Everyone busy. So here is what I found in the links queue.
Even though SCOTUS will (hopefully) slap this down if it becomes law, Democrat shitweasels are still trying to ban “assault weapons.”
DHS inspector general knew of missing Secret Service texts months earlier than previously known.
The “optics” are not good on this incident.
Well, we should at least make them pay for the plane.
That’s all I got. The comments are yours.
Morning, Tonio.
Republicans have said they voted no on the bill due to funds unrelated to veterans.
This happens so very often one party will take a perfectly good bill and slip in some completely unrelated bullshit. The opposition then has a tough choice: pass the bill, even though it has objectionable provisions; or, kill the bill and suffer the fallout.
I don’t know if it’s possible to constrain congress to force them to only make laws that accomplish a single, well-defined, purpose.
The media, meanwhile, run interference for *uck Schumer when he says the Republicans should submit a “clean” bill.
True. But even if they submit a clean bill there’s nothing to prevent Dems from slipping in an amendment to fund sex change surgery for pre-schoolers.
Time for a Unix Philosophy amendment.
Libertarian doctor? – no the authorities would not have found the gold
You lot aren’t any better at hiding things than anyone else.
Republicans have said they voted no on the bill due to funds unrelated to veterans.
Some have accused them of playing hardball after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) agreed this week to work with his party to advance a stalled Democratic agenda.
Principled opposition.
The Dems’ faux outrage has me convinced there’s something toxic buried in that bill, something which is the actual goal of the thing instead of what is written on the tin.
Toxic you say.
Who are these “some”?
“Since January, detectives believe she sold more than 550 prescriptions for promethazine-codeine cough syrup”
Huh. I saw a sign at Rite Aid yesterday saying they would no longer fill scripts for this starting monday. I guess I know why now.
Because it works?
Because they’d much rather see cancer patients writhing in pain than have one person getting high. And both parties are equally bad about this.
Exactly this. I (foolishly) remain surprised most people don’t understand this.
My mom was extremely fortunate to have an oncologist who was very good about prescribing pain meds. Then again, she didn’t take that much of it. But he wrote her a prescription for more than enough opioids every month. We were pleasantly surprised by that, because my dad had chronic back pain for half of his life, and ever since the hair-on-fire opioid hysteria began 20 years ago he never got enough pain medication to ever actually keep him out of pain. Just enough to take the edge off. Turns out being 300 pounds and having more of a tolerance to pain medication from chronic use might necessitate that you take more hydrocodone than a 150 pound healthy young man who went to the dentist for a toothache. But the law doesn’t differentiate. If you’re getting more than 60 a month, you’re a junkie, end of story.
Hellz yeah, a couple swigs of that sizzurp will have you rollin’ in no time. Unfortunately that’s the kind of thing that makes it harder than it should be to get for the people who really need it.
In the olden days you used to be able to just drive up to Canada, pick up a few bottles, and drive back, but Canada outlawed codeine cough syrup, and the post-9/11 security theater made it impossible to take a day trip over the border without your passport. And of course now you can’t take a day trip over the border even WITH your passport unless your blood is at least 65% COVID vaccine.
“The bill — like many issues related to veterans’ health — had amassed deep bipartisan support, and easily passed the Senate by an 84-14 vote in June. But a technical error required another vote, and this time, more than two dozen Republicans switched sides. The final tally was 55-42 (with three senators abstaining), falling short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster….
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) has been leading opposition to the bill, and voted against it both times.
In remarks on the Senate floor, he decried it as a “budgetary gimmick” that would create $400 billion in unrelated spending by moving it from the discretionary to mandatory category. His office has said his proposed technical fix wouldn’t reduce any spending on veterans or limit the expansion of care.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said that he supports the substance of the bill, but not the “accounting gimmick,” and accused Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of trying to block Toomey’s amendment.”
Who knows?
Sausage fest
When Joe Manchin balked at the clean energy incentives in Democrats’ expansive spending bill two weeks ago, the corporate C-suites and union boardrooms jumped into action.
With hundreds of billions of dollars of incentives for manufacturing, electric vehicles, nuclear power and carbon capturing technology hanging in the balance, executives from some of the nation’s biggest companies and labor unions made their case to the Democratic West Virginia senator: The next generation of clean tech needed Washington’s backing to take off.
