It’s time for Biden to directly go after anti-vaxers from FOX to SCOTUS for killing Americans. He’s unfairly getting blamed in polls for COVID spread among unvaccinated they caused. Kick ass and take names!
Meanwhile, we could be sliding to a civil war. Secession movements in some red states shouldn’t be ignored.
Also: Queen Elizabeth II strips her son Prince Andrew of all his military titles and royal patronages as he prepares to face a civil case over claims of sexual assault, saying he must defend himself as a private citizen.
quebec, a north star to guide the way?
aside from what’s good for public health, a good cost-saving move for private insurers would be to put a surcharge on anti-vaxers (as some do to smokers)
too bad we can’t tax misinformation, it sure has taxed us
Old Video Resurfaces of Rand Paul Telling Students Misinformation Is a ‘Great Tactic’ (insider.com)
fearless leader says in the thread intro that joe’s “unfairly getting blamed in polls for COVID spread among unvaccinated they caused.”
he’s also getting blamed for manchinema and mitch’s anti-voting rights stance, for DOJ’s hesitancy to prosecute former guy, for the pandemic caused inflation, for stopping endless war in mideast, for not going to war with putin/xi, for being boring by the media, the malaise in general and most of all for being old.
probably the reason beneath the bad polls lurks a backlash touch of racism due to his base in the 2020 election and more than a touch of ageism.
in this era of maniacal multi-tasking and instant gratification and media lust for looniness, people like biden, fauci, et al are roadkill on the highway to hedonism.
Higher health insurance premiums, no air, train or bus travel. There are ways, when doing the thing that will help you and your immediate circle isn’t enough.
Quebec is planning to fine those who refuse to get vaxxed, as they have prolonged the pandemic. Also, you have to show proof of vaxx to buy alcohol or weed in Quebec, so winter might be pretty grim.
http://m.nautil.us/issue/112/inspiration/the-attack-of-zombie-science
“This trend of worthless science has been exacerbated by the media spotlight, political pressure and, presumably, the strong human impulse in the face of an emergency to do something, anything, even if it is sheer lunacy. This way, zombie scientists get not only peer-review recognition but also the public’s impression that they are doing important work.“
“Zombie science not only pollutes science and generates noise; it also contributes to the hype of miracle cures and false hopes that end up in the press.”
gerson’s oped in wapo:
Rand Paul takes a page out the Goebbels handbook. Just keep repeating a lie and folks will start to believe it.
I love the theme of this thread. Call out the toxic stupidity of the largely RW anti vaxxers and continue ad nauseum pointing out the deadly consequences of their dogged refusal to help avoid the spread of a deadly virus in the midst of a pandemic that is closing in on a million dead Americans. And absolutely call out the actions of politicians, business people and trade organizations and lying judges at all levels of government who fight tooth and nail all efforts of the Biden administration to fight the spread of death from Covid. Joe is stuck with a very slim majority in Congress but his agenda is being stymied by two members of his own party in the Senate, who he might as well call out for what they are – obstructionists destined to destroy the Biden agenda in the very short term and Democratic control of government in the near term over the next two election cycles.
Djokovich is out of the Australian Open for now. Good on the Aussies. We could learn a thing or two from them.
And finally, cudos to the DOJ for the charges against Stewart Rhodes* and his “Oath keeping” co-conspirators for their seditious conspiracy leading up to 1/6/21. Now let the threads spread out to ensnare those who encouraged them (called misprision in my world). Don’t stop until they ensnare the disgraced twice impeached Former.
*btw that shit kicker is a Yale educated lawyer. Another Yale lawyer, George Conway, says the seditious conspiracy charge fits the shit kicker’s actions like a glove.
The saddest thing I have learned about the anti-vaccination cult is they do not believe COVID is a disease. Even when the have it. Even when they die of it. They convince themselves it is nothing more than the flu. Someone with COVID actually asked a very stupid question, in between coughing jags. “It is the same bug as the flu bug isn’t it?” I did respond that it is not and was met with I don’t know what I am talking about, this from someone who told me to watch faux snooze.
celebrating DOJ’s the sedition charge against rhodes
Stephen’s faith in the Justice Department was restored today when ten so-called Oath Keepers were charged with sedition for their participation in the Jan. 6th attack. In covid news, experts think Omicron has hit its peak in the United States, with case numbers on the East Coast already starting to fall.
