Grüezi mitenand! I am working on my Swiss dialect. I get the initial phone screen for an AVP job tomorrow… reports directly to Switzerland, no meddling North American intermediaries. Well, a man can dream (since the job spends 75% of the time working with Swiss lawyers, and I also can read German, I am assuming I will NOT get the job).
But living the dream, in the Glibs context, is a set of links delivered timely. So let us get to it.
- Is this a correct prediction, or wishcasting? NYC Glibs, sound off!
- Is the sternly worded letter being prepared as we speak? That, or the CCP will allow in only pre-paid/see-nothing “observers”.
- North Korean shitlording. Is Kim Jong Un some sort of red-pill OD’ing MRA?
- Grifters angry they have been outgrifted?
Oh, music link? Sure. Here you go.
Is that the first time that NK has admitted it has a food problem?
This officially was noted at least a few weeks ago.
I thought some of the other times were also officially noted too.
Probably and I just didn’t take notice. I always thought it was spun as “We are all fat and happy and look at all these goods!”
It goes back at least as far as 2012.
I know the world has seen they need food and stated it for decades. Has any of the Uns ever publicly stated it prior is what I meant..
At least as far back as 2015.
But remember that what they say internationally, and what they say domestically, are very different.
Gotcha.
North Korea started importing giant rabbits for food in 2007.
Surprisingly not the Bee.
If food shortages are ongoing (continuous) then it’s just business as usual. We’ve seen the pictures out of Africa of the malnutritioned youngsters and can’t help but feeling empathy.
A kleptocracy always has the same problems. OTOH those crossing the US-Mexican border generally look robust, well-dressed and healthy.
But they always claim “natural disasters”. North Korea sure seems to have a lot of those.
“Bad Luck”
Yeah looking at Tonio’s links above its always ‘drought’, ‘natural disaster’ and now ‘covid’, and never “I hoard all the food at my palace for Top Men”
Sooooooo way back in ’98-’01 I had been corresponding with an AF captain who claimed to have done some work for the NSA*. He told me he’d somehow gotten to NK. He had gone to Korea on his LDS mission and spoke the language. Now, I did some snooping on this dude, and was satisfied that I had no reason to disbelieve his claim.
I also finally met him, which was an abject DISASTER, proving that just because you get along like gangbusters in email for 3 years doesn’t mean it’s gonna work in person. Also, he was pissy about my snooping. Also, I accidentally snubbed a perfectly nice guy on my flight because I was so nervous about meeting the dude I didn’t notice he was flirting with me; took me 3 days to realize it.
All that prefacing was to say that my 3-year pen pal observed the NKs he met were all starving and he had a sad.
*On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. Except, he was a dog, and I had indicators, most notably his statement that he was, in fact, a dog.
I thought you didn’t fly anywhere since the Bush Sr. Administration.
Never said that. The last two times I flew, my flights were paid for and I didn’t have time to drive. That was in 2011.
That particular flight (poor fella who tried to flirt with me) was in August 2000.
Sorry, must have confused you with someone else.
The one in 2010 was when Mr. Mojeaux won a trip to New York to see The Last Airbender at its NY premiere. M. Night Shyamalan is a very nice person.
The one in 2011 was when I was invited to speak on self-publishing at the Writer’s Digest conference.
When Mr. Mojeaux won his trip to Kentucky (to tour a bunch of distilleries) (I didn’t make it past Buffalo Trace’s cornmeal mash house), we were able to rent a car and drive.
The last two road trips I’ve taken after THAT have been with my mom. My mom likes to look at stuff when she’s driving, like she’s never seen a dogwood before. So I do the driving.
Somebody here mentioned that he or she didn’t fly commercial since 1989 or 87. I remember the claim because it’s so much the opposite of my travel history: flying more than 100k miles per year was totally normal for me before 2020. But who made this claim is now a mystery.
Wasn’t me but I’ve flown maybe 15 times in my life.
Naw, not me. 1986-1989 I was regularly flying back and forth from KC/BYU.
Possibly me.
The TSA ruined flying for me. Fuck them and their job program theatrics. You have a 90 IQ and like fucking with people while doing mundane tasks? We have the job for you. They probably have a better retirement plan too.
