In case you missed the announcement in the Monday PM Links, or just want to watch it again, click here to stream free (with commercials) on tubitv.
This film has everything. Slapstick! Kung Fu! Hopping Chinese Vampires! This film starts strong with a Taoist Priest raising corpses (with high-quality papier-mâché faces) in a graveyard. Non-stop action all the way to the end. Fantastic! Also the dubbing is so good you’d swear it was shot in English (I kid!) This is a comedy which pays loving tribute to a lot of famous comedy teams during the film. You can pick out Laurel and Hardy, and some classic moves by the Three Stooges (eyepoke, slap).
Hopping Chinese vampires are creatures from Chinese folklore known as Jiangshi. They hop along with arms outstretched and feed on the Qi of the living. A fair number of kung-fu movies have featured Jiangshi. If GlibFlick isn’t relegated to the trash bin more Jiangshi movies will hop up in the future.
Some outstanding examples of the hopping vampire genre include:
- Encounter of the Spooky Kind: With Sammo Hung! Man this is a hard film to get a hold of. It’s your choice of DVD or nothing. I had this on VHS years ago. Absolutely awesome. Chinese black arts, exploding chickens, and Sammo!
- Spiritual Boxer II: This is floating around on Amazon Prime and Tubi occasionally. The plot feature a criminal hiding in with all the hopping vampires to escape the police. This concept was recycled in The Shaolin Brothers, to lesser effect.
- Mr Vampire: One of the most popular franchises with hopping vampires.
- Robo-Vampire 3: Counter Destroyer: This film is totally nuts, with a Robo Cop imitator made out of old tire painted silver, and hopping vampires. Hell yes this is on the review list!
Okay, now everyone is wondering “Is this asshole just going to review vampire movies?” This was part of a two-fer I had originally planned, so this will be the last vampire movie for a while. Let me know what else you want to see. Some suggestions:
- El Dia De La Bestia: Spanish Priest seeks to bring about the apocalypse by being a jerk to everyone. Really good film, would have a guest reviewer from Spain join me for his fantastic color commentary.
- Joysticks: Tits! And video games. And King Vidiot. And Joe Don Baker. Truly the most 80’s of the video game movies.
- Another Yeti Love Story: Life on the Street: I am torn. I could save this for Valentines day, but the idea of reviewing it for a Sasquatch friendly audience is almost too much to bear. I plan on kidnapping an English professor to review for Shakespearean influence found in this masterpiece.
Watch this film if you dare. There are no refunds on the hours of your life you spend watching, because everything is voluntary!
NEXT WEEKS FEATURE: GlibFlick for Sep 16 will be The Gingerdead Man, schlock horror starring Gary Fucking Busey, directed by Charles Band. Click here to stream free (with commercials) on tubitv.
Watch this film if you dare. There are no refunds on the hours of your life you spend watching, because everything is voluntary!
I’ll give it a go until 9 when I have to join a Zoom.
Looks like I need an account.
I’ll pass.
You can sign on as a guest (or at least I could), its the last option, a little below the others, no reason to make it easy.
Yes. There is no need to get an account. When I use Brave it doesn’t even prompt me to sign in. Select “guest” and proceed with no need for it.
Shit… I missed that option.
I’m in and the movie is playing.
Thanks!
Awesome. This is one of my favorites from the kung fu genre. Enjoy.
I’d be tempted, but TCM is showing Modern Times, and this is the best time for me to watch it.
Dammit. I would be working tonight.
I vote for anything with Sammo Hung.
Hopping Chinese vampires rock.
All good. You can use the link anytime. The movie has been out there on Tubi for a long time.
Thanks, R.J.
Appreciate it.
It’s less than 20 minutes in and I already have so many questions about this movie….
I am attending a degloving.
I had to look that up. Now I need to find a movie where that happens….
My evening gig (candy money) is as a medical transcriptionist. Around New Year’s, I did a report on a young gentleman who had an unfortunate fireworks accident. Degloving was involved. Unfortunately for my fellow zoomers, I was compelled to describe the accident in detail.
I should say, a PENILE degloving.
So…a second bris?
LOL I’m not sure. Blasted through the guy’s pelvis and colon to boot. Alcohol may have been involved, but that is speculation on my part.
There’s that bad word again and it ain’t alcohol…
Heh. The male types on the zooms don’t let me talk about it.
Did drugs fall out of his ass, too?
“Heh. The male types on the zooms don’t let me talk about it.”
I’m totes okay with that as long as I can cover my eyes and scream “eeeeewwww.” I’ll do that MUTED this Friday when I’m guest hosting.
I thought a degloving was when that one kid got his fake ID confiscated in that one movie?
I thought it’s what happens when UCS gets home from work.
For a moment, I thought you meant a bris.
Defenestration is no laughing matter,
I’m reading this as DEG loving.