I am wondering about something. I think the white supremacists proud boys were charged with very minor things, spitting on the sidewalk stuff, and given no jail time to a few weeks of jail. Now the next white supremacist group oatkeepers are being charged with sedition and high jail time crimes. The terrorists were both at the insurrection scene what is the difference in terrorists?
BB, the difference is huge. I have a client who was at the Capitol on 1/6 and but for a tummy ache and fever he could have been charged for going into the capitol and disrupting the proceedings – and he’s a mountain of a man and would have stood literally head and shoulders above the crowd. He went there because some RW website he reads and believes was pushing their readers to go to DC on 1/6. He was not engaged in a conspiracy to induce people to go there. but was just another dupe who followed the rantings of those like the Oath Keepers who were engaged in planning and inducing people like my idiot client to go and get caught up in what the sedition conspiracists were planning. The Oath Keepers’ planners on the other hand were engaged in planning an attack that involved transporting weapons to DC and they were employing the training Ol’ Stewart learned as a paratrooper back in the day. In short they were engaged in planning a military style assault on the Congress to prevent Congress’ ability to exercise its responsibilities under the Constitution. A bit more than attending a rally, walking up Constitution Ave. to the Capitol at the urging of the President and ultimately walking over police positions and then (for some) walking into the Capitol after other, more aggressive types, broke outt windows and opened doors into the building. As I understand the charges, they are based more on the interactions electronically between the top guys – just shy of a dozen of them – planning the attack.
Here’s the statute they were charged under:
18 USC § 2384 – Seditious Conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
BB, plus if new evidence is discovered and warrants it, charges can be added to the lesser charges.
BB, wiki reminds us in their discussion of domestic terrorism
” the U.S. government cannot charge someone with domestic terrorism because no such criminal law exists..“
Lie , deny, rise, repeat
Lie , deny, rise, repeat
Lie , deny, rise, repeat
Lie , deny, rise, repeat
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-first-observing-targets
Stewart Rhodes’ Estranged Wife Calls Him a ‘Complete Sociopath’ a Day After Jan. 6 Arrest
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tasha-adams-stewart-rhodes-estranged-wife-calls-oath-keeper-a-complete-sociopath-after-jan-6-arrest
When Hitler picked his fight with Poland, he used a radio station near the border as his pretext . I forget the exact series of events , but as I remember it he blew the thing up , and began to howl about the Commies in Poland that did it.
Boom WW II was on.
Mr. Putin has updated that playbook today. By attacking the Ukraine government web sites.
Poor Mr. Biden , he’s up to his armpits in weasels .
I’m not a praying man but I’ve said a few here lately .
The news today makes the Sixties seem like a Blake Edwards movie.
The Albuquerque school system is down for a second day due to a ransom attack.
Holy cats ! There is a snow white morning dove in my yard !
I may have to join the 700 Club .
cbob, just for you
“De” this and “De” that .
We don’t dry things out anymore , we “dewater” them.
We don’t stop paying , we “defund”.
But no one saw a “deroyaling” coming.
Patd –
I saw it , and that tune popped in my head.
Great minds kiddo, great minds.
Patd –
PBS began rerunning Burn’s “Country Music” last night , it was better than ever. Furlin Husky is just the tonic I was looking for.
The fattest shiniest guitar ever –
https://youtu.be/BZbNgD2aKqc
glad you liked it.
as far as country lonesome music goes, not much ever topped hank’s “i’m so lonesome i could cry”
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry
I’ve never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
Like me, he’s lost the will to live
I’m so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I’m so lonesome I could cry
azlyrics had this little blurb about it:
My favorite part is about how the station that made “Wolf Man Jack” was born .
XERF 250,000 watts, created by a quack doctor from Iowa, who had started a 50,000 watt station there using country music to promote his practice , of implanting “goat glands” into men to make them youth again.
Well the state of Iowa pulled his license, so he crossed the border at Del Rio , and when right back to blasting out ads .
This was where the Carter Family died on the Radio .
The thing was so powerful that ranchers in South Texas could hear it on their barbed wire fences , the braces on children’s teeth , Waylon’s house in Texas, Johnny’s house in Arkansas, and Chet’s house in Bama.
even more melancholy are the pictures in this vid with b.j.thomas wailing in background
Yep , him and Jimmy Rogers. “The Singing Breakman”.
This one is in the race for me.
“A thousands miles from home waiting for a train”.
Pappy Ole’ Daniel was a real man he was a governor of Texas .
And Bob Wills got him to back, “The Light Crust Dough Boys”.
It don’t matter who’s in Texas Bob Wills is still the King.
