Nice try, buddy.
The Utah Jazz beat the Clippers. The Sixers won. Tampa moved on to the “semifinal” round of the playoffs (whatever that means, since the Eastern Conference or better yet, the Wales Conference don’t exist this year). And Vegas took a 3-2 series lead over Colorado. Nadal and Djoker both have their quarterfinal match today, and are expected to face off in the semifinal on Friday. Whoever put the 1 and 3 seeds on the same side of the draw needs to look up how you’re supposed to do it. And things are about to get interesting in MLB now that pitchers are gonna face stiff penalties for using foreign substances. And that’s sports.
He was no Jackie Stewart.
Tsar Peter The Great was born on this day. The Romanov king shares it with “the father of railways” George Stephenson, composer/lyricist Cole Porter, outfielder Irish Meusel, guitar legend Les Paul, scumbag asshole Robert McNamara, shortstop Roy Smalley Jr, comedian Jackie Mason, soul great Jackie Wilson, racing driver/commentator David Hobbs, one-eyed Dick Vitale, “The Cobra” Dave Parker, actors Michael J Fox and Johnny Depp, outfielder Randy Winn, and the lovely Natalie Portman.
Right, now on to…the links!
They should have flown in the original plane. It was gonna be full of annoying parasites either way. Now there’s two planes infected with them.
Yeah, I guess it’s time to investigate.
Wait, they’re just now getting around to this? That’s some solid police work there, Lou.
I’m curious how this is constitutional. I mean, it violates the equal protection clause, IMO. And all it is is a giveaway to unions. But somehow I bet it goes off without many people complaining.
So file a complaint for trespassing. I’m not sure if it would succeed, but it has as good a chance as the Swalwell lawsuit.
At least he didn’t go so far as to call him a victim. Oh well, I guess since nobody died (even though the dude had no way of knowing the building was unoccupied or evacuated in time), no harm/no foul. I wonder what lefty award he’ll get when he’s released from prison?
Lightfoot! Lightfoot! Lightfoot!
Well you need somebody to tell you. Because you sure as shit aren’t doing anything about it, you idiot.
“Awkward” is one way to put it. Of course, he pretty much let her off the hook by not pressing the issue. But don’t blame him. He needs that sweet access so he can keep his job.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. In a way, I’m happy that my rights to medical privacy have been upheld. But at the same time, businesses have a right to set rules for doing business. What do you guys think?
Here’s a catchy anti-war song. Not sure I agree with it, but I agree that the baseline is solid. Enjoy!
THE MUSIC LINK HAS BEEN FIXED!!!!!
Now get out there and have a great day, friends.
‘sup
I don’t know. You tell me.
Im not going o/t as such, but I wanted to enhance your links since its Ohio. Lookit this gem:
Ohio AG files lawsuit against Google; seeks to have search engine declared a public utility
Saw that hit my newsfeed today. So… odds that Yost decides he’s running against DeWine in a couple years?
I dont know who I dislike more. Yost, DeWine, or that smug Josh Mandel prick.
Fuckin’ bring back Trafficant.
Embrace the power of “AND”!
I was going to say “most”.
I try to avoid stopping in Columbus, since the statehouse is the blue/purple ‘roid attached to the puckered sphincter that is the hole in the middle of the state.
But if I heard that their corpses were hanging from an overpass on I-71 near downtown ? it would be worth the trip.
Traficant had his moments.
I’ll see what I can do.
*resumes shuffling papers*
I hope that song is catchy.
Catchy like the covid.
You’re insane. That song is beautiful.
Link doesn’t go to a song, bro. That’s what they’re snarking about.
Sure it does…now.
I do like it. Brilliant comment on YouTube:
“Giving the British the synthesizer was like giving whiskey to the Indians.”
That Casio drum track is …… yeah.
I know, right?!?! Now I know the next time you visit, I’ll play nothing but electronic 80s hits. Just for you.
That would make my wife happy. Fortunately, your girls will deafen me soon afterwards.
At least, if your work requires you to get the shot you can sue them if something goes wrong. Volunteer and you just have to live with whatever comes.
The link to “catchy anti-war song” goes to the Texas vaccine passport article.
Pssst…Sloop…music link malfunction
It’s fixed. And I know at least you’ll appreciate it now. Not sure about anybody else, but you will.
Yes. It was definitely worth the wait! From the comments:
That comment is spot-on.
They’ve gone Kraftwerk
Yes, much bitching about that sacrilege. Hey, at least they their usual cream-puff competition in the first few rounds.
I, for one, am happy to see one of them go out “early”. Since I can’t stand either of them and all.
1-4 ans 2-3 should be the way a semifinal always plays out if the top seeds all advance. That’s science!
We don’t always get what
the sponsorswe wish for.People in Minneapolis are idiots?
Well, cept for Prince.
/pours some out
That’s the way it used to be. The prog disease seems to have infected the majority of the state. It’s sad to see the infinite midwestern politeness be taken advantage of by a bunch of commies.
Harsh.
But hard to argue. Just remember, though, me today, you tomorrow.
That’s what worries me the most Tundra…
I see people so desperate to follow/conform that they will go along with anything. No matter how irrational or stupid…
I’m good with it.
Rhywun: collingwood coach Quits
https://www.afl.com.au/news/628359/collingwood-coach-nathan-buckley-to-step-down-mid-way-through-the-season
“appetite for change”
Yeah, stop sucking.
Sigh… I guess here come three to five years of “rebuilding”.
There’s apparently some major internal fights going on: https://www.afl.com.au/news/628653/barrett-bucks-goes-down-swinging-now-lace-up-the-gloves-mark
Stop wasting brain cells on political “Do Better” nonsense.
You’re welcome.
In a perfect world, the state has no authority to tell a business what they can and cannot ask for in an employee.
However, under current laws, asking for COVID-19 vax status would seem to be a violation of privacy laws.
Employees maybe, but customers? No.
To add some flavor to the asking for vaccination status:
No vaccine needed for those who’ve had COVID-19, Cleveland Clinic study says
Looks like confirmation studies still happen from time to time.
“We’ve got to get the criminal courts back open. We’ve got to actually have criminal trials happening … so the victims feel like they’re being heard by the criminal justice system and not being ignored.”
Freudian slip?
Freudian slip- when you said one thing but meant your mother.
-Frasier Crane
Les Paul and Gollum on the same page, what a great day, enjoy it, I’m ditching work, and
I’m golfing, OUT!
Whoever put the 1 and 3 seeds on the same side of the draw needs to look up how you’re supposed to do it
It’s been this way for decades: 1-2 are seeded in opposite halves, and 3-4 are also randomly seeded in opposite halves. Better than having the same matchups over and over and over.
And congratulations to Krejčíková.
It should always get to 1-4 and 2-3 in semifinals, assuming the top seeds win to that point.