I love the dubbing.
It’s a fine example of the cheap dubbing almost every kung fu film got in the 70s and 80s. Once you hear it enough you realize the same group of people dubbed at least 200 films.
So, everybody was kung fu editing?
(sorry, someone had to do it!)
Cultural appreciation FTW.
Yes! And apparently my eyesight could not distinguish the odd different fonts in my review, which matched the kung-fu movie editing well. I better start reading the Tonio Guide to Publishing ASAP.
Regarding when to resist I’m reminded of the saying: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today.
Yep.
We shouldn’t be surprised. We’ve been bitching about this stuff for a long time and this is really a logical conclusion.
Tonight, revel in the suck. Tomorrow get up, enjoy the fact that you aren’t dead yet, and get to work.
A few weeks ago I planted 10 seedling apple trees. I’m guessing the trees will not bear fruit in my remaining time but maybe someone one day will thank me for it (or not)
I did plant a lot of trees 25 years ago, many died, many didn’t. Be grateful for the survivors.
I am grateful.
#metoo
The wife and I had the darkest and probably the most difficult conversation we’ve ever had tonight. She is not interested in the injection and has come to the realization that her flexible, stable government job suddenly isn’t. Time to shit or get off the pot.
Mrs Fourscore and I have rejected the vax as well. The family doc talked all the way around it without an endorsement. I hadn’t planned on getting one and after talking to the doc decided she didn’t need one either. Mrs F wants to travel soon, and her relatives in Orange Co, CA, have really been recommending it.
We’ve been discussing exit strategies for leaving Minnesota, probably to South Dakota, for a while. But not really much about what happens if the injection is mandatory for feds. She is the majority breadwinner since I left the feds a few years ago. We’ve been downsizing and simplifying some and shoring up finances as best we can. But where this is headed I’m not sure much of that will matter. They obviously have no qualms about destroying people’s lives. The courts are no help, nor is there any real opposition party. I guess we just step up the pace on extracting ourselves from the institutions where they have power over us. After that… I don’t know.
Similar conversation happening and re-happening in the trashy household. My company is large and has many government contracts. The only question in my mind is whether I get the dignity of not being mobbed until November when I return from leave, or whether they contact me while I’m on leave and force me to make the choice now.
We’ve drawn the line in the sand. We will surrender the financial and lifestyle gains we have made over the past 5 years and live very differently if forced to do so. It’s better than compromising our consciences and getting a shot only to be forced into the next indignity in another 3 weeks.
They implemented the ‘attestation’ program in the DOT which means come September they will have every name that either marked ‘unvaccinated’ or denied to reply. That is my drop dead date. Still considering declining the manager spot and fall under the umbrella of the Union but they are hush hush on their stance and that might just not buy me any time.
They came for the unvaccinated government workers first. I said nothing because I wasn’t a government worker
end of September…the 20th to be exact.
My wife definitely enjoys the comfortable modern life, so losing her job is a huge blow for her. I told her getting the injection is her choice, but that it won’t stop at one. Then you get into the unknowns of the serum itself and what potential long term effects it may have that I won’t get into here. I think it’s unlikely she’ll agree to it at this point. I’m proud of her.
Sorry, man.
You guys will succeed. I know it.
Thot Thursday will kill what’s already dead.
https://archive.is/ypNuv
We lost the numbers.
I spy a Dirndl in there…..
Yay4Cosplay is in there too. In fact, a double shot of her if you keep looking.
And mightseduceyourdadtype.
One of your best.
I hate it when they come back to haunt you.
Karate nipples at 36 minutes.
Wait, weren’t all the corpses the same?
Possibly. But at 43 minutes, the rest of the movie was written from the imagination of a 12 year old.
In the morgue? They were showing the final guy every time they dropped a lid on a rejected corpse (a foreshadowing of sorts.) As for the rejects one was a girl, one was skeleton, they didn’t show a few, but the ghost said they were ugly.
Yeah, in the morgue. I got confused and thought they were showing the same guy for each corpse they checked.
Checked the news on my Coffee break this morning. Nice to see fascism is going to ramp up.
Every single accusation by the left is an admission. Remember how Trump was an authoritarian fascist?
They said if I voted for Trump, the Nazis would take over. And they were right.
Hey Gustave, how is the totalitarian masking going in your neck of the woods? Up here, it seems 50/50 outside, and there is definite non-compliance inside. People aren’t saying anything to me when I don’t bother, and that goes from Corvallis to Portland, albeit on the outskirts there. Also, I am seeing a lot of unacceptable masks, ie the grinder shields.
I love the ghost hat suspended by someone’s hand just out of frame.
I’ll check out the flick tonight. Looks fun.
OK, I’ve had many head injuries, but where is the guest option?
