Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, waive to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Gas Prices Could Soar Again as ‘Oil’s Second Act’ Is Coming, Expert Predicts
EU Asks Countries to Significantly Cut Natural Gas Consumption Until Next Year
Hunter Biden probe reaches ‘critical stage,’ as officials weigh possible charges: source
Cancer or his dementia, who knows?
As Questions Mount About Corruption In Ukraine, The Neocon Narrative Is Unraveling
Most say Biden profited off Hunter’s deals — will get away with it
Glenn Youngkin’s popularity builds, equal to Florida’s Ron DeSantis
‘Dr.’ Jill Hits a New Low as Biden White House Close to Hitting Rock Bottom
The Democrats’ Base Is Fleeing at an Alarming Rate
IG Report Shows Immigration System Buckling Under Pressure
California’s Port of Oakland shuts for a third day in a row due to trucker protest
Chipotle Closes Store Where Workers Voted to Unionize
That’s all I got for today (not really, I just ran out of time), but I’ll still leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Biden announces executive actions on ‘climate crisis,’ focuses on extreme heat and boosting offshore wind”
He should stop making so much hot air.
Recess Congress early.
Gaia laughs in his face.
The incredible hubris to think he can twist a couple knobs and pull a few levers and poof! End of klimate krisis.
CWAA
Silence! SCIENCE has spoken!
How long does it take offshore wind output to exceed the energy required to place it out in the ocean?
I don’t think it ever does, when you factor in the maintenence and replacement parts. (Or even without the energy required for maintenance)
Raises a thought — would it work out if instead of scrapping Nimitz (I believe she’s next up), we put one last load of fuel in her (should be good for 25 years) and use her for deep sea industrial projects like this? Be interesting to see if they could do a refuel without a full refit / refurb like they usually do (since she wouldn’t be going back to combat status) and how those numbers would work out in saving bunker fuel, etc. Plus you have a lot of on-site electrical, distilleries, machine shops, etc. that way.
The plan is to use it to let Godzilla and Kong do pay per view fight night…
With all the rich people suing the government because the wind farm spoil the views from their sea side mansions, it is going to take a long time.
Ted Kennedy opens his coffin and waves.
Ted Kennedy – now 13 years sober!
Morning, Banjos.
“And, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 56% see no chance of federal charges for the questionable deals.”
44% of people are adorable.
I have deep skepticism of the public’s understanding of legal process. That poll question fails because the “no charges” answers include both the true believers in the Bidens and their administration, plus the people who believe that the DOJ is both corrupt and incompetent.
Yes, pollsters always ask the conveniently wrong/incomplete questions.
It’s almost like they want data, but *just enough* data to answer a question the right way.
I’m sure they’ll get to it right after the Durham probe puts out their charges.
Right?
Anyone? Bueller?
heh heh. But muh DISCOVERY!
I waive nothing, reserving all rights.
Let’s see how this works out following the EPA SCOTUS decision…
Seven years of court cases. Seven years to cause damage before getting struck down.
Look how well they’ve done in only a year & a half!
Let’s Go, Brandon!
Well it’s a good thing they’ve got a five year plan! They’ll have this
global coolingglobal warmingsummer weatherunprecedented climate change wrapped up before the cases are done.“Democrats have long believed that “demography is destiny” — that if they just build a multicultural coalition utilizing shifting demographics in the country, they’d obtain a permanent political majority. But there’s a problem: Democrats then switched to all identity politics and extreme takes on social issues that end up pushing many of those demographic groups away.”
I think the Latinx thing hurt them. “These assholes can’t bother to learn how to use one word in Spanish?”
Also, gas prices. It’s not just people needing to drive to work, it’s small businesses such as construction, landscaping, restaurants, etc. that need to burn a lot of fossil fuel.
They really don’t understand that fuel is the backbone of the economy.
I know they have zero idea of how much the gas crisis hurts them (and US) and how much the lockdowns screwed things up. Idiots. They all live in cities where they walk, bicycle, or take transit, and have no idea how the rest of the country works.
It should be pretty obvious by now that rising gas prices impact everything even there.
I think the real issue is just that they’re fucking stupid.
I think they are more evil than stupid.
They know exactly what they are doing. They hate us and want us dead and those they can’t outright kill through abortions and forced “vaccinations” they want to drive into poverty and starvation to send a message that if we have kids (despite forced sterilization, which is another goal of the vaccinations), they’re going to make it even more difficult on our kids than we had it. *takes tinfoil hat off*
fuel is the backbone of the economy.
Not only that. Oil is the backbone of the modern world.
They have no idea at all.
No oil? We’re back to sticks and stones and the occasional blacksmithed item.
Latinx didn’t help, but it was more the cherry on top. The more interesting thing to watch will be if the Dems have actually managed to bust LBJ’s promised hold.
I think the Latinx thing hurt them.
Democrats should follow up by telling Latinos they aren’t real Latinos if they don’t use Latinx.
I can’t think of a better example of white privilege.
It’s an interesting political failure because it is so dramatic.
And it stands in contrast to how accepting (relatively speaking) the black community has been to the woke tactics. I think it may have to do with how high a percentage of the community has gone to college and stands as an example of “success”. They use those people within the community to drive popular opinion. I don’t think there’s a Hispanic Al Sharpton, Elie Mystal, or Don Lemon.
that if they just build a multicultural coalition utilizing shifting demographics in the country, they’d obtain a permanent political majority.
This concept is as racist as it is farcical. And Dems still think they own brown people.
Goooood Lynx! And so fresh.
At what point do Europeans begin to really, actually revolt against these insane policies of actual “austerity?”
They love to do their little protests and tantrums when their governments reduce their welfare benefits by 0.5%, but when they stop being able to heat their homes (while they see their elites continuing to live it up), what will happen?
I’m beginning to think they’ve bled all the bold blood away.
Nazi’s. Nazi’s will happen.
This country was the world’s safety valve for those kind of people. Was. Ain’t no more. And now, everyone is going to have to deal with the discontent right where they are. Fun times.
With the farmers in Netherlands and the protests in other countries that you don’t hear about from the MSM, it may be starting.
what will happen?
A man with a funny mustache will swoop in to save the day?
What was it that was the predicate act – oh yes, a declaration of emergency.
Fu Manchu?
I feels like it wasn’t that long ago that leftist/globalist sorts treated anyone that would try to institute any sort of austerity (especially gov’t handouts) like they were literally walking around beheading grandmothers (I would say killing babies, but they’re super into that). When it was money and benefits it was the end of the world, but when it’s heating your home and being able to get to and from work it’s no biggie. How come asking people to have a little less is suddenly so fashionable?
Because it was never about the needs of the people.
whaddup doh’
“As Questions Mount About Corruption In Ukraine, The Neocon Narrative Is Unraveling”
NPR picked this story up yesterday from the AP. I’m wondering what the angle is here with MSM recognizing this particular issue.
PS – I picked my Russian neighbor walking to the train in my car on my way to the station this AM. It’s already 77F here with humidity you can cut with knife. Does this make me a Russian sympathizer/supporter?
The Dems want to be able to peel off the war when they decide it has become too dangerous or too expensive – so, blame it on the neo-cons.
That’s… plausible.
I can see the hot takes now:
“Did TRUMP’s obsession with opposing Russian hegemony push US into backing a corrupt regime in Ukraine?”
We could only be so lucky.
Yep, my thoughts exactly.
To be fair, it probably was the neo-cons. You may remember that the Ds were willing to forget all about those silly war crimes and welcome them with open arms is they would just create a few sound bites condemning orange man.
I don’t know — does buying candy pitched by your high school football team make you an athletic supporter?
