Good Lord, people. Get a grip and a life. There’s nothing in this article at all that claims he died of anything related to any vaccine, period. Or that he had any vaccine, period.
On another note – I work on one of the largest army posts and as you know, military and civilians had to get the vaccine and guess what? The only fatalities we have are young soldiers speeding on their crotch rockets and t-boning old ladies pulling out of Walmart.
Note 2 – I notice no one is talking about what you should be talking about, that Trump has kinda made a mess of himself. Top Secret SCI materials, ya know?
setnaffa
2 years ago
…I work on one of the largest army posts…
writes Paintchip, who then shows he has no earthly idea about classified document handling…
But who has the ability to declassify documents? What about the President? Of course! The President has the ultimate authority to declassify anything.
And yes, he can do that without getting approval from his underlings. That’s what Trump did–and even claimed publicly before he left office.
The corrupt DOJ/FBI are behaving in a lawless manner to cover up their prior criminal behavior.
Get your Adderall prescription refilled and think about the absolute nonsense you’re posting before you crap on yourself again.
Chinabot
2 years ago
So why did the US threaten Saudi Arabia for cutting oil production, when the US won’t demand their own US oil companies to pump up the drilling in the US? The US oil companies don’t want to flood the market with oil and make it cheaper, so they don’t pump. The US says it’s just adhering to the free supply and demand market conditions. Yet when the Saudis do the same, the US goes ape-shit, saying it’s anti-American. The hypocrisy is just thick.
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liz
2 years ago
Biden has issued fewer oil and gas leases than any other president since WWII. He also killed a major oil refinery expansion in the Virgin Islands. Refineries are a major problem in particular.
setnaffa
2 years ago
Strangely, the Chinabot blames the USA when Puddingpants does exactly what Xi wants…
ChickenHead
2 years ago
Setnaffa, time to be our resident expert.
As I understand IT design and management, it is not considered best practice to design your network that accounts for the majority of national interpersonal communications, navigation and mapping, taxis, payments, search, etc., to be put out of operation due to a small fire in a backup power supply.
This is what Kakao/Naver is saying happened.
Now I may be underestimating my already high estimate of Korea’s gross incompetence on everything IT related¹ but this is so amazing that I start wondering what really happened the moment I remove my tinfoil hat.
Any thoughts?
¹Korea, like so many things Korean, does a wonderful job of hitting benchmarks. Speed and coverage is amazing. Usability, organization, robustness, etc., too often looks like the job was subcontracted to the secretary’s kid.
setnaffa
2 years ago
CH, while I want to believe their story about a fire, I wonder if they had a “cyber event”.
And lest we get overly proud, we need to realize even Amazon has had major outages that lasted over a day.
However. Let’s assume one has a profitable web-based business. Like every other such enterprise, there are “fixed” and “recurring” costs. And there are leaders with no more technical ability than a toadstool making decisions that affect whether there are (a) single points of failure, (b) recovery pods, and (c) well-defined and regularly tested business continuity plans.
Typically, the toadstools view redundancy as unnecessary expense, so technical people need to develop the business skills required to explain the difference between RAID 5 and a bare-metal backup capability. They also need to be able to explain why it takes more than two minutes to reload 100 million users’ data from the database backup into the warm-site hardware.
Of course, there should have been hardware and software in an active/passive/passive fully-replicated configuration in two datacenters at least 500 miles apart to minimize downtime from weather events, earthquakes, terror attacks, and war.
If we believe the fire story, they only had one site. I’m leaning toward believing it was malware defeated by good backups; but no redundant systems in a remote datacenter. They got back up pretty quick for a fire that destroyed “everything”.
Still, it is not comfortable to think about how vulnerable every IT shop has become in the last 15-20 years.
setnaffa
2 years ago
A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud.
He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.
When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, “You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time…”
The cowboy replies, “Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is an Airborne Ranger, the other is a Navy Seal, both serving overseas somewhere.
When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we’d drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.
So I’m drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself.”
The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way.
He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. (I know, a tear is coming to my eye too)
All the regulars take notice and fall silent.
When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, “I don’t want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss.”
The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
“Oh, no, everybody’s just fine,” he explains, “It’s just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking.”
“Hasn’t affected my brothers though….” (from AoSHQ)
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setnaffa
2 years ago
So what’s the point?
Just because you have the German Chancellor’s signature on a document signed in Munich doesn’t meant he won’t invade Poland.
Just because your CIO Is willing to double pinkie swear the IT environment is redundant means nothing without quarterly, audited recovery testing.
And just because someone joins a religious organization doesn’t mean they follow the organization’s rules. (No drinking for Baptists in the joke, no support for abortions in the Catholic church, et cetera ad nauseum.)
May you all have a blessed week. Be true to what you claim to be.
A new subvariant of the novel-coronavirus called XBB dramatically announced itself earlier this week, in Singapore. New COVID-19 cases more than doubled in a day, from 4,700 on Monday to 11,700 on Tuesday—and XBB is almost certainly why. The same subvariant just appeared in Hong Kong, too.
