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2022-01-22 at 6:44 PM UTC in I broke polecat and it wasn't very hard
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2022-01-22 at 5:59 PM UTC in All Chinese look the same
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2022-01-22 at 5:54 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-22 at 5:42 PM UTC in NIS movie night.Who is up for "Assault Of The Killer Bimbos"?
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2022-01-22 at 5:33 PM UTC in ATTN: Bradley
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2022-01-22 at 5:31 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Morning, darlin'!
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2022-01-22 at 5:29 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!What part of that statement don't you understand?
It says that "Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization with the Omicron variant fell to just 57 percent in people who had received their second dose more than six months earlier, the authors found. A third shot restored that protection to 90 percent."
Seems clear to me.
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2022-01-22 at 3:46 PM UTC in James Webb Telescope To Launch Tomorrow---To Infinity And Beyond!CBS News
Webb space telescope nearing destination a million miles away
William Harwood
Thirty days outbound from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope will slip into its parking orbit nearly a million miles away on Monday, an ideal spot to scan the heavens in search of faint infrared light from the first generation of stars and galaxies.
But getting there — and successfully deploying a giant sunshade, mirrors and other appendages along the way — was just half the fun.
Scientists and engineers now have to turn the $10 billion Webb into a functioning telescope, precisely aligning its 18 primary mirror segments so they work together as a single 21.3-foot-wide mirror, by far the largest ever launched.
Earlier this week, engineers remotely completed a multi-day process to raise each segment, and the telescope's 2.4-foot-wide secondary mirror, a half-inch out of the launch locks that held them firmly in place during the observatory's Christmas Day climb to space atop a European Ariane 5 rocket.
Now fully deployed, the 18 segments currently are aligned to within about a millimeter or so. For the telescope to achieve a razor-sharp focus, that alignment must be fine-tuned to within 1/10,000th of the width of a human hair using multiple actuators to tilt and even change a segment's shape if required.
"Our primary mirror is segmented, and those segments need to be aligned to a fraction of a wavelength of light," said Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "We're not talking microns, we're talking a fraction of a wavelength. That's what's tricky about Webb."
Powerful enough to detect the heat of a bumble bee as far away as the moon
Once aligned and its instruments calibrated, Webb will be 100 times more powerful than Hubble, NASA says — so sensitive to infrared light that it could detect the faint heat of a bumble bee as far away as the moon.
Each mirror segment was ground to a prescription that takes into account the deforming effects of gravity on Earth and their expected shrinkage in the ultra-low-temperatures of space. They were so precisely figured that if one was blown up to the size of the United States, the 14,000-foot-high Rocky Mountains would be less than 2 inches tall.
But If Webb was aimed at a bright star today, the result would be 18 separate images "and they're going to look terrible, they're going to be very blurry," Feinberg said in an interview, "because the primary mirror segments aren't aligned yet."
That's the next major hurdle for the Webb team, mapping out and then tilting each segment in tiny increments, merging those 18 images to form a single exactly focused point of light. It's an iterative, multi-step process expected to take several months to complete.
But first, the telescope must get into orbit around Lagrange Point 2, 930,000 miles from Earth where the gravity of sun and Earth combine to form a pocket of stability that allows spacecraft to remain in place with a minimum expenditure of fuel.
It's also a point where Webb's sunshade, the size of a tennis court, can work to maximum advantage, blocking out heat from the sun, Earth, moon and even warm interplanetary dust that otherwise would swamp the telescope's sensitive infrared detectors.
As of Saturday, the mirror segments had cooled down to around minus 340 Fahrenheit, well on the way to an operational temperature of around minus 390, or less than 40 degrees above absolute zero.
While the cool-down process continues, a 4-minute 58-second course correction thruster firing is planned Monday at 2 p.m. EST to change the spacecraft's velocity by 3.4 mph, just enough to put it in a distant orbit around Lagrange Point 2.
If all goes well, the telescope will remain in that six-month orbit for the rest of its operational life, firing its thruster periodically to remain on station.
Getting ready to capture "'wow' images"
With the orbit insertion burn behind them, engineers will press ahead with mirror alignment, one of the most complex aspects of Webb's already complicated deployment.
