Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful day it always is!
I don’t understand the point of the convoys, polling already forced the left to drop COVID protocols.
U.S. Crude Oil Imports up 40.6% Under Biden Compared to Trump
Putin threatens to turn off gas pipeline to Europe
House To Include $ 10 billion in Ukraine Aid In Government Funding Bill
US and Five Eyes partners want Russia suspended from Interpol
Poll: Republicans And Independents Would Defend America If Invaded — Dems Say They Would Flee
Florida Democrats Panic Over New Conservative Network Targeting Hispanics
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal For Overturned Conviction In Bill Cosby Case
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I don’t understand the point of the convoys, polling already forced the left to drop COVID protocols.
Honk.
U.S. Crude Oil Imports up 40.6% Under Biden Compared to Trump
America is back, baby.
A am assuming that the ‘.6%’ number will be used by fact checkers to label any story that says “40%” as False.
what exactly do they mean by America?
Dems say they would flee… it’s easy to say that when responding to a poll. It’s harder to actually do so. Remember all those progs who said they’d relocate to Canada if Trump won? Did anyone hear of people actually doing that?
I used to relocate to Canada one week every year. Was the best week of the year, sometimes warm, sometimes cold, sometimes mosquitos, you get the picture. Didn’t matter, the fish were always biting.
America isn’t being invaded now?
Wrong movie, more like “the call is coming from inside the house”.
“I’ll have what she’s having”?
I assumed part of it was three categories:
– The CEO class. They already think of themselves as “global citizens” and multinational — so why not relocate? No loyalty there anyway.
– The illegal immigrants and green card class. They have another country to return to anyway, and likely don’t care.
– The BS in basket weaving class. These are the morons who think they’d be able to flee but would find out the hard way they can’t. But they know they hate America and capitalism and all.
I don’t know why the BS in basket weaving class would flee.
I’m assuming we’d be invaded by commies or at least some flavor of socialists. That would be good because the new regime would surely distribute jobs and wealth evenly. Instead of being stuck serving up coffee, our conquerors would surely put them in charge of important things and then they could sit around drinking coffee instead.
The CEO class are also likely to have vacation homes elsewhere.
US citizens who are immigrants, or first generation Americans, are also likely to have an escape hatch, but willingness to take that would vary by where that hatch leads to, ie Greeks more likely than Somalians.
Who is going to invade us?
Our problems are completely self-inflicted. This sort of discussion ignores the greater issues in favor of an external enemy.
Shut up Scruffy!
I’m sure a lot of us are drooling over a 40 mile long convoy of trucks filled with free ammo driving into our neighborhoods. Don’t scare them off.
An invasion need not be an organized peer-level state military action. It could be an influx of people detrimental to the ongoing health of the country.
Those appear to be the people that say they would flee.
You may be on to something.
Like Scruffy points out, there’s no one to invade us.
However, in an actual invasion scenario, probably 20%-40% of armed individuals (all armed individuals including criminals or little old ladies or hunters armed with little more than a cheap handgun or Uncle Emmett’s old deer rifle) would try to stand and fight. Without organization, many of them would be ineffective and/or dead.
Unarmed individuals would likely become internal refugees (in a country as big as the US, it’s not easy to flee to an adjoining country, especially if internal transportation is disrupted, as would almost certainly be the case) and useless in resistance.
Wolverines!
Class of ’84 right? Not those jerks in the Class of ’12
Them bastards got invaded by North Korea.
Fuckin’ weak.
Likewise, it’s easy to say you’ll stand and fight if invaded when it’s just a poll asking a theoretical question.
Me? I’m not so sure. I’ve thankfully never been in a violent confrontation and I have no idea what my response to violence would be. All I know is that fear and emotion are powerful impulses and it’s impossible for me to say for certain what I would do.
I’m getting old. I have a disabled wife to care for. I honestly can’t say what I’d do.
Hide and resist as able.
I’m too old to go to combat effectively.
Static defense only here. I think I’ve aged out of mobile ops.
Maybe. Who really knows until its staring you in the face?
Good morning Banjos,
Russia believes they are in control with their energy capture. Little do they know, that in spite of Greta and the progressives, global warming takes a back seat when people are hungry and cold.
Unfortunately the people in charge don’t care, and the hungry and cold idiots will keep voting “D” because YAY TEAM!
The option is voting for a fascist, and no goodthinker wants fascists in charge. But it’s fine if you confiscate the bank accounts of nonviolent protestors, and use the government to intimidate private companies into punishing the correct political enemies.
Right. Anti-fascist behavior. If they don’t do those things and out fascist the fascists, then we’ll have fascism.
The Amercian convoy was too late. Even the more moderate conservative outlets mention it in passing and you damn well know the MSM isn’t going to touch it unless it’s negative light.
Bested again by our friends to the North. Always a bridesmaid…
The treatment of the Jan6 folks has had it’s desired impact.
The convoy organizers explicitly say so in the article.
At this point, it has become a glowie convention.
Among the other findings in the poll were that a majority of Americans, 60%, now believe Russian President Vladimir Putin to be mentally unstable, and 78% support accepting Ukrainian refugees into the U.S.
People believe what they read in the papers. I think we already knew that.
Why would we need to accept refugees?
Plenty of space in Europe for them.
What sort of globalist is going to be satisfied with letting white refugees into their country?
It would be like having a straight guy for an interior decorator. It just isn’t done.
Helping white people = wearing pants after labor day.
*white pants after labor day.
No no, that works too
If you haven’t had much sun, it gets hard to tell the difference.
My mind automatically filled in the “white” when presented with “pants after Labor Day”.
Same. We’re just a couple of fashionistas, I guess.
Boho!!!
Imma guess this lady could wear pretty much anything and look good:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/511158626455806748/
My mind automatically filled in the “white”
Institutional Racism ftw?
In 1956 the US got a bunch of Hungarian refugees. My mother was appalled, “They’re taking our boys’ jobs”. Today she’d probably want a non-citizen doing her yard work.
Also, Australia and Canada.
“And that’s… the way it is.”
I was sad when Cronkite died. What a doof I used to be. His name means illness in German! I would have changed it.
I was always certain that really meant something about the universe.
60%, now believe Russian President Vladimir Putin to be mentally unstable
Good thing our president is mentally stable.
Violent megalomania vs senility
(Hey, Festus: that was meant as a compliment.
I don’t suppose you get MeTV up there. Reviving the Saturday morning cartoon tradition daily: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13777138 )
Fun Fact: If you cut the cord on cable and just go with regular channels plus the extras like MeTV, Cozi, Comet, ect you don’t need those store bought digital antennas to watch them. Just straighten out a paper clip, plug into antenna jack, scan channels, done and done.
The more you know! ?
Depends on where you live.
I’m on the edge of the broadcast are for the Albany channels, and can’t pick up the NYC channels at all.
Ah, okay. Guess I take my fancy city living for granted.
OK, Eva.
Of course. Heh.
What if the nearest stations are 40 miles away?
No idea, sir.
Putin threatens to turn OFF gas pipeline to Europe as punishment for sanctions and warns oil will DOUBLE in price to $300 a barrel – as pressure grows on UK to reinvest in North Sea to shore up domestic supplies
Domestic production is overrated.
We need price controls and rationing, that’ll really put the damper on Putin.
/sarc
Peppermint Psaki says they haven’t done anything to limit domestic oil production and the Keystone Pipeline is irrelevant.
She wouldn’t lie, would she?
