Hail Djoker!
Montreal got out the brooms on Winnipeg. The Islanders have taken the series lead on Boston. Brooklyn demolished Milwaukee, while PHX got the jump on Denver. Across the pond, Djoker got off to the slowest of slow starts before getting his shit together and winning when his opponent retired in the fifth set. The Aaron Rodgers saga is getting weirder by the day. I’m sure this is just a coincidence. Yeah, right. And that’s sports.
Best OBP ever.
English explorer and pirate William Dampier was born on this day. He shares it with architect you either love or hate Frank Lloyd Wright, aviation pioneer Noel Wien, pitcher Van Lingle Mungo, biologist Francis Crick, Indonesian president Suharto, “slugger” Eddie Gaedel, outfielder Del Ennis, comedians Jerry Stiller and Joan Rivers, shortstop Mark Belanger, Black Flag’s Greg Ginn, actress Julianne Margulies, rapper/producer/presidential candidate Kanye West, the lovely Maria Menounos, and tennis player Kim Clijsters.
Not a bad list. Not great, but not bad. Anyway, on to…the links!
Credit where credit is due. This is a good thing and should have been in place for some time now.
Body shaming is apparently still cool I guess…sometimes.
USA Today fact-checkers doing some real journalisming. The whole point of a piece like this is to shame the subject of it by even associating him with possibly wearing his pants backwards. It’s not clever, even if it is probably effective on a large percentage of the mouth-breathers that read their trash paper.
Imagine the outrage if this report came out last year. Hell, they’d have probably impeached Trump over it. Or sent him to The Hague. Instead, it’s page two news.
Yeah, no shit. The only people who didn’t believe report this were…pretty much everybody in the media. Oh, and Twitter and FB would have banned you for saying it. But that was all a coincidence and not meant to influence the election in any way. Nosiree, it was just a coincidence.
I’m glad somebody bought Cuomo’s Covid book. And I hope they make good use of it. It would be hilarious if his hubris and desire to profit from his ineptitude ended up landing him in a federal prison.
This is the best internet search tool I’ve ever seen. The only flaw is that it doesn’t include an instructional video on tar-and-feathering. Hopefully enough people use it and figure out how to do it on their own.
That ain’t good.
California is about to completely dry out. I’m not sure what they’re gonna do, if I’m being honest. There’s only so much water they can steal from other states, and they haven’t got desalinization plants that can scale up to a level necessary to water crops. They’re fucked. And that means serious spikes in food prices are coming.
Some sad local news. I sure hope this gets remedied soon.
Here’s a wonderful song for you. I hope you enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
The sad thing is, once we’ve revelled in Andy’s removal, whoever replaces him will be even worse.
“It would be hilarious if his hubris and desire to profit from his ineptitude ended up landing him in a federal prison.”
Not going to happen.
A man can dream, can’t he?
Well, if you’re dreaming, why not add in infected nipple rings and flesh-eating bacteria?
This is how you do it…
OK 🙂
Doesn’t matter. You gotta keep firing them. Eventually, the firing offenses will be avoided by the next guy until they at least don’t dive head first into the evil shit they used to. Besides, they always seek to advance. When someone is as fucked up as Newsom or Coumo, they need to be stopped just to keep them from increasing the damage they are doing. We can always just fire the next guy too.
So… Cuomo and Newsom should just carpetbag to each others’ states?
You sir, are a political genius.
Please don’t give DeWine & Whitmer ideas.
Blackface will be released on waivers soon. No trade needed. McAwful is already lined up to replace him.
I Find it interesting that both he and Gov Blackface avoided being ousted by refusing to resign during their scandals
The only people that the machine holds accountable are enemies of team blue… And this is why and how you know these people are hypocrites and you never apologize or accede to their demands. Trump got that and that is why they hated and feared him so much: he was one of them and played by their rules…
There was pressure from Democrats for Gov Blackface to resign. They dropped the pressure when they realized consistency may force Lt Gov MeToo and Attorney General Blackface to also resign resulting in a Republican becoming governor. Removal of an elected official in Virginia is limited in reason and is done by a judge.
There are advantages to the rivalry between the states. DeWine running again in a couple years should be interesting to say the least.
It’s not even the damage *they* do. By allowing them to get away with things like this without consequences at the polls, their constituents encourage others to push the boundaries even further.
Yep, always build on the predecessors failures to spend enough.
He’s not going anywhere. The sexual harassment stories have all disappeared and this is the first thing ive seen on his killing old folks scandal in weeks.
“Oh, and Twitter and FB would have banned you for saying it.”
Probably the worst thing about it.
They can’t ban me.
I don’t have an account.
I remember seeing this on Max Headroom.
+1 blankreg
What’s that?
An off switch! Those are illegal!
/still surprised that show made it to air even back then
I watched maybe one episode of that show back then. Too busy playing baseball, I suppose.
I agree. If a news outlet chooses not to cover it, that’s one thing. But when a (supposedly open) forum goes out of their way to silence people who try to bring attention to it, acting as a publisher, then that’s a different story.
It’s worse than that. They are acting as an arm of the government. They have special protection and the government is threatening them if they don’t do what it wants.
You would think this would make some people really worried. Especially people claiming to be fighting fascism, for example, but they all cheered this shit on when it silenced the people complaining about the new marxist cultural revolution now coming to a progressive shithole near you..
People are emotional, not rational. They care about goals. Their support or opposition to procedures is dependent on whether it helps or hurts the cause.
“Jim Fassel, former Giants coach, dies at 71
Fassel suffered a heart attack and died while under sedation at a local hospital near where he lived in Las Vegas, according to the LA Times report. He had been experiencing chest pains Monday and was taken to the hospital by a friend.
Fassel coached the Giants from 1997-2003, winning NFL Coach of the Year in 1997 and leading the team to Super Bowl XXXV three years later where they lost to the Baltimore Ravens.”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/08/jim-fassel-former-giants-coach-dies-at-71/
RIP
41-0, baby.
whaddup doh’ ?
whats goody fam
But the mighty lake — a linchpin in a system of aqueducts and reservoirs in the arid U.S. West — is shrinking with surprising speed amid a severe drought, with state officials predicting it will reach a record low later this summer.
