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Quote from: pate on September 20, 2022, 09:25:46 PMIt certainly is country:

...if you play it right.

-p

And classical if you change instruments...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

Quote from: albrecht on October 16, 2022, 01:16:03 AMWill do. I was roped into picking up a some folks at a festival. I was fine since football game over and Stros 18 inning game got me 'ok' to drive. Course had to stop at Whataburger for them and one drunk lady in car keeps coughing, while they got out to pee and get burgers. Not a blood-relative. I say, sorry got no water.' She 'its ok, I just been having this cough for weeks.' I'm thinking, great. You at ACL (lotsa people n homos) and keep coughing at me. Boy George was even there apparently. I said 'thought he was dead.' She: cough 'that was George Micheal' cough.

It's kind of funny. One of my mothers good friends who just recently started going out took a plane to another city and got sick while there. She came back and has been sick for three weeks (it can't be covid, she says. Because she is vaxxed.) Today the doctor tested and told her that he thinks it is a new strain.

Another of her friends came back very sick two weeks early from south america. She also has not tested yet because it cant be covid (she is also up to date vaxxed.) I'm sure she will test positive as well.

I saw one of my uncles a couple of weeks ago and he was sick (it was also a two week illness.) He said that he was not testing because he was vaccinated. I'm sure the look on my face asked if he was a complete moron. I really can't hide my shock at people's stupidity sometimes. I think I scoffed, raised an eyebrow and just said "oh?"

Quote from: pate on October 15, 2022, 08:41:10 PMI once again get an opportunity to test out my "pureblood" natural immunity.

Last Sunday, my family celebrated my dad's 80th(?) birthday at a chinese restaurant (which reminds me that I have a post to make in the "Fortune Cookies I Have Disemboweled And Eaten" thread, if I can find the fortune from that evening), with a number of relatives present.

Including, my mother (naturally) and two aunts that came in from out of town:  they are now three confirmed "cases," I even visited my mother yesterday and she sounded a bit fluish.  I recall thinking to myself "I wonder if it's the CornHoleEbola-19.5?.." but didn't say anything because she is "FULLY CACCINATED" with boosters, and it is a bit of a sensitive subject.

So I just asked if she was feeling allright, and she said "It's my allergies," apparently last night there was a fever associated with her allergies so she took a test this morning, and doctor conference call etc.

I just spoke to her over the phone, and she is not on a ventilator or anything.  Got the Paxlovid snake-oil as a prescription, and all & all seems to be experiencing a bad flu/cold.

I assume that I was "exposed" on Sunday, and yet again yesterday and since everyone that has come down with it has presented symptoms over the past day or so, I think I once again have survived untouched.

I have no information on the Caccination status of my aunts, I suspect that they both have been.  But as usual am, Nautical Shore.

If you (dear reader) would keep my unfortunate fully caccinated mother & aunts in your prayers, I would appreciate it.  I think they will all be fine even if you don't, so no pressure or anything.

I did experience "mild retardation" (in the French sense) on my way to the worksites both yesterday and today.  Today did not develop (thankfully) into "FULL RETARDATION" by the end of the day like yesterday, when I had a 12-hour day (only nine today) although the mileage worked out to be the same.

That is all, Carrie Anne.

-p

I will remember your mother in prayers. I honestly hope that it is mild and short lived.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on July 06, 2020, 02:39:58 PMI always thought she'd end up with K_Dubb in one of those mariages blanc deals. They'd discuss springform tins and shortening by day, and she'd turn a blind eye to his nocturnal dockside forays, when he'd return missing one shoe, his wallet, and his left incisor.

Now you have reminded me that I have not told of recent events on this site yet... I will try to give the brief version.

A couple of weeks back, I was walking down the alley and a neighbour who has lived in the house for several years had his garage door open, and there were three of them enjoying beers- him and two friends. A somewhat larger lady of around 55 and her rather unkempt husband joined the thirty something resident. The owner mentioned one of my vehicles in the front driveway, and his friend left to look at it. I stayed for around an hour talking and the woman became somewhat upset that her husband was not back, and said that she was sure he would be gone the night.

I went home to bed, looked in the alley, and saw him with his phone out (my vehicle was around front and the neighbour is across the street so he should not really be in my alley.) I went out and told him I would meet him around front to look at the vehicle. He came around and said he needed to use the washroom. I got a bad feeling- but what the hell. So I waited in the hallway and a few minutes later he came out with his pants around his thighs pulling his pocket out and asking if I could help him find his "rock." I declined.

