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Western Civ’s most infamous encounter with pandemic disease, so far, was the big first wave of the Black Death that had a marathon run from 1346 to 1353. That bug was the real deal. It killed folks left and right, every age group, every social station, and it killed them ugly. Few who caught it survived. Up to half the population of Europe perished, along with a lot of their social and economic ways.
The cause of the Black Death was subject to every possible explanation except the actual one, Yersina pestis, a bacterium associated with rats and their insect parasites, fleas and lice, who also enjoyed an association with humans living in the generally squalid conditions of the day — the ancient Roman habit of bathing long forgotten. At the top of their list of causes was an angry God, and his wicked erstwhile subordinate, Satan. The “experts” of that time tended to cluster in the church hierarchy, with its drear obsessions and compulsions. The squishy boundary between the supernatural and reality loosed all manner of derangement. The Jews came in for much vilification, leading to massacres in Strasbourg, Mainz, and Cologne. On the whole, the episode represented a terrific humbling of humanity. The allegory of the Dance Macabre summed it up in mankind’s universal antic journey to the Palookaville of death.
On the plus side, as modern interpolators might say, the bubonic plague winnowed down Europe’s population to a scale more congenial with its resource base. After that big first wave of the disease, land was cheaper and human labor better rewarded. Eventually, more food got around. Incidentally, the plague provoked nostalgia for the classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, especially among the scholars of Florence, launching the extravaganzas of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and eventually our own pageant of techno-supremacist Modernity.
Covid-19 seems rather a punk-ass illness compared to the Black Death. Its victims by far are people already on a fast track to the last roundup. We know exactly what causes it, if not so exactly its origin, and yet the response among our experts has been far more ambiguous than those long-ago bishops of Christendom to the Great Plague. The various scientists, physicians, public health officers, and politicians seem, to the casual observer, about equally divided between those who consider the corona virus a grave threat and those who insist it’s hardly worse than any annual flu. What is one to believe? Or do?
Which brings us to the verge of the Great Opening-up. The current nostalgia for pre-Covid-19 business-as-usual is understandably intense. Gone especially from daily life are all the ceremonies of human togetherness, from gatherings of friends to the casual shoulder-rubbings of urban life to the crowded venues of the lively arts to the great moiling orgies of pro sports. The life of the perpetual jigsaw puzzle, YouTube, and Netflix has proved inadequate to human aspiration. Gone, too, are livelihoods, revenue streams, and rewarding roles in everyday existence. The itch to get out and do, get out and make, get out and be, is overwhelming.
Behind those plain yearnings, though, looms the specter of a system that appeared to be already foundering before Covid-19 entered the scene. There is, at least, considerable agreement that the disease catalyzed the disorders of finance and economy and accelerated the damage — just not among the people most responsible for engineering the fragilities that actually crashed things
Jerome Powell, Pope of the Church of the Federal Reserve, went on the 60-Minutes show last night to reassure the nation that things will eventually get back to normal. “I think you’ll see the economy recover steadily through the second half of this year.”
Yessir, if you say so. Were his fingers crossed? You couldn’t tell because the camera had him framed in a head-shot. Personally, I think the Fed Chairman was blowing smoke up the nation’s wazoo. Spooky as it’s been, the Covid-19 virus has also been a great cover-story for the natural collapse of a severely unbalanced, ecologically unsound, and dishonestly represented set of arrangements that are now unspooling at horrifying speed. The car industry is dying. The airline industry is laying out its fleet of big birds in desert graveyards. The college racketeering operation went off a cliff, along with medical profiteering. Agribusiness no longer has a business model. Hundreds of kinds of services no longer have customers who can afford their offerings from acupuncture to zymurgy. None of that will be fixed by injections of miracle money borrowed from ourselves in quantities that would turn every US citizen into a millionaire — if it wasn’t just pounded down the rat-holes of the stock and bond markets.
The big question about the Great Opening-up is when the recognition of all that turns to raw emotion. Covid-19 may still be with us then, but it will be the least of our problems. The masks will come off. The dance will commence.
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Back Row Heckler, at Brietbart, I saw this,
I gather your Nutmeg state is Nuts,
Lamont is a total embarrassment to Connecticut. In the midst of this difficult time, he has decided to hire a “consultant” on reopening to the tune of 2 million dollars for a few months of work! I truly think he has low intelligence and is a bumbler. When will the voters in this state wake up and realize that democrats do not have the answers to intelligent governing? They don’t even understand the question! They also gave the state workers a raise recently!
The State of Connecticut – once the state with the highest per capita income in the country, Insurance Capital of the World, and home to tech giants United Technologies and General Electric- is now one of the worst states in the country after 40 or so years of Democrat rule:
One of the highest total tax burdens in the nation.
One of the top 3 in the nation for energy costs.
Cities like Bridgeport, Hartford, Willimantic, Enfield predominantly poor.
Built a baseball stadium in the poorest section of Hartford which has yet to make money, even with the State promising to help out.
Nearly all capital projects in the state are bonded.
Highest per capita unfunded liability in the country.
Middle class leaving the state in droves.
Last state to recover from the Great Obama Recession (and, didn’t recover fully).
Young graduates (ie: future tax revenues) not staying after graduation.
Lost over 10,000 well-paying, high tech jobs when United Technologies and GE moved manufacturing out, replacing them with low paying casino / hotel jobs.
And, Governor Ned Lamont wants to spend more money to prevent out-of-state business from spending money in Connecticut?
The logic of the Liberals in that state is astonishing!
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My daughter in law was one of the insurance underwriters on that baseball stadium project.
To quote her: “Everything that could be stolen, has been stolen”.
Brh
You didn’t just described Conn. you described America,GE has been moving out of the N.E states for years, Vermont is a good example of that,when globalization marched into town, and most other states regardless of who or which party claims to run them are little to no better off and you ain’t see nothing yet.!!!
As a Vermonter, I can fully corroborate your statement. Democrat rule has mortally wounded a once proud, individualistic, and thrifty state. The best idea that Montpelier politicians can come up with is to literally offer to pay people $10,000 to relocate here. The politicians STILL don’t get the message (hmmmm, maybe by design?).
When the thieving politicians aren’t actively working toward bankrupting the state, they keep themselves busy trying to chip away at our gun rights because……”common sense”.
Government at all levels is broke.
The idiocy in Conn. will be repeated everywhere.
The culprit, the Federal government. When the decision was made to have Free Trade, ie, let the corporations go off shore, then Obama backed it up with high corporate taxes which drove even more manufacturing off shore, the dearth of manufacturing and the replacement by service sector jobs, both a desired result with Obama climate changers, made the tax base shrink. So Conn et al resorted to magic to try to raise revenue and create jobs. It has failed miserably.
The service sector will not ever be as profitable as manufacturing. When you vote, do not ever favor a candidate at any level that believes that the service sector is supreme.
No one owes you a job, and you don’t owe anyone a sale. I think that every company that has its manufacturing abroad should be on the list of DON’T BUY for Americans. Furthermore, any item found in a big-box store or a mall should be on that list as well. Same for any company publicly listed on an exchange. Stop patronizing businesses that are nothing more than economic pirates and predators.
Right!
Americans allowed the ascent of Walmart, the greatest job destroyer in US history. All to save a few cents.
Americans are too dumb to appeal to rationally. If rationality and logic were the sources of decision making, there would be no Democratic Party.
Unfortunately, there is a need for punitive action, such as tariffs, to try to offset the lunacy of “free traders” who would rape this country to make a profit for the 1%. This is the entire Deep State, both parties.
You would think that the PTB were under the influence of the Chinese. I wonder why?
Now notice the full circle you and Akmo just danced. Akmo said no one has the right to tell anyone what to do – and you shouted, “Right” as in Amen. Then you explained how dumb people are. How does that fit in with what Akmo (and you I assume) said about no one getting to interfere in people’s decision making?
You can’t have it both ways. You are correct of course in your second statement. And the first right of the People is to be guided by those better than themselves.
Akmo said no one has the right to tell anyone what to do
how do you get that from,
No one owes you a job, and you don’t owe anyone a sale. I think that every company that has its manufacturing abroad should be on the list of DON’T BUY for Americans. Furthermore, any item found in a big-box store or a mall should be on that list as well. Same for any company publicly listed on an exchange. Stop patronizing businesses that are nothing more than economic pirates and predators.
John in Arizona
“Americans are too dumb to appeal to rationally” Otherwise there would not be any “Democratic Party” or “Republican Party” because they would realize there is only one political party in the USA. It’s called the War Party, and both factions universally support it’s mission of maintaining the dominance of the Empire and its ability to extract tribute from the world by owning the World Reserve Currency.
Politics in the USA is a game played by a few Oligarchs for sport and spoils, benefiting only those who game it for their benefit. Endless electoral “contests” serve the same function as NFL football or the lions vs gladiators in ancient Rome.
But all of that is in the past now that the Oligarchs have discovered how to use Pandemic Panic to exert total control and confusion in the minds of the rabble. Once universal chip implants are fully installed, there will be no need to use crude tools like the mass media to maintain control and induce the worthless eaters from the ex-middle class and ex-working class to load up their shopping carts and march passively over the cliff of the future.
JAZ, Jan,
It’s pointless to appeal to politicians. Their allegiance is to their financial backers, and that’s not you or I. Same for writing complaints to MSM for their FAKE NEWS propaganda hacks. Best to accept the situation as unchangeable and short-circuit their viability. Don’t watch TV and don’t buy any product that’s advertised there. Know that they will not change, and the only thing that can affect change to boycott them out of existence.
And this is exactly what will happen. I’m always a little ahead of the curve, but what I see eventually all see as well.
Most of the super rich in the USA are Democrats and support lefty causes.
Dear BRH,
You are correct about wealthy people being supportive of the Democrats and I don’t understand why.
Inheritance taxes promoted by Democrats are detrimental to family farms, family wealth and businesses forcing children to sell in order to pay IRS inheritance taxes. Why would a wealthy
person promote any politics that would hurt her or his decendents? I have a neighbor who inherited his considerable wealth: land, stocks and more, yet he is a flaming liberal, hates the GOP, loves socialism and traditional ( New Orleans) jazz.
He is a wonderful neighbor but I think misguided.
@Crazyhorse
I think it’s that they learned which emotional buttons they could push to get what they wanted from the left, by simply dressing in politically correct sheep’s clothing.
One more comeback in us.
Might be the next one that gets us. And it won’t be 10 years out this time More like 2 or 3.
So Jerry Jackass actually promised immediate gratification just around the bend? Wow, these assholes have absolutely NO respect for us anymore do they. The only question this raises is whether no respect is really what the American public deserves or not. Thanks for watching that crap Jim because I gave up on it years ago. My bowels could not take the constant pounding of their bullshit.
Find me one person that said a year ago that this is where America would be today – there isn’t one. When we ask anyone what will America will be like in the Summer of 2021 nobody has a clue. The opinions range from filling sandbags to not good and all of the possibilities on the table are valid. There will be no “new normal” there will only be a new abnormal and the only question will be how bad that will actually be.
Watch animal farm where some animals are better then others.it will give you your first clue.And yes there have been others who stated just where we would be if we didn’t change direction,George Ure over on his site has been laying it out forever of just where we were going and just how we would get there!!!
I first read Animal Farm when I was 10. To this day, I would say it had a more profound effect on my life and thinking than almost anything I have read since.
But…
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
As I was watching 60 Minutes last night, with that insufferable douche-bag, Scott Pelley interviewing the Fed chair, all I could think about was, I bet Jim’s watching this and getting as enraged as I was. He spoke about the “tools” available to the Fed as though it’s anything other than pure creation of money out of thin air. What I found even more amusing was his reassurance that we could somehow pay off all those trillions when good times resumed. The opportunity to pay off all that borrowed garbage was during the last ten years. If we didn’t do it then, we’ll never do it, end of story.
The only tool in the Fed’s toolbox is Jerry Jackass himself, or the idiot that preceded him and the idiot that will follow him, if there IS an America after he is done with us.
I think that it is high time that we stopped calling these printing festivals loans or debts, for as you say, loans and debts have to be paid back. What they are doing is simply handing out scraps of worthless paper, and in reality not even that, just making up numbers on computer screens Hopefully for them it will keep the plebes believing that there is a reason to keep on doing the hard for for the easy people. We must continue to hope that the dopes never wake up and realize how badly they are being played.
” What they are doing is simply handing out scraps of worthless paper, ”
Walter,
That may be, but you might have noticed that I mentioned being recently STIMIULATED. I took my worthless paper and bought a 1996 Dodge, Cummins diesel, one ton dually, with a hydraulic dump bed with mine. I thank the Great Father in the East for the wherewithal to make the purchase. Drove it down from the Portland area yesterday.
As long as the general public can be tricked into thinking that the worthless paper has value, turning your into a hard asset was exactly what we should all be doing right now – convert to hard assets. Prepare for a World Made By Hand.
Yes, a World Made By Hand, hauled by a screaming Dodge Cummins Diesel .
E. Congrats on your new purchase.
Big ass Ram dually rolling down the highway powered up a Cummins diesel, manual transmission (6 forward speeds?) Now that’s heaven.
BRH
5 Speed, with a model 28 banging around in the glove box.
Oh mother!
Pharaoh and Joseph could have told the People about Joseph’s dream and told them to store up grain for the bad years to come. But knowing human nature, they knew how few would believe and/or do it. So they taxed the abundant harvest heavily, and stored the people’s grain for them. Then when the famine came, they made them buy their own grain back – an extraordinary bait and switch. The tax was supposed to be for the people’s own good – a mere holding of the grain for them. But possession is nine tenths of the law and it was Pharaoh’s now. So the Egyptians sold everything they had just to eat – in the end, even themselves.
What an unspeakably evil pair of vultures those two were.
There was no tax on the grain. Pharaoh financed the purchase of the grain the storage facilities and the diversion of the Nile at his expense. The tax was on people that had sold themselves to slavery to work on Pharaoh’s lands for food, and that tax was 20% of what they produced from the land. Compare that to what people EVERYWHERE are taxed today. We are treated far worse by the Vatican gov mafia than the slaves of Pharaoh. It’s a complete disgrace.
Exactly. It was their grain. He was supposed to just be holding it for them for when they needed – a Sacred Trust which he betrayed by charging them for it.
If Pharaoh purchased the grain, its his grain. There are many things to fault Pharaoh with, charging market price for grain he purchased earlier at his his expense is not one of them. Your malice blinds you. You’re reading things that are not there.
Kinda like owning real estate in current times. There is no more “owning” a property or a home. Due to property taxes (you know, for the “children” for their public education ie: indoctrination), you’re only renting your property from the government.
This story presses all of your buttons. Again, he didn’t purchase it – he took or “taxed” it from them so it could be held for the Nation against the seven bad years to come. This was the result of a Dream that he took to be from God as per Joseph’s interpretation. Any attempt to profit of off it was a sin of the highest magnitude.
The Torah is very specific in its language. Joseph gathered the excess grain from Egypt and her surroundings. You don’t gather that which is not yours. It implies Pharaoh purchased the grain of Egypt as well as the grain of Canaan and of others.
Yes, the Bible is very clear. The King is Father to his People. Just as a Father keeps things for his children, so does the King for his people – for when they are needed. When Pharaoh betrayed that trust, he betrayed himself and God as well. For what? He already had everything. Did Joseph corrupt him somehow?
The people had no money – there was a famine on, remember? The excess grain had of the good years had been taken by Pharaoh to seem them thru the terrible years.
Thanks, Jim.
“The big question about the Great Opening-up is when the recognition of all that turns to raw emotion. Covid-19 may still be with us then, but it will be the least of our problems. The masks will come off. The dance will commence.”
Yes, I agree! The graveyard of what has become the strip malls full of bars & nail salons, i.e. the “economy” will not return when the workers, shambling out of their hovels like hungover zombies gorged off their extra $600 a week in unemployment, straggle into employers who can give them part-time at $10 an hour, at best.
“The car industry is dying.” And with thousands of new vehicle sitting everywhere the so call big three are opening plants starting assembly again. Who the h**l do they think will buy them?
Who even needs them anymore now that we are all staying home?
One of the problems the auto industry has is having to pay it’s union workers 95% of their wage while on layoff. So the industry has to spend the money and might as well produce something it doesn’t need. Broken system.
Oh my my hearts bleeds for them after their involvement in the derivative scam and running to the taxpayers for billions in bailouts,while their CEO’S rake in millions upon millions of dollars for runing them into the ground,!!
Not everyone is staying home. Yesterday the neighbors had a B-day party for one of their kin. The street was lined with cars. 10-12 or so. This is in addition to the 7 vehicles and 4 motorcycles that the 5 occupants of the home possess.
And you guessed it… Not a single person at the shindig was wearing a mask.
” Who the h**l do they think will buy them?
M,
The majority of new age purchasers, I assume, look at the monthly payment, not the overall package. This is how $35,000 Chevys are sold. “I can put you into this Malibu for only $195 per month….”
$195 per month … for the rest of your natural life, and beyond.
Eddie has died. He was LAPD – did you know him?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ken-osmond-leave-beaver-star-175448947.html
Janos,
I looked so much like him when in High School that people around me would call me “Eddie”.
I shit you not….
I remember you saying that – that’s why I wanted to let you know, especially when I saw that he had entered law enforcement.
Janos,
Thanks for the heads up…probably would have escaped my notice otherwise.
The car is life. Who can get to work without one? And if all fails, it is both a home and a weapon. Watch Carradine’s “Death Race 2000”. Build them and the people will come to buy them. Selling themselves into debt slavery to get one.
I agree and America’s “love affair” with the automobile was one of the first norms I rejected as I came of age. It was transportation above all to me and is what led to my lifetime of year-round motorcycling to get where I was going to do what I cared to do.
It was transportation above all to me and is what led to my lifetime of year-round motorcycling – Walter B
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Even in 18 inches of snow?
Pretty common in Skandiwegia, with bolt on ski outriders – like training wheels – and no problem.
Of course, no silly speed is advisable – though not impossible – but as transport a winner, actually even better with a trailer.
Perhaps because it is the only way for them [mostly men] to feel a little bit empowered?
Look, here comes Timothy Trustifarian in his $379,000 Lambo. It will do 215 mph but Timmy spends most of his time in 30 ~ 45 mph zones.
Unfortunately Timmy’s Italian supercar is also a cop magnet. So much for his empowerment.
” So much for his empowerment”
Speedy,
But I bet it does great for his sex life….
The people who are now too terrified to take public transit or live in high-density communities.
New study shows cloth masks worse than not wearing one for a vector for infection.
One of many many sites now saying the current protocols may be harming more than helping.
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/mask-respirators/cloth-masks-are-useless-against-covid-19
But they are “for the safety of others,” Benr. That is why, even when you are not sick, the Virtue Signalers will tell you to wear one.
Then you too can get sick from the mask and (likely mis) diagnosed with COVID.
Win-win!
I’m confused by some information you’ve posted and hope you can clear it up for me…
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
The mask thing is only to help contain droplets when you sneeze or cough. Serve no protection to yourself. The N95’s are the only mask that will protect you from inhaling the Corona bug. And of course the average citizen cannot find any to buy.
They block 95% of fine particles, but only if properly fit tested and worn. They must also be disinfected after each use or disposed of, which practically no one does.
Pointless other than for medical professionals, and certainly not something you would wear for anything involving even moderate physical activity.
I have some(N95’s) but had been wearing the same 2 over and over, using them in stores and on-the-job where I’m doing dirty sweaty work. I found that I was getting sick with a sore throat etc after wearing one for hours and hours a day and only being able to rotate between the 2 I had “in service”. I’m not sure whether wearing one was better for me or worse. I’ve now decided to wear a homemade cloth one on the job outdoors if I’m working closely with people who expect me to wear one and to reserve an N95 for my rare runs to a large retail store. I’ll use the cloth mask to go into small stores(some stores require a mask to be worn here). I’ll wash the cloth mask and alternate with another one. Life has become “complicated”.
Would Dr. Ronny agree with you?
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
blah blah blah Heard this shit over and over.
It’s virtue signaling de jour nothing more.
To say it is ANYTHING else is shelf delusion after endless weeks of people huddling in fear we have learned most of what we are being told is simply not reality.
“most of what we are being told is simply not reality”
Benr,
Yes, a wise man once wrote;
“We don’t know shit about the virus…”
Yes, a sign of submission to the New World Order. Good Muslim women wear the hijab. And Islam means “submission”. At least they are submitting to something higher so they are superior in their intent at least.
Yoga translates as Yoke / Union.
Karma translates as work.
If someone offered you 100K to talk face to face with someone for five minutes infected with covid without either of you wearing masks, or a trifling 50K if you both wear masks.
What would you do? And don’t bother typing you answer. If you go for the 100K nobody will believe you.
100k all the way.
I flew across country in an airplane where most people had a mask with them but was not wearing it.
Charlotte North Carolinas airport it was a 50/50 mix of people.
Believe what you want to believe but know this life is risk.
To much risk and you lose life and to little risk you have none anyways.
No the corona virus is .125 microns in diameter while the mask only stops things .300 microns or bigger. It might stop them initially in the droplets, but as your breath dries them out, you will either blow them away or suck them in.
“It might stop them initially in the droplets”
Which is what matters initially in terms of how many people you’re going to get with one cough or sneeze.
Do you have a fucking brain. Get real if you know how. Are you going to tell us that sperm can go through latex condoms next? Better yet in clear concise and irrefutable logic explain how a cloth mask can increase risk.
Logic I won’t rip to shreds in thirty seconds. I don’t think you can do it.
Oh K-Dog, you are so rude, I’m just joking and putting this out there for a few hundred people to read. It can’t possibly cause a dumbfuck somewhere to not wear a mask and kill someone else. That could never happen.
The mask prevents spread. It interferes with droplet emission. The only naysayers of masks are people who don’t care about other people. Comparison between the R0 numbers of Asian countries and the Western petri-dish countries clearly shows masks work at preventing the spread.
You admit I trust that the corona virus is too small for the mask to stop, right?
Only the droplets can be stopped. But what then? What then!?
Where is the Lovecraft who could tell us….
Everyone is going to get it, Kdog. It’s your duty to tell people this hard truth. We can’t curl up and die every flu season. There are always new varieties of flu. This one was brand new. So what? Now there will be endless varieties of this one too. You want to change our whole way of life and give up our freedoms just for this?
Thank you for wearing a mask and not masking you you are.
If you want to think that life is a shit sandwich and then we die go ahead. You might be right. But don’t ask me to pass the mustard and katsup and you can get your own salt and pepper.
Except this isn’t the flu – it is far more contagious and attacks bodily systems that the seasonal flu does not.
What freedoms have you lost??? What essential to life activities have you been denied from participating in??? You were able to go and purchase food, go to the pharmacy, obtain medical care, and walk your dog. So what freedom during a public health crisis have you lost?
When did people become so inflexible that in the midst of a Pandemic you can’t stay the fuck in your house for a few weeks until the dust settles and to help the I.C.U. wards not be overrun?
Do you really need a drink at the bar so badly that you can’t abstain from social-booze-ups until the curve is flattened? Are those dollar bills burning such a hole in your pocket that if you can’t get down to your local strip joint and start shoving cash into the g-strings of scantily-clad ‘dancers’ you might be driven to the edge of insanity???
Freedom, Freedom, Freedom my ass – You remind me of the brain-trusts running around waving their peashooters in State Capitals screaming about their Freedom draped in Confederate Flags and sportin’ Swastikas. How about this time the greater good Trumps your theoretical Freedom.
What’s your stake in it?
Spoken like a true progressive slave.
So much for rugged individualism!
They closed down the local trails!
No hiking they had guards posted all over!
No beaches even if all you want to do is go for a swim or a surf.
They arrested a guy for surfing Malibu by himself!
Fines for trying to open your business all the while Huge stores are wide open. Why are the huge stores wide open who’s palms did they grease??
We are Americans not Chinese that will meekly sit there and allow the government to weld us into our homes if you don’t like it then move on out to China where I am sure you will be far happier.
As far as your douchebag points no one is whining about bars and strip clubs its normal life stuff that is at issue.
Steeleje You are an idiot.
Hey Ben, how about that surfer who got ate by a shark? I think it was north of you. All the more reason for Newsom to ban surfing, as it is his mission ‘to keep everybody safe’ for all time, in all circumstances.
So? I’ve seen Hamner & Sickle flags at lefty rallies. What’s the diff?
Do you really need a drink at the bar so badly that you can’t abstain from social-booze-ups – Steeleje
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No, I don’t but my b-i-l, Peter does. Has high blood pressure and has a VERY bad heart. Had quintuple bypass surgery 20 years ago. Has had stents put in twice and 2 weeks ago had a defibrillator implanted. Among the instructions upon release from the hospital were:
1. don’t drive for 6 weeks
2. don’t drink alcohol
Yesterday Peter called his sister (my wife) and told her he drove to his Elks club and had a few Stellas. He says the doctors always give worse case instructions to protect their own asses, insurance-wise.
Everything Peter does is the wrong thing. He moved from Jersey to Estero, Florida in February of last year to avoid bill collectors. It was only recently we found out his actual address.
Yea he was hit at Manresa a known sharky spot right smack dab in the southerner end of the red triangle.
I used to surf there, moss landing, davenport landing, scotts creek, greyhound rock steamer lane, three mile, four mile, and wadell creek.
I was in the water an hour before at Davenport when someone was attacked I noticed a fisherman steaming buy cutting up fish and tossing the heads and guts in the water so I got out.
A couple of months later another guy got hit at a place called water falls a mile or so up the road from scotts creek while I was in the water. A cop bull horned me to get out. The weird part is it went from crowded to empty and I failed to notice. my spidey sense was not as attuned to things as some of the locals.
As I said a life without chances taken is no life.
The two attacks happened really close to each other July and October of 91.
http://www.sharkattackdata.com/place/united_states_of_america/california
Surfing is far safer than crossing the street or driving.
I’m wearing a mask in stores or when close to people on the job but I think they are producing a false sensation of safety. Went into a store the other day and when I was standing at the register the cashier, wearing one of those paper masks, started coughing. She didn’t make the slightest attempt to shield her cough with her arm or turn away; just coughed into her mask as if this was somehow ok. I called the store the next day and spoke to the manager who insisted that the mask “protected me” from any germs she would have produced with her cough. Yeah right. She finally promised to review “hygiene standards” such as using an arm to shield a cough, with her staff and asked if “that was enough for me”. Not really but whatever. I’ll just avoid that store as the workers tend to be rather bottom-of-the-barrel anyway.
Who gives a flying fuck.
If people want to wear one, stay outta their mask-covered face about it.
If a business wants their customers to wear masks and it pisses you off then shop elsewhere.
Right. Reference, please?
New study shows cloth masks worse than not wearing one for a vector for infection. – benr
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My wife and I wear colorful cloth masks made by my wife and her sewing club chums. They have yet to be run through the washing machine. We are more or less indifferent as to their effectiveness. Like today, we wore them to Lowe’s because they won’t let you in without one.
I have been watching people freak out when they come across someone without a mask.
Totally different mood when I flew across country to Virginia.
In just one week the feel being about has shifted 100%
Took my dog to Ocean beach San Diego and next to no one is wearing them.
Dogs running and playing people talking and having a good walk.
Was nice.
People are sick of this nonsense.
With that said many of the stores here won’t let you in without one as well.
“I have been watching people freak out when they come across someone without a mask.
Totally different mood when I flew across country to Virginia.”
Totally different here too – people just aren’t the freaking-out type here. But they (even the young ones) are considerate in moving out the way or crossing the road when they see you coming. Entirely without freak. It seems much harder to catch outdoors anyway – it’s the people going to work every day in crowded buses and subways that are most at risk.
People will worry less anyway, whether they’re pro-lockdown or anti-lockdown (I certainly think it’s time to call a halt to it here). You can only worry about something for so long, then your mind just gets tired of worrying, whether that’s justified or not. And my personal experience is obviously that life and death are marching on even outside of Covid and won’t be ignored.
…Personally, I think the Fed Chairman was blowing smoke up the nation’s wazoo. Spooky as it’s been, the Covid-19 virus has also been a great cover-story for the natural collapse of a severally unbalanced, ecologically unsound, and dishonestly represented set of arrangements that are now unspooling at horrifying speed…
Obviously it was orchestrated to transfer wealth to the 1% once again. Never saw such ignorance and gross stupidity in my life. Corruption and greed are understandable, but the level of incompetence at the federal, state, and county level is mind-boggling. The biggest government failure was sending recovering patients to nursing homes! And the OBVIOUS over-counting of corona virus deaths. And let’s not forget that the tests are only 60% accurate. But let’s contact trace and let’s line up for the vaccine.
Some interesting data points:
https://medium.com/@antonymueller/coronavirus-crisis-management-what-really-happened-and-why-it-failed-844b4c927942
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-covid-19-model-inspired-uks-lockdown-may-be-most-devastating-software-mistake-all
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“Obviously it was orchestrated to transfer wealth to the 1% once again”
JS,
At what point does it become obvious that, if the great unwashed are denied scraps from the table, societal issues will arise?
Even the dullest of the 1% understands this?
Once upon a time there was a very exclusive membership club located on 12,000 acres on a remote mountainside. In order to be considered for membership in the Yellowstone Club you had to be vetted by the security system managed by ex Presidential Secret Service personnel. And tender a $365,000 deposit for the first year’s membership fee before examining the property.
Since membership was capped at 350, the powder skiing at the private ski area was superb. In order to prevent cross-insemination between classes, all ski instructors and patrolmen were required to submit to voluntary castration. Anybody who is a skier knows that powder skiing trumps sex, so there were hundreds of applications for the few jobs.
The Golden Rule
“He Who Has The Gold Rules”
Thor,
I could do that kind of work…I assume the “castration” thing is a metaphor?
elysianfield
Ya think?
Yes, they do.
yes
Why not go read the countless articles and reports re: the wealthiest people on the planet becoming infinitely wealthier either as a side benefit of the Covid-monster OR as a direct result of it?
How each of them, or the group in general have gained that wealth will amuse you further as you read in depth.
You won’t.
But other people might, and I encourage them to do so. here in the United States it’s often referred to as the disconnect between “Wall Street and Main Street”. The piece will then outline some way in which the so-called 1% have profited concurrent with unprecedented job loss, particularly for those earning under 40k/year. Things of that nature.
But you won’t bother. So by all means, do enjoy casting specious aspersions on your fellow human and wallowing in jasmine-scented ignorance.
The wheels are going to come off in the fall. In November. During and after the election. There will be a spike in infections beginning in October. Quarantining measures will be reinstated. The election result will be disputed no matter who wins, because of absentee ballot screwups and the perception of voter suppression due to polling places being closed in particular areas. There will be chaos. The National Guard will be patrolling major U.S. cities.
Agreed.
November 3, 2020 will be the rough equivalent of April 12, 1861,
Couldn’t agree more but at least it will keep them out of the countryside as they huddle down in the city,setting up check point charlie so they can moniter who is coming into the cities.!!!
Trump won’t let things close down until after the election I assume. If people object – and they will – he’d be smart to finally declare martial law and take care of business.
and you engage in it daily big government stool Pidgeon!
I’m not fear mongering. I didn’t say I was scared. I am looking forward to the chaos in the fall. I cannot wait, quite honestly. I think it will be exciting as hell
@kevvia knack
I know it looks like it but my comment was not to you.
Sorry for the confusion.
Is there anyone on the planet who seriously doubts that if Trump loses the election in November, he will immediately dismiss it as “rigged”?
That bet is as sure as the sun rising tomorrow morning. The only real question is: will he then urge his cult followers to grab their AR-15’s and rise up against the “Deep State”? And, like the mindless sheep they tend to be, will they do so?
Maybe we will don pussy hats and demonstrate at the national mall.
Don’t forget screaming at the sky and acting like spoiled entitled brats or needing our safe spaces and binkies and blankies.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/359531-protesters-scream-at-the-sky-to-mark-anniversary-of-trumps-election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDYNVH0U3cs
HAHAHAHA
Further proof Democrats are mentally ill.
Citning the childish behavior of 0.2% of the population doesn’t answer my question of what we do when (not if) Trump refuses to concede the election.
He’s already laying the groundwork.
KK,
We live in the most interesting of times. Within the next three or four months, life as we know it will change, and I would expect not for the better. The changes will be organic…systemic. The center may or may not hold. There may be elections, there may not. The upcoming summer may be sporty beyond our usual expectations. Civil authority, rule of law, Constitutional protection…all things we take for granted, will most likely change.
The social contract is about to be (I believe) broached. The infrastructure will be tested. Our worst fears of collapse will be proved or otherwise.
All in the next three months.
We will not suffer boredom.
Well, the winnowing out of the ‘Zymurgy’ industry was long overdue. With a craft brewery in every abandoned warehouse and machine shop from Stonington to Canaan, each one with a more eclectic name than the next, just how many $20 sixpacks can we afford, and how much trendy beer can we drink. When this is over we might be back to Shmidts Big Mouths, $4 per case, like in about 1970.
Brh
God help me, I despise the US craft movement. Hipster wankery at its finest.
Here in Europe, you can get 6 Belgian Trappist beers or something from a fabled brewery like Ayinger, etc., for about 8 euros. Or you can slum it with a high quality Czech Pilsner — or even a pristinely filtered glass of Kölsch pisswater, if desperate.
Most craft beer is so poorly made you are guaranteed to get a headache from toxins not properly filtered out. I have yet to find one that doesn’t make me feel like I drank Natty Ice the morning after.
Craft beer is modern moonshine.
Now you’re just being nasty to moonshine. Nothing like a fruit jar of ‘shine and some barbecue, nothing like it anywhere in the world!
