Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Atlanta Fed Predicts Negative Second-Quarter Growth, Indicating Recession Has Begun
46 states saw GDP decline in first quarter of 2022, federal data shows
Biden says drivers will pay more for gas ‘as long as it takes’ to counter Russia
Biden call for filibuster exception to codify abortion rights immediately hits roadblocks
White House Press Corp Is Not Pleased with Karine Jean-Pierre
Planned Parenthood Stops Providing Abortions in Ohio
Monthly Mortgage Payments for Typical Home Rise $800 Since January
Food Inflation Soars to Highest Level Since 1980, With More Pain to Come, Producers Warn
‘Good Morning America’ Forced To Issue Correction On Supreme Court Tweet After Backlash, Mockery
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Atlanta Fed Predicts Negative Second-Quarter Growth, Indicating Recession Has Begun”
it was the unvaccinated people’s fault! Or Putin! Ukraine? Evil loil!
There’s always Trump.
We gotta get back to covid at some point.
I’m sorry, but the recession began for most people more than a year ago.
It began with the lockdowns.
“Lockdown” steak prices were good.
That’s because many restaurants were closed, and food production was considered “essential” (although there were still agricultural losses due to various bottlenecks).
Yup.
My benchmark of Wegman’s 4-pack of ribeyes is currently $12.99/lb, which is significantly better than it was during lockdown
I recall a lot of good sales on Prime grade stuff at The Fresh Market during those first couple months.
Still don’t see much Prime; not so I can get a consistent feel re: prices.
Costco consistently has prime cuts. The prime sirloin caps used to be $7/lb and I thought were better than a choice filet or strip. It’s worth a membership there just for the steaks and packer briskets.
If you buy a side it will be 3.79/pound
Given the size of our place, a side of beef would qualify as a new roommate.
I don’t see the issue.
@CPA – Because it wouldn’t pay its share of the rent.
*wipes away tears*
I remember.
Congratulations, you’ve convinced me. Steak tonight!
hmmmmm……
Bone-in ribeyes on sale at TFM this week.
Sharing a 23 ounce boneless ribeye tonight. Costco apparently doesn’t do bone-in.
They will occasionally have tomahawks, but I’ve never seen bone-in.
Put The Bone In
That’s a good beer drinking version of the song. I had no idea that was a Terry Jacks B-side.
Understandable since they blade-tenderize.
That’s exactly what I got.
For non-essential people without access to the money hose, sure. But now we are feeling consequences of leaving the money hydrant wide open for so long. Doom.
🚨Breaking! 🚨
Atlanta Fed predicts the 1970’s will suck ass
whaddup doh’
“White House Press Corp Is Not Pleased with Karine Jean-Pierre”
She exposes and damages the whole diversity racket just like Kamala does….
Since I’m not part of any officially marginalized tribe I have no real idea, but it would seem to me that if someone from my special tribe finally busted through and got into the spot light, I’d want them to be very competent.
What good does it do if the First X is a walking disaster? All the bigots are going to have their views validated. “Told you black lesbian immigrants can’t do a presser!”
They will counter you making that observation with a simple: RACIST!
“Monthly Mortgage Payments for Typical Home Rise $800 Since January”
My plans to move are now on hold cause I will have to pay cash.. Fuck getting a mortgage at these interest rates.
Fuck getting a mortgage at these interest rates.
You say that, but I’m guessing these rates are much closer to what would naturally occur if the Fed hadn’t offered cheap money for so long. Also, the rates are still below inflation, so you would essentially be saving money until the economy turns around.
But if you can pay cash, I suggest you do so.
^This.
My first mortage was 7.125% IIRC. I refinanced a few years later to the insanely low 6.25%. I knew that was the lowest rate I would ever have. Oopsie.
Fortunately, on new house, we locked in our rate on 12/31/21.
My first house/mortgage was 8.25% and remember being told anything under 10% is great. Then we refinanced to 6.75%. We just paid off our current house with that had a 2.875% rate.
We just paid off our current house
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We locked at 3.25%. My goal is to have paid off summer of ’34.
We refinanced to a 10-year, 2.5% mortgage in 2020. So, pay off in 2030.
Summer of 2034:
My daughter graduates HS.
I turn 65.
Mortgage paid off.
I should have enough in retirement account and college account.
Hopefully I am retiring, if I want to. At the least, I want the ability to switch to whatever work I want to do.
Already 65.
Already planning to work 5 more years. Although 8 more until the mortgage is paid off is possible.
Retirement may never happen. There isn’t going to be a new Reagan/Volcker team to contain inflation.
Then again, civil unrest could make inflation irrelevant.
I love Friday.
Paying cash now unfortunately means I got to take a huge chunk of change out of my 401K, which has been under assault by the globalist economic model, and means I need to wait until I am no longer getting bent over a barrel by the IRS for taking money out of that early.
“Biden says drivers will pay more for gas ‘as long as it takes’ to counter Russia”
CWAA
If the GOP takes over Congress, the next budget should codify that the President has to pay for his own gas in the Presidential limo. See how long Joe wants to keep paying those noble gas prices.
Please. Add jet fuel too.
And for the rest of the entourage. I remember seeing Gore roar through Houston back in the day. I quit counting at 20, all Cadillacs and Suburbans. Didn’t even include the motorcycles for running ahead to block intersections.
When the presidential helicopter lands they have two of everything. Two helicopters and two limos.
The idea being that they have backup equipment AND you don’t know which one actually has the president.
Planned Parenthood clinics in Ohio have ceased providing abortion procedures in light of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Did Ohio have a trigger law? Because if they don’t, then the Dobbs decision didn’t have much to do with Planned Parenthood giving up 3% of their revenue in the state.
There’s a heartbeat law that was passed previous to the Dobbs decision that’s currently undergoing court challenges.
Hasn’t Ohio PP found a state judge to rule the state law is unconstitutional?
I’m guessing they’re claiming state constitution.
I believe there was an injunction, which got challenged right after the Dobbs decision dropped.
Courts don’t just look at a law the legislature passes and say “that’s unconstitutional.” Someone has to prove that they are adversely affected by the law to get standing to sue. The Ohio law was unenforceable in light of Roe until the Dobbs decision was issued, so could not have been challenged before Dobbs.
Looking up the timeline for it, the Ohio hearbeat bill was passed in 2019, and almost immediately challenged in court. There was an injunction at the state level against it after it passed, but before it went into effect. This injunction was lifted several hours after Dobbs was announced.
The current fight is pro-abortion groups saying that the Ohio constitution protects the right to an abortion, while the anti-abortion groups point out that the Ohio constitution doesn’t mention abortion once (nor anything close).
Do you need to be convicted to have standing or just charged?
Convicted in a criminal case, an actual tort in civil.
You can get standing if you can prove you were harmed by a ruling, so abortion providers or persons seeking abortions could get standing in the case of an abortion ban.
