Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely fantabulous day it always is!
House votes to raise debt ceiling by 2,500,000,000,000.
Price inflation record broken.
House Votes to Hold Mark Meadows in Contempt of Congress
I have never seen an administration so disconnected from the will of the populace.
Andrew Cuomo ordered to return $5.1M pandemic book profits to state
Sen. Blumenthal Delivers Speech At Communist Party Awards
Dogecoin spikes more than 20% after Elon Musk says Tesla will accept it as payment for merch
That’s all I got for this morning. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“House votes to raise debt ceiling by 2,500,000,000,000.”
At this point, what does it matter?
The Saudis have us by the short and curlies.
Of course, if they broke the petrodollar system, we might nuke them in response.
Wouldn’t nuking an oilfield be really bad for CO2 emissions?
So you’re saying we should nuke a climate conference instead?
They do need to come up with some bright ideas.
I for one do not want to live in a world where atomic radiation has given Greta Thunberg super powers.
Greta: BLAH BLAH BLAH!
And you now have different pronouns..
Her BLAH Breath would be able to disable internal combustion engines.
Her HOW DARE YOU rays would shoot from her fingertips and render politicians and capitalists unconscious.
hrm… nuclear-powered climate activist puppet?
*scribbles down story idea*
It really is weird to me that nobody ever goes anywhere with this stuff. Way back in the ’90s my representative was Cynthia McKinney. Her dad was a powerful legislator in the state. One year channel 2 had her on video with a bus load of people going to multiple polling sites and going inside. The same people.
The last polling site was in my area. They pulled up just after the polls closed, went inside and locked the Republican poll observer in the closet.
And nothing else happened.
It got referred to some bipartisan election committee and that was the end of it.
The only thing that has changed is that they have an iron clad lock on all of the national media, so they don’t even worry about being subtle.
The last polling site was in my area. They pulled up just after the polls closed, went inside and locked the Republican poll observer in the closet.
At a certain point, aren’t the Republicans partly to blame here? They literally let their opponents essentially assault their observers and let it slide with a BS committee referral. I know this is going to sound terrible, but three of four guys with ball bats would be enough to make sure that sort of thing never happened again.
We should be ok as long as we have Mecha-Robert Smith.
Would Greta Girl be an ally or an enemy of Electro-Elon?
I think enemy. Too much capitalism for Greta.
Hmmm. If you locked Gretta in a room with Barbara Streisand and Bette Midler, who would walk out alive.
My money’s on Babs. Yes, Gretta is healthier and has the unshakable ego of youth and autism, but the two old ladies have been catfighting for decades before she was born. And Bette has too much of a disadvantage of advanced senility.
It would be close, but I would think it would be Streisand by a nose.
Bette by a whisker
If I were president, would it be wrong to order the USN to splash all private jets flying to a CC conference?
Not at all. Nuclear power would be considered green again, and what is more powerful then a nuclear weapon?
Black hole?
Dude! Kamala Harris has hardly any power. Even for a VP she is weak.
+100
Supernovae explosion?
Airburst or ground burst?
Or post-impact detonation?
I thought the UK and China now owned more of our debt than the Saudis. And the important thing to remember is that we went from proving Obama a liar when he told Americans we couldn’t drill our way out of high energy prices by becoming energy independent under Trump, to being where we are today – in less than a year – because these corrupt fucks that constantly tell us how evil the energy industry is and how we need to save Gaia with green energy, made their first priority when they stole back power the killing of that energy independence, making us again dependent on the world’s worst actors for oil & gas (making the energy industry again rich and their globalist buddies scared that an energy independent USA would have less trouble disentangling from this evil shit when the people found out their leaders were fucking them over), coupled with the stealing of trillions of tax payer dollars from the productive class to peddle to their friends and fellow traveler crime syndicalists.
These fuckers drove the Titanic into the iceberg – on purpose – then decided not only to not fix it, but to tell the rest of the passengers & crew to enjoy the game of musical chairs while they looted the valuables, loaded them in the life rafts, and are planning to be the only ones sailing off with the loot just before the fools playing musical chairs realize they are doomed as the ship slips under the waves.
Fuck them all.
The lynchpin in the US financial system is the petrodollar recycling arrangement of 1979 and the original petrodollar arrangement from 1945.
If that system fails, the US dollar will very quickly lose its status as the global reserve currency and we will see massive inflation that makes today’s look like a cakewalk.
You managed to miss Nixon’s ’73 deal on both sides, not sure how.
Fair observation.
The petrodollar system is also why I take issue with Sheldon Richman. He focuses almost exclusively on Israel to the point of frothing at the mouth. But it’s our arrangement with the Saudis and OPEC that is really driving the foreign policy train and for a very good reason, we put our currency on their hands decades ago.
The “Protect Israel Policy” is just a sop to our domestic politics and a way of selling our foreign policy that doesn’t draw in our slavish adherence to the Saudis. The Israelis know this and use it well.
But the blame lies with our leaders for selling us out a long time ago.
I dont know exactly how much the Second coming of Christ believers factor into all this but why would America want to protect Israel so badly?
Israel can clearly protect itself with conventional forces and nuclear weapons.
IIRC, when Israel gets turned to dust something something all true believers get some reward. Fuck all the humans that must suffer for this to happen.
Commies scare me. Evangelicals scare me because they dont really care what happens to humans to get some biblical fantasy.
The Israelis played our domestic and foreign politics perfectly. I’ll give them credit for that.
Note that until the early 90’s, it was Israel against their immediate neighbors and they were at peace with Iran. They flipped that arrangement and sold it to the US. It made sense. We were allied with the Saudis, Israel would piggyback on that deal which wasn’t going to go away and turn our ire towards Iran which pleased the Saudis.
The GOP sold the arrangement to the evangelicals and shored up support using biblical language and the assistance of Ralph Reed et al.
But the reality is that this has never really been about Israel. It’s about the Saudis.
It might be all about the Saudis but we dont technically need their oil. Although, a good US strategy would be to use up all the known World’s oil and save our oil reserves for the future. A free market economy wouldn’t work like that but central planning politicians can easily make that happen. Honestly, I dont think politicians are smart enough to pull it off nor on the same page.
The reality is that we have 9/10 evil strategies competing for how to fuck up the World. Maybe 1/10 strategy thats not as bad,
We don’t need their oil anymore.
But we do need them to keep the petrodollar arrangement going. It shores up our currency and prevents us from going into hyperinflation.
The bulk of Saudi oil goes to Europe and Asia. I think less than 5% comes to the US. Our oil comes from producers in our hemisphere (Canada, Mexico, somewhat even Venezuela). The thing is that global prices are determined by global supplies, so even if SA is not shipping product to us, they influence our ppb cost.
Also, the recoverable world wide oil supply today, because of advancement that have increased oil supplies we now can get out over what was believed was recoverable back in the days when they talked about peak oil, have gone up so drastically that we could keep using oil for some two to three hundred years, at a steadily growing rate, without having to worry about it running out. I sure as hell hope that we would – at least for electricity and heat generation – have switched to fusion/fission reactors by then. So the US waiting to use their oil last, kind of is a dumb idea.
Then again, after a civilization destroying new global war, starting from scratch might make having local oil a boon.
Yup, you just can’t turn left or right in a hallway anywhere in FEDGOV without slamming in all those dastardly evangelicals!
You might just want to use the troll term from TOS…”Christfags”.
This is not a direct criticism of evangelicals. I’m just observing that Israel worked that angle hard in the 90’s and the GOP/Ralph Reed gang played into it. Certainly you can see the difference between the larger evangelical movement and the crony political side of it.
They worked our domestic and foreign politics like pros in order to secure their position knowing that we wouldn’t abandon the House of Saud for aforementioned reasons. It took them decades but they’ve aligned their foreign policy with our military and financial interests in the region in order to secure their own future. Props to them for pulling it off.
I was addressing 1789, not you.
Ah, I misunderstood (obviously). Apologies
“I dont know exactly how much the Second coming of Christ believers factor into all this…”
“Evangelicals scare me because they dont really care what happens to humans to get some biblical fantasy.”
Should have just stuck with the first point and quit while you were only slightly behind.
Strategic reserves are not a stupid idea. If you think it is, then you dont know history very well on what you need to fight a war.
In peacetime, America saving all its oil and paying more for imported oil doesnt make sense. The realities is that was is likely coming someday and all our current planes, ships, tanks, and trucks need oil.
While I am against America getting into every conflict, America preparing for war is smart. America’s history is full of adversaries each century wanting to wipe us out.
Sorry Swiss but you are forgetting Bush and his crew had a bunch of evangelicals. Quite a few Congressmen are evangelicals. I live in the Bible belt and we have all sorts of government facilities in these parts. Some govt people go to church. Maybe they dont talk about it with YOU, but they go.
Talk to some evangelicals sometime. Listen to what they say. Many are more concerned with Heaven than what happens on Earth.
Btw, the FeDGOV is full of commies too. Has been for over 100 years. Sorry you dont see it. All I would point is a commie like Brennan. Brennan is not some oddity.
You dont think the Dollar’s demise is intentional?
Hmmm… which countries think that they would benefit from this? Communist China, Communists Euro, Russia, etc.
The US Dollar was stable for various reasons and led to massive wealth creation around the World. The tyrants think they can recreate the same thing and history shows that they cant. I would never buy Commie China Yuan nor open a business in China. Millions of people want to buy dollars and open businesses in America. That difference is important.
The dollar’s demise is the logical result of decisions that were made decades ago.
Is our current crop of leaders making it worse? Absolutely.
But once we went off the gold standard, it was inevitable. The temptation was just too much for any government to not take advantage of, particularly one that perceives itself as invincible and the leader of the world.
You can have fiat money and be fine financially. Theoretically.
As you said, the temptation was too much for corrupt politicians. Massive debt begs for default. Leaving a tangible and finite asset like gold and silver allows for government to print as much funny money as they want.
Now I suppose I can’t have my 2.5T allowance. I was promised that when I signed the social contract, in absentia.
Politicians are liars? No way, man.
Short-term, the demise of the dollar as the reserve currency would be catastrophic. There is no remotely viable candidate to replace it in view. When the pound shuffled off the stage as the reserve currency, the dollar was waiting right there in fine shape to take over – hell, it was a better reserve currency, in all likelihood. For a very long time, the true reserve currency was gold (there’s a reason every central bank maintains a gold stockpile to this day), but the disconnection of every currency from the gold standard makes gold very difficult to implement as the basis for a reserve currency.
Long-term, I’m sure there are plenty of very wealth and powerful people who believe they will benefit bigly by cobbling together a new reserve currency and international banking system.
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty son you’re talking about.. you know the thing.
The thing = the grift? Amirite?
Son, son, I say now, don’t go getting greedy. He was talking a trillion, we’re plenty happy just siphoning off in the millions.
Hyperinflation would like to have a word with you.
German hyperinflation after WWI
“I have never seen an administration so disconnected from the will of the populace.”