Probably, Steeleje. I am still open to it. 🙂
Natty Ice! Truly the worst. Have some friends that drink it, and the arguments are never ending. I’m not a beer snob. I’ll go for a plain lager after a hot day’s work, no craft nonsense for me – Miller High Life, the Champagne of Beers, a humble choice for a humble farmer. Which is about the same as a Budweiser, PBR, Stella, Yuengling, all decent refreshments for the discerning working man. Also, respect to moonshine. An older farmer friend used to distill his ‘shine, and it was nothing to sneeze at, esp as someone noted with a bite to go w it, smoked hog, homemade pickles, smoked mullet.
I’m sure Dr. Ronny has equally high standards in beer…
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
Gotta agree with you there, BRH. All these craft brewers do is make quadruple IPA’s that taste like pure hops or some God-awful fruit beer that’s colored purple or something else. That’s why for the last 5 years, I have drunk only beer that I brewed. I can produce 5 gallons of excellent REAL beer for about $11.00.
” I can produce 5 gallons of excellent REAL beer for about $11.00.”
Lawfish,
Under $6.00 for me, but I grow my own hops.
Dang, elysianfield, you’ve got me beat. My biggest cost is shipping. For a 50 lb bag of malted barley I pay $36, but the shipping is $38, so my barley is $1.48 per pound. I pay about $1.00 for yeast and $1.00 for hops, so my total cost is actually $13.84, not $11.00. But it’s still cheap as dirt.
Law,
I bought 25 lb bags of adjuncts cheap back in the 80’s…crystal malt and patent…as well as several hundred pounds of malted barley from a micro brewer that I knew…15 cents a pound. Bought several hundred pounds, sealed into carboys.
Been a straight gra[n brewer since…1986. Don’t do much now, but the goods are still in the basement.
Shmidts Big Mouths, $4 per case, – BRH
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Per CASE no less…Hahaha ha ha
When I was young there was something brewed in Camden, NJ called Camden Beer. I was too young to have an opinion about it’s quality but you can just imagine.
How about white can red letter generic BEER BEER?
Pretty sure it was Budweiser that did not make the cut.
Tasted like it was brewed with a dirty sock and gave you a head ache.
https://www.ebay.com/i/254250431451?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=254250431451&targetid=883564623986&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9031347&poi=&campaignid=6469750549&mkgroupid=93041470030&rlsatarget=pla-883564623986&abcId=1141176&merchantid=108579376&gclid=CjwKCAjwh472BRAGEiwAvHVfGr9UsJIWAhcTmb9EsHFBtHbFKW3oDxAN96_91FiTE4d0-PmU9FP78hoCw3gQAvD_BwE
And my wife just informed me Schmidt’s would be the go to beer for making Beer Bread. So there is that too.
“1346 to. 1953” ?
Unfortunate and obvious typo.
Thanks — JHK Admin
You beat me, Nik
I used to bring typos to Jim’s attention. Years ago, in emails. My thinking was – we’re trying to maintain an educated and civilized existence here – Jim’s a journalist – I’d want someone to bring these typos to my attention – Jim can handle it.
He’d thank me and adjust things. Until – he didn’t thank me and didn’t adjust things.
If we’re bringing up typos, I think when he said, “severally,” he meant “severely.”
Yes, I noticed that too. Still, excellent writing as usual. May I recommend Barbara Tuchman’s “A distant mirror” for a very good chronicle of the disastrous 14th century. The current virus is a lightweight compared to the Black Death.
I read that RD. A distant mirror. It was an eye opener. One thing I remember is that Tuchman explained the common cruelty of the day by describing how badly parents mistreated their children, if they paid attention to them at all. Childhood hardly even existed in the 14th century.
Brh
I believe Jim meant 1353.
Altho I did note in the last thread that incidents of The Plague reoccur all the way into the 19th century, and it wasn’t until about 1897 that scientists discovered what caused it. Even now there are cases of bubonic plague in the American SW, specially in the sprawling Indian Reservations.
Brh
Yep, not rats though, prairie dogs. They are also a source of hantavirus, another killer waiting in the wings.
We have got to learn to kill viruses.
“We have got to learn to kill viruses.”
I guarantee that drinking chlorine will result in the virus dying.
…eventually.
A well developed mind just naturally corrects typos without even noticing. But of course you have to be in the ballpark of knowledge. If you’re not, it is confusing.
and while you’re at it … ‘severally’ unbalanced? (severely?)
Ha ha, just read an opinion piece from the Wash. Post from a couple days ago. It was titled: ” IF TRUMP HAD BEEN IN CHARGE DURING WWII, THIS COLUMN WOULD BE IN GERMAN”. It’s a good read by conservative commentator Max Boot. Not to be confused with “Das Boot”.
Max Boot is a Neocon hack and propagandist from the Bush era.
But low-IQ progs love Bush now. LOL.
The difference between Bush and Obama?
Obama has slightly darker skin.
Yes, I was saying that since the start of Barack’s second term.
The love affair modern progs have with Neocons like Bloody Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Condoleeza I-have-an-oil-tanker-named-after-me Rice, is truly incredible to watch.
These sorts of individuals are not only vile, but progs wanted their heads on pikes during Shrub’s reign of terror. And rightly so, several of them are actual war criminals.
The absolute state of the prog movement today is beyond parody.
That’s because the progressive movement is about total take over and power one party style rule like China nothing more.
I hadn’t realized it had gotten than overt. But it makes sense since they have no integral being or integrity. Neo-Liberalism is Neo-Conservatism and vice versa.
There’s a great meme of the Joker saying, Things aren’t getting worse, they’re getting clearer.
“I hadn’t realized it had gotten than overt.”
They were parading Shrub around on daytime Beast talkshows about a year ago, yucking it up and complementing him on his shitty art.
The modern prog movement is a joke.
Obama was Bush in black face. Hillary would have been Bush in drag. Biden would be Bush in decrepitude.
John AZ is right. I would add Clinton, Trump. No major difference in the policies of the last 4 admins. Pepsi & Coke. But folks start foaming at the mouth if you mention it, so I don’t. I just don’t think I’ll vote anymore.
Indeed they hated poppa Bush and then when he croaked the celebrated him like he was the second coming of Jesus.
Same will be with GWBush ask yourself why?
Because when he was attacked he presented his posterior for the reaming with nary a blink.
Do you remember when he had a shoe thrown at him and he reflexively dodged it?
That shoe thrower was jailed and tortured and then later kidnapped and had the absolute shit beat out of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4
Yes, that shoe thrower was a hero to many of us who actually have a moral compass. It took some brass balls to do that.
I did not hear about his fate, but it does not surprise me in the least.
Very sorry to hear that. I was cheering for him as well.
I have a brother! George talked about people not gesturing with all five fingers but he was not being quite straight about it, no surprise there.
I was about a quarter mile from Bill Gates’s house when Bush was running for re-election. I was at a gathering of people waiting in a nearby park. We were waiting to show George how we felt about his stupid murderous war. We had signs and shit. George was coming into town to meet some big timber poo-bah named Simpson I think at a 20K a plate dinner. Time was dragging by. It looked like George was not going to show. I decided to leave.
Our car was behind the police line because we had got to the park before yellow tape had been set up. Mrs Dog was with me. The police line made a problem for us getting out but I knew we could leave easy by the back way and drive up Lake WA blvd to SR 520.
George it turned out was only a bit late and he was sneaking in around the protest using the back way! George was coming down Lake WA blvd from the other direction. He had taken SR520 in from Seattle instead of coming in the easy way, up I-405. I saw a line of cars on the empty road coming fast at us with their headlights on. They were far away but I knew it was no funeral. But with as many guns as were about to be pointed at me it could have been mine.
I told Mrs.Dog to pull over.
I jumped out and got in front of our car and lifted my arm with middle finger extended. The lead motorcycle escort, four men, all turned white as a sheet when they saw me lift my arm. People really do turn white. I did not throw my shoe. I would have been ventilated and George was well protected behind his limo window. I could see it was thick.
Standing by our license plate while I was doing this meant I was not hard to find. To this day Mrs. Dog accuses me of giving her ‘Phone Troubles‘ with the ‘agents‘ I brought into her life.
So George was not being quite straight in his video clip. There was only one woman with a young son hardly old enough to hold a NO WDM sign who could have seen me flip[ the bird besides the people in the 100 car long motorcade from Sea-Tac. The protest was 3 blocks away and behind me.
George was not being straight because I did not do it for attention. An obvious conclusion because hardly anybody could see me. I did it because George is an evil son of a bitch.
And ‘Phone Troubles‘. Mrs. Dog is getting even. The day before yesterday she sent a tweet to Don Jr. asking if he was as dumb as his father. Don Jr. blocked her. I don’t know what he said to set Mrs. Dog off but I actually understands Dons’ position on this matter. If he told me I was as dumb as my father I’d kick his fucking ass or die trying, but women often say things men could never get by with.
to hold a NO WMD sign who could have seen me flip the bird
No, Trump would not have played politics, would have promoted George Patton to supreme commander, and the war would have been over in 1944. The power people look at war as a way to extend their power.
A line from a movie, I do not remember the name, had a CEO saying,
What good is all this power, if I cannot order someone killed?
Well stated.
BTW, I hope you do not get all your BS from the Washington Rag.
No JAZ, it comes from a variety of sources: books, newspapers, and magazines. I even listen to Rush Limbaugh during my lunchtime. Admittedly a half hour is about all I can handle anyway.
My point was, however, that their statement was unadulterated BS. Trump fights problems, brings up issues, makes things happen. That is why the Deep State wants him gone. He fights back against the folks that are trying to tear down the country. That is a trait that neither of the Bushes had, much to the loss of America.
In all probability, he’s going to make us get vaccinated with a substance of unknown ingredients and qualities. Why isn’t he fighting that? He could but he isn’t.
His Wall is an obscene joke.
JohnAZ – I’ll fix that for you
“Trump ignores problems, denies issues, lets things happen.”
“Trump fights problems, brings up issues, makes things happen.”
A vague and frivolous statement. You might just as well have said, “Trump does stuff!”
What has he accomplished, specifically – besides signing the same McConnell/Ryan tax cut and appointing the same judges that Jeb or Rubio would have?
Have you noticed that he has appointed a bunch of donor billionaires and bankers (DeVos, Ross, Mnuchin) and lobbyists (wtf are their names anyway?) to his cabinet, to run the federal government? McConnell’s wife, for Chrissakes?
Are trillion dollar deficits what you meant by “making things happen”? Because you couldn’t possibly have meant effectively fighting the pandemic.
Hasn’t he just run his mouth for three-plus years?
And how’s all of this working out for you, JohnAZ?
Assuredly it will commence, but not before the prol class digests and spreads the real virus, the Newspeak.
#thenewnormal
How often has has one heard this phrase?
How many times repeated? Mindlessly repeated.
You will accept the abnormal. Most people are born unquestioning followers. They accept the programming readily.
Encumbrances on freedom and movement, the shuttering of small businesses, the implosion of the public school system, new police powers, new state powers, the accelerated transfer of wealth, end of political conventions, mail-in voting, the closing of civil spaces, the necessity of virtual communication, virtual existence.
You accept this all as you accept the meme
The new normal
Once known as abnormal
The Purple Beast appears to have a plan. I edited 3 articles for external dissemination on this rubbish today.
Soon I am going to feel like Winston in 1984.
Surely not! Are you compromising your principles? I’m shattered.
Not much. I use the Beast as it uses me. Then I take those proceeds to build a strong family and support friends in fighting the beast.
The difference between you and I is that I can identify the Beast.
But what was Winston’s fate?
Winston does not exist, Jello.
“Soon I am going to feel like Winston in 1984”
You really are an utterly humourless piece of work, and too afraid of Winston’s fate to address it.
“Winton lost his individuality to the Ministry of Love, all the unique characteristics that made Winton be himself and comprised his personality disappeared.”
In your case, many would find it a blessing.
And also, I really need to know
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
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Repetition is one of the tools of mind control (brainwashing).
I know. Some people keep repeating memes like ‘31,000 scientists’ (out of 10 million and not even bothering with the ones outside the US) and thinking if they say ‘but 31,000 scientists’ often enough, the dimmer bulbs will eventually fall for it.
Also of learning so there is that.
Haha – true!
‘New Normal’…
First time I heard it was right after 9/11…then again after the GFC Takedown…it seems a perfectly normal response to fundamental shifts in how we perceive the world after a shock.
But you go ahead and turn it into a left-wing conspiracy, because then you can get & stay angry.
Or it really is a bunch of malarkey and people not stuck in the imperial conditioning of Socialism see it for what it really is an erosion of freedom.
What isn’t, in your nightmare world?
The parallel between the two plagues that I find the most telling is the need to turn the event into a blame-game, when the Occam’s Razor explanation is that these pandemics are just something that happens when swelling human population numbers put a rapidly-increasing strain on the resource-base that supports it. Living out of balance at the expense of the natural world provokes the natural world into a forced re-balancing, and the longer a necessary re-balancing is put off, the more unpleasant it will be for humans when it is finally forced in some way.
So, you don’t think there was any engineering behind the Covid-19?
You think it was just Mother Nature being a bitchy re-balancer?
I think Occam’s Razor was engineered by the cat over at Snopes to stop thinking before it starts.
Maybe it was Shroedinger’s cat?
Well get used to it. Gates has plenty more where that one came from. Of course I guess you could call him the servant of Gaia. I see him as a criminal who needs to be brought to justice.
Mediate on his word, “Pandemic 1”. One doesn’t call something 1 unless there is more than 1, right? Or unless one is planning more than 1….
He can still do math in his head way better than you can. Problem is, he thinks that is important.
Occam’s razor is used as a device when cause is unknown. It does not apply here. This is a well understood phenomena without any mystery. That is, unless you have a need to cultivate mystery in your own noggin as most people are wired to do. Having alternate realities keeps bad thoughts away. That is why we do it.
Bill had a set of LP records that taught him how to do the math. A fact left out of Bill’s reality except as a passing mention.
They did a run thru six weeks before the outbreak, called Event 201. Coincidence? Prove it. Occam’s razor favors me not you.
phenomenon
the Occam’s Razor explanation is that these pandemics are just something that happens when swelling human population numbers put a rapidly-increasing strain on the resource-base that supports it. – venus
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This is essentially my view too. Namely, that most of man’s problems come down to extremely excessive population of the planet. We need to get down to 500 million people or perhaps one billion and stay there for a long time, perhaps permanently to allow the planet to recover from all the damage we’ve done. The question is, HOW to accomplish this drastic reduction in headcount.
I don’t disagree – wish I could but I can’t. Christianity doesn’t have any answers here, not good ones. Breed and subdue the Earth is not what we need to hear. We’re ready for new instructions as we have fulfilled the earlier ones.
We’re ready for new instructions as we have fulfilled the earlier ones. – Janos
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That’s the thing Janos, no voice came out of the clouds and told us to do this (go forth and populate the earth). It’s all in our heads. It’s a myth that, given the available open space a few thousand years ago, seemed quite logical. With current information we can see how foolish this ‘directive from on high’ was. Don’t expect the Pope to tell you a big mistake was made.
How would you actually know that?
There is zero scientific evidence God does not exist how ever empirical evidence is all around you that something sure did or does.
Intelligent design is written all over the universe, planets, oceans, continents on down to the tiniest ant.
They are still searching for the God particle or Higgs boson if you will.
Even Einstein refused to say there was no God.
Einstein only ever spoke of God idiomatically, meaning nothing more by his frequent references to the divine. Our star witness here is Einstein himself. A global celebrity and known for his willingness to talk God as much as physics, he was frequently asked, in private and public, to pronounce on his beliefs. In as far as these can be summed up, they appear to be deistic. “I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist,” he once said when asked to define God. “I believe in Spinoza’s God,” he told Rabbi Herbert Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogues of New York, “who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.” All the finer speculations in the realm of science “spring from a deep religious feeling,” he remarked in 1930. In the order, beauty and intelligibility of creation, he found signs of the ‘God’ he also heard throughout his life in music.
I’ll do the attribution for you benr. I always get suspicious if you present a coherent (grammatically) sentence, let alone a whole paragraph. But plagiarism is what it is:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/philosophy/did-albert-einstein-believe-in-god
Well!
Biden has all the appeal of a wet dish rag. So, DNC, what to do?
Let’s bring Obama, finally, out to attack Trump over the pandemic. The “leader” of the party that really caused the reaction delay in January. The fact that Americans even listen to the balderdash this man is spouting off shows the success of the stupidification effort by the Dems.
BTW, I notice that Obama attacks Trump, has nothing good to say about Biden, and has absolutely no answers or alternatives to what the CDC and NIH did to counter the virus.
Just political noise.
I have nothing good to say about Biden either, but if it comes down to him or Trump, I’ll hold my nose and vote for Biden. I hate it when my choices come down to being shot or stabbed.
That’s if Biden is still with us. Last time I saw him he was looking kind of wobbly, and the election is still 5 1/2 months away.
Vote for Max Boot or Bill Kristol. I doubt you know the difference.
Are they standing? Either of them?
No.
I like this though -Bill Kristol on Twitter;
‘ We’ve seen Susan Rice’s memo. We’ve seen the list of requested unmaskings by Obama officials.
Now could we see the transcripts of all the Kislyak-Flynn calls?’
#releasetheFlynnKislyaktranscripts!
Yes, release them as Flynn’s defense has requested.
Maj scores another own goal.
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
China – 1.4 billion people, 4600 deaths, 16 day lockdown, economy not destroyed.
USA – 330 million people – approx 80,000 deaths, lockdown two months.
Who is lying?
Is China using hydrochloroquine (a cure) and IV vitamin C?
Why the binary? Both are lying, one deflating out of national pride and one inflating out of globalist hubris and desire for chaos.
Believe it or not, China is the more righteous in their motivation.
If you say they are both lying, that is an acceptable answer. What I don’t accept is those numbers.
I said as much.
“Is China using hydrochloroquine (a cure) ”
Hydroxychloroquine is not, at this stage, known to be ‘a cure’. Hydroxychloroquine, which people seem happy to push when they don’t even know how to spell it, is a risky drug used experimentally in this context. My husband, who knows rather more than you do, called it ‘bloody dangerous stuff’.
The results in the US vets study showed the following death rates, according to treatment:
(1) Hydroxychloraquine only: 27.8%
(2) Hydroxychloraquine and azithromycin in combination: 22.1%
(3) No hydroxychloraquine: 11.4%
The conclusions of the researchers were:
In this study, we found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine, either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19. An association of increased overall mortality was identified in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone. These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs.
Will this stop people lauding hydroxychloraquine to the skies, without those randomised, controlled studies? You tell me.
Some more info, for CT fans:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-faked-veterans-study/false-claim-study-on-treatment-of-us-veterans-with-hydroxychloroquine-was-faked-fauci-fabricated-results-idUSKCN2291YU
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-brazilian-chloroquine-study/true-claimbrazilian-chloroquine-studyon-covid-19-patients-washalted-after11deaths-idUSKBN21Z395
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v2
Z-max is fricking dangerous stuff I know people who have had kidney issues after taking that crap.
Perhaps your husband should get in touch with Ronny Jackson. I am sure he will get Trump off that stuff immediately.
The arrogance. FFS.
It’s not about my husband.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v2
The arrogance, FFS.
The childishness, FFS.
Quick, tell Trump and Ronny.
Send them the link you found on the Interwebz.
Stop being a wanker, Needy. It’s a research study carried out in a Vets’ hospital in the US. It’s a site that both Yale and the BMJ are happy with.
You’re showing yourself up, you muppet.
@ga
So you are an anti-vaccer?
Have you ever read the inserts for even just the flu vaccine?
Common:
A Feeling Of General Discomfort Called Malaise
A Fibrous Thickening Of The Skin Called Induration
Bruising
Chills
Erythema Or Skin Redness
Headache
Itching
Low Energy
Muscle Pain
Reactions At The Site Of The Injection
INFREQUENT side effects
If experienced, these tend to have a Less Severe expression
Changes In Appetite
Cough
Diarrhea
Fever
Joint Pain
Nausea
Throat Irritation
Vomiting
Rare but still do happen:.
A Disorder Of The Brachial Plexus, A Bundle Of Nerves In The Shoulder
A Hypersensitivity Reaction To A Drug
A Serum Sickness Reaction
A Significant Type Of Allergic Reaction Called Anaphylaxis
A Skin Disorder With Blistering And Peeling Skin Called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome
A Type Of Allergic Reaction Called Angioedema
A Type Of Brain Function Problem Called Encephalopathy
Bell’s Palsy Paralysis Of One Side Of The Face
Cellulitis
Decreased Blood Platelets
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Inflammation Of The Blood Vessels
Inflammation Of The Spinal Cord
Sudden Blindness And Pain Upon Moving The Eye
Trouble Breathing
It’s a shit show of horrible possible reactions.
By comparison to ANY vaccine hydroxychloroquine is very mild and low numbers to be assumed as safe.
Meanwhile the vaccine makers have been given blanket immunity to all the above and can’t be sued.
“By comparison to ANY vaccine hydroxychloroquine is very mild and low numbers to be assumed as safe.”
You just said that without offering the slightest evidence, benr.
“Meanwhile the vaccine makers have been given blanket immunity to all the above and can’t be sued.”
And you just made that up. You just gave me the list of possible side effects of the flu vaccine, so any other vaccine has to produce the same list of possible side effects.
@ga
Do you not know how to use google or duckduckgo?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22
https://www.policymed.com/2011/03/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-protecting-vaccine-makers-from-state-lawsuits.html
I’m sure the EU has the same nonsense.
“ Quick! Tell Trump and Ronny!”
As I understand it, since the embarrassing demise of ‘Ronny’, the WH Doctor is currently one Sean Conley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Conley
Accuracy, FFS.
“Do you not know how to use google or duckduckgo?”
See below.
“I’m sure the EU has the same nonsense.”
It’s better to be informed than to be ‘sure’, benr.
https://law.emory.edu/elj/content/volume-67/issue-3/articles/liability-vaccine-injury-united-european-world.html
Not that the UK is in the EU, which I seem nevertheless to have to keep reminding people.
From your previous comment:
“By comparison to ANY vaccine hydroxychloroquine is very mild and low numbers to be assumed as safe.”
In addition to providing no actual data, you have forgotten that the issue is not the use of HC for the conditions for which it has been tested and approved, but its use in the treatment of Covid19. At the present time, there is no adequate evidence to support its use (there may be at some point but there isn’t now) and you still need to explain why all those Vets given HC died in greater numbers than those who were given other treatments. Way greater numbers (28% against 11%).
@ga
The point being if they peddle out a vaccine with possible horrible side effects you will roll up your sleeve and say gimme?
I having been in the military was used as a guinea pig over and over for less than credible vaccines the worst being Anthrax.
I will never again accept some vaccine just because.
benr
” I will never again accept some vaccine just because.”
Neither will I. I will consider a vaccine where the evidence demonstrates that it is safe. And I have never advocated anything else.
MMR is safe. The evidence has demonstrated that repeatedly. But a crowd of anti-science anti-vaxxers have caused the deaths of a whole lot of extra children around the world in recent years with their stupidity and arrogance.
I saw one young Mexican woman who’d lost both her children to measles – a toddler and a four-year-old – and could only regret desperately that she’d been taken in by those irresponsible propagandists.
Leaving aside the ‘milder’ side effects of hydroxychloroquine, the more serious (albeit obviously rarer) side effects include:
– blurred vision, which may be permanent in some cases
– heart disease, including heart failure and issues with heart
rhythm (which can be fatal)
– mental health effects, including suicidal thoughts.
That list is not exclusive.
Only the woefully ignorant use expressions like ‘entirely safe’ in such a context.
Pale face women speak with forked tongue.
If memory serves me right you ignore the horrible side effects of any and all vaccines yet you are worried about the super low reactions to hydroxychloroquine with 100’s of millions of doses given out in the last forty years?
She is already backpedaling. Note the last sentence.
As I said, send your findings to the team of physicians assisting the President of the United States.
“She is already backpedaling. Note the last sentence.
As I said, send your findings to the team of physicians assisting the President of the United States.”
Name dropping, Needy. It’s not the same as evidence.
And I haven’t backpedalled. YOU said on a previous thread that it was ‘entirely safe’. It isn’t entirely safe. No need to backpedal on that.
benr
Your memory doesn’t serve you right. But if you want to help you can point me to the particular vaccines you think I’ve championed, along with their scientifically confirmed ‘horrible effects’.
I can recall MMR and polio, but please add to the list (and they don’t have ‘horrible effects’).
And I’ll be perfectly fine with hydroxycholoroquine just as soon as there’s evidence to confirm (a) it’s entirely safe (for Needy, since that’s his claim) and (b) it is effective against Covid19.
Neither you nor Needy has commented on the research based on the 368 US Vets and the fact that more than twice as many (percentage-wise) treated with HC died than those not given HC. And yet this point is waiting for you to respond.
Mentioning that the President takes the drug and is advised by a group of accomplished physicians is “name dropping.”
Emotions getting the best of you again.
LOL.
“Mentioning that the President takes the drug and is advised by a group of accomplished physicians is “name dropping.”
Yes. In the absence of evidence. You didn’t ‘mention’ that the president takes the drug – you used that fact to assert the supposed value of the drug. You bleat constantly about concrete evidence, so now you look a tit. Or an arse. Whatever.
“Emotions getting the best of you again.”
I’m afraid your emotions have indeed got the better of you. You can’t let go. Quit when you’re behind, poor needy muppet.
Lots and lots of LOLZ.
And if you’re not an insecure, over-emotional, over-needy muppet, who repeatedly intervenes in comments for no other purpose than hoping to show off his High IQ and insult other people, you’ll have no trouble apologising to capt spaulding for confusing him with someone else. I mean, it wouldn’t hurt so much, would it?
C’mon, you can do it. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Ah, yes. The President takes it, and the President is advised by a group of highly talented physicians.
The President needs the blessing of this highly respected group, or else he cannot take the drug, as this group is responsible for the health of one of the most powerful men in the world.
Clearly this is all a sham, because you know better.
LOL.
I have injured the narcissist.
Kermit
You’re the saddest, most emotionally driven, overly needy, narcisstic wanker on this board. I feel truly sorry for your little boy. When he gets a little older he’ll find out how cringe-making it is to have a father who carries on like you.
Let it go, muppet. You’re embarrassing.
And look up Evidence-Based Medicine. It replaced the old system where a consultant just told the new students what he thought was best because he never looked beyond his own wards.
But maybe after you’ve explained how 28% of the patients in the Vets study died while being treated with HCQ, while only 11% of the ones on other treatments did.
Muppet. You couldn’t injure a paper bag.
“I am right! The President’s medical team is wrong!”
LOL.
GA, it’s pointless.
He’s a little shitty playground bully, who knows EXACTLY how accurately you’ve sized him up and is screaming inside.
However, he can’t show any sort of injury what with his lonesome sidekick, benr, looking on.
So he yanks your figurative ponytail, calls you a name, and runs away. Exactly as you & I remember this type from primary school.
HigIQwl – are you still asserting that Ronny Johnson is the White House Doctor, or are you, as usual, just ignoring and deflecting from your egregious error?
““I am right! The President’s medical team is wrong!”
LOL.”
Kermit, for fuck’s sake get a life and maybe take some valium. If you need some validation of your high-IQ, go and speak to your little boy, The gradient might still be valid for a month or two more.
You’ve painted yourself into a corner and you just don’t understand.
You’ve just shown, yet again, that you haven’t the slightest comprehension of what evidence-based medicine is, which is absolutely nothing to do with anyone being right or wrong.
And you are making a complete muppet of yourself. Did you fret all night because you hadn’t had the last word, like some emotionally whizzing Dervish?
You should maybe get a job in STM publishing – possibly you’ve just spent too many years editing fog.
BTW, an ‘experienced editor’ with a High IQ shouldn’t be getting commenters mixed up.
Maybe don’t include that one one your CeeVee when you apply for a job as Guardian of the Presdential Sphincter (a job with a pedigree going back to the Pharoahs). I’m more than happy to give you references as to your suitability for the job, though, Kermit.
LOLZ 🙂
Do you know what’s sad, Kermit?
It’s that when you first came on here you were an OK commenter. Your arguments were fine. Then you got carried away with yourself and everyone you didn’t agree with had to have a low IQ.
That and the feckin’ LOLZ after every post, and moronic stuff like ‘rekt’, as if you were in a chat room for 12-year-olds.
You didn’t have to become a muppet. You chose to all by yourself. Maybe things aren’t good at home. Sorry.
You are a full on narc., Green. It is enjoyable to razz you because you fly off the handle every time anyone even mildly challenges you. And you make it so easy.
Pause for a moment and think about what you suggested here — That you know more than a team of elite professionals responsbile for the life of the President of the United States.
And you really believe it.
It is beyond parody.
Go back to editing your fog, Kermit.
Hope you feel better, soon.
Love and fishes, Auntie Alba xx
PS hope you sleep better tonight. 🙂
LOLZ
“responsbile”
Hahahahaha. That’s a brilliant one. Response bile.
Editor of the year.
LOLZ
“Pause for a moment and think about what you suggested here — That you know more than a team of elite professionals responsbile for the life of the President of the United States.”
That you still think that’s what I said is what’s beyond parody. How the actual f*ck did you ever get a job as an editor?
LOL
LOL again.
And I even know what you’re going to say next, Kermit. 🙂
“I know more than the President’s staff of physicians”
LOL.
Narcissistic injury is a glorious thing.
Morning, Kermit
“Narcissistic injury is a glorious thing.”
It surely is. And Trump has injured the narcissist. Hope you had a better night nevertheless. They say mindfulness helps with emotional turmoil.
Two Pro Tips, as you like to say:
(1) Repeating the same misunderstanding is pretty much the same as repeating the same action and expecting a different result. I don’t need to tell you the rest.
(2) Thinking of that CeeVee, ‘office’ and ‘family’ have the same number of letters. Writing ‘office and fam.’ saves you two keystrokes. And makes you look like a pretentious twerp, unless, talking of strokes (oo-er, missus), your wrist suddenly became overly tired.
Yours ever
Auntie Alba xx
And thanks for all the fun. I’ve enjoyed it immensely. xx
A belated thought. You being in da media an’ all, you could try for the film rights for ‘All the President’s Physicians’. With all those illustrious contacts you have, finance might be a piece of piss. Sorry, was that rude? You being a family man an’ all.
You’ve got your part already. I’ll be generous and give it 65% in advance on Rotten Tomatoes. All the best.
Hey, HigIQwl
Face it, buddy. GA just nailed you on every point.
Schadenfreude.
and…
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
Don’t confuse the poor man, Majella. He’s still trying to distinguish captain spalding from Robert White. Then he’s going to apologise to both of them in perfectly edited copy.
And all the while trying to reconcile himself to the POTUS wearing a low-IQ, high-submission mask in what was, for the POTUS, a quite unshowy and sensible volte face. OK, the ‘it looked very nice, very nice’ was ‘old Trump’, but I even supported him when someone gloatingly asked why he didn’t still have it on and he said because it wasn’t necessary now and he didn’t want the press to see it and do their thing (I paraphrase). Respect. And credit where credit’s due. Compromise can be painful for some people. Kermit would just have said ‘I have injured the narcissist’, like the unwinding Stepford Wife he seems to be channelling via his five-year-old.
I have high hopes for an imminent improvement, though. No-one can stay five forever.
https://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/13273.html
GA…that was an exquisite exchange and thanks for reminding me of how wonderful being six …is?was? Do we ever lose that early sense of self? I trust not.
“Sun went down in honey.
Moon came up in wine.
Stars were spinnin’ dizzy,
Lord, the band kept us so busy
We forgot about the time.”
Everybody’s dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQyci8_54gU
Same song (sound board direct) on this day in 1977 recorded in the deep South near the birthplace of Donna Jean… song 11…
https://archive.org/details/gd77-05-18.sbd.ladner.4618.sbeok.shnf/gd77-05-18d2t04.shn
Chasten Buttigieg
@Chasten
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May 13
You matter.
You are enough.
No, no. I mean it.
Stop scrolling.
Take a deep breath.
Say it to yourself.
“I matter.”
“I am enough.”
“I deserve a snack!”
Wait, how did that last one get in here?
A snack?
Here’s a nice Soylent Green cake.
It doesn’t look like the people are going to rebel despite the high unemployment?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qpsrY0PhgRo
Jebus Krist how many facelifts has Sleepy Joe had?
It seems that the high school kids in the prestigious US prep schools now have to “volunteer” to undertake “Community Service” for their university applications. They’ve basically institutionalized Virtue Signaling and made it compulsory, which is weird because everyone can see how superficial and bogus it is.
The problem with Virtue Signaling is that it basically requires a very simplistic Black-and-White view of the world whereas Reality is very complicated and nuanced. Thus, in order to be able to Virtue Signal, they have to throw Reality overboard? During the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao was the Moral Paradigm ( the father figure, Demi-god). So anything done on behalf of Chairman Mao or Mao‘a Thought was Virtuous and anything but blind dogmatic very passionate violent displays was heresy. In order for this to work, they had to throw Reality to the dogs.
Yes, the reign of the feminine mindset and value system. The only way to feel like a man in such a milieu is to kick heads in. The State graciously provides such victims – like people who refuse to wear the hijab and keep spewing their water droplets talking about the Bill of Rights.
The mayor of Los Angeles, not a hot spot but lightly impacted, has extended the lockdown for 3 more months and allows some exercise at the beach – provided you do not stay on the dry sand but only on the wet sand?
Crazy?
People want to recall him as mayor and I think it should be easy to do – but to gather the signatures when you’re not allowed outside?
