Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Democrats Are Blocking Republican Efforts To Digitally Upload Hunter Biden’s Laptop
Border Patrol reports record number of illegal migrants encountered at border in March
States That Tax Less Have Better Economic Prospects, Study Shows
Homeschooling numbers remain highly elevated despite public having reopened, no mask mandates
Latest Durham Filing on Sussmann Shows the Net Is Tightening, People Are Flipping
Durham reveals CIA concluded Dems’ Trump-Russia allegation not ‘technically possible, ‘user created’
Florida rejects 41% of submitted math books over CRT, other issues
Mobster Whitey Bulger’s nephew played pivotal role in Hunter Biden’s Chinese business dealings
Dickey’s CEO: sees “recession-oriented behavior” among customers
CNN’s Brian Stelter about to get the boot?
California man crushed to death after getting out of his vehicle during an automatic car wash
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and get my girls ready for school.
FIRST
I thought it would be nice to pull out a classic this morning.
Refreshing brevity.
“Democrats Are Blocking Republican Efforts To Digitally Upload Hunter Biden’s Laptop”
We want you to believe the lies we tell you and we will punish you if you don’t!
Assuming they are acting rationally, this behavior indicates the Democrats think there is further incriminating evidence that hasn’t already come out.
We stupid plebes need our message of the religion of DEMOCRACY! spelled out and interpreted for us by high priests of the belief. Can’t have us reading it for ourselves as we might misinterpret the information.
Funny how democracy means the credentialed aristocracy creates bulwarks to prevent any challenge to their existing hold on the system and the rackets they are running on us all, huh?
Republicans wanting to put Hunter Bidens dick pics into the Congressional Record is the best timeline ever
“Hey, baby — ‘As seen in the Congressional Record’!”
Democrats Are Blocking Republican Efforts To Digitally Upload Hunter Biden’s Laptop
Give it to /4chan. The weaponized autisitics will have it uploaded and globally-searchable on a hardened server farm with multiple keys within an hour, and probably able to “help” the committee staff place it on the Congressional Record within two.
Dickeys? oh I thought you meant my uniform,
Covfefe everybody!
Me too, at first. Then I remembered eating BBQ at Dickie’s in Dallas and getting the sauce on my Dickey’s
Morning, Banjos.
“States That Tax Less Have Better Economic Prospects, Study Shows”
If you think the people that want to tax you do it for any other economic reason other than to control who wins and who loses, no matter how bad that asshattery impacts the general economic state of any entity, then you are not paying attention. They are not doing anything that is good other than making sure they have the power to pick the winners and the losers. That’s to make sure they and their friends win, and the rest of us fuck off and die…
Incentives, how do they work?
“Florida rejects 41% of submitted math books over CRT, other issues”
I am surprised it isn’t a higher number when you see shit like this: Woke math examples…
WTF
Pimp’n ain’t easy, but it is necessary when you want to fix the squares that have luv that isn’t the same as that of a pimp, yo…
^this x1101010101000
So a list of substitution based algebra problems with completely unrelated sentences all about sex work and domestic violence. Is this real? It seems too awful to be real.
There’s not even any cleverness. The fill in the blank could be any of the above. There’s no narrative, it’s just sickness. Can’t algebra just be algebra? This is what, 7th or 8th grade math?
Yuck.
I don’t remember multiple-choice tests in algebra at all, let alone with accompanying aides-memoirs.
When the teachers are woke idiots themselves and lacking serious math skills, you are forced to do shit like this to compensate…
At this point I consider it to be an intentional effort to degrade the public school system to the point that the number of people that come out that can compete with the credentialed aristocracy’s kids (mediocre idiots themselves despite all the private schooling) is so low that these credentialled asshats don’t have to worry too much about having their idiot offspring be being memory holed.
as I was saying….
It’s obviously from a biography of Maya Angelou. Still not sure what the point of it is, though.
As the great RC Dean said, “if everything is a priority, nothing is a priority”, and teaching kids math is clearly not the priority of that worksheet.
To pass people who cannot do math.
Because math is racist.
The point is to constantly badger kids into accepting that a communist like Angelou deserves your acceptance because she was abused and victimhood equals moral authority.
The point is to make it so pervasive that the next generation is afraid to criticize their ideas.
9th grade.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQgoNEnWYAESyjn?format=jpg&name=large
“Mobster Whitey Bulger’s nephew played pivotal role in Hunter Biden’s Chinese business dealings”
This is news? From memory I can recall that Dan Bongino, Molly Hemmingway, and John Solomon all wrote books more than 3 or 4 years ago where this information was revealed. Wait until you find out John Kerry’s stepson and Heinz heir was also involved with these criminal activities the Biden crime syndicate was doing for a while until they realized these idiots would eventually crash and burn and decided to back out of the selling out to CCP entities racket. It was the cream of the crop breaking the law and raking in the cash doing it.
In the waste water world we’d call them floatables.
Son of mobster “Billy” Bulger. The only differences between Billy and Whitey is that Whitey used physical intimidation and violence while Billy used political intimidation and violence to steal. And Billy stole my money.
Look out, Itchy: they’re Irish! https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E18/363129
That’s what I get for commenting before reading. I guess outside of Mass, most people only know of Whitey
California man crushed to death after getting out of his vehicle during an automatic car wash
For this I cannot offer too much sympathy. There must have been a very good reason to leave the vehicle. Like saving a kitten or something I guess.
Authorities said the alarm may have been going off for up to half an hour before the man was discovered
Grim. I hope the kitten made it.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Water is expensive in Cali. He prolly was trying to sneak in a shower…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JgADsgjXJk
As a guy who works at one of those, he had to be pretty stupid and/or the failsafes failed.
So random. So avoidable.
Wow. Just reserved a rental car for a week in July. Rates are about double what they were last year.
And they are only going to go higher…
My airbnb host cancelled for my july trip. Grrr.
They could be branch Covidians and are expecting that because of the need to fortify the midterms in November of this year, team blue will be reenacting some serious shit that will make travel onerous, and they are just trying to avoid airb&b’s cancelation policies hurting them. Then again, it is far more likely they canceled because they figured you had gotten a much lower price than things command now, and canceling gives them the opportunity to make more $$.
I never knew they could do that. Obviously there will be extenuating circumstances at times, but I’ve never heard of it.
This would have been an… interesting stay. But it was a third the price of a hotel room so I was willing to try sleeping in someone’s guest room especially since they specified they “didn’t smoke pot in that room.” Apparently too interesting, since the host’s excuse was “roommates are making trouble.”
I LOLed. You either dodged a bullet or lost out on a hilarious story.
However, I can recommend staying at shared-space AirBnbs if you are a single guy.
*waggles eye brows*
My must-haves are “bed,” “shower,” and “a/c”.
Remarkably few of those available for under $200/night. None in Bangor.
Found a place north of Winterport that fits. It has a heated shower that is only available “after April.” It might be a bit rustic.
especially since they specified they “didn’t smoke pot in that room.”
lmao
It might have been sold, that happens fairly often. A lot of long term investors are taking the opportunity to cash out when demand is so high.
‘Homeschooling numbers remain highly elevated despite public having reopened, no mask mandates’
So we can cut the school budgets. Just kidding!
I believe school funding from the US DoEd is tied to attendance. Also, state departments of Ed. So every child who is homeschooled or sent to non-gov schools is a small victory.