Your mistake is thinking that these people care about what the people want instead of understanding that it is all about their own greed and evil shit and that they only preen and play the people when they need something from them.
Every soundbite wrt Meadows is “We have no choice but to…” Nice for them to admit that they’re puppets.
Blumenthal is the perfect example of a communist party apparatchik. He’s a known liar and total fraud.
It’s disgusting how the rethugkiKKKans keep pretending dems are coms.
NPR had the commie nominee on this morning. Those racist Republicans hate her because she’s Asian, and she wasn’t prepared to deal with questions so stupid!
Plus he looks like the Crypt Keeper. Yikes!
Lenin’s embalmed corpse looks better than that guy.
Senator Karen – damn Elon, just damn!
What percentage of you blood must be Karenish for you to be a Karen? I believe Fauxahantes had less than 0.5% native blood, but I am certain she has 99.95% Karen blood.
And, of course, Senator Karen cashed in a bunch of solar tax credits herself.
100 years from now one of her decedents will be getting pilloried for claiming that she has Karen blood.
“Everyone just told me we did. They said look at Granny’s high haircut. You can tell she had some Karen in her.”
“Sen. Blumenthal Delivers Speech At Communist Party Awards”
I will never regret telling this asshole to “Fuck off” (for not just lying about his service in Vietnam, but the fact he was a blatant evil profiteering asshole) when he was doing the rounds at my gym in Hartford when he was running for office years ago. I did it in front of people. And loud. And he was furious and left. Some people were pissed but a lot of people laughed their asses off that he was called out. Unfortunately, CT is one of these states with serious fortification, so he will keep winning.
How dare you question his service. He had to run from the plane to vehicles when he went to Ferguson, MO due to sniper fire from the Viet Cong.
I hear Brian Williams is looking for a new gig. Does Blumenthal have a Press Secretary?
Perfect
That’s what is so skewed about “seniority” in the Houses of Congress. Normally Americans wouldnt give two shits about Connecticut but Blumenthal gets some perks for returning some scraps back to CT.
It’s grim nilestones, all the way down
The reason: the emergence of the more contagious Delta variant, and the refusal of many Americans to get inoculated against COVID-19.
Whatever. We just need more witch doctoring.
nilestones
Egyptian rocks are known to cure many ailments.
It’s the old magic.
Dude. Not another person trying to tell us that Egyptian rocks have super powers and we should buy some. NOW! Before everyone else does.
How many times do we have to hear about this pyramid scheme?
It’s just a bunch of scarab tactics.
Scaredy cats crying for their mummy
I can’t believe de’Nile on this thread.
To be pharaoh, I didn’t mean anything I said. I was just trying to get Swissy’s blood pumping this morning.
Nice to have your goals Set and all.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
I didn’t think you would have the Cheops for that.
I was thinking you were too much of a Giza.
My wife went on a business trip last week with 7 other colleagues, all vaccinated.
6 of them came back with Covid.
Some fucking vacccine.
Super Spreaders are hawt.
Talking to a guy I know at the gym last night – hadn’t seen him in a while. He got the shots and had neurological side-effects so bad he couldn’t walk for a couple weeks. The hospital wouldn’t admit why, just put him on a steroid.
He’s slowly recovering and trying to build his strength and energy back up. The topic of boosters came up and he promised lethal violence to anyone forcing it on him or his family.
Last night, I did a medical report on a 40yo guy who came in with vid pneumonia. The dude had just gotten his vaccination. No timelines were established or correlations made.
Local papers are huffing about us approaching the “grim milestone” of 10K deaths here in Minnesoda.
My comment pointing out that King Walz’s models said that without a lockdown we’d have 70K deaths and with a lockdown we could cut it to 50K, was not approved by the moderators.
Yabbut, that’s 0.18 of a %. 10K is yuuuuge.
That is not an approved thought, Komrade Pope! You should know better!!
Everyone who contracted and survived it is inoculated, about as much as one can be against any other respiratory illness. Now fuck off with your clot shots.
If I recall, he required state employees to work on the book rather than just having a normal ghostwriter on the outside do it.
If we’re working on that shit on the clock, it’s work product and the state owns it.
If the deal between him and the publisher is (retroactively) invalid, the publisher had no agreement to pay Cuomo. Therefore any monies not returned to them are stolen.
Like other forms of theft, they’ll have to go to court.
If the state owns it… there’s a good chance that there’s no copyright on it either.
But who’d want to copy it?
I mean, it’s just a vehicle for bribes.
Stolen dollars are so delicious.
Now that’s incorrect.
It’s supposed to go into the general fund to get slushed away with all the rest of the waste.
General fund, election warchest… same difference.
the GOP are against everything
Video of Republican strategy session:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xHash5takWU
“Don’t spend it all at once … oh wait you did already,” Musk added in another tweet.
*outright prolonged laughter*
I’d laugh, but it’s too true to be funny.
“To the president, January 6 was one of the darkest days in our democracy; it was a day when our nation’s Capitol was under attack,” Psaki said.
Will he lay a wreath on Brian Sicknick’s grave? Unveil a commemorative obelisk on the Mall?
Perhaps a sculpture on the lawn – though khakis and sunglasses might be difficult to render in bronze.
Getting the specific glow may require the US stockpile of radium.
Home prices at 45-year high – here as well house prices are rising and I don;t understand why tbh. Why is everyone rushing to buy a house? If it was like detached houses outside the city I would get with work from home, but in city apartments as well
thing is Romania had an insane bubble in 2008 and it seems people did not learn much from it
The bulk of the rise in property value is likely because of fears of inflation and the damage that causes to people’s savings. Property values – because they are tangible resources – go up when people lose faith in intangible monetary agents. I think our stock market right now is also artificially high because people know keeping money in a bank or under your mattress means you are losing your value.
well if property is already overvalued it will not be a good store of value anyway if there is a crisis, and there will have to be one
I hear the Pimp’n Union says invest in young hoes…
Do you really expect the same people that use credit card revolving debt as a shell game to understand why buying property at high prices is stupid?
I am personally waiting for the bottom to fall out, so I can buy property super cheap and give that to family.
As a kulak and hoarder I will soon have a second house to my name. Doing my part!
Money is basically free right now. The craziest offer we got on our house was a couple with basically no money to their name but an FHA loan for $650,000. This bubble is going to pop soon.
If you “own” a home and the shit hits the fan, at least you have land. Mind you that most people have mortgages so they are hedging bets that in the End Times, their mortgage disappears along with banks.
Wait until (1) the economy shits itself good and proper (2) hyperinflation kicks in (3) homeowners still have to pay outrageous property taxes or get foreclosed on (4) millions of Americans lose their jobs. Its like a perfect storm that Democrats are hoping for. Real sick fucks trying to purposely make this happen.
How many jobs has Senator Karen created? How many tables has she put food on?
How many houses does she have?
She has the help for that.
Except when she needs to grab herself a beer.
none but she acquired many shiny beads?
Also without rethugligan obstruction she would create countless good government job with money taken from parasitic private business
Apparently $15 billion is not enough for Senator Liawatha.
Fortification???
You know, that would be a lot more convincing/useful if it included the names of other attendees. And it wasn’t anonymous. Anonymous complaints are much more difficult to investigate, and not wanting to be part of the investigation makes you a weak-ass whistleblower.
I agree about the anonymous source, but again, you know that anonymous sources on the left get given the highest credibility by the DOJ, but the standard is not kept for people that say things that hurt the totalitarian machine…
They have an IP address for the email – it ain’t anonymous. They undoubtedly know who it is by now.
This looks like they were hungry and looking for sammiches..
At least Jussie knew to say he was going out for eggs, couldn’t find that, and thus went for Subway instead of looting a phone store for sammiches…
There was an interview with the DC AG. He’s suing the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. “When you strike at the heart of democracy, no punishment is too great.” He also implied that they were responsible for planting bombs and flat out stated they were responsible for the suicides.
What bombs?
They havent told you about the bombs? The government will pass along the details to CNN soon.
The panel found Cuomo’s book proceeds should be turned over to state Attorney General Letitia James …
James would determine to whom the profits would be distributed.
“From each, according to his ability, to each, according to his needs,” is my guess.
Government parasites (redundant, I know) have lots of needs.
to each, according to
hisMY needs,FTFY
To each according to his CONNECTIONS.\FIFY
Various left wing “charities” will get it.
I thought the UK and China now owned more of our debt than the Saudis.
Pay no attention to that central bank behind the curtain.
Dreher on the woke-ifying the military. Read down to the updates, particularly the second one (from an e-mail). I agree, it isn’t that the FOGO’s actually believe any of this stuff – it’s that they will say anything to get promoted and then to leverage those stars into post-military gigs on the industrial side of the MIC.
The Women, Peace and Security Act of 2017. Remind me again, who was in control of BOTH HOUSES of Congress and the White House in the fall of 2017?
USPS built and secretly tested a mobile voting system before 2020
WTF? Someone needs to go over and beat the shit out of the post office to keep them in their lane. Just because you handle absentee ballots doesn’t add elections to your mission. Whoever authorized this and your social media intelligence program needs to be fired.
Zuckerbucks?
And since they are no longer an actual government agency it’s going to be even tougher to do that. They are the worst of both worlds — an unaccountable, wholly government-owned, corporation that retains federal police powers (postal inspectors) and all sorts of immunities.
Man… hard to figure out why USPS keeps losing money, isn’t it?
Speaking of staying in a lane…I was just laughing because we just got a State Farm offer for a credit card.
State Farm insurance is in the credit card game.
There are employees that are suggesting these stupid ideas and higher ups dont shoot these retarded ideas down anymore.
Considering credit card companies now usually can charge 20+% interests without anyone batting an eye, and inflation likely pushing that to the high 30s, not being in the money lending racket, with insane interest rates soon to come for sure, kind of could be seen as missing the boat….
One of the biggest earners for insurance companies isn’t from premiums, but from investing their surplus cash reserves. I can see them thinking credit cards, especially with insane high rates, might be worth the risk…
Especially with joe taxpayer bailing out any mistake with moral hazard.
All they are doing is renting their policyholder names to a 3rd party – i.e. BoA and getting a cut.
No different than your school’s Alumni Card.
State Farm, my insurance carrier, is also a bank. As are most old-school insurance companies. I think it started with needing to get past regulations regarding money and dispersal, but in any case, there it is.
Airburst or ground burst?
Or post-impact detonation?
Bunker busters.
+ 1 AFFF PFOS/PFOA remediation.
Yeah, I had a girlfriend too massive for my twin bed frame back in high school too.
Everyone should have sex on a waterbed or do some chubby so they have the experience.
My phone is bugging me because of “expected snowfall” which I expect to be bullshit we have not had any real snowfall in Bucharest in 5 years and I don;t expect we will anytime soon. The les neiges d’antan (snows of yesteryear) are gone (insane snow in 2012 for example) and will not come back
My phone asked me if I want to join the Virginia Department of Health’s COVID tracing.
