“Who is leaking information out of this office?” Kamala demanded, leaning into Astrid’s face in the cramped supply closet, the sour milk tang of her morning coffee on her breath.
“I do not know,” Astrid said carefully.
“16%. My approval rating is down to 16%! I was once the darling of the DNC!” Kamala fumed. “I dropped out of the primary to help Joe and now I’m down to 16%!”
Astrid tried not to wince under the hail of spittle and revisionist history.
“You stay right here!” Kamala said. “I’ll get the truth from those other two. I’m a very important lawyer!”
The supply closet door still quivering, Astrid heard a tap-tap-tap and a tippity-tap-tippity coming through the wall.
“If that is supposed to be Morse Code, I don’t know it,” she said loudly. “I’m not a Depression-era Cub Scout.”
The tapping persisted until a small hole appeared in the wall beside her.
Kamala burst in again and screamed, “Seresto gave you up! She saw you having lunch with a Fox reporter!”
“No, she didn’t. I never have had lunch with a Fox reporter, so she couldn’t have possibly seen me having lunch with one.”
Furious, Kamala grabbed Astrid’s purse and dumped it out on the floor, lipstick, tampons, tubes, jars, and pens going all over.
“If you needed some lotion all you had to do was ask,” Astrid said calmly.
“Where’s your phone, where is it?” Kamala demanded.
“It’s right here,” Astrid said, holding it out.
“Unlock it!”
“It’s unlocked.”
Kamala snatched it away and then kicked around the contents of Astrid’s purse. “Are those Bluetooth headphones?!?” Kamala screamed, picking up the small white charging case.
“My iPhone doesn’t work with anything but Bluetooth headphones,” Astrid said.
Kamala huffed and left with the phone and headphones, slamming the door behind her. In the next minute or so, Astrid heard doors slamming all through the office.
Tap-tap-tap.
“Really?” Astrid yelled.
The hole grew a little larger as she watched. Finally, a small rolled tube of paper was poked through the hole and fell on the floor. Astrid picked it up.
On the back was a user name and password.
“Oh, David,” Astrid said sadly. “I’ll tweet it for you. But I just don’t know if it will work.”
“Please,” David said, his voice reduced to a mouse through the hole.
“I’ll use that picture I took of you at your desk. It looks very contrite.”
Astrid heard the door next to her’s open and Kamala screamed, “Who are you talking to?!?”
“David,” Astrid whispered to herself, “David.”
Stockholme syndrome? Hillary Syndrome?
Astrid tried not to wince under the hail of spittle and revisionist history.
Perfect.
Every Wednesday morning, over my first cup of coffee, I look forward to this and wonder whether my laughter will include horror, nausea, or envy.
Today is envy. Cheers, SF!
We are all wincing under the hail of spittle and revisionist history.
Yep, that started me laughing.
[golf clap]
“I’m not a Depression-era Cub Scout.”
I laughed.
I wondered if it was going a Darkness at Noon direction.
(NSFW) I told you no one knows Morse Code anymore! (NSFW)
quiet sobbing
I am only …—…— at it.*
*not really, though I did try to learn it as a kid
Hell, I didn’t even have to learn it to get my ham license.
Just an anthology of Buddy Hackett jokes?
Is that kosher?
NA – check your mailbox. I’ve been emailing you from my Glibs email address about your product review article. We want to publish that soon.
Like how soon? I wanted to weigh those items when I get home tonight. Though I could gloss over that instead of being exact.
Ok read email, you were talking about the other article. That one isn’t actually finished. But I’ll work on it tonight!
The liquid one…r-y-e. Final round.
I’ll do the final tasting tonight. The sacrifices I make for this place…
If you need a lab tech for rye tasting, I’m your guy.
MikeS:
So… do you prefer the double blind method of tasting, or the triangle test?
My alcohol consumption has fallen off a cliff this year. I’m probably trying to set an example of good moral clean living for the pup.
I prefer the method where you buy the rye and I taste it.
i.e. the prostitute method
Tundra and Tonio – you hit on my two favorite lines.
This is one of the greatest sentences ever written. Context, as always, matters, but that is just… mwah *chef’s kiss.*
The Depression-era Cub Scout line is a very, very close second.
I was howling the whole time. The David Gins note through the hole is just too much.
I can’t say “you’ve outdone yourself,” SF, because the whole JoeMala series is absolute gold.