Ohio Supreme Court just denied a request for an emergency stay of the heartbeat bill:
Ohio Supreme Court decides to keep abortion illegal at six weeks, denying an emergency request by clinics to block heartbeat law
“This week, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit in Ohio to challenge a six-week abortion ban in the state.”
Yet, they won’t provide abortions before six weeks?
How can birthing persons even know they are pregnant? It’s not like they are all biologists, or that cheap, accurate home pregnancy tests exist.
Maybe they can use a Kung Flu test to detect their pregnancy and then go get another clot shot to cause the abortion?
Weirdly, that six week window lines up pretty well with my understanding of Muslim doctrine.
“ABC News’ “Good Morning America” was forced to issue a correction Thursday afternoon after they falsely claimed that Ketanji Brown Jackson was the first black person to be sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.
“Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice in U.S. history,” the show tweeted.”
I think they just accidentally left out the word “female” or “woman”.
Hey, they’re not biologists!
It was no accident
They could use “first Black birthing person”.
Neither Marshall or Thomas voted for Biden so not black.
Marshall might have, you can’t be sure.
The people propagating this idiotic and easily disprovable lie are a sign that the people in charge think they never have to do anything other than control the messaging…
The bee already did it…back in April Clarence Thomas Receives Invite To Celebration Of First Black Supreme Court Justice
NPR ran a story about Colombia’s FIRST BLACK VICE PRESIDENT!
This was good.
You are probably right that they forgot to say woman, but on the other hand, there’s a good chance they really are that stupid.
Biden call for filibuster exception to codify abortion rights immediately hits roadblocks
What article of the constitution grants the federal government the power to do such a thing? Other than “FYTW” of course.
Your right to life ends where my convenience begins.
When can we apply that logic to stupid evil people?
Anytime after birth?
If they swear the fetus in, it could be a third amendment issue.
Never mind the Democrats could have passed a law the many times they had both the President and federal legislature since 1973.
What, and take the heat rather than rely on a leftist SCOTUS?!
That’s just crazy talk!
And get that law tossed out too? Might be the breaking point of the commerce clause.
How many Senate Dems are secretly happy Manchin and Sinema won’t play shenanigans with the filibuster?
The only clause of the Constitution the Dems actually care about!
Interstate commerce. If the baby is born it will likely cross state lines at some point in xer life.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
You realize, of course, how many bureaucrats’ children will go hungry tonight because this guy is putting the bureaucrats out of work, don’t you?
Unintended consequences. Some people are so selfish and short sighted.
Mentioned yesterday:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/30/sonny-barger-hells-angels-leader-dies/7776882001/
Time to re-read HST’s “Hell’s Angels”
“As of 2004, the most common Google search regarding changing one’s butt in many parts of the US was how to make it smaller, while interest in a bigger butt was concentrated in black areas. Beginning in 2010, the rest of the country started to share black preferences.
People have mentioned this as adopting black norms, but evolutionarily the new preference makes more sense. I’d guess the internet “democratized” sexual attraction, men were more able to find what they want instead of relying on gatekeepers. Sir Mix-a-Lot was ahead of the curve”
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1533184878421762049
Hard pass on the trend towards giant cans.
Call me old fashioned, but give me a glib-fit, perky little bubble any day.
(Millions of nubile young ladies no doubt sigh in relief at that declaration from a middle-aged married dude)
Could just as easily be increasing internet usage by females.
Men don’t want a bigger butt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjC0vMIrOAk
Sir Mixalot wants to inform you.
Maybe not bigger, but some shape to it. The coke butts that were prevalent in the ’80s and ’90s were not very appealing. If you’re not filling out your jeans, you need to do some squats or something girl.
I meant men don’t want their own butts to be bigger. My theory is that the man:womxn ratio was a lot higher in 2004 than it is today.
Looking at you, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Tried to see what a coke butt was, learned about boofing instead.
I’m wondering how much of this had to do with the percentage of black people who used the internet in 2004 vs 2010.
Your theory has cracks in it.
That’s a shitty way to phrase it.
Watch banginlc1 take on Jimbo in this TikTok clip. He totes rectum!
I’m still in the small butt group. I also don’t care for large breasts, pouty lips, piercings, tattoos, …
I’m sorry, fat asses are not attracitve. Period, end of.
Lizzo says she needs 5 mins with you to change your mind….
In all things, I’m more of a “shape” than a “size” guy.
I’ with you. Big asses can be great if they have the right form, so can small.
TAP THAT ASS!
Fact, I always liked butts some, but was never and “ass” guy. My wife’s ass has changed that. And not just with her, I admired butts much more these days than I did when I was younger.
I present “Slumbrew’s Grand Butt-Keystone Theory”:
The butt is the keystone of your physique – it’s the first thing to go out of shape and the last to get back in shape. It essentially impossible to have a great butt but otherwise be a mess.
IOW, to quote Warty (PBUH): “You should do more squats”
(I should do more squats)
I like a nice, full posterier. No parking lot asses, no skinny chicks in general. But, no blasteroid heiny’s either.
So it looks like Hochul is going to do the things that SCOTUS already said wouldn’t fly, like making “sensitive areas” where carry is prohibited overly broad. The subways and mass transit are going to be sensitive areas? Of course they’re banking on it taking years to get officially smacked down.
It’s adding more big, flashing signs that say “commit crime here”.
What could possibly go wrong.
They’ll just declare those “crime free zones” problem solved.
The SC should have said, now the the ramifications of the decision have been made explicitly clear, any lawmaker, prosecutor, or law enforcement that violates this ruling can be held personally liable by those harmed.
That would be the compromise on sovereign immunity, where it’s generally upheld but dropped when government officials deliberately undermine specific rulings.
Interesting idea, however, what would that do to future challenges? It might backfire in ways to overturning laws.
I was pushing this idea in the comments yesterday PM. When a gov’t official says “fuck you, I am going to break the law no matter what, no QI for you.” And, this whole standing issue needs to be looked at. I am a citizen. All bad laws effect me, no matter the tort or criminal penalties.
Phil Murphy says, “hold my beer”.
I’m assuming that Banjos is doing the lynx this morning because Sloopy is still trying to recover from the news that the B1G 10 is letting USC and UCLA join.
Uffda this is stupid. All the expansions of the Big 10 have been dumb, but this is really bad.
I have a better plan for re-aligning college athletics. The new conferences will be designated with numbers of dollar signs – the top 16 programs will be in the $$$$$$ conference (or $6 for short), the next 16 in the $$$$$, and so on. We may have to have a split conference between 4 and 3 the 3-fiddy.
At least the Penn State and Nebraska expansions were contiguous to the core region of the B1G. Rutgers has never fit and should be booted. Maryland should be an ACC team. If the B1G wants to expand, there are perfectly fine schools inside their regional footprint.
