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Daily News Stuff 23 September 2021

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  • Knock at the door and the sound of a package being left while I was busy on a video conference. I assumed it was either the new glasses I ordered or the Dell laptop that I've been waiting on for, hmm, four weeks to the day.

    It was both.

    Which is great because I've been having increasing trouble with both my old PC and my old glasses.


  • If you have been following the protests in Melbourne at all, you should be aware that everything the Victoria state government says is a lie, everything the police say is a lie, and almost everything the mainstream media says is a lie.

    Sometimes it's the same lie, but sometimes it's mutually contradictory lies.

    ...

    Okay, this space unintentionally left blank. The account that was live-tweeting all the Melbourne protests has just erased their Twitter history.

    You'd think if there had been an attack (the discussion of which is now gone) there would be video all over the place but Dictator Dan has banned live video from Melbourne.

    What we do have evidence of is this:


    "Police clash with protesters" who are lying face down on the pavement with someone kneeling on their neck.

    World's most liveable city, ladies and gentlemen.

    Fortunately the federal courts aren't having it.



    Unfortunately the news networks are worthless. If I wasn't already banned from Twitter I soon would be after responding to these fascist-fellating fuckheads.


Tech News

  • Microsoft's new Surface lineup is here. (AnandTech)

    Looks like the leak was legit.

    The Surface Pro 8 has a 2880x1920 13" display (why not 3000x2000?) with a quad core CPU and up to 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. The SSD appears to be a tiny M.2 2230 unit that is user-replaceable, which is a nice improvement over the usual state of everything being glued in place. If you buy the low-end 128GB model you can upgrade it yourself, except you can't because the biggest M.2 2230 cards you can find at retail are 128GB.

    It also has two Thunderbolt 4 ports and a headphone jack, but no microSD slot because we can't have nice things.

    There's also a new Surface Laptop model which has a flippy hinge so that the screen lies flat on top of the keyboard in tablet mode, and a Surface Pro X which is Arm-based and sucks.


  • There's also a Surface Duo 2. (Thurrott.com)

    Microsoft's dual-screen Android phone is still expensive but at least it now has near-flagship specs, with a Snapdragon 888, 8GB of RAM, and up to 512GB of storage.


  • The article doesn't mention the password used this time but we can guess. (Bleeping Computer)

    A second farming co-op has been hit with ransomware - despite being on the list of industries that Russia should not attack.



  • If you're running a really old Android device - before 6.0 - it's time to install Firefox. (Tech Crunch)

    Let's Encrypt's old root certificate is expiring at the end of the month. They already have a new one, but Android versions through 5.0 don't know about it and can't be updated.

    Firefox has its own certificate registry, though, and will continue to work.


Disclaimer: Believe half of what you hear and nothing that you see.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:52 AM




Comments

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1 Mornin' again, all

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at September 23, 2021 03:57 AM (INPUD)

2 >>Disclaimer: Believe half of what you hear and nothing that you see.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:52 AM

Good advice!

Posted by: My Life is Insanity at September 23, 2021 03:58 AM (INPUD)

3 Looking at pics from Aussieland are proof positive that once the Government owns your healthcare they think they own you too.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 04:05 AM (yrol0)

4 Legal Insurrection has article on Australian protests

Posted by: Skip at September 23, 2021 04:07 AM (2JoB8)

5 No real age adjusted deaths. About the same as 2004.

https://tinyurl.com/dazn8mbr

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 04:09 AM (yrol0)

6 The average age of a Covid death in the
UK is 82.5 years.
In Italy its 86.
Germany, 83.
Switzerland, 86.
Canada, 86.
The US, 78,
Australia, 82.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 04:10 AM (yrol0)

7 I'd tend to "believe" generally nothing that I hear, and maybe only half what I see. Something like that, anyway. That's just me, though I'm not too sure about myself sometimes. If you can't trust yourself ...

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 04:12 AM (QfSXK)

8 Moar please:

Waters claimed that
What we witnessed takes us back hundreds of years
What we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 04:15 AM (yrol0)

9 'morning...

Posted by: oldowan at September 23, 2021 04:15 AM (Mfqer)

10 It's impossible to make good decisions without adequate information.

Does anyone else get the sense there is something "they" aren't telling us? None of this adds up. We know with reasonable certainty it is indeed a bioweapon released, though this seems to be the great unspoken truth, or not acknowledged much, if at all.

The UN, as far as that goes, is blathering about fine tuning the weather 100 years from now, near as I can tell.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 04:17 AM (QfSXK)

11 If my hash is JOB I'm at home, if it's other at at the Job or on road.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at September 23, 2021 04:18 AM (2JoB8)

12 Just saw a meme with F-head Fauci's face superimposed on Tina Turner in the Mad Max poster holding a crossbow loaded with a syringe...

Aunty Anthony is

Mad Vax
Beyond Blunderdome

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:21 AM (vd8XM)

13 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 23, 2021 04:21 AM (arJlL)

14 If my hash is JOB I'm at home, if it's other at at the Job or on road.
Posted by: Skip's Phone

So it's like the Krispy Kreme "Hot" light?

Blueberry pancakes are ready!!!

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:26 AM (vd8XM)

15 It looks to me from out here in the cheap seats, the vaccine is not particularly effective, lasts but a short while, and is extremely dangerous comparatively. And we don't know how dangerous.

And make no mistake, the virus is killing a lot of people. "Mostly" old people. I was talking to a lefty relative. I mentioned the nursing home deaths as a result of stuffing them with fhe patients kicked out of the hospitals. He was trumpeting the 600k dead number, yet at the same time dismissing nursing home deaths as "they were going to die anyway".

It's impossible to talk to anybody anymore, I'm not sure how to process callousness. It looks like there's no rhyme or reason to the Covid/Chicom virus, though it does tend to hit the obese really hard. Is that true of the "regular" flu? And then there's the sneaking suspicion the virus is actually causing the "newl variants (as if there are any other kind) and then the bizarre almost suspicious insistence that everybody take a vaciine that doesn't seem to work worth a shit ; yeah then they want to blame people who say "F this", and even blame it on "Trump supporters", (along with everything else).

Did I leave anything out?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 04:27 AM (QfSXK)

16 The UN, as far as that goes, is blathering about fine tuning the weather 100 years from now, near as I can tell.
Posted by: Common Tater

We've given all the help and done as much rapin' in Haiti as we could.
We'll just start shipping them to you

...The UN "building a better world, somewhere"...

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:29 AM (vd8XM)

17 12 Just saw a meme with F-head Fauci's face superimposed on Tina Turner in the Mad Max poster holding a crossbow loaded with a syringe...

Aunty Anthony is

Mad Vax
Beyond Blunderdome
Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:21 AM (vd8XM)

Like This:

Taylor Lee, FDA Economist: Go to the unvaccinated and blow it [COVID vaccine] into them. Blow dart it into them.
Lee: Census goes door-to-door if you dont respond. So, we have the infrastructure to do it [forced COVID vaccinations]. I mean, itll cost a ton of money. But I think, at that point, I think there needs to be a registry of people who arent vaccinated. Although thats sounding very [much like Nazi] Germany.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 04:29 AM (yrol0)

18 Did I leave anything out?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 04:27 AM (QfSXK)

Random samples of death cert have severe co morbidities at 99%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 04:31 AM (yrol0)

19 I think there needs to be a registry of people who arent vaccinated. Although thats sounding very [much like Nazi] Germany.
Posted by: rhennigantx

It's the part of Nazi Germany we liked though.

