Baffert training his latest entry.
Bob Baffert is in some hot water with the Kentucky Derby. Rory is back to his old winning ways. Bryson DeChambeau needs to learn a little patience. And the chase for UCL and UEL soccer gets even crazier in England. And that’s sports.
Stage actor John Wilkes Booth was born on this day. He shares it with dancer/singer/actor Fred Astaire, moviemaker David O Selznick, country (and western) singer Maybelle Carter, rocker Sid Vicious, music fan Mark David Chapman, Irish person Bono, and a whole lot of other people I never heard of or cared for. And the baseball birthdays were not worth even mentioning.
Yes, that list is a huge disappointment. So let’s move on to…the links!
Yeah, well they’re also a disincentive to going back to work.
Alternate headline: Republicans actually do something right for a change. Except the media won’t paint it that way. Because they love the economic chaos paying people to sit on their ass is causing.
Good, do it! Nations should be shrinking, not growing.
What could possibly go wrong? I’ll make a bold prediction: this will be misused (at best) and abused (most certainly) to paint anti-big government people as horrible extremists and stick them behind bars on the flimsiest of evidence. Besides, terrorists aren’t using social media to plan their attacks.
Stupid asshole Anthony Fauci
Get a load of this chump. Newsflash: nobody with a brain in their head has been listening to him for several months. His junk science has caused irreparable damage to our way of life and he should be run out of town on a rail.
Sounds like Bill’s got some ‘splainin to do. I hope this gets to discovery before they settle. But it won’t.
Literally none of this makes sense to me. What’s the point in civilian oversight if they’re not allowed to investigate police actions. Oh yeah…that won’t sit well with the unions. Way to go, Illinois. Keep letting citizens get treated like shit in order to placate pubsec unions (who are bankrupting your entire state).
Go ahead and bulldoze it. It’s never getting occupied.
The new normal is here. And it’s long overdue.
This is what happens when the government tells people contracts don’t mean anything. Assholes like this game the system and are lauded as victims.
It hadn’t taken Mendoza long to see that her struggles were someone else’s opportunity, that the life she might lose here in this 850-square-foot apartment was part of another’s business plan. And she was the only thing between it and her two children, Alejandra, 18, and Erik, 10.
Don’t sign the contract if you have no plans on meeting the terms, you mendacious fuck.*
*I say this as a property owner who finally got a tenant out in February after losing $12,000 in unpaid rent that I will never see. So we said fuck it and sold the house. There’s no point in owning a rental property if the state won’t enforce the lease terms.
Here’s a rousing ditty to start your Monday. Hope you enjoy it. I certainly will.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
Smaller nations lead to more wars.
Yeah but they’re smaller wars though.
Larger nations lead to diminished self-determination and less responsive bureaucracies.
What we really need is a national DMV.
Go real woke and make it a global one?
Like your small state is going to have a responsive bureaucracy.
Unless you count bribing petty officials as responsive.
Hard to have a bureaucracy at Dunbar’s number or below.
Your clan isn’t going to last very long on its own.
You form a mutual defense organization with a Dunbar’s number of clans.
I actually figured out you can have a 5-tier level of government in the US based on Dunbar’s number.
Well, loosely, it was 50 unit organizations, with the smallest being 50 households, which is about Dunbar’s number of people at 3 per household average.
Those 50 households should be the PRIMARY government level. Lets call it a neighborhood.
50 neighborhoods form a town (about 7500 people)
50 towns form a county (about 375k)
50 counties form a state (about 19MM)
50 states form a nation (that would be just under a billion)
For the current US population of 375MM, the scale would be about 42 instead of 50.
Or, if you did people and not households at lowest level, scale would be 52, and the neighborhood level would be about 20 houses.
For those, the pop at each level would be
Lets call lowest one Block instead of neighborhood: ~52 people
Town: ~2700
County: ~140k
State: ~7.2MM
Nation: ~375MM
Whew! Guess we don’t have to worry about China and India! ?
Well, neither one of them can get over here, so we don’t have to worry unless they figure out the whole sealift thing.
Damn Lichtenstein and all their wars with San Marino.
+1 Mouse That Roared
Scotland versus England in a war! Pass the popcorn, that would be fantastic.
All of the bold blood has been bled out of those two states.
I wouldn’t count on that, the Scots, like the Irish, hold grudges for centuries.
Holding a grudge isn’t the same as being able to muster and go to war.
The Irish – they fought for centuries for independence, so they could immediately cede it to the EU.
That’s the best part – a woke-on-woke war. The wokest people on Earth shooting each other for more welfare and tyranny. Then complaining about it until the winners go broke paying for counseling for the losers.
They should pick a suitable spot – somewhere with good access, but not too urban. Say, Culloden Moor?
“”We’re not looking at who are the individual posters,” said a senior official involved in the effort.”
Call me crazy but I don’t believe them, in fact I’ll even go out on a limb and say they’re lying.
No, he’s probably telling the truth. They’re also looking at every person those posters communicate regularly with and combing through their personal information in order to intimidate them. And those peoples associations as well. You know, just to be safe.
Do we think she didn’t know about bill and epstein before we all did?
My contention is that she not only did know, but that she felt she couldn’t do squat about it without jeopardizing her access to his fortune, until now.
Very possible. Theres just the risk people not buying the “I didn’t like it, I just couldn’t say anything” and lumping you in as well.
I also enjoyed the “this is the ideal them for (gates, bezos) to liquidate stocks” take
BELIEVE HER!
Bill is an evil patriarch that kept this strong woman down!
I am going to bet money that the thing that pissed Melinda the most was that it was always obvious to her that despite the fact that he was a woke asshole, Bill was way smarter than she would ever be able to pretend to be, and not very likely to be humble about that..
My guess is that they really didn’t have anything in common anymore and she wanted to see if she could find somebody that makes her happy.
Just because they’re rich doesn’t mean they’re not normal in the sense that they want actual companionship, and since that was gone it became time to wipe the slate clean and start over.
Oh, I was under no illusion that she married that geek for ulterior motives, and later came to regret it. I heard the story of how they met, and I immediately knew Bill should have thought better about pursuing her.
