Daily Tech News 20 February 2022

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I noticed this too. Apart from the usual propaganda outlets like the CBC and the mainstream Canadian press, there's a huge amount of bot activity supporting police brutality against peaceful protestors.

An account created in February 2022, with 1 follower, complaining about alleged problems that pre-date the existence of his Twitter account. This is what taxpayer dollars buys by way of Twitter bots. https://t.co/QEpRndzhVm pic.twitter.com/EvysBXz1r1
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) February 19, 2022

They're not even very good bots. This really needs an investigation because if what I'm seeing is real, it's a massive scandal.

As an added bonus, the avatar for that account was swiped from an online ad for l*ace w*gs.

Tech News

This exchange was real - though the best part is now deleted.

Bots tend not to actively embarrass themselves like that.
Google is making updates to Android to improve user privacy, sort of. (Washington Post / MSN)

Similar to steps taken by Apple with iOS in recent years, the changes would prevent third parties from tracking Android user activity across the internet. While doing absolutely nothing to protect users from Google.

This is not about what's best for the customer. It's entirely about control.
Clearview AI aims to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year. (Washington Post / MSN)

Take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

(And no, they're not talking about porn. Though it might be better if they were.)

Not At All Tech News

Speaking of the usual propaganda outlets, who had Won't somebody please think of the Gestapo? on their 2022 Bingo cards?

Just spoke with an OPP officer at one of the outermost Red Zone checkpoints. He said people have been trying “all day” to cross illegally into downtown, hurling insults at officers when turned away. “It’s been a long day,” he said. #Ottawa #OttawaOccupation #FreedomConvoy2022
— Marc-André Cossette (@MarcCossette) February 20, 2022

They've had a hard day brutalising innocent women and children, and just want to go home, have dinner, and kick the dog.

Party Like It's 1980-ish Video of the Day

Disclaimer: "Well, that's good. Fantastic, that is. Twenty minutes to save the world and I've got a post office. And it's shut." The Doctor was basically a sysadmin having a bad day.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:01 AM (arJlL)

2 Hey JT.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 20, 2022 04:02 AM (ZprhJ)

3 Hiya Pixy !

Guess everybody's sleeping; like Insomniac......

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:04 AM (arJlL)

4 Hi, JT and Pixy!

I'm only up for a few more minutes.

Posted by: Emmie is unacceptable, eh at February 20, 2022 04:08 AM (t62xj)

5 "Settle down, Himmler."
That's great, Pixy.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 04:08 AM (CRS/E)

6 Hiya Emmie !

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:08 AM (arJlL)

7 If you call someone Himmler, are you assuming their gender ?

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:10 AM (arJlL)

8 I should have said Themmler?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 20, 2022 04:10 AM (ZprhJ)

9 "Who is Himmler."

And that is why history rhymes, because too mush of humanity fails to learn from the past, and half the ones who do learn try to repeat it for their own ends.

Posted by: Bete at February 20, 2022 04:11 AM (Ojki1)

10 Itler ?

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:11 AM (arJlL)

11 3 Hiya Pixy !

Guess everybody's sleeping; like Insomniac......
Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:04 AM (arJlL)

He's just out clubbing.

Those tire iron don't swing themselves after all- cause they are lazy inanimate objects.

Posted by: Bete at February 20, 2022 04:12 AM (Ojki1)

12 I guess Skip is roasting a pig for breakfast......

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:13 AM (arJlL)

13 To arms!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 20, 2022 04:14 AM (JMuyG)

14 "He said people have been trying 'all day' to cross illegally into downtown, hurling insults at officers when turned away."

Insults? Being hurled? I need my fainting couch.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 04:16 AM (CRS/E)

15 444 https://tinyurl.com/bdh84j7d
20 Tweets from Bad Blue
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 03:10 AM

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 04:16 AM (CRS/E)

16 13 To arms!
Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 20, 2022 04:14 AM (JMuyG)

*sob*

Bastard.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at February 20, 2022 04:20 AM (Ojki1)

17 That Chrystia Freeland person. In the badblue tweets. *Types, deletes.*

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 04:23 AM (CRS/E)

18 Thanks Skip.

And m !

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:25 AM (arJlL)

19 Rebel News catches Canadian police officer ssaying that "Protesters need to hear our jackboots on the ground"

https://tinyurl.com/yc2jhd9m

Pray for the police. They need a serious change of heart

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2022 04:37 AM (BaOn7)

20 Hiya Fen !

Feeling any better ?

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:38 AM (arJlL)

21 I can see Himmler's house from here!

I jest. Himmler's house was destroyed after the war to prevent it from being used as a memorial by national socialist bitter clingers. But he lived practically down the street (the road is now officially the B304) just within the Munich city limits. He apparently raised chickens there before becoming the monstrosity to which he grew.

Nice work, Pixy, keep it up. I always enjoy reading your updates.

Posted by: SPinRH_F-16 at February 20, 2022 04:38 AM (t0cxj)

22 Good morning, JT

I am coming along. How are you?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2022 04:39 AM (BaOn7)

23 I am coming along. How are you?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Mahvelous !

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 04:42 AM (arJlL)

24 Does Canada have the equivalent of the Hawaiian judge to enjoin the government's actions? Or how does one force Parliment into session?

Or are all the opposing branches of the Canadian government actually supporters of the crackdown?

Posted by: Pete Bog at February 20, 2022 04:50 AM (Jzz++)

25 "I smell a rat." Writer thinks there will be performance art involving masks at the SOTU :

https://tinyurl.com/2ckk4cxw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2022 04:52 AM (BaOn7)

26 RIP Charley Taylor, Washington Redskins wide receiver and HOF member

Posted by: DB at February 20, 2022 04:53 AM (geLO8)

27 About that bot and the "poop in the street" allegations:
They try to say that the "insurrectionists" of 1/6 smeared shit all over the Capitol, and now they are doing the same to the truckers. There's no evidence of this, of course. It's another case of projection, public shitting is a hallmark of the Left.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at February 20, 2022 04:54 AM (8E8Am)

28 Truck Trudeau

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 05:09 AM (2JoB8)

29 Mostly remember Bananarama from MTV

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 05:12 AM (2JoB8)

30 saving skip from three in a row

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 05:13 AM (CRS/E)

31 Lots of great Canada reporting from an Ozzie, here:

https://nitter.net/ozraeliavi

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 05:17 AM (CRS/E)

32 Working on coffee and blueberry pancakes

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 05:32 AM (2JoB8)

33
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 20, 2022 05:35 AM (DUIap)

34 I am anticipating a very nice early morning repast

we have re-heated DiGiorno Thin Crust Deluxe pizza, paired with a wonderful Diet Coke of recent vintage

livin' the dream

Posted by: DB at February 20, 2022 05:39 AM (geLO8)

35 I never get up this early. My insomnia is getting worse, it seems. But that's not entirely true. I sleep well for the first four or five hours. But then I lie there fretting about whatever I end up fretting about.

Maybe I am just settling in to Old Man Time. Being 29 and all. My Grandpa would already be brewing a pot of coffee right now.