A highly mutated descendant of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that drove a record wave of infections starting around a year ago, XBB is in many ways the worst form of the virus so far. It’s more contagious than any previous variant or subvariant. It also evades the antibodies from monoclonal therapies, potentially rendering a whole category of drugs ineffective as COVID treatments.
…
It’s possible to mitigate the worst outcomes. Natural antibodies from past infection are still the best and most durable antibodies. They don’t last forever. But while they do last—a few months or potentially a whole year—the chance of catching a bad case of COVID is pretty low.
So if you had an earlier form of Omicron—say, during the wave of infections that started last Thanksgiving and peaked around February—you might still have good antibodies for a few months. More than enough time to reinforce those fading natural antibodies with a dose of the latest mRNA boosters.
It’s only the young and healthy who die of bloodclots, so you’ll be perfectly okay!!!!
liz
2 years ago
Well, T-bone just harshed my mellow.
Nothing surprises me with a lab grown virus.
The least and most optimistic estimates for the next booster (from the medical authorities who want everyone to take the boosters) is 1 to 6 months, respectively.
I’ll pass on this one.
Side note:
the Yahoo article reads very much like an advertisement. Which would be expected now that the world is largely rejecting continued boosters. Guess we’ll wait and see.
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liz
2 years ago
Very cold where I live today. Curious what our fuel bill will be this month (and for the next 8 months or so of cold and colder weather).
Just bought a little electric space heater to keep the dogs warm at night downstairs. They are about 15 years old and don’t get around very well.
ChickenHead
2 years ago
Hahaha! That article reads EXACTLY like the sales pitch of a used car salesman.
“Of course less cultured people than yourself see rust as a bad thing.”
In this case, it said something like, “Of course the bivalent booster won’t protect everyone.”
This is much like, “This investment is high risk but look at how much it will make!”
This is followed up by, “I’m sorry you lost all your money but remember, this was a high risk investment.”
But in this case, vaxtards will rationalize… so no salesman needed.
“I guess I was one of the unlucky rare cases that caught covid. But I am grateful for the vaccine and the protection it offers me.”
But eventually, the joke will be over.
There will be a deadly strain. It will be a problem for the never-infected or injected. It will be much less of a problem for those who had onicron with the previous 6 to 18 months.
And for the vaccinated?
Nobody knows.
Nobody wants to study this too closely but in the numbers I have kept, which is somewhere between a randomized double blind study and rumor, I have seen many cases of the vaccinated catching covid twice.
A good case can be made that the vaccine locked their immune response onto the alpha variant.
And the more I read about flu vaccines, the more I realize they are pretty much a scam.
So history rhymes again…
World War One
had Spanish flu for fun.
World War Three
had XBB
What a crappy rhyme.
Do better, history.
setnaffa
2 years ago
“If we’re all to be killed off by Fauci’s research, profiteering, and lies about Chinese face diapers, can we at least hang that dirtbag and his facilitators from nearby lampposts?” is how I would expect former vaxtards to react to finding out CH was 100% correct.
ChickenHead
2 years ago
I am sorry to say, Setnaffa… the vaxtards have no balls. They are Little People and most of them will remain Little People because they cannot walk away from the habits and thought patterns that keep them where they are.
Their entire life has been one long lesson that the Dildò of Concequences is unlubed. Yet they never learn.
All of the information was there that the vaccine could not work. Most of it is known to a smart middle school student.
Once the vaccine did not work, all of the information and experience was there that the booster could not work.
Anybody with slight exposure to history would know the official response would not be, “Yeah, sorry, we tried,” but would be, “Clearly, we need endless vaccines.”
The vaxtards will not call for the hanging of those responsible because it would mean they were tricked.
Better to blame something else. Or “move past covid” and pretend it didn’t happen.
Some of them will quit lying to themselves.
…and I will be happy to offer them my price list.
Start saving now. It will be expensive.
Stephen
2 years ago
Biden helping ROK semiconductor jobs growth big time.
Under the new rules, any US citizen or entity is required to seek permission from the US Department of Commerce before providing support to Chinese plants.
Anyone who violates the sanctions could face arrest by the US Department of Justice.
Biden has forced all Americans working in China to pick between quitting their jobs and losing American citizenship.
Every American executive and engineer working in China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry resigned yesterday, paralysing Chinese manufacturing overnight.
One round of sanctions from Biden did more damage than all four years of performative sanctioning under ex-president Trump.
Liza Lin and Karen Hao, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 16, 2022
setnaffa
2 years ago
Sorry Stephen, an article written by two Chinese does not convince me any laws have changed. Also, the FBI is too busy rounding up those who disagree with Democrats to go after people making sure the Big Guy gets his 10 percent.
Hey thanks for the link, setnaffa I did not know about that.
I didn’t even know they were able to fly jets out of Tyndall again (last I heard, pilots were still commuting to Eglin.
