The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The Wuhan Flu hysteria gave those who seek power over us a golden opportunity to exercise it, consolidate, grow it...but to what end?

As usual, George Orwell had the answer:

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

It is abundantly clear that those who seek to control every part of our world have no altruistic motives; no vision of a better world; no template for the perfectibility of man. They get what they want -- power over us -- and that is the goal.

But what have we lost? What is the opportunity cost of shutting down an economy; killing many thousands of the vulnerable aged; isolating our children from their friends; wearing masks everywhere in public, and a thousand other degradations of our lives?

The insult to our freedom and liberty is self evident, but there are other losses. We will have a generation of children who have lost more than a year of their intellectual and social development. Just imagine a toddler and his boundless curiosity...absorbing everything available...but not being able to play with his friends at recess and being unable to watch people as they speak, and having an imaginary wall placed between him and human contact. That will retard his ability to communicate, and color his interactions with the world. Is it temporary? Who knows?

And that same toddler and his older siblings missed out on the simple but wonderful pleasures of sitting next to their grandparents and sharing a bit of candy and silly faces and napping on the couch.

But what about those kids' parents? Perhaps a year of income lost, never to be regained. That means a decrease in their standard of living, and economic opportunities that can never be recovered. Extrapolate that a bit and you will discover inventions that were never tested by the market, businesses that were never begun, and businesses that failed that could have been wildly successful.

That means cars never purchased and houses never built and families never started and charities never funded and friends never made and the loss of all those interactions that are the backbone of economies and societies.

But the real answer is that we will never know what has been lost; all we know is that we have lost more than a year of our lives; sacrificed on the altar of power.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2021 10:00 AM (H5knJ)

2 not 1st

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:00 AM (LvTSG)

3 Good rant, CBD.

Posted by: Doof at May 13, 2021 10:01 AM (mZUr4)

4 hola chamucos y chamucas

Posted by: chango lot at May 13, 2021 10:02 AM (g741k)

5 Top 10!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:02 AM (/XOcP)

6 th

Posted by: chango lot at May 13, 2021 10:02 AM (g741k)

7 I thought time was money.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 10:02 AM (ifmtJ)

8 I thought time was money.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021

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'Tis.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (/XOcP)

9 Fear. We gained a lot of fear.

Posted by: m at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (RYc1G)

10 7 I thought time was money.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 10:02 AM (ifmtJ)

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Time is a social construct, and money comes from nowhere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (LvTSG)

11 That means cars never purchased and houses never built and families never started and charities never funded and friends never made and the loss of all those interactions that are the backbone of economies and societies.
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That backbone of economy and society is counterproductive to absolute power. That spine needs to be broken for them to achieve their ends.

The totalitarians revel in death and destruction. As Orwell noted, they love power for its own sake but there is another side to the coin. As much as they love power, they also hate life. Destruction and murder tick both boxes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (Jsjd7)

12 But the real answer is that we will never know what has been lost; all
we know is that we have lost more than a year of our lives; sacrificed
on the altar of power.

Just as they planned it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (HaL55)

13 Good rant, CBD.

Posted by: Doof at May 13, 2021 10:01 AM (mZUr4)

My first thought was simply to discuss the economic opportunity cost of shutting down an economy, but then I realized that it is simply too complex a question to answer.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (Q9lwr)

14 We got almost to 700 comments in the prior thread!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (/XOcP)

15 Excellent work, CBD.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (OssQ4)

16 Sheep get fleeced.

Honestly, we lost about 3 months up here...still a massive inconvenience, but I can't imagine a lockdown state.

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (Igi2Q)

17 I fucking raged at work today. Got a verbal warning, next comes the "write up" and then "out of service" until a hearing.
Fuck UPS and its retarded management team. I work no where near anyone while loading fucking package cars but the commies literally walked past 3 people with masks on their chins to tell me to put my mask on. I've fucking had it

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (DB16e)

18 The insult to our freedom and liberty is self evident, but there are other losses.

Well, I'm taking it back!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (jvt6t)

19 >>My first thought was simply to discuss the economic opportunity cost of shutting down an economy, but then I realized that it is simply too complex a question to answer.

For the likes of you.

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (Igi2Q)

20 Omelets and eggs.

Some assembly required.

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Socialists at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (Ojki1)

21 I know this is Thursday so he wouldn't be here anyway but...where is OM?

This keeps getting asked and I've never seen an answer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (IUd0M)

22 As much as they love power, they also hate life.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (Jsjd7)

Because it is random, uncontrollable, and it wants to be free.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (Q9lwr)

23 I fucking raged at work today. Got a verbal warning, next comes the "write up" and then "out of service" until a hearing.
Fuck UPS and its retarded management team. I work no where near anyone while loading fucking package cars but the commies literally walked past 3 people with masks on their chins to tell me to put my mask on. I've fucking had it
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (DB16e)

Oh that's some bullshit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (Ez6QX)

24 CBD, Orwell is often denigrated for being a Socialist, but his assessments of the authoritarian mindsets are always on the mark... he understood that Mind completely. You quote from him is chilling... we ignore these things at our peril.

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (0KKyI)

25 19 >>My first thought was simply to discuss the economic opportunity cost of shutting down an economy, but then I realized that it is simply too complex a question to answer.

For the likes of you.
Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (Igi2Q)

=========

"We have experts for that."
-The government

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (LvTSG)

26
And that same toddler and his older siblings missed out on the simple but wonderful pleasures of sitting next to their grandparents and sharing a bit of candy and silly faces and napping on the couch.

Not for everyone. We have been blessed to have both gKids visit us once a week for about a year now. Of late, we've taken to having "adventures" where we go out to do things like wander around large parks looking for animals and plants to identify, flying kites, throwing rocks in streams, and the like. I do believe that somewhere down the road the two of them will appreciate having had these opportunities.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (pNxlR)

27 Said before, but it's probably not a horrible idea to pick up an old paper copy of both 1984 and Animal Farm.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (wCgji)

28 Just as they planned it.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (HaL55)
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Not yet, BB. Not just yet.

They plan for it to be permanent. For everything to be sacrificed on the altar of power. More sacrifice every day, for all of time, until all is consumed and only near-corpses are left writhing in pits of miserable despair under their boots.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (Jsjd7)

29 27 Said before, but it's probably not a horrible idea to pick up an old paper copy of both 1984 and Animal Farm.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (wCgji)

==========

"Those books about Trump?"
-High School English teacher

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:06 AM (LvTSG)

30
*Munkey*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 13, 2021 10:06 AM (n+4am)

31 The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

***

In his first Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel, David McDaniel has a character quote this. Solo says, "That is a statement of Thrush policy." Illya turns the book over and they see it is 1984.

Come to think of it, Thrush has taken over, haven't they? "Good men or bad men, if you are not a member of Thrush, you are marked to be ruled or destroyed."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:06 AM (/XOcP)

32 "That will retard his ability to communicate, and color his interactions with the world."

Little children's brains are remarkably "plastic," and I think (and pray) they'll be ok.

School age kids? Scarred.

I'm p*ssed about store still requiring masks around here.

"Stay safe," proles.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:06 AM (Rbu5d)

33 28 More sacrifice every day, for all of time, until all is consumed and only near-corpses are left writhing in pits of miserable despair under their boots.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (Jsjd7)

Hello, Mr. Sunshine!

Posted by: m at May 13, 2021 10:07 AM (RYc1G)

34 Well stated, CBD.

Especially the depersonalizing of simple human interactions and childhood development. Spot on.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2021 10:07 AM (Fc5rx)

35 One thing that is never mentioned are all the people who had their own businesses destroyed by the shutdowns, businesses that will never open again. Many of those are over the age of 50. Where are they supposed to get new, high paying jobs? The only jobs out there right now are big box retailers/ fast food.

There are also their employees... where are THEY going to get new, decent paying jobs, especially if they are over 40? Will they reinvent themselves... and work at Walmart? Is that our glorious new future?

Posted by: Vyx at May 13, 2021 10:07 AM (TMb1F)

36 Financially, the pandemic has not affected us very much. I realize that my family is very blessed.

However, there are fractured family relationships over the virus, masks, vaccines, etc., in addition to the forced separation. Those scars are less measurable, but may take longer to heal (if they heal at all).

And what this has done to children, especially young children, is unforgivable. I would vote for JEB(!) or even GWB for a third term or any of the GOPe if they took on the teachers unions and broke them for the lifetime of harm they have caused in this past year.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at May 13, 2021 10:07 AM (a/dOO)

37 Great rant, CBD. Will forward.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 13, 2021 10:07 AM (u82oZ)

38 I've fucking had it

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (DB16e)

Get a medical waiver. Talk to your steward and tell him to file a complaint that management is not obeying the rules they are enforcing on the hourly workers. Call a local paper.

Yeah...I was in management for a long time. Hub and Feeder.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:07 AM (Q9lwr)

39 Stalin had no altruistic goal.. nor did Pol Pot, nor Kim Il Sung, nor Mao Tse Tung, nor... I will never be convinced they did... the body piles belie that...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:08 AM (0KKyI)

40 I fucking raged at work today. Got a verbal warning, next comes the "write up" and then "out of service" until a hearing.
Fuck UPS and its retarded management team. I work no where near anyone while loading fucking package cars but the commies literally walked past 3 people with masks on their chins to tell me to put my mask on. I've fucking had it

**

Irish democracy. Demand they're followed exactly, by everyone, at all times. Contact their bosses anonymously to complain that they're not adhering to safety protocols.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:08 AM (wCgji)

41 Because it is random, uncontrollable, and it wants to be free.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (Q9lwr)
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In part, yes. I think the bigger issue (though it might be the same thing, depending on perspective) is its imperfectibility.

These people are, to a man, Utopians. They imagine for themselves a flawless, perfect, static system in constant equilibrium. That isn't how the world works, though. They see the conflict with their Utopia and reality as manifesting in the will and actions of Man.

So Man needs to be destroyed. Man isn't good enough for their dreamworld.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:08 AM (Jsjd7)

42 They seek power because they are afraid. If we can convince them that they have nothing to fear through kindness, through stopping our attacks and seeking reconciliation, maybe then we can find common ground and a better world.

hahahahaha! I'm just funnin' ya. They're horrible fucking human beings.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at May 13, 2021 10:08 AM (Wm5SB)

43 9 Fear. We gained a lot of fear.
Posted by: m at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (RYc1G)

You are correct. That's what bled the last drop of blood out of the USA.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:08 AM (Rbu5d)

44 Repeat from The Morning Report:
Them - "I wear a mask to protect you, so you need to wear a mask to protect me"
Me - That's so nice of you! Truly! Thn, if we're on the topic of protecting each other, that's why I carry a gun. To protect you if something goes down. Do you carry a gun to protect me?
Them - "Well, no"
Me - Why not?
Them - "Because it's a gun... I don't want to."
Me - Ah, so then you understand the power of choice, as well as personal freedoms.
Them - "Well, I don't want a gun because..."
Me - It doesn't matter. If it could protect me you should do it, right? And I carry because my own safety is my responsibility and I would never expect someone else to keep me safe.

Do you see how stupid you sound?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:08 AM (OCTRt)

45 Went to Dollar Tree yesterday, prepared to show my doctor's letter . . . and while the signs were still up on the door, nobody said a word to me or paid a moment's attention. There was one other guy in line with me sans face diaper. If anybody had braced me about it, I was going to point him out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:09 AM (/XOcP)

46 Hello, Mr. Sunshine!
Posted by: m at May 13, 2021 10:07 AM (RYc1G)
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I don't want that. I also don't think it is inevitable. But it is the vision of the future that the enemy embraces.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:09 AM (Jsjd7)

47 If it saved just one chimp. Stay safe. *hic*

Posted by: Suburban Wine Moms at May 13, 2021 10:09 AM (W4eKo)

48 27 Said before, but it's probably not a horrible idea to pick up an old paper copy of both 1984 and Animal Farm.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:05 AM (wCgji)

Yes, and hardcopies....always. the data streams are, " Fungible"...??

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:09 AM (0KKyI)

49 Good rant, CBD.

Posted by: Doof at May 13, 2021 10:01 AM (mZUr4)

My first thought was simply to discuss the economic opportunity cost of shutting down an economy, but then I realized that it is simply too complex a question to answer.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:03 AM (Q9lwr)

Your comment about kids missing out on time with their grandparents really hit me hard. My dad passed away when my first son was an infant and before my other son was born. My kids only know my dad through stories and photos. But they were deprived only because of the usual "circle of life" -- not because a bunch of power hungry tyrants made "public health" decisions to force people into isolation. How effing cruel do you have to be to do that??

Sorry for the mini-rant.

Posted by: Doof at May 13, 2021 10:09 AM (mZUr4)

50 FoolOtto, got a complaint from an anonymous complainer about me the other day and an HR email to my site the next day without naming me. Done doesn't do justice to this crap.

Posted by: The Cookie Man at May 13, 2021 10:09 AM (rUovD)

51
And ! "The number of births in the U.S. fell ...in 2020, dropping to the lowest level since 1979 ".

1979 ! Masks, isolation, lack of social interaction, fear and uncertainty are not conducive to procreation . Who would have thought.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (V13WU)

52 A lot of people thought they spent the last year afraid of dying.

When in reality, the spent the year afraid of living.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (OCTRt)

53 27 Said before, but it's probably not a horrible idea to pick up an old paper copy of both 1984 and Animal Farm.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Yep. Brave New World too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (vjxT3)

54 For the likes of you.

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (Igi2Q)

Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (Q9lwr)

55 It's actually quite simple.

It is simply diabolical.

Pray hard and protect yourself at all times.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (xopIz)

56 51
And ! "The number of births in the U.S. fell ...in 2020, dropping to the lowest level since 1979 ".

1979 ! Masks, isolation, lack of social interaction, fear and uncertainty are not conducive to procreation . Who would have thought.
Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (V13WU)

=========

"You are a dirty, dangerous agent of destruction upon the Earth."
-Popular Culture

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (LvTSG)

57 51
And ! "The number of births in the U.S. fell ...in 2020, dropping to the lowest level since 1979 ".

1979 ! Masks, isolation, lack of social interaction, fear and uncertainty are not conducive to procreation . Who would have thought.
Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (V13WU)

Guatemala will soon remedy that....

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (0KKyI)

58 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:07 AM

The steward is an obese commie that is all in with the masks. "It's a battle you can't win" he tells me.
I told him to fuck right off. They don't follow the no phones, headphones or earbuds or work shoe rules but he mask? that's the hill to die on for these assholes

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (DB16e)

59 17...Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (DB16e)

Sorry, Otto. Any other work opportunities? I see hundreds of "now hiring" in our area.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (Rbu5d)

60 Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (Q9lwr)
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:: takes tweezers out of drawer ::
:: starts surreptitiously picking sequins off his crocs ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (Jsjd7)

61 This post is one of the very few I've read that even dares bring these things up. What gets my goat is that there's been very little real pushback on this tyranny and absolutely ZERO criticism of China for doing this to us (by "us" I mean everyone on Earf.) No arrests of mayors or governors for denying citizens of their states' human rights, no sanctions against China, no nothing.

Postmodernism is all we're left with: no right, no wrong and no consequences for those who inflicted this suffering needlessly. As CBD mentions, they just do it because they can.
These "people" are truly sick.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (HaL55)

62 We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

And the enjoyment of said power, don't forget that part.

Posted by: Epstein Island Alumni Assoc HQ in Wash, DC at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (UMXod)

63 Good editorial in the WSJ this morning from Daniel Henniger, that the non-stop additional unemployment is killing the work ethic that used to be part of the American character. It's now better, many folks feel, to just sit at home and collect their "stimmie munnie".

Some states are opting out of extended federal benefits, requiring people to look for and take a job. But the outcome I foresee is that people will take a job, deliberately screw things up so they get fired, then go back on the dole for 6 months or whatever they qualify for, then rinse and repeat forever.

Posted by: George V at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (U2Tva)

64 One thing that is never mentioned are all the people who had their own businesses destroyed by the shutdowns, businesses that will never open again. Many of those are over the age of 50. Where are they supposed to get new, high paying jobs? The only jobs out there right now are big box retailers/ fast food.

**

It's on purpose. WEF's Great Reset hasn't been secretive about it.

www.weforum.org/great-reset

There will be very wealthy people who aren't affected, and the rest of us. It's part of why they have to destroy middle class savings and wealth with inflation. Get rid of mom and pop businesses except for a few services like electricians and welders that are absolutely essential (until they can be consumed by Big Corp), and only multinational corporations with our best interests in mind can make the right decisions for us.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (wCgji)

65 Not just the psychosocial aspects of childrens' development. Exposure to viruses and other environmental threats during a critical stage in early childhood helps the immune system learn while strengthening through cross-immunity and stimulation, providing a measure of protection that can last a lifetime. Preventing young children from coming into contact with "germs" by isolating them and sterilizing everything within reach may very well have long-term implications that are never truly known.

Humans are social animals, and sharing is integral.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (Fc5rx)

66 Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (Q9lwr)
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Uh oh.

Posted by: Weasel at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (MVjcR)

67 :: takes tweezers out of drawer ::
:: starts surreptitiously picking sequins off his crocs ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (Jsjd7)

ones your daughter or granddaughter put on them are okay, though, right?

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (a/dOO)

68 Here's where we start needlessly arguing with each other. One side says that the left does have a plan and one side says they just want power. I got caught up in this trap all the time. Until, that is, one brilliant moron explained it to me. What ever the original plan was to get power basically gets lost in the weeds as the accumulation of power becomes a means to an end. What ever dragons they intended to slay are forgotten in the naked seizing of total control.

Posted by: Max Power at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (QCc6B)

69 there are fractured family relationships over the virus, masks, vaccines, etc.

That was baked right into the cake.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (W4eKo)

70 But OrangeMan Bad!!!!

Posted by: NPC_01100011 at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (DMUuz)

71 It's actually quite simple.

It is simply diabolical.

Pray hard and protect yourself at all times.

THIS.

Posted by: Vyx at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (0Yiin)

72 31...Come to think of it, Thrush has taken over, haven't they? "Good men or bad men, if you are not a member of Thrush, you are marked to be ruled or destroyed."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:06 AM (/XOcP)

[sotto voce]: hail hydra...

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (Rbu5d)

73 "If you're vaccinated and you're outside, put aside your mask," Fauci says.

-
The blowback on maskerade must be intense.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (VVEnO)

74 Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (Rbu5d)
Just filled out an app for Home Depot to work nights building displays. I am fortunate I have little debt and don't need much income.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (DB16e)

75 In a nutshell, the collective " we" will stop wearing masks when the Bosses say stop wearing masks... this is what mthe collective " we" hasmbecome...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (0KKyI)

76 29 "Those books about Trump?"

-High School English teacher
you don't want ~~snowball~~ orangeman to come back, do you?

Posted by: Napoleon at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (5br8a)

77 What ever the original plan was to get power basically gets lost in the weeds as the accumulation of power becomes a means to an end. What ever dragons they intended to slay are forgotten in the naked seizing of total control.
Posted by: Max Power at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (QCc6B)
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If - and I don't concede it although it no longer matters - they originally had noble goals, the eventually came to the conclusion that it was better to be dragons than slay them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (Jsjd7)

78 Oh damn, get a medical waiver and THEN contact the boss' bosses anonymously to express your fear because they're not adhering to mask safety protocols.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:14 AM (wCgji)

79 1979 ! Masks, isolation, lack of social interaction, fear and uncertainty are not conducive to procreation . Who would have thought.

Huh! The Jimmy Carter Comparison strikes again.

You have kids when you are confident and excited about the future.

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:14 AM (Lt1JN)

80 there are fractured family relationships over the virus, masks, vaccines, etc.

Fractured? 90% of my extended family is dead to me.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:14 AM (OCTRt)

81 Come to think of it, Thrush has taken over, haven't they? "Good men or bad men, if you are not a member of Thrush, you are marked to be ruled or destroyed."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:06 AM (/XOcP)

[sotto voce]: hail hydra...
Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021

***

Hydra? Those upstarts!

