You can stop trying to go for two any time, dumbass.
What a crazy sports weekend. Tom Brady got shut out by the quarterback-less Saints. The AFC North is an absolute logjam. The NFC is likely to have a Wild Card team with a .500 record (at best). Peng Shuai would rather her family live than all mysteriously die in an “accident”. And in an egregious display of the worst officiating possible, Liverpool were denied a likely win against Spuds and the two points they are being screwed out of may loom large. That was absolute SHIT. Anyway, that’s it for sports.
Run, runners!
Physician Samuel Mudd was born on this day. He shares it with tire magnate Harvey Firestone, baseball player/manager/executive Branch Rickey, actress Irene Dunn, track and football great Bob Hayes, magician Uri Geller, formulaic TV creator Dick Wolf, actress Jenny Agutter, music producer Alan Parsons, actor Jonah Hill, and soccer player Kylian Mbappe.
OK, now let’s get on to…the links!
Here comes the shitstorm. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a wild ride in 2022.
::pants-shitting sound effect::
“It’s the end of the world as we know it.” – Jen Rubin. “And I feel fine.” -Me.
Damn, this is so sad. I hope they can get a lot of the stranded and missing people rescued, but I’m not optimistic.
Somehow, this is the fault of people like me. At least that’s what I’m being told. I still can’t quite understand the logic.
Adios, Rey. Esta es la cosa triste que leeré todo el día. Dude era una leyenda absoluta.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Sorry, Team Blue. You made the rules.
But remember, he’s the bad guy here. Not the asshole Senator who has never contributed anything to society whatsoever.
I don’t give a shit.
Oh no, not a party! This has to be the first time in the history of the world something like this has happened. Heads should roll!!!
“Get this man a contract.” – CNN. Just kidding. They’ll 1099 him in order to keep it from becoming too public.
I hope she ends up owning the whole complex after his. Or at least gets to beat the shit out of somebody.
Jesus, Colorado, get your shit together. This is absolutely insane.
Christmas week calls for Christmas music. Enjoy it, my friends.
And enjoy this lovely Monday!
Team Blue never expects to play by the same rules, ever.
They are the RIGHTEOUS!!!
If you’re not cheating, you don’t really want to win!
Doing right ain’t got no end!
Everyone knows that the good guys are the ones that will cheat, lie, steal, murder, and in general engage in all sorts of evil shit to win or just for fun, cause the other guys are bad people…
Mmm… Jenny Agutter.
Makes Homer salivating noises.
Seeing “Walkabout” when I was 7 years old forged me into the man that I am today.
An American Werewolf in London for this fine young lad.
“I’m thankful to be fully vaccinated and boosted and experiencing only mild symptoms (the vaccine is safe and effective),” Crow said.
Was he reading that off a card, like a North Korean detainee?
“Blink twice if you need help.”
Joe Manchin, history’s greatest monster
With billions of dollars for clean energy, the Build Back Better legislation has the potential to substantially and rapidly cut heat-trapping emissions in the U.S. But after West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin rejected the bill on Sunday, Build Back Better is effectively dead, at a time when scientists say the world can’t afford to wait on climate change.
“It’s really disheartening,” says Leah Stokes, associate professor of political science at University of California Santa Barbara. “We don’t have any more decades left to waste, and failure is not an option.”
The legislation earmarked $555 billion for renewable energy and clean transportation incentives over a decade, the country’s largest climate change investment ever. The policies are crucial for President Biden’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 50-52% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels.
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By the end of the century, temperatures are currently on track for almost 5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming, setting the stage for more dangerous hurricanes and droughts, rising seas that would inundate coastal cities around the world, and the disappearance of entire ecosystems like coral reefs.
In the past year alone, deadly floods and heat waves took lives across the U.S. – extreme weather events that are only expected to intensify on a hotter planet. Over the summer, record-breaking heat killed more than 200 people in the Pacific Northwest. The temperatures, reaching 116 degrees in some places, would be “virtually impossible” without climate change, according to scientists with the World Weather Attribution collaborative.
There’s no time to waste. We have to act now.
If we spend more money, we’ll live forever.
Band Name or 80s cartoon villain org?
Bond villain front group.
1980’s. They’re WWAC!
The cranky toddler meltdown over this is epic.
That really tells you everything you need to know about this issue.
Something something weather’s not climate?
Good weather is not climate, bad weather is climate.
Liverpool were denied a likely win against Spuds and the two points they are being screwed out of may loom large.
Xg says Spurs 3.4 – Liverpool 1.3.
What does Xg say about Harry Kane not getting sent off 20 minutes in for about as reckless a tackle as you’ll see all season?
It says it was only a yellow.
Seems legit.
Good enough to have a Bosnian sent off in the friendly with the U.S.
Yeah, that’s a potential leg-breaker.
I am old school, but if he even nicked the ball on the way in, that isn’t a foul at all.
If he missed the ball, probably red with studs up. But I would want to see it at full speed, not slow mo or a still pic.
SPORTZ ANALYTIX!!!
Why I hate humanity.
And let’s not adjust this for where you live and the cost of living there.
These articles are nothing if predictable.
There’s a link there that does it by income/metro area/family size. But I can’t speak to its accuracy.
One of the reasons that I hate humanity is Getty Images.
I thought I was middle class – but according to the “calculator” I’m upper class for my area. Time to order a monocle!
#metoo
*looks around*
I must be doing “upper class” wrong.
Remember to order a cane and tophat too.
Real envy is statistically justified
It’s just a pigment of your imagination.
Hue better stop that, Fes.
Knock it off with the off colour comments.
*narrows gaze*
I’m not sure the lovely puns deserve a narrowed gaze, but to each their own. The greatest offense here is the use of “colour” by a, presumably, red-blooded ‘Merican.
“I make enough to pay the bills, but I need you to Tell me how to feel.”
Sporting news but too local – My erstwhile Canucks won five in a row but they’ve been shut down by the sniffles. Great way to kill momentum. This is almost as bad as the ’94 Expos being robbed by the lock-out. New management, happy players, quick hands. They looked like contenders for a couple of weeks. Ah well, I don’t pay as much attention no more.
Knowing big organizations – possibly a rogue employee, but I’d make a higher wager on former tenant.
Article makes note the smoke detectors were recently serviced. Minimum wage dude went to put in a new battery into fake detector. Doesn’t care that it’s fake, but also doesn’t close it up completely. He may or may not have actually replaced the battery if it was the same size that he had with him.
That’s what eventually made the tenant check it out.
The fact that it was fixed when she got back and her bf didn’t do it is what makes me think it was recently installed.
Either way, it’ll be on the SD card. Somebody is going to be paying up.
Unless the installer was wearing xer coofmask!
