Let's give Joe Biden credit - he's got the trains running on time. They keep crashing into each other, but at least the train wrecks have a now-familiar script.
Dems limp out of another stumble-ending month
It's a nightmare on Capitol Hill for the president's party, as October passes by without a deal.
House liberals left the Capitol triumphant on Thursday night after once again scuttling a major vote. Every other Democrat was fuming.
For the second time in less than a month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team had to delay a vote on Senate-passed infrastructure bill amid progressive opposition, denying President Joe Biden a much-need win as Democrats’ bigger, $1.75 trillion social spending plan also remains in limbo.
“I think it’s wholly apparent that today was not a success,” said Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger, whose state has a high-stakes gubernatorial showdown Tuesday that Democrats were hoping to boost with the infrastructure vote.
Ms. Spanberger came to national attention in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when she promised to draw on her CIA background to hunt down and choke out the next Dem to say "Defund the police".
Hmm. My memory may be engaging in hyperbole. But not by much!
BREAKING BAD: This "Let's Go Brandon" story gives me hope for the future of American politics.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/architect-resigns-over-billionaires-plans-to-cram-4-500-students-into-windowless-dorms-at-ucsb
"The proposed Munger Residence Hall was designed by billionaire Charles Munger, vice president of Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway. Munger donated $200 million to the building's construction on the condition they use his design."
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 31, 2021 at 09:32 PM
MM2. She looked as if she was enjoying herself.
Posted by: Davod | October 31, 2021 at 09:44 PM
For those of you who missed this link about the horrendous treatment of 1/6 prisoners of conscience in DC.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1454151406588469248.html
Posted by: Davod | October 31, 2021 at 09:53 PM
Davod,
She sure did! So did he!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 31, 2021 at 09:58 PM
President Trump Laughs As Braves Crowd ERUPTS Into “Let’s Go Brandon” Chant
Brigitte Gabriel Published October 31, 2021 4,143 Views
https://rumble.com/voj2lh-president-trump-laughs-as-braves-crowd-erupts-into-lets-go-brandon-chant.html?mref=60qud&mc=17xi1
Posted by: Davod | October 31, 2021 at 10:00 PM
Hello Fellow Kids,
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Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 31, 2021 at 10:05 PM
On This Day - Australian Military History
YesSptlf24e5m1r5d9ay ohat 6:2485 PM ·
#OTD – Charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba
The charge of the 4th Australian Light Horse at Beersheba late in the afternoon of 31 October 1917, is remembered as the last great Australian cavalry charge. The assault on Beersheba began at dawn and involved the infantry divisions of the British XX Corps with artillery and air support. Despite repeated attacks, the Allies were unable to capture the town by mid afternoon.
With time running out for the Australians to capture Beersheba and its wells before dark, Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel, the Australian commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, ordered Brigadier General William Grant, commanding the 4th Light Horse Brigade, to make a mounted attack directly towards the town.
Chauvel knew from aerial photographs that the Turkish trenches in front of the town were not protected by barbed wire. The Australian Light Horse was to be used purely as cavalry for the first time. Although they were not equipped with cavalry sabres, the Turks who faced the long bayonets held by the Australians did not consider there was much difference between a charge by cavalry and a charge by mounted infantry.
The Light Horse moved off at the trot, and almost at once quickened to a gallop. As they came over the top of the ridge and looked down the long, gentle open slope to Beersheba, they were seen by the Turkish gunners, who opened fire with shrapnel. But the pace was too fast for the gunners. After three kilometres Turkish machine-guns opened fire from the flank, but they were detected and silenced by British artillery.
The rifle fire from the Turkish trenches was wild and high as the Light Horse approached. The front trench and the main trench were jumped and some men dismounted and then attacked the Turks with rifle and bayonet from the rear. Some galloped ahead to seize the rear trenches, while other squadrons galloped straight into Beersheba.
The 4th and 12th Light Horse casualties were thirty-one killed and thirty-six wounded; they captured over 700 men. The capture of Beersheba meant that the Gaza-Beersheba line was turned. Gaza fell a week later and on 9 December 1917, the British troops entered Jerusalem.
