So much better than Detroit.
The Minnesoooooooda Wild are out. The Lightning, Bruins, and Oilers all pushed their series to a game 7. And this is sure as shit the wildest opening round of the hockey playoffs I’ve seen in some time. There’s basketball playoffs as well. At least that’s what I’ve been told. And this is a wild one. Also, get your shit together, ESPN. He’s not being held without bail. He’s being held until his bail hearing. The details are strange. So I ain’t gonna comment any more until the facts present themselves. Which they won’t, because she will get some money and will drop the accusation. Across the pond, Spuds thumped Arse-nal to keep their UCL hopes alive. And that’s sports.
I hope they catch this asshole. I also hope they don’t catch the other guy who undoubtedly escaped until he’s able to figure out where the one-armed man is who offed his wife. And there needs to me an oddly-located hydroelectric dam in there somewhere.
This is what Musk is wanting to know.
Twitter is in absolute chaos. Which is as it should be. And this is possibly the trump card Musk holds. (No pun intended.) If the real numbers become public, not only will he pull out of the deal, Twitter will be absolutely fucked. Especially if they knew. Which they certainly did. Stay tuned.
This tone-deaf asshole is even dumber than I thought. That’s 1/4 the amount you’re sending The Ukraine (once you overcome Rand Paul’s heroics)? And there’s a lot of people who consider our safety at home at least as important as theirs. And no, I’m not saying they should spend either amount. I’m just saying the amounts, when looked at together, are pretty poor politics.
Norm, you magnificent bastard. Thank you for this. Even in death you’ll manage to make us laugh at something new.
It’s time to end the hate crimes against us.
This is justice. No wait, it doesn’t even go far enough. It ought to be considered a hate crime. Because, in my opinion, it’s 100x worse than calling a chick with a dick “him” or “that mentally ill dude”. Which is, in fact, considered a hate crime on that island run by inbreds.
I doubt I’ll be offended. Unless they omit the Kennedy brother spit-roasting scene. Then I’ll be pissed.
It’s a common tale. One you’ve heard a thousand time. And will hear a thousand more. With as few details as this one.
Get over yourselves, weirdos. Nobody cares anymore. Apparently not even in Freakville, USA.
::shrug:: Oh well. More companies should have taken Michael Jordan’s comments about who buys shoes to heart.
Early… or late? You can’t go wrong either way, in my opinion. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this Friday and the weekend, dear friends.
“Twitter is in absolute chaos. Which is as it should be. And this is possibly the trump card Musk holds. (No pun intended.) If the real numbers become public, not only will he pull out of the deal, Twitter will be absolutely fucked. Especially if they knew. Which they certainly did. Stay tuned.”
Clean house Elon. Fire the entire marketing & HR departments while you are at it.
He might be buying it for a lot less than the offer he made once it comes out that half the twitter stats are bullshit.
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I have told people this already: the reason everyone on the left is in a panic isn’t that Elon will let Trump-Putin Nazi back on, or even that they won’t be throttling the right’s free speech, but that Elon will own the evidence that Twatter execs actively took measures that hurt the company’s viability and ability to make money. Once that comes out, there will be grounds for legal action against the board, the senior leadership, HR, and many individuals that were allowed to act criminally and hurt the company for political reasons. That and the fact that we will find out certain elements of our government worked with these people to propagandize what was to help the most corrupt people possible remain able to keep lying to the American people.
I sincerely hoe he both intends to out them and the evidence still exists to do so.
It has been clear for several years that there is a formal back-channel connection between the DNC, big tech, the media and “establishment” government officials. They all act in coordination, simultaneously.
If he can out the modern version of Journo-list, he might just save the republic.
Or destroy it…. because I am pretty confident that the numbers are fairly large, the names are rather big and the crimes probably include capital T treason. I cannot even imagine a world in which dozens of top level bureaucrats and politicians are charged with crimes that include the possibility of the death penalty.
The Twatter leadership is caught in an untenable position. If they destroy anything, or even if all they do is try to hide it, during the discovery period that Elon and his lawyers & accountants will go through to validate the company’s viability and if their offer should stand, they are criminally liable. Remember that way too often the real punishment doesn’t come from the crime, but from the attempt to hide it. And in this case the parties involved have to try to hide it because the damage to the people still fighting to stay in the matrix will red pill too many of them.
I’m OK either way, at this point.
So… with one word of truth or treachery he will save or damn the land? Because he is mad and sane, cold and passionate, lost and found?
(Sorry… too good of an opening to resist… For anyone who doesn’t get the ref).
^ nice
Agreed.
Even better he might demolish it entirely, which could cascade to other social media. Dream big, right?
Whatever he does to Twatter will HAVE to be copied by Faceass and Boobtube…
If the other social media indoctrination channels stick to the agenda of programming people with crap that passes for news, but Twatter becomes a place where you can expose the programming, the result will be devastating to the people needing to control the narrative. In the time where our credentialed elite aristocratic-wannabe douches are desperate to keep the public misinformed about how they are fucking the serfs over, losing that power will leave them with only two options: watch their plans implode, or go full totalitarian and hope the people don’t revolt.
Funny how auditing Twitter is creating the same reaction as proposing to audit the Fed.
He definitely has a well thought out plan. Whether he eventually buys them or not, the treachery of Twitter is exposed and the company will have fired a ton of people and changed culture. He doesn’t even have t go through with the sale at the end to totally expose the B.S. of Twitter. I didn’t see that part of the plan coming. It’s genius.
Netflix is getting into the porn business? It’s not a terrible idea.
The CDC wants that data…
I thought we belonged to the city.
And late is definitely one of my faves.
“This tone-deaf asshole is even dumber than I thought. That’s 1/4 the amount you’re sending The Ukraine (once you overcome Rand Paul’s heroics).And there’s a lot of people who consider our safety at home at least as important as theirs. And no, I’m not saying they should spend either amount. I’m just saying the amounts, when looked at together, are pretty poor politics.”
They are clearly telling us that they are more worried about losing Ukraine and the many lucrative rackets they run/ran there, than they are about fucking over lower class Americans whom are all struggling with the destructive economic condition created by insane government print & spend policies (so they can pick winners & losers, and steal even more money). But when your goal is a permanent hereditary aristocracy of the mediocre and the stupid ruling over a dumb and subservient serf class, this shit is the way.
I was absolutely astonished to learn that we have already allocated more cash to this war that we are not even fighting than we did to Afghanistan in an average year.
That is insane… and without debate. Just “here ya go! Have some defense contractor pork!”
Oh, and bonus… we are approaching the entire annual military budget for all of Russia. In just a few months.
Just, wow.
Yeah — that strongly suggests to anyone outside of DC that there’s something seriously, seriously wrong with how things are being allocated and spent since between that and the rest of the NATO block pitching things there way, Ukraine ought to be flush with military supplies. Relatively small local theater versus nuclear stockpile maintenance, what-Russian-navy-is-left, etc…. should be plenty.
But those bioweapon labs and CIA black ops sites won’t hide themselves… nor will whatever piggy banks and money laundering schemes these weasels set up.
We could really use Harry Truman level oversight and spending analysis right about now (thinking about his senate committee, not his Presidency, obviously). Of course we won’t get it.
The ship is going down and it’s better to get in while the looting is good.
“There’s still checks in the checkbook!”
The criminals in the globalist movement, and none harder than the people now running the US, are acting as if the crew of the Titanic, after they realized the ship was doomed because it hit an iceberg (in this case of their own making), decided to have the passengers play musical chairs on the deck while the band played, and then all went about looting the valuables and loading the escape rafts they planned to lower into the water – in secret – so they could get away alive and with the loot, while the passengers drowned.
Have to give Rand props for at least trying to get some damned oversight on the thing. And echo the common thought of “Wait… that isn’t the gorram *default* you scummy weasels?”
We just spent $8 trillion without even knowing what it was spent on. Or 12. Who can even keep track.
Why is anyone worrying about a measly $40 billion???
I totally get the point of paying for the military strategy that will help the Russians military machine ground their military capability and economy into the ground, but make the fucking Europeans pay for that shit since they were financing Putin by doing real dumbass shit in the name of saving Gaia (make Greta suck dick at 50 Euros a pop to help make it so). Not the American people in a time of serious pressure created by the ineptitude of the leadership that “fortified” an election to take back the reigns and steer us back onto their globalist plan.
There might still be time for her to pick up $10k USD — optimize her time by getting that before the lowball 50 Euro gigs. I’m sure Winston’s Mom can give her pointers on efficient use of her… *cough* time and talents….
I totally get the point of paying for the military strategy that will help the Russians military machine ground their military capability and economy into the ground,
Can you explain this to me? Excepting the nukes, I’ve never understood why Russia is such a threat to the United States. They aren’t close to our economic or military equal, yet the MSM and the politicians devote more time to Russia than probably any other country painting them as the bogeyman under every child’s bed in America.
How does Russia having a military and a growing economy affect the regular citizens of the United States in the slightest way?
Russia is the perfect bogeyman – still relates to communism for some, or is the current stand-in for fascists for others.
