MVGA!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IT HAS BEEN SOME TIME SINCE ZARDOZ HAS APPEARED BEFORE YOU. PERHAPS THERE ARE NEW CHOSEN ONES THAT NEED INSTRUCTION…
FIRST POINT, THEN GUN IS GOOD – IT SHOOTS DEATH TO CLEANSE THE FILTH OF BRUTALS WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH. SECOND, THE PENIS IS EVIL. JUST WORK WITH ZARDOZ HERE… KEEPING THOSE POINTS IN MIND, ZARDOZ WILL PROVIDE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
- CAN THE CANNIBAL RAPE GANGS BE FAR BEHIND?
- STOP JAW JAW, START WAR WAR! TORPEDOES AWAY.
- NO INJURIES?! ZARDOZ HAS DISAPPOINT.
- PLEASE, LET THIS HAPPEN!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
“The Dow Jones industrial average was recently off 814 points, or over 2.4 percent, in early afternoon trading Monday. The S&P 500 fell 2.1 percent — on pace for its worst day since mid-May — while the Nasdaq tumbled 2.6 percent.”
Yikes! It will probably turn around though.
I made a bet with my Dad that we would see a intraday loss of 10% some time between now and Halloween. The bet was the usual amount.
$1 and some orange futures?
You’re going to need an ape costume.
So what are you going to win?
A set of Lee press-on nails, and some Turtle Wax for that hard shell finish.
No Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat?
Disappointing
Both Showcase showdowns?
They will make it up in volume.
I have dogshit in my back yard worth more than all of the real estate in china.
You put your money in that and lost. That is a real shocker.
And the CCP stock crash has nothing to do with it at all, no siree!
“The Dow dropped more than 800 points, adding to three straight weeks of losses, as fears over China’s debt-ridden property market helped spark a global selloff.”
That’s literally mentioned in the opening sentence.
I didn’t read the link, I knew already, this has been brewing all year, Yippeee!
There will be ZERO financial repercussions for being $28 trillion in debt before FY 2022 federal budget is even passed, USA/Worldwide supply problems, Worldwide tyranny that we have not seen in our lifetimes, and the party of slavery looking to enslave us all.
US national Debt Clock
I love this site. Congrats on making it to Monday afternoon.
Thanks!
It took surgical focus, but we did it!
“There will be considerable material damage,” he said. “We hope there won’t be any personal injuries.”
Odd tidbit (maybe this is not current) but from what I understand, there isn’t any volcano insurance. Maybe their logic is that it rarely happens so why even create some insurance policy.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/act-god.asp
Because most jurisdictions won’t let companies explicitly and properly reserve for them so the money has to flow through taxable earnings so they can get some of the vig.
Really? I gotta believe it’s available at some price.
Almost everything is!
Probably LLoyds.
Looks like they got “burned” in HI so you may as well pay for it.
https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2018/11/24/1656228/0/en/Lloyd-s-of-London-Throws-in-the-Towel-on-Lava-Exclusion-says-Foster-Law-Offices.html
I used to have my house insured by a Lloyds subsidiary, Kraftlake, and boy did they suck, overpriced BS.
https://www.progressive.com/answers/does-insurance-cover-volcano-damage
Thanks!
It’s standard in most property insurance in the U.S. I have no idea about Spain though.
“He faced criticism and lost a Nike sponsorship in 2016 after saying people involved in same-sex couples are “worse than animals.”
The Philippines government says that more than 6,000 people have been killed in anti-drug operations between July 2016, and April 30, while Human Rights Watch indicated 12,000 Filipinos are believed to have been killed amid Duterte’s campaign, which commenced shortly after he took to office in June of 2016.”
So no drugs or ass sex, but could kind of pass for Mexican?
could kind of pass for Mexican
Lou Diamond Phillips agrees.
How? or rather Paano?
Yeah, I’ll take being called worse than an animal over the random killing sprees from the last guy. Yikes.
STOP JAW JAW, START WAR WAR! TORPEDOES AWAY.
I think I mentioned on Friday how the lead headline for one of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s news shows on Friday was Is Australia provoking war with China over nuclear sub deal?
Today, one of the stories had the headline Australians in France fear backlash after submarine project cancelled. No propaganda there, no sirree.
Will the French taunt them another time?
Kippah wearing Australians in France hardest hit.
From the France one
So, it’s Arrive and Hurl against the Russkies?
The mayor of Charbourg is such an arriviste.
Did he bring his umbrella?
Missing: actual Aussies living in France
“Australians who’d been working on the French submarine project in Cherbourg”
i.e., government flacks who are going to find after work drinks awkward for a while until they’re summoned home.
I am guessing it’s an umbrella project.
Je vois ce que vous avez fait là-bas.
Damn. I’m not a scroll-down kind of guy and it shows.
They’re suggesting a Western democracy will go to war with another Western democracy due to the latter backing out of a weapons deal?
Granted, we are in the Crazy Years, but still.
France will send those submarines to Australia one way or another?
Come back with your sub, or be carried upon it?
Hmmm…. sounds like there are probably lots of Confucius Institutes or the like in Australia’s Journalism and Government school chain. Certainly would explain their attitude towards locking up their population.
Betteridge’s Law applies to the first, methinks.
China can’t invade Australia. Their soldiers would get killed while waiting in quarantine at the port before being allowed onto the battlefield.
All Hail, Zardoz! And the gift of the links!
Uhhhh…
The State Department condemned the Russian government’s crackdown on opposition groups during this weekend’s parliamentary elections, saying in a statement Monday that the vote “took place under conditions not conducive to free and fair proceedings.”
https://www.axios.com/russia-election-fraud-state-department-a22847f9-415e-4d3b-bbe0-efc7eba2bc6c.html
Our moral standing in this arena is unparalleled.
