Sunday Action

No Cam Newton? Pats/Chiefs delayed?

Gonna be a long week. And I'll need TOTAL FOCUS to get the Yanks past those Rays.

And yes, WTF at the WH? That may try to distract me.

Comments

[Porchlight]

But one crazy thing on the right equalizes/justifies a hundred crazy things on the left.

Exactly. There's no proportionality at all, but it gives the "muh both sides do it" cover to those who are looking for such cover.

Mainly, in my experience, Dems who in their hearts know their side is wrong on issues they care about (like free speech) but want to believe that other side is bad. Like my mom.

[Porchlight]

*that the other side is worse.

[Extraneus]

My son is 23, so I've watched enough Sponge Bob that I have this t-shirt:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F65%2Feb%2Fc8%2F65ebc8b03e81618d3a4195bd9fa5d8a9.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

That's not me or him in the pic, btw. :-)

Also, speaking of Bikini Bottom, nice fishing avatar Strawman.

[cathyf]

I feel the same about the insane ongoing reaction to covid. It's like they actively want to live in a state of constant fear, and surrender any control over their own lives to others. I do not understand it at all.

No you’ve missed the essential motivation: they want YOU to surrender control of YOUR life to THEM. They cloak themselves that this is the surrendering control to some super special elite experts, but the operative motivation is that THEY control what “experts” you submit to, and THEY enforce your submission. The content of the rules you submit to is largely irrelevant— it’s your submission that matters.

This is standard reaction to a scary threat from outside. They don’t think that they can defeat the outside threat, so they turn on their friends and neighbors as targets because they think we are more vulnerable.

For those of you who read Harry Potter, it’s all there.

For those of you who missed my link to the Sponge Bob Sea Bear episode, take 5 minutes to watch now: https://youtu.be/68h8-ESTY6o

[Porchlight]

Ext, your son is the same age as my friend's son and it was at this friend's house that I first saw SpongeBob. 1998-1999, in there.

I thought it was kinda spastic until it was my time to watch it and then I completely loved it. And there are so many season, I'm always finding episodes I haven't seen.

[Catsmeat]

I highly recommend The Sponge Bob Squarepants Movie--including a cameo by David Hasselhoff. It is completely idiotic but very funny. (I was dragged unwillingly by my kids into watching, and am now a full convert).

And kudos again to you, Jane!

[MissMarple2]

Carlos Osweda thread and how the press is lying, along with comments:

https://twitter.com/COsweda/status/1313049740129394693

Wrapped thread:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1313033710862696448.html

[asw]

Sorry if this has been posted I absolutely can not keep/catch up.

Glenn Reynolds has been talking for years about the effect an earthquake on the New Madrid fault would have on the country.

Dutchsinse has observed indications on NMF that would, if seen in CA, make him think an earthquake was possible in the near future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqYE1Pi334I

[Texas Liberty Gal]

We are very fortunate to have 3 very faithful pastors. And they all follow the "Be fruitful & multiplying" - total of 20 between the 3.

[lurkersusie]

Say a prayer for Dan,

Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
·
Dan is a dear and close friend of mine and my wife Julie. He’s an exceptional human-being Please pray for Dan, and his wonderful wife Paula and their kids. He’s a fighter.
https://americanthinker.com/blog/2020/10/dan_bongino_to_undergo_surgery_on_wednesday_for_a_tumor_on_his_neck.html

[MissMarple2]

Does anyone besides me remember the cartoon Tom Terrific on Captain Kangaroo?

It's not repeated much because it was in black and white.

Tom Terrific with Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and that arch-villain, Crabby Appleton!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33VE29RxtSk

[henry]

Vague memories of Tom Terrific.

[Porchlight]

Dan Bongino is a tough dude. Prayers for a full and speedy recovery.

[Manuel Transmission]

::raises hand in back of room::

Is the redshift from that supernova constant throughout the year?

Expected result: if it isn’t, you’ll never hear about it.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

I have clear memories of a LOT of stuff from my childhood, including Captain Kangaroo, Bunny Rabbit, and Mr. Moose. We used to sit around waiting for Tom Terrific cartoon episodes. LOL!

[MissMarple2]

Watched his podcast on Friday and Paula was crying, because apparently he had just gotten the phone call before he came on air.

I am praying for him, too.

[James D.]

In one episode of SpongeBob there’s a quote that applies perfectly to the Democrats, the MSM and way too many of the GOP:

“You had your chance and you failed. You have to stop living in the past.”

[clarice]

I think kids would be well served if the old Saturday morning serials--Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger were still being aired.

[Porchlight]

clarice, my son watches Leave It To Beaver every morning while he has breakfast. It's on one of the geezer broadcast channels, MeTV. Which is actually headquartered in Austin. I wish I could work for them.

[Dave (in MA)]

I was working in the front yard about 25 years ago and the kid across the street came out and was in their driveway, I said hello and he looked at me and burst into tears and ran into the house. I asked his father what was wrong and he said, "We won't let him watch Ren & Stimpy" (I had on a Ren & Stimpy T-shirt).