I always hear that PP is about women’s health, and that abortions are an insignificant fraction of what they do. Why would the have to close if the overwhelming majority of their business is unaffected? If they weren’t lying about their income/expenditures, that would only mean that the primary purpose of PP was to provide abortions and unlike the March of Dimes, isn’t willing to pivot to a new purpose.
That argument has always been as thin as crepe paper. If all you want is birth control, your PCP can give that to you no problem and it’s typically either free with insurance or insanely cheap. There are free clinics with OB/GYN support all over the place if you need something more, ahem, “in depth”.
Further, not only is PP an abortion factory, it’s a (very) thinly veiled front for political activism; my guess is most of the non-medical personnel will get jobs at proggy non-profits or with the Donks and the docs will go on civil disobedience crusades of performing abortions in the back of vans.
Further, not only is PP an abortion factory
May vary by state. But I knew a lot of girls in high school that went to PP to get birth control and STD tests. The main reason was so they didn’t have to tell their parents. I don’t know if PP ignored the law or if the law says you don’t have to inform a parent. But I would argue that was a huge part their business. So, I will argue they aren’t solely an abortion factory, at least here.
I even went one time to get free condoms. Not that I had anyone to use them with, it was just something my friends and I were doing that day.
All that said, I think they are evil, I’m just adding my anecdote.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-blind-date/
Same dynamic as govt spending on NPR.
1) Please, the funding is so miniscule that there is no way it could influence our reporting.
2) OMG! If they don’t increase our funding we will go under and democracy will die!
Don’t forger PBS. Sesame Street depends on your donations.
HBO owns Sesame Street. They got moved to a private neighborhood.
See what happens when you don’t sufficiently fund PBS.
Private AND gated. Weirdly, I recall no hemming or hawing about it when it moved over. It’s almost as though the affluent white leftists that feed it to their children were disingenuous about wanting to make sure all families had access to it and instead had another reason to justify their HBO subscription.
1. Many of those other practices are just accessories to an abortion; they’re separate ICD codes for billing purposes, they’re not actually “discrete procedures”.
2. PP is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit so I’d guess their revenue model can make up a hit to the fee-for-service side with a generous helping of “philanthropic donations”.
Friday Funbags is the Coolidge Effect in action.
https://archive.ph/IW5GG
*sigh*
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I got zero letters on the lower left. None. Not a sausage.
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For those interested in collectible firearms, this one just became available. This is a real piece of history. https://www.brpguns.com/original-nepalese-bira-gun/
Out of my budget.
seriously. But it’s fun to imagine the collection.
A Nepalese bra gun?
Oh to have 30 grand burning a hole in my pocket…
That ammunition looks uncommon. How are you supposed to feed that thing?
It looks like standard thirty ought nips to me.
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“The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday that only Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire and Vermont bucked the trend with increases in GDP in the first three months of this year.”
I wonder why they did better.
Sig and Raytheon say “hello”.
Ah, right – I’m seeing ads for Sig jobs in NH.
Mass is tech, biotech and healthcare heavy – those continue to do well.
The others, I dunno.
Well two of them have a smaller base. And the other two aren’t exactly near the top of the charts either.
Disgusting.
https://thechive.com/2022/06/30/insane-competitive-eating-records-that-are-hard-to-swallow-11-photos/
Is balut on there?
Never had that. My wife’s family made me eat a spoonful of bagoong (fish paste) as part of my hazing.
Pulleeaze! Balut is a 98 weakling when compared to lutefisk.
I have eaten both and balut wasn’t that bad.
Euphemism?
“oysters and snails” is no longer in common use
We only joked about lutefisk in my family around Christmas. My wife’s family ate that shit like it was good.
The smell from cooking it is worse than anything else about lutefisk. It can really stink up a house.
The texture of the gelatinous lump is the second thing worse about it.
The good is slathering it in melted butter and salt.
Balut was fine as long as you could get past the brow paper bag it came in from some random street vendor. The San Miguel’s helped.
Does HM have a competitor in ass-eating?
HM either hates us or is dead. I might have to start posting only T H I C C to lure him back.
I see stuff like that, and then wonder why people freak out over eating crickets.
Crickets aren’t food, that’s why.
I agree. I place crickets in the same category as most of the weird stuff (especially seafood) that people eat.
In case you were worried that you couldn’t make it through the weekend withough SugarFree levels of existential terror…
Nope. Nope. Nope.
Even the GOP isn’t stupid enough to not put her quotes about how much she hates America in endless rotation.
Never underestimate their stupidity.
She should have run in 2020. By 2024, the country will be so sick of Biden that no Dem will have a chance. The same as no GOPer had a chance after 8 years of W fucking shit up.
#WeCanCheat
-Dems
Easy to get away with once, not so easy once people are wise to it.
Oh they’re entirely confident they’ll get away with it again. They have enough RINOs in their pocket, and will keep the 6-Jan example hot forever, and only have to run the shenanigans in a few targeted places (like GA and PA again), and there won’t be anybody with the balls to stand in their way.
If Trump hadn’t been such a dumbass, he would have begun suing states that were changing voting laws before the election.
Especially those states that changed them without the state’s legislature voting to change them. In Minnesoda, the laws on mail in ballots were substantially eased as part of the Sec of State settling a lawsuit brought by proggies. It wasn’t voted on by the legislature. Of course the Sec of State was soooo upset by having been forced to settle that lawsuit.
I think that lawsuits prior to the election could have overturned a lot of those changes and made it that much harder to cheat.
But Trump was his usual dumbass and let all that slide until after the election when it was impossible to remedy.
You saw how the courts turned away cases brought to them before the election because no damage had been done, and they basically made the case until the election was stolen, nobody could complain? The same courts then told people that complained after they lacked standing because it was too late for them to do anything about it…
The reality here is that the legal system, the courts, are not the mechanism to deal with the inevitable corruption and abuse of a system designed to neither allow audits or provide transparency in its moving parts, that produces such a high reward for the “winners”….
^^^
There is absolutely nothing Trump could have done. There is absolutely nothing DeSantis can do if he’s elected. Randomly point at any GOP nominee that you can think of and they’ll all have the exact same zero percent change of meaningfully improving the system. I doubt any of them, including DeSantis and possibly excepting Rand, actually want to.
The system is so well protected that meaningful change can only occur from outside the ballot box. Probably someone in the military, which is why they’ve been hard at work purging the ranks. The capital was fortified because they’re scared of something and it sure isn’t the J6 protestors or Trump running again.
The system is not redeemable or reformable. It will fight tooth and nail any attempts to cut it back or limit its power. Once governments pass a certain point, those in charge know that their crimes will condemn them to prison or death if ever found out, so they structure the system to prevent that from ever happening, no matter the consequences.
We’re just waiting for the rest of the country to come to the same conclusion.
Thinking nothing has changed and nothing can change is a defeatist blackpilled trap. The (sadly mostly unrealized) potential for Trump to upset the apple cart is a big part of the reason they went bonkers to undermine him. But Trump had no government experience and was a sucker for men in uniform (apparently this included men in lab coats). However, he still managed to make several Supreme Court appointments, which proved crucial to the recent decisions.