Well, she did say there were 1000s of drilling permits unused but she didn’t say why.
Hmm, must be those evil oil companies refusing to drill so they can drive up the price of oil!
Domestic Production Is Domestic Violence
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At least they won’t go Hungary.
Hungary stops all grain exports and stocks up food as of today. A food-crisis is all but assured because both #ukraine and #russianfederation are top grain exporters. 2022 will be an extremely bad year globally, Russia actually is the most important player on the wheat market.
“Don’t complain about paying more for a loaf of bread, be thankful you aren’t sitting on the cold concrete floor of a train station in Keev wondering if your friends and family are still alive.” /Progs
America exports huge amounts of grain because we produce far more than we can use domestically. There shouldn’t be a shortage here.
I’m sure China would gleefully snap up any excess wheat/soy beans that we had.
Never put it past people that are steeped in marxists ideas to find a way to create scarcity of anything but misery and bodies.
Prices are going to go through the roof. Russia has halted fertilizer exports to the US and shortages are already occurring.
It’s not a coincidence that the government and their media lackeys suddenly turned sour on the ethanol lobby in the last couple of month. They knew this was coming and were laying the groundwork for a shift away from ethanol in light of rising food and fuel prices. The cost of servicing the ethanol lobby just got too high.
If you have any doubt that we live in a propaganda soaked state and culture, that should dispel it. They are constantly trying to manipulate public opinion and shape it to their agenda.
halted fertilizer exports to the US
Good thing I already ordered all the seasonal Scott lawn treatments for this year.
Don’t waste the opportunity to push gluten-free!
U.S. Crude Oil Imports up 40.6% Under Biden Compared to Trump
We’re saving ours for later. Strategy, baby.
They really thought sanctions would hurt the Russians and not us.
Nah, they just don’t care
Dude, just everyone buy an electric car, duh!!
Hurt Putin you mean.
It’s not as if Florida hispanics don’t already know about Cuba and Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Ten BILLION in aid to Ukraine. JHTFC. Money we don’t have.
At this point what does it matter?
You gotta look at the way they do, with the inflation their causing it’ll only cost them $5 Billion to pay it off!
There’s still checks left in the book!
WTF are you talking about? They’ll just increase taxes on those greedy oil companies that are gouging American consumers.
Ten BILLION in aid to Ukraine. JHTFC. Money we don’t have.
If we don’t buy their love and loyalty, the Russians will get them.
When do I get my hot Ukrainian refugee in hooker boots?
Bill Cosby should come out with a new act where he blames everything on him trying to fit into White Culture.
Jump into the woke shit with both feet. Say that he was duped by The Man’s tricknology and that caused him to adopt the white culture of rape. Now, thanks to the help of the Black Community he has realized the errors of his ways.
Bonus points if he also joins The Nation of Islam. Don’t half ass it by sucking up to Al Sharpton, go right to Big Daddy Farakan.
Where da white womens at?
/Runs and hides
Fourscore, um, why exactly are you hiding?
Are you trying to tell us that you are transitioning? HH is going to be so awkward this year!
Ain’t no sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CICIOJqEb5c
whaddup doh’
The polling concluded that 49% of Hispanic Americans are on board with limiting the influx of legal immigrants. Additionally, 42% support an increase in deportations, and 39% favor erecting a wall across the Mexican border.
Everybody wants to come in and lock the gate behind them.
*Disclosure: This is a completely inaccurate and unfair generalization.
I just figured they were using the kid gloves because of having limited goals.
.@KofmanMichael on @WarOnTheRocks podcast today points to “increasingly more complex [air] operations” by Russia & says that its sparing use of precision munitions might be down not to low stocks but that “Russian military is likely afraid this will escalate into a regional war”
That stuff is expensive. We used to spare the use of guided munitions too – until our military got an unlimited budget.
Yeah, let’s not forget that Russia has an economy about the size of Texas’ economy. They couldn’t have come close to affording this war if Biden hadn’t driven up the price of oil. They still might not be able to afford it.
Sounds like Putin should have thought up a sweet scheme like the petro dollar. Then he could just print all the money he needs with zero short or long term consequences. MMT is brilliant. Why didn’t someone think of it sooner?
The governess is saying it’s pointless to drop the gasoline tax in NY, because (paraphrased) “the price is going up, so people wouldn’t notice it.”
Nice of her to admit that something’s only worth doing if she gets credit for it.
Oh, the NY gas tax is apparently $0.48/gal. Also, when did the “cents” symbol get removed from keyboards?
Don’t look now, but they’ve actually added a key for the numeral one so the lowercase ell doesn’t have to do double duty.
I’m pretty sure my elementary school’s TRS-80 had both of those.
Although you had to hit shift+0 to type lowercase.
I was making a joke about older typewriters. Now get off my lawn.
/swaps Not Adahn’s keyboard layout to Azerty
I already ranted about those and how CAPS :LOCK should really be “shift lock.”
The behaviour has been fixed in more recent versions. You need to upgrade. We can sell you consulting services for $112 Billion.
when did the “cents” symbol get removed from keyboards
That’s when you knew inflation was going to be bad.
Also, when did the “cents” symbol get removed from keyboards?
I don’t recall the IBM PC keyboard ever having it. ASCII doesn’t have a code for it, though the DOS code page 437 “extended ASCII” does (at hex code 9B to be precise). Curiously, the TRS-80 character set doesn’t seem to have the cents sign.
In my defense, elementary school was a log time ago, and I’ve had a bit to drink since then.
Now what would really shake my faith in my memory is finding out that BASIC didn’t use “” to mean “not equal to.”
I take it you mean <> ?
Yup. I thought putting it inside quotes would have kept it from being eaten by the HTML fairy.
It loves to gobble up those less than signs upto and including the next greater than. So < and > is what I use to get them to display.
Yes, and it gobbles them up even when it knows they’re not valid markup. So it knows enough not to use the symbols but it isn’t kind enough to replace them with benign character entities. WP hates you (read: is written by idiots).
Good news people…lynching will be illegal!
Wait, “will be?” How long do we have?
I was wondering what was behind the the spike in lynchings around here. It was larger than the normal pre-lent spike.
Huh, I didn’t know it was previously legal!
Several missed opportunities…
It’s current year so it is about damn time.
You may think it’s a pointless gesture, but I’d bet we’ll see a prosecution under it within a couple of years.
What makes you think that a virtue signaling young prog DA up for re-election this year is going to even wait until tomorrow to prosecute under it?
1. ex post facto — which they will likely do away with eventually but not yet
2. you want to find a case that’s media-worthy, which requires some waiting (not a lot)
I ordered some computer components from Newegg last week, a motherboard, a CPU, and a CPU cooler. Newegg doesn’t sell a fair amount of their merchandise directly anymore, so they have what they call a “marketplace” where the items are presented as being sold by Newegg, but eventually during the order process, they let you know that it will be coming from a third party. Often this works out OK.
However, this time, two out of the three items have had issues. The CPU cooler was delivered last week in a timely fashion. The CPU order was delayed for several days, then cancelled by the third party vendor, who actually used their cancellation process to make it look like the order was cancelled at my request. Newegg was apologetic but ultimately unhelpful, and so far, I’m waiting on the vendor to refund my credit card.
Last night I received an e-mail saying my motherboard was delivered, but I had no evidence of a delivery here at my house. Sometimes things happen where Fedex will deliver to the local post office for terminal delivery, and Fedex washes its hands of the package at that point, claiming “delivery.” Thinking that I was dealing with a case like that, I checked in more detail this morning, only to find out that my package was supposedly delivered yesterday to an address more then 300 miles away from my home, and signed for by someone I don’t recognize.