“It’s a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart”
https://youtu.be/Z8jZmEKRCf4
“We hear you pay money to sing into a can”
New study sheds light on origins of life on Earth
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-life-earth.html
We and the butterflies run on electricity , no juice no moose.
Things are starting to shut down around here. Closures and shortened hours.
OM – Hooo! and howl!
Solar power –
Storing heat from the sun , ie the battery .
Of all the things to choose there are 3 things.
They all have what is called “specific heat” , that is the ability to store the most heat per given mass.
The cheapest is water , nothing in nature comes close .
The second are certain salts, they go through a phase change from solid to liquid .
Third is paraffin it does that same phase change.
Now water can do that same phase change , but from liquid to gas . But that takes a lot more heat . See a steam engine.
It is this change in state that lets these materials to store more heat per given mass.
On the “specific heat” scale, water is valued as one. It is the base line.
Everything around you is a fraction of that one , except for the paraffin candles in your house. When water at one can’t take on anymore heat , your candles are still a hot melted solid, when they change to a liquid , they race at head of water by a mile.
And paraffin is much denser than water. And paraffin is the curse of millions of oil wells. It fouls the the entire bore hole of poorer grade oil wells.
So, 47 years ago I came to the conclusion that a paraffin heat battery was the way to store heat for a house . Both water , and space. The real plus , was that it would be really small . A lot of thermal mass in a small space.
That is what I learned reading books at the Whole Earth Access Company at 940 Pearl Street , Boulder , Colorado.
Then I ended up on a “Pullin” Unit” doing workover on oil wells .
Pulling 5,000 feet of connecting rods out of the hole, all of it was covered with paraffin.
“The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war.” – – Globe&Mail
My friend Marvin Lanier on the right playing guitar for Don. He played for him for years, they toured the world together just the two of them.
Republicans are flirting with secession. That might be a good idea — for Democrats – – The Independent
Paraffin –
Our commune at Mineral Hot Springs had a candle works .
A small electric hot water heater with no top , five coffee cans , two welded to together . It made a huge candle. Five colors.
We made them in pairs. We bought Gulf Oil paraffin by the 20 pound block. It was so cheap.
Strug –
There’s that fat shiny guitar , God do I love that thing.
Tucker Carlson repeatedly hosted an Oath Keeper charged with seditious conspiracy https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-repeatedly-hosted-oath-keeper-charged-seditious-conspiracy
Craig –
It’s Friday night, and I just want to think about other things besides our pending T- Shirt War.
Which is the only way we will choose sides .
As for myself I’m broke down South of Dallas.
Remember that Tucker was born with an aluminum TV tray in his mouth.
It truly is an age of flawed folks. This has happened before a crazy monk took over Florence, they burnt books paintings etc.
The bond fire of the vanities .
The good folks of Florence woke up , and burnt his ass to a crisp.
” These are not very bright people ”
Deep Throat
I never dreamed of seeing this date , let alone of this hot mess.
I keep wondering where these boobs got money to travel DC. Maybe a Tucker Goebbels and fiends fund?
The numbers of extremists may have dwindled. Covid deaths. Seeing others get in trouble for Jan 6th.
The Republican politicians are doing their worst to stop the majority of voters from voting against them.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/13/texas-migrant-arrest-border-security/
“In the first Travis County court hearing of a challenge to Abbott’s new “arrest and jail” approach under Operation Lone Star, state district Judge Jan Soifer agreed to throw out an Ecuadorian migrant’s trespassing arrest and criminal prosecution.“
“His lawyers argued that the governor’s directive to arrest migrants on state charges unconstitutionally usurps federal immigration law.”
“Everybody who has a pending misdemeanor trespassing arrest under OLS will have the exact same challenge,” said Kristin Etter, an attorney with the Texas RioGrande Legal Aid who represents hundreds of migrants. “This sets a clear precedent in all of those cases both pending and future.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/13/texas-voting-mail-rejections/
“Hundreds of Texans seeking to vote by mail in the upcoming March primary elections are seeing their applications for ballots rejected by local election offices trying to comply with stricter voting rules enacted by Texas Republicans last year.“
That reminds me that I haven’t received my new voter’s registration card in the mail.
George Conway Makes Case for Trump Being Tried for Sedition (mediaite.com)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKD8mZG2pdM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/covid-19-rapid-tests-federal-program-ship-times/index.html
“The website for the newly established federal effort to distribute Covid-19 rapid tests by mail across America will launch for requests on January 19, but will be limited to four rapid tests per residential household…”
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