Why the wet sand? So people don’t lie down close to each other to cook? Pretty crazy. Like Governor Whitless of Michigan roping off the garden section and outdoor tool section in Walmart. Why?
I can’t sunbathe except in the winter time. I’m an extreme northern type. The sun is too hot at this latitude between Mid-April to the second week in October. And then it’s too cold to take off my shirt so i just take off my hat and face the Sun, the Lord of the Dance in this system.
I don’t know why the wet sand. I can only guess either he has some strange aspects of his psyche, or that he has heard the virus likes dry and not wet. I doubt that translates to sand on a sunny beach. I bet the chance of catching the virus from sand is about 10 billion to one. The nitpicky bullying is unbelievable.
Are you a redhead? Freckles?
Yes, in my youth, many. Now a general flush seems to have superseded them.
“Yes, in my youth, many. Now a general flush seems to have superseded them.”
A ‘general flush’ of freckles? You may well be quite ‘brown’ then?
The rules are arbitrary to see if you’ll obey them and if the people ordered to enforce them, will. There’s no reason whatsoever for the lockdown to continue or to wear a facemark unless you are chronically ill and nervous. Handwashing and staying home if you’re sick are common sense precautions all the time.
If you’ve ever seen Waiting for Superman (funded by the Gates Foundation) you might want to consider the conspiracy theory that this will fundamentally destroy the public school system. It was an infomercial for charter schools and Gates is a big booster of them. Think of the money saved if most “education” was from home — one teacher for hundreds of students, and you could fire all those pesky union teachers, no benefits, no salary, no retirement to pay. Commandant Fauci was on TV last week floating the idea that school may not open in the fall. And Gavin (aka The Spaniel) Newson has cancelled public university classes already.
The universities are committing suicide. People are already rethinking spending all that money on a degree, now a lot of people are poorer, and they sent the students home in a rush in March. So they are sitting at home with their laptops and paying the full tuition? How long before the parents decide maybe they didn’t need to go to college in person after all? How long will they pay that tuition? If they don’t open in the fall, if not summer, I think their gooses may be cooked. I know the institutions are liberal, but can they possibly be that stupid?
The universities are committing suicide. People are already rethinking spending all that money on a degree – sophia
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And well they should. I will be glad if half the universities in the country shut down. It is absurd to think that everybody and his brother should go to college. Many people simply are not college material. Take my b-i-l, Peter (please). He attended college in West Virginia for 3 semesters until they threw him out. One semester his GPA was 1.25 and the other two were only slightly better. And most of his classes were bullshit fluff courses. If the subject ever comes up he tells people he has “an Associates in Marketing” which is freaking laughable.
And the cost of college and the associated government backed loan system is a crime…… but everybody knows that.
I remember, as a child in NZ (maybe aged 11 or 12), learning that ‘In America, you can get a degree in Carpark Management’.
It seemed absurd at the time, and maybe it was a joke. Nowadays, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was a pre-requisite.
@ sophia, shitk, majella — Universities have metastized into ATM machines for the administrators and coaches and what the students get in return for their “investment in their future” is a ticket to debt peonage and an exit in four years not much smarter than when they entered. I’ve read too many articles by professors who confirm how common grade inflation, kneeling to political correctness, and lack of preparedness by incoming freshmen is to doubt the truth of their statements.
If the virus is used as an excuse to shut down the public schools, grades 1 thru 12, and it all goes to online b.s. classes, America is finished. About 30 years ago I remember a senator (don’t remember his name) said — if you think education is expensive just wait till you try ignorance.
As many times as you have mentioned hijab in this blog it is rather obvious what you like to dress up as when you are alone and feel the need. I bet it makes you hot and sweaty. It would have to!
You’re going to get it, Kdog. So why wear it except to virtue signal? Or do you enjoy wearing it?
What you say I am going to get I don’t want.
Buddha said that’s one of the reasons life is suffering: not getting what we want and getting what we don’t want.
A muzzle would be about right.
“Buddha said that’s one of the reasons life is suffering: not getting what we want and getting what we don’t want.”
Janos,
It also applies to getting what we do want.
And to get an AA or BA at some skools, ‘global citizenship’ courses.
When I visited China for around a month, in 2017, I associated mostly with people whose parents were likely yelling and running around and waving The Little Red Book. I was visiting a friend in a hospital located in a second-tier city (the best kind to tune in to local culture), and so I was associating mostly with doctors and hospital personnel. I found them energetic, optimistic, moderately materialistic but deeply cynical. Smart enough not to start spouting off about what shitheads are running the country / province / city, but the karma of the Cultural Revolution has been to create a class of profound unbelievers. While there were huge billboards all over the city exhorting citizens to do that or that and avoid doing that there over yonder, one smiling piggy-face was conspicuous by its absence. Notably so. The only place you commonly saw the murderous emperor / poet was on the paper currency.
Smiling.
Some help here please.
I need a wheelbarrow to carry money to buy a loaf of bread anticipating some small financial changes.
I’m old so would I do better with a single wheel or a double wheel? I use a cane so that will make things more difficult.
Suggestions?
One missionary in Africa had to go away for a few days. During that time the wheelbarrows arrived. When he got back, he was greeted with panic. The foreman said the new tools are causing tremendous problems, many are being injured and quitting. He went to see what was going on: the Africans were using the wheelbarrows as they previously used the baskets, carrying them on their heads.
They never had the wheel and they never invented writing.
Don’t carry it on your head and you should be fine. I’d say the single wheel would be easier to maneuver with one hand.
Have you checked out the Zambian Space Program yet?
During that time the wheelbarrows arrived. – Janos
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As you know, I am a stickler (or as some might say, ‘a pain in the ass’) about words, spelling, pronunciation, etc. even with my wife. I don’t know how she tolerates it. Just today she was doing some gardening out back, re-potting plants, and such and she says to me “We have a wheelbarrel don’t we? And I answer, “barrow.”
But it is a barrel on wheels, isn’t it? What’s a barrow?
But it is a barrel on wheels, isn’t it? What’s a barrow? – Janos
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No connection at all between barrel and barrow. Look it up. And, BTW, do you know how to look up word definitions and pronunciations almost instantaneously?
“What’s a barrow?”
In addition to the above…
A Neolithic burial mound (tumulus).
Or sometimes just a hill.
Also apparently a castrated male swine.
Janos,
Then there is the story of the man observed bringing money across the border in a wheelbarrow. Every Day. This went on for weeks until competent authority stopped him.
He was smuggling wheelbarrows….
Yes
In 2016 Zimbabwe printed a Trillion Dollar note.
Value was about 43 US cents.
RB, get yourself one of those.
Brh
Use a credit card.
Leftists: Believe the doctors.
Rand Paul: I’m a doctor and a survivor of Covid19.
Leftists: We meant the Swedish child.
Greta has been put on a Covid19 task force or something. She’s been mooning around for months, not knowing what to do with herself and wilting away with the lack of attention. She has no qualifications? As if she had any as per Global Warming?
She’s going to be with us for the rest of our lives. It’s either that or she gets depressed again and stops eating. As she would say, YOU are killing her!
Is it time to reopen our Nietzsche? Didn’t he say something about the weak lording it over the strong?
You brought it on yourself you horse beater. It was you!!
Janos’s comedic talent is on display again. That back and forth is good stuff.
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
What do you think of successful black people with a good sense-of-humor?
Tomorrow is Malcolm X’s (and Ho Chi Minh’s) birthday.
Free Bill Cosby!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTzO9Kh2kY
It seems that Bill Cosby only associated with men on his social level? He didn’t seem too particular about race, but he didn’t seem to associate with women? He probably had a fucked up relationship with his mom?
Bill Cosby was destroyed by the mob feverishly Virtue Signaling in response to the #MeToo Movement similar to the Red Guards responding to Chairman Mao?
Or he had such bad thoughts he had to use some self control.
Dance Macabre
I’ve had my fun in the comment section but now I’ve reached the end. This was a great article.
Covid is not the Black Death this is true. Very true unless it happens to you.
Yet.
MERCUTIO
Yes, yes. It’s a scratch, just a scratch. But it’s enough. Where is my page? Go, boy. Get me a doctor.
ROMEO
Have courage, man. The wound can’t be that bad.
MERCUTIO
No, it’s not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it’s enough. It’ll do the job. Ask for me tomorrow, and you’ll find me in a grave. I’m done for in this world, I believe. May a plague strike both your houses. Goddammit! I can’t believe that dog, that rat, that mouse, that cat could scratch me to death! That braggart, punk villain who fights like he learned swordsmanship from a manual! Why the hell did you come in between us? He struck me from under your arm.
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It’s a scratch, just a scratch. But it’s enough.
The name MERCUTIO is an attempt to anagramize the phrase ‘AMERICAN ECONOMY’. I wonder how did the eternal bard knew what was coming? ‘UT’ being Old English for ‘Y’ and they switched up ‘M’ and ‘N’ back then too.
‘anagrammatize’ is the correct spelling.
May a plague strike both your houses. KDFP
That doesn’t sound very nice K-dog.
It is not meant to be nice. The Democratic and Republican Parties have ruined the nation. That is why I offer an alternative.
I agree with you that both parties have ruined the country.
If I did not have genuine disgust for what the elite political class has done to our nation KDFP would be without panache. I truly offer a better way.
So now that we already know that they are planning a second wave Gavin Newsom has now mentioned a third wave. I suppose the waves are associated with a phased approach to the complete takeover. I assume the second wave will be intentionally more deadly so as to scare people into giving up more freedoms and pushing them to accept another and longer lockdown. By any third wave it would appear that they would have total control given the way things are going now. But why the phased approach? It seems like they realize the ease with which they were able to pull this off so why wait? Is it possible that they simply enjoy the pain and suffering and want to extend it as much as possible. Oh well. It’s just an idea. I’m sure I can think a bunch more up today lol. 😉
If it follows the Spanish Flu graph the second wave is the strongest and the third is stronger than the first.
I don’t know who you think ‘they’ are. Lizard People? It is true that the Sumerian Lizard People are fully bred into our elite class and will be transforming the planet into a place more in line with their cold blooded needs soon enough. But Covid-19 interferes with their plans and the seed ships from their home planet are going to have to wait a bit longer for Earth to warm up now. The Earth renaming ceremony is postponed. This means that the Sumerian ‘they’ is not behind this; not ‘them’ so what ‘they’ do you mean?
The flesh and blood they who want to be Sumerian Lizard People. And believe themselves to be so at this point. If they can just download their consciousnesses into the machines they can rule forever. In their minds at least and all. I have to admit that is an interesting idea that the Lizard People are heating up the Earth to suit their purposes. I hadn’t thought about it like that but it does make sense. I guess it’s a good thing the Sun is essentially asleep for now.
It was a serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Oh so there is no Global Elite? Or rather you don’t like to talk about them because it deflects attention from your beloved obsession with American Politics.
We know who these people are, Kdog, at least for the most part.
Earth to Janos. Pay attention I am openly talking about the elite. After the Bosphorus was breached and the great estates were flooded. ‘They’ knew they had to breed into the common class for their own self-preservation. Hence they walk among us.
Being ten feet tall made no friends. George Bush for instance was a very successful spawn of their intentional cross-breeding program. He seemed almost human. Trump, not so much. And Obama, not so much at all. You could almost see the tongue flicks with him. You would have, had they been any slower.
Obama is just their human front man. Wake up, “man”.
Yes, demons are real and can inhabit people who then do their bidding. One doesn’t have to necessarily have the Nephilim blood in them.
And what is a demon but a reptilian alien who has gotten caught in Earth’s lower dimensions? Thus do they dine poorly at the McDonald’s of the Cosmos, with humans as the whoppers and McChicken nuggets.
@janos
The whopper is Burger King not McDonalds who serves up 1/4 pounders and “Big Macs” which compared to the 80’s is a joke.
Neither being a good burger I might add.
In N Out smoked em both or even Wendy’s.
That’s the problem with always being on Defense. The Enemy can meticulously exercise their plans, fine tuning them better and better each time. If Trump attacked, it could change everything. But alas, he won’t. I think he’s official resistance, part of the Plan…
That could be very true that Trump is a part of the resistance. It makes no sense to me that he would use the military for distributing the vaccine and begin funding WHO again. And continue letting foreign workers in when 30 million people are unemployed.
I think he reversed himself again yesterday about WHO. Hadn’t heard about the foreign workers – figures though.
Been thinking about that. Seems to be biding his time. If he went on the attack, would it backfire? I’m ready to find out!
He is openly naming Obama in spygate.
Unfortunately, Obama legalized propaganda. I’d like to see someone go after the fake news. We can talk about the bad deeds of all the various bigwigs, but maybe we could cut off the head of the snake by going after the media.
They are running out of time. Need to strike soon.
They are keeping things quiet. Nothing about Durham has leaked. No one even knew about Jensen until last week.
#Obamagate
#Treason
Trump Care. Like the 3,000,000 voters that cost him the popular vote, it’s all in his mind.
Oh you must mean the 5 million and counting fake voter registrations and voter fraud?
Yea that meme has been debunked and soundly.
Yessir, if you say so. Were his fingers crossed? You couldn’t tell because the camera had him framed in a head-shot. Personally, I think the Fed Chairman was blowing smoke up the nation’s wazoo.
If he wasn’t blowing smoke he would not have the job. The smoke is so far up our wazoo it is getting in our eyes.
With an EFT-POS card, you only need a single pocket!
Papillon watched the waves at Devil’s island. The seventh wave was always the big one. That’s when they would jump in on their inflated sacks stiched together and let it take them out.
They reached the mainland but the shore was all quicksand. They had to wait until the high tide took them inland. His friend couldn’t take the sun and tried to get off the beach. The sand took him!
It was the seventh wave but Papillon made it in the movie. Louis Dega chose to stay behind and tend his garden. Why do you do this? If you want your own story change the names. Tarantino pisses me off for the same reason.
I read the book – again and again and again as a boy. Did you even read it once? Damn you, Dog!
I said he made it but his friend didn’t – in the book at least. Papi was a man just like our own Papi, Papidopolous.
Schmidt’s Big Mouth bottles made to look like little beer barrels. No twist off, you need a bottle opener for these puppies.
12 oz. of golden Schmidt’s beer, under $4 for a case (in the early 70s) Brewed in Minneapolis?
Big mouth bottles made for quaffing, just inhaling those suds in one sudden gulp. Those were the days.
Serve ice cold.
Brh
“Covid-19 seems rather a punk-ass illness compared to the Black Death.”
I’m glad Jim called out the hysteria of Covid 19. On other forums I too have made the comparison that many especially the MSM and Politicians are treating Covid 19 as if was the Black Plague II.
It’s not and there was NO need to blow up the economy unless some entities decided Covid 19 was a good excuse as any to do it and blame it on the virus.
Punk ass ’till it gets ya.
Let me pass on to you one of life’s little nuggets. Are you ready?
If it’s not Covid 19, it’s the Common Flu, if not it’s some form of Cancer, if that doesn’t do it maybe some other disease will do the trick, if that doesn’t get you maybe an organ failure. If that missed you too maybe you’ll get hit by a car or truck.
If somehow you managed to make it out alive, old age and death awaits. You see the Grim Reaper is always 2 steps behind you and everyone else.
I don’t give two shits about the Coronavirus and I don’t live in fear which is what the MSM and Politicians want you to do. It’s been overhyped beyond belief.
Yes, “the people” cower in fear. Sheep!
Thanks for reminding me that I’m mortal. I was starting to wonder.
I know. Life’s a bitch, then you die. How wise. Go early if you want.
I also know that coyote waits.
Coyote always waits. I try to avoid him. It’s called the survival instinct.
Hear, hear! I’ll second that.
Trump wants higher oil prices (understandable) and negative interest rates. How do the suckers, otherwise known as savers, feel about that?
What’s the mindset of the public regarding this repeated trillion dollar money printing, going on for more than a decade now, negative rates, and endless bailouts?
Is the Fed really ‘controlling’ the supply and the price of money any longer? Is Powell now more concerned with public perception and behavioral psychology?
Remember Bernanke? “The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.”
Maybe China didn’t force nursing homes to accept people sick with covid, as the US and UK did, deliberately maximizing the kill.
They shut down one province. What was the death rate in the rest of China? Did they succeed in containing it more or less in Wuhan or whatever the name of the province is?
In which case, their negligence in relation to the world is all the more damning.
Yes, it was mostly contained in that province. But I am having a hard time knowing how such a thing was possible. With the lockdown, we don’t have all that much travel anywhere. The death rate elsewhere in China was low, and they have almost no new cases now.
I’m not on board the blame China train because I think that there are money trails from the US to the Wuhan lab. But it is interesting that from a Chinese point of view, they came out on top. Their economy was not destroyed, and the west has happily suicided theirs. But is China to blame or that? It seems more like a pact or something. “They” are definitely doing all they can to perform a scorched earth upon the west.
Oh please. Scorched earth? Really. Maybe pouring gasoline on ourselves and light a match. America, the richest, most powerful nation on earth and 1 out of every 3 Covid 19 deaths is American. That, THAT is a disgrace.
Reported deaths verses REAL covid deaths!
There is a difference stop playing games with the truth.
https://www.livescience.com/how-covid-19-deaths-are-counted.html
“But it is interesting that from a Chinese point of view, they came out on top. ”
I would take ANY statistics emanating from Beijing with an almighty pinch of monosodium glutamate. But still…
They all have to use an app that tells them in red or green whether they’re allowed to go out the house. So there’s that. And you don’t want that (nor would I). And look at what South Korea is able to do, in terms of invading your privacy to help keep the thing under control and avoid a lockdown.
Some people don’t want any kind of lockdown, don’t want contact tracing, don’t want masks, don’t want a vaccine, don’t want social distancing – yet bizarrely pretend they care about people in care homes, as if you could let it rip and at the same time have a cohort of poorly paid, peripatetic care workers, taking public transport to work, and not infecting their charges.
Adults find compromises. Children (and adults with agendas) just bleat.
https://www.amren.com/news/2020/05/woman-whose-brother-and-father-have-been-charged-with-murder-of-ahmaud-arbery-insists-they-are-not-racist-because-they-loved-her-non-white-boyfriends/
Oh brother. The plot thins. In Ancient Greece, a lawyer got his client off (accused of killing her husband) by tearing off her “blouse” and exclaiming, Would you destroy such beauty? Will the lawyer this time have daughter dearest have sex with her Black of the month in court to prove that any man associated with Her cannot be a bad racist?
She didn’t help their case with her admission.
Better believe it. It’s just us.
‘However, Barr did not completely reject the White House and Trump campaign’s current “Obamagate” obsession — he simply cautioned that those expecting prosecutions of high-level political figures are likely to be disappointed. “Not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime,” he said.’
‘Wray stood by silently during Barr’s comments. The FBI chief has contended he moved quickly to institute reforms after learning of problems with the bureau’s surveillance programs. He has also said that most of the senior FBI leaders involved in the Russia probe have either left the agency or were fired.’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/barr-throws-cold-water-trumps-174024902.html
Barr’s investigation is just going to scratch the surface. No Obama or Biden stuff. Tomorrow we shall be a grave man…..
https://www.yahoo.com/news/g-barr-says-does-not-172546513.html
If Trump doesn’t fire Barr then I don’t know how I’m not going to start believing that he is part of it too.
You are too good for this world. That’s why you’re going to have to live under a bridge with me.
I thought Barr was good. And I thought these crimes were serious.
Government cannot continue without prosecutions, including folks at the top. Barr has made this clear in the past.
Barack is the head of the snake. The President has openly spoken of treason, and the few remaining sharp minds in progland know what’s up, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB26jj0jrjc
What serious, who serious. Trump serious. Trump makes terrible decisions. The worst. If he goes after Obama, guess what happens when he leaves office. He lets his little head tell his big head what to do, and in this case his little head is much littler than the prior occupant of the Oval Office.
“Government cannot continue without prosecutions, including folks at the top. Barr has made this clear in the past.”
Fizz turns to fizzle:
Government cannot continue without prosecutions, including folks at the top. Barr has made this clear in the past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YubTYrurKZA
“Government cannot continue without prosecutions…”
“Barack is the head of the snake…”
Stop. Just stop already.
Nightowl,
Obama might be the head of the spygate snake, but he’s a relative newcomer. Although I guess he goes way back what with his mother having worked for the CIA and all. No, I suspect he is not the real head.
True, Sophia. It could go higher, but the evidence is what it is right now.
#Obamagate
#Treason
@hapman
Follow your own advice.
#obamadeservesatrial
#obamaforjail2021
Benr and friends,
Post the crime. Post the evidence.
Until then, spare us the hashtaggery.
Meanwhile, what is Trump doing to quell the pandemic today? Let’s see – cutting off the World Health Organization, and popping malaria pills.
Yup, that sounds about right.
@hapman
List of crimes coming soon to an a lot rigfht news source of your choice but the in the tank leftwing media will ignore it as long as they can.
Since this is all you pay attention to of course you plead ignorance.
Yet we have a sitting President impeached on a fake dossier for a fake crime and a bullshit investigation and that was just fine with you?
Your type of insanity is what is wrong with this country.
“List of crimes coming soon…”
Except it isn’t. Barr said so yesterday.
But let’s still pay no attention to the rolling pandemic disaster and the mess in the Oval Office, because Obamagate.
Benr you seem like you state your views in good faith. Unlike some of the internet trolls hanging around here. But Trump is a world class con artist, and you’re letting yourself get conned.
What’s Biden relying on? Hoping by Nov he’s not being spoon fed by his attendant, and the attendant doesn’t forget about the diaper change.
Romeo
Draw, Benvolio, beat down their weapons.
Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!
Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath
Forbidden bandying in Verona streets.
Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio!
[Tybalt under Romeo’s arm stabs Mercutio, and flies with his followers]
Mercutio
I am hurt.
A plague o’ both your houses! I am sped.
Is he gone, and hath nothing?
Benvolio
What, art thou hurt?
Mercutio
Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, ’tis enough.
Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.
[Exit Page]
Romeo
Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio
No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church
door; but ’tis enough,’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow,
and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered,
I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ both your houses!
‘Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man
to death. A braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by
the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between
us? I was hurt under your arm.
Romeo
I thought all for the best.
JS: I’m seeing a strong West Side Story influence here, with Mercutio as Riff and Romeo as Tony. I identify mostly with Tybalt, Prince of Cats.
Anybodys will the real beauty in West Side Story – not Maria or Anita or Velma or any of the other Jet or Shark molls. I admit the Puerto Rican group dancing was better, but nothing could beat the joyous athleticism of Riff. As for as individual dancers, I though Ice was the most graceful of them all.
There are many fine Black Shakespearean actors.
“JS: I’m seeing a strong West Side Story influence here”
Did you really say that?
You do know that West Side Story was inspired by Romeo and Juliet? Tell me you do and you were suddenly afflicted with some European-type irony.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. So I’ll just take the dog for a walk.
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. So I’ll just take the dog for a walk. – GreenAlba
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Reminds me of the old line “He didn’t know whether to shit or go blind so he closed one eye and farted.”
I certainly haven’t heard that one before. 🙂
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley-1875
Burma-Shave
He also went to meet his Black Mistress some say.
from the Wiki, Dark Lady
Speculation about the Dark Lady
The question of who the Dark Lady is an unsolved, controversial issue because of the insufficiency of background detail. Some believe that she might be of Mediterranean descent with dark hair and dark eyes of Greece, Spain, Italy and Southern France. Other scholars have suggested, given Shakespeare’s description of her dark, dun-colored skin and black wiry hair, that the Dark Lady might have been a woman of African descent.
Emilia Lanier
In 1973 A. L. Rowse claimed to have solved the identity of the Dark Lady in his book Shakespeare’s Sonnets—the Problem Solved, based upon his study of astrologer Simon Forman’s journal entries describing his meetings with Emilia Lanier.[3][4] It was later shown that Rowse had based his identification on a misreading of Forman’s text: Forman had described Lanier as “brave in youth”, not “brown in youth”, but Rowse, while later correcting his misreading, continued to assert his contention.[5][6] In the diaries, Emilia is described as the mistress of Lord Hunsdon, the Queen’s Lord Chamberlain. She seemed to have similar qualities to ones of the Dark Lady. For example, Emilia was so attractive to men that during the years of being Hunsdon’s mistress, she may have been viewed as a prostitute. In addition, she might have been a musician because it was found by further research that she was a member of the Bassano family which was famous for providing the music to entertain the Courts of Elizabeth I and James I. They were also Italians and Emilia may have been of Mediterranean descent.[2]
However there are academics, such as David Bevington of the University of Chicago, who dismiss the theory that Lanier was the Dark Lady not only due to the lack of any direct proof but also because the claimed association with Shakespeare tends to overshadow her own literary achievements: she published her celebrated collection of poems Salve Deus Rex Judæorum in 1611.[7][8]
Wow Bill, nothing like that “dark, wiry hair.” Janos here again, folks. “Brave in youth or Brown in youth” – on that question our Civilization hangs in the balance.
A wise choice if on the front line. My old employer The National Academies also recommended it in a mass mailing they sent to current employees and Alumni.
Ask David if he is taking it.
Dr. Ronny would recommend it, but I think he’s out of a job – or at least his last job.
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?.
The two party system is the flaw. That is why the Republicans should have banned Trump and he would have formed his own party. Then we would have a more balanced 3 party system. Trump was polling at 42 or 43 % in the Republican primiaries. That means nearly 60% would have gone for Bush or Kasich. The key demographic was the hate both candidates which broke for Trump by nearly 20%. This time around they’re breaking the other way. By the time the election rolls around, Trump will lose in a landslide. They’ll be a second wave, and it will decimate the population. My beloved Skyline Chili is opening its doors this Friday, 1/3 capacity.
Dude we need you here to rearrange our political system, put us on the right path.
Good idea, Marlin. Could you get him a gig in the WH? He’d only need 2 days, before the inevitable knife-in-the-back firing.
The president can fire anybody he wants. Who’s gonna stop him?
Indeed, who could?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trump_administration_dismissals_and_resignations
If you had a homogeneous distribution of say three, or even four parties throughout the population, the likelihood of gerrymandering would fade. Ditto two parties, I guess. A need for more cooperation would result, but good luck with that.
Two party system is entrenched here, and so is the attraction of ‘winner take all.’ Simpler and more direct, if less democratic. As long as the people believe they have a ‘choice’.
George Washington said in his farewell speech to not allow party politics to occur in the US. He felt that allegiance to party would subvert the allegiance to country. His, and most of the FF wanted a government comprised of individual public servants, not a bunch of party hacks. Here we are fulfilling his fear.
In spades!
Of course, he isn’t. Only in his mind. He would have to admit he was wrong or he could lie and say he’s taking it. Guess which one Trump chooses. Always.
“Moving Lips” is the giveaway…
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
Saul Levine M.D., is a professor emeritus at the University of California at San Diego.
This type of denial is akin to Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” in that these deniers adamantly refuse to accept verified scientific facts because they get in the way of their own rigid ideas.
Here are just a few examples of their beliefs:
1. There is no such thing as manmade global warming.
2. There is nothing that we can do to improve our climate.
3. Most immigrants are a drain on social services, schools, hospitals, and other public resources.
4. Many immigrants are criminals, rapists, dealers or terrorists.
5. The availability of guns has nothing to do with the uniquely American epidemic of shootings.
6. Gun death rates have not dropped in countries with gun control legislation.
7. Vaccines are dangerous, cause autism and other disorders.
8. Muslims are out to destroy us and our way of life.
9. Latinos are lazy, Jews are greedy, African-Americans are violent, etc.
10. Marriage is sacrosanct only between a man and a woman.
11. Planned Parenthood sells fetal parts.
12. LGBT people are either “sick” or “bad.”
13. The USA is the first/greatest in the world in health, education, nutrition, generosity, cleanliness, happiness, and safety. (It is indeed first in weaponry, shootings, military spending, prisoners, drug trade, and other indices of “greatness.”)
In psychiatry, the word “delusion” means a firm belief in some idea which is known to be false, and it can be a symptom of paranoia or psychosis.
[Guess that I am in denial]
Guessing, “10”.
Latinos are not lazy, just sloppy. Other than that…..
Maj got a perfect score no doubt.
“Latinos”? Relevance?
It mentions Latinos. Did you even read his list, you lazy Lucy?
Oh. No, I did miss it.
omg hahahahaha
Yeah, funny as all get out. I notice when YOU are left dangling, you just carry on, responseless. Ignore it, I guess, and do you blushing in private. Good move, benr! So when I admit an error, YOU (of all people) LOL it up?
It is incredibly ironic that the guy who introduced “truthiness” into the modern lexicon (ok, likely an underpaid writer) is now the poster boy for “truthiness.”
I’ve also noticedhe looks genuinely crazy lately in public appearances. He just has this look like he is about to have a nervous breakdown.
I wonder how many skeletons are in Steve’s closet.
Trying to kick off another troll-based meme, HigIQwl?
“But I was only asking the question!”
I’me be a talking dog. i get 600 bucks a week. Yippee. Money for nuthin and shits for free. i think I be buying sum cool stuff.Guns ans stuff.maybe ammo Wow this is cool.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/05/14/stacey-abrams-political-power/?arc404=true
Bizarre. This obese Black woman who hates White people is made out to be a run away supermodel. Will Joe resist touching her? How can he? How can anyone!
Breaking news! A runway has collapsed in Atlanta, Georgia, fatally crushing six people. At first it was thought to be only three, until they turned over the groggy and shaken Stacy Abrams.
The female interviewer still seems to think that Cosby was convicted for drugging and raping women. That’s not what Cosby was charged with and convicted for. Cosby was convicted under a very bad new Pennsylvania law passed as a result of the #MeToo Movement that vitiates consent if the bloke had sex with a woman after she’s had a beer, Weed, Benadryl (in Cosby’s case), a glass of wine, or any other type of drug. Half of all the blokes in Pennsylvania could be convicted under that Statute. Cosby will die in prison for giving a crazy white woman a Benadryl and then fingering her pussy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTzO9Kh2kY
As long as they nailed the pervert, I’m happy. Some want him freed so they can whack his ass. How you say, put a cap in it?
Many black people hate Dr. Cosby because he exhorted young black males to pull up their trousers and to speak proper English. That’s why they pulled Dr. Cosby down….
“Dr. Cosby”? Don’t you mean “Dr. Huxtable”?
Dr. Cosby was a PhD in education, I believe.
Ah, right. Thanks, JohnAZ.
1977: Earned a PhD in Education from UMass Amherst. His dissertation used his character Fat Albert.
I loved that speech.
Remember This Starving Polar Bear?
https://youtu.be/_gkhjA75pp8
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Unfortunately our commie friends are not the most trustworthy of people. Ideology always comes first before truth.
Well they certain are not deficient in the Irony Department:
“Pravda” means “Truth”.
certainly
I wonder if there will be an American Che Guevara who will emerge in the US to become the leader of the Gringo Working Class?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xELHGR_ur0Q
“ Whadda ya mean, you’re investigating my team of hack cronies??? You’re fired!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFbz9jtH-P4
Should we thank the politicians for their service like we thank American soldiers?
Now that Trump declared he drinks out of aquariums, all of Middle America is doing it. The Emergency Rooms are already full. How do we flatten this curve?
The CBS News blokes refer to Che Guevara as an economist. I thought that Che was a physician? What kind of a medical doctor smokes cigars?
I wonder if there will be an American Che Guevara who will emerge in the US to become the leader of the Gringo Working Class?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xELHGR_ur0Q
“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”
Che probably liked women, like Bill Clinton. But ol’ Bill sure liked his cigars too.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-world-food-programme-warns-at-least-30-million-people-could-die-of/
This is twenty million ahead of schedule. Who am I kidding? I think they are right about the world being over-populated. What, are we supposed to die so that the 3rd World can live? No, they go under not us. Keep those border closed! Whites aren’t the problem – we’ve already been sterilized by Liberalism, Careerism, and Feminism. We’re barely at replacement here in the US and below in most of White Europe.
“Covid-19 seems rather a punk-ass illness compared to the Black Death.” — JHK
**************
“Covid-19 seems rather a punk-ass BITCH MADE illness compared to the Black Death.”
Free upgrade for for ya Jim
Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it’s enough. It’ll do the job.
You think you are qualified to critique my comments?
Get back in the closet fag.
Since I made the quote first asshole, I am.
“Free upgrade for for ya Jim
…Some might consider that statement…”uppity”….
Just sayin’
…and these guys are awesome representations of the Base…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFc7wiI8X2E
It is a triangle. at one point on the triangle we have Trump. On another point of the triangle we have the perennial malcontents and idiots. They are always with us. Rebels who need no cause. The final point provides the balance to our centroid of despair. A nation that lost touch with its citizens. This toxic trio is the geometry of our doom.
This is better,
It is a triangle. At one point on the triangle we have Trump. On another point of the triangle we have our perennial malcontents and idiots. They are always with us. Rebels who need no cause. People who spend an inordinate amount on hair products even when they have no hair. The final point provides the balance to our centroid of despair. A nation that lost touch with its citizens. This toxic trio is the geometry of our doom.
But you can have many triangles. For example, one could replace the Trump vertex with Obama or Hillary, keeping the other two vertices essentially the same.
How about one with 15 million illegals and counting, with open borders at one vertex, sanctuary and crime ridden cities at another, and stifling political correctness and attacks on so called white privilege and ‘whiteness’ in general at the third.
And remember, “There is no royal road to geometry.” Euclid
TS: Nor is there only one.
It has to make sense. You can’t just point the triangle anyway you wish. I admit I was lazy and did not fully explain.
Idiots and Malcontents are always with us but they are ignored in good times. When government betrays the people that point of the triangle supports the point where the crazies stand. Without dysfunction crazies are ignored.