The Australian victory at Beersheba marked one of the last great charges of mounted troops in history, the Australian Light Horse Brigade captured the town and secured crucial water wells. Their victory marked the beginning of the end of the war in the Middle East.
Posted by: Davod | October 31, 2021 at 10:50 PM
Bartholomew Chiaroscuro:
Imagine if a very small group of strange people decided that all misery derived from intelligence. Without self aware intelligence, so many of the painful aspects of life disappear. We do not brood on our failures, we are not disappointed in our lives or in the failure to realise our dreams, we are not hurt by lost love affairs that our achingly self conscious intelligence pores over miserably for months or years after the events we are recollecting. We do not imagine better lives, and we do not pine for unrealisable goals or lovers. We do not think about the harms that occur to us or others, or mourn death, or weep for the things we do not have and the people we will never see again.
Without intelligence, everything is blank acceptance. Even pain is only a reflex, an instruction, less real and less terrible. Unless we think the headless cockroach screams, the pain of an unthinking creature is less than that of one who knows.
Now imagine this group of intelligence hating misfits funded research promoting their idea that mankind would be better off if we were no longer sentient and thinking creatures. Imagine if they framed this in scientific forms, producing essays and articles and statistics to support their detestation of intelligence. Imagine if they advocated for the deliberate reduction of human intelligence, in order to make mankind happier. Imagine they gathered every year at a particular location in Switzerland with the most powerful people on the planet, and concluded amongst themselves that the public would never endorse the reduction of intelligence or the destruction of our individual ability to think and form original thoughts.
So they decided that they would alter human intelligence, irrevocably and for the worse, without consultation or consent. And they decided that they could inject the populace to do so, or put something in the water or the atmosphere to do so, or merely use the traditional means of reducing intelligence, the media.
This bizarre dystopian scenario is not greatly removed, in nature or scale, from what we see when we look at the opinions of a Klaus Schwab, the actions of a Boris Johnson, or the influence of gatherings like those which occur at Davos or climate and covid conferences. For those who think that such a scenario outlined above is an absurdist fantasy, explain to me in what way the seizure of government power and action by an elderly unelected German who has a penchant for dressing in cult robes reminiscent of a character in Star Trek, and his enormous influence on current policy, is less absurd. Tell me how global oppression as the response to a relatively mild virus is less inherently insane, or how the British government producing documents calling for ‘human augmentation’ (such things as the creation of super soldiers by splicing animal DNA into human beings, seriously advocated) is less inherently sinister and malign.
That last is very real. The document is called Human Augmentation: The Dawn of a New Paradigm. It is an official British government document. And it specifically discusses what to do if the public object to the government meddling with human DNA, creating monstrous super soldiers, or pursuing the transfiguration of the human species itself for specific political aims. It’s answer is to do it anyway, as such advances should not be held back by public opinion or ethical concerns. It directly states this. This is a supposed democratic government blithely telling us, and itself, that experimenting on human DNA and altering our species must happen, will happen soon, and must ignore public opinion on the issue.
The hubris of this is astonishing, as is the ignorance of at least two centuries of fictional and practical warnings concerning such meddling in human nature. When we look at the grotesque puppy torturing pointless experiments funded by the same man who helped shape the global covid response after funding the creation of covid, Dr Fauci, and when we look at the transhumanism agenda pressed by the WEF of Klaus Schwab and the British government in its speculative essays, we see an attitude towards humanity which it is hard to distinguish from the attitudes of a Nazi doctor or a Bond villain. People who seriously consider human beings as experimental playthings that need tinkering with at the level of their DNA are in charge of current government policy making. People who think we need a sudden and massive reduction of the world population are in charge of responses to a virus.
None of this is conspiracy theory. It is their own expressed views, not just in ad hoc commentary, but in publicly funded policy documents. And they don’t believe in consent. They don’t believe in public consultation, even on science fiction story level meddling in your DNA and that of your children. They are actually telling us that they will ignore us if we object.
