Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas and what a lovely day it always is!
UN expert predicts global food crisis may be 10 weeks away
Biden’s border CRISIS — half a million migrants crossed US border in 10 weeks
Democrats’ Gerrymandering Efforts Have Proven Ineffective
RNC outraises DNC in month of April by over $1 million
Democrats’ gas price gouging bill could lead to 1970s gas lines, warns spending watchdog group
Texas Supreme Court Rules Child Gender Transitions Can Be Investigated As Child Abuse
Russiagate investigator believes Durham cracked ‘insurance policy’ mystery
IRS destroys 30 million tax documents, insists ‘no negative taxpayer consequences’
Electric vehicle makers raise prices as Democrats push for more Americans to drive them
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“UN expert predicts global food crisis may be 10 weeks away
We need lockdowns and ballot harvesting in the next election cycle?
To prevent a total wipeout of our democracy? Yes, most definitely.
You know they are desperately looking for the next panic mongering excuse – to help us be safer – that can be turned into a crisis they can use, right?
The IRS should be the second US government agency to be dismantled. Right after the FBI. After the IRS, they should dismantle the dept of education.
Do you have a newsletter? I wish to subscribe.
Democracy deserts!
“We are already in one. ”
And if the guy in the WH had an (R) next to his name the usual suspects would be telling us that fact 24/7.
Yep.
whaddup doh’
Greetings.
What are your plans for the next ten weeks, before the “oh, we found some extra wheat” festival?
The world is still stupid. Surprise!
I spent the weekend with a Tres-esque lady. We had so much fun!
I made her Eggs Benedict with low carb English muffins and Tulip and KK’s hollandaise
Lucky guy, Nick. Hope she’s local and more fun on the way
She’s an Airn Ranger
“Democrats’ Gerrymandering Efforts Have Proven Ineffective”
While I see this as a ray of sunshine in a serious storm, I am far more worried about the shenanigans around our census taking efforts and how that was fucked over again.
“IRS destroys 30 million tax documents, insists ‘no negative taxpayer consequences’”
IRS destroys 30 million tax documents, insists ‘no negative team blue friends
taxpayerconsequences’If we destroyed the IRS, there would also be no negative taxpayer consequences.
For some reason this posted above: The IRS should be the second US government agency to be dismantled. Right after the FBI. After the IRS, they should dismantle the dept of education.
“RNC outraises DNC in month of April by over $1 million”
Be better to give that money to something worthwhile…local charity, church, etc. Heck, even burning it potlach style would be better than giving to politicians.
Besides, if they were any good at being politicians, they’d have siphoned far more from the public purse than they could ever get in donations.
Yes, but they shouldn’t have to pay for their elections out of their own pockets! If that becomes normalized, only billionaires like OMB will be able to be president!
Democrats’ Gerrymandering Efforts Have Proven Ineffective
The problem in MD-1 though is my congressman is still Andy Harris.
As far as blue-state Republicans go, I’ve certainly seen worse. I’m in MD-3 (amazingly, still will be after the new map) and get to enjoy “representation” by John Sarbanes instead.
MD-3 the gerrymanderist of all the gerrymandered Maryland districts.
Is monkeypox fatal? I’ve not paid much attention but none of the stories I’ve read say anything about how likely you are to die with it, what the progression of the disease is like, etc.
Not typically, no. Especially in the West. And for those old enough to have had it, the Smallpox vaccine provides protection. Also, Monkey pox is transmitted by direct contact with bodily fluids, it’s not like a respiratory virus where it’s transmitted by particulates through the air.
Most variants have a IFR of 1% or less. There is a variant with a IFR of 10% but it is not circulating.
It’s spread by close contact and droplets, ie not aerosolized.
Masks round 2, they might work this time?
There would be some basis for it in the case of monkey pox.
I’ll add a qualifier to that.
It depends totally on when monkeypox is contagious and whether you can spread it while asymptomatic. If not, standard quarantine rules should be sufficient.
Not blowing or having anal sex with people with open weeping lesions would probably go a long way to taking care of this thing too. Wasn’t ground zero a fetish festival?
No kink shaming.
No. Kink Shaming.
No kink? Shaming.
As we learned in COVID-19, we can’t have targeted responses because those would be bigoted. We can only ever take action in a way that affects everyone (except the connected) even though that makes no sense.
That’s assuming it wasn’t GOF’d.
ISTR it’s 10x as lethal as the coof.
My theme music for today
https://youtu.be/viqVrqVUC5Y
“The problem is Big Oil is keeping supply artificially low so prices and profits stay high,” Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a hearing last week. “Now I think that when the market is broken, that’s when Congress has to step in to protect American consumers. And that’s what this bill does: It empowers the FTC to go after the gougers and empowers the agency to effectively monitor and report on market manipulation.”
But the price gouging bill becoming law could lead to “the situation in the 1970s with gas lines” when the administration of Jimmy Carter attempted to combat “rampant inflation” with gas price controls, Taxpayers Protection Alliance Executive Director Patrick Hedger told Just the News.
“It is a thinly veiled attempt to institute price controls,” said Hedger. “This is a bill that the Democrats, some of the most progressive Democrats, have pushed to essentially give the president and some regulatory agencies authority to cap gasoline prices.
It’ll be different this time!
He’s not even correct on the basic claim. The bottleneck is in refining.
Hasn’t it been something like 40 years since we built a new one? I remember Obama approving one a few days before the election (just a coincidence, I’m sure) a decade ago, but it was put on pause and I don’t think it was ever completed.
There were multiple refineries that were shut down during COVID.
They have not been restarted. I imagine it’s a combination of economic outlook, capital requirements, loss of grandfathered environmental exemptions, etc…
And yes, the environmental regs for a new refinery are obscenely prohibitive. Not to mention the inevitable lawsuits from the Southern Environmental Law Center et al.
I remember Obama approving one
I think I see a big part of the problem right there. Fuck the fuck off with presidential approvals.
― Thomas Sowell
A situation your team has been cheering on for decades.
How stupid do they think we are?
Narrator: “Very, very stupid unfortunately.”
That’s the part that really gets me – ok, you might be stupid enough to believe that yourself dear politician, but I am not. You really need to learn that I am not that stupid, because repeatedly assuming I am is going to make me go berserk.
They only care about the bulk of their supporters who actually are that stupid.
That particular bell curve is why democracy and similar is ultimately doomed to failure.
^^^THIS^^^
The people that get it are too small in numbers to actually make them feel the consequences of their bullshit.
Oh, we could make them feel the consequences, we’re just too morally inhibited to do so.
Well, that is part of the problem with not being an immoral evil hack: it is harder to fight immoral evil hacks and they shit they do..
Then: Gas should be $8 or more to discourage use.
Now: Greedy corporate gougers.
Evil Sheldon:
Would you be interested writing an article about practical shooting? I’d like to evangelize for the game, but you’re more qualified than I am to write it.
It’s early in the week, but the dumbest tweet and accompanying thread has already been won:
I also learned recently that Hasan is Cenk Uygur’s nephew.
Government control and regulation = “capitalism”.
These people are too stupid to breathe.