“Due to circumstances beyond our control….”
I don’t know about California but further east, we had one of the driest winter’s I’ve every remembered and already some of the hottest days on record. It’s going to be hot and there will probably be a lot of fires.
*looks at looming thunderstorms*
Oh, you didn’t mean this far east.
NH had relatively light snow this winter, and kind of a dry Spring.
I expect water restrictions in NH this year.
We’ve had an unusually wet spring in central Texas. Our reservoirs are topped off.
Rainy season in FL seems to be late this year. Usually by the beginning of May we are already into the daily rain showers, but other than one week or so, it’s been pretty dry.
I’m sure that will change though – the humidity is creeping up, and that will help kick the storms off.
Bad Luck
/looks at stories about Lake Erie reaching record high water levels
Maybe don’t live in a desert and try to grow water intensive crops?
Everything was fine before Trump caused the global warming/climate change.
I lived in the Central Valley, and it wasn’t always a desert. That soil is incredibly fertile because it used to be a swampland. It’s only a desert because the water has been diverted to keep SoCal from dying of thirst.
sloopy knows ^^^ Stop tearing down dams to save the smelt.
Yeah, I lived there too, and even that could have been dealt with by building more reseviors to match the number of people in the state.
But noooooo, we had to get the fist coming of Jerry Brown, who shut all of that down. And then the second coming he blew all it all on a Train in Vain(ity).
The Train in Vain helps amplify the Pain?
For some it answered the question “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”
London was calling after all.
“”I believe it’s very, very unfair,” said Riverdale homeowner Jon Agewoye. He was surprised to hear there is roughly $50,000 of government debt is tied to his property.
“It makes homeownership near impossible for some of us because you never get out of the debt,” he said.”
Am I missing something or is this guy saying he thinks the debt is literally tied to the property?
The whole article and confused when it is talking about government debt and trying to make it seem like it’s the fault of property owners who don’t pay their share tOnwards union pensioners.
I read it as him acknowledging that the state will continue raising already-high property taxes rates to cover the debt. And that does discourage home ownership.
I read that as poor Jon getting bent over a log without a bullet to bite on.
The article IS shit, but the tool is great. My neighborhood is one of the green dots. Probably won’t be for much longer – we’re losing industrial properties every year and retail takes over (with half of that remaining vacant).
The article is extra shitty because they bring up “minority” communities as if that has anything to do with it. The beginning of the problem was in the 1960’s when IL – which taxes all real estate at the same rate (33% – complicated formula) – allowed Cook County to be taxed differently; Cook taxes residential property at 15% and commercial at 45%.
Naturally, that led to the industrial properties that could flee to relocate to nearby counties where the commercial tax rate is still 33%. The ones that couldn’t move – like steel mills – eventually closed because the increased tax cost made them competition losers. When those jobs move or vanish, the nearby residential properties lose value AND the taxes on them go up. The housing may look like a bargain, but the demand keeps slipping and only stupidest or poorest look for housing in those neighborhoods.
From what I know (and I could be wrong), Detroit/Wayne did the same thing 15 years earlier than Chicago/Cook. So Cook is just experiencing the same thing Wayne did/does only 15 years later.
Calling it the Rust Belt is a way to blame capitalists – properly calling it the Union Taxation Belt would be much more accurate. And when the minorities who bought in those declining neighborhoods figure that out, the defenders call it “racism” and some of those homeowners buy into that bullshit which buys the Marxists another 30 years.
The whole thing is a house of cards.
And they wonder why a person like Trump was elected.
Am I missing something or is this guy saying he thinks the debt is literally tied to the property?
We’re all in this together.
“They haven’t got desalinization plants that can scale up to a level necessary to water crops. They’re fucked. And that means serious spikes in food prices are coming.”
Remember a couple of years ago when the Kardashians drove the retail price of celery up to $4 a bunch? Kern County is “extreme” drought and I don’t want to pay $5 a pound for carrots.
To bad I can’t send them the water from my air. It’s 97% humidity right now. 3% more and I’ll have to live in a pineapple. Which will cost $11.
$4 a lb for carrots isn’t out of the realm of possibility. And $3 heads of lettuce. I’m also wondering what will happen to the feed lots out there. If they’re not watering crops, I can’t see them being able to keep the cattle from dehydrating.
This could be catastrophic. We need to worry less about our reliance on China and start figuring out how to cut our reliance on California food production.
Oh, and figure out how to get them to secede.
Or get rid of all the stupid regulations causing the problem.
“Secede.” No, it’ll be Federal Emergency Funding for California from here on out.
If only the Midwest grew less corn. Wonder why they grow so much?
Corn production may suffer in MN this year unless its irrigated. Dry, dry, dry here in north-central MN. I’m in pine country, very sandy, no garden this year because of extenuating circumstances but in years gone by, I watered almost every day it didn’t rain.
Already we’ve had the hottest summer that I can remember, usually a few days above 90 in late July, already had 4-5 this week and more forecast. Climate change! At least the grass doesn’t need mowing.
And here in SWMO we’ve had one of the coolest springs in my memory. June 8, and we just turned the AC on a couple days ago. Was wearing a hoody though the third week of May, Not expected to hit 90 American into the extended forecast through June 22. And LOTS of rain the last month.
Weather/Climate will weather/climate, no matter what us measly humans do.
“and I’ll have to live in a pineapple.”
From Spud to Sponge in three generations.
Your tax dollars at work
The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May, its highest level in more than four million years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Monday.
After dipping last year because of pandemic-fueled lockdowns, emissions of greenhouse gases have begun to soar again as economies open and people resume work and travel. The newly released data about May carbon dioxide levels show that the global community so far has failed to slow the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, NOAA said in its announcement.