It’ll be perfect if the installer was wearing her underwear as a mask while putting it in.
This
I would imagine they re-key for liability reasons, so probably not a former tenant. But could be a creep with a lockpick set.
Didn’t see it because pay, but this season is figuring to be another one with an asterisk.
Spin the wheel and see who gets to play this week!
Robertson scored after a Salah handball in the build-up, so Sloopy is a little selective in his outrage.
How does the game go with Spuds reduced to 10 men for 70 minutes? Come on, man.
You take off two from xg and it is still 1.4-1.3? I don’t know.
Plenty of teams win down a man.
We get to find out what players are able to play for the Browns at 14:00 Eastern. The game starts at 17:00 Eastern.
I did see one breathless report saying that the sports leagues are trying to listen to fake science and medical personal. Since Omicron is milder in symptoms, the leagues want to stop testing players, and let them decide if they’re well enough to play on their (and their coaches/medical staff) own recognizance! This will surely add to the growing pile of dead professional athletes struck down by the ‘vid.
I notice that none of the articles, stories, posts, radio or TV spots ever say if anyone is actually … sick. In Chicago, first time around, a White Sox player got quite sick, and his year was garbage. He was fine this year…but I can’t think of anyone else who actually got knocked down and out.
Last year Cam Newton supposedly had it bad, or at least that was his excuse for his bad play when he came back.
He is still awful…maybe he has a DEDLY NU VAREEUNT!
Myles Garrett had a noticeable drop off last year when he got it. From what he said, it caused his asthma to act up even more. He spent the offseason getting into monster shape though, and has rebounded completely. Based on public statements he’s made, he doesn’t want to risk catching it again, and has been isolating from the players during the recent outbreak here in CLE.
And, of course, the obligatory smear:
Manchin, whose family profits from a coal business in West Virginia, has taken issue with several climate provisions in Build Back Better over months of negotiations. Earlier this year, he pushed to strip another clean energy program from the bill. The $150 billion Clean Electricity Performance Program would have used carrots and sticks to get electric utilities to use carbon-free power sources, but was removed from the bill.
I wonder how many Senators (or their “blind” trusts) stand to gain from the big push to miraculous energy sources.
Why not ask the Pelosi’s Broker? They seem to have done alright by him.
Somebody from WV who has a stake in the coal business? No way. Obviously it would be in the interests of WV residents to elect people who want to kill that industry.
They need the cash earmarked for “Building Back” that was supposed to flow into their campaign coffers and the pockets of all sorts of connected agencies that would then work hard to fortify the 2022 midterms. Without that money they will be trying to fortify the election with only half the tens of billions they had planned to piss away on fucking over the American people.
Coal is why WV (and KY to a lesser extent) went D to R states in presidential elections.
I can’t even piece together the train of thought here. I mean, usually there is some sort of twisted “logic” to their lies and hysteria, but this… I don’t get it.
When the democratically elected representatives of the people exercise their power granted to them by the people, that’s a failure of democracy.
Depending on the outcome and the issue at hand, various parts of “the people” will bemoan or laud this.
Perhaps somewhat less power should be granted to the elected representatives of the people.
The train of thought is toddlers having a tantrum.
They are almost into the heaving tears stage, but that won’t happen until the next election. Right now they are trying to convince mommy that they NEED the new toy.
They were *this close* to achieving their near-complete wish-list in one fell swoop; I guess it’s no surprise that the fall from that euphoria is hitting them hard.
Indeed.
It’s kinda like Bill Murray in Groundhogs Day, in that the night after he came so, so close to closing the deal with Andy McDowell he tries again and just flails and fails.
It’s Rubin.
She’s easily one of the most despicable creatures in modern America. I have no doubt she would have sold out her own family to the NKVD.
I saw some BlueCheck ™ agreeing and piling on saying that each state getting 2 senators was proof American Democracy ™ is failed democracy. That and the Electoral College, of course.
They want (for now) a direct democracy…a.k.a. mob rule.
Gooooooood Morning!
This guy has had it twice* now and is blaming everyone else for not taking enough precautions.
*I guess pending how you feel about getting it twice.
He’s never had it twice. At most he’s had two shitty tests that said “positive”. Instead of questioning the validity/accuracy of the tests, he just hates people that don’t virtue signal like he does.
The only way you can get it twice is by screwing up your immune system with bad “vaccines” and/or “boosters”.
https://www.westernjournal.com/thanks-foia-request-cdc-just-made-biggest-admission-covid-yet/
The way I’m approaching it is that if you got the ‘vid before the jab, you have natural immunity and didn’t need the jab. But if you took the jab – with or without previous infection – your elevated antibodies from the jab make you susceptible to other pathogens. The unknown is whether or not the jab-after-infection undoes the immunity from the original infection. The smart thing would be to quarantine (40 days, none of this 10 day bullshit) after the jab, but they could not sell the damn thing that way.
I got it twice, I know how to not get it! Unlike you, who’ve never gotten it!
“I’m not the Messiah!”
“I say you are and I should know, I’ve followed a few.”
Hah!
I think I’ve found the thought process behind the MOAR BOOSTER crowd.
More organs means more human!
Also, I am not the science like some people. But why are variants evolving to be vaccine resistant, in order to infect the unvaccinated (who are to blame for variants)? If there is a sciency reason I am interested in hearing it.
UN-BELIEVER!!! Shun him!
Take 1 million virus particles. Assume there is some amount of random mutation among them, maybe 1 in 10 million (I know that viruses are known to be relatively prone to mutation in ways that other organisms (yes, viruses are not alive, but I’m using that term anyway) are not, generally.
Now, these viruses attack cells and begin replicating. Upon each replication, each has a 1 in 10 chance of mutating in some way. A virus operates by invading the cells of the host organism, taking over the protein productive capabilities of the cell and making as many copies of itself that the cell can make before it fails. So, that virus may replicate, say, a hundred thousand times (not sure if this is realistic, or woefully high or low, but let’s go with it). So, of those 100,000 resulting viruses, 10,000 of them will likely be mutated in some way. These are assumed to be random. Most will probably result in a defective virus that cannot do any further damage or replication (let’s say 99%). So now 100 viruses have been modified in some way that doesn’t stop them, and some may be randomly improved in a way that a vaccine cannot prepare the host’s immune system to fight them, let’s say another 1%, so 10.
Now, those 10 viruses replicate another 100,000 times each, so we have a million of those “better” ones now. In the meantime, the original virus is still replicating, but the vaccine-enhanced immune system will kill them off at a higher rate than the “improved” viruses. So now the proportion over time of the viruses being successfully replicated becomes weighted more and more heavily in favor of the “improved” virus.
This all happens at an enormous rate, and it is natural selection in near real time.