The establishment will absolutely try to protect itself but its members are fundamentally cowardly. They only have strength in numbers; start applying pressure to any of them individually and the rest will scatter to the winds. DeSantis may or may not be the one to move the needle next, but the opportunity to move it is still sitting there. The enemy keeps talking like they’d rather burn the system to the ground than let us take it over, but they know damn well the system is protecting and enriching themselves. Some of them may be sincere bomb-throwers but the rest would rather keep their jobs. That is power.
I didn’t say nothing can change. Dissolution of the federal government is the preferred outcome and it becomes more likely by the day. That is my white pill.
Bureaucratic organizations always fail, always. This is true for corporations, it’s ultimately true for governments, they just take longer because they have the monopoly on violence, and in the case of the USA, a well-established propaganda machine.
Thinking nothing can change through the voting box, a box that’s entirely controlled by the Cathedral, isn’t the same as thinking nothing can change. Change will come sooner or later as it does to all systems. The only question is what that change will look like. More freedom would be great but extremely unlikely. What we have now is probably preferable to another civil war. A violent uprising would be vastly preferable to an outwardly peaceful regime that operates Soviet-style gulags.
I’d consider it blackpill if that led to a defeatist attitude. But reaching that conclusion and then choosing to withdraw from the system as much as possible and focusing instead on building meaningful change within your home and local community is constructivist.
It’s about time we had a (supposedly) female black sociopath in charge,
‘Biden also expressed optimism about the Russian oil price cap plan proposed by G-7 nations earlier this week.
The price cap scheme would seek to minimize Russia’s oil export revenue through restrictions on the insurance and shipping of its seaborne crude.
“We’ve delegated a commission, a group of our national security people, to sit down and work out that mechanism,” Biden said of the plan.
“We think it can be done,” he added. “We think it can be done to drive down the price of oil and would drive down the price of gasoline as well.”’
Wouldn’t the Russians just counter that by raising the price of their oil exports?
/Not an Economist
Peter Zeihan talks about that in one of his recent videos. All of shipping is hanging by a thread, not just oil, because insurance of shipments is over when safe passage can’t be guaranteed (and nothing going in or coming out of the Black Sea is safe). For the U.S. – it’s sorta bad, but we can get around a lot of it, for most of the rest of the world it will be catastrophic.
Yep. We (and NATO and EU leadership) are fucking over the rest of the world right now in a multitude of ways. The EU is seriously fucking over its own people.
And the rest of the world is going to get even.
What is your first impression when you see the headline: Minneapolis teenager charged for violent carjacking outside restaurant
Was you expectation confounded when you read the lede?
I guess 18 is technically a teenager, but it seems a bit fake newsy to me.
Perhaps they shouldn’t use “teenager” when there is no question the suspect will be tried as an adult.
Kids being kids..
I am a child and a parent.
I do not understand credit card companies.
After the inconvenience of this morning’s fraud discovery, I applied for a backup credit card.
Now, in the past, I’ve applied for an increase in the limit of my existing card and they went “you don’t make enough money”. I applied for a new card and they went “Sure, he’s one with twice the limit and a lower permanant interest rate”
So I don’t make enough to increase the limit on my existing card, but make enough for a brand new additional card from the same company at a higher limit? (Neither card has annual fees, or any fees aside from typical late/overdraft sort of fees)
I’ve concluded that it’s the internal incentive structure within the company. ‘New Accounts’ are worth more to the units issuing cards than increased limits on existing cards.
Each account gets some legal insurance limit. And I bet a lot of these credit card companies now are gonna love issuing more cards because of the higher interest rate and the army of people that will end up paying fees jockeying card debt from one account to the other…
The new card is a full 3%APR lower on the permanant rate compared to the old card. I got the old card when I had no credit.
For how long?
The relative rates between the two cards will stay 3%APR apart, because they’re prime+X rates. That doesn’t mean the rates won’t go up (they will) but they’ll stay in the same relative position.
And dump the old card (cancel it) despite the fact it might cause your credit score to go down for a few months. I bet you the old card was issued from a pool that is restricted to high risk candidates, which has higher interest rates and lower max limits. Now that you have credit, you are able to get better cards. But have no doubt that rates are going up soon.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/m/credit-cards/excellent-credit-cards-of-2021-hztl
It’s actually a 2022 list. Though, I don’t like Citi.
Those lists bother me. They’re more like “here’s a bunch of credit cards that have deals running to get you to apply.” After the intro period, they’re standard 1%, 1.5% or 2% cards, maybe with a gimmick 5% category. Granted, if you can find a card that aligns with your spending profile, you can do well.
However, my boring old Sam’s card got me 10% cash back on gas in April and June (5% otherwise), 3% back on groceries and dining, and the intro was a free first year of membership.
This all reminds me that I need to talk to my CU about upgrading to the signature card to get 1.5% cash back instead of 1%.
I’m a fan of the Discover it card, which is on the list.
I like my Discover It card as well. I stopped using it when the introductory 0% APR ran out, and recently find myself needing that deal again (moving, needing to carry a balance for a few months). Called them up asking what they can do and they gave me another 12 months at 0%. Great customer service and easy to get ahold of.
The Citi card, Fidelity card, Sams Club, or Costco.
Pick one of those 4, don’t overcomplicate it.
The fidelity card isn’t half bad. Unlimited 2%? Nice.
I get 5% (I think?) unlimited cash straight to my brokerage account with Fidelity.
Of course, that 5% has to come from somewhere, most likely my pockets, in the end.
*hunts around for better fidelity card*
Did I miss the good one?
Rewards cards are racist because the poors carrying balances subsidize your rewards …
I was looking over it just this morning. I get paid about 30 dollars a month to use my card for gas, groceries, and eating out a few times.
Yeah, probably similar to how the cable company hands out great deals to new customers and treats their long-term, loyal customers like shit.
Best thing that ever happened to me with telecom. I bitched enough to have a direct contact in the president’s office of AT&T. My problems get solved much quicker and I don’t have to fight to go back to my original cost (although I still have to call them once a year to do it). I was only supposed to use the line for the one issue I had, but I use it for everything now.
Why not apply with a different company? That would make more sense for a backup card too.
Because I haven’t had time to research those other companies, so to solve the immediate issue, I’ll continue with the company I know.
When I had a card compromised, I called and the card company cancelled the old number and sent me a new card overnight. I’m confused why you had to reapply, or why they won’t overnight you a new card.
I din’t have to reapply. I’m picking up a second account separate from the first card.
They’re issuing a new card and number for the first account, but it won’t arrive until after the long weekend. I realized I had no backup in this circumstance, so I applied for a separate second card.
I think he applied for a new card as a backup. I’ve never received a card overnight. Usually it’s 3-4 business days. Granted, they ask if I need it urgently, and I always say no.
