Last week I went on vacation with my family. A couple items you may find of interest:
- The new Star Wars rides at Disneyland are actually really awesome
- The new Star Wars rides at Disneyland clearly cost a fortune
- Disney’s current nickel and dime structure is incredibly annoying and will lead anyone thinking its a good thing Milton Friedman ain’t in charge no more, to conclude it is nothing more than corporate greed.
- They did not, in fact, put a mask on all the puppets in the Its a Small World ride.
Also… I came back from CA with COVID and have spent my remaining days listening to the Bible on tape as read by Larry King. Let it be known that didn’t stop me from delivering the links.
Having traveled to both countries, the difference between haggling in Mexico vs. haggling in Haiti is Mexicans actually have possessions.
¿Que es eso? Dos kilos de pura. Pagarme con Chivo.
Mexico once again offers asylum to Assange.
Who here kept saying to stay off the damn cruise ships?
El Salvador naval vessel nabs a submarine carrying over 4 tons of cocaine. President Bukele claims the bust is worth 2256.18225852 Bitcoin, and insists its value will continue to increase over the new year. Yes I was purposely vague in referring to both cocaine and Bitcoin.
Half the country is a rainforest but the rain is unprecedented.
Bolsonaro needs to stop eating at Chipotle. Elsewhere in Brazil, they tried physically beating up the mayor for imposing COVID restrictions.
Here’s a whimsical tune.
“They did not, in fact, put a mask on all the puppets in the Its a Small World ride.”
“all”… How about “some” or “any”?
All gave some.
Some gave all.
We all wear masks, and are puppets. Metaphorically speaking.
“Also… I came back from CA with COVID”
Get well soon.
May your COVID be light.
Thank you. I’ll commit mass murder by leaving my house possibly tomorrow.
Apparently they just now figured out it’s ok for you to leave the house after 5 days instead of 10.
Yes…If you are asymptomatic. I was blowing snot on everything I could find.
Then maybe you should stay home?
Nonsense.
I’m sure he got it from Typhoid Spud.
I came back from CA with COVID
It’s a dry COVID.
Seconded.
Aren’t all politicians full of shit at all times?
Does Chipotle’s fill you up or empty you out?
Yes.
It depends on how long it has been since you ate it.
Like shit through a goose?
Brazil has the right idea about ending COVID restrictions. Beat some ass!
“Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he had sought a pardon for Julian Assange from former U.S. President Donald Trump before he left office last year and repeated his offer of asylum for the Wikileaks founder on Monday.
Last month, the Australian-born Assange moved closer to facing criminal charges in the United States for one of the biggest leaks of classified information after Washington won an appeal over his extradition in an English court.”
So why doesn’t Assange take the offer?
Don’t you actually have to physically get there to get the asylum?
Bingo.
They won’t let him out?
Assange committed no crime in territory to U.S. sovereign jurisdiction. If it takes a FLEET of woodchippers – every motherfucker insisting we can seize him and try/convict him needs to be fed in feet first.
There is no way he drives himself.
I started my normal 2 hour drive to DC at 1pm yesterday. 19 hours later, I’m still not near the Capitol. My office is in touch with
@VaDOT to see how we can help other Virginians in this situation. Please stay safe everyone.
I thought it was illegal in Virginia to even have a cell phone in your hand while behind the wheel.
How the fuck are they not able to run some snow plows?
I’ve never heard of such a clusterfuck.
Its no worse than they would fare around here.
I don’t think so. Snow is virtually unknown in Phoenix. It’s merely unusual in northern Virginia.
How the fuck are they not able to run some snow plows?
I heard it is all Youngkin’s fault.
Of course it’s Youngkin’s fault. What did he do to help the situation? NOTHING! CASE CLOSED!
Odd that it was 95. Highways are typically given priority.
Right? I-90 in upstate NY was always pristine shortly after a snowstorm.
I-95 sucks in clear weather.
Mostly the overturned semis always seem to make things more complicated.
How the fuck are non essential turds like Kaine not just staying home in the first place?
He got there around hour 27 of the drive from what I saw….
I saw the Star Wars stuff in Florida. Some of the coolest rides I’ve ever been on. The Star Wars land feels like you just stepped into a movie. I felt like I was 10 again.
I’ve had a few conversations with fellow Disney fans about corporate greed as well. They are reducing their amenities, they are at less than 50% staff levels, and yet they are increasing prices. They roll out new rides, but slowly, like one a year or so. There are many of us that have decided to put off our next visit for two or more years until they get their shit together.
Last year, Mrs. Shpip didn’t renew our WDW annual passes after 20+ years. Increased charges, decreased service and benefits — the juice just wasn’t worth the squeeze anymore.
She can’t go without theme parks, though, so we’re now going to Sea World in Orlando several times a year. Wife get to sees charismatic megafauna, I get to ride roller coasters, we’re both happy. And the cost of a gold annual pass is about 1/5th that of Disney.
You can only get away with “go ahead and increase prices, they’ll still keep coming” for so long. Everyone has a breaking point.
Covid in CA. But what about all of their stringent mitigation measures. How is it even possible to get Covid while in CA?
