Hey, y’all happy… holy shit, its Wednesday?! Dammit. I have a crapton more work to do this week, and I’d like to kayak some this afternoon/evening. So far today, I have written an app and an API and I still have to write a technical specification and review a couple of RFPs. I think those may happen after kayaking and beer.
I wonder if Riley is of Greek descent and an older lady.
I wonder how much NASA will have actually saved when Boeing finishes billing.
I wonder who is surprised that shutting down the economy causes a prolonged recession.
I wonder how long it will take for young Ms. Greta to achieve Cindy Sheehan status (I’m sure a bunch of you who were kids in 2004 are saying “who?”) when her usefulness is gone.
Under the Commercial Crew program, NASA awarded SpaceX about $3.1 billion and Boeing about $4.8 billion over the past decade to develop spacecraft to replace the Space Shuttle. SpaceX developed its Crew Dragon capsule, which is set to launch astronauts for the first time later this month, while Boeing developed its Starliner capsule.
Well, the two companies didn’t have to subcontract out systems to 435 different Congressional districts, so they saved a bit of cash there.
The Communist Comics guy was adamant that Elon Musk is the bad guy and NASA is the good government agency saving space for ‘everyone’.
which is really absurd to think about. Space “belongs” to everyone. But really very few people can use it. It’s not like it’s a freaking national park you can go visit. The best way people could get the benefit from it is if companies could go and exploit the resources out there.
“NASA is the good government agency saving space for ‘everyone’.”
I mean except for the Space part, somewhere they haven’t been able to get to for the past 50 years.
Ten years from now I’m suiting up, heading to space, and getting in on that sweet government funded space debris/atmospheric environment cleaning grift.
I’m fighting like hell now to save my own space. The government is determined to get more and more. My space suit looks like a pair of bib overalls with a number of patches ’cause it is.
Put some Redman chewing tobacco in your front pocket, wear a puffy blue trucker hat that says: Gun Control is a Sharp Eye and a Steady Trigger Finger and you could be my dearly departed grandfather…
God, He’d be 110 soon, and I’m still a few days shy of fourty. He was born in 1910. To think of how different life was then. I guess you’d be more familiar with that than I but as much as I romanticize at times about the “simplicity of life” then and how I want the government to piss off and leave me alone I have to admit that despite my background in boxing and being a general scofflaw with plenty of familiarity with tough times…in comparison to my grandfathers I’m a doughy, whiny little bitch.
Sorry, I’m a little faded and got long winded there.
Er, to clarify, transport me back in time and I fall over in a less than a week enduring what they did for decades.
Again, faded. Me no make no much sense and my shit’s all retarded.
“God, He’d be 110 soon, and I’m still a few days shy of fourty.”
Damn, dude, good for you!
My 91 year old dad stopped being able to cope with the modern retardation about a decade ago.
My kids and grandkids are bemused by the fact that three of my four grandparents were born in the nineteenth century – two in 1894, one in 1896 and the last in 1901.
It really was a different world back then.
Shouldn’t the story actually be “Relying on Boeing lost NASA an additional $5 Billion”?
Only one of those two companies is actually going to launch humans into space this year. The other one is very close to hanging it up for good.
As long as robot brothels have Greta dolls, I’m sure somebody will remember her.
Shame on you!
“How dare you, how dare you, how dare you…”
Hey, can I get some help in here, I think this robot is malfunctioning!
Woman says “how dare you” during degrading sex, I view as a feature, not a bug
Heh, heh. “Sir, you will have to wait a half hour for the Greta robot to be sanitized. It’s very popular you know.”
“Half price to just pee in her mouth.”
I bet your name in college was Sweet P.
“A sun crazed Jewish man from the desert damn near broke the thing.”
Now, now. No reason to drag Jesus into this depravity.
“Check out our special line of robots” – Slimy Used Robot Sales Sentient
Would it be possible to dress the Greta Sex Bot up in a Dora the Explorer costume?
Asking for a friend….
Silver lining; The lockdown has allowed self-absorbed people to focus on themselves.
“US economy faces ‘longer-term concerns’ ”
I think that was the point.
“I wonder how long it will take for young Ms. Greta to achieve Cindy Sheehan status”
Who?
From Wikipedia:
‘Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan is an American anti-war activist, whose son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action during the Iraq War. She attracted national and international media attention in August 2005 for her extended antiwar protest at a makeshift camp outside President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch—a stand that drew both passionate support and criticism. Sheehan ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008. She was a vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy.’
I know very well who both of those people are. I was jesting about the other one. Neither one is of any importance whatsoever. They are both tools of the left to be discarded the instant they are of no more use. Useful idiots…more literally in one case than the other.
Cindy though had true anguish only to buy into the notion the left would always be there backing her battle…
Neither one of them can be blamed. Greta is MR. Sheehan lost a child…which usually means losing their mind.
It is the people pulling the strings that are to blame. I just wonder how anyone would think either one of those girls would have any credibility.
That I agree. Tied their horses to the wrong post
I still give Cindy credit for keeping it up long after Bush left office. At least the poor woman is principled.
Surprisingly right about when Bush left office was when the left suddenly had no more use for her. Wonder what could have changed.
There are lefties who despised Obama’s drone wars, but they had nowhere to turn and got blamed even more than libertarians do when Dem politicians they wouldn’t support would lose. “Jill Stein is a Russian agent!”
true anguish
A neighbor was a blue star dad. He was stuck for a worse reason: he needed to believe his son died for something; he was fighting the strong possibility that there was no something, or the something was an idea that his government never dreamt when they shipped the boy to Asia. But he just couldn’t generate the force-field of suspended logic; he needed to, but he could never get there (too much self-respect?).
I haven’t seen him in years. He knows I’ve strenuously objected to nearly every American adventure of my adulthood. Christian’s own kids should be biking around the neighborhood now the way I remember his childhood. I could throw up just thinking about it.
Bitterness knows no bounds
That’s the big point. If you bury your child, you’re not in the right place. That’s not to say you shouldn’t feel sympathy, just that one should not base policy because of it.
Media darling against war George W. Bush president. Barack H. Obama president, Sheehan anti-war inconvenience.
I always find “what they’re doing now” things interesting.
Haven’t bothered to look up Sheehan’s, though. But sometimes you find out that an actress you thought was really pretty when you were a kid is like the deli manager at a Publix in Tallahassee or something.
Or that Amy Lee from Evanescence ate the other members of the band.
Best thing for them, really
And miss out on 30 years of playing state fairs?
They aren’t even State Fair level has-beens. As long the airs can still book a Toby Kieth or a Peter Frampton, Evanescence will have to be happy with second stage at MetalFest 7!
Ann Wilson approves…..
[golf clap]
+1 Amanda Bynes +2 face tattoos
Implying Greta better or worse other CNN panelists talking, quoting Governor Cuomo, ‘European virus’ ?
It’s official. Ric Grenell has the biggest stones in DC.
He has just declared war on the intel agencies. They are going to fight back.
Something, something, the Intelligence Community has 6 ways to sunday to get back at you.
Worry is that DNC has near full cover from news and they can just not report it. No reporting it becomes relgated to “far-right’ news and can be dismissed.
I mean I guess with enough pressure they might do a quick…they had to becaus of Russia! and OrangeManBad!
Unless they start prosecuting a motherfucker.
War was already declared. They have been fighting back from day 1.
What you are seeing now is PANIC IN DC.
Their freakout over Flynn is the thing that is most interesting. Something going on with that for sure that they are terrified about.
Hyper
Flynn knows where the bodies are.
Yeah. releasing that with Joe Bidens name on it… Man doesn’t seem to give a fuck.
A lot of those names are out, but you just know that there are a lot of their cronies still embedded in the agencies like ticks.
And there a lot of assholes that will fight back just because they’re protecting the agency, law be damned.
I don’t know how to do the thingy that goes up on my phone but
THIS
up there with Scruffy
The thingy’s called a “caret” (car-AY). You’ll probably have an alternate keyboard set available when you press a special key. If not, install Swiftkey and give your built-in keyboard the boot, ’cause it SUCKS HARD.
Biden, Comey, Brennan.
Can you even think of a slimier bunch of turds than that? I can’t. I mean there are wannabes like Karen Jong un Hitler in Michigan, but those are still only wannabes at this point.
We need more like him.
Seems as though Q (not our local Q ) was not a conspiracy theory after all.
If Biden claims he doesn’t remember doing this, I’d be inclined to believe him.
He’s still alive?
Trump picked a good one there. I hope the 3 letter companies don’t try something to get rid of him.
“I wonder if Riley is of Greek descent and an older lady.”
I gave up after a few paragraphs.
Me as well. I tried, but I can’t imagine why anybody would care about this.
I am with Tres. Y’all have more staying power than I do.
Embarrassing confession time. Sometimes I look at my dog’s poop to see what weird stuff he’s been eating. I’d equate articles like this to looking at poop. It’s of value only if it’s your dog’s poop. To everyone else, it’s just shit.
* stolen *
I’ve seen socks pass through my dog.