Just a FYI for those who listen, a new Hardcore History podcast was released last night. Part 6 of 6 about Japan and WWII. 3 3/4 hours 😀
“But at the same time, businesses have a right to set rules for doing business”
If the business perceives that the state would pull the business license if they don’t “do something” then it really has nothing to do with the business’s “right” anymore.
That’s why I’m torn. I think people are afraid the fedgov is gonna shut them down if they don’t do stuff like this. Usually, I’d say the state has no business implementing laws that prevent them from setting terms of doing business. But I think this is an effort to thwart the feds from getting businesses to do their dirty work (since covid passports would be unconstitutional).
(since covid passports would be unconstitutional)
Aren’t covid passports a penaltax?
Only if you have to pay the IRS in order to get one.
What’s there to be torn about? The businesses don’t care about “rights”. If every customer walked in and demanded to see every employee’s proof of vaccination, would the business comply? I highly doubt it, they would expect me to take the state’s word (the license) for it. The state’s lying, corrupt word.
And on the flip side, when corporations can freely pay local police/sheriffs to maintain “security” in their business while wearing their government issued badges, uniforms and authorities… there’s really not much else to talk about.
And here is where I get torn. I was slinging drinks in the French Quarter when NOPD changed their policy on moonlighting and details. Time was, we would give $100 or an open tab to one of the cops who worked the neighborhood and they would hang out (sometimes, but not always, in uniform) and act as a visible deterrent to inebriated monkeyshines or RTO direct to the precinct. Then the city joined the trend and forbade such work; the negative follow on effects were pretty immediate: drunken hooliganism, petty theft, vandalism all spiked. It of course settled down and more bouncers were hired at the places that could do so but, I don’t know… Although I understand the arguments, it seemed to me like it worked swimmingly.
That’s the pro, but the con is that NOPD was/is probably the most corrupt major PD in the US.
Allowing that kind of relationship probably acts as a slippery slope to “asking” for protection money.
it seemed to me like it worked swimmingly
Unless you are a bar owner who gets to pay twice, of course.
When I lived in Dallas, the scam worked like this: The cops stopped coming to “small” complaints – theft, vandalism, noise, etc. – in residential neighborhoods. Then, the neighborhoods would hire cops, in uniforms and squad cars, to “supplement” the “neighborhood watch”. The cops did exactly what they were paid to do by the city, only now the people paying taxes for them to do that, were having to make an additional, direct payment.
Pretty sweet deal for the PD and the cops. Pretty sucky deal for the residents.
“Do you have any plans to visit the border?”
“At some point,” Harris said before stumbling for a bit. “… We are going to the border. We’ve been to the border. … This whole thing about the border, we’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”
“You haven’t been to the border,” Holt interjected.
“And I haven’t been to Europe either,” Harris said. “And I mean, I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. I’m not discounting the importance of the border.”
Imagine being so dishonest, inept, stupid, and ill-prepared for even the slightest bit of pushback that Republicans can use a freaking Lester Holt interview to make you look bad.
I’m amazed by how truly awful she is at interviews. And consistently. Has no one ever say down with her and told her? Doed she not know? Why is she not practicing?
Are you suggesting her inherent incompetence was the party strategy to make Biden look better?
Just remember what happened to the last guy who everyone thought was dumb.
https://youtu.be/no0e-mkhhbs
The last
threefour guys all got elected president.Arrogance and hubris?
Has no one ever say down with her and told her?
If not, it’s probably too late. Which is just as well, as it puts a damper on her ever being elected president.
“And I haven’t been to Europe either,” Harris said.
You mean Willie never made good on that promise to take her to Paris ?
Willie figured the Eiffel Tower counted.
Relevant
Im not clicking….I know what this is! I know what this is!
Yup….3 Doge Knight
You’re getting predictable Ted’s’s
Perhaps I should have posted Tres’ theme song instead?
Nope.
Hit it, and hit it hard- this is mah mutherfuckin’ THEME MUSIC!
But let’s be fair here. She’s done yeoman’s work in looking bad that has nothing to do with this interview.
She’s Hillary Clinton without the charm and warmth.
Kammy and Hillary between them, have about as much charm and warmth as a pile of dogshit on a Kiruna sidewalk.
I’d say that Kammy is Hillary without the Machiavellian intelligence.
I don’t ever use the “/s” tag because I think it’s WAY overused, but rest assured that the “charm and warmth” dig was said with tongue so firmly planted in cheek that it almost burst through the skin. Clinton’s smug smirk makes a king cobra look cuddly.
Hillary is cunning. I’m not sure Kammy is on her level.
And I mean, I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make.
I don’t know who i hate more, the fascist pol playing stupid or the TMITE agent playing activist.
And then Lester asked-
“Well, Madam Vice President, do you not believe that getting a first-hand account of the experiences of those at the border is important? And also, is it not imperative to understand how trafficking is being facilitated from Mexico into this country, and what remedies those on the ground might suggest we implement?”
Ha ha ha ha. No, Lester did not ask that.
Mistakes are not done willfully. You can mistakenly light your kitchen on fire. You don’t commit arson by mistake.
“$250 BILLION bill to compete with China approved: Dems and Reps unite to back investment in research, AI and semiconductor production to win science and tech race with Beijing”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9666873/250-BILLION-bill-compete-China-approved-Dems-Reps-unite-win-tech-race-Beijing.html
That never works.
Joke’s on us. CCP plants will just steal the tech anyway.
How do you expect us to hire lots of Cuomo-donating union workers to build a new fab without tax dollars?
Even post-Janus, it’s a royal pain to get out of the union. We didn’t donate willingly.
I wish I could comment about the active corruption that even I as a lowly engineer am privy to.
Good morning, Sloop!
I’ve watched that Harris interview a couple times and it is astonishingly bad. She is so absolutely bad at her job it’s embarrassing. I laugh thinking about Psaki back at the WH, watching the trainwreck and quietly weeping. It warms my heart.
I’m fine with hammering the passport. Letting it get a foothold anywhere is a bad, bad idea. Also, I think businesses will quickly realize that, with half the country not vaxxed, they can’t afford it.
Also, I think businesses will quickly realize that, with half the country not vaxxed, they can’t afford it.
Last I heard, over 60% of adults are vaccinated, so I’m sure some institutions think they could afford it. However, I think the hassle of showing a vax card might be the real thing to put people off. The majority of people seem to be over COVID theater. I was at a Rangers game the other day, and it was funny to hear the announcement come over the loudspeaker that masks are “encouraged, but not required” and look around and see that only ~5% of people were being encouraged.
Best anti-war song cover ever.
PS- John Fogerty sucks
That We-Wish-We-Were-The Pouges arrangement is alright, but… CIRCLE JERKS!
Anyone think that pointing this out and asking about it will not result in anything but more censoring from the people that control what you are allowed to believe?
One dudey is good people who make mistakes. The other are treasonous scum
What the heck? Dang phone
Nice!
Now do the Clintons.
And Clapper.
And Strzok.
And Brennan.