I wear a tiny Canadian Flag pin on my lapel upside down. You’d be amazed about how many people get it.
“Can you explain this to me? Excepting the nukes, I’ve never understood why Russia is such a threat to the United States.”
I think you answered your own question, even if you don’t want to see it.
“How does Russia having a military and a growing economy affect the regular citizens of the United States in the slightest way?”
Because as the invasion of Ukraine clearly proves, Putin is hell bent on gaining back the prestige & power of the Cold War days. The nukes today make Russia formidable, but only when it comes to ending the modern world. Putin wants the power to throw his weight around in Europe and have those fuckers do wat benefits him. Just like the CCP does in the Pacific.
Whether you see how Putin’s current ambitions eventually pulls the US into a conventional war in Europe that can, and would, dangerously escalate to the use of nukes (a problem with the current one, I admit exists), or are crazy enough to believe we can just turn a blind eye and pretend there is no impact to us – directly in the US – if Putin had the ability to run over European nations, reality is calling.
I don’t want the US directly involved in any conflict because our leaders constantly embroil us in these affairs for their own personal gains. But I also see the game being played now, even though I know the reason it is being done – to keep Ukraine in the western sphere of influence where our leaders can run lucrative rackets stealing tax payer money – as the least of the horribly bad choices given the fact Putin chose to roll the dice here.
Does reducing Russia’s prosperity make their nuclear capability somehow less dangerous?
I think it’s quite a leap to go from Russia battling with Ukraine to not only attacking but actually conquering all of Europe. I don’t think this remotely possible, but even so. Let’s say Russia somehow manages to move on from Ukraine, takes on all of Europe, and succeeds in holding their newly conquered territory. I still ask why should the normal American citizen spend their blood or treasure stopping this?
The EU hates the typical American citizen with every fiber of their institutional soul. Let Europe handle its own affairs. If they bungle their own shit badly enough to somehow let Russia take them over, I’m still not seeing how this affects the overwhelming majority of citizens in our country. Certainly not to the point of stealing taxpayers’ money or lives.
From the US perspective, this was primarily about preventing Russian economic inroads into the EU. Yes, there is also the insane idea that they can force regime change in Russia so they can rape it again like they did in the 90’s, but primarily they want to keep Europe under US influence and control.
“Does reducing Russia’s prosperity make their nuclear capability somehow less dangerous?”
Is this a serious question? Are you just fucking with me or does the relationship between having a strong and large military requiring a big and vibrant economy escape you? As is Russia has had to make hard choices about keeping their conventional and nuclear balance. I can guarantee you that having a less prosperous economy while someone with a penchant to restore the glory days of the Cold War is in charge – someone willing to use military force to achieve those goals, even when there is a real and obvious potential for a devastating cost – seriously limits their ability to do harm.
“The EU hates the typical American citizen with every fiber of their institutional soul. Let Europe handle its own affairs. ”
We did that the last century and I recall a lot of our wealth and young boys had to go there to die because we thought if we left it up to them, they would play nice…
When is de-stablizing a nuclear power ever a good idea Alex?
Sorry — I’m going to disagree strongly with you here. If fucking Wilson had left well enough alone, WW1 would have likely petered out in a stalemate and armistice that would not have had the French pushing crippling terms on the Germans, setting the stage for backlash within Germany that fed the Nazi party’s rise.
Europe should have been left to its own stupid war, and we should have stayed the hell out of it then — and should now.
And re: strong vs. weak economies and a nuclear stockpile — one down side to weakened economies with nuclear tech and stockpiles… increased chances of them selling some off for quick cash and neglecting maintenance on what they have (like say… Russian subs not that long back?) I’m not convinced weakening Russia is that great of a plan either.
Getting the hell out of NATO and telling Europe to defend its own damned self (The Polish are about the only ones I would trust to do that right now… and they’d have to be really wary about the Germans using them as meat shields, because I think that’s *exactly* what the rest of the EU would want to do in a Russian invasion scenario) would have been best. Obviously we’re not there — but telling Europe it is its backyard and its problem still seems preferable given we have our own backyard to deal with.
Is this a serious question? Are you just fucking with me or does the relationship between having a strong and large military requiring a big and vibrant economy escape you? As is Russia has had to make hard choices about keeping their conventional and nuclear balance.
I understand the relationship between a strong economy and fielding and strong and large military. That’s not what I asked. My question was does reducing Russia’s prosperity somehow make their nuclear capability less dangerous. If you accept the assumption that Russia’s nukes pose a threat to the United States, is harming their economy going to make that that nuclear threat somehow disappear? As in will Russia will be forced sell off or otherwise be able to maintain their nukes? That seems wildly unlikely.
“When is de-stablizing a nuclear power ever a good idea Alex?”
Whose talking about destabilizing? I am talking about making sure the idiot Euros (and us) stop giving the Russians money that will be used to then build military capability.
“Europe should have been left to its own stupid war, and we should have stayed the hell out of it then — and should now.”
Right, because then it wouldn’t have been Germany that invented the first atomic bomb and would have used it. Hindsight is 20/20. Isolationism died in the age of industrialism when ocean crossing voyages went from taking weeks to taking days. Some people still believe that we could be isolationists and somehow let others do whatever without regretting it later. I don’t think those people are being logical.
And no. I am not calling for interventionism either. I am just pointing out that the world is a smaller place, and while I want nothing to do with the globalist movement, we have not got the luxury of pretending we don’t need to think globally when making our decisions.
“My question was does reducing Russia’s prosperity somehow make their nuclear capability less dangerous.”
And I answered it. A less economically prosperous Russia would not be able to field a competent and viable conventional military nor maintain their nuclear force at high enough of a level if the funds were not there for it. Any leader that did that would eventually face repercussions from their people unless they adopted the Nork model of People’s Republic. The Russian people wouldn’t let that happen again, is my guess.
Given Heisenberg was very much on the wrong track?
Given that the very need for atomic weapons is unclear in a more generally exhausted / stalemate post-WW1 Europe?
No, I don’t think you can make the assumption that Germany would have gotten the bomb. Or would have bothered making one in a prompt fashion. Or that the US and UK wouldn’t have cottoned on to enough of the research to be within the ballpark. (Keep in mind that without WW2, the UK might still be the British Empire minus probably India… you’d have to have the Brits stay out of WW1 to have a strong chance, granted.. but still a chance).
You’re probably looking at a Sputnik moment (“Wait… they can do THAT and we can’t?) at worst, but it is all guesswork at this point.
Your assumption that if WWI had ended in a stalemate there would no longer have been any conflicts or efforts to build WMDs baffles me.
Because Russia installed Trump, duh.
Can’t let that happen again.
This guy gets it.
All joking aside, Trump showed that the cultural capital of the professional class isn’t secure enough to ensure complete capture of US society, and global society to a degree, AND THAT CAN’T HAPPEN!!!!
Too many politicians who “grew up” and became set in their attitudes, opinions, and operative “principle” during the Cold War.
It really is (almost) that simple. Add in the graft gravy train they p’ve milked even through the (what-ever-happened-to-the) peace dividend and that covers it.
It really is that simple.
Ukraine should at least be buying the weapons/materials/etc. But its a war that they lost in the first two weeks anyway. Funding it will just lead to more death and destruction. But I suspect the political class must protect their racket at all costs*.
*All costs to YOU and the Ukrainians, that is.
“But its a war that they lost in the first two weeks anyway.”
Is glorious Russian victory!!! Start the parades, Dmitry!
I’m sure they will drive out the Russians and be pressing towards Moscow by winter with virtually no military infrastructure remaining.
“This is justice. No wait, it doesn’t even go far enough. It ought to be considered a hate crime. Because, in my opinion, it’s 100x worse than calling a chick with a dick “him” or “that mentally ill dude”. Which is, in fact, a hate crime.”
If you hurt my feelings, I want your life ruined!
You don’t know our struggle.The bald community has been professionally marginalized for too long.
Are we talking about people that shave their privates again?
This has nothing to do with Michael Chiklis.
*insert Telly Savalas gif*
At least since the 90’s.
Look what they did to Ghandi.
Indira had plenty of hair when they assassinated her.
Patrick Stewart haz a confuse.
Bald Bryan hardest hit.
I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to think of a way to help.
“First they came for the bald guys. Then they came for receding hairlines and then…”
I’m going underground but it’ll be a one way trip
Twitter internal exec meeting leak.
“I doubt I’ll be offended. Unless they omit the Kennedy brother spit-roasting scene. Then I’ll be pissed.”
Yeah, but that’s because you are not woke enough Sloop to watch this, realize they didn’t cast a trans dude with a beard in the role, and immediately assume that the people that did this are homophobic and hate people with mental disorders that want to force society to pretend they are not in desperate need of psychiatric help for demanding everyone pretend they are something they are not by nature.
Fire Sloopy for releasing Duran Duran upon us. How dare you?
He’s just telling us something we should know — it isn’t all that notorious of him.
Are we hungry like some animal?
Too much information there, AlexinCT. Now if you were serious about things, you’d acknowledge the reflex to pay attention to the news and help save planet Earth before it can all come undone. But back to our ordinary world now….