Seconded.
Is that picture on the wall real? I’d have photoshopped a mirror with Kamala holding a gun on David.
That has been done. Saw it on the tweeter yesterday.
Couldn’t re-find, but this one is good, too.
I’m guessing that magnifying glass is mounted at the correct focal length so she can burn
internsants at will?Roaring applause for building up to that ending.
Like this
I just read it again – it’s even funnier the second time.
Fuck, this is so good. Amazing.
You’re right, on second reading this stood out even more.
“If you needed some lotion all you had to do was ask,” Astrid said calmly.
Absolute genius.
Tonio – check your regular email. (No rush, I just wanted you to know I sent you something).
I would like to see the job description and salary range of “Deputy Director of Operations”.
Must have low testosterone and a remarkable ability to kiss ass.
I figure it would remarkably similar to a personals ad for someone looking for a submissive bottom in a humiliation relationship.
His safe-word? “WillieBrown!”
Daaammmmmnnnn!
Nice.
I didn’t know that SF was doing non-fiction now.
Someone with skills should photoshop an arm with a pistol in that pic, ala that scene from Airplane!.
OT: For Rhywun, and any other Knew Yahkers out there in Glib-land.
That only seems to address the city-worker mandate. But that’s OK, I’m not complying to any of them.
Hmm, will check in with my bro later today, this should lift his spirits a bit.
Holy shit, that was pure gold!
Bravo!
Excellent! Great!
Feelgood stuff, since Swissy hasn’t linked it yet:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1467609326596542465
Some good comments there too.
Frozen milkshake?
“Oh, David,” Astrid said sadly. “I’ll tweet it for you. But I just don’t know if it will work.”
“Please,” David said, his voice reduced to a mouse through the hole.
A side piece for Astrid?
This is way more interesting than sitting through the Nashua Board of Health meeting. FEAR PORN! FEAR PORN! from the BoH. Gotta wear masks in the meeting!
Well, at least no one speaking so far in the public comment period is in support of a mask ordinance.
WMUR has a reporter on the Zoom call. The person currently speaking opened with “WMUR cannot be trusted”.
First person speaking in favor of a mask mandate: “People who died of Covid have no rights. They have no one to speak for them. We need to speak for them.”
Covid cancels everyone’s rights, apparently.
?
Man or woman speaker?
Woman.
I thought she claimed to be a current member of the Nashua Board of Aldermen, but I see no one on the list of Aldermen that matches her username.
Duh. My memory is fucked.
Member of the Board of Education. Sharon Giglio.
Paula Johnson, who is also on the Board of Education, spoke in opposition to the mask ordinance.
The public comment period was dominated by people speaking against masks. Only three spoke in favor.
The Board is responding to questions/comments during the public comment period. Their response can so far be summed up as “Shut up and listen to your betters” plus surprise at so many people speaking against the mask ordinance.
And… no recommendation for a mask ordinance at this time. BoH will come up with a range of recommendations for mitigation measures for the Board of Aldermen to consider.
Reasons cited: lack of political will, lots of opposition (surprising amount to the BoH), and misinformation.
Keene, NH has their Board of Health meeting on a mask ordinance later tonight. I won’t be able to attend because it is in-person only.
Hopefully it ends like this one does: No recommendation for a new mask ordinance.
Sounds fairly lively, in a Newhart kinda way.
We need to speak for them.
They’re dead. Wearing a mask or not wearing a mask makes absolutely no difference whatsoever to them.
I swear part of the reason some people become Branch Covidians is because it leads people to treat the idiotic things they say as insightful.
I’m losing one of my techs to an internal transfer/promotion.
This might be of interest for jobseeking Glibs for two reasons:
1. I need a new lab tech.
2. Thermo Fisher is hiring FSEs at remarkably high salaries — my tech had an offer from TF and used it to get the internal promotion.
Heard that lots of places have shut down their lab training programs – so fewer techs are in higher demand. I work with several labs who can’t seem to hold onto them for long.
Penny wise and pound foolish management. It’s been an ongoing ailment.
Yanno, your current lifestyle might be conducive to an FSE job.
FSE?
Field Service Engineer. You travel around the region with a dolly-mounted toolkit fixing machines. It sucks if you have pets.
I’m not sure which branch of TF made the offer, but I can find out tomorrow. The people who fix Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometers are usually not the same people working on Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometers or Ion Chromatographs.