Was there an option to tell them to suck your dick?
You have to opt-out, but the way the question is phrased is tricksy. I’m hoping that Gov Youngkin will hit the kill switch on that BS on day one.
You know you selected the correct answer if you get a prompt asking if you are sure you don’t want to do the right thing and protect your community from the deadliest threat next to Trump.
Same confusing opt out here in NJ. Also “reactivated” last night.
I’m guessing for those of us with Android phones.
Mine does as well and I just close the notification.
VDH still has those stupid signs up at a local gas station:
YOUR FACE NEEDS A HUG
Fuck off
Free Face Hugs
I don’t want to be sexist and whatnot but dam,n women driving big SUVs have a lot of trouble on the narrow streets of Bucharest (men do too but quite more rarely)
“Home prices at 45-year high”
“Price inflation record broken”
Getting screwed from all angles. Inflation on top of property taxes that are based on an annual home appraisal.
In a news story that I hope was shared last night, Sierra Nevada has now released a rye whiskey based on their Ruthless Rye.
In good gender equality news in the alcohol world, brewing beer is no longer just for monks as nuns have gotten into the fun.
They might even make a habit of it.
As long as it is a superior brew, even mother won’t care.
I don’t think that anyone will care even a whipple bit.
Serious question
Were any distilleries or breweries destroyed in the Revenge of the Climate Changers?
/Asking for any concerned Glib
The les neiges d’antan (snows of yesteryear) are gone (insane snow in 2012 for example) and will not come back
And yet the whining about global warming continues unabated.
Just wait ’til 3/4 of Bucharest is levelled by tornadoes. That’s the new thing to be scairt of.
we don’t get tornadoes in civilized countries
You call them cyclones?
Also some fucker somewhere is hogging all the snow. Then again I don’t miss shoveling and the fact that it turns to filthy slush after looking nice for a couple of days
The Daily Mail article about the DNC holiday party was a master class in “framing the debate”.
They say that the fight is not about your right to vote, but about who counts the votes. This is an explicit admission that they have every intention of comitting election fraud.
Then they frame the legislation as “fortifying elections” and calling it a voting rights law.
And the press reports it straight…. Just the DNC narrative. Well done.
They have a Maoist and Stalinist ability to tell you down is up with a straight face and have everyone repeat “down is up” in unison.
This is an explicit admission that they have every intention of comitting election fraud.
“C’mon, man! We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
Local news story that is a great example of the state of journalism.
Simple story about some 24 yr-old assistant manager at a local McD’s for
bangingsexually assaulting a 14 yr-old worker. My grief with the story? Which of the 3 or 4 McD’s was it? Would it be so hard to add an address to the story? Because some of us happen to live very close to a McD’s. We might wonder if there were some skanky 14 year olds within walking distance.* I’d also like to bring back the term “inappropriate relationship”. Reading the story, I think “sexual assault” really means that two dumb asses were bumping uglies, not that this guy was holding a knife to her throat while screwing her in the walk in cooler. I’m not saying that guy was right, but there is a lot of distance between those two situations.
Was this a 16 or 17 year old assistant manager or one of those 55 year old ones? It kind of colors the story, ya know?
It was the second sentence in the comment, man.
inoamirite!?
Alex not only doesn’t read the articles in the Lynx, but he ignores smart commenters like us. Although, I can understand that Alex got a little distracted when he started thinking about 14 yr-olds in paper hats covered in spattered oil from the fryolator.
Your mistake is me believing the information in these stories cause I am well aware how good these reporters are with facts and such…
These are actually strange cases. We lump in some guy who prays on 8-year-old girls with a guy In his early twenties hooking up with a co-worker who is in high school.
I work with kids in middle school and high school a lot. Some of them are little kids. And some of them could pass for 25-year-old nightclub party girls.
Either way, he is taking advantage of somebody who is not old enough to engage with an adult in that sort of activity, but in terms of deviancy, it is a vast gulf. A guy banging a 9-year-old kid is a pedophile, but hooking up with a fully sexually mature co-worker who is too young to be emotionally ready for that kind of relationship is in a completely different category.
That’s the sort of conversation that nobody is ready to have. But it’s a massive difference. I suppose the reason we have these laws is to prevent fathers from shooting people. But the child rapist pedophile is someone I want on that sex offender registry, and the 24 year old manager hooking up with a 14 year old girl? Do I still need to worry about him when he is 35 and married? Maybe? Maybe not?
Lower chance of needing to worry if the person he married was also the “victim” in the first case.
Children’s minister?
Voice to text is not always your friend.
That new York ethics commission is beyond a joke.
Whether Cuomo is a paragon of virtue or a slime all, he should tell them to slob his knob either way.
New York politics is the most overtly corrupt thing I’ve ever seen. They are straight-up organized crime.
Wherever the democrats are in charge it is like the place is run by a crime syndicate. Unfortunately too many places where republicans are in charge look like that Charlie Chaplin flik linked above.
In fairness, do you know how hard it is to inude the words “ethics” and “New York State” in the same sentence without laughing?
Easy:
“There is a serious deficiency in ethics in New York State.”
They have a Maoist and Stalinist ability to tell you down is up with a straight face and have everyone repeat “down is up” in unison.
The Art and Science of Gaslighting.
“We’re not lying. You just have an incomplete and distorted understanding of reality.”
“Lacks Context”
That seems to be the standard fact checker speak for those pesky stories where every fact is 100% accurate and makes The State look bad.
That is when they start redefining every word in the English language to “prove” that you have a raging case of Lyin’ Eyes.
That has been an hilarious development in the world of fact checking. That is their way of signaling that it is 100% true and they just don’t like the conclusion.
If there is anything more dishonest then the fact check organization in modern society, I don’t know what it is.
Gf said she signed up for her “booster”. I have tried to explain that she does not need to take an experimental, non-vaccine injection that is ostensibly for an illness with a 99.999% recovery rate for a person in her demographic. She won’t listen. Too much of a slave to CNN/Salon/etc. Anyone got any suggestions?
I will fucking hate it but will probably have to get the fucker
I will need to weigh the heart issue thing versus being able to go to bars and restaurants
Look at mister social life here.
I mostly go alone so no social life and spend too much money doing it but it is a change of scenery from my apartment
Ah. Don’t worry, you’ll grow out of that soon.
My city’s banning me from bars and restaurants means nothing to me.
Actually they weigh the heart against a feather to see if Ammit will eat it or your soul will be permitted to continue on to the afterlife.
Is it a very heavy feather?
Also I don’t know if that was an American Gods reference but I took it as such
Not even close.
I know Egyption mythology, never read American Gods.
“Back in my day, we had it all set up. You lined up when you died, and you’d answer for your evil deeds and your good deeds, and if your evil deeds outweighed a feather, we’d feed your soul and your heart to Ammit, the Eater of Souls”
“He must have eaten a lot of people.”
“Not as many as you’d think. It was a really heavy feather. We had it made special. You had better be pretty damn evil to tip the scales on that baby…”
Take out life insurance on her.
This. The number of sick vaccinated people at work us starting to get alarming.
New girlfriend? (Although the booster may decide that for you).
Otherwise, nope. On a serious note, you can only love her and hope she eventually sees the light.
Just let her do it., Draw the line in the sand when she tries to tell you you need it too. I told my girlfriend I took the first 2 jabs under the now confirmed false promise of it freeing me from all the stupid government Kabuki shit. Since the shit doesn’t go away cause the jab doesn’t do what it advertises, my new perspective on risk vs. reward leaves me feeling that doing the same shit that didn’t work the first time again, and pretending it will, is a thing for insane people. She didn’t like that last part of my explanation, but it is the truth.
Yeah, the vaccine is not a big deal. It is the mandates that are a big deal. As always, the state and big brother are the enemy. They can’t even try to be your friend without screwing it up.
You probably don’t want to catch covid-19. Even this new strain probably is not a lot of fun. Just because you don’t have to worry about dying too much doesn’t mean that it’s a pleasant experience. And there’s some kind of weird neuropathy. I would say it’s probably best if you don’t get involved with this virus.
I had the Kung Flu in February 2019. I found out that it was the Kung Flu when the Red Cross called me a month later to remind me to donate again. I pointed out I had to wait another month to donate, because you have to wait 8 weeks between donations (I have donated regularly for decades) and they told me to do it as soon as possible because I had antibodies. When I asked what antibodies they told me for the Kung Flu. The only symptoms I had was a annoying cough that didn’t go away for a week and bugged the shit out of me. No fever. No aches. Nothing else. My son also had it and he spent a few days in bed (he is never sick, so it was something that stood out).
I must be one of the lucky ones that didn’t get hammered by this thing as it made its way through the masses. I am now kind of looking to catch the Omicron variant as soon as I can, but since each of use will have their own experience, it is ion you to know and understand your risk.
This is why being your libertarian is important. And carrying the libertarian message beyond our in-group is important .
The thing that I cannot fathom is why The message that coercion is wrong is so hard for people to grasp.
And if you can’t convince someone that coercing people into doing things is bad, how do you get to the next level? I try to convince people with the argument that I’m not smart enough to tell other people how to live their lives, and by corollary they are not smart enough to tell me how to live my life. People seem to grasp that, but it doesn’t really seem to move them. We must be wired different, because for me that is the salient argument about government. That idiot over there is not smart enough to tell me how to live my life, and I sure as hell don’t know enough about him to tell him how to live his life. That should pretty much be the end of it in my book.
Why won’t you comply and just follow the mandate for the greater good?
Why don’t you let the police stop and search you for the greater good?
Why don’t you waive all your rights for the greater good?
“The thing that I cannot fathom is why The message that coercion is wrong is so hard for people to grasp.”
Methinks the problem is that you seem to miss the fact that we are in the vast minority thinking this shit is a bad way to be. Most people will tell you that they against it, but until push comes to shove, and especially when they benefit from it, will accept it and be happy as hell…
Exactly.
90% of everyone: “coercing me is bad. Coercing other people is fine, as long as I agree with the objective”.
Probably understated at 90%
90% of everyone: “coercing me is bad. Coercing other people is fine, as long as I agree with the objective”.
Indeed. See the discussion below about courts ordering providers to treat people against the provider’s will.
You aren’t the only one. The lingering chest cold went around the office in early 2020. Persistent chest congestion was the only symptom.
Logical it makes sense why only one person in my whole extended family has contracted it. That one person had stage 4 cancer he hid from us and was laid up in the oh so efficient VA hospital, where he contracted it.
Then we get told it is imperative we must get a shot that might protect you? Pshaw
Could you pay some “deep fake” hacker to create a clip of Don Lemon and other CNN anchors citing a story about the health benefits for women in performing oral sex on their husbands/boy friends? (Don’t pay for the Brian Stelter deep fake, he’s such a buzz killer that it doesn’t matter what he says).
Then disconnect the actual cable and play your deep fake CNN “health study” on a loop.
The trick is to use the blind obedience for your own selfish reasons, not to break her of the obedience.