Hair scruntchies are the dangerous items
sksksksksk
/and I oop
Has a turtle ever choked on a scrunchi?
Save the turtles.
(By the way, it is so fulfilling to do this to my 13 year old. She absolutely cannot stand it when I coopt her memes)
I recall the dog we got from the pound. ‘Repo’.
I went out to blast some of her poop with the hose and it looked like she’d ate the recycling bin.
It was probably 75% inorganic. That dog would eat anything.
I had a Newfie who would eat anything. I had to “assist” with the elimination of a piece of rope that was probably 18″ long. He also stripped all the fiberglass insulation out of a window AC unit cover that I had left on the ground while I fussed with the unit. I thought he was a goner after that one, but nope. Just fine.
My favorite: he was in the garage when we were visiting the inlaws. Along with a case of beer. I went out into the garage and he was methodically biting open the cans and slurping down the beer as it came out.
My kind of dog
I saved a $5 bill that went through one of our dogs.
Hey, $5 is $5!
Bella ate my wallet, the results were impressive on the way out,
It also tells you if your dog is normal, regular,
Did she break change?
I quit after the title. You’re stronger than I. Or more masochistic.
“The brave, hard-hitting journalists over at CNN are hosting a town hall Thursday evening called Coronavirus: Facts and Fears. Our First Amendment warriors are only bringing viewers the best of experts, such as former CDC Director Richard Besser, former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and … teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.
You literally cannot make this stuff up. This would be a masterful parody. It could have been one of the Babylon Bee’s finest works. Yet no, this is actually the reality of CNN in 2020.”
The lunatics are running the asylum.
Maybe if they didn’t spend so much time arguing to have their opponents silenced…
I think I’d have a higher opinion of them if they admitted they were afraid the virus came from ET aliens.
Hyperbole hardest hit.
Well, the Bee took the ball and ran with it.
“Neil Gaiman, the bestselling author who currently teaches The Art of Storytelling MasterClass, reacted to the news that he would soon be replaced with a teenage climate activist from Sweden.
“I have written stories for the ages. With nothing more than a pen, paper, and 26 English letters, I can transport your mind to worlds beyond your imagination. I can tell stories that will stick to your soul and stay there for all time… but I am not, nor will I ever be Greta Thunberg. Only Greta can take my storytelling class to levels I never even dreamed of.”
Maybe he should hire her to write season three of American Gods. Apparently not even Neil’s direct involvement can save that tedious shitstorm of a series.
The book was good.
I wasn’t impressed by it.
It was overhyped and what would have been a decent tale without the hype turned underwhelming.
Agreed, It’s the only Gaiman book I’ve read for a reason.
Good Omens for me. But that is because of the Pratchett co-authorship.
I read American Gods before the show. Have not seen the show either. He is a good writer.
The first season is OK. They stick to the book for the most part on only get woke-preachy now and then. But the 2nd season just dives straight into the shitter.
I have come to the conclusion that Gaiman can tell a good story, but he sure as shit can’t end it. Every single one of his books that I have read seem to meander about in interesting ways only to come to a screeching halt at the ending- like the final battle scene in Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail.
I’ve heard that complaint about Neal Stephenson too, but it’s been so long that I read him that I can’t remember.
Somebody at TOS, maybe someone here now, articulated a theory as to why Gaiman’s work would never translate well on screen and that’s why his Sandman work(which I adore) never could be developed for it despite at least one tentative attempt.
That was years ago and I just smoked a bowl so don’t ask me to elaborate on the details of that comment. Not sure what exactly made anybody think AG would fair better. Improvement in CGI? Hoping the sparkling lights would distract from terrible pacing and bad writers?
Never read Coraline, but I did enjoy the movie. Perhaps, because it was animated.
Ditto.
Also, I would add adorable.
Coraline is a children’s book. Creepy for adults, but an adventure for the kids.
Stardust was a fun movie, which strayed quite a bit from the book, but was entertaining. Mirrormask wasn’t based on a book, but was drawn into a graphic novel after the fact IIRC.
Never where started on screen and was translated into a quite good book.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane was very good.
But Gaiman is variable in quality, no question.
So what I should take from this is that Gaiman’s best tv/movie work is done as an original concept or collaboration? That’s cool. It just puzzles me why it’s seems so difficult in the inverse.
Trigger Hippie: Gaiman is wonderful at creating worlds and telling stories in them. However a lot of what he does isn’t something that will translate from the page to the screen well. His best TV/movie items have been collaborations. The attempts to translate his solo work into TV/movies are usually poor (to the point he shitcanned one of them – Sandman).
Good Omens is a bit different, as it was a deathbed wish of PTerry for it to finally be made into a show/movie, as they had discussed many years ago. If you don’t like comics (and don’t know Gaiman), I’d recommend picking up a short story collection long before one of his novels. Snow, Glass, Apples and A Study in Emerald are wonderful twists of genre short stories.
How did Miss Greta get here on such short notice?
Unmasking the unmaskers.
Biden was a surprise entry there.
The timing on the release is unfortunate for Biden’s lies.
When Biden says I know nothing, I believe him.
NOW, sure. Then, pull the other one.
I mean, it’s just that he doesn’t remember.
I wonder if Flynn knows more about Biden’s Ukraine shenanigans.
Flynn sure as fuck knows something they’re shitting their pants over.
The great joke that is coming is when the DNC decides to shit can Joe as the nominee and uses Ukrainian corruption as their excuse.
They won’t even bat an eye when people ask them why they vehemently denied that there was even a whiff of corruption involving the Bidens during the impeachment trial. They will just say “we’ve always been at war with East Asia” and the MSM will gulp and then run off to dutifully parrot the talking points.
Stelter will probably have the balls to lament on air about Trump’s failure to bring Biden’s shenanigans to the public eye.
I think this was Grenell’s response to Obama’s narrative about “the rule of law” being disregarded by the DOJ’s actions. Grenell just helped Barr out a fucking LOT and took a steaming shit on the narrative that the Media was trying to build, along with their friends in Congress, trying to undermine Barr as being “Trump’s political stooge.” Really hard to paddle up that stream now. They’ve tried to trot it out before, too, but Grenell just crushed all of that.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1260663471999463428
I’m refinancing my house because interest rates are insanely low.
Holy crap almighty, they want a lot of documentation these days. I’ve been thru this process multiple times over the past couple of decades but I’ve never had to cough up so many docs and forms. They want years of business returns, a P/L up to the end of April, and signed statements from my CPA that I’m still in business.
Tell me about it. I refinanced late last year after being in the house for about two years. Went through the same mortgage company. Another mountain of paperwork and they decided they needed a new appraisal. The last part baffled me. It’s the same house you loaned me more money on two years ago.
new appraisal
either the old appraisal still makes sense or appraisals today don’t make any sense whatsoever
I’m comfortable with either conclusion
Yeah, we just re-fied back in December. Dropped our rate by close to a point and a half.
I’m 38 years old, and I recently grew my first beard. As a trans man, I’ve spent the bulk of my nearly two decades on hormones not growing a beard. I was worried that whatever beard I could grow would make me look “too trans,” a symptom of internalized transphobia I thought I was over.
I tapped out here.
Although the program is about three years behind in delivering on the goals it outlined, NASA believes Commercial Crew program has been cost effective. A NASA presentation published on Wednesday outlined just how much the agency expects the Commercial Crew program will save taxpayers.
Cost effective yet behind. Good enough for government work.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank would continue to use its policy tools to mitigate the impact of
the novel coronaviruspower mad governors on the U.S. economy, but warned that the length of the health crisis raises “longer-term concerns.”Fixed it for you.
You literally cannot make this stuff up. This would be a masterful parody. It could have been one of the Babylon Bee’s finest works. Yet no, this is actually the reality of CNN in 2020.
What? I thought it was parody? Shit.
It’s too absurd to make good parody.
It’s sad really.
That person has been mentally abused by those around her. They’ve fed into her delusions and reinforced the insanity.
Greta is there to tie in how the Green New Deal can and will work! Just look at it now…skies are bluer, studies say pollution has dropped! No one is flying and business is still booming!
If I get 3 of 3 I am buying a 25yr scotch
Make it two bottles if she says something about the virus being the Earth’s reaction to overpopulation and the humans destroying its delicate balance.
“I’m 38 years old, and I recently grew my first beard. As a trans man,…”
I tapped out there but only because I couldn’t hit the brakes fast enough.
Luckily, I stopped before then,,, Hovering over the link and seeing jezebel was as far as I got.
I have many intensive projects and have completely lost all sense of time.
The Russell 2000 is getting crushed today. Given that it is a much broader index than the DOW or S&P, that does not bode well for the markets over the next couple of weeks.
Well good news though. The Fed is using all the tools at its disposal. I think my eyes made a complete revolution inside my skull when I read that.
Ouch, my nuts…
“Gov. Jay insole’s office has released a set of guidelines that restaurants will have follow to reopen for dining room service. It includes “a daily log of customers and maintain that daily log for 30 days, including telephone/email contact information.””
https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1260072515004780544
WTF?