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at May 13, 2021 10:14 AM (/XOcP)

82 76 you don't want snowball orangeman to come back, do you?
Posted by: Napoleon at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (5br8a)

============

"I have called myself Snowball because my fur is fluffy and white."
-New robot dog overlord of Earth

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:14 AM (LvTSG)

83 Joe Mannix Stars in

JOE AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAM CROCS

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:14 AM (VgPtB)

84 It's actually quite simple....

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (xopIz)

Come on guys, perhaps you need a refresher...

It's all ball bearings these days!

-Fletch

Posted by: Doof at May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (mZUr4)

85 Thank you CBD. Thank you very much. I have always wondered. I have always thought it was somehow about money. But that never quite made sense.
At some point you have enough money, for example, Bill and Hillary. Can this all be about getting more money? What, so that the ugly daughter can have a billion of her own?

But Orwells quote, now it makes sense. It has taken until today for me to understand this fundamental truth.

Posted by: MikeM at May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (5kpOR)

86 >>> I fucking raged at work today. Got a verbal warning, next comes the "write up" and then "out of service" until a hearing.
Fuck UPS and its retarded management team. I work no where near anyone while loading fucking package cars but the commies literally walked past 3 people with masks on their chins to tell me to put my mask on. I've fucking had it
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (DB16e)

Damn. I used to load trailers at UPS. No fucking way could I do that with a mask on. When you're in deep it's like running a marathon full out. Kids dropping unconscious just from heat exhaustion. How stupid. They have to know it's stupid.

But your union rep should be able to help you. In fact they shouldn't be able to even talk to you without a steward there. They might already have screwed up big time. Talk to the union guy. Be nice for them to actually do something good for once.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (Fq1gB)

87 Compare the innterpersonal impact of a firm handshake and eye contact to an offhand fist bump. One says "we are connected". Odd that commune-ists would push isolation, eh?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (Fc5rx)

88 Preventing young children from coming into contact with "germs" by isolating them and sterilizing everything within reach may very well have long-term implications that are never truly known.

Humans are social animals, and sharing is integral.

**

I'm interested in seeing how speech is affected in a few years. Kids learn how to make sounds in large part by looking at faces, and we're not allowing them to.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (wCgji)

89 Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM

First they came for the sequined Crocs.

Next they came for the Justin Bieber Limited-Edition Crocs ...

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (DMUuz)

90 Oops. We hit over 600 comments on the Art Thread, not 700. Still damned good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (/XOcP)

91 A kid growing up in this COVID hellscape will have no frame of reference for normalcy. Damn globalists.

Posted by: Valiant at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (3MiF8)

92 A lot of people thought they spent the last year afraid of dying.

When in reality, the spent the year afraid of living.
Posted by: rickb223

What continues to "amaze" me (well, not so much now) is the FEAR that people have.
All the things done in the name of FEAR.

I have continued to come to work (mostly, some days doing work on the laptop at home) since this started. I generally don't have the ability to do my work at home.
People are "amazed" I have been coming to work through all this. So what?
I have been amazed that executives in our company are AFRAID to come in and see the people who are actually working. I have seen our CEO (whose office is down the hall) TWICE since the start of the lockdowns. What a chicken-shit.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (vcOmj)

93 54 For the likes of you.

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:04 AM (Igi2Q)

Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (Q9lwr)

It was only a matter of time before he launched a coup against ace.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (z5Vrg)

94 The number of births in the U.S. fell ...in 2020, dropping to the lowest level since 1979

**

Masks work!!! Just like no one caught the flu!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:17 AM (wCgji)

95 >>>And ! "The number of births in the U.S. fell ...in 2020, dropping to the lowest level since 1979 ".

1979 ! Masks, isolation, lack of social interaction, fear and uncertainty are not conducive to procreation . Who would have thought.
Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (V13WU)

======

I always thought nature-born lockdowns (i.e. snow storms etc) were supposed to produce baby booms? Almost like people new an economic hardship would follow this time, and best not to add to it with more kids.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at May 13, 2021 10:17 AM (H7jex)

96 Wel written and said, CBD.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 13, 2021 10:17 AM (4I/2K)

97 Just filled out an app for Home Depot to work nights building displays. I am fortunate I have little debt and don't need much income.
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:13 AM (DB16e)

That IS fortunate. I don't think you'll have any trouble finding another job, with the way things are right now.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 13, 2021 10:17 AM (Ez6QX)

98 The UPS guidelines say they will follow State rules.
which clearly states "when you cannot social distance or are working with the general public masks will be worn." But these clowns cant get past "It's a mandate" I had a rather heated discussion with the center manager before leaving today. Seriously fuck these people. I'm sick of it all

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:17 AM (DB16e)

99 100

Posted by: m at May 13, 2021 10:17 AM (RYc1G)

100 Another excellent work of George Orwell's is " The Road to Wigan Pier"... it shows the pathway to the underclass... a thing that could happen here.. Briefly very briefly stated, it involves the breaking of the human spirit...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (0KKyI)

101 NDT, still crazy after all these years.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If you are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe it's because you are getting your medical advice from news pundits, fearmongers, conspiracy theorists, and other deeply misinformed people, rather than from Medical Professionals.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (VVEnO)

102 98 The UPS guidelines say they will follow State rules.
which clearly states "when you cannot social distance or are working with the general public masks will be worn." But these clowns cant get past "It's a mandate" I had a rather heated discussion with the center manager before leaving today. Seriously fuck these people. I'm sick of it all
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:17 AM (DB16e)

*hands Fool Otto a tire iron*

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (II3Gr)

103 Said before, but it's probably not a horrible idea to pick up an old paper copy of both 1984 and Animal Farm.
I have B'Gal's first edition hardcover of 1984. Paper appears to contain some quantity of rag in it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (HaL55)

104 Face masks act as a prophylactic.....for sex? Reproductive sex?

Somebody is doing this wrong.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (vcOmj)

105 After reading this CBD, I can only say one thing:

I'm gettin' The Pig out!!

Posted by: Marvin Boggs at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (jvt6t)

106 I was a show about a boy born in the UK, I think, that had some pressure in his skull and his brain was something like 5% of the size of a normal infant. The Dr's recommended aborting him and told the mother that he would never speak or be a functioning person. Well, she didn't abort and after he was born they did surgery and relieved the pressure, but they still thought he had no chance with his 95% reduced brain size.

Fast forward, he learned to talk and seems mostly normal. He had some disabilities, but his brain had expanded to fill nearly all of his previously empty skull.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (UuD2k)

107 >>Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If you are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe it's because you are getting your medical advice from news pundits, fearmongers, conspiracy theorists, and other deeply misinformed people, rather than from Medical Professionals.

Shouldn't this guy be raping a bitch?

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (VgPtB)

108 The sequins go on your codpiece, not the crocs.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (H5knJ)

109 Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (DB16e)

How much seniority do you have? Probably not much because you are loading package cars, but maybe move to a different sort or at least a different area?

Hell, see if they will make you a P/T supervisor on another sort!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (Q9lwr)

110 And the plandemic has enabled the Karen, one of the greatest scourges of our time.

Posted by: Rex B at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (W2Qtq)

111 Face masks act as a prophylactic.....for sex? Reproductive sex?

Somebody is doing this wrong.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 13, 2021

***
Check out our "New Kinks" section!

Posted by: Pr0nhub at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (/XOcP)

112 68 Here's where we start needlessly arguing with each other. One side says that the left does have a plan and one side says they just want power. I got caught up in this trap all the time. Until, that is, one brilliant moron explained it to me. What ever the original plan was to get power basically gets lost in the weeds as the accumulation of power becomes a means to an end. What ever dragons they intended to slay are forgotten in the naked seizing of total control.
Posted by: Max Power at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (QCc6B)

Well, to be fair, it's not just power, it's the exercise of power that interests them. Particularly if they can do it in a manner that makes them feel morally superior. The specifics aren't important, aren't even logical. That's why you can't logic them out of their positions. It's a mutable mysticism that allows them to forever castigate the sinners for the greater good, allowing them to bask in their self righteousness and condemn others. It's just bigotry based on ideology rather than race or creed. Saving the world is a seductive thing.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (Wm5SB)

113 Fast forward, he learned to talk and seems mostly normal. He had some disabilities, but his brain had expanded to fill nearly all of his previously empty skull.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (UuD2k)

There is no such hope for Joe Biden, however.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (II3Gr)

114 107 >>Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
If you are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe it's because you are getting your medical advice from news pundits, fearmongers, conspiracy theorists, and other deeply misinformed people, rather than from Medical Professionals.

Shouldn't this guy be raping a bitch?
Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (VgPtB)

=========

Dr. Fauci told me not to wear a mask.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (LvTSG)

115 Oops. We hit over 600 comments on the Art Thread, not 700. Still damned good.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

That painting was a great starting point.

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:19 AM (UMXod)

116 The birth rate went way down during the Great Depression. Folks don't have kids when they are worried about how to feed and clothe them.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (xopIz)

117 If you are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe it's because you are getting your medical advice from news pundits, fearmongers, conspiracy theorists, and other deeply misinformed people, rather than from Medical Professionals.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (VVEnO)

So...we can safely ignore NDT, who is not a medical professional. Does this guy even think before he opens his pie funnel?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (ifmtJ)

118 And ! "The number of births in the U.S. fell ...in 2020, dropping to the lowest level since 1979 ".
----------------------------

Mrs. SoCon and I did our part, though little SoCon was on his way well before WuFlu was released from the lab. Still, we're on our tail-end of our child-bearing years, so this one may be it.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (a/dOO)

119 @neiltyson
If you are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe it's because you are getting your medical advice from news pundits, fearmongers, conspiracy theorists, and other deeply misinformed people, rather than from Medical Professionals.

But you repeat yourself.

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (UMXod)

120 >>> NDT, still crazy after all these years.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (VVEnO)

Does he have non-stupid takes? I haven't seen any.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (Fq1gB)

121 I walk this earth like an alien on my own planet. The Pods look like humans but they don't have faces, and I have a face. They don't think at all like me. When my thought processes are along the lines of "2 + 2 = 4" and "there are two genders" and their thought processes are along the lines of "2 + 2 = RACIST" and "You can pick from dozens of genders any time you want" there is no room for rational discussion. They are adult-sized toddlers with no knowledge of math or science, among many other things.

They use English words, but they change the meaning of them to where I identify their language as English, it is often indecipherable to me.

No, they do not look, think or speak like me. I am an alien on my own planet. And that's a lonely place to be.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (Bmy3R)

122 I'm interested in seeing how speech is affected in a few years. Kids learn how to make sounds in large part by looking at faces, and we're not allowing them to.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (wCgji)

For a glimpse ahead, watch the last bits of Threads. Grunts mostly.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (4I/2K)

123 We hit over 600 comments on the Art Thread, not 700. Still damned good.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

That painting was a great starting point.
Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021

***

And then we started quoting pop and R&R songs, and it really got out of hand.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (/XOcP)

124 116 The birth rate went way down during the Great Depression. Folks don't have kids when they are worried about how to feed and clothe them.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (xopIz)

Was there a profusion of Otters during the Great Depression?

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (0KKyI)

125 48...Yes, and hardcopies....always. the data streams are, " Fungible"...??
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:09 AM (0KKyI)

If you have used book stores in your area, etc, look for the old "Readers," high school literature compendiums, math books, old electronics books, stuff like that. Good children's books. Old-fashioned cookbooks, old homesteading and gardening books, books on the arts...old encyclopedia sets (we have EB 1912), old multi-volume dictionaries. Whatever you can think of.

We bought a set of Saxon Math books.

Every little bit will help to educate the children in your family and community in the not distant future.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (Rbu5d)

126 Proliferation of Karens. My friends, these are the ones who would have given you up to KGB or the SS. They are still at it. And there was a serious push to have family members tell on each other. Too bad guillotines are out of fashion...

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (V13WU)

127 Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Ceasefire, Masses Troops Along Gaza Border For Ground Invasion

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (VVEnO)

128 To be more accurate - Just by pure chronology we have lost more than a year. This is still going on. After that, we can pile on the knock on effects.

Posted by: InCali at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (ov5G+)

129 119 @neiltyson
If you are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe it's because you are getting your medical advice from news pundits, fearmongers, conspiracy theorists, and other deeply misinformed people, rather than from Medical Professionals.

But you repeat yourself.
Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (UMXod)

Kiss my ass, Neil...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (0KKyI)

130 The pipeline is the latest thing that shows how fragile everything is.

Posted by: f'd at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (Tnijr)

131 No, they do not look, think or speak like me. I am an alien on my own planet. And that's a lonely place to be.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021

***

I've always been there, with a few exceptions. It was just that the weirdnesses on their part were inside. Now it's visible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (/XOcP)

132 What continues to "amaze" me (well, not so much now) is the FEAR that people have.
All the things done in the name of FEAR.

I have continued to come to work (mostly, some days doing work on the laptop at home) since this started. I generally don't have the ability to do my work at home.
People are "amazed" I have been coming to work through all this. So what?
I have been amazed that executives in our company are AFRAID to come in and see the people who are actually working. I have seen our CEO (whose office is down the hall) TWICE since the start of the lockdowns. What a chicken-shit.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative

My wife has worked IN a grocery store every other day since this started. When it started, I did the grocery shopping almost every day for something. Mainly as a reason to get out of the house.

It was refreshing yesterday. I went to the Post Office. No one was wearing a mask. Not customers. Not employees.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (OCTRt)

133 Another excellent work of George Orwell's is " The Road to Wigan Pier"... it shows the pathway to the underclass... a thing that could happen here.. Briefly very briefly stated, it involves the breaking of the human spirit...
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (0KKyI)

IIRC, in that book, Orwell never finds the pier and concludes it isn't there, when, of course, it is. Which might be a metaphor.

1984 was one of the very first books I read when I learned to read. I can still quote sections of it by heart.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (2JVJo)

134 In fact they shouldn't be able to even talk to you
without a steward there. They might already have screwed up big time.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (Fq1gB)

Not true. CBA makes it clear that management has the right to direct hourly employees at any time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (Q9lwr)

135 Look at Hollywood. In the movies, heroes is what we want and that's seems to always done by pretty boys. But their nature is Washington DC.

The anti heroes, like Stephen Seagal.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (QeenG)

136 52 A lot of people thought they spent the last year afraid of dying.

When in reality, the spent the year afraid of living.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (OCTRt)

Well said (and stolen).

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:23 AM (Rbu5d)

137 121

They use English words, but they change the meaning of them to where I identify their language as English, it is often indecipherable to me.

No, they do not look, think or speak like me. I am an alien on my own planet. And that's a lonely place to be.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (Bmy3R)

It IS NewSpeak, and it is here...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:23 AM (0KKyI)

138 Well, to be fair, it's not just power, it's the exercise of power that
interests them. Particularly if they can do it in a manner that makes
them feel morally superior. The specifics aren't important, aren't even
logical. That's why you can't logic them out of their positions. It's a
mutable mysticism that allows them to forever castigate the sinners for
the greater good, allowing them to bask in their self righteousness and
condemn others. It's just bigotry based on ideology rather than race or
creed. Saving the world is a seductive thing.

And those control-freaks seem incapable of even imagining how they'd feel if it was done to them. That's the part that I really, really, really cannot grok. That takes a truly unique type of stoopid that cannot be fixed.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 13, 2021 10:23 AM (HaL55)

139 Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Ceasefire, Masses Troops Along Gaza Border For Ground Invasion

uh oh....

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:23 AM (V13WU)

140 @neiltyson
If you are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe it's because you are getting your medical advice from news pundits, fearmongers, conspiracy theorists, and other deeply misinformed people, rather than from Medical Professionals.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (VVEnO)
++++
I am tired of a lot of things. I am tired of power games. I am tired of postmodern philosophers claiming that there is no reality and that if you think you think then you're wrong because you want. I am tired of my decaying culture. I am tired of the destruction of art, music and story.

But the thing of which I think I am most tired is the aggressive pontificatation of the mewling quims of average intelligence who populate the expert class and wish to impose on the world the best technocracy their towering mediocrity can envision.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:23 AM (Jsjd7)

141 55...It is simply diabolical.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (xopIz)

Yes.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:23 AM (Rbu5d)

142 Israelis said it is either now or in 6 mos or in a year. Has to be done either way.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (V13WU)

143 Win a mate by combat or not; it will help the family survive, or not.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (vuisn)

144 Along with hording copies of films like Blazing Saddles, might want to pick up a Webster's Dictionary from the Before Times. Somebody will need to preserve our language.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (Bmy3R)

145 kraken, Orwell was a socialist who woke up about Moscow.

In "Homage to Catalonia", he writes about the NKVD murdering socialist leaders in Spain during the war.

And he compares the propaganda in the news with actual events on the ground.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (kELwc)

146 make sounds in large part by looking at faces, and we're not allowing them to.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming

I clearly have more trouble understanding the masked.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (VVEnO)

147 If we can't vote our way out, we'll have to civil disobedience our way out. And so, on and so on.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (jvt6t)

148 uh oh....

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:23 AM (V13WU)

Exactly the correct thing to do, although Netanyahu is doing it for political rather than strategic reasons; he just wants to be Prime Minister forever.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:25 AM (Q9lwr)

149 145 kraken, Orwell was a socialist who woke up about Moscow.

In "Homage to Catalonia", he writes about the NKVD murdering socialist leaders in Spain during the war.

And he compares the propaganda in the news with actual events on the ground.
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (kELwc)

========

"Socialism wasn't being done right."
-George Orwell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:25 AM (LvTSG)

150 I have continued to come to work (mostly, some days doing work on the laptop at home) since this started. I generally don't have the ability to do my work at home.
People are "amazed" I have been coming to work through all this. So what?
I have been amazed that executives in our company are AFRAID to come in and see the people who are actually working. I have seen our CEO (whose office is down the hall) TWICE since the start of the lockdowns. What a chicken-shit.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (vcOmj)

***

And not thinking at all about how essentially carefree they are when they make multiple leisurely trips to Walmart, the grocery store, restaurants, etc.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:25 AM (wCgji)

151 Chief of Staff Lt. Col. Aviv Kochavi today (Thursday) issued a curfew order: all soldiers will remain on base and will not be allowed to leave their homes until further notice.

In addition, the Chief of Staff decided to expand the mobilization of the IDF reserves to 7,000 soldiers, some for combat and some for the Home Front Command.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 10:25 AM (mYCBF)

152 133

IIRC, in that book, Orwell never finds the pier and concludes it isn't there, when, of course, it is. Which might be a metaphor.

1984 was one of the very first books I read when I learned to read. I can still quote sections of it by heart.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (2JVJo)

A sadness I have is the non- literacy of people today... along with the inabilty to think critically, MP4...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:25 AM (0KKyI)

153 make sounds in large part by looking at faces, and we're not allowing them to.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming

I clearly have more trouble understanding the masked.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021

***

And then they're often behind a plastic shield. More than once I've told a clerk, "Can't understand you. There's something in front of your face."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:25 AM (/XOcP)

154 Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (Q9lwr)

It was only a matter of time before he launched a coup against ace.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 13, 2021 10:16 AM (z5Vrg)

Just wait for Ace to lock himself out again and seize the moment.

Posted by: Bete at May 13, 2021 10:25 AM (Ojki1)

155 You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'
But you tell me over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (VVEnO)

I'm getting flashbacks to the Greatest American Hero tv show.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 10:26 AM (ifmtJ)

156 In "Homage to Catalonia", he writes about the NKVD murdering socialist leaders in Spain during the war.

-
Real communist mass murder has never been tried!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:26 AM (VVEnO)

157 @ Fool Otto , are you in a union ? if you are, next time your management wants to have a chat, have a union rep with you.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:26 AM (V13WU)

158 It was refreshing yesterday. I went to the Post Office. No one was wearing a mask. Not customers. Not employees.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (OCTRt)

I went to church. Butts to Butts. No masks. Loud singing. Just like in the Before Times.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 13, 2021 10:26 AM (45fpk)

159 "The course of action I'd suggest is a course of action I can't suggest."

-That guy who played the President in that movie

this comment for entertainment purposes only.

