I have an alibi!
It’s that day when we remember the end of any pretense of civil liberties, when the Team Red-Team Blue Axis came together and set us firmly down the path of Forever War, when the terrorists won a clear and resounding victory. And we continue down that stupid, brutal, and wasteful path, whether with a simp, a con-man, a carnival barker, or Abe Simpson in the White House. Yay.
It’s not just the anniversary of some people doing something, it’s a day chock full of birthdays, not the least of which was a very focused guy; a guy whose end was a bit of a surprise; a guy who said to Rousseau, “Hold mah ale”; a guy who coached Little League; a woman who proved that being a child of Nazis didn’t mean you couldn’t be worse; possibly the biggest asshole in the NFL; a filmmaker almost as bad as Spielberg; a pretty fine musician who made some unfortunate choices; a pretty fine musician who made a lot of fortunate choices; a ridiculously good bass player; and a hawk among the sparrows.
Let’s move on to Links, just to keep the depression fresh.
Fuck these people with rusty barbed wire.
It’s OK for HER to be armed, just not you little people.
Is this ritual part of Honey Harvest?
Another thoughtful piece by a brilliant woman who was driven out of her profession.
A bit late figuring this out, eh?
That quiet old fellow helping out is quite the sexy stud, don’t you think?
Old Guy Music features a guy who wasn’t old yet when this was filmed. Damn fine song.
Bom dia and happy Sunday everyone.
Its Monza today, im sure Verstappen will run away with it.
Wife and I started watching 24, its been on my list for a while, and we are enjoying it. I’ve always heard 9/11 had a big impact on the plot and style, so I’m interested to see that, especially through a lens 21 years later.
The closest 24 ever really got to a 9/11 plotline was Season 4, and for all of the pearl clutching at the time about its jingoism and islamophobia, you get plenty of expository about how the turrurists aren’t true Muslims, the true baddie turns out to be the dastardly Bush caricature Charles Logan, and as ever, the heroic, noble, honest, beneficent black All State commercial president man whom our hero Jack Bauer spent the first 3 seasons saving from racist white supremacist assassination attempts helps our tragic hero save the day once again.
My dad watched every episode of the series, so I passively watched about 3/4 of them. It gets very formulaic over time.
Somehow I managed to avoid every minute of that show. 🤷🏻♂️
IDGAF, I’m a fan of the series, it’s fun and mostly well done. Season one is great. Elisha Cuthbert, so dumb, so hot.
Aged like milk, sadly. My friends and I actually sat through The Girl Next Door just to catch a glimpse of her in various states of undress, only to find out they used a body double.
I haven’t started the race yet, but if Verstappen can pull it off from the midfield grid position at Monza that would be very impressive, especially with the pace of the Ferraris. Vamos ver.
Wait, they’re giving out shitty glass medals?
No more gold or silver?
But they’re sustainable glass.
And all the furnaces and kilns are powered with sustainable energy, right?
Bodies of the wrongthinkers
I was at a Glass Sustainability conference last week where this was a major topic running through the presentations. The presenters all agreed that 80% of the carbon footprint came from the heating, 20% was generated by the raw materials giving off CO2 as part of the vitrification chemistry. They listed various no or low GHG energy options that could rescue us. Interestingly, not one of those lists, not a single one from at least 6 or 7 independent presentations listed “nuclear” as an option.
That quiet old fellow helping out is quite the sexy stud, don’t you think?
Alfred isn’t in the Hudson Valley.
It’s asking me to log in to watch. Pass.
There’s an option button on the bottom of the video to not have to register or log in.
Alfred is in Wayne Manor.
Is this ritual part of Honey Harvest?
From that article:
This is why there are no female libertarians….
Sounds familiar.
a major win for gun control advocates who say it will help better track suspicious surges of gun sales that could be a prelude to a mass shooting.
Those transactions will be reported directly to the Precrime Bureau?
What a steaming pile of elephant dung.
Private company dude (not really but, you know, it’s a workaround).
Flash forward to 2025, and any cash transaction at a gun store over $200 is required to be reported to the IRS, BATFE, FBI and NSA under new provisions of the Sandyhook Memorial Free Shit For Everyone And Also Puppies and Rainbows Act of 2025.
Frankly, I’d be surprised if there isn’t some corner case regulation where they aren’t demanding it now. No need for the Puppies and Rainbows Act.