Are you suggesting that our elections are anything but pure and pristine?
Unparalleled == Perpendiculared.
I’m sure they’re also drafting a stern letter to Putin about inclusivity as we speak.
“IT PUTS THE TOILET PICTURE ON THE WALL, OR IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!!!”
If they demand voter ID I’m out of here.
Related?
Climber Johanna Farber furious after broadcast ‘sexualizes’ competition
Her ass isn’t that great.
Rand Paul is da man.
https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article254385439.html?fbclid=IwAR3ZfOHhI9X7k2mfGRBxTIiAUV42cml5zKA3k9htYtlt6-nJRxOJQDwzAbQ
My Mother in Law hates him and view him as nutty simply because that’s what the MSM tells her. But yeah, he isn’t prefect (who is?) but he’s always asking the questions that needs asking and always tries to push back against government abuse.
I am.
We’re familiar with your taste in music. That contradicts your assertion.
OH SNAP!
Is it his taste in music, or is Ted S. playing the long game?
Indeed.
Beyond just living better, this should be ample encouragement to GlibFit. Avoiding the system is one way to fight it.
This is so true.
I have asthma and am obese, so I’m “high risk.” Once in a while I have to go to the doctor (urgent care, not necessarily ER) and they give me a nebulizer treatment and oxygen.
Before Covid hysteria, I had a “feeling” that something was going down with the med industry so I bought an oxygen concentrator for home; the O2 concentrator is better than a tank because I am independent of a home ox delivery service.
Turns out that a simple CPAP is better than a ventilator for COVID and even influenza treatment. Add in the oxygen, and now I can do this from home instead of going to the hospital. Where all the sick people are.
I urge any of you with some spare cash or an HSA that’s going to expire to invest in a CPAP (~$800) and an oxygen concentrator.
Now if I could just get my paws on a lifetime supply of albuterol for the nebulizer…
Both need a doc’s scrip, I believe. Now to find a doc in a box to write one.
Another FSA use, assuming the well stocked Glib first aid kit already, would be for a home AED, particularly if you have older/at risk family members or guests.
Personal experience indicates that online CPAP sellers will accept any crayon drawings as a scrip.
The nebulizer solution is definitely trickier. I have a small stockpile but it is one of the medicines that actually does have a legit expiration.
Still, I think if I faxed in an old prescription they’d probably honor it. It’s not like it has nightclub-level resale value.
Do they still use the glass ampules for the dosing? It’s been about thirty years since I last did those regularly (family member with asthma).
https://www.hmenews.com/article/notebook-fda-warns-against-self-prescribed-oxygen
Now I definitely need one.
It’s depressing how reliable it is, recently, that “Government Agency X warns against Y” is an indicator that I should probably get some Y.
CPAP is a treatment? I did not know this. So I guess I should be thanking my lucky stars that I have sleep apnea?
Yeah, this should be a giant red flag to every American that something fishy is going on.
I’m not sure which is worse. In the US, we live in a fairy tale world where the healthcare sector is entirely run by the government but for some reason nearly everyone pretends it’s not, whereas in the UK there is no pretense that the healthcare sector isn’t government-run, but it has also become the most important idol of their state religion.
Zardoz sure is penis-fixated.
NTTAWWT.
If I could get the SU to be more like ZARDOZ, she’d be more fixated on the penis (hopefully mine) and also much more interested in acquiring guns & ammo.
. . . I fail to see any problem with this.
OT: I finally saw my Doc today, he was very receptive and decided to move ahead with 2 different MRIs, and a lung Cancer screening, just because. I am to keep up with PT, but he thinks it may be making it worse, so that may stop soon as well. Got some scrips and another appt. In November, we shall see. He also went on about how people are more concerned with a virus that kills almost no one, yet we don’t care about the 80% death rate amongst smokers?
I loved it, and no Masks in the exam room, I like this guy!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10003151/Demi-Rose-flaunts-ample-cleavage-racy-black-corset-lavish-Positano-getaway.html
Diabetes candidate. Sorry.
26?
She is not gonna age well.
In 4 years time, her ass cheeks will be hitting her heels when she walks.
She’ll just get Madonna’s scaffolding installed.
It is possible to get reduction surgery as well. I’ve known a couple of lasses who’ve had it. (And yes, they actually did need it.)
Nope. Tiny waist.
She is 27. She won one Gold medal in Rio and one in Tokyo. An Olympic champion in her 20s is hospitalized because of COVID, really? Or is it ADE?
The original pandemic has been over for almost a year.
Now the vaccine is the pandemic.
Or is that the vaccine damaged her system and then COVID aggravated that damage?
Every Monday I wind up with variants of “Aura Lee” stuck in my head. Currently it’s the one from Revenge of the Nerds
How about this one instead?
Well, shit. My close friend’s twin brother died. Mid-40’s. Now she has to call her mom, who is having her own health issues.
Always a tough call, been there,
Sorry KK.
That sucks, KK, sorry to hear it.
Losing a twin must be extra hard.
Yikes!
That’s definitely too young. Sorry.
So sorry, KK! I know you’ll give her all the support you can.
Sorry 🙁
My sympathies to all involved.
Do they need financial aid?
Sorry to hear that, KK. Way too young.
Thanks all – this woman can’t seem to catch a break. She’ll have to go to Charlotte, probably, but I think she has transpo (her brother had a lot of friends up here, so they’ll get a caravan together)
“FDA-approved gout drug shows promise in fighting COVID-19 by preventing the virus from multiplying in cells, study finds
‘This antiviral works for all RNA respiratory viruses we tested, including SARS-CoV-2. RSV, coronavirus and flu all circulate in the same season. Bottom line is you can potentially reduce infection and disease using this one oral drug.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10010119/FDA-approved-gout-medicine-Probenecid-shows-promise-fighting-viruses-like-COVID-19.html
I’m sure it will be spun as fish cleaner, all bought up or some other method so as not to disturb the emergency approval vaccine gravy train….