One final thing to consider. In the Human Augmentation piece, the authors also state that the public might be on board with such changes....because they have already accepted MRNA vaccines which biologically change the recipients. Human ‘augmentation’ without direct consent (or knowledge of what it is) the paper asserts, is already here. But most of us aren’t paying attention.
Posted by: clarice | October 31, 2021 at 11:06 PM
Clarice:
GROOMING!
"... In the Human Augmentation piece, the authors also state that the public might be on board with such changes....because they have already accepted MRNA vaccines which biologically change the recipients. Human ‘augmentation’ without direct consent (or knowledge of what it is) the paper asserts, is already here. But most of us aren’t paying attention."
Posted by: Davod | October 31, 2021 at 11:09 PM
I heard in 2022 the role of Brutus will be played by an Unexpectedly Strong Breeze:
They literally had performances acting out the assassination of the sitting president and the media applauded the bravery and freedom of speech we must protect at all costs in America.
https://twitter.com/awstar11/status/1454703845741719554?s=21
Posted by: Pinandpuller | October 31, 2021 at 11:16 PM
clarice,
Spoke to my nurse sister today. She works 3 days per week at a surgery center and most of the docs are young. They were bitching about how stupid people weren't getting the vaccine and other leftist ideas.
She finally asked them what they would do if the hospital refused to treat the unvaccinated, the number of patients dropped, and there were layoffs.
Suddenly the subject got changed to the World Series.
We both think that a large portion of the country has gone nuts.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 31, 2021 at 11:16 PM
Augmented Humans reminded me of a Robert McCloskey story, could I be the only one:
"Ever-So-Much-More-So"
“A traveling salesman peddles cans of an invisible product which he guarantees will enhance one's life experiences.”
Posted by: Pinandpuller | October 31, 2021 at 11:21 PM
Good night, all!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | October 31, 2021 at 11:50 PM
I would expect a guy named Bartholomew Chiaroscuro to look at things in strictly Black and White terms.
Posted by: Pinandpuller | November 01, 2021 at 12:10 AM
Good morning from Florida’s First Coast.
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | November 01, 2021 at 06:43 AM
A rather chilly First Coast. No wind and no frost. But cold.....brrrrrr!
Posted by: Jim Eagle | November 01, 2021 at 07:45 AM
Good morning!
I have to fill out a Kroger order for pick up this evening. I may do it for tomorrow instead.
Cold here too, Jack.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 01, 2021 at 07:56 AM
https://nypost.com/2021/11/01/the-media-needs-to-ignore-lincoln-liars/
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 01, 2021 at 08:06 AM
52 here in Northern Virginia.
Posted by: Davod | November 01, 2021 at 08:29 AM
Thanks Clarice for the above reference to the Human Augmentation Project. I am struck by just how closely that document and its graphics track the global learning standards and competency frameworks push and I am only on the Executive Summary.
Posted by: rse | November 01, 2021 at 08:46 AM
I can think of one "CEO" who probably already went "there"....
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 08:49 AM
Good morning from Florida’s west coast. ;-)
Posted by: sbwaters | November 01, 2021 at 09:05 AM
Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
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5m
American Airlines has ALREADY canceled 200 flights this morning
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 01, 2021 at 09:35 AM
i noted when the clinton foundation came to light how it resembled spectre, which was sheltered behind a non profit front, yes schwab is blofeld, but also as much stromberg or drax, all concerned with overpopulation and dominance, gates and zuck are like lower underlings,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 09:39 AM
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/10/31/kaepernick-mocked-thoroughly-for-comparing-nfl-combine-to-slave-auction/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 01, 2021 at 09:42 AM
so it appears that the intelligence, that commissar pittman received was more more steele stuff of malarkey,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 09:42 AM
61 degrees in SWFL.
Crispy!
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | November 01, 2021 at 09:44 AM
what came of this,
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1455006941311209476
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 09:44 AM
dejavu
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1454980428822163457
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 09:48 AM
brisk 26 this morning. Rittenhouse jury selection begins today.