...Pumpkin Head Taylor Lee...

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:31 AM (vd8XM)

20 11 If my hash is JOB I'm at home, if it's other at at the Job or on road.
Posted by: Skip's Phone at September 23, 2021 04:18 AM (2JoB

So, your communication systems are sentient, they're just wrong.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 04:32 AM (Y3SPi)

21 Then, there is no mention of the immunity conferred by having acquired and recovered from the Coof.

Are the "unvaccinated" deaths we're lectured about now, those that somehow are both unvaccinated AND never been exposed to the virus after 2 years?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 04:37 AM (QfSXK)

22 @PoliticalMath has a good take, I think, on what these vaccines are:

We *need* to start thinking of [COVID] vaccines as a way to decrease risk, not a magical "get out of COVID" card.

Some good comments in the thread.

https://tinyurl.com/49e37w75

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 04:40 AM (Y3SPi)

23 I'm not against vaccines, I think they are great. I think antibiotics, painkillers, and modern dentistry is pretty damn spiffy, too.

Science and medicine needs to he open and transparent. We're not getting that. The insistence to take a virus that doesn't seem to do fvck all, and may well harm people, and die anyway. Why do they have such a hard on about this?

Why ignore natural immunity? There's something really queer about this (in the classical sense)

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 04:44 AM (QfSXK)

24 Been reading the comments from the ONT.

I am not getting a flu shot this year. I don't trust them.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 23, 2021 04:46 AM (xopIz)

25 I am not getting a flu shot this year. I don't trust them.
Posted by: JAS

I usually do. But I'm taking HCQ and doing the protocol for that. I think I'll hold off this year.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:48 AM (vd8XM)

26 When the FBI comes breaking down my door, the news will be JAS wasn't "being cooperative."

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 23, 2021 04:50 AM (xopIz)

27 >>>Dictator Dan has banned live video from Melbourne. . . . Fortunately the federal courts aren't having it.

Bad news, good news.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 04:51 AM (Y3SPi)

28 I was all for the vax at first, then I started reading about how long it takes for a vaccine to be approved. Now, I can understand making sure that the gubbmint doesn't drag it's feet in getting one approved, but a new type of drug that is allowed to half ass the protocols and testing that is in place, makes me not want one.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:52 AM (vd8XM)

29 g'mornin' everyone !

*types*
*deletes*

political commentary aside, the solstice seems to have taken immediate effect here: 36 degrees !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 04:52 AM (jDHSU)

30 28 I was all for the vax at first, then I started reading about how long it takes for a vaccine to be approved. Now, I can understand making sure that the gubbmint doesn't drag it's feet in getting one approved, but a new type of drug that is allowed to half ass the protocols and testing that is in place, makes me not want one.
Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:52 AM (vd8XM)

I like OM's take on this point yesterday, in the Morning Rant:

"I used to get the flu shot every year. I've got nothing against vaccines. I'm just dubious about minimally tested, rushed-to-market vaccines. It's like new computer software. You never should buy version 1.0, because you know it will be full of bugs. It's the same with the Covid vaccines. I'm going to wait until the 2.0 or maybe even the 2.1 versions are released before I get one."

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 04:54 AM (Y3SPi)

31 You never should buy version 1.0, because you know it will be full of bugs. It's the same with the Covid vaccines. I'm going to wait until the 2.0 or maybe even the 2.1 versions are released before I get one."
Posted by: m

Like buying a new car the first year it's introduced.
And I'm afraid this vax is a Yugo

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:56 AM (vd8XM)

32 FDA economist Taylor Lee. Economists are those lacking the personality to be an accountant.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 23, 2021 04:57 AM (C1Lsn)

33 The sterility and microclots associated with the vaccine are not bugs. They are features.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 23, 2021 04:58 AM (xopIz)

34 Okay, the vax may or may not stop the Krud, and you may or may not die from the Krud, but you may feel better if you get the Krud.

Sounds like we spent a couple of kajillion dollars for Nyquil

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:59 AM (vd8XM)

35 FDA economist Taylor Lee. Economists are those lacking the personality to be an accountant.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

I thought that an economist was someone who managed to use both sides of the toilet paper

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:00 AM (vd8XM)

36 Here is the July 2021 Financial Times article that PoliMath cites (on breakthrough vaccinations and some discussion on what a vaccination is/isn't):

https://tinyurl.com/5zxf9jhc

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:01 AM (Y3SPi)

37 I am not getting a flu shot this year. I don't trust them.

In what way don't you trust them? Did you hear about the gal who went in for a Flu shot? They gave her the Covid "Jab" without telling her. She's pretty pissed off.

This whole thing has caused a lot of folks to let loose their inner Mengele

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 05:03 AM (QfSXK)

38 In what way don't you trust them? Did you hear about the gal who went in for a Flu shot? They gave her the Covid "Jab" without telling her. She's pretty pissed off.

This whole thing has caused a lot of folks to let loose their inner Mengele
Posted by: Common Tater

CVS is advertising that they will give you both. One stop shopping, because we're (you're) all in this together.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:04 AM (vd8XM)

39 Here is the July 2021 Financial Times article that PoliMath cites (on breakthrough vaccinations and some discussion on what a vaccination is/isn't):

https://tinyurl.com/5zxf9jhc
Posted by: m

They want a subscription to read this

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:05 AM (vd8XM)

40 37....their inner Mengele. When all those who got the shot discover their eyes have turned blue, victory will be declared.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 23, 2021 05:07 AM (C1Lsn)

41 39 Here is the July 2021 Financial Times article that PoliMath cites (on breakthrough vaccinations and some discussion on what a vaccination is/isn't):

https://tinyurl.com/5zxf9jhc
Posted by: m

They want a subscription to read this
Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:05 AM (vd8XM)

Thanks, Bruce; not for me, they didn't; hmm.
Here's an archived copy:
https://archive.is/I3cFo

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:08 AM (Y3SPi)

42 I noticed that all of the other meds that are advertised on TV, show, even if it's in tiny print at the bottom of the screen, side effects, death, consult your doctor.

The vaxx.....Get your shot NOW!

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:08 AM (vd8XM)

43 CVS is advertising that they will give you both. One stop shopping, because we're (you're) all in this together.
Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:04 AM (vd8XM)

I ma pretty sure that the shingle vax is not to be given with other vax. However, they gave me both at same time (first round of shing and flu). I was sick for 3 days.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:09 AM (yrol0)

44 Thanks, Bruce; not for me, they didn't; hmm.
Here's an archived copy:
https://archive.is/I3cFo
Posted by: m

Thanks, I tried that link in Brave. It won't load.
FireFox will load it though.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:11 AM (vd8XM)

45 lol, I remember when a vaccine actually prevented a disease !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 05:13 AM (jDHSU)

46 Did obesity used to be a death sentence with regular flu? I guess I don't recall that. I suppose the average age of virus mortality is around 80, and that's easy for people to dismiss.

If they aren't 80.

What about all these younger people though? Is it the Vaxx that's killing them, or the Coof?

Or is it both? A rushed to market vaccine that is dangerous and inneffective against an escaped manipulated bioweapon or whatever. Nice!