But will it surprise me?
#4 will.
I read the article to try to figure out what the angle will be. Doesn’t mention it’s used on horses or anything.
Bonus, if I ever have a recurrence of gout (its been about 10 years, so I think I am gout-free now), I have something to cover it too!
Approved in 1979, so off patent. No $$$ to be made, so will be verboten. Take 2 Tylenol and come to the ER if you have trouble breathing, we have a ventilator with your name on it
I am home.
I am not enthused about tomorrow.
Work resumes.
Steel on Sunday.
Thanks for checking in. Hope the last stretch wasn’t too stressful and that you didn’t find any unpleasant surprises at Chez UCS.
Maybe that is a Haiku in Japanese.
No, those end with “leaves fade in autumn.”
I LOL’d
Although the seasonal reference is usually in the beginning.
Today in go fuck yourself:
That is not why most of us who are lucky to WFH don’t want to go back. At least you are honest enough to suggest a couple of the real reasons: the shitty commute, the insulting theater.
That is not why companies aren’t twisting arms. They know they will have a revolt on their hands and training relacements is expensive AF. And they’re weary of the government constantly changing the rules, maybe?
Bullshit.
Ah, now we arrive at your real point: stuffing the city’s maw.
Yeah, go fuck yourself. You’re just pissed off that your company forced you back.
Yeah — seems to me more a good chance to reconsider the utility of office parks and mega-metropolises built around them.
Ah, now we arrive at your real point: stuffing the city’s maw.
Given that the city apparently has no residents to tax, what does it need the revenue to pay for?
Union pensions, duh.
In terms of privilege, deadbeats and fat cats have nothing on retirees. Few even talk about cutting entitlements anymore. Hell, few even call them entitlements anymore. And the government sector is only half the picture. Every major public corporation is owned by, and run for the benefit of, retirement funds. And why not? Retirees are the most reliable voters and most predictable consumers.
The original rot is not the dissolution of the nuclear family, but rather the dissolution of the extended family.
It’s why I can’t muster up the outrage over the recent child tax credit and proposed student loan forgiveness. The amounts are peanuts compared to the transfer of wealth from the younger generations to the older in the form of social security and Medicare. I can’t take any of the GOP railing against child tax credits seriously unless they are also going to propose ending the social security rape of younger generations.
SLD that child tax credits and student loan forgiveness are both inherently wrong.
I’ve said it before, but I like repeating myself so…
A local guy I know who is into commercial real estate told me that Minneapolis will probably need to bail out a bunch of fat cats who own the big sky scrapers/offices in downtown.
If you read the local rags you keep seeing stories about how people are thronging back to downtown and that trickle is going to grow and grow. My source says that is utter bullshit. It is the media/downtown boosters trying to convince everyone that it is ok to go back.
Not only have a lot of people figured out how much cheaper it is to let people work from home, but a lot of those suburban women have flatly told managers that there is no way they are going back when the paper is full of shootings and carjackings.
He thinks that the city is going to forgive a lot of property taxes and possibly try to subsidize the real estate owners. What else can they do? Buy the properties and turn them into Section 8 housing (or homeless shelters)?
My cousin is the (armed) driver for a hedge fund dude. 6 floors of prime Manhattan real estate at $1M/month are still empty. My brother, a sales trader, is never going back in 5 days a week.
Manhattan is fucked if they’re relying on those people to flock back in.
Another group that is scared shitless by the end of traditional commuting to work places are the insiders who are skimming off transportation projects.
Imagine if the plebes started asking questions about why we are going to spend a couple billion on a light rail line that will be an even bigger money suck than other light rail.
Or all those guys who make tons of money expanding freeways (or repairing existing ones). They sure as shit don’t want the work from home movement to succeed. Do you know how much grift is involved in highways?
I read yesterday that the feds gave NYC (well, technically, the state) 15 billion dollars last (fiscal?) year in order to keep running mostly empty trains.
They actually shut one commuter rail line down here. It was already a huge loser and then with the lockdowns it dropped 90+%. Even the choo-choo lovers had to admit it made no sense to keep operating it.
Deblasio has already turned a bunch of empty hotels into homeless shelters. Guess how that turned out.
But yeah, keep pushing more and more totalitarian rules that punish the outcast unclean and then sit back and wonder where the recovery is already.
So like everything happens in an eruption then poof. Y’all schedule the same coffee break at work or something?
Or you’re in a different time zone.
*blushes and scurries away*
Come back you!
Quarantine for the youngest TOK ends today, and she finally gets to go back to school. Meanwhile, hockey will go on. I needed a negative test to be allowed back, and got one at Walgreens today (I got my results in 1 hour instead of 24, and it was free). As I thought, our sponsoring hospital is being super strict. Masks during practice, only one player to a hotel room (yay!), and we are required to get a vax. I’m more “hesitant” than “anti” so I’m looking for a J&J shot next week. We do have a bunch of tournaments coming up including one in Indianapolis this weekend. Looks like I’ll play for both A and B teams this time.
Glad you tested negative, but masks during practice sounds really annoying. I don’t like wearing a mask just to go to the pharmacy.
Sounds good, Kev! Make us proud!
I’ve got some international travel coming up, so I have some decisions to make as well.
The masks are going to be bad, but we’ll see how long that lasts.
Just think of it as a poor man’s altitude training. I just hope you don’t sweat like I do. There are times when I feel like I’m being waterboarded wearing mine.
I find it odd that your league is more demanding than all the major leagues. AFAIK none of the major sports figures are required to do this (even as many of the spectators are).