I believe school funding from the US DoEd is tied to attendance.
It is, and I think is tied to attendance taken on a specific day. At least I’ve seen schools offer raffles for flat screen tvs, gaming systems, etc for kids who show up on that day.
Why make it so gameable? Can’t they just use averages? It wouldn’t be so hard.
That would require “educators” to use math.
And That Can’t Happen!
Charter schools are paid by the same formula – as they are public, just privately run. I think they get less $ per pupil, but it is still the same mechanism.
Looking at Colorado, it looks like the state money (some of which comes from local taxes) goes evenly to charter schools, but if a district has a special mill override tax, it may or may not be split with the charters. And charters dont get infrastructure money either, they have to pay for it out of regular money (although the state does have a special charter infrastructure fund to help offset that).
In a sane world, dropping student attendance would lead to a smaller budget.
In reality, the Teachers Union will go to the legislature and demand that the state pay more to keep the budgets where they are at.
You silly man!
“demand that the state pay more to keep the budgets
where they are atgrowing at an exponential rate.”For the Children.
Don’t cut budgets and don’t think of closing schools with low enrollment.
The county where I used to live closed an older high school due to low enrollment forecasting, plus they had just built a brand new high school 20 minutes away. Everyone still lost their fucking minds.
Just to point out, most were not mad that they built an unnecessary new high school, they were mad about closing an old one.
The people near the new school are happy. The people near the old school are not. Normal human behavior. I always lived close enough to walk to school. My kids don’t.
Minneapolis School district lost 25% of their kids during the pandemic, so of course the teachers went on strike and got a raise.
There is a lot of squeaking already because the board has talked about closing some schools. Who’d a thunk that paying more to teachers means even bigger cuts had to be made somewhere else?
The St. Paul teachers also struck and all of them got a $2K bonus for bravely persevering during the pandemic. Which is actually sort of great because a lot of old time DFL types I know are outraged by this.
The teachers jumped the vax line to get their jabs before even the geezers because they were so important. Then they refused to go back to teaching in person. Now they got $$$ for such heroism.
“The AMC app will now allow users to make purchases with Dogecoin, Shiba Inu coin, and other cryptocurrencies.”
Wait until everyone that shared their wallet info with them wakes up and finds the wallet cleaned out…
Sussman thing:
1) Yay.
2) Still not able to believe it’s gonna matter – “matter” meaning any implications for any big fish.
3) Ever.
At some point they will throw some of the middlemen under the bus to make it go away, but none of the Clintons, Obamas, or top bureaucrats running the corruptocracies machine will get nabbed. If even one of them gets bagged they will need to Epstein the fucker to avoid em rolling over on the rest. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out Durham had a sudden health problem that left em 6 feet under sooner than later either…
Even if none of the people you mention are indicted the goal here is to make the Clintons, et als, STFU and GTFA. They will still lurk and plot in the background but their power will diminish.
Not going to disagree there Tonio. In fact, I have pointed out that if Obama had a way to take Hillary down without exposing himself, they would have done that. It’s not a whim of mine to refer to the top people running the democrat establishment and said establishment as crime syndicates, because they are. And in crime syndicates the worst is usually reserved for those in the syndicate competing to be tat the top.
If a FusionGPS person has flipped – that could have very interesting implications. Assuming there isn’t another Clinton suicide.
*sigh*
While the paperwork causes the most stress, the worst part of the job is having to be the guy who enforces policies which annoy me. It’s not even a big item, just the time reporting where we have to track our individual hours.
Not that I was ever bad at it, but one of the things I’ve realized that makes a good employee is getting the useless paperwork in so you don’t clog up your boss’s day.
Yes, a large part of one’s job is making one’s boss look good.
It doesn’t help that our timecard program is an unituitive mess sold by a company known for only being a vendor because of kickbacks to particular politicans – who aren’t even in office anymore.
It is within our rights and privileges to bitch about the processes and decisions. In fact, the powers that be are more concerned when there isn’t low-level bitching from the workforce at large.
Wait, really?
They only get irate if the projects and procurements are not implemented.
Oh, and don’t bitch to their faces, especially in meetings.
‘Latest Durham Filing on Sussmann Shows the Net Is Tightening, People Are Flipping’
The walls are closing in. Lock her up.
Looks like the suicide rate is about to escalate.
Ah, I see you beat me to that thought.
I’ll believe it when something actually happens.
‘Florida rejects 41% of submitted math books over CRT, other issues’
At first I thought, oh that’s terrible, then I realized there are probably some pretty racist math books out there.
These are rookie numbers, let’s pump those numbers up.
Other reasons include Common Core.
2+2=4 is white supremacy.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“Democrats in the majority used multiple excuses to avoid handling the Hunter Biden laptop in any fashion other than accepting the hard drive via hand delivery,”
What will you wager that the Republicans handed over the only copy of the hard drive and that in two weeks Democrats will reveal that the hard drive “crashed”?
It got fucked up while they were wiping it…. with a cloth or something..
Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of Congressional procedure?
Gaetz is really mi9ssing some opportunities here. The handover of the hard drive should have been a press event. Every time the office balks, Gaetz should show up himself, with a camera crew in tow. He should have shown up with a cart full of whatever equipment they need, and a camera crew to document the refusal. Most importantly, he (someone, anyone) should have been making multiple clones of the drive and giving them out willy-nilly.
Why isn’t there a torrent to a copy of the hard drive?
Who cares what goes into the Congressional Record? The important thing would be to put up a verified copy that everyone could download.
You know that once the drive in in the CR, the next step is to charge $100/file to any of us plebes who want copies.
Would this be like the “OJ’s Legal Pad” thing from years back?
There are more copies of the hard drive for sure at this point. One of the reasons the FBI backed down on going hard after the people that were the first line to encounter this shitshow was that they realized so many copies had already been made that they were better off crying “Russian disinformation” than trying to corral them all and then ending up being exposed doing this dirty work. Team blue’s efforts at this point is to keep the rabble as disinformed as possible until they can find a way to again claim this is all not true. That ship has sailed, but these people are so used to controlling the narrative that it is the only answer they have to deal with problems they create.
Where are you going to post it? Google drive? They fortified the election. Maybe a server hosted by AWS? Also a fortifier of elections. Maybe a Rooshian service? Not trusted by the public. Oh, host a torrent? Get a visit from the NSA? No thanks.
Is it in the public domain? If it is, you could put it up anywhere.
Bits and pieces are available on telegram according to a friend of mine.
Apparently kimdotcom also has the data, also a scandanavian forensics team. They will not be able to make this go away.
Then he could put it up on Mega.
The problem has been finding a host who won’t take it down. It has been posted, repeatedly and is taken down each time. Hence put it in the congressional record.
What’s the reason? I doubt Hunter is making a copyright claim.
They probably received an offer they couldn’t refuse.
I’m no computer forensic expert but It’s been in so many peoples hands, can they even tell what was what when Hunter had it?
To what level of certainty?
There’s certainly room for reasonable doubt if you wanted to defend against a prosecution, but not so much that you wouldn’t have to first convince a jury (assuming the spherical cow of an unbiased judge)
can they even tell what was what when Hunter had it
My understanding is yes. Certainly enough to be admissible in court. Anything on a computer has metadata indicating date, etc. Even changing the metadata leaves a trail. This is based on my discussions with litigators and the forensics firms they use.
