The Year Of Weird

Change we can believe in - in an Eerie Coincidence, the first US commemorative quarter of 2020 came out in February and features - I kid you not - a bat.

 

Too weird. 

 

Comments

[Narciso]

His apotheisis was a stoner in pineapple express, he really stretched there, he did that horrid film witn cherlise theron.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Say it aint so, Nemo.
‘Ellen DeGeneres Show’ Workplace Under Investigation by WarnerMedia

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--To quote a Twitterer: “The peacefulness is escalating.”--

To use the AP's actual term from a day or two ago the peacefulness is intensifying. :)

[GUS]

Who pays this ROGAN dude??? Lil Debbie??

[GUS]

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/07/28/two-women-arrested-for-beating-wisconsin-state-senator-during-june-riot-n722899?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=582

The creature on the left is kind of cute.

[GUS]

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/07/28/two-women-arrested-for-beating-wisconsin-state-senator-during-june-riot-n722899?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=582

Both work in public schools.

[Threadkiller]

Dr. Simone Gold
@drsimonegold
THREAD: We organized a group of practicing physicians, many of whom have personally treated COVID-19 patients, and we spoke directly to the American people about our experience and understanding of the virus and it’s treatment options.

As a result:
-Facebook removed the livestream of our conference that had 15 million+ views

-Twitter forced us to delete video testimonials from our physicians

-Our web host removed our website and claimed a “violation of their TOS”

-The media smeared us with lies & falsehoods

Why are social media company employees with no medical degree or clinical experience censoring the perspectives of practicing physicians?

Why are journalists claiming hydroxychloroquine is ineffective when there are numerous studies showcasing its efficacy against COVID-19?

Why are state governors restricting physicians from prescribing an FDA approved medication for 65 years and empowering pharmacies to over-rule your doctor?

These actions are unprecedented and have never happened before in medicine.

https://mobile.twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1288583938659610624

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Why? Because tolerant, coexistential, loving progs ALWAYS put political power before human life.
Ask a fetus...or 50 million of them.

[Threadkiller]

Dr. Simone Gold
@drsimonegold
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2m
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@JamesTodaroMD
: “If it seems like there’s an orchestrated attack going on against hydroxychloroquine, it’s because there is. When have you ever heard of a medication generating this degree of controversy?”
Embedded video
0:49
80 views

https://mobile.twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1288675546688184320

Video at link

[MissMarple2]

Here is a diagram of how hydroxychloroquine and zinc work within the cell to kill the virus.

https://twitter.com/carolroberts67/status/1288151188651667456/photo/1

This is on Twitter. If you click on it again it should enlarge.

[Momto2]

Dave ~ We did have a little rescue kitten that looked like a baby bat.

(we adopted him and now he's huge - over 20 lbs.)

[Gentlejim]

Captain,
Is the Biggby Black and Tan a concoction or a bean blend? I’ve only had the MI cherry. I tend to stick with stuff I like.

Great to see TK posting more today.

[Gentlejim]

I forgot one of my bat stories. We get the occasional bat in the house call. Had one a couple of years ago from a house full of ladies enjoying a weekend away from their idiot husbands. A couple of us go in and find it behind a curtain upstairs. We try to finagle it into a net, but the little bastard flies away. We head downstairs, the ladies are screaming and running outside. This bat keeps flying around and I pulled off a one in a million midair snatch with my gloves hand. We walked outside where the screaming women are gathered and I toss the bat into the air well over their heads. Good times..

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-relief-funds-states-spent-little-approved-march

States, seeking more coronavirus relief funds, have hardly spent the $139 billion approved in March: report

[Gentlejim]

Now to be serious. Violet’s family has set up a gofundme. They are going to have substantial bills. Here’s the link for any interested: https://gf.me/u/yib6qq

Again, I thank all of you for everything.

[Pinandpuller]

I bet old Howard Hughes would have loved to have testified before Congress via HAM radio.

[Dave (in MA)]

Reagan doesn't belong on the list because he wasn't deep stater.

[Another Bob]

Salt needed.

Friend gets a packet of seeds from China.

