Serena is about to pull the plug on her tennis career. ManUre are acting like they’ve pulled the plug on the season after just two games. Houston are surging again, as the Yankees falter just a bit in the chase for best record in the AL. And I think that’s about it for sports so I’ll move on to…the links!
Put up or shut up. I reckon what they consider a “threat” is anything but an actual threat. Also, every single federal employee’s name should be in a directory that’s easily accessible by every person in the country, as should their office address, work contact information, and name of their immediate supervisor. They’re out employees, not our rulers. They need to be treated as such.
Enjoy some payback for 1812, Limeys. I’m just messing. This is fascinating, actually. I suspect the government won’t realize they caused this themselves by spiking property taxes and driving locals out.
Well what did you expect after naming it the way you did? This whole situation stinks. Especially for the locals.
These are still rookie numbers. We need to pump them up to 10, 20, even 50x the current numbers. Start chartering planes. Start buying out passenger trains. Think big. Also, this response is hilarious.
Uh, its a game, guys. A kids game, no less. Fucking idiots.
This guy’s on trial again? It seems like yesterday he was sent to prison for a long time.
“Well……….we’re waiting!” With apologies to Judge Eliud Smails.
This will be an interesting case. Everybody in that chain of command has been relieved and she never reported anything to superiors. But from what I can tell, there were enough signs that something should have been done anyway.
Haven’t played these guys in a while. Maybe because they’re so polarizing. Well, fight it out in the comments. But first, listen to this song(s).
OK, that’s it. Go have a great day, friends!
“Put up or shut up. I reckon what they consider a “threat” is anything but an actual threat. Also, every single federal employee’s name should be in a directory that’s easily accessible by every person in the country, as should their office address, work contact information, and name of their immediate supervisor. They’re out employees, not our rulers. They need to be treated as such.”
Be careful what you asl for… If they can’t stop this guy through shenanigans and corruption, they will end up killing him…
And I am not kidding. they are that evil.
It is rich that they are mad that people who sign a public document like a warrant will be known to the public.
Are they really suggesting that warrants should be sealed and secret?
Only when their guy does it your holiness. if the other side does anything, then it is immediately something criminal and needs complete transparency…
Remember when Obama told us he would have the most transparent administration EVAH and then weaponized all the bureaucratic shit systems to go after their political enemies, but the powers that be worked overtime to hide that from people so they could keep claiming that criminal enterprise was scandal free? We were never supposed to get any confirmation of the fact the “Hope & Change” Obama promised was that he would turn the US government into a true and fulltime crime syndicate to be used on the fucking sheeple, but then that orange asshole went and somehow won the election they had fortified for the new crime boss, Hillary…
As FedGov…I’m okay with that. Then again, when I raised my hand for the second time I actually believe in the oath.
Me 2.
“These are still rookie numbers. We need to pump them up to 10, 20, even 50x the current numbers. Start chartering planes. Start buying out passenger trains. Think big. Also, this response is hilarious.”
It never fails to register that these lefties, be they greens, open borders, high taxes, free healthcare, let the homeless be types, always love and defend the idea until it hits them personally.
Windmills or solar panels in MY back yard? Fuck that shit…
Free healthcare or tax hikes that cost ME more money? Fuck that shit…
Open borders where I now have to deal with the crossers personally? Fuck that shit…
The homeless people now are all over the park I like or near my neighborhood? Fuck that shit…
Basically they are good and noble souls as long as others bear the brunt of their grandstanding..
Electric cars? Sure, as long as all the heavy metals are mined by children and slave laborers in other countries.
The man materials for electric cars are always the worst to mine/process. The aluminum frame (to keep it light) costs from 5 to 10 times as much energy to produce as a similar steel frame for a gas-guzzler. Then you have the litany of highly toxic and super hard to mine/process materials for things from batteries to electronics that again bump up energy costs by factors of ten on the energy to produce scale. And you STILL need natural gas and oil to produce the plethora of plastics involved.
If I recall the engineering paper I read a while back, by the time they finish making the EV, you have compounded the energy costs vs. a combustion engine vehicle by almost a factor of 50. And then there is the huge penalties at the tail end of that product. Battery disposal alone, never mind dealing with the other crap that is highly toxic after an accident, has a massive cost and risk associated with it.
Anyone that believes their EV is environmentally friendly is massively misinformed. That thing used and will use more energy than 5-10 gas guzzlers in the same life time, and we will live in a world where we will have real and adverse environmental impacts from the disposal costs around EVs that will actually do damage to Gaia unlike the bullshit peddled by the cult of man made CO2.
The only real green tech, nuclear, is hated by these morons as well… Green tech is a racket and criminal in its effects, but a lot of idiots get to preen doing it…
Solar panels say hi!
The logic there is about the same as for EVs with even more toxic materials that are shipped to China to be dumped into the oceans or buried near some local aquifer.
So much this.
“I support free health care but I didn’t think I would be the one paying for it.”
– paraphrase of an Obamacare supporter
One of the proposed Spartacus Rules for Debate is that every time someone wants to say “the government should pay for XXX”, instead they have to turn to the person on their left (heh) and say “You should pay for XXX”. Helps keep it real.
“This guy’s on trial again? It seems like yesterday he was sent to prison for a long time.”
He should have gone to pedo island to entertain people for Epstein’s crowd, and he wouldn’t have this problem….
