#1
There was a gnädige Frau
From Natick, who had to go now.
"Is any perp grosser
Than Grocer?" "Why, no sir!
You'd better stand back." "What? Oh, wow."
#4
Clop clop clop. "What the heck is that?" "Looks like a white knight... with a roll of toilet paper on his lance."
So, N. "Poop Scoop" O'N.,
Please tell us how super you feel
To write without pity:
A little bit shitty?
Compared to this shitter
You're literate litter,
Just something she'd scrape off her heel.
New Delhi (CNN)An Indian man has died after a tussle with his rooster -- on their way to a cockfight.
Saripalli Chanavenkateshwaram Rao, 50, was hit in the neck with a blade tied to the rooster's claw on January 15. A police spokesman told CNN the father of three was taken to hospital, where he later died from a stroke.
Rao, who lived in Pragadavaram village in southern India's Andhra Pradesh state, was a regular at local cockfights, and was on his way to enter the rooster in a competition when it tried to break free, station house officer Kranti Kumar said.
Cockfighting has been illegal in India since 1960. However, animal fighting continues to be a problem in the country, according to Gauri Maulekhi, trustee for India's People for Animals foundation.
"The offenses have been made very clear and explained to the district and state authorities, but they choose to turn a blind eye towards it. It is not just for entertainment that these animals are made to fight, but it is (also) due to the heavy betting and gambling that goes on in the garb of these events," Maulekhi said.
Kumar said the local cockfight went ahead without any arrests.
A 2014 Supreme Court judgment clarified the illegality of animal fighting under India's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. In 2015, Maulekhi used that judgment to intervene in a state court petition to lift the ban on cockfighting -- and the ban was upheld.
"I don't think culture has anything to do with it -- it is purely a money game and hysteria takes over, reason and logic just take a back seat such that neither the animal's welfare nor the people's welfare is enough to stop it," Maulekhi said.
#4
"An Indian man has died after a tussle with his rooster -- on their way to a cockfight"
If I ROFLMAO, does that make me a bad person? ;-)
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#5
Karma - she is a bitch, no?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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#6
Yes, it's funny and not. A person died. Let this be a reminder to all the Disney watching, Peta types - Mother nature doesn't like you and will kill you in a heartbeat. Yes, animals have feelings about humans. They fall into two catagories: Food and Not Food.
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#9
On the subject of cockfighting cocks,
Had Rao not expired, he'd give talks:
"In sum, stay away
From an intimate fray
And attack from arm's length with yer rocks."
[Jpost] France confirmed on Friday its first three cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, with two patients being hospitalised in Paris and the other in the southwestern city of Bordeaux.
Health Minister Agnes Buzyn told a news conference authorities had confirmed two cases, Europe's first, and that more cases were likely to occur in France.
In a separate statement on Friday, the health ministry announced the third case, a relative of one of the first two.
Earlier, the charity SOS Medecins said it had treated one of the cases, a patient of Chinese origin who was showing symptoms of a fever and who said he had been in contact with people from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.
Buzyn said the patient was 48 years old and had returned two days ago from a trip to China which included a stop in Wuhan.
"He's been put in an isolated room so as to avoid any contact with the outside world. He's fine", she said.
Most of the cases and all of the deaths so far have been in China, where officials have imposed severe restrictions on travel and public gatherings.
#9
"Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... God damn monsters."-Burt Gummer, Tremors
Posted by: Frank G ||
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#11
Kung Flu
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/25/2020 17:08 Comments ||
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#12
Don't trust the media. They still live by the motto "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
R0 is the propensity to spread - and 2019-nCoV is like MERS novel coronavirus and SARS novel coronavirus, seatmates are roughly 2-3. Measles for example is 18. Flu is typically similar.
This is a lot of fear mongering. Per the CDC, Flu and complications from it (primarily pneumonia) in the 2017-2018 season killed about 80,000 Americans, which was one of the worst years in decades. Typical range is 12000 to 55000 deaths. That's the flu. Yet you dont see waves of panic in the media.
But being rational doesn't generate enough drama and panic to sell soap ads on network TV or generate clicks online.
