Stoops!
Maryland thumped Va Tech, Clemson topped Iowa State, and Oklahoma took down Oregon as the bowl games continue. Also, Minnesota won the night before in a piece of news that should have been covered yesterday by the other person who does morning links, but she’s not as much of a sports fan as I am so it wasn’t covered when it should have been, yet I’ll bring it up anyway. Four more games on tap today/tonight. And across the pond, Chelsea drew Brighton and Man City stretched their lead at the top of the table. Two more games on tap today. And that’s sports.
This is awesome. No, not what was actually said. That’s kinda messed up. What’s awesome is that Alexa is gonna become the next “glass in halloween candy” or “buttchugging” panic.
Talk about your mission creep. That’s a long way away from our waters. And it’s a lot different than what they should be doing.
Show some respect.
The science. Trust the science! I, for one, trust the new (old) science on this one.
What a shitshow of incompetence. Yes, I’m taking about the government.
Nice work, Project Veritas. Seriously.
CNN loves hiring creepy predators.
Talk about your mission creep (part 2). And this is why you don’t let your kids use any electronic device a school gives them or has them download a means of communication to.
Who really cares if there’s a difference? If they all treat your body the same, should you really even give a fuck at this point?
This will end poorly. People are stupid.
How nice of them! Letting people enter public property for free is such a great thing to do. It’s so nice it should be like that every day. You know, since we fucking own it.
Here’s a beautiful song. Noe go enjoy it.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, friends!
Pluto is a planet.
I will not change my mind.
That’s a step too far. If they orbit a planet, they’re moons, not planets.
Be careful. They could also be space stations.
You find his lack of faith… disturbing?
Does anyone recall the Galileo quote about geologically active bodies?
Is that the one he made at the strip tavern?
He was just following-ing history.
The ‘geologically active’ criteria would mean Io is a planet, even though it’s only geologically active because of its close location to a much larger planet. Callisto would remain a moon even though it orbits the same planet as Io.
Dumb.
Hey, who are you calling dumb? Do you work for NBC news? Do you even have a journalism degree from Columbia?
Obligatory.
So somebody told you Pluto was a planet and you just believe them? Have you ever even seen Pluto?
Well, I did visit Lowell observatory…
Oh, wait, I only saw Saturn, Jupiter and its moons, and our own moon that night.
Just the photographs when they first found pluto.
If you look in the lower left corner with a magnifying glass, you can see the curtain they were using in that Santa Barbara studio.
Not only can us regular folks image Pluto, these dudes managed to observe Charon, orbiting a common center of gravity with Pluto.
https://www.universetoday.com/20351/charon-imaged-by-amateur-astronomers/
Damned impressive.
“Pluto was a planet. Some committee of assholes disagree. I disagree back. Give me a ping pong ball.”
Planet, planet, planet!
Dammit Janet!
?!
No love for the Golden Rodents winning their bowl game, but you fawn over Clemson, the Terps and the Sooners?
I guess we know what Big 10 team scares you and your Buckeyes.
Better now?
A bit. But now I’m disappointed that I have nothing to bitch about.
My problem with the Gophs is that PJ Fleck is nearly intolerable as a coach. Harbaugh may be the only other coach in the Big 10 that is more loathsome. I caught some of him gloating about his big bowl win yesterday and I wanted to scream about how he could have been playing on New Year’s Day again if he had just beaten Bowling Green and Illinois.
No one will ever be as loathsome as the execrable Woody Hayes.
That asshole ruined cinema for decades.
Well this is certainly a scorching hot take.
Mike Ditka.
Bobby Knight.
At least Dika gave us a really funny SNL sketch.
Bobby Knight gave us Rat Boy.
https://youtu.be/bcqU4yejyR0
https://youtu.be/8mkwpAKUxv0
I’m pulling for Michigan and Cincinnati tomorrow (yeah I know, underdogs against the NFL-jv). Imagine sloop‘s horror if Michigan actually managed to win it all.
They beat us once in a decade and the trolls have been puffing their chest out for the last month like they’ve owned us for years. I’m no SEC fan, but I hope Georgia beats the brakes off them.
Or would it be even worse if Cincinnati won it all, since that would make them THE university in Ohio, at least for a year.
Fuck Cincinnati (used to be Memphis State’s big rival)! Double Fuck Michigan!
Seriously, Harbaugh makes Bo Schembechler seem decent. (Who’d a ever thunk that?)
But if Michigan does win, maybe we should buy a present for Sloopy to comfort him in his time of grief?
Those poor kids who belonged to that club and then had their parents move them to Montana are going to be soooooo surprised when they join the Ewe be Ewe club.
*narrows gaze*
You ask Riven if I’m wrong about that Montana school club. She’ll back me up.
You Do Ewe? ”Ewwwwww.”
Perhaps Reebok can go after them for IP theft? https://youtu.be/99YYZvFVuMY
How many Cali transplants were lured into Butte County, Idaho under false pretenses?
I wonder how many fights the Butte County Pirates get into every year. Those kids must be tough as shit. The only ones who can stand up to them are the kids from the near by reservation. Those boys – who are all named Sioux – put up with a bunch of shit too.
It is no longer tough being a Boy named Sue.
When I was in school we had LGBTQ, too.
We just called it ‘drama club’.
Linguistics issues, eh? I guess that will ram it home.
What’s awesome is that Alexa is gonna become the next “glass in halloween candy” or “buttchugging” panic.
Penny for your thoughts?
“You know, since we fucking own it.”
No, we don’t. The government owns it. The government is not “us”. It is the organization that rules us.
What it does is not “the things we do together”, it is “the things our rulers do to us”.
What it owns is not “public property”, it is “government property”. The substitution of “public” for “government” is a lie.
^^^THIS
I guess I was speaking of the way it ought to be.
Wait, it oughtn’t exist. In fact, no public property should exist. The government should lease whatever property, outside of DC and military bases, is necessary to function in a limited capacity. The rest should be sold to the highest bidder at a public auction of lands no larger than a section each to American citizens and the proceeds used to pay down the national debt.
I approve this proposal, except maybe the limitation on land sales to one section at a time.
I’d rather it be done a section at a time to help people buy smaller parcels at prices they can afford. Not limiting the size of the parcels would result in it selling for less per section, and most likely to a smaller number of buyers.
I approve of national parks.
I don’t want town homes built on the Gettysburg battlefield, for example.
I think you’d still have a plethora of national parks. Much of that land would be bought by preservationists. And you’d also have a lot of public pressure put on the owners to maintain it in its current state. It could also be aided by giving tax breaks to people who leave the lands uninterrupted for use as a park.
Pool your money with like-minded people for when the auction comes up.
See, also “taxpayer money”. Once you pay taxes, its not your money any more. It’s government money.
It only is because we allow them to treat it as such.
As long as they (government) keeps up the fiction that they are holding this land in trust for the American people, then it is appropriate to refer to it as “public” land. That’s a good rhetorical move as it highlights the ongoing lie.
My brother in law blew up a boat (accidentally) when his frigate was re-flagged USCG and doing drug interdiction missions.
If it’s a drug interdiction mission, it’s “the boat exploded in the general vicinity of your brother in law”.