And a bunch of corrupt, incompetents in charge of the response, who are deeply psychopathic.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 05:13 AM (QfSXK)

47 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 23, 2021 05:13 AM (u82oZ)

48 I ma pretty sure that the shingle vax is not to be given with other vax. However, they gave me both at same time (first round of shing and flu). I was sick for 3 days.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I had gotten the shingle vax a few years back.
That's a rough one

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:14 AM (vd8XM)

49 A second farming co-op has been hit with ransomware - despite being on the list of industries that Russia should not attack.

I feel certain that BlunderBrain will issue another toothless warning to Putin, who will then play the recording to the entire Politburo, so everyone can have a good belly laugh.

It sucks to be the only laughingstock superpower in the world. And we are only a few months behind AU in the fascism department too.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 23, 2021 05:14 AM (F0YaR)

50 That's the plan for today, NaCly !

You too !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 05:15 AM (jDHSU)

51 Common Tater

Saves money for Governments.

Stops any cultural transmission to the young of better days in the past.

Kills people. They like to kill.

They like the new power.

Being all consent of the governed was tiresome. No more of that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 23, 2021 05:16 AM (u82oZ)

52 CVS has Minute Clinics, very handy if you have a bad reaction to the shot. They will gladly tell you to go home, rest ,hydrate and monitor symptoms. They will then bill you and punch your tough shit card.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 23, 2021 05:16 AM (C1Lsn)

53 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 23, 2021 05:17 AM (ju2Fy)

54 Faux-chi looking at the playbook...

It looks like next is our choice, burn witches or sacrifice virgins in a volcano.

Decisions decisions.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:17 AM (vd8XM)

55 From the FT article; I haven't seen this discussed at length; it's obviously true:

"Kit Yates, a mathematical biologist at Bath university, warned that the imperfect protection offered by the vaccine against infection meant herd immunity could be "impossible" without vaccine uptake of above 90 per cent."

""Leaky vaccines probably put herd immunity out of reach, especially when faced with [the] Delta [variant]," he said."

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:17 AM (Y3SPi)

56 They will then bill you and punch your tough shit card.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,

HA!

What if your TS card is full? What do I get?

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:18 AM (vd8XM)

57 ""Leaky vaccines probably put herd immunity out of reach, especially when faced with [the] Delta [variant]," he said."
Posted by: m

Then...we must vaxxinate even more!

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:19 AM (vd8XM)

58 Greetings good citizen, we've changed our herd immunity threshold to 102%.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 23, 2021 05:20 AM (ybIRR)

59 Greetings good citizen, we've changed our herd immunity threshold to 102%.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

Does that mean I need to lie to my PCP again?

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:21 AM (vd8XM)

60 I colleague of mine decided to apply for Citizenship (he already had a green card). When he was accepted, he was surprised to find out that he could change his name.

To anything.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 23, 2021 05:22 AM (xopIz)

61 I'm getting the feeling we would be far better off if veterinarians were running the show.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 23, 2021 05:23 AM (C1Lsn)

62 To anything.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ

I would change it to something shorter than 'anything'.

But, that's me

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:23 AM (vd8XM)

63 No food or drink this AM. Angioplasty scheduled for 9:30.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 23, 2021 05:24 AM (ju2Fy)

64 58 Greetings good citizen, we've changed our herd immunity threshold to 102%.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 23, 2021 05:20 AM (ybIRR)

Heh. And then factor in the change in population due to births (of unvaccinated people) and deaths and the threshold rises yet again.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:24 AM (Y3SPi)

65 I'm getting the feeling we would be far better off if veterinarians were running the show.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

You're right.
Well, other that the way they would take your temperature

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:24 AM (vd8XM)

66 1700000 / 70=24285.71

The $1.7 Million dollar project to build 70 houses.
$242K per house for the homeless in San Fran. 64 sq ft each. Bed, window and desk.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:25 AM (yrol0)

67 63 No food or drink this AM. Angioplasty scheduled for 9:30.
Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 23, 2021 05:24 AM (ju2Fy)

Good luck! We'll be thinking about you.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:25 AM (Y3SPi)

68 Angioplasty scheduled for 9:30.
Posted by: olddog in mo

Prayer up

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:25 AM (vd8XM)

69 The comments at the FT article are in the swamp.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:26 AM (Y3SPi)

70 you should be aware that everything the Victoria state government says is a lie, everything the police say is a lie, and almost everything the mainstream media says is a lie.

**

That's been the weird part of this whole thing.

It's like this worldwide. It's organized and planned.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:27 AM (5lbKt)

71 well, if everyone insists on discussing it, here's a foretaste of The Emerging Narrative:
from The Atlantic:
"Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter"

https://is.gd/TPxWxB

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 05:27 AM (jDHSU)

72 Thanks, Bruce.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 23, 2021 05:27 AM (ju2Fy)

73 I just got an error that cutt.ly has been banned in the URL field. Is there an HQ-friendly link shortening site?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:28 AM (5lbKt)

74 Shingles is not fun, my father was one of those old school SOBs, sturdy prewar construction. Never complain about anything, never talk about anything not strictly necessary. You know the type. They don't share their feelin's and that foo foo shit.

Well he didn't like Shingles. I think it got roused up after a fall, he didn't break any bones. That's the theory anyway. Shingles is Chicken Pox? Or the virus resides in the spine after childhood infection. Waiting. Stress or injury can release it. I think I have that right. Anyway.

That shit had him almost reduced to tears. He was in some pain. For a long time.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 05:28 AM (QfSXK)

75 archive.is

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:28 AM (Y3SPi)

76 Sorry; cut and paste fail.

https://tinyurl.com/app

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:30 AM (Y3SPi)

77 olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain

Hope it goes well. But there are easier way to see cute nurses.

Delete your browser history after that, however.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 23, 2021 05:30 AM (u82oZ)

78 "It's like this worldwide. It's organized and planned."

precisely.
f'rinstance, the sudden appearance of the phrase "the jab" tells me that PR consultants in the UK were involved ... common phrase over there, for years; unheard of here, until this year when suddenly it's everywhere at once.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 05:31 AM (jDHSU)

79 Yeah, I know.

But it's sucked all the air out of the room. How can we not discuss it? I mean other than the stolen elections, collapse of our government, etc. Most of the news is "all bad" anyway.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 05:31 AM (QfSXK)

80 Baltimore notches 250th homicide of 2021 -- officials vow turnaround

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:31 AM (yrol0)

81 well, if everyone insists on discussing it, here's a foretaste of The Emerging Narrative:
from The Atlantic:
"Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter"

--

from the piece:


"We know that it can set off both acute and chronic illness, that it spreads best indoors, that masks help block it, that our vaccines are powerful against it. "

Literally the first paragraph and it's misleading at best and outright anti-science at worst. Like I said, it's like this worldwide. It's organized and planned.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:32 AM (5lbKt)

82 From the Atlantic article...

"All variants, though, will have some common weakness: They can be stopped through the combined measures of vaccines, masks, distancing, and other measures that cut the conduits they need to travel. When viruses spread faster, they can be tougher to control. But they can't persist without us, and our behavior matters too."


