Well, folks, it looks like my run here in the coveted weekend morning slot is coming to a close. With the baby hovering, Mrs. L starting to have those feelings in the night that are apparently like contractions, but not, I’m handing off the slot after today to the next sucker lucky person. It was great to get reacquainted and see all the familiar faces. It was a great run. I’m hopeful to be around a little more with less work and more “oh good, the baby’s awake, I need to look busy”.
Stronger hands lengthen your life, really start choking that bishop.
Sticking to the theme. (String Warning!)
Man, what the fuck? You cook pet hogs, not dogs. Some people just need to be beaten to death with an 18lb sledge hammer.
30 years later, and what has really changed is they let Danny do his shit while they jam along.
“Kim Jong Un channels ‘Top Gun’ in bizarre video of North Korean missile launch ”
Gay.
“The Korean Central News Agency said the Hwasong-17, which was first unveiled in October 2020, reached a maximum altitude of 3,880 miles and flew 680 miles in 67 minutes before crashing into Japanese waters.”
Isn’t that a violation of international law or something?
With ballistic, vice cruise, etc – (if you do it right) there are specific flight profiles that are very high and very short that testing will extrapolate for longer ranges – and then you can fire and still keep it in international airspace.
Obviously, esp with Norks or Iranians, doesn’t always fly right, but that’s a legal workaround.
That wasn’t Tom Cruise? They all look alike to me
I think it was Tom Intermediate Ballistic this time.
Lacist!
Good morning BrettL. You had a nice run but all good things must come to an end.
Congrats to the missus on the soon to be newbie.
Not to worry, another Glib will step up to the plate and deliver the goods…
I want to have Thomas Massie’s babies.
https://fb.watch/b_L0BXG5M0/
Corn sucks, so do soybeans.
*shrug*
$7.50 for a gallon of milk? Really?
You’ll drink this and you’ll like it. In fact, if you think this is a bad idea I think it makes you a bigot somehow.
https://www.health.com/nutrition/cockroach-milk
I watched the whole video, Massie laid it out pretty well, explained why Fauci et al, Congress and presidents carry the responsibility of our future. Shortsightedness and decision making with no understanding of how things work are inherent in all governments’ expediencies. Voting won’t change a thing.
And the media still saying this is the result of the coronavirus, not the government’s response to the coronavirus.
TMITE
I have about 10 baby apple trees growing in my front window. Call me an optimist.
that’s awesome!
From an apple?
I started doing this last year, got the idea from Kinnath, he knows apple trees.
I transplanted 10 in the garden last year, in late July, hot, dry. They survived and now I’ll see if they survived the winter. I’m optimistic because we had a lot of snow.
I save seeds from apples, refrigerate for about 3 months, then planted them in peat pots and kept them close to the heat until they germinated. A lot didn’t but since the seeds are low cost it doesn’t matter too much. This year I did the same thing and now there are more baby trees.
I just enjoy seeing green things after the winter here. These trees, should they grow, will not produce eating quality apples but for cooking purposes and wine making should be all right.
What variety?
Hopefully Honey Crisp, since this zone 3 but I mixed in some others so I’m not sure. It’s for fun and doubtful if I ever see any fruit. I bought some transplants about 2 years ago and they survived, I’ll buy a couple more this year, a Whitney crab and a zone 3, whatever is available.
I have them inside a fence until they can be moved to where the deer won’t destroy them.
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today.”
I heard that somewhere. I would have thought the second best time would be 19 years ago, but whatevs.
Reliance on imports from Russia? I tapped out before Massie came on – I can’t watch anyone as dumb as that woman was.
Snakes in tiny helmets.
You must mean baby snakes.
Not quite baby snakes
Baby snakes?
8 7
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https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TocAAOSwKhJdHWbt/s-l300.jpg
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This ain’t easy on a mild hangover and not enough sleep.
X 9
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🙁
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25?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAYeN3Rp2E
5 9
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*note to self: don’t play this fucking game when you are hungover
X 8
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“The single most effective set of muscles you can work to extend your life is in your hands.”