He then asked if I would like to spend 5 minutes in the dark with him. I declined. He told me that he would let me do anything I wanted. I declined. He pulled out his phone to a porn site and told me that I could pick a video and he would do anything that the woman in the video did. I declined. Then he turned around in the doorway of my washroom, bent over, touched his toes and asked if I liked the view (he was wearing womens underwear.) I informed him it did nothing for me and the he should probably leave.

He told me he just wanted to take another hit, and pulled out his beer can crack pipe. I told him to go ahead and then it was time to leave. I told him that I had a woman- I assume he noticed the lack of womens toiletries on the counter and told me he did too- but they were not here. He continued to proposition me on the way out and down the drive with his wife across the street and three doors down.

Anyhow, it ended with him telling me that he would be in my alley if I changed my mind and my taking the trigger lock off my shotgun and putting a hunting knife in a sheath beside me in bed before drifting off to sleep.

Point being, I wonder if she turns a blind eye to his midnight alley rendezvous? I mean, she suspected he was not coming home- she has to have some idea (and he is fortunate that I am not somebody who would blacken his eye and toss him down my stairs removing him from my property.)

I thank you for reminding me of one of the more surreal evenings in recent memory. And in case anybody is wondering, I have noticed his truck in my neighbours alley a couple of times since...

Quote from: Roswells, Art on October 15, 2022, 12:02:57 PMWhere is the old bat anyway?

Rumour has it that she bought some internet site dedicated to Art Bell and the stepped out for cigarettes.

*But I may wrong.

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Thankfully, I found it. You know what is scary is that if I didn't know that Mate had at least mentioned them by name, I don't know if I ever would have been shown a search result past the wikileaks eamil to find out that yes, two named individuals came forward. What used to be a free(ish) internet is quickly becoming just another propaganda arm pushing official and approved information only.

Ian Henderson, a veteran OPCW inspector who challenged a cover-up of his organization's investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, recently testified before the United Nations Security Council...

...testimony of the OPCW's former chief, José Bustani, who had come to speak out in support of the whistleblowers.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/opcw-syria-whistleblower-and-ex-opcw-chief-attacked/id1478159781?i=1000493922860

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on October 13, 2022, 09:22:40 PMIsn't that the war where the CIA were applying FX makeup to kids to make it seem like they'd been in a war before the "news" people photographed them in order to elicit public sympathy back home?

I think it was the same war that the OPCW whistleblower said was supported by a report of his that was altered to fit the preferred narrative on the use of chemical weapons.

*I will say that "they" are getting better at suppressing what they want to label as "misinformation." I know the scientist came forward after the email was leaked to wikileaks (remind me again why Assange is so popular with the CIA?) But right now I can only find the initial reports and wikileaks. Also a news segment from Tucker about the possibility that the evidence was fabricated (wonder why other outlets didn't cover it...)

I'm almost certain that Aaron Mate interviewed the UN whistleblower? It's really frustrating when new outlets now alter stories and delete what they don't like with search engines buying what is not popular.



https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1206003435868438528

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 13, 2022, 09:29:25 PMThis is just the "Ukraine is a fake country" argument which was settled when they fought back so heroically that first week.  Shamed the West into supporting them. 

And what a job he has done of that so far. I'm curious aside from the sacrifice of his fighting age men, what else has Zelensky sacrificed?

Ukraine needs $38 billion to cover our budget deficit next yr; we need $17 billion to "rebuild the critical infrastructure"; we need $2 billion to rebuild our "electric energy infrastructure"; & we need "not less than $5 billion" for gas & coal purchases

You now get to pay the salaries of doctors and teachers and the pensions of Ukrainians as well as for their hospitals. Too bad you can't afford public healthcare down there. 

(and that is just the demands this month without touching on military aid and the billions already pledged and sent.)


https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1580547558417522688

Quote from: Rix Gins on October 13, 2022, 02:34:54 AMFrom the Any Good Jokes? thread.

Thanks Rix. I needed the laugh tonight.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on October 12, 2022, 05:42:20 PM

Did you listen to that right wing nutcase- Chris Hedges? I keep saying that the right is the new left. How the hell is it that Fox is now the network that interviews Greenwald or Hedges and is the outlet that covers Assange or Snowden. I get that they are not perfect- but those people should be featured on the sh!t outlets that pretend to be left before the "right wing" fox.

Alberta made mention on zerohedge... https://www.zerohedge.com/political/albertas-new-premier-says-unvaccinated-are-most-discriminated-against-group-she-has-seen

We have a new premiere (the old POS was resigned after a leadership review stemming mostly from his handling of Covid including lock downs and passports after promising to do neither because it would be "illegal" and/or "immoral."

