Its been a busy week for me, since Sloopy went and made it rain!
Here’s a few links!
To be fair, I am not on team cuck, and I want him to explain this shit.
Well shit, I’m not surprised. Are you surprised?
Aw, look at those cute, little, fucking genocidal, flying blood-sucking rats!
Some people don’t like being in business.
If it didn’t mean roving gangs of cannibal rapists would inherit the Earth, I’ be more entertained by the Fed trying to pump more hot air their bubble.
MCAFEE DID NOT KILL HIMSELF…but you knew that
HEY BABY! WANNA GO OUT???
If you can afford it, I guess.
But you can’t afford it.
Pricing yourself out of the market?
Negotiation tactic. I have a big ask.
Is their a private airport near you I can fly in to take you out?
The government that warns you they will attack you with nuke armed F-15s if you don’t fucking give up your evil guns to them, has finally produced the list of America’s most terrifying criminals that participated in the Jan 6th insurrection!
He had Viking horns… VIKING HORNS! Your nukes mean nothing uncle Joe!
Also:
F-15
Top speed: 1,875 mph
Range: 2,992 mi
Introduced: January 9, 1976
You’d think someone would’ve told the head of our military we have F-35’s now.
Joe has issues with short term memory.. And while the F-15X is currently rolling out, Joe showed us that he is unaware of guerilla fighting and the fact that you don’t attack the plane in the air, the nuke on its way down, or even tanks and artillery units, with your AR-15: you attack their logistics.
The man proved to me that he is a moron, yet again, and the people the people that gave him this argument to make proved to me we have the stupid people that think they are the smart ones in charge again.
Issues with short term memory and an inability to convert short term memory into long term memory are indicative of dementia and alzheimer’s. I cannot think of a more perfect leader to represent the current state of my nation.
He only has to be smarter than the people he’s appealing to though and they aren’t going to think it through on that level. Don’t over analyze it, it’s an effective argument for his audience, never mind that any government that would nuke its own population by definition deserves to be overthrown.
To be fair, the F-35 is a shit plane.
Actually, the F-35 is a game changer, and is suffering the same exact problems every new platform always does. Is it perfect? No freaking way. Does it cost too much. You bet your ass. Does it do everything they told us it would? Not yet. And that’s the issue. Look up the history of every major platform the military rolled out. You look at the history of other aircraft – the F-14, F-15, F-16, F/a-18, and yes, even the F-22 – all had problems, cost overruns, and took a while to get things right. The F-35 will eventually get there too given time.
Never forget that the military chooses the lowest bidder making the most insane promises of capability. When you do so, you can’t avoid the maturation problem, and coupled with the whole bureaucratic nature of the whole process, you can’t avoid pissing away a ton of money. People forget that government is ALWAYS inefficient at spending other people’s money, and the military is government at its worse when it comes to bureaucratic bullshit.
Never forget that the military chooses the lowest bidder making the most insane promises of capability.
I’ve noted that when the military makes some stupid ask, there’s really only two responses any vendor can make:
1) this is impossible and you’re stupid to even ask (this is not a profitable response) or
2) sure, we can do that (which means one of two things about the company saying this: they are stupid and don’t realize it can’t be done, or, they don’t care because the money once flowing will keep flowing and that is what really matters)
It is always the later.. Often it isn’t that these companies can’t do it, but that the military keeps changing specs midgame invalidating the work they did more often than not. Reality is that it is incredibly difficult and expensive to create a platform that is awesome at everything, and you need to make compromises. The military sucks at doing that right, often for all the wrong reasons, and vendors have become opportunists and simply milk the military’s stupidity for all it is worth…
Any sensible system would look at 10 responses, and if 8 say “are you fucking nuts” it kills the program – no matter what the other 2 promise. Our system says, hey, we got two that can do it – now choose the cheaper one.
Speaking of the F-35:
https://bearinsider.com/forums/6/topics/98303
I would hope we’re still in the position that the one thing that would certainly cause a coup would be an order to use nukes against America itself. With the correct personnel selection and sufficient brainwashing they might get there someday but they’re not there yet. Even though the interpretations of what he said have been hyperbolic, the very fact that he brought it up at all is just nuts.
People often talk about how the military would never allow such a thing, apparently they don’t know anyone in the military. Not even taking into consideration how automated we’ve made war, the purges of the ranks for those who do not toe the line for Uncle Sam and the Alphabet agencies has been going on a for a LONG time.
They already even have the old Soviet Zampolits now. They are called diversity officers.
^THIS
They have been injecting woke crap into the military since at least the Clinton Administration and a social media post that makes your leadership uncomfortable is considered grounds for punishment.
Just because the Military gets chain-teaching crammed down their throats, doesn’t mean that they’re internalizing this shit. A lot of that training fortifies the passive resistance to the more stupid wokism.
The Generals may buy in, because they are, by nature, political animals, but most rank and file volunteers believe…
I’d like to think that, but there is a certain segment of the enlisted population that are fully on board, both in terms of making a career out of being a political commissar (Equal Opportunity Advisor) and in terms of selection for promotion to senior NCO. A black mark in the EO realm is a sure ticket to retiring as a Staff Sergeant.
And that’s the segment of the national population they are now marketing the military to.. By design. And if you miss out that this agenda is a driver right now, you miss out that they are now shifting the military’s priority from fighting foreign entities trying to fuck America over to political loyalty to the people in charge…
Winston’s Mom does the link
Also the kinks as I understand.
TAKE THAT BACK!
My gurl is sweet…
The Kinks?
hidden cameras everywhere!
That’s extra.
I did no such thing, now the Monkees on the other hand…lets just day they don’t play their own instruments.
It’s rap, but the theme of the song is very accurate…
Those high prices – and the sharp differentials with the cost on the return route – can be seen as price signals that will push the industry to rebalance itself. That already seems to be having an effect.
More than 360,000 empty containers were shipped from the port of Los Angeles last month, roughly double usual seasonal rates.
I was considering getting a container this spring. Prices at that time were up by about half over a year before.
That’s right – you HAVE been in the market for a new home lately, haven’t you?
He’s expanding his bunker
I have a 20 footer. Sits on 3 railroad ties. It was pretty beat up but it’s grade was “wind and water tight”, which it is. I love that thing, it holds all my tools, kayaks, and bikes. Solid as can be except the top is made of a thinner grade of metal. I found that out when I decided to sit on top and drink beer one evening.
Hope it wasn’t an incident of “Hold my beer and watch this”, man…
Yeah, we have a 40-foot one we’re currently using for storage, but it has siding and a roof built around it so it just looks like a long, thin outbuilding with this big weird two-storey thing built on the side. It’s handy but needs a lot of work to make it really usable.
