Weasels ripped my flesh.
Yeah, every once in a while, I pop up during the week. With no warning. This time, though, I don’t have on the clown costume, so it’s less frightening.
Speaking of less frightening, there’s many interesting birthdays today, including a guy who is not well known today but was… interesting; one of our true spiritual fathers; the last of the skilled editorial cartoonists; the one true god of jazz piano; a comedian who was more notorious than actually, you know, funny; one of the pioneers of Langmuir-Blodgett films and one or two other things; the one true god of jazz bass; a pop singer who actually managed to make interesting music; the reincarnation of the mummy of Amenhotep; a prolific cookbook author whose dishes were at once earnest and remarkably bland; a woman whom I taught about oral sex; the finest wide receiver I ever saw- or am ever likely to see; a guy whom I can’t decide is more funny or tiresome; and a walking punchline and a doppelganger of Mr. Ed.
On to the actual Links.
It’s fortunate that emotion is not part of jurisprudence.
There is no truth to the ugly rumors that this was Heroic Mulatto.
If an election strategy isn’t working, double down. I actually am happy about this because it keeps them busy with useless and harmless activity. And when the Team Blue house organ says it’s not working…
“Kamikaze.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Well, this should certainly be on top of our list of concerns.
This has always worked so well in the past.
Old Guy Music is something I don’t intend to be for at least 3 more days.
Here comes the crazy girl
I go out of control,
and crash into your world
“It’s fortunate that emotion is not part of jurisprudence.”
Absolute complete horseshit.
In a sane world, the appeals court would require the judge to cover Jones’ legal costs as it orders a real trial with a different judge.
If Adam Lanza had not killed himself…he would be treated better than Alex Jones.
I read yesterday this is more than they awarded for VIOXX, which caused 800,000 heart attacks.
I never thought that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged – until they fined a guy a billion dollars for talking about it.
It was always very suspicious. Connecticut passed a law making it illegal to release evidence.
Didn’t they tear the building down shortly after too?
Yes, and the demolition crew had to sign NDA’s.
“Gov. Dannel Malloy signed a bill into law Wednesday that will block photos and videos investigators took at the Sandy Hook school shooting crime scene from being released to the public.
The bill has a wider effect in Connecticut and will block graphic images from all homicide cases in the state from being released….
There are also concerns about the secretive process. The bill did not go through the normal public hearing process.
“I think everyone understands and sympathizes with the situation but there needs to be some public comment and debate,” Colleen Murphy, the executive director of the FOI Commission, said.
The state’s FOI Commission said there are reasons why police records are made public.
“We want to make sure police response was appropriate, and we can judge for ourselves what happened,” Murphy said.”
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/lawmakers-vote-to-keep-sandy-hook-crime-images-private/1945297/
https://newrepublic.com/article/113449/newtown-photos-spark-controversial-connecticut-law
Perhaps worth noting, some of the legislators wanted to also include the 911 calls and death certificates.
Who will rid me of these meddlesome conspiracy theorists!
Fake but accurate.
So there really was no Discovery phase of the Jones trial, just straight to penalties?
Correct, they kept ordering him to produce documents that didn’t exist, then declared him guilty.
Yeah, my tinfoil needs have skyrocketed over the last few years.
In other news, Dorothy was fined a billion dollars for paying attention to that man behind the curtain.
“He had faced a trial in June for allegedly assaulting the public defender assigned to represent him while they were meeting in jail.”
Double genius.
Face tats are always a good sign.
ALWAYS.
The House committee investigating last year’s attack on the Capitol will assemble Thursday for what could be its final public hearing ahead of the midterms,
I’d honestly forgotten about these guys. The democrat campaign this season seems to be all abortion, all the time. Wonder how that’s going to work out for them.
Locally one of the Dem candidates is running ads attacking her GOP rival’s hard line on abortion. The guy is a ultra-hardliner who has said he opposes abortion even for victims of rape and incest, but the end of the ad is “He even said he would oppose funding Planned Parenthood!!!!!!!!”
I don’t know about others, but any traction you might have made with me in painting your opponent as a kook just went out the window with that statement
Won’t fund a disgusting organization that murders children and sells baby parts so its execs can buy new lambos every year?
I’m not seeing the issue.
But mamo grams.