It’s impossible because we do everything right and only have GoodThink™️.
/Gavin Newsom
Suck on that Florida! //Also Newsome
“El Salvador’s navy seized two semi-submersible boats carrying 4.1 metric tons of cocaine off the country’s Pacific coast, the government said Friday.
President Nayib Bukele said the cocaine was worth almost $104 million. It was the largest seizure so far in Bukele’s administration, which began in June 2019.
The navy detained five Colombians and two Ecuadorians found aboard the two vessels, officials said.
Much of the illegal drug flow headed for the U.S. market passes by air or sea to Central America, and then on to Mexico.
Semi-submersibles are not true submarines, but rather are boats that have been built or modified to keep a very low profile in the water to make detection harder.”
But doesn’t that it look like they are up to no good?
They’re down to no good.
‘Cause they sit low in the water…
Citizens in Brazil beat up the Mayor of Toritama, who mandated vaccine passports to eat and mandatory vaccinations for children.
Tar, feathers, rail.
If he’s a slow learner, rope and lamppost.
(This is just juvenile bluster, Preet)
“Deputy DA and rising California Republican star, 46, who slammed COVID vaccine mandates one month ago at Turning Point USA rally dies after testing positive for the virus”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10368127/Rising-CA-Republican-star-slammed-COVID-vaccines-dies-testing-positive-virus.html
Article doesn’t say what killed her, just that it was “sudden”.
They can’t even say if she was vaccinated or not.
Or whether she was in a car accident, for that matter.
I am starting to see a pattern in the quick-and-dirty deaths of relatively young people with no or few comorbidities.
I don’t know WHAT the pattern is, but there’s something different in the quick deaths.
NY Post went with “dies of Covid”. I just rolled my eyes and moved on. I don’t believe any of this shit.
And these same outlets are running stories about how hospitals are packed with “children with covid”.
And? Everybody is getting it now. It’s meaningless fear-mongering.
^^^
I predict she will make an appearance on the Hermann Cain awards subreddit.
One of us. One of us. One of us…
Aaron Rodgers points out his copy of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand to Eli and Peyton Manning during Monday Night Football.
That explains why he is such a selfish loser that is likely “on the spectrum”.
The commenters are woke, raking Aaron over.
Everyone knows you can’t read wrongthink. It’s not like you should try to understand the perspective of anyone that might disagree with your worldview, comrade.
I’ll be more impressed if he starts quoting Thomas Sowell.
Sowell is a far better writer.
Isn’t anyone?
Good point.
Meh, I liked Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, albeit Fountainhead was the better book, as I have argued before.
That said, I read to be entertained, and those books entertained me.
I liked AS well enough, though I skipped past the final speech after the first couple of pages. We got it, no need to hit us over the head with it. Which applies to the book as a whole, really.
The villeins were, of course, cartoony and unrealistic… or so I thought until recently.
Baby steps.
Everyone starts with her, it seems.
The village bicycle
I tried reading one of her books once. It was awful.
Yeah, I didn’t make it more than 100 pages or so in AS.
I finished AS only because it was an audiobook.
Anthem is good.
And short.
+1 Neil Peart rimshot
Regarding corporate greed and the temptation to think of corporations as “greedy” as opposed to just being a cog in the free market wheel:
XY tells me of the equipment shortages and broken things at Walmart, then I think about the fact that one day’s take was $400,000. I can understand cutting payroll; I mean, that is the manager’s job, to cut corners where he can. However, I find it inexplicable (other than greed) that a place would skimp on its maintenance of things that directly impact sales. And then I marvel at the discrepancy between profits and what could/should be fixed.
OTOH, people are always going to shop at Walmart so I guess they have no vested interest in making things easy/efficient for their employees to work.
I can tell you a story about how penny pinching on maintenance led to the complete destruction of a multi-billion dollar industrial facility.
For want of a nail…
On my one and only visit to a Target IRL, I was impressed the degree to which they made the whole experience as painful as possible for the shopper. I can’t imagine what WalMart is like.
The place looked like a tornado swept through it. How the hell can people shop like that?
Both the Target and the Walmart nearest to me look like they could use tidying up and a fresh coat of paint, and aren’t particularly appealing to shop in. I go to Target more just because the Walmart is in a horrendous location unless you’re coming from one particular direction (the access road from the east). You can’t see it on the map, but 9W there goes along the bottom of a hill, with all the stuff on the east side being on a hilltop and everything on the west side being a relatively flat plain. Especially if you can take the access road on the west side, everything is easy to get to.
My first experience with Target was in 1986 in Baltimore, MD, where it was dingy, dirty, disheveled, and dark. I have never gotten over my first impression, even when I go into our neighborhood clean and bright and tidy Target. My other problem with Target is that they almost never have something I need. Of course, with Walmart being so empty-shelved, THEY don’t have what I need, either.
