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Time for a few days off, I think. A long weekend. Play nicely. Use coasters.
Update: Above, Derwent Dam, as seen by your host and photographed by The Other Half.
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Trained parrot speaks:
oh for the love of … that green-tipped blonde with touches of voice fry believes she’s spouting some great revelation?
“all heterosexual sex is rape” is a long time claim of 1960’s feminism.
Rolling Stone was once a perfectly respectable music and lifestyle magazine before it disappeared up it’s own rectum.
It’s all a bit like the old joke about politicians preferring to talk about religion while priests (all the way up to Pope level) prefer politics – the greener the better. Now the music magazines think they’re newspapers while the newspapers………..….well, just look at the telegraph online.
Indeed, anyone want to make book that this chap* has also claimed “men can get pregnant too”?
Exactly! Just recently there was posted here an article about a man and woman who had a kid in the usual way, except mom thought she was dad, and dad thought he was mom, and “mom” was so sad “her” fake tits wouldn’t produce milk, and that the baby itself wouldn’t even cry or respond until it was placed on top of mom’s – sorry “dad’s” chest and hear the heartbeat it had grown up with in the womb which “dad” still had and was working just fine.
And I think it was the Guardian or one of those papers that was crowing about the first pregnant “man”. These people are trying to have it both ways – we have “lady” dick and pregnant “men” and “chestfeeding”, and yet still want to have a good cry about being misgendered and asked to take a pregnancy test. It’s a no-win situation, and it’s not good. I don’t wish to participate in others’ delusions, but by golly they are going to force it on me.
For those in the UK, the much loved envy of the world has some advice for a happier, healthier life
For a happier, healthier life: Step one, avoid people like Aishnine Benjamin. Step two, exclude people like Aishnine Benjamin.
…avoid people like Aishnine Benjamin.
Fun fact, the first “i” is silent, but the “h” is pronounced as “i”.
Drew Holden names names and displays tweets of the people pushing the fake Rolling Stone story (oops, redundant).
It’s a long list.
Drew Holden names names and displays tweets of the people pushing the fake Rolling Stone story (oops, redundant).
I don’t understand why they chose a winter photo to illustrate a story they claim is happening right now in supposedly the hottest summer evah (or was that only July).
And how many gunshot victims do they think there are in rural OK? Or any rural place in the US? Pretty sure once you get away from the urban gangs, the number of gunshot victims goes down, not up.
It’s not even close to the hottest summer evah, at least in the Oklahoma City area. It hasn’t hit 100 even once this year, and this week the lows are supposed to be in the mid 60s.
Drew Holden names names and displays tweets of the people pushing the fake Rolling Stone story (oops, redundant).
…Thus illustrating the old saying “A lie will fly around the world while the truth is still putting its boots on.” The folks at the Rolling Stone understand that and use it to their advantage.
I know you Canadians were overcome with envy knowing Biden had become a comic book hero, well, fear not, you now have Political Power, the saga of your PM, Justin
BieberTrudeau.He is also in some Marvel comic book, so you guys are one up on us.
The same people believe Trump told people to drink bleach, that Trump said white supremacists and such were good people, that George Zimmerman hunted Trayvon Martin down and executed him and not that it was TM who physically attacked GZ, that Christina Blasey Ford is a victim of rapey-rapey Justice Kavanaugh, that the “OK” hand gesture is a white supremacy signal, that burning buildings is a “mostly peaceful” form of protest, the Afghanistan disaster was Trump’s fault, etc. etc. etc. Nothing matters. Except mean tweets and that Biden didn’t check his watch EVERY SINGLE TIME a soldier’s dead body passed.
Lady tells truth, gets shitcanned.
“Barren Magazine”, apt name.
The same people believe Trump told people to drink bleach…
It’s only a matter of time before they start saying that
Jews make matzoh with the blood of Christian babiesconservatives make Chick-fil-A sandwiches with the blood of black babies.Really sorry David locked the liquor cabinet. And changed the lock, damn him.
“Quarantine Hub”.