Yeah, 2025 is when the next Snowden-like super enemy of DEMOCRACY informs us this has been happening for years. Just before being chased out of the country.
I am not only going to judge them, I am going to judge the people trying to absolve their behavior.
If the left can manage to get away with putting pedophiles on a pedestal it’s just another sign that we are well and truly fucked.
I don’t identify as an eight year old.
I expect it to happen.
We’ll see, the plebs don’t want it but big tech, big media, and big govt seem to all be lined up in favor.
I remember conservative groups about 10 years ago making a big stink that pedophilia normalization was already taking place in the loony tunes university system, and that the gay and trans rights movement would be the camel’s nose under the tent to bringing it into the mainstream. Thank fuck they were just being hateful old homophobic fuddy-duddies and there was absolutely no truth whatsoever to any of it.
I don’t like admitting that the socons were right but they were right. I don’t have a problem with gay and trans people as long as they’re consenting adults but the slippery slope is slippery.
I always thought they were implying something sinister about the G’s and L’s, but it turns out that the P’s are probably going to latch onto the G’s and L’s just like the T’s did.
So… yeah, they were right.
The thing is, this has been going on for a while. NAMBLA was a member of the International Lesbian and Gay Association, only being expelled when controversy erupted when the ILGA gained more prominence. A disturbing number of the early prominent gay-rights activists either were involved in or tolerated pedophilia/ephebophilia. There have always been members of the LGBT+ community who have been trying to sneak pedophilia into the group, no doubt to the chagrin of many other members of the community. That’s the problem with having a broad tent – some people in it will want to make it too broad.
7-11 WAS A PART TIME JOB!
LOL
@Pat wins the internet.
Yeah, that’s pretty damn good.
I wish I could claim any credit, but that one’s been in circulation off and on ever since some lost-to-history cleverer irreverent internet cool kid coined it 20 years ago.
A bit late figuring this out, eh?
I like the dateline on that story.
How do you ring your hands?
Visa said it would adopt the International Organization for Standardization’s new merchant code for gun sales, which was announced on Friday. Until Friday, gun store sales were considered “general merchandise.”
“Following ISO’s decision to establish a new merchant category code, Visa will proceed with next steps, while ensuring we protect all legal commerce on the Visa network in accordance with our long-standing rules,” the payment processor said in a statement.
Seriously? Conform.
OBEY
Pressured by Sen. Warren and the usual cadre of antigun dickheads:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/credit-card-companies-gun-sales-congress-letters/
They caved to government pressure although they were initially resisting. “That’s a nice business model you have there, it’d sure be a shame if something happened to it.”
They won’t protect anything. See the Obama years.
Not just that, but this is about giving more information to card issuers (aka banks and others) to make their own decisions (either by government, popular, or their own internal pressure). Visa’s hands are clean. Maybe it’s a blocked transaction, maybe it’s turning over that about your other financial information on a suspicious activity report, maybe it’s suspending and closing your accounts.
If only there had been some way of knowing!
“You always have to be wary of objects upwards of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit within this space,” Bellows said. “Each of these slivers will be cut, polished and become a medallion.”
The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University is making key components to podium medals for this winter’s World University Games in Lake Placid.
At the core of each medal is a recycled glass disc, icy blue in color, which, when hit by ultraviolet light has a luminescent glow.
Look at it this way; who would bother to steal a piece of glass? It ain’t worth nothing except to the guy who won it.
Sustainability was key in the design of the medals
*makes jacking-off hand motion, stops reading*
Make them out of hemp.
So now we know: Pandemic-related restrictions were devastating to the project of educating our kids. The Education Department dropped the news last week that America’s experiment with remote learning has reduced young children’s standardized test scores to levels not seen in two decades. Although performance fell in every demographic group, the losses were greatest among minorities and the poor.
But millions of teachers’ lives were saved!
No shit.
I’m aware of one poor mother (single and knows all the welfare systems) who upon being asked if she were concerned about her kids’ schooling (or lack thereof) during COVID, responded with “Oh it don’t matter, they’ll pass ‘em anyway. The kids be fine.”
She was right.
But not about this.
I had bumper stickers made that proclaim “My Child is a Straight P Student at Stony Point High School” since they went to a Pass/Fail scheme during Covid.
America’s experiment with remote learning has reduced young children’s standardized test scores to levels not seen in two decades.