I may be a bit rusty, but I’m pretty sure it depends on how you change the metadata. The average user isn’t going to have the setup or the understanding of how to meddle without leaving a blazing trail behind.
I miss my forensics work. I just didn’t want th deal with kiddie porn each day as a State Police forensic examiner, so I couldn’t find paying work in that field. Once upon a time, I was qualified to do that… Sadly once upon a time was fifteen years ago. Now I’ve forgotten more about dissecting data than most people will ever know. (And haven’t learned the new stuff that’s arisen since)
Just using the filesystem data: No, I don’t think so. You can write/rewrite/overwrite what is on the hard drive, including modifying timestamps/hashes/any meta-data indicating when and who changed a file.
My understanding is that the forensics folks have used other data plus what is known of the chain of custody to authenticate the drive.
For certain files it can be problematic, but videos and images of Hunter smoking crack and banging his dead brother’s wife are going to be hard to dismiss.
Also, emails have a chain of custody, and that is probably where the real meat is. You can generally verify an emails’ authenticity and you can subpoena anyone else who was in the recipient/sender list. They’re jumping off points for further discovery.
The e-mails are probably/certainly signed via DKIM, which can’t be faked w/o access to the private keys; in the case of Google et al., those are in a HSM, so no why that’s going to happen.
This is how we know the Podesta e-mails were real.
We know it’s real because if it were fake the Democrats would have proven it fake (rather than bury the story) as evidence that the Russians were trying to get Trump re-elected. So they were lying and knew they were lying.
Woke Ariz. diversity activists falsely accuse black DJ of wearing blackface
??
That’s hilarious.
Also, they must have thought he had some really good makeup and prosthetics.
They will memory hole this idiocy or find a way to make the people that caught them being idiots the bad guys…
Heh, I was going to post that. I love how the guy doubled down, saying the DJ used face darkening makeup. Black face blackface, that’s a new one.
As someone that will be mailing Uncle Sam a check that’s almost $6K today for them to piss away, shit like this reminds me that we went from a country that build and did things, to one where the real money making is in compliance with useless regulations and the bureaucracy that they rely on to keep the rest of us from actually competing with the\ top men’s rackets.
I had an inherited IRA that I had to cash out last year. 23k just disappeared from my bank account.
The curroptocracy wanted its taste from whomever did the work to make that money grow… Pay the VIG or we break your knees.
Read that as ‘cryptocurrency’ first go around and got very confused.
Did you guys get hit with penalties for owing so much?
I don’t think so but I had to pay an accountant to figure it out.
Generally, as long as you withhold more than your previous years tax burden, there is no penalty. But it means you have to increase your withholding the next year to make sure in case it happens again.
We make quarterly payments. And still got to write a big check.
You must live in a no state tax place. I got double nut-punched this year. We increased withholding, but apparently nowhere near enough.
I owed federal, but almost got as much back in SC/CO state refunds to make it up.
Which just means I didn’t withhold enough Fed but withheld too much state.
That’s usually how it goes with states. It is hard to reduce the state withholding enough to avoid getting a refund. This year though, and probably next year too, we are getting our CARES Act distribution spanking. Good and hard.
That was my understanding.
I was just over 1k owed this year, but I believe I withheld more than last (?). I need to get at my wife’s books and make sure we’re withholding enough now. Annoying. Her income fluctuates so much it’s hard to make any informed decisions. Doesn’t seem like the right time to be making interest free loans either. Grr.
I have a vague memory that there is also a requirement that your withholding cover a certain percentage of your tax liability. The percentage is lower for farmers if I remember correctly.
50 bucs, same as uptown.
I owed $7k, with $19 in penalties.
Didn’t plan it that way, but I’m sure I earned more than $19 off that $7k over the year.
Damn, my penalty was $64, and while I got a little short of $2K back from the state, I was pissed by how much of my money they took and will be pissing away.
That’s good. For some reason, I paid $50 for $7K owed. I’ll have to look closer at the calculation. Also paid an $4K to GA.
Whoops, I lied – $27.
Still, NBD.
Durham has granted immunity to “Researcher-2” – identified as David Dagon.
And we all know that Hillary is Mother Hydra. /HP Lovecraft
My SOUL!
Matt Taibbi
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/twitters-chickens-come-home-to-roost?s=r
He’s excellent at what he does. Here’s the money shot:
It’s becoming clear that the purpose of an entity like Twitter is not to make money but rather to control information and shape “popular opinion”. Twitter as a platform has no use to the establishment if it’s not controlled. It makes no sense to oppose Musk’s offer on purely economic grounds, but Twitter is not meant to be an economic enterprise. And the largest shareholders, almost all large institutions and capital funds, are fine with this arrangement. Indeed, they probably played no small part in engineering it.
As someone on Twitter pointed out, “media doesn’t obey market forces, media shapes market forces”
Check this out.
The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government
That’s utterly ridiculous. Twitter openly talks about their tech stack – https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure.
There are much, much more complicated, resource-intensive services out there, none of which need some mythical fed gov soooper infrastructure.
I don’t think the claim is that the federales originated Twitter, just that they have ensured its continued “success” increasingly over the years.
I doubt Elon would learn that much. For one thing, even if his buy offer succeeded, he would likely be firewalled away from the dirty details. Moreover, it would probably be more accurate to say that Twitter is an only quasi-independent node of this network rather than a entirely independent or dependent node. At the very least, the USG is incapable of amassing this capacity directly on their own and so has to rely on private companies operating with fewer restrictions to build it out.
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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Lol. Once I have four letters locked down and almost all other letters eliminated I can guess it… eventually.
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I started off pretty good.
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I’m just a chump I’m only a chump
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Ouch
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7️⃣?
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ?⬜⬜⬜⬜
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????? ⬜⬜⬜⬜?
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2️⃣5️⃣
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6️⃣7️⃣
Boom. Sometimes luck is better than skill.
Yes, it helps if one of the words is one of your starter words (right)?
Yup. Imagine my delight.
This is a weird game. So simple, but some days the words appear and some days they won’t.
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9️⃣?
6️⃣8️⃣
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⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜????
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Lower left!!!
Another boring day
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????? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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Chumptown.
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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????? ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
50/50 chance for a 22, but of course I made the wrong choice.
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⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ?????
?⬜⬜⬜? ⬜⬜?⬜?
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⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
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3️⃣5️⃣
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I got so far in the hole on lower left that I threw the rest away.
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6️⃣4️⃣
Phew!
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#waffle87 3/5
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Oh dear, getting more internal server errors….
On the Glibs website? Details?
I got one of those spammy pop-ups for the first time in months when I navigated to the site. Wasn’t 100% sure it was from Glibs, but if others are having issues, I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the plug ins has been corrupted again.
I got one of those earlier too, on my phone.
As did I.
Both times I tried to respond to the comment about the car wash story, I got the error, three hours apart. But not at this part of the comment thread, knock on wood.
I tried to respond to a comment above, and t threw up the error.
It’s kind of amusing that no one holds back on insulting Brian Stelter in that article (“our favorite genderless Potato head content creator Brian Stelter”, “Stelter doesn’t even pitch softballs. He throws Jell-O at his guests and then, when the cameras are off, slurps it off the floor. Truly revolting figure in American media.”), I guess being a funny-looking white guy means even your appearance is up for grabs.
