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Friday Happy Jews Open Celebration

Those who are of the Jew can certainly be a festive bunch.

Hava nagila
Let’s rejoice

Hava nagila
Let’s rejoice

Hava nagila v’nismecḥa
Let’s rejoice and be happy
(repeat)

Hava neranena
Let’s sing

Hava neranena
Let’s sing

Hava neranena v’nismecḥa
Let’s sing and be happy
(repeat)

Uru, uru acḥim!
Awake, awake, my brothers!

Uru acḥim belev sameacḥ
Awake my brothers with a happy heart
(repeat line four times)

Uru acḥim, uru acḥim!
Awake, my brothers, awake, my brothers!

Belev sameach
With a happy heart

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114 responses to “Friday Happy Jews Open Celebration”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    That’s pretty good, certainly festive. Well we made Friday.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Katfish’s wreck in Colorado with his Goldwing, crushed leg by a dodge truck,

    Nope.
    You’re slipping.

    It was a Valkyrie (6cyl).
    Those three cylinders stick out so far, it no doubt kept him from losing his leg at impact.

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    View showing how much Valkyrie engine sticks out

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It should have been a full head-on, but he wanted to stick around to annoy me for a few more decades. So he raked the side of pickup. The rear axle was ripped off the truck, no doubt by the bike’s engine.

  5. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Trivia note:
    That wreck made Katfish the only guy I know who was almost taken out by a drunk Russian.

  6. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Is there another kind of Russian?

  7. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #5 – AFAIK that Russian Youngster was sober as a judge – just out joyriding / raising hell.

    He DID 90 days in Grand Co. lockup for felony vehicular assault

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I just rolled out of bed and the Hava Nagila just set the tone. Watching that brought tears of joy to my eyes, most unexpected and very much appreciated. Thank you Mr. Wagonburner.

  9. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    In fairness to SD – a Valkrye is merely a GoldWing w less body work + hotter cams

    The linked photo above in #3 is a “RUNE” – a fancy variation on the Valkrye that did not sell very well

    THIS is the one I wrecked

    https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages1.americanlisted.com%2Fnlarge%2F2000-honda-valkyrie-interstate-americanlisted_35060941.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

  10. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Lol. I see the Gators landed a spot in the coveted Gasparilla Bowl against UCF.

  11. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Well, at least there’s some regional rivalry going on. Kinda like the Texas Bowl.

  12. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Yesterday I dropped off my diagram of the Alamo Plaza at the framers, it’ll go well beside my Republic of Texas Map in the Den. FWIW; The local framer dude is expensive! I had ST frame a lot of pictures for me and she always said that she was giving 50% off but I didn’t really believe her, now I’m not so sure. I thought about ST yesterday and remembered that the last time I talked to her was back in July. I do miss her she was one of a kind.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Love this video. I’m totally with the guy in the black t-shirt. I’d be dancing, too.

  14. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Speaking of ST I found this neat picture taken at one of the Brew Ha Ha’s in about 2006? Hamous, Neocon, ST and Smacktle. 😉

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I stayed up late last night. My computer was running slowly yesterday, even after rebooting. I got a “low memory” error, which I’ve never seen before. I’ve been lazy about my computer hygiene, so I stayed up to run various cleaning programs on it. Defragged the hard drive, even though it wasn’t bad at all.

    Hoping it wasn’t hacked. I have an antivirus, but I’m sure a dedicated hacker would find a way around it. No malware was found, but I may run a different antivirus program today.

    Anyway, here’s to hoping it runs better today.

  16. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    ST sent me a birthday card years ago. It had an RFU on it, and she said she thought of me when she saw it.

    Miss her.

  17. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s apparently a Mitzvah to be joyful.

  18. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    UF and UCF have only played twice, both dominated by UF. They might have a chance this year. UCF wasn’t in Division 1 until the mid 90s.

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Went thru McDonalds for a black coffee and got cream and sugar.

    BLECHHHH!!!!!!!’

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Coffee & Covid ☙ Friday, December 17, 2021 ☙ BATS AND MICE
    Good morning, C&C, and Happy Friday! Today’s roundup includes: a link to Dr. McCullough’s interview with Joe Rogan; the Atlantic declares a ‘pandemic of the vaccinated’ and you’ll never guess what it thinks the solution is; Winter wave breakthrough cases pop up everywhere; NSW peaks in cases in spite of its odious quarantine camps; the Atlantic prepares its delicate readers for some bad news; the doctor who found Omicron speaks in an op-ed; the CDC picks two winners; a Taiwanese lab leak sheds light on Wuhan; the WHO says vaccines don’t work; an op-ed by former Biden officials points out he’s ignoring the experts now; a new study by experts is optimistic about Omicron; and an expert theorizes about Omicron’s evolution.

    /snip

    *******************************

    *COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

    As you guys know, I rarely links to external news, much less recommend them. After all, what do you need THEM for? You already have Coffee & Covid. But every once in a while there’s something so important that I suggest it to you.

