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For some reason, whenever I saw George Reeves as Superman standing proudly in his tights and cape with his arms akimbo, I figured the dude had to be gay. The blanks kind of filled in the rest after Superman came out.

As for iAss (nice naming, Mr. M.), 5G is all about controlling the proles through transhuman insertions of various types ... butt plugs seem like a natch.

I hope you all have a good start into your evenings.

PS: Thank you for that information about the completely Bizzaro-world ACLU. They were always left-wing, IMO, but they would stand on principle when it was clear. Nowadays, like a lot of people and organizations, well, per your quote, they will just come out with self-contained very obviously contradictory statements.

I suppose that's the way of the Totalitarians everywhere. (I'll still call them Commies.) The statements aren't designed to convince, really, but just to humiliate, as in "we're going to screw you, and give you a completely stupid reason why we are doing it, but there's nothing you can do about it." I know this has been put more succinctly.

Alarmist, are you coming up with these, Superman's new motto, for example? Haha!

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Its true, we’re living in Bizzaro World, complete with a Superman who stands for “truth”, social justice, and the American gay.

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If the ACLU demands governments "reject requests for harmful [sic] religious exemptions," I see two options for them.

(1) Disband, for lack of purpose, or

(2) Rename group temporarily to "American Covidian Lackey Union" for the sake of intellectual and moral honesty.

PS: Good afternoon Mr. Hail,

“Is the ACLU still also radio-silent on onerous mandates and the most flagrant examples of civil-liberties violations in generations?”

Nope, not silent at all...

“Far from compromising civil liberties, vaccine mandates actually further them. They protect the most vulnerable among us, including people with disabilities and fragile immune systems, children too young to be vaccinated, and communities of color hit hard by the disease.”

“Vaccines are a justifiable intrusion on autonomy and bodily integrity. That may sound ominous, because we all have the fundamental right to bodily integrity and to make our own health care decisions. But these rights are not absolute. They do not include the right to inflict harm on others.”*

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/civil-liberties-and-vaccine-mandates-heres-our-take/

And, from October 22, 2021...

“Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Maine and nine religious and interfaith organizations today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to protect public health and religious freedom by rejecting a request for harmful religious exemptions from a Maine requirement that health care workers be vaccinated against COVID-19.”

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/americans-united-aclu-allies-supreme-court-should-not-mandate-religious-exemptions

*This idea that nonvaxxed people are somehow “inflicting harm on others” is one of the talking points I keep hearing repeated from the authoritarian side of the divide.

How on earth are the nonvaxxed “inflicting harm on others”?

Apparently the so called ACLU has been co-opted by the enemies of humanity and liberty, to further their nefarious scheme.

I look forward to reading your investigation into Pro-Panic fanatic Daniel Uhlfelder.

I hope you have a great afternoon Mr. Hail.

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The Alarmist wrote: "I’m surprised the lawyers haven’t already picked up on suing coercive employers"

There are a lot of puzzles like this in the great Corona-Panic saga which demand explanation. Something greater than the sum of its parts began in March 2020, and most people along for the ride don't realize what they're involved in.

Is the ACLU still also radio-silent on onerous mandates and the most flagrant examples of civil-liberties violations in generations?

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@Mr. Moderator wrote, “I would think there'd be a lot of money to be made by lawyers on the OTHER side of the panic/anti-panic divide, but I guess a lot on both sides.”

The whole reason for the PREP Act is to shut down any serious investigation and challenge of dangerous products and services by the liability bar. There is no money to be had on the other side, at least not until people start suing unshielded employers who coerced now injured employees into taking what I am now going to start calling The Satanic Stab.

From what I see when I’m in Florida, lawyers are the second biggest source of ad revenue, but are dwarfed by Big Pharma. I’m surprised the lawyers haven’t already picked up on suing coercive employers, but being midwits themselves, most are probably vaxxed and masked up.

PS: Ahaaa! I see it's up on your site right now, Mr. Hail. If I don't have a chance to comment, it's because I am going out of town in a few hours. Thanks in advance for your work in thoroughly researching these people.

PS: I am looking forward to that next one, Mr. Hail. I'd really like to know whether this piece of work Uhlfelder is just grandstanding, trying to drum up lots of publicity for his law office and, also likely, his running for some political office in Florida.

I would think there'd be a lot of money to be made by lawyers on the OTHER side of the panic/anti-panic divide, but I guess a lot on both sides.

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GAnderson wrote: "What scares me is that the Panic is being driven by ostensibly smart people"

Adam Smith wrote: "Where one falls on the ProPanic/AntiPanic spectrum doesn't seem to be influenced by intelligence, but rather some other traits. It's like a real world Milgram/Asch experiment."