They also recently acquired FEI, so they also have an Electron Microscope branch. Those guys have poached TWO of our people. Frankly because we knew more about the damn things than FEI did.
I see.
My biggest handicap is that I know nothing about these machines as of right now.
That means they’ll lowball you on the salary. My tech had operator-level knowledge, but very little under the covers.
You have a work history that shows logical, procedural thinking and you can show proof of manual dexterity/fine detail work with your minipaintings. The 80% lower work should also be in your favor, but it’s probably politically unwise to mention that.
I need a new lab tech.
This won’t, at all, be like David Gins job.
…except for the beatings and public humiliation (hopefully!)
Can’t speak to the accuracy, but the claim doesn’t shock me given the other assertions I’ve seen regarding the vaccine’s impact on reproductive health
Joseph Mercola has been a fraud and a ‘natural medicine’ huckster for as long as I’ve been alive. Hard pass.
Yep. I skipped over his interview in the “Covid Revealed” series for that reason.
A friend of mine is a big fan of Mercola. He ended up with some serious cancer and nearly died. Not saying that Mercola’s advice caused the cancer, but it sure didn’t help him.
Are any other actual vaccines given while a
birthing personwoman is pregnant?Flu shot & Dtap maybe?
I know the Dtap (or Tdap, I forget which is which) is recommended for all those who will be in contact.
Not alive, so it doesn’t matter. /libtards
The 82-91% figure is just as meaningless as the 12.6% figure from the original paper. The problem is the original paper was done very early, so it only had data through February. Most of the pregnancies in the dataset were still ongoing, so they weren’t included in the calculations because the outcome was still unknown. This left the authors with ~100 women who were vaccinated in the first trimester and had miscarriages, and ~700 women who were vaccinated in the third trimester and had a live birth. The original authors divided 100/(100+700) to get their figure, which is garbage because the 100 and the 700 are completely unrelated populations. The 82-91% figure comes from throwing out all the cases vaccinated after 20 weeks, but that’s also garbage because it ignores all the women who were vaccinated in the first trimester and were still pregnant at the time of the study.
Months have passed since this study came out, enough time to determine whether those other pregnancies had good or bad outcomes but AFAIK there’s been no follow-up to update the numbers. Meanwhile, the CDC used the original garbage number to declare the vaccine safe for pregnancy.
At this point, I’m regarding the lack of meaningful data as a major red flag. I’m not a big fan of the precautionary principle, but as I’m 28 and have no comorbidities, the vaccine is completely unnecessary, so I’m regarding it as dangerous until proven safe, especially since I’m trying to get pregnant. But the dataset everyone’s arguing about doesn’t tell us anything useful whatsoever.
La bella Cannoli!
Aw heck, she smrt to boot.
Ciao Toxteth! I’m always so impressed by the range and depth of knowledge here. It seems like for every possible topic, someone knows everything about it. I’m no expert on this issue, but have paid a lot more attention than I normally would because it’s particularly relevant to me right now.
Yeah, I don’t know why they tolerate me.
“Good luck with your big development” (as Audrey says in Roman Holiday).
I know nothing about Dr. Mercola but the big “fact checked” box and the countdown clock telling me when the article will disappear don’t inspire confidence.
Dr. Leana Wen is the most dangerous woman in America
if it saves just one life…
Moderna is bad now.
I wonder how much of this is that former FDA fucko pulling strings for Pfizer. Remember when the J&J was pulled for reasons?
We don’t know shit. And with the ridiculous obfuscation of the data, we never will.
Other than dose, is there any substantive difference between Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech from a bio perspective? Of course the poison is in the dose, but one would think if Moderna is too dangerous, Pfizer must be too, especially with the repeated dosing.
OT: “Astrid tried not to wince under the hail of spittle and revisionist history.” was the best line. Maybe in the history of JoeMala. Though I may just be blanking out some of the more Cthulhu-ian turns of phrase from past episodes.
Wanders back to classes and sub-classes, references and dangling pointers. sigh.
You sure this is accurate?
Most of the Scandanavian countries already did this I thought. They suspended Moderna until Dec 1. I haven’t looked to see if they started back up.
Several scandinavian countries halted moderna for men under age 30.
Of course not.
She can’t let it go. (And she won’t go away…)
Hillary Clinton gets emotional as she reads her “would have been” 2016 victory speech
????????????????