And [list edited for length]
Because after all Chukcy, “The law must be applied equally without regard to party, power or privilege. When the Department of Justice treats similar criminal acts differently, such conduct erodes faith in our governmental institutions and the law.”
I’m not sure how I feel about this. In a way, I’m happy that my rights to medical privacy have been upheld. But at the same time, businesses have a right to set rules for doing business. What do you guys think?
I think that any Megacorp or corporation with over $10MM in revenue should have to adhere to something like the bill of rights. These corporations have become quasi-government/churches and should not be viewed as some 10 year old kid trying to sell lemonade on a corner. I used to feel the same as you, but the last 10 years has given me all the evidence I need to conclude that larger companies should be forced to leave the little guys alone.
/queues up half a dozen Facebook commercials “lamenting” that there have been no new internet regulations in the past 25 years.
My little company will do over $10m in revenue this year (which is freaking amazing to me). You might want to set that bar a little higher.
It should probably be a % of GDP.
Should I? Overnight, Megacorps could set up smaller shell companies for each separate location or some shit just to stay under a particular amount.
With your $10MM in revenue, do you plan on specifically not serving someone account of some weird discrimination?
No, I don’t. But “adhering to the bill of rights” means:
1. I can’t tell employees what is off-limits for conversation with customers
2. I’d have to allow customers the right to say what they want on my premises (including setting up protests), and
3. I’d lose my right to free association.
Why should I give up my rights so others can use my company to exercise theirs as they see fit? Especially the ones I’m paying?
How about this: if you have government contracts, you have to let customers enjoy their fundamental rights while doing business with you.
Better?
I like that one
That’s sort of the idea with universities that receive federal funding supposedly not being allowed to trample on First Amendment rights. And it’s something they do with impunity, every single day. So, while a noble aim that I agree with, it’ll never happen….
“something like the bill of rights”
I said that specifically for that reason. I don’t think anyone here would be debating for you to lose any of those first 2 things.
“3. I’d lose my right to free association.” I’m going to guess your business is either a form of corp or LLC. You wouldn’t be losing any freedom of association rights. Your company would. The same company/entity that was specifically created to protect you as a person from liability. Are you trying to have your cake and eat it to?
I think the argument here would be more accurately, as a business owner do you think you have the right to demand proof of vaccination or fire and employee or refuse to serve a customer for not providing it?
“Are you trying to have your cake and eat it to?”
Apples and oranges, I think.
I think the argument here would be more accurately, as a business owner do you think you have the right to demand proof of vaccination or fire and employee or refuse to serve a customer for not providing it?
I think I have a right to exclusively do business as I see fit, which is a right my customers enjoy as it relates to me.
I also think I have a right to set terms of employment, which is a right my employees enjoy as it relates to me.
IOW, I have a right, as do any people I professionally interact with, to free association.
How about, government can’t require a business to do anything the government can’t do directly?
Require or incentivize.
Next you’ll be saying that government is limited to the powers expressly listed in the Constitution. What are you? Some kind of anti-government domestic terrorists?
In the case of social media companies, what the government is doing is hauling their CEOs in front of Congress and threatening them with more regulation if they don’t address the “misinformation” on their platforms, and everyone knows they mean Trumpism and related ideologies, not the approved misinformation like the Russian collusion story.
In this case, it’s very hard to prove that they’re requiring or incentivizing anything. They’re just discussing the possibility of pushing for more onerous regulation, and the tech companies respond (somewhat understandably) by censoring the information that the government wants censored.
I guess the root of the problem is that the Bill of Rights has been flagrantly violated so much that the implication of unconstitutional regulation is still credible and effective in scaring companies into doing what the government can’t do themselves. It’s a vexing problem to solve, especially within a libertarian framework.
The practical problem with your solution is that corporations would just restructure themselves to stay under the revenue threshold. Just as laws requiring that corps offer benefits to full-time employees resulted in many employees having their hours cut back.
Ultimately, this is a problem of society. Too many people don’t understand and value rights. Too many people live in fear, both of diseases and of the disapproval of their neighbors.
$10MM isn’t much of a megacorp — my company will do 10 times that and we’re not by any stretch what you’d call “mega”….
But don’t blame him.
On the other hand, I can’t really blame Harris, either. Sure, she’s atrocious at her job. But, so what? The media have already handed over their dignity and integrity over to them on a silver platter. Now’s a bit late for them to get a case of self-respect. Holt and company have selected their place. I can’t blame her for expecting them to know it.
“El Salvador has become the world’s first nation to approve bitcoin as legal tender after the country’s congress voted to approve it in law on Tuesday.
‘The #BitcoinLaw has just been approved by a qualified majority’ in the legislative assembly, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele tweeted after the vote on Tuesday.
‘History!’ the president added, before noting that ‘the government will guarantee the convertibility to the exact value in dollars at the moment of each transaction.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9667419/El-Salvador-worlds-country-approve-bitcoin-legal-tender.html
Bitcoin backed currency? How long till CIA regime change in El Salvador?
I know a guy…
Noriega ?
“Now American apple pie is cancelled! The Guardian links it to the ‘vast and ongoing genocide of indigenous people’, the slave trade and even calls traditional gingham cloth it sits on cultural appropriation
The Guardian has been mocked for branding apple pie racist after one of its writers said the treat was linked to ‘a vast and ongoing genocide of indigenous people.
Writing in the famously liberal publication, food writer Raj Patel claimed the all-American dessert was born of colonialism and slavery, after highlighting how apples had first arrived in the west from central Asia 4,000 years ago.
The piece, titled ‘Food injustice has deep roots: let’s start with America’s apple pie’, claims the pie has ‘bloody origins’ and is ‘as American as stolen land, wealth and labor.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9666503/Now-apple-pie-racist-Tweeters-hit-Guardian-article-condemned-American-treat.html
CWAA
The DM mocking the Grauniad?
Low hanging fruit
Daily Fail mocking the Grauniad, please.
“…after highlighting how apples had first arrived in the west from central Asia 4,000 years ago.”
Holy shit we’ve been at this racism thing a lot longer than I realized.
Ever since Yakub created white demons in his lab.
Racism is an Indo-European invention. Did you know that all racist slurs can be traced back to proto-indo-european.
Though for the author here, that presents some problematic concerns.
At a certain point, I can’t help but think this is going to turn into “You keep insisting I’m the bad guy? Fine…. I’m the bad guy.” (hat tip Mother Gothel).
And *that* will not end well.
“Fuck off” is the only appropriate response.
Akshually, I’ve been using “eat me” or “kiss my dick” more often.
I like to change it up.
Variety is the spice of life.
“Your face belongs in my taint” pushes the right buttons, I find.
food writer Raj Patel claimed the all-American dessert was born of colonialism
This part is literally true, but also meaningless, as almost all good food is born of colonialism, due to the Columbian Exchange.
Even if all that is true (which it probably isn’t – Lefties are great at cherry-picking history and outright fabricating things) what is the author’s fucking point? If every American agreed to stop eating apple pie today, who would that help?