Fuck off slaver
Looks like “I. C. Weiner” and “Hugh Jass” are the most common visitors here.
Just put down Jay Insole’s name and the number of the skeeziest massage parlor you know of.
IP Frehley, Mike Hunt, and Heywood Jablowme also dine out quite a bit.
Sorry I don’t have a phone number or email.
I would love to give my info to those lists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Insleehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Inslee
How can such a man turn out to be slaver?
From this day on the official language of Washington State will be Swedish!
https://youtu.be/dkYfmRwryQo
In New Zealand, where that was required, it was used for stalking. Which isn’t surprising.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/05/auckland-woman-creeped-out-after-restaurant-worker-uses-her-contact-tracing-details-to-hit-on-her.html
Didn’t click through but I’m 90% sure she’s still on board with the Stasi measures in general.
I fired an employee for just that. I told him not to make lists for ‘wants’, he did, then found the ‘want’ and delivered it to the woman’s house. She was not amused, nor was I.
I’d just write my first and last names as ‘Nunof’ and ‘Yerbizness’, and the phone number of Jay Insole.
Is Jay Insole related to Jay Silverheels?
They are both guys named Jay with last names relating to shoes.
I don’t think so, Silverheels was related to Moc Asin, Insole to Penny Loffer
The Transylvanian bears that I’ve been watching for the last 3 weeks are now engaged in love-making. It’s 11:22 PM over there.
You’re really into bear love, aren’t you?
It was underwhelming.
You didn’t have to watch. #armchairquarterback
That’s true of all porn, once you’ve culminated.
Considering how Democrats are acting with Trump in the White House I hate to see how they will act when they get back in, Let that sink in…
But everything will return to the halcyon days of old
I don’t think this can be overemphasized. They thought they had it in the bag and the rug got yanked out from under them. Now they are just going full steam ahead.
If they get the White House watch for EO’s for full gun confiscation.
And everyone will be a racist that disagrees.
Wait… they let men write at Jezebel?
Shouldn’t trans-men be just as evil as the rest of us?
I get confused. Is Trans-men MTF or FTM?
FtM
I think they are what the label is… so trans women are women. Women that used to be men. And trans men are men. Men who used to be women.
I don’t have any transgender people in my orbit at the moment…. and I’m kinda relieved. Once they started switching to “Transgendered is offensive! It isn’t something that happens to you! I am Transgender!” it became too touchy to deal with.
When I was in college I had 6 suitemates who were in the transgender and/or flamboyantly gay pool. At least 3 were taking hormones and enjoyed popping in to our room to show off their tuck. That was at a time when they had just added the T to LGBT. There was much debate over adding the T, BTW. Anyway, they were transgendered. I don’t remember any of them ever saying “transgender”. And they were not trannies… that was for Transvestites. But what they were not? They were not a bunch of hyper-sensitive pussies who whined about every sentence that came out of someone’s mouth.
Maybe it is just my particular orbit at the moment, but the LGBTQAI crowd I interact with is populated by an inordinate number of crazy, hypersensitive pussies who run around looking for ways to be offended. One chick went from mom to some sort of pansexual something or other – and in the process transformed from one of the toughest, most interesting people I knew into one of the most annoying people I know.
And this whole pronoun thing? Good lord.
Back in the 80’s I moved in and out of those alt-cultures with friends and they were great folks. Today? Every visit to their world is like fucking work. You gotta spend the entire time performing, thinking hard about what to say in order to avoid offending.
Back when I was young, the “work” was putting up with the hyper flamboyant dude who thought that pretending to give you a lap dance at the bar was funny because he thought you’d freak out. I always said “I’m a dude. I don’t freak out.”
Now? There’s just no fun any more.
In many cases, that’s the whole point. They want to be offended.
It does seem to be a major form of entertainment for them…. it used to be “laugh at how uncomfortable I can make the straight guy”, which is kind of harmless and could be put under the “right of passage” header. Getting offended at everything that isn’t “wow, you are so amazing and brave for daring to be your true self!” is really tedious.
This wasn’t supposed to happen…
I think they are what the label is… so trans women are women. Women that used to be men. And trans men are men. Men who used to be women.
Opposite of that.
Trans women are men who transition to living as women.
Trans man are women who transitioned to living as men.
Non-binary are men or women who insisted they are neither or both or some third sex. (The vast majority are XX.)
Intersex are people with birth defects that put their genitals off the basal track for their genetic sex and/or their self-perceived gender identity.
They are tomboys who are persuaded and pressured and hounded into saying they’re “trans” when they’re really just…tomboys. They’re girls who like being girls who like dude stuff.
This is not acceptable.
There is no such thing as girls who are happy being girls while liking dude stuff.
They must instead be boys.
“Nonbinary” is the cop-out to keep from being trans (which they aren’t) OR a tomboy (which is not acceptable).
It’s the most stark pink-and-blue thinking ever.
And the number of XX deciding they are trans right at puberty, when the social pressures of being a woman starts to mount, is troubling.
Wanting to control tightly what you are allowed to control, wiping out your secondary sexual characteristics, body dysmorphia… isn’t this anorexia by other means?
Yes. And it is just trading one box for another. I don’t fit in this girl box so I’ll just put myself in this boy box. It is not simply an internal issue, it is an issue of how the individual perceives/relates/reacts to the outside world. You are you, just be you and stop putting yourself in a box.
Related: some girls dress like boys to escape sexual harassment or abuse or to hide from men or whoever they need to hide from. It’s not about anything but self-preservation.
There is a burgeoning DEtrans movement, mostly amongst 20ish XXs. One of the things they seem to regret the most about taking hormones is that they wrecked their voices. They can get their secondary sex characteristics back–but not their voice.
Of course they’re being shouted down and called transphobic and self-loathing and other such niceties, but they are coming to realize they were tomboys or hiding and resent that they allowed people to bully them into pink-or-blue.
Wait until they find out what puberty blockers have done to their fertility.
Yeah, the tomboy aspect concerns me personally. My middle child is very much a tomboy. She hates dresses, and soccer, basketball and baseball are too soft for her. She wants to play rugby. She wants to hit someone.
But she definitely is a girl. And she’s already liking boys, which is causing her dad consternation. She’s only 10. I don’t need that grief yet.
And if those activists start putting a bug in her ear that she’s a dude…. I’mma lose it on those idiots, God as my witness. You don’t mess with poppa bear’s baby.
Not to be pedantic, but you said the exact same thing I said. Well, not in their world, I suppose. Saying they are “Men living as women” is profoundly offensive in that world.
They are women trapped in the body of a man, living out their true identities as women.
You don’t even SJW, do you?
I’ll SJW you into the cold, cold ground, hombre.
It’s always what they identify as at the moment. They really want to leave their prior names and gender identities behind them; yet they keep emphasizing their special status by prefixing everything with “trans.”
“An amendment in the United States Senate that would have blocked the government from surveilling Americans’ browser history without a warrant failed on Wednesday by a single vote.”
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/senate-vote-internet-surveillance-fbi/
Maybe Authoritarian Trump will veto it if it makes it to his desk
At this point I want them to waste their time seeing what millions of people jack off to all day.
When I used to run the IT department, part of my speech to the employees was “I don’t want to know what you are in to. Please don’t make me have to look.” as a reminder not to be surfing porn at work.
One very married and very redneck dude had complaints about passing around pics of women pouring milk over their boobs….. so now I gotta go look. Damn….. Not fun… dude was heavy in to “Hung black male” pics and frequented a couple of gay black message boards. I didn’t need to know that.
[looks for pictures of hung black men pouring milk over their moobs to send to cyto]
I bet you have a folder full of those pictures right next to the SALT folder.
Dang! I really, really wish I had thought of that at the time. That would have been epic. Instead, I had to go have a talk with him and the HR lady. And then I had to have that in my brain, so the next time I see the wife, that knowledge is sitting in there. Not uncomfortable at all….
Go to HR? seems like you could have gotten a good Blackmail racket set up.
The complaint went to HR. So HR tells me to go gather evidence.
I gave her the “you’ve got to be kidding me” eyeroll, and she gave me the “yup, he’s an idiot” shrug. This was pre smart phone era, so this was probably his only opportunity. At least, that’s how I explain it. Dude was smart enough to have a law degree, should have been smart enough to believe me when I said “don’t make me have to go look”.
No, no. Hung black dudes pouring milk over white female chubbies.
White female chubbies with bleach-blonde hair and thick blue eye shadow.
Why does anybody need to be told this?
Get a load of Mrs “Never Worked at the Secret Service”.
Brilliant!
Oh. Huh. That explains a lot.
Who would have thought that the Butthole Surfers were 30 years ahead of their time?
Little did they know people would be surfing porn at work in the future looking for anal, making their name prophetic.
One place I worked at, HR was defending a gay black male looking at porn at work because, “he may not have internet service at home.”
Our HR was worse then useless at that company.
Wait….. they had to have a law to block that? What in the ever lovin’?….