Each 4.3-foot-wide hexagonal primary mirror segment features six mechanical actuators in a "hexapod" arrangement on the back side, allowing movement in six directions. A seventh actuator can push or pull on the center of a segment to ever so slightly distort its curvature if needed.
After Webb's Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, cools down to its operating temperature, Webb will be aimed at a bright star so the instrument can map out the reflections from all 18 segments, creating a mosaic showing their relative size and position.
The mirror segments then will be adjusted one at a time, using one actuator then another, to properly aim each one. Additional mosaics will be made as the process continues and depending on the results, the alignment process may have to be repeated.
"The big thing is getting the 18 primary mirror segments pointing in a similar way so that their images are about the same size," Feinberg said. "Some of them might be very defocused and so you might get a big spot (blurred star image) on segment 5 and a small spot on segment 3."
The goal is to tilt the segments as required to minimize the size of the defocused images and then to move the multiple reflections to the same point at the center of the telescope's optical axis, all of them stacked on top of each other to produce a single beam of sharply focused light.
"At the very top level, think of it as 18 separate telescopes aligned to about the same level," Feinberg said. "And then we will overlap 18 spots on top of each other. We call that image stacking. It is a process of tilting the primary mirror segments so that the images fall on top of each other."
The key, he said, is "you really need very good control of those actuators, very precise tilts, because we need these 18 spots to overlap each other very well."
Any given segment can lose one of its six tilt actuators with no impact. Even the loss of a center actuator can be compensated for to some degree by moving the segment up or down slightly.
But exhaustive testing on the ground showed the high-tech actuators are extremely reliable. The procedures were tested before launch using a sub-scale model of the telescope and Feinberg said he's confident the alignment process will work as planned.
"When will we have an image of a star that's phased? I think that's going to be sometime in March, maybe late March," he said.
"But then the next question is, when will we have the telescope fully aligned, including the secondary mirror, optimized for all the four instruments? The original plan had us achieving that a full four months into the mission. So that would be like the end of April."
That still won't be enough for science observations to commence.
Once the optical system is aligned, the team will focus on testing and calibrating NIRCam, a combination camera and spectrograph, and the telescope's three other spectrographic instruments, one of which includes the fine guidance sensor needed to keep Webb locked on target.
That process will take another two months or so to complete. Only then will focused "first light" images be released to the public.
"We want to make sure that the first images that the world sees, that humanity see, do justice to this $10 billion telescope and are not those of, you know, hey look, a star," said Jane Rigby, Webb operations project scientist at Goddard.
"So we are planning a series of 'wow' images to be released at the end of commissioning when we start normal science operations that are designed to showcase what this telescope can do ... and to really knock everybody's socks off."
This damn thing should be able to detect a fart in a tornado! -
2022-01-22 at 3:19 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMake
All the Republican leaning fake "news" shows
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Away
LA Times
Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks
Stephen Battaglio
Before One America News Network host Dan Ball finished an interview with guest Jim Jordan last week, he asked the Ohio Republican congressman for a favor.
“Please put some pressure on AT&T and DirecTV for us,” said Ball, whose nightly program "Real America" airs nightly on the right-wing cable channel. “OAN would love to continue broadcasting on that platform and we know for a fact it is all political behind the scenes on why they’re doing that to us.”
Earlier in the week, Ball solicited viewers to send him "dirt" on William Kannard, chairman of of the board for DirecTV parent AT&T, including any evidence of marital infidelity. OAN's 80-year-old founder, tech entrepreneur Robert Herring, also went on camera to plea with viewers to ask other cable and satellite providers in their areas to add the channel to their lineups.
The desperate calls for help — which would be considered unseemly on a traditional cable news outlet — follow DirecTV’s Jan. 15 announcement that it will drop the San Diego-based OAN from its service in April. DirecTV, which AT&T spun off last summer, accounts for nearly half of the 35 million homes that can receive OAN on cable or satellite TV. The channel is not broadly distributed enough to be measured by Nielsen.
The loss of DirecTV will deprive the channel of its major source of revenue and cast doubt on the future of the operation, where President Biden's administration is called a "regime" and concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic are described as hysteria. OAN correspondents have promoted efforts to audit the vote counts in the 2020 election.