I get that American history is not all peaches and cream, and I’m actually a huge fan of studying “the other side of the story” in history. And studying history is crucial for making good decisions today. But people like this are not concerned with helping anyone at all or advancing human understanding of history – they’re just on a destruction campaign against anything that is quintessentially American.
But we have to understand that there’s a reason people are arriving at our border and ask what is that reason and then identify the problem so we can fix it.
Why do I assume they will identify the problem and then set about “fixing” it by instituting some horrendously counterproductive “solution”?
The problem will be: it’s too difficult for people to move to the US.
The solution: High speed rail!
Linkman: And, of course, Hillaire Belloc. But what is the attitude…
(Cut to man in a Viking helmet.)
Viking: … of the man in the street towards…
Linkman: … this growing social problem?
(Vox pops films.)
Window Cleaner: Clamp down on them.
Off-screen Voice: How?
Window Cleaner: I’d strangle them.
Stockbroker: Well speaking as a member of the Stock Exchange I would suck their brains out with a straw, sell the widows and orphans and go into South American Zinc.
Man: Yean I’d, er, stuff sparrows down their throats, er, until the beaks stuck out through the, er, stomach walls.
Accountant: Oh well I’m a chartered accountant, and consequently too boring to be of interest.
Vicar: I feel that these poor unfortunate people should be free to live the lives of their own choice.
Porter: I’d split their nostrils open with a boat hook, I think.
2nd Man: Well I mean, they can’t help it, can they? But, er, there’s nothing you can do about it. So er, I’d kill ’em.
I believe she recently blamed it on climate change. So obviously the solution is to make the nations south of our border pay more taxes, pass more regulations, get more corruption through graft, and make those damn peasants so poor and weak that they can’t physically walk North anymore.
More China stuff:
Cotton: Make China Pay for COVID Now by Revoking Visas, Most-Favored-Nation Status
This should make Xi wet himself. Thanks, Tom!
Chinese Fishing Fleet Going ‘Dark’ as it Plunders Argentina’s Waters
China is asshoe.
It would be nice if the UN Security council voted to recognize Taiwan as The Real Republic of China again, and switched their seat, as punishment for COVID.
A man can dream…
LOL good one.
I’m sure the UN will get right on that, after giving the Chicoms a few more spins on the human rights council.
Well, if you want a reason to like CDPR after the poor reception of Cyberpunk 2077 (I’m waiting for sales and patching before picking it up), this may help:
CDPR Used “Winnie The Pooh” To Mark Censorship Flags For China In Cyberpunk 2077
How DARE they!
Somali pirates are never around when you need them.
Too bad Argentina can’t afford a Coast Guard or Air Force thanks to the Peronists.
A foreign interaction where the Argentines aren’t the jerks? Has hell frozen over?
If it’s an anti-war song you want…
I like https://youtu.be/czUx2gvjdJk this one.
This one is better.
What do you guys think?
If we were respecting freedom of association in any way form or fashion in this country, or if we were in a situation where the fascists and their cronies didn’t have power to issue edicts to the entire market overnight, I’d care that their rights were being infringed.
As it is, screw them all. Act like a government enforcement arm, get restricted like a government enforcement arm.
Now that I think about it, that’s not really an “anti-war” song. It’s an “anti-swift end to a war” song. Because the alternative would have resulted in a lot more dead people.
Still, it’s catchy and danceable. Which is good enough for me.
Yeah – my father-in-law was training for the landing on mainland Japan when they dropped the bombs. No mixed feelings there.
I wrote above the HH podcast just updated. He opened that the last year of the war was seeing 10,000 soldiers dying each day from December of 1944 on (all fronts). And that doesn’t include civilian deaths.
This Japanophile has little to no issues with it either.
I think I mentioned that the firebombing of Tokyo gets much less press, but should also be discussed in the same ways, however.
Agree 1000% about the firebombing. The terror bombing of civilian populations is evil. Regarding the atomics, VDH has talked about this at length. The grisly alternative was less about the invasion and more about LeMay. With the capture of Okinawa, airfields were being built at a frantic pace and a great deal of airpower that was no longer needed in Europe was slated to be transferred to the Pacific theater. Firebombing sorties from Okinawa, all day, every single day, against every city, town, and village were what was planned to make the Home Islands ready for an infantry landing. Losing 2 cities, as horrible as it is, was getting off light.
Recently watched some stuff about the air strategy in Europe. Everything the allies did in ’43 and ’44 was aimed at drawing out the Luftwaffe and destroying it so they would have air superiority on D-Day. If it took bombing cities and even trading heavy bombers for German fighter, they did it.
I have no idea what it’s about but it’s a fantastic song ?
The title should be a dead giveaway.
Why do I care about the sexual preferences of people I don’t know?
I didn’t know WTF the title referred to until sometime in college. So I get the topic, just never paid attention to the “message” if there is one.
First period started at 0815. There were days it felt like it stopped there.
More power to you — but for some reason, Enola Gay just never worked for me.
This is a catchy OMD tune. Don’t know about danceable — since I’d never inflict my attempts at dancing on anyone. Makes my toes tap though.
I was a huge OMD fan in high school, and I still have them on my playlist in Pandora. Imagine a young me, with Flock of Seagulls hair, playing this song on a keyboard in my bedroom.
You have great taste in music, sloop.
“I’m not sure how I feel about this. In a way, I’m happy that my rights to medical privacy have been upheld. But at the same time, businesses have a right to set rules for doing business. What do you guys think?”
It’s gross government overreach, but then what did you expect Republicans to do once Democrats decided that interfering with businesses with gross government overreach was totes okay? Hand government a weapon and the Republicans will use it to their advantage when they are in charge.
“Are Russian-spy hookers targeting tech leaders and VCs at infamous Silicon Valley ‘cougar nights’?”
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/27/are-russian-spy-hookers-targeting-tech-leaders-and-vcs-at-infamous-silicon-valley-cougar-nights/
How the hell should I know?
I really feel like they could’ve used a better stock photo. Huge missed opportunity.
Sounds like a blast actually. How do I get an invite?
Spy hooker pussy hits different?
I must have missed that episode of HBO’s “Silicon Valley”.
I hope so!
Also, it should be Russian Spy-Hookers, headline writer.
So I had a leftists coworker I had been talking to yesterday freak out when I pointed out to them the whole left agenda of today smacks of the usual communist cultural revolution, I pointed out that everywhere it starts, be it using class or eventually race or attacks on a meritocracy, it ends with the enemies of the movement being put up against the wall in the first two waves, making all the proponents happy as they cheer they get to watch those they hate tortured and killed (cause it is about revenge for crimes mostly perceived), only to then have wave after wave of these true believers also being lined up because the people that then took power know they need to kill them too to avoid any challenge to their new evil regimes. He was incensed when I pointed out that if his side won it was far more likely that he would be up against that wall sooner than later and wondering what went wrong. than having that utopia he believes will follow ever happening. His response was that he didn’t want to discuss this anymore with me, because it bums him out…
because it bums him out…
Not enough to reconsider his support for the policies that wind up leading there. But it bums him out.