Depend on Browser. For Safari, if you go straight to the Tubi homepage, there is a big “Watch Now (free)” button in orange. Just click that and you bypass any request for sign in. Then you could just look up KungFu Zombie from there.
If you use the link and get to Kung Fu Zombie, and see the big “Register” white box on the right, just totally ignore it. Press play. It will leave you alone. The only reason to ever sign in on Tubi is if you are saving a queue of films.
After you click the link, hit the Play button on the movie and you should get This screen, I circled the “guest” option.
Thank you for that.
Gotta stop the movie. I’ll finish it tomorrow or over the weekend.
So I decide to do the right thing and buy a fishing license, but because my DL is from Cali, they want 76$ even thoght I have lived here for a fucking year! So now I’m a student at Ferris State, 26$ is much better,
Getting a degree in wheel design?
This was fun, thanks R.J.!
Thank you! See you again next Thursday.
Well, I have until Monday to file for a religious exemption. I’m still hesitant, because I shouldn’t need one. I should just be able to say, “Nope, not getting it.” I really don’t want to get it, and I really don’t want to have to get fired and sue for my job back, though. I’m torn between waiting them out and filing for the exemption. I have a hard time seeing them fire a bunch of people for not getting it and dealing with thousands of lawsuits all at once. This is why this mandate bullshit is so evil. I should be free to relax.
My boss is in the same boat. He’s out here lurking, somewhere. We were told to complete a survey (mandatory) and state our status. He got COVID and has antibodies to show for it, and does not wish to take the vaccine. I really have no idea what kind of shit email we will get from work tomorrow.
I should be free to relax
You are.
If I were younger and not married with child, I would have zero qualms with forcing the issue. Which would be very relaxing. But, here I am.
You’re with child??? That should be good for a medical exemption for up to nine months.
Seriously, best of luck to you. I’m sorry you’re facing this dilemma.
I wrote “with children” then shortened it to just one. I’m pretty full, though, maybe I should try the rabbit trick to be sure.
Pregnant women should definitely get the vaccine -CDC
Kill two birds with one stone.
It’s safe and effective. Just don’t read the consent form that says it’s neither and it’s nobody’s fault when that becomes apparent.
Sorry blackjack. I’m torn too. Part of me feels like if I ask for a religious exemption I’m legitimizing the policy, and it also bothers me that 6 months ago when I was an atheist I still would have had the same objections. On the other hand, I want to push back on this however I can. I hope things work out for you whatever you decide.
Thanks. I’m not quite an atheist, but I don’t have any allegiance to any actual religion. I do have strongly held beliefs that I should not take this shot. I guess that’s what they are talking about, right?
According to FedGov’s definition of religious beliefs, what you described is a religious belief.
It’s been my understanding you have to be a member of one of the faiths in good standing in order to qualify – and supply “proof”. Or am I wrong?
IANAL, more like a defendant, but the rule says strongly held beliefs are sufficient. That doesn’t mean the city won’t say it’s not and that some lefty judge won’t say it’s totes cool for them to do that, especially with such a noble cause as stemming a super scary pandemic. So, crapshoot at best.
So a true mixing of Church (Whatever the preferred one that will be granted an exemption) and State…almost exactly what the left screams at the right.
From Dean’s link in the evening lynx:
Honestly… there is so much hemming and hawing in that I don’t know what to make of it.
Some of the passages are downright contradictory.
So, as long I get you for my judge, I’m fine. Most actual judges? Crapshoot. If I do file an exemption, it will basically say that it’s my strongly held belief that I not take drugs I don’t need and that I not treat diseases I don’t have. Also, it’s my belief that mankind is addressing this virus in an incorrect and immoral way. History will show how wrong headed we were. When they stop laughing, they will rule against me, I suspect.
dealing with thousands of lawsuits all at once
The courts will summarily dismiss all of them, consolidate them and hold a lead trial, or just drag out the process so the plaintiffs can’t go through with it or just get the shot.
I forgot about the stolen James Bond theme music in this. It just randomly pops up. There was one movie I rejected in my queue that had literally stolen the entire album Tarkus by Emerson Lake and Palmer and blared it over each action scene. No doubt the non-dubbed music was totally different.
That. Is. Awesome!
OT: Here it comes.
And I’m sure they’re all patting themselves on the back for that. ?
Well duh, of course they are.
Oh yeah, and more to your point, they are proud of being first:
If my kid was twelve, I’d start working maximum OT and put him in private school. There’s no way in hell he’s getting this fucking shot. None, period. I will make anyone who tries to inject him regret it, post haste. I’ll take a double dose before he gets one.
And yet they don’t require their teachers to do so, do they?
Nope
I feel like palm leaf hats are going to make a huge comeback after this.
Fuck off, weirdly alluring Tulpa!