Are you jockeying for a pun thread?
Ballsy.
You could almost call it a protection racket.
Maybe we should have some kind of award for the best one, maybe a cup?
金玉
(きんたま)
A house with power lines?
Character for “gold” + “ball”.
Slang for testes.
I see.
I should focus on finally learning english before interpreting other languages.
I noticed that the “neo-cons” drifted right back to the left as soon as they became the pro-war and anti-Russia party.
People like Irving Kristol (Bill’s dad) were Trotskyites who fled Stalin and held a grudge ever since.
And they really really hate it when you bring up the Trotsky thing.
Which is why you should never let them forget it.
Does this make me a Russian sympathizer/supporter?
Sympathizing with anything Russian makes you a Russian stooge, obviously.
“The truckers are protesting Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), which makes it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees, who are entitled to minimum wage and benefits such as workers compensation, overtime and sick pay.
‘It seems the governor is not concerned about taking American workers’ rights away,’ demonstrator Bill Aboudi, owner of AB Trucking, told CNBC. ‘So far there has been no contact with the governor’s office.’
‘These are independent, small businesses that choose to operate their own trucks, and now that right is taken away from them. They do pay taxes, they do have insurance. It’s their choice to do that.'”
They don’t know about owner-operators? SMDH.
All peasants must be under the control of a megacorp for easier control from the central committee.
That, and you can’t get owner-operators to pay union dues.
The best part is, the dockworkers (unionized) are with the truckers (who are rejecting being employees represented by the Teamsters).
I suspect the dock is a closed shop, so there’s no guarantee that the union members are union hardliners.
Besides they work with the truckets every day and know these people.
Yup… AB5 was mostly an anti-Uber bill, but forcing union membership in other places was definitely part of it. As with all CA politics, if you want to understand it — see where it helps a union (or kickbacks to the politicians in the case of PG&E).
I almost went into management on one of those docks, looks like I dodged a bullet.
Tommy used to work on the docks, union’s been on strike
He’s down on his luck, it’s tough, so tough…
That’s the freedom Newsom was talking about in his commercial.
Just had to drop in and say how awesome JoeMala was yesterday. Holy shit – that truly was one of the funniest things I’ve read.
Brilliant, SF. Joe “waking up” and thinking he’s 30 years in the future with Rachel Levine as his doctor was as good a use of that plot device as there’s ever been.
And I even knew most of the words from when my daughters were born (except the “l” word). I didn’t remember that one even though one of my girls had that.
Re: Biden on “climate emergency” – I wonder how long it will be before people – and the courts – recognize that Biden’s Admin is simply a lawless regime. They know the shit they’re doing is illegal. He’s said it openly.
He’ll just take the action and expect that by the time it gets slapped down, it will “at least” have accomplished some of its goal. He is single-handedly going to delegitimize most of the Executive Branch.
It won’t be long until people simply ignore his “executive actions” and then the real fun’s going to start. Will police start arresting those who ignore his “climate orders?”
Joe is a meat puppet and the people pulling the strings are just straight up Evil. It’s all will to power now and, eventually, even the rubes will learn.
And that will be the moment we hear “Havoc.”
I wonder how long it will be before people – and the courts
The people will, some sooner than others; the courts – never.
Could it be THE SPARK?
Biden’s Admin is simply a lawless regime.
NY and NJ are in open defiance of the recent 2A decision.
Will police start arresting those who ignore his “climate orders?”
Not if they want to go home safely. People have a limit and it is fast approaching.
Maybe it will be somewhat worth it if people actually do begin ignoring executive orders. The idea that they have almost any legitimacy in the first place is a complete farce. For decades our presidents have been running around like children on the school yard playing superheroes and just giving themselves new superpowers at will. Now I have fire-breath! The fact that anyone has gone along with any of it is beyond infuriating.
In the alternative universe where President Dean takes office, my first executive order will be revoking all existing executive orders. I’ll consider reinstuting any that actually still have a purpose.
All executive orders, all letter, all regs. “Get it through congress. Bye”
the US should make a gigantic wind mill that makes energy from hurricanes
We can turn all of Kansas into a battery – America’s battery.
Pie, your joke makes a good point of concern about any offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Mexico. What happens when 200 wind mills encounter a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane?
Well, I assume they’ll be insured.
But that much fiberglass into the ocean can’t be good for the fishies.
Man made reef for the win.
More opportunities for grift when they have to be replaced. I believe publicly subsidized railways also encountered such issues.
While making breakfast for the kids, I watched South Park S19 E2.
It predicted and diagnosed everything.
PC principle attacks Kyle because he says Kaitlyn Jenner isn’t a hero to him. He finally buckles under and calls her a hero, making a speech of tolerance (under duress) that results in a wave of immigration. Because his reasonable middle road approach results in the left getting their way, everyone decides that Kyle shouldn’t make any more speeches.
South Park had it all.
PC being ridiculous and overreaching, the left creating an immigration crisis, the resultant wave of populism, Trump making his name by simply standing up to PC police and saying anything at all about the wave of immigration..
Then they have Fallon making lame and unfunny jokes about how everyone in middle America is a stupid hick, resulting in a backlash where people quit listening to anything from the left.
They even have the corporate overlords using their power to push cities to adopt leftist policies.
It was striking to hear it from before Trump was elected, having just come from watching Reason just now start acknowledging that there might be some excesses on the left that might be driving populist tendencies.
Hell, they mocked the trans-creature thing back in season 9. You’d think the Strong Woman episode would have at least caused some people to pause… but no.
Reason just now start acknowledging that there might be some excesses on the left
SOP. They must reluctantly support Democrats because the fog of fascism is always threatening to descend on Republicans.
I wonder if they put out a “who we voted for” article after the 2020 election. Those are always a “fun” read.
Everyone forgets that two months before Bruce became Caitlyn there was a fatal car crash (except South Park). Could be a coincidence, but also hard to overlook what perfect timing it is to take the focus off of killing some one.
Even better, the time line was Fatal accident, transition, Time Magazine’s woman of the year.
South Park had Caitlyn run an old lady over every time she left a scene. They really are brutal.
Stunning, brave, and deadly.
I ‘member, both the incident and the episode. And the “Call Me Caitlyn” bustier Vanity Fair cover.
Isn’t Colbert the most political of the late-night hosts, and then Seth Meyers?
Thank you for not calling them comedians.
I prefer the term apparatchiks.
If they can do it in Virginia, it can happen in Pennsylvania. I just wish Mastriano was
moreany kind of a libertarian. He’s more polarizing than Youngkin, in a state that is heavily polarized, but weighs overall slightly more to the left, due to Philly and Allegheny County.Maybe I’m wrong about PA leaning slightly more left than VA but it feels that way. Both states have their deep red areas but in VA they have mostly the DC area, which is split between VA, MD, and DC, so its affect on VA elections is somewhat attenuated vs PA having Philadelphia and its suburbs and Pittsburgh (its suburbs are still relatively red) in the same state. I don’t know what other metro areas in VA contribute to the situation, but I doubt they are as much of a weight as Philly.
Ohio has gone Republican, even with the major cities (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati) and most of the medium cities (Akron, Toledo, Dayton) being Democrat outposts. I was entertained by a local story that was trying to defend the city of Cleveland’s push for strict gun control and access to abortion. The main thrust was that Cleveland was different then the rest of the state because it was the “only majority minority city” in the state.
So Cleveland needs to thin the herd of new babies and take people’s guns because they are minorities?
I mean, I get that has been the traditional, unspoken justification, but are they actually saying it out loud?
Of course not. It’s just that those minorities can’t be trusted to properly arm themselves for defense, or use birth control because of oppression.
