Seth takes a closer look at progressives in Congress pushing forward with a transformative $3.5 trillion spending plan that would invest heavily in climate infrastructure amid historic wildfires, droughts and flooding.
now is the autumnal equinox of our discontent
— Emo Philips (@EmoPhilips) September 22, 2021
“Several artists appear to be saying to the government: You want hunting scenes? We’ve got your hunting scenes right here.”
As always, everyone should read the latest @AMcGlashen. https://t.co/nplF8FLXi5— Nicolas Gonzalez 🪶 (@NicoSGonzalez) September 22, 2021
re: #2 Belafon
I had a dear friend who was a wonderful artist, and she entered that contest faithfully every year. I had never seen them all together, but they were displayed at her funeral, and I told her family they should make a stationery collection of them. I would buy them and write notes just to use them. She never won, which IMO was a terrible miscarriage of justice!
And she would have LOVED that stamp!
I don’t know, man. There’s something about listening to your favorite rock n’ roll band playing a song from a concert you were at… on vinyl. #umphreys #umphreysmcgee #LongestRingoEver
I don’t know what I thought a mosquito laying eggs would look like, but this isn’t it. https://t.co/LLkYAN73N6 pic.twitter.com/TaqDqV69xG
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) September 22, 2021
re: #4 teleskiguy
From the “Hall of Fame Class of 2019” vinyl which consists of two records (four sides) and two songs. One song takes up three sides, which is the show I was at on 30 December 2019, my first Umphrey’s McGee show sober and the second to last show I would go to before the worldwide pandemic hit. Their whole first set consisted of one song, captured on this vinyl on three sides.
Boris Johnson Finally Confirms: Yes, He Does Have Six Kids
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Johnson’s extracurricular activities have been a subject of salacious gossip in British and political circles since 2010, when The Daily Mail first reported that Johnson had had an extramarital affair, resulting in the birth of a daughter. Johnson never confirmed the news, nor any of the other affairs he is rumored to have had subsequently. Over the years, though, the question has been peppered into numerous press conferences and interviews, with Johnson always reliably dodging it.
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Now, he has finally confirmed that he is the father to four children with ex-wife Marina Wheeler, one daughter from an affair with art consultant Helen Macintyre, and one son with wife Carrie Johnson. It was reported in July that he and his wife are also expecting another child.
re: #7 ckkatz
Sure makes me wonder about the taste of English women.
re: #8 retired cynic
As does TFG, about American women. Some of each, I’d better add.
re: #8 retired cynic
Sure makes me wonder about the taste of English women.
I was thinking also the taste of English voters.
This mutation may explain how humans lost their tails
Some lucky ape-like ancestor got it 20 million years ago.
The oldest known primate fossils are around 66 million years old, around the same time the dinosaurs went extinct. These ancestors had full-fledged tails that were likely handy when living in canopies. The utility of this flexible body part can be attested to by the fact that even after all these years, most living primates and the vast majority of monkeys still sport a tail.
On the other hand, by the time Proconsul, the most primitive ape that is well-known from a fossil skeleton, appeared some 20 million years ago, it had no tail at all.
Why exactly humans and their closest relatives lost their tails has been a matter of debate for some time. What biologists have noticed is that apes can walk with upright stances thanks to a shorter lumbar region enabled by the absence of the tail. Meanwhile, new world monkeys use all fours.
As such, the loss of the tail can be seen as an adaptation to a particular environment, which allowed our ape ancestors to leave trees and walk on the ground. With some adjustments, early humans could not only walk but jog over the grassland.
— Free Belarus News (Eng.) (@BelarusMiniInfo) September 23, 2021
Well, I’m off to bed…
And the obligatory Dad joke:
I’ve decided to quit my job as a personal trainer. I’m always drained, and just not physically up to it..
..so I’ve just handed in my too weak notice.
Laura Loomer, after crowing about recovering from Covid, may have taken a turn for the worse.
Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer after claiming she felt better Sunday following contracting Covid-19, said last night that she was “not feeling well” and hasn’t posted anything to Telegram today, which is not like her.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) September 22, 2021
re: #11 ckkatz
This mutation may explain how humans lost their tails
Some lucky ape-like ancestor got it 20 million years ago.
Thank you for this link. It had a link to the pre-print of the paper so I’ve got another fascinating paper to add to my Paleoanthropology folder :D
re: #14 No Malarkey!
here’s hoping that someone will look in on her, in about a week to ten days.
re: #14 No Malarkey!
Laura Loomer, after crowing about recovering from Covid, may have taken a turn for the worse.
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Oh gee!
Means I got to stay tuned to sorryantivaxxer.com to see if she winds up in Horse Paste Hell
re: #14 No Malarkey!
Laura Loomer, after crowing about recovering from Covid, may have taken a turn for the worse.
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I’ll believe Loony Loomer has taken a turn for the worse if she maintains radio silence for a week.
I’ve seen too much premature celebration over a conservative nemesis’s absence only to see them pop up very soon afterwards seemingly without a care in the world.
Questions to legal lizards concerning the outrageous Texas vigilante anti-abortion law:
— can several people each sue in a different Texas court over the same abortion?
— can several people sue separately the same person over same abortion?
Or are these provisions not well-defined?
Susan Collins endorsement of Paul LePage proves that she’s the only Collins that Barnabas would NEVER sink his fangs into.
re: #18 JOE 🥓
Oh gee!
Means I got to stay tuned to sorryantivaxxer.com to see if she winds up in Horse Paste Hell
Not going to happen. Her youth combined with her receiving the monoclonal antibody treatment means that while she may have a rough time for a few days, she will recover. It will be surprising if she learns anything valuable from this experience; instead she will assure everyone that the vaccine is unnecessary, that you can live your life with no restrictions, and that the disease is easily treated.
Loomer is totally vile and there is no evidence that she is capable of rethinking her life choices. But then if you told me in November 2016 that Joe Walsh would have a complete change in perspective, I would have asked you what you were smoking.
#NewYork Citi Bike explodes on subway tracks after being hit by oncoming train
Originally posted byhttps://t.co/SK0OUQ7Jl7 pic.twitter.com/0TxZyOt2aX— Disaster (@Disastervid) September 21, 2021
re: #4 teleskiguy
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People getting all “wow” over vinyl reminds me of the fact that the studios worked to convince people that their movies, being lower quality than home video cameras, were a better quality product.
re: #9 retired cynic
As does TFG, about American women. Some of each, I’d better add.
I had an uncle that made me question the taste of US women’s since he married five times and was a lazy slob for the last two.
I spoke with Patrick Burshia earlier this month inside an ICU @BillingsClinic in Montana.