The crazies in turn support the authority figure Trump who pretends to love the crazies. Crazy people can’t think for themselves and they panic without a leader. Crazies are used but they in general having the mental activity of a willow tree whipping in the wind, don’t know they are used.
The Trump sociopath pretending to be a real person on his point in turn enables the betrayal of the American people which in turn supports the American crazies which support him.
It all has to work out. Hillary would not be supported by crazies. Milk toast church puppies was more descriptive of her supporters. Hillary could not be dropped onto the same triangle as Trump. She needs here own points on her own triangle.
Not having a point, (my turn is not a point) she lost.
Given that we are in the United States of Amnesia we should forget about Hillary altogether.
It is said that Archimedes invented the screw but on reflection his mother must have know about it.
Crazy people can’t think for themselves – K-Dog
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Is it your point, then, that democracy is a flawed system and, accordingly, that you agree with Janos?
The dangerous case of Donald Trump.
https://youtu.be/6nhoGIvOKJU
Oct 5, 2017 a 10 minute video. Documents real mental health problems in the psyche of the Orange scourge.
“He is emotionally driven, not intellectually driven. You don’t want to use that word with regard to Trump. I absolutely believe that any decision Trump makes is going to be primarily made by the intensity of the emotion he feels about it.”
John O. Brennan: President Donald Trump Is ‘Dangerous To Our Nation’
https://youtu.be/81kawAPCJrM
Aug 14, 2018 a 8 minute video. Documents outrageous clown like behavior.
“Fueling hatred and animosity among Americans.”
….
And this is before the mofo started killing people.
K-Dog For President.
Is this true?
In 2014, Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a phony “tetanus” vaccine campaign. Independent labs found the sterility formula in every vaccine tested.
After denying the charges, WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade. Similar accusations came from Tanzania, Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines.
The first paragraph is true and most of the second one too. Though I’m not sure that WHO admitted anything. From what I read it seemed like they were trying to say that the hormone somehow made it into the vaccines by accident, faulty manufacuring, etc. RFK Jr posted about this on Instagram. He has an anti-Bill Gates operation there.
Anglin:
Sweden’s “No Lockdown” Strategy Worked, Says Heroic Epidemiologist Behind It
Anders Tegnell, the hero who saved Sweden from the lockdown madness, is so beloved by the people that men are getting his face tattooed on their skin.
The man who went against what the rest of the world is doing is now defending his strategy and announcing that it has worked.
RT:
Sweden, which chose a famously hands-off opt-in way to fight the coronavirus epidemic, may have over four times the deaths per capita compared to its Nordic neighbors, but the approach ultimately worked, the man behind it insists.
While most nations in the world relied on strict lockdown procedures to slow the spread of Covid-19, Sweden put only a few obligatory restrictions in place. That won high approval ratings for the government, but also resulted in a significantly higher death toll than in other Nordic countries, with elder-care homes affected particularly badly.
Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, whose role in creating the ‘Swedish model’ elevated him to a celebrity in the country and spiked interest internationally, insists his approach was right.
“So far, I think, even taking into account the excess deaths, it has worked,” the scientist told Italy’s ANSA news agency on Sunday. Closing down Sweden “would not have made that much of a difference, including in nursing-home infections.”
“Each death is an immense tragedy – it is terrible to see so many people die. But there are many other aspects to consider when evaluating a unique approach – for example, the damage that is caused socially in the long term,” he added.
Thinking about what the long-term effects of doing the whole lockdown thing may be before putting it in place sounds like the common sense thing to do, but most countries went straight into full lockdown mode and forced everyone to live like prisoners in their own homes in an attempt to prevent very old people from dying.
Western governments claim to have not thought of and not cared about the fallout from these decisions, saying the only thing that mattered to them was saving the elderly. We already knew, from Chinese and Italian data, that most deaths were very old people who were already quite sick, yet governments chose to ignore the data and proceeded to force people into some weird “house arrest with supermarket visits” thing.
This obsessive focus on the short-term, on counting daily deaths, and having weekly death tolls, is preventing many from seeing that anyone who can die of coronavirus is going to die from coronavirus or something else (like the flu of previous years) anyway. What this means is that the currently lower death toll of Sweden’s Nordic neighbors is going to increase once people start moving around normally.
Just like everywhere that did the lockdown, hospitals in Sweden were never overwhelmed, and everyone who needed treatment got treatment.
(We should however mention that because hospitals were not closed to all non-corona, non-emergency patients, the staffs of hospitals in Sweden did not have time to record choreographed TikTok videos, which some will no doubt look at as a failure of the Swedish system.)
Sweden did not produce an army of TikTok nurses, leaving many to believe they failed their nation.
When hospitals are not overwhelmed, and everyone gets treatment, what determines if people die from coronavirus or not are things such as age and underlying health conditions. There’s nothing magical about spending weeks or months locked inside your house that’s going to protect you from the virus because eventually, once you leave your home, you’ll be exposed to the virus.
But it seems that governments outside Sweden don’t want people to know that. For some reason, they keep pushing the Doom Virus hysteria, and they keep talking about everyone needing to stay home until they can vaccinate the entire planet. One has to ask though, what happens after that? Even if they vaccinated people against coronavirus, new viruses could continue to appear out of nowhere, just like coronavirus, and they’d have already set the precedent that viruses are enough reason to take away everyone’s rights.
JS: To repeat for Kdog, Alba, and Maj – OF COURSE there’s going to be a spike as we open up. As Anglin says, everyone who can get it is going to get it. So the bad numbers of Sweden compared to her neighbors will even out quite a bit. The difference is he saved their economy and their dignity – that’s why men are getting his face tatooed on their arms. They will come out Way Ahead in the end – at least in the minds of the people who count.
Get a look at him – he even seems like a normal guy which is very rare now in the white collar professions. Seriously, if he has this kind of clarity, resilience against criticism, and will power, he should run for President and save Sweden from Feminism and Islam.
Anders, Anglin, Elon, Janos, Akmo, and Thwack: All Apes together, strong.
Do you have Mr. Musk’s permission for inclusion in the Nut Job Squad?
“To repeat for Kdog, Alba, and Maj – OF COURSE there’s going to be a spike as we open up. ”
Why are you telling me this as if I didn’t know it was highly likely?
Not absolutely predictable because nothing is in this context, but highly likely?
I am quite agnostic on the lockdown – or rather the various lockdowns. I said a couple of blogs ago that I was sympathetic to Dr Giesecke’s position, but of course you won’t have read that, or you’ll have read it with your blinkers on.
I also mentioned that Sweden never remained entirely ‘open’. Universities and upper schools closed, and many parents with younger children have kept them off school anyway. And, at the point when I made my point, Sweden had suffered a loss in GDP similar to that of the UK. They have the same problems as anywhere else, because they’re having to space out tables in restaurants and cafés, added to which lots of people are forgoing the pleasure of mixing socially, lockdown or no lockdown.
The reason I remain agnostic is because I don’t consider ‘one solution for all’ to be necessarily wise. Rio is currently cracking under the strain. Lombardy had to send critically sick patients by helicopter to other regions of Italy, then eventually to Germany, because they were acutely over capacity.
I’m aware not all countries have identical healthcare systems, and what might work in a system that has lots of extra capacity in normal times might not work in one that operates a much tighter ship. And it’s not just about physical beds. The UK, for example, was short of 40,000 nurses before this even started (Brexit naturally didn’t help), so there was no spare capacity.
If you move a theatre nurse to a critical care unit, you haven’t acquired an extra nurse (I know maths isn’t your strong point) – you’ve just made it harder to do surgical operations, which is also a major risk if you’re in a Covid-rich hospital in the first place.
Some note, Sweden 4000 dead, Finland 200-500.
I am note sure what to make of this.
I found this and consider it thought provoking,
Their bio lab’s release of this Covid plague may have just been gross negligence, but when they sealed off Wuhan from the rest of Red China but kept the Wuhan international flights flying, that was an intentional act….just as their attempt to gobble up the entire world’s stock of Protective Equipment was intentional.
They’ve clearly dealt a deadly blow to the US and the World….inflicting sickness, death and near financial ruin around the globe. And, now, they have the gall to threaten us with nukes?
Joe, who is indebted to Red China because of the more than a Billion Dollars they invested through his son, Hunter! With them making Nuclear threats against us, the last thing we need is Kow Tow Joe.
Yet kids do better than anyone with this. Oh well, a few cracks in an otherwise stellar program.
Yes, different countries have different strengths. Denmark caught it very early and was able to isolate the actual vectors. There was never a chance of us doing that given how we are the capital of the world and thus Open for all business, fair and foul.
Our medical system here was never overwhelmed – except by an unrelenting media campaign of hype. You didn’t get this a few weeks ago at least when you said the empty Field Hospital in Seattle was dismantled to go elsewhere. It didn’t go anywhere. It and others like it were simply not needed. And the exhausted nurses weeping on camera could have shared their shifts with some of the many nurses who were laid off in the non-Covid hospitals, strictly ignored by the media.
Now this kind of isolation makes sense in terms of keeping the disease away from other kinds of patients. But the media used his humble fact to create a towering pile of rubbish; to help nourish their narrative of Panic and Disaster; and secondarily, to help create the new Cult of Nurses, prefigured in the opening ritual of 2012 Olympics in London.
The Hospital Ship, the Comfort, based off of New York, did help but it never reached capacity. And again, many hospitals were laying off nurses there. They could also have made a few more hospitals into “Covid Hospitals”. That would have been another way of dealing with it – but of course that wouldn’t have helped the narrative of Crisis, right?
“And the exhausted nurses weeping on camera could have shared their shifts with some of the many nurses who were laid off in the non-Covid hospitals, strictly ignored by the media.”
I didn’t see any weeping nurses here – apart from the one exasperated early on by the fact that when she came off an exhausting 12-hour shift there was no food in the supermarket because of the selfish hoarders.
However, sharing the shifts is exactly what happened here. Theatre nurses were rapidly retrained and moved to critical care. You can do that kind of thing when everyone’s working for the same regional NHS Trust. Some NHS hospitals even bought the whole of the capacity of a nearby private hospital for the duration, so that they could carry out surgical operations and other interventions in a safer, hopefully Covid-free environment. Needless to say, that meant giving the ’empty wards’ brigade more to whinge about because they didn’t know the surgical patients were being cared for elsewhere.
Here’s something for you & Marjella – a superior species laughing at human stupidity.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1261924934453850112
Italian parliament member, Sara Cunial said in session, Gates should be arrested for crimes against humanity.
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2020/05/16/bomb-dropped-in-italian-parliament/
Video and transcript of at least part of it is here.
News – “Nut Job Says Something Ridiculous in Public” (yawn)
Thank You, Janos this is a very amusing find.
The real goal of all of this is total control. Absolute domination of human beings, transformed into guinea pigs and slaves, violating sovereignty and free will.
That about sums it up. Of course she be crazy but like a football stadium filled with typing chihuahuas; given enough time, great truths will be hammered out.
Bill Gates out for absolute domination, that is funny. Cracks me up. The next thing you will probably tell us is that Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. That would be funny too.
chihuahuas. Given enough time, great truths will be hammered out.
Forgive me David Foster Wallace for I have sinned.
And here is more Swedish news
Outside Stockholm, pretty 17 yo blondy Wilma Anderson ‘lost her head’ over esteemed Iraqi refugee Tishko Ahmed Shabazz. No, literally, she lost her head, as he decapitated her and wrapped her head in aluminum foil.
Its comical reading Swedish news reports on this case, twisting themselves up like pretzels, describing Shabazz as a young man, Wilmas boyfriend, a jilted lover etc, never mentioning his name, religion, or refugee status.
Sweden is feminized and PC, and young Swedes, boys and girls, are paying the price with their blood.
Brh
Some shit, Brh. And there’s more.
Look at what these stupid Swedes are doing to themselves. Trust them on their approach to covid as they chip away at themselves?
Not a chance.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/id-wallet-keys-all-in-your-hand-sweden-moves-into-the-future-with-microchipping-71200837625
Chip, chip, hooray! Chip, chip, hooray!
The End is near. Nearer than you think.
Something tells me in Sweden, Elsa and Sven will be lined up around the block, eager to be chipped, however …
… when it comes to implanting chips in the hands of Shabazz and Mustafa, in Muslim majority Malmo, and in Muslim ‘No Go’ zones in Gothenburg and Stockholm, it will be a different story, and Sweden’s feminized PC police will be greeted with Kalashnikovs, Molotov Cocktails and fragmentation grenades ( which they seem to have plenty of)
Brh
One theory is that as Sweden is lost, the virus is welcome.
The old are most resistant to Islamic Sweden and
the virus helps end the pension crisis, they died.
2 birds, one stone.
I’m an early riser.
gosh–you posts seem more like Janos every week.
Coming up on 100,000 dead Americans in the Trrump Pandemic. I’m sure Trump will start Trump Care to help all the Americans he has sickened. I’m sure all the elderly in the nursing homes are feeling quite confient with his leadership. I’m sure that in his mind, America loves him. I’m sure.
Yes he has personally made at least 100k Americans mentally ill why even you.
Confusing death with mental illness. That is a very interesting confusion. Kind of a head-scratcher. I think I will make myself very sleepy if I think about the irony of this too much.
Try as you might you can’t quite read the Post I responded to.
Read it several times so you can wrap you mind around why I posted as I did.
Trust me it will sink in eventually.
All you needed was a little punctuation, benr (as I’ve said before if memory serves):
“Yes he has personally made at least 100k Americans mentally ill why even you.”
Yes, [and] he has personally made at least 100k Americans mentally ill. Why, even you.
@majella
Thanks but as Janos suggested a healthy mind is capable of filling in the blanks punctuation grammar spelling missing or extra letters the mind over comes.
If it can’t then someone has become to rigid and set in their ways.
You are going to have a hell of time with the next several text heavy generations who abbreviate words use no punctuation at all and don’t care about spelling.
Words convey meaning. Punctuation mediates that meaning.
Can you tell the difference in meaning, as mediated by a comma:
“Hey, let’s eat Grandma!”
“Hey, let’s eat, Grandma!”
‘
Try as you might you can’t quite read the Post I responded to.
Do you want everyone to know you are keylogging me? Be more careful.
I already knew about it.
I love the Jello has been reduced to trying to correct punctuation on a blog.
HigIQwl:
“I love the Jello has been reduced to trying to correct punctuation on a blog.”
What I find most amusing is just how often HigIQwl cannot resist any opportunity to throw a “bully swagger” at me.
How needy. How sad. What a wanker.
Many Latin women get really horny when they think of Che Guevara.
I read “The Bolivian Diary of Che Guevara”. Strange book. In the book, Che Guevara didn’t seem to spend a lot of time in the Andean villages politicizing and organizing the peasants. A lot of time was spent surviving and evading the Bolivian Army. Che talks a lot about trying to build the mystique and “Legend” of the gorilla army. The C..IA eventually hunted him down and killed him in Bolivia.
The CBS News blokes refer to Che Guevara as an economist. I thought that Che was a physician? What kind of a medical doctor smokes cigars?
I wonder if there will be an American Che Guevara who will emerge in the US to become the leader of the Gringo Working Class?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xELHGR_ur0Q
You know about Tania if you know about the diary. Che did not want to believe she had been killed.
It’s funny because Che seems like the only nice one in that bunch with that smile and his casual demeanor. He seems like he has a sense of humor and personality and comes across as relatable.
John Lee Anderson’s biography of Che is one of the best books I ever read. I know I got the spelling right because I just looked at my bookshelf.
You are right. Che had a sense of humor and was relatable. He was totally dedicated to his cause. Sartre called Che the most complete man he had ever met. Che wanted to make things happen in this world and he made things happen. Che in that sense was complete and deserves respect.
Sartres’ comment is often watered down to mean that they aligned in political philosophy. That being Marxism. That is disingenuous. Sartre was commenting on the quality of the man which was 100%.
Marxism brings up Uncle Karl so things will probably go sideways now. A variation of Godwin’s law.
Che would go from casual to intense as the situation dictated.
Didn’t Che’ personally execute 19 Cuban soldiers with his Makorov TT semi auto pistol?
Che was a doosh.
Unlikely, Che presided over about 500 hundred trials to make sure evidence was permitted and a defense if any was properly documented.
Batista had a bad habit of dumping the bodies of young men who disagreed with him in village squares after his police tortured them to death. There were many who were complicit in this and evidence was ubiquitous.
That evidence was properly presented and then the bastards were properly executed. Che was the judge making sure judgement was distributed with justice. There was nothing random about the executions. If there was not overwhelming evidence about you being a murdering bastard you were safe. If you were a serial rapist who used government connections to consume little girls goodbye to you.
Che was the judge and would not have sullied himself with the execution of a dirtbag so BRH you can take a flying fuck at the moon. Your story is impossible. In battle Che was fearless and many of his men owed him their lives. Literally.
I do recall he did executed one or two of his own men who were found to be traitors but that would have been while the revolution was going on. Yes!! — Writing that last sentence jogged my memory.
There was someone who’s job it was to get supplies or who was more loosely connected to the Sierra Maestra rebels. I am not remembering that part so clearly but this person had for sure been giving info about rebel movements and plans to the Cuban Army. A trial was held by the rebel leadership when this was discovered and a death sentence was passed.
Then nobody had the balls to shoot the bastard and Mr authentic man, our hero said ‘what the fuck is up with this’.
Pulling his gun from his belt he walked up to the man and shot him in the forehead.
Then did he turn around and say to everybody. Get back to work? I doubt it. Nobody can be that authentic. I would have been very pissed and I think Che was very pissed too.
Surrounded by pussies who talked the talk but did not walk the walk Che had to be pissed. Why should he have to always be the one to do all the dirty work. It had to piss him off but Che knew this ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around. He was a leader and leaders led.
Something modern America knows nothing about.
KDFP
He was also a mass murderer and a psychopath so yea if you respect such then I guess you have nothing but glowing compliments for every tin pot dictator ever.
Did you know that Fidel had been a movie extra in Hollywood?
Che killed many in Cubas gulags. Even killed a small boy for taking food.
Ches real name is Ernesto Lynch [his Irish heritage]..doesnt sound so special..not much of a ring to it..Ernie Lynch.
Today is the birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh. Happy Birthday Malcolm! Happy Birthday Uncle Ho!
Have you ever noticed that Malcolm X looks like Ho Chi Minh?
Lol I just googled their pictures and they do not look alike lol :-).
Are you kidding me?!
I was trying to find a picture where they were side by side. Oh well I can’t find one right now.
I went out twice during the lockdown wearing a mask and avoiding contact with people. From what I observed, almost no one was wearing a mask or observing Social Distancing. The weekend traffic was about half of “normal”. I don’t think that the Americans ever really “Locked Down”? Strange society….
“ The United States has not crushed its case load in the way the Koreans, Taiwanese, Singaporeans, Chinese, Irish, Australians or Germans have. There are two reasons for this.
First, the American lockdown was not nearly as stringent as most other countries. Most other countries prevented infected individuals from returning home where they might infect their family members. Such family-to-family transmissions in China were responsible for 80% of infections.
Second, the United States entered the epidemic later than other countries, so it enacted lockdowns later and so saw its case loads drop later. Belgium and Italy and France and Spain – the four hardest-hit European states – all entered the epidemic earlier than the United States, and yet the United States is loosening its lockdown earlier than the Europeans.
That means America’s “second wave” of infections will be nothing of the sort, because the “first wave” was never crushed down. The “first wave” will simply have been a step up in caseloads. America’s lockdown only reduced active cases by about one-quarter instead of the 85%+ necessary to truly crush the virus, and so the “second wave” will now begin from an already-elevated case load.
This removes the United States from the list of countries including China and Korea and Germany which have largely removed the virus from their populations, and instead shifts it to a list of countries including Brazil and India and Nigeria where coronavirus is now endemic.
And that changes the path of the pandemic and its impacts on a global scale.”
I’m not sure what about this virus I believe anymore. For all we know it may not even be real. Anyhow, in the modern way of looking at the world aren’t we supposed to be happy to be like Brown and Black countries rather than like White or Asian countries? We are supposed to wish we could be half as awesome as Nigeria, India, or Brazil. Right? Being like Korea would be too close to being White and we absolutely can’t go there now can we.
“For all we know it may not even be real. ”
Indeed. The over 120 British health workers who’ve died while treating ‘Covid’ patients just had a bad cold. Happens all the time with doctors covered in gowns, masks, visors and two pairs of gloves. You get a cold, sneeze in their general direction and they drop like flies. Dead. Even after decades of working with sick people.
Well, I think it is a real virus, but not something all that mysterious. The timing is most curious given that it arrived when lots of people get flus/corona viruses and many even keel over from it. I mentioned earlier that my old employer encouraged employees and alumni to get hydroxychoroquine and keep it on hand (The National Academies in DC).
The really interesting part is to ponder what can be done when mainstream media marches in lockstep, printing verifiable bullshit about any number of issues. What could one do with a extensive army of media slaves who lie without conscience?
The scary part is, they could manufacture just about any story and get a decent segment of the population to believe it simply by repetition over thousands of hours and channels.
As you imply on some level, they would not even need an actual virus.
“I mentioned earlier that my old employer encouraged employees and alumni to get hydroxychoroquine and keep it on hand ”
You didn’t just ‘mention’ it – you stated unequivocally that it was ‘entirely safe’, which my husband can assure you from his 40-odd years of medical practice is absolute rubbish.
Likewise the families of the Vets who were the basis of the American research, who will probably have read the results I gave you above, that 28% of their Covid cohort given hydroxychloroquine died, as did 22% of those given hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin (the holy grail according to the Marseille chap), as against only 11% of those who weren’t given either.
But carry on ignoring it.
Yes, I will ignore it.
Thank you for admitting your low IQ.
And for doing it so publicly.
If it is good enough for The National Academies of Sciences and Ronny Jackson, I am not too concerened.
hydroxychoroquine
Sometimes reality is eerie. We all know I hate Trump. But in a very calm way I’ll add. so don’t get your undies in a bunch anybody.
The funny thing is one of my first teen-age obsessions was tropical fish. I knew that a variety of hydroxychoroquine was used in fish tanks for bacterial and fungus control, stuff like that. I knew about fifty years ago that most medicines did not work on viruses at all and natural immunity was our only defense.
I am pretty sure the hydroxychoroquine packages said so they did not treat viruses. This is not idle speculation. My first job was in a pet shop. The medicine package was specific on what the medicine was used for. I had to know stuff. People did not like getting bad advice and have their animals die. I had to listen to specific symptoms and match up the right medicines.
If you want to stock up on some tetracycline for the end times this comment gives you info about where to get it.
Getting back to Trump. The absurdity of the whole hydroxychoroquine brouhaha is ten times more impactful on me. As a pimply faced teen-ager I knew volumes more about basic medicine and biology than Trump does now or ever did and this does not mean I am smart. It means Trump is an idiot. And it makes me feel a bit ill.
Brilliant. An ‘appeal to authority’ from the smart guy in the room who doesn’t like appeals to authority. And doesn’t like evidence.
Research result: way more people died after being treated with hydroxychloroquine than without hydroxychloroquine.
Conclusion: randomised controlled trials absolutely need to be completed before prescribing this drug widely for Covid19.
Needy Nightowl: (sticks fingers in ears) la la la la la…
Note that the researchers (being higher-IQ than some on here) didn’t say it’s invalid – they said their research showed no advantage to treatment with HC and that randomised trials absolutely had to be completed before it could be recommended to treat Covid19, especially in view of the much higher death rates in patients treated with HC.
Sometimes I think you’ve been stuck in one of those films where the child and the father swap places. It’s not even your agenda – it’s the fact that you pick on individuals and will talk any amount of shite in order to make an attention-seeking comment contradicting evidence they put forward, just because it’s them.
It’s beyond pathetic. What a sad individual.
LOL.
“If it is good enough for The National Academies of Sciences and Ronny Jackson, I am not too concerened.”
https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/use-of-hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine-to-treat-covid-19-based-on-poor-evidence
“Both drugs have been incorporated into some national guidelines to treat COVID-19 in certain situations, despite the lack of rigorous clinical trial data.
Even funnier when you consider all the Institutes of Science worldwide who back AGW, yet bizarrely their authority suddenly means nothing at all against your massive IQ.
LOL.
Did the packet say it was a malaria drug used on humans for generations? Or are you, Kdog, being about as silly as the dummy who drank some and died?
K-Dog
One you might be interested in.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04365309
Could be a daily dispersible ‘baby aspirin’ (with food, natch, especially if you’re female) till this thing’s over could help save you from the worst in case you’re unknowingly pre-symptomatic at some point.
Anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory AND appears to inhibit virus replication. And costs pennies…
I’m recalling the post-Covid guy I saw in the chemist and how he had experienced blood clots in his lungs, spleen and other organs I don’t recall.
Consult your GP first etc. etc. Or just make up your own mind. 🙂 Interesting, anyway.
Send your wall of text to Ronny and my old colleagues.
Might also be time for a hobby.
You’re getting sadder, Needy.
Evidence, dear boy, evidence.
It’s a thing. And much better than name dropping, Needy.
Appealing to Dr Ronny Jackson? You mean the self-prescribing W H doctor with on-the-job drinking issues? THAT Ronny Jackson?
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evqw3w/ronny-jackson-prescribed-himself-drugs-and-had-a-drinking-problem-democrat-says
Oh, and now a ‘high-profile’ Obamagate hysteria disseminator:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/14/politics/ronny-jackson-obama-tweets/index.html
You need to be a little more selective in your ‘authorities’.
“Brilliant. An ‘appeal to authority’ from the smart guy in the room who doesn’t like appeals to authority. And doesn’t like evidence”
GA, HigIQwl only likes ‘evidence’ that he can demand while being fully aware that the person from whom it is demanded is not in the position of an investigative journalist or prosecutor.
Interestingly, some recent posts from HigIQwl imply that he is, in fact, BOTH of these things. Yet when asked for evidence on anything (be it ‘Obamagate’ or Hydroxychloroquine) he has nothing to offer…tattered Twitter posts & bedraggled #hashtags.
Incidentally, with his being an editor extraordinaire, it’s refreshing to see the odd typo get past his steely gaze. (‘concerened’)
The scary part is, they could manufacture just about any story and get a decent segment of the population to believe it simply by repetition over thousands of hours and channels.
And people really are that dumb. Sad but true.
“More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.” lasted 6 years.
The un-examined life is not worth living and these days even an examined life is having serious issues. But once you get the hang of what is going on with the endless repetition it starts to piss you off. That is not immunity but it at least warns if you pay attention and notice.
Pay attention to the stories that are being pushed at you. They are not pushed at you to inform or teach. In American media that intent is rare. Stories are pushed to persuade manipulate and control.
Saying people really are that dumb is a bit cruel of me and in defense of humanity we hunger for stories because that is how we make sense of the world. That we make mistakes and at times are as dumb as a board about it is only because we crave explanations with a raw hunger and the hunger can get the better of us. We are naturally trusting and that simple fact of our nature is easily exploited by those among us who dedicate themselves to deception.
When the lizard people arrived they knew they had found a good thing and they prospered.
I’m not sure what about this virus I believe anymore. For all we know it may not even be real.
Do you really want to put that out there?
I could be adversarial and appeal to those strange things called facts but why bother. In the face of fact inflation facts are ignored.
A few minutes ago I wrote to you about Che.
I am not sure what about _______ I believe anymore is not being a complete person. Sartre does not approve.
Reality is complicated and every changing, like the viruses than themselves. They are protean, like the God, Proteus. We must become more protean to deal with them and those, like Gates, who trade in them.
Stop thinking of him as just a scumbag IT mogul. Disease has been his main business for over a decade now.
Well I guess I should have said “for all I know”. Because I’m not really sure. I’m not a doctor or a virologist and I don’t know anyone who has had it personally so to accept the reality of it I have to believe what I am being told one way or the other. And since it isn’t around me it doesn’t seem real. But life is not static so that could change too and then what’s real would seem different too.
Greg Johnson said there were more than thirty different versions of the disease. Dr Miskovits said, It wasn’t created, but it was played with. Now bring these two thoughts streams together.
So just maybe: the disease started spreading in China. With this as cover, they released the enhanced version. Also factor in the natural capacity viruses have to mutate. Add in the Global Agenda of getting it all spread all over the globe via the Chinese diaspora.
As far as the damage done: factor in the age of the various national populations. Italy is the oldest country in the world. Maybe they got a bad version of the virus too, but the first factor alone might account for their death rate. And they have a lot of Chinese people in the north which was hardest hit.
All by accident? With the Global Elite first to respond, eager to not waste a long awaited disease crisis? Maybe – but I can’t get past Event 201 six weeks before the main festivities began. Maybe the natural disease was already around the Globe but then they released the big guns and declared a crisis.
That’s good. We should not get past Event 201. I think they always count on us getting past things and going back to sleep.
That means America’s “second wave” of infections will be nothing of the sort, because the “first wave” was never crushed down.
I suggest surge is the more appropriate word.
Pucker,
And that changes the path of the pandemic and its impacts on a global scale.
That is ominous. If the germ pool of Americans matches the global south but not the rest of the first and formerly first world nations. Western civilization splits in a sense.
This could be like back in 393. In 393 two years before his death, Emperor Flavius Theodosius divided the Roman Empire into two parts.
Same thing could be happening now and it looks like we will be stuck in the bad half. The half that does not last long.
Appropriate corrective action needs to be taken.
“Same thing could be happening now and it looks like we will be stuck in the bad half. ”
Well, maybe. But I will be stuck in the bad half with a goddamned Dodge Cummins diesel.
With grass for gas.
“With grass for gas.”
Yep, just like my uncle’s draft horses.
Dog,
Country boys will survive…Diesel stores well…15+ years.
“Grass, Gas or Ass. Nobody rides for free”
Bumper sticker seen on back of a truck parked at Poppa Wheeliez.
If you go, don’t order a Manhattan, or a Cosmopolitan.
Brh
And definitely not a Howdy Doody.
Well our Southern Border is typically wide open. And we are getting their many diseases now as well. Why wouldn’t we? And no one seems to care since only the lowest of the low believes in borders and nations now, certainly when it comes to Whites!
I always liked this guy. Eddie Haskell. won’t be down for breakfast. Left the Beaver to be on “Petticoat Junction” with Sleepy Uncle Joe Movin kinda slow.
Shot 5 times on the job.at 1:30 minutes in.
Osmond joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 and grew a mustache to be less recognizable. In 1980, Osmond was shot in a chase with a suspected car thief, though he was saved by his bulletproof vest. He was put on disability and retired from the force in 1988.
I’ve never been shot while wearing a vest but I have seen the bruises. I imagine it feels like someone hitting you in the sternum with a three lb. Stanley ball peen hammer.
really? I didnt notice him on PJ. [a really dumb show].
Malthuss,Come on ‘Man the chicks are sweet 40 seconds on the tube. You gotta love those southern chicks. Especially Texas girls.
I liked Betty jo. Was that the brunette?
Looks to be a surgical strike. Is it joy I feel? It was fun fighting with him but there was no give and take, as there is with a regular person as opposed to a hardened partisan. It was just showing his absurdity to other people since he would never acknowledge being wrong or even respond to actual arguments.
First amendment issues? Do infiltrators have individual rights? Or the Corporations who fund them?
He was here to troll not exchange ideas or even have a fair discussion,
I suspect Jim concluded the guy was a plant.
No worries if he was he will be back in anew form as that is how Legion works.
YouTube and Facebook’s anti-truth filters were reverse engineered, optimized for Newspeak and applied to the blog. As a result, his posts have disappeared.
“I imagine it feels like someone hitting you in the sternum with a three lb. Stanley ball peen hammer.”
Saint,
Yes, enormous, ugly bruises…sometimes broken bones.
Vests did not exist when I was on the OPD.
OUCH! my man, A plate but who wants to wear one when it is 90 degrees F. I knew medics that worked part time in the ghetto that wore them with the kevlar. but it totally sucks. Especially since the gansters can’t shoot straight and are bound to hit ya’ in the head anyway.
Well they hold their stolen 9mm semi autos sideways, making it hard to aim.
IT behooves me, Impeach, Impeach, Impeach, What the flying fuck? I thought we had a pandemic going on? C’mon man.. Get with the program. We are all going to die for Christ Sakes!
Had a 22 round ricochet when I was 12 and it hit me in the leg.
Got to say it stung like a red hot needle.
It did not penetrate to far so I was able to remove it with tweezers.
Made me more careful to ensure what I was shooting at had no rocks behind it.
That happened to Hemingway, same thing, ricochet .22 to the leg.
Colt Woodsman. How about you, Ben?
Benr did you seem my post above about the surfer who got ate by the shark? Is that something you worry about? Or so rare not to mention?
I responded and no I don’t worry about them at all until I see them, I then calmy paddle in and get out of their way without appearing to be prey.
I have surfed all over the globe and in some of the sharkiest areas.
Been very close to large Tiger sharks in hawaii one at Sandy Beach the locals named and was 15-18′ they just put their feet up when he glides by.
I got out of the water when I saw him,/her.
Surfed all over the bay area saw huge elephant seals with enormous bite radiuses out of them still bleeding out and twitching as I exited the water just before dark and thought whoops stayed out to long.
Had many encounters with various sharks in Florida and Panama up to and including being bumped.
Was bumped by a very large something outside of Mission beach jetty on my SUP. Hard enough it launched me a couple feet in the air and when I hat the water I guess I scared it and it took off.
To be honest I am more afraid of sting rays as they have stung me five times in my life four of them in the last year.
Grabbed these buried posts from above.
Yea he was hit at Manresa a known sharky spot right smack dab in the southerner end of the red triangle.