NYC begs to differ.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/06/snow-days-canceled-for-new-york-city-schools-this-year/
“With the new technology that we have — that’s one of the good things that came out of COVID — if a snow day comes around, we want to make sure that our kids continue to learn.”
Why do you hate the kids?
I’ve never been to the flight 93 memorial. Driven near it, but never bothered.
Fried Chicken in an Italian 2 Michelin-Star Restaurant with Alberto Faccani – Magnolia**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOfObgwWfkE
apparently 3 ways, nuggets, japanese style and kentucky style
🏳️🌈
I love it when hipsters discover the food of the plebs
There was an episode of Frasier where the lovable snob Niles discovers a taste for American fast food and quips to his horrified brother “We’ve embraced the peasant foods of Italy and France, why overlook the peasants in our own back yard?”
Early in the pandemic, I heard one public health “expert” proclaim on television that no measure is too extreme if it saves a single life. Such an assertion does not even constitute serious argument, still less the teaching of an academic discipline. But the host treated the claim like Holy Writ.
No shit, Shirley. Maybe you should tell your co-workers at
Bloombergthe DNC steno pool.I think he just did.
a very focused guy; – funny thing, in Romanian vernacular zeiss is a word that means very nice or great
How do you ring your hands?
With a clapper.
duh
In her book, Kamenetz laments that those who knew better didn’t raise their voices loudly enough. A more realistic way to put the point is that those who knew better were drowned out, even accused of spreading misinformation. But allowing only one side in a debate over an issue of public importance leads predictably to bad policy. And, in the jargon of the moment, it’s also a threat to democracy, which thrives only on open disagreement.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
The Great Barrington declaration was met with totally open arms and consideration and definitely wasn’t demonized as an attempt to kill grandma and all her progeny.
Communal pussy has become bold…he’s literally tryna open my RV door now.
Tuna for the Tuna God!
BONITO FOR THE BONITO THRONE!!!
Is that a band name, or a Soviet brothel?
Euphemism?
Let him/her in and give him some petting.
Morning all — thanks for the links, OMWC… besides the morning itself, my next major memory of this time was when they announced DHS and I thought to myself “Are they serious?” First epic depressing troll that just made things obvious. Sigh. Going back to a video game where the USG is portrayed fairly, the Fallout franchise.
On other depressing notes, the FOO-ordle results of the day were not great:
Daily Duotrigordle #193
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 07:18.63
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 230
4️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 230
7️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
Bottom left was… a bit out of character with the types of words they typically source.
Yeah, bottom left was odd.
Daily Quordle 230
5️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 230
5️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣🟥
Shit.
Walkin’ the line.
Daily Quordle 230
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 230
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 230
4️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
WTF, LL?
Welcome to the club.
Another shitty day all around
Daily Duotrigordle #193
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 05:23.28
Daily Quordle 230
6️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 230
4️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
Yeaaaaahhhh i need them to not do that again
Daily Quordle 230
6️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 230
5️⃣2️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
First seed word pinned down the UR right away.
Mornin’, all.
OMWC, looks like your star is rising, well done. It’s good to be a hot commodity.
Now you’ll have to pay for your guns with USPS money orders.
Or someone else’s credit card. Or a group-funded credit card. I immediately thought of ways around that. And always there is bitcoin.
I think that Gunbroker has started using some sort of PayPal analog, GunWallet or somesuch.
Monero.
Obligatory for today’s theme
Today, in pompous theatrical outrage
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas presented an honorary American flag recently flown above the US Capitol to a convicted January 6 rioter after she was released from prison Friday.
Gohmert, a Trump ally who has previously promoted debunked conspiracies about the January 6, 2021, insurrection, met Dr. Simone Gold upon her release from federal prison in Miami on Friday and gifted her a flag flown over the Capitol along with an official certificate. In a statement released Friday, Gohmert falsely claimed that Gold was “a political prisoner,” a term many supporters of former President Donald Trump have used to inaccurately describe the prosecution and incarceration of January 6 defendants.
“Dr. Gold is the definition of what a political prisoner looks like – something I never thought I’d see here in the United States of America,” Gohmert said.
Gold is a well-known Covid-19 conspiracy theorist who was sentenced to 60 days in prison in June for her involvement in the January 6 riot. She is the founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that received national attention for spreading false claims about Covid-19, pushing unproven treatments like hydroxychloroquine and later lying about the FDA-authorized vaccines.