Whose side are you on?
But that’s a good explanation.
I made a slight math error above (1% of 100 is 1, not 10) but the explanation stands, it would just take a few more cycles to get the “improved” virus population back up to the initial population of 1 million, and then it would be off to the races.
What db said plus – the way these “vaccines” are made, they only give your immune system a look at the spike protein in the virus, not the whole thing like a traditional vaccine would.
This means the virus only has to evolve that one protein slightly differently to evade the vaccine and make itself at home.
That’s a good point. These vaccines will be less effective over time than a traditional type that might involve inactivated virus that better simulates the real thing.
I assume anyone on Twitter is a CCP operative.
Anyone not on Twitter is a smart VC.
Well disciplined…
Awwww…. Poor baby
On the plus side, you get to act like a total pussy and victim on social media now.
I feel so bad for these asshats. Maybe they should compare their fortunes to these other people who “did everything right”.
And then go fuck off.
Yup. That’s why I felt a little shaky getting the second one on Saturday. I’m not afraid of dying but not yet, not yet… So they jab me and I start bleeding like a pig.
So you are doubled now, but when will they force a third?
Sorry, Festus.
Maybe my body bled it out!
Hobbs’s defenders say the second apology was a sufficient mea culpa and that the Adams decision will not play a factor in 11 months.
“One thing about voters that we all know, they have very short memories, and we have a very long time,” said Pima County Democratic Party Chair Bonnie Heidler, who added Hobbs is “trying to address it as best she can.”
Voters are dumb manipulable sheep. We’ll find some new shiny object to distract them with.
Pretty sure they’ll go with “oh yeah? Well my opponent is an even bigger racist” defense.
Good morning!
Unfortunately, management is in this week so I can’t start the holidays early.
Grats ES on your win, and here’s someone mud-testing their Alien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_o47KAlgp4
TW: horrible grinding noises.
I have a friend who torture tested a Hi-Point .40 many years ago and posted the results online. Among other things, he left the gun in his cats’ litter box for two weeks, then shoot the filth off of it and test fired it until it jammed (after about 100 rounds). Then he applied Crisco to the gun to lube it, and kept firing. The thing was a beast.
shook, not shoot
You can buy a Hi-Point for the price of an Alien magazine.
Also from a review I watched recently “on a build quality scale from Switzerland to China, this comes in at Sri Lanka or Ohio.”
Straight blowback guns are pretty hard to choke. On the other hand, that zamak frame ain’t gonna hold up for very long. But for $150, you’ll probably get what you paid for.
They can definitely take a beating and keep on going. A .40 Hi-Point was my first handgun. Someone was murdered in the street just a block from my house when I was a broke college student and the price was right. Also recently won a 9mm carbine Hi-Point donated for a charity raffle. There are much better guns to carry and more fun guns to shoot, but I have a fond spot for Hi-Points, even if I’ll likely never buy one again.
Thanks!
BWAHAHAHAAAA!!
Fauxcahantas has COVID.
I don’t wish her dead but I do hope that her recovery period is long, tiring and painful. CWAC.
Well, we know she won’t be spreading it because that would make her an Indian giver.
Don’t know if it has been covered but Participating in a Quidditch league is lame enough. Renaming because you hate Rowling is doubly lame.
Let them eat themselves.
Overgrown children
We’re overdue for a barbarian invasion.
Look around, it’s happening already, from within.
I thought that was going to be about the Armed Forces.
They were also violating trademarks.
I think we have a candidate for Peak Stupid.
I’m torn between the dweebs organizing the game and Warner Bros for trademarking it.
Good for WB. They trademarked it so they could sell toys to little kids. The fact that they’re fucking with the fun of these imbeciles is just a bonus.
That is anti-intellectual property. I don’t give a fuck about WB’s profits.
How is it even possible to play a game which requires flying brooms and an enchanted ball?
Just use your imagination.
Oh, and drugs.
That’s right! You were late to the Glib-Zooms!
I don’t know how these guys are playing it, but when I read the books Quidditch was the dumbest sport that could have been conceived. Rowling has apparently never played sports before, because the game of throwing balls through a hoop is secondary to players who are chasing a separate ball across the field that no one else can touch and is worth 150 points.
Her entire schtick is seeing the world through an eleven year-old girl’s eyes. Of course it will be silly.
I went to a Potter fanfic convention at Harry Potterland (because I was banging one of the presenters). I was given more than one hardcover of someone trying to create the next copycat hit series. They all succeeded in having even stupider games. The only one I can remember had them inflating one of the players from each team to use as a ball.
Was there some kind of description of how you would have to blow air instead of sucking on the pecker to make the player ball up?
Blow… air…? Oh you mean speak pseudolatin magic words! Yes, they did that.
Nice picture. What’s the guy in purple grabbing?
I am convinced that these people exist to make me feel more secure in my nerdy hobbies…
Prediction: Queerball
QAnon is taken.
NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni and Parents Struggle to Repay
Self-made spinster.
It took six years of secondary education to achieve… that?
There may be a lesson in there somewhere. I wonder if anyone will heed it.
That we need to spend more on education? That’s the lesson, right?
That has to be the fanciest way to say ‘unemployed’ I’ve ever heard. What is welfare paying these days? $1500/month?
Jesus.
https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/ny-ranks-high-in-welfare-benefits/
That was in 2013, so it *has* to be higher now.
Insanity.
TWO YEARS and $131,000 in loans? Plus $12,500 per year scholarship?
Damn, I know NY is expensive, but really?
More relevantly… NYU is expensive. All of that money went to tuition.
And I bet the degree obtained will qualify the person for a job as a barista at best?
Snippet said tuition and expenses, so I assumed that included living. OK, so who is stupid enough to pay that kind of tuition? Based on the presumption of what kind of income after graduation?
No way do those jobs justify that kind of investment in the degree. Flat out stupid.
Her degree probably lines up with Social and Community Service Manager.
The way I’ve heard it explained by ex’s posh, Upper West-Side relations is that NYU is a mediocre, but thoroughly overpriced, undergraduate school that exists solely to funnel money to their (excellent) graduate programs.
OK, so I looked it up, $25-30K a year in tuition.
So that $131,000 was not for tuition and books. Imma say Ms. Jones is a bit of a phony.
Liberal media and progressive politicians immediately attacked Manchin for his position, including his colleague Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who accused Manchin of being beholden to pharmaceutical companies.
Wait, what?
All Appalachians rely on oxycodone to live. It is known.
My fear is that he bends. He is after all, a swamp creature, through and through.
He booked a Fox News gig to get the message direct@y to his people. However he’s signaled he’d be willing spend another 2 trillion, but at least the most radical ideas may be left out.