It will be interesting to see what Smith brings. Despite it being Alberta, there are a lot of people in the covid cult. I don't know if her strategy is sound...

"The community that faced the most restrictions on their freedoms in the last year were those who made a choice not to be vaccinated," Smith said at her first press conference as premier on Oct. 11.

"I don't think I've ever experienced a situation in my lifetime where a person was fired from their job, or not allowed to watch their kids play hockey, or not allowed to go visit a loved one in long-term care or hospital, or not allowed to go get on a plane to either go across the country to see family or even travel across the border.

"They have been the most-discriminated group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime."

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 12, 2022, 03:36:37 PMLOL I would not have canned you you goof, tolerance is a classical liberal virtue going back to the Enlightenment and the measure of tolerance is how much disagreement you can stomach before you punish someone, when it is in your power to do so.  I think your vax position is utter horseshit but I still haven't shown my vax card to anyone.

Bears are what we call fat gays, we hate them so much we make them have their own separate parties, and it was at bearfest in Provincetown last year around the 4th of July when it was first widely reported that a near-100% vaccinated crowd could spread covid.  The unvaccinated owe the brave Provincetown Bears a debt of gratitude for pushing social distancing to the limit and stress-testing the vaccine.

You are basically passing PUtin positions undigested here.  Are you checking your opinions with counterpoints at all?  Nuclear missiles on his border with Ukraine?

Ukraine's NATO membership was never remotely realistic before this war and, even if they joined, that means nothing.  The Baltics on his border have been NATO members since 2004, no nukes stationed there or any real pressure to do so.  Now Pootie is threatening nukes in Kaliningrad in retaliation for Finland and Sweden joining  He is picking this fight with NATO and losing because most of the world can see he is an old-school imperialist asshole and running for cover.  Your anti-war stance is kind of jarring here.

Well, I appreciate that. But perhaps somebody should inform the other leftists of this tradition of tolerance. I have seen people lose jobs, family, friends and their lives (another one who was let go during covid and committed suicide last week.) The dehumanization, financial instability and hatred of "polite" society actually did take a toll on a number of people.

Anyhow, your last paragraph really shows the problem. A good "left" friend of mine has been commenting on the "west" surrounding both Russia and China for the last decade and has been saying that eventually one (or both) of them will say "enough." This was not something that people did not see coming. Look up the location of US military bases in 2005 and then recent locations.

I suppose you see no provocation. I don't say that Russia should have invaded. Only that Stevie Wonder could have seen the war coming. And the Ukraine with it's ports and it's strategic location with no geographical barriers for in invasion into Russia abandoning neutrality was likely going to be a tipping point. 

*You do realize that on this you are to the right of, and more of a war monger than Henry Kissinger, right?

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 07, 2022, 10:12:56 AMThis has been a limited war so far with negotiated rules that are mostly followed, people on the ground there are perfectly aware, that is why they all went back to Kiev and resumed business as normal.  There are still plenty of ways for Pootie to escalate within the boundaries without using nukes.  It's only weenies over here, all of a suspiciously similar political cast, trying to scare down Western support rather than lose their chief sponsor.

It's almost been a week since this post. Do you still feel that this is working out nicely with rules that we are all following- or does "general Armageddon" ramping up the bombing efforts change things? Any concern yet that after the infrastructure ends up destroyed just in time for winter?

*I know. We are still supposed to be in cheer leading mode.

Quote from: SredniVashtar on October 12, 2022, 04:09:38 AMI already told you, NATO is a defensive alliance, it's written in their treaty. It's fascinating that you actually think Putin is more trustworthy than the west.

Not dumb enough to trust Putin. Just smart enough to not trust any of the parties involved.

If we are going to trust written words in a treaty, perhaps we should ask a few north American natives what those pieces of paper and written assurances are worth?

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 11, 2022, 11:34:03 AMYou are the one who kept bringing up the COVID-NINETEEN in here, it was right there, I'm gonna use it

Less than that, if I remember right it was the 4th of July gay bear-fest in Provincetown, scarcely a month and a half after I got my first shot  but you opted out of the collective effort much as you are now opting out of backing Ukraine and now find yourself repeating Putin's justification for Anschluss.

https://twitter.com/ThomasVLinge/status/1579837189168730117

Because, in common with the European far-right, you see that the government is against you, the struggle is global, and Putin is an ally, or at least a necessary counterbalance that should be propped up at all cost, including swallowing a largeish European state.  Holy hell.   I am not real keen on the forced bug-eating but man that is a leap.