Probably looks better in the original Cyrillic.
JFC on toast points, another “correction”.
So actually 1.4% of calls, not 70%. It is almost as if the media are trying to push a narrative.
The rumour about mandatory phone check ins in South Australia is misleading. This was reported in an article in the Arlington Post, which selectively omitted to state that this was a voluntary ‘op in’ trial. People tested for the virus may choose to isolate at home pending test results and, I emphasise, voluntarily agree to check in with their location if requested. It is a trial to evaluate the cost efficacy (people not having to pay for hotel quarantine that could be more efficiently used, plus being in a known and comfortable environment while awaiting results) and the effective and cost of use of police time. It is not compulsory. There are no plans to make it mandatory for the whole SA population. Just another example of manipulative reporting, and I cringe at giving it that honour, for the grasp of a story. From a South Australian resident.
With thanks and, always, regards for your valuable contribution to civil, reasoned exchange of views.
I do hope you are enjoying your break.
People tested for the virus may choose to isolate at home pending test results
Are you going to tell me that SA doesn’t automatically demand 14 days of quarantine of any subject with the temerity to cross STATE lines? And at quarantine hotels that the subject has to pay for? Regardless of test results or vax status? So they are going to offer this GPS/Face recognition app as an alternative, the subject should be humbled and grateful to be allowed to quarantine at home after the horrible transgression of leaving their home in the first place?
And if you think this “pilot program”, once rolled out, will remain “only” with transgressors … your naivete in the face of an obvious power grab is breathtaking.
@judijg, you can also comment at http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=395485 (or her next post, which will be up when you might be awake).
I’d replicate your comment there, but I’ve been banned by my complaints about the implementation of the relatively recent posting restrictions; inasmuch as this was coding issue, I was more vehement about my displeasure than I’ve shown here. That person (the one who owns the thread) is Australian and has mentioned rather negative views on the very same topic.
I believe that your first paragraph posted here would pass the filters installed there, but I could be mistaken.
The Ivermectin story
It seems there is a general anti-Ivermectin campaign. This from Australia reported in the South China Morning Post:
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3147620/coronavirus-australia-warns-against-ivermectin-use
Though reading the reporter’s bio, I have my suspicions that he might not have done much in the way of fact-checking:
Zacharias Szumer
Zacharias is a Melbourne-based writer who covers everything from climate politics to club music for Jacobin, Overland, The Quietus, Cyclic Defrost and more.
@judijg, under what circumstances could such a thing be applied? Is it for those South Australian (henceforth SA) residents who traveled outside of Australia itself? Or for those SA residents who left SA but didn’t leave the continent? How about those SA residents who left the continent but only visited New Zealand and came right back?
Australia is a sovereign state and such can do pretty much with its citizens as its citizens will allow; so whatever floats your boats. I’ll assume that you’ll take US commenters comments about this with the similar degree of acceptance was the US commenters will about your opinions on gun control/confiscation.
I did not intend to channel Joe Biden, so I should have written…
Hey Farnsworth (and WTP) — you know what else sounds just the least bit skeevy, especially from people (like Poison Control, or doctors) who really ought to know better, is this bizarre language about “injecting” ivermectin, like people are mainlining the stuff. Having used it on several large animals I can personally assure those present that no needles whatsoever are involved: the paste comes in a plastic tube built something like a caulking gun and designed to deliver a weight-based amount of the med into the back of an animal’s mouth. Like most medicating processes with animals (tried giving a cat a pill any time lately?) the whole thing can be fairly fraught — one horse with a fairly chancy temper wound up horking the whole dose right back in my face. Which, I suspect, forms the basis for the 9 or so calls to Oklahoma Poison Control regarding “exposure” to Ivermectin. Given the quantities of livestock in the state, most of which get Ivermectin sooner or later, I’m rather surprised the call number was so low.
Though reading the reporter’s bio, I have my suspicions that he might not have done much in the way of fact-checking:
Indeed not.
The best part is the study is from Australia.
