As noted by Mistermix and followed up by Watergirl, Biden dropped some sweeping and LONG OVERDUE proposals (and I am not blaming Biden for them being overdue, but by our general political system), and I am here to tell you that I FUCKING LOVE IT.
I am tired of screwing around with these fucking imbeciles, I’m tired of loosing innocent people, I’m tired of destroying our medical community and wasting resources on idiots who refuse to get vaccinated, and I am not interested in watching my health insurance go through the fucking roof because of Y’All Qaeda’s refusal to vaccinate. I am well beyond the No Fucks Left to Give stage, and am in favor of enacting sweeping regulations and letting the courts sort it out. Go overboard, let corporate America go half way to cover their asses, and even if the shit gets struck down, we’ll have advanced the ball.
I am sick of this shit. Fuck your freedoms, get the vaccine, wear a mask, and shut the fuck up.
SiubhanDuinne
Word.
Johnnybuck
Joe “fuck around and find out” Biden!
John S.
Damn right. My company of 40,000+ employees needs a swift kick in the ass.
A Ghost to Most
Nice hasn’t worked for 40 years. Their tribe feeds off nice. Bullies don’t back up until you punch them in the mouth.
Baud
I would have preferred bounties on the unvaxxed.
Cermet
Regardless, the courts can’t counterman his orders for Fed employee’s and contractors nor the Med systems that take Medicare/cade. So, that will certainly make a big dent in the available petri dishes out there walking around begging covid to make them its next host.
mali muso
@Baud: Ooh, I like the cut of your jib.
oatler
And what happened to “dump the filibuster”? Too many greasy hippies for Nancy’s taste?
HypersphericalCow
So this seems to be all going through Medicare/Medicaid and OSHA. Biden has always known how use the levers of power
ETA: and requirements on federal contractors, as mentioned above.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
WaterGirl
@Baud: That’s a fun thought!
I wish some state had made noises about a law where we all get to report anyone who is
untaxed<.s> unvaxxed and get $1,000!Jim, Foolish Literalist
@oatler: 1) comment for another thread?
2) is there a Senator named Nancy? Nancy Kassenbaum is the last one I remember
Ken
(You dropped a bomb) Well, there’s an earworm (on me baby) I haven’t had in a while… (you dropped a bomb on me)
CaseyL
Between Biden’s speech on the mandates, and Garland announcing the lawsuit filed against Texas, I feel that we have left the “Fuck around…” portion of the program, and are now in the “..and Find Out.”
And I am so Here For It.
hells littlest angel
In retrospect, it is perfectly predictable that the coolest Vice President of all time would make a pretty fucking great President.
Spanky
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Ooooh! That reminds me. Christmas tree / Festivus pole. This years Airing of Grievances is gonna be LIT!
Matt McIrvin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: So, when can we expect the polls about how 60% approve of mandating vaccines but only 20% approve of the way he did it?
Uncle Omar
@CaseyL: And the legal genius defending Texas is…Paxton?
Sis
I couldn’t agree more!!!
schrodingers_cat
Biden was my choice in the primaries and he has been a better President than even I had imagined. He is effective and he knows how to get stuff done.
debbie
I can’t find a transcript of this address. How did Joe refer to the obstructionist elected officials?
JoyceH
@hells littlest angel:
Really? I confess to being gobsmacked. It always struck me that Biden was perfectly cast as the Sidekick. And then boom – January 20 – Presidential. Me: “I did not see that coming.”
Johnnybuck
Merrick “fuck around and find out” Garland.
germy
Roger Moore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
As he says, the problem isn’t with how popular vaccination is; it’s who it’s unpopular with. The people who hate it are loud and know how to get media attention, which makes it look like they’re much more important than they are.
lowtechcyclist
@hells littlest angel:
I’d agree with you if “coolest VP of all time” weren’t such a low bar!