Someone from the NSA was bitchy that *you* were snooping?
Right?!
I may or may not have tracked down an ex-girlfriend and gotten the scoop.
“NYC progressives are going to lose the Dem primary to soaring crime”
Soaring Crime won the last election, I assume it will win the primary this time.
The U.N. is as likely to cover for the CCP in Xinjiang as not. I have zero confidence in them no matter who they send.
The odds that the UN will chide the CCP over Hong Kong are effectively nil.
Cover for the CCP? Heck, the UN will probably put China on the Human Rights Council. Oh wait, they already did.
That music link is a direct response to OMWC‘s Zappa link, isn’t it?
AVP job? Well alright, you go kick those extraterrestrials asses, but good.
“The progressives, of course, are despondent. All over lefty urban Twitter — mostly affluent, young and white — the cries are the same: Why weren’t there questions about bike lanes at the debates? Why doesn’t anyone care about climate change?
They don’t quite blame the voters. Rather, the implication is that the voters are dumb: People are afraid to ride the subway not because entirely random slashings, stabbings and pushings drove the number of violent felonies on the subways from 64 in April to 116 in May, more than three times higher than in 2019, when adjusted for ridership. Rather, progs think, they’re afraid because the media, by reporting on the news, have tricked them.”
The media they control?
“Once murders edge down closer to 300 a year, rather than 500, progressives can merrily go back to advancing their causes, some good (more bus and bike lanes) and some bad (legalizing prostitution). ”
I think you have that backwards.
It’s the Post.
Yeah, a pretty good illustration of the diffs between the preferences of leftists, conservatives, and libertarians.
Partial credit.
NYC desperately needs more bus lanes, especially in packed areas where the subway doesn’t go. Otherwise sound.
But “more bus and bike lanes” usually ends up being more money for more bus and bike lanes that never get built.
There is shit from 9/11 that still hasn’t been fixed.
It’s effectively a religion, complete with a Devil but not a Savior.
Conforms to Hoffer’s thesis.
Oh they’ve identified a Savior alright – and it’s them.
Violent felonies? So how are things going in Chicago so far in 2021? Oh look, they are about break 2020’s count during the first half of the year.
But wait, what’s this, you say?
Philadelphia says hold my recycled hypodermic needle.
https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/?city1=54260000&city2=51714000
Oh piffle, that nary a difference.
2021 belongs to Shitlanta.
Chicago’s really running away with the rape stat, though. Has anyone seen STEVE SMITH lately?
STEVE SMITH INTRODUCE CASCADIA BEEF TO SECOND CITY, AND BY INTRODUCE, MEAN…
We’re on pace for 553 murders this year in Philly! But Krasner has effectively already won re-election, so I guess enough people are cool with how things are going.
Jesus, Krasner’s going to survive this?
Everyone with the brains to notice has already left Philly behind?
Crazy right? But, he won the Dem primary about a month ago with something like 2/3 of the vote. Wasn’t even close.
That’s more than NYC and with 1/5 the population.
Impressive.
Speaking of Philly (my son lived in Fishtown for a while) I came across this little gem today:
https://philadelphiaweekly.com/the-dangers-of-being-afraid-to-offend/
THE DANGERS OF BEING AFRAID TO OFFEND
Inquirer CEO announces protocols to ensure ‘anti-racist’ news coverage
Those numbers have nothing to do with the likelihood of an individual being the victim of one of those crimes. It’s not even interesting to note anymore, that they don’t drill down into the data any further than these kinds of aggregate stats. If they were to whittle it down to areas where the violent crimes happen, they’d probably find the rates are even higher than they’d like to think in both cities, while the majority of the residents are at low risk.
Because if they did that, they’d be lambasted as racists.
“The media they control?”
Some people have told me with a straight face that the media was unfairly hard on Obama and Hillary, so there’s that.
Wonder if the Chinese will offer Bachelet a helicopter tour of Xinjiang?
[exaggerated mimed clap since you can’t hear anything over the “wukka-wukka” noise]
This?
This?
AVP? Adult Video Production?
Association of Volleyball Professionals.
Cue the ass-slap gif!
I will admit…I scrolled back a couple of days to remind me just now
Audio-Visual Poobah?
