Don’t care about JAX. But I’ll always remember this.
Urban Meyer got fired last night. Now all he can do is sit around and count his money. National (Early) Signing Day was a big day for a bunch of high school kids who are now gonna make a boatload of money. More sports games have been cancelled because to teh ohmuchronns panic. And Max Verstappen is still world champion and Lewis Hamilton is not. And that’s sports.
Legend
Catherine of Aragon was born on this day. She shares it with early Methodist leader George Whitefield, second-best composer of all time Ludwig van Beethoven, novelist Jane Austen, cricket legend Sir Jack Hobbs, anthropologist Margaret Mead, sci-fi writer Arthur C Clark, civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, guitar great Billy Gibbons, comedian Bill Hicks, baseball (card) legend Billy Ripken, and track star Donovan Bailey.
Right, now on to…the links!
Can’t say I blame them. Who wants to work in a ridiculously regulated business that the government could shutter at any day over a ridiculous panic that isn’t dangerous to the customers? Unfortunately, I fear the proposed solution will be more of the regulation that’s killing it.
Good luck with this plan.
The French close the barn door. Unfortunately, the horse is already miles away. Oh, also, the horse isn’t really sick.
Oh shit, this is terrible. I’ll believe its real when I see all those celebs and politicians with oceanfront property rushing to put them on the market.
This seems a bit excessive. I would think differently if the money wasn’t coming from taxpayers but instead came from the police pension fund. Also, literally nobody involved with this will face financial hardship or a job loss/reduction in pension/any substantive consequence. And therein lies the problem.
Trade places, guys. Or trade shirts. Either way works.
I’ve got some advice for this guy: shut the fuck up. You already look like an asshole. Stop digging the hole deeper.
Good for him. I’ll be super-happy if Sony puts it all in a vault and never authorizes any of it to be played ever again. I also want to see if he gives it all away or strokes a fat check to the government, since he’s so fond of railing against rich people hoarding money.
This is gonna be horrible! Pizza (and deep dish, which is a casserole) fans hardest hit.
“That springs from I don’t know where”. Grab a mirror, asshole. Because you are a big part of the cause of this shit.
What “the right to a zealous defense” goes too far. I fear this is going to taint the jury pool, and not in a way that works out well for him.
Gotta love the classics. I still remember trying to sing the lyrics…like everybody else my age…and basically mumbling. Enjoy it.
And enjoy this wonderful Thursday, friends!
Randy Quade is Christmas!
whaddup doh
“Oh shit, this is terrible. I’ll believe its real when I see all those celebs and politicians with oceanfront property rushing to put them on the market.”
There is a similar racket in the stock world. Companies put out bad press for them selves when they have some real big cash returns from selling their stock at a peak, in the process dropping their stock prices and making people sell. Once it hits a low they like, they start gobbling up the stock everyone else is dumping at 20-50% down from the peak than it was at, then, once they have gotten enough of that, they return to selling the stock they bought cheap at a new peak to repeat the cycle.
AGW is just the same shit in a different package with a lot of marxism also tied to it.
On the plus side — just how tall did China make those artificial South China Sea island bases, anyway? A few feet and I’d bet they’ll be submarine bases instead of airfields… 😉
““That springs from I don’t know where”. Grab a mirror, asshole. Because you are a big part of the cause of this shit.”
They know damned well that it was what they did that caused all the problems and pain. They will use the media to peddle excuses and blame others. And they will then double down on the evil shit they are doing pretending THIS TIME it will work…
There is a definition for this fucking stupid behavior…
The national crime wave of smash & grab thefts is happening because Republicans are racist!
sin,
TMITE
When has looking like an asshole stopped Ben Affleck? (Or Matt Damon for that matter..).
And I’d still take Nico Rosberg over Max OR Lewis any day. Can’t wind me up on Max, Sloopy. Nyah-Nyah. 😉
Let me guess — Breed and Pelosi now care because it isn’t a Walgreen’s anymore – they’ve moved on to the higher end stores. Oh noes! They might steal from their *betters*! Predictable consequences are predictable….
Re: the Texas fraud defendant — I’m kind of wondering at the logic of telling a female balliff to restrain an ex-football lineman who’s being belligerent. How’d they think that would work?
Everyone who tried to sing the lyrics was a superhero, Sloopy… even if we weren’t all Captain Kirk.
Thanks for the links – have a great day, all — two working days from taking some time off and without the mandate hanging over my head (so I know I’m actually back in January, I plan to try to destress a bit. We’ll see if President Poopy Pants lets that happen.
Damon is convinced he is his character from Good Will Hunting.
Affleck is just a good old fashioned asshole man-child.
Matt: Damon: “Matt Damon.” /Kevin Smith
Glasscock.
*snickers*
Seems like somebody shouldn’t be a bailiff.
Said case being running an adult novelty shop without a license presumably…
Unlawful dis-shard of a sex toy within city limits.
That sounds like a butt plug…
“Personal massager.”
“He was just wailing on her, so I tried to jump in,” Salinas said. Lacayo came down from the bench to help Salinas, and both traded punches with Catarineau, he said.
Damn, that judge is awesome. And I’ll just say that judges have varying degrees of influence over who serves as their bailiffs, and perhaps he found her to be of an agreeable disposition.
I’m not putting a poster of the judge up inside my locker quite yet.
When Catarineau addressed him disrespectfully
That makes me a bit worried about whether the judge is heart throb or not. I’d want to hear more about what “disrespectrully” meant.
whaling
Seemingly feeling public pressure, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and California Gov. Gavin Newsom have deployed tough-on-crime rhetoric in recent days.
The Jihad Squad won’t like that.
Property is theft, man. Other people’s property, that is.
Rhetoric and more police being deployed won’t change a thing if they are just going to continue the catch and release treatment of these guys.
I think the worst is over.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/la-district-postpones-vaccine-mandate-as-thousands-of-students-remain-unvaccinated_4158317.html
(of course i still have not received any news on my RE or ME, and once again thanks Trash and Ozy for writing such wonderful, supportive words out here)
Seconded. Thankfully, my employer has done nothing regarding the fed contractor and 100+ employees “mandates.” I feel blessed, but still knocking on wood.
Ditto.
Except now there is a city mandate and probably a state one coming.
Gotta keep everyone consumed by FUD. For grandma, or something.
This morning I received a request to digitally sign a form attesting to my vaccination status and upload it by 27 December. No option to say “no”, but it seems that the form is only required if I need to visit the office or attend a company-sponsored event. I’ll do nothing and see what happens next; I am expecting some “outreach” in the not-too-distant future.
Minnesoda shitlords jumping on the band wagon. Be interesting to see what Mayo does. They have their snouts deeply inserted into the govt trough. Whatever they do, a bunch of pols will be mad at them.
The nonprofit, which serves mostly low-income families, has seen its staff shrink 30% during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We cannot find enough educators who are willing to come into our classrooms,” CEO Laura Perille said. “Because they can earn a lot more money working anywhere other than child care.”
Clearly the government needs to step in here.
Baby sitters need more licensing, training and inspections.