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:26 AM (iTXRQ)

160 Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

What about bedazzled thongs?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:26 AM (OCTRt)

161 I clearly have more trouble understanding the masked.

***

We all read lips and facial expressions, many of us to a large degree.

It's terrible to think about how this mask nonsense has been essentially a year plus long horror movie to deaf people.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:27 AM (wCgji)

162 70 But OrangeMan Bad!!!!
Posted by: NPC_01100011 at May 13, 2021 10:12 AM (DMUuz)

He said "pussyl!,!,1!!
Rheeeeeeeeeeee!,!,!!!

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:27 AM (Rbu5d)

163 "Socialism wasn't being done right."
-George Orwell

"We got this"
Joe Biden, Homage to Catatonia

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:27 AM (WLHrn)

164 102 98 The UPS guidelines say they will follow State rules.
which clearly states "when you cannot social distance or are working with the general public masks will be worn." But these clowns cant get past "It's a mandate" I had a rather heated discussion with the center manager before leaving today. Seriously fuck these people. I'm sick of it all
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:17 AM (DB16e)

*hands Fool Otto a tire iron*
Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (II3Gr)

What's the going rental rate on those? And is it hourly or by day?

Posted by: Bete at May 13, 2021 10:27 AM (Ojki1)

165 They don't make Crocs in Ewok size, do they?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 13, 2021 10:27 AM (vuisn)

166 Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:10 AM (Q9lwr)

*looks at feet*
*begs in a pitiful fashion*

Posted by: grammie winger at May 13, 2021 10:27 AM (45fpk)

167 144 Along with hording copies of films like Blazing Saddles, might want to pick up a Webster's Dictionary from the Before Times. Somebody will need to preserve our language.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (Bmy3R)

Where are the best places to set up monasteries dedicated to preserving the best of civilization?

Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM (cSyAR)

168 I do think kids will be fine, in the long-term. That said, I believe the attitudes that they've picked up in the last 15 months will stay with them, to some extent, for a very long time.

It's reminiscent of kids that grew up during the Great Depression, that have ingrained attitudes about saving and investing. Kids born during WWI and WWII turned out OK as well, but there must have been takeaways from that period that stayed with them, as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM (hKTv8)

169 Where are the best places to set up monasteries dedicated to preserving the best of civilization?
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM (cSyAR)
++++
Ireland worked out well last time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM (Jsjd7)

170 I am not even sure what Crocs are, other than large reptiles who were around at the same time as the dinosaurs. And who used to provide fine leather for wallets and boots.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM (/XOcP)

171 @ Fool Otto , are you in a union ? if you are, next time your management wants to have a chat, have a union rep with you.
Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:26 AM (V13WU)

Teamsters Union, I believe. My son briefly worked for UPS a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM (Ez6QX)

172 Road to Wigen Pier here via project gutenberg

libcom.org/files/wiganpier.pdf

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (wCgji)

173 Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Ceasefire, Masses Troops Along Gaza Border For Ground Invasion

I don't think the Pali's know what's about to hit them.
Or maybe they do and they don't care.
Maybe they DO want a pile of bodies

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (HrMC1)

174 "Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Ceasefire"

Teacher! He's hitting me back! That's not fair! Make him stop! Let me get back up so I can hit him again when he's not looking!

Posted by: Hamas at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (awtm/)

175 I am NOT a Socialist, by any stretch, but the new Fascists who are taking overmwill pile the Socialist bodies high when the time comes, because Socialists are unreliably brutal.... the historical evidence shows this...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (0KKyI)

176 have a union rep with you.
Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:26 AM

The steward is an obese communist that does not have my back. I told him I will make everyone's life miserable when I file a grievance for 2/3 of the workforce wearing improper shoes and using phones, headphones and earbuds.

Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (DB16e)

177 Teamsters Union, I believe. My son briefly worked for UPS a couple of years ago.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 13, 2021

***

"Mister, we could use a man like Jimmy Hoffa again."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (/XOcP)

178
What about bedazzled thongs?
Asking for a friend.

I don't have experience but I think sequinned thongs would be a little uncomfortable.

Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (cSyAR)

179 What medical degree does NGT have again?

Posted by: Buzzion at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (G2zl5)

180 "The course of action I'd suggest is a course of action I can't suggest."

That sounds similar to a line in Thirteen Days, where the character playing (IIRC) Allen Dulles says that if the US invades Cuba, the Soviets will do nothing, because their only option is one they can't contemplate.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (2JVJo)

181 Getting ridiculous now . Sunscreen lotion commercials are now full of POC.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (2DOZq)

182 87 Compare the innterpersonal impact of a firm handshake and eye contact to an offhand fist bump. One says "we are connected". Odd that commune-ists would push isolation, eh?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (Fc5rx)

The elbow bump enrages me.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (Rbu5d)

183 163 "Socialism wasn't being done right."
-George Orwell

"We got this"
Joe Biden, Homage to Catatonia
Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:27 AM (WLHrn)

Heh heh...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (0KKyI)

184 Ace sleeps in his private jail.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (QeenG)

185 More smiting to come in Gaza.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (4I/2K)

186 170 I am not even sure what Crocs are, other than large reptiles who were around at the same time as the dinosaurs. And who used to provide fine leather for wallets and boots.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM (/XOcP)

Please refer to Deadpool. He has a nice blue pair of Jerking Crocs...

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (jvt6t)

187 ......and we won't do a g-damn thing. No protests, no marches on government offices, CEO's or politicians residences. No TEAParty type movement, nothing.

Buy moar ammo n guns so when the feds show up and shoot your ass we get to see the arsenal and ammo in pictures. Thats always interesting.

Posted by: JROD at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (0jZnq)

188 173 Netanyahu Rejects Hamas Ceasefire, Masses Troops Along Gaza Border For Ground Invasion

I don't think the Pali's know what's about to hit them.
Or maybe they do and they don't care.
Maybe they DO want a pile of bodies
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (HrMC1)

==========

Maybe Israel feels secure enough in the region after the Abraham Accords to actually deal a death blow to the Palestinian government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

189 he just wants to be Prime Minister forever.

==

Maybe he does not see a worthy replacement, the one that can handle international relationships and domestic (Byzantine) party squabbles. Although Bennett is sort of on his way.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (V13WU)

190 >> More smiting to come in Gaza.

Number of dead palis I saw this morning was 89.

Be better, Isreal. Be better.

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (VgPtB)

191 "Socialism wasn't being done right."
-George Orwell

Yeah, Orwell was a Socialist. I mean it takes one to know one, right?
It doesn't take away from his brilliant works.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (HrMC1)

192 Where are the best places to set up monasteries dedicated to preserving the best of civilization?
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM

The desert outside of Utah worked for me!

Posted by: Brother Francis Gerard A.O.L. at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (awtm/)

193 Those of us with special needs kids are beginning to hear that children who receive speech therapy have not only remained fairly stagnant, but have often regressed.

Because they can't see - and many can't also adequately hear - other people making sounds. Millions of kids lost a year of the short time they have to try and develop speech patterns that won't be a hindrance or source of teasing for the rest of their lives.

Because Trump said pussy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (wCgji)

194 Where are the best places to set up monasteries dedicated to preserving the best of civilization?

What color is a green orange? Pixy was hinting at it: Greenland.

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (fFtVH)

195 I don't have experience but I think sequinned thongs would be a little uncomfortable.
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (cSyAR)

The pain is the kink.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (jvt6t)

196 I am not even sure what Crocs are
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Cheap, one piece plastic shoe with drain holes, so your dignity can leak out.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (OCTRt)

197 180 "The course of action I'd suggest is a course of action I can't suggest."

That sounds similar to a line in Thirteen Days, where the character playing (IIRC) Allen Dulles says that if the US invades Cuba, the Soviets will do nothing, because their only option is one they can't contemplate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (2JVJo)

=========

"Now, make it hilarious. Bring me George C. Scott and Peter Sellers!"
-Stanley Kubrick

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

198 Hamas ceasefire = ran out of rockets.

F'k those guys.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (UuD2k)

199 In case you forgot, Stephen Seagal sucks reptile dicks.

Animal cruelty.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (QeenG)

200 Have I lost a year of my life due to the Wuhan Death Cooties, courtesy of Dr. Anthony Fauci?

No.

I moved during the height of the hysteria, rehabbed the new house, got my kids into a school where they could attend in person classes.

I have missed live concerts, but I'm not stressing about that.

The main thing is to ignore the news media.

Posted by: Wade Hampton at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (Su9Le)

201 Colonial Pipeline forked over nearly $5 million last week to the Eastern European criminal group that hacked the company, shuttering the largest oil pipeline in the US, spurring widespread gas shortages and panic buying across the Southeast.

Bloomberg News reported that Colonial coughed up the ransom just hours after the ransomware attack took place on Friday.

The Alpharetta, Georgia-based company paid the ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency, Bloomberg reported, citing two people familiar with the transaction.

Once the hackers received the payment, they provided Colonial with a decrypting tool to restore its downed IT network, according to the outlet, which reported the fix was so slow that the company opted to use its own backups to help restore the system.

Assholes. THAT sends the wrong message and encourages those crooks to do it again

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (mYCBF)

202 >Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (2JVJo)

I stole it from Clear And Present Danger

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (iTXRQ)

203 Maybe Israel feels secure enough in the region after the Abraham Accords to actually deal a death blow to the Palestinian government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

Do you think the Saudis signed off on this? Not that Israel wouldn't do this anyway.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (HrMC1)

204 Bras by Aristotle

"I sink, therefore I have'em"

Ariswaddle

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 13, 2021 10:33 AM (oKqr7)

205 What medical degree does NGT have again?

Same as mine and Bill Gates'.

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:33 AM (fFtVH)

206 An accurate abs profound rant.

I'm a math guy. I've always loved math. As a kid, one of my favorite activities was to look at the stats on the back of baseball cards and attempt to quantify which player was objectively better at their position based on stats. This guy had more homers, that one had a better average, this one drove in more runs, that one stole more bases, and such. But in the end, stats can only tell you so much. And not until I played and later watched games at the ballpark, did I understand that the stats were just catching the tangibles of a thing that couldn't really be quantified and categorized so easily.

Years from now the stats will come out, many already have, to paint a portrait of what occurred globally during the pandemic. And they will try to capture on a spreadsheet what can't really be quantified and categorized so easily.

Stats, analysis...they are useful, but only to a point. Stats try to explain what can be counted during the observation of life, but they can't be substituted for life itself as an illustration that it's better. I imagine that pre-WW2 Germany showed amazing statistical returns relatively speaking.....

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 13, 2021 10:33 AM (Q8q2o)

207 I stole it from Clear And Present Danger
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (iTXRQ)

And i feel like we're the recon team left in the jungle...

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:33 AM (jvt6t)

208 Be better, Israel. Be better.

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (VgPtB)

They have to go in on the ground and root out the scum. And gloves off. Make them afraid.

But they won't.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:33 AM (Q9lwr)

209 203 Maybe Israel feels secure enough in the region after the Abraham Accords to actually deal a death blow to the Palestinian government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

Do you think the Saudis signed off on this? Not that Israel wouldn't do this anyway.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (HrMC1)

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I don't imagine they'd need Saudi support to do this. I don't think Saudi Arabia and Palestine are really on the same side, Palestine being an outgrowth of Iranian ambitions these days, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:33 AM (LvTSG)

210 Those of us with special needs kids are beginning to
hear that children who receive speech therapy have not only remained
fairly stagnant, but have often regressed.

Because they can't see - and many can't also adequately hear - other
people making sounds. Millions of kids lost a year of the short time
they have to try and develop speech patterns that won't be a hindrance
or source of teasing for the rest of their lives.

Because Trump said pussy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (wCgji)

I'm a retired speech therapist, and my heart aches for these kids.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 13, 2021 10:33 AM (45fpk)

211 Once the hackers received the payment, they provided Colonial with a decrypting tool to restore its downed IT network, according to the outlet, which reported the fix was so slow that the company opted to use its own backups to help restore the system.

***

Wait, what? They didn't get the backups rolling the moment they were shut down?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM (wCgji)

212 The U.S. should consider an irregular warfare response to the hacking attack on a key gasoline pipeline if a link to Russia can be established, the chairman of the newly formed House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations told a special operations forces forum Wednesday.

Ya think?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM (mYCBF)

213 121...No, they do not look, think or speak like me. I am an alien on my own planet. And that's a lonely place to be.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (Bmy3R)

There's the AoSHQ...but I know what you mean.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM (Rbu5d)

214 Where are the best places to set up monasteries dedicated to preserving the best of civilization?
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM

Remote islands off the coast of Ireland and Scotland?

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM (HrMC1)

215 The steward is an obese communist that does not have my back. I told him I will make everyone's life miserable when I file a grievance for 2/3 of the workforce wearing improper shoes and using phones, headphones and earbuds.
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 13, 2021 10:29 AM (DB16e)

Yeah, why pick on you. Good luck.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM (V13WU)

216 >>But what have we lost? What is the opportunity cost of shutting down an economy. . .

It has destroyed vitality in so many people.
My workaholic parents in retirement became tireless volunteers, including avarious responsibilities at church and a couple days a week at the local science museum (where they wer required to keep abreast of the latest on their respective exhibits as well as acquire info w/each visiting exhibit). They are social people who enjoy the company of friends and voluteer colleagues.

The lockdown has depressed and aged them considerably. They have been mostly depressed and are not bouncing back after getting vaccinated and re-entering normal life. Worse, there is observable cognitive decline. They will never be the same.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM (bDqIh)

217 Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

First, the pants rule. Now the no sequined Crocs rule. Where will it end?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM (VVEnO)

218 I went to a funeral this past Monday and someone shock hands with me, caught me by surprise. I automatically shock his hand back. But I was for a moment kind of traumatized by it. Turns out we both had our rabies shots.Interesting how you get trained to not touch someone over the years time.

Posted by: colin at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (758Yz)

219 Posted by: JROD at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (0jZnq)

Why do you continue to comment at a place you clearly hate?

Posted by: Buzzion at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (G2zl5)

220 We've lost a great deal. One of the main things is the social disruption that lost social opportunities and karenism has brought. Karens may have started with masks and social distancing, but they have branched into reporting everything.
The Karen in my neighborhood, who was sidelined by a bad sprain, is back with a vengeance photographing "infractions". So far, the police have not issued tickets for garbage put out before 6pm or leaves blown into the street a few days early, but she continues to relentlessly document.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (ONvIw)

221 Every child under 10 years of age has spent more than 10% of his life locked down and deprived from opportunities for basic human interaction and socialization. You can't undo that. Nobody can give that 3 year old little girl back this past year of her life. We haven't begun to think about the harm this has done to billions of people. And, the Bolsheviks don't care.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (+Kpte)

222 Who was the woman who sequined her lady bits??? Or am I imagining this?

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (0KKyI)

223 Colonial Pipeline forked over nearly $5 million last week to the Eastern European criminal group

Was it Burisma? How much for "The Big Guy"?

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (B2mhs)

224 Orwell reminds me of Douglas Hyde. Hyde was a communist leader in England during WW2.

Hyde also woke up about Moscow. He became a Catholic and an anti-communist.

His "Dedication and Leadership" is an insightful read.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (kELwc)

225 No, they do not look, think or speak like me. I am an alien on my own planet. And that's a lonely place to be.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:20 AM (Bmy3R)
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You have us!

Er, not really sure if that's a consolation or not.

Posted by: bluebell at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (wyw4S)

226 218 I went to a funeral this past Monday and someone shock hands with me, caught me by surprise. I automatically shock his hand back. But I was for a moment kind of traumatized by it. Turns out we both had our rabies shots.Interesting how you get trained to not touch someone over the years time.
Posted by: colin at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (758Yz)

=========

One of the reasons I enjoy taking Junior to his karate classes is that the instructors act like they could survive covid should they get it, and they have for months since we started.

I shake their hands and speak normally. They allow masks for those who want it, but it's a decided minority of students and parents.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (LvTSG)

227 Where are the best places to set up monasteries dedicated to preserving the best of civilization?
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM

Remote volcanic lairs FTW.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (4I/2K)

228 203 Maybe Israel feels secure enough in the region after the Abraham Accords to actually deal a death blow to the Palestinian government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

Do you think the Saudis signed off on this? Not that Israel wouldn't do this anyway.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (HrMC1)

This is a calculus that I'm sure is being made. The Iranians are gambling that Israel pulling the trigger will tear apart the Accords.

That said, the Accords themselves signaled the fact that the Arabs were openly fed up with the Palestine issue and the scum who keep pushing it. They know the real enemy is Iran, and the Shia Sunni feud is as deep as Jews vs Muslims.

Iran may have made a very foolish gamble.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (s2VJv)

229 219 Posted by: JROD at May 13, 2021 10:30 AM (0jZnq)

Why do you continue to comment at a place you clearly hate?
Posted by: Buzzion at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (G2zl5)

Part of a kink?

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (0KKyI)

230 Who was the woman who sequined her lady bits??? Or am I imagining this?
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (0KKyI)
++++
It was briefly in vogue according to magazines that the smart set read. It's called "Vajazzling"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (Jsjd7)

231 Posted by: WarEagle82 at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (+Kpte)

This is just conditioning. It's part of the plan. Of course they don't care.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (jvt6t)

232 Maybe Israel feels secure enough in the region after the Abraham Accords to actually deal a death blow to the Palestinian government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

Maybe, but I wouldn't bet against the current powers that be to back Hamas with a carrier fleet or two.

Posted by: Bete at May 13, 2021 10:37 AM (Ojki1)

233 What color is a green orange? Pixy was hinting at it: Greenland.
Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (fFtVH)

The Hebrides is a traditional place, as are Skellig Michael and Iona.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2021 10:37 AM (qyH+l)

234 Colonial and Biden paid the hackers $5 million in crypto currency to restore the flow of gasoline.

So when Biden said yesterday he had "good news" it meant he knew the ransom was paid and systems were being restored.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2021 10:37 AM (VpIIl)

235 I'm a retired speech therapist, and my heart aches for these kids.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 13, 2021 10:33 AM (45fpk)

More than a psyops, this has been the world's largest case of collective child abuse in the history of mankind.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2021 10:37 AM (KbCG3)

236 232 Maybe Israel feels secure enough in the region after the Abraham Accords to actually deal a death blow to the Palestinian government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

Maybe, but I wouldn't bet against the current powers that be to back Hamas with a carrier fleet or two.
Posted by: Bete at May 13, 2021 10:37 AM (Ojki1)

========

Palestine ain't no Ukraine, methinks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (LvTSG)

237 I don't think the Pali's know what's about to hit them.
Or maybe they do and they don't care.
Maybe they DO want a pile of bodies
Posted by: JoeF.

There's gonna be a virgin shortage! Thanks, Joe Biden!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (VVEnO)

238 232 Maybe Israel feels secure enough in the region after the Abraham Accords to actually deal a death blow to the Palestinian government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

Maybe, but I wouldn't bet against the current powers that be to back Hamas with a carrier fleet or two.
Posted by: Bete at May 13, 2021 10:37 AM (Ojki1)

The other aspect of this is the Chi-Com/Iran alliance (and Russia). They are testing Biden's handlers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (s2VJv)

239 I assume it will be called the white ages after civilization collapses.

Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (cSyAR)

240 Number of dead palis I saw this morning was 89.

Be better, Isreal. Be better.
Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:31 AM (VgPtB)
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So do you want one digit or two digits before the 89 by the weekend?

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (a/dOO)

241 which reported the fix was so slow that the company opted to use its own backups to help restore the system.

Umm...WHAT?! I have a feeling this story is about to disappear.

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (KDCRD)

242 234 Colonial and Biden paid the hackers $5 million in crypto currency to restore the flow of gasoline.

So when Biden said yesterday he had "good news" it meant he knew the ransom was paid and systems were being restored.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2021 10:37 AM (VpIIl)

========

"And they'll never do it again. They said so."
-Biden, genius

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (LvTSG)

243 230 Who was the woman who sequined her lady bits??? Or am I imagining this?
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (0KKyI)
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It was briefly in vogue according to magazines that the smart set read. It's called "Vajazzling"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (Jsjd7)

Seems like really odd behavior.