I’ll show Mike when he gets back from his hunting trip! 🙂
liz
2 years ago
Stephen, is this a good thing? Because I remember when Trump made those “performative” sanctions and the left exploded with rage about trade wars and how our economy would be crippled, and all that. Which did not happen…until covid and Biden. Now our economy is crippled. And actual slavery, theft of intellectual property, massive counterfeiting (to dangerous levels, everything from contaminated medications to airplane bolts cast instead of forged), and outright poisoning the country with fentynal seemed to do nothing to change their minds until China backed Russia.
Which is interesting. Not that I’m against socking it to China, far from.
Just sayin’.
Also kind of curious what will happen with Taiwan now.
Might’ve overplayed our hand. Hope not.
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liz
2 years ago
When my spouse started flying the F16 (early 90s), they were still training to drop nukes. Never thought I’d see that again. But here we are.
setnaffa
2 years ago
It’s annoying how often history rhymes when Democrats own the White House…
A few months ago, I would have said China would play the long game on Taiwan.
i.e. Eventually Taiwan will be subject to an M&A by China … buying out Taiwan some time decades in the future.
But now intelligence sources are reporting Xi Jinping is accelerating plans for a hostile takeover of Taiwan.
………
On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused China of speeding up plans to seize Taiwan, asserting that “Beijing was determined to pursue reunification on a much faster timeline.” He did not provide details but said China could be willing to use coercive or forceful means, a posture that he said was “creating tremendous tensions.”
U.K. military warns ex-pilots not to train Chinese air force
– America is busy burning up money and stuff in Ukraine
– The American military is focused on how many BIPOC transsexuals will fit on the head of a pin or whatever force-division they are chasing these days.
– Biden leads America… not that Biden is leading America… the real rulers are going to respond the same way no matter who is president… but a strong president can make the public support or reject whatever the real rulers of America want to do.
Also, sorry to say, but America can’t do anything about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
We can bring in the carriers and launch the jets and… well… Chinese anti-ship missiles own everything way past Guam.
So carrier groups end up in a heap right there on the ocean floor.
The planes also end up in a heap on the ocean floor exactly one fuel tank plus one glide ratio from the pile of ships to the closest friendly country.
Teenage girls will be wearing a red, white, and blue ribbon for a week.
Never forget.
setnaffa
2 years ago
Chinese missile tech was stolen and defeatable.
Unfortunately, we aren’t fighting them. We’re fighting the Federal Government.
setnaffa
2 years ago
And our younger generations, those not killed by abortionists, are going to pay the price. But the Democrats and RINOs got their Chinese paychecks.
“writes Paintchip, who then shows he has no earthly idea about classified document handling…
But who has the ability to declassify documents? What about the President? Of course! The President has the ultimate authority to declassify anything.
And yes, he can do that without getting approval from his underlings. That’s what Trump did–and even claimed publicly before he left office.”
And that’s where you’re wrong. I had a TS SCI clearance for 12 years in the military and TS SCI is ONLY viewed, worked and handled in a SCIF, Period. I worked on the RJ-135 program on Okinawa and the U-2 program in Korea so I know how classified info is handled, unlike your ignorant, ass.
The president does NOT have the ability to declassify documents based on wishful thinking There are procedures. Read up on it. I really thought you were smarter than this but you’re just another dumb cunt. Like Chickendead. Plenty of talk, but nothing to back it up.
Fuck off. Until you get educated.
Stephen
2 years ago
Trump declassifying documents is akin to Yoon decopyrighting intellectual property for … Hyundai shipyards, Samsung factories … not gonna happen.
Industrial espionage, military espionage, there are clear protocols that cannot be broken by presidential fiat.
ChickenHead
2 years ago
Good news!
The CDC voted unanimously to add the covid 19 vaccine to the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States.
There isn’t really any debate that the vaccine doesn’t work.
And the vaccine + booster doesn’t work.
And the vaccine + booster + booster doesn’t work.
And we may learn that the vaccine + booster + booster + booster doesn’t work.
So what exactly is the plan here?
Actually, I don’t care.
Now that we have normalized shoddy medical experiments on babies, it really opens me up to some of the medical experiments I have been wanting to try on whòres and runaways.
ChickenHead
2 years ago
“just another dumb cunt. Like Chickendead. Plenty of talk, but nothing to back it up.”
Shame, T-bone.
If you ever disagree with me, you are welcome to do exactly what you did here.
Quote my statement and then present your facts and analysis.
You may be right and I may be wrong.
But I expect it is not as easy to demonstrate my mistake as it is to call me a name and pretend I am wrong about everything you don’t want to believe.
Where should we start? The covid vaccine keeps you from catching and spreading covid? Russia ran out of missiles in April? Birds aren’t real?
Stephen
2 years ago
Trump: Yo! Big Daddy! How’s it hangin’?
Putin: Hey! Trump buddy! Thanks for sending me that passel of DD 214s for everyone who’s been in the USFK in the last 25 years!
ChickenHead
2 years ago
Trump: “And thanks for those pìss hookers. Getting peed on in a bed where Obama slept made my week.”
