On to face the Gooners!
aTm withdrew from the Gator Bowl and is likely to be replaced by Rutgers or Illinois. Army beat Missouri in the Armed Forces Bowl. the 49ers and Titans have a big game tonight. And across the pond, Liverpool came back to win their League Cup match from two goals down. They’ll face Arsenal in the semis. The other semi will be an all-London affair between Spuds and Chelski. I suppose Arsenal will go all out to win, as will Spurs. I’d expect Liverpool and Chelsea to focus on bigger competitions. But we shall see. Anyway, that’s it for sports.
War-mongering shitheel
Spinning frame inventor Richard Arkwright was born on this day. He shares it with Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith, cosmetics mogul Madam C.J. Walker, hockey pioneer Cy Denneny, unfairly-mocked VP candidate James Stockdale, jazzman Pinocchio James, Japanese emperor Akihito, football great Paul Hornung, actor Harry Shearer, soap opera legend Susan Lucci, marathoner Bill Rodgers, dickbag Bill Kristol, football coach who hates chicken Jim Harbaugh, rocker Eddie Vedder, and actor Corey Haim.
Right, now moving on to..the links!
They can just get it later from the morgue, I suppose.
Oh, come on people. This is so retarded I had to share it with you.
This is pretty cool. I wonder how many lives he burned through.
I’m sure there will be a push to ban them now. Hell, we bought them for the exact opposite reason: that if someone stole our car, we’d be able to track it as long as someone with an iPhone was near it at some point. Although there is a flaw in the setup since they’re tied to a single Apple ID and can’t be shared all the time with a family member. I’d like to see that fixed.
I’m shocked! Shocked!!! Well not really shocked.
THIS IS MERELY A PARODY!!! Don’t sue me.
This will be interesting. I’m sure Michelle is taking notes. 😛
They must have been hungry. Right, congresswoman? Right?!?!
Chicago, you continue to disappoint me. The only correct places to buy them from are:
a. the trunk of someone’s car in a hardware store parking lot
b. a few women who knock on the door of your business and ask if anybody wants to buy them from the huge plastic tote they’re carrying
That’s the science. Trust the science.
What a horribly distasteful thing to say. A government official should never attempt to stifle the free speech of someone.
But of course they are. Even though it is none of their fucking business.
This song should get more play at Christmas. Meanwhile, this piece of shit should be relegated to the dustbin of history. I almost didn’t want to link it, but I had to. The lyrics are the most over-the-top racist trash I can recall being put to vinyl (although it’s more likely it just went to tape). How it is still played is an absolute mystery to me. Bob Geldof, you dumb fuck. I hope you’re as ashamed as you ought to be. But I doubt you are.
Sorry for that. But it needed to be said. Go enjoy that first song, and a lighter version of the links. And enjoy Christmas Eve Eve, dear friends!
What are four subjects nobody acres about, Alex?
Not a shot at you, obvs. On the contrary, that you dig so deeply into the dregs of sportsdom to find something to write about shows your devotion to linking.
*glares balefully*
Host of “LeAsshole.”
c. Your local Iglesia.
So one of the few Mexican kitchens here isn’t an appropriate answer? What about pupuseria or arepa?
Nope. Trunk of a car at Home Depot or the ladies coming in to the receptionist with a clear plastic tote. That’s it. Nowhere else.
SPECIAL DISPENSATION! In Sunset Park, Brooklyn there is a Mexican restaurant that is pretty good, but there is a plywood and 2×4 shack molly bolted to the front of the building where a wee old lady vends tamales from plastic tubs. Tamales are $1 and from noon – 4pm, Bud longnecks are $1.50 in the restaurant. Her pork & salsa verde tamales are phenomenal.
I would take my chances anywhere along 5th Avenue more than that Home Depot up at Gowanus.
Also acceptable: your housekeeper drops off a foil wrapped batch of her homemade tamales, just like every Christmas.
“housekeeper”
Shitlord humblebrag. ?
Then there are no tamales available in the area.
/goes and gets pierogi and strudel from any one of the churches nearby
Yum, those are not available here.
also C) From the tia making them in a booth at the local cafe in Ash Fork, Arizona.
(But Home Depot parking lot tamales are always a sure bet.)
/goes and gets pierogi and strudel from any one of the churches nearby
🙂
You people are buying Tamales? I thought you were supposed to make friends with someone whose Abuela compulsively makes them.
correct answer
In Minnesoda we buy our tamales at the movies.
Well most people do, but for a lot of us they are a bit too hot.
I did that once (cuz I liked the guy’s hustle) but they were muy caro; $15 for 6.
d. The food truck that stops by around noon to feed the Latino construction workers building houses in your neighborhood.
Also correct.
The best I can do is a restaurant or three run by Mexican migrants that don’t speak a lot of English.
Yes, southern NH has a few places like that. The ones I’ve been to are good.
True for everyone babes. Life is risky, but better than the alternative.
Somebody needs to introduce her to a firearms dealer.
She’d have to live in Indiana for that.
The guns wander off from there quite regularly – in Illinois, people wait at the border with nets to scoop them up and go commit crimes!
100%, also the technology could work the other way for her safety: hide a tracker inside her car and she and her family will always know where it is.
I guess the feminists are busy this year. I haven’t seen the usual Baby It’s Cold Outside outrage.
J.K. Rowling v. TRAs is consuming all of their energy. Enjoy the peace.
Trans Radical Assholes?
Technically incorrect, but true.
Thankfully, the woke mob never found out about Fairytale of New York.
Yes… they did.
Fairytale of New York: BBC Radio 1 will not play original version
The offensive word? Faggot.
Happy Christmas, my arse. Good old 91X did on Sunday.
Morning, Glibs.
“But of course they are. Even though it is none of their fucking business.”
Yeah, but I have an irrational dislike for LiveNation. Better them than me.
“That’s horrible. That just is such a reflection of the craziness that goes on in society,” Fauci told CNN host John Berman. “The only thing that I have ever done, throughout these two years, is to encourage people to practice good public health practices. … And, for that, you have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a ‘kill shot?’ To ‘ambush’ me? I mean, what kind of craziness is there in society these days?”
Dissent is treason.
The only thing he’s done is change his story a hundred times and give unsound advice.
It’s been his M.O. since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed.
Fuck that guy. He was already a piece of shit. Now he’s a piece of shit using his government position to stifle the free speech rights of citizens.
Fuck him and his “I’m just trying to help” bullshit. I am continually amazed how one little man can fit so much asshole in him.
My little sister runs a blood testing lab (non-covid). In June 2020 I was saying what a lying fuck Dr. Farici is and she was defending him like crazy.
Four months later she realized he’s a lying fuck who doesn’t know much. “Almost everything he says about antibodies is wrong! Then he changes his story and he’s still wrong!”
Good public health practices not encouraged:
Immune system support – Vitamin D, etc.
Safe and harmless home antivirals – Zinc, etc.
Public health 101 – social isolation, economic stress, sedentary living, etc. are bad for your health.
Weirdly, he has been opposing all these, either overtly or by implication.
Yeah, but what about him tirelessly advocating for letting gyms stay open and telling people that losing weight and getting in shape is a great way to reduce their risk?
Wait.
OK, nevermind.
?
That’s how you know they’re wholly corrupt. The low hanging fruit have been studiously and completely ignored.
Speaking of “kill shots” – has everyone accepted the gov’t into their hearts and taken the kill shot, er, vaccine?
Fuck no.