It doesn’t quite match up with what the guy behind New Era Cleveland is doing (organizing groups to open patrol their neighborhood streets while open carrying).
Something to watch out for:
Traditionally, corrupt shitholes will arrest on trumped up (hah!) charges any “reformers” who get too popular and might challenge the current apparat. I wonder if we’ll see the FBI/DOJ going after Youngkin, DeSantis, etc. I mean, we’ve see them flailing ineptly to go after Trump, but he’s still kind of a one-off in American politics.
Didn’t the FBI recently arrest some House candidate in Michigan for political speech or something?
People are starting to say this sort of thing on a national stage. I have seen clips of Tucker Carleson on this lately, and of course AOC herself was u wittingly trumpeting the “onside job” nature of Jan 6.
Don’t worry, Youngkin’s not a reformer.
Richmond & Norfolk both contribute significantly.
Don’t get me wrong, VA is a solid red state if the DC metro area were excised, but there are blue counties in other areas of the state.
Roanoke doesn’t help either. Can’t help but notice that Norfolk, Richmond, and Roanoke are also all the shitholes of the state. Must be some kind of correlation there.
Hampton, Portsmouth, and Newport News can have their own special 3rd world country status.
Hey! I was born in P-Town!
Heh, I got on 264 West out of downtown Norfolk and became lost in Portsmouth at night a few weeks after I got my driver’s license. Took an exit to try and find a way to get back on an East onramp and somehow ended up in neighborhood.
A cop saw me, flagged me, and told me to get the hell out of there as fast I could with directions back to the interstate.
I mean there are places like that in Norfolk too, places where the cops won’t even go, but I had no clue where they are in Portsmouth.
Is this a normal thing around the country? I don’t spend a lot of time in cities in general, except on business travel, and those areas are not generally considered “bad.”
Yeah, a lot of times if a cop spots someone who is clearly not supposed to be in certain neighborhoods they will help them find their way out.
There’s a couple of neighborhoods in Cleveland that if you are a person of pallor, and it’s dark out, the cops will pull you over immediately. It’s an area that has had few attempts to gentrify it during my lifetime (compared to several neighborhoods that were shitholes, that are now livable to nice).
Yes. When I was an account manager, we had a standing rule that in Richmond, CA before dawn do not stop at a light, just slow down and gun it. This was taken from info provided by the police.
Portsmouth went to shit a long time ago. It’s like a mini-Baltimore.
Norfolk has fared better over the years and has had a bit of a renaissance, but it may be short-lived as the economy tanks.
Your story reminds me of the time I got lost in Anacostia back in 1989. Cop just gave me directions and I said “Yes, sir!”
I remember visiting an old NGIA facility in DC near where the baseball stadium is now. Eight foot cinder block walls with concertina surrounding the parking lot. We were advised to drive out of the area for lunch.
I’m south of Richmond. Haven’t ventured into the city for a couple years. There are reasons for that.
Just met a nice lady who lives near Cary Street. She’s from Uruguay and has a libertarian bent.
As she put it, there are no like-minded people around her.
Richmond looks charming from here. Doesn’t it have two reassembled English stately homes?
The Edgar Allen Poe museum is there.
I want to believe.
I understand that there is a lot of discussion among more liberal folks about registering as (R) to affect the primaries. The strategy seems split: some want to see “less dangerous, more moderate Republicans” in the general election as a viable option, others want the most ridiculous, polarizing firebrands that are easier to paint as kooks so that andy D looks sane by comparison.
Shapiro is not a sane alternative to anyone.
If you look at the Republican/Democratic split at the county level nationwide, it is a sea of red with a few blue specs.
Biden announces executive actions on ‘climate crisis,’ focuses on extreme heat
It’s never been 90+ degrees and humid on the eastern seaboard before…
focuses on extreme heat and boosting offshore wind
This, of course, is completely environmentally friendly and can produce sufficient electricity after we great reset our way into tripling the electricity demand…
Who do you think you are – Rep. Massie?
I’m strapped for a reply on this one.
Pun thread fail. Carry on.
Gas Prices Could Soar Again as ‘Oil’s Second Act’ Is Coming, Expert Predicts
Oil is the modern world. Oil is everything. Keep pushing, cuntes.
Would that be the same expert that predicted peak oil a few years back?
“If capitalism is all about innovation and ‘progress’, whit is it so reluctant to leave the fuels of the 19th century and move into the 21st?” -a FB friend
These people have no conception of energy output, incentives, or capitalism
You mean like nuclear power? That the watermelons have stalled and killed for decades?
EU Asks Countries to Significantly Cut Natural Gas Consumption Until Next Year
I’m trying to figure out what I am going to do about heat this winter since my house doesn’t have a fire place and the prospect of lack of electricity looms. I have emergency heat via a kerosene heater but that is for temporary purposes.
An increase in CO2 deaths for those that can find/afford kerosene
Hunter Biden probe reaches ‘critical stage,’ as officials weigh possible charges: source
*yawn*
Yeah… we have crimes fully documented on the public record. If they were gonna do something, they would have done it.
No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute those crimes.
What about the brave prosecutor who went after Ghisaline Maxwell? Or are they to busy putting together the prosecutions for all of the people on her client list?
Of course I drop my food. I go to the trouble of cooking, so of course I drop it.
“Remember, you are alone in the kitchen.”
Yeah, but after mopping it up, what’s left isn’t that appetizing.
Well, you didn’t specify if it was liquid or solid.
It was fish in butter. The fish broke apart on impact, the butter sauce splattered. I used paper towels instead of a literal mop.
butter? you should get one of those bamboo steamer and steam the fish it is healthier that way. Just ad a bit of lemon on top.
I had a bamboo steamer.
I hated that thing. Especially cleaning it. Glad to be rid of it.
“Puppies–! Din-nerrr–!”
*sigh* If I had any pets.
Haven’t had small mammals around since I got rid of the mice.
Steak is always salvageable. Of course, I don’t drop mine anyway.
Sorry UCS.
I can’t afford steak every day.
I don’t drop mine anyway. – your family would shoot you if you did?
good for weight loss I assume.
5 second rule. Unless you have to transition to the 10 second rule.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11034559/Halsey-flaunts-incredible-postpartum-body-skimpy-bikini-proudly-shows-stretch-marks.html
So gorgeous, shame about all the ink though.
And all the crazy…
wretchardthecat
@wretchardthecat
The pre 2020 consensus of global progress has completely shattered, and the 3 world capitals are chasing hunches because they don’t know what else to do.
https://twitter.com/wretchardthecat/status/1549940103162007554
interesting Twat thread.
“Each thinks it is pursuing the future…”
No, they don’t. It’s not and never has been about climate, covid or imperial greatness. All those are means to ends for the sociopaths in power, narratives for the useful idiots to adopt and rally behind as they unknowingly support their own oppression. The powerful are evil, the useful idiots are stupid.
“What is the greatness of Rome?”
Shadows and dust.
Even if Our Masters don’t believe these narratives, I think his point is that they will have a short shelf life because they are backward looking and worn out.
They’re always in need of a Current Thing.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-support-the-current-thing
Apropos.
Bad kitty is one of the absolute best out there.
Boom.
Nice! And thanks. Subscribed. Cool writing style, too.
With apologies to straff – not a fan of the ee cummings style.
Yeah, I love El Gato Malo, but the uncapitalized first word of sentence thing annoys the crap out of me. It impedes the flow of reading if nothing else.
But his surgical strike invective is spot-on.
That was interesting – thanks.
“They just call us fascists,” Lyric Winik, a resident of the neighborhood, told The Post.