“We are adding roughly 40 billion metric tons of CO2 pollution to the atmosphere per year,” said Pieter Tans, a senior scientist with NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory, in a statement. “If we want to avoid catastrophic climate change, the highest priority must be to reduce CO2 pollution to zero at the earliest possible date.”
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The last time the atmosphere held similar amounts of carbon dioxide was during the Pliocene period, NOAA said, about 4.1 to 4.5 million years ago. At that time, sea levels were 78 feet higher. The planet was an average of 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, and large forests might have grown in what is today’s Arctic tundra.
Homo erectus, an early human ancestor, emerged about two million years ago on a much cooler planet. At the time, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels averaged about 230 parts per million — a bit over half of today’s levels.
SCIENCE!
Global warming is about the marxists looking for excuses to tell the plebes they are not going to ruin the elite’s jetsetting ways by also traveling around in trains, boats, planes, or cars…. If the elite can force the fucking unwashed masses to eat bugs and live in caves, then airports, train stations, ports, and even congested streets would be empty of the serfs, and their lives would be better….
Anyone catch that skit someone did recently when they asked a bunch of woke kids all saying they supported the AGW efforts of the elite to sign a petition pledging to give up travel (especially air), air conditioners, cars, and electronics to save Gaia? Then you see the virtue signaling people – practically every one of them woke virtue signaling college going stupid lib women – all saying AGW measures proposed by the marxists are needed to save the planet suddenly all make all manner of dumbass excuses, followed by them then running away. It was telling. They want these things, if you assume they aren’t just going along cause that is what their peers believe is the cool/right attitude and it being good or bad is immaterial, only as long as someone else pays for it.
“Rampaging naked Florida woman, 53, destroys an Outback Steakhouse and hurls bottles at cops before being tasered”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655177/Naked-Florida-woman-tasered-police-trashing-restaurant.html
NSFW https://twitter.com/Tr00peRR/status/1400846283611545600 NSFW
Looks like hurling bottles is a great way to stay in shape.
53?
Nice!
I was about to say that she’s pretty fit for 53.
Definitely in the “I would consider it” range and definitely would regret it.
I thought I was in pretty fair shape. 53? I need to watch my keto or sumpin.
Didn’t we see this in a tweet earlier last week? She reminds me of one of the girls I dated…
She doesn’t remind me of any of the “farm” girls I dated. You had a different youth, Alex, lucky guy
Your definition of lucky and mine may vary. And I actually dated a girl like that after my divorce some 12 years ago… Let’s just say it was my first hard reminder that sticking it in crazy has a real bad cost most of the time (she put nails through my car’s tires – twice – when I had to park it on the street because I had work going on in my driveway that prevented me from parking in my garage as usual) and might not be worth it…
I keep watching and waiting on the drugs to fall out of her ass while she’s reaching for the top shelf bottles.
Surprisingly, they only found THC in her system.
Hardcore.
It turns out it wasn’t.
When you’re so horny you need to numb your crotch with fentanyl… I’m really surprised she couldn’t fined someone to help her with that.
What kills me is seeing all the yahoos behind her just filming the thing, and doing nothing to try and stop it. And you can tell they are workers from the black shirts.
That video, more that anything, shows just how fucked we are as a country.
Also, she isn’t naked. She has flip-flops on.
Company policies are quite stern in that regard. Call cops, get out of way.
Blame lawyers and insurance companies.
See also – shoplifting
Oh, I know that is a part of the reason they do nothing, but we (the collective we) are to blame for that. We put up with judges that accept the cases that build the body of law that reinforces this.
I am not saying the servers should carry heat and start blasting away, but the fact that an employee cannot take resonable steps to put a stop to this without fear of legal reprisal, no matter if she hurts someone or herself, is pretty indicative.
Florida is a hell of a drug.
Sorry for the OT but just got an urgent email asking why in my capacity as a custodian I am attempting to order so much bleach. The Corp is trying to go “Green”, apparently. Never mind that the existing products that I use require a 3″ binder for OSHA. Heck, half the stuff I use is acid-based. Morons. I also have two years worth of hand cleanser stacked up in the cubby. The Rona has made idiots of nearly everyone but they just can’t stop the virtue signaling. Trump might be hiding under the bed!
Tell them that bleach kills shit and cleans.. That green shit they want you use so they can grandstand just serves to make the bad shit grow faster.
I can’t tell them anything. I’ll pay out of my own pocket. Bleach is cheap. Vancouvah Cocksuckahs!
Request green paint for the bleach bottles.
They can’t do anything right. They sent me 576 individually wrapped rolls of “Scotties Little Softies” that I’ve no use for and neglected to pick them up. I warned them but they just wouldn’t listen. Sometimes I hate being the old Cassandra.
“Yeah, no shit. The only people who didn’t believe report this were…pretty much everybody in the media. ”
During the chaos of the initial revelation that this thing escaped a lab and people were still worried that it might have a far higher mortality rate – this is why they chose to lock down for the first time in history – I remind all that the hypothesis was actually looked at. It was not until they actually had sequenced the g-nome of the virus (in the process confirming it was man made because of the never found naturally repeating pair of DNA amino acids in the makeup) and discovered that while contagious as shit it was not going to kill half the people, that they decided to politicize this shit. That’s when they decided the lockdowns would go on, regardless of being of any value, to destroy the world economy and give the left more to blame Trump for, so they could get rid of him. China was happy to see the people that it owns through financial ties go along and protect it while also setting things up to “fortify” an election they wanted to get rid of their most hated adversary.
They knew. They decided to lie and then silence anyone that could or would question their bullshit. For political reasons. And the real scary thing is that they did this shit while claiming to “Believe in science” while acting like they were the catholic church in the Dark Ages. Many people in the real scientific community had their lives destroyed by these fucking evil shits for pointing out the mediocratic mandarinate had bastardized the science and destroyed the lives of all but members of their own caste.
this is why they chose to lock down for the first time in history
Jeffery Tucker has a sad.