Where are my manners? Good morning, Pixy and Horde.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 05:44 AM (x8Wzq)

36 Hiya Pug !

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 05:46 AM (arJlL)

37 What I remember about Bananarama is how they pronounced their name. Ba-Nawnuha-Rawma. Guessing they were British.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 05:47 AM (x8Wzq)

38 Hi, JT.

thinking I should putter around, but others are sleeping. Even my hyperactive kitteh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 05:49 AM (x8Wzq)

39 27 About that bot and the "poop in the street" allegations:
They try to say that the "insurrectionists" of 1/6 smeared shit all over the Capitol, and now they are doing the same to the truckers. There's no evidence of this, of course. It's another case of projection, public shitting is a hallmark of the professional bureaucrat Left.
Posted by: Midnight Rambler at February 20, 2022 04:54 AM (8E8Am)

You ask for poop, Theo, I give you the E. P. A.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 20, 2022 05:49 AM (8C7+r)

40 38 Hi, JT.

thinking I should putter around, but others are sleeping. Even my hyperactive kitteh.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 05:49 AM (x8Wzq)

I'm here because doggeh and two kittehs

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 20, 2022 05:50 AM (8C7+r)

41 If I identify as a Gold Medal winner, will they give me a medal ?

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 05:53 AM (arJlL)

42 Cool clear water....

keep a movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan....

https://youtu.be/c0aIl3eG8O8

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 05:53 AM (Lzpvj)

43 Mornin', folk! Chilly here so I must bundle up a bit to work out. Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat has improved a little bit; again this morning he has not pointedly withdrawn from me when I came into the living room, but remained sprawled on the floor for petting and brushing. And I don't mean in a limp dishrag way, but actively looking at me, stretching his head when I scratch it, and purring strongly. He just visited the kitchen for some breakfast, and has returned to sit not far away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 20, 2022 05:54 AM (c6xtn)

44 "The only thing that matters is I make it home and to my pension..."

//Officer Friendly

End sovereign immunity now.

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 05:54 AM (Lzpvj)

45 "smearing shit" all over the place is the pastime of their San Francisco voter base so I guess it is a compliment.

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 05:56 AM (Lzpvj)

46 I'm here because doggeh and two kittehs
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 20, 2022 05:50 AM (8C7+r)

The part that sucks is that it is not yet 0400 here. I had this problem last summer when I was at Mom and Dad's helping Mom take care of Dad.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 05:56 AM (x8Wzq)

47 35 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 05:44 AM (x8Wzq)

I am getting to where I sleep more as I age, of course if you think back to my "glory days" here I was averaging about 4 hours a day then now it is more like 6 and a half.

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 05:57 AM (Lzpvj)

48 I am getting to where I sleep more as I age, of course if you think back to my "glory days" here I was averaging about 4 hours a day then now it is more like 6 and a half.
Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 05:57 AM (Lzpvj)

I sleep less. But, it's quality sleep, like 4 hours or so. The part that bothers me is the wee hours, where I just kind of lie in bed getting worked up about stupid shit, like, "is it garbage day?"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 06:02 AM (x8Wzq)

49 48 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 06:02 AM (x8Wzq)

Get a dry erase board and map out the next day's events....it reduces dread and makes LE think you have dementia when they no-knock you.

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 06:03 AM (Lzpvj)

50 Protestors against police brutality cheering on the Ottawa police.

It's not even gaslighting anymore. There are no words

Posted by: blaster at February 20, 2022 06:10 AM (9otr5)

51 I'm hoping the cop who used the jackboot reference mentioned above is oblivious to its meaning/origin, else a change of heart is a long putt.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 06:10 AM (oWBc3)

52 He just visited the kitchen for some breakfast, and has returned to sit not far away.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 20, 2022 05:54 AM (c6xtn)

'Mornin.' Give your kitteh a scritch for me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 06:11 AM (x8Wzq)

53 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2022 06:12 AM (Msys3)

54 Anyone get a call to bail Krak out yet?

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 06:12 AM (2JoB8)

55
Get a dry erase board and map out the next day's events....it reduces dread and makes LE think you have dementia when they no-knock you.

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 06:03 AM

make sure you include items on your daily "to-do" list such as "change underwear" & "take pills" & "poop"

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 20, 2022 06:13 AM (DUIap)

56 Get a dry erase board and map out the next day's events....it reduces dread and makes LE think you have dementia when they no-knock you.
Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 06:03 AM (Lzpvj)

Fookers would make me draw a clock or some shit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at February 20, 2022 06:13 AM (x8Wzq)

57 Where does Canada go from here? I'm afraid the only lingering lesson may be that a smarmy ski instructor with limited intelligence makes a pretty good tyrant. Not quite as elegant as 'that paper hanging son of a hitch'.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 06:13 AM (oWBc3)

58 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com
/2022/02/sparse.html

Australia population density

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 06:14 AM (2JoB8)

59 The part that bothers me is the wee hours, where I just kind of lie in bed getting worked up about stupid shit, like, "is it garbage day?"
Posted by: Pug Mahon

I'm glad I'm not alone in that. I don't even have anything important to concern me anymore but yet, there it is.

Did I get something out of the freezer to thaw?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2022 06:14 AM (Msys3)

60 How wildly popular is David "No my wife please!" Fwench with the conservative base?

Even Tepid Err's cuckish commentariat has had enough of his shit to the point there were 217 posts overnight in a sidebar on the twat.

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 06:15 AM (Lzpvj)

61 57 Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 06:13 AM (oWBc3)

Downward, only downward.

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 06:15 AM (Lzpvj)

62
As I only caught a portion of last night's moviegique thread in live time, I'll post this modest bon mot here --

Oscar is a good name for a cat.
Posted by: Eromero at February 19, 2022 09:53 PM (0OP+5)
The neighbor's cat is named Oscar. He comes over and has howling matches with my black tom, Angus.
[do not judge me]
Posted by: Kindltot

"Oscar and Angus" would be a great name for a better-than-average food cart franchising operation. The reader is left to suss out what would be on the menu.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 20, 2022 06:19 AM (pNxlR)

63 Good morning morning-horde people.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 06:19 AM (vnqom)

64 Going to get to store within the hour, better for crowd and product availability.

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 06:22 AM (2JoB8)

65
Get a dry erase board and map out the next day's events....it reduces dread and makes LE think you have dementia when they no-knock you.
Posted by: sven

The small dry erase board in our kitchen is packed with scribblings -- mostly phone numbers -- that are completely context-free at this point and therefore worthless. Yet still they persist because he who would erase them usually gets subjected to a 24 to 72 hour episode of being the recipient of the stink eye from she who thinks there's hidden, crucial and irreplaceable nuggets buried thereon.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 20, 2022 06:26 AM (pNxlR)

66 Watching that Ottawa police chief, I wish they could have gotten Strother Martin for that bit.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 06:28 AM (oWBc3)

67 gets subjected to a 24 to 72 hour episode of being the recipient of the stink eye from she who thinks there's hidden, crucial and irreplaceable nuggets buried thereon.

