Big snow moving in. I got my wish. And apparently, the electricity here has the stability and reliability of Gaza’s, so we’re preheating and battening down everything we can, anticipating the inevitable blackouts. This is code for “alcohol in easily found places.” It’s possible- not probably, but possible- we’ll even be unable to open the coffeeshop, which places us at a disaster level one up from Waffle House being closed. But with SP, Wonder Dog, and WebDom nearby, and no shortage of intoxicants, this might be a fun adventure.
Speaking of adventures, birthdays today include a guy with an inflated opinion of himself; a woman who actually fucked Ernest Borgnine; a guy who was a much better president than Martin Sheen; the guy who said correctly, “I is”; a guy responsible for generations of diarrhea; the lesser of the two people with this name; a complete piece of shit who had moral responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the destruction of our civil liberties; a guy who was usually right but just as entertaining when he was wrong; the godmother of Harambe; a woman who didn’t have much to say but didn’t let that stop her; a guy who drove around in circles and somehow got famous for that; a novelty but a damn good novelty; a woman whose career started a precipitous drop when her bushy bush got better known; a woman who symbolized everything wrong with fine dining; a living monument to the mediocrity of Broadway; and a guy famous for being one of those living statues, albeit with more money.
And before the power goes out, here’s some Links.
FBI: “We do believe that, from engaging with the subject, he was singularly focused on one issue and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.” Right, which is why Muhammed targeted a synagogue. Pure coincidence. It could have been an Arby’s. Waiting for CAIR, Tlaib, and Omar to condemn the “brutal, unnecessary, Islamophobic, extrajudicial killing of this man who clearly loved his sister.”
Why does this make me immediately think of Bill Murray?
“Investigators believe the man was experiencing homelessness at the time of the assault.” Another white supremacist. And love the new “experiencing homelessness” euphemism.
The Progressive vision for the future of America.
Old Guy Music is an absolute delight. It’ll get your heart beating and your boogie boogieing.
Please tell me they never reproduced. I’m afraid to look.
There’s always poop in the water.
celebrating diversity by only featuring models from one part of the world.
Well, some of them look natural and some of them look like space aliens. That’s a kind of variety.
“Waiting for CAIR, Tlaib, and Omar to condemn the “brutal, unnecessary, Islamophobic, extrajudicial killing of this man who clearly loved his sister.”
Omar might want to sit this one out.
The media sure are being tight-lipped on this one. We don’t know his name, how he died, or well, anything yet.
Give them a break, their FBI handlers haven’t told them what to publish yet.
Right?
Basically no details released yet. Such events are not national secrets. *thinks back to Vegas*
Okay, some probably are, maybe this one too.
Based off of that and the target, I’m betting one if not both of the following are true:
1) The attacker was known to the Government and the Government either knew or should have known about the attack beforehand.
2) The attacker was in the US due to a Biden administration screwup. Either he came across the Mexican border illegally or he was one of those Afghan refugees who wasn’t vetted.
birthdays today include a guy with an inflated opinion of himself;
Robert Boyle?
probably one of the Montgolfier brothers.
Why does this make me immediately think of Bill Murray?
They’re making it Suntory time?
The man who should be president is under investigation for the January attack.
Is it contagious? Did he catch it from someone else?
It’s just an experience, to be enjoyed and filed under another of life’s exciting moments.
Like experimenting with drugs in your youth.
I didn’t experiment, I just did them.
“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”
I see we have turned this into a “hate crime”, with no evidence whatsoever.
Stay classy, the media.
Have they turned the synagogue hostage situation into a hate crime?
I just bought PCR test to check if I have this disease.
You could be an asymptomatic carrier.
I see that Australia deported Djokovic. One of their arguments in court was that he might inspire “anti-vaccine sentiment.”
CONFORM!
Don’t even think about the alternatives to our policies!
And the people will celebrate this decision.
Even the rich and famous aren’t allowed to ‘break’ the rules.
(keeping in mind that Oz first said he could come in with a medical exemption, only to turn around and change their mind.)
Victoria said he could come in. Australia said “that doesn’t count”.
Dan McAdams goes for Cathy Young’s throat.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/neocon-watch/2022/january/14/cato-hires-a-neocon-bigot/
I get the impression he doesn’t like her.
I might write whatever the hell they wanted to hear for that!
From a previous McAdams article:
Not quite (((every American))).
(((They))) would like a word…
And ***they*** presumably.
The sign in front of the local Bob Evans was obviously Sean approved:
They have unfortunately changed it.
??
Dan hits the whole lineup over at Reason et al. Now I don’t know who I’m supposed to like/dislike. Reason/Cato whetted my young libertarian leanings/learnings 40 years ago.
Ron, say it ain’t true. I’m experiencing disappointment in all those things I’ve trusted over the years.
Oh well, life goes on…
:chefs kiss:
Ouch. I don’t remember her being so nutso in the before times.
LOL
On the other hand…
Morning OM. Hope you made it through the snow and got to work. There will be a line of old people that depend on you, waiting outside. There is but one cafe in Podunkville, they open early. close early (2 PM) when the regulars need to go home for a nap.
Good music to start the day, Thanks.
You know the requisite denunciation of anti-semitism must’ve been painful for CAIR.