They didn’t ask about urgency, they just asked “would you like it overnight?” And I said yes.
Overnight was not an option.
I have had cards replaced in similar circumstances, and they always have overnighted them without asking. Probably depends on the card issuer.
It does. I have to specifically request it for my business cards, which annoys me because while the fraud alerts come by text, I have to call them and go through the fifteen minute menu dance in order to get a rep to request it.
The vehicle shortage and wait for EVs will soon be over!
General Motors Slowly Ramps Up Electric Hummer Production
What is the point?
Get in FedGov’s good graces and maybe break even on the program by selling to daft greenies.
Cozying up to the government?
The point is signaling that GM is all in on our “electric future”!
I’m so sick of “paper” EV launches.
Toyota pushed out their first full EV in the past few weeks with all kinds of press. Shortly after that they had a full recall because the wheels were literally falling off the vehicle. This resulted in all kinds of humorous press. However, I checked the actual NTSB recall and it impacted a total of 238 fucking vehicles in North America.
I think Toyota was only offering them in CA, too. Toyota has been vocally skeptical about EVs as a mass market thing. I suspect they ramped this one up for, yes, PR, and to get some kind of EV technology capability, just in case.
My wife would love to reduce her workload by getting an electric hummer machine.
+ 1 Comfortably Numb
Yeah, you are lucky if she is OK with that maneuver for ya your holiness… Most wives make decisions based on how much emotional and physical pain it will inflict on their guy… Cause they love em so much…
What is the point of an electric Hummer? (puns aside)
It just screams douchebag.
That’s where she uses a vibrator on your scrotal raphe while performing oral sex.
Blumpkins, FTW!
Relevant
It’s actually rather cool and capable. But it is too damn big for any kind of tight off roading.
Problem is the price. That means it is going to be restricted to mall crawling and douchebags.
If I could afford one I would have it painted like a lithium mine, making sure you could see all the poor kids toiling away for my inhumane, hypocritical decadence.
The license plate would read, ‘GRN-PWR’.
I saw a Rivian in the work parking lot earlier this week.
/feckin’ young engineers with no kids and lots of spending money!
I know there’s supposed to be a labor shortage, but I don’t want no electric hummer.
Don’tbe evil.https://www.foxnews.com/media/google-gmail-favors-left-wing-candidates-conservatives-spam-study
To be fair your average Google employee likely can’t tell the difference between spam and something that differs from his/her/xer worldview.
While many signs point towards cyberpunk dystopia, there is a silver lining: the companies and agencies in charge of it, by weeding out the competent and replacing them with the socially acceptable and politically reliable, will eventually reach a point where they’re so susceptible to the tactics they originally pioneered that the people they left behind will have a field day humiliating and undermining them.
If you can’t get what you want through the IRS, just outsource the work to massive multinationals.
based
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jun/30/look-out-the-abortion-election/
Bipartisanship and democracy mean team blue wins, right?
All these Coathanger Warriors had better watch themselves.
The more they go around screaming about how this abortion travesty is so bad that it will lead to Dems doing great in 2022 elections, the higher the stakes of those elections for them.
If you tell everyone that people are so mad that they will vote solely on their belief that abortion is a right and then there is a red wave this fall, it might put the lie to the claim that everyone loves abortion.
I’m sure the Cathedral won’t let that narrative get started, but the normies might realize that support for abortion doesn’t mean 100% abortion all the time.
Local press has been conflating the support for some abortion with support for total abortion for months now. Every article about the heartbeat bill has a paragraph at the end like the following:
Leaving out that the heartbeat bill does leave abortion legal up until the fetal heartbeat can be detected (estimated at 5-6 weeks).
You can look at this an yet another overreach by the left. The law they contested (Mississippi?) had a limitation that was LESS restrictive than European countries. But NO RESTRICTIONS ON MUH ABORSHUNS! So they pushed the issue, and here we are. Like most things, they can’t just accept a 90% victory, they have to OWN the political right.
The Court is Not Democracy
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“This is a subscriber-only article”
The lies that Gaia needs saving is done so they can run an illegal racket with a veneer of legitimacy, and if like this fella, it took you 20 years to see through it, the problem is you.
Chumpville
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You’re either putting out too much or not enough.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19050725/never-had-a-boyfriend/
I bet you she is a hyper-woke annoying bitch that still has not realized what the common element in all her failed attempts at relationships is…
Biden also touted steps he has taken at home to help drive down prices, including ordering the release of 180 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and asking Congress and states to enact gas tax holidays at the federal and state level.
“If we do these things,” he said, and if Congress and the states agree to pass gas tax holidays, then “it’s estimated … we could bring down the price of oil about $1 a gallon at the pump, in that range. And so we could have immediate relief in terms of [the] temporary elimination of the gas tax.”
And where does the windfall profits tax fit in?
Good morning, Banjos!
Those are some grim lynx, woman!
I have the perfect song.
Keep your heads down, peeps!
Thanks for the Term Limits by Mike Flynn book recommendation. Just started and it’s good all around. Page turner. I can’t wait for the assassinations to begin!
So glad you like it!
I got to know Vince pretty well through my sister (who helped edit the book you are reading). He was a great dude who wrote a really fun series of books.
Enjoy!
Very cool. 6 degrees and all. And interesting that he was a bartender when he wrote it!
I didn’t read that one but read all the Mitch Rapp ones (book 2 onwards). They’re great!
Totally hated what Kyle Mills did with the Rapp character after Flynn passed away – eliminated all nuance and just made him a unthinking, blunt instrument – so did not continue past that first Mills-authored book.
Yeah, you could tell Kyle didn’t get it at all. Vince was working as a bartender when he wrote Term Limits. He had a knack with people and had a lot of contacts throughout the military, government and law enforcement. I liked all his books.
Someone tell this douche we accept his offer!
Yes please?
Can I get that in an enforceable contract?
Seriously, do these idiots not understand that most of their solutions to Dobbs are exactly what conservatives have wanted for years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWFVN7LAJs0
CNN – The force of the Supreme Court’s right turn has shaken the country
Are we shaken or are we stirred?
“Country shaken by a tiny step towards the return of constitutional legitimacy”
As long as we’re destigmatizing pedophilia we might as well destigmatize crotch rot too.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-feared-celibacy-after-catching-27279947
STIs can be hot
There’s some ointments for that.
Yesterday, Certified Public Asshat recommended Malice’s interview with Greenwald.
Not only did he not oversell it, I found myself wishing for a multi-hour interview. It is fantastic.
Worth an hour of your time.
Woo, I’m not wrong!
Malice asked all the right questions to get good answers out of Glenn. I do wish it went on for more than an hour as well.
Not bad, but I think the recent Angela McArdle one was better overall.
JFC…
The Pandemic Is Waning. Anthony Fauci Has a Few More Lessons to Share.
