Hey everybody, welcome to the Friday morning links. Sloopy is off selling shit, and probably buying some of it, and Banjos is left to defend herself against three girls. So I’m here again. I’m sure some sports shit happened, but other than Chelski being pre-emptively seized by the British government after a Russian had already turned it over to a British board to own and run, I ain’t got much. I heard that people who sold overpriced tickets to some kids game are trying to come to terms with people who get paid $1000 an at bat to fail 2 times out of 3, but fuck all of them.
Sometimes your little brother embarrasses you in public.
The best take on a person who didn’t know when to stop lying to cops and court officials. True story: in my mid-20s I had an acquaintance who got run over by his girlfriend in front of the jail where he was taking either an alcohol or drug test. He and the gf both started in on how “it was an accident and she didn’t mean to”. The cops did him a favor and took him into a room by himself and laid out exactly how he was going to catch a felony if he didn’t either exercise his right to remain silent or tell the truth. This man was not smart, but still smarter than Jussie Smollett. He at least knew when to cut his losses.
Listen, I don’t want to beat up on New York too badly, but what in the actual fuck?
DeSantis takes on The Mouse? Don’t get too big for your britches there buddy. The Mouse is not someone you fuck with. I hate this culture war tit-for-tat stuff. Rather than publicly name and pressure the very few K-3 teachers who get wrapped up in promoting alt.sexuality to 5-8 year olds, we’re going to pass a state law? Thank goodness the legislature has a limited session. How’s about enforcing the ban on teachers molesting students and getting that to 100% first?
This one’s for my brother, who is in Vegas to see 311 on 3/11. It’s become a tradition to meet his high school buddy who lives in Hawaii wherever the band is and hang out for a couple days.
Morning, Brett.
It is morning, right? I don’t want to look at the clock or my calendar. Too many meetings today.
It is morning, weekend go live (that I wasn’t involved in, but would need to support next week) has been pushed due to vendors being as timely as GRRM or Douglas Adams,
I tend to cut Douglas Adams some slack on getting new Hitchhiker’s Guide sequels written.
He wasn’t timely when he was with us:
–Douglas Adams
Lou Reed concurs, bless him.
Never take tax advice from Hotblack Desiato’s accountant.
Hey, Uncivil!!
I don’t have any meetings today, but I have to Vegas for a car appointment on my “old” Tesla. Needs a new 12 v battery it seems. There is some obscure law dictating various guidelines for the 12 v battery in consumer automobiles, so even the mighty Tesla has to have one, despite the rechargeable beast of a battery sled on which the car is built.
This kind of shit (irrelevant regulations meant for ICE cars) has to go if the govt wants EVs to flourish. One almost gets the impression that the govt wants to ban ICE cars, not to get us into EV cars, but to get us into public transportation so that they can move us where we “need” to be when they say we “need” to be there. ..
I hope you can power through your meetings and have a great weekend!
How much is that new battery (and the disposal cost of the old one) gonna cost ya if you don’t mind me asking? And will you need to take out a new mortgage to get enough cash to finance the thing? Will you get some tax deduction to avoid feeling like the whole EV thing is a serious racket to make some people really rich?
I think she’s talking about a small auxiliary battery, not the main one.
That is correct, db.
It’s just the little 12 v battery, not the gigantic battery (which is still at 98.7% of its original energy capacity).
The service and new 12v battery are free. I just have to take it to the shop. If I lived in Vegas, they would have come out to replace it in my driveway.
Sorry to disappoint you, but for me, the EV makes sense. I just don’t think they should be mandated for everyone by our “beneficent” government.
Thanks for the clarification.
What are they going to do to you if you don’t waste your time?
Who are “they” in the context of this question?
If the government, then they are pains in the neck for requiring that the locks and the brains of the car work on the 12 v battery, while there is a perfectly good 80 kWh battery right next to it. It’s just a regulation that is now obsolete, but if I ignore the 12 v battery, my car will not operate.
I see.
I thought it was vestigial, but your car is designed to need it, if only because of regulations.
The battery that drives your car is very high voltage, and would burn out all the low voltage systems that are used for your car to operate.
An additional low voltage addendum system could be added to the Lithium battery, but it would be a much more expensive solution to having a traditional 12V system.
Also safety of running those peripherals off the high voltage system. Getting blown across the garage because your brake light ground has gone bad would suck.
I’ll have to double check under my hood for a 12v battery. The c-max is the worst of both worlds as a hybrid, but I seem to recall not seeing a regular car battery in there before.
I’m roughly 99.99% sure you’ve got one.
It’s in the trunk, next to the main battery slab
http://fordcmaxhybridforum.com/uploads/gallery/album_57/gallery_656_57_41751.jpg
In the Tesla model 3, it’s hidden away in the frunk somewhere. I saw a vid on YouTube of how to access it (as well as the secret “jump start” points if it actually fails), but decided I’d rather be a lazy bitch and let the experts do it while I sip some coffee. Probably will drive through Red Rock canyon on the way home just for grins.
Your new Model Y most likely has Tesla’s new Li-ion “errr 16V” battery.
https://insideevs.com/news/557722/amd-12v-liion-model3y-us/
Sweet! Thanks.
I saw another quietly rolled out upgrade yesterday, too, that applies to my Model Y, which is one of the “Performance” ones: comes standard with Michelin Pilot All-Weather tires!!
Woo-hoo! I am a Michelin true believer and had assumed I’d have to pay another $1000-1500 to get the default ones replaced, but nope, they are included! Happy about that little bonus.
The 12V battery isn’t mandated.
Tesla needs to power things while the HV battery is disconnected. They wanted to go to 48V system. but there just aren’t enough automotive components or manufacturers willing to make components that work at 48V.
The 12V battery opens and closes the contactors to the HV pack. They wanted a way to toggle the HV pack on and off and that’s why they need a secondary source of power and don’t just do DC to DC conversion. If they did that you’d have no way to toggle the battery back on after the disconnect.
In the Tesla Roadster they got “cute” and pulled DC power directly from only a portion of the HV pack. It was a disaster. It drained a subset of cells and threw the packs out of balance and bricked more than a few.
I see!
I was badly misinformed about it being due to regulations. I do see the logic in the safety need for the contactors to the High energy battery to be operated separately; kind oh a catch 22. In hybrid electric military vehicles (600v battery pack is the standard there), we had to incorporate both an electrically operated contactor set and a manually turned safety switch in line with the contactors.
One company vying for prominence in making the 600v battery packs for military hybrids wanted to use a “solid state” relay instead of mechanical contactors. I pointed out to TARDEC (now named CCDC-GVSC) that the leakage current of the solid state “relays” would allow the open plugs to float to 600v anyway, albeit at a very limited trickle current. So they said “Nope!” and still required the full mechanical disconnect. That was years ago; no idea where the technology and policy have progressed since then.
I find it strange that the military hybrid vehicles have developed completely independently of commercial ones. For example, the military ones are voltage-balanced to +/~ 300v against the chassis ground via resistors, while in commercial vehicles, the main battery pack is galvanically isolated from the chassis. Whatevs.
Psst, UCS, it’s Friday.
And we have a production cutover tomorrow that’s slated to take a full workday’s worth of time. So my weekend is down by a day, which is further shorted by the fact that we still do the daylight savings time nonsense.
Pray they don’t alter the deal even more any you end up working all weekend to fix what they broke?
They? It’s our team doing the work.
They being the deployment weekend demons that have a tendency to fuck up anything that you don’t want to have go wrong…
OK, that flat out sucks.
No doubt!! Poor UCS.
I don’t want to beat up on New York too badly, but what in the actual fuck?
I’ll beat up on NY, how the hell do you let a repeat-offending serial killer out on parole after they killed again the first time they were let out on parole?
Imprisoning murderers has a disproportionate effect on historically marginalized voices, you racist!
So does culling excess population.
This was/is by design, IMO. At this point the agenda is to terrorize the citizens so badly with chaos, mayhem, and life disruptions, that they will just come to the conclusion that the only solution is to let the very people that have straddled them with this new nightmare world – government bureaucracy – take over everything. because THAT will suddenly make them no longer do evil shit like this….
Or, flee to free states like Florida.
And deal with Florida Man? Cascadia sounds nice this time of year!
STEVE SMITH SAY COME FOR WEATHER, STAY FOR RAPE!
Eventually he’ll run out of people to kill, right?
At this point, he’ll die of old age first.
It’s morning somewhere
Some of us work all night, so its evening for me.
Im 5 beers in and thinking about some burgers for supper.
Needs moar bacon, cheese, and jalapenos.
Oh, and this shit is great: https://www.traderjoesgroceryreviews.com/taco-sauce-trader-joes-spicy-organic/
That looks like it was made to be slopped on an omlette.
I have the cheese and bacon. Im not new to this.
whaddup doh’
Prepping for the snow that’s supposed to come through tomorrow. Local news is banging the drums by saying this will be the latest March snow in the past THREE YEARS! FFS, April and May snow is not unheard of here. But those aren’t March, so it’s not the same…
At least it’s looking like St. Paddy’s will be nice. Mid to upper 60’s, with no rain in the forecast.