Oh, lordy, where’s the smelling salts?
OMFG, look at the co-author of that propaganda drivel. The guy needs to participate in a “Most Punchable Face” competition.
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/marshall-cohen
Some people should just go with the stern look for their photographs and he’s one of them.
Stern as in the rear of a boat.
My buddy who covers Snake Farm also does this Robert Earl Keen song occasionally in his solo acoustic shows. He’s an excellent songwriter in his own right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYz_eHQl3fM
That song is always how our radio station signs off air at the end of Burning Man.
They just don’t make ’em like they used to
Like many borrowers, Halid Hamade, 28, is poised to benefit — at least somewhat — from student loan forgiveness.
After President Joe Biden announced he will forgive $10,000 in federal education debt and up to $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants who meet the income threshold, Hamade said he was happy.
Still, “it’s not enough,” he said.
Hamade currently owes roughly $100,000 in federal and private loans from college. He is also one of the nearly 40 million students with no degree to show for that debt.
The economics major was on track to graduate in 2016, but he ran out of funds in his last year of school, he said. Hamade said he was denied additional loan money, making it nearly impossible to remain enrolled at Penn State University. “It was out of my hands at that point.”
Award them all a Certificate of Thinkology, too.
Gives new meaning to Economics In One Lesson.
What happened to working while going to school? Except for my freshman year of college (which I paid for because I HAD been working and saving), I worked my way through my bachelor’s degree. I had $5,500 in loans to cover books for my last two semesters (that was the minimum amount you could borrow).
That $100K would have to have been accumulated after financing nearly everything.
Tuition, Room and board, food, and books.
I ate cheap, bought used or took out books from the library, and stayed in a off campus apartment with three or four others. I also worked all summer and part time during the school year.
Because Penn is the only school in the world, it is known.
JHTFC
Not even Penn. It’s Penn State. A public college.
I feel this needs to be dragged over from ded-thred:
I will make that switch in a heartbeat if this is true – the internet is completely unusable in its natural state.
Google can eat a bag a dicks.
Hate to pop your bubbles lads, but anything chromium-based (i.e., Brave; for the of fuck, please stop shilling this is a privacy-conscious browser) is going to be using Manifest V3. It’s baked into the Blink engine. The only browser as of now that’s implementing a workaround is Firefox. This has been announced and well publicized for at least the last 2-3 years. If you want a decent OOTB Firefox-based browser, LibreWolf is OK, although a few about:config tweaks would still be well-advised. Otherwise, the Arkenfox user.js for vanilla Firefox mitigates most of its worst tendencies. Embrace DNS-level adblocking. Pi-Hole will run on any PC via Docker, or on an actual Raspberry Pi if you can find one for under $200 these days. AdGuard Home is another option, if you’re not picky about software licenses.
Firefox comes with too much bloatware.
I don’t think it ships with any plugins enabled besides Pocket these days. It’s abysmal for privacy though. Telemetry out the ass, first party tracking enabled by default, Google Safebrowsing enabled by default, speculative prefetching enabled by default, and about a thousand more I can’t remember off-hand. That’s why you need a custom user.js or a whole bunch of about:config tweaking if you’re going to use vanilla Firefox. Since GNU doesn’t ship IceCat binaries anymore and most people aren’t going to be compiling their own browser (especially with the byzantine Rust toolchain required for Firefox), LibreWolf is a pretty good normie option.
No, I mean extraneous code. Firefox used to be light as a feather. Now it’s stiff as a board.
Oh, yeah, that. That’s basically just modern web browsers. Keeping up with all of the bullshit W3C wants to cram into the browser pretty much necessitates a bloated code base. Operating systems are now basically bootloaders for the web browser where all of a user’s software actually runs.
Son of a bitch…
Whatever it takes after this shakes out, I’ll do it.
CONSUME!
I am going to church today for the first time since Covid started. We moved last year, so now we’re in a different congregation’s geographical boundary, which is a new congregation, where I know no one. Lived in this area 23 years and it’s grown so much I don’t know anybody when we move a mile away. But that’s the beauty of [[[us]]]. We can go to any congregation and get the same thing. Like McDonald’s.
We can go to any congregation and get the same thing. Like McDonald’s.
Mediocrity at your convenience?