I’m in big trouble. I need Mrs. Patzer to open jars for me on occasion.
“start choking that bishop”
According to a friend, this does not work.
Mrs F will bring me a jar and an opener, I’ll open it sans opener and smile, she rolls her eyes and walks away. There are times, however, that I look for a helper (opener) and maybe even run the jar top under hot water.
“These jar tops are just too damned tight”
This is the best: https://smile.amazon.com/Adjustable-Multifunctional-Stainless-Gripper-Accessories/dp/B08L12PRDZ
I have one very similar and a couple others. A problem with that one is that it tends to squeeze the ring on a tight jar and destroys the ring. Hot water first, jars with sugar in the product will loosen up and open easier. Honey, for example.
Does that one tear into your metal lids? The under-the-cabinet one I use does and it annoys me.
If they are super tight then yes. The rings are dented heavily but they open the jars.
Us poor folk just tap them in the direction of opening with the flat edge of a butter knife a few times. It does ugly up the lid a bit, but it’ll usually get them open.
Pipe wrench. Wide mouth jars are bit more difficult.
You just need a bigger pipe wrench.
An older guy running for town council in 2020 stopped by and his “merch” was a jar opener with his name on it ;p – guess it helps to know your constituency.
(Colonial Beach is a weird population mix but a lot of retiree age folks)
“An “incredibly intoxicated” Pennsylvania man who shot and grilled his dog in a fire pit will serve up to four years in prison, prosecutors said.
Nikolay Lukyanchikov, 50, was sentenced Wednesday to two to four years in state prison after pleading guilty to aggravated cruelty to animals and other charges in the dog’s gruesome death last April, according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.”
You can argue that’s wrong, but I don’t see why it should be illegal. The entire meat industry is arguably “cruelty to animals.”
Yeah, in my mind, animal cruelty is what you do to living animals. Killing one isn’t cruelty per se. Though it does seem this is an asshole that probably doesn’t need to be consuming oxygen himself.
Well, it does seem like he’s an asshole, but we would run out of jail space in 45 minutes if being an asshole were illegal.
I didn’t suggest jailing him for being an asshole, he should have put the gun to his head not the dog.
A week prior to the macabre discovery, Lukyanchikov had stolen a 9mm Beretta handgun with an extended magazine from a friend’s widow that he used to kill Preacher, Deputy District Attorney Robert James told Judge Raymond McHugh Wednesday.
Lukyanchikov, who had tried to buy a gun for himself but was denied due to a prior involuntary commitment in 2011, told McHugh Wednesday he was “very sorry” for his actions, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“It scares me because you know you’re not supposed to have a gun, and you kept pursuing one,” McHugh told Lukyanchikov. “You should not have a gun, period.”
Lede status: buried.
“Denied” the purchase of a gun does carry a criminal penalty as I recall. You would think a fucking judge might know that.
Stealing one from a friend’s widow does, though.
A little odd that the dog had been shot, but the gun was loaded with blanks. Maybe a timing issue. But yeah, did they charge him for the gun theft at the same time – I would expect a sentence like that if they combined charges, etc. (either it’s stolen valor or he was a boomer nuke via the pics at the link….)
two guns one outside with blanks one inside with hollow points, not a well written article but seem he shot the dog inside.
We’re all going to be eating our pets in the near future.
SSBN Alaska hat.
Are submariners weirder than surface navy, in general? Boomer crews weirder yet? I could see that being the case but have limited first hand knowledge (the over submariner I knew was indeed a troubled soul)
Strong hands help you fight recoil and hold on the target.
An “incredibly intoxicated” Pennsylvania man who shot and grilled his dog in a fire pit will serve up to four years in prison, prosecutors said.
Nikolay Lukyanchikov, 50, was sentenced Wednesday to two to four years in state prison
Now they are committing war crimes on American soil? This means war!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Wh66FXZJQ
“higher grip strength was correlated to lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar and higher good cholesterol levels.”
Yes, because people in better physical shape tend to have stronger grip strength. At least they mentioned it’s only a correlation but still.
Yeah what is saying is, strength train.