    My recommendation today — and it’s three hours long — is Joe Rogan’s interview with Dr. Peter McCullough. I’ve met Dr. McCullough and he is the real deal. He explains his extremely impressive credentials right at the start of the interview. It includes a TON of information that you haven’t heard yet, even if you’re a Covid news junkie (which you are, admit it).

    Here’s the link on Spotify:[Ep. #1747 – Dr. Peter A. McCullough – The Joe Rogan Experience | Spotify]

    YouTube already cancelled it. Google won’t return the Spotify link in its search results,     and suggests a bunch of “fact check” websites instead. Somebody’s afraid of Dr. McCullough, and they probably should be.

    His main point, which you can’t get out your head once you understand it, is that NOBODY EVER talks about TREATMENT of Covid. It’s just injections. But WHY won’t anybody talk about treatment? Why do they pretend like Covid can’t be treated?

    ******************

    As the winter wave rolls all over the US, breakthrough infections are becoming almost more common than are ordinary infections. In sports news, 21 of Washington’s players and 20 Browns players, including both quarterbacks, are positive for Covid — fully injected. More colleges — most of the Ivy League, in fact — are closing down to face-to-face instruction after experiencing Covid surges.

    **********************8

    New South Wales, Australia, is seeing its highest daily number of new cases since the pandemic began — in spite of mask mandates, vaccine passports, government quarantine camps, over 93% of those over age 15 being fully-vaccinated, and over 100 days spent in lockdown since June.

    So!

    **********************

    It happened. Last week, the Atlantic published an article with the headline, “The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here.” And you’ll never guess what the solution is going to be.

    Anyway, the Atlantic said that when Rochelle Walensky referred to a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” it was “an unfortunate turn of phrase.” It implied that the phrase — promptly repeated about ten thousand times by Joe Biden — is illogical, jabbed people are now the pandemic, and it’s TERRIFYING:

    “Now the flaws in [the phrase’s] logic are about to be exposed on what could be a terrifying scale. Unvaccinated Americans will certainly pay the steepest price in the months to come, but the risks appear to have grown for everyone. The pandemic of the vaccinated can no longer be denied.”

    Un … who was “denying” the pandemic of the vaccinated? And, HOW bad is it? The Atlantic warns darkly that “anecdotal reports already suggest that large indoor gatherings of fully vaccinated people can become super-spreader events in the age of Omicron.”

    Fully Vaccinated Super-Spreaders!

    That’s bad, but it gets worse! The Atlantic prepares its readers, which have dutifully followed all its pro-injection advice since day one, for the WORST CASE SCENARIO:

    “In the worst-case scenario, highly vaccinated areas could also see the kind of overwhelmed hospital systems that we saw back in 2020 with the early phase in Boston and New York City.”

    It must be interesting to have the kind of mental flexibility to be able to SIMULTANEOUSLY believe the injections are awesome, essential, protective, safe, and effective, and ALSO believe that the highest-injected areas will have overwhelmed hospitals and THAT MEANS THE JABS ARE WORKING.

    And don’t worry! The Atlantic didn’t ignore the un-injected. Look how the magazine describes what could happen in places — well, FLORIDA — where people don’t take Omicron seriously, and where they have wrong politics:

    “In places with low vaccine coverage and strong anti-shutdown politics, inconvenience could be replaced by mass death and even greater grief.”

    Mass death! Greater grief! Oh, please. The readers of the Atlantic are supposed to be liberal intellectuals. But how intellectual can you be if you believe this sort of nonsense? Here’s what the Atlantic suggests its sophisticated readers should be considering, the ‘solution’ to the ‘pandemic of the vaccinated,’ get ready:

    “In areas with sufficient political will—mostly highly vaccinated ones—high case rates could spur local leaders to institute new shutdowns. In any event, fully vaccinated people are still required to isolate for at least 10 days after a positive test, and anyone they’ve been in contact with might have to stay home from school or work. A positive test in a classroom could send dozens of kids into quarantine, and keep their parents out of work to care for them. Jon Zelner, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, told me that massive disruptions caused by surging Omicron cases this winter could force Americans to reconsider these sorts of procedures.

    In areas with “sufficient political will” … it’s all politics, all the time, at the Atlantic … in those blessed parts of the country — the SMART ONES with right politics who LIKE to comply — folks can eagerly anticipate “new shutdowns” and quarantines for injected people and asymptomatic positives and school closures … again. It’s Groundhog Day in Covid World!

    ***********************

    Doctor Angelique Coetzee is no slacker. She’s the chair of the South African Medical Association, and the doctor whose announcement of the first case of Omicron in South Africa triggered all the travel lockdowns against Africa. Well, Dr. Coetzee wrote a bemused-sounding op-ed yesterday chiding the world’s over-reaction to her announcement. She pointed out that all the Omicron cases she’s seen so far have been mild and unconcerning, and that new variants are coming out all the time.