Everyone down here is pre-emptively pants-shitting over the 3-6″ inches we may get. Of course the local media is hyping it up with “OHMYGODITSSNOWING” and
“what you need to know about March snowstorms”.
“It’s the same as January and February snowstorms.”
March snow tends to melt sooner because it’s prone to warm up faster afterwards.
Local news is banging the drums by saying this will be the latest March snow in the past THREE YEARS!
Clearly global warming is to blame.
Supposed to snow a bit here when the temp plummets from the 50s to the 30s on Saturday. Won’t amount to anything though.
Sloopy is off selling shit, and probably buying some of it
Every time I try to downsize I end up replacing old shit with new shit.
Meaning of life, right?
Ownbestenemy, you have my sympathies on the windstorm’s destruction of your tiki bar.
I’ll have a nice Meyers’s Rum drink in your honor.
Now this is how classy people honor the misfortune of others… I concur with your choices.
Went for an annual physical for the first time in three years. The doc asked about my insomnia, I told her it sucks, she prescribed Trazadone. I can’t help but notice that the dose prescribed is one-quarter that which was prescribed for my dog post-spay. Lily is not four times my size.
She is more than four times as energetic though. 😛
Then take her pills.
T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶’̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶h̶e̶l̶l̶ ̶I̶d̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶d̶o̶g̶’̶s̶ ̶s̶e̶d̶a̶t̶i̶v̶e̶s̶ I’ve heard of people doing that.
Actually- cute story. When I had my Pyrenee’s she was frightened to death of thunder. Any storm would send her into a quivering, gelatinous, mass, of panting and mad hair-shedding while she tried to look for the tiniest object to hide under. Kinda like a fat girl buying a GEO storm. The vet prescribed her acepromazine for nerve-calming.
I accidentally took hers once, as I was leaving for work. Hilarity failed to ensue.
It’s kind of a shame I’m not a hunter — Lily has no fear of loud noises. Or of much else.
She HATES turkeys for some reason. She’ll chase other birds and rodents, but she wants to murder turkeys.
They do seem profoundly stupid.
I don’t quite get it, since she was socialized with chickens as a pup.
Turkeys don’t look like chickens and more importantly, don’t smell like chickens.
Do not take her pills. Dogs take much higher doses of drugs than humans because they have higher metabolisms. When I had to get clorazepate for my German Shepherd’s seizures, it was only flagged at the pharmacy because the dose could have put a human in a coma.
PASS THAT SHIT!
I would second WTF’s comment. Dog dosing is very different than human dosing for a variety of medicines. Generally, especially with a sleep medicine, lower dosing, especially at first, is better.
I get patients a fair amount of time who come to the ER because of insomnia (why I’m supposed to fix that I have no idea) so I’ve had to become somewhat familiar with the topic. For some reason, we seem to think high doses of something is automatically better. Patients tell me often about taking 10 or 20mg doses of melatonin to try to sleep and I have to explain the concept of receptor oversaturation and downregulation that produces poor efficacy. Unfortunately, most of the time they just won’t believe that a low dose might work better.
Trazodone can be pretty damn powerful. It can make you confused in the daytime and even cause symptoms similar to narcolepsy where you fall asleep suddenly. I’m sure I don’t need to explain how that can be really dangerous, especially because you may miss segments of time and not realize what’s happening. You think you just closed your eyes for a second, but actually you were asleep for two minutes.
Do me a favor. Start low and adjust as needed once you figure out how you’re reacting to the medicine. Also, have someone who can watch you for side effects.
“Sometimes your little brother embarrasses you in public.”
Is it wrong to say ta f tat was not their mascot they should adopt him cause it is prescient?
Hen Wen!
Howdy again fellow miscreants! I’m gonna learn to flip hamburgers and treat fryer burns,
Covfefe!
Have fun with it.
Good for you, Yusef.
Though BK’s onion rings should be considered a crime against humanity.
The. Worst.
Even White Castle makes you feel like they put some effort into their onion chips.
I only eat the fish at fast food shops, BK’s is pretty good
BK onion rings are the performance-enhancing drug of choice for farting contests.
When you’re manager you can deep-fry whatever you want!
Jones BBQ & Foot Massage
“If it’s edible, and fryable, Ill make it delisicionable“.
“Bring forth the sacrificial worms!”
The manager should post this as a warning to subordinates.
Don’t worry, after a couple of months you won’t feel it when you burn your fingers any more.
/thinks back to days working at McDonald’s
Onward and upward!!
I just wish the chocolate shake machines weren’t down 90% of the time. :/
When I worked long hot days at obscure parts of Aberdeen Proving Ground (no running water, no A/C), at the end of the day we’d drive past the BK on post as we left to get back to the hotel. We always pulled into line at the BK and attempted to get chocolate shakes. I swear “the machine was down” at least 80% of the time.
Pretty sure the manager just didn’t give a fuck.
Honest work is honest work. I’m glad for you.
Amen.
Excellent.
Way back in high school, I cooked at a greasy spoon diner. I also changed out the oil in the deep fryers. One night, as I was straining the oil into a barrel, I lost my grip. Hot fryer oil drenched my whole front side. I stripped down to my tightie-whities in front of the straggling customers and the hot waitress so I wouldn’t get burned.
The McDonald’s I worked at had an… eclectic crew (as I’m sure most places primarily staffed by teenagers and ostensible adults do). The maintenance guy would routinely prank the new staff when he had to drain and clean the fryers. He would turn them off before shift, and turn them on about 5 minutes before he went to drain them. Not enough time for the oil to get hot enough to be dangerous, but most of the staff would just notice it’s on, not the current oil temperature. To drain them, he would just reach down into the fryer and pull the plug, telling those who fell for it that if you had some water on your arm, and were quick enough, you wouldn’t get burned.
One day a young girl dropped her engagement ring into the fryer, she then tried to reach down to grab it. Thankfully, only second degree burns ensued.
Your maintenance guy: “Ha-ha, you fell for it and injured yourself!”
CWAA
Tall shakes!
Deep fried burgers are fantastic
I wonder if, when the Rooskie property gets liquidated, they’ll use that money to make the owners of the $10B worth of planes expropriated by the Russians whole?
I crack myself up sometimes.
I know Tim was being facetious when he asked what the logic was, but damn, it had nothing to do with any sort of science or healthcare decisions unless you are looking at it from the angle of making the pawns compliant with the wishes of those that think they are the bigger chess pieces on the board.
The best take on a person who didn’t know when to stop lying to cops and court officials
But they get to lie to you with impunity.
It is good to be the king’s man.
Listen, I don’t want to beat up on New York too badly, but what in the actual fuck?
Now is not a time to lose one’s head.
The Boss Is Here
The Jonas Brothers don’t want to wear their purity rings, but Mr. Mouse explains how it’s gonna be.
Why is it that I have to ask, what is a purity ring?
It’s a cock ring that only allows you to put in the tip.,…
And people own those?
Some people that should never be seen in it own spandex, so I hope that answers your questions…
An engagement or wedding ring means “don’t hit on me, I’m taken.”
A purity ring means “don’t hit on me, I’m a prude.”
The fact that this actually exists is proof it’s the end times.
Purity of Essence, Mandrake.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday brushed off criticism from Disney CEO Bob Chapek over state legislation that would restrict discussions on LGBTQ topics in schools, calling the company “woke.”
Is Disney in any position to criticize anyone for anything at this point?
Doesn’t stop them from doing it, though.
So much for the theory that Chapek was going to be more concerned about business operations and the bottom line than kneeling to the woke.
So, what’s everyone’s guess on the new better Covid to come? A genetically enhanced Smallpox? Bubonic Plague? Ebola? It’s going to need at least a 5% mortality rate, right? The last one was sort of a dud. I mean we’ll never depopulate 80% of the planet with a lame .01% morality rate. So what’s the chance Putin accidentally hits a bioglical lab in Ukaine real soon?
https://thecovidworld.com/us-bioweapons-labs-confirmed-as-deep-state-sets-stage-for-biowar-false-flag-event-to-be-blamed-on-russia/
Don’t worry, we will be saved:
“U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland says Washington is working with Ukraine to prevent biological research facilities from falling into Russian hands”
First-round answer: for this election season they’re gonna stick with “new variant”, to try to squeeze out another round of mail-in-election crap using the same leftover hysteria. The normies won’t buy it, but they don’t have to; the election officials who want to drive the outcome will crank up enough falsity to get what they want. I think they’re concerned that if they push it too differently in this next round, folks won’t go for it – but they can get away with another variant like last time.
Second-round answer: They’re gonna pick a part of the third world to decimate as an example, then use that excuse to crush any resistance in what’s left of the West. My guess is frankly Africa. Reason 1 is China’s colonial ambitions. Reason 2 is the disdain the elites consistently demonstrate for actual Africans instead of the ones in their heads.
