Mockable media mask headlines signal new narratives; Covidians' latest OCD obsession takes dark brown turn; Maine orders Trump off ballot; Argentinian Trump drains swamp; and a hilarious dirty story.
I have a billion dollar idea -- let's rebrand plain ol' covid pcr tests as, say, The C19 POOP test, and sell it on Amazon to the Covidians. Include a pair of vinyl gloves, a tube of hand sanitizer and a designer mask emblazoned with the C&C logo and donate all profits to the Cause...
i liked the masks made of feminine pads (unused ones); as laughable as the sexy lacy belly-dancer masks i saw a few wearing. It was NEVER serious now was it? Grandma knit me a mask for Christmas that matches my mittens. A HOAX we were asked to participate in just like not seeing any election abnormalities in 2020. Co-worker jokingly wore a true gas mask and would get stares---so if one was a TRUE believer you were also anathema in public...Looked like Never Say Die (Black Sabbath) album cover guy. I now have a mask for occasional use that says...."MASKS (don't) REALLY WORK!"
LOL the first time in the store they told me to mask I had on a crochet shawl and asked if that would do - Oh yes that is fine LOL. Even a wasp could go through these holes!
later on, I saw some who had made a face diaper out of nylon stockings ! they called it fake masks. By then I already had given up on them. Only used 3, mostly at Walmart, they handed them out and would not let you in without one. Several people took them off soon as they were inside. I stopped wearing them when I got nauseated. After that, I only shopped at the store next town over, where no one said a thing. No masks, there was only a marker on the door, to keep a distance. No specifications. There was a shield before the cashier but no one paid any attention to it. So nice.
Following the letter of the mandate/recommendation, NOT the spirit of it was just fine 99% of the time.... at times I would use a boot covering over my jaw/nose--looked like a strapless feedbag, all i needed was blinders for my eyes and i would have been livestock with my critical-essential job to go to while others closed down restaurants and small retail shops while big business remained open and cashed in big on Payroll Protection $$$.
Kent, YES. But make it big enough to put a straw in. Draw lips on them, zigzag stitch around the lips. Then cut out the lips part. That way, if she gets hungry she can eat too. Maybe just ‘almost’ cut out the lips of the very top one, so it’s like a flap. And she can just flip it down, or up!
Oh man, I wish I had a bunch of masks . I would do it😂😂😂😂
In the height of it, I took a surgical mask, ripped a hole in the middle and protested in front of a local high school. LOL It drove the Covidians nuts.
I have come to abhor the expression, “the new normal”, but it seems clear to me that the left is trying to normalize public defecation. Not only on our streets in leftist homeless havens such as Portland and San Francisco, but now places where families take their children. All “normal” now. So keep voting Democrat.
Portland is dealing with shigella "Contagious shigella infection spreads through Portland area, renewing health warnings"
.........."Current disease patterns in Multnomah County suggest that fecal-oral spread through sexual contact may account for between half or two-thirds of all cases without international travel,” said Teresa Everson, Multnomah County deputy health officer.
The germaphobes won't be using public restrooms for a new reason...one flush of covid-grade poo will create an aerosol in the room that is unavoidable to inhale. If you can smell it, your mask is useless!
Back in the mask days I had two nurses argue with me about wearing a mask. I refused and they thought they told me off. Would love to have that conversation again with a great big I told you they didn't stop anything but spit.
I was just thinking that DEPENDS should be handed out before entering ANY Disney "amusement" park!! I am also wondering how many of these "poop depositors" are young children as the predominant sector of society that LOVES Disney is people under the age of 12--which sometimes do not have the best "bathroom manners"--especially those under the age of 3 1/2--LOL!! "DEPENDS" IS THE ANSWER!!
Back in the days when I thought about going to law school most who were going into law were English majors in undergrad. Not sure if that's still the case, but when you think about it, law is words, words are law. And what words mean, all of the possible meanings, and how they are constructed, all of the possible ways they are constructed make a big, big difference in how they are interpreted as law. Like how "and," is significantly different in law than ", and", "shall" and "may" are distinctions with difference. Remember the, "it depends on what the definition of "is" is" parsing of a certain past lawyer president? Non-lawyer readers mock. Lawyers and judges nod their heads in agreement.
Studying English as a major introduces one to linguistics. Which is what George Orwell based his future (present?) dystopian "War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength and Freedom is Slavery" Newspeak on, linguistics can make each of those concepts true.
And now you understand why the Marxist Noam Chomsky became a professor of linguistics. You can repeal the US Constitution and all notions of individual freedom and liberty it protects in plain English without firing a bullet by redefining what the words in it mean. Revolution by nonviolent means of controlling language. Unless, of course, "words are violence" these days. Hmmm?
And judges rise in the ranks to higher and higher courts based on how cunning and flexible they are at linguistic gymnastics. The Olympians become Supreme Court justices.
excellent observation! You might appreciate an article from 1986 by Robert M. Cover, "Violence and the Word," 95 YALE L.J. 1601 (1986).
A quote from the first paragraph: "Interpretations in law also constitute justifications for violence which has already occurred or which is about to occur. When interpreters have finished their work, they frequently leave behind victims whose lives have been torn apart by these organized, social practices of violence. Neither legal interpretation nor the violence it occasions may be properly understood apart from one another."