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (0KKyI)

244 Worse, there is observable cognitive decline. They will never be the same.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM (bDqIh)
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Oh Lizzy, I am so sorry to hear this. I fear this is a widespread consequence. So very sad, and so unjust.

Posted by: bluebell at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (wyw4S)

245 They know the real enemy is Iran, and the Shia Sunni feud is as deep as Jews vs Muslims.

The Shia Sunni feud is deeper, at least at this point in history.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (HrMC1)

246 -
Along with hording copies of films like Blazing Saddles, might want to pick up a Webster's Dictionary from the Before Times. Somebody will need to preserve our language.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM

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Thinking along those lines, I recently purchased a nice big one from the 50's.

Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (8rX4S)

247 >>I don't think the Pali's know what's about to hit them.

I think they are counting on there being a TON of 'civilian' casualties.

Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (VgPtB)

248 Thanks for the Orwell quote. I realize every time I rant and rave with people in meat space, they think I'm insane, that these are ideas that just came up "on the internet," and seem to have no concept of how this has been the human experience for... forever.

Power is its own end. We don't really need to ask questions like "what do they want," or "how does that serve their agenda." Just know there is an agenda, and that is it: Pure power.

It's as old as humanity, and resides in the hearts and minds of all men. And with nothing to stop them, those with power consolidated pursue it more vigorously, more urgently, and more sincerely than ever before.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (AIH1c)

249 I'm a retired speech therapist, and my heart aches for these kids.
Posted by: grammie winger

Had years of therapy. Later in life, taught esl in Taiwan.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (QeenG)

250
I didn't realize all the officers who signed that letter were all generals and admirals. Too bad they're all retired.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (Uh2oA)

251 @Breaking911 38m

Biden Administration Energy Secretary Granholm: "Pipe is the best way" to transport fuel

(Kerry said something similar recently too. They might want to ask their boss why he's shutting down pipelines then.)

Posted by: Tami at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (cF8AT)

252 This is a calculus that I'm sure is being made. The Iranians are gambling that Israel pulling the trigger will tear apart the Accords.

That said, the Accords themselves signaled the fact that the Arabs were openly fed up with the Palestine issue and the scum who keep pushing it. They know the real enemy is Iran, and the Shia Sunni feud is as deep as Jews vs Muslims.

Iran may have made a very foolish gamble.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (s2VJv)
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That's a dumb gamble. As much as the Arabs have an in-group racial preference, dislike the Jews and have always put up with the Palestinian bullshit to suit their political goals, that all is likely not as powerful as their fear of and hatred for the Persians.

Hamas is Iran's pawn, and the Arabs all know it. The biggest thing I have noticed so far is that non of the countries in the Abraham Accords (or those expected to be in the next wave) have said a word. Nothing. Just silence. No support of Hamas *or* denigration of Israel.

That's probably a bad sign for Hamas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (Jsjd7)

253 I'm still frustrated that so much time around here was wasted in the "this is all fake, just turn off the TV and the problem goes away" phase, and yet we now acknowledge the mountain of (mostly intentional) dead seniors while ignoring the role they played.

I don't know who was calling the shots for the left on this, but they got their shit together in a big way on messaging control. Their propaganda success isn't in managing their own people, but instead in managing the opposition's lines of attack.

It is THE LEFT that understands that in adversarial politics prior to open conflict, the purpose of taking a position is to elicit a desired end result - not to just take a position for feels. The right constantly crows that the left is operating on feels; that's a monumental miscalculation. Soccer moms run on feels, the left's leadership does not. It's THE RIGHT that constantly gets hung up on lesser principles, losing sight of the big picture and vulnerable to chasing squirrels at the slightest leftist suggestion. Partly because nearly all our "leaders" are frauds.

Posted by: somedood at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (yngc4)

254 You have us!

Er, not really sure if that's a consolation or not.
Posted by: bluebell at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (wyw4S)

I don't know about Guy Smiley, but it's an immense consolation to me. I feel the same way he does, but he said it much better than I would have.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (Ez6QX)

255 249 I'm a retired speech therapist, and my heart aches for these kids.
Posted by: grammie winger

Had years of therapy. Later in life, taught esl in Taiwan.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (QeenG)

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I have a TEFL certificate and taught in Rome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (LvTSG)

256
So when Biden said yesterday he had "good news" it meant he knew the ransom was paid and systems were being restored.

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$5 says the feds paid it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (wCgji)

257 There's gonna be a virgin shortage! Thanks, Joe Biden!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (VVEnO)

Another Grim Milestone for the Biden Junta.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (jvt6t)

258 @219 Buzzion-Probably for the same reason people go on incessantly about being shocked about the Republican Party , for example, being useless. Tourettes or some other type of derangement. Maybe just a fucking asshole, take your pick.

Posted by: JROD at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (0jZnq)

259 We haven't begun to think about the harm this has done to billions of people. And, the Bolsheviks don't care.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at May 13, 2021 10:35 AM (+Kpte)

I am of two minds about socialization and kids. When I was 3, nobody in the neighborhood went to nursery school, nor did we have organized playgroups. Kids that young had siblings to play with and occasional encounters, not daily organized "school". Children from 5-10 are probably losing out, but the little ones are not IMO injured by not running with the pack.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:40 AM (ONvIw)

260 251 @Breaking911 38m

Biden Administration Energy Secretary Granholm: "Pipe is the best way" to transport fuel

(Kerry said something similar recently too. They might want to ask their boss why he's shutting down pipelines then.)
Posted by: Tami at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (cF8AT)

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And Gretchen Whitmer. The reality of running a country is very different from dumb slogans about being carbon neutral.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:40 AM (LvTSG)

261 The online dictionaries are very lacking.

Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 10:40 AM (8rX4S)

262 Doctor Ben Dover - a limerick

A friend of MP4 has gone all snooty
"C'mon, you know it. 'Tis your Civic Duty
I'll grant you no excuse
So show us your caboose
And get that COVID jab in yer patootie!"

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2021 07:50 AM (Fc5rx)
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Late to the party, but wanted to give a Huzzah!-out to Muldoon for this gem.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at May 13, 2021 10:40 AM (Dc2NZ)

263 Seems like really odd behavior.
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021

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"I know, right?"

Posted by: Aliens Observing Us at May 13, 2021 10:40 AM (/XOcP)

264 .....to the era of depression that preceded it. But could anyone now, with the benefit of hindsight say that what occurred in Germany was an improvement in life?

I don't think that is the case.

Some of my poorest statistical days are the fondest memories of my life. Because fellowship and experience can't really be quantified. Neither can faith, determination, jubilation and inward growth. Yes, I was eating $2 frozen pizza, but that wasn't even relevant to what was occurring to my personhood. I was falling in love and quitting jobs, fretting over has gas money and rocking out at concerts, smoking dope and playing golf, living good and bad and otherwise. And everything I did changed me and shaped me.

What can't be quantified is not what a year without a job did, or a year without life did. What can't be quantified is what a year without LIFE did.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 13, 2021 10:40 AM (aJJGg)

265 If you're thinking the IDF is about to roll into Gaza like Patton and the Third Army... I don't see that happening

imo

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:40 AM (iTXRQ)

266 250
I didn't realize all the officers who signed that letter were all generals and admirals. Too bad they're all retired.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (Uh2oA)

They're those pesky White Russians..

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (0KKyI)

267 Douglas Hyde's "Dedication and Leadership" was required reading at one of my first political jobs.

Hyde doesn't blast the communists. He points out where they are thoughtful and resourceful with their recruiting, training, and deployment of their grassroots leaders.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (kELwc)

268 I remember when I could make faces at a baby/toddler standing in line at the market. I wonder what they see now?

Maybe they'll be far more in tune with subtleties of body language - almost like a super power? Or more likely, not be able to tell a person's intentions at all.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (wAnMi)

269 The U.S. should consider an irregular warfare response to the hacking attack on a key gasoline pipeline if a link to Russia can be established,
Ya think?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 10:34 AM

Oh boy. War with Russia. Exactly what the deep state wants.

The "proof" will be "an IP address assigned to Russia was used in the attack." It's not like that could be spoofed or that China could remote desktop into a Russian server in a coffeehouse.

Posted by: Brother Francis Gerard A.O.L. at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (awtm/)

270 >>One of the main things is the social disruption that lost social opportunities and karenism has brought. Karens may have started with masks and social distancing, but they have branched into reporting everything.

Yes -- it activated a mindset that we'll not get rid of any time soon. It may have started on social media, but covid mainstreamed it bigly, this idea that your behavior effects others, so you must always check it against the greater good (and others will be checking and reporting your infractions). No! That's not how America works. Pursuit of happiness (provided you;re not breaking laws), not pursuit of the collective good, depending on each other to enforce it.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (bDqIh)

271 Where are the best places to set up monasteries dedicated to preserving the best of civilization?
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM

Go on a three-hour tour in a small boat. You'll end somewhere fantastically remote.

Posted by: spindrift at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (2KGDI)

272 I'm a retired speech therapist, and my heart aches for these kids.
Posted by: grammie winger

If you feel like coming back, business could be booming next year.

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (z36Kd)

273 It's THE RIGHT that constantly gets hung up on lesser principles, losing sight of the big picture and vulnerable to chasing squirrels at the slightest leftist suggestion. Partly because nearly all our "leaders" are frauds.
Posted by: somedood at May 13, 2021 10:39 AM (yngc4)

This is about me, right?

Posted by: Mitt Romney at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (HrMC1)

274 I have a TEFL certificate and taught in Rome.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side

World, history are different when you live in a small country.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (QeenG)

275 And Gretchen Whitmer. The reality of running a country is very different from dumb slogans about being carbon neutral.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:40 AM (LvTSG)

So who advised him to shutdown Keystone then?

This makes zero sense. But it is Biden so....

Posted by: Tami at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (cF8AT)

276 Earth-shattering news ! "Bill Gates told golf buddies that his marriage to Melinda Gates was "loveless," The New York Post reported."

Poor man, all those billions and naked hookers swimming in his pool, and no love to be had.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (V13WU)

277 Thinking along those lines, I recently purchased a nice big one from the 50's.
Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (8rX4S)
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If you have some coin to drop (about $800-$2000, depending on platform and vagaries of timing), you can pick up a used, full-size, complete late-80s vintage Oxford English Dictionary.

Beware, though: it's bigger than the Encyclopedia Britannica. I got one for my dad a number of years ago. I don't regret it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (Jsjd7)

278 I think they are counting on there being a TON of 'civilian' casualties.
Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (VgPtB)

And I hope Israel does not fall into that trap.

There are plenty of ways to make Hamas screech without doing a WW2 like invasion. Be smart

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (mYCBF)

279 >>> And not until I played and later watched games at the ballpark, did I understand that the stats were just catching the tangibles of a thing that couldn't really be quantified and categorized so easily.
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I use IScore for my keeping stats for my HS baseball team. It does automatically what you used to do in your head (I'm pretty dumb with math. And, well, most things). I have found that the RC (runs created) stat paints a pretty accurate picture of players who have intangibles that contribute to the success of the team. In each of the last two years there has been at least one player who barely hits the Mendoza line, but we don't win if he's not in the lineup.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (H7jex)

280 200...The main thing is to ignore the news media.
Posted by: Wade Hampton at May 13, 2021 10:32 AM (Su9Le)

Agreed.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (Rbu5d)

281 I had this fight with my pastor last year. He would not run outdoor masses b/c they were not "reverent" enough, even though we have a Labor Day mass outside every year.

I said it was important to get people out worshipping together, b/c the outside was safe (and look, I was a year ahead of the CDC) and b/c people needed community to keep faith - there's only so much pixels can do.

He never changed his mind...but now that we can have Church again inside, but it's still limited, NOW he'll let folks sit outside and listen in (b/c with vaccinated seniors coming back, the Church literally can't fit 1/2 the folks who want to go). Why it's reverent enough this year and not last year seems to boil down to his comfort and him being on an official altar...

It disappointed me that the faith gave in when viral numbers were fine and when options were available for communal worship, even if it wasn't "perfect". It got me to "Church shop" when I never had before, and now I'm effectively a member of 2 Churches...

Posted by: Nova local at May 13, 2021 10:43 AM (b1h2x)

282 Go on a three-hour tour in a small boat. You'll end somewhere fantastically remote.
Posted by: spindrift at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (2KGDI)

I can't say I want Skipper, Gilligan, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, Maryanne and the professor preserving civilization.

Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:43 AM (cSyAR)

283 PPI rose 6.2%, the biggest increase ever. Inflation is worse now than during the 70s.

But no mean tweets.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 13, 2021 10:43 AM (XbclV)

284 271 Where are the best places to set up monasteries dedicated to preserving the best of civilization?
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:28 AM

Go on a three-hour tour in a small boat. You'll end somewhere fantastically remote.
Posted by: spindrift at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (2KGDI)

Azores.

Posted by: Iblis at May 13, 2021 10:43 AM (9221z)

285 Just think of the pipeline shutdown as an enemy probing attack. They launch it and take notes on just how we mishandle it. Then they upload code into several at once and, voila! Major disruption, right before the EMP pops in the upper atmosphere.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:43 AM (jvt6t)

286 275 So who advised him to shutdown Keystone then?

This makes zero sense. But it is Biden so....
Posted by: Tami at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (cF8AT)

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Keystone isn't active. They weren't disrupting the lives of normal people by stalling it further. Just union workers who have to pay dues to the unions that fund Democrats no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

287 276 Earth-shattering news ! "Bill Gates told golf buddies that his marriage to Melinda Gates was "loveless," The New York Post reported."

Poor man, all those billions and naked hookers swimming in his pool, and no love to be had.
Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (V13WU)

Money can't buy happiness, but it does give one a pleasant form of misery.

But as Sophie Tucker said, "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (s2VJv)

288 I'm still frustrated that so much time around here was wasted in the "this is all fake, just turn off the TV and the problem goes away" phase, and yet we now acknowledge the mountain of (mostly intentional) dead seniors while ignoring the role they played.

***

I'll admit that I vastly misunderstood the education and understanding of basic science by hundreds of millions of high school and college graduates.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (wCgji)

289 rather than from Medical Professionals.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:18 AM (VVEnO)

A lot of medical professionals are declining to get the shots. What does that tell that gift shop worker?

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (N3El/)

290 I think the election threat, if anything, strengthened the various agreements between Israel and the Arabs... those agreements were possible because Obama finally empowered Iran enough to really scare the Arabs into action with Israel.

Now, that exact same team has returned with their senile figurehead to resurrect the deal that so freaked them out in the first place. I think it makes the time right for Israel to move aggressively. We'll see; I could be disastrously wrong about this, of course.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (Uh2oA)

291 election "theft" not "threat. moar coffee.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (Uh2oA)

292 289 A lot of medical professionals are declining to get the shots. What does that tell that gift shop worker?
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (N3El/)

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No True Medical Professional.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

293 285 Just think of the pipeline shutdown as an enemy probing attack. They launch it and take notes on just how we mishandle it. Then they upload code into several at once and, voila! Major disruption, right before the EMP pops in the upper atmosphere.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:43 AM (jvt6t)

The response to the virus proves that they don't need an EMP. All they need are Democrats and the US media to take us down.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (s2VJv)

294 With the knowledge the Horde has of literature, music, art, the Bible, science, food, pets and porn, I think they should be given the task of preserving civilization.

Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (cSyAR)

295 We all read lips and facial expressions, many of us to a large degree.

It's terrible to think about how this mask nonsense has been essentially a year plus long horror movie to deaf people.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:27 AM (wCgji)

My deaf cousin, with no lips to read, has been forced into a world of silence, out in public. And she's in CA, so...maskzilla.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (Bmy3R)

296 I can't say I want Skipper, Gilligan, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, Maryanne and the professor preserving civilization.
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021

***

The Professor (Roy Hinckley was his name) and Mary Ann seemed relatively sane and stable compared to the others.

Posted by: Aliens Observing Us at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (/XOcP)

297 That said, the Accords themselves signaled the fact that the Arabs were openly fed up with the Palestine issue and the scum who keep pushing it. They know the real enemy is Iran, and the Shia Sunni feud is as deep as Jews vs Muslims.

Iran may have made a very foolish gamble.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:36 AM (s2VJv)

I'm going to assume they also know the real enemy is Democrat administrations in the U.S.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (AIH1c)

298 Good editorial in the WSJ this morning from Daniel Henniger, that the non-stop additional unemployment is killing the work ethic that used to be part of the American character. It's now better, many folks feel, to just sit at home and collect their "stimmie munnie".

Some states are opting out of extended federal benefits, requiring people to look for and take a job. But the outcome I foresee is that people will take a job, deliberately screw things up so they get fired, then go back on the dole for 6 months or whatever they qualify for, then rinse and repeat forever.

Posted by: George V at May 13, 2021 10:11 AM (U2Tva)

America: on the road to becoming Newfoundland.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (dRsxB)

299 "248 Thanks for the Orwell quote. I realize every time I rant and rave with people in meat space, they think I'm insane, that these are ideas that just came up "on the internet,"
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (AIH1c)"

Ah yes - the extreme combination of normalcy bias and un-imaginativity exemplified by the phrase, "but the internet isn't real"

Often spouted by the parents of depressed teenage daughters who are being bullied, when they can't figure out why the problem can't be solved by just "turning off the computer".

I'm getting tired of people like that. I nearly flipped out the other day when someone dropped "we just need to find the right Republicans to vote for" in a conversation. FFS.

Posted by: somedood at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (yngc4)

300 Fauci prevented us from using HCQ early on which he had previously recommended for SARS. For that alone he should burn in hell.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (2DOZq)

301 PPI rose 6.2%, the biggest increase ever. Inflation is worse now than during the 70s.

***

Trump's fault.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (wCgji)

302 Until you pull someone out by the shirt collar and shoot them in the head, the hacking won't stop. We've been incredibly weak with our response to the hacking incidents. In doing so, we've only encouraged them and scorched earth is now the way to go. If it's a nation-state doing it, we should make sure it costs them substantially more then the hack. It's really an act of war, and it's time to think that way...

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (VpIIl)

303 No! That's not how America works. Pursuit of happiness (provided you;re not breaking laws), not pursuit of the collective good, depending on each other to enforce it.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (bDqIh)

And it's not even "collective good", it's an attempt to enforce PC bullshit in all areas of life.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (ONvIw)

304 Hippies are dying.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (QeenG)

305 "294 With the knowledge the Horde has of literature, music, art, the Bible, science, food, pets and porn, I think they should be given the task of preserving civilization.
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (cSyAR)"

Surprise! It's already on us. Nobody is coming to save us.

Posted by: somedood at May 13, 2021 10:46 AM (yngc4)

306 294 With the knowledge the Horde has of literature, music, art, the Bible, science, food, pets and porn, I think they should be given the task of preserving civilization.
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (cSyAR)

We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:46 AM (0KKyI)

307 278 I think they are counting on there being a TON of 'civilian' casualties.
Posted by: garrett at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (VgPtB)

And I hope Israel does not fall into that trap.

There are plenty of ways to make Hamas screech without doing a WW2 like invasion. Be smart
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM (mYCBF)

Hit them where they ain't. Or rather, where they are. Somewhere in Iran.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:46 AM (s2VJv)

308 217 Anyone who wears sequined Crocs is banned from commenting on this blog.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

And so it begins.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (vuisn)

309 With the knowledge the Horde has of literature, music, art, the Bible, science, food, pets and porn, I think they should be given the task of preserving civilization.
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (cSyAR)

We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:46 AM (0KKyI)

Guns, boobs, bourbon...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (ifmtJ)

310 It's time to wipe that stain from The Temple Mount. Stop letting the occupiers access the Jewish Temple.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (VpIIl)

311 Neil Bigass Tyson has an out-sized view of his importance

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (iTXRQ)

312
The response to the virus proves that they don't need an EMP. All they need are Democrats and the US media to take us down.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (s2VJv)

We took ourselves down.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (ONvIw)

313 -
If you have some coin to drop (about $800-$2000, depending on platform and vagaries of timing), you can pick up a used, full-size, complete late-80s vintage Oxford English Dictionary.