You guys just want to fight, like some sort of wild boys.
When the sun sets down very heavy behind this pun thread, I’ll be dancing on the sand.
I think we need to break off this pun before election day.
So… the American Rescue Plan was for pandemic response…. but state and local governments get to use it to bolster Police response… and that’s all good? What?
Isn’t this just admitting that the whole thing was a big old bailout for blue states and a slush fund to do whatever they felt like — since they had an excuse for those presses to go whirrrrrrr?
This reaction is going to start rivaling my desire to use the Family Guy “Who the hell cares?” one.
That “police response” money will go to anything but having police be responsive. They need people as desperate as possible so these people can lose the ability to tell these government vampires that the answer is not to give government more power to keep abusing them…
Even better – they haven’t spent something like a third of it and Joe wants billions more.
The whole thing is a complete sham, as expected.
It is almost as if they were actually listening to the far left who have been saying “burn it all down” for years. They want to collapse society so they can remake it. This has been their declared strategy for forever.
Occam’s razor, and all that.
Joe only wants his afternoon puddin’ cup and a little girl to sniff.
Ron Klain is making the calls and he is masterfully staying out of the media while doing so.
Local news had a story (now paywalled) about local communities spending millions of ‘vid stimulus money on surveillance cameras for local law enforcement. Because what better way to waste some pork?
Every level of govt knows – the money must be spent. On what is far less important than just simply getting it spent.
The key is to spend it on useless shit so when the budget rolls around, they can complain that they don’t have enough funding for their core mission. And they’ll save off the money they pissed away as “necessary upgrades to ensure the safety of the employees and residents.
Well, if they expand the core mission – say here by hiring more officers (that they otherwise can’t afford) – they create the automatic justification for funding renewal: you’re going to make us cut jobs.
I long for Bill Clinton and a 100K additional cops on the street. Say, what ever happened to that proposal?
/queue up Sowell thought experiment about Benedict Arnold statues
Ninth paragraph: “President Obama has said that he would veto legislation to let him choose what to cut. That should tell us everything we need to know about the utter cynicism of this glib man.”
Hey!
I was looking for that article, but thought Walter Williams wrote it.
I always think of it when some politician threatens to furlough firemen and police as the first option in any kind of budget fight.
Just like running an ambulance service and building Benedict Arnold statues.
So our family moved to town in 1976 and every year since then the city would plow the streets and the sidewalks. With Dad’s passing, I was in charge of the house this winter.
I got a call from a neighbor telling me that the city had gone around after the first snowfall and put a door hanger notice letting residents know that this year the city would not be plowing the sidewalks. It was the job of the resident to do that. If they failed to do so, the city would plow and charge an ungodly amount to do so. (Turns out that there was a city ordinance putting the onus for shoveling sidewalks on the book for years, but never enforced).
I was grateful that the neighbor called because I would have never known about it otherwise. Any mail going to the house would have been forwarded to me, but a door hanger?
The word on the street was that a new city operations manager had been hired and they had cut his budget. So the first thing he did was cancel sidewalk plowing.
The mayor has since said in a city hall meeting that snow shoveling will come back and it was a bad idea in the first place. Of course the ops manager is still employed.
Early. All day long.
“Get over yourselves, weirdos. Nobody cares anymore. Apparently not even in Freakville, USA.”
If my knee still allowed me to run, they would have to identify me as trinary cause of my 3 legs…..
Have to do the obligatory company survey today (been putting it off). Besides looking forward to the perpetual “Do you strongly agree that our company is doing the most to further human progress” or whatever bull crap that I can never agree to (I don’t work for SpaceX, after all… until the past couple of years I might have considered medical research companies to possibly be in that zone as well — but well, look how *that* turned out..), I’m seriously tempted if there’s a suitable open comment section to dig up some BLM corruption links and ask if they’re going to consider vetting organizations they push on their employees better from now on, as well as taking their “sensitivity training” cues from them.
Of course, this is almost certainly Russian Roulette if an HR lackey bothers to actually read any comments (ha! and oh, no… I must be a Putin Propagandist! I said “Russian!”), but man oh man… am I tempted….
This is one of many reasons I hope for a windfall of fuck you money. No one would read the epic rant, but it would be cathartic to unleash it and be impolitique with my responses to any follow-ups it might generate.
I wouldn’t need a rant, just a GIF of me flipping them off double-handed.
Festus at his last office job (NSFW – Language).
Pretty much.
Burn that bridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQA6yyA-Ajk
That’s so two weeks ago! Get with the cool kids, Man.
I would use a lot of my windfall to finish developing the ‘Conference Call Disruptor’ I built out on my old phone. It’s a sound board of toilet flushing, mumbled, garbled speech and dogs barking, etc … Then I would test it extensively on each call I attended until I was fired.
Then I would sit back and watch the app profits roll in.
Ah, no. I’m not filling out a survey that goes to HR unless I trust that it is anonymous. Based on the mandatory training I’ve had to take, I don’t trust them to take honest criticism.
HR exists to allow the company to put a real serious roadblock in the way of any employee that when abused decides to take that abuse to court for redress….
Our company surveys are completely anonymous and untraceable.
Except when employees compare the URLs in their survey e-mails, they’re all unique.
hmmmm….
Our surveys ask for your department and level, which already narrows the possibilities. I don’t know of specific tracers, but you can only access the survey though the corporate VPN.
I always get follow up emails with “you haven’t completed your completely anonymous survey”.
Right…
Did you respond with “The fact that you know that tells me they’re not anonymous”?
I basically quit my current job because of our CTO’s asinine self-made survey. First off, he refuses to call it mandatory, but kept bugging anyone who didn’t fill it out. If it is mandatory just say so. If it isn’t, shut up.
All the questions are very open ended and are all “How will you ensure that you work at maximum efficiency?” types of questions.
You know what? I took this job and a pay cut because I didn’t want to do any leadership bullshit. Now you want me to document how to best run this fucking company?!? Grow some balls, tell us what is going to happen and earn that C-suite $$.
The stupid survey and lack of leadership made me so mad that I responded to some of the emails I am always getting from recruiters. It was stunning how fast they all wanted to move and how much they were willing to pay.
The company I am leaving will continue to roll along because they have a core group of Old Timers who have been there literally decades and will never leave. Their customers are govt. bureaucrats who really don’t care about results.
Journalism weirdness:
The CNN headline about the prison break says “allegedly” assaulted prison guard…. the article itself does not use “allegedly”, just states it as a fact.
Small difference, but you would think they would have some consistency.
I notice this because the Depp V Heard trial includes the issue of authorship of a headline for an article. I know they have separate headline writers, and in the old days of print this was really important because you had to fit to the available space while simultaneously grabbing attention…
But one would think they would have a process in place to circle back with the author just as a double check for accuracy.
Journalism as it exists has very little in common with Journalism as I learned it.
That was one of my dream jobs when I was a kid. Damn near the only thing that I’ve ever been good at was reading and putting a sentence together.
President Joe Biden will announce Friday that $10 billion from the American Rescue Plan has been committed to police departments and public safety across the U.S.
Because the feds should be concerned with local policing.
People won’t shop in high-crime areas.
Sure they will. That’s where the Meth is.
Well…sort of…
Holding them accountable for abuses because local/state govt doesn’t? Yeah, that would be a great role.
I fail to find anything in the constitution that gives the feds any authority to have anything to do with policing on any level.
Other than the magical FYTW clause, of course.
You know, it’s just maybe possible that some of the hysteria over the leaked RvW ruling has to do with the reasoning that the constitution says nothing about abortion, so RvW is struck down. Perhaps some of the culprits are anticipating future rulings based on the actual text of the constitution as the words were understood when written.
anticipating future rulings based on the actual text
Truly biblical consequences.
Hair loss is far more common among men than women, so using the term is “inherently related to sex”
“Look at me. I’m logic-ing.”
We need a Government Panel to address the scourge of MPB!
So we should call them “hair loss persons?”
[golf clap]
“follicly divergent”
I thought it was follicly challenged.
I just call it getting old but you be you.
I thought you were my friend, Festus.
Chronologically impaired maybe but not old
Missed it by a hair.
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I sweated that one.
“Par is 20” my butt… my par is apparently 25 — but at least I didn’t bust. Quordle threading root node here…
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I’m not buying that either. I’m no genius like some of you lot but I can’t 20 or under to save my skin.
Kim Jong Un has so far guessed the answer on the first try every time. Just like he played 18 holes and shot an 18…
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24. Bleh.
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23, not bad.
There’s no way par is 20. There are only a few ways to get exactly a 20 and they involve a seed word hitting on the first guess, a second guess hitting, or at the very least a 3rd-guess hit. Without a 3rd-guess hit or better, it’s impossible to hit 20 exactly.
It’s actually a Par 9.
6 X
9 3
BTW. I won’t spoil anything, but 2 50/50 guesses wrong ruins my game.
Also btw, I did hit on guess 3 today, but it did little good for the other words.