Putin: “I was the best I could do for you. Being that I am always dying but never die.”
Trump: “What will you trade for the nuclear codes I keep at Mar-a-lago? Did you know they haven’t changed them since the 60s?”
Putin: “Well, it seems I have been out of missiles since April. Got any of those?”
Trump: “No, but I have mean tweets and a good economy.”
Putin: “Ha! American so stupid. They deserve Biden.”
Trump: “I would hope they learn but after watching them line up for the 4th booster, I don’t think so.”
“Shame, T-bone.
If you ever disagree with me, you are welcome to do exactly what you did here.
Quote my statement and then present your facts and analysis.
You may be right and I may be wrong.”
Come on dude. You’re only here and always have been for the attention. I honestly think you don’t believe 99.99999% of the crap you post here, it’s only to get people riled up and to perpetuate conversations/arguments.
If you’re 1/2 as smart as you try to come across here, then you know Trumps is a total piece of crap and one of the worst presidents in American history. All he did was cater to the trailer/hillbilly trash and they ate it up. And no, I don’t care for a lot of what Biden is doing either; he has some good ideas but he’s letting the progressives push way too much to the left.
It’s the extremes (left/right) what are killing us.
The rich keep getting richer at the expense of the dying middle class and the expanding poor. But the peeps don’t care or see, as long as they have Netflix, HBO Max, KFC, and their “I did that” Brandon gas pump stickers.
It’s a sad world we live in right now.
setnaffa
2 years ago
“Riled up”???
CH is one of the greatest satirists of the 21st Century… And he has been 100% correct about the serious topics.
And yet you manage to miss it. As well as being racist af about people who disagree with you. And you still think SpongeBrain CrappedPants is anything more than a spokesmodel.
So very, very sorry for you. I imaging the next couple weeks will be tough for you. You should find a counseling service.
ChickenHead
2 years ago
“Come on dude. You’re only here and always have been for the attention.”
That is not the case.
I have more than enough attention in my daily life. Approval from semi-anonymous people on the internet has… well… zero influence on me.
I am here because i can write what I want to scream out loud in polite company… but cannot.
I could keep a diary.
But by writing it here, it is archived in mankind’s collective knowledge and history.
Not too many years from now, probably in my lifetime, the AIs will start scraping, organizing, and analyzing this data.
I will be part of that.
I can’t be sure… but I bet I get classified as a visionary rather than a dumbass.
So far, my track record is… visionary.
…which is why they call me the Nostradomas of Rok Drop and others just the domass of rok drop.
” I honestly think you don’t believe 99.99999% of the crap you post here, it’s only to get people riled up and to perpetuate conversations/arguments.”
If only that was true. Sadly, there is no conversation or argument because… well… how do you argue with something when you have no facts? And nobody likes to talk about how wrong they are.
“If you’re 1/2 as smart as you try to come across here, then you know Trumps is a total piece of crap and one of the worst presidents in American history.”
Let’s consider this.
Is Trump a piece of crap? Maybe. One can observe crappy characteristics. He burns through people. He gets backstabbed too often to be chance. Lots of people who deal with him walk away with a bad taste in their mouth.
Is he one of the worst presidents? What makes a good president? If your benchmark is peace, prosperity, good long-term strategy, and other such things, he was an excellent president… one of the best.
If you don’t want America First politics in a leader elected to represent your interests, he was a poor president.
You are entitled to your opinion.
“All he did was cater to the trailer/hillbilly trash and they ate it up.”
Kinda frightening that there are more of those than Hillary catered to.
“And no, I don’t care for a lot of what Biden is doing either; he has some good ideas but he’s letting the progressives push way too much to the left.”
Curious… what are his good ideas? You would be the first person to suggest he has good ideas.
“It’s the extremes (left/right) what are killing us.”
There is no extreme right in American political.
“The rich keep getting richer at the expense of the dying middle class and the expanding poor.”
Yep… but this is a Republican/Democrat problem rather than a right/left or conservative/liberal problem.
“But the peeps don’t care or see, as long as they have Netflix, HBO Max, KFC, and their “I did that” Brandon gas pump stickers.”
Yep.
But Brandon did that… or he did it through his handlers.
Coming up on Autumn weather in Texas…
Are there Hawaiian shirts with long sleeves?…
Young sports players are dropping dead everywhere. But I sure that is just a coincidence, right GI? What do your globalist master directed you to respond? https://www.fox19.com/2022/09/23/high-school-student-dies-after-medical-emergency-during-flag-football-game/
Flag football can be dangerous. Why, I once got serious grass stains on my old sneakers!
But it is important for “Biden voters” to be Safe and Effective for Election Day. Better double up on those shots.
Jabbie Jabbie
– by someone on the internet
Jabbie Jabbie took the prick.
Now each week, the Jabbie’s sick.
Face can’t move, one eye stays closed.
Blood and mucus drip from nose.
Jabbie Jabbie took the shot.