Congrats!
That is the usual response. Lalalalalala I can’t hear you! I dont want to talk about this anymore!
I put some Khrushchev quotes up outlining the steps and strategy of standard communist revolution which mirrors what the left here is doing today, quotes that are all well documented and that I remembered from my childhood, and the expected response were links to Reuter’s and Politifact claiming that that never happened. Most of it is on film, idiots.
The left is forever trying to distance themselves from their own past. They are straight up con artists.
What I find funny is how successful the marxists were in painting fascism as a non-socialist right wing movement and making it anathema in society – even though it won and we today have a third generation fascist system in the west (where government controls industry through stupid regulations & rules instead of directly to pick winners & losers) – while leaving marxism, and ideology that murdered a minimum of 120 million people and imprisoned some 3 billion in hell on earth and has never, ever, fucking done anything but spread misery and despair, as something that still should be tried, cause all it would take is the right people to finally make it work.
How the fuck do people not see that any system where you need angels in charge for it to work, and not turn into hell on earth, simply should be defined as murderous system – period (there are not going to be any angels to run it on earth) – and not tried?
Maybe he should read this.
Savage.
The made in China is a nice touch.
The “Victims sold separately” got me.
I’m looking to pick up one of these, to determine if I should even consider a vaccine. T-Cell test that is about $250 out of pocket.
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/testing-new-covid-19-test-t-cells-beat-antibodies-detecting-past-infections/
Egads I’ve gotten lazy about mechanical knowledge. Ten years of new vehicles winds up with a hefty layer of dust on the old skills and tools. I remember having to buy manuals but now it’s a few clicks and an instructional video. I used to keep our old, dead cars and trucks alive with baling wire and binder twine when we were really poor.
Tacoma has a belt pulley whining. I hope it lasts until the weekend.
Not happy about this seeing as I seem to have some weird nerve thing happening in my back over the last while. We shall see.
Belt changes on newer vehicles are pretty simple, most of them have a tensioner with a female 3/8″ Drive socket hole
This, of course, assumes you have sufficient clearance….
I’ll need to remove the lower plate. Everything seems pretty simple but I am woefully out of practice.
20 years ago I rebuilt a Chevy in the driveway. I replaced the clutch on any number of vehicles. Timing chains? Differential on a Chrysler? On and on. Want makes need. I’m just so very tired, now.
Most of the chain auto stores will lend, for a deposit, you speciality tools, including belt tools.
with a female 3/8″ Drive socket hole
Wow, that’s a really small hole for my nut driver to go in.
Phrasing is not something we do in these here parts.
Something im surprised we haven’t seen. Since bad words are bad regardless of context, why are we allowing a whole subcontinent to continue using the term Indian?
Bad words are bad words regardless of context, but not regardless of the speaker.
Get your postmodernism straight.
Correct. For example, I notice that Indians drink hot tea on hot days, and I’m a racist. My Indian coworker makes the same observation, and nothing else happens.
(Yes, I was actually called racist for that observation)
So long as you didn’t bring up crapping in the ditch, you are golden.
Surprise!
In her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, Anderson traces racial distinctions in Americans’ treatment of gun ownership back to the founding of the country and the Second Amendment, which states:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
The language of the amendment, Anderson says, was crafted to ensure that slave owners could quickly crush any rebellion or resistance from those whom they’d enslaved. And she says the right to bear arms, presumably guaranteed to all citizens, has been repeatedly denied to Black people.
“One of the things that I argue throughout this book is that it is just being Black that is the threat. And so when you mix that being Black as the threat with bearing arms, it’s an exponential fear,” she says. “This isn’t an anti-gun or a pro-gun book. This is a book about African Americans’ rights.”
“Everywhere I look, I see just what I was looking for.”
It’s racism, all the way down.
And so when you mix that being Black as the threat with bearing arms
I’ll let the black guys at my range know that they’re too scary for this lady.
” And she says the right to bear arms, presumably guaranteed to all citizens, has been repeatedly denied to Black people”
Therefore it should be denied to everyone.
I recall a specific political party was behind the attempts to disarm blacks.
Good counterpoint here:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/the-1619-project-comes-for-the-second-amendment/
tl;dr: Carol Anderson is an ignorant hack.
Cool, cool, now do postbellum gun control laws.
So having established that gun control has racist roots and a history of being used against blacks, her argument is that it should be even more restricted? I’d love to see her apply that same history and logic to voting rights.
Pretty sure if it was crafted to secure slavery it would have said something along the lines of “In order to preserve the ownership of slaves the right to bear arms shall not be infringed”. Slavery wasn’t a dirty little secret to people in 1776. They would have spelled it out if that was the purpose.
And I’m a dummy meant to say 1787
A bunch of white slaveholders signed the Constitution and therefore, the 2nd Amendment is racist.
That’s their logic.
Typical postmodern CRT bullshit asserting that the same idea has different value based on who is asserting it.
I hate when people throw “logical fallacy” in an argument and think they have won an argument, but damn if the genetic fallacy isn’t in vouge these days.
No shit. And the slaveowners and their political representatives were not above using it to benefit themselves. The 3/5 compromise was about tempering the power of slave owning states after all. That it wasn’t explicitly in there, unlike the compromise or the prohibition of importation of further slaves, says it’s bullshit.
She’s relying on a Bogus paper?
That is the academic method for victim studies:
1) Make a wild unproven or unfalsifiable claim that fits your political agenda.
2) Cite a bunch of other wild unproven or unfalsifiable claims.
3) Declare your claim as the ‘truth.’
4) Leverage your institution’s credibility to aim your newfound ‘truth’ at your political enemies.
5) Profit (for real)
“And she says the right to bear arms, presumably guaranteed to all citizens, has been repeatedly denied to Black people.”
Who did that? Who could have done that?
I’m pretty sure Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass would like to have some words with them.
Black gun ownership is up and I think it’s awesome.
Every single black woman in America should own a gun and know how to use it.
I can’t find it now, but around 2012 there was a group that was giving free firearms and training to minorities in poor, high-crime neighborhoods with particular focus on single women.
Oh boy, you can only imagine the uproar from the Left. Seems that they really don’t want impoverished black women to be able to defend themselves and their children from the thugs that are ravaging their neighborhoods.
My eyes have glazed over reading resumes. I stopped taking notes 7-10 people back.
My morale has taken a hit because these people are potential candidates for openings either at or above my position in the group. There has been no hint of my being in contention for moving up. While there might be something to be said for hiring one’s future supervisor, it doesn’t help the mood a lot.
You could always hire someone massively unqualified and then take them out. Just make sure you aren’t blamed for the hiring decision.
This is a state title. Removing someone once hired isn’t so easy – especially for a subordinate.