My first experience with Target was in 1991 when I took an overnight job as its maintenance and security guy. The downside was you had to be locked in the store until morning. The upside was I found a young Jennifer Connelly wearing a tight white tank top hiding in the store. We talked, I awkwardly flirted, we roller skated across the aisles…only to run into two inept burglars looking to rob the joint. We spent the rest of the evening foiling their attempt before somehow ending up with a bunch of cash or some such shit then we ran away together to start a new life…good times.
How about the time you worked as an assistant for Kevin Spacey?
That job got kinda dark.
It’s Kevin Spacey so… I thoroughly I enjoyed that. Even got a promotion.
‘That job got kinda dark.’
Yeah but it beats working with Phil LaMarr.
You know the supply chain is screwed up when Walmart is out of stock. I couldn’t get iceberg lettuce last night. It’s not that they don’t care about selling it. It’s that they can’t get it to sell.
I don’t necessarily enjoy shopping, but I have never been in a Target and thought it was overly complicated.
Probably highly dependent on the quality of the staff.
In mine there was product all over the floor and the shelves were half-bare and the items that were present didn’t match the tags.
Target is essentially the shopping destination for middle-upper class women in yoga pants. That might not be your thing I suppose, but it’s a nice perk.
LOL not my Target.
In my decades old chain retail experience unexpected mechanical failures – i.e. rooftop AC compressors, hot water heaters, shopping carts, etc. all came out of the stores P&L and hence the managers bonus and compensation.
So if you got promoted to the store with the 20 year old refrigerator case be prepared to have it come out of your earnings when it broke.
Not the best way to set-up incentives.
“‘Starving’ residents of quarantined Chinese city desperately barter electronics for food – as ANOTHER city of 1.2million is locked down due to just THREE Covid cases
Residents of quarantined Chinese city Xian have been desperately bartering electronics for food amid worsening fears of shortages and starvation.
It comes as Yuzhou, a city of 1.2million in central China, was locked down on Tuesday after just three asymptomatic Covid-19 cases were recorded.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10367093/Starving-residents-quarantined-Chinese-city-desperately-barter-electronics-food.html
Damn.
It’s worse since you get hungry again an hour after eating Chinese.
They didn’t say anything about cannibalism.
There is no cannibalism in the People’s Liberation Navy.
And there’s probably no tradition either.
I have a feeling it’s worse there than we can possibly imagine just from the few stories that have leaked out.
Pooh is going full-tilt Mao. That is not going to end well for a large number of them.
Maothusian?
So much this. I’m surprised we learned this much. It’s undoubtedly far worse than the few reports that have gotten out.
Don’t let your kids play with the
Jewsunvaccinated.People are giving this stuff to babies?
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/there-are-25754-adverse-event-reports?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozMTYyNjE4MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDY1NjUwMTQsIl8iOiJqRFkzTCIsImlhdCI6MTY0MTMzMTMzMSwiZXhwIjoxNjQxMzM0OTMxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTE2ODk2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.Tf6jOjIoTmnP-Eu5tcJ6E6hFJtk_x8-4qgSymq_fDjc
Unless I get a good explanation I now assume anything that uses data from VAERS is absolute garbage both pro and con since COVID vaccines began reporting to it.
It’s self reported and the the government does almost nothing to verify the claims.
VAERS reports typically go thru doctors. As such, I doubt there are a bunch of doctors making stuff up and reporting it.
From memory I seem to recall a self reporting function.
Checking….
https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html
Traditionally, not how it’s been used. That may have changed in the last couple of months.
I absolutely would believe that the FDA wants the VAERS data to be unusable at this time.
I know you’ve got way more vaccine experience than I do.
However, in the past I’ve dealt with Med/Mal so prior to the COVID vaccines becoming available I was researching liability and vaccine settlement fund eligibility and reporting. It was during that time that I noted the self reporting ability on the web sight and predicted this would result in exactly what has occurred.
Not really. I’m just picking it up as I go.
I have wondered what has happened to the quality of the data over the past few months as doctors have been dissuaded from reporting and patients have become aware of it.
Yeah, the FDA and CDC knock VAERS every chance they get, but ask them why they haven’t come up with a better system and you get the the standard FYTW answers (aka “we need trillions of dollars to do a good system”)
It exists, if you know about it.
It would be helpful to see the breakdown on self-reported versus thru doctors.
People are nucking futs.
My wife was just in the pharmacy and a woman was telling her thirteen year old daughter that she was getting a booster for her birthday and should be thankful.
I’m not making this up.
Um… aren’t the jabs free to anyone who walks in? Or is that just here.
Fuck, they’re paying people to take them in many places. That’s not shady at all.
Hey, I can get a hundred bucks if I submit to the jab here in Alberta.
A hundred bucks! WHOOOOOOO!!!
My company is offering $100 for the vaccine + $500 for the booster.
Naht gonn doer.
How much is that in real money?
The exchange rate is loonie.
Her daughter will make up for it by putting her in a home…that accepts Medicare!
Last week I posted a link about a life insurance company experiencing a big increase in the death of working age people,
Steve Kirsch noticed and breaks down the numbers
Robert Malone noticed and now feels like me – conspiracy theories might just be spoilers.
I posted an article this morning that fentanyl is a leading cause of death for 18 – 44, if I remember correctly.