I am not in the “give everyone ivermectin camp” (yet), but all one has to do is go to PubMed and get inundated with ivermectin studies from all over the world showing efficacy for a host (NPI) of things including head lice.
Why, it is almost as if the WHO is pushing an agenda…
Which, I suspect, forms the basis for the 9 or so calls to Oklahoma Poison Control regarding “exposure” to Ivermectin.
Well that does help explain it. I don’t know the timeframe or other specifics but if your familiar with that environment, doesn’t that still seem like a rather high incidence of accidents? Given they hysteria many people want to create regarding this drug (see the responses on the original Twitter thread), what’s to say most (all?) of these aren’t prank/made up incidences? Or given the general reporting of this whole issue, completely made up? Who or what has verified that information? Did it come from an identifiable authority at which specific poison control center?
Ah…my bad. Missed that you did say at the end there that the number doesn’t surprise you. Still seems rather suspicious to me.
TBF, as gulags go, this one is pretty plush, as long as you don’t drink tea with a face diaper off, apparently.
WTP: I can’t claim intimate knowledge either of veterinary treatments or Poison Control stats, but I have dealt with those guys in the past; we kept the phone number conspicuously posted in the truck and protocol was always to call for advice in ANY case that even hinted at some kind of chemical exposure, either topical or ingested. I’ve called regarding eyedrops, perfume, cleaning agents and other assorted oddments: they were always helpful, always cautious, and from our conversations I gather they field a lot of calls from people just wanting to know if something they’d contacted was something to be worried about. Naturally they record everything.
I think the reference to State Poison Control came from one of the two ZeroHedge posts which tore the RS article to shreds, and what the PC officer was saying was that in the entire year so far they’d had 9 calls about Ivermectin exposures. No mention if possible or certain, voluntary or involuntary (like mine) but when you’re working with large (and often contentious) animals it’s pretty easy to contact whatever substance you’re working with, will you or nil you, and Ivermectin and its variants are everywhere in Oklahoma so, yeah, that number of calls over 8 months or so isn’t surprising. 9 calls in, say, August alone would raise an eyebrow, but that’s not what I got from the article.
KFOR still has the bogus story without a correction. I am disappointed. I have relied on their weather forecasts during tornado season, and now I wonder if I should.
Well, weather is — as yet, at least — critical enough and immediate enough in peoples’ lives that it remains reasonably uncontaminated by the lunacy taking hold elsewhere, but when the weather person stops talking Doppler radar and starts ranting about tornadoes being a signifier of Teh Patriarchy, I fear it’s “All hope abandon…”
He is also in some Marvel comic book
I miss the days when Pierre Trudeau was depicted as the sinister mastermind giving Alpha Flight their marching orders.
As for Dune, I’m not sure what amuses me more – that woke SF readers think it’s about colonialism and hero worship or that unwoke SF readers think it’s about colonialism and hero worship.
It’s about OPEC, and Mohammed’s rise to power from brutal warlord to messianic prophet – not so much about hero worship as what happens when hero worship metastasizes into religion and attracts those not quite so heroic.
As for Dune, I’m not sure what amuses me more – that woke SF readers think it’s about colonialism and hero worship or that unwoke SF readers think it’s about colonialism and hero worship.
It’s about OPEC, and Mohammed’s rise to power from brutal warlord to messianic prophet…
The funny thing is that Frank Herbert had said as much right from the start. I guess many forgot this, or never knew.
It’s about OPEC, and Mohammed’s rise to power…
Hmm – I can see the Mohamed angle, but it’s tough to tie in events ~1400 years apart. Very impressive, though, for Herbert to see the rise of OPEC: when he was writing the novel no one had ever heard of them, and wouldn’t until half a dozen (or more) years after it was published.
Hmm – I can see the Mohamed angle, but it’s tough to tie in events ~1400 years apart.
I am certain that Frank Herbert was not trying to tie the rise of Muhammad to OPEC.
…Very impressive, though, for Herbert to see the rise of OPEC: when he was writing the novel no one had ever heard of them, and wouldn’t until half a dozen (or more) years after it was published.