Yeah, but they have to tread very gently there because a lot of daycare services are provided by someone’s grandma who watches her own grandkid and maybe another unrelated and received money for that. That’s a very sympathetic, well-beloved groups of people and coming down on them is a non-starter for politicians. So there is an exemption in most regulations for this sort of provider as long as she minds only a couple of kids.
Affordable
healthchild care + Fight forFifteenFifty!What could possibly go wrong?
Have we run out of Other Peoples’ Money yet? No? Then carry on!
We got big plans here in Minnesoda. We are going to pump a lot of money towards child care if King Walz gets his way.
I am pretty frontal about some things at work, but even I won’t poke the child care subsidy bear. Working moms really don’t like to be asked to justify why they should get subsidies so they “can have it all”.
It’s only “fair” that other people be forced to pay for taking care of their kids. They actually fucking believe this.
After participation trophies, being told they should have high self esteem when they had done nothing deserving of self esteem, and people constantly telling them that being born makes them entitled to whatever they want, I can’t blame anyone but the fucking idiots that thought these ideas were good things to foist on people that are unable to figure out they are too young and inexperienced to know they were being played.
Now we have a ton of people that believe those that succeeded had to have stolen it from them, cause they wanted it (not they worked hard to make it so, they just wanted it). Worse, they feel government is the vehicle to solve problems and bring justice. Cause the narcissistic evil fucks attracted to government will make the system work the good despite them being in league with the devil.
Single income and childless people need to support working moms
People who paid their own way through college and the trades need to pay for college tuition
Everyone needs to pay farmers
I’m sure there are more. We are never getting rid of this shit because everyone is getting paid somehow. And everyone thinks that they are getting over on their neighbors.
I”M NOT GETTING PAID!
What about my needs?
You NEED to pay up!
Shut up and stop wasting so much time on Glibs so you can earn more and pay more taxes.
Shhhh, Jimbo, you’re gonna spill the (my) beans. We (I) wouldn’t want that now, would we?
so they “can have it all”
Well, if they want it all, they deserve to get it all, good and hard.
And Daniel Glasscock is just waiting to give it to them?
Yes, I knew instantly when I hovered over the link that the “answer” was going to be making child care more expensive.
I’d still take Nico Rosberg over Max OR Lewis any day.
Mika Hakkinen, just for the post race interviews.
Charles LeClerc is my favorite, because he overachieved with a shit car in 2020. And whenever his name comes up, the announcers try to work the word “Monagasque” into the conversation as many times as possible.
Danny Ric remains “driver I’d most want to hang out with”. He’s under-achieved at McLaren – we’ll see if that’s just adjusting to what is reputed to be a hard car to drive well or 10-year driver starting to decline.
France will sharply restrict travel to and from Britain because of fast-spreading cases of the omicron coronavirus variant, putting limits on reasons for traveling and requiring 48-hour isolation upon arrival, the government said Thursday.
Like the original strain, by the time this was discovered it has already gone around the world. You can’t stop it. But you can stop the ridiculous government responses and convid tyranny.
Filed under AYFKM
Ladies and gentlemen I present to you one of the key figures in funding gain-of-function research and suppressing the lab leak theory.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1470862234192474114
Oh, it’s just a fucking joke, huh? I’m glad I wasn’t there.
He’s just rubbing it in our faces now.
WTF?
The least damaging thing he could be up to.
An Antarctic ice shelf could crack and disintegrate within the next decade, allowing a Florida-sized glacier to slide into the ocean and raising sea levels by feet, scientists warned Wednesday.
A dramatic chain reaction in the ice could occur by 2031, starting with the Thwaites Glacier, said Erin Pettit, a professor at Oregon State University who studies glacier and ice sheet dynamics.
The glacier, a river of flowing ice, is blocked from falling into the sea by the eastern ice shelf, which sits atop an underwater mountain and is disintegrating.
Moar. Fearmongering.
“Could”
Or “could not”.
Panic! ?
Apparently these are scientists that haven’t passed Physics 101.
Or “Geography for Football Players”. Locate a globe. Find Florida. Ask yourself how high must that sliver of land be to raise even the North Atlantic Ocean by multiple feet. Then look at the rest of the blue on a globe. The next time somebody tries to tell you this BS, laugh loudly in their face.
Mumbly lyrics?
I was expecting this
I thought it was going to be a link to every Pearl Jam song.
I was expecting REM – anything from the first couple albums would do.
C’mon, this is too easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY
I was expecting Stevie Nicks.
https://youtu.be/U_aYibUx1B8
Dick Van Patten in the video. Never noticed that before.
for rhywun– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFId1RYSZE
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I have no why idea there is a special law like this. Assault is assault.
Wait. Unless it is to create a lesser offense out of assault. Six months in the clink for assaulting a person. Three months if the person getting assaulted was a public servant.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Whew….no products recalled that I have (or had).
Might have to be a bit wary of pepperoni for a bit.
Beware the cured meats
Not the beat meats?
Meaty, Beaty, Big, and Bouncy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voMja9C-coI&list=PL7Hsdhjbl9gVwrr-X_hct-MCIaaPcr1OV
Excellent.
Today will be a Who day.
I bought that album as a very young boy after hearing Live at Leeds. I was sorely disappointed.
Huh?
I mean Quadrophenia is their best, but MBBB is a nice greatest hits compilation.
I expected brain-exploding chords and all I got was brit-pop. I was 12 or 13.
Might I suggest “The Who Sell Out” Tundra? One of my favs from them and it is fun with all the fake commercials that they have between songs.
An Antarctic ice shelf could crack and disintegrate within the next decade, allowing a Florida-sized glacier to slide into the ocean and raising sea levels by feet, scientists warned Wednesday.
Could.
Aliens could land on the White House lawn tomorrow. Libertarian aliens who kill all the government employees and then sit on the White House porch drinking gin and lemonade while tossing playing cards into a top hat. For money.
What? Oh, could. Never mind
Libertarian aliens who kill all the government employees and then sit on the White House porch
More likely than “Libertarian Candidate wins Presidential Election”
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24000000/Kiersten-Warren-On-Independance-Day-kiersten-warren-24032157-500-229.png
Florida Glacier causes giant flood, ruins neighborhood.
What *can’t* Florida offer as a scare to right-thinking people everywhere?
It’s all DeSantis’ fault!!!
Recall on ham and pepperoni expands to include more than 2M lbs. due to possible Listeria exposure
Is it sourced from Iraq?
and deep dish, which is a casserole
Word.
I mentioned earlier that one of my techs got an offer to work as a Field Service Engineer (travel around the region fixing things, zero home life). She’s never done that kind of work before, but impressed the FSE that was here onsite.
They offered her $40/hr. Maybe some people here (or their kids) would consider that an upgrade?
https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/search-results?m=3&keywords=field%20service%20engineer
3307 postings?
I’ll have to get back to it after this meeting.
I wasn’t aware that electron microscopes had genders. Learn something new every day,
Oh, it’s in germany, maybe they’re grammatical genders.
Only a bit more than half of those are in the US though.
Looks like <300 in NY.