They are now acting blind sighted but really should’ve listened to him all along.
I thought he was beholden to Big Coal. It’s so hard to keep up.
The pharmas suck and are buying off pols. Now go get your Pfizer booster. Sanders really is a damn fool.
I think Manchin’s daughter had some high position with an insulin manufacturer, and there was something in BBB that was intended to lower insulin prices. So there is a potential conflict of interest, but then every lawmaker probably has similar conflicts. I also thought Trump had done something that lowered, or at least had the stated intention of lowering, insulin prices, but Biden got rid of that because Trump.
It should be quite solvable. Our high insulin prices are entirely caused by government enforced patent protectionism.
Hopefully the US has some ships nearby to help with the typhoon recovery. The eye passed within 50 miles of my wife’s hometown. They are without power and cell service, but fortunately there are no deaths or significant structural damage. The provinces to the north were not as fortunate. They need help with transportation in the rugged terrain.
Democracy is hanging by a thread.
Yup.
If Democracy is hanging by a thread, and Democracy dies in darkness, does that mean that Democracy will die of autoerotic asphyxiation in a closet?
Epstein didn’t kill himself!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDMq9YlWIM&t=76s
Sure is. Where’s that pair of shears that I keep about for just such an eventuality?
Where’s my scissors?
51-49 is good, but 49-51 is the end of everything.
That’s a mandate!
It’s not even 51-49. It’s 50-50 with the VP breaking a tie. That’s perfectly fine and just. But 49-51 is an absolute fucking constitutional crisis the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
Man, fuck these cocksuckers.
I’m out of words about it, Sloop. They want to destroy America and the free-ish world in the process. Expand the Supreme Court, get rid of the filibuster. Everything is about gaining power. It happened here, please don’t let it happen there.
The rules need to change since they aren’t getting their way just like elections.
Democracy means democrats get what they want!
It’s in the name!
It isn’t even 50-50. There are 50 Republicans, 48 Democrats and 2 independents (that just happen to be flaming lefties). And the idiot making the most noise about the minority party not getting to rule is one of the two independents.
“And this also goes into the question of voting rights because unless there’s something that can be done about the filibuster rule in the Senate which Manchin again has indicated he will not change, there is not going to be an effective legislative means of doing what needs to be done to guarantee American democracy through the right to vote for all Americans without being suppressed as we’re seeing now,” Bernstein said.
If we can’t ram anything we want down the throats of our political opposition, DEMOCRACY! is dead.
What really fucks up democracy is when the other guys win an election. We cannot allow that to happen.
“guarantee American democracy”
Freudian slip.
No, it’s a typo – it should be Democratzi!
how are they gonna feel when republicans control congress again?
“Not gonna happen.”
-The vote counters.
They can’t use the large urban areas to game the votes for congressional races, but they will damn well “fortify” the senate races and the 2024 presidential elections.
Until they clamp down on this mail-in bullshit and counting for days after the election, I’m not trusting any of it.
Mammary Monday sez Cynthia Pickles must give the best blowjobs on Earth, otherwise why does Stu stay with her?
https://archive.md/DvKQE
Good God! Did you find that reference taped to a hobo’s shoe? Well-made!
Isn’t Cynthia the doll?
Archbishop Vigano:
Lots of “New World Order” (literally) in the letter, but he’s right about a lot of what he says.
Do we refer to him as “Vidge” or “Vig”?
For Judi:
https://twitter.com/Yoda4ever/status/1471487780605681671
Thanks! That’s a smart-stepping horse!
I’m crying ‘Foal’
Unshakeable faith
Health authorities in New Zealand have said they believe a 26-year-old man’s death is connected to a side effect from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
A preliminary post-mortem analysis indicated that the probable cause of the man’s death was myocarditis, which is a rare side effect of the vaccine that causes the heart muscle wall to become inflamed, according to Bloomberg.
“With the current available information, the Board has considered that the myocarditis was probably due to vaccination in this individual,” a statement from New Zealand’s Covid-19 Vaccine Independent Safety Monitoring Board said of the man, who died within two weeks of receiving his first Pfizer vaccine, per Bloomberg.
The statement noted that “Covid-19 infection can itself be a cause of myocarditis” and said “it remains safer to be vaccinated than to be infected with the virus.”
Unvaccinated, that otherwise healthy 26 year old was no less likely to die than a prisoner on Death Row.
Death by myocarditis in young, healthy individuals is rare, so take the jab, you dangerous fool!
Death by COVID in young, healthy individuals is rare, so take the jab, you dangerous fool!
you protect others although not that much as transmission is not that well prevented but we live in a society or something
If vaccinated people can spread the virus (a fact of which I am assured by the media), then how does my vaccination protect others?
It protects pharma profits and politicians’ kickbacks.
And firmly establishes a subscription program.
it just does okay trust the experts
It protects others as long as you believe it does.
cause you’re not taking up a hospital bed. Hospitals are understaffed because they fired so many people for not taking the vaccine. or
something.
The FDA says that the vaccine is more dangerous for men under 40 than the disease, you know.
goddamnit I hate QRC… worst part of the job these days… But next year may bring worse things…
I was never into cable shopping networks.
oh ha ha
Innovus seems even more annoying than Quantus
“NYPD rookie gives lieutenant lap dance at wild holiday party now under investigation”
I regret being too young for 80’s Christmas parties in which drunkenly fucking your coworkers in the bathroom was mandatory.
I worked at a company in the early 2000s where I was told that in the 1970s through early ’90s there was a mattress in the basement telecoms room specifically for the purpose of office hookups.
I used to work in large kitchens back in the 80’s and it was basically Peyton Place. Beware the walk-in!
The face is blurred but looks a solid would
Rookie cops are typically young and fit.
the donuts have yet to kick in?
Exactamundo.
Mosaic face is an awful disease for which there is little hope of a cure.
In the bathroom? What kind of low-class operation were you running? That’s what the stairwells are for!
I’m sensing another Allamakee County story in the making.
It’s good to see rap getting back to its roots.
Hmm what Covid uncertainty could be assailing the Davos class? Perhaps that the serfs aren’t willingly going along with the plan?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10328849/Lottie-Moss-displays-incredible-figure-cut-swimsuit-basks-sun.html
Somebody doodled random crap on her body. Looks like my notebook during a boring class.
Needz bigger tits.
Not that I wouldn’t mind you…
bigger than her sister’s I believe
RE: Trucker who’ll get out of prison at age 136.
I remember when that crash happened, it was horrific. IIRC, I-70 was shut down for two days cleaning up. I’m torn on the sentence and I do think mandatory minimums are a shitty idea. That said, anyone who’s ever driven I-70 through the mountains knows there are numerous runaway truck ramps designed to prevent just such a disaster. He apparently passed at least a handful of those ramps without using them and ended up killing 4 people.