“Unprecedented: Deaths in Indiana for ages 18-64 are up 40%”
:: gulp ::
Well, fuck.
“‘Here’s how you know Jews are still where they are’: Jon Stewart accuses JK Rowling of anti-Semitism over her depiction of goblins in Harry Potter who run the Gringotts Wizarding Bank
Stewart, 59, said the banker goblin characters are based on caricatures of Jews from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous anti-semitic text that purports to show a Jewish plan for world domination.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10368289/Jon-Stewart-accuses-JK-Rowling-anti-Semitism-Harry-Potter.html
If he thinks that she based her banker goblins on Jewish people, then he must think all bankers are Jewish. Who’s the anti-semite now?
“If he thinks that she based her banker goblins on Jewish people, then he must think all bankers are Jewish.”
I don’t see how that follows.
He made an assumption of what Rowling thinks. He can only base his assumption on his own beliefs.
He’s accusing her of blowing a dog whistle that doesn’t exist.
“If you keep hearing dog whistles, you’re the dog”
He’s accusing her of blowing a dog whistle
That’s just disgusting. What is wrong with people?
Ope!
Regardless, that’s not how sets work.
Exactly this.
To be fair, brits have been notoriously antisemitic for a long time.
“He’s not an antisemite. At least, no more than anyone else.”
And here I was thinking it was a dark take on the “Gnomes of Zurich” Swiss banker meme. (Sorry, Swiss.)
I thought it was based on the Ferengi, who I assumed were based on the Jews.
Stewart’s just trying to get some cred back with the woke crowd.
Story about wizards? Shit is anti-science too.
That’s some timely criticism Steve.
Reductio Absurdo!
Today Show teaches parents how to
abusedouble mask children.Instant karma.
Don’t play with fire
That’s going to leave a mark.
Class in shop or chemistry is in order for that young man, although his OJT will suffice.
That’s what happens when you replace “stop drop and roll” training with gender studies.
Bolsonaro needs to stop eating at Chipotle.
Wait- I thought intestinal blockage was the last thing you had to worry about at Chipotle.
Last week I went on vacation with my family.
Me, too. It was lovely, but getting there and back was so bad I’m thinking bout shorting airline stocks.
The ‘vid theater is worse than it was a year ago. Many, many people were popping positive on the rapid test to get back into the country. The procedure is to follow up with a pcr test – which is often negative – but you lose at least a day.
And, most importantly, American Airlines can suck my balls. When we transferred in DFW, they decided to put half my luggage on a later flight. Without communicating, of course. Me and a few other people decided to wait the two hours to get our bags since there were literally hundreds there waiting to be delivered. The chick said it could be “days” until we got them.
I love, love, love travel but these motherfuckers are making me want to stay home.
Why I drove. I see more road trips in my future
I see more road trips in my future.
The Spousal Unit and I foresee the same thing, for much the same reasons.
We are thinking of a San Diego trip sometime this spring.
I love roadtripping. My last two roadtrips have been with my mom. It’s a good damned thing we mostly get along.
I’ve got no issue with road trips, but that would cut out the annual Viva Las Vegas trip. Driving for 2,000 miles one way would be exhausting. When planning a trip I try to keep the driving under 6 hours a day.
road trippin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11GYvfYjyV0
That’s a no for me, dawg.
I’m not traveling with this theater place.
Gotta keep it in perspective. I suffered through the bullshit to spend some legit wonderful times with my wife and kids.
And sometimes I just need this.
I’m done waiting for this shit to be over.
Results of short rib cookin
https://pasteboard.co/mCRcGqOAVBoM.jpg
That looks good! I have some short ribs from the beef I bought last year still in the freezer…
Mmm mmm.
I see no pistol ;^)
We eat ribs with this dude, but we didn’t have a clue.
Ha!
I’m guessing that was the inspiration for the opening to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNbp0u8WjA
Last time we went to Disneyland – almost 2 years go, just before everything went to shit – we couldn’t get on the Rise of the Resistance ride in starwarsland because it required a reservation, which were all snatched up by the Disneyland Hotel guests who get in an hour earlier than the general public.
I went to Disneyland when I was 13. They refused me entry because, by their rules, my hair was too long.
Fuck those people with a rusty butter-knife.
Long-haired freaky people need not apply? Just how old are you?
See I spent the extra time to format out a link…
Thank you for enacting my labor.
Five Man Electric Band – Signs with Lyrics
Great song.
Wouldn’t someone who was that concerned with proper manners not hire an applicant who was wearing a hat indoors?
Speaking of which – when did it start being acceptable to keep your lid on your pointy damn noggin while at the table? Especially in a restaurant?
If I’d have done that when I was a kid the Old Man would have knocked that hat right off me.
That ship sailed a while ago, I’m afraid.
Obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3UNH6Ll9jU&ab_channel=SPOILER
Same here. But if you think that’s bad, my mom would have smashed a plate against my face if I put my hat on the table. My brother did that… once.