It saddens me that people focus so much on Stelter’s weaselly looks rather than his absolutize lack of decency and a character that makes him one of the vilest sellouts you could imagine.
Yeah, that diminishes their professionalism. Name-calling is what you do when you don’t have enough facts to support your argument. They betray their own name.
A spokesperson for Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Daily Caller for this story.
They have better things to do than referee bureaucratic bitchfights.
I’m not necessarily convinced by anyone selling synthetic currencies based on indices of commodities, but it certainly sounds like it has a better foundation than the USD. Whatever the future holds it does seem like the arrogance, hubris, mismanagement of the Washington establishment has bungled its way into forfeiting the US’ economic dominance.
‘And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.’
So, they’ll just have their regular occurrence of monetary and fiscal woes and can stop blaming everyone else?
Just kidding, they’ll still blame everyone else.
There’s a kernel of truth in the complaint. The global dollar regime exports U.S. monetary policy to the rest of the world. When the Fed inundates the U.S. with cheap money, investors move on the risk-reward continuum to riskier assets. That drives malinvestment in the LDCs. And when the bubble bursts, they’re often left in a tough spot. Of course, yes, the answer is to resist the cheap money. But, that’s easier said than done.
the arrogance, hubris, mismanagement of the Washington establishment
Why does that sound to me so much like Python’s Spanish Inquisition bit?
New York Times Opinion headline:
Save America’s Patent System
Ready, Set, Go!
Grifters that we like should be allowed to keep grifting, while the ones we don’t get cock blocked…..
Given that it’s from NYT, I assume it has something to do with making patents anti-racist or trans-friendly or some other nonsense.
It’s actually a good article, and addresses a pet peeve of mine, patent extensions for minor changes that do very little. In fact, it incentivizes patent holders to deliberately cripple their products, holding back improvements for later so they can use them to extend their patents. Without that, they would use them sooner, in order to increase adoption and fix their lead in the marketplace for when the patent eventually ran out.
At least in the IT/software realm, nobody is doing that. The level of foresight required to pull something like that off is way too high. Besides, 90%+ of the tech from 2002 (20 year term) is beyond obsolete.
A couple other points to make:
1) the extended patent only protects the incremental improvement, not the base technology in the original patent.
2) there are terminal disclaimers for when you try to get different protection of what is essentially the same idea. The terminal disclaimers shorten the patent term to match the original patent. When offered, I take a terminal disclaimer 95% of the time. Sawing a few years off the back end isn’t a concern to me. The value in most of these patents is heavily frontloaded. A 15 year old patent may sell to a troll for a couple hundred grand, but that’s not a viable monetization plan.
3) I’ve never encountered a company where the patents tail wagged the R&D dog. We’re lucky if we even get a seat at the table on promise that we’ll duct tape our mouths shut. Most other tech companies are the same way. Some may have a stronger relationship, but R&D is the leader, we’re just there to get what we can without getting in their way too much.
Things to note about this.
1) nobody is precluded from making injector pens built using the expired turn of the century patents.
2) nobody is precluded from selling vials of insulin and the syringes for injecting them.
3) pharma has all sorts of weird regulations around generics that I (on the tech side) don’t understand. Those burdens may be contributing more to the issue than the patents themselves.
4) patent thickets are a thing, yes. However, the insulin thicket covers the improvements since 2002-ish. By quick search, I was able to find an expired insulin patent from 1998. It would be relatively low risk to spin up a manufacturing line based on that patent.
Yes, what we need is more political meddling… The biggest thing keeping the average person from getting a patent is the expensive choice between DIYing it and hiring out. Either way, you’re investing five figures to get a patent. Want to extract a royalty from BigCo? Great, we have 50 people on staff who spend 50 hours a week trying to avoid that.
Save America’s Patent System == SAPS when it becomes a Congressional Act. I think that says it all.
That NY Post article from the previous thread has to be one of the most overtly snobby things I’ve ever read.
“local residents have griped about constant E-bike traffic, as well as workers loitering and smoking outside delivery hubs at all hours of the day.”
“nothing more than the modern day version of a crackhouse”
“They had the ugly covering over the window,”
“Even the cleanest and most well-organized hubs seem to feature fluorescent lighting and threadbare decor.”
That last line really stood out to me. Every grocery retailer in NYC*, from corner bodega to huge supermarket features fluorescent lighting and threadbare décor.
*Fairway and Stu Leonard’s are the notable exceptions (and that says more about the author’s shopping habits than anything else.)
It’s all about the terrain,
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/04/the-battle-for-donbas-will-be-a-tough-fight-for-ukraine/
A tough fight is a wild understatement. The Ukrainian forces in the east are encircled, and targeted missile strikes have already destroyed their fuel and ammo depots. They dug in because they are no longer able to maneuver. Their only option is to surrender or die.
I’m not seeing that they are actually encircled, but it may be a moot point if they can’t withdraw in good order due to lack of transport (which I think is pretty likely). I think the Ukrainians made a strategic blunder by not withdrawing from their Eastern salient to establish a truly defensible line.
Given the historic Russian treatment of captives, there may not be as much distance between “surrender” and “die” to matter to many of the troops, especially in the militias (not all of which are neo-Nazi, but I doubt the Russians will make fine distinctions).
Luckily for them, their President has bravely said that they’ll fight to the last man.
to the last man
Shitlord
Name-calling is what you do when you don’t have enough facts to support your argument. They betray their own name.
Or they just want to deflect attention from their own toadying and unrelenting promotion of the Official Story.
“Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi declares Republicans ‘The Party of White Supremacy’ and claims conservative efforts to limit teaching of critical race theory are really ‘grooming’ children to become racist”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10727585/Boston-University-Professor-Ibram-X-Kendi-declares-Republicans-Party-White-Supremacy.html
CWAA
Grifters gonna grift.
Interesting take on the “groomer” messaging:
(source: https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1515522316960215046?cxt=HHwWjMC5-ZDhm4gqAAAA)
It absolutely has them rattled because they cannot back off without dismantling the teachers unions / schools of education and the normies are getting increasingly pissed.
I’ll give Kendi credit for being an excellent grifter, truly world class.
One thing I realized while driving today.
Why was the left so intent on taking down the ‘alt right’?
Because they actually brought it to the left, and had fun doing it. A dangerous combination, especially in the right where the recognized authorities are overly stuffy and apparently allergic to fun.
Yep. Nick Fuentes, for example, was charismatic enough to develop a large following and is completely immune to JournoList-style smear tactics. So he had to be unpersoned, censored by big tech, put on the no-fly list, etc.
Seems kind of fragile to do all that to Nick Fuentes. In the past you’d have a confident enough ruling party that could just brush off dissidents. What makes Fuentes so dangerous they had to absolutely prove him right by destroying him?
It’s not specific to Fuentes. Having observed the repeated use of cancellation tactics on ordinary people, the answer is simple: it works. Someone who had 1,000,000 subscribers and steady growth on mainstream platform X is lucky to get 10,000 subscribers and anemic growth on non-mainstream platform Y.