Posted by: Krebs

Write them down first and then replace them with random restaurant phone numbers from your area...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 06:31 AM (vnqom)

68 49 48 Get a dry erase board and map out the next day's events....it reduces dread and makes LE think you have dementia when they no-knock you.
Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 06:03 AM (Lzpvj)

That escalated quickly!

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 06:34 AM (2Q+cC)

69 Leaning onto God. A Christian devotional from "Our Daily Bread"

https://tinyurl.com/3yywwx6r

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2022 06:35 AM (a5R65)

70 Thank you Fen - Good morning!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2022 06:37 AM (Msys3)

71
Write them down first and then replace them with random restaurant phone numbers from your area...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Great idea.

I usually record my "must recall" items on small scraps of paper or on the back of my other printed items that I intended to discard. Every so often, I gather up all those and dump them into a text file on my laptop (named something like, "hey, dummy, this is really important stuff that you should place where they belong.rtf". Half of what I jotted down were usernames and passwords, but without context and so I left myself wondering, "Now, WTF were these attached to, again?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 20, 2022 06:39 AM (pNxlR)

72 And a beautiful psalm-103

https://tinyurl.com/yc2ypuzh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2022 06:39 AM (a5R65)

73 A good one to live by Fen. Thanks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 06:39 AM (vnqom)

74 I have post-its all over the place to help me get what needs done, done.

One of them is always - "update post-its".

Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2022 06:41 AM (Msys3)

75
Write them down first and then replace them with random restaurant phone numbers from your area...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Replacements like
1-887-CAL-LNSA or 1-855-TEL-LCIA
might cause the stasi to wonder with whom they are messing around, too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 20, 2022 06:44 AM (pNxlR)

76 "Now, WTF were these attached to, again?"
Posted by: Krebs

A computer users lament if I've ever heard one!

One of them is always - "update post-its".
Posted by: Tonypete

An all inclusive demand. Excellent.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 06:44 AM (vnqom)

77 15 in the bonus tweets the one from nunchuk.io (whatever that is) is awesome

https://twitter.com/APompliano/status/
1495038292773019655

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 20, 2022 06:44 AM (mTuD/)

78 The sun is lightening the sky in NJ. it's lovely:

"I abide realisingly in thy presence. With thee is the fountain of Light. The entrance of Thy words giveth Light."

M.V Dunlop

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2022 06:46 AM (vtV3C)

79 Youre welcome, TonyPete. Good morning to you!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2022 06:47 AM (vtV3C)

80 G'morning, all.

A brisk 38 degrees in the back yard.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 06:50 AM (3D/fK)

81 Black female high school student is identified as vandal behind racist graffiti that saw Sacramento high school's water fountains scrawled with 'white' and 'colored'

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 06:53 AM (yrol0)

82 vmom how was Dune?

Only saw bits of first attempt

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 06:54 AM (2JoB8)

83 The Fake racial attack is needed to make everyone aware or real racism

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2022 06:56 AM (2JoB8)

84 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 20, 2022 06:56 AM (ju2Fy)

85 I'm shocked!, shocked! I say rhennigantx.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2022 06:56 AM (Msys3)

86 "Black female high school student is identified as vandal behind racist graffiti that saw Sacramento high school's water fountains scrawled with 'white' and 'colored'"

Which reminds me, been over two weeks since the authorities were quoted by CNN as having identified several suspects in the series of bomb threats across the nation directed at HBCU's.

Yet still no follow-up.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 06:58 AM (3D/fK)

87 Dear Ottawa police

Tired of being brutalised by the public? Go work for Wal-Mart...

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2022 06:59 AM (W9EyO)

88 Was waiting and now no time
American Thinker has a article up Alec is getting a wrongfull lawsuit and is pretending it never happened with nice family Tweets

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 20, 2022 07:01 AM (2JoB8)

89 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 20, 2022 07:01 AM (sAmhv)

90 Alec Baldwin needs an ANSUL system jammed up his anus

That is all

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2022 07:01 AM (W9EyO)

91 Lindholm spent just under an hour and 16 minutes traversing the course in howling, freezing winds, leading to his penis becoming frozen for the second time in a cross-country skiing race following a similar incident in Ruka, Finland last year.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:02 AM (yrol0)

92 Apropos of nothing - since the beginning of the year, 11 of my HS classmates have passed.

This 29 yr old thing isn't for sissies.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2022 07:02 AM (Msys3)

93 Lindholm spent just under an hour and 16 minutes traversing the course in howling, freezing winds, leading to his penis becoming frozen for the second time in a cross-country skiing race following a similar incident in Ruka, Finland last year.
Posted by: rhennigantx

That will be hard on him.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2022 07:03 AM (Msys3)

94 Skip, I liked Dune, though it felt more like episode one on a mini series than a movie.
But I read the first three books and I like to see how film makers interpret it; while not being a fan with my own vision of the right way.
It shares the same flaws as other Dune adaptations - the characters are rather two dimensional. I think the acting was muted, overall. Baron Harkonnen was disappointing.
In this one the desert felt like its own character, which was cool.
I could tell the director was a fan of the books.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 20, 2022 07:03 AM (mTuD/)

95 "Alec Baldwin needs an ANSUL system jammed up his anus "

Can one of those systems do a Crazy Ivan once it is in the nether passage?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 07:04 AM (3D/fK)

96 "Black female high school student is identified as vandal behind racist graffiti that saw Sacramento high school's water fountains scrawled with 'white' and 'colored'"

*

Has there been one instance of one of these widely publicized hate crimes having actually been committed by a white person against a black person, or have they all been black people doing bullsh*t things in order to keep perpetuating the pathetic stereotype of black people tending to perpetually keep doing bullsh*t things?

Seems like that would be an interesting news story in itself.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hey, remember the conspiracy theories about collecting your DNA from the PCR tests? at February 20, 2022 07:05 AM (CM8Oa)

97 "since the beginning of the year, 11 of my HS classmates have passed. "

In the 51 days since new years?

Damn, I'd be looking over my shoulder every minute.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 07:05 AM (3D/fK)

98 "Seems like that would be an interesting news story in itself."

What would?

Posted by: The MSM at February 20, 2022 07:07 AM (3D/fK)

99 That will be hard on him.
Posted by: Tonypete

ISWYDT

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 20, 2022 07:08 AM (mTuD/)

100 VIA, yep. My HS only had four graduating classes and we've always held all of our functions together but still. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at February 20, 2022 07:08 AM (Msys3)

101 Child poverty surges after Bidens child tax credit expired

If 600 bucks makes or breaks you dont have more kids.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:09 AM (yrol0)

102 Well, smoked my very first whole chicken on the new smoker yesterday.

Mrs VIA and I were both amazed at how juicy it came out.

I think I may like this 'smoking' thing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 07:09 AM (3D/fK)

103 Nothing to see here move along

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 20, 2022 07:13 AM (3dcuJ)

104 Gateway pundit reports that both Pfizer and the CDC now have PSAs that anyone, including healthy young athletes, are in danger of clots.
These warnings do not mention the jab

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 20, 2022 07:14 AM (mTuD/)

105 "since the beginning of the year, 11 of my HS classmates have passed. "

In the 51 days since new years?

