be living
2) They had told me that I had to make sure my rental car for the interview was a GM car because otherwise the union guys would have destroyed it in the parking lot.
That was a huge turn off.
I did use the offer letter to bargain for a better salary at the place I ended up working.I
Unions. Bleagh.
At least that union fought for the members. Ours is deeply committed to electing commies, yet can’t be bothered to enforce our contract or increase our compensation in any meaningful way.
Our unions activly lobbied against its members are threw a temper tantrum when we rejected the terrible contract they’d ‘negotiated’.
I don’t know if encouraging/ tolerating vandalism is “supporting its members.”
Sounds like letting the inmates run the asylum to me.
One good thing about the Internet is now the union members can easily look up how much money the union bosses are making from running the racket, 6 or 7 figure salaries for the top union dog doesn’t go over too well with Joe Welder over there working his ass off.
See: the rise of pubsec unions. It’s so easy to distract the “management” (i.e. voters) with shiny objects and keep the game rolling forever.
Yeah, I meant the fact that they drove all the manufacturers to bankruptcy by demanding 50 bucks an hour for all the janitors, not the vandalism and thuggery. Our union caves on every salary issue and then scams us into using our own VC time to astroturf Kamala’s rally. She lost badly despite that and only rebounded because thr drooling old fool needed her ethnicity to appease the woke.
Occasionally the union will invite some friendly politician to “tour the facility” and always without fail it really is a stump speech.
Last one we had they wanted a group photo and I said out loud “this better not be on your campaign website or twitter”
I was cutout from that photo and it was used for campaigning.
I spent the whole week after the Kamala debacle asking people if they thought it was worth it, handing over 250.00 of VC time to fill in the TV coverage for that whore. Cow workers started to question the whole thing after that. Luckily, I was able to skip the whole thing.
Remember the “Eat Your Import” bumpersticker?
I once worked for a company that made bolts for the auto industry. One salesman told me he had to rent three rental cars one day in Detroit because he had sales calls at GM, Ford and Chrysler. It wasn’t so much the unions would damage your car, but if you were seen in the visitor parking lot with another manufacturer’s car, you just were not going to get an order.
They had told me that I had to make sure my rental car for the interview was a GM car because otherwise the union guys would have destroyed it in the parking lot.
Reminds me of <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3455867/Nicklas-Bendtner-follows-Joleon-Lescott-s-footsteps-Wolfsburg-fine-striker-car-related-Instagram-post.html" Nicklas Bendtner, who was fined by VfL Wolfsburg (originally set up by Volkswagen as a sporting club for its employees, with the professional soccer players still VW employees) for posting photos of his Mercedes.
Went back to my old college town yesterday for a wedding. After the wedding we went out to the bars. I was excited to see packed bars and no masks. I had a little hope that maybe this generation of college kids isn’t a complete disaster. Then I chatted with a few and overheard a few conversations. We are doomed. They’re all brainwashed.
Did you at least get laid?
Why should his luck have changed from college days?
Sob story
Some are simply leaving town, seeking out places where they can afford to live, and people applying for those vacant jobs in the city are turning them down after taking a glance at the housing costs.
At the same time, labor shortages are hitting nearly every industry and every income level in the city. Some restaurants are reducing hours and considering cutting services. The city is cutting hours at the Bozeman Swim Center as positions go unfilled. Bozeman Health is having trouble filling vacancies.
Some employers are increasing their wages. Others are tacking on hiring or moving bonuses, or directly trying to help their employees find housing.
But business leaders say it isn’t enough. Even people in senior level positions or those making a decent salary are getting caught in the housing crunch.
“The cost of living in the city of Bozeman is getting away from us,” City Manager Jeff Mihelich said at a recent city commission meeting.
The problem isn’t new — housing costs have been rising in Bozeman for years.
But most agree the problem has gotten much, much worse in the past year.
“Everything was pretty difficult before the pandemic, and it’s probably just gotten worse,” said Tracy Menuez with the Human Resources Development Council.
Business leaders say the county’s housing crisis has become a labor crisis. The problem is evident in the ubiquitous hiring signs popping up around the city.
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“Housing is now at a point where it’s constraining our economic growth,” said Brit Fontenot, the city’s economic development director. “It’s going to constrain our ability to attract employers, it’s going to constrain our ability for businesses to grow and create more jobs. And so it really constricts our economy by not having places for people to live.”
