Saturday Morning Usual Sort of Links

by | Sep 10, 2022 | Daily Links | 151 comments

Honestly, it was a pretty usual week. I did the usual things at home, did my usual work, went to my usual classes, and attended a usual conference held at the university. The conference was on Glass Sustainability- apparently, we’re running out of sand and have to step up recycling. Oh, and reduce our carbon footprint in manufacturing glass because of the Climate Catastrophe and our collapsing ecosystem. When I casually referred to CO2 as “plant food,” many frowns and talk of shunning. The usual.

And as usual, birthdays, including that of a childhood hero of mine; a guy who never heard of the “i before e” rule; a guy who was a bit scattered; the greatest composer you’ve never heard of- but you’d recognize nearly everything he wrote; a guy who directed one of the two best sci fi films ever made; Mister Asterisk who was not a Gaul; a guy who never let science stand in the way of his politics; a chick who fucked Fidel and produced a crashing mediocrity; a guy who was no Clive Bunker; and, speaking of a crashing mediocrity…

And the usual sort of Links, maybe with an extra dash of snark.

 

Wise Latina gets one right.

 

When you get the scarlet letter, it is there for life.

 

Shouldn’t this be at the Spurious Correlations website?

 

“But I want to piss on their graves!”

 

Give him a week, he’ll be back to it.

 

Champion of human rights.

 

I’m sure it was systematic racism under the Lumumba dynasty.

 

Old Guy Music is out of my usual mainstream- as part of this conference, a “glass concert” was presented with this guy playing a Franklin Glass Armonica and a Cristal. Very entertaining show and I had a chance to get up close and personal with the instrument afterwards.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

151 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday permitted Yeshiva University to refuse to recognize an LGBT student club that the Jewish school in New York City has said violates its religious values, temporarily blocking a judge’s ruling ordering it to allow the group.”

    Jews are against the gay?

    • Tonio

      Apparently the more conservative sort are, just like Christians. There is that pesky biblical prohibition against sodomy, after all. AFAIK, the Bible is mute about girl-on-girl.

      • SDF-7

        I’ve never cared to go over them — but from what I hear, I’m sure the Songs of Solomon probably allude to it somewhere….

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Is it just sodomy, or is all of the Hot Man on Man action forbidden?

      • DrOtto

        I had a lesbian boss that brought that up. She then suggested maybe lesbians are God’s chosen people. On another note, she was probably the most level headed boss I ever had.

      • Animal

        AFAIK, the Bible is mute about girl-on-girl.

        Boy, howdy!

  2. Count Potato

    “Some parents in Chester said they’re concerned after learning that the person hired to organize the town’s 300th anniversary celebration is a registered sex offender.”

    That can’t be real.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah – that article leaves out some critical details given all the stupid laws over the years about “16 year old sexts 16 year old girlfriend has to register as sex offender for life”. Is it worth asking follow up questions on the city’s part and checking on the answers? Probably…. but if it isn’t oh, distributing candy from a white van and inviting kids back to their house to blow glass or something, it is probably being blown out of proportion.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Getting caught pissing in an alley behind a bar will get you on the registry.

      • rhywun

        I am lucky to not be on that list, then.

      • Fourscore

        Old guy pissing in the woods, if there is no one to see him, count for anything?

      • mindyourbusiness

        If a tree falls in the forest…

      • DrOtto

        My friend got caught pissing on a building by the bar we were leaving. Thankfully, it was before some of the idiocy. Unfortunately for him, that building was the police station.

  3. Count Potato

    “That was more than the paper’s readers got in the stories about the passing of fellow GOP Representatives Jim Hagedorn and Ron Wright, who have also died in the 20 months since the Capitol insurrection.”

    So they are still alive?

    • Count Potato

      “The last few years have featured no shortage of assertions in the media that the preservation of democracy ought to be the profession’s highest calling.”

      You cannot be serious.

      • Grosspatzer

        Good morning, Mr. McEnroe.