Beware, though: it's bigger than the Encyclopedia Britannica. I got one for my dad a number of years ago. I don't regret it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 10:42 AM
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Nah, this Webster's makes me feel stupid enough.

Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (8rX4S)

314 Money can't buy happiness, but it does give one a pleasant form of misery.

But as Sophie Tucker said, "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (s2VJv)

It's like two camps are dishing on each other. First it's Melinda's with revelations, now Bill's. Drama. But does generate clicks.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (V13WU)

315 304 Hippies are dying.
Posted by: humphreyrobot

No - they just smell that way.

Posted by: 496 at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (U1eOr)

316 309 With the knowledge the Horde has of literature, music, art, the Bible, science, food, pets and porn, I think they should be given the task of preserving civilization.
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (cSyAR)

We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:46 AM (0KKyI)

Guns, boobs, bourbon...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (ifmtJ)

Sparkly crocs...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (0KKyI)

317 Keystone isn't active. They weren't disrupting the lives of normal people by stalling it further. Just union workers who have to pay dues to the unions that fund Democrats no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

The Keystone pipeline has been in service since the 2000's. The Keystone XL extension is the pipeline project that was canceled by Biden. TransCanada actually applied for it under the Bush administration.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (UuD2k)

318 The response to the virus proves that they don't need an EMP. All they need are Democrats and the US media to take us down.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (s2VJv)

Can't argue that, really. I just smell Hunan Chicken in this pipeline fiasco.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (jvt6t)

319 Hit them where they ain't. Or rather, where they are. Somewhere in Iran.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:46 AM (s2VJv)

exactly.

Posted by: runner at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (V13WU)

320 We took ourselves down.
Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (ONvIw)

True. In the end, there weren't enough Americans left in America.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (Bmy3R)

321 Neil Bigass Tyson has an out-sized view of his importance
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021

***
I read that as "Neil BI-Gas Tyson."

"Neil Outgas Tyson" wouldn't be a bad name for him either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (/XOcP)

322 315 304 Hippies are dying.
Posted by: humphreyrobot

No - they just smell that way.
Posted by: 496 at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (U1eOr)

Golf clap. Well done.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:49 AM (s2VJv)

323 Lizzy, I've said more than once in the last 16 months that I'm glad my dear parents didn't live to see this.

I understand how difficult it is to see the decline.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:49 AM (Rbu5d)

324 >I can't say I want Skipper, Gilligan, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, Maryanne and the professor preserving civilization.

I'll take Maryanne and Ginger
they can vie for my affections

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:49 AM (iTXRQ)

325 Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a
dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the
revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of
persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object
of power is power.

I never understood how empty and nihilist tthis vision could be until I read Mao's biography. He lived these maxims fully.

Today's American left emulates this Orwellian/Maoist reality. People have no idea how terrible this is, but imagine criticizing Hitler and the Holocaust as amateurish and inadequate. That is what they are telling us.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 13, 2021 10:49 AM (3fLhO)

326 so the ransom was paid immediately but it took six days of waiting to restart the pipeline? why?

Posted by: nckate at May 13, 2021 10:49 AM (5NDrl)

327 Well said CBD

I am afraid the general population is too anesthetized to notice or fight back. Time to call out the equivalent of the Cajun Navy

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 13, 2021 10:49 AM (bzrNB)

328
Last February I had four interviews for a job for which I was well qualified. I felt confident they'd make me an offer. Then the panic hit, hiring was put on hold and the position disappeared. Jobs everywhere dwindled to nothing for a year. Now I'll never have another full-time situation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (mht8P)

329 Sparkly crocs...
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (0KKyI)

Those are becoming controversial, I hear.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (ifmtJ)

330 318 The response to the virus proves that they don't need an EMP. All they need are Democrats and the US media to take us down.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (s2VJv)

Can't argue that, really. I just smell Hunan Chicken in this pipeline fiasco.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (jvt6t)

I smell Green Nude Eels. Shut down the pipeline, declare yet another "crisis" and use that as the pretext to abolish fossil fuels. QED.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (s2VJv)

331
Good editorial in the WSJ this morning from Daniel Henniger, that the non-stop additional unemployment is killing the work ethic that used to be part of the American character. It's now better, many folks feel, to just sit at home and collect their "stimmie munnie".

It didn't take long.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (63Dwl)

332 320: We barely argued against the rules and the flip flopping about the benefits of masks and lockdowns. First masks were useless, then they were mandatory.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (ONvIw)

333 Many Americans don't deserve America.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (VpIIl)

334 Neil Bigass Tyson has an out-sized view of his importance

The couple next door, who are in their 30s, think he's just awesome. Because "science". Gag.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (W4eKo)

335 So Neil Degrass Tyson, why should I listen to you?

Be specific.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (wCgji)

336 >"Neil Outgas Tyson" wouldn't be a bad name for him either.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I bet he's a real buzzkill at parties

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (iTXRQ)

337 335 So Neil Degrass Tyson, why should I listen to you?

Be specific.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (wCgji)

==========

Great scientist resorts to argument by authority because of big brains.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (LvTSG)

338 sort of on topic.
I remember from my college days, there is a word for a government forcing citizens to perform a certain act or wear a certain article of clothing. Ive tried googleing it but can not find the word or term, maybe someone here can help a brother out.
I want to say it was russian or chinese in orign, but it could also be german

Posted by: It wasnt me at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (i4M+Z)

339 so the ransom was paid immediately but it took six days of waiting to restart the pipeline? why?

**

They paid the ransom and then used their own backups anyway.

That for some reason they hadn't already begun loading.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (wCgji)

340 I've thought about the whole mask thing and the kids who are so little they've known no other "normal" as they become cognizant, and wondered if we were all being trained to be on the spectrum.
Inability to read facial cues, and isolation in one's own world and perception.

Posted by: barbarausa at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (W7IZQ)

341 We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:46 AM (0KKyI)
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Manuscript illuminators! I'm in.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (Dc2NZ)

342 If there's one thing Twatter won't put up with, it's hate speech.

Andy Ngk
@MrAndyNgo
Muslim actress from Pakistan with 1.2 million followers quotes Adolph Hitler as unrest breaks out between Israel & Palestinian militants.

https://bit.ly/3oeqFtx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (VVEnO)

343 I'm reading a book right now where the goddess of darkness is seeking to take over the world. Her followers believe that they will rule over a world of shadows forever. In fact, she wants to return the world (and her followers) to a primordial state of chaos where everything is dark. The eternal void where she can rule alone. That's the desired end state of the Enemy we face right now, regardless of the foolish followers who believe they will rule in the Enemy's stead.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (ZIoLS)

344 A world in which Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye are considered leading scientists is a world in severe decline.

Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (cSyAR)

345 331
Good editorial in the WSJ this morning from Daniel Henniger, that the non-stop additional unemployment is killing the work ethic that used to be part of the American character. It's now better, many folks feel, to just sit at home and collect their "stimmie munnie".

It didn't take long.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (63Dwl)

Men!!! Men are weak!!!
( quoted from some book from an old white guy)....

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (0KKyI)

346 I think they are counting on there being a TON of 'civilian' casualties.
Posted by: garrett

And I hope Israel does not fall into that trap.

There are plenty of ways to make Hamas screech without doing a WW2 like invasion. Be smart
Posted by:

Hit them so hard that the Pali's yet-to-be-born grandchildren are afraid of Israel.
Don't want none? Don't start none.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (OCTRt)

347 PPI rose 6.2%, the biggest increase ever. Inflation is worse now than during the 70s.

*bittersweet moment as Jimmy Carter prepares to hand over his World's Worst President trophy*

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (WLHrn)

348 Many Americans don't deserve America.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (VpIIl)

And that's why it was murdered.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (ifmtJ)

349 off sock

Posted by: Chuck C at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (awtm/)

350 Yes -- it activated a mindset that we'll not get rid of any time soon. It may have started on social media, but covid mainstreamed it bigly, this idea that your behavior effects others, so you must always check it against the greater good (and others will be checking and reporting your infractions). No! That's not how America works. Pursuit of happiness (provided you;re not breaking laws), not pursuit of the collective good, depending on each other to enforce it.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 10:41 AM (bDqIh)

There's also a profound disconnect between those who would have us all masked and germ free, who are also celebrating the diversity of having children exposed to pedophiles, and being brainwashed into thinking you can change genders like you chance your sox.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (AIH1c)

351 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

https://bit.ly/3eIPmeP

Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (i0wNm)

352 I'm somewhat amazed that the story that the Gov Newsome was prepared to use airstrikes against anti-lockdown protestors is not bigger news.

This is the back story to the Running Man, by the way, since the Biden junta and allies are insisting on bring dystopias to life.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (DpkTQ)

353 Great scientist resorts to argument by authority because of big brains.

***

If I can show one instance that counters his hypothesis, he has to reject it, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (wCgji)

354 @DailyCaller

Speaker Pelosi says the Ethics Committee should look into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's alleged "verbal assault" and "abuse" of AOC at the Capitol yesterday

https://tinyurl.com/yg5wtrcj

A shame it was only verbal...

Posted by: Tami at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (cF8AT)

355 351 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

https://bit.ly/3eIPmeP
Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (i0wNm)

===========

That's...that sounds big.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)

356 Not true. CBA makes it clear that management has the right to direct hourly employees at any time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (Q9lwr)

Sounds to me like the union is very much a part of the problem (as usual) in Fool Otto's predicament.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (dRsxB)

357 >We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???

an order of nuns who've been very naughty and need to be spanked!

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (iTXRQ)

358 My deaf cousin, with no lips to read, has been forced into a world of silence, out in public. And she's in CA, so...maskzilla.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (Bmy3R)

I wonder if there is some kind of legal remedy she could pursue. Like a disability discrimination case.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (45fpk)

359 353 Great scientist resorts to argument by authority because of big brains.

***

If I can show one instance that counters his hypothesis, he has to reject it, right?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (wCgji)

=========

"You're using wrong authorities instead of my right authorities."
-Great scientist star man

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)

360 PPI rose 6.2%, the biggest increase ever. Inflation is worse now than during the 70s.

***

(looks at car loan rates to see if there's anything I want before the rates adjust)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (wCgji)

361 Muslim actress from Pakistan with 1.2 million followers quotes Adolph Hitler as unrest breaks out between Israel & Palestinian militants.

https://bit.ly/3oeqFtx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (VVEnO)

Did you expect better? From Twitter or the Pakistanis?

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (ONvIw)

362 I smell Green Nude Eels. Shut down the pipeline, declare yet another "crisis" and use that as the pretext to abolish fossil fuels. QED.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (s2VJv)

Ummm...yeah...Exxon, Shell, Chevron, BP...if you could just step over here to the showers, we'll get you producing again in no time.

Oil Companies: *walk right in*

That was easy - The Junta

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (jvt6t)

363 I remember from my college days, there is a word for a government forcing citizens to perform a certain act or wear a certain article of clothing. Ive tried googleing it but can not find the word or term, maybe someone here can help a brother out.
I want to say it was russian or chinese in orign, but it could also be german
Posted by: It wasnt me at May 13, 2021

***
Obedience? Conformity? Compliance?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (/XOcP)

364 >Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted

well knock me over with a feather

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (iTXRQ)

365 Neil "reduction-of-function" Tyson

Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (8rX4S)

366 We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???

Oral sex.

Posted by: Bad, Wicked Zoot at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (OCTRt)

367 I got my first dose of the "China poison" (as my father calls it) this morning. The county is operating a drive-thru clinic at the fairgrounds.
The gate I went through was marked "Livestock entrance." The people giving out the shots were U.S. Navy personnel. Mind you, we're hundreds of miles from any Navy facility.
If you were looking for ways to reduce my vague feelings of paranoia, county officials, you're not doing a great job...

Posted by: PabloD at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (/Otlk)

368 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

https://bit.ly/3eIPmeP

**

Aw, shucks. Sorry, guys.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (wCgji)

369 PPI rose 6.2%, the biggest increase ever. Inflation is worse now than during the 70s.
So you lost your job for the last year, you've been sentenced to house arrest, and now we are subjecting you to out of control inflation.
Here's $1400. Ahem. You should be thanking me now.

Posted by: The Biden Junta at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (DpkTQ)

370 Federal Air Marshals (FAM) were yanked from a high-risk flight so Congresswoman Maxine Waters could have extra security during a recent trip to Minnesota, though she was already covered by a four-man detail consisting of two Capitol Police officers and two Secret Service agents, according to multiple law enforcement sources interviewed by Judicial Watch.

Posted by: SMOD at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (RHGPo)

371 The Professor (Roy Hinckley was his name) and Mary Ann seemed relatively sane and stable compared to the others.
Posted by: Aliens Observing Us at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (/XOcP)

Of the seven deadly castaways, the professor (pride) and Mary Ann (envy) might be the least destructive, but you may quibble.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (vuisn)

372 366 We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???

Chants

Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:55 AM (cSyAR)

373 Naughty Zoot!

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:55 AM (iTXRQ)

374 That's...that sounds big.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)
++++
You really think so? That's interesting. What makes you think that? We find your position fascinating and would like to understand it better.

Posted by: DoJ, FEC, MSM, et. al. at May 13, 2021 10:55 AM (Jsjd7)

375 Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted AOC RE her making lists of Republicans tweet. The left is going nuts over this. Nancy Pelosi's drunk carcass wheezed that Greene needed to be investigated by the Senate ethics committee.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 10:55 AM (i0wNm)

376 Our future, most authoritatively described. Very powerful book (sorry, goes to Amazon, but your library probably has a copy).

https://tinyurl.com/2c5mk8dt

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 13, 2021 10:55 AM (3fLhO)

377 Power is its own end. We don't really need to ask questions like "what do they want," or "how does that serve their agenda." Just know there is an agenda, and that is it: Pure power.

It's as old as humanity, and resides in the hearts and minds of all men. And with nothing to stop them, those with power consolidated pursue it more vigorously, more urgently, and more sincerely than ever before.
Posted by: BurtTC

------------------------------------------------
This is why people who run for office repeatedly scare me. Take Beto - he wants power over us so badly that he just keeps running and running and sooner or later he'll make it in (like Ossoff did). Their ultimate goal is to tell us what to do. I don't like that impulse one bit.

Posted by: 496 at May 13, 2021 10:55 AM (U1eOr)

378 **all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.**

MOVE ALONG! NOTHING TO SEE HERE!! LITERALLY!!!

Posted by: Getting the banned back together at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (M+37h)

379 374 That's...that sounds big.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)
++++
You really think so? That's interesting. What makes you think that? We find your position fascinating and would like to understand it better.
Posted by: DoJ, FEC, MSM, et. al. at May 13, 2021 10:55 AM (Jsjd7)

=========

You sound like a trustworthy fellow. Want to goad me into some violent action?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (LvTSG)

380 Manuscript illuminators! I'm in.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Iron Fist in Velvet Glove in Iron Gauntlet Clutching an Iron Mace at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (Dc2NZ)

I guess the movie The Book of Eli was a How-To.....

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (jvt6t)

381 -
Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

---

Oops. Oopsy!

Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (8rX4S)

382 >Federal Air Marshals (FAM) were yanked from a high-risk flight so Congresswoman Maxine Waters could have

was it high-risk cuz she so stanky?

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (iTXRQ)

383
367 I got my first dose of the "China poison" (as my father calls it) this morning. The county is operating a drive-thru clinic at the fairgrounds.
The gate I went through was marked "Livestock entrance." The people giving out the shots were U.S. Navy personnel. Mind you, we're hundreds of miles from any Navy facility.
If you were looking for ways to reduce my vague feelings of paranoia, county officials, you're not doing a great job...
Posted by: PabloD at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (/Otlk)

" Livestock Entrance"... how ironic... were they offering the Ear Tag vaccination passport as an option?

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (0KKyI)

384 The Professor (Roy Hinckley was his name) and Mary Ann seemed relatively sane and stable compared to the others.
Posted by: Aliens Observing Us at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (/XOcP)

They were having regular sex

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (HrMC1)

385 I wonder if there is some kind of legal remedy she could pursue. Like a disability discrimination case.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (45fpk)

She's moving to Texas, so that will help. She's a Trumper trapped in Cali. She'll be happier in TX I think.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (Bmy3R)

386 DOJ and FBI probably helped the maricopa donks wipe their machines.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (ONvIw)

387 145 kraken, Orwell was a socialist who woke up about Moscow.

In "Homage to Catalonia", he writes about the NKVD murdering socialist leaders in Spain during the war.

And he compares the propaganda in the news with actual events on the ground.
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (kELwc)

Orwell was a socialist who woke up about Moscow.

In "Homage to Catalonia", he writes about the NKVD murdering socialist leaders in Spain during the war.
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 10:24 AM (kELwc)

Wasn't at least one "atrocity" against the Loyalists blamed on the Nationalists actually perpetrated by the Soviet "advisors" (cough NKVD cough) and home grown Communists?

Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (qyH+l)

388 293...
The response to the virus proves that they don't need an EMP. All they need are Democrats and the US media to take us down.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (s2VJv)

Can't track people as easily after an EMP. Might have pockets of liberty, dontcha know.

Posted by: Flyover at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (Rbu5d)

389 Honestly think you can't consider the impact of covid without also looking at how the BLM/antifa riots hit right when people were getting deep into depression from the lockdown. That feeling of helplessness and dispair while watching the media and many other institutions helping a small minority of hate-filled people burn down the country, deface and destroy our history, was a gut punch.

Like, after starting to realize normal life may never really get back to normal, along comes the state-sactioned mob to make sure "normal" physically no longer exists.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (bDqIh)

390 367 I got my first dose of the "China poison" (as my father calls it) this morning. The county is operating a drive-thru clinic at the fairgrounds.
The gate I went through was marked "Livestock entrance." The people giving out the shots were U.S. Navy personnel. Mind you, we're hundreds of miles from any Navy facility.
If you were looking for ways to reduce my vague feelings of paranoia, county officials, you're not doing a great job...
Posted by: PabloD at May 13, 2021 10:54 AM (/Otlk)

Pay no attention to the "Vaccines Macht Frei" sign over the gate

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (Bmy3R)

391 The Professor (Roy Hinckley was his name) and Mary Ann seemed relatively sane and stable compared to the others.
Posted by: Aliens Observing Us at May 13, 2021 10:45 AM (/XOcP)

They were having regular sex
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021

***

Regular? No kinky stuff?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (/XOcP)

392 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

oops!

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:58 AM (HrMC1)

393 They were having regular sex
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (HrMC1)

Unlike Gilligan and the skipper....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2021 10:58 AM (6FeV1)

394 That feeling of helplessness and dispair while watching the media and many other institutions helping a small minority of hate-filled people burn down the country, deface and destroy our history, was a gut punch.

Like, after starting to realize normal life may never really get back to normal, along comes the state-sactioned mob to make sure "normal" physically no longer exists.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (bDqIh)

Especially when the "institutions" included the DOJ and FBI, as well as ActBlue and the kneeling dems

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:58 AM (ONvIw)

395 381 -
Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

---

Oops. Oopsy!

My response would get me banned in Boston.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2021 10:58 AM (qyH+l)

396 You sound like a trustworthy fellow. Want to goad me into some violent action?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (LvTSG)
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Not at all. Your implication that these kinds of discoveries could possibly matters implies that you have some deep wellspring of hope. We'd like to learn more about it so we can exploit it more effectively.

Posted by: DoJ, FEC, MSM, et. al. at May 13, 2021 10:58 AM (Jsjd7)

397 386 DOJ and FBI probably helped the maricopa donks wipe their machines.
Posted by: CN

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What, like with a cloth?

Posted by: 496 at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM (U1eOr)

398 I smell Green Nude Eels. Shut down the pipeline, declare yet another "crisis" and use that as the pretext to abolish fossil fuels. QED.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 13, 2021 10:50 AM (s2VJv)

Fossil Fuels? Not good enough! We need to ban combustion immediately. Fire Bad! REEEEEEEEE!!