“When the scaley coils closest to the snake’s head are super busy squeezing its dinner to death, the reptile can simply change how it breathes so that it uses ribs and muscles farther down the length of its body…
“I just found it remarkable that they had such fine control,” says the study’s author John Capano, who studies biomechanics at Brown University. “We see just particular regions of ribs get activated and other regions are completely quiet and don’t move.”
I don’t find it remarkable at all. It’s exactly what I would have expected.
That grant money isn’t going to justify itself.
Well shit.
I keep hearing the court has SIX conservatives and is going to destroy all that progressives hold dear. I think you could put a couple of more conservatives on there and not a damn thing is going to change.
“temporarily freezing”
Don’t despair yet, wait until the unfavorable permanent ruling comes down.
I think that not deploying them is stupid, but isn’t the military a hierarchy where they can, and often do, hand down stupid orders?
Meaningless statistics are meaningless.
Except when what they’re really measuring is “ability to take orders”.
It is kinda nuts that we have xxx dozen lawsuits all pending/addressing the same or variations of the same orders. It’d be nice – esp for federal to lump some of these together rather than doing them piecemeal like this – would make discussing/publicizing/etc a lot more clear too.
“Harvard cancels a black academic who debunked woke orthodoxy”
https://nypost.com/2022/03/25/harvard-cancels-a-black-academic-who-debunked-woke-orthodoxy/
The whole thing is worth reading.
Wow, not surprising but terrible. Never debunk the elite’s “facts”.
The truth must not out.
Read that and a substack account – he’s not the right kind of black man. Love how they used the super sexual predator black male stereotype against him. Nothing racially wrong about that apparently.
Always on message
A major deal that will see the US ramp up its supply of gas to Europe in an attempt to shift away from Russian fossil fuel imports risks “disaster” for the climate crisis, environmental groups have warned.
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But environmental groups have reacted to the agreement with alarm, arguing that it will help embed years of future gas use at a time when scientists say the world must rapidly phase out the use of fossil fuels to avoid catastrophic climate change.
“We should be rapidly transitioning to affordable clean energy, not doubling down on fossil fuels,” said Kelly Sheehan, senior director of energy campaigns at the Sierra Club. “Reducing reliance on fossil fuels is the only way to stop being vulnerable to the whims of greedy industries and geopolitics.”
They want you to freeze in the dark, for the greater good.
I’d be fine with them forgoing gas usage if they’d just keep their noses out of my own damn business. If they want to live in the Dark Ages that’s their business but I’m certainly not interested.
The Supreme Court granted an emergency request from the Defense Department on Friday, temporarily freezing a lower-court ruling that required the Navy to deploy unvaccinated Navy SEALs.
WTFSRSLY?
I am not lobster girl in the preferred Glibertarian sense.
However, I look like a pudgy crustacean (Tres? Can I get a ruling?) who’s been tossed in a pot of boiling water. Hubby is calling me a Neapolitan because I’m white, pink, and have brown(ish) hair.
I really need to get an appreciation for sun intensity at > 3000 ft vs 800 ft. Atmosphere is our friend.
Start wearing some big hats and sunscreen.
My pale Eastern Europe and Irish skin has never gotten more than a slight darkening. I usually just burn over and over again.
Lost some of my nose last year to skin cancer. Wear that spsf100.
“Lost some of my nose last year to skin cancer. ”
Sorry, hope you are OK.
Thanks,
Just the tip. Not a bad outcome considering.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6J7-OSYGyCA
Oh, honey- for my tastes you’re petite despite being very cute and remarkably top-heavy.
Oddly, I favor chubby women with small t0ts. Try finding THAT unicorn. Its like ya’all come from the factory with D-cups installed standard.
Lena Dunham?
I think you could put a couple of more
conservativesHarvard legal scholars on there and not a damn thing is going to change.hth
All the “wordle” and “quordle” fad has made me nostalgic for a good old fashioned game of Mastermind.
I’m sure I could download the digital version, but I prefer the touching of the pieces, the bluffing and out-bluffing. The fact that the puzzle creator has to participate actively in the game. Yet the players still get to banter and match wits.