  4. Count Potato

    I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Queen Elizabeth for getting people to shut up about Serena Williams.

    • rhywun

      LOL that and a bunch of other shit.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      So, you are saying Hillary did it?

  5. The Gunslinger

    There are quite a few things I don’t like about living in Michigan. But we have an abundance of water and an abundance of sand. So there you go.

    Morning old man.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    One explanation is that lower oxygen levels in the air interfere with brain activity.

    That’s it.

  7. Stinky Wizzleteats

    The Politico obit article: We need a national divorce…honestly, fuck these people.

  8. Ted S.

    a guy who directed one of the two best sci fi films ever made;

    So the two best sci-fi films ever made are The Sound of Music and Jaws?

    • Old Man With Candy

      You are a disgusting human being. And that’s being generous.

      • Ted S.

        I was just asking.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    It’s not that votes against certifying the election have been universally memory-holed. The New York Times obit for Hagedorn, for instance, led with his election-overturning vote. It’s that the coverage is all over the place. The same vote was mentioned low in the reports of his death offered by the Associated Press and his home-state Star-Tribune, and not at all in the Guardian, a publication that’s generally not especially friendly to baseless conspiracy theories about 2020 fraud.

    Never forget.

    Never forgive.

    • Ted S.

      Yeah, when Hymietown Jackson kicks it that comment isn’t going to be the first thing mentioned about him

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        When I’m called Home I hope I’m not defined by my worst moment (not that I think challenging the election’s bad at all). The person penning that article must be a saint.

    • rhywun

      baseless conspiracy theories

      In an article that is trying to gin up a baseless conspiracy theory.

      They’re just fucking with us at this point.

  10. SDF-7

    a guy who directed one of the two best sci fi films ever made;

    Huh… so OMWC is a big fan of The Motionless Picture? Who knew…. (just kidding, I actually like a lot about ST:TMP myself… though don’t try the uniform for your next date night — those pajamas don’t look good on anyone).

    • Tonio

      My guess is that he was referring to “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, I got a nastygram for suggesting something else. 🙂

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Glad you resumed blogging.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Nah, it has to be Star Trek, the Motion Picture.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Krull, it’s got to be Krull.

  11. The Gunslinger

    “I had a chance to get up close and personal with the instrument afterwards.”

    So the new suits that Webdom bought for you are starting to work. Good for you!

  12. Grosspatzer

    Love the Old Man Music, that is one weird and wonderful contraption.

  13. SDF-7

    Give him a week, he’ll be back to it.

    As nutty as the elites have gotten, I could see him abdicating in such a way to bring in their Climate Queen:
    Be afraid

  14. Grumbletarian

    JACKSON, Miss. — A team from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General arrived in Jackson last week to begin a “multidisciplinary” top-to-bottom review of the current drinking water crisis, an agency spokesperson told NBC News.

    “We’re here to find the closest available Republican, call him a racist, then wash our hands of the situation.”

    • Translucent Chum

      We learned it from you, Flint.

    • DEG

      I like your version better.

  15. Fourscore

    “Champion of human rights”

    I thought this would be the Trump-Biden-Fauci trifecta. Iranians are lightweights when it comes to killing people and what we used to think of as rights.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    This is all, on the face of it, rather strange. The last few years have featured no shortage of assertions in the media that the preservation of democracy ought to be the profession’s highest calling. The vote on whether or not to certify the election was a seminal one, a moment to pick sides.

    The day these people disappear up their own assholes can’t happen soon enough.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s all so performative and stupid. These are the same douchebags that’ll be issuing challenges should the Republicans win the next one.

      • SDF-7

        Of course — their highest goal is preserving Democracy (emphasis on the big D there), after all.

      • R C Dean

        “emphasis on the big D there”

        *insert appropriate emoji here*

    • DrOtto

      No mention of the faithless electors from the 2016 election?

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Hush, You!

  17. The Late P Brooks

    It’s actually kind of chilly this morning.