Posted by: Your Intellectual Superiors at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM (Wm5SB)

399 The AZ ballot auditors are claiming that Maricopa County deleted a directory "full of election databases from the 2020 election cycle days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit".

https://tinyurl.com/peab93yt

Posted by: Revenant at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM (rFIOB)

400 Remember, Let's follow the bouncing ball, well it was just that easy to take over my own country.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM (QeenG)

401 My response would get me banned in Boston.
Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2021

***
When did Boston stop banning books and movies? Mid-Sixties?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM (/XOcP)

402 Regular? No kinky stuff?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (/XOcP)

"Regular" as in frequent.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM (HrMC1)

403 hands Fool Otto a tire iron*

Actually Hawbah Fweight sells a really good tire iron, made in India.

Posted by: clutch at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM (9UmRs)

404 >>> I got my first dose of the "China poison" (as my father calls it) this morning. The county is operating a drive-thru clinic at the fairgrounds.
The gate I went through was marked "Livestock entrance." The people giving out the shots were U.S. Navy personnel. Mind you, we're hundreds of miles from any Navy facility.
If you were looking for ways to reduce my vague feelings of paranoia, county officials, you're not doing a great job...

Edges further towards 'vaccine hesitant'

Posted by: fluffy the uninnoculated at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (UnQlg)

405 I wonder if there is some kind of legal remedy she could pursue. Like a disability discrimination case.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 13, 2021 10:53 AM (45fpk)

She's moving to Texas, so that will help. She's a Trumper trapped in Cali. She'll be happier in TX I think.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

Tell her to stay out of the big cities. Smaller towns are relatively sane.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (OCTRt)

406 If there's one thing Twatter won't put up with, it's hate speech.

Andy Ngk
@MrAndyNgo
Muslim actress from Pakistan with 1.2 million followers quotes Adolph Hitler as unrest breaks out between Israel & Palestinian militants.

https://bit.ly/3oeqFtx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 10:51 AM (VVEnO)

And Hollywood loves her for it, while trashing Gal Gadot. Eff Hollowood.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (axyOa)

407 Regular? No kinky stuff?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (/XOcP)

"Regular" as in frequent.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021

***
Darn!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (/XOcP)

408 Assholes. THAT sends the wrong message and encourages those crooks to do it again
Nothing that a wet team couldn't handle. "Say, I wonder what happened to Hacker X? Nobody's seen him in a few days..."
"Oh, you mean that body hanging from the lamppost outside?"

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (HaL55)

409 399 The AZ ballot auditors are claiming that Maricopa County deleted a directory "full of election databases from the 2020 election cycle days before the election equipment was delivered to the audit".

https://tinyurl.com/peab93yt
Posted by: Revenant at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM (rFIOB)

===========

Because the election was 100% clean, unlike 2016 when Russians hacked election machines and changed votes to Trump from Hillary.*

*not a conspiracy theory, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (LvTSG)

410 Wasn't at least one "atrocity" against the Loyalists blamed on the Nationalists actually perpetrated by the Soviet "advisors" (cough NKVD cough) and home grown Communists?
Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (qyH+l)

Well, that is a Commie M.O.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (HrMC1)

411 "320 We took ourselves down.
Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 10:47 AM (ONvIw)

True. In the end, there weren't enough Americans left in America.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 10:48 AM (Bmy3R)"

This is a good example of some of what I was ranting about above. The problem wasn't that there weren't enough 'Muricans going around 'Murican-ing and waving flags; it was that actual Americans were easily steered into arguing about irrelevant crap rather than recognizing the real threats and responding effectively to them.

"But face diapers! Muh freedom!" isn't an effective response, when it was THE INTENDED RESPONSE. An effective response to the leftists trying to play games with face coverings is to leapfrog past them and demand eye coverings, and hound them in public for a broader list of infection control infractions. Or to simply ignore it and focus on the lockdowns, business closures, passport bullshit, and US funding of PRC biolabs.

Do we want to win or are we going to keep letting them channel us into (relatively) irrelevant arguments of their own choosing?

Posted by: somedood at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (yngc4)

412 That feeling of helplessness and dispair while watching the media and many other institutions helping a small minority of hate-filled people burn down the country, deface and destroy our history, was a gut punch.

Like, after starting to realize normal life may never really get back to normal, along comes the state-sactioned mob to make sure "normal" physically no longer exists.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (bDqIh)

My moments of despair were Barr failing to go after the financiers, and Wray' "white supremacists" are the greatest threat moments. This told me that the federal government and the GOP were all in on whatever crimes were to come. I was not wrong.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (ONvIw)

413 I got my first dose of the "China poison" (as my father calls it) this morning. The county is operating a drive-thru clinic at the fairgrounds.
The gate I went through was marked "Livestock entrance."
___

And livestock is how this govt sees you.

Posted by: SMH at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (hEdp8)

414 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.
--
Oops. Oopsy!
Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (8rX4S)

After the RFK assassination was over and done with, and they had their guy in prison, people started asking questions about just how many shots were fired in that small space. The gun in Sirhan Sirhan's hand was capable of firing 8 rounds.

But then cops and others were finding bullet holes in door frames, in ceiling tiles... somebody got the bright idea of trying to do the math. How many rounds went into Kennedy, how many in others, and how many in the panels and frames.

Guess what? Turns out the hardware from the hotel had been destroyed! After the LAPD and FBI took those pieces away, somebody decided that gosh darnit, they just didn't have the space to store it all.

Oh well. I'm sure it was only 8 rounds.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (AIH1c)

415 "Like, after starting to realize normal life may never really get back to
normal, along comes the state-sactioned mob to make sure "normal"
physically no longer exists."

We are outside DC, so would have had to travel to see riots, but what I noticed after the initial extreme lockdown, and more and more now, is how the timely road improvements scheduled during the ghost times have bloomed and spread: everything is torn up to the point of disfunction now, with layers of unfinished ramps and miles of barrels and cones, with half finished bridge replacements looming overhead.
Every time we have to go anywhere out of the immediate area, it is a crapshoot to try to find the detour literally of the day.
It adds quite a bit to the malaise--nothing IS the same, and sometimes you CAN'T get there from here

Posted by: barbarausa at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (W7IZQ)

416 Tell her to stay out of the big cities. Smaller towns are relatively sane.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (OCTRt)

Good advice for every state.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (ifmtJ)

417 372 366 We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???

Chants
Posted by: Northern lurker at May 13, 2021 10:55 AM (cSyAR)

A militant order manning the walls?

Deus vuelt!

Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (qyH+l)

418 Why tell the public that the ransom was paid? It's a complete farce.

Posted by: f'd at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (Tnijr)

419 >>>aricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

https://bit.ly/3eIPmeP
Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (i0wNm)

======

This is the least shocking thing I've read in ages.

Posted by: Swingin' for the downs at May 13, 2021 11:01 AM (H7jex)

420 Federal Air Marshals (FAM) were yanked from a high-risk flight so Congresswoman Maxine Waters could have extra security during a recent trip to Minnesota

Extra protection for possible the single least valuable member of our society.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 13, 2021 11:02 AM (W4eKo)

421 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

If true, then every person involved in this needs to be arrested. If that doesn't happen, they should be doxed repeatedly.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2021 11:02 AM (axyOa)

422 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

-
Somebody did something.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 11:02 AM (VVEnO)

423 So do you want one digit or two digits before the 89 by the weekend?
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at May 13, 2021 10:38 AM (a/dOO)

do I hear six?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 13, 2021 11:02 AM (dRsxB)

424 Tell her to stay out of the big cities. Smaller towns are relatively sane.
Posted by: rickb223
___

Hooah.

Posted by: SMH at May 13, 2021 11:02 AM (hEdp8)

425 What will a year of isolation yield?

We are all Amish now - 8th grade education, intellectually incurious, socially inept. Under the control of the Bishop.

Posted by: Kamala Harris Berb at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (n/szn)

426 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database

I've read that it may be just the directory. In other words, we may have both the data, and the proof that they clumsily sought to delete the data.

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (WLHrn)

427 Check out TheSaltyCracker on rumble. Laughter helps keep the rage monster at bay... for short periods of time.

Posted by: Uncle Vud at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (mxZ+7)

428 -
Actually Hawbah Fweight sells a really good tire iron, made in India.
Posted by: clutch at May 13, 2021 10:59 AM

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Then it goes without saying that it will be long enough that your hands never need touch the subject of your frustrations.

Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (8rX4S)

429 Watch this video with the sound off. Fauci is telling Hodor? (I don't know who that is) that it's now OK to take off the mask outside. That's not the interesting part. Look at Hodor. She's literally about to burst into tears because Fauci is giving her a little bit of freedom back.

https://bit.ly/2SNyATb

Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (i0wNm)

430
was it high-risk cuz she so stanky?
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 10:56 AM (iTXRQ)

There's always a risk of a flying monkey getting sucked into one of the engines.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (Wm5SB)

431 426 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database

I've read that it may be just the directory. In other words, we may have both the data, and the proof that they clumsily sought to delete the data.
Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (WLHrn)

=========

I believe that courts don't look kindly on plaintiffs who seek to destroy information required of them.

Unless they're Democrats of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (LvTSG)

432 They were having regular sex
Posted by: JoeF.

Regular? No kinky stuff?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

It's Mary Ann. It was all kinky.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (Rvt88)

433 We've lost one, maybe two generations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (KZzsI)

434 407 Regular? No kinky stuff?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (/XOcP)

"Regular" as in frequent.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021

As in "well regulated"?

Posted by: Fox2! at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (qyH+l)

435 407 Regular? No kinky stuff?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 10:57 AM (/XOcP)

"Regular" as in frequent.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021

***
Darn!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (/XOcP)

Have you ever seen what you can do with a coconut and palm frond??

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (jvt6t)

436 I see that my decision to go with glitter instead of sequins was the right call.

*Preens*

Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (t0Yeq)

437 wanted to give a Huzzah!-out to Muldoon for this gem.

*******

Thanks. I'll add it to my Huzzah collection!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (Fc5rx)

438 >>> Posted by: banana Dream at May 13, 2021 10:15 AM (Fq1gB)

Not true. CBA makes it clear that management has the right to direct hourly employees at any time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 13, 2021 10:22 AM (Q9lwr)

Sorry, it's been about 30 years since I was in that position, and getting disciplined without a union rep there was a big big deal. It might have all changed since then. UPS pretty much ditched their HR and let the union fulfill that role when I was there.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (Fq1gB)

439 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:00 AM (LvTSG)

It seemed to go downhill from the day the it was known that the FBI helped Hillary destroy evidence.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (ONvIw)

440 >>There's also a profound disconnect between those who would have us all masked and germ free, who are also celebrating the diversity of having children exposed to pedophiles, and being brainwashed into thinking you can change genders like you chance your sox.

YES.

The "greater good" being enforced by Karens, by the MSM, on social media, etc. is a crazed, Lefty utopia.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM (bDqIh)

441 Great post.
I find myself saving many of the CBD's insightful comments.
Thanxs man.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM (axyOa)

442 Oh the WSJ realized mean tweets and a booming economy may be a better option that nice tweets and stagflation? Fuck those assholes in particular.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM (XbclV)

443 440 YES.

The "greater good" being enforced by Karens, by the MSM, on social media, etc. is a crazed, Lefty utopia.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM (bDqIh)

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The greater good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM (LvTSG)

444 Federal Air Marshals (FAM) were yanked from a high-risk flight so Congresswoman Maxine Waters could have extra security during a recent trip to Minnesota

Plenty of room, Congresswoman. Welcome aboard, bring as many staff as you'd like!

Posted by: Air Pinochet at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM (KfC1e)

445 Fox2, I don't know those specifics.

But the Soviets were master liars and strategists.

They ran one of the most ruthless and brilliant false flags ever -- Operation Trust. They slaughtered a bunch of Red Army troops to make it credible.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 11:06 AM (kELwc)

446 Greater Good... a mashup of NewSpeak and DoubleThink...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:06 AM (0KKyI)

447 I believe that courts don't look kindly on plaintiffs who seek to destroy information required of them.

Unless they're Democrats of course.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:04 AM (LvTSG)

Court? What's that?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:06 AM (AIH1c)

448 Oh the WSJ realized mean tweets and a booming economy may be a better option that nice tweets and stagflation? Fuck those assholes in particular.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM (XbclV)
++++
We got what we wanted. Why, oh why didn't anyone stop us from getting what we wanted?

Posted by: All of these assholes at May 13, 2021 11:06 AM (Jsjd7)

449 @ByronYork

'Army releases recruitment advertisement featuring lesbian wedding.'

https://tinyurl.com/ydr523us

Posted by: Tami at May 13, 2021 11:06 AM (cF8AT)

450 The greater good.

I think you mean the gooder good.

Posted by: AOC at May 13, 2021 11:06 AM (KfC1e)

451 One good thing is some people got "red-pilled" and became more "self-aware", when they were previously acting like programmed robots, obeying TheSystem.

Churches revealed their weaknesses, and some rose up to worship or fellowship on (perhaps) a more meaningful level. Some of the frivolities that were lost were replaced with more meaningful things (some home-schooled kids escaped commie indoctrination, for example).

The long (commie) march was revealed to many, now we see if there is a national MAGA will to stop them.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 13, 2021 11:07 AM (Cus5s)

452 448: They were all in on open borders and cheap labor.

Posted by: CN at May 13, 2021 11:07 AM (ONvIw)

453 Individuals tried to stop what they saw happening. Heck, 80M+ individuals turned out to vote for Trump, so many that they broke the voting machine algorithms and the Democrats had to simultaneously pause counting in multiple cities across multiple time zones to manually dump Biden votes into the machines in order to put him over the top.

Individuals will be key going forward. County level is important, and maybe most important. Refuse to obey silly mandates that aren't laws. Make county sheriffs refuse to enforce non-laws. Show other individuals that they are not alone.

Be that individual American and move us forward.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 11:07 AM (wCgji)

454 The greater good.

"The greater good"
--town council meeting at midnight in robes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:07 AM (KZzsI)

455 I hope the Army is filled with these confused kids.

Will make it easier for it to be destroyed.

Posted by: SMH at May 13, 2021 11:07 AM (hEdp8)

456 Obedience? Conformity? Compliance?

No its not an english term or word, been bugging me since this mask nonsense started

Posted by: It wasnt me at May 13, 2021 11:08 AM (i4M+Z)

457 I find myself saving many of the CBD's insightful comments.
Thanxs man.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM (axyOa)
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He's still not going to let you put maple syrup on your French toast, you know.

Posted by: bluebell at May 13, 2021 11:08 AM (wyw4S)

458 451

The long (commie) march was revealed to many, now we see if there is a national MAGA will to stop them.
Posted by: illiniwek at May 13, 2021 11:07 AM (Cus5s)

I was Red-Pilled 20 odd years ago, and have never looked back. Before that, I operated on impulse, and inattention...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:08 AM (0KKyI)

459 He's still not going to let you put maple syrup on your French toast, you know.
Posted by: bluebell at May 13, 2021 11:08 AM (wyw4S)

Dang it.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 11:08 AM (jvt6t)

460 455 I hope the Army is filled with these confused kids.

Will make it easier for it to be destroyed.
Posted by: SMH at May 13, 2021 11:07 AM (hEdp

==========

An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training, and who spend most of their time making Powerpoint presentations about critical race theory has only one advantage left: numbers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

461 >>It seemed to go downhill from the day the it was known that the FBI helped Hillary destroy evidence.

The Obama admin made a habit if 'mistakenly' erasing subpoenaed executive branch data, such as Lois Lerner's hard drive. I recall reading when he left office that the archivist assigned to the Obama papers was seriously alarmed at the lack of records.

This Maricopa county audit development is so predictable. This is Obama's legacy.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (bDqIh)

462 Karenism really took off when smartphones simplified the ability to record and share anything and everything.

Now you get to be the writer, director and star of your own fascist blockbuster!

If social media and smartphones were wiped out tomorrow, our world would be a much better place.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (KbCG3)

463 459 He's still not going to let you put maple syrup on your French toast, you know.
Posted by: bluebell at May 13, 2021 11:08 AM (wyw4S)

Dang it.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 11:08 AM (jvt6t)

But we LOVE Big Brother!

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (0KKyI)

464 Christopher R Taylor, great movie.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (kELwc)

465 He's still not going to let you put maple syrup on your French toast, you know.
Posted by: bluebell
___

"Let"?

He's a cob, not Biden.

Posted by: SMH at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (hEdp8)

466 'Army releases recruitment advertisement featuring lesbian wedding.'

https://tinyurl.com/ydr523us
Posted by: Tami at May 13, 2021 11:06 AM (cF8AT)

If you are trying to neutralize the American fighting capability, you can send millions of men, armed with guns and bombs, and try to kill as many American service personnel as possible.

Or you can turn them all into fat, out of shape lesbians, and/or screaming ninnies who care more about who they can sleep with, and how to properly apply makeup.

Same result. Same enemies pursuing it.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (AIH1c)

467 >>"The greater good"
--town council meeting at midnight in robes

Why yes, I have watched Hot Fuzz recently!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 11:10 AM (bDqIh)

468 The greater good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:05 AM

https://youtu.be/5u8vd_YNbTw

Posted by: Bert G at May 13, 2021 11:10 AM (sAW0o)

469 SMH, how's your back?

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 13, 2021 11:11 AM (kELwc)

470 Considering this junta wants to sic the Army on us, I am fully on board with degrading its capabilities to the fullest extent possible.

Posted by: SMH at May 13, 2021 11:11 AM (hEdp8)

471 An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training, and who spend most of their time making Powerpoint presentations about critical race theory has only one advantage left: numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Someone needs to be a bullet sponge.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 11:11 AM (OCTRt)

472 Bastiat wrote about this in about 1850. "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen" should be required reading for high school students. He brings out the "broken window" fallacy: when the farmer pays a glazier to fix a broken window, no economic value is actually being created -- the repair of the broken window is taking the place of the bridle that the farmer would have bought with the money. In the former case, the farmer is no better off, but in the latter case, he would have both an intact window and a bridle. When the king hires a thousand men to dig holes and fill them in, he is not stimulating the economy, because the money to hire those men had to come from somewhere, and the economic activity that same money taken from the taxpayers would otherwise have stimulated now is not being done. It is exactly the same thing as repairing the broken window. Government creates nothing; it merely takes from one and gives to another.

http://bastiat.org/en/ twisatwins.html (remove space)

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 13, 2021 11:11 AM (BMmaB)

473 My back is fine, thanks.

Posted by: SMH at May 13, 2021 11:11 AM (hEdp8)

474 gooder good or greater good is just 'plusgood'

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 11:11 AM (iTXRQ)

475 The Greater Good... the opening line of any genocide, at any time...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:11 AM (0KKyI)

476 425 We are all Amish now - 8th grade education, intellectually incurious, socially inept. Under the control of the Bishop.
the bishop? https://youtu.be/JqG30j0FRW8

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 13, 2021 11:11 AM (5br8a)

477 The crazy ladies with bad haircuts who always wanted to speak with the manager not only won, they're in charge now.

How in the ever-living F$%@ did that happen.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (Bmy3R)

478 STOP SAYING THAT!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (KZzsI)

479 This Maricopa county audit development is so predictable. This is Obama's legacy.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (bDqIh)

Ask they FBI where they put the ballistic test data from JFK's assassination. Including the actual physical evidence.

Point being, this has been going on a long long time, long before Team Obama.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (AIH1c)

480 Used car prices up 10% on annualized basis. Highest number since this figure was recorded. Biden has done the impossible. He has turned used cars into non-depreciating assets.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (XbclV)

481 478 STOP SAYING THAT!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (KZzsI)

=========

Ahem...I believe the line is, "SHUT IT!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

482 We are all Amish now - 8th grade education, intellectually incurious, socially inept. Under the control of the Bishop.
Posted by: Kamala Harris Berb at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (n/szn)
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No boats, no lights, no motor cars. Not a single luxury!

Posted by: zmdavid at May 13, 2021 11:13 AM (xqRaG)

483 I tear up every time I think about the Coyote Pup, who is a shy somewhat nerdy girl trapped in virtual college with no opportunity to find or make new friends. The only thing to do in her college town is get drunk at the off campus bars, which she has no interest in doing. Student union? Closed. Athletics? suspended. Church? closed or virtual. No clubs. No student program. No homecoming activities. Nothing.