Under what possible version of reality does my browser history not require a warrant?
I believe the reality that the Supreme Court lives in.
The one where it is in possession of a third party that can turn it over on request without you even knowing, much less consenting. You know, this version of reality.
So is this about my synchronized history that is stored at Google or Microsoft or Apple? Or my ISP history? Not the history from my local storage?
I don’t know that I’d call that “browser history”, particularly if we are talking about ISP records.
How this is any different from banking records is beyond me. We’ve kind of lost our minds on this front. The government should have to obtain a warrant before taking any records of any sort.
So is this about my synchronized history that is stored at Google or Microsoft or Apple? Or my ISP history?
I assume so. I don’t think its legal for them to get anything off your personal computer without your consent.
What’s troubling is, Big Data has a lot more info on you in their possession than your PC could possibly have. Unless you are very, very good at avoiding Big Data’s bots and scripts, and are willing to live with most websites being busted because they can’t function without those scripts.
Even then, they can fingerprint you extremely well.
I tried an experiment a few years back. I did a thumb drive linux and used a decommissioned laptop from work. I went to my usual sites and looked at my usual stuff – but no logins. Within a few days, ads specific to me started popping up. They figured it out behind the scenes. Well, by “they” I mean “their algorithms”.
I don’t know if the location was a huge part – but I did take it home as part of the test.
So maybe if you use Tor over an anonymous VPN and have no persistence and never log in via your ISP….
Within a few days, ads specific to me started popping up.
I’ve had multiple people tell me that they started getting ads specific to a conversation that they had. As in, “I asked somebody if they could recommend an OB/GYN, and I started getting ads for OB/GYNs”. They all said they hadn’t done a search for it online, but started getting the ads shortly after the conversation.
My wife and I had that about 3 months ago. We were talking about something, and an ad for it popped up on the next web page she visited. I was standing right there.
I forget what it was… but it was oddly specific. Too specific to be anything else.
Probably too specific to be a coincidence – as in, we never would have seen that ad at all, ever. It might have been for some specific part. I wish I could remember the details.
https://www.aier.org/article/dont-blame-globalism-for-covid-19/
And why has globalism allowed such people to have political power and to create a society that accepts such behavior?
And as far as I can most globalists are these very same people. I mean who would have thought that those who want unaccountable rule over the entire planet are authoritarian?
One fresh takeaway I had from reading Hayek was that there was nothing that special about Hitler. He wasn’t uniquely clever or evil or a mastermind. He would never make it past the most local rung of political power.
But because the Nazis were on a quest for unquestioned power, we were the German Commies, and had done away with rule of law, and it was all “who you know” in the Weimar Republic in order to get bread or a job as a Nazi clerk or whatever.
Once people were frightened and hungry enough, they will sacrifice all freedom and will ALLOW a murderous bureaucrat to take over the joint; no credit to Hitler’s power of persuasion or evil genius.
Yes this is more clear than ever before. So much for our glorious modernity…
There is a difference between globalization and globalism, one is economic and the other is political.
I’ve seen people mention that distinction before though it usage is confusing. The article title refers to “globalism” but the actual article uses “globalization”. However the FT article I linked to below does refer to “globalization”.
And in economic terms there are very few actual advocates of “globalization” but plenty of political “globalists.”
Because that’s like advocating for hurricanes or sunshine. Globalization is a force of nature; it just emerges from the interaction of millions of people without any need for central direction or control. So much so that already by 100 BC, Roma was trading with Serica.
On the other hand, anti-globalization has always required massive top-down intervention to enact and enforce.
Exactly. The globalists conflate the two. Like it’s impossible to have foreign trade without also surrendering wealth and sovereignty to transnational progressives in Brussells or Turtle Bay. Hell, just look at Brexit. The UK would be perfectly fine signing a free trade agreement with the EU, its the EU refusing to do that without getting to dip their beak and impose regulations.
The left dropped Cindy Sheehan like a bad habit once she got close enough to a camera to express her racist, anti-Semitic ravings.
Then they permanently memory holed her when Chocolate Jesus came to power.
The Bush-years anti-war protests were pure astroturf. They stopped the minute Obumbles was elected and not a word from them when he doubled the number of pointless wars we were in.
And under Trump they went all nationalistic and anti-Russia and anti-Assad.
But pro-ChiComs
Let’s see: Obumbles helped destabilize Egypt and Syria (I say “helped” because they weren’t great to begin with), continued Afghanistan and Iraq, armed “rebels” along the way with weapons that have been turned on us, totally started the unprovoked Libya mess, and got a Nobel peace prize before even getting started.
But in Iran, when they were having their “green” peaceful revolution a few years ago, what was the loudest voice telling the protesters to “cool it”—oh yes, that’s Obama again, siding with the wrong people and deflating whatever air was in the Iranian protestors’ balloon.
Did I mention that Obama and his top men are traitors to the USA?
You forgot Yemen and Central Africa.
He didn’t just continue Afghanistan, he hugely expanded it.
Obama lost more in one year than Bush did in seven.
But it was “the good war”.
I wonder if he feels even a twinge of unworthiness when he sees that Nobel prize…
I can’t imagine him feeling that way at any time for any reason.
Birthday present arrived today! (Optimus Prime, the tall red one for the uncultured) The rest of the PC parts are scheduled to arrive tomorrow. I need it to, took 2hrs to get that pic up because the current PC crashed and then kept freezing.
Our long state nightmare is finally over in Minnesoda. Minnesoda Supreme Court rules that the DNR can rename lakes!
No longer will children have to grow up knowing their state has a lake named after an asshole. Double good because the new name is going to be actual Dakota words! How awesome is that?
My fondest dream now is that some Glib gets appointed as the DNR commissioner some day and immediately renames Bde Maka Ska (The Lake Formerly Known As Calhoun) to Lake David Duke. When the proggies squeal and go to court, he could point to this decision and ask them why they would deny him his fun when they were soooo happy to use this power themselves.
If I was named commissioner I’d rename it as Lake Milton Friedman, or something. Or maybe Lake Fuck Off, Slaver.
How about Lakey McLakeface?
Lake #9,043.
I thought this was going to stop with the Confederate Battle Flag.
Lol. They tried that once already and got smacked down due to jurisdiction issues between city, state, federal. County.
There’s Lake Calhoun, Calhoun square, etc.
If Native Americans are placated by a simple name change to something nobody can pronounce, maybe we should stop groveling in a lame effor to make up for the fact that the Europeans conquered them.
Dear Internet:
I was born and raised in the USA, so in that sense I am one or the luckiest people in the world.
My ancestors are from Europe, Great Britain to be specific. My ancestors helped conquer the native peoples. This land then became the setting for a great experiment in self government.
I do not regret that North America was resettled by Western Europe (emphasis on Scottish enlightenment).
TL:DR version: sorry, not sorry.
I get not feeling guilty for events that happened well before you were born by people who look like you, but I don’t get why someone who putatively believes in the NAP might be proud of those actions.
What is inconsistent about (a) not believing in blood guilt and (b) believing in the NAP?
Nothing. I thought it was clear that I am referring to blood pride.
Ah. Got it.
Lack of guilt doesn’t equal proud
Well, I’ll wait for hayek to clarify, as the way I’m reading it expresses a bit of pride. And when she does, I’ll continue the discussion with her as I don’t play games with white knights (or ladies).
Capisce?
Racist!!
I do not regret that North America was resettled by Western Europe
Ambiguous, but “pride” is a fair reading.
I wouldn’t be so snappy if Tulip didn’t have a pattern of white knighting whenever she perceives a female Glib as being criticized.
Really? I was on your side. I get not having any guilt, but that doesn’t mean I’m proud of ancestors. Frankly, I just don’t get being proud of ancestors in general, it’s not like I helped .
Then I sincerely apologize, Tulip. I deserve all the egg on my face.
“Changing the names of all of our 10,000-plus lakes every time the political winds blow a certain direction undermines stability that residents and communities need.”
Or people will just keep calling the lake whatever they called it before because no one gives a fuck what the official name is. If you want to argue that it’s stupid to change names because the name is icky and hurts peoples feelings, fine, but undermines community stability? fucksakes.
What? People hold onto names?
A reference guide.
This whole thing seems odd from the perspective of a New Englander as we have always just used the original Indian names for so many common places, just around me is Amoskeag, Massabesic, Ammonoosuc, Nashua, Pemigewasset, Piscataquog, Winnisquam, Winnipesaukee, Kancamagus, etc.. Pronouncing them correctly is a point of pride in that it is a shibboleth that signals you’re a local/native.
The only renaming controversy I can think of was Jew Pond.
+5
/ Civilized Tribes
Doesn’t every place have its own pack of Indian words/names? We have plenty here in KC, although they’re simpler than yours (different languages, I’m sure) with a heavy showing of French. The only native-indicator we have is “Olathe”.
Today in nutpunches and copspeak
Off-duty NYPD cop kills Long Island man
Why not name them?
I assume the “unnamed suspect” is the cop. Probably has enough of a paper-thin “self-defense” argument here to get off on cop privilege.