    She wonders what — exactly — is the big deal? … she obviously hasn’t read the Atlantic … not smart enough … went to the ‘wrong’ schools, you know … misinformed … unlike the editors of upscale magazines, say, just as an example.

    Reading her op-ed, I wondered if next time she’ll be so quick to announce the next new variant? For that matter, after seeing what happened to South Africa, what other continent wants ANY of its scientists to announce finding any new variants at this point?     If you proudly announce the discovery of a new variant — so that everybody can be on the lookout for it — your reward is getting your own vacation promptly cancelled and your economy set back five years. So.

    Great job, experts. What would we do without you.

    Another thought I had is that Omicron is so mild, getting a booster shot tends to cause more symptoms than the VIRUS. Something to think about.

    *******************

    I wonder who Johnson & Johnson refused to pay off? In another Christmas gift for Pfizer and Moderna stockholders, the CDC’s vaccine panel met in emergency session yesterday to hysterically review the ancient news of six cases of thrombocytopenia syndrome — a blood clotting condition — from April. The CDC said that people who take J&J are more likely to get that unpleasant side effect — and here you thought the vaccines were safe and effective — than people who take the other injections, the ones in which the government’s scientists own shares of stock.

    The committee recommended that Pfizer and Moderna should be jabbed into patients first, unless they are stubborn and really want J&J.     And that’s how it works! Sorry, J&J.[FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!]

    *****************************

    The Epoch Times reported this week that Covid recently leaked from a research lab in Taiwan where they were studying the virus. Apparently a researcher tested positive after was bitten by a mouse. The Taiwanese lab where this happened is a “Biosafety Level 3” (BSL-3) facility, which requires PPE, biosafety cabinets, sustained directional airflow without recirculation, and self-closing, interlocked doors.

    You know what else bites people, has little mice teeth, and is also in the rodent family? It rhymes with “hats,” flies into women’s hair somehow, and vampires can turn into them.

    That’s right! BATS. Now, where were they studying Covid and bats, again?

    It gets better. Guess what Biosafety Level the Wuhan lab is rated at? It’s only a BSL TWO (BSL-2) lab. Rutgers University biologist Richard Ebright described it like this: “BSL-2 is the biosafety level of a US dentist’s office (i.e., lockable door, screened windows, sterilizer, gown, and gloves).”

    Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin, who originally defended the Wuhan lab but later changed his mind when he found out about its BSL level, made this understated remark: “People should not be looking at bat viruses in BSL-2 labs.” Nope.

    But, in spite of the fact that the Wuhan lab was conducting dangerous gain of function experiments on humanized bat viruses in what is essentially a DENTIST’S OFFICE, America’s top Covid doc Dr. Fauci still says there is NO WAY the virus could have come from that lab.     Impossible. What rubbish. Misinformation.

    A fun article in the Epoch Times about the Taiwan story reminds us about the time when sporified anthrax leaked out in the USSR, back in 1979, and the communists invited a Harvard scientist to come over and “investigate” the accident. The Harvard biologist wrote a nice little report clearing the communists of all responsibility for the leak, and explaining how the anthrax probably came from contaminated meat in a local meat market. I am not making that up.

    Years later in 1992, after the USSR fell and the records opened up, we found out the anthrax actually came from a Soviet military bioweapons lab after all.

    Thanks experts.

    ********************

    On Tuesday, unpronounceably-named WHO director Tedros something something Ghebreyesus said that Omicron is spreading all over the place and it could be really bad, this time, because the health care system is “completely unprepared.” I am not making that up.

    How could hospitals POSSIBLY be “unprepared?”     It’s TWO YEARS into a pandemic where more government money has been spent on one disease than probably all other diseases put together since Christopher Columbus first stepped ashore and coughed on a native.

    Are the hospitals even TRYING to prepare?

    Anyway. Then Tedros said, “vaccines alone will not get any country out of this crisis.” Got that?

    I’m old enough to remember back when they used to say the ONLY way out of the Covid pandemic was through vaccines. Well, that was fast. Anyway, you’re not going to believe this, but Tedros says its masks, hand washing, and social distancing that are the key. We’re back to that. Back to the beginning. Just like the Atlantic suggests. Coincidentally.

    ****************

    Because the injections work so well, “one way” aisles are now being mandated — again — in highly-jabbed Wales, to stop the spread of the highly-transmissible, airborne Omicron variant. Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking, but … Science! Shut up!

    *******************

    The former deputy director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review and the former acting chief scientist at the FDA co-wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post yesterday. They criticized the Biden Administration for ignoring its own vaccine experts.

    The op-ed is titled “The Biden administration has been sidelining vaccine experts.” The scientists who penned it were critical of three recent decisions by Biden Administration’s agencies — each of which completely bypassed the vaccine advisory committee, which has ALWAYS been involved in these types of decisions before. The three unilateral decisions were:

    — Nov. 19: the FDA authorized boosters for all adults — regardless of their job or any underlying health conditions.

    — Nov. 29: the CDC announced that everyone 18 and above SHOULD get a booster shot, expanding previous guidance that strongly recommended boosters — only for those 50 and older.