I haven’t seen it yet, but when it comes, it will likely be both anodyne and non-specific,
Some people did some things.
More like “We condemn all violence and religious hatred. This incident is the work of an isolated individual and should not be used as an excuse for Islamophobia.”
“It’s bloody awful. The styling and aesthetic is entirely wrong. We, as usual, have been erased. This isn’t #BlackGirlMagic, it’s Black Girls Tragic. Sack the damn stylist and photographers. In fact, sack the entire team. Smdh,” writer Taiwo Williams tweeted.
I guess they ain’t really black.
“They don’t look the way I think they should! Off with the heads of everyone who perpetrated this travesty against me!!”
“They are so skinny”
/My Mom’s reaction
Neh, I agree that they look awful and unnatural. The whole thing screams of trying to make African women, who really do have their own unique beauty, look like Melania Trump (who, by the way, I do not consider attractive). Black women can look like however they want to look, but Silk Presses for All!™ and a style grannies would wear in the 70s isn’t natural nor particularly aesthetically pleasing.
Authentic African beauty. [Disclaimer: I’m completely partial because she’s such a magnificent singer and overall appealing performer.]
Yes! Two of the most beautiful black women I have ever met were older, with a close-cropped afro, and, most importantly, with an extraordinarily sunny disposition. One lady, I was buying something from on Craigslist. I could not take my eyes off her and finally I said, “You are a BEAUTIFUL woman.” She accepted graciously and we laughed at how silly I am, staring at people who catch my eyes like I’m a loon.
Exactly! Furthermore, after you see how Kidjo dresses (for the record, she’s from Benin,) you see how ridiculous it was for Vogue to “celebrate African beauty” by dressing these models in staid black clothing. And straightened hair, for crying out loud! ?
If Michelle Obama had wanted to be truly groundbreaking she would’ve gone natural hair.
Agree with all of the above.
I haven’t seen more than a handful of African or Africa-adjacent women since the seventies with natural hair.
Or maybe just “African-American”.
“This is something completely new,” said Martha Beatriz Roque, a prominent Cuban dissident who was convicted of sedition in 2003, along with 74 other activists, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Their sentences were eventually commuted, and most were allowed to go into exile.
“There’s not a single drop of compassion left, and that’s what marks the difference” with the past, she said by telephone from her home in Havana.
Finally, true socialism.
The lack of compassion is a reflection of the unease the new leaders have. Fidel knew he wasn’t going anywhere and could let them slide a little. His replacements are afraid.
So this is what the Bossman of Oathkeepers can look forward to. Not a problem, 20 years will go by before they know it.
This is what the media should be like, across the board.
The Dems who voted for it did so knowing it wouldn’t pass. I wonder if they would have voted for it otherwise.
Yup. Voters are foolish if they fall for such ploys.
“the filibuster is an inherently racist tool, a relic of Jim Crow,”
The Democrats used it to block Tim Scott’s bill.
Marcus Porcius Cato was, if not the originator, one of the earliest users of the filibuster.
I wonder how ‘Jim Crow’ translates into Latin…
Ms. Castro said that after her son’s arrest she was fired from the state food market where she worked. She now lives on donations from neighbors and well-wishers in an abandoned community first-aid clinic with her 2-year-old grandson — Mr. Castillo’s son — as she tries to recover from cancer.
“Through him I came to realize the evil that happens in this country,” she said, referring to her jailed son. “He didn’t do anything, apart from go out and ask for freedom.”
They treated her cancer for free, didn’t they? What an ingrate.
Wow. Just got new county appraisal. Apparently my little house with no upgrades, etc just gained $60k in taxable value in the last year…..
Guess we’re waiting to see what the actual tax rate will be for the year (guess it doesn’t affect upcoming taxes).
although to be fair…some of it may just be catch-up since I apparently paid more than the “appraised” value when I bought it in 2020 (thankfully right before the real rush).
My property apparently depreciated this past year and my total bill went down a little. The junked cars I’m using for landscaping art are really working
I’m sure the attack bees don’t hurt either. Hard to appraise from the other side of the road.
Well, some of them look natural and some of them look like space aliens. That’s a kind of variety.
I thought they were mannequins.
Personquins, hater.
Speaking of which. Just watched the beautiful new BR upgrade of “Mill of the Stone Women” (1960) last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qr4Fn2ARLo
I did not know that Vogue was ever in the business of promoting “natural”.
The Decades channel has been playing Fall Guy episodes all weekend. Great early 80s cheesy TV.
It’s for your own good
Before Covid-19, Nicolas Rimoldi had never attended a protest.
But somewhere along the pandemic’s long and tortuous road, which saw his native Switzerland imposing first one lockdown, then another, and finally introducing vaccination certificates, Rimoldi decided he had had enough.
Now he leads Mass-Voll, one of Europe’s largest youth-orientated anti-vaccine passport groups.
Because he has chosen not to get vaccinated, student and part-time supermarket cashier Rimoldi is — for now, at least — locked out of much of public life. Without a vaccine certificate, he can no longer complete his degree or work in a grocery store. He is barred from eating in restaurants, attending concerts or going to the gym.
“People without a certificate like me, we’re not a part of society anymore,” he said. “We’re excluded. We’re like less valuable humans.”