Current Flu info: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
Advice from my medical friends? Wash your damned hands, avoid crowded public places, avoid mass transit and air travel. And DO NOT go to the ER unless you have something life threatening.
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#13
Starting to wonder whether this is even big enough to be a proper Chinese fire drill. Seriously... if I ran the Pooh Zoo and wanted to put my peeps through their paces, civil defense-wise -- and I would -- I'd do it up a lot bigger than this. Probably stitch the Mohammedans up for it, too, and I haven't seen a word about that. Any interesting finger-pointing going on?
[American Mil News] Police have seized weapons belonging to at least 20 people deemed to be a threat to themselves or others under the state’s "red flag" law, according to newly released data.
The law, passed in the wake of school shootings and signed by Gov. Charlie Baker in July 2018, allows police, friends or relatives of a legal gun owner to seek a so-called "extreme risk protection order" if they believe that person poses a risk to themselves or others. The order gives police authority to temporarily confiscate that person’s firearms and ammunition.
Data released by the state’s Trial Court shows the law has been used to confiscate firearms belonging to at least 20 people since the law went into effect in August 2018. Twelve of those cases were last year.
At least 16 of those cases were emergency orders, meaning that the firearms were confiscated by police prior to them appearing before a judge.
To date, there have been 29 extreme risk petitions filed under the law.
A total of 67 people died last year in protests in Venezuela’s ongoing power struggle, 59 of whom were killed by law enforcement and armed civilian groups supporting President Nicolas Maduro, according to an NGO.https://t.co/MiYfrYo7xN
[The Federalist] China is going to great lengths to try to rein in the spread of coronavirus, which has killed at least 26 people so far. The city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, has been closed, major cities and towns have shut down public transportation, and tourist attractions are no longer open.
#12
Media hype or not, the vast Chinese response: Entire cities quarantined, the army mobilized, bus and lunar new year celebrations cancelled, new "hospitals" under construction plus 20 existing set aside to exclusively treat this virus all seem a bit much to fight a disease that has killed 42 in a nation of 1.3 Billion.
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/25/2020 16:24 Comments ||
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#16
:-)
Posted by: Matt ||
01/25/2020 16:53 Comments ||
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#17
all seem a bit much to fight a disease that has killed 42 in a nation of 1.3 Billion..
If you are going to use bullshit stats, use the total population of Earth which makes it 42 out of 7.7 billion which is only 5.454545454545455e-07 percent.
At the risk of trying to educate the innumerate, the interesting number is deaths per people who have contracted the disease, not deaths per the total population.
I suspect the shutdown of major cities and travel restrictions are because the ChiComs are seriously under-reporting the numbers and are quite scared of how contagious the virus is. Dollars to donuts, the death rate is much higher than they let on.
As for not buying the media hype, that almost goes without saying.
#18
Respectfully, many of the deaths are being reported simply as "pneumonia." This outbreak is more serious than the official Chinese BS stats indicate, which would explain their extreme efforts.
#19
#17, 18 - both true. The fact they (fairly quickly) quit their usual dissembling, obfuscating, and outright lying, shows they're worried. I've cancelled my trip to Wuhan and threw my Costco Fruitbat and Civet Cat fillets out
Posted by: Frank G ||
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#20
many of the deaths are being reported simply as "pneumonia."
No doubt some of that is cooking the numbers, some is just people succumbing to other causes from the stress of the illness. Developed countries should have better survival rates due to better care systems and not being overwhelmed by the number of patients. It will be interesting to see if this virus induces a cytokine storm similar to what made the Spanish flu so deadly.
One thing both encouraging and scary is that the Chinese have sequenced the virus AND released the results. Encouraging because they are being unusually open, scary because they wouldn't be doing it if they were not worried about a global epidemic. It also makes you wonder how long they have known about the disease. Cue speculation about the level 4 biolab in Wuhan...
The New Year is here! As we greet it,
A flu appears, too. To defeat it?
Let's ask Wuhan's foodies.
"Nian brings flu cooties?
Our usual answer: Just eat it!"