Clean energy manufacturing companies with plans to set up shop in Manchin’s state helped orchestrate the 13-day effort to change his mind, more than 20 people involved in the effort told POLITICO — eventually helping to get his backing for the $369 billion in incentives in the newly dubbed Inflation Reduction Act, H.R. 5376 (117). That push — which two of the people said included a call from Bill Gates, whose venture capital firm has backed a West Virginia-based battery start-up — was taking place alongside a campaign by other senators along with economist and inflation hawk Larry Summers to convince Manchin of the merits of the bill.
“It was across the board,” said National Wildlife Federation CEO Collin O’Mara, who according to other participants was central in organizing the campaign to persuade Manchin to restart talks. “He heard from a wide range.”
The people involved who spoke with POLITICO described an effort with multiple entry points. They said Manchin’s staff was eager to set up meetings and kept conversations going to assuage their boss’ concerns about inflation, supply chains and energy.
Skids were greased.
They’re not even hiding the graft anymore.
“nuclear power”
Not going to happen.
I just assume it’s sleazy if Bill Gates is involved.
When Joe Manchin balked at the clean energy incentives in Democrats’ expansive spending bill two weeks ago, the corporate C-suites and union boardrooms jumped into action.
What’s it called again when industry works at the behest of the state to implement a unified agenda? It’s an Italian word I think…
Amore?
Off the Hill, O’Mara was busy in the intervening days rounding up conservative economists to address Manchin’s concerns that the spending package would fuel more inflation.
Ultimately, Summers, the former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, made the case that the climate package would not stoke inflation as Manchin had feared. Economists from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and deficit reduction advocate Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan think tank Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, also briefed Manchin during that period, according to people familiar with the meetings. MacGuineas did not confirm or deny the meeting.
Well, if a bunch of academic eggheads say it will be okay, who are we to quibble?
It’s right there is the name “Inflation Reduction Act”.
The better the bill sounds the worse it is for everyone. A good thing doesn’t need to be tarted up.
Camp where the Russians where holding Azov Battalion prisoners got blown to hell by an HIMARS strike.
https://www.rt.com/russia/559865-us-un-elenovka-reactions/
They’ve served their purpose and the stories told in war crimes trials could be damaging. Could have been a mistake though but wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t either.
Or, as the Ukes claim, Russia killed them themselves. Who you gonna believe? The Russians were going to kill them anyway, so why not make a PR event out of it?
My first question: was there a HIMARS unit in range of the prisoners?
Stated preferences versus revealed preferences. They’re always going to believe the neo-Soviet propaganda, no matter how much they say they don’t believe either side.
By the same token, look how the war on drugs suddenly becomes virtuous because a country seen as opposing the WEF is prosecuting it. And the lady professional basketball player deserves to get fucked over by it simply by virtue of the American media’s use of the demographic boxes she ticks.
(Seriously, I get a strong vibe of people cheering on Brittney Griner’s suffering precisely *because* US sports media bigs up women’s sports and politicizes them in a way those doing the cheering don’t like.)
You aren’t wrong.
Life being what it is, you take your schadenfreude where you can get it.
I’m sure that ESPN shoving the wholly unwanted WNBA (and other women’s sports no one watches) down the throats of everyone foolish enough to still think ESPN is anything but a single-topic CNN isn’t helping Griner at all. I don’t even watch ESPN, and their buttressing of the WNBA pushes me in to the “let her rot for being incredibly stupid” territory.
But I think what bothers me most is the whole “illegal detention” aspect taken by the media, which is clearly a fabrication.
She was detained based on the laws of Russia, and still (nominally) the US as well. I wouldn’t imagine that a Russian athlete would get through customs if she had something we deemed very illegal in her baggage.
There is simply no way to know.
RT is a Russian propaganda outlet. Maybe it’s true but I’m not starting by believing it.
I don’t know if it’s possible to constrain congress to force them to only make laws that accomplish a single, well-defined, purpose.
If it ever was, I think that time has passed.
The shit flinging howler monkeys like jon Stewart are ever ready to leap into action to denounce the heartless cruelty of any politician who dares to vote against a popular title page (no matter how many terrible Easter eggs lie within).