There is a maxim, somewhat self-serving of course, that “any unmoderated space on the Internet will eventually turn right-wing” (a sort of inverse Conquest’s Law). At the very least, if not carefully managed, any place on the Internet where discussion is fairly open and external forces of cancellation can’t operate (i.e. you can’t easily be identified and fired from your job), will eventually see people saying heterodox things. Some of these are irrelevant and obvious bait (“the Jews did 9/11!”) but many lead to intellectual and existential questions that are off-limits. The Internet is full of autists, the sort of people who don’t know they’re not supposed to notice something.
The system seems especially fragile today because it’s harder for it to control things. This apparent fragility is a reflection of the ease with which ordinary people can (even if they rarely do) seek out and find alternative sources of information and interpretation. The era of three TV networks and Walter Cronkite is long gone.
I guess that’s hopeful then. Just absolutely sucks for those who gain the ire of the current system.
Snowflake. They also pathetically try to throw snowflake back at the right.
Name me one other time you’ve seen the communists try to adopt messaging from the Right.
Snowflakes, which has since been morphed into white fragility.
Also Karen. Which used to be used to mock authoritarians, but has since been taken and adapted to mean only white women, especially those who are concerned about anything a non-white person is doing.
Snowflake and Karen started off non-politically. It’s hard to say they appropriated them from the right.
Snowflake was was a favorite insult from the right leading up to and especially after Trump won. Lefties finally got tired of it and made a concerted effort to throw it back at the right.
Same story for “triggered” then: apolitical origin, Internet rightist adoption, attempted Internet leftist cooption.
Then same goes for “groomer”.
Snowflakes, which has since been morphed into white fragility.
White fragility came from related critical theory concepts, not from some unrelated meme. It’s built on false consciousness and white privilege, among other things.
Dishonest is as dishonest does.
Welp, my friend of 30 years is about to be sworn in as a political appointee in * holds back vomit * Biden administration. *releases vomit *
Meanwhile, I’ve got packed boxes starting to pile up in my living room! Not a moment too soon. ?
Some place a bit more red?
The realignment happing right now is amazing. Conservative minded people moving to red states just because they can. Maybe setting up a peaceful separation or a terrible civil war.
More than a bit more red (although VA is reddish at the moment, but I think that’s a blip and the Fairfax County soccer moms will take back control in the next few years)
The most interesting part of this is the Californication of various reddish states. We simultaneously have a relatively conservative set of voluntary relocators from various blue areas combined with disproportionately prog-fascist economic refugees from the bay area and other urban pacific areas. I know of a few prog-fascist families that moved from TX or other flyover states to CA to go live out their “principles”, but they all ended up or are actively planning to get out and come here to TX.
Here in Texas, Dallas, Houston, and Austin won’t be leading any split. The cities are wholly owned by the prog-fascists. The suburbs have taken on a reddish purple hue after being deep red since the mid-80s. I don’t think there’s any clean geographical split happening. People follow opportunity, and ideology only has so much of an influence on their relocation choices.
Sadly I must agree with that assessment.
Congrats on the move. Vote early and vote often.
My friend talked about bipartisanship in her speech…she’s gonna need it come November! LOL
You friend’s experiences will be interesting to hear about. Normally working for an administration is big-time backstabbing. I can only imagine what it is like now.
“‘Why do you hate Christians?’: Squad member Ilhan Omar is mocked for attacking video of passengers singing on a plane as part of an Easter celebration on Holy Saturday”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10727835/Why-hate-Christians-Ilhan-Omar-mocked-attacking-video-passengers-singing.html
Yeah, it’s not like they’re Jews.
They are all unbelievers if they won’t marry their sibling in the name of supporting the war on the rest of the world…
Uffda. I’d convert to Islam if I was stuck on a plane full of singing Christians.
Omar’s faith in Islam is about as sincere as the ’90s GOP-ers were about evangelical Christianity. They pretended to be cool with it, all the while doing a lot of things that those groups disapproved of.
And Omar and the GOPers don’t have to worry about repercussions. Sure Omar divorced her real husband to take up with a white guy (and bring beer home for him), but who else are the Muslims going to support?
It’s all part of the Taqiyya….
Holy shit, I just looked up Taqiyya in Wikipedia (to see if I spelled it right), and their description of this practice is that this practice is done to avoid “religious persecution” by others. so they have memory holed the practice being about lying to infidels to keep them off-guard about your intent to force them to accept your religion or status as a second class citizen when you have become strong enough to force this on them…
It’s all part of the wikibias towards the progressive viewpoint. Can’t offer objective facts that make Islam look bad.
There’s another side to that, too, which is to make Islam more “moderate” (i.e. more amenable to capture and skinsuiting).
Hahahaha – as if Islam is monolithic. About like Christianity is.
That they want to do to Islam what they have already done to Christianity is not in dispute. The desire to force a “reformation” upon Islam is exactly that impulse.
Christianity fractured long before any fucking wokeness ever was dreamed up. Sure, they skinsuited a couple of denominations, big deal.
Before wokism was even a glint in anyone’s eye, Protestant ecumenicalism and the Society of Jesus (aka Jesuits) were skinsuiting Christianity in the West.
(I’d argue it goes back even further, much further in fact, than that, but there are pretty clear statements in modern language by those two groups that clearly illustrate their intentions)
Schism is an almost built-in feature to Christianity. Ascribing contemporary concepts to ancient enmities is one of the things that intellectual retards (read that as the woke) of this age do routinely. Please don’t emulate them.
Modern progressivism, including wokism, can be clearly traced back to many earlier ideas and movements, but you think it’s intellectually unsupportable to trace back wokism in churches today to earlier ideas and movements?
Does it not strike you as odd that the founding goals of “Christian ecumenicalism” read like the founding goals of the IWW? “Centering Christ in our lives” apparently means adopting the values of atheist wobblies.
Best way to avoid persecution is to be in power.
I think my family and I should have a prayer session next time I am on a plane. How do you think it will end?
Christians don’t have a trach record of exploding after their religious chants.
CDR Salamander’s post this morning has the first pix I’ve seen showing real battle damage on Moskva, if any of y’all are interested.
Thanks. I was unfamiliar with that blog. The twitter video of the Moskva going down that I saw was likely a fake. Russian MoD claims that the ship was evacuated and it sunk under tow, though it doesn’t appear to be in those photos. They also claimed it was an ammo explosion/fire, not a missile strike, which I don’t believe. I appreciated this sentiment: “Good news here is that as you can see in the green rectangle above, the life rafts have been deployed. As there were almost 500 Sailors assigned to her, that may be a secondary indication, along with the good weather, that those not killed on impact or in the following fire and secondaries were most likely able to get off the ship and as such, loss of life less. More to follow on that I hope.
I’m sorry, I don’t care what nation’s flag they fly under; once defeated they are simply Sailors in need of rescue. If you don’t get that, we should all pray for you.”
https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/
Thank you both. His diversity post right below that is good too.
Being a suspicious asshole by nature, the fact that the CCP, which is the only entity at this time with enough information to know exactly what the Kung Flu their Wuhan lab unleashed on humanity was designed for, is still doubling down on this ‘No Covid’ policy that has failed repeatedly, makes me worried. They have decided that they would rather risk a revolution, serious economic damage (and this is the key indicator to me), and watch their population suffer insanely, than doing something that might work. So what do they know about this virus and people getting it that we still are in the dark about?