Yes. Yes it is. I had stopped going for a while because it’s all been watered down to the point that the people teaching lessons and giving talks don’t actually know doctrine and aren’t teaching it.
Different for you guys, of course, but as much as the protestant reformation was a necessary tonic for the wretched state of the RCC, throwing orthodoxy out with the bathwater has led to its own set of problems. Protestant churches are a joke. At least the Catholic clergy knows the doctrine before they bastardize it.
That varies greatly from protestant church to protestant church. Non-denominational tend to do it pretty well, imo.
Mine made the decision to stop using certain “church” words. But doctrinally sound.
We have a talk, not a sermon. An auditorium not a sanctuary. Etc. I find it stupid, but if the other words put off the unchurched, then so be it.
We also have talks for our main service, 3 to be precise, given by different members. The hazard with that, of course, is you get the ignorant preaching. There was one day in particular that what the person was preaching was so egregiously wrong that I almost stood up and said sonething. I still regret not doing that.
We have a “chapel,” not an auditorium and definitely not a sanctuary.
Gosh, does everyone gather to worship – or is that too churchy?
@JI, I’ll bite. I don’t get the comment. This is how we gather and worship.
A bit of a dig at robc‘s non-churchy church service.
The only time I went to a Mormon church it felt like the service went forever. Maybe they are watering it down for people like me.
Well, it did and it was. Our weirdness gets drowned in the watering down.
how to make bulz
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jW1l7qnyudU
basically wrap cheese in polenta and put it on hot coals
That looks pretty amazing. Would.
Cheeze and polenta?
Hard No.
First cousin of pupusa. I approve.
Among students who leave college, most said it was due to a loss of motivation or a life change, according to a separate report by education lender Sallie Mae. Others cite financial concerns, followed by mental health challenges.
“Many times, non-completers are first-generation college students from underserved communities,” said Rick Castellano, Sallie Mae’s spokesman.
We have to find a way to bamboozle even more of them into making this dumb decision.
That credit card purchase classification system does bring home just how much corporations serve political interests. Fascism – all within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
That song is always how our radio station signs off air at the end of Burning Man.
Next year, use this
Nice. If not for the station sign-off, I may close my last show with that.
“Following ISO’s decision to establish a new merchant category code, Visa will proceed with next steps, while ensuring we protect all legal commerce on the Visa network in accordance with our long-standing rules,” the payment processor said in a statement.
I love the weasel words.
Rep. Karen Bass, a Los Angeles mayoral candidate who was on President Joe Biden’s short list for a running mate in 2020, said her home was burglarized Friday night and two firearms were stolen.
I like the indirect mention of party affiliation.
Old Guy Music is good.
Did TPTB change email addresses?
I keep getting kicked back by the host over der.
I have a few things for submission I would ask you to look at when you can.
🕳🦎
“First class arrogance! New Orleans’ Democrat mayor says flying economy is UNSAFE for black women, as she refuses to repay $30,000 of taxpayer cash she splurged on luxury flights to Europe
Speaking at a press conference Thursday, LaToya Cantrell said: ‘My travel accommodations are a matter of safety, not of luxury.
‘As all women know, our health and safety are often disregarded and we are left to navigate alone.
‘As the mother of a young child whom I live for, I am going to protect myself by any reasonable means in order to ensure I am there to see her grow into the strong woman I am raising her to be.
‘Anyone who wants to question how I protect myself just doesn’t understand the world black women walk in.’
While the mayor sat in first-class, her team, including her security detail, were seated in coach.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11200999/New-Orleans-mayor-says-flying-economy-unsafe-black-women-refuses-repay-30k-taxpayer-cash.html
Fuck first class/coach. Why is a mayor flying to Europe period?
To learn first hand about climate change.
Flying with a security detail.
Sorry, but no.
“Chilling moment Chicago creep tries to BUY little girl off her mom on sidewalk, then attempts to drag youngster away by her hair”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11200505/Chicago-creep-tries-buy-little-girl-mom-pulling-hair-plot-kidnap-her.html
But for how much?
He didn’t want to bit all of the women?
Surprised this hasn’t been linked yet.
Oh, Plinker mentioned it.
“Look away now, Kamala! VP’s model stepdaughter Ella Emhoff bares boobs as she walks down NYC runway in VERY daring scarf and microskirt combo”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11201073/Kamal-Harris-model-stepdaughter-Ella-Emhoff-bares-boobs-walks-NYC-runway.html
No.