[MissMarple2]

clarice,

I do, too.

The Lone Ranger probably isn't PC because of Tonto. I liked it, though, as well as Roy Rogers.

[Dave (in MA)]

Beck mentioned that some news sources are reporting that another illegal immigrant stampede is on its way from Central America just in time to create chaos leading up to Nov. 3. When I checked, I found mentions of Guatemala and Mexico saying they'd turn them back.

[Extraneus]

one of the geezer broadcast channels, MeTV

Which my wife watches every day...

[Porchlight]

Pretty good shop:

[Neo]

DOW up 1.35% (+373) to 28056 in anticipation of Trump leaving hospital.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Porch, 10:57: cute!

[Dave (in MA)]

If they remade Leave it to Beaver today, June wouldn't be an overdressed housewife; she'd have a better career than Ward, who'd be portrayed as a clueless dummy. Beaver would have to have his parents arrange playdates with Larry and Whitey, one of whom would be required to be black, and Lumpy would have two fathers.

[peter]

Funny that you post that, because the actor who played Mr. Rutherford, Richard Deacon, was an out of the closet gay man.

[Captain Hate]

Has Miss Marple forgotten Grandfather Clock?

[peter]

God Bless our Magnificent President for going on a CAPS tweetstorm. Has he sent out a special hat tip to GUS?

He sure seems enthusiastic for a guy who is 14 points down in the polls.

[Neo]

Brandon Scott establishes that Baltimore is so feared in the criminal world that it is considered dangerous even to speak it's name.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CouncilPresBMS/status/1311132606508027904

(apologies to JKRowling)

[Dave (in MA)]

peter, (Deacon) not publicly, at least not until 20 years later.

I can't wait for Trump to change his old "You're fired" line to "YOU'RE SHITCANNED".

[Marlene]

Good Morning! I remember The Mickey Mouse Club and Rex Trailer/Boomtown,a Boston based show.

[Neo]

Pizzas kept showing up every 45 min outside Walter Reed: 'You know it's from Trump, there’s meat on it!'
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/10/05/pizzas-kept-showing-up-every-45-min-outside-walter-reed-you-know-its-from-trump-theres-meat-on-it-980804

[Dave (in MA)]

I remember Dennis Miller comparing Lloyd Bentsen to Grandfather Clock in one of his off-the-wall cultural referenced, though I can't turn up any mention of it on the goolag.

[Marlene]

Remember Zorro? Davy Crockett? Remember when it was okay to be a cowboy or cowgirl, complete with fake gun in the holster?

[Dave (in MA)]

♪ Hoofbeats, hoofbeats, hoofbeats ♫

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Kayleigh tests positive.

[lurkersusie]

Kayleigh McEnany Tests positive for COVID

[Old Lurker]

Dave "♪ Hoofbeats, hoofbeats, hoofbeats ♫"

Look!

Zebra!!!

[Manuel Transmission]

I stood behind Gene Autry counting the bullets in his belt while my 10 yr old sis rode Champion around the rodeo arena in Big Timber MT.

[Dave (in MA)]

Hoofbeats,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ6LstnPuFA

[clarice]

Dave, Guatemala and Mexico came thru, the illegal stampede was halted and the marchers bused back to Honduras.

[Old Lurker]

comma or not, MT?

:-)

[Dave (in MA)]

Good, Clarice.

[henry]

Gov Evers stupid mask mandate goes to court.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/coronavirus/hearing-set-for-monday-on-challenge-to-gov-tony-evers-emergency-order

[Momto2]

The theme song from Captain Kangaroo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSW-LJJHH3U

[Captain Hate]

I remember Dennis Miller comparing Lloyd Bentsen to Grandfather Clock in one of his off-the-wall cultural referenced, though I can't turn up any mention of it on the goolag.

That's pretty funny.

[Manuel Transmission]

Heh, I would normally put the comma in, but the USPS prefers not. :-)

Eats shoots and leaves?

[Captain Hate]

I posed the gaydar male versus female breakdown to the Horde and the answers mirrored the results here; adding that males have a higher incidence of false positives: Mike Tyson, Chuck Norris...

[Dave (in MA)]

Preferential treatment for certain business, https://twitter.com/VBTheWise/status/1313108606095691778

Wait in line, peons.

[jimmyk]

Not sure I get the Grandfather Clock reference. The only thing I can think of is the song from my childhood ("My Grandfather's Clock").

[Momto2]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
·
1h
Trump is going back to the White House, ACB is going to the Supreme Court, Biden is going to sleep.

[Momto2]

jimmyk -

[MissMarple2]

Mo, I haven't forgotten Grandfather Clock!

We had an internet down time here for some reason.

[Dave (in MA)]

Bentsen's stiff speaking style, possibly affected by dentures, was similar to when the Grandfather Clock character on Captain Kangaroo would talk, though I can only find video of the former.