Since moving to GA, it took me awhile to get used to all the dudes I know sitting down to lunch and dinner with ball caps on. I remember a hat wearing good ol’ boy talking about ripping an earring out of his son’s ear for wearing it at the dinner table. Man, my tongue was not so tasty.
We actually observed that last night, at a $50+ per item restaurant. Given it is Vegas, but have some manners.
What does me wearing a hat have anything to do with YOU or manners?
Removing your “hat” likely evolved from medieval times where knight would remove their helmets.
Really shocking to see this nitpicked on by Liberty minded folks.
If I can ignore all the lunatics wearing face diapers and sheep caving to tyrannical jab pressure, you can ignore someone wearing a hat indoors.
If were going to go all tyrannical on restaurant etiquette, I have a long list that come before patrons wearing hates. Im still shocked how many people dont cover their mouths when sneezing or coughing.
We’re not saying there aught to be a law, just that it’s gauche. You can wear shorts, a wife-beater and flip-flops, too, if the restaurant allows. You do you.
Well, I certainly hope you guys dont make the leap to “there outta be a law”.
As for being gauche, its not. First of all, most Americans dont even know what gauche means. Once America ditched all the hat and coat check customs why would wearing a hat problem not go with that stuff.
You can pick and chose what customs you think are low class but many wont agree with you. In fact, Much of America doesnt hold doors for people or do little courtesies anymore. You dont have to. Its America.
I remember the last time I went to a strip club and they wouldnt let me in with a hat. Thats class!
When they stopped having a coat/hat check station? What are you supposed to do with it, one can drape ones coat on the chair back, not so much ones hat, should you set it on the floor? Hold it in your lap? As others have mentioned putting ones filthy hat on the table is actually unsanitary not just gauche, keeping it on ones head is the best move in many cases these days.
Wouldn’t that be antisemitic?
You sure it was your hair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfHENoO6LgA
Dye it pink and that gets you in for free now.
Nothing to see here. 25 year olds have heart attacks all the time.
GUATEMALAN star Marcos Menaldo has tragically passed away at the age of 25 after suffering a heart attack in training on Monday.
The Deportivo Marquense defender complained of breathing difficulties during a session while preparing for the new season.
Menaldo received emergency CPR at the Marquesa de la Ensenada Stadium in San Marcos.
He was then transferred to the Hospital de Especialidades where he died.
How many professional soccer players is that in the past three months now?
Are we sure they all all real injuries? This is soccer we are talking about.
*whistles, holds up yellow card*
I’m pretty sure we can count the deaths as injuries.
Dozens. Someone linked a list.
Semi-submersibles are not true submarines, but rather are boats that have been built or modified to keep a very low profile in the water to make detection harder.”
And this is where that story takes me
This is where that story took me.
https://www.nysl.nysed.gov/mssc/merrimac/02monitor.htm
A lot lower than that though – basically flush with the surface and not much else. I’ve seen the under construction pics – they’re getting pretty savvy in the design although several of the ones we were sent to intercept wound up taking on water and floundering before we even got there.
This made the rounds a couple years back – a Coastie boarding one of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7NGn4rvOs
the balls on those dudes…
Scuttled?
I have not been to a Disney park and I have never had any desire to do so. Walking for hours in the hot sun on asphalt in a hot climate, standing in line for hours to ride one ride once… No thanks.
Same. I would rather have my tongue nailed to a wagon wheel.
Ditto. I love amusement park rides but I’ve never had the slightest liking for anything Disney.
My cousin is Disney-mad. EVERYTHING has to be Disney, about Disney, from Disney, or for Disney. Sure, I have my pet interests, but damn.
People are funny like that. Mrs. Animal’s Grandma loved M&Ms, and all things M&Ms. She had all kinds of damn M&M paraphernalia, and visits to Las Vegas always included a couple of hours spent in the M&Ms store.
Disney excels at the full immersion. They hide the outside world and the inner workings of the park from guests.
Go on election day. Nice weather and small crowds.
Don’t ever visit the Colosseum if you go to Rome. Worst tourist “experience” in my 63 years of life, and that’s sayin’ somethin’.
What?!? I thought it was cool!
Of course this was back in the mid 90s and later in the day. No crowds, but a ton of cats.
Were the cats pretending to be lions eating Christians?
I remember the cats too. And the nearby pizza place.
I thought it was reasonably cool. Our local guide pointed out the locals aren’t exactly “proud” of it, given all the dark shit that went down there.
That wasn’t bad. But we happened to be around it in the late afternoon on December 26.
I’ve always felt that Disney (and other year-round) amusement parks were tourist subsidized places for state residents. You used to be able to buy a year long pass that paid for itself in about 2 visits and came with discount benefits inside the park. It’s been a long time, but I remember enjoying it when I lived west of Tampa. You let the tourists bake in heat for the enjoyment of limited overpriced rides. Locals go in the middle of week during the late Fall to early Spring months. No crowds, no kids, no heat, low(er) humidity, and some interesting fuzzy foreigners. When I briefly returned to the Tampa area for work, we used to regularly check my daughter out of 1st grade for an ‘appointment’ and take her to Busch Gardens. Free parking, free beer, and no crowds at all.