After all, Epstein has been Epsteined, but none of us know anyone other than Bill Clinton and Bill Gates went there – and according to them never banged any minors – and the long list of pedophiles remains a no-show…
All of these victims, the “procurers” jailed, yet oddly enough not a single perpetrator has been ID’d and charged.
It sure is a mystery.
Remember when the FBI (and the NYPD for some reason) searched Epstein’s Island – and hid from a drone watching them? The purpose of the search was to locate all evidence and destroy it.
https://youtu.be/eMsgC36gUFI
The purpose of the search was to locate all evidence and destroy it.
And likely also one of the purposes of the raid on Mar-A-Lago.
That’s where they planted all the evidence.
/My hat is a properly grounded, copper wire-lined Faraday cage.
Wait, what?
You connected it to the ground channels?!
Get away, you mind-controlled freak!
If Trump had documents on agency malfeasance, you can guarantee they wanted to get their hands on it.
Destroy? J. Edgar would be so disappointed. You don’t destroy something so valuable, you use it.
So, he should have been the house band on pedo island?
“Just the Tip your waitress”
“No one knows exactly when…..The superstorm that Californians have long feared will have begun. In centuries past, great rains deluged the Pacific coast, and strong storms in recent decades have caused havoc and ruin. But, because of climate change, this one would be worse than any in living memory.”
“This article originally appeared in The New York Times.”
OK, then.
You mean considering the source, most of it is likely the raw fiction from the mind of some moron?
I’d sooner trust Flat Earther Monthly
It’s hilarious. It reads more like a treatment for a Hollywood producer than an article worthy of a major publication. Yet here we are.
The Storm After Tomorrow: Electric Storm Boogaloo.
The follow-up to Roland Emmerich’s ground breaking documentary, “The Day After Tomorrow” (Run! The cold front is gonna get me!)
That movie was gloriously stupid.
All of Roland Emmerich’s movies are gloriously stupid, but at least the others don’t try to have a message.
Independence Day taught me not to trust the aliens.
I donno, they cleaned up New York, Los Angeles, DC…
You have a point.
I started replaying Far Cry 5 this weekend and noticed that I’m far more sympathetic to the antagonists in the game. Still shot them though.
Sigh. We are going to enact all sorts of stupid climate stuff, make everyone’s life more miserable and end up dying anyhow when the super volcano in Yellowstone explodes.
I hope Biden’s big new climate bill had some rules against volcanoes exploding.
The volcano will be fined based upon how much pollution it releases.
Could I buy volcano offsets now and avoid the fine?
Are you properly connected with apparatchiks in the Party?
Then NO.
I hope Biden’s big new climate bill had some rules against volcanoes exploding.
No, but it does have rules against rising tides.
Green Grass and High Tides – Outlaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz2CAtExXgQ
I know that one from playing Rock Band with the kids.
I checked out early on that article, not enough hyperbole.
So for the early OT – I’ve got to jump to a meeting. Interesting book review in the WSJ.
‘Straits’ Review: Magellan Maligned
The explorer never lived to complete the first circumnavigation of the globe for which he is famous—but that doesn’t justify such broadsides.
Circumnavigating the globe is white supremacy and colonialism.
Will it still be colonialism as China finishes off the work it started it to Africa and South America, and then pivots to doing it to most of their neighbors? Is the CCP considered to be white supremacists?
Why not? Japanese are considered white in order to explain their racism.
That racket is the bomb, man… Yellow faces of white supremacy!
I wonder when a green skinned ET shows up, how fast it will be before they got accused of white supremacy for wanting to ship us out to their galactic restaurant to be cooked and served?
“caucasian-alien”
White face of Alien supremacy?
Some old Army joke about light green in the front, dark green in the back?
You’re not my supervisor.
That California SUPERSTORM article is some first-class fear porn with a closing argument for, you guessed it, money.
The left banks on scaring or angering people into not questioning the giant bullshit sammich they are trying to get the idiots to gobble up…
Gee, if only there had been several bonds and ballot measures directly telling the state to get on the ball with water retention / reclamation / mediation over the years.
If only….
Stockton really could use a good high colonic cleansing.
You misspelled “Sacramento”.
Is there any part of the delta that wouldn’t apply? If done right, think of all that water shooting out the Golden Gate.
Don’t they have some high speed trains they could use to escape the super storm?
I think I remember them spending billions on trains. And since I’m sure they are good stewards of tax payer money, there must be a fantastic rail network out there somewhere.
I know someone whose yes vote I cancelled out.
I’ve said it before, but the left of the 2020’s has copped the shtick of 1980’s televangelists.
I missed it. That’s clever.
Wut?
A guy could have a good time in Vegas with all that.
The corruptocracy protects its own
Although I would accept the argument Hillary didn’t get perp walked and locked up, because the weaponized Obama criminal cabal would have seen too many of their own people, including Barack himself, gone down with her….
ManUre are acting like they’ve pulled the plug on the season after just two games.
The best part is De Gea letting in 4 and then seeing Dean Henderson shut-out West Ham with a penalty save the very next day.
Heh yup.
Go Forest! Nice to see them back in the big leagues.
Bom dia.
How can the greatest rock band of all time be controversial? *ducks*
Because they are so overplayed as to be boring, which is the single worst thing a rock band can be?
You mean Rush?
The FBI is investigating an “unprecedented” number of threats against bureau personnel and property in the wake of the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, including some against agents listed in court records as being involved in the recent search, a law enforcement source tells CNN.
*yawn*
Maybe stop being such tyrannical cuntes.