Jail for the rest of his life? Maybe not. But he should be locked up for a good long while IMO; 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter which carries ~5 year sentence, he’s still in jail for 20.
This sounds more like a case of malicious prosecution, than of structural problems with the sentencing system.
The question is how to fix the first?
Using prosecutors as weed matting, would be a start.
I’m out. Day 30 tonight, 3 to go. Have a wonderful, Glibs!
A thought that occurred to me is that the vaccine boosters are a cute little microcosm of the global response to COVID:
Masks don’t work? MOAR MASKS
Social distancing doesn’t work? MOAR SOCIAL DISTANCING
Lockdowns don’t work? MOAR LOCKDOWNS
Vaccine doesn’t work? MOAR VACCINE BOOSTER
It hasn’t been about the virus since at least March 2020 (and that’s being generous), it’s about control and demoralization.
I think they knew that as soon as that first 2 week lockdown we did to flatten the curve ended up doing absolutely nothing like that, and it was certainly the case when they became aware that the Kung Flu was not one of the real fucking deadly strains of shit they had China playing around with…
That’s why I think they were NOT working on a real fucking deadly strain. It’s probably more likely that they were working on some rather innocuous gene therapy coronavirus shit and didn’t take mutations into account. I’d wager the “original” strain that caused the panic in early 2020 was at least the 4th mutation that surprised them (“them” being the Chinese and Western researchers working together) with its ability to spread rapidly. I’m not ruling out malice, but arrogance and incompetence are more typical.
I’m not ruling out malice, but arrogance and incompetence are more typical.
^^^ This.
Among people I know if I said Masks don’t work it would be blasphemy
DON’T DISMISS MY MAGICAL TALISMAN!
Dood, monetize that shit!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17042055/porn-dream-girlfriend-worry/
The Daily Star tells me that bored housewives across the UK are making zillions of pounds per month on OnlyFans. If you two are half as hot as your (fake) letter indicates, you’ll make tens of zillions!
He should have also said she wants to bring in her hot friends for him to fuck to make it more Penthouse Letters worthy…
The “bored housewife” thing is really just an interesting psychological phenomenon. The summer after I graduated college, I had five months before I had to report back to the Army, so I worked as a pest control/termite inspector for Orkin that summer.
I got laid on the job more than James Bond, and that’s no shit.
Speaking of savvy investors
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scoffed Wednesday at the idea of banning congressional lawmakers and their spouses from owning shares of individual companies, despite the possibilities for conflicts of interest between their legislative duties and personal finances.
“No,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters at a news conference where she was asked whether she would support such a prohibition.
“We’re a free market economy,” she said. “They should be able to participate in that.”
Pelosi’s dismissal of the idea of a stock purchase ban came in response to a question about a Business Insider investigative report this week on share ownership by lawmakers, and after controversies over stock purchases by a number of senators since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Business Insider series found that 49 members of Congress and 182 senior-level congressional staffers had violated the so-called STOCK Act, which requires public disclosure by themselves and family members within 45 days of sales or purchases of individual stocks, bonds and commodity futures.
“Free market economy” you say?
You might oughtta mention that to President Ballgag next time you see him.
Walter Shaub, former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, blasted Pelosi’s reference to the “free market economy” in the first of a series of tweets about the lack of a ban on stock ownership by lawmakers.
“It’s a ridiculous comment!” Shaub wrote. “She might as well have said ‘let them eat cake.’ Sure, it’s a free-market economy. But your average schmuck doesn’t get confidential briefings from government experts chock full of nonpublic information directly related to the price of stocks.”
In another tweet, Shaub wrote, “In an objective world, free of politics, members of Congress would be mocked for the absurdly weak ethics rules they’ve written for themselves.”
Just doing their jobs, crybaby.
This is exactly why I’m against any type of “election reform”. They would be writing their own rules.
I have to admit – I laughed at the headline.
Tom Brady’s best throw of the night destroys Microsoft tablet
Heh. I hope they dock his paycheck the 1.5 seconds to cover for it.
The top end ones are expensive. Maybe like 5 seconds or so of Brady money.
I know – I was figuring that in.
somewhat related: I bought my parents a Surface years ago so they could simultaneously watch TV and play solitaire. They forgot the password they set soon thereafter and have decided they want to give it back to me. I’m assuming there’s got to be some way of rendering it usable?
Factory reset should take care of that. The steps to do that are probably model dependent. If nothing else, you could also build a Windows installation jumpdrive, boot from that, and wipe the device.
/always puts an Admin account on devices I give to people for just this reason.
Leftist millennial wins election as Chile’s next president
“Boric’s ambitious goal is to introduce a European-style social democracy that would expand economic and political rights to attack nagging inequality without veering toward the authoritarianism embraced by so much of the left in Latin America, from Cuba to Venezuela.”
That’s what they always say…
Granted José Antonio Kast wasn’t a great choice either, but Chile has just elected their downfall.
meh they get what they want
I mean this in the silly context of muh democracy, because sensible people do not get what they want, they get what the mindless mob wants
For some values of “they.”
Sure. Sure it is…
I don’t think we’ll have long to wait to find out how this goes.
You would be amazed to find out that most authoritarian lefties in history were right down libertarian socialists in the writings before spending a couple of months in power
Goodness, we can’t have that.
Well the question will be, who does he disappoint? His rabid support on the left, or the moderates he had to appeal to in order to win?
“Here comes the shitstorm. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a wild ride in 2022”
Media just ignoring the fact that South Africa is at a 7 day average of 20k new cases and 30 deaths. Last December they had a 7 day average of 19k new cases and 575 deaths. Omicron is nothing to worry about.
I’d say that for somebody healthy you could be in store for 3 days of misery followed by a week or so of feeling like crap.
In normal days meaning you might miss one or two days of work kind of illness.
Don’t know which variant I had, but the timeline was in the afternoon started to feel crappy, took the next day off of work and slept most of the day. Four days after that I lost my sense of smell and taste, while feeling fine otherwise. About a week after that, the sense of smell and taste came back.
Never got a positive result on a test though.
Similar experiences with a friend and his family.
His wife and two kids tested positive, but he never tested positive (home tests) despite being sick as well.
Verbatum for me and my entire family who each had a rare break through infection. We all got a positive quick test after the first week and a few PCR confirmations. Th e only other item I had was a intense sinus infection prior to and during my loss of taste and smell.
I find such characterizations concerning
Democrats, stunned and angry at Sen. Joe Manchin’s move Sunday to knife the Build Back Better Act, are struggling to determine whether President Joe Biden’s signature legislation can be salvaged in a smaller form.