I poked around your Stack to learn more about who appreciated my observation and found that my curiosity has overlapped with your life's academic and legal pursuits.
While I'm not a lawyer I've written more law in my career than most who practice and interpret it. I've met and worked with accomplished lawyers who've taken up civil liberties cases involving indigenous peoples, the lead attorney for Ward Churchill, David Lane, on his termination from CU over free speech issues. This isn't to say my values are in alignment with either of them, they mostly aren't. And while I've enjoyed cocktails and fascinating conversation with David Lane I found his defense of medical tyranny in 2020 reprehensible as a civil liberties attorney and lost all respect for him as I do for all frauds and phonies; I could overlook his far-left values, but not his indulgence in totalitarianism. Which, truth be told, is a prerequisite for applied Marxism as it exists outside academia.
And perhaps of interest to you is a Stack I wrote in 2022 about Russell Means, a transcript of a speech he gave that Mother Jones covered in 1980. It's where I learned a lot that destroyed preconceptions I had of him before I read his words in his own voice. Much of it applies to the insanity of our world we see unfolding around us today. I'd be curious about your obervations as they relate to his speech and my write up about it if you cared to offer them?
Small world! I have met Ward and think the brouhaha about him was an early straw in the wind of ‘identity politics’. I don’t know David Lane, but what you say about him makes sense to me.
I will definitely look at the links you sent… and get back to you, but not until I’m done with a project due on Jan 11…. much appreciated! I met Russell a couple times… his was an up and down career…
That is the most acute painfully accurate description ever! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It conjures up a visual of Peters riding the sewage wave on a surf board wearing his cool aviator shades and a mask of course.
Jan Dickmeyer, as I was reading your comment, Fox News was reporting, “President Biden is Underwater with Polls!” I’m not sure I can finish drinking coffee and reading comments at the same time. I need a ‘Coffee Bib’ to make it through!
Thats a shocking visual you just conjured up. Maybe he is riding the Poopline break instead of the Pipeline (north shore Oahu for the non- surfers among us). or is that Obama as he is hanging there this week.? gives a whole new meaning to Hang Loose. Aloha.
Ha! Perfect Chris. Doesn’t one of these ‘billionarish’ persons want to recycle poop into drinking water for we less then poop preoccupied to partake of? 🤣
Milwaukee's been turning its sewage sludge into fertilizer for sale for decades. Wonder how much $$$ the city has made from monetizing their crap? Enough to cover cost of water treatment?
Great choice, Rowe. Can you just imagine the look on his face as he plunges his gloved mitts into a sewage sample? His look enough would set me LMAO. Love Rowe for all the unusual tasks he takes on, he's a real star IMO
😷I had to take my son to the ER near Seattle, WA, this week and was surprised to see a huge sign at the entry requiring masks. Another smaller sign explained the areas where masks are required and that this policy was effective beginning Dec 5, 2023. I took photos for my own documentation; at one time I wanted to create a book filled with “The Signs of Our Times.”🫤
Oh, by the way, I didn’t wear a mask and no one said a thing to me. But almost everyone else was masked up.
If you’ve read Cormac McCarthy’s dark and beautiful novel All the Pretty Horses, you’ll remember the key question that Emilio Perez asks John Grady, one that cuts to the core of life and what we all must do to live a life worth living.
“The world wants to know if you have cojones. If you are brave?”
I had an Aetna Medicare Supplement all of 2023, and my OTC quarterly benefit was ordered from and supplied by CVS. The brands were predominantly (like 93%) CVS brand...
And the cost of my one and only prescription med was higher at CVS...even with Good Rx.
CVS is the worst! They have been my PPOs preferred provider as long as I can remember. I have constantly had issues with them. The past year and a half they have not accepted my insurance and every time I have had a rx filled, I have had to have my insurance contact them directly to fill my rx. The past 6 months they wouldn’t fill any rx even with my insurance company calling in for an override. I have had to use a discount service like Good RX. I have spent countless hours on the phone with my insurance and CVS customer service.
The issue has been finally straightened out. Because I live a lifestyle of traveling (motorhome), I get my maintenance rx filled in different states. CVS tried to take advantage of Oklahoma law and is now not filling Maintenance rx for out of state insurance companies, forcing people to use mail in rx. I suspect this move bungled up their whole system as I was not even able to fill a rx for an antibiotic in another state. I will not use CVS and would not recommend them to anyone. When this issue finally resolved, I was informed by their customer service this was an Oklahoma issue. In my opinion, corporate is giving their customer service misinformation maybe even disinformation. Corporate greed at its best! Sorry for the rant, mostly just venting.
I work in a pharmacy and we hate calling CVS for prescription transfers. They WILL NOT answer the phone. We've been on hold for over an hour at times. It seems they are so short staffed and so busy that the phone is the least of their concerns. To an extent, I understand. There's only so much a person can do.
Took my dad for some tests in December. Stupid masks signs everywhere. We did not wear masks and everyone left us alone. I only saw one couple with them and they looked terrified.
Wastewater, sewage testing is a tax payer funded reality in Michigan, nobody asked us if we wanted to pay for this. It is found especially at our colleges. Yes our state is still tracking Covid cases you will be pleased to know Michigan still has no flu cases hasn’t had any for 3 years now. Go figure and the official math stinks they need to go back to school and learn how to add.