According to Quordle’s Achievements page:
Niner = win in 9 turns
Par = win in 8
Birdie = win in 7
Eagle = win in 6
Albatross = win in 5
God Mode = win in 4
4️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
That’s odd. Do they not know the significance of an Albatross versus an Eagle?
Golf language. Double Eagle (Albatross) is 3 under par. So a 2 on a par 5 or a 1 on a par 4.
So par is as high as 26.
Yeah, seems a bit high. I think the Tundra Line is a decent Par.
Yeah, I was going to suggest 22 yesterday. I know I suck at this game and I’ve had a few under 22’s, a lot of 22’s, and an awful lot over 22.
Daily Quordle 109
3️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Well it’s a good score for me. So I’ll take it.
Blackjack!
Daily Quordle 109
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 109
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Mediocrity
Table for 1… in Chumptown.
Daily Quordle 109
4️⃣?
8️⃣5️⃣
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4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣ == 18. Woot.
A senior administration official said Biden wants to call on communities to use these funds “now” because “we are approaching another summer and want to stress the priority of using these dollars for public safety and violence prevention.”
Going for the law and order vote?
Free law and order!
Let them eat dry tits: Asked What Parents Should Do If They Can’t Find Formula, Jen Psaki Says Call A Doctor
Babies dying seems to be the hill that the Dems are willing to die upon.
With RvW in jeopardy, Moloch needs other sources of sacrifice.
You forget that most leftists don’t have kids. In fact, this reaction doesn’t surprise me at all. Conservatives have babies. Leftists have a plethora of reasons to not. So when babies are starving it’s the enemy that suffers in their mind. That baby formula was not sent to help illegal immigrants that team blue intends to coopt to deal with the current loss of voting dependents the party currently faces.
Journalism as it exists has very little in common with Journalism as I learned it.
Are you now, or have you ever been, a wisecracking, chainsmoking drunkard?
Uh… Yes!
Still?
You know me Bob. I ain’t never gonna stop.
I’ve never smoked, and I’ve only gone as far as moderation in drink. But I have been known to crack wise.
I noticed recently that there seems to be a Brandon Branding Bureau. Wtf do these cuntes think Trump/MAGA will do with “Ultra MAGA” and “The Great MAGA King”? It will be embraced.
It’s the weird evolution of first trying to never mention him/them by name. Now they have to and we get this.
I’m holding out for the Galactic Mega MAGA Zord, myself.
Mega is reserved for city use – mega-cities. Trump doesn’t do well in urban markets.
So no Ultra-Maga-cities?
Ultra-MAGA was a gift from Heaven to Donny-Two-Scoops. He’ll adopt and weaponize that in no time.
Some of the YouTube Trumpers had Ultra MAGA merch available an hour after it passed the moron in chief’s lips.
*proudly deplorable*
*quietly one of you*
I’ve already seen a lot of his supporters doing that with “Ultra MAGA.” They love it.
After Absorbing All His Haters’ Powers, Trump Evolves Into Ultra MAGA Man
I’m betting the Army has no problem shrinking the next few years. I can’t see recruitment even getting close to targets. BTW – does anyone notice anything a bit odd about the picture?
No rainbow flags?
Waldo ain’t there.
Those uniforms don’t hack it?
Better than the old pickle suits.
Shrink it. The less capacity the Army has, the more resistance there will be to using it.
Never ending wars are lucrative ways of funneling tax payer lucre to connected entities. If the Army is to small and lots of people die, the people in charge can always use that as an excuse to justify growing it so they can make bank again over time…. Fucking around with military capability, readiness and size will not solve the problem that the civilian leadership is always motivated by fucking evil reasons for never ending wars.
We already spend as much as the rest of the world combined.
Shrink it, bring it home. Hang most of the assholes in the State Department and CIA. We’ll be much safer.
That last part might actually start making a difference, but doesn’t go far enough to really stop the practice. There are several other 3 letter agencies and a several other buildings full of assholes in D.C. that should also be part of that purge.
The guy in the second row with no medals? He should have at least a NDSM
No chicks?
Damn, you gave him what he wanted…
Finally found one elsewhere.
Child soldiers are such a tragedy.
NOYCE!
DO not assume their genders unless you asked each and every one their preferred pronouns
Jake Gyllenhaal joined the army?
Seriously…first row, third up.
The degree to which everything is transparently fake sometimes astounds me.
Biggest geopolitical issue (allegedly): Russian aggression
Solution: Downsize the military
As we develop more tech large standing armies become less viable or needed. When you needed thousands of guns, aircraft, tanks, and so on, with unguided munition to be able to achieve objectives, numbers mattered. When you have precision capabilities that allow a few to achieve what in the past took regiments to do, you can afford to shrink. Especially when that frees money for more modern hardware that requires fewer people to keep in the fight. Unfortunately, while you can shrink the size of forces that would be involved in combat, you still will need large navies, air forces, and in the coming age, space forces, to give them the cover they need to do things.
One good thing however that comes from small armies is the problem of trying to do nation building. While I believe the cowardly evil fuckers that send young people to be killed & maimed in never ending wars, all so they can make bank, won’t go away, smaller fighting forces will make the ability to sell these wars to the public will become harder.
I beg to differ.
Massive armies only came into being with industrialization. Before guns and factories, armies consisted of skilled men who trained regularly. Peasant levies, while not unheard of, were not considered reliable and were of little value on the battlefield, except to inflate the apparent size of an army to the enemy’s scouts.
Massive armies came into being because of industrialism, yes. And you needed massive armies because the weaponry was inaccurate requiring massive numbers to accomplish things and the cost of that hardware was not insanely high. You needed fleet of bombers dropping hundreds of thousands of tons of dumb bombs to hit a target in WWII and massive armies to fight the enemy’s massive armies. In Vietnam that dropped by orders of magnitude but still required insane numbers. Then came the Gulf. And so on. Technology (and not just its capabilities but its costs) have made million man armies obsolete and just cannon fodder (see North Korea).
I think that argument is the jeune ecole flavor for land warfare. We keep hearing variants of it — strategic bombing will break civilians’ will, smart bombing will make it where we barely need to send in troops — but it always, always comes down to boots on the ground in the mud and the blood as they say.
Discouraging nation building, no arguments — that’s all good to me. Discouraging being world police, even better. But I don’t buy into the “modern weapons make it where we don’t need as much infantry!”.
But I never served, am a complete armchair theorist and am more of a navy history guy anyway — so just take it for what it’s worth (this opinion and $10 will get you a Starbucks these days…)
“Discouraging being world police, even better. But I don’t buy into the “modern weapons make it where we don’t need as much infantry!”.”
You need massive number of infantry if you are trying to hold hostile ground unless you can have technology force multiply each infantry man’s capability. That large manpower need comes with nation building for sure, even when you can rely on tech to force multiply, so realizing that strategy of nation building is a loser, is behind the realization you don’t need all those troops.
If we are going to fight wars, we need to blow everything up, killing as many people as possible in the process, to break the enemy’s morale, then go home. In today’s world we would not use the old tactics of looting the defeated and banging their women like armies did in the past.
STEVE SMITH HARDEST HIT
strategy of nation building is a loser
But, but, but Germany and Japan!!!
They are marching in the opposite direction of a normal pass in review?
Close – are they marching (which would normally mean looking forward) or are they “eyes left” (which I suppose would be the opposite direction)?
A normal pass in review is from the left to right of the reviewing officer. The first soldier on the reviewing side looks forward to help maintain formation by seeing what is ahead. All the other soldiers look toward the reviewer. There are commands “eyes, right/left” and “ready, front”.
And this lot? They’re all looking all over, or so it appears to me. Military precision!
I’m guessing drill practice. It’s too slack for Old Guard in a real parade.
I sorta imagine some Sgt Major screaming his eyes bloody if that was practice.
It’s the narrative, Stupid
The White House has sought to compare its policies to those of a possible GOP administration in an effort at self-defense.
It’s not the greatest option, but politically, it might be the best bet Biden has while the Fed raises rates and the country hopes for a break on rising household costs.
“We’re in a period now where this is much more of a narrative battle than a policy battle,” said Bill Galston, chair of the Brookings Institution’s governance studies program and a former domestic policy aide to then-President Clinton.
“The sad fact is that, aside from actions by the Federal Reserve board, there is relatively little that policy can do in the short term to affect the inflation numbers very much,” he added.
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Both Biden and Powell voiced confidence last year that inflation would cool as the pandemic faded and businesses worked through labor and supply shortages. They also resisted pulling back on economic support last year as the economy improved, fearing another wave of COVID-19 could upend progress.
While many economists agreed with Biden and Powell, other policymakers, investors and economic officials warned the combined fiscal and monetary stimulus would push the economy over the edge. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who was passed over by former President Obama to lead the Fed in 2014, was among the fiercest critics of both the White House and Fed’s patience in the face of inflation.
Most economists now agree Summers and other critics were right to fear the impact of additional stimulus from Biden’s American Rescue Plan—the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill signed in March 2021—and the Fed’s resistance to raising interest rates sooner. But neither Biden’s critics nor supporters anticipated a year ago how long COVID-related lockdowns would snarl supply lines in China or how the outbreak of the war in Ukraine would severely restrict the supply of oil, natural gas, food and other essential commodities.