He told me he regretted not getting the Covid vaccine. But he was grateful that his condition was improving.
Sadly, he passed away this weekend.
He was just 24 years old. pic.twitter.com/C1LfPL1zCZ— Gabe Gutierrez (@gabegutierrez) September 21, 2021
So I just signed up for Disney+… I have a list of things definitely on my watchlist, but seeking advice whether I should add Mandelorian and/or Wandavision to that list?
re: #28 sagehen
So I just signed up for Disney+… I have a list of things definitely on my watchlist, but seeking advice whether I should add Mandelorian and/or Wandavision to that list?
I loved Mandelorian. It is far better than the current movies. Worth it for Star Wars fans.
re: #28 sagehen
So I just signed up for Disney+… I have a list of things definitely on my watchlist, but seeking advice whether I should add Mandelorian and/or Wandavision to that list?
My daughter signed the family up for Disney+. I’m re-watching Agent Carter at the moment.
re: #28 sagehen
So I just signed up for Disney+… I have a list of things definitely on my watchlist, but seeking advice whether I should add Mandelorian and/or Wandavision to that list?
Yes and yes. Star Wars Visions is a big yes too.
Didn’t someone post earlier that loomer is dropping wisdom on gutrr or gettr or WTF they call it today? Complaining about the price of groceries I remember.
re: #34 Amory Blaine
Didn’t someone post earlier that loomer is dropping wisdom on gutrr or gettr or WTF they call it today? Complaining about the price of groceries I remember.
I think her last post was the 16th.
Laura Loomer last posted to GETTR eight hours ago.
re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron
The ratio of new cases to deaths in Alabama is alarming.
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You have to look back 2-4 weeks to get a more realistic ratio (like, factor in the 5-10 day incubation time, maybe 1-2 weeks for the poor sods to marinade enough to seek care).
re: #24 Dread Pirate Ron
“It’s not the volts, it’s the amps.”
“How many amps is it?”
“Enough to push a train.”
re: #38 Teukka
You have to look back 2-4 weeks to get a more realistic ratio (like, factor in the 5-10 day incubation time, maybe 1-2 weeks for the poor sods to marinade enough to seek care).
True but even then it’s still about 6-10%. Some of the worst countries have around 5%, assuming their numbers are accurate.
re: #41 Dread Pirate Ron
True but even then it’s still about 6-10%. Some of the worst countries have around 5%, assuming their numbers are accurate.
Hmmm. How much is people waiting until they get really ill to get tested for the Crowned Bastard™? 🤔
And then we have how likely people are to follow basic disease transmission mitigation strategies (😷🧼↔️🌡🤬)… 🤔
And nope, 10% is not good at all…
I have a horrible time falling asleep in general, and I hadn’t really fallen asleep before my phone started going berserk at 01:10.
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At least I hadn’t fallen into a deep sleep. My comanager for this issue was completely out and I had to call her and wake her up.
re: #16 William Lewis
Thank you for this link. It had a link to the pre-print of the paper so I’ve got another fascinating paper to add to my Paleoanthropology folder :D
Glad it proved useful.
Hmm, that’s interesting, it’s 6am, pitched dark, pouring rain and in the neighbor’s yard there are at least 5 animals, including human, barking, screaming and growling. An adult male is yelling “hey hey no no”, dogs are barking and growling and ‘yipe’ing. Sounds like some geese or a small dog maybe involved from the sounds of it. There may also be some teenagers in there screaming too. It’s hard to tell.
Welcome to Virginia!
Too dark and wet to bother looking. I guess I’ll find out at some point…
re: #8 retired cynic
Sure makes me wonder about the taste of English women.
He is rich and influential.
re: #31 teleskiguy
I left my entire vinyl collection in the ‘States when I moved to Europe in 1988 and have not looked back since.
I have no sort of nostalgia for things like that, to me the medium is entirely secondary to the music.
re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter
Questions to legal lizards concerning the outrageous Texas vigilante anti-abortion law:
— can several people each sue in a different Texas court over the same abortion?
— can several people sue separately the same person over same abortion?Or are these provisions not well-defined?
Enough to cause the SCOTUS to drop it and walk away…
re: #46 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is rich and influential.
“Money changes everything… “
re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I left my entire vinyl collection in the ‘States when I moved to Europe in 1988 and have not looked back since.
I have no sort of nostalgia for things like that, to me the medium is entirely secondary to the music.
This. I first heard a CD (The Pretenders debut) in a record shop in Ansbach FRG back in 1984. I got rid of my vinyl as soon as I could.
re: #52 William Lewis
Yeah, that was just about the time that nearly everything on vinyl was coming out on CD
re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter
Questions to legal lizards concerning the outrageous Texas vigilante anti-abortion law:
— can several people each sue in a different Texas court over the same abortion?
— can several people sue separately the same person over same abortion?Or are these provisions not well-defined?
You’re asking if Texas thought this through?
re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter
Questions to legal lizards concerning the outrageous Texas vigilante anti-abortion law:
— can several people each sue in a different Texas court over the same abortion?
— can several people sue separately the same person over same abortion?Or are these provisions not well-defined?
1. Yes, but the defendant would move (and likely be granted) to join the actions together into one suit, in one court that would presumably be of the defendant’s choosing.
2. As in #1, yes, and they would likely be joined into a single action. The court system has developed systems to minimize time wasted.
The one thing to realize here is that once a lawsuit is filed under Texas SB8, the rest of the suit plays out according to the existing Federal Rules for Civil Procedure, excepting the bits at the end where the defendants never get attorney’s fees but the plaintiffs, if they win, get fees plus the $10k bounty. That includes things such as: Joining multiple lawsuits that are brought for the same cause; motions to dismiss, where the defendant could produce arguments such as “the plaintiff isn’t even a Texas citizen and doesn’t have standing to bring suit”; and discovery.
re: #52 William Lewis
This. I first heard a CD (The Pretenders debut) in a record shop in Ansbach FRG back in 1984. I got rid of my vinyl as soon as I could.
Before there were options, there was ritual to vinyl
re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron
The ratio of new cases to deaths in Alabama is alarming.
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Alabama case and fatality reporting is very lumpy—they submit collected numbers on an almost random schedule. Can’t say our state is flat-out cooking the books, but they have no incentive to be very aggressive in searching out local numbers.
re: #56 Dangerman
Before there were options, there was ritual to vinyl
Cleaning the vinyl and the stylus; sometimes putting on the big-ass headphones; sitting and reading the liner notes for the umpteenth time. Yeah, I miss it. I hated CDs at first because I actually missed the crackle and pop.