As the pandemic has moved into its third year, and the Omicron variant has sparked a new wave of cases, governments around the world are still grappling with the challenge of bringing the virus under control. Vaccines, one of the most powerful weapons in their armories, have been available for a year but a small, vocal minority of people — such as Rimoldi — will not take them.
Faced with lingering pockets of vaccine hesitancy, or outright refusal, many nations are imposing ever stricter rules and restrictions on unvaccinated people, effectively making their lives more difficult in an effort to convince them to get their shots.
It could be worse. In the South African version of apartheid, there was no option to just stop being black.
Anti-vaxxers in the Mist is the new Rednecks in the Mist.
Later in that crapfest of an article:
Nothing like just blatant lying there, folks.
Every contact tracing I have done for my work has been fully vaccinated and sometime fully boosted. Our unvaxxed just shut up and take sick days.
https://www.arcamax.com/entertainment/weirdnews/s-2620005
Large green fireball over Hungary.
Hopefully our alien overlords are finally here to
rescue us from our tyrannical mastersenslave us all in equity.Just so long as they’re cute.
Agreed.
https://bestofcomicbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/grace-park-pretty.jpg
Really?
I mean, not that I wouldn’t but she isn’t *that* cute.
Tough crowd.
Sure, Natasha Henstridge may have been hotter, but she wants to kill you after.
I dated a Tricia Helfer proportioned West Texas blonde once upon a time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricia_Helfer#/media/File:Tricia_Helfer.jpg
It was invigorating. Everyone should try it at least once.
Sure. Just go for it.
Ehh, the tentacles aren’t an automatic ‘No…’
I’m disappoint in both Sean and TARDis, there was an obvious choice for an attractive alien overlord.
You can go a few years younger for another overlord candidate
Usually meteorites, I believe. Burning up – I assume the green color comes from composition (more copper or something? Just a guess…)
And that isn’t the best picture for Grace Park — she looks like she seriously could use a sandwich or two.
“We will not allow a tiny minority of unhinged extremists to impose its will on our entire society,” Germany’s new Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said last month, targeting the violent fringes of the anti-vaccine movement.
Unhinged, you say?
How about just leaving them the fuck alone, Olaf? I know it’s a lot to ask.
Uh… ??? *headsplode*
“We will not allow a tiny majority of unhinged extremists to impose its will on our entire society”
51-50 Senate vote. Not a real majority-majority
So… everyone in lockstep — Ein race, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer even?
The scientific basis for anti-Covid measures is solid: Vaccines have been proven to reduce transmission, substantially slash the likelihood of serious illness and decrease the burden on healthcare systems.
Many of the restrictions also have broad public support — Switzerland’s were recently backed comfortably in a referendum — as majority-vaccinated populations tire of obstacles blocking their path out of the pandemic.
——-
But the latest rounds of curbs have fueled anger among those unwilling to take a shot, many of whom are now slipping out of society — or resorting to subterfuge and rule-breaking to create their own communities, citing their right to “freedom.”
“On Monday I was with 50 people eating in a restaurant — the police wouldn’t be happy if they saw us,” Rimoldi told CNN, boasting of illegal dinners and social events with unvaccinated friends that he likened to Prohibition-era speakeasies — but which public health experts describe as reckless and dangerous.
Attendees will hand in their phones to avoid word of their meetings getting out, and will visit restaurants, cinemas or other venues whose owners were sympathetic to their cause, he said. “Yes, it’s not legal, but in our point of view the certificate is illegal,” Rimoldi added unapologetically.
“[Some] people have a very twisted idea of what freedom is,” said Suzanne Suggs, professor of communication at the University of Lugano’s public health institute. “They’re arguing it’s their individual right to harm others.”
Locking them up for twenty or thirty years will teach them the true meaning of freedom.
“The Vaccines” have also been proven to kill people, cripple people, and cause severe injury. We still have no idea of the long term effects.
“[Some] people have a very twisted idea of what freedom is,” said Suzanne Suggs, professor of communication at the University of Lugano’s public health institute. “They’re arguing it’s their individual right to harm others.”
Hey Susie? Do me a favor. Make a list of all the things that you do in an average day, that carry zero potential to harm others. I’ll wait.
‘Twisted’ is right…
By this logic, every human on earth must be locked into individual pods, forever.
Matrix style.
https://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TCM/Images/Dynamic/i443/thisisspinaltap_rocknrollcreation_FC_470x264_062020170229.jpg
Because mob rule is an obviously sound means of running a country.
“The right to harm others is our collective right” she added. /s
If they catch someone who is actually sick out and about I could see the case, but being unjabbed has nothing to do with harming others, you dimwit.
Was actually asked to leave an AA meeting yesterday because I wouldnt put a mask on. I just sat there and wouldnt leave. I hate having any attention put on me ever so it was a very uncomfortable . Brutal actually.
Guy was lecturing about church rules and “group conscious”
Mens meeting so it was 25 grown men all sitting around masked up like fucking idiots. Sad.
Dude, that is thoroughly fucked up.
This is a no judgement zone…unless we judge you.
Were they all 6 feet apart too? N95 masks?
Messed up.
Good on you for sticking to your guns.
I have a hard time being the object of attention to, which has lead me to cowardice. Keep it up brother.