Didn’t she work at Microsoft?
On a product line that bombed hard.
Which product? Bob?
I believe so.
I don’t get the vitriol directed towards her.
It’s not vitriol… It’s the fact that she is pulling these stunts (telling the media about Bill being buddies with Epstein, unless she has proof the guy was a fucking perv, which creates a whole other problem if she knew and sat on it, serves only to blackmail him into paying her off) to cash in…
I’ll ponder that on my first required commute to the office on June 1.
Yeah, but at some point you’ll be an outlier.
Again?! Used to that.
My company’s division I work for tried the “go back to work” thing, but still told people they couldn’t use any conference rooms, had to wear a mask all day, had to space them selves in an insane way, and had to still do all the crazy shit to prove they were not Kung Flu spreading monkeys… Out of 3000 people, something like 3 people volunteered for it. And all 3 quit after a week…
I have heard them admit that going back is not really needed since productivity is up now that people working from home can’t be tempted by other things and the water cooler…
I started a new job last week. My last job was 100% remote, and in this one I’ll only go in one day a week. Still I had to go in a bunch for onboarding and junk. I had forgotten how much time is wasted by Co-worker just shooting the breeze. I sit by marketing and all they do is bullshit for a few hours and such.
Yeah, most of the people that complained about missing the office were the ones that spent most of their day bullshitting and doing anything but work. Now they can’t do that and actually are left with the option to do work, or clearly show they are slackers. I miss going in for one reason: the gym in the building next to mine. Well that and the fact that now I spend that time doing more work for the same pay.
Believe me, in most jobs that don’t really require you to be on the spot, making people work from home will benefit employers financially. It will piss of government types that see a large chunk of their income racket (urban taxes) get buttfucked, but they will find a way to stick it good and hard to the people no longer part of that old racket.
Yeah, I love working from home simply because it’s quiet.
The only thing the company gets out of this is me wasting three hours of my day traveling. There is literally no reason for me to be there.
The only other person I interact with is my boss (and I am the only other person in my office he interacts with). I’m hoping we can wriggle out of this somehow.
Fuck that noise. My profession has worked on an apprenticeship model and the last year has sucked ass. Since it’s very hard to apprentice someone remotely, and the rookies aren’t learning at the pace they should, guess who got to clock 2,500 fucking hours to make sure everything got done?
Get your ass back into the office.
I can’t tell you how many of my coworkers are engaged in some sort of home repair/remodel because they are working from home.
My guess is any improvement from lack of BS-ing is lost to people working on other things around the house.
Don’t get me wrong, I still think that working from home is generally better than being in the office (for most jobs). I’m just saying that working from home isn’t a total win.
We are supposed to go back into the office mid June. I only live a mile from the office so it isn’t a big deal. The rest of my team lives quite a bit further away and are not happy about the prospect of commuting again. In our 1/1 meetings with our manager this week, we’ve all decided to push him for a hybrid 3days in/2days out schedule.
I believe the hybrid plans will become the norm your holiness. I see most will be willing to accept a 3 days home/2 days in, and quite a few will push for 4 at home/1 in since their job really doesn’t get any better/easier coming in anyway, but I suspect that when companies see that that travel day results in productivity drops at that time, they will rethink even this..
I am friends with one of the lawyers that worked on the company’s real estate procurement team (met em at that gym I spoke of) and he pointed out that the top men freaked out when he pointed out that even with the penalty for canceling early leases hitting the company, they would save over $100 million in the next decade (and that is a conservatively low assessment, he says) , because a large part of that will be real estate taxes they will no longer need to pay in urban areas. The leaders all worried that the political parasitic class would condemn them for no longer paying off the urban gangster class and their vote buying racket.
I almost had a whiplash injury hearing that stupid shit. They are not at all interested in doing something that would benefit the company and the stock holders if it harms their ability to claim how woke they fucking are because they pay off gangsters.
I start work at 8am when I’m home.
Not even my boss rolled in before 9am back when the office was open.
And who is going to be willing to work late when they have an hour, hour-and-a-half commute to look forward to?
This will kill productivity.
Hopefully it will be noticed and changed, but as I pointed out, a lot of times there are other things going on that have nothing to do with making sense or productivity that drive the decisions of the morons in charge…
When I get to CO, I am planning “normal” hours to be 6:30-3:30 local time, which is 8:30-5:30 office time. So, yeah, if I have to work late, it is very convenient for me, especially with no commute. “Oh no, I wont be done until 4:30 and won’t be home until 4:31!”
I generally start at 0600 here in the Great Land, which is 1000 on the East Coast, although now and then I start as early as 0400 for scheduled meetings. Price I pay for getting to live in a free state, and it’s sure as hell worth it.
My prediction for the next big bailout is that cities will buy downtown commercial real estate and turn it into affordable housing.
The fat cats who own all that down town real estate are going to be fucked by telecommuting/working from home. They will get their whores on the city council to buy up those office buildings and turn it into affordable housing.
With lots of deadbeats now living downtown, the companies that didn’t relocate to the suburbs will do so pretty quickly because of the increased bum ratio.
Many metropolitan areas make a sell of their offerings by telling you how woke you can claim you are by moving to a place with a high bum ratio!
COME SHOW YOUR PROGRESSIVE CREDS BY MOVING INTO OUR CITY AND HELP GIVE SAN FRANSISCO A RUN FOR IT’S MONEY! SHIT ON TH SIDEWALKS! THROW USED DRUG PARAPERNALIA EVERYWHERE! RAPE AND PILLAGE!
Our arch rival in Minneapolis used to be Portland. We were always duking it out for who is the most bike friendly city.
You would think that given how things have been going in Portland, Minneapolis would declare victory once and for all. I suspect, though, that the Minneapolis city council members are totes jelly that Portland’s antifa brigades are still going well and all they have is some possible rioting if the other three cops in the George Floyd trial aren’t crucified.
CBRE hardest hit. And by hit mean…
Given that you can’t ride a bike 10 months of the year in Minnesota, I would have that Portland won that contest quite a while back.
Minneapolis decided to beat Portland in biking friendliness by spending gobs and gobs of money on bike trails, bike bridges, etc.