OAN is not be the only conservative outlet losing distribution. Newsmax, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based channel that is the TV home of former President Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer, was dropped from four cable systems in January after it failed to reach new carriage agreements with those companies.
The two channels gained notoriety in recent years by seeking out conservative viewers who believe right-leaning Fox News, the dominant ratings leader in cable news, did not show enough unwavering fealty to Trump. Both believe it's now open season on conservative outlets.
"We count 11 liberal news and information channels in a typical cable package, with Fox News Channel and Newsmax as the only alternatives," Newsmax Chief Executive Chris Ruddy said in a statement to The Times. "All Americans are harmed when any voice, liberal or conservative, is closed down. We believe that society as a whole benefits from more discussion and political views being represented, not less."
Progressive groups, which have lobbied companies to drop OAN, lauded DirecTV's decision.
"The network is a known perpetrator of disinformation and extremism, fueling real-world violence and placing the health and safety of so many in jeopardy," said Yosef Getachew, director of Common Cause Media & Democracy Program.
A 2017 Washington Post story on OAN based on internal emails from the company, noted how Herring directed his channel to avoid any negative stories about Trump, who regularly promoted the outlet on his Twitter feed.
As late as March 2021, an OAN correspondent, Pearson Sharp, said in a report, “There’s still serious doubts about who’s actually president.” In another, he suggested COVID-19 vaccines are causing mass deaths.
OAN, Newsmax and Fox News, are all being sued for defamation by voting technology companies Smartmatic and Dominion. Both firms allege their reputations were damaged by false statements presented by anchors and guests who echoed Trump's claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him.
The lawsuits could create significant liabilities and a heap of bad publicity for the networks, complicating their relationship with distributors. The networks have said they were within their 1st Amendment rights to report on election fraud allegations made by well-known public figures, including Trump his advisors and members of Congress.
The pay TV providers who dropped OAN and Newsmax make the case that it’s not politics that drove their decisions, but the upended economics of their business.
Cable and satellite companies are coping with subscriber loss as the emergence of streaming services, such as Netflix, disrupts TV habits. The number of pay TV homes declined by nearly 9% through the first nine months of 2021, according to research firm MoffettNathanson. DirecTV has seen significant subscriber losses as well.
The cost of a cable package is a major factor in the consumers' decision to cut the cord, which means service providers are under pressure not to raise rates. Cable bills creep up when the cost to carry programming is passed along to consumers.
DirecTV did not comment on OAN beyond its initial statement saying the decision to drop it came "after a routine internal review." The company's chief executive Bill Morrow did offer an explanation in a memo to employees obtained by The Times.
Morrow said carriage decisions on channels are based on "industry trends such as secular decline, programming price increases, competitive offerings with lower price points, our competitors’ offers, and consumers’ desire to have more narrow bundles."
Breezeline, the Quincy, Mass.-based cable company formerly known as Atlantic Alliance, took a similar stance in its comment on its decision to part with Newsmax.
"While we worked in good faith to negotiate a fair agreement, Newsmax insisted on terms and conditions that we could not accept,” said Andrew Walton, a spokesperson for Breezeline. "The decision was not related in any way to the content on the network."
Walton added that Newsmax's demands for a higher fee "would have resulted in increased TV fees for all Breezeline customers — for a channel that is free online to other viewers."
Newsmax can be streamed online without a pay TV subscription, a selling point the company has touted to Fox News fans who are reluctant to drop cable. (Fox Nation, the streaming service operated by Fox News, shows the cable channel's programming only on a delayed basis and has no live news programming.)
While the loss of carriage on Breezeline and other small carriers will not significantly cut into the 54 million homes that carry Newsmax, other cable providers could cite the service's free stream as a reason to drop it from their channel lineups in the future.
"It could be canary in the coal mine," said one veteran cable distribution executive who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Newsmax has noted it picked up carriage on 170 pay TV systems since Nov. 2020. While Newsmax has expressed support for OAN publicly, its executives privately distance themselves from their more extreme competitor.