Although I did get Covid in September of this year, so if it is a CCP-designed bioweapon that will activate when the 5G comes online, I’ll be one of the zombies. Mild illness, by the way.
Much more likely that the “vaccines” that don’t actually vaccinate are the zombie inducers in this scenario. Else, why the full court press to eliminate the unvaxxed control group?
She said she reported the incident to law enforcement but didn’t know if they would investigate. (from the Apple tracking devices showing up on people’s cars story)
Government police are truly heroes.
Yeah, if I was member of law enforcement I’d get riiiiiiiight on that shit.
She found a tracking device in her car. It is possibly the first step in a serious premeditated crime like an abduction. All they would have to do would be get fingerprints off it and maybe the area of the car where it was found, and also try to track down the purchase of the device by its serial number.
Color me a bit suspicious. I wonder if the reporter actually checked with the police to see if she did file a report.
The whole story sounds more like that crazy shit where people were claiming that their kids were being followed and/or stolen in stores.
Well, it’s certainly something a crazy person would fabricate. But a friend actually had it happen to her. While she was going through a divorce, her soon to be ex-husband put a tracker on her car and would randomly text her “why are you at such and such a place?”.
Sometimes the dingo does eat the baby.
Anyway, my criticism is of *government* police. If it were a private sector operation, presumably she could pay a fee to have those steps taken, rather than be told by a goldbricking public “servant” to take a hike.
This is what I see happening at the Police station
Pretty much. I can’t believe I’ve never seen that. Gotta change that this evening.
The good news is I don’t think I’ve ever heard this.
Then you’re the luckiest man alive.
“Tonight thank God it’s them instead of you.”
Disgusting.
That can’t be real.
…
OMG, it is. Wow.
My Christmas gift to you guys this year is exposing you to that trash so you can impress upon all your friends how horrible it is…followed by them calling you crazy…followed by you showing them the lyrics and repeating the cycle.
At some point, it’ll reach critical mass and Bob Geldof will commit seppuku in Piccadilly Circus and the world will rejoice as one.
I’m embarrassed to say that Midge Ure – one of my eighties musical heroes – was heavily involved in that.
Everyone British was involved in that. Better tune than “We Are the World”.
Yeah but Midge co-wrote it.
Wikipedia says Geldof wrote the lyrics and Midge’s only contribution was changing “Ethiopia” to “Africa” LOL
I guess Midge wrote the tune. ?
Bono’s line, no?
“Ah yes / I remember it well”
I miss the ’80s too, but…
Earlier this month, Fauci criticized Fox News after Lara Logan, who hosts a streaming show for the Fox Nation service, compared him to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele during a guest appearance on a prime-time Fox News show.
If Mengele were alive today, he’d consider that an insult.
I wouldn’t go that far.
Mengele actually saw patients.
When is the last time Fauci did?
If your goal was to get people to gain weight, and get fat people to die younger, this would be a pretty effective way to go about it.
It’s all about big insulin, weight watchers, Jenny Craig, etc.
Just tell the doctor you identify as skinny.
“Health at Every Size”
An oxymoron if there ever was one. I’m not saying fat people should be reflexively shamed. That would be stupid and rude. But a doctor should definitely address weight and health issues with their patients. It’s literally in their fucking job description to “first do no harm”. Not telling someone the risks associated with their weight would be like not telling a crack addict that their crack addiction might have adverse effects.
One thing Ive taken away from this past fortnight of dealing with this virus is that my health is my sole responsibility.
Anything going on in this bag of skin is entirely up to me, from what goes in (and out) to how much it moves and what preventative maintenance it receives.
It’s part of the growing delusion. We’ve degenerated from a space age technological society to one where people think something won’t be the case if nobody actually says it. Of course being overweight isn’t healthy. And I say that as someone who’s been on the heavy side his entire life. But, it’s just the fact of the matter. Telling me I’m just fine to walk around with that belly isn’t going to make things any different. It’s only going to reinforce my preferred delusion that I don’t need to watch my diet and work out on a regular basis.
But, increasing portions of our society want to pretend otherwise. They want to say that if they don’t acknowledge it, reality will bend to their will. Like some sort of society of backwards, superstitious barbarians. But, they’re the same ones who will tell you you’re unenlightened for believing in traditional values.
You could also configure a scale to display a maximum weight of, say, 200 lbs. Opting out of being weighed might still carry some stigma; with the WokeScale everyone gets to weigh themselves without shame.
Just input the height you identify as and then the scale informs the doctor how much you ‘weigh’, no need to step on it even.
I do not believe for one second that Tres Cool is not part of this effort.
Jugsy gets home tonight. The fat and cellulite will be slappin’ off the walls.
Hooray! Hope the Dozer has somewhere to go…
Smokey Robinson and Kim Carnes have sads.
I pursue healthy behaviors regardless of my weight status
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs Lincoln?
The president met Brigitte when he was 15 and she was a 40-year-old drama class teacher.
Come to my house, and I’ll teach you how to emote.”
Sorry if this has already been shared. It’s a look into some of the more obvious Feds at the J6 false flag event. Because of the ubiquity of cell phone cameras what they were doing and how much they stand out from the crowd is VERY obvious. I was not familiar with Revolver, but this article has clear photos and videos embedded in it. My favorite detail is how all of the Feds have matching blue & white bullhorns. If they really were random protestors from around the country, they would have bought them in various colors (I just did a DuckDuckGo shopping tab search, and there are several. In fact red & white seems to be more common.)
https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/
Garland has thus far refused to answer Massie’s questions about whether there were federal agents at the “insurrection.”
The FBI/DOJ are wholly and completely corrupt. They cannot be reformed.
I’m sick and tired of conservative media pushing the myth of the good field soldiers in bureau. It needs to be abolished.
Yep, the CIA too. Nothing but nefarious actors. Unreformable.
You could also configure a scale to display a maximum weight of, say, 200 lbs. Opting out of being weighed might still carry some stigma; with the WokeScale everyone gets to weigh themselves without shame.
In the box marked “weight” you put yes.
Like for “sex”.
OMG how DARE you queershame asexuals!
weight is m*g
Since the value of g at earth’s surface is within the margin of acceptable error for the purposes of medical diagnosis, we don’t really need to get down to that part.
In Space Medicine, mass becomes the relevant attribute.
I will be upset if they fail my physical when I gave the correct answer to the questions on the form.
Why are you people at work? You should all be home finishing up your wills, making peace with those you have feuded with and telling loved ones how much you treasure them.
SCIENCE expert says you only have days to live
Peace?
Dear sir, I’ll have you know I will only have peace through victory.
I better jump in the car and get going if I have so little time left in which to piss on his head and tell him it’s raining.
Why are you people at work?
Rufus? Is that you?
I think I am the anti-Rufus?
sufuR?
sufuR
Hmm. Add one ell and a pinch of brimstone, and you have the anti-Pope!
What’s Frank got to do with it?
No, no, no. We said anti-Pope. You know knarF.
If you’re going that way Antipope Frank should be tcideneB
Once upon a time Osterholm was sane.
Uffda. Really?
He basically got shit canned from Minnesoda’s Dept of Health back in the early 2000’s because he kept ranting about the next big pandemic that was going to kill us all. People finally had enough of his shit and got rid of him.
The MSM likes to say that he then was a researcher at THE U of M, but he really was stuck in a small office at the Duluth campus of the U of Mn system. He wasn’t even given a job at the main campus.