So, keep doing what we've been doing that isn't really helping anything, and all will be just fine and dandy.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:32 AM (vd8XM)

83 Good morning Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 23, 2021 05:33 AM (UnQlg)

84 Gosh, what if those authors at The Atlantic could write? Instead of spewing out this sort of dreck:

"Our lost summer has layered on new anxieties to pandemic life."

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:33 AM (Y3SPi)

85 Bruce

Short summary: Submit, you slaves.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 23, 2021 05:33 AM (u82oZ)

86 That Atlantic piece accidentally makes the case against the clot shot btw:

"But, from the very beginning, vaccine experts warned that respiratory diseases are especially tricky to immunize against... Flu shots, for example, tend to be only 10 to 60 percent effective at keeping people out of the doctor's office.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:34 AM (5lbKt)

87 prayers for you and yours, olddog !


(i think my surgeries have actually been harder on Mrs Eez than they were on me ... I sleep through it, she has to sit & worry)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 05:34 AM (jDHSU)

88 Have a great day, everyone. The season is full of beauty, outdoors. Not looking at a screen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 23, 2021 05:34 AM (u82oZ)

89 Short summary: Submit, you slaves.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

ANd, they're all out of lube

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:34 AM (vd8XM)

90 86 That Atlantic piece accidentally makes the case against the clot shot btw:

"But, from the very beginning, vaccine experts warned that respiratory diseases are especially tricky to immunize against... Flu shots, for example, tend to be only 10 to 60 percent effective at keeping people out of the doctor's office.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:34 AM (5lbKt)

As long as you're reading that article, can you summarize it for us? Thanks!

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:35 AM (Y3SPi)

91 All variants, though, will have some common weakness: They can be stopped through the combined measures of vaccines, masks, distancing, and other measures that cut the conduits they need to travel. When viruses spread faster, they can be tougher to control.

**

Or the nation could do like the Amish and get it f*cking over with and be at herd immunity. But no, Our Betters have decided we need to drag this out for a while. Way, way too many politically useful opportunities to come from it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:36 AM (5lbKt)

92 Never ever read anything from The Atlantic.
And don't listen to or read anything from Yahoo News.

Posted by: Karl the Magician at September 23, 2021 05:37 AM (5mIZs)

93 Yeah, it seems the worst thing is that somehow, everybody has it in their head that governments can stop a cold virus. It was absurd then and it is absurd now.

A virus that has in fact been engineered to spread more easily than most.

And then they refuse any treatment, "under orders" until yer half dead anyway. No wonder all those people are quitting.

They know what's going on. And they don't want any part of it. There's this huge disconnect between real health care providers - doctors and nurses and epidemiologists etc - and the twatwaffles on TV.

This probably gets way worse before it gets better? The gubbmint I mean.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 05:37 AM (QfSXK)

94 Or the nation could do like the Amish and get it f*cking over with and be at herd immunity. But no, Our Betters have decided we need to drag this out for a while. Way, way too many politically useful opportunities to come from it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

And maybe a test that is accurate on whether or not you actually have Kovid and not a regular cold/flu bug.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:38 AM (vd8XM)

95 Atlantic:

"Given Delta's ability to slightly evade vaccines"

What would that even mean?

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:38 AM (Y3SPi)

96 Crunchyroll now has available all of season three of Is It Wrong to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon?

Bell gets into more trouble of course.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2021 05:38 AM (8Wk5/)

97 As long as you're reading that article, can you summarize it for us? Thanks!

***

The COVID is going to kill everyone without boosters every two months, and even those boosters may only be 10% effective so it's important to end socialization and travel as we know it.

Also the vaccines are perfectly safe and tested and there's nothing to be hesitant about, and don't believe the math that you can do yourself when it comes to breakthrough infections that are accidentally being reported.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:39 AM (5lbKt)

98 92 Never ever read anything from The Atlantic.
And don't listen to or read anything from Yahoo News.
Posted by: Karl the Magician at September 23, 2021 05:37 AM (5mIZs)

Is it like HuffPo?

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:39 AM (Y3SPi)

99 A prayer for a speedy and complete recovery for you old dog

Any word posted about garrett's dad?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2021 05:39 AM (EZebt)

100 I've mentioned it before, but want to mention it again.

A lot of tyranny rests on a basic, fundamental corruption of the law that the Left has spun up.

This being the idea that the Interstate Commerce Clause and General Welfare clause restrain the 10th Amendment.

Does anybody here work with contracts? If so, you've probably already figured out where I'm going with this. An Amendment, as its name implies, amends the contract. The contract does not constrain the amendment, the amendment alters the contract.

No core text can override an amendment. The amendment replaces and modifies any core text (and the text of any preceding amendment) that might contradict it.

That so many legal thinkers and jurists have yet to notice something so basic in the order of operations seems to be monstrous sham of a travesty of a mockery to me.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 23, 2021 05:39 AM (xNrL5)

101 "Given Delta's ability to slightly evade vaccines"

What would that even mean?
Posted by: m

Delta has gurgle maps and finds the shortest route around detours.

Sneaky Sneaky

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:40 AM (vd8XM)

102 And maybe a test that is accurate on whether or not you actually have Kovid and not a regular cold/flu bug.
Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:38 AM (vd8XM)

**

Stop testing healthy people and the virus goes away overnight.

A college football coach nailed it:

Know why the Amish don't have COVID? Because they don't have television.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:40 AM (5lbKt)

103 $242K per house, I've seen pictures of them. Like living in an outhouse. That much money around here would buy you a real nice house with a acre of land.

Posted by: Colin at September 23, 2021 05:41 AM (MTh1q)

104 They are granting Delta more intelligence than they do their own readers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2021 05:41 AM (8Wk5/)

105 o-kay, I'm'a go scounge around in the kitchen for some coffee & eats ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 05:42 AM (jDHSU)

106 Stop testing healthy people and the virus goes away overnight.

Posted by: Moron Robbie

Agree

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:42 AM (vd8XM)

107 And then they refuse any treatment, "under orders" until yer half dead anyway. No wonder all those people are quitting.

***

There is $100 or so in you being sick and coming into the office.

There is $14K or so in COVID cash from the feds for you being sick and hospitalized.

There is $40K or so in COVID cash from the feds for you being on a ventilator.

Sucks, but we're seeing an industry at work.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:43 AM (5lbKt)

108 Vaccinations are racially disparate and therefore vaccinations are rayciss.

This has been public policy for the last 50 years at least.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2021 05:43 AM (EZebt)

109 Morning, Pixy and Horde. I have HQ access due to a Frankenstein system of emergency supplies. I have a pocket emergency radio/flashlight with a handcrank output jack, which I connected to an emergency power pack for camping. Then I hooked phone to the pack...

Luckily making coffee involved only lighting a burner and using a coffee press.

My boss told us the school buildings are closed today. Refuses to say that we don't need to teach classes via Google. Without a crank-start laptop and modem, it is impossible...

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 23, 2021 05:44 AM (KgUa2)

110 "Notwithstanding"

In spite of the language in the contract, it is being changed to...

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at September 23, 2021 05:45 AM (xopIz)

111 A few gems from the $3.5 TRILLION
$3.5 billion for the Green New Deal youth patrol: A make-work program for jobless climate activists

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:45 AM (yrol0)

112 The bill creates a 15 percent refundable tax credit for "electric bicycles." A credit of up to $1,500 for electric bicycles costing as much as $8,000 per bike.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:46 AM (yrol0)

113 All them drug addicts are getting the AIDS from using dirty needles! We must provide clean needles and let them dispose of them anywhere they want!