My guess was it starts in Ukraine and Russia after Putin intentionally shells the biological lab, then it spreads rapidly all over Europe and the infected are of course loaded on planes and flown all over, especically to the USA.
Where has Fauci been, anyhow?
Hiding from the left’s assassins that now feel they need a fall guy to blame for the evil shit they were up to in the last 2 years?
Working on the story to cover his ass on the Ukraine bio-weapons labs.
That’s a good one. Like they’ll have a story. They’ll just do what they did with the other lab and spend all their energy gaslighting every one into believing either that there’s nothing to see there or it doesn’t exist at all.
That weaponized anthrax came out of one of Odessa’s wet markets.
Shouldn’t that be a Moscow wet market?
I thought Moscow always outsourced the wet stuff, mostly to Bulgaria?
No, I’m talking about the Ukrainian lab. I think it’s in Odessa?
rhywun, its Odesa now, not Odessa. I shit you not.
They get their tea makers from Poland apparently.
Fine. But since the new, politically-correct spelling doesn’t match standard English conventions the way the old one did, I’ll start pronouncing it “oh-DEE-sa”.
A genetically enhanced Smallpox?
General population has immunity.
Bubonic Plague?
Kills too fast.
Ebola?
Same as the real plague.
General population has immunity.
Smallpox vaccinations stopped decades ago.
I got the smallpox vax to “visit” the ME in 2003, plus a booster 10 years later. Someone must still be worried about it.
Smallpox was removed from the US list of recommended childhood vaccinations in 1971. I am confident that few Americans under 50 have been vaccinated. The lack of vaccination is used to justify not destroying the remaining stocks of smallpox.
Jussie Smollett is not suicidal.
He’s also a known liar.
I also don’t think he knows anything that would get him suicided.
He has been sentenced to spend his time in jail with the perpetrator of the crime he claimed was done to him, and he is worried the perp might try to MAGA him again?
At least not until he crosses Hilldawg.
His name is Robert Paulson.
Sometimes, for community events or charity things, the police department and fire department in town join up to be a team (race, chili cook-off, competition, etc.).
Their team name is usually “The Smokin’ Pigs”.
In the before times, a comic book shop did two huge events for Free Comic Book Day. There was a midnight release for adults (with free beer until it ran out), and a morning release for kids (with a play room and toys). Line usually would be over a hundred people deep, there were people in costume, geek conversations, and the like. The local cops would also routine swing by and do a slow roll by the line… while playing the Imperial March from Star Wars.
Do modern Russian Air Forces have a big problem?
That’s sort of concerning. The weaker that Russian forces appear to be/are, the higher the risk of nuclear engagement if they get backed into a corner. Maybe.
Yeah, I just want to smack the idiots calling for a no-fly zone, without any thought as to what happens when the USAF starts blowing Russian planes out of the sky and destroying Russian air defenses. How exactly do they think that ends?
With little girls picking daisies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riDypP1KfOU
Nuclear deterrence is supposed to deter nuclear powers from getting into direct conventional war with each other. Once they actually start warring (for real, not little border skirmishes like India/Pakistan), the deterrent force begins to look like a way to decisively end the conflict. Very dangerous to back any wild animal into a corner, and there is nothing more like a wild, vicious animal in human society than a government about to lose power.
No, no, you don’t understand – once we arrive and wave our might air-dicks at them, they will cower on the ground. Don’t you symbolism bro’?
Ask them what they mean by “no fly zone”. You might be surprised that they are not completely aware of what that actually means… as in “how do you enforce that?”
It’s like a “Gun-Free Zone” or Pharoh’s edicts – “So let it be written, so let it be done” and like magic, no more icky stuff happening there.
Really tall volleyball nets, right? Like walls for airplanes.
duh.
It immediately makes NATO air bases legitimate military targets – as well as any carriers we use for this idiocy. Direct path from there to nuclear war.
Other than the F-22, I’m not too sure our air assets aren’t paper-tigers too. One thing the Russians were always really good at was AA..
I think our air force is superior to theirs overall and especially while not operating in their airspace.
I have no idea and don’t want to find out. But the Ukraine is a lot closer to their airspace than “ours” (any NATO country dumb enough to go along with this).
I hope their missiles are accurate. That is the only way I figure that I am safe from a nuclear strike.
I think their strategy was always area saturation, since they couldn’t rely on the guidance systems to hit reliably enough.
If you ever suspected that the whole nuclear clock shit was just a bunch of asshole totalitarian loving leftists preening (like the Nobel peace prize) just check this shit out. Pertinent information:
“The decision not to change the clock comes after Russian president Vladimir Putin put his nuclear arsenal on “high alert,” and NATO mobilized its response force for the first time since its inception. In contrast, the clock moved three times toward midnight under former president Donald Trump, with the organization citing his failure to address, in addition to nuclear weapons, climate change and “fake news.””
This shit is all theatre.
It’s just like fusion, only 20 years away………
Again, nuclear is the wrong thing to be scared of now. The proliferation of bio-“research” is where we (as a species) done fucked up.
I’m still convinced the biggest threat is social media.
That’s mostly limited to the morons that play in that sewer.
The CHUDs are in charge.
Those morons are our ruling class.
#BlueCheckBosses
Seems like “we” (roundabout corners of the U.S. defense and health budgets) sure do a lot of funding for shady and illegal bio-“research”. China, Ukraine, who knows where else?
Between Abbot, DeSantis and Youngkin, I’m surprised they haven’t pushed the clock past midnight.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1502254070995857414?cxt=HHwWjMC9gcmHitkpAAAA
o.O
It’s lies all the way down,
If you want to avoid going into a rage that will immediately give you a coronary, don’t scroll down. There’s a guy quoting Solzhenitsyn: “We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” He’s talking about Putin, but if you click on his profile, he’s a higher up at the WHO.
These people lack self awareness at a level that is beyond sociopathic as they continue to beat the war drums against a country that is at one point known to have setup a Doomsday devices that will launch enough nukes to literally end all life on this planet. This isn’t a movie, you unbelievably stupid nitwits. You’re not the good guys and you don’t automatically win. You’re poking a bear that can reset our world to the pre-stone age if they’re so inclined.
At this point I trust the Russian government way more than I can hope to trust our cuntes in power.
^this^
And I don’t trust Putin at all.
OFFS, at least make your lies believable.
They gave up on that a long time ago.
This is prepping us for the inevitable lab leaks. Enjoy your next pandemic everyone.
I think pretty much everyone in the ruling class deserves a lead injection with the next pandemic. No immunity.
As many boosters as required until they’re fully immune, right?
They won’t be concerned with the pathogen, that’s for sure.
Plus side – less people in the left hand lanes.
Flag desecration is ok now I guess.
This shit is going to come back to haunt them. Ukrainians aren’t universally saints.
Reminds me of embracing the Taliban.
Just don’t forget that their government is solely comprised of saints and super heroes.
APOSTATE/HERETIC!
Remember that cults & religions always hate apostates & heretics more than they hate people without or of other religions.
Always has been.
Everything has a context that some want to ignore…
For citizens yes, 1st amendment and all. For the government employees? I am sure they cannot on official time, representing the United States for a photo op.
We’re not sending our best
best comment:
How dare she assume they are women
VEEP was not satire, it was a documentary.
She is a truly incompetent person. After decades in politics, she can’t even speak politician well.
This is what happens when you never really had to politik and you were all platitudes and empty speeches because your constituents just wanted words. Now on the world stage, what you say matters and she is just doing what she normally does, it is just being amplified.
She’s infuriatingly bad at this.
“Russia has demanded a UN Security Council meeting to discuss its baseless claims the US is funding biological weapons in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine has claimed Kyiv is planning to use chemical or man-made viruses against his invading forces including the extraordinary accusation that the West is preparing to spread viruses through birds.
The Security Council will meet today, despite the US mission to the UN warning: ‘This is exactly the kind of false flag effort we have warned Russia might initiate to justify a biological or chemical weapons attack.
‘We’re not going to let Russia gaslight the world or use the UN Security Council as a venue for promoting their disinformation.’
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed this week that Russia had uncovered communications between the US and Ukraine ‘looking for opportunities to develop [biological] weapons’ with funding from Washington.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10602523/Russia-takes-Ukrainian-biological-weapons-claims-Security-Council-Putin-gaslights-world.html
I hate to break it to you, Vlad, but your propaganda wing cannot hold a candle to our very own TMITE.
Yeah. Ukraine’s game looks to be stronger than Russia’s too.
They have favor with the west/NATO. But Russian Propaganda is Insane. And by “insane” I mean hyper-nationalistic.
By extension, sanctions that affect the average Russian will only drive them into the arms of Putin.
Yeah, sure.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/597800-who-told-ukraine-to-destroy-pathogens-in-public-health-labs-to
Destroy and intentinally genetically modify is the same thing.
Well, more back to the denial of the lab’s existence. WHO’s directive kind of refutes the denial even more than Nuland’s abbreviated testimony.