Hasan is a retard. Dave Smith regularly makes fun of his inanity.
and yet he makes a fuckton of cold hard cash so who am I to judge
Idiots are easily parted from their money, and leftists idiots are the worst on that..
Ignore my lame snark below. It should still be a white pill that a moron like Hasan can still figure out how to make a lot of money.
So the whole family is dumb as stumps.
It is a black eye on “capitalism” that a twitch streamer can earn enough to buy a mansion in West Hollywood and a lambo (or whatever it was) and still not piss off his core audience.
Uygur? Please.
Public choice theory > capitalism or socialism
Hasan’s ilk demand regulation, bureaucrats supply regulation, Hasan & co leave happy, bureaucrats stick around, gov’t rewards incompetence and blind loyalty, bureaucrats get promotions not responsibility, authority gets outsourced to “experts”, expertise mechanism gets captured, rules get altered to favor established players, most people don’t notice or care until media tells them to or exogenous factors force them to.
No amount of “socialism” will stop Hasan’s like from having attention deficit disorder or being more interested in appearances than substance. They’re just not very bright people, and they’ve been raised and conditioned to believe that such a characteristic is no impediment. Honestly, the only difference under “socialism” is that Hasan would be poorer.
Europe is just as “capitalist” as the U.S., and some industries there have stupider regulations than here (e.g. RoHS on electronics). It’s just a crapshoot which side of the pond gets the shorter end of the stick, because there’s no strong incentive arrow pointing toward consistent competence or accountability.
People that believe the system we have today, where government uses its centralization power to pick winners & losers, is “capitalism” and that socialism is a better choice tend to be people that feel nobody should suffer consequences for making anything but the perfect choices, and most importantly, that when bad or real bad choices, whit serious consequences, are made, the system can mitigate that impact by letting someone better prepared to bear the brunt of the ill effects, be the one to be impacted. It’s the ultimate move to avoid being adults.
centralization power to pick winners & losers
And they further assume that power will always be under their control and not their political opponents.
What good is centralized power if you don’t exercise it to make sure you keep it?
So far they’ve been proven right at nearly every turn. Their great boogeymen, like Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and Trump, barely got to wield power, and did so clumsily and ineffectively. The left retains the initiative because their people sit at the levers and decide whether they get pulled or not. They are not very smart but they have impeccable IFF. If a friend enters the arena, they’ll pull the levers earnestly But if an enemy does, they will pull them when absolutely forced or out of spite.
where government uses its centralization power to pick winners & losers
You see, to them, this is not the situation. And they are partly correct. The government is not sovereign. Yes, it excludes foreign nations’ armies from our soil. But that is just one aspect of sovereignty. The government does not make its own decisions. All decision-making is, practically speaking, done outside the formal government. When Congress passes a law, the bureaucracy gets to decide what it means. But the bureaucrats, like the bureaucrat-enablers, are not very bright. They wield slivers of power, but they do not have concentrated power, and they bear no responsibility for the exercise of power. So, they are just cowards and knaves, backstabbing and lying their way up a massive, unaccountable, and pointless hierarchy, and they let all of their ideas come from somewhere else.
To Hasan & co, that somewhere else is supposed to be the universities. The knowledge-elite, whose beneficence and competence is proven by having degrees and sitting on academic committees, is supposed to decide what the right thing for the bureaucrats to do even is. But academics are by and large the same kind of people who inhabit the government and other bureaucracies. So you have yet another place that is supposed to exercise concentrated power competently but shirks its duty. This allows, yet again, the interjection of external forces. It just so happens that, along the way, sometimes a company or a cartel becomes aware of how this works, and interjects itself. “Well, I think, if we’re going to have these regulations, then they should look like X, Y, and Z” and this trickles its way down, with many changes and bastardizations, like a giant game of telephone, to the government bureaucracy. So “capitalism” has “corrupted” the noble institution of regulating.
But so what? They built this system, or rather allowed it to accrete like a festering fungus, how exactly did they think this was going to work? Oh right, they’re too dim to conceive of something so complex, too narcissistic to consider anything other than their own intentions, and too suffused with self-righteousness to admit fault.
The point is that the power of government is used by the puppet masters to pick the winners & losers. The problem isn’t the power of government per se, although limiting that would be the solution, but the evil the people pulling the strings perpetrate using that power..
Practical results are better explained by delegation and contrivance than by central design. The puppet masters only intervene when it affects them. They don’t feed their babies formula to begin with so don’t care how that works out. Whereas, we’ll likely never learn more about Epstein Island.
the puppet masters
I love that belief that someone must be in control. What if no one is actually in control? What if the stupid is just the pretty natural outcome of groupthink?
When I say there is someone in control, I don’t mean that there is just one person or one group. it is a cabal of various entities, each with their own desires & agendas, but agreeing overall on the things they foist on the rest of us. The problem (for us, and to some extent, them) is that the things they disagree on is where execution goes haywire and then looks to be beyond stupid. Ineptitude couldn’t be as inept as these people are. They have to be doing something to exacerbate that.
Think of it more like a veto than a command. The oligarchy can’t possibly set the agenda everywhere. That’s not how oligarchy functions. It would take a monarchy for that. So yes, in practical effect, the default course of action is set by groupthink, which converges on ideas that are drawn from cultural conditioning. However, as with the President’s veto power, the oligarchy doesn’t veto ideas often, but when it does, the course changes pretty decisively. It also controls the mechanism of cultural conditioning, again with the same general level of indirection as elsewhere, so its most potent power, but measured over decades, is to shape the culture.
You both are still positing organized behavior. What if this is just what a bunch of stupid apes do? What if it is purely natural?
It’s both JI. The people that have the power to pull the strings are certainly pulling them and hoping for some result. The fact they pull against each other, and the fact that the machine itself is now inept, is why shit happens. This level of ineptitude can’t happen naturally.
What you are presenting is a false dichotomy. In between strong organization and a total lack of organization is weak organization.
What was JournoList? Was it the central cabal that decides everything? Or was it the place where many journalists coordinated when and how they felt like it? Just because it didn’t control every decision does not mean it could not affect any decisions.
Don’t get me started.
“It’s just history repeating itself in such an unfortunate kind of shameless way,” Hedger said in an interview. “No economist worth their weight and salt will tell you that [a price cap] is a good idea. It’s a pure distraction from the fact that the Biden administration has been canceling oil and gas leases, has been antagonizing the industry since day one with canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, and that Washington has been printing and spending money with reckless abandon that’s inflating the currency.”
Disinformation. Why doesn’t the government do something?
Somehow the magic of electricity will solve all the energy problems.
Let me count the ways. Chain saw, lawn tractor, tiller, snow blower, tractor, pick up truck, propane heat. I’m gonna need some long extension cords.
Good thing electricity comes from the wall socket and we don’t need any additional infrastructure.
Also don’t forget that the price of electricity must “necessarily skyrocket”.
“worth their weight and salt”
Isn’t it “weight *in* salt”
“Russiagate investigator believes Durham cracked ‘insurance policy’ mystery”
had a discussion about this shit this past weekend with some libs, and they kept downplaying the whole thing and avoiding the implications, but once I asked them how they would be responding if the story had been the inverse and they had been able to prove the bad perp was the orange guy that lives rent free in their head, you should have seen the reactions. Needless to say they all started looking for anything to change the topic then.