This is good news.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2022/july/500-fired-health-care-workers-win-historic-multi-million-dollar-settlement-in-covid-mandate-wake-up-call
The class action settlement against NorthShore University HealthSystem is on behalf of more than 500 current and former health care workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the COVID shot mandate, according to the non-profit religious rights law firm.
That is good news. The not so good news is that a “religious exemption” is required to say no to such an intrusion.
Agreed, good news, BUT — this is only a settlement in a civil case affecting a single healthcare system; it’s not a court ruling against vax mandates.
Should make other large employers take pause before implementing those policies though.
Good morning, Tonio!
And good morning to the rest of you lunatics. What time do the festivities in NY begin?
1 PM ET as I recall.
Caviar & Champagne Omelette by Donato Russo – Mirazur***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px3_2wFut-k
I don’t know that I speak for all taxpayer when I say this, but I’d be willing to shoulder the cost of that plane if it was shot down with her in it.
This still seems like a retarded provocation.
We accel at retarded provocations. See the Ukraine situation for current US diplomatic guidance.
She’s not stopping in Taiwan.
Probably only because she will “tested positive for Covid”
“Toxic Christianity”
Another mask removed.
https://www.salon.com/2022/07/29/the-backlash-to-christianity-are-now-panicked–but-they-only-have-themselves-to/
You really should put a trigger warning on Marcotte articles.
Trigger Warning: This article was written by a sack of shit, click at your own risk.
I don’t think anyone is surprised that the Salon set are anti-religion.
I’d say Amanda Marcotte long ago revealed who she is.
I fucking hate summer heat. In a way it maybe it would be better if I believed in the global warming shtick because I could have hope it could be fixed. But I think we are going through a hot period for a while – and a while may be more years than I have left – and I do not thing CO2 is the main driver
so glibs what would you prefer 100 F with 25% humidity or 90F with 70% ?
100* w/25 humidity. I’ve lived in Houston and I’ve lived (well, currently live) near Austin, and your example sums up the temp differences between the two places well.
I’m listening bing the desert situation. 200F, but 15% humidity.
One of the weirder things about moving here is that I no longer need coasters; there’s not enough humidity to condense droplets on the outside of a tall glass of ice tea.
I’m so used to the climate here that anywhere I move after this I’m fucked. Today feels “muggy” outside to me on account of the rain, and it probably isn’t any higher than 30% humidity right now. I apparently slept through one of our famous monsoons last night if the 3 EMERGENCY ALERT – FLASH FLOOD – YOU WILL SURELY DIE!!!!!!!! notifications on my phone this morning are any indicator.
I prefer the lower humidity. It gets really hot here at times, but it’s high desert, so very comfortable.
I’ve done both. 100 F with 25%, no question.
This is correct.
Yep yep yep.
I live in New England and have visited Arizona.
“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” is a cliche for a reason.
100* with 25%. And it isn’t even close.
Yup.
My rough, personal comfort-o-meter is temp + humidity. Anything over 150 and I’m not a happy camper.
Heat indices: 90/70=106, 100/25=100 (Funny math.)
I once had to do a history report on the Battle of Monmouth. (1778 in New Jersey). The temperature was over 100 and both sides lost more men to heat than wounds.
Heat waves have always happened.
Fashion in 1929
Hawt.
not thicc
Slumping appeared to be in fashion.
I dig the everyday poses that a socialite would be in but I wanna know what thr fashion for making sammichs was!
Very cool find Tundra
Years ago I read a study that said skirts/dresses get longer in tough economic times, shorter when the economy is doing well. I have not conducted a scientific study myself but mini-skirts showed up in the good times.
“Instagone? Will Instagram’s catastrophic drive to copy TikTok’s annoying videos spell the end of supergeek Zuckerberg’s reign?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11063541/Will-Instagrams-catastrophic-drive-copy-TikToks-videos-spell-end-Zuckerbergs-reign.html
Zuckerberg should have backed Trump to ban TikTok.
“Drug-crazed British student who tried to cut his US girlfriend’s head off after meeting her online ‘because he wanted to use her eyeball as a ticket to get through a portal’ is locked up for 18 years”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11064259/Drug-crazed-British-student-Adam-Butt-tried-cut-girlfriends-head-locked-up.html
If I had a nickel.