You make the mistake of assuming that the lockdown and zero covid policies are actually about the disease. The question that has to be asked is “what else might they also be getting from this?” if we assume that it’s not just Commie bureaucratic stupidity like the sort of lies up the chain that led to the famines under Mao.
Too many possibilities still not ruled out.
I think they know it’s a big nothingburger, but:
– They can’t admit that to their people now. That would mean their initial reactions were wrong, and they can’t do that.
– The main point is “You Will Comply”.
– They’ve calculated that the repeated compliance they’ll get actually decreases the risk of revolution.
Yeah, one of the lessons the CCP took from Tiananmen was that you could only push so far before things got dangerously out of control and the risk became unviable. Sure, brutal crackdowns could work. But they could also not. the one thing that keeps the CCP sleeping like a baby at night is that the majority of Chinese are content to give up their rights & freedoms for the guarantee of security. Especially financial security and the growth of prosperity. Once the ability to prosper and to feed yourself, daily, is under attack, your loyalty to the CCP becomes spurious. And the CCP knows that. These shutdowns are threatening all that.
Maybe there is some 5-D chess going on here and the CCP thinks the risk is worth the reward, but that files into the face of how business was conducted since Tiananmen to keep the serfs complaint and the CCP on top, s I can’t shake the feeling that just maybe there is something else going on.
I’ve seen speculation that Shenzhen and Shanghai were, particularly, emerging as opposing centers of power to Beijing. Both cities are critical manufacturing hubs for electronics. It’s possible that the higher-ups in the most profitable Chinese enterprises are starting to get designs on wresting power away from the Xi faction. It’s thus also possible that the real purpose of these lockdowns is to cripple these emerging opponents and remind them that, no matter how much money they make, money is less potent than power, and their place is under the central authority not beside it.
Infighting between CCP members could certainly be behind some of this. Xi has been working hard at consolidating his power and crippling anyone that could go against him, so this could all be about that. But I can’t help but feel there is some aspect of serious desperation behind this shit that tells me something else is being hidden from us.
I was going to add something similar.
Alex, you may need to consider that there are factions of Chinese who have *already* been bucking the Party and that these lockdowns are about sending a message to those folks.
We see events in China only through our own lens. Having lived there, I promise you that US views on the why and wherefore of events in China is almost always (at least) partly wrong.
The authoritarians here are struggling to control 340MM; it is so much more precipitous to try controlling 1.4 bn. Of course there are cultural reasons why our .34bn are so intransigent and their 1.4bn so much less so…
BUT – the ‘miracle’ of modernization in China was unquestionably the result of Deng’s policies that allowed capitalism to flourish in the SEZs. And the Chinese people know it.
My own observation is that the Chinese people aren’t commies at all – they’re inveterate traders, in fact. All those Chinatowns in every major city the world over didn’t get there by government fiat or grant.
The Chinese as a culture know how to work hard and save capital for continued growth. They have no problem with sacrificing now for a better future.
I know folks in China who whisper of “hoping to see… the flag change” in China – that’s the mandarin euphemism for hoping the Commies will fall.
I think what we might want to consider is that the majority of Chinese are simply non-violent and endure stoically in the face of government shenanigans, as they have for 5 millennia while emperors and dynasties have risen and fallen using force.
“My own observation is that the Chinese people aren’t commies at all – they’re inveterate traders, in fact.”
Oh, absolutely agree. that’s why the CCP is communist only in name. They are totally fascists however, where the state controls the private sector, pretending it is indirectly, and completely controls the economy and the people. Marxism will never work as a system, because as I often pointed out before, the number one requirement of communist government is loyal people over capable people in power. This ends bad. Always.
Fascism was the fix to marxism because it allowed the totalitarian state to put enough of a buffer between itself and the supposed private sector, thus ensuring that at least, to some degree, more capable people ran the economic side of building things and adding value, why the government chose whom got rich, what entities survived and grew, and what entities would be killed off.
The reality is that socialist systems have to be totalitarian to remain functional. Some people are very happy giving away their freedoms for the promise, and it is all fake, of security. Some are not. The elite look at China with jealousy because they want the same for themselves. Not because the Chinse system works, it is even more smoke & mirrors than we do in the west, but because the people in power have put together a system that makes it near impossible for the serfs to ever to hold the top men accountable. And that’s what our leaders want the most.
Communists crave population reductions. Especially when their economies start contracting.
Mammary Monday is Brian Stelter’s replacement.
https://archive.ph/Xwj4O
“Q can even make a Mrs. Potatohead with a Super Mr. Potatohead…”
“everyone with unorthodox thoughts is warning-labeled (“age-restricted” content seems to be a popular recent scam)”
I noticed that too. I wonder if there is a way around it.
They need to censor what you see, and if you won’t accept that, track who decides to go around their efforts to censor when they decide they need harsher measure to make the serfs compliant.
It’s more about trying to get people to sign up and log in.
I’m not necessarily convinced by anyone selling synthetic currencies based on indices of commodities, but it certainly sounds like it has a better foundation than the USD. Whatever the future holds it does seem like the arrogance, hubris, mismanagement of the Washington establishment has bungled its way into forfeiting the US’ economic dominance.
But- but- FULL FAITH AND CREDIT!
*knocks sippy cup and pacifier off high chair*
But- but- FULL FAITH AND CREDIT!
$1T coins
Jen Lee, U.S. Paralympic champion hockey goalie, has gold medals stolen
People are assholes.
Is that the same guy in the video you posted?
“Last month, Lee didn’t allow a single goal during the Paralympics, including stopping all 16 Canada shots in the final.”
Well, good for him. And fuck the asshole who stole his medals.
Yep, same guy. He lost all three medals.
Paging Signore Alighieri. Additional Circle of Hell required, stat.
And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but the only way to do that s to stop borrowing money and become a self-contained and self-sustaining economic system.
But predatory lenders keep forcing them to take out loans they don’t want.
Speaking of warning labels, streaming movies now come with a laundry list of warnings for the potential viewer. I think “smoking” is my fave.
If you were trying to quit and not be reminded of it, that could be helpful. Goodbye, most of TCM programming.
He probably stopped because you called them “knickers”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18251996/husband-doesnt-want-sleep-me-sexy-knickers-have-wear/
Cheating, probably.
That is the preferred nomenclature there. Knickerbockers to them.
Or he realized that she is a horrible person and doesn’t want to do anything to her.
Too chicken to just get divorced.
Los dos, tal vez?
gay.
^^^THIS^^^
he did what he needed to get the cover story, and now he can go back to business as usual. Not sure why do this in today’s day and age.
“Alex Jones’ Infowars files for bankruptcy following Sandy Hook lawsuits
Alex Jones’ companies, including his media site Infowars, have filed for bankruptcy following lawsuits over public comments in which he called the Sandy Hook massacre a hoax.
Three entities controlled by Jones filed for Chapter 11 protections in southern Texas, according to Bloomberg News.
The companies reportedly cited estimated liabilities of as much as $10 million.
Filing for Chapter 11 allows companies to continue operating while they formulate a plan to turn their businesses around. It also puts a pause on any pending civil litigation.
Relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, massacre sued Jones for defamation, saying they have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones’ followers.