Disney also seems to be groomers paradise and pedo central and has been for a while now. It is not some where I wish to take my young ones or teens.
She would be terrible as president..... probably equal to what Hilary would have been. She tried very hard to be Biden's VP.....it would have been terrible for the country but maybe better for Michigan to have been rid of her.
Speaking of Whitmer for pres: my local rag ran an Op-Ed today by a guy named Carl P Leubsdorf. It was his crystal ball month-by-month for ‘24. Whitmer wins the Dem nomination on the third ballot at the Chicago DNC. Whitmer then becomes the first woman pres, defeating Trump 333-205 (Electoral College).
Another example of media laziness/shortcuts beyond the stock photo misinformation: Facebook posts. My mom is one of the few remaining loyal subscribers of our pitiful birdcage liner KC Star newspaper. I will peruse her copy from time to time and rather than contact actual citizens for commentary to flesh out an article, they cherry pick FB comments that of course fit whatever narrative it is they are trying to spin. Never mind if the comments run 2 or 3 to one AGAINST their narrative de jour, they just cherry pick the juiciest ones that agree with them and call it a day. Print media journalism is dead as a doornail.
I have this exact thing going on w my parents. They are incredulous and irritated that we don’t read the local paper when we’re there, then say we’re addicted to our devices....as we’re sitting there reading the news. Lol, it’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t read their local paper if I got paid to do it.
18 years ago we moved from Denver to our little town on Colorado’s western border. The local paper was a conservative relief from the liberal Denver Post. A few years later it was bought and converted to liberal garbage. So sad. Canceled the paper. Canceled cable. Now I find news on sites like this that have demonstrated the desire to seek truth amid the lies.
Funny you said this... my parents are in Colorado Springs. Let me just say that it is a VERY different place than where I grew up. Also, their paper is horrible.
My wife picks up old newspapers from her weekly visits to her brother. I find them very useful, and would have a hard time starting the fires in my wood stove without them. I used to make it a point to read Dilbert before it was removed for the author's wrong think reversal on the Covid dogma, but now I just crumple all of the paper unread.
Yeah, I actually liked reading the daily newspaper. In print. Subscribed way longer than we should have as I justified it by saying it did keep us abreast of local news and events. But after the Trump election in 2016 I couldn't take it any more and cancelled. Vast majority of content today is AP or other newspapers like the WaPo, not much local any more. Skeleton crew of local reporters compared to ~20 years ago, and all token conservatives are long gone. Mom is 85, her assisted living place has about a dozen subscribers -suspect a lot of their subscriber base is the same demographic.
That's awesome! Mom had been on her own since my dad passed in 2014, had downsized to an apartment but was needing more and more help. Mentally she is sharp but physically she was never in great shape and 2 years of sheltering in place left her unable to even make it through the grocery store without 'her legs giving out'. One thing led to another and she moved to assisted living this summer. She is now 5 minutes away, vs 30 minutes before. She was bound and determined to hate it but the socialization has been really good for her.
These zero covid people need to start aiming at the origins of covid like these bio labs. Just like those who say you are killing grandma, IT'S THE ILLEGAL GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE US GOVERNMENT THAT IS KILLING GRANDMA, not me. Instead of trying to mandate masks they need to be protesting the biolabs. Or do these idiots still believe this came from bat soup?
"I’m not saying I don’t trust them, but … your factual mileage may vary. Consume at your own risk." Words to live by in all aspects of today's societal marketplace. Thanks, Jeff!!
Want to protect yourself from infection by contact with wastewater? Stop swimming in the cesspool.
I realize that, for progressives, complying with such a command requires a complete change of lifestyle. But hey, sometimes you gotta sacrifice for the greater good!
Hate to break it to you all, but all water you drink is wastewater. Especially those of you that live inland away from the Great Lakes. Sorry. Spent ten years of my working life in sewage unfortunately.
i love living downstream of the Progressive Pooping Class Elites of my community; i get free pharmaceuticals in my water and get to pay out the As- for it.
I know most of Europe does. Otherwise, it is very polluted 'cleaned' water. Most of the bottled water is 'puriefied' water as well. And, well, animals poop too, and it all sips into the ground, and then it ends up in my well I guess LOL. P is not poisonous. If you look at some lotions and creams, they have Urea in it. That is P
Rich Earth Institute. Summer 2022, knew from soil lab test that all my soil needed was N--bought 50# bags of bloodmeal (each setting me back some $136 each bag). Last summer, only used our urine. Cabbages were amazing in size and health (no bugs).
I remember from our history lessons, that in old Rome they had carts to collect early morning urine and treated skin conditions with it. better to use these old remedies that do not poison us! Thanks for the link
I imagine we all have been anyway--for a long time. Where does the wastewater-treatment-plant effluent go? Into the rivers? I fear it may be time to look seriously at a Berkee
Anybody who is drinking Dasani ,Aquafina, or any other brand owned by a too big to fail corporation probably already is. Reverse osmosis is used on a variety of feedstock, and you can bet these ghouls avail themselves of the cheapest available.
There is no etiquette or self discipline of any kind taught in the US anymore (schools)..and I consider a habit of washing hands before meals ( especially for children) good etiquette and/or manners.
Remember that huge hand washing circular sink, 10 kids could fit around it, and it was a novelty to press the foot bar to activate the water. The only gross part was the gritty soap, was that borax?