My take is that most of them already knew that Hillary was behind this shit but had plausible deniability. They also knew/know Obama sanctioned it all and had the 3 letter agencies work to propagate the lies – making what Nixon did look like child’s play – in order to undermine the incoming loose cannon admin they knew was going to see how corrupt Obama’s admin had been and was going to torpedo all their globalist shit. They knew/know that the media also knew (or at a minimum could have figured it out real quick), but spent 3 plus years carrying water for these criminals. But they will justify it in their warped brains by telling themselves they were fighting a Nazi and dictatorship.
I still have people that have seen the hoaxes they believed in, the “Fine people” hoax, the “Drink/inject bleach” hoax, the “Russia collusion” hoax, and the “Bad orange man is a Putin KGB plant” hoax, all be proven lies, that will not let go of them. Especially in the circles where the bad orange guy lives rent free in their heads, so I expect many of them will play this information about the Clintons & Obamas basically destroying the legal system of this country for personal reasons the same way, but those of us not in these camps should realize how existential this fight is when you are fighting Marquis of Queensbury rules vs. these criminals that fight back using prison rules.
Narrator: “And this is why they think we’re so stupid.”
TPTB, I submitted an article but the formatting didn’t take (looks right in editor but not in the preview). Can you make it editable again? Please? The formatting is necessary.
It is back in Draft status.
Thank you, sir.
Getting somewhere
President Joe Biden launched a new trade deal with 12 Indo-Pacific nations Monday aimed at strengthening their economies as he warned Americans worried about high inflation that it is “going to be a haul” before they feel relief. The president said he does not believe an economic recession is inevitable in the U.S.
Biden, speaking at a news conference after holding talks with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, acknowledged the U.S. economy has “problems” but said they were “less consequential than the rest of the world has.”
He added: “This is going to be a haul. This is going to take some time.” In answer to a question, he rejected the idea a recession in the U.S. is inevitable.
His comments came just before Biden’s launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. His administration says the trade deal is designed to signal U.S. dedication to the contested economic sphere and to address the need for stability in commerce after disruptions caused by the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Nations joining the U.S. in the pact are: Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Along with the United States, they represent 40% of world GDP.
The countries said in a joint statement that the pact will help them collectively “prepare our economies for the future” after the fallout from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Free trade!
For China. Not the US….
Biden is the second coming of Washington/Jefferson but with the foreign entanglements
Dear Taxpayer:
The dog ate your homework. This probably won’t affect your grade, maybe. We’ll let you know.
Right up there with whoever is the Charlie Foxtrot group that’s supposed to be “managing” the HSAs for my employer. Lazy slugs sent out a “Here’s a mandatory IRS reporting on your contributions this past *Thursday* (as in late in May) with a “This may affect your filing — talk to your tax adviser” (in other words, tough crap, we don’t care to do our jobs and get these documents out in January or anything…).
Yay.
To keep the start of the week nice and depressing — worst possible Quordle score without full-on failure. Yay. My gift for coming up with words that *could* be what they want but aren’t continues apace — burned too many guesses on lower left because “Surely this is it and it will show other letters in the other words, right?”:
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A couple dumb guesses and I was headed to the Chumptown exit.
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Started out so well, so promising… Then I three-putted the bottom right from on the green – and did it again on the top right.
I know that UR has been a word
Been there…
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QuordleBot did even worse. We both wasted multiple guesses trying to get the first letter of bottom left.
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Nothing more fun than trying to guess the final letter of a word with many options.
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Both wordle and quordle fucked me over to day with words where I had the last four letters and just ran out of fucking guesses.
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For some reason, I was without my usual midnight zest for Wordle and Quordle and have lost that lovin’ feeling.
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The White House said the framework will help the United States and Asian economies work more closely on issues including supply chains, digital trade, clean energy, worker protections and anticorruption efforts. The details still need to be negotiated among the member countries, making it difficult for the administration to say how this agreement would fulfill the promise of helping U.S. workers and businesses while also meeting global needs.
“Don’t worry, it will. Trust us.”
My take is that the same people that benefit massively from previous deals that obliterated the middle class and sent manufacturing to their world nations will again stand to make bank. The middle class will find itself again grabbing its ankles as the deal our betters put together siphons wealth from the productive into their pockets.
I’ve seen this movie.
https://news.yahoo.com/first-human-patient-injected-revolutionary-140900099.html
Was that the movie with Will Smith? Not the one where he bitchslapped some comedian to prove to the woman that cucks him he is a good guy…
It was this one:
https://tubitv.com/movies/561609/corona-zombies
Do you want Reavers? Because this is how you get Reavers.
The pax was added to the atmosphere, so that it didn’t miss anyone.
Looks like the DOD may be winning the internal war over Ukraine.
https://original.antiwar.com/john-v-walsh/2022/05/22/new-york-times-repudiates-drive-for-decisive-military-victory-in-ukraine-calls-for-peace-negotiations/
The Russians can and will annex additional Ukrainian territory and they won’t be pushed out. Additionally, they won’t negotiate on key points as doing so would be admitting failure, a failure they don’t have to go through because, despite all of the ridiculous propaganda, they’re winning. Viewing it in any other way is just a dangerous fantasy.
Maybe, maybe not. I don’t think any of it is a given. A lot of people called it propaganda when it was reported that the Ukrainians were holding off the Russians in their attempt to decapitate the country, turns out it was true.
Russia has won the war. The open questions now are how much of the east will they annex and/or form into client states, and will the Ukrainians goad them into invading and occupying the western half of the Ukraine.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/05/20/war-is-over-but-they-wont-tell-you/
The bulk of the Ukrainian army is trapped in the east and is in the process of being slowly annihilated. Any rational leader would be negotiating an end to this unnecessary slaughter of his nation’s army for no purpose.
As long as business “owners” are nominally “private” we’re mired in a world of dog-eat-dog kkkapitalism. Government regulations are all that stand between us and mass enslavement.
That was a rather disappointing article:
So, they figured it all out, but it’s “partly classified,” so they can’t do anything about it? That’s weak sauce.
No one of consequence will ever face any charges in this. No one will ever know if it’s a cover-up or if Hillary is innocent as the new-fallen snow.
Narrator: Hillary is not innocent as the new-fallen snow.
Durham is never going to charge anyone from the FBI, regardless if they were fired in disgrace. Maybe Duham will pick a little more around the edges of the Clinton campaign, but herself will never face charges.
Keto evangelists rejoice!
Oh, wait, animals eat grain, too?
Insect Burgers for All!
Insect Burgers for All!
Pretty much their stated goal.
I wonder what insects eat?
All the people they hope dies from the calamity they foisted on us. After all, they have told us repeatedly they feel most of the serfs are no different than parasites sucking the life blood of Gaia…
Grain.
my vegetable garden?
Considering the current gypsy moth infestation going on now, leaves apparently.
It’s a bad one — where you can hear the larva chomping and their poop sounds like rain hitting the ground. The dog park being next to an endangered butterfly habitat undoubtedly makes it difficult to eradicate the vermin.