I guess he might have been sane back when no one had ever heard of him. But he’s been Chicken Little since I first heard of him as a govt bureaucrat here in Minnesoda.
My knowledge of him goes back to the late 1980s, early 90s after which I moved away. He seemed OK then.
Bullscatology
I dont get it. The vaccines dont work so these warnings and threats dont make any sense.
Our* Randy! https://twitter.com/RandPaul
*Does he know about this place? I hope not…
I love the nachus Ron has for “a certain Senator” in his podcast.
(Ah zut, jumped the gun. I just woke up…)
Return of the Magnificent Modelers
As the omicron variant continues to spread throughout the world, new modeling data shows the latest strain may cause millions more new infections per day in the U.S. but fewer hospitalizations and deaths compared to the delta variant.
Researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine revised its COVID-19 modeling to include updated information about the omicron variant.
They found the U.S. may see a total of about 140 million new infections from Jan. 1 to March 1, 2022, peaking in late-January at about 2.8 million new daily infections.
“We are expecting an enormous surge in infections … so, an enormous spread of omicron,” IHME director Dr. Chris Murray said Wednesday. “Total infections in the U.S. we forecast are going from about 40% of the U.S. having been infected so far, to having in the next 2 to 3 months, 60% of the U.S. getting infected with omicron.”
While meta-analyses have suggested previous variants cause about 40% of cases to be asymptomatic, Murray said more than 90% of people infected with omicron may never show symptoms.
“You can never prove we were wrong. All those people really were infected, they just didn’t know it. Now do you see how terrifying and deadly it is?”
At this rate, 60 billion people will be infected by the end of January!
If that’s the case, pretty much everyone in the country will have antibodies, probably with a lower death toll than vaccinating that many people.
I think that is the tragedy that they are truly worried about. If any of this is true, there will be a huge drop off in all the scary numbers in the next month or so.
“Omicron wave will crash on US with 60% of people infected by March and 140 MILLION new infections – but 90% will never show symptoms, University of Washington says”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10337845/Enormous-spread-Omicron-cause-140-MILLION-new-infections-January-1-March-1.html
That doesn’t sound like an infection.
JFC.
Why are we shutting down the economy again?
You could die without ever showing symptoms!
previous variants cause about 40% of cases to be asymptomatic, Murray said more than 90% of people infected with omicron may never show symptoms.
IOW they are not sick.
The Purebloods will inherit the Earth!
Outside the U.S., models show the world may see approximately 3 billion new infections in the next two months with peak transmission occurring in mid-January at more than 35 million new cases per day.
Murray says the forecast may be pessimistic, but other health experts say it is within the realm of possibility based on the early, incomplete information on omicron.
“Sure, this a potential outcome,” said Julie Swann, professor at North Carolina State University who studies pandemic modeling and health systems. “How certain am I that this is the outcome? Not certain at all.”
Stop being such a spoilsport, Julie.
It is amazing how wrong you can be by assuming the worst at every stage of analysis, just like with climate.
Works in my personal life*!
*it actually doesn’t
A body positivity website has created free “Don’t Weigh Me” cards for patients who find stepping on the scale at the doctor’s office stressful.
It’s not like weight has anything to do with health anyway.
“Please don’t take my weight.” How hard is that to say? not like “brewery”.
I’m insulted when they ask my age.
Repost, sorry:
NYer cartoon caption, doctor to patient: “It says in your chart you’re 58 years old. We’d like to get that down a bit.”
A couple years ago I was getting a physical, the doc was running his computer with the questions.
One question was “How old are your mother and father?”
I hesitated, grinning, finally he looked at me, I said, “Doc, I’m 82 years old”
He was slightly embarrassed and said, “Oh yeah, I forgot”
Look there is a perfectly acceptable alternative to weighing patients. You can just have them dance along to this video. If they can do it without running out of breath, they are fine. If they get a chubby, give them a Tall Can.
*Shout out to Fourscore for linking to that yesterday.
Lol, age restricted video.
A messiah is born in Minnesoda!
A minimum of nearly $100 billion has been stolen from government COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
I, for one, am shocked that there was a problem with a government program throwing money around.
THIS IS MERELY A PARODY!!! Don’t sue me.
C’mon, man. Everyone knows about Big Mike.
A government official should never attempt to stifle the free speech of someone.
He is a liar and/or does not understand metaphors.
“Biden says he’s making 500 million COVID test kits available for free but hasn’t even signed contract to buy them and they may take a YEAR to arrive: Johns Hopkins expert says ‘that’s not a plan – it’s a hope'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10338703/Bidens-promise-500-million-free-COVID-test-come-late-help-curb-Omicron-spread.html
A year from now, this shit better be over.
2 weeks, comrade…
This shit was over two years ago.
People just didn’t respond correctly.
Overpromise, underdeliver… the Biden way!
He still gets the 10% though.
The most government thing ever, 500 million covid tests arrive in time to not detect the latest strain.
Just saw this on CNN. They are already crediting him with it for tests handed out today.
They had a live stand-up from New York where they have more daily cases than ever in history… Proclaiming that they are handing out free at home test kits…. Then juxtaposed with a statement about Biden providing free tests…. Leaving the impression That Biden was the hero.
The NY story was an amazing piece of propaganda. They talked about how long people were waiting in line in the cold for tests. They talked about the number of new cases.
But all upbeat. No mention of the Mayor or Governor. No talk of politics. No doom and gloom…. Cut to anchor telling us that it now looks like Omicron may be less serious than we feared, and the administration says we may have dodged a bullet….
Something, something, it would have been worse without the passports and mask mandates.
Of course. The narrative will be that Bill Deblasio saved NYC so be sure to vote Bill for Governor.
Having just had covid, yeah tests are scarce as fuck.
Even though it is none of their fucking business.
It’s not like they have anything better to do. But I did think that Jan. 6, a day that will live in infamy, was taking up a lot of time.
* prints up “Please Don’t Ask Me How Much I Drink” cards, sells them at massive mark-up, buys private island with profits *
I think the Glibs sales alone will get me halfway to that island.
You forgot that half of us don’t believe in IP and will simply pirate your idea without paying you a nickel.
Better resign yourself to the fact that the only island you will be able to afford is Haiti.
But Haiti isn’t even half an island!
“I was going to wear a condom but I figured ‘when’s the next time I’m gonna be in Haiti?'”
That sounds hilarious, was it from Archer? (yes I did a cursory search)
Once upon a time, when SNL was funny – https://youtu.be/mGfBEnBw01A
Thanks, man!
The rats are preparing to abandon ship
About two months ago during a fire drill, the White House emptied and aides congregated outside.
It was their first ever all-staff meeting, an official quipped at the time.
In the first year of the Biden White House, comradery has been fleeting and many teams are suffering from low morale, according to several White House officials.
The result: many White House aides are feeling gloomy this holiday season, so much so that they anonymously fumed to West Wing Playbook in the hope it may alert senior leaders to the problem.
Many are also currently eyeing the exits, creating the potential for higher-than-usual turnover at the beginning of the year, when aides feel they’ve been in the job long enough that it won’t look odd to depart.
“A lot of the natural coordination that happens in a typically functioning White House has been lost, and there has been no proactive effort to make up for it through intentional team building,” said one White House official.
How can this be? i have it on good authority the Biden administration embodied the return of serious professionalism and good governance to an America sliding into despotic ruin and disarray.
Camaraderie, geniuses.
Here today, gone tomorrow.
