On 7/16/2021 at 7:58 AM, Anler said:

So is bleach!

Don't forget uv light.

Just somehow have to get it into the body, mused an idiot or two.

2 hours ago, ACE said:

People are rioting and attacking police against communism and covid rules 

the Cuban president told “revolutionary” citizens to stop them by any means necessary 

serious business 

?

Why would the "revolutionary" citizens want to stop them, and exactly who would they be stopping?

10 minutes ago, poopooforme said:

Unsolicited visiters usually end up with a rifle barrel in their nostril.  Just sayin...

That is just beyond scary.

I get quite a few people come by, wife's friends, couriers etc.

If you shoved a rifle in my nose I'll comply for sure. That is not cool.

You are a dick.

5 hours ago, Highmark said:

Ummmm......FUCK NO!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/xavier-becerra-hhs-absolutely-government-business-americans-not-vaccinated

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday it was "absolutely the government's business" to know which Americans haven't been vaccinated yet against the coronavirus.

Responding to GOP criticisms of the Biden administration's planned "door-to-door" campaign to encourage unvaccinated Americans to inoculate themselves, Becerra told CNN the government has had to "spend trillions of dollars to try to keep Americans alive during this pandemic."

"So it is absolutely the government's business, it is taxpayers' business, if we have to continue to spend money to try to keep people from contracting COVID and helping re-open the economy," he said.

Not sure how this is surprising. 

Maybe your system is different.

Ours is socialized. You swipe your health card ID, picture card, get health care services.

Our government has cracked down on the abuse of "free" health care, with the card and identification.

Our health care system knows what every citizen uses. 

Just a click of the mouse and you'd know if someone got the jab or not.

Orwellian yes, but it keeps non citizens, those not entitled, from getting health care.

Don't get too worried. If you are an American, no heath care plan, our well trained docs and pretty decent hospitals are gonna save your life etc.

We will figure out later who pays for it. Your not gonna die at the hospital door.

A republican dream. No card, no health care.

Reap what we sow  

Inflation has to be a big factor over the next few years.

In addition, up here anyway, food, energy and housing have seen increases that are staggering. Energy prices have increased up here by taxes and fees to fight climate change...if you believe these taxes will do anything to help, it's still going to make it more expensive to put gas in your car, heat your home, farm the fields, fuel the truck to get your stuff to the store.

I couldn't afford to buy my house right now. Not even close. I bought it for X in 2008, I've done a lot of upgrades etc...but it's probably at 4 to 5 times X.

The same type of half acre lot in my area, twelve years ago sold for 30k. Now it's 150k. I don't know how someone starting out in life can afford a home. Location doesn't really matter. These increases are across almost the board.

There has been so much of a cash injection, by governments, these increases are still in the family budget, for now.

Many in the last year and a half have benefited from the pandemic, others not so much, but the fact is there is lots of cash floating around, albeit much of it borrowed by governments.

When the taps shut off, and the savings run out, the chickens will come home to roost.

Hopefully the disadvantaged can eat the chickens, or they're boned.

1 hour ago, Tinker said:

Japan: 10 times the population density of the US

USA: 16 times the infection rate of Japan

USA: 16 times the death rate of Japan

Japan: Would you let anybody in ?

And their vaccination rate is very low. 

Many in Japan wanted it scrapped.

This is a compromise to save face and a few dollars.

8 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

I saw an ad the other day and Lindell is selling towels now...they look really nice. 👊🏻🇺🇸

Slippers too I believe.

His products may be great his charitable works laudable....but when he speaks on tv or radio he certainly comes off as bat shit crazy.

He and Biden may have similar brain parasites.

4 hours ago, Tommcat said:

a mortar to the chest could certainly do that if it's big enough, and i have to assume they could afford the big stuff

That is a weird one. You are sitting in a hot tub, I am a spa repair guy, fixed hot tubs for 30 years,  as well X military. Fired real mortars. 

 How in the fuck does a firework mortar ( and you cats get some doozies) get you in the chest, unless the dick firing it was either in the tub with you, or standing beside it, with the mortar on the edge and shit went south.