I've been interested in this from the start.

The Corona-Panic as a phenomenon can be traced to January 2020 already, meaning we're fast approaching the two-year mark. But it's been a set of shifting coalitions along the way, especially in the first months, but even since then to some extent.

What motivates a specific individual in a specific time and place to embrace the Corona-Panic? Not passively but actively. The frustrating thing is, we don't know. There is no easy answer. We can talk about general types, or general influences based on personality or age or media-consumption or something. But there always seem to be too many pesky exceptions.

On which: I am about to publish a long investigation into Pro-Panic fanatic and highly successful Pro-Panic agitator Daniel Uhlfelder.

The idea is to look closely at one specific case of a person behind the curtain of the Panic.

People probably don't know his name, but Daniel Uhlfelder is the main figure behind the fairly successful demonization campaign against Ron DeSantis.

PS: Good evening Mr. Ganderson,

It is disappointing that the Dead and CO seem to be bowing to the panic.

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PS: Good evening Mr. Moderator,

Burning season just started here. We have lots of leaves in the fall. I just burned off my first two piles the other night. I blow them into piles, then I mulch some and I burn the rest. (So many leaves.)(We get plenty of rain here so we don't have to worry about it being too dry. Too windy sometimes, but never too dry. Also, fire travels uphill, not so much downhill.)

I agree with your wife. I too think your neighbor lady who got the vax with a baby in her womb is crazy. Why take a chance like that?

I also agree with you about the paper v. plastic bags. Cellulose (and glue?) must be less harmful to the environment than petroleum based plastic bags. (I throw those in the landfill because they stink when burned and I use the wood ash from the fire pit in the garden. Wood ash is good for the soil.)

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You guys are right, the Branch Covidian thing is unfair, but it does roll off the tongue !

I dunno if anything specific was said about Dead and CO, De Santis and FL vax stuff, but reading between the lines it looks like they’re bowing to panic.

PS: Good evening Robert,

I agree whole heartedly about David Koresh. As far as I can tell the “Gummint” killed him and his friends for no good reason at all. He wasn't a threat to anyone and he just wanted to be left alone. April 19, 1993 is a dark day in history.

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PS: Tony, I agree with your policy. I mean, if the idea is to wipe the machines AFTER use, I'll take part. I wonder why it couldn't be BEFORE use, though, subject to one's own amount of concern. Of course, I wouldn't bother, as, after all, it's not like I'm licking any parts of the machines.

Mr. Smith, yes we do the same with the paper. Lots of it is used up for fire-starting anyway, along with corrugate, which must be laced with retardant now, as it used to burn like crazy, a lot better than now. In the summer, our paper wastebaskets are so loaded up that I have to have at least one good controlled burn in the back yard. I try to wait until it's been wet and a certain neighbor is off at work. I use gasoline to start it, because ... FIREBUG!

Also, Adam, the one about Wal-Mart covers a lot of bases in one funny sentence! Thanks for that one.

PS: Mr. Ganderson, that's too bad about Dead & Company taking that stance. I know the old Dead were all hippie-dippy, but do you think they would have run their mouths about it? There were pretty apolitical when it came to solid issues, i.e. of course they were anti-establishment by nature, but I don't think they'd chime in on too much regarding elections, etc.

One of the bad things about some of the well-educated (and I consider myself one) is that they think they know about everything before lacking the wisdom to see the big picture. We have a neighbor lady (about 30-35) who got the vax with a baby in her womb. My wife things she's nuts. The lady and her husband were serious Panickers - not going by discussion but by the mask wearing outside in the yard! (The husband may not have been really on-board, as he finally took it off after a month or two when I talked to him, as I didn't make any effort to give a damn about their panic status.)

I have a post coming up that touches on your 2 points a bit.

PS: Regarding the plastic bags: I'm no organic chemist, nor inorganic chemist for that matter, but I'd guess what comes from broken-down paper (the cellulose, etc) is better for the soil (?) than tiny tidbits of polymer. However, that's what the landfills are for, and there's plenty of really nasty stuff that goes there, with no place else to go.

I have a friend, a good guy, but he doesn't tend to think in terms of principle sometimes. There went some plastic bags blowing outside in the wind due to an extra windy day and some dufus who did not do a good job packing or securing his trash can. "Man, they ought to outlaw those plastic bags!" "REDACTED, they have laws against littering, you know?"

Robert, we have a two post about what you wrote above. One is about the fact that all with all the bitching we hear* about the bags going down the rivers to the ocean and to that plastic zone. Well, in our post

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1154

"Trash in the rivers - get off our case, zookeepers!"

we noted that only 30% of that ocean trash comes down the rivers, and of the 10 worst rivers, per an article (and we copied the nice map), the Yangtze River traversing the center of China brings down more of this trash than the other 10 combined!

