Sunday Overnight Open Thread (6/28/20)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“The fundamental starting point is, yes, we’ve bought the wrong satellites,” Dr Bleddyn Bowen, a space policy expert at the University of Leicester

Quote II

“Centuries of institutionalized oppression will not be undone overnight, for racism in America is as structural as the marble pillars of this very institution,” the Democrat added. “With the power of the pen we must legislate accountability, dismantle these systems, and move in the direction of justice and healing. The Justice in Policing Act is a critical step forward, and I applaud the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus.”Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA)

Quote III

Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio could have just as easily discouraged protests, short of condemning their message, in the name of public health and exercised discretion to suspend enforcement for public safety reasons instead of encouraging what they knew was a flagrant disregard of the outdoor limits and social distancing rules. They could have also been silent. But by acting as they did, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio sent a clear message that mass protests are deserving of preferential treatment.U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe

Quote IV

“They believe that in this current moment, the chaos that surrounds us is signaling the potential for an impending second civil war which, believe it or not, they are hoping for because they believe that will rid the United States of all its problems,”Devin Burghart, executive director of the National Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.

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The Comment of The Week

For being selected this week's winner Tom Servo wins a one year Tissue subscription to the AoSHQ and a case of Troll-B-Gone^TM

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Politicians, from the lowest level to upper echelons only care about themselves.

Several Minneapolis City Council members who have received death threats following their calls to defund the police after the death of George Floyd have been assigned private security details -- reportedly costing the city $4,500 a day in taxpayer dollars.

According to information obtained by Fox News, the city has spent $63,000 on private security over the last three weeks.
“The names of the people getting security details are not public,” a city spokesperson told Fox News Saturday.
The names of three council members who are receiving private security detail have already been made public, two of whom interviewed with local affiliate Fox 9 on Friday. The spokesperson did not respond to Fox News' questions about whether or not there were additional council members receiving security detail

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Hey ~~Karen~~ Nancy, FOAD

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Meet a Karen trapped in a Lloyd's body. The shit I sift through for ONT content.

Fireworks are Booming, Earlier and Louder Than Ever
For reasons nobody quite understands, fireworks are everywhere.
By Lloyd Alter
Updated June 26, 2020
I will state this up front: I hate fireworks. They are loud and they are dangerous and they are polluting and they scare my dogs and my kids and me. This year, I hate them more than ever; for reasons nobody quite understands, they are ubiquitous weeks before the Fourth of July. According to Gothamist, noise complaints related to fireworks in New York City are up a crazy 4,000% over last year. But it’s not just New York; according to the Associated Press, “They’ve become a nightly nuisance ringing out from Connecticut to California, angering sleep-deprived residents and alarming elected officials.”

Don't self-identify as Lloyd.

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Yes, CNN is f*cking fake and distorted news. They do not make any effort at hiding their disdain of President Trump.

Seriously can’t even BELIEVE that WaPo tried to get away with this headline on dangerous Democrat-controlled cities

Yeah look I know that headline isn’t very informative but I am stunned. Shook as they say on Twitter. You think the media can’t possibly surprise you anymore and then they do … this.
I still can’t believe it as I’m typing it. “Trump keeps claiming that the most dangerous cities in America are all run by Democrats. They aren’t,” reads the headline. It’s an “analysis” article. The headline is conveys a big GOTCHA point, right? Trump the liar keeps claiming that crime-filled cities are a democrat problem but that’s a big fat lie!!!!!!
It’s a lie and here’s our PROOF!!!

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Practice makes perfect. Or does it?

In 1993, Swedish psychologist K. Anders Ericsson set out to find the secret to turning a typical teen into a violin virtuoso. His answer? Practice: 10,000 hours of it. The figure, a simple average of a few prodigies’ regimens, stuck; journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell even dubbed it “the magic number of greatness” in his 2008 book Outliers.
The concept of ”practice makes perfect” has been drilled into the heads of ambitious youths since the Roman Empire. Anyone can be the next LeBron James, Yo-Yo Ma, or Celine Dion as long as they can devote enough time to honing their craft. But can it be that simple? Not every expert agrees. While training is essential to learning, spending a chunk of your life trying something over and over doesn’t mean you’ll go pro, says Zach Hambrick, a psychologist at Michigan State University.

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You don't need to wear no stinkin' mask. And the exemption card isn't going to work.

The Department of Justice is now warning that a card circulating online is falsely claiming its holder is lawfully exempt from wearing a mask.
A recently issued alert by the department is urging the public not to heed information printed on the fraudulent cards, which purport to carry the authority of the "Freedom to Breathe Agency," which is neither a federal nor a state agency.
The fake card states that wearing a mask will incur mental or physical risk for the holder. The card also posits that the Americans with Disabilities Act forbids raising questions about the health condition aggravated by mask usage. Penalties are threatened if a business owner does not act accordingly.
"If found in violation of the ADA you could face steep penalties. Organizations and businesses can be fined up to $75,000 for your first violation and $150,000 for any subsequent violations. Denying access to your business/organization will be also reported to FTBA for further actions," the card reads, according to images that have been posted online.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

The Zappa requests keep coming....................

June 27, 1966 - Frank Zappa
The Mothers of Invention released their debut studio album Freak Out! on Verve Records. Often cited as one of rock music's first concept albums, the album is a satirical expression of frontman Frank Zappa's perception of American pop culture and the nascent freak scene of Los Angeles. It was also one of the earliest double albums in rock music. via thisdayinmusic.com

On this day: 28 Jun 1975
American singer songwriter Tim Buckley completed the last show of a tour in Dallas, Texas, playing to a sold-out crowd of 1,800 people. This was Buckley's last ever show, he died the following day of a heroin and morphine overdose aged 28. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Yesterday on that day: 2002 - John Entwistle
One day before the scheduled first show of The Who's 2002 US tour, bass player John Entwistle, died aged 57 in his hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Entwistle had gone to bed that night with a stripper, who woke at 10am to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack induced by an undetermined amount of cocaine. via thisdayinmusic.com

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I'm not a doctor, don't play one on TV and didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. So I don't know if this board member has problems or is a Genius Award Winner.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Parents are outraged after seeing a school board member for Western Heights in Oklahoma City drink a beer during a recent meeting.
Many parents are now questioning every decision she’s made and others are calling for her resignation.
“She’s voting on stuff that has to do with a bunch of money and has to do with our students and has to do with the community,” Western Heights Parent Brianna Dodd told KFOR. “She could possibly be highly intoxicated.”
On Thursday night, board member Linda Farley made a motion, then, while President Robert Everman was calling for a second to the motion, you could see Farley take a sip from a Corona Extra bottle.

And Western Heights Parent ~~Brianna~~ Karen Dodd could possibly be attractive and fun to be around. However, it is highly unlikely. See a Cob can use her flawed logic.

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Until the Food Police shut her down, Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day

After Michelle Brenner was furloughed from her job at a menswear store in Gig Harbor, Wash, she decided to make herself a huge pan of lasagna. Then she got on her community Facebook page and wrote that frozen, store-bought lasagna could not compare to the real Italian homemade deal.
She followed up with an offer: "If any of you want some fresh homemade, no calorie counting lasagna, please let me know and I will gladly prepare it."
Brenner set aside her $1,200 stimulus check to buy ingredients, and the requests began to trickle in. First from a retired neighbor, then an out-of-work friend. Soon, many people started showing up, including strangers.
Nearly three months and more than 1,000 pans later, Brenner is still at it. About eight hours a day, seven days a week, she helps feed people in her community - from hospital workers and first responders to single parents struggling without paychecks.

Weekly commenter stats for week of 6-28-2020

Top 10 commenters:
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
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5 [43 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
6 [41 names] 'Count de Monet'
7 [38 names] 'Science'
8 [32 names] 'Two Weeks From Surfing Porn to Find My Future Wife'
9 [27 names] 'LeftCoast Dawg'
10 [27 names] 'just here for the jokes'

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:02 PM

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1 Hi.

Posted by: Pug Mahon thinks it's a vacuum at June 28, 2020 10:02 PM (x8Wzq)

2 Yes!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2020 10:02 PM (eTZoJ)

3 Good Evening

Posted by: wing at June 28, 2020 10:03 PM (JFzNN)

4 I blame Conor!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2020 10:03 PM (eTZoJ)

5

The FBI has launched an investigation after a piece of rope resembling a noose was found in the locker of a Black firefighter in a suburb of Minneapolis.

"A piece of rope tied into what appears to be a crude noose" was found last week in the firefighter's gear locker at a fire station in Bloomington, Minnesota, but the incident wasn't reported to the department's leadership until Thursday, Bloomington Mayor Tim Busse said in a statement released on Saturday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 10:03 PM (aKsyK)

6 coulda been a contender

Posted by: boomers remember stuff at June 28, 2020 10:03 PM (+U5Yr)

7 th!

Posted by: CliffClavin at June 28, 2020 10:03 PM (dyCMp)

8 Day one of my presidency, folks, I'm gonna surrender to this corona virus. Find strength in that!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 28, 2020 10:04 PM (YgAuc)

9
g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 28, 2020 10:04 PM (WJBMv)

10

Senior Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander said Sunday that he thinks it would "help" if President Donald Trump wore a mask because it would eliminate political stigma around doing so as the coronavirus continues to spread across the US.

"If wearing masks is important and all the health experts tell us that it is in containing the disease in 2020, it would help if from time to time the President would wear one to help us get rid of this political debate that says if you're for Trump, you don't wear a mask, if you're against Trump, you do," the Tennessee Republican, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said on CNN's "Inside Politics."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 10:04 PM (aKsyK)

11 A♤

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at June 28, 2020 10:05 PM (gQS2h)

12 Senior Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander can suck my dog's dick.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2020 10:05 PM (aA3+G)

13 Heh, New England Patriots sign QB Cam Newton.

Posted by: davidt at June 28, 2020 10:08 PM (l3+k2)

14 Bubba Jusie Wallace moonlights as a firefighter? That is kinda cool I guess.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 10:09 PM (m1H25)

15 Not my first first, but definitely my first ONT first.

Make of that what you will.

In other news, me and the Missus will be on the awesome side of Colorado for the Independence Day weekend (Meeker, Rifle area). Pretty stoked.

Posted by: Pug Mahon thinks it's a vacuum at June 28, 2020 10:09 PM (x8Wzq)

16 bass player John Entwistle, died aged 57 in his hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Entwistle had gone to bed that night with a stripper, who woke at 10am to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack induced by an undetermined amount of cocaine.
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fuckin legend.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 28, 2020 10:09 PM (z4SrG)

17 Senior Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander

I am so old, I can remember when most Republican politicians were not mewling buffoons, boy how time flies!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:09 PM (eTZoJ)

18
Endeavour to Persevere!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2020 10:10 PM (Fc5rx)

19 One of my best friends is a Tennessee native, and has always hated Lamar Alexander for the squishy RINO he is. This won't help, needless to say.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 28, 2020 10:10 PM (Vgw1E)

20 Another whole month of Zappa?

Oh, wait. Just seemed that way.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2020 10:10 PM (EZebt)

21 Besides, I thought the giant bottle rocket would never get stuck in my wrectum.

Posted by: Lloyd Alter at June 28, 2020 10:11 PM (YgAuc)

22 Heh, New England Patriots sign QB Cam Newton.
Posted by: davidt at June 28, 2020 10:08 PM (l3+k2)

Maybe not the worst choice. I'm still waiting to see what team takes the back-door subsidy and hires Kapernick.
My guess is that he'll botch any chance to play again because he'd rather be a martyr than a has-been.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 28, 2020 10:11 PM (z79tQ)

23 Endeavourin' here, doc!

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at June 28, 2020 10:11 PM (gQS2h)

24 My in-laws wont visit us anymore cuz muhCorona fears and the fact I refuse to wear a mask anywhere and my kids play with other kids. Oh well if they never want to see their grandkids again, so be it. Im not locking the kids up for the next 5 years to make them feel safe.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 10:11 PM (m1H25)

25
The FBI has launched an investigation after a piece of rope resembling a noose was found in the locker of a Black firefighter in a suburb of Minneapolis.

Better that a million innocent ones are punished than one guilty one goes free.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:11 PM (mht8P)

26
Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at June 28, 2020 10:05 PM (gQS2h)

===

*points*

Witch!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2020 10:12 PM (EZebt)

27 "A piece of rope tied into what appears to be a crude noose"

Could be a shoelace with a knife-knot in it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 28, 2020 10:12 PM (z79tQ)

28 Hey Karen Nancy, FOAD
Have these dictators said how long they expect us to submit to this crap? Maybe she should also demand that we all wear that African cloth around our necks and take a knee.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

29 For being selected this week's winner Tom Servo wins a one year Tissue subscription to the AoSHQ and a case of Troll-B-GoneTM

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Well hell...Why can't I ever win something nice like that?

Posted by: Tentotwo at June 28, 2020 10:13 PM (yhf6w)

30 "A piece of rope tied into what appears to be a crude noose" was found last week in the firefighter's gear locker at a fire station in Bloomington, Minnesota, but the incident wasn't reported to the department's leadership until Thursday, Bloomington Mayor Tim Busse said in a statement released on Saturday.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 10:03 PM (aKsyK)

So what are we going with on this one? Is it gonna be a stupid non-noose that the black firefighter is blowing out of proportion, or an actual noose that he planted there himself?

Posted by: Dr. T at June 28, 2020 10:13 PM (Vgw1E)

31 "A piece of rope tied into what appears to be a crude noose" was found last week in the firefighter's gear locker at a fire station in Bloomington, Minnesota, but the incident wasn't reported to the department's leadership until Thursday, Bloomington Mayor Tim Busse said in a statement released on Saturday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 10:03 PM (aKsyK)

You would even think a psychotic "white supremacist" would be able to tie a decent noose and not accept an inferior crude version*.

*And I am betting that the "crude noose" is either a simple slip knot or a bowline, both of which have a myriad of common non-noose applications

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:14 PM (eTZoJ)

32 Weee that Devin burghart civil rights guy is sure on the ball. Brings up boogalo and says shit about antifa and blms demands. What a shithead

Posted by: willow at June 28, 2020 10:14 PM (Ey5WU)

33 Well hell...Why can't I ever win something nice like that?
Posted by: Tentotwo at June 28, 2020 10:13 PM (yhf6w)

Can you say something pithy and funny?

Me neither.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 28, 2020 10:14 PM (z79tQ)

34 My in-laws wont visit us anymore cuz muhCorona fears and the fact I refuse to wear a mask anywhere and my kids play with other kids. Oh well if they never want to see their grandkids again, so be it. Im not locking the kids up for the next 5 years to make them feel safe.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member

I wouldn't mind wearing a mask so much if the said, everyone wears one for a month and we're good. No, it's you will wear one until we say you can't. And we will not give you a definite reason why or why not

Posted by: Bruce at June 28, 2020 10:15 PM (vd8XM)

35 Evening.

How my bitches be doin' tonight?

Posted by: Robert at June 28, 2020 10:15 PM (q8Ta7)

36
"Centuries of institutionalized oppression will not be undone overnight, for racism in America is as structural as the marble pillars of this very institution,"

Bite me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:15 PM (mht8P)

37 Commissar Hrothgar

Conor was typing slowly? Is that why you were only #4 of a potential 1,200 comments?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:15 PM (u82oZ)

38 24
Consider yourself lucky

Posted by: CW 2.0 at June 28, 2020 10:16 PM (RaxiV)

39 And we will not give you a definite reason why or why not
Posted by: Bruce at June 28, 2020 10:15 PM (vd8XM)

And in spite of the fact that we have already given you several incorrect reasons for wearing (or not wearing) masks!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:17 PM (eTZoJ)

40 You would even think a psychotic "white supremacist" would be able to tie a decent noose and not accept an inferior crude version*.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:14 PM (eTZoJ)

More like "white slightly-below-average-ist" the way these knots are fashioned. You'd think one of them would've been in scouts.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 28, 2020 10:17 PM (z79tQ)

41
I am so old, I can remember when most Republican politicians were not mewling buffoons, boy how time flies!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!

They've always been mewling buffoons. We're only now just waking from our oblivious slumber and are noticing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:17 PM (mht8P)

42 Muldoon

Persevering here! It's made easier by your exhortations. Thanks.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:18 PM (u82oZ)

43 Conor was typing slowly? Is that why you were only #4 of a potential 1,200 comments?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:15 PM (u82oZ)

Let's just say the speed typing training is not going well!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:18 PM (eTZoJ)

44 My in-laws wont visit us anymore cuz muhCorona fears and the fact I refuse to wear a mask anywhere and my kids play with other kids. Oh well if they never want to see their grandkids again, so be it. Im not locking the kids up for the next 5 years to make them feel safe.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member

My family members can often be at odds with one another and just generally full of drama, but one thing I have to say for them is, practically no one has been drinking the Kung Flu Kool-Aid. We've been getting together and sharing hugs and whatall the same as before, virus or no virus, and generally agreeing this is all a nothingburger. (Except for my sisters, but they don't live in the area anyway.)

Posted by: Dr. T at June 28, 2020 10:18 PM (Vgw1E)

45 Evenin', fappers.

Signs requiring masks are popping up at various stores around here. I'm ignoring them. So far nobody's said a word.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:18 PM (swdNU)

46 Good evening, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:18 PM (TdMsT)

47 I'd be 100% in favor of seeing Kapershit handed a fat, juicy NFL QB contract.

Call his bluff, put him in as a starter, and let's just see how very badly he sucks at the job.

Bonus. While I won't be watching any NFL games in real time or by means that they might monetize, I won't mind seeing the highlight reels on the 10pm news, when he gets absolutely obliterated by a succession of star defensive linebackers.

Imagine, if you will, a full-steam tackle so utterly devastating that the refs will have to call in a backhoe to dig him out of the turf.

Sure. Give him the contract. Just one more step in the NFL's march to the grave.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 28, 2020 10:19 PM (QzJWU)

48 I wonder if these mask "laws" specifically state how the mask must be worn

If not, if it's just "a mask must be worn" I would wear it on my wrist, "the law says it must be worn, it didn't specify WHERE"

Posted by: kbdabear at June 28, 2020 10:19 PM (qAR6u)

49 My in-laws wont visit us anymore cuz muhCorona fears and the fact I refuse to wear a mask anywhere and my kids play with other kids. Oh well if they never want to see their grandkids again, so be it. Im not locking the kids up for the next 5 years to make them feel safe.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member
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They should be in our shoes... Fly to New Zealand and self-isolate for 2 weeks *before* you can see any sights *or* visit the son and granddaughter.
But, they are doing it right: A socialist country has to either enact draconian laws or their 'free healthcare' will show the proles that 'free healthcare' means rationed healthcare.

Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at June 28, 2020 10:20 PM (gtatv)

50 OMG! People who won't be horribly affected by it might get the Covid!!1!11!! Mask up or get back in your boxes like good little toys!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 28, 2020 10:20 PM (z79tQ)

51 48 I wonder if these mask "laws" specifically state how the mask must be worn

If not, if it's just "a mask must be worn" I would wear it on my wrist, "the law says it must be worn, it didn't specify WHERE"
Posted by: kbdabear at June 28, 2020 10:19 PM (qAR6u)

I've been considering wearing one as a codpiece.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:20 PM (swdNU)

52 Regarding the school board member sipping a beer, at one time it was common for businessmen to drink at lunch and return to work. In some companies businessmen kept liquor in their offices. This was not just in advertising.

School board meetings are held at night, and are unpaid volunteer work. I'm not saying they should all be sucking down money when they make decisions to waste our money, but their decision making is so sucky anyway, what difference does a drink of beer make?

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:20 PM (+lVUW)

53 Oops, sucking down beer, not money.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:21 PM (+lVUW)

54 What exactly is this "white fragility"???
Do "systemic racism" too...
I know they are made up bullsh*t but what is it supposed to mean/stand for???

Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at June 28, 2020 10:21 PM (UUBmN)

55 They've always been mewling buffoons. We're only now just waking from our oblivious slumber and are noticing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:17 PM (mht8P)

Correction noted:

I am so old, I can remember when I was foolish enough to think that most Republican politicians were not mewling buffoons, boy how time flies!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:21 PM (eTZoJ)

56 WA state requires, until further notice or Inslee has a revelation or farts or something.
I'm proudly wearing mine in due submission to his will.
It has a nice, bright, six pointed star on it.
I've received a few glares from women I know are Democrats.
One gentleman stopped me in the grocery the other day to thank me for wearing it.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 10:21 PM (d9Irc)

57 Sen. Alexander - a dangerous buffoon (this is not exactly breaking news) who is leaving soon but should just shut up and vote like he's told.

Mask-placebo addicts/"public health""authorities" - show me your research, specifically address decades of RCTs showing the opposite, and get back to us.

Rep. Presley - you're an offensively stupid, racist grifter, you are too stupid or mentally ill to serve in any public position, and your own peace of mind would be best served by leaving the country (go wherever you want, you'll flounder there as nowhere else has the enormous lavishly funded make-believe "racism" grifting industry the US suffers from - they just have a lot more actual racism.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 10:21 PM (El6T/)

58 One more day into the new world of burgeoning digital totalitarianism of self-regard.And I am free from that.

I just repeat: We are one human race, divided by single-nucleotide polymorphisms and culture. Mostly culture.

Been saying that since 2009.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:22 PM (u82oZ)

59 Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

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Posted by: kbdabear at June 28, 2020 10:22 PM (qAR6u)

60 Signs requiring masks are popping up at various stores around here. I'm ignoring them. So far nobody's said a word.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:18 PM (swdNU)

Mom and I went into a Barnes & Noble today to spend the afternoon for my birthday. (I got a pocket edition of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, which I've never read before. High hopes.) A new sign on the door announced masks were required, but we went on inside regardless, spent maybe an hour and a half, and no one got onto us. Most people did have masks, but there were quite a few who didn't.

I get the feeling even the employees don't care about this BS anymore.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 28, 2020 10:22 PM (Vgw1E)

61 Recently overheard conversation in a grocery aisle between a middle-aged husband and wife.

Wife: "You're going down the aisle the wrong way."
Husband: "I don't give a shit."

Posted by: fly gal at June 28, 2020 10:22 PM (6CtMt)

62 Crude Nooses Matter

Posted by: ... at June 28, 2020 10:23 PM (Rg59Y)

63 Evenin', fappers.

Signs requiring masks are popping up at various stores around here. I'm ignoring them. So far nobody's said a word.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:18 PM (swdNU)

Colorado is dumb, at least in the Front Range. I was in Wyoming and Montana last weekend, and I saw very few masks, mostly worn by the exact kind of people you would expect. Hell, even employees of stores and restaurants was maybe 55-50.

But here in FC, I still see so many sheep wearing masks. Alone. In cars. Or walking in God's great outdoors.

I need to get the fuck away from here.

Posted by: Pug Mahon thinks it's a vacuum at June 28, 2020 10:23 PM (x8Wzq)

64 Misanthropic Humanitarian

Thank you for another stellar ONT. That barn looks like it has the blue ridge south of Harpers Ferry in the background. Very nice.

And I really like the Peanuts cartoon. Sending it to my wife, it's so good.

Thank you again.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:23 PM (u82oZ)

65 {{{Ladyl}}}

Nice to see you here!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:23 PM (eTZoJ)

66 More Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

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https://tinyurl.com/ya27sth3

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https://tinyurl.com/y8hjp4sr

Posted by: kbdabear at June 28, 2020 10:24 PM (qAR6u)

67
Consider all the programs and the trillions of dollars ostensibly spent to ameliorate black poverty and the legacy of racism and ask:

1) Where is it?
2) Who got it?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:24 PM (mht8P)

68 I wouldn't mind wearing a ~~mask~~ burka so much if the Taliban said, everyone wears one for a month and we're good. No, it's you will wear one until we say you can't. And we will not give you a definite reason why or why not

Perspective. Once you agree to wear the veil, you will wear it until you die.

Posted by: 🐧 at June 28, 2020 10:25 PM (C+evo)

69 If not, if it's just "a mask must be worn" I would wear it on my wrist, "the law says it must be worn, it didn't specify WHERE"

Posted by: kbdabear at June 28, 2020 10:19 PM

They're specifically calling them "face coverings" here in Newyorkistan, so we don't have such latitude...

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at June 28, 2020 10:25 PM (gQS2h)

70 hey Hey HEY
good evening to all

RE: gun thread- I think I am now leaning toward Ruger SR1911 Officer in .45 ACP

local gun store has a pre-owned for under $700

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 28, 2020 10:25 PM (iTXRQ)

71 Inslee specified that masks must cover the nose and mouth.
Lots of violations of that going on.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 10:25 PM (d9Irc)

72 Anyone who is so stupid or mentally ill that finding a piece of string or rope in their locker actually seriously upsets them should never be in a position of any responsibility.

They should also consider emigration. Immediately.

Suicide is always an option but we do not like to recommend it without knowing personal circumstances.

The part about the FBI investigating is a joke, please tell me. The US has become a parody of a parody of a serious country.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 10:25 PM (El6T/)

73 Just heard a black woman refer the Chicago as . Shy rack.

Heh.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 28, 2020 10:26 PM (rv8eO)

74 I get the feeling even the employees don't care about this BS anymore.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 28, 2020 10:22 PM (Vgw1E)

The store employees I've talked to about it here and there are 100% over it.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:26 PM (NWiLs)

75 Thanks for another outstanding ONT, Mis Hum! The photo up top makes me proud to be an American.

Loved the Mystery Click behind the photo too!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 28, 2020 10:26 PM (JTiUD)

76 If not, if it's just "a mask must be worn" I would wear it on my wrist, "the law says it must be worn, it didn't specify WHERE"
Posted by: kbdabear at June 28, 2020 10:19 PM (qAR6u)

I found a website that makes and sells Confederate flag face masks for a reasonable price, and if more places start requiring masks, I will probably get one. After all, if masks are really that important, why fuss about the design?

Posted by: Dr. T at June 28, 2020 10:26 PM (Vgw1E)

77 Regarding the protester in Alamosa, CO who shot a driver in the back of the head back on June 4, a couple bits of information.

1. The man who was shot is out of the hospital and recuperating at his sister's home in Alamosa, good prospects for full recovery.

2. The shooter (a defense attorney) made $60,000 bail and immediately left town.

3. A group of locals, armed and ready for trouble had shown up downtown to protect businesses from vandalism.

4. The highlight of the encounter was reported thusly:

That night and the other three first nights of protest here went peacefully, with little more friction than a Black man calling a gaggle of armed posse members some names and a white man mooning protesters with "All Lives Matter" written on his butt.

Which one of you Morons was in Alamosa that day?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2020 10:26 PM (Fc5rx)

78 65 {{{Ladyl}}}

Nice to see you here!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June

{{{Hrothgar}}}

I spent the whole day at the second day of my 8 year old grandson's baseball tournament. They played 3 games, slaughtered their opponents and won the tournament. Best day of the summer so far!