The death toll continues to mount. Over 2,700 dead of covid in just the last day, over 14k in the last week, and nearly 51k in the last month. I noticed O’Keefe was promoting an anti-vaxx sting recording on Twitter, and RFK Jr, the nation’s leading anti-vaxxer, still has a Twitter account and was promoting O’Keefe’s video. coronavirus.jhu.edu
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
Not going to happen. Her youth combined with her receiving the monoclonal antibody treatment means that while she may have a rough time for a few days, she will recover. It will be surprising if she learns anything valuable from this experience; instead she will assure everyone that the vaccine is unnecessary, that you can live your life with no restrictions, and that the disease is easily treated.
Loomer is totally vile and there is no evidence that she is capable of rethinking her life choices. But then if you told me in November 2016 that Joe Walsh would have a complete change in perspective, I would have asked you what you were smoking.
freak shit happens. it just takes one blood clot. no, I don’t wish that on her, or anybody. vile people don’t need to die to please me. i wouldn’t cry over it, though.
re: #29 I Would Prefer Not To
I loved Mandelorian. It is far better than the current movies. Worth it for Star Wars fans.
Starz just sent me some 2 bucks a month remembership teaser, so I’m gonna have to figure out where that is in my junk mail now, ‘cause I can’t find it on my phone. Edit: found it on my phone. It’s for “a month.” Nah, fuck that. I’d pay 12 bucks for 6 months, but one month ain’t worth it for Starz.
re: #39 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
“It’s not the volts, it’s the amps.”
“How many amps is it?”
“Enough to push a train.”
“i.e., slightly less than what it takes to bring a Fender Bassman and an 8x10 cab up to speed.”
That part: https://t.co/50EDHBM8uo
— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) September 22, 2021
re: #64 Patricia Kayden
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What Republicans will say is the exact opposite: that Democrats preach about a woman being able to control her own body, but the state is forcing everyone to get the vaccine and wear a mask.
The former guy’s clown show continues, as his lawyers shoot themselves in the foot in his purported class action against Twitter for being banned unfairly:
To say that argument is merely incoherent is to damn with faint praise.
It’s gloriously, catastrophically incoherent. It’s the kind of incoherent that saps coherence from the surrounding environment.
It’s made the entire case less coherent than it was.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) September 23, 2021
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 $𝟕.𝟖 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝟒 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) September 22, 2021
re: #67 Patricia Kayden
The Democrats in the Senate should tell the media and put up the debt ceiling bill up every day at noon and set up a vote on it until it passes.
Greets and saluts from the soon to be soggy NYC metro area. We’ve got more rain in the forecast and flood watches are in place, but I hope we don’t see the torrential rains we experienced from Ida. As it is, even a moderate rain over a period of time might cause flooding in low lying areas, so best to be safe.
But that’s not what has me most worried. Just learned that a long time friend and kid both got diagnosed with covid. He was vaccinated, and she’s too young. Both have mild symptoms, but they’re both miserable and upset and dealing with all kinds of unknowns.
I’m pissed that we don’t have better contact tracing to help identify where/how people are getting sick. I have my suspicions on where they got it, and it just strengthen my belief that masking in crowded areas no matter if they’re indoors/outdoors is my best choice, even being fully vaccinated myself.
re: #28 sagehen
So I just signed up for Disney+… I have a list of things definitely on my watchlist, but seeking advice whether I should add Mandelorian and/or Wandavision to that list?
Star Wars Visions. A bunch of anime studios have done a bunch of shorts that will expand the Star Wars universe in interesting ways with interesting visuals. We started that yesterday.
I’d also add Falcon and Winter Soldier to the list, and Mandalorian is definitely a good add along with Wandavision.
One of the better email titles that I received recently was an OZY aggregation of articles on the “Ig Nobels”. Apparently it involves research that sounds silly to some journalists at the magazine ‘Annals of Improbable Research’:
“Reverse Rhinos and Sex Sneezes”
Orgasms to improve nasal breathing, fat politicians and upside-down rhinos were among the winners at the quirky annual awards from magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Slinging rhinos upside-down below helicopters may seem bizarre, but this year’s transportation prize winners wanted to see if the method, commonly used to transport the massive mammals in Africa, had detrimental health effects — but the rhinos actually did better in that position. The economics Ig Nobel went to a professor who correlated politicians’ obesity to national corruption. And the medicine prize went to researchers who showed orgasms are as good as decongestants at clearing stuffy noses.
Ozy reference (scroll down the referenced web page. Look for “Ig Nobels”. Just below the video of an upside down rhino.)
ozy.com
Referenced articles:
- BBC article:
bbc.com
- Guardian article:
theguardian.com
re: #58 Barefoot Grin
Cleaning the vinyl and the stylus; sometimes putting on the big-ass headphones; sitting and reading the liner notes for the umpteenth time. Yeah, I miss it. I hated CDs at first because I actually missed the crackle and pop.
i have vinyl that i recorded to cassette in the 70s then converted to mp3 that i now carry around and play on my phone
it’s got all the clicks skips etc
Well, no bodies, no blood, no signs of any struggle in my backyard and, fortunately, no olfactory evidence that it involved a skunk. I guess that I will find out at some point.
Meanwhile, at least 7 Fairfax County roads are reported flooded. So, I would suspect that some folks are not having a good time.
re: #44 ckkatz
Hmm, that’s interesting, it’s 6am, pitched dark, pouring rain and in the neighbor’s yard there are at least 5 animals, including human, barking, screaming and growling. An adult male is yelling “hey hey no no”, dogs are barking and growling and ‘yipe’ing. Sounds like some geese or a small dog maybe involved from the sounds of it. There may also be some teenagers in there screaming too. It’s hard to tell.
Welcome to Virginia!
Too dark and wet to bother looking. I guess I’ll find out at some point…
CityNews has learned a number of Edson residents are in Edmonton ICUs following a ‘get COVID’ party — in an attempt to achieve herd immunity.
The details tonight at 6 and online @CityNewsYEG pic.twitter.com/tnXsT7MpWS— Darcy Ropchan (@darcyropchan) September 22, 2021
re: #69 Belafon
The Democrats in the Senate should tell the media and put up the debt ceiling bill up every day at noon and set up a vote on it until it passes.
At least as many times as the GOP has tried to repeal ACA
re: #77 Teukka
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A number of Edson residents are in Edmonton ICUs following a gathering to try and get COVID-19— as a way to achieve natural immunity.@rodmaldaner and @darcyropchan have the story from Edson. pic.twitter.com/B6HfYVBAc9— CityNews Edmonton (@CityNewsYEG) September 23, 2021
I frankly hate these calls.
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I am exhausted.