Good morning, Banjos!
Wow, those are some, um, interesting lynx.
RNC outraises DNC in month of April by over $1 million
A fool and his money…
Speaking of fools and money:
That’s for base models. It climbs quickly after that. Unreal.
During the golf yesterday, Jeep was running commercials for their new Grand Wagoneer. Fucking $91K starting price.
Good luck out there, kids. It’s getting weird.
That Jeep commercial… it has a charging station sitting out in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah…. right
I saw one of those on the road the other day. I had no idea they cost that much. yikes.
Gas rationing and trying to drive us to only vehicles with starting ranges where housing prices should be.
Almost like Tonio had an article on an underlying principle or something….
$50,000 buys a lot of gas, even at today’s prices.
Top Men
The last time top politicians, CEOs and billionaires gathered in a Swiss mountain village to discuss society’s biggest problems and pitch their solutions, the coronavirus outbreak in China was little more than a remote threat. The economy was humming, and a major armed conflict in Europe was on nobody’s list of major risks.
More than two years later, the world has been upended by the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But for the rich and powerful arriving in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, very little has changed.
“Davos is the epitome of one of the greatest challenges to society right now, which is self-congratulatory elites,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor who speaks regularly with many well-known executives.
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“The last two years have dramatized and clarified what has been true for some time now, which is an elite plutocratic class is not just leaving the rest of the world behind, but is thriving precisely by stepping on the necks of everybody else,” said Anand Giridharadas, author of the book “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.”
Obviously, we should turn the tiller over to poor but highly educated academic elites. They’ll get us out of this ditch. Their intentions are good.
Is there really a good reason not to nuke Davos when they are all there?
I hear Davos is lovely and a nuke would make it uninhabitable.
Thermobaric should be sufficient; still a lot of clean-up, but do-able.
PLZ NO NUK CH.
Not before I return from Switzerland in July.
Did they notice? Of course they’ve noticed. Much like Fauci, they’ve been planning for this situation for years (if not actively causing these problems), and now they’re ready to swoop in and be heroes.
The governor of Indiana is there this time. Looks like I won’t be voting for him again.
*considers move to Azores*
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/10/blow-up-how-half-a-tonne-of-cocaine-transformed-the-life-of-an-island
Dude has fake Spanish and Italian passports. Given that cover I’m sure that Portuguese was completely incomprehensible to him.
There are other questionable reporting choices by the Guardian, but it is still a fun tale. I’d just like to know how much reporting here is true and how much is hearsay.
I’m just here for the camaraos cocainas fritas.
Too bitter for my tastes.
So with the new Supreme Court decision potentially being released today on RvW, I was wondering if a state that outlaws abortion can criminally charge a state resident who travels to a different state for an abortion. Any thoughts on this?
I thought one approach might be if a state considers abortion to be murder and codifies it as such, then could a resident of that state be charged with conspiracy to commit murder if planning an out of state abortion?
I don’t intend to stir up the abortion pot but that’s coming regardless with the SC decision and am curious about this.
For a crime against State X’s laws committed in State Y’s territory, how would State X hold a trial and convene a jury in such a way that complies with the Sixth Amendment’s requirement that the trial be held and jury be drawn from the state and district in which the crime occurred?
Is not conspiracy to commit murder a crime, regardless of whether the murder actually occurs? If a wife in Alabama is planning to have her husband killed on an out of state business trip and law enforcement finds out before the scheduled trip (not an unusual scenario where the wife hires an informant hitman), wouldn’t Alabama law enforcement arrest and charge her?
Seems like there’d be an easy out there: I just happened to travel to a legal-abortion state and, while there, happened to get an abortion. Never planned a thing!
Conspiracy crimes normally require more than one person, so the woman can plan but it is only a conspiracy if another person is involved in the planning.
As it stands now, the law in Alabama prohibits performing an abortion after 22 weeks, and prohibits anyone besides a doctor with hospital admitting privileges from performing one. The doctor breaking those laws could face fines, prison, and loss of license, but afaik ianal, would not face murder charges.
I understand the laws as they stand now.I expect that we will see a great flurry of activity in rewriting laws in every state across the country if RvW is overturned.
I imagine some states legalize late-term abortions with no reason needed or at best a token explanation. On the other side, there are millions of Americans who consider abortion to be murder… no different than putting a pistol to a post-natal infant’s head and pulling the trigger. I would be very surprised if abortion wasn’t codified into murder in at least a few states. The other states will fall into some sort of spectrum between the two positions.
I expect some states will try to create laws prohibiting residents from getting abortions elsewhere, but I also suspect those laws will crash & burn when they are challenged.
I think probably this too. The question is who be granted standing and who wants to be the test case facing murder charges. Just thinking back to some of the extremely restrictive gun laws and the shenanigans the courts have played with standing to challenge. The court wouldn’t allow a challenge by the VCDL over some clearly illegal gun control shit here in VA because a gun rights organization was the one challenging and not someone who was hurt under the new law. And then there is NYC rescinding their transportation ordinance preventing firearms from being taken out of NYC before it could be struck down by the court.
That rescinding the ordinance/law sleight of hand so that there is no standing to proceed with the challenge is ridiculous.
“On the other side, there are millions of Americans who consider abortion to be murder… no different than putting a pistol to a post-natal infant’s head and pulling the trigger.”
While there are certainly millions of people who say this, I don’t think for a second that there are millions of people who believe it. Certainly not sincerely enough to follow through with the practical end of their beliefs.
Damnit.
This is Alabama’s pending law if Roe is overturned:
“Any person who willfully administers to any pregnant woman any drug or substance or uses or employs any instrument or other means to induce an abortion, miscarriage or premature delivery or aids, abets or prescribes for the same, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life or health and done for that purpose, shall on conviction be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months.”
So again, it does not punish the pregnant woman.
+1 Yellowstone Zone Of Death
“I was wondering if a state that outlaws abortion can criminally charge a state resident who travels to a different state for an abortion. Any thoughts on this?”
I doubt it. Afaik, the laws are against providing abortions, not getting abortions.
Why not, the feds assert that U.S. law applies any where in the world (when it suits them). Straight out of the FYTW clause.
This is what originally led me down this path. Specifically being able to charge Americans for bribery and kickbacks even in countries where such is legal and expected.
OK, so that’s the feds. The feds are pretty likely to put the kibosh on a state attempting to imitate them, and have the power to do so.
I don’t see the federal courts allowing the states to play that game.
That would seem to be an interstate commerce violation.
Shit like this is why I don’t do iPhone…
On the other hand, Apple is showing a small degree of concern for privacy, unlike the
don’tbe evil team.I loved my macbook pros, but the last time I bought a new laptop, it was a windoze box.
What really soured me on Macs was the fact that they are now soldering in hard drives and memory to force you to pay their inflated upgrade charges. No more buying the minimum specs and then buying a bigger hard drive or more memory on your own.
Not being able to swap batteries also sucks.
Apple – without Jobs – is on a slow decline in relevancy.
My new iPhone with the Face ID that doesn’t work more than half the fucking time concurs.