Based on remarks by Manchin, D-W.Va., some lawmakers see a glimmer of hope that the roughly $2 trillion bill could still be restructured to meet his demands, albeit with painful sacrifices.
Knifed? Like, in the back?
In the back of all the Agencies who were going to be showered in freshly printed cash and given Congressional authority to make laws.
https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-117HR5376RH-RCP117-18.pdf
From the links
“The identity of the rookie female officer who danced on him is unknown”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10326887/NYPD-rookie-caught-video-giving-lieutenant-raunchy-lap-dance-holiday-party.html
Why do they blur out her face? It takes two to tango.
TANGO!
Wango Tango
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUcU6madgs
“Yeah, but if you ain’t quite ready, I’ll make sure everything is a little bit nicer ’cause
I’m gonna get a little talcum
I’m gonna borrow it from Malcolm”
I always loved that line.
And The Nug said he never did drugs….
It doesn’t make sense that the recipient of the lap dance is the only one who gets in trouble, when she was the one who initiated it.
If he was in charge of the party then he bears responsibility for what happens.
The real tell is if the sexes were reversed what would happen.
“If he was in charge of the party then he bears responsibility for what happens.”
How much control does the host have over the actions of his guests?
I’m guessing if he threw her out for lewd behavior, he would have been accused of being sexist or something.
With 10 days to go Nikola finally gets two functional prototypes to partner.
Nikola Delivers First Nikola Tre Battery-Electric Trucks
Pay no attention to the lawsuits, failed deals and the video of the motorless truck coasting down a hill.
they should sell NFTs
Sounds like that is what the stock essentially is.
at 75mph you can travel 350 miles in 4.6 hours, then you have to charge for at least 2hrs…efficient?
if you ever feel stupid, someone made 750$ selling george floyed nfts
https://twitter.com/FallDrift/status/1472581867576639488
NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni and Parents Struggle to Repay
By many measures, the elite Manhattan school is the worst or among the worst for leaving families and graduate students drowning in debt; ‘It feels like I’m kind of trapped’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-college-graduate-parent-student-loans-11639618241
Five months after Kassandra Jones earned her master’s in public health from New York University in May 2019, she still hadn’t landed a job in the field. She was staring down a six-figure student-loan balance and had to pay for rent and food.
So she sold her eggs. Again.
Ms. Jones first harvested her eggs before starting at NYU in 2017 to help pay for moving to the city, she said. She received a $12,500 annual scholarship and relied on $131,000 in federal loans to cover the rest of her tuition and expenses. She has given her eggs five times, including to an NYU fertility clinic, earning $50,000.
Now 28 years old, Ms. Jones is working freelance on public-health campaigns for nonprofits making about $1,500 a month, which isn’t covering her living expenses, she said. She is applying for new jobs and considering leaving the field.
Hmmm.
My son got a job offer a couple weeks ago. He starts as soon as he graduates. Of course, he won’t be ‘elite’ like that chick. No master’s. Just a lowly MechE.
With a good job.
He should pay more taxes so that the government can give miss Kassandra Jones a good job in public health
He should pay more taxes so that the government can give miss Kassandra Jones student load forgiveness.
it can be both
My landlord’s kid graduated a few years with a state college engineering degree and did the same.
My daughter’s friend did the same with a degree in statistics, same thing.
Good on your son. Amazing how that works.
WTF would anyone name their kid Cassandra?
Someone who intended to ignore the kid’s warnings?
Predatory universities.
One of my son’s friends goes to NYU majoring in journalism. She’s in for a rude awakening when she gets to the real world.
A short history of the care of preemies.
Free market 7000, medical system 0.
Good morning, Sloop!
Lots o’ doom and gloom in those lynx, son.
But there was this:
The only thing better would be a meteor strike when they do meet in person.
They are uncertain there will be enough servants to wait on them hand and foot.
The servants will wear masks. They won’t.
Management: Please attend this status meeting.
Also Management: And don’t forget to attend this other meeting at the exact same time.
Also Also Management: Why are you so distracted in our meetings?
Tell them you are thinking of various fun scenarios where horrible accidents occur to them and free you of their stupidity
Dial in via phone and conference call the two meetings together.
Should be entertaining to see what happens.
The Washington Football Team hopes it can force Virginia taxpayers to pay for a stadium.
No state funds. Put in in Arlington or Fairfax. They deserve each other.
Fuck them for caving to the woke mob. I hope the citizens tell them to go suck donkey dick.
I will personally pay for the stadium, when Snyder lets me piss in his mouth.
“The Washington Leeches” would be a good new name for the team.
Washington Bribes?
Yes, RadioShack Has Pivoted to DeFi
You’ve got questions, they’ve got DeFi. The two men who bought RadioShack in 2020 are turning it into a crypto play.
https://decrypt.co/88712/yes-radioshack-pivoted-defi
I didn’t even know they were still around. From their website,
“We will be the bridge between the CEO’s who lead the world’s corporations and the new world of cryptocurrencies.”
And to think I used to buy electronic components at their actual stores when designing circuit boards back in the day. Well, if they’re going to be a bridge, they need to tone down the tech-speak. I have no idea what they’re talking about on their home page.
Covid update: My daughter is doing fine and her quarantine ends tomorrow. Meanwhile we went to dinner with friends who had a mild case and just finished their quarantine. Their families have uninvited them from all holiday festivities because they are unvaccinated. That’s the first I’ve heard of this sort of thing in real life.
What part of Illinois do their retarded families live in?
Strangely enough, it’s all in Indiana. And even stranger, our unvaccinated friends are Trump-hating lefties.
Now you’re just making this all up.
I am leaving in a couple of days for a tropical vacation with my Minnesoda girl, and she was crying last night and trying to convince me that if I cared about her I would go take the booster. I told her I thought it was best she cancels her trip cause she is too worried about this stuff and she shouldn’t be. Man she freaked out when I told her I am going to go regardless of if she comes along and I am NOT getting another booster because the thing was just another useless play promoted by people with a political agenda…
Eventually she realized she was not going to make me change my mind and she backed down when I destroyed her argument by pointing out that if she feels she is entitled to get mad at me if she ends up getting the Kung Flu – because of me not getting that third jab – I am sure as hell entitled to some serious payback if she gets it and gives it to me (and my payback involved some real kinky shit she would be doing).
Kinky?
“No feathers…tonight we’ll use the whole chicken”
I’m on day 12 and still testing positive. The nurse at work says I am fine, and that I’ve served 10 days with improved symptoms so I am good to go. Boss is uncomfortable and wants me to work from home until i can test negative (which I get, she is immunocompromised and I don’t want to make her uncomfortable).
I think Im on day 11, and my temp seems to be back in normal-ish range. I have 1 self-test left that Im saving for when Im sure the fever is gone.