Jim Wright thinks this is where Flynn got his vaccines in salad dressing delusion. There will have been a game of telephone where everyone was a dumbass to twist this story to into his delusion.
Grow and eat your own vaccines? (UC Riverside)
re: #81 Teukka
Stolen from the thread to that tweet:
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Some mileage I am getting out of this, no?
⚠️ℹ️ Due to the mortality rate of #SARS_CoV_2 and #Covid_19, having a “Get CoViD-19 party” is an exceedingly inexpedient idea.ℹ️⚠️Don’t be a #CoViDiot. Get the damn jab. https://t.co/ICu6doJLev
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka72) September 23, 2021
Regarding the whole sad, sorry, Evergrande fiasco, I’mma drop the whole article here, translated from Czech to English.
The Chinese government is urging authorities across the country to prepare for the collapse of the giant developer Evergrande. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) server pointed this out. Beijing has previously announced that it has no plans to intervene to ward off the risk of bankruptcy. On the other hand, it wants to ensure that such an event does not rock the whole economy.
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Original, in Czech: novinky.cz
re: #82 Teukka
Some mileage I am getting of of this, no?
“extremely inexpedient”
how about
DEADLY STOOPID?
re: #83 Dr Lizardo
Regarding the whole sad, sorry, Evergrande fiasco, I’mma drop the whole article here, translated from Czech to English.
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The Chinese government is urging authorities across the country to prepare for the collapse of the giant developer Evergrande. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) server pointed this out. Beijing has previously announced that it has no plans to intervene to ward off the risk of bankruptcy. On the other hand, it wants to ensure that such an event does not rock the whole economy.
In other words, pretty much the opposite of what Bush did in 2008..
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Exactly. Chinese authorities seem to have learned from the fallout of the 2008 meltdown - chiefly, to be a bit more proactive to prevent a massive systemic failure. At the very least, it’s always good to have a plan ready to be put into effect posthaste.
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“extremely inexpedient”
how about
DEADLY STOOPID?
“This here is a case of what is called a terminal case of retrobulbar evactuation…”
How’zat? 🤔
re: #7 ckkatz
Boris Johnson Finally Confirms: Yes, He Does Have Six Kids
So he actually beats The Tangsnorter at something.
— KnowNothing (@KnowNothingTV) September 23, 2021
re: #62 steve_davis
doesn’t necessarily mean anything. Herman Cain is still posting from the grave.
Has he commented about the accommodations in the Richard Nixon Wing on the 9th Level of Hell yet?
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“extremely inexpedient”
how about
DEADLY STOOPID?
Is that the Canadian to USian translation? Now how do you say it in UKese?
re: #86 Dr Lizardo
Exactly. Chinese authorities seem to have learned from the fallout of the 2008 meltdown - chiefly, to be a bit more proactive to prevent a massive systemic failure. At the very least, it’s always good to have a plan ready to be put into effect posthaste.
The very notion of “moral risk”, which lies at the very heart of Capitalism, means that unsuccessful companies must be allowed to fail to make way for more successful ones.
How is it that the Chinese Communists recognize this principle when the world’s leading Capitalist nation does not?
re: #91 sagehen
Is that the Canadian to USian translation? Now how do you say it in UKese?
UK FREEDOM!!! BLUE PASSPORTS!!! LEAVE OUR FISH ALONE!!!
re: #79 mmmirele
I frankly hate these calls.
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re: #91 sagehen
Is that the Canadian to USian translation? Now how do you say it in UKese?
“exceedingly inexpedient” was UKese, cribbed that one from Huxley’s “The Devils of Loudun”…
*sigh*
COVID-19: Police in Canada hunt man who punched nurse in the face after she gave his wife vaccine
Police in Canada are searching for a man they suspect punched a nurse in the face for giving his wife a COVID jab without his consent.
…snip…
He said the man was agitated that the jab had been given to his wife “without his authorisation”, and he proceeded to hit the nurse in the face.
It was not clear whether the suspect opposed vaccinations or whether, in fact, his wife had even been inoculated at the same pharmacy.
re: #94 JOE 🥓
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re: #88 JOE 🥓
So he actually beats The Tangsnorter at something.
Yup, but apparently Genghis Khan and 10 other men have him way beat:
Ten Other Men Left Genetic Legacies So Huge They Rival Genghis Khan’s
A new study shows that 10 other men founded large Y-chromosome lineages
Since a 2003 study found evidence that Genghis Khan’s DNA is present in about 16 million men alive today, the Mongolian ruler’s genetic prowess has stood as an unparalleled accomplishment. But he isn’t the only man whose reproductive activities still show a significant genetic impact centuries later. A new study conducted by a team of geneticists has found a handful of other men who founded prolific lineages.
To identify those lineages, the geneticists analyzed “the Y chromosomes of more 5,000 men from 127 populations spanning Asia,” Nature News reports. They found 11 Y-chromosome sequences shared by more than 20 of the analyzed subjects. Chalk down one of those as Genghis Khan’s, and that leaves 10 other men who founded a long-lived and widely spread family tree.
So who were these other super-fertile fathers? One sequence is attributed to a 16th century Qinq Dynasty ruler named Giocangga, whose Y-chromosome was linked in an earlier study to 1.5 million men in modern northern China. The other nine men are currently mysteries. Yet, by assuming that these men lived in the area where their genome was most commonly found and by studying mutations in the genetic sequences, scientists know that they “originated throughout Asia, from the Middle East to southeast Asia, dating to between 2100 BC and AD 700,” writes Nature News.
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The Chinese government is urging authorities across the country to prepare for the collapse of the giant developer Evergrande. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) server pointed this out. Beijing has previously announced that it has no plans to intervene to ward off the risk of bankruptcy. On the other hand, it wants to ensure that such an event does not rock the whole economy.
In other words, pretty much the opposite of what Bush did in 2008..
Memories of that asshole Phil Gramm saying in September 2008 that the US economy has never been stronger…
re: #98 mmmirele
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re: #100 JOE 🥓
Memories of that asshole Phil Gramm saying in September 2008 that the US economy has never been stronger…
And that housing price growth can continue to outstrip overall economic growth by a factor of three to one without a correction…
re: #101 Dopamine Fish
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re: #99 ckkatz
Centuries from now, when this study is done again, I wonder if Jim Bob Duggar will be on the list.
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re: #99 ckkatz
Yup, but apparently Genghis Khan and 10 other men have him way beat:
Ten Other Men Left Genetic Legacies So Huge They Rival Genghis Khan’s
A new study shows that 10 other men founded large Y-chromosome lineages
King David had… was it 10 “wives”? And his oldest son, King Solomon, had so many wives and concubines they had to invent whole new branches of mathematics to count them all.