Inexpensive HCQ or Ivermectin and the proper dosage on the label?

Nah.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:46 AM (vd8XM)

114 Hospital gave me 2 bathing kits to use before surgery. Each kits contains anti-bacterial soap, sterile wash mit and a 2 minute egg timer. Oh, and a sterile toofbrush with toofpaste. Wonder how much I'll get popped for that?

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 23, 2021 05:46 AM (ju2Fy)

115 The bill would replace a $500 lifetime cap on nonbusiness energy property credits with an annual $1,200 credit. This credit allows up to $600 in credits for "energy efficient" windows and skylights and up to $500 for doors.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:47 AM (yrol0)

116 Aw hell. Dozens of states are experiencing booze shortages due to skyrocketing demand for alcohol now that COVID lockdowns have been lifted. I reckon it's time to fire up ol Ethyl.

Posted by: Billy Bubba Ray Bob at September 23, 2021 05:47 AM (Tnijr)

117 Electric bicycles?

Hoverboards with Bluetooth would be cheaper.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 23, 2021 05:47 AM (8Wk5/)

118 The bill creates a 15 percent refundable tax credit for "electric bicycles." A credit of up to $1,500 for electric bicycles costing as much as $8,000 per bike.
Posted by: rhennigantx

So they can speedily not obey the rules of the road.

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:47 AM (vd8XM)

119 $24,285 per house not 246K if it's $1.7M.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at September 23, 2021 05:48 AM (EcHpA)

120 Olddog, I hope it goes well. Prayers up!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 23, 2021 05:49 AM (KgUa2)

121 Morning all.

olddog, Prayers and follow the directive about not moving around much in the first 24 hours after.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2021 05:50 AM (IeEtQ)

122 The bill creates a 15 percent refundable tax credit for "electric bicycles." A credit of up to $1,500 for electric bicycles costing as much as $8,000 per bike.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:46 AM (yrol0)

**

I've bragged on our electric weedeater here before. I bought it on clearance for $50 or so and t's been great.

One of the two $180 batteries completely died recently and I contacted the company about a replacement under warranty. "We have no batteries to send you." Wait, what?

And now the other battery is only lasting about half the time that it had started with last year. Contact again. "We still have no batteries to send you."

So now I'm going to go buy another gas powered one - one that works and will keep working for a decade - and get rid of these that I've had for about one (1) year. Heck of a way to save the environment, guys.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:50 AM (5lbKt)

123 >>> A second farming co-op has been hit with ransomware - despite being on the list of industries that Russia should not attack.

It is almost as though criminals do not follow the law.

Posted by: fluffy at September 23, 2021 05:50 AM (UnQlg)

124 Okay, breakfast time!


Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 05:50 AM (vd8XM)

125 I must say how much I'm thankful for HQ. other sites won't load on my phone.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 23, 2021 05:51 AM (KgUa2)

126 Awakened by cat at 3am. Crying outside my door. So I let him in.
Now I can't get to sleep again.
But I found a channel on Pluto called Naturescapes.
Wonderful! Sunny beaches, palm trees, lapping surf.
Cat likes it too.

Posted by: casual observer at September 23, 2021 05:52 AM (aAP3z)

127 And then they refuse any treatment, "under orders" until yer half dead anyway. No wonder all those people are quitting.


There is $100 or so in you being sick and coming into the office.

There is $14K or so in COVID cash from the feds for you being sick and hospitalized.

There is $40K or so in COVID cash from the feds for you being on a ventilator.

Sucks, but we're seeing an industry at work.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) Haiti has no home here at September 23, 2021 05:43 AM (5lbKt)

Going forward, the hospitals for the next couple of decades will have an administration full of Mengeles. Fuck.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 23, 2021 05:53 AM (ybIRR)

128 Murder up 30% Defund the Popo

https://tinyurl.com/2srwtf69

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:54 AM (yrol0)

129 On the booze shortage, I haven't seen any Guiness for about 3 months now. That's in the grocery stores.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2021 05:55 AM (IeEtQ)

130 "Last week, the Pennsylvania state consumer liquor board made an announcement that limited two bottles of select alcohol brands a day per customer"

C-lect? I reckon yall gonna be hurtin for that Yagermaster and Apple flavored Jack Daniels for some time now.

Posted by: Billy Bubba Ray Bob at September 23, 2021 05:55 AM (Tnijr)

131 Like a number of nursing homes around the state, the delta variant resulted in a COVID outbreak in September at our facility. While 91% of our staff are vaccinated, 54 patients and 25 staff tested positive, the majority of whom were vaccinated. On average, over 80% of our patients are vaccinated.

FauxChi said we needed to get to 70%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:56 AM (yrol0)

132 $24K will buy you a decent trailer RV.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 23, 2021 05:56 AM (ybIRR)

133 If you have seen pictures of those tiny houses I say they really cost 2 K to build. But of course with the cheap under the table labor in California, some contractors make good money. Maybe a home in Napa Valley near Nancy's estate.

Posted by: Colin at September 23, 2021 05:56 AM (MTh1q)

134 Oh my gosh that Atlantic article is so full of dumbness.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:57 AM (Y3SPi)

135 Those electric bikes are nice but people ride them on the sidewalks.
Someone hits me with one, imma gonna become very litigious.

Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 05:58 AM (aAP3z)

136 135 Those electric bikes are nice but people ride them on the sidewalks.
Someone hits me with one, imma gonna become very litigious.
Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 05:58 AM (aAP3z)

If you can catch 'em!

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:59 AM (Y3SPi)

137 Why are Haitians, specifically, coming to the US border?
Back in May, Mayorkas announced an 18-month temporary protective status for Haitians already residing in the US, which now applies to Haitians in the country as of July 29.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:59 AM (yrol0)

138 134 Oh my gosh that Atlantic article is so full of dumbness.
Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 05:57 AM (Y3SPi)

what

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 05:59 AM (yrol0)

139 olddog, Prayers and follow the directive about not moving around much in the first 24 hours after.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2021 05:50
---------------
Will do, if I get that directive. I was under the impression that being ambulatory was condition of being released.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 23, 2021 06:01 AM (ju2Fy)

140 71 well, if everyone insists on discussing it, here's a foretaste of The Emerging Narrative:
from The Atlantic:
"Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter"

https://is.gd/TPxWxB
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 05:27 AM (jDHSU)

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:03 AM (Y3SPi)

141 I like dragonflies.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:04 AM (B0mGw)

142
Good thing Our Joe told the Rooskies which industries were hands-off.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 23, 2021 06:04 AM (gTue8)

143 Stops any cultural transmission to the young of better days in the past.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at September 23, 2021 05:16 AM (u82oZ)

Morning, all.
I see opposing this as one thing I can do. Collecting and safeguarding whatever might be disappeared.
Until they are lost in a tragic boating accident.

Posted by: sal at September 23, 2021 06:05 AM (3c1fY)

144 I live in Australia now, and Pixy's statement about lies is POLITE! Ray Hadley a beloved broadcaster is a complete cunt now spreading nothing but lies and insults, same with the morning breakfast Neil Bream, not the GREAT filmmaker Neil Brean, but the Australian HACK who used to be almost as loved as Ray, are spreading NOTHING but propaganda All throughout their shows. It's 100% covid 100% of the time, and EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS WRONG!