My pixel 5a has no face id that is why I wanted the physical fingerprint sensor
The Face ID works fine for me but I do not use it for unlocking the phone, just for apps.
Cops can’t make you give up your passcode.
It worked fine for me up until the most recent update. Now it’s broken and I’m kinda pissed.
Yep, and now that you can get a subscription to Spotify or Pandora for a reasonable price you aren’t chained to the Itunes Store any more. The only thing keeping me with the iPhone is how straight up fucking evil Google is.
“Not being able to swap batteries also sucks.”
That does suck.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good one today.
Thanks, Holiness!
Life at the Fourscores
Cuddly
A couple was attacked by a bear inside their northern Wisconsin home Friday night after the animal broke through their window, authorities said.
The husband and wife were both injured, but their children – who were asleep in their bedrooms at the time of the attack – were unharmed, the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) said in a news release. The husband shot and killed the bear.
The couple first saw the bear outside eating from a bird feeder, so they opened their window and yelled at it to try to get it to leave, TCSO said.
“The bear immediately turned and charged at the house, breaking through the window and into the house and immediately attacked,” TCSO said.
Both the husband and wife sustained several bites and injuries as they tried to fend off the attack, at one point stabbing the bear with a kitchen knife, authorities said. Eventually, the husband was able to get a firearm and shot and killed the bear.
The pair was treated for their injuries at a hospital and have since been released, TCSO said.
The bear, identified by authorities as an adult female, appeared to have a cub, which was seen running off as the bear charged the house.
That poor bear.
*pours one out for Tonio*
This would not happen in civilized Europe. Our bears respect property.
Ask the Ukrainians how respectful the bear next door was to their property, Pie…
I bet those racists wouldn’t have even made a peep about a polar bear raiding their bird feeder, much less shot it for bursting into their home.
Has anyone in TMITE bothered to mention that we’ve dealt with Monkeypox nearly 2 decades ago?
Clinical Manifestations of Human Monkeypox Influenced by Route of Infection
And also, even tho the CDC is hyping up today’s infections: Monkeypox in the United States.
A monkey-pox on their houses!
and since it’s just relevant
There’s a theory that they’re hyping it because the symptoms of long-term COVID vaccine illness overlap nicely with monkeypox.
Seems a bit too overly cunning for me, but they’ve done weirder things.
I didnt know that ‘vid had skin issues like the M-Pox. But Ill report in as necessary- Im just a 6-month CoVid “long hauler”.
I was thinking the hype over monkeypox coincided nicely with the FDA approval of Pfizer’s new monkeypox treatment drug.
So people have been getting the Monkey Pox from question liaisons made in Monkey Bars for a long time?
Monkey bars are illegal and racist.
Is it that hard to stop blowing monkeys?
It sure fucking is! Those bastards have bionic kung-fu grips.
*goes back to rubbing ointment on his sore ears*
Yeah, I am sure it is your ears that are sore…
What political gain would tackling inflation get them? Cause that’s why they don’t care to fix it. Their efforts will all be in convincing you that there is no inflation.
Flooding the market with trilions of (worthless) currency and diluting said currency has nothing at all to do with this….
This is why they think it’s all a messaging problem. They’ve got their true believers brainwashed and can’t figure out why they can’t do the save for everyone else.
They will invest more time, money, and effort in controlling the narrative than in ever doing things that fix problems, even when the effort to control the narrative is far higher than doing the fix. Things they want to “fix” will get the effort to fix them (and usually still fail).
Who ordered the fucking Space Tea Bucket? I’m not made of money dammit!
https://i.redd.it/ux0o6hr3x5191.jpg
For me, it’s the “unmet minimum” charge that does it.
$30. That made me laugh.
I like the “Unmet Minimum” line item for $30 that brings the subtotal up to $120,000.
Sounds like a venue rental. Probably has a rule that “Our minimum charge is $120k.”
I cannot think what amount of money I would need to have in order to spend that sort of scratch on mediocre crap at an overpriced event.
There’s no bigger rube than American QE nouveau rich.
10% for the Big Guy
Those people know how to party!
Not potluck?
HSBC has suspended a senior banker after he referred to climate crisis warnings as “unsubstantiated” and “shrill” during a conference speech that has since been denounced by the lender’s chief executive.
Stuart Kirk, who has been HSBC’s head of responsible investing since last July, will remain suspended until the bank completes an internal investigation into the matter.
HSBC came under pressure to fire Kirk after he gave a presentation in London entitled “why investors need not worry about climate risk”, in which he made light of major flooding risks, and complained about having to spend time “looking at something that’s going to happen in 20 or 30 years”.
HSBC declined to comment on Kirk’s suspension, which was first reported by the Financial Times. Kirk did not respond to requests to comment sent via LinkedIn or Twitter.
Kirk’s presentation controversially included slides that said “Unsubstantiated, shrill, partisan, self-serving, apocalyptic warnings are ALWAYS wrong”, while referring to comments made by officials at the UN and Bank of England, who have tried to raise the alarm over global heating.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/22/hsbc-suspends-head-of-responsible-investing-who-called-climate-warnings-shrill
There’s a price to be paid for shitting all over your bosses’ business plans.
He fucked up, he spoke the truth.
“Former Fox News reporter calls out Tucker Carlson and says police should monitor the network to stop hosts from LYING on air – with violators sent to jail or ‘something worse’
Fox News’ former chief political correspondent has joined a chorus of voices calling for serious repercussions against Tucker Carlson – one of the network’s most prominent voices.
Carl Cameron was asked: ‘Do you think the Murdoch family in charge of Fox will ever pull the plug on Tucker?’ during an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta on Saturday.
Cameron, 60, went on to compare Carlson’s broadcasts to falsely shouting fire in a crowded movie theater.
‘The fact of the matter is, if you disturb the peace by starting a riot in a movie theater, cops are going to arrest you and you might end up in jail or you might end up in something worse.’
Cameron went on to challenge President Joe Biden to take serious action against Carlson and social media.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10843881/Former-Fox-reporter-says-police-monitor-Fox-News-Tucker-Carlson.html
CWAA
The greatest case of projection ever seen outside an IMAX theater
I want to job of arbiter of who is lying. 1 million a year and I can work from home
How drunk was Carl when he said that?
You can’t just call us out on our policies you dick!
A reporter calling for censorship.
Many such cases!
What if all you said in the theater was “Hey, that old politician from Deleware has his hands all over your 12 year-old daughter”?
Would the riot still cause you to go to jail? Are you saying you should have kept quiet?
“‘Sharkcano’ is erupting! NASA satellite images capture a plume of discoloured water emitting from the Kavachi Volcano where mutant sharks live in an acidic underwater crater”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10844895/NASA-warns-deadly-SHARKCANO-mutant-sharks-live-acidic-undersea-crater-erupting.html
Sure, why not.
Great…..Sharkpox is next.
We’re gonna need a bigger lockdown
Has there been a tick up in chigger infestations?
Chigger please.
Good intentions
Abbott, Reckett Benkiser and Nestle produce the United States’ top five formula brands — Enfamil, Similac, Gerber, PediaSure and Isomil — according to market research firm Euromonitor International.