I’m guessing that within a few generations, everybody within 300 miles was descended from them.
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
Centuries from now, when this study is done again, I wonder if Jim Bob Duggar will be on the list.
/
Certainly would seem to define our times, doesn’t it…
re: #105 sagehen
King David had… was it 10 “wives”? And his oldest son, King Solomon, had so many wives and concubines they had to invent whole new branches of mathematics to count them all.
I’m guessing that within a few generations, everybody within 300 miles was descended from them.
Kind of a zero-sum aspect, isn’t there…
re: #65 Belafon
What Republicans will say is the exact opposite: that Democrats preach about a woman being able to control her own body, but the state is forcing everyone to get the vaccine and wear a mask.
But no one is going to get pregnant sitting next to a pregnant woman on the bus.
re: #108 Eventual Carrion
But no one is going to get pregnant sitting next to a pregnant woman on the bus.
But do right wingers know that?
re: #110 gwangung
But do right wingers know that?
Daddy, I’m pregnant.
I told you not to sit next to that Johnson girl on the bus!
re: #104 Eclectic Cyborg
Centuries from now, when this study is done again, I wonder if Jim Bob Duggar will be on the list.
/
Zedushka Pielord.
re: #78 Teukka
Hospitals should refuse to treat their stupid behinds.
A Florida man has been fired from his real estate job after the Epik hack revealed his attempts to register domains such as theholocaustisfake[.]com
https://t.co/1EDTEIrGjH #Epik #EpikFail #OpEpikFail— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) September 23, 2021
re: #109 darthstar
I like the chart. But where does furlongs per fortnight fit in? :)
re: #73 Dangerman
i have vinyl that i recorded to cassette in the 70s then converted to mp3 that i now carry around and play on my phone
it’s got all the clicks skips etc
But no 8-track that goes *CHA-CHUNK* halfway through a song?
Edit: It took out my CHA-CHUNK because I used some special symbols.
Anyone else catch the new Wonder Years last night? It was light fun but damn, the ending was heavy….
re: #115 Teukka
So some good is coming from the Epik hack already.
Very early on, the Irish developed patronymic surnames. Modern genetics can be used (misused) to test those genealogies. In the case of someone supposed to have lived 1500 years ago, Niall of the Nine Hostages, a y-chromosome appears in about 1/5 of the men of the O’Niell territory in the North. Brian Boru, 500 years later, does not dominate the O’Brians at all as strongly. It’s all a matter of time, statistics, and fast horses.
re: #117 Eventual Carrion
But no 8-track that goes
halfway through a song?
Jammed in place under the dashboard with some books of matches….
re: #121 Decatur Deb
Very early on, the Irish developed patronymic surnames. Modern genetics can be used (misused) to test those genealogies. In the case of someone supposed to have lived 1500 years ago, Niall of the Nine Hostages, a y-chromosome appears in about 1/5 of the men of the O’Niell territory in the North. Brian Boru, 500 years later, does not dominate the O’Brians at all as strongly. It’s all a matter of time, statistics, and fast horses.
Daddy, I’m pregnant.
Aye, Declan and that fast horse of his agin’…or were you sittin’ next to that Doran girl?
re: #118 Eventual Carrion
More like herd thinning
They’re behaving as if vaccines don’t exist. Its mass psychosis created by propagandists.
In a rural area I lived in in Japan there was an abundance of Chibas and Sugawaras. I asked if they were all related. I was told that some were, but mostly not: since family names were reserved for the samurai class during the Tokugawa period, some families lost touch with their ancestry and didn’t have names going into the Meiji period; so, they took the name of prominent families that had names and with whom they usually had some kind of subordinate relationship. Or, that is what I was told.
The House passed:
* A CR (that both parties say they support)
* Disaster funding (that both parties say they support)
* Avoiding default (which both parties say they support)
And yet now one party says they will filibuster it all for politics. It’s actually quite simple. https://t.co/rR4yjLd9Br— Jesse Lee (@JesseLee46) September 22, 2021
Media be like…
Democrats are divided over how best to help people, while Republicans are united over how best to hurt people.
Advantage: Republicans— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) September 22, 2021
re: #124 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They’re behaving as if vaccines don’t exist. Its mass psychosis created by propagandists.
Eventually, they’re gonna have a cruel reality check.
I really would like to see more headlines that express, “GOP Senators are fighting to make U.S. default on debt.”
That is, in very neutral terms, what’s happening.— Mangy Jay (@magi_jay) September 22, 2021
There is nothing more fiscally irresponsible than fighting for the U.S. to default, which wouldn’t just devastate our economy, but would also have global effects. So why are we giving them so much credibility in other debates, such as the cost of childcare & eldercare?
— Mangy Jay (@magi_jay) September 22, 2021
Well, this is just sci-fi wishful thinking.
But what if I was to tell you I had a clone of a popular Democratic Arizona senator who could primary Sinema. https://t.co/R1En2v4wJu pic.twitter.com/oFfNKqbuZd— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) September 20, 2021
re: #128 Teukka
Eventually, they’re gonna have a cruel reality check.
It’s ongoing. They’re having their slow-motion Jonestown in our hospitals.
re: #125 Barefoot Grin
In a rural area I lived in in Japan there was an abundance of Chibas and Sugawaras. I asked if they were all related. I was told that some were, but mostly not: since family names were reserved for the samurai class during the Tokugawa period, some families lost touch with their ancestry and didn’t have names going into the Meiji period; so, they took the name of prominent families that had names and with whom they usually had some kind of subordinate relationship. Or, that is what I was told.
A lot of European surnames are job or location related.
re: #124 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They’re behaving as if vaccines don’t exist. Its mass psychosis created by propagandists.
It really does boil down to “I don’t want to do to this thing because the Democrats / the Establishment is telling me to do it.”
It’s not about freedom.
It’s not about rights.
It’s not about patriotism.
It’s about a bunch of morons who just have to “own the libs” at any cost because they’ve been conditioned to believe that anything Liberals say, do or support is inherently evil and must be opposed.
This is isn’t new. We’ve seen it with Civil Rights Laws, we’ve seen it with Abortion Laws, we’ve seen it with gun laws and we saw it with Obamacare.
But where before the only fallout was legislative gridlock and further polarization of American politics, now “owning the Libs” by not giving a shit about Covid is leading to deaths, overflowing hospitals, orphaned children and significant economic impacts nationwide.
It was bad enough when they WEREN’T trying to take all of us down with them.
Now they are, and we have good reason to be seriously pissed off about it.
Our neighbor - knowing that we are vaccinated - walked up the street to tell us that in five years she will be inheriting all the wealth left behind by those who got vaccines. She is a wingnut on the left side of the aisle.