    — Dec. 9: the FDA authorized booster shots (of Pfizer) for 16 and 17-year-olds, down from the prior age limit of 18.

    Now, I’m also old enough to remember back in the old days when they said we were SUPPOSED to listen to the experts. How times change! I guess even Biden is sick of the experts. Hey, it happens.

    **************

    In some actual good news — a true Covid Christmas present — a new preprint study out of Hong Kong suggests that Omicron might be a variant that has evolved OUT of the lungs, preferring to live primarily in the upper respiratory tract. This would explain why it seems milder; if it stays out of the lungs, cases are a lot less serious. This would be terrific news.

    The researchers found that, while Omicron replicates seventy (70) times faster than Delta in upper respiratory areas, it replicates ten (10) times SLOWER in lung tissue than Delta.

    The study is titled, “HKUMed finds Omicron SARS-CoV-2 can infect faster and better than Delta in human bronchus but with less severe infection in lung.” If Omicron becomes dominant, the pandemic really COULD be over, hysterical intellectuals notwithstanding.

    ****************

    Dr. Robert Malone, credited with inventing mRNA technology, recently explained on his Substack that Omicron almost certainly mutated in injected people — not the unvaccinated. Because of how evolution works, and because Omicron evolved to evade the vaccines, it would have had to evolve in the presence of the injections — a process called “evolving around” the shots. In an unvaccinated person, the variant would have evolved randomly, and the chance that those random mutations would coincidentally evade a vaccine is vanishingly small.

    There really is no logical alternative to the hypothesis that the injections themselves are driving mutations for vaccine escape. So.

    *********************

    ✏️ ERRATA: Two corrections:

    — Yesterday’s post was dated as December 14 and should have been December 16. This is what happens when I am super-slammed. Sorry.

    — A few days ago, I described Hillsdale College as the only large college in the country that refuses to take federal money. But an alert reader pointed out Grove City College in western Pennsylvania, which is a small conservative college that also eschews taking government cash with lots of strings attached. In fact, there is a famous Supreme Court case involved in their rejection of federal money: Grove City College v. Bell.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Had my Latin class last night. After class, we hung around and talked about various things. Talked until at least ten; class ended a little after nine.

    And we’re not able to have another official class until Jan 13th, due to holiday schedules. Gives me time to either study or forget, depending.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Have you got your “White Privilege” Card, yet? I hear it Trumps everything. 😉

  23. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Shortly afterwards, Watson was demonstrating the ability of naval commanders to simultaneously handle both general and specific problems.

    In general Watson was discovering California was not where he had left it. More specifically, it was now under his keel.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I use LibreOffice (downloaded the latest version last night, as a matter of fact).

    But if you’re used to MS…here ya’ go.

  25. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Excellent article here.

    The COVID panic provided justification for taming the digital platforms that, in the past, had served as vectors of revolt. Controls introduced by Google, Facebook and Twitter to stop the spread of “misinformation” on the disease were soon applied to political content as well. Predictably, the first major figure to be “deplatformed” was Trump, avatar of anti-elite populism. A number of Trumpist dogmas—that the 2020 election was won by fraud, for example—were banned on Facebook and Twitter. The same held true for any opinion that could conceivably offend Identitarian sensitivities.

    By the time the Biden administration took charge of the nation’s affairs, it represented the reactionary position with remarkable clarity and unusual strength. President Biden himself was a relic of the 20th-century welfare state, competing, in his own mind, with the great builders of that edifice like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. His spending proposals made the Great Society look like a lemonade stand—and the trillions of dollars involved could purchase a great deal of political support.

    The attack dogs of identity were to be unleashed against those who resisted, as the administration traded institutional authority for social control. With the near-miraculous arrival of the vaccines, the politics of COVID seemed certain to be a winner. Once Biden and his people led the U.S. to population immunity, a grateful public would swarm into the bars and ballparks without a thought of revolt.

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #25 Sarge, what he said; Excellent article here.

    RTWDT!

    It fell to Obama, however, to deliver the mandatory display of elite cluelessness. “We don’t have time to be wasting on these phony, trumped-up culture wars,” he asserted in Richmond, effectively denying the reality of the school controversy and suggesting that upset parents must therefore be either dupes or frauds.

    And;

    How Donald Trump Became the Great Unifier

    On Oct. 26, just a few days before the election, President Biden stumped for McAuliffe in the Northern Virginia suburb of Arlington. He seemed to have very little to say—or, more accurately, he had a single thing to say. In remarks lasting 17 minutes, Biden mentioned Donald Trump 24 times.

    I have the sense that Trump looms enormous in the president’s mind. He won the White House by attacking Trump. He oriented his administration to undo Trump’s work. He can be said to possess certain flattering qualities only in comparison to Trump. Without Trump, Biden would be the same pedestrian politician who, in younger days, ran three times for president and dismally failed in each attempt.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just checked the bulletin for this weekend, to confirm mass schedules. Sunday is toy giveaway day and we have plans for Saturday night, so I was trying to determine my mass schedule. Also, to see what Father has to say for this week in Advent.