Can’t get a confirmed kill that way.
Imagine being those japanese kids on the fishing boat when the USS Greenville did the emergency surface.
Are you saying that they re-flag USN vessels to USCG for interdiction? How often does that happen? Is it a thing they do when in hot pursuit, or do the boats get reflagged in advance of these missions, ie for a period of months?
When he was in it was a routine thing. I don’t know if it was for an entire rotation/assignment/ whatever the term is, but it was definitely weeks/months.
My brother in law blew up a boat
Are you sure your brother said “up”? Take that word out and what you got is a pretty standard sea story that any sailor could tell.
Jack was every inch a sailor.
He certainly loved seamen.
Galleons of seamen.
All nine crew members identified themselves as Iranian nationals
I suppose it is not the Iranian poppies that we protect.
The Afghan ones are haram again, now.
The call goes against a controversial resolution from 2006 by the International Astronomical Union that decided Pluto is only a “dwarf planet”
I think the correct term is “Little Planet”.
Has Congress passed a law to determine Pluto’s status? Because that will settle the matter.
Congress? Just have the president issue an EO on the matter. That way Congress can focus on important issues like the Astroworld debacle and the “insurrection”.
whaddup doh
“Rapid home tests may not be as good at detecting Omicron variant as prior COVID strains, FDA says”
As someone that spent nearly 2 weeks here @ Chez Tres sick as a dog (with only my trusty dog), I can say I dont care what variant I had. After 4 positive tests (3 in-home and 1 VA hospital official pCR test), I didn’t care what flavor I had. I just wanted to know WHAT I had, in order to limit my exposure to the handful of people that I actually care about.
I like to think Id be just as cautious if I had a bad dose of influenza or some pneumonia.
Now if I’m ever going to believe a story about drugs falling from asses, it will be when these swabbies hit port and get some shore leave. Everyone knows that the constant abuse they subject themselves to leaves the sailors physically incapable of retaining anything up their asses.
Maybe they could convert some diesel subs to run on opium?
Rapid home tests may not be as good at detecting Omicron variant as prior COVID strains
According to the creator the tests were never meant to diagnose illness anyway. IOW it’s bs.
The rapid home tests aren’t PCR tests.
Fair enough. But it is still bs. Stay home if you are ill, take your vitamins and stop feeding the panic porn machine.
One of them already postponed.
Second CNN producer is arrested for ‘misconduct involving juvenile victims’
Something something cabal of pedophile elites.
Related:
Ghislaine Maxwell Announces New Job At CNN
Wut.
Hoo boy. Yeah, those 16thC astronomers were all about geological activity yo. I’m guessing this means Mars isn’t a planet?
Apparently there are still marsquakes.
I blame fracking and climate change.
Or someone starting the reactor.
Unless that thing spun up a molten core or an artificial magnetic field, that boiling hot atmosphere would not last long against the solar winds.
A California middle school teacher who admitted she “totally stalked” student online activity to identify candidates for an LGBTQ club said her explosive comments were made “tongue in cheek,”
Maybe don’t sexualize kids. The alphabet of sexuality is just that, sexuality.
They are coming for your children.
Better than coming on your children?
That comes after the grooming.
Imagine the quandary that pedos who are into kids with cancer undergoing chemo are in.
Can you groom a bald kid?
“Dont Let Your Son Go Down On Me”
-Elton John
Let My Love Open (Your Back) Door -Pete Townsend
Case in point.
Minnesota preschool teacher admits to grooming kids
If you normalize queerness is it still all that queer?
So are my $3 bills legal tender or not?
Ummm sweaty? Sexuality is about gender not bodies. Do better.
Related: https://thepostmillennial.com/pedophile-advocacy-group-explains-how-to-go-about-age-play
“Parents have no role in deciding about their children’s education”.
You missed the tongue in cheek portion for a real euphemism.
“Teacher who ‘stalked’ kids online for LGBTQ club responds to backlash”
She should be responding to a real lash, at the front entrance to the school with parents throwing spoiled vegetables at her.
After a year off, flu cases, which have similar symptoms to the common cold and COVID-19
There was no year off. All cold/flu symptoms were incorrectly attributed to the commie cough.
But how can you tell the difference between the flu, common cold and COVID-19?
You can’t.
“The symptoms are very similar, so just go get tested,” Shah said.
Sure, get tested so there is something to fear.
Obviously, getting vaccinated for both influenza and COVID is also your best chance of recovering quicker.
The only thing obvious to me is that this sounds like a bad idea.
““The symptoms are very similar, so just go get tested,” Shah said.”
Fuck you. The bullshit test is on the off-chance you don’t have a speck of cv in your snot then they call it flu, otherwise the speck means you have covid, and not one of millions of other pathogens in your snot.
That stupid Pluto debate always reminds of the old saw about “Angels dancing on the head of a pin”. What are the Angels wearing? Seems pretty important to me at least. Everything about it is moronic except for the fact that N.D.T. is a self-aggrandizing hack. The Fauchi of Astronomy.
“Eight if they’re skinny, four if they’re fat.”
^ this was seen.
Ill take 2 of each.
self-aggrandizing hack
Whew! I had to re-read that a couple times before I realized you said “hack”. I thought we were about to get into a huge racial cancel mob thing.
The answer is infinity because they lack corporeal bodies and if you don’t agree you’ve made an enemy for life!
Amen
So, the Copernican principle is just another article of faith pretending to be SCIENCE!? Sweet. Now do the Drake equation.
*Looks at the Kardashians*
I don’t think anyone should be basing anything off of our star system. We have major flaws in how we pick stars.
Didn’t you read Q’s submission yesterday? Butts are SCIENCE!
Yeah, they keep getting larger and capitalized.
The free admission days are designed to encourage discovery and visitation of the country’s national parks.
So I get my $80 (or w/e/ it was) back for my annual pass to Shenandoah?
If you are a veteran you can get a free annual pass for the whole shebang.
https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/veterans-and-gold-star-families-free-access.htm#:~:text=How%20does%20a%20veteran%20gain%20free%20entrance%20to,%28non-expired%20CAC%20Card%29%20Veteran%20Health%20Identification%20Card%20%28VHIC%29
Senior (62+) Lifetime Pass: $80.
Canucks seven wins in a row after management shake-down. No worries, they’ll cancel the entire season in two week’s time.
The “free admission” days are a terrible idea. Everybody knows that that National Parks, like outdoor activities in general are waaaay too white. They need to
make it free forpay POC to attend and raise the price for wypipo until equity is achieved.Lead a horse to water canard looms large.
Given the fact that urban POC seem to be super resistant to getting vaxxed, I don’t think we can rely on them doing the right thing on their own.
We need to “help” them do what is best. Get a big truck, drive around the inner city and grab as many POC as you can fit. Then drive them to a nearby National Park and drop them off out in the woods.
I’m sure that by the time they make their way back to the city they will be hooked on the Outdoors and camping.
Will they be trying to get home like this?
Man, what a fantastic fucking song.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say that’s their best song and one of the ten best songs of the entire genre.
Too bad it never gets airplay or love from the critics.