Aeronautical Viper Pony
Articulate Veteran Pun-isher.
American Virus Police?
Any Various Person
‘Bachelet is under growing pressure from Western states to secure unfettered access to Xinjiang, where activists say more than 1 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been held in camps, some of them mistreated or subject to forced labour.
Beijing denies the accusations and describes the camps as vocational training facilities to combat religious extremism.’
The best way to combat religious extremism is to arbitrarily round up an ethnic group, give them vocational training via unpaid forced labor and when they look ready to kick the bucket, strap them to a table and harvest whatever organs they have that still function.
No biggie, move along.
Yeah, like she can just waltz in with her UN Diplomat (or whatever) Passport and as UNHCHR demand that. LOL
I mean she could, but that an a yuan will get her a cup of hot tea.
Wonder how far they are from having them all killed off, bulldozing everything, then letting observers in. “Camps? What camps?”
How do you say Arbeit Macht Frei in Cantonese or Mandarin?
死圆眼
Google failed me.
死
圆眼
Soaring crime…by design.
Keeping the food supply dangerously low is a fine line.
“…finding that many funds in this category are failing to deliver on their promises.”
Ya’ think? Turns out that a scam is a scam.
So we are still drowning in an ocean of stupid.
More Music
And more…
https://youtu.be/pTSVyWEXFmY
“Man’s extremely swollen kidneys could kill him by crushing his lungs ”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/21/mans-swollen-kidneys-could-kill-him-by-crushing-his-lungs/
yikes!
And I complain about having to get up once a night to pee…
diabeetus?
Kidney stones. I drink a lot of water.
Ah, bummer. My best friend had them a few years ago so bad that they put stints in his pee hole and used some ultra sonic something or the other to bust them up after weeks of not passing them. He was a freaking mess.
Good luck to you, sir.
For me they’re avoidable if I stay well hydrated and don’t take a lot of Vitamin C.
Things you learn the hard way.
My dad had a 27mm stone in his bladder several years back. They had to do ultrasound to break it up before putting in the catheter to remove the smaller pieces.
I drink a lot of water
#metoo
And by that, I mean I use a lot of ice in my beverages.
Oh, OK, sorry, I forgot.
I’m guessing middle-age. I suffer from the same condition.
Yeah I have high performance kidneys and a low volume bladder. Bad combo.
Age related, make that 3-4-5-6, pick a number. OTOH. I need the exercise
sscrew links, all my homies use mailers!
Good afternoon Glibs!
“EXCLUSIVE: Prince Andrew’s ex Lady Victoria Hervey reveals Ghislaine Maxwell showed her how to give oral sex and tells how the accused Epstein pimp was ‘very pally’ with Bill Clinton during a dinner party together, in new documentary”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9709245/Ghislaine-Maxwell-documentary.html
I’ll wait for the video.
Wait, a grown woman needed another woman to show her how to perform oral sex?
I mean, it’s not like it’s love rocket science.
The British aristocrat and former girlfriend of Prince Andrew claims Maxwell would ‘demonstrate how to give a blowjob’ and enjoyed telling dirty jokes…
Demonstrating and teaching are two different acts. I am guessing Daily Fail is doing what it does best here.
I use demonstration as part of the teaching process whenever possible.
https://youtu.be/TbjUUG65-7U?t=15
Generally, it’s lack of engagement with the process that’s the problem.
Truth, yo.
I laughed too
No sex please, we’re English.
I imagine the Brits notoriously stiff upper lips can cause a bit of damage to a fella if it’s not properly trained.
I just figured it was taught in etiquette school or when they went off to the monastery for a season to obtain their god-cred.
Remember to extend the pinky while cupping the scrotum, it’s classier that way.
[shakes head slowly] It’s not a classy act.
And those teeth!
At least she still has her pride.
That’s a big nothingburger.
Depends on who goes out to vote. The primaries are notoriously low voting and the most eager voters are the ones furthest to the left.
My scientistic prediction is that a bare majority of primary voters will have had enough of Deblasioism and will not select one of the several even crazier options that are on offer.
My other prediction is that one of the less-crazy options – Adams or Yang – will win, and whichever one it is, they will cave to the far left in a New York minute. Adams is a bit a racist, and will probably prove eager to please that crowd, while Yang is just a loon who wilts at any controversy.