We need to shift the narrative to the truth about immunity....if your immune system is healthy & strong, you don’t “catch” viruses. We conservatives need to encourage people to take responsibility for themselves. Eat healthy, exercise, breathe fresh air, get adequate sleep, etc and let your God-given immune system do what it was created to do!
It was biggest one of the red flags when there was no healthy advice, natural immunity was called a conspiracy theory and now the FDA is banning cold medicine. We need more natural medicine and the teaching of how to use things like mullin leaf to clear the lungs.
I also found it suspicious that they said all herbs did not work just one week after the scamdemic was declared. Really? Did they bother testing them? Nope. I expect nonsense like that out of the FDA, but even some natural practitioners were saying that. My guess is they were plants, not actual practitioners. Most herbal remedies take time to work and usually a determination can't be made in a very short amount of time.
Exactly. What they did with ivermectin was horrendously shameful. I had a lawyer tell me for 20 min it was a horse medicine - just couldn't understand they had been deceived.
Maybe they should be wearing special underwear instead of masks….
Depends.
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^^^SPAM^^^
Disney Depends...lol
“”New motto: “Disney Depends on You!”
Good one!!
A propos of nothing, I LOVE your Substack handle!! Vive Pepe!!
...with Mickey and Minnie on it!
$150 a pair!
Kathleen--You're firing on all cylinders and its beautiful to behold.
Thank you!
Hopped up on caffeine!
Yeah just like Huggies!
Good One ☝️😂
It should or be "good #2"?
🤣Good one! 😆
Depends on what? No, don't even answer. 😉
Depends adult diapers.
Sorry, Kathleen, sometimes I'm too sarcastic for my own good.
That was quick 😂😂😂
Just priceless!😂
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Witty woman
It's the caffeine.
Ah, glorious caffeine and its wonders.
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H.B. says to itself: I'm going to choose to post underneath the top-rated comment to trick people into buying my overpriced t-shirts.
H.B. Is a tiresome troll
Is it possible that HB and NN are the same?
" Itself. "
Spot on.
Not sure they would "get it."
I have a billion dollar idea -- let's rebrand plain ol' covid pcr tests as, say, The C19 POOP test, and sell it on Amazon to the Covidians. Include a pair of vinyl gloves, a tube of hand sanitizer and a designer mask emblazoned with the C&C logo and donate all profits to the Cause...
And include a “sample” envelope to send for lab testing with Dr. Fauci’s address printed on it.
That's a winner!
Yaaaaasssss 😅😅
A new Shark Tank episode in the waiting! 😂🤣😂
It's such a sure thing (and supports a great cause) that Mr. Wonderful would probably go for it, although he'd undoubted;y want royalties
In this case, C&C will stand for 'Covid and Crap'.
Good one! lol
Do like the ad for colon cancer where the little box arrives on your doorstep.
yes -- and animated like Cologard, but perhaps with Fauci's face along with a poop emoji.
And include one of those toilet bowl stickers for target practice.
YES....keep them busy and occupied so they can get a break from OCD
Quick -- get the copyright!
Goes to show the msm media, lefties, covidians and their buddies are so full of bullcrap that it is too much for their bodies to handle.
That would explain all the crap they spew.
4 masks should do the trick
And a plastic bag Ingrid! 😉😂
ROFL that will certainly do it !
Cellophane ones keeps em from dying of COVID!
i liked the masks made of feminine pads (unused ones); as laughable as the sexy lacy belly-dancer masks i saw a few wearing. It was NEVER serious now was it? Grandma knit me a mask for Christmas that matches my mittens. A HOAX we were asked to participate in just like not seeing any election abnormalities in 2020. Co-worker jokingly wore a true gas mask and would get stares---so if one was a TRUE believer you were also anathema in public...Looked like Never Say Die (Black Sabbath) album cover guy. I now have a mask for occasional use that says...."MASKS (don't) REALLY WORK!"
LOL the first time in the store they told me to mask I had on a crochet shawl and asked if that would do - Oh yes that is fine LOL. Even a wasp could go through these holes!
I had a white lace headband!!
later on, I saw some who had made a face diaper out of nylon stockings ! they called it fake masks. By then I already had given up on them. Only used 3, mostly at Walmart, they handed them out and would not let you in without one. Several people took them off soon as they were inside. I stopped wearing them when I got nauseated. After that, I only shopped at the store next town over, where no one said a thing. No masks, there was only a marker on the door, to keep a distance. No specifications. There was a shield before the cashier but no one paid any attention to it. So nice.
Following the letter of the mandate/recommendation, NOT the spirit of it was just fine 99% of the time.... at times I would use a boot covering over my jaw/nose--looked like a strapless feedbag, all i needed was blinders for my eyes and i would have been livestock with my critical-essential job to go to while others closed down restaurants and small retail shops while big business remained open and cashed in big on Payroll Protection $$$.
SO much better had they been used.
At least poke a whole in them so you can breathe!
Kent, YES. But make it big enough to put a straw in. Draw lips on them, zigzag stitch around the lips. Then cut out the lips part. That way, if she gets hungry she can eat too. Maybe just ‘almost’ cut out the lips of the very top one, so it’s like a flap. And she can just flip it down, or up!