I mean, seriously, who’s the second coolest VP of all time?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie:
Rupar has a long thread with video clips
germy
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
Hallelujah! Preach!
The Dangerman
And if they show a fake proof of vaccine, there should be hell to pay. Like slammer time (can’t touch that).
WaterGirl
@debbie: I am sorry to report that Biden did not use the words “those fuckers” in referring to the obstructionists.
In a more helpful vein, I think it was pretty early on.
I just checked for a transcript, and it said it was put up “one second ago”. Maybe I need to run out and buy a lottery ticket!
Link
edit: is that the right vein? It doesn’t seem right, but vane and vain seem worse.
Spanky
@lowtechcyclist:
Either Kamala Harris or Teddy Roosevelt.
Johnnybuck
@lowtechcyclist: Al Gote was pretty cool.
schrodingers_cat
@Roger Moore: And we write and tweet about them and amplify them. My theory is that they love the attention. COVID Kens and Karens need to be shunned and ostracized.
WaterGirl
@debbie:
Johnnybuck
@Spanky: Them too
Baud
@WaterGirl:
WaterGirl
@debbie:
Roger Moore
@lowtechcyclist:
Thomas Jefferson.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Biden ratting out Fox News was one of my favorite parts!
hells littlest angel
@JoyceH: In retrospect. I groaned when he got into the primary.
lowtechcyclist
Seriously. If their freedom to swing their fist ends where my face begins, their freedom to spread their germs does too. But since they can’t stop their germs an inch away from my face, they’d better keep those germs in the immediate vicinity of their own, IOW, by masking up.
Bluegirlfromwyo
@lowtechcyclist: VP Kamala seems a pretty good candidate for that second spot.
schrodingers_cat
Politics as a performance art with a dog. Should have gotten a cat instead. May be Manchin or Sinema will..
hells littlest angel
@lowtechcyclist: It’s a rare 48-way tie.
dkinPa
Thank you, Joe! And, thank you, John — you have a way with words!
hells littlest angel
@Bluegirlfromwyo: Yes. I stand corrected.
lowtechcyclist
One thing I want to know: does a franchise-based operation like McDonalds have to get the franchise employees vaxxed? In theory, each franchise is an independent business, and most of them probably have well under 100 employees. But their independence is practically nonexistent; McDonalds should be treated like one giant company, rather than a whole bunch of different companies. Ditto for all the other franchise restaurants.
Edmund Dantes
@WaterGirl: I do believe there are bounties for ratting people out for tax dodging. Need to double check.
WaterGirl
@dkinPa: He does! He should start a blog or something. :-)
Edmund Dantes
@Edmund Dantes: yep.
https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office
15-30 percent of it.
WaterGirl
@Edmund Dantes: Ha! That was supposed to be unvaxed. damn autocorrect.
evap
Preach it, John. If you had told me back in 2009 that Biden would become president 11 years later and would be a great president, I would have scoffed. And here we are with me a big ol’ Biden fan girl.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Thanks.
Mike in NC
When there is only one ICU room left in all of Texas or Florida, their lunatic governors will auction them to the highest bidder. That’s the American way!
debbie
@WaterGirl:
You’re right, vein.
quakerinabasement
OK, I’m sold. Please put Cole in charge of shit.
Another Scott
@lowtechcyclist: Google tells me that McDonalds owns 2770 of its own stores (out of 38,000 locations worldwide).
My understanding is, once the rules are published they take effect. Sensible businesses are going to take advantage and strongly encourage their people to get vaccinated – for competitive reasons if nothing else.
“XYZ Foodville has all their employees vaccinated. ZYA VilleDeFood doesn’t. Why would you get lunch at ZYA when you might get infected there??!”
Cheers,
Scott.
debbie
Not wearing masks, not social distancing, not vaccinating. These aren’t even the freedoms the Founders had in mind!
zhena gogolia
@CaseyL:
Me too!
banditqueen
Not all the usual suspects are squawking about Biden’s speech on mandates–the ‘business roundtable’ is all for getting the pandemic more in the background. I’m glad Biden is saying that the pandemic must end whether the snowflakes want it to or not.