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:27 PM (TdMsT)

79 71 Inslee specified that masks must cover the nose and mouth.
Lots of violations of that going on.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 10:25 PM (d9Irc)

Inslee should go ingest aquarium cleaner.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:27 PM (NWiLs)

80 Imonna go watch some Looney Tunes. Going to bed in Hulk mode is not a good idea.

'Night, Horde.

Posted by: Pug Mahon thinks it's a vacuum at June 28, 2020 10:27 PM (x8Wzq)

81 kbdabear

Those poor women. They all need sunscreen. I volunteer as tribute. I'm no threat, because I am not Biden.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:27 PM (u82oZ)

82
While training is essential to learning, spending a chunk of your life trying something over and over doesn't mean you'll go pro, says Zach Hambrick, a psychologist at Michigan State University.

Her Majesty says you can have 50 years of experience in dogs or one year of experience 50 times.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:27 PM (mht8P)

83 Senior Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander said Sunday that he thinks it would "help" if President Donald Trump wore a mask because it would eliminate political stigma around doing so as the coronavirus continues to spread across the US.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 10:04 PM (aKsyK)
* * * *

Oh FFS. If Lamar Alexander told me to do something, I would do just the opposite. He can go eat a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (JTiUD)

84 Consider all the programs and the trillions of dollars ostensibly spent to ameliorate black poverty and the legacy of racism and ask:
1) Where is it?
2) Who got it?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:24 PM (mht8P)

To even think about asking those questions is a clear indication of the deeply ingrained #WhitePrivilege inherent in the systemic racism that permeates the very fabric of our civilization!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (eTZoJ)

85 Wearing Masks, it's not about what works. It's about feelings. Always is with liberals and the pathetic doormat republicans. Masks help people delude themselves that they are safe.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (+lVUW)

86 I wouldn't mind wearing a mask so much if the said, everyone wears one for a month and we're good. No, it's you will wear one until we say you can't. And we will not give you a definite reason why or why not
Posted by: Bruce at June 28, 2020 10:15 PM (vd8XM)

I've come to the conclusion that there IS a fundamental genetically programed difference between Men, and Women.

Had this very argument tonight with my 91 year old Mom.

Women will usually trade Freedom for perceived safety, Men, will not.

I think its about a 70% 30% split, just from thinking on those I've met in my lifetime.

Problem is that we have denigrated Manhood for the last 20 years, so now the 'Female' (using that term very loosely) side of the house is winning.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (NgKpN)

87 OK, no beer at the school board meetings.

Now let's do "No Tranquilizers for members of congress"

No driving a car for anyone on anything stronger than Aspirin or Tylenol.

Deal!

Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (/OEmT)

88 I've seen a video demonstrating that a mask reduces oxygen availability below OSHA levels almost immediately, and another video showing that wearing any type of mask does not lower the reading on a pulse oximeter.

Yay, science!

What neither of these videos argues is whether it is prudent to protect oneself from contact with other people's germs.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (clsJu)

89 DOZE APPLES!!!

Posted by: Zombie Topher Delmonico at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (ZSK0i)

90 Thank you again.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:23 PM (u82oZ)

You're welcome kind sir.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (aA3+G)

91 Muldoon, thanks for the update, I was wondering.

Tell me the guy will be charged with ADW and attempted murder. How is it possible he wouldn't be?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 10:29 PM (El6T/)

92
Ever notice that the cobs get to use curly quotes while we peasants have to make do with straight quotes?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:29 PM (mht8P)

93 80 Imonna go watch some Looney Tunes. Going to bed in Hulk mode is not a good idea.

'Night, Horde.
Posted by: Pug Mahon thinks it's a vacuum at June 28, 2020 10:27 PM (x8Wzq)

Probably not. I've mostly been in Hulk mode since Friday. Can't be a healthy thing.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:29 PM (NWiLs)

94 85 Wearing Masks, it's not about what works. It's about feelings. Always is with liberals and the pathetic doormat republicans. Masks help people delude themselves that they are safe.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (+lVUW)

Wearing masks is the new Recycling.

Does not really do a damn thing, and in fact sometimes is worse, but it makes you feel like you are doing something.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:29 PM (NgKpN)

95 Top 100! And with any luck I'll get in on the far end of the thread tomorrow morning.

Night, all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 28, 2020 10:30 PM (rpbg1)

96 They played 3 games, slaughtered their opponents and won the tournament. Best day of the summer so far!
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:27 PM (TdMsT)

I'm glad you had a good day, but I weep for those children that had to slink off the field in defeat, at the very least they could have given first place medals to everyone!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:30 PM (eTZoJ)

97 I have already paid my share of tax dollars to Welfare, Food Stamps, Section 8 housing and Medicaid. And I never got a thank you note.

As a society we paid 19 trillion dollars for no net return on equity, since 1965.

That is not to mention the bill for TV, the Internet, antibiotics, jet travel, etc. etc, etc. Again without a thank you.

She should return the monies spent, but it is wasted and gone. This is the triumph of liberal ideology over objective empirical analysis.

I owe nothing more.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (u82oZ)

98 93 80 Imonna go watch some Looney Tunes. Going to bed in Hulk mode is not a good idea.

'Night, Horde.
Posted by: Pug Mahon thinks it's a vacuum at June 28, 2020 10:27 PM (x8Wzq)

Probably not. I've mostly been in Hulk mode since Friday. Can't be a healthy thing.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:29 PM (NWiLs)

Yeah, going to bed in Hulk mode, when you are ALONE? not good.

Going to bed in Hulk mode when you have a honey? Can be a lot of fun.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (NgKpN)

99 So I assume masks will now be permanent, forever, or at least every year October - April, to protect young people, who are vastly more at risk from influenza than C19?

No?

Why not?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (El6T/)

100 i always thought a shy rack was when the Baptist youth group went to the waterslides

Posted by: Rick in SK at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (zDwuO)

101 Problem is that we have denigrated Manhood for the last 20 years, so now the 'Female' (using that term very loosely) side of the house is winning.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (NgKpN)

It's been going on longer than that, but a trifle less overt. Now it's as subtle as a sledgehammer.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (NWiLs)

102 Enough 'practice' will make you a master of whatever it is you're trying to perfect. You may not be the best because others with more talent probably have practiced just as much.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (2DOZq)

103 Wearing Masks, it's not about what works. It's about feelings.

It's religion.

As Fauci said about wearing masks outdoors, it's a "symbolic gesture".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (I2/tG)

104 85 Wearing Masks, it's not about what works. It's about feelings. Always is with liberals and the pathetic doormat republicans. Masks help people delude themselves that they are safe.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:28 PM (+lVUW)

I was shopping in your state today at a major drug store chain. Notice on door said i needed a mask.
Mrs. Mis Hum and I walked in without wearing one.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2020 10:32 PM (aA3+G)

105 {{{.Ladyl--now mask-free!.}}}

Now that is a great day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:32 PM (u82oZ)

106 So I assume masks will now be permanent, forever, or at least every year October - April, to protect young people, who are vastly more at risk from influenza than C19?

Hey, Fauci says we should permanently give up handshaking, which dates back to Ancient Greece, and is of obvious social importance, given that we are social primates.

It's Year Zero of the new era, after all.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 10:33 PM (I2/tG)

107 Ever notice that the cobs get to use curly quotes while we peasants have to make do with straight quotes?

By gawd, if a seven bit character set was good enough for William Shakespeare and Ben Franklin then it's good enough for me.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at June 28, 2020 10:33 PM (qc+VF)

108 Yeah, going to bed in Hulk mode, when you are ALONE? not good.

Going to bed in Hulk mode when you have a honey? Can be a lot of fun.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (NgKpN)

Unfortunately the former is my only option at the moment.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:33 PM (NWiLs)

109 24 My in-laws wont visit us anymore cuz muhCorona fears and the fact I refuse to wear a mask anywhere and my kids play with other kids. Oh well if they never want to see their grandkids again, so be it. Im not locking the kids up for the next 5 years to make them feel safe.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member

They're nuts if they think that it isn't cruel to not let kids play with others indefinitely.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (+lVUW)

110 105 {{{.Ladyl--now mask-free!.}}}

Now that is a great day.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:32 PM (u82oZ)

It was!

And deep in Trump country.

Trump signs everywhere.

No masks or social distancing.

It was Heaven.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (TdMsT)

111 Hadrian the Seventh

There is always someone to the good end of a Boltzmann distribution. Everywhere. Even here.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (u82oZ)

112 I am seeing a ridiculous number of people wearing masks, out walking all by themselves, without another person in sight.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (bhxkl)

113 Well, this was fun. Good night all!

Posted by: Dr. T at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (Vgw1E)

114 Top 100!!! Ahhhhhh shit...

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at June 28, 2020 10:35 PM (2ygtH)

115 I come from a more genteel area.
I carry a mask in my back pocket
if they want me to mask, fine
if they don't care I don't wear.

It's a little thing and ain't gonna
change what I think.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 28, 2020 10:35 PM (Okeht)

116 The US has become a parody of a parody of a serious country.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 10:25 PM (El6T/)

===

A travesty of a sham. A mystery wrapped in an enigma...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 28, 2020 10:35 PM (EZebt)

117 And deep in Trump country.

Trump signs everywhere.

No masks or social distancing.

It was Heaven.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (TdMsT)

Where is this? I need to live there.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 10:35 PM (bhxkl)

118 Just a random thought:

The push is to compel everyone to wear the veil until there is a vaccine. That is, make life miserable with the only solution complying by taking in your tormentor's solution - a vaccine.

Ask yourself, did you take part in any negotiation about what you will do and for how long and under what conditions?

Related items:

News reports that the CCP virus seeks out and kills a disproportionate number of blacks than whites.

Then suddenly, a mysterious social event occurs where white millennial women who happen to be major supporters of abortion and eugenics are decrying white privilege and what we must do to elevate the poor blacks who have been tormented by whites for centuries.

We must have reparations! Move blacks to the front of the line (except I'll keep my job and position, thankyou).

Look! A Vaccine backed by chief eugenics and ZPG supporter Bill Gates who vaxxed the hell out of AFricans only to discover that many of them became sterilized by the vaccine!

What? we are rationing this New Vaccine that is mandatory in order to be released from bondage and slavery of The Veil?

Its only fair that blacks have access to the new and untested vaccine that will free us from slavery - they are dying because of the CCP and because of White Privilege, we demand that they receive this treatment before any other.

Oh shit. It kills people.

Ok, Lets wait for version 2.0 and let the poor and exploited Mexicans have it before us privileged whites

(meanwhile, you keep wearing that veil!)

Posted by: 🐧 at June 28, 2020 10:35 PM (C+evo)

119 They're nuts if they think that it isn't cruel to not let kids play with others indefinitely.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (+lVUW)

Plenty of parents are doing this, I'm sure. It's cruel and abusive and those kids are going to be pretty fucked up from it.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (NWiLs)

120 I owe nothing more.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (u82oZ)

Amen.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (TdMsT)

121 They're nuts if they think that it isn't cruel to not let kids play with others indefinitely.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (+lVUW)

I'm sure those "quarantined" kids will grow up to be well-adjusted productive members of a society, just probably not a society I'd ever want to live in!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (eTZoJ)

122 109

Well they just expect the kids to do a 14 day quarantine before a visit. And I was like fuck no that is retarded. Skype visits it is.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (m1H25)

123 We demand to see your mask exemption papers!!!

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (EgshT)

124
Are there any data showing how effective masks of various materials are at stopping particles the size of the Covid virus? And what's the threshold of acceptable filtering?

It seems pretty important because if it's less than 100%, it's a trade-off. And if it's a trade-off, why is it privileged over other trade-offs?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (mht8P)

125 How dare Lloyd complain about neighbor's activities which directly harm his quality of life.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (NQm4Z)

126 . Ayanna Presley, got something for her, don't think she will like it.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (Okeht)

127 dishes all done

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (WwTwF)

128 112 I am seeing a ridiculous number of people wearing masks, out walking all by themselves, without another person in sight.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 10:34 PM (bhxkl)

People are stupid and should be beaten with a tire iron.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:37 PM (NWiLs)

129 Lamar Alexander said Sunday that he thinks it would "help" if President Donald Trump wore a mask because it would eliminate political stigma around doing so as the coronavirus continues to spread across the US.

Lamar Alexander has a pretty cock-shaped mouth. He could go on national television and destigmatize homosexual fellatio. It would "help."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - if a bear shits in a wig but no one smells it did it happen? at June 28, 2020 10:37 PM (H5knJ)

130 Where is this? I need to live there.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 10:35 PM (bhxkl)

Springboro, Ohio in Warren County. It's the most conservative county in Ohio. Prosperous and beautiful.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:37 PM (TdMsT)

131 We demand to see your mask exemption papers!!!
Posted by: A Scold of Karens

* lifts shirt, pats Glock 19*

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 28, 2020 10:37 PM (UhiUU)

132 In my area maybe 5% are wearing masks. They are the weirdos.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 10:37 PM (m1H25)

133 56 Winston

Yasher koach!

(Hebrew for 'kudos')

Might I inquire where one might find such? My google-fu failed me in my search.

TIA!

Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (EHVbt)

134 It's interesting observing the fear dynamic with masks. The people wearing them (in general; exceptions exist) think that those who don't are gonna kill someone with their selfishness. The people not wearing them think that submitting to the mask will encourage the totalitarians.

So we end up fearing each other, which fulfills the Marxist goal of further alienating members of society.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (clsJu)

135 One of my best friends is a Tennessee native, and
has always hated Lamar Alexander for the squishy RINO he is. This won't
help, needless to say.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 28, 2020 10:10 PM

It's so nice that you consider me to be one of your best friends!

Posted by: Bert G at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (3SIUH)

136 108 Yeah, going to bed in Hulk mode, when you are ALONE? not good.

Going to bed in Hulk mode when you have a honey? Can be a lot of fun.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:31 PM (NgKpN)

Unfortunately the former is my only option at the moment.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:33 PM (NWiLs)

right now? mine too Brother, mine too.

In fact just got cyber stalked by an Ex from 4 years ago. Went to all my friends on F-book, sent them friend requests, and then if they said yes, proceeded to trash me on every post I made on their pages.

While she had me blocked, so I could not even see what was going on.

Yup, I did the cardinal sin. I stuck it in Cray Cray, because she hid it well for awhile.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (NgKpN)

137 TOPHER!!!

Posted by: Zombie Topher Delmonico at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (ZSK0i)

138 I see where the commies are wanting to remove the income tax because Wilson was a racist.

Second look at joining the resistance?????

Posted by: Archer at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (eQt16)

139 Oh!

THANK YOU, MisHum for another action packed ONT!

Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (EHVbt)

140 Plenty of parents are doing this, I'm sure. It's cruel and abusive and those kids are going to be pretty fucked up from it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (NWiLs)

Not to mention if they're white, they're going to be doubly extra fucked up by being told there is something inherently wrong with them that they have no control over.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (bhxkl)

141 52 Regarding the school board member sipping a beer, at one time it was common for businessmen to drink at lunch and return to work. In some companies businessmen kept liquor in their offices. This was not just in advertising.

School board meetings are held at night, and are unpaid volunteer work. I'm not saying they should all be sucking down money when they make decisions to waste our money, but their decision making is so sucky anyway, what difference does a drink of beer make?
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:20 PM (+lVUW)

When I joined the Army *mumble* years ago, it was authorized for us to consume 2 beers at lunch.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (8C7+r)

142 Yup, I did the cardinal sin. I stuck it in Cray Cray, because she hid it well for awhile.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (NgKpN)

Yeah, that's the problem - sometimes you don't know they're crazy until it's too late.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:39 PM (NWiLs)

143 People are stupid and should be beaten with a tire iron.

Or shot in the yarbles.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at June 28, 2020 10:39 PM (EgshT)

144
Springboro, Ohio in Warren County. It's the most conservative county in Ohio. Prosperous and beautiful.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:37 PM (TdMsT)

I used to live in Morrow, the garbage dump of the county.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:39 PM (mht8P)

145 I am so old, I can remember when most Republican politicians were not mewling buffoons, boy how time flies!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!

They've always been mewling buffoons. We're only now just waking from our oblivious slumber and are noticing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Exhibit A: Nelson Rockefeller
Exhibit B: Oh, hell, why even go on.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:40 PM (+lVUW)

146 For Rep Presley's information, the pillars of the US Capitol during the era of slavery were made of sandstone, not marble. They were stored for over a century and are now on display in an arboretum, just as she ought to be.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at June 28, 2020 10:40 PM (8IOEj)

147 I'm glad you had a good day, but I weep for those children that had to slink off the field in defeat, at the very least they could have given first place medals to everyone!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:30 PM (eTZoJ)

All the games were mercied. Only 8 runs allowed per inning. Our kids got 8 runs almost every inning.

This team is ranked 18th nationally. They are unbelievable.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:40 PM (TdMsT)

148
When I joined the Army *mumble* years ago, it was authorized for us to consume 2 beers at lunch.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

unfortunately now the only time it is acceptable to consume alcohol and operate a vehicle is if you are a black man passed out in a Wendy's drive thru

Posted by: Rick in SK at June 28, 2020 10:41 PM (zDwuO)

149 Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 10:36 PM (WwTwF)

Thought you said ditches.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 28, 2020 10:41 PM (Okeht)

150 In my area maybe 5% are wearing masks. They are the weirdos.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 10:37 PM (m1H25)

I am amazed how many people here in NoVA are wearing them (even while driving) but NoVA is now occupied territory.

My favorite grocery store has a sign up about the mask mandate but they haven't even blinked at my mask-less shopping to date.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:41 PM (eTZoJ)

151 Yup, I did the cardinal sin. I stuck it in Cray Cray, because she hid it well for awhile.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (NgKpN)

I came close to that once. She also hid it at first, but I started picking up some bad vibes so I was distancing myself, then she told me about her recent trip to the psych ward and I said BYE!

Posted by: AF at June 28, 2020 10:41 PM (RsPQq)

152
When I joined the Army *mumble* years ago, it was authorized for us to consume 2 beers at lunch.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (8C7+r)

How big?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:41 PM (mht8P)

153 148
When I joined the Army *mumble* years ago, it was authorized for us to consume 2 beers at lunch.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

unfortunately now the only time it is acceptable to consume alcohol and operate a vehicle is if you are a black man passed out in a Wendy's drive thru
Posted by: Rick in SK at June 28, 2020 10:41 PM (zDwuO)

Que?

Posted by: Hispanics in California at June 28, 2020 10:42 PM (NgKpN)

154
I used to live in Morrow, the garbage dump of the county.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:39 PM (mht8P)

I've never even heard of it!

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:42 PM (TdMsT)

155 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2020 10:42 PM (YynYJ)

156 152
When I joined the Army *mumble* years ago, it was authorized for us to consume 2 beers at lunch.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (8C7+r)

How big?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 10:41 PM (mht8P)

A fawty, shawty!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:42 PM (NWiLs)

157 The KIND of practice also matters. Sitting at the piano banging keys for a while won't get you anywhere. It has to be focused and targeted.

There's actually a decent amount of research on this topic. That post really didn't get into it at all.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 28, 2020 10:42 PM (rWZ8Y)

158 48 I wonder if these mask "laws" specifically state how the mask must be worn

If not, if it's just "a mask must be worn" I would wear it on my wrist, "the law says it must be worn, it didn't specify WHERE"

Posted by: kbdabear at June 28, 2020 10:19 PM (qAR6u)

Hang it off your ear like Biden.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2020 10:43 PM (oVJmc)

159 I went to the local
Farmers market today. There was a guy with a petition to tax Amazon.

I almost want to sign it.

Fuck Bezos

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 28, 2020 10:43 PM (U2p+3)

160 Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

https://youtu.be/9YaNKBmRNvY

Here's the trailer. I note the lack of Hawaiian shirts, or any other "evidence" of racial animus.

Cannon films were not known for their quality, Superman 3 and 4 being maybe their most famous. The Coreman Fantastic Four is their most infamous.
Chuck Norris and ninjas.
He-man Masters of the Universe

https://youtu.be/B5nKFvQ8gIM

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2020 10:43 PM (LxTcq)

161 155 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2020 10:42 PM (YynYJ)

I keep "forgetting." Nobody has said anything to me yet.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 10:44 PM (bhxkl)

162
Hey, Fauci says we should permanently give up handshaking, which dates back to Ancient Greece, and is of obvious social importance, given that we are social primates.

It's Year Zero of the new era, after all.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

He also says it is perfectly acceptable to have sex with strangers you meet on the internet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 10:44 PM (aKsyK)

163 139 Oh!

THANK YOU, MisHum for another action packed ONT!
Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (EHVbt)

Li'l Bro--I spent the day out your way!

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:44 PM (TdMsT)

164 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine.

No vaccine has ever been developed for a coronavirus.

Meanwhile, a Portland leftist is planning ahead:

relatedly, make it a point to see your friends and close ones at parks and other outdoor spaces over the next four months, while the weather is still pleasant - seems like when the rains return, in person socializing will be pretty much impossible until spring/vaccine arrival

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 10:44 PM (I2/tG)

165 All the games were mercied. Only 8 runs allowed per inning. Our kids got 8 runs almost every inning.
This team is ranked 18th nationally. They are unbelievable.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:40 PM (TdMsT)

Seems like a nice balance, and that team sounds ferocious to have a national rating!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:45 PM (eTZoJ)

166 155 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine

....

Unless you are black.

WhoM allegedly the racist virus targets unfairly.

Kinda makes you wonder.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 10:45 PM (38/p9)

167 155 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2020 10:42 PM (YynYJ)

I haven't worn one since March.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:45 PM (TdMsT)

168 Oh shit. It kills people.

Ok, Lets wait for version 2.0 and let the poor and exploited Mexicans have it before us privileged whites

(meanwhile, you keep wearing that veil!)
Posted by: Penguin at June 28, 2020 10:35 PM (C+evo)

You think like a Bond villain. Not saying your wrong with Gates involved, but...

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 28, 2020 10:45 PM (z79tQ)

169 "We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine."
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Stener, I mean science's assault will bring it under control.

Posted by: Chancellor Inslee at June 28, 2020 10:46 PM (YgAuc)

170 Romeo, did you dump your Ex or did she dump you?
I think getting dumped makes slightly crazy ppl very crazy

so, if you realize your sweetie is crazy, don't dump them - make em dump you

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 10:46 PM (WwTwF)

171 Have a great night, everyone.

Carry that torch of American Exceptionalism to illuminate the darkness around you. If you want. No pressure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 28, 2020 10:46 PM (u82oZ)

172 He also says it is perfectly acceptable to have sex with strangers you meet on the internet.

Remember, the big public health push prior to the arrival of the virus was to encourage you to have sex with HIV-positive people with minimal viral loads.

Wouldn't want to be "stigmatizing", after all.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 10:47 PM (I2/tG)

173 Military personnel stationed in Germany were authorized 2 beers (one liter) at lunch, on base. I know this because it was explained to me how it worked, though sadly, not when I was there.

The German civilians working on base ate at their German run Cantina, and their Union had bargained for the right to have 2 beers at lunch. This is still the case, as far as I know.

The US soldiers lost that right long ago, because stupid fuckers abused it. That's the story of the US popular culture in general. One guy shits his pants, we all gotta wear diapers.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2020 10:47 PM (/OEmT)

174 I'm watching what happens in Sweden... No mandatory masks, no real restrictions, etc....

Cases are up, ICU admissions and deaths are declining, same as in the US...

https://www.covid19insweden.com/en/

Posted by: Zettai Roshia-no Asetto at June 28, 2020 10:47 PM (gQS2h)

175 WhoM allegedly the racist virus targets unfairly.

Kinda makes you wonder.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 10:45 PM (38/p9)

Speaking of, I just read an article that said people from the Marshall Islands make up less than 1% of our population, but represent 30% of our cases.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 10:47 PM (bhxkl)

176 155 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2020 10:42 PM (YynYJ)

Oh ffs.

How, exactly, do they expect to enforce that?

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (TdMsT)

177 Consider all the programs and the trillions of dollars ostensibly spent to ameliorate black poverty and the legacy of racism and ask:

1) Where is it?
2) Who got it?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

As all this has happened, what has been the trajectory of large cities? Have they gotten better or worse regarding crime, quality of education?

If we all "take a knee and talk about "systemic racism" will that make Detroit livable?

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (+lVUW)

178 I'm been working on my mask-era pickup lines.

"Where's your mask?"

"Slow down baby, we haven't even decided on a safety word yet."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (38/p9)

179 I used to live in Morrow, the garbage dump of the county.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

---

Meigs or Athens Counties would give Morrow a run for the money of shithole of Ohio.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (Rvt88)

180 130 LadyL

Hey Big Sis!

Springboard is maybe 10 minutes from us, PLEASE know that you are cordially and enthusiastically invited to drop by next time you're out this way (and no masks required).

{{{Hugs}}}

Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (EHVbt)

181
When I joined the Army *mumble* years ago, it was authorized for us to consume 2 beers at lunch.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

How big?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A couple of these:

https://tinyurl.com/y89bhu9c

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (aKsyK)

182 I wonder if these mask "laws" specifically state how the mask must be worn

There are no mask "laws".
Laws are made by legislatures. No such mask "law" has been passed.

Their silly edicts are unenforceable. Laugh and refuse.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 10:49 PM (IsQS3)

183 In Spokane, I mean.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 10:49 PM (bhxkl)

184 151 Yup, I did the cardinal sin. I stuck it in Cray Cray, because she hid it well for awhile.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:38 PM (NgKpN)

I came close to that once. She also hid it at first, but I started picking up some bad vibes so I was distancing myself, then she told me about her recent trip to the psych ward and I said BYE!
Posted by: AF at June 28, 2020 10:41 PM (RsPQq)

This one? Recently divorced Long Haul Truck Driver.

HAWT! Met her online and it turned out our Dads had worked together at ATT back in the day. Lots in common.

Lasted about a year, and then things changed. She was having problems with Menopause, so was playing with changing her hormones, at the same time she was messing with anti anxiety meds (which I didn't know about).

Ended up checking herself into a Ward, and never spoke to me again after that.

Married some guy she had known since high school 6 months later.

Turns out she was seriously co dependent. She wanted someone to run her life for her. She didn't want to have to make decisions.

Problem is? I have too many existing commitments to take on someone who can't take care of themselves.

Interesting thing? Have not talked to her at all in 4 years, yet just NOW she suddenly started contacting my friends.

I think its a plea for my attention, which ain't going to happen.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:49 PM (NgKpN)

185 {{{Nurse}}}

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:49 PM (TdMsT)

186 For being selected this week's winner Tom Servo wins a one year Tissue subscription to the AoSHQ ...

It's just one-ply, but you can ap-ply for an up-grade.