The left (i.e. the real fascists…) have made this a meaningless term.
Americans who even casually followed the news in the fall of 2020 probably know that Ukraine was infamously corrupt long before the United States sent the country $54 billion in aid after the Russian invasion in February.
You are supposed to forget about this because of McPutin’s war.
https://twitter.com/MostControPod/status/1549777993756602368
what is the best cement to fill up a vagina?
Wasn’t there a link to fast drying cement yesterday?
from what Ive seen on pr0nhub…..blacktop
/shows myself out
Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore:
“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the single inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics”
https://twitter.com/manversusbean/status/1549640463476736000
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has added to his 2021 election margin of victory, becoming a popular commonwealth leader as he heads into the nation’s heartland to help 2022 Republican candidates and considers his own political future.
The latest Morning Consult survey shows that he is the 22nd most popular governor in the country, holding a 53% approval rating.
He seems milquetoast to me, but this is still amusing. I also note that I never saw a single McCunteface sign/sticker/etc in my definably lower-middle class neighborhood, nor the ones around it. So make of that what you will.
Life advice.
The Democrats’ Base Is Fleeing at an Alarming Rate
Which is why they are replacing American citizens with illegals at an alarming rate.
And yet, the Hispanic population of the US is rejecting Democrats in the polls at historic levels.
But are still majority Dem.
It is an interesting question whether they will push the Democrats more to the right, cease identifying with Democrats and move to the Republicans, or whether they will just slide back once Biden is done.
If the Republicans were smart, they’d introduce a bill covering immigration reform (with a favorable guest worker program). If the Democrats weren’t evil, they would have introduced one already.
(feel free to swap the parties based on personal preference).
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Think im getting the hang of it, not good yet but better
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The weeks produce from mom’s garden
https://photos.app.goo.gl/M289i18u6jU9x2F37
Pie’s home made gazpacho
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7bdWRESWA4jMrG5s9
Hello there. They look yummy.
Lower left, is that a tomato?
obviously
It’s not obvious, there were several other possibilities that came to mind then I went “balance of probabilities says tomato, but I’m not positive” So I asked.
I am curious what else it could be because I can’t think of anything
In that lighting, it looks like it has a hard rind, so my mind was going through a lot of different types of produce.
I could see it being a pomegranate.
That was one of the top contenders.
Looks like a fifty-pence piece.
“Alicia Silverstone, 45, reveals she still shares bed with 11-YEAR-OLD son Bear Blu and claims she’s simply ‘following nature’ – ten years after admitting she fed him by pre-chewing his food and passing it into his mouth like a bird”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11034413/Alicia-Silverstone-says-following-nature-sleeping-11-year-old-son-Bear.html
She sounds clueless.
His poor future wife…
or husband
or victims.
Alfred would not be pleased.
His future therapist is going to be a rich man. Also, prechewing his food? What the fuck?
Birding.
Much less creepy if you use the then-trendy name birding for it.
Yeah i’ll give her a pass on that. Moms pre-chewing food for infants is as old as human history. Just odd to moderns.
For most of the rest of it, she seems to be a confirmed (and working hard at it) nut.
IG Report Shows Immigration System Buckling Under Pressure
Deliberate lack of enforcement is a type of pressure I suppose.
https://twitter.com/notfolu/status/1549420272641605633
I call fake. I have no idea what cherry selzer is but I doubt people can identify brands blind.
It’s carbonated water with cherry flavoring.
I think alcohol it is hard selzer it seems
She looks like an expert.
“Minneapolis theater CANCELS 1,500-ticket Dave Chappelle show at last minute and apologizes for ‘failing to be a safe space’ after woke group’s 125-signature complaint over star’s ‘transphobic’ jokes
A Minneapolis theater canceled Dave Chappelle’s sold-out show at the 11th hour on Wednesday to appease a group of woke protesters who threatened violence if the star was allowed to perform.
First Avenue, a storied Minneapolis venue, canceled the show just hours before the famous comedian, 48, was supposed to hit the stage, bowing to the demands of MnUprising, a woke activism group which labeled Chappelle a transphobe.
The group complained that Chappelle ‘harmed’ them with his ‘transphobic views’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11034031/Minneapolis-theater-CANCELS-sold-Dave-Chappelle-minute-Antifa-threat.html
Minneapolis must have the best cops.
125?
The proper response to a petition that size is the laugh in their faces and tell them to fuck off.
I think it was more the threat of violence. Which I’m sure is illegal.
Violence for a holy cause is completely legal, and moral, and justifiable!
Perhaps the proper response to a threat of violence against a public gathering is to identify the person(s) making threats and press charges against them?
If only they had the names of people who made the threats, on a list somewhere.
Did we get a follow-up?
They moved to another venue last minute, and the activists put on a full court press to confront them. They had new flyers and everything. Ngo had it on his feed last night.
So, taking a large group of people against whom violence has been threatened, and forcing them to move en masse to another location is considered a reasonable response to those threats of violence?
And public calls for a mob to follow them is not worthy if a police response. So… yeah.
They won’t stop until they ride him out of town?
“Dave Chappelle is…near!”
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to all of you wonderful freaks.
Biden announces executive actions on ‘climate crisis,’ focuses on extreme heat and boosting offshore wind
Why don’t you just nuke us and get it over with, Joe? The plan is clearly some righteous depopulation, so maybe it’s time to cut to the chase.
Fucking offshore wind. I understand the ‘renewables’ companies are in it for the grift, but I get the feeling that a lot of people truly believe that wind and solar can power the world.
That’s fucking scary.
Half the population is average IQ and below and can be sold magic beans over and over again. Yay democracy.
The man, dressed in black, arrived by taxi after 1 a.m. in the neighborhood. The individual told police he was planning on killing Kavanaugh and then himself over the leaked draft opinion indicating the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade. The man had a Glock 17 pistol, ammunition, pepper spray, duct tape and a knife with him at the time of his arrest.
No zipties?
He had duct tape.
Just a useful tip – duct tape is super easy to get out of. If your hands are duct taped together, just rub your wrists together like you’re washing your hands. You’ll loose all the hair on your wrists, but the tape adhesive will fail and the tape will stretch out.
The More You Know…
But I don’t want loose hair?
loose/lose mistakes make me go all Ted’S.
Don’t worry, it’ll all be stuck to the tape. Tight hair, too.
“California woman, 23, is arrested ‘for posing as nurse, sneaking into a hospital and trying to STEAL newborn from maternity unit before fleeing'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11033727/CA-woman-23-charged-posing-nurse-sneaking-hospital-trying-STEAL-newborn.html
But why?
seemed like a good idea at the time?
Mmmmm…. baby
per (((protocol)))?
She’s got the munchies for a California cheeseburger?
We tag all of our newborns with Baby Lo-Jack. If they leave the unit, an alarm goes off (“Code Pink”). The only ones not tagged are in the NICU, and if you’re planning on stealing one of those, well, bring extra mags. I’d rather be thrown to the wolves than have the NICU nurses out for my blood.
So what form factor do these tags take?
https://marshallradio.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/dog-collar-light-WHITE.jpg
They punch a hole in the ear, similar to to livestock.
They’re not branding them any more?
The babies, I mean.
They stopped that after Damien caused some issues.
I think that is pretty standard, isnt it?
Yeah. Comes with automatically closing and locking doors.
In some cases the kidnapper has pretended to be pregnant for a while and must now come up with a baby so as not to be caught in a lie.
Some do it to sell the kid to desperate would-be parents.
Some are mentally ill and can’t have their own, so they take one.
It’s still better than those awful cases where the lunatic rips open the womb of a pregnant woman in an attempt to steal the baby. The pregnant woman nearly always dies, and often the baby does too. There are some crazy bitches out there.