Minna is awake, per a quick note from her brother.
glc
@lowtechcyclist: Might be Jefferson.
Oh, never mind.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat:
Biden was also my choice once Harris dropped out.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: Me too.
That “record player” clip everybody was making fun of? My husband and I watched it and said, “This guy is good!”
CaseyL
@banditqueen: Oh my gosh, that is terrific news! Stephen said he was on his way to see her, so I hope for another update.
mrmoshpotato
@The Dangerman: Stop! Slammer time!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@banditqueen:
Wonderful news!!
WaterGirl
@banditqueen: Fingers crossed.
Anotherlurker
@oatler: Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House of Representatives. She has nothing to do with the Filibuster, which is a racist obstruction in the United States Senate.
Open up “Civics for Dummies” and do a little reading up on the subject.
Moron.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@debbie: Here in Philadelphia, we had a major yellow fever epidemic in 1793 that ultimately killed 1/10 of the population.
Somehow I doubt that the leadership of the brand new country would have looked favorably on claims that “freedom” meant “freedom from quarantine or any form of disease control”.
Ksmiami
@WaterGirl: fucking fuck barf?
patrick II
Pushing Joe into this corner was the cold-hearted Republican plan from the beginning – – but they did not plan on the Delta variant or that Joe would be so effective in his response.
WaterGirl
@Ksmiami: Excuse me? Is that supposed to be in reference to something?
Mike in NC
@Spanky: Second coolest VP of all time would be anybody not named Nixon or Agnew.
Omnes Omnibus
OT on Minna:
September 9, 2021
Journal entry by Steven Hong — 8 minutes ago
Here at the hospital, and she is responsive to commands. She can open her eyes and squeeze finger, and answer questions with a nod or shake of the head. This is positive news.! Was able to zoom call with Julie and Ian.
Barbara
Mandating vaccines for Medicare participating providers levels the terrain for employers worried about losing employees to facilities without comparable mandates. Now there’s nowhere to hide.
James E Powell
@lowtechcyclist:
I have to toss in a vote for Henry Wallace
Barbara
@Omnes Omnibus: Great news. I hope there is continuing progress.
Bard the Grim
@Baud:
No human can come up with exquisite bon mots like these so often. Admit it, you’re a sentient AI, right? Or maybe somebody at IBM running a little experiment on Watson? Has anybody ever actually met “Baud!” in the flesh? I for one, welcome our robot overlords.
Bill Arnold
@patrick II:
And quite OK with killing 1500 Americans per day for this stupid political operation that will have effects opposite to their intent, and we should be mercilessly pointing out that the Americans being killed and maimed (long COVID) by Republicans are mostly Republicans, of voting age. (Probably the net R voter deaths will exceed the D margin of victory in one or more races, and we should make a point of pointing this out. No mercy.)
Omnes Omnibus
@Bard the Grim: Sentient? You think Baud is sentient? Sad.
James E Powell
I want to give a shout out to my employer, The Los Angeles Unified School District, for approving a vaccine mandate for students 12 & up. Our union agrees. We are all working together to keep schools safe so that we do not have to close again.
Ksmiami
@WaterGirl: the McSweeney diatribe…
Ksmiami
@WaterGirl: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oh-my-fucking-god-get-the-fucking-vaccine-already-you-fucking-fucks
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Thanks for that.
debbie
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I blame people carrying, but not reading, their pocket Constitutions.
trnc
I count at least 7 bumper sticker opportunities.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: De nada.
namekarB
Tony Gerace
@Roger Moore: Yup. That’s true of virtually every issue with these jackasses. They are a minority — and a dwindling minority — and they try to hide that fact by being as loud and obnoxious as possible.
geg6
@schrodingers_cat:
I was a Warren girl (whom I know you hate) but when she dropped out, I was all in on Joe.