No, no, that is the new proper spelling, Comrade Citizen TOG!
When many comrades gather together in joyous celebration of The People’s Victory over Der Trumpenfuhrer, it is “comrade-ry”!
Iz nice! Enjoy.
So you are saying that the administration is in chaos. That’s what they said about Drumpfler when people rotated in and out, after all.
OK, so between the scheduled vacations and the “Oopsie! I have a cough *koff koff*” I’m down FIVE people.
On the upside, that means it’ll be so busy the hours will fly by, I brought a delicious meatloaf sammich for lunch, and at 16:00 it will be time for four days of spiced tea with brandy, panettone, dog park visits, cookies, watching TV with a fluffball napping next to me, roast beef and generally enjoying the fruits of life.
Time to crank the tunes and do some of that chemistry stuff.
Mmm, meatloaf sandwich.
My childhood version was meatloaf with ketchup on white bread.
Not sure that would still be to my liking – been forever since I had one
The Quartermaster Deli (better known as The Nellie Deli) is a 24 hour bodega in NOLA’s French Quarter. Their meatloaf sammich on garlic bread (with mac & cheese and collard greens for the sides) was a regular stumble home drunk at 4am treat. Meatloaf is yummy, particularly the crispy end pieces.
“Meatloaf is yummy, particularly the crispy end pieces.”
YES!
My unter-ratten are off until next week. It is time for some tech debt.
“Omicron Covid IS milder, three major studies confirm: Real-world research in England, Scotland and South Africa find variant reduces risk of hospital admission by up to 80 per cent”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10339089/Omicron-Covid-MILDER-three-major-studies-confirm-Research-England-Scotland-South-Africa.html
“Omicron sufferers are 40% less likely to be admitted to hospital than those with Delta: British study of 300,000 finds variant IS milder than feared”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10339181/Omicron-sufferers-40-likely-admitted-hospital-Delta.html
So 80% or 40%?
Metric vs Imperial units?
So we need to lockdown harder…
They’ll make it up in volume.
I was in a group of about 12 people who got it last Sunday and all are better now.
It hit us all without fail.
But no one had a “severe” case.
I’m told that’s because we were all vaccinated. (Yes, yes. I said “there’s absolutely no way to know if this is true”).
Didn’t see this commented on yet, but it appears that the start of the end is going to be January 7th.
Great, now we’ll have a January 7th committee to look forward to.
(assumes the SC grows some balls)
Some staffers say it’s the result of an insular, top-heavy White House of longtime Biden aides who are distant from much of the staff — “no new friends in Biden world,” goes the refrain. And others say it’s just poor management.
The small perks of working in the White House, like the chance to take part in holiday parties and ceremonies, have also been in short supply. For the White House’s Independence Day party, most White House staff could only attend if they worked as unpaid volunteers staffing the event, per an email from White House operations sent at the time and shared with us. For the Thanksgiving turkey pardoning and the Christmas tree lighting, attendance was doled out via a lottery system, leaving out many White House aides.
The White House also used a lottery to dole out time slots for holidays tours this week, setting aside three days when staffers could bring their family members to see the building’s elaborate Christmas decor. Most were understanding of the restrictions, until White House Operations asked for volunteers to staff five extra day of tours for non-White House staff. Some staffers fumed as “D.C. Randos” posted White House pictures across social media this week, believing that White House staff should have been taken care of first.
“No one expects business as usual during the pandemic, but it’s beyond demoralizing, it’s insulting — especially when you see DNC and Hill staff and other D.C. types get invited,” explained a White House official who was granted anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk to us. “Many colleagues have brought this up to me unprompted. And I’ve had D.C. friends ask me if I wanted to grab coffee after they attended. Meanwhile, we work here, and most of us haven’t worked here before or stepped foot into the White House.”
Boo fucking hoo.
Hold on Brooksy, this might be a good idea….
Until the national debt is paid off, all Federal employees (and Congress Critters) will be required to work at least one weekend (as an unpaid volunteer) for Club Fed Catering (a new business run by the winner of this year’s The Apprentice).
Anyone having a party can contract with CFC for top flight catering. We super promise we won’t let Nancy Pelosi get anywhere near the cash bar.
Really drives home the “servant” part of Public Servant.
The White House staff should unionize.
Apparently there will be dire consequences if I happen to let my clients in on some new procedures cooked up by head office. This is my response – https://youtu.be/i0BTdo6qGwo
Festy! ? Where’s your list of grievances?
Oh, and did you see my advice about Middle Eastern/ Eastern European grocery stores?
Camaraderie, geniuses.
Proper spelling is White Supremacy. Get your foot of xer neck.
Those new tests will come out of the magic hat, along with everything else Biden has promised us.
Uffda. These are the people who think that their wishes are all that is needed to bring Utopia, and don’t bother them with pesky facts about the laws of physics!
CAFE standards are as simple as telling those shitlords in Detroit to make cars that get 60mpg. All it takes.
Electric vehicles? Yup. Everyone will drive them in five years. Somehow the electrical grid will be able to support the extra load.
Renewable energy? You guys are so dumb! All you have to do is tell the utility company that you want all your energy to come from wind and solar (make sure you specify that because those cheaters will try to build a nuke if you don’t).
I’m telling you, it isn’t hard to run this country. Just let the rubes know what they are supposed to do and they will make it happen. Your only challenge is to get rid of the wreckers who won’t tow the lion.
This is not going to go how you think.
In an interview with The Onion’s The AV Club, co-screenwriters Aleksandar Hemon and David Mitchell explained how the new movie is attuned to the current cultural and political climate.
“Things like the Red Pill/Blue Pill trope or meme and how it was kidnapped by the right-wing,” Hemon said. “The verb ‘to red pill’ and so on. So one thing we were mindful of is how to reclaim that trope. To renew the meaning of Red Pill/Blue Pill.” …
“I don’t see myself as a frontline fighter in the culture war, but you also want your work to mean something, to have an ethical edge,” said Mitchell, when asked about the phrase. “One of the many reasons I’m proud of Resurrections is it does have that. What I’m trying to say is, I think the film has integrity, and perhaps that’s the source of the integrity.”
Hemon added: “I am infused with a need to confront some of the things that are taking place in this country,” but “we did not set out to get into arguments with right-wingers.”
The meaning of the red/blue pill is literally how the right is using it. Don’t piss off half your customers just because you don’t like that.
Oh for fuck’s sake! You can’t reimagine such a powerful meme by just scattering tranny dust about! CWABOCAA!
If they were serious about creating an ethical Matrix movie, they would have recast every role with trans BIPOC actors.
Keeping Reeves as Neo is literally violence.
“Neo This!” Wachowski Sisters!
I watched it last night.
The beginning had some potential and then it went off the rails halfway in.
The Wachowskis are woke loons, so I didn’t have high hopes for it, but still….
Haven’t watched yet. Early reports such as yours suggest that I shouldn’t give them my money in order to do so.
I wouldn’t spend money on it. I’ve got HBOMax so it was available to me.
I heard it was atrocious.
It will suck to walk away from this but it might need doing. The Corporation hates me and I have no love lost for them. I’ll miss my clients, the folks on the floor. They are fond of me and I them. What to do next, though? Body is broken, no education, no tickets, no Degree. Everything is swirling, swirling, swirling towards the gutter. FML!
Aw, D. You’ve got us (FWIW).
I do have a mighty eye for beer cans, though. I’m sitting with literally two thousand of them at my shoulder. Probably three.
Man’s Search for Meaning!