Why haven’t new companies broken through in such a critical industry? There are just too many barriers to entry.
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“Infant formula is — appropriately — the most regulated food in the world. The road to providing babies with sole source nutrition should be met with the highest rigor,” said Belldegrun. “But for the benefit of babies, and their parents, there need to be more incentives for new brands to rise to the challenge. We need more support for infant formula manufacturing and product innovation at the state and federal levels.”
Right. It’s all about safety.
Infant formula is — appropriately — the most regulated food in the world – and yet I hear it is utter crap.
“Infant formula is — appropriately — the most regulated food in the world.”
Always steal the base upfront.
Yep, a qualification of the reasons why it’s appropriate would be nice.
It wasn’t a matter of safety that was keeping European manufactured formula out of the U.S. – it was the FDA didn’t like what was said on the packaging.
The government is going to milk this formula shortage for all it’s worth
There’s a lot of bottled up anger in this country about this sensitive topic.
Don’t even get me started on how sour so much of it is.
Some people will suck it down anyway.
[8K] 모델 조애라
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnJ44NZwms
I have noticed multiple of these youtube videos which use squiggly lines instead of proper letter are rotated 90% and I have no idea why
Some people claim vaginas in that part of the world are also rotate 90 degrees. Me, I can tell you they are not…
They’re rotated 324 degrees?
The pictures are taken in portrait mode (as is appropriate for photographing a full human who is standing), but to show on the full computer screen they must be turned sideways. Just rotate your laptop. (Oh, you have a desktop? Too bad.)
A long-term Swedish study looked at the effect of dairy fat on heart health. People who eat more dairy fat—plentiful in whole milk, yogurt, and cheese—may be less likely to develop #heart disease than people who eat smaller amounts of dairy
https://twitter.com/HarvardHealth/status/1527997734992723973
good European cheese not the US stuff
How about Velveeta?
What about Mexican cheese?
Don’t be gross
Mexican taco cheese is the worst!
Did you mean the Wurst?
Admittedly it is cheddar than nothing, but that is it.
Fromage I know, Velveeta is the shits.
Fromage I know, Velveeta
isgives the shits.FIFY
No need to brie like that. Some people enjoy Velveeta.
Do you get a lot of FromUnda cheese out there?
I have yet to find a cheese (European or American) that I don’t like.
No one has yet served you some casu martzu?
I’ll try anything once. The things I like, I’ll try ’em twice.
* checks news *
Crud. I was hoping at the World Economic Forum they decided to finally do something useful and reduce carbon emissions by passing around cups of Flavor Aid. Oh well, there’s always next year.
They bought indulgences so it is fine.
At Davos This Year, It’s Goodbye Snow, Hello Peep-Toe Shoes
But of course that shithead is there.
These people are just self-obsessed assholes with tendencies towards megalomania.
Welcome to Wall St and VC.
Scottish Express
@ScotExpress
Garlic is prohibited in Buckingham Palace ?
Her Majesty has such a dislike for garlic that it is prohibited in the Palace.
https://twitter.com/ScotExpress/status/1527707764780326917
Sensible policy
She’s a vampire too?
After Pie’s visit she is.
Maybe she’s a Hare Krishna?
Too easy.
Disliking garlic is a sure sign of a sick mind and a rotten soul.
The chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says a federal bill would give it power to regulate user-generated content, such as homemade videos posted on YouTube.
But Ian Scott predicted at a House of Commons committee that this would never happen as the broadcast regulator has no interest in overseeing content produced by individuals.
Even so, critics of the online-streaming bill have seized on his remarks, saying they contradict assurances by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez that it would not give the regulator power over homemade content, such as cat or cooking videos.
https://ottawa.citynews.ca/local-news/bill-c-11-would-give-crtc-power-over-user-generated-content-but-it-wont-use-it-chair-5394143
[Canadian] Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez
You just cannot make this shit up. Pablo Rodriguez, is that Anglo-Canadian, Franco-Canadian, or “First Nations”?
Canada can have Puerto Rico.
US should get Alberta or something in return or that bit by Alaska
Yes, but what about cat cooking videos?
It’s
COVIDUkraineWhite SupremacistMonkeypox SeasonThey’re still hammering on Elon. Tesla down another 3% in early trading.
Other major car companies are breaking into the EV market.
Wife and I watched Return to Space on Netflix last night, and it was very enjoyable if you’re into this stuff.
We had our traditional May BBQ this weekend. It went off pretty well.
The only time I had to bite my tongue was when my aunt told a story about one of her buddies seeing the writing on the wall in 2020, took off and went to New Zealand. I laughed and said “boy did she fuck up” and then had aunt and sister lecture me on how wonderful NZ was on the Rona. Those draconian lockdowns totes worked! Etc. Etc.
Since they were on their way out the door by that time, I just smiled and stopped talking.
I know several weak old frail people who lived through COVID in the US just fine and none who died of it or even with it.
My cousin and her husband died from covid long before there was a vaccine and while the mainstream media was actively suppressing news of a promising treatment involving a malaria drug in combination with zinc and a generic antibiotic because the bad orange man spoke well of it. I may be a bit bitter.
I got that exact treatment 3 weeks ago – started getting better about a day later.
I have a coworker and a couple of acquaintances that died
fromwith the Kung Flu. The coworker had a sever heart problem and was on a list for a triple bypass. One acquaintance had a compromised immune system (battling cancer) while the other had lung & heart problems. Neither acquaintance would have lived much longer IMO, and the coworker was still gonna have serious issue despite the bypass because of his lack of healthy habits.What many of the people furiously scared of the Kung Flu won’t admit is that they expect they have created the conditions that would make the Kung Flu life-threatening for them, and they now want others to mitigate that self induced risk for them. I am sure some people just have the wrong genes, but most of the people the Kung Flu took were people already with one foot across Death’s Door’s threshold.
Funeral Saturday. A classmate and nurse knew I was a vaccine resister. Of course she had to ask. When I told her neither the Mrs nor I were the proud recipients she just rolled her eyes. They never give up and never admit defeat.
Oh yeah, the deceased had been vaxxed and boosted. Same age .
Sounds like a variation of don’t stick it in crazy to me, your holiness… well played.
METOO!
After 15 years operating in Russia, Starbucks will exit the market, joining companies like McDonald’s, Exxon Mobil and British American Tobacco in withdrawing from the country completely.
The coffee giant announced Monday that it will no longer have a brand presence in Russia. Starbucks has 130 locations in the country, which account for less than 1% of the company’s annual revenue. They are all licensed locations, so the Seattle-based company itself doesn’t operate them.
Starbucks said it will pay its nearly 2,000 Russian workers for six months and help them transition to new opportunities outside of the coffee chain.
Both consumers and investors pressured Western companies like Starbucks to cut ties with Russia to show opposition to the Kremlin’s war with Ukraine, but unwinding licensing deals takes time. Starbucks has suspended all business activity with the country since March 8. The pause included shipping all Starbucks products and temporarily shuttering cafes.
Stay with the herd, no matter what. Right off the cliff, if need be.
At this point, I’m starting to suspect that they want Russia to win, I just can’t figure out why.