The British Crown is investigating an unprecedented number of threats against Officers of the British Army and Navy in the wake of the Crown’s increased taxation upon the Colonies of the Americas.
Good morning, Sloop!
And good morning to the rest of you lovely freaks.
Maybe because they’re so polarizing.
But why? They were (are) a terrific band. A little over the top, perhaps, but those were the times. People be weird. Just enjoy the fucking music.
There are definitely ’70s bands that are overrated *koff*The Doors*koff* but Led Zep is not one of them.,
The Doors aren’t overrated (they are a 60’s band). It’s just that there was massive payola during early 80’s to sell their records, long after Jim Morrison died.
Yep, they made some good stuff.
Morrison’s poetry, OTOH, was painfully bad.
I like this one.
They’re out employees, not our rulers. They need to be treated as such.
*adds sloopy to list of possible extreme right-wing domestic terrorists list*
Watched The Terminal List over the weekend. It was surprisingly dark and brutal. Also surprisingly sophisticated in how they took what could have been a standard climbing-the-ladder-to-the-Big-Boss revenge flick and revamped it. The critics hating it for being “right wing” are conflating vetbroism and badge lickery for right-winghood, but you could easily flip that to SJ staatskult and complete absence of possible redemption.
I mean, you could make an argument that vetbroism and jackboot fetishism is pretty well the total of right-wing thought these days…
The scene where the sicaro is dealt with came directly out of an interview with Ben Thompson, of Badass of the Week fame. http://www.gunsandtacos.com/?s=Thompson
Can you though? Among my own thoughtbubbles, vetrbrosim isn’t even the dominant mode of thought in the 2A community. Especially after the BRCC nonsense.
I’m speaking more of right-wing political thought than of 2A thought. Most of the people I hang with in the 2A community are ‘practical’ libertarians who vote Republican only because Republicans don’t actively loathe them.
Yes, good Republicans only passively loathe libertarians.
Nice. A very liberal co worker recommended it to me, so I was kind of reluctant, but I’ll add it to my back log
You need to have a high tolerance for sadism and inevitability.
Honestly, the only part of the show that I found “objectively” objectionable is the whole “things happen at the speed of plot.”
I didn’t like it in the first episode. Supposedly highly trained seals or whatever, and the tactical competence of high school kids. Also, Chris Prat.
Well… it’s kind of the whole point in what happened in that episode that is the plot
Sure, but bunched up like that? They deserved to be killed.
Yeah, there were some horristupid tactical decisions. Like “oh, the drones are shut down because of the rain? I should totally stop moving and hole up until the rain passes. “
Ofc, this was countered with “there is absolutely no need to set up any spotters downriver. “
Book set it up better.
Today this landmark is home to Candy World, one of more than two dozen shabby American-themed stores selling candy and trinkets whose recent mysterious explosion on one of London’s most popular shopping thoroughfares has confounded officials and property experts.
The British brethren that created America are obviously better at candy.
*yawn* People who don’t actually do anything for a living are confused.
Well, I don’t think an American would come up with these delicacies…
I would have been disappointed it that were anything else.
The goodthinkful Europeans always decry xenophobia, but somehow anti-American xenophobia is considered a virtue.
America was built by the scum of Europe that refused to stay and know their place.
Just like anti-male and anti-white bigotry is acceptable. Because power structures, or something.
Of course. Americans are bad, and hating the bad makes you a good person. The more you hate, the better you are.
Big fans of candy
Huh.. I was expecting this.
Sex and Candy – Marcy Playground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KT-r2vHeMM
Candy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVITAQo6t-Y
and
Candy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bLOjmY–TA
This whole situation stinks. Especially for the locals.
Something certainly smells fishy.
Winston’s Mom?
Seems like a carpy situation.
Holy mackerel, is this ever a funny situation.
Really crappie
I guess they’re still fishing for the reason why this happened.
Ono another ahi pun school.
Is she finally coming out as trans?
Maybe quitting steroids.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Lol.
Good one, Holiness.
Sure, go ahead, make me feel good
Damn it, PJ ruined my whole day
FBI investigating ‘unprecedented’ number of threats
“Alright, we’re going to need to really push on our volume of constructed plots… I know, I know, you’re already stretched thin… but the midterms are looking pretty bleak, so we’ve got to have at least one dope on the hook in each District… preferably two in 2nd, 4th and 9th… and, for the love of god, do a better job of covering your tracks… that Whitmer thing was a steaming pile from the start… and keep a leash on your patsy, the agent that lets another Vegas slip through is going on special assignment in Chappaqua.”
Anyone tat goes up against the machine is a threat, but the machine is noble and good, especially when breaking the law to get its way…
“I already called all my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their votes,” said Adams during a Tuesday news conference. “I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because we have to… get him out of office.”
Cripple fight!
How to come off as simultaneously stupid and arrogant.
I bet his “friends in Texas” are al made up douchebags and Beta.
One person, one vote….as long as its voting the way I want them to
Good. Resign your position first.
Reddit continues to do SCIENCE!
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/vmw0eu/oc_frequency_of_compound_insults_eg_poophead/
This has got to be fake news… No love for “Wankclown”????
Only a poopgoblin would use that word.
Spoken like a true Trumpnozzle!
Heh.
Surprisingly strong showing by ‘fuckwit’.
There’s no shortage of them.
*yawn*
Oh, so an upgraded Pineapple Express? Those suck because they bring warm, wet air over the Sierras and wash out the snow.
Are, are they talking about a hurricane (typhoon)?
No, no. This is Unprecedented®.