There was a meme going around in the early Wuhan killer days of a lady on all fours getting worked by an enthusiastic gent asking him if he was sure that was the vaccine for the Kung Flu.
Bring that back!
Please do this. And deep fake the cackling hags on the view talking about the health benefits of giving daily hummers to your husband.
The View deep fakes would all be of them warning women that while daily hummers are super healthy, all those benefits can be lost if they demand reciprocation.
Asking your hubby to eat at the Y is just like putting lots of sugar on a bowl of healthy cereal.
Eschew breeding with that one?
Stay away from her for a month afterwards?
She will be shedding spike proteins.
Take out life insurance on her.
Heh…
New girlfriend?
Hopefully what certain parties say about the shots is not true. I guess we shall see.
Draw the line in the sand when she tries to tell you you need it too.
She has not tried to make me. I have not taken any and will not take any under any circumstance.
Stay away from her for a month afterwards?
She will be shedding spike proteins.
It will be difficult to get her to sleep on the couch.
“Anyone got any suggestions?”
Stop sticking it in crazy.
Have a discussion about why they are demanding boosters when they were saying months ago how great the 1-2 part “vaccine” was.
Name another tried and true vaccine where your antibodies fade in 2 months? Not even the Influenza vaccine is that bad. That is not how it is for al the tried and true vaccines like polio, MMR, rabies, tetanus….
Michael B. Jordan says Killmonger wasn’t a villain
‘He cared about his people just as much as T’Challa. He just had a different way of going about getting it done’
https://twitter.com/getFANDOM/status/1470813031869280264
you know who else had a different way of going about getting it done?
Yes, yes… the character calling for violent overthrow of governments in order to establish a hereditary tribal system based on skin color isn’t the bad guy.
Albert Einstein?
As debt nears $29 trillion, Congress passes bill to raise debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion
That’ll get us through a half year or so. And I’m sure inflation will continue to be a non-issue.
* I’d also like to bring back the term “inappropriate relationship”. Reading the story, I think “sexual assault” really means that two dumb asses were bumping uglies, not that this guy was holding a knife to her throat while screwing her in the walk in cooler. I’m not saying that guy was right, but there is a lot of distance between those two situations.
This. Also, no hanky panky on company time.
@Tres Cool: “From this morning- fuck you Evan.
I just poured my 2nd Cosby Colada (50/50 NyQuil and bottom shelf vodka) and I started watching “Sneakers”.”
I hope you had a fantastic time! It’s…breathtakingly good.
AND! Please be the drummer for Green Day. That would be special. Their first 4-5 albums were fantastic and so was he. A big inspiration for my older brother, who was my first drumming teacher. Does no one else get this name reference? If you are him…which I doubt you are, and I strongly doubt you know his stage name regardless if you’re not…that would be special.
Green Day is a wanna be Pussy psuedo punk band, nothing but Commies all the way to the Bank.
They are now. They used to be great. Kerplunk, (especially) Dookie, Insomniac and Nimrod are great albums. I even appreciate the musicality of American Idiot, even though I don’t like the message behind it. It’s a well-done album. The others are the ones I’m specifically fond of. Dookie and Insomniac especially.
Hitchin’ a Ride. Nimrod. From ’97. This songs lives on in my head all the time. It’s perfect for what it’s trying to be. Nails it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sc81yxo600&ab_channel=GreenDay
I think his real name is Frank Wright or something.
Never was a fan. I just took literary license with the name.
What is this “Sneakers” you speak of, movie or TV series? What streaming service would it be available on?
I’m guessing the Robert Redford movie.
MARTA | Vacation in Europe | FilmMob Tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Se9srG_e4
thicc?
That’s not thick. That’s plowable.
I don’t know, i think she has scalp issues
That broad’s anorexc. Id have to take her to wendy’s and pizza hut on a couple dates.
Europe? Last I heard, getting MARTA up past Lennox or Gwinnett County was a pain…. sheesh, the taxes they must have roped people into inside the Perimeter these days…
Wholesale prices measure rose 9.6% in November from a year ago, the fastest pace on record
This is fine.
Romania is like 8.7 I am honestly surprised US is more
Odds Fredo’s brother says he spent all the money?
What money?
A.C. said you had some dough for me.
Pasta, bread, or pizza?
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJGZp54h1uI
Corben Dallas: “Anyone else want to negotiate?”
Thank you for that!
Following the January 6 committee’s recommendation, the House voted in favor of a resolution to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress on Tuesday.
Judging by congressional approval I’d say most people hold congress in contempt.
I’m not sure how Congress has subpoena powers over ordinary citizens. They have no oversight role over such people. They’re oversight is over executive functioning and appointees that require congressional approval. They don’t get random superpowers that supersede all other aspects of the law and the constitution. They just get to hold hearings as a part of their legislative function.
The courts would do well to remind them of this.
The thing about having a dementia patient President is that he sometimes blurs out the truth.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TrumpJew2/status/1470915056783216646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweet
They clearly rigged the last Presidential election, at least one Senate election (Michigan), and last month’s NJ Governor election. And nothing else happened. Why wouldn’t they rig enough House and Senate seats next year to stay in power?
We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.
Okay, this is not fake? DDG is not giving me any hits; only last year’s reference to “the largest voter fraud organization”.
You know why the GOP sucks? Because they are so gutless that they allow the Dems to offer a bill against Islamophobia without taking a page from Omar and start adding amendments to the bill for all the other phobias. Until the bill is so worthless that they don’t even bother voting on it. The old All About The Benjamins defense.
The GOP is largely worthless controlled opposition. Once that’s accepted it all makes sense.
Yes. It took me a long time to accept it. Their only job is to attack anyone to their right.
I wish it was as simple as the GOP being gutless, your holiness. Unfortunately from my experience viewing them in action, the problem is that they too are statist fucks. But unlike team blue, which has strapped a fucking nuclear powered rocket on the roof of their 1970s station wagon and want to go over the cliff in record time, everything else be damned, team red is driving their station wagon at the speed limit. Just over the same cliff, anyway.
To be fair, some Republicans dont know how or dont want to play the Democrat game of making government utterly disgusting and corrupt wasting taxpayer money.
Can anyone tell me what’s Sad Beard’s position on Covidiology?
Haven’t heard anything from him. Must be awkward wearing a mask over a beard.
I occasionally see his tweets on people’s blogs. He believes in SCIENCE!
In local news, someone does have a bridge to sell you.
In personal news, work has announced that the vaccine mandate is on hold now. Included in the message were statements about the lawsuits, state laws vs. executive orders, and if WFH people should be included.
Congrats — hopefully most of us looking at the looming mandates are in that state now (our HR updated last week to the same holding pattern). I think the military is the only one not under an injunction, unfortunately for our servicemen and women.
FedGov still under the thumb but it appears things are dragging.
The difference between Ass Wednesday and Hump Day is like the difference between fucking and making love.
https://archive.md/xoDtW
“I think there’s no question you’ll see us commemorate that day,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said during the daily briefing.
Everything about this administration is a farce.
“To the president, January 6 was one of the darkest days in our democracy; it was a day when our nation’s Capitol was under attack,” Psaki said.
There have been literal bombs exploded and gunshots in the building. I’m sure we can handle a few grannies taking selfies and FBI agents/informants breaking a few windows.
Pearl Harbor, 9/11, The Civil War… none of ’em ain’t got nothin’ on 1/6.
I expect a week of somber ceremony and “where we’re you on 1/6” stories all culminating to a slow procession from the WH to the Capitol to the exhumed bodies of slain officers.
Literally every woman on earth wants to fuck at least one scary monster/alien/demon. The sooner you make peace with this the better.
https://twitter.com/ObeseChess/status/1470834101372723200
So they all want to fuck Trump-Putin?
Arkansas waitress fired after customers leave generous $4K tip
“But the restaurant’s manager instructed Brandt to pool the tip with her co-workers who didn’t serve the large party, in an arrangement she told Fox 59 was unprecedented in her more than three years working there.”
Sounds like she’s gonna get a wrongful termination lawsuit. Servers need to understand a restaurant cannot dictate what they do with their tips. It’s actually against the law.
Are you sure it is against the law? I believe if there is a valid tip pool agreement then she won’t win anything. Now if there was no pool prior to this generous tip…she will win.
Ah my mistake the labor department made its own law in 2020 allowing restaurant’s the ability to force employees to share their tips with non-tipped employees.
Windfalls in the workplace always bring out the worst in people. White collar and blue collar.
I’ve seen lots and lots of salesmen get stiffed on commissions because the company gets pissed at the size of the check. For example, at one company I worked at there was a bonus that was paid for each new client. One sales person happened to have an in with an old college room mate that led to him signing up 50+ new clients. The CEO said “if we paid him that bonus, he’d make more than me this year. No way that is going to happen”.
So they stiffed him. The sales guy sued and got all the money and the new clients all quit because of the way the company treated the sales guy.
Like I said, money fucks up a lot of people’s thinking.
My dad is a service writer and 2/3 of his pay is commission. Over the past decade or so the company keeps fucking with his pay structure (idk the details) because he “makes too much”. It’s commission…way to not incentivize your employees.
I actually have to hand it to Blumenthal, at least he’s being honest. It’s been obvious for decades that far-left Dems are beholden to the commies, in fact CPUSA hasn’t run candidates for office at all for years, they’ve just endorsed the Dem. People need to understand that the Dems are a communist party now and things like this help.
+1000000000000000000000
Hayek. Welcome to the high desert. It will be 19 F this weekend. Bundle up!
Almost a crisis last night. A certification my techs needed slipped into obscurity apparently under thr previous management. We took equipment out of service and when they went to bring it back online and certify it, no one could. Luckily, us folks out in thr field are no D.C. slackers and we corrected that database entry off hours, at 9 at night.
19 jeez, we only go to 26 this weekend, today it’s going to 60, woohoo! Recordbreaker
Stay warm ya desert rats!
https://twitter.com/aggierican/status/1470744643306500101
Translation fail.
What did that tag even come from?
I want to buy that product as my Christmas gift for the office Secret Santa!
That’s a translation WIN
I agree that it is indeed cool to fuck the empress.
I donno. She looks a little joyless and was known to kill people.
Nah, Katie was all sorts of a good time.
But yeah, that “having people killed thing” you gotta watch out for.
‘As Democrats, we stand for the people,’ his VP Kamala Harris said in her own speech. ‘And we will fight for the people.’
Well, some people I suppose. Like donors, lobbyists…
‘The struggle is no longer just who gets to vote or make it easy for eligible people to vote. It’s about who gets to count the vote – whether your vote counts at all.
Interesting admission.
Biden and Harris tell DNC Holiday party they WILL win next year’s midterms
Aim high. ///DominionVotingSystems
I know I didn’t give the Salvation Army the annual donation of toys I have done for over a decade, so I am not surprised they are taking it up the ass after their woke stunt from all sides…
After the woke have destroyed all private charity, the state will have no choice but to “reluctantly” step in.