I thought you had a kitty on your shoulder. Maybe it’s moved by now.
There’s always room for my name-sake. That little feller has found a different human to fawn over, though. Whenever eldest Grand daughter swings by he RUNS to the door to greet her. He’s a great kitteh.
Festus the Male Gigolo. Fuck some old bitches and then sell your story to Hollywood under the guise of female empowerment. Make bank.
I’m not pretty enough, no more.
“I don’t see myself as a frontline fighter in the culture war, but you also want your work to mean something, to have an ethical edge,” said Mitchell, when asked about the phrase. “One of the many reasons I’m proud of Resurrections is it does have that. What I’m trying to say is, I think the film has integrity, and perhaps that’s the source of the integrity.”
I thought that movie was just pointless incomprehensible gibberish. I guess that’s what integrity means to some people.
So, I rejoined the Florida LP this year so I could vote for Mises Caucus people or whatever. They started sending out a periodic email showcasing people who have done impressive LP things in the state. This time they’re focusing on Alexander Snitker, who ran for US senate on the LP ticket, fought red light cameras, blah blah blah, and…“Outside of politics, Alex and his wives Kelly and Danielle own a residential cleaning company named, “Another Girl Fights the Dust.” He also co-hosts a podcast with Adrian Wylie called, “Unattended Baggage.” For fun, he teaches Karate, plays poker, smokes cigars, and drives for Uber Eats.
I have so many questions. First of all, do his wives wear French maid costumes?
Though the year is drawing to a close the entries for the Didn’t Happen of the Year Awards are still coming in strong
https://twitter.com/_DHOTYA/status/1473733938497699846
I’m pretty sure these people that attribute “deep” shit to their kids don’t actually have any kids.
But why is the alternative always a Republican?
Because life is short and life is shit and soon it will be over.
Hate speech
RAYMOND ARROYO: What is regrettable is the demonization of people, family, especially the unvaccinated. It all creates this fictitious notion that we should be panicked, that Aunt Kathy is bringing a deadly pathogen into the house along with her Christmas casserole. But despite the mutated virus moving in the right direction, I might add the demonization is getting worse … Is there a vaccination for hatred and demonization of fellow citizens? …
The testing regime, which does nothing to stop the disease, I might add, does amp up the panic. And it is at the heart of the Biden solution. He’s sending out half a billion COVID tests to every home, whether you’re alone or not. The assumption is that we can test our way out of this crisis. Even Biden doesn’t believe this.
I have no idea who Raymond Arroyo is. Why does the government permit him to spew his slanderous falsehoods?
Raymond Arroyo might want to stop and consider than all of these results are exactly what the left wants, in order to further their agenda.
I have no idea who Raymond Arroyo is
Just some guy who once had a popular streaming service; his support has since dried up.
Shakes head and walks away. Sometimes perfection can’t be improved upon.
Thousands who ‘followed the rules’ are about to get covid. They shouldn’t be ashamed.
I’ve been conned a few times – never nearly as bad as these suckers. I was ashamed every time and learned from my mistakes.
Ashamed? Perhaps. Definitely ridiculed, level based on how cuntey they have been about the whole thing.
Did I just read that a proggie discovered the concept of projection and actually reflected on its own behavior???
Well isn’t that convenient. After they spent twelve months shaming the rest of us.
Assholes.
How to Write (Almost) Anything: A Very Serious Guide by Tom Bissell
https://lithub.com/how-to-write-almost-anything-a-very-serious-guide-by-tom-bissell/
A new Glib writer? Keep ’em short, Tom, Glibs don’t have a lot of time to read.
You are one of the baddies.
An email included in a recent dump from the House Select Committee revealed that Dr. Deborah Birx, who served on former President Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force, had serious reservations about some of the positions the White House wanted to explore at the time. …
“Without masks and social distancing in public and homes we end up with twice as many deaths – we are a very unhealthy nation with a lot of obesity etc — we will never look as good as even Sweden due to our co-morbidities,” Birx explained. “These are people who believe that all the curves are predetermined and mitigation is irrelevant – they are a fringe group without grounding in epidemics, public health or on the ground common sense experience.”
Birx went on to say that she was even willing to add an out-of-town trip to her schedule to give the White House cover for the fact that she would not be part of such a briefing if the focus was on herd immunity rather than mitigating measures.
“I am happy to go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover for Weds. Perhaps do Annapolis and meet with Hogan. Fauci and I could probably do it together — I am open to options,” she concluded.
Hmmm….
If my boss wanted to have a meeting to discuss a huge problem, I doubt he’d put up with me telling him, “If you guys are going to focus on restoring files from backup tapes, I’m going to skip it.” Everyone knows that our app wasn’t very good to start with, why would we do something like that? We should be focusing on rewriting the app from the ground up!
From what I’ve read, she was pulling the strings there more than Fauci.
When he inevitably gets thrown under the bus I fully expect she will be behind it.
?♂️
She asserted, without evidence. And, if your plan depends on people masking and social distancing at home, your plan was drafted by an idiot and doomed to failure.
Those co-morbidities are the result of lifestyle differences. You know, the kind of stuff that a competent public health agency would have succeeded in mitigating. You just admitted the comprehensive failure of public health in the US, and then demand that we follow your increasingly bizarre and irrational diktats.
No, no, no. It’s the wickedness of the American people that makes them sugary and fat.
Do try to keep up.
This is where a competent press comes in. You ask a couple of simple questions…
“if we all wear masks… Does that change the final number of infected people? How? What evidence is there for this? We have seen no difference between mandate states and not mandate states in terms of spread… Even the rates seem similar, right?”
How do you get to double the number of deaths? Are you positing that masks cut the final number of infected in half? How?
Etc. Simple probing questions to delve into the scientific reasoning. They are only looking for a declaration that they can print… “We must mandate vaccines!”. ” “We must test!”. Nobody cares if it is supported or even accurate. Just fit the narrative and speak authoritatively.
Yusef from the dead thread:
“I fucked up again!”
You alright Yu?
Right?
The human condition…
Our proggie friends tell us that CRT is a myth, that it isn’t being taught and there is no intention of it being taught. So why did Pennsylvania’s Gauleiter Wolf veto a bill that would have required school districts to post their curricula and texts on line? Can’t have parents and the public knowing what is being taught?
His excuse was “My administration is committed to creating a safe learning environment for all students and we will not take part in this dangerous and harmful imposition.” Harmful to the curriculum setters, maybe. Keep voting for assholes and cuntes and keep expecting results like this.
It seems to me that the curriculum should be easily accessible public knowledge.
It’s weird how the talking points get issued as the ones stupid enough to believe that CRT isn’t real are the same ones who would happily defend it if told to do so by the DNC.
CRT is a myth, that it isn’t being taught and there is no intention of it being taught. – as was said, then no problem with banning it if there is no intention to teach
I mean it isn’t being taught exactly.
Just things inspired by it taught by people who believe in it.
Ah feck, I need to eat something and go the fuck to bed before I shrink into a black hole of despair. Have a great one, Friends!
It ain’t called a Waverunner for nothing.
A man saves another from a giant wave!
For some reason the desktop support people have decided that it would be more secure to require the user input a three-finger salute every time their computer locked for whatever reason. It’s not as if the machines didn’t require the password to unlock before, now there’s just yet another step.
Can tell me what supposed security benefit this time-waster purportedly provides?
just shut up and take it
The three finger salute was added to Windows as a requirement to unlock a machine when it was discovered that attackers could fake the login screen to capture passwords, as well as run scripts to quickly try a bunch of passwords. It’s a band aid over already broken security.