When snow isn’t covering them, the biking trails are wonderful.
The Pope is correct. I watch a couple of people I know working from home and there is zero increased work, only increased FOT (fuck off time)
Hybrid is going to be the wave for a few years, and that will be followed by Getting Away From the Husband/Wife/Kids return to work with its requisite FOT.
My company had a number of remote workers when I started. In Feb of 2019 a email was sent to his senior execs (which my boss forwarded to me) about restricting it going forward and trying to shift back to in-office for as many employees as possible and for all new hires. Then covid hit. And productivity went up. And the new CIO is committed to remote work. And that email got memory-holed.
And hence I am moving from SC to CO. I also almost applied for a position at Coinbase last year, but never bothered to send in resume. If I ever decide to change positions, they will be on the list.
It is astonishing to me that the destruction of small-potatoes landlordery isn’t a bigger story. The fallout is going to be unbelievable.
They played the socialist to make them think they were going to socialize housing and kill the landlords, when what they were doing was consolidating the industry.
Same as it ever was
With interest rates being held at all time lows and investment banks looking for safe places to park cash with inflation roaring in, expect a huge wave of buying houses up by funds and large operators.
The small owner is getting fucked good and hard.
Once the shitbag tenants figured this out they fucked their landlords good and hard. And here, since we’ve had a mass exodus of police since all this began, it is nearly impossible to get them out even with evidence of criminal activity.
No cops?
Turn off utilities and begin demolition.
as trust in law enforcements erodes even further, there will be a comeback of organized crime as people turn to the alternative methods of maintaining order.
^This. Whenever there is a power vacuum, someone moves in to fill it.
Shall we start divvying up which areas we are going to be warlords of?
Dibs on Corpus Cristi.
Looking forward to a repeat of the 70s when landlords would just burn their buildings down so at least they could collect on insurance.
+1 Friction Fire.
The tenants in both my rentals have kept paying rent on time. The fact that they’re on month-to-month lease terms helps. That, and we screened potential tenants for scammers.
My landlord is selling the building. I don’t think anyone’s burned him for rent, but when everyone in the building basically got furloughed he wrote everyone that they could figure out stuff if they needed. I assume there were a few that negotiated a discount for some of last year.
I don’t blame anyone for getting out.
Of course everyone is still demanding higher property tax on their rental units. Because that’s helpful.
It also doesn’t help that in places like Minneapolis rent control and permanently limiting landlords ability to evict people are popular locally with the activists and city councils.
Yeah, I’d be dumping rental property too.
It is like they are using Detroit as a template for responsible governance.
“As you get more people vaccinated, the number of cases will absolutely go down,” he went on.
But the president’s chief medical adviser said the U.S. needed to get daily cases “much, much lower” than its current 43,000 a day.
A case is 24 cans, you fucking quack.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Epstein was just schmoozing Gates for monetary donations to some cause or the other or vise versa. Then again it wouldn’t be a surprise if Gates who was probably radioactive to the opposite sex during his teens was indulging in certain things that he shouldn’t have been indulging in. A stupid mistake on his part regardless of what the truth of the situation is.
Happy belated mother’s day to the glib mother’s
You fucking sexist!
The correct term is birthing people Glibs!
Speciest! Not all Glibs are people.
[Bear stands, claps paws, grunts approvingly]
To the Glib mother’s what?
Is that a reference to Winston’s mom? I thought for sure we would have an ode to that lady and all she does for us…
Here is a rousing ditty. I am off to make crawfish bisque for my neighbors. I will be back later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU9BObi1GVw
I may have posted this before.
How does that compare with a lobster bisque?
It’s tiny.
I hope you don’t hear that a lot, man…
Fearless Leader
Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, defended Biden in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday – days after the fully-vaccinated president had an exchange with a reporter over wearing a mask at an indoor event in the White House East Room
“Is it really necessary for a fully vaccinated person to wear a mask at a limited indoor gathering if everyone there is vaccinated?” host Jake Tapper asked Zients.
“Well, the CDC has given guidance that when you’re with family and friends that are vaccinated in small groups, you don’t need a mask,” Zients answered.
But Tapper pressed him: “So why does President Biden, in a room full of vaccinated journalists, with everybody in that room vaccinated, why does he need to wear a mask?”
Zients repeated that Biden would follow the CDC guidance.
Whassamatter, Joe?
Too senile to think for yourself?
Going above and beyond on the masks is an indicator of political affiliation now and of all the attitudes that flow from that. I bet he doesn’t shed the indoor mask until that becomes politically acceptable to the Dems, the science be damned.
That’s a rhetorical question, right?
Monday is here and all I’ve got is this stupid flag.
“Things went awry at the first annual Running of the Office Building…”
Yak-Yak-Yak
*Narrowed Graze*
Pedro, you fool! Bulls charge at flags!
Alternatively, (the punchline to an old joke*) “Show him your BADGE!”
* https://northernstar-online.com/show-him-your-badge/
An archive of old jokes? Why didn’t I know about this?!
I had a “discussion” this weekend about the fact that I never trusted our legal system at all, but that under this current administration, I would actually fight any attempt to force me to bow down to it, because the fucking thing is a totally political animal and no longer even by accident delivering justice…..
It is quite telling how the people that support this administration are quite OK with the courts being compromised as long as it is in a way they believe favors their cult. I would suspect the same might be the case for a bunch of people on team red, but finding someone on team blue that sees this as a real problem has been nigh impossible…
That Plano, Texas video is infuriating. The cops standing aside is one thing but actively taking the side of the instigators is another. You just know if that fellow would have tried to clear the way or whatever he would have been arrested and charged.
I’m at a loss. How is impeding that much traffic legal in any sense?
At some point im being detained by a mob of people.
It’s essentially kidnapping IMHO.
I agree. I hate the hyperbole on the debate. It gets turned into some straw man that’s in favor of running people over crossing a street.
They had no intention of crossing a street. That’s never been the goal.
This will end badly for everyone involved. Antifa and BLM still exist because they get police protection every time they appear in public, even as they blatantly break the law and assault people. The people they are assaulting are the ones who would normally respect and support cops. Maybe completely defunding the police really is the answer – I’m sure the locals in Plano could have solved this problem quickly enough.