The leftist model to ostensibly conservative organizations.
“Infiltrate it, kill it, gut it, wear its carcass like a skinsuit.”
I think it was David Burge who said that.
What a shame, they were one of the better charities.
Speaking of charities; can’t find the links to some local charities for the tornado relief. Anybody got a couple of those handy?
robc posted these guys the other day.
Thanks – Not sure I like that their pull-down for directed giving includes “Women’s Empowerment” and “Convoy: Women”, but maybe there’s valid reasons and I’m being overly sensitive to signs of the woke-decay.
Women’s empowerment is more 3rd world oriented, where it means something real.
Copy. Tax deduction incoming.
Woot!
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/12/pentagon-stops-implementing-vaccine-mandate-for-defense-contractors/
Also some fucker somewhere is hogging all the snow.
You might be able to find some in Truckee, California in a day or two.
Larry Correia
@monsterhunter45
I might not be the best writer, but I’m probably the only one with a line of custom rifles based on his novels, which let’s be honest, is way cooler. 😀 (from JP Enterprises)
https://twitter.com/monsterhunter45/status/1470871514211778567
Those aren’t so custom, they look like standard AR-platform rifles with standard engraved accessories.
Well where are your custom guns?
Sitting on the mill deck. I’m a perfectionist when I can’t replace key elements, so it’s still in progress.
That’s why the $80 lower would have been good for you to use as your test run.
the $80 lower is the only one I’ve got.
Not the one you linked after the ban on sales to NY went into effect.
I’ve figured out that I need a different means of attaching work pieces to the deck.
JP has a good reputation in the PCC market.
They aren’t.
Somebody in the comments mentioned the combat wombat – that’s what I want.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2016/04/05/free-tom-stranger-interdimensional-insurance-agent-audible-exclusive-narrated-by-adam-baldwin/
Speaking of journalos….
Local story about an Insta Cart driver flipping out during a delivery because the people had a pro-police sign in their yard. The driver left a nasty gram on the receipt and then drove over the groceries she was supposed to be delivering.
OUTRAGE
None of the local news outlets mentioned anything about the driver. They just referred to them as the “Insta Cart driver”. The Daily Mail article I linked to is the only story that has anything about her. Looking at the driver’s picture, I’m pretty sure I know why the locals aren’t digging into the story. Anyone else see that pic and not think that is a man?
Fuck, the journalos just skipped completely over the “Who” aspect of the story. The motivation of the driver should be a huge part of the story.
I’m confused by any of the facts. That receipt was for $6 wasn’t it but the driver drove over $50 worth of groceries?
I’m guessing two separate deliveries. One driver left the $50 set, and the cheese delivering crazzy drove over them.
Motivation only matters when the left can promote their agenda. Otherwise it was an act committed by an inanimate object. Like a red SUV or MAGA hat wearing Nigerians appropriating a white man’s job….
I am not making this up (but Fox might be).
Sammy “The Bull” Gravano says that Cuomo makes him embarrassed as an Italian
Blumenthal pitched support for the Build Back Better agenda, as well as several other Democratic initiatives, such as a $15 federal minimum wage and killing the filibuster. “There’s a lot to be working for in economic justice, in racial equity, in establishing a $15 minimum wage,” he said, according to the Yankee Institute. …
“We need to look at our entire tax system, beginning with Build Back Better,” he said.
Blumenthal was invited by Communist Party members and ceremony emcees Lisa Bergmann and Ben McManus, where Bergmann has previously said that corporations are to blame for the “imperialism that exists in our world that is undermining the labor and environment,” the Free Beacon reported.
I think it is time to stop pretending that the Democratic party is not communist.
Elon Musk – bought his name on as founder of Tesla after the fact and sells cars via subsidies/carbon credits because electrics won’t sell on own merits. Elizabeth Warren – does/produces nothing that gives anything to anyone, simply takes, takes, takes = tard fight, but I’m routing for Musk to “Finish her!”.
Dear Deidre shilling for branch covidians and the NHS.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17027658/17027658/
Yeah, I call bullshit Q. My suspicion is that he is using COVID to hide the fact he doesn’t want to fuck his wife anymore…
Here is a test: get him a young hot chick and see if the erection problem persists…
Either that or the whole thing is propaganda and they got paid to print it by NHS.
I stopped here:
/SMH
So the NHS put her on a waiting list and her immune system fought the disease off before the doctors got around to doing anything?
Well, in fairness to him, there’s a certain level of hotness that can overcome just about anything. There’s a reason they have to have an admonition about sticking it in crazy. And admonition that most people do not follow, I will add.
HEY!
I resemble that remark…
Where do we sign up to receive young hot chicks?
The internet, of course
How dare they run a column from a 1/6 Insurrectionist!!! The 2020 Erection was fair and honest and there is absolutely no proof that Biden wasn’t the erection winner.
I figured out why they haven’t gotten rid of Fauci yet. It’s because there’s no place left to promote him.
Inmate. It’s the next title in the series.
Disappeared and awarded the honor of “Hero Of the
Soviet UnionUnited States“Have my exit interview coming up. Trying to decide if I should sugar coat it or lay it on them. My boss was great have absolutely nothing against her. If I lay it on the company I have quite the list.
Are you trying to burn bridges, or is there a chance you might want/need to come back? Cause that’s what should help you decide how to handle this…
You would have to hold me at gunpoint to make me come back
Ha. Company I was working for when I was in San Diego once asked me if I would consider moving up to L.A. – I replied, you don’t have enough money to pay me to do that.
A former boss was trying to get me to relocate to Fresno. I countered with $50k raise and moving expenses and I would. That got him to shut up about it.
Commiefornia?
$500,000 raise, plus moving expenses in and out of the state, and a housing and travel stipend to cover having to maintain residence for more than half the year in a free state.
A relative of mine was offered a job to move from the Miami area to Los Angeles at almost double his salary. He and his wife went to check it out, and quickly realized it wasn’t nearly enough.
Ummmm….
Is there any financial hooks that they have that require you to cooperate with silly things like an exit interview?
The one time I actually went to an exit interview was when there was a big severance package on the table. Required me to play nice to get the $$$.
I’m leaving with nothing? Yeah, I’m not interested in your exit interview.
Those severance packages usually come with Non-disclosure agreements (binding on you, not them). Threaten them by saying you aren’t sure you want to sign an NDA unless the amount of money is at least $50k.
There’s nothing to gain by slamming them, I wouldn’t even bother. It won’t help them, and it certainly won’t help you.
Well my guess is that LJWsy has learned a whole lot of secrets since he announced his resignation that would be super interesting to the management/HR folks if he decided to share.
I am always amazed at the amount of people who will come in to have a private conversation with you when they learn you are leaving. They open a vein and unburden themselves of all the fucked up shit they know about that is happening at the company. Like a confession, it makes them feel better and since you are leaving they feel like there will be no blow back.
Ha that’s exactly what’s happened. Tons of people asking me to take them with me. This company is a horrid place to work.
*lights Tres signal*
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/fashion-beauty/plus-size-model-strips-naked-25702358
Brilliant!
Ever notice how many thicc chicks have pretty faces? Kinda offsets the butterfaces.
CNN Breaking News
@cnnbrk
Cornell University is shutting down its Ithaca, New York, campus and moving to “alert level red” after a “rapid spread” of Covid-19 among students
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1470841722586472449
Is Cornell proper ivy or one of the meh ones?
More proper than Brown or Penn.
Hotel Management, weed and the thesis of your choice or Finance?
I know which one I’m picking…
The horror! Can’t help but think of all the ivy league bodies stacked to the ceiling in the gym!
Turns out we didn’t heave to break Big Academia from without. Their arrogance and self-importance caused so much pants-shitting they are slowly self-destructing. An average 14-year old sees this behavior becoming the norm and will associate college with an abundance of silly rules that interfere with their lives and reduced chances for getting laid.
Keeping in mind that South Africa has reported that Omicron variant has mild symptoms this seems like damning with faint praise.
I’m much more interested in knowing how much protection prior infection with Omicron provides for the original strain and other variants.
Well as a J&J recipient I’m screwed…
J&J Shot Loses Antibody Protection Against Omicron in Study
Oh wait, I got hope!
See, this is how you SCIENCE!
Antibodies are SUPPOSED to wane – they are too specific to be of long-term use and are in fact detrimental for protection against quickly-mutating pathogens (I am simplifying – there are six types on antibodies we know of, more will probably be discovered over time.) This is also why triggering antibodies for these pathogens in the young is counter-productive for herd immunity. Ideally, parents and their offspring have memory cells against different strains – they protect each other this way. Forcing them to develop the same memory cells makes them more susceptible to a future mutation. We’re discarding everything we learned about these pathogens in order to gain social status. Pride before a fall.
https://twitter.com/loresjoberg/status/1470756251491454981
1. like all pun memese this is bad
2. I did not get it right away
3. it is probably old
I got it right away. Who doesn’t remember their retinal anatomy?
I remember it but did not make the association instantly
Noob.
Lore!
The man behind Brunching Shuttlecocks.
“And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year.”
“Don’t spend it all at once … oh wait you did already,” Musk added in another tweet.
Based.
Yeah. I’m not a fan boi of Elon, but shit like that makes me like him a lot.
Of course, the pols must be stunned. They cracked their whip when they decided to extra subsidize union made electric cars. Elon was supposed to bend the knee and grovel to get more of that federal loot. Instead he is mocking them?
Plus they’ve got no other way for NASA to conduct $1bn piss experiments in LEO without SpaceX.
“There is NO voter fraud” /Democrats
A Sampling of Recent Election Fraud Cases from Across the United States
Also Democrats “Republicans are planning on stealing elections”.
To be fair, Republicans are trying to steal elections from Democrats using demographics, gerrymandering, constitutional powers and limitations, and Democrat’s Commie talking points.
NONE OF THAT IS FAIR IF IT WORKS! /Dems also
Dem: The GOP is planning on stealing elections!!
Me: How so?
Dem: They are copying us!! Those fascists are trying to get their people installed in local election boards. How dare they! Those are ours.
isolated cases
This may be the most retarded set of graphics I’ve ever seen.
I don’t think it takes the crown but it is up there
You might not fully appreciate the geographic reconstruction of the United States that the graphs depict.
I probably don’t
Lol, now that I look at it…
So OK is not in the SW? Fuck I need to reevaluate my entire life.
It’s pretty much smack dab in the middle.
*blinks*
OFFS
It would take me forever to tease out their rationale, which I’m certain was developed to get the desired results.
This was interesting in the text:
“There was no optimal set of choices, no perfect path a governor or other state officials could have taken. Every choice came with negative consequences, some known ahead of time, some only discovered or appreciated months later.”
I’m not sure I agree that consequences weren’t known about until later but at least they’re acknowledging there were negatives to the lockdowns.
Ah, yes, the white sandy beaches of coastal Arkansas!
Congress cant be bothered to follow its own rules of disclosure on trading with insider information.
