Occasional Reader 5/19/2022 6:03:01 AM

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Good morning. Important safety reminder; Rule number one of champagne safety. Always keep the champagne bottle pointed in a safe direction.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/61490735

vxbush 5/19/2022 6:06:19 AM

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In #1 Occasional Reader said: Good morning. Important safety reminder; Rule number one of champagne safety. Always keep the champagne bottle pointed in a safe direction.

They always have the cork puller in the center of the mob. I'm surprised it hasn't happened before now. 

Occasional Reader 5/19/2022 6:56:32 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 2:

This is probably how Veuve Clicquot wound up being a Veuve.

lucius septimius 5/19/2022 7:05:41 AM

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In #3 Occasional Reader said: This is probably how Veuve Clicquot wound up being a Veuve.

Nicely played.

vxbush 5/19/2022 7:07:06 AM

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vxbush 5/19/2022 7:07:24 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 5:

It's not heavy on the medicine, but on the political nonsense going on. 

JCM 5/19/2022 7:34:16 AM

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Seattle firefighter hurt while responding to railcar blaze near Boeing Field

It was not immediately clear how the firefighter was injured or what led to the blaze

I know exactly what happened. Homeless drug addled arsonist.

Kosh's Shadow 5/19/2022 7:36:47 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 6:

A very relevant quote (my emphasis) on how there are effective treatments that were supporessed:

When this pandemic started, hospitals were ordered by the CDC to follow a treatment protocol that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of patients, most of whom would have recovered had proper treatments been allowed.[43,44] The majority of these deaths could have been prevented had doctors been allowed to use early treatment with such products as Ivermectin, hydroxy-chloroquine and a number of other safe drugs and natural compounds. It has been estimated, based on results by physicians treating the most covid patients successfully, that of the 800,000 people that we are told died from Covid, 640,000 could have not only been saved, but could have, in many cases, returned to their pre-infection health status had mandated early treatment with these proven methods been used. This neglect of early treatment constitutes mass murder. That means 160,000 would have actually died, far less than the number dying at the hands of bureaucracies, medical associations and medical boards that refused to stand up for their patients. According to studies of early treatment of thousands of patients by brave, caring doctors, seventy-five to eighty percent of the deaths could have been prevented.[43,44]

Note elsewhere about doctors losing licenses and threatened for using those very treatments.

Kosh's Shadow 5/19/2022 7:37:41 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8:

I've downloaded the PDF.

JCM 5/19/2022 7:55:21 AM

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Outbreak of sanity....

Gov. Ivey signs bill banning medication to transgender youth and transgender bathroom bill

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 66-28 for Senate Bill 184 which makes it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for a doctor to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones or perform surgery to aid in the gender transition of people under age 19.

lucius septimius 5/19/2022 8:07:50 AM

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Reply to JCM in 10:

Denying HEALTHCARE to vulnerable LGBTQ+ people!!!  This is naked bigotry! It's the beginning of a new Holocaust (I'm sure the AP and Reuters will be running with that in seconds).

Occasional Reader 5/19/2022 8:27:09 AM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 11:

Indeed, this is straight out of the Hitler playbook. 

Occasional Reader 5/19/2022 8:45:06 AM

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If these hamsters take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing.  And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order. 

https://futurism.com/the-byte/gene-hacked-hamsters-aggressive

buzzsawmonkey 5/19/2022 9:01:52 AM

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Given that the Left always works to fail upward, it behooves us to look at the hook concealed in the worm of the Biden Administration's fishy response to the baby formula problem.

It was announced that the Administration was going to use the Korean War-era Defense Procurement Act to force the formula manufacturers into high production gear, and that military aircraft, and special flying priorities, would be emplaced to distribute the ramped-up production.  These announcements were accompanied by the reassurance that this was the same law under which covid vaccine production was prioritized.

Leaving aside that the current shortage appears to be a creation of two Administration policies---a combination of the Administration's already having prioritized delivery of formula to the influx of illegals, and any genuine shortage appearing to be largely due to the government having previously shut down some production facility or facilities due to alleged health risks found---one can see a strong similarity between the formula shortage and the policies cutting back fossil-fuel production which have driven up so many prices, and which are designed to further the government's "green-energy" ideology.

In any event, unlike the use of the wartime-procurement measures to address a sudden (if questionable) public-health emergency, applying these measures to the availability of a consumer good seems like nothing so much as a thin-end-of-the-wedge initiative towards normalizing the nationalization and centralization of the consumer economy as a whole. We don't want to deny babies their nourishment, do we?  Heavens, no---so we can't possibly object to this (literal) baby-steps movement towards centralized control over the economy as a whole.

Occasional Reader 5/19/2022 9:14:51 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14:

Not long ago, I'd have dismissed this as nutty conspiracy theory.  I can no longer do so.

buzzsawmonkey 5/19/2022 9:17:29 AM

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In #15 Occasional Reader said: Not long ago, I'd have dismissed this as nutty conspiracy theory.  I can no longer do so.

Not long ago, I would have considered it nutty myself---but the pattern similarities exist.

JCM 5/19/2022 9:35:22 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15:

You can say that for a lot of things.

buzzsawmonkey 5/19/2022 10:16:02 AM

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When there is covid and you don’t know what to do, you can always go

Lockdown!

Rules are just for the many, but never are for the few when you decide to go

Lockdown!

Just impose travel and job restrictions

Enforce masking mandates

Keep everyone so confused

They vote for poor candidates

How can you lose?

Your powers will extend everywhere

You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares 

When you

Lockdown!

You’ll have hegemony

Lockdown!

Punish your enemies

Lockdown!

Things will be better for you…

Lockdown…lockdown…

doppelganglander 5/19/2022 12:06:20 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 14:

Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 16:

I'm at the point where I assume it's a conspiracy and look for reasonable explanations later. An administration that advocates for abortion up to the moment of birth may be perfectly willing to put infants at risk of illness or even death.

Kosh's Shadow 5/19/2022 1:06:41 PM

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Took dog to the vet for shots.

They have a card on their bulletin board for an obedience school, "Citizen Canine"

If they teach dogs to pull a sled, is the sled called "Rosebud"?

Occasional Reader 5/19/2022 1:49:37 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 20:

I wonder how many people these days get the joke.

buzzsawmonkey 5/19/2022 2:37:51 PM

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In #21 Occasional Reader said: how many people these days get the joke.

I just spoke with a friend of mine, who thought Kurtz's "The horror! The horror!" came from the film "Apocalypse Now," not from Conrad's story "Heart of Darkness."

Occasional Reader 5/19/2022 3:12:15 PM

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In #22 buzzsawmonkey said: I just spoke with a friend of mine, who thought Kurtz's "The horror! The horror!" came from the film "Apocalypse Now," not from Conrad's story "Heart of Darkness."

When I saw the movie (as a teen), I didn't know in advance that it was based on Heart of Darkness (which I had already read).   It dawned on my like a thunderclap (pardon the mixed metaphor) in the scene in which we glimpse figure running through the forest, just prior to the boat captain being killed by a thrown spear.  The description in the novel had been so arresting, I instantly realized, "that's it!".