I also love how deadly pathogens are a standard component of modern public health.
Population control is a critical component of public health. Gotta cull that herd.
The Security Council will meet today, despite the US mission to the UN warning: ‘This is exactly the kind of false flag effort we have warned Russia might initiate to justify a biological or chemical weapons attack.
‘We’re not going to let Russia gaslight the world or use the UN Security Council as a venue for promoting their disinformation.’
Oh, sod off. Using conspiratorial language to dismiss out of hand what has already been admitted by our state department? Gimme a break.
We’re not going to let Russia gaslight the world
“That’s our job.” – US Gov’t/NATO
“‘It is your fault if I die behind bars!’: Shameless Jussie Smollett erupts into a wild-eyed tantrum at judge after he sentences him to 150 days in jail and fines him $145,000 for faking racist homophobic Chicago attack in 2019”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10598877/Jussie-Smollett-sentenced-TODAY-lying-police-hoax-race-hate-attack.html
Five months doesn’t seem like much for all the trouble he caused.
“If anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not to it to myself, and you must all know that”
Relax Jussie, Hillary has better things to do, like fanning the flames of war.
Meh, I’d give him community service and have him make restitution on the actual cost of the investigation not the ridiculous numbers I remember hearing.
Maybe if he took a plea, but he is still insisting he did nothing wrong.
Meh, false accusers should be given the maximum penalty of the crime they accuse somebody of.
This one is complicated by the fact that he didn’t accuse a particular person, but, given his behavior, I doubt he would’ve stopped if a couple of white guys ended up facing a long stint the slammer due to his lies.
Just like with the FBI – they would’ve been assumed to have a propensity to doing the crime, even if all of the circumstances were manufactured.
???
There’s a reason prohibition against bearing false witness is in the ten commandments.
I feel the same way about prosecutors who hide or fabricate evidence, they should be sentenced to what the victim of their malfeasance would have received.
“I didn’t kidnap anyone! I just had the state arrest someone and put them in jail! And they were released eventually!”
Except in this case the people arrested were in on it, Jussie didn’t accuse any innocent people and in fact claimed one guy was white, I don’t believe he fingered the brothers, I seem to recall that the cops found them on their own. There’s a difference between making a false police report and framing someone.
ISTR that Jussie claimed he could and was willing to identify the white guys that attacked him. That the police didn’t find him a couple of patsies is one of the few things you can credit CPD with. Contrast with Tawanna Brawley and Crystal Mangum.
Contrast with Tawanna Brawley and Crystal Mangum.
That’s what I’m doing, those women specifically fingered actual people, Jussie didn’t. That you believe he would have had the cops bungled the investigation and brought in two random white dudes shouldn’t matter. I tend to lean toward “don’t throw people in rape cages for would-of’s and could-ofs”, even if I don’t like the persons politics.
Attempted murder is A-Ok, as long as the shooter missed?
I find there to be little moral difference between activating the police force to go out and roust perps and tossing bricks off of a highway overpass.
And that’s not even getting into the cost-benefit analysis of making false accusations.
Until Jussie, there was literally no downside to making a false hatecrime accusation (if you were an approved minority). You got notoriety, money, and opportunities for advancement even if it’s later revealed to be a hoax.
Crystal Mangum probably fingered lots of people.
Attempted murder isn’t exactly a woulda coulda, you did fire a gun at someone, you did swing a aluminum ball bat upside their cranium.
Also, I am not saying that there should be no penalty for filing false police reports, just that on it’s own it is not rape cage worthy.
“Who’s The Boss vet Alyssa Milano, 49, reveals she used to be a SINGER as she shares throwback photos from when she was 16: ‘I even had a Best Of album'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10600143/Alyssa-Milano-49-shares-throwback-photos-16-singer.html
Breaking news?
Not around here. Her MVs have been posted before.
“An Uzbekistani boy was born with two penises in what doctors believe is a one-in-6milllion birth defect.
The unidentified boy, from the country’s capital, Tashkent, lived with the condition for seven years without physical discomfort.
Medics say he was able to pass urine out of both ‘fully functional’ and ‘structurally normal’ penises, which were conjoined at the shaft.
The boy was referred to specialist clinic, where he underwent a delicate procedure to remove his left phallus.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10526957/Boy-7-born-TWO-penises-incredibly-rare-condition-surgery-remove-extra-appendage.html
Way to ruin his AMA, Uzbekistan.
I hope they at least spliced them together, rather than just removing one entirely.
What assholes. Caused him no issues means don’t perform surgery.
Also curious if both need to be circumcized or just one. Any Jews to weigh in? What’s the rabbi say?
It would have been a perfect experiment in what women prefer. What an opportunity for scientific advancement lost to simple vanity.
Uzbeki Ass Sex
So, there are 25 dudes in the US with 2 penes?
I’m sure someone’s made a survey.
You would think Rule 34 would apply.
It’s not the strangest thing that it would have been applied to.
You’ve got to wonder how they decided which one got to stay.
PSA: Chowhound has announced that they’re shutting down on March 21st. So if you have any bookmarked recipes from their site, now would be a good time to copy them somewhere else.
Man, I remember when Chowhound was my go-to site for all things food.
The sale and revamp of the site should be a B-school case of how not to do it – utterly burned through years of goodwill and alienated loyal users.
Did they have a wokeplosion or did something else ruin them?
Nah, this was pre-wokeness, just a dumb-ass redesign and reorganization of the site:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/food-dining/2015/10/13/uproar-over-chowhound-redesign/b78oatjUgWzsfLwcHAkcoO/story.html
In particular, they got rid of the _very_ popular regional boards – the Boston board was very, very active.
Never heard of them before today. And I keep my own recipe book locally rather than risk the internet moving thring on me.
Not Adahn – what is the real the non-MSM pants shitting demand for neon in a Fab?
Exclusive: Ukraine halts half of world’s neon output for chips
I’m assuming that the idea is to recycle it as much as possible because it ain’t free.
Let put it this way: I’m fairly well plugged into supplier/quality issues and I’ve NEVER been called in to deal with a Ne issue. Hell, I’ve never had a problem with Ar or Kr, and we use vastly more of those (though admittedly, they’re easier to refine out of the air).
I have a feeling that Air Liquide or Praxair could ramp this up faster than we could qualify them.
Let me say, “I’m shocked. Just shocked…”
“Thefts of old neon signs up 213%”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/10/senators-ukraine-aircraft/
Your daily reminder that the GOP is just as insane as the DNC
They do suck but this is simple political opportunism without consequences as the decision has already been made. Then again, maybe they are actually just idiots that don’t recognize the potential consequences of their actions.
I get that they feel it’s an opportunity to virtue signal without consequences, however it’s just another step in the wrong direction from a propaganda point of view. Much like how everything became pro-Trump/anti-Trump, we’re now defining our political battlefield around war with Russia. It doesn’t bode well.
Uh, you been around for how long? Triangulation went out with Clinton. Ever since it is our way or go to hell (from either side). Pure Manichean duality.
Uzbeki Ass Sex
I realize I posted that in the wrong thread. Or did I….?
works here too
I think I’ll catch a few more winks before I get up for the day.
Sun is up already, and I’ve realized I have a hard time sleeping when the room is light, particularly if it’s light with any blue LEDs or the spouse is browsing his cell phone.
So I got these eye masks from Amazon. Really comfy, with knit material that doesn’t make your forehead sweat and conforms nicely around the bright of the nose to help block out all light. Bliss!!
https://www.amazon.com/Cotton-Sleep-Eye-Mask-Comfortable/dp/B07D3M5TTZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=23G7A600JCM3I&keywords=eye+mask&qid=1647007303&sprefix=eye+mas%2Caps%2C295&sr=8-4
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Tucker Carlson did not kill himself: Tucker: We should be very concerned about this
The explanations have been beyond pathetic. Securing and destroying Soviet bioweapons? For 17 fucking years?
Yeah, I don’t buy it. The facilities are likely being used for research they’re barred from conducting here. See also: Wuhan. This shit has GOT to stop.
This
Absolutely.
“Bioweapons” – I doubt it.
Forbidden stuff (i.e. gain of function, etc) – yes.
The distinction is almost purely semantic. Bioweapons research just adds delivery systems to the list of topics, unless of course you’re talking about a respiratory virus that doesn’t even require that because it is so incredibly contagious.
Indeed. Gain of function research is inherently dual-purpose, at best. There’s a reason why the DoD was funding Wuhan, and these Ukrainian labs.
And the MSM unquestioningly promotes the ridiculous party line and smears Carlson as a conspiracy theorist.
have a look at the CC on that video. it’s completely garbled
Fascinating…I’m sure it is not Big Tech censorship or anything.
Actually, no. That is exactly what it is.
Those are the autogenerated Youtube closed captions, so…why so garbled?
Upon further inspection it seems to happen randomly on videos. Maybe Google programmers just suck.