Just keep throwing gasoline on the fire. That will put it out.
To be fair, the GOP would be spending like drunken sailors too.
The GOP has no competing theory of governance. They are just disaffected Democrats. The lifelong country club Republican is mostly a thing of the past (not that they were so great either). They fundamentally can’t offer a real alternative because they don’t see themselves as a real alternative. “We’re just normal people from 10 years ago” is both true and pathetic. The country was full of such people 10 years ago, and yet we still ended up where we are today.
“Yes, our administration might be a cluster fuck in a dumpster fire, but they’d be so much worse!!!”
We’re in a period now where this is much more of a narrative battle than a policy battle
The Soviet Union had this problem.
History be muh-racisms y’all.
The op-ed, written by a senior currently attending George Washington University, is 800 or so words of the usual-usual, shockingly ignorant moral preening we’ve come to expect from the Woke McCarthyites. So let me sum it up: This university is racist, and George Washington was racist, and while I didn’t find this offensive enough to pass up attending school here, harrumph, harrumph, harrumph, half-truth, half-truth, half-truth, I’m so virtuous, I’m so virtuous, I’m so virtuous…
This crybaby loon also wants Winston Churchill blacklisted from the campus:
They keep using that word…And believe Washington had blacks under his command. But there is no need for historical nuance and context. All that matters is my ignorance and delicate sensibilities.
They are going to discover before too long that skinsuiting worked best when it was subtle and slow. Speeding it up and making it very open tends to nuke the credibility of the skinsuited institution.
Rescind his degree and give him his money back.
If you’re pro universal health care, why aren’t you a doctor?
Ask the NHS.
So the argument is that people that understand giving government the power of healthcare would lead to them using it as a weapon (see the Kung Flu experience for numerous examples proving this) can’t claim to be pro-life? It is really insulting that this moron is trying to make the argument that to be pro-life, you need to be stupid enough to think government can never do wrong…
There is no such thing as logical consistency here. These are the same people who will trot out 1960s talking points about abortion after spending years deconstructing all of the definitions and material conditions that underlaid those talking points.
We have had “universal health care” since 1965.
We already have universal healthcare; it’s available to everyone.
Great minds, yadda yadda.
IIRC it was Viking1865 who pointed out that, to the progressives, it is perpetually 1890. No matter how much the federal and state governments are expanded, no matter how much is spent on “social welfare”, no matter how oppressive the regulatory apparatus becomes, we never left the Gilded Age.
I’ve gone with “they think it’s always 1950” a few times.
Everywhere is Selma, Alabama.
Funny thing is the 1950s is their golden age of taxation and income distribution. They never associate that with the consequences of the war that had preceded it or the general social policy of the time.
people try really hard to misunderstand the difference between negative and positive or act as if it is the same
Cribbing from elsewhere, “the woke are more correct than the mainstream”.
The state cannot shirk responsibility for the foreseeable outcomes of its actions, even if those “actions” are merely allowances, without also shirking its sovereignty.
The bigger problem here is not what Reich pretends not to understand, it’s that Reich is a liar who suffers no consequences for lying.
Yeah this: he’s not so much stupid as he is lying.
that is kind of what I mean by try really hard to misunderstand…
Any more who suffers any consequences for lying?
Relevant.
For the most part, it seems no one does. But what consequences remain are, as always, unevenly enforced.
Back in the day, the muzzle loading pistol was fabulously inaccurate – the fancy matched dueling sets were probably the best handguns you could get. The odds of getting hit/missing were much different than today. With modern handguns, what would be an appropriate distance for a duel?
We could still restrict it to the traditional dueling pistol. A single-barrel flintlock muzzleloading pistol, made with modern steels and modern machining techniques, with even half-way decent sights, would be a damn sight more accurate than a hand-made gun put together back in the day.
It’s the accuracy that makes me wonder if we shouldn’t stretch the range. Dueling with a semi-automatic would be even more lunatic than dueling with a single shot.
We could combine Russian Roulette with dueling – one round, spin the chambers, walk your 20 paces.
Charlie Gard was unavailable for rebuttal.
Roh Roh, Shaggy….
*coughs politely — points up the page at Sloopy’s links*
You ever hear of the double tap?
Well, I’ll be damned. The blue typeface is actually a link to a different website/story. Who knew?
Meanwhile, back in the Land of Enlightenment
After hearing hours of heated debate, the California Coastal Commission voted against a controversial plan by the company Poseidon Water to build a huge desalination plant in Huntington Beach.
Despite worsening drought and repeated calls from Gov. Gavin Newsom to tap the Pacific Ocean as a source of drinking water, commissioners voted unanimously against the plan Thursday night. The decision, which was recommended by the commission‘s staff, may end the company’s plans for the $1.4-billion plant.
In denying Poseidon a permit, the commission demonstrated its independence from the Newsom administration and also sent the message that high costs, vocal opposition and hazards such as sea-level rise can present major hurdles for large desalination plants on the California coast.
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Activists, who called the proposal a boondoggle that would privatize water infrastructure for profit, said the decision was a victory for fact-based regulation over politics.
The project was first proposed more than two decades ago, and the long-running fight has encompassed a list of contentious issues. They include the proposed plant’s effects on marine life, its vulnerability to sea-level rise and the company’s heavy political lobbying.
Before casting her vote, Vice Chair Caryl Hart said the project raised many concerns.
“This desal proposal is privatization of water. It provides a large private profit,” Hart said. She agreed with the agency’s staff and said the site is the wrong place to build a plant, partly because it would be atop an earthquake fault.
No justice, no water.
If only California would just dry up and blow away.
Got Thirst?
Oh no not profit anything but profit
God forbid people would have enough water and there’s a profit involved. Far better that they pay far more for much less and there be no profit.
Like many states Cali is ruined by its cities. If you look at an electoral map it’s blotches of blue in a lake of red.
Split the state lengthwise, right along I-5. Yes I know, Sacramento falls in the latter section, but eliminate all the morons there from the western slice and it might be tolerable.
The wogs start at
CalaisRed Bluff.Dammit,
It’s hard to imagine people could be so stupid as to vote for a water shortage in the middle of a drought, but there you go
The Coastal Commission is so independent it can cut off its nose to spite its face.
They’re getting the government they want, good and hard.
Proposed Southern California Desalination Plant Could Do More Harm Than Good
The derp is strong.
Increasing supply causes increased prices? Who knew?!
We will make water more affordable by restricting supply. That’s what we call fact based regulation.
Romania qualified for the eurovision thing with this abomination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b1Rt5jY6tA&feature=emb_logo
I’ve long thought Eurovision is the last remaining European institution of any value.
So bad it isn’t available in my country.
WRS – Llámame if that helps
Is it as bad as My Lovely Horse?
Waaah! I need a VPN so I can view.
WRS is pronounced Urs, bear in Romanian
WTF, Australia is in Eurovision?
Just gonna have to tough it out.
Abbott warns it will take TEN WEEKS to get baby formula products on shelves when FDA finally allows its biggest factory to reopen as crisis for parents across US trying to feed their kids deepens
Things like this lend credence to the “they want to kill the babies and reduce the population” stuff you get from AJ.
Going by CDC math that is 10 years.
The callousness of bureaucracy knows no bounds. You can’t feed your baby? Well, tough shit.
Safety first!
I don’t care how many babies die, if it saves just one baby it’s worth it.
It wouldn’t be a problem if you had an electric baby.
Also of interest:
The FDA has been destroying shipments of baby formula at border crossings. Because they don’t like the labels.
Thank heavens our FDA is saving us from inferior European baby formula!
Damn that TX governor!
A violent “death match” wrestling event which was staged in front of families is being investigated by police.
The show at the Conservative Club in Seaham, County Durham, on 29 April saw blood-soaked performers attack each other with a garden strimmer and glass.
The Colliery Championship Wrestling (CCW) event did not advertise it would be a so-called death match and had offered discounted family tickets.
James Barrass of CCW apologised but said the audience had enjoyed it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-61412523
An army of one
Commissioner Dayna Bochco said that she agreed with the staff’s findings and that the effects on marine life would be “an incredible amount of destruction.”
Meagan Harmon, one of the governor’s appointees on the commission, said the project would have a “disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable.”
“I wish that I didn’t have to take this vote. I’m not opposed to desalination,” Harmon said.
Just not in my back yard.
YSL Faces The Music
Young Thug, Gunna, Yak Gotti, Lil Duke, Slimelife Shawty and more get rolled up in a 56-count indictment of gang crimes, including murder.
https://theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/ysl-faces-the-music
The media today will likely focus on the height of Jeffrey Lamar Williams’ fall, and will spend most of their time talking about how Young Thug co-wrote the hit song “This is America” for Donald Glover and won a Grammy for it, or his growing mainstream appeal — he was on Saturday Night Live last year! — or his multiple number one records.