Posted by: henry | November 01, 2021 at 09:56 AM
Good morning, rse! Hope you are well.
Posted by: clarice | November 01, 2021 at 09:56 AM
of course there is a blue idiot, as first comments
For the galaxy brains who are going to tell me that CRT was invented in American law schools in the 1970s or whatever, save your words. It’s rooted in Marxist theory, applied in a destructive & antisocial manner. So was the Soviet nationalities policy.
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 09:59 AM
Narciso. Most of the Christina Pushaw comments are hidden behind a twitter warning abut extreme language. What BS. I peeked behind the warning, and only found non woke responses.
Posted by: Davod | November 01, 2021 at 10:00 AM
sadly so
https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:03 AM
truth is double unplusgood davod,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:04 AM
some details you might not have considered,
https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:04 AM
well mostly peaceful
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-10-28/five-youths-suspected-of-planning-islamic-state-inspired-attack-in-germany
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:07 AM
since dune is in the news, the situation is much like the arrakeen castle situation, in ways I couldn't possibly grok entirely,
the trumps were like the atreides, in a land of harkonnen spies, now that the latter have been reinstalled, although there are mentats in this crew,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:16 AM
who are they kidding
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:21 AM
the first was walex waldwin being himself
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10151941/Billionaire-Jeff-Bezos-discussed-climate-change-Prince-Charles-eve-Cop26.html
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:23 AM
civility,
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/31/hunter-biden-art-moishe-mana-milk-studios-mazdack-rassi-mana-contemporary/
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:29 AM
That Medium piece sure lets a lot of stuff slide that the Port Authorities have imposed, plus the state regs on "green" trucks....
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 10:30 AM
it's like the burisma confab in monaco every february,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:32 AM
the glasgow grand guignol I'm referring to,
he looks at the leg of the elephant,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:34 AM
Jenna Ellis
@JennaEllisEsq
Someone please rush Juan Williams a copy of the US Constitution, and the Pierce and Yoder decisions, stat.
The Hill @thehill
Juan Williams: 'Parents' rights' is code for white race politics hill.cm/9eMee4F
https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1455166403284291596
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 10:35 AM
This OpEd from Juannie...
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/579338-juan-williams-parents-rights-is-code-for-white-race-politics
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 10:36 AM
NANCY
@AmericaWatch1
Ibram Kendi inadvertently 'blows up entire life's work' in now-deleted tweet, THEN claims criticism is 'violent'.🙄
If ‘white privilege’ is SO prevalent why would white kids feel the NEED to disguise their whiteness in order to gain admittance to college?
theblaze.com/news/ibram-ken…
https://twitter.com/AmericaWatch1/status/1455063856737185799
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ibram-kendi-deletes-tweet-college-admissions
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 10:37 AM
he needs to change his researcher, he's gotten stale,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:38 AM
there's enough stupid that washes up in my fishwrap,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:39 AM
Only white children have parents?
curios position to take, Juan.
Posted by: henry | November 01, 2021 at 10:41 AM
now I know how james downey felt in billy madison
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-desantis-damaged-chain-of-command-20211101-6jj2dgf4infdllb4gyqu6dcfmy-story.html
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:42 AM
commisar rogers engages in double think, because his snake oil has convinced a certain cohort to want to abase themselves, it means white supremacy,
sorry i'm out, not going down that rabbit hole,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:44 AM
Narciso’s 10:04 is a good read on the logistics failures of our supply chain that is affecting our overstretched port to shipping issues.
My Dad was a logistics officer in the latter years of his Air Force career and he said it was the toughest most mentally demanding job he ever had even crewing a B-24 during WW2.
Posted by: Jack Lillywhite | November 01, 2021 at 10:47 AM
Melinda, Narciso,
Interesting information in that article in how the shipping industry works.