As my coaches said, they personally don’t care (and they backed it up when we had “unofficial” practice this past year without masks). But we are sponsored by a big rehab hospital, and the sports programs are of minimal importance compared to their patients, so we do what the higher-ups say.
I think that if anyone asks about your team, you should all say that you all used to be on normal rec league teams, but all of you had adverse reactions to the vax and are now in this new league.
OMG, yes. I will pay money if you guys do this and secretly film people’s reactions.
Sounds like you’ve been in my locker room. Or I guess any hockey locker room, we’re no different.
Get jerseys with a team name of “Flying Faucis”
Be careful – getting vaccinated for any illness you just recovered from can be dangerous.
???
I know of one person who vaccinated to recover from long COVID and was dead within 24 hours.
“EXCLUSIVE: Embarrassing live photo shows Melania’s former press secretary Stephanie Grisham on her back with her legs in the air on the floor of the White House on election night 2020”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9998941/Embarrassing-photo-shows-former-press-secretary-Stephanie-Grisham-lying-floor-White-House.html
OK?
EXCLUSIVE: Journalists never got beyond the gossiping middle school girl stage.
Seriously, who the hell cares?
That’s embarrassing?
I should probably burn my photos from college.
I almost feel bad for kids these days – the idea of destroying the negatives is long gone.
Get wikifeet on the case, stat!
Huh, looks like she is working out.
And, who cares?
Do we have pictures of Hunter from that night?
I never do that to stretch my back, etc.
A difference between French and US/BBC media:
The article lead with
Down in paragraph twelve we get to how it would have run here:
I’m late to the party, but anyone other than me following the van girl story?
Mentioned in the morning links.
“Pretty white girl alert!”
Who but a pretty white girl is going to try something stupid like that? See pictures of her? Stoned out of her fucking mind. Like she saw Easy Rider and thought the ending wouldn’t happen to her. Probably what everyone else said.
Lol, ur old.
Moths fly out of my wallet and I fart dust!
Eh, she was traveling with her putative boyfriend, not just going solo, right? Driving across the country with your boyfriend in an RV wouldn’t be especially foolhardy. Doing the same in a converted mini-van just sounds like a more uncomfortable version of the RV trip.
Some of the DM stories have painted the boyfriend in an unflattering light.
Still, who does that? For real.
/sarc off
Hopefully we find out what happened. It’s a sad story, regardless of what kind of van she was driving.
Not victim blaming, but I’m kinda victim blaming.
Supposedly, she was the instigator in a DV incident in Moab about a month ago?
Not for nothing, but I pointed out a week ago that if I had to do that sort of ‘tiny house’ living with my spouse, there would be a body count.
Yep, saw a little of the police bodycam footage of that.
Living in a palatial 747 sq. ft. with my wife & hound, I can confirm that cutting that down to minivan size, and not being able to step outside at any moment, would be trying under the best of circumstances.
My mother and her husband do it, love it, and plan on living in it once they stop traveling.
You can read about it here! http://www.travelin-tortuga.com/Travelin-Tortuga/index.html
And no, there is no way that my wife and I could do that either.
I can barely stand a three bedroom by myself. Sharing a van? No. Someone would say “What?” to the question “Is the lead really hot?”
“Does this rag smell like chloroform?”
a rainbow was seen where the body was discovered.
/actual Fox News headline
But were there any mushrooms?
Those are for double rainbows.
I knew it was fucking Leprechauns.
It has a local angle which means non-stop wall-to-coverage so… fuck no.
OMWC quit following it once he figured out that it was not a “girl” but a young adult lady. He was fairly put out by the media’s mischaracterization of it as a “van girl”.
The proverbial Canary Islander in a lava tube.
I had a friend from the Canary Islands. I hope his place isn’t getting immortalized right now.
If only they had some way of detecting the problem before it became too dangeous.
They are so prepared that there is no rush to flee the lava. They can be magmamonious and let their neighbors go first.
“Angela Bassett meets her match! 9-1-1 star sizes up her impressive waxwork at Madame Tussauds: ‘It’s like looking in a mirror!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10010067/Angela-Bassett-meets-match-9-1-1-star-sizes-impressive-waxwork-Madame-Tussauds.html
That’s an impressive 63.
Black folks age well, and she has always been hot as fuck, I’m not surprised at all,
I believe the saying is “Black don’t crack”?
“‘The older the berry the sweeter the juice.'”
“I think it’s ‘the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice’!”
“Yeah, well, yeah – she blacker than a motherfucker too.”
Asians are the same way, they look damn good for their age, White folk just get old,
This always makes me laugh
Haha. An AZN ex used to joke about that.
That’s about right.
Outstanding.
You’re only as old as your latest regenerative bionic implant. Remember to be sporting; declare your physical and mental enhancements to your disc golf opponents.
Oh they don’t underestimate the Old Guy anymore, they are happy to see me walking at all,
NEED MOAR TITANIUM!
?
Until that one day…you looked 30 last night..what the he’ll happened?
I look at some pictures and wonder, who the Hell is that guy?
I’ll take Strange Days Angela Bassett, please.
Underrated movie.
Love that movie, and she was a big reason, Sizemore’s role was precient as well,
Sizemore is a great actor. Would have done even greater things without the serious substance abuse issues.
I luv that movie. A bit dated which makes it even better. Because who doesn’t miss the nineties?!
Good flick.
Yeah, she didn’t look old enough to be Chadwick Boseman’s mother. Good casting anyway.
Liz Hurley has Angela Bassett genes.
The latest Uncommon Knowledge is quite animated*. If any military glibs have any input on it, I would be interested.
I know H.R. McMaster and VDH aren’t going to see eye to eye but even given the heated exchanges I think they agree more than they expected, even if they were both worked up.