I think the CPU problem was a case of the vendor claiming more inventory than they actually had and my order was one of the short ones. We’ll see how fast they refund me.
However, I think the motherboard may be a scam. Newegg probably has no control about where third parties ultimately ship packages. It would be easy to ship an empty box to an address and have it signed for to show actual delivery, but seems a stretch because I’m able to see that it was delivered to a particular city (not address). If they had been smart and had agents in my area, it may have been able to fool me–perhaps a porch pirate got it?–but shipping to the wrong city seems particularly stupid.
Newegg swears it is impossible for this to be a scam.
Newegg also helpfully points out that if I don’t hear from the third party vendor within 2 days, I can file a “Marketplace Guarantee” claim. Sounds useful, if ultimately unhelpful. We’ll see. At least Amazon seems to have better control over their third party sellers; we’ll see if Newegg makes it right.
I only buy from Newegg if it states the seller is Newegg. Many sites are now marketplaces that include third party sellers. I avoid third party sellers unless the price is low enough that I am willing to eat the loss.
I usually do that too but I was hopeful.
I’m relatively confident that if the seller doesn’t refund my money, my credit card company will make it good—they always have in the past.
Yeah, Newegg marketplace is more like eBay than Amazon. They don’t keep a tight rein on their sellers like Amazon does.
Thank you for sharing this. I’ll avoid them.
Let us know what vendor you end up using and what your experience is with them.
The last time I ordered something from Newegg was right before the Scamdemic. I got fucked by the third party vendor shit. Got the “it was delivered” when it was not, then got accused of trying to cheat them. In the end I proved they hosed me then got the refund way late minus some processing fee. Never again.
I ended up ordering both the mobo and CPU from Amazon–we’ll see how they do. They’re saying delivery by tomorrow and Thursday.
I had gone with Newegg out of some sort of nostalgic loyalty–I used to buy components from them all the time and had always been satisfied with them. I was hoping not to order from Amazon if possible, but Newegg dropped the ball big time on this one.
Is tiger direct still a thing?
I used to use Tiger Direct almost exclusively but they seem to have fallen off. I checked them out last week but they didn’t show the same products that Newegg and Amazon had, and their prices were considerably higher than both for the things they did list.
Could that be because they don’t do the same third party and scammy stuff as newegg? I really don’t know. I haven’t ordered anything technical from anyone for a long time. Work provides almost everything now except my porn viewing device.
I agree that they might not have the same apparent product selection because the scammy third parties aren’t faking it.
Newegg hasn’t been having a good time recently.
Newegg promises ‘no questions asked’ returns on CPUs and motherboards after YouTube scandal
Customer service flat out lied and got caught. Repeatedly. No idea if this was some mid level exec making sure to keep his job and/or get bonus, but the C-Suite either had piss poor controls or preferred not know any details.
At this point I’d reluctantly rather make Jeff Bezos richer if the same product was available on Amazon.
Wow, I hadn’t heard about that. I pay so little attention to computer stuff these days. I used to upgrade my computer hardware every year or two (multiple PCs and servers). Now I buy the best I can afford and then do nothing for 5-7 years. Then I have to play catch-up with 5-7 years of advances so I can be informed enough to even start to decide what to buy.
#metoo
My husband used to like to fiddle with hardware for his desktop, but now his “office” is in a dark, cold basement space, whereas his laptop is in his mancave. Now, he really only does computer stuff on his friends’ computers and solves their problems for them.
They did this to many more customers than Steve at Gamer’s Nexus. It’s just they didn’t have a popular YouTube channel and Twitter following.
Steve is a hardware nerd so this stuff and especially this kind of drama isn’t what he generates clicks and revenue from. However, his audience in the US probably has just about a 100% chance of shopping at Newegg.
I used to use Newegg all the time.
Once they went to the marketplace format, I started avoiding them.
Same here. I still check them out when I’m looking for something, but Amazon almost always turns out to be the better option. Especially as a Prime member.
In Ohio we had Micro Center. I really miss that.
The same scam happened to me on Amazon, but for an admittedly much less significant purchase (ramen noodles).
If you live near one, get your stuff at Micro Center. They’ll price match Newegg/Amazon as well.
Food often isn’t returnable on Amazon, so I avoid buying it there unless it’s from Amazon or a third party seller I know is trustworthy.
The only reason I went to Amazon is that I couldn’t find it at Costco and it was 3x the price at Walmart (they were selling much smaller packs).
Ultimately, it was for the best, as I was eating too much ramen anyway.
Yesterday I received a release of code from an overseas development team.
After testing it locally, I discovered that for some reason the developers had hard coded “Pune” into any form/search that was related to test site locations. Since we didn’t have any testing sites in Pune, India that code couldn’t be deployed into our regular environments.
Rather than torture myself by waiting for them to do their usual half assed job of fixing things, I spent the day sniffing out every single occurrence of the “Pune” search string.
You could say I was a …..
Pune hound.
“Sniffing out … Pune” — nice secondary joke hiding in plain sight.
My brother was a [union] machinist. At one job they were running digital-control CNCs. The work rules said programmers program and machinists run the program. So he kept his machine shut down for 3 or 4 days because the program sent to him was bad. Eventually the foreman said “you can’t write the program, but I can let you edit it”. That got his CNC up and running.
Russia should have made an offer the Ukes couldn’t refuse.
“Remembers the Alaska and Louisiana purchases”
They are making it right now.
There’s still checks left in the book!
Speaking of which: how long ’til Biden announces a Five Year Plan to bring atomic fusion on line, and start showering Boeing and GE and Lockheed and Ford with cash?
Failure is not an option!
We lost power last night and I’m ready to listen to all wisdom regarding home generators. If it takes 40 weeks it’s worth it. Especially to do it right.
First step is how much power you need and/or can afford. And what fuel you have available.
I can write an article on this one. I know the topic pretty well since I sell and repair the things.
I would be very interested in reading it. I’ve been thinking about it for years and need to just pull the trigger. As I have 500gal propane tank sitting outside my house for the furnace, I’m thinking a propane generator in the basement would be my preferred set-up.
Ventilation and heat would be my first concerns. Noise would be the second.
It’s an unfinished basement that we seldom go down to, so I’m not too worried about heat. And that heat could actually be a good thing for winter power outages. I could place it very close to the wall and plumb the exhaust outside.
Noise would be another thing. Being in the basement will obviously help some. I had considered building a small, insulated generator room for it. Of course, that may exacerbate the heat issue. I guess a small bathroom fan vented either to the outside or into the basement should take care of that?
We have a buried 1000 gal tank that feeds our water heater, furnace, stove and dryer – and the backup generator (which is outside), with the automatic cut-over when primary power goes dead.
I’m surprised you haven’t had to replace it with an above ground tank. We have enough diesel on site to fuel a Russian invasion (we use it for our back-up generators), and we finally finished replaicng the underground tanks a couple years ago.
Some day I might write up the story of my grandmother, the State, Big Convenience Store, and the mystery of the underground tanks.
I also would like this article, especially if you dumbed it down to almost Kamala explaining geo-politics levels, so I can grasp it.
I’d be very interested in that too.
Pls. write that up, Scruffy.