You see a lot of these containers up here. Not long ago you could get them pretty cheap down in Anchorage, because so much stuff is shipped up here with much less going back; there was always a big surplus of containers on this end.
This is going to shrink my youtube rabbit hole of watching people build container homes. I guess that’s for the best.
I read that “Who is the face of CRT” thing, and I know less now than I did previously.
Notable events on this day in history:
1845, Great Britain repealed the Corn Laws
1876, George Custer had a bit of trouble at the Little Big Horn
1996, Khabarovsk Towers bombing kills 19 US airmen in Saudi Arabia
1942, Dwight Eisenhower assumes command of US troops in Europe
2009, Michael Jackson dies
1950, Korean War begins, and continues to this day
1951, I was born
Well Happy Birthday to you!
…and you weren’t named “Little Big Horn”?
Happy Birthday.
Nobody even nicknamed me “Little Big Horny.” So disappoint, much sad.
LOL
Happy b-day shitlord.
Happy Birthday! 😀
Happy Birthday, boomer.
Happy Birthday!
or
Happy Birthday!
Sorry, I’m Gen X – I don’t know what you people listen to 😉
Here, slumbrew.
Ah, right, that band all the Boomers love 😀
Happy birthday, SK
(To everyone else) He wants cake!
Happy Birthday, Gramps.
Happy birthday, hope your feeling spry!
I seem to remember a product called Spry that competed with Crisco.
I’m not fat !
NSFW birthday song.
https://youtu.be/EeCNuhKWmYY
Felix the cat video with song by Combichrist.
You’re an old llama.
Many happy returns, old fella.
Huh, figured someone would have gone with Happy Birthday! by now. Well, here you go…
Happy birthday!
As an aside, I love that we have a pretty broad age range here.
(we might be a bit light on 20-somethings)
T&T I think is our baby of the site
Happy Birthday. Now go outside and yell at some clouds.
Also NSFW – language and raunchy punk, but Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday you filthy animal!
Now that’s a come-on!
Happy birthday!
Remember, no hugs for thugs!
Oh, my. Somebody remembers!
There was actually a purpose for that tag line, but it had nothing to do with TOS or libertarian-ish sites of any sort. I just dragged it along with me when I hit TOS. Someday I may tell the tale of Shirley Knott and No hugs for thugs.
Happy bday!
70, eh? What’s it like knowing that you’re on final approach?
Happy barfday!!!!
Birfday, per Fiddy Cent.
“Covid dealt a hammer-blow to global merchandise volumes, but the slowdown had been going on for some time before that, thanks to former president Donald Trump’s trade wars on the rest of the world.”
Is there anything OMB couldn’t do?
David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering commodities, as well as industrial and consumer companies. The views expressed here are his own. Oh, a Bloomie. Nevermind.
What I got out of that article was yet more validation that Europe and the US aren’t producing much of value these days (or at least not enough of it). If the problem is mainly that China is filling the containers, and they’re having to come back empty from Europe and the US, maybe getting our economies to make something the rest of the world wants might come to mind? (Besides Hollywood retreads, and lots and lots of IP litigation, of course…).
We feed and power China. Every day we send massive ships full of grain and coal to Asia. China is the largest importer of those goods.
The US has never produced or manufactured more than they do now.
We have also probably never consumed much more than we do right now.
At the risk of summoning Winston, I pretty much hated that as well but everyone running against Trump supported that protectionism as well and so does Biden.
https://mises.org/power-market/road-authoritarianism-paved-fiat-currency
“Some Fed board members are forecasting a rate increase by late 2022 or 2023, though with the rate still not reaching one percent. The Fed will neither allow interest rates to rise to market levels nor reduce its purchase of Treasury securities. A significant increase in interest rates would make the government’s borrowing costs unsustainable.”
We’re so fucked… Hyperinflation here we come!
What does the mcafee video say? I can’t stand videos; why can’t people just write text like the elder internet gods intended?
Amen!
Because then you get shitheads that believe what CNN tells then was on the video. MCAFEE DIDNT KILL HIMSELF
Malthus was right!
TW: “Scientific” “American”
Whether it is principles of classical, quantum or solid state physics or thermodynamics, each places different but inexorable constraints on technological solutions. Basically, physical principles that have allowed incredible technological leaps over the past century also inevitably limit them. We might consider that extensive recycling of materials would offset efficiency limits. Recycling is crucial; however, while glass and metals can be recycled almost indefinitely without loss of quality, materials such as paper and plastic can be recycled only a few times before becoming too degraded.
Additionally, recycling itself may be an energy- and materials-intensive process. Even if physical laws could be broken (they cannot) to achieve recycling with 100 percent efficiency, added demand from the imperative for economic growth would necessarily require virgin materials. The key point is that efficiency is limited by physics, but there is no sufficiency limit on the socioeconomic construct of “demand.”
Unfortunately, the situation is even more dire. Economic growth is required to be exponential; that is, the size of the economy must double in a fixed period. As referenced earlier, this has driven a corresponding increase in the material footprint. To understand the nature of exponential growth, consider the EV. Suppose that we have enough (easily extractable) lithium for the batteries needed to fuel the EV revolution for another 30 years. Now assume that deep-sea mining provides four times the current amount of these materials. Are we covered for 120 years? No, because the current 10 percent rate of growth in demand for lithium is equivalent to doubling of demand every seven years, which means we would only have enough for 44 years. In effect, we would cause untold, perhaps irreversible, devastation of marine ecosystems to buy ourselves a few extra years’ supply of raw materials.
Exponential growth swiftly, inevitably, swamps anything in finite supply. For a virus, that finite resource is the human population and in the context of the planet it is its physical resources.
Have a heaping helping of steaming hot gibberish.
Technological advancement over the same period won’t happen apparently.
Yup. Sadly reminiscent of my days at US West/Qwest. Executives were confidently forecasting future business based on current growth rates of DSL service. They completely ignored the unavoidable fact that sooner or later you’re going to run out of customers. Not energy, not raw materials, not even IP addresses or network capacity, simply customers. Not many sales in a saturated market.
Only solution is VHE – please start with yourself dear author.
Paul Ehrlich, just with a new date on it.
Excuse me, waitress? I ordered the chicken fingers, this is a word salad.
Those links make me want to drown my beloved, aged cat in the toilet bowl. Respect!
It’s not that the linksters are being nut-punchier than normal, so much as we live in nut-punchy times.
What is a Friday without a good nutpunch to kick off the weekend?
I keep hearing that McAfee owner a condo in the building that collapsed.
Nice – that is how you conspiracy-theory.