Then gets a pack of counterfeit $100 bills from China.

https://twitter.com/gritshappen/status/1288671835198955520?s=21

[Dave (in MA)]

Momto2, a beauty.

[Threadkiller]

Thanks, Gentlejim. I love this place.

Nytol!

[Pinandpuller]

GUS

Was that Jim Sensenbrenner or Zombie Chris Farley I saw on tv?

[Another Bob]

To be clear seeds were ordered, not out of the blue. But didn’t know they’d come from China.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

"the next weird 2020 "thing" but what if it's a vacancy on the Supreme Court"

Imagine a plot line where
Biden wins on Nov 3rd
RBG drops dead Nov 4th
PDJT nominates someone conservative, as a lame duck
Turtle rams it through the Senate
CW II begins
Biden never sworn in.

[MissMarple2]

Jim,

I am NOT imagining that plot line!

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Adam Housley, who is a Repub and I believe owns a winery: "How they made up the Gavin Newsom kept his wineries open bull"

So that Newsom winery story has been debunked?

[Captain Hate]

Is the Biggby Black and Tan a concoction or a bean blend? I’ve only had the MI cherry. I tend to stick with stuff I like.

Blend of light and dark roasts. They don't have MI cherry every day; if they don't my subsequent preferences are Mocha Java, Black & Tan and Biggby's Best. Have had Creme Brûlée before: it's ok but a bit too sweet.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

MissM, yeah agree. Better not to.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

So TM left Ron out of the list of Repub candidates?
For you old timers, did TM express an opinion on Sarah?

[Gentlejim]

Thnx Captain

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Back in the good old days when parents could recklessly endanger their kids by letting them ride in the back of a pickup we would always go up to my great uncle's place on Sundays and on the ride home, about ten miles, we would lay in back and watch the bats swooping over the truck in the dusk all the way down the windy slow road. Occasionally nighthawks and owls too.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--So that Newsom winery story has been debunked?--

Sort of. I wasn't interested enough to look into it even though I figured what was going is what was going on.
They only had to close in the 19 worst counties. His winery is in, IIRC, Napa which was not one of the 19.

[MissMarple2]

Nytol!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Much maligned Mirengoff seems considerably more pro-Trump than TM.

[Dave (in MA)]

TM is entitled to be wrong on the internet.

[jim nj]

Glenn Reynolds commenting on an article.

"On avoidance, I remember when somebody asked Col. Jeff Cooper what kind of gun he’d carry if he knew he were headed to a gunfight and he responded that if he knew he were headed to a gunfight, he’d stay home."

That's like that video of a year or two ago where an Israeli martial arts expert showed you how to defend yourself in a knife fight. He squared up to face his opponent, turned and quickly ran away.

[jim nj]

https://victorygirlsblog.com/police-to-dnc-we-wont-play-your-games/

Milwaukee

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Ig, 12:18 Makes sense

[jim nj]

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-7-28-yl3inutt14922co435gu5vgrv04mme

A Few Tips In Case You Find Yourself In A Mandatory "Anti-Racism" Struggle Session

My first tip is, it is a mistake ever to make a declaratory statement of any kind, even “yes,” “no,” or “I understand.” So, if asked to assent to something, or to say something, what do you do? The answer is, always respond with a question. Also, there is no need for the question that you pose to have anything to do with the question that has been posed to you. In fact, the less related your question is to the thing you are being asked to concede, the better. You can also try to ask a question even if no question has been posed to you. The point here would be to try to divert the “trainer” off his or her prepared outline or script, and onto something that challenges their assumptions.

[jim nj]

nytol

[hoyden]

Guess how many times Obama says “I” or “me”.

Fox is told that former President Obama will deliver the eulogy tomorrow at the funeral of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) at the Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

[anonamom]

My reply...I don't want a freaking bat sneaking in here!

There is a reason there is a tennis racket readily available in every bedroom closet up here.

[James D.]

I forgot one of my bat stories. We get the occasional bat in the house call

Bats creep me right the heck out. If I had your job, I think i might prefer going into a home with armed and violent drug dealers rather than a house with bars lurking.