Our electricity is very reliable – maybe a couple hours of outage every other year, and the occasional blip. I’ve looked at natgas generators for backup, but the deadweight cost for something that would get that little use just doesn’t pencil out. We are in an ideal location for solar. My install would be spendy, because I would want ground-mounted, but the big barrier is the air conditioners. Apparently, they need a big “draw” to get started, and the batteries just don’t deliver it. There’s probably a solution, but I haven’t dug far enough. The ROI is pretty uninspiring, but I have the feeling tomorrow’s ROI is going to be better than today’s.
I rented a place off-grid down in Texas. The AC worked fine, but it was a pretty small footprint.
Cool setup, regardless.
Its difficult to retro a house to be truly off-grid, is what I gather. You pretty much have to build everything to be highly efficient. And pretty small, if you want air conditioning.
I second the idea for an article on home generators. I am building a house and looking for a propane whole house generator since I live in tornado alley and spring storms and winter storms can cause long outages. An in depth but understandable article would be quite useful.
Yes, please. We’ve been looking into a backup generator for the house here – the power is sometimes a little iffy. I’d love a more informed opinion.
https://www.briggsandstratton.com/na/en_us/support/dealer-locator/dealers.141501.html/18964/PA/SOUDERTON/GUINTHER%27S-GENERATOR-SERVICE.html
Dude’s a character, but a decent/solid guy. I’ve dealt with him for years.
Maybe try talking to him.
Thanks, I’ll give him a call when I can.
FWIW we’ve got a Kohler 14KW with an automatic transfer switch. Kawasaki engine running on propane. My F-I-L is an electrician, he steered us to the Kohler. He doesn’t like the Generac with Briggs and Scrapiron engines.
We’re happy with the Kohler. Propane means you avoid all of the issues with gasoline, but you need a propane tank.
I wish I could find a combo Diesel/natgas setup. All the “multi-fuel” units I have seen are propane/natgas.
The fuel handling and ignition is completely different between diesel and NG. It’s an entire retrofit.
Yeah, I know, but if you can run anything from palm oil to avgas in a Deuce-and-a-half, you should be able to run natgas and #2 in a home genny, IMHO.
Sorry, there’s no such thing that I’m aware of. NG, propane and gasoline require spark plug retrofits on diesel engine heads as well as a throttle body installation on the intake manifold.
Somehow, I’m going to be shooting four majors this season. I’ll olny have to pay for the one that ES will be at.
That gray jersey really opens doors.
Nice. Where?
I’m debating if this is worth the $40 to attend ($80 if my wife goes). The Barrett mile challenge looks great.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/thegathering.html
Trident Armory Standby to Fly Benefit Match and Maine State Championship in July.
New York State Championship in August
USPSA Area 7 Championship in September
USPSA 4 Division(Production, Limited, Open, and PCC) Nationals in October
Clinton House Plantation is a real nice venue. For $40, I’d jump on it.
You could say I was a …..
Pune hound.
Not a Pune slayer?
Food poisoning/stomach bugs suck.
THE REAL STATE OF THE UNION!
THE GAS IS TOO DAMN HIGH!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
A bit of a Glibs twist to this one.
Love the Verdana translation for those that don’t read italics
Joe’s got a good grip on that tar baby, and he;’s not gonna let go
President Biden’s courting of Venezuelan oil in an attempt to end reliance on Russian imports and assuage skyrocketing gas prices at home could risk whitewashing the alleged “crimes against humanity” committed by the Venezuelan government and its closeness with Russia.
Several senior Biden administration officials from the White House and State Department traveled to Venezuela on Saturday to meet with the government of Nicolás Maduro and discuss the possibility of easing sanctions on oil exports from the Latin American country as U.S. gas prices soared past levels not seen since 2008.
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The rare meetings came as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine less than two weeks ago accelerated already skyrocketing fuel prices in the U.S. Last week, Venezuela and regional Russian allies Cuba and Nicaragua abstained from a vote condemning Russia for the invasion.
The adults are at the wheel. They’ll save us.
It’s obviously better to buy from some other authoritarian that likely does not have the same environmental controls as far as oil extraction as the US does. We get to fail on 2 levels.
Pipelines bad, tankers good.
*Warren Buffet nods furiously*
It will be interesting to see if Biden’s handlers can hold out in opening U.S. energy production to more leases, pipelines, etc. I was at a township meeting last night where one of the progressive Dem Supervisors got into an argument with an “environmentally conscious” committee member over buying oil from places like Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Proggie supervisor was critical of buying oil from such places and suggested Biden admin had to open up U.S. in order to help stop Russia’s “assault on democracy.” As pressure from within the Dem party increases, can Biden hold out?
Stop with the jibber-jabber. Let’s just invade Venezuela already!
We have to do it in order to save Democracy!
No they have democracy, they elected a socialist strong-man – that is the end result all democracies should get. Once you’re there, you just validate every now and then how democratic that is.
Well I tried writing up an article about the value of animal life versus human life and it was shit. I just can’t write. Much like my Repeal the Reapportionment Act article, it will never see the light of day.
Oh well.
Don’t give up on it, yet. Put it away for a few days/weeks and revisit it later.
You need to do a piece expanding on your point about the abrupt end of glam rock to grunge.
I’ve thought about it. I’ll think about it some more.
It’s still going to suck no matter how long I put off looking at it.
Ha!
Thank you for trying. No worries, we all have different talents.
Thanks.
This is the kind of person who consumes our tax dollars.
It’s the kind of person who should be Ceausescu’d.
Aw, really, he’s just a run of the mill grifter, not someone as responsible as Ceauscecu was.
I’m all into cautionary tales for the elite.
They could hang this poster in his jail cell.
The purpose of your life …
See, I’m more bothered that this guy was ever considered elite. There is the problem right there. Just not sure what we can do about it.
They may be doing it for us, destroying the dollar.
At the risk of sounding like a Ron Paul bot, ending the Fed is the only real way out of this.
Glibs is short on submissions and we have some calendar holes to fill this week. If anyone has anything you can fix up and send in for either this week or next, please do so.
Remember to check your spam filters for emails from glibertarians dot com addresses as that’s how we communicate back with writers.
TOG presents “How to Bake a Potato”. Seriously, I wish I had some Content.
Air fryers are FANTASTIC potato bakers.
You could compare the various ‘baked’ potato perparation options. Oven, Microwave, Air Fryer, Open Flame, etc
Wrapped in foil and thrown into a pile of wood coals.
Sounds as if you all have the content. Spoiler: not microwaved.
Obligatory Mitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rvVugY-kZc
I’ll see what I’ve got.
I talk about how not to do a hobby farm, but i would get in trouble with the spouse if she found it.
But that could lead to other great articles such as: “How Having Random Internet Friends Led to My Divorce” and ” How being a Libertarian Cost Me Happiness.”
Get out of my drafts folder!
Resubmitted something,
For the nonce, I have shotteth my wad.
Thanks, folks.
I know I’ve already got something in the queue for next Monday, but over the weekend I had a flash for my next “lyrics-as-basis-for-story” bit. I’ll be submitting it probably Saturday or Sunday.
How many holes do you have to fill this week?
I will finish my Frederick Douglass piece tonight and have the stoic one done tomorrow night.
I have a couple Glibcrostics ready, they’ve being going up every other week but I can throw one up for next week if you want. I usually wait to submit it until the previous one posts so I can reference back to it in the write up if I want, but I can get them ready earlier if you want/need them sooner.
And I just noticed that you/they/someone moved the latest up to today from Thursday, I’ll have the next one submitted tonight.