That’s what you call a dead-man switch!
The inescapable inference is that it is essentially impossible to decouple material use from economic growth. And this is exactly what has transpired. Wiedmann et al., 2015 did a careful accounting of the material footprint, including those embedded in international trade, for several nations. In the 1990–2008 period covered by the study, no country achieved a planned, deliberate economywide decoupling for a sustained length of time. Claims by the Global North to the contrary conceal the substantial offshoring of its production, and the associated ecological devastation, to the Global South.
Recent proposals for ecocidal deep-sea and fantastical exoplanetary mining are an unsurprising consequence of a growth paradigm that refuses to recognize these inconvenient truths.
These observations lead us to a natural minimum condition for sustainability: all resource use curves must be simultaneously flatlined and all pollution curves simultaneously extinguished. It is this resource perspective that allows us to see why EVs may help offset carbon emissions yet remain utterly unsustainable under the limitless growth paradigm.
REPENT
THE END IS NIGH
#ThanosWasRight
Bullshit.
Take a look at the size of a TV from 1980 and one from 2020 and tell me which used more materials.
Take a look at all of the appliances and gizmos I would need from 1970 to replace an Iphone (even excluding the GPS and warehouse sized computer)- there are more materials used in a fucking clock radio, about as many in a scientific calculator, and that’s just 2 apps.
Seen v. Unseen: We go through literally hundreds of thousands of pounds of concentrated sulfuric acid daily, while producing a vastly lower mass of chips.
The real question is this: how do we transition to alternative economic paradigms founded on the reconciliation of equitable human well-being with ecological integrity?
I recommend self-immolation.
I recommend death by Thesaurus.
We’ll all be equally miserable. I can’t wait.
Nice links, Miss.
Oh boy…
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/kevin-love-us-olympic-team-tokenism-espn-jalen-rose
“But this level of, and I got a word for it … Kevin Love is on the team because of tokenism. Don’t be scared to make an all-Black team representing the United States of America. I’m disappointed by that. Anybody that watched the league this year knows Kevin Love did not have a stellar season, was not the best player on his team and did not necessarily deserve to be on this squad. And I’m not going to take him off the squad and not put somebody else on it. I’m going to tell you whose spot that should be. “
Team USA had an all-Black team during the 2016 Olympics at the height of the U.S. presidential elections between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
And yet you still felt the need to write this.
Whoops, that was Fox reporting on what the dum-dum said.
So he’s opposed to having token minorities in every other endeavor too?
Well, you and the other two guys who did can hash that out.
“you” referring to the guy in the story, not Cy.
He’s right that Kevin Love shouldn’t be on the team, he’s just not all that good anymore. I don’t know who the next best player would be though. The replacement he proposed, DeAndre Ayton, isn’t even a US citizen so that was a dumb argument to make.
The problem is that you are listening to an idiot and thinking they and their even dumber olympic team sports argument is anything but noise. The olympics kind of served a purpose during the Cold War. These days it is all bullshit and irrelevant posturing by a bunch of spoiled brats. Cancel the fucking thing. That’s the discussion we should be having.
At least get rid of sports that have championships that overshadow the Olympics. Keep the Olympics for sports that don’t get exposure.
Nekked female volleyball (without ugly trannies plz)…
Only the ones from the Mexican Sharpshooter links.
So you’re saying there are pretty ones?
This. Team sports don’t belong there at all.
and anything synchronized
I’m OK with Love being on the team as long as his ticket is one way. No reason to waste money flying him back.
As a sorta follower of the Timberwoofs, I still harbor some bitterness about Love and the way he was hyped up when he was here. He’s a solid player, but the idea you can build around him is delusional.
Aw, look at those cute, little, fucking genocidal, flying blood-sucking rats!
Don’t be blind to the beauty of nature.
Official Chinese state-approved footage from years ago showing bats being kept at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has further fueled scrutiny of the research being conducted at the secretive facility.
But I heard a wet market was the culprit for the Commie Cough.
I’d bet everything I have that they didn’t specify what the gender bias was because it doesn’t favor men.
My thoughts exactly.
Did they cite those studies (I’ll just safely assume no)? Just because a study says this or that doesn’t necessarily make it so for any number of reasons. Any restaurant that effectively removes my ability to penalize or reward a server as I deem fit won’t get my business.
I’m happy to do away with tipping.
It would be amusing if this was simply an attempt to make up for black and brown folks who stiff waitstaff on tips, but dressed up as the opposite.
Eviction notice
Hungary “has no place” in the European Union after passing a controversial new bill banning LGBTQ content in schools, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday.
Earlier this month Hungary’s parliament passed legislation which bans all educational materials and programs for children which are considered to promote homosexuality, gender reassignment and the concept of sexuality deviating from the one assigned to a person at birth.
The move prompted intense criticism from human rights groups and opposition parties. On the day it passed, crowds gathered in Budapest outside the parliament to protest the bill.
The legislation is one of a string of divisive policies championed by Hungarian leader Victor Orban, a hardline nationalist who has previously railed against LGBTQ people and immigrants.
“For me, Hungary has no place in the EU anymore,” Rutte told journalists before attending an EU summit in Brussels alongside Orban.
He added: “But, unfortunately, in the system that we have, I can’t do it on my own, but [with] 26 other member states saying: ‘you have to leave. This has to happen step by step and, in the meantime, you hope that they will adapt.”
“We can’t declare war on them as long as they’re still part of the EU.”
Wokesters are the worst.
I’m enjoying watching the EU tear itself apart. More, please.
Drive the more traditional nations into the arms of that certain colossus to the east. Sounds like a plan.
Well, no… I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.
Orban, from what I can tell, does seem to have an authoritarian bent. But goddamn does he piss off all the right people.
Rutte: “We’ll do to Oban what we did to Imre Nagy when he tried to opt out of our grand experiment.”
The legislation is one of a string of divisive policies championed by Hungarian leader Victor Orban, a hardline nationalist who has previously railed against LGBTQ people and immigrants.
Your reaction to our agenda is divisive!
Because sexualizing grade school and promoting child sex surgery isn’t divisive. ?
This has to happen step by step
“We are going to fuck you just like we did GB.”
Team USA had an all-Black team during the 2016 Olympics at the height of the U.S. presidential elections between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Which, to anybody not completely crazy, has exactly fuck-all to do with anything.
Because Trump is racist duh. Team USA showed him!
I’m enjoying watching the EU tear itself apart. More, please.
But Brexit was the worst idea ever!
Orban faces an election next year. His Fidesz party promotes a Christian-conservative agenda.
OMG he’s a monster.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/23/deprogramming-of-january-6-defendants-is-underway/
I can’t wait until the camps become centralized.