The students like herself, that she could be meeting in class, at baseball games, or at the Union have been frightened and isolated to the point where I don't think any of them will recover. And college has been an enormous waste of time and money.

Posted by: the other coyote at May 13, 2021 11:13 AM (F1pPC)

484 The Amish will always be with us...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:13 AM (0KKyI)

485 480 Used car prices up 10% on annualized basis. Highest number since this figure was recorded. Biden has done the impossible. He has turned used cars into non-depreciating assets.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (XbclV)

Well, not impossible. Cuba already did it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 13, 2021 11:13 AM (Y5qcH)

486 We are all Amish now - 8th grade education, intellectually incurious, socially inept. Under the control of the Bishop.
Posted by: Kamala Harris Berb at May 13, 2021 11:03 AM (n/szn)
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No boats, no lights, no motor cars. Not a single luxury!
Posted by: zmdavid

What did America use for lighting before candles?

Electricity.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 11:13 AM (OCTRt)

487 414 Burt, I have one of those gems Sirhan shot RFK with. Iver Johnson Cadet, model 55. 8 Rounds max as reloading would be a problem. Little POS reloads through a loading gate and there's no ejector rod. Surprised the feds didn't say he got in a reload.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 13, 2021 11:14 AM (I58tH)

488 Or you can turn them all into fat, out of shape lesbians, and/or screaming ninnies who care more about who they can sleep with, and how to properly apply makeup.

Same result. Same enemies pursuing it.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:09 AM (AIH1c)

All this tells me is that when the next "real" war comes, the DRAFT will have to re-instituted.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 11:14 AM (HrMC1)

489 The Biden administration to prioritize transgender migrants seeking to cross the border.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2021 11:14 AM (NpAcC)

490 Coherent MUMR...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:14 AM (0KKyI)

491 489 All this tells me is that when the next "real" war comes, the DRAFT will have to re-instituted.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 13, 2021 11:14 AM (HrMC1)

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I predict much fragging.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:14 AM (LvTSG)

492 Considering this junta wants to sic the Army on us, I am fully on board with degrading its capabilities to the fullest extent possible.

Yep.

And at the end of the day, we don't really need an army capable of fighting foreign wars, because most of them are wars of choice rather than necessity, and we have no national will to win foreign wars even when they are necessary.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2021 11:15 AM (H5knJ)

493 STOP SAYING THAT!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (KZzsI)

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Ahem...I believe the line is, "SHUT IT!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

Yes. "Stop saying that" is The Princess Bride.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 13, 2021 11:15 AM (Ez6QX)

494 Of eggs and omelets.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2021 11:15 AM (6FeV1)

495 Court? What's that?
Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:06 AM (AIH1c)

That is the place where you discover you have no standing.

The database was deleted on 12 April. One week before they were required to turn over the machines to the audit.

By law the database had to be retained for 22 months after the election.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 11:16 AM (N3El/)

496 495 Of eggs and omelets.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2021 11:15 AM (6FeV1)

Out of Mice, and Men...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:16 AM (0KKyI)

497 'Army releases recruitment advertisement featuring lesbian wedding.'

What could possibly go wrong? LOL

Posted by: Wi Tu Lo and Sum Ting Wong at May 13, 2021 11:16 AM (W4eKo)

498 The crazy ladies with bad haircuts who always wanted to speak with the manager not only won, they're in charge now.

How in the ever-living F$%@ did that happen.

Because crazy ladies still have the vag, and that's the checkmate. Unless they're trans-crazy, but that's fairly rare. Even cobs and commenters here are banging chicks who voted for Biteme and wake up every day cheering that mean tweets are gone.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 13, 2021 11:16 AM (ZGrMX)

499 >>Point being, this has been going on a long long time, long before Team Obama.

Fair enough. Just think Obama admin was particularly brazen about it. Not just destroying harddrives, Hillary staffer phones, FBI team phones (Strzok's, etc.), but also all of his cabinet having secret email accounts to bypass FOIA. They would just respond in a 'f$#@ your subpoena, it's gone and you can't do anything about it.'

Like the BASF motto: Obama didn't invent these evasions, Obama made them better.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 11:17 AM (bDqIh)

500 Army releases recruitment advertisement featuring lesbian wedding.'

What could possibly go wrong? LOL
Posted by: Wi Tu Lo and Sum Ting Wong at May 13, 2021 11:16 AM (W4eKo)

What I want to know: Did my invite get lost in the Mail?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 11:17 AM (mYCBF)

501 499 The crazy ladies with bad haircuts who always wanted to speak with the manager not only won, they're in charge now.

How in the ever-living F$%@ did that happen.

Because crazy ladies still have the vag, and that's the checkmate. Unless they're trans-crazy, but that's fairly rare. Even cobs and commenters here are banging chicks who voted for Biteme and wake up every day cheering that mean tweets are gone.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 13, 2021 11:16 AM (ZGrMX)

Aaaakward observation.....

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:18 AM (0KKyI)

502 -
By law the database had to be retained for 22 months after the election.
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Law. People keep using that word. I don't think...
yadda-yadda.

Posted by: irright at May 13, 2021 11:18 AM (8rX4S)

503 488 414 Burt, I have one of those gems Sirhan shot RFK with. Iver Johnson Cadet, model 55. 8 Rounds max as reloading would be a problem. Little POS reloads through a loading gate and there's no ejector rod. Surprised the feds didn't say he got in a reload.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 13, 2021 11:14 AM (I58tH)

Yeah, that was ruled out early on. All rounds were fired in quick succession, although there was a delay between the first few, and then the rest, as he was being wrestled away from Kennedy.

There's so much misinformation and disinformation about that event, it's comical when you look at it closely. It is doubtful Sirhan fired even a single live round.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:18 AM (AIH1c)

504 There is nothing anyone could do at this point to convince me that the 2020 election outcome was not a fraud. You don't destroy evidence if there is no fraud.

We've all known (or most of us have) that the election outcome was fraudulent. The statistical evidence alone is overwhelming, as are the bizarre irregularities that occurred that night.

But destruction of evidence at this point cannot be reasonably explained by anything other than fraudulent intent.

Posted by: Revenant at May 13, 2021 11:18 AM (rFIOB)

505 505 But destruction of evidence at this point cannot be reasonably explained by anything other than fraudulent intent.
Posted by: Revenant at May 13, 2021 11:18 AM (rFIOB)

==========

"Would you accept a whoopsie?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

506 417 372 366 We need robes, candlelight, drafty cloisters... what else???

There also need to be some dark secrets.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 13, 2021 11:19 AM (cSyAR)

507 >>The crazy ladies with bad haircuts who always wanted to speak with the manager not only won, they're in charge now.

How in the ever-living F$%@ did that happen.

- - -
They convinced them that every natural, traditional pursuit was bad, whether it be marrying, having kids, practicing religion, etc.. They have no other meaning in their lives; it is their new religion and purpose in life. Insiduous social programming.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 11:19 AM (bDqIh)

508 Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MITT ROMNEY at May 13, 2021 11:13 AM

Pretty sure Spicoli still thinks you're a dick.

But you're probably not wrong, either.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 13, 2021 11:20 AM (m+jkK)

509 DEfense Minister Gantz has ordered the IDF to call up 9000 reservists with a special draft notice.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 11:20 AM (mYCBF)

510 @499 Ian S.-So what your saying is guys will do anything for access to the almighty vag up to and including not standing up to their self destructive nuttiness?

Posted by: JROD at May 13, 2021 11:20 AM (0jZnq)

511 Fair enough. Just think Obama admin was particularly brazen about it. Not just destroying harddrives, Hillary staffer phones, FBI team phones (Strzok's, etc.), but also all of his cabinet having secret email accounts to bypass FOIA. They would just respond in a 'f$#@ your subpoena, it's gone and you can't do anything about it.'

Like the BASF motto: Obama didn't invent these evasions, Obama made them better.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 13, 2021 11:17 AM (bDqIh)

Yeah, I think that's true. I'm not sure why it changed, but it appears that it has, and my guess is it's at the court level where it did. In other words, if you were the executive branch, either the elected administration or the Deep State, you had to at least be wary of an independent court looking into your shenanigans.

There doesn't seem to be such a thing anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:21 AM (AIH1c)

512 Posted by: the other coyote at May 13, 2021 11:13 AM (F1pPC)

I live in a university town and I see this all the time. Some of the students with money live off campus in my complex, and so many of them attend online classes most of the time and rarely leave their apartments. And all the bars, clubs, theaters, live music, all the stuff that makes a university town a university town is either gone or sucks ass now. They all look miserable all the time and I can't blame them.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 11:21 AM (Bmy3R)

513 An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training, and who spend most of their time making Powerpoint presentations about critical race theory has only one advantage left: numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Previously known as 'cannon fodder'.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 13, 2021 11:21 AM (Rvt88)

514 505 There is nothing anyone could do at this point to convince me that the 2020 election outcome was not a fraud. You don't destroy evidence if there is no fraud.

We've all known (or most of us have) that the election outcome was fraudulent. The statistical evidence alone is overwhelming, as are the bizarre irregularities that occurred that night.

But destruction of evidence at this point cannot be reasonably explained by anything other than fraudulent intent.
Posted by: Revenant at May 13, 2021 11:18 AM (rFIOB)

The main reason to believe there was fraud:

Trump said there was. The left would love nothing more than to prove him wrong on the grandest scale possible. Instead, they're doing everything in the world to ensure they don't have to prove a thing.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2021 11:22 AM (KbCG3)

515 497 495 Of eggs and omelets.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2021 11:15 AM (6FeV1)

Out of Mice, and Men...
Posted by: kraken

Of cabbages and kings

Posted by: 496 at May 13, 2021 11:22 AM (U1eOr)

516 An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training, and who spend most of their time making Powerpoint presentations about critical race theory has only one advantage left: numbers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

We don't have "numbers" so we must be screwed

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 11:22 AM (mYCBF)

517 What dark secrets are hid within the walls of Monastery d'Horde?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 13, 2021 11:23 AM (cSyAR)

518 There is nothing anyone could do at this point to convince me that the 2020 election outcome was not a fraud. You don't destroy evidence if there is no fraud.

We've all known (or most of us have) that the election outcome was fraudulent. The statistical evidence alone is overwhelming, as are the bizarre irregularities that occurred that night.

But destruction of evidence at this point cannot be reasonably explained by anything other than fraudulent intent.
Posted by: Revenant at May 13, 2021 11:18 AM (rFIOB)

I don't think we're even at that phase anymore. We've been at the phase of punishing those who question it for some time now. Everybody knows it was stolen, but it's time to pick off those who say that out loud, set them up for punishment, so everyone else knows to keep their mouths shut.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 13, 2021 11:23 AM (AIH1c)

519 Of eggs and omelets.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2021 11:15 AM (6FeV1)

Out of Mice, and Men...
Posted by: kraken

Of cabbages and kings
Posted by: 496 at May 13, 2021 11:22 AM (U1eOr)

Of shoes and ships and sealing wax!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (ifmtJ)

520 We don't have "numbers" so we must be screwed
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 13, 2021 11:22 AM (mYCBF)

Most of America has no idea how small our military has become. Readiness for what is left is in the toilet.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (N3El/)

521 There is nothing anyone could do at this point to convince me that the 2020 election outcome was not a fraud. You don't destroy evidence if there is no fraud.

It's obvious without reference to evidence.

Why would anyone suppress any debate about the election's validity and pretend it's a state crime to do so (after Hillary spending 4 years doing just that)?

Why would the press not engage in all the usual post-election here are what the exit polls tell us kind of reporting?

Joe Biden reportedly got more votes than Obama after the press had repeatedly reported Obama's "you don't have to do this, Joe" line. It's an ostensible political triumph of epic proportions? So where's all the here's how they did it reporting we had after Obama beat Romney?

Etc., etc. None of this is remotely normal. The incuriosity is a tell. Without even getting into the obvious signs of fraud.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (H5knJ)

522 Instead, they're doing everything in the world to ensure they don't have to prove a thing.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 13, 2021 11:22 AM (KbCG3)

.....

They are doing the next best thing, establishing the narrative of "Countless audits have turned up no evidence of fraud".

It's substitutionary in the eyes of most ignorant people.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (aJJGg)

523 Of shoes and ships and sealing wax!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

I thought it was ceiling wax !

Posted by: JT at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (arJlL)

524 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (arJlL)

525 Of cabbages and kings
Posted by: 496 at May 13, 2021 11:22 AM (U1eOr)

Of shoes and ships and sealing wax!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM

And why the sea is boiling hot...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (m+jkK)

526 Most of America has no idea how small our military has become. Readiness for what is left is in the toilet.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (N3El/)

But we have diversity!!!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (jvt6t)

527 They used to talk about the " Hollowed Out" Armed Forces... are we there now?

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (0KKyI)

528 I don't know if the Rebekah Jones saga has been on your radar. She's the "whistleblower" who claims DeSantis' Covid numbers are faked. She ran the dashboard for FL, but after some shenanigans, she got fired.

"Max Nardou" on Twitter has been doing yeoman's work on Twitter, calling out all of the credulous reporters repeating Jones' claims.

Charles CW Cooke just published a fantastic article on the whole thing that hits all the highlights, but the story actually goes much deeper than he can cover in a short article. It's highly recommended reading.

https://bit.ly/3y6pRvr

Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 11:26 AM (i0wNm)

529 Most of America has no idea how small our military has become. Readiness for what is left is in the toilet.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (N3El/)

Outside of the PRC, I'm hard pressed to think of many countries who could conquer the US and actually make it worse.

Sillier, maybe. But not much worse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2021 11:26 AM (6FeV1)

530 Of shoes and ships and sealing wax!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

I thought it was ceiling wax !
Posted by: JT at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM

When I was but a little RMBS, that never made sense to me. Why would anyone wax a ceiling?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 13, 2021 11:26 AM (m+jkK)

531 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (H5knJ)

It's the alleged 90% registered voter turnout that yells fraud to me.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 13, 2021 11:26 AM (2DOZq)

532 524 Of shoes and ships and sealing wax!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

I thought it was ceiling wax !
Posted by: JT at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (arJlL)

My mother, who's neglected me has found new ways to collect sealing wax....

Posted by: Mick at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (jvt6t)

533 An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training

-
Well, combat is yucky!

Posted by: Private Heather Has Two Mommies at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (VVEnO)

534 Well done, CBD. Very well done.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (O+I8R)

535 534 An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training

-
Well, combat is yucky!
Posted by: Private Heather Has Two Mommies at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (VVEnO)

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And yet, you have so many medals pinned to your cheset.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

536 532 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (H5knJ)

It's the alleged 90% registered voter turnout that yells fraud to me.
Posted by: Can't help myself at May 13, 2021 11:26 AM (2DOZq)

You only get 90% in Soviet Union Election, comrade!!

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (0KKyI)

537 They used to talk about the " Hollowed Out" Armed Forces... are we there now?
Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (0KKyI)
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Here, there, everywhere.
Military? Hollowed out. Industrial base? Hollowed out. Culture? Hollowed out. Finances? Hollowed out. Families? Hollowed out. Relgion/churches? Hollowed out. The sciences? Hollowed out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (Jsjd7)

538 Outside of the PRC, I'm hard pressed to think of many countries who could conquer the US and actually make it worse.

Sillier, maybe. But not much worse.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 13, 2021 11:26 AM (6FeV1)

It would merely be a different species of silly.

We are already ruled by clowns. We are plateaued at peak absurdity.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (3l3v6)

539 Readiness for what? Invading 3 Mid East countries simultaneously for 20 years?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (XbclV)

540 351 Maricopa County election auditors has discovered the main database for
all election-related data for the 2020 General Election has been
deleted, despite a subpoena requiring that information to be provided.

https://bit.ly/3eIPmeP

Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (i0wNm)

Spoilage of evidence is a presumption of guilt.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

541 Colonial Pipeline forked over nearly $5 million last week to the Eastern European criminal group

Disappeared without a trace! Say, can you help us identify this woman who was in the Capitol on Jan. 6th?

Posted by: The FBI at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (z36Kd)

542 My mother, who's neglected me has found new ways to collect sealing wax....
Posted by: Mick at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (jvt6t)

Clearly you were treated kind but never brought up right.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (ifmtJ)

543 541 Spoilage of evidence is a presumption of guilt.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

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No intent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (LvTSG)

544 534 An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training

-
Well, combat is yucky!
Posted by: Private Heather Has Two Mommies at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (VVEnO)

Lather was 30 years old today
He put away all of his toys...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:29 AM (0KKyI)

545 Here, there, everywhere.
Military? Hollowed out. Industrial base? Hollowed out. Culture? Hollowed out. Finances? Hollowed out. Families? Hollowed out. Relgion/churches? Hollowed out. The sciences? Hollowed out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (Jsjd7)

---------------

Like a Chocolate Easter bunny.

But think of the weight savings!

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at May 13, 2021 11:29 AM (RQDhf)

546 Stacy Abrams is holding out for the cow jumps over the Moon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 13, 2021 11:29 AM (VVEnO)

547 Spoilage of evidence is a presumption of guilt.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

No standing!!

Posted by: John Boy Roberts at May 13, 2021 11:29 AM (jvt6t)

548 541 351

Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 10:52 AM (i0wNm)

Spoilage of evidence is a presumption of guilt.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

I guess it's a good thing that no one will be prosecuted then.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 13, 2021 11:29 AM (z5Vrg)

549 Spoilage of evidence is a presumption of guilt.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 13, 2021 11:29 AM (Y5qcH)

550 We are plateaued at peak absurdity.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (3l3v6)

Oh God...that's like saying, 'it can't get any worse'...you've jinxed us!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 13, 2021 11:29 AM (ifmtJ)

551 > Spoilage of evidence is a presumption of guilt.

I heard that a lot when it was news that Hillary deleted a bunch of emails. I think we've abandoned that legal concept.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (i0wNm)

552 Assholes. THAT sends the wrong message and encourages those crooks to do it again
Posted by: Nevergiveup
--------------
Happens all the time now. Not the company's fault, it is the new reality.

If you want to be annoyed, the Biden administration knows exactly who the hackers are and could stop this behavior. They choose not to.

It fit their agenda to have reason to have private companies that deliver critical services be forced into the government fold through nationalization or regulation.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (5p7BC)

553 The main reason to believe there was fraud:

Trump said there was. The left would love nothing more than to prove him wrong on the grandest scale possible. Instead, they're doing everything in the world to ensure they don't have to prove a thing.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

**

That's a great observation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (wCgji)

554 CBD just 2 things to darken what you said in the post.

Literally almost *nothing* done in the way of "mitigation" (the various response you point out having such huge costs) can be shown to have done *anything* to save a life or otherwise provide a public health benefit.

And the parents of those kids robbed of a year - based on various indicators and facto - went along with the worst part of this (like school closures, which even the CDC did not push) without anything more than some scattered push-back at a dozen school boards, in a country of 330M.

And these younger adults are "the country" draped around our necks.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (OTzUX)

555 552 > Spoilage of evidence is a presumption of guilt.

I heard that a lot when it was news that Hillary deleted a bunch of emails. I think we've abandoned that legal concept.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (i0wNm)

========

Depends...does the left consider you useful?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

556 They are doing the next best thing, establishing the narrative of "Countless audits have turned up no evidence of fraud". It's substitutionary in the eyes of most ignorant people. Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (aJJGg

That's like when they claim that election fraud is nonexistent because there are very few known cases, ignoring that the people who were elected have exactly zero incentive to investigate and prosecute said cases, and plenty of incentive to cover it up.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (BMmaB)

557 It's a real head scratcher why you were thrown out of leadership and no one likes you Liz...

"I think there is real concern among a number of members of my own party about a January 6 commission," Cheney said. "I've been very public that that commission needs to be bipartisan, it needs to look only at January 6 and the events leading up to it, not at the BLM and antifa riots last summer."