Lockdown as a plan to handle any pandemic was a George W. Bush idea.
This should not worry anyone….
So? That has nothing to do with what I said.
Also, there were quarentine order from the Spanish Flu. They did about as much good, but they were used.
“It’s a notable turnaround for District Attorney Mike Schmidt, who after taking office last August refused to prosecute 90 percent of riot- and protest-related cases. At the time, he claimed that change sometimes takes “property damage” and that it requires “more than just peaceful protests to get the government’s attention.””
https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/finally-portland-antifa-is-being-brought-to-justice-for-its-violence/
CWAA
I find myself surprised that we consider ourselves civilized when such a government official who openly throws in with bandits and maurauders isn’t chased out of town.
recess is over children
He shoulda stayed a third baseman
Useful idiots no longer useful. I had always thought that both Antifa and the Democrats both considered each other the useful idiots. Now we know who won.
He’s not bringing antifa to justice, he’s charging those who damaged the local Democrat Party offices (with a little smokescreen to provide cover). Perfectly ok to destroy other places.
Trump died for their sins. ?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9662061/Demi-Rose-puts-eye-popping-display-plunging-yellow-dress-complete-dramatic-split.html
Nope. Full face of glam.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Great goddamn song, that one. Hook is a jackass, but a very talented one.
California is a mess. California shrank by 165K taxpayers, $8.8 billion in gross income: IRS
I guess they won’t need that earthquake after all.
So, my questions for the day: If the US helped fund the g-o-f research that led to the virulent version of the ‘vid and if the CCP was truly complicit in the lab escape – what the fuck do we do about it? Who goes to prison? If the release was strategic, is that a declaration of war?
I see a lot of analysis (finally) and like you say, most of us thought this came from the lab, but I haven’t seen any actual proposed solutions. It sure looks like China won this round.
Fuck it. I’ve got Power, Corruption and Lies playing in the background, the sun is shining, the dogs are both alive and all it temporarily well.
Have a great day, peeps!
” If the release was strategic, is that a declaration of war? ”
Pretty sure it was an accident.
If it was on purpose, you’d think the cover up would have been better from the get go, rather than damage control.
I agree it was probably a fuckup, but it’s also pretty clear that the CCP knew about the problem as they were sending people hither and yon in the months before they actually shut down the airports.
Interesting questions.
My thought is that if COVID did indeed come from a lab, it was probably not released intentionally, but through incompetence and carelessness. The subsequent spread could well have been the result of intentional cover-up. If they knew it was likely to be lethal but not a world-ender, they might simply have done the things they did to monitor the spread and cause some strife, to see the reaction of the rest of the world.
I think it’s unlikely to have been intentional from the start, but they “made the best of a crisis.”
They restricted travel within China while allowing expats to come home for Chinese New Year and then go back. Your theory sounds plausible to me.
Most likely explanation, incompetence and hubris followed by malicious ass-covering.
and if the CCP was truly complicit in the lab escape – what the fuck do we do about it? Who goes to prison? If the release was strategic, is that a declaration of war?
I don’t think there is much we can do about it. We’re too reliant on trade with China to cut that off. Nobody will go to prison here because we never hold government stooges accountable for the major shit they do. And yes, if it was strategically released I think it is a declaration of war (of sorts). But it’s not a declaration of war against us, rather than their own overpopulation. So we really can’t attack them in response.
It sure looks like China won this round.
That’s my take as well.
The world’s attitude towards China will change with credible proof though. It’s a Pyrrhic victory at best that could undo them in the end.
Not as long as they keep making/selling/exporting big TVs on the cheap, trading partners, TVs for soy beans, what’s not to like. What’s a few casualties, mostly old, when you have a deal like that?
If the release was strategic, is that a declaration of war?
Not if actors in the US government were complicit. After all, we needed to get rid OMB.
It’s almost undeniable that we helped fund it.
I’m not a fan of most of that style of music but I can appreciate the musicianship that went into it. So lacking in today’s popular tunes. Somebody keeps tuning the radio at the plant into the “adult contemporary” station. Every second song is an auto-tuned hell-scape. They all sound the same. Musical Soma.
No, this is musical Soma.
No, this is musical Soma.
I almost went with that! But I actually do like The Strokes and they get less love than Smashing Pumpkins, so I went that way.
Lol. I had the Strokes teed up as I expected SP!
Great minds. And us.
I dig that SP album, a lot. The Strokes, not so much.
If it really came from a lab, and it looks like it did, I think the release was a fuck-up. I think as anger builds, whether or not a release was accidental or intentional will not matter.
Puzzling
A surge in shootings over back-to-back weekends in Chicago has brought fears of a violent summer to the city.
Five people were killed and at least 55 more were injured in shootings over the weekend. The violence followed a Memorial Day weekend in which three people were killed and 34 others were wounded.
“Violence in Chicago, as you all know, continues to be a challenge, especially this time of year,” Norman Kerr, director of the city’s Office of Violence Reduction, said Monday at a news conference to address the shootings.
Whatever you’ve been doing, it doesn’t work.
“Office of Violence Reduction”
Nothing left to cut. Raise those property taxes again!
Raise those property taxes again!
Yes, because obviously the Office of Violence Reduction is insufficiently funded.
It’s them damn Indiana guns coming in a and causing havoc!
I’m glad we don’t get those horrible Indiana guns up here. Alaska guns are apparently far less malicious.
For Nephilium
Right back at ya’ Brooks.
Malice always brings the heat!
I get the feeling he doesn’t think too highly of our esteemed VP.
And does not get canceled amazingly enough
The effective programs and strategies that protect neighborhoods from violence include a lot of face-to-face interaction with police, which isn’t happening because of the pandemic, said John Hollywood, a policing researcher at the Rand Corp., a nonprofit think tank.
In addition, many social stresses associated with the coronavirus, such as fear of illness or death, isolation and economics, are colliding with communities that have issues of trust with law enforcement, leading to more crime, he said.
No shit, Shirley?