    I also look at my old parish bulletin, just to see if there is anything happening there. They list prayers for sick and dying, so I like to see if anyone I know is on the list. I was shocked to see that they have bulletins prepared all the way to the first week of January! So, they are just phoning it in for these last weeks of the year. No donation reports, no prayer lists, just generic messages from the pastor and notices for when the faith formation classes start again.

    Rumors of that parish closing have been swirling for years. This administration is possibly among the worst that I’ve ever experienced in my 30 years there. If they actually do close, there will be a reason.

    At least they’ve started Wednesday Adoration time again. It took them a long time to do that, because the admin is all liberal and terrified of the ‘rona. It’s good to know I can stop in for a little face time with Jesus in the middle of the week.

  28. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    In today’s Coffee & Covid, he says the Wuhan lab is only rated BSL2 (Bio Safety Level) and not the highest BSL4. I have heard from the very beginning of all this almost two years ago that the Wuhan Lab indeed meets the parameters for BSL4.

    Laboratories are classified into biocontainment levels 1–4, depending on the pathogenicity of microbes investigated. Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories investigate the most dangerous pathogens and have the maximum biocontainment levels. Microbes contained in BSL-4 laboratories pose a significant risk for transmission and are frequently fatal; most have no reliable cure. BSL-4 laboratories provide a safe environment in which laboratory staff can work with and study these highly pathogenic microbes.

    After the 2003 SARS epidemic, the government of China initiated a plan to construct a national high-level biosafety laboratory system to prepare for and respond to future infectious disease outbreaks. One of the goals was to build a BSL-4 laboratory that meets the national and international standards for diagnosing, researching, and developing antiviral drugs and vaccines while additionally preserving highly pathogenic BSL-4 agents for future scientific research. Within the framework of the Sino-French Cooperation Agreement on Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control (2) signed in October 2004, China constructed its first BSL-4 laboratory, the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory (Level 4) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2015. During construction, prospective BSL-4 laboratory staff members visited France, the United States, or Australia for BSL-4 training and capacity building. After 2 years of testing and commissioning, Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory passed a series of assessments, and the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment certified it as meeting the highest biosafety standard in January 2017 (3). In August 2017, the National Health Commission of China approved research activities involving Ebola, Nipah, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses at the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory (4).

    The safety and function of a BSL-4 laboratory rely not only on the containment facility and biosafety management systems but also on highly qualified and experienced staff. Many recorded laboratory accidents are related to personnel error. Qualified staff ensure the efficacy and safety of a high-containment laboratory. Developing an appropriate and rigorous BSL-4 laboratory user training system is an essential prerequisite for ensuring the safety of laboratory workers, operations, and the environment (5,6). We designed a training program for BSL-4 laboratory users that follows local, national, and international guidelines and regulations. Our program ensures the safety and security of staff involved in research at the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory.

    I am not commenting on the ethics of what some of these labs investigate nor experiment on, but simply that the lab itself was properly constructed and had trained personnel.

  29. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    As I understand things, a BSL4 lab generally requires entry through at least part of the lower level BSL’s. Or that a BSL4 lab would at least have the power level labs somewhere in the same facility, if not building.

    Regardless of where the virus was kept/studied, we know a couple things: the Chinese constantly take shortcuts through safety protocols and other types of testing & QA is just about everything they do, whether construction, manufacturing, environmental concerns, etc. So even if they were in a BSL4 facility, with enough shortcuts taken it could be functioning as a BSL2 lab or even a high school science lab. Also, you can’t trust anything that issues forth from a CCP spokeshole, particularly if it involves the potential for the CCP to lose face by being caught taking the shortcuts or just a simple lie.

    Those shortcuts very likely include not only how the lab was operated but also how it was built and “accredited”.

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heh

    First things first… If the governor responsible for organizing the state response to a massive crisis is still incapable of controlling his emotions, and cries in front of the media five days after the damage, I guarantee you he/she is a Democrat. I don’t mean to be brutal or insensitive about it, but the emotional inability of effeminate Democrat Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is embarrassing to watch. Cowboy the f**k up, and get on with the job.

    That said, it is obvious the White House political communications team are not planning to let a crisis go to waste. The opportunity provided by the devastating tornadoes that tore through Kentucky, is an opportunity for Biden to rebrand himself and attempt to get his collapsed polling numbers to reverse.

    That’s the reason for the heavily engineered presser yesterday, and that’s the reason for the federal response. On the positive side, the flood of help is good for Kentucky; however, cynically that benefit is mostly possible because the Biden White House is desperate and needs positive PR.

    Traditionally, when there’s a FEMA-level crisis in a red state or region, and Democrats are in the White House, the federal response is weak. It’s just how they roll. However, fortunately for Kentucky, this time the crisis coincides with the White House occupant desperately needing to rehabilitate his image. And it’s a Democrat governor holding office over a Red state, so the White House producers, script writers and narrative directors have massive latitude.