Saying words is fun.
Vice President Harris assures religious Americans that supporting abortion does not violate their faith: “to support a woman’s ability, not her government but her, to make that decision does not require anyone to abandon their faith or their beliefs.”
Tenets of various religions notwithstanding.
So sayeth Pope Cackles.
Look, who knows better about the tenants of Catholicism? The Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, and priests, or the first Asian/Black VP?
This is to the people who worship government.
Romans 12:2 – Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Other than being sworn into office, has Harris ever touched a Bible, much less actually read any of it?
If one believes life begins at conception and that abortion is therefore murder of course it’s against the tenants of the faith to allow it to occur. She’s not very bright is she?
Exactly. But logical consistency isn’t strong point of politicians both Red and Blue.
Like most not very bright people, she thinks she’s quite brilliant.
American flags are a threat to our democracy.
Yikes. Just saw this gang walking around the Capitol and had a wave of #Jan6 anxiety.
“Gang.”
An intimidating bunch for sure or maybe she was afraid of the black guy?
If “Jan6 anxiety” is a thing, I don’t want to know what the rest of that person’s life looks like.
I was just thinking, how can she tell the ‘Jan6 anxiety’ from all her other anxieties?
She must go through life like a chihuahua in a thunderstorm.
But she’s a real perfeshunull jurnulister!
Yeah – and if the “anxious” moron had turned to run, tripped and sprained his/her/xir ankle, that sweet little grandmotherly lady would have probably rushed after he/she/xe.
And then helped he/her/xir up, and asked “oh, honey, are you all right?”
Really dangerous “gang.”
There is increasing dissatisfaction with Biden among black voters. The working class are losing their faith in Democratic politicians in swing states. The base they were so reliant on is disappearing ahead of the November midterms.
Black people aren’t on board with the white liberals’ obsession with global warming and gender confusion?
Total surprise.
The total surprise will come if they ever decide to vote accordingly. Back in the 80s and 90s I was well integrated in the black community. They were much more conservative than most white folk. They even had derision for the million man march and the Farakahn types at the time.
But they still vote as a block.
If Trump’s historic low black unemployment numbers followed by the stagflation we are about to get hit with doesn’t do it, I don’t know what will.
Thing is, how many people are really aware of Trumps inroads with black communites? Anything good he did barely got any media attention, if any, and was immediately shouted down with “he’s a terrible racist! remember good people on both sides!” (Which of course is a further example of the media misrepresenting of what he was actually saying, but you know). Most of my friends and colleagues in the black community automatically default to GOP is racist, and it will take an awful lot to overcome that, especially with a media that constantly pushed that narrative.
Purge the unclean.
Currently, more than 260,000 servicemen and women in the U.S. military are only partially vaccinated — that is, they have only received one vaccine shot against Covid instead of two — and are now facing separations and discharges.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Just noticed how dusty my office is. Funny – it usually never bothers me.
Wonderful.
Thanks, Holiness.
Daily Quordle 178
7️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
Seed words were useless today.
4 6
8 7
It’s an open and shut case
Kristin Amerling, deputy staff director and general counsel of the Jan. 6 committee, told jurors that the House panel understood “that Mr. Bannon had been in communication with the president in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 events and we wanted to understand what he could tell us about the connection between any of these events.”
She testified that the committee determined that raising claims of executive privilege “was not a valid rationale for refusing to comply” with a congressional subpoena.
Under questioning from Bannon lawyer Evan Corcoran, Amerling said she hadn’t testified in a contempt of Congress trial before, but noted that was only because it’s so rare for people to defy a congressional committee like Bannon did.
“It’s very unusual for witnesses who receive a subpoena to say they will not comply, so there haven’t been occasions that I’ve been involved in to be a witness in a criminal contempt proceeding,” she said.
When FBI Special Agent Stephen Hart took the stand, Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston asked him about posts on Bannon’s GETTR page from September and October of 2021. The September post was a link to a Rolling Stone article about Bannon’s subpoena and the October one was a link to a Daily Mail article about Bannon telling the Jan. 6 committee he wouldn’t comply with the subpoena.
The implication from prosecutors was that Bannon was not engaged in a good faith debate over executive privilege but instead was just blowing off the committee.
How dare he? Off with his head.
So as about as good faith as th3 committee’s intent? Like the unequal seating and stage show to intimidate witnesses?
Do love the lack of outrage from the “HUAC’ witch hunts were wrong!!” Crowd.
It’s very unusual for witnesses who receive a subpoena to say they will not comply
If I had been Bannon’s lawyer my next question would’ve been “tell me about the response to Eric Holder’s refusal to appear”.
The implication from prosecutors was that Bannon was not engaged in a good faith debate over executive privilege but instead was just blowing off the committee.
He and his lawyers made several valid arguments including questioning the validity of the committee, which explicitly exists in violation of the resolution that created it.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1549861466764877826
Poor NY. It’s tough being a border state under this administration, huh?
Is Texas busing immigrants to NYC now?
Yes, and Washington DC. Which apparently is a “shameful” practice, according to the Biden admin, which is deliberately encouraging them to come into the country illegally.
And deliberately depositing them in red states…. in the middle of the night.
That should be a major scandal. A Watergate level scandal.
But if you have the media running propaganda… it doesn’t exist.
Only “pouncing republicans” exist.
Maybe it’s all the flappy headed maple sucking hosers from up north?
Queen Koopa also doesn’t like it.
Wow, those are some balls. This is a bad look.
The judge presiding over the trial, U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, has said the defense is largely limited to offering any evidence showing Bannon believed he was engaged in ongoing negotiations with the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, and that the subpoena deadlines were “malleable.”
The defense will present its case Thursday before both sides present closing arguments and the jury begins deliberations. The Jan. 6 committee, meanwhile, is set to hold a prime-time hearing on Thursday.
DEMOCRACY! is at stake.
he Jan. 6 committee, meanwhile, is set to hold a prime-time hearing on Thursday.
“It’s not a show-trial.”
The Senate’s Semiconductor Spending Trick
The Senate voted 64-34 to begin debate on its Chips bill, a corporate-welfare vehicle providing $52 billion in grants and $24 billion in tax credits to the profitable semiconductor industry. But it turns out that bill was merely the bad news. The really bad news is that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer quickly filed a 1,054-page bipartisan amendment to pour more than twice that amount of money into federal agencies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-senates-semiconductor-con-congress-chips-bill-republicans-spending-chuck-schumer-11658355446?st=9poszn6tcho4sks&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well, if there is one thing we can all agree on, it is thar the federal government has not been spending enough.
Majority Leader – with a caucus of 48 members. Even the WSJ is the enemy.
We’ve descended into lawlessness.
Robber steals $22,000 in $1 bills from Providence strip club
“Dick Schappy”. Heh.
Includes positive mafia reference.
That’s a lot of dances.
How does the protocol even work in today’s inflationary environment? Might as well be tossing pennies at the dancers.
Whats the volume of $22K in singles? I doubt he just tossed them in a bag and dashed out the door.
He stuffed then in his G string.
So a sumo wrestler then.
It’s just what this little lady was carrying in her g-string at the time.
html fail
https://i0.wp.com/misspetitenaijablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/5ab23bbb2c4b2.jpg
Rawr!
Not clicking link confirmed.
Im bored and looked it up.
A bill is 2.61″ x 6.14″ x 0.0043. 1 bill = 0.069 in3
So about 0.9 ft3
“Zero-point-zero sixty-niiiine!”
Alternatively, it’s almost twelve 8″ tall stacks. Its a medium sized Amazon box full.