Ivan X
@quakerinabasement: He would just argue for a bunch of pet related legislation. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
RSA
Same here. If nothing else, in 2009 Biden was 67, in 2017, 75. But I have not been disappointed at all.
geg6
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
George Washington mandated vaccines for the Continental Army. Doesn’t get more Founder-y than that.
raven
I know this may be a problem but I’m going to post it anyway. This is behind the paywall at the Chronicle of Higher Ed but a friend sent it to me. Sue me,.
Chetan Murthy
@schrodingers_cat: I was 100% wrong about him, and am ecstatic to be so.
geg6
@Omnes Omnibus:
This is terrific news!
CaseyL
@Omnes Omnibus: Yay! Rock on, Minna!
Roger Moore
@quakerinabasement:
Should he handle piss, too?
NotMax
@lowtechcyclist
That Alben Barkley was such a scamp.
//
More seriously (but not by a lot), would rate it a toss-up between T. Roosevelt and Chester Arthur. Runners-up: Adlai Stevenson I and Walter Mondale.
zhena gogolia
@raven:
Disgusting.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
I hadn’t even finished reading the words “Texans’ right to choose” before I had the identical reaction as Ilhan Omar.
Oh, by the way, I added a word to her response. I think it scans better.
raven
@zhena gogolia: Kemp is threatening to sue over the mandates.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Omnes Omnibus: Me too
MagdaInBlack
@SiubhanDuinne: It was the perfect edit, I thank you.
SpaceUnit
I’m thinking that Biden’s vaccine announcements are just gonna be the opening ceremony to the Stupid Olympics. All the foot dragging and mask protests and airplane temper tantrums that went on before now are going to look like practice and time trials. Shit’s gonna get crazy with these clowns.
JoyceH
Hey, has anyone yet mentioned Biden’s brown suit? Personally, I like men having more options in office-wear, but wondered if the right wing mouthpieces were declaring it an affront to this great nation.
Barbara
@raven: Of course. I expect nothing less, and he might have a better chance with some of them than others but he won’t even have standing for most of them.
geg6
@raven:
Like I said in an earlier thread, he needs to extend the mandate to any institution that gets Title IV funds. No Pell Grants, no FSEOG grants, no federal student or parent loans, no federal work study. Also too, let’s extend it to VA educational benefits. See how the UGA system board likes that. Fuckem.
debbie
@raven:
Guess smart people can be stupid too. ??♀️
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
You almost had me fooled!
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@germy:
Wow
cmorenc
@lowtechcyclist:
Teddy Roosevelt, who in fact may modestly edge even Joe Biden for coolest VP, although in T.R.’s case, he took over as President after only six months of McKinley’s term (when McKinley was assassinated), and so only had a relatively limited run as VP. Nevertheless, T.R. was the original progressive President.
SiubhanDuinne
@banditqueen:
This is hopeful news!
Barbara
@geg6: They might be exploring that but there are greater obstacles to using the federal purse to regulate educational institutions in the same way.
Sister Golden Bear
I’m way past the “drop a bomb” phase and at the “nuke ’em from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure” phase.
McSweeney’s nailed how I’m feeling: “OH MY FUCKING GOD, GET THE FUCKING VACCINE ALREADY, YOU FUCKING FUCKS” and the honorary New Yorker in me gives them bonus point for the creative use of profanity.
Josie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Same here.
raven
@geg6: It’s the University System of Georgia Board of Regents and they are appointed by the Governor. The structure actually came about in 1932 when the governor had even more control! I don’t know what is going to happen but the state provides about 50% of funding so something has to give. I hope it’s not my retirement!