Top. Men.
Wait, isn’t the problem du jour that Cali doesn’t have enough water? Wouldn’t this be a good thing?
Lake Mead gained a foot of water cause of monsoons and people are freaking out.
I am too old to be having birthdays, but here it is anyway.
Happy Birthday you old bastard
Happy birthday, robc! And I believe the standard reply to that is always: “Well, it beats the alternative!”
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday! How many trips is this?
53 as far as I know.
That’s a good age.
Enjoy your day, you’ve worked long and hard to get to this point.
Happy b-day. It’s my brother’s too, I gotta call him.
Shit, my brother as well… I better wish him a happy birthday or that drama queen will give me hell….
Happy Birthday.
HBD!!
Happy birthday, old boy!
Happy Birthday!
“‘My name is Elizabeth, call me Bob, this is my beer’: Ted Cruz jokes Elizabeth Warren might have a PENIS because ‘in today’s Democrat Party how do we know she doesn’t’ during Nevada rally”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11111883/Ted-Cruz-campaign-event-Nevada-jokes-Elizabeth-Warren-penis.html
I have reservations.
Keep trying to sneak in puns like that and Swiss will go on the war path.
Swissie will probably Sioux, that’s all
He’ll be here all week. Try the veal!
I don’t care what she has teepee.
He is really starting to wampum.
She doesn’t.
LL summarizes my performance sufficiently.
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OK, birthday boy, now I have another time waster 😆
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As you can see from my complete failure, I dont know that opening at all. I play the opposite version as black, and I do not do that first move as white. Ever.
This was my second attempt. First time, on Sunday, I played a standard 3 move sequence which did not work out so well. This time, borrowing from quordle strategy, I played “seed moves”, a 3- move sequence which has probably never been played (and never will be): e4 e5 d4 d5 Nf3 Nf6, which provides a pretty good coverage for several moves which will appear in most standard openings.
Yes, that is a good seed.
But you will never hit a 1 with that strategy.
My problem was that I clearly had the opening in place after try 2, but couldn’t figure out where black went on move 3.
3 5
7 4
And worldle in 1 today, admittedly you couldn’t hardly miss it.
There’s a fine line there in the worldle.
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Oh, good news, we didn’t fail to pay our license renewal, we just failed to get our new license. Now I just have to wait for the vendor to send it to me, install it, and mollify the end users who are quite irate.
How long of a wait time are they looking at?
🤷♂️ who knows?
Now that admission that you have no clue and are still going to be the one getting the brunt of the shitstorm UCS, would worry me…
Meh.
I’ve been a one man band keeping a whole agency’s systems running before. They don’t call me, and I can filter my emails.
If they do want to get rid of me, well, I’ll have motivation to find a new job then, won’t I?
Ehh. The users need to understand that even allowing them to connect their filthy, disease-ridden client machines to the network, is an act of almost beatific charity on the Administrator’s part.
If I had my way, 99% of the cloven-hoofed idiots out there would be using manual typewriters and POTS.
Those end users? They’re the ones who sign the checks.
They have pens.
State Issue pens.
If you’ve never had the displeasure, here’s a hint – they don’t work.
And if they don’t see a value in IT, they won’t sign any checks for IT with their personal pens.
“If you’ve never had the displeasure, here’s a hint – they don’t work.”
Are we talking about the pens or the users here?
Woohoo! New License acquired and installed. ‘Crisis’ ended.
What a bunch of sissies those Krauts are! In Minnesoda 2500 dead fish get a medium sized story. The head of the EPA isn’t fretting about it.
And there a lot of trout in the kill. Not like those carp in the story from Germany.
“massive die-off of brown trout in southeastern Minnesota last month on Rush Creek near Lewiston.”
Finless, corn speckled brown trout variety?
Bummer. Trout are the pansies of the fish world. Doesn’t take much to kill them.
Pretty nice fish in the pic, though. The Rush isn’t that big.
Yup. Since they had fish kills in 2015 and 2019, I think the Krauts can rest easy knowing that the Oder will bounce back in a couple years.
Especially since those Europeans think carp are real fish.
Are the carp different there? Remember a few years ago when they drained Rice Lake to kill all those nasty fuckers?
They are harvested in Southern MN, stored in abandoned quarries and later shipped to New York for some ethnic festivities every spring
Carp are quite tasty when smoked.
Brown trout? Sounds pretty racist.
Proof that hockey is for sissies
Fuck off.
And quit defacing the flag.
At least it’s not as bad as their uniforms.
I didn’t mind the third jersey from a few years ago.
The Christmas sweater has always sucked, though.
I’m sure that will be the next target.
I find them distasteful but something something know you fan-base, I guess.
In fact, I find most of the “events” distasteful, save the charity-type ones. I can do without the identity-based ones entirely.
According to new research, it will very likely take shape one winter in the Pacific, near Hawaii. No one knows exactly when, but from the vast expanse of tropical air around the Equator, atmospheric currents will pluck out a long tendril of water vapor and funnel it toward the West Coast. This vapor plume will be enormous, hundreds of miles wide and more than 1,200 miles long, and seething with ferocious winds. It will be carrying so much water that if you converted it all to liquid, its flow would be about 26 times what the Mississippi River discharges into the Gulf of Mexico at any given moment.
If it doesn’t rain sharks I’ll be disappointed.
This is a fucked up story. Sure sounds like they managed to nab a guy who killed two people but ….
Anyone know how kosher it is to take a DNA sample during a traffic stop?
Unless the question that initiated the stop was “Is that your blood all over the car?” I’d say impermissable.
If it is a pretty female officer and she offers to work it out of my Johnson, I might be OK with it? Otherwise, the answer is “No way”!
They need probable cause to get a warrant, unless the idiot was asked and agreed to it.
This is probably what happened and probably the one time that body cams work
Absent a warrant? As kosher as a bacon double cheeseburger.
Refusing a breathalyzer may end up in a hospital setting drawing blood, so yeah.
Perfectly sums up CCP’s zero COVID approach.
TW – CNN
Shoppers rush for the exits as Shanghai Ikea goes into lockdown
That sound you heard was the entire CDC management floor reaching a simultaneous climax.
OFFS.
It’s almost like the level of plague freakout correlates with the level of the jurisdiction’s overall authoritarianism or something.
Or that the actual intent of the freakout is really just to show who’s in charge.
They’re leaning hard on COVID because they don’t want attention on the banks and how the government is stealing everything.
Deposits at some banks in China are now considered “investment products” and cannot be withdrawn. The real estate bubble is collapsing and taking everything with it.
It’s just like the Spanish Inquisition
No one expects it!
They do.
No, no, it’s the Snapish Inquisition. That, they expect.
Can’t tell if serious.
I’ve decided to endorse @RepLizCheney for the Republican nomination for the House seat In Wyoming it’s my first time endorsing in a GOP primary. But I think Al Franken’s support will carry a lot of weight with WY Republicans.
I’m not sure he is abreast of modern politics.
That is the funniest shit I’ll hear all week, guaranteed.
He was actually joking though… we get that right?
Pretty sure he has his hand on something-or-other.
“I’ve decided to endorse @RepLizCheney for the Republican nomination for the House seat In Wyoming it’s my first time endorsing in a GOP primary. But I think Al Franken’s support will carry a lot of weight with WY Republicans.”
https://twitter.com/alfranken/status/1558498745951698945
Back to doing comedy.
Liz will lose ugly tomorrow, then change to be a democrat – I am predicting that if team blue keeps going down the path it is, Dick Cheney will be come a national hero to them – or go into media (same shit, I know)….
When Dick Cheney becomes a hero to the left – who would have thought?
You are probably correct. Meanwhile Henry Kissinger at 99 has a new book out according to the WSJ. I’ll be waiting for the left to embrace whatever BS he has written there too.
This is all you need to know about politics today. It’s the cherry on top of their “Mitt Romney, who was at one point going to put people in chains, is a stunning and brave example of the kind of Republican we need”
Hell, Kissinger has come out as saying that the US needs to resolve the Ukraine crisis. He’s persona non grata right now.
Congratumatations Lefties, you’re officially more warmongering than Henry Kissinger.
They did it with Alexander Hamilton, why not with Dick Cheney?
I have heard she is considering an independent run. IIRC, its allowed in Wyoming after losing in a primary.
If she is trounced by the numbers some of the signs indicate, she won’t even be a spoiler vote.
Of course, I’ve had a long policy of not trusting polls.
I have a vague memory Murkowski in Alaska did that, and won.
Two time loser in one year? That would be excellent.
You and RS obviously are reading the same link aggregators or need to get a room or something…
There once was a man from Nantucket, something something, Mammary Monday.
https://archive.ph/gjXFA
Equity.
A Minneapolis teachers union contract stipulates that white teachers will be laid off or reassigned before “educators of color” in the event Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) needs to reduce staff.
After the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS struck a deal on March 25 to end a 14-day teacher strike, the two sides drew up and ratified a new collective bargaining agreement complete with various proposals. …
“Starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population,” the agreement reads.
More like this, please….
The best cure for stupid ideas is to make the stupid people supporting the stupid ideas take the brunt of the damage themselves…
History will judge this era just as harshly as Jim Crow.
I doubt it – not when you look at who’s writing (most of) the history books now.
More likely, it will be a history book written in Mandarin about how the brilliant and gracious CCP saved the Western savages from their racism.
Only if we’re lucky.
Seems more likely it will be viewed as the first stop on the final solution to the white problem.
When did Minneapolis become more progtarded than Seattle?
Based on the number of idiot lawn signs I saw white libs put on their lawns in the hope the mob going around looting and burning would skip their place when I was out there a year or so ago, I would say Minneapolis has been trying real hard to outprog the progtards in Seattle for a while. And it went into overdrive after they rewrote the whole Floyd incident to make the guy a martyr in the summer of love (loot & burn for love, baby!).
‘…underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site,’…
So, white men?
LOL! Oh, I slay me…
“Starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population,” the MFT said while fucking the constitution in the ass and giving the Civil Rights Act a Dirty Sanchez.
It’s the logical counterpart to affirmative action.
Sloopy’s links look like the back window of every F-150 in 1990’s. Just missing the truck nuts.
Politicians aren’t the smartest in the bunch, are they? What’s Adams’ plan – send people to Texas, and go door to door trying to convince people to vote for a Dem who will let more illegal immigrants in, and not ship them off to other states?
Hence Abbott’s reply: “Please, do it! Nothing would be better for my re-election campaign!”
Only half would come back. The rest would end up staying because “Wow, I can actually afford a house here!”
I think Adams is a rare “true believer”.
Most of them know they’re spinning bullshit, but he actually seems to believe it. It is the only way this makes sense.
If you stop trying to make sense of it all, it starts to make sense
Probably. And I think there are more of them than we would like to admit.