What about our National Park inequity? I mean, sure some of those Western states have National Parks everywhere, but those of us here in the Midwest may only have one or two parks for the entire state.
https://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm
We have way more than you.
A random sampling shows Iowa as the sad sack with only two.
Only three parks (two historic) here in Ohio (I thought there was only one). Several monuments, but those aren’t really the same. And at least one of the parks here in Ohio (Cuyahoga Valley) is in the middle of a suburban area and crossed with roads (at least on the trail I use through it).
The only difference between a NP and a NM is the origin. NP are formed by an act of Congress and a NM by the President under the Antiquities Act. NM can be turned into NP by a subsequent act of Congress.
Well, making the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial into a National Park would be entertaining, I still wouldn’t exactly call it a park (as it sits on an island that’s less then 1.5 square miles).
A park can be as small as a statue plinth.
I realized keeping the synopses short and sweet in the links leads to more commenting. Or maybe just posting not-as-dreadful stories did it. Or maybe everybody is just taking the day off work. Or perhaps I’m overanalyzing things.
Maybe some of us are just drunk? Don’t overthink it. Go with the flow, Brother Sloop.
I really only comment when I’m AT work. When I’m home, too many things require my full attention and/or being away from a keyboard.
I think the real answer is probably a function of number of links, outrage quotients of the links, AM vs PM links, and external variables such as holiday season vs normal day.
Why don’t you just ask the SCIENCE! I’m sure he’ll have a reasonable answer.
Is there a SCIENCE SMITH!!! in the Glibs Universe yet?
He disappeared in a puff of logic.
SCIENCE SMITH WANT TO RAPE YOU WITH SCIENCE, GOT BEAT TO THE PUNCH BY FAUCI-CREATURE.
SCIENCE SMITH SAD, GO AWAY NOW.
I keep my synapses short and sweet too.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene renewed calls for a “national divorce” between red and blue states, arguing that Americans who move to conservative states from California and New York should have a “cooling off” period before they are allowed to vote.
I’m hopefully moving to a red state in about a month and a half and wouldn’t have a problem with this. Nevada was solid red before the tidal wave of CA refugees washed over the state. (It doesn’t matter how long I “cool off”, I’ll never vote for Lindsay Graham)
As a compromise, maybe you can’t vote in another state as long as CA or NY are collecting taxes from you?
If you did that, I think you’d be obligated to allow them to still vote in CA and NY.
Which brings up an interesting question. We probably all agree that anyone in that situation would have a perverse incentive to vote for the worst candidates that were on the ballot just to stick it to their old state.
But would that mean they’d vote for the craziest leftie/progressive? Or would they automatically think that any GOPer on the ballot was the worst? Maybe the expat fuck you vote would return the GOP to power in those states?
A state level division would not work.
In fact, since the objective of the other side is to rule all, the very idea will fail.
Fail what? By your criteria splitting up would making “ruling all” require two different ruling groups.
The only reason for a national divorce would be to implement such a circumstance.
I think that the current division is way more urban/rural than it is based on state boundaries.
In Minnesoda, huge chunks of the state would secede to one of the Dakotas if there was a national divorce.
ISTR writing not one, but two (2) articles about this.
Pennsylvania is the same. Most of the counties in PA would be happy as a red state–probably could team up with most of New York west of the Hudson.
Northwest NJ would gladly join in.
Same in Ohio. I can see maybe 5-6 counties wanting to stay blue, the rest are all pretty red.
Agreed, make it a county by county decision. You’d have one contiguous nation and an archipelago of proggy city-states..
should have a “cooling off” period before they are allowed to vote.
Muh voter suppression!
During the cooling off period, the local election judges will cast your ballot for you. This will ensure you make the right choices.
There’s some wheat in that chaff – residency. What should count as being a resident for voting purposes? RIght now, its if you identify as a resident. There’s something to being a member of the community before you vote for the ruLers of that community.
California is quite a conservative/libertarian state. Unfortunately El Lay and Ess Eff Bay Area control the politics here. Massive amounts of East Coasters have moved here over the past decades and turned this place into proggie hell by voting for the same shit that they had back there. I don’t think it would ever happen, but I’d be ecstatic if the State of Jefferson came to be, talk about a Glibertopia. It’s gorgeous up there in NorCal and the weed is unparalleled.
My standard joke about how to identify a native Californian – they don’t live there anymore.
California is the only state where you can live a handful of years and become forever dubbed a native.
Maybe the capitol could be in Weed.
Can’t tell if serious.
That’s a quality troll.
Yeah, I got 15 seconds in, shut it down and did the Cary Elwes blink meme.
It’s worth sticking with it.
Hey Sloop! That tune holds a special place in my heart! I met my future first Wife at the roller rink when that song first came out. It took me a few years and bumps in the road before I finally made her mine. Huge mistake! The melody always takes me back to that specific moment in time, though. Ah, to be 15 and smitten! Thanks for that!
You’re welcome.
I absolutely love that song. Pete was a genius.
Pretty “complex” if I remember my tabloids correctly. Fuck it, I’ve loved The Who since I was eleven.
I’m an excellent public health official
“This virus has proven its ability to adapt quickly and we must adapt with it,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a White House briefing on Wednesday.
When this is all over, I reckon there just might be some citations involved.
I heard her yammering on NPR this morning about how hospitalizations always lag by a couple weeks, so get ready for the windrows of dead bodies.
Not that that worries me. We can put those new dead bodies next to the heaps of corpses from last year’s Thanksgiving dinner massacres and Christmas kills. But the Sturgis graveyard is totes full because they held it TWICE (monsters)!
” hospitalizations always lag by a couple weeks,”
A result of Fauci’s “After a positive test, stay at home for two weeks, then call the ambulance if your lips turn blue” policy.
They are never going to let this thing go.
“We’re probably just going to be at home,” said Lala Tanmoy Das, who lives in New York City with his husband, Eric. “It’s suboptimal, but here we are.”
Das said he and his husband — both health care workers — scheduled some much-needed time off for a trip to Philadelphia to attend a New Year’s Eve bash and a wedding the next day.
Then they tested positive for the coronavirus.
“It’s sad … we wanted to be with our friends,” Das told NPR. “So all that is canceled. The couple also ended up postponing their wedding because so many people have tested positive from their guest list.”
Where does NPR find these “man in the street” interviewees?
They have lists of reliable parrots.
Just down the hall way to the left. It’s the washroom with the glory holes. Can’t miss it.
Maybe one of the reasons the Important People like molesting kids is because when the trial is over they seal all the records “to protect the kids”?
Sure seems convenient that they locked up all the evidence from the Maxwell trial and threw away the key.
I also just realized that Jim Comey’s daughter was the lead prosecutor in that case.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
And her husband works for the same office too.
Hey! Lotsa people likea da pizza pie…
Meanwhile, for people who do choose to gather and celebrate despite the rise in omicron cases, public health officials are urging caution.
People who are vaccinated and have had their booster shots are most safe. Wearing high-quality masks and maintaining social distance whenever possible can also help lower risk. At a briefing this week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul also urged people to gather outside if weather allows.
“It’s a little chilly especially in upstate New York, but it’ll be worth it when you have a chance to be together with your loved ones and friends this time next year,” Hochul said.