Concur with both.
Yang has never held elective office. He’s an amateur that would get steamrolled by the professionals and led around by the nose by his staff.
I made the mistake of reading his wiki bio. The guy couldn’t make six months as a new attorney bitch boy. His entire track record is pretty much quitting and giving up.
When I go to the gym, I see the NYC news and ads. Are there any non-progressives running for Mayor. Each one seems more left-wing and batshit crazier than the next.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9707847/Braless-Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display.html
Nope. Organic.
“REVEALED: How 60% of Americans may STILL have to pay more taxes under Biden’s proposals (even with credits) – despite his promise hikes would NOT impact anyone earning under $400K”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9708627/How-60-Americans-forced-pay-taxes-Biden.html
This is my shocked face.
60%?
Does that mean 7% will have to start paying taxes?
Yeah. Anyone surprised that the guy who promised to raise taxes is going to raise taxes.
If this guess through, along with the inflation, I’ll be making less money despite my raise from switching jobs this year.
The only outlets I have seen cover this are the Daily Mail and WSJ. I suspect most people have no idea what’s going on.
Kinda depressing that a British rag gives us better coverage on what our government is up to than our own media, ain’t it?
You know who else mixed sports with politics?
Jack Kemp?
Heath Shuler?
Jesse Ventura?
/close enough
Manny Pacquiao?
Minnesoda cripple fight!
A story about how HOA’s are not allowing people to put solar panels on their houses and the heroic efforts of legislators to pass a law forcing the HOA’s to allow them. The item that caught my eye:
Nothing wrong at all with letting a guy from the solar industry write a law. RIght? At least the oil industry flacks keep their involvement hidden in the back rooms.
Or maybe they just don’t want your damn solar panels, for whatever reason.
As much as I hate HOAs, and the type of petty tyrants who are attracted to their leadership positions, cram-downs are not the answer.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/21/exclusive-nellis-air-force-base-hosts-first-ever-drag-queen-show-essential-morale-cohesion-readiness/
That is how you strike fear into your international enemies that seek to rid the planet of us.
I wonder what the briefings were like and how many Article 32s pre-written for any airman that dares mock this or laugh at it as if it is a variety show for their amusement.
Even better is the “Top 3” did this.
JHTFC
Somebody turn their lights off on the way out.
Playing Catch up with the Navy? Inquiring minds and all
JP has his take.
First ever?
We used to have drag races on the runway. Oh, you mean the other “drag”.
“The Hamilton-Wentworth school district in Ontario would like to know your Kindergartener’s gender identity and your 10-year-old’s sexual orientation.”
https://twitter.com/christophelston/status/1405283441373958149
WTF, Canada?
Sure thing, they’re FUCK YOU and GO FUCK YOURSELF
“My kid is unsure of HIS orientation, and would like to spend some time with a female who is very young and looks nothing like HIS mother. He prefers a full sweater and the scent of applesauce. Thank you.”
Damn, these people are fucked up.
How many transgendered, homosexual tomboys are in the district?
“Seattle Pride Event to Charge ‘Reparations Fee’ to ‘White Allies’
“All are free to attend HOWEVER this is a BLACK AND BROWN QUEER TRANS CENTERED, PRIORITIZED, VALUED, EVENT. White allies and accomplices are welcome to attend but will be charged a $10 to $50 reparations fee that will be used to keep this event free of cost for BLACK AND BROWN Trans and Queer COMMUNITY,” the Facebook page for the event states.
“Black trans and queer peoples are among the most marginalized and persecuted peoples within the LGBTQIA2S+ community,” the Commission wrote. “They often face shame not only from the cis-heteronormative community, but within the queer community at large as well. In making the event free for the Black Queer community, the organizers of this event are extending a courtesy so rarely extended; by providing a free and safe space to express joy, share story, and be in community.””
https://timcast.com/seattle-pride-event-to-charge-reparations-fee-to-white-allies/
Somebody’s got to pay for those CAPS
STEVE SMITH NOT PAY!
STEVE SMITH BLACK AND BROWN! HE PRIORITIZE YOUR TRANS CENTER! AND BY PRIORITIZE HE MEAN RAPE!