When you have politicians writing editorials like this, one begins to wonder if they want the apocalypse to happen.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/05/21/mitt-romney-west-must/
Starbucks has bad coffee though. Who the hell keeps buying it? It aint cheap either
The espresso is solid enough. Quad-shot iced Americano fueled many an office visit.
The espresso is solid enough – except not really not compared to any decent specialty coffee shop.
Hit rate on “good espresso” at the independent places is shocking low, in my experience. I prefer to give them my business, but if your espresso is just constantly a bitter mess, I’m gonna pass.
Cold brew tends to be more successful, so I’ll give them my business when I’m drinking that.
Nitro cold brew. Mmmm.
Twenty + years ago Starbucks was putting out a fairly wide variety of coffee in their stores. I used to stop and get my thermos cup refilled for $1 on the way to work. Today regular coffee is an afterthought there and always the same crappy brews. (Fat) People are lined up at Starbucks for fancy $6 milkshakes. There are many local coffee shops that make far better coffee.
Compared to gas station coffee, it isn’t bad.
Finding a decent coffee house, with parking and a barista who isn’t a complete idiot? Starbucks isn’t that bad.
We calculated the costs and got us a Breville…
Wife was getting 1-2/Starbucks or Dutch Bros a day at 5-6/drink. I usually have two cups in the morning of either drip or Ill break down and get some from either of those. That is ~24/day.
Plus this machine makes better coffee cause we control the beans.
I got a Nespresso machine; half the cost of Starbucks, at least.
I was gonna go whole-hog and get a fancy espresso machine but (counter-space aside), what pushed me to the Nespresso was a comment from a guy along the lines of:
“I have two high-end espresso machines – like $1,200 machines – and, after a lot of practice I can make a cup of espresso that’s better than what my sister’s Nespresso makes – about every other time I try.”
Consistently “good” plus small footprint is a win. To the point that I bought a tiny little Nespresso machine for when we’re traveling (e.g., I’m going to bring it when we go to Block Island for a week in July).
Whatever will the Rooskies do without their overpriced overroasted overhyped pick me up?
The Vanguard Group, Inc. 8.41%
BlackRock Fund Advisors 4.46%
Consumers don’t give a shit.
Completely unrelated to the food crisis story I swear, but the wife and I have contemplated trying to grow some of our own food, and I’ve been having a hard time figuring out how to start and when. One thing I’m reading is that I should prep my soil first and make sure the pH is correct and start a composting pile. Soil prep can take about a year if I have to change the acidity, so if I work to get the plots I want cleared and the soil prepped by late summer or early autumn, I’ll be ready to plant next spring. Does this sound about right? Anything else I should try to figure out beforehand.
You can often(?) have a soil sample analyzed by local universities; that’s probably worth doing.
We’ve got lots of lead (former light commercial area), so all food planting has to be raised-bed.
Dig deep (some plants such as tomatoes have very long roots) and get the consistency right (remove stones, add sand, pete moss, whatever), then you can plant now and correct the chemistry as you go.
Oh, and except things that are toxic, like slumbrew mentioned.
If you need the year to do soil prep (as slumbrew said, a soil sample will tell you a lot…check with your county extension office) you could container garden to get things going. Lots of plants will grow well in containers as long as you don’t let them dry out.
That said, I’d think you’d have to be on especially bad soil to not be able to just put it in the ground and go. Like Count said, plant now and correct the soil as you go.
Right, if the soil can support forest, meadow, or whatever is growing on it now, how bad can it be?
People clear land and immediately start planting all the time.
I wholeheartedly agree. Unless there is something wrong with the soil he has, there’s no reason why he couldn’t start today.
If it’s acid your tomatoes and peppers will suffer (blossom end rot) but not too much. Next year add a little lime with each plant.
I’ve rarely added lime, just suffer a few losses. Plow and plant.
Blossom end rot is usually due to a lack of calcium. Bone meal also adds nitrogen. You can lime nightshades after they are already growing. People do it all the time. It’s fairly common practice with eggplant.
Depends on soil but generally, especially for indigenous plants to the area, plant and give some TLC. My soil is too acidic in my raised bed, so tomatoes suffered last year. I have been working to bring up one of the boxes to the proper soil for them.
My wife loves to garden and plant; she grew up on a farm in rural Missouri.
Our favorite “gardening” tips (in jest) are always the stories from her father about “what the old timers say…”
He’s got a million of ’em from his childhood and my wife just shakes her head, but I love hearing ’em.
e.g. Regarding the timing of planting seeds: “Well, the old timers’d say just throw the seeds right on the snow…”
Just make sure to give the plants plenty of electrolytes.
That’s covered, don’t worry about that ?
No need to wait. Flowers can grow in the concrete jungle.
Growing up, Our garden was mostly sand but we managed to grow lots of stuff.
Start shitting in a bucket so you have some natural fertilizer?
Start?
“We’re all just 5 bad decisions away from shitting in a bucket.” –Matt Paxton
Forgot to mention, I’m in central Massachusetts so my growing season will be a bit shorter.
I grew up in central MA (Westborough) back when it had a lot of farms. Of all the places I’ve lived, it had the best soil I’ve ever seen. We could grow anything in our garden as long as the critters didn’t eat it.
You can use agricultural lime to raise the PH or your soil. Use powdered to work more quickly and pelleted if you’re waiting six months or a year. A $5 bag from a farm or hardware store will be enough for your whole garden. If you have a small garden, get composted manure like Black Kow. I have a 1k sq ft garden so use 10-10-10 fertilizer pellets instead of composted manure would be cost-prohibitive.
Till or plow the garden your first year. You can rent a tiller for not much or hire someone with a tractor to plow for about the same. Permaculture frowns on tilling/plowing as it kills a lot of beneficial organisms, so I try to limit it.
Cover the bed with black plastic sheeting and then put mulch on top. The plastic sheeting will prevent 95% of weeds and last a few seasons. Get an auger bit for your drill to plant with. Its about 20 bucks on Amazon. If you want to go the permaculture route, stack broken down carboard boxes instead of plastic sheeting. You’ll need to start this at least months in advance though.
This guy gets it. I use leaves from the neighbors, 10-10-10 and and a long nose shovel.
You can do no dig if you put in raised beds. Put down in coated card board, cover it with soil and compost. Worms will take care of card board and it will suppress weeds. Search YouTube.
Uncoated. Ink is fine and remove tape.
Fuckin saved. Thanks!
Peas, beans, other legumes and potatoes will grow in pretty much any soil.
Something now, beats optimal later.
Right. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
“If you’re not embarrassed by your first iteration, you waited too long.” –some dude
In news that’s likely only relevant to me, a Navy Board of Inquiry (this is a Board for officers to decide if you should be kicked out or not) found the military vax mandate order illegal by a 3-0 vote and to retain the officer.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/navy-board-votes-unanimously-retain-officer-didnt-commit-misconduct
There is some pants-pooping going on at the Pentagon and DoJ right now. This is their worst case scenario – that middle management in the military rebukes the leadership and says, “Naaaah. This isn’t legal.”
Hope it continues!