I feel better in general, just incredible fatigue, which is likely due to living on Boost! and Ensure shakes for the past week or so.
I’ve been fine since last Monday/Tuesday except my smell and taste have been gone for over a week now 🙁
You can test positive long after you’ve recovered. It’s rare, but some people will produce a positive test even months later. It just means there are bits of the virus that haven’t worked their way out of your system.
Which is another reason why testing like this is pretty useless.
My sister and her husband won’t allow their son’s girlfriend in the house because she’s unvaccinated. My brother in law is 75 and has diabetes, so I can understand being cautious, but he’s had his booster. Either it works or it doesn’t. Of course, maybe they just don’t like the girlfriend.
In no way am I defending the company that did this, but the headline and the sub-head are at odds.
Amazon dispatcher forced driver to continue delivery during tornadoes or face termination
Amazon does plenty of evil stuff, but in this case let’s blame the right party. (Unless of course Amazon is a partial owner of this 3rd party).
Amazon is responsible for the global; warming causing the tornadoes and making the driver drive so double evil
Was the dispatcher threatening the driver an agent of Amazon? Because I’ve seen this from the other side where contracted work is treated and directed as if they were an employee of the main company, not the contractor. Along with performance standards that coerce the contract company to do exactly what the main company wants or lose the contract.
That’s a great question. Who employs the dispatcher?
Amazon only discussed who employed the driver.
“DCPS investigates after elementary students say they were forced to reenact Holocaust
In a letter sent to parents at Watkins Elementary School in Southeast, the principal says according reports he received, the re-enactment included “students being asked to portray participants from the Holocaust like Adolf Hitler, digging ditches to serve as mass graves, and simulated shootings. It was also alleged that the staff member leading the lesson also made anti-Semitic statements.”
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dcps-investigates-after-elementary-students-say-they-were-forced-to-reenact-holocaust
“The student assigned to the role of Hitler is Jewish, according to a parent, The Washington Post reported. The child, The Post said, was told to pretend to commit suicide, as Hitler did.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/us/holocaust-librarian-elementary-school.html
“Mr. Berkowitz, who did not immediately respond to a message late Sunday, did not release the staff librarian’s name in his email. A spokesman for District of Columbia Public Schools also did not confirm the name. But parents, including one whose child was in the class, identified the woman as Kimberlynn Jurkowski, who, according to her LinkedIn profile, has been a library specialist with the school district since 2014.
Ms. Jurkowski did not respond to a message sent via social media, and calls to several numbers listed for her were not answered.
This was not Ms. Jurkowski’s first run-in with a school district. She was convicted in October 2013 of defrauding the Hamilton Township School District, in New Jersey, of nearly $24,000 in a tutoring scam, according to The Press of Atlantic City, a local newspaper. The district, according to the newspaper, paid for tutoring for Ms. Jurkowski’s two children, but she and the tutor continued to bill the district for several months after the tutoring stopped.
The report said she cooperated with the state and entered an intervention program, which is typically for first-time offenders and usually ends with the removal of a conviction from a person’s record.
A spokesman for D.C.P.S. did not respond to a question about whether the district was aware of Ms. Jurkowski’s prior troubles.”
“The instructor allegedly made antisemitic comments during the reenactment. The parent said that when the children asked why the Germans did this, the staff member said it was “because the Jews ruined Christmas.”
The instructor asked students after the reenactment not to tell anyone about it, but they told their homeroom teacher, the parent said.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/19/holocaust-reenactment-watkins-school-dc/
If you’re asking children not to tell, you obviously know you’re in the wrong.
This is an all-time great line:
Holy shit. I can’t stop laughing about this. You’d swear reality has become a Coen brothers movie.
We can at least give them credit for giving us Easter.
The Coen brothers? Hunh, no kidding?
I’m familiar with most of their work, but not “Easter” in particular.
You know I meant (((them))).
Southeast DC?
I’d be willing to bet that a significant percentage of the teachers in that district think Farrakhan is correct about the Jews.
I looked because that was my first thought as well. Appears to be gentrifying inner SE – on the good side of the Anacostia.
Kimberlynn Jurkowski is black, if that makes any difference.
It’s gotta be tough to be a history teacher these days, and maybe it always was. Ignore the Shoah and (((they’ll))) accuse you of being a denier or something.
Teach about pogroms, and it will – justifiably – upset some kids. Yesterday, my 8 1/2 yr. old granddaughter asked me to take her on a tour of Gettysburg next year. How to explain the slaughter, men killing each other over enslaving other human beings or not being able to choose which government to federalize with? Kids need to learn about the past but many are not yet mature enough to deal with gas chambers, suicide charges, and evil assholes like Stalin and Hitler. Maybe teaching us that Abe split logs and George threw coins across the river are how teachers used to deal with history?
digging ditches to serve as mass graves
Bringing back voc-Ed to the classroom. Going to need this skill if things continue.
Premier League clubs REJECT the idea of cancelling a round of Christmas fixtures and will struggle on despite Omicron-driven Covid surge
Good news?!
Christmas fixtures? Like reindeer faucets?
I’m OK if they just cancel the rest of this farcical season and isolate for a few months.
From reading the linked articles and their accompanying rabbit-hole articles, I’m forced to conclude that it’s high time for a Cleansing.
Let the natural selection begin.
All hail ZARDOZ!
I just hover over them and move on to the comments, AM links are always depressing,
SMOD in’22!
I think it has.
LOL
Hamptons cops pull over Alec Baldwin, Hilaria after warrant issued for his phone
I thought as a Spaniard, Hilaria had diplomatic immunity?
Boy, she hitched her wagon to the wrong horse. And she is most certainly a golddigger.
You know she’s looking for an exit right about now. I wonder how ironclad that prenup is.
I thought it was Hillary
“Oh, that phone? I think it is the one that fell overboard when I was out in my yacht the other day.”
Honestly, I was thinking the same thing.
If I was in his situation, that phone would be gone.
Robby Soave
@robbysoave
I’ll be debating the brilliant @JonHaidt
on the resolution “The federal government should increase its efforts to reduce the harms caused by social media.” Event is February 17th in New York City. Get tickets here:
Jonathan Haidt
@JonHaidt
I will be using a great journalist, @robbysoave
, to help me improve my arguments about the effects of social media. I can guarantee it will be good natured, fast-paced, and fun. In NYC, Feb 17, Omicron-willing.
great and brilliant… right…
How DARE you question their lived experiences! They are speaking their truth, you bigot!
Read that at first as “livid experiences,” but then realized you weren’t referring to progs or feminists.