Newsmax is still a major comfort zone for Trump supporters — its biggest ratings come from live coverage of the former president's rallies, which Fox News no longer airs. But Newsmax declared Biden the winner of the 2020 election — something OAN resisted — and has been a strong supporter of COVID-19 vaccines.
As for OAN, the loss of revenue through DirecTV — Herring told his viewers the company gets 10 cents a month per subscriber — will mean it has to substantially alter its business model to survive. (The company did not reply to a request for comment.)
OAN could be offered as a direct-to-consumer subscription service or a free advertiser-supported video-on-demand steaming channel. Herring also has a multichannel subscription streaming service called KlowdTV that includes OAN.
"We don't know exactly what we are going to do yet," Herring told viewers. "But don't worry, we have a lot of options." -
2022-01-22 at 3:06 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!The New York Times
Booster Shots Instrumental in Fighting Omicron, C.D.C. Data Show
Apoorva Mandavilli
Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines aren’t just preventing infections with the highly contagious Omicron variant — they’re also keeping infected Americans from ending up in the hospital, according to data published on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The extra doses are 90 percent effective against hospitalization with the variant, the agency reported. Booster shots also reduced the likelihood of a visit to an emergency department or urgent care clinic. The extra doses were most effective against infection and death among Americans aged 50 and older, the data showed.
Over all, the new data show that the vaccines were more protective against the Delta variant than against Omicron, which lab studies have found is partially able to sidestep the body’s immune response.
It is generally accepted that booster shots keep people from becoming infected, at least for a while. Data from Israel and other countries have also suggested that boosters can help prevent severe illness and hospitalization, especially in older adults.
“Data from other countries have also shown significant benefit of getting the booster, but this is really showing it in the U.S.,” Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University, said of the figures released on Friday. “These numbers should be very convincing.”
On Thursday night, the C.D.C. published additional data showing that in December, unvaccinated Americans 50 years and older were about 45 times more likely to be hospitalized than those who were vaccinated and got a third shot.
Yet less than 40 percent of fully vaccinated Americans who are eligible for a booster shot have received one.
Friday’s results are based on three new studies led by the C.D.C. In one study, researchers analyzed hospitalizations and visits to emergency departments and urgent care clinics in 10 states from Aug. 26, 2021 to Jan. 5, 2022.
Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization with the Omicron variant fell to just 57 percent in people who had received their second dose more than six months earlier, the authors found. A third shot restored that protection to 90 percent.
It’s unclear whether protection from the boosters might also wane as it did after two shots, noted Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at Emory University.
“We just have to recognize that all these estimates of Omicron third-dose protection are going to be people who are pretty recently boosted,” she said. “We do wonder the durability of boosters themselves.”
When debating booster shot recommendations for all American adults, scientific advisers to the Food and Drug Administration and the C.D.C. repeatedly bemoaned the lack of booster shot data that was specific to the United States.
There are differences between Israel and the United States — for example, in the way Israel defines severe illness — that made it challenging to interpret the relevance of Israeli data for Americans, they said.
Some members of the Biden administration supported the use of booster doses even before the scientific advisers of the agencies had a chance to review the data from Israel. Federal health officials intensified their boosters-for-all campaign after the arrival of the Omicron variant.
The C.D.C. now recommends booster shots for everyone 12 years and older, five months after getting two doses of the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna, or two months after a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The usefulness of booster shots in Americans younger than 50 was a topic of vigorous debate in the fall. Several experts argued at the time that third shots were unnecessary for younger adults because two doses of the vaccine were holding up well.
Some of those experts remained unconvinced by the new data.
It was clear even months ago that older adults and those with weakened immune systems would benefit from extra doses of the vaccine, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the F.D.A.’s vaccine advisory committee.
But “where is the evidence that a third dose benefits a healthy young person?” he asked.
“If you’re trying to stop the spread of this virus, vaccinate the unvaccinated,” he added. “We keep trying to further protect the already protected.”
But other experts changed their minds in favor of boosters because of the highly contagious Omicron variant. Even if two doses were enough to keep young people out of hospitals, they said, a third dose could limit virus spread by preventing infections.