Yeah would have loved to be able to stand up and rip the guy who asked me to leave a new asshole and give a big fiery speech. Maybe in my next life.
Was kind of actually hoping someone would try and physically make me leave but Im a pretty large person so that didnt happen.
And the increase in substance abuse, overdose and non-vid related death is an absolute mystery!
Good on you.
Kroger is back on mandatory masking for all. Did not comply. Looked like about 2/3 did though. Nobody said a word or even shot me a dirty look. Got some nods from the unmasked.
Went to an antiques mall yesterday, in Cumming. Mask recommended, about 5% compliance. Damned inbred, always flouting the rules.
I’ve noticed a disappointing uptick in talismask wearing among the young women at spin class. One was bragging about getting their booster the other day. I even saw someone try to keep their mask on during the workout… that did not last long.
“‘Sex coach’ who bills herself as a ‘vaginal weightlifter’ is charged with allegedly bashing an elderly woman who knocked on her door to collect the census”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10407369/Sex-coach-vaginal-weightlifter-Kimberley-Hawrelak-charged-attacking-census-collector.html
I’m tired of this shit.
Meh. Australia. They should all be in lockdown, not knocking on random doors.
“vaginal weightlifter[…]knocked on her door on Cumming Parade”
!!!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10406317/Chelsea-Handler-46-skis-marijuana-leaf-bikini-holding-bottle-vodka-jar-weed.html
What a waste of a nice body.
Would, but only if I can put a ball gag on her to shut her up.
Pretty sure you’ll catch something and it will be like throwing a hotdog down a hallway.
Not worth.
Id like to make a sweet snuff film with her.
She’s in good shape, but no hips. Meh.
We still have no idea of the long term effects.
There is no future. There is no past. There is only now. Now, and fear.
“‘How many of those present on Jan 6 were FBI agents?’ Trump uses first 2022 MAGA rally to suggest FBI provoked Capitol attack, push debunked election fraud claim, endorse Fox anchor Kari Lake and show off new Save America slogan”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10406879/Who-won-election-Trump-supporters-droves-MAGA-rally-2022.html
“Trump really could be on his way back to the White House: Ex-President’s amassed a $115million election ‘war chest’, has a new slogan, and 82 per cent of Republicans will back him if he decides to run again in 2024”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10406275/Donald-Trump-amassed-115million-election-war-chest.html
There is no way the Ministry of Truth is going to let Trump win.
Democrats would never stoop to that level.
Looks like MAGA Prime got tatted up.
If its between him and any democrat I can think of, it will have to be the Trump train again. Maybe I could get my old job back (if I wanted).
Doesn’t look tragic to me, unless you count the starvation. Some serious chicken legs on some o’ them gals.
“We live in a two-class society now,” Rimoldi told CNN. “It’s horrible. It’s a nightmare.”
But if life as an unvaccinated person in Europe is a nightmare, it is one from which Rimoldi and his followers could easily wake up. Unlike in poorer parts of the world where some are desperate to receive doses, access to Covid-19 vaccines is plentiful in the EU.
The effects of the shots have been clear for some time; across Europe, regions with lower rates of vaccine uptake have suffered more severe waves of hospitalizations and deaths.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated in November that the lives of 470,000 people in Europe aged 60 and over have been saved by vaccines since the rollout began, though it has cautioned against vaccine mandates except as “an absolute last resort … only applicable when all other feasible options to improve vaccine uptake have been exhausted.” WHO’s regional director for Europe, Dr. Hans Kluge, warned in December that: “What is acceptable in one society and community may not be effective and acceptable in another.”
Yes, yes, of course. Death and madness lie in wait.
“We have been assured by our Infallible Oracle that this is the only possible course of action.”
“lives of 470,000 people in Europe aged 60 and over have been saved”
Great. Now do the vax complication rate.
Yes, but those lives weren’t saved because young people took the jab. It had everything to do with people making their own health decisions.
Notice they’re careful not to say ‘cases’ here. Transmission seems unaffected, whatever the ‘studies’ show. Meaning my jab status has nothing to do with you.
Now do Africa, where there are regions with lower rates of vaccine uptake and NOT more severe waves of hospitalizations and deaths.
I can cherry pick, too!
“Transmission seems unaffected”
This is what kills me; we’ve known for months that people with the vax can still catch and transmit the virus. To me, what limited value the vax has is to prevent serious disease in vulnerable people. Ergo: the “STOP THA SPRED!!” and “Get your vax or you are KILLING PEOPLE!!!!!!!” is utterly and completely meaningless. Further: this isn’t even a difficult path of logic to follow; I’m reasonably certain that a 6 year-old could connect the dots. Yet we have otherwise intelligent adults mouthing those slogans and platitudes everyday. Beyond belief.
I am very much not impressed with the human race.
What we are witnessing is the power of propaganda to make people scared, and scared people don’t always make rational decisions.
“Eric Adams, who has been mayor for two weeks, has noted that a perception of danger could drive more people to eschew the subway, complicating the city’s economic recovery as it tries to draw people back to offices, tourist attractions and more.”
Having a DA who doesn’t consider armed robbery a crime might be a problem too.
As controls have tightened, groups such as Rimoldi’s have become increasingly disruptive; few weekends now pass without loud protests in European cities. And anger at restrictive Covid measures has led many who previously considered themselves apolitical to join in.