Oh man, I wish I had a bunch of masks . I would do it😂😂😂😂
oh my. I think I need to get back in the sewing room and start a business CStone!
In the height of it, I took a surgical mask, ripped a hole in the middle and protested in front of a local high school. LOL It drove the Covidians nuts.
I have come to abhor the expression, “the new normal”, but it seems clear to me that the left is trying to normalize public defecation. Not only on our streets in leftist homeless havens such as Portland and San Francisco, but now places where families take their children. All “normal” now. So keep voting Democrat.
Well they are full of it so.
Portland is dealing with shigella "Contagious shigella infection spreads through Portland area, renewing health warnings"
.........."Current disease patterns in Multnomah County suggest that fecal-oral spread through sexual contact may account for between half or two-thirds of all cases without international travel,” said Teresa Everson, Multnomah County deputy health officer.
https://katu.com/news/local/contagious-shigella-infection-spreads-through-portland-area-renewing-health-warnings
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Apparently they want cholera epidemics to make a comeback 🙄
The germaphobes won't be using public restrooms for a new reason...one flush of covid-grade poo will create an aerosol in the room that is unavoidable to inhale. If you can smell it, your mask is useless!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC_f0UAGwMU
Back in the mask days I had two nurses argue with me about wearing a mask. I refused and they thought they told me off. Would love to have that conversation again with a great big I told you they didn't stop anything but spit.
I was just thinking that DEPENDS should be handed out before entering ANY Disney "amusement" park!! I am also wondering how many of these "poop depositors" are young children as the predominant sector of society that LOVES Disney is people under the age of 12--which sometimes do not have the best "bathroom manners"--especially those under the age of 3 1/2--LOL!! "DEPENDS" IS THE ANSWER!!
Wonder if they are wiping their arse in line too!
OOOHHH...don't even want to THINK about that one, Karen!
Not all of them are Mormons!
😂😂😂. I had forgotten about Mitt Romney’s ‘holy underwear’. (Or is it holey underwear.......or wholly underwear?)
Nah. It was ‘Holy underwear’.
Robin to Batman: “Holy underwear, Batman!!”
Aim for the hole or just shake it out!
lol!!! That’s a good one!
No joke, that was seriously proposed by famous covid-fanatic Eric Feigl Ding.
Long underwear used to have buttoned back flaps....
"...long diarrheaic stream of pandemic psychosis."
Six words entirely summarizing the past 4 years. Excellent work, counselor! 🏆
Jeff is THE BEST with words. No wonder he’s an attorney.
Except he is an attorney whose words bring clarity rather than confusion! 👍🏻
We in FL are lucky to have him in our population, Jeff is a privilege!
Amen!!
With all the poo…..
Blue-collar attorney? 😂
Wouldn’t it be ‘brown-collar’?)
Amen!! What a awesome feeling too!!
Back in the days when I thought about going to law school most who were going into law were English majors in undergrad. Not sure if that's still the case, but when you think about it, law is words, words are law. And what words mean, all of the possible meanings, and how they are constructed, all of the possible ways they are constructed make a big, big difference in how they are interpreted as law. Like how "and," is significantly different in law than ", and", "shall" and "may" are distinctions with difference. Remember the, "it depends on what the definition of "is" is" parsing of a certain past lawyer president? Non-lawyer readers mock. Lawyers and judges nod their heads in agreement.
Studying English as a major introduces one to linguistics. Which is what George Orwell based his future (present?) dystopian "War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength and Freedom is Slavery" Newspeak on, linguistics can make each of those concepts true.
And now you understand why the Marxist Noam Chomsky became a professor of linguistics. You can repeal the US Constitution and all notions of individual freedom and liberty it protects in plain English without firing a bullet by redefining what the words in it mean. Revolution by nonviolent means of controlling language. Unless, of course, "words are violence" these days. Hmmm?
And judges rise in the ranks to higher and higher courts based on how cunning and flexible they are at linguistic gymnastics. The Olympians become Supreme Court justices.
excellent observation! You might appreciate an article from 1986 by Robert M. Cover, "Violence and the Word," 95 YALE L.J. 1601 (1986).
A quote from the first paragraph: "Interpretations in law also constitute justifications for violence which has already occurred or which is about to occur. When interpreters have finished their work, they frequently leave behind victims whose lives have been torn apart by these organized, social practices of violence. Neither legal interpretation nor the violence it occasions may be properly understood apart from one another."
Thank you for sharing that, I'll dig into it.
I poked around your Stack to learn more about who appreciated my observation and found that my curiosity has overlapped with your life's academic and legal pursuits.
While I'm not a lawyer I've written more law in my career than most who practice and interpret it. I've met and worked with accomplished lawyers who've taken up civil liberties cases involving indigenous peoples, the lead attorney for Ward Churchill, David Lane, on his termination from CU over free speech issues. This isn't to say my values are in alignment with either of them, they mostly aren't. And while I've enjoyed cocktails and fascinating conversation with David Lane I found his defense of medical tyranny in 2020 reprehensible as a civil liberties attorney and lost all respect for him as I do for all frauds and phonies; I could overlook his far-left values, but not his indulgence in totalitarianism. Which, truth be told, is a prerequisite for applied Marxism as it exists outside academia.