Damn, I'd be looking over my shoulder every minute.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

There is data showing that "I want to live until after the 1st of next year" works in some mysterious way.
My recommendation: don't fixate on "I want to live to see next year".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 07:15 AM (vnqom)

106 >>>Child poverty surges after Bidens child tax credit expired
==================
"Child poverty"? If that really means incomes for families with children below a hypothetical poverty line, then does the family income measured include all the value of other social programs? I bet it doesn't. This would be what some people call "fake news" or "propaganda".

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:15 AM (Os76D)

107 Child poverty surges after Bidens child tax credit expired

If 600 bucks makes or breaks you dont have more kids.

*

Sadly it's not just the $600. It's the inflation. I read where a family of four has seen a nearly $300 increase in costs over the last year, and 8 out of 10 families are living paycheck to paycheck now.

That's probably not counting things like braces and broken arm deductibles, either. Just normal stuff like trying to feed a 14 year old boy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hey, remember the conspiracy theories about collecting your DNA from the PCR tests? at February 20, 2022 07:16 AM (CM8Oa)

108 A law requiring Seattle bicyclists to wear helmets had been in effect for nearly 30 years, but was revoked in the name of racial equity. The King County Board of Health voted to repeal the helmet mandate because of accusations that the law was disproportionately enforced against people of color and homeless people.

Now do seatbelts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:17 AM (yrol0)

109 $300 monthly increase btw. Not annual.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hey, remember the conspiracy theories about collecting your DNA from the PCR tests? at February 20, 2022 07:17 AM (CM8Oa)

110 104 Gateway pundit reports that both Pfizer and the CDC now have PSAs that anyone, including healthy young athletes, are in danger of clots.
These warnings do not mention the jab
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 20, 2022 07:14 AM (mTuD/)

I have been seeing this in the news that clots just happen.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:18 AM (yrol0)

111 Just normal stuff like trying to feed a 14 year old boy.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

That's the truth. I remember being able to consume 47 times my weight at each meal. And then go out for cheesecake.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 07:18 AM (vnqom)

112 Had dinner last night with a Democrat couple. After a cocktail or two, the wife leans over and whispers to me "I know two people who died after getting covid vaccinations. And I've heard of more. Shouldn't doctors be talking about that?"

I answered "Yes."

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:21 AM (Os76D)

113 Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Its Ludicrous to Suggest Trump Was Stronger Against Putin Than Biden or Obama

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:21 AM (yrol0)

114 mornin yall. There is a bill in Georgia's Senate to introduce ranked voting. The reason?

"Georgia's runoff elections are a vestige of Jim Crow era politics - when lawmakers created a system that ensured elections could narrow down pluralities to ensure a majority could elect white candidates."

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:22 AM (vrz2I)

115 Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Its Ludicrous to Suggest Trump Was Stronger Against Putin Than Biden or Obama

*

Also the economy!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Hey, remember the conspiracy theories about collecting your DNA from the PCR tests? at February 20, 2022 07:22 AM (CM8Oa)

116 112 Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:21 AM (Os76D)

No ma'am, it is more important that you signal that virtue and people be made to tug that forelock...

or

"what the fuck are you a republican scientalist denying asshole?"

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 07:22 AM (Lzpvj)

117 Wish I remembered who had on a comment a link to their own review of Dune, it was be explanation of Dune I ever saw

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 20, 2022 07:22 AM (qJGUG)

118 114 Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:22 AM (vrz2I)

every action of the prior 250 years was a racist plot!

//Donkey

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 07:23 AM (Lzpvj)

119 "I answered "Yes."

Yep.

Or maybe whisper that doctors have been asking about that for a while.

It's just that the media doesn't want you to know that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 07:23 AM (3D/fK)

120 If that's the case wtf happened in 2020 when Jerkoff and Warnock won the runoffs?

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:24 AM (vrz2I)

121 114 mornin yall. There is a bill in Georgia's Senate to introduce ranked voting. The reason?

"Georgia's runoff elections are a vestige of Jim Crow era politics - when lawmakers created a system that ensured elections could narrow down pluralities to ensure a majority could elect white candidates."
Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:22 AM (vrz2I)

Democrats doing racist things 50 years ago can only be fixed by Democrats doing moar racism.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:24 AM (yrol0)

122 120 Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:24 AM (vrz2I)

why our imagin...I mean that is the onetime goodness prevailed!

//Donk-e

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 07:25 AM (Lzpvj)

123 I get the impression moderate, LIV Democrats (like my friend from dinner last night) don't realize how strong censorship is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:26 AM (Os76D)

124 "ranked voting"? What kind of steaming pile of crap is this?

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 20, 2022 07:27 AM (sAmhv)

125 > Well, smoked my very first whole chicken on the new smoker yesterday.
Mrs VIA and I were both amazed at how juicy it came out.
I think I may like this 'smoking' thing.
__________
My first smoke was a Cornish Hen. It was awesome. Did ribs a couple times too. Have a pork butt in the freezer but need about 14-16 hours of daylight for that thing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2022 07:28 AM (BFigT)

126 Justine Trudeau is now a poster boy for a million memes. Here's one more.

https://tinyurl.com/yc63adty

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:29 AM (Os76D)

127 My first smoke was a Cornish Hen. It was awesome. Did ribs a couple times too. Have a pork butt in the freezer but need about 14-16 hours of daylight for that thing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2022 07:28 AM (BFigT)
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Plus another 8 hours to defrost it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:30 AM (Os76D)

128 Have a pork butt in the freezer but need about 14-16 hours of daylight for that thing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

???
Fire and smoke work when it is dark too.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 07:30 AM (vnqom)

129 "My first smoke was a Cornish Hen."

While we were cutting up the chicken, I had mentioned cornish hens to Mrs VIA as another possible effort.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 07:30 AM (3D/fK)

130 "Instant runoff works like this: Instead of choosing one candidate, voters get to rank their candidates in order of preference.
Then, the votes get tallied. If no candidate wins a majority, the weakest candidate gets eliminated. And the votes are counted again - with ballots favoring the eliminated candidate re-counted for their second favorite.

If there's no majority, eliminate the last-place candidate again - and keep recounting until one candidate gets a majority."

Plenty of chances to count the votes. They don't call it Ranked Voting, they call it "Instant Runoff". Perfect for our Instant Gratification Nation.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:30 AM (vrz2I)

131 124 Posted by: Puddleglum at February 20, 2022 07:27 AM (sAmhv)

They want the ability to coalesce "vote density" to the left.

The plan is to flood the zone with leftoids and force voters to prioritize their "votes" so that the left never splits or there will never be too radical a donk.

No seriously the leftoids are convinced with ranked voting Andy Wang Yang would have been president or Buttklieg.

Posted by: sven at February 20, 2022 07:30 AM (Lzpvj)

132 Democrats doing racist things 50 years ago can only be fixed by Democrats doing moar racism.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:24 AM (yrol0)
==============
Good...good....you understand!