Heart, it strains to pump that clot.
Passes out without warning.
Tries to blame the global warming.
Immune system is defecting.
“But the shot’s Safe and Effective.”
“What is this? The vax is toxin?
And my ass for putting cocks in.”
“Dr Fauci would not lie.
He is science, why will I die?”
“Well I don’t care that life is shorter.
At least I’m not a Trump supporter.”
Jabbie Jabbie hides his pain.
Jabbie Jabbie dies in vain.
All the jabbies die en masse.
Oh, and trannies never pass.
“Young sports players are dropping dead everywhere. But I sure that is just a coincidence, right GI? What do your globalist master directed you to respond? https://www.fox19.com/2022/09/23/high-school-student-dies-after-medical-emergency-during-flag-football-game/”
Good Lord, people. Get a grip and a life. There’s nothing in this article at all that claims he died of anything related to any vaccine, period. Or that he had any vaccine, period.
On another note – I work on one of the largest army posts and as you know, military and civilians had to get the vaccine and guess what? The only fatalities we have are young soldiers speeding on their crotch rockets and t-boning old ladies pulling out of Walmart.
Note 2 – I notice no one is talking about what you should be talking about, that Trump has kinda made a mess of himself. Top Secret SCI materials, ya know?
writes Paintchip, who then shows he has no earthly idea about classified document handling…
But who has the ability to declassify documents? What about the President? Of course! The President has the ultimate authority to declassify anything.
And yes, he can do that without getting approval from his underlings. That’s what Trump did–and even claimed publicly before he left office.
The corrupt DOJ/FBI are behaving in a lawless manner to cover up their prior criminal behavior.
Get your Adderall prescription refilled and think about the absolute nonsense you’re posting before you crap on yourself again.
So why did the US threaten Saudi Arabia for cutting oil production, when the US won’t demand their own US oil companies to pump up the drilling in the US? The US oil companies don’t want to flood the market with oil and make it cheaper, so they don’t pump. The US says it’s just adhering to the free supply and demand market conditions. Yet when the Saudis do the same, the US goes ape-shit, saying it’s anti-American. The hypocrisy is just thick.
Biden has issued fewer oil and gas leases than any other president since WWII. He also killed a major oil refinery expansion in the Virgin Islands. Refineries are a major problem in particular.
Strangely, the Chinabot blames the USA when Puddingpants does exactly what Xi wants…
Setnaffa, time to be our resident expert.
As I understand IT design and management, it is not considered best practice to design your network that accounts for the majority of national interpersonal communications, navigation and mapping, taxis, payments, search, etc., to be put out of operation due to a small fire in a backup power supply.
This is what Kakao/Naver is saying happened.
Now I may be underestimating my already high estimate of Korea’s gross incompetence on everything IT related¹ but this is so amazing that I start wondering what really happened the moment I remove my tinfoil hat.
Any thoughts?
¹Korea, like so many things Korean, does a wonderful job of hitting benchmarks. Speed and coverage is amazing. Usability, organization, robustness, etc., too often looks like the job was subcontracted to the secretary’s kid.
CH, while I want to believe their story about a fire, I wonder if they had a “cyber event”.
And lest we get overly proud, we need to realize even Amazon has had major outages that lasted over a day.
However. Let’s assume one has a profitable web-based business. Like every other such enterprise, there are “fixed” and “recurring” costs. And there are leaders with no more technical ability than a toadstool making decisions that affect whether there are (a) single points of failure, (b) recovery pods, and (c) well-defined and regularly tested business continuity plans.
Typically, the toadstools view redundancy as unnecessary expense, so technical people need to develop the business skills required to explain the difference between RAID 5 and a bare-metal backup capability. They also need to be able to explain why it takes more than two minutes to reload 100 million users’ data from the database backup into the warm-site hardware.
Of course, there should have been hardware and software in an active/passive/passive fully-replicated configuration in two datacenters at least 500 miles apart to minimize downtime from weather events, earthquakes, terror attacks, and war.
If we believe the fire story, they only had one site. I’m leaning toward believing it was malware defeated by good backups; but no redundant systems in a remote datacenter. They got back up pretty quick for a fire that destroyed “everything”.
Still, it is not comfortable to think about how vulnerable every IT shop has become in the last 15-20 years.
A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud.
He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.
When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.
The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, “You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time…”
The cowboy replies, “Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is an Airborne Ranger, the other is a Navy Seal, both serving overseas somewhere.
When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we’d drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.
So I’m drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself.”
The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.
The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way.
He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.
One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs. (I know, a tear is coming to my eye too)
All the regulars take notice and fall silent.
When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, “I don’t want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss.”
The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.
“Oh, no, everybody’s just fine,” he explains, “It’s just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking.”
“Hasn’t affected my brothers though….” (from AoSHQ)
So what’s the point?
Just because you have the German Chancellor’s signature on a document signed in Munich doesn’t meant he won’t invade Poland.
Just because your CIO Is willing to double pinkie swear the IT environment is redundant means nothing without quarterly, audited recovery testing.