    • Fourscore

      43 this morning. HH attendees are reminded that MN fall starts anytime.

      • Fourscore

        My neighbors welcome my bees, OTOH they are compensated with a gift in the fall.

    • SDF-7

      Only 76 at the moment — if we’re lucky and the predictions hold, we’ll top out at only 96 today. Finally a cold snap!

      • rhywun

        *shudder*

        But I suppose it’s a dry heat™️. Pleasant 70s here.

  18. Negroni Please

    Hmm the suicide by elevation map looks like theres a strong correlation between suicide and government land ownership. I’m gonna blame the government instead

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Has the Justice Department nominated Peter Strozk to be special master for the document-leaking party?

  20. l0b0t

    Good morning everyone. For those that have never seen it, The Sand Pebbles is definitely worth a watch. Steve McQueen at his finest, a very young Candace Bergen, and great performances by Richard Crenna and Simon Oakland.

    After going in to the cafe in the wee small hours to make peanut noodles, then returning to helm the griddle during the lunch rush, I went to New House and spent the remainder of my day scraping 30+ year old (cat urine saturated) carpet glue off of 150+ year old oak floors. Floors are being sanded today, so I can clean them tonight and seal them tomorrow. Today however, I’m taking a break and driving out to Salamanca to the Indian Reservation for their cheap, legal, and tax-free cannabis products.

    Each passing moment affirms for me that moving to Alfred was the absolute right choice. I hope each and every one of y’all have a wonderful day.

    • Fourscore

      Small town living and friends, hard to beat.

    • Sean

      I hope you’re getting paid overtime.

      *Side eyes OMWC*

    • Grosspatzer

      Happy for your good times. Excelsior!

      • Sensei

        +1

    • Tonio

      I take joy in your newfound happiness and wish you the very best.

    • Gender Traitor

      🙂

    • Ted S.

      If you want to see young Bergen in an absurd movie, track down a copy of The Day the Fish Came Out. (For the ladies, it’s got Tom Courtenay in his tightie-whiteys.)

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      That was one of my fathers favorite movies, and it wasn’t a bad book either.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Oh, and it definitely sounds like you made the right choice re Alfred. Congrats!

    • DEG

      Each passing moment affirms for me that moving to Alfred was the absolute right choice.

      🙂

    • KSuellington

      Congrats on finding a place you love,. Sounds like you made a real step up.

    • Chafed

      I’m glad for you.

  21. Grosspatzer

    The problem is that we’ve spent years hearing about how the effort to overturn the election was not normal and must not be made to seem so.

    In other words, the case of the missing obit mentions is yet another case of one old norm (don’t speak ill of the dead, don’t be one of those naive types who think of any single vote as defining a pol’s career) against another (attempts to interrupt American democracy are a big deal)

    No. The demonization of any and all attempts to question the result of what may or may not have been a flawed process is the really big deal. There was a vote, and the election was certified. This is exactly how American “democracy” is supposed to work, regardless of what you think of the result. Silencing dissenting voices is a characteristic of a different sort of system.

  22. Negroni Please

    So Charles III huh? Here’s to hoping the third verse is the same as the first

  23. SDF-7

    Warm up round wasn’t my best (blew a guess I probably shouldn’t have, dropping me from +3 to +2), but nowhere near my worst… so I’ll take it:

    Daily Duotrigordle #192
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 08:46.56
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Main event was way too close to Chumptown again — seed words weren’t sprouting, only got there in the end by virtue of letter elimination:

    Daily Quordle 229
    7️⃣6️⃣
    5️⃣9️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Grosspatzer

      Tough one today.

      Daily Quordle 229
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣8️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 229
      6️⃣8️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 229
      7️⃣8️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 229
      9️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣8️⃣

    • rhywun

      Meh.