Interesting. They might have gone with “fled the scene of the crime”.
Told by who? Why?
The papers should not tolerate this. Not naming officers involved in shootings has become standard practice – well, at least when the shooting is controversial. If they happen to shoot someone dangerous, they are happy to put him on the evening news that day.
But this guy wasn’t even in the line of duty. There’s absolutely zero chance that a non-police killer would be afforded such a courtesy. In fact, they are often happy to malign people in the press, making up facts to make them look more guilty. (specific case that popped into my head – the crazy dude that ate some guy’s face in Miami. Sheriff said he was high on bath salts. He just made that up out of whole cloth. Dude was on no drugs of any kind. There was no evidence to the contrary either… he just made it up and said it in a press conference. One in which they named the guy who ate the dude’s fact, btw. )
Passive voice is passive.
If you are the reporter at this presser and you do not laugh out loud when he says that ludicrous sentence, you are a boob. And if you did not press him on that outlandish verbiage, you are incompetent.
That’s just ridiculous.
“As a result of that discharge, an individual was struck in the head and killed.”
Thats some damn good copspeak. But it could be better
“As a result of that discharge a small amount of lead was propelled through the air, striking an individual in the cranial region. The impact of said metal resulted in cessation of vital life functions in the struck individual”
I dunno. That’s still overtly admitting that the lead killed him. How about “Some amount of time after the individual was struck in the head with the propelled piece of lead, the individual ceased living”
Today the CV-19 virus struck at an inopportune time, thus causing a death in Nassau County. Authorities are covering, errr, investigating this life shortening event.
“Passive voice was used.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/0e83be62-6e98-11ea-89df-41bea055720b
This guy is globalist yet wants more state power and complains about “fiscal fundamentalism”.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. When did it leave “centre” stage?
These two don’t seem consistent to me.
The whole thing is gibberish.
It’s TOP MEN all the way down…
You have to keep in mind just how desperate the globalists are. They are not winning, by any means. The Wuhan virus is not only going to allow them to usher in more globalism, but it has instead made a lot of countries very aloof about China. The EU is falling apart. First there was Trump, then Brexit, now you have such die hard socialist countries as France, looking like they are going to veer far to the right.
All that type of gibberish is just wishful thinking, nothing more.
“a choice between authoritarian nationalism and an open global order founded on co-operation between states”
No thanks.
It really is a choice between authoritarian nationalism and authoritarian internationalism and we should trust the latter because shut up peasant.
Powell said in prepared remarks Wednesday that the depth and length of a recession can “leave behind lasting damage” to an economy’s productivity, a hint that those inside the Fed see slim chances of a quick, V-shaped recovery.
“The recovery may take some time to gather momentum, and the passage of time can turn liquidity problems into solvency problems,” Powell said.
Nonsense. We can borrow our way to unimagined wealth!
No kidding. It’s like Carlton Sheets is running our financial system.
I give you Trump’s new campaign spokeman!
Not sure exactly if he’d tell her that she was working to re-elect him, but the more she talks the more Trump’s chances increase.
The more she explains to Middle America why they need to pay for the healthcare for illegal aliens (especially since they have seen their savings get crushed) the more the rubes in flyover country are going to vote for Trump.
I’m a fairly open borders advocate, but coming here illegally and then having the gall to tell the local tax payers that “it could happen to anyone” and they should be more generous is a bridge too far for me.
As part of the healthcare system bailout. Still, this is not a good look for Trump with his anti-open borders base.
Yeah, I thought I’d seen everything with the Swedish welfare state, and then one day (1998?) I read an article in the Swedish news about a proposal to increase benefits because people needed boats. Not fishing boats, pleasure craft.
They (Bleeding hearts) actually argued that one cannot expect to afford a flat, a car, and a boat on welfare! Oh, for shame! No boat.
They should have hired Bender to explain why everyone needs hookers and blow.
That’s the problem with open borders in any society where there are government programs. A lot of the time the whole purpose of coming to the more prosperous country is to take advantage of all the social safety net stuff. I don’t blame the migrants for responding to the incentives they’re given, but yes, acting like we owe you something because you used to be standing on one piece of ground and now you’re on our piece of ground bothers me greatly.
A lot of the time the whole purpose of coming to the more prosperous country is to take advantage of all the social safety net stuff.
And a lot of our immigration laws are intended to allow immigration while preventing mooching off the welfare state. Its no accident it was a lot easier to move/travel here (and just about everywhere) before the rise of the welfare state.
Once they’re here, though, it’s easy to find a reporter to write sympathetic puff pieces about this poor immigrant who’s down on their luck, has health problems, needs food, etc. That creates a drive to repeal those awful laws so that “the undocumented” can pursue their American dream. As low an opinion as I have as to the intellect of most politicians, I have to believe they know that.
This because Team Blue cares so much about immigrants.
“Sen. @RandPaul: “In addition to Vice President Biden, James Clapper, James Comey, John Brennan, Samantha Power, and the president’s Chief of Staff all individually asked to unmask Gen. Flynn and to listen to his phone conversation.”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1260663926271983623
ttps://thehill.com/policy/national-security/497615-trump-administration-sends-list-to-congress-of-obama-officials-who
Unmask him? Like at the end of an episode of Scooby Doo?
Those darned kids…
:Bravo:
Flynn was Mr. Withers, the owner of the carnival.
“Old Man Biden?! It was you!”
And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling Trumpers!
But nobody who had political motives to “unmask” a member of the Trump transition team and listen in on his phone calls.
Powell said household and business insolvencies and the loss of small and medium-sized businesses could “limit the strength of the recovery when it comes,” adding that the loss of jobs risks widening the skills gap depending on how long the unemployed remain without work.
Now I’m confused. I thought destroying small and medium sized businesses was the Fed’s primary policy goal.
OK, I linked to this story about Minneapolis’ new plan to reorganize their schools.
I’m bringing it back because I was closing tabs this morning and just ran across this nonsense phrase:
I can’t believe we have 21 Cracker Deserts in our school district right now. What kind of idiot comes up with “racially isolated schools”?
A true shitlord would then match them to their average scores…
That article was painful to read. It always amazes me that when certain groups are performing poorly, people really believe that all we need to do is shuffle the racial tableau around a bit and it’ll just go away. They always believe the fix is so simple. Of course, the families of those children don’t have to do anything. Nope, the government can solve the problem with a wave of the magic wand.
Then there’s the unchallenged statements about the “racist curriculum”. That’s why the kids are failing. The curriculum just is too racist. Of course the racism doesn’t seem to work on the Asian students or the kids from Nigeria. But if we just fix that pesky racism, all of a sudden all these kids will become valedictorians. All of them. Nobody will be number two. Except Tim. Screw that guy.
So we call it “racially isolated” now instead of segregated?
Is that progress?
No, see, the problem was that we needed integration because having all the kids that looked the same in one school was totally racist.
Now the problem is that we need all the kids that look the same in one school so they’ll feel comfortable and be able to achieve because having them spread out was totally racist.
Tomorrow we’ll need to take all the kids that look the same out of one school and integrate them into the rest of the schools because having them all gathered together is totally racist.
We’ve discovered the perpetual motion machine.
They’ll never work their way through that without hiring hundreds of additional administrators!
US-Canada border to stay closed until June 21st
Canada and the United States appear likely to extend a ban on non-essential travel until June 21 amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, sources in both nations said on Wednesday.
The two neighbors had agreed on April 18 to extend border restrictions until May 21 as cases of the disease continue to rise in both nations. Canada is now pressing for the measures to stay in place for another month.
“It’s too early to lift the restrictions, so we’re working toward an extension,” said one Canadian government source, describing the talks with Washington as positive. A second government source said the discussions had been collaborative.
In Washington, a U.S. official confirmed the two sides were set to agree on a 30-day extension.
Open Borders and Free Trade were the two most important things ever until suddenly they weren’t. Almost like most people who supported those two things did it either out of expediency or because they were supposed to think that way rather than an honest belief. I am in shock.
In what universe was this? Please send the quantum flux coordinates as I want to live there.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-meaning-of-open-trade-and-open-borders/amp
Well I was pointing out it was mostly for show but Hillary seemed in favor back in 2013
OMG! THE AMERO!
Seriously, though. If Hillary really believed that it would mean that she held a view that wasn’t inherently reprehensible. I’m not sure I buy that her diseased brain would be capable of it.
The whole thing is gibberish.
If you think of government in the same way primitive civilizations thought of their gods, it all makes sense.
Looks like my county may be moving from the orange risk level to the yellow risk level this week.
Link to Local news.
I have a bone to pick with one of the writers at the Cache Valley Daily.
Oh, they are pretty well all ridiculous. And they and the Herald Journal usually piss all over themselves to find out who can present the “breaking new” 2-3 days late.
Oranges and Lemons – One of the best albums of the 80’s
So pretty low bar, eh?
“Pink Thing” was awesome
I’m a little too young to know that album, I was jesting, but I will check out Oranges and Lemons. I’m always up for something that I haven’t heard.