I used to surf there, moss landing, davenport landing, scotts creek, greyhound rock steamer lane, three mile, four mile, and wadell creek.
I was in the water an hour before at Davenport when someone was attacked I noticed a fisherman steaming buy cutting up fish and tossing the heads and guts in the water so I got out.
A couple of months later another guy got hit at a place called water falls a mile or so up the road from scotts creek while I was in the water. A cop bull horned me to get out. The weird part is it went from crowded to empty and I failed to notice. my spidey sense was not as attuned to things as some of the locals.
As I said a life without chances taken is no life.
benr
May 19, 2020 at 1:04 pm #
The two attacks happened really close to each other July and October of 91.
http://www.sharkattackdata.com/place/united_states_of_america/california
Surfing is far safer than crossing the street or driving.
I wound up slowly collecting various .22’s over they years.
The one that bit me was my uncles and I have no clue what it was. i just knew I wanted to shoot it and did thankfully he never found out I “borrowed” it.
I have a colt woodsman .22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Woodsman
A ruger 10/22 long rifle.
https://ruger.com/products/1022/overview.html
Remington target master 510-x super accurate bolt action run 10’s opf thousadns of rounds through.
https://simpsonltd.com/remington-targetmaster-model-510x/
Browning Buckmark
https://www.browning.com/products/firearms/pistols/buck-mark-pistols.html
Stevens model 125 this one I had not realized was so old till now.
https://www.gunvaluesboard.com/stevens-model-125-22-caliber-bolt-action-single-shot-rifle-12440438.html
And my pride and joy the worst hand gun produced,
Rohm RG-10 in .22
https://www.gunsamerica.com/920408966/Rohm-22-Short-model-RG10-Revolver-2-7-8-inch-6-Shot-German-made-1968-Side-Loader-Rod-Missing-1968-Manufacture-C-R-Status-on-1-1-2018.htm
I won’t even load this turd and I filed the firing pin down so no one could ever shoot it.
Phew! Nice detailed posts my friend.
I thought I pretty much knew most of the brands, models and manufacturers of .22 hand guns, but the Rohm escaped me. Nice novelty piece tho.
Washington Examiner, Spencer Neale
A top lawyer who defended President Trump during his Senate impeachment trial believes the Constitution grants the government “power” to vaccinate citizens against their will.
Speaking with Crowdsource the Truth host Jason Goodman over the weekend, Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz said the public’s safety outweighs any private liberty concerns of U.S. citizens who do not wish to be vaccinated for the coronavirus.
“Let me put it very clearly, you have no constitutional right to endanger the public and spread disease, even if you disagree,” he said. “You have no right not to be vaccinated, you have no right not to wear a mask, you have no right to open up your business.”
Goodman interjected to clarify whether Dershowitz was saying the federal government has the ability to mandate vaccinations for all citizens.
“Absolutely,” Dershowitz replied. “And if you refuse to be vaccinated, the state has the power to literally take you to a doctor’s office and plunge a needle into your arm.”
The lawyer said that U.S. residents don’t have a right to infect others and that if they wish to opt-out of vaccination, they could be given an alternative in which people rejecting the state mandate could remain in their homes permanently so as not to risk infecting others.
“That’s what a democracy is about,” he said. “If the majority of the people agree and support that, for public health measures, you have to be vaccinated, you have to be vaccinated. They should give you an alternative. The alternative is to live in your home, don’t get vaccinated, but never ever leave your home or live in a bubble. But if you want to interact with other people, you cannot become Typhoid Mary. The Constitution doesn’t give you the right to spread your illness to other people.”
Dershowitz argued that healthcare workers and officials forcibly vaccinating the public through a legislative and judicial process that comes to a consensus on widespread vaccination is the best defense against the spread of disease.
On Friday, President Trump announced “Operation Warp Speed,” which, in part, created a vaccination initiative with a stated “goal” of producing 300 million coronavirus vaccines by January 2021.
JS: Dershowitz protocols! Thank God we live in a Republic not a Democracy – or we were supposed to at least. But do we? Because Democracy is just two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
The Constitution doesn’t say anything about it per se. But it does focus on individual rights and restricting the Government. And traditionally, forced vaccination has not been popular.
Who are these people? I thought at one point Alan Dershowitz was reasonable but he sounds more like a monster. And supposedly he has a connection to Epstein. I don’t respect his opinions anymore.
Trump is going to need the Army for this. Now he will he declare Martial Law – for this and for Them? When he wouldn’t do it before, for Us?
It’s unfathomable but I’m not feeling good about it. Some people say he is doing these things to bring the real fanatics out into the open and get them exposed. I suppose that could be happening to some degree but again I just have so little faith now in that sort of thing. And if he is doing that will people listen and respond in kind in November to make sure such people can’t hold office?
Who cares why he does it. It will be fun. Your kind of thing for sure.
the No agenda guys talked at length about this.
Say what you the conspiracy guys make more and more sense and the big government lovers who pontificate at length about tin foil hat wearers look more and more foolish and unbelievable by the day.
Oh my:
The “Political” use of the phrase “Never let a good crisis go to waste” is based upon the points made in Saul Alinsky’s rules for radicals,
Using for ones advantage any crisis real or created is a common tool used by those waging Political warfare.
When used in this way, crisis and its amplification as “thinking and acting as a group”, is no longer a tactic of protest but instead a tactic of subversion, used to bring about totalitarian government control, Socialism or Communism.
That is a good point, Benr — particularly as everything is now politicized.
Once, a long time ago I was at a party that Dershowitz was attending as well. He was after this pretty girl who I could tell didn’t want any attention from him. As she walked away, I protected her by hanging out with her for a long time. Dershowitz kept walking by us to see if I was about to leave her, so he could step in. I didn’t and he eventually left the party.
Bill 1, Dersh 0.
Question: What if a new, highly contagious pandemic arises that kills 80% of those who get it. As hundreds of thousands, even millions of people die from the disease, the government mandates that anyone going outside must wear a mask. Would you support this rule or not? Not a trick question, no right or wrong, just wondering about your thoughts on the matter.
Masks that stop the disease or hijabs, tokens of submission to the Global State?
In Heinlein’s Time Line, people were given the option of signing the Covenant. Those who didn’t had to go off World or onto the Reservation. The best people didn’t sign.
In one story, the philosophical young criminal lets the Court have it, calling them hypocrites, wimps, and degenerates. The Judge responded well, Asking will you hear me? The young man reluctantly assented. “There is danger in the Mountains of the Moon and adventure out among the mines of the asteroids. If you want those things, go there – but do not force your violent ways on us!
The young man was sentenced to the Reservation. He had a travel machine and all kinds of goodies for homesteading. He was optimistic about meeting people of like mind. A half mile in he was robbed of most of his stuff by “tax collectors”! Later he met a military agent who was undercover on the Reservation: they were planning an attack against the outside United States. He told him that of course the best and smartest people never signed – and some of the most dangerous of them were on the reservation, working on a high tech weapon of mass destruction. The Revolt was put down and the young man taken under the wing of the Agent, probably joining the Off World Forces.
“Re: Forced Vaccinations: “My body, my choice” Sound familiar or is there an echo in this room?
If my mask doesn’t protect me from you then it doesn’t protect you from me either. If a does not equal b then b does not equal a.
Grey area? Ok, it might catch the water droplets coming out. But as soon as I assert my First Amendment rights to speech, my wind will dry the droplets sending the freed viruses out as so many missiles towards the mouths of the enemy. Or will gravity immediately down them? How heavy are they per cubic nanometer? What is their specific weight?
So here comes the excuses like diarrhea splattering the news feeds.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/why-the-cdcs-coronavirus-data-is-so-bad/ar-BB14iPcF?ocid=spartanntp
Classic.
A belated thank you to GA for the interesting link to Transition Town Kinsale.
Yeah I was wondering if anybody is still dying from the regular flu? Or are all deaths now caused by Covid-19. High strangeness on the homefront, my place here was part of a 600 acre farm that was in the same family 1736-1956. I have the high ground that was the apple orchard, and indeed, there are a few apple trees extant. The main farmhouse, an old colonial, still exists and it was bought by a heart surgeon about 10 years ago, who did a nice job restoring the place. We hardly ever saw him, he was in such demand he was always off in Hartford, NY or Boston playing his trade. But since April 1 it seems like he’s home every day. We asked him what’s up and he told us no more heart surgeries except in the most dire emergencies. Apparently there aren’t that many emergencies because he’s home right now. At any rate on Saturday a semi pulled up and dropped off a pretty big boat, almost like a yacht, in the field by his house. We walked down to check it out. He said he got a good deal on it but had to have it dropped off at his house because the marina is closed on the Sound, he’ll have it towed down there when things open up. It’s like towing a f#kkn Destroyer. Meanwhile its sitting in the middle of a field, still on a trailer. That’s quarantine, baby!
Brh
I know of a few cruise ships he could buy at rock-bottom prices. Or maybe get a good deal on an oil tanker.
Hey Bill pretty good Boston story.
Still you have to admit Dershowitz is a pretty interesting character. Maybe not a ladies man tho LoL.
I love the way you focus on the important issues. Not only today but when I was talking about degree of race mixing, you related how you got to see Charles Bronson’s tomb. How do you sum things up so succinctly?
And out by Palm Springs, there are 1000s of nice cars, all available.
Hertz is going belly up.
I saw that on JB.
Thing is with Jeremiah Babe, he spells out the dire predicament we’re in, but in the background is some beautiful SoCal town, palm trees, blue sky, green grass … and the fact that Babe himself is an engaging guy, things don’t look that bad.
Brh
You mentioned a beheading.
I walked by a [Lutheran?] church and saw signs,
‘Blessed Ramadan.’
check this,
https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/features/chhapaak-actor-vikrant-massey-reacts-controversial-tik-tok-video-promoting-acid-attack/
plying
Americans should tax the rich like they were all born again Communistic Fidel Castros plural, and also demonopolize the monopolies like the telecoms & Amazon et al.
The SARS-2-nCov-19 deadly pathogen will not genocide enough people to make the macroeconomy flowing again. American trade wars have sealed the fate of American commerce going forward as there are now few sovereign nations willing to go along with USA deep state jockeying for USD supremacy once again. Hegemony will either go to China or the USA will be eliminated entirely via unilateralism via trade with China.
The USA is NOT a global manufacturer anymore and most world nations need a strong manufacturing economy to facilitate trade flows globally.
President Trump came on the scene with grandiose delusions of grandeur with his MAGA rhetoric that quickly turned to aggressive war planning & posturing otherwise known as the cold war returned.
The world does not want American leadership running world affairs anymore IMHO. What is certain to manifest is kinetic war likely in the South China Sea.
Baltic regions are not fortified enough to take on Russian Federation so that China only has to wait out the USA positioning for another round at global governance & hegemonic leadership.
In this light Trump destroyed America & global business of state.
Vote Democrat to turf the incompetent Republican Party planners that can’t plan a smoothly running popcorn stand in the greatest venue on Earth.
Throw the bums out this electoral round, Jim.
And move over to the Democrats too, eh.
RW
The Earth’s response to COVID-19 has set back any alien attempts to communicate with us 10,000 years
There’s plenty of aliens crossing over our borders every day.
If we did not have ubiquitous communications and if their universal translator was not so good they would be wondering why dynamics on the ground have changed so much. All their eyes in the sky have noted our economic slowdowns and the men who have nothing better to do than complain and stand on stone steps at state capitals.
And aliens have taken samples of the virus. Count on it. The final wave really might come from a lab. Theirs.
It is a goddamn good thing for us they have uncontrolled responses to human porn. When greys watch human porn their giant black eyes turn blue and they start to smell funny. They can’t stop watching it. They might break away once or twice but uncontrolled urges make them return to their video screens every time. After one or two break-aways they are finished and don’t have the energy or will to animate themselves away from their infinite jest. They watch their screens until they wither away and die from starvation.
The schism in their politics keeps us save. Some of them want to build a virtual robot wall around our solar system. Robot vaporization of any eye in the sky that shows up to park and peek. Others want to take over. As long as they fight among themselves we are safe.
Biden and Kerry shaking down Poroshenko, making threats RE: Shokin, covering his tracks, etc.
Stuff we already knew to some extent, but the tapes are always handy.
https://twitter.com/DilleyShow/status/1262817602595774464
Massive corruption.
After listening to these tapes, one of the most fascinating aspects is that what Biden did here is exactly what they were trying to accuse Trump of.
Classic projection.
Beyond parody. With the tapes to prove it.
Yep.
Democrats always accuse others of what they are engaging in.
How about a post that is just cool?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/a-superpod-with-over-one-thousand-dolphins-was-spotted-off-the-coast-of-california/vi-BB14jHgz?ocid=spartandhp
Not everything has to be politics or doom and gloom?
Here’s something just as uplifting – Magpies laughing at humans, probably for being so stupid.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1261924934453850112
Here’s a beautiful poem, post WW1, when a young couple was assisted on to new land to break in, as part of the compensation for his four years at war for Old Mother Blighty. Magpies have managed to establish themselves in New Zealand since C1820.
The magpies have a distinctive call, which you’ll have heard in that video (among the least raucous of ‘Strine birds). The poet, Denis Glover, renders it as exquisitely “Quardle-oodle-ardle-wardle-doodle…”
“The Magpies
When Tom and Elizabeth took the farm
The bracken made their bed
and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle
The magpies said
Tom’s hand was strong to the plough
and Elizabeth’s lips were red
and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle
The magpies said
Year in year out they worked
while the pines grew overhead
and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle
The magpies said
But all the beautiful crops soon went
to the mortgage man instead
and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle
The magpies said
Elizabeth is dead now (it’s long ago)
Old Tom’s gone light in the head
and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle
The magpies said
The farm’s still there. Mortgage corporations
couldn’t give it away
and Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle
The magpies say.
I though Tom sold the farm to a China-man and took the money to Vegas? Or was that his neighbor?
thought
Nah…
Tom was too committed to the indentured servitude of a mortgage…and anyway, all the Chinamen around then had made their money in the goldfields (sieving through the tailings of the lazy-arsed whites) and had bought heaps of commercial property in the city! Fuck farming!
Aotearoa is so lucky to have had the British introduce Magpies & Possums. I wonder whether Macropods were included?
There are so many wallabies gone feral on the Isle of Man that they are now a traffic hazard.
And they are endemic on the Wiltshire moorlands, possibly escaped from the Longleat, the mad Marquess’ safari park.
No, but the 30 second commercial for a slots site was excruciating, and as long as the piece re: dolphins.
Yep the wheels are falling off the mask narrative even in progressive San Fransicko.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/san-francisco-wine-bar-admonished-by-sfpd-for-unmasked-crowds-drinking-on-sidewalk/ar-BB14jTY4?ocid=spartandhp
President Trump revealed on Monday that he has been taking Hydroxychloroquine for about two weeks now. He announced today that he will continue taking it, but in a slightly different manner.
After further consultation with the White House Physician, President Trump will begin taking the medication in suppository form for improved distribution throughout the body.
To aid fellow citizens who might wish to emulate the President’s action, directions in application are as follows: Bending over at the waist, place the medication in the proper orifice. Push in with index finger to proper depth. A rule of thumb, so to speak, is about two inches. Allow about two minutes to soak, and then clench buttocks tightly, crushing the capsule and allowing the medication to be absorbed.
What’s Biden taking to keep him alive? Is he still alive?
Bribes.
Upon further reflection, BRH, I have noticed that Trump cultists have lost their sense of humor, as well as the cognitive parts of their brains. I made a stupid joke about about Trump because I think that him taking that pill is silly.
Your first response is to immediately post and attack Biden, assuming that since I’m mocking Trump, that I’m a Biden supporter. The fact is, I dislike him about as much as I dislike Trump. I think he’s just as much a crook as Donny. Like I said: With cultists, the first thing to go is their sense of humor. If you don’t believe it, tell a Scientologist a joke about L Ron Hubbard sometime.
Hear, hear.
You overrate humor. Humor isn’t knowledge or wisdom. It is commonly used to deflect real questions, and if deflector can make others laugh, he thinks he has won the debate. A vulgar attitude.
Some say Jay Leno was forced off Late Night TV because he was waking up, getting more political but in an incorrect, Conservative way.
….or he was just over the hours and just went home to his hundreds of millions of dollars.
Some say – Janos
========
Try to be more specific than ‘some say.’
Try to be more specific than ‘some say.’
Q – what are you expecting? It’s a classic ‘appeal to authority’ i.e. Prez of Us! Even NigIQwl has fallen to it.
“If its’ good enough for xxxx, it’s good enough for me.”
Never forget, the captain has remote viewed The Pee Tapes.
Getting at ths sort of evidence of Drumpf’s criminality takes incalculable brain power.
He is above the fray, except for that part.
The ‘Pee-Pee Tapes’ don’t evidence ‘criminality’, HigIQwl, and no-one has ever said they did/do. Get your memes right FFS.
If they were ever to be actually found (not that it matters – they ‘exist’ in the Zeitgeist anyway, along with the Wall & the invoice to Mexico stamped “Paid in Full”), they would be but one more moment of ‘why am I not surprised?’ to those who wouldn’t buy a $1.50 Made-in-China red hat for $35 (though the colouring-in book for $20 might be a keeper).
Among those who WOULD do as described above, here would be divided views:
Cohort A – “it’s all faked and very disrespectful!”
Cohort B – ” yeah, he sure stuck it that uppity Obama-lizard-guy”
Cohort C – “huh?”
The Pee Pee Tapes exist in the “Zeitgeist,” kids.
Emotional thinking at its finest.
LOL.
remote viewing.
and brain power in the same conversation.
All you need to know about the poster.
or maybe just a poke. if so my apologies
Fuge,
It was a poke based on claims made last week about The Pee Pee Tapes being real and the incident having been “remote viewed” by our mysterious in-house government spymaster.
The CFN McResistance knows everything.
Fronald Drumpf is finished.
“Never forget, the captain has remote viewed The Pee Tapes.”
Oops. High-IQ picks the wrong commenter. Is High-IQ man enough to apologise? Are high-IQ and serviceable memory related? Is having a fragile yet overweening ego the same as being an Alpha male? Would an Alpha male be man enough to apologise? Is concrete evidence as valuable as … ‘look at the clever people I used to work with’?
These and other riveting brain teasers have us all on edge…
I never said I was a ‘spymaster’. I’m above ‘spymaster’ level, frankly.
RW
“Robert White
May 20, 2020 at 10:08 am #
I never said I was a ‘spymaster’. I’m above ‘spymaster’ level, frankly.
RW”
The legend of legion another one with way to high of an opinion of his own opinions.
Sheesh RW come back down from the heavens already I can’t believe you deign to mix with us common folk.
Try a good read hear.
https://summation.net/2019/10/10/over-rating-intelligence-insulting-stupidity-intellectual-bigotry-and-why-the-ivory-tower-insults-successful-people/
That’s ‘too’ instead of ‘to’ for ‘too high of an opinion’ part. And you used the adjective ‘hear’ when you meant the noun ‘here’ instead, bner.
I’m not descending from the ‘heavens’ to inform you of this error in terms of spelling. I’m a CANUCK.
We take the king’s English seriously over here, bner.
Intel too, eh.
RW
“The Pee Pee Tapes exist in the “Zeitgeist,” kids.
Emotional thinking at its finest.”
The “Pee Tapes” MUST be in the Zeitgeist – YOU keep bringing them up…
Is “LOL” an emotional response? I think so. Ipso facto…virtually every post you make is an emotional response. What a wanker.
Capt
Why is it silly? Works as a preventive.
Huh? What works a ‘preventative’? Which study proves this claim?
NY Mayor De Blasio says people can go to the beach and walk or sunbathe, but no swimming!
Say what? What possible rationale could there be for that?
Los Angeles mayor says you can go to the beach, but stay off the dry sand! (Of course, you have to traverse on dry sand to get to the wet sand.)
Has anyone told them the virus dies in fresh air and sunshine?
I have never been particularly patriotic, but I do hate it when America embarrasses itself like this.
Re: no swimming – There’s a desire NOT to put Search & Rescue/Lifeguard people at unnecessary risk of close contact. Sensible. Wait a couple of weeks.
Perhaps there’s a solution, Majella. They could put up huge signs. Americans like huge signs. They could say no kids allowed on the beach without a responsible adult. Responsible adult would mean if you or your kids get into trouble in the water, you’re responsible. As in we’re not providing you with potential mouth-to-mouth or even other close contact in a pandemic, because this is entirely your personal choice and not your work. And one of the lifeguards might have a five-year-old with Type 1 diabetes and a compromised immune system.
That would surely warm the hearts of all those who despise the nanny state and insist on the exercise of personal responsibility and self-reliance.
Could end up a bit Darwin Award-y in a few cases, but, as benr pointed out, life without risk isn’t real life. So if you or your kids get in trouble in the water, suck it up. And spit it out. Nobody cares, which is exactly the way you wanted it. I mean nobody who is too virtue-signally to wear a flippin’ mask in a shop would have the nerve to demand someone else give their kid mouth-to-mouth during a pandemic, surely?
Seems an equitable solution to me. 🙂
The sign should also inform the reader that they waive all rights to sue! That might give them pause. As we all know, Americans are really big on ‘Personal Responsibility’ and will go to the ends of the Earth to find someone else to be personally responsible for their own Cock-ups.
No one goes to the beach for the sand. Trying to keep people home as long as possible. Delay tactics.
Well, lots of people do go to the beach to sunbathe. Hopefully, they live in NY, as in LA that’s a no-no.
But if they like to swim, better to live in LA.
Wait, I think I got that backwards…trying to make sense of the idiotic.
There is a belief that the virus is expelled in fecal matter and some worries that the water conditioning is not going to kill the virus or someone infected will go in the water and it will live long enough to get in someone elses body via sinus flush.
Water conditioning or sewage treatment most of which gets expelled into an ocean or water way when possible.
Ah… SoCal is a “shithole country”?
Progressives believe in toilet to tap so yea they are turning SoCal into a real shithole.
wqsv,org
wqsv.org
https://www.wvwnews.net/content/index.php?/news_story/baylor_u_professor_m_d_carol_baker_%E2%80%98let%E2%80%99s_just_get_rid_of_all_the_whites_in_the_united_states%E2%80%99_(video).html
The answer to vaccine compliance is to get rid of Whites according to this mad scientist professor. Note: None of her distinguished colleagues even bothered to ask what she meant. That’s how normalized hatred of Whites is now.
They want better slaves than us! I bet Blacks are hard to work with too, but she knows better than to say anything about them.
Now famous rant by David Portnoy, founder of Bar Stool Sports, a vulgar rag I used to see around Boston, about the lockdown. This guy is a great barroom philosopher and is right on the money. Others may have greater intellects but he has commonsense, the lower octave of Wisdom. Go with this a guy like this every time. Forget the “common” what he has isn’t common. And the greatest intellects are useless without it, and their fruits turned to bad ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaccTxk7NQs
Usual misinformation tropes.
This ranter starts with “Fauci says ‘If we open too early, everyone dies!’” No, he didn’t.
Then – “The mayor of LA says the city’s staying shut till there’s a cure” – no, he didn’t.
His major points are actually that:
1) each state is making its own decision re: opening up again; and
2) he doesn’t know what’s going on!
Perhaps if he STFU and did some reading or got his news from multiple sources, he would HAVE a clue.
Except there is a cure. HCQ. And probably IVC as well.
It’s concerning that you are so hasty to believe this without adequate evidence, sophia. It would be wonderful if HCQ did indeed turn out to be a ‘cure’ (and ‘entirely safe’, of course) and even better if it could be proven to ‘prevent’ infection in the first place, but it would be wiser to wait until proper clinical trials have been completed.
Like this one:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-antimalarial-drug-hydroxychloroquine-infection-covid-.html
And this one:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8229735/More-5-000-Britons-volunteered-worlds-biggest-COVID-19-drug-trial.html
(I picked The Daily Wail because I thought you might be offended by the exact same information in The Guardian.)
And I’m sure, after all your loudly repeated concerns about other, non-Covid patients suffering from the attention paid to Covid patients, that you wouldn’t want a worldwide run on hydroxychloroquine, especially before it’s even been proven to be of any value.
Lupus sufferers need it now for a condition they already have.
https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/219469/coronavirus-updates/amid-hydroxychloroquine-hopes-lupus-patients-face
And, considering that the initial run on HC was based on a methodologically flawed study in Marseille of a tiny number of patients – way less that the 368 patients in the US vets study which showed no advantage in the use of HC and indeed a very much higher death rate in patients who were treated with it, I’m sure you’d want people to be very careful about over-hyping this ‘cure’ and depriving lupus sufferers of a drug they desperately need.
I mean, what would Dr Kendrick think if his lupus patients couldn’t get their medication, and all for no purpose?
Janos trolls HigIQwl:
“You overrate humor. Humor isn’t knowledge or wisdom. It is commonly used to deflect real questions, and if deflector can make others laugh, he thinks he has won the debate. A vulgar attitude.“
Jello is hoping no one will bother to check.
LOL.
“I got him just like I got Twuuuuuuump!”
Your inner 5 year old is having a break-down.
It’s literally in black and white.
LOL.
What you mean is that irony provides no solutions.
Indeed. A mystery, wrapped in an enigma, hidden in a Cadbury’s Roses Selection Box?
But it sure looked that way for a while…
Hey – I have a hunch we might be related – distantly, I wish to reassure you!. I have lots of ‘Strine rellies from both Vic & QLD.
My patronym is ‘king’, with a bunch of Kelly, Brockie, Fleming, Flynn, McFelin, Kilpatrick, Sullivan et al in the gene pool.
I have an @gmail.com inbox overflowing with leads from across The Ditch.
All of us Anglos, Scots, Welsh, Irish are related if you go back far enough.
Trump is down fatally with the elderly. Finally people are realizing this guy will kill them. This guy’s incompetence is so astounding that people are finallyy scared. That very quality that appealed to them so much 3 years aso, now appalls them. Inject disinfectant! He is a fucking moron.
Yes, yes LB, you have repeated that message a dozen times, but the question remains, what is your side offering up as an alternative? It appears to many of us not a very serious candidate, indicating perhaps winning in Nov is not a goal and you would be satisfied for the next 4 1/2 years to sit back and call the President a moron on forums such as this, which is much easier and a lot less risky than presiding over a nation of 330 million citizens.
You are making yourself look small, petty and ridiculous, like the women out on the National Mall in Nov 2016 after Trump’s victory, which it seems you never got over.
BRH
The other side does not need an alternative. That is as stupid as saying I should have white supremacist websites listed as references on my website since I have ‘save the world sites’ there I should have balance. Stupid is as stupid does.
But you are pulling our leg.
the women out on the National Mall in Nov 2016 after Trump’s victory
Nothing to get over, but there is a certain flavor of overweight bleach blonde who does go gaga over Trump because ‘he cares’.
Which is true. Trump cares, about himself. And nobody else.
the women out on the National Mall in Nov 2016 after Trump’s victory.
You have been learning his ways. Having a touch of the outrageous in your lies. They stick better that way. Yes they do.
K Dog what was your final vote total in 2012 run?
If someone will inject themselves with disinfectant because someone tells them to do so then they are a moron period, plain out and straight up.
He never said that.
Yo, man. I heard he also “doctored” video of himself to make it look like he fought aliens.
You gotta spread the word, bro.
South Korea tested 263 people who had recovered from COVID-19, yet who tested positive again in the days and weeks after full recovery. The information shone a light on questions of whether people could get reinfected or if the infection could be reactivated.
However, the scientist who leads the clinical committee for emerging disease control believes the test detected dead virus fragments and not a live virus. The committee believes there is little reason to think individuals could be reinfected or that an infection could be reactivated.
This, of course, would have a significant impact on global efforts to contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The individuals were tested with a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test used to diagnose COVID-19 and to trace the genetic material of the virus.
…PCR tests … can identify the presence of the genetic material from the virus, but not whether the virus is currently living.
This test does not delineate between fragments taken from dead cells or from a live virus. Scientists are finding the dead fragments from SARS-CoV-2 can take months to clear after an individual has recovered from the infection and thus can lead to false positives with a PCR test.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/20/do-asymptomatic-carriers-spread-coronavirus.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2HL&cid=20200520Z1&et_cid=DM540595&et_rid=875936982
I read this morning that there is a new cluster outbreak in Northeast China. Maybe this is the dreaded second wave? Maybe it was a mutation that was leaked or perhaps it was made up all together. Or maybe it just naturally evolved. But they say that this strain of covid is creating different symptoms compared to the original strain. Allegedly this new mutation or what have you is much more damaging to the lungs if you can imagine. Apparently the first strain caused damage in the stomach, liver, and kidneys.
Dunno – my expectation is that if a second wave comes, it would be in the fall, when flu and cold season starts up again.
One reason I don’t expect a (real) (safe) vaccine any time soon is that these viruses mutate and have so far been impossible to create a viable vaccine against.
I’d like to know what China uses as treatment. Are they using HCQ? I assume they are. They have also used IV-C.
HCQ along with vit. D, zinc, and vit. C do the job well for front line folks, according to the information I was given as an alumni of NAS.
I’ve taken D in large amounts for several years now and have been sick with the sniffles once, even when half the office or fam. was sick.
“…according to the information I was given as an alumni of NAS.”
Your much-trumpeted ‘native English’ credentials are sorely tattered – again.
“I’ve taken D in large amounts for several years now and have been sick with the sniffles once, even when half the office or fam. was sick.”
Oh? I thought you claimed you were pretty sure you’d already had Covid-19 some months ago. That was some case of the ‘sniffles’.
…and through which Academy do you claim your alumnus status? Curious minds are wondering…
No, Jello. As a student of language and a professional editor, I am familiar with how language evolves.
“Alumnus or Alumna?
Many people are comfortable using the word alumni to refer to someone who was a student of a particular school. However, others feel quite strongly that this is an error and that the following forms should be used: alumnus (for one male), alumni (for multiple males, or for a mix of males and females), alumna (for one female), and alumnae (for multiple females). The shortened form alum and its plural form alums began to be used in the 19th century. Initially, alum was widely viewed as highly colloquial or informal, but is increasing in use as a gender-neutral alternative.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alumni
Rekt. You make it so easy.
Nice deflection, but too self-serving to be credible.
““A Google search for ‘he is an alumni’ gets nearly three million hits, ‘she is an alumni’ almost a million more. But I maintain they’re all wrong. Why? Because alumni is plural. You, an individual, can’t be an alumni any more than you can be a students.” ?Charles Pettigrew, “Why You’ll Never Be an Alumni””
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/alumna-alumnae-alumni-alumnus/
Funny, though. Most of that C&P response from you was about how incorrect your usage was.
So easy.
Yes, you were.
Ahmaud Abrey: Sell T shirts? Create Outrage (by fabricating a morally unambiguous situation out of a very morally ambitious situation) as a form of economic demand and then sell T Shirts, cups, and ask for donations as a vehicle for people to Virtue Signal? Trump recently tried to sell me some Made-in-America beer glasses. My favorite though was the Hillary-for-President dog collar and plastic doggy bowl. That was really insane….
Did you know that it’s illegal to import and to sell Chinese-made shotguns in the US for reasons of national security? Does that make any sense? The biggest threat to national security are the politicians and the virtue signaling, nincumpoop people who can’t wear face masks whose stupidity will end up killing millions of people and sink the economy.
How do you know that the face mask is not the new dog collar? Have you done much research into the whole issue or side of the debate of the supposed experts who say face masks can actually make you sick if you aren’t already? Something about the viruses trying to exit you just go back in and get worse. That is a really crude description but you get it. Maybe instead of a dog collar you can just stay 20 feet from everyone :-).
Best to keep a reasonable distance AND wear a mask. Health experts (yeah, ‘supposed’, whatever) are urging people not to think that wearing a mask is an alternative to distancing.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/heres-how-wearing-a-cloth-mask-helps-fight-the-spread-of-coronavirus/
“Additionally, the masks serve as a really helpful physical barrier when you cough or sneeze. “Those actions can propel this cloud of droplets from you up to 25 or 26 feet,” he says. Your mask can “disrupt” that cloud and keep those virus particles from traveling.”
“According to a pair of recently published journal articles … those particles and materials collect on the inside of your mask and form a layer which attracts more particles. The studies showed that even after the masks had dried, those dissolved materials were still on the mask. “
That may be true. But other studies have indicated that wearing a mask is not beneficial and even potentially harmful for healthy people. But your position on the matter is the mainstream one.
https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25713/20200518/wearing-face-masks-potentially-harmful-trap-exhaled-viruses-well-individuals.htm
I totally agree with you that even experts have different views on this, SSL.
However, the harmful effects mentioned seem primarily to involve people wearing masks for long periods of time, not people putting one on to go into a shop (which is all I’ve done) or sit on a bus for 20 minutes (which I currently have no intention of doing).
Health professionals in ICUs, having to wear the layers of stuff they have to wear for hours on end, are exhausted by it (not least because they get seriously overheated), but they do it because they have to. Other working situations require individual thought about the pros and cons – I see workmen around where I live wearing surgical masks because they’re doing jobs in people’s houses (I assume) and presumably feel they should.
But there is no comparable excuse for not wearing one to oblige people running a shop, who have a duty of care to both their customers and their staff.
I’ve already described what happened to relatives (-ish) of my husband in the US (brother of an in-law). He has a family DIY shop/lumber yard in an area where there are a lot of orthodox Jewish people. They refused on principle to either wear masks or respect the shop’s distancing measures within the premises, thus making it impossible for him to respect his obligations to either his employees or his other customers. So he had no option but to shut the store and furlough the staff, which is insanity.
There is no excuse for that kind of precious behaviour.