      Daily Quordle 229
      8️⃣5️⃣
      7️⃣6️⃣

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 229
      7️⃣4️⃣
      5️⃣6️⃣

    • The Hyperbole

      Daily Duotrigordle #192
      Guesses: 37/37
      Time: 05:38.52

      Daily Quordle 229
      🟥5️⃣
      9️⃣7️⃣

      Just horrible all around

  24. The Late P Brooks

    History in the making

    The Justice Department wants the special master to move relatively quickly, wrapping up its review in five weeks, by October 17. Trump proposed 90 days.

    The Justice Department also argued that the special master shouldn’t touch any documents with classification markings and that the review shouldn’t include any executive privilege considerations. Trump’s lawyers, meanwhile, want the special master to review “all seized materials,” including classified records.

    Whomever ends up getting appointed to fill the role will immediately be catapulted into the center of one of the most consequential criminal investigations in modern American history.

    We’re gonna lynch this guy, and we don’t want anybody holding us back.

    • Ted S.

      The Justice Department wants the special master to move relatively quickly, wrapping up its review in five weeks, by October 17.

      They want to print their anti-Trump lies in time for the election.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      The Oxbow Incident in real life.

      What was the name of that black kid who just had to be guilty?

      • Ted S.

        RIchard Jewell?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Each passing moment affirms for me that moving to Alfred was the absolute right choice.

    Excellent. It’s good to hear you broke free.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    The two sides haven’t agreed on much throughout the litigation, and it’s no surprise that their proposals submitted Friday spell out vastly different visions of how the special master should conduct their review.
    For instance, both sides also disagree over who should pay for the special master. Trump’s lawyers proposed that the costs incurred by the special master should be “split evenly” between him and the US government. The Justice Department told the judge that they think Trump should pay for the whole thing, because he’s the one who is “requesting the special master.”

    No kidding.

    • Ted S.

      Nobody forced the Feds to start this fishing expedition.

    • R C Dean

      So I suppose any defendant who doesn’t plead guilty immediately should be billed for the judge, prosecutor, etc. to waste their time on “due process”?

      And isn’t the entire point of the special master to review the seized materials for privilege?

  27. The Late P Brooks

    The Justice Department also says that it must be allowed to continue to access the classified documents as the intelligence community reviews the materials for national security reasons, arguing that the intelligence review cannot be easily separated from the criminal investigation. Top federal prosecutors have said the intelligence review has been temporary halted due to Cannon’s ruling, undermining national security.

    MUH TICKING TIME BOMB!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’m sure he’s already made copies and sent them to Putin already anyway.

    • Grumbletarian

      Anya, 46, said that her mother was born in Trinidad and her father in Nigeria, eventually meeting in England in 1950s, having been sent there to go to school.

      She described herself as a ‘child of colonization.’

      So if it weren’t for the queen this insufferable harridan wouldn’t be alive?

      • Grumbletarian

        She should really stick in in the queen’s eye and off herself in protest of the colonization it took to bring her into the world.

      • Negroni Please

        Thich quang duc showed the world that self immolation is a powerful statement. Too bad more people don’t choose emulate him

      • Homple

        Enoch Powell was on to something about colonial imports.

      • R C Dean

        “She described herself as a ‘child of colonization.’”

        This only makes sense if she’s talking about the colonization of England by Nigerians and Trinidaddies.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Out in the open

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address U.S. defense contractors later this month when he headlines the annual Future Force Capabilities Conference and Exhibition hosted by the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).

    Zelensky is scheduled to speak at the event Sept. 21, according to the program for the event available on the NDIA’s website. Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s minister of defense, is also scheduled to speak that day.

    News of the appearances was first reported by Reuters, which noted that the officials will speak via video link. Zelensky is expected to appeal for more weapons for his country during his speech, the outlet added.

    ——-

    Eight defense contractors — including Raytheon, Lockheed and General Dynamics — attended a meeting at the Pentagon in April to discuss how the U.S. could speed up production to help Ukraine fend off Moscow’s war.