For the purposes of looking at why Atlanta’s homicide rate has exploded over the last two years, however, I’m looking at where the Fulton County gang and racketeering case places him: in the middle of the murder that set everything else off.
The 88-page indictment of Williams and 27 other co-defendants alleged to be members of the YSL street gang alleges that Young Thug himself rented the car used in a drive-by that killed Donovan “Peanut” Thomas in front of a Castleberry Hill barbershop in 2015. That murder split the city into two camps — YFN vs. YSL — which have been waging war against one another ever since.
It’s never been clear why Thug would have been involved. This indictment is the first public attempt at explaining it.
At least they don’t seem to be trying to hide the fact that they’re murderous (not convicted but with nicknames like that…come on) sacks of shit.
Yves Saint Laurent??
Um…
They should have gone NYT style guide. “Mr. Thug”.
Well I lost 60$ in terra… oh well
In Luna actually same difference
The callousness of bureaucracy knows no bounds. You can’t feed your baby? Well, tough shit.
How did humanity survive with no FDA to keep us safe from “inferior” yet somehow better than no-food-at-all products?
Why sweat the baby formula when SoCal is going to deny itself water (courtesy of a callous bureaucratic commission).
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That was great and much needed. Thanks, Pope Jimbo!
Yup. Thanks.
This is too good not to share. I’m willing to bet our Swiss friend knows more, but isn’t able to discuss it. I, OTH, am outside the P&C industry, but still have a few friends.
You may have read that the FL condo collapse just settled for almost $1bn. I couldn’t figure out where they got such high insurance limits. I just got the answer.
AIG, Chubb, Axa XL, Zurich among insurers in giant Securitas FL condo collapse settlement
Partially paywalled (including me). The backstory is that global security firm Securitas AB had a $500m global cover. They provided the rent a cop for the condo. Plaintiff attorneys found this employee and asked questions. After this my best understanding is that the rent a cop heard and/or noticed signs of the impending structure collapse with enough time to have taken some kinds of action. However, Securitas AB, up to this point had not training for its security to recognize building safety issues and resident evacuations. Hence the $500m settlement. Unreal…
I’m assuming that new rent a cops now in addition web based training for sexual harassment will be taking 30 minute lessons on when to call the fire department and how to evacuate residents. So unlike Supreme Court nominees private security can’t respond to questions like this with “I’m not a structural engineer” when asked about building safety.
JFC
It’s shit like this that makes me want to just say fuck it and walk away. You work your ass off only to get raped sideways when you’re tangentially involved in an incident.
Sympathetic plaintiff and deep-pocketed defendant strikes again.
That’s incredible.
In related news, that dude who took his manual transmission vehicle in for an oil change who’s being sued for the death of a mechanic when an assistant who couldn’t drive stick put it in the wrong gear and mishandled the clutch crushed him against the wall…he’s fucked.
Really it’s his carrier. It won’t go to trial and not much chance of personal loss. It’s why insurance costs what it does.
Still if it was me I’d be both pissed and stressed until the claim settled as it isn’t 100% certain.
The car owner will still end up with higher insurance rates out of this. And he was in no way responsible for this accident.
I don’t believe that’s an “at fault” accident. But I’m much less up on personal lines. And it also varies by state.
In the aggregate it will affect the rates the carrier charges.
JFC, are we trying to make more Killdozers in this country. Why don’t they sue Borg Warner for making the transmission so hard to use or the OEM.
By the way DB you sent me down a rat hole yesterday or the day before with the Inter Planet Janet mention. By the way did you ever hear MOAM’s version of the song?
I re-discover long dormant memories of Time for Timer and the Bod Squad. Ho can I still remember all of the words to the songs of something I haven’t heard in 45 years. The young brain is something else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPmJaPBQaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb_q9B3NpOY
I have never heard MOAM’s version, I’ll look it up!
I always liked “Timer”
Found a recording of it on youtube, but the vocals are pretty muddy. I’ll keep looking.
Have you never heard of School House Rock! Rocks?
However, Securitas AB, up to this point had not training for its security to recognize building safety issues and resident evacuations.
They agreed to pony up $500MM on that claim? Policy limits? Even if it was a strong claim why they hell wouldn’t they go to trial – they couldn’t do any worse (literally, limits are limits). And this is not a strong claim – the idea that a security company owes a duty to identify structural issues and evacuate the entire building boggles the mind. This doesn’t make any sense at all to me, and I run a captive insurance company and work claims routinely.
Fuck off, Slaver!
Me neither!
Unfortunately, I’m not plugged in like I used to be, but that’s the rumor on the street best I can get at it. It could be completely off, but stepping back. Why would a security firm be responsible for a structure collapse?
No Comment.
???
Oh my.
Something something constitutional norms.
Congressman David Cicilline has signed onto a bill that would expand the size of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first member of Rhode Island’s congressional delegation to back the idea.
“Faith in the court is ruined when I don’t get my way.” So sayeth the left, so sayeth we all.
RI has been making a run for the title of “Shittiest State” as of late.
There is a mild flaw in that plan…even if the bill became law, it likely wouldn’t happen in time for any confirmations of new Justices, even assuming the Biden admin would have them lined up ready to go (which they would), before the next Congress is seated, and likely the existing Senate wouldn’t confirm any anyway.
Oh, that would be hilarious. Then in 2024 DeSantis gets to nominate four justices and you’re at a 11-3 conservative majority in SCOTUS. The shrieking would knock the moon out of orbit.
Good morning, Sloop!
The Wild got extremely unlucky getting the Blues in the first round. But them’s the breaks.
I suspect that there are way more than 5% bullshit accounts. It sure is gonna be fun to watch as more layers are peeled back.
Both great songs. Their first record still holds up nicely. Spotify helpfully told me that Rio is turning 40. Fuck I’m old.
I’ve watched a few games lately, and it’s been a lot of fun.
It will be interesting to see what Fleury does next.
The Flower trade went from a 1st to a 2nd round pick. Silver lining I guess.
I hope Crosby is still injured.
Cuz that’s the only way the Rangers are going to get out of dodge tonight. Well, that, or stop playing like shit.
Ha! Judi hung a Canadian Flag out front. It’s a symbol of hatred now, don’t you know. Flying the maple leaf is just as frowned upon as the Stars and Bars. I want the old Union Jack back.
NPR had an odd segment on he death of Randy Weaver. Yes, their main points were about how horrible the event was because it lead to the creation of right-wing extremists and that he was responsible for the Murrah building bombing. But they also included details they didn’t need to (like the fact that he “skipped” his court date because he was told the incorrect date, that he was acquitted of all charges, that is son and wife were killed and they even used syntax to suggest that the illegal arms charge that he was acquitted of was because he refused to be an informant.) I wonder why they’re suggesting that the feebs might not be omniscient paragons of morality.
Maybe they are coming around or more likely laying smoke for when one of the crazies snipes Kavanaugh.
He’s the old used-up threat, and being dead helps. NPR will be hyping up the new right-wing terrorification – suburban, white parents.
Any one notice weird side effects from the vaccines? My nose runs constantly since the second jab. Like a tap. Looking back, I should have told them to go fuck xerselves.
“I should have told them to go fuck xerselves.”
I told you so…..
I have a pair of dead man’s Vans. Pretty comfy.
Sounds like the name of my Lo-Fi skate punk band.
I thought disco was always more popular at the roller rink. (I will refrain from linking anything from Xanadu. You’re welcome.)
I met my first wife at the roller rink. I was smited.
And she brought you back from the dead?
I was raised on Motown, disco, and Franky Valli and the four seasons in the skating rink.
My nose runs constantly since the second jab
Wait till you get the booster right cross. That might even break your nose.
I’ll starve first. Euthanasia is a real thing up here. If I want to check out, that’ll be my choice. Looking more likely lately.
Perhaps you were just built upside down, and your nose runs while your feet smell.
$10 for a 1-1/2 cuft bag of potting soil at Lowes.
What? Not what I paid two months ago.
Narrative uber alles
One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn’t have to.
In Tennessee, 11,047 of the people who died could have survived if everyone in the state had gotten vaccinated. In Ohio, that number is 15,875. Nationally it’s nearly 319,000, according a new estimate.
These figures come from an analysis released Friday by researchers at Brown University and Microsoft AI Health — shared exclusively with NPR — that estimates the portion of vaccine-preventable deaths in each state since COVID-19 vaccines became available at the start of 2021.
According to my model, personal autonomy should be banned.
11,0476, not 11,046 or 11,048
How do I know you’re full of shit?
GIGO
Also, how long were these lives supposedly prolonged? Twenty years is one thing, twenty days is another.
the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S,
Except that number is wildly inflated.
could have survived if everyone in the state had gotten vaccinated.
Show your work.
The model that I programed to say that, said that! Q.E.D.!
the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19
Note the stolen base. There is no data on how many people died of COVID, only how many died with COVID.
Talk about getting catfished!
It turns out I was chasing a wriggling worm on a dating site.
A few days ago I swiped right on “Diane”. She is stunningly beautiful, waaay out of my league, but what the hell – it’s all about taking chances, right? She likes going to concerts, long walks on the beach, holding hands, snuggling on the couch while watching sappy movies…you know, the usual. And that picture of her in a Hooters uniform was intriguing.