Posted by: Ibram X. Kendi, CRT Maven at February 20, 2022 07:31 AM (Os76D)

133 The key line there is "Keep counting until one candidate gets a majority".

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:33 AM (vrz2I)

134 Last video I saw the protestors were roasting a whole pig and he looked about done. The cops timed their arrival perfectly, and I bet that pig was served back at the station house, those bastards

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:34 AM (Os76D)

135 "If there's no majority, eliminate the last-place candidate again - and keep recounting until one candidate gets a majority."

Wouldn't dueling work faster?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 07:34 AM (3D/fK)

136 113 Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Its Ludicrous

THIS I would agree with.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 07:34 AM (2Q+cC)

137 Dear Ottawa police

Tired of being brutalised by the public? ~~Go work for Wal-Mart~~ learn to code...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at February 20, 2022 07:35 AM (3dcuJ)

138 Wouldn't dueling work faster?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

And which party do you guess has better gun control?
I like it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 07:36 AM (vnqom)

139 People used to say "Get out of government schools", but I think they meant "all schools, because there is no place to hide from these crazed lefties"

https://tinyurl.com/4zwwdrhx

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:38 AM (Os76D)

140 > Fire and smoke work when it is dark too
__________
Someone has to tend to it. I'd rather sleep.

It's not uncommon for an experienced pitboss to put a hefty pork butt on before they go to sleep so it will be ready the next evening. I'm not there. Plus there are plenty of horror stories of the smoker failing for one reason or another and the cook is ruined. Or you house catches fire. Or...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2022 07:38 AM (BFigT)

141 Former CNN Head Jeff Zucker And Allison Gollust Hire Former Harvey Weinstein Spokesperson

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:39 AM (yrol0)

142 When you have an ache and a pain, its the cut on your arm not the Band-Aid that went over it thats causing the problem. The purpose of the mask is to reduce all the other traumas traumas that we know for an absolute fact harm children.

Nat geo really selling the mask!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:41 AM (yrol0)

143 The Candy Bomber , Gail Halvorsen, has died at 101 years old.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:42 AM (vrz2I)

144 Nice of Putin not to invade anyone this weekend. Biden needs his rest.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:44 AM (Os76D)

145 PolitiFact
A post said if 70,048 unmasked fans could gather for the Super Bowl kids should go unmasked in school. The post ignored the safety rules in place at the stadium, which included a mix of mask, vaccination and testing requirements.

Gun meet dick!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:45 AM (yrol0)

146 You down with OPP?

Yeah, don't tase me!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 07:45 AM (6FeV1)

147 My Grandfather worked on the Berlin Airlift. I don't know if he ever met Halvorsen and I never thought to ask him. Lots of things I never thought to ask Grandpa.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 07:46 AM (vrz2I)

148 142: National Geographic? Many decades ago, I used to subscribe to their magazine. I think they went 'Woke' before that was a thing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 20, 2022 07:46 AM (sAmhv)

149 Plus there are plenty of horror stories of the smoker failing for one reason or another and the cook is ruined. Or you house catches fire. Or...
Posted by: Martini Farmer

1st smoker I built was an ugly-drum-smoker (55gal drum). When I loaded it with charcoal it would easily burn for longer than 20 hours. It worked like a champ, turkeys, ribs, butts, and chickens.
Now I have a pellet smoker with an extended pellet supply. I haven't run out of pellets in any of my efforts.

If your house catches fire when you're using a smoker you're doing it wrong (goes for deep fat fryers too!).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 07:47 AM (vnqom)

150 Good morning morons

Thank you Pixy for calling out the banality of evil on the Twats

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2022 07:47 AM (EZebt)

151 135 "If there's no majority, eliminate the last-place candidate again - and keep recounting until one candidate gets a majority."

Wouldn't dueling work faster?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 07:34 AM (3D/fK)

Maybe they could build a large metal open-lattice enclosure for official duels to take place in. Like a sphere, or some kind of "dome", if you will...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 07:47 AM (6FeV1)

152 150 Good morning morons

Thank you Pixy for calling out the banality of evil on the Twats
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2022 07:47 AM (EZebt)

Is it the banality of evil, or the evil of banality?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 07:48 AM (6FeV1)

153 Your supposed to put the smoker outside

I'm sure it's on the warning label underneath

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 20, 2022 07:48 AM (qJGUG)

154 You down with OPP?

Yeah, don't tase me!
==================
"The Science" is self-aware, and arresting people and freezing bank accounts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 20, 2022 07:48 AM (Os76D)

155 Krak's EMT post is in the RSS feed & at http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397921. Don't know why it's not on the main page.

Posted by: Nazdar at February 20, 2022 07:48 AM (g5pdH)

156 Trudeaus deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwabs World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent.

Tools permanently in place!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:48 AM (yrol0)

157 In place permanently!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:49 AM (yrol0)

158 well duh!

Lisa Hook, the Former CEO of Neustar, the Firm Named in Recent Hillary Spying Activities, Ironically Was Also an Obama Appointee to His National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:50 AM (yrol0)

159 41 If I identify as a Gold Medal winner, will they give me a medal ?
Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 05:53 AM (arJlL)
-

No but here's a nice bag of pre-sifted bleached white flour!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at February 20, 2022 07:50 AM (JMuyG)

160 Trudeaus deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwabs World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent.
================
Of course she does!

Posted by: Lavrenty Beria, banking guy at February 20, 2022 07:51 AM (Os76D)

161 156 Trudeaus deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwabs World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent.

Tools permanently in place!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:48 AM (yrol0)

157 In place permanently!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:49 AM (yrol0)

"President for Life"? That's a bold strategy, Justine.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 07:51 AM (6FeV1)

162 155 did krak self-ban?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 20, 2022 07:51 AM (mTuD/)

163 155 Krak's EMT post is in the RSS feed & at http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397921. Don't know why it's not on the main page.
Posted by: Nazdar at February 20, 2022 07:48 AM (g5pdH)

It's way down the front page, just below the coffee thread.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 07:52 AM (2Q+cC)

164 It's way down the front page, just below the coffee thread.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 07:52 AM (2Q+cC)

Wow. The Early Morning Thread is so early it happened yesterday. That's just plain overachieving, right there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 07:53 AM (6FeV1)

165 Now Roger Stone is asking for help so that he can sue Hillary and her henchmen for any and all actions they took that led to his harassment in court and potential incarceration based on now known lies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:53 AM (yrol0)

166 halp pixy krak's thread is too low on the page

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 07:54 AM (2Q+cC)

167 163 ge must have messed up the post date or something

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 20, 2022 07:54 AM (mTuD/)

168 I'll bet it's the post number:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397921

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 07:57 AM (2Q+cC)

169 Trudeaus deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwabs World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 20, 2022 07:48 AM (yrol0)
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Interesting. So they are copying the J6 narrative completely that peaceful protest now = violent revolution.

Which it will, if you treat it the same way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 07:57 AM (llXky)

170 Interesting. So they are copying the J6 narrative completely that peaceful protest now = violent revolution.

Which it will, if you treat it the same way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 07:57 AM (llXky)

There was violence, people died, and the nature of government changed. In a heavily pedantic way, both events really are "violent revolutions"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 07:59 AM (6FeV1)

171 I have 'cancel the midterms' on my 22 bingo card.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 08:00 AM (oWBc3)

172 You can snark on 'the other guy' from Wham!, Andrew Ridgeley all you like for being an irrelevancy, a footnote, a glorified sideman.