But I’ll let you know how I get on on my train trip to Norwich and back. If I can. Perhaps happy hypoxia is the way to go. 🙂
In the old Soviet Union, Anti-Semitism was punished by death.
Where’s the anti-Semitism? I only saw anti-fuckwittery.
I implore you to repent. Leave the Church of High Humanism and return to the Real Church, the RC or Orthodox. Stay away from the fallen Anglicans at this point. The best ones have already come home to real Church anyway. We can continue our debates in Heaven.
https://thatthebonesyouhavecrushedmaythrill.blogspot.com/2020/05/we-cannot-live-in-fear-of-contagion-we.html?m=1
Very good writer. My first exposure to her. What a bizarre name for the blog. A modern day Flannery O’ Connor? Or perhaps I have found Kesa.
“I implore you to repent. Leave the Church of High Humanism and return to the Real Church, the RC or Orthodox. Stay away from the fallen Anglicans at this point. The best ones have already come home to real Church anyway. ”
I’m not clear if you’re speaking to me, but at the risk of assuming too much, I was never in the ‘Real Church, the RC or the Orthodox’, but I remain technically on the rolls of the Church of Scotland, although it’s been a long time since I darkened their doors, except for the odd wedding.
However, I recall going to an RC church service when a then student friend of mine was going through whatever ceremony you go through to become an RC when you used to be a wishy-washy Anglican. I had gone prepared to take communion, which would have been considered entirely appropriate for an RC visiting my own church (United Reformed = Presbyterian joined with Congregationalist). But the priest invited only RCs to come forward, so that was that. Not very ecumenical, but what can you do? So I doubt I’d be chapping at their door whatever happened.
Ha, ha, so wearing a mask is virtue signalling, and not wearing a mask is virtue signalling?
We are a virtuous nation!
Indeed. Virtue signalling is not an expression I like using at all, because it is so often used by people who wish to defame others who do nothing more than do what they think is right and haven’t the slightest interest in doing it in front of other people for effect.
My choice to use it on here is to point out the idiocy of using the phrase in the context of wearing a mask. I feel a bit if a an idiot wearing a mask, for no other reason than that I have a very low embarrassment threshold and (being an introvert) don’t like attracting attention to myself in any way in public (it also prevents me doing normal things like donating money in a public street because I find it embarrassing doing it in front of other people like some Lady Bountiful, so I don’t, which is pathetic, but there we are).
If wearing a mask is virtue signalling about your concern for public safety, then refusing on principle to wear one because ‘freedom’ is every bit as much virtue signalling. Except that the idea that people wear masks to virtue signal is one that was made up by muppets in the first place.
They were them to submit – and then make the perceived or actual necessity into a virtue, feeling superior to the barbarians who don’t know enough to wear a mask. Or who are too selfish to (your specialty).
Or sometimes it is just an expression of naked terror. Thanks to the media they are afraid of the very air.
Nothing has change objectively. But now they have asked the centipede to explain how he walks and the centipede cannot explain – and he can’t walk anymore either. In other words, they have reminded people of death – with no news of life after death or any offers of salvation. A killing blow. They people behind this deserve to swing.
wore not were
Janos
There’s a very simple observation that you need to get into your convoluted head. It’s that just because a concept exists in your fevered imagination (especially when it concerns the thought processes of complete strangers), it doesn’t mean that it has any objective reality.
Tough, I know, but try to think about it.
wear not wore. My ancestors wore woad and were head hunters. We’ve come a long way. Actually ever go to an Irish American bar? Maybe we’re going backwards…..
My Dad loved the English working people. Not clannish like the Irish can be towards the stranger. Welcomed the Irish workers with open arms. He thought them the finest people in the world.
The Welsh are the exact opposite. Absolute snakes. Perhaps a result of being drive out of England by the Saxons and their age long fight against them and the later Normans. They hate the Stranger.
‘Wales’ actually means strange/foreign. ‘Wales’ is what the invading Anglo-Saxons called the ‘land of strangers’, despite the Welsh being in their own country.
And ‘wal-nut’ is the ‘foreign nut’ the old Germanic tribes came across in this strange and foreign country.
I found the Welsh delightful. And I love a good, rousing Welsh male voice choir.
Convoluted or just confused?
“My Dad loved the English working people. Not clannish like the Irish can be towards the stranger. Welcomed the Irish workers with open arms. He thought them the finest people in the world.”
Mindboggling BS.
Majella
I know – Irish people are so clannish that half of England is related to one. 🙂
Yeah, cuz everyone’s the same, right Maj? And that’s so inspiring!
No, Skorenzy. You screwed up your English/Irish thing and didn’t even notice. I’d be tempted to call that a d**khead move, but it’s not acceptable, so I won’t.
Are Beavis and Buttigieg Virtue Signaling?
I actually thought they were sending out smoke signals. Am I just confused? Whatever happened to Butthead?
Here comes election season. This one’s gonna be a doozie. So far Dems are all anti-reopening. Old man Biden is lost. If the economy restarts, Joe is toast. They won’t stand a chance. But the media will spin a totally false narrative about recovery, and count on that to upend the GOP parade. Coming to a cable channel near you. All spin and false narrative.
Rice memo declassed by the intrepid Richard Grenell.
And the chain suspending Barack H. Obama over the boiling water just dropped another few inches.
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1262833632596627459
That letter is a doozy, too…
Yea all the obozo cheer leaders are going to have it rough if Trump gets another four years.
#obamafor jail2021
#obamadeception
Yeah but what power does Ted Cruz have? Even Trump said Barr’s decision not to go after Obama and Biden just proves there is a double standard when it comes to justice, etc., in this country. So if the President is complaining about a double standard but nothing is happening then doesn’t that basically mean nothing is going to be done? I just remember how Trump said he didn’t want to hurt Hillary and Bill. What is so different about Obummer and Uncle Molester Joe?
You should re-listen to Barr’s comments, or watch them entirely if you have only been fed tidbits by the McMedia. That Yahoo piece from Janos being a prime example.
Barr cannot be seen as being a partisan. We are witness to the greatest scandal in US political history.
Patience.
Do you have a link to his full comments?
Jeez – really?
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/498494-obamagate-backfires-documents-show-biden-obama-acted-properly
Quid pro joe in big trouble it appears.
https://www.oann.com/ukrainian-lawmakers-biden-tapes-show-quid-pro-quo/
https://nypost.com/2020/05/20/joe-bidens-phone-calls-with-former-ukraine-president-poroshenko-released/.
Wapo!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ukrainian-lawmaker-releases-leaked-phone-calls-of-biden-and-poroshenko/2020/05/19/cc1e6030-9a26-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html
Good conversion between
Candace Owens and David Rubin
exposing the commie left
https://youtu.be/e5hqfM2xaLQ
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The ‘commie’ Capitalist right ain’t exactly swimming with bathing suits, eh. Free markets my arse too.
The Commie right Oligarchs in the Oval Office merely spin that they are right-of-center when in fact they are full blown Communists via free money Fed REPO backstop of Junk Bonds, kitchen sinks, and dark pool derivatives which are off-exchange & dark for a reason.
So far Comrade Powell has levered up his balance sheet shenanigans past that of The Gorilla of Wall Street in his former glory of 44:1 as leverage king 2008.
Powell is leverage king 2020 which makes Trump look like the Tan Man of Countrywide Financial back in the heyday of financial largesse 08 subprime RMBS.
RW
The global system is severely starved for US dollars. Unfortunately no one cares for Canukistani dollars.
CANUCKS have the best balance sheet in the G-7, man. I’ll admit that the entire world will rush into USD when all other currencies are devalued across the western empire of debt-to-GDP, and deficits for as far as the forward looking eye can see.
And I actually care about Canadian dollars given my upbringing by a CA.
USD Titanic will list given that it already hit the iceberg in the post-Lehman Atlantic drink.
RW
CANUCKS have the best balance sheet in the G-7, man.
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How is that compatible with communism? And when did you commies become such deficit hawk, comrade tavarish?
Candace Owens and David Rubin
This is a case of knowing pornography and not even having to see it.
Potter Stewart would agree.
Funny how their discussion was exactly about commies like yourself having such an open mind.
If I spent as much time figuring myself out as you spend figuring myself out….. would I get rich?
The reason you are poor is simple. You’re a Satanic commie that hates God and hates the world. To be wealthy you must enjoy life and what you’re doing. The money comes naturally. You don’t even have to work for it, that is, if you have any talent.
You truly are an idiot. I am here too much to be poor.
Seriously I watched to your link at 2x speed. If I could have listened to it at 3x speed I would not have missed a thing. It was that vacant. Those two have some sort of dry-humping thing going on because they both know they are continents away from ever doing it. He is gay and apparently was at her wedding. I don’t like people who always have to tell me they are gay. I don’t care about that shit and don’t like it that they think I should care. Anyway if Owens had a dick Ruben would have been sucking it. The entire thing was stroking each other’s egos which in both are king-sized and talking shit about everyone else. Zero issues discussed. In the center of their universes there is only themselves. And that is what I really think.
He is gay and apparently was at her wedding. I don’t like people who always have to tell me they are gay. I don’t care about that shit and don’t like it that they think I should care.
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Ironic that you should be calling others idiots. You completely missed the whole point of their conversation, which was to deride commie identity politics, big tech commie censorship, and unrelenting commie harassment and violence.
As for commie “issues” being discussed, I’ll refer you the DNC “debates”. Funny how commie China never came up as a topic for conversation, I wonder why.
Your inability to ever let things go amuses me.
No, what amuses you is your satanic malice for others. Your satanic ill will for others is a direct consequence of your hatred for God hatred for this world hatred for others and hatred for yourself. You’re a despicable and contemptible diseased person, along with all your fellow commie travellers/trolls. You people have no respect for truth, you have no respect for yourselves. The only motivation in your lives is spite malice misery and destruction, satanic commie defects that you are.
K-Dog – that tirade of akamofo’s is classic ‘projection’ is it not?
Jelly, I know you feel slighted that I don’t pay you any attention, but that’s because I consider you damaged beyond repair. I still hold a glimmer of hope for comrade K-Dog.
akmofo – your attention or lack thereof is neither here nor there to me.
I just pity you and your extreme lack of self- awareness. You’re a very sad case of a person who’s fallen into a dark dungeon of fear & hate entirely of your own making. Sad.
ehhh
https://www.barnhardt.biz/2020/05/20/double-dog-toldya-foxnews-is-luciferian-uses-clearly-steroided-up-sodomite-who-caught-coronacold-at-an-orgy-as-fearporn-absolutely-totally-despicable/
I see in you a Trinity: Wonder Dog, Double Dog, and Devil Dog.
It’s classic out of Orwell’s 1984:
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.”
This quote occurs as Winston looks at a children’s history book and marvels at the Party’s control of the human mind. These lines play into the theme of psychological manipulation. In this case, Winston considers the Party’s exploitation of its fearful subjects as a means to suppress the intellectual notion of objective reality. If the universe exists only in the mind, and the Party controls the mind, then the Party controls the universe.
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-spent-a-week-down-the-right-wing-media-rabbit-hole-and-was-mesmerized-by-it?ref=scroll
About your link. If you do roids it will rage!
I don’t need roids to rage. I’m gifted. My indignation seldom wanes except with tiredness. It’s always waiting for me the next morning. Gifted? I’m Graced even beyond that.
I would destroy this world if I could. But He can and will. You are the Unicorn playing in the rain. The Manx Dog who is going to lose his tail if not his life as I close the Door.
I would destroy this world if I could you say. The center of your control shows great focus but inability to adapt is not the same thing as intrepid commitment. Sleep is your savior and you fear the sound of the screen door. Looks to be a good thing.
https://www.amren.com/news/2020/05/seattle-asks-for-a-100-million-relief-fund-for-illegal-aliens/
How will you stop this horror, the horror of illegal community members?
They work in the fields cheap. If you have a problem with them getting a leg up go fuck yourself.
Big news is the State of Ct was reopening today … Great! I need a haircut, for starters. Went to the barbershop, closed up tight. Well, I’ll walk over to the bank and deposit these checks. No go, place was dark. At least I can pick up a fishing license at the town clerk’s office. No can do, office closed.
I’m trying to figure out what was reopened.
Hey did Cargill get kicked out again? Jim is playing whack-a-mole with that troll LoL!
Brh
:Big news is the State of Ct was reopening today … Great! I need a haircut, for starters. ”
lol!
If you are as fat as a whale, stay home for now. If you are over 85, stay home now. If you have HIV or out of control diabetes, or hepatitis C– stay at home for now.
Otherwise, let her ride!
🙂
“Hey did Cargill get kicked out again? Jim is playing whack-a-mole with that troll LoL!”
Maybe he/she has simply be reassigned to another blog per some Chinese government intelligence agency lol
No, no, no…Cargill works for the RUSSIANS. *I* work for the Chinese – haven’t you been keeping up?
If someone is paying you to advance an agenda here, they should really be reimbursed.
What? No “LOL”?
You really are a humourless piece of work.
And when are you going to ‘own’ me about Dr. Ronny Jackson, the pill-head, boozing W H Doctor? What? Nothing?
Also, are you ever going to apologise to capt.spaulding for wrongly accusing him? No?
What should anyone ex[ect of a 5-year-old, anyway…?
“No, no, no…Cargill works for the RUSSIANS. *I* work for the Chinese – haven’t you been keeping up?”
I haven’t kept up! sorry… who is working for the Australians & New Zealanders then??
Its all so confusing…
having a fragile yet overweening ego – Greenie
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I looked up the above italicized word to make sure of the meaning and then I wondered if there is such a thing as an underweening ego or even simply a weeningego.
I rely on your grasp of the English language.
How would you actually know that? – benr
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I don’t. It’s just a strongly held opinion.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/melinda-gates-upside-down-cross-necklace-creates-controversy-netizens-call-her-satanist-45259
At a certain stage, Satanists have to stop hiding what they are. Thus she wore an upside down cross on TV. If Hillary were to get the nomination, she wouldn’t take her Oath of Office on the Bible. Don’t know what she would use, but it couldn’t be the Bible.
Don’t know what she would use, but it couldn’t be the Bible. – Janos
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Given our notions of religious freedom, separation of church and state, etc. it does seem a bit nervy that new presidents have to swear on ‘the Bible.’ One has to ask at a minimum, which version? Or, why not Mao’s Little Red Book? Or any book at all? And while we’re at it, isn’t it ballsy to name Christmas as a national holiday? And to close the stock market on Good Friday?
And Satanism is just another religion, right? Just as valid and valuable as Christianity, right?
You are already a de facto member with this philosophy. Why not seek affiliation?
“At a certain stage, Satanists have to stop hiding what they are”
From where have you dragged this gem of insight? WTF would ‘they’? Your paranoia is only exceeded by your idiocy.
It’s well known, jel. What do you know of these things – unless you are claiming to be a Satanist in which case you would lie anyway.
“It’s well known,…” so are many other falsehoods.
This falls into the category of “Dracula can only come in if invited”. i.e. utter tosh about something that is utter tosh in the first place.
Give me some credible source for such a nutjob claim. Please. Just once.
You are going to have a hell of time with the next several text heavy generations who abbreviate words use no punctuation at all and don’t care about spelling. – benr
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This is sooo true. It makes me glad to be as old as I am with probably not that much rubber left on my longevity.
Give me good grammar or give me death.
KDFP
Failing to punctuate is rude.
Hmmm. A point of agreement. Rare, indeed.
Bad news, kids.
The Hill
A leaked Pentagon memo on Tuesday revealed that top Department of Defense (DOD) officials have been planning for the possibility that the military could be dealing with a “globally-persistent” coronavirus pandemic well into 2021.
The memo, obtained by Task & Purpose, also warned of the “real possibility” that a vaccine for COVID-19 won’t be available until “at least the summer of 2021.”
“We have a long path ahead, with the real possibility of a resurgence of COVID-19. Therefore, we must now re-focus our attention on resuming critical missions, increasing levels of activity, and making necessary preparations should a significant resurgence of COVID-19 occur later this year,” it read.
When reached by The Hill, a Pentagon official said they could not find a version of the memo as reported by Task & Purpose and could not confirm it specifically.
They did confirm that the department “continues to develop plans that address operating in the COVID-19 environment,” and some versions of such plans had similar language as the reported memo, but none have been approved.
“Senior DoD officials have discussed the development of a plan to reduce Health Protection Conditions around the world and continue the 2020 summer move cycle safely,” they said. “The plans have not been approved by senior DoD leaders yet, and we’re not going to discuss what might be in the final version of those plans.”
…
The new memo — which was unsigned but reportedly prepared by Kenneth Rapuano, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security — adds to the skepticism that a coronavirus vaccine will be ready by early next year.
“All indications suggest we will be operating in a globally-persistent COVID-19 environment in the months ahead,” the memo read. “This will likely continue until there is wide-scale immunity, through immunization, and some immunity post-recovery from the virus.”
The document called for increased testing as well as a registry “to track and closely monitor outcomes of those infected with COVID-19.”
The memo also contained an outline for how the military could eventually reopen, including the return of training exercises and the movement of forces.
Defense officials have said the coronavirus will be an obstacle to the military at least until a vaccine is developed, with Esper earlier this month acknowledging that the Pentagon is “preparing for a second wave and maybe more” of the illness.
“We don’t know what the trajectory of this virus will be. So my view has been that we’ll be at this for a number of months, at least until we get a vaccine,” Esper said during a visit to U.S. Northern Command in Colorado, adding that he doesn’t see social distancing “easing anytime soon.”
JS: The Destruction of the (independent self employed) Middle Class is thus upon us. No doubt an (un)fortunate (un)INTENDED consequence. There’s gonna be nothing left unless the Red States get really militant and start screaming bloody murder.
The sweet old Barber in Michigan? Cited, Shuttered, and his license revoked. He’s never opening again. The Gym owner in New Jersey? Arrested by Governor Weirdo Male Mommy. The police officer who refused to enforce the ordinance? Don’t know. Nothing good I’ll warrant.
< 100K dead in USA. Like a Flu season.
There you go, Skorenzy…catastrophizing again…
Well
CNN has a new “poll” saying Trump loses in a landslide.
Now where have I seen this rhetoric before?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-will-lose-in-a-landslide-because-of-the-economy-new-election-model-predicts/ar-BB14nhkN?ocid=spartandhp
Hmm reality verses hopesy changey bull dookey?
Yeah, final CNN poll, Nov 1, 2016
Clinton 62%
Trump 38%
Ahahahahajahahahahahaha!!!
Brh
The Huff Post numbers were even better: they had Hill Dawg at 98%.
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?
They are so blatant. Obviously democrat refusal to reopen all while predicting that the economy will lose Trump the election.
Motive, anyone?
Well, after this Covid-19 pandemic is flogged for all it’s worth, politically speaking, look for lefties to pivot back to the Climate Change scam. It should happen sometime in July, during a summer heat wave, when they’ll trot out teenage scold Greta Thunberg, who will announce “The world is on fire.”
Brh
Nah, it’s happening already in Michigan. Biblical it is. Not exactly summer heat, though. But record breaking nevertheless.
The next normal… Only three years since those poor suckers rebuilt. Just saw a pastor saying it’s testing his faith. He’s wondering if they’re being punished for something.
What could it be? Let me think…
Cue for you to calm yourself with your mantra, brh.
‘There have always been floods … there have always been floods … there have always been floods…’
Good, that’s all right then.
Oh, wait. It’s worse than that.
“Catastrophic flooding triggered by dam failures in Michigan could potentially release toxic pollution from a site contaminated by the industrial giant Dow Chemical.”
Yep, quite a lot of things to be punished for.
I wonder who will pay for the clean up – Dow Chemical or Joe Public?
Johnstown Flood, 1889
2,200 dead
What caused that?
Most likely the same as in Michigan, poorly designed or poorly maintained dams.
Like I said, brh, ‘there have always been floods’. 🙂
Thing is, they’ve hardly recovered from the ‘catastrophic’ floods of only three years ago. Frequency is a thing in flood watching, so going back to 1889 is totally not the point. But never mind – I don’t want to disabuse you of your fantasies. I’m more than happy for you to keep them.
Someone still needs to have a word with Dow Chemical, though.
Something about ‘responsibility’, maybe. You could tell them it’s a prized American quality.
So I doubt I’d be chapping at their door – GA
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champing?
chomping?
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/chap
Definition no. 5, under ‘in British English’.
For further bafflement…
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/chap
Sorry, that second one should have been:
http://scotsdictionaries.org.uk/WOTM/Chap.html
A+
Language is a wonderful thing to be obsessed with. Or, as they used to say, with which to be obsessed.
“Never end a sentence on a preposition.”
When criticized for occasionally ending a sentence on a preposition, Winston Churchill replied,
“This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put.”
What is a preposition?
It’s how you arrange yourself for foreplay.
That’s funny Alba, and before you go any farther, make sure to put on a conundrum.
GA – brilliant!!!
Capt – also, brilliant, but only what I’d expect from you, you nutty jokester!
Rapping, chapping, pedantic fapping — there is no clapping, as all are napping.
What?…No humour at all? Sad.
…Considering what you DO “LOL” about, I’d say you must be utterly miserable (but probably don’t recognize the fact due to the lack of experience with, you know, actual humour).
Make sure to reply twice to all of my post.
No one will question your mental health.
LOL:
…and my point is proven again.
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?
I ran across this the other day and since I couldn’t say it [ what needs to be said – and heard ] any better :
https://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=33&d=2460
OMG, yet another seer has spotted the end times. How many hundreds or thousands have preceded Steve Quayle? And he even has conversations with God! But, of course.
BTW, is he any relation to Dan?
That’s J Danforth to you, sir!
We can continue our debates in Heaven. – Janos
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As one thing leads to another the question arises, Do animals have souls like human beings?
Google has many answers including this one which I will categorize as ‘a crock of shit.’ Anyway, if humans have souls surely our pets have them too and if THEY have souls so do bacteria and viruses. How could it be otherwise?
“Answer:
Animals have souls–and so do plants. Does this answer sound like something out of the New Age movement? Don’t worry–it isn’t. Rest assured we’re not saying animals and plants have souls like ours.
The soul is the principle of life. Since animals and plants are living things, they have souls, but not in the sense in which human beings have souls. Our souls are rational–theirs aren’t–and ours are rational because they’re spiritual, not material.
Animals and plants can’t do anything which transcends the limitations of matter. Although some animals seem clever, they don’t actually possess conceptional intelligence. They can’t, for instance, conceive of the abstract notion of justice.
Animals and plants also lack a moral sense. When you scold Spot for chewing the carpet and tell him what he did was “wrong,” you aren’t assigning guilt of sin to him, since he can’t commit a sin.
Animal and vegetable souls are dependent entirely on matter for their operation and being. They cease to exist at death. (There’s no “doggie heaven.”)
Human souls, by contrast, aren’t material. They’re spiritual. Only a spirit can know and love, a spirit’s two chief faculties being the intellect (which knows) and the will (which loves). We know human souls are spiritual since humans can know and love.
We also know human souls are immortal because spirits can’t decompose. They have no parts: Only a thing with parts can fall apart. A spirit is a unit. It has no top or bottom, no left or right, no inside or outside.
Every bit of matter, even the smallest, has parts. The human body can decompose–it’s made of matter, after all–but the human soul can’t. That’s why we say it’s immortal.
A good discussion of the differences between human beings and animals is available in Mortimer Adler’s The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes.”
Now since you think this is all a bunch of bafooey anyway why are you asking the questions again? Some people seem like they could simply never believe in things they don’t see. You can’t see air either but you believe in it don’t you. Or perhaps you should hold your breath and see how much faith you don’t have in air.
I’d love to hear you say, “bunch of bafooey”.
Get a room, you two.
?What do mutual relationships between living things say about God’s creation?
https://youtu.be/CAyNfwqIKAI
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Animals have souls–and so do plants. Does this answer sound like something out of the New Age movement? Don’t worry–it isn’t. Rest assured we’re not saying animals and plants have souls like ours. – Q.
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Well yes, of course, animals and plants have souls BUT NOT LIKE OURS ’cause WE’RE SPECIAL.
Windows stealing Linux ideas with a command line package manager!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-s-new-windows-package-manager-is-already-better-than-the-windows-store/ar-BB14mHVS?ocid=msnews
Linux has a bunch like:
apt
RPM
As a geek im kind of excited about this.
Just to put things into perspective:
FANGMAN (Facebook + Amazon + Google + Microsoft + Apple + Nvidia) market cap has just hit a fresh all-time high at $6.1 Trillion, equal to the GDP of Germany and Italy combined.
This morning I looked up at the TV which was tuned in to CNBC and noticed that a distinguished looking black man was being interviewed and that he is the Chairman of Microsoft (or maybe CEO). His name is John Thompson. I amused myself wondering if he could possibly have attained such a lofty position if his name had been Jadeveon Clowney.
So, Mika Brezinski is trying to get Trump’s Twitter feed shut down.
Comedy gold.
It also struck me today that this comes in the wake of Trump mentioning Lori Klausitus again (the attractive, young intern found dead in Joe Scarborough’s office).
Lori and Mika really look very similar …
Then there is this, which is just hilarious in context. Mika certainly appears to have had the hots for the Don: https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1263152292548825089
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?
Should we be more worried about the Coronavirus or the Moronavirus?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyt7GDovwDI
Como is giving a press conference. Masks are protective and they work. He is presenting evidence that the police have a lower than average rate of infection. They wear masks.
I can see why FOX never lets him on their channel. A public servant who is committed to doing the public good. Very scary to the sycophants of exploitation. I understand. The truth must be suppressed.
But if you gave two fucks about your precious economy you would be wearing a fucking mask.
https://youtu.be/BeSG4OnAP5E
Go Andrew!
Were de pucking mask.
Damn right!
Did you see the video a few days ago …
A young black women in NYC, in the subway with her young son, set upon and pounded to the pavement by at least 7 NYPD officers for not wearing a mask?
That’ll learn her to ignore the orders of your Dear Andrew, hey K Dog?
Brh
“A young black women in NYC, in the subway with her young son, set upon and pounded to the pavement by at least 7 NYPD officers for not wearing a mask?
BRH,
You and I understand that the optics are ugly, but I have been in those situations.
…sometimes 7 ain’t enough.
Ain’t enough for what? These Vatican mafia thugs should be crucified upside down for this kind of commie thuggery. They have no business forcing people to comply with clearly unconstitutional commie edicts from murderous commie criminal gov mafia thugs like Cuomo and DeBlasio.
Geeez…don’t hold back…just GO FOR IT, nutjob.
@majella
Funny I think the same thing about every post you make about Trump.
Mofo,
When…you try to constrain someone, for a good reason or otherwise, without doing them bodily harm (eg; blunt force trauma), it takes more than a few extra hands. A young, strong, motivated black woman is difficult and dangerous. What you were watching was a failed attempt to subdue her without harm…actually an example of restraint.
Blunt force trauma works quickly and without the drama you observed.
Don’t argue the reason she was subdued. Entirely different issue.
“These Vatican mafia thugs should be crucified upside down…”
I thank God I ain’t a Palestinian….
Again, Ely, you deliberately miss the point. These police thugs had no business doing what they were doing and being where they were. If they had any moral compass they would have known that. But they don’t. Same for your thieving murderous Jihadi imperialists occupying our lands. They have no business being where they are. When you have no moral compass you can’t see and understand even the simplest of things. That’s why you tolerate these commies here and why you tolerate these thug policemen and why you tolerate Jihadi imperialism or Vatican degenerates and every other fscking evil under the sun. It’s a mental disease that’s quite common now in the US, and which JHK rightly derides and condemns as “anything goes and nothing matters”. This satanic moral degeneracy leads to only one place, your certain death. You are the walking talking dead, and there nothing funny about that and nothing to crack a lame joke about.
“Don’t argue the reason she was subdued. Entirely different issue.”
…C’mon man….
Geez, benr. Are you actually that interested in what I have to say?
Check the video – she was wearing a mask, as was her child.
The cops claim that her “…not wearing it properly” was the reason they picked on her.
‘DANCE MACABRE’
Is life itself the Dance Macabre, its partner the ever present Ghost of Death? Is it the tango between the animate and the inanimate, or the polka of past and present fast stepping towards a frenzied, future flamenco? Is it the Charleston with corpses or the cha cha with cadavers, reminding us of our caducity?
Sometimes though, this dance is a waltz, waltzing past the graveyard. Or a two step to the tomb.
It can be Picasso’s ‘The Three Dancers’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHcg9U25yV0
Baudelaire said that dance is ‘poetry with arms and legs’. Here’s some bones and tones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0glOYQBlSA
Pence and Florida governor spotted eating without masks. How foolish, yet brave!
Worse yet, he was eating a cheeseburger.
That was the brave part or the foolish part?
We Wear the Mask
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
How does one eat whilst wearing a mask?
Read in the Guardian today that climate change is turning parts of the Antarctic Peninsula green. A six year study led by a group from Cambridge University has found green snow algae on Antarctica. It appears to be the beginning of a new ecosystem caused by the heating effects of Climate Change. Photos too.
Current temp in Antarctica: -78°F
Current windchill temp in Antarctica: -111°F
They’ll be wearing bikinis and growing palm trees down there any day now, Cap’n, Sir.
Brh
Wrong – try trikinis, the third piece being the mask. You think I’m joking but they’ve already made their debut.
Fashion will help cement this madness in place.
Hahahaaaa!…ah…never mind
Janos – you’re right. The ‘trikini’ is an actual thing, but, as yet anyway, no “hijab” component apparent.
Here’s the site – no doubt you found it exciting (can you picture SSL in one?)
https://www.google.com/search?q=trikinis&oq=trikinis&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7.2725j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Still, the distinct lack of masks of any kind, totally undermining your current obsession, is likely why you chose not to provide the link.
Okay – yes, some do offer a matching mask – isn’t this just good ol’ capitalism at work?
ROTFLOL
Just couldn’t wait to rip out that insult but whoops he was right.
So flawed, So Proud, So Majella!
I didn’t link it in order to trap you as i did.
Yes, you’re very very clever, Skorenzy. Now tidy your toys away and get to bed. Good boy.
Where, precisely, BRH? The South Pole? Scott base. McMurdo Sound?
Antarctica is larger than the USA.
You throwing a temperature reading from Duluth in January and saying it’s evidence of anything relating to the temperature in Key West on the same day is just as irrelevant.
Man-made virus….
How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid 19?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZUJhKUbd0k&t=490s
Follow-up on Dumping My Bike story:
When I got home I casually pulled up the back driveway in case my wife might see me. I pressed the button on the garage door opener gizmo and pulled in. Before heading for the house I gave a quick glance at, and assessment of, the bike’s condition. There was a ton of mud on the tires, rims, muffler and the mangled right foot-rest. Since the wife almost never goes in the garage I figure I’m OK until sometime in the next few days when she will go food shopping and I’ll have a chance to back the bike outside and give it a good hose down. Well, that day will be this coming Friday as she has a doc appt 20 miles away in Princeton. She’ll be gone two hours at minimum. So I figure my secret is safe till the motorcycle shop that handles all my crash business opens when Governor Murphy gives the go-ahead. I’ll think up something plausible to explain away the rip in the right knee of my blue jeans when she comes across it in the laundry. Since the blood from my right knee is on the inside of the pant leg and wasn’t bad enough to soak through I should be OK there. I’m surprised she hasn’t mentioned my significant limp all of a sudden.
I’m thinking I may have suffered more bodily harm than I at first thought. Beside the knee that I think is just badly scraped but not fractured (which really impairs walking, using stairs and getting up from chairs) I’m hoping I didn’t injure an internal organ in my gut area three inches to the left of my right hip bone. But the feeling of distress could just as easily be a big fart caught sideways in my large intestine. In the normal course of things I will probably heal up but I’ve had a depressed feeling that the four corners bike tour of the US that I’ve been planning in my head may just turn out to be an old fogey’s wet dream.
My explanation for how this accident happened I think left something to be desired. When I set out from home I went south on Route 1 (the very same route 1 that runs from Maine to Florida) where I topped off my tank at a Quick Chek for $1.879/gal. I continued south on 1 then turned right to Princeton then right again on Route 27 north. My destination was the Delaware and Raritan Canal that runs through Griggstown, NJ. Due to poor memory I turned left at the wrong place and failed to hook up with the road that runs next to the canal. Instead I went for several miles on a country road deeper into unknown territory until I had to admit I didn’t know where the hell I was.
All of a sudden I spot a street sign on my right bearing the name Bennetts Ln. In an incredibly brief span of time (2 or 3 seconds?), like the time it takes Ken Jennings to buzz in on an arcane Jeopardy clue, I not only grasped the fact that I am familiar with Bennetts Ln but that if I take it it would put me back onto Rt 27 north headed home. In these 2 or 3 seconds I am already applying the two hand brakes (the bike is an automatic, there’s no shifting and therefore no clutch lever on the left hand grip) and making a snap judgment whether I can actually execute a right turn. My judgement is ever so faintly faulty and I go off on the squishy left apron and down hard on the very edge of mud and asphalt, Oooophfffff! When old people fall they always make a sound like this. When kids play they can fall on the floor or grass 50 times a day, laugh like hell, and never make a sound.
There’s not a car in sight but I know it’s inevitable that one will come along and they will help me. They always do. It is my experience that people want to help their fellow man. As described in my original post a couple of days ago, this is when the black guy, a gas and electric utility employee pulled up. He was rotund but not fat. He was solid and had forearms like Popeye. I planted my left foot (because my right knee hurt like a bastard) and we did what I think is called a Roman Handshake and he pulled me up. The girth of his forearm was huge.