But the vax mandate Gustave spotted is a deal-breaker.
Bah. Assuming that’s even a thing by the time your paperwork get through HR.
?
No thanks.
Holy shit, they’ve got a Physical Failure Analysis manager opening in Brno!
A job I can do in the magical land of guns and porn…
Beer too.
“It’s time that the reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end,” Breed said Tuesday
And then she handed in her letter of resignation.
I thought it was going to be a link to every Pearl Jam song.
I’m older than that.
I mentioned earlier that one of my techs got an offer to work as a Field Service Engineer (travel around the region fixing things,
Hardware, or software?
We used to call them “Tech Reps”
(Torx) wrench turners.
So, a Mercedes mechanic?
“It’s absolutely outrageous, obviously it cannot continue,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of San Francisco retail thefts Wednesday. “There is an attitude of lawlessness in our country that springs from I don’t know where … and we cannot have that lawlessness become the norm.”
That would be you and your colleagues.
It can and will continue as long as the radical DA’s running all of those places are still in power.
If Philly is any indication, the cities want this to continue.
Apathy, ignorance, machine politics… all things they count on and are very difficult to fight.
Some people did something.
When Catarineau addressed him disrespectfully, Lacayo denied him bond and directed a bailiff to take him into custody, said Daniel Glasscock, who was waiting to appear in another case.
Thou shall not disrespect thy robed masters.
When the bailiff tried to take him into custody, Catarineau grabbed the bailiff’s hair, took her to the ground and began punching her, according to prosecutor Jacob Salinas.
I’m shocked that she was overpowered.
Your transphobic observations about the bailiff are offensive. She might have a penis… You don’t know.
An Antarctic ice shelf could crack and disintegrate within the next decade, allowing a Florida-sized glacier to slide into the ocean and raising sea levels by feet, scientists warned Wednesday.
Raising sea levels by feet? I’m going to go out on a limb here and call bullshit.
Prior to the vote, Alderman Jeanette Taylor said, “$2.9 million might seem like a lot, but it will never give Ms. Young back her dignity and respect, and the trust that she’s lost.”
And I’m not surprised that there is no mention of the officers involved being fired.
California Democrats — from mayor’s offices, to governor’s offices, to the office of the United States House Speaker — are using increasingly strong language to describe retail theft.
Apropos
0.01 feet.
what?
*shrug*
“Yelled”, “fumed”, “vented anger”. . . I’m sure that is an accurate characterization.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) vented his anger with the media in the wake of a report that he wants to drop the child tax credit, a popular program, from President Biden’s expansive climate and social spending package.
“This is bullshit. You’re bullshit,” Manchin yelled at Arthur Delaney, a reporter for HuffPost Politics, who asked him to confirm the report that the child tax credit has become a major sticking point in talks with the White House.
“I’m done, I’m done,” Manchin fumed, his voice rising, after Delaney asked whether the senator could support continuing $300 monthly payments to families with young kids. …
Raju reported that talks between Manchin and Biden were not going well because Manchin wants to cut the child tax credit out of the bill.
Manchin denied the report and said members of the media are hearing “a lot of bad rumors.”
“I’m not opposed to child tax credit, I’ve never been opposed to child tax credit,” he insisted.
He’s not wrong.
I would be much happier if journalos managed to provoke every member of Congress into fits of apoplexy on a daily basis.
And then they murder the journalo in a fit of rage?
Great. Just. Fucking. Great.
I need another cup of coffee, but now I have to wait for my boner – that your comment caused – to go away.
A Glibmas
https://i.redd.it/5yk3w3ociz481.jpg
Unicorn?
If you’re going to steal tED’ss thing, you have to post terrible songs, not good ones.
Something else to panic about
The U.S. can add high winds to the list of weather calamities this year. Just days removed from a deadly tornado outbreak, a huge swath of the country will face dangerous winds that could lead to prairie fires and blowing dust and snow.
Wind may seem more benign than the twisters, wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves that have hit the country this year. But the situation is no joke, with hurricane-force winds possible on Wednesday from Southern California to Michigan. All told, high-wind watches or warnings blanket an astounding 21% of the Lower 48 and cover 36 million people.
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Temperatures could be as much as 38 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius) hotter than normal, and dozens of records could fall from Texas to Wisconsin. Dallas could crack 79 degrees Fahrenheit (26 degrees Celsius), while the frozen tundra of Green Bay could get to 57 degrees Fahrenheit (14 degrees Celsius), both of which would be record-setting heat. All told, 51 weather stations are forecast to tie or beat daily records, according to NWS data. (Hello, climate change.)
Spoiler alert: Mother Nature hates you and wants you dead.
(Fuck off, Gawker.)
See my links below. We had one day of 50+ weather and then it went right back down to normal. But yeah, the one day is proof of Climate Change.
It has been super windy here for a couple of days.
Inclement weather didn’t happen before climate change.
Since climate change is as old as the planet…
Woot! Judi saves the day! OT and too local but my company is trying to make me pay for rapid testing. Turns out that this is illegal under the Labour Code. The cherry on top was when she provided a link for me to forward to HR that offers free testing for employers by our very own BC Centers for Disease Control. Not hard to see who did their homework and who didn’t. I was right, HR is fucking with me out of spite, laziness, incompetence or complacency. Probably a little of all four. I’m pretty sure that the company never gets much push-back from their employees because of the nature of the work, the people that are usually employed in these jobs and our toothless Union. They hate me because I fight them. They are not used to that. My Lady is a trooper. She’s been in the trenches, fighting this Covid shit tooth and nail from the start while I’ve been nothing but a keyboard warrior. It’s probably not over but I’m hopeful that they decide that I’m too valuable and too much of a nuisance to fuck with going forward. I’d drink to that! Now to read TFL.
Excellent news!
Better be putting something nice under the tree for the little lady.. 😉
Send them a bill for having to do their job on top of yours…
Since you are making your poor employer pay for testing (or I guess the taxpayers), you should at least have the decency to get the Rona and test positive.
If you were to get the Rona and recover, would they still insist on regular testing? Or would they be smart enough to at least suspend it for a few months because of natural immunity?
“Natural Immunity is not a valid form of innoculation for the purposes of the mandate.”
There was a bill passed here in Ohio that included a positive test and recovery as an exemption in any vaccination mandate. Not sure if that was the one that passed the house and senate that DeWine (Codless – OH) said he would veto. At that point it would be kicked back to the legislature which has the votes (but not necessarily the testicular fortitude) to override the veto.
Constitutional carry just passed the statehouse here as well. I have a feeling that DeWine will veto (or at least threaten to) that as well.
I don’t think my newly acquired natural immunity is going to save me from any heavy handed mandates. Even with the option you mention above, I never got an official PCR test, I just used rapid tests at home.
Nice.
Hoo-rah!
Good on Judi!
You have a good woman, worth fighting for.
Hurray! ??