[Thomas Collins]

Dave (in MA) urges me to keep up more with JOM lingo. OK, Dave (in MA), I'm trying. However, I can't figure out what this "bat talk" is all about. Surely not real bats! What's the hidden meaning? History of pine tar?
https://baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/george-brett-pine-tar-game

[hoyden]

I get a bat in the house about once a year. I get a broom and with the bat isolated in a room, swing the broom in a random motion until I hit it. Scoop up and release outside.

[hrtshpdbox]

TM is entitled to be wrong on the internet.

Yeah, but as per the cartoon, you have to stay up all night arguing with him.

[Captain Hate]

From TC's link

Pine tar, a sticky glue-like substance used to give batters a better grip, hardens over time – making the bat more effective.

Hard to believe that's the reason for the rule; even if true was it based on any studies? I always assumed that on a regular wood bat it looked trashy.

I'd forgotten it happened with two outs in the ninth. Brett was always a good fastball pitcher and memorably tagged a mammoth upper deck shot against Gossage in an ALCS close out game.

[hrtshpdbox]

I think i might prefer going into a home with armed and violent drug dealers rather than a house with bars lurking.

When I first got out of the service, I had a friend who was enduring a couple of fruit rats breaking into his house at night searching for things to eat. I told him that if I were him I'm move my family into the Holiday Inn until the problem was solved, and he said "You'd fight people with guns but are afraid of house pests?", and I had to admit that was indeed the case.

[Jane]

TC,

If it makes you feel any better, I cant keep up with the JOM lingo either.

[mike in houston]

If you really want to see bats (1.5 million):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Idlh5z2oY&feature=emb_logo

[MissMarple2]

Thomas Collins,

When the Coronavirus-19 first appeared, the Chinese tries to say it came from a bat, instead of their lab. Before it was proven to be artificially created, this year's commemorative quarter was debuted, and it had a rare species of bat on it. The bat quarter is one in a series commemorating national parks, and it represents American Samoa.

The bat is the American flying fox. Here's a picture I grabbed frpm a coin dealer, which is why the Washington quarter is included.

We thought it was a weird coincidence to have a bat quarter appear right after the Chinese blamed the pandemic on a bat.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Good one TC!

[Neo]

Arm’s fired China JV CEO refuses to leave, company reps banned from Arm China premises

Instead of leaving quietly and being replaced by another CEO, Bloomberg reports that Wu has hired his own security team and representatives from Arm are not permitted on the JV's premises.

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/arms-fired-china-jv-head-refuses-to-leave-company-reps-banned-from-company-premises/

[MissMarple2]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/summer-cultural-suicide-sports-movies-schools-go-woke/

Our Summer of Cultural Suicide

Victor Davis Hanson

[MissMarple2]

https://nypost.com/2020/07/30/fauci-urges-americans-to-wear-goggles-for-added-covid-19-protection/

Fauci wants us to wear GOGGLES.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
4m
Mail-In Voting is already proving to be a catastrophic disaster. Even testing areas are way off. The Dems talk of foreign influence in voting, but they know that Mail-In Voting is an easy way for foreign countries to enter the race. Even beyond that, there’s no accurate count!

[anonamom]

Jim Jordan's statement at Barr "hearing" (seems like "Listening" is what Barr was doing to me, from what I've read):

https://victorygirlsblog.com/roundup-time-white-supremacy-explains-everything/

[Old Lurker]

New instructions for the sheep:

https://www.foxnews.com/health/fauci-suggests-goggles-eye-shield-for-better-protection-against-coronavirus

[MissMarple2]

TEXAS! #MAGA🇺🇸🦅 pic.twitter.com/pz78lolYD5

— Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) July 29, 2020

Link goes to a collage of 4 pictures of the people greeting the President along the road in Midland.

[hrtshpdbox]

"So getting them to wear goggles is just the first bet, what odds do I get on goggles with the "COVID Hat"?"

[clarice]

Schlicter is on target. There is no massive insurrection--just riots in cities where the local pols let them.https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/07/30/democrat-liars-are-barely-even-trying-to-fool-us-anymore-n2573337

[Melinda]

Clarice-

What's not reported is that the riots are global in nature, not just Blue Hells.