Do any of “you people” know where a girl can get a good quality MasterMind game set?
I assume you don’t want to use Amazon?
I’m afraid to use Amazon any more. One for four lately, as in arrived at their destination. The other three were lost by the post office.
Might be your local post office or amazon delivery person. I would try submitting some detailed documentation directly to amazon – bet they have the stats to validate for your neighborhood.
I tried to refund them last week and got the expected runaround which eventually led me to USPS where I carefully submitted all the details and was greeted with “cannot process your shit now, please try later”.
Can you get a direct communication to Amazon with all the tracking number/order data in one message? I’ve heard that working with them directly is a lot more responsive than their “sellers” – and may be better for helping them address issues.
My older brother and I used to play that all the time.
Etsy? I saw a few, kinda crude looking but their might be some nicer ones if you search more.
Have you ever played Cards against Humanity?
The most brutal game i ever played, you would love it.
Uffda. Last weekend the Altar Boys were home with their girlfriends and we all played worldle (and some math version of it) as a family.
Then we found some online game where you had to guess words to build lyrics to Disney songs. That one reduced me to a puddle of rage.
Why?
Because at the beginning of the game, you can get. a lot of words filled in if you hit short and common words. So I would start nagging whoever was typing to enter: ‘to’, ‘the’, ‘for’, ‘of’ etc. The typist (and other kids) would roll their eyes and insist that they had done all that and would I shut up?
Then after the timer ran out and we lost, the words would fill in and…. you guessed it, there would be missing words like ‘to’, ‘the’, ‘for’, etc. FUCK!
It was fun though. Kids may have been purposely yanking my chain. I was several beers into a good time, so I wasn’t the most reliable observer in the room.
p.s. I got to tease the kids who all grew up on Disney on VHS because they would know the first verse of a song, but not know any others.
p.p.s. I always insisted we try “zipadeedooda” but strangely not one song from Song of the South showed up.
Lots of vintage ones on ebay. https://www.ebay.com/b/Mastermind-1972-Vintage-Manufacture-Board-Traditional-Games/19100/bn_112992000
Generally when I’m looking for a nostalgia fix, I’ll go find the vintage of whatever. I have a vintage Spirograph, for example.
“It looks the Squad has a Putin problem — as in a reluctance to stand up to the Russian autocrat.
Two of the group’s core members, Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) were the only two House Democrats to vote against sanctioning Russia’s oil industry, while Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) in the runup to the invasion argued against providing Ukraine with aid…
Her excuse for her pro-Putin votes? “I don’t support broad-based sanctions on any country. They are economic warfare, and we should all oppose them like we oppose military actions. Also, as humans who are interconnected to other humans globally, we will directly or indirectly be impacted by it,” Omar tweeted.
Funny: Omar loves to sanction Israel. She, Tlaib and the rest champion the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement that targets the Jewish state — never worrying about the impact of sanctions on Palestinians as well as innocent Israelis…”
https://nypost.com/2022/03/25/inside-the-squads-putin-problem/
How on earth did NYC manage to elect a guy that makes DeBlasio look good?
https://youtu.be/HOa9hhmbLFM
The guy’s a real piece of work.
Because the people of NYC are by and large shit?
(With apologies to Rhywun and l0b0t.)
Well, most them don’t vote at all.
“Allowing for the expansion of new and expanded gas export facilities would lock in decades of reliance on risky, volatile fossil fuels and spell disaster for our climate and already overburdened Gulf coast communities,” said Sheehan.
Overburdened? Like, by high employment?
A down year for the ACC? Three teams in the elite 8 and none from the Pac-12 or the Big-whatever?
I knew Purdue was going to blow it. The most favorable bracket in decades and they fil to put away a 15 seed. They Purdue’d it.
Hey all, I’m collecting can lids for SP.
1) Take a lid, rusty or not (preferably a canning lid, but whatever you can get), write your glibs handle on it along with a message of appreciation for her immense contributions to this site. NOTE: you may get better results using a fineliner permanent marker.