The effective programs and strategies that protect neighborhoods from violence include a lot of face-to-face interaction with police,
Uh, not when your police are a band of goons that are effectively above the law. Which has been the case in Chicago since the cop union started funding political campaigns.
The people in Roselawn and Englewood beg to differ.
But the cops won’t go there. Too dangerous.
There was speculation about Trump wearing his pants backwards?
Really?
That was my reaction.
Also a diaper was floated. But is it really different than the unflattering Michelle Obama pic and the she has a penis kick?
Still not convinced she doesn’t.
Twitter was filled with it. Some from leading political voices on the left and media talking heads.
These people are not just morons, but should be targeted for sterilization to prevent the species from being polluted with that level of stupid. They seriously couldn’t tell that putting pants on backwards would be spotted by someone and then be corrected and that they were being trolled with a faked video? How fucking stupid do you have to be to willingly fall for something this idiotic?
Oh, I know plenty of people who thought Trump was a moron, and wanted confirmation of their biases.
I trotted out, “Then Clinton must be a drooling imbecile, getting beat by a moron.”
“RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!!!”
It gave them an easy out.
Sometimes Trump misses his own Trump moments.
I would have loved a hefty bit of “yeah I wore them backwards okay. I wore them so that the fake news, which is failing without me, you saw that right? The fake news was suffering…they really are fake, look it upm
The fake news needed a life line and I, President Trump, have given them what they needed. Mark my words. Yeah I know, President Trump.”
Yeah, with all of the usual idiocy that comes from things like that.
Wow. Just learned about ads for Neuriva “Brain Health” supplement hawked by a “Neuroscientist” and apparent snake oil salesperson @missmayim
It’s caffeine and phosphatidylserine. More than $1/pill.
https://twitter.com/drnikkisullivan/status/1401566837180178445
I mean you mark up as much as you can
Heh, you can buy phosphatidylserine on Amazon for less than 20 cents per pill and that’s likely still a hefty markup. There’s a sucker born every minute it seems.
Do you also want some konjac root at the same price with your order?
For our own good
The Department of Justice on Monday issued model legislation from which states can craft their own “extreme risk protection orders,” commonly referred to as red flag laws, as part of the Biden administration’s ongoing effort to curb U.S. gun violence.
“The Justice Department is determined to take concrete steps to reduce the tragic toll of gun violence in our communities,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
“Today we continue to deliver on our promise to help save lives while protecting the rights of law-abiding Americans. We welcome the opportunity to work with communities in the weeks and months ahead in our shared commitment to end gun violence.”
These protection orders, or ERPOs, are laws designed to temporarily remove guns from people deemed dangerous by — depending on the state — family members, police and/or medical professionals.
You don’t need those guns. Big Nanny will protect you, you paranoid crackpot.
“… while protecting the rights of law-abiding Americans.”
Except for those icky gun owners.
“Take the guns first, due process later”
-Donald J. Trump
See, they do agree on something. It’s almost heartwarming, isn’t it?
Downright heartburning. ::munches fistful of Tums::
Didnt this type of extreme risk order get smacked down? Or was that community safety? I can’t remember.
Also States, if they care to even act as sovereign entities, should tell the Feds to fuck off, we will draft legislation on our own.
LOL, wut?
(Emphasis added.)
1. State institutions used to sort us into racial categories — now we’re doing it for ourselves. See race card in signature below:
https://twitter.com/AmnaUncensored/status/1402080391658414084
Now that’s enraging. JHTFC.
“National Geographic”
Blah blah blah skinsuit
As I mentioned before National Geographic magazine has gone down the shitter since that woman took over as the editor – it’s chock full of wokeness now. The June issue is devoted to “Reckoning with the past” with regards to race in America. One article asked people to describe in 6 words their thoughts on race in America – which yielded this chestnut from a white woman in NYC: “I’m ashamed of my ancestors race.” So tedious.
One article asked people to describe in 6 words their thoughts on race in America
There’s an interesting exercise. Howsabout
“Race grifters tearing the country apart.”
“Bored white people flailing for purpose.”
“Commies divide, people fall for it”
“This is how you create racists”
Yeah but let’s be real here. When you think of geography, what else could you possibly be thinking of besides “Reckoning with the past”?
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian real estate tycoon to overturn his bribery conviction through a massive propaganda campaign with help from VP Joe’s government connections and former FBI director Louis Freeh
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9646127/Hunter-Biden-hired-Romanian-tycoon-help-overturn-bribery-conviction.html?ito=whatsapp_share_article-masthead
Romania is enough of a shithole, Hunter, leave us be
Biden already making concessions to the Russia’s and Chinese, likely because they have dirt on him through Hunter. What’s he going to concede to Romania?
Russians… Stupid phone
I saw something the other day in the “news” which was like a print infomercial about some company developing ammonia as an energy source. It claimed ammonia is more energy-dense than gasoline (hydrogen molecules just waiting to be freed).
Is anybody familiar with this? I couldn’t even tell whether it involved a combustion process or some sort of fuel cell. But they want you to invest.
I know a guy who is trying to make a perpetuum mobile in his bathtub who is looking for investors.
Is it powered by giant turds that keep sinking down then floating back up to stank up the place?
Ammonia was used in IC engines in the 19th century. And I think our military used it during WW2 as well. But I think they’re talking about fuel cell use now, but the problem is it breaking down cell membranes.
This?
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-renewable-fuel-may-be-3-times-more-powerful-than-gasoline-301306420.html
Titty Tuesday will have its revenge!
https://archive.li/M6p3A
Want To Have Sex With A Celeb? Sign An NDA.
“I thought [the NDA] was really creepy. If he’s asking for that, like how much more weird could it get?”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hallielieberman/celebrity-gossip-sex-scandal-ndas
I mean I would sign a NDA to fuck Emily Ratakhoweveryouspellthat
Is the NDA binding on the celebrity?
Because even though I have a hall pass for Elizabeth Hurley from my wife, I don’t think she would be that understanding.