By all accounts, the American government has held its citizens that may or may not even have been in or near the capitol building, political prisoners for 6 months. Sure its an exercise in futility, but image if the Trump administration had rounded up suspected Antifa/BLM and did this. I remember the reports of black vans and plain clothed Feds rounding up people off the street in Portland or such but I believe they were all released the next day or some shit.
Allina Health says everyone working for them will get a jab… for the flu, not the Rona
This makes no sense. Unless they are setting the stage to also mandate the Rona jab.
Setting precedent. Yes.
“You got the flu shot, why won’t you take the COVID shot?”
You should want me to give you a shot in the mouth!
That’s what next.
As I said at the beginning of the show, now repeat after me, the 2020 presidential election was stolen. There is no doubt in my mind anymore. There is none… And the truth will continue to come out. Something is going to happen. I don’t think we’re going to have to wait until the end of summer. I think it’s going to happen here fairly soon…because they must create noise prior to the Arizona audit starting to really bubble out. They are gonna have to do something.
Questioning the integrity of the freest and fairest election in history is literally insurrection. Off to the camps with you, Democracy denier!
I’m not a democracy denier, I’m a democracy opponent. Democracy exists, it just sucks.
Note the bolded “D”.
ES, what is this favorite restaurant of yours in Williamsburg?
I still want to go to Traif, because the concept is hilarious to me (as someone whose in-laws keep kosher).
For Surly Knott
and the rest of us on bonus time.
I can barely remember the time I was.
Thanks all for the b’day wishes! Inside I’m still a snotty 26 😉
Surly, it’s your birthday ? / Happy birthday, Surly
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLuyHWP_wnM
What’s going to happen with the rents and mortgages that people haven’t been paying? I feel like a sucker having left my rented residence in California if Newsom is going to forgive back rent just to avoid recall. I could have spent the last 18 months being a shiftless loser in California instead of Pennsylvania! I feel kind of cheated now that I got suckered into working for money and paying my debts and such. How do you get past the chump effect?
I had similar, fleeting thoughts in 2009 (?) when people just stopped paying their mortgages because… $reasons. Like, some moustache-twirling banker forced them to buy a house for more than they should have spent, or something.
Like a sucker, I bought a place for less than I was approved for and just kept paying my mortgage the whole time.
Like a sucker, I bought a place for less than I was approved for and just kept paying my mortgage the whole time.
Same here. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a push for mortgage forgiveness after I’ve paid mine off.
Same here. I still don’t feel like a sucker.
I had a plan, and I’m sticking to it.
Yeah, but then you would be in California.
Based on recent history, I’m confident a bunch of people who don’t actually live in California will end up getting some of that sweet, sweet money.
Nigerian princes eagerly await.
Still haven’t seen one red penny of stimulus money since all this bullshit started. Of course, I’m not trying to recover it either. I’ll make my money through work, thank you very much.
People who were born in California should be eligible.
I’m thinking the same thoughts about the tuitions I’m paying. Should tell those damned Altar Boys to run up some debt which the rest of you suckas will pay off.
The problem is that most people have to play the chump or else the whole thing doesn’t work. And I looked, yep. The state is covering rent in California.
If you want some good news, one of the Altar Boys was home this winter for a visit and had some buddies over. They were talking about how great it would be to have their loans forgiven.
They got taken to woodshed by one of their group who became a mechanic out of high school. He told them that it would totally suck to have to pay taxes for their years of whooping it up in college.
I will admit I got choked up overhearing that. (The mechanic kid is also a favorite of mine because he is the only one who appreciates it when I share good whiskey with him).
Winner. Thanks for Today’s Ray of Hope!
I assume you regularly threaten your boys with disowning them out and adopting the mechanic.
That’s a good story. Thank you. I think in all honesty if I had really embraced the leech life I would have remained depressed. It’s really hard to be hopeful when you know you are a worthless drain. It would probably have led directly to an early death. I would have made sure of it.
I may be a chump but at least I am a chump with enough pride to get out of bed early and do something productive each day.
That should be one of those motivational posters in my office
You think maybe they want you depressed?
Depressed people usually don’t tar and feather tax collectors…
While I doubt there’s a grandspiracy to destroy people by giving them free shit, you’re not wrong. Depressed people don’t have Boston Tea Parties.
But they do have pity parties
Moot for you now, but I can’t imagine landlords don’t notice and remember which tenants’ rent comes from Sacramento.
I’ve been getting weird pop up ads on occasion when clicking on the site using DuckDuckGo.
Anyone else having this issue?
It’s not specific to DDG – happens now and then. I haven’t been able to consistently reproduce it so I’m not sure what the culprit is.
I have an ad-blocker on my desktop, and I never see it. My search engine is DDG and I use Brave browser.
But if I browse with my fone (iPhone + safari) from time-to-time Ill see them.
Same same.
Yup I get it on chrome mobile. Spam/Virus site that tries to trick you into clicking.
Is it a link to Winston’s Mom’s OnlyFans? Asking for a friend.
I get that on my phone when using Safari sometimes.
Yes, especially when I am using a mobile device.
Okay. Thanks, all. Just making sure it wasn’t a bug in my tablet.
Your tablet has the Rona.
Yes, on tablet and phone.
It has not happened to me using Brave on a Linux PC (Ubuntu). It has happened using Brave on my Android phone.
An Old Friend Tries out for Rising
Robby doesn’t have Krystal Ball’s arms though.
The US has never produced or manufactured more than they do now.
It drives me bananas when I hear somebody say, “We don’t make anything here anymore!”
Went to book a reservation at my favorite restaurant in the Cities—Broders’—and was informed all customers were being charged a 15% “equity” charge.
Dumb move. I rarely tip less than 20%. But….
That’s what I find amusing. Outside the woke brigade, people will just tip less or not patron the business.
You can raise your prices and pay your employees more to cover for your perceived inequity without making a big deal. Or you can virtue signal, discriminate against and alienate a large portion of your customers then lose a lot of business. Which is the better option?
Once you virtue signal, I’m done with you. I need to wean my wife of Youtube. She’s already off Derpbook and Yahoo.
Those bullshit “living wage/kitchen help/XXX” charges drive me up the fucking wall – just raise your prices and pay them more instead of a backdoor tax, you mendacious pricks.
TBF – there may be some perverse incentive to do it that way related to how tips are taxed. But still.
How will people know you are virtuous if you don’t virtue signal?
Applies to takeout too, I assume?