“i wrote about the right’s embrace of Jane’s Revenge, which can serve the same purpose as the notion of Antifa did in delegitimizing mass protest”
https://twitter.com/kait_tiffany/status/1558143724982501382
“Sure sure, there is an organized terrorist strategy that has so far hit 63 charities who provide aid to pregnant women
But the real villain here is the people who have noticed this violence and don’t like it”
https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/1559035826977259520
“Pro-abortion-rights activists have engaged in vandalism in recent weeks, and the blog posts associated with Jane’s Revenge are actively encouraging the behavior. But that does not imply the existence of a complex, coordinated campaign of violence.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/08/janes-revenge-antifa-dobbs-roe-abortion/671098/
But that does not imply the existence of a complex, coordinated campaign of violence.
But one lone, insane MAGAt implicates all conservatives/Republicans/etc.
What happened CA? Don’t you love the children?
Bill To Punish Social Media Companies For Addictive Features For Minor Users Killed in Senate
I’m on board with that part of it since children cannot legally obligate themselves in other contracts. The addiction stuff is just standard government overreach.
Right, and give up one of their largest nodes of control?
Too stupid even for CA?
Tik-Tok, the CCP’s great psy war tool, would be banned, so the bill died…
NATO Has Become the Very Thing It Was Created to Fight
The comments are hilarious. Righties and lefties uniting to hate on Pedro’s take.
Which means it’s probably pretty sound.
If you needed any more evidence that those pursuing these policies are lunatics, there it is.
Damned Trotskyites are in charge.
Wilson precedes Trotsky, slightly, and no less of a messianic complex.
It is a telling problem of how team politics has turned anti-war types into hardcore warmongers…
I have to admit, I’ve been surprised by Newsweek lately. They’re willing to publish some serious wrong-thinkers.
“How Extremist Gun Culture Co-Opted the Rosary
The AR-15 is a sacred object among Christian nationalists. Now “radical-traditional” Catholics are bringing a sacrament of their own to the movement.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/radical-traditionalist-catholic-christian-rosary-weapon/671122/
Leftists are completely perplexed by reactionaries.
That’s cause they believe you should just do whatever the fuck they demand from you and shut the fuck up…
Those who have a tendency to comply and go along never understand those who have a tendency to buck authority.
It’s basic personality trait differences.
Society of St Stoner X?
I thought that was satire when I saw it at first.
This gave me a chuckle:
Colleague: “We forgot how efficient your team is compared to the rest of the organization, so can you pull down that web update until we’re ready?”
😁
We were told to reissue telework agreements by August 31 with new and improved form. My team had them all done before the next day they said “Uh…we didn’t run these past labor and you shouldn’t have had your team complete them so fast”
It baffles them when a team in FedGov is efficient.
Actually, I bet that is isn’t baffling them as much as it pisses them off that you have shown how ineffective/inefficient the rest of them are, by design, because you have embarrassed them…
More likely. Its a weekly occurrence that we get a “oh wow..we didn’t expect this for at least a month” or we are stealth punished for moving quickly on issues.
OTOH, “I want you to be prepared to brief eleventy seven congress persons by tomorrow noon. Power points, graphs, , etc of what we’re doing to implement Phase II of Woke and More. Skits, 1st Person accounts, etc , you know, the whole ball of wax”
I hate that shit.
Don’t send them to the end user (with a deadline!) Unless you’re really ready and the forms are final.
So stupid.
Is it true in your org, as in most, that the reward for hard work is more hard work?
Yep, give it to your busiest person
I’ll chime in on the link regarding the TX case for the female soldier.
The recent 9th Circus case that’s being relied upon basically says that Feres doesn’t apply to sexual harassment claims because no one could ever believe that sexual harassment is “incident to service.”
The problem is that the most recent affirmation of Feres was Stanley – and Stanley was one of the Army soldiers who was unknowingly given LSD as part of the Joint DOD/Army-CIA MKULTRA program that ran from the mid 50s through the late 60s. When Stanley found out because of some records that the Agencies forgot to burn and then Walter Reed contacted him for “follow-up” to see how he was doing 20 years after being experimented upon, he (rightfully) sued everyone who would accept a summons.
The “conservatives” on the Supreme Court (including Scalia for the lead opinion) found that even being experimented upon by a different agency was covered by the Feres doctrine, so FYTW.
If sexual harassment turns out to be the straw that finally breaks Feres’ back, I’ll be the first one to celebrate it. If instead it turns out that ONLY sexual harassment is beyond the pale and Feres still allows soldiers to be experimented upon because that is “incident to service,” I’m ded. I’ll cackle while the whole thing burns down and I’ll be there throwing gasoline on it. Because fuck that.
Has anyone ever been held account for MKULTRA?
Of course not.
I’m curious if they ever threw some flunky to the wolves and then claimed justice was done. That’s more the government’s M.O.
[insert John McEnroe You Cannot Be Serious gif]
Nope. Open admission in hearing in front of the whole nation – Nation shocked! Outraged!! Lots of commitment to “never allowing this to happen again!!” etc etc.
Not a single fucker went to jail.
Why, there might even be a Glibs article that includes some info on that…https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/08/the-nuremberg-code/
Sigh.
Thanks for the context.
Yet another example of Scalia fucking over the plebes. It’s no wonder he and Ginsberg got along. They only disagreed on how the government got to fuck you, not whether.
They are just doing their jobs. So sit down, shut up and take it.