She is not attractive. She looks like an ugly dude,
I’ve seen better but I’ve seen worse too. Not sure if model quality though if mama wasn’t mama.
Related to birthday links, as of last night, Mark Stoops passed Bear Bryant as winningest football coach in U of Kentucky history. Few know that about the Bear.
Summer’s wrapping up so here’s your weekly admonition to buy a boat.
https://archive.ph/xOCuM
Slutty Sunday.
A lot to like in this set for those attracted women on the wispier side.
On the heels of Biden’s historic student loan forgiveness announcement, colleges still face a larger affordability crisis, experts say.
“That’s what I worry about,” said Hafeez Lakhani, the founder and president of education-focused Lakhani Coaching in New York. “When I heard about loan forgiveness, I thought it’s misdirected.”
“You are not addressing the bigger problem standing in front of us which is the enrollment decline,” he said. “The enrollment decline is absolutely linked to affordability.”
A massive decline in enrollment is precisely what is needed.
But-
“As my old Grandpa Litwack said, just before they sprung the trap, “You can’t cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break, and never smarten up a chump.”
Re: Judith Curry. I like Judith, but that article is just wrong.
First and foremost, as one of the commenters noted, it has only two options – and both accept the Klimate Kult’s view that CO2 is a “bad thing” for us and the planet.
Of all the Heretic Klimate Scientists to follow, William Briggs would be the better choice.
Alex Epstein is worth a follow as well.
The reaction to Curry shows how extreme the cult is. She’s been basically read out of the profession for being marginally outside the mainstream.
Good morning, Old Man!
The video is neat-O. Why didn’t they interview the handsome assistant?
Needs more leezure soot
He was magical with the glass scissors.
Speaking of church stuff, was at a mens ministry yesterday.
“You are the average of your five closest friends.”
There are exceptions, bit this is one of those things that is generally true. If you hang out with the stoners in HS, you are probably a stoner too. If all your friends are communist, you are probably a communist. If you hang out with a distribution of political opinions, you will end up either a moderate or a libertarian, depending on what you adopt from each side.
I’ve always thought this tidbit was pointlessly inverting causation. It’s always meant as a cautionary tale saying “choose your friends wisely because you will become a reflection of them”
I think that’s bullshit. Instead we choose friends that are a reflection of ourselves. Smoke pot in high school? Find stoner friends. Do you have libertarian spectrum disorder? You’re probably looking for other people that share your beliefs. Are you an engineer? You’ll probably make some friends at work who are engineers. Etc.
I think the statement is ultimately true but essentially tautological and meaningless
Simplified: “Like will to like.”
FIVE close friends? That’s a little overambitious.
My five closest friends are probably all bourbons and ryes with Eagle Rare as my best friend. So I guess I’m about ten years old and a little woody. I have some sweetness I suppose but its well hidden beneath an aggressive alcoholic bite. I could mix well with others but honestly work better on my own.
Hmmmm
Oh, bravo.
Thank you.
Five acquaintances or five relatives? 5 passer-bys? A dog with 4 pups?
SIGFPE: Division by zero exception.
Heh. Same here. I got two or three. All the others are dead.
Yeah. You mean the rest of y’all have friends?
Uh oh.
Fuck.
You too?
Consider that SugarFree is one of them…
I love it when ERP software upgrades break all your reports.
On this solemn day, RIP Norm Macdonald
Needz moar conformz
“The rise of tech platforms has introduced new and difficult challenges, from the tragic acts of violence linked to toxic online cultures, to deteriorating mental health and well-being, to basic rights of Americans and communities worldwide suffering from the rise of tech platforms big and small,” the White House said in a statement after convening 16 experts — most of them administration employees — to discuss technology.
We have to get the Ministry of Truth up and running, so we can put a stop to all this wrongthink. The narrative must be supported universally.
16 experts — most of them administration employees
BWAHAhahahahahahahahaa [gasp, gasp, deep breath] hahahahahahahahahaha
Thought it would be a quiet Sunday morning, but the neighbor’s rooster must have scored big time last night cause he’s been crowing non-stop. Settled down with the paper to read about “the world’s new King Charles III” but the headline is how Democrat registrations have soared in the county since the Roe v. Wade decision. I guess I’ll just have to get used to living in a Blue county. Maybe later the Iggles won’t stumble out of the gate against the toothless Lions, but one never knows. Enjoy your day everyone.