[Captain Hate]

Sundown has declared a lid yet

https://hasjoebidencalledalidtoday.com/

[Manuel Transmission]

William La Jeunesse?

[Jack Lillywhite]

Who was it here (or was it here?) that recommended “84, Charing Cross Road”, by Helene Hanff?

I am currently reading and it is exceptional for bibliophiles.

[lurkersusie]

Another bad hire

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
·
“Haspel has repeatedly lied to the president about the status of documents to be declassified,” one intelligence community source said. “She will claim they don’t know where they are...and then we’ll find out she had them the entire time."

Intel Sources: Haspel Banking On Trump Loss To Keep Russiagate Docs Hidden
CIA Director Gina Haspel is hoping Trump loses his re-election bid so she can run out the clock on Russiagate document declassifications, multiple intelligence community officials told The Federalist.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/05/intel-sources-cia-director-gina-haspel-banking-on-trump-loss-to-keep-russiagate-documents-hidden/

[jimmyk]

Ah, forgot about the Captain Kangaroo thing. I only remembered Dancing Bear, Bunny Rabbit, and Mr. Greenjeans.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Convenient.

JUST IN: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said Senate Republicans should require testing for senators and staff if they will not delay a Supreme Court hearing scheduled to start next week, amid an outbreak of coronavirus cases.
Schumer said moving forward with the "already illegitimate nomination process" and holding the hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination without implementing testing would be "intentionally reckless."

The Hill.

[JM Hanes]

Captain Kangaroo was my fav. I remember Mr. Greenjeans better than Grandfather Clock, though.

Interesting results from your survey of the horde, Captain. Contra Gus, I wasn’t trying to “protect” Grenell, I just didn’t know what you were seeing/hearing. Perhaps it’s because we have a wider range of mannerisms in the south. A lot of men from New Orleans, for example, or old Virginia have exaggerated speech and gestural patterns that would practically break your gaydar, but they aren’t gay, and aren’t more likely to be gay than anyone else.

[MissMarple2]

I have been on the phone with AT&T and I HATE them. They have crappy service, every call is 5 layers of numbers you have to punch, and I still am not getting the bill paid.

[MissMarple2]

Link tweeted by the President:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/01/exclusive-excerpt-lewandowski-bossie-trump-america-first-the-president-succeeds-against-all-odds/

[JM Hanes]

Can anyone give me a lead on where to find the article which purported to establish that COVID19 did not aerosolize after all? Was it from the CDC or somewhere else? Also, I think I remember people saying that asymptomatic people are not, in fact, contagious, and would like to find a source on that as well.

I have the opportunity to pass some counter-narrative info along to a lib. I was pleased to find that the article on masks as Talismans was published by the New England Journal of Medicine, which is the kind of "acceptable" source I'm looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Dave (in MA)]

CBS dipshit Ben Tracy@benstracy
·
I felt safer reporting in North Korea than I currently do reporting at The White House. This is just crazy.

Shem Horne@Shem_Infinite
·
Go to North Korea, tweet the same things about Kim Jong Un that you do about President Trump, and get back to us on how that works out.

[Captain Hate]

JMH,

To be clear, I wasn't making a value judgement and readily admitted possible false positives. And Extraneous was the first to suggest the male/female difference. One Horde response said a wife commenting on how well dressed someone is got a "that's because he's gay" husband response.

[Momto2]

:)

[henry]

::eye roll::

@cnbc

Doctors worry Trump could be 'over-treated' for coronavirus because he's a VIP

[Jane]

2 of Kaleigh‘S staffers have it.

I blame the democrats.
‘

[henry]

The legal system needs to be cleaned out with a flame thrower.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200927/01044945391/former-patent-litigator-becomes-federal-judge-begins-advertising-patent-trolls-to-come-to-his-court-they-have-droves.shtml

[clarice]

Is this what you are looking for, JMH:https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/

[henry]

Speaking of the Western District of Texas...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/united-states-attorney-john-f-bash-announces-resignation

[jimmyk]

JMH, there's also this site:

https://nofacemask.blogspot.com/2020/06/nomaskinfo-archive-index-page.html

[Dave (in MA)]

NEW in case you haven't noticed.

[JM Hanes]

Captain Hate:

I've tried to be clear that I was not making a value judgment about your observation either! That's why I started my original post off with "no big deal." I was just curious about what you saw as a gay mannerisms, when Grenell struck me as one of the least "gay" gays I've seen. I'm still not sure what I was apparently missing, but maybe that's because it's an impression that's difficult to specifically nail down?

[JM Hanes]

clarice & jimmyk:

Those are both great articles, which I will pass along! I'm still looking for an article establishing that asymptomatic people are not spreaders, which I believe a number of people here have mentioned and another more recent article which I believe asserted that COVID 19 does not aerosolize. I may be wrong about the latter, but I was sure I had heard that surprising updated info.

[Captain Hate]

I'm still not sure what I was apparently missing, but maybe that's because it's an impression that's difficult to specifically nail down?

Yes. It's an intangible thing that's difficult to put into words.