EverybodySome people keep talking about how puny the Russian economy is, but I think it might be helpful to look at the composition.It seems to me there is an awful lot of low-utility bloat in our GDP. Can Twatter or facebook be productively repurposed for the war effort? Have our vast government wealth transfer programs made us stronger, or stiffened our national spine?
I think you are underestimating just how much ammunition a standard HR department can absorb. Even if you posit that each round fired hits and kills someone, the DEI industry in America could pretty much swamp the logistics of any invader.
A thread on urban armor.
it’s a well-worn canard of armchair tacticians to asset that “tanks do poorly in urban combat,” but is that necessarily true? what is really being argued? should tanks sit parked on the outskirts of an urban battle?
Well I’ve never seen a tank for sale at Urban Outfitters, so I assumed that they were not needed.
The answer is always “it depends”. I read one of Ambrose’s books about WWII. As American troops cleared cities in France, they would go in first with Infantry. As soon as they encountered significant resistance, they would bring up a tank or self-propeller howitzer and pulverize the building the Germans were shooting from. Rinse and repeat.
Good combined arms is the key to using tanks in any environment. So far, it looks like Russian combined arms suck.
I would speculate that advances in infantry anti-armor has moved the needle. Some. Its one thing to roll up a tank in an urban environment when the other side doesn’t have much that can take it out, and have the kind of tactical know-how to make it count. If they do, you can lose a lot of tanks.
In a rare stock tip, the CEO of Cheniere has announced that capacity on their new LNG trains is sold out through the 2040’s
Anybody who thinks the US can just pivot and rectify this clusterfuck in the energy markets quickly is kidding themselves.
I think you are forgetting that we have Pete Buttigeg at the helm.
So what you’re saying is those trains will be on fire by 2023?
Please. Mayor Pete isn’t competent enough to set a tanker full of kerosene of fire. At best it will be stalled on a track somewhere blocking other traffic.
He doesn’t do it himself, looters do it by accident while trying to steal fuel.
Fox Business | Stuart Varney | Douglas Macgregor | Ukraine
Ugh, should I change the channel from TCM?
The Covid “regulations/mandates” are NOT finished.
Federally owned (or regulated) workplaces still require N95 masks. Most schools require the masks. All “public” transport, including Uber/Lyft, still requires masks.
The convoy still has a point.
I don’t think the school thing still exists here, but yes.
Still, the problem with the convoy is political. Most people don’t care about the remaining requirements that much. It will be unpopular and used by the Democratic party to gain votes.
I agree with the cause. Just think it will not be that successful.
Local school districts are trying to mandate child jabs. There’s still work to be done.
That’s some horse shit yeah.
Saw that florida is recommending against child vaccines.
Reopen NH sources tell me that the bill to require COVID-19 vaccination for schools received an “Inexpediant to Legislate” recommendation from the committee the bill is in. The bill is going on the “consent calender”, which in the NH House means that no State Representative is expected to oppose the committee recommendation. The bill dies unless some State Representative decides to oppose the committee recommendation between now and then next session day.
I think there was a bill restricting the state DHHS from putting the COVID-19 vaccination on the schedule of vaccinations required for public school.
Found it. It was relative to the state DHHS’s ability to mandate any vaccine.
The CDC backtracked on masks in schools.
There might still be some school districts requiring masks, but I think the bulk now are masks optional.
So weird….our facility is mask free…for this week at least. We are on a two week rolling basis
and like 2 states, if that, have amended their emergency power laws.
Just wait until 2 days before the November elections, when Team Blue locks down polling places in red counties due to “rising case numbers”
It’s more than two states. I can think of five. There might be more.
11 passed meaningful reforms. 5 did symbolic shit with no real change. 2/3 of the country lives in the 20 where nothing got out of committee.
The stupid at work.
Really? You think you can threaten a man with nuclear weapons the same as a fucking peasant president of a Balkan shithole? What could possibly go wrong?
Everything about this clusterfuck is stupid.
If you assume we’re not intentionally goading Putin into war, then sure, it’s stupid. What if that’s really what our elite want though is war? Then they are behaving exactly how I would expect.
It’s stupid for us. Smart for the elites.
This is what happens when people who get their news from a shallow reading of Wikipedia run things.
Not only will Russia not be intimidated by this threat, they’ll likely be angered by it. They helped Serbia in the Bosnian War. Half the reason they hate NATO can be traced to that conflict.
JHTFC
Fox or CNN had Wes Clark cheerleading for US involvement in Ukraine. The same idiot who almost started WWIII twenty years ago.
That asshat is still around??
Do they EVER leave? The people that started every cluster fuck in the ME are the exact same people doing this now along with the same lying and scheming talking heads they put on corporate news to sell it.
or the lesson of Quaddafi.
Oh my.
That’s sad. They’re all gonna die.
That hair is a liability.
It’s fine, she just can’t work in the machine shop.
*shudders*
My first thought
Nobody move, or the nigger gets it
The U.S. has been considering whether to impose a ban on Russia’s oil and gas exports as a way of punishing Moscow.
Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. have appeared to back away from a coordinated Western embargo on Russian energy exports, however.
Energy analysts have warned that a ban on Russia’s oil and gas would have seismic repercussions for energy markets and the world economy.
Russia is the world’s third-largest oil producer, behind the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, and the world’s largest exporter of crude to global markets. It is also a major producer and exporter of natural gas.
The European Union receives around 40% of its gas via Russian pipelines, several of which run through Ukraine.
“Maybe we should think this through a little more carefully.”
I simultaneously believe that the sanctions are mild while believing we shouldn’t do anything.
Does that mean I hate the Ukrainians?
It means you are more or less indifferent to some suffering somewhere in the world that you can’t do anything about anyway. In short you refuse to believe in yourself (and country) as a messianic power.
The EU is self-immolating at the behest of the USA.
They had a good thing going with Russia and it was beneficial for stability. But the neocons at the US State Department and the grifters in NATO had other plans. I know there’s a lot of people who think Russia always would have invaded Ukraine, but the fact is nobody in the US and NATO ever lifted a finger to avert it. In fact, they seemed to encourage the heightening of tensions.
^THIS^
We’ve had since the Clintons to start winding down NATO.
Fucking Trump tried to build it up even more by making other members pay more. He should have just started pulling troops out of Europe.
He couldn’t even get troops out of Syria or Afghanistan. COMMANDER in chief my ass.
Wuss in Chief, he shoulda commenced firings when he found orders weren’t being carried but he let other assholes talk him out of it.
Fucking Trump tried to build it up even more by making other members pay what they agreed to when they joined.
Getting the other members to pay up (or openly refuse to pay up) is step one to getting the U.S. out.
“Either you’re in, or I am out.”
Hey, War Boners need Viagra too!
Real crimes against humanity
https://covidreason.substack.com/p/screamed-for-mom-to-make-it-stop
I know a middle-aged adult with a PEC possibly worsened by adverse reaction (post and propter hoc, yada yada). Good thing I don’t know any kids, I guess.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told NBC on Sunday that President Joe Biden’s administration was in “very active discussions” with European governments about banning imports of Russian crude and natural gas.
Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the invasion have so far been carefully constructed to avoid directly hitting the country’s energy exports, although there are already signs the measures are inadvertently prompting banks and traders to shun Russian crude.
Completely unforeseeable.
It’s like an Act of God.
Blinken: You see, you should totally and completely fuck over your people even more than you already have during COVID. It’s for the greater good.
EU: I dunno, they might start to dislike us.