/looks at the post it’s on the monitor at almost every company
If they’re already spoofing my login screen, they don’t need my password anymore.
I have to input my password separately for Windows, VPN, and Microsoft cloud stuff (plus scan a fingerprint for the latter two) every morning, and again after lunch. Whee!
I’ve got four domains that I need to log into, all of them have different password requirements and expiration time frames. When one expires, I go through and update all of them to be as close as they can to each other. That’s not counting the two different two-factor authentication systems I need to use on top of those.
SECURITY!
political compass memes are getting weird
https://twitter.com/kukuruyo/status/1474007616707776515
I like that this tweet is flagged as containing sensitive content.
Yay!! The phone book is here! ? Trigger warning: beagle pic.
https://twitter.com/RandPaul
Rand needs to slow down, he’s got typos all over the place.
fain = gain
massless = maskless
newsome = Newsom
Ah, forget it, he’s rolling.
(someone wanna tweet him privately?)
That seems to happen more the older I get. Rand Paul must have the same elder fingers.
Imagine being this person.
We live in a society that encourages people to intentionally upset their parents
That said, she is a victim of public education and media propaganda. She apparently never saw Trump hold up the rainbow flag.
I ‘member!
Not your house anymore, not that it ever really was.
Imagine being so stupid as to not know that Trump was more apathetic to the gay community than anything else and certainly less hostile than either Obama or Clinton.
Papers please.
On Tuesday, the European Union Commission announced that Europe’s dystopian Covid vaccine passports will expire after nine months for individuals without a booster shot. The new rules will take effect for all 27 EU states on Feb. 1st, 2022.
The new guidelines will affect citizens’ ability to travel within the European Union, restricting them to whichever country they are in when their passport expires, but the Commission pushed EU countries to also mandate the booster in order to be considered fully vaccinated on a national level.
Jabs now. Jabs forever.
In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, covid hospitalizations have soared in recent weeks, although they remain below previous peaks. Yet the winter surge comes at a time when hospitals were already grappling with a staffing shortage combined with an influx of people who had delayed care and an increase in patients battling mental illness. Doctors fear that a large wave of omicron cases could increase the burden even further.
“It’s definitely as bad as it’s ever been,” said Eric Dickson, chief executive of UMass Memorial Health in Worcester. “I can use a New England analogy. Snowstorms, right? You get a bad snowstorm and oh, you deal with it. But you get one on top of that, and now you’ve got all that snow from before that you have to manage. And that’s really what it’s feeling like now — it’s just piling up.”
Interviews with 10 hospital leaders across the region revealed a grave picture. Executives at smaller and midsized hospitals said that it has become exceedingly difficult to secure care at higher-level facilities in the region and they worry that delays in transferring patients could have life-threatening consequences. Several said they were discussing whether they might need to implement standards for rationing care.
In Rhode Island, the president of an association of emergency doctors warned in a letter to the governor last week that the situation had become “acutely untenable” and “any added strain right now will lead to the collapse of the healthcare system.”
And, at this point, based on the evidence, I am compelled to assume it’s your own goddam fault, you fucking quacks.
Danish cohort study finds negative effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against Omicron 90 days after 2 injections.
And yet the abstract only says 54% effective in the first month after primary infection. “Declines rapidly” – but no numbers for that. And “is re-established upon revaccination”, again with numbers. So if one was just to read the abstract, the headline/news report is “vaccines are effective against omicron, and get your BOOSTERS!!!!”. Never mind I think the threshold for e.g. EUA is a 50% effectiveness (?) so these are marginal for even approving these shots, let alone requiring them.
Never mind I think the threshold for e.g. EUA is a 50% effectiveness (?)
The initial studies in the US showed effectiveness at just over 50% at 60 days, and then the studies were shut down. By six months, the Swedish study shows minimal effectiveness.
If you dig into the embedded pdf, you see that 90+ days out people vaccinated with mRNA vaccines are more likely to get the Omicron variant than the unvaccinated, Unless you plan to get a booster quarterly, the vaccine is now worse than useless (before even considering the side-effects).
Well, the unvaccinated are still dying at more than twice the rate of the vaccinated upon infection. It’s hard to make the “worse than useless” case now until that flattens.
Worse than useless at preventing the spread maybe.
Understood – that’s the point really. That information is buried, what could be spun as positive is upfront and easily accessible.
Urthona – True for dying with/of covid (I’ll assume – I haven’t dug into that recently). I would really like to see a break down of overall all-cause mortality in age cohorts + vax/infection status. What’s important is overall population health, not just covid.
“lead to the collapse of the healthcare system.”
Even the healthcare system around Gettysburg, PA didn’t collapse circa July1-3, 1863. They implemented triage and saved as many as the healthcare knowledge at the time permitted.
::low growl:: We told our PEO* account manager months ago about a change we wanted to make in the way one form of paid time off is granted, and said we wanted it to go into effect 1/1/22. Today our payroll manager informed me, “Oh, we can’t program it that way.”
*Professional Employer Org – essentially outsourced HR
“In that case, we’re finding another provider.”
Using a PEO substantially lowered our work comp rates too.
I object. Eilis would never do you that way.
I’m reminded of a story a former coworker told of trying to order her Arby’s Beef & Cheddar on a plain bun because onion buns gave her indigestion. The clerk (clearly someone too incompetent for McDonald’s) kept objecting, “But… Beef & Cheddar comes on an onion bun!”
But… it’s got what plants crave. ?♀️
Well, I don’t know … I mean, the beef’n’cheddar DOES come on an onion bun. It’s right there in the picture. Arby’s isn’t known for tailoring.
OTOH, I gt their gyros without tomatoes, so I guess her request was reasonable.
In short, I am torn.
Apache Log4j bug: China’s industry ministry pulls support from Alibaba Cloud for not reporting flaw to government first
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it will suspend work with Alibaba Cloud as a cybersecurity threat intelligence partner for six months
Notifying vendors first about security flaws is a cybersecurity industry norm, but a new law encourages Chinese companies to first notify the government
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3160670/apache-log4j-bug-chinas-industry-ministry-pulls-support-alibaba-cloud
Notifying vendors first about security flaws is a cybersecurity industry norm, but a new law encourages Chinese companies to first notify the government
Makes sense. If you are an entity working on an exploit for a flaw, you certainly don’t want anyone else to know about it.
Where we’re Firsting, we don’t need roads.
Yet the winter surge comes at a time when hospitals were already grappling with a staffing shortage combined with an influx of people who had delayed care and an increase in patients battling mental illness.
Why is there a staffing shortage? Why is there an influx of people with delayed care? Why more mental illness? Could it be you brought this on yourselves? Nah, let’s just chalk it up to “bad luck”.
“Without masks and social distancing in public and homes we end up with twice as many deaths – we are a very unhealthy nation with a lot of obesity etc — we will never look as good as even Sweden due to our co-morbidities,” Birx explained. “These are people who believe that all the curves are predetermined and mitigation is irrelevant – they are a fringe group without grounding in epidemics, public health or on the ground common sense experience.”
You admit your performance as a “public health expert” has been an abysmal failure. Instead of resigning in disgrace, you smear everyone around you.
That’s professionalism.
The People failed him
Go away.
So strange, I wonder what could possibly be happening….