Barbara
@JoyceH: OT. Saw your post on the Lee thread. My SO grew up a stone’s throw away from Stratford Hall, and we still have a house in the area.
geg6
@Barbara:
There are schools that refuse Title IV funding because they want to be able to not follow federal requirements about discrimination on the basis of religion and to avoid Title IX requirements. Grove City College, just up the road from where I live does just that. All schools are free to do the same, if they think they can survive.
Chetan Murthy
@Sister Golden Bear: I only have one quibble with the author: “insufficiently many “fuck”s”. To wit, it should have been
Mike E
@Sister Golden Bear: heh
geg6
@raven:
They can’t survive without Title IV funding and VA benefits. They aren’t a small college. And how many of their students can afford to pay out of pocket or fund strictly with private loans? How big is their endowment? Unless it’s Harvard x10 level, they can’t make up the losses.
Jeffro
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. (high five!)
mali muso
@geg6: Among them, many “Christian” colleges. Kinda wondering if Liberty University is one of them.
NotMax
@cmorenc
Although his time in office was cut short, would award that position to Garfield.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Jeffro: Here’s to President “Old Handsome Joe” Biden!
POHJB! Woot woot
raven
@geg6: They are 26 colleges and universities and they can’t operate without the funding from they state legislature either. Like I said. . .
geg6
@mali muso:
They accept Title IV funding.
Barbara
@geg6: I just mean that the Federal government routinely sets health standards for participation in Medicare — mandating vaccines for employees is the kind of thing they do all the time to protect program beneficiaries. The landscape is different for regulating universities. The nondiscrimination laws are congressional enactments. Executive orders or regulations without underlying statutes will be harder to justify.
bbleh
@WaterGirl: Yes that’s the right vein.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@geg6: Do you think the Republicans in the Georgia State government give a shit about public education or students?
Kay
Wouldn’t that be wild?
Mary G
@Omnes Omnibus: What hopeful news!
Jeffro
@Another Scott:
I’m hoping that’s the next step: businesses step it up and note that their employees are 100% vaxxed, that they will enforce mask mandates, etc. And restaurants, concert halls, etc will enforce proof of vax to get in.
bbleh
@lowtechcyclist: @Johnnybuck: @Roger Moore: @Bluegirlfromwyo: @James E Powell: @cmorenc: @NotMax: Oh come on, obviously it was Spiro Agnew.
schrodingers_cat
@geg6: I don’t hate her, but I am not a fan either.
Jeffro
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon: ok that made me laugh =)
He is the bomb…the bomb that has needed to be launched at the GQP for far, far too long. No wonder they’re losing their shit.
geg6
@raven:
So the state will be willing to fund 100% of it’s budget then, I guess. It will, of course, have many fewer students because the students won’t be able to afford it unless the state wants to cover those tuition and fees and will have to close a bunch of campuses and colleges. Sucks to be Georgia, I guess. But FREEDUMB!
NotMax
FYI.
Horatius
@cmorenc: Teddy is the poster child for toxic masculinity. I’m sure America can do better.
Ruckus
@A Ghost to Most:
Bullies don’t back up until you punch them in the
mouthjunk.FIXITFY
Jay
@banditqueen:
yay, more good news.
geg6
@Barbara:
They set standards for participating in Title IV funding, too. The DOE makes regulations and sets standards on the regular. As does the VA. I work with those rules and regulations every day and get constant updates when they they change. As they do. Without Congress. All the time.
Steve in the ATL
@geg6: fear not–there will be no cuts to the football budget!
geg6
@Formerly disgruntled in Oregon:
No but their constituents do.
Ken
“Here in this oncology ward, we’re talking to Trump voters who refuse to take the vaccine….”
Kayla Rudbek
@Kay: I would much rather have a shot or a series of shots than taking the liquid tamoxifen daily for the next five years, let alone surgery!
Yes, I got my hands on the liquid tamoxifen, and it’s a bear to pour, it tastes horrible, and the pharmacy had to put it into a ziplock bag labeled “chemotherapy treatment,” which is going to freak out my parents when they see me in person again.