Ouch!
California, leading the way
Protesting truckers stopped traffic on Wednesday at a Northern California port, one of the busiest in the United States, as they demonstrated against a new state labor law that makes it harder for independent truckers to operate.
Drivers picketed gates and blocked other truckers from hauling cargo in and out of the port. The protests in Oakland began on Monday and have grown larger and more disruptive with each passing day.
Late on Wednesday, Port of Oakland Executive Director Danny Wan acknowledged protesters’ frustration with California’s “gig worker” law and warned that a prolonged shutdown would “damage all the businesses operating at the ports” and cause customers to shift cargo to rival seaports.
The protesters worry that the law, which could soon be put into effect, will impose hefty costs on them that will slash their earnings.
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The new law, formally called AB5, sets tougher standards for classifying workers as independent contractors.
Trucking industry legal challenges delayed enactment of the law for more than two years, but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case on June 30, clearing the way for it to go forward. read more
Backers, including the Teamsters and the ILWU, say AB5 aims to clamp down on labor abuses and push companies to hire drivers as employees – which would enable them to join unions and collectively bargain with employers.
Independent contractors are a threat to utopian fascism. They must be brought under the caring supervision of the unions, who know what’s best for them.
If government can’t pick the winners and losers Gaia has a sad?
Groomers say groomer things.
Reprehensible. Duke Academics casually discuss how to block puberty in children while helping them to experience orgasms through masturbation.
These people are scum, they know they are, but they expect others to back down and to normalize their scumbaggery.
Pedophilia and bestiality FTW!
Openly admitting that they are fucking up kids with no idea of the effects later in life.
No biggie, we’ll just experiment with a few things on some other rubes and see if it works.
Hang ’em.
“can we avoid puberty and get good adult results”
No, motherfucker, you can’t.
Stop trying to undo billions of years of evolution into sexual dimorphism.
And these assholes would say we are the science deniers.
But it does bring up a valid scientific question.
We are going to need control studies on sexual responsiveness and orgasm in non trans folk. So we will need a bunch of hot 19-22 year old females to study. And since you have to have a consistent test, I volunteer to be the….
Videographer?
I thought he was going to be the janitor.
He’s going to be the guy who wipes down the loads?
Fluffer
I used to think that L. Ron Hubbard’s rantings about psychiatry were farfetched. Now it seems they read him and thought, “hey, that sounds cool! Let’s try it.”
The thing that it made clear to me was that modern psychiatry is not all that far removed from complete quackery.
I’ve reached the conclusion that Philip K. Dick was perfectly sane.
It’s just a problem of messaging.
Democrat Representative Kathleen Rice said there is a need to stop using the word “abortion” because it’s negative, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on 7/19/2022.
Fetalectomy is hard to spell and doesn’t roll off the tongue.
Then we can just go with “Murder”.
Just call it uteral spring cleaning. There, all better.
Thats why I always joked that the D &C procedure was “dustin’ and cleanin’ “
“Ritual sacrifice to Molech” is a bit of a mouthful.
In local business news:
Wright-Patterson AFB scientist pushed contractor to hire prostitute, court documents allege
My dad used to sell for a large multinational. Sales would be orders of several million dollars each. Wining and dining is a big part of it.
One purchasing manager asked him to take him to the strip club and buy him a prostitute. Dad told him to pound sand. Dude went with the other company. Ended up getting arrested for taking kickbacks on orders and the product was inferior, so Dad had to come in and help them re-engineer things to fix the mess.
The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree. When I was running IT for a midsized company, a former employee offered me a 10% kickback to move our telecom contract. It would have been more than my base salary. I not only told him to pound sand, I posted that our company was to have no business with that company, so everyone who comes after me will be forewarned.
The worst Ive had to deal with in the realm of EPA compliance testing was just a few potential clients stressing to me just how badly they needed to pass a test.
Never did work for any of them.
When Nokia would perform plant inspections back in the day, the inspectors would travel to the offshore country, go to the local strip club, run up a big tab, and bring it back to the plant for us to pay it.
I took great joy in handing that request off to my superiors.
In the old days, one of the purchasing agents said the rules were “If you can’t eat it, drink it, or screw it in one day, you can’t take it”.
It’s OK. We can just spend some more money redoing it. Obviously nobody in an educational institution could have recognized such a thing.
Backlash after Georgia school’s new logo resembles Nazi symbol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/20/georgia-elementary-school-logo-nazi-symbol-eagle
You know who else liked that style of logo?
*holds up (old) quarter, compares to offending logo*
Nazis? Are we forgetting that it also is pretty Roman looking?
And you know what Romans did? The owned slaves!
The Romans didn’t own slaves until white supremacists from the 37th Century invented time travel and went back to 1619 and carried the seed of slavery back to Remus and Romulus.
And they had that funny salute.
“Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist and Ageist: So Why Do Some Progressives Support It?
Nuclear power is sexist because exposure to the ionizing radiation released at every stage of the nuclear fuel chain harms women more easily than men. Women are more radiosensitive than men — the science is not fully in on this but it is likely connected to greater hormone production — but women are not protected for.
Instead, the standard guidelines on which allowable radiation exposure levels are based (and “allowable” does not mean “safe”), consider a healthy, White male, in his mid-twenties to thirties and typically weighing around 154 pounds. He is known as “Reference Man”.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/19/nuclear-power-is-racist-sexist-and-ageist-so-why-do-some-progressives-support-it/
I remember back when Counterpunch was the last holdout of the sane Left…
BUT I WANT TO BELIEVE
I’m pretty sure “Reference Man” is D-E-D at this point in history.
It is for the most part although it remains useful as sort of a rule of thumb.
+1 ALARA
So air travel is sexist too, or getting a tan on the beach? We must protect women from radiation. Let’s make them wear garments that totally cover their bodies.
NO CAT-SCANS FOR YOU
Are you Burkha Body ready?
Limit banana sales to men only?
Meanwhile in the Democratic People’s Republic of Canuckistan…
An organiser of the Canadian Freedom Convoy was granted bail this week in Ottawa after being held in a Canadian jail for several months after being arrested for several charges including “mischief.”
Freedom Convoy organiser Pat King was freed from an Ottawa jail this week with Superior Court Justice Anne London-Weinstein allowing King to leave the jail after he had been kept in custody since February of this year.
King will be under certain conditions to remain free, including a total ban on the use of social media and was also given 24 hours to leave Ottawa and head back to his native province of Alberta, the Toronto Sun newspaper reports.
Still better treatment than the J6 meemaws.
I am stunned how quickly this became normalized.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/state/gun-sales-are-collapsing-in-pennsylvania/article_f5281d5d-0d8a-5dd1-8d1b-fc9b2f7db846.html
Don’t look at me. I’m doing my part.
Economy collapsing and too many people already have the guns they think they need after a several-year buying spree?
This exactly.
Which is a bummer, because I’m trying to sell some stuff right now.
Between going part-time/retiring, and having bought four, five guns in the past few years, I’m out of the market for very similar reasons.
The only gun I’d be really interested in adding would be an HK USC customized with UMP parts, and with the barrel cut down (and, natch, a suppressor). But for $5K all in, I can live without.
Oh, and maybe an HK VP9. Mrs. Dean has one, and I like it muchly.
It’s almost like we are in a recession, or something…
Just a mystery….
Are prices coming down with falling demand?
Well now that the Dems have lowered the homicide rate in Philly to near zero, why would anyone need a gun to defend the family and property?