Agreed. Holds up beautifully.
Appropriate for 2020
Another gorgeous song.
Nashua, NH mayor worried about businesses reopening.
As more businesses start to reopen, Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess is sounding a cautionary note, based on a 10% positive rate among the city’s recent COVID-19 test results.
Uhh… until recently Lil Rona testing in New Hampshire, which was limited to people with symptoms, ran about 10% positive. So…. no change.
Upset in Cali
I guess they couldn’t find enough lost ballots this time. Maybe because they were cowering at home, like Newsome told them to?
Needs more pop-up polling locations.
CA-25 was Republican for a while before Mrs. Throuple showed up.
Apparently not since 1998?
A Republican held the seat from 1993 until 2019.
OK. I guess I read that wrong. Thanks.
1998 was the last time the Rs flipped a D seat in CA
I see.
Saving them up for the next one in 6 months.
Yeah they’ll fake it next time, and the Journolist meme will be “If the Democrats cheat how come they didn’t cheat in May?”
What’s sad about Greta Thunberg, Cindy Sheehan and the like is that when they cease being useful they’re still idiots.
They were never really all that useful. Just popular.
Powell said fiscal policymakers on Capitol Hill could do more to ensure that the economy is set up for the best possible recovery, arguing that lawmakers with the power to tax and spend should be engineering further relief packages.
“Additional fiscal support could be costly, but worth it if it helps avoid long-term economic damage and leaves us with a stronger recovery,” Powell said.
They bulldozed the barn. They should definitely buy some paint to spruce it up with.
“This is Vice President Biden using the spying powers of the U.S. to go after a political opponent and he is caught red-handed here…”
https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1260670114996813830
https://m.facebook.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/videos/1086044135128718/
For those of you who have Facebook, here’s some lovely editing of Joe Biden in “What if normal people talked like Joe Biden?”
Wow, that was great:)
APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY)
Thanks for reminding me. I need to order some stuff from Appleton Barber Supply.
“Restaurant will use mannequins to fill seats — and enforce social distancing
Social distancing for dummies.
A Virginia restaurateur has devised an ingenious way to both fill seats and enforce social distancing for when the coronavirus lockdown lifts — by populating his eatery with life-size mannequins.
Patrick O’Connell, chef at the Inn at Little Washington, had originally aimed to reopen his upscale Rappahannock location May 15, reports the Washingtonian. However, he was thwarted when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced on May 9 that businesses could reopen to patrons for outdoor seating only, and at 50% capacity.
As the lavish Michelin three-star restaurant doesn’t have an al fresco dining area, it wouldn’t have been able open until late May, per the government mandate.
As a result, the 2019 James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award winner plans to outfit half the joint with culinary crash test dummies until human patrons can take their place post-pandemic. Apparently, O’Connell’s banking on the 50% rule eventually applying to indoor seating as well. Not only that, but the chef — who majored in drama in college — plans to deck out his dining dolls in 1940s garb, and even instruct waiters to serve them wine and interact with the plastic pinch-eaters.”
https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/restaurant-using-dummies-to-fill-seats-enforce-social-distancing/
He is going to waste wine on the dummies? Genius! People will never know the difference!
It’s actually an escape room. You have to order, eat, and pay the check before the killer dressed as a mannequin gets close enough to stab you.
And if you don’t tip well, he follows you home.
The article is . . . confusing? gibberish?
It starts by saying the dummies are for social distancing, but then says they are, essentially, a protest because Northam is not allowing him to open his restaurant.
At least he’s not talking to volleyballs yet.
Not creepy at all
Sex folks would be better.
It’s a little cool today, 65 deg, but I am going to fill the pool anyway and let it start to warm up.
Over at Bloomberg, they’re gaming it out
If Trump and Pence were both unable to fulfill their duties, neither could invoke the 25th Amendment. The Constitution instructs Congress to legislate a line of succession, which was most recently updated in the Presidential Succession Act of 1947—the law that puts the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, next in line for the presidency. The trouble, Kalt says, is that the Constitution doesn’t offer a procedure for determining a president’s “inability” to perform, giving rise to the possibility of a dispute in which Pelosi, a Democrat, declared herself acting president even as Trump and Pence (or their lawyers) declared themselves fit to serve.
A succession dispute is hardly inconceivable. During Watergate, in the eight weeks between Spiro Agnew’s resignation and Gerald Ford’s confirmation, the vice presidency was vacant, putting Democrat House Speaker Carl Albert next in line for the White House. Albert vowed that if he were to ascend to the presidency, he would promptly appoint a Republican vice president and resign, rather than let his party appear to usurp power.
“That’s hardly a scenario you could count on today,” says Kalt, who has urged Congress to rewrite the succession law to put the Secretary of State (in Trump’s case, Mike Pompeo) third in line for the presidency.
No one would ever hope for simultaneous incapacitation of the President and Vice President in order to hand over the country to a Speaker of the House who openly despises the President and everything he has done. It’s just interesting to think about.
The mainstream media is borderline Democratic Underground now. I could absolutely see the Wuhan Flu killing Fat Donald who probably hasn’t eaten a vegetable in months. But the idea that it would kill both him and Pence is insane.
Oh and incapacitated? It’s a really bad respiratory infection. It’s not a massive stroke or a coma. The POTUS can still do POTUS things while coughing in a bed.
Is there any louder way they can declare their desperation?
Umm, yes, it does:
The VP and a majority of the Cabinet officers have to put their necks on the line (politically) by declaring the President incapacitated. Where it gets interesting is when the President decides he is no longer incapacitated:
The VP and a majority of the Cabinet officers can say he is still incapacitated, and Congress has to hold a vote. If a supermajority says the President is still incapacitated, the VP keeps the big chair. The only change I would make, after the recent shenanigans around “unanimous consent”, would be to require a voice vote.
Note that if the President loses the vote, he can immediately submit another declaration of fitness, and force everybody to go on record again.
Oh, and contrary to Dem fantasies, if Pelosi takes the big chair, she only has it temporarily – until Trump takes it back as outlined above.
The article makes a major mistake. Reagan did not hand over power after he was shot by Hinckley but during a medical procedure in 1985.
Wonder how much the new war on racism that never fixes racism is going to cost me.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/franklin-county-board-of-health-declares-racism-a-public-health-crisis
I’d name the lakes Greg and Veronica.
Veronica.
I’m guessing Costello without clicking.
Yesssss….
Naturally.
I wanted to name my daughter Veronica, but it was vetoed by my wife.
Reggie and Veronica
Nice.
Although we don’t have any hard data (it even anecdotal) to assert this but we’re going to anyway…
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/without-a-vaccine-herd-immunity-wont-save-us/
” What we do know so far paints a stark picture: This disease is too deadly, too contagious and too new to depend on post-infection immunity (as opposed to immunity via vaccination) as a solution. Naturally acquired herd immunity is not the answer.”
Too new?
These people are morons.
If we are all going to die from ChiComVirus, might as well open up everything and enjoy however many months the scientists say we have left.
This disease is too deadly
Outside of pretty narrow high-risk populations, it looks less deadly than a moderately bad flu strain.
too contagious
Which has nothing to do immunity.
and too new
Viruses constantly mutate. There are new versons all the time, and already new versions of the ‘Rona have been identified. Saying a virus is “too new” for us to develop immunity to is profoundly ignorant, at best.
Or, what Scruffy said.
And the mutations are generally less virulent than previous generations. THAT’S HOW MUTATIONS WORK.
Assholes.
What makes these screaming fuckwits think that “immunity via vaccination” will be any more long-lasting? Or, for that matter, will be anywhere close to 100% effective?
Christ, I am so sick of people telling us “herd immunity is not the answer.”
IT’S BEEN THE FUCKING ANSWER FOR EVERY SPECIES ON EARTH FOR THE LAST BILLION YEARS, YOU FUCKINGMORONS.
Evolution and natural selection are racist and misogynist.
Science denier!
And vaccination essentially does the same thing — developing antibodies to the virus antigen — as having had the infection itself, so thinking that a vaccine is somehow better and the actual infection itself is meaningless is really bizarre. “science journalism”
That and no one has ever made a corona virus vaccine. Not even for SARS or MERS.
There was work on the original SARS vaccine, but that essentially got pushed to the back when SARS was eradicated. Other than for academic reasons, there wasn’t much reason to continue. MERS has so far been containable so not as much pressure for a vaccine development there. Similar with Ebola.
True, there was plenty of work on SARS, but they never succeeded.
What percentage does a quat have to be to be effective?
I’m seeing numbers all over the place. Lysol spray is .22, the wipes we used on the ambulance were .5, and I found a bottle of some dilutable Lysol product under the guest bathroom sink that is 1.5. They all have two different chemicals, so the Lysol spray is .11 + .11
I believe there were issues around side effects? A potential candidate was supposed to begin clinical trials but was withdrawn
https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT00533741
Oops. See below.
Another thing is professional wipes are probably designed to kill faster and less prone to dilution by starting out at a higher number. Or course different formulations and different specific quats have different properties.