You bet they will not give up on wanting the troops to bend the knee… Fucking NAVY top brass is all shit these days. and I know the Airforce Academy is also giving the cadets there a good reason to sue the fuck out of Uncle Sam.
Huzzah!
these antivaxxers want the Russians to win.
It’s the White Supremacy what done it.
Black Russians haz a sad.
Hoo-Rah!
As a Fed Gov Drone ™, that is good news. Thank you Ozy.
They keep threatening the ‘testing option’ but its become clear they would be singling out people who are not showing up on the ‘I have covid lists’
Was this one of your cases?
Congrats either way.
No, Rob. A former JAG by the name of R. Davis Younts was the attorney. I believe he and I are contemporaries.
I do know the sailor involved.
If this was related to your work, congratulations!
Excellent!
At this point, I’m starting to suspect that they want Russia to win, I just can’t figure out why.
Their melodrama needs a supervillain. Only an existential threat can justify their takeover of society.
Trillions for defense, not one cent for tribute.
Miss Warmii (PL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clJjrIRaW8U
this looks like an auction…
I bid a 100 quatloos on number 2.
Navy Board of Inquiry (this is a Board for officers to decide if you should be kicked out or not) found the military vax mandate order illegal by a 3-0 vote and to retain the officer.
Excellent.
Why do they let this guy answer questions?
But sure, why not? More war is good.
he didn’t mean it anyway.. Xi owns him.
Where’s Strawberry to walk that back?
Meanwhile, we are sending more warships to the region.
The Pacific Theater is shaping up nicely.
Just an FYI, the main page is still updating sporadically. No big deal for me, but I know not everyone has a backdoor login.
“Walking” is still the last article for me on the main page.
Was for me too until logging out and then back in just a few moments ago.
I’m not cool enough to know a backdoor login.
Euphemism?
I was 100% sure that this would be the immediate reply.
Back Door Man – The Doors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTwNzhLvRGs
You should submit an article or three, then you can get the double secret log in.
I want to. There are a few bouncing around in my mind. Just need to sit down and draft one of them and figure out how to submit it.
My dads been sitting on last years crop. I told him it’s going to be record wheat prices before harvest this year and probably after. He was right to sit on it.
Maybe the Ds would get behind my idea of STV House races in each state. The advantage is that everyone is “properly” represented.
I mean sure, Arrow is still true, so it is still a gameable system, but less so than the current district system. New York is a great example, you would need to win less than 4% of the vote to get a rep. The NYLP might even be able to pull that off. Probably not, but its possible!
Of course, NY would also elect some flat out communists, but whats new?
This makes total fucking sense….
In other news, doctors are arguing for the euthanization of people that might be considering suicide outside of a medical setting for their own safety.
Did they use the Fix-a-Flat manual for M-F top surgery?
Fun articles on gov’t sponsored radio:
A long form article from BBC about the history of castration. I can only assume it’s somehow relevant to trans.
Today NPR had not one but TWO articles bashing Christians — an interview with some bishop who wouldn’t admit that Jesus approved of abortion and one about a kiddy-diddler scandal in the SBC featuring NPR’s favorite Christian publication Christianity Today.
I got nothing.
Meh. Christianity has survived many, many attempts to kill it.
It had the reporterette spout the current talking points of “is the Catholic church going to provide free prenatal care and child care? Will it give jobs to those who can’t afford to raise a child?”
I dunno but there’s a Catholic Charities on my corner. Maybe she can go ask them.
Food crisis? Recession? Civil unrest?
Looks like I picked the wrong decade to move to a desert.
is it a food desert?
Aren’t all deserts food deserts.
Some are desserts
Vegas isn’t.
Not unless 1 in 5 residents are dying of starvation because “they don’t know where their next meal is coming from.” Oh wait, that’s true of entire U.S., not just the deserts.
Just wait till the giant carnivorous worms show up.
We are actively prepping our departure – T-1.5 years. You are in a good location for civil unrest though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walipini.
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Probably cost more than the $300 i keep seeing.
(eyeroll)
In Soviet Russia, walipini cultivates YOU!
/Smirnoff off
Lizards are a great source of protein.
Lizards are a great source of protein.
Doubly so!
Gotta switch up the diet from squirrels once in a while.
Re: Baby Formula. From today’s AP story by a Michael Conroy: “U.S. regulators and Abbott Nutrition hope to have its Michigan plant reopened this week, but it will take about two months before product is ready for delivery.” I’m guessing many of you have worked in some kind of manufacturing facility, and that you had a maintenance shutdown (not a fire, or something else that destroyed machinery). Did any of you experience a two fucking month delay in getting product through the production machinery and out on trucks to warehouse distribution centers? How freaking incompetent are Abbott’s plant managers and logistics people? Or is it the FDA examining every fucking can with a fine toothed comb before it can leave the loading dock? Mr. Conroy apparently didn’t ask a follow up about why it would take two months to ship stuff. That’s what passes for “journalism” these days.
Why Is the FDA Seizing Baby Formula During a Baby Formula Shortage?
That photo in there that limits non-WIC customers to just 2, while handing it out willy-nilly to WIC users is infuriating. If it is a shortage, its a shortage. People secure in their finances are no less impacted.
Two months does seem a tad long.
I still don’t understand how there’s this huge bottleneck (no pun) through one factory. Aren’t there other brands? Does this one have a huge market share? Maybe this factory makes it and it’s just packed under different brand names?
Just like we all found out at the beginning of COVID that everything was too reliant on China, it seems like a bad idea to have something this critical dependent on just one point of failure.
to have something this critical dependent on just one point of failure.
But enough about the FDA.
It depends. (The Engineering answer for everything.) But 2 months doesn’t sound unrealistic.
Their raw materials are perishable. So they gotta get that coming. And it’s not one, it’s a lot of them. And all of it has lots of regulatory stuff around it that slows things down. And then once they have it, the restart of major process systems is a big deal. And probably re-qualifying and re-validating everything (internal Engineering processes and regulatory stuff). And then actually running enough to get the pipeline going in earnest.
So yeah, 2 months sounds pretty fast to me, actually.
Interesting that the FDA is looking to loosen the regulatory process for the overseas formula but I didn’t see anything mentioned about cutting some of the red tape for domestic production. Maybe I missed that.
Supposedly the FDA has sped up its inspections and review of the closed plant.
The infuriating thing is that the odds favor the contamination didn’t happen at the plant, but somewhere else such as by the consumers. They were unable to match the contaminated bacteria to any bacteria found at the manufacturer.
Even more infuriating. I think I heard it was an anonymous complaint? Though, that might be a BS claim.
Concur.
I used to work in the medical nutrition industry and nothing ever happened quickly. Our QA people were always held hostage by the FDA.
The world only has 10 weeks worth of grain left, the lowest levels ever seen, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is creating a “seismic” threat to global food supplies, Gro Intelligence CEO Sara Menker told the United Nations Security Council.
Doommongers are often wrong, but I’m worried this time they might be right.
The Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act is currently being considered by the 50-50 Senate after passing the House on Thursday 217-207 with all Republicans voting against the measure.
Urgh. I want to road trip across the country for FreedomFest. This might put a damper in my plans.
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