Snipped from r/ParlerWatch:
“Nobody ever ever dies of Covid at home, only in hospitals. If you want to survive Covid (if you still believe it exists), then all you have to do is make sure not to enter a hospital.”
and I’ve seen that thing in the wild the other day…
re: #132 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
A lot of European surnames are job or location related.
That’s why the Irish thing works. They have clans associated with real or legendary heroes.
A man claiming to be a part of an organized crime group threatened a “bloodbath” at a covid vaccination center in Tokyo this weekend, and did so in a decidedly Japanese way: via fax, with a cover page titled “Death Threat.” From me & @juliaminuma: https://t.co/bzwJ3KhTX0
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee (@myhlee) September 22, 2021
Be that dog 💜 pic.twitter.com/HhznMzodsG
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) September 19, 2021
re: #135 Teukka
Snipped from
r/ParlerWatch:
“Nobody ever ever dies of Covid at home, only in hospitals. If you want to survive Covid (if you still believe it exists), then all you have to do is make sure not to enter a hospital.”
and I’ve seen that thing in the wild the other day…
Works for me.
re: #132 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
A lot of European surnames are job or location related.
That was the rule for the Tokugawa period as well. Gorobei the wood merchant or Jiro of Nihonmatsu. I think fewer of these names stuck around than was the case in Europe, but I could be very wrong. Unlike China, where 100 names are used by the majority of the country, Japanese have quite a variety of family names now.
Germany will stop paying compensation to unvaccinated workers who are forced into quarantine as it is unfair to ask taxpayers to subsidise those who refuse to get inoculated, Health Minister Jens Spahn said https://t.co/429k0wjPbn pic.twitter.com/How0F4uknd
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 22, 2021
re: #141 Belafon
Compare that to Tennessee, which just legislated not giving medicine to vaccinated people with breakthrough cases to save it for use with unvaccinated people. (Which to a degree is admitting that the vaccination makes it less likely for a person to die from Covid, even with a breakthrough case.)
Good morning Lizards, time to end this tedious hostage taking:
PELOSI just called the debt ceiling vote a “tradition” and said there is some back and forth about whether they need to do it
“There’s some doubt as to whether that should be the case,” Pelosi said.
Whoa.— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) September 23, 2021
re: #135 Teukka
Snipped from
r/ParlerWatch:
“Nobody ever ever dies of Covid at home, only in hospitals. If you want to survive Covid (if you still believe it exists), then all you have to do is make sure not to enter a hospital.”
and I’ve seen that thing in the wild the other day…
My grandfather had that attitude. But he was born in 1895 on a farm in rural Missouri.
This was before the professionalization of the medical field. And subsistence farmers did not have a whole lot of access to services at the time anyway. Or any cash to afford it.
By the time he passed away in the 1980’s, everything had changed. The majority of the population had moved off farms. The medical field had professionalized. And a lot more folks had entered the cash economy. With medicare and retirement, he had access to medical services. And he used them.
As Portugal nears its goal of fully vaccinating 85% of the population against COVID-19 in 9 months, other nations want to know how it was able to accomplish the feat. A lot of the credit is going to a naval officer who took charge of the vaccine rollout. https://t.co/LgzRPtt1Re
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 23, 2021
And here might be a problem: Shut down a small company by only taking their formula:
Pressure is growing on US pharmaceutical companies to share technology for Covid vaccines. A lot of that pressure is on Moderna, an upstart biotech firm. Countries elsewhere in the world want Moderna’s formula so they can make their own mRNA shots https://t.co/DXfrQZZ4KL
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) September 23, 2021
Evidence continues to accumulate: MMR & TDAP vaccines guard against severe Covid. Vaccines prompt strong immunity via memory T&B cells. Measles-Mumps-Rubella & Tetanus-Diphtheria-Pertussis elicit potent responses & a bonus: cross-reactive memory T cells https://t.co/T1Y4xI41o7 pic.twitter.com/YTKHKolHxk
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) September 22, 2021
Looking for another reason to get a vaccine? Gathering scientific evidence shows that #COVID19 could cause erectile dysfunction and other male reproductive issues. One urologist doesn’t mince words: “If they want to have sex, better to get the vaccine.” https://t.co/CBsywddVhi
— David Beard (@dabeard) September 22, 2021
Clear a space for these people:
With hospitals full of unvaccinated Covid patients, surgeries are being delayed. A hospital in Medford, Ore., normally has no one waiting for open-heart surgery, but now 28 people are waiting. Their lives are at risk because of vaccination resistance. https://t.co/BR4OTuFqgW
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) September 22, 2021
Worth the read. A band replies to fans complaining about vax requirements. https://t.co/LtWKnc1l6w
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) September 23, 2021
re: #144 b.d. (You lost, we didn’t cheat, you lost)
Good morning Lizards, time to end this tedious hostage taking:
Just imagine the whining from the Republicans when the Democrats bring this to a successful conclusion, despite their sincere best efforts to torpedo the American economy.
Good thread explaining the context of why General Milley had to defuse fear that Trump would start a war with China in a desperate bid to retain power.
If you’ve read Bob Woodward’s PERIL—an appetizer for understanding January 6—and now want the 5-course meal version, there are 100 articles at PROOF that will take you inside the insurrection in a way no other source does. It’s $5 to access the whole site. https://t.co/npT4m05Qxk
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) September 22, 2021
re: #135 Teukka
Snipped from
r/ParlerWatch:
“Nobody ever ever dies of Covid at home, only in hospitals. If you want to survive Covid (if you still believe it exists), then all you have to do is make sure not to enter a hospital.”
and I’ve seen that thing in the wild the other day…
Same. Idiots be idioting.
re: #148 Dopamine Fish
Just imagine the whining from the Republicans when the Democrats bring this to a successful conclusion, despite their sincere best efforts to torpedo the American economy.
It is long overdue, the wingnuts would have a tantrum that their reliable hostage of the world economy is gone.
re: #130 Belafon
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Floriduh GQP is now going full anti-vaxx, opposing all vaccines against any disease.
— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) September 23, 2021
re: #41 Dread Pirate Ron
True but even then it’s still about 6-10%. Some of the worst countries have around 5%, assuming their numbers are accurate.
Alabama has positivity of 27.85%. So a large number of cases are not being detected and there is a significant undercount; also, as has been mentioned, deaths attributed to a day are often based on when they are reported rather than when they occurred. There can be a substantial lag in getting autopsies or death certificates to the official records.
re: #62 steve_davis
doesn’t necessarily mean anything. Herman Cain is still posting from the grave.