#29
Wish me luck! My son arrives in Beijing Thursday with a college buddy and we will be going to Beijing, Chongqing, and Shanghai. So far no one I know among 50 +/- extended family, 0 friends, and 500 +/- students has gotten sick in CQ.
#30
You'll be in our thoughts, Beau. Keep us apprised in your spare moments, please. Only, will you be able to hit all your goals? China announced shutting down inter-province busses effective the 26th (which already is for you, I believe).
#31
@TW they have closed the Forbidden City and the Badaling section of the Great Wall near Beijing, and many other tourist attractions, so we are working out a 'non-tourist' plan B. We'll see how it goes. So far 'Raffles City Chongqing' is still open and that's the most important for them.
h/t Instapundit
[City Journal] - Government-union membership fell again in 2019, continuing a decade-long decline. Workers in public-sector unions now number 7.066 million, representing a drop of nearly 100,000 in one year and the smallest government-organized labor membership in 20 years. Since 2009, when the ranks of government-union members peaked at 7.896 million, public-labor groups have lost more than 10 percent of their membership. The percentage of government workers belonging to unions has dropped to 33.6, the smallest proportion of the government workforce since 1978. The most recent numbers illustrate how government unions continue to suffer from the hangover of the recession of 2008-2009, in part because of a slow rebound in government employment during the economic expansion that began in 2010. The numbers may also reflect some losses that unions have suffered in the wake of the 2018 Supreme Court Janus decision, which gave public-sector workers the right to opt out of joining a union or paying fees.
#2
With Janus, they either have to produce for their members or GTFO.
My (short) story: I was a paid part of my Gubbamint Union cuz I got cheap Long Term Care insurance, which I pay/carry in retirement (and still pay relatively miniscule dues -besides my premiums). We were forbidden by Muni Code to strike, and nobody in my field had any desire to - they just left for greener pastures if dissatisfied
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[American Thinker] President Trump on Friday becomes the first U.S. President to attend the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., a march he previously addressed via video, a march sure to be ignored by the lamestream media or downplayed as a gathering of white supremacists. It reflects his belief that every human life begins at conception and is a gift from God and reflects the fear, an unspoken motive for impeachment, that Trump will get to appoint more Supreme Court justices forming a majority to overturn the wrongly decided Roe V. Wade, another SCOTUS decision which, like Dred Scott, declared an entire class of people as less than human. As LifeSiteNews reported:
March for Life officials told LifeNews.com they were delighted President Trump is demonstrating his commitment to pro-life values by appearing in person -- joining half a million or more Americans demonstrating their resolve to ending abortion.
Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life, told LifeNews, "We are deeply honored to welcome President Trump to the 47th annual March for Life. He will be the first president in history to attend and we are so excited for him to experience in person how passionate our marchers are about life and protecting the unborn."...
Last year, Trump told thousands of pro-life advocates at the March for Life that he plans to veto any bill that would promote abortion.
"Today I have signed a letter to Congress to make clear that if they send any legislation to my desk that weakens the protection of human life, I will issue a veto," Trump said. "And we have the support to uphold those vetos."
"We know that every life has meaning and that every life is worth protecting, as president I will always defend the first right in our Declaration of Independence, the right to life," he said.
"As president, I will always defend the first right in our Declaration of Independence, the right to life," Trump said in remarks recorded in the Oval Office, a right he said extended to "unborn children."...
Trump has repeatedly called out the Democratic Party’s extreme position on abortion. During his state of the union address this year, Trump slammed the governors of New York and Virginia for promoting abortion up to birth and infanticide. He also called for Congress to pass a ban on late-term abortions on babies who are capable of feeling pain.
#1
IMO, nothing wrong with abortion per se. What is wrong is the underlying premise that women do not have to suffer any consequences of their actions.
#3
What a wonderful president. I cannot wait for November to vote for him again!
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01/25/2020 17:05 Comments ||
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#4
If the dems want abortion, fine. Let them pay for it privately out of their own funds. But it seems that everything they want they want the taxpayers to foot the bill for their pet project.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
01/25/2020 17:30 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ‐ Turkey's emergency management agency says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 has shaken the country's east.