Locals know when to go. Election day was my favorite for Disneyland. There were times we got it wrong and would leave. Not a big deal with annual passes. Back then annual passes were under $100.
Same. But I had a blast as a kid at Bush Gardens Williamsburg. I’m thinking about taking the kids next year.
If we do go, I’m going to buy the passes that let you skip the line and go directly on the ride. $30/day to skip lines unlimited times is a steal.
That’s the Shitlord Premium. “You poors just wait your damned turn!”
It pisses me off, but I can’t argue with it. If poors are willing to stand in line for an hour for over 100 dollars, have at it.
Skipping the line is the only way to go. But it was much more than $30/day at Six Flags New England 13-15 years ago.
Titty Tuesday for your Onanistic self-abuse.
https://archive.is/uftYC
Disneyland used to be a local hangout for us teens in the 90s. $55/year passes for California residents or something like that.
Grad night typically was held there and it was drugs and teenage fondling from the moment you got on the bus until sunrise.
Grad night was fun. I also went for the Captain EO release weekend. Disneyland stayed open the entire weekend (I believe 60 hours). I was there for at least 24 total hours. I had one semester of college with a long break between classes. I would often pop over to Disneyland for lunch and some rides. I still have my pass.
I took my kids many years ago. Too crowded now. Everyone enjoyed Knott’s more.
Grad night, I met up, hung out and watched the sun rise with a really cute girl – from Nor Cal. sigh. Story of my life.
Sports news for the Yinzers
Please do so. We need a war monument in D.C. to remind of when a grandma and a delusional man wearing buffalo horns nearly seized control of the entirety of the Federal Government
https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/05/05/dems-to-erect-permanent-insurrection-memorial/
Unfortunately this monument to their enormous egos will cost all of us. All for a place for them to take photos of themselves crying.
On second thought, I might visit if it had a life size bronze statue of the Buffalo guy. But our luck it will be a statue of AOC, standing fiercely and defiantly behind a dozen security guards.
Make some Congressmen bravely cowering behind a bench and I will visit and lay some flowers.
Maybe it will be a statue of Mike Byrd standing over Ashli Babbitt’s body.
With a bronze pistol sculpture in the restrooms?
Channeling Charles James Napier, I want a permanent gibbets for politicians that break their oaths of office. You have your customs, and I have mine.
OFFS
Disgusting but entirely expected.
And of course it will attract vandals that can be conveniently disappeared by this administration. Fun times ahead.
The Puerto Rican nationalists get left out yet again.
How about a memorial to Rep. Scalise?
Excellent, where did I leave my hoodie and black bandanna?
Be wary! Be wary, the Sixth of January,
the election dope and riot.
I have no hope, that the election dope,
shall ever go quiet.
basically flush with the surface and not much else.
I figured they might be periscope/snorkel depth.
Dunno if these already posted, but I just got the 500 error twice.
We had the James Earl Jones reads the Bible on audio cassette when I was a kid. Thought it was the full Bible…but looking at the current Amazon links, maybe only the NT?
I made a reply to kk above that didn’t show up. I tried posting again, and it flagged the duplicate without ever posting the original.
Yeah, I’ve been getting some of those recently, too.
I’ll check the spam queue. WordPress has an amazingly random algorithm for that.
Yep, that’s where it was. Maybe don’t link to Canadian Viagra next time, eh?
The best way to combat shortages is to keep prices low
COVID treatments that work against the new omicron variant are in short supply, and Republican governors are accusing President Joe Biden of preventing their distribution by purchasing them in such bulk amounts that it prevents states from making their own purchases.
The alternative, though, could be a serious bidding war among states for treatments like antiviral pills and sotrovimab, the only monoclonal antibody believed to be effective against omicron. That’s what happened in the early days of the pandemic when governors fought over the purchase of ventilators, tests and masks and drove up prices.
We wouldn’t want those pesky price signals to confuse the Ministry of Plenty.
I read that as “The best way to combat shotguns is to keep prices low”
and was nodding my head for a few seconds…
Well, my Associate General Counsel is leaving for greener pastures. I thought I kept her office locked from the outside, but she’s a tricky one. Posting the position has been delayed because HR is unhappy with the current job description. It turns out “Performs duties as assigned. No complaining.” doesn’t meet their “standards”.
“No complaining” Is that like the “Don’t tell anyone it’ll just be our secret.” of the corporate world?
“Performs duties as assigned. No complaining.”
bow chicka wow wow
If she went to Embry Health, I can assure you there is no pasture there. Unless she’s a psycho.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/31/ghislaine-maxwell-placed-on-suicide-watch-as-she-awaits-sentencing-15845299/
Ghis did not kill herself.
I know of two guards who have been cleared of wrongdoing and might be available.
What could possibly go wrong?
Because it worked so well for Jeffery.
The real kicker is if she is guarded by the same two guards they just let off.
I’m guessing we don’t know their names. But yes, that would be awesome. “We’ll protect you… most of the night.”
Citizens in Brazil beat up the Mayor of Toritama, who mandated vaccine passports to eat and mandatory vaccinations for children.