That is why you need the tandem pass. Ours is Kate Beckinsale.
Statespeak
New Jersey will close its only prison for women after years of documented physical and sexual abuses of inmates by guards.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced in a press release Monday his intention to close the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women and move its nearly 400 inmates to a new facility or other existing facilities.
“Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women has a long history of abusive incidents predating our Administration, and we must now commit ourselves to completely breaking this pattern of misconduct to better serve incarcerated women entrusted to the State’s care,” the Democratic governor said in a statement.
Jesus wept.
So…female prisoners? And serve? Sounds like summer camp but I bet it most definitely ain’t.
The highlighted part makes sense. They do have an obligation to care for and protect incarcerated people.
The part that irritates me is the whole “abusive incidents predating our administration”. Motherfucker, you’ve been in charge for three years. You own the abuse now.
we must now commit ourselves to completely breaking this pattern of misconduct
So how many people were fired or prosecuted for the misconduct? Nah, it must have been the fault of the prison buildings.
Exactly. Such bullshit. Prosecute the rapists, incarcerate the wardens for gross criminal negligence.
We have gone through the whole rigamarole about cops wearing cameras, and shown cops that it is good for them also, lets do the prison guards now. Hell, its a closed environment, they have zero need to ever turn the videos off, have it shut down when they are on break in a certain room, end of story.
Because this crap has got to end.
Don’t use whoever made the Epstein cameras.
Integrate men and women prisons. Easy.
How is Bubba gonna feel when his prison bitch tells him that he is more into chicks than Bubba?
Are women in prison above or bellow average hot? The movies I have seen on the topic had a bunch of hotties
Look at the stories about arrests, especially the ones that involve naked women on meth, and that should give you an idea.
Maybe the prison was filled with BDSM types, so it wasn’t really abuse.
They are insanely above average hot in many women’s prisons. I’ve seen documentaries on the subject.
Here you go:
https://twitter.com/mugshawtys
LOL, wut?
Ghost guns are ethereal, and can also pass through solid walls, evading security checkpoints.
In honor of Francis Crick, I recommend the movie “The Race for the Double Helix” starring a very young Jeff Goldblum.
There are all these comparisons to the 70’s, but with food prices increasing we might be rehashing the 30’s.
Thanks for that fantastic video. In high school my best friend got me a VHS of New Order’s videos. This was one of my favorites. We always laughed at the way they just looked at each other at the end.
Invest in hydroponics
They were good. I like the one where he was singing into the camera with a big sore on his arm. “You want us to cover that up? Nah, fuck it.”
More than 2,100 children separated at the border by Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” program “have not yet been reunified” with their parents, according to the task force working to reunite the families.
I thought we weren’t going to have stories about kids in cages now that the pre-Harris administration has started?
/reads rest of article
Huh. No mention of where they are keeping the kids. I guess this counts as “no stories about kids in cages”.
From what I have seen, a lot of them are showing up at the border without their parents. They weren’t separated by Trump at all.
They do have an obligation to care for and protect incarcerated people.
True enough, but maybe they should stop “entrusting” so goddam many people to the state’s “care”.
I suspect the majority of the state’s victims we in jail for what we would consider victimless crimes.
Well, yeah. Of course I think there should be a lot fewer prisoners. I assume that would go without saying here.
what we would consider victimless crimes is not what many others consider
A lot of people are wrong about a lot of things.
I know. Most people who are not me in fact.
Indeed, you have a record of being wrong about everything.
And someone being in prison for drug charges makes it even more important to prevent them being abused. I want to know how many of the abusers are facing jail time. I’d also like to see the wardens going to prison for gross negligence. They have a duty to protect incarcerated people and clearly failed.
Drug possession charges for non violent offenders resulting in prison time is plain and stupid bullshit. People committing crimes to finance a drug problem or while under the influence (just like with alcohol) however, take the risk of some sweet prison bitching time in one’s future.
Sinkhole in Jerusalem swallows up cars in hospital parking lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-7ISgcK3gY
Does that count as the sixth seal? Man, I wish the apocalypse would hurry up and get here.
“Fire in the Sky”
Is that why there was smoke on the water?
Shit like this is why I fucking hate the morons that tell you rich people that say more taxes are OK are cool. The rich can afford armies of accountants and lobbyists to help them avoid paying taxes. the rest of us will take it in the ass (and not like it).
“Their wealth derives from the skyrocketing value of their assets, like stock and property.”
There’s nothing wrong with that other than the uberwealthy advocating for higher taxes when they pay little or none. Advocating for the taxation of appreciating assets opens up an enormous can of worms.
Really difficult when the assets you own are not publically traded.
Yup.
Unrealized gains are unrealized gains. And the valuations are based on illiquid assets.
Imagine what would happen if Bezos or The Zuck started liquidating a bunch of their holdings in their own companies, the market or at least their stocks would take a nose dive.
Musk responded to an initial query with a lone punctuation mark: “?” After we sent detailed questions to him, he did not reply.
I really want to hate Musk, but then I see this and smile.
Maybe this should be an Iron Law: If someone supports a law, they always assume it won’t apply to them.
Any “Law” named after a person shall hereby be struck from the books.
I hear you, but most folks’ tax returns are so uncomplicated that they don’t need an accountant. However, most still go to H&R Block or similar and pay big bucks for a simple return just because they are afraid of making a mistake. If you’ve got complicated finances (trust income, partnerships, lots of buying and selling of depreciating assets, etc.) you probably can afford the accountant.
Even the plebes (the richer plebes?) can structure their lives to avoid paying income taxes:
https://www.gocurrycracker.com/never-pay-taxes-again/
I started using Wesley Snipes accountant and he told me the same thing.
I was very confused what the heck was going on until I realized that they had massive investments they were leveraging for income because they’re retired.
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I should have put a warning label that it is a FIRE article.
I’m cool with FIRE (even some of the wackadoodles), but that guy is a bit of a caricature of a type that I’ve frequently encountered in the personal finance community. The ones who have a super simple way to accomplish financial goal X.