2) email me at trashy-glibs [at] disengage [dot] co (and let me know what your glibs handle is) to get the destination address for the lid.
3) shove the lid in an envelope and get it in the mail by April 1st.
Once I get all the lids, I’ll assemble them in a way that only a trash monster can, and I’ll send it up to SP to replenish her stock and keep OMWC in check.
I’ll continue posting this in the links threads this week.
NOTE: Athena has graciously offered to put messages on lids for those who, for whatever reason, can’t. (athenaofprogtown at the gmail)
NOTE2: If you don’t hear from me within 24 hours, let me know on here.
“…found that higher grip strength was correlated to lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar and higher good cholesterol levels.”
Know the difference between pink & purple? Your grip.
Since I haven’t seen it mentioned by anybody else, Taylor Hawkins, drummer for the Foo Fighters, has passed away.
A damn fine drummer and from what people have said, a good person.
And Grohl’s new metal band/album, Dream Widow, just released yesterday.
I was shocked.50 years old! Even stranger, last night I was watching The Foo Fighters in ‘Studio 666’ and this morning, he’s dead.
Yeah, this is really tripping me out.
Tragedy, but I bet it was the vax and this guy was part of the maniacs pushing people to take that garbage. Im sure the media will get to the bottom of it for us.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/25/entertainment/taylor-hawkins-foo-fighters-obit/index.html
Not a heroin overdose?
Im pretty sure he had been sober for a bunch of years. Could be a relapse. He’s in a band that refused to play if anyone in the crowd was unvaxxed but hes doing heroin?
From what I understand, if someone continually uses heroin or other similar drugs, they develop a tolerance for it, requiring more of it to get the feeling they were looking for. If they don’t take the drug for a while, the tolerance goes away. If they start up again, they take the amount of the drug they last used, which their body cannot handle.
And if someone abused drugs, they may not have taken care of themselves while using and the with damage the drug they used did and the lack of care they took of their body before, shortened their lifespan.
My Ted S. moment for the day.
Who knows what it was really. Given his line of work don’t you think Occam’s points to an OD? Regardless, RIP to the guy.
Because people desperately want it to be the vaccine that did it.
C’mon TedS, people wouldn’t use a celebrities death to bolster their political agenda.
Well the guy has OD from heroin before, so drugs are a definite possibility.
Didn’t realize he was a heroin guy. That or similar is almost certainly it then.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10653531/Demi-Rose-flaunts-peachy-posterior-thong-swimsuit-sips-drink-St-Lucia.html
Looks like her ass ate her swimsuit.
Nope. Eye popping assets.
Dereliction of duty
More importantly the Defense Department argued that under both the Constitution and federal statutes it has the authority to determine what it means to be physically and medically fit to be deployed in “the military’s most sensitive and dangerous missions.”
The administration argued that Judge O’Connor’s order imperiled military readiness, requiring the Navy, for instance, to deploy one unvaccinated SEAL for duty on a close-quartered submarine.
In a related case in Florida, the Navy has refused to deploy a warship after a federal judge blocked the Navy from reassigning the ship’s unvaccinated commanding officer.
It would be “a dereliction of duty” to allow unvaccinated servicemembers to endanger the lives of their peers, said Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William K. Lescher in a sworn affidavit cited in the government’s appeal. A mission could be compromised if even one member of a small SEAL team is ill with COVID-19, he continued.
Being a “special ops warrior” does not imply risk. Nothing bad ever happens to those guys. But the WuPlague? 100% contagious. 100% lethal.
Unacceptable risk is unacceptable.
This has got to be the most blatant example of the “vaccines don’t protect me from you” – worse than the schools in this case.
Would it count as biological warfare if you only sent unvaccinated soldiers?
You’d think they’d let in the Putin supporter or whatever they’re calling wrongthinkers these days, so they can blame him for anyone who inevitably gets the plague anyway.
The entire point is to sow discord. If the SEALs shot their commanders in response, I’d approve.