But Andrew Ridgeley married Keren Woodward from Bananarama. So there.

Posted by: Patchy at February 20, 2022 08:00 AM (I/Pe0)

173 The CDC now warning about -- or should I say normalizing -- "blood clots" as a totally new and independent phenomenon and public health risk.

Is this sort of mindless and insulting propaganda that relies on the stupidity of the populace effective? They obviously think so. They may be right.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 20, 2022 08:00 AM (H8QX8)

174 Is this technically a "nood"?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2022 08:01 AM (EZebt)

175 search for krak on the front page; the Happy Sunday! thread is there

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 08:02 AM (2Q+cC)

176 174 Is this technically a "nood"?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2022 08:01 AM (EZebt)

I think the EMT is an under-nood, and this thread is now over-willowed.

Posted by: Tom Jones at February 20, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

177 boooo, panty magnet sock

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

178 Queen Liz has da covid

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion at February 20, 2022 08:03 AM (mTuD/)

179 Haha, ha, ha!

I haven't thought about l*ace w*gs in years!

You made my day, Pixy!

Wait, no you didn't. This just means I'm an OLD 'Ette.

Posted by: Deety B at February 20, 2022 08:03 AM (XPL7j)

180 You made my day, Pixy!

Wait, no you didn't. This just means I'm an OLD 'Ette.
Posted by: Deety B at February 20, 2022 08:03 AM (XPL7j)

Indeed.

Posted by: Sonobi at February 20, 2022 08:04 AM (6FeV1)

181 Paul Joseph Watson
@PrisonPlanet

The Queen.

Triple vaxxed. COVID positive.

Get well soon.

7:13 AM - Feb 20, 2022 - https://bit.ly/3H2ECCU

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 20, 2022 08:08 AM (Do5/p)

182 What a dystopian hell we are going to be living in. Millions of surveillance cameras. GPS tracked phones and cars. At the click of a button the government can know who you are, where you have been and probably where you are going. They will be able to "find" a crime committed by anyone. The fact that you are able to walk free is just because the government permits it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 20, 2022 08:08 AM (qnVBz)

183 >>>I remember being able to consume 47 times my weight at each meal. And then go out for cheesecake.

>Now what do you do when a one pound breakfast puts five pounds on you waist line? GAINZZZ!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 20, 2022 08:11 AM (dA9eR)

184 169 Trudeaus deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwabs World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent.

Interesting. Isn't she the one with a grandfather who was an actual nazi? Does history repeat itself?

Regarding her illegal take over, I wonder how Quebecois will respond.

Posted by: Floridachick at February 20, 2022 08:11 AM (+GJA3)

185 Morning glories, what's up?

Posted by: Farmer at February 20, 2022 08:11 AM (55Qr6)

186 search for krak on the front page; the Happy Sunday! thread is there

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 08:11 AM (2Q+cC)

187 This should take you to Krak's Morning Thread.

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397921

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at February 20, 2022 08:13 AM (3D/fK)

188 . . . below Saturday's coffee break thread

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 08:13 AM (2Q+cC)

189 The Queen. In addition to all the shots, it's hard to imagine someone who lives a more managed, isolated life. She has people to do all the things ordinary people have to do for themselves that bring them into contact with lots of others. If you can't keep her from getting Covid, you probably can't keep anyone from getting it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 20, 2022 08:14 AM (KFhLj)

190 bear. She probably got it from chucklehead and his wife camilla. They just had it.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 20, 2022 08:15 AM (2NHgQ)

191 172 You can snark on 'the other guy' from Wham!, Andrew Ridgeley all you like for being an irrelevancy, a footnote, a glorified sideman.

But Andrew Ridgeley married Keren Woodward from Bananarama. So there.

Posted by: Patchy at February 20, 2022 08:00 AM (I/Pe0)
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Meanwhile, George was reduced to trying to pick up rent boys.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:17 AM (llXky)

192 Apart from the usual propaganda outlets like the CBC and the mainstream Canadian press, there's a huge amount of bot activity supporting police brutality against peaceful protestors.

I said yesterday that I guarantee you that a near-majority (if not the majority) of Canadians support this and that the only regret they have is that the RCMP isn't actively blowing peoples' heads off.

I still give it the famous **two weeks** before the Freedom Convoy is a distant memory and Trudeau glories in how he 'saved Canadian democracy.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:17 AM (2JVJo)

193 >>>. . . below Saturday's coffee break thread

>Tell him to get his loose shit together! This ain't amateur hour! Get that boy some moar coffee!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 20, 2022 08:18 AM (dA9eR)

194 "Morning glories, what's up?"

Not the EMT. It's way down
there
V
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Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 08:18 AM (vrz2I)

195 There was violence, people died, and the nature of government changed. In a heavily pedantic way, both events really are "violent revolutions"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 07:59 AM (6FeV1)
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There is a strong case that the Spanish Popular Front was deliberately trying to provoke a coup attempt because this would give them the pretext to dispense with any limits on their power. Once there was an actual uprising, they could go full Bolshevik.

They did get the uprising, but it didn't work out as they planned...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:19 AM (llXky)

196 "I missed the part where we could make loud noise 24/7 and poop on the street"

So, you never visited San Francisco?

Posted by: TANSTAAFL at February 20, 2022 08:20 AM (fBtlL)

197 Gateway pundit reports that both Pfizer and the CDC now have PSAs that anyone, including healthy young athletes, are in danger of clots.
These warnings do not mention the jab
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamiilion

Because blood clots in healthy young adults has ALWAYS been normal. Plus, we've always been at war with EastAsia.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 20, 2022 08:21 AM (rz+/y)

198 "I smell a rat." Writer thinks there will be performance art involving masks at the SOTU :

https://tinyurl.com/2ckk4cxw
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2022 04:52 AM (BaOn7)

And just long enough for them to survive the midterms. Then, safely re-elected, a new 'deadly' variant will suddenly raise its head, and you, you deplorable serf, had better strap the slave mask back on or else!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:21 AM (2JVJo)

199 I'm going to post this now but will again on the Book Thread. I will expound then.

In the square before the Kasan Cathedral alone there were 3,000 at least. Suddenly seditious cries were raised, red flags were waved, stones were thrown, and in the midst of it all the gensdarmes began a mad gallop through the crowd. It was a ghastly sight, for they slashed right and left with their swords, even at the bystanders bent only on escaping. Many were wounded, some were killed - how many no two accounts agree-and in the course of the following week hundreds of arrests were made.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2022 08:22 AM (vrz2I)

200 I said yesterday that I guarantee you that a near-majority (if not the majority) of Canadians support this and that the only regret they have is that the RCMP isn't actively blowing peoples' heads off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:17 AM (2JVJo)
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The great danger of always predicting bad outcomes is that you internalize the fact that things can never get better. All you see is a negative, and when something positive does happen, you immediately turn to looking at how it isn't positive at all, but somehow makes things worse.