I checked her profile again today – she updated it to say that she is 33 months into a M–>F transition.
FML.
Be careful out there, single fellas.
Well…that might move her into your league. Just sayin.
Ow! That hurt even my balls.
I’m not sure what the problem is Nick?
Given your predilection for kimchi, could it be that you don’t like new pussy smell and want it to be older and smell more broken in?
I prefer them just like they came from the factory. This bolting on of parts and removal of other parts, not my thing.
Next you are going to tell me that anyone that puts a $2K racing spoiler and buys $4k in rims and pimped tires for their 2000 Honda civic to make it bitchen are crazy….
Mercury is a real nice car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbdCj7gaBuQ
Eeeuuuwwww…
You are thinking of the preferences of Montanans, Scots and Kiwis.
I wager a few dates went sideways when that detail came out. Hence the new admission.
Too bad she doesn’t like Pina Coladas.
Sorry, Man. The bars are open again. That’s hilarious and yet so very sad. You’ll find her eventually.
You are transphobic then for not wanting to bang a dude with tits…
Crazy that some idiots actually believe that.
Crazy that some idiots actually believe there is something wrong with that.
Bummer, I was looking forward to you introducing me to xer at my hockey tournament.
You would have gotten totes confused by all the high sticking in the crease.
Gotta love those hockey euphemisms.
Don’t gotta love that the trans-goalie only changes xer pads every three periods.
Well on the plus side…
Don’t rub it in! It’s obviously a sore spot and nobody needs to cry over a stupid game!
“Spuds thumped Arse-nal”
I know refereeing is somewhat subjective, but I’m not sure what Arteta is complaining about. Both the penalty and the red card seemed reasonable calls.
I’m not surprised that there are military rule of thumb just like business. Similar to business I’m always interested how the rules started, but usually it isn’t completely clear. McKinsey for business and Rand for the military…
How a Simple Ratio Came to Influence Military Strategy
It must’ve not been taught to the D-Day planners, because they didn’t have numerical or position superiority coming ashore.
Are you sure? According to what I’ve seen, the Allied forces outnumbered defenders by 3:1. Plus overwhelming naval and air support. (Obviously Germany had vastly superior defensive positioning.)
The forces ultimately committed, okay, but it isn’t like they all came ashore at once.
Any Glib who has a heart condition should take their medicine and sit down before reading this story about a Minnesoda BLM grifter. The shock that their is grifting going on in this establishment might be too much for them.
Good story about a local woman who has been peddling a story about St. Paul cops beating her boyfriend to death and then tossing him into the trash being completely full of shit. The story provides video documentation of the boyfriend being an all-round asshole who jumped into a dumpster to hide from cops and then later getting trash compacted.
Even more interesting is how the politicians have used this liar as a prop at numerous legislative committee hearings. They all knew she was full of shit, but went ahead and let her testify unchallenged.
Are you demanding grifters not tell blatant lies to peddle their grifts, your holiness? Cause you are not understanding the whole grifting thing if you are demanding that…
the boyfriend being an all-round asshole who jumped into a dumpster to hide from cops and then later getting trash compacted
Am I a bad person because I laughed?
Sorry, one more too local story. There is absolutely no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 elections!!!!
I wonder if our Somali immigrants would have been as successful if they had come here during a period where the Swamp wasn’t running full bore? They have taken to grifting the govt pork machine like ducks to water.
Oh yeah, the story also brings up yet another Somali being convicted of voter fraud. So definitely never ever happens.
Friday Funbags declares Death By Snoo-Snoo!
https://archive.ph/Avlwd
A lot of money and energy was invested in the logistics of the rollout – the supply side of the equation. Much less was invested in encouraging vaccine demand, she says.
“We did not start early on with information campaigns about why vaccines are important – what do they do for us?” she says. “We underestimated dramatically the investment it would take to get people familiarized with vaccines because, by and large, we haven’t had a deadly disease like this, so people have become estranged from the important impact of vaccination.”
Why don’t people just burst into flames when they say stuff like this?
Demonstrably, completely, totally unfuckingtrue. They’re still burning through that massive pile of money, hence all the billboards, the TV ads, the constant barrage of vaccine pushers. They even weaponized the CARES Act funds to force vaccination on college students by making the promotion and requirement of them a precondition for taking the money.
Also, ramping up demand that you can’t supply because you have no logistics seems pretty pointless.
we haven’t had a deadly disease like this
We have several that we use real vaccines for. This is not a serious person.
I don’t know. There might actually be some truth to what she’s saying. Here’s what I remember. Vaccination rates grew pretty damned steadily for the first five months or so. Then, they realized they weren’t going to meet the silly artificial goalpost they’d set for vaccination rates by July 4. So, they decided that they were going to lay on the coercion and social pressure campaign. And that’s when rates seemed to stall. I honestly believe that if they’d kept their calm, maintained transparency and didn’t turn the whole thing into a submission totem, they probably would have continued to see steadily increasing rates.
Maybe. I still think the plateau occurred because, after months of relentless pressure and propaganda, they had vaccinated everybody who wanted it. I don’t think moar presssure and propaganda was going to move that needle.
Projection?
Strange.
Cenk is pretty stupid. He probably drunk-tweeted that idiocy.
Is that because Blaire White was on JRE?
Ooooh i bet you’re right
Nina Jankowicz already asleep on the job.
Give it another 6 months and I am gonna bet that unemployment number will be north of 6 percent…
Nope, people won’t be looking for jobs – so, not unemployed.
Crash of TerraUSD Shakes Crypto. ‘There Was a Run on the Bank.’
The stablecoin, pledged to maintain a value of one dollar, plunged as low as 23 cents this week, showing cryptocurrencies’ vulnerability
Currently trading at $0.15. Glad to see that peg is working well.
Hahaha – who could’ve imagined that being tied to the dollar wouldn’t work?
The mistake was thinking that the cryptos would trade independently of the equities market.
Gold normally takes a tumble as well when the markets crash because the big funds have to raise cash to cover their positions. It’s completely expected that there would be a run on riskier assets like crypto.
The government is, of course, known for it’s ability to facilitate competition.
President Biden: “As big companies made massive profits, the prices you see at the grocery stores have gone up and the prices farmers receive have gone down. This reflects a market distorted by lack of competition.”
People that believe government should pick winners & losers never will see government as at best a necessary evil that has to be watched like you do a fox living in your henhouse.
Never mentioned is the loose monetary policy that made those big companies possible.
Big companies like Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson…?
Let’s not forget Boeing. The lobbying company that happens to make aircraft.
Could tell where it was going when they relocated their headquarters from Seattle to Chicago to be “nearer” to their customers. Same excuse again for the current move.
More regulations will create more competition!
Nothing says low barrier to entry like a huge regulatory burden!
Nationalize the grocery stores and food distribution chains now!
That’ll fix it.
They seem to be following the Bolivarian/Chavista playbook. Deny, blame other countries, blame greed, suppress dissent.
To ensure competition we’ll saddle businesses with more reporting and compliance requirements that only a handful of large companies will be able to afford.
Nina Jankowicz already asleep on the job.
NPR alone is more than she can handle.
This story should be getting waaaay more coverage than it is. I heard about it on Mark Steyn’s segment yesterday on GBNews.
This is Biden’s doing; shouldn’t he be touting it loudly and proudly?
https://www.thedesertreview.com/opinion/columnists/biden-s-amendments-hand-u-s-sovereignty-to-the-who/article_efcbf104-d20b-11ec-b257-b7c86410fc43.html
So much for national sovereignty.
Is it really going to be voted on as a treaty or is it a pen and phone kind of thing?
Hard to take seriously an argument that starts with that kind of crazy. I don’t think even Epoch Times runs that shallow.
What they’re doing is setting up to use the WHO as the arbiter of what constitutes an emergency. Then the administration will use that “third-party expert” justification to implement the crackdowns of their choice. All the while, they’ll be pointing at the WHO and saying “This wasn’t our decision, but we have to go with the scientific consensus.”
It’s classic pawning off of political responsibility while still retaining all authority.
I think it will precipitate a full withdrawal from the WHO after the mid-terms. If not, the GOP will be effectively dead as a political entity and the republic with it.
You can’t kill what’s already dead. The republic is just an animated corpse with the trappings of representation. The 40 billion for Ukraine that few want but that’ll be passed overwhelmingly has convinced me of that once and for all so welcome to the New Roman Empire.
I’d like to see some of these treaties-but-not-a-treaty challenged at the Supreme Court level. There has to be a good way of taking it there. If there’s one thing an Originalist Court could do, it is correctly interpret the treaty making power and require that international treaties (which have the power to essentially amend the Constitution itself) be properly submitted for ratification.
Oh, you mean THIS Supreme Court?
And from that opinion:
Yeah I read about that in a different article: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C2-2/ALDE_00001135/%5B'treaties'%5D
Five generations of imbecilic jurisprudence is enough.
The Court reasoned that the national interest in protecting wildlife could be protected only by national action.