People will accept tyranny if it gets them their desired ends. Tribalism and rule of man are the normal now.
I would have gone with “again”.
True. Tyranny is the natural state along with poverty and others.
Funny you should say that.
https://unherd.com/2021/05/tribalism-has-come-to-the-west/
LOL at the “it can’t happen here” comments.
Will Obama’s dog be lying in state at the capitol? Are the flags at half staff?
Speaking of this… We had so many days of flags at half staff here in the City of MB that we just left them that way until we got an email from our PIO to raise them.
Leave them at half staff. People die every day.
Re: baseball birthdays. Robby Thompson was worth mentioning, but that is it.
His career year was 1993. He signed a big new contract, then proceeded to barely break the Mendoza line his last 3 seasons.
The Giants drafted him with the #2 overall pick in 1983 and he played his entire career with them (he signed with the Indians in 1997 after SF bought him out, but never played for them in the majors, don’t know if he played any in the minors or they cut him in spring training).
Nations should be shrinking, not growing.
A long way to go to reach Dunbar’s number.
My aunt and her husband went to my brother’s house to visit my mom. When I called to tell my mom happy birthday, My aunt answered, and she just had to ask me if I had accepted my holy doomsday cult sacrament. She said something about being welcome to come visit, but only after I got vaccinated.
I told her I have a busy summer coming up.
Fuck that shit.
“I chose to get the disease instead.”
It’s fucking sad how this is ripping family.
I mean half of mine was nuts already, but really laying out some of this bullshit year has me sad. They wouldn’t see my kid. We could go to the same house, but on different days.
I have no desire when this is all over to pick up the phone when they call.
Get a load of the optimist over here.
I am still hopeful.
Im also leaning towards getting the fuck out of the northeast and praying for a national divorce.
I might as well wrap my head in tinfoil.
I have no desire when this is all over to pick up the phone when they call.
“I’m sure once the mask mandate lifts that TMITE will inundate the public with sob stories about the poor, virtuous maskers who are now shunned.
Made in China.
I knew I was right not to cross high bridges.
I am sure hoping this bridge was built with plans the CCP secret services stole form some other country. The best thing to do to these cuntes is to let these fuckers steal all sorts of plans with serious flaws in them – like we used to do to the USSR in its heydays of commercial/military espionage – and watch them blow up in their face. it is becoming obvious to me that unlike the Japanese that actually put time into learning how to do things and thus developing the ability to actually see the flaws, the Chinese are just following the USSR pattern, and stealing a ton of stuff they simply don’t get and then building it, because the agenda is to look like they know what they are doing…
Burn ’em behind you
<They wouldn’t see my kid.
That’s pathetic.
Not sad-pathetic, disgusting-pathetic.
Ladydoom would argue. By the end it would turn into something like “I don’t care what the fucking governor says. You are still actively choosing to not see us.”
Can go grocery shopping. Can visit one family home, but not if another house comes up as well. Can go to work, but not see a child and the mom that stays home every day.
These are the people that actually would jump off a bridge of told by the right person wearing the right shirt.
This reminds me of the old adage about if you loan someone $20 and never see them again, it was worth it.
I’ve never heard that, but it’s perfect. I have a shop and a coke-head pallet scrapper used to always come around to bs and pet my dog. No big deal, really. Every once in a while he would stop by with a problem needing help: bleeding hand, need some water, whatever. The last time I saw him he had broken a tie rod end in the parking lot. I drove him to the parts store and “loaned” him about $22 for a new tie rod end and he replaced it in my parking lot with my tools. Never saw him again.
Agreed.
Irish person Bono
That’s “Irish non-birthing person Bono”, you insensitive misxxxxic jerk!
Troubles in River City when a homeless encampment sprouts up in a lot where a black church is going to be built.
Liberal media doesn’t know who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. I think the homeless might get the nod in this one because the black church members are a) religious and b) making a claim to their private property.
That’s weird.
I know I’m not on here enough, has everyone had a chance to make fun of the black hammer city project?
Totally not a cult.
Need a reminder on what that is.
https://youtu.be/dxChkDotAaA
https://blackhammer.org/
They’re building an ethnostate in the rocky mountains in Colorado.
“Anarcho” communism.
It’s gonna go great.
Oh, weren’t they planning to farm land unsuited to tillage?
There will be plenty of bodies to “fix” the soil composition….
According to their experts, it’s perfect.
I expect some blame on kulaks.
Here you go, Chief.
Mission Statement: “The Black Hammer Organization is a revolutionary mass organization dedicated toward building a sustainable future for all colonized people worldwide.”
Article which would be totes lulzy if they weren’t excusing violence and blaming that on other people: White Power Acting In Black Face Stabs Two Asian Women
Because, you see, that black person stabbed those two asian people because white supremacy exists.
Thanks, DoomCo, I was unaware of them. That has upped my bile and spleen levels to the point that I’m angry enough to write.
I am to please
“White Power Acting In Black Face Stabs Two Asian Women”
I think it’s mostly because asians often own stores and businesses in black neighborhoods.
Also because Asians are the most successful minority, on average more successful than white people, and black people are the least successful, creating envy, which is a powerful motivator to attack others.
Envy is class oppression! How dare you insinuate that some thing noted several millenia ago about humans might be a cause when class oppression and race is the issue – always.
Bunch of people bought some land and want to try to create a communist paradise? As long as they aren’t forcing anyone to join, more power to them.
I haven’t seen anything to say theyve actually purchased any land.
I have no issue with them trying.
In April 2021, Black Hammer org announced the purchase of the 200 acres of land for Hammer City Turtle Island.
Yeah, I’m seeing other reports they’ve bought it.
Maybe without water rights. It’s hard to find a good source.
Exactly. Goes to my Dunbar’s number point. Kibbutzim can work, at least for a while.
Wakanda Forever
AUSTERITY!
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled in a new interview that he is open to an infrastructure spending bill totaling as much as $800 billion.
“The proper price tag for what most of think about when we think about infrastructure is about [$600 billion to $800 billion],” McConnell told public television in Kentucky over the weekend.