The
darkiesunvaxxed need to learn their place.multiple protesters against mandates were just arrested at Applebee’s in queens NY for trying to order food at a vaxed only restaurants …
arrested made at Applebee’s in queens mall after Protesters against mandates had a sit in at a restaurant that’s for the vaxxed only. …
Happening Now: New York Anti-Mandate protesters staged a sit in at a food court in the Queens Center Mall, where Vaccine passports are a requirement. They were let in, able to eat without problems or showing proof of vaccination…
At least they didn’t have to eat at Applebee’s. Sounds like a win for unvaxxed.
Apparently stupidity is not limited to these shores (though they do find their best exemplar on the west coast). No doubt California politicians would piddle themselves at being compared to enlightened Europeans.
When the populace has no understanding of how wealth is created or where their basic resources come from, this is what you get.
And Merkel is a fucking commie.
By systematically shutting down baseload-critical nuclear power facilities and replacing them with intermittent renewable energy, Germany has left itself – and by extension, the entire European Union – vulnerable to shortages of reliable sources of electricity.
And wait until Russia turns the spigot off.
It’s the exact path Cuomo has taken New York down.
There is a reason for all of this and it’s not to help New York.
Maybe they should rename them?
Rename to non-floating coffins?
No worries. The Marines can transport those AAV’s across bodies of water using their Osprey aircraft (if they can get them airborn).
It might work better if they flew the amphibious assault vehicles and floated the ospreys.
Speaking as somebody who once rode in one on the open ocean – that should have always been the policy.
That is why you should have joined us smart and good looking Marines and spent your time swinging with the Wing.
[has mental flash of scene in Pentagon Wars about the portholes]
was that movie accurate?
Very minor exaggerations. The book was not a comedy, but the movie took that tone almost as a coping mechanism.
The fundamental point – that the thing was a death-trap was no exaggeration at all. As a result, they went back and seriously redesigned the thing to what is actually used today. Also I will note that recently an Army 3-star pointed to the Bradley as a “great acquisition story” ironically and apparently drenched in ignorance of the whole story.
dammit… UN-ironically
To Pie’s question – the Army Bradley and Marine AAV are very different vehicles for different role.
I love that movie so damn much.
Part of the holy trinity of movies:
Pentagon Wars
Office Space
Idiocracy
Now I have a new movie on my list.
It’s free on youtube.
Uffda. Minnesoda lit the Biden signal. I guess we can expect a visit so he can tell us all how this is proof of Climate Change.
Not only did we have tornadoes (this morning on the radio they were saying that there were two), but we set a record high of 52 yesterday. Totes proof that we will all die of Climate Change!
*It is currently 22 and the high for the next week looks like 28. But that is weather. The one day high and tornadoes are climate.
They’re trumpeting “record high” of 60 here which must be a joke because I know we’ve had high 70s and later in December before.
On that particular day?
Happens here all the time. The weather terrorists go bonkers about some new record. Then a couple days later they will be doing the weather and say that “The record high for this day was back in 1921 and it was 100”.
But the “Fact Checkers” can rate the “Record High” claim as true and sleep with a clear conscience.
Averaged out over a hundred years or whatever, I can scarcely believe that on this particular day it’s never been over 60 before.
It’s annoying. I want the ground good and frozen by this point. It’s muddy, and the ticks are still alive and active.
It’s normally colder. We should check the thermostat and change the filter.
I want to close my windows so I have a chance at not being constantly on edge from all the noise pollution.
I’ll be there’s an air rifle out there that can puncture a gas tank.
There are air rifles that can take out whitetails.
And bigger.
Available on Amazon*.
*Some shipping restrictions to commie areas.
*clicks*
Yup.
/warm & fuzzy feeling of safety 🙂
?
The Florida man of guns?
Sign me up.
When you are as old as I am you don’t need an air rifle to take out whitetails but it’s gonna take more than 20 bucks.
Rogan interviews a cardiologist – and immediately gets censored.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/youtube-censors-bombshell-joe-rogan-interview-with-cardiologist-peter-mccullough/
well you cannot allow misinformation even from a so called cardiologist
Funny how “misinformation” practically always and without exception seems to be what the people that are pissed they no longer control the narrative dislike or want you not to know because it exposes their lies and manipulation, huh?
And once they no longer can hide it, you never get told that it was not misinformation, but that they tried to prevent that information from getting out but have failed and are moving to some other damage control…
And in the annals of holding people accountable for their misdeeds, or you know, just totally ignoring them.
As has been observed many times before, they just don’t care that we know about it anymore.
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
*cue jokes about if they kicked all the criminals out of the bar*…
And yet, Elie Mystal failed his C&F requirement.
I mean can you even be part of a Bar Association without a few felonies to your name?
Blackadder : That’s your nose, Baldrick. Now; any history of insanity in the family? Tell you what, I’ll cross out the in. Any history of *sanity* in the family? None whatsoever. Now then; criminal record…
Baldrick : Absolutely not.
Blackadder : Oh, come on, Baldrick, you’re going to be an MP, for God’s sake! I’ll just put fraud and sexual deviancy. Now; minimum bribe level…
Baldrick : One turnip. Oh, hang on, I don’t want to price myself out of the market.
Gotta love the classics. I still remember trying to sing the lyrics…like everybody else my age…and basically mumbling. Enjoy it.
I kinda liked the postmodern jukebox version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TliE9rTrzXg
This is my favorite of that era.
They stealing from Richard Cheese?
was the trailer to the latest Nicolas Cage flick linked round these parts?
THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT Trailer (2022) Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Neil Patrick Harris, Nicolas Cage playing Nicolas Cage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v085niGqko
A former senior FBI lawyer who falsified a surveillance document in the Trump-Russia investigation has been restored as a member in “good standing” by the District of Columbia Bar Association even though he has yet to finish serving out his probation as a convicted felon, according to disciplinary records obtained by RealClearInvestigations.
He has a special insight which better allows him to understand the nuance of law.
Don’t deny his lived experience!
And in annoying things in the local news:
Officer critical after being shot multiple times at Phoenix apartment complex
Suspect faces attempted murder charge in shooting
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/phoenix-officer-shot-near-15th-avenue-and-camelback-road-suspect-in-custody
Why was thin in Romanian news you asked? Because apparently Officer Tyler Moldovan has Romanian origins. which is utter meaningless. This shit is as bad as American obsession with their European “roots”
I thought Moldova was a separate country?
ha ha
Alas, no jobs in Romania, at lest not that are accessible from the /en version.
huh?
The TF link I posted earlier. Not showing anything in Romania. Czechia, yes.
Like this one, that I’m assuming many Glibs are qualified for:
https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/job/186159BR/Scrum-Master
Wait, you think we’re all Rugby people?
Anyone have experience with Czech massages? I also kind of like the idea of five weeks vacation but only three sick days, it speaks to a culture that discourages malingering.
No, but I’d be willing to Czech it out.
I know there are fans of KFDM here.
Kentucky Fried Dog Meat?
Is that the show with Loni Anderson?
Cincinnati is east of the Mississippi, so no.
I misread that as KMFDM
(and I’d wager there are indeed KMFDM fans here)
Same here, and there was even an album PIG VS KMFDM, so it was also completely appropriate.