One searches in vain for the delegated power to protect wildlife. And no, the treaty power isn’t it. The national government can’t agree to do something via treaty that it has no power to do without a treaty. This is akin to a corporation making an agreement to do something illegal. That agreement would be void ab initio, and so would a treaty obligating the national government to do something it has no authority to do. This isn ‘t that hard to figure out.
It was necessary and proper to do so – according to the shitstain Holmes.
I’m not sure WHO is in charge here, but I recognize no such authority.
Yet another morale-crushing management meeting.
Then how do you expect us to actually do it if you know we haven’t got the people to do it? The only risk mitigation technique left is “Shut it off.” I think ‘the chamber’ would looove that.
As long as failure is an option it looks like y’all are all set.
Well, in this meeting, upper management didn’t whip out the ‘failure is not an option’ line before I abandoned the call.
blah blah blah
What are they going to do – fire you?
I am in a similar boat. Produce, or else. There are no people to produce. I had outsourced, run the entire place by myself, done everything I can to keep moving forward. if it weren’t for the coming crash I would start looking for something else to do.
Star Chamber??
Governor’s chamber.
They really talk like that?
Ugh.
Yes.
It does not leave me inclined to obey.
Yet another morale-crushing management meeting.
Is there any other kind of meeting in govt?
Server errors.
🙁
Usually management meetings about server errors only happen when there’s a high profile failure.
Anyone own a helicopter?
gender affirming care
…is child abuse.
Absolutely, because it’s just a euphemism for sexual mutilation.
(he/they)
That doesn’t even make sense.
And the pink hair is so on-the-nose I want to call BS.
I’m pretty sure straight white men can’t get into medical school these days.
The upspeak is maddening.
I had a client, an Aussie woman life coach. We chatted via Zoom and I swear every sentence was upspeak’d. Like, lady, if you are needing assurance at the end of every sentence, you are not the right life coach for me.
My initial reaction is that I’m being spoken down to and I want to knock it on its ass.
But how will woke soldiers handle the extra weight?
The #Army is getting new arms for the force.
Read the full story about these two Next Generation Squad Weapon variations (the XM5 Rifle and the XM250 Automatic Rifle) and the 6.8 Common Cartridge Family of Ammunition.
NIH scientists have received an estimated $350 million in royalties since 2009
Open The Books article.
Data from 2009 to 2014 have been released, and show that 17,000 NIH scientists have received 22,000 royalty payments totaling $134 million. NIH is fighting release of more recent data, and the records that have been released are so heavily redacted as to make it impossible to determine *which* NIH scientists received *how much.*
In principle, I have no problem with scientists being able to profit from their academic and professional work. Government work product, however, is usually considered to be public domain. I can imagine a justification for government scientists working on research that is partially funded by the private sector to be able to receive royalties in proportion to the amount of funding from private sources.
However, any such “royalty” payments should be fully transparent and accountable. Without public accountability for these payments, we have no way of determining potential conflicts of interest that might show that government “scientists” have recommended policy that would affect their own remuneration.
Additionally, it appears that these payments are likely concentrated at the highest levels of the public health bureaucracy. I can see a justification for a lab manager or lower level director, as well as lab workers receiving royalties for work they actually did. I cannot see justification for higher level officials doing so. That reeks of high level officials wetting their beaks with royalties they did not earn for work they merely authorized. The fact that they may be named on a patent or as a contributing author on a critical paper is simply dishonest–it’s unlikely for them to have contributed any meaningful technical work to the effort.
Uffda. I’m sure if anyone thinks about criticizing this they will be an anti-semite.
Given that the Israeli government went all-in on Pfizer, they’re probably just trying to create more narrative control by elevating Fauci’s credibility.
It’s the same as the Kennedy Center circle-jerk every year.
I always thought Jews were smarter with their money.
I thought that (((they))) were better at manipulating things behind the scenes. A public “award”? That seems a bit too obvious.
Hey, Jimbo, I left a message for you on the forum.
Talk about behind the scenes manipulation…
Stunning and brave.
Weirdly, in my world, anything like that is either required to be politely declined, or paid to your employer (since it results from your work).
As far as the royalties go, I suspect that in the private sector that would all be “work made for hire”, done as part of your job, and thus would belong to your employer (unless they had made some kind of deal to share it with you). Are there agreements with these employees? What do they look like?
It depends on the company and the employment arrangement. In some industries (like the chemical industry) it’s fairly common to have all work product be the property of the employer, but the employer often (but not always) pays a significant bonus for patents granted, or, less commonly, royalties–those, as far as I know, are really rare unless a contract is involved, which is pretty rare.
At my employer, for example, I think some of our R&D folks have a bonus structure that takes into account any patents issued (the company holds the patents) and the proceeds from sales related to that patent, similarly to how our sales folks have their compensation tied closely to their account performance.
Any time an employee is getting paid by a third party, you have a potential conflict of interest. Company bonuses eliminate that problem, at least. The idea that government employees can accept any amount from any third party should be completely unacceptable.
first link is broken https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nih-scientists-received-estimated-350-million-in-royalties-since-2009-report
Thomas Edison says “Let’s not get carried away.”
New York Promises Your Employees Reproductive Freedom
WSJ Opinion piece from Hochul.
You’ll get “reproductive freedom”, but not other freedom over your body aka mandatory vaccines. Also let’s not forget crushing taxes, business and personal regulation and restrictions on personal freedom not found in other places of the US.
Wait, so if I locate my business in New York, the State will allow my employees to get abortions, and then probably require me to pay for them under an employer health plan and pass on the costs for publicly subsidized “medical procedures” to my business in the form of more taxes?
where do we sign up
Yep, you get to pay for free abortions for the illegals that Joe periodically flies in under cover of night.
Massie: I’m worried the Military-Industrial Complex doesn’t want an end to the Ukraine conflict.
I like Kennedy’s new look.
Epic trolling on Massie’s part.
Did Kennedy dump the spouse?
Leftie take-away – Massie wants to use baby-formula to swim in.
Those glasses are a cry for help.
Movies:
I wanted to see where ‘2000 Mules’ landed today in box office take. Technically it was released about a week ago, and so far it made $10 million. I don’t have daily performance, but that would make it the #2 movie behind Doctor Strange, I think. It has a release day total of over $1 million. Anyone else have insights?
Also IMDB has it ranked as 7.3/10, with 2.9K votes in the past week of release.
Fauci in comparison, has a a 6.2/10, and in its entire run has garnered only 12K votes.
Political movies in general fare very poorly, so I am interested. In comparison, last night’s relatively unknown post of ‘Black Sheep’ has 41K votes. It has an opening weekend of only $16,102 in the U.S. and worldwide grossed only $4.9 million.
Jill Biden rolls her eyes at your silly insistence on measuring things
Not one PAC wanted to launder some money by buying a 20K copies of the book?
They’re saving their money for the $10 annual fee Twitter is going to charge all their accounts.
I think we had the answer to that in 2020 when Joe’s rallies couldn’t fill a Perkins parking lot.
WHAT? Sunk Russian Frigate is not actually sunk.
Sure we shamelessly reprinted Ukraine’s propaganda about sinking a ship, but look it was at least chased away!!!!
My confidence in the media has never been higher.
^^Putin-lover
Yeah, I saw that. My grain of salt is still within reach. In a sea of propaganda (hah!), I’m not sure why I should trust this report or the initial report.
There was imagery of a ship on fire. What ship? Where? When? Until that imagery has been credibly explained, I keep this one filed under “Who the fuck knows?”. Is this “independent journalist” credible? I don’t have a clue.
Hang on while I go check the totes unbiased and professional NY Times web site to see what the “truth” is.
I agree that the bull shit coming out of the Ukraine makes it almost impossible to know what is really going on. Sure would be nice if anyone had enough credibility to be sort of believable.
Gah. Judi is off to deliver yet another bike to “Street Boy”. He managed to hang onto the last one for about three days. Then she freaks out at me when I said that he’ll be dead in six months. Was that wrong? Should I have not said that? If I knew the rules I would never have said that! FML.
Are you trying to pedal a bullshit story about you being the victim here?
He just spoke his mind is all.
Lazy LOL of the day!
I love Zuby.
Bonus!
Cyclops is getting hammered from all directions.
As is proper. What a piece of shit.
:thumbsup:
He was really good on Tom Woods awhile back.
He was on Corolla months ago and was good.
Home Defense
Wasn’t me. I have a cutlass. Lots of SCA in Texas. Good people.
Fuck. It’s really old. Nevermind.
This guy’s a bit off, but good for him nonetheless.
President Joe Biden will announce Friday that $10 billion from the American Rescue Plan has been committed to police departments and public safety across the U.S.
Hmm….
National. News.
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/13/1098545920/kansas-man-finds-ax-tree-root-handle-reddit-thor
Love the pic with his dog looking really worried.
I just had a single copy made of a key at the neighborhood hardware store… it cost $2.49 + tax! FUCK!!!
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Dammit, Ted. I had a whole thing written up congratulating the two winners who got 18 today.