[GUS]

Capn' what happens when a major league player takes a swing and hits the ball anywhere near the trade mark. Pine tar at 17 inches might MIGHT possibly, stop the complete shattering of the bat.
Brett broke a rule. The writer to the story is a ignorant libtard soy boy.

[henry]

DNC Convention Schedule is out. So many little tribes to pander to.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/democratic-national-convention/here-is-the-schedule-for-the-democratic-national-convention-in-august

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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22m
Major China Virus flare ups in many of the countries that the Fake News was touting as doing so well. Some of these countries are now a disaster. Lamestream Media doesn’t want to report this. Also, highly inaccurate numbers being reported by many other countries!!! @WSJ

[Extraneus]

Contra Barry, those dumbshit decent Republicans wouldn't even bring a rubber knife to a gun fight, though they could usually be counted on to have a sword along to fall on pointlessly.

And a shiv for our backs.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
10m
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
============================================

The expert troller is at it again. You KNOW this will get the press and people like Pelosi started.

[Extraneus]

To use the AP's actual term from a day or two ago the peacefulness is intensifying.

That was ABC.

[MissMarple2]

Told you guys!

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-suggests-election-delay-over-vote-mail-fraud

[Threadkiller]

I don’t want the election delayed. I want my side, the side of all that is good in this nation, to be vindicated immediately.

Making Pelosi bleed out of her whatever for the umpteenth time to a fawning press seems like a tired out chess move that never wins.

[GUS]

Hrt, you should have had your tough guy genius pal come over and take care of the problem. I mean, he'd be the man for the job.
Or
You could get an M-16 and shoot the bats in the house.

[Threadkiller]

TC, I forgot to thank you for your comment. It seems like yesterday when we were toasting the town. A great memory for me.

[Threadkiller]

My guess is the “trolling” is to avoid the GDP and unemployment numbers.

(I am not laying all the blame at Trump’s feet for the economic misery)

[Threadkiller]

https://pjmedia.com/culture/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/29/1619-project-founder-admits-its-not-a-history-but-a-fight-to-control-the-national-narrative-n724944

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
50s
Kate Brown, Governor of Oregon, isn’t doing her job. She must clear out, and in some cases arrest, the Anarchists & Agitators in Portland. If she can’t do it, the Federal Government will do it for her. We will not be leaving until there is safety!

[Threadkiller]

https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2020/07/30/time-for-the-press-to-end-its-love-affair-with-marxism-n2573412

[Captain Hate]

Didn't Trump put Pence in charge of dealing with Covidiot-666? If so is anyone pleased with the job he's done?

[GUS]

Kate Brown is a fucking loon. She blames TRUMP for the COMMIE FILTH rioting, looting burning and violent attacks. If only FEDERAL AGENTS didn't go to secure the FEDERAL COURT HOUSE....ALL WOULD BE WELL.
Oh and this stupid SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY, is angry at POLICE in unmarked cars, arresting suspects.

Maybe this horrid bitch could go downtown and spend the evening with the crowd. Without protection.

[sbwaters]

TC, I can’t recall if I have already mentioned that I was pleased you explained so openly your thoughts during CV. You provided useful information seldom passed on.

Thank you.

[Another Bob]

Re. the Arm story Neo linked upthread, my sense is this is a bit of a stunt by the Chinese, part of their campaign of harassing the west.

But you just have to shake ones head at the short-term greed of western companies. The Chinese been doing business this way for at least 40 years. You want their LCC labor, gotta give them a license for the tech and the know how to design it themselves. Eventually they’re your competitor.

Arm-designed micros are almost literally everywhere. Cars, “smart” appliances, industrial machinery. I’ll almost guarantee you have at least one if not more in your home right now.

[Threadkiller]

If so is anyone pleased with the job he's done?

Not anymore. They appear to have a basement strategy to wait the tornado out. While I cannot say that I know what is going on behind the scenes, the public presentation of “we are exporting ventilatiors” and “we closed of China” are akin to Al Bundy’s irrelevant high school football stories that propped him in faux glory 20 years later.

Something new and radical is the order of the day.

[Extraneus]

Zuckerberg Spits Truth While Other Tech CEO’s Waffle on China’s Thievery

[Another Bob]

Arm designs and licenses to others to manufacture. There are dozens of fabs in China, all opened under similar JVs with companies outside China.