What a fucking psycho. Don’t do it. Naught but certain death awaits.
Meanwhile, in Albany, the Right People will celebrate for you.
I think it is time that we had BLM protest mandates. We all agree that that is the only place that the Rona has ever been transmitted?
Why aren’t employers required to send their workers off to a BLM protest every day?
People who are vaccinated and have had their booster shots are most safe.
No, they are not.
My wife and one of my daughters are just finishing up bouts with covid, both pretty mild. Yesterday I was talking a bunch of shit to them about my superhuman immune system and how the virus cant touch me.
Of course today I woke up feeling weak and light headed. Me and my big mouth.
Yep. I haven’t had a bad cold or flu for what? Thirty or forty years? Now I’ve jinxed it.
We will console your widow.
I expect you will be the lead story in the NY Post in a few days.
“Jerms Gets Burned”
Jan 1, 2022
A New York man who goes by the mocking handle “Jerms” on an outlandish website that runs rampant with conspiracy theories, science denial, and strange inside jokes about a serial rapist Sasquatch has landed himself in the hospital with a severe case of COVID 19. The man went so far as to mock family members with his supposed superhuman resistance to the raging virus as they succumbed to their infections. Upon hearing of his words and deeds nurses at the hospital he is currently at decided to incorporate his ignorance of the virus into a new musical number which they performed in the interior courtyard this afternoon…
Nice. Thats good.
Word.
Stop.
It’s a fake religion created by a psychopath.
You aren’t bringing in new voters, you are turning them away.
People are tired of pandering and BS.
Plus they spelled it wrong.
Pluto is a planet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4U6inRTaow
It is spherical and has a moon. It is a planet.
So neither mercury nor venus is a planet then, as they lack moons?
When you’re big enough and circle the Sun you don’t need no moons!
The sun is a planet with thousands of moons.
if it is naturally undergoing nuclear fusion, it is a star.
Yes, it is Vox, but the lack of self-awareness is still noteworthy – as though being hit over the head with an Iron Law still doesn’t get the message through.
Poor Harry Reid! He’ll always be remembered for blowing up the filibuster for short-term gain. Good. The perfect embodiment of the Obama years.
Biden should be all powerful.
Lord-God-King Biden and his happy helpmeet, Jillden The Magnificent! Scurrying about is the “Fool”, little Fauchi in his motley garb…
From Juris’ link:
Kacsmaryk’s decision, and the Supreme Court’s decision to stand with Kacsmaryk against President Joe Biden, is one of the most dramatic examples of the Republican-controlled federal judiciary’s many conflicts with America’s Democratic president. But it’s hardly an isolated incident.
I eagerly await the day an attorney from the Department of Justice, presenting the administration’s case before the Supreme Court, uses That’s just, like, your opinion, man as his argument.
Allow me to introduce you to the box office of the real.
It turns out the left won’t be “reclaiming the red pill,” after all.
I guess popping all those blue pills (progesterone) didn’t help get the creative juices flowing.
From Showbiz411:
The only good Matrix film was the first and it was only good because they almost certainly stole the plot from Dark City after being given an advanced copy by a producer.
I didn’t know Dark City existed. I’ll have to check it out.
Recommended.
+1 sleep
Seconded the recommendation, but get the director’s cut if you can. The theatrical release was forced to have a voice over intro that spoils later plot points.
I saw Dark City in the theater, and was running late so I missed the first five minutes. Luckiest I’ve ever been in my life.
Also The Thirteenth Floor.
The Matrix is a big budget mash-up of those two movies.
Also a great flick
Dark City is highly recommended.
The new matrix movie started out interesting for about 30 minutes, then went back to stupid and never came back. Just like the first movie.
I agree Dark City and The 13th floor are much better movies and concepts.
I was completely unaware of both of those.
Take a trip to beautiful Shell Beach.
Remember…
The Wachowskis have a shtick, and if you like it, it’s good.
I personally liked Cloud Atlas and Sense8, but I don’t pretend they’re universally appealing classics.
Bound is good. Their only straight-forward crime thriller, I think. They should have done more.
Dark City is highly recommended.
The Critical Drink’s take.
Meanwhile, the judiciary has done more than virtually any other institution in America to frustrate efforts to control the Covid-19 pandemic. Almost immediately after the Biden administration announced new rules encouraging most workers to get vaccinated, for example, a right-wing panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit raced to hand down a procedurally improper order blocking those rules (although that order has since been lifted by a more centrist panel). Trump-appointed judges handed down similar orders blocking a more modest rule requiring many health care workers to be vaccinated.
So, while right-wing judges have not yet launched a wholesale assault on the Biden presidency, they’ve handed down a raft of decisions that endanger the public health and that force some of the most vulnerable people on the planet to live in squalid, often dangerous conditions. And these judges could get even more aggressive in the future.
While judicial sabotage of the Biden administration’s policies has thus far been limited in scope, it’s likely to expand rapidly, and soon. The Supreme Court announced in late October that it will hear West Virginia v. EPA, a case that, at its most extreme, could potentially give the judiciary veto power over every regulation pushed out by any federal agency.
Such a decision would only embolden judges who wish to hobble Biden’s presidency.
The Constitution? Established law as written and passed by Congress?
Not mentioned.
The ends justify the means, they don’t care about the other shit. They’re also kinda bummed that they were denied the authority to turn the Stasi loose on people they disagree with and it shows. They’re an honest to God dangerous bunch.
a more modest rule requiring many health care workers to be vaccinated.
There is nothing “modest” about such mandates.
not yet launched a wholesale assault on the Biden presidency
Maybe the regime should not be such a tyrannical cunte.
could potentially give the judiciary veto power over every regulation pushed out by any federal agency.
Those pesky denizens with their pesky rights and the pesky (ostensible…) limits on the government…
JFC what lying cuntes.
Pluto: Not sure about planet or not but it’s definitely the best free Roku service available. Two thumbs up…
Biden should be all powerful.
Exactly. He has been awarded unassailable dictatorial powers, via the Divine Right of Democracy!
Who dares question him?
The friend whom I took to the hospital in August for covid— She is still in the long-term care facility with a trach to breathe. We went to visit her last night. She was saying I should have let her call an ambulance because she might have gotten me sick. Nah, bruh. I’m immune to everything except achy joints. I did, however, wake up this morning all beat to death by the barometer. Oh my head …
Feel better, sweet Mojo! I need a Mormon in my life!
Just convert and you’ll always have one.
Srsly. We don’t bite.
Most of the time.
“I did, however, wake up this morning all beat to death by the barometer. Oh my head …”
Hope you feel better. I blame zoom, thought I was improving and woke up feeling like hell. Note to self: get more sleep.
What the heck happened last night when some of us tried to join and got crickets.
Bunch of us checked out before 11. Not sure who was left.
She is still in the long-term care facility with a trach to breathe.
This sounds odd to me. I’m not sure why she would need a trach if she’s not on a ventilator of some kind. Regardless, that is one tough road she is on. I hope she can come home soon.