However, the "I am fortunate to b e a member of the Teamsters Union" told me a lot was being left out.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 01, 2021 at 10:47 AM
it's a very long chain of failure, didn't many armies just wither because their supplies couldn't keep up with the advancing forces,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:49 AM
Jeff Carter. Read it:
https://jeffreycarter.substack.com/p/congratulations-to-an-unsung-american
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 10:53 AM
They were laughing at Kaepernick on Red Eye overnight because he says he thinks the NFL is tantamount to slavery yet he continues to maintain a pro-level workout schedule in the hopes that a team will offer him a job.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | November 01, 2021 at 10:53 AM
where is he reporting from, ceti alpha 5
https://www.city-journal.org/dont-confuse-americas-genuine-political-divisions-with-prospect-of-civil-conflict
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 10:56 AM
The Long Tail, narc.
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 10:56 AM
i look on orlando, like sean connery did when he visited io in outland, is that reasonable?
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 11:02 AM
dragon tail firmly tucked in,
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1455180558330388486
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 11:09 AM
"Alec and Hilaria Baldwin pose with their six kids in Halloween Instagram photo with the caption: 'Parenting through this has been intense': Critics slam 'inappropriate and tasteless' post just days after Alec accidentally killed cinematographer"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10151457/Alec-Hilaria-Baldwin-pose-six-kids-Halloween-photos-amid-shooting-chaos.html
Posted by: Davod | November 01, 2021 at 11:20 AM
you killed someone because your set was like a training montage for spectre, and you have the nerve to feel sorry for yourself
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 11:26 AM
what I was describing earlier
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1454933113684041728
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 11:31 AM
just more of the steele sorbet
Former Right Wing Watch reporter, now with Atlantic Council, writes up a dossier, er, report on rightwing militia activity before January 6. Mary McCord passes it to DOJ/FBI as intelligence in December.
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 11:33 AM
i'm not including the actual info, because he's just another soros drone,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 11:42 AM
Glad to see you back, rse!!
So Boris the Turtle tells us that it's one minute to midnight on the climate as Joe falls asleep at the table. Great visual. Antarctica just had its coldest winter on record, but don't worry there's a typhoon or hurricane or wildfire or catastrophe on the way to your neighborhood soon.
Soon they'll be blaming the volcanos in Iceland and La Palma and elsewhere on global warming. Nothing like venting millions of tons of ash into the atmosphere to help push the dictatorship of the bureauqutariat.
My plan worked to perfection last night. The "Plague" signs and loop of "Bring out Your Dead" kept the trick or treaters to a minimum.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | November 01, 2021 at 11:47 AM
did you do it like kareem did it in the stand with a sandwhich board
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 11:51 AM
Lovely. So even MOAR experimental....
Don’tCensorMeBro
@dontcensorme21
Pfizer has modified the formulation of its vaccine for use in 5 to 11-year-old children. Parents need to be aware of what is in these vaccines before they make a decision about jabbing their children. This comes straight from the FDA briefing document provided by Pfizer.
https://twitter.com/dontcensorme21/status/1455168937226866691
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 12:06 PM
Where are the 'science' lawyers litigating the FDA against this?
Posted by: Davod | November 01, 2021 at 12:08 PM
One man's opinion:
https://www.europapress.es/comunicados/internacional-00907/noticia-comunicado-evergrande-technically-defaulted-forcing-hsbc-and-other-international-banks-to-write-off-197-billion-20211029163831.html
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 12:37 PM
They were laughing at Kaepernick on Red Eye overnight because he says he thinks the NFL is tantamount to slavery yet he continues to maintain a pro-level workout schedule in the hopes that a team will offer him a job.
Poor Colin is obviously victim of Stockholm Syndrome, like Patty Hearst and the SLA.
Posted by: jimmyk | November 01, 2021 at 12:46 PM
Melinda,
Nurse sister is worried the government is simply going to mess eith the money through a variety of ways in order to make all of it worthless. Whether it id outlawing digitsl currency, freezing bank accounts, removing currency and coinsge from circulation, or any one of a number of strategies , she frats government control of the economy.