Huh.
“You can’t build that there (or anywhere)!” has been the standard response to virtually every proposal for new housing since I got here 15 years ago.
But suddenly there is a housing crisis in the Gallatin Valley.
Nimby + low interest rates + stimulus payments + printing cash = housing shortage .
Totally unpredictable consequence of these policy decisions
https://mobile.twitter.com/grandoldmemes/status/1396229897736105990
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These people.
Bless their hearts, advertising their idiocy like that.
Those will age well.
The (((marriage counselor/therapist))) I saw near the end of my first marriage had an identifying tattoo like that on his forearm.
I didn’t get the impression he was particularly proud of it.
Stupid is as stupid does.
I’m starting to warm up to the idea of bringing back nut houses. Gulags for us, mental institutions for them. It’s only fair.
They shoudl tattoo a mask on their mugs
Andwe get this little nugget:
Even as the unemployment rate nears pre-pandemic levels, some local employers who had to lay off employees in the early days of the pandemic say hiring back a full workforce as COVID-19 restrictions start to ease has been difficult.
Kelly Wiseman, general manager of the Community Food Co-Op, said some of the roughly 40 employees the business laid off last year left the area and haven’t come back.
Other employees left their jobs because they were fed up with run-ins with anti-maskers, Wiseman said.
“There were a lot of very belligerent, angry people walking around acting like toddlers, in my opinion,” Wiseman said. “I think a lot of workers got sick of it.”
Disobedient toddlers!
Stop resisting!
Why can’t you be good little boys and girls and obey Big Nanny without asking a bunch of dopey questions?
“‘Abolish Israel’: Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters hit the streets of New York to demand US stops funding Israel as fragile ceasefire with Gaza holds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9608221/Pro-Palestinian-demonstrators-streets-Queens.html
“pro-Palestine”
“People hold flags during a pro-Palestinian rally in the Queens borough of New York City on Saturday, one of which appears to show a red target over Israel’s flag – though the meaning of the flag was not entirely clear”
Yeah, no idea what that could possibly mean.
It must be nice to have the ability to be willfully ignorant with no guilt or dissonance. I don’t know how they manage it.
To quote Shirley Feeney on Squiggy, “He has the uncluttered mind of a tot.”
Propaganda works.
Journalists are the worst. Why do they even pay lip service to being unbiased reporters of facts?
On the other hand, the Jerusalem Post has a heartwarming article about cooperation in the Middle East (sarc):
https://m.jpost.com/middle-east/hamas-haniyeh-vows-to-destabilize-jerusalem-thanks-iran-for-support-668791
That same symbol over the state of Arizona cause Gabby Giffords to get shot, or so I was led to believe.
Yep. Sarah Palin was an accomplice to attempted murder. Palestinians are members of the religion of peace.
The fundamental problem I have with all of this is that one side is hellbent on the eradication of the other. That makes compromise impossible and therefore the position that Israel should make concessions in order to achieve peace is illogical.
This is where Richman and Quinones fail in their arguments. Has Israel done some shady shit over the years? Absolutely. But Israel is not advocating for the genocide of an entire people like the Palestinians, who make for extremely unsympathetic victims.
Let’s compromise and abolish everu state at least make the ancaps happy because now no one is
I didn’t sleep well at all last night. Went to bed late because I foolishly drank a cola at ten pm watching a movie, then when I went to bed, apparently I was occasionally opening my mouth which created noise due to my CPAP do my spouse kept poking me awake to stop it.
I tried various sleep positions but no joy there either. Lots of pain in my left hip, knee, and ankle.
Finally just took an OxyContin. But even if I sleep now, my sleep/wake cycle is fucked for Monday. Arrgh.
All this babbling is to preface this sentence::
I apologize for my hypergraphia this morning. My brain is scrambled eggs today.
Never apologize!!!!!
Not even when farting in a crowded elevator?
No, just giggle.
Farts are the funniest, this is known.
“You don’t even know the meaning of the words ‘I’m sorry’ “
Why do farts smell?
So deaf people can enjoy them too.
If *you’re* vaccinated with a phonograph needle… My excuse is that the Claritin has just kicked in.
Don’t know what you have for a bed but my mom likes her adjustable bed.
Real estate prices sound temporarily screwy all over the country.
Claritin makes you wakeful? It has never affected me.