@Tonio, there’s a new Tulpa in pending. @BethAnnica, I have assumed you are female, so I will add you to the unicorn list. If you were not before you came here, you are now.
Yes! She’s good people. Please add.
Great movie R.J. The final battle was well worth the wait, I Hah!’ed out loud at least four times.
I’m at a loss, I see the impending Biden Mandatory Vax (BMV) coming not the pike, maybe sooner than expected. Anyway, urging old people to get the vax just seems counter-productive. Geezers are resource consumers, for the most part. Between SS, Medicare and associated admin costs we really put a crimp on the economy.
It would seem much smarter to discourage even recommending BMV for those sucking the taxpayer titty. Prolonging the life of a non-productive old timer just doesn’t make sense. For what reason? To stay in a nursing home an extra 90 days? When they put the “no visitors rule” in effect I knew a few, then I couldn’t visit them, then I couldn’t go to their funeral.
A nursing home is not not a spa. Grandma isn’t there until she gets better. There’s a reason old people are encouraged to get vaxxed and it’s not based on compassion. Just as a mandatory vax for the younger crowd is not based on compassion.
An extra not in the last paragraph, a bonus of negativity
None of this is health based. The entire medical community seems to be in lock step with totally irrational, political bullshit. I’m switching doctors after realizing that mine is uninterested in reality anymore. This turned political about 10 minutes after it started. It’s only gotten worse since.
The resources Grandma/Grandpa are personally consuming is a minuscule portion of it. Everybody gets their beak wet- CMS, state/local senior services unit, long term care industry, medical industry, big and little pharma, old people warehouse construction and maintenance companies, investors and speculators, the regulatory bodies of all of the above, etc etc.
4x, this was all written in an old outdated book, I read once, heck I still have a copy,
I will not accept the Mark,
LOL I just looked at the Aussie Rules stats for the first time in months. Apparently they’re in the middle of playoffs. My team didn’t make the cut. In the grand tradition of almost – but not every – sport result I care about going against me, there is one team worse than mine this year. Yay!
Speaking of sports, my husband just got the Chiefs season handed to him on a bronze platter. XY took newspaper as an elective this year and they do fundraising, natch. One of them is for parents to work the ticket booth until the end of the first quarter. Free SRO tickets, but who sits at a football game anyway?
“bronze” *snort*
Nosebleed? And I hope it’s multiple tix.
I don’t know if SRO is in nosebleed (“seats close to God”) or where. No, just one ticket per parent, I guess. I do as few live games as possible. I like my cushy recliner right in front of my teevee, tyvm.
Once you’re in and possess an ID, you weasel your way to the good spots. You just gotta have backup to run the booth while you do it. First rule, do it now and only turn back when faced with real consequences. As long as you can, keep going where you want to be. Fuck permission.
That’s the spirit.
I’m with you. I’d much rather watch on TV. The occasional live game can be fun as a sort of “event” but otherwise… meh.
“My” team is the exact opposite after the regular season. Still, it wasn’t as good as the last year.
Crystal Gayle,
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E3ahf3dPSjuEA
YT version,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udEZ_JjNz4E
Saw my first Trump 2024 flag in real life this weekend.
Good grief no. Just… no.
Trump is giving a speech in Iowa in early October. I expect it will be packed. He’s quite popular among the deplorables here.
I saw one yesterday in Podunkville. Also the local (and only) grocery in town had Big Mouths @ 16 a dozen plus tax. Thanks again.
You are welcome
If he were half of what his detractors say he is, I’d vote for him. But he isn’t. He was an okay president who did some good things and some bad things, and he was absolute dogshit at picking advisors. He’s not some goddamned savior.
^^
I like the theory which someone posited that the reason his advisors were shit was because nobody better wanted to be associated with him i.e. have their career destroyed.
I don’t believe that. He’s terribly short-sighted.
It’s a little from column A and a little from column B.
There’s no way he was getting decent advisors, and he also was in way over his head. He was tenacious (or self-absorbed, take your preferred interpretation) enough not to quit even when it was obvious he couldn’t do much.
None of them are. There’s always good and bad. We’re at the, “whose going to do the least amount of damage to the country”, and even that’s up for interpretation.
+1 wrong sort of lizard
They were all over rural Montana when we were there this summer.
Watch the cantaloupe heads begin exploding.
I drive by a half dozen every day, they’ve been up since January at least.
It’s pretty Red up here, Many Trump ’24 flags,
Oddly, there’s none to be seen here in L.A. During the election-ish thing back in November ( remember, before every bit of news turned bad?) the cops were taking down Trump signs. And the lefties were shooting at the caravans. Not quite Portland, but in the same vein.
Up here, the caravans would have shot back, with prejudice
I’ve seen one – some van with a zillion stickers on it. Not exactly a great example of sanity, unfortunately.