I get zero sense that the people who run the EU have every given a shit about the opinions of the peons they rule.
I know there’s a lot of people who think Russia always would have invaded Ukraine, but the fact is nobody in the US and NATO ever lifted a finger to avert it. In fact, they seemed to encourage the heightening of tensions.
what? Joe Biden “double dog daring” the Russians to invade may have had an effect?
C’mon man!
Joe challenging Putin to a pushup contest at dawn in no way influenced the invasion of Ukraine.
I would like to thank all of you paying exorbitant chip prices for driving my annual bonus up to 13.46% of my salary.
*does cha-CHING! dance around the cube farm.*
*wonders how he can be so poor with such enormous numbers coming in. Remembers where he lives*
*cha-CHING dance peters out*
What’s a bonus?
Otherwise known as a “reacharound”
I am so using that when our annual bonus pays next month.
“Hey, the reacharound hit my checking account today!”
What’s a Columbus day off?
October 10th.
“ Supreme Court Rejects Appeal For Overturned Conviction In Bill Cosby Case”
This calls for a celebration…pudding pops for everyone!
Seriously though, the guy’s a sleaze but a deal’s a deal and he got screwed and if they can pull that kind of stuff with rich as hell America’s dad they can pull that kind of stuff with anyone.
I still don’t really understand the case. Were the women who went back to Cosby’s house after just meeting him intending to play Monopoly? I didn’t hear any accounts of Cosby slipping any of the women drugs without their consent, but maybe I missed that. Still sleazey but not sure if this is criminal.
Uh yeah, that’s exactly what he did – drug them. He apparently liked them un- to semi- conscious.
It was his kink apparently and I think he gave them the pills, at least sometimes, saying it was aspirin or allergy medicine. They willingly took them but they were tricked as to what they were.
saying it was aspirin or allergy medicine. They willingly took them but they were tricked as to what they were.
It seems rather odd to accept aspirin or allergy pills when going back to a celebrity’s home to bang him. If that’s true though, that’s a different story and would absolutely be criminal.
They willingly took them but they were tricked as to what they were.
That’s their story, and they are sticking with it.
There’s a world of difference between slipping pills in their drinks and offering the pills to be accepted or not. And maybe he did the former, I haven’t followed the case closely.
It reminds me of the media hyping the pedophile rapists on Epstein’s island, which to me implies little kids are being raped. Then it surfaces that these are mostly older teenage women who wanted to be there and could leave at any time. Still sleazey as hell but not at all the same as raping little kids.
I definitely believe there’s some truth to this although I personally find it unpleasant .
Then it surfaces that these are mostly older teenage women who wanted to be there and could leave at any time.
I don’t believe that for one second.
Seriously? You think there’s some magical shortage of women 15-25 years old that willingly trade sex for money, especially in a place like SE Asia? That doesn’t even facto in the clientele being some of the richest and most powerful men in the world.
I’m sure they exist. I also wouldn’t be surprised if some of Epstein’s “products” were overage in their native countries. But I would be extremely surprised if all of them were. If you want Thai women of legal age in Thailand, why not just go to Bangkok?
I thought the new sex tourism laws prohibit that even where its legal in the local countries.
This is a different point. I’m not arguing the legality based on their ages. I’m pointing out the media portrayed this as little children being raped, when it turns out that it was teenage girls who volunteered to go to the Island as a paying job. I’ve read several accounts by the prostitutes and none said they were kidnapped against their will and forced into sex acts. I’m sure Epstein’s people had their pick of volunteers. That said, it’s not morally okay and I’m certainly not defending it.
If you want Thai women of legal age in Thailand, why not just go to Bangkok?
Why do people of power and money go to the exclusive Country Club when there is a YMCA or public golf course they could use instead? And a guarantee of privacy from the media.
I thought the new sex tourism laws prohibit that even where its legal in the local countries.
Yeah, but it’s no more legal to just do it here. Maybe you’re less likely to get caught flying to the USVI than to SE Asia, but for the kind of people we’re talking about, hush money is an everyday expense.
it turns out that it was teenage girls who volunteered to go to the Island as a paying job
In most cases where things like this happen, older girls (or boys as the case may be) also double, when found “trustworthy” enough, as facilitators. Having a range of available ages allows for catering to different clients’ “tastes”.
Why do people of power and money go to the exclusive Country Club when there is a YMCA or public golf course they could use instead? And a guarantee of privacy from the media.
There are lots of exclusive places in foreign countries, and many secretive ways of getting there. The convenience Epstein offered probably does factor into the equation, but that doesn’t really say anything about the ages involved.
Funny how the only two who have charged is Epstein and Maxwell. And only a couple named like Prince Andrew.
Melinda Gates is saying friendship with Epstein led to her divorce. I guess Bill isn’t cutting enough out of the B&M Gates Foundation for her. If he doesn’t come around, next will be her dumping some stronger evidence no doubt.
House To Include $10 billion in Ukraine Aid In Government Funding Bill
What fraction of that 10B will come right back to the US as purchases from American MIC manufacturers or consultants or just plain graft to the politically connected? 50%? 75% I guess it depends on what fraction will be absorbed by corruption in Ukraine first.
Hey, Zelensky’s new mansion in California where he’ll live out his days in exile ain’t gonna pay for itself.
So does this go to the corrupt Ukrainian oligarchy and then the russians?
I hope it’s at least in the form of weapons. At least those are getting fired.
Don’t forget the 10% for you-know-who.
I learned a long time ago not to make threats I wasn’t prepared to follow through on. Part of that thought process involves finding and preparing options.
I’m not going to sugarcoat it; our genius overlords dropped that ball in a rather significant way.
The fact-checkers may be in trouble:
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1501036174860853249
Well I know Berenson sued.
*wonders how he can be so poor with such enormous numbers coming in. Remembers where he lives*
Saratoga must have changed a lot since I was in high school.
*that’s where you are, right?
I can’t afford* to live in Saratoga Springs proper, so I live in Milton. But the Ballston Spa school taxes are still six grand a year.
*not entirely true, but anything affordable is housing stock built back when doctrine was “fuck insulation, houses need to breathe.”
Well, don’t they?
+1 crackerbox palace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ac34Khe-fc
There is some fucked up leather-eating penicillium endemic to this region that I lost a trove of rengear to.
Dehumidify everything!
I’ve never had mold attack any of the leather I’ve owned. I think it’s the house you were in.
I had a coworker who is a member of the horsey set confirm it’s existence.
Foxing, grrr.
Around here it’s racing, Toxteth. Saratoga has a longstanding racetrack.
Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won
My employer has announced, earlier this week, that we will be moving to a hybrid work arrangement. Starting in mid-April, we will be in the office for one day per week. Starting in May, two days. It’s up to us managers to coordinate who and when.
Also, they say they will be “following CDC guidance” wrt masks. They point out that CDC says masks are a personal choice, regardless of vaccination status. No other mention of vaccinations was made in the annoucement.
Hey, sorry I had to duck out on last night’s thread, but it was bedtime. Thanks, everybody!
Complimented you on the end of previous thread. “Good piece, Moj!” was all, I think.
Thanks! It didn’t seem to have come across as debbie-downer as I thought it would.
It was good.
I shouldn’t be so surprised.
Delta Force shoots Limited Major
Yep. An STI in 10mm Auto is probably one of the most impressive potential combat sidearms I can think of.
I’m building one in .40 and I plan to fit a second barrel and ream the chamber out to 10mm once I get the .40 running. I have a friend who has done the same on his.