A judge found Jones liable for damages, and a trial on how much he should pay the families had been scheduled for August.”
https://nypost.com/2022/04/18/alex-jones-infowars-files-for-bankruptcy-amid-sandy-hook-lawsuits/
Well I guess they’re just gonna get away with completely making up that school shooting then.
Glad I wasn’t they only one formulating a tasteless joke.
Angry Internet Man is bad and must be punished for the emotional distress of pointing out that a bunch of aggrieved people who turned overnight into media whores are suspicious.
How the hell is calling Sandy Hook a hoax both grounds for a lawsuit and for a liability judgement? I remember when the Holocaust denialist was convicted in Europe. Can’t happen here. Right.
It was close to a default judgement – I believe the judge decided he and his lawyers were not responsive (to some rather insane discovery requests).
How the hell is calling Sandy Hook a hoax both grounds for a lawsuit and for a liability judgement?
The same as suing Remington(?) for the misuse of its product. FYTW.
Good morning, Banjos!
Massive link dump – I like it!
States That Tax Less Have Better Economic Prospects, Study Shows
You don’t say? Thank God for studies.
no. way.
Maybe no one will notice
Turkey has launched a new ground and air cross-border offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, that has left at least 19 suspected Kurdish rebels dead and has wounded at least four Turkish soldiers, Turkey’s defense minister said Monday.
Turkish jets and artillery struck suspected targets of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and commando troops — supported by helicopters and drones — then crossed into the region by land or were airlifted by helicopters, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said in a video posted on the ministry’s website.
More gasoline, please.
I want to watch the world burn.
Peaceful harmonious coexistence
A far-right Danish politician’s threat to burn the Quran and pour “pork blood” on it gave rise to riots in Sweden over the past few days.
Anti-Muslim and far-right political party Stram Kurs planned to hold a demonstration in the town of Landskrona, but announced a change of venue to the city of Malmo after protesters threw stones and set fires to cars, tires and garbage cans.
Provocateurs be provokin’.
Why did a Danish politician want to cause chaos in Sweden? I guess I’m not all that familiar with inter-Scandinavian relations.
Pretty cool a Danish pol can inspire roits in Sweden whenever he wants.
Peaceful coexistence, you say?
No. The way you really do that is to put a Bible on one table and do that, and a Quran on another. That proves the point about which religion has the most unhinged believers.
Can you imagine what Christians would do is someone burned a bible or put a cross in a jar of urine?
House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff, which is responsible for entering documents into the record, is refusing to upload the laptop by citing technological limitations. Instead, they’re forcing Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s office to print hard copies and PDF-form documents of pages. Democrats maintained the stonewall even after Gaetz’s office offered to provide the proper equipment to enable the digital file transfer, the Daily Caller has learned.
It’s amazing the level to which Dems will circle the wagons to protect each other.
Well, my guess is that Hunter Biden may have had the foresight to note where a few bodies are buried that might implicate a few other Democrats. And who knows how many bodies those other Democrats have noted. So, it’s really not just protecting Hunter Biden, but protecting themselves.
Border Patrol reports record number of illegal migrants encountered at border in March
Come one, come all. But America is like racist or something.
States That Tax Less Have Better Economic Prospects, Study Shows
*shocked face*
Latest Durham Filing on Sussmann Shows the Net Is Tightening, People Are Flipping
*yawn*
*fart*
I remember when I knew basically everything that happened with this like 5 years ago but no one was allowed to admit it.
Ding ding.
My unanswered question is, how is it that I knew basically all this years ago, and it is just now seeing the light of day in a courtroom?
As always, the range of explanations runs from “incompetence” to “malice”. And no further.
They’re just being very careful and deliberate!
/idiots
Mornin’
The Rich States, Poor States: ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index examines each state’s economic outlook for 2022 “based on a state’s current standing in 15 state policy variables” and economic performance over the last 10 years. States with lower tax burdens tend to perform better economically and have attracted migration from other states, according to the report.
What will they spend money on next? Determining whether or not the Sun rises in the East?
When last we left you in the saga of the Durham probe, the defense’s motion to dismiss the case against former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann had been denied. That means that barring a plea or further postponement, Sussmann will go to trial May 16 (as currently scheduled), on the charge of the false statement to the FBI. As I noted, that must be making the folks in Clinton-land sweat with what could be coming next.
Color me skeptical that anything will come out of this probe affecting the Clintons.
Whitey Bulger’s brother was a Mass state senator I believe and sat on the board of trustees for UMass. Or something high up like that. I wonder if this guy’s kid is the “Whitey Bulger’s nephew” that Hunter Biden had dealings with. I’m too lazy to check
Whitey Bulger is an awesome name.
I does sound rather like a Neo-Nazi counterpart in the Sugarfree stories at that…
He’s also known by his porn name, Whitey Bulger.
It’s all in the article.
You’re right. I didn’t see the “read more” button and assumed the article was only two paragraphs long.
He probably stopped because you called them “knickers”.
For some reason, I actually RTFL. Based on the letter, it sounds like they had a pretty good thing going. They’d get together now and then for mad sex (the good kind) and go on their merry ways ’til the next round.
And then they ruined it by getting married.
3 X
8 5
Stupid lower left took up 3 bad guesses
Everything inconvenient to the crooks is racist….
If a non-democrat had done this…
Go ahead and let me know.
Greatest crime one can do, flub the link.
(*&$(*(*^%$(&)#()
And in other news, a dog licked his balls
Frustrations over crime and homelessness are setting the tone in the race to become Los Angeles’ next mayor, pushing progressive candidates like Rep. Karen Bass to set their liberal priorities aside — and bolstering the chances of a billionaire centrist in California’s most sprawling and diverse metropolis.
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As Democrats across the nation brace for bruising fights at the polls, law and order is dominating the political discourse — and deep blue Los Angeles is no exception. Bass, a former community organizer who has represented the city for nearly two decades in both Sacramento and Washington, has responded to the public angst with promises to put hundreds more officers on patrol. Her homelessness platform calls for law enforcement to back up outreach workers and assails “open air drug trafficking or the violence that takes place in broad daylight or hidden behind tents.”
Those positions have put her at odds with some of the city’s progressive activists who celebrated her entrance into the race last fall.
“She’s fighting to get more police out in the streets, and her platform she put out on ‘public safety’ looks more like a Joe Biden crime bill than a progressive platform,” said Ben Hauck, a Southern California vice chair for the progressive caucus of the California Democratic Party. Hauck said he was leaning toward Bass when she announced, but that he has since changed his mind.
Those heartless greedy self-centered plebs care more about their own safety than about your pontifications on social justice?
Baffling.
Even if LA turns momentarily away from the leading edge of progressive politics, it will not last. This will be but an exception, and probably not even as long-lasting an exception as the Koch-Giuliani years in New York, briefly pausing the ratchet before it turns again at most a generation later.
Sadly yes. Because ultimately the leftist voters cannot reconcile their views and attitudes with the results of the same. Not real communism and all that.
When your job, career prospects, social life, and spiritual wellbeing all depend on holding beliefs consistently pointed in a certain direction, even if the application of those beliefs would have very predictable consequences (which you are not supposed to even consider), any concession to “reality” can’t be more than a temporary exception. The reaction that occurs is fueled by people who collectively have the electoral sovereignty to effect political change but not the intellectual sovereignty to effect cultural change. Put another way, in the long run, it matters less how they vote today, than who gets to tell them how to vote tomorrow.