    – Sundance at The Last Refuge

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve always observed Democrat run FEMA responses are agonizingly slow and toilsome.

    I always assumed it was because they want to insure that the money filters through their loyalists and donors.

  32. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    I have the sense that Trump looms enormous in the president’s mind. He won the White House by attacking Trump.

    The half dead Wooden Dummy won nothing and stole everything.
    He was installed by the Deep State demons that control him.

    There’s also nothing that looms large in his mind for his mind is gone.
    He can’t even find his teeth in the glass in the morning or change his diapers. Jill has to do it for him.

  33. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    His sole qualification was not orange man bad.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    28 TexMo

    This is part of a Science magazine interview with Shi Zhengli, China’s notorious “Bat Woman” who worked at the Wuhan laboratories.  It appears there are BSL-2, BSL-3 and lately BSL-4 lab units at the Wuhan facility.  This is where the confusion comes in.  The interview is HERE.

    “Q: Given that coronavirus research in most places is done in BSL-2 or BSL-3 labs–and indeed, you WIV didn’t even have an operational BSL-4 until recently–why would you do any coronavirus experiments under BSL-4 conditions?”

    “A: The coronavirus research in our laboratory is conducted in BSL-2 or BSL-3 laboratories.  After the BSL-4 laboratory in our institute has been put into operation, in accordance with the management regulations of BSL-4 laboratory, we have trained the scientific researchers in the BSL-4 laboratory using the low pathogenic coronaviruses as model viruses, which aims to prepare for conducting the experimental activities of highly pathogenic microorganisms.

    After the COVID-19 outbreak, our country has stipulated that the
    cultivation and the animal infection experiments of SARS-CoV-2 should be carried out in BSL-3 laboratory or above. Since the BSL-3 laboratories in our institute do not have the hardware conditions to conduct experiments on nonhuman primates, and in order to carry out the mentioned research, our institute had applied to the governmental authorities and obtained the qualification to conduct experiments on SARS-CoV-2 for Wuhan P4 laboratory, in which the rhesus monkey animal model, etc. have been carried out. The experimental activities are supervised by our institute’s biosafety committee and complied with the biosafety regulations.”

  35. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang. Been up since early, but just now getting around to posting since I’m splitting my time between coffee shop and serving on the Potter jury trial. Have a great one.

  36. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Just comply for 15 days to slow the spread.

  37. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    Covid 1984.

    Largest psyop ever conducted upon the entire world.

  38. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    That, or global warming/cooling/climate change.

  39. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    And the biggest power grab by the closet totalitarian leaders.

    They all let their inner totalitarian come out with a vengeance.

    COVID-1984 is the new doppelgänger energizer bunny.

  40. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The Marxist ‘long march through the institutions’ was a global effort, not just an attack against the USA. Once a critical mass of socialist/gullible leadership was in place on a global basis, all that was needed was the trigger – in this case it was the WLR.
    Being the eternal optimist that I am, I predict that the result is a global collapse of economy and complete societal break down – Mad Max style.

  41. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I didn’t think it possible but the offspring of “The Texas Hammer” is even more annoying than his pappy. I almost long for the Supernova cougar lady.

  42. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You mean the Texas Hammer and his spawn the Texas Mallet?

  43. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #41

    Jr had a handle at one time but don’t think he uses it anymore, don’t remember what it was.

  44. Dr phil Good Avatar
    Dr phil Good

    I’ll take Mr Potato Head for the microwave, Alex.

  45. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    It’s funny whatever city you go to, they all have their versions of the Texas Hammer.

  46. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    If anyone missed this, it’s required viewing.

    I understand McConnell’s role in transforming the judiciary during the Trump administration, but we’re in big trouble if he’s the only one who could accomplish it.

    This is really disgusting behavior, even for Cocaine Mitch.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Car Crash Lady Lawyers!!!

  48. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Call me Alabama! | Alexander Shunnarah Personal Injury Attorneys 😀
    On every damn billboard from Birmingham to the Florida line.

  49. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #47 – And can’t even read THEIR OWN phone number correctly for the camera?

    SJL cousins perhumps?                    🙂

  50. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    They can call themselves whatever they like just as long as I get EVERY PENNY I DESERVE!!!

  51. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Thanks Dan!

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One of these days GJT is going to quit doing wheelies on the freeway.

  53. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Texpat/Wagonburner,

    I would never put it past the Chinese to tell the world a lie with a straight face in order to save face in the eyes of the world.

  54. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #51 Hamous

    That has got to be the most abhorrent commercial for an attorney I have ever seen.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    D.B. Cooper mystery solved. Blancolirio.

  56. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    When I received my infusion yesterday, the nurse coordinator stopped by to see how I was doing. We talked about a variety of issues not related to cancer. She mentioned that Omicron now accounts for 40% of the Wuhan Flu Rot positive cases. She also mentioned that the Methodist system has been administering the monoclonal antibodies to people in the high risk categories since the therapy first came out.

  57. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That has got to be the most abhorrent commercial for an attorney I have ever seen.

    If you listened to the end, they mentioned in the disclaimer that it was purely satire.

  58. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Triple vaxxed Ratboy gots the coof.

  59. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I would never put it past the Chinese to tell the world a lie with a straight face in order to save face in the eyes of the world.

    They’ve been caught many times. They flatly deny they massacred thousands of civilians at Tiananmen, even though there is irrefutable video that shows them doing exactly that.

  60. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #57 Haha I must have stopped the video right before the disclaimer.

  61. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TexMo says:
    DECEMBER 17, 2021 AT 14:43
    Texpat/Wagonburner,

    I would never put it past the Chinese to tell the world a lie with a straight face in order to save face in the eyes of the world.

    Our government and their mouthpieces, the LSM, do this and more to us every darned day.

  62. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    What would Martin think?

  63. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Look how tightly he has this instrument strapped to his body. Pretty darned good pickin’ to boot!

  64. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #62

    Must be ELCA and not LCMS nor WELS.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mebbe I’ll start tonight

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    One of them, anyway

  67. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Just like you know it …

  68. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good evening, Hamsters.

    Just back home from several days of R & R in Fredericksburg, our favorite getaway from it all place to go.  The shopping on Main St. throughout the downtown offers all sorts of stores we don’t see much of here.  Several of the shops we went to regularly unfortunately are no longer there, Covid insurrection y’all know.  And everybody has had to raise prices on their merchandise, unfortunately, to keep ahead of the inflation that ole Biden says does not exist.  Perhaps in his own little world, it does not.  In our real world it sure does.

    And Shannon’s description of the roadwork going on I-10 through his area is not one bit overstated.  It is a nightmare during daytime, so we can’t imagine how bad it has to be at night.

    More later after we’ve had dinner.

     

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I may go out to Alberta weather’s good there in the fall
    Got some friends that I can go to workin’ for

  70. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #55 – I watched Dan’s complete docu-story on D. B. Cooper over a period of a few days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UuRpW8wdVA I watch all the blancolirio videos and occasionally post them on here – Juan Browne has made himself a You Tube star. Dan is trying to promote safety in the general aviation community, and he is an excellent pilot himself – he flies everything from Cessnas to Big Jets, but he has a beautiful DC-3 that also takes care of. One of just many nut cases out there that are trying to do some good. Check it out.

  71. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    mh42 – I got a friend request from you Over Yonder. Have you been hacked?

  72. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    And I just posted a photo of the new feral cat that has been coming around lately. It’s mostly a photo of my dirty window and some of the rose clippings that I’m trying to root, but you get the idea. Bring it over here if you want to be a good Samaritan.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    67 Hammie

    I had a couple in mind but she’ll do just fine for the Friday Brunette.

  74. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hope your cuttings work, ELG.

    If not, I’ll bring you some antique roses from Brenham when I come.

  75. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Oh dear, just now noticing that this is my first entry to post on Da Couch today. There has been a weather flap among the HOA personnel regarding what to do about our Pix With Santa event initially scheduled for Saturday afternoon. I went over to the home of the UBER-DECORATOR where this event has been held for some years now. We discussed the terrible weather report and they were good with changing the announcement to say that in case of rain on Saturday afternoon, we’d reschedule to Sunday afternoon.

    Then I got home to find email the Prez had sent to the board saying the chance of rain was minor, so she would see us at the place on Saturday, after picking up the bakery goodies that had been approved. I called her and told her about the upcoming thunderstorms I saw on the zip-code-specific weather report I use.

    The next thing I knew, she sent an email asking me to post a new announcement saying the event was rescheduled for Sunday, no mention of rain. So that’s what I did.

     

  76. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    The Band, Zydeco style

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    69 Shannon

    I discovered Ian & Sylvia back in Austin about 1970-71.  Never in a million years would I have thought Waylon recorded their most famous song.

    This one, of course, covered by Suzy Bogguss is my favorite.

    Gordon Lightfoot made this Ian Tyson song famous.

    Where is texanadian ?  These are his Alberta peeps.

  78. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Our trip to Fredericksburg took only about 3 hours on Wednesday and 4 hours coming home today thanks to all the traffic upset on 10 when we got on it at Seguin. What had been up until that time scenic driving on county roads in between state highways and small towns coming home today before merging onto 10, vanished immediately.  Guess one way to go would be FM 359 from home to I-10 and get off at 71 and up and around Austin and then on 290 into Fredericksburg, though that would take longer.  After today, it likely would be preferable to go that way.

  79. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I just realized this is my last year of paying obscene property taxes. Next year I’ll be dropping down to the absurd category.

  80. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Looks like I’ll be attending the 9:00 mass on Sunday. We are doing the toy giveaway during my normal mass time.

    I’ll miss the Latin mass, but I’ll replace it with smiles and giggles.

    I’m sure the Lord will understand.

  81. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    77 TP

    Jessi is Hall Of Fame Friday Brunette

  82. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was going to work in the office, but I think I’m going to relax and do rosary stuff instead. Feeling the need to be creative and relax.

  83. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Allison is the Friday Auburn

  84. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Hamous will soon have Geriatric Privilege.

  85. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Old Folks Boogie

  86. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    El Gordo’s dirty window, with Cat. 😀

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    83 Hamous

    Yeah, Allison is pretty hot and she’s got that whole Joshua Tree Gram Parsons burning funeral pyre thing going on, but maybe it’s a reach…hmmm.

  88. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Ja’Blaqui looks like that crazy cat from Pet Sematary.

  89. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I think El Gordo should name the cat Snowball.

  90. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Been a busy day here, we got both trees up but not decorated yet and while the wife was cleaning and straightening up the Farm House I went out on the hopeless search for a big Christmas Wreath for the side gate on the dirt road. Last year I put a small door size one on it because it was all we had but this year I wanted a larger one. SO! I hit Farm Systems, Tractor Supply, the Dollar Store and even the Junk Yard next to Tractor Supply, nothing NADA, (just what I expected BTW). Then I stopped off at one of the tourist type shops on the square and they didn’t have anything except “Door Decorations”. Now I figure it’ll have to be Hobby Lobby in Enterprise and no self respecting male sets foot in that place so I figured I’d send the wife tomorrow. I needed to stop by the plumber’s place and remembered that Mission Point (think Good Will) had a store next door to it. I went in and found 2 good sized wreath’s for $16 bucks apiece so I grabbed both of them and a couple of big red bows for a buck apiece. I showed them to the wife and she said “you’re not good for much but you really amaze me sometimes”. 😀
    I got both the wreath’s up and maybe I’ll get some pictures in the morning.

  91. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    87. Not too many folks on the couch would catch the Parsons connection.

    My favorite Allison Moorer song

  92. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Now I figure it’ll have to be Hobby Lobby in Enterprise and no self respecting male sets foot in that place so I figured I’d send the wife tomorrow.

    Does she have an oversized sweatshirt bedazzled with the image of a little kitty kat? They have a dress code, you know.

  93. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #92

    Dave doesn’t have to go into the Hobby Lobby now, he already found 2X the number of wreaths he needed, and amazed his wife with his finds!

     

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This popped up in my YouTube.

    Funny, because Katfish was telling me earlier about a trucker who lost his tranny, brakes, and all in Colorado. They proved he passed up two Runaway Ramps on the way to killing four people.

    He got 110 years in prison.

  95. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So, my wife snapped a picture of the wreath on the side gate and sent it to me. This was before I put the cedar garland on top of the gate but it does look pretty good.

  96. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The guy has 5000 pine trees, plenty of wire, and bows.

    And he’s looking to buy a wreath.

    I just knew one day we’d find out he wasn’t perfect.

    🙂

  97. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #96 Shannon, BAWHAHAHAHAHA!! YUP! I told the wife if I was worth a damn I’d cut out a piece of plywood into a circle and staple small cedar limbs to it! In all fairness to me, I was Gonna’ but ran out of time. Today is December 18 and we just cut down the dang Christmas trees….I blame it on the Master Bathroom Remodel Fiasco. Well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 😀

  98. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Ninety Eight?! I may be late showing up but we can do this!

  99. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    91 Hamous

    I’m old enough to have had a “Sin City” patch sewn on my denim jacket back in the those days.  It was a thing that only a few people had and this guy probably had one too.  Most folks thought it was about LA, but the inside was it was really Houston.

  100. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Ammo Grrrll at last https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-406.php

    One hunnert as well.

  101. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Hunnerd n one

    On a skiing trip in Colorado one December years ago we were on the road when a heck of a winter storm was going on, you could smell all the trucks brakes. We passed one runaway truck ramp and the sign was lit up “Runaway Truck Ramp Full.”

  102. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Nite Nite.

  103. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    God put stars in Alabama

  104. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    So beautiful.

  105. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Dickey and Vassar doing Billy Joe Shaver.

  106. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    China Spring defeats Gilmer for the 4A Div. II State Championship.

  107. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Sandmann reaches a settlement with NBC.

  108. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    97 SD

    I sympathize.

    No tree up here.

    And the Christmas cemetery flowers are sitting over there in bags. 80 degrees all week and now it’s going to get cold tomorrow. And wet.

    Not enough hours of daylight nor personal physical stamina to get it all done anymore.

  109. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    99

    Talk about favorite songs. (The 2nd one)

    Mmm.hmmm.

  110. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Very nice 1hr.11min. Little Feat concert footage.

    The best.

  111. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I suspect that none of us can “get it all done” any more. I am happier if I take the time to do an extra sudoku puzzle than if I tried to get more chores done.

    Night y’all.

     

  112. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    104. Very nice

  113. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    110. I did not know Paul Barrere died. Not sure how I missed that.

  114. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #105 – DAYUM!

    Cleaaaaannnn as Clorox!

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