And just because someone joins a religious organization doesn’t mean they follow the organization’s rules. (No drinking for Baptists in the joke, no support for abortions in the Catholic church, et cetera ad nauseum.)
May you all have a blessed week. Be true to what you claim to be.
So that you have more to complain about:
A new subvariant of the novel-coronavirus called XBB dramatically announced itself earlier this week, in Singapore. New COVID-19 cases more than doubled in a day, from 4,700 on Monday to 11,700 on Tuesday—and XBB is almost certainly why. The same subvariant just appeared in Hong Kong, too.
A highly mutated descendant of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that drove a record wave of infections starting around a year ago, XBB is in many ways the worst form of the virus so far. It’s more contagious than any previous variant or subvariant. It also evades the antibodies from monoclonal therapies, potentially rendering a whole category of drugs ineffective as COVID treatments.
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It’s possible to mitigate the worst outcomes. Natural antibodies from past infection are still the best and most durable antibodies. They don’t last forever. But while they do last—a few months or potentially a whole year—the chance of catching a bad case of COVID is pretty low.
So if you had an earlier form of Omicron—say, during the wave of infections that started last Thanksgiving and peaked around February—you might still have good antibodies for a few months. More than enough time to reinforce those fading natural antibodies with a dose of the latest mRNA boosters.
https://news.yahoo.com/nightmare-covid-variant-beats-immunity-025733218.html
Yes, Paintchip!
Worry about the new Chinese microbe!!
Get 2 more Safe and Effective boosters!!!
It’s only the young and healthy who die of bloodclots, so you’ll be perfectly okay!!!!
Well, T-bone just harshed my mellow.
Nothing surprises me with a lab grown virus.
The least and most optimistic estimates for the next booster (from the medical authorities who want everyone to take the boosters) is 1 to 6 months, respectively.
I’ll pass on this one.
Side note:
the Yahoo article reads very much like an advertisement. Which would be expected now that the world is largely rejecting continued boosters. Guess we’ll wait and see.
Very cold where I live today. Curious what our fuel bill will be this month (and for the next 8 months or so of cold and colder weather).
Just bought a little electric space heater to keep the dogs warm at night downstairs. They are about 15 years old and don’t get around very well.
Hahaha! That article reads EXACTLY like the sales pitch of a used car salesman.
“Of course less cultured people than yourself see rust as a bad thing.”
In this case, it said something like, “Of course the bivalent booster won’t protect everyone.”
This is much like, “This investment is high risk but look at how much it will make!”
This is followed up by, “I’m sorry you lost all your money but remember, this was a high risk investment.”
But in this case, vaxtards will rationalize… so no salesman needed.
“I guess I was one of the unlucky rare cases that caught covid. But I am grateful for the vaccine and the protection it offers me.”
But eventually, the joke will be over.
There will be a deadly strain. It will be a problem for the never-infected or injected. It will be much less of a problem for those who had onicron with the previous 6 to 18 months.
And for the vaccinated?
Nobody knows.
Nobody wants to study this too closely but in the numbers I have kept, which is somewhere between a randomized double blind study and rumor, I have seen many cases of the vaccinated catching covid twice.
A good case can be made that the vaccine locked their immune response onto the alpha variant.
And the more I read about flu vaccines, the more I realize they are pretty much a scam.
So history rhymes again…
World War One
had Spanish flu for fun.
World War Three
had XBB
What a crappy rhyme.
Do better, history.
“If we’re all to be killed off by Fauci’s research, profiteering, and lies about Chinese face diapers, can we at least hang that dirtbag and his facilitators from nearby lampposts?” is how I would expect former vaxtards to react to finding out CH was 100% correct.
I am sorry to say, Setnaffa… the vaxtards have no balls. They are Little People and most of them will remain Little People because they cannot walk away from the habits and thought patterns that keep them where they are.
Their entire life has been one long lesson that the Dildò of Concequences is unlubed. Yet they never learn.
All of the information was there that the vaccine could not work. Most of it is known to a smart middle school student.
Once the vaccine did not work, all of the information and experience was there that the booster could not work.
Anybody with slight exposure to history would know the official response would not be, “Yeah, sorry, we tried,” but would be, “Clearly, we need endless vaccines.”
The vaxtards will not call for the hanging of those responsible because it would mean they were tricked.
Better to blame something else. Or “move past covid” and pretend it didn’t happen.
Some of them will quit lying to themselves.
…and I will be happy to offer them my price list.
Start saving now. It will be expensive.
Biden helping ROK semiconductor jobs growth big time.
Under the new rules, any US citizen or entity is required to seek permission from the US Department of Commerce before providing support to Chinese plants.
Anyone who violates the sanctions could face arrest by the US Department of Justice.
Biden has forced all Americans working in China to pick between quitting their jobs and losing American citizenship.
Every American executive and engineer working in China’s semiconductor manufacturing industry resigned yesterday, paralysing Chinese manufacturing overnight.