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/athlete-collapsesdeaths-following
Purely anecdotal: My oldest son is National Guard and took a year off of college for all his training (and skipping “remote classes”). He’s not vaxxed; in the beginning of the year when it wasn’t “mandatory”, he was in Basic and AIT. It was strongly coerced, and he got various punishments for not getting the jab. By the time it was being ordered, he was in Ranger School and they weren’t talking about it there at all. Now he’s back off active-duty and we’ll see if he ever gets an order.
Anyway, the anecdote… He tells of numerous guys – otherwise healthy yoots – just dropping during normal PT in the days after they got the shots. Passing out with cardio events. In one of the Ranger prep courses (RTAC), they had somebody decide to get the shot over a weekend, and then had a major heat/cardiac event on a long ruck – like in the hospital for days. The instructors then vehemently insisted that the students tell them if they ever got the vax. And in his telling, their instructors were the most adamantly opposed of anybody he met.
It would make sense for low level cardiac damage to show up in those who are pushing their systems the hardest.
It may be anecdotal but it’s a signal, and it’s being studiously ignored.
Inductive reasoning? There’s a paddling.
You’re right, reasoning is not allowed. I don’t have the necessary credentials to perform any of it.
One of mine and the girlfriend’s acquaintances got the vaccine, noticed some chest and arm pain that day. He went back for the second dose, and woke up in the hospital several days later after having a heart attack. Really not getting why there’s the huge push for the vaccine to even younger kids (who are essentially immune to COVID).
I get why.
They’re removing the control groups.
Really not getting why there’s the huge push for the vaccine
It’s beginning to look a lot like
Christmasgenocide.Aline, who requested to be identified by her first name only for privacy reasons, is still puzzling over how she got the virus — was it because she wore a cloth mask rather than a medical-grade one?
Oh, no. You weren’t using the proper religious relic to shield you from the Forces of Evil?
Say some Hail Foochys and partake of another dose of the holy sacrament. Cling tightly to your faith. Go forth, and sin no more.
Maybe she should attach cloves of garlic to both sides of the mask?
Oh great, the tweener daughter and the teener daughter are sniping at each other.
It’s going to be a long holiday season.
tweener daughter and the teener daughter
Condolences. *Enthusastically thanks the Lord for the blessing of sons*
Oh man, don’t remind me. My kids are in their 50s and haven’t given up yet. It wasn’t so bad after they left home and walked different paths but then Al Gore invented the internet and they could connect again.
Here is my Xmas wish; to never have to listen to the Beatles, or any of its retards, ever again. The remaining assholes need to be taken out back, behind the shed, and given a talk, Stalin style. I am so, so fucking sick of that crap and the Boomer fervor of it all. They weren’t that good then. They aren’t that good now. And, hopefully, they won’t be remembered as soon as that generation of locusts is gone.
^^^Hear! Hear! Being anti-Beatle is like being anti-vax. I have to be careful whom I share it with. It’s good to know I’m not alone.
I saw a (straw?) poll wherein the top 5 faves were Hey Jude, Yesterday, In My Life, Here Comes the Sun… 5th was Eleanor? 64? Anyway, Snoozeville, mannnn.
(#66 was meant as a reply; WTF WP work with me)
The only beatles song I have in my collection is the Aerosmith cover of Come Together.
I like the Beatles but none of those are in my top five except maybe Eleanor.
I’ll admit to having “She’s Leaving Home” and the windy road songs somewhere on my phone. But I also have Mr. Roboto, so…
Did you hear Dennis DeYoung on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast? Must have been a year or two ago, but funny mofo who can still sing.
I’m a weirdo who likes Mr. Kite. Weeps or She’s Leaving Home are probably my most mainstream fave.
Whatever mine are, they all come from Rubber Soul or Revolver.
Lay down all thoughts… ?
This poll might have been published in AARP Magazine.
Which I probably just recycled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMxLm0vCA
Kinks are way underrated. Topic?
C’mon, man. Couple of guitars and some harmonies on Beatles tunes was very attractive to the other team back in the day. OK, Everly Brothers was better, but still… Stop harshing my buzz!
Back In The USSR is a really rocking song though I would generally prefer to listen to Wings.
I love them!
But definitely more of the psychedelic, melodic stuff.
Like this.
+1 ?
Is it really necessary to do this again?
They were ground-breaking when they happened. But pretty much everything they did first has been redone, and redone, and redone by countless other bands. In many cases, the work that followed them surpassed what they achieved. Their music doesn’t stand out in the mix of moldy, oldy classic rock stations. But god did is stand out on AM radio when it was new.
So, fuck off you young whipper snapper. Get off my lawn.
(He brought it up! Don’t hit me, please.)
Run for your life, TOG!
Heh. Still like that one too.
Well played.
Pardon my repeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGKL63iG3M
You are correct, sir.
I think if you compare the Beatles to the “Bobbies” (Rydell, etc.) of the late ’50s/early ’60s – after Elvis joined the Army – plus post-JFK assassination malaise, the Beatles phenomenon becomes more understandable.
Buddy Holly was great. Don’t get on that plane!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0nK6dlbfmU
And Green Onions, and, uh…
my little Runaway–
Hats off to Larry. Del checked out way too soon. Also Sam Cooke.
Everybody do the Michigan Raaaag! There’s an earworm for life.
I love them, but my faves aren’t most people’s.
Up here, there is a lovely Mexican couple in their sixties who immigrated (legally) from Mexico City all the way to Big Lake, Alaska. In the summer, every Friday, they come up to the Willow farmer’s market and sell homemade tamales and burritos, and damn are they ever great. They say they love it up here because “everybody is so nice and friendly,”
Little bar in OKC where this girl goes around with a cooler full of tamales and burritos and they are absolutely fantastic. Food is the great uniter of people.
Aw, where’s that?
“Food is the great uniter of people.”
You new here?
*Takes a bite out of a deep dish pizza.*
CARBS!
Ugh. I really need to get my ass in gear wrapping presents.
#me too
I’m Orthodox this year.
You know that’s not physically possible. You need a knife and fork to eat casserole.
Good thing I’m not eating a casserole. Since I can eat it with my hands it’s not a casserole.
I see that you’re in denial. Wipe that grease and cheese off your hands.
Someone is saucy this morning.
They say they love it up here because “everybody is so nice and friendly,”
Unpossible. Alaska is Drumpfler country.
I can haz concern?
“We’re going to review the letter, but I gotta be honest with you. I got real concerns about any committee that will take a document and alter it and present it to the American people, completely mislead the American people like they did last week,” he added.
Jordan was apparently referring to a hearing earlier this month in which Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) read part of a forwarded text that Jordan sent to Meadows, the former White House chief of staff.
You can’t just snub the kangaroos. They won’t like it.
Trumpites get no mercy.
Victoria White was pushed into the Tunnel. She was then BRUTALLY BEATEN by OFFICER WHITE SHIRT. Dozens of baton blows. Punched in the face 5x. A defenseless woman, she is PULVERIZED for wearing a TRUMP Hat. Thank you @julie_kelly2 for speaking truth to power.
The next time, there will be guns. Count on it.
Other than being very hungry and thirsty, Madix was unscathed. Gibson said he took Madix home, where he will live out the rest of his days as a house cat.
A genuine happy ending.
The next day, she had someone check her car, and they found an AirTag attached inside a wheel well.
“It bothers me cause no matter how *safe* women try to be (I was NEVER alone, parked somewhere well lit, etc…) it doesn’t matter if someone truly wishes to harm you,” she wrote.
