Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (1/4/22)

Quote I

“The whole country had been pent up and everybody decided to come to the American west at the same time,” Jason Williams, chair of the Jackson Hole chamber of commerce and owner of a wildlife tour company.

Quote II

"Atlas Shrugged is ponderous but everyone should read it. It's a brilliant contrast of statism v. individualism. It perfectly captures the dismal failure of leftist rule & points to a choice: Live for the state or yourself. I chose me." Jim Hanson, author and executive director of America Matters

Quote III

“All these blue state governors listen to him and think that it’s science to close a restaurant at 10 o’clock at night or to say that we have to have 25 percent of patrons. There’s no evidence that any of the mitigation, any of the rules, and mandates changed the trajectory of the virus at all.” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

Quote IV

“Economic insecurity and fears of covid are indeed [causing] a profound undermining of people’s hopes and expectations and plans for the future. This may be much more universal than we anticipated.” Rachel Snow, a senior U.N. population official

Oh my a potential shortage of Democrat constituents?

Quote V

“Let this serve as a reminder to all of us to get vaccinated and follow CDC guidelines to minimize the spread of COVID-19,” Ken WelchMayor-elect of St. Petersburg, FL

Basically it is not a matter of if, but a matter of when, you come down with the Kung Flu.

You think meat is expensive now? Just wait until our "capitalist" Resident of the White House comes to the rescue.

Jan 3 (Reuters) - The United States will issue new rules and $1 billion in funding this year to support independent meat processors and ranchers as part of a plan to address a lack of “meaningful competition” in the meat sector, President Joe Biden said on Monday.

The initiative comes amid rising concerns that a handful of big beef, pork and poultry companies have too much control over the American meat market, allowing them to dictate wholesale and retail pricing to profit at the expense of their suppliers and customers.

"Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation," Biden said. "That’s what we’re seeing in meat and poultry industries now.”

A recent White House analysis found that the top four meatpacker companies - Cargill (CARG.UL), Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), JBS SA , and National Beef Packing Co (MRFG3.SA) - control between 55% and 85% of the market in the hog, cattle, and chicken sectors.

I suppose the thousands and thousands of federal, state and local laws from OSHA, EPA, DNR, etc., have nothing to do with it.

Zappa fans know who Billy The Mountain is. It is hard to believe that Billy and his colleague Mt. Everest are racists.

Team of black climbers to scale Mt Everest to combat its ‘intentional lack of access for black people’

An experienced team of nine black climbers dubbed “The Full Circle Everest Expedition” will attempt to scale Mt. Everest in the spring of 2022, after two years of preparation; the stated mission reveals their goal is to combat the mountain’s ‘intentional lack of access for black people’ and mountaineering’s ‘colonial history’.

They have also established a GoFundMe page to assist in their efforts, which has garnered them over $150,000 in support to this point.

Instant Karma. The Schadenboner variety.

Commercial fishermen have a difficult and dangerous job. Throw in 3rd world communist geographical locations and you get this: 'Photographer captures eerie graveyard of North Korean schooners scattered along the Russian coast'

Photographer Natalya Bulkina travelled to the place locals call the Pirates Graveyard - a long stretch of deserted beach several hours away from Vladivostok, close to where the borders of Russia, North Korea and China nearly join each other.

This is one of the areas in the Far East of Russia where North Korean poachers’ wooden boats end up after getting hit by storms.

Sometimes they carry exhausted fishermen, quite often they are thrown ashore with their bodies on board - or empty.

‘This story gave me a strong feeling of despair, audacity, risk and fear, as I was taking pictures of what was left of the poachers’ boats. Standing close to them you just about guess the drama of these peopleб who went into the sea in such flimsy vessels,’ Natalya told The Siberian Times.

How does one go about having an intelligent conversation with members of the Taliban?

Taliban order beheading of shop mannequins

The Taliban have ordered a series of mannequin beheadings, telling clothes shops to remove the heads of dummies that offend Islam.

The instructions were given by the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in the western Afghan province of Herat.

Aziz Rahman, the head of the local department of the ministry, described the mannequins as “statues” and claimed that they were being worshipped, which is prohibited under Islam.

The ONT's Kung Flu coverage came across the following: 'Crimes against Our Country'

The year of sickening global psychosis ended with virologist and vaccine-uberspecialist Dr. Robert Malone truth-bombing the Internet with three hours of straight talk about the US health authorities’ campaign to destroy the lives of at least half a million US citizens (so far) and, leading by example, to harm multiples of that number of innocent people across all of Western Civilization. Podcaster Joe Rogan assisted skillfully in an interview that is finally rocking the world out of an epic consensus trance. (Listen.)

By health authorities I don’t just mean Dr. Anthony Fauci, the designated National SARS-CoV-2 Coordinator, or his accomplices in the Dept. of Health and Human Services agencies, CDC, NIH, NIAID, etc., but also the purblind US medical establishment of actual doctors in clinical practice, researchers, hospital administrators, and pharma executives who acted with a collective stupid malevolence not seen since the crematory-stuffers of the Nazi bureaucracy carried out their final solution.

We know what you did. You engineered and patented a gain-of-function virus at the same time you conspired with pharma companies to devise and patent pseudo-vaccines, and then you loosed both of them on the public. You didn’t just fail to adequately test the “vaccines” cooked up by Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, but you deliberately botched the trials and lied about it. You created rich $$ incentives for hospitals to mis-treat Covid patients by failing to use known, safe, effective anti-virals. You conspired with social and news media to suppress information about those common anti-viral drugs that would have informed many patients’ decisions and saved thousands of lives. You treated late-stage patients dying of Covid-induced vascular disorder with the ineffective and toxic drug remdesivir that Dr. Fauci had developed unsuccessfully for an ebola outbreak years ago. (Nurses turned so cynical about the remdesivir protocol that they nicknamed it “run-death-is-near.”) You prompted government officials to lockdown society, force useless masking, and now to coerce “vaccination” by threatening to deprive citizens of their livelihoods.