Totes impossible. My wife works with a peer that is fairly derelict in her duties but it’s a state university so they’ll never be rid of her.
Toss your hat in the ring in no uncertain terms. What’s the worst that happens? They say no?
Make a hire recommendation for “UnCivl Servantowitz.”
I did.
So far they have said… nothing whatsoever.
“Here’s your stack of reviewed resumes.”
*surreptitiously slips own resume into the pile*
I think the civil service laws and regulation forbid self-hiring.
Is there a legal rigamarole they have to go through to make it “open”.
Here’s the good news (from a certain point of view) we are so below where we would need to be to finish this upcoming project that there’s a lot of bodies needed. The project has a lot of interest from powers that be – so we’re likely to get people in.
The bean counters don’t want to hire or promote, so they let us post a lateral opportunity.
Everyone who’s applied has done so for a promotional spot relative to their current title.
Insside the group, we’ve all also applied for the promotional ‘transfer’ (not really a transfer since those have to be same pay grade) spots.
Few people seem interested in just a lateral.
This just happened at my job. A coworker of mine who is super brilliant, valuable, and a great guy in general met with the VP of Finance and told her, “You guys asked me what would it take to keep me here, so what would keep me here is a decent raise (he’s been in the same position for three years despite helping our department automate some of our manual tasks) and Senior title. They decided to pass him over for a promotion and when he put in his two weeks, management was shocked and peeved that he would leave the job.
Well, he told them, why should they be shocked?
Some people aren’t very smart.
and peeved
It pisses me off when companies treat an employee leaving like a betrayal. Get back to me when you stop laying people off every time your quarterlies take a dive, assholes.
A-Fucking-men.
Leave. Seriously. Find another job. One in which you’re valued for your contributions.
Go for as many females as possible and during interviews hire the cutest airhead. Problem solved.
They don’t apply for IT laterals, they work in the office of the legislature.
IT women tend not to be airheads.
Someone has to find the needle in the haystack.
I would refuse to be involved in selecting anyone at or above my position. That’s crazy they’re even asking you to do that.
There’s a grand total of two people who understand the technical aspects needed to hire anyone in my side of the house.
And becoming obstructionist guarantees I won’t go anywhere.
I wouldn’t want to hire anyone that would be my manager.
That said I’ve interviewed candidates for higher level positions where others were making the hiring decision. The idea being that the person doing the hiring valued my opinion.
That said these weren’t roles I was interested in doing.
So the colonial pipeline ransom was returned because the FBI magically got into the hacker’s, let’s see if I got this right, coinbase account? Yikes, I don’t believe that for a second. I think the hacker must have come from within. For sure possible. I think some company man from the pipeline said everyone who knows how to manually operate the pipeline is now retired. We are doomed.
Link to info on this?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/us/politics/pipeline-attack.html
My summary isn’t good, but I just find the whole thing incredible.
Or maybe it’s a game the Russians are playing with Biden. Approve the pipeline we’ll give you some of the cash back. We’ll keep the remaining portion in exchange for not releasing more info on Hunter.
“New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay’s comments on MSNBC have been irresponsibly taken out of context. Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag. The attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad-faith.”
https://twitter.com/NYTimesPR/status/1402407267471867906
Yeah, sure.
Math is hard:
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1402341511556128774
I’d like entered into the record that every OMD song is so gay, it makes my ass hurt.
yes.
So, which is the gayest?
I’m not saying Andy McClusky is gay (the lead singer), but if I kicked him in the ass a dozen cocks would fall out.
Praise Vishnu H. Christ that Judas Priest was NOT ghey at all. I mean, so they had “Turbo Lover”, and the album “Point of Entry”
THIS IS NOT GAY !
Not as gay as when Erasure covers ABBA.
That song is a classic!
Judas Priest has a song called Grinder for Petes sake.
80’s pop music.
DISCO!
In a way, I’m happy that my rights to medical privacy have been upheld. But at the same time, businesses have a right to set rules for doing business. What do you guys think?
Normally I’d say “freedom of association”, except the government is pushing this shit.
It’s not just the CDC order about cruise lines only accepted vaccinated passengers mentioned in the article.
Look over this list of states’ proposed or passed liability shield laws. Look at how often following CDC or equivalent state agency guidance comes up. Even in places which do not have such laws, such as NH, lawyers are advising businesses to follow CDC guidance in order to protect themselves from liability. While their directives are not de jure required, the incentives stack up to make them de facto required.
Also add in a good dose of government fear mongering.
Yes, it is a violation of freedom of association to prohibit private businesses from using vaccine passports, but given the government’s actions to try and get something similar in through the back door, I’ve stopped caring.
And what about Ohio’s “vax-a-million” lottery, where only the vaccinated can be entered to win $1MM (federal grant- tax-payer funded) bucks ?
https://www.ohiovaxamillion.com/
That too.
Just for cootiebug 19? Why not TB? Any given flu? Polio? The list goes on and on.
“chlamydia’s-a-million” doesnt have the same ring to it
I think one of the proposed vaccine passport bans in NH did just that – banned any business from requiring proof of vaccination for any disease. There was an exception for health care facilities for requiring vaccines of employees under certain circumstances, and another exception that schools could continue to require vaccines that are on the current required list. The latter was in NH the head of NH-DHHS has unilateral authority to add vaccines to the required list for schools, and those pushing for the ban wanted to take that authority away from the head of NH-DHHS plus head off the inevitable “but what about schools?” response.
Kinda like here, where the general assembly who sometimes have to listen to their constituents, started to understand what a colossal fuck-up Ohio’s response to the virus was, and they wanted to limit DeWine’s abilities (and and future governors) in enacting a “state of emergency”? Which he of course vetoed.
I see it as a “War Powers Act” at state level. Then again, at the Federal level, none of those assholes have paid attention to it. Why should states ?
At least they overrode the veto… the second time they passed a bill limiting his powers. Of course, they then said the bill didn’t take effect for 90 days after the override of the veto… way to keep it timely you jagoffs.
Whelp, seeing as I seem to be destroying everything within range, lately here’s a little tED ess for you – https://youtu.be/NUPNFLIhMag
I’d like entered into the record that every OMD song is so gay, it makes my ass hurt.
I laughed.
“You ain’t Street!”
Respeck our mandate
Senate Democrats have been left confused and befuddled by Sen. Joe Manchin, and say they’re trying to figure out what their West Virginia colleague is thinking with his most recent moves in bucking his party.
Especially perplexing to Democratic senators is Manchin’s opposition to a sweeping election reform bill intended to protect voting rights. He supported what was largely the same legislation, and served as a co-sponsor to the bill, introduced in the previous Congress by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and former Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.).
“If you can figure out what Joe Manchin is about, let me know because I can’t,” said a Democratic senator who requested anonymity to comment frankly on his colleague. “I’m mystified.”
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In a Sunday op-ed in the Charleston Gazette-Mail that set Democratic politics on fire, Manchin said he opposed the bill because it doesn’t have any Republican support.