Cain had people working for him, who may have cared about him. Loomer, not so much. Trump, who was in far worse physical health and far worse shape from the disease, was fine within a few days. I have no doubt that Loomer is doing just fine.
re: #141 Belafon
I dropped that in a rightio infested chat. They’re now reeeeee’ing…
re: #67 Patricia Kayden
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓: 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐝 $𝟕.𝟖 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝟒 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) September 22, 2021
TBF — and I really don’t want to be — but a substantial portion of that explosion in debt is due to the pandemic.
re: #141 Belafon
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If Republicans were Conservative, they’d want that approach here, but they’re toddlers who must be catered to no matter how destructive they are.
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
TBF — and I really don’t want to be — but a substantial portion of that explosion in debt is due to the pandemic.
Define “substantial portion”.
$1.7T was from that tax bill. There was also $1T in each of the other 2 years before the pandemic started.
re: #153 No Malarkey!
Floriduh GQP is now going full anti-vaxx, opposing all vaccines against any disease.
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Go ahead and do that Manny. We dare you to ban all vaccines!
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
TBF — and I really don’t want to be — but a substantial portion of that explosion in debt is due to the pandemic.
Maybe, but the point is that the Republicans are trying to have their cake and eat it too; they spent a ton of money in the pandemic (and tax cuts, etc.), and now they want to blame the Democrats and force them to give up their agenda to pay for the Republicans’ spending.
As expected The Yang Gang is starting a new party that will go nowhere.
Andrew Yang’s new 3rd party will be called ‘The Forward Party,’ according to his forthcoming book.
re: #156 Teukka
I dropped that in a rightio infested chat. They’re now reeeeee’ing…
Also, as of yesterday, 88.2% of CoViD cases in Swedish ICU’s were unvaxxed, remaining mostly immunocompromised, single-vaxxed or unclear vax status.
How close is the GQP to explicitly endorsing racial segregation?
Here’s the Heritage foundation coming out against “diversity” “equality” and “inclusion.” https://t.co/W7ar6uPaUw
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 23, 2021
re: #164 No Malarkey!
How close is the GQP to explicitly endorsing racial segregation?
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Just one Supreme Court case away from throwing out the 1964 Civil Rights Act…
re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
TBF — and I really don’t want to be — but a substantial portion of that explosion in debt is due to the pandemic.
The real point is they didn’t care until January 21, 2021.
re: #135 Teukka
Snipped from
r/ParlerWatch:
“Nobody ever ever dies of Covid at home, only in hospitals. If you want to survive Covid (if you still believe it exists), then all you have to do is make sure not to enter a hospital.”
and I’ve seen that thing in the wild the other day…
Could be someone who believes that — or someone on the other side who believes the unvaccinated shouldn’t be clogging hospital beds and that hospitals should reserve their Covid care for patients who took the right precautions.
re: #168 JOE 🥓
Crackhead Mike changes the date to Thanksgiving!
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re: #157 Hecuba’s daughter
TBF — and I really don’t want to be — but a substantial portion of that explosion in debt is due to the pandemic.
re: #159 sagehen
Define “substantial portion”.
$1.7T was from that tax bill. There was also $1T in each of the other 2 years before the pandemic started.
Spent is spent. Vinnie doesn’t care why you owe him money.
re: #116 ckkatz
I like the chart. But where does furlongs per fortnight fit in? :)
and don’t even get going on currency…farthings, ha’pennies, bob, crowns, quid, guineas, sovereigns…
Been poking around the State of Alaska Covid-19 dashboard. The dash board states that slightly more than 100,000 cases of confirmed cases of Covid have been identified in Alaska. Since the total population of Alaska is a little over 700,000 this means just about 1 in every 7 Alaskans have had Covid-19. So far.
Not very good.
re: #167 Belafon
The real point is they didn’t care until January 21, 2021.
The GOP never cares about spending money, except for money that helps the poor and working class. That was what Stuart Stevens explained in his “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump” — his gradual realization that the party he supported his entire life was a fraud.
Judge orders Facebook to hand over Myanmar officials’ hate posts for genocide case https://t.co/Eg4KEz1vdR pic.twitter.com/TQX7S38B1c
— The Verge (@verge) September 23, 2021
Also, Facebook is reacting as expected…
re: #135 Teukka
Snipped from
r/ParlerWatch:
“Nobody ever ever dies of Covid at home, only in hospitals. If you want to survive Covid (if you still believe it exists), then all you have to do is make sure not to enter a hospital.”
and I’ve seen that thing in the wild the other day…
Weirdly, Cuomo was attacked for not counting the number of people dying outside hospitals, while the CDC numbers covered at-home, hospice, and nursing home deaths as well. The CDC ultimately counts all those deaths. People die at home. How they’re counted is dependent on the death certificate cause of death, and that can vary widely.
re: #177 lawhawk
Weirdly, Cuomo was attacked for not counting the number of people dying outside hospitals, while the CDC numbers covered at-home, hospice, and nursing home deaths as well. The CDC ultimately counts all those deaths. People die at home. How they’re counted is dependent on the death certificate cause of death, and that can vary widely.
Depending on how much local officials can lean on coroners not to report as many Covid deaths?
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Depending on how much local officials can lean on coroners not to report as many Covid deaths?
Depends on how conservative the coroner is.
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Michigan GOP Lawmaker Needs To Be Babysat At Work After Threatening His Ex
32-year-old Michigan state Rep. Steve Marino (R) now has to be chaperoned at work after telling a fellow lawmaker he used to date that he was out to “destroy” her, prompting her to get a protective order.
re: #180 JOE 🥓
again, these are not just weirdos who happen to be registered Republicans, these are elected officials
re: #159 sagehen
Define “substantial portion”.
$1.7T was from that tax bill. There was also $1T in each of the other 2 years before the pandemic started.
also, so what’s not fair about including the pandemic costs?
I pretty much blame tfg and mitch for that as well.
re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
again, these are not just weirdos who happen to be registered Republicans, these are elected officials
But Jesus forgives them because they bow down and worship the Golden Elephant.
re: #65 Belafon
What Republicans will say is the exact opposite: that Democrats preach about a woman being able to control her own body, but the state is forcing everyone to get the vaccine and wear a mask.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!11!!!!
And now my Rainy Day savings Account is gonna take a hit.
White House to tell federal agencies to prepare for possible shutdown as Democrats scramble to address funding impasse
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Depending on how much local officials can lean on coroners not to report as many Covid deaths?
Coroners aren’t always involved in issuing death certificates. It’s up to the Dept of Health, and the doctor is the one doing the DC. The doctor isn’t always even the treating doctor, but someone who can sign off, and they’ll often attribute cause of death to something else entirely. I know this from personal experience that the cause of death may be entirely wrong knowing the situation.