“What we’ve got here can best be described as a bait and switch,” he added.
McConnell indicated last week that GOP lawmakers were open to a roughly $600 billion bill.
President Biden’s team at the White House has proposed a $2.25 trillion spending proposal that would fund the country’s bridges, roads and tunnels and set aside more funding to help states beat back the coronavirus pandemic.
Republicans just want people to die.
That figure is still way too high but I guess the Democrat-lite party is still not the Democrats.
Neighbors on the block say the tents moved came in in only a matter of hours last Wednesday.
“It was kind of a parade, I was out an hour earlier walking by and it was empty and an hour later tents we’re going up and people were just kind of streaming in,” neighbor John said.
Huh.
They are transients that use the local light rail transit to transport their transgender friends and neighbors to a virgin location and establish a transitional community.
“Biden official warns cyberattacks on US are ‘here to stay’ after ‘Russian ransomware gangsters DarkSide’ shut down America’s largest fuel pipeline: Emergency declaration is issued in 18 states amid price hike fears”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9560505/Cyberattacks-stay-Biden-official-warns-Colonial-Pipeline-remains-shut.html
Maybe not connect everything to the internet?
But the election system, the juiciest target in the world, is the one thing that is 100% secure and can never be hacked.
People say that it’s not connected to the internet, but I don’t see how it couldn’t be.
They just left their 2400 baud modem on and accepting incoming calls.
Theoretically they use sneakernet, ie anything going in or out of the voting machines is done via usb drives or other removable media. Theoretically. I believe someone had evidence that the voting machines were networked in some fashion. But even a small LAN unconnected to the internet is hackable, particularly if wireless.
And the voting machines are not the only place you could attack. I’d say whatever computer is used to tabulate the results would be more susceptible to hacking. Got to keep up with those Windows updates, after all.
I thought you were talking about the pipeline for a second, and I was all… why?
I fear that this hack has provided the Biden Administration a convenient excuse as to why gas prices are shooting up and will continue to do so.
So what you’re saying is, it was an inside job?
/Cathy Newman
“It was the Russians thats done it!”
The articles I’ve found aren’t really clear on if the cyber attack actually effected their controls, or just their business network. Control systems generally are air gapped, or at least behind several layers of firewall. Of course, not everyone follows best practices…
“Emergency declaration is issued in 18 states amid price hike fears”
Ahh yes, using an emergency declaration to eliminate gauging. Surely they will mean everyone will get the cheap affordable gas.
Now this is how you fucking settle shit….
“Trump jets out of Florida to spend the summer at his Bedminster golf course in New Jersey to escape the heat and plan 2024 election after saying Mother’s Day goodbye to Melania and Barron at Mar-a-Lago”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9560663/Melania-Trump-wears-polka-dots-celebrate-Mothers-Day-Mar-Lago-Barron-Donald.html
Could he even win the primary at this point?
He should run as a Democrat, just to screw with people.
^^this^^
Well, there is no way he could win a Democrat primary.
Well there was no way he could win the Republican primary either.
I was expecting him to win the primary then lose to Hillary.
Once he won the nomination, I gave him a chance of winning the general – as improbable as it all seemed.
Since Tundra isn’t here yet….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9561487/Elizabeth-Hurley-poses-bikini-plunging-gold-sizzling-snaps.html
That woman is from another planet. And it’s a planet I’d like to visit.
Not human.
Doesn’t matter to me.
“Caitlyn Jenner, who is running for governor of California, said she believes undocumented immigrants should have an opportunity to become citizens.
The 71-year-old gold medal-winning Olympic athlete and reality TV star made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.
During the conversation, Bash says there are 1.75 million undocumented workers in California before asking Jenner if they should have a chance at citizenship.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9560665/Caitlyn-Jenner-says-1-75-million-undocumented-workers-California-path-citizenship.html
Stupid question, and stupid answer, because states don’t grant citizenship.
Have you met California yet though? They kinda do.
“Paul Hogan is trapped in ‘hell on earth’ LA neighbourhood rife with drugs and violence – as the Crocodile Dundee icon says he’s ‘desperate’ to return to Australia”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9560059/Paul-Hogan-trapped-hell-earth-LA-neighbourhood-rife-drugs-violence.html
So he can’t enter his own country due to the pandemic?
Weren’t the Aussie wardens preventing the inmates from travelling within the country? Possibly requiring them to stay in their homes?
You can enter and quarantine, but then you can’t leave without more theater.
The #1 female tennis player what’s-her-name said fuckit, she’s not going back until the theater goes away. Couch-surfing and hotels from now on.
He’s tired of saying “That’s not a syringe. Now THAT’S a syringe.”
Australia was so cool and hip back in those glory days. But then they got so woke that no one believes it anymore, totally ruined their image. In the new Crocodile Dundee, he pulls out a tiny butter knife and lectures the would be perps about common sense knife control until they drop their weapons and run away in terror.
I drove through Venice in 1992 while looking for an apartment. Felt like I was trapped in hell for the 15 minutes I was there. I can only imagine what it’s like now.
I love the photo of Venice Beach’s boardwalk that is not even a photo of it.
There is one farther down the page that is of the boardwalk.
Yeah, I have the same fears as you Sloopy with my rental house. So far the tenant hasn’t missed a payment, but I keeping my fingers crossed. These idiots have zero idea what a fucked game they are playing. Money comes from the bank just like electricity comes from the wall.
Oh, and looking at the birthday list, I used to date FA’s granddaughter right after high school.
Cool story! I hear he was a lovely man.
Union of concerned snake oil salesmen
It’s not one specific thing related to Covid-19 that is keeping the economy down, but everything related to the pandemic, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis said on Sunday.
Speaking on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” Neel Kashkari said it was a complex series of factors that led to Friday’s disappointing jobs report, which showed that only 266,000 jobs were created in April, far below expectations.
“This is unlike any other economic shock in any of our lifetimes,” he told host John Dickerson.
A variety of theories have been put forth as to why April’s numbers were not better, including the idea that people were fine with sitting home and collecting enhanced unemployment benefits, as well as concerns about continued Covid risks, a lack of decent child care and fear of using crowded public transportation.