One round of sanctions from Biden did more damage than all four years of performative sanctioning under ex-president Trump.
Liza Lin and Karen Hao, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 16, 2022
Sorry Stephen, an article written by two Chinese does not convince me any laws have changed. Also, the FBI is too busy rounding up those who disagree with Democrats to go after people making sure the Big Guy gets his 10 percent.
@Liz, have you seen this “new missile truck”?
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/an-air-force-f-22-raptor-record-number-air-to-air-missiles/
Hey thanks for the link, setnaffa I did not know about that.
I didn’t even know they were able to fly jets out of Tyndall again (last I heard, pilots were still commuting to Eglin.
I’ll show Mike when he gets back from his hunting trip! 🙂
Stephen, is this a good thing? Because I remember when Trump made those “performative” sanctions and the left exploded with rage about trade wars and how our economy would be crippled, and all that. Which did not happen…until covid and Biden. Now our economy is crippled. And actual slavery, theft of intellectual property, massive counterfeiting (to dangerous levels, everything from contaminated medications to airplane bolts cast instead of forged), and outright poisoning the country with fentynal seemed to do nothing to change their minds until China backed Russia.
Which is interesting. Not that I’m against socking it to China, far from.
Just sayin’.
Also kind of curious what will happen with Taiwan now.
Might’ve overplayed our hand. Hope not.
When my spouse started flying the F16 (early 90s), they were still training to drop nukes. Never thought I’d see that again. But here we are.
It’s annoying how often history rhymes when Democrats own the White House…
Some people don’t understand Texas. /it’s okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlDWzN6TW5Y
Plausible.
Hi @Liz
A few months ago, I would have said China would play the long game on Taiwan.
i.e. Eventually Taiwan will be subject to an M&A by China … buying out Taiwan some time decades in the future.
But now intelligence sources are reporting Xi Jinping is accelerating plans for a hostile takeover of Taiwan.
………
On Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused China of speeding up plans to seize Taiwan, asserting that “Beijing was determined to pursue reunification on a much faster timeline.” He did not provide details but said China could be willing to use coercive or forceful means, a posture that he said was “creating tremendous tensions.”
U.K. military warns ex-pilots not to train Chinese air force
Washington Post
By Adela Suliman
October 18, 2022
China tried to kidnap a protestor in the UK…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPqPHdznij8
China needs to take Taiwan while:
– America is busy burning up money and stuff in Ukraine
– The American military is focused on how many BIPOC transsexuals will fit on the head of a pin or whatever force-division they are chasing these days.
– Biden leads America… not that Biden is leading America… the real rulers are going to respond the same way no matter who is president… but a strong president can make the public support or reject whatever the real rulers of America want to do.
Also, sorry to say, but America can’t do anything about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
We can bring in the carriers and launch the jets and… well… Chinese anti-ship missiles own everything way past Guam.
So carrier groups end up in a heap right there on the ocean floor.
The planes also end up in a heap on the ocean floor exactly one fuel tank plus one glide ratio from the pile of ships to the closest friendly country.
Teenage girls will be wearing a red, white, and blue ribbon for a week.
Never forget.
Chinese missile tech was stolen and defeatable.
Unfortunately, we aren’t fighting them. We’re fighting the Federal Government.
And our younger generations, those not killed by abortionists, are going to pay the price. But the Democrats and RINOs got their Chinese paychecks.
I hope Korea learns from this.
“writes Paintchip, who then shows he has no earthly idea about classified document handling…
But who has the ability to declassify documents? What about the President? Of course! The President has the ultimate authority to declassify anything.
And yes, he can do that without getting approval from his underlings. That’s what Trump did–and even claimed publicly before he left office.”
And that’s where you’re wrong. I had a TS SCI clearance for 12 years in the military and TS SCI is ONLY viewed, worked and handled in a SCIF, Period. I worked on the RJ-135 program on Okinawa and the U-2 program in Korea so I know how classified info is handled, unlike your ignorant, ass.
The president does NOT have the ability to declassify documents based on wishful thinking There are procedures. Read up on it. I really thought you were smarter than this but you’re just another dumb cunt. Like Chickendead. Plenty of talk, but nothing to back it up.
Fuck off. Until you get educated.
Trump declassifying documents is akin to Yoon decopyrighting intellectual property for … Hyundai shipyards, Samsung factories … not gonna happen.
Industrial espionage, military espionage, there are clear protocols that cannot be broken by presidential fiat.
Good news!
The CDC voted unanimously to add the covid 19 vaccine to the childhood vaccine schedule in the United States.
There isn’t really any debate that the vaccine doesn’t work.
And the vaccine + booster doesn’t work.
And the vaccine + booster + booster doesn’t work.
And we may learn that the vaccine + booster + booster + booster doesn’t work.
So what exactly is the plan here?
Actually, I don’t care.
Now that we have normalized shoddy medical experiments on babies, it really opens me up to some of the medical experiments I have been wanting to try on whòres and runaways.