No
fucking
way.
And it has led many others to dig their heels in on the insanity, out of spite, because to do otherwise would be to admit one has been played for the last two years.
I think I get Chelsea Handler mixed up with Moobs’ chubby daughter, or niece, or whatever she is.
“By the way, how many look like them or me in management with Vogue?”
Because everyone knows a person can only be happy when successful people share their superficial, physical characteristics.
No, they have different brains or something. Science!
the most interesting thing in the vogue link was that the vogue tweet had like 3 replies
how many people still buy that thing?
“They’re arguing it’s their individual right to harm others.”
But it’s perfectly reasonable for “society” to grind the heretics and sinners into the dirt, based on fantasized threats and ginned up tribalism.
compost not dirt it is more green that way
After a quite warm December I got an above average nat gas bill for my apartment. god damn this shit got expensive. 650 lei for a warm December’s heating…
Jesus. I think that is a higher bill than I’ve ever had for nat gas, and we got some pretty cold winters with shitty windows and doors in the past…
What’s that in dollars? I remember paying $300+ a month during those winters… and that was 30 years ago.
150
So a lei is only $0.25 in your downtown? No wonder Winston’s mom won’t come visit you…
Ah. My heat is part of the rent but that’s about what I pay for electricity in the summer months.
Same here. Less gas used than a year ago, but much higher prices.
Let’s Go, Brandon!
After a quite warm December I got an above average nat gas bill for my apartment. god damn this shit got expensive. 650 lei for a warm December’s heating…
Putiiiiiin!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17335379/left-out-of-wifes-threesome/
“My wife had sex with two of her exes at the same time with my permission”
Whatever floats your boat…
“This is my second marriage”
You don’t say?
Heh.
Deidre is really just a coomer living his mom’s attic, isn’t she?
?Sunday, Slutty Sunday?
https://archive.md/XwlmX
in local headlines “Cop who went to prostitute and refused to pay crashed police car while drunk and on drugs”
Aaand, Benitez is gone.
Pork spit-roast kontosouvli wrapped in caul fat, our favorite | Grill philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxOe6UR5ATY
who the fuck makes youtube in 2022 in non english with no subtitles
“It appears that the people who convened the Proximal Origin authors who staunchly dismissed a lab #OriginOfCovid may have also shaped the membership of the @WHO team that went to China and ruled a lab origin as extremely unlikely…
The only American who made it into the WHO #OriginOfCovid team was Peter Daszak, who had orchestrated @TheLancet letter condemning lab origin hypotheses as conspiracy theories.
Signed by at least 2 of the Feb 1 call participants….”
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1482697425173336065
Decent article but what Newt doesn’t get is that all of those 11 grievances he has are features not bugs to the Left.
https://www.gingrich360.com/2022/01/12/america-needs-an-honest-adult-conversation/
“Newt, can we talk? Just the two of us?”
“Islamist group @cairnational says it strongly condemns the Islamic hostage taking at the Texas synagogue, but just weeks ago campaigned with @lsarsour
for the release of the same convicted terrorist the hostage taker was wanting freed (Aafia Saddiqui).”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1482601556562399242
“Despite Aafia’s violent jihadism, mainstream Muslim groups & activists (eg @lsarsour, @cairnational, @omarsuleiman504) demanded her release. Siddiqui is so extreme that before conviction, she demanded jurors be DNA tested to exclude Jews.”
If you are demanding a terrorist be released, should people really consider you “mainstream”?
I’ve been kicked out of worse places than this
In a virtual hearing earlier on Sunday, three Federal Court judges unanimously dismissed Djokovic’s application to overturn the immigration minister’s decision to cancel his visa, but did not publish reasons for the ruling.
Lemme help you with that.
“Fuck you, that’s why.”
There’s also “to placate the rabble who are spitefully calling for his ejection because if they have to be locked down why does he get to run around sort-of freely?”
e.g., Deadspin via Metafilter (the Bizarro Glibs): https://www.metafilter.com/193995/The-adventures-of-Novax-Djacovid
Buncha Jeannie Buellers.
No cartoons? Slackers.
Can’t even get the past the title.
These people… SMDH.
Maybe I’m just a rube, but I’m skeptical of claims made by someone who names their channel “Click Bait”.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/my-husband-dates-women–25937231
“I would like to wish the players, tournament officials, staff, volunteers and fans all the best for the tournament.”
Bless their hearts.
The Buffalo Bills looked mighty strong, last night.
BUFFALO STRONG!
Proovez Tom BRAdy iz GOAT! BiLlCheK SuX WiTHout TB112!!!1!
Tom Brady wouldn’t have done shit about the Patriot ‘defense’ last night. Everyone on that side of the ball should have committed ritual suicide in the locker room after the game last night.
Exactly. 7 Bills possessions, 7 touchdown drives.
One of the post game commentators said, “I can’t even evaluate Jones’s performance – he barely touched the ball.”
https://twitter.com/Paynota/status/1482660867418341378
weird nsfw tweet of the day
Gah! Warty has competition, apparently….
Would.
I didn’t have you pegged for a Bad Dragon guy.
What was done… it was observed.
bad trigger discipline, tho.