As the master of YouTube subs (from watching Japanese stuff), it seems like YouTube is trying pull the subs from the digital encoding in the broadcast video.
There are multiple imbedded streams – none identified as auto generated as commonly happens, One of the English streams did work.
So read into it what you want. Possibly technical issue, possibly on purpose.
Police said the owner might be cited for keeping a pig inside city limits.
I guess there is no other crime in Houston?
When asked for comment, Jussie Smollet angrily yelled “This is MAGA country!” before punching himself in the face.
🙂
It has been hotly contested, with critics of the bill arguing it targets LGTBQ+ youth and is dangerous, while supporters believe it gives parents more of a say in what their children learn in the classroom.
Without having read the legislation, I’m going to guess given the topic the supporters are closer to being correct than the critics.
The real solution is to abolish the public schools. When I mention that on message boards for groups pushing back against Covid insanity, which are dominated by conservatives, it goes over very well. I think some conservatives are now thinking about abolishing the public schools.
And good on DeSantis for calling out Disney and China.
That will never happen.
The move to get out of public schools is starting to heat up. It seems to be rather starkly generational in the circles I inhabit. (conservative, Christian) People with early elementary kids are homeschooling en masse. Most people 5-10 years older than us have their kids in public school.
Experiences in public school differs so vastly across generations. My high school was closer to a prison than a school. Multiple security guards and two LEOs onsite. Anyone out of class could be searched. Random locker searches with dogs. They would also randomly blow into classrooms, have everyone stand up with their hands out, and search kids and bags. Freshman year, my friends and I ate outside every day that it wasn’t raining. By senior year, everyone had to eat in the cafeteria and you weren’t allow to stand once you sat down. This was the nicest high school of the seven in the city too.
My wife’s high school was in a rural area that’s a decade or two behind the times. The kind of place where the high school football team goes and signs autographs at the elementary school after winning State. Or a student sets up a pig roast in the parking lot on a Pep Rally day and is allowed by the teachers to leave class all day to check on the pig. Just a completely different world and experience than I had. Though I imagine her school is now more like the one I went to.
There was nothing like that in my HS. We had a security guard (retired cop?) and that’s about it. No searches. We couldn’t leave the building but it was a ghetto neighborhood so who would want to. This was in the late 80s.
I think the Overton window needs to move on “public” schools. As we have seen, changing the terminology is a good tool for this. Henceforth, we should refer to them exclusively as “government” schools.
“junior prisons”
Sorry if this is going OT too soon. And I’m sorry it’s gonna be a bit of a wall of text. This specifically goes out to Pope Jimbo/Mrs. Jimbo and anyone with legal experience. I think I mentioned this before but I also had a (small) seizure today and memory issues come along with that—Biggest issue right now is the police talking to me. There was a little incident at school. My boss before had me sign a resignation letter, which I shouldn’t have signed. But I did write under “Reason for resignation: Not a resignation. This is the successful completion of a 1-year contract.” Wrote down the legit dates of the contract. I did fulfill it. I did write that but I shouldn’t have signed anything.
Last day of work I did something fairly stupid. I told her that I think I made a mistake on that letter she had me sign! I stupidly had my copy. I took hers paper and tore it up. Why? if a teacher resigns and doesn’t fulfill the contract, the boss doesn’t have to pay an extra month’s pay at the end. It’s one of the many illegal things she’s done. Boss and her mom then were desperately trying to wrench my copy out of my hands. Well, I’m stronger than them so that did work for them. CCTV has all of this and cops got called. Yay! Then there were two other guys, not cops, that I have never seen before. They never raised a hand against me, nor I against ANYONE, but they blocked my exit.
Then the cops come! They were actually super polite. They did get my copy of the non-resignation letter and gave it to boss. Later I got messages from the police that they needed to have another sit down with me. They threatened to refuse to allow me to leave Korea and even issue a warrant against me if I didn’t comply. No charges have been filed against me! Absolutely nothing! We did the talk. Apparently I have to do another one. My plan is to get a lawyer or at least a Korean friend (whom I’ll pay) to sit in with me. I am not going alone into that next meeting with the police. That’ll happen next week but we haven’t scheduled it yet.
My interpreter police liaison says that I just need to tell the investigator what happened. “We don’t think it’s a big deal. I suppose you’ll be set free after the questioning. I mean you’ll not be charged because of what you did. The possibility of indictment is very low. So don’t worry about it and come here and have a questioning ASAP. You can come in here with a lawyer but I don’t think you’ll need his help because it’s not a big deal.”
THEN WHY THE FUCK AM HAVING TO REPEAT MYSELF TO INVESTIGATORS?! I secretly recorded the first one. Single-consent in Korea. I want to find a lawyer but I’ll at least settle for a friend who can speak Korean well and hit them up for $50 or whatever so they can help me out. The US Embassy said that it was pretty much just a formality. I do not trust anyone in this game. But I’m going to have to set that out.
Thanks for any insight and sorry for early wall of text. And the seizure WAS this morning and my ex (we’re still friends) insisted I goes to the hospital. Nothing too crazy, really. Biggest weirdo-thing is that my face is absolutely bright red. It’s pretty bad. That’s a new one to happen to me.
Maybe just get the hell out of there and take the loss? As familiar as you are with Korea you’re ultimately an outsider. Don’t give them the opportunity to make an example of you.
That option has been floated by a good friend. But as of now I cannot leave the country until I do this. They have put a hold on my visa and they know my passport information. It’s pretty rare, but Korea has been known to do this.
Sorry you have to deal with all that.
I would absolutely hire an attorney for this, not just have a friend along for the ride.
1. They have made multiple efforts to get you to incriminate yourself. Make no mistake, “just talking” with the police, anywhere, is never “just talking.” They don’t want to hear your story so that they can get enough information to decide to set you free. They want enough information to decide whether to press charges against you.
2. They have taken a rather significant action to deny you freedom of movement outside the country. You are now being detained in their legal system and the appropriate action is to engage their legal system in the person of an attorney. You will not be able to negotiate their legal system on your own. Would you attempt that in the US? If not, why would you in Korea?
3. You have no idea what the law really is in Korea. You may have actually violated the law (in several ways, perhaps) without even knowing it. Without an attorney to be your advocate and intermediary, you may unwittingly admit to infractions for which you could be prosecuted.
Strongly agree here db. I’m no legal expert, but this stinks to high heaven. Not to alarm you bro, but you’re in extreme danger.
This ^^
Hire a lawyer and talk to nobody (including Glibs) except the lawyer about this. Everything you say and do can impact how this ends up, so zip it and get legal counsel from a local expert.
Getting a lawyer is DEFINITELY the right call. I probably have enough money but on such short notice it’s going to be rough. And according to the US Embassy, almost all of the practices that they have verified are based in Seoul or Busan. A couple others, but mostly Seoul. They didn’t have one listed in Daejeon. I’m not sure if I can do this through Zoom, but it’s worth a shot. There are plenty of lawyers here in Daejeon but I would be concerned about their English. Doctors can usually be relied up for English, so I assume lawyers, too. I’ve never had to deal with any of them.
I’ve got friends who know some people, but they said they are very expensive and on such short notice? Eeek. My flight out is scheduled for March 21. Changing flights now is easier than it used to be, but that will be something that I have to settle quickly.
Evan, respectfully, I think you are seriously underestimating the gravity of the situation you are in. You need a lawyer even if they are very expensive. If it takes eating into savings, borrowing from family, a GoFund Me, etc. do whatever it takes to ensure that you have a lawyer sitting next to you.
You are restricted from leaving the country at the same time the police have told you that you don’t really need a lawyer. Once the police tell you “hey you’re not in trouble, we just want to talk, and you definitely don’t need a lawyer”, that’s a sign you are about to be in very deep shit and need to find the best lawyer you possibly can. $5,000 for a lawyer now may prevent jail time and tens of thousands in legal fees.
Yeah, the investigator messaged me today, direct quote: “We don’t think it’s a big deal. I suppose you’ll be set free after the questioning. I mean you’ll not be charged because of what you did. The possibility of your indictment is very low. So don’t worry about it and come here and have a questioning ASAP. If you want, you can come with your lawyer but I don’t think you don’t [sic]his help because it’s not a bid deal.”
THE BULLSHIIT ALARM IS GOING ABSOLUTELY BATSHIT ON THAT NONSENSE. I certainly do not know the legal system here, but I can spot bullshit like that without a problem. Just a complete lie. None of them are my friends. NONE. I recognize that I’m in a profound amount of trouble. They probably want to charge me with “attacking” two women, one a grandma. Which I didn’t do. They were the instigators, grabbing and pulling/pushing me. I defended my space, but never raised a hand the entire time. There is CCTV footage.
Before that I asked why I’m doing this AGAIN. I had to talk to the cops when the incident happened. Then I had to meet with this English speaking “investigator” at the police station.