And perhaps of interest to you is a Stack I wrote in 2022 about Russell Means, a transcript of a speech he gave that Mother Jones covered in 1980. It's where I learned a lot that destroyed preconceptions I had of him before I read his words in his own voice. Much of it applies to the insanity of our world we see unfolding around us today. I'd be curious about your obervations as they relate to his speech and my write up about it if you cared to offer them?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/russell-means-mother-jones-interview-1980/
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/teaching-an-old-fox-new-tricks
Small world! I have met Ward and think the brouhaha about him was an early straw in the wind of ‘identity politics’. I don’t know David Lane, but what you say about him makes sense to me.
I will definitely look at the links you sent… and get back to you, but not until I’m done with a project due on Jan 11…. much appreciated! I met Russell a couple times… his was an up and down career…
I'll bet he's real expensive but you're almost guaranteed to win!
From what I have been told he was a writer first.
That is the most acute painfully accurate description ever! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It conjures up a visual of Peters riding the sewage wave on a surf board wearing his cool aviator shades and a mask of course.
Jan Dickmeyer, as I was reading your comment, Fox News was reporting, “President Biden is Underwater with Polls!” I’m not sure I can finish drinking coffee and reading comments at the same time. I need a ‘Coffee Bib’ to make it through!
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That is rich Oma🤣
Thats a shocking visual you just conjured up. Maybe he is riding the Poopline break instead of the Pipeline (north shore Oahu for the non- surfers among us). or is that Obama as he is hanging there this week.? gives a whole new meaning to Hang Loose. Aloha.
Peters 🤣🤣🤣 Also, Comrade Fauci
Ha! Perfect Chris. Doesn’t one of these ‘billionarish’ persons want to recycle poop into drinking water for we less then poop preoccupied to partake of? 🤣
Milwaukee's been turning its sewage sludge into fertilizer for sale for decades. Wonder how much $$$ the city has made from monetizing their crap? Enough to cover cost of water treatment?
Michigan has done the same thing for decades,gives a whole new meaning to waste water run off!!
Robert L. Peters?
One of biden’s alias.. he used it in emails, I believe.
🤣🤣🤣Just visualizing that word picture!!
Holding an ice cream cone which gets splattered with ....
Consider it a “loose stream” since 2020
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Except the counselor forgot the quotes around "pandemic." He does that...
Such a crappy update Jeff. 😂🤣
Poop humor is so funny. 🤣🤣
That’s why five year olds love it
As well as this 62 year old. 😉😄
no shit
I’m just imagining Mike Rowe doing a show on this 🤣🤣🤣 can you imagine the comments he’d have?
Haha! 😂😂😂 especially with a test kit to measure covid levels in the sewage. Probably much higher in highly vaxxed areas. 🤣🤣
dont you think they are putting it in the sewers, just like in the food, drinks, etc?
Ooh, good point about the vaxed areas!
Yes! If measuring for spike protein it would be higher in highly vx areas
Especially after eating Chinese for dinner🤣
Great choice, Rowe. Can you just imagine the look on his face as he plunges his gloved mitts into a sewage sample? His look enough would set me LMAO. Love Rowe for all the unusual tasks he takes on, he's a real star IMO
Plus, he's a conservative
Hmmm.. After this C&C update, I wonder if Jeff’s work would qualify as a “dirty job”? Anyone know how to submit Jeff for Mike Rowe’s show?
I recently found his podcast, which I find very entertaining.... ESPECIALLY when he interviews his mother, about once a month.
"The Way I Heard It"
Check it out!
😷I had to take my son to the ER near Seattle, WA, this week and was surprised to see a huge sign at the entry requiring masks. Another smaller sign explained the areas where masks are required and that this policy was effective beginning Dec 5, 2023. I took photos for my own documentation; at one time I wanted to create a book filled with “The Signs of Our Times.”🫤
Oh, by the way, I didn’t wear a mask and no one said a thing to me. But almost everyone else was masked up.
Courage
If you’ve read Cormac McCarthy’s dark and beautiful novel All the Pretty Horses, you’ll remember the key question that Emilio Perez asks John Grady, one that cuts to the core of life and what we all must do to live a life worth living.
“The world wants to know if you have cojones. If you are brave?”
Resist
Good on you! Hope your son is okay.
Seems maybe mandated behind the pharmacy counter at CVS, all the employees seem to wear them—I think they had stopped for a while.
I avoid CVS whenever possible.
I had an Aetna Medicare Supplement all of 2023, and my OTC quarterly benefit was ordered from and supplied by CVS. The brands were predominantly (like 93%) CVS brand...
And the cost of my one and only prescription med was higher at CVS...even with Good Rx.
So I asked Alexa who owns AETNA INSURANCE.
CVS does.
CVS is the worst! They have been my PPOs preferred provider as long as I can remember. I have constantly had issues with them. The past year and a half they have not accepted my insurance and every time I have had a rx filled, I have had to have my insurance contact them directly to fill my rx. The past 6 months they wouldn’t fill any rx even with my insurance company calling in for an override. I have had to use a discount service like Good RX. I have spent countless hours on the phone with my insurance and CVS customer service.