We live in such a messed up world that I have been racking my brain on what CAPS were or I am tired.
Tired AND lame.
Lol
Well which one is it? $10 or $50? Or is there going to be a intersectionality pay schedule sheet to determine how much you must pay for your sad guilt.
$10 or $50?
Same as downtown, right?
Not even the Bee can keep up with this shit.
I’d respect the organizers a helluva lot more if they just came out and said: “Keep your white asses at home. You’re not welcome.”
Then again, I suppose they probably get off on guilt ridden white progs committing flagellation while paying for the honor.
That’s a lot of dommes in such a small part of the world.
You nailed it with your second paragraph, Hippie.
Message received loud and clear anyway.
Gee is nice how some groups can skirt public accommodation laws.
I’d love to see someone bring a civil rights lawsuit against them.
Or, “I identify as a person of color.”
What’s the over-under on how many years this will last?
How much do you wanna bet that your average white gay dude isn’t going to pay a goddamn dime so that a black gay dude can go for free?
These people are a special class of idiot.
You’d be surprised. “Pride” was taken over by leftists a couple decades ago. Average white gay dudes don’t attend that junk any more.
Apologies if drugs, ass, etc., — but federal bureaucrats are having a spat!
Executive vs Judicial. Get your money down. This should be fun to watch.
(MichaelJacksonEatingPopcorn.gif)
Hmm. That will be interesting. If the FedGov, especially the Executive, has already come out and said we will not ask your vax status, does a judge get to demand it from persons in their court room?
Can a judge ask the USM if she was wearing proper panties that day so she can execute her job without them getting bunched in a wad?
Proof that men can be whiny bitches too
Yeah. This is going to be fun. Because USMS does basically three things. Federal prisoner transport and housing (often contracted out). Federal judicial security. Fugitive apprehension.
Sure, Judge, fuck with the people that protect you.
U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann needs to grow a pair.
Only three of them?
I don’t know if it’s fair to compare a seasoned actor against one at the start of their career, but Telly Sevalas demolished Sylvester Stalone in every scene they shared when the latter got a guest spot on Kojak. Even in the big emotive scene at the end Stalone gave off more hammy “I’m Acting!” vibes than “I’m really feeling these emotions.” While subdued in contrast, Sevalas make it seem more real.
Poor kid (who’s older than I am)
Telly Sevalas was one of the greats. Last Saturday Mrs. Animal and I re-watched Kelly’s Heroes again, and Sevalas really shone even in that great cast – a classic Telly Sevalas tough-guy part.
“Big Joe, would you please stop callin’ me Barbara?”
“That’s your name, isn’t it?”
“But my name’s Babera!”
“Shut up!”
I haven’t seen that movie in a long time.
First Blood, however, is a wholly underrated movie.
Maybe you should be asking why those people have been hectored into participating in the Great College Swindle in the first place
On Monday, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, Tina Smith and Edward J. Markey sent letters to the CEOs of all federal student loan servicers requesting information about the steps the companies are taking to transition millions of federal student loan borrowers back into repayments once the moratorium ends.
“Millions of borrowers have had relief from their student loan payments and interest for more than a year during the Covid-19 pandemic – but they now risk being thrown into extraordinary financial hardship when their payments resume,” reads the letter, sent to CNBC Make It. “We support canceling $50,000 of debt for each borrower to relieve this burden on our economy, but in the interim, we are requesting information on how your company is preparing for this transition to repayment and the steps it is taking to ensure that it adequately supports borrowers.”
What does that even mean?
It means, do what we want or we will kill your goose that laid the golden egg.
how your company is preparing for this transition to repayment
Ramping up hiring in the nag calling and collections department.
It’s the same with rental moratoriums. These people have gotten used to not paying rent for over a year. Are they going to suddenly tighten their belts and happily start paying again? Or were they socking away the rental payment equivalents for the past year to pay it back?
Both my teens got a tiny lesson in this. For two weeks, they both were working Sunday and their employer pays double for Sunday pay. They were gleeful and carefree with all this cash and I said, don’t get used to it. Now that they have had straight pay for a month they sorta figured out what I meant. Sorta. They are teens and little asshoes
My kid’s pretty good about saving money. She has goals to save for, however, and isn’t socking money away just because (yet).