But before all this I had removed my helmet and leather gloves with the hard plastic armor over the knuckles. On top I was wearing a tan heavy duty safari shirt. So there I am sprawled on the asphalt with my bike half in the mud and the rest on the roadway proper and I am already concocting in my mind for my personal amusement a fanciful exchange that will take place when some one stops and asks if I am OK and if I need any help.
“Nah,” I will say, “I’m just here takin’ a break, soakin’ up some rays… are you aware that vitamin D is good for the Covid Virus? OF COURSE I NEED YOUR FRIGGIN’ HELP FOR CHRIST SAKE !!##!
Mr Plummer spoke to me through a large black face mask which made lip reading impossible. That, my hearing impairment, and his black vernacular speech meant I missed half of what he said. I DID catch that he was 61 years old and rode a Harley soft tail.
I thanked him profusely, we bumped fists, wished one another well and went on our way.
” There’s not a car in sight but I know it’s inevitable that one will come along and they will help me. They always do. ”
East of the Appalachians ?
BS.
That’s total fucking bullshit.
I lived east of the Appalachians for 30 + years. And that simply isn’t true.
” It is my experience that people want to help their fellow man. ”
Says the guy whose help consisted of TLDR.
I occasionally pay attention , you entitled lotus – eating western world asshole.
Lucky you weren’t going home to Kesa Anne.
Nice story.
Moral of the story time to get a lighter motorcycle or get a trike.
It was good enough for Piney after all.
https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/en/motorcycles/trike.html
On second thought holy crap the prices on these damn things.
TLDR: Too Long Did Read. So how very much like the relationship between a boy and his mother! Oh Q! If only you had listened to me decades ago, somehow coming forward in time to receive my life giving message.
In many countries a two – wheeled vehicle means : Cheaper than a four wheel vehicle.
But , in America , fully 95 % of the time , a two – wheeled vehicle means a posturing rich asshole.
It’s one of the things I utterly despise about the Imperialist union and its fakey egalitarian pretensions.
Oops. Gotcha on “rich”…
‘The girth of his forearm was huge.’ Jeez, for a second there…..
Well its warmed up in the South Pole to a balmy -86°F this morning. Where exactly in the SPole? I don’t know, at some weather station where they measure the temp. I know it’s a big continent but is it any warmer in western Antarctica than in Eastern Antarctica on any given day. Ok maybe at the Argentine weather station it isn’t measuring the temp at -86°F as it is at the American Station. Maybe its measuring the temp at -75°F. For our purposes what the hell difference does it make? You won’t be growing coconuts or bananas anytime soon.
Brh
“Where exactly is the SPole?”
Glad you asked:
https://www.google.com/search?q=map+antarctica&sxsrf=ALeKk01xuGg2KI0d-DzttFyUhWUja4n3qQ:1590053736325&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=PZAUOSlxdS909M%253A%252CXwdlmxaj6VvEZM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRs01H40C6-blrgStyjYJx-RXqoXg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjC8oHh08TpAhUuxjgGHbV9Bd8Q9QEwBnoECAkQPA#imgrc=5omgRZqydi-rUM
As you can clearly see, it’s some ways from West Antarctica, in particular, the “Palmer Peninsula” where all the ‘green shit’ is happening.
Yes, it’s still mighty cold but its the relative temperature that matters, Marlin. Perhaps -86F at the Pole but perhaps -10F at the perimeter. That’s a lot of differentiation. And when you read bout it getting to 0F, it’s practically swimming temperature given a decent wetsuit.
It’s not warm enough to melt the ice and to permit any vegetation. Classic Maj fatuous argumentation.
Seriously? Wha do reindeer eat in the winter?
“Reindeer are herbivores, which means they only eat vegetation. Their diet can include herbs, ferns, mosses, grasses, shoots, fungi and leaves. … In the winter, reindeer must dig through the snow to find food. They dig using their antlers and munch on energy-packed lichens called reindeer moss.“
There are now over 100,000 new cases per day … the four major countries causing this are USA, Russia, India, and Brazil.
What do these four countries have in common? Big land area, big population, and a disbelieving head of state who has always thought the pandemic was a “political ruse” from the left (however defined).
And all four leaders have caused tens of thousands of needless deaths. What a world we live in.
How’d you sneak back in? You were ‘non-personed’ again yesterday.
Oops… I mean ‘unpersoned’, of course.
JHK lets me be here if I’m not a pain in the ass, it seems.
Anyway, I’m over the Trump-Biden stuff, and the Obamagate stuff … I’m really only focused on where the pandemic is headed. I reckon everything else is pretty-much second or third tier, by comparison.
So, are you saying you have rules around your postings now?
Well, you’re sure not being a pain in the arse right now. Kat got your tongue?
Good morning Maj … even us old leftie hippies are allowed to get some sleep! Gone wintry down this way too.
Geez -you’ve really had your wings clipped, old chook?
You really are a castrating bitch. Have some compassion on this poor Leftist Eunuch.
There you go again, assuming I’m female.
Do you just wait till sparrow’s fart in EST?
Coming up on 100,000 dead Americans. Trump gives himself a 10 out of 10. A badge of honor. He’s perfect. Only in his mind. In the real world he’s a catastrophe. His leadership is bordering on lunacy.
No serious person believes those numbers. They mean no more than the fatuous unemployment numbers. Did you believe them when they said America was at 3.5% or whatever it was?
Trump didn’t believe the numbers when he was running and then started believing them after the nomination.
Biden is beating this guy from his basement. What a fucking loser Trump is.
The more Trump projects confidence, the more his poll numbers drop. He’s got nothing to run on. Nothing. Everything he’s touched has turned to dog shit.
Trump would not do anything differently. He’s like Hitler sitting in Dresden, the city smouldering in ruins behind him, “I would do nothing differently. Nothing! Nothing at all!!!!!!!”
Don’t tell Donald
Don’t tell Donald
Let him believe he’s a Superman
Let him believe he’s the bomb
Don’t tell Donald
Don’t tell Donald
Let him believe he’s the greatest
Let him believe he’s the bomb
Don’t tell Donald
Don’t tell Donald
Until election day is here
Trump’s ads might as well show the Titanic sinking and Trump screaming “I’m your captain!”
Trump could mobilize massive testing and he could crawl out of this shit hole. But he’s have to admit he was wrong about testing, which he can’t do. He”s a fucking moron.
Trump’s campaign manager can’t turn chicken shit into chicken salad, but he’ making fortune lying to Trump. You gotta love it. Keep paying him Donald. He’s screwing you good.
Hey LB
Give us your take on the a Space Force – I just watched the grinning President Dumbfuckery unfurling the new flag in the Oval. Weren’t you inspired with awe & patriotic fervour? Huh?
Are you saying the entire idea of space force is a joke?
Is it just that Trump pushed for and got it?
Things one should ponder before going so hard off the rails.
Take a deep breath you only have four and a half years left of your all time favorite President.
Keep going like this and you will stroke out for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test
https://spacenews.com/u-s-intelligence-russia-and-china-will-have-operational-anti-satellite-weapons-in-a-few-years/
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/china-in-space-does-us-contest-or-cooperate/
Benr
You really take the cake, huh. If Himself does it it is, ipso facto, good.
He’s simply renamed an existing Air Force function and made it yet another huge maw in which ‘defense’ boondoggles can be hidden.
“Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) was a major command of the United States Air Force from September 1982 to December 2019. … AFSPC had its headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base and supported U.S. military operations worldwide through the use of many different types of space operations.”
And this:
“At best, a space force is a distraction from what is necessary to ensure security in the face of rapid technological and geopolitical changes. At worst, it would prompt a space arms race that would threaten satellites, not protect them. Diplomacy, not a bureaucratic reorganization, is urgently needed,” said Laura Grego, a senior scientist in the Global Security Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Grego told Space.com that she thinks it may be easy to dismiss the Space Force as a vanity project because of the name.
“It still is mostly a bureaucratic reshuffling, without a big budget or increase in personnel. But it also organizes military space around deterring and responding to aggression,” Grego said.
“Using that framework, there is a bureaucratic incentive to hype the threat and then build weapons to counter that threat,” she added. “There is no commensurate effort from the State Department to shape the space environment to be more stable and peaceful, which would certainly benefit both military and civil space users.”
And:
“Now that the decision has been taken to do so, the debate is more about what such a Space Force would look like,” Martinez told Space.com. “To date, what we have seen is mostly a reorganization of already existing activities, with nothing fundamentally new or additional. It remains to be seen how this Space Force will develop in future and what its rules of engagement will be.”
Why should Mexicans have to come here to vote? If illegals can vote here, why shouldn’t Mexicans or say, Maj, get to vote online right from their living rooms in their own countries? As Colonists, it is their right!
Distraction much?
China has created something like a Space Force; that’s why we need one.
Remember when the President proposed buying Greenland from Denmark? What an idiot, huh? A buffoon! Well China is building an airbase and a major port in Greenland with plans for rare earth mining, gold mining, coal mining, and oil drilling. Too late for Denmark to object, unless they send up their puny little army to Greenland to give the PLA, who is running the show, a good thrashing LoL.
Brh
The US already HAS an airbase in Greenland – has had for decades.
https://www.airforce-technology.com/features/thule-military-base-in-greenland/
So, what’s the worry again? Anyway, how will the “Space Force” make any difference in fecking Greenland which, last time I checked, is earthbound.
As well, Marlin, the “Belt & Road” initiative is hardly a secret. If the USA wants access to all the Greenland mineral goodies, it should INVEST there (as the Chinese are doing).
For the stool Pidgeon leftist talking heads.
The Biden campaign is about to get a spot light flashed on them that uncle Joe probably can’t handle.
https://www.oann.com/senate-approves-subpoena-in-gops-hunter-biden-burisma-probe/
This guy Biden is nothing but a place holder for some other loser in the Democrat party if the #metoo movement was not just another political ploy they would have gone after this guy years ago.
I’ll say it again, I’m no capital D Democrat. I simply find the current President Clusterfuck to be intolerable (as well as incoherent, immature, outrageously narcissistic and just generally toxic, socially and morally.). Anybody would be better.
That simply is not true and you know it.
There are plenty of people who are not capable of running anything and can barely do any job much less steer the ship of state or deal with the Mafioso two party system of government we are in today.
The stress alone would kill most of the commenters on this board.
My point is, that This Particular Dipstick ain’t the guy. But I’ll conceded that if there’s anyone less qualified, it would be YOU, buddy.
Hah!
Good one.
Truth is I could manage circles around you and even have common sense something you appear to lack 100%.
You want a pissing competition?
@majella
I would win that one as well!
I can aim and shoot far!
Well, you sure proved yourself a dick, right there.
Amid the corona virus panic an icon of the 50’s is making a resurgence all over the western world.
The Drive in movies classic Americana!
Fondly remember seeing movies in this format as a kid.
https://www.oann.com/popcorn-palm-trees-and-face-masks-cannes-rolls-out-drive-in-cinema/
“Around Here, USA” is opening up today and people are returning to work officially. This is interesting since the people here never really quarantined. The “Lock Down” was rather half-assed. I see the Americans and the Mexicans out working around the house wearing face masks, but I suspect that they take them off as soon as they leave the property? This is typical of America now where everything is fake and a racket, even the Virtual Signaling protests like the Michael Brown case, Trevon Martin, and now Ahmaud Arbrey. And, of course, RussiaGate….
I suppose that Trump did show leadership in using the pandemic to expose US vulnerability to China’s supply chain, particularly its dependence on Chinese PPE and drugs? But I think that the US government has been so privatized over the years that it has become a hostage to US Corporations and foreigners, and it has become “feckless” “Wu Neng”. There is no “Government”? It may be a sign of impending collapse?
In retrospect, Trump probably shouldn’t have bothered with the half-assed lock down, and he should rather have focused on getting people to wear face masks, wash hands, etc. Trump should have embarked on a new Manhattan Project to develop a public toilet that doesn’t aerosolize the Covid 19-loaded shit and piss and spray it everywhere when flushed.
Well that is actually pretty easy require that all toilets have seats and the toilet won’t flush until the seat is closed.
Another added feature would be strong UV lights that activate for a period of time after each flush and turn off.
Might have to work on that patent!
I think it’s the Japanese who are into state-of-the-art space-age toilets, self cleaning cubicles and such? Doors you don’t have to touch and so on.
Apparently 69% of American men don’t wash their hands after using public toilets! And about half as many women. I remember having a conversation with someone about the bowls of peanuts they used to have on the bar that put me off peanuts for quite a while.
Yea that is just nasty!
I’m an IT guy who also got stuck dealing with peoples phones and when they break I get to handle them…
I wash my hands constantly but invariably I get pink eye about four times a year.
Janos,
An example of Western Culture.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNVxFPHkrrPkDkLVtGhcJkzdB?projector=1
Does this bring tears to your eyes? Did mine.
Doesn’t load on my machine so I cannot weep.
It led me to Gmail.
Janos, Malthuss, et al’
My apologies. Here is the link;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enuOArEfqGo
If I might editorialize, it would seem impossible to construct this emotive of events with a pig’s bladder, lip whistle and fart horn….
Virtual Walk in North TEL AVIV
https://youtu.be/jBhcqpdvoJU
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It is really pretty there. I love the purple mimosa trees in the beginning and its nice because even though its the city there is so much green and mostly all you can hear are birds.
It’s quite amazing when you realize that every tree every shrub and every flower is hand planted on desert sand soil but survives and even thrives on account of special care and watering by computer controlled drip irrigation. It just goes to show what people can do when they have love for life and nature and the land they are on.
Real Clinical trial for medication Trump says he is taking beginning.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/uk-healthcare-workers-begin-covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-trial/ar-BB14pbbA?ocid=msnews
So for the people all over who have used this as an excuse to dish on Trump I have a question.
Putting aside for just one second your deep seeded animosity to Trump for his boorish personality or your belief that he was a Democrat that betrayed the Democrat party.
Do you think he just decided on his own to start popping these pills?
The President of the United States has a doctor and full staff pretty close at all times.
There are times I try very hard to understand some of the attacks on President Trump but this one seems to be founded on zero merit and full on hysterics. Even Nancy Pelosi is piling on like she actually cares if Trump is healthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Medical_Unit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_to_the_President
This President of the United States has repeatedly shown that he has very poor judgement and the overwhelming weight of the evidence is that this decision is no different.
Speaking of overwhelming weight, in this case it is the decision of a clinically obese 73 year old with clinical heart disease taking a drug, against indications, with known cardiac side effects. He himself said this week that he decided to take it because he has gotten lots of calls about it, or something like that.
Wait a cotton-pick in’ minute…!!!!???? Where’s Dr. Ronny Johnson? You know, NigIQwl’s buddy & fellow alumnus?
But seriously, folks…your question is inviting pointless speculation. More important is whether the trials prove President chloroform right on HCQ.?
I, for one, would be utterly delighted if the many trials now underway prove this pathway is at least a useful adjunct in the fight against a novel disease, let alone an effective cure and/or prophylactic!
I’d even weather the shitstorm of grinning Drumpf on screen, lol’ing it up that he was right, and the various levels of mega-gloating from the likes of you. But if he IS right, it’ll be just dumb-fuckin’-luck.
“Real Clinical trial for medication Trump says he is taking beginning.”
Exactly. And rightly so. There are others already underway. And if it turns out to be a valid and entirely safe treatment, that will be wonderful.
But assurances will need to be made to lupus sufferers that they won’t find their medication is unavailable because it’s been given to people who aren’t even sick, and many of whom have claimed on here and elsewhere that it’s a negligible disease anyway. Because sophia, in particular, will be upset if Covid patients are given priority over lupus patients for inadequate supplies of HCQ. And if people who aren’t even sick are given it while lupus sufferers are made to go without, she’ll be apoplectic, along with Dr Kendrick.
I trust.
My sweet Grandma on my dads side had lupus something to do with being almost full blooded Cherokee it’s what finally got her in the end.
I worried about my daughter and still do hoping enough European DNA off set that problem.
Grandma Hazel suffered from it her entire life.
She also smoked and drank miller lite till the day she died.
Wasn’t the smoking or beer it was her own damn immune system.
Well I hope your daughter will be OK too, benr.
And your Grandma Hazel sounds lovely. Sorry she suffered with lupus. Most of us don’t now we’re born, we’re so lucky.
The President isn’t allowed to touch anything of this sort that is not approved by his physicians. They are responsible for the life of one of the most powerful men in the world and are fully aware of any risks.
When Trump mentions taking it, the proglets lose their minds, as it destroys the entire media narrative.
It is hilarious to watch.
To quote President HCQ himself:
“I asked him ‘should I take it?’ and he said “sure, why not?” ”
However, I strongly doubt he’s taking any such thing – especially if you’re correct about his WHMU’s ethical & medical responsibility.
Of course, he could be secretly consulting with the disgraced Dr. Ronny and, with his usual childish pique, ignoring advice from any of the extremely scarce adults in the room. They’d have also been cowed into not contradicting Himself.
Hilarious to watch!
Did you really mean to say:
“The President isn’t allowed to..:
???
Are you kidding me? When has anyone stopped him from doing whatever the heck he chooses? I thought that was a great FEATURE for you cultist voters, not a bug.
Oh, and by the way…
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?
NEWS
https://news.usni.org/2020/05/21/shooting-at-nas-corpus-christi-security-force-member-injured-shooter-neutralized
Useless Lockdown: Face Masks Decrease Coronavirus Transmission Rate by 75%
Pomidor Quixote May 21, 2020
Assuming you are dumb enough to want to try to avoid herd immunity, we already know what works and what doesn’t. The data exists. But these people that run governments and media continue to claim to be putting “science over data.”
The only things proven to be worth doing to curb the spread of coronavirus so far are:
Closing schools
Banning mass gatherings (concerts and festivals specifically, where people are very close together)
Wearing face masks
The house arrest stuff, not meeting with friends, avoiding human interaction, and all of that stuff has a negligible effect on the spread of the virus.
Coronavirus is about as dangerous as the flu, so on top of pretending that the virus is dangerous, the government is pretending that all of these insane prisoner lifestyle measures that they’re pushing are needed — while, in fact, they’re mostly useless.
Daily Mail:
More evidence face masks help curb the spread of the coronavirus has emerged after a study found it reduced infection by up to 75 per cent.
Researchers in Hong Kong studied transmission of the virus between hamsters, with half infected with COVID-19 and the other being healthy.
They analysed various scenarios in which the hamsters cages were either cloaked with face mask material or not.
Although it’s completely different to how humans interact, the researchers said it showed ‘very clearly’ that covering the nose and mouth is hugely effective to mitigate spread.
…
The study was released by the department of microbiology at the University of Hong Kong but has not been peer-reviewed or published in a journal yet.
It involved two groups of hamsters – one were infected with COVID-19, some of which were not displaying symptoms, and the other were perfectly healthy.
A fan was placed between the cages to allow for the transmission of respiratory droplets from the infected hamsters’ cage to the other.
When there was no face mask coverings on the cages, two-thirds of the healthy hamsters caught the coronavirus within a week.
In the scenario in which mask barriers were placed only on cages with the infected hamsters, the transmission rate dropped by 75 per cent.
Just over 15 per cent of the healthy hamsters got sick compared to 66 per cent before.
In the scenario where healthy hamsters were shielded with a masked barrier, 33 per cent were infected, showing it was only half as effective.
The researchers added that the hamsters who were infected even with the mask barrier had less of the virus in their bodies when compared to those infected without the masks.
‘The findings implied to the world and the public is that the effectiveness of mask-wearing against the coronavirus pandemic is huge,’ lead author and coronavirus expert Dr Yuen Kwok-yung told a news briefing, according to Sky News.
‘In our hamster experiment, it shows very clearly that if infected hamsters or humans -especially asymptomatic or symptomatic ones – put on masks, they actually protect other people.
‘That’s the strongest result we showed here. Transmission can be reduced by 50 percent when surgical masks are used, especially when masks are worn by infected individuals.’
When the initial crisis happened, the logical thing to do would have been to tell people to wear masks. Since everyone is safe in the open air either way, you wouldn’t have had to have passed an insane and invasive mask law, you could have just said that people have to wear them inside of public buildings. That would have been as much protection for the public as you are likely to ever get from any virus, and people would have been allowed to keep their rights and their jobs.
This is exactly what was done in South Korea and China, two countries that have now largely eliminated the virus without ever having to destroy everyone’s freedoms and jobs. None of this anti-social distancing lunacy.
It is only the West that implemented this insanity – ironically, alleging that it is based on Asian neurosis. Asians are neurotic and obsessed with hygiene and germs, but they aren’t stupid. They understand that economies exist and that in order to keep people from rising up you have to allow them a certain amount of personal freedom and basic bodily autonomy.
Americans were initially told not to wear masks, for reasons that still remain unclear, as we were also forced to lock ourselves in our houses as the government collapsed the economy.
So even if you believe that safety from a virus matters more than jobs, freedom and basic human dignity, what is going on in the West simply does not make any sense.
The only explanation for this is a secret agenda that has nothing at all to do with public health.
JS: To be clear, We do not approve of Slave Masks. Herd immunity is the manly and aesthetic way to go. But if you must use them, use them correctly. The sick should if they have to go out. But if you start worrying about people who might (add italics) be sick, and might be infecting you, then you lose everything. You doubt the other person and therefore fail in charity. And to be “fair” (the last remnant of moral culture), you them must doubt yourself as well. Thus civil society is reduced to masked slaves ignoring each other as much as possible in order to be “safe”.
You got test lasted week as per protocols? But that’s a long time ago. You got tested yesterday? What about today? You got tested this morning? That was hours ago. You got tested an hour ago? What about that poorly dressed, coughing customer you were waiting on a half hour ago? Ultimately, only having a chip that can tell when you are infected is the only absolute safety. And this is what the slaves will be made to demand, and this is what they will get – along with all kinds of other features.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. And the passion for safety is the enemy of freedom. Freedom isn’t free after all – insecurity is its price and the freedom to fail is one of its outcomes. Free Men aren’t equal and Equal men aren’t free.
“This is exactly what was done in South Korea and China, two countries that have now largely eliminated the virus without ever having to destroy everyone’s freedoms and jobs. None of this anti-social distancing lunacy…
…They understand that economies exist and that in order to keep people from rising up you have to allow them a certain amount of personal freedom and basic bodily autonomy.”
Personal freedom? Why haven’t you mentioned that the Chinese have to use an app that tells them personally whether they’re allowed out the house and where you can and can’t go? And in Korea, it has your bank details?
You surprise me (well, not really). My masks don’t have my bank details on them and they don’t tell me whether or not I can go out. And I haven’t seen a police officer in three months.
You lot are so well conditioned that they don’t even need to do those things. And if you did act up? Well ask Emma West what would happen to you. Or Tommy Robinson. But those people are scum you reply. See my first sentence.
“You lot are so well conditioned that they don’t even need to do those things. ”
I can go to the shops as many times in the day as I choose. Nobody’s stopping me. I go when I need to, which is pretty often since I don’t have a car.
Emma West was a drunken lout who should have given more thought to her child. I don’t know whether she’s scum or not – let’s hope she’s wised up a bit and takes more care of her daughter now.
The other publicity seeker doesn’t need any more publicity from me.
And you still haven’t said if you approve the Chinese and S. Korean methods. You’re the one lauding their success, so at least be consistent.
I’ve just watched Americans in BMWs and Mercedes lining up for food, so I agree with you that the lockdown should have stopped by now anywhere other than hotspots – and that maybe it wasn’t even needed in many places. But in some places it was needed. And in many places other measures will still be needed. You are unable to compromise, which is your undoing.
Emma West was a woman who should have been given more freedom to voice her thought .
I don’t know whether she’s scum or not –[of course you do not]
let’s hope you wised up a bit.
–fixed that.
They’re always wearing masks anyway. Who cares what they do in their own lands? But yeah, they handled this smarter than we did – one could hardly do worse, right? The article I quoted takes this pov if you bothered to read it.
Janos
I didn’t mention masks – I mentioned invasive apps.
“Emma West was a woman who should have been given more freedom to voice her thought .”
She didn’t ‘voice her thought’. She ranted abusively on a bus while boozed up to her eyeballs.
Did our poets and writers never drink to excess? She was quite eloquent in a lower class kind of way.
“She was quite eloquent in a lower class kind of way.”
Haha. Love it!
What adult-style compromises would you have been happy with in order to prevent the lockdown altogether? I doubt if New York could have survived no lockdown, but perhaps Boston got off more lightly?
” And I haven’t seen a police officer in three months. ”
Well , granted , I haven’t paid a visit to the Merry old UK lately , but my history books tell me that you folks had police battalions at a time , when , for the average American , the police was some retiree who was three days horse ride away.
So I kinda suspect this is in the same category as that guy who claimed the contemporary Eastern United States is like the Andy Griffith Show , and perfect strangers stop to help stranded motorists .
Maybe that actually happens in Kentucky ? Or Kansas ?
But New Jersey ?
Uh huh.
Yes, the first Police Force funded from taxation was in Glasgow. They fought fires too. Made themselves useful.
I’m excited because I finally was able to get an appointment with my stylist next Friday. She said I have to take my temperature and wear a burka to get my hair trimmed. I mean a face mask. If she doesn’t follow those guidelines the state can shut her down again.
You mean a Niquab. I’m keeping the u in there because u always follows q in our language.
The burka is the robe. The hijab is the head gear. The niquab is the face mask. The burkini is their swim wear.
They also have a hazmat suit, but I don’t know what they call that. Also called by some a bee keeper suit to protect from the sting of the male gaze. Muslim women exalt about how no one can see them except God. Their husband may or may not be part of God or the no one.
“I’m keeping the u in there because u always follows q in our language.”
It’s not your language. Please explain why you don’t write Versigh for that lavish pad west of Paris.
You deny that u follows Q in English? Do you think we’re speaking Arabic, droog? (fool in Russian).
The word isn’t English, hence your point is a non-point.
You haven’t told me how you spell ‘Versaille’ in English?
I wonder how you spell Qatar and Iraq. 🙂
Do you roll your r’s like Lefties used to do here when they said El Salvador and Nicaragua – rendering themselves ridiculous? Tryin’ to be all sympatico and shit….
“Do you roll your r’s like Lefties used to do here when they said El Salvador and Nicaragua – rendering themselves ridiculous? ”
You asked me that on the previous thread. It’s why I mentioned Versaille, which I pronounce the same way you do. Probably. I don’t need the world to know my real French accent is perfect (with a dauphinois inflection, since you ask). Also I’d feel a twit, because, like I said, I don’t like drawing attention to myself in public, especially by doing naff things.
And I’m not tempted to make the spelling English, because it’s a French proper noun.
And I wouldn’t pronounce Des Moines ‘day mwan either, because that would be naff too, monkish meanings notwithstanding. 🙂
Sorry, italics meant to stop after dauphinois.
GA
Doesn’t even the cultured Edinburgh accent have the characteristic Scottish ‘burr’, with ‘r’s being ‘rolled’?
It’s characteristic even in the New Zealand accent in the far south, in towns like Invercarrrrrgill.
SSL
If you can manage the word ‘hijab’ and you can manage the word ‘burqa’, you can manage the word ‘niqab’, which is the one you’re struggling for.
You’d hope your stylist would follow the guidelines out of consideration for you, and that you would follow them out of consideration for her and her other customers, some of whom may be more vulnerable than you. Isn’t that what they taught you about in Sunday School? I’d quite like a haircut too, but I’d have to hope all parties were taking care, and not just virtue signalling about niqabs.
What I find most amusing is that this is all about how EFFECTIVE masks are, and as an argument against the shutdown. Kinda contradictory, JS.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/21/unemployment-claims-coronavirus/
Trumpy Tweety and the Gang don’t want to keep paying benefits. Ok Fuck Face, then why did you just sit back and just let them take down the Economy? As Ely said in terms of the inevitable long term loss of jobs to automation: You either pay for them or kill them. Letting them slide out onto the streets is killing them without having the balls to take responsibility for it. And causing massive harm to the cities and other people as they slowly die. As Yoda said, Do or Don’t do.
Trump is connected to one of the Vaccination Cabals. He wants this farce to play out I assume in order to get the very big bucks that are coming down the pike. But how to limit the damage in the mean time? Stop paying benefits! Genius.
As I said yesterday, he threatened to get tough about vaccinating people, with Generals standing next to him. Why didn’t he get tough about not closing down the Economy? Why didn’t he step in then – with Generals at his side? Martial Law or just the threat of it. He could have taken care of the Disease such as it is, and quelled the panic while staying open.
Polls have been done: most Chinese are fine with being watched and given a social credit score. It’s how they thought anyway under Confucianism and then Maoism. The individual is just a localization of the group – and nothing in him or her self.
Do we really want to go down this road? The Elite want to take us there and masks are a great first step.
Yup. Don’t wear masks and don’t blindly obey authority. Challenge them at every turn and do not believe anything they tell you. Best to be rid of them all at every election cycle. Never ever vote twice for any of them, including Trump.
This just in: President Trump’s personal physician today released a report that shows that the hydroxychloroquine that Trump has been taking has cured his bone spurs. With this news, the Department of the Army is considering whether they should award Trump all of the medals that he would have undoubtedly earned in Vietnam had he been able to serve at that time. President Trump said modestly: “I’ll leave decisions like that up to the generals, at least the ones I haven’t fired yet.”
In further news, Vice President Pence’s office released a statement encouraging Americans to deny the Democrat’s hoax regarding Covid 19. “Democrat liberals are born with one purpose: to destroy Jesus and ring in a new era of liberal darkness, and are using fake news broadcasters like CNN to perpetuate this hoax about about the coronavirus to further their agenda”.
“The data shows this “virus” is mainly knocking off old weak people (Most of whom used to be hippies) and black people. Everyone else is just fine. These people are probably just dying from an accumulation of all the drugs they took when they were younger”.
Trump famously claimed that ‘his Vietnam’ was shagging his way through his 20s without getting any STDs. Maybe he was already on hydroxychloroquine back then?
I guess it’s as good a prophylactic as anything else…
First plane to land at Ben Gurion airport following the corona virus quarantine and shutdown. The plane is an Air Ethiopia plane carrying new Jewish immigrants to Israel. These were greeted by the new Minister of Absorption, Pnina Tamano, who is herself a recent immigrant from Ethiopia:
https://youtu.be/f2IcYKFoo-I
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In less than one generation Pnina, who arrived to Israel with literally nothing, no language no education no money not even even shoes on her feet, suffering complete culture shock coming from a village without any modern civilization to one of the most modern and scientifically advanced countries in the world, still managed to gather herself, learn the language finish law school and now become the new Israeli Minister of Absorption! Bravo, Pnina!!
Btw, Pnina is Hebrew for Pearl. And a beautiful pearl she is!
Sounds like affirmative action. Absorption?
No such thing in Israeli politics. Israeli political parties hold internal elections and the top members elected get selected to represent the party. The party then needs to win the general election and win Knesset seats. The winning party with the most Knesset seats gets to compose a majority of 61 Knesset members as a governing government. This governing government will be comprised of multiple political parties and their representative Knesset members. Each political party negotiates what ministry will be headed by it. Top ministries, are Defense Treasury Construction and Justice. The ministry of Immigration is fairly minor and in Israel it is commonly called the ministry of Absorption.
Sounds like affirmative action.
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Why demean God in such a way? Pnina is a human miracle and a testament to the human spirit, a role model on so many levels. Why the racist malice, Jan?
She’s not God. I don’t even think she’s very good looking. Ilhan Omar is good looking, even though a Somali Muslim. The Horn of Africa produces some good looking women. Sadly their IQ’s are said to be no better than the rest of Africa. Ilhan may be a little bit smarter, but she has a terrible character.
I remember that you are into non-White Jewish women.
I don’t have strong preference for any over the other. Although I do also very much like eastern European girls, but that’s because I relate most to them, being that I come from that area and lived there as a child. Eastern European girls are very warm and have a motherly kindness to them that I haven’t seen matched by other girls. And they’re not bad looking either, with sexy long legs that reach to their necks.
Israela Avtau
https://youtu.be/UW_1tqRjVZo
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Besides the usual historic issues on this blog concerning energy considerations, climate change, etc., the commentary here is now all about politics, Coronavirus, dems and repubs.
I’m of two minds about the virus.The proper course of action vis a vie the pandemic is very confusing. One side says the situation is dire, don’t do this, don’t do that; the other side says it’s just like a bad flu, the numbers are bogus, you don’t need social distancing, masks are slavery, it’s brainwashing for control of the masses, etc. I lean towards the latter.
But being 75, and based on the figures just released, the 75-79 age group has an 11 or 12% death rate if one gets the virus. That’s a one out of eight death rate. Now, as far as I know, I’m healthy and have no pre-conditions. How much of my cohort’s death rate is due to ill health/long-term care environment? So for me, what’s my real chances? How much can I trust the numbers being put out, if at all?
I’m still active, feel fine, enjoy my life, my parents’ death age was 99.5, and even though I’ve lived a large percentage of my ultimate lifespan, I still have a lot I want to accomplish, learn and experience. I just don’t buy the “ you’re old and going to die soon anyway” meme. I’m no fool and don’t believe a lot of the bullshit being put out here and the outside world.
Still… what do I do about all the precautions?
You already have a trillion viruses in you, Bill. To keep them under control learn about health, learn about boosting your immunity, learn to learn. You are not going to get any useful information from the MSM and the Vatican gov mafia. They are there to deceive you and cause you harm. They want you as a slave and when your utility as a slave is over, they want you dead. It’s that simple.
How else do you explain them Vatican mafia criminal thugs, Cuomo and DeBlasio, deliberately forcing and infecting vulnerable nursing homes with corona infected persons. The Vatican mafia MSM is completely silent about this deliberate mass murder, as though it never happened. And then they have the chutzpah to publicly hammer Jews gathering amongst themselves during a funeral.