Last year I actually saw a car with a Ron Paul bumper sticker. very exciting to see in the wild – I think I was up in Culver City at the time, iirc.
The slogan I’ve seen is “Trump ’24 Or Before”
Biden is thinking “shit, they stole my idea!”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taliban-declare-ban-slogans-protests-dont-have-their-approval
Keep calling them terrorists, if it makes you feel better, they are the current GOV of Afghanistan, Bitches!
Have any of the totalitarians explained why they are so terrified and loading their diapers for if they believe in the vaccine? If it works, what the hell do you care what other people are doing? Make them own up to admitting that the vaccine doesn’t actually do what they claim.
The virus/vaccine is the weapon, not the reason, to capture power over the masses. It couldn’t have played out better for them if they’d planned it.
Who says they didn’t plan it?
It seem ridiculous but once again nothing surprises me any more.
They absolutely planned it. That’s why they genetically modified the virus and covered it up.
I believe it was a man-made virus for the purposes of biological warfare. I also believe it leaked from the lab by accident.
They did not have a ready response to this. If they had planned to release it, they would have already had plans in place. They winged it until they didn’t have to wing it anymore.
Yeah, at first they thought it might be serious, but they quickly learned it was pretty minor. Then, they didn’t let a crisis go to waste and here we are. Fuck.
This. It stopped being about anybody’s health ten minutes in. It’s about power.
Because, I think, they’re still hoping it can be eradicated and things can go back to pre-covid more or less. Failing that, that it can be managed as a minor disease with minimal cases/hospitalizations/deaths.
I’m seeing plenty of evidence that a lot of people couldn’t care less about things going back to normal.
I find that very alarming.
^^
^^x2 People want this because they for once in their miserable fucking lives feel they have power over another human being.
The discrepancy between Internet people and real people on this seems vast. Even flaming lefties IRL don’t seem too keen on this dragging out forever.
I think this depends greatly on where you are IRL.
For us, much of where we spend our time is in a town whose county (the town is the only real population center, so essentially *is* the county) has instituted showing vaccine papers at every restaurant and bar, and numerous other business have taken pride in requiring the same, even when not compelled to.
Yes. That’s head-slammingly awful.
Yup. One thing I loved about living there was that even with the general political leanings of the town, the people were very not in-your-face about things (this was mid-2000’s). Built some friendships with folks because of common activities and shared interests, even though we saw things quite differently, politically-speaking. You know, the way friendships are supposed to work.
That’s not completely gone, but boy, the social signaling is REALLY strong there, and people sure take pride in knowing – and showing – they’re doing their part…
Sounds like a fun gig opportunity for anti-authoritarians: go around to these restaurants, ask for table for six; when they ask “papers please” you tell them to take a hike with a parting comment that “Guess you don’t care about the $400 we would have spent and the 25% tip we’d have left.”
Heh, I love it.
Have a good friend that is doing true yeoman’s work speaking against it all here locally. There are quite a number of – dare I say – diverse folks (i.e, people from very different political stripes) that are willing to speak up, but definitely in the minority.
Sure, but they’ve been trained to blame the anti-vax anti-mask Trump-loving Deathsantis-worshipping science-haters for dragging this out, because if those stupid deplorables would just do the right thing this would all be over.
i think there’s a difference between the totalitarians and ordinary people.
The alarming part is how many people are in fact supportive of totalitarian thought.
…people old enough to remember the Iron Curtain, yet.
I do see much higher compliance among the set who weren’t around for any of that.
Flagstaff has on average only 83 days where it gets precipitation each year.
My arrival in the city was in a thunderstorm.
I’ve been in Flagstaff when it’s whiteout blizzard conditions. Thank the dogs I had an electric vest on. My riding partner didn’t and he suffered badly. It was a sudden storm and not predictable. Warm and sunny when we rode to the canyon and the storm when we rode back. I want to say it was in October.
I haven’t seen much of the city yet, it’s dark. But I need to find a grocery store and restock some travelling supplies.
I suspect prices will be better here than at the Grand Canyon.
I have never been through there without Snow, even in September, consider yourself lucky,
/Safe travels
Well ya..its monsoon season and this year we have had a significant amount.
Flagstaff area checks all the boxes for my ideal location. Every time I’ve been there, I don’t want to leave.
The courses are all up and down, and in the mountains that’s a nightmare, been there, played that,
I don’t mind a little up and down. Or was that in and out…
58, golfing up and down Mountains kills ya, hills are fine,
I just like the name “Flagstaff”. What the hell kind of name is that?!
/never even been in the vicinity of Arizona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff,_Arizona#Name
That’s awesome. I just assumed it was somebody’s last name.
I bet I’d love it if not for the snow.
Watching a lively thunderstorm to the north.
Saw many cute dogs today; it was like a Kennel Club calendar.
LOL vicinity of Buffalo native here. What snow?