How’s everyone enjoying the Great Reset? Or as our president and his crew put it, the “transition”? From the perspective of persuasion, they’re talking past the sale, basically getting us to assume this is here to stay. The problem is that the people in charge of the “transition” are lawyers and not engineers. So they think they can just ban fossil fuels, and everyone will just figure it out. Cause enough pain to the middle class, and they’ll buy electric cars and demand windmills. But not being engineers, they never bother to ask questions: Can we produce enough renewable electricity? Can our electric grid handle it? Are there enough raw materials in the world to make the batteries and solar panels? If so how long will it take to mine them?
No plan, just force people off oil and they’ll figure it out on their own.
EF & I aren’t rich but nor are we exactly hurting. However trying to sell the idea of buying a Tesla to EF has been, well, fruitless.
Heck even the people around here who do own Teslas and the Mach-E also have gas cars.
Georgia woman.
Wild video shows a Georgia woman plowing her SUV into cops and police cars while a small child sits in the backseat — then claiming “I didn’t do it!” once she’s finally caught.
Sierra Hibbert took police on a short but bizarre chase after they pulled her over on reports she was driving erratically and veering into oncoming traffic on Highway 42, Byron Police Department said in a news release Monday.
She was being “uncooperative” and not speaking to officers when they caught up with her at the intersection of Highway 49, partially blocking the SUV and placing a tire-deflating Stop Stick underneath it.
Silent dashcam video shows the moment on July 15 Hibbert guns the SUV in reverse, hits a car behind her then goes forward, hitting two witnesses – one of whom is seen getting knocked to the ground in the vehicle’s path. She reverses and moves forward again, and the witness hops in the air to avoid getting pinned between the SUV and a cop car, the video shows.
Women never take responsibility for their actions.
Lady drivers. Amirite?
🎵 Canyonero–!
Reasons I like Fenix ammo
https://fenixammo.com/products/223-5-56mm-55gr-fmjbt-1
Their 147grn. 9mm minor PF load is very soft and accurate.
Darling Niki? No problem.
Not towing the trans lion? CANCELED
Yeah, it would be a shame if First Ave lost its Family Friendly designation.
I was ranting about it last night. First Ave was terrible during covid, so no reason to think they grew balls since.
Pretty sad, but all good things eventually turn to proggy shit.
Procurement
The U.S. Postal Service said it will substantially increase the number of electric-powered vehicles it’s buying to replace its fleet of aging delivery trucks, after the Biden administration and environmental groups said the agency’s initial plan had too few electric vehicles and fell short of the administration’s climate change goals.
The Postal Service now wants 50% of its initial purchase of 50,000 next-generation vehicles to be electric, up from the previous plan for 20% being electric. The first of those should be rolling onto delivery routes next year. It also proposes buying an additional 34,500 commercially available vehicles over two years, officials said. The Postal Service’s fleet currently includes 190,000 local delivery vehicles.
A plan announced in February would have made just 10% of the agency’s next-generation fleet electric. The Environmental Protection Agency said the initial plan by the Postal Service, an independent agency, “underestimates greenhouse gas emissions, fails to consider more environmentally protective feasible alternatives and inadequately considers impacts on communities with environmental justice concerns.”
We’ll just pull them out of the magic hat, along with the electricity to run them.
So spending a ton of money to run more air conditioners will cool the earth? I guess the electricity to run all those AC units will come from the same totes green power plants that are powering all the electric cars?
Did we learn nothing from the Bush Administration?
Seriously, if you were serious about climate change, you’d ban AC.
Don’t give those assholes ideas.
you’d ban AC
Believe me, they’re working on it.
https://www.vox.com/22638093/air-conditioning-worsens-climate-change-ac
That’d make for quite the long hot summer, both figuratively and literally. Everyone south of Maryland would be incredibly pissed.
Um, as someone who mowed last night in the state of Maryland, I also want a/c.
I’m dreading this weekend because I’ll have to mow again. Gotta get up really early, I suppose.
Just got myself a robotic mower.
My wife started begging me to buy one after I made her mow the yard twice.
Oh great, a self-propelled spinning death blade with the brains of a roomba.
On the plus side, fricaseed squirrel for dinner for a few weeks!
Start by banning it in DC.
I remember the days before we got central air.
During the hot ‘n’ humid summer months you could:
a) sit around wearing underwear (or less) in front of a fan; catching every cat hair in the area
b) sit in the only room with the window AC unit
c) walk around the shopping mall or beer cooler section for a long, long time
d) drive with the AC on
As heat waves kill thousands, Biden’s office for climate health risks is broke
Congress has never funded the office, leaving it with an uncertain future, lacking dedicated resources and permanent staff.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/heat-waves-kill-thousands-bidens-office-climate-health-risks-broke-rcna39068
Because FedGov spends almost nothing on climate “change”.
This is a comment from a NY Times article (read in a Powerline article) on how the Dems can win back the Latino vote. It is a caricature of a well off Coastal lefty woman that I think must be a troll, but either way it sums up this type of thinking very well. The Dems are setting themselves up to be the minority party (in numbers, not people) for the next decade with their insanity. It takes a while in politics for people to change their basic perceptions, but the Dems have managed to screw up their hold on the minority (people, not numbers) vote in a relatively short period of time.
Meredith
Atlanta, GA | July 18
Latinx people are voting increasingly against what is best for them.
How can we help these people? My gardener, Raul, laughs any time I
lecture him on the importance of trans people and proper pronoun
usage. He says he is more worried about the cost of gas and
groceries. He curses in Spanish whenever I say Biden and, like so
many, doesn’t know who Kamala Harris is. Oh, and he is also pro life
and religious! Next week when he comes to trim the hedges, I will
send my husband out to educate him about how Democrats will be
able to best help him and the Latinx peoples.
Parody/satire/truth: I can’t tell anymore.
Definitely satire
I’m sure it’s parody.
Titiana McGrath level!
9/10. Needs just a bit more hatred and ridicule from the woman to the gardener for this to be real.
Reality once again delivers.
Miss Frijoles.
Why even bother with parody?
“Senora, the money ain’t worth the noise. Cut your own hedges.” – Raul
How do you say “Take this job and shove it” en Espanol?
tu madre baile con burros en Tijuana
close enough
…but I saw it in Juarez
Y ellos tienen que pagar los burros doble para hacer.
That’s one of the better Loki trolls I’ve seen in a while.
Sounds like the Bee.
Anyone specialize in identifying pianos?
I have an antique that may be worth more than I realized.
I usually have a pretty good knack for telling when something is a piano or not. I only rarely confuse them with harpsichords.
Plucky!
He’s just stringing us along.
Ya know, Liberace was one hell of a piano player. But I heard he really sucked on an organ.
He always enjoyed tulips on his organ.
I thought it was impossible to tune a piano
Why are you putting a tuna in a piano?
To study scales?
ZING!
Toss it in the back seat of your car and head out to the Antiques Roadshow!
I just got it moved, and the guy was telling me how if it was really how old I thought it would be worth 35-50k. he was trying to find Philips head screws and stuff to prove it wasn’t old. XD
For reference I got it free, just so it wouldn’t be a burden on someone. Anyway, found the serial #, looks to be a 1905 Kurtzmann Grandupright. Here is a similar model with a slightly lower serial #:
https://antiquepianoshop.com/product/kurtzmann-mahogany-upright-piano/
Pretty similar condition, though mine looks fancier.
My (limited) experience is that most uprights don’t bring high dollars.
Thats fine, I really just want to use it to learn to play the piano, the value of it is in the beauty and noise it will make (if I ever get any good).
Based on my extensive research of the past half hour, I agree with that 35-50 is stupid, and 18k is probably also wishful thinking. But it is definitely worth a lot more than the $0 I got it for- I saw a few up for ~10k that were newer models. Point being, I won’t just throw it away, as we almost did when we moved.