America’s most famous doctor on mitigating covid, giving your adversaries the benefit of the doubt and working way too much
This makes me ready to commit an act of science.
https://tinyurl.com/35ezsbfh
NSFW.
Sounds like he’s performing crimes against humanity.
So what would you consider to be your biggest weakness?
Job applicant: I just work too hard.
Anyone that gave me that answer in an interview, was an immediate “never hire” candidate…
I actually answered, “Low tolerance and patience for stupidity.” As in being asked stupid questions.
I get distracted by meetings, paperwork and training.
Diversity meetings and process for processes sake, neither of which I truck with, are the bane of my existence.
I don’t believe that one bit.
I believe that he’s playing Mengele during his late hours.
“giving your adversaries the benefit of the doubt”
I read enough fiction here on Glibs.
Inadequate sleep causes brain function to decline, if not actual brain damage. And, of course, the quality of your work declines after a certain point regardless. I could always pick out the last minute 3 am changes to deal documents back in the day.
Look, we are creating a hagiography here. Let’s not quibble over details.
I’d like to point out all the writing on Thomas Edison’s sleeping habits.
Has he been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom yet?
Amazingly lifelike politician continues to battle racist freeways!
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1108852884/pete-buttigieg-launches-1b-pilot-to-build-racial-equity-in-americas-roads
The most important issue of our time!
What’s he advocating for? Moar backroads?
::ponders concept of “racial equity in roads”::
…
Equal number of white AND black lines on the pavement?
Black lines on black tarmac FTW!
Rainbow colored highways!
Atlanta Fed Predicts Negative Second-Quarter Growth, Indicating Recession Has Begun
Yet my office is expanding and renovating. Supposedly they were doing that in 2008 as well…
I’m taking a risk today. I’m working, so I’m sending the girlfriend to the local bakery to grab a dobos to bring to a cookout tomorrow. I’m hoping she returns with just the dobos, and not multiple boxes of butter horns and strudel.
Easily foreseeable consequences are not unexpected.
It’s OK, you’re amongst friends, you don’t have to lie to us.
46 states saw GDP decline in first quarter of 2022, federal data shows
Listen, Jack. America has never been better positioned for success. We’re going to tackle this like I took down Cornpop.
Biden says drivers will pay more for gas ‘as long as it takes’ to counter Russia
All of America’s self-inflicted problems are Russia’s fault. Russia, Russia, Russia.
“We will help Ukraine in their epic struggle against Russia to the last dime in our constituents’ pockets!”
Is there any evidence Russia is selling less oil than before the invasion? If not, then – oil being fungible – there is no shortage due to invasion on the world oil market that would lead to prices being bid up, or if there is, it should be temporary as tankers get re-routed.
Again, Zeihan talks about the biggest movement of oil on the oceans is from the ME to the Far East, China specifically. I believe his comment is, you could kill China’s oil imports with a couple of destroyers.
I seem to recall half a world war getting started when we tried to starve another Asian military power of oil.
Yeah he isn’t suggesting doing it, just pointing out how tenuous their supply line is (and why that might make them very nervous).
How long until this program becomes mandatory? It will be totes OK because flying isn’t a RIGHT, it is a privilege.
In fairness, hoovering up that data and processing it with AI would probably be better security-wise than any TSA goon could do.
https://youtu.be/LQIRD57lls8
Biden call for filibuster exception to codify abortion rights immediately hits roadblocks
It was literally just ruled to not be a federal issue.
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona remain opposed to selectively changing legislative filibuster rules to pass certain pieces of legislation.
Good.
White House Press Corp Is Not Pleased with Karine Jean-Pierre
But she’s black and gay. That’s what matters.
She’s literally fucking a member of the press. What more could they want? Or is this one of those “differences between a slut and a bitch” things?
Don’t forget dumb too… That’s a must have with these people…
If she was also transgender, then she’d be totally qualified.
ABC News’ “Good Morning America” was forced to issue a correction Thursday afternoon after they falsely claimed that Ketanji Brown Jackson was the first black person to be sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.
Lol…
New projects could include rapid bus transit lines to link disadvantaged neighborhoods to jobs; caps built on top of highways featuring green spaces, bike lanes and pedestrian walkways to allow for safe crossings over the roadways; repurposing former rail lines; and partial removal of highways.
Visionary.
“New projects could include rapid bus transit lines to link disadvantaged neighborhoods to jobs”
Also known as, “busing the criminals to target-rich environments”
A-yup. Bus routes reliably map out high-crime ‘hot spots’ in urban areas.
The first AUTHENTICALLY black person.
I mean there’s only been a black person on the court continuously since 1967. Something like that is easy to miss right?
WHY ARE YOU HARSHING MY REALITY???
“I don’t see color!”
(Literally)
Layers of fact checking.
Black is the new white.
But how can you tell if you are not a biologist?
She did make history. She’s the first justice who went to Miami Palmetto Senior High School…which is certainly as relevant to her ability to read the constitution as being a colored person. /sarc
She really wants her dumb book to become true.
She craves validation.
Of course if fertility rates continue to plummet, it might actually come true but not for the reasons she imagines.
If a genuine fertility crisis strikes, then her book is the optimistic vision of the future.
It is so unfortunate for her children and the world that she’s a mother
The comments are unfortunate as well.
We’re all gonna DIE!
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to strictly regulate emissions from power plants, a move that signals a major setback in the fight against the climate crisis.
In a 6-3 opinion along ideological lines, the nation’s highest court ruled in West Virginia v. EPA that the federal agency does not have the authority to regulate industry greenhouse gas emissions. The case stems from former President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which would have enforced mandates for how much emissions power plants could emit. The plan was never officially implemented as it faced legal challenges and was rolled back under the Trump administration.
The court’s opinion states that when it comes to capping carbon dioxide emissions, “is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme.” It also said that a “decision of such magnitude and consequence” should reside with Congress.
In a statement, President Biden called it a “devastating decision” that “risks damaging our nation’s ability to keep our air clean and combat climate change.”
He added, “I will not relent in using my lawful authorities to protect public health and tackle the climate crisis.”
Without the holy savants of the EPA to save us, we’ll all be under water by Labor Day.
Thanks to Clarence, every day is Labor Day now.
If he has enough votes in Congress to pass gun control legislation, he has enough votes in Congress to pass legislation authorizing EPA to do this. SCOTUS didn’t say the regulation would fail because Congress doesn’t have the authority, only that it failed because the authority was not delegated properly by Congress.
BUT RETHUGLIKKKAN OBSTRUKTION!!!!
Congress is outraged that they have to do their jobs!
The rest of the Federal government is getting paid to dance on TikTok, why shouldn’t they?
So anti-democratic!
WRT Butts: I need a woman with an ass like a dump-truck. And she’s haulin’ 5 tons of fuck.
Or is this one of those “differences between a slut and a bitch” things?
“A slut is the girl who fucks everybody. A cunt is the girl who fucks everybody but you.”