Well, wanna become a Zonie?
Flagstaff used to have a KFC buffet. I saw the NAU campus paper there; IIRC it was poorly written.
Sure, why not? If things become too intolerable here.
I don’t actually DO anything here; just live my life, shop, etc. I can totally see it getting worse – like, them starving me out.
From what little I’ve seen:
Pros: along I-40 and -17, cute, historic, walkable.
Cons: still rugged, slightly isolated from nearest towns.
Toxeth:
I think you accidentally put your other “pros” in the “cons” column… those ALL sound great! 🙂
Dumb gownies? Maybe they’re less woke compared to the Ivies, public and private.
Does the snow tend to stick around all winter, or come and go?
Comes and goes mostly. I was there in early January once when we were hitting record lows back home (-55F). Highs were in the 30s to 50 with one day in the 60s. Lows below freezing and dipping into the teens. Tough for snow to hang around in those conditions.
At risk of upstaging Trashy’s sharing of Psalms, I came across this today in my reading and hope it’s ok that I share.
The bolded section below was a gut-punch, as my initial reaction to these situations is to judge, get angry, lose peace, etc. Although I may choose to resist some of what’s happening, vigilance on my own heart is paramount. Can’t lose sight of that, but I often do.
(Excerpted from Psalm 35)
Fierce witnesses rise up;
They ask me things that I do not know.
They reward me evil for good,
To the sorrow of my soul.
But as for me, when they were sick,
My clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting;
And my prayer would return to my own heart.
I paced about as though he were my friend or brother;
I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother.
But in my adversity they rejoiced
And gathered together;
Attackers gathered against me,
And I did not know it;
They tore at me and did not cease;
With ungodly mockers at feasts
They gnashed at me with their teeth.
Lord, how long will You look on?
Rescue me from their destructions,
My precious life from the lions.
I will give You thanks in the great assembly;
I will praise You among many people.
This is what got to me,
“But in my adversity they rejoiced
And gathered together;
Attackers gathered against me,
And I did not know it;
They tore at me and did not cease;
With ungodly mockers at feasts
They gnashed at me with their teeth.
Lord, how long will You look on?
Rescue me from their destructions,
My precious life from the lions.
I will give You thanks in the great assembly;
I will praise You among many people.”
Aye. Part of the power of reading through these again, in the past week or so, is the immediacy of the text. For example, the “all my enemies” and “those arrayed against me” sections were always somewhat distant for me, emotionally. Not anymore.
That one hit me pretty hard last week. It is informative on so many levels. As a guide on how we are to approach the suffering of others during this conflict, as an exposure of the asymmetry of response that we’re seeing, as a clear view of the types of oppression to expect.
I’m saying goodbye to a young one, he’s leaving manistee for the big city, and all i can tell him is to be nice, and trust no one
Shit from Shinola; don’t trust Whitey; see a doctor and get rid of it.
The Lord loves a working man.
Don’t you’re upstaging trshy at all.
Thanks. And, HA! Your quote reminds of a time long ago in Sunday School when we were learning of that passage:
My teacher, being a good woman that wanted us to internalize these truths, asked us all to bring a bowl to class where we could see this principle for ourselves. The windowless classroom was alternately light and dark as each child took turns placing his/her bowl over the light bulb.
And then there was me. Who brought a glass bowl.
I may have been something of a handful.
Truth is Truth. I have no monopoly on it, nor would I want to.
I’ll take the Lords word, no matter who quotes Him,
Fifth Column guest Josh Szeps on whether he worries about Australia’s covid policies becoming normalized: “They’re so obviously egregious that they would be the stupidest way to try to smuggle in permanent inhibitions on liberty.” This after admitting that their states of emergency declarations have no effective deadlines if their premiers decide they don’t, and that a major concern is the unwillingness to reopen by politically overcautious officials who don’t want responsibility when infections, inevitably, pick up. No, he’s not terribly concerned because the Australian government is so much worse for civil rights in other domains.
That is… not exactly reassuring.
Oh, and he’d rather be living under Australian lockdowns than living in Florida right now.
So, an interesting but frustrating conversation. He’s much too pollyannaish about Australia’s prospects on either the covid front or the authoritarian front. And this conversation was recorded before shithead’s speech today.
I have heard him before. The guy rubs me the wrong way. He tolerates no risk and thinks freedom is optional.
What a difference a year makes.
A poll that came to be true
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/08/10/a-third-of-americans-unwilling-to-get-covid-19-vaccine-infographic/?sh=170ae8d86730
Asshole.
I can’t keep up. Stop the world, I want off.
“What a difference a year makes.”
I dunno, lying liar chipmunk face CCP tool is still lying.
Not only him but the NIH director, Biden pre-presidency, Psaki, and on and on said it. They knew they were lying.