“Just do these three easy steps!”
*covers mouth to garble the next part*
“you’ll a nest egg of $1M sitting in your investment accounts”
/SteveMartin
How to earn a million dollars and pay no taxes.
1) Earn a million dollars
2) Don’t pay your taxes
Just that easy.
They buried the lede.
If the government starts taxing us on the value of our assets before we sell, we’re all fucked. Social mobility will go to zero.
^This and goodbye family farms and home ownership or ownership of anything that appreciates in value. That kind of thinking is dangerous.
The real issue is that those asset values are exploding because the Federal Reserve is flooding the market with money and it doesn’t have many places to go except stocks.
The central bank is making these gazillionaires.
That article is stupid because it relates income taxes to wealth growth. Those two things are not the same.
Also Bezos payed almost a billion in tax
The rich people that say “please raise my taxes” knowing they will be able to avoid paying them.
The article did conflate income and wealth.
Yes, income taxes only tax income, not wealth. Unrealized gains are unrealized, just like my house.
How about reducing credits, deductions and exemptions? You can start by eliminating SALT, mortgage and charitable giving. There is so much in the tax code that can be simplified. How about switching from income to consumption taxes?
The article did conflate income and wealth. -Always and on purpose, economic and financial literacy is about just above a chimpanzee for the vast majority of Americans.
I’m sure there the IRS would love to expand to the size required to handle tracking and taxing wealth. Oh the opportunities to write more regulations. The opportunities for bribes to capture the regulatory process to allow the wealthy to avoid paying taxes that will hit the middle class. It’s a bureaucrats dream.
I went to a restaurant recently where the English translation on the menu reminded me of the 2000s…. I did not think such were left close to the center of Bucharest
https://www.lacocosatu.ro/meniu/
The restaurant is called the humpback due to its first owner…
pulpa is the Romanian word for thigh.
goddamnit posted early
I was gonna give some examples
pulpa is the Romanian word for thigh
Pulpe de pui dezosate /Boneless chicken legs – here translated as leg
Pulpa de rata cu varza calita /Duck pulp with cooked cabbage – and here translated as pulp
sarmale are the cabbage rolls similar to polish Gołąbki
Sarmale / Cabbage – that is it. the translation is cabbge
Sarmale de post/Meatles cabbage – there is also the vegan meatless cabbage
or for beef
Rasol de vita cu hrean / beef rack with – rasol is basically boiled meat similar to austrian Tafelspitz, nothing to do with ribs which is what rack is associated with
Pastrama de berbecut cu mamaliguta/Mutton pemmican with polenta – pastrama is basically salted mutton, something that is probably the origin of your pastrami. No idea where they got pemmican from
Anyways it amused me.
Platoul Gurmandului sounds pretty good.
keep in mind that neither bacon nor smoked bacon are correct translations.
The first bacon is similar to italian lardo just pig fat
The smoked bacon is in fact smoked pork loin.
I see no issues with either of those
Depraved criminality
Fake vaccine cards not only have a negative impact on public health, the FBI said, but it’s against the law — unauthorized use of an official government agency’s seal can be punished with a fine or up to five years in prison.
The FBI said earlier this year, “By misrepresenting yourself as vaccinated when entering schools, mass transit, workplaces, gyms, or places of worship, you put yourself and others around you at risk of contracting COVID-19.”
The FBI and Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on potential investigations into such schemes.
State attorneys general set their sights on the issue in April, urging tech CEOs to nip this phenomenon in the bud before it got worse.
In April, 47 members of the National Association of Attorneys General sent the CEOs of Twitter, Shopify, and eBay a letter requesting they take immediate action on bad actors spreading COVID-19 misinformation and using the sites to sell fake vaccine cards.
The letter read, “The false and deceptive marketing and sales of fake COVID vaccine cards threatens the health of our communities, slows progress in getting our residents protected from the virus, and are a violation of the laws of many states.”
They should just charge anyone caught making, selling or using a fake vaccination card with murder.
I figure the time for white-people to play the “I’m too stupid to get a vaccine card” herpa-derpa. The media already has the narrative in place for us, we just have to fulfill it.
You’re getting carried away there, attempted murder at best.
and insurrection
The FBI is misrepresenting the law once again, I believe. Official seal would be the stamp or embossing applied to a document (such as a certified copy of a birth certificate) not a mere reproduction of a logo.
Not that that will stop them in the land of FYTW. Look how they went after celebs for college admissions hijinks.
The government can’t match up 2,000+ kids whose parents are (presumably, but you never know) looking for them, but they can track down and question every person who stayed in a D.C. hotel on Jan.6th??
This?
That’s it, CPA.
Woot!
I’ve managed to get my window AC working, curtained off the doorway from the living room into the kitchen, and the combined action of the window unit and the portable AC has got the livingroom/bedroom maintaining 70 degrees when it’s gotten up to 78 outside.
Lets see if we can keep it livable as the outside temperature continues to climb.
*tires not to weep at upcoming electric bill.*
I get my central air unit that is 15 years old and died replaced this Friday… In the mean time I am suffering through the 90+ degree days till then. Put the window unit I have in my kids room, cause these kids today are too soft to deal with any sort of un-mild weather…
If it is a modern AC, even window unit, it shouldn’t be costing you a heck of a lot more on the bill. An extra $200 a year probably but YMMV
I’m basing this upon my past years experience with these two AC units and the comparison versus those months when I can go without running them.
Until now it has been a cool June here I did not need to start the AC. The temperature now inside is 21 degrees C.
It was 90F last night and is supposed to keep getting into that region over the next few days, with Humidity between 60 and 100%.
Last year when it did that I was drinking literal gallons a day to replace lost sweat. I wanted to get my living room cool so I wouldn’t be as miserable.
You need a Kaiser.
Rommel knows best.
Yes… Yes I do.