“What concerns me, as you well know, is the threats, the threats to law enforcement. You had defund the police, now defund the FBI. Who is condemning that? When a small minority of Democratic lawmakers and acti,vist said defund, the police everybody was outraged. How dare you. Well how dare you threaten the highest order in our country, the FBI. The Republicans are mainly silent.”
“It is time to pull back. It is time to respect the rule of law.”
“It is just outrageous when I see Republican lawmakers, leaders of their party out there basically targeting law enforcement for doing their job. The former president, let’s start calling him the former president, stop calling him the president, the former president is acting and behaving like a toddler.
All anyone needs to know…
Donna Brazile – the same woman who gave Hillary the debate questions and committed one of the most brazen acts of election interference ever?? THAT Donna Brazile? JFC.
No shit, huh?
I felt bad for Adam Carolla, having to sit next to her on Real Time recently.
HOW DARE YOU!!!???!!!
You’re about to find out how, Donna.
…she added, acting and behaving like a toddler.
Sloppy still even vaguely interested in in on the major sports is fascinating to me.
Typos? Whatever. I despise all major sports now despite being a mega fan back in the day. What’s the point?
To see who doesn’t have the ‘vid today?
That first Zep song is a winner, Houses is just an excellent album. Aside from the handful of their songs that have been massively overplayed for decades on rock radio I still love hearing their stuff. I take exception to the second linked song’s second half though. While Heartbreaker is great, I’ve never understood why they linked it on the album with Living, Loving Maid, which is really one of their worst cuts. I still hold that Led Zeppelin III is their finest album, it all flows perfectly and has some underrated stuff, including my favorite instrumental of theirs, Bron y Aur Stomp.
I still hold that Led Zeppelin III is their finest album, it all flows perfectly and has some underrated stuff, including my favorite instrumental of theirs, Bron y Aur Stomp.
Seconded.
III and Presence are the only ones I can listen to anymore.
Just burned out on the rest.
Wasn’t Living, Loving written in like an hour because the album needed another song? And the band hates it, deliberately trying to keep it out of the remasters?
“And five, now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.”
How I would love to read that book again. How did it become out of print?
They’re out employees, not our rulers. They need to be treated as such.
“In a mature society, ‘civil servant’ is semantically equal to ‘civil master.'” – Robert Heinlein.
“Green” energy.
Scotland, site of the recent United Nations 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) climate summit, has cut down 14 million trees to make room for new wind power installations.
As reported in The Herald, the tree removal was for 21 wind turbine projects.
“The Scottish Government has moved to reassure that more trees have been planted, but it is unknown what proportion of these are mature plants that play a bigger role in turning carbon into oxygen.
“carbon into oxygen”
‘that play a bigger role in turning carbon into oxygen.’
Trees have discovered cold fusion?
No parking lots. I been reduced to drinking at bus stops.
Just exporting American culture at this point
At least I’m wearing a fundoshi. ふんどし. Google search that, Sweet Cheeks.
lol made my morning
And your haramaki too.. please?
I don’t remember is they have the paper bags for the tall cans or not? I’m a fan of the paper bag beer.
Sippin’ sack.
When you’ve got the time we’ve got the beer.
We could call it Noriba and people here would be all over it.
Bieru Busu…. I see an opportunity…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2014/mar/great-barrier-reef-obituary
The Great Barrier Reef is dying due to global…..wait what, it now it has the highest coral cover since observations began…well more should be done regardless of how it looks now, we have to act before it’s too late. If we don’t act the reef will be all but dead in 10 years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11081233/Great-Barrier-Reef-highest-coral-cover-36-years.html
Its almost as if humans are just a flea. In probably one of his best bits/rants, Carlin hit this one on the head about human hubris
Well since we killed God and assumed his majestic power, it isn’t all that surprising is it?
We have gone from Sky God to Mud God.
Maybe the CCP dumping massive amounts of toxic garbage into the oceans has created new food for that ecosystem?
The problem is that people act as if we have a enough of an accurate geological background to make definite statements on a system so complex we barely understand it superficially, and all to peddle a political marxist agenda.
Our frame of reference is what? 500 years? Our accurate (or what we think is accurate) reference is about 100 years if I am being generous. Even if we account for a Biblical timeline, that is jack all.
There are certainly ways humans can affect the planet. If we tried to actually geoengineer at a large scale, dumped or exchanged nuclear isotopes cross the globe with malice (salted bombs). Life would still exist and find a way, as the universe and planet itself has done much worse. However, there is the constant flavor of the month cause for all of this. At one time it was the ozone hole that was causing the bleaching.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-12-21-9212210392-story.html
I was wondering why you don’t hear much about the Great Barrier Reef anymore.
“Doin’ fine” doesn’t seem to generate clicks.
or $$$
Anyway, the biggest destroyer of reefs over the past few decades has been the Crown of Thorns starfish and it isn’t even close.
Yet “global warming” has been the big news item because it targets fossil fuel consumption.
It’s all that CO2 in the atmosphere
Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, told CNN, “This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm.”
We will fight until the last drop of your blood has been spilled.
They do not intend to go down with the ship they crashed into the iceberg due to incompetence, and they are willing to throw anyone that gets in the way of them looting the valuables and using the life rafts to get themselves to safety to the sharks to keep it so.
I…uh…wut?
Better than the Singing FleshLight.
Does that really sing, or just hum?
Rand Paul: Russian stooge
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is calling for the Espionage Act to be repealed amid a federal investigation into the possible mishandling of government records and classified documents that were found at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home.
“The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment,” Paul wrote.