Karl Marx Found Dead, Mutilated?
I don’t know who turned me on to the conspiracy memes last night, but I’m burning way too much time on it now.
https://i.redd.it/93mr60qejql61.jpg
See: Every girl on YouTube detransitioning who mourn the loss of their womanly voices.
I laughed a little too hard at that one.
Wow.
Perfect.
But I thought no right was more sacred than the right to vote.
‘Vax to Vote’ will absolutely become a thing by the political establishment/left, soon. I’m calling it right now:
It’s not some sort of poll tax or anything…
Does it matter anymore?
For people that screamed about showing ANY form of ID in order to vote, now you’ll have to show up with…???
I think the only reason this might not happen is more than half of the black population is not vaccinated.
“No worries, we’ll just file their mail-in ballots for them.”
Oh, I’m so looking forward to listening to the usual suspects square that circle with a straight face.
Except that it will never come to that. Instead they will just insist that the dirty unvaxxed can only vote by mail. Which is actually a net positive for The Man.
The unvaxxed mail in vote will become the solidest supporters of the Deep State after their ballots are properly fortified.
So they do want voter ID
Why was thin in Romanian news you asked?
To illustrate the rampant anarchic lawlessness endemic in America?
Child abuse: Vaccine trial underway for children 6 months to 4 years
*inchoate rage building*
Let me guess – with no control group?
Odds are they will evaluate it on a single criteria, whether they get an antibody response or not.
They’re just flat out ignoring all standards for trials and evaluation now and daring anyone to call them on it. They own the media and regulatory system, so why not?
What kind of parent signs their kid up for this? It is voluntary, right?
Bad parents.
The fuckwits who still believe the system.
Remember Sqrly’s song on TOS? something about “O, my government loves me so”? He flogged that joke to death but at least even he knew it was a joke.
I know the one, the director of the NIH will be singing it unironically on his next album.
The true believers. Most people don’t know any better.
Unless your pediatrician, school nurse or pharmacist does an ‘oops’.
Or you send your kid to day-care in an unfree state.
Remy redoing raise the debt ceiling. Best line ‘Hamilton started this place, thats why the printer goes BURR
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rx5mE9XPcWw
Give the poor a fish, and… they’ll learn how to fish! Team of Nobel prize economists runs experiment and finds that giving the ultra poor a big asset transfer increases incomes 10 years later! People can escape poverty when given a chance.
https://twitter.com/mioana/status/1471231348769710089
meh 10 years in India and a fairly minor gain… I wonder how a much better and freer economy would help them
Um, 10 years?
Anyone should be able to move up a few rungs on the ladder in 10 years. You probably got a couple promotions/raises. Learned a few life lessons (go to bed early, eat right, etc.).
You’d have to do really dumb stuff to not improve in 10 years (drugs, drinking, baby mamas).
I dropped out of Community College ’cause the classes were too early. Who gets up at 10 AM?
They were better off than others who did not get the transfer, the kicker?
Most of the change was due to them moving out of wherever they lived to somewhere better.
Following up on PJ’s comment, was there a control group to compare to? DNRTA
That pedophile elites conspiracy theory…
BREAKING: Source Provided Video and Texts Show @CNN Producer Fantasizing About Sex Acts with Fiancé’s Young Daughter
Producer in question also solicited explicit photos of source’s underage daughter
SOURCE: “People with power seem to get away with it”
wait is this the same guy with the sex training for 8 year olds or a different guy?
Project Veritas is being a bit coy:
The way I read that, it could be the same guy. Or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If I had to guess, the FBI and/or CNN knew about Griffin for quite a while and it was only when they caught wind of PV going public with the interviews that they moved on it.
It’s the most cynical interpretation, so it’s the most likely.
That agrees with my biases.
PV oversells almost everything – every scrap of meat is sold as a prime-rib.
If the feds moved before PV could release the story, it’s very much like PV to spin it like this vs. just saying “we had this ready to go but the Feds moved first – anyway, here’s what we have”.
The only funny thing about this is Chris Wallace heading over there.
What a dipshit.
“Where are the white
womenkids at?”A Russian court’s fraud conviction may have inadvertently revealed the deployment of Russian troops in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.
A district court in Russia’s Rostov region located on the Ukrainian border disclosed that a convicted senior manager was in charge of buying, stocking and selling food to Russian troops stationed in eastern Ukraine.
“This food was intended to be sent to military units of the Russian Armed Forces stationed on the territory of the DNR and LNR,” the court said in its verdict.
The ruling was no longer visible on the court’s website as of Thursday afternoon.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/12/16/fraud-conviction-appears-to-reveal-russian-troop-deployment-in-east-ukraine-a75835
Not exactly a surprise.
I think the only reason this might not happen is more than half of the black population is not vaccinated.
Something some thing SCIENCE!-tistic literacy test! Not fair to black folks.
Rethuglitards, on the other hand…
The reverse literacy test to vote?
“I’d like to read the consent form before getting vaxxed.”
“DENIED! And now you can’t vote either”
What about black Republicans?
Sure, just like libertarian women… bwahahahahaha.
The end up like Colin Powell.
Well…bye.
Democrat incumbent Abigail Spanberger, who worked in the CIA before Congress, is poised to lose her 7th District seat on Capitol Hill under new maps released by Virginia’s redistricting committee. Once finalized, the maps are expected to leave at least one Congressional Democrat out in the cold as heavily gerrymandered districts are more evenly redrawn.
The new district lines come from a proposed map drawn by two Special Masters appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court as part of a new redistricting process that eliminates partisan gerrymandering by the General Assembly. The new map, or something very similar, is expected to be approved and in effect for the 2022 midterm elections with a projected five districts leaning Democrat, five districts leaning Republican, and one district appearing to be a true toss-up.
Spanberger’s current 7th District is effectively dissolved under the new maps, leaving her home in Glen Allen within the boundaries of an expanded 1st District, safely represented by Republican Rob Wittman. The 7th District itself goes north, to safe Democrat territory, but far removed from Spanberger.
Independent, non-partisan efforts are supposed to fuck over Republicans, not Democrats. It is known.
The maps are better than what they could have been. Map making was taken away from the legislature (currently D) and handed to a bipartisan commission. The commission couldn’t agree if the maps should be racist so the process was turned over the the state supreme court. The maps generally keep to county/city borders.
Our “bipartisan” commission produced two maps (guess why?) and couldn’t pick one so the Dems are proposing to toss out the commission.
/Democracy in action
Race information should be banned from any legislative districting group’s access, let alone use. Also, no info on the distribution of voter registration by party should be available to them as well. A citizen is a citizen is a citizen.
You forgot
aliensnon-citizens.Unfortunately, I will be redistricted out of the 1st into the 10th which includes Loudoun.
What the fuck Louisiana?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/louisiana-governor-to-add-covid-19-vaccine-to-list-of-required-school-immunizations_4158355.html
Edwards is a fan of the total subservience to the nation schtick.
That’s all I can figure. That or he was dropped on his head too many times as a child.