Mamo grams didn’t exist until PP invented them. So sayeth we all
That reminds me. While I was out in public earlier this week I ended up seeing the trailing end of a political ad. At first I took it for an attack ad because when I started seeing it, it spoke of how the candidate helped get red flag laws passed. Then it moved on to use euphemisms for abortion, I realized whoever created the ad thought these were good things.
Spanberger is pounding the abortion message. Vega his hitting back about Spanberger’s voting record that aligns with Biden and Pelosi.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos
The democrat campaign this season seems to be all abortion, all the time.
It’s mostly abortion here in NH.
Occasionally some Dems channel Trump – “I authored this bill to truly Drain the Swamp” – or distance themselves from BLM/Antifa – “I really support the police and have voted for funding for them!”
““Kamikaze.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
I remember they when they were so popular the bar kept “kamikaze mix”.
Isn’t it just a margarita with vodka instead of tequila?
The big difference is time. People can order a bunch of kamikaze shots, down them, then order another round. While people generally sip margaritas.
You mean triple sec and a splash of lime juice? Or just sour mix?
There is a variant using blue curacao…
I think we all know how THAT ends!
“My poo is blue!
What will I do?
My drinks were blue too!
Now I have stained the loo…”
Ask BrettL about his Zoomed blue curacao escapade…
I have no recollection of said incident.
So any guided munition is now sentient and a kamikaze?
I’m assuming the “kamikaze” usage with drone is used to distinguish it from ones that do reconnaissance and/or are reusable.
Oh, no ya’ll misunderstand.
A kamikaze drone is one that generates wind to push Mongol ships away from the coast.
They are sentient and each one has volunteered for the glorious cause.
stealing this
We finally have cannon fodder AI.
People are saying that the use of drones in this manner is desperation but that doesn’t really bear out. I’m sure an explosive suicide drone is cost effective versus a missile. Guidance is much easier as you have a pilot. You save on fuel as you only need to go one way. This also increases the payload.
A drone that is expected to return home and be rearmed carries a lot less ordnance. It’s basically a V1 rocket for the 21st century.
Is it desperation when we use drones? It’s just a sign of adaptation to the realities of a given battlefield and they’re often swarmed as a distraction to sneak a missile in.
Guess it depends on how many they have, and what they were designed for. If they’re refitting drones to be single use bombs for what amounts to a psy-op to shore up support at home, that smacks of desperation. Hampering long term capability for a short term PR gain isn’t a great military strategy.
Wait…blowing up apartment buildings, strip malls and water treatment plants isn’t the best use of precision munitions when you are getting pushed back?
Didn’t the United States military demolish Iraq’s civilian infrastructure for electricity and water almost immediately upon our invasion (pick your choice of invasions) or am I mistaken about that?
Stupidly knocked down a bunch of power lines. “Hey, Fatima can’t run her rice cooker…that’ll make Saddam surrender!”
The US spent a great deal of energy on trying to knock out easily replaceable distribution nodes. Many Iraqi people took the unenergized lines as an opportunity to steal the copper. In 2003 you would occasionally see a pickup truck dangling from a high voltage waaaaaay up in the sky. The numbskulls disassembled their own energy grid.
It was a bad lesson learned from the Kosovo distraction.
We bombed Serbian forces for 60 days to no real effect, then started bombing infrastructure and the Serbian voters got pissed at Milosevic.
Divine wind. Also what I call my farts.
When I was a student at U of Florida in the 1980s, the bar across the street (more or less) from the stadium used to have “kamikaze halftime” where kamikaze shots were $1 during halftime of football games. You’d go in, and the bartender had stacks and stacks of premixed drinks in covered jello shot cups. The goal was to see how many you could down in the 12 minutes you had before heading back to the stadium. In those days they opened the gates at halftime so after the end of the second quarter people could freely go in and out.
Ah, the good old days…
Speaking of Jan 6th. I’m enjoying the juxtaposition of these two headlines right next to each other on the WSJ home page.
*snortlaughs*
“Jan. 6 Committee Hearing to Feature New Video Testimony, No Live Witnesses”
This is how I know there will be no indictments. None of the “evidence” they are collecting will be admissible in court. They basically have nothing except carefully edited snippets of deposition video. It’s enough to get the usual people yapping and snarling, but useless for an actual legal case.
Arab rioters threw Molotov cocktails and rocks and fired fireworks toward Israeli forces throughout east Jerusalem starