leh-nerd skin-erd

We have had a tendency of late to shed dem governors for wrongdoing the last few years. Maybe it’s the vetting process?

See to me, these are very fair questions. When placed in context, it’s not at all surprising that people question the need for the vaccine.

Not like a lawn jart to the skull! GOOD NIGHT ALBANY!!

I’m not a medical professional, but have quite a few family members who are. Family members in nursing are uniformly vaccinated, some with reservations in the early stages, all comfortable with the decision post-jab. Interestingly, a pediatrician in the family is pro-vax, but not aggressively so. Her husband and 20 yo son have not been vaccinated, both had COVID late last year. Anyway, to your point—the second bullet point is spot on. The danger for folks like me is that the devil is in the details—I don’t want to be misled one way or the other—have we changed the approach to gathering data to report COVID, and if so, why? I decided to check on the current status on health care businesses requiring the vax. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce/cleveland-clinic-upmc-among-systems-holding-off-on-covid-19-vaccine-mandates.html As of 8/6, some high profile providers are still holding the line and recognizing the sanctity of individual choice for employees. This begs the question for the militaristic pro-vax crowd here, like @oldmanfan——are these providers complicit in the spread, or do they simply recognize the very difficult choices their employees face? If complicit, would you consider removing the children of the management team in charge of such decisions for placement in protective custody as you’ve ruminated for other pro-free-will individuals?

Wait—so we’re not getting any of Jeff Billion’s Bezos? I’m 5 pages into this mo’fo, this is &*&&* *&$&*.

Fair question. There were mobs all last summer, angry af, targeting law enforcement and citizens alike. There were photos of angry protestors on a house roof in Albany, peering in. Angry mob confronted diners at street side restaurants. Angry mobs stop traffic, surrounded cars, tried to burn down police stations with people inside. Angry mobs shot fireworks at law enforcement officers. In most every case, the officers in and around the area, and the civilians accosted exercised restraint and did not fire into the neck of unarmed individuals/angry mobsters. In virtually every case we’ve had over the past few years, the frame by frame debrief of actions and thought processes provides analysis up to and including our current president suggesting something like this: “Yeah, the officer was in danger, but he should have aimed at the foot.” It’s been 7 months. We aren’t even entitled to the name of the officer and an explanation as to why an unarmed woman was dispatched by a highly skilled marksman while other officers milled about with the group? Where are all the foot-shot advocates these days?

You got money, just be sure to wrap that rascal.

Sure, and we’re back full circle to whether or not the shooting of AB was justified, necessary and all things considered, righteous. When you look at the microscope most law enforcement shootings are viewed under, it’s very strange this isn’t getting that type of scrutiny. Michael Brown roughs up a store clerk 50% of his size, attacks a police officer in his police car in an attempt to seize his gun, leaves, charges the officer and is shot and all he’ll breaks loose. He’s the poster child for making really bad life choices, placed an officer in a “it’s you or me” scenario and is STILL considered a martyr after a DOJ investigation. AB is an averaged sized female, unarmed based on the investigation and is shot in the neck and…crickets. I was with you all along, but this scenario makes no sense whatsoever.

This is a blood letting. Mercy Chef…Mercy!

Sorry el Doctoro, I missed that earlier. I initially thought that AB’s life ended the way it did because of decisions she made. In that regard, she was like Michael Brown and while he wasn’t killed, Jakob Blake. Bad $&$& happens when you make very bad choices. So…I thought I was on the same page with Billsy for once. I’m increasingly concerned about the lack of dialogue in this case, and the lack of media interest on the righteousness of the shooting. That’s really odd to me. It really smacks of “Ah she was shot, and she should not have been but she’s a conservative so who cares?” . Very Billstime-y. This has been an especially bad day for Billsy! 🤣🤣

These are your words Billsy, not mine! Have you been hacked?

I don’t mean to jump in on this systematic dismantling of Billsy, but he’s apparently going on record as saying she should not have been shot, but she was, and that’s the end of it. This would be the argument made when any other law enforcement shoots any person that should not have been shot to begin with——an odd position for anyone to take today. I don’t think Billsy is typing from his momma’s basement, I think he’s posting from Alabama, in the year of our Lord 1958.

Teddy Roosevelt wound be awesome, instead we have his dopey classmate Joe Biden.

Even with the cheesy Apple Undercover filter on the phone, the headline doesn’t match the content of the interview. This Scott guy is dworkin ya, Bilsy.

Oh, and @The Frankish Reich and Sunny D— just imagine the messaging that might have taken place had Barrack and Michelle Obama arranged a press conference, assembled the media and said something like this: “We were so excited to celebrate Barrack’s 60th Birthday with our friends at our beautiful home. We started planning for this celebration of a life well over a year ago when we were hopeful that the nation would be on the other side of this pandemic. However, when it became apparent that the delta variant is an extremely dangerous adaptation of the virus, and when we saw the vaccination numbers stall nationally, we could not in good conscience push forward. Together, we call on all Americans...rich and poor...tall and short....conservative, independent and liberal...to join us and get vaccinated. To Black Americans specifically, we’re asking you to trust us on this, times have changed, we are on a brighter path—get vaccinated now. Oh, and special shout out to Leh-nerd for reminding us all that being in a $25,000 tent, singing, dancing and partying is not the same as being outside! You got us boy-eeee!”

I’d be happy to share thoughts on Trump’s modeling. What would you like to discuss? As it relates to the here and now, I assume Trump will have something to share about the abject hypocrisy of the event. He should, and it’s for the greater good. It would be appropriate politically. I’ll let you know about Florida when I get there next month—assuming Tom Hanx and Queen Bae didn’t import California delta variant seeds across the northeast with this hugely important celebration during a time of national crisis. Btw, when I was in Florida in February, unvaxxed and minding my business as I usually do, it was awesome to be out and about with the sun on my face. One of the hi-lights was a night on a restaurant patio drinking a beer. After winter in NY, shut downs and Andrew Cuomo, it really felt an awful lot like freedom. I almost wore a Defund Five-O shirt to guarantee the virus stayed clear of me, but decided to live on the edge.

I’m a realist. I look at actions v words, consider the agenda of the people in question, and what they may know that I do not. It’s the same approach I took when watching widespread social justice protests and gatherings, with support from liberal politicians as if no one ever suggested those specific actions were exactly what spreads the virus. I have no issues with Obama having a COVID party, no issues with him making scoodles of money after leaving office, or him using the world as his personal playground. I just recognize this action for what it is—a bunch of wealthy liberals with agendas doing the exact opposite of what common sense tells us. We can get into the weeds about all these folks being 100% clean and tents being airy, but none of that passes muster IMO. A tent on the lawn with 500 people jammed into it, singing, dancing and carousing is not an outdoor venue. Behavior is modeled, or it’s not. In this case, it’s not, and lots of folks on both pro- and anti- vax sidelines look at what took place and go “Hmm, now that’s weird”. Additionally, the entire event was discussed, optics included, pros and cons weighed out and they decided to push through because they knew they could manage the fallout.

It’s silly to argue that political committees behave politically, and that a politically motivated committee will result in a fair and factual accounting of what occurred. The FBI should investigate, the facts about who did what and to whom disclosed, and politics should be kept out of it. While unlikely to occur on a non-partisan basis, that’s the appropriate resolution.

Frankish, you’re a good poster but I have to take issue with your defense of “outdoor” partying. First, as @Chef Jim astutely noted, hundreds of people milling about in a structure designed to keep the elements out hardly qualifies as “outdoors”. That’s, in fact, the whole idea of the tent. On the level the elites play on, they tend to be exceptionally sturdy, well lit, secure and heated/air conditioned as necessary. That issue aside, on this level, you have people traveling from all across the country (and likely internationally), from yellow zones, red zones, hot zones with exposure to everything that entails. Additionally, while traveling, much of the interaction would be of an indoor nature—airports, rest rooms, restaurants, limos all along the way. While absolutely possible there was 100% compliance with CDC mask and distancing guidance, given what we see from the photos here and the generally tendency for power brokers to ignore their own directives, it’s seems unlikely. Finally, the question comes up about the optics of this sick rager. According to the experts, we’re dealing with COVID and the delta schmelt variety, we’re at mission critical status and one of the leading liberals in the world opts to have a maskless, distantless, climate &$@&ing hoedown at his massive palatial estate, exposing Vineyard residents to COVID and Delta schmelt infections just because he had a birthday? The reality to me is it’s another reason to question the National narrative on Covid and Delta schmelt my. See, I don’t think Barrack, Kerry, JZ and Beyoncé, and the remorseful bully Chrissy Tiegen have any desire to become infected or infect their loved ones. I assume Barrack and his event coordinators have access to state of the art intel and decided to push forward secure in the knowledge that all is well.

Because it’s political theater, and each individual has a role to play. We’ve seen it over and over and over and over and over. It’s disingenuous and frankly a tad silly to pretend it isn’t on a message board.

I believe the Screw-Personal-Choice crowd here will really need to see the “data” on c-positive people entering the country through the southern right-of-way. On the one hand common sense suggests these poor souls are exposed to all sorts of horrible things—assault, abuse, rape and disease—-but on the other hand they may be covered under the Biden Social Cause COVID-Hover amendment that directs the virus not to infect. The data is projected to be available for public review in 4th Q 2027.

Interestingly, an investigation into something as multi-faceted and complicated as the election is batted around as something that simply must be resolved within 60 days, and by day 2 some people were clamoring for the end to the investigation. Here we are at day 250ish, wild liberal conspiracy claims running amok, the obligatory politician dramady ramping up and as sure as night follows day, it’ll end politically. Whatever else comes of it, it’s a National disgrace that the Capitol could be “breached” by a bunch of middle aged malcontents and a few guys dressed like they’re on their way to a Vikings and Vixens fraternity party. Someone’s metaphorical head should roll, and it’s a stunning indictment of the process that it has not happened yet in a very public way.

This young man is incredible. The wrestler he beat to go to the olympics, Nick Gwizdowski, is a two time NCAA champ and local legend (from Duanesburg, NY near Albany). I hated to see him lose, but GS is a phenom. Great victory!

B, reason number 2,485 that I’m eternally grateful for having the Mother I was blessed with.