Peter Robinson usually ensures quite relaxed and contemplative conversation but this one turned out to be a bit too exciting for bedtime. I think I need something to take the edge off.
*lit
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1439966084883435521
WTF, and who is this asshole?
These douchebags, https://www.kaiserchiefs.com/
They did correctly predict a riot.
Thanks, I never heard of them.
I’ve _heard_ of them for years, couldn’t name anything by them.
I bet that douchbag has a “I ❤️ NIH” tattoo.
What in the fucking hell?
“I’m a Teacher. I’m About to Quit.
So are thousands of others.
The classroom isn’t a safe space anymore.
The MAGA students are getting worse. They’ve always complained about safe spaces. The classroom is supposed to be one.
They don’t like that.
They’ve turned classrooms into one of the most dangerous places in the world. Imagine a bunch of people with different views and experiences, all randomly thrown together in a room and asked to talk to each other while learning how to debate topics like abortion and global warming. Now let some of those students have guns, and add a deadly virus.
I’ve got a handful of straight up MAGA assholes in my classes this year. They’re anti-masking, anti-vaxxing conspiracy theorists.
How bad are they?
They’re pretty terrible. They think kicking Trump off Twitter wasn’t fair. They think the Texas abortion ban was a huge victory. They think liberals are panicking about the coronavirus. They think we’re not executing enough criminals, and that slavery never happened.
They hate my school’s mask mandate.”
https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/im-a-teacher-i-m-about-to-quit-f7afd11109dd
CWWAA
“I’ve never felt threatened by students before, not on this level. Now they can actually hurt me, just by breathing. All they have to do is give me a breakthrough infection that I pass to my 3-year-old daughter…
I’m teaching online now, but that can’t last forever. I might get to teach online in the spring, but eventually I’ll get sent back into the classroom, where my state allows them to carry guns.”
Oh no. Her daughter only has over a 99.99% of surviving it and will likely be protected from covid for life if she does.
Now they can actually hurt me, just by breathing.
Too bad it’s a common belief among the brainwashed sheep who probably constitute a majority.
Now they can actually hurt me, just by breathing.
Did this person just learn about diseases? Spoiler alert: this has been true the whole time.
“my state allows them to carry guns”
I’m pretty confident no state allows adults, never mind minors, to carry guns in school.
You’d be wrong about the adult part. There’s a school in a small west Texas town I drive through a couple times a year that even advertises that it’s teacher are armed on the school signs.
I honestly thought this was satire.
I think her pathological mendacity follows a pattern:
*sees that student drives a pickup truck; infers his beliefs about slavery*
What’s funny is that she’s now the church lady running the class and the conservative kids are the punks.
“They’ve turned classrooms into one of the most dangerous places in the world.”
Unless your classroom outside, after dark, in parts of Chicago, then no.
Or in any Wahhabist backwater culture in the world.
Out in the forest is totes dangerous too. Logging is still the most dangerous job you can have.
Of course those lucky loggers are outside and don’t have to worry about punk kids breathing on them.
#MAGAcountry
Yeah sure. They think that slavery never happened. Sounds legit.
Someone posted a pic of the author earlier – she’s cute in a “never stick it in crazy” sorta way.
Thanks for giving me hope for the next generation.
A lot of teachers think like this woman who views any sort of difference or calls for accountability as a threat to their very existence. I know I’ve said this many times but most teachers I know are some of the most entitled people on Earth who believes that they should slavishly praised every minute.
I was idly thinking the other day: which profession has the highest self regard?
Actors, obviously, score quite high – not just one, but several televised awards shows to show how awesome they are.
Doctors tend to rate themselves highly, but that’s not entirely baseless.
A bunch of police think they’re all that’s holding back the tide. But I have met a number of cops who recognize it’s ultimately just a job, and dealing with domestic disturbances is a depressing percentage of their job.
Way too many teaches truly think they’re some sort of heros for doing the job.
YMMV
“Way too many teaches truly think they’re some sort of heros for doing the job.”
The term hero is thrown around too loosely these days and you’re right when you say that a lot of teachers view themselves as heroes. The concept of being heroic is going above and beyond what you’re expected to do to help someone. With teachers it’s like….you’re fucking paid to do this job and the expectation is that who ever sits under your care will be educated. Granted I’ve had two or three teachers out of my 13 years of public education go above and beyond but for the most part, most of them where there to collect a fucking paycheck and get summers off.
Well put. As with many (most?) jobs, 10% are exceptional, 10% are horrible, and 80% are doing an OK job (for about 8 months of work).
It’s the bottom 90% who want to be lauded, IME.
I’d also add love of authority and having a captive audience as a reason for many. I haven’t met many grade school teachers that would make good drinking buddies. This line by Patrick O’Brien in of the Master and Commander novels has stuck with me.
The publix grocery store put up a sign about 9 months ago that said “heroes work here”. People complained so publix took it down.
I thanked grocery employees for keeping the shelves stocked and working hard. Its still their job.
We have many examples of heroes. The crew of the USS Indianapolis were heroes. They transported one of the nukes that got Japan to surrender and their mission was so top secret that their ship movement was not tracked like normal ships. So when they were sunk by a japanese sub and the crew had to survive in shark infested waters for days, they navy didnt know.
Fire Fighter running into a burning building – their job. Non-fire fighter running into a burning building to rescue people – hero.
Truckers (at least those that call in to talk radio shows) are right behind teachers in the “I’m so important” race.
“talk radio shows”
I see your problem…
I should have clarified better, “Those that called in to talk radio shows back when my dad made us listen to Limbaugh everyday” ,so twenty-ish or more years ago.
Note that she can cite only her feelings and her fears, not actual evidence of violence or even intimidation.