I'd bet booze was involved...not that I've always been sober doing fireworks.

29 minutes ago, 800renegaderider said:

Anytime I hear black swan I just instantly think of that lesbian scene between mila kunis and Natalie Portman in said black swan movie. I have nothing else to add hear

x2

On 6/20/2021 at 1:51 PM, smokin george said:

Our atv club does most of the trail maintenance, bridge repairs, promoting the area while the sled club pulls their pricks as far as were concerned. Last season the fuckers were grooming the side of the hwy when there was hardly any snow just to get the hours in.

Exact opposite here. Sled club does everything.

Atv club does nothing but get unassumed roads closed and pissing off landowners.

Bunch of communities opened up municipal roads to atv's and sxs's, that has not gone smoothly as quite a number of atv riders  (and I believe it to be a much greater number than snowmobilers) are entitled cunts that have little concept of no trespassing laws.

We are working together on one project this year...I'd just as soon not have them involved.

1 hour ago, Zambroski said:

You understand property tax?  I understand that the least other than it’s the one thing they can control and hang you on no matter what you do.  ALL TAXES ARE THEFT. 

Up here anyway, property tax pays for roads, garbage, snow clearing etc. I'm not happy how much it costs. You can change the rate you pay be living in a smaller house, or a cheaper community.

Income tax is easy to avoid, don't generate an income although starvation may be an issue.

I'm more interested as to how in the fuck do cities get to charge you guys income taxes?

Property tax I understand, but income tax?

On 6/26/2021 at 4:34 PM, Mainecat said:

From DU I thought it was interesting…

How crazy the building got in Miami

Here is a picture of Motel Row in North Miami Beach when I grew up in the 60s. Two and three story concrete block buildings. 
This area, known as Sunny Isles is basically a sand barrier island between the Intercostal and the ocean. Similar to Surfside where the building collapsed. 


Here it is today. 


40 story towers built on a sandbar with pourous limestone for bedrock. 

I don't think we have seen the last building go. 

Jebus some of them are tall. You'd need quite a plan to build that high, on sub par soil, that close to the water table, with salt air.

Seen up here, no salt water, but 3 story monster homes on what was all fresh fill. Engineers demanded massive excavation, pump in hundreds of yards of 10 mpa concrete or at least unshrinkable fill. Then a mud mat of 15 mpa. Then a full slab, not just footings. then footings, rebarred to the max, with rebarred walls.

Added a hundred grand to a house, albeit a few million dollar house on a golf course.

Most expensive shit I saw done was for hydro towers. It was looney. 10 foot drill, going down a hundred or so feet, X4 for the base. Massive crane X2, one to lift the 10 foot steel pipe form as the concrete got poured in, one to hold the vibrator/hammer, powered with a sea can sized hydraulic power pack to get the form in and out so it lifted easier. Vacuum trucks to suck out the water as it got poured. It ain't moving, ever.

I've seen galvanized rebar, and rusty rebar rejected, there are admixes in concrete that can compensate for many things when the engineer demanded it...but they can be expensive when looking at tens of thousands of yards of concrete. Like $50 a yard...that adds up. Seems cheap now that 150 people may be dead.

 It can an be done, for a price....I think maybe these are not quite built to that standard.

8 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

We can’t make it easier for more brown and poor whites to vote.

You almost can't, it's so bloody easy now out of state, dead people can vote...even brain dead it appears from your last couple elections.

This coming from a country that has a mass of brain dead voters, we should know.

14 hours ago, irv said:

I'm sure this is going to a higher court which will make all this very interesting. 

 

 

It will make for interesting court cases. Ultimately, employers have the right and responsibility for work place safety.

It's easy to see how a court would rule, by this example.

I do part time, fill in work for guys on vacation, sick leave etc. Done the job for 12 years full time for most of that. Drive trucks, redi-mix, tractor trailer, loader operator etc.

So, I could be working in a gravel pit. nothing around me but the shovel in my hand. Nothing but the the blue sky above...but the employer mandates I wear a hard hat, safety boots and safety glasses at all times.