Posted by: mindful webworker
haz not happies
at June 28, 2020 10:49 PM (ApT0U)

187 169 "We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine."
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Stener, I mean science's assault will bring it under control.
Posted by: Chancellor Inslee at June 28, 2020 10:46 PM (YgAuc)

To be fair, didn't Team Fauci develop an AIDS vaccine that prevented the spread of that disease to the entire worldwide heterosexual population?

So a completely safe rigorously tested vaccine against a simple rarely lethal corona virus should be a piece of cake!

/s

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:49 PM (eTZoJ)

188 178 I'm been working on my mask-era pickup lines.

"Where's your mask?"

"Slow down baby, we haven't even decided on a safety word yet."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (38/p9)

/golf clap

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:50 PM (NgKpN)

189 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (38/p9)

***Snort***

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2020 10:50 PM (aA3+G)

190 So we end up fearing each other, which fulfills the Marxist goal of further alienating members of society.
Posted by: Emmie

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 28, 2020 10:50 PM (UhiUU)

191 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine.

Oh ffs.

How, exactly, do they expect to enforce that?

Fear. Social pressure. Compliant sheeple.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 10:50 PM (IsQS3)

192 How, exactly, do they expect to enforce that?
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (TdMsT)

When you receive your vaccination, you also receive a small tattoo on your forehead or right hand, which will allow you to move about freely and engage in commerce.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 10:51 PM (clsJu)

193 relatedly, make it a point to see your friends and close ones at
parks and other outdoor spaces over the next four months, while the
weather is still pleasant - seems like when the rains return, in person
socializing will be pretty much impossible until spring/vaccine arrival

I can't for the life of me understand people who seem to actually revel in the chaos that is this bullshit plandemic. I guess when there is no significant meaning to your life, you hop on the bandwagon and ride it for all its worth.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2020 10:51 PM (EgshT)

194 Tell me the guy will be charged with ADW and attempted murder. How is it possible he wouldn't be?
Posted by: rhomboid

*********

"He was [is] facing charges of attempted 2nd-degree murder, 1st-degree assault, reckless endangerment, felony menacing, criminal mischief, illegal discharge of a firearm and prohibited use of a weapon."

Video from a nearby store security cam shows the shooting.
Shooter claims the pick-up "hit his wife" and he was protecting her. Cops told him the video did not show the truck striking anybody in the intersection and he told the cops, "...the video would be wrong."

Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2020 10:51 PM (Fc5rx)

195 The whole mask thing...

Remember when your mother used to ask "if everyone was jumping off a cliff would you do that too?"

Welcome to the 2020 Maskathon. Where everyone is jumping off the cliff.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 10:52 PM (IsQS3)

196 192
Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 10:51 PM (clsJu)

Uhh, in case it wasn't obvious, I am pretending to be a wild-eyed paranoid.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 10:52 PM (clsJu)

197 Once there were two Karens. One on either side of the fence. They both were the same only each sang its own song.

Posted by: Bartleby at June 28, 2020 10:52 PM (gsaS2)

198 192 How, exactly, do they expect to enforce that?
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (TdMsT)

When you receive your vaccination, you also receive a small tattoo on your forehead or right hand, which will allow you to move about freely and engage in commerce.
Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 10:51 PM (clsJu)

And a micro dot with the number of your case file on it, so they can check the validity, of course.

Otherwise there might be.... beastly... consequences.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:52 PM (NgKpN)

199 How, exactly, do they expect to enforce that?
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (TdMsT)

That's easy, once the "police" are defunded they'll have money available to hire armed government contact tracers and mask enforcers!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:52 PM (eTZoJ)

200 The store employees I've talked to about it here and there are 100% over it.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo

Because they are uncomfortable to wear, especially in the heat. The poor store employees are required to wear them as part of their employment, and I can't imagine what it is like for an entire shift. I hate the things, they get damp, spitty, and sweaty.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:53 PM (+lVUW)

201 The store I normally go to had posted about mandatory masks on their Facebook page. I said I couldn't wear one. They replied that I didn't have to. No one said anything to be today at the store.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2020 10:53 PM (YynYJ)

202 Fireworks are Booming, Earlier and Louder Than Ever

Interesting point about Kloyd, I mean Laren, whatever. Around these parts, the fireworks *are* earlier and distinctly louder. The wife and I were wondering just where folks were getting them.

Because we want some.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at June 28, 2020 10:53 PM (ZSK0i)

203 Wearing masks is the new Recycling.

Does not really do a damn thing, and in fact sometimes is worse, but it makes you feel like you are doing something.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:29 PM (NgKpN)

I do neither.

Posted by: Sooner - White Blue-eyed Debil at June 28, 2020 10:53 PM (Fs5vw)

204 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

----
Thanks goodness Inslee didn't specify what 'type' of mask!
Nephew has throat issues (breathing and swallowing) due to throat cancer treatment.

I pointed out that cheesecloth is available at Wally's World and Home Depot, and that masks are easy to make...

Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at June 28, 2020 10:53 PM (gtatv)

205 So is 'Lloyd' the male Karen?

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 28, 2020 10:53 PM (iTXRQ)

206 180 130 LadyL

Hey Big Sis!

Springboard is maybe 10 minutes from us, PLEASE know that you are cordially and enthusiastically invited to drop by next time you're out this way (and no masks required).

{{{Hugs}}}
Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 10:48 PM (EHVbt)

It occurred to me today that if I could no longer play tennis, Springboro would be a great place to move to and be close to two of my grandlovies.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 10:54 PM (TdMsT)

207 Maybe one could get masks printed with some really offensive slogans, and wear those in "mask required" situations.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2020 10:54 PM (RvOfg)

208 The majority of the people at my Target are still wearing masks. No one has ever given me a Karen, but maybe I look like someone who should be approached gently.

I was watching the 90s anime Hellsing, and I miss that salacious style of writing. Quick, dirty, and enjoyable. Hammond said "If you get stuck, a man walks through the door with a gun" IIRC.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2020 10:54 PM (LxTcq)

209 https://youtu.be/kZqGSnVt8c8

Cost analysis of the lockdown from the Hoover
Institute.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2020 10:55 PM (YynYJ)

210 San Franpsycho, I think the classic was a "travesty of a mockery of two shams", which you probably recall. Woody.

Hadrian, oh yes, there have been many RCTs (randomized controlled trials - not regimental combat teams, in this context) of "non-pharmaceutical interventions" and their benefit in control of ILIs (influenza-like illnesses).

Some outfit you might have heard from called the CDC just published one a month ago in their emerging disease publication. Yes, the CDC connection does raise credibility questions, but .......

https://preview.tinyurl.com/yckgtrk4

"evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures [hand hygiene and masks] did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza."

Read the whole thing, it's short, it's not *just* as simple as the above excerpt, but it's very close to that simple.

And as our new occasional commenter Thesokorus would hasten to correctly point out - the actual health risk to most people from C19 is so limited that the technical efficacy of any counter-measure is almost academic.

Put another way, why won't masks be required every flu season?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 10:55 PM (El6T/)

211 209 https://youtu.be/kZqGSnVt8c8

Cost analysis of the lockdown from the Hoover
Institute.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 28, 2020 10:55 PM (YynYJ)

They suck.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 10:55 PM (swdNU)

212 204 We're supposed to wear them in WA state until there is a vaccine.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

----
Thanks goodness Inslee didn't specify what 'type' of mask!
Nephew has throat issues (breathing and swallowing) due to throat cancer treatment.

I pointed out that cheesecloth is available at Wally's World and Home Depot, and that masks are easy to make...

Posted by: AZ deplorably isolated at June 28, 2020 10:53 PM (gtatv)

Hmmm, you know, How many V masks could you buy for... oh.. $1000?

Because I'd pitch in that much for that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:55 PM (NgKpN)

213 And a micro dot with the number of your case file on it, so they can check the validity, of course.
Otherwise there might be.... beastly... consequences.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 10:52 PM (NgKpN)

Interesting that the entire microchip technology methodology has been perfected on "animals"...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:56 PM (eTZoJ)

214 Masks nothing short of a raw exercise of political power and projecting fear on the populace.

A mask is a symbol. You can't smile. You can't frown. You mouth is shut completely up.

Masks do to actual humans that disagree what Twitter and Facebook do to Tweets that disagree.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 10:56 PM (IsQS3)

215 Because we want some.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at June 28, 2020 10:53 PM (ZSK0i)

Try your nearest Indian reservation.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 28, 2020 10:56 PM (UhiUU)

216 The people not wearing them think that submitting to the mask will encourage the totalitarians...

That is rather insulting. What about those of use who have lived their lives perfectly well without a mask and find the idea of wearing one silly, counterproductive and inconvenient?

...So we end up fearing each other, which fulfills the Marxist goal of further alienating members of society.

I love the irony. Your statement was designed to be offensive and divisive - which plays into the goals of Marxism you obviously don't mind furthering.

If you want to wear the veil and feel smug in doing so, then you are welcome to wear one until the day you die - anything less, until all communicable diseases have been eradicated is hypocrisy.

For those of us who have lived long enough to recognize what is going on for what it is, just accept that we have more intelligence, knowledge and wisdom than those who favor emotions and laughable virtue signalling to guide their lives.

If you are a Creationist, then you must admit that the Creator screwed up and didn't give us the equipment to survive against viruses.

If you an Evolutionist, you must reconsider the whole survival of the Fittest, natural selection, and adaptation as tenets of the faith.

Posted by: 🐧 at June 28, 2020 10:57 PM (C+evo)

217 Put another way, why won't masks be required every flu season?
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 10:55 PM (El6T/)

Please rhomboid, don't give them ideas!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 10:57 PM (eTZoJ)

218 Have seen many people wearing the facemask so that it leaves their nose exposed. Only covers their mouth. So maybe wear a mask to cover an ear or on the head. I wonder if the store managers will call the police. Not joking about this. The signs say all must wear a mask. It doesn't say where or how.

Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 10:58 PM (f3iIR)

219 In regards to masks, at least in Florida, if you have a concealed carry weapon permit and are carrying, then you are prohibited from wearing a mask. This supersedes any mandatory mask wearing. Just one more reason to get your CCW permit and carry!

Posted by: Aewl at June 28, 2020 10:58 PM (O/6ZJ)

220 I can't for the life of me understand people who seem to actually revel in the chaos that is this bullshit plandemic. I guess when there is no significant meaning to your life, you hop on the bandwagon and ride it for all its worth.

It's astonishing - Portland Reddit is full of people reveling in the fact that an explosion of CCP virus cases is forecast to soon hit Oregon. (Using Bill Gates' incredibly accurate epidemiologic model, of course.) One commenter happily predicted that hospitals in Oregon will be filling up over the next few days.

I think there are two driving factors - feeling superior to all the sheeple who aren't treating this like the Black Death (these are the same sorts of people who become vegans), and the hope that this catastrophe will trigger off The Revolution, and overthrow the social order that has left them so terribly, terribly, oppressed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 10:59 PM (I2/tG)

221 The people not wearing them think that submitting to the mask will encourage the totalitarians.

Which has the interesting advantage of being 100% true.

see Pelosi, Nancy : statement today

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 10:59 PM (IsQS3)

222 Try your nearest Indian reservation.

That's 450 miles up the other side of the state...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at June 28, 2020 10:59 PM (ZSK0i)

223
Posted by: Aewl at June 28, 2020 10:58 PM (O/6ZJ)

....

You conceal carry so you don't have to wear a mask.

That is true in multiple senses.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 11:00 PM (38/p9)

224 Wear a white pillowcase with eye holes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 11:00 PM (aKsyK)

225 And there's a newish study out, have to remember where I saw it, indicating (duh) that transmission requires close proximity for a significant time, by an infected person in a particular stage of infection. So, like any other ILI, I guess.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:00 PM (El6T/)

226 For the evolutionist natural selection is still taking place. It's an ongoing process.

Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 11:00 PM (f3iIR)

227 ...So we end up fearing each other, which fulfills the Marxist goal of further alienating members of society.

I love the irony. Your statement was designed to be offensive and divisive - which plays into the goals of Marxism you obviously don't mind furthering.

Um. I'm not sure why you have so much trouble interpreting what I say in my comments. This is not the first time you have completely misinterpreted my statements. Either I am not doing a good job of expressing myself and should try harder, or perhaps you should just ignore my comments.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:00 PM (clsJu)

228 224 BC, Jr

LOL!!!

Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 11:00 PM (EHVbt)

229 Hi Ladyl.
Heya Jordan, do you think we will be allowed to go to NoVa without a quarantine in or out?

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 28, 2020 11:02 PM (U2p+3)

230 Either I am not doing a good job of expressing myself and should try harder, or perhaps you should just ignore my comments.

I don't think it's you...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at June 28, 2020 11:02 PM (ZSK0i)

231 I think there are two driving factors - feeling superior to all the sheeple who aren't treating this like the Black Death

I think that's what riles me up the most. I detect a degree of smugness from some of these mask people. It's almost like "I'm not really a doctor but I play one here in the store".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 28, 2020 11:02 PM (EgshT)

232 Wear a white pillowcase with eye holes.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 11:00 PM (aKsyK)

Be careful with that approach, you might end up as Governor of Virginia!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 11:02 PM (eTZoJ)

233 230 ABA

Was gonna say....

Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 11:02 PM (EHVbt)

234 Maybe one could get masks printed with some really offensive slogans, and wear those in "mask required" situations.

A Klan hood has been test driven at a Walmart which resulted in Karen calling the police and demanding an arrest.

I think the goal is to make the Karen uncomfortable but not call-911 uncomfortable. The best I have heard is to crudely sew on a yellow star of David to the mask. Extra points for adding "Jude".

But given the profound ignorance of today's society, it may not be recognized for what it is - so the Confederate Battle flag or "MAGA" may be the next best thing.

Posted by: 🐧 at June 28, 2020 11:03 PM (C+evo)

235 Put another way, why won't masks be required every flu season?

Posted by: rhomboid

Fantastic point.

As I have been saying...just from a business productivity and liability standpoint:

How are you going to say "oh yeah you MUST WEAR A MASK AND SOCIAL DISTANCE" on Wednesday and then " Ok no masks and group hug everybody !!" on Thursday.

Anybody see that happening? No. Because it will not happen.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 11:03 PM (IsQS3)

236 232 Hrothgar

And boy was his face .... black!

Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 11:03 PM (EHVbt)

237 Muldoon, thanks. I saw the security camera video right after it happened. Uh - yeah, open/shut case. Not a hint of a trace of any provocation, truck touched nobody (in fact none of them even seemed upset and were normally moving out of the way). The guy is clearly a psycho (in non-clinical terms) and with luck he is imprisoned and doesn't last long (if you know what I mean), as I doubt he would.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:03 PM (El6T/)

238 226 For the evolutionist natural selection is still taking place. It's an ongoing process.
Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 11:00 PM (f3iIR)

I've always found it amusing that people who don't believe in God, but subscribe to blind evolution,

Always leave MAN out of the evolutional process.

If evolution is correct, then SHOULDN"T Man be killing inferior species?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 11:03 PM (NgKpN)

239 I don't think it's you...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at June 28, 2020 11:02 PM (ZSK0i)

Thank you. I usually appreciate and enjoy penguin person's comments, but then (s)he occasionally and inexplicably attacks me. I do not understand what the problem is.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:05 PM (clsJu)

240 Tomorrow I go to the range and thing of people I'd like to shoot.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 28, 2020 11:05 PM (pw+jk)

241
When you receive your vaccination, you also receive a small tattoo on your forehead or right hand, which will allow you to move about freely and engage in commerce.
Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 10:51 PM (clsJu)

Over. My. Cold. Dead. Body.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 11:06 PM (TdMsT)

242 I thought postal workers were part of the sleep state not the deep state.
https://tinyurl.com/ycm9s9yf

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 28, 2020 11:06 PM (r+sAi)

243 Heya Jordan, do you think we will be allowed to go to NoVa without a quarantine in or out?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 28, 2020 11:02 PM (U2p+3)

I hope so, but I'm starting to feel pessimistic.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 28, 2020 11:06 PM (bhxkl)

244 235 Put another way, why won't masks be required every flu season?

Posted by: rhomboid

Fantastic point.

As I have been saying...just from a business productivity and liability standpoint:

How are you going to say "oh yeah you MUST WEAR A MASK AND SOCIAL DISTANCE" on Wednesday and then " Ok no masks and group hug everybody !!" on Thursday.

Anybody see that happening? No. Because it will not happen.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 11:03 PM (IsQS3)

You all miss the real point.

Its not the Flu that will bring on a perpetual State of Emergency where they can destroy our Rights.

It Glowbul Warmering.

Because the Supremes have already decreed that it is NOT their place to second guess Governors during a declared Emergency.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 11:06 PM (NgKpN)

245 Regarding the protester in Alamosa, CO who shot a driver in the back of the head back on June 4, a couple bits of information.

That guy intended to shoot somebody. He wasted no time whatsoever going for his gun.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 28, 2020 11:06 PM (oVJmc)

246 Jukin, just curious, you're in SB, right? What range do you use? Not familiar with ranges in that area. Did some time at the UC but back then was not shootin'.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:06 PM (El6T/)

247 Oh geez. Aren't the viruses RNA? If so doesnt that mean that they are microscopic enough that they can go through the material in most masks?

Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 11:07 PM (f3iIR)

248 Here, pull down your trou and give me a butt cheek. This won't hurt a bit.

Posted by: Bill Grates at June 28, 2020 11:07 PM (EgshT)

249 In a sane world, Fireworks, good stuff, would be available by mail order.

The Kindergartenization of American society.

Anyone who has served in the military knows instinctively how this stuff works, particularly in group settings and initial training, how it affects people, and peer pressure. It is not pretty. It is necessary in a military environment (whose purpose was formerly to protect the nation state, I suppose.)

An organization with very few rights - to protect an organization that does have rights. Consider that everything is "free" in the Army, to a large degree. Clothing, lodging, food, and health care.

And - they own yer ass, literally and figuratively. Can be punished for a severe sunburn. Why, you may ask? Because one is not authorized to be absent from work due to a sunburn. One can't wear their uniform, or equipment, or perhaps deploy on a moments notice.

I have ruminated on "free" food for the citizenry - aka "welfare". Why not run it like the Army? Make them weigh in every few months. If one is morbidly obese, why am I required to contribute to their fat ass, and Diabetes? See where I'm goin' with that?

Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2020 11:07 PM (/OEmT)

250 I think I'll pen a letter to my esteemed Senator here in Tennessee:

"Dear Senator Alexander,

You've haven't objected to the unmasking of President Trump's cabinet members, advisors and family members for the last 4 years.

Why the sudden change of heart?

Warmest regards,

Bitter Clinger"

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 11:07 PM (38/p9)

251 where is tye Alamosa shooting video?

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:08 PM (WwTwF)

252 The people not wearing them think that submitting to the mask will encourage the totalitarians.

Which has the interesting advantage of being 100% true.

see Pelosi, Nancy : statement today

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 10:59 PM (IsQS3)

===

THAT'S A BINGO
S-U-B-M-I-T. AND NO I WILL NOT.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 28, 2020 11:08 PM (pw+jk)

253 229 Hi Ladyl.
Heya Jordan, do you think we will be allowed to go to NoVa without a quarantine in or out?
Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 28, 2020 11:02 PM (U2p+3)

I don't know. I had to reschedule my trip to Maine because Maine required a two week quarantine once you arrived.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 11:08 PM (TdMsT)

254 Over. My. Cold. Dead. Body.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 11:06 PM (TdMsT)

Okay, just to be clear, I have not heard anything about any tattoos. I was just, whadyacallit, you know like the Church Lady used to say, "Could it be...Satan?" I have heard about a nano-chip, but it seems to be an urban legend.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:09 PM (clsJu)

255 Posted by: Common Tater at June 28, 2020 11:07 PM (/OEmT)

Used to LOVE Denver 4ths of July.

Yes, some fireworks were outlawed in Colorado, but Wyoming was an hour or so away.

And the Police did not bother to enforce that law.

So, yeah, HUGE illegal private firework displays every 4th, EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 28, 2020 11:09 PM (NgKpN)

256 that transmission requires close proximity for a significant time, by an infected person in a particular stage of infection

I read an interview with an Israeli epidemiologist who thought that it required ten minutes in close proximity to an infected person to run a significant risk of infection.

The idea that you have to wear a mask walking down the street because you might spend two seconds within six feet of someone walking past you is ludicrous.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:09 PM (I2/tG)

257 Actually, deplorable unperson, while your point is correct, it's a different one.

I was saying that, since influenza has what will probably eventually be calculated to be higher health risk to the broad population and especially

Of course, leaving aside the probable fact (as confirmed by research) that aside from properly fitted respirator type face coverings, face coverings provide no measurable benefit to combat ILIs.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:10 PM (El6T/)

258

Just finished watching long documentary.

Found ace's time machine. Or rather, who had it 120 years ago.

Ingersoll Lockwood who wrote "Barron Trumps Marvellous Underground Journey."

Talk about stepping into the Twilight Zone.

Way past bedtime.

Love each other fellow babies

Posted by: TeeJ at June 28, 2020 11:11 PM (SNwMD)

259 When you receive your vaccination, you also receive a small tattoo on your forehead or right hand, which will allow you to move about freely and engage in commerce.�
Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 10:51 PM (clsJu)�

Over. My. Cold. Dead. Body

Yeah. I had to bring husband up to date on the 'covid19 vaccine' issue. He thought that it was a good idea till I splained who are some of the people spending money to develop one.

Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 11:11 PM (f3iIR)

260 how exactly does quarantine between states supposed to work?

my friend wants to visit her mom in another state - who's supposed to keep tabs on them?

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:11 PM (WwTwF)

261 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 11:07 PM (38/p9)

A thing of beauty!

Bravo!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 28, 2020 11:12 PM (eTZoJ)

262 I for one endorse fireworks. Lots and lots of fireworks. Guns too. Safely. Year round. I don't care. Have at it.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 28, 2020 11:13 PM (0OmEj)

263 I have heard about a nano-chip, but it seems to be an urban legend.

Posted by: Emmie

nano chips are quite effective when implanted in dogs. When you consider that we have a large portion of the people in this country who turn their faces into junk metal scrap yards?

I don't think that you are being farfetched at all. It is a completely reasonable leap from compliance with "strap this thing over your mouth in public" to "let me inject this into you - for your safety! "

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 11:13 PM (IsQS3)

264 I'm not sure why you have so much trouble interpreting what I say in my comments.

I don't think that there was an editor between when you posted that thought and what ended up being displayed.

So what is meant by this statement?

"The people not wearing them think that submitting to the mask will encourage the totalitarians..."

There was no allowance for anything other than emotional reasons. (and we didn't even cover the possible medical reasons why someone may choose not to wear the veil)

Because not everything is about feelings and ideology.

I honestly don't care what mask wearers or non-mask wearers are thinking or feeling about the matter. It is not worth the energy.

What I do care about is my government making personal decisions for me and treating me as a child or worse, as chattel.

Read the Declaration of Independence and see if there is room in there for government agents to fine and incarcerate innocent people for not wrapping their heads in cloth.

Usually we leave that sort of direction to the Taliban.

Posted by: 🐧 at June 28, 2020 11:16 PM (C+evo)

265 Some good news to share....

Nike is laying off thousands. Tee hee. Good luck with your new blm demographic assholes.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:16 PM (m1H25)

266 where is tye Alamosa shooting video?
Posted by: vmom 202

************

https://tinyurl.com/alamosa-shooting1

Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2020 11:16 PM (Fc5rx)

267
Yeah. I had to bring husband up to date on the 'covid19 vaccine' issue. He thought that it was a good idea till I splained who are some of the people spending money to develop one.
Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 11:11 PM (f3iIR)

I've heard weird things about Bill Gates's involvement will vaccines and it's difficult to tell what is true and what is someone's wild paranoid speculations. I've heard he harmed people in other countries with his vaccines and then also heard that wasn't true. Like I've heard he was responsible for a polio vaccine causing paralysis and deformities in some third-world country, but I don't understand why he would be vaccinating people for an illness that has been nearly wiped off the face of the earth or why he would use a harmful vaccine when we've already developed an effective one that was used safely for decades.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:17 PM (clsJu)

268 I was saying that, since influenza has what will probably eventually be
calculated to be higher health risk to the broad population

Yes, I went a little off from what you were saying. But you are correct, flu is a far worse threat with a far higher body count. And flu season is just around the corner.

I keep wondering if the real question here is that the appetite for ANY risk from disease in the US is now at zero?

And if so, why can't we defund the "sanctuary cities", kick out the illegals and shut the borders? For our safety?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 11:17 PM (IsQS3)

269 ibguy
Sorry, got called away on a phone call and just got back.
I wear paper masks that I get at a hospital.
I went to my Paint program on my desktop.
Made a 6 pointed star about 5" across and printed it in Yellow with a black outline.
Cut it out and stapled to my mask.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 11:17 PM (d9Irc)

270 I read an interview with an Israeli epidemiologist who thought that it required ten minutes in close proximity to an infected person to run a significant risk of infection.

Nice, that gives me nine and half minutes to put my pants back on.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - if a bear shits in a wig but no one smells it did it happen? at June 28, 2020 11:18 PM (H5knJ)

271 I'm going to go to bed angry. Hopefully I won't be in the morning. Have a good night all.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 11:18 PM (swdNU)

272 265 Some good news to share....

Nike is laying off thousands. Tee hee. Good luck with your new blm demographic assholes.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:16 PM (m1H25)

I quit buying Nike sports gear years ago.

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 11:19 PM (TdMsT)

273
Hey all.

Haven't been online all day, so I guess we've covered the de-opening of California.

Newsom has closed bars in 7 counties, including LA. About another 7 are on The List.

Did we talk about this? I'm behind-hand.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2020 11:19 PM (G51Gf)

274 Another interesting article, from a physician, on COVID counting rules and common sense:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycmp4pgo

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:19 PM (El6T/)

275 269 Winston

Awesome - Thank You!

I lack the artistic skills to pull that off

Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 11:20 PM (EHVbt)

276 271 I'm going to go to bed angry. Hopefully I won't be in the morning. Have a good night all.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 28, 2020 11:18 PM (swdNU)

{{{Insom}}}

Go to sleep knowing how much you are loved here!

Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at June 28, 2020 11:20 PM (TdMsT)

277 Nike is laying off thousands. Tee hee. Good luck with your new blm demographic assholes.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:16 PM (m1H25)

----------

The current demographic really loves the product, but unfortunately for Nike they mostly get them for free.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 28, 2020 11:21 PM (wPVhA)

278
"I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more." - John Adams, letter to his wife Abagail, 3 July 1776

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 11:21 PM (mht8P)

279 Okay I have my drank.
Continue.

oh I also want to engage in celebratory gunfire on the Fourth just to be rebellious. But the bullets come down somewhere and my luck I'd hit somebody.
Still. Would be fun.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 28, 2020 11:21 PM (iTXRQ)

280 Romeo13,
Going to the trouble of cyberstalking someone 4 years after a break up is the very definition of cray cray.

On the upside, you're not still with her.

Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 11:22 PM (+lVUW)

281 Nike is laying off thousands. Tee hee. Good luck with your new blm demographic assholes.

As a marketing technique, virtue signaling kinda sucks.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 11:22 PM (IsQS3)

282 https://tinyurl.com/alamosa-shooting1
Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2020 11:16 PM (Fc5rx)

thanks
looked like an assassination

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:23 PM (WwTwF)

283 @249 When I was in the Air Force, I went on a skiing trip with a civilian friend. He was giving me shit about not doing the black diamond/moguls (moguls to me are like cross-country skiing, more work than fun) and I tried to explain that if I break a leg or fuck up my knee it would mean my ass.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 28, 2020 11:23 PM (DY3v8)

284 Trafalgar has a new poll in WI showing OrangeManBad up 1. It is a GOP polling company so grain of salt. But......they had Trump up 1 in PA in 2016 as well.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:24 PM (m1H25)

285
More good news/bad news.

Good: People at Hugo's Tacos in LA are so sick of being told by "Hugo" to wear masks that they've been abusing the proprietors and even threw a cup of water on one of them.

Bad: Hugo's Tacos shut down, sick of the abuse.

Maybe worse: I don't know if Hugo's was afraid some Karen would narc them out for not harassing their unmasked customers.

Anyway, I like the spirit of the non-maskers.

IT WAS A FVCKING *OUTDOOR TACO STAND.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2020 11:24 PM (G51Gf)

286 274 rhomboid

Thank you!

Shorter: "We're sorry, Mrs Smith, but your husband who, who was shot in the face and the hurled from the 20th floor, has died of The 'Rona."

Posted by: ibguy at June 28, 2020 11:24 PM (EHVbt)

287 Nike is laying off thousands. Tee hee. Good luck with your new blm demographic assholes.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member

oh no
how will the 9 year old sweatshop workers earn a living now?

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:25 PM (WwTwF)

288 Gunfire into the air is stupid and dangerous. Gunfire into the ground not so much. One should always be sure of ones target and what is beyond it.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 28, 2020 11:26 PM (0OmEj)

289 Blonde M., of course CA isn't in play on the presidential level, but I think the longer this medically illiterate abuse of the population continues, the greater the chance of some notable blowback in November. "Greater,", as in *some*, vs. the usual none, from a dumbed-down, submissive, useless CA electorate.

The death tolls or other tangible "bad" things are not going to be delivered here, no medical systems overwhelmed (away from the border, that is!), and eventually many people will rightly just rebel in some way beyond their low compliance with the (mostly stupid) "rules" of behavior.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:26 PM (El6T/)

290 It's like Nike just looted all of those jobs.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 28, 2020 11:26 PM (DY3v8)

291 Nike can go the way of Gillette, Calvin Klein and Target. Straight to hell on a fast horse.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at June 28, 2020 11:26 PM (U2p+3)

292 Here is my tinfoil hat theory for the evening.

Our education system has been treating around 6 million children a year with psychoactive medication for the last decade, from ages as young as 3 or 4 years old.

The riotous, malevolent anti-social behavior on display in our streets has not only been a result of a 15 year indoctrination plan specifically mapped out by the education system, but has been augmented by the forced dosing of psychoactive medications which directly inhibited proper maturation of the frontal lobe of the adolescent brain.

For this reason, not only do we see the usual violent tendencies from the ruffians from lower income government-level subsistence living, but they are joined by a healthy contingent of middle class medicated zombies from suburbia that lack impulse control.

It has all been patiently planned.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 11:27 PM (38/p9)

293 Nike laying off 1,000s in the US? Or Chi-Nah?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:27 PM (El6T/)

294 So what is meant by this statement?

"The people not wearing them think that submitting to the mask will encourage the totalitarians..."

There was no allowance for anything other than emotional reasons. (and we didn't even cover the possible medical reasons why someone may choose not to wear the veil)
Posted by:at June 28, 2020 11:16 PM (C+evo)

Okay, thank you. That helps me understand where you are coming from. If I understand correctly, you would have liked me to be more comprehensive in my observations.

I do acknowledge and agree that there are people who do not wear the mask and do not think about whether or not it has anything to do with totalitarianism and government overreach.

I personally do not wear a mask. I think it's too late to stop the spread of the virus and that most everybody who is going to get it has gotten it already. Also, I do not think it benefits me or anyone else. If I am sick with an illness that involves a fever, I stay home out of consideration for others.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:27 PM (clsJu)

295
Trafalgar has a new poll in WI showing OrangeManBad up 1. It is a GOP polling company so grain of salt. But......they had Trump up 1 in PA in 2016 as well.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member

======

Look out for reports from a South African firm called BrandsEye.

In 2016, they predicted that Trump would win. They even predicted that he would win Pennsylvania.

They didn't do it by polling -- they analyzed social media.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2020 11:28 PM (G51Gf)

296 bass player John Entwistle, died aged 57 in his hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Entwistle had gone to bed that night with a stripper, who woke at 10am to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Las Vegas medical examiner determined that death was due to a heart attack induced by an undetermined amount of cocaine.
----
fuckin legend.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 28, 2020 10:09

We saw the Who on that tour, they did continue. No idea who replaced Entwhitsle. Anyone?

Posted by: Farmer at June 28, 2020 11:28 PM (BPHer)

297
‟Ever notice that the cobs get to use curly quotes while we peasants have to make do with straight quotes?”

Free

your

mind.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2020 11:28 PM (LxTcq)

298 Cicero, don't consider it pilferage, or outright theft losses - the Nike products just hit the magic "price point" for that group of customers - zero.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:28 PM (El6T/)

299 Nike has not announced details. But when corps announce layoffs it is corporate type positions. Nobody gives a shit if 9 year olds in China get axed.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:29 PM (m1H25)

300 oh I also want to engage in celebratory gunfire on the Fourth just to be rebellious. But the bullets come down somewhere and my luck I'd hit somebody.�
Still. Would be fun

Hah! Where have you been? They've been doing just that in so fl for decades. New Years, Independence Day, every time they feel like it...and they have no misgivings about where the bullets hit when they come down.

Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 11:29 PM (f3iIR)

301 It has all been patiently planned.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 11:27 PM (38/p9)

---------

This lets Republicans off the hook. They couldn't plan a bowel movement.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 28, 2020 11:30 PM (wPVhA)

302
Some somber news from Her Majesty. Two of the rescue dogs we'll be fostering are old and infirm and likely to be short-timers. But, by God, if they die, they'll die with us, well fed and in comfort.

A lot of people are doing a lot to help these unfortunates. Maybe by our charity and hard work we can redeem our breed's reputation from the tragic events in recent years that have darkened it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 11:30 PM (mht8P)

303
It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews

But not from Nike

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 28, 2020 11:31 PM (aKsyK)

304
About two hours ago, the boy came into the house while I was on the phone with my brother. He said "So-and-so beat up our friend, and ran into the park. Can I chase him down there and get him?"

"Yes. Go."

Sister comes in about ten seconds later shouting "Brother is chasing so-and-so into the park."

"OK, what are you still doing here? Go help your brother chase down so-and-so."

My brother says "Maybe you should tell Lady YD what her kids are up to."

"Nah. She'd just say no."

Lady YD comes out a few minutes later: "Where are my kids?"

"Your son is leading a gang of children to get revenge on a boy who beat one of their friends. They're at the park."

"WHAT WHAT WHAT?!?!"

"Yeah, it's time for the boy to do this thing. He's eleven, for chrissakes."

She eventually relaxed about it, and then I paid the boy ten dollars. But I got yelled at a lot, first.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2020 11:31 PM (oJN+m)

305 "We are building a flatter, nimbler company and transforming Nike faster to define the marketplace of the future. We are shifting resources and creating capacity to reinvest in our highest potential areas, and we anticipate our realignment will likely result in a net loss of jobs"

Sounds like something that Mitt Romney would say when he was at Bain Capital.

Translation: if you work for Nike, you're screwed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:31 PM (I2/tG)

306

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:32 PM (I2/tG)

307 Cicero, don't consider it pilferage, or outright theft losses - the Nike products just hit the magic "price point" for that group of customers - zero.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:28 PM (El6T/)
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With exquisite cost control and tight inventory management, I'm sure Nike can make it work.

The extravagant wages for the Chinese slave girls will have to go, of course.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 28, 2020 11:32 PM (wPVhA)

308 ibguy
If you have the program the shape is already there.
Pretty easy but if you're uncertain don't. I did it on sort of a whim but I'll wear it every time I have to be out.

On the plus side, I stopped by my friendly local gun store yesterday. The owner told me we're not doing masks here. I did find some .45 ammo but they're very nearly out of guns to sell and all of the rifle ammo is sold out.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 11:32 PM (d9Irc)

309 294 I forgot to say I also do not expect anyone else to wear a mask for me. Except a surgeon or maybe a dentist when they are working on me.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:32 PM (clsJu)

310 She eventually relaxed about it, and then I paid the boy ten dollars. But I got yelled at a lot, first.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2020 11:31 PM (oJN+m)

.....

I now acknowledge that the #1 Dad coffee mug I received for Father's Day was not deserved.

I'm willing to ship it to you.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 11:34 PM (38/p9)

311 309 294 I forgot to say I also do not expect anyone else to wear a mask for me. Except a surgeon or maybe a dentist when they are working on me.
Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:32 PM (clsJu)

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The Paolo, he promise that he will never wear mask when he work on you.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 28, 2020 11:34 PM (wPVhA)

312 am I remembering my hs physics correctly? - a bullet fired straight up in the air will come down and hit the ground with the same velocity as when it left the gun

correct?
fired at somewhat of sn angle, slightly less so, but still close

therefore much deadlier than a bullet fired from a gun pointing at the target at yhe same distance as the height achieved by the corresponding upwards fired bullet

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:34 PM (WwTwF)

313 56 WA state requires, until further notice or Inslee has a revelation or farts or something.
I'm proudly wearing mine in due submission to his will.
It has a nice, bright, six pointed star on it.
I've received a few glares from women I know are Democrats.
One gentleman stopped me in the grocery the other day to thank me for wearing it.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 10:21 PM (d9Irc)

Winston, my man!

I've been looking for a 6 point yellow star bandana or mask.

Where did you get it?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 28, 2020 11:34 PM (sy5kK)

314 Trafalgar has a new poll in WI showing OrangeManBad
up 1. It is a GOP polling company so grain of salt. But......they had
Trump up 1 in PA in 2016 as well.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:24 PM (m1H25)

Good info, but seriously don't worry about the polls. Trump wins. That's what he does.

Posted by: ... at June 28, 2020 11:34 PM (Rg59Y)

315 Nike demand is infinitely elastic. Or velcro.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 28, 2020 11:34 PM (DY3v8)

316 Nike has its HQ in suburban Portland. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. LOLGF woke cucks.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:36 PM (m1H25)

317 " I think it's too late to stop the spread of the virus and that most everybody who is going to get it has gotten it already." - Emmie

Emmie, consider if you will that not only are you almost certainly correct, but that general WHO/CDC/everybody else guidelines are that once a highly transmissible virus infects more than 1% of a population, it is in operational terms "prevalent" (part of that is that it's assumed the actual infection rate is a multiple of the confirmed rate).

And (drum roll ......), radical mitigation and broad containment measures no longer make sense. Just like you said. Horse, open barn door, etc.

Sweden and a few other places did the "conventional" thing here - *they* were not the experiment, or the radical new thing, *we* were, many other major countries were. If not already, by fall it will be clear that there was little if any benefit to almost all of the efforts and costs borne here. Even Sweden effed up the elderly/nursing care thing, and like the US, minus that component, the death toll will be far from apocalyptic, or even from 1968/69.

I'm a bitter opponent of perfection as a standard, and a big fan of learning curves. But I fear that there'll be little learning this time, for several reasons. However obviously wrong our approach (after late April) was, to thinking informed people, there simply won't be an accounting.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:36 PM (El6T/)

318
"The Great Mortality will permit a redistribution of resources and a flatter, nimbler Europe to create the conditions for robust growth in future quarters." - MBAs in 1349

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 11:36 PM (mht8P)

319 315 Nike demand is infinitely elastic. Or velcro.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 28, 2020 11:34 PM (DY3v

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Much like my pants,

Posted by: Rep. Jerrold Nadler, (D)umbass at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (wPVhA)

320 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2020 11:31 PM (oJN+m)

gonna need a follow up story on this

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (WwTwF)

321 >am I remembering my hs physics correctly? - a bullet fired straight up in the air will come down and hit the ground with the same velocity as when it left the gun

No I think that it will fall back to earth at the same speed as any free-falling object-
'terminal velocity' I think they call it

Unless I'm Wrong™

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (iTXRQ)

322 Here is my tinfoil hat theory for the evening.

Bowler type or one of those tall pointy ones?

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (UhiUU)

323 It just gets better and better - the New York Times reports that college towns are getting ravaged by the CCP virus, since all the students are gone.

The ultra-Left-wing mayors of these towns are alternating between denouncing Trump, and demanding bailouts.

Best of all, April 1 was Census Day, so the reduced student populations will decrease the political representation of these towns for the next ten years.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (I2/tG)

324 Nike demand is infinitely elastic. Or velcro.

**********

Velcro is also known as 'hook and loop'. And you know what a loop resembles, right?

Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (Fc5rx)

325
Senior Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander can suck my dog's dick.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at June 28, 2020 10:05 PM (aA3+G)

And your donkey's if you have one. Seriously, whet the hell is wrong with R senators this weekend? Grassley tweeted out that Trump needs to listen to the editorial board at the WSJ. That editorial board is to the left of The Atlantic. Seriously, what the hell??

Screw your courage to a sticking place, GOP, and stop being such GD pussies!

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (nAiE/)

326 LCD
I went on Paint on my desktop.
Stretched the star shape to about 5".
Printed it in yellow with a black outline.
Stapled it to a paper mask.
Works like a champ.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 11:38 PM (d9Irc)

327 College towns in massive economic depression warms my heart.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:39 PM (m1H25)

328 Some somber news from Her Majesty. Two of the rescue dogs we'll be fostering are old and infirm and likely to be short-timers. But, by God, if they die, they'll die with us, well fed and in comfort.�

A lot of people are doing a lot to help these unfortunates. Maybe by our charity and hard work we can redeem our breed's reputation from the tragic events in recent years that have darkened it

============

See, there are human angels in this world.

Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 11:39 PM (f3iIR)

329 312 am I remembering my hs physics correctly? - a bullet fired straight up in the air will come down and hit the ground with the same velocity as when it left the gun

correct?
fired at somewhat of sn angle, slightly less so, but still close therefore much deadlier than a bullet fired from a gun pointing at the target at yhe same distance as the height achieved by the corresponding upwards fired bullet
Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists

Isn't terminal velocity roughly 300 ft/sec for a .30 slug? (coming back down)

But hey, what the hell do I know?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2020 11:40 PM (Rvt88)

330 Velcro is also known as 'hook and loop'. And you know what a loop resembles, right?
Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (Fc5rx)

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Quantum loop gravity theory has to go too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 28, 2020 11:40 PM (wPVhA)

331
College towns in massive economic depression warms my heart.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:39 PM (m1H25)

Twee vegan cafes and progressive bookstores hardest hit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 11:40 PM (mht8P)

332 I'm a bitter opponent of perfection as a standard, and a big fan of learning curves. But I fear that there'll be little learning this time, for several reasons. However obviously wrong our approach (after late April) was, to thinking informed people, there simply won't be an accounting.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:36 PM (El6T/)

Thank you, Rhomboid. And yes, it seems perfection is being used against us these days (if that makes any sense). And I would just faint if there is an accounting.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:41 PM (clsJu)

333 Isn't terminal velocity roughly 300 ft/sec for a .30 slug? (coming back down)

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Depends. Is a slug closer to a cannonball or a feather?

Posted by: Galileo at June 28, 2020 11:41 PM (wPVhA)

334 Terminal velocity is the same for all objects no?

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:42 PM (m1H25)

335 D politicians: endlessly repeating that there is institutionalized discrimination does not make it true.

Actually there is institutionalized discrimination but totally not in the way you mean. Every woman or minority who takes advantage of set asides and affirmative action programs are getting privileges without possessing the merit. That is the very definition of institutionalized discrimination.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 28, 2020 11:42 PM (nAiE/)

336 She eventually relaxed about it, and then I paid the boy ten dollars. But I got yelled at a lot, first.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

* high five*

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 28, 2020 11:42 PM (UhiUU)

337 Terminal velocity is determined by aerodynamics.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 28, 2020 11:42 PM (LxTcq)

338 terminal velocity? should be fine then

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:43 PM (WwTwF)

339 vmom, not sure.

A projectile (bullet) propelled by the gas pressure from that HP38 in my 38spl rounds will travel at around 700 fps initially, out the muzzle of the 4-inch Model 66. The 30-06 bullet out of the Garand is closer to 2500 fps. Fired straight up, they'll return to earth accelerating at 32 fps/s, limited aerodynamically to some terminal velocity. Can't imagine the 150 grain bullet from the Garand would return to the surface at 2500 fps. Something far below that.

But lethal, yes. What goes up .....

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:43 PM (El6T/)

340 Bowler type or one of those tall pointy ones?

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (UhiUU)

......

Neither.

I wrapped up one of those paper pirate hats from Long John Silver's.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 28, 2020 11:43 PM (38/p9)

341 Bullet fired straight up leaves muzzle with an impelling force propelling it. It slows from the initial velocity due to wind resistance plus gravity. When it reaches its apex the velocity is zero. It begins to return toward the ground impelled only by gravity, minus wind resistance. when gravity equals wind resistance, it no longer accelerates and falls at a constant velocity. Upon returning to earth it re-enters the barrel of the gun and due to the lesser velocity lodges halfway down.

Do not re-fire the weapon at this point.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 28, 2020 11:43 PM (Fc5rx)

342 College towns in massive economic depression warms my heart.

Particularly Berkeley, which has been whining about the terrible, terrible impacts that the university has had on the city for years.

Let's see how the city does without all the students, MFers.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:43 PM (I2/tG)

343 Best of all, April 1 was Census Day, so the reduced student populations will decrease the political representation of these towns for the next ten years.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:37 PM (I2/tG)

Hmmm, that's interesting because I teach at a community college and this is the first time I have ever been nagged by school email to participate in the census.

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:43 PM (clsJu)

344 Quantum loop gravity theory has to go too.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 28, 2020 11:40 PM (wPVhA)

How about string theory?

You know what you can do with string, right!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at June 28, 2020 11:44 PM (eTZoJ)

345 Terminal velocity is the same for all objects no?
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member

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In theory yes, BUT, it is affect by the aerodynamic features of the object.

See the feather mentioned above by Galileo.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 28, 2020 11:44 PM (Rvt88)

346
Blonde M., of course CA isn't in play on the presidential level, but I think the longer this medically illiterate abuse of the population continues, the greater the chance of some notable blowback in November. "Greater,", as in *some*, vs. the usual none, from a dumbed-down, submissive, useless CA electorate.

The death tolls or other tangible "bad" things are not going to be delivered here, no medical systems overwhelmed (away from the border, that is!), and eventually many people will rightly just rebel in some way beyond their low compliance with the (mostly stupid) "rules" of behavior.
Posted by: rhomboid

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Agreed. Another of my recent stories: the Santa Cruz police officially surrendered to happy beach mobs who refused to wear masks and keep six feet away from the nearest stranger while sunning and surfing. Rules HAD been laid out for beach-going, but so few people obeyed that the cops admitted they were overwhelmed and they had no choice but to fully reopen the beaches and let the mobs rule. (Someone here compared it to the pattern we saw with BLM, but I reject that.)

This is in ultra-blue Santa Cruz, where everyone believes the right myths -- about climate, about race, presumably about COVID. Of course they'll continue to vote blue, and it's a shame -- I bet someone with anti-big-government ideas in service of the citizens of Santa Cruz could get some attention.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2020 11:44 PM (G51Gf)

347 College towns are like tourist towns. They bitch about the students/tourists.....until theyre gone. See Venice.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:45 PM (m1H25)

348 Geez Mishum, what did your dog do to piss you off so?

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 28, 2020 11:46 PM (UhiUU)

349 >Terminal velocity is the same for all objects no?

No. Size and shape of the object falling, as well as variables in the medium it's falling thru, all play a part.

I'm wiki smart!

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 28, 2020 11:46 PM (iTXRQ)

350 Does Long John Silvers still exist?

Have not seen one in a while.

Also, got to be one of the weirdest marketing decisions ever:

We need a brand name.

How about a pirate who menaced a youngster on a quest for stolen treasure?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - if a bear shits in a wig but no one smells it did it happen? at June 28, 2020 11:47 PM (H5knJ)

351 Muldoon, that's outstanding.

Note: it's not that big a deal to clear a "squib" from the barrel, at least lead bullets. Jacketed can be tougher.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:47 PM (El6T/)

352 Adam Carolla made a point recently that the riots showed us cops cant really do anything if large groups of people want to break the law. The police is there to stop 1 or 2 criminals, not 1000. Same goes for beach closures.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:47 PM (m1H25)

353 Terminal velocity is the same for all objects no?
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:42 PM (m1H25)

No, note even close. It's a function of mass vs air resistance. Case in point: a parachute, the entire object of which is to reduce the terminal velocity of a falling person.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 28, 2020 11:47 PM (bmv/L)

354 337 Terminal velocity is determined by aerodynamics.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

so probably a bullet, being a cylinder, would spin/tumble on the way down
unlike a ball shaped bullet

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:48 PM (WwTwF)

355 No. Size and shape of the object falling, as well as variables in the medium it's falling thru, all play a part.

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Let's assume a perfect vacuum, and spherical chickens.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 28, 2020 11:48 PM (wPVhA)

356 Gotta finish my dang homework for my online instruction certification. I really hate this course but I am going to finish it this time. Last time I dropped because it made me crazy. I would never do to my students the stuff I'm expected to do, like making them perform scavenger hunts all over the learning management system just to figure out what to do to pass my course.

Argh. Probably be back later. Y'all have a great week!

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:48 PM (clsJu)

357 >See the feather mentioned above by Galileo.

yeah they 'proved' Galileo's theory on one of the Apollo moonwalks. I think you can see it on YouTube.

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 28, 2020 11:48 PM (iTXRQ)

358
Particularly Berkeley, which has been whining about the terrible, terrible impacts that the university has had on the city for years.

Let's see how the city does without all the students, MFers.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

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zombie gave us some facts about laptop thieves some time before the covid. Dash into a coffee shop, grab a laptop right out from under someone's fingers, and flee. Or do it on the street.

I wonder how thieves are doing these days....

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 28, 2020 11:48 PM (G51Gf)

359 I wrapped up one of those paper pirate hats from Long John Silver's.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

I might still be drinking if I had a bartender like you .

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 28, 2020 11:49 PM (UhiUU)

360
The only place I see Long John Silvers is at fast fooderies attached to gas stations and even then sharing space with another chain.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 11:50 PM (mht8P)

361 Blonde M. there was a hilarious photo from a few weeks ago when the beaches in northern SD County first "re-opened", a sandwich sign with all the ridiculous rules - behind it, a beach full of people just being normal doing all the normal things at the beach.

But I'm skeptical about your idea of any actual intelligent political message or movement gaining traction. CA voters represent the platonic ideal of de-Americanized dumbed-down prosperity.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:51 PM (El6T/)

362

The human immune system. How does that work again?

Jay Inslee missed that year in school.

And we all had to pay and pay.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, really getting tired of the false science scam run by traitors at June 28, 2020 11:52 PM (sy5kK)

363 zombie gave us some facts about laptop thieves some time before the covid. Dash into a coffee shop, grab a laptop right out from under someone's fingers, and flee. Or do it on the street.

Crimes of poverty, obviously.

One of the points that police abolitionists make is that if everyone is given a high enough guaranteed income, crime will disappear, because everyone will have enough money, and will have no need to steal.

Uh, huh.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:52 PM (I2/tG)

364 A lot of people are doing a lot to help these unfortunates. Maybe by our charity and hard work we can redeem our breed's reputation from the tragic events in recent years that have darkened it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 11:30

What was the the bad rep going around on Borzois? Didn't hear that.

Also, thanks for the music, much appreciated.

Posted by: Farmer at June 28, 2020 11:52 PM (BPHer)

365
Bowling ball and feather simultaneously dropped in a vacuum

https://youtu.be/74MUjUj7bp8

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 11:52 PM (mht8P)

366 this is a good sign:

BrandonStraka
#WalkAway will be what saves America from BLM &the violent insanity we've been seeing for weeks.
TAKE HEART.
Over 45K new #WalkAway members in 3 weeks!
25K member requests pending!
We have THOUSANDS of new testimonials awaiting approval.

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:53 PM (WwTwF)

367 I get tired of this shit.

Been on the road - working - and during the nightly call back home - we're all ratcheted up with the Covid fear again.

Apparently the news - or a bubble headed FaceBook friend - smartened her up that the Covid will make you stroke out. Die of a blood clot. We all need to stay inside.

It gets tiresome, dealing with not only her dumb but all the dumb that she subscribes to. Son of the Banned has two more years.

I can see being a 50 yo divorcee. Absolutely.

Posted by: Children of the Banned at June 28, 2020 11:54 PM (Jk+3L)

368 My wife vehemently disagrees with me that the riots caused the spike in new cases. I said look at the timing it cant be a coincidence. She says no its because nobody is wearing masks and everyone is out partying. This is what happens when you marry someone who voted for Gore because his daughters were cool. I am not making that part up. Lol.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:54 PM (m1H25)

369 Hadrian
I haven't heard any bad things about Borzoi's.
But, you and Her Majesty are saints for taking these poor suffering critters in.
Bless you to the heavens.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 11:54 PM (d9Irc)

370 ARC, you reminded me.

Local city buses - on the sides, huge banner ads - (paraphrasing, but close) - "Census Means Resources for Our Community".

Marshal Rokossovsky on a pogo stick, FFS.

THIS is how perverted and upside down and utterly selfish and dependent enough of the populace is. That such a pitch would even be considered.

I'm fairly certain that when the Founders included a census in the constitution, they weren't thinking of a way to allocate welfare (whatever form it takes).

Posted by: rhomboid at June 28, 2020 11:55 PM (El6T/)

371 Here's the Apollo 15 version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDp1tiUsZw8

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 28, 2020 11:56 PM (iTXRQ)

372 "... for reasons nobody quite understands, they are ubiquitous weeks before the Fourth of July."

Didn't ask me, I could've told Lloyd.
Is his wife's name 'Karen'?

And to rank Celine Dionne with Yo-Yo Ma is incredibly ignorant. She's a pop singer/yeller. He is a sensitive and incredibly talented cellist who is accomplished in multiple genres.