Librarian
@lowtechcyclist: There’s also Thomas Marshall, who said, “What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.”
geg6
@Steve in the ATL:
We had a bump in out-of-state students on my campus from Georgia (and Texas and Florida, for that matter) and now I’m wondering if this is a factor. We have all been scratching our heads as to why.
Another Scott
FIFY.
Cheers,
Scott.
Barbara
@geg6: Yes, and the issue relates to finding the Federal interest. For instance, Medicare has had infection control policies in place for a long time so it’s easy to say Covid vaccine mandate is required for infection control. I think the most likely path for higher education is analyzing the extent to which universities are fulfilling a duty to make programs accessible to disabled students, and protecting disabled staff.
Steve in the ATL
@geg6: UGA, and to a lesser extent Georgia Tech, are quite difficult to get into these days. My kids had friends who went to places like Columbia and wake forest when they got rejected by UGA.
Gvg
@geg6: Students have to pay tuition and rent and food. I can’t imagine Biden cutting the schools off that way. Maybe a threat down the line, but actually I think it would have to be Congress.
I am wondering if our research University is a federal contractor? I think there might be some.
Bard the Grim
@Omnes Omnibus:
Gah!! There are two of you!
Tehanu
Coming in late just to say, Damn straight, John! With you all the way.
James E Powell
@bbleh:
For a kick, go back and read Agnew’s comments on the press/media and see how many you agree apply today.
But my favorite Agnew quote will always be “nolo contendere.”
Barbara
@Gvg: Some are contractors but most funding comes through grants. But that would be another hook.
Another Scott
Looks like things are going to come to a head quickly in lots of places…
(via CherylRofer)
Cheers,
Scott.
geg6
@Gvg:
PSU has a mask mandate and any staff, faculty and students who aren’t vaccinated are required to test weekly, just as Joe set out today. Unvaccinated students who miss class due to COVID are not offered alternate learning during their quarantine and will be charged with absences if the faculty require attendance as part of their grade (most but not all do). Based on the latest figures, our 24 campuses have higher vaccination rates than any of the counties in which they are located.
NotMax
@
James E Powell
Nattering nabobs of negativism?
(BTW, pedantry demands it be pointed out the plea is “nolo contendere.”)
Another Scott
Posted before Biden’s speech.
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@James E Powell
And I see it has been corrected whilst I was typing.
Never mind. ;)
The Lodger
@lowtechcyclist: Let’s not forget John Nance Garner, who famously compared the vice presidency to a pitcher of warm spit. Or something.
Another Scott
Phys.org:
Cheers,
Scott.
James E Powell
@NotMax:
The edit function is one of the best features of this almost top 10,000 blog.
Sister Golden Bear
@Chetan Murthy: Fucking A!
Felanius Kootea
I’m so grateful that my school has a vaccination and mask mandate and that I live in California. If I were teaching in the Georgia state system and encountered sociopathic students willing to let me die for their “freedumbs,” and an administration unwilling to back me up, I’d quit on the spot too. Unfortunately, not everyone is in a position to walk away.
The Moar You Know
@Another Scott: fun fact: those corporate-owned McDs are ALWAYS the worst of all. They are stores that the company puts in places where there is traffic that could justify it, but no franchise owner is willing to deal with the hassles.
The best example of this is the McDs at the top of Haight Street in SF. Crammed full and surrounded by homeless, they get as many overdoses as customers on any given day, but to the company it’s worth having the territory. There’s another one on highway 1 in Santa Cruz, same deal, far fewer homeless but it’s probably not making it’s expenses. Santa Cruz is not exactly a McDonald’s kind of town, lol.
burnspbesq
@Uncle Omar:
Indeedy. Hilarity is on the horizon.
OGLiberal
sralloway
@lowtechcyclist: Harry Truman.
RandomMonster
@Another Scott: Ehhhhhhh. Sounds like a just-so evo story.