My parents have offered to help with money. I am going to need it. $5k is about all that I have and they are happy to help. I Will set up a GoFundMe or GiveSendGo. I haven’t heard of the latter. Any pros/cons to them that I should know about? I’ll look it up further, but it’s gettin’ late here and it’s been a fucked up day. It doesn’t need to be international because I have a US account.
I know enough to get a lawyer and to not open my mouth. I almost assuredly don’t have the money to afford on this quickly.
Some folks, like the Canadian truckers, have moved to GiveSendGo because GoFundMe is woke.
GiveSendGo is at best a bunch of amateurs who pay no attention to security. One of the articles I read about the GiveSendGo hack mentioned that the hacker probably used a security hole that researchers told GiveSendGo about at least a year ago. At worst, it’s a honey pot. I won’t give money to a GiveSendGo again.
I suppose you’ll be set free after the questioning. I mean you’ll not be charged because of what you did. The possibility of your indictment is very low.
This does not fill me with confidence. Also, I’m wondering about the dog that didn’t bark – the hold on your visa.
Evan, Semi-Spartan Dad is right.
He absolutely is. Today was the day I got those messages and I realized that I was being dumb before. Naive. Getting that news on the same day as a seizure puts in place how shitty today has been.
I will listen to DEG and start up and YouFundMe. I’ve used them before. I’ve also messaged my parents about this. They will ABSOLUTELY be all in on helping.
AND YAY! My ex just came back home there was a huge fight in the nightlife district and she was directly involved and so were like 10+ other foreigners. I am fucking embarrassed that i wasn’t there and couldn’t help. But right now, I can’t. Too much is broken. And today was another seizure. It would have been the dumbest decision that I could have made. More drama.
Dumbest decision? Well, ev. Make sure your legal fight is no where near the dumbest. Work that shit out as hard as you can. Thank you all. Today was a big wake-up day. I shoulda woken up a long time ago, but it’s better to have woken up at SOME point rather than never.
Evan, set up a GiveSendGo. I’ll kick in some and I’m sure others will as well.
Handle this correctly.
Hope you feel better soon Evan, your face being red concerns me a little. Sadly I know nothing of medicine or law, but I think you should consult experts in both. Best luck.
Agreed. At least for the medical stuff, my dermatologist and neurologist are right next to each other and they know me.
I have an American friend who helped me get all my documents sorted. Mostly for my boss’ illegal actions, but she has taken private schools to court by herself, and is batting 1.000 being victorious going 8 for 8. But now she’s back in Mpls. Would be nice for her to still be here, but her legal actions were all of a different sort than mine. Would have been better than nothing but I gotta get myself a Korean lawyer sorted out. I’m supposed to meet the “investigators” next week, but I can always say that my lawyer wasn’t able to get a client so quickly and push it back. Or, that’s something I can try. Or say I’m ill or whatever.
Lady says this is the most minor seizure that she’s ever seen, and it’s the first one that I actually remember. Lady has seen….~20-25 of mine? Thank you all for your insights and kind thoughts. My life always throws me curve-balls, but I’m good enough to stand in that box. Get a lot of hit-by-pitches, i try my best to shake ’em off and take my bag.
NY guy looks like a cut rate Robert Durst. And Durst managed to mostly stay prison. What is it about NYC that makes people want to dress up like women and dismember people?
Too densely populated. Too much pollution, noise and light.
Could make anyone snap.
The hypocritic oath.
This is insane. A hospital in Munich, Germany sent this letter where they announce that “from now on and until further notice, we will not treat Russian and Belarusian citizens.”
We’re one step away from internment camps.
In Germany? Unpossible.
Ah Germans, don’t ever change.
So Slavs are back to subhumanity in Germany?
Do no political harm.
Somewhere around 4AM I fell into a deep sleep which lasted until about 7.
So I got that going for me.
Niiice.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a truly kick-ass night of sleep. I may have to do something unthinkable, like cutting back on caffeine, booze and screen-time.
Whaaat?!!!!
The nuclear option.
*Narrator: he won’t really cut back on those things anytime soon.
Speaking of the rectification of grievous historical wrongs, I heard a little while ago on the teevee that the “Gypsy” moth has been rehabilitated and outfitted with a new identity and passport. A new lease on life.
“Traveler” moth? “Romani” moth?
Naw, they’d probably call it the Pickpocket Swindler Moth, I’d imagine. Or worse, the New Yorker Moth.
It’s not even the Pikey moth, it’s now the spongy moth.
“I fookin’ ‘ate Pikeys”
“Yeah I like dags.”
2 minutes pistoff
It was two minutes, five minutes ago!
Tinkering with your trees.
I’ve had better sleep aids than oxycodone, I will have you know, like Tylenol PM. Trouble is, oxy controls the pain better. I really never noticed before.
“Just found out the clinic I got my transition surgery from years ago also performs top surgery (breast removal) on kids as young as 12.
12 year olds are having body parts removed.
This is objectively horrifying and if you support it you are either stupid, evil, or both.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1502013830586638343
“My new video is one of the most troubling I’ve made.
“Doctors” are proudly admitting to removing the breasts of 12 and 13 year old “trans” children. They are trying to remove safeguards to gain better access to your kids. It’s horrifying.”
https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson/status/1501749150072852483
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
It’s criminal.
Wondering why Age Of Consent laws don’t apply to this.
And now they’re talking about revoking most favored nation trading status for Russia.
Okay, sure. This is starting to look like playground vengeance. “We never liked you, FATTY!”
Let’s make sure they develop even closer ties to China and maybe India while leaving Western Europe without any fuel. Awesome plan from the brilliant strategic thinkers in charge.
That’s their intention. The US wants total dominion over all of Western Europe and is willing to fuck them in the ass without lube to get it.
And the EU is too stupid to realize what is happening.
Natural gas prices is Europe are ten times what they are in the US right now.
Oh, it gets better.
Soros is an enemy of humanity. I used to give fairly short shrift to his conspiratorial status as Dr. Evil. Not anymore.
Look at how much damage he’s doing just within the US. It must be much worse around the world.
Our strategic thinkers are doing the opposite of what they should be. You want some semblance of world stability and hegemony? Then the US and Russia should be the best of friends.
Nope, just respect the real sphere of influence that each country has.
Well, our “strategic ties” haven’t stopped them from doing anything they want…
Harsh justice
Stripping Russia of its favored nation status paves the way for the United States and its allies to impose tariffs on a wide range of Russian goods, which would further ratchet up pressure on an economy that is already heading into a “deep recession.”
The coordinated moves by Washington, London and other allies come on top of a raft of unprecedented sanctions, export controls and banking restrictions aimed at pressuring Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the largest war in Europe since World War Two.
I’m starting to think a Ukrainian “peace deal” is going to look a lot like the Treaty of Versailles. And we all know what happened when that simmering cauldron of resentments boiled over.
Although I’m not optimistic we’l;l even make it to the “brokered surrender” phase.
So its all our fault now, it will be all our fault if it happens again. Got it. No agency in Russia. Mere mindless beasts, responding to stimuli.
Unprecedented, sweeping sanctions slapped on Russia’s banks and elites, along with export controls on a raft of technologies, have already caused the Russian economy to crater, and the International Monetary Fund is now predicting that it will plunge into a “deep recession” this year.
In 2019, Russia was the 26th largest goods trading partner of the United States, with some $28 billion exchanged between the two countries, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office.
Top imports from Russia included mineral fuels, precious metal and stone, iron and steel, fertilizers and inorganic chemicals, all goods that could face higher tariffs once Congress acts to revoke Russia’s favored nation trade status
Don’t worry. We can get that stuff from anybody.
I seem to recall that the CIA had to set up a front company to buy titanium from the Soviets/Russians back in the day. So there is experience.
It’s OK, the American people are happy to cover the slack so long as they can enjoy watching the Russian people suffer along with us.
I mean, it’s a win-win.
Accused Russian Agent Gave to One Politician: Tulsi Gabbard
Hilary Clinton told us she was a Russian asset!!!!1111!!!!
While the combined total of those donations isn’t colossal by any means—a whopping $59.95—they do raise questions about why an alleged Russian agent, tasked with currying favor with U.S. politicians, would zero in on Gabbard, and only Gabbard.
Lol, stop you’re killing me DB.
*sweeps Dem ties to China under a rug*
*wonders what very large mound under the rug in the center of the room is*
OFFS.
Almost $60?
Holy fuck, seize their bank accounts!!!!
/Trudeau
Hmm. So totalling 60? Curry favor? If she can get bought for 60 then I need to make some political contributions!
So it’s not $20, same as downtown?
They say some thousands in Russian Facebook ads swung the 2016 election, so…
///Muh-narrative
“Sixty bucks, same as DC.”
Your donors?
President Biden: “There is an impediment to production in the United States and it’s called the bankers on the Wall Street. This crisis in another indication of why we need to get off dependency on fossil fuels. […] It’s about the future.”
There is a theory that fossil fuels are the result of some microbe eating something and shitting oil. If this is true then fossil fuels are renewable. Fossil fuels are the present and the future of reliable, inexpensive energy.