“They’re both data-driven, legitimate positions,” said John Moore, a virologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. But at this point, the debate is over: “We are using boosters in everyone, and that’s what’s happening.” -
2022-01-22 at 2:59 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMAGAts
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Associated Press
Texas attorney general refuses to hand over Jan. 6 records
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has rejected a prosecutor’s demand for records of his appearance at a pro-Donald Trump rally that preceded the assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Last week, the Travis County district attorney’s office had set a four-day deadline for Paxton to turn over the records involving the Jan. 6, 2021, rally or face a lawsuit accusing him of violating the state open records law. But in a letter to the district attorney's office Friday, the attorney general’s office denied any violations and rejected the office’s demands.
The Texas Tribune was the first to report about Paxton's refusal. A message to the district attorney's office seeking comment wasn’t immediately returned.
Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, appeared at the event in Washington, D.C., where the attorney general gave a speech touting his failed legal push to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
Several news organizations have requested Paxton’s communications from around that time under the Texas Public Information Act. Last March, six news outlets jointly published a story raising questions about whether Paxton was breaking open records laws.
Earlier this month, top editors at five Texas newspapers — the Austin American-Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News — filed a complaint asking the district attorney to investigate the alleged violations.
Paxton faces several GOP challengers in his reelection bid this year.
In 2020, eight of Paxton’s top deputies accused him of bribery, abuse of office and other crimes in the service of another supporter, an Austin real estate developer who employs a woman with whom the attorney general allegedly had an extra-marital affair. The FBI is investigating those allegations.
The attorney general has also spent most of his time in office under a separate felony indictment. He pleaded not guilty in 2015 to three state securities fraud charges but is yet to face trial. -
2022-01-22 at 2:52 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sThe Guardian
Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn to see honorary university degrees revoked
Martin Pengelly in New York
The University of Rhode Island will revoke honorary degrees given to Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn, key allies of Donald Trump in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
The URI board of trustees on Friday voted unanimously to revoke the degrees, which were given to Giuliani in 2003 and Flynn in 2014.
Giuliani’s doctorate of laws was given for his leadership as mayor of New York City after the 9/11 attacks, the Providence Journal reported.
Flynn, a retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who graduated from URI in 1981, was given a doctorate of humane letters.
The trustees voted on the recommendation of the URI president, Marc Parlange, who said the two men “no longer represent the highest level of our values and standards that were evident when we first bestowed the degree”.
Giuliani has acted as Trump’s attorney, work that led to the suspension of his law licenses in New York and Washington DC.
A leader of legal attempts to overturn election results in key states, Giuliani spoke at a rally near the White House on 6 January, urging “trial by combat”.
Parlange said Giuliani “encouraged domestic terrorist behavior aimed at preventing Congress from certifying the outcome of the 2020 presidential election”.
Seven people died around the storming of the US Capitol. Trump was impeached but acquitted. More than 700 people have been charged. Eleven members of a far-right militia have been charged with sedition.
This week, Giuliani was among Trump allies served subpoenas by the House select committee investigating the attack. Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of contempt of Congress arising from a refusal to co-operate. Trump’s final chief of staff, Mark Meadows, could face the same charge. Leading Republicans in Congress have also refused to co-operate.
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that a judge has released to prosecutors more than 3,000 of Giuliani’s communications, in an investigation of work in Ukraine which contributed to Trump’s first impeachment, for seeking dirt on rivals including Joe Biden.
Flynn, who was fired from the Defense Intelligence Agency by Barack Obama, became Trump’s national security adviser before being fired for lying to the FBI about contacts with Russian officials.
He pleaded guilty but was pardoned by Trump. A leading figure on the far right, he has advocated a military coup and the establishment of Christianity as the state religion.
Flynn has been implicated in aspects of Trump’s attempt to stay in power including plans to seize election machines, the subject of a draft executive order revealed on Friday by Politico. He has resisted a subpoena from the 6 January committee.
Also on Friday, the Guardian reported that law enforcement agencies have learned of an alleged plan by “allies of Flynn” to “gather ‘intelligence’ on top Republicans”, in order to compel them to back election audits in key states.
Recommending the revocation of the honorary degrees, Parlange said: “As a civic institution, URI has the privilege and responsibility to sustain and preserve American democracy by insuring and modeling good citizenship. Revoking these honorary degrees reinforces our values and allows us to lead with truth and integrity.”