What?
Fascist SCOTUS guts the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions, fight climate change.
The federal government will be restricted from regulating anything of significance in the absence of a clear Congressional directive to do so.
Oh, you don’t know what words mean.
Again, Congresscritter is pissed because they can’t delegate their power away.
I would argue that delegating the power of your branch of government away is a violation of your Oath of Office.
Dude, it is oath-keeping that is bad. Please do keep up.
Sorry, I’m too busy trying to cram as much biology as I can so as not to offend birthing people, that I have no time for PoliSci reading.
It means that anyone against what they want, no matter how deranged or evil, is the “bad guy”…
Wow. The comments gave me a modicum of hope for America
Some Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, applauded the decision, but supporters of climate action quickly condemned it.
Climate and health behavioral scientist Sweta Chakraborty, president of the climate solutions group We Don’t Have Time, told CBS News the court “took a sledgehammer to one of EPA’s most important tools.”
“We’re talking about increased air pollution that has impacts on human health, the environment, and generally our future trajectory towards planet warming, which we desperately need to veer off of,” she said, adding later, “The fossil fuel interests behind this case claiming victory today are taking us back 50 years to when Big Oil and other corporations could pump deadly pollution into our air and water without any limits.”
And it’s not just carbon emissions. The Supreme Court’s decision also sets a “dangerous precedent” that other EPA regulations can be dismissed, she said.
If “A” then “cement mixer”.
That got a WTF from me. The universities are just stringing words together and calling it a degree now.
Sweaty what?
Massie should submit a bill to the House with the exact rules the EPA wants…you think the House would dare pass it before midterms?
I would support regulation of CO2, if it means Congress-critters must keep all of the CO2 they generate within their chambers or bodies.
CO2 is not air pollution.
The federal government will be restricted from regulating anything of significance in the absence of a clear Congressional directive to do so.
Be still, my heart.
Someone is going down the road of inaugurating revolution.
CNN asks WH’s Brian Deese what he’d tell Americans who can’t afford to pay high gas prices for months/years if military analysts project the Russia-Ukraine war to go so long
Notes progress but also: “this is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm”
[looks at map of places where “the liberal world order” dominates]
Uh, looks like most of the world already opted out.
Ummmm… if what you’re saying is true, then why don’t you act in the citizens’ interest and attempt to negotiate an end to the war?
I wonder how many DEMOCRACY! enthusiasts have considered the logical inconsistency of their hysteria over limiting the power of unelected bureaucrats.
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
That’s been the paradox at the heart of progressivism forever. You could choose one over the other but it is impossible to have both. Naturally they think both is entirely possible proving that they have no fucking idea about reality.
That’s literally the point of the ruling.
The Supreme Court has gone rogue. We are in a full-blown Constitutional crisis. Congress must act. And we must pressure Congress to act, while it still can.
Oh…
Our planet is on fire, and this extremist Supreme Court has destroyed the federal government’s ability to fight back.
This radical Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis, and we can’t let them have the last word.
…welcome to “separation of powers.”
“You know what will fix all this shit? A full-blown Constitutional crisis. Let’s roll.”
By all means, Dems, pack the court. You have the Senate votes to do it. Just have Biden nominate 20-30 new Justices and start scheduling the hearings now. It’s what the American people want and need right now.
Or by all means, do submit the abortion bill of your dreams and see where that goes.
Absolutely. Hell, make it an Amendment and enshrine it in the Constitution if you can.
Narrator: The earth is not actually “on fire”.
Maybe Psaki was just lying outright and fabricating answers and Jean-Pierre is being honest that she doesn’t have the info?
More earnest than the one literally named Earnest
My guess is that neither really had crap. And this new one’s just not good enough at her job to come up with alternative things to say.
And the press corp: “We’re fine with you foisting the incompetent diversity hires off on other people so we can keep pretending it works, but how dare you do it to US?”
Does it really matter if they tell their own lies, or the official lies?
Don’t be afraid to lie, Karine. It’s literally what you are there for. Look at whom you are working for. Don’t be afraid to play the race/gender/lesbian cards when needed too.
Mendacious ignorance is a hell of a drug.
An unintentionally hilarious response.
Supreme Court: Congress must act to set new major environmental policies, not unelected bureaucrats
Libs: Congress must act.. to take away the Court’s ability to give Congress their authority back.
How do they have the energy for this?
No, they can’t do that. That’d be doing their job. They need to make the most of a crisis and pack the court while they still can. (they might not be able to, and it would almost certainly lead to an even bigger loss in the midterms for them if they did, IMO)
Correct. That would make them accountable, and they might lose elections. Let the unelected bureaucrats, who have no accountability, do the work, and keep the plebs distracted arguing issues like abortion.
Goddamn voters might hold us accountable – what kind of world do you want?
Everyone knows that if we don’t give more power to the Executive branch Our Democracy is in danger and fascism will rise.
Well played
Nobody but a fool would seriously expect federal legislators to take time away from their core mission of fundraising and campaigning to make a serious effort to write and pass legislation. That’s crazy.
I’m fortunate enough that my business doesn’t depend directly on this, but it’s going to affect everyone sooner or later. I do notice land prices are trending downward a little bit.
Stats are for chumps.
Anne: Do you have numbers to show that it’s the concealed carry permit holders that are committing crimes?
Hochul: I don’t need to have numbers. I don’t need to have a data point to say this. I know that I have a responsibility for this state to have sensible gun safety laws.
And here I was thinking that your responsibility is to uphold the constitution of NY.
Gee, I wonder if she’ll get the “without evidence” qualifier.
“And the best part is I’ll be long gone from office before I would have to take any heat when the numbers come out and prove that my common-sense gun-safety diktats didn’t do fuck-all. Next question.”
Needz moar Mt Dew!
You can still get your ‘bortions…
Anamarie Avila Farias, a member of the Contra Costa County Board of Education, posted an image Tuesday on Facebook that declared, “BOYCOTT 4TH OF JULY.”
“I haven’t celebrated 4th of July since 2016 and I don’t think it’s a holiday to celebrate,” Avila Farias wrote. “What do you think?” …
“I am not feeling particularly patriotic,” Avila Farias explained. “I am especially not interested in celebrating a holiday centered around freedom from oppressive government when that freedom is not a reality for so many people in this country.
“Lastly, last Friday women’s reproductive rights were taken away!” she added. “We are not in a place of progress or celebration when human rights are being taken away.”
…so enjoy the cookout and fireworks, you ignorant cunte.
And she will be re-elected next time.
What? Sounded like a good idea
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/30/army-swiftly-backpedals-policy-dropping-high-school-diploma-requirement.html
There aren’t enough drop-outs dumb enough to enlist in the modern Army?
It’s a grate way to get money for that sex change you have been eyeing!