I get it. I suppose that I'm still just a little sensitive that if it were somebody like you reading it instead of the lady who did read it in HR that I would have not job and have been nearly unemployable for months while my government denied any unemployment benefits. That would have been all it would have taken- one person with preconceived ideas and a holier than thou attitude.

Anyhow, the rest of the post I don't get- bearfest?

Finally, if you are on the left and actually see the government as your friends, I have nothing. I'm not pro Putin so much as I'm anti-war. I was the voice against the war from Iraq onward. 

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on October 11, 2022, 04:45:55 PM

Why do you keep posting those far right MAGA people? Not only that, but she is obviously a Russian plant (Hillary said so- it must be true.)

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 11, 2022, 09:49:53 AMIt doesn't matter, it was another collective effort based on what we knew at the time from which you exempted yourself by a shaky grab at moral virtue.  I would love to read your exemption request.  Do the starving kids in Africa figure in that one, too?

There was maybe two months were that was true. If you were not blinded by fear, there was already data leaking that said otherwise by the time that I was supposed to line up like a good slave and take the medicine my master told me to.

I think my decision aged a lot better than the totalitarian's who wished me dead, wanted to deny me health care, and actually did remove my legal freedom to leave my house for a couple of months for anything other than work and getting groceries (which, of course, I followed.) Hell, Chomsky wanted to go a step further and not allow me to work or buy groceries.

As for my exemption- I have let a number of people read it and emailed parts of it to somebody else on this board. I suppose that I trust them not to weaponize it against me during a debate about the Ukraine.

*No African kids were mentioned it it. But the evolution of my views on gay men were- no, I'm not joking.

Got it. I just wish I had a time machine to go back and tell

Quote from: SredniVashtar on October 11, 2022, 04:46:38 AMNATO is a defensive alliance, it's not a hostile invasion force. They only go into action of one of them is attacked (Article 5). The fact that you can conflate that with the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how deep the Russian propaganda has got into people. Khrushchev was actively using the nukes as a threat.

Got it. I just wish I had a time machine to go back and tell Khruschev that all he had to do was say they are "for defensive purposes" for Cuba and despite all of the historical evidence to the contrary, he would be taken at his word. Do you honestly think that the Russians see nuclear weapons on their boarder that could be used for offensive purposes as something that is just there for defense and should say "please station them there- your track record says that we should trust you."

I don't know that I have seen all of the episodes. But I have seen enough to be shocked that the "woke" employees didn't sh!t a chicken when it was released.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on October 10, 2022, 09:22:39 PMWho began WW2? The European version. Hitler? Nevil Chamberlin? The former invaded Poland, the latter declared war on Germany. Was Chamberlin correct or should he have just stuck to his 'piece of paper' from Adolf? I know he was superseded by Churchill who carried it through but who started that little scrap in the playground?

Off to Hitler already? Seems a tad early at only page 10.

I will ask if you can think of a single country that the US / Britain / "the west" has not invaded, occupied, declared war on, overthrown the government or doped tens of thousand of bombs from drones on in the last century? If any invasion of any land is cause for WWIII and killing off what is left of our economy, then I would say that we beat Putin to that 100 times over. (or is it only because it is the Ukraine and a "friendly" country that makes them count where all of the others did not?)

Perhaps I should ask if the US should have just allowed the Russian warheads in Cuba? If the answer is no, then why should Putin applaud NATO on his boarder?

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on October 10, 2022, 09:17:50 PMTrump pulled out of Syria, because Putin asked/told him to. Wasn't popular with the troops there but hey, when the C in C knows more than 'his' generals what can you do?

Trump pulled out of Syria? Perhaps somebody should tell the US soldiers still stationed there.

You may not like the source as it is not the CBC or BBC or other government sponsored mouthpiece (alright, it is government sponsored, just not a western government...) But it is from August of this year. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/24/why-does-us-still-forces-syria-explainer

October 26 2021. I think that this was after Trump would have pulled out the troops. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/26/will-us-leave-syria. Says that there are 900 troops there "supporting" the Kurds and that they will not be withdrawn. It also containe the little gem that apparently both the BBC and CBC missed when reporting on the withdraw of troops. "However, following criticism at home and abroad, Trump pivoted and agreed to keep US troops in the area."

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 10, 2022, 09:01:34 AMwhen you wouldn't even take a stupid shot for your neighbors' sake.

How is that working out? Is the vaccine still effective? Still something where the vaccinated can't catch or spread Covid? Still need to be worried because it is only the unvaccinated who spread this horrible, deadly disease?