The consequence-free sex crowd might just save us from fascism. Yay!
Good read
The Federal Reserve now owns about a third of both the Treasury and mortgage-backed-securities markets as a result of its emergency asset-buying to prop up the U.S. economy during the Covid-19 pandemic. Two years of so-called quantitative easing doubled the central bank’s balance sheet to $9 trillion, equivalent to roughly 40% of the nation’s gross domestic product. By adding so much liquidity to the financial system, the Fed helped fuel significant gains in the stock, bond, and housing markets, and other investment assets.
Now, with inflation rampant, the Fed is unwinding this liquidity via a process known as quantitative tightening, or QT. In June, the central bank started to shrink its portfolio by letting up to $30 billion of Treasuries and $17.5 billion of mortgage-backed securities, or MBS, roll off its balance sheet, or mature without reinvesting the proceeds. The amount will double this month and effectively kicks in Sept. 15, as Treasuries are redeemed midmonth and at the end of the month.
QT is as ambitious as its impact is uncertain. At full-throttle, the pace of balance-sheet tightening will be much more aggressive than in the past, and come at a time when interest rates are rising quickly. What could go wrong? Potentially, a lot, suggests Joseph Wang, a former trader on the Fed’s open-market desk and author of the Fed Guy blog and Central Banking 101. Wang explains what’s at stake in the edited conversation that follows.
The fed has been propping up the bond market for so long it’s anybody’s guess as to what happens when they try to stop. It could get ugly.
We did the annual ritual yesterday. We separated the bees from their mother lode of honey, which, generally speaking, made them very upset. We then relocated them to a new neighborhood, where I’m sure they’ll be much happier. Strangely, they weren’t too happy about that either but after a little fresh air in the back of the truck they were appreciative to meet new friends and challenges.
Any residual hangers-on are being dealt with on an individual basis and the HH attendees will be pleased next Sunday. Forecast is a slight afternoon rain, high about 70. The Harvest looks to be a strong average with a fruity but mild flavor with natural sweeteners and a pleasant aftertaste.
About that gun store code; what makes a “gun store”. We don’t have any dedicated shops around here that just sell guns. Probably the biggest seller of guns and ammo locally is the Farm and Home store. So, if I buy a new lawnmower it gets flagged as a gun? Other “gun stores” around here are an archery range and a local tavern. Said tavern also sells cigarettes so it can get the whole ATF treatment.
Any residual hangers-on are being dealt with on an individual basis
You’re putting them up for adoption, right?
Right?
Feeling their oats
While unions say they want to avert a strike, and Congress has the power to block it, the U.S. food sector is rattled by the prospect of a national railroad shutdown in the middle of peak harvest season.
Even a short-lived interruption “would create a devastating ripple effect” on the nation’s fragile supply chains, said Lee Sanders, senior vice president of government relations and public affairs at the American Bakers Association.
“Rail-dependent facilities would be unable to receive materials and ingredients, and millions of Americans a day would be unable to receive the baked goods they rely on to feed themselves, their families, and communities,” she said.
A railroad shutdown in mid-September would quickly overwhelm grain storage facilities, leaving farmers with few options to store their crops and boosting the chance of spoilage. Many grain processors would shut down, raising the price of bread and other common items, while farmers would be saddled with huge crop quantities and lower commodity prices.
“It’s kind of a double whammy when you hit both the beginning and the end of the supply chain,” said Max Fisher, chief economist at the National Grain and Feed Association.
Let’s go Brandon. Encouraging and empowering the unions will improve our lives.
There typically isn’t a backup plan for crops that are transported by rail, particularly when the trucking industry is already struggling to keep pace with demand. The same goes for coal, crude oil, steel, lumber, car parts and other items frequently loaded onto freight trains.
A nationwide railroad work stoppage would cost the U.S. economy more than $2 billion per day and cause shipping containers to stack up at ports, according to estimates from the Association of American Railroads.
That’ll show those dastardly profiteers.
“Stickin’ it to the man here, Boss.”
Gotta get those US food shortages rolling, this shit ain’t gonna reset itself!
X-Files s10/e1 is way too on the nose.
Marathon on Comet today.
Does the TV Host get sued?