Funny how the moment that the elites are directly impacted by the policies they support against others, that those policies get fucked over…
Wasn’t it the mayor of Seattle, or some such other bureaucrat, that got pissed when they started protesting at her house early in the AM and then passed an ordinance to block that? It’s easy to virtue signal when you know you will not be the one impacted by the stupidity you are peddling.
WHAT? White progressive dude dissing a black woman candidate? Damn – Harris’ campaign mouthpiece was right – those Democrats really are racist/sexists!
Gonna get banned for saying this out loud…
A another tweet below that: “Elon Musk should buy the New York Times and make it a newspaper.” LOL
CNN’s Brian Stelter about to get the boot?
I hope not. He’s too entertaining.
Maybe they meant he gets the Boot, you know Max, as some sort of soulmate.
The crime-centric debate in Los Angeles is becoming a familiar story in big-city mayoral politics, propelled in part by a GOP narrative that calls to defund the police and abolish prisons in 2020 are to blame for a rise in violent crime in 2021.
They just cannot help themselves.
L.A. is a hotbed of GOP-dom. Who would’ve guessed?
Emmanuel Goldstein always gets stronger whenever he’s hardest to find.
A California man was crushed to death Friday after he got out of his car while it was inside an automatic car wash.
Charles Darwin strikes again?
At least he didn’t Toobin himself.
A Texas teacher is facing charges after allegedly broadcasting porn for students during class.
Remarkable video of San Francisco in 1906
With remarkably less shit on the streets.
if you found shit on the street it was horse shit…
Yeah, even taking into account the horses.
America first
The Biden administration is taking a key step toward ensuring that federal dollars will support U.S. manufacturing — issuing requirements for how projects funded by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package source their construction material.
New guidance issued Monday requires that the material purchased — whether it’s for a bridge, a highway, a water pipe or broadband internet — be produced in the U.S. However, the rules also set up a process to waive those requirements in case there are not enough domestic producers or the material costs too much, with the goal of issuing fewer waivers over time as U.S. manufacturing capacity increases.
“There are going to be additional opportunities for good jobs in the manufacturing sector,” said Celeste Drake, director of Made in America at the White House Office of Management and Budget.
This sounds vaguely familiar, but it seems to me the last time a President said this, it was widely mocked and disparaged.
Maybe I just imagined that.
“consider that people who protest police violence not infrequently get shot and beaten. which is worse? it’s hard to say.
why aren’t out of control cops shooting protestors losing the messaging war in your estimation, Billy?
hey, maybe with cops it’s not a messaging war, but something that’s more like an actual war, where the cops have an advantage because they have lots of guns.
it’s just frustrating to see people getting all upset at “defund the police” but cops rioting is somehow not a tactical error on their part, because no matter what violence cops commit it’s all good.
like, maybe if cops want to retain their funding levels, they should stop murdering Black people. but no. the problem is the inflammatory rhetoric by people who would like cops to stop murdering people.”
https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1515861260415422474
OK, groomer.
Political fanfiction, written by the most midwitted of the midwits.
It’s almost like they want violent criminals to commit more violent crimes, especially with guns for some reason…..
President Joe Biden hopes to create more jobs, ease supply chain strains and reduce the reliance on China and other nations with interests that diverge from America’s. With inflation at a 40-year high ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, he’s betting that more domestic production will ultimately reduce price pressures to blunt Republican attacks that his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package initially triggered higher prices.
“From Day One, every action I’ve taken to rebuild our economy has been guided by one principle: Made in America,” Biden said Thursday in Greensboro, North Carolina. “It takes a federal government that doesn’t just give lip service to buying American but actually takes action.”
He left off the “union made” part.
I guess everybody just takes that for granted, now.
He’s literally reliving the 1970s in his head.
President Joe Biden hopes to . . . .
Hope is not a plan.
From Day One, every action I’ve taken to rebuild our economy has been guided by one principle: Made in America
Well, as long as we aren’t talking about energy, anyway.
guided by one principle: Made in America
Sounds racist.
“It takes a federal government that doesn’t just give lip service to buying American but actually takes action.”
We’d be better off if the feds just stopped “helping”.
Dodge Viper Crashes During Street Race
You can buff out those scratches.
Karma is a fucking bitch..
Good. Fucking clowns.
Derp. Imma gonna floor my RWD 400hp and power shift with my old tires on a city street with crappy asphalt.
It’ll be fine.
When I took my Mustang down to Florida, I decided to floor it and shift hard coming out of a rest stop on the Merritt Parkway as there was no traffic coming up.
Whoa boy. That was kinda fun, but in a squirrelly-holy-shit-this-could-go-sideways way. I’m not going to do that again.
One reason I am glad I prefer FWD cars. It is way harder to fuck up and get injured/killed.
There is a reason they don’t make 400+ HP FWD cars, though.
300 ft/lbs is an engineering issue for torque steer. If you put a coyote attached to a transaxle, and dumped the clutch, the possibility of going in almost any direction happens.
Mostly peaceful protest.
Breaking: Far-left protesters surround a car on the road at the #PartrickLyoya protest in Grand Rapids, Mich. & threaten to shoot the driver. One person cocks his gun & they kick the car. #BLM #Antifa
This is okay. Nothing to see here.
Videos for children about porn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_BeDBNJbwI
https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1512298016278990852
Seems legit.
A South Carolina judge set a $25,000 bond for a suspect in a mall shooting on Saturday that left 14 people injured, according to the Columbia Police Department.
Jewayne Price, 22, will be on house arrest but allowed to travel to and from work while wearing an ankle monitor if he posts bond.
He was charged with unlawful carrying of a pistol and could face additional charges after the prosecutor reviews evidence.
Hoping his homeboys do the govt a solid?
How many metric tons of cocaine was involved here?
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1515799463339700237
Lol. Further down the page:
Math.
Science.
Damn.
All of it. All the cocaine.
BARE SHELVES BIDEN STRIKES ON EASTER!
Lolol
I did see bare shelves in the seasonal section at 2:50pm on easter sunday… but there were still Peeps and chocolate bunnies to be had, though most had sold. I figure the store did a good job estimating the amount of product they required. (They closed at 3.)
You’re in NATO. Stop warmongering.
Who’s next? Lithuanians prepare for potential Russian aggression
Lithuanians are anxiously following events in Ukraine. Many are preparing for a worst case scenario and some are training to take up arms against Russia.
Current thing-inspired insanity, legitimate defensive preparation, or pretext to spur a joint Polish-Lithuanian invasion of Kaliningrad Oblast?
I’ll go with number 1.
Imma gonna floor my RWD 400hp and power shift with my old tires on a city street with crappy asphalt.
It’s hard to tell, but i’m guessing the back end stepped out (bump, manhole cover, oily pavement, whatever) and when he jumped out of the throttle the back end hooked up again and speared him off into that car lot.
Nope.
+1
The only shots we need now are the firing squads for the clot shot pushers.
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Wrong thread.
“Giant Gator, Not The Easter Bunny, Spotted In Venice Neighborhood On Easter Morning”
https://miami.cbslocal.com/video/6227274-web-extra-giant-gator-not-the-easter-bunny-spotted-in-venice-neighborhood-on-easter-morning/
How did you guess it was the Venice in Florida, not the one in Italy?