I remember when a few of them went on the open market. Neat guns.
A&E did an episode of their Playboy series on Cosby last night.
That whole scene, rape or no rape, was disgusting.
What did I miss? “Teaching comedy to Asian models”* daily afternoon breaks?
*TY, Gilbert Gottfried
At the mansion, everyone was raping everyone all the time.
(in addition to Cosby, Jim Brown liked the rape, too)
And I was incredibly shocked to find out Tony Curtis was actually heterosexual. I thought he was one of those old-timey closeted Hollyweird gays.
I should send you his memoir that I haven’t yet given to a wee free library.
After the last 3 days, I’m delighted to be able to put on long sleeves and socks again.
*shudders in cold, cold workshop office after running out of fuel oil overnight*
*shakes fist at KK*
*goes to get a cup of coffee*
Oh yeah – also hot coffee is pleasurable again!
Any Nihongo wakarimasu Glibs want to confirm that a major demon has escaped?
https://twitter.com/Lily0727K/status/1499998963193499652
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/japans-killing-stone-splits-in-two-releasing-superstitions-and-toxic-gases
“Rainwater seeping into cracks.” Sure. What, you thought “Venus, or perhaps a weather balloon” was too obvious?
Hey, a thousand year imprisonment for a demon is pretty good.
We got any demon slayers in the Japanese islands?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Slayer:_Kimetsu_no_Yaiba
Massively popular franchise right now. I’m not a big shounen manga person so I’ve not watched a single episode or read any of the manga.
Rainwater drips through a crack in the ceiling ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lX6w1iE0Ag
cracks had appeared in the rock several years ago, possibly allowing rainwater to seep inside and weaken its structure.
This just tells me it took the demon 1,000 years to weaken its prison so it could escape.
Twitter says we need more ammo. I guess that means some serious shit went down.
And- CNBC’s money shot:
Meanwhile, the world’s leading climate scientists delivered a landmark report last week that reaffirmed the urgent need to rapidly phase out fossil fuels in order for humanity to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on the real-world impacts of the climate emergency as an “atlas of human suffering.”
Guterres said the IPCC’s findings once again make it clear that “fossil fuels are choking humanity.”
I’ll tell you what you can choke on, you fucking retard.
If you think you’ve seen suffering, just get rid of fossil fuels and see what happens.
Three words:
Dung.
Cooking.
Fires.
Also, I want my Mr. Fusion!
That would also solve the generator problem we discussed above.
“Hey, ‘experts’ – we need you to crank out another alarmist report just like the last one. kthxbai.
Love,
UN”
It’s a blessing in disguise! Once we learn to live without
fossil fuelsmodern technology and agriculture, the world will be a better, happier, cleaner place!Apparently if we let the demographics run their course, we aren’t going to need as much of everything.
Ah, the memories of a wood burning cook stove, kerosene lamps and dentists were where one goes to get teeth pulled out.
Fourscore remembers.
The Good Old Days. I enjoy the nostalgia when I’m sitting around with my oldtimer friends but only because it’s history that we lived.
Off to fix the equipment that my supplier effed up and I spent five hours troubleshooting yesterday until I realized it wasn’t my design that failed, just their components.
Good morning, peeps!
Nothing cuter than a Golden Retriever puppy. Thanks for that little day brightener!
So, how’s the war going?
Cal is down by seven.
Nice…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8lDsB7HkDQ
Glorious. Shadow is so happy!
Also, I gotta get me a heeler. What cool dogs!
Thanks, KK!
Given that Sleep Joe just banned Russian Oil imports in the US I can actually buy this story.
Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says
Germany, naturally, will continue with Russian imports so with the 10% or so import in the US I doubt this will do much other than possibly subsidize European oil prices at the expense of Americans.
Is that why we have so many filthy commies?
yeah sure.
I’ve enjoyed the pivot to ev vehicles, as an aside, but shouldn’t those electricity prices be rising as well?
Hard to believe I would have been smarter than I am. I really don’t believe that study, what would be the explanation for the post ’96ers?
They’ve lived the best of everything and still can’t figure out how to pay off a student loan for a degree that doesn’t pay a living wage.
The biggest impact would have been those born in 50s 60s and into the 70s. It impacts childhood development.
Also, I’d expect it impacted those in urban areas more too
You can all be thankful of the impact growing up in SoCal in the 60s had on my IQ, otherwise you’d all be pawns in my global dominion. [/Maurice LaMarche voice]
She’s not wrong. It will be interesting to see if war or diabetes bankrupts us first.
Diabetes cases will decline when we’re starving and eating tulip-bulb bread, like Audrey Hepburn during the war.
Didn’t they reverse Trump’s attempt to lower insulin costs?
Insulin is expensive in the US because of patent protectionism. it could be easily alleviated if the government were no in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies.
Shhh! Big pharma is the friend of the masses these days.
Insulin is dirt cheap, auto-injecting pens are expensive due to IP law. So it’s not the medicine, but the delivery system, and many doctors won’t write scripts for old school injections because that would be barbaric.
Priorities.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Brown commended President Joe Biden for not raising the U.S. nuclear threat level after Russian President Vladimir Putin made veiled threats to use his country’s nuclear arsenal amid its war in Ukraine. Brown also urged Biden to resist Republican calls to increase oil production as gasoline prices soar.
“It’s true that the Russians are earning money from oil and gas, but to compound that problem by accelerating oil and gas in America would go against the climate goals, and climate is like war: If we don’t handle it, people are going to die and they’re going to be suffering. Not immediately, but over time,” said Brown, a Democrat.
This could well be the hill the greenies die on. This isn’t the slow-boiling that has been working for them so far. This is a blowtorch. It makes apparent that they place their green agenda above the wellbeing of Americans.
High school in the ’80s.
Good times. Lots of freedom I took for granted, I think.
In high school, I didn’t have a curfew. I just had to call home no later than 11pm and let the ‘rentals know where I was and when I would be home.
Of course, most of the time I was playing bridge with friends.
My parents were very lucky to have me as a child.
I didn’t know my city had a curfew until I was 17. Hail, fellow former L7!
These days it’s really coming home to me how lucky I was to grow up when and where I did, with the parents I had. In the summer, my “where I’ll be” message was often something like “I’ll be back in three or four days,” Off I’d go with a few sandwiches and a .22 rifle or a fishing pole.
When my Mom ever expressed a little worry, like when I took my canoe and went up into the Boundary Waters and was gone three weeks, Dad just said “he’ll come back when he gets hungry.” I always did.
Wonder how many kids live like that now.
We tried our best to raise free-range kids in a control0freak world. It appears to have worked pretty well.
After testing positive for the ‘vid, my son and his roommate did their quarantine on the ice catching salmon, cutbows and lakers. A couple weeks ago my daughter gathered up a bunch of friends and went off to Utah for climbing and hiking. They understand what is good in life.
Davy Crockett! ?
“Mom, I’m gonna need a few hundred bucks for Spring Break in Florida. All the kids are going”
“Well, your uncle is looking for someone to paint his auction barn.”
Northeasterners — is there some animal up here that shits like a horse? There were what appeared to be horseapples on the trail yesterday, but I saw no hoofprints.
Only thing that comes to mind in the size range would be black bears but I don’t know what their scat looks like.
Or cows, but cow poo doesn’t resemble horse poo.
According to this wrong shape: https://bear.org/scat-droppings/
Then I don’t know what else it could have been.
Once in a blue moon, moose wander down this far south.
But we don’t have too many large animals.