I rarely tip less than 20%
After considering this further, I am reminded of my wife’s days as a server. She was a server at the county’s first liquor serving restaurant (Applebees) long ago. One of her co-workers, a middle-aged female POC, often complained about how POC were such awful tippers. The lady said, “Oh I know how they are!” More than a few times, my wife would come home pissed and close to quitting because she would get a $6 tip on a $120 bill after serving a table of six. She would have to tip some of that out to the hostess too, I think. She told the manager there should be a minimum gratuity for a table of 6 or more and was told that’s against company policy. The manager lied. He just didn’t want to piss off the church crowd on Sundays. In any case, if everyone get charged 15%, then you have some equity good and hard.
If I see something like that on the bill, I reduce my tip accordingly.
For a 15% equity charge, I wouldn’t tip at all. Probably circle the equity charge and draw an arrow down to the line for the tip, and call it a day.
^^^ this ^^^
I generally go 20% or more depending on where we eat. We have a limited number of places we like to go, so we are usually happy with our service.
I’m a heavy tipper – lots of friends who are/were in service jobs got me in that habit. Plus, an extra $4 or $5 will usually mean more to a server than it does to me at this point.
I’m struggling to justify eating out these days given the increasing standard of tipping. 15% was a reasonable number less than a decade ago. Now, it seems that 18% is frowned upon and 20% is the standard. I’ve seen places list 20, 22 , and 25% tips on the receipt. Given the places we’re usually eating at, 25% feels insane to me. I’m not tipping 1/4 of the bill at Buffalo wild wings unless it’s some transcendental experience. I’ll just order to go if that sort of tipping behavior becomes expected.
Yeah, despite my heavy tipping I’m also a little annoyed by “tip inflation”.
I’d normally agree, but I was chatting with Mrs. A about this last night, and we both agreed that the first thing we’d do on seeing an “equity charge” listed on a menu or a sign in a restaurant would be to get up and walk out.
This won’t mean much to most here, but this is amazing. The BIG question is anomaly or trend. Sadly, my bet is anomaly.
Toshiba Shareholders Oust Chairman in Landmark for Foreign Activists
As a regular US money manager I’d be hard pressed to invest in Japanese companies. As a result most the foreign investment in Japanese companies comes from hedge funds and speciality funds in part because of the lack of corporate accountability.
Wow. I guess they couldn’t Ghosn all of their foreign shareholders in time for the meeting.
Dude’s totally out to lunch.
BIDEN: “It’s awful hard as well to get Latinx vaccinated… Why? They’re worried they’ll be vaccinated and deported.”
And apparently the Tuskegee airmen were experimented on and not treated for Syphilis?????
He also seems to be implying that Latinos are disproportionately trans. How come he doesn’t use African Americanx and Caucasianx?
Glibertarianx?
Is that last syllable pronounced “yanks”?
Well I believe Alex identifies as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. And “yanks” works for the Q linkx.
Unify- OR ELSE
President Biden said Thursday that the U.S. has not been so divided since the days of the Civil War and suggested that Donald Trump was to blame.
“The third reason I was running [for president] was to unify the country. Well, folks, it’s never been as divided as it is today, never been as divided as it is today since the Civil War,” Biden said in remarks in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was pushing residents to get vaccinated. “And folks, it’s such a waste of talent. It’s such a waste of time. And the rest of the world is looking at us. The rest of the world is wondering, can we really lead the world again?
He then invoked the presidency of the predecessor.
“The last four years have been devastating to our leadership around the world,” Biden said.
Keep up the good work, you bungling martinet.
Trump’s a reflection of that division, not the cause. If they keep it up he’s going to be tame compared to what we’ll get.
I fail to see this ‘division’ everyone (in the media) talks about.
At my work, nearly all the employees are american-african males. Everyone gets along swimmingly.
When Jugsy was posted in South Carolina, she nearly had an aneurysm because her 3 maintenance guys (POC) were Trump supporters and essentially conservatives.
Her next brain-bleed nearly occurred in NYC, when her assistant (a muslim woman from Montenegro) espoused conservative ideology and a deep hatred for Cuomo and the DNC.
Despite what TMITE says in its nightly terror-propaganda headlines, I feel that most americans are like me and dont really give a fuck about ethnicity.
I disagree. I think you’re misdefining the fault lines. They’re not really racial, or even ethnic. They’re politico-cultural. In some ways it’s the old “cosmo” versus “yokel” divide people used to comment on on TOS. You have an urban-cosmopolitan class that really does control the “commanding heights” (media, academia, the bureaucracy, etc.) of our civilization and you have everybody else. And the urban-cosmopolitan class thinks fundamentally that it has a right to total control. To the point of purging everything else from our society.
In some ways it’s the old “cosmo” versus “yokel” divide people used to comment on on TOS.
Precisely what it is, not just kinda.
I don’t disagree.
Now do political class as self-anointed aristocracy,
???
And man, do the cosmos hate apostates.
/Looks over shoulder for a hipster with an icepick….
Meh. It’s not just cosmos that have that attitude. HOAs, busybody church ladies… basically anyone who unironically uses “for the good of society” or “there oughtta be a law” is declaring that they should be able to tell other people how to live.
True. But, the urban-cosmopolitan classes are much more in a position to organize themselves and act on that desire than any other group. Your average church lady isn’t in a position to do much but fume impotently about her neighbors streaming porn. Moreover, for a lot of the other groups, it’s one-offs or a series of one-offs. The urban cosmopolitan classes seem bent on imposing a systematic adoption of their lifestyles on the other classes.
Oh yes, there is a different degree of power/capability in forcing other people to “do what they should.”
Power will always be abused. And yet, far too many people think the counter to someone’s abuse of power is to give more power to the guy who will abuse it in the way they like.
That fucking guy won’t do what he has to do for us to usher in Utopia, so we need to force him or get rid of him, cause otherwise we can’t get Utopia! Damn, these people that want to wreck Utopia keep popping up, so we need to line more of them up against the walls….
/the marxists in charge
Agree, with a slight addition/modifier: Every little town out here in yokeldom has a crew that views themselves as the cosmo set, and they tend to be loud and busybody-ish and have an outsized presence.
Church-ladies in the classical sense basically don’t exist anymore. Used to, but they’re virtually extinct. It’s these wanna-be’s that show up now.
Yeah, even here, although it’s not so much “busy-body” as “bemoaning change.” I ran into an old guy at the post office last week who was crying about the Parks Highway being paved all the way to Fairbanks, and that there are more people in the Willow area than there were in 1951 when he moved here. I almost said, “well, sorry, I’m not moving back,” but didn’t see the point in pissing him off.
Oh you should’ve chimed in with how all the new people are ruining it. You coulda really layed it on thick.