She bought a high-end computer (that she will need).
She bought a car.
Now she is saving to be able to move out.
And oh, she got recruited to a different position at Walmart, which comes with a $3/hour raise.
Socking money away for a rainy day is different from having goals, so I hope she can do so once she moves out.
Thats great! Yes we are teaching them both those…one for rainy day and other for things you want/need. One has a goal of $1500 bucks to fix up the Explorer and the other, I don’t know what he is saving for. I think for a mystery trip to AZ for some girl that is pushing all the right buttons.
Kids? I have been paying my bills bi weekly all year, and on August 9th, that paycheck is essentially free money, I have never done that before in my life.
Just make them dismissible in bankruptcy and the universities liable for a portion.
https://mises.org/library/origins-nazism
But the number of these backward people was steadily decreasing. Economic prosperity and education spread from year to year. More and more people reached a standard of living which allowed them to care for other things besides food and shelter, and to employ their leisure in something more than drinking. Whoever rose from misery and joined the community of civilized men became a liberal. Except for the small group of princes and their aristocratic retainers practically everyone interested in political issues was liberal. There were in Germany in those days only liberal men and indifferent men; but the ranks of the indifferent continually shrank, while the ranks of the liberals swelled.
….
They were forced to wait until the progress of prosperity and education could bring these backward people into the ranks of liberalism. Then, they were convinced, the victory of liberalism was bound to come.
….
They knew that they could not establish popular government within a nation where many millions were still caught in the bonds of superstition, boorishness, and illiteracy. The political problem was essentially a problem of education. The final success of liberalism and democracy was beyond doubt.
I find this article written by Mises fascinating as it does sum up why classical liberalism collapsed so quickly at the end of the 19th Century: they noticed some beneficial trends at the time and extrapolated them into the end of history.
Basically their attitude was once the peasants move into the city, buy commercial goods and learn how to read then they will become liberals and eventually the liberals will have such a huge overwhelming majority that the aristocracy will have no choice but to surrender. This is why many classical liberals were so obsessed with public schools since it was assumed that public schools would produce liberals. This is why the universities were so beloved even by libertarians until recently: universities produced intellectuals and in the 19th century the intellectuals were liberal so it was assumed that the intellectuals will always be liberal do therefore everyone must go to university to be make everyone liberal. Surely there is no way a rich educated urbanite would embrace a totalitarian ideology, right?
Modern libertarianism suffers from this exact mindset even today: the “free trade will liberate China” argument is pretty much literally exactly as Mises is quoted above.
And many of the libertarian arguments about urbanization, trade and innovation seemed to be based on the assumption of the inherent libertarianism of the rich educated urbanite.
Oh and Weed, Mexicans and Ass-Sex was predicated on the fact that back in 1960s these were very controversial opinions opposed by people libertarians didn’t like so it was assumed that if people supported these things then libertarianism will result. I mean Toronto has plenty of weed, gays and immigrants so it must libertarianism right?
To phrase it another way: If Rothbard was told in the 1960s that in 50 years there would a large North American City with plenty of immigrants, gay marriage and pot stores yet you getting haircuts and eating indoors was illegal he would thought that impossible yet that is exactly what happened…
Those arguments are based on ignoring culture.
Yes the big problem was that cultural values were ignored. Urban culture was liberal in 19th century so it was assumed it would stay that way permanently. Weed, Mexicans and Ass-Sex were quite progressive opinions 50 years ago so anyway who holds those views would always be a libertarian.
The battle in Germany was between communists and national socialists. Collectivist shitbirds all. The problem was that they both did not lose.
Starvation in North Korea.
Thanks, Joe!
Likely driving while black.
Still, driving around in L.A. with an uzi? What a dipshit.
Felony stupidity, is what.
Yeah, clearly the man could afford an MP5K.
Chargers fans.
Heh.
Good luck on the phone screen.
Gotham’s self-styled progressives are going to lose Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, and they should be glad.
I’ll believe they will lose that primary when I see it.
The top United Nations human rights official said on Monday she hoped to agree on terms for a visit this year to China, including its Xinjiang region, to look into reports of serious violations against Muslim Uyghurs.