“Congress passed the law in 2012 to combat insider trading and conflicts of interest among their own members and force lawmakers to be more transparent about their personal financial dealings. A key provision of the law mandates that lawmakers publicly — and quickly — disclose any stock trade made by themselves, a spouse, or a dependent child.”
There is also another article on the staffers and the process they have to follow. The process that the reporters had to go through to get this information is bureaucracy as a shield, that makes it so much of a PITA that you would give up if you tried to investigate it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-senate-house-trading-2021-9
All you need to know is that the media harps constantly on Rand Paul for not disclosing a 10K transaction by his wife when Pelosi, McConnell, et al are trading in the millions all the time with almost zero media coverage.
This article is pretty non-partisan. The point they made was that the law requires it, but none of them follow it. If they don’t disclose, they pay a $200 fine that may or may not be assessed. There is way more oversite by the IRS for anyone who works at a publicly traded company down to the janitor.
$200 is nothing. Probably less than their broker fee if they’re using an actual person to place the orders. What a joke.
And if they follow the rules but the trades are obviously based on insider knowledge and/or related to pending legislation?
Like I said, Pelosi follows the rules but is openly corrupt and nobody cares.
A trade he didn’t even win on.
a dependent child
There’s your massive loophole. Not a lot of 17 year olds acting as cutouts for laundering bribes. 30 year olds? You bet.
I’ve figured out that I need a different means of attaching work pieces to the deck.
vibration will cause a lot of ruined parts. Practice first. Get some blocks of wood and plastic.
Somebody linked to “machinist’s plastic” (?) one time, which I had never heard of, having no formal training in machining.
Machine an ashtray.
Beer cans work but you need to pull the tab or someone will get mad.
Terribly snarky (Glibbish, even) email sent to HR just now. We’ll see if I’m still employed come the afternoon… Fucking cuntes. They are making my family pay for the bullet that takes me out.
Festus, how hard would it be for you to find another job? Seriously. The job market in the states is such that you would have a job and probably a signing bonus within a week. Is it that different in Canada?
RC, I am too damned old to start over and my clients need me. It’s a burden but one that I am willing to bear. I hate it but here we are.
Georgia is rated #1.
Election Integrity Scorecard
Based on the comparisons, Georgia probably should be #1 or near the top of the ranking. We have lapses in what heritage recommends plus Fulton County just outright doesnt follow the rules. I hope the Democrat massive election fraud of 2020 scared Georgians to demand transparent elections with integrity in the future.
Georgia brining in outside experts as consultants
I figured Florida would be #1.
Fulton by itself is a disaster.
The whole state is a fucking disaster
That podcast is a bit tilted toward the left side of the aisle, but it isn’t completely off the rails. Enough background to make you wonder how shit could get so bad.
Fulton County normally doesnt control Georgia by itself. It just so happened that in 2020, Fulton County was the center hub for ballot handling and storage by using the stadium. That was one of the mistakes.
Since nearly every state has a Democrat controlled large city, every state could have this problem.
Kungflu fear was used to ignore election rules that would have easily given Georgia to Trump and the GOP Senators. Democrats said they would do it, so there is still no excuse.
To be fair, it happened in other states too and probably would have happened in any other state that Democrats might have needed to steal the election from Trump. It just so happened that GA, MI, PA, AZ, and WI were the main focus. Democrats tried the same shit in NC but failed.
Any Asians here tryna get “minority bonus points” by complaining?
“Academics, esp philosophers, idk how many of you saw this but stuff like this (& your silence) is EXACTLY WHY philosophy remains so white.
This is problematic. Microaggression is real & harmful.”
https://twitter.com/thisishannahkim/status/1470410299299794944
“Come on. It’s not just about names. It’s the history AND the refusal to acknowledge anti-asian racism, the lack of pronunciation effort simply emblematic of underlying attitudes.”
Given a lot of Romanian names are not properly pronounced by non Romanians, I am baffled how anyone can think someone can know all pronunciation. Off course this one has grifter written all over so I am sure it knows.
I wonder how many can pronounce a dutch name like guusje van geel correctly?
speaking of which, thicc?
https://thefitgirlz.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/guusjevangeel-1997369016301276125.jpg
https://instafitnessmodels.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2.jpg
Zij maakt mijn pik echt hard….
I never know if you know several languages or just google translate
I actually do speak 7 languages fluently.. For real.
Sheesh. I can’t even speak one right.
I said fluently…. not right though…
What the difference?
English speakers not properly pronouncing Asian names? Let me check on how well they do for Irish, German, Russian, … or the occasional mispronunciation of English names (I’ve heard my name pronounced in Ebonics a few times).
Gat on a Track?
One of the things that makes me laugh on the inside is listening to my Indian and Chinese co-workers converse. The guy from Taiwan replaces “k” with “i” in indian names with funny results.
…. how?!
Some of those aren’t even pronouncable that way,.
He ends up giving them Italian sounding names like Donny or Ronny.
What about Norwegian names?
When “Kn” sounds like a “N” (Knut) or when it is “KaN” like Knousse (KaNouse). Why don’t you people understand the rules?
Don’t get me started on fucking up names with “Kv” in them.
Enough Kvetching.
Shit… there’s a lot of people who can’t handle Polish or German names.
Fuck you, Poland.
As the national debt nears $29 trillion, the Democratic-led Congress passed a bill on Tuesday to raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion.
A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money!
The producer price index for final demand increased 9.6% over the previous 12 months after rising another 0.8% in November. Economists had been looking for an annual gain of 9.2%, according to FactSet.
Or maybe not so real money…
Good morning, Banjos!
Your musical selection prompted me to fire up the lights on my Christmas tree early. It’s quite festive in here!
Home prices at 45-year high
I’ve been watching a lot of properties. Higher priced ones seem to be stagnating (or dropping), but more modestly priced ones are still red-hot (a couple I’ve been watching actually increased in price this week). For now, I’m content to wait.
Hey wait! Maybe I should raise my debt ceiling, print some money and buy this place!
Elon is hilarious. Also, how fun would it be to be able to affect the markets on a whim? I know for a fact it would be a bad thing for people like me to have that power.
Have a great day, peeps!
Feck it. I’m so black-pilled right now I may as well be sinking into that weird gloop from that bizarre Scarlett Johansson movie.
Interesting way of telling us you will be in your bunk
Nah, I’m the freakish dude that she took pity upon.
A multi-national conglomerate is trying to make me pay for my covid tests. I have complied, much to my own shame, with the mandates. Kicking a man when he’s down doesn’t seem like cricket.
You could be more like this guy.
(not recommended)
I’m not “The Wolf”, unfortunately I’m “The Kitten”! Watch out, I will bite you! So beaten down right now. You guys have a great one. I’m not even gonna bother to eat anything. Just not hungry. I could fucking cry if I weren’t a Man.
South Korean firm sorry for showing women as cows
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/newsworld/south-korean-firm-sorry-for-showing-women-as-cows/ar-AARPbY2?li=BBJDXDP
South Korea’s biggest dairy brand has been forced to apologise over an advert depicting women as cows.
The video by Seoul Milk shows a man secretly filming a group of women in a field, who later turn into cows.
After facing a public backlash, the company removed the promo from YouTube, but it has since gone viral after being re-uploaded by internet users.
Why apologize for that? Society is primed for a smack down sooner rather than later.
Can I come and sleep on your couch for a week or two, Pie? Country-Wife seems to have gone off the rails again… Omicron insanity. Borders closed, hair alit!
I think the plane ticked is pricey this last minute
Pie has obviously never been married and that such a ticket and its price is not a factor of a man that needs a couple weeks to recharge away from their wife.
I swear — people just seem to have a beef with every little thing these days. It would be-hoove them to just look after themselves and not one an-udder.
Not many facts in your comment. Mostly just you boviating about stuff.
Better be careful, Swiss is probably Hérens about.
They cudn’t help it if they tried.
Usually their complaints are just bull.
Definitely not as problematic as depicting them as sheep I LEARNED IT FROM YOU! (may not be SFW)
Great. Fuckin’ Minds.
Also, I need to refresh more.
Would it have been better if they were sheep?
A C-130 Hercules aircraft, variant H, was transferred, free of charge, from the surplus of the United States Government to the Romanian Air Force. The military transport aircraft landed on Tuesday, December 14, at Bucharest’s Baneasa Airport.
According to the Romanian Ministry of Defense (MApN), the plane was brought to Romania by a crew of the 120th Airlift Wing unit of the Montana Air National Guard, which has owned and operated the aircraft to date. It will now enter the endowment of Romania’s 90th Air Transport Base – the 901 Strategic Transport Squadron.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/top-stories/us-transfers-a-c-130-hercules-transport-aircraft-to-the-romanian-air-force/ar-AARPwP9?ocid=msedgntp
Yeah, we’ve got stacks of those guys.
I’m sure the Taliban does too.
No, the big long range airlift units were one of the few things we managed to fly out of there.
Lock-Mart FTW!
effin’ MIC
:grumbles:
At the Boneyard in Tucson, there is no telling how many dozen we have mothballed.
Are you keeping the Montanans too?
Who will be vetting those Romanian
sheepwar brides that the Montanans will be bringing back?The same people who vetted the Afghanis.
Romanian Ministry of Defense (MApN)
Romanians don’t know how initials work.
So many comments for a Tuesday!
On a webex listening to people prattle on about not being able to ping a switch.
They’ve been in this state for days and haven’t sent anyone to powercycle the darn thing.
BECAUSE NOBODY WORKS.
it is difficult to find the willpower in December
Hey, I am peeking in here during a MS Teams call…I even have occasional input on the call! Oh, and it is a call with CANADIAN lawyers!
I’m off today, and the rest of the week too. We have vacation down here too, Rufus.
Ackshully, today is milestone day for the T. family. XX graduates from college this afternoon. Woot!
And debt free, I must say.
“JCOPE has exactly zero authority to issue an order such as this,” said David Grandeau, a former executive director of the state’s ethics agency. “All it [the law] says is JCOPE has the right to issue opinions and opinions are like a–holes, and in JCOPE’s case, there’s 13 of them. There’s just no authority to issue it. “
Grandeau said JCOPE is trying to compensate for having “rubber stamped” the book deal a year and a half, deferring the decision to legal counsel Martin Lavine. “When you have bad people running your ethics agency you end up with a governor that can get 5 million dollars by using state resources,” he said.
This seems absolutely right. I’m not trying to defend Cuomo in any way. As far as I’m concerned he should be under indictment for mass murder. But, this doesn’t appear to be based on any principle other than Cuomo is now less popular now than when they gave him the green light they never should have given him.
On a random tangent about death traps, This one gives way too much time for the guy to escape
Gives him time to wax poetic about his life.
Did they cut a notch for the string or pour the candle with the string in the mold? The latter seems like kind of a specialized product, unless the murderer was a chandler.
I was guessing they drilled a hole in the candle and drew the string through.
I’m going with the murderer was a chandler.