Kashkari saw merit in all those arguments, given the unique circumstances of the pandemic.
“It wasn’t simply the lockdowns from the government that put a damper on the economy,” he said. “It was each of us, each of your viewers, each family taking actions to protect themselves. Yesterday, for the first time in over a year, I got back on an airplane because my wife and I had been vaccinated and we felt comfortable. But it’s going to take time for that psychology to change.”
This is the same dumb motherfucker calling for Australia-style lockdowns last year.
Flatten the curve!
“This is unlike any other economic shock in any of our lifetimes,” he told host John Dickerson.
You got that part right, anyway. In a rational universe, you’d be part of that tent village in the story Pope Jimbo linked.
Kashkari is Fauci-lite. He loves the limelight.
Locally he is working on a constitutional amendment to make good education a right.
Why a Fed chairman is fucking around with education is a mystery (unless you realize that in Minnesoda the Teacher’s Union is the 800lb gorilla and he’s sucking up to them).
“Locally he is working on a constitutional amendment to make good education a right.”
I thought that
Marxist indoctrinationeducation was already a right?Idiots like Kashkari are so busy looking up their own anuses that they can’t see the obvious that’s staring anyone with an IQ above room temperature in the face. The shock to the economy was on the supply side. Talk to anyone who talks to anyone in beyond their own little circle and you get more and more evidence supporting it. But, I’ve brought up the evidence to “economists” I work with. We have shortages in raw materials ranging from plastics to lumber to glass to sheetrock to microchips and multi-month long delays in deliveries of finished goods. You talk to “experts” and you get nothing more than blank stares from glazed over eyes. And not minutes later they’ll start prattling about how we need massive spending to stimulate demand.
???
Shortages are everywhere, increasing demand is the worst thing to do right now.
Which is why that is exactly what they’ll attempt to do.
This goes back to the beginnings of the lockdown. The Top Men didn’t see anything wrong with stopping all activity. They seemed to believe that when the Rona was beaten, things would start up without a hitch. Supply chains were easy and simple to stop/start.
The early debacles with ranchers having to slaughter their livestock because the meat packing plants were shut down did nothing to disabuse them of their belief that they knew everything about the economy and could easily manage it.
They were more concerned with the method of euthanization rather than the effect of the removal of that future food from the supply chain.
That tells you how in touch with reality they are.
The economy is a machine with an on/off switch and a dial for employment. Top Men know this.
The fact that the people who ought to know better don’t know better indicates either malice or incompetence. Not good either way.
It’s a situation that was completely the fault of central planners, and they cannot see a way out that doesn’t involve central planning. They are Top. Men. and will only accept solutions from Top. Men.
Upton Sinclair said it best: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
Minnesoda comes up with diversity angle to make green energy jobs even sexier for local liberals.
The story is about the state dumping a couple million into a training facility that claims it will teach local minorities in the bad part of town how to get great jobs installing solar panels.
Nothing says “helping the economic downtrodden” like getting them into an industry that requires giant subsidies. Because those will never go away. Solar panel installation jobs will always be there and paying top $$.
The 5-man crew that installed my panels were all Hispanic. I’m going to guess that means they were white-hispanic.
I mean Hispanics are mostly white, so it’s a fair term I guess.
I’m a take a wild guess here and say that the ones installing panels and mowing your lawn are at least 50% native Mexicans, probably 100%, not too much white.
It is tough to tell how much white are in them. You really can only know if a guy is a white hispanic after he attacks another minority or does some other bad thing.
You can also tell when they have blonde/red or light colored hair and blue eyes. It’s a dead giveaway.
Voting Republican is the surest sign.
“native Mexicans”?
You know, the guys whose ancestors cut out hearts to make sure the rains come.
Yes, those guys.
Yes. You didn’t know about those? I believe some of them were known as Aztecs, although I think they referred to themselves as Messican or something close to that. They founded a city known as Tenochtitlan, where Mexico City is today. And then the white debils came and fucked all that up.
ah gotcha. like native americans but mexican. uncorrupted by white dna.
They evolved into cholos y cholas .
So tired of the endless social engineering.
Reading Stasiland (well, via Audible) right now and the idea that human nature is malleable and can be ‘fixed’ by policy is exhausting.
Today, in magic-hat economics
More than 50 House Democrats have signed onto a draft letter in support of an $8 billion bailout for the USPS that would allow it to buy new electric delivery vehicles, according to The Washington Post.
“To ensure that any federal funding appropriated to the Postal Service for fleet acquisition is used appropriately, we would also include a requirement in legislation that at least 75% of the Postal Service’s new fleet must be electric or zero-emission,” says the draft letter, which was obtained by the Post. “Further, we would require the Postal Service to acquire only electric or zero-emission vehicles after 2040.”
Why wait? What’s stopping us? Do it today.
A good way to tell if someone fucking loves science is if they recognize that electric cars are magically zero-emissions.
At least it’s nice to see them not pretending electric is zero emission.
Is there such a thing as zero emissions? The Flintstones car maybe?
People excrete…
I’m no Ted’s, but reviewing consultant applications and getting gross grammatical errors irks me.
“[Candidate] is having [number] Months_of experience in an Oracle DBA in Production and development environment and strong understanding of [Product] on various flavors of Unix and NT/2000″ (Emphesis Original, [] indicate redaction)
*grumbles*
They repeat the same mistakes in every section
Including the goddamn underscore between months and of with the bolding. Lemme guess, they copy-pasted that sentence fragment into every field and didn’t notice.
Oh here’s a new word from a different form “Upgradation” I’ve not seen that one before…
Upgrayedd?
“Upgayed”.
When you come out of the closet and trade in your wife of 30 years for some hot, young, stud.
Isn’t that a Welsh hamlet?
“Mayor Bowser has banned dancing at weddings in the District of Columbia.
But it’s a pretty ersatz imitation of Footloose. DC permits dancing at Zumba classes and strip clubs.
Margaret Appleby and her fiancé are fully vaccinated. In March 2020, before the CDC recommended it, she was handcrafting masks. She’s socially distanced for over a year. She’s limited her wedding guest list to 70.