Posted by: Flyover at June 28, 2020 11:56 PM (Rbu5d)

373 Emmie, I think that you are expressing yourself quite well, I think the penquin entity is just stirring the pot. I also wonder if Nancy Pelosi wears Kente cloth depends and I wish President Trump would issue a tweet mentioning George Kirby and let the media meltdown commence. I know how screwed up that sounds, but it's late, I'm headed to bed and I wanted to get a lot off my chest (it helps me to sleep better).

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 28, 2020 11:56 PM (a4EWo)

374 ..Terminal velocity is the same for all objects no?

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 28, 2020 11:42 PM (m1H25)

No. Skydiver falling in the conventional "layout" position will hit appx. 125mph descent velocity. Let the same skydiver assume the "pike" diver's position, and now he'll reach T.V. at appx. 225 mph d.v.

Terminal Velocity is determined by air density, aerodynamic drag in three forms: parasite drag, form drag and frontal area.

The sleeker the object (to certain mathematical understandings of "sleek"), the faster the object can fall until it's aerodynamic drag equals the force of gravity on said object, resulting in Terminal Velocity.

The weight of an object does not necessarily affect Terminal Velocity, except that the heavier object might accelerate more rapidly in the descent. And also, the heavier object may well run out of atmosphere in which to find Terminal Velocity, and continue to accelerate until impact with the ground.

A good example of this is the WWII British "Tallboy" bomb, weighing in at well over 10,000 lbs, with a very sleek shape, indeed.

Said to be transonic, or possibly becoming supersonic just before impact, it is an example of a object continuing to accelerate until impact. Most were dropped from between 10,000 and 20,000 ft. altitude above sea level.

The storied tungsten "Rods from God" so discussed here? They'd de-orbit at Mach 25, being slowed by atmospheric drag to a mere Mach 7 or so before impact.

Oh, and a mere bullet, fired on a true vertical, will for an instant, just become a still, motionless object at somewhere about 3,000 ft. above the point of shooting. Then, it will act like a pebble or rock, dropped from the same altitude.

It will not on it's on find or assume the "nose down" attitude necessary to a Terminal Velocity above it's own lateral shape's maximum potential.

Only if fired on a ballistic arc, will it continue in a nose-forward path, like a thrown football, until impact. In which case it will also retain a very potentially deadly velocity.

/nerd/geek

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 28, 2020 11:57 PM (QzJWU)

375 Here's the Apollo 15 version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDp1tiUsZw8
Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 28, 2020 11:56 PM (iTXRQ)

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That was a lot of money spent just to prove Galileo knew his shit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 28, 2020 11:57 PM (wPVhA)

376 Apparently the news - or a bubble headed FaceBook friend - smartened her up that the Covid will make you stroke out. Die of a blood clot. We all need to stay inside.

The death rates aren't high enough, so you have to terrified by stories of people who have been permanently crippled by the CCP virus.

The news stories on this are entirely anecdotal - there is no effort to determine what percentage of people hospitalized suffer lasting problems from the disease.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:57 PM (I2/tG)

377 Thank you, Debby; I appreciate the reassurance. It is difficult to convey tone in writing and I am not even good at expressing my thoughts in writing, so I am glad you were able to discern my meaning.

Rest well and happy!

Posted by: Emmie at June 28, 2020 11:59 PM (clsJu)

378
What was the the bad rep going around on Borzois? Didn't hear that.

We've had three rescue episodes here in Texas in the last few years. The circumstances were sad but everyone could see them coming a long time before the storm broke. We and others stepped up to help sort it out and got walloped for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 28, 2020 11:59 PM (mht8P)

379 182 I wonder if these mask "laws" specifically state how the mask must be worn

There are no mask "laws".
Laws are made by legislatures. No such mask "law" has been passed.

Their silly edicts are unenforceable. Laugh and refuse.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization at June 28, 2020 10:49 PM (IsQS3)

Correct, there is no such law without legislative action.

Inslee lies and lies and lies again.

Inslee uses the power of revoking liquor licenses from bars and restaurants, and business licenses to other small businesses.

The degenerate louse is tearing down a civilized society in record time.

But, "SCIENCE!"

Except Inslee won't tell anyone the details of his "science".

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, really getting tired of the false science scam run by traitors at June 28, 2020 11:59 PM (sy5kK)

380 check this out

couple comes to the front of their (what looks to be wealthy) home with guns to make sure BLMers that broke into their gated community keep walking past

St Louis, I think

https://twitter.com/xshularx/status/
1277398234055483393

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 28, 2020 11:59 PM (WwTwF)

381 A ballistic arc lands at a much greater velocity than straight up and down? Firing straight up is difficult.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 29, 2020 12:00 AM (0OmEj)

382 WuFlu was the only thing in the new for what 2 months? Non stop 24/7 coverage. And still we have no idea how it has affected people, why some people are dying from it while others dont even know they have it. There has been zero journalist curiosity about the biggest new story since 9/11. It is criminal how little info has been provided.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 29, 2020 12:00 AM (m1H25)

383 >That was a lot of money spent just to prove Galileo knew his shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

we need to go BACK to the moon to see how far one can throw a football

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 29, 2020 12:00 AM (iTXRQ)

384 380 they get doxxed in the twatter thread
also a pic of the broken gate

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 29, 2020 12:01 AM (WwTwF)

385 I am hearing soft muffled explosions off in the distance

Posted by: DB- just DB. at June 29, 2020 12:02 AM (iTXRQ)

386 Hadrian that's awful.
I've only known one Borzoi and he was great once he figured out that I wasn't visiting his parents to take him away.
That their great dane and St Bernard loved me helped.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 29, 2020 12:02 AM (d9Irc)

387 More proof that Twitter serves as an amplifier for mental illness:

Rachel Horak
@DrRachelHorak
Today, my spouse ruined my birthday party: brought his white fragility, insisted there is reverse racism, & blew off all my prof. work that aims to help Black & URM students persist in STEM. I can no longer stand it-there are no '2 sides' to this issue. Send pet pics (or help)
5:56 PM � Jun 28, 2020

Can you imagine having a disagreement with your spouse, and then publicizing it on Twitter?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:02 AM (I2/tG)

388 Good night folks. Thanks for letting me play.

As always, have fun storming the castle...

...and...

endeavour to persevere!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 29, 2020 12:02 AM (Fc5rx)

389 Hadrian, bless you for helping those poor dogs

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 29, 2020 12:03 AM (WwTwF)

390 218 Have seen many people wearing the facemask so that it leaves their nose exposed. Only covers their mouth.......
Posted by: Floridachick at June 28, 2020 10:58 PM (f3iIR)
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This is extremely common in my area but exclusively in circumstances where wearing a mask is mandatory.
Shoppers at Kroger,Lowe's, Walmart, and even employees, often do this.

It's the only way to comply with King Northam's decree without being too uncomfortable or without really complying.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 29, 2020 12:03 AM (M/9m0)

391 I wrote Bite Me! across the census form and mailed it in. Haven't seen any Denalis with tinted windows yet.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 29, 2020 12:03 AM (UhiUU)

392 Can you imagine having a disagreement with your spouse, and then publicizing it on Twitter?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:02 AM (I2/tG)

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Wow.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 29, 2020 12:03 AM (wPVhA)

393 380 vmom

That mama needs some severe gun handling edumacation: at least one she swept hubby.

And she's just waving that gun around like it's a toy.

Spoiler Alert: It ain't.

Posted by: ibguy at June 29, 2020 12:03 AM (EHVbt)

394 Something far below that.

But lethal, yes. What goes up .....
Posted by: rhomboid
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For a typical .30 slug, 300 fps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 12:03 AM (cGzEU)

395 Posted by: ibguy at June 29, 2020 12:03 AM (EHVbt)

yeah, I doubt she's had much range practice - might be her hubby's

Posted by: vmom 2020 - anti Brutal Looting Marxists at June 29, 2020 12:05 AM (WwTwF)

396 Certain questions get a complete answer from the Horde.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2020 12:05 AM (LxTcq)

397
Except Inslee won't tell anyone the details of his "science".

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, really getting tired of the false science scam run by traitors

You haven't seen his dashboards? Crayola science.

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 29, 2020 12:06 AM (UhiUU)

398 More from the insane Dr. Rachel Horak:

Rachel Horak
@DrRachelHorak
�
Jun 19
#ASMCUE educators: Wondering about how to start the conversations around racism in your undergraduate biology classroom? I love this article that talks about getting started. And yes, you do need to address this in bio class - change starts with you.

Biology is hard. But yeah, you should be wasting time in your undergraduate biology classroom talking about racism, rather than teaching biology.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:06 AM (I2/tG)

399
Can you imagine having a disagreement with your spouse, and then publicizing it on Twitter?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:02 AM (I2/tG)

I can't imagine having an online disagreement with my spouse but I can easily imagine such marital disagreements publicized on social media.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2020 12:07 AM (mht8P)

400 >> Inslee ... "science "

Inigo Montoya just emailed....

Posted by: ibguy at June 29, 2020 12:07 AM (EHVbt)

401 Inslee needs to stick his white boards the same place Karl Rove needs to stick his.
Only problem is that the corners aren't sharp.

Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 29, 2020 12:08 AM (d9Irc)

402
And so to bed. See you on the other side. Coffee time is 0500 here at Schloss Hadrian.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 29, 2020 12:08 AM (mht8P)

403 Biology is hard. But yeah, you should be wasting time in your undergraduate biology classroom talking about racism, rather than teaching biology.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:06 AM (I2/tG)

I laugh at all the STEM PSAs.

The job don't pay. And you have to put up with college.

Go learn a trade. And stay out of this bullshit. And also - get paid.

Posted by: Children of the Banned at June 29, 2020 12:09 AM (Jk+3L)

404 ..A ballistic arc lands at a much greater velocity than straight up and down? Firing straight up is difficult.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 29, 2020 12:00 AM (0OmEj)

Absolutely. A Win. .300 mag. fired at a target at the 1,000 yard line, will leave the muzzle at +/- 3100 ft. per second. Rise above the direct line of sight between the scope and bullseye will be, (pulling outta my butt, not going to look up the tables right now), about 5 ft. at about 650 yards, where the arc will begin to descend towards said bullseye.

When it hits the target, it will still be exceeding the speed of sound, holding about 1,800 ft. per second of velocity.

Conversely, the same rifle, with the very next cartridge fired out of the box, but vertically.

That bullet will ascend to maybe 3,500 ft. above the muzzle (.300 Mag tends to go further than AK-47), become for an instant, vertically motionless, and then begin to fall as nothing but a non-ballistic, purely gravitational object.

It might accelerate to a dangerous, deadly velocity. But it won't be anywhere *near* supersonic, as it WILL be falling on it's side, and likely tumbling with no dynamic stability whatsoever.

/nerd/geek

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 12:09 AM (QzJWU)

405 Can you imagine having a disagreement with your spouse, and then publicizing it on Twitter?
Posted by: The ARC of History!

George Conway

Posted by: vmom 2020 at June 29, 2020 12:10 AM (WwTwF)

406 For a typical .30 slug, 300 fps.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 12:03 AM (cGzEU)

David slew Goliath with a small stone, slung at probably less velocity than that. Shot placement matters.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2020 12:10 AM (bmv/L)

407 Biology is hard. But yeah, you should be wasting time in your undergraduate biology classroom talking about racism, rather than teaching biology.
Posted by: The ARC of History
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Of course, she isn't actually a teacher.

"Dr. Rachel Horak is an Education Specialist at ASM Headquarters, and is interested in helping educators, at all career stages, design significant and effective learning experiences for all undergraduate biology students, regardless of background or preparation. "

'Education Specialist', so, she knows best.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 12:13 AM (bk3Sg)

408
we need to go BACK to the moon to see how far one can throw a football
Posted by: DB- just DB.

This looks like a job for Colin Kaepernick!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2020 12:14 AM (aKsyK)

409 406 AOP

NotIce the story never mentions the *caliber* of the stone....

.45 vs 9mm, the eternal conundrum

Posted by: ibguy at June 29, 2020 12:14 AM (EHVbt)

410 So someone with no health problems says mask wearing does not cause O2 levels to drop? I can assure them mine drop and it would register on my oximeter. Standing in line causes mine to drop as does walking around the store. No one walking by me in the store says anything about my lack of mask. They can hear me breathing and know why I don't wear one. I get tired of Facebook fact checking this stuff.

And as we also know, the masks do nothing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2020 12:15 AM (YynYJ)

411 🍮 pudding

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2020 12:15 AM (LxTcq)

412 326 LCD
I went on Paint on my desktop.
Stretched the star shape to about 5".
Printed it in yellow with a black outline.
Stapled it to a paper mask.
Works like a champ.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 11:38 PM (d9Irc)

I finally caught up and saw you answered it already.

But thanks, regardless.

The political statements that take some basic level of knowledge of life are the best ones.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg, really getting tired of the false science scam run by traitors at June 29, 2020 12:16 AM (sy5kK)

413 we need to go BACK to the moon to see how far one can throw a football
Posted by: DB- just DB.

This looks like a job for Colin Kaepernick!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 29, 2020 12:14 AM (aKsyK)

Why reward that mammoth jack ?

Posted by: Adriane the Dr. Demento Critic ... at June 29, 2020 12:16 AM (LPnfS)

414
.45 vs 9mm, the eternal conundrum

9mm

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 29, 2020 12:16 AM (UhiUU)

415
I remember reading some interesting stuff about bullets, terminal velocity and the arc. As mentioned above, a bullet fired at a very high angle will start tumbling on the way down, and that will reduce terminal velocity way down.

What was interesting, if I remember is the transonic range. That's very chaotic and when a bullet slows through this range, the trajectory becomes unpredictable. It will tumble and go all over the place.

In the subsonic range, it's stable, and in supersonic range, it's stable. But the transonic range is where it goes to hell.

So, if your trajectory allows the bullet to slow into the transonic region before it hits the target (or the ground), it will tumble.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 29, 2020 12:17 AM (rCwaK)

416 Need a barn.

Got a flag, just need a barn.

And a bigger flag.

Posted by: Miklos, Proud American at June 29, 2020 12:17 AM (QzkSJ)

417 'Education Specialist', so, she knows best.

It's like how the engineering schools are being infiltrated by "Engineering Education" Ph.Ds, who are bringing SJW precepts into engineering.

For a few decades, there was a modus vivendi at universities - the serious departments let the SJWs run wild in the nonserious departments, and the SJWs left the serious departments alone.

Now, all departments have to bow the knee to the SJWs.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:17 AM (I2/tG)

418 She eventually relaxed about it, and then I paid the boy ten dollars. But I got yelled at a lot, first.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 28, 2020 11:31 PM (oJN+m)

You left out WAY too much of this story. Since you paid the boy $10, I'm hoping his mission was successful?

If everybody raised their kids this way, there wouldn't be any idiots out there rioting and tearing down statues because they would know they'd get their asses kicked, and there would be people ready and willing to do it.

Posted by: quietI at June 29, 2020 12:19 AM (T0lUe)

419 And I'll add that the actual story (Book of Samuel) notes that after Davey knocks out Goliath, he chops off the giant's head.

Which is most likely what actually killed him.

Talk about a 'coup de grace.'

Posted by: ibguy at June 29, 2020 12:19 AM (EHVbt)

420 Manager tells shopper to put a mask on
Let's see what happens

https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/
1277445523608395776

Posted by: vmom 2020 at June 29, 2020 12:19 AM (WwTwF)

421 David slew Goliath with a small stone, slung at probably less velocity than that. Shot placement matters.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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*flips open The Good Book*

Dammit, AOP, I have to correct that. David only stunned Goliath, then used Goliath's own sword to slay him.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 12:19 AM (WD9ZA)

422 Biology is hard. But yeah, you should be wasting time in your undergraduate biology classroom talking about racism, rather than teaching biology.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:06 AM (I2/tG)

This drives me nuts. Math used to be relatively free of this baloney. It was about building and achieving and exploring and reasoning. Now it's about feeling guilty about overfishing or low minority college enrollment or income disparity or overpopulation, etc. Of course, any decent texts we are assigned get replaced by the fuzzy, false-guilt texts.

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:20 AM (clsJu)

423 342 College towns in massive economic depression warms my heart.

Particularly Berkeley, which has been whining about the terrible, terrible impacts that the university has had on the city for years.

Let's see how the city does without all the students, MFers.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 28, 2020 11:43 PM (I2/tG)

Oh, Gavin will save us and send us checks.

Posted by: Cali Democrat voters, looking at each other and nodding with a hollow look at June 29, 2020 12:20 AM (sy5kK)

424 Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
[199 names] 'Miklos

I could start an entire b*llshit religion based on that.

Posted by: Miklos has 199 names, Inshallah at June 29, 2020 12:20 AM (QzkSJ)

425 And as we also know, the masks do nothing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2020 12:15 AM (YynYJ)

Wearing a mask can make the wearers oxygen levels drop below what is considered by medicare as the level necessary for them to pay for 'supplemental oxygen'. Just sayin.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 29, 2020 12:21 AM (+EL0E)

426 Now, all departments have to bow the knee to the SJWs.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:17 AM (I2/tG)

Yes, this. And I don't even work at a "real" college. It's a community college with emphasis on trades.

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:22 AM (clsJu)

427 And as we also know, the masks do nothing.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2020 12:15 AM (YynYJ)

Exactly. Especially the way most people wear them. Instapundit had a picture the other day from a nurse at the end of her shift after wearing an N95 mask the whole time. Her face looked pretty rough, all red and bruised (I'm sure multiple days of wearing probably contributed). That would hurt. But if worn properly, that's what happens.

So yeah if people aren't wearing N95 masks, and wearing them properly so they are crushing the crap out of their face, then they aren't stopping any viruses.

Posted by: AF at June 29, 2020 12:22 AM (RsPQq)

428 Turns out the Left does as good a job with education as they do with their cities.

Posted by: ... at June 29, 2020 12:22 AM (Rg59Y)

429 Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
[199 names] 'Miklos

I could start an entire b*llshit religion based on that.
Posted by: Miklos has 199 names, Inshallah at June 29, 2020 12:20 AM (QzkSJ)

Hire a bunch of Tibetan monks to write out all of them and we won't have to worry about November !!!

Posted by: Adriane the SF Short Story Critic ... at June 29, 2020 12:22 AM (LPnfS)

430 424 Church of Miklos of the Million Names

Posted by: vmom 2020 at June 29, 2020 12:23 AM (WwTwF)

431 ..Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
[199 names] 'Miklos

I could start an entire b*llshit religion based on that.

Posted by: Miklos has 199 names, Inshallah at June 29, 2020 12:20 AM (QzkSJ)

Easy, especially if it requires sworn fealty to the idea of man made globall worming and the wearing of masks.

I mean, it's like you're already halfway there!

Ommmmm.. Ommmmm

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 12:24 AM (QzJWU)

432 421 Mike Hammer

GMTA

Posted by: ibguy at June 29, 2020 12:24 AM (EHVbt)

433 Why reward that mammoth jack ?
Posted by: Adriane the Dr. Demento Critic ... at June 29, 2020 12:16 AM (LPnfS)

Why bring him back?

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:24 AM (clsJu)

434 Math used to be relatively free of this baloney.

North Korea leads the way in progressive math questions:

During the Fatherland Liberation War [North Korea's official name for the Korean War] the brave uncles of Korean People's Army killed 265 American Imperial bastards in the first battle. In the second battle they killed 70 more bastards than they had in the first battle. How many bastards did they kill in the second battle? How many bastards did they kill altogether?

South Korean boys, who are fighting against the American imperialist wolves and their henchmen, handed out 45 bundles of leaflets with 150 leaflets in each bundle. They also stuck 50 bundles with 50 leaflets in each bundle. How many leaflets were used?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:25 AM (I2/tG)

435 274 Another interesting article, from a physician, on COVID counting rules and common sense:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycmp4pgo
Posted by: rhomboid
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Good article that needs to make its way to Donnie Two Scoops and quickly as I see Pansi Pence 'postponed' some campaign events out of extreme caution....

Errrr, stupid stupid stupid... and someone please smack Lamar and Grassley with a bag of dicks made of rocks, twice.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 29, 2020 12:25 AM (+ldAm)

436 Why reward that mammoth jack ?
Posted by: Adriane the Dr. Demento Critic ... at June 29, 2020 12:16 AM (LPnfS)

Why bring him back?
Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:24 AM (clsJu)

Ah ...

Posted by: Adriane the Passengers Critic ... at June 29, 2020 12:27 AM (LPnfS)

437 Today I was shocked to see a noose in the back of my Jeep.

OK, it was more like a pile of rope tangled up but sort of noose like. And more like a nylon cord than rope but close enough. I was suspicious until I remembered I always carry that in case I need to strap something down.

Just to be safe I confess and denounce myself.

Posted by: Ripley at June 29, 2020 12:29 AM (sGobE)

438 Children of the banned,

I've had good luck calming people down with the Asian Boss video discussing the virus with the South Korean head of infectious diseases. The guy is just so calm. This is the first one from three months ago. Ther's at least one more new one

https://youtu.be/gAk7aX5hksU

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2020 12:31 AM (YynYJ)

439 It's interesting what several commenters are saying about masks and pulse-ox. I saw a video where a young lady said she had asthma and any type of mask did not lower her pulse-ox. But I did not see how that could be possible. So I considered that she might not be telling the truth. Might even be a paid actress. She was cute and appealing.

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:31 AM (clsJu)

440 Just to be safe I confess and denounce myself.
Posted by: Ripley at June 29, 2020 12:29 AM (sGobE)

For your penance, tie 7 fly fish lures and go fish ...

Posted by: Adriane the Tolerant Critic ... at June 29, 2020 12:32 AM (LPnfS)

441 *flips open The Good Book*

Dammit, AOP, I have to correct that. David only stunned Goliath, then used Goliath's own sword to slay him.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 12:19 AM (WD9ZA)

He'd have bled out eventually, anyway. j/k

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2020 12:33 AM (OVo4g)

442 Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:25 AM (I2/tG)

Are you serious or are you pulling my leg?

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:34 AM (clsJu)

443 Why reward that mammoth jack ?
Posted by: Adriane the Dr. Demento Critic ... at June 29, 2020 12:16 AM (LPnfS)

Why bring him back?
Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:24 AM (clsJu)

And nobody said anything about providing him with air.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2020 12:35 AM (OVo4g)

444 Are you serious or are you pulling my leg?

From "The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia," by Andrei Lankov.

North Korean math problems have been reported on several times.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:36 AM (I2/tG)

445 421 Mike Hammer

>> David only stunned Goliath

Beautiful plumage!

Posted by: ibguy at June 29, 2020 12:37 AM (EHVbt)

446 They put me on supplimental O2 to take my stress test at the pulmonologist. Which was funny since I had to hike all over OHSU without it to find the office. The new inhaler works wonders, twice a day for the rest of my life.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2020 12:38 AM (YynYJ)

447 North Korean math problems have been reported on several times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:36 AM (I2/tG)

Ha ha! Ok, thanks!

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:38 AM (clsJu)

448 Hey everybody. Late again. :-)

Under Pressure is a great song, but (a) it *is* overplayed on classic rock radio, and (b) it contains a great coda that unfortunately most of Queen's hits complications chop off. OTOH, David Bowie's hits compilations leave it intact.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 29, 2020 12:38 AM (L2ZTs)

449 North Korean math problems have been reported on several times.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 29, 2020 12:36 AM (I2/tG)

North Korean covid case counter: 0,0,0,0,1,Bang!,0,0,...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2020 12:39 AM (OVo4g)

450 Just musing out loud. Is it possible to fire a bullet on a true vertical? The angular momentum of the Earth's rotation would give it some tiny amount of lateral movement when it left the muzzle. If you were to compensate for that by firing it slightly angled opposite the direction of the Earth's rotation, it would hit a spot on the Earth's surface upon its return that would be different than the spot where it left, even though it traveled up and down in a true vertical. OTOH, if you shot it up in a true vertical relative to the Earth's surface, it would actually travel in a very steep parabola. I know they have to worry about this stuff with long-range artillery and rockets.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 29, 2020 12:39 AM (jK8Z7)

451 Under Pressure is a great song, but (a) it *is*
overplayed on classic rock radio, and (b) it contains a great coda that
unfortunately most of Queen's hits complications chop off. OTOH, David
Bowie's hits compilations leave it intact.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 29, 2020 12:38 AM (L2ZTs)

Vanilla Ice apparently likes it too.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 29, 2020 12:40 AM (jK8Z7)

452 Math and physics on the blog tonight. We're breakin' all the rules!

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:40 AM (clsJu)

453 Well, I finished my dreaded homework, but now I have another task to finish before morning. So if I can keep myself from lurking, I will bid you all a good night and sweet dreams.

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:43 AM (clsJu)

454 About masks: This past week I had my 6-month "how is your cancer doing?" check up, and they always take vitals. The nurse commented, "You're O2 is 96%, that's great for wearing a mask." I was wearing the a mask I'd made from quilter's cotton, and I said something to that effect. I was surprised she commented on it, but I was also surprised because my O2 is always right at the top of the range, 98-99%. For all the crap I've had go wrong with me, my lungs have always been perfect. Point being, even flimsy cotton masks impair O2 levels in people without any other impairment. Not enough in my case to cause any kind of a problem, but definitely a difference. (Cancer screening: excellent, don't have to go back for a year! Thank you, Lord!)

Emmie, if you don't mind, where are you getting your online instruction certification? I would like to complete something similar this summer, too. It's not required but if I can attach something official-sounding to my email signature, maybe my administration will take my suggestions a little more seriously. I've seen a few programs around but haven't really looked into figuring out which one makes sense. I think NTSA has one & was thinking of doing that. (I'm a junior high science teacher.) Thanks.

Posted by: quietI at June 29, 2020 12:44 AM (T0lUe)

455 Freddy Mercury solo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3X6KtQ7nxQ

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 29, 2020 12:45 AM (L2ZTs)

456 OTOH, if you shot it up in a true vertical relative to the Earth's surface, it would actually travel in a very steep parabola. I know they have to worry about this stuff with long-range artillery and rockets.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 29, 2020 12:39 AM (jK8Z7)

On Earth, the bullet is being fired upward into an air mass that is moving with the ground beneath it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2020 12:46 AM (OVo4g)

457 With that, I'm out of here. Have a good Monday, Horde!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 29, 2020 12:49 AM (YynYJ)

458 Okay, I didn't stay away very long.

This story is encouraging. People are standing up. As they exercise their fortitude, it will get stronger.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ya8sfofs

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 12:49 AM (clsJu)

459
North Korean covid case counter: 0,0,0,0,1,Bang!,0,0,...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------

Ah, NORK 'Reset Switch'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 12:50 AM (GBHAb)

460 Night, Notsothoreau!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2020 12:51 AM (OVo4g)

461 Good evening from San Francisco, home of the Rice-A-Roni treat, and we have a lot of them. Gotta say, in my municipality's defense, you know what municipality has not been making much news lately? Yeah, S.F. No CHAZes, no CHOPs, and as far as I can tell, not much destruction. Weird, considering we put the left in "left coast".