“President Joe Biden is abandoning a campaign vow to alter longstanding US nuclear doctrine, and will instead embrace existing policy that reserves America’s right to use nukes in a first-strike scenario, according to multiple reports.
As Russian forces continue their bloody assault on Ukraine, Biden is under pressure from NATO allies not to abandon the right to use nuclear weapons to deter conventional attacks.
Since the Cold War, American policy has allowed for first-strike use of nuclear weapons under ‘extreme circumstances,’ such as responding to an invasion by conventional forces, or chemical or biological attacks.
But on the campaign trail, Biden had vowed to switch to a ‘sole purpose’ doctrine, which maintains that the US would only use nuclear weapons to respond to another nation’s nuclear attack.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10654341/Biden-refuses-rule-strike-use-nuclear-weapons-extreme-circumstances.html
I don’t even like “Biden” and “nuclear attack” in the same sentence.
Biden isn’t picking anything.
His nose? His ass?
“Trump and his children agree to sit for depositions in May for class action fraud lawsuit which claims they made millions from promoting ‘shady’ business opportunities – but there’s still no date for Ivanka”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10654253/Trump-children-agree-sit-depositions-civil-fraud-suit.html
I’ll be her date.
Apparently Vlad the Berserker thinks Russia is being subjected to cancel culture.
How on Earth could he have gotten that idea?
An interesting account of an Icelander captured by Turkish slavers in the 1600s:
https://youtu.be/M2EJChRdxL0
Doesn’t sound like fun at all.
Y’all breeders spending time with your kids and pregnant wives and such! Shoeshine! ?
Shoeshine? WTF, phone.
The word is sheesh!
Don’t knock it til you tried it, Kids are fun and a lot of work,
And totally worth it.
I was being facetious ?
50 year old women that no longer menstruate also generally can’t and don’t have children.
I’m carrying The First That Will Change Everything. I am also my own husband. I still find the time to BRING IT on the daily. There are no excuses.
If you train then right, the kids will shine the shoes for you. Or orphans if they’re housebroken.
Go get your shine box
You muhthuhfuh–!
Assume responsibility for your own child’s wellbeing? That’s crazy!
A new Virginia state law prohibiting mask mandates in public schools does not apply to 12 students with disabilities whose parents challenged the law, a federal judge has ruled.
Last month, the parents of 12 students across Virginia asked the court to halt enforcement of the law, saying it violated their rights under the federal American with Disabilities Act. The law, signed by newly elected Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, went into effect March 1; it gives parents a say over whether their children should wear masks in school.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon issued a preliminary injunction, saying the new law cannot prevent the 12 students from seeking “reasonable modification” to their classroom setting, which could include requiring the rest of the class to wear masks.
Will parents be prosecuted for demanding their children not be assigned to any classes with the “immunocompromised” mask Nazis?
Can parents demand any “special needs” student with a record of behavioral problems be placed in restraints for as long as he or she is on school grounds?
Tailor the world to the most delicate among us whether it be physically, mentally, or emotionally. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s going to end with the most delicate getting their assess kicked. And I don’t think I’m going to be bothered that much by it.
The Lesser Good
Diana Moon Glampers just got a chubby.
Ewww
The least-bad part of this is that the ruling was very narrow, and only applies to the twelve students, so worst-case scenario is twelve schools or maybe just twelve classrooms.
Moon said that federal law requires that schools be able to afford “reasonable modifications” from general policies and said that the children involved in the case would suffer “irreparable harm” should modifications not be made.
As for potential harm to the other students, no mention was made. Fuck ’em. Let ’em get lawyers of their own.
So I suppose there’s no reason why somebody in a wheelchair can’t demand that all employees be in a wheelchair at work, as a reasonable modification so they don’t suffer irreparable harm from being stigmatized.
Shoeshine? WTF, phone.
That phone don’t know shit from Shinola.
You’re a shoe-in for top reply!
P Brooks has humor in his sole
Heel not participate in a pun thread though.
Because he doesn’t want to be part of a lace to the bottom?
Is that tongue in cheek?
The American Civil Liberties Union, which was one of several legal organizations that filed on behalf of the plaintiffs, said the injunction served as a “blueprint.”