With a grain of salt cause Jack Posobiec can be full of shit from time to time but for some reason, I don’t doubt it.
Jack Posobiec Flag of United States
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USSS, FBI and DHS task forces were set up ahead of Biden remarks to monitor “violent revolt speech” online, per US official
They know what’s coming. They’ve probably wargamed it a hundred different ways. The economic collapse from the firing of the 15% of people who are going to refuse the shot will happen by the end of the year and the violence will start shortly thereafter.
Joe says he’s “running out of patience” for people like me. That sure sounds like threat if not a full on declaration of war.
Here’s this red line, Joe, cross it.
“Go ahead, knock it off”
/Bob Conrad
The only way he’s getting the compliance number he wants is through good ol fashion state violence.
That’s why the chickenshit outsourced it to our employers.
Same as it ever was.
1) Ruin the livelihoods of the wreckers and kulaks
2) Use the inevitable reaction from the wreckers and kulaks to justify state violence
^This is the plan. Those who don’t see it are blind.
And that is all it is. Present that raw data that this will turn the tide, make your case to the American people…nah, fuck it…turn the vaccinated population into your personal mob to repeat history.
Only for certain people. Seems that the postal workers, that nearly touch every American’s lives, will be exempt from the forced vax plan and be treated under the OSHA rule of vax or test regularly.
Just refuse, you won’t be cancelled, just not Gov affiliated, there will be work, for now,
While there are carve-outs for USPS and teachers(?!) and the like, I was reading this affects something like 80 million people.
Now, some of those will have already had the shots. And some will comply, while others won’t.
Still, though, are we really talking about putting potentially MILLIONS of people out of work within the next 30-90 days? And these aren’t just the “non-essential” workers from last year’s fracas, but are from across all education, job-type, and socioeconomic strata.
Seems like madness.
No damn clue. There stated goal was 70% vax and now its looking to be 100% by hammer or otherwise.
sickle?
?
Carve-outs? Are you kidding? I thought the teachers, in particular, were dying like locusts. Didn’t know that the chicom virus had agreed to leave them, and postal workers, alone so they couldn’t pollute the children who go home to kill grandma.
I decided I needed some escapism, so what better than Fred & Ginger on roller skates?
A link?
Watching it on Turner Classic Movies. It might be out on the intertoobz – search for the two of them dancing to “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.”
Ahh, thanks!
(from the movie Shall We Dance.)
You ever see this, SOW? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117615/
I have not. I love how the poster(?) starts the title in English and ends it in what I assume is Japanese.
I remember liking it a zillion years ago on IFC or wherever.
Yes.
Shall We Dansu?
Hmm.. wiki says that was the original title in Japan, and pronunciation is “Sharu wi Dansu?” which sounds a lot like “Salary[man] Dansu”. Pun or coincidence?
Not my department! You know whom to ask. All I can think of is Mr. Sparkle, “? for lucky best washu!”
desu ka
Does getting drunk count as escapism? Asking for a friend.
PS. Getting the “comment-post” thingie and having to retype a comment (twice) does not count as escapism. ?
Hmmm…didn’t get that, but while watching the movie, my laptop lost it’s internet connection, so I had to reconnect.
I’ve been deprived of my escapism by New Mexico’s stupidity.
And I was out of Diet Dew, which led me on a merry chase that involved nonexistant safeways*, stores that were out of stock, and a resignation to stopping in at Walmart. 🙁
*The GPS swore it was there, but there was nothing.
It was a typo on the GPS. They weren’t Safeways – they were safe spaces. At least you’re out of NM now.
But most importantly, did you get the Dew???
Yes and so does watching porn.
Watching the movie. This is good stuff.
Good night kids, my back say’s no Mas!
Goddammit could they at least put Civil War II off for a couple more years?
That said, I’m glad to see 21 governors (as of the posting of this comment) vow -or at least make vowing noises- against this blatantly authoritarian bullshit decree by this morally bankrupt narcissistic mid-stage dementia patient dancing via communist marionette.
This ain’t Australia.
Have no fear, Joe will “get around” those recalcitrants.
I never thought I’d live through Logan’s Run. Can I at least have Ustinov surrounded by cats and quoting Old Possum?
I’d move to that DC.
Sorry that the whose knobs ESPN has been gobbling made the final.
There should be a “players” in there, of course.
We’re never going to hear the end of it on finals day.
Well, Raducanu is not obnoxious in the way that Fernandez is so I’ll root for her.
We should invite this person to the site 🙂
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If you’re a Libertarian and your main adversaries are other libertarians, you are doing it wrong.
Cause she is definately doing it wrong.
How many of these governors were already allowing sweeping vax requirements in their states, though? (not asking you in particular, just bringing it up)
I suppose it’s good that they might actually find a spine, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Like you said, “vowing noises”
You didn’t want a Domestic Internal Defense mission??