I told my wife, because I've been a legal resident for almost 5 years, and still don't have my Permanent status, though I should have, under other circumstances, been permanent last years, and I was told just 3 days ago, "it could be another year or so because of covid."

I'm actually concerned that I might be exported because I will NOT "Take the Jab" a horrible marketing phrase, because I'm more likely to have a heart attack because of the jab than die of covid, and I think I already had it, but I cannot. . . repeat, CANNOT get an antibody test. So, Might I have my immigrant status removed because of the vaccine? A vaccine that Australia hasn't even BOUGHT yet?

If I let it out that I refuse the not vax, I might get kicked out.

Posted by: Wicke at September 23, 2021 06:05 AM (tW0wO)

145 wait wut??

As vaccination increases, a higher proportion of cases will appear in vaccinated people and thats what should happen

Now do smallpox and polio!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 06:05 AM (yrol0)

146 "Good thing Our Joe told the Rooskies which industries were hands-off. "

Every neighborhood has that one kook who's always yelling at the kids to stay out of his shed.

As in every week. Because no one listens to the old kook.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:06 AM (B0mGw)

147 "Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Siege Winter"

Posted by: The Leningrad Press at September 23, 2021 06:06 AM (oWBc3)

148
"All variants, though, will have some common weakness: They can be stopped through the combined measures of vaccines, masks, distancing, and other measures that cut the conduits they need to travel."

_________

Piss on that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 23, 2021 06:07 AM (gTue8)

149 Sorry, Wicke. Hang in there.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:07 AM (Y3SPi)

150 Glad you got your glasses. As you get over 30 it gets harder to see.

I'm sorry about Australia. Spouse and I prayed for your country today and for the opening of the eyes and heart of your tyrannical Premier. I've never been there but my Sister and British BIL lived there (in Sydney) for a number of years while she was in Uni and he was playing professional soccer and they loved it. Yes; and I know Victoria is many, many miles from Victoria.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2021 06:07 AM (jalt3)

151 As vaccination increases, a higher proportion of cases will appear in vaccinated people and thats what should happen

Now do smallpox and polio!
Posted by: rhennigantx

Sounds perfectly cromulent to me

Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 06:08 AM (vd8XM)

152 "Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Siege Winter"

They forgot #7: I'm ignoring your idiotic covid rules.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:08 AM (B0mGw)

153 Arne Duncan : Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabuls airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here?
They both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.

That some Obama grade real fucking stupid!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 06:08 AM (yrol0)

154 So it's FAR worse down here than people realize, also, the army is being actively opposed because they are actively attacking citiziens in NSW, SA, Victoria and in the capitol area.

Australia is having it's 1776, I HOPE!

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 23, 2021 06:09 AM (tW0wO)

155 Boker Tov Patriots

I am part of the Official Detail for a Funeral at Arlington today. And it has been pouring for 2 days. Sigh Good times

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 23, 2021 06:09 AM (IHyjr)

156 old dog, prayers up for your procedure. Let us know how it went when you can.

Posted by: sal at September 23, 2021 06:10 AM (3c1fY)

157 The ACLU posted a de-gendered quote from Ruth Bader Ginsberg that is the most Soviet thing I have seen yet. Absolutely sick.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2021 06:11 AM (EZebt)

158
Arne Duncan should freeze himself in a Lucite block.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 23, 2021 06:11 AM (gTue8)

159 Old Kook, how dare you call our beloved President that.
/s
Actually just being an old kook doesn't mean your also senile like Uncle Joe.

Posted by: Colin at September 23, 2021 06:11 AM (MTh1q)

160 Um, sorry you can't have 1776 without guns - eventually the powers that be will start using lethal force.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at September 23, 2021 06:12 AM (oWBc3)

161 157 The ACLU posted a de-gendered quote from Ruth Bader Ginsberg that is the most Soviet thing I have seen yet. Absolutely sick.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 23, 2021 06:11 AM (EZebt)

They're showing us who they are.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:12 AM (Y3SPi)

162 Angioplasty scheduled for 9:30.
Posted by: olddog in mo

Prayer up
Posted by: Bruce

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at September 23, 2021 06:12 AM (arJlL)

163 No, but his random threats and shaking his impotent fist are what I was highlighting.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:13 AM (B0mGw)

164 Sounds like we spent a couple of kajillion dollars for Nyquil
Posted by: Bruce at September 23, 2021 04:59 AM (vd8XM)

Stealing this, please. SO perfect.

Posted by: sal at September 23, 2021 06:13 AM (3c1fY)

165 Australia needs airdrops of those cheap little stamped out pistols like the USA dropped in occupied France during WWII.
I think they called them "liberators".
A single shot .45.
They were crap but you used them to get a real weapon from the Germans.

Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:14 AM (aAP3z)

166 I live in one of the two safe states, so It's not hitting TOO hard, It's only as bad as California in Queensland, the rest of this place is a friggen mess. NT is having MASSIVE violence and crime, my nieces are making twice as much as normal because of that, but they are pretty girls surrounded by violence in a tourist town (spinnafex) with very little work, but a lot of violence.

I don't live in the Australia I know, and I know if i go back to America it is not the America I knew.

My America made cars. Now. . . . we don't.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 23, 2021 06:14 AM (tW0wO)

167 Hiya Ben Had !

Posted by: JT at September 23, 2021 06:15 AM (arJlL)

168 "Bor­der Patrol agents seen on horse­back con­fronting Hait­ian refugees have been removed from reg­u­lar duty dur­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into their actions, Home­land Secu­ri­ty Sec­re­tary Ale­jan­dro May­orkas told law­mak­ers Wednes­day"

The Border Patrol should just quit. Let it fester.

Posted by: f'd at September 23, 2021 06:15 AM (Tnijr)

169 The scamdemic regealed it, but when did the OZ govt become so fascist?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 23, 2021 06:16 AM (oEn12)

170 Black diamonds for everyone!. Please take one and move on.

Posted by: f'd at September 23, 2021 06:16 AM (Tnijr)

171 JT, good morning

Posted by: Ben Had at September 23, 2021 06:16 AM (IeEtQ)

172 169 The scamdemic regealed it, but when did the OZ govt become so fascist?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 23, 2021 06:16 AM (oEn12)

If Big Govt owns your healthcare, they OWN you!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 06:16 AM (yrol0)

173
Is Queensland still run by (more or less) sensible people or is it just as hysterical now as the rest of Australia?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 23, 2021 06:17 AM (gTue8)

174 168 The Border Patrol should just quit. Let it fester.
Posted by: f'd at September 23, 2021 06:15 AM (Tnijr)

Maxine Waters should be forced to go down there and get a tour from the Mayor.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:17 AM (Y3SPi)

175 Casual Observer, there is a statistic that only 30% of guns were turned in during the great disarmament, but I only have military friends, and they all say, "There are a lot of burried guns that make it about 10% if eaven."

Meaning, a lot of old boys, like the piggers and the rooers took on the guns of other people who were expected to turn them in, and the Old boys just burried them.

It's a real phrase. "there are a lot of guns in the desert"

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 23, 2021 06:17 AM (tW0wO)

176 You'd think if there had been an attack (the discussion of which is now gone) there would be video all over the place but Dictator Dan has banned live video from Melbourne.