Last night I took diphenhydramine but it didn’t do the trick.
Claritin-D anyway. Evidently I have allergies!
Did you ever find any weekend outings? Ken Kramer and perhaps Huell Howser might have ideas if not.
Ah! The “D” has the pseudoephedrine, IIRC. Did you have to give a blood, urine, and stool sample and submit to a body cavity search at the pharmacy counter to get it?
These euphemisms….
Nah, just the ID and signature mishegoss.
Relevant
::two thumbs up:: A longtime favorite. Not that I can relate to it or anything…
It worked in the Soviet union, let’s try it here
Let’s not mince words: Bozeman’s affordable housing efforts have been pretty much torpedoed. Policies aimed increasing housing options for low-, middle-, even upper middle-income individuals and families have been dealt a devastating pair of blows: a pandemic-driven influx of well-off newcomers driving up real estate prices followed by a gutting of the city’s tools for mandating more modestly priced homes by the state Legislature.
The upshot is the goal of affordable housing is farther off now than it has ever been. So now what? For the umpteenth time, city commissioners need to go back to the drawing board.
For starters, it might be time to switch the terminology from “affordable” housing to “workforce” housing. Service businesses throughout the city are desperate for employees. The city was near full employment before the pandemic hit, but when the virus forced lockdowns and curtailed business practices, laid off employees had to go elsewhere and into different fields to find employment. Exacerbating the situation were sky-high rent and soaring property values that forced many to leave.
Going forward it might be productive to partner with the area’s largest employers — Montana State University, Bozeman Health, the school district and local government — to promote housing for their workforces. The city and county both own parcels of land that could be donated for building this workforce housing.
Employee dormitories, that’s what we need. Get some Chinese architects over here. They’ll fix you up.
Those assholes in the state legislature took way our incredibly successful policy of arm-twisting private developers into building “affordable” units. Now how will we guide the economy? We sure as hell can’t just sit by and let the market do it.
“And let’s name them after our greatest president ever! We’ll call them ‘baracks.’ Or something like that.”
*courtesy clap*
I hus seen what you did there.
How far are we from company stores and scrip paychecks? It seems like the modern progressive would like that a lot…
I’m more than a little surprised Google hasn’t already implemented it.
“workforce housing”
Where the help live.
LOL that’s not degrading at all.
Never change, [insert name of nearly any American city because this stuff is pretty universal].
I’m OK with forcing government-sector workers into dormitories. Government-sector work shouldn’t be a path to getting richer than the people who pay their salaries.
One graduate so far has a mask (that I can see). Had to take it off for the pic.
Punch em in the face
Goddamn it since the weather got warm the damn park is full of people, mostly larva. My walk was much better then it was mostly empty.
Also the overpriced beer bar is out of india pale lagrer. Which was what i wanted
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZiIF2POV1N5uOJnUYSQeLe4E_M3Icvz_/view?usp=drivesdk
Everything except the ipl
“Heated Seats?”
Yes. Who can understand new england?
The people at Miskatonic U.
I tried the game of thrones stuff. It was better then thr last couple of seasons at least
Was that Ommegang, or did HBO license it to someone else in Romania?
It is mikkeler. This bar does not have romanian beer. 14 on the list in the pic
Ah. In the states, Ommegang has the license to make GoT beers. The “Valar Morgulis” is probably my favorite thing they’ve made.
I want a nuclear reactor and I don’t care what it costs!
Last time i tried the warpigs smoldering hole but it was to black and strong for me and also kind of sweet
What’s clear is this: The affordable housing scene has undergone a sea change in the past year. And the same old approaches, which were falling short before, certainly aren’t going to cut it now.
If you want innovation and creativity, turn the problem over to the government!
I mean all i hear from free market types is build more which obviously does not work because unlike other things supply and demand does not work on houses
Sadly, that’s exactly what they are thinking.
I was in Bozeman a few weeks ago, and while having breakfast at the Western, I overheard a couple of ski/fire bums talking about how a friend just doubled his money on a house he bought a couple of years before. Bought at around 200K, sold for over 400K
I hope he put the profits in crypto
Local death cult: ‘These people without their masks are going to kill people, just you wait and see!’
Actively hoping death so they can stand on the bodies to vindicate their fear. It has to be that. They have the fear pounded into them but their primative part of their brain cannot square away the threat as valid.