Moose produce little round smaller than golf ball size pellets. Sold in Alaskan tourist shops as “Smart Pills”
Can confirm.
If the ground was still frozen you probably wouldn’t see hoofprints. Although borium studs do leave imprints on asphalt.
There was snow and slush.
Pegasus? that would explain the nuggets and the no hoofprints
Not the Bee.
Seattle Education Association President Jennifer Matter told NPR-affiliate KUOW that the mask mandate should remain until at least May 1, two weeks after students return from spring break, saying there “should be no rush to lift the mask mandate.”
“We have people who are immunocompromised, we have pregnant educators, we have educators who have children of their own that are under 5 years of age that cannot be vaccinated,” she said. …
“In our experience, universal required masking has been our most important in-classroom and in-building mitigation measure during this pandemic,” the statement read, according to FOX 13. “Our students and educators have been wearing masks in schools for over a year now, and it has become routine and accepted. In fact, masks contribute to feelings of safety and normalcy that schools provide our students.”
“routine and accepted”
Yeah well, so what? Doesn’t mean it’s right.
The entire world can’t be made safe for them. They need to figure out their own arrangements.
What does that have to do with anything?
But on a population basis, shifting the average IQ down even a small amount could have large consequences, said Sung Kyun Park, an associate professor of epidemiology and environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The entire bell curve shifts, he explained, with more of the population at what was once the extreme low end of IQ scores.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
TW: DailyFail, so poor editing, but the piece does include lots of good quotes from various industry “experts” on why the US both exports and imports oil, and what the economic effects our sanctions, green kabal worship, etc have.
Spoiler alert: Jones Act.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10589985/Biden-set-announce-ban-imports-Russian-oil-natural-gas-coal-soon-TODAY.html
This is fucking insane. Gas is going to be ten bucks a gallon because of these idiots.
Joe is not much of a strategic thinker.
Elections—and campaigns—have consequences.
Signs you live in an unserious country: we can pass an “anti-lynching bill” despite a dearth of lynchings and the universal illegality of murder in every state and territory, but we can’t amend things like the Jones Act or Anti-Deficiency Act.
Why deal with substance when we can indulge in symbolism?
Gas went to 4.25$ today, up 15 cents over night. This happens every other day,
We are so screwed.
Let me make you feel better, Yusef: where I used to live in the Lower Mainland of B.C., regular gasoline is $2.099/litre CAD, which after appropriate conversion comes out to approx. $6.20 USD per U.S. gallon. And it’s going straight north. Plus the provincial government there (NDP — think “commies with more champagne”) is increasing its gas tax come April 1st, to coordinate with a Federal increase in the “carbon tax.”
Hard times make strong men, I guess . . .
This is fun:
https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts
(in the sense that getting hit in the nuts is “fun”).
You can always make yourself feel better by including ‘Los Angeles’ in the chart.
Perhaps I’ll have a case to be allowed to work from home if that happens.
Feature, not bug.
I don’t understand the point of the convoys, polling already forced the left to drop COVID protocols.
There are still COVID restrictions in effect.
CMS vaccine mandate, Federal contractor vaccine mandate (working its way through the courts), masking on public transit, masking on airplanes, vaccination/testing requirements to enter the country. Probably a few more I’m forgetting.
This also reminds me of one of the court systems’ favorite tricks. State enacts a rule (rarely a “law” as such, more often a regulation enacted by bureaucratic fiat), affected party and/or concerned citizen sues, state rescinds or at least amends the rule, courts say ha ha it’s moot, go away.
1. The government should not unilaterally get to dictate the terms of its own accountability mechanisms
2. By mooting an issue as soon as the enemy backs off for a second, you allow them to lead you to their preferred battleground
Already hearing from my NPC coworkers about how it’s moot. And sneering at the truckers for wasting expensive fuel to sit outside DC.
Solipsism at work. “It doesn’t affect me so therefore it doesn’t exist.”
Powerline Special!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/mid-week-in-pictures-gas-pains-edition.php
Look how we are punishing the Russians with sanctions!
Cheap gas eh?
The never ending quest to criminalize private economic transactions
President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on cryptocurrency this week that will mark the first step toward regulating how digital currency is traded.
The move comes as administration officials have raised concerns in recent weeks about Russia’s use of cryptocurrency to evade the impact of crushing sanctions in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions have sent the ruble to historic lows and have closed the country’s stock market.
Two people familiar with the process said the executive order on cryptocurrency was expected to be issued this week and it had been in the works long before the war. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity to preview the order.
Anything they can’t track and control is by definition money laundering. And just because they say it’s intended for use against the Russians doesn’t mean they won’t use it against you.
This is far and away the scariest shit the slavers have pulled in recent memory. Controlling our ability to transact is worse than a fucking gulag.
How do we gum up the works? Because if they succeed, we are well and truly fucked.
The fact that this “had been in the works long before the war” seems to indicate that this, in fact, has nothing whatsoever to do with Russia and that they absolutely intend to use it against Americans.
How long ’til the “IMPEACH JOE BIDEN” signs appear?
“25th AMENDMENT- IF NOT NOW, WHEN?”
“IF NOT JOE, WHO?”
I’d take Harris at this point. Maybe worse but maybe better so at least there’d be hope.
I wonder if that’s the plan — make Biden so awful that the Western world will welcome Harris . . .
More good news for 2022.
It does indeed look like good news!
Nine tails? Does that mean nine assholes as well? If so I can see the concern – that’s a lot of shit to deal with!
This is pretty fair,
https://thetransom.substack.com/p/ukraine-the-new-right-and-defending?s=r
I made it five paragraphs in. Things not mentioned: Yugoslavia, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Yanukovych, Tymoshenko, Euromaidan, Orange Revolution. This is repudiating “anti-interventionism” with head-in-the-sand politics followed by knee-jerk interventionism. Nothing somes up the author’s argument better than his own words:
Or this:
Swing and a miss, Ben.
To be “fair”, this is how the U.S. gets involved in almost any war. Know nothing about the place or its history, keep the people ignorant about their own government’s actions, and then pick some spectacle (coup, warlords, genocide), get attacked via “blowback” (Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, 9/11), or just make shit up (USS Maine, Gulf of Tonkin), and voila, the sleepy but suddenly virtuous American people are roused to go around the globe and fight the good fight.
Give them credit, they learned from WWI how to suppress dissent.
Forget WWI, the U.S. government has been suppressing antiwar dissent since 1798, the Quasi-War, and the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Yay, World Policeman.
I was a bit disappointed to find the author’s name. I thought better of Ben.
Also, no offense to you Bob. I didn’t mean the above as a personal attack.
I read it this morning too (before it was linked here) and decided against linking for exactly the above criticisms. The straw-man “anti-interventionists” being nothing but some fresh clothes on the isolationist scarecrow.
The spectre of dangerous isolationism is always descending upon America but yet the plucky underdog interventionists always end up getting their way somehow.
Gramps assures us that we are going to pay more for gas and he is going to do everything he can to prevent us from paying more for gas.
“To protect our economy we have to become energy independent.” – Sleepy Joe
Curious that we were for a few years recently. What happened?
“Transferring our economy to run on electric vehicles powered by clean energy with tax credits to help American families winterize their homes and use less energy, that will help.”
I’d like to opt out.
I’m surprised they didn’t trot out tire pressure again.
Again, aren’t electricity prices just gonna go up too? And natural gas is included in this.
He literally stated that eliminating fossil fuels was one of his goals.