I read the vaccines caused immune overreactions, such as lung inflammation.
Probably better off going by the label directions and what they say they’re effective for:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277564/
Note that fabrics can absorb the quat mixtures & essentially dilute the applied amount. I’ve seen quat rated Tork paper towels on Amazon but they seem to be particularly expensive right now.
Another view on measuring quats prior to use
https://ag.utah.gov/documents/Sanitizers-QuaternaryAmmonium.pdf
I wager 1 quatloo on the human!
OK, Thanks. Do regular paper towels dilute it if it still gets the surface wet?
I think it’s more of an issue with say a restaurant that has a solution bucket and a rag left in it.
https://www.ndhealth.gov/disease/hai/Docs/QuatAbsorptionEcoLab.pdf
Immediate application should be more ok.
OK, thanks. I knew you were the right person to ask.
On the school system front…
Our superintendent is talking about schools either remaining closed this fall, or going to some sort of hybrid online/offline system with kids alternating days at school.
These people are dumb beyond dumb. I’m not sure how much less transmission there would be if only half of the kids attended on any given day. But it would 100% guarantee that they’d be in some form of day care the other days – unless half of the workforce who have kids just quits.
All this, to prevent kids from catching a virus that hardly impacts kids. Nice.
Uh, I’m no scientist, but do they think that the virus just gets frustrated and leaves?
I’ve spoken to a number of folks in my neighborhood who are considering homeschooling or private schools. The hour or two a day of work is unimpressive.
We are talking private school for our middle schooler if they do this. He’s not doing well in isolation. He needs the peer group to motivate himself.
Homeschooling is bad because kids will not be socialized properly…oh wait…
Homeschooling is bad because kids will not be socialized properly
Man, talk about an admission . . .
Well indoctrination has been the explicit goal of the public school system from the very beginning. Classical liberals were in favor since the peasants needed to saved from Catholicism and adopt the proper urban liberal national values of civilized men.
Also the public schools and university where not supposed to become bastions of socialism and communism. This Was Not Supposed to Happen because History and Progress are on our side.
Dewey was pretty open about the American public school system producing socialists. Yes, he didn’t invent the concept of public schools, but the modern American education system is his demonic spawn more than anyone else’s, and it was a progressive project from the jump.
Being a parent is a pain in the ass. If you only have 1 kid, you might not really know how much so – because they are all different. And what works for one might not work for the next. And what works today probably won’t work next month.
So I have 1 that I thought would do great being homeschooled – she’s extremely bright, extremely motivated and a self-starter. She’s being held back by having to move with a peer group, even in the gifted class. Yet after 2 weeks of doing school from home – she pretty much checked out. Getting her to do anything was a beast. As a 3rd grader she coded one of the 25 best VexIQ robots in the world (competing with 5th graders), she never once had to do homework because she did it while waiting for pickup after school and in the car. Yet get her away from her peers, and she’s demotivated. Because she’s hyper competitive. And I never realized it until this happened, but a big part of her motivation for doing well in school is crushing the competition. She’s a baby Jordan.
Another one was struggling in school. Homework was a battle every day. She was young for her year in school, and a slow developer to boot. Then Covid happened. She has to work at home. I was really, really worried about her. Well, she’s up by 7 every morning, working independently by 7:30. She’s done by 9am. The only time she needs help is when her siblings roll out of bed and get to work – then she gets jealous of their attention and I have to sit with her. She’s doing much, much better in this environment than she was at school. There was no way to predict that one.
The last on is super social, and really good in school. But he also got a case of the middle school “screw its” this year. So it was a tough call. It turns out that every day has been a battle. But he’s also doing way better relative to his peers. Half of the students aren’t even doing anything in middle school – and he’s in a magnet program for the advanced kids.
We’re the opposite. XY hates virtual school, but he’s completely self-motivated. What he misses about school is all the drama. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, he’s a lot more temperate and calm. Also, not on much internet. So he may hate missing the drama, but the lack of drama is doing him a world of good.
XX needs school for the structure that she doesn’t have inherently and that I can’t give her.
It really is amazing what switching up the situation reveals. Of course, the one constant is that it reveals that us parents are hanging on by our fingernails, desperately hoping we are getting it right.
QFT
QFT
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New Mexico deserves its place at the bottom of the heap. We have the dumbest leaders.
Here in Ohio, the latest predictions are for the students to go to school two days a week. What the hell happens if smallpox comes back?
I’m all for the chillins going to public school zero days a week. That’s how we save our republic. I don’t think they planned this out as well as they thought.
That’s optimistic. Generally homeschooling households prepared for, researched, and knew what they were taking on. Sought out associations that conformed to what they wanted their kids to learn.
All these stay at home schools next school year will still be under the thumb of the public school system and their teachings.
If it goes on to fall, I expect a lot of stories like ‘no parents allowed in Zoom’ or shit like that
Jesus Christ, is there nothing the Coronavirus will not justify?
Apparently, not.
I’m on my conspiracy trip, but I said it months ago- around the 3rd week of October everyone will be pants-shitting over a ‘second wave’, polling places closed, and only mail-ins accepted as they try valiantly to properly steal a presidential election.
I strongly doubt your school’s superintendent has lost one penny in pay, nor has any of the teachers, so why would he have any concern for the parents who are unable to work from home and will need to put their kids in some germy day care? Day care costs money they currently don’t have to pay, and – God forbid – they’ll be getting any refund on whatever tax goes to pay for the schools.
I cannot wait to hear the explanation for why
1. Your kids can’t go to school
2. You still need to pay the same or higher property taxes you did last year
How about
3) why is two days a week any safer than five days a week? Does the virus take off Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?
This. So much this. The “powers that be” have revealed themselves to be idiots.
I often say this when talking about my kids. “I don’t know what the truth is… but I do know that the cock-and-bull story you are spinning is a lie”.
In this case: “I don’t know what the right answer is… but I know for sure that you don’t have it.”
Hey, there’s new and added expenses like those Zoom and Canvas licenses. Plus they need to hire more technology staff. And security guards for the empty facilities. As long as they’re empty, need to do all of those deferred capital projects. Don’t forget the new vice principals of online learning…
Canvas…. Ooof. That thing.
We’ve been using it for a couple of years now. It looks terrific. It has email, a calendar, all of your assignments, a to-do list… You can manage all of the work right in canvas.
Except…..
They don’t all use it the same way. So not all assignments are showing up on the to-do list. So if you are a parent and you want to make sure your kid did everything, what do you do? Well, you have to check the to-do list, obviously. And the calendar. And the course page. And the “Modules” page of the course page. And the “Assignments” page. And email. But the teachers say the built in email doesn’t work right for them, so you also have to set up an external email like a gmail account and check that.
The elementary kids have 5 teachers. 1 main teacher and 5 specials. Middle school is 6 classes with individual teachers.
So I have 3 kids. That’s three kids, times 5 or 6 classes, times all of those locations. Every day. But the teachers don’t always update everything before the day starts. So you have to check back after lunch, just to be sure. In all of those locations. Times 3 kids.
If we didn’t have 2 parents home right now, I really don’t know how we’d do it.
And I see this with the middle school parents – the ones without someone home with them during the day just aren’t doing their school work at all.
But Canvas? It seems like an amazing tool… but it ain’t all that. My team definitely could have built something better than that on the first release. And give me a couple of years and we’d have left that in the dust.
The biggest “attaboy” I have for them is that they do integrate with google drive and microsoft one drive to submit assignments. That’s a really nice touch.
We have PowerSchool AND Canvas, but Canvas isn’t handed out to the parents.
Half my kids’ teachers use PowerSchool and the other half use Canvas, but we can’t access Canvas.
Not sure if it works the same for elementary as for college. Or if it just depends on how the instructor is loading assignments. I’ve found that it is easiest to check the grade tab/page to see what is due and when.
It is all down to the teacher using it properly. There are several ways to do assignments. So if you have several teachers….
I liked the later versions of Blackboard, but then the school I was going to switched to Canvas. It always had this sort of clunky unfinished feel to it.
Oh, so you’ve seen Lotus Notes ?
Yes…. very much 1998 Lotus Notes.
Area school district proposes 24.5% tax hike
People are having trouble affording the property taxes as it is; how are they going to afford a 24% hike?
Or you know…fire the 100s of administrators that add no value to the school district but what do us plebes know.
Never gonna happen. They’ll fire teachers first, claiming they can’t afford them without a tax hike, because the public will never vote for a tax hike to hire more administrators.
Not a done deal yet, but this ISD is planning to cut the tax rate by a few cents.
Day care centers aren’t open here yet (except for “essential” workers). There was supposed to be an announcement on it Monday, but it’s been postponed.
And to agree with Viking1865, I expect taxes across the board to be raised in the next year. Due to an unprecedented and unpredicted shortfall (there’s already been several stories in local news about how much different school districts are losing in funding due to budget cuts and lower tax revenue).
But we have the ‘rainy day fund’! And DeWine refuses to use it….so yeah, you’re right.