I will never tire of sharing this Edwards anecdote. He ran for Congress back in the 1990s to take David Vitter’s seat in the House as Vitter was trying get a Senate slot. In one of the debates, Edwards had, what he thought was a great gotcha line; he either flubbed it or he is that dumb. He summoned up his best AKSUALLY face and said to the camera – “Did you know that over 50% of our foreign oil is imported?”
The school system apparatus in Louisiana is deep blue…like NY or Rhode Island blue. We crossed Louisiana off our list after discovering that homeschooling is essentially banned there.
When Thot Thursday is, it is.
https://archive.md/Pwp8a
ATTN: Festus.
Duly noted! And bookmarked. Thanks Q!
Alexis Griswold | Maid you Look 4k FULL VIDEO | FilmMob Tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lerbpEx_ubg
Thanks for the music link, Sloop! Nena punches all of my buttons (as some of you may have noticed from the Zooms). A slim, trim brunette with big eyes! And bangs!
Festus, do you like Zooey Deschanel?
Who knew Shirley Feeney could sing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni75mYuwvlg
I was aware. That’s another reason that I love her.
So cute n quirky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ0K99BAXYE
I heart Zooey! Both of us loved her TV show!
DC Bar Restores Convicted FBI Russiagate Forger to ‘Good Standing’ Amid Irregularities and Leniency
It is nice to have friends in high places.
Ahem, you really should clean up those drugs at your heels.
My first thought was “how more DC could you get than a bar banning someone for something they did at work”. Then I realized it wasn’t that kind of bar.
Serves that little, racist bastard right.
The absolute state of Sweden. 21 year old Kenny Friberg was anally raped with a bottled by immigrant gang for 6 hour. In the court room the immigrants laughed at, and mocked the victim. Kenny called them ‘bad names’ and now the victim has been charged with a hate crime for ‘incitement.’
The utterly predictable backlash to that is going to be ugly.
???
It may come late, but it always comes.
Humans will always revert to tribal affiliation when the going gets rough.
I have a Nordic chum who is quite adamant that within 50 years, Northern Europe will either be part of a caliphate or there will be statues of Anders Brevik in every single village square.
So, the caliphate it is. We’ll barely even notice so long as the legos and north sea oil keep flowing.
Oh, woe! Callous disregard for the opinions of experts! Infamy!
A new statewide mask mandate in California took effect Wednesday, which brings the total number of states with mask mandates to nearly 10. At a moment when health authorities are warning of the fast spread of the highly infectious omicron variant, states with mask mandates are outliers.
This is true in places with huge surges, like Michigan, where there’s no mandate and hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. There’s none in Ohio, where the legislature has taken away the governor’s authority on mandates. There’s none in New Hampshire, which currently has the most cases of COVID-19 per capita of any U.S. state, with 93 cases per 100,000 residents.
Even some counties and cities — like Nashville, Tenn., and Washington D.C., for example — that were pro-mask mandates earlier in the pandemic seem reluctant to bring them back.
Public health experts who track the pandemic are worried. Past experience with COVID-19 shows that when mitigation measures are put into place early, surges are smaller and end more quickly, which means more lives are saved.
“I’m a little mystified as to why we aren’t talking more about masking,” says Dr. Emily Landon, an infectious disease physician at the University of Chicago. “We want to avoid having hospitals be overwhelmed. We want to avoid having an impact on our economy. And the best way to do that is to keep cases as low as possible, and that means having a mask mandate in place.”
Mystified?
Whycome them no blindly accept our superstitious mumbo jumbo no more?
Really? I’m not sure I’m buying this.
I mean, is anyone even checking?
“We fired a bunch of nurses who refused our vax mandates, so we had to close a bunch of beds after more quit for overwork. Now we’re running out of room for regular patients. We’re overloaded because of coronavirus!”
Can’t be bothered to go find it, but there was a local story about hospital overcrowding in Minnesoda and buried way at the bottom of the story was the tidbit that 80-some % of the beds were non-Rona cases. Mostly because of the backlog created when they shut everything down.
That’s the explanation in NH.
You push enough on the staff fired due to vaccine mandates, the usual suspects will say, “It was only 1% of staff. It doesn’t matter.”
warning of the fast spread of the highly infectious omicron variant
!!!
nearly 10
That there is a gem of journalo-ism. I know that J-school grads have a troubled relationship with math in general, but is it really so hard to say “8”?
10 is a bigger number — it has two digits.
There is no mystery.
Governor Shitmer is up for re-election in 2022. She knows the national elections are going to be a bloodbath. If she locks down now her shot at the Presidency in 2024 is gone.
Governor Polis is also up for re-election in 2022. Guess who else isn’t locking down Colorado?
Citation missing.
Funny how no mention is made that the shit-hole known as Florida currently has the lowest number of cases per capita. Also, as of today, Rhode Island took over the top spot.
I hate per capita ratings. It was used last year to paint SoDak as a hell hole of death. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet RI’s new spot at the top of the list is sort of the same. Few people so a few clusters can really elevate your numbers.
I get that if you just report the numbers then places like FL come out bad because they have lots of people.
Maybe do something crazy like report both? “RI is the #1 per capita with 238 deaths”?
I agree that absolute numbers give perspective, although in this case NH is at an all-time high, nearly twice last winter’s peak.
I have a thought on NH, though. I have done some studies of deaths by state, and for a long time those states that are more isolated (NH, VT, ME, AK, WA, OR, HI) have done better earlier in the pandemic. I’m wondering if it’s just now finally catching up to them.
Neat.
Working moms really don’t like to be asked to justify why they should get subsidies so they “can have it all”.
I hope this doesn’t sound misogynistic, but there really is a class of women out there, mostly young, who have been pandered to their entire life. They think by virtue of the fact that they have a vagina, they’re entitled to be catered to in every element of their existence (And no, it isn’t about sex. This particular class of woman thinks that it’s just her status as a woman that gives her that entitlement, not even counting what they’d expect in response for sex). And they won’t even have any embarrassment about outright stating it.
Maybe there is a male equivalent to it. But, if there is, I haven’t run across it.
Men usually get that shit knocked out of their systems fairly quick. That is probably changing (for the worse) as well.
You just described my ex-wife.
They’ve been told that they have been discriminated against for all of the existence of Western civilization.
It has basically the same assumptions as CRT. Society is sexist, all laws and institutions are therefore sexist, you deserve restitution.
I think that’s part of it. But, it’s also a symptom. I’ve met young women who, as far as I can tell, don’t consider themselves feminists who exhibit this behavior. The victim game just gives this sort of woman more ammunition.
Honestly, I think it has to do with our prosperity as a society. We’re rich enough that it’s possible for people to get their way on a huge number of things. And, parents seem to be less inclined to say no to giving girls what they want, including validating their feelings, than to boys. And we’ve arrived at a weird overlap of values with regard to women. Society has internalized a lot of the legitimate grievances presented by feminism and makes an effort to ensure that women are given the same opportunities and credibility men get as their equals. At the same time, we’ve retained most of the chivalric values about women being protected and cared for. It creates a world in which a lot of young girls are brought up with anything they want, do, or say is met with positive feedback.