He uses that setup to have the death occur while he has an alibi.
Then he dumps the body so that the cops don’t know that he was killed using a timer.
Then the hero detective finds bits of wick-ash blown onto the victim by the gunshot and justice is served.
I took the guy in the chair to be a detective, so it would have been ‘protagonist detective finds himself in the same trap as the other victims, finds way to survive, catches killer.’
I’m going with the murderer was a chandler
What a shitlord! Why couldn’t it have been one of the women who is the murderer? I think Monica could kill someone. Maybe Rachel as well.
Poor Joe
“He’s got a big job on his hands because people hate him for no reason,” Weber said of Biden.
His ass tastes just like strawberry ice cream! Lick it. You’ll be glad you did.
Nearly 400 comments and not a single First to be had. What are you people even doing with your lives?
Listening to Mick Jagger music and bad-mouthing my country mostly.
My colleague and I are memeing a really stupid security training we had to take this week. On of the questions was “someone chats you up at a social event and starts asking detailed questions about your super sekrit Very Important work…what do you do?”
My answer was essentially “walk away”, but the correct answer was “report it”. Like, no. I’m not going to report every single hincky social interaction I have, assholes. Also, everything I do is in the public domain, so someone asking me questions about it would probably be of the “idle chitchat” variety, rather than something remotely nefarious.
Anyway, we’re entertaining ourselves with stuff like:
“Your colleague calls out sick – what do you do? Report it.”
“You colleague refuses to mute themselves on Zoom meetings – what do you do? Report it.”
“Your spouse asks ‘how was your day, dear?’ – what do you do? Report it.”
“Your dentist says you have an impacted molar – what do you do? Repot it.”
Reported.
Report reported.
*drops dime on entire commentariat*
“Here’s my ten cents. My two cents is free.”
“Nerd asks you in class if he can borrow a pencil – what do you do, report it”
I like to say that is I find a strange USB stick in the parking lot the first thing I do is stick it in my work computer.
I get those stupid trainings twice a year.
You don’t have an air-gapped forensics machine to examine foreign media for viruses and other malware?
…we actually do. At every entrance.
That’s my guiding star on any corporate training. HR and Legal ALWAYS want to be involved (because it justifies their existence), and they write the training… so invoking them is always the “right” answer.
Sorta relevant.
H/T Laenhart from the Discord.
LOL. I still remember that “training” from my original secret clearance back in the 90’s.
The security manager was a bimbo who thought every foreign guy in a bar who hit on her was trying to steal government secrets.
Start telling them tall tales about implanting control devices in people’s hearts, injecting people with radiation, harvesting their organs . . .
Oh, wait. Those aren’t tall tales. We actually do that shit.
This is why I make up insane explanations about our radars in the valley. They are NSA StingRay devices, that one is used to radiate the atmosphere to stimulate cloud formation in the desert and so on.
What do you do with TPS?
Report it.
Vary your route between the door, your desk, restroom, etc.
I have some questions for you on the next Zoom.
Your ship comes loose from the pier and floats out to sea. What do you do? Report it.
Shocking!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10307741/Ghislaine-Maxwells-black-book-contacts-thought-include-Prince-Andrew-not-released.html
How much does anxiety affect my blood pressure? 172/99 at start of visit, 126/72 at end of visit.
I am still heading to Florida.
I find that on the way to the doctor, listening to Zen music in the car and doing deep breathing exercises significantly lowered my bp from one visit (178/119) to the next (13x/8x).
After my argument with the sonogram nurse who wouldn’t treat me, mine went from a normal around 12X/8X to 14X/10X for around 3 hours.
I might have been a little pissed.
I don’t seem to have white coat hypertension, my BP is always pretty good.
I would suggest that anyone who gets that upset at doctor offices have their BP taken toward the end of the doc visit.
or have two readings taken, like you did.
I don’t normally have white coat syndrome. I’ve had several serious nosebleeds -like ER visit serious, and anxious about driving to Florida without the issue resolved.
Long ago I had a nosebleed like that. I called the telenurse and she recommended some kind of nasal spray, the name of which escapes me (Flonase, maybe), and that stopped it ded, d-e-d ded. Never had another problem.
It give me anxiety hearing about that.
Did they find the cause?
Stop snorting cocaine!
Sinus infection + dry air.
How do you get dry air here?
Inside I guess, answered my own question as I typed it.
I’ll take cookies also, you can stop in Suffolk on your way to Florida.
You know what will lower your blood pressure? Baking the cookies you promised me.
Are you in Florida?
I reside in an undisclosed compound in Florida, yes.
Like this, right?
I like to say that is I find a strange USB stick in the parking lot the first thing I do is stick it in my work computer.
You’re not dumb enough to stick it in your personal computer. It might have some sort of virus.
Kroger is asshoe.
Kroger said Tuesday that it will take away paid leave for unvaccinated employees who get Covid and require some of them to pay a monthly health insurance surcharge starting next year.
The country’s largest supermarket operator sent a companywide memo announcing the changes, which take effect Jan. 1. A company spokeswoman said the new policies are intended to encourage staff to get the Covid vaccines, adding it will continue to offer a $100 incentive to all employees who become fully vaccinated.
“As we prepare to navigate the next phase of the pandemic, we are modifying policies to encourage safe behaviors including vaccination,” she said in a statement.
Starting next year, salaried, nonunion employees who are unvaccinated and enrolled in the company’s health insurance plan must pay a monthly $50 surcharge, the company spokeswoman said.
But employees who are fully vaccinated are eligible for paid Covid leave, if they get a breakthrough case.
At least they are given a choice. Now all those unvaccinated persons should file a class action about all the fatties/alcoholics/heavy smokers, etc they have employed.
Or, as I pointed out yesterday, why stop with CoVID vax?
What if you didnt get a flu shot and get the flu? No shingles vaccine? No pneumonia shot?
Or, you didnt get your tetanus booster?
They could make this into anything.
it will take away paid leave for unvaccinated employees
That would be illegal, at least as far as accrued paid time off goes. Now, if they have a special program (and they probably do) giving people 10 days paid leave to “quarantine” if they test positive, that would probably be legal.
Although they have now created an interesting set of perverse incentives – the vaxxed get a free vacay if they can drum up a positive test from anywhere (and I have to wonder if people have figured out how to make a test show a positive result regardless), and the unclean aren’t going to report a positive test and probably keep hauling their infectious asses to work.
Well, done, HR.
Didn’t kids in England or somewhere figure out soda can pop positive?
IIRC, orange juice.
I decided to make a burger for dinner and the bakery near me was out of buns so I bought a bagel because it is also sort of round.
What is the Official Glibertarian View on burgers in bagels?
Not a good choice.
I dunno. Some people go for pretzel buns or a Kaiser roll.
Both of which have a bite force requirement and chewing texture that fits better with a burger than any bagel.
And neither has a hole in the middle for the juices to escape through.
It’s meshugana
What kind of bagel?
well a quite unauthentic one as you cant get the real stuff in Romania, So it is bagel shaped but not bagel textured. And it has all kinds of seeds on it
Sounds good.
Crush it.
This and also, I see really no difference to pretzel buns, so…enjoy Pie!
Also I assume everyone here agrees that burger buns need to be toasted, right?
Toasted with butter
Mayo works too.
Its preferable, yes.
A decent, fresh bagel as a burger bun? Sure, why not?
Put a fried egg and a slice of bacon on there too.
With or without lox?
Shoulda gone with an English muffin.
I did not have much choice really.
Allowable.
I know if Pizza is on a Bagel You Can Eat Pizza Anytime.
Delish. Even better with butter so you can really twist the treif-knife.
Get yourself a food service brick of cream cheese, cut off a half-inch* slice, and put it between the two halves of the bagel.
If you still want the burger, put some steak sauce on it and eat it with a knife and fork.
*Do your own metric conversion. You’re not my supervisor.
I was just sent to Whamhalla in the most diabolical and deliberately merciless way.
Is that similar to Glass Tiger Gehenna?
It really should be this fucking trainwreck of a song.
But employees who are fully vaccinated are eligible for paid Covid leave, if they get a breakthrough case.
SCIENCE!
Actually, it’s only fair. They forced you to get the magic potion which isn’t quite as magical as you might want to believe.
It is sort of an unintentional admission that it doesn’t do much for you isn’t it?
I am now officially a flat earther. Though a carbonated Earth would be better.
lol
I’m not claiming that this is the case, but what happens if, say, five, ten years down the road, the COVID vaccines wind up associated with an increased risk of cancer (or some other health issue)? I know the pharmaceutical companies have negotiated themselves exemption from liability and I know the employers mandating it are getting pretty much the same thing, so the courts will be pretty much a dead end. But, I suspect there will be a lot of people who won’t give a damn what the intricacies of federal law are on the matter. And with a death sentence, I figure a lot of those people won’t think they really have that much to lose.
woodchippers?
Crickets.
Big Pharma has murdered a shit-ton of people over the years and all that comes of it is lawyers advertisements on daytime tv.
Yeah, that was my thought. That or heads on pikes.
That’s why I don’t get the way our “leadership class” is treating this. Making the vaccine readily available and telling people to talk to their doctor about it would probably avoid the nightmare scenario (from the leadership class’s perspective) down the road. And, as bad as COVID is, the marginal benefit of universal vaccination really doesn’t look like it’s worth the potential downside of forcing millions of people to take a treatment that they later learn is going to kill them (millions of people ready to start killing members of the leadership class). Honestly, I think they’ve ensconced themselves in a bubble where they really do think the world is a function of their pronouncements and words. So, they don’t even conceive of the possibility of things going sideways.
This is our Chernobyl
Cancer 5-20 years out? What about all of the heart problems happening now? Heart attacks, myocarditis, as well as other issues are occurring in people who haven’t even hit 50.
FAA makes unusual assertion in Boeing 737 Max crashes, calling ex-pilot Mark Forkner ‘a scapegoat’
I’m sure the prosecutors were completely unaware that this was possible without the vast technical knowledge of the FAA. I’m sure they will now get right on investigating other senior executives at Boeing.
Isn’t investigating air crashes the NTSB’s responsibility?
FAA determines the airworthiness of the airframe though and certifies any training that the manufacturer develops. Seems they are pinning that aspect on the chief pilot.
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OMG, the irony of the FAA complaining about someone making a pilot into a scapegoat for a crash…..
ouch, that hurt.
Google is asshoe.
Google has told its employees they will lose pay — and will eventually be fired — if they don’t comply with the company’s Covid-19 vaccination policy, according to internal documents viewed by CNBC.
A memo circulated by leadership said employees had until Dec. 3 to declare their vaccination status and upload documentation showing proof, or to apply for a medical or religious exemption. The company said after that date it would start contacting employees who hadn’t uploaded their status or were unvaccinated, as well as those whose exemption requests weren’t approved.
The document said employees who haven’t complied with the vaccination rules by the Jan. 18 deadline will be placed on “paid administrative leave” for 30 days. After that, the company will put them on “unpaid personal leave” for up to six months, followed by termination.