He should just stay in the State of Delaware.

Joe Biden Has Spent Over 25 Percent of his Presidency on Vacation.
The President of the United States has been AWOL as the country continues through crisis upon crisis.

Last night we looked at Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis being with his wife during cancer treatments. Tonight we look at a wife and mother who doesn't get it.

I had wanted, I thought, soapstone counters and a farmhouse sink. I had wanted an island and a breakfast nook and two narrow, vertical cabinets on either side of the stove; one could be for cutting boards and one could be for baking sheets. I followed a cabinetry company called Plain English on Instagram and screenshotted its pantries, which came in paint colors like Kipper and Boiled Egg. Plain English cost a fortune, but around a corner in the back of its New York showroom you could check out the budget version, called British Standard. But it cost a fortune too. I wished there was a budget British Standard. I wished there was a room behind that room, the cabinets getting flimsier and flimsier until a door opened and let me back into my own shitty American kitchen, just as it was.

My husband talked to the architect; my husband talked to the builder. And I kept paring the plans down, down, making them cheaper, making them simpler. I nixed the island and found a stainless-steel worktable at a restaurant-supply store online for $299. I started fantasizing about replacing the counters with two-by-fours on sawhorses and hanging the pots from nails on the wall. Slowly, I realized, I didn’t want this kitchen. Slowly, I realized, I didn’t want this life.

I didn’t want to renovate. I wanted to get divorced.

The good old state of California keeps getting loonier. 'Surprise: California Rules Will Make Solar More Expensive'

It’s already expensive, and the state of the People’s Republik Of California is requiring more and more be used to replace all the reliable, dependable, low cost oil, gas, and nuclear. So, let’s make it more expensive

Tesla Fights California Law That Could Make Solar Energy Costs Soar

In an announcement issued in late December, and reported by CNBC last Friday, electric vehicle and solar roof manufacturer Tesla has asked employees to fight a new California proposal that could make residential rooftop solar energy more expensive for many homeowners.

Under the legislation, residents using solar power would have to pay grid-connection charges based on the size of their system. The legislation would also reduce payments solar customers in California receive for selling their excess power back to the grid.

In addition to free electricity and a more sustainable lifestyle, the capability to sell excess power back to the grid is one of the primary attractions to solar electricity for many consumers. By selling excess power back, consumers can achieve net-zero electric bills or even receive money back from utility companies.

In a tweet from Dec. 13, 2021, @WholeMarsBlog pointed out that if the new tax rate was set at $8 per kilowatt-hour, as proposed, it could cost some Tesla Solar Roof owners as much as $80 a month for a 10 kW system. Elon Musk replied on Twitter, “Penalizing sustainable energy is insane.”

LOS ANGELES – A judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging sexual exploitation brought by the Los Angeles man pictured as a naked baby on the cover of the multimillion-selling Nirvana album “Nevermind,” court documents obtained today show.

Spencer Elden, 30, filed suit last year, alleging that the former members of the rock trio, various record companies, art directors and others violated federal criminal child pornography laws and caused him to suffer “lifelong damages” by “trafficking” his image worldwide.

Defense attorneys moved to dismiss the lawsuit last month, arguing that Elden’s complaint didn’t hold up.

In his order to dismiss late Monday, U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin noted that Elden hadn’t lodged any opposition to the defendants’ dismissal request. The judge gave Elden a chance to amend his complaint and refile by Jan. 13.

On this day: 4 Jan 1986
Irish singer, songwriter and bassist Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy died of heart failure and pneumonia after being in a coma for eight days following a drug overdose. With Thin Lizzy he had the 1973 hit 'Whiskey in the Jar', (their version of the traditional Irish song) and hits with ‘The Boys Are Back in Town’, ‘Jailbreak’ and ‘Waiting for an Alibi’. The groups 1978 album 'Live and Dangerous' spent 62 weeks on the UK chart. Lynott fronted several bands as a lead vocalist, including Skid Row alongside Gary Moore. A life-size bronze statue of Phil Lynott was unveiled on Harry Street in Dublin Ireland in 2005. via thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this day:4 Jan 1960
Michael Stipe, American singer, songwriter, musician, R.E.M. The band was pivotal in the creation and development of the alternative rock genre. They scored the 1991 UK No.6 & US No.10 single 'Shiny Happy People' plus over 20 Top 40 UK singles, and the 1992 UK No.1 & US No.2 album Automatic For The People. via thisdayinmusic.com

How much is a life worth? In this instance about $2.75. Genius Award Winner.

A man who reportedly tried to jump a New York City subway turnstile in Queens died after falling to the ground and cracking his head.

Surveillance footage shows the moment the 28-year-old man attempted to evade the $2.75 subway fare early Sunday by jumping over the turnstiles at the Forest Hills 71st Avenue train station.

The footage shows the man making several failed tries at hopping over the turnstile. In the first, he falls and appears to drop his phone.

Ah Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love and our Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

Lyft Driver with Concealed Carry Opens Fire, Foils Alleged Carjacking

Two carjackers were hospitalized Monday in Philadelphia after their intended victim, a Lyft driver, proved to be a concealed carry permit holder armed with a handgun.

FOX 29 reports that the Lyft driver was in West Philadelphia with a passenger in his car when he was rear-ended. The Lyft driver exited his vehicle after the collision, only to have two alleged carjackers ready to steal his car.

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