We may end up bartering 3 jars of peanut butter for an oil change.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | November 01, 2021 at 12:59 PM
Baldwin knows how to handle firearms-- as conservative corporatist Jack Donaghy he was shooting rats in a dumpster at a couch factory on an episode of '30 Rock.' ;-)
Posted by: DCSCA | November 01, 2021 at 01:01 PM
MissMarple2 'American Airlines has ALREADY canceled 200 flights this morning'
LOL
Remember their ol'ad slogan:
"WE'RE AMERICAN AIRLINES, DOING WHAT WE DO BEST!"
Posted by: DCSCA | November 01, 2021 at 01:08 PM
Quick rant on a modern day logistics challenge— one outside the turmoil of the Christmas shipping season.
UPS has become a cargo cult wearing the latest Silicon Valley technology as nonfunctional talismans while the c suite is too uninterested or too incompetent to move the corporate culture from business to business shipping to modern consumer focused home delivery shipping.
Start with an “attempted delivery” while I was at home. Did it happen? Did you knock on the door? Next day, I move my work from home setup to next to the front door, which features a window. I stay at that spot all day. Another “attempted delivery”. Really? Do you have stealth delivery trucks and drivers?
Time to escalate. Off to the UPS web site. They have a chat window. Perfect… except it is a bot running a menu tree where “attempted delivery without showing up” is not an option. Asking for a person is not an option either. So try the customer service phone number. Voice bot. Same menu tree. Keywords “speak to human”, “speak to person”, etc don’t work. Eventually the voice bot times out and puts me on hold for the call center. Person speaks, very fast with a heavy accent. Wants me to do some website stuff or drive to the distribution center myself. Persistent use of single syllable words gets human agent to commit to a final delivery attempt for today at 4pm. I get home late Saturday night to a sticky note on my front door “final delivery attempt”.
So back to the bots, which tell me to sign up on the UPS website to arrange an alternate delivery. I create an account, and it won’t let me past the sign on page. I press the button to send an email - “must log on to send email”. Back to the bots again, where I learn repeated nonsense words (cat, dog, banana)get the bot to connect you to a human very quickly. After repeating all the same non answers, the human (different accent, almost understandable) succeeds in telling me the address of the UPS distribution center.
The distribution center’s customer center made TV prisons seem welcoming by comparison. But I now have the package.
I will do no business with anyone that ships to me via UPS.
/ rant
Posted by: henry | November 01, 2021 at 01:25 PM
USPS is worse,henry.
Posted by: clarice | November 01, 2021 at 01:27 PM
The postal service isn’t bad here in the hinterlands. Plus, the local post office is where missed deliveries end up. Small, no crowds.
Posted by: henry | November 01, 2021 at 01:48 PM
Had the same problem with FedX 2 weeks ago, Henry.
They missed me the first time, signature required. left a note. I signed off on it and was home for the next 2 days. Somehow they said they tried delivery but the doorbell never rang.
Returned to sender and a $35 bill for me to re-deliver, this time at their facility.
No appeal. No protest. Just try finding live support from these folks these days.
Posted by: matt - deplore me if you must | November 01, 2021 at 01:58 PM
how does one 'write off' 197 billion dollars (voice of dyspeptic duke bros)
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 02:10 PM
One can't.
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 02:20 PM
BREAKING NEWS- Citing ‘shell games and budget gimmicks’ Manchin just bayonetted Biden.
Film at 11.
Posted by: DCSCA | November 01, 2021 at 02:21 PM
henry- the USPS is fantastic. Consider how it an move mail- letters, parcels etc., across the country-- and around the planet in a timely fashion. The problem has been the wackos who keep pushing to privatize it; hence the rate rises. If it was 'privatized' places like Wyoming or Montana would have 4 post offices.
Posted by: DCSCA | November 01, 2021 at 02:25 PM
Which alderman represents these 13 constituents?
Jason Meisner
@jmetr22b
///BREAKING/// New federal RICO charges accuse 13 members of West Side gang faction Wicked Town with 19 murders from the early 2000s to last year. Story to come. It’s a part of this probe: chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/
https://twitter.com/jmetr22b/status/1455241666357518338
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 02:35 PM
UPS and USPS were so bad in my neighborhood and Amazon got tired of the complaints and how deliver here themselves--top notch service. Earlier this month we didn't even got mail for a week. I guess it depends where you are. In Florida's Longboat Key the P.O. is small and the people who work there efficient and friendly.