The issue has been finally straightened out. Because I live a lifestyle of traveling (motorhome), I get my maintenance rx filled in different states. CVS tried to take advantage of Oklahoma law and is now not filling Maintenance rx for out of state insurance companies, forcing people to use mail in rx. I suspect this move bungled up their whole system as I was not even able to fill a rx for an antibiotic in another state. I will not use CVS and would not recommend them to anyone. When this issue finally resolved, I was informed by their customer service this was an Oklahoma issue. In my opinion, corporate is giving their customer service misinformation maybe even disinformation. Corporate greed at its best! Sorry for the rant, mostly just venting.
https://kfor.com/news/local/cvs-caremark-prescription-decision-ends-90-day-prescriptions-for-some-in-oklahoma/amp/
I work in a pharmacy and we hate calling CVS for prescription transfers. They WILL NOT answer the phone. We've been on hold for over an hour at times. It seems they are so short staffed and so busy that the phone is the least of their concerns. To an extent, I understand. There's only so much a person can do.
Took my dad for some tests in December. Stupid masks signs everywhere. We did not wear masks and everyone left us alone. I only saw one couple with them and they looked terrified.
Wastewater, sewage testing is a tax payer funded reality in Michigan, nobody asked us if we wanted to pay for this. It is found especially at our colleges. Yes our state is still tracking Covid cases you will be pleased to know Michigan still has no flu cases hasn’t had any for 3 years now. Go figure and the official math stinks they need to go back to school and learn how to add.
Disney also seems to be groomers paradise and pedo central and has been for a while now. It is not some where I wish to take my young ones or teens.
Michigan leadership is evil. Whitmer and her girls are horrible.
Evil is a perfect name for Michigan’s top 3.
She wants to be president in the worst way too
She would be a president in the worst way. BTW, are you related to the enema company?
I wish
She would be terrible as president..... probably equal to what Hilary would have been. She tried very hard to be Biden's VP.....it would have been terrible for the country but maybe better for Michigan to have been rid of her.
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤡
Speaking of Whitmer for pres: my local rag ran an Op-Ed today by a guy named Carl P Leubsdorf. It was his crystal ball month-by-month for ‘24. Whitmer wins the Dem nomination on the third ballot at the Chicago DNC. Whitmer then becomes the first woman pres, defeating Trump 333-205 (Electoral College).
That is the stuff of nightmares.
Makes me so happy I’m retired. I’m NOT paying for the poo analysis.
Do you live in Michigan? Chances are you are still paying state income tax even if retired.
Yes, you’re right. 😕
Weird. No flu! We've had a ton of ferocious flu B here in GA, but I haven't heard a peep about COVID🤔
As far as the Newsweek headline goes, I remember reading that a large percentage of people only read headlines and the MSM "journalists" know this.
And of those that actually read an article, less than 10% will ever see a retraction even if it is published. Journalism is one giant scam.
newsweek used to be somewhat readable, but in these last years, has shown its true face. another rag to clean up poop with.
What not good enough to wrap your daily catch?...
make sure the ideas don't give off onto your catch though ! LOL
Full disclosure, headlines are written by editors, not the writers.
Another example of media laziness/shortcuts beyond the stock photo misinformation: Facebook posts. My mom is one of the few remaining loyal subscribers of our pitiful birdcage liner KC Star newspaper. I will peruse her copy from time to time and rather than contact actual citizens for commentary to flesh out an article, they cherry pick FB comments that of course fit whatever narrative it is they are trying to spin. Never mind if the comments run 2 or 3 to one AGAINST their narrative de jour, they just cherry pick the juiciest ones that agree with them and call it a day. Print media journalism is dead as a doornail.
I have this exact thing going on w my parents. They are incredulous and irritated that we don’t read the local paper when we’re there, then say we’re addicted to our devices....as we’re sitting there reading the news. Lol, it’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t read their local paper if I got paid to do it.
18 years ago we moved from Denver to our little town on Colorado’s western border. The local paper was a conservative relief from the liberal Denver Post. A few years later it was bought and converted to liberal garbage. So sad. Canceled the paper. Canceled cable. Now I find news on sites like this that have demonstrated the desire to seek truth amid the lies.
Same thing happened to the Daily Oklahoman which was formerly the most right leaning paper in the country. E.K. Gaylord is spinning in his grave.
Funny you said this... my parents are in Colorado Springs. Let me just say that it is a VERY different place than where I grew up. Also, their paper is horrible.
My wife picks up old newspapers from her weekly visits to her brother. I find them very useful, and would have a hard time starting the fires in my wood stove without them. I used to make it a point to read Dilbert before it was removed for the author's wrong think reversal on the Covid dogma, but now I just crumple all of the paper unread.
Yeah, I actually liked reading the daily newspaper. In print. Subscribed way longer than we should have as I justified it by saying it did keep us abreast of local news and events. But after the Trump election in 2016 I couldn't take it any more and cancelled. Vast majority of content today is AP or other newspapers like the WaPo, not much local any more. Skeleton crew of local reporters compared to ~20 years ago, and all token conservatives are long gone. Mom is 85, her assisted living place has about a dozen subscribers -suspect a lot of their subscriber base is the same demographic.
Check out the Epoch Times in Print. I really like it. My local Kroger has it available
Exactly. My parents are 83 and 91. (Still living in their own home with no help, which makes me happy)
How wonderful for both you & them!
It’s amazing!