Who is going to be on which side? >.>;
“CCP Paid DC Radio Station $4.4 Million To Broadcast Propaganda
Potomac Media Group airs content from China Global Television Network”
https://freebeacon.com/media/ccp-paid-dc-radio-station-4-4-million-to-broadcast-propaganda/
Yes, but it’s those right wing loons and conspiracy theorists that need to go, CP.
C’mon, let’s be real here.
The Chinese paid $4.4 million to an AM station to air propaganda in 2021?
And I thought our government wasted money.
No shit, the networks do it for free.
Yeah I was wondering how much the CCP is paying CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ….
Our colleges charge for it.
“San Francisco Might Have at Least 30 Unconfirmed Omicron Cases”
Science at it’s best.
zOMG this may or may not be the end of the world!!1!
Can you prove they don’t? Can you?!?!
In regards to the Elon tax kerfuffle, let’s not forget that corporations are barely more than tax collection agencies in modern America.
Sales tax, payroll tax, property taxes, capital equipment tax… the list goes on and on.
If the corporations were not collecting those funds for the government, the government would have to do it itself and they would suddenly have a real problem on their hands.
Another authoritarian tests positive.
Cramer is nothing more than a paid shill who should be treated with the according amount of credibility and respect.
Hmmm… admit the experiment has failed, or keep the lie going forever? Such a tough choice.
I really hate that guy. He’s indoctrinated an entire generation into believing the when cops and prosecutors abuse their power it’s a good thing.
Not in the beginning. Law and Order was brilliant when it started. Sam Waterston was the beginning of the end. The follow-on series were clusterfucks.
It means he gets results, you stupid chief!
The character Big Satan in my favorite web comic was a band called Dick Wolf.
You just brought this blocked memory back into my mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGRQGm4-A4k
Karma catches up with Spurs.
Stamping your feet isn’t going to make the stupid rules go away.
Maybe direct your ire at them.
I’m okay with that though, and I have a feeling that despite what they say, they are actually happy to get out of the
JVfreshman Europe competition.“This is the mortal wound to Biden’s presidency. He was elected to stop covid. He blamed deaths on the last guy. He said he would shut it down.
The fact we’re even discussing Joe Manchin & BBB while we’re debating the virus and more lockdowns is his failure. It’s that simple.”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1472775388736614400
“More Americans have died of COVID in 2021 than 2020, even though Biden had the benefit of universally available vaccines and improved treatments.
Fortunately for Biden, all 2020 COVID deaths were blamed personally on the president but none in 2021 is.”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1472922067418951682
Also did you read the latest on Manchin? Sounds like the Biden administration really mishandled their relationship with him. Just another major failure for the guy.
Articles I’ve read suggested Manchin was quite clear what he was able to vote for.
I, and it appears the WH, didn’t actually think he would stick to his guns. The difference is the WH was able to actually have a conversation with him to determine his conviction.
2020…2021…, There is one constant in all of this but we’re not supposed to mention Dr. Farici’s name.
Reasons given for dim prospects in that article about the economy going to shit:
“Soaring cases of the Omicron variant in Europe and the United States are already slamming businesses and forcing governments to tighten restrictions on activity at a critical time of year for the leisure and retail industries. And the prospects for the US economy dimmed after Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin said he would oppose the Biden administration’s $1.75 trillion “Build Back Better” bill.”
Sounds legit.
And the previous two multi trillion dollar packages congress passed are gonna start dispersing their economic benefits any minute now too.
And with this, there should be no further argument for continuing the vaccines.
Vaccination status unknown provides the best protection.
Three things here. “Cases” are bullshit. It just means a test was positive.
Vaccinated people might be more likely to get tested. It makes sense that the same people concerned enough to get vaccinated would also be concerned to get tested, and the same people forced to get vaccinated by their employer or to be able to travel, would also be forced to get tested. More tests, more cases.
The third thing is that the vaccines still could help prevent serious illness, even if they don’t prevent “cases”. I’m not saying they do, but that graph doesn’t show they don’t.
If your assumption about testing were true, what changed in the last couple of weeks?
The weather?
That too.
Omicron could be causing both a higher percentage of positive tests and more people getting tested.
The chart shows that the fully vaccinated are more likely to spread covid than the unvaccinated. If you test positive then you can spread it. This is my message to the vaccinated.
But you would expect the ratio of positive tests in the vaccinated to the unvaccinated to remain fairly constant. That behavior won’t shift dramatically in such a short period.
Therefore, it’s pretty safe to assume that at best the vaccines are useless against Omicron, and at worst the vaccines are making people more susceptible to the virus (ADE or compromised immune systems).
My wife and I were asked to be boosted before going to Cleveland for the holidays because of the Omricon (whatever the fuck it is) variant. My wife is doing it but I made it clear, I’m not taking a booster. Her family bitched and moaned that I take the vaccine this past summer and I did because I didn’t want my wife to miss out on the family trip. But this time, I took a fucking stand and told them that it would be no sweat off my back if I didn’t have to drive 6 hours from Chicago to Cleveland for the holidays. They backed down for the time being because my in laws wanted to see the kids and knew that I would nuclear over this shit.
And also LOL at the Dems for not getting what they wanted, even though they told everyone that they have a fucking mandate. Despite having a super slim majority in the Senate. How do you Democracy now, assholes?
See my post just above.
The head crotch link?
Good for you, Ed. Enough is enough.
They are good people and I hate to go nuclear like this but they are drinking the COVID kool-aid like water in the desert and I have no desire to join in their insanity,
Call them either racist or racist Uncle Toms, depending on their race.
More spittle and revisionist history on the way.
Does anyone like her?
Willie Brown. Maybe.
Another day at the DMV. Teen#2 waiting to take his test. He is the better of the two teen drivers but is getting in his own head.
Flexible.
https://www.rt.com/news/543748-claims-macron-wife-transgender/
LOL
That’s a MAN, baby!
I’m confused just who the dick is here.
Wait a minute. He is 43. And she is 68?!
Something’s going on here whether she’s a tranny or not.
LOL good times. Or, “t*mes”. WTF?
Ah, vacation. It’s cloudy and chilly here in ‘sunny’ Florida. This morning I made bacon and eggs and went for a long walk on the gorgeous, powdery, white sand beach until my leg muscles were screaming. Then I picked up brochures to plan the rest of my week. Now, time for a nap.
I’m jelly. But I’ll be on a plane in exactly a week.
Enjoy!
I think it was JI that turned me on to Doomberg. It’s my new favorite substack (even though it’s terrfying).
California Ditzkrieg
Sure, shut down the nuke plants, geniuses.
Ooh, Gingerbread contests on food network!
Bill McClintock does it again – The Thrash-tations – “Hello From Cloud Nine”
https://youtu.be/rX40Zfjh_Wc