I see this as the new tactic: “I was literally shaking”—“”What do I tell my children?”—“I was afraid Trump would launch a Nuke.”
None of those things stand up in a court of law, and with good reason; thought crimes are not actual crimes.
But the actual facts are that people in America are being locked up or shut out if jobs for their opinions. Minority Report, here we come…
“Note that she can cite only her feelings and her fears, not actual evidence of violence or even intimidation.”
The whole Kavanaugh fiasco showed that these people care not whit about evidence or proof and believe that the world should be dictated what they feel.
The tyranny of the emotive.
She literally claims students are allowed to bring guns to class . Since that’s a lie, why are we believing she’s actually a teacher?
A bit like that twitter account of some UK ‘woman’ that is really an elaborate hoax?
The Cult of the White Liberal Woman is the most dangerous force in America today.
Imma throw some water on this grease fire…
(Paul, in his first letter to Timothy. Note his use of the word “I” in verse 12; he’s not claiming to speak for God but only from his own observations of the perils faced by the early church)
Re: Australia/China. It doesn’t help when one of your senior cabinet ministers says things like this out loud: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-12/christopher-pyne-potential-conflict-china-politics/100064226
They want France to know why they got dumped.
But I agree with your thinking that is unproductive.
True, although he said this back in April.
I think they were laying groundwork to point to the decision made later.
I don’t think the idea of war with China is some sort of Brand New Information! We all know that it is a strong possibility, given how belligerent they are.
Since there are exporting restrictions on some US tech, especially military tech and australia is not America’s friend, what if australia is trying to give newer sub tech to their commie buddies in china.
America subs can end chinas plan of invasion just like we did end it for Imperial Japan. American subs a re serious threat to chinese naval supremacy. .
Malice is so good at Twitter
That was nuclear.
Yow.
TBF, the “pro” side will say they’re aiming to avoid those (don’t want to ruin the joke).
From further down:
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1439954714741907467
Dammit, Massie, stop making me like a politician.
(in truth, he’s everything I say I want in a politician – a self-made man who went into politics after making his mark in the private sector)
I see Massie has his fair share of trolls now.
He’s made it to the Big Leagues.
That was from his recent interview with Tom Woods.
Do recommend.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1969-congressman-thomas-massie-resist-the-biden-mandates/
Ohhh, Sick! Burn!
LOL
Mexico sure has a lot of Haitians.
Third Haitian Caravan Of More Than 10,000 Set To Hit McAllen Texas
https://freeworldnews.tv/watch?id=6147d4c4093c570c8b36a180
Other than their obviously darker skin color, why has a significant presence of Haitians triggered an overdue response at the border?
It’s safe for D’s to get their racist on?
Ain’t no one calling ’em on it.
https://twitter.com/Babygravy9/status/1439227715161411588
OFFS!
https://twitter.com/KirseyBelle/status/1439625424246558722
It’s a cult. The supernatural has replaced science.
The dumpster fire one is kind of cute and on point.
OMG! I’m listening to Like a Prayer, and I like it!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E35f7yx9H1y0f
I’ve been carrying The First That Will Change Everything for a month and a half now. It’s growing. Feeding. Sapping me of my strength. But it will all culminate in a miasmic explosion that will slowly infect the Glibertariat, and from there…the world.
I’m on pins and needles. I sure hope this first doesn’t disappoint.
Seconded.
I’ve been wondering where you went. Anticipating your return.
A veritable bukkake of first?
Meh, already been on TV.
Got my “Come and Make Me” t-shirt.
Its printed on a Gil-dan shirt, which is a pretty common shirt for this kind of thing, so no real complaints there. Print job is fine, also. Available in a number of colors – I went with charcoal. Shipped fast. Can recommend.
John Crist is a funny fucker.
Here he is on Black Church vs White Church.
https://youtu.be/uE5zc_-2nDE
Fun with numbers
Covid-19 is officially the most deadly outbreak in recent American history, surpassing the estimated U.S. fatalities from the 1918 influenza pandemic, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Reported U.S. deaths due to Covid crossed 675,000 on Monday, and are rising at an average of more than 1,900 fatalities per day, Johns Hopkins data shows. The nation is currently experiencing yet another wave of new infections, fueled by the fast-spreading delta variant.
The 1918 flu – which came in three waves, occurring in the spring of 1918, the fall of 1918; and the winter and spring of 1919 – killed an estimated 675,000 Americans, according to the Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention. It was considered America’s most lethal pandemic in recent history up until now.
“I think we are now pretty well done with historical comparisons,” said Dr. Howard Markel, a physician and medical historian at the University of Michigan. He added it is time to stop looking back to 1918 as a guide for how to act in the present and to start thinking forward from 2021.
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In 1918, for example, the U.S. population was less than a third of today’s with an estimated 103 million people living in America just before the roaring 1920s. Today, there are nearly 330 million people living in the U.S. That means the 1918 flu killed about 1 in every 150 Americans, compared with 1 in 500 who have died from Covid so far.
The 1918 virus also tended to kill differently than Covid, experts say. With World War I, there was a massive movement of men across all of America and Europe. While the coronavirus can be especially severe for the elderly and those with underlying health conditions, the 1918 virus was unusual in that it killed many young adults.
Globally, the 1918 flu killed more people, an estimated 20 million to 50 million, according to the World Health Organization. Covid has taken the lives of approximately 4.7 million people worldwide so far, according to Johns Hopkins data.
Unlike today, there was no vaccine for the 1918 flu. There was also no CDC or national public health department. The Food and Drug Administration existed but consisted of a very small group of people. Additionally, there were no antibiotics, intensive care units, ventilators or IV fluids.
Nobody reads past the headline.
No CDC? The horror.
The HORROR.
That is an impressive load of bullshit.