    The U.S. has committed $15.2 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including $14.5 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

    On Thursday, the U.S. unveiled a $675 million weapons package to Ukraine, including additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, additional high-speed anti-radiation missiles and more than 5,000 anti-armor systems, among other equipment.

    We’ve got to clear that dusty old crap off the shelves to make room for fresh new toys.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Eight defense contractors — including Raytheon, Lockheed and General Dynamics — attended a meeting at the Pentagon in April to discuss how the U.S. could speed up production to help Ukraine fend off Moscow’s war.

      Apparently most of the heavy armored vehicles used in the recent Izium breakthrough are from the West.

      • Chafed

        Good. Let’s field test what we have while we can.

  29. I. B. McGinty

    Quordle brag here. Mrs. McGinty and I have been playing for a couple of months now and almost always start with the same two words – raise and clout. All of the vowels are used and some of the common consonants. Yesterday I missed the r and entered ais, so we entered “aisle” and got the rare ace. Missed “pound” as we went with “round” but we were debating on going with “pound.” Got the next two for a 3,4,1,5. Then Mrs. McGinty found Octordle and we played that. This “ordle” stuff is getting out of hand.

    • rhywun

      out of hand

      See above for “duotrigordle”.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Most thankless, dangerous, noble job in America

    Despite greater protections in the U.S., a variety of journalism trade groups report a significant recent increase in threats and violence directed at reporters. Newsrooms have stepped up their security markedly, with guards and metal detectors, while many more reporters and photographers now receive training in how to protects themselves during protests, school board meetings and even once seemingly innocuous sidewalk interviews.

    “What I hear every day around the country is a significant increase in threats and in a sense of permission that people feel to attack journalists,” said Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the DART Center for Journalism & Trauma at Columbia University. “We’re seeing far more threats and far more actual violence directed at local journalists, in particular.”

    Every day, you wonder if this will bee the day Trump’s ultraMAGA robot army comes for you.

    • Grumbletarian

      But those Charlie Hedbo guys deserved what they got.

      • Grumbletarian

        And who cares if Libs Of TikTok got doxxed?!

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Yesterday I drove to Idaho Falls to look at this Hyundai I have been thinking about. I get to the car lot in the ad, and the guysays, “Oh, that’s at our other lot, over on Woodruff. Have you got maps on your phone? It’s just a few minutes from here. You just turn left out of here, blah blah blah Sinclair station blah blah there you are.”

    Right. There’s more than one Sinclair station in Idaho falls, and very few street signs. Suffice it to say I did not see the Hyundai yesterday. Now I’m wondering if it’s worth it to make another attempt. It doesn’t even have a manual transmission. But they (Tiburons) are kind of cute, and not just your average ugly utilitarian shitbox.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    That deal we made- we’re changing it

    More than 70 House Democrats are signing on to a letter pressing Democratic leaders to not include a side deal with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on reforming the permit process for energy projects in a bill funding the government.

    The permitting reform language was offered to Manchin to win his vote on the massive climate, tax and health care bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act that was signed into law by President Biden last month.

    ——-

    “The inclusion of these provisions in a continuing resolution, or any other must-pass legislation, would silence the voices of frontline and environmental justice communities by insulating them from scrutiny,” they lawmakers wrote.

    “We urge you to ensure that these provisions are kept out of a continuing resolution or any other must-pass legislation this year,” they added in the letter that was spearheaded by Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.).

    We have to be able to hide behind the EPA in our continuing efforts to destroy the economy.

    • Grumbletarian

      What Manchin should do is say “If Congressional Democrats go back on their word on this arrangement to secure a prior vote, I will change my party affiliation to Republican and we can have a new Senate Majority Leader.”

    • rhywun

      silence the voices of frontline and environmental justice communities

      America demands to hear these voices that have been so stifled!

      • hayeksplosives

        The abuse and misuse of the word “justice” has become rather tedious. It’s almost as bad as “equity”.

        I DEMAND GRAMMAR JUSTICE!!!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Manchin will cave. He probably demanded the side deal just as temporary cover knowing full well they’d renege on it.