That's awesome! Mom had been on her own since my dad passed in 2014, had downsized to an apartment but was needing more and more help. Mentally she is sharp but physically she was never in great shape and 2 years of sheltering in place left her unable to even make it through the grocery store without 'her legs giving out'. One thing led to another and she moved to assisted living this summer. She is now 5 minutes away, vs 30 minutes before. She was bound and determined to hate it but the socialization has been really good for her.
These zero covid people need to start aiming at the origins of covid like these bio labs. Just like those who say you are killing grandma, IT'S THE ILLEGAL GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE US GOVERNMENT THAT IS KILLING GRANDMA, not me. Instead of trying to mandate masks they need to be protesting the biolabs. Or do these idiots still believe this came from bat soup?
Bat soup eaten by a pangolin.
And that pangolin then serially passed it through ferrets. Ferrets that the pangolin had bred to have humanized ACE2 receptors.
"I’m not saying I don’t trust them, but … your factual mileage may vary. Consume at your own risk." Words to live by in all aspects of today's societal marketplace. Thanks, Jeff!!
Want to protect yourself from infection by contact with wastewater? Stop swimming in the cesspool.
I realize that, for progressives, complying with such a command requires a complete change of lifestyle. But hey, sometimes you gotta sacrifice for the greater good!
Bill Gates wants us to drink wastewater.
California approved "Toilet to Tap" weeks ago. That is probably why so much testing is going on with wastewater across the country.
We will all be drinking it soon.
https://fortune.com/2023/12/19/california-oks-new-rules-wastewater-drinking/
Hate to break it to you all, but all water you drink is wastewater. Especially those of you that live inland away from the Great Lakes. Sorry. Spent ten years of my working life in sewage unfortunately.
i love living downstream of the Progressive Pooping Class Elites of my community; i get free pharmaceuticals in my water and get to pay out the As- for it.
I know most of Europe does. Otherwise, it is very polluted 'cleaned' water. Most of the bottled water is 'puriefied' water as well. And, well, animals poop too, and it all sips into the ground, and then it ends up in my well I guess LOL. P is not poisonous. If you look at some lotions and creams, they have Urea in it. That is P
https://urinetherapy.com/
Rich Earth Institute. Summer 2022, knew from soil lab test that all my soil needed was N--bought 50# bags of bloodmeal (each setting me back some $136 each bag). Last summer, only used our urine. Cabbages were amazing in size and health (no bugs).
I remember from our history lessons, that in old Rome they had carts to collect early morning urine and treated skin conditions with it. better to use these old remedies that do not poison us! Thanks for the link
On vacation in Spain recently my rental car warning went off with a "UREA" warning and wouldn't stop.
It was about 20 km before I realized the diesel needed Ad Blue.
(Not familiar with diesel engines and didn't know why they would need ammonia added to the fuel.)
Maybe I shoulda just peed in the tank.
Good point to explain all the testing that is going on.
and another reason to leave CAcalifornia if you haven't yet
I imagine we all have been anyway--for a long time. Where does the wastewater-treatment-plant effluent go? Into the rivers? I fear it may be time to look seriously at a Berkee
Anybody who is drinking Dasani ,Aquafina, or any other brand owned by a too big to fail corporation probably already is. Reverse osmosis is used on a variety of feedstock, and you can bet these ghouls avail themselves of the cheapest available.
What could go wrong?
That man can go jump in a lake, no pun intended. I love my well on my property.
They got poop 💩 for brains. 😅😅😅 this poop hysteria has me laughing hysterically!🤣🤣🤣
I mean, we're all in this together, amiright? 😉
I hate to tell you but God is the only one who can save us, repent your sins and plant yourself with Him, man is not a god, he cannot save you.
Good morning and Happy New Year from the west coast. 😃
Here’s a novel concept. How about encouraging people to wash their hands, especially after using the loo!
Instead of “stay home save lives”. It could just be “wash your gross hands!” 🤣
I said that about schools before Covid ! Have the little kiddos line up before lunch and teach them to wash those hands !!
There is no etiquette or self discipline of any kind taught in the US anymore (schools)..and I consider a habit of washing hands before meals ( especially for children) good etiquette and/or manners.
And washing hands whenever coming inside--especially after shopping (always did this with my little ones)
Remember that huge hand washing circular sink, 10 kids could fit around it, and it was a novelty to press the foot bar to activate the water. The only gross part was the gritty soap, was that borax?
Yes!! Wash thy hands! 🙌🏼
S#*T Happens!
My daughter had a bib that said "Spit happens."
We need to shift the narrative to the truth about immunity....if your immune system is healthy & strong, you don’t “catch” viruses. We conservatives need to encourage people to take responsibility for themselves. Eat healthy, exercise, breathe fresh air, get adequate sleep, etc and let your God-given immune system do what it was created to do!
It was biggest one of the red flags when there was no healthy advice, natural immunity was called a conspiracy theory and now the FDA is banning cold medicine. We need more natural medicine and the teaching of how to use things like mullin leaf to clear the lungs.
I also found it suspicious that they said all herbs did not work just one week after the scamdemic was declared. Really? Did they bother testing them? Nope. I expect nonsense like that out of the FDA, but even some natural practitioners were saying that. My guess is they were plants, not actual practitioners. Most herbal remedies take time to work and usually a determination can't be made in a very short amount of time.
Exactly. What they did with ivermectin was horrendously shameful. I had a lawyer tell me for 20 min it was a horse medicine - just couldn't understand they had been deceived.