But on April 26, DC banned Margaret from dancing at her wedding.
48 states—including Virginia and Maryland a few miles away—permit dancing at weddings. Margaret and her husband will be vaccinated and wearing masks and socially distanced from other guests, but they cannot take a first dance together. This is irrational and unscientific.”
https://twitter.com/tedfrank/status/1391736561520238593
You can’t get physically close to someone you already spend all your time being physically close to. It’s science.
I don’t think I totally imagined those tweets advising people to wear masks while having sex. /SCIENCE!
It’s not irrational. It’s purposeful.
The Democrats are trying to scare/bludgeon the normies into compliance.
And this guy can go fuck himself:
My rights are not dependent on my submission to medical experimentation.
Good. People won’t stop supporting these assholes until the situation becomes intolerable. Lock down harder.
BUT SHE OUR CRAZY BITCH!!
But fucking later that night will be perfectly OK. That makes sense.
Bowser ought to demand prima noctae from the husband.
So have it in VA or MD.
I visited the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission this morning to get a replacement license for my son who is headed back to SC today. I didn’t think it possible, but they have managed to make their service dramatically worse, more confusing, and even more infuriating before.
“I visited the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission this morning”
I’m sorry.
Thanks for the uplifting news.
I lucked out because in the first days of the plague they gave me another renewal without showing up. If the plague hadn’t happened I was do for an in person visit and the “Real ID” bullshit.
My son misplaced his license while moving out of his dorm last week. Next fall he’ll be living in an apartment and can just go get an SC license. Until then he needs a replacement. We ended up ordering a replacement online after the MVC we went to told us they don’t issues licenses any more (the same place he originally got his license).
“the Center for Popular Democracy, a left-leaning advocacy group”
Well, there you have it, folks, the solution is communism. Which is just like popular democracy, in case anyone was wondering what that means.
And not minutes later they’ll start prattling about how we need massive spending to stimulate demand.
“That grinding sound? It’s my teeth.”
Didn’t Keynes say something like “start the massive spending when your debt to GDP ratio is historically bad”? Pretty sure he did.
A followup to our earlier conversation about the future of work. A long story about how mass transit rides in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area dropped from 78M riders to 36M riders. One commuter rail line (that lost money for its entire history) dropped 95%.
What is missing from the story is any thought to canceling the $2B light rail that they are planning on building.
Some people around here think ridership will recover if you add more trains.
But a comment hits the real obstacle:
Is there such a thing as zero emissions? The Flintstones car maybe?
You have to get your soap box derby car to the top of that hill, one way or another.
I doubt it, Fred looked like he was probably pretty gassy and all those brontosaurus burgers likely didn’t help matters either.
Do you know how much land that brontosaurus needed to live on?
Fred should have learned to love the Incrediblesaur Burgers and helped Birthing Person Earth.
Chaka says hi!
+1 Pakuni
The early debacles with ranchers having to slaughter their livestock because the meat packing plants were shut down did nothing to disabuse them of their belief that they knew everything about the economy and could easily manage it.
Those stories about produce left to rot in the fields because the processing plants were shut down? That was good for the economy.
Our kids in Iowa got freezers full of cheap pork and beef due to that deal.
Well, someone has to feed the money hole.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/healthy-17-year-old-utah-high-school-athlete-develops-3-blood-clots-in-his-brain-immediately-after-covid-vaccine/
What are the odds of dying of Covid vs dying from the vaccine?
How old and how many comorbidities?
+1. Healthy young person has little personal to gain. It goes back to societal benefit and the libertarian vaccine conundrum.
Personal opinion is that it should be a choice, but that choice does have externalities.
I mentioned last night that I have a Drs appointment with my caring VA team this week, and Im sure it will be brought up since our facility is handing them out like candy. As much as Im opposed (out of needlessness), Im on the fence just because I know they’re going to make the process the punishment. And more and more activities are going to require showing your papers.
Stand strong.
My wife and family would be upset with me and the vast majority of my coworkers are vaccinated.
I took that and my age into account and said OK. But it wasn’t an easy decision.
This isn’t a polio vaccine with a long track record.
If you don’t want the vax and they question you about it just lie and say you’ve gotten it already. If you change your mind later just say they wrote down the response wrong or that you misunderstood the inquiry. If it’s none of their business you don’t owe them the truth.
Interesting because on both the J&J and Astrazeneca vaccines (similar construction) those side effects don’t show up until 6 to 14 days laters. Prior to this zero proven correlation on Pfizer / Moderna and clots.
So I’m going to go with – need more information other than avoid that kid’s pediatrician.
I know at least one person who dropped dead from the Pfizer vaccine and clotting.
And the Salk Institute has published a paper that states the S-protein by itself is directly involved in some of the vascular damage. Since the mRNA vaccines produce S-proteins in abundance, it would stand to reason that they could cause vascular damage.
Interesting. How long after the shot?
Also 1st or 2nd dose?
Between one and two weeks and I’m not sure whether it was the first or second.
Thx. That’s consistent with J&J and Astrazeneca.
Fact Check: False
I didn’t see it on the front page of CNN.
Just stop with your domestic terrorism already.
I’ve got more red flags than a Chinese parade.
Bless her heart
Michelle Obama is speaking out about the need for Americans to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Speaking with “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King, the former first lady discussed the pandemic’s impact on mental health along with other issues facing the United States, including work that still needs to be done to end systemic racism in the wake of fired officer Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict.
During the second episode of her podcast, Obama revealed in August 2020 that she was suffering from low-grade depression over the pandemic, racial issues that were coming to a head that summer and the Trump administration’s effect through it all.
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Obama revealed a new rule for those who come into contact with her family: “Be vaccinated.”
“You wanna hang out with us? Get your vaccine. Get all of it. Finish it up. And then we can talk,” the former first lady laughed. “So I urge everybody out there, within the sound of our voices, please, please get the vaccine. It’s time.”
Shouldn’t you be working on the seating chart for your dog’s funeral service?
I wonder what dirt the doge had on Hillary….
I think Biden’s dog killed Obama’s dog.
Has anyone checked the visitor logs at the WH to see if Michael Vick was there recently?