As pleasant as that sounds, I am still not going to read it.
Or watch it, whatever.
Good summary. Thanks, Mike.
“Astrid tried not to wince under the hail of spittle and revisionist history.”
*hearty applause*
/goes back to reading
Ahahahah. And then David Gins. Fucking perfect.
It ain’t exactly talk of fire and fury.
“There were no minced words.”
Pres. Biden underscores imperatives outlined in discussion with Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin amid border tensions with Ukraine.
This impotent, old coot and his cabal of commie cuntes are going to stumble us into a war with the exact country we should be befriending.
I see no need to befriend that autocratic shithole. But no need to be at war with them either.
In the geopolitical sense it wouldn’t hurt to have a friendly disposition towards Russia. At least don’t be hostile.
That threat might carry more weight coming from a country that was a net exporter of energy.
I feel like a shitty manager right now. So the FAA did an incentive (but don’t call it that) program to get employees vaccinated by November 8th. I had two employees that wanted to get the incentive, which was a 40-hour time off award. The FAA is saying that the incentive was only good between Sept 29th and Nov 8 and that no requests will be granted.
I did give the employees the letter that outlined the incentive program, but it reads as “if you received your vaccinations between the Sept 29th and Nov 8th” you are eligible. It does not say anything about a deadline to submit the award information for processing.
Trying to find a way to tell my employees to slap me with a grievance so they can get their reward for following government orders but kinda hard to tell them that when I am their boss. Both of these employees absolutely didn’t want to get the shot but family, finance, etc drove them to it. They deserve some compensation in my opinion.
It does not say anything about a deadline to submit the award information for processing.
Bastards.
Sorry. Hopefully they get that time off.
Yeah plus leave, my family life, work ramping up, etc, it was an easy thing to put on the back burner while they get everything situated. I am sure they will cause I will gladly take the slap on the wrist for failing to dutifully inform them they need to produce documents by Nov 8th, while everyone is working from home, some are shy about transmitting their VaxCards via text, etc.
I am confident they will get it.
We all good. Some managers were misrepresenting the program and the way I read it was correct. I was getting ready to go scorched Earth for my guys.
PTO on OBE! Whoo hoo!
PSA: NEVER FORGET THAT NO MATTER WHAT CUTE OR FUN THING YOU SEE ON TWITTER, YOU ARE ONLY TWO CLICKS FROM A CESSPOOL OF SOUL-CRUSHING STUPIDITY UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE.
That is all.
(I went from a cow sliding down a hill to Robert Reich’s ocean of morons in two clicks – by accident.)
Cow sliding downhill – cows shit – shit rolls downhill – Robert Reich. Makes absolute sense.
3 steps – 2 clicks – 1 septic mess
That’s not an accident. Though you may not have intended it, Twitter certainly did.
Good point.
They’re always one click away, and very addictive
Ten seconds of a cat sliding down stairs, via YT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QMeGkbdIVw
More Remy
“Printer goes BBUUURRR!!!”
🙂
“Hamilton started this place, that’s why the printers go Burr”
*chef’s kiss*
Perhaps make the unvaxxed wear overlapped triangles with the top one rotated 60 degrees: Dr. Fauci Tells Americans They Should Require Holiday Guests To Prove They Are Vaccinated
Cause illness was never a thing prior to 2020. Fuck off.
Great, so now I have to hire a security guard and add sound proofing so I don’t hear Aunt Gladys tapping on the dining room window.
Every time I think he can’t get more loathsome….
OT – Some folks were asking about the radio segment I was on. I found it.
It may be in other places, but here’s a link:
http://rss.gcnlive.com/wayneAllynRoot/?name=2021-12-02_wayneallynroot1202212.mp3
He intros me at 30:45 and we talk for about 10 minutes.
It’s the second hour of his 02 Dec 2021 show. He’s been all over this issue. Crazy or not, he happens to be right.
Listening now. Like a lot of people, some can really focus on an issue and this allows you to reach something like 3-15 million people?
I’ve never listened to the guy and had barely heard of him before this, OBE. Evidently he’s big in your neck of the woods, but he’s a Trump guy and he’s had Trump on his show. He intro’d one of Trump’s rallies (and hence why I suspect there is no shortage of terms like ‘conspiracy theorist’ thrown around the guy by TMITE). Just in searching for that show I listened to a couple of segments and he’s no dummy. He had RFK, Jr on and basically intro’d him by saying, “You and I would likely agree on very few other things because of our politics, BUT on this vaccine…” and then he segued right in to RFK’s book about Fauci. And he let RFK just rip Fauci to shreds.