Every single decision made by the current leadership throughout the DOD is explicitly designed to destroy the combat effectiveness of the US military. All of them. None of it is an accident. It’s just that most of those decisions are hidden from the population as a whole, who mostly (just like DJT) still have “Tom Clancy syndrome” and imagine that the uniformed leadership is really interested in the defense of the nation.
The problem is that this one was WAY too noticeable out there in the general public.
The U.N. has warned that the world needs to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, compared to pre-industrial levels, to minimize the worst impacts of climate change. Doing so is critical, Chakraborty said, as “human health and the warming of the planet is inextricably linked.”
“If we actually discuss this in terms of human health impacts, the more we increase the temperature of the planet, the more we’re increasing air pollution, as well, which has negative detrimental health outcomes,” she said, adding, “those that are most likely to experience it first and foremost, our vulnerable communities.”
Blah blah fucking blah.
The UN is nothing but an ineffectual talking shop; why should we care about their apocalypse-based fund drives?
*gnashes teeth*
worst impacts of climate change
I’m assuming that this is referring to the possibility that a rising sea might damage Obama’s multi-million dollar beach house?
1. Temperature is not pollution.
2. Historically, humans have done much better during warm periods than during cold periods.
We don’t need facts – we have models and predictions of doom!
Yes; e.g., deaths due to cold out-number those due to heat.
humans have done much better during warm periods
Therein lies the problem. They hate you and want you dead.
And, of course, pre-industrial was the Little Ice Age. It was seriously fucking cold compared to recent times.
The only time in recorded history that the Thames river froze over in London. That is the baseline they are using for “climate change”.
On the other end, the Thames once supported Rhinos.
Oh boy, I at the office but I feel like I lost 30 points of IQ. Dammed Hakushu. No hangover just numbness.
Well it was unintentional but my poor typing is evidence my mental awareness. I will calling it a day in an hour.
Melvins tonight!!!
Enjoy. Looks like my bruises from the Interrupters/Flogging Molly will be just about healed in time for the Punk in Drublic fest next week.
Hell yes!
Gesundheit.
I’m trying not to lose my crap at this asinine HR Drone.
HR needs to get out of the candidate evaluation process, commit seppuku, and appologise for being assholes.
In that order?
Yes.
I demand contrition from beyond the grave.
As if they’d ever apologize before then.
Agreed. They act as gatekeeper but have no responsibility for the work product.
… asinine HR Drone.
You can just say “HR Drone”
I’m being required to re-evaluate consultant candidates without use of the resumes. Because it’s such a stupid requirement, I’ve been procrastinating all week.
Also he’s not accepting “Listed experience doesn’t include required skill” and demands I say what the listed experience did say.
What info do you have in the absence of a resume?
The vendor attestation on ‘Form 2’. These are so badly designed, filled with garbled cut-and-paste errors and outright falsehoods. But, I am being told to take them at face value.
Still with that nonsense?
The fact that you’re expected to believe the employment agency over the employee themselves is just such a perfect view into the bureaucratic mindset.
The “prove a negative” part is just icing on the cake – “the employee doesn’t mention SQL anywhere on their resume”, “yes, but what do they mention!? Look, they have Excel on there – that’s like a database!”
I doesn’t go to that level where HR argues with me as to what activities fall under what, but the vendors love to separate the skills from the jobs so that they claim the candidate did all these things, list a number of positions and claim all those jobs used all those skills, when the tasks were only under one or two of them.
Will the PRNY let you use LinkedIn?
You may be able to do an end run.
No. We must only use the vendor attestation.
The end result of the process as defined is that I get candidates at interview who ask “Why are you even interviewing me – this sounds like an admin job, and I’m a developer”
While not wishing Sen Leahy any more difficulty than he already has I don’t think he will be mobile or pain free ever. He may be resting ‘comfortably’ now it’s because Oxy is a helluva drug.
From my personal experiences, while things may get better, they never get good. To believe he can perform even at the Joe Biden level will be a stretch. I think Zwak will confirm. The mind and body are a lot different at 80 than at 50-60-70.
Go home, Pat, take a permanent vacation. I would say you have earned it but I can’t, a lifetime of leeching is not earning.
https://news.yahoo.com/leahy-comfortably-recovering-hip-replacement-020637609.html
Those guys never release their grip on power.
Party of youth.
It’s the entire apparatus. McCain, Fauci, Thurmond, Pelosi, Biden, Feinstein, etc…, the thought of retiring comfortably and not fucking with other peoples’ lives is anathema to them.
I’m trying to think of the last retirement that wasn’t obviously avoiding an upcoming electoral defeat.
Zell Miller, maybe?
The graveyards are full of “indispensable” people.
The title change for my promotion went through today (I honestly couldn’t remember when that was happening – raise happened a while back, so who cares).
On the one hand, I do like to have some business cards.
On the other hand, I need about 2 dozen, max. Not 250.
| Biden says drivers will pay more for gas ‘as long as it takes’ to counter Russia
Putin really hates it when gas prices are high. That’s why those videos of him trembling are out there. He hates it when the world has to pay more at the pump.
humans have done much better during warm periods
But what about all those dead homeless people in Phoenix?
LOL! Success and giving the constituents what they want, baffles the WH…
“I don’t know, maybe we could be, less stupid – I’m just spit-balling here.” /Dem strategist
They would accuse em of being a racist/sexist/homophobe/fascist/team red plant, and demand his xher’s head on a plater.
ZARDOZ may have a new pool to recruit from as bison show disdain for puny humans. Though they may want a cut of the vortex’s grain.
I blame dumb ass Disney movies that somehow left several generations of idiots thinking nature was all love, harmony, camaraderie, and beauty, instead of dog-eat-dog ugly shit where death is always a likely outcome.
I thought I heard Yellowstone was destroyed a few weeks ago by insensitive humans who cause global warming disasters?
More wailing and rending of garments
“What the court did just on abortion, guns and congressional power in the last eight days—that alone is momentous [but] if these justices stay together over the next few years, I don’t even think the first shoe has dropped,” University of California at Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen said. “There’s so much more the Supreme Court could do to change American society.”
I think you mean “undo the changes of the past”, dating from the Roosevelt administration if not before.
congressional power
Demanding that they use it? You would think these fucking idiots could at least grasp it was a hit to Executive power.
I don’t think “change American society” is in the purview of the court.
On Thursday, minutes after dealing a severe blow to President Joe Biden’s plan to reduce power-plant emissions to combat climate change, the high court announced it will take up a case from North Carolina next term that could give state legislatures vast power to draw district lines and set election rules even if state courts, commissions or executive officials disagree.
The horror.
The HORROR.
give state legislatures vast power
Exactly as the Constitution lays out.
The HORROR indeed.
I think it’s unlikely that they’ll remove state court oversight entirely. But they may prohibit courts from forcing the state to use a plan the court devised, and explicitly limit their oversight to issues of constitutionality.
as bison show disdain for puny humans.
Give them a week or two with no people around, and they think they own the joint.