Folks can laugh at my optimism, but I bet you I sleep better at night than any of the 'realists' out there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:22 AM (llXky)

201 Love that the idiots can predict what the weather will be in some distant time. Since yesterday we have had 3 weather warnings. Winter storm warning 3-5 inches of blowing snow. Followed by Winter Storm Watch 1-3 inches of blowing snow. Just changed to Winter Weather Advisory 1-3 inches of snow. All within the last 24 hours. What's next, never mind?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 20, 2022 08:25 AM (2NHgQ)

202 And just long enough for them to survive the midterms. Then, safely re-elected, a new 'deadly' variant will suddenly raise its head, and you, you deplorable serf, had better strap the slave mask back on or else!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:21 AM (2JVJo)
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They can't pivot. They can only go forward. Pivoting is an admission of a mistake, which is impossible.

That's why so many Dems are quitting before the fact. If the election was fixed, it if isn't even going to happen, why give up all that power?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:25 AM (llXky)

203 "President for Life"? That's a bold strategy, Justine.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 20, 2022 07:51 AM (6FeV1)

Who's going to stop her?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:25 AM (2JVJo)

204 "Who is Himmler."

I like the fact that the person could very quickly asked Google/Siri/Bing and had an answer.

More proof that this generation strangely lacks Theory of Mind.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 20, 2022 08:26 AM (lD3vL)

205 What I'm looking forward to is the inevitable power struggle within the left. Team Clinton vs Team Pelosi vs Team Obama.

I think Durham is being allowed to proceed because the other two factions want the Clintons neutralized completely.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:26 AM (llXky)

206 I thought Krak got his FREE crack pipe !

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2022 08:27 AM (arJlL)

207 Love that the idiots can predict what the weather will be in some distant time. Since yesterday we have had 3 weather warnings. Winter storm warning 3-5 inches of blowing snow. Followed by Winter Storm Watch 1-3 inches of blowing snow. Just changed to Winter Weather Advisory 1-3 inches of snow. All within the last 24 hours. What's next, never mind?

I think we now measure certainty in the Unprecedented™ weather when they name the storms. Until they name four days of clear, sunny skies, assume that one might be overcast with rain.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 20, 2022 08:28 AM (lD3vL)

208 The great danger of always predicting bad outcomes is that you internalize the fact that things can never get better. All you see is a negative, and when something positive does happen, you immediately turn to looking at how it isn't positive at all, but somehow makes things worse.

Folks can laugh at my optimism, but I bet you I sleep better at night than any of the 'realists' out there.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:22 AM (llXky)

Well, I don't sleep well at night, but that's because I've always had insomnia. But I will admit to always looking to the bad side, because the bad outcome is always the more likely, IMO. But I'll stop beating this dead horse, since I know people are sick of hearing it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:29 AM (2JVJo)

209 fd, my sons and I were texting how much out of Zhivago the horse scene in Ottawa resembled. On purpose I imagine.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 08:30 AM (oWBc3)

210 Bananarama's recording of Long Train Running is a crime against nature.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 08:31 AM (oWBc3)

211 Wo ist Krak??

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 20, 2022 08:32 AM (FBu0o)

212 Humanity is too stupid to survive.

Posted by: Infidel at February 20, 2022 08:33 AM (JAkXN)

213 But I will admit to always looking to the bad side, because the bad outcome is always the more likely, IMO.

I have the same disposition. I am constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. I catastrophize everything, and am hypervigilant to the point of it interfering with my thinking.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 20, 2022 08:34 AM (45fpk)

214 Hunt for Krak on the main page or in this thread for link to current EMT.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 20, 2022 08:34 AM (vnqom)

215 209 fd, my sons and I were texting how much out of Zhivago the horse scene in Ottawa resembled. On purpose I imagine.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 08:30 AM (oWBc3)
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There is a strange belief in elite circles the common people are all cowards at heart and a brutal show of strength is all that is needed to put them in their place.

History shows otherwise. Classic counterinsurgency strategy says not to radicalize the center, and the move to try the J6 approach and arrest everyone they can think of is going backfire bigly.

I thought the tweets that the cops' feelings are being hurt was telling - I bet they are consumed with self-loathing and if you push them harder, they may not balk, but they can quit. People point to Seattle and Portland, but those departments have suffered massive attrition. I think Seattle can only staff 18 percent of its morning shift now.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:35 AM (llXky)

216 211 Wo ist Krak??
Posted by: Muad'dib at February 20, 2022 08:32 AM (FBu0o)

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397921

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 08:35 AM (2Q+cC)

217 The great danger of always predicting bad outcomes is that you internalize the fact that things can never get better. All you see is a negative, and when something positive does happen, you immediately turn to looking at how it isn't positive at all, but somehow makes things worse.

As an engineer, the world expects everything to work perfectly so we have to be left of bang which requires constantly looking for what could go wrong which expects a mindset of "this is going to break, just how".

It is also observed this simple equation:
Happiness = Expectations ÷ Reality

But I agree, if one predicts doom and it doesn't turn out that way, then it is healthy to be pleasantly surprised and grateful. Maybe Gratefulness could increase in the population if we did expect the worse and it didn't turn out that way.

See? I just rationalized chronic pessimism!

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 20, 2022 08:35 AM (lD3vL)

218 It's hilarious.

There's some bot active on Disqus that automatically has a porn chick linker like Sandra, Molly, etc. upvote you literally the second you make a comment! I don't know if it's all of Disqus or just targeting conservative sites but it's happening at Insty's and BCF Blazing Cat Fur as well.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 20, 2022 08:35 AM (UHVv4)

219 http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=397921

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ We're not going to HONK our way out of this! ~ at February 20, 2022 08:36 AM (hOUT3)

220 They're not even very good bots. This really needs an investigation because if what I'm seeing is real, it's a massive scandal.

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Nobody in power cares about or investigates any true massive scandals anymore. Unless they involve conservatives, which are usually totally fabricated.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

221 Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 20, 2022 08:35 AM (UHVv4)

And yet we complain about the formatting here...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ We're not going to HONK our way out of this! ~ at February 20, 2022 08:38 AM (hOUT3)

222 Trevor Post (Trevor...of course) is a nincompoop. So ignorant and so smug. Typical leftist hallmarks.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2022 08:38 AM (sVtYq)

223 I have the same disposition. I am constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. I catastrophize everything, and am hypervigilant to the point of it interfering with my thinking.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 20, 2022 08:34 AM (45fpk)

I can sympathize, grammie. Since retirement, much of my depression has lifted, though there will always be a remnant there. What really has me despondent these days is the looming fascist state the left is desperate to create, coupled with the realization that neither military, LEOs nor the GOP has any interest in freedom as such, only in securing their privileges and establishing the caste between the tax-fattened and the tax slaves.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:38 AM (2JVJo)

224 I have the same disposition. I am constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. I catastrophize everything, and am hypervigilant to the point of it interfering with my thinking.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 20, 2022 08:34 AM (45fpk)
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This anticipates the book thread, but Lorenzo Scupoli's book on spiritual combat puts a huge emphasis on the goodness of God, his endless love for us, and the fact that if he permits something to happen, there is a reason for it.

