Mandates work.
That’s the story this week. Fewer than 1% of United Airlines employees refused to get vaccinated when told they needed to get the jab to keep their jobs. That’s right, out of 67,000 employees, only 593 refused to get the shot. Two months ago, only 70% of the airline’s employees were vaccinated, now only 1% are not.
We'll tell you anything you want to hear. We lie like hell! We'll tell you Kojak always gets the killer, and nobody ever gets cancer in Archie Bunker's house… We'll tell you any shit you want to hear! We deal in illusion, man! None of it's true! But you people… do whatever the tube tells you... This is mass madness, you maniacs!
— from Network, 1976
Three weeks ago President Biden announced plans to require Covid-19 vaccinations — or, in some cases, weekly testing as an alternative — for most U.S. workers. There were immediate predictions that the move would backfire, that it would only stiffen vaccine resistance. Indeed, some surveys suggested that as many as half of unvaccinated workers would quit their jobs rather than take their shots.
A former Facebook employee who has accused the company of putting profit over safety will take her damning accusations to Washington on Tuesday when she testifies to US senators.
PALM BEACH, Fla. — When Brian and Susan Gary settled down on this exclusive island spit a decade ago, climate scientists were already sounding an alarm: Global temperatures were warming, sea levels were rising and damaging floodwaters were creeping ever closer to homes.
The French Catholic church has expressed “shame” and pleaded for forgiveness, after a devastating report found that at least 330,000 children were victims of sexual abuse by clergy and lay members of church institutions over the past 70 years.
AUSTIN, Texas — California is “America on fast-forward,” it is often said. Liberals quote the maxim with pride, pointing to the state’s diversity and its outsize share of economic output, technological innovation, venture capital and growth. Conservatives put scare quotes around it, warning about the dystopia that awaits if America becomes any more like California, with its high taxes and housing costs, challenged schools, dwindling water supply, devastating wildfires and permanent Democratic majority.
But if you’re really looking for a bellwether state that offers a glimpse into the country’s economic future and engines of growth as well as its political fault lines in the long run, it’s not California. It’s Texas.
He wasn’t trying to hit them.
He was just trying to “roll coal,” slang for blowing poisonous smoke in their face. They were in the way. He hated them.
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A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church, by hand.
He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.So, the new monk goes to the Old Abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up!
In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.
The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."
He goes down into the dark caves
underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives,
in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the Old Abbot.So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing."We missed the R! We missed the R!
We missed the bloody R!"His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably.
The young monk asks the old Abbot, "What's wrong, father?"With a choking voice, the old Abbot replies,"The word was ....
CELEBRATE!"
May you be reunited in the world to come with your ancestors, who were
all socialist garment workers.
May you have a large store, and have it all dismantled by vulture capitalists.
May you grow so rich that your widow’s second husband is thrilled they
repealed the estate tax.
May you feast every day on chopped liver with onions, chicken soup
with dumplings, baked carp with horseradish, braised meat with
vegetable stew, latkes, and may every bite of it be contaminated with
E. Coli, because the government gutted the E.P.A.
May you sell everything and retire to Florida just as global warming makes it uninhabitable.
May you have a rare disease and need an operation that only one
surgeon in the world, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, is
able to perform. And may he be unable to perform it because he doesn’t
take your insurance. And may that Nobel Laureate be your son.
May you live to a ripe old age, and may the only people who come visit
you be Mormon missionaries.
May your state outlaw the morning-after pill the day before your
daughter comes home from the NFTY (North American Federation of Temple
Youth) convention.
May your son be elected President, and may you have no idea what you
did with his goddamn birth certificate
May the state of Arizona expand their definition of "suspected illegal
immigrants" to "anyone who doesn't hunt.”
May you live to a hundred and twenty without Social Security or Medicare.
May you grow like an onion with your head in the ground, and then may
the ground be fracked.
May you make a fortune, and lose it all in one of Sheldon Adelson's casinos.
May your child give his Bar Mitzvah speech on the genius of Ayn Rand.
May your insurance company decide constipation is a pre-existing condition.
May God give you a daughter-in-law who is as kind as she is beautiful,
as patient as she is rich, as wise as she is devoted, a virtuous woman
in every way. And then may a ballot initiative invalidate her marriage
to your Rebecca.
May the secretary your husband is schtupping depend on Planned
Parenthood for her birth control.
About a year ago we had this lesbian couple move in next door. I may not agree with certain lifestyles but they are very nice and very attractive people.
We have grown sort of fond of each other and they wanted to know what I wanted for Christmas.
So they bought me a nice Rolex.
I guess they misunderstood me when I said. “I want to watch.”