  33. DEG

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday permitted Yeshiva University to refuse to recognize an LGBT student club that the Jewish school in New York City has said violates its religious values, temporarily blocking a judge’s ruling ordering it to allow the group.

    She did that? Is the Sun still rising in the East?

    “The EPA OIG is keenly interested and concerned about what is happening in Jackson, Mississippi,” said the spokesperson, Jennifer Kaplan. “Last week, we began sending OIG personnel to collect data and conduct interviews, and over the coming week we expect to announce work related to the city’s water system.”

    Let me guess: “Evil Rethuglicans did it!”

    Old Guy Music is neat. I saw a glass armonica in a Museum in Vienna. It was a collection of musical instruments from across the years. I think it was part of the Kunst Historisches Museum but was in the Neue Hofburg.

    • whiz

      This is very appropriate at our house since we are currently giving one of our cats antibiotic pills for a bladder infection.

      Ironically, Mrs. Whiz is now also taking an antibiotic since she was bitten by that same cat while we were administering the medication, and it’s become infected.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I laffed at that one. All too true.

      • Gender Traitor

        First read this helpful set of instructions way back in the ’90s when folks shared such information via fax.

      • whiz

        That would be funny if it weren’t what we are going through right now 🙂

      • rhywun

        Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby.

        Ha, no. I had to go straight to “wrap in large towel”.

  34. Count Potato

    “California Democrats recently voted to approve legislation that will make California a sanctuary state for transgender youth and their parents fleeing prosecution for child abuse in other states.

    The legislation, Senate Bill 107, passed with a 30–9 vote along party lines in the California State Senate on Aug. 31, the last day of the legislative session…

    The legislation would prohibit health care providers in California from complying with subpoenas requiring the disclosure of medical information relating to gender-affirming care and prevent California law enforcement agencies from cooperating with out-of-state agencies and laws, preventing arrests and extradition”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-democrats-pass-legislation-to-create-transgender-sanctuary-state_4708154.html

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-assembly-passes-bill-become-refuge-state-trans-kids-parents

    It takes a village.

    • hayeksplosives

      So the new legislation blatantly promotes non-compliance with existing legislation?

      I haz a confuse.

      How would such a law stand up in court?

      • Q Continuum

        Stuff like this makes me wonder why Progs would vote against secession/national divorce. Why *wouldn’t* you want to decouple yourself from the Deploranazis/Plenaryphobes/Domestic Terrorists? Unless of course half the fun is forcing people to do stuff they don’t want to humiliate them…

      • whiz

        … half the fun is forcing people to do stuff they don’t want to …

        Bingo!

      • KSuellington

        I’d say that is certainly part of it, and the other part of it is that deep down they know their shit doesn’t work all that well and that they need the Deplorable parts of the country more than they need the Woke.

    • rhywun

      Virtue signal level: Through The Roof.

    • Chafed

      My idiot state is going to be unhappy when other states retaliate by not enforcing subpoenas and refusing to extradite parents who fled to their states in violation of a court order.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-treasurys-yellen-stresses-need-high-impact-projects-rebuild-ukraine-2022-09-09/“> What the fuck does the Secretary of the United States Treasury do, again?

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday underscored the need for a broad coalition of partners to help Ukraine recover and rebuild after Russia’s invasion, with a focus on near-term, high-impact projects, the Treasury Department said.

    During a virtual meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Yellen also discussed the need for Ukraine’s partners to deliver expeditiously on economic assistance for the country, which has been besieged for over six months by Russian forces.

    ——-

    The United States is providing grants to Ukraine that will add up to $8.5 billion by end-September, the Treasury said. The Biden administration is also requesting an additional $4.5 billion from Congress to help the country cover its critical needs in the coming months.

    Why don’t you focus on what’s going on right under your nose, you odious mound of mashed potatoes?

    I suppose she thinks she’ll go down in history as the architect of the “Yellin Plan”.