What an ass. He will be the butt of every joke for a while.
If they’re trying to blame the drugs, why did they put him in a mental hospital?
“Jesse Jackson demands owner of Sesame Street theme park hires black board of directors and funnels money to African American businesses to make amends for ‘racist characters snubbing black kids'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11064047/Jesse-Jackson-writes-letter-Sesame-Place-owner-SeaWorld-urging-bosses-employ-black-executives.html
I can’t wait for the UN to get involved.
That fish eyed fool has been running that same grift since the 1960s.
I was gonna say, isn’t this literally how Jesse Jackson has made his bread since he graduated from high school?
You mean the Jew-hater best known for calling New York City “Hymietown”?
Yes.
Energy rationing in Germany is getting serious. They are talking of shuttering breweries.
Now it’s an emergency.
This is the dream future anyway – might as well start now and get used to it.
What do the experts say?
The US economy is on a knife’s edge, potentially already in a recession after a second quarter of shrinking activity. But indicators are mixed, fueling uncertainty about the way forward.
At the core of the debate among economists and policymakers is a fundamental question with massive implications for America’s future: Which is worse — inflation, or a recession?
No one seems to agree on way or another.
By aggressively raising interest rates, the Federal Reserve is making a big wager that recession is worth the risk if it takes the heat off of consumer prices, which are rising at their fastest pace in four decades.
But many economists and lawmakers are pushing back on that idea, arguing that the so-called cure of a recession would be far worse than the disease of inflation.
To be sure, the Fed would like to avoid both. It’s aiming for a “soft landing” in which it hikes interest rates juuuust enough to slow demand without choking it off completely. That would be the ideal outcome, though the Fed itself admits the prospect of sticking the landing is getting increasingly difficult.
“The Fed’s actions to date do not guarantee a recession, but they have already made one more likely,” wrote Josh Bivens, the director of research at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, in a blog post earlier this month.
That leaves us with two potential outcomes: More inflation of the kind we’ve seen over the past year, or a recession that brings prices down while likely raising unemployment and crimping wage growth.
Bivens is firmly in the “high inflation is bad but a recession is worse” camp. That’s largely because of what a recession does to the labor market. “A recession actually means your economy is on average poorer,” he told CNN Business.
The last thing we want to do is flush some of the malinvestment out of the economy. That would be crazy.
“A rose by any other name…”
OFFS! The ambulance chasers are going after Tylenol now, for “causing autism”.
“Call now! Non-attorney spokesman!”
If that were the case I’d be the most autistic bastard alive.
There is some evidence (and has been for quite a few years) that using acetaminophen to control fever after vaccination has deleterious effects to the neurological system, particularly after the MMR vaccine.
It’s been a while since I’ve read the literature, but suffice it to say that Tylenol is a low-grade poison being used for pain control.
It’s bad for your liver.
In the United States, inflation has held steady at around 2% a year for the better part of four decades. Because of that, he argues, people mostly don’t expect recent inflation of around 9% to stick around.
“We should take advantage of those expectations and that credibility,” he says.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is another prominent voice in this camp, arguing that the root cause of our current inflation — including supply chain chaos wrought by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine — is far beyond the Fed’s jurisdiction.
Higher interest rates won’t fix soaring energy prices, Warren wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, and “they won’t break up the corporate monopolies that Mr. Powell admitted in January could be ‘raising prices because they can.’”
Pump some more cash into the system, Liz. that will help. Send everybody a few grand to put a windmill on their roof.
Yep my wife is just raising prices cause she can. Our new swimming pool is just about complete with only a few hundred gold coins to go
Congratulations on her business becoming a mega corporation.
Why thank you. It was her underhanded business practices and corporate espionage that allowed us to swallow our competition for pennies on the dollar.
What a load of horseshit. I’m seeing prices up across the board, and it ain’t because of monopolies (other than the one in currency).
My current water company has gotten a rate increase exceeding inflation by probably 4-5 times every few years since I moved here. Regulated monopolies are just super…
A little more inflation and they can really put the hammer to those evil millionaires. The ones working the fryer at McDonalds or at the 7 Eleven.