*ahem* It’s spelled “banksters”, Joe.
Abiotic oil FTW!
Though I think even talking about that makes you a Russian agent (ISTR most of the abiotic oil theories came from Russian scientists)
Because there is no corruption or cronyism in renewable energy. None,
Almost $60?
Holy fuck, seize their bank accounts!!!!
/Trudeau
*sigh*
Of all the twisted, carefully contrived gaslighting newspeak I see in the news each day, “gender-affirming health care” sends me into an especially intense jaw clenching rage.
While the combined total of those donations isn’t colossal by any means—a whopping $59.95—they do raise questions about why an alleged Russian agent, tasked with currying favor with U.S. politicians, would zero in on Gabbard, and only Gabbard.
$59.95!!!!
What did she do, buy Tulsi lunch?
That wouldn’t cover lunch in any location Tulsi frequents
Normal Dem politicians won’t take money to destroy the country, they do that for free.
Two Papa Johns pizzas and a sixer of Sierra Nevada?
…go on.
Show up at Yusef’s BK and get a Friend Discount.
Fortification by other means.
Wisconsin liberals on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and two other GOP congressmen are insurrectionists in violation of the U.S. Constitution for their words and actions in support of Donald Trump leading up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The lawsuit, alleging a violation of the “Disqualification Clause” of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, says Johnson and U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald conspired to undermine President Joe Biden’s victory and sow public distrust of the outcome.
Democrats have contested literally every presidential election won by a Republican in my lifetime.
They floated this months ago and now pulling the trigger. My guess timed to have the greatest headlines for the next few months as we roll into election season.
The Cawthorn suit just got bench-slapped, the timing of this one sucks. They should’ve filed before they knew it was pointless.
There is a theory that fossil fuels are the result of some microbe eating something and shitting oil. If this is true then fossil fuels are renewable. Fossil fuels are the present and the future of reliable, inexpensive energy.
I have never understood the basis for the assumption whatever process created “oil” wouldn’t be continuous and ongoing.
Environmentalism is a religion and the green weenies that espouse it intend to make you destitute and dead.
It probably is ongoing, but not at a rate that matches our consumption.
“Heidi Montag snacks on bison heart as part of her raw meat diet”
Paparazzi caught “The Hills” alum, 35, carrying a plastic bag with a raw bison heart inside of it during a stroll in Los Angeles.
She was snapped flashing a big smile as she took a bite out of the bloody organ…
The bubbly reality star first revealed her peculiar eating regimen in January, when she filmed herself eating raw liver.”
https://pagesix.com/2022/03/10/heidi-montag-snacks-on-bison-heart-as-part-of-raw-meat-diet/
I’ve had beef heart tartare – it’s good, intensely beef-y.
OK, but did you just walk around town eating a raw steer heart out of a ziploc bag?
Not yet…
Weirdest timeline
I bet this writer thought up this story while eating sushi
There are better ways to attract the paparazzi, hon.
Takes eat your heart out to a whole different level.
I like super rare just above raw meat. But the heart, and other organ meats, are more likely to carry parasites, those should be cooked more well-done than muscle cuts.
That wouldn’t cover lunch in any location Tulsi frequents
Maybe a fish taco on the beach.
Aaaaand I’ll be in my bunk.
That’s a screwdriver with peach schnapps, cranberry juice and tuna fish, right?
Or Tulsi in a bikini
Russian rugby is canceled.
Russia’s national rugby team has been was banned from participating in the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France as a punitive measure for the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
So God damn stupid.
I thought that international sports were supposed to be politically neutral so as to remind us that we are all human beings with common interests and needs.
Sorta why most negotiations between enemies or rivals began with a shared meal since ancient times. We all gotta eat.
It is the purest form of diplomacy and we are shutting it off
And it’s going to make the average Russian turn more inward and more loyal to Putin.
When did world leaders and diplomats get so stupid?
When their underlying goals are not aligned with what they say in public. This is a deliberate push.
Meritocracy!
“When did world leaders and diplomats get so stupid?”
haven’t they always?
/not Churchill
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60506682
New developments overnight in Ukraine. Looks like things are stepping up. The convoy has arrived at Kyviv and is encircling the city. Russia advancement from the East is reaching interior cities. Cities on the Western side are now being targeted.
Yeah, the Russians were cutting off the cities and slowly turning up the heat as per their battle doctrine. If the Ukrainians don’t fold now things are going to get much worse.
I hope that youtube channel does that aircraft incident I mentioned yesterday. Pilot sounded out of it, our equipment worked as advertised and controller was getting pissed at other aircraft after he told them to sit tight while he works the guy on the taxiway.
Speaking of the Treaty of Versailles… Mercedes Benz grand prix race engine technology finding its way into combat aviation applications was all just a weird coincidence.
It had historical precedent. Both Mercedes and Benz provided engines for WW1 aircraft.
The only genuinely new military aviation items in WW2 were radar and jets.
BMW also supplied the Nazis.
And Porsche built Panther tanks
Bayer produced Zyklon B,
I thought that international sports were supposed to be politically neutral so as to remind us that we are all human beings with common interests and needs.
Don’t be silly. We should have boycotted the Berlin Olympics in ’36. That would have shown Hitler who is really the master race.
UA tennis player is complaining that RU players are even allowed to play.
Fuck off Kostyuk. If anything, it should give you the resolve to beat them on the court. The whole world has turned into whinny 5 year olds.
Yeah, go beat them and laugh.
Neigh!
They were at war in 1936?
Suddenly it all makes sense.
Joe Biden on the campaign trail: “I guarantee you, I guarantee you we are going to end fossil fuel.”
Now gas prices are at record highs and Biden says his policies aren’t to blame?
“I guarantee you we’re going to starve you out.”
Roughly translated
Power of the bully pulpit is only relevant when it’s used by wrongthinkers
“Poll: Republicans Beat Democrats among Hispanics, at 27 Percent among Black Voters”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/poll-republicans-beat-democrats-among-hispanics-at-27-among-black-voters/
They’ll still manage to fuck it up somehow.
Lol, if Rs actually achieve >10% of the AA vote there will be literal riots.
I think they misspelled “White Hispanics.”
It’s OK, the American people are happy to cover the slack so long as they can enjoy watching the Russian people suffer along with us.
It’s your sacred duty as an American to eat massive price increases in order to allow the political elite (and especially those who pretend to be) to preen their egos and display the glorious plumage of their moral superiority.
This seems as relevant today as ever: KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov’s warning to America
Always a good reminder, Thanks
I still remain very skeptical that he wasn’t just another dis-information operation. Tends to give too much credit IMO.
This one opens with a heart-breaking story of racism…
https://kdvr.com/news/money/how-racism-still-affects-millionaire-donors-of-color-report/
“When philanthropist Mona Sinha walked into her first meeting on a museum advisory board, she immediately noticed that she was the youngest person in the room and the only person of color there. Instead of being welcomed as a new colleague, fellow members of the advisory board asked her if she was a fundraiser for the museum.”
Young rich person has it hard. Maybe they didn’t think you were a big-wig donor because you were young. Young folk aren’t notorious for slinging big bucks and serving on boards.
Anyhow, it’s always nice to see some philanthropy.
“Vaid points to the contributions of the donors to social- and racial-justice causes from 2015 to 2017, the years the researchers asked donors about their giving. Donors ranked both causes in their top five philanthropic priorities.”
Nevermind. They’re just wasting their money. And finally, at the bottom:
“Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc.”
Here’s The Conversation’s United States articles page. Dive in for some standard bullshit narrative building. The AP has really gone off a cliff.
https://theconversation.com/us/topics/united-states-265
How nice. Spectrum is letting me know that Winter Storm Quinlan is going to knock out my internet.
“Quinlan”?
“When philanthropist Mona Sinha walked into her first meeting on a museum advisory board, she immediately noticed that she was the youngest person in the room and the only person of color there. Instead of being welcomed as a new colleague, fellow members of the advisory board asked her if she was a fundraiser for the museum.”
She bought her way onto the board without ever having met the other members?
Golly, that’s a heartbreaking tale. The poor little thing. How has she lived this long?
South Asians are white, or white-wannabes. It is known.
That seems…unwise.
+1 Anarchist Cookbook
Also defusing a Bomb but calling it a rocket,
A bomb that’s clearly a WWII leftover, and pulling what’s supposedly a nose fuse from a tail-fused design.
Of course.
Covid case numbers in NSW have tripled in 10 days causing ‘great concern’ for health chiefs as a new, more transmissible variant of the Omicron strain emerges.
Since February 28, three days after the NSW mask mandates were relaxed, daily cases have shot up from 5,856 to Thursday’s total of 16,288, up another 3,000 from Wednesday.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard admitted the surge in case number was worrying officials when he appeared at a budget estimates hearing on Thursday – and warned they are set to double again.
And he revealed there has been an increase in Omicron’s BA2 sub-variant that preliminary data from University of NSW suggests is even more transmissible.