Posted by: SFGoth at June 29, 2020 12:51 AM (KAi1n)

462 415- Publius
you must be speaking of an empirically high arc. Like strsigh up maybe. modern sniper bullets move thru supersoninc, trans and back to subsonic with excellent precision. You think the Brits shooting a .416 Barret with kills at nearly 2 miles never left trans? bullets move in and out of trans all the time without tumbling.

Posted by: DBCooper at June 29, 2020 12:51 AM (y1Mvi)

463 North Korean covid case counter: 0,0,0,0,1,Bang!,0,0,...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------

Ah, NORK 'Reset Switch'
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Also hack full access all Sony Movies and Playstation accounts!

Posted by: Miklos Jong-Il, Beloved Leader of all peoples at June 29, 2020 12:53 AM (QzkSJ)

464 I wonder what we're sucking into our lungs from these damn masks?
I did find out mines fireproof from the asbestos. So that's good.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 29, 2020 12:53 AM (axyOa)

465 Love

Posted by: Summer of Love at June 29, 2020 12:55 AM (FJrl0)

466 274 Another interesting article, from a physician, on COVID counting rules and common sense:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ycmp4pgo
Posted by: rhomboid

from the article:

So you may ask: why are we continuing to report increasing numbers of cases of COVID as though it were BAD news for America? Rather than as GOOD news, i.e, that the thousands of healthy Americans testing positive (also known as "asymptomatic") are indicative of the presence of herd immunity protecting themselves and many of us from potential future assaults by variants of COVID?

Why did we as a society stop sending our children to schools and camps and sports activities? Why did we stop going to work and church and public parks and beaches?

Why did we insist that healthy persons stay at home, rather than observing the evidence-based, medically prudent method of identifying those who were sick and isolating them from the rest of the population - advising the sick to stay at home and allowing the rest of society to function normally?

And, while we witnessed the gatherings of protesters in recent days with little concerns for COVID-19 spread among these asymptomatic persons, most certainly many are hoping that the increasing case numbers for COVID-19 will discourage folks from coming to any more rallies for certain candidates for political office.

Fear is a powerful weapon...............

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The DEATH rate, in the end the only meaningful statistic, continues to fall. And we know well what portions of the population are affected, those that are not, and most of the reasons why.

But we as adults are not allowed by Government Goons to make our own decisions.

Because....

It was never about COVAD, it was about unseating Donald Trump as President. COVAD fear and loathing is the latest tool in this clumsy and heavy-handed action.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 29, 2020 12:55 AM (sy5kK)

467 Howdy roonz and roonettez. Went to NoVa this weekend to play with trains, it was a great time.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 29, 2020 12:56 AM (CcOog)

468 DBCooper - now that's nice, bringing the dreaded math and physics discussion back into an approved topic - killin' at long range.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2020 12:56 AM (El6T/)

469 ..Just musing out loud. Is it possible to fire a bullet on a true vertical? The angular momentum of the Earth's rotation would give it some tiny amount of lateral movement when it left the muzzle. If you were to compensate for that by firing it slightly angled opposite the direction of the Earth's rotation, it would hit a spot on the Earth's surface upon its return that would be different than the spot where it left, even though it traveled up and down in a true vertical. OTOH, if you shot it up in a true vertical relative to the Earth's surface, it would actually travel in a very steep parabola. I know they have to worry about this stuff with long-range artillery and rockets.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 29, 2020 12:39 AM (jK8Z7)

The NULL of your question would be to fire the experiment from directly atop either the North or South pole. Eliminates the Corialis Effect, to a mathematical degree approaching true zero.

At which point, all of my other points as to the not-ballistically-stabile nature of a falling rifle bullet, would still apply.

Corialis Effect in normal riflery, doesn't begin to show in the caluclations under about 800 yards, and begins to be a real factor starting at about 1,200 yards. Rifle shot trajectory distances, not "vertically fired" tomfoolery.

And the artillery mafia are masters at the math of the ballistic solutions, above all others.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 12:56 AM (QzJWU)

470 461 Good evening from San Francisco, home of the Rice-A-Roni treat, and we have a lot of them. Gotta say, in my municipality's defense, you know what municipality has not been making much news lately? Yeah, S.F. No CHAZes, no CHOPs, and as far as I can tell, not much destruction. Weird, considering we put the left in "left coast".
Posted by: SFGoth at June 29, 2020 12:51 AM (KAi1n)

Historically, you don't destroy your own capital.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2020 12:56 AM (NgKpN)

471 SFGoth - how's things in general in SF? One reads of the horrors, but I assume that as usual such things are concentrated in certain areas.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2020 12:57 AM (El6T/)

472 461 Good evening from San Francisco, home of the Rice-A-Roni treat, and we have a lot of them. Gotta say, in my municipality's defense, you know what municipality has not been making much news lately? Yeah, S.F. No CHAZes, no CHOPs, and as far as I can tell, not much destruction. Weird, considering we put the left in "left coast".
Posted by: SFGoth at June 29, 2020 12:51 AM (KAi1n)

Protesters don't want to get shit on their shoes.

The partying is over on the East Bay side.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 29, 2020 12:58 AM (sy5kK)

473 It was never about COVAD, it was about unseating Donald Trump as President. COVAD fear and loathing is the latest tool in this clumsy and heavy-handed action.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 29, 2020 12:55 AM (sy5kK)

Problem is, we also know for a fact the death rate has been inflated.

Anyone who died of Cancer? who happened to also have the Vids? Died of Covid.

Heart Disease? Same. Age? Same.

If they had done this for Flu statistics, they would be much worse than the current Covid crap.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2020 12:59 AM (NgKpN)

474 Emmie, if you don't mind, where are you getting your online instruction certification? I would like to complete something similar this summer, too. It's not required but if I can attach something official-sounding to my email signature, maybe my administration will take my suggestions a little more seriously. I've seen a few programs around but haven't really looked into figuring out which one makes sense. I think NTSA has one & was thinking of doing that. (I'm a junior high science teacher.) Thanks.
Posted by: quietI at June 29, 2020 12:44 AM (T0lUe)

QuietI, I'd be happy to help if I could, but these are professional development classes offered through our community college system for our instructors. I'm pretty sure you could not participate unless you were on our staff.

It sounds like the avenues you are exploring may be your best bet. Does your school system offer professional development classes? Is there somewhere you can take Instructional Design courses? Maybe something is available through a professional organization?

I'm only doing this to expand my utility to the college. I really hate the way they conduct their online classes but I have to get the certification if I want to do it at all. I am hoping I can have some latitude if I actually teach courses online, but I will undoubtedly be disappointed. They've been systematically restricting autonomy more and more since I started teaching here in 2007.

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 01:00 AM (clsJu)

475 The article I linked up above by a doctor in FL touches on this issue of C19 stats - he discusses the problem with "case" definition (different than most/all major diseases that have reporting systems), but there are myriad problems with fatality #s as well. Remember, month or more ago, Dr Scarf publicly throwing out that there were problems, and the #s might be as much as 25% too high?

I get "new disease". I get uncertainty. I get caution. I get conservative approach to certain aspects of potentially huge health threats.

I have never gotten such fuzzy definitions of "cases", and such expansive and potentially misleading definition of fatalities from a disease, as we have seen from the outset.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 29, 2020 01:04 AM (El6T/)

476 Ok, I will try to tear myself away again. Goodnight, beloved Horde!

And QuietI, I will keep an eye out for you and let you know if I learn anything.

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 01:05 AM (clsJu)

477 Rhomboid-
I go withJims logic... i shoot long distance in and out of trans all the time. In ballistics calcs, no math here but you shoot trans range to 'True' your cartridge load. to verify velocity and true your elevations for all ranges with that particular load. I go way past trans. A simple 6.5 Creedmoor will shoot to a mile with a decent BC 147 gn bullet. and nice round holes in the targets, not a key hole tumbler

Posted by: DBCooper at June 29, 2020 01:06 AM (y1Mvi)

478 Now that you mention it, SF has been quiet. Seattle, Portland and MSP have taken the lead in left wing insanity lately.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 29, 2020 01:08 AM (m1H25)

479 Still trying to figure out how many hamsters does it take to run an ONT.

African or European hamsters?

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 29, 2020 01:08 AM (e1mEI)

480 The DEATH rate, in the end the only meaningful statistic, continues to fall

Could it be that steps taken to protect the elderly in assisted living and other retirement facilities are showing some effectiveness?

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 29, 2020 01:09 AM (UhiUU)

481 Are we on guns now? Good! I see a new 6mm round for the AR platform, what is the benefit of a 6mm over the 6.5 Creedmore or 6.8 SPC?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 29, 2020 01:09 AM (CcOog)

482 QuietI, I have no idea if this place is legit, but here's an idea:

https://onlinelearningconsortium.org
/learn/teaching-certificates/

Posted by: Emmie at June 29, 2020 01:09 AM (clsJu)

483 African or European hamsters?
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew

Merican

Posted by: Sock Monkey...Made in the USA at June 29, 2020 01:10 AM (UhiUU)

484 Just heard the ass from NY(multiple contenders) saying he now fears infections from everywhere else now that nobody is dying from Doomid-19

Posted by: a dude in MI at June 29, 2020 01:10 AM (SxBH1)

485 What Jim didnt apply in his calcs was Spin-drift of either left or right hand twist of the rifling.. if at the pole you could apply spin of rifling opposite of the earths rotation and that would help.

Posted by: DBCooper at June 29, 2020 01:11 AM (y1Mvi)

486 Ohio started testing everyone in nursing homes, locally one facility had 0 positive residents, 2 positive workers (who lived together). They were both asymptomatic.

Posted by: AF at June 29, 2020 01:12 AM (RsPQq)

487 6.5 creedmore requires an ar10. Don't really know the diff between the 6.8 spc and the new 6mm arc round. Im sure there is a good reason.

Posted by: USNtakim at June 29, 2020 01:13 AM (0OmEj)

488 481- GCE
I re-barreled a .308 gas gun in 6.5 creedmoor and have accuracy out to 1000yards with it. Hard to beat in a gas-gun

Posted by: DBCooper at June 29, 2020 01:13 AM (y1Mvi)

489 Well, I am getting sleepy here, so I am going to call it a night. Be well, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 29, 2020 01:13 AM (OVo4g)

490 Are we on guns now? Good! I see a new 6mm round for the AR platform, what is the benefit of a 6mm over the 6.5 Creedmore or 6.8 SPC?
Posted by: GGE
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At the equator, or at one of the poles?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 01:13 AM (cGzEU)

491 Still trying to figure out how many hamsters does it take to run an ONT.

Are the hamsters carrying coconuts ???

Posted by: Adriane the Anaconda Critic ... at June 29, 2020 01:15 AM (LPnfS)

492 Just heard the ass from NY(multiple contenders) saying he now fears infections from everywhere else now that nobody is dying from Doomid-19
Posted by: a dude in MI
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Well, he's already killed off most of the vulnerable population.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 01:16 AM (cGzEU)

493 ..What Jim didnt apply in his calcs was Spin-drift of either left or right hand twist of the rifling.. if at the pole you could apply spin of rifling opposite of the earths rotation and that would help.

Posted by: DBCooper at June 29, 2020 01:11 AM (y1Mvi)

*hangs head in shameful, 1:8 right hand twist shame*

It's not that bad, really. Would've hurt a bit less with gain-twist rifling, but who's quibbling over mere details here?

I mean, besides all of us?

/morons

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 01:16 AM (QzJWU)

494 79 71 Inslee specified that masks must cover the nose and mouth.
Lots of violations of that going on.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at June 28, 2020 10:25 PM (d9Irc)

Inslee should go ingest aquarium cleaner.

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If Inslee is so goddamn fond of masks he should demonstrate a foolproof one by wrapping 30 or 40 yards of Glad around his head.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at June 29, 2020 01:17 AM (d6mdH)

495 Jim-
Next time at the pole, we shoot smoothbore!

Posted by: DBCooper at June 29, 2020 01:18 AM (y1Mvi)

496 G' night AOP. I'm hitting the hay also. Be well you Morons.

Posted by: Farmer at June 29, 2020 01:19 AM (BPHer)

497 ..Next time at the pole, we shoot smoothbore!

Posted by: DBCooper at June 29, 2020 01:18 AM (y1Mvi)

Don't POST that shit while I'm in the middle of sip of bourbon, dammit!

*wipes screen n' keyboard*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 01:20 AM (QzJWU)

498 Jim-
HaHa. It's all good. Hard to do ballistics with no math and all..
Have a good night!!

Posted by: DBCooper at June 29, 2020 01:22 AM (y1Mvi)

499 Well, quote IV was some bullshit.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at June 29, 2020 01:22 AM (I99aF)

500 It's not that bad, really. Would've hurt a bit less with gain-twist rifling, but who's quibbling over mere details here?

I mean, besides all of us?

Jim
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I've refrained from mentioning that even in your pocket, a slug is supersonic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 01:22 AM (WD9ZA)

501 ..I've refrained from mentioning that even in your pocket, a slug is supersonic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2020 01:22 AM (WD9ZA)

But of course it is. Lacking a shell, it's far more aerodynamic than the lowly snail.

*puts pants in laundry to wash slime trail out of pocket. again*

It was a milkshake! HONEST!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 01:26 AM (QzJWU)

502 Didja see the pic of Fauci and Schumer holding hands at the bus stop? I think there's some cohootin up in here.

Posted by: klaftern at June 29, 2020 01:26 AM (RuIsu)

503 Night, DB.C!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 01:27 AM (QzJWU)

504 So you notice we're onto something new now. Trump Russia again. Guess the riots and monuments and covid isn't working.

Posted by: ... at June 29, 2020 01:33 AM (Rg59Y)

505 So, yeah, here is the article that describes how the CoronaVirus lockdowns are based in large part on a computer model a 14 year old girl developed for her Dr. Dad:

https://www.aier.org/article/the-2006-origins-of-the-lockdown-idea/

We are well and truly fucked.

John Entwistle's best song (ironically, considering who he was with when be died):

https://tinyurl.com/Ent-Who-My-Wife

RIP, ThunderFingers.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 29, 2020 01:33 AM (1YlHz)

506 "I came, I saw, I bought the 10 for a dollar Sweet Corn......and the special 10 boxes of .308 for the fiffty....

Lead is important.....these days. + Sweet corn of course.

Posted by: The Nightwatch at June 29, 2020 01:42 AM (u1WYs)

507 28 Hey Karen Nancy, FOAD
Have these dictators said how long they expect us to submit to this crap? Maybe she should also demand that we all wear that African cloth around our necks and take a knee.
Posted by: nerdygirl at June 28, 2020 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

Wednesday after the first Monday in November.

Posted by: Jean Dubois, Lt Col, MI (Ret) at June 29, 2020 01:48 AM (qyH+l)

508 Thanks, Emmie! Tomorrow's task is figuring which, if any, course to do. There's no officially recommended source but I think both CK12 and NSTA have emailed me about programs they are offering. I will check those out, along with the link you provided.

Posted by: quietI at June 29, 2020 01:52 AM (T0lUe)

509 nighty night

keep you powder dry....

Posted by: The Nightwatch at June 29, 2020 01:53 AM (u1WYs)

510 YOUR

Posted by: The Nightwatch at June 29, 2020 01:54 AM (u1WYs)

511 Inslee specified that masks must cover the nose and mouth.
Lots of violations of that going on.
Posted by: Winston

CITIZENS ARREST

Posted by: Miklos, in his best Barney Fife voice at June 29, 2020 01:57 AM (QzkSJ)

512 Well, he's already killed off most of the vulnerable population.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Voterwise =/- 10 percent

Whatever

Posted by: Blue State Guvna Miklos at June 29, 2020 02:00 AM (QzkSJ)

513 Is the planet still warming?

In SC, it has been unusually cool and wet.

Posted by: Do the lack of Sunspots make Miklos' butt look big? at June 29, 2020 02:03 AM (QzkSJ)

514 *puts pants in laundry to wash slime trail out of pocket. again*

It was a milkshake! HONEST!
Jim

Borax

Washing soda

For SlavFresh™

Posted by: Miklos, who listens and learns at June 29, 2020 02:07 AM (QzkSJ)

515 There are no Participation Trophies here.

Unless Life Itself is just one giant participation.

In which case, collect your trophy.

Posted by: Miklos, very wise at such an hour at June 29, 2020 02:11 AM (QzkSJ)

516 Usually, when I am the last person at a party, there is one person asking me to leave.

So, not last.

Posted by: Miklos, booze is gone and cigs are running short at June 29, 2020 02:13 AM (QzkSJ)

517 ..For SlavFresh

Posted by: Miklos, who listens and learns at June 29, 2020 02:07 AM (QzkSJ)

Did you ever read about when Unca Palp mixed up the chems and substituted SlavFresh for his usual Kodak Fixer bath?

Risky process, that. Rinses off years of age and clothes, and one is advised to put those prints into the shredder, stat!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 02:13 AM (QzJWU)

518 Did you ever read about when Unca Palp mixed up the chems and substituted SlavFresh for his usual Kodak Fixer bath?

Risky process, that. Rinses off years of age and clothes, and one is advised to put those prints into the shredder, stat!

Jim

You misremember.

Teeth were Whitened.

Posted by: Miklos, the next MyPillow Guy, but obvoiusly not pillows at June 29, 2020 02:16 AM (QzkSJ)

519 A few personal (i.e., absolutely subject to being destroyed by empirical evidence) snobservations on why S.F. is inexplicably peaceful. (I do not accept the "you don't destroy your own capital" theory. Zombie Napoleon agrees.)

1) Hillz baby, we gotz hillz. Seriously, get a topo map. Even streets that seem relatively flat, are only that over the course of a few blocks. After awhile, that small incline adds up.

2) We have very few black folk. The Libs got rid of most of them starting in the 60's. Conversely, we have a lot of Asians and Latins (both of whom are not really big on rioting, AFAIK) and neither of them subscribe to the "destroy your home and Uncle Sam will give you what you want" theory (again, AFAIK).

3) We have really, really big money here that is actually in city limits and not protected by a moat, a minefield, and a private infantry battalion like Bill Gates near Seattle. I guarantee you that Nancy either already understood this or was told in no uncertain terms -- minimize the destruction babe or else. I used to joke that as a lawyer I made less $ than the butlers of some of my clients.

4) Challenging street layouts. It's a bitch to get around this city, especially certain parts. Winding streets, narrow streets, lots of "no thru access" (and backed up by buildings, not plywood), and we don't have a traditional, central downtown.

5) Drug dealers. They're businessmen/women. They do not want violent crime in their markets. They just want to know what you want to buy from them. (I'm not talking about the oddball tweaker or crackhead trying to scam somebody outta some cash.) I have a studio apartment in the TL (pied-a-terre) and me or my gf parked my car there, on the street, several nights a week for two years with no break-ins. (But the parking and street sweeping tix!) How could that be in the Tenderloin? The Latin "businessmen" operated on certain street corners all night so we'd park near them. The last thing they want is someone making broken windows sounds.

6) Seattle, Portland, and Minne have simply eclipsed us as to how far left the governments and residents are.

7) Oakland. Much easier to get into, get out of, and governed by the stupidest of the stupid. Pull the annual Alameda County grand jury reports -- Joakland gets nailed, at least once, every year. Also, aside from a few sections, it's mostly flat.

Don't get me wrong: I am very glad it's quiet here. My (now ex-) gf recently adopted a rescue kitty from the local SPCA (I'm his godfather) and they need it quiet. I'll send some pics for next Saturday. Apparently he had some kind of feline-susceptible cancer removed from his neck. Possible it could come back which scared everyone off, except us. His ear flaps also fold down forward due to infection scar tissue, and he had to have 1/2 his tail amputated due to what looks like injury from being pulled hard and since the hair hasn't grown back yet, I call him Fingerbutt. He looks a bit like an orange Maine coon runt (he's about 9# at 6 years old) with mutton chops. He's got a serious demeanor but he's very affectionate and loves to rub a hard fist. Taking care of him keeps ex-gf from obsessing about what happened to Dorkie Dork.

Anyways, that's what's up here. Maybe our 2 or 3 other Rice-A-Ronis can comment.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 29, 2020 02:16 AM (KAi1n)

520 Sn Fran needs another Harvey Milk.

The USN, not so much.

Posted by: Miklos Colombo, Almirante de los Ocean Sea(s) at June 29, 2020 02:21 AM (QzkSJ)

521 SFGoth.

I don't want just cat pics in the Pet Thread.

More like an entire chapter in a coffee table book. With all the Nat Geo grade photographs.

And I'll be that kitty's 2nd Godfather, sight unseen. Serious. Email is in my nic.

My tiny 13 lb Maine Coon is nuts for the hard fist rub. I have rub fu to spare.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 02:22 AM (QzJWU)

522 Watching a video on the various sites for nuclear testing. I did not know that the Soviets set off the lion's share of their nukes in Kazakhstan.

Rosenburg's, the people of Kazakhstan have you to thank for that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 02:28 AM (A5zUN)

523 Also, thanks for the ONT. Just not in the same way as my last comment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 02:29 AM (A5zUN)

524 Jim, the only nudies you're going to get are Maceo's (aka, Fingerbutt, or "the Mace").

Also, Miklos, we don't need another Harvey Milk, we need another George Christopher.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 29, 2020 02:31 AM (KAi1n)

525 Posted by: SFGoth at June 29, 2020 02:16 AM (KAi1n)

Real key is how they can get outside agitators there.

And does it fit their agenda.

San Fran is a very Liberal city, but its surrounded by the bay.

So if they come in from San Jose? That's two bridges. Easily closed.

From inland? A couple of highways.

San Fran is a Death Trap for a perp who wants to get OUT of the city.

Now, Oakland? They can either come from San Jose (where there have been problems), or from inland. Problem is that most of inland would once more have to come up ONE highway, across Altamont Pass.

The population of San Fran is not a BLM crowd, ergo they would have to be imported. I think you've been saved by geography.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2020 02:33 AM (NgKpN)

526 SF Goth.

My tiny 13 lb Maine Coon (Scamp) is tiny only by Maine Coon standards. Most of those weigh in at better than 20 lbs.

His sister is (solid black) Bonnie. Both are now 10-1/2 years old.

Bonnie weighs in at a robust SIX POUNDS, even.

Yet she plonks on the lap with twenty pounds of pure love.

Cats defy physics. This is known.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 29, 2020 02:37 AM (QzJWU)

527 Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2020 02:33 AM (NgKpN)

In fact, thinking on it. It kind of proves the targets were pre planned.

Did they hit New York? Well, not really. Why? bridges there limit escape routes.

San Fran? not really.

Hollywood? can escape into greater LA AND three main avenues of egress.

San Diego? they hit places like San Ysidro early, but the Hispanics there shut them down.

Now, look at the terrain of the places they DID hit, and just a very cursory review it looks like they hit Blue Areas, where there were also plenty of escape routes.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 29, 2020 02:38 AM (NgKpN)

528

519 SFGoth 02:16 AM (KAi1n)

" ... why S.F. is inexplicably peaceful."

One observation missing: Look at whom the SF Voters elect.

Rioting, looting, creating yet another CHOAD ... this would be seen as ... counter-revolutionary, severely not doctrinaire ... worthy of a purge and transport to the gulags ... both for the protesters and the low- (and maybe even some mid- and upper-) level appratchiks.

Posted by: Arbalest at June 29, 2020 03:03 AM (FlRtG)

529
I'm skeptical about your idea of any actual intelligent political message or movement gaining traction. CA voters represent the platonic ideal of de-Americanized dumbed-down prosperity.
Posted by: rhomboid

=======

Mind you, this would have to be fought on an issue-by-issue basis, e.g. the Seattle waitress who discovered that the $15/hr minimum wage is bad, and the Boston artist who discovered that destroyign the gig market is bad. "Vote for me, I'll bring back restaurants" would be the pitch.

They'd never figure out that these things are connected to conservative governance.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 29, 2020 03:09 AM (G51Gf)

530 527 Romeo, compare and contrast :

Authorities in Oklahoma announced late last week that they were charging alleged rioters with terrorism and assault, saying that they would not put up with "this lawlessness here."

Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater reportedly made the decision to get tough on the rioters in an effort to curb any future potential riots.

https://tinyurl.com/y7p8ue48

Daily Wire, June 28

THIS is how you stop the lawlessness. Some of the charged are facing serious prison time. The article is worth the read.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 29, 2020 03:10 AM (Z4rgH)

531
FWIW, a sufficiently re-gentrified SF, in the parts where it counts, would result in a CONSERVATIVE San Francisco.

I read, about 20 years ago, residents of the Haight-Ashbury, the once-upon-a-time epicenter of the Flower/Love-In/Hippie/Whatever Culture (I was a few '60' fossils there in the late '90s) no longer welcomed the latest Hippie/social misfits. They were real upset with the homeless sleeping on their streets ... this was in 1998, IIRC, in the San Jose Mercury Sunday edition of Parade.

I postulate that very many residents are voting the way they do, and (virtue) signalling as they do, because they ...

... I don't know; want to "Keep the Faith", "Resist!", "Stick it to The Man", "Keep the Dream Alive" ...

... or, much more likely, now have a great life with theri kids, in their very-toney neighborhoods, and don't want to see it trashed by the Powers-That-Be.

Posted by: Arbalest at June 29, 2020 03:15 AM (FlRtG)

532 And if your BP needs a nice upward bump, watch this Breaking911 video on a black guy pulled over for DWB (driving while black) in NC :

https://tinyurl.com/y9tperl3

This cocksucker needs to be fired, pronto. No probable cause for the stop, won't answer why he stopped the guy. Total Bull Shit.

I would not have been as polite, to put it mildly. Now maybe you could call that me invoking my White Privilege, but I call it knowing the law and my rights. This black guy needs to learn his rights.

Damn, but this video pissed me off.

Pure fucking harassment. And yes, I've had it happen to me too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 29, 2020 03:18 AM (Z4rgH)

533 Ironically I was thinking that Musk should include GPS like functionality in his mega-constellation as later versions of it are bound to be put up around Mars and the Moon, and they could be used for that purpose, where such networks don't already exist. Wouldn't you only need to know where and when they are?

Posted by: DaveM at June 29, 2020 03:31 AM (WWC3Y)

534 Pure fucking harassment. And yes, I've had it happen to me too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 29, 2020 03:18 AM (Z4rgH)

As a further explanation, my offense was DWHLH --

Driving While Having Long Hair. Yes, that's a thing too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 29, 2020 03:35 AM (Z4rgH)

535 THIS is how you stop the lawlessness.

I was thinking more drumbeats and bayonets.

But that's just me.

Winged Hussars would be nice.