“While the injunction is limited to these 12 students, it is clearly a blueprint for any parent of a student with disabilities to assure their school district can make accommodations when the safety of their children is at stake and that state law cannot stand in the way,” the ACLU said.
Remind me to slap the shit out of anybody who says xhey works for the ACLU.
Silicone Saturday disapproves.
https://archive.ph/ehOOd
Since everyone is too scared to ask, no The Bro will not take up the Saturday morning links slot.
I have too much shit to First, you fucks.
What about Sunday mornings? You’ll be the First links of the week
Good logistical discussion thread – interesting points and visuals. https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1507056013245128716
I’ll admit to falling for this vid yesterday too – https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1507391954723741752?cxt=HHwW8IC56eG_quspAAAA – former member of artillery unit – never seen rounds handled that casually.
https://youtu.be/gsxaeIPOJIs
My old ride the M1075 PLS made a showing! Some of ours had cranes, but we never, ever used them.
My favorites from powerline this week.
https://ibb.co/tY6KdpM
https://ibb.co/r2HRrCV
Both excellent!
Big Apple looks a bit wormy, these days
New Yorkers working in Manhattan are so fed up with rampant crime that 40 percent said they want to leave the Empire State – with eight out of 10 people saying the Big Apple has gone to hell, according to a recent poll.
The Morning Consult poll, conducted for Partnership for New York, surveyed 9,386 adults working in New York City from February 17 to March 11, with many voicing their frustration over the soaring crime and homelessness that has gripped the streets and subways.
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‘Safety, homelessness, and mental illness rank as top issues for New York City’s private sector employees,’ Morning Consult wrote in its findings to Partnership, whose more than 300 members employ more than 1 million people in the city. ‘They are resisting return to the office until something is done to address them, particularly on public transit.’
In all, 40 percent of those who live in Manhattan want to move away while 48 percent who live in the other four boroughs are also looking for an exit plan.
The poll results come as New York City is experiencing a major crime surge, with the New York Police Department’s February crime statistics showing an almost 60 percent increase in felonies compared to the same time last year.
When will deBlasio
be perpwalked into a courtroomannounce his Presidential candidacy?Don’t worry, Andrew Cuomo’s staging a comeback…
What are those people whining about? Every day dozens of people ride the subway without being punched, or raped, or robbed, or pushed into the path of an oncoming train.
What a bunch of scaredy cats.
Will Kim’s next video will be of him playing sand volleyball?
Didn’t he used to have a sister?
So I suppose there’s no reason why somebody in a wheelchair can’t demand that all employees be in a wheelchair at work, as a reasonable modification so they don’t suffer irreparable harm from being stigmatized.
You could injure your neck looking up at people all day.
Here is your white pill for the day.
That battle for a new consensus is considerably different than breaking into a shooting war.
The central bank digital currency is the lynchpin of the upcoming dystopia. For me, everything else is a secondary issue. If they manage to get that, they’ll have near absolute control and the small differences between the parties now will become of no matter at all.
Malone republished an interesting op-ed yesterday that crystallized a number of thoughts in my head. I’ve never been satisfied with the Schwab evil mastermind pulling all the strings theory. Klaus appears to be providing a moral framework that appeals to the powerful because it justifies what they already want to do, but it was always lacking a centralizing impetus that overwhelms all other considerations.
The major private equity firms (and quasi-governmental entities) like Blackrock and State Street have grown absolutely enormous over the past three decades. The top four have a combined worth of over $200T. They dwarf governments in terms of total capitalization and they own significant stakes across multiple industries, including tech, pharma, and media. The central banks have been underwriting their incredible expansion with loose monetary policy and in doing so, have created leviathans that are wholly dependent on currency policy. These firms are staring down the barrel at a collapse of the current financial system and stand to lose tens of trillions of dollars. The motivation that provides is difficult to describe. They see it coming, they’re not stupid, and they’re looking for a way to save themselves and the system that created them. The CBDCs are that way, along with a UBI to accommodate the constant inflation. You’ll own nothing and you’ll like it.