I can see why he’s got an audience. He’s got that Scotty Furrell (“Furrell on the Bench!”) gravelly voice, and like all radio guys he’s a bit of a huckster (because that’s the nature of the medium and the adspace that they’re selling), but he’s a smart guy. He is ALL over the govt and Pfizer on the vaxxes.
If they ask me back, I’ll go on no question.
“I got paid.”
LOL!
Well done, Ozy.
You should do this more often!
Immediately after the interview, My wife said “you were made for radio” and I followed with “ah, yes, I’ve got the perfect face for it, eh?”
She larfed. “That’s not what I meant!”
Once, when I got out of the shower and was getting dressed, I was in front of a mirror. I told Jugsy, “Honey, when I look at my reflection all I can see is a grey, pot-bellied, old, man. I could really use a compliment.”
She said, “well, your eyesight is damn near perfect.”
/stolen from Norm
Good job Ozy! Great interview!
Nice.
Ozy pictured. //jk
Not that far off 😉
“Pocket sand!”
Ozy! you are Iron Man!
Saving for later when I can attend better.
’08 LP VP? Rings a bell.
Excellent. Well worth the listen. The litany of terrible things done to military and civilians alike which you discussed is enraging. Only half kidding when I say I’d like to see Mr. SMITH go to Washington.
STEVE SMITH GO WASHINGTON…
ANY BY GO, MEAN…
FAA Vaccine Mandate Update
So they are supposedly close to rolling out the questions for religious accommodations. It will be three questions, each question allows up to 10,000 characters and also allows upload of additional documentation. They are pushing it all to the DOT, rather than the FAA level. My guess, unless someone rights “Fuck off slaver”*, they will approve
*IMO, a valid religious argument.
“No.” is a valid religious argument as far as I am concerned. The government has no business making those decisions for you.
The way the Feds are getting crushed in court, they may want to not add one more stone on the scale opposed to them.
ReasonTV is the only corner of TOS that is still doing good work. A libertarian debate on IP TW: long video.
Did you 3D print that knife? And just where did you get that pattern file, Mr. Information-wants-to-be-free?
There is literally nothing more important to debate at this time in history!
I am strongly anti-patent/copyright and I have said it would be literally the last thing I would fix.
Well, no I would fix some parts of it early on, but eliminating them would be absolutely last.
I am pretty strongly pro-patent/copyright. But the first thing I would do is cut copyright back to life of creator (or even less).
First thing I would do would overturn all extension of copyright. You get what the law said at the time of the work. That would immediately move a lot of stuff into public domain. After than sorts out a bit, we could reduce the law for new works back to something reasonable. If the purpose is to encourage new works, as the constitution states, then life of creator is too long.
I think the 24 years standard isn’t the worst version that has been around.
If I could wave a magic wand, i’d take copyright back to the 14+14 regime.
A-class patents last for 25 years (with increased fees and more stringent examination)
B-class patents to a 3+5+5 regime (current fees and an idealized version of current examination practices)
I’d be willing to grant copyright 20 years, extendable (for a fee) for an additional 20. If you outlive that, congratulations!
How about instead of spending a fee to extend your rent seeking, your write something new?
But the rent, Moe, the rent!
Watching the Potter trial…mom on stand and DA got the grieving mom that they wanted and the defense attorney just took her apart with facts. Wow.
I knew JKR had pissed off the wokesters, but they’ve actually put Harry Potter on trial?
I love the Ethical Skeptic on OHMIGOD “omicron”
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic/status/1468641043855945728?cxt=HBwWgMC9mfHP1OEoAAAA&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email
Personal gripe: of course on my day/night off I’m rocking a 101.6º fever.
Fortunately, whatever is going on is in my head/sinuses and any cough I have is just from drainage.
Sense of taste still intact, as evidenced my 1/2 Tall Cans™ I used as test media.
Feel better Tres.
David Gins, The Simp King. Perfect ending.
How great is the scratching to slip a note through a hole in the wall?!
Like POWs in the Harris-Biden Admin.
I can hear the whimpering.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!