Not mentioned is that the Spanish Flu primarily killed those in their prime and not obese geriatrics living in nursing homes.
And that’s ignoring the other liberties they took with the data.
Or that the 1918 was an actual flu, with much more direct and effective immunity from previous flu exposures.
But I guess he does have a point that we are now in an age where the government creates novel viruses before releasing them into the populace instead of just waiting for nature to take its course.
I read somewhere that the old people had less risk of dying from the Spanish flu because they still had immunity from the Russian flu they survived in the late 19th century. The young people in 1918-19, not so much.
That or perhaps more aggressive cytokine storm due to age.
My grgrandfather was one who died. Only in his forties. His widow lived another 45 years. Maybe he missed the prior flu when he was boy in the Volga.
So 1 in 500 is more deadly than 1 in 150? He’s right to talk about lack of treatment, if COVID had happened in 1918, things would be much worse but he can’t seem to really articulate the argument.
if COVID had happened in 1918, things would be much worse
I’d bet if COVID had happened in 1918 it would have been much less severe. It disproportionately attacks the old, sick, and unhealthy, many of whom are only alive to be killed by it due to the great advances in medicine since 1918. Given how over-represented the third world is among countries that have done well during the pandemic compared to how over-represented the first world is among countries that have done poorly, and the fact that the US in 1918 would have had poorer healthcare than the third world today, I’d bet a 1918 COVID pandemic would have been relatively unremarkable.
Also, most people in the early 20th century were skinny. So if obesity is one of comorbidities that is making sars-covid worse, that would apply back then.
*not apply back then.
“I can tell you that we see a lot of children hospitalized as well, who have high-risk conditions and the problem is not that they didn’t get their third dose. The problem is that they are unvaccinated,” said Offit, also director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Markel agreed that the U.S. has made advancements, saying, “the reality is we have no historical precedent for the moment we’re in now.”
High risk, you say?
No precedent for the imbecilic delusion the federal government either can or should keep everyone alive forever, maybe.
we see a lot of children hospitalized
“A lot” is awfully vague. I’d be amazed if his hospital has admitted more than a dozen.
What I cant figure out is how any of these people are deluded into thinking they have any credibility.
Tire shop still isn’t finished putting new tires on after five hours. So much for the “appointment”. Also glad I didn’t wait in their lobby for it.
Like the Seinfeld with the rental car reservation bit.
Yeah, my local KAL Tire is rather pointless that way. Oh well, at least I switched to “All-weather” (NOT “All-season”) tires this year, so I don’t have to go back to them twice a year for tire swaps. We’ll see how they do this winter . . .
Not sure if they have Discount Tire out there, but i’ve had fantastic luck with them.
That would have been my first choice. But this is on an account and I don’t have that option. Would have been done hours ago. Last time they put tires on, I gave the guy a twenty because hustled the whole time.
Must’ve been this guy.
Have some noxious gobbledegook
A Texas restaurant owner booted a family wearing masks to protect their immunocompromised son, saying it was “political,” CBS DFW reported.
Natalie Wester and her husband brought their 4-month-old son to Hang Time, a restaurant and bar in Rowlett, Texas, just northeast of Dallas. Wester told CBS DFW that her son is immunocompromised, leading the couple to don masks inside the venue out of precaution.
Why are you bringing your “immunocompromised” baby to a fucking bar? How does your putting on a mask matter?
So, the restaurateur was right?
Yes, yes he was.
“A Texas bar that celebrates lynching…”
/NPR
Love how all the recommended links are other propaganda mills like BusinessInsider and the Grauniad.
PS. I don’t believe the details in this story for one second.
What possible difference does it make if the immunocompromised baby’s parents wear masks when they take him out in public?
I assume (and could be wrong) that they don’t wear masks at home. Although it wouldn’t make the slightest difference if they did.
Why are you bringing your “immunocompromised” baby to a fucking bar? How does your putting on a mask matter?
Because they’re horrible, wannabe grifters?
Do they have a gofundme yet?
What possible difference does it make if the immunocompromised baby’s parents wear masks when they take him out in public?
That was my question, as well.
Do they keep the child in a hermetically sealed container, with its own air supply?
They’re horrible parents. They wear the masks so they can show the world that they’re wonderful parents.
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/09/federal-law-enforcement-officer-from-nj-arrested-at-capitol-rally-wont-be-charged.html
🙄
King’s Man
King’s Service
As evidenced by what?
There is video of the cop being crushed in the doorway.
There is also video of a cop killing a citizen…what’s your point?
Hayek seemed to be saying that there is no evidence of the cop being crushed, there is, that’s my point.
Thansk—I was unaware that there is actual evidence. Will now go check it out.
Bullshit
“The Hooded Pitohui is the first scientifically documented poisonous bird. Its feathers give off a neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin which has previously only been found in the skin of poison dart frogs, and handling them can cause numbness.”
https://twitter.com/RebeccaH2030/status/1439173924500213762
It was heterobatrachotoxin before they put chemicals in the water.
At once, a thousand hippies started licking birds.
Africanized birds! ?
Alright, bitches. Let’s play a game of “How to Spend Hayeksplosives’ Money.”
On today’s edition, my Acer laptop finally shit the bed. Not just software but hardware (trackpad, glitchy monitor, etc). I don’t even blame it, cuz it’s 8 years old which is ancient for a laptop.
But now that I’m trying to close on a house, sell a house, move to another state etc, I really really need a computer.
Can any of you lob me a recommendation? Large and heavy is fine; I usually keep it on a rolling podium/music stand. Money is not really an object. Just want a good lappy.
No Macs.
I have liked Asus in the past.
To be more specific – it was very well-built and had less crapware than other brands.
Both my kids have them. Metal chassis, nice screens and have held up well.
No personal experience, though.