Another Scott
@RandomMonster: But they have graphs and equations and tables and everything!
https://academic.oup.com/iob/article/2/1/obaa005/5799080
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Yutsano
@lowtechcyclist:
Harry S. Truman. He just didn’t end his term that way.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Out of curiously Ran Paul was babbling about there were people who don’t need the vaccine because they have “Natural Immunity”. This sounds like some kind of Christian-Fascist code phrase. Anyone ran across this before?
NotMax
@Yutsano
Maybe not the coolest but the most effective at moving his president’s agenda through Congress must have been Garret Hobart, McKinley’s first veep (who died in office during McKinley’s first term).
prostratedragon
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Ran Paul as in Japanese Ran? I’d go for that.
Chetan Murthy
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: He’s talking about people who got covid and recovered. And arguing that that’s as good as (or better than) vaxx-induced immunity. So far (though, hey, it might change) the preponderance of the evidence is that that’s false: “natural immunity” wears off faster and is less “polyclonal” than that from the vaxxes. And in The Real World, we see many stories of people who have gotten (even severe) covid more than once, whereas it’s pretty damn rare for a vaxxed person to get severe covid, and almost always the case that they had significant co-morbidities.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@prostratedragon: Both in end a blood bath, so the spell checker auto correct doesn’t lie. lol
karen marie
@oatler: Huh?
RandomMonster
@Another Scott: Oh, well if the Integtrative Organismal Biology Journal says so! ?
I also recall that we are the descendants of aquatic apes.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@oatler: You do understand the Speaker of the House doesn’t set the rules for the Senate?
evodevo
@OGLiberal: I LOVE this clip lol
Bighorn Ordovician Dolomite
I check out the front page daily, but I don’t generally have time to read the comments, and I only actually comment once every couple of years or so; having said that I just have to respond to Mr. Cole.
Word.
Uncle Cosmo
@bbleh:
Not so obvious. No loathing for murderer and likely traitor Aaron Burr?
I say this as someone who not only despised “Ted” Agnew but at age 16 unwittingly missed his best shot (sic) at changing US history when I stood about 20 feet from him at a library dedication. All I needed to do was bound up onto the dais, rip off my horn-rimmed glasses and use them per The Godfather. But of course that flick wasn’t even a gleam in Coppola’s gimlet eye in 1965 – and like most Marylanders, I thought he’d already reached his Peter-Principled level of incompetence as Baltimore County Executive. Little did we know what a charmed political life lay in his future, always being in the right place to seem the harmless alternative during the internecine wars and racist undercurrents of that era’s MD Democratic Party….
RuralDoc
@Cermet:
I’m Humanities Professor’s wife, having commented under his nym a few times.
Our county currently has about 30% vaxxed. Elderly are at about 70% (neither are typos, both pieces of info are from the med exec meeting yesterday). Damned near every nurse/CMA/hospital employee on my FB feed has the fucking “I Stand For Medical Freedom” frame. Just giving this as background info so you can see where this is coming from. We docs are nearly universally vaxxed because we’re not stupid.
I am so THRILLED that my hospital will now be forced to mandate it. Trump won this county by an insane margin (and Jim Jordan is the rep) so they can blame him but it won’t hurt electorally. At least around here, it WILL budge the needle significantly.
RuralDoc
@geg6: My kid’s (admittedly tiny) college has mandated vax AND masks. When we dropped them off, they had us leave phone # and emails for contact tracing. I really fucking hate red area living compared to that.
Miss Bianca
@Sister Golden Bear: I just posted that on my FB page.
J R in WV
@lowtechcyclist:
Who is the second coolest VP of all time? Madame VP Harris is, or course!
J R in WV
@Yutsano:
S. B. Harry S Truman… the ‘S’ doesn’t stand for anything, it’s just a stand alone letter.
JCNZ
@WaterGirl: Covfefe, obviously.