The statement comes less than a week after the FBI search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Investigators took multiple sets of classified documents from the property. The search warrant lists three laws that appear central to the federal investigation, including one that’s part of the Espionage Act. So far, neither Trump nor any of his aides have been charged in the investigation.
How will we suppress dissent without the ability to label political disagreements as treason?
My sentiments exactly.
The government can criminalize anything via the Espionage Act by asserting something endangers national security.
Incredibly dangerous.
Obama (and Trump) used it to go after journalists, including Assange.
The agencies would blow a gasket if it were repealed. Therefore it should be done.
It is a curious thing that KY can give us two such diametrically opposite senators.
The law does not explicitly define what “national defense” is or what information could threaten it, she added. Although the U.S. has since created a classification system, there is still a lot of room for interpretation.
More concerning to Kitrosser, the law does not explicitly care about public interest or whether the leaker in question had good motives. That’s why a broad spectrum of people can be under threat.
“If the act had a public interest defense, that would give us some kind of focal point around so that we could draw a distinction between somebody leaking information about abuse of a government program to the American media — versus someone storing highly classified secrets in a resort hotel,” she said.
Let the hate flow through you.
Yes, yes, it was bad that Debs was prosecuted, but we can FINALLY GET TRUMP!!!
This is the same law that is being used against Assange – a man who never was subject in a U.S. legal jurisdiction either before, during or after his alleged crime.
I’m sure it will be a best seller…to some PAC…
The J6 Committee is selling books regarding their ‘January 6 Report’.
The books are being sold for $12.99-$20.00 each.
I reached out to @January6thCmte @BennieGThompson @AdamSchiff @PeteAguilar
to find out if the J6 Committee is profiting from book sales.
They did not reply.
Wasted
President Joe Biden has no regrets about withdrawing American combat troops from Afghanistan. And he used the drone strike that killed longtime al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul as the latest evidence affirming the wisdom of his decision.
“After 20 years of war, the United States no longer needed thousands of boots on the ground in Afghanistan to protect America from terrorists who seek to do us harm,” he said in announcing the strike. “And I made a promise to the American people that we’d continue to conduct effective counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan and beyond. We’ve done just that.”
But what is life like for the Afghan people? Reasonable arguments can be made about what the United States owes Afghanistan following two decades of occupation. But one year after the military withdrawal, it’s clear that existence under Taliban rule has deteriorated across a range of measures — from the economy and security situation to human rights and governance.
To the surprise of few, the Taliban has been unable to stabilize Afghanistan’s economy and the nature of the Taliban’s draconian rule has scared off both foreign aid and potential investors. Taliban leaders remain under sanctions and, while they have experience commanding an insurgency, know little about financial markets or the trappings of managing a modern economy. Afghanistan’s nearly 40 million people are at risk of falling below the poverty line.
Tell me again what we actually did over there. What was the ultimate effect of those lives, that money? Maybe a few more decades were needed before the training wheels could come off.
*Of all the things I can hate Joe Biden for, leaving Afghanistan is pretty far down the list.
Needed to GTFO but for sure could have been done better. Like getting on Trump for his petty things, there are bigger issues at hand.
If Trump had done it like Biden did, it would be a never-ending media shit fest.
Biden violated the agreement made with the Taliban by Trump.
For sure and even the media had to toss a couple of jabs at Biden on that cluster cause it was just so poorly done. If he would have gotten that one right, his other failures as president would have been brushed aside in my opinion by the moderates and independents, as it were, I believe a lot look to that point of how the administration will be run. That one act got the warmongers and peaceniks to come together.
We can’t “conduct effective counterterrorism operations” in the fucking United States, how are we supposed to believe they can do so in the Middle East?
Look man, we droned some dude that may or may not have been a terrorist, or a wedding planner. What more evidence do you need that we know what we’re doing?
And this time we are like….45% positive it was him
If it turns out we were wrong, we can always kill him again!
I don’t think we owe them anything. We already have them tons of cash, which boomed the population.
‘the trappings of managing a modern economy.’
I don’t think Afghanistan has to worry about that anytime soon.
Although Afghanistan has not immediately devolved into a failed state from which transnational terrorist groups can launch attacks with impunity, senior U.S. defense and intelligence officials are growing concerned that jihadist groups like al Qaeda and ISK may develop those capabilities over the coming months. Many assessments, including that of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, place the timeframe at between 12 and 36 months for jihadist groups to rebuild their external attack capabilities. In late June, CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Kurilla claimed the U.S. was in possession of intelligence confirming that terrorist groups are already building training camps inside Afghanistan.
WE HAVE TO GET BACK IN THERE THEY NEED US!!!!
Milley misses all the goat-fucking.
Without question, there are plenty of ways in which the U.S. occupation made Afghanistan a more unstable country. Billions of dollars that flowed through various ministries and warlords were easy prey for corrupt politicians and compromised government officials. As someone who spent time serving on a counter-corruption task force in Kabul in 2011, I experienced much of this firsthand.
But even with some corrosive second-order consequences, on balance, an American military presence gave ordinary Afghans an opportunity for a better life. This included ethnic and religious minorities like Shia Hazara, and traditionally marginalized sectors of society, especially women. Of course, that’s not why Americans were there in the first place. The U.S. military invaded Afghanistan in response to the al Qaeda terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
To be sure, favored elites made out like bandits, but a few crumbs fell off the table for the little people.
And those little people were grateful for those crumbs, unlike you miserable peasants here.