🙂
*clicks on the 12-17 age chart, sees .2 per 100k vs. 2.2 per 100k*
Well, I guess that is 10x.
Does that include those who have reactions to the vaccines? Because myocarditis, like most cardiac diseases, isn’t one you can just “stay in bed” to recuperate from.
Marry a prostitute. Win-win.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17220103/spend-fortune-escorts-wife-kids/
Nothing wrong with paying as you go. You waited this long to look for a serious relationship? You’re probably out of luck. As the saying goes, all the good ones are taken.
He’s 36, he’s still got time. Might end up an old-dad, though – be sure to keep hitting the gym.
If he can afford child support payments, he just needs a dad bod to get started.
Compounding the problem is that two monoclonal antibody treatments are believed not to work as well against omicron, at one point prompting the government to stop distributing them. The federal government has since resumed shipments upon finding it overestimated the number of omicron cases.
The Biden administration now says it will not distribute these types of monoclonal antibodies to regions where omicron comprises more than 80% of cases. The omicron variant is now estimated to account for 95% of new cases in the U.S., as of Jan. 1, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.
You’d want to be able to identify the variant as part of the treatment, wouldn’t you?
Nah. Just
rely on the modelguess.Tell me again why the Feds are deciding who gets monoclonal antibody shipments?
Tune in next time for another episode of Fauci Knows Best.
Oh, you’re one of those naïfs who think we still have a free market and stuff in this country.
To answer your question, probably something about the Commerce Clause.
I love you so much right now.
That’s about the only thing my brain remembers from New Year’s Eve
Evening folks, Just got back to my hotel room after the first day of blacksmithing.
I have discovered that when I am tired, I start to forget lesson #1 – hot things are hot, don’t try to touch them. Thankfully I’ve avoided serious injury, though I did repeatedly call myself stupid as a result.
We started with J-Hooks, then S-Hooks, moved on to nails, and rounded out the day with a bottle opener. I almost despaired during the S-Hooks because I couldn’t finish mine, and it felt like I couldn’t lift my arm high enough to set the taper, something I repeatedly failed to do correctly all morning. But, after a break for lunch, I chose the make the smaller nails, because I was still worried about my arm. I churned out four. One was crap, one I had help with from the instructor, one was pretty good, and one was close to perfect. This was not the order in which they were made. Just making something that looked like it was supposed to and had the right taper boosted my morale so that I managed to soldier on to the end of the day. The bottle opener looked like crap, but was the right proportions and opened an empty beer bottle – Corona. It was the only reference to corona all day except for the two students who somehow managed to go through the entire day wearing KN95s. There were eight students and the instructor in the forge.
Now I have to figure out what’s for dinner and get myself a hammer hand glove because the friction injury on the palm of my hand would get worse without one.
Sounds like a successful day of learning. Good job.
And a wonderful excuse to buy more gloves. ?
Really, good job.
You could also use moleskin. That’s what it’s designed for.
So as not to post in the dead thread.
Airplanes with refugees in PA:
I was in the FBO at KABE (Allentown) on Tuesday Dec 21 getting my regular transponder check. All of the support staff were discussing the two scheduled after dark arrivals, and how the police would need to be on hand to handle possible photographers. This was clearly not the first flight in, and the problem was that their ramp didn’t really have space and equipment for a 737 and MD80 the same night. This was the private aviation part of the field and not the air transport side.
So, they have been doing this for a while.
Sounds like an opportunity for some alt-media folks to get some video.
*lights HM signal*
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/health/woman-suns-butthole-every-day-20963335
We doing greatest hits?
The sun eases the way for the drugs falling out.
I guess she was feeling left out from all of the guys sunning their balls.
That looks like Mormon Rocks
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0c/7d/2f/93/mormon-rocks.jpg
I wasn’t going to look, as I thought that was some sort hemorrhoid condition.
One of the most famous sites for movie/TV production.
Nice work, UCS. Would tape help protect your palm?
Foil
Another use of foil
ask an Expert
“Overall the Biden administration has performed well in responding to the pandemic except for two major deficiencies. First, with no coherent plan to vaccinate the world, especially the Southern Hemisphere or the Global South, we’ve allowed new variants of concern to emerge. The most obvious is Omicron out of Africa. This never had to happen if the U.S. exerted leadership and got the G-7 to vaccinate globally by now. Hopefully our new recombinant protein Covid vaccine with Biological E in India will begin filling that gap. Second, the Biden admin still has not attempted to counter the anti-vaccine aggression from the far right, choosing instead softer targets like Facebook or other social media outlets. But it’s not working.” — Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
Are you fucking kidding me? Any random junkie sleeping at a bus stop has more credibility than that bum.
So, I don’t know how true but I read that the omicron variant has all the markers from the virus back in 2020. The post suggests it was a frozen virus that was tweaked again in a lab and released….who the hell knows anymore.
A more contagious but less deadly version of the virus is what we’d expect to arise based on evolutionary pressure, no?
I can’t find the thread anymore. They had a graph of the mutations and were claiming that omicron emerged from a variant not seen since 2020.