Especially since we were standing right in front of our local Postmistress, who knows damn well we just moved in earlier in the year. She’d have gotten a chuckle out of it.
“Inorite? There’s a vacant lot next to me, and I’m just dreading somebody buying it and moving in.”
Church-ladies in the classical sense basically don’t exist anymore. Used to, but they’re virtually extinct.
The impulse is still there in the church but it’s being channeled into woke emotionalism (for those who were purely emotional in the first place), a red pilled withdrawal from culture, or aggressive but impotent fuming.
???
Hey, if you do come thru CW, make sure to touch base with me.
Is Joe saying that he is James Buchanan?
I doubt it. Even he has to know he has neither Buchanan’s competence or charisma.
Near as I can tell, Buchannan was the swampiest of swamp creatures of his day. So, at least they have that in common.
Let’s see, constantly harping up division and using civil war references over and over. If it was OMB, there would denunciations that he was intentionally trying to start a conflict with his rhetoric.
Biden is heeling us.
One of the things I was thinking about lately is that the reason the Dems are all so worried about auditing the last election isn’t because they know that there was fraud. They are like the rest of us, they don’t have any proof one way or the other, but they are terrified of what an investigation will find.
Why? Because no one who cast a ballot for Biden liked him or thought he was really competent for the job. They were simply voting against Trump. Knowing how tepid their own support for Biden was, they worry that no one else was voting for him either and that dirty tricks got his margin of victory.
The more you see Biden as President, the more they are convinced that he is a huge idiot and that there is no way this man received more votes than any other candidate in history.
Your theory is interesting your holiness, but I remind you that the democrat party is truly and totally a crime syndicate focused on gaining/keeping power and robbing the productive. Crime syndicates commit crimes. Team blue’s specialty is to project the crimes they commit on others and censor the people that expose the fact they are a crime syndicate. We spent 4 years hearing how the election Trump somehow won despite them rigging it for Hillary was stolen, only to now censor anyone questioning the election that was actually stolen.
It really is the party of LBJ and all that entails.
+1 more room in the bunghole pants
*shocked face*
WATCH: Sen. Ted Cruz calls out Sen. Maize Hirono after she admits the Democrat opposition to originalism is purely results based.
Hirono cited cases including Roe v. Wade etc.
If Dwayne Wade didn’t name one of his kids Roewina Victory, I will be very disappointed.
Headline:
“Eric Adams is going to show America how to run a city”
It’s about time.
Is that how they say “hold my beer” in NY?
Same thing every day. Wake up happy, go the the gym and read the links between sets. Half hour in im angry and hate the world. Great comments/commenters here make it worth it tho.
Truth > Facts.
Nancy Pelosi spoke today about “the root causes” of the January 6 Capitol riot: “the white supremacy, the anti-Semitism, the Islamophobia, all the rest of it that was so evident when you see a sweatshirt on one of the people saying, ‘Camp Auschwitz.’” She repeated the common and yet completely unsubstantiated claim that the Capitol incident constituted an “insurrection,” and once again claimed that Trump “incited” the “insurrection,” in flagrant disregard for the fact that Trump told the demonstrators to remain peaceful. Her list of the three “root causes” of this sham “insurrection” were, in effect, a list of those that she and the Biden Justice Department intend to go after, and the charges they will hang over their heads in the Stalinist show trials that could be in the offing.
As many have pointed out, this was no insurrection. No one has even been charged with such an offense. The protesters were unarmed. The claim that they used a fire extinguisher to murder a police officer, although repeated far and wide, has been completely debunked. The idea that the great mass of people who entered the Capitol on January 6 and stood around snapping pictures and gawking at statues were there to overthrow the government at the behest of a rogue president is a paranoid Leftist fantasy, not a reality.
And it’s a paranoid Leftist fantasy with a purpose. The Capitol riot is really Leftists’ Reichstag Fire moment, and they’re clearly going to use it to demonize, stigmatize, and silence all opposition to their agenda. Pelosi’s inclusion of the terms “anti-Semitism” and “Islamophobia” among the root causes of the riot makes that clear. The protesters who entered the Capitol building weren’t there because they hated Jews or Muslims or anyone else. The protests weren’t remotely about such matters. The protesters were in Washington to demonstrate against an election that was marred by numerous obvious irregularities, and which is still being investigated as a result, despite the establishment media’s furious efforts to brand all questioning of the election’s integrity as a “Big Lie.” If it were a Big Lie, there wouldn’t be such massive evidence of voter fraud, or audits going on in several key states and possibly more to come.
It’s progjection all the way down.
If it were a Big Lie, there wouldn’t be such massive evidence of voter fraud, or audits going on in several key states and possibly more to come.
The lack of those things wouldn’t rule out election irregularities either. It would just mean that they fortified the elections well enough and had enough hands on the levers of power.
I think I have come down in the “They stole it fair and square” camp. I don’t think there was any big nefarious plan to cheat. The ruling class just used their knowledge (and in some cases like mail in ballots changed rules) of the rules to game the shit out of the election.
The problem for the ruling class is that the rubes figured out that the system is rotten to its core. They want changes. All this domestic terrorism is BS to prevent any rubes from getting any idea that they can change things.
I disagree. I think the vulnerable (voting laws/mail ins/loose rosters) “swing states” were absolutely targeted.
Shenanigan levels off the charts for PA, AZ, GA, MI, etc.
/PA resident
Do you think that there was a Big Plan our there? Or was it just a case of a bunch of people in those states you mention deciding to “help” Biden by cheating?
I’m open to the second option. Not so much the first.
I vote autonomous foot soldiers did what they had to with no central super villain in a volcano pulling the strings.
Places where fraud was easy to do did that fraudulent stuff, not in coordination and under direct orders, but at the direction of the army of lawyers, rich donors, and politicians that are part of team blue, because they could. The coordination, if any, was in the legal profession and in the vote verification/counting entities that created conditions that made it impossible to verify if voting fraud was happening and made it very easy for that fraud to be perpetrated.
Any system that has rewards as big as US presidential elections have, and has as many faults and places where transparency breaks down, can and will be abused. Especially when the stakes were as high as the 2020 election was for the people that considered Trump an existential threat to their globalist efforts and agenda.
The rich and powerful, most of them totally owned by the CCP, needed Trump gone. And they made it so. If you want proof, look at the basement dwelling imbecile they put forth to make it happen.
Organized at state levels, with some guidance from DNC powerbrokers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwc0cJ409VQ
Sounds about right. I keep coming back to the near-simultaneous stoppage of vote counting in the middle of the night in 5 states (that I know of). Stopping counting on election night is unheard of. Having it happen in 5 states, within an hour, is just too much to be a coincidence.