Imagine if we counted, traced and reported every cold case. The media really missed that boat for their doomporn goals.
Are Australia and New Zealand going to be like the remote islands with Japanese soldiers still holding the line decades after WW II was over?
Vision Not One Sniffle is going to take another hit. Lock ‘er down, I guess.
Harris says US commitment to NATO is ‘ironclad’ as she aims to reassure its Romanian allies
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/11/politics/kamala-harris-romania/index.html
I had forgotten about the visit and was surprised today at the high number of cops in the streets
You will feel much safer after Romanian leaders express their concerns and she laughs in their faces.
Ironclad? You guys better step up up your competency and capacity.
She’s taken her comedy routine to Romania? Lucky you.
The Biden people knew Harris was wholly unqualified to be VP when they picked her. So, the questions are; why pick her, and more importantly, why let an obviously incompetent person be point on such important issues? Is there some salacious or maybe cunning (haha, right) answer to those questions? Or is the simple answer that her incompetence is only exceeded by Team Biden?
hei there she came all the way to Bucharest to protect us from the poutine
The Angel of Romania. You better keep her.
maybe she can blow Putin to stop the war
I’m pretty sure that’s the hole of her skill set.
At least one of three that encompasses that skill set
I think part of it has to do with Biden cannot travel far. The last international trip was in November last year. You’d think this far into it, there would be some face to faces that require your top diplomat.
Yeah, definitely why it’s her and not him over there. But why pick a VP who is going to embarrass the hell out of your admin every time she opens her mouth? Was their research on her so bad that they didn’t see this coming? Or is that an acceptable cost that outweighs whatever benefit her pick provided?
Did you ever think they looked at her just like Obama looked at Biden?
You mean to check some demographic boxes? Absolutely. But there were way more competent black female picks that would have done that. Susan Rice jumps to mind.
No. As in no one would want this person replacing me as President.
Right. And with Joe setting the bar so low, it limited the field to exceptionally underqualified overachievers.
Who better exemplifies that then a candidate who couldn’t even win a single delegate, not even one from her home state, to the nominating convention?
“Don’t sell yourself short,
JudgeKamala. You’re a tremendous slouch.”I guess she was picked because she was the most conveniently available Woman of Color. Like the SCOTUS pick, Biden promised the same for VP if I remember correctly.
Ownbestenemy on March 11, 2022, 07:52 AM [+]
This is what happens when you never really had to politik and you were all platitudes and empty speeches because your constituents just wanted words. Now thrust onto the world stage, what you say matters and she is just doing what she normally does, it is just being amplified.
At least my guess.
But why pick a VP who is going to embarrass the hell out of your admin every time she opens her mouth?
I don’t know if she is always an embarrassment when she opens her mouth. Sucking cock was a part of her getting where she is.
The President really is our top diplomat. He is both Head of Government and Head of State.
I didn’t realize the difference until I was reading A Peace to End All Peace. In a chapter on the peace negotiations, it mentions how Woodrow Wilson was able to throw a wrench in the process by attending in person. All the other negotiators were either diplomats or in some cases, Heads of Government, but no Heads of State other than him attended. By international law and convention, that allowed him to set the agendas and exercise significant control over the proceedings. I didn’t realize that there’s an international ranking of this sort until I read that. The President of the US is one of the only officials in any country that can claim to be both and is treated as essentially a monarch in the rankings, apparently.
That’s really interesting. I wasn’t aware there were rules like that. But I guess, every game needs rules, and none more so than international diplomacy.
The last. I think they assumed it would be mostly uneventful with covid on the decline. Like the Clinton years.
Give her a few meaningless jobs and let a friendly press ignore her gaffes and amplify her occasional coherent statements. I suppose that’s it. Fucking maddening.
Probably this.
The dumbass locked himself into a black woman and for them I think that meant it was down to her or Abrams.
Abrams is way smarter than Harris.
I agree, but Harris is more…likable?
Graded on a curve of course.
Good lord that’s depressing.
That is part of it. Otherwise, why pick the failed presidential candidate that couldn’t even garner votes from her own state in the primaries?
Biden picked Harris for the same reason Obama picked him: both administrations wanted someone more inept and stupid than their boss so they could contrast that (to make the boss look good) and dissuade anyone that might think the boss should be offed (who wants to replace a problem with an even bigger one?).
That thought’s been on my mind, too. And likely why Susan Rice wasn’t picked. And I get it, but good christ…they went too far.
They had to, if the goal was to make Joe look good.
This was painful to watch, mostly because it is full of bs.
Watch Live | Biden announces new sanctions on Russia
We stand with the people of Ukraine my ass. I think there is a massive coverup of whatever shady shit we have used that country for. Biolabs, massive grift, etc.
My suspicion as well. Our corruptocrats are no better than Russian corruptocrats.
In a sense they’re worse. We have more wealth to play with and are thusly more pernicious and more effective, not that the Russians wouldn’t do the kinds of things we do if they could. They’re just constrained by circumstances.
Worse – because much of that wealth is our tax dollars being sent there as “aid” then syphoned off into their bank accounts.
14 billion that we will never see how it was spent.
maybe she can blow Putin to stop the war
Something tells me Putin has a deep bench of far, far better options.
Better than Kamala on her best day.
I’ll bet none of them are middle aged black women. He might crave variety.
It’s DIVERSITY!
I have an appointment, so I won’t be around for Stoic Friday.
Hope you all enjoy it.
In space no one can hear you missgender.
We’re committed to supporting the right of every employee at NASA to be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns.
Click here to read a statement from our Office of Diversity & Equal Opportunity in regards to a recent gender pronouns IT project: http://go.nasa.gov/3hUFgIr
Its going to be funny when I am fired not for getting a vaccine but for not remembering what pronoun some asshat wants to be called on any given day.
Can we just let Musk have NASA? It’s become a boondoggle anyway.
Poutine must be laughing his ass off at this shit.
If his cosmonaut had any humor, they would misgender their counterpart on the ISS right now and then send a Tweet that they did.
The currency has only just begun to inflate.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that Americans will likely see another year of “very uncomfortably high” inflation as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine muddles her prior forecast that price acceleration would moderate in the months ahead.
“I think there’s a lot of uncertainty that is related to what’s going on with Russia in Ukraine,” Yellen told CNBC’s “Closing Bell.”
“And I do think that it’s exacerbating inflation. I don’t want to make a prediction exactly as to what’s going to happen in the second half of the year,” she continued. “We’re likely to see another year in which 12-month inflation numbers remain very uncomfortably high.”
So Peter Doocy was correct to ask if this administration is just going to blame everything bad on Russia…
How can we take these propaganda photos seriously when you are wasting resources to protect a statue…
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1501561231869677568?
Meh. What else should they be doing? Sending mean tweets to Putin?
Don’t COUNT on it!
A statue to a French noble who served in the Russian Army…
*of a
How did I not know about this earlier?
If you do something great in England, the Queen will give you a Picture of Derek Chauvin Stepping on the neck of George Floyd
Im sold. We need a great reset of humanity. We are broken. The writers for Mass Effect were correct, we need to be harvested for our own good.
So you’re saying we deserve the same ending, just with different colored lights depending on our choices?
Whatever one killed all humans
Bender?
Yep, maybe the coming nuclear holocaust will be for the best.
A 18 month old internet campaign garnered 1407 signatures. Hardly a condemnation of humanity on the whole.
The Grauniad is a wikipedia-verified Reliable Source, I’ll have you know!
A drug-addled low life that has contributed nothing to the world, country, state, or community is the beacon of light to these people.
Not even a British citizen and she’s whining about the badge
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18653208.glasgow-born-singer-ordered-leave-country-told-can-stay-indefinitely/
“I’m teaching myself how to re-emerge from the traumatic experience and adversity.” Grow up
Successfully warned off my friends who will be visiting DC next week against taking Metro. They’ll be renting a car and using parking garages instead. Much more efficient & reliable.
(I didn’t tell them what a shithole DC has become since they left about 15 years ago. But they live in Portland now, though, so…)
I only saw 70 people shooting heroin and only 50 shitting in the street! This is paradise!
When I was dating the Austin City planner we went to an urban planning oncerence in DC.
She swooned over the beauty of the metro stations. I wish I were joking.
OMFG
https://www.fox29.com/news/sharp-inflation-leads-to-noticeable-rise-in-grocery-prices
GTFO
Forced dietary changes are good for humans.
Eat the bugs you bigot!!!
such as limiting meat to one day a week
They are really going all in on this ‘no meat’ bs. If you want a revolt…
I’ll be healthy and only eat Slim Jims, that’s not real meat so it must be healthy.
Let them eat bread and water.
Some of us remember how to be poor.
We stocked up on rice and beans just in case…I can make 1001 different ways but in the end, its still just beans and rice.
I got a Ready Hour meat kit, veggie kit, breakfast kit and rice/been kit. I guess I’d be alright…for a little while.
Being poor sucked. I want to forget that and go back to being middle class again.