Get out!
I am very glad I don’t work for one of these woke, attention-seeking companies.
Mine kind of flies under the radar and I like that just fine.
Virginia Hospital Found In Contempt Of Court, Subject To $10k Per Day Fines After Denying Patient Ivermectin
Murderers.
Now do FDA and USPS…funny how USPS is all of a sudden in the news for anything but their capabilities to deliver mail.
If that doctor isn’t on the hospital’s medical staff with privileges to prescribe Ivermectin to patients with COVID, it would be illegal for the hospital to administer the drug.
I, for one, am very reluctant to give courts the authority to order medical treatment over the objections of the responsible physicians and hospitals. That slope looks pretty slippery to me.
There was a time I would have agreed with you. The Medical Industrial Complex is so clearly the enemy I no longer give a fuck.
Medical freedom seems like a decent enough hill to die on.
Court ordered treatments don’t sound much like “medical freedom” to me.
Is it a court ordered treatment or a court order directing the hospital to not deny treatment when part of a treatment plan is prescribed by their doctor?
I don’t think doctors should be forced to administer treatments. I also don’t think a hospital should have the right to refuse someone from receiving treatment administered by a third party.
Hospitals control who is on their medical staffs, and what treatments can be provided to hospital patients. A “third party” can’t just wander into a hospital and start performing surgery or injecting patients without the hospital’s permission. We aren’t hotels with specially outfitted rooms. We are healthcare providers ourselves.
A treatment plan prescribed by a doctor who isn’t on the medical staff and doesn’t have privileges to prescribe that treatment plan is null and void. They can’t direct hospital staff to do anything, because the hospital hasn’t agreed to allow them to do anything. This is a court ordering the hospital and its staff to provide a treatment that that hospital itself doesn’t want to provide (again, we are healthcare providers in our own right) and most likely a treatment that the ordering physician has no legal authority to prescribe in that hospital.
The only person who matters who is in the loop on this who wants the treatment is the patient. Which is not a small thing at all, but treatment should only be provided when both the patient and the responsible healthcare providers agree. If you’re comfortable with courts ordering people to provide treatments against their will, well, OK I guess, but that’s not “medical freedom”. That is just the flip side of the medical tyranny of ordering patients to accept treatments against their will.
Not really a court ordered treatment is it? More like court ordered you can’t deny a treatment the patient has decided they want and has a dr. ready to prescribe and administer. Now, in my perfect world, the hospital would be perfectly free to say, OK, arrange for different accommodations we’ll be discharging as soon as we can get the paperwork for a transfer. But they’re probably not allowed to do that either. So maybe it amounts to a court order to the hospital to administer treatment. Of course the hospital, imnsho, is being asshoe from the beginning. Even though I’m not sure a course of ivermectin when already vented is going to make a damn bit of difference.
The fact that they aren’t treating early and often – especially with what we know now – is murder.
Not really a court ordered treatment is it?
Yes, it is. It is a court ordering providers to give a treatment. And, yes, the hospital can transfer the patient to another hospital that is willing to administer Ivermectin. I’d be shocked if they haven’t tried and either couldn’t find one, or the patient’s family refused to consent to the transfer.
Of course the hospital, imnsho, is being asshoe from the beginning.
You aren’t free unless you are free to be wrong.
Yes, it is. It is a court ordering providers to give a treatment.
I can see that. But I also see a difference between a court ordering an involuntary treatment vs. order the removal of a barrier to treatment requested by the patient. Is there a slippery slope between the two? I don’t think so. Still think the hospital should be free to refuse, no matter how insufferably elitist it comes across as.
She has had Covid since October…?
*crosses fingers* Please do.
So if you live there and last month you thought you saw Liz Cheney wandering around downtown Manchester, no, you were not hallucinating. Liz Cheney was there, and that’s pretty weird if you think about it, not a lot of people go to Manchester, New Hampshire in November, so it probably wasn’t a family vacation nor is it likely that Liz Cheney went up there by accident, Manchester is an eight-hour drive from her home in the D.C. suburbs.
And more to the point, it is also eight hours from these CNN studios in downtown Washington that she inhabits more often than most of us go to church, and much more reverently.
Manchester is also — not that it matters to her — more than 2,000 miles from Wyoming. That’s the state that she supposedly represents in the U.S. Congress.
So the question is, what was Liz Cheney doing in Manchester, New Hampshire? And of course there is only one conceivable answer, Liz Cheney plans to run for President of the United States.
Now, if that sounds demented, yes, because it is, but it is also real.
The debates with Trump will be fucking fantastic.
As a Democrat? Because she would be one of their stronger candidates.
Can she run federally as a Republican if her own state party kicked her out?
If the RNC allows it, sure. Would that gutless hive of NeverTrumpers (well, unless there has been a lot of turnover) allow it? Who knows. She’d be dead meat in the Republican primaries, though, so it would be pure grift on her part to run as a Republican.
You know, I have to ask, who the hell is putting in her head (or not giving her any pushback, if it’s coming from her) that this is a good idea? Her family name couldn’t even float her in Wyoming. What does she think, that there’s some massive pool of demand for a return of the neo-cons that just isn’t getting noticed?
As a grift, its an excellent idea. She could pull in money from Democrats and other NeverTrumpers as a spoiler for Trump’s run (or whoever Trump supports). Now that the Lincoln Project is pretty much dead as a pack of pedophiles, that money has got to go somewhere.
But for that grift to have any credibility, she’d have to win in Wyoming in ’22. A guy like McMuffin, who’s never held elected office, can play the “not a politician” card. That would have a lot more credibility than the “I’m a loser” card, Cheney would be stuck with.
Older woman gets pissed off when her younger man ditches her for a younger woman, goes nuts. Is also a bad speller.
Older Women know just how to please a man.
Tonight on Fox: “When The Elderly Attack”
So, all along with this military mandate, I’ve been wondering, what’s the endgame for the DoD? They know – hell, everyone knows – Covid is zero threat to the Force. They’re predominantly young, healthy men (and some women) who have nothing to fear on any scale from this virus. Why go nuts on the vaccine? There are a slew of obvious reasons, most of which have been discussed here, including Biden’s promise to defeat Covid – the military being the first step in the EOs and then followed by feds, contractors, etc. The conspiracy theories have focused on the fact that the DoD appears to be targeting those who are (a) religious, and (b) won’t bend the knee. Today a NAVADMIN came out essentially confirming the conspiracy theory:
– Approved separation for retirements before 1 June will be allowed as honorable discharges and go forward (they had been stopped and they were forcing people to stay past retirement dates and take the shot);
– Less than 6 years in (which would normally not rate an AdSep Board unless the govt was asking for an OTH characterization) will be allowed an honorable, and therefore no right to a board, so just notification processing
– More than 6 years (which would normally rate a Board for almost any characterization) will get a GENERAL and/or they can waive their board in return for an Honorable discharge
– Service obligations for education will have to be paid back. So if you’re a sucker who went to a service academy (or in some other education program) and don’t want the shot, you’re now out of the military, out of an education, and indebted for the cost of school thus far
In sum, they’re not disciplining folks – they’re purging (basically) everyone who wanted a religious exemption or refused the shot. You know, independent-minded soldiers. What they’ll be left with is those who bend the knee – the obedient. Those who’ve shown they can be cowed if threatened.
There, folks, is your new military. What could possibly go wrong with having that kind of military?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the current leadership wants nothing but yes-men in the military – drones who blindly follow. When push comes to shove, they want to be able to invoke the Insurrection Act for “interference with a federal mandate” and use the military on the wrong-thinking citizenry. “Refuse to let your child be jabbed, Komrade Citizen? Make too much noise at a school board meeting? We’ll have to invoke the Insurrection Act, Komrades! We can’t have another ‘January 6th,’ after all.”
Commies win. Every fucking time.
They havent won…yet.
First, the military is going to be seriously understaffed. some 20% havent gotten the jab.
Second, recruitment in future years will take a nosedive. Its a volunteer military, so kicking people out for shit like will impact who wants to join and risk wokeness attacks in the future.
Third, the commie leaders pushing this nonsense are outing themselves for wood chippers later.
Much conspiracy. Many tin-foil. But oh so believable these days.
I mostly still think it’s a bunch of people who are largely just lazy, jealous, narcissists without the ability nor inclination to think through where their ideas/emoting will lead us, despite all the lessons from history, ancient and recent. But in light of those lessons, I don’t think it’s too far fetched that there’s a significant portion who really are planning for something like that; transitioning the US to a dictatorial state deliberately.
If you look at it in the light of our fiscal situation, it makes sense.
They see the writing on the wall. They’re preparing for what happens when the dollar fails.
Meanwhile they just lost the war in Afghanistan and are now talking tough with Russians about the Ukraine. A real land war against a top tier army like Russia would reveal some very unfortunate truths.
We’d lose to the Russians right on their own western border, straight up.
And yet the government keeps trying to push them into a fight. Have they at least considered the consequences of such a loss?
Ukraine isn’t worth a drop of American blood and certainly isn’t worth the risk of a nuclear slugfest. Let them have it I say.
Yeah, but is it worth some payoffs to relatives and some wag the dog distraction for an unpopular Democrat?
I was going to say much the same thing. I think Ozy’s take is dead on. But, I can’t help but wonder, do they think China or Russia don’t notice and aren’t thinking about what this means for America’s ability to fight a war?
“Those who’ve shown they can be cowed if threatened.”
I’m sure any present or future enemies will be glad of that.
This one takes a minute…. But holy crap will it get your ire up.
Dude has his own attorney, the prosecutor and the judge conspire against him to have him arrested.
Judge, bailiff, prosecutor and attorney all lie on video, and laugh at his predicament as they steal the $15,000 bond and toss him in jail, based on a lie.
Helps if you post the link
https://youtu.be/sVPCgNMOOP0
I wonder what came of that if anything. Absolute immunity for the win?
Meh, he was late. Difficult to prove anyone noticed him before they say. Putting text on a video does not prove a subjective thing like ‘noticing’.
Speaking directly to the prosecutor at 9:17 puts a lie to that argument as well.
Hang them all publicly.
Welp, done. I removed myself and my family from the regulated health insurance system and more importantly Obamacare.
Decided to give CrowdHealth a shot. We’ll see how it goes.
Please update. It will be interesting to compare with Medi-Share.
We have been using Medi-Share for 3 years now. I have probably saved some $30,000 in the exchange. We have not needed it for anything though. With a $5,000 deductible, we have not needed to use it.
They do not do a remarkable job of reducing medical bills, like some HMOs will do. The contracted price with their processing company is sometimes much lower than the list price, but other times is not. It seems quite inconsistent, in fact.
When I get the second dose of poison on Saturday I hope that my last words before dropping dead from a heart attack will be “Nyahh Nyhahh! Toldya So!”
Not to pick a nit, but isn’t that kind of how a military always works?
Oops, Brooksed it. That was for Ozy.
A meme.