I prefer morally degenerate pianos to upright pianos, anyway.
I’d contact that company and a couple others who specialize in older pianos.
It’s an entire sub-genre of antiques with its own peculiarities.
Thanks for the tip.
Flip it for whatever it will bring, buy an electronic keyboard to learn on, and pocket your profits.
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Get something with a good weighted action like a Kawai or Yamaha.
Or if you’re feeling adventurous, this is the premier digital stage piano: https://reverb.com/p/roland-v-piano-88-key-digital-piano
Why? I am not hard up for cash, and if I keep it in good condition it will only increase in value, (maybe)
The wood carving is beautiful and fits my aesthetic perfectly as a old timey curmudgeon stuck in an age where people think ugly things and a purposefully ‘distressed’ finish look good.
Or not…
Or, keep it because you just like it.
XD
I do appreciate the advice though.
Capitalism makes people who profit off of cancer pro-cancer. People who profit from death are pro-death.
How about a system where people don’t profit off of the suffering of another?
https://twitter.com/RossCol89474735/status/1549634051312590849
fucking morticians man are ruining everything
Capitalism makes people who profit off of cancer pro-cancer.
Now do abortion and transgenderism.
How about a system where people don’t profit off of the suffering of another?
How about a system where nobody helps people who are suffering?
Why wear a bra when you’ve got perfectly good hands?
https://archive.ph/l7wXM
Thot Thursday.
I think many of us would be happy to lend a helping hand.
I have perfectly good hand and don’t wear a bra.
The other hand, however, a bit janky.
Local news: Ohio Health, the system that owns most of the hospitals in greater Columbus, has announced that they are laying off their entire IT staff, and outsourcing to Accenture. The wife of the Mayor of Columbus, who used to be a senior director at Ohio Health is now a “Strategy Consultant” at Accenture.
Nothing inherently corrupt, but it just seems … stinky.
Or Michelle Obama on the board of that Chicago hospital….
My recollection is, she was an employee, who got a big promotion and raise right after Barack got into the Senate, and her hospital, purely coincidentally, got some kind of federal funding shortly after.
And her position was liquidated as redundant after O got promoted out of Chicago.
Because entirely outsourcing your IT has a rich history of success and satisfaction…
for the outsourcing consultant.
That doesn’t sound suspicious at all.
Is this the scenario they’re going to use to push him out the door before mid terms?
President Biden tests positive for Covid-19, has mild symptoms
EMA SAVAHL 2022 BIKINI COUTURE SHOW / 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEHx96I4q9s
I’m giving this one to Fetterman.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/20/23271840/john-fetterman-dr-mehmet-oz-twitter-meme-bernie-sanders-aoc
The PA senate seat is a critical one for the Dems to take back. There will be a huge amount of money spent on the race. I’ve heard that the GOP moneybags have started to support Oz and stop sending money to Mastriano’s race for governor as he seems to be dead meat due to his “no abortions at any time for any reasons” stance. It may all come down to seeing if voters split their ticket or not.
Since when was Toomey actually a conservative? He was never much of a bulwark against the Democrats.
ATTN: Tres.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/hayley-hasselhoff-david-hasselhoff-daughter-miami-swim-week
Oh hell yeah.
And twice on Sunday…as long as I didnt have to hear her Dad’s music.
Can’t have one without the other, brah…
Behemothwatch
Light the John signal. Whalewatch is on.
Wait, Biden caught the ‘vid?
Lulz!!
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-tests-positive-covid-19-142837597.html
I’ll bet he doesn’t and they’re isolating him after the cancer gaffe.
^^^THIS^^^
They have decided he will have some medical reason not to talk to people, at least going forward, cause that worked well for the fortification of the 2020 election. And they got another one in a few months that will need even more fortifying to go their way…
Maybe but it is out there and he does come into contact with a lot of people.
They announced they’re treating him with Paxlovid.
Horseshit, Paxlovid doesn’t work and they know it. They may let Fauci use it, but they’re not going to use that on the President.
Sure they are, they’ve already paved the way to oust him. “Dead from Wuhan” is as good as any for their purposes, especially if it helps drive fear for future fortification efforts.
If this is truly the road to pushing him out the door, I think they’ll blame his age and “long haul CoVID” as an excuse that he’s too infirm.
And like someone here posted recently- Biden steps down, Harris steps up. Appoints Newsome as VP then steps down.
Hello President Gavin, ready to energize the DNC for mid terms.
And they think it would boost their ‘Vid Panic plan for the midterms.
Well, the Regeneron turned Trump bisexual.
Wait, WUT?
I thought that was from all the congressional orgies he used to get invited to before 2016.
It’s like covid is a cold or something…
This was only a matter of time. I can’t believe it took this long.
“will isolate at the White House while continuing to carry out all of his duties fully.”
Kamala hardest hit.
Biden, 79, is fully vaccinated, after getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose March 30.
So he didn’t get triple boosted? Everyone knows you need 4 boosters a year. He brought this on himself.
“President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID-19”
https://nypost.com/2022/07/21/president-joe-biden-tests-positive-for-covid-19/
When the hell is Brandon going to get his physical at Walter Reed and have the results released? Maybe Doocy or some other intrepid reporter might ask the question.
I seem to recall that previous presidents had an annual physical and the “world” waited with bated breath for the results. Or maybe Doctor Jill gives him a physical each morning just to make sure he is still breathing?
President Biden tests positive for Covid-19, has mild symptoms
It were teh Saudis. MBS done assassinated our President.
Sorry, LA county.
Karen is back. And she’s brought friends.
That is such shit. Fuck all those people.
. Fuck all those people – I wound not wish that on anyone
STEVE SMITH VOLUNTEER
Right, we need to distribute goods, services and housing purely based on loyalty to political ideology! For equality!
People who comply do so to their own detriment. If you haven’t learned by now, you never will.
Biden got covid. LOL.
21 July 2021: “… You’re not gonna get Covid if you have these vaccinations.”
It was DA RUSSIANS!
Y’all, Brandon just tested positive for drugs falling out…
Today we changed the law to allow businesses impacted by strike action to hire skilled, temporary workers to mitigate disruption.
This was a criminal offence. Now it’s an option for business.
We will not let trade unions grind our economy to a halt.
https://twitter.com/KwasiKwarteng/status/1550081224890351617
another tory government attacking the workers
White nationalists at it again.
I thought he was all jabbed up.
resident Biden tests positive for COVID after participating in several events over the last week.
BREAKING: NY-10 candidate Maud Maron is under fire after saying she’s “open” to Maoism in a recent interview with Hamodia.
Her campaign later clarified that she is only open to “the vibes” of Maoism.
https://twitter.com/aaronnarraph/status/1549755865783222273
Just like being hot/attractive, it is all about vibes
*paging Anita Dunn*
Who know who else was all about vibes ?
Sybian?
Lionel Hampton?
I get the feeling that this might have been a trap set for her by the LGBTQWERTY faction of the Democrats. They do not like her at all.
Apparently she’s rejecting the guys in dresses playing women’s sports thing.
For that she must suffer, I would imagine is the prevailing attitude among the Dems.
PS. This is the district where DeBlasio failed to attract any interest. I don’t know if that means he’s too far left or not far left enough.
She likes the struggle sessions and starving peasants, but not the uniforms.
Her campaign later clarified that she is only open to “the vibes” of Maoism.
Suffering and death?
Oppression and control.
This. Other people doing what she tells them, and not giving her a lot of backtalk.
She doesn’t like songbirds at all
Pssstt… word on the street is that Biden got COVID. That’s straight from Johnny the shoeshine. Pass it on…