Already preparing our two soon to be sophomores that they will be most likely not going to classes in fall.
Better yet just demolish the public school system. Oh wait the teachers unions and the indoctrination!
Nuke it from fucking space. Hey, Elon, we need some help here, seems NASA cannot get to space.
But who will convince the peasants to not be Catholic anymore?
I think we can trust the Catholics to continue handling that quite nicely
/starts to object
/looks back to his Catholic upbringing
/sits back down
Closing schools is retarded.
The first thing universities did is to send home all of their students. The group who are least susceptible to the virus.
Sent them home to parents and grandparents, who are the most. Well played, experts. Well played.
Unlike NY nursing homes, you don’t have to take them back…
All this to get government paid time off for our “educators”.
Steak ala Sean 3 day dry brine edition.
No firepower?
Just coarse salt ?
Too many drugs. Or too few. I can never remember.
Yes, fairly heavy (maybe 1/2 again as much as you’d normally do) and left uncovered in the fridge. I’ve done four or fie now and I’m convinced it’s not just a gimmick, I even overcooked tonight’s steak a bit (I’m still figuring out my new grill (Thanks Trumpbux)) and it was still tender and juicy and tasty.
I’ve tried smoked salts, Himalayan ground, and other specialty salts, but I think Morton’s coarse kosher gets the best results.
I do that with mine, but just for a couple hours or so – until it sweats like me in church.
How long do you leave it?
24-36 hours in the fridge uncovered is where I usually end up.
The Hyperbole went to the outside envelop of three days. ?
If you’re not living on the edge you’re just taking up space.
Lol
Vicodin?
No such luck, just run of the mill ibuprofen.
I can’t help notice the irony that only a healthy, wealthy and technologically advanced society would put up with the massive job losses, massive amounts of the dole and encroachments on liberty that been justified in the name of coronavirus.
And this isn’t the first time this happened. See in 1914 and 1933 for example.
Well, the Dem candidate in CA finally conceded.
When you are losing by a double digit percentage, you usually concede the night of the election. I would assume she held off until she got the word that not even the CA Dem party was willing to manufacture that many votes for her with “late counting” in LA.
“We can’t even print that many real-looking ballots in the next two days. Sorry, babe.”
Oh, give them 10 days or so, and absentee ballots will be discovered in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.
-props @ Douglas Adams
In the basement with a locked door, nonetheless.
I was just thinking I need to re-listen to H2G2. It’s been a little while.
We’re not really conceding, we’re just going to wait until tomorrow to see if the Russians stole our democracy. /Podesta
The same people who change COVID death count routinely to suit their needs also wants to be put in charge of “counting” electoral votes electronically.
Katie Hill won the seat in ’18 with a 9 point lead 54 to 45 with 245K ballots cast.
Garcia’s numbers will settle at 56 to 44 with only 156K ballots cast.
I know special elections usually only draw out the truly dedicated voters though. His opponent almost looks like a Katie Hill clone too.
Also, Republicans have learned how to ballot harvest as well now. They’re not quite as good at it there in Cali, but it’s not gonna be quite as easy as it used to be either.
This fucking state. Our loathsome politicians. Absolute garbage fire.
Early June. Meaningless. Just salami tactics applied to the virus theater charade. In early June our dipshit governor will tell us mid-June. We deserve to be at the bottom of just about every socioeconomic metric imaginable. Fuck these people, fuck the people who vote for them.
“This fucking state. Our loathsome politicians. Absolute garbage fire”
Works for all 57.
I call M L-G “Dear Leader”. She may not be quite as bad as Michigan’s dictator but she’s doing her best.
Our previous gov, Suzanna, was the only governor in the US to score an “A” score for each of her terms. I wish she was running for Senate or Rep instead of the clueless idiots that we have to chose from.
“A” score from whom?
Daniel Mitchell among othersMy comment didn’t make it through
Yes, MLG is really pissing me off with the state park closures. A few are now partially open for day use, but it’s not helping me. So fishing In a boat in the middle of the lake is not social distancing enuf for that cunte.
Hahaha…good luck Cali.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/henderson/ex-henderson-police-chief-hired-for-california-public-safety-job-2027371/
She was fired for corruption here in NV…so fitting she is hired in Sacramento.
Meh. This cunte lost her job but was immediately picked-up to direct the county Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services. Which I dont know what experience a lawyer brings to the table.
Personal experience with alcohol and drug abuse plus serious personal mental health issues? They think ‘inmates running the asylum’ is equity enhancing.
Seems she’s qualifed for the position as a Certified Mental Heath First Aid Instructor. Its either a 3-day or week long course:
https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/become-an-instructor/
https://miamioh.edu/public-health/about/advisory-board/jones-kelley/index.html
I can assure you, many attorneys bring quite a bit to the alcohol, drug addiction, and mental instability party.
I had retained one for a case one time on the recommendation of another attorney acquaintance because he had a conflict of interest.
Dude put all of my retainer up his nose and did nothing with my case. In retrospect, I should have sued the shit out of the firm.
He ended up getting disbarred and did some time as I recall.
Ok. I can beat that.
https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2005-05-26-3603992-story.html
He was our company litagator. Briefly. I took him to a gun range – once.
Really.
What the hell is Emmet Sullivan doing? Under what law does he have the authority to do this?
Nazgul is why
If we’re going to start prosecuting people for perjury, I will assume that James Clapper’s indictment will be forthcoming soon, right? RIGHT?
I’m not surprised at all. I figured something like this would happen.
Even better – the retired judge Sullivan is appointing to file a amicus brief just had an opinion piece published in WaPo bitching about the charges against Flynn being dropped.
Nothing whatsoever prejudicial about that!
This is nuts.
That Sullivan even thinks he can pull this off is crazy.
The only thing I can figure is that because Flynn is under a gag order during the case, the State is trying to drag this out as long as they can.
Because Sullivan cannot possibly win with this tactic. I say win because he’s obviously biased. He may end up getting disbarred. It’s insane.
Somebody has something on Sullivan. I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist, but this is too far out there to think he’s doing this without motivation.
So let me get this straight. Sullivan is saying that Flynn committed perjury by pleading guilty while he was under duress from the prosecution and they withheld evidence.
And Sullivan is creating the charges himself and calling for another prosecutor to take them on?
Holeeeeee fuck, he is so far out of bounds that it’s almost unbelievable.
Almost.
Sullivan: Somebody needs to prosecute Flynn for falsely pleading guilty!
Barr: No.
When somebody pleads “not guilty” and gets convicted, do they get prosecuted for perjury?
What a farce.
Reading the court document, he is asking for arguments as to why he, Judge Sullivan, should hold Flynn in criminal contempt for perjury. No prosecutor necessary.
Trump has been trying to avoid pardoning Flynn, but if Sullivan tries to jail him for pleading guilty under duress, I think he will have to.
It’s blatantly corrupt, illegal, and unethical.
They really don’t want that gag order lifted from Flynn.
Sullivan is just making shit up now as he goes along.
Who does he think he is? John Roberts?
See: Martha Stewart
Well Preet rules out even joking about woodchippers, so impeachment it is.
I saw this, and maybe understood how a country $20T in debt can justify more spending.
I just replace Government with AI in the Matrix and rather than batteries, each of us provides the necessary means to continue their existence. Rather than coppertops, we are wallets and muscles
Speaking of SpaceX, anyone planning on going to the Crew Dragon launch? We’ve been talking about it. Some of the parents and teachers have been asking if I was going to organize a trip. But NASA said please don’t come. First manned flight for the US since the Shuttle retirement. And first ever private company manned spaceflight. Definitely historic.
I’d love to. But going to FL this month isn’t going to happen. Destroying economies seems to have that affect on most people.
https://krcrtv.com/news/coronavirus/cats-with-no-symptoms-spread-virus-to-other-cats-in-lab-test
Oh
My
God
The cats will not comply, count on it.
The cats out of the bag?
I want to see the lockdownistas send out their Karens to test all cats.
You know, I’m not saying that I want to see the testing Karens eyes torn out of their skulls on live TV or anything like that, I’m just asking for a friend.
I look forward to seeing cats wearing plate carriers at the statehouse.
Well then it’s a good thing I’m not a cat.
So… you’re admitting that you’re either a Tanzanian sheep or PawPaw?
According to my governor, I will be allowed to go eat a pizza and the neighborhood pizza joint this Friday.
I wonder if there will be a line to get in.
To Messrs. Smith, Smith, and Smith. There is an article waiting for you at Slate to do a new Q&A posting.
I did not click through, but the lede is HOW TO DO IT — I Love Twerking During Sex, but It’s Starting to Hurt My Back
Enjoy
The only good thing about this never-ending hysteria is that my weight went down to 160 lbs. If this nonsense continues unabated I might reach 150 lbs as in my twenties.
My only consolation is the thought that drawing out opening up longer and longer will seriously backfire for the assholes doing it. It’s too much to hope for public hangings, but, you know, maybe political repercussions. I can be civil, too.
Ya gotta dream, big guy.
And I want a pony.