“just another dumb cunt. Like Chickendead. Plenty of talk, but nothing to back it up.”
Shame, T-bone.
If you ever disagree with me, you are welcome to do exactly what you did here.
Quote my statement and then present your facts and analysis.
You may be right and I may be wrong.
But I expect it is not as easy to demonstrate my mistake as it is to call me a name and pretend I am wrong about everything you don’t want to believe.
Where should we start? The covid vaccine keeps you from catching and spreading covid? Russia ran out of missiles in April? Birds aren’t real?
Trump: Yo! Big Daddy! How’s it hangin’?
Putin: Hey! Trump buddy! Thanks for sending me that passel of DD 214s for everyone who’s been in the USFK in the last 25 years!
Trump: “And thanks for those pìss hookers. Getting peed on in a bed where Obama slept made my week.”
Putin: “I was the best I could do for you. Being that I am always dying but never die.”
Trump: “What will you trade for the nuclear codes I keep at Mar-a-lago? Did you know they haven’t changed them since the 60s?”
Putin: “Well, it seems I have been out of missiles since April. Got any of those?”
Trump: “No, but I have mean tweets and a good economy.”
Putin: “Ha! American so stupid. They deserve Biden.”
Trump: “I would hope they learn but after watching them line up for the 4th booster, I don’t think so.”
“Shame, T-bone.
If you ever disagree with me, you are welcome to do exactly what you did here.
Quote my statement and then present your facts and analysis.
You may be right and I may be wrong.”
Come on dude. You’re only here and always have been for the attention. I honestly think you don’t believe 99.99999% of the crap you post here, it’s only to get people riled up and to perpetuate conversations/arguments.
If you’re 1/2 as smart as you try to come across here, then you know Trumps is a total piece of crap and one of the worst presidents in American history. All he did was cater to the trailer/hillbilly trash and they ate it up. And no, I don’t care for a lot of what Biden is doing either; he has some good ideas but he’s letting the progressives push way too much to the left.
It’s the extremes (left/right) what are killing us.
The rich keep getting richer at the expense of the dying middle class and the expanding poor. But the peeps don’t care or see, as long as they have Netflix, HBO Max, KFC, and their “I did that” Brandon gas pump stickers.
It’s a sad world we live in right now.
“Riled up”???
CH is one of the greatest satirists of the 21st Century… And he has been 100% correct about the serious topics.
And yet you manage to miss it. As well as being racist af about people who disagree with you. And you still think SpongeBrain CrappedPants is anything more than a spokesmodel.
So very, very sorry for you. I imaging the next couple weeks will be tough for you. You should find a counseling service.
“Come on dude. You’re only here and always have been for the attention.”
That is not the case.
I have more than enough attention in my daily life. Approval from semi-anonymous people on the internet has… well… zero influence on me.
I am here because i can write what I want to scream out loud in polite company… but cannot.
I could keep a diary.
But by writing it here, it is archived in mankind’s collective knowledge and history.
Not too many years from now, probably in my lifetime, the AIs will start scraping, organizing, and analyzing this data.
I will be part of that.
I can’t be sure… but I bet I get classified as a visionary rather than a dumbass.
So far, my track record is… visionary.
…which is why they call me the Nostradomas of Rok Drop and others just the domass of rok drop.
” I honestly think you don’t believe 99.99999% of the crap you post here, it’s only to get people riled up and to perpetuate conversations/arguments.”
If only that was true. Sadly, there is no conversation or argument because… well… how do you argue with something when you have no facts? And nobody likes to talk about how wrong they are.
“If you’re 1/2 as smart as you try to come across here, then you know Trumps is a total piece of crap and one of the worst presidents in American history.”
Let’s consider this.
Is Trump a piece of crap? Maybe. One can observe crappy characteristics. He burns through people. He gets backstabbed too often to be chance. Lots of people who deal with him walk away with a bad taste in their mouth.
Is he one of the worst presidents? What makes a good president? If your benchmark is peace, prosperity, good long-term strategy, and other such things, he was an excellent president… one of the best.
If you don’t want America First politics in a leader elected to represent your interests, he was a poor president.
You are entitled to your opinion.
“All he did was cater to the trailer/hillbilly trash and they ate it up.”
Kinda frightening that there are more of those than Hillary catered to.
“And no, I don’t care for a lot of what Biden is doing either; he has some good ideas but he’s letting the progressives push way too much to the left.”
Curious… what are his good ideas? You would be the first person to suggest he has good ideas.
“It’s the extremes (left/right) what are killing us.”
There is no extreme right in American political.
“The rich keep getting richer at the expense of the dying middle class and the expanding poor.”
Yep… but this is a Republican/Democrat problem rather than a right/left or conservative/liberal problem.
“But the peeps don’t care or see, as long as they have Netflix, HBO Max, KFC, and their “I did that” Brandon gas pump stickers.”
Yep.
But Brandon did that… or he did it through his handlers.
“It’s a sad world we live in right now.”
Yep. Too bad we cannot agree on the reasons.