Posted by: Miklo, teaching the children how to plan a canal or several at June 29, 2020 03:45 AM (QzkSJ)

536 With $1,200 allocated to nearly every American adult to last them the last 3-4 months and the government kept the rest of the more than $10,000 allocated for each incident. Whatever could be the problem ? In another 3-4 months they may even do it again, only far less generous to you and me, of course.
As Nero fiddles along with George Soros enslaved/owned party, the good ship America nears the reef at flank speed. The damn fools that sabotaged the ship, think they are immune to what happens next ! .Life is cruel to fools too!

Posted by: ron n. at June 29, 2020 03:46 AM (om5HK)

537 Who made it Monday again?

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 03:46 AM (6f16T)

538 Driving While Having Long Hair. Yes, that's a thing too.
Posted by: GnuBreed

When I was young with hair, I had no convertible.

Now I have convertible open top car.

God has Sense of Humor.

Posted by: Miklosian Trappist at June 29, 2020 03:50 AM (QzkSJ)

539 Good Morning Morons today is Monday, June 29, 2020. On this day in 1613 the Globe Theater in London burned to the ground. Shakespeare hardest hit.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:00 AM (mpXpK)

540

Fox's day in history.

https://tinyurl.com/y5psbotv

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:00 AM (mpXpK)

541 Bolton is now calling Trump a liar. I say I would believe Trump over you ten times more readily.

https://tinyurl.com/ybaamy28

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:01 AM (mpXpK)

542 Pepsi joining the Facebook boycott over supposed racist post by its users. I don't normally drink cola but when I do its usually Pepsi. I Guess that will have to change now. I would be OK with simply not using Facebook because I don't, but boycotting them over BS is crap. I wonder if I can still get RC cola and a moon pie? Besides, who knows what racist is anymore. It changes daily.

https://tinyurl.com/yazbmneu

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:01 AM (mpXpK)

543 This story has been out there for a few days and I was waiting on someone to say who they were. It has been released now. As I expected it was smuggling illegal aliens.

https://tinyurl.com/yc9dh463

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:01 AM (mpXpK)

544 PeeLousy has become a one note Samba. She just can not give up the Russia shit even though it has already been discredited over and over.

https://tinyurl.com/ybbsqbjm

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:01 AM (mpXpK)

545 Trump says that NYT story about Russian paying a bounty to kill US troops was a hoax. That is polite for a lie. When I saw it came from the NYT I discredited it off the bat.

https://tinyurl.com/y8hlzdns

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:02 AM (mpXpK)

546
Attention Tank Adams; 'NJ Democrats charged with mail in vote fraud'.

https://tinyurl.com/ya5uenrj

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:02 AM (mpXpK)

547 DIABLO Alexander (CR 15) attacks Trump and calls for him to wear a mask.

https://tinyurl.com/ycb9mq88

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:02 AM (mpXpK)

548 As I said a few days ago, if Democrat Mayors will not police these riots that they call 'protests' somebody else will. Its beginning now.

https://tinyurl.com/y8gr75mb

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:03 AM (mpXpK)

549 Nazi Peelousy wants a federal mandate national mask requirement. Sorry you ignorant scrunt, the federal gov does not have that authority.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ugjkpa

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:03 AM (mpXpK)

550 RNCe trying to sabotage Trump's 2020 run. They would rather see Biden the idiot win than Trump.

https://tinyurl.com/ycw6vlpy

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:03 AM (mpXpK)

551 RAMIREZ (good one today)

https://tinyurl.com/y94d763m

And that's it for today.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:03 AM (mpXpK)

552 Thanks Vic

Posted by: Miklosian Carolinian at June 29, 2020 04:12 AM (QzkSJ)

553 Have to take mom to get her hair cut this afternoon.

Masks required.

Not looking forward to it.

Mornin', all

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:14 AM (uUQ7n)

554 Holding out for no mask hair cuts, besides I still only have my casister mask and cutting hair would be impossible

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 04:18 AM (6f16T)

555 Not looking forward to it.

Mornin', all
Posted by: My life is insanity

Ask yer Mom to tell you to move to South Carolina.

*simple coffee*

Posted by: Miklosian Advices at June 29, 2020 04:19 AM (QzkSJ)

556 She tried to cut it herself with a pair of 12" shears. Can't hold out for the time of no mask is required!

Poor mom, she hates long hair and is always harassing me to cut mine too

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:23 AM (uUQ7n)

557 As a further explanation, my offense was DWHLH --

Driving While Having Long Hair. Yes, that's a thing too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 29, 2020 03:35 AM (Z4rgH)

Yup, been there done that, along with Driving While Having Loud Harley. I do the 2 prong attack. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2020 04:26 AM (9Om/r)

558 >>Ask yer Mom to tell you to move to South Carolina.

*simple coffee*
Posted by: Miklosian Advices

Maybe, if we could we get a ride in that convertible!

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:26 AM (uUQ7n)

559 I have tried to keep it a little back with scissors around my ears, we have hair cutters but haven't quite got up the nerve to try that.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 04:28 AM (6f16T)

560 Besides, who knows what racist is anymore. It changes daily.

Everything will be racist for 15 minutes, Vic

Mornin' (sips coffee). Insomnia sucks. Not the valued horde member. Actual insomnia. Glad I'm off today.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 29, 2020 04:31 AM (rBZey)

561 Maybe, if we could we get a ride in that convertible!
Posted by: My life is insanity

Just came back from the shop, she rides purty!

I get compliments from the ladies! (the car, not me).

Posted by: Miklosian VW Cabrio-er at June 29, 2020 04:31 AM (QzkSJ)

562 I think girls/women mostly have it easier. But mom's had short-short hair for more than 60 years. And of course she doesn't understand why she hasn't been able to get it cut.

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:32 AM (uUQ7n)

563 VW-Miklos, nice!

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:33 AM (uUQ7n)

564 Besides, who knows what racist is anymore. It changes daily.

Everything will be racist for 15 minutes, Vic

Vic and I will be rayciss for the nest 15 minutes.

Get it over with.

Now c. 14 minutes.

Posted by: Miklos, One and Done at June 29, 2020 04:33 AM (QzkSJ)

565 americanthinker.com/when you want to scare the public into submission just assign deaths to a disease without proof
https://tinyurl.com/y7cmjpnk

You read it here first from me. On other hand no deaths reported in Pa 2 days in a row, 0 in Wi also.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 04:35 AM (6f16T)

566 562
I think girls/women mostly have it easier. But mom's had short-short
hair for more than 60 years. And of course she doesn't understand why
she hasn't been able to get it cut.

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:32 AM (uUQ7n)

Almost all men like long hair on a woman.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:36 AM (mpXpK)

567 Almost all men like long hair on a woman.
Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:36 AM (mpXpK)

Some women can pull it off. Janine Turner for one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 04:39 AM (A5zUN)

568 Yeah, Skip, the agenda. Just as the article you linked yesterday asking what is your red line concerning the BLM crap, i think the same question needs to be asked about the covid19

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:40 AM (uUQ7n)

569 Almost all men like long hair on a woman.
Posted by: Vic

ahem

Posted by: Fat angry blue haired trans-Miklos at June 29, 2020 04:41 AM (QzkSJ)

570 >>Almost all men like long hair on a woman.
Posted by: Vic

About 2 weeks after I was married I cut my hair --short. I had hair to my waist, but had cut it above my shoulders. Husband was not pleased! Our 1st arguement

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:42 AM (uUQ7n)

571 570 About 2 weeks after I was married I cut my hair
--short. I had hair to my waist, but had cut it above my shoulders.
Husband was not pleased! Our 1st arguement

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:42 AM (uUQ7n)

My wife did the same thing.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 04:44 AM (mpXpK)

572 I guess he got over it, it'll be 39 years married this summer.
(and I've never really had super short hair since.)

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:44 AM (uUQ7n)

573 >> bullets move in and out of trans all the time without tumbling.

That contradicts just about everything I ever read or seen. The transonic region is quite problematic.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 29, 2020 04:47 AM (f1Vqw)

574 Bettrr get moving on out. It's Monday after all and I'm already behind.

Make it a good day, all. Hopefully it will be mask free everywhere, soon.

Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:47 AM (uUQ7n)

575 Why girls cut their hair has always been a mystery to me.

"If you got it, flaunt it"

Or so Cosmo told.

Posted by: Miklos, who read Cosmo like I had captured the Enemy Plans at June 29, 2020 04:47 AM (QzkSJ)

576 You read it here first from me. On other hand no deaths reported in Pa 2 days in a row, 0 in Wi also.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 04:35 AM (6f16T)

---
from any cause, or just the #ChiComCrud?

Posted by: redc1c4 at June 29, 2020 04:50 AM (/a6u+)

577 Epicenter of Houston's Corona Virus

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ur87f2

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/
EbngXv2U4AUPJk8?
format=jpg&name=medium

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 04:50 AM (vW9Vw)

578 You read it here first from me. On other hand no deaths reported in Pa 2 days in a row, 0 in Wi also.

Posted by: Skip

We should all report in as infected but no symptoms.

Posted by: Miklos knows how numbers work at June 29, 2020 04:53 AM (QzkSJ)

579 I get the Covid-19 death numbers, NJ tacked on those 1,800 in 1 day after having only double digits for a couple weeks. Pa did it a few times as well with a spike hundreds over what the daily number was all around it.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 04:54 AM (6f16T)

580 Almost all men like long hair on a woman.

Posted by: Vic

Yup, put me in that group. Very few can pull off the short hair thing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 29, 2020 04:57 AM (9Om/r)

581 Skip and everybody-

The shortest and best book on the topic, and free download

"How to Lie With Statistics"

https://archive.org/details/HowToLieWithStatistics

Posted by: Miklosonomics at June 29, 2020 04:58 AM (QzkSJ)

582
Mornin' (sips coffee). Insomnia sucks. Not the valued horde member. Actual insomnia. Glad I'm off today.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 29, 2020 04:31 AM (rBZey)

Ditto, been cruising the twitter troughs waiting for y'all to get up.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 04:59 AM (vW9Vw)

583 from any cause, or just the #ChiComCrud?

Posted by: redc1c4

The Iranian explosion is yet unexplained.

*arms crossed, teacher "looking over the eyeglasses look"*

Posted by: Fourth Grade Teacher Mrs. Miklos at June 29, 2020 05:01 AM (QzkSJ)

584
Re transonic region:

https://thearmsguide.com/5348/
long-range-shooting-external-ballistics-
transonic-region/

"Generally, the best thing to do is to try to avoid the transonic region and set the distance at which our bullets go transonic as the maximum effective range of our weapon system."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 29, 2020 05:02 AM (f1Vqw)

585 Getting actual demographics is like getting true results from Google.

But read quotes from the TMC director that its IC is 100% capacity and they are turning areas into IC.

And here's (577) the probable cause:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ur87f2

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 05:03 AM (vW9Vw)

586 Had a T-storm come through here around 8:30pm, some branches down but nothing unusual.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 05:05 AM (6f16T)

587 The Iranian explosion is yet unexplained.

*arms crossed, teacher "looking over the eyeglasses look"*
Posted by: Fourth Grade Teacher Mrs. Miklos at June 29, 2020 05:01 AM (QzkSJ)

You know, the odd thing is that we do not have more rocket explosions or radio-logical accidents. Look at the early days of the US rocket program, then imagine you are an idiot.

Ditto when dealing with radioactive material- although that can be explained by picking up a demon core just means they pour your remains into a hole in the desert, not a big explosion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 05:06 AM (A5zUN)

588 Somewhere saw a satellite photo of before and after the exposition last night. Powerline maybe.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 05:06 AM (6f16T)

589 PJ media

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 05:07 AM (6f16T)

590

Looking it up, the Barret .416's remains supersonic to over 2100 yards. That's the key to it's long range accuracy.

The transonic region is very problematic for bullets, as any cursory research will reveal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at June 29, 2020 05:09 AM (f1Vqw)

591 Samantha Shader, 27, held w/o bail for throwing a molotov cocktail@ an NYPD van w/ 4 cops inside. 4 counts of attempted murder of a police officer, attempted arson, assault on a cop, criminal poss. of a weapon & reckless endangerment. She faces 5-20.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8f4sx36

https://twitter.com/NewBookofDaniel/status
/1277060029179285504?s=20

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 05:11 AM (vW9Vw)

592 5-20 seems light.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 05:13 AM (A5zUN)

593 townhall.com/a lefty mob trespassed on their property but a st louis couple knew what to use
https://tinyurl.com/ybz35vcg

Though would suggest in future concertina wire and claymores

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 05:14 AM (6f16T)

594 not a big explosion.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Well, the US had the advantage of Hungarian Jewish Physicists.

Which even Hungary never had.

Posted by: Miklos von Neumann-Teller-Szilard at June 29, 2020 05:15 AM (QzkSJ)

595 591 That was a poor life choice, hope she goes away for a very long time.

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 05:17 AM (6f16T)

596 593 townhall.com/a lefty mob trespassed on their property but a st louis couple knew what to use
https://tinyurl.com/ybz35vcg

Though would suggest in future concertina wire and claymores
Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 05:14 AM (6f16T)

Flaming moat. Maybe some stakes with bodies impaled on them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 05:17 AM (A5zUN)

597 I guess he got over it, it'll be 39 years married this summer.
(and I've never really had super short hair since.)
Posted by: My life is insanity at June 29, 2020 04:44

We just hit 39 Sat. Funny thing is we both got the other the same card for our anniversary.

Posted by: Farmer at June 29, 2020 05:18 AM (BPHer)

598 Well, the US had the advantage of Hungarian Jewish Physicists.

Which even Hungary never had.

Posted by: Miklos von Neumann-Teller-Szilard at June 29, 2020 05:15 AM (QzkSJ)

Teller looks like a guy it would be fun to have a conversation with. Every interview I have seen with him he was carrying a big cane.

Seemed to have the right attitude- as long as he did not take a disliking to you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 05:19 AM (A5zUN)

599 Teller looks like a guy it would be fun to have a conversation with. Every interview I have seen with him he was carrying a big cane.

Seemed to have the right attitude- as long as he did not take a disliking to you.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Von Neumann had better taste in cars.

Posted by: Miklos von Miklostein at June 29, 2020 05:22 AM (QzkSJ)

600 Time for me to hit the road.
Stay cool and have a great day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 05:23 AM (6f16T)

601 593 townhall.com/a lefty mob trespassed on their property but a st louis couple knew what to use
https://tinyurl.com/ybz35vcg

Though would suggest in future concertina wire and claymores

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2020 05:14 AM (6f16T)

She passed the muzzle behind her husband's head.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 05:24 AM (vW9Vw)

602 A fun except from the wiki entry on Von Neumann:

Edward Teller admitted that he "never could keep up with him". Teller also said "von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 05:27 AM (A5zUN)

603 She passed the muzzle behind her husband's head.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 05:24 AM (vW9Vw)

Maybe she does not like him much.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 05:32 AM (A5zUN)

604

In 1899, Ingersol Lockwood wrote a book...

"Barron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey"

Time machine?

Posted by: TeeJ at June 29, 2020 05:36 AM (SNwMD)

605
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 29, 2020 05:42 AM (cuot+)

606 "They believe that in this current moment, the chaos that surrounds us is signaling the potential for an impending second civil war which, believe it or not, they are hoping for because they believe that will rid the United States of all its problems,"

- Devin Burghart, executive director of the National Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.

-

Holy crap that's hilarious.

Why?

ctl+f civil war

One result. Yours.

Yep, the right is hoping for it, Professor. Conservatives. The ones who just want the law to be enforced.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - So my white special needs child is more priviliged than blacks? at June 29, 2020 05:42 AM (w1ZmK)

607 606: Projection. CWII has been started by the Left.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 29, 2020 05:44 AM (rBZey)

608 Almost all men like long hair on a woman.

-

I'd suggest one slight but significant edit.

Almost all men like women.

There. Having been 29 for a while, I know for a fact that the best attribute any man sees in an attractive woman is that she likes him. Science, h8rs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - So my white special needs child is more priviliged than blacks? at June 29, 2020 05:47 AM (w1ZmK)

609 Jun 19
#ASMCUE educators: Wondering about how to start the conversations around racism in your undergraduate biology classroom? I love this article that talks about getting started. And yes, you do need to address this in bio class - change starts with you.

-

Imagine how awkward that conversation would be in a college classroom where the kids could ask college-level questions without fear of literally being kicked out of college for asking a "wrong" question (see Kansas State).

Posted by: Moron Robbie - So my white special needs child is more priviliged than blacks? at June 29, 2020 05:50 AM (w1ZmK)

610 And her finger is on the trigger.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/ya477u5y

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 05:54 AM (vW9Vw)

611 Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Teller understands humans very well, and imitates one almost perfectly".

Posted by: as recalled by Miklos at June 29, 2020 05:54 AM (QzkSJ)

612 Quote IV

"They believe that in this current moment, the chaos that surrounds us is signaling the potential for an impending second civil war which, believe it or not, they are hoping for because they believe that will rid the United States of all its problems,"Devin Burghart, executive director of the National Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.
_______

That article was satire, right? I mean, Hawaiian shirts? Was Initech a far-right corporation?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 29, 2020 05:59 AM (LMs+g)

613 I take it that's not the lasagna lady?

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2020 05:59 AM (XhWtx)

614 Hmmm, just watched a video on the risks associated with travel to Mars. They make a big deal of the cancer risk from associated with the trip.

5% increase in cancer related death.

5%

To walk on Mars.

To step into the very big shoes of Neil Armstrong.

To be the first human to walk on another planet.

5% does not seem like too big a risk.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 06:03 AM (A5zUN)

615 Should read '...cancer risk from radiation exposure associated with the trip.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 06:04 AM (A5zUN)

616
Hmmm, just watched a video on the risks associated with travel to Mars. They make a big deal of the cancer risk from associated with the trip.

5% increase in cancer related death.

5%

To walk on Mars.

To step into the very big shoes of Neil Armstrong.

To be the first human to walk on another planet.

5% does not seem like too big a risk.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 06:03 AM

considering there are a not insignificant number of people who would sign up to go on a one way trip to Mars, I don't think a 5% possible maybe is that big of a deterrent

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 29, 2020 06:13 AM (cuot+)

617 5% does not seem like too big a risk.

-

It doesn't to people who understand those things.

(puts on mask to drive to the state park nearby and hike in the forest)

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 06:19 AM (uLohi)

618 Only in the mainstream media would a number that shows 95% time a trend was found to be true that it would be reported as false.

The is 1984 from Winston desk type of reporting.

For the year, murder is down with only 25 percent more deaths. If these rates hold, New York would end 2020 with an decrease in murders with them only being twice as high as weve seen since 1990.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:21 AM (JFO2v)

619 That article was satire, right? I mean, Hawaiian shirts? Was Initech a far-right corporation?

Posted by: Eeyore at June 29, 2020 05:59 AM (LMs+g)

Ummm...yeah..you know you didn't put the cover letter on your TPS reports.
Did you get the memo?

Posted by: Lundberg at June 29, 2020 06:24 AM (ufFY8)

620 So it now appear the Russian Taliban killing bonus bounty was a hoax from NYT.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:24 AM (JFO2v)

621 The probability of getting cancer from radiation during the trip to Mars increase 5%. 5% of nil is nil.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 06:25 AM (mpXpK)

622 620
So it now appear the Russian Taliban killing bonus bounty was a hoax from NYT.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:24 AM (JFO2v)

Hoax is not the appropriate term, that implies a humorous joke. Lie is more accurate.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 06:28 AM (mpXpK)

623 592 5-20 seems light.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 05:13 AM (A5zUN)

The next Dem President will pardon her anyway.

Posted by: clutch at June 29, 2020 06:30 AM (HL6Hq)

624 Did anyone explain how that whole killing bonus worked with Trump being a Russian stooge and doing what they want?

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 06:33 AM (uLohi)

625 620 So it now appear the Russian Taliban killing bonus bounty was a hoax from NYT.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:24 AM (JFO2v)

It's fake but accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at June 29, 2020 06:33 AM (Ojki1)

626 The first few people going to Mars, it's a one way trip and very dangerous. That I understood since I was a kid.

The idea that we would be sending ?3? rockets a week on a 2-year journey is where it gets interesting. We don't have to terraform Mars to sustain a colony.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2020 06:33 AM (LxTcq)

627 624 Did anyone explain how that whole killing bonus worked with Trump being a Russian stooge and doing what they want?
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 06:33 AM (uLohi)

*taps Reality*

This damn thing seems to be on the fritz again.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 29, 2020 06:34 AM (A5zUN)

628 Guys, wow will the NYT ever recover?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2020 06:35 AM (LxTcq)

629 624
Did anyone explain how that whole killing bonus worked with Trump being a Russian stooge and doing what they want?

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 06:33 AM (uLohi)

DHS has already said the whole thing was a fabrication by the NYT.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 06:35 AM (mpXpK)

630 From the Daily Mail
an alum of the Princeton, the New Jersey-based Ivy League school, slammed the university president, Christopher Eisgruber, for 'giving in to the woke leftist mob'...
Perhaps the alumn should be asking why Princeton has spent years creating the woke leftists that are the mob.

Posted by: Downcast at June 29, 2020 06:35 AM (xgpfE)

631 624 Did anyone explain how that whole killing bonus worked with Trump being a Russian stooge and doing what they want?
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 06:33 AM (uLohi)

It is set up a fail fail.

A. Trump did not listen to intelligence
or
B. Trump let it continue

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:36 AM (JFO2v)

632 624 Did anyone explain how that whole killing bonus worked with Trump being a Russian stooge and doing what they want?
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 06:33 AM (uLohi)

See, a real president would respond to Russian aggression.

Russia invading Crimea was not an event that required response.

Things Leftists believe.

Posted by: Bete at June 29, 2020 06:37 AM (Ojki1)

633 The NYT has got to be way past the "absence of malice" threshold by now.

Mornin' Horde. Hating my life but it's probably better than the alternative.

Posted by: Brother Tim at June 29, 2020 06:38 AM (iKMuO)

634 it's Hugh Everett III at work.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at June 29, 2020 06:39 AM (Jj+59)

635 WTF is it with heroin and morphine? I can see coke and peelers, but slowing down is for sissies.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at June 29, 2020 06:41 AM (Jj+59)

636 631 A. Trump did not listen to intelligence

or

B. Trump let it continue

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:36 AM (JFO2v)

Trump said it was a lie.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 06:43 AM (mpXpK)

637 Only in Peanuts comics are little girls wearing dresses in school.

Posted by: JAS at June 29, 2020 06:45 AM (2BZBZ)

638 Mawnin', all!

Exercised in air as thick as hot poisoned jelly; washed up, fed the livestock; having breakfast now as I join the morning conversation. Wassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 29, 2020 06:47 AM (rpbg1)

639 Perhaps the alumn should be asking why Princeton has spent years creating the woke leftists that are the mob.
Posted by: Downcast at June 29, 2020 06:35 AM (xgpfE)

It is very interesting that much liberal culture requires abandoning the entire enlightenment of western culture.

Self-governance, self-control, scientific principles of theory, test, and document (repeat as needed), and liberal (free speech and thoughts) ideas just dropped for the current narrative.

Looking at many of the intersectionality (cultural marxism) ideas requires you to abandon manly STEM fields. And is that NOT the idea of much of the movement? If a student cannot make in STEM or Biz school (and about 75% in college cannot) then where do they go and what do they do? The go the fill-in-the-blanks STUDIES programs. Program that by design ignore science and scientific methods and replace that with feelings.

PS Most of the feeling is that I am oppressed because of my body parts, color, or sex life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:49 AM (JFO2v)

640 Just got back from our grocery store that is opened 24 hours again.
Of course masks, of course one way aisles.

But there is no one in the store! No one to look at me because I wear the mask under my nose like most of the workers do. No one to complain that I am risking life and limb for walking 10 feet the wrong way down an aisle.

'Murica!

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 06:49 AM (vd8XM)

641 Trump said it was a lie.
Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 06:43 AM (mpXpK)

I agree I am just pointing out a kafkatrap.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:50 AM (JFO2v)

642

The goal, we think, is multifaceted:
1.Sleep deprivation as a means to create confusion and stoke tensions between Black and Brown peoples.
2.Desensitization as a means to get us so used to the sounds of firecrackers and other fireworks that when they start using their real artillery on us we won't know the difference. It's meant to sound like a war zone because a war zone is what it's about to become

Wait,wut?

Posted by: jsg at June 29, 2020 06:51 AM (gPhq7)

643 That was from the fireworks article

Posted by: jsg at June 29, 2020 06:51 AM (gPhq7)

644 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 06:52 AM (3D/fK)

645 Chicago has so much Pride and BLM goodness, only
15 shot and killed
47 wounded over the Prideful weekend

But, the overnight totals aren't in yet

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 06:52 AM (vd8XM)

646 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 29, 2020 06:52 AM (arJlL)

647 Thank you Lord for another day.

And H&K VP9's, one of which I am now the proud owner.

Posted by: jsg at June 29, 2020 06:53 AM (gPhq7)

648 And H&K VP9's, one of which I am now the proud owner.
Posted by: jsg

Oooo. Nice!

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 06:56 AM (vd8XM)

649 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Sunday said a national mandate that requires everyone to wear a face mask is "long overdue."

CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL

And how will this be unforced? FBI Secret Service Local Police

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:57 AM (JFO2v)

650 ho lee fuk

The R9X, which is armed with six extendable sword-like blades in lieu of an exploding warhead, has been promoting freedom and American military supremacy throughout the world since 2017 by killing terrorists with ruthless precision.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 06:59 AM (JFO2v)

651 And H&K VP9's, one of which I am now the proud owner.
Posted by: jsg at June 29, 2020 06:53 AM (gPhq7)

Love it. I really like the bunny ears on the slide. It's one of those "how have I lived without this" features.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 29, 2020 07:00 AM (t+qrx)

652 Oooo. Nice!
Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 06:56 AM (vd8XM)

Yeah, hoping to get some range time in this week.

Posted by: jsg at June 29, 2020 07:01 AM (gPhq7)

653 nice work if you can get it

A mysterious man dubbed 'the orgasm whisperer' has emerged in California with a reputation for transforming sex lives, leaving dozens of women raving about his 'life changing' services on social media.

The man, who solely goes by 'M' and worked for 10 years as a personal trainer, runs a website where he calls himself the O-Man and teaches women how to orgasm.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 07:02 AM (JFO2v)

654 Hoax is not the appropriate term, that implies a humorous joke. Lie is more accurate.

Posted by: Vic at June 29, 2020 06:28 AM (mpXpK)

And if it's a lie intended to undermine the security of the US it would be a felonious lie.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 07:03 AM (vW9Vw)

655 Love it. I really like the bunny ears on the slide. It's one of those "how have I lived without this" features.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 29, 2020 07:00 AM (t+qrx)

And that, too. Need to go one down on the grip, I think, and then it'll be ideal.