“working on the seating chart for your dog’s funeral service?”
That would be just the kind of wonderful experience she needs in order to run for V.P. on the Harris ticket in 2024, earn more “women of the year” accolades, and perhaps be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Marrying Well.
None of these assholes ever think “maybe I should keep my mouth shut, it’s doing more harm than good”.
“You wanna hang out with us? Get your vaccine. Get all of it. Finish it up. And then we can talk,”
So if I don’t get vaccinated, I don’t get to hang out with a bunch of boring pretentious dimwits? I’m not exactly seeing the downside here.
What a miserable, mendacious, insufferable cunte.
The clapping seals probably adored that conversation.
“A world in which dogs write poetry is more believable than the world as seen through the eyes of the media.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1391407726950035461
A world in which a dog takes Krugman’s place at NYTs would be a more sane world.
Replacing NYT columnists with dogs would result in non stop bitching.
Which would be different how?
That was a ruff one.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/08/nolte-court-threatens-to-take-child-from-mother-over-confederate-symbol/
Insanity.
We’re going to need more woodchippers.
A blatant violation of the 1A if I’ve ever seen one. Who the fuck do these people think they are?
lolwut
The mother “must” do no such thing, friend.
Immediately cover it with a hammer and sickle and watch them shut the fuck up. Then go back to the original and let them make the threat again.
So far, only seven of my co-workers have requested use of the special COVID-related time off for the pay period that just ended. Last time, there were fifteen. Have we “turned the corner”? Is it “morning in America”? Better yet, five of the seven have already turned in the required form and documentation, so I only have to chase two more down.
And it’s freakin’ cold in our entire building, even worse than last week. I guess we’re working on reducing our carbon footprint by making the indoor environment uninhabitable for carbon-based lifeforms.
It’s so you don’t feel so stuffy wearing a mask.
Putting ya’ll in cold storage.
GT, did you say which Hoover carpet cleaner you bought?
This one: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hoover-powerdash-corded-upright-deep-cleaner-white-blue/6282398.p?skuId=6282398&ref=212&loc=1&ref=212&loc=1&ds_rl=1260582&msclkid=c29847c341b214bd650a275a10685b69&gclid=c29847c341b214bd650a275a10685b69&gclsrc=3p.ds
(BTW – the big Bissell that crapped out was made in China. ?)
Grazie. 🙂
“Why is it – that the unemployment benefits are too generous rather than the pay offered by employers too low?
Pay more $ = find more workers
If margins are so thin, that you cannot increase pay without passing it through/losing customers = your biz model doesn’t work”
https://twitter.com/SRuhle/status/1391564788271095808
CWAA
She’s a “business” reporter.
Who doesn’t understand the first thing about business.
Who can’t write either.
ur biz education didn’t work lol
Why do I read the comments. We are doomed.
☝️This, things are looking bleak.
What a sad thread of retards that one is. If your wages need to compete against an entity that can just print money then you’re fucked.
Next she’ll be puzzled by why prices are rising. Well, why they are rising even more.
She mentions not being able to absorb increased wages without passing it on so she’s covered. She’ll just say those businesses deserve to fail or that they must be punished.
It’s fun to go into those crowds and explain businesses don’t exist to pay “liveable wages”.
Some people need to go hungry for a while.
Love that picture of the California Bullet Train that accompanied this morning’s link. And just look at the passenger load…surely it justifies spending a half trillion (or more) dollars!
If margins are so thin, that you cannot increase pay without passing it through/losing customers = your biz model doesn’t work”
Signed-
Some Guy Who Couldn’t Run a Paper Route
‘Your business model doesn’t work,’ is a surprisingly elegant way for an idiot to sound smart.
A long time ago when I was setting up shop as a publisher, another group of people in my publishing milieu got together and formed their own publishing group. They had an investor who shoved $50,000 into it. This group of participants was all hush-hush except for the editor who had a good amount of (illegitimately placed) cachet. I tweeted, “If you need $50,000 to start an e-publishing company, ur doin it rong.” It didn’t take long before they announced the shuttering of their nascent company.
I had a similar run in with an Army major I was supporting. I laid out the cost of the analysis he wanted and when he said it was too expensive I asked which part he was willing to cut. He replied none – it just has to be cheaper.
Holy shit- that’s the dumb cunt “business reporter” who used to be on Bloomberg.
Fat shaming, BMI and alienation: COVID-19 brought new stigma to large-sized people
Smokers got to cut the COVID line too. Let’s ask theses same people if this lifestyle choice should have been considered.
Mornin’ folks!
i hope you all had a nice weekend!
Pretty solid! I got to catch up on a bit of sleep.
DOOM!
Missed you, man! And your little princess is getting big!
I hope you and your gals are well.
I’ve been around, but I always get into links hours late.
She is really her own person now.
Hope you all had a nice mother’s day celebration
Good morning, everyone! I would like to announce that I got my hair cut yesterday, 7 inches taken off. My head feels even lighter now that I don’t have all that hair keeping my balloon-brain in my skull. I will be even ditzier than usual!
Nah. The decrease in cranial temperature will increase neural conductivity.
That is sounder science than what Fauci puts out.
Oh shit, now I’ve seen it all: Canned air (oxygenated air but still):
https://www.boostoxygen.com/
It’s Spaceballs come to reality.
But they at least had fater than light travel and communications 🙁
Hail Skroob!
Say hello to oxygen toxicity.
Say hello to lawsuits.
stoopid
Those have been available for sale to pilots as backup emergency O2 for years. This is just the “popularizing” to the health community.
If you really need O2 get a medical rig.
I transfill the O2 in the airplane from 250cf welding Oxygen cylinders.
Fuck me, it’s infuriating to hear Dems lie that there are no jobs so we have to keep unemployment dollars flowing. Where I work, most departments are sitting around 80% of the hours they need, and that’s with everyone maxed out on hours. I drive past dozens of places (not just fast food joints) with hiring signs out front every day. Our order fulfillment is garbage right now because our suppliers are having labor issues as well. If you’re ever at a restaurant or something and your service is sub par, please give the people that are actually working some slack, we’re all overworked and doing the jobs of multiple people.