For all my transcription training, I’m not exactly sure what’s going on. She is conscious and able to communicate (all communication is lip reading—it’s exhausting) and is in her right mind. But she has a tube coming out of her throat to breathe. She can’t speak, drink, or eat. She gets respiratory therapy, but it is not going well at all. I don’t know if she’s getting any exercise without physical therapy (and she says they don’t come often enough). Mostly I don’t know what’s going on because I can’t read lips that well and it takes a lot out of her to text or write, I can’t tell what’s going on with quick glances at the monitor, her kids don’t share a lot with us, and the nurses aren’t going to share with randos.
The federal courts are hierarchical, and they are supposed to be creatures of precedent. If a higher court hands down a legal rule that governs future cases, lower court judges are supposed to be bound by that rule for as long as it is in place — even if the judge disagrees with the rule, and even if the judge thinks that the higher court is likely to overrule it in the future.
Huh.
I ❤️
Dredd Scott
Plessy v Ferguson
Buck v Bell
Korematsu
“Court decisions are only correct if I agree with them.”
On the CCPvirus front, my local newsrag informed me today that there are now 53.1 million cases in America, “a new single day record.” No editors or no common sense reporting? Both, probably.
My god, in a few weeks everyone will have the plague seven times over!
Thot Thursday acknowledges the possibility of a Deity but remains skeptical.
https://archive.md/SzrIy
If there is a God then he is toying with me. All of the hot girls are on the overnight shift just as I’m done for the day.
Bonus 4 Festus.
https://archive.md/ciIwr
That means that, at least for now, the most aggressive decisions undercutting President Biden are being handed down by judges who do not feel constrained by precedent, or who want to nudge the Supreme Court into overruling past opinions by handing down decisions that are inconsistent with those opinions and that need to be reviewed on appeal.
We can talk about “precedent” if you like. What say you regarding a President who issues completely unprecedented executive orders dictating what should be completely private personnel decisions of private corporations?
Would you sit idly by as a President banned American companies from employing Chinese, or Russian, or Canadian nationals?
Sometimes I wish we had an edit button.
There’s a plugin for that. I haven’t tested it on my own site so I’m not sure how well it works or if it interacts badly with other plugins. https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-comment-editing/
I believe that plugin is used by Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals fame, and it works quite well. Saved my bacon a couple of times in the last few months. She has it set for the “You’ve got 5 minutes to correct something” default.
Sadly, I am not in charge here (thank goodness!) and I don’t want to bother SP because they’ve got enough on their plate with the coffee shop.
I’d be happy with the up down arrows back!
Ordinarily I fully support anything that involves increasing the size of chests. Not in this case.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17125827/herbs-help-develop-female-breasts-man/
Wait five years.
You’re welcome.
Herbs? I seem to be doing just fine with starches, carbs, and a sedentary lifestyle.
The Pluto discussion is interesting. I have been playing a lot of Elite Dangerous lately. It does a great job with stellar cartography. You could spend the rest of your life playing the game and never visit all of the stars in the game. Each system has a real star class and most have planets you can explore on foot or by rover.
It’s a great game and it got me back to being into reading about space exploration.
I smashed my first ship into a star dock and died. Then stopped playing.
You probably smashed your tiny fist into the screen the first time that you played Asteroids at the arcade, didn’t you?
So rude. Your mom didn’t think my fist was tiny.
I played the original game on my Commodore 64. Compared to docking in that game the new one is easy.
Elite Dangerous has a steep learning curve, but after a week I was good.
oh it is on sale. And…purchased. I only have a few days of vacation left, time to sink some time into that, between my honey-do-list and being an adult.
If you need tips there are a tone online, plus I can help. Having a wing mate would be fun. Let me know.
Thanks. I will jump in and see what it is. I love a good Space Opera and Mass Effect will always hold a special place in my heart, I just wish it incorporated more of the space exploration part that you can control more.
“If they all treat your body the same, should you really even give a fuck at this point?”
Never! The flu is just a virus the will make you sick for a week; the Commie Cough is a sign of the Dark One wrapping his evil fingers around your heart to lead you into perdition. Only by receiving the Sacrament in accordance with St. Fauci’s (PBUH) divine instructions can you preserve your soul and avoid becoming one of the Damned.
I got my second dose of the elixir of life two weeks ago and still sport a greenish-yellow bruise at the point of entry. She jabbed me and it immediately started running blood, swelled up to the size of a walnut and ached like a motherfucker. Haven’t really felt right since then. YMMV.
The USS Tempest and USS Typhoon seized the drugs hidden aboard a stateless fishing vessel plying Mideast waters, the international task force said in a statement. The seizure took place on Monday.
OMG!!! Stateless!
But a study announced in December from a team of researchers in the journal Icarus now claims the IAU’s definition was based on astrology — a type of folklore, not science — and that it’s harming both scientific research and the popular understanding of the solar system.
I guess they don’t fucking love astrology.
(I didn’t read the comments before posting)
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that some antigen tests may have “reduced sensitivity” for Omicron, citing early data from the NIH’s laboratory studies. Lower sensitivity means there might be a greater chance of missing traces of the virus and giving false negative results. However, NIH scientists caution that their lab finding is not evidence of a significant drop in the real-world performance of popular at-home tests, even in the “worst case scenario.”
Gotta keep the fear porn going.
A California middle school teacher who admitted she “totally stalked” student online activity to identify candidates for an LGBTQ club said her explosive comments were made “tongue in cheek,” according to a new report.
Tongue in cheek. Hmm…
Here’s a little thought which just popped into my head.
Based on current historical examples (Kathy Hochul, Kamala Harris, koff koff), do we think political second-in-command candidates should be elected separately?
That’s how it was done initially.
I think all offices should be independant elections.
This! The president shouldn’t have the power to nominate people who could potentially investigate them.
do we think political second-in-command candidates should be elected separately?
It is still done in some states.
NC is one. It’s how Cooper has Robinson has his lieutenant governor.
NH does not have a lieutenant governor. The State Senate President takes over if the governor retires, is removed from office, dies, etc.
Wasn’t the Vice President originally elected separately? When did that change, and why?
Senators used to be chosen by the States’ electoral bodies, not by popular vote. “Republic? Good luck with that” – Some old white guy.
It still is AFAIK. The “ticket” is just an advertising ploy.
It used to be that you only voted for prexy, and whoever came in second was veep.
Yes technically the electors cast their votes for president and vice president separately but it’s all packaged as a ticket.
The VP was originally the runner-up in the election. That created some obvious problems.
I think “perverse incentives” is the term of art….
Created problems for power…not for a free people
You mean “built in checks and balances.”
Imagine Donald Trump as VP – great for blocking up the Senate, bad for anyone running security for Joe Biden.
Feck it. This has been fun but I need to rest for awhile. One more shift and then a blessed night off. Round and round she goes, where it stops nobody knows! Have a great one, fellow travelers and we’ll meet again some other time. Skoal!
The VP was originally the runner-up in the election. That created some obvious problems.
Fuck “convenience”. I like the idea of open internecine battles over policy at the planning stage. Just think how much fun it would be watching Biden and Trump hammer out policy.
With Trump presiding over the senate…
They see me trollin’…
It’s almost the end of 2021 and I’ve yet to see Biden mobilize truinternatialdepressure like he promised.