/mac guy
I was predominantly Mac between 2006 and 2021. By a complete coincidence that is the same period they were on Intel chips.
^this, I own two,
MSI. It’s much better than Dell, HP, and Acer. Haven’t tried Asus so can’t compare against that. I bought mine a couple years ago and it’s held up very well. Minimal bloatware and built like a tank.
Costco should have MSI on their website.
I’m seriously considering one of the American bespoke builders for my next PC. It’s pricey but I don’t have the time or interest in “building my own”. Plus, you get to cut China out of the deal if you’re careful.
(not looking for a laptop, natch)
I got a new NEC last year. It sux. Sorry, HE, all I got is what not to buy.
When people used to ask me about what to buy, I always ask them what they are going to use it for.
Then you move on to brand. The problem with that is tech companies are notorious for having variations in quality. People mentioning ASUS is a great example. I’ve built (assembled) several computers with ASUS components, until they produced a batch of shite. I’ve bought Dell, MSI, ASUS, EVGA, etc. The first Dell laptop was a tank, the next one was a turd. The thing is if they were great 5, 6, 7 years ago when you bought their last product, it does not mean they aren’t shit now. You want to recommend them because what you bought was great, but you have to keep in mind they are all built by Chinese slaves for masters who only care for short term gain. I’m using a 5+ year old Lenovo AMD 8 lappy for this post. $300 it was. Can I recommend another? No. What’s coming out now could all be crap.
I don’t do gaming or any other hard-core computing. Quicken and Excel, along with some legacy stuff that I’ve brought along from the Oughts. I’ve even been buying 32-bit units to run the old stuff.
I buy refurbished computers off of eBay for $100-200 that last me for several years. I bought my Dell laptop from there a couple of years ago and have been 100% satisfied. I buy them with OS installed, then load my own programs. I prefer Office 2003 and have my own licensed disk, but most of them recently have Office installed.
I loathe Win10 and the next box I buy will have Win7 installed. Hell, I miss XP.
The Spousal Unit bought the Asus ZenBook UX434F a year or so ago, and loves loves loves it. It’s pretty tricked out, all solid-state (no more spinny drives!) and stupidly lightweight. Far more powerful than she needs.
Thanks, y’all. I am going to search Asus and MSI first.
Never had heard of MSI before…
My most intensive stuff on the computer is Audacity, CorelDraw, and RoxioNext. So mostly I just need a reliable PC; no gaming.
MSI makes great video cards. Taiwan company. Quality that is reasonably priced and lasts.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1440021704235945988
So…the deportation thing was mostly a lie.
Shocker.
I’m getting the sense that most of them were already living in SA for some years and only headed north after Biden rolled out the welcome mat.
https://ktla.com/news/california/californias-covid-19-case-rate-is-now-the-lowest-in-the-u-s/
Why do I suspect they’re lying again?
Case rate; Don’t care
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17695/hinge-moment-history
Whoops….
Very good point. The official narrative went from “be normal as possible” to “be as as paranoid and neurotic as possible”.
“Yet, there has been very little pushback against it.”
That depends on where you live. Culture is very important. I don’t know why but in metropolitan centers there is an awful lot of cowardice.
And the shortages begin, no paper products at all, no Tuna, no Peanut butter, no instant coffee, (Fuck off!)
UPS is late, USPS is late, supply chain indeed,
“no paper products at all, no Tuna, no Peanut butter”
For realz? Where did this happen?
Manistee, at the end of the line, I have plenty of those products, so it’s an observation. I did buy a shit ton of canned goods however, Food Stamps FTW!
That sucks. Hope you got a bidet.
The TV I ordered online from B&H yesterday is taking two weeks to deliver. That’s what I get for ordering just before Succos, I guess. But I was hoping one of (((them))) could have at least dropped the thing off at USPS or FedEx today before packing it in for the next nine days. Maybe they do their own deliveries in NYC? I dunno.
OTOH, Amazon gave an even later date (!?).
Exactly, Prime is breaking down as was told in my Tales, sorry Jeff, sorry us.
“PLEASE, LET THIS HAPPEN!”
Am I supposed to ask ‘Why?’.
Morning, Glibs. Was listening to Brett Weinstein’s podcast on the way to work. Good as usual. He gave the old “what we need is equality of opportunity and not outcome”. I’ve never understood how that is possible. And even if it were, how would you prevent that system from the corruption that always accompanies a monopoly of force?
“what we need is equality of opportunity and not outcome”
How quaint. Racist shitlord!
Quaint or just a bizarre definition of opportunity that ignores money.
I think we pretty much have equality of opportunity. And ya, all systems end up in corruption.
True. He’s talking about using public resources to provide positive opportunities.
Well, then he is a moron unless he is talking about using public funds to fire and retrain all the enforcers who make a living hindering small businesses from starting. “Are you a health inspector? This position will soon be eliminated. Have you ever thought of becoming a welder?”
I don’t.
The fucking regulatory state sees to that.
Mornin’ straff!
I would just like to see opportunity. Outcome can’t be gamed, but opportunity means just get the fuck out of the way and see what amazing things people can do.
His (and Heather’s) interview with Mikhaila Peterson was really good as well. She might not be the greatest interviewer on the planet, but she gives her guests space to talk.
I’d like to be in the Canary Islands Lava or no Lava. I would also take this Lava as well.
7.5 minute video to show 20 seconds of action, this guy needs an editor worse than Stephen King or Herman Melville.
Whatever Ebert, dood has 11 subscribers and one video of one of the best waves in the Grand Canyon. He probably forgot he made a youtube channel.
there is a new pos, Just Say’n,
or post
WHO ARE YOU CALLIN’ A POS?
(Drops gloves; assumes useless Notre Dame fisticuffs stance)
*sighs*
Tutorial.