It’s photoshop, and around 15 years old.
Nick Cammarata
@nickcammarata
I don’t know how “the quality of life lots of money gets you is peanuts compared to the quality of life inner work can get you” isn’t a more popular meme
It’s totally true, money guys and meditation guys both agree, and the meme cou
St. Rev, Former PhD Yin yangWaving black flagSmiling cat face with heart-shaped eyes
@St_Rev
Money will get you through times of no inner work better than inner work will get you through times of no money — The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, probably
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1482704630672986116
Whom do you expect us to do medical experiments on?
Dr. Bartley Griffith, the doctor who performed the first successful pig heart transplant in a human, pushed back on criticism that the patient’s criminal history should have pushed him to the back of the line.
David Bennett Sr., who received the pig heart, was convicted in 1988 of stabbing a man seven times and the victim’s family said they wished the heart went to a more “deserving recipient.” Criminal history isn’t a factor in deciding who receives what medical attention and Bennett’s incarceration didn’t enter into the discussion when considering him for the transplant, according to Griffith.
It’s not like they’re going to stick a GMO pig heart in Nancy Pelosi.
OTH – if Bennett refused to be vaccinated…
“– Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters would oppose a proposal for federal or state governments to fine Americans who choose not to get a COVID-19 vaccine. However, 55% of Democratic voters would support such a proposal, compared to just 19% of Republicans and 25% of unaffiliated voters.
– Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Democratic voters would favor a government policy requiring that citizens remain confined to their homes at all times, except for emergencies, if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a proposal is opposed by 61% of all likely voters, including 79% of Republicans and 71% of unaffiliated voters.
– Nearly half (48%) of Democratic voters think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications. Only 27% of all voters – including just 14% of Republicans and 18% of unaffiliated voters – favor criminal punishment of vaccine critics.
– Forty-five percent (45%) of Democrats would favor governments requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Such a policy would be opposed by a strong majority (71%) of all voters, with 78% of Republicans and 64% of unaffiliated voters saying they would Strongly Oppose putting the unvaccinated in “designated facilities.”
– While about two-thirds (66%) of likely voters would be against governments using digital devices to track unvaccinated people to ensure that they are quarantined or socially distancing from others, 47% of Democrats favor a government tracking program for those who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.”
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/jan_2022/covid_19_democratic_voters_support_harsh_measures_against_unvaccinated
How many of the people who are approving of this understand that it wouldn’t be just the dirty unvaxxed who are monitored via digital devices? If vax passports come to be, everyone will be required to have it installed on their phone and on at all times.
It really doesn’t matter though. The people who want to monitor everyone will go along with it for themselves as well because they will never believe St. Fauci would use it against them.
Note how the independents are almost identical to the Pachyderms. That explains why Biden’s approval is in the 30s. It also shows just how enormous the gulf is between the urban, credentialed lefty class and everyone else.
He doesn’t have the charisma of a Hitler or Castro.
Yup. The Dems have a yuuge problem on their hands.
I think people will frame this as lefties being more willing to use violence against people who disagree with them, and that is definitely true. But I think it’s also that they live in constant fear that is stoked by “their” media and politicians. This squares with those surveys that show the left overestimates COVID stats by a factor of 10 or something. If you’re convinced it’s this deadly, then of course you’d want to go to extremes to stop it. I guess you could say the same for their view of Trump.
Remember, it is the same group who think 1000’s of black people are killed by the police every day.
You know, the educated.
Sam Bowman
@s8mb
Sounds like that mandatory bee brick regulation in Brighton wasn’t such a good idea after all. Oops!
https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1482644539148062723
what the fuck is a bee brick
One simple trick that apiarists don’t want you to know
Fourscore reacts to this one simple trick…
mutual
@mutual_ayyde
people are getting mad at this but its like true??? there’s just less interesting young conservative writers
https://twitter.com/mutual_ayyde/status/1482531082289688580
this tweet seems to imply there is such a thing as interesting young left writers. can anyone think of one?
What’s so funny about grammar, punctuation, and capitalization?
It’s not inclusive, that’s what’s not funny
So… get a job at Reason?
*Amazing* detailed data on 3rd shots and vaccines from Alberta.
Essentially: “The hospitalization rate among 3x-vaccinated 80+ year olds is lower than the hospitalization rate among unvaccinated 12-29-year-olds.”
Incredible. Wow.
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1482501951065661440
I am honestly not sure I can believe that data anyway, and if you do the numbers 237/100k is 0.2% I assume most with other health issues, some obese / sedentary. I see no reason for a healthy active 20 year old to conclude booster is good.
zeynep tufekci
@zeynep
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People ask me “how many boosters are you willing to take?” like it’s a gotcha.
How about three in a pandemic, and once a year as booster?
Hello, we’re the species whose existence has been defined by a struggle against infectious diseases—and now free boosters are the problem?
No, fuck you
“free” LOL
??
How many elderly are in Alberta? The entire province only has like two or three dozen residents.
Well, 4.4 million, but who’s counting?
Her surname is an anagram of “e, fuck it”.
When i was a wee lass, I was vaguely aware that racism was a real thing. I didn’t know that anti Semitism was still a thing (figured that died out with the Nazis), and I didn’t know people got hung up on “asians” or “Hispanics”.