The chairwoman of the URI trustees, Margo Cook, said the board “supports the university and its mission to uphold its values, especially its commitment to intellectual and ethical leadership and fostering an environment of diversity and respect”. -
2022-01-22 at 6:44 AM UTC in US Supreme Court issues rare statement refuting CNN Fake News.Two words:
FAUX NEWS. -
2022-01-21 at 8:22 PM UTC in Meatloaf deadMeat Loaf 'seriously ill with COVID-19' before death
Bang Showbiz
Meat Loaf reportedly died after contracting COVID-19.
The 'Bat Out Of Hell' hitmaker's team announced he had passed away on Thursday (20.01.22) evening at the age of 74 and although they didn't share a cause of death, it's now been reported by TMZ he had been "seriously ill" with the virus.
Sources told the outlet that Meat had been due to attend a business dinner earlier this week for the dating show he'd been working on, 'I'd Do Anything for Love', but the engagement was cancelled after he fell ill, and the rocker's condition quickly became critical.
It is unclear whether the 'Wayne's World' actor was vaccinated, but according to the website, Meat had recently been supporting those critical of vaccine mandates in Australia.
And the 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light' singer had previously branded the virus "a drag" and questioned the ongoing impact the pandemic had had on the entertainment industry.
He wrote in October 2020: "Hello everyone, nothing going on at all. That's a drag. Covid is a drag. Where I live things are open and thriving. The entertainment world hubs are in lockdown. WHY?" -
2022-01-21 at 8:18 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Meat Loaf 'seriously ill with COVID-19' before death
Bang Showbiz
Meat Loaf reportedly died after contracting COVID-19.
The 'Bat Out Of Hell' hitmaker's team announced he had passed away on Thursday (20.01.22) evening at the age of 74 and although they didn't share a cause of death, it's now been reported by TMZ he had been "seriously ill" with the virus.
Sources told the outlet that Meat had been due to attend a business dinner earlier this week for the dating show he'd been working on, 'I'd Do Anything for Love', but the engagement was cancelled after he fell ill, and the rocker's condition quickly became critical.
It is unclear whether the 'Wayne's World' actor was vaccinated, but according to the website, Meat had recently been supporting those critical of vaccine mandates in Australia.
And the 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light' singer had previously branded the virus "a drag" and questioned the ongoing impact the pandemic had had on the entertainment industry.
He wrote in October 2020: "Hello everyone, nothing going on at all. That's a drag. Covid is a drag. Where I live things are open and thriving. The entertainment world hubs are in lockdown. WHY?"
I think he has probably finally figured out why. -
2022-01-21 at 6:57 PM UTC in Fuck it I'm about to drink this 1960s unopened bottle of ginAt least I wasn't trying to get a dick into his Jiggly Booty, unlike mmq.
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2022-01-21 at 6:48 PM UTC in Fuck it I'm about to drink this 1960s unopened bottle of ginTry some Gordon's and then try some Tanqueray and then get back to me when you're not talking out of your ass.
Can't stand Sudoku. -
2022-01-21 at 6:42 PM UTC in Fuck it I'm about to drink this 1960s unopened bottle of gin
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2022-01-21 at 6:36 PM UTC in Fuck it I'm about to drink this 1960s unopened bottle of gin
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Thanks, at LEAST someone can answer the question.
Hey, I already answered the question. You just weren't intelligent enough to catch it.
Originally posted by stl1 Most gin doesn't taste like much of anything.
On the other hand, I highly recommend Tanqueray and tonic. Light, bright, junipery!
Culinary use
Juniper berries are a spice used in a wide variety of culinary dishes and best known for the primary flavoring in gin (and responsible for gin's name, which is a shortening of the Dutch word for juniper, jenever). A juniper based spirit is made by fermenting juniper berries and water to create a "wine" that is then distilled. This is often sold as a juniper brandy in eastern Europe. Juniper berries are also used as the primary flavor in the liquor Jenever, and sahti-style of beers. Juniper berry sauce is often a popular flavoring choice for quail, pheasant, veal, rabbit, venison, and other game dishes. -
2022-01-21 at 6:28 PM UTC in I Just Tested Negative