What’s the hold up? …
I see many of the uninformed basement dwellers missed this moment of Biden’s campaign.
Not surprising, sadly.
So, for all of our armchair legal experts, exactly how does a US naval vessel get the legal authority to interdict an Iranian flagged vessel in international waters and seize their cargo, whatever that cargo might be?
I find it odd that US law keeps getting applied to foreign nationals and nobody seems to care. I’m specifically thinking about Kim Dotcom and Julian Assange…. But others apply as well
International maritime laws?
Laws tend to have authority wherever the enforcers can apply force without consequence.
And us having the baddest naval force and as long as other countries don’t have to pay for their maritime security, we make the rules.
Yeah, I get the practical considerations… In the same way that the 6’4″ noseguard on the football team had the right to my pudding cup at lunch….
But you would think there would be a bit more of a system than “dude has guns, he can take your stuff”.
That would require those who can apply force choosing to limit themselves. Thus you are still at the discretion of those able to act.
Deep down, that is never going to change, as there is no other backstop.
“dude has guns, he can take your stuff”
Isn’t that pretty much what all “international law” boils down to?
Plus, it wasn’t Iranian flagged (according to the story). It was “stateless”.
Which I take to mean, the smuggling op was run by the mullahs, and the people on the boat were their operators. Or, the Navy just lied.
But a study announced in December from a team of researchers in the journal Icarus now claims the IAU’s definition was based on astrology — a type of folklore, not science — and that it’s harming both scientific research and the popular understanding of the solar system.
Okay, now do medicine and “public health”.
popular understanding
Bro, do you even “science by consensus”?
Two Kentucky historians agree the GOP is steering the US straight toward authoritarianism |Opinion
The deflection is strong with these morons. Although I hope Trump doesn’t run. He brings out the stupid in people which ends up pushing them over to the Democrats.
Ignore those authoritarians who are trying to take all of your freedoms and wreck the entire US system! Look at those racist boogeymen over there!
By the populist GOPers being opposed to the authoritarian Dems commufascist dreams?
WHERE’S YOUR VAXPORT?
OFFS. These dipshits will call anyone who resists their agenda every name in the book. I’d bet money that they used similar language to describe Romney in 2012.
The second layer of funny to that is that Trump may be a lot of things, but racist and homophobic certainly aren’t among them. And although he is definitely promiscuous with the ladies and definitely views all women through a lens of sexuality, he also promotes women to positions of power in both business and in his political office. So is that sexist? I mean, I get that some of the radical third wave feminists like to claim that any notion of women having a sexuality is misogynistic, I’d say that pretending that either men or women are not sexual beings is kind of silly.
I get where they can get xenophobic. I mean, the dude ran on a platform of stopping illegal immigration and had a moderately isolationist foreign policy, despite his many foreign treaties he was able to win.
It is almost as if we have entered a post fact reality, where any conjecture is allowed and even encouraged, regardless of its connection to actual events.
Binders full of women, dog abuser, Magic Underwear, capitalist abuser…similar but different…
But enough about the Democrats.
Romney was all those things when he was an opponent of the Savior. Now he is a milquetoast, “reasonable” Republican.
that is anti-democratic
Which is why its people participate in elections…
embraces violence
But enough about Antifa/BLM.
I’ve never met an outspoken partisan Democrat who hesitated for one instant to call Trumpism all those things.
Bless their hearts.
I saw that pop up in my newsfeed and decided against clicking through.
This just popped into my head:
A DeSantis/Trump ticket, with Trump as the VP. He’s a natural for the traditional attack dog role of the VP, he would be a perpetual lightning rod allowing DeSantis a free(er) hand elsewhere, and man, talk about your “insurance policy”.
Of course, Trump would never agree to it, but . . . .
It’s not in his nature to accept the role of second fiddle.
Man..Trump as the President of the Senate? Hahahahaha heads would explode
The Hat and The Hair would be plotting, constantly!
The best thing Trump could do is play king-maker for DeSantis. He could probably beat any of the clowns the Dems put up next time but really, who wants another four years of that circus.
I thought of that ticket too.
Two problems. Trump’s Ego. Electors can’t vote for a president and vice president who reside in the same state. The second is a little easier: Trump could just move back to NYC.
Better for Trump to be a king maker, which I think his ego also won’t allow.
Another idea I had: He could run for US Rep then bully/cajole/what-have-you his way into getting elected Speaker of the House. The Speaker has a lot of control over agenda and all spending bills must start in the House. This is a longer shot and also I don’t this his ego will allow him to do it.
So, like many of you, I have an ear to the sort of right leaning
Entertainment critic crowd on the internet. They have been exceptionally critical of the marvel adaptation evolution ever since endgame. One guy calls it the M-She-U.
They didn’t much care for Hawkeye, the new series on Disney Plus. I happen to have some free time and access to a relatives Disney Plus account, so I just watched it last night.
The short answer? It wasn’t all that bad.
Their critique was not entirely wrong. I mean, the series is named Hawkeye but it is really the origin story for… Ladyhawke? Anyway, the Robin to Hawkeyes Batman.
As such it was okay. It did suffer from the tiny girls beating up big muscular guys syndrome. But at least they cast a decent match for the 5’9″ Jeremy Renner. She looks to be nearly his height, so it isn’t like we have a 6 ft 5 in hero and a 5 ft 2 in waif.
Another critique they had was that along comes a strong female to lecture the established male character and totally punk him. Although she did jabber on a lot about how he should be doing things, it was largely played for comic effect and was part of her character as a young millennial type. So it wasn’t as bad as the internet critics had led me to believe.
Taken as an origin story aimed at a younger audience in which you are supposed to identify with a sort of coming of age story, it was fine. Not great. But fine.
The only time that the girl power stuff got distracting for me was at the very end when our female protagonist battles the kingpin one on one. Since the kingpin goes below for blow with Spider-Man and he has superpowers, watching kingpin punch her through a wardrobe and seeing her get up to keep on fighting was a bit silly. I can believe a super competitive athlete who learns superior skills in archery, fencing, and martial arts. But if you get hit with the power of a car going 45 miles an hour and knocked 20 ft across the room and through a large piece of furniture, you ain’t getting up.
Anyway, I didn’t think it sucked. So if you want some mild escapist superhero action and don’t expect to be watching a story about Hawkeye, it’s not too bad.
It was origin stories for two characters: the new Hawkeye and Echo (the deaf mobster). I don’t mind them setting up legacy heroes, and I enjoyed Falcon and Winter Soldier the most so far (but then I think the Captain America movies are the best so far). I am not looking forward to Ironheart (a character that was not well received in the comics) nor Natalie Portman Thor. I’m cautiously optimistic about She-Hulk.
At this rate She-Hulk will just be the Hulk.
That would actually be hilarious. Have banner just “identify as” and call it she-hulk.
Nope. The Huik will identify as She-Hulk and effortlessly defeat all of her arch-nemeses
Ironheart as characterized in the comic is ideal for a villain.
They won’t do it, but imagine the story that could be told if they did.
Oof… That speech at the end of Falcon was really rough. And the entire “racist America won’t accept a black war hero” thing was not just off putting, it was stomach churning.
Ooh, and freckled Jesus….