Why is 2 % the right amount? Why is any inflation a plus? ‘Course we know the answer, debtors vote too.
I’ve concluded you can figure out the correct side of any debate by chosing the opposite side from Warren.
She’s both stupid and evil.
100%
In most recessions, federal stimulus is a typical way to stimulate the economy and restore consumers’ faith. Those financial lifelines aren’t as likely to land this time around.
“If the narrative becomes, ‘we had to have the recession because we overspent in 2021,’ it makes you sort of suspect no relief is coming,” Bivens says. “I just think that’s a mistake all around.”
Prime the pump! Stimulus!
Just a reminder that Neph’s zoom is open all weekend.
Raises coffee…
We watched The Bear over the past couple of days. No bad. I enjoyed it.
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https://duotrigordle.com/
Personal best, so close to the goal.
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“ a bill to financially assist veterans ”
Ugh. Won’t someone think of the split infinitives?!?
As a veteran, with a service-connected disabilty (shoulders)…where’s my check?
*and not being abled to type disability
Wrong service?
It got written over to Colonel T. Reskoolko, 136th Ukrainian Infantry.
Take your free park pass and quit bitching. Also free Applebees meal in November.
Seems like perfectly cromulent English.
“A little history lesson for the Dems:
August 25, 1994: Congress passed a sweeping gun ban
September 13, 1994: Bill Clinton signed the gun ban
November 8, 1994: Democrats lost 53 seats in the House
July 29, 2022: Democrats are considering passing the biggest gun ban since 1994”
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1552981225106817025
I don’t think it will pass.
July 30, 2022: federally required background checks are still the law and the Democrats are once again in the majority of both houses and the White House despite publicly stating “hell yes we’re going to take your guns!”
“Correction, we called for vaccine availability for kids and masking when necessary to keep our children safe… get your facts right !!!”
https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1553161824379469825
At least she’s getting roasted in the comments.
I like the guy who posted the Rollins Band video.
She is a disgusting person.
“…Fed itself admits the prospect of sticking the landing…”
You know who else had a hard time sticking the landing?
John Wayne Bobbitt?
John McCain?
Richard Russell?
Nancy Kerrigan?
Amelia Earhart?
Columbia astronauts?
These 1nternal S3rver 3rr0rs are getting very suspicious.
Drunk Glibs in Alfred pulling out the Ethernet cable and laughing at the pseudo Glibs who aren’t there.
I haven’t bought any new guns in years. I need a new toy. I think I want a Springfield hellion because cool. But on the other hand I don’t have an AR. I also kinda want an M1A.
If y’all felt like dropping a moderate chunk of change on a rifle autoloader what would you get?
I have an M1A. I need another.
What do you want do with it?
Fun!
Also zombie apocalypse/civil war/fema camps/bigfoot hunting
The answer is yes, of course. Maybe wait on the Hellion for a bit of others experiences to see if it’s decent or a turd, would be my feeling.
Initial reviews seem positive (other than the trigger, but bullpups are gonna bullpup), but waiting awhile is probably smart anyway
M1As are pricey to feed these days. But .308 > .223. The M1A if your “fun to shoot” includes longer range shooting. There is also such a thing as subsonic .308, if suppression is your bag.
Otherwise, probably an AR. May I suggest the Tavor bullpup – the manual of arms is . . . different, but they are light, compact, quick, and fun to shoot. Should cover your needs except for bigfoot hunting – I’d go with a bigger caliber for that.
I’m definitely into the tavor, but now Springfield is making the hellion and I’m a Springfield fanboy…
I’d kind of like to have a Browning BAR MkII Safari in .338 Win Mag, but that’s just me.
Just for fun? I can tell you that the 2 autoloaders that I enjoy shooting the most are an AK variant (a converted Saiga to be exact) and an M1 Carbine. Those are 2 that I enjoy the most.
I’m sorry that I can’t attend, pay respects, and share fond memories with all of you glibs in SP’s name and memory.
I hope everyone is doing as well as they can. I certainly expect to hear all sorts of stories, debauchery expected, but not necessary. (But we know all y’all.)
Me, Constanza, has his parents’ place to himself for the next six hours. I’ll figure a way to celebrate in my own way. T-Minus…well I already started. But the BIGGIE is coming up in five min or so…