We have seen in FL that they supposedly have a huge pneumonia outbreak as compared to prior years, but haven’t called out as such alerting the public to a pneumonia outbreak with 1000s of casualties over past two years. Those deaths are likely covid deaths. Unattributed deaths are likely covid deaths as well.
re: #183 JOE 🥓
But Jesus forgives them because they bow down and worship the Golden Elephant.
Jesus will never forgive those baby-killing, Christmas-banning, terrorist-coddling Democrats!
re: #185 JOE 🥓
And now my Rainy Day savings Account is gonna take a hit.
White House to tell federal agencies to prepare for possible shutdown as Democrats scramble to address funding impasse
Can I just say how really fucking stupid it is for the richest country on earth to have to go through shit every few years?
re: #184 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!11!!!!
And it is, unless pregnancy becomes contagious, at which point men will force people to wear masks.
BREAKING: Lead Florida GOP Senator, Manny Diaz calls for a review of all vaccine mandates, including polio, mumps, and rubella.
Just when you thought the state of affairs in Florida could not get any worse.— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) September 23, 2021
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
also, so what’s not fair about including the pandemic costs?
I pretty much blame tfg and mitch for that as well.
Yes — there might not have been a pandemic if Trump had retained the Obama task force that would have detected the outbreak early. But given that the pandemic existed, the costs associated with it are not the same as the costs associated with the 2017 tax giveaway. The pandemic costs (though handled atrociously under the CARES implementation) were appropriate expenses needed to keep the economy from totally collapsing and to keep individuals afloat because they could not work. It’s fair to include the pandemic costs — but those costs were necessary, unlike the tax law costs.
re: #188 Eclectic Cyborg
Can I just say how really fucking stupid it is for the richest country on earth to have to go through shit every few years?
In every country with a parliamentary system if the government can’t pass a budget it falls and a snap election is called.
EXCEPT FOR US because we have the Separation of Powers.
re: #190 Teukka
And they think their accelerationist agenda is still super secret…
re: #52 William Lewis
This. I first heard a CD (The Pretenders debut) in a record shop in Ansbach FRG back in 1984. I got rid of my vinyl as soon as I could.
FWIW, our studio was Westlake/Studer in the 1970s & 80s.
This was pre-digital recording, and in the early 1980s CDs of our recordings were being released.
I asked one of our studio engineers what was the reason for complaints about the sound quality of the early music CDs.
He said using master tapes with audio profiled for vinyl records for CD production results in the CDs sounding like crap. Music audio CDs require a different audio profile.
In the mean time, this resulted in “the warmth of vinyl” meme.
I refused writing a medical letter of exemption for a patient who wanted a vaccine exemption letter. They rated me one star and wrote this stunning review, “I’d rather die than see or talk to Dr. John again.”
Careful what you wish for. 🤔— Dr. John E. Canuck, MD 🍁🎃 (@CanuckManMD) September 23, 2021
Fuck off, you brainwashed piece of garbage.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 23, 2021
re: #198 KingKenrod
Just looked down from my work to see one of my cats staring at me, upside-down, from under my bed.
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re: #193 Teukka
And they think their accelerationist agenda is still super secret…
Which Accelerationist agenda?
- Make their states such horrible hell holes that we’ll have to impose “draconian” laws — Vaccination mandates to cross state lines, vaccines mandates to even go within a few miles of state lines, vaccine mandates for everyone getting federal funds of any sort that people will rebel.
- Make their states such horrible hell holes of disease that everyone not of their cult will leave and their can create their ethno-religio-state.
- Accelerate virus evolution?
re: #202 aatharuv
Which Accelerationist agenda?
- Make their states such horrible hell holes that we’ll have to impose draconian laws “Vaccination mandates to cross state lines”, vaccines mandates to even go within a few miles of state lines, that people will rebel.
- Make their state such horrible hell holes that everyone not of their cult will leave and their can create their ethno-religio-state.
- Accelerate virus evolution?
Making it so that the konditions of Armukeddon will happen, so Jaysuss will return! 1111thhy!!1
Or some such. At least that’s how it’ll be sold to the footfolk…
re: #200 Charles Johnson
The terrorists and the people who make excuses for them are evil. Don’t you have any loved ones who can get you some help?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) September 23, 2021
re: #105 sagehen
King David had… was it 10 “wives”? And his oldest son, King Solomon, had so many wives and concubines they had to invent whole new branches of mathematics to count them all.
I’m guessing that within a few generations, everybody within 300 miles was descended from them.
King Abdul Aziz ibn Sa’ud.
re: #197 BeenHereAwhile
FWIW, our studio was Westlake/Studer in the 1970s & 80s.
This was pre-digital recording, and in the early 1980s CDs of our recordings were being released.
I asked one of our studio engineers what was the reason for complaints about the sound quality of the early music CDs.
He said using master tapes with audio profiled for vinyl records for CD production results in the CDs sounding like crap. Music audio CDs require a different audio profile.
In the mean time, this resulted in “the warmth of vinyl” meme.
Yup. In addition, some engineers wanted the ” CD sparkle”, which meant pumping up the high frequencies.
The combination of these factors resulted in the release of remastered CDs, using the master recordings without the tweaks for vinyl or the “sparkle”.
re: #105 sagehen
King David had… was it 10 “wives”? And his oldest son, King Solomon, had so many wives and concubines they had to invent whole new branches of mathematics to count them all.
I’m guessing that within a few generations, everybody within 300 miles was descended from them.
Late in this century, a comprehensive genetic study of suburbs in the southern US will show that 80% of the population is descended from 9 preachers, 4 football coaches, and 23 pop musicians.
re: #203 Teukka
Making it so that the konditions of Armukeddon will happen, so Jaysuss will return! 1111thhy!!1
Or some such. At least that’s how it’ll be sold to the footfolk…
Hope they have figured out how to prevent a supply line shortage of toilet paper and paper towels.
re: #162 JOE 🥓
As expected The Yang Gang is starting a new party that will go nowhere.
Andrew Yang’s new 3rd party will be called ‘The Forward Party,’ according to his forthcoming book.
La République en marche.
re: #174 Cheechako
Been poking around the State of Alaska Covid-19 dashboard. The dash board states that slightly more than 100,000 cases of confirmed cases of Covid have been identified in Alaska. Since the total population of Alaska is a little over 700,000 this means just about 1 in every 7 Alaskans have had Covid-19. So far.
Not very good.
91-divoc (John Hopkins) actually puts them on 14%, in the 9 top US states.
Of course, for all of you who are better at math than me, 1/7 is 14%
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