Open your eyes, Bill, understand the Vatican and its agents were first to politically sponsor Nazism and the Holocaust, and then they hid and gave safe passage to millions of Nazi criminals. These lizards are capable of anything and everything. And they are EVERYWHERE.
I know all that and am well-versed about the immune system and how to maximize its effectiveness. Don’t worry.
” Isn’t that what they taught you about in Sunday School? ”
Most likely , I guess , they taught him in Sunday school that Christ said he should be a door mat to people like you.
Most likely they taught him things like ; He should overlook having his throat slit , because you occasionally say , ” Please ” , ” Thank you ” , and , ” Have a nice day. ”
Most likely they taught him that it is legitimate to take scoldings on how he should run his household from people who are not obliged to share his rice bowl , and would not volunteer to do so either.
Most likely he comes from a long line of teachers who still haven’t pointed out that Martin Luther fucked his parents over , and fucked his benefactors over , and sold his services to German Princes who knew full well already that you can read into , or read out of , the Bible whatever you like.
Most likely he had teachers who , despite their college degrees , never have noticed bloody obvious things like , Julius Ceasar and Jack the Ripper , Anne Frank and Adolf Hitler , are at least exceptions to the rule , if not utter aberrations.
999 out of a thousand people will have been forgotten by even their own family within a minimum of 100 years , but likely in as little as 50.
And the world you knew will be as alien and suspect to them , as North Korea is to you.
Which is to say that within 100 years , or even as few as 50 , your own blood will not know or care whether you were a fine fellow or a serial killer.
Never the less , he had teachers who think that telling him that grandma went to Hell is rather mean.
But telling him that it essentially means nothing whether grandma lived or not , was good or bad ,
that the next vote in the next popularity contest for the next Caligula can wipe away every virtue , and manufacture vices even where there were none ?
Nope ! Nothing wrong with that picture !
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All of which is to say that you should be pleased ?
You should be handing out medals and sinecures to Soft Star Light ?
Try to get over it, Kesa.
And the United Reformed in Stockton-on-Tees weren’t Lutherans.
“But telling him that it essentially means nothing whether grandma lived or not , was good or bad”
That’s just dumb. Sorry.
I’m grandma. My brother who will be buried next week along with his son was granddad. My kids won’t think it means nothing whether I lived or nor, was good or bad, any more than I thought the same about my parents. Any more than my brother’s family will think the same of him. My parents married late so I never knew my grandmas, either of them. Only one granddad when he was 97 and blind. Even without knowing them it doesn’t mean nothing whether they lived or died, whether they were good or bad. I have their stories that I heard in my childhood and which live on, and I have their photos, black & white, and sepia.
But here’s a thought that’s occurred to me more than once. Let’s say your beliefs have validity. Don’t you worry in the slightest that you and Janos (I think of you as a pair, quite different from SSL) do so much to turn people off religion? You might be called to account for that.
But have a nice day. Masked or unmasked. And, like I said, try to get over it. Or at least show a little diversification in the one person you are infatuated with over their lack of belief. There are others even on this forum. Show a little variety.
It’s not like I even mentioned it, although others did. You should be concerned about your obsession. It’s not healthy.
And SSL’s a she. As far as I know. Long blonde tresses and everything.
All you Monday morning MDs.
It is none of your business why Trump decided to take the chloroquine. If he is trying to prove a point, good for him. If the studies show that it is a cure or even a preventative, good. We need to strive for a cure as well as a vaccine. The need for the treatment is between hm and his doctor. If any one of you get the disease and are saved by the drug, you can thank Trump and the rest of the studies subjects for having the cojones to try to validate a cure.
How many times in US history that a political party has purposely hurt and killed many people by perpetuating lies and falsehoods about a disease process. Why are all the blue states and cities where the reluctance to open the economy. That is so easy, the longer the economy is held back, the more likely the stupid American gimme people will vote for a damn Deep Stater.
This is such an obvious power grab by the DS being supported by the overwhelming gimme attitude of the stupidified American public.
Same old…
“It is none of your business why Trump decided to take the chloroquine.”
No it isn’t. But it’s people’s business that he made it public before it has been found to be either effective or safe (which I hope it will be – I might need it).
On the basis of a methodologically flawed study in Marseille, which involved 80 patients, and Trump’s endorsement of it, there was a run on HCQ, which meant lupus patients risked not getting the medication they desperately need.
Everybody and his wife jumped on the bandwagon.
Since then there’s been an American study involving 368 patients – that’s more than four times the number in the flawed study – and because it doesn’t give the results the bandwagon jumpers want, it’s being ignored by them.
But now there may be another run on HCQ because Trump has shot off his mouth again. All he needed to do was take the drug and keep it zipped until the clinical trials were completed. Once they are completed and if they show the miracle drug is really that, producers will go into hyperdrive. That would have been the time to run his mouth. Is that too much to ask? What happened to statesmanship? Or just discretion?
I hear there’s a case to be made for iced coffee enemas. Leave no stone unturned.
And no tern unstoned.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkuwB39VAAAMycV.jpg
And behave yourself, captain. The last thing we need is a ‘run’ on enemas. 🙂
beantownbill.
I’m still active, feel fine, enjoy my life, my parents’ death age was 99.5, and even though I’ve lived a large percentage of my ultimate lifespan, I still have a lot I want to accomplish, learn and experience. I just don’t buy the “ you’re old and going to die soon anyway” meme. I’m no fool and don’t believe a lot of the bullshit being put out here and the outside world.
Still… what do I do about all the precautions?
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What color are you?
Not that it really matters or anything…
I just wanna be careful about making health suggestions to a stranger…
I’m white and Jewish, unless you believe as does Janos, that Jews are not white.
Well who ultimately decides who is a white person and who is not?
“Well who ultimately decides who is a white person and who is not?”
Blacks?
Janos as a self defined white person, should know another white person when he meets one right?
As a brain surgeon, I should know another brain surgeon when I meet one right?
So Boogertown Bob, who are you to challenge Janos on his definition of white person?
A set has certain common characteristics by which it is known. The members of the set must have these characteristics. White skin isn’t enough because albinos of other races would then be White. There’s a lot more to being White than just skin color.
I do recognize other Whites by their appearance, but again, culture is important too. We don’t racial Whites who are no longer culturally White – say like red bearded Jihadis or European converts to Islam.
Alba is no longer White in a cultural sense either. That’s why she and her cohort don’t fight for Western Culture – it isn’t theirs anymore and they don’t care about it. They’re globalists who just happen to reside in the West. That’s it.
Yeah, that’s the issue. I always thought skin color was mostly obvious, except in some mixed race cases. For me, who gives a shit? A human is a human.
Yeah, no such things as different kinds of cars, they’re all just cares. Breeds of dog? No such thing – they’re all just dogs. Types of apple? No, just apples.
What an impoverished world this man would have us live in.
“Yeah, no such things as different kinds of cars, they’re all just cares. Breeds of dog? No such thing – they’re all just dogs. Types of apple? No, just apples. ”
Janos,
You are correct…my black ass abides….
Mike Wallace said he wasn’t White. Many of you all feel the same, openly or quietly. Why not take it up with them first? Why put it on me and mine only?
Sidney Powell is holding Sullivan’s feet to the fire now.
https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1263557289950228481
He is going to deeply regret turning this into a circus.
Once again…
Who’s the WH Doctor, HigIQwl?
Current temp at SPole: -81°F
FEELS LIKE -101°F! with wind chill factor.
Don’t book your tropical vacation to to Antarctica quite yet, despite what the Guardian of London says.
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!
Bars and Restaurants were shut down 2 months ago and as many as 40% of them will not reopen, including Poppa Wheeliez. It looks like the place is more than temporarily closed, it looks abandoned. Then again it always had a menacing, forlorn, battered air about it.
Brh
Temperatures in Antarctica:
How cold is it right now in Antarctica?
McMurdo Fri 12:00 noon -9 °F
Neumayer-Station III Fri 12:00 midnight -28 °F
Orcadas Thu 9:00 pm 21 °F
Rothera Research Station Thu 9:00 pm 27 °F
Heading towards a thaw in many places, I’d say.
In Celsius:
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/antarctica
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
JS: Imagine what he would think of people who wear masks….
I kinda wonder what he would think of people so obsessed about something as trivial as a wearing a mask in a shop when there are real things to worry about that every other utterance they make is about them.
I guess you wouldn’t wear a plaster if you accidentally cut your arm open either. Bleed like a man.
Why are you such a cry baby?
He wouldn’t think of it as trivial, but an infringement upon his dignity and rights. The Symbolism is potent indeed. Making Fauci and Birx wear masks took them out of the game. Pelosi knows – and takes her mask off to talk. Trump won’t wear one, etc.
Of course, all of this is Greek to an utter materialist like you. A forest is just so much wood to such as you. And the Sun but a hapenny in the skye.
I’m not a materialist – sorry to disappoint you.
So don’t wear a mask. Just stop making such a feckin’ fuss about it, like a big girl’s blouse.
And we don’t have halfpennies any more. Even on Skye.
Why don’t you just ask him, because you can’t say for sure what he thinks?
“Pelosi knows – and takes her mask off to talk. Trump won’t wear one, etc.”
You just don’t get the context thing, do you? I wore one to go to the corner shop this morning. Two minutes to get there, three minutes in the shop. Then I took it off, carefully, and proceeded to take the hound for a stroll.
If Trump had to go to work every day in a crowded subway carriage, cheek by jowl with the great American public, including the unwashed, he’d be wearing a mask. Bone spur character says so. I’d put money on it. He’s another Chickenhawk.
So, it’s official. Trump went to Michigan and wore a mask where a mask was considered appropriate. And it ‘looked very nice, very nice’.
So everyone can calm down now, if their personality allows.
I’m not even laughing. It was the green shoots of common sense, so that’s something to be thankful for.
For those who think it was a sign of low IQ and submission, I’ll say a little prayer. Sort of. 🙂
Imagine what he would think of Joggers?
Here’s a piece of good news: The Atlantic Magazine, the wokest rag being published at this time in the United States, run by Steve Jobs wife, is laying off 68 people and bankruptcy might be in the offing. I used to subscribe to Atlantic. Now under Lauren Jobs leadership, literally, every single article in every issue, has some sort of Hate Trump angle. Oh, they hate a lot of other stuff too, Whitey, Republicans, the NRA, Israel, the historical United States, the Bill of Rights, but it all come back to President Trump. Haha, now they’re going down after about 160 years in business. It looks like Trump is going to outlast all these hate filled sonsabitches. It is sweet, and victory in Nov will be sweeter.
Brh
Yup, the commie propaganda outlets will all disappear. Economic bankruptcy always follows moral bankruptcy. And so too the Vatican medusa who gave birth to all these diseased commies, it too will disappear, as it should. In Europe and Latin America the biggest loser is Romanism and biggest winners are the Zionist Evangelicals. Many in Latin America are even calling themselves Jews who want to return to Judaism. The Roman Churches are standing empty even in Ireland. Sooner or later the arsonists will burn them all to the ground. They are already starting to do in France.
Akfomo, that video you posted up thread, Walk thru north Tel Aviv, very enjoyable. What a beautiful city it is.
Thanks, Brh. It was empty desert sand not that long ago. The Zionist pioneers that built Israel came with nothing but a dream and a motivation to build and be rebuilt. They are truly an inspiration. So too are your Founding Fathers. You have a very rich and inspiring history and an excellent foundation to build upon. But first you must be rid of these commie hostile foreign agents of their various kinds (progressives, fascists, marxists, nazis, corporatists, etc) and don’t be nice or shy about it. Their purpose is to destroy you and destroy your country. They are a very serious threat. Treat them as such.
Meanwhile the Palestinians hardly get enough water to bathe in. The Settler Movement must be reigned in – and shall be by the Jewish Messiah.
Israel desalinates its water and recycles 95% of it on agriculture, including its manicured urban gardens. The number two in the world after Israel in recycling water is Spain, and it comes in at a lowly 16%. Your Vatican sponsored Jihadists should be bathing in sand a thousand kilometres from Israel in Arabia. But likely they will be bathing in the blood of the degenerates who sponsored them to mass murder Jews. God has a sense of humour, but karma does not.
Did you know that Mr Jobs went to India on a quest, when he was young?
‘Roddie’ Bryan Jr. is now charged with murder in the Arbery killing.
How little we initially know.
Arbery has this confrontation with police in 2017:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/18/ahmaud-arbery-police-taser-2017-Georgia
Was that tase attempt necessary? No respect for the cops at all, however.
In the video of the shooting, doesn’t it look like Arbery is running around the truck and charging?
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/may/18/police-fail-in-attempt-to-tase-ahmaud-arbery-during-2017-incident-video
that taser fail was funny as shit; Arbery standing there like a black super hero wondering WTF is the big deal?
lol
BTW, for all the white people unaware, “freestyle rapping over drum beats” in your car, at a park, is a valid black culture activity.
Lady Ga Ga has made millions imitating niggers with their tuneless war chants; when are the cops gonna tase her black ass?
I kinda feel sorry for Arbery in this incident because Ive experience the same “harassment” in the past more than once; but I handled it completely differently because I was able to put myself in the position of the police officer WHO WAS CALLED TO INVESTIGATE A SUSPICIOUS PERSON; and had no choice but to respond.
Im trying to figure out a way to start a non profit where I can be paid to go to schools and dialogue with young black males regarding
what to say
and
what to do when detained by police.
Young black males need some one to explain the big picture, so they don’t freak out and get mad/annoyed like Arby does in this badge cam vid.
He seems really confused about what is occurring in this event; and thats just fucking sad.
Why is the guy who filmed it getting arrested for murder too? Am I going to get arrested for watching it while White?
Word up. It would save lives or jail time if they could only get the message. In that 2017 video you can see that this guy is ready to go, young and full of fire, full of pride, full of life. Just some reaching out, that’s all, some reaching out may have prevented this. It’s all a damn shame.
Arbery PIVOTS 90 degrees at the front of the truck and charges a man holding a shot gun.
Grabs barrel of shot gun and attempts to take it.
Fails and gets shot.
ask your self, if he tried this on a police officer would the GBI even be involved?
” Try to get over it, Kesa. ”
Tell our host that .
We have already discussed this , as you well know.
The unhealthy obsessive can leave for a week or a month —
presumably I’m an unhealthy obsessive , but I commonly don’t check in here for weeks and sometimes months. hmmm —-
— but , even though I have no claimed psychic powers , I can reasonably predict when I come back that you have been ridiculing and denigrating Christianity whether I was here or not.
And — at least when I can be bothered to do so —- I will endeavor to point out how dishonest you are.
How practically your every second sentence has to be carefully sifted on that account .
And how utterly malicious your motives are.
And if I darken your day a little , that’s a nice bonus.
I’m not going to stop ,
not least because that very form of words implied I started , when I didn’t.
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Let’s go over an elementary detail ( whether you like it or not actually ) again ;
The unhealthy obsessive can leave for a week or a month —
— but , one can reasonably predict when I come back that you have been ridiculing and denigrating Christianity whether I was here or not.
Whether I bother to say anything or not.
WHETHER I WAS EVEN HERE , OR NOT HERE.
Jesus fucking Christ , isn’t it any simpler than that folks ?
That’s how dishonest this creature is.
Her first fucking sentence is an empirically demonstrable lie.
” Get over it Kesa ”
???
As if I walked in and hit her with a baseball bat for no reason.
As if she wasn’t ALREADY in my face and pissing on my shoes BEFORE I EVEN WALKED IN THE FUCKING ROOM.
So , like I said , tell our host that scumbag , maybe he’ll actually buy your pathological deceptions ?
Ridicule and subvert the Catholic Church and the only response you will ever get from me is ;
NO.
Go fuck yourself scumbag aggressor .
I’m not going to ” get over ” you sticking your nose in my shit , putting your foot in my door.
Pretty simple shit.
I’
OK, don’t. Whatever floats your your boat.
“And if I darken your day a little , that’s a nice bonus.”
You don’t. Sorry. 🙂
Like I said, have a nice day.
“I’m not going to ” get over ” you sticking your nose in my shit , putting your foot in my door.”
You can stick your nose in my shit, put your foot in my door’ any time you want by insulting non-believers. I wish I could give a tinker’s cuss.
I lost interest in your opinions when I figured out what a self-obsessed narcissist you were (and maybe still are).
There’s an awful lot of repetition in your post, by the way. I hope you haven’t been at the sauce on a school night.
” And SSL’s a she. As far as I know. Long blonde tresses and everything. ”
And so …… ?
Quite a few times I have pointed out here that , without photos ( i.e. tell – tale tits and ass , cock and balls ) or canned stereotypes , the sexes are scarcely discernible.
Like you had male concentration camp guards who , though apparently utterly convinced in their psuedo – scientific race theories , never the less had to get flat drunk every day to do their jobs.
So I kinda sorta suppose they were pussies anyway.
And you had female concentration camp guards who would torture people to death with apparent sincere mirth , estrogen , maternal instinct , and the weaker sex thing , not withstanding apparently .
In the case of herbivores their daily bread lies all about them , and so superficially they may not seem particularly aggressive , but when subjected to virtually any objective study they prove to be as aggressive as hell.
In contrast , carnivores have to go out and hunt down their daily bread — whether they like it or not —- and so immediately and obviously appear aggressive. —
— never mind that two of those uber aggressive carnivore types became mans tail – wagging or purring best friends.
You modern , enlightened , scientific types are supposedly partial to all that nature and evidence stuff ,
but I can count on one hand the number of times I have seen any of the above mundane shit applied to human sexuality.
That is , your psychologists , sociologists and such quite often sound more like ideologues , or plain garden variety politicians , than like someone who has actually spent any time in the woods ,
or in a barnyard ,
or in a whore house for that matter. lol.
Arguably , the period of greatest military aggression / expansion in Russian history wasn’t under the virile Ivan the Great , Peter the Great , or even the known rapist Stalin , but during the tenure of a woman : Catharine the Great.
Twice in passing here I mentioned Anne Frank , and on both occasions Janos asserted emphatically that the diary of Anne Frank was actually written by a 30 – 40 ( ? ) year old man.
Granted , in this case , I never did get around to actually pointing out that , let’s say for hypothetical jollies it was actually written by a middle aged man ;
Millions of people have had not a bit of trouble excepting it as the work of a 13 – 15 year old girl.
Wouldn’t that , if true , tell you something significant ? A significant something that would contradict the sexist Hitler , and the stogy Pope too , and Gloria Steinem , and Kim Kardashian too ?
Nope , 90 % of the population doesn’t notice a god damned thing there.
Now lets take the other side of the coin ; It was written by a 13 – 15 year old girl .
Am I the only fucking person who ever actually read the thing ?
Anne Frank is as prideful , petty , control – obsessed , as easy to manipulate materially , and as pre – occupied with sex , as any man.
So , whether it was written by a girl , or written by a middle aged man , you get pretty much the exact same book review.
Nope , nothing wrong with this picture.
Anyway , such things as these I have commonly said here.
So…….. the point of your comment here was to compliment to everyone my astute , shrewd , and rightful perception ?
I have been encountering SSL for about a year or so , and never guessed he was a she ?
But then that kinda BUTTRESSES , rather than DETRACTS what I have asserted many times ?
uh …..yes …. it does.
No , sadly , here again is an example of why I say one has to carefully sift practically every fucking sentence you write.
Here you present as an evidence of what a narrow – minded clueless dumb ass I am an observation like unto observations I have commonly made here , but pretending brazenly like I have not.
That’s how dishonest you are
” I wish I could give a tinker’s cuss…. ”
( i.e. you don’t give a fuck )
” I lost interest in your opinions ….”
( i.e. you don’t give a fuck )
” I hope you haven’t been at the sauce on a school night. ”
( i.e. never mind what I just asserted twice and unambiguously folks I Now ten seconds later I’m claiming I do give a fuck. )
” Don’t you worry in the slightest that you and Janos (I think of you as a pair, quite different from SSL) do so much to turn people off religion? You might be called to account for that. ”
Several replies to this deceptive tripe ;
1. I’m as sure as I am sitting here that at least 95% of the time , if not 100% of the time , you aren’t actually addressing me anyway.
Unless you are utterly insane , which is completely fucking implausible ,
or a complete fucking moron , which is also completely fucking implausible ,
you do know better than to address such lieing shit to me.
So it can only be that you are addressing the potential inexperienced , the uninformed , the naive , or the hopelessly wishful thinking.
And / or you are addressing those who are such slaves to herd conformity they haven’t a shred of integrity left , and so will actually sit there with a strait face and pretend they don’t see the blatant and sophomoric lies you endlessly spin out even though they do see them .
So we might begin by asking how one could answer honestly and objectively a question that only pretends to be directed at one ?
You aren’t asking me a god damned thing.
But then we both know that of course.
I once lived right down the street from a Stassi barracks. Funny thing though , I have met more of your kind here , than I ever met there.
2, ” …. that you and Janos (I think of you as a pair, quite different from SSL) ”
Granted , you do , occasionally , write something vaguely related to the truth.
Janos , likewise , isn’t shy about pointing out your pathological lies — at least when it serves his purposes , whatever those are.
After two years his motives are as mysterious to me as on day one.
I have sat across a table from a stone cold killer . Indeed , had dinner with one. And Hitler or no Hitler , intimations of fun times at Treblinka not withstanding , Janos clearly isn’t the type.
So , yeah , his motives are mysterious.
Anyway , while — at least as far as I have noticed — Janos and I are the only ones who frankly point out how dishonest and malicious you are , so , yes , that would make us something of a pair ,
never the less , your treatment of us is never remotely as insulting as your treatment of SSL.
It only makes my skin crawl , and my blood boil , second – hand , and at a remove , as a third party , to read that interaction.
If I was SSL , I would be hunting you down with a base ball bat.
So , yeah , here again the superficial imposture is that you are saying something negative about Janos and I , and something positive about SSL , when it is the exact opposite .
And a pretty fucking extreme opposite at that.
Fuck , in comparison to SSL , what you say about Janos and I would constitute praise !
But , at the end of the day , I’m not SSL , and if she wants to play that big a fucking fool …… oh well.
3 . ” Don’t you worry in the slightest that you do so much to turn people off religion? ”
What ? Am I trying to sell cheeseburgers or Chevrolets ?
4. ” Don’t you worry in the slightest that you do so much to turn people off religion? ”
I have actually met many atheists I liked. To this day an autographed portrait of Eric Honecker hangs on my wall , even , and despite the fact , that he was no prize . I have certainly met many Catholics I don’t like , not least , Jesus Christ.
If he claimed to be God , but was not , then he was one really evil mother fucker. Not even the likes of Pol Pot or Tamarlane went that far. And if he was the real deal , then the message is only barely more palatable , because the message is , as I basically understand it ;
” You are so fucking hopeless , I have to save your ass. ”
So ; fundamental moral choices come down to who I like or dislike ?
In that case hooray ! Stear me toward the party hosted by Adolf Hitler and Lucifer . Those boys are bound to be the ones with the cigarettes , the beer , and the cool armored tank divisions.
What total jack ass thinks Jesus Christ needs my help to lose a popularity contest ?
I don’t know , maybe you really are just an innocent , complete fucking moron ?
5 . ” Don’t you worry in the slightest that you do so much to turn people off religion? ”
Yes , slavery does exist. Exploitation does exist. Rape and murder do exist. And so on.
But I do not think people are puppets . Do you ?
If you think so , then I would suggest that I’m not the one trapped in an East German time warp. You are.
For 50,000 years it was at least claimed that God , the Gods , the Flying Spaghetti monster , made the rules.
Granted , things were hardly peachy keen , but the seasons worked , and Nero and Genghis Khan didn’t have nukes.
300 – 500 years ago though you enlightened non – god types started making the rules in your own name.
( I say ” you ” , because obviously ” we ” never ever seems to include the likes of me or Janos , for example —- unless Janos wins next weeks election , in which case , if past experience is any clue to future practice , at that time you will then claim that Janos shit don’t stink. )
And in just 300 to 500 years …. ( news flash ; that’s not really a long time at all )
Well …. deplorable Janos could get nukes tomorrow.
And maybe next year we will be wearing bikinis in January , and be having snowball fights in July , and we will have one hell of an agricultural problem.
All of which is to say ; ” turn people off religion ” ??
This shit either sells itself , or it doesn’t.
6 , ” You might be called to account for that. ”
What’s this shuck and jive bullshit ?
YOU DO think I ” might “.
Oooooor —- YOU DO NOT think I , “might ”
Are you trying to lay a genuine guilt trip on me ,
or are you trying to lay a guilt trip on me that YOU DON”T think is any other than pure bullshit YOURSELF ?
eh ?
Three embarrassing posts of utter (and incoherent) pig-dribble. Why on earth do you bother putting this stuff on this forum? Are you PWI (posting while intoxicated)? Inquiring minds would like to know.
I’m sure you were perfectly sober when you bragged about fucking over the South Vietnamese , and characterized it as some sort of social justice crusade .
And I’m sure it didn’t embarrass you at all.
“It’s not like I even mentioned it, although others did. ”
More like we have been over this particular cunard of yours at least three times.
” You should be concerned about your obsession. It’s not healthy. ”
My best guess is WE HAVE BOTH met , and interacted with , psychotics , schizophrenics , and those suffering dementia.
And so you damn well know that is not the case here.
Such cases are not remotely matters of , ” I think … ” , or , ” My opinion is …” , or ” I believe ….” , or , ” I feel ”
anymore than a broken leg , or a dead body , is a matter of , ” I think … ” , or , ” My opinion is …” , or ” I believe ….” , or , ” I feel …. ”
—
An evil lieing scumbag may never the less still be every inch your equal.
But this psychology bullshit , it’s a magic wand you wave to transform a 50 year old into a five year old.
It signals , unambiguously and clearly , that human rights are nothing but a fucking punchline to you.
Not – always – nice Atheist nut – job though she was , Ayn Rand was right about that .
To Janos I’m just a nigger , and he says so.
You’re a thousand times worse.
Your , ” obsession ” crap , and , ” It’s not healthy ..” crap , is painting me as less than a nigger , but pretending otherwise.
But , eh , supposedly I’m the obsessive aggressor ,
though this is at least the third time you have trotted out this same shit ,
at least the third time I have HAD TO fucking write out this elementary rebuttal.
You’re NOT crazy .
You’re a fucking asshole who makes our resident Nazi look like a Care Bear.
And now there’s a fourth one, ffs. Please stop this miasma of shit-drizzle.
or maybe you are drunk.
you seem to be in some confusion as to the source and author of the fourth one.
@CARGILL
Your being a douche again.
For those who don’t believe that lockdowns (creating very certain physical distancing) were a valid process, can I advise that Italy has had 32,000 reported Covid-19 deaths to date, but in fact 53,000 excess deaths in the same March-May period.
Italian authorities are saying if they had not gone into the lockdown that they (belatedly) did, then the deaths could have been 200-250 thousand excess deaths.
I think we should thank governments who did implement strict lockdown protocols. Brazil, India, USA, Russia … perhaps take note.
yes , and the population of Italy is 60 + million.
Please quit hitting the sauce , or take a math course maybe ?
” incoherent ”
Oh ! Here’s a fun one !
( and we have been over this one ad nauseum too. )
I have basically been on the internet since Commodore 64.
And I have only seen this one about ten thousand times.
Some guy from Uzbekistan , for whom English is a fourth language , writes a post , and , sure enough , some dope like you comes along and claims , ” Ha ha , INCOHERENT ! ”
Funny thing is , I’m not from Uzbekistan , and , yes , the guys English kinda sucked.
except ………I understood what this Uzbeki , whom I just met five minutes ago , wrote , perfectly well.
— And I’m not even smart.
Here’s a pro – tip ;
If you wanna cut someone off at the knees , it’s probably a bad idea to use a dodge that 14 year olds wore out 20 years ago.
LOL … I rest my case, Your Honour!
I have basically been on the internet since Commodore 64.
No you haven’t – I had one of the first hundred or so Commodore 64s in Australia, and in fact prior to that a Vic20. They were outstanding machines, with really good CPU chips, but in 1984 neither you nor I were connected to any Internet … because at that time it didn’t exist.
‘The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. … ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet.’
This is certainly not the internet of today, but bulletin boards were essentially the precursors of the internet and accessed by those early computers.
There was a JANET over here (ironically!) long ago. Joint Academic Network, but I’ve no recollection of the timing.
The first Internet connection in Australia was AARnet in June 1989, and was university-based. Broad Internet and ISPs were widely available by the mid 1990s.
I remember using a Telex Machine in the late 1980s … a sort of electronic fax … placing the telephone handset into a foam-lined wooden box to make a connection.
TLDR, Kesa. Really. Neither my patience nor my curiosity lasted past half way through the first one.
But here’s an opportunity for you to put your money where your mouth is.
First I’ll put to you a schematic conception of how a blog comments section might roll out. Think of slowly shifting sand dunes. The bottom, more stable layer is the main narrative, if you will, the raison d’être of the site. That would be the underlying clusterfuck bit.
Above that are shifting dunes, with peaks and occasionally ‘flattened curves’, depending on how the wind blows. Those would be the shifting topics. Years ago, as far as I recall (I didn’t know the posters that well, and paid less attention) it seems to me there were not people frequently discussing their private religious beliefs, and not regular exchanges about Satan, demons or the End Times – nor did people regularly mention that whatever happened last Tuesday was predicted in some verse from Revelations.
At some point that changed. Unsurprisingly it brought some of the more irreverent out of the woodwork. Sometimes for serious debate, sometimes for fun. I’d say that particular dune has moved on, with only an occasional comment on the leeward side. An insightful explanation offered for the origins of the ‘gay problem’ within the RC church, though (aided by comments from my husband on life in mid-20th century Ireland) does not constitute a wish for the institution to crumble, any more than an anecdote about a disappointing experience in a specific church service 40-odd years ago.
Currently it seems to me that when Janos and SSL engage around Satan, demons, horsemen of the apocalypse etc. etc., they are largely left to get on with it.
So here’s your challenge, should you choose to accept it.
You go ahead and insult non-believers, secular society, and all the trimmings, as much as you like. Been there, done that, took the t-shirt to the charity shop. The challenge is: leave my name out of it. Don’t mention me at all. Not directly, not tangentially, not cryptically, not deviously. And see if you can get a rise out of me on the subject.
If you mention my name without me having said anything on the subject, you’ve thrown in the towel.
Take it or leave it, it’s my best offer.
Soft morning to you.
Hi GA, and I hope you’ll pardon my well intentioned intrusion.
Isn’t a challenge still a challenge whether it’s accepted or not? I challenge you to a duel or a game of chess and you refuse to accept. It was still a challenge.
It’s often said that way, like being nice and leaving an option.
If she does mention your name under those conditions, maybe she’s throwing the towel At you.
Just saying, softly on this soft morning.
You are obviously pardoned, TS, and I don’t doubt your good intentions. You’re most likely right. I don’t care that much. She can do whatever she likes and most surely will. I wish it was all I had to think about. Currently this serves as a distraction, except when it doesn’t.
And re Kinsale, you’re very welcome. I used to be very enthusiastic about it. Have Rob Hopkins’ Transition Handbook on the shelf behind me from all those years ago. Thought something might come of it, in my naivety. But I’d love to visit Cork some day anyway! Kinsale looks lovely.
Totnes in Devon and Lewes (Surrey?) followed suit early on and have their own alternative pounds, in addition to Sterling! All very limited and not-really-a-proper-currency, but still.
(Lewes, East Sussex)
Thanks! How lazy of me not to check. Surrey didn’t sound right – and I lived there for three years!!
It’s also people like Stacy Horn in NY and her ECHO site which contained the non sprouting seeds of today’s giants like Facebook.
SBYLF – love that one
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/echo-growing-old-online/524577/
Thanks for sharing that, TS.
Echo sounds to be quite unique, and unlikely to ever evolve again (round here, for instance),
‘Karen’ the Schoolmarm is worried you are not ‘Social Distancing’ at the beach — and will scold you publicly if you inadvertently move within 5′ ft of her, not 6′ …
In Hartford last nite: 2 stabbed on the street
New Haven: 3 shot in the projects near Yale
Karen take your Safety Patrol act down into the inner city where it appears Social Distancing edicts ARE NOT being observed, unless the stabber in Hartford has long arms, and the shooter in New Haven is a crack shot …
I’m sure you’ll be given a warm welcome.
Brh
That would be so funny to see a Karen attempt to lecture and correct the behavior of a bevy of wild and dangerous urban youths lol.
I have to admit Nicola Sturgeon is currently channelling Karen. But she won’t scold anyone publicly. She’ll just be very, very disappointed in you. Like the inflatable headteacher in the inflatable school who said to the inflatable pupil:
You’re letting me down, and you’re letting the school down, but mostly you’re letting yourself down.
Jim, I wouldn’t be quick to assume we know “the cause” of COVID-19. We know one obvious factor: the SARS-CoV2 virus. The majority of the people who test positive for that virus, though, never develop symptoms. We tend to conflate the virus with the disease, which is sloppy thinking, and ignore other factors such as the environment.
Because the socioeconomic actors that devastated our environment have so much power in our society, we, like the church-goers in the Middle Ages, cannot question the official word. People are questioning it, obviously, as I’m sure you are aware of, but all the organs of propaganda are brought to bear against them. The economic well-being of those who run the system is paramount.
Finally, of course, it comes back to the same thing–these people totally devastated the economy they rely on in their blind effort to control and sequester what they consider “the cause” to be, while forbidding any other causes or solutions to be considered. All for the “greater good.” Goodness gracious.
In times like these, new paradigms do emerge.
I’m also very grateful to you for the lively discussion all these years of how we might successfully confront times like these.