Unfortunately the news networks are worthless. If I wasn't already banned from Twitter I soon would be after responding to these fascist-fellating fuckheads.

-----

Jeebus. I feel like I'm having a nightmare from which I cannot awaken, and being forced to live in a dystopian movie universe. This will only end when tyrants start getting the Mussolini treatment.

Coming #Soon to a country near us ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:18 AM (vAHT7)

177 170 Black diamonds for everyone! Please take one and move on.
Posted by: f'd at September 23, 2021 06:16 AM (Tnijr)

Good one.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:18 AM (Y3SPi)

178 "but when did the OZ govt become so fascist? "

Slowly, but surely. Step by step.

Thank God we're not racist or selective in our immigration, though.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:18 AM (B0mGw)

179 OOps. Meant to put a [snip] in between those two quoted Pixy paragraphs ... sorry.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:18 AM (vAHT7)

180 $242K per house, I've seen pictures of them. Like living in an outhouse. That much money around here would buy you a real nice house with a acre of land.

Posted by: Colin at September 23, 2021 05:41 AM (MTh1q)


He missed a decimal -- $1.7million / 70 = $24.2k

Still, 64 square feet? 8'x8' -- most prison cells are bigger than that.

Even with sky high lumber prices (which come back down quite a bit, I read) you can build a tiny house for that. Plumbing, electrical, kitchen, movable.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 23, 2021 06:19 AM (F0YaR)

181 The border patrol agent's crime was that he was riding a horse.

The photo that ignorant people are freaking out over show reins flying in the chase, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at September 23, 2021 06:20 AM (3DjGn)

182 178 "but when did the OZ govt become so fascist? "

Slowly, but surely. Step by step.

Thank God we're not racist or selective in our immigration, though.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:18 AM (B0mGw)

-----

Or as Jack Straw used to write, quoting Hemingway ("gradually, then suddenly"): slowly at first ... then all at once.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:20 AM (vAHT7)

183 Hadrian, not really, the governor is a wack job with crazy lockdowns, but intelligent enough to not force any specific mandates, YET, though they are coming that's why the propoganda stream.

Queensland is a bit "bogan" or hillbilly by Australian standards, so it's a TINY bit harder to force it directly like in New South Wales, but ALL of Australia is a bunch of pussies in terms of populace.

I think the first thing I sent over the tubes, was "In Australia there are a lot of rules, and people actually follow them."

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 23, 2021 06:20 AM (tW0wO)

184 I'm up so early, that there is no thread above the Pixy thread

Posted by: Draki at September 23, 2021 06:21 AM (hwhW9)

185 "I feel like I'm having a nightmare from which I cannot awaken, and being forced to live in a dystopian movie universe."

It is dystopian, but a lot of what's being done is costing political capital and a lot of bluster. They are expecting us to get tired and give up and then they win. If we continue to organize and push back, they will eventually run out of the ability to maintain their front.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:21 AM (B0mGw)

186 The Surface Pro 8 has a 2880x1920 13" display (why not 3000x2000?) ...

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Round numbers be racist, yo!

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:21 AM (vAHT7)

187 You could put 4 or 5 tiny houses in a shipping container. Enough room for 40-50 prospective citizens.

Posted by: f'd at September 23, 2021 06:22 AM (Tnijr)

188 "but when did the OZ govt become so fascist? "

Slowly, but surely. Step by step.

Thank God we're not racist or selective in our immigration, though.
Posted by: squid_hunt

And DON'T call them Shirley !

Posted by: JT at September 23, 2021 06:22 AM (arJlL)

189 I definitely picked the wrong year to stop sniffing airplane glue.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:23 AM (B0mGw)

190 Fun fact:

Pvc pipe with glued caps on the end make really good time capsules for saving neat stuff for your kids.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at September 23, 2021 06:23 AM (3DjGn)

191 I wonder will they punish the horses also for being in the great roundup and branding of the Haitian "boys".

Posted by: Colin at September 23, 2021 06:23 AM (MTh1q)

192 184 I'm up so early, that there is no thread above the Pixy thread
Posted by: Draki at September 23, 2021 06:21 AM (hwhW9)

It's a metric.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:23 AM (Y3SPi)

193 191 I wonder will they punish the horses also for being in the great roundup and branding of the Haitian "boys".
Posted by: Colin at September 23, 2021 06:23 AM (MTh1q)

They'll be all "Defund our Border Police!"

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:24 AM (Y3SPi)

194 "make really good time capsules for saving neat stuff for your kids."

Like fertilizer and an accelerant?

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:24 AM (B0mGw)

195 It's pretty funny the Dems are channeling the horse police scene from Elf as their latest case of the vapors.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at September 23, 2021 06:24 AM (oWBc3)

196 Australia has always been willing to submit, watch "You are here" on youtube.

I forget who described it, but America always hailed Australia (me too) as a nation of criminals and rebels, but ALWAYS with their Jailers in charge.

That is becoming apparent more and more by the day.

I should have moved my wife to Nigeria, rather than me move here or the states, because shit is fucked, at least we would have expected Nigeria to suck. It's painful to see our own nations fall apart.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 23, 2021 06:24 AM (tW0wO)

197 BIL had a Tinyhouse built on a flatbed trailer.
I went inside, it was kind of nice.
He spent some money on it, more than a little.
He towed it with his truck.
Put it on a lot by a lake, went fishing.
Someone stole it.

Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:25 AM (aAP3z)

198 Prayers & good luck olddog

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 23, 2021 06:25 AM (oEn12)

199 Anything to distract. They're so transparent anymore it's pathetic. The only thing keeping them relevant is a bunch of stupid karens fighting Nazis in their own fevered imaginations.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:25 AM (B0mGw)

200 I figure two years for a $24k house to become worth $1000, most of that copper and used appliances that are too heavy to steal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at September 23, 2021 06:26 AM (3DjGn)

201 A second farming co-op has been hit with ransomware - despite being on the list of industries that Russia should not attack.

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. From the link: "President Biden also warned that if Russia did not crack down on cyber criminals operating within its borders, the US would take any necessary action to protect its interests." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Surrender Joe? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:26 AM (vAHT7)

202 185 a lot of what's being done is costing political capital
Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:21 AM (B0mGw)

Not enough.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:26 AM (Y3SPi)

203 Antibody testing won't necessarily indicate positive even if you had the Coof and recovered.

That's actually a good thing, but a test to determine natural immunity has to test for T and B cells or somesuch. Do your own due diligence and get the facts, but I think I have the gist of it correct. Get informed!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 06:27 AM (QfSXK)

204 Like fertilizer and an accelerant?
*

I don't know why my kids would want that, but your kids might be different.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at September 23, 2021 06:27 AM (3DjGn)

205 "Not enough."

True. But they're starting to show cracks. 2022 is a year away. They're going to bleed or have to commit and they're not sure which way things will go.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:27 AM (B0mGw)

206 I had to go somewhere early this morning. I turned on the classical station because I really don't want an overload of news before 7:00 in the morning. The station was playing the bit from the Messiah instrumental part "He is the King Of Glory" A little bit after that the sun came up in a blaze of pink. It looked like the sky was on fire, After that it was all golden and I thought of a hymn in your hymnal. Those that go to churches with the old hymns may know it, "When morning gilds the skies my heart awaking cries, "May Jesus Christ be praised!"