My naive assumption was that racism was a relic of the past and would eventually disappear as the older generations met their maker. I was raised on the “content of their character” philosophy, and I stick to it still today. Colorblind, if you will.
What a shame it is to see that just about EVERYTHING is framed on a racial basis nowadays. Black vogue models, Asian woman shoved off a subway platform, @Oscarsowhite, only one black head coach in the NFL.
How is racism going to die out if we constantly obsess over it??
When i was a wee lass – 1920s ?
No, no, no.
HE was a wee lass while working as a hotel entertainer for Trump in Moscow.
Fuck off, Slav.
“How is racism going to die out if we constantly obsess over it??”
They don’t want it to die out.
This is sadly true. Many of our fine politicians would have nothing to talk about if they didn’t keep fanning the flames of “racism.”
A divided nation is a conquered nation.
The patient must not get well.
Oh, and profit!
In case you need further evidence of any of this, I noticed that Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were guests of honor at Biden’s “Jim Crow” speech the other day.
Those two should have been shamed out of polite society decades ago but there they were, being treated like royalty as always.
the first rule of post-racial club is to be post-racial
but joining post-racial club and getting on with our lives and letting the chips fall where they may and being accountable for ourselves…….well, where’s the upside in that?
https://twitter.com/yvtweets/status/1482477560483270665
Economics is hard.
Oh my.
She almost had a thought there, but it clearly overwhelmed her at the end.
Why can’t they just link to the fucking ticktock page it’s on instead of embedding it in a tweet? That way we’d know it’s a video.
If you are demanding a terrorist be released, should people really consider you “mainstream”?
That’s “freedom fighter” to you, pal.
I need to start making some decisions. My dad is old…will be 81 in a month. My plan has been to move out west, likely WY. But the more I think about it, the more I think I should move closer to my dad. That would be TN (for the no income tax benefits). It’s nowhere near the climate I want, and skiing is almost nonexistent within driving distance. Summers are humid & hot, even in the mountains.
I’m very torn. Very. I feel like I should be near my dad, but I want to leave the East in my dust so bad. What if my dad lives to 100, and I wind up being there for 20 years? Should I look at WY now, and maybe TN later if my dad’s health declines? If I were in WY, I could get to a major airport in ~3 hours.
What would you do? I really have no idea. And I’m panicking a little.
That is tough. I have the benefit of my sister remaining close to my parents, one who will be 82 this year. But if she wasn’t there? I would be in same dilemma as you.
KK. Follow your heart. I’m only speaking for myself here but here goes.
More than anything I want my children to be happy. I did my best to try to make them strong and independent. Maybe I succeeded and may be I didn’t but they also bear some responsibility. I don’t want them to feel any guilt about me. Recently I had a little problem, both kids wanted to rush here to ‘help’ me but in reality there was nothing they could do and I told them that.
I needed a good bit of understanding when I first got home from the hospital and my wife was able to provide that. Now that I have gained a lot of independence it would have been very destructive to my kids had they left their own lives to try to help me. One day I’ll probably need someone , hopefully for a very short time, but I also don’t want my kids to think it’s their responsibility.
Oops, I’m probably out of time on this thread, hey, I’m old and I type slowly.
Well, I’m used to hot and humid, and never even thought of skiing.
Also, as far as I know, the wind chill in WY is brutal.
I too want to tell the whole northeast where to go. However, I made peace with the fact I’m here for my parents.
My compromise was PA assuming it doesn’t get even more purple.
You won’t be happy if you have to get on an airplane when the inevitable emergencies happen.
Will he go where you go?
No – he’s staying in SC. My brother is there and his wife’s son is there.
(my dad takes care of my brother, BTW, not the other way around, so my bro’s presence is not a consideration as far as handling emergencies, etc.)
I appreciate you want to get out of VA to get to somewhere cold, more freedom, and with skiing. However, if you’re willing to move somewhere like TN, which would make you no closer to your dad than you are now, why don’t you move to SC for a while (which, yes, granted, you could be there for 20 years)? If you’re willing to suffer heat and humidity hundreds of miles away, you could suffer heat and humidity close by to him.
I think I’m not asking this right.
Five qualifications:
1. cold
2. close to skiing
3. out of VA
4. more freedom
5. relatively close to dad
If he won’t move, I don’t see how you can get all the things you want. Seems to me you can have 1,2,3 or 3,4,5.
TN has no income tax, SC does. From far eastern TN to my dad’s house is ~an hour, so we’d essentially be living in the same area. The choice is a) TN and be near my dad in case of emergency or b) move out west and have the scenery & culture but worry about my dad all the time.
The only reason I’m considering TN at all is my dad (and it’s the only state in the east with no income tax)
MIL’s home is just under 90 minutes away and Mom’s is just over 90 minutes. We visit them each about twice a week.
Miles add up but it is doable.
(only state w/no income tax in the East expect NH. If I move to NH, I might as well move to WY).
“it’s the only state in the east with no income tax”
* FL and NH wave hi *
(But I know what you meant)
Granted, they’re not the Rockies, but the Appalachians (esp. the Smokies, if you can gain some distance from the tourist traps) are not entirely without their charms. (And there IS skiing, though admittedly it’s probably not at the difficulty level to which you’re accustomed.)