Yeah… There was a lot that I didn’t like about that one, despite the cast.
That actually was an example of politics overwhelming storytelling, iIMHO.
Yet everyone loves Frozone from The incredibles. Fucking racists.
Or Colin Powell…. Nobody welcomed that guy back into society after the Gulf war.
The old war hero was medically experimented on by the government for quite some time, so I don’t expect him to be pro-Cap or pro-US government.
The only scene that really stood out to me was the one where Bucky and Sam were arguing in the street and the cops roll up and draw on them. I was more entertained about all the thought pieces about how the knuckle dragging comic fans wouldn’t accept these “new” characters that came out when this was announced. Both Sam and Bucky have been Captain America in the comics, and both were accepted, Miles Morales (Spider-Man) was accepted with open arms. The ones that weren’t accepted were the ones with random minority taking over from long standing hero and immediately being better then them.
Yeah, that is the true crime against the story…. Taking an established hero and debasing him in favor of a better minority of some sort…. Luke for Rey being the quintessential example.
Is Natalie Portman Thor just a rumor? I mean, having a female Thor is silly, but shouldn’t she at least have the physicality? I mean, they didn’t have Robert Downey Jr. Play Thor either … They had a massive physical specimen do it.
Gina Carano I might believe…. But Portman?
Seems silly.
Or Bobbie from The Expanse would be good too.
Ooh, yeah. I love her.
Hell, even the lead girl from Vikings. I get Natalie Portman…I guess. She spent many nights in my head in my youth, but there are way better actresses that could fill that role. It won’t be Gina Carano cause well…she is unclean and unwoke.
Not a rumor. It’s also based on a comic book which was not well appreciated by fans (but was well received by the woke crowd who doesn’t buy comics).
There was a wonderfully fantastic storyline in 1985 that crossed over Uncanny X-Men, Alpha Flight, The New Mutants, and The Mighty Thor wherein Loki, while Thor is away and otherwise occupied, schemes to make Storm into the new Asgardian Thunder God who will be ensorcelled to his will.
https://uncannyxmen.net/story-arc/the-asgardian-wars
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mta-suspends-3-subway-lines-as-covid-related-staffing-issues-continue/ar-AASh2Cv
Congratulations, NYC. How many workers are out because they are actually sick? How many tested positive but are asymptomatic? How many were “exposed” to someone who tested positive? Sick folks should certainly stay home, but the others? Nice job, assholes.
Also, how many workers did they fire for refusing to have their personal medical decisions taken away from them?
Related: what percentage of normal traffic is there? Are we even up to 50% of pre-plague levels yet? The trains were empty the last time I had to ride.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10355169/Demi-Rose-shows-voluptuous-curves-racy-red-lace-lingerie.html
Nope. Looking good.
From LJW’s link:
Two Kentucky historians agree it’s past time for Democrats to start warning voters — loudly, clearly and unceasingly — where Donald Trump and his truest true believers in the GOP are steering the country: Straight toward white supremacy and authoritarianism.
“This is real, this is serious and it’s frightening,” said Brian Clardy, a Murray State University history professor. “We must build a democratic resistance that amounts to a counter-fascist coup — In short, we must all become ‘antifa,’ or antifascists,” said John Hennen, a Morehead State University history professor emeritus.
Biden/CDC/NIH/Pfizer?
THIS IS NOT THE FASCISM YOU’RE LOOKING FOR.
Speaking of Pfizer, does anyone know how much these vaccine companies are making off of these vaccines ?
The media loves to report on vaccines and how important they are and how much covid there is….. But it sure seems odd to me that nobody ever says how much money this is making for big pharma. Remember 5 minutes ago when the left had a couple of favorite boogeymen, and big pharma was right there near the top? Now here we have government handing over what must be large numbers of billions of dollars based on extremely dubious information, and they are out there demanding that we all be forced to partake in giving them more money by getting boosters .
The scant evidence encouraging boosters combined with the facile and seemingly unsupported edicts that we must get boosted 3-4 and 5 times seems to cry out for someone to talk about how many billions of dollars each one of those booster recommendations is worth.
Anyone got a number for that?
How much? Somewhere between a shitton and a fuckton would be my guess.
The left is for the FBI/CIA too now.
Vaccines are free, nobody is making money! A model for our glorious future.
I don’t remember the source, but I’d heard annual profits of 38 Billion for Pfizer.
Take vague memory for the unreliable source it is.
Pfizer is publicly traded. So is Moderna. Their earnings are public record. How much is due to the vax? Dunno if that’s broken out, but you could close by comparing pre and post vax financials, especially for Moderna.
Google sent me here.
https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfizer-eyes-higher-covid-19-vaccine-prices-after-pandemic-exec-analyst
Under one pandemic supply deal, Pfizer is charging the U.S. $19.50 per dose, D’Amelio said, which is “not a normal price like we typically get for a vaccine—$150, $175 per dose. So, pandemic pricing.”
,……….
Pfizer has said it expects $15 billion from its COVID-19 vaccine this year, but if the company charges higher prices after the pandemic, it could continue to reap significant sales from the product in the years to come, particularly if routine boosters are needed as variants arise.
20 x 600 million .ok, seems on par.
That only sounds like a small number because we have started breaking off our graft in chunks numbered in the trillions as of the last few years.
Straight toward white supremacy and authoritarianism.
Have we forgotten that Richard Spencer endorced Biden/Harris?
a counter-fascist coup
To counter the Dems fascist coup of 2020?
we must all become ‘antifa,’
I’d rather not. Violent authoritarian collectivists are my enemy.
Dude is from Howard. Place is a hotbed for Farakahn types.
fascist
That reminds me – our new CEO has a bundle of sticks (saguaro ribs) tied with a ribbon in her office. Its some kind of “teamwork”, “stronger together” thing. I can hardly wait to tell her its a fasces, the Roman symbol of rulership, although the Romans were prone to putting an axe or a spear in the bundle.
The building where I used to have a cube (Alfred E Smith office building) has unironic Fasces with axes on the facade around the front doors.
I actually miss that cube. It was nice, the white noise generators kept the coworker noise obscured, and I could pop into the datacenter by walking twenty feet.
But they had to go and give the space to another agency.
Gawd, I’d love to be a fly on the wall if/when you tell her that.
Oh, I’ll tell her. We have one-on-one meetings periodically; I’m not dumb enough to do it in public, but she’s got a good sense of humor.
Yes, we must take the lunatic ravings of a couple of blac-bloc “professors” seriously now.
“Booster shot of J&J’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine is 84% effective at preventing Omicron variant hospitalizations, study finds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10355085/J-J-booster-84-effective-against-hospitalization-S-African-Omicron-era-study.html
I am so tired of this shit.
Mix and match vaccines with no corresponding safety data, what could possibly go wrong?
#metoo
Omicron has been a farce designed to move the sluggish booster shots. Painfully obvious.
I really trust their study, particularly in light of the fact that social media companies are actively censoring knowledgeable scientists who are critical of their studies. You know, like the guy who actually came up with the idea for mRNA vaccines. The one they banned yesterday.
It seems like it would be really useful to have knowledgeable people look over these studies and provide a critique of their validity and the power of their conclusions.