Posted by: clarice | November 01, 2021 at 02:58 PM
@sbwTweet
1/30 Preamble: “We the People of the United States” — are the authority above the #Democratic @JoeBiden
administration that failed its #ConstitutionalDuties. THREAD —
https://twitter.com/sbwTweet/status/1455243436840439814
Posted by: sbwaters | November 01, 2021 at 03:01 PM
then I remember hsbc is like the mob bank in dark knight, then it all comes clear,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 03:02 PM
Asleep at the switch:
'NBC White House Correspondent Reports on Biden ‘Dozing’ at Climate Summit: ‘These Can Be Embarrassing Situations’ -
"NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell opined on President Joe Biden apparently dozing off at a summit on Monday, saying it could be viewed as an “embarrassing situation.”
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“This is the fifth day of the president’s overseas tour, and he was seen on camera with his eyes closed,” O’Donnell noted in an afternoon segment with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. “It appears that perhaps he was dozing, and in these settings, cameras are all around. The camera caught president Biden who turns 79 later this month with his eyes closed for a period of time, and you’re right, these can be embarrassing situations.”
[ ] snoozer
[ ] loser
Choose.
Posted by: DCSCA | November 01, 2021 at 03:04 PM
Oops! Disregard Gates' pesky Microsoft ads.
Posted by: DCSCA | November 01, 2021 at 03:05 PM
nick leeson was not an outlier
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/epsteins-latest-casualty-barclays-ceo-jes-staley-resigns-over-ties-suicided-pedophile
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 03:17 PM
sanity in cook county?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1455246267517444098
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 03:27 PM
Yes, Amazon delivery is built from the ground up for consumer home delivery. You can even track the delivery truck the last few miles online.
Very different culture from UPS, USPS, or FedEx. For reasons unclear, Amazon chooses them for some deliveries.
They should allow us to rank which are least bad in our local areas.
Posted by: henry | November 01, 2021 at 03:28 PM
i know it's a passing phase, but still
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 03:31 PM
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1455243436840439814.html
Posted by: sbwaters | November 01, 2021 at 03:32 PM
Does a Tennessee law really make it illegal to teach black history in K-12?
Posted by: Davod | November 01, 2021 at 03:33 PM
you've been getting that vibe, too sbw,
I would find that very hard to believe, davod,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 03:37 PM
So would I, but I couldn't read the newspaper article on facebook.
Posted by: Davod | November 01, 2021 at 03:39 PM
same people who tell you there were 'mostly peaceful' burnings of storefronts, but j6 was an abbatoir of bodies,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 03:41 PM
they make these ridiculous claims, that unless you endorse their premises, you're not teaching black history, I imagine they make similar assumptions about aborigines down under,
Posted by: Narciso | November 01, 2021 at 03:51 PM
Matt Whitlock
@mattdizwhitlock
I don't know what happened to this guy but it's been one of the saddest things to see over the last few years.
The guy is lamenting a "post-factual era" while making post-factual arguments - nothing he's saying here is based on data analyzing the actual electorate right now.
Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck
.@LarrySabato says, if @GlennYoungkin wins, it'll be b/c of white power & accepting lies: "The operative word is...race. That is what matters...There's a lot of...white backlash, white resistance, whatever you want to call it...We live in a post-factual era[.]" #VAgov
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What's wild is @LarrySabato is on TV representing Crystal Ball -- who just released a solid analysis backed by data/research on why Youngkin could win.
It hits Biden approval, energy prices, Afghanistan.
Nothing on "white backlash."
h/t @RobertGonzo71
centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/ar…
At some point Larry becomes a major vulnerability for UVA.
Larry is on TV representing Crystal Ball. But his analysis is completely different than what his organization just published (which he was on TV to discuss).
Larry on the left, his organization on the right.
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1455249804745969667
Posted by: Melinda | November 01, 2021 at 03:55 PM