I don’t like difficult skiing – I like soft old lady skiing. Skiing in the east is way higher on the difficulty scale. Ice & “corn” vs. powder. I grew up skiing in VT and PA. Now I want slow, groomed, powdery trails at high elevations.
Tough call. I would give TN a shot, I dont know much about life there but there is always a chance you might love it. Go skiing when you are on vacation.
If you wind up hating TN go to WY until god forbid his health declines.
Mrs. Hobbit and I had great plans when we retired four years ago. We bought an RV and had ideas of touring the country, away from home for months at a time.
The real world has crowded into our ideal world.
Both of our mothers are in their upper 80’s and both are living in assisted living. We have two daughters and a niece who are in the area and who can help out but the main burden of care falls on us. We can’t leave for more than a few weeks at a time.
We have chosen to stay local and help them. Sucks for us but is best for them.
I guess I have no advice, just mentioning the decision.
Mojeaux’s question is also valid.
That is a somewhat similar situation to which I will be in. My mother lived near my sister. Now my sister is moving and there is no other family members close. So my mom will be moving near me. Which kind of complicates my plan to move near (but not too near) other family members to make it easier for them to clean up after me when I die. I had also planned to do some traveling after I retire, like you be gone for months at a time, but when my mother gets here I doubt I will be able to leave for more than a few weeks.
Where would you go in WY that is anywhere close to a ski mountain that is in anyway affordable? I do constant property searches in the West that are within an hour drive of a ski slope (yes, I also love to ski and would do so 40-50 days a year if I lived close to a mountain). It’s not easy to find halfway affordable SFH in the West that is a short drive to the resort.
Laramie has a little ski area 40 mins out of town, and the big ski areas in CO are ~3 hours.
Yeah, I’ve been looking at eastern Idaho, western Wyoming and Montana. Western WY may as well be the Bay Area for housing prices. Presently I’m 3.5 hours to the closest resort, but under an hour would be fantabulous. Good luck in your decision and search!
CHA is booming since the VW plant, so your cost of living might turn more on housing than taxes. We (TN) don’t have personal income tax, but most jurisdictions make up for it with sales tax, which you can at least opt out of that some. Public schools here generally suck, so not so much is required in the way of property taxes. As you note, it’s only four hours from CHA to GSP. (I went to a high school in TN that was only an hour’s drive from IL).
Miss Georgia (probably Miss UGA for the rest of 2022) flies MEM to SAV all the time to take care of her mom after surgeries and such….that’s our grind now. Housing there is $300/SF but under $200 here, so it’s easier to move her mom here when the time comes than uproot our lives to move there….where neither of us would command any more in salary than we do now.
On top of everything else insane about this, the idea that new construction can solve a housing crisis is about as dumb as the idea that widening a freeway can alleviate car traffic
https://twitter.com/angel_sentbyGod/status/1482022460564324353
wait… widening a freeway doesn’t reduce congestion?
This has been an idiotic leftist belief for a couple decades now. Like most of their dumbassery it does contain a kernel of truth. If you suddenly constructed lots of new highways there would indeed probably be a bit of an increase of demand. Here in SF (like many proggie places in the US) they have of course taken this to the next level and actually reduced lanes on some boulevards in the belief that it will induce people to ride public transport or bikes. It does wonders for the old global warming to have cars sit in heavier traffic.
Ah. Yes they’re talking about the debunked “induced demand” theory of traffic. Yes I’m familiar with it. I get what they were talking about.
The Tate seemed to have hired the staff at Teen Vogue to write the notes for the Hogarth exhibition
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1482626729583730689
Hogarth is awesome and deserves better.
I’m not opposed to the vaccine, per se. In fact, I think people who want it should have it. Monthly, weekly, whatever.
As long they’re paying.
“People Who Like Kinky Sex Are Just Bad in Bed
Closing Thoughts
People who are bad at sex are the first to glamorize (and lionize) being bad at sex by declaring it a “kink” while shaming others who have a healthy, functioning relationship with sex for not being kinky.
If a man can’t make love to you the old-fashioned way through passionate vanilla sex, don’t chalk it up to you not being sexy or desirable. Chalk it up to him being a lousy lover.
Being terrible at sex is not your problem; it’s his.”
https://twitter.com/BritMartinez/status/1482409789074415618
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/people-who-like-kinky-sex-are-just-bad-in-bed
“An Englishman is unable to attain climax unless someone involved in the process is being spanked.”
10 things about George Costanza that haven’t aged well
Articles like this amaze me. This person has learned how to have a career simply by commenting on old TV shows. Additionally she does it without having even a basic understanding of humor.
God Bless America
I think most of them are young people with rich parents.
Think of all the violence and sexism in “The Three Stooges”.
“The sitcom derives its humor from how offensive its characters are….no one in the cast is perceived as a hero…”
She had it right the first time. (Ahem: “None of the characters is perceived…”) She is probably younger than the finale.
I’m not going to read that claptrap but I’m guessing the phrase “that’s not funny!” makes an appearance.
The world is terrible. I just found out they’ve made a GRITTY REBOOT of…The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Fuck everyone and everything.
Saw a promo for that during football last night. Really, Will? Was this REALLY necessary?
Did they do a race-switch too?