Are we still hoping that if just another percent or two of the population gets a shot that we will finally eradicate this plague?

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 10, 2022, 09:01:34 AMRussia has been jacking around their fertilizer exports to try to get sanctions relaxed, first they froze it for leverage and now trying to bargain.  US State Dept. says they are working with them to ship.  Either way, starving African kids are Pootie's fault for starting the damn war.

Lets break this up into two...

It's Putins fault for starting the war. That makes it pretty nice and removes all responsibility for the consequences of our actions from us.

It's funny. I recall hitting a kid in grade one and saying "but he started it." Didn't work out too well for me. But it's believed by millions if a senile senior citizen says it.

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 08, 2022, 02:08:12 PMYou can't be serious, remind me whose navy was blockading grain shipments from Odessa again?

Remind me who will not allow fertilizer out of Russia? Who want's to prevent oil from reaching nations that desperately need it (I'm not talking about Germany or Britain who would like some more energy, but developing nations where it is not just a risk of 3 hour blackouts, but survival to have reasonably priced energy.)

Remind me who was taken off of the SWIFT system to prevent them from selling anything despite being one of the largest exporters of food.

Remind me who mined the port of Odessa (bonus points for correctly giving the name of both countries involved.)

Anyhow, you never answered my question. How many Ukrainians and starving men, women and children are you willing to sacrifice for this war that you are cheer leading? Certainly there is a number- or are we talking tens of millions more (or just everybody who actually managed to survive our Covid policy without losing their lives?) Is there any point where you consider the worlds poorest and most vulnerable- or are they all disposable and unimportant?

Happy thanksgiving. 

Quote from: SredniVashtar on October 09, 2022, 09:23:43 AMYou are such a little bitch. Calling for civil war one minute, and then crawling away from any real conflict like the spineless cowardy custard you are. What an utter wimp.

Is there any war that MD can not support without being a cowardly custard- or does he need to blindly and enthusiastically support every one of them?

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on October 09, 2022, 04:08:51 PM...most of the Russian speaking world would celebrate his head on a pike. Let alone what the Ukrainians...and Georgians...and Syrians...

Would these Syrians who would celebrate Putin's death be the same ones presently living under US occupation and starving to death? Sure hope that they can hold on for another few months to see that sight and celebrate before we squeeze the life out of them.

Quote from: K_Dubb on October 07, 2022, 10:12:56 AMThe Ukrainians are bargaining for longer-range rocket thingies with the promise they won't use them on Russian cities, that is what the "USA allowed to choose the targets" is about.  We are controlling them by providing arms on condition they don't expand the war.

This has been a limited war so far with negotiated rules that are mostly followed, people on the ground there are perfectly aware, that is why they all went back to Kiev and resumed business as normal.  There are still plenty of ways for Pootie to escalate within the boundaries without using nukes.  It's only weenies over here, all of a suspiciously similar political cast, trying to scare down Western support rather than lose their chief sponsor.

That's good. As long as it is a limited war with no real consequences, then I suppose we should be very supportive.

How many people are the war supporters willing to sacrifice this time? Is this sort of like Covid where our lockdowns only really destroyed the little people in poor countries who don't matter? New number is 10 million more people in slavery than before covid due to economics. (This, BTW, is from the CBC who acted shocked and disgusted ignoring that they were among the biggest cheer leaders of the policies that directly caused this outcome.)

Blockading Russian fertilizer and energy is not only shooting the important europeans in the foot- but will be shooting children who don't matter in the head. I suppose being a right wing monster, I should be cheering the population control that the virtous west is presently engaged in. Bravo- let them eat cake wheat rice... OK. Give them nothing.

It's actually a thing of beauty. We can virtue signal about supporting the Ukraine while pushing an (generally accepted) 40 - 50 million more people into starvation conditions. The beauty is that most are going to be black or brown- and being a MAGA right winger, I can assure you that those lives don't matter... (What matters is giving the Ukraine more weapons.)

Bye-bye kid. Just another sacrifice that we are all willing to make in order to punish the evil Russia.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on October 07, 2022, 07:05:58 PM

You and your damn far right videos. Nothing in this agrees with what I have been told is true. He should be banned for disinformation / misinformation as our government has a perfect track record of telling us the truth. 

Quote from: Jackstar on October 06, 2022, 11:19:46 PMHI PIGS

I didn't remember her name;  but I remembered her real fast when I looked her up on YouTube...

Maybe before my time? She seems funny- but it does not ring a bell...