    • hayeksplosives

      There are lots of US politicians who need their “investment” activities in Ukraine since around 2012 to remain uninvestigated.

  36. Q Continuum

    “I think people would be surprised to learn that most of us have families and are just like everyone else only we have sex on camera[…]I always say the industry is the island of misfit toys. It’s an independent ecosystem that operates in a bubble from the outside world. Our lives are anything but normal”

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/my-fianc-gets-jealous-shoot-27917313

    These seem to be mutually exclusive statements.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    California passes a law “negating” other states’ denial of gender affirming medical care (holy shit I hate that phrase). Come one, come all.

    And what would/do the Californicators have o say about other states passing laws expressly negating their sanctimonious earth-saving bullshit?

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Incantations make the economy go

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen praised Biden administration’s economic policies Thursday during a speech at a Ford Motor Company
    electric vehicle plant in Michigan.

    Yellen, who spoke following a tour of the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, touted the Democrat-led Inflation Reduction Act, the bipartisan infrastructure law and the CHIPS and Science Act as boons to the manufacturing sector and job growth.

    Her speech came as Democrats aim to highlight their economic successes ahead of the midterm elections in November, which will determine whether Republicans can retake one or both chambers of Congress. President Joe Biden will travel to Ohio on Friday to promote the opening of an Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility.

    Many of the administration’s policies conform to Yellen’s so-called Modern Supply Side Economics framework. Before the pandemic, she said, higher inequality was accompanied by slower economic growth.

    “And now with an economy at full employment, we are uniquely suited for a supply-side expansion that delivers sustainable growth and reduces inequality,” Yellen said.

    She also noted the Biden administration’s stabilization efforts “will put the United States back to full employment in record time” after the pandemic, declining labor force participation and the war in Ukraine weighed down the U.S. economy.

    And then she hopped on her broom and flew away.

    • Gustave Lytton

      She also noted the Biden administration’s stabilization efforts “will put the United States back to full employment in record time” after the pandemic, declining labor force participation and the war in Ukraine weighed down the U.S. economy.

      So round people up and put them in workcamps then?

  39. The Late P Brooks

    “Taken together, the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act authorized among the most significant investments our country has ever made,” Yellen said. “I believe firmly, they will help us achieve stable sustainable growth, and they’ll move us toward a fairer and more resilient economy.”

    Next thing you know, ol’ Jed’s a millionaire.

    • R C Dean

      WTF is the Treasury Secretary doing taking blatantly political positions, anyway? Remember when their job was maintaining a somewhat stable currency? I guess those days are gone.

  40. Shiny Nerfherder

    So is glass a product of the cishetero-patriarchy too?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Gee, I wish we had one o’ them doomsday machines

    North Korea will launch a nuclear retaliation “automatically and immediately” if KIM JONG UN is incapacitated in an attack, according to a new law, codifying for the first time that the leader has delegated his strike authority under that severe condition.

    The legislation, passed by Kim’s rubber-stamp parliament, also allows for preemptive nuclear strikes if North Korea judges that foreign weapons will soon streak toward its strategic targets or state leadership.

    The measure comes as the dictator vowed to never part with the nuclear and missiles program it took his country decades to build, making them more and more dangerous by the year. North Korea will “never give up nuclear weapons and there is absolutely no denuclearization, and no negotiation and no bargaining chip to trade in the process,” Kim declared Friday, according to state-run media.

    \At this point- sure, why the fuck not?

    We all should have one.

    • Gustave Lytton

      What, rocket man doesn’t want to take a bayonet up the pooper?

  42. Animal

    I’m back from my turkey hunting expedition in southern Colorado. It was a bust – we were limited by license to a certain state wildlife area, and it was ninety-plus and dry every day. The birds, along with every other sensible critter, were miles away in higher, cooler country.

    Oops.

    Back home now where it’s nice and cool. Family visiting. Good times.

    • R C Dean

      Its called “hunting”, not “killing”, for a reason. Just like its called “fishing”, not “catching”.