That rationale left many Democrats at a loss for how to respond, and fearful for what it means for other big agenda items.
“You can’t solve for that in Mitch McConnell’s Senate,” complained a Democratic senator. The senator said if Manchin’s vote is based purely on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) ability to keep his caucus unified in opposing key Democratic priorities, then it becomes very difficult to negotiate with the West Virginian.
Who gives a shit what those evildoers think?
Certainly they have more pressure bearing down in him than this weak sauce.
Really, I think there’s little pressure they can bring to bear on him. In relative terms he holds all the cards. If Manchin is primaried out of the picture, in WV, that seat almost certainly won’t go to a Democrat. And right now the Senate is evenly split. So, he can hold the balance on any Senate vote he wants to.
With that scenario, Manchin could walk up to Chuck Schumer, take a piss on his leg, and slap him in the face, and the Democrats would have to cast it as a statesmanlike admonishment against overreach.
“intended to protect voting rights”
Thanks, The Hill, for being so transpartent.
“I’m mystified.”
Well, let me see if I can help you out on that one:
1. Joe Manchin is up for re-election in three years.
2. Donald Trump won WV in 2020 by 39 points.
3. Joe Manchin likes being a U.S. Senator.
Manchin’s voting rights litmus test has heightened concerns about where he will be when Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) attempts to pass much of Biden’s infrastructure agenda under the budget reconciliation process, which will allow it to bypass a GOP filibuster if all 50 senators who caucus with the Democrats stick together.
Manchin supports the bipartisan negotiations on infrastructure, which — if they produce a deal — would result in an investment package only a fraction the size of what Biden has proposed. It’s also far from clear there will be any deal on the issue with the GOP after Biden ended talks with one key Republican senator on Tuesday in favor of a bipartisan group.
He’s off the reservation. There’s no telling what that renegade Senator might do.
Queue up the ” Racist history of West Virginia” and bills to reintegrate it back to Virginia
MAVERICK! Senator from West Virginia.
No?
Manchin’s
voting rightsanti-election fraud litmus test has heightened concerns about where he will be when Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) attempts to pass much of Biden’s infrastructure agenda under the budget reconciliation process, which will allow it to bypass a GOP filibuster if all 50 senators who caucus with the Democrats stick together.Taking a break from US bikini shows to not US bikini shows (I have no idea where it is but at least the channel langue aint americanese)
Yaşı küçük olanlar izlemesin ! artıonsekiz ilk videomuz, umarım eğlenirsiniz 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax1xCML9fiA
I mean I recognize the language as Turkish but that does not mean the show is in turkey
There are some surprises in there.
just like kinder eggs which were, if I remember, illegal in the US at some point in time
Some kids were too dumb to not swallow the toy inside the egg.
Adults disliked natural selection.
Never change NPR, never change.
They’ve already changed the title of this story at least twice.
It shows on my feed as “States Biden Won Are Leading On Vaccines, Trump States Lag”.
Toned down title – There’s A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States’ Vaccination Rates
If only those ignoramuses would do what they are told is good for them.
Maybe more state should apply the incentive of get vaccinated and you get a free AR 15 and a case of ammo (does ammo come in cases? boxes? barrels?)
Given ammo availability and prices you may have a workable idea there.
West Virginia offered guns but no ammo.
Other prizes include two new custom-outfitted trucks, 25 weekend getaways to local state parks, five lifetime hunting and fishing licenses, five custom hunting rifles and five custom hunting shotguns. Two full four-year scholarships to any institution in West Virginia will also be awarded to vaccinated 12- to 25-year-olds.
Of course, vaccination got going just about the time we were reaching herd immunity the natural way. So of course vaccination gets the credit.
At current prices, I’d consider it.
Discontinued?
Did Hornady run out of bullets?
In Army supply a crate holds two cans of 42? boxes of 20 rounds of M855 5.56mm.
Make it a case of green tip and I will be all in.
Memory holed
https://youtu.be/-dAjCeMuXR0
Heheh. When SFGate is calling out (however mildly) Kamala you know she looked bad. This is the future of the Dem Party, a vapid moron that can’t even prepare for the most basic interview questions. What does this say about her staff? In 30 seconds I could come up with some standard issue politiceese to throw out about the border that would mollify the trained chimps that throw her softball questions. Here’s a try; “Due to the work we have been doing behind the scenes, a personal visit to the border has been delayed but is imminent. I’ve been in ongoing discussion with cabinet heads and top officials coordinating and planning a more through review of all processes in regards to border enforcement. Frankly, cleaning up the mess that we were left from the last administration’s reckless policies has been even more challenging than we anticipated…..”
To be fair they are so conditioned to fielding the softest of softball questions that a journalist asking real questions is probably very shocking.
No doubt about that. It just seems that the corporate media has ever so slightly shifted in the past few weeks to attempting to pretend that it is not a full lapdog to the Dems. I mean that is my quickly typed out response and I’m only on my second cup of coffee. Give me ten minutes to think about and I will provide an impenetrable wall of bullshit that she could spout that would mollify just about anything the media could throw at her.
Who said this was a viable treatment?
everyone who loves science?
No wait I mean everyone who does not love science.
No this is not it either. I am unsure what I mean ignore the previous two messages.
I was thinking of the angry orange guy, but he seems anti-science.
An incredible crime against humanity perpetrated by the Corporate Press.
So how much of this is scripted and how much reality?
35-year-old twins share a boyfriend, use the bathroom at the same time, and view themselves as one person
All, and none.
Two toilets? I thought the bouble sink vanity was austentacious.
Judging by the picture, I’d have guessed mid 50s with heavy plastic surgery.
I’m not sure how mentally ill people getting a show on TLC warrants a news article. It happens 25 times a year.
This one happens to tick some major porn categories though; sisters, threesomes, bathroom habits, dress up. TLC would be negligent not to film such a thing.
Please. TLC would not want to ruin their image that way.
That’s why I’m sure they spun up a subsidiary specifically for that market.
Heheh. They were seriously remiss in that they didn’t take better care to deal with the casting question that immediately came to the mind of every single hétero male that heard about it. Do better TLC.
Insurrection
City crews returned early Tuesday to a Minneapolis intersection where a memorial to George Floyd was assembled after his death last year and worked to reopen it to traffic by removing debris and makeshift barriers, only to have activists barricade the area again.
Workers using front-end loaders and brooms arrived just before 5 a.m. and cleared the intersection where Floyd was killed, which is informally known as George Floyd Square, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. The intersection has been closed to traffic since Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, and some residents and businesses have expressed frustration that it has been closed for so long.
Last Thursday, city crews removed concrete barriers that blocked traffic at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, but community activists quickly put up makeshift barriers and resumed chanting the name of the Black man whose killing galvanized the racial justice movement.
As soon as workers left the area on Tuesday, activists moved back in, again blocking traffic with parked cars, trash cans, traffic signs and other items in a repeat of last Thursday’s scene.