This?
Yeah you posted it! lol.
At the moment it seems to be a toss up between another lab leak and evolved from a common ancestor that leaked in 2018.
Narrator: That was never, ever going to happen, you ignorant twat.
Has SCIENCE yet figured out why some household members get chicomvirus and others don’t? I now know of two families where the fully vaccinated parents had covid but their kids, quarantined with them and rolling around playing and etc., had nary a sniffle.
Same reason that people probably in the same shit holes of hovels in the middle ages didn’t get the plague while their mates and kids did?
Something, something innate immunity…
https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2021/o157h7-12-21/index.html
That’s probably a good idea with any salad that’s 10 days expired…
Really gives a new meaning to organic now doesn’t it.
That’s probably a good idea with any salad
that’s 10 days expiredAs Old Man O’Malley said when asked if he would like a tossed salad, “I think all salads should be tossed”.
Wait, that wasn’t a rimjob joke?
I’m proud to say I seemed to have used proper technique when shoveling yesterday and today. While my butt, thigh, shoulders and abs all hurt, my lower back doesn’t hurt.
For the first time since I was probably an infant, I have yet to shovel snow by January 4.
This is weird.
Tulip needs a hot tub.
I have one. I have not shoveled it out yet, though.
The post suggests it was a frozen virus that was tweaked again in a lab and released….who the hell knows anymore.
Where’s the ransom note? Was it lost in the mail?
“People who are overweight or obese are at a much higher risk of much more severe disease and even death from Covid-19 — and one new study suggests that losing weight can reduce that risk.”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1477976802178088966
A study suggests losing weight makes people less overweight?
Groundbreaking!
The gall that they are just saying this as if it is some newaged voodoo. TMITE and FGITE
“Our new ad campaign, to help prevent #COVID19 deaths and hospitalizations.”
https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1478201251737317385
Holy shit, something sane from a government?
“No one talks about how hard the journey to getting pregnant can be for same-sex couples”
https://www.insider.com/same-sex-couple-we-struggled-with-journey-to-become-parents-2021-12
We celebrate the mentally ill
Hard? Some might say it’s damn near impossible.
But they keep trying.
I have a lesbian relative that has kids thanks to IVF.
She didn’t make a big deal of it.
From today’s Twatter: These lawmakers were trapped together in the House gallery during the Jan. 6 insurrection. How they are healing together from the trauma…
Such trauma. Much healing. Wow.
How do they even sleep at night? My guess would be under silk sheets in a mansion.
Remember, remember the 5th November…. err 6th January.
the Trumpian treason and plot
Between Paul claiming he will bring Fauci to justice and Cruz claiming they will impeach Biden..it is beginning to look like the Rs are about to lose what they have one already.
They don’t call them the stupid party for no reason.
Surprise
When the government reported that consumer inflation rocketed 6.8% in the 12 months that ended in November — the sharpest jump in nearly 40 years — the biggest factor, apart from energy, was used vehicles. And while the rate of increase is slowing, most experts say the inflated vehicle prices aren’t likely to ease for the foreseeable future.
The blame can be traced directly to the pandemic’s eruption in March of last year. Auto plants suspended production to try to slow the virus’ spread. As sales of new vehicles sank, fewer people traded in used cars and trucks. At the same time, demand for laptops and monitors from people stuck at home led semiconductor makers to shift production from autos, which depend on such chips, to consumer electronics.
Driving the surge are drivers — American motorists and their wheels are the major culprit pushing consumer prices to the breaking point, CBS MoneyWatch reported in July.
The Consumer Price Index for used cars and trucks in July saw its biggest monthly increase since 1953, when Buick Roadmaster ruled the country’s roads. That surge alone was responsible for one-third of the increase of the overall CPI. Meanwhile, new car prices continue to climb. The average new car bought in May cost more than $41,000, according to Kelley Blue Book — a jump of over $2,000 from the year-ago period.
Pay no attention to the government bunglers behind the curtain.
“At the same time, demand for laptops and monitors from people stuck at home led semiconductor makers to shift production from autos, which depend on such chips, to consumer electronics.”
Citation needed. People lock up fab capacity years in advance.
I-95 finally opened
And the world shed a tear as access to Satan’s lair was restored.
It gets all the detoured traffic off
Jefferson DavisPatriot Highway.This is on DeSantis
My neighbor said talk radio was blaming Youngkin.
Twitter as well, some blue checks who oughta know better
https://twitter.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1478422587982102531/photo/1
An honest answer?
Walensky separately told CNN the new guidelines also reflect what the public is willing to tolerate. She noted that some data indicates less than a third of people are adhering to guidelines on isolation.
“We really want to make sure that we had guidance in this moment where we were going to have a lot of disease that could be adhered to, that people were willing to adhere to,” Walensky told CNN
Gee. Maybe people have begun to realize what a bunch of blithering useless idiots you people are.
People who have received a booster do not need to quarantine, but should wear a mask for 10 days after exposure, according to the guidance.
Say your prayers and rely on religious relics to protect you from evil. Go forth, and sin no more.