Hard hat? Like really? The only way that hat, boots and glasses are gonna help me is if a 747 falls out of the sky, but I'm still dead.

It's still the employers right and responsibility.  Wear that shit or get told, written up, fired if you don't comply.

I'm ok with that.  I'm on their dime. Pay check clears every week.

Better example..

The Canadian Forces told me I needed a bunch of vaccines, before I travelled to  a far flung area near the north Pole,  that needed members to be vaccinated.

I probably had those vaccines, years ago, but had no documentation.

Spent the day at the med clinic getting poked in the arm.

Not gonna argue the safety rules, its not gonna get me anywhere.

If you don't want the jab, go solo and work for yourself.

Every government, everywhere, rains money down on the masses, for re election.

Even when a "fiscally conservative" government gets into power, they always seem to be anything but fiscally conservative.

Our "fiscally conservative governments" as well.

Us up here too.

No one in power wants to give the masses the bad news. We are broke, we each owe tens of thousands of dollars.

Much easier to say, the credit card still has money we can spend!

That is fucked.

It does seem like the foundation was washed out, Not a big fan of pillars, to hold up that much weight from above, but as long as the foundation is good, no problem.

Hope they didn't cheap out and build footings only under the pillars. A better builder would build a full, reinforced footing across the entire front of the building, spreading the reinforced load across hundreds of feet.

Sucks anyway. Investigate to the fullest what made this possible.

Wish it were someone but Sloan, but shoot the messenger not the message.

His cheese slipped off the cracker months ago.

That makes Greta cry f'er sure!

Looks like a couple shitty running dodge diesels.

Shoulda sent an apache

5 minutes ago, Voodoo said:

Jesus Cripes.

The Astra vaccine has done wonders for hundreds of millions of people.

Sure there are some back drops, but they are far outweighed by the benefit.

Third world countries will be far better served with the AZ vaccine than not having it.

 

This may, and I mean may explain it a bit better.

I live in the country, not gonna get a home invasion or a drive by shooting.

I still own an AR-15, couple SKS's, a few shot guns and a baby eagle. 

That's the AZ vaccine...own all this protection.

Probably not gonna shoot myself in the leg, but I'll keep them anyway.

The odds of me owning this shit to kill intruders is less that me shooting myself or my kids doing the same,  but hey it's still in the vault.

Jesus Cripes.

The Astra vaccine has done wonders for hundreds of millions of people.

Sure there are some back drops, but they are far outweighed by the benefit.

Third world countries will be far better served with the AZ vaccine than not having it.

1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

Good God man get a clue. You have zero clue what a vaccine is. 

Seems so. Some don't quite understand.

Here is how a vaccine works, for the uninformed.

Your body tries to fight viruses, pathogens etc,

IF the immune system recognizes the threat, it says lets go kill it!

Many threats are old hat for the immune system.

IF a new, stealthy virus, like the one the Wuhan lab made super stealthy gets in, your immune system ignores it and it multiples quickly and takes over.

Vaccines deliver some dead virus, or rna to look like the same thing.  Not enough to make you really sick, but your immune response may give you some side effects.

Your immune system wakes the fuck up and says this shit is bad, lets go kill it before it multiplies. It custom makes some super soldiers with RPG's, tanks and Warthogs that wipe them fuckers out!!

Now your immune system recognizes this shit when it first gets in and goes and kills it, or tries really hard so you don't get super sick.

Is that a simple enough explanation?

2 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

 

 

A COVID-19 outbreak at a Calgary hospital linked to the more-contagious Delta variant of the virus has grown to 33 people, including 10 who were fully vaccinated.

Any news source that calls it the delta variant should be ashamed.

It's the fucking India variant, but it's no longer pc to call it that.

1 minute ago, ArcticCrusher said:

33 people in one hospital with covid and 10 fully vaxxed.  Believe what you will. 

I'm not getting the vaccine, at least for some time. 

We at least have to look at it as the emperor has a fine suit and tie on, all is well.

The alternative is, it's not working and masks and lockdowns are going to continue in perpetuity.