Or we could, you know, just go with letting the people who have financial incentives to give us a particular answer be the deciders. That works just as well, doesn’t it?
84% for how long?
And, of course, based on what?
Top men said 84%. Shut up and get in line for your shot.
I’ve been having a back and forth with a guy who works in biotech and he keeps citing the “antibody response” of the vaccines as if the mere presence of antibodies is an indication of effectivity in the real world, particularly over time.
It’s so incredibly myopic that I can’t comprehend how someone who is that well versed in the area could be that way.
Ask him why having a sufficient titre of antibodies generally means you don’t only not need a vaccine, but a vaccine is contraindicated, for every disease except COVID.
But you would think there would be a bit more of a system than “dude has guns, he can take your stuff”.
If only we had joined the League of Nations when we had the chance.
Actually it gave me a thought in the other direction. All we need to do is convince some people with some money so we can pick up a ship or two and some armaments and we could go into business for ourselves.
Thanks, Edit Fairy!
“JUST ANNOUNCED: @CNN to host “Live From the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later,” moderated by @AndersonCooper
and @JakeTapper from National Statuary Hall airing Thursday, January 6 at 8pmET”
https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1476557682274447368
They should invite CBS, MSNBC, and ABC, and do a Battle of the Network Stars thing.
That propaganda fest is goong to be grotesque.
CNN will be hosting a pizza party afterwards.
Genuine LOL.
I’ll be watching the premier of Battlebots that night, so…
Oooh nice! I was not aware of that. Much better way to spend an evening.
It’s fun to watch. Thanks KK for the reminder
#TeamHuge
It’s (almost) robot fighting time!!! ?
Witch Doctor rulez! (Narrator: She just wants one of their hats.)
Love their outfits!
I hope the Brazilian guy with the crazy spinner can make it this year. Forgot the name of the bot.
Minotaur? (Off the top of my head.)
Minotaur
Yes! Minotaur!
I was looking forward to seeing if he got his balance/drive issues under control.
I might pay to watch Lemon and Potatohead go at it in a cage match.
I would watch only if it were a duel to the death. Every participant’s death.
Just watch Battlebots and picture the CNN anchors
Can’t we just combine those two events? Talking heads vs. murderbots? I’d tune in. I’d pay if it were PPV.
“…a Battle of the Network Stars thing.”
*fondly remembers 1978 Linda Carter before and after the Battle of the Network Stars swimming competition*
*googles*
Yow. Yeah, she was a bit of alright.
I want them to replay the video from the day realtime with either golf announcers or the people who narrate British royal events providing commentary.
Nah.
Steve Inman.
https://www.newsweek.com/netherlands-vaccination-booster-coronavirus-covid-shot-1664296
What the fuck?
I believe the idea is jabs until
it kills youyou die.I read through that whole Courier Journal excrescence about unconstrained Republikkkin fascist authoritarianism.
Definitely a contender for the M Night Shyamalan award for Political Journalisming.
I’m still under my bed, petrified with fear.
As usual the left is projecting so hard they should have “Casio” tattooed to their foreheads.
Yeah, but the “bark at your dog” challenge trend is hilarious.
Actually it gave me a thought in the other direction. All we need to do is convince some people with some money so we can pick up a ship or two and some armaments and we could go into business for ourselves.
Arrrr, Matey!
“Live From the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later,” moderated by @AndersonCooper
and @JakeTapper from National Statuary Hall airing Thursday, January 6 at 8pmET”
If they are not all wearing helmets and flak vests, crouching behind a wall of sandbags, I will be very disappoint.
Funny that the flu link is from Northwest Indiana. Last night I suddenly got a fever, the urgent cares are swamped right now but somehow I need to get in for some tests. I have a feeling this is sinus related but who knows.
OK, so now I can blame Indiana!
Speaking of Pfizer, Moderna, et al, and their rake-off from the panicdemic, how much did they get for “research” during Operation Warp Speed?
Was it a cost-plus contract, or just a blank check?
I have two overhaul mods going on Fallout 4. Horizon completely changes the difficulty and makes survival…actually hard.
The other is Frost. Which removes the whole story and puts you right after the bombs fall and is more a horror, survival that is insanely hard.
I’m a lackadaisical player with no mods.
I did, however, break 1 million caps this week. No exploits or cheats.
I remember pre-mod games…
Now I have to go and shoot Preston.
Excellent. I enjoy the vanilla game, but I am a mod whore.
I might pay to watch Lemon and Potatohead go at it in a cage match.
“Here is your fightin’ purse. Would you prefer a horseshoe, or ten dollars’ worth of nickels?”
So, sorta in reply to LJW’s like about Trump/Republican authoritarianism… The Dem’s dance of death. Which to be honest, I don’t mind the self-destruction, but in reality, the Republicans just aren’t a very interesting alternative, even if they aren’t pushing authoritarianism.
like? LIKE? fuck me – link.
“White people are evil, racist, sexist, fascist nazi’s” isn’t a winning message? 0_o
As President Biden’s approval ratings have tanked with nonwhite voters
It is because he isn’t repeating the message enough!
Encourage and promote R interesting-ness wherever you see it?
What’s Covington like, esp. lately?
What, you mean turning over the party to shrill, single females with woke axes to grind was a bad idea?
“Recent polling suggests that Hispanic and Black Americans are more likely to vote as individuals than as aggrieved racial blocs.”
The horror!!
Masks have returned to fashion in the office. I will continue to not participate in the face yamaka display.
Any double maskers?
No. But a mix between cloth (recently admitted by the CDC wench to be useless) and basic, throw-away medical masks.
I have noticed a marked uptick in mask wearing where I live, too. It’s disheartening.
But Omicron cares not for your facial fashions!
Oh go fuck yourself. There is no such thing, you moran.
And don’t tell me “Japan”. It’s stupid and pointless when they do it, too.
Went to a long-term care facility to visit someone last night (as mentioned above). The sign said something to the effect of, “If you are wearing your own mask, we will ask you to put one of our masks over it.” (I took “your own mask” to be a cloth mask.) THEIR masks were just those cheap stupid blue ones anyway.
Recent polling suggests that Hispanic and Black Americans are more likely to vote as individuals than as aggrieved racial blocs.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
The Dems are going to be in dire trouble without the aggrieved racial blocks they’ve cooked up over the past few decades.
“Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations. There’s no place for them in light of omicron,” said Dr. Leana Wen
This should be thrown in that cunt’s face every time she emerges from her burrow.
“You have been zealously advocating something you have known was useless from the beginning. Why haven’t you resigned in disgrace?”
I am still holding onto it is part of the narrative shift and N95s will be the new standard to allow entry into places of business or when you visit your family.
That is exactly what it is and she states it in the article.
Heh.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1476439722046238725/photo/1
I would work for this dude if I were smart enough.
It ain’t the smarts with Musk. It’s the hours and the grind.
If I were single and in my twenties I would jump at the chance. I know I couldn’t pull it off with a wife and kids now.
The Dems are going to be in dire trouble without the aggrieved racial blocks they’ve cooked up over the past few decades.
The darkies are replaceable. The Gender Dysphoric Vote is where it’s at, now.