Everyday we can see blessings if we ask God to help make us be aware of them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2021 06:28 AM (jalt3)

207 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. From the link: "President Biden also warned that if Russia did not crack down on cyber criminals operating within its borders, the US would take any necessary action to protect its interests." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Surrender Joe? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:26 AM (vAHT7)

At this rate, we'll be surrendering unconditionally to Moscow in about 2 years.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at September 23, 2021 06:28 AM (xNrL5)

208 "I don't know why my kids would want that, but your kids might be different. "

I don't know. My kids got pretty excited about muriatic acid and aluminum foil, too.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:28 AM (B0mGw)

209 Well, time to start the cleansing procedures. Thanks for the prayers.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 23, 2021 06:28 AM (ju2Fy)

210 197 BIL had a Tinyhouse built on a flatbed trailer.
I went inside, it was kind of nice.
He spent some money on it, more than a little.
He towed it with his truck.
Put it on a lot by a lake, went fishing.
Someone stole it.

Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:25 AM (aAP3z)

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Heh. This read like a haiku of haikus ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:28 AM (vAHT7)

211 The Feds want to implement their own digital currency. At least it will save paper. Not so much Bitcoin et al.

Posted by: f'd at September 23, 2021 06:28 AM (Tnijr)

212 197 BIL had a Tinyhouse built on a flatbed trailer.
I went inside, it was kind of nice.
He spent some money on it, more than a little.
He towed it with his truck.
Put it on a lot by a lake, went fishing.
Someone stole it.
Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:25 AM (aAP3z)

Did he get it back? Did they catch the bad guys?

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:30 AM (Y3SPi)

213 I don't think those tiny houses have any appliances and they have to use a community toilet or just use the corner of the tiny house.

Posted by: Colin at September 23, 2021 06:30 AM (MTh1q)

214 Can someone explain to this redneck the concept of "if the government bans guns I will bury them somewhere for later?" Isn't is true that later then no longer exists?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at September 23, 2021 06:31 AM (oWBc3)

215 Did he get it back? Did they catch the bad guys?
Posted by: m

Tune in tomorrow......

Posted by: JT at September 23, 2021 06:31 AM (arJlL)

216 "Isn't is true that later then no longer exists?"

I have no idea. Drywall isn't that expensive.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 23, 2021 06:31 AM (B0mGw)

217 Disclaimer: Believe half of what you hear and nothing that you see.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:52 AM

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Good one, Pixy.

Who Are You Going To Believe, Us Or Your Lying Ears and Eyes? -- Oligarchic Useful Idiot Fluffers, AKA the Progda Enemedia

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:32 AM (vAHT7)

218 #OzzieLivesMatter

#ICantBreatheMate

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 23, 2021 06:32 AM (6FeV1)

219 "Did he get it back?"
Not yet.
This was back in July.
It had a toilet/shower, cook top, sleeps 6.

Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:33 AM (aAP3z)

220 thanks, Fenelon, that was lovely !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at September 23, 2021 06:34 AM (jDHSU)

221 219 "Did he get it back?"
Not yet.
This was back in July.
It had a toilet/shower, cook top, sleeps 6.
Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:33 AM (aAP3z)

What a wild story.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:35 AM (Y3SPi)

222 angioplasty scheduled for 9:30.
Posted by: olddog in mo

I will pray for you, your surgeons and the medical team and for your family as well who will be waiting on the news.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2021 06:36 AM (jalt3)

223 Well it's also probably true if it's time to dig them up, it's time to bury them. Be careful out there.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 23, 2021 06:36 AM (QfSXK)

224 He will make another one.
With a tracking device this time.

Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:36 AM (aAP3z)

225 JJJJJJJJJJ

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 23, 2021 06:37 AM (yrol0)

226 214 Can someone explain to this redneck the concept of "if the government bans guns I will bury them somewhere for later?" Isn't is true that later then no longer exists?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at September 23, 2021 06:31 AM (oWBc3)

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This too is my conclusion and the hill upon which I will likely die. In fact, if they come to either force me to take the jab or arrest me, then later no longer exists. I don't call it "victim disarmament" [h/t Larry Elder] for nothing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 23, 2021 06:37 AM (vAHT7)

227 Pixy needs to become his own twitter. Pixxer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 23, 2021 06:37 AM (mdgQ7)

228 Pixy needs to become his own twitter. Pixxer.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 23, 2021 06:37 AM (mdgQ7)

Gonna need moar hamsters.

Posted by: golfman at September 23, 2021 06:38 AM (hOMhY)

229 Gonna need moar hamsters.
Posted by: golfman at September 23, 2021 06:38 AM (hOMhY)

Wombats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 23, 2021 06:39 AM (6FeV1)

230 Good morning hordelings. Praying for you, olddog.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 23, 2021 06:39 AM (45fpk)

231 My dad always told me, if you think it's time to bury your guns, it's time to carry your guns.

Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:39 AM (aAP3z)

232 Two Afghan refugees at Ft. McCoy have been charged with federal felonies. One man charged with three counts of sexual assault of a minor. The other man charged with suffocating his wife.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 23, 2021 06:40 AM (45fpk)

233 231 My dad always told me, if you think it's time to bury your guns, it's time to carry your guns.
Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:39 AM (aAP3z)

And then there are canoe accidents, maybe a between-times solution.

Posted by: m at September 23, 2021 06:41 AM (Y3SPi)

234 Rioting like BLM and Antifa gets you a couple skulls cracked, national prominence for your cause, and a chunk of legislators on your side.

Peaceful protest gets you a couple skulls cracked, a media embargo, and national vilification.

You get more of what you subsidize.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 23, 2021 06:43 AM (6FeV1)

235 Wickedpinto! Good to hear from you. Sorry about the situation in Oz. We're not that far behind.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at September 23, 2021 06:43 AM (8548M)

236 I'd rather have a regular rv.
Prices jumped up on those pretty good in 2021.

Posted by: casual observer 0923 at September 23, 2021 06:47 AM (aAP3z)

237 And now that everyone has gone off to J.J.'s excellent gathering of news (I am not quite ready for that yet) here is a nice version of a choir singing, "When morning gilds the skies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5xe8ahtis

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 23, 2021 06:52 AM (jalt3)

238 No shit Eh Mrs. Peel. Been a long time.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 23, 2021 07:30 AM (tW0wO)

239 For anyone curious, If everything is the same, she's taken, but Mrs. Peel is one of the most beautiful and smartest Morons.

My wife doesn't count, she was a Hostage, Peel is a Moron.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 23, 2021 07:32 AM (tW0wO)

240 @mrs. peel, if need validation we played apples and oranges and one of my best responses was my drivers license.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 23, 2021 07:34 AM (tW0wO)

241 Did you ever notice how, when someone wearing a protective vest bends over for any reason they are exposing their lower torso, especially around the kidney area?

Posted by: Snidely Whiplash at September 23, 2021 01:15 PM (dVp8a)

242 I am glad Australians are protesting. The most depressing thing about Australia wasn't that there appears to be a thriving fascist party, but that Australians seemed to meekly submit to it. I pray for the protestors and their success.

Posted by: Joe at September 23, 2021 03:02 PM (TeP0o)

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