It couldn’t be that it was a reaction to an election that stunk to high heavens and that The Cathedral quickly closed ranks to prevent any further inquiry into a bunch of suspicious goings on? Hah. Everyone knows that white supremacists are behind every tree and that the only reason anyone can be opposed to the election of a vegetable only does so because they have a case of the racist.
Nancy Pelosi spoke today about “the root causes” of the January 6 Capitol riot: “the white supremacy, the anti-Semitism, the Islamophobia, all the rest of it that was so evident when you see a sweatshirt on one of the people saying, ‘Camp Auschwitz.’”
And AOC is proof every registered Democrat in America wants to nationalize the nation’s industrial base.
Must be nice to be able to tar a huge group of people because one person there had an offensive shirt (assuming that actually happened and wasn’t one of the undercover LEOs in the crowd that day).
Meanwhile, if you bring up the murders, assaults, and arsons that were committed by BLM/Antifa, you’ll get “But those were just individual people doing bad things, most of them were peaceful!!1”
Or the Antifa that have openly admitted to infiltrating the protest.
… and a healthy dose of Fed LEOs/Informants.
The leader of the party that numbers The Squad as members really shouldn’t be calling others anti-Semites should she?
Growing up in a (((them))) desert, I am the worst person to know what anti-Semitism is, but is Camp Auschwitz really anti-Semitic? I don’t see how that is a knock on (((them))).
It’s pretty bad, yeah. That whole “attempted genocide” thing sits badly with (((them))), as it turns out.
My other guess is that it had some graphics or other text that implied that the US government is or will be running concentration camps, but AOC decided to omit that part so she’d have a convenient Nazi smear.
Nope:
https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/camp-auschwitz-sweatshirt-seen-at-capitol-riot-sold-by-nyc-site/
Just because most people there weren’t shitbag anti-Semites doesn’t mean there weren’t any shitbag anti-Semites there.
My guess was wrong then. I hadn’t looked up any details about it; I was just speculating that the Left had cherry-picked and misrepresented something, as they almost always do.
It wasn’t a bad guess, just off in this case.
None of the groups is solely comprised of sinners or saints* – sometimes there are some awful people in the group I otherwise support.
* Except you guys. I’ll let you pick which it is.
And BLM rallies contain anti-white people.
Some people are shits, film at 11.
Yep, but I suspect the proportions may be quite different – there were some anti-Semites at the Jan 6th hootenanny (that one guy, anyway) – I think there’s an awful lot of folks who are anti-white at any given BLM rally.
Hell, there’s a lot of people who are anti-Semites at any given BLM rally. Or any other leftist rally.
True, true. Anti-Semitism, bringing the Left and Right together!
I love how they know the unidentified man was a neo-Nazi.
In the study of domestic abuse cases, you see certain attack patterns over and over again among abusers. The acronym is DARVO – Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. Here we see a good example of reversing the victim and offender.
Progressives are abusers.
I asked upthread but I’ll ask again down here in case you missed it. What is this favorite restaurant of yours in CW?
I did miss it, sorry. It’s Food For Thought, do you know it?
Yep, know the owner actually. Great place.
I only go once in a while because it gets so crowded.
Hah, small world. I know Howard too, in fact I gave his kids their first shooting lessons.
I’ll definitely give you a shout next time I’m down there.
If you come down this way, touch base with me.
gotmyglasseson at pm.me
“Nancy Pelosi spoke…”
I’m out.
I can’t decide if the feds or the neighbors are the bigger assholes.
Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred.
Nonetheless, he was raided in February by the FBI anti-terrorism task force, handcuffed, paraded and detained for three hours while his apartment was ransacked and all his devices confiscated. Four months later, he hasn’t been charged and doesn’t have his devices back, but his neighbors are shunning him, and he’s had two strokes from the stress.
“It’s destroyed my reputation,” he says. “I’m not a violent invader … I do not condone the criminality and violence on [Jan. 6] whatsoever.”
That’s deciding between the Stasi and the informants.
In the case of the Stasi, it was inform or else it’s your ass. These punk-ass snitches don’t have that excuse.
Why not both. The thing that the guy is missing is that his neighbors never liked him but were shrouding their hatred for him until they found the excuse to drop that mask.
I’m perfectly willing to believe that his neighbors actually did like him, but are the kind of weak-minded useful idiots that would turn on a friend/neighbor/family member the instant they discover he harbored wrongthink.
Scum, in a word.
Scum, in a word.
*Ahem*
You’re the best sort of scum. Not like those others.
Sorry, Reb.
You might be right, but I think it’s more that the lefties have no ability to wait for the evidence to draw a conclusion. If they didn’t like him, it’s probably because he wasn’t a TDS infected Dem. It says right in the article, that someone ratted him out. He was in DC? Unclean! Cast him out.
It’s also perfectly possible that the article lied or fortified the truth a little.
A new era of peace and diplomacy
Russia is prepared to target intruding warships if they fail to heed warnings, a senior diplomat declared Thursday after a Black Sea incident in which a British destroyer sailed near Crimea in an area that Russia claims as its territorial waters.
Russia said one of its warships fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs in the path of British destroyer Defender on Wednesday to drive it away from waters near the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Britain denied that account, insisted its ship wasn’t fired upon and said it was sailing in Ukrainian waters.
The incident marked the first time since the Cold War that Moscow acknowledged using live ammunition to deter a NATO warship, underlining the rising threat of military collisions amid Russia-West tensions.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday that “the inviolability of the Russian borders is an absolute imperative,” adding that it will be protected “by all means, diplomatic, political and military, if needed.”
He sarcastically suggested the British navy should rename its destroyer from Defender to Aggressor and warned that “those who try to test our strength are taking high risks.”
Maybe Joe can smooth things over. Get Putin on the hot Line.
Won’t it be wonderful that NATO obligations will get us into a shooting war with Russia because of the Limeys.
It is a shame that we never allowed the Baltic states or Ukraine to join NATO. Think of the fun we could get ourselves into.
You know who else dropped bombs ?
House of Pain?
Bravo.
My dogs?
the inviolability of the Russian borders is an absolute imperative
How xenophobic and racist.
You know who else violated Russian borders?
That’s going to be a loooooong list.
Mailchimp drops the Bee then says “im sorry”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/06/24/mailchimp-suspends-the-babylon-bee-for-harmful-information-n1457052
All a weird accident…we don’t know how it happened…glad to see the Bee call it out and say bye!
MailChimp made their woke credentials known a while ago. BB should have dropped them then and gone somewhere else.
Agreed, but maybe the Bee, being the Bee, was waiting for this moment so they can go on a merciless quest for a week or so of yet again, another company trying to bash down their gates?