It is almost like feminists don’t want a truly equal society.
They didn’t even give birth to Firsters. Where does the sense of entitlement come from for producing more seconders?
Why does it not surprise me that you weren’t birthed from a woman.
“While having a mask mandate doesn’t necessarily cease the spread, you can see a difference between ones that have kept a statewide mask mandate on and ones that haven’t,” she explains. She and her collaborators are still in the process of analyzing how big of a difference mask mandates make on case numbers.
Sure you can. And the only conceivable explanation of these infinitesimal statistical anomalies is mask mandates.
Turn up the noise, you lying fucks.
Argument by assertion, you can’t see a damned difference and it has been demonstrated over and over.
If it were obvious, they would have released their analysis a year ago. It takes time to torture the data.
Didn’t work in Illinois.
Look, if you just put the mandate out just as cases start to turn the corner, it clearly shows that mandates reduce cases.
Good morning, Sloop!
You’ll be happy to know that Nena is still beautiful.
Worth a re-post.
(OK, it’s 20 years old (!). Kill me.)
Good morning Sloop and the rest of this ragtag band of misfits and ne’er do wells.
I always liked that song. High school TOK was fond of this version.
This is a rather disturbing version that I’m fond of.
Policymakers seem to have the impression that people are done with the pandemic rules, that they won’t comply anyway and that mandates will just make them angry.
Landon, who actually worked to persuade the governor of Illinois to keep that state’s mask mandate in place, says she’s frustrated with the idea that masks are a huge burden.
“I told the governor in my conversation with him, ‘You’ve got to stop talking about unmasking as though it’s a reward, because it perpetuates this belief that masks are somehow a penalty for the pandemic,’ ” she said. “It really isn’t — actually, it is quite literally the least we can do to protect other people.”
It’s possible that public resistance to masking is overblown. One survey of 993 people from Dec. 10 to 13, conducted by Ipsos and Axios, found that 64% of people nationally support state and local mask mandates and that 69% of people reported that they are wearing masks either always or sometimes when they leave the house.
Fuck off, you totalitarian cunt, and take your “good little boys and girls” bullshit with you.
Was this survey conducted in Alexandria?
Around here it was close to 5% or less actually masking (unless they worked there), at the grocery store before the ‘mandates’ came back on. In a blue area of a blue state…
Yeah, that’s why our elites are removing them at every opportunity and sometimes forgetting to put them back on when the cameras are rolling.
Mandatory lock-ins for anyone over 60. That is the least we can do to protect the vulnerable.
“You have to stop thinking of being allowed to leave your house as a reward”. Really hiding under your bed is the least you can do.
Landon seems to have paid no attention at all to the psychologists who are warning about the developmental damage to kids because they can’t see the faces of adults around them.
That’s because they’re far more concerned with their own influence and standing. They don’t give a shit about the kids.
Glaziers and tailors…
Oh hey, look at that.
A little detail that escaped the rest of the media jackals.
I heard some folk out your way were ticket that the Samaritan busted a cap into the car jacker…
It’s just another day in which I am not traveling to France.
Apropos of nothing: https://youtube.com/watch?v=33zJvKNYv2c
“Apropos of”? Ugh
Whassamatta wit “apropos of”, my good man?
194 FSE postings in the UK. I’m not sure that some of the towns are real though. Like “Taunton?” That’s from Empire Strikes back. and “Milton Keynes” is a person not a place.
Taunton: the west country. “Oi be trinking zoider.” Mmm, cider.
MK: perhaps Limey will explain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes
Oh, it’s a place. Generally used as a punchline, sort of like “Detroit”.
“It’s possible that public resistance to masking is overblown. ”
And it’s also possible you’re whistling past the graveyard. Those politicians who have disappointed you so have a single noteworthy skill, and that is weathervaning public opinion.
When this is over, public health experts will be held in lower esteem than child rapists and wifebeaters.
*A man can dream, can’t he?
I’ve avoided contact with my acquaintances who are in public health because I fear that I would unload two years of rage on them. They were practically ecstatic with glee at the beginning of this farce because it was their moment.
That 100% explains Fauci. For decades he’s been toiling anonymously, now he finally gets his chance to implement all the stuff he’s been thinking about, and he gets to be the star of the show.
“America’s top doc” induces crippling nausea in me. I just want to vomit into the face of whoever says it.
“Nations top infectious disease expert” – Really? If there’s any shred of truth to that, we are well and truly fucked. I’ll substitute white hot rage for nausea though.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/mediaviewer/rm3270941185
I have an uncle who worked for the CDC years ago. He got very upset with me when I pointed out how badly they have performed.
According to him, they are all great people who are doing the best they can.
Things didn’t get better when I pointed out that results are what matter, not intentions and feelz.
I have hated the entire field since they first extended their slimy tentacles outside of the realms of sanitation and disease.
Pols are very good at figuring out where the parade is heading and then running out ahead of them and pretending that they were the one who led the people there.
Yes, even King Walz isn’t making a peep about another emergency here in Minnesoda. Even though, the numbers are just as bad or worse as when he assumed dictatorial control. He’s up for re-election in 2022 and knows that he’d get crushed.
Cases in Illinois have essentially doubled since the Governor reinstated the mask mandate 3.5 months ago
Fake news! Disinformation! Unfair manipulation of statistics!
It would have been ten times worse without the masks.
It’s only going higher because too many people don’t wear their masks or wear them improperly i.e. under the nose.
SCIENCE
Somebody fucked up the club’s website.
I set up a gmail account to take questions about the Winter Steel shoots, but It’s started getting questions for other club business. Someone just sent me their 2022 membership applications.
Are there open membership spots?
Yup. I believe the trustees have taken the position “accept new members until it interferes with my ability to find an open lane when I want to shoot.”
Well, I’ve put my name on the waiting list.
Re: The day care thing; our second kid runs the baby room in their little local day care co-op. She actually likes the job; she says she’s basically a professional second Mom for about six to eight itty-bitties. But even in their little town in eastern Iowa, they’re having a hell of a time finding people to work. Right now the kid is basically there whenever the place is open, so about fifty-five hours a week.
Anecdote, not data, but still.
Our neighbor did day care up until the day her kids were in school and old enough to be latchkey kids. Then she quit that and went back to an office to work.
The new job didn’t pay as well as the day care, but she was happier.
She only did day care because she wanted to raise her own kids and figured she might as well make some side money doing it.
She also dropped 30 or 40 lbs when she quit the day care biz.
According to her, it was simply not being around food all the time. Especially the uneaten food that she had a hard time just throwing away.
No one knows what it’s like…to be hated…to be fated…to being only First.
Judging by the ratio of unmasked to masked faces around here, I’d say public resistance to masking is pretty well distributed through the population. If the employer-required rules were dropped (national chains like Walmart, essentially) I suspect the abandonment of masks would be practically universal.
Depressingly, I was the only unmasked person in the CVS yesterday. And it was all optional. Those other 10 people were all giving me the stink eye too. Of course, that was all they could give me because their frowns were hidden by the mask.