In a follow-up message to NBC News, she said she now suspects someone was trying to steal her car because she wasn’t parked close enough to the bar for someone to associate her with the vehicle. She said she reported the incident to law enforcement but didn’t know if they would investigate. Her friend threw away the tracker, she said.
Hmm…. I am suspicious that this is a hoax.
A minimum of nearly $100 billion has been stolen from government COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
$100 billion? Pshaw. That’s not real money. You gotta get in the trillions for that.
“That’s horrible. That just is such a reflection of the craziness that goes on in society,” Fauci told CNN host John Berman. “The only thing that I have ever done, throughout these two years, is to encourage people to practice good public health practices. … And, for that, you have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a ‘kill shot?’ To ‘ambush’ me? I mean, what kind of craziness is there in society these days?”
Go fuck yourself.
I mean, what kind of craziness is there in society these days?
The kind where a fucking gnome with a Napoleon complex shuts down an entire society and demands OBEDIENCE?
The next day, she had someone check her car,
Plenty of time to have “someone” put the Airtag on her car, to be “discovered” the next day.
#metoo
Some people are more equal than others.
Non-violent J6 protesters are being sentenced to more jail time than an FBI agent who beat his wife up and hospitalized her.
No jail time.
No probation.
The system protects its own.
He won’t be charged with plotting to kidnap governor Hail Whitmer either.
There are solutions.
Good morning, Sloop!
This is so retarded I had to share it with you.
Yes, yes it is. But since the healthcare ‘system’ (cartel?) has zero interest in actual health, this makes perfect sense. We’ll have those fat fuckers (and their kids) on every pill known to Big Pharma until finally they tip (after a ton of end of life care).
Disgusting.
Just like that Geldof song.
200 years?
Unorthodox “Exercise in a Pill” Could Offer Simple Solution to Those Incapable of Physical Activity
Why do anything that’s hard? Just take the easy way, trust in Soma.
I seem to be bitching about this a lot, these days…
Thots Ahoy on Thot Thursday!
https://thechive.com/2021/12/22/bikinis-in-december-to-what-do-i-owe-the-pleasure-80-photos/
Archive fucked up once again.
OK, gang. Enact some labor for me here:
There was a discussion last week(?) about alternatives to traditional health insurance. I may need that middle of next year, maybe a little earlier. What were the companies people have looked into/used?
Noah is asking about the flood?
Heard of Medishare on podcasts. And something that requires one to be a churchgoer*. Also a cheaper alternative to concierge care whose abbreviation I forget.
* “That would be an ecumenical matter!”
Me and Scruffy, I believe.
I chose Medishare, as some friends of ours have great things to say about it.
Crowdhealth is another we considered.
My goal is to stay the fuck out of the system. GlibFit is gonna be really goddamn important in the coming years.
GlibFit is gonna be really goddamn important in the coming years.
So I have to start working out? *sigh*
Yes.
Crowdhealth is the one I chose.
They work the deductible system differently.
It’s $500 per incident. A cancer diagnosis/treatment is $500. A bout of flu is $500. A kidney stone is $500.
catastrophic, or the mundane, or both?
Catastrophic.
CrowdHealth was one
https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/
Finished reading “I am Legend” last night. Never saw the movies, but knew the plot.
It was pretty good. I can see the movies screwing it up.
It’s amazing how many good stories Matheson wrote that would be adapted into something. He’s relatively (for the impact he had) unknown.
What’s in the box?!
A time capsule from inside the Robert E. Lee Monument has finally been opened over a century after being buried inside the statue’s pedestal. 8News was there to see what was in the box.
Historical conservationists retrieved three books, an envelope and a coin from inside. One of the books is an 1875 almanac and another appears to be an 1889 novel called ‘The Huguenot Lovers.’
The contents were different than what records from the Library of Virginia suggested the time capsule would contain. Historians expected to find about 60 objects, many of which were believed to be related to the Confederacy. Records also suggested the capsule was buried in 1887, two years before one of the books appears to have been published.
Sounds scandalous.
“We did not find the expected nooses and over souvenirs of the era.”
“It was missing the Klan hood and the bones of a slave buried in it to guard it from theft.”
Today in propaganda…
Travelling to family for Christmas, so we watched 30 minutes of CNN. Wow, the propaganda is thick.
They covered Jim Jordan questioning his subpoena by the 1-6 committee… Say “he messaged trump and others involved in the insurrection in the days before the attack on the capital, then showed him talking about doctored texts released by the committee… Back and forth with anchor and reporter pretended to address it by saying ” what is that all about” but waving it away as “claiming he was taken out of context” which is not the claim and they left it as if it is all a dishonest smokescreen and never showed the doctored messages in contrast to the actual. The wrap? “The walls are closing in”
They covered the new surge in New York in generally positive tones, focusing on inconvenience. No dire warnings or attacks on Democrat governors or Mayors.
To air travel…. This was amazing… “People are flying in record numbers this holiday thanks to the confidence from federal requirements that everyone wear a mask at all times while travelling.”
I just flew…. Yeah, confidence was not the feeling having to wear a mask every second gave me. And now I see why people are getting snippy on planes.. The flight attendants walked around repeatedly reminding people to pull masks over the nose, adjust them properly, etc.
CNN talked about the truck driver petition.. The issue? Colorado mandatory minimum laws. The prosecutor is a hero for asking for another hearing. So I guess nobody is going to go after the prosecutor for massively overcharging. Even suggested that the driver should have killed himself so he wouldn’t hit others. But now the prosecutor is a hero because of signing off on a new hearing… That can’t change anything because he is convicted and the law is straightforward after that.
Talked about Biden running again in 2024.. Odd double spin… It is an evil republican pot to make people talk about it.. Neither Harris Nor Biden talked about it but Republicans forced them to. And Biden is confident about a matchup with Trump, who he would beat by a wider margin than last time.
And last… Their top 10 sports stories of 2021. (This was astonishing)
Braves winning world series after MLB cancelled the All-Star game in Atlanta because of the racist Georgia law that attempts to destroy voting rights and disenfranchise minority voters. (no real.mention of the actual world series, just the racist voting rights attack)
Vaccine denialism featuring Aaron Rogers.
Sexism at the NCAA as the basketball tournament is held in a bubble and the women’s weight room is not as good as the mens.
Women rule!!!! Women win more than half of the US medals at the Olympics!
Mental health is in the spotlight as women highlight issues of mental health… Shows woman tennis player breaking down in press conference and they say she bravely told us that press conferences give her anxiety.
And the number one sports story of 2021 according to CNN….. Simone Bikes bravely drops out at the Olympics
I can’t remember the rest…. But dang, does anyone at CNN watch sports?
I was really stunned. I have not sat down and watched their straight news in a block for a long while. It was all spin. Every single story was spin. It had a very dystopian feel.
The red pill is something, isn’t it? Once you recognize that every single ‘news’ organization is the propaganda arm of really evil people it’s impossible not to see it.
Now imagine that you believe that stuff. That’s even scarier.
we watched 30 minutes of CNN
Thank you for your service. Report to a detoxification center immediately.
Is it so difficult to mention on your resume the sort of work you actually did?
I hate hiring time. I’ve done more interviews as an interviewer than a candidate. It’s the same sins every time.
How do you put wasting time on Glibertarians and goldbricking on a resume?
It’s not MY resume. It’s the potential consultant’s.
Unless one of you lot is applying for the position.
Research? consulting?
Networking?
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