Posted by: jsg at June 29, 2020 07:04 AM (gPhq7)

656 The man, who solely goes by 'M' and worked for 10 years as a personal trainer, runs a website where he calls himself the O-Man and teaches women how to orgasm.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Is he hands on ?

Posted by: JT at June 29, 2020 07:05 AM (arJlL)

657 Well this is going to be smothered with a pillow by the msm.

The rioter that shot and killed a photographer at the riots in Louisville was arrested twice before on rioting charges and let go due to catch and release.

Plus he was stopped from killing even more people by multiple good guys with guns.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2020 07:05 AM (JUOKG)

658 The man, who solely goes by 'M' and worked for 10 years as a personal trainer, runs a website where he calls himself the O-Man and teaches women how to orgasm.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Zombie Bernard Lee found work after 007

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:06 AM (vd8XM)

659 Just got back from our grocery store that is opened 24 hours again.
Of course masks, of course one way aisles.

-

Are they wiping down the freezer door handles and credit card machines at the checkout counter between each customer?

No?

Huh. That's weird. Deadly super contagious virus and all.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 07:07 AM (WzgyJ)

660 Good morning y'all

Posted by: wing at June 29, 2020 07:07 AM (JFzNN)

661 Plus he was stopped from killing even more people by multiple good guys with guns.
Posted by: Mr. Scot

Turning his life around. Aspiring rapper.....

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:08 AM (vd8XM)

662 OSHA statements on mask dispel the notion they do anything. They might help the wearer from spreading by stopping his/her sneeze or spitting everywhere.. but that's about it.

The cloth masks most of us get/wear do even less than what OSHA talks about.

A hand-washing campaign would serve us better, virtue signal by telling everyone how long you washed your hands recently.

Instead, we get mask theatre nonsense.... because its about control.

Posted by: RealityMan at June 29, 2020 07:08 AM (7NSrk)

663 Are they wiping down the freezer door handles and credit card machines at the checkout counter between each customer?

No?

Huh. That's weird. Deadly super contagious virus and all.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Heh. I'm gonna die but I've got cream for my coffee dammit

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:08 AM (vd8XM)

664 I proudly wear the gold glitter mask, kabuki theater quality.

Posted by: azalea city at June 29, 2020 07:10 AM (WX+x0)

665 Instead, we get mask theatre nonsense.... because its about control.
Posted by: RealityMan

If I'm wearing a mask and feel a big wet sneeze coming on, should I let it go inside the mask so that I have to live with it until I can get a fresh one, or pull the mask down and sneeze in my elbow like a gentleman?

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:10 AM (vd8XM)

666 Remember when lefties were saying they hoped protestors of the lockdown shouldn't be able to get hospital care? Juxtapose that with the spike in Houston and the likely cause. You spin me right round, like a record baby.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:11 AM (nFRLh)

667 Are they wiping down the freezer door handles and credit card machines at the checkout counter between each customer?

No?

Huh. That's weird. Deadly super contagious virus and all.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020

*
*

One of my local Dollar Tree stores has the obligatory sign, "No Entry Without Masks," but no one enforces it. For a while they had the checkout card machine covered in plastic, but that's gone, just a notice: "Please Use Pen."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 29, 2020 07:11 AM (rpbg1)

668 They might help the wearer from spreading by stopping his/her sneeze or spitting everywhere

-

Pause for a moment to appreciate that we are the most advanced society to ever exist and we have to pass laws so that the majority of people - educated for "free" for 12 years by the same government - don't sneeze or spit on other people.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 07:12 AM (WzgyJ)

669 Is he hands on ?
Posted by: JT at June 29, 2020 07:05 AM (arJlL)

Probably more like a Joey fingers guy!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 07:13 AM (JFO2v)

670 I posted it before, but I saw a man lift his mask to sneeze.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 07:14 AM (WzgyJ)

671 Did Pelosi have to go mask Nazi to normalize Biden's mask Nazi statement or are they both mentally failing fascist scum? I mean, is this really a Democrat party platform plank?

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:14 AM (nFRLh)

672 Bet the Chicago murder rate includes only those dead at scene.
If they die later at the ER , not counted. As it was in the Big Easy.

Posted by: azalea city at June 29, 2020 07:14 AM (WX+x0)

673 Pause for a moment to appreciate that we are the most advanced society to ever exist and we have to pass laws so that the majority of people - educated for "free" for 12 years by the same government - don't sneeze or spit on other people.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

During normal cold and flu season, I see people hork up some lung butter and spit it out in the middle of the sidewalk or walkway.
WTF? I get to track that around now you slob!

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:15 AM (vd8XM)

674 For any NC morons, Governor Cooper, (D), passed another EO saying everyone is required to wear masks in public.

Helpfully, the state has a FAQ with information about exemptions. And everyone is exempt if they want to be, and no one can ask for proof.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 07:15 AM (WzgyJ)

675 As has been said elsewhere, "It would be a strange and historical anomaly for any US Intelligence agency to be correct about anything they routinely publish. Let alone anything about Russia.

How exactly would the Russians pay these bounties anyway?"

Also I have to say, Russia's GDP is less than NYS, damn do they know how to stretch a Rubel.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2020 07:16 AM (NJNke)

676 I posted it before, but I saw a man lift his mask to sneeze.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

WaOOOOO werewolves of London...

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:16 AM (vd8XM)

677 mornin' y'all. Slept in today was expecting a puppy mess but she was good.

She did scold me when she heard me wake up. However she did this from her bed with only one eye open.

Guess it was a good day to sleep in.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 29, 2020 07:17 AM (eMtQa)

678 So looking at the Hopkins Wu-Flu site, it would seem that the US has something like 2,500,000 cases.

And India has around 500,000.

India has a population of around 1,300,000,000.

US has a population of around 330,000,000.

India has four times our population, and one fifth the number of cases?

Just seems scientifically.....odd.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:18 AM (3D/fK)

679 Guess it was a good day to sleep in.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated

Lucky you. Sometimes it works out

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:18 AM (vd8XM)

680 India has four times our population, and one fifth the number of cases?

Just seems scientifically.....odd.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

India has a very rigorous sanitation culture...

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:20 AM (vd8XM)

681 India has roughly the same population number of the US living in abject poverty - record keeping isn't a priority, survival is.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:20 AM (nFRLh)

682 Wearing a mask outside prevents nothing. The masks are not talisman's that will prevent the Covid Demons from getting you.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 29, 2020 07:21 AM (prwV+)

683 I can sense the 2nd wave panic building just like the first round. I wouldn't be surprised to see some blue states go back to full lockdown within a week and then start to try to drag the others along.

Or are the blue shitholes still in full lockdown? Cant keep up anymore.

Posted by: Ripley at June 29, 2020 07:21 AM (MxEKc)

684 Saturday, we got to go to the new Polish supermarket that opened about 6 miles away. A lot of fresh deli and bakery items.

I think my waistline is in even more trouble

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:22 AM (vd8XM)

685 Just seems scientifically.....odd.

-

I suspect a difference in measurement. They probably count symptomatic cases that require monitoring or medicine, while we count every goat or piece of fruit that tests positive.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 07:22 AM (WzgyJ)

686 @678

Once you accept that everything is an Op or lie it all makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2020 07:22 AM (NJNke)

687 "India has a very rigorous sanitation culture..."

I had forgotten about that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:22 AM (3D/fK)

688 680 India has four times our population, and one fifth the number of cases?

Just seems scientifically.....odd.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

India has a very rigorous sanitation culture...
Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:20 AM (vd8XM)

It might also be that India has not experienced unexplained drops in other causes of deaths, like heart attacks....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 29, 2020 07:23 AM (PiwSw)

689 China flu numbers are bogus. Reduce stated cases/deaths by 1/3 at least for more truthful assessment.

Posted by: azalea city at June 29, 2020 07:23 AM (WX+x0)

690 Considering everything that can kill you in India, I'm sure Covid is an after thought.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 29, 2020 07:23 AM (prwV+)

691 Or are the blue shitholes still in full lockdown? Cant keep up anymore.
Posted by: Ripley

Illinois is in Phase 4,, so only slightly lockdown.
Phase 5 will require a vaccine for the Krud though. I'm guessing #two weeks

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:23 AM (vd8XM)

692 The first few people going to Mars, it's a one way trip and very dangerous. That I understood since I was a kid

Have a great wake party before you go ...

Posted by: Jean at June 29, 2020 07:24 AM (B7KlG)

693 re Polish food. Beware the Bopka it helped me earn my nick.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 29, 2020 07:25 AM (eMtQa)

694 Has anyone pointed out this no mask/mask phenomenon pretty neatly maps to people who support our Constitution and the rule or law, and people who want something different?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 29, 2020 07:25 AM (PiwSw)

695 Considering everything that can kill you in India, I'm sure Covid is an after thought.
Posted by: Puddleglum

True, when you can get dysentery from drinking the bottled water there, a little cough is no biggy

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:25 AM (vd8XM)

696 >India has four times our population, and one fifth the number of cases?

Testing for a virus that will give you a 48-hour fever is a luxury.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2020 07:25 AM (LxTcq)

697 "683 I can sense the 2nd wave panic building just like the first round."

If we fall for this again we'll have become the most whipped, abjectly pathetic generation in American history and totally undeserving of our liberties.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:25 AM (H8QX8)

698 @693

That and a plate of Kruschiki are the stuff of childhood memories.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2020 07:27 AM (NJNke)

699 Mornin', fappers

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 29, 2020 07:28 AM (rO8Az)

700 Saturday, we got to go to the new Polish supermarket that opened about 6 miles away. A lot of fresh deli and bakery items.

I think my waistline is in even more trouble
Posted by: Bruce

We have a little one near us, and yes the sausage counter is awesome. As are the selection of mushrooms soup mixes.

Posted by: Jean at June 29, 2020 07:28 AM (B7KlG)

701 Polish food. Beware the Bopka it helped me earn my nick.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated

They even had a little old lady standing there making fresh pierogi.
Picked up a poppy seed bread that was very good. Some sausages. A few bottles of different beers. Dumplings. Kolachkes. All the food groups

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:28 AM (vd8XM)

702 694 Has anyone pointed out this no mask/mask phenomenon pretty neatly maps to people who support our Constitution and the rule or law, and people who want something different?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 29, 2020 07:25 AM (PiwSw)

The words of my progressive relative chilled me: "individual rights are not primarily compelling" in this crisis.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:28 AM (H8QX8)

703 That and a plate of Kruschiki are the stuff of childhood memories.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

They had those there.
Next time

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:29 AM (vd8XM)

704 The words of my progressive relative chilled me: "individual rights are not primarily compelling" in this crisis.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:28 AM (H8QX

Thing is, it's a manufactured crisis. Fake. Spurious. Not genuine.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 29, 2020 07:30 AM (rO8Az)

705 That St Louis couple is lucky they live in the mayor's neighborhood.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:30 AM (nFRLh)

706 "The words of my progressive relative chilled me: "individual rights are not primarily compelling" in this crisis."

Can they give you a list specifying exactly which rights are to be set aside during this event?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:31 AM (3D/fK)

707 Just seems scientifically.....odd.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:18 AM (3D/fK)

Here is Texas we have tested 2,006,724
(out of 30 M pop) to find exactly 148,723 cases.

It that is less than a 7.5% infection rate of those tested. Th flu when active comes in at about 35% positive.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 07:31 AM (JFO2v)

708 We have a little one near us, and yes the sausage counter is awesome. As are the selection of mushrooms soup mixes.
Posted by: Jean

This one had a large cooler with different soups made up.
Not soup weather right now, but come October...

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:32 AM (vd8XM)

709 Thing is, it's a manufactured crisis. Fake. Spurious. Not genuine.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 29, 2020 07:30 AM (rO8Az)

That's my thought too, although my daughter was to fly into South Africa, and she would have to quarantine 14 days there before they would let her into Swaziland. It doesn't seem to be confined to the USA

Posted by: grammie winger at June 29, 2020 07:32 AM (lwiT4)

710 Thing is, it's a manufactured crisis. Fake. Spurious. Not genuine.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 29, 2020 07:30 AM (rO8Az)

Indeed. The second part of his statement was that the crisis was entirely scientifically legitimate and had no relationship to politics.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:32 AM (H8QX8)

711 When the left doesn't define murdering millions through abortion since Roe as a crisis, nothing really is.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:32 AM (nFRLh)

712 Can they give you a list specifying exactly which rights are to be set aside during this event?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Your rights

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:33 AM (vd8XM)

713 Today I have transitioned.
With the help of Megan Rapinoe and the rest of her kneeling cohorts, I will no long ignore US Women's soccer with a sense of indifference.
From this day onward, I will ignore US Women's soccer with a sense of civic pride.

Posted by: Downcast at June 29, 2020 07:33 AM (xgpfE)

714 Morning all

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 29, 2020 07:33 AM (tsZQ+)

715 Can they give you a list specifying exactly which rights are to be set aside during this event?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:31 AM (3D/fK)

Well certainly not abortion, that's sacrosanct.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 29, 2020 07:33 AM (t+qrx)

716 @703

The maternal side of the family is Polish, the paternal side is Italian, so my two grandmothers, when not bickering, were acting as a team of rivals in trying to fatten up all the children.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2020 07:34 AM (NJNke)

717 "Your rights"

Which surprises exactly....no-one.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:34 AM (3D/fK)

718 The maternal side of the family is Polish, the paternal side is Italian, so my two grandmothers, when not bickering, were acting as a team of rivals in trying to fatten up all the children.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Oh geez. And with any luck on a big holiday you went from one of their houses to the other....

Burrrrrpppp

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:34 AM (vd8XM)

719 Can they give you a list specifying exactly which rights are to be set aside during this event?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:31 AM (3D/fK)

No, we stopped communicating at that point. I replied that we would have to agree to disagree and that was that.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:34 AM (H8QX8)

720 >>That St Louis couple is lucky they live in the mayor's neighborhood.

Did you see the house? I'd say the mayor is lucky to live in their neighborhood.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2020 07:35 AM (ZLI7S)

721 Are they wiping down the freezer door handles and credit card machines at the checkout counter between each customer?

No?

Huh. That's weird. Deadly super contagious virus and all.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020

*

*

One of my local Dollar Tree stores has the obligatory sign, "No
Entry Without Masks," but no one enforces it. For a while they had the
checkout card machine covered in plastic, but that's gone, just a
notice: "Please Use Pen."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 29, 2020 07:11 AM

---

Both Walmart and Kroger here have given up on "sanitizing" the shopping carts.

They still have the counting lady up front but that's about it. Many of the "shop this way" stickers on the floor are gone and are not being replaced.

It's literally a joke at this point.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2020 07:35 AM (JUOKG)

722 With the help of Megan Rapinoe and the rest of her kneeling cohorts, I will no long ignore US Women's soccer with a sense of indifference.
From this day onward, I will ignore US Women's soccer with a sense of civic pride.
Posted by: Downcast

A great LOL to start the day!!

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:35 AM (vd8XM)

723 All the killings in our community ain't coming from white people. We're killing one another. Our old people are scared to come out at night...they're not scared of white people, they're scared of young black boys on the street...

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y72f422w

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 07:35 AM (vW9Vw)

724 "Can they give you a list specifying exactly which rights are to be set aside during this event?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

Pretty much all of them except right to abortion and free stuff.

Posted by: Ripley at June 29, 2020 07:35 AM (MxEKc)

725 Jean, where in NoVa is this Polish supermarket you mentioned? My mom would love that.

Posted by: bluebell at June 29, 2020 07:36 AM (/669Q)

726 FDR 2nd Bill of Rights
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 07:36 AM (JFO2v)

727 The most amazing thing to me about the positive to test ratio is thinking, what else did these people have? The vast number of tests have to be given for people who are symptomatic - you don't get tested for the hell of it. Madam you have whooping cough, but thank god you don't have the covid.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:36 AM (nFRLh)

728 FDR's list was the promise they made in the USSR as well.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:37 AM (nFRLh)

729 I was wondering, if certain identifiable demographic groups seem to be disproportionately affected by the Wu-Flu, would it not be safer for the population as a whole if their right to vote were temporarily suspended?

That way, they are not forced to increase exposure to the virus.

Same with their right to assemble peaceable, to protest.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:37 AM (3D/fK)

730 722 With the help of Megan Rapinoe and the rest of her kneeling cohorts, I will no long ignore US Women's soccer with a sense of indifference.
From this day onward, I will ignore US Women's soccer with a sense of civic pride.
Posted by: Downcast

Monday morning and we already have the Comment of the Week!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 29, 2020 07:38 AM (PiwSw)

731 The words of my progressive relative chilled me: "individual rights are not primarily compelling" in this crisis.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:28 AM (H8QX

What then, pray tell, would be a right that is not individual?

Groups and categories can have rights that their individual members do not?

How exactly does that work?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2020 07:38 AM (6FeV1)

732 Monday morning and we already have the Comment of the Week!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

Agree!

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:38 AM (vd8XM)

733 Just seems scientifically.....odd.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:18 AM (3D/fK)

--------

"Cases" means they tested positive. May not show symptoms, may not be sick in any way. We probably test more therefore the higher number of cases.

This is what irritates me, I keep hearing we should test more, why?

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 29, 2020 07:39 AM (jUVms)

734 All the killings in our community ain't coming from
white people. We're killing one another. Our old people are scared to
come out at night...they're not scared of white people, they're scared
of young black boys on the street...

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y72f422w

Posted by: Braenyard
Wow. Also this:

"Every street across America named after MLK is riddled with crime and death.:

That would be know as actual speaking truth to power,

Posted by: Ripley at June 29, 2020 07:39 AM (MxEKc)

735 Jack, it is amazing how well the ruling class manages to live being servants of the people!

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:39 AM (nFRLh)

736 You know we keep hearing about an increase in cases. What about hospitalizations and deaths? Are those going up much too? Of course cases can potentially spike. It's a cold virus and there's no vaccine. So unless you can shut down all of life for everyone everywhere there is always going to be the chance for a spike.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 29, 2020 07:41 AM (VPBpi)

737 >>Jack, it is amazing how well the ruling class manages to live being servants of the people!

I don't know who the people are but the house was supposedly built with Budweiser money. I've seen other examples of the money that Bud built so wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2020 07:42 AM (ZLI7S)

738 726: I hope they come for FDR...he refused to support anti-lynching.

As for his "rights", no one can supply you with a good education. You absolutely must participate in the acquisition. I recall teachers saying "we can't pour the information into your heads, you have to read it, do it, yourselves". This seems to be lost on our violent, ignorant underclass and on plenty of others.

There should be a right to access all the other stuff, but only by earning and effort. I'm sick of the FSA.

The only thing I totally agree with is a pox on monopolies and unfair foreign competition, but the party of FDR wants more of those things.

Posted by: CN at June 29, 2020 07:42 AM (ONvIw)

739 "With the help of Megan Rapinoe and the rest of her kneeling cohorts, I
will no long ignore US Women's soccer with a sense of indifference.

From this day onward, I will ignore US Women's soccer with a sense of civic pride.

Posted by: Downcast "

I didn't even know I was ignoring Women's soccer. Does is exist beyond high school?

Posted by: Ripley at June 29, 2020 07:42 AM (MxEKc)

740 So unless you can shut down all of life for everyone everywhere there is always going to be the chance for a spike.
Posted by: Buzzion at June 29, 2020 07:41 AM (VPBpi)

Well, we tried doing that, but oh, no, you rednecks want to work for a living instead of just taking what's given to you by your rightful masters....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2020 07:42 AM (6FeV1)

741 They are now trying to downplay it but the increase in hospitalizations in Houston has been noted to be caused by other issues but patients were tested positive for the covid as well - it's like the death stats, made up.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at June 29, 2020 07:43 AM (nFRLh)

742 NBA can have slogans on jerseys

FREE HONG KONG

BUILD THE WALL

CHINA IS ASSHOE

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 07:44 AM (JFO2v)

743 @718

Yes, bouncing back and forth from house to house, eating typical food from each side was incredible.

Stuffoli in one house, Krushicki in another.

Galumpki in one house, Ravioli in anthor.

Lot's of drinking, lots of arguing.

Listening to my Polish Grandfather call my Italian Grandfather a fascist in one moment then drinking some Grappa and eating a big pile macaroni while laughing about it all were the best parts of my childhood.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2020 07:44 AM (NJNke)

744 For CBD and NGU there is a very good polish deli in the Trenton Farmers Market. Good Amish place too.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 29, 2020 07:44 AM (eMtQa)

745 True, when you can get dysentery from drinking the bottled water there, a little cough is no biggy

I was talking to a Vietnam vet about the Plannedemic in general and immune systems in particular.

I asked the question: "Why is it that Mexicans can drink their water but Americans get Montezuma's Revenge."

Then an explanation came back about dysentery and he originally thought that the locals had a built in immunity. Until he got to Vietnam and then discovered why the locals there are thin and spindly. Because many of them suffer dysentery too.

Yet another difference in Western civilization and others - while we do something about the problem, others just suck it up and live with it as if nothing could be done.

Posted by: 🐧 at June 29, 2020 07:44 AM (C+evo)

746 - "Are you absolutely sure you want me to test you for CoVID?"

- "I'm positive".

- "OK." *marks patient down as CoVID positive* ".... NEXT!!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2020 07:44 AM (6FeV1)

747 You know we keep hearing about an increase in cases. What about hospitalizations and deaths? Are those going up much too? Of course cases can potentially spike. It's a cold virus and there's no vaccine. So unless you can shut down all of life for everyone everywhere there is always going to be the chance for a spike.
Posted by: Buzzion

I look at the deaths. Here a site for each of the states. You can manipulate it a bit with a 7 day average etc.

https://tinyurl.com/rr39xuu

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:45 AM (vd8XM)

748 India is passing out HCQ like candy.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 07:45 AM (vW9Vw)

749 nood

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 29, 2020 07:45 AM (JFO2v)

750 Just seems scientifically.....odd.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:18 AM (3D/fK)

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"Cases" means they tested positive. May not show symptoms, may not
be sick in any way. We probably test more therefore the higher number of
cases.

This is what irritates me, I keep hearing we should test more, why?

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 29, 2020 07:39 AM

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We can't get tested even though the wife was exposed to an infected co-worker. In Texas you need a doctor's referral for a test and our Doctor won't do one unless you are having symptoms which neither of us are.

I suspect the actual infection rate is an order of magnitude greater than we are seeing.

There was supposed to be testing done this past Saturday at the Armory by the National Guard. We called the number listed but no one ever answered. Drove by the place on Saturday when they were supposed to be doing testing and it was closed and empty. No signs or anything.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 29, 2020 07:46 AM (JUOKG)

751 Well, we tried doing that, but oh, no, you rednecks want to work for a living instead of just taking what's given to you by your rightful masters....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 29, 2020 07:42 AM (6FeV1)

Precious little covid is a plot a device. Yep, it's a virus, but not a super duper special one like smallpox. I have met many people who think you can get it again and again and that it will never go away. Why does Fauci have a job, why does Clintonista Birx-Reffe have a job? These people need a kick out the door and an investigation as does Roddy's sis.

Posted by: CN at June 29, 2020 07:46 AM (ONvIw)

752 India is passing out HCQ like candy.

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They must not have a frothing, lunatic media out to get Trump?

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 29, 2020 07:47 AM (O+I8R)

753 "704 The words of my progressive relative chilled me: "individual rights are not primarily compelling" in this crisis.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 29, 2020 07:28 AM (H8QX

Thing is, it's a manufactured crisis. Fake. Spurious. Not genuine.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 29, 2020 07:30 AM (rO8Az) "

Which renders individual rights negligible, if not nonexistent.

Posted by: the_sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at June 29, 2020 07:47 AM (0IMgo)

754 Listening to my Polish Grandfather call my Italian Grandfather a fascist in one moment then drinking some Grappa and eating a big pile macaroni while laughing about it all were the best parts of my childhood.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Ahhh, in the days before "how to talk to your racist fascist family about Obamacare this Thanksgiving" articles

Posted by: Bruce at June 29, 2020 07:48 AM (vd8XM)

755 feature, not bug.

Posted by: the_sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at June 29, 2020 07:48 AM (0IMgo)

756 585 Getting actual demographics is like getting true results from Google.

But read quotes from the TMC director that its IC is 100% capacity and they are turning areas into IC.

And here's (577) the probable cause:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ur87f2

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 07:49 AM (vW9Vw)

757 India has a population 4 times ours and a huge number live below the poverty line. In order for their testing to be on par with ours they would need to have tested over 100 million people.

What do you suppose the odds of that are?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 29, 2020 07:49 AM (ZLI7S)

758 Thanks to whoever posted the link to the free book about how to lie with statistics. I read it this morning. Its fun, quick, timely even though old, and strangely comforting to be reminded that journalists and the government have always been about bullshitting the public with fake scare statistics.

Posted by: LASue at June 29, 2020 07:50 AM (Ed8Zd)

759 659 Just got back from our grocery store that is opened 24 hours again.
Of course masks, of course one way aisles.

-

Are they wiping down the freezer door handles and credit card machines at the checkout counter between each customer?

No?

Huh. That's weird. Deadly super contagious virus and all.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 29, 2020 07:07 AM (WzgyJ)

And not just wiping things down. Disinfectants need dwell time. Like 10 minutes or so.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 29, 2020 07:51 AM (8C7+r)

760 IMG, how's your wife doing?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2020 07:53 AM (vW9Vw)

761 And not just wiping things down. Disinfectants need dwell time. Like 10 minutes or so.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 29, 2020 07:51 AM (8C7+r)

About 3 minutes for this, I believe, and dwell time depends on the disinfectant. It's all BS anyway, I gave up the constant disinfecting. It's insane. There are lots of coronaviruses out there, we've all had them, and there will always be more strains...just like the flu.

Posted by: CN at June 29, 2020 07:55 AM (ONvIw)

762 For CBD and NGU there is a very good polish deli in the Trenton Farmers Market. Good Amish place too.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 29, 2020 07:44 AM (eMtQa)

We only go to Trenton by Mistake or under arrest

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 29, 2020 07:57 AM (tsZQ+)

763 NBA can have slogans on jerseys

FREE HONG KONG

BUILD THE WALL

CHINA IS ASSHOE

YOU BEEN HERE FOUR HOUR

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 29, 2020 09:55 AM (oVJmc)

764 Yes! Finally someone writes about casino online.

Posted by: casino online at June 29, 2020 11:07 AM (ySpM+)

765 You mock this utopian dipshittery, while all the while believing just as strongly in it, as the left does.

Conservatives believe in equality just as much as the left.
Conservatives believe in anti-racism just as much as the left.
Conservatives believe in sodomy just as much as the left.
Conservatives believe in feminism just as much as the left.

You act superior but you believe this dumb dumb shit and, you can say you don't all you want, your actions prove you liars.

Posted by: mGrant at June 29, 2020 03:59 PM (r5iyh)

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