Maybe that is a million $ idea? See through mask panels so you could show your displeasure with the unvaxxed?
Tried to pay the government for the privilege of inspecting my car this morning, but was told “the inspection lane is closed this week”. This happens about 50% of the time when I attempt to get an inspection. Must be a nice racket.
It’s been quarantined with the vid.
I was in a biker gang* called “The Red Balloons”. We flew our colors proudly.
“99 Balloons” was our theme song.
People know you are badass and better not fuck with you when you walk into a biker bar and pull up Nena on the juke box.
*3 aerospace engineers is a gang, right?
No, that’s a gear of engineers.
I think that’s called a flap of engineers.
This reminds me of the “gang of 4” at Stanford, referring to 4 economists. I imagine them busting out supply and demand curves. Totally badass!
/s
There is also a famous “Gang of 4” in software design. Well, for some values of “famous”.
That is the first thing I thought of – sitting on the bookshelf to my right.
My ex was in a biker group called the Fuzzy Bunnies. The head biker guy looked like Billy Bob Thornton.
Young or old billy bob?
Are you thinking of spreading the OUTRIGHT LIE that vaccinated people can spread the Kung Flu? Well not on Twitter, pal!
https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1471131585860849669
SMITE
I keep telling my wife that we are the super spreaders because we may not know if we have it. She says nothing, but I see her suppressing her eye rolls.
Isn’t eye rolling a symptom of the Rona?
That means a lot of us got the Rona long before it was cool.
Sounds like the Twits need to suspend themselves. (The Twits being TPTB of Twitter.)
Was hanging out with a friend last night and she said “I wish I weren’t afraid of being around groups of people”. I said “you could just choose not to be afraid”.
Like, it is literally a choice, especially at this point with everything we know.
(her excuse was her parents’ wellbeing. Both parents are vacksed and healthy for elderly folk. I replied “my dad just got back from Spain.” Again – it’s a choice to be afraid.)
This was the logical result of advancing the idea that being afraid is a form of being aggressed against and gives you moral authority.
OT, as this does not apply to the WuFlu in any way.
Funny, I was just thinking about, “I’d be afraid it…”
So Gma from Hell #1 wouldn’t ever go outside her comfort zone unless she was with my dad. Her comfort zone encompassed watching Good Morning, America and The Price is Right, going to the store once a day, then reading the newspaper in her rocker the rest of the day. Her catch phrase to anything more adventurous was, “I’d be afraid if [X improbable thing happened].”
My dad would say, “I’d hate to go through life being afraid if.” Narrator: He was afraid of a lot of things.
No she is intent on being a victim of the pervasive fear. She has no control over that. She can’t refuse, she can’t choose – she can only suffer and demand that everyone cater to her.
Feature, not bug.
That is exactly what they wanted of us.
I was chatting with one of our reps about an upcoming trade show. He’s not going. His words: “I guess I’m not ready for crowds yet.”
Two years, dude. Two.
I refrained from calling him a pussy.
I don’t understand why that is acceptable and you can’t pressure the scared ones to do things that make them uncomfortable(at least in my company) but if you’re hesitant about the vaccine, you are declared unclean.
Not even a derisive shrug and a chuckle? That’s some good restraint you have.
I got a dagger stare from a dude on another supervisor’s crew during a department meeting when I rolled my eyes because he asked when the company was going to prove the new booster jab.
I agree 100% with his decision not to attend a trade show.
I disagree 110% with his reason.
* I was hoping that a year of being locked down would demonstrate to everyone that trade shows are a huge waste of time. Worse, they are a time suck. You spend gobs of time and money to go to a show and end up with ….?
Sadly, it seems like the marketing people are back at it. Shows “get your name out there”. “You develop contacts”. etc.
** I also hoped that a year of no crowds for sportzball would demonstrate that we don’t need to build new stadiums too.
The crowds do make a difference to the sports watching experience. Even over TV. In fact I think that’s really the part of it that is crucial to the the enjoyment of the sports and is a hugely underrated part of it.
I just don’t think I should pay for it with tax dollars.
I’m afraid of things, too, some irrational. Like flying. But getting on an airplane is generally perfectly safe, and travel is necessary to my happiness, so I suck it up and just go ahead. I guess I see COVID phobia as just as irrational as fear of flying.
II find oddly that when flying sometimes my mind comes up with the scenario where I’m suddenly outside the plane with no explaination and end up falling. I know it’s irrational, but when over the north atlantic it sometimes springs to mind.
Hell, I’m uncomfortable with heights – I still get on ski lifts because goddammit I want to ski.
It’s been a long time since I’ve skied, but I think I’m more afraid of ski lifts than air travel. Why is it the lifts are always stopped for some clumsy noob when I’m above the rocky vertical face instead of the more piles of fluffy snow?
Skiing is annoying. One always goes too slow and there is a pack of 7 year olds going faster
Then there’s all the people (like me) who would fall down and get in the way.
https://www.theintell.com/story/news/2021/12/16/used-car-prices-philadelphia-region-jump-27/8895400002/
Yowza.
I’m out. Better morning than yesterday! 25 down, 8 to go. Getting so very tired. Have a dandy one you fine folk!
Sandra Bullock used to be attractive. Now she’s just a talking mannequin like Kidman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmfz65PI8HM
I hate what Kidman did to her face. Why? WHYYYYY?????
Hell if I know.
It’s bizarre.
Toxic masculinity?
It is so weird. Seems like this last generation of Hollywood is obsessed with detrimental plastic surgery. Age isn’t ugly. Unnatural plastic surgery is.
Helen Mirren.
They should all want to grow up to be Helen Mirren.
Instead, they paralyze their faces and fall into the uncanny valley.
Hopefully Jennifer Connelly is done messing with plastic surgery. I can understand wanting to prop up the girls after having kids and what not, but leave the face alone.
True, and that movie looks retarded.
Is everything written by Ryan Renolds now?
I think Deadpool would shred that movie.
True,but it’s the same wisecracking style.
Admittedly, Renolds is really good at it.
Ryan is so hot right now. Also he shills gin like a motherfucker
Gaaaaaaaaay.
Loved it when it was Romancing the Stone. Not sure how I feel about this “reboot”.
My alma mater, leading the charge in propaganda warfare under the guise of fighting it.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/10/06/cognitive-warfare-attacks/
This is why engineers need to study philosophy (classical, not postmodern).
Right because what goverments and militaries do is fight misinformation
OFFFS.
Stay in your lane, assholes. Leave the propaganda to the journalism department.
We are fucked. Just think of all the info that is out there ‘misinforming’ people with actual information and ideas. I’m assuming they’re not going to use this to block CNN and CDC.
Maybe they’ve been reading Plato?
You should have said they should read some Zeno:
“Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, wrote his version of an ideal society, Zeno’s Republic, in opposition to Plato’s Republic.[21] Zeno’s Republic was controversial and was viewed with some embarrassment by some of the later Stoics due to its defenses of free love, incest, and cannibalism and due to its opposition to ordinary education and the building of temples, law-courts, and gymnasia. ”
That is the ancient equivalent of weed, buttsecks and messicans.