Key inflation indicator posts biggest year-over-year gain in nearly three decades
The May core personal consumption expenditures price index, an important inflation gauge for policymakers, rose 3.4% from a year ago, in line with Wall Street estimates.
That was the biggest increase since 1992 and reflective of ongoing price pressures.
And it’s just getting started.
And that 3.4% is after they manipulated the basket to remove things that would make inflation higher.
I think I have come down in the “They stole it fair and square” camp. I don’t think there was any big nefarious plan to cheat. The ruling class just used their knowledge (and in some cases like mail in ballots changed rules) of the rules to game the shit out of the election.
I do not doubt, for an instant, there are enough people in this country dumb enough to elect Joe Biden President.
But- the mindboggling reversal of vote tallies following election day makes me wonder if the process may be somewhat flawed.
Rather comforting (to me anyway) to think there weren’t enough idiots in actuality.
I think you are underestimating the American public.
I don’t think there was any big nefarious plan to cheat.
That Time “fortifying” article begs to disagreee.
“So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.”
As I mentioned above, the simultaneous stoppage in 5 states speaks to coordination.
I also think the announcement, the next morning before anyone could possibly have known, by a bunch of Dem operatives that this was the cleanest most secure election in the history of the universe, is a big tell. That was preloaded. Why would they preload that? When somebody denies something they haven’t even been accused of yet, they’re guilty.
I vote autonomous foot soldiers did what they had to with no central super villain in a volcano pulling the strings.
Patriots, doing patriot stuff, in order to save the nation from its headlong slide into authoritarianism and and ruin.
HEROES
Ironically we seem to now be starting a headlong slide into authoritarianism and and ruin.
Final morning here in Baja, the Sea of Cortez is nice and flat with a slight breeze from the Southeast. Had a fantastic trip with the wife and kids and a friend and his wife and kids. The surf fishing was on, even the 8 and 10 year olds caught fish from the beach, cabrillas, a needlefish and many triggers which are ugly as hell but fantastic eating and a good fight. Went out on a panga offshore 20 miles one day with my favorite local captain and the bite was on. We got 11 yellowfin tuna (1 that was half eaten by a shark on the fight to the boat), 1 striped Marlin released after a photo and an undersized dorado released along with 3 good sized skipjack tuna we released (that’s what they usually make canned tuna out of). Only negative was Dementia Joe made my family all get COVID tests yesterday to be allowed back to FreedomLand. My six year old had a total meltdown getting nasal swabbed and I had to hold him down. We booked the flights when they were very cheap back in mid January and two weeks later he made that decree. That will be the last international trip (unless total necessity to see family) that we make while that fucking rule is going. Now back to reality.
Caught yourself some good eatin!
Absolutely. Already some has been sashimi and cooked in garlic, I gave a bunch to the captain and friend and I each will bring home 20 lbs.
I couldn’t stand a q-tip lobotomy. Whatever happened to the throat swabs?
If it’s not intrusive, how will you be sure government is caring for you?
At least it isn’t the anal swab that the CCP gatekeeper made some US officials from the new administration take when they went to China….
Is that still a thing? Seems like it’s been out of the headlines for a bit now.
Am reminded of Sqrsly’s song on TOS, and now y’all are too.
My 8 year old freaked out his younger brother because he had to have one months back because he got a fever and he was going to in person school at the time. At that time they were swabbing your brain, so he was building it up to be that again. It was nowhere near that this time as they basically just quickly swabbed the inside of your nostril. I was worried about it because if one of us got a false positive we would be fucked, having to stay down here somewhere for at least a few days longer. Wonder how long they keep that bullshit reg going.
Did you need the test because you hadn’t gotten the jab? Or does everyone need to test to return?
Asking because we are thinking of a trip to Japan this winter. We got the jab because we wanted to avoid quarantine hassles.
Good news on the fishing. Sounds like a blast.
I used the ASU spit-in-a-vial test. Very fast, easy, and not even a little bit uncomfortable. Six year olds love being actually encouraged to spit.
A bit late reply here as getting in the final swim. Heheh yes indeed. We didn’t have a choice here it was the swab only. The great thing about the Biden executive order was that it doesn’t matter if you are vaccinated or not, everyone 2 and over entering by plane from any foreign country has to get a vid test 72 hours before landing. Only exception is if you had a confirmed positive Vid test in the past 90 days.
Top shelf cringe.
Who in hell wrote that song?
A moron, the answer is always a moron.
This should have been one of Sloopy’s links
Maxwell is accused of throwing a pair of scissors at the student’s head for sitting next to his girlfriend, according to court records.
Unpossible, boys and men can not be the victims of sexual assault!
Is that like the writer who recorded herself having sex while working on some story? (And was the interviewer allowed to participate in the act this time?)
Looks like she has Bell’s Palsy, but High School Tres def. would.
Justice Department suing Georgia over restrictive voting law
It is time to eliminate the Justice department, since it is now just a political tool of those in power.
Correction it always has been it’s just more out in the open now
Are they going to sue New York too?
But you are correct, the DOJ is merely a tool of the parties, but the DNC in particular.
I do think that the AG has an effect, but most of the time I think this has more to do with shitheads downstream. U.S. Attorneys and deputies to the deputy are, IMO, are a bigger problem than whoever is sitting in the AG seat.
My favorite double standard is the replacement of US Attys when a new administration comes in. The Dems replace everyone and not a peep is made. The GOP replaces a few of them and the MSM acts like it is almost as bad as a Jan 6th insurrection.
That one is evergreen.
LOL. How about going after the more restrictive laws in NY, DE, CO, etc. etc.
Southerners are icky and probably racists who might not vote solid blue each election cycle.
/fortify
Southerners once voted for a party that advocated slavery and segregation.
“And by God, we’ll make sure they do so again!”
My theory:
The DOJ knows they will lose. But this gives an excuse to governors to veto any laws like this that come along. Its exactly why Kristi Noem vetoed the bill in SD banning males from competing in the female division.
She lost a lot of political capital with the Republicans by doing that.
My favorite double standard is the replacement of US Attys when a new administration comes in. The Dems replace everyone and not a peep is made. The GOP replaces a few of them and the MSM acts like it is almost as bad as a Jan 6th insurrection.
Purge!
Night of the long knives!!!!
Ironically we seem to now be starting a headlong slide into authoritarianism and and ruin.<
But it's the right kind of authoritarianism and ruin, with the Right People in charge.
When somebody denies something they haven’t even been accused of yet, they’re guilty.
I never laid a finger on her.
I mean… I haven’t seen her since Tuesday.