Damn, I’d forgotten exactly when the novel was published. You forced me to go check dates:
Perhaps Frank Herbert had taken note of the first embargo and recognized the possibilities.
As for Dune…It’s about OPEC, and Mohammed’s rise to power from brutal warlord to messianic prophet
“This essay was originally published in the July 1980 issue of Omni Magazine. It has never been reprinted, and most DUNE fans have not had the opportunity to read Frank Herbert’s description of creating his masterpiece.”
It seems virtually certain that between 1965 and 1980 there were interviews, essays, and letters by Frank Herbert in various science fiction fanzines and prozines, from which we could get verification of what he said about Dune from the start. The science fiction world is very talkative, so this seems extremely likely.
the July 1980 issue of Omni Magazine.
Pre-teen me was terribly impressed by Omni magazine. It seemed very grown-up at the time.
It seemed very grown-up at the time.
Well, it was published by Penthouse magazine’s Bob Guccione…
…Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I recall it from my early college days. My freshman roommate had a subscription to Omni and Gentleman’s Quarterly. We didn’t get along very well partly because I had zero interest in whatever GQ was pushing yet OTOH I couldn’t wait for Omni to arrive. The first time he caught me reading his Omni I reacted nearly like I imagine one would had he walked in on one whilst reading Penthouse. Never had the latter experience myself. I had heard stories from other dormmates…but I digress. I remember greatly enjoying the SF stories but I think at some point, between that and another magazine I can’t recall the name of, I was starting to see the commonality of the Narrative developing. I couldn’t put my finger on it at the time but something almost clicked there. One article of science…or “science” that I do recall vividly was regarding the Space Elevator concept. I was simultaneously intrigued yet incredulous. And here we are 40 years later and no space elevator. Needless to say I’m a bit disappointed…yet at the same time not surprised. It ain’t easy being me.
Well, it was published by Penthouse magazine’s Bob Guccione…
Is that an amulet? A sex amulet, I’m guessing.
Is that an amulet? A sex amulet, I’m guessing.
Probably a medal he awarded himself for heroic dissemination of gratuitous pudenda.
Is that an amulet?
As you likely weren’t familiar with the kinds of things shown in that magazine…The logo/symbol/whathaveyou of their magazine was a Mars and Venus symbol stylized together to look like a key. See Wiki on the subject. That is likely the amulet looking thing on the longer chain. The medallion…probably what pst says but I’m not an expert. Penthouse was a sluttier version of Playboy consequently most PH issues I recall had at least one girl-on-girl layout (pardon the pun). Tattoos were not a big thing at the time so I don’t ever recall one in Playboy while a few might sneak into Penthouse. While far from being a germaphobe, I do have an somewhat exaggerated fear of hepatitis for some reason, so the girls in PH were kinda meh to me. However…IMNSHO the best stories were in the infamous Penthouse Forum section. Oooh the descriptive writing. Giant sequoias being planted in fertile Love Valleys. Stories of blood-engorged zeppelins. My all-time favorite story however was the guy who was hunting in Saskatchewan and caught some deer or moose or something in flagrante delicto. The sight inspired him to plant seed in Mother Earth, so to speak. His plan going forward was to…fertilize shall we say…all the Canadian provinces.
the infamous Penthouse Forum section
I wonder if the writers were paid a flat rate or by the word. Lends a certain immediacy to the Beatles song Paperback Writer.
Well, it was published by Penthouse magazine’s Bob Guccione…
One last comment, to link to this blog’s recurring theme of marginal or damaged people: When I looked up Bob Guccione, Wikipedia listed several women who are “famous” for having appeared in his magazine, among them Tracy Lords who was revealed to have been about 15 at the time. Her Wikipedia page says that she was sexually abused, which reminds me that it has been said that a notably large fraction of women in prostitution and the porn industry were abused as children. There was, as best I recall, zero talk of this in the 70’s and 80’s, and even today it seems to be ignored by certain classes of Forward Thinkers.