I’m sure the FBI has assigned dozens of agents to the investigation.
As soon as workers left the area on Tuesday, activists moved back in,
The barriers are the symptom. The activists are the disease. Until you treat the disease, the symptoms will recur.
Are you asking to call in Cobra? It sounds like you are.
I understand and agree that he shouldn’t have been killed in that manner and that there needs to be major reform to police departments.
What I don’t get is making him out to be some wonderful man worthy of memorials and paeans. Dude was a piece of shit by all accounts.
I’m not at all clear that he was actually killed.
Probably a nail-in-the-coffin type thing.
Mayor Jacob Frey and other city leaders pledged to reopen the intersection, but activist leaders have said they won’t step aside unless the city meets their 24 demands. Among them: recall the county prosecutor, fire the head of the state’s criminal investigative agency, and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on programs to create jobs, combat racism and support affordable housing.
DEMOCRACY!
Green Money Matters!
Will Biden wear a mask when he meets with Putin?
Putin doesn’t even have hair to sniff.
You’re looking at the wrong hair.
I hadn’t really realized this, but yes the CCP has essentially dismembered Jack Ma. I remember when he pissed of the powers with his proposed IPO of Ant Financial. I believe after that we heard not a peep from him for like six months. There was legitimate speculation he was sitting in some prison somewhere.
The Sad End Of Jack Ma Inc.
The CCP is very much ensconced in its “we now can do whatever the fuck we want and you will like it” phase. What are the chances that it faces any real repercussions from leaking the Vid out their lab? The little investigation that our “intelligence” agencies are currently pretending to partake will come back as inconclusive and the narrative going forward will be to minimize mention of that because we can’t prove it conclusively. The CCP decisively won 2020. The only question will be at what point do they overstep enough that it begs serious reaction.
The little investigation that our “intelligence” agencies are currently pretending to partake will come back as inconclusive
Ding ding.
Down the memory hole, of course – the investigation Trump started was shut down by Biden, who then had to reverse course when “lab leak” went from “nutter conspiracy theory” to “of course, we’ve always thought that was likely” overnight.
And the corporate press will only be so happy to run with that line and tell us how dangerous it would be to accuse China when we have no conclusive proof. “We have to let sleeping dogs lay and focus on the future. It will only stir up racism if we let theories on how the disease started endanger our relationship with China. Better to work with them on how to better handle any future pandemics.” The storyline writes itself.
CD Projekt Red will be the next victim
Cyberpunk 2077 Used ‘Winnie the Pooh’ Label to Censor Game Files in China
See that is funny. Wonder what pussy leaked the source code though
There was a hack, and the hackers tried to ransom CDPR, who ignored it and let the source for Cyberpunk and Witcher 3 get leaked instead.
Good on them to say fuck it..have it and good on their programmers who have a sense of humor then.
“The only question will be at what point do they overstep enough that it begs serious reaction”
Of at what point does some politician decide they need to “do something” about China and use a minor incident to get into a war?
I was really thinking 2020 would have answered that question but here we are. I’m just left shaking head in disbelief at this point.
Shocking everyone in NYS except UCS.
New York’s Vaccine Passport Could Cost Taxpayers $17 Million
“The total cost could end being as high as $17 million, much more than the $2.5 million the state had initially said it cost to develop the program.”
How much do they lose from people saying well I just won’t go to New York.
The thing that cracks me up is that NYC draws people from NJ and CT, yet they can even if they wanted to participate can’t.
So for the largest city NY this is useless.
Yuck – can’t participate in the program.
Complete waste of money.
Not true. Plenty of cronies can make a nice bundle on 17 million.
Government! What can’t it do ?
Solve a problem without creating a worse one?
Or create one in order to pay your crony pet consultant to solve it.
See also: Animas River
You mean Tang Waters?
Maybe I’m jaded but that seems low. New York makes me sad sometimes. Most of the state seems like an awesome place to live. It really suffers from over-governance.
The problem with New York is New Yorkers.
I’m surprised it’s so cheap.
I’m guessing they couldn’t get as much graft engineered in as they needed.
PS, $17 million would cover all of the hardware we would wish for in the statewide unified HR project at retail.
We are not allowed to ask to spend that much.
LOL what a shit-show.
Any venue demanding that thing can shove it up their ass as far as I’m concerned.
I will not comply.
IANAL but it seems like a business requiring customers to be vaccinated would run afoul of the ADA (since some people are medically unable to be vaccinated, or at least not recommended to be vaccinated) and civil rights legislation (since non-whites are less likely to be vaccinated).
So you’re saying there will be lots of juicy lawsuits and race baiting?
Given the vaccination rates in communities of color you’d have better chance of finding just such a plaintiff.
No, because vaccine passports are being pushed by the Left.
The LEFT was always about “my body, my rights”.
So….
Ha! My mom was telling me yesterday that her liberal sisters have been pressuring her to get the vaccine (even though she’s had covid). I told her to tell them, “My body, my choice.”
“I’m immune. A vaccine has no upside for me. We have no clue what the long-term risks of this experimental vaccine are. I’ll pass.”
/looks at the history of prohibition
/looks at tobacco regulations
/ignores Tres’ snark.
“The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
-Henry VI, Part 2
/cough
(doesn’t apply to the legal business Glibs, of course)
Ha! OT, when I was researching/writing Cods & Cuntes (1420), I was shocked to find that people had lawyers even then. The “manorial court” (the lord’s household) would have a lawyer, and then if the peasants could pool their money and afford one, would also have a lawyer. The manor lawyer generally wasn’t used against peasants. They were used with business dealings with other aristocrats, whatnot. I should have already realized that there would need to be one to draw up marriage contracts, but I really never thought about it. I, like most lay people, figure the middle ages were full of primitives, including primitive thought. Or else they just were so poor they couldn’t afford to think.
Lawyers spawned alongside the birth of laws.
Not to mention religious (or other “strongly-held belief”) objections. The loopholes are big enough to drive a semi through but our Top. Men. don’t seem to understand that yet.
I’ve said repeatedly that we should take people’s religious or “strongly-held belief” objections to vaccines at face value. The alternative is we set ourselves up as the tribunal of what religious objections are legitimate, or whether somebody actually has a strongly-held belief. If you want to catch a lawsuit you can’t win, that’s an excellent way to do it.
I really should start believing in things more strongly
The first thing we do, lets kill all the
lawyerspublic health experts.I’m not at all clear that he was actually killed.
So what you’re really saying is he died with a boot on his neck, not of a boot on his neck?
Try this one on for your blood pressure. TW – clickbait headline
Cop Flips Pregnant Woman’s Car While She Tries To Pull Over Safely
The non extreme version. Person doesn’t feel it safe to pull over, slows down moves to right lane puts hazard lights on and get PIT Maneuvered 2 minutes later. She wasn’t fleeing anything and was the reason she was pulled over was speeding.