Heather MacDonald’s (yeah, yeah) theory is that they get a thrill from being terrified.
Enh, I think it suffices to just note that people are stupid.
Circle as many as apply.
Everyone gets a thrill from being terrified. Horror movies, skydiving, roller coasters, etc.
The death cultists get a thrill from being A Part of a Grand Struggle Against an Existential Threat. They have no ability to correctly assess risk, but it’s being Part of The Struggle that really gets them moist.
Who are they going to kill? The vaccinated people are protected and the unmasked have chosen to take the risks.
I dont engage their irrationality. I suspect they hold the belief that there is a high probability that death occurs if you catch the vid.
Media has led people to fear nuclear war, ebola, killer bees, acid rain… We here are cynical after all the inaccuracy, but I suppose another sort of person becomes continually primed for panic.
I mean all i hear from free market types is build more which obviously does not work because unlike other things supply and demand does not work on houses
You either need more houses or fewer people.
What this place needs is a good plague.
Non of these second rate plage we been havin’
Pie speaks Yorkshire! I am impressed.
I have been to Yorkshire they properly respect pie there
And pudding.
Theh doo, doan’t theh?
*sorry, would insert IPA characters if I could
The beer thread is different
you need a shift key and punctuation they’re giving em out free in the library parking lot
(oops, nicht versteht)
How do they know if nobody tries?
Went to Stewarts and Home Depot unmasked. Nobody cared, and I was not alone in my bare-facedness.
The Hyperbole can feel smug: I had two people ask me what the Monopoly Man on the back of my jersey was for. However, the jersey was far and away the most comfortable part of the outfit. The hat was the least. Excessive heat rendered my pistoleritry sub-par, but it effected the other competitors just as much. My overall standing was vastly improved with all the serious shooters being at an IDPA match that was running concurrently.
Winning by default always felt hollowpoint.
Yeah, when the SSRG guys aren’t there, finishing in the money is semiautomatic.
Were you the lead shooter? Barrel through the course?
Heather MacDonald’s (yeah, yeah) theory is that they get a thrill from being terrified.
I despise heather McDonald.
Having said that, I characterize the Branch Covidians (hat tip- somebody) as doomsday cultists precisely because they derive such titillating panty dampness from their delusion that they stare Death in the face every time they leave the safety of their homes. Such noble. so bravery.
Those guys who landed on the beaches of Normandy got nothing on the New Karen Army. Sometimes anti-maskers will scowl at them.
They want to be teenaged Audrey Hepburn, smiling at soldiers and hiding messages in their shoes, but not Sophie Scholl.
I was in Bozeman a few weeks ago, and while having breakfast at the Western, I overheard a couple of ski/fire bums talking about how a friend just doubled his money on a house he bought a couple of years before. Bought at around 200K, sold for over 400K
He can buy a really nice place in Harlowtown and commute.
Is there a harlottown?
Camper in a Walmart parking lot
I haven’t put out any food since March, but my yard is more full of chipmunks than I’ve ever seen it. Lily is NOT happy about this. Or rather she’s not happy that she’s behind glass while the chipmunks run amok.
You’re not going to let her go chasing chipmunks?
Lily’s sticking to the rivers and lakes that she’s used to.
When the yard is fenced in, but I can’t trust her not to run off yet.
I was looking at property on Zillow, the other day. There was a place in Atomic City, Idaho which looked kind of interesting. Unfortunately, I suspect living in Atomic City would be about like living in Two Dot, Montana. I’ll pass.
Is Two Dot where Mr and Mrs Singh settled when they immigrated to the Americas?
“Many Jewish communal institutions rely on mega-donors to keep the lights on, and many of those mega-donors are conservative – meaning that our institutions are not particularly responsive to constituent pressure.”
wut
That article reminds me that the Kapos will always be with us.
“Many Jewish communal institutions rely on mega-donors to keep the lights on, and many of those mega-donors are conservative – meaning that our institutions are not particularly responsive to constituent pressure.”
wut
Some people might read that as “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”
What the hell do they know?
Don’t feed the hand that bites you, either.
Tax evasion is an art.
“Many [American] institutions rely on mega-donors to keep the lights on, and many of those mega-donors are [woke] – meaning that our institutions are not particularly responsive to constituent pressure.”
FIFT
*mouth
me talk pretty one day…