I immediately thought of this.
The South Korean politician said the ordinance, which has not been disclosed in North Korean state media, is a sign the food situation is dire in North Korea.
Dire food situation in North Korea. Or, in other words, a day that ends in “y”.
Didn’t he tell comrades to learn to dig roots a few years ago?
People have been on the earth for a million years and still learning how to starve their fellow man?
https://blog.chron.com/thetexican/files/2014/04/yeltsin-19890916_HC-03-22.jpg
Mammary Monday aka: why you need to buy a boat.
https://archive.li/rUYMd
Kind of gives a different slant on “a boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money.”
State withdraws fine against Bedford, NH bakery owner
This is not your average overnight thread (ONT). We just received some great news that we need to share. The State of NH has dropped its fine against the Simply Delicious Baking Co. in Bedford. The business had been cited for failing to follow the state’s mask mandate.
Report from the NH State House
This week, the House and Senate worked together to finalize bills amended by each other. I was assigned to four of these committees of conference, and three went very smoothly. For SB 133 and SB 104, omnibus bills on professional licensing and state employees respectively, we merely explained our amendment to the Senate and they agreed with us.
HB 533, on how the lottery commission investigates gaming applicants, was a bit more complex: the Senate had (helpfully) expanded our language to charitable gaming operators, but inadvertently used the expired statute as a base rather than the current one. So we met to fix the reference and added some clarifying language on cost reimbursements as well. All very amicable.
HB 417, on the governor’s emergency powers, was also amicable but not as productive. We met three times, agreeing on the Senate language for fiscal oversight and notifications, with a few tweaks. It soon became evident that we disagreed on whether or not the legislature needed to vote to continue a state of emergency.
So today the Supreme Court unanimously whacked the NCAA in an antitrust case about capping benefits schools can offer student athletes. Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion in which he eviscerated the NCAA’s business model:
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2021/06/21/supreme-court-rules-against-ncaa-in-landmark-antitrust-case/
What’s funny to me about all this is that there are a number of people on the left who will cheer this decision on, but who haven’t even begun to think about about the ramifications for Title IX and female sports which are completely subsidized by their male counterparts. Particularly football and basketball.
Does this mean college fees will soon double? Or maybe triple to cover the girls?
That’s an odd article. SCOTUS is unanimous pretty frequently, and why would a concurrence (thus, all dicta) receive more attention than the majority opinion (you know, the…actual holding)?
Some 1L write that?
Um, often; including several times in the past couple weeks.
Those cases don’t often make it into TMITE, though.
Usually a unanimous decision indicates a narrow one without sweeping consequences.
And most of the ones I read about are inside-baseball stuff that makes my eyes glaze over.
Or a terribly shitty decision but it comports with legal establishment’s view of the world.
Once again, circling the drain and SCOTUS is there flush it some more. Add “college” “sports” to the list of things I used to enjoy but am happier without.
I’ve thought for a long time that the big money college sports (football and basketball) cannot continue to exist in their current form. Eventually, those athletes will get paid actual salaries, with contracts and benefits (and probably a union). There’s just too much money in it, and the bulwark of “amateur athletics” and “student athletes” excuses that the ADs and coaches are hiding behind is slowing being chipped away. I think there is a fair chance that when universities have to actually absorb all the costs and liability of operating a sports league, they’ll have to give it up, and you’ll see a private league that licenses the college name and logos.
It’s deceptively close to that already. Besides a variable amount of cost sharing and benefit sharing between them, the athletic department and the school aren’t all that connected. There is oversight, but that would exist to some extent even with a pure licensing agreement.
The Clown Prince doesn’t like libertarians parts one and two.
….aaaaannd that’s why I dont like labels.
It was a good Bike Week
Bike Week 2021 was great “public safety-wise,” Laconia Police Chief Matt Canfield said Sunday, “but it’s probably the busiest one I’ve seen attendance-wise in the last three to four years.”
Canfield has worked the rally as a law enforcement officer since 1993.
“We had 17 accidents the first weekend and I’d probably guess that was double for the week, but the good news is very few of those had injuries and we had zero fatalities,” Canfield said of the event, which ran June 12-20.