And someone being in prison for drug charges makes it even more important to prevent them being abused. I want to know how many of the abusers are facing jail time. I’d also like to see the wardens going to prison for gross negligence. They have a duty to protect incarcerated people and clearly failed.
If there is a legitimate case to be made for the death penalty, this is it. Every single person who participated in and abetted these abuses should get the bullet.
ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years. The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America’s titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg. It shows not just their income and taxes, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.
Something something federal penitentiary.
Wonder how they got that data…couldn’t have been a noble FedGov just doing the State’s bidding.
How to fight the woke and win.
How to fight them better
<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/fbi-encrypted-phone-app-leads-to-hundreds-of-global-arrests/"FBI encrypted phone app leads to hundreds of global underworld arrests
“Hundreds of criminal gang members around the world were tricked into using a phone encryption app operated by the FBI to plan their heinous crimes, leading to their arrests, according to authorities.”
FBI continues to wipe their ass with the constitution
They’re fucked. And that means serious spikes in food prices are coming.
It’s interesting to me, in a terrifying way, how we’re getting indications of fragility from almost all sectors of the economy simultaneously.
Feels like one of those confluences of factors that ends up in a very bad place.
The normalcy bias is in full swing. A perfect storm would be right on time.
My wife is feeling it when she has to get equipment/product replacements. Something as simple as a dog-grooming table arm is becoming increasingly harder to find. Even some of the made-in-America soaps and shampoos she uses are running low.
does she have a youtube channel? youtube has recommending me some dog grooming channels recently although I do not own a dog.
Nope that is just your ISP or Google pulling your digital life forward.
RevHo and the Todies tour this fall.
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/toadies-playing-rubberneck-on-fall-tour-with-rev-horton-heat/
Not sure about The Toadies but Heat puts on a fine show.
The Toadies are are (were) a fine band -https://youtu.be/0lVdMbUx1_k
https://youtu.be/EkwD5rQ-_d4 god fucking dammit.
Great song until you realize its probably rape, or vampires…or rape vampires.
As far as the California drought goes, this year we had a below normal year of snow. The year before that we had a bit above average year for snow. As a result we now have The Worst Drought Ever. This shit is 90 percent mismanagement of resources. A few years back they finally got a desal plant online in San Diego County, it took them about two years to build it. Problem was, it took over ten years to get permission to build it. The company that did so said that was the last one they would be building in California due to the permitting process. But within the next twenty years we are going to have a medium speed choo choo train that will likely exceed 250 billion in total cost to get you from SF to LÁ in a space age five hours.
I snickered.
https://i.redd.it/ixaab189j1471.jpg
From that pro publica tax link:
One of the billionaires mentioned in this article objected, arguing that publishing personal tax information is a violation of privacy. We have concluded that the public interest in knowing this information at this pivotal moment outweighs that legitimate concern.
Die in a fire, you jacobin scum.
When it fits our need, it is okay.
Now, now! Let’s not get into any weirdness with fire. I think we should stick with the tried and true helicopter rides.
I’d go get my quals back to help with that program…for the people, you know. I’m a man of the people.
Has it been banned from the twatters and FB? I seem to remember something about hacked docs or something to protect Biden that they wouldn’t allow…hahaha. Almost was able to type that all out.
One of the mysteries future historians will be forced to unravel is how a generation living during an historical oasis of peace and prosperity, and at the very peak of material comfort and indulgence, convinced themselves they’re living in the end of days.
https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1402074303475064832
At the current rate of excessive spending and reduced production, it will be the end of days before long.
Those things don’t work the way you think they do; they’re correlated directly, not inversely.
Not “you” you, Pie, the twitterer. BUT… I’ll say this: we’re all going to get the self-fulfilling prophecy. The government/commies rail and rail against the very things that brought us to this level of material wealth and comfort, so they’re going to destroy them, pointing fingers at everyone else along the way.
It’s the Nature of Man. Look at the Dostoyevsky quote someone posted. It’s dead-on (bawls accurate! yanno.)
???
If people don’t have something that actually exists to overcome they have to invent it. In an atomized world it gives a sense of purpose.
I put some pork on the grill and forgot to look at the time and now I don;t know when it is done. I need to take out my thermopop
They must have patched the webex client. It stopped autolaunching processes I don’t want, and it works better with my mute button than it used to.
Just a note – I’ll be a little late to my own article this AM. On the road ‘cuz I gotta get the dog to the groomer. Should be in by 9:30 or so.
get the dog to the groomer
These euphemisms are getting stranger.
“EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he learned through the press — not any direct heads-up — that Biden had decided to stop trying to block a Russian pipeline that Ukraine sees as a dire national security threat.”
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1401670852933046280
So what was that about Trump and Russia?
RUMP! Just easier to write it that way.
Always accuse your enemy of doing what you are doing yourself.
I’m out. ‘Night Glibbies!
I think that there are a lot of protonmail users on this site. Lately I been having a hard time getting the website to load. Over a dozen tries this morning and it still hasn’t loaded. “Ooops, something went wrong”.
Anyone else having issues?
I just pulled it up and logged in. Looks like they rolled out their new webmail interface. It may have been down for the update.
And as soon as I gripe it starts working.
You aren’t tricking me into revealing I’m using an unapproved service.
There has been some sort of failure in some of the backbones today.
Protonmail is banned in Russia. Russian email providers reject incoming emails from Protonmail.
They overhauled their web interface last night.
Probably some glitches in the deployment.
Never gets old. Seriously, does not appear to be aging.
I approve.
Although her kid looks like a chick.
I did a double take when I saw the shirtless pic. Up to that point I had assumed it was a daughter.
There you go again, assuming xer gender.
“Montreal got out the brooms on Winnipeg.”
Curling?
I haven’t gone through all of the comments so I don’t know if any music was already posted that was created by birthday boy Yeezy.
Sometimes the first one is the best one
Bauer has been clamoring for MLB/PA to take account for the increased spin rates tied to substances being used for several years. He never said that he wouldn’t partake if they did nothing.