China has the knowledge to design their own, and manufacture in quantities. And inside knowledge to tamper. They’ve had it for years.

[Another Bob]

All courtesy of western companies.

[MissMarple2]

Personally, I would like to see Pence go home and General Flynn be named VP. THAT should put the fear of God into them!

[Neo]

Ask:
Good
“How does this training fit in with the company ‘mission statement’ ?”

Better
“Are we to assume that all of our customers are systemic racists ?”

Best
“Should we confront our racist customers ?”

Takedown
“Does this mean that our company will no longer use Chinese slave labor to make our profits ?
... or is this training a diversion from the company’s systemic racism ?”

[Threadkiller]

I noticed that watching the hearing, Ext. He actually seemed passionate.

I wish one of the republicans would have asked about the policies of google, YouTube and Facebook’s censorship of content in China to the benefit of the CCP and made the point that their algorithms are manipulated for political reasons so why would their censorship of hydroxychloroquine be considered anything other than political.

[Threadkiller]

+1 MM

[Jane]

Went to see my eye doctor today to schedule the surgery to take the oil out. He doesn't want to give up. So one last try next week. What a great guy!

[Captain Hate]

Flynn still hasn't been legally cleared. How 'bout Trump/Grenell.

[Captain Hate]

Best wishes, Jane.

[Threadkiller]

Hoping for the best, Jane.

[Extraneus]

Good to see you back in full swing, TK. Do your docs now say you are immune to reinfection, or are they hedging on that?

[MissMarple2]

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/yale-epidemiologist-accuses-fauci-running-disinformation-campaign

Dr. Harvey Risch, a noted Yale epidemiologist, has accused White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci of waging a "misinformation campaign" against the drug hydroxychloroquine, claiming the medication has shown consistently encouraging results in treating COVID-19 when used properly.

(More at the link)

[Manuel Transmission]

CH, Hard to believe that's the reason for the rule; even if true was it based on any studies? I always assumed that on a regular wood bat it looked trashy.

We actually did a study on it at ginormous research. Total bullshit. There was no way in hell that the pine tar had any effect on the dynamics of the wood. Oh, and we never bothered with an analytical model, because there wasn’t anyone in our group stupid enough to believe you could conjure a model of that and get within an order of magnitude of the actual test results.

Needless to say, we also avoided climate research.

[henry]

Now I’m really confused.

@vickimckenna

Two people reach out to the same MKE TV station to report getting a positive AND negative C19 test in one day. The doctor quoted says it's "rare". Probably not as "rare" as he thinks.

https://twitter.com/vickimckenna/status/1288828192669794304?s=21

[Threadkiller]

I think Flynn would have more of a hot poker in the whazoo effect, although Grenell is proven animal(who already does the poker/whazoo dance in private).

Tough choice.

[Captain Hate]

I wish one of the republicans would have asked about the policies of google, YouTube and Facebook’s censorship of content in China to the benefit of the CCP and made the point that their algorithms are manipulated for political reasons so why would their censorship of hydroxychloroquine be considered anything other than political.

Let's be clear: the GOP is barely more intelligent than those other guys. And barely less crooked. I complain about Paul Ryan constantly but he didn't exist in a vacuum.

[GUS]

TK. Great stuff. I'm so glad you're on the mend.
God bless you.

As to the RANCID MEDIA cheering on MARXISM. These are not JOURNALISTS, they are employees of rich soy boy commie wannabees. These people are not even grown ups. Power....they have plenty. Brains and maturity they have none. I think many of us (me certainly included), would have less stress regarding the media if we remembered that these are STUNTED CHILDREN and they have ZERO idea of what they do. NYT Included. When they ran Bari Weiss out of town, it indicated that they are willing for YOU to DIE, in order for THEM to live.

[Threadkiller]

An absolute hedge to the point of the only facial expression I could make out under his mask, Ext. A grimace.

They have no idea if I am now indestructible or if I am a magnet to get it again.

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate,

Grenell knows what he's doing, too. There isn't anyone else I can think of. Maybe Pompeo, but then who would fill the State position?