The sooner the better, before I’m too old to get out of the way because I’m already too old to participate. But good on the govs, now to look and see if what my spineless wimp of a gov thinks about this.
Yes Minister/Prime Minister continues to be relevant
https://youtu.be/HSD1d-6P6qI
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/labor-attorney-weighs-in-on-bidens-announcement-on-employer-vaccine-requirements/article_b65cfa66-11cd-11ec-b380-639e08c7dced.html
Covid vaccines don’t work. Full stop.
Fuck these people.
So he didn’t address the fact that employers are being mandated by the feds to take an interest other than stating that’s what was done? He’s a piss poor lawyer and is lying by omission.
https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2021/09/some-pennsylvania-students-skirt-mask-rule-with-loophole.html
“In York County, a hotbed of anti-mask sentiment, the South Western School Board abruptly adjourned an emergency meeting on masking Wednesday night after audience members refused to cover their faces. Board members left the stage as parents yelled and shouted.”
Runaway!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/los-angeles-school-district-mandates-covid-vaccines-children-12/
They can’t wait until they can get to the under twelve set.
*insert OMWC joke*
And yet the teachers are exempt, are they not?
Hey! School board! Leave them kids alone.
https://www.fox29.com/news/wave-of-covid-19-infections-in-philadelphia-could-be-nearing-its-peak-health-commissioner-says
Soooo…why the Biden EO then?
Catch the beginning of the decline and claim credit. See also: Workplace injuries/deaths and the establishment of OSHA (seriously, have a look-this is what they’re doing).
A map of the vax rebellion:
https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1436157775550324739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1436157775550324739%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fnot-now-not-ever-rnc-sue-biden-over-vaccine-mandate-gop-governors-go-ballistic
My state’s in there. Yay!
Mornin’. Really nice of the administration to help me narrow down my list of potential retirement destinations.
Hmmmm….maybe we should make IN our next vacation destination. Try to get down to Brown County ahead of the leafers. (And good morning, ‘patzie!)
Mornin’ GT. Did you get those timbales yet?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbzAb6llIJ0
Tito!!!
I did not. I have a full acoustic sit-down drum set – one that’s nicer than I deserve – bagged up in the basement (in the finished “music room”) ‘cuz I can’t bring myself to part with it, plus congas, djembes, doumbeks, bodhrans, etc., but I’m mostly retired from gigging, so I have to curb my GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome.)
Yeah, I need to curb my GAS as well /old man problems. But sounds like you already have quite the collection.
suh’ fam
whats goody ?
Good morning, homey! (And Stinky and Sean and – somewhere up there – Fes!) ::checks local news headlines. Decides to ignore base active shooter report/lockdown and pedestrian strike down the street and head straight to the traffic report:: No accidents reported along my commute route yet, so…so far so goody?
Since I typically listen to WHIO while Im working, thats all that was on most of the overnight.
And it was a big nothing-burger.
Locally they have just passed an ordinance to dismantle the homeless camps and start fining the indigent $150 fines for panhandling, shooting up and shitting on the sidewalk. I for one welcome this change. Why should a few malcontents that didn’t even grow up here hold my City hostage? They will never pay the fines but that’s the point. There used to be vagrancy laws on the books.
To quote my paternal Grandfather, “Oh fer fuck’s sake!” That’s how it is today. ‘Mornin’ all!
Mornin’, Festus! To quote my maternal grandmother, “Conio!”
Conio = Cunte. Something that I knew thirty years ago but had forgotten. Thanks, Patzie!
Conio is not considered nearly so vulgar to latina as cunte is to anglos. Abuela was the sweetest old lady you’d ever meet. “Conio” was used in contexts where we might say”shit”, like stubbing your toe
For some reason I initially read that as Tonio.
MOAR BEER!
MAS CERVEZA!
POR FAVOR !
My paternal English Granny said “Shite!” when she got angry. “Everyone of you Rosses can’t finish a goddammed thing! (She was speaking of her six children and husband at the time but the acorn falleth not far from the mighty oak). I miss her dearly. Alzhiemers and I never got to hold her hand. Dusty in here now.
In other news GlibFlick can be profitable!
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/09/09/FinanceBuzz-Horror-Movie-Heart-Rate-Analyst/5761631212590/
WRT GT’s percussiveness: A good way to get the blood moving is always Sheila E.
Yep. She always got the blood movIng toward the appropriate appendage. Too bad that loathe “Latin music”
cause you got no rhythm, honkey
Pendejo!
Def not latin. And I hate myself for not hating this. Horsepowar.
! Also, Sheila E – would.
Good Morning All.
yesterday was difficult, hopefully today will be better.
Just call a lid and go back to bed after some ice cream.
suh’ cuz
Not MUH LYNX!
Democrats are excellent at selling firearms.