As their final Bike Week lodgers cleared out Sunday, Ava and David Doyle began getting ready to welcome the largest number of post-rally guests in their 28 years of owning and operating the Sun Valley Resort.
Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Doyles said they have been non-stop busy for nearly a year.
The couple’s business on the corner of Roller Coaster Road and Route 3 in The Weirs was filled for Bike Week and is booked solid for the summer.
*checks out employer provided health insurance portal*
Sure enough, they’re tracking my vaccination stafus…
Mine’s not even using my health insurance. I have not admitted to taking the jab, so I must get daily harangues via email. I could lie, but I’m too stubborn.
It’s not a lie, it’s a fib, because it’s none of their damn business. Don’t let them use use your honesty to string you up.
Or, as Agent Sloper put it, lying to tyrants is a moral imperative.
Whatever works as a motivator but the truth isn’t owed.
Was told today that if just 10 more people would get stuck, we will be mask free. sCiEnCe!
I am vaccinated. I will not be telling anyone what I’m vaccinated against.
I’m guessing stupidity.
I need a booster.
Countdown until the vaccine is required to receive health insurance….
It’s a penalvax!
Hah!
Being a lawyer, how do you feel about this sort of intrusion? Apparently the state of CO is tracking all of us here. As I have mentioned before, I wish I was not such a lame ass and had became a lawyer because the lawsuits thrown at the Government, state and fed, are not near enough.
https://babylonbee.com/news/female-weightlifter-suffers-tragic-testicle-injury-just-weeks-before-tokyo-olympics?
Heh
*snort*
Hoo-boy.
Higher intelligence has some caveats.
Wouldn’t a belly with that many people in it sag a bit?
OctoMom +2!!!!!
Or -8
Childhood TV taught me that 8 is enough.
How quickly you forget adding Jeremy in the final season.
I didn’t realize Jeremy was played by Ralph Macchio, who turns 60 in November.
Jeremy Andrus is a piece of shit of the worst sort. And that shit for brains thinks after torching and trashing the company, I’m going to buy one of his China grills if he just ramps up the advertising? Not in this lifetime. Someone should do the world a favor by chopping him up and throwing him into one of his products for 10-18 hours.
Ms. Sithole.
No comment needed.
#38 ^
Google was no help, what did he do?
DDG says he is CEO of Treager grills. No idea what he did but I would never buy one of those overpriced contraptions.
Yeah, I was wondering exactly how he “trashed and torched” it, also I agree with your assessment of the overpriced contraptions, for that kind of money you could buy two proper pizza ovens.
Not me. I bought a $700 welder to make mine and that is not even getting into the price of the steel that went into it. And then the electric one I bought for the bug out food truck operation so I have a bunch of money into pizza ovens. Still a better investment than a Traeger grill.
My bullshit-o-meter is pegged with this one.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15263840/husband-affair-with-my-bi-lover/
And this one just sounds like some govvie suit paid them to run a public service announcement.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15319677/love-for-casual-sex-means-three-girls-pregnant/
Dear Deidre meets the Ad Council.
Kind of like flying private jets to climate conferences?….?’s
Thanks for the links Swiss!
Unsustainable government is killing the planet, yet these people never call for less state.
This here may be the only good comment you have ever made Ted. This moment should be marked down in the Glib history book.
Hateful. Every comment I make is outstanding!
Ok ok, you make some good ones, the music links though………….
Yeah, Ted’s’s comment’s are mostly pretty good.
Watermelons are solid gold assholes? Who knew?
It’s all a scam. For these people to succeed, we all gotta hate one another and fear for our future. Greenpeace is just one move in that direction. The best way to double down is to make such a claim. Racism, climate change, insurrection, ad infinitum. These are all just means of sowing fear and distrust. The more of that we have, the more apt the bold plans of the commies are to come to fruition.
Having restarted my audible subscription, to make Jeff Bezos a bit more money, (if anyone knows a better audio book app I am all ears) and so I could finish David Goggins book while doing mindless things, once I finished his book I started dipping into the unheard library I have. The Road to Serfdom is on now and things have not changed since the 40’s is my take so far.
1840’s? 1740’s? Those shitbirds have always been with us.
I still have 13 hours on the Gulag Archipelago. Fun stuff!
Should be required reading for all with a pulse.