* the story about the bitching is in the other post, called

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=615

"Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo..."

(Spoiler alert for the post:) The lady didn't shut up about all this for the whole time, so we couldn't watch the seals and sea lions getting fed in peace. Were my wife not there, I'm pretty sure I would have stood up to say something that may have gotten the zookeepers to urge the monkeys to fling poo at me later on ...

PS: Mr. Alarmist, the arguments I heard in favour of eliminating plastic bags (except for take-out food, which might soil our betters designer cloth bags) is the famous 'plastic island' in the ocean (you can see it from space!), and the poor sea turtles who starve to death because their stomachs are full of indigestable plastic (and they can't just poop it out, because science!).

PS: Mr. Smith, although I also have used the term 'Branch Covidian' I think this is unfair to David Koresh. He was a fairly rational man (with some admittedly odd ideas) who just wanted to be left alone, and the Gummint killed him and his friends.

PS: Good evening Mr. Alarmist,

Lol, the greenie meanies heads would explode if they knew how much carbon I regularly release into the atmosphere.
Fortunately, most of them wouldn't want to be caught dead here in southern Appalachia.

Yes. The vaxx-poop story is from the bee...
I plagiarized this sentence...

“There is now talk of requiring proof of vaccination before someone is allowed to shoplift from a Walgreens, though many city officials worry that would be racist.”

from here...

https://babylonbee.com/news/finally-san-francisco-to-require-proof-of-vaccination-to-poop-on-the-sidewalk

The London Breed “quote” is something I thought up while kicking around ideas for the next Daily Stupid.

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OMG, Mr. Smith, I’m surprized your local greenie-meanies haven’t burned you at the stake for releasing carbon into the atmosphere.

BTW, wasn’t that vaxx-poop story from the Bee?

PS: Hello again...

There is now talk of San Francisco requiring proof of vaccination before someone is allowed to shoplift from a Walgreens, though many city officials worry that would be racist.

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PS: Greetings all...

Mr. Alarmist, I prefer paper or cardboard because I burn all my paper trash in my fire pit so it doesn't end up in the landfill. Advantage Paper.

Mr. Ganderson, I agree. The Branch Covidians are not going to stop any of this madness. They love it. Where one falls on the ProPanic/AntiPanic spectrum doesn't seem to be influenced by intelligence, but rather some other traits. It's like a real world Milgram/Asch experiment.

In other news...

“Vaccination is particularly important in a public setting where people are pooping on the sidewalk and removing their face diapers, factors that make it easier for the most sinister of viruses to kill us all. That is why San Francisco now requires proof of vaccination for pooping on the sidewalk or the street.” ~London Breed

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PS My gym has big rolls of the cheapest brown paper towels and squirt bottles of water mixed with peroxide --squirt a little on a folded towel-wipe down the sweaty part of machine used and move on--just fold up towel and stick in your pocket and use it again--easy peasy---sometimes I even wipe up the big puddle of sweat I leave on the floor under the recumbent bike--sometimes I don't bother

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In addition, while Mr. Hail’s theory about Covid Panic-as-religion is sound (actually I don’t really think it’s a theory, it’s a fact) I’d add a couple points:

1. A not insubstantial number of people think that getting the ‘Rona is a death sentence, thus any measure to combat it is justified.

2. Many of the same believe that if just one kid gets the ‘Vid, it justifies vaccinating all children. It’s part of what Kevin Roche calls “Coronamonomania”. We, as I’m sure anyone reading here is aware allow kids to do many dangerous things- riding in a car, playing football, etc.
Briggs covers this territory pretty well, too.

What scares me is that the Panic is being driven by ostensibly smart people- one of my golf buddies is a PhD in kinesiology, and he’s a big time panicker who wants vaccinate all the kids. He was stunned when I told him I’d probably not take the third jab.

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Mr. Moderator- Kreutzman seemed to have non covid cold symptoms; dunno how they know that; exacerbated by high altitude, as the shows were at Red Rocks.

In really disappointing news, the band has joined the Anti-DeSantis cult, cancelling their Florida shows, ostensibly because you can’t require proof of vaccination in Florida. Sad.

I believe tHe Branch Covidians are not planning on stopping any of this madness.

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I would imagine the wipes are actually “greener” than wasning towels if you work through the two life-cycles end to end.

Many years ago some wag compared paper shopping bags and plastic shopping bags; while many greenies think paper is better, it turns out both have roughly the same lifetime in the landfill where they both end up, but plastic takes up far less space, so advantage plastic.