The problem is that a CBDC is truly a totalitarian coup and resistance will be severe. How do you overcome it? You put society into turmoil. These entities have the power, the money, the connections required to do it.
It’s the only explanation I’ve encountered that provides a rationale and motivation sufficient enough to drive what we’re seeing across multiple levels of society. The absolute resistance to truth in the media, the politicians who actively ignore overwhelming problems, the constant stoking of social divisions, the pursuance of policies that are antithetical to national security, etc…
Money talks.
*tinfoil hat off*
Agreed. In the past, the frontier and relatively low tech mechanisms of enforcement of century’s past made it easier for people to ignore whatever the uniparty of the day was. Now, it seems like we’re being constricted on all sides, centralized digital currency would be the nail in the coffin. Not sure how we get out of that if it’s ever enacted.
Not sure how we get out of that if it’s ever enacted.
A sufficient level of violence can collapse any system.
Good morning, peeps!
All good?
Yusef is creeping on me again.
Well, you are rather striking.
I’m fucking fabulous in a completely not gay way. But I am not some pretty object. I’m not here to be objectified. I am here for my Firsting.
You axed for it.
Unanticipated
Normally, the Fed raises rates gradually, moving in quarter-point increments. But with consumer prices surging at the fastest pace in 40 years, these are not normal times.
Keep in mind that just a year ago, Fed officials indicated they saw no interest rate increases until at least 2024. Now, investors are bracing for six more rate hikes just this year.
The last time the Fed raised interest rates by half a percentage point or more in four straight meetings was late 1994-early 1995. That series of aggressive rate hikes helped set off chaos in financial markets, with bond markets melting down and hedge funds collapsing. Months later, the Fed was forced to reverse course and cut interest rates.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell signaled this week that officials are prepared to step up their belated fight against inflation.
“There is an obvious need to move expeditiously to return the stance of monetary policy to a more neutral level,” Powell said at an event hosted by the National Association for Business Economics.
“Asleep at the switch? Us?
They’re not doing jack shit.
The proposed Fed funds rate is still below inflation even with the adjustments they’re making. They’re pretending to address it, but they’re really not.
Dave Smith mentioned on his podcast a couple weeks back that, to combat the inflation of the 70s (which was not as bad as today’s inflation if you use the same metric) the fed raised rates to like 19%. The fed is talking about raising rates a quarter of a point. I could be wrong because this is not something I pay a lot of attention to, but isn’t the rate .25% currently after being 0 for a long time?
It’s currently at 0.33% with a target range of 0.25 to 0.50%
They’re doing absolutely nothing to combat inflation because if they do, they’ll bring the financial system down and they’re not ready for that (yet).
the inflation of the 70s (which was not as bad as today’s inflation if you use the same metric
Shadowstats, using the 1980 method of calculating inflation, says we are over 15%.
The ’70s averaged inflation of just over 7%, and the peak was just over 13%.
This is pretty much what you would expect, given the relative expansion of the money supply in the ’70s and today.
Over 15% feels more correct when doing shopping these days.
But the harder the Fed hits the brakes, the greater the risk of causing an accident that could potentially wreck the financial markets, the real economy, or both.
Don’t worry. We still have checks left. And helicopters.
It’s already wrecked. We’ve gone off the overpass, we just haven’t hit the ground yet.
Heh, an unintentional admission that financial markets aren’t part of the real economy?
Otters!
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! ????!!!
Cute critters. Thanks for the ray of sunshine!
Great. Now I need a pet otter.
Otters, cats, and owls. Assholes got the air, land, and sea covered.
Happy birthday to KK!!!!
So, I took the last test in the first part of my course. It is supposed to take 3-5 months to complete. Right now I have to wait for answers to questions before I can do my final, and I won’t get those until probably Tuesday. Once I get that and turn in my final, I will have completed it in 1 month with a 96%.
You could say I’m motivated. Or you could say I have nothing better to do at the moment than study and read loads of stuff I don’t understand yet.
Seriously. It’s his dog. If it had been his neighbors it would have been different but it’s his property.