It falls to us, to thank him for that cross, and try to learn how we can be more in accord with his will.

I don't talk bad things because I hate the inevitable deluge of sympathy, but I will say that my youngest child almost died a few months ago. I literally carried her limp body into the ER bellowing for help.

And yet, I gave all my fear to God. I sat there, watching the staff just saying the Hail Mary over and over again, and peace was given to me. She recovered fully.

We are owed nothing in this life. Not a thing. So be grateful for the gifts we have.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:40 AM (llXky)

225 fd, my sons and I were texting how much out of Zhivago the horse scene in Ottawa resembled. On purpose I imagine.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 20, 2022 08:30 AM (oWBc3)

They rode them down, Lara. Women and children, begging for bread. There will be no more 'peaceful' demonstrations.

Posted by: Pasha at February 20, 2022 08:41 AM (R/m4+)

226 As an engineer, the world expects everything to work perfectly so we have to be left of bang which requires constantly looking for what could go wrong which expects a mindset of "this is going to break, just how".

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 20, 2022 08:35 AM (lD3vL)
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That's a technical exercise, however. It isn't a mentality of assuming everyone is evil or stupid.

I have no illusions about where we are today. In fact, I assumed the shooting would have already started by now, so maybe that's why I'm so happy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:43 AM (llXky)

227 So be grateful for the gifts we have.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:40 AM (llXky)

Yes, gratitude goes a long way. I'm so glad you're daughter recovered. What a blessing!

Posted by: grammie winger at February 20, 2022 08:43 AM (45fpk)

228 This anticipates the book thread, but Lorenzo Scupoli's book on spiritual combat puts a huge emphasis on the goodness of God, his endless love for us, and the fact that if he permits something to happen, there is a reason for it.

I've been re-reading Ron Rosenbaum's Explaining Hitler. In the early chapters, he interviews the historian John Toland, who admits to occasionally thinking about the death camps and says to God, "If you were there, why didn't you stop it?"

And thank you for sharing your story. My apologies if my cynical depression brings back bad memories.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:44 AM (2JVJo)

229 your

Posted by: grammie winger at February 20, 2022 08:44 AM (45fpk)

230 What a blessing!

Posted by: grammie winger at February 20, 2022 08:43 AM (45fpk)
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Thank you. I was a blessing - it put her on a path to recovery and brought our family closer together.

Every evil contains within it many blessings, you just have to look for them.

It's hard and I'm no saint, but I try. And then I fail, and I try again. It's all we can do.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:46 AM (llXky)

231 Was talking to a friend yesterday and asked about some current events. She is blissfully ignorant of any current events and thought I may have been smoking crack. Insane. She only watches network and local news and gets other news from faceplant. I guess this is more pervasive than I thought.

Posted by: Infidel at February 20, 2022 08:47 AM (JAkXN)

232 ""Oscar and Angus" would be a great name for a better-than-average food cart franchising operation. The reader is left to suss out what would be on the menu.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 20, 2022 06:19 AM (pNxlR) "

hotdogs, hamburgers, spaghetti & meatballs !

G'mornin' Horde !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (5JfcP) at February 20, 2022 08:48 AM (DuiUU)

233 I've been re-reading Ron Rosenbaum's Explaining Hitler. In the early chapters, he interviews the historian John Toland, who admits to occasionally thinking about the death camps and says to God, "If you were there, why didn't you stop it?"

And thank you for sharing your story. My apologies if my cynical depression brings back bad memories.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:44 AM (2JVJo)
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Of course God did stop it, but in accordance with his needs, not ours.

So much of evil that we blame on God is the work of our own pride, wilfulness and disobedience. Can anyone look at the millions of dead children we've made, the horror of our culture and not think we are tempting God?

We richly deserve dictatorship, pandemic, slaughter and poverty.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:48 AM (llXky)

234 OK, going to make another cup of tea before the Book Thread.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 20, 2022 08:49 AM (2JVJo)

235 Was talking to a friend yesterday and asked about some current events. She is blissfully ignorant of any current events and thought I may have been smoking crack. Insane. She only watches network and local news and gets other news from faceplant. I guess this is more pervasive than I thought.

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Sadly, this will be our downfall. She is the majority. It's so easy for us here to think everyone is current on everything that's going on, but they are not. Not at all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2022 08:50 AM (sVtYq)

236 67 Gave the thread a nudge.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 20, 2022 08:46 AM (ZprhJ)

Posted by: m at February 20, 2022 08:51 AM (2Q+cC)

237 218 It's hilarious.

There's some bot active on Disqus that automatically has a porn chick linker like Sandra, Molly, etc. upvote you literally the second you make a comment!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 20, 2022 08:35 AM (UHVv4)

There's something similar on youtube. It replies to every comment on some channels. I've seen it on a chess channel and a couple of others. I suspect it hits channels whose owners neglect to tend their comment filters.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at February 20, 2022 08:52 AM (tRpV0)

238 Sadly, this will be our downfall. She is the majority. It's so easy for us here to think everyone is current on everything that's going on, but they are not. Not at all.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 20, 2022 08:50 AM (sVtYq)
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I tuned out current events for the first six months of 2021 and it made zero difference in world events. It did make me less anxious and therefore happier.

Even now, I try to limit my exposure because all it does is wear one out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:52 AM (llXky)

239 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:52 AM (llXky)

I like to know what is going on so I can try to be prepared ahead of time. At least as much as possible.

Posted by: Infidel at February 20, 2022 08:54 AM (JAkXN)

240 krak is up.

Posted by: Infidel at February 20, 2022 08:55 AM (JAkXN)

241 Even now, I try to limit my exposure because all it does is wear one out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2022 08:52 AM (llXky)

THIS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ We're not going to HONK our way out of this! ~ at February 20, 2022 08:56 AM (hOUT3)

242 krak is up.
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It must be dawn!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 20, 2022 08:58 AM (UHVv4)

243 >>>There's some bot active on Disqus that automatically has a porn chick linker like Sandra, Molly, etc. upvote you literally the second you make a comment! I don't know if it's all of Disqus or just targeting conservative sites but it's happening at Insty's and BCF Blazing Cat Fur as well.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 20, 2022 08:35 AM (UHVv4)

___________

Saw that and wondered.

Posted by: Patchy at February 20, 2022 10:24 AM (I/Pe0)

244 UN planes have been videoed in Canada and people at the protests are saying that these "cops" don't speak English or French and enjoy beating up Canadians.

Posted by: cjhmhch at February 20, 2022 10:58 AM (PoYG7)

245 Thank gosh someone else noticed those bots. Whoever scripts them has no nuance, they are identifiably bratty, and out in force.

Posted by: Sarahw at February 20, 2022 11:43 AM (g1vnC)

246 *shoot the dog. At least that what the ATF does.

Posted by: hurricane567 at February 20, 2022 05:24 PM (aUNk3)

247 Random thought on the rapid development of cameras on cell phones.

All that fabulous resolution will be quite the asset to facial recognition by ICs.

Pleasant dreams!

Posted by: Junipero Serra at February 21, 2022 02:20 AM (JcnFx)

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