Also Biden can barely read the teleprompter delivering this drivel.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (cOgsy)

558 An Army made up of people who can't pass a PFT etc. etc. The simple solution is to bring back recruit training (not basic training, that comes later) and let the Drill Instructors, Drill Sergeants and Chiefs do their thing. A little overweight, there's a fat body platoon. Physical conditioning platoon for the weak ones. Those with a shady background will be observed, and then there's the Motivation Platoon. Shipping out to PI we had a guy delivered by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff, given a choice by the Judge.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 13, 2021 11:31 AM (I58tH)

559 "Would you accept a whoopsie?"

Blame it on Russian hackers and move on.

Posted by: f'd at May 13, 2021 11:31 AM (Tnijr)

560 Here, there, everywhere.
Military? Hollowed out. Industrial base? Hollowed out. Culture? Hollowed out. Finances? Hollowed out. Families? Hollowed out. Relgion/churches? Hollowed out. The sciences? Hollowed out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (Jsjd7)

That's what skinwalkers do. They inhabit the empty skin of their victims and demand respect.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at May 13, 2021 11:31 AM (3l3v6)

561 But destruction of evidence at this point cannot be reasonably explained by anything other than fraudulent intent.

Blah, blah, blah. Where's your proof?

Posted by: The Supreme Court at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (Lt1JN)

562 See there! A son is born
And we pronounce him fit to fight
There are black-heads on his shoulders
And he pees himself in the night
We'll make a man of him
Put him to a trade
Teach him to play Monopoly
And how to sing in the rain

Posted by: The New Army at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (jvt6t)

563 And the parents of those kids robbed of a year -
based on various indicators and facto - went along with the worst part
of this (like school closures, which even the CDC did not push) without
anything more than some scattered push-back at a dozen school boards, in
a country of 330M.

And these younger adults are "the country" draped around our necks.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2021 11:30 AM (OTzUX
rhomboid, our local schools have been open all year. No known cases of transmission.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (BMmaB)

564 Blah, blah, blah. Where's your proof?
Posted by: The Supreme Court at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (Lt1JN)
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When will your lower courts deign to allow us to present it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (Jsjd7)

565 562 But destruction of evidence at this point cannot be reasonably explained by anything other than fraudulent intent.

Blah, blah, blah. Where's your proof?
Posted by: The Supreme Court at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (Lt1JN)

Ah, the " Habeus Documentus" Clause...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:33 AM (0KKyI)

566 527 Most of America has no idea how small our military has become. Readiness for what is left is in the toilet.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (N3El/)

But we have diversity!!!!
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So, since the armed forces are being nerfed out the wazoo, wouldn't you say that makes overthrowing the government a little easier? Just sayin'.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2021 11:33 AM (W+kMI)

567 Stacy Abrams is holding out for the cow jumps over the Moon.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

THAT'S NO MOON!

Posted by: Han Solo see Stacy in orbit at May 13, 2021 11:33 AM (vcOmj)

568 Judge delays trial of the 3 officers charged in George Floyd's death till March 2022.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 13, 2021 11:33 AM (NpAcC)

569 Oh I dunno.

I spent a year loving on the beach and learning how to be alone. I am as close to my boys as I've ever been. I lost some friends, but made some new ones. I've traveled more than usual over the last year. I've lost some weight and gained some independence and confidence.

And I bet I just got willow Ed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 13, 2021 11:33 AM (W2Pud)

570 rhomboid, our local schools have been open all year. No known cases of transmission.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (BMmaB)

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Yep. Millions of kids in school and no superspreader silliness or outbreaks. And you know it would be nationwide "told you so!" news if there were.

Zilch, zero, nada. Completely useless shutdowns now that we have actual science to look to.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (wCgji)

571 Wow - I was here early, went out to run 4 miles, made lunch, and the rant thread is still up?

Posted by: Doof at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (mZUr4)

572 565 Blah, blah, blah. Where's your proof?
Posted by: The Supreme Court at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (Lt1JN)

No blah blah blah!

Posted by: Capt. James T. Kirk at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (vuisn)

573 Election fraud can be proven. It's possible that it can be shown to have been material (i.e. changed an outcome). The pieces are there in the case of 2020 and the 6 states, but I haven't yet seen them put together well. Reading Navarro's analysis again.

Braynard can "fuzz up the outcome" i.e. demonstrate there can be no confidence in the result via his method of ID'ing documentable illegal ballots, but proving the outcome was changed is more difficult. Based just on a partial review he asserts he has fuzzed up the GA outcome.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (OTzUX)

574 See there! A son is born
And we pronounce him fit to fight
There are black-heads on his shoulders
And he pees himself in the night
We'll make a man of him
Put him to a trade
Teach him to play Monopoly
And how to sing in the rain
Posted by: The New Army at May 13, 2021 11:32 AM (jvt6t)
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On the whole, I'd rather ride myself over the fields.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (WGara)

575 567 527 Most of America has no idea how small our military has become. Readiness for what is left is in the toilet.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (N3El/)

But we have diversity!!!!
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So, since the armed forces are being nerfed out the wazoo, wouldn't you say that makes overthrowing the government a little easier? Just sayin'.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2021 11:33 AM (W+kMI)

Why yes. Yes it does.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (z5Vrg)

576 Hmm...just saw on twitchy that George P. Bush tweeted out against Lez Cheney. Why I bet that young man is as stalwart a conservative as Marco Rubio.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (Hf7hU)

577 545 534 An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training

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Well, combat is yucky!
Posted by: Private Heather Has Two Mommies at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (VVEnO)

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I joined the Navy in order to be an Agent of Change!

Posted by: Co-ma'am-der Carl at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (RQDhf)

578 @541

Ask the team that was responsible for deleting all data related to the IRS Abuse Scandal/Lois Lerner Imbroglio about the prison time they got and the consequences they faced.

Lois Lerner is sipping Pina Coladas on a beach somewhere on our dime.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 13, 2021 11:35 AM (cOgsy)

579 I spent a year loving on the beach and learning how to be alone.

Pretty sure there's a typo in there...

Posted by: t-bird at May 13, 2021 11:35 AM (KDCRD)

580 "I spent a year loving on the beach"

Well at least it wasn't eternity.

Posted by: zombie Burt Lancaster at May 13, 2021 11:35 AM (Tnijr)

581 "What is the opportunity cost of..."

Opportunity cost is another concept the Progs cannot begin to understand, or to care about if they did understand.

To them an opportunity cost only exists in the academic sense, about social justice and the like.

They don't realize or don't care that cheap energy benefits blacks and transgenders as well as whites and hetero people. That fixing potholes benefits the poor as well as the rich. That safe streets probably benefit transgenders and blacks more than whites and heteros.

Posted by: Gref at May 13, 2021 11:35 AM (AMIL/)

582 Judge delays trial of the 3 officers charged in George Floyd's death till March 2022.
Posted by: redridinghood

So much for the right to a speedy trial....

Posted by: rickb223 at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (OCTRt)

583 Lather was 30 years old today
He put away all of his toys...
Posted by: kraken

His mother showed newspaper clippings to him
Of his friends who had stopped being boys

There was Sergeant Dow Jones,
27 years old
Commanding his very own tank

Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (vcOmj)

584 I'm still unclear on why we're looking at hidden stuff.

Were voting laws changed outside of required legislative procedures? Yes or no? If yes, those votes and outcomes were illegal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (wCgji)

585 254 million 18 and over
70% are registered to vote = 178 million
160 million / 178 million = 90%

No way in hell.

( I even question whether 70% are registered)

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (2DOZq)

586 Most of America has no idea how small our military has become. Readiness for what is left is in the toilet.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (N3El/)

But we have diversity!!!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 13, 2021 11:25 AM (jvt6t)

There was a study done in the 80's related to readiness. It measured the overall average Physical Fitness test scores against the success/failure of units going through training at the National Training Center (NTC) at Ft Irwin CA. They discovered a direct correlation...the better the scores, the better the results on the field exercises.
this study has since been replicated a couple of times, with the same results. I doubt the Army leadership has the balls to do it again.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (axyOa)

587 Lois Lerner is sipping Pina Coladas on a beach somewhere on our dime.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 13, 2021 11:35 AM (cOgsy)
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And whatever happened to that smirking toad Koskinen?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (WGara)

588 585 I'm still unclear on why we're looking at hidden stuff.

Were voting laws changed outside of required legislative procedures? Yes or no? If yes, those votes and outcomes were illegal.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (wCgji)

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MI's changes were illegal according to federal court.

And yet the results still stand.

Just change the rules no matter what, do whatever no matter what, and just wait until it's too late. That's the lesson of 2020.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

589 You want an example of inflation?

Batman from DC costs $8.99 now. For 22 pages. Its not like the quality or volume has gone up. It still full of ads. Its just nearly ten bucks for a freaking comic book

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:37 AM (KZzsI)

590 Judge delays trial of the 3 officers charged in George Floyd's death till March 2022.

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I saw where some place in Texas where he was a criminal pardoned him of all of his crimes because reasons.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 11:37 AM (wCgji)

591 486 yes used cars are insane.

I have an aunt with dementia who's been moved to memory care. She has a '99 Chevy minivan, which was not well taken care of but only has 66k original miles on it. A friend who has a friend with an auto auction took it up there as a favor to sell it. He ran it through the red light/as-is lane -- and it sold for $2400. The blue book was maybe $800 for one in that condition.

Posted by: the other coyote at May 13, 2021 11:37 AM (F1pPC)

592 576 567 527 Most of America has no idea how small our military has become. Readiness for what is left is in the toilet.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado - Tempus belli) at May 13, 2021 11:24 AM (N3El/)

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Imagine correcting a drill sergeant that he used the wrong pronoun.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock, into furrin cleavage at May 13, 2021 11:38 AM (RQDhf)

593
I joined the Navy in order to be an Agent of Change!
Posted by: Co-ma'am-der Carl at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (RQDhf)

War is soft power by other means.

Posted by: The Ma'ambassador at May 13, 2021 11:38 AM (Uh2oA)

594 584
There was Sergeant Dow Jones,
27 years old
Commanding his very own tank
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (vcOmj)

Airplane did a number of excellent songs... most of them lost to time...

Posted by: kraken at May 13, 2021 11:38 AM (0KKyI)

595 Caesar and Robbie, thanks - and there's no shortage of "control groups" for analyzing the impact of every "mitigation" measure. Sweden of course - where last I checked, fatalities in school-age kids over the course of the first year of the virus = 0.00. Hospitalization/mortality among teachers and staff = same as genpop.

Do we see these actual facts and simple incontrovertible scientific observations being screamed at media, screamed at the buffoons from CDC and NIH before Congress, screamed at the bulk of useless elected officials?

Nope. No press. Seemingly, a completely collapsed (in terms of both integrity and competence) public health and scientific/medical community (yes there are exceptions - but for there to be only "exceptions" in an historic outrage of this dimension is damning beyond words).

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2021 11:38 AM (OTzUX)

596 Just change the rules no matter what, do whatever no matter what, and just wait until it's too late. That's the lesson of 2020.

**

It really is. And we're just getting started.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 11:38 AM (wCgji)

597 578 545 534 An army made up of people who can't pass physical fitness tests, have little combat training
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Well, combat is yucky!
Posted by: Private Heather Has Two Mommies at May 13, 2021 11:27 AM (VVEnO)
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I joined the Navy in order to be an Agent of Change!
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The Harris administration has made the pretty but uselessly untrained soldiers of all the bad SyFy-run movies a reality. God help us all. Or maybe it's time for that insurrection that the Infotainment industry keeps telling us we're planning.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2021 11:38 AM (W+kMI)

598 They don't realize or don't care that cheap energy
benefits blacks and transgenders as well as whites and hetero people.
That fixing potholes benefits the poor as well as the rich. That safe
streets probably benefit transgenders and blacks more than whites and
heteros.

Posted by: Gref at May 13, 2021 11:35 AM (AMIL/
Which dovetails with one of my favorite rants about the rule of law. The rule of law benefits the weak in society, not the string. The strong will always do fine, but the weak are protected by the rule of law. Assaulting the rule of law, as the leftists do, directly harms the weak.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 13, 2021 11:38 AM (BMmaB)

599 the nood cometh

Posted by: DB- just DB at May 13, 2021 11:39 AM (iTXRQ)

600 597 Just change the rules no matter what, do whatever no matter what, and just wait until it's too late. That's the lesson of 2020.

**

It really is. And we're just getting started.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 13, 2021 11:38 AM (wCgji)

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Another potential lesson is...don't let this shit happen in the first place.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 13, 2021 11:39 AM (LvTSG)

601 NOOOOD -- Fauci

Posted by: Doof at May 13, 2021 11:39 AM (mZUr4)

602 Again, as was said, over a year ago, you have to stop the fraud before it happens because trying to prove fraud after the fact is extraordinarily hard for many reasons, and the courts, as we have starkly seen, are not going to invalidate votes once they have been tabulated.

We know how they cheated, they created a universe of millions ballots and dozens of ways to cheat, and they cheated, they cheated in broad daylight in full view.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 13, 2021 11:40 AM (cOgsy)

603 490 The Biden administration to prioritize transgender migrants seeking to cross the border.
_________

Well if there is one thing we don't have enough of in this country, it's tranny freaks!

And we certainly don't have anything better to spend our money on than paying for foreign mental cases to have their junk cut off in our hospitals so they can play-act at being a different sex than what they really are.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 13, 2021 11:40 AM (k4dH2)

604 Hmm...just saw on twitchy that George P. Bush tweeted out against Lez Cheney. Why I bet that young man is as stalwart a conservative as Marco Rubio.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at May 13, 2021 11:34 AM (Hf7hU)

George P publicly supported Trump early on and never backed off.

Posted by: Can't help myself at May 13, 2021 11:40 AM (2DOZq)

605 Assaulting the rule of law, as the leftists do, directly harms the weak.

And they know that. Because that used to be their entire argument against the police and for justice. They understand it perfectly, and are abusing it on purpose

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:40 AM (KZzsI)

606 George P publicly supported Trump early on and never backed off

Yeah George P Bush seems... different than the rest of his family. It happens.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:41 AM (KZzsI)

607 Just change the rules no matter what, do whatever no matter what, and just wait until it's too late. That's the lesson of 2020.

And Boofy McSerialrapist and Literal Handmaiden agreed with that.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 13, 2021 11:42 AM (Bmy3R)

608 Dr Atlas, the lone, lonely, and ultimately ineffectual add-on to the task force brought in by the Trump WH far too late, gave an interview to a European online outfit.

I'll never forget it. His demeanor, and his words, while reflecting what I'd been thinking for a long time, stunned me - coming from someone actually at the center of it all.

I remember him saying he took the job because "the country was off the rails", and he was desperate to help fix it. He meant much more than just the insane, baseless medieval hocus pocus of "mitigation" nonsense applied to an already prevalent and therefore uncontainable virus. He meant the stunning lysenkoist totalitarian mentality and environment in which purely scientific (and correct) observations and assertions were greeted with shunning, "cancellation", attacks, etc.

He was truly demoralized by the whole picture. Only high-level public official this entire time whose words could have been mine.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 13, 2021 11:42 AM (OTzUX)

609 550 Spoilage of evidence is a presumption of guilt.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2021 11:28 AM (ynpvh)

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 13, 2021 11:29 AM (Y5qcH)

Sounds like George Costanza...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 13, 2021 11:42 AM (ynpvh)

610 There was a Sgt Maj of the Marine Corps who, when the Corps was big on running and being skinny stated that without upper body strength, you're going to get your ass run off the hill you're trying to take in your silly running shorts. IIRC, the same Sgt Maj was quoted as saying there should be a shitbird of the month who should be taken out and shot. Can't remember his name and wish he had a newsletter.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 13, 2021 11:43 AM (I58tH)

611 There was a study done in the 80's related to
readiness. It measured the overall average Physical Fitness test scores
against the success/failure of units going through training at the
National Training Center (NTC) at Ft Irwin CA. They discovered a direct
correlation...the better the scores, the better the results on the
field exercises.

this study has since been replicated a couple of times, with the
same results. I doubt the Army leadership has the balls to do it again.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 13, 2021 11:36 AM (axyOa)

Correlation doesn't equal causation in this case. The causal factor is leadership. Leaders who have high standards for physical fitness also have high standards for a hundred other important things like troop leading procedures, gunnery, radio procedures, maintenance, crew drills, battle drills, light discipline, etc., etc. The fact that a unit has high PT scores and that a unit does well at NTC are both indicators that the unit has good leadership.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 13, 2021 11:43 AM (BMmaB)

612 513 I'm hoping to throw the pup into the deep end this summer. She found a job working at a minor league sports venue waiting tables in the suites, and I'm going to force her to babysit and get a third job, hopefully mixing with people her own age and/or from all walks of life in an "on your feet" environment like food service or retail. Hoping to cram 2 years worth of socialization into one short summer.

Posted by: the other coyote at May 13, 2021 11:44 AM (F1pPC)

613 I bought a used car just about a year ago. It was still in the oh shit period of Corona when prices dipped. I bought it for $18k private party. I could sell it privately today for $22-23k easily. I see dealers swelling that same car, similar miles, for $25k.

It is surreal.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 13, 2021 11:44 AM (XbclV)

614 590 You want an example of inflation?

Batman from DC costs $8.99 now. For 22 pages. Its not like the quality or volume has gone up. It still full of ads. Its just nearly ten bucks for a freaking comic book
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Price going up because they're not selling as many, although inflation sucks. OTOH a translated manga volume selling for $10.95 has 6-8 chapters' worth of material, about 70-80 pages of story, and all the ads are in the back. Currently the top 20 selling titles for comic books and graphic novels in the USA are filled by manga. The readers have spoken.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2021 11:45 AM (W+kMI)

615 130 The pipeline is the latest thing that shows how fragile everything is.
Posted by: f'd at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (Tnijr)

This and what happened in TX last winter. It's the New Amerika.

Posted by: Justsayin' at May 13, 2021 11:45 AM (Fs5vw)

616 IIRC, the same Sgt Maj was quoted as saying there
should be a shitbird of the month who should be taken out and shot.
Can't remember his name and wish he had a newsletter. Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 13, 2021 11:43 AM (I58tH
I had a platoon sergeant once who thought there should be a "Shoot a dud a day" program. He thought you wouldn't have to do it for more than a couple of weeks and Joe would get the message.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 13, 2021 11:45 AM (BMmaB)

617 You want an example of inflation?

Batman from DC costs $8.99 now. For 22 pages. Its not like the quality or volume has gone up. It still full of ads. Its just nearly ten bucks for a freaking comic book
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 13, 2021 11:37 AM (KZzsI)

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A few years ago, when the still had Netflix, they had the entire Leave it to Beaver series available. So on a lark, we started binge watching it. If for no other reason, a little bit of cultural awareness for the kids, and so they would "get" references to the show.

There was one episode where June gets back from the grocery shopping, and Ward pulls the receipt out of one bag. A comically long receipt. And he gets to the bottom, raises his eyebrows and sighs forlornly at the total being $25.

Yeah. I had to really let that sink in.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock, into furrin cleavage at May 13, 2021 11:47 AM (RQDhf)

618 615 130 The pipeline is the latest thing that shows how fragile everything is.
Posted by: f'd at May 13, 2021 10:21 AM (Tnijr)

This and what happened in TX last winter. It's the New Amerika.
Posted by: Justsayin' at May 13, 2021 11:45 AM (Fs5vw)

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Fortify locally. Keep a couple cans of gas at home. Keep a few weeks of food on hand.

I do not have a generator and Snovid made me move acquiring one to very high on the priority list.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock, into furrin cleavage at May 13, 2021 11:50 AM (RQDhf)

619 Sure groceries cost $25 but what was Wards income?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 13, 2021 11:51 AM (XbclV)

620 606 George P publicly supported Trump early on and never backed off

Yeah George P Bush seems... different than the rest of his family. It happens.
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Hey, George P. might like Trump and his policies and dedication to the Republic. Or maybe he's getting Jeb back for some stuff. Either way, good to know there's one Bush left who hasn't been absorbed by the Uniparty.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 13, 2021 12:03 PM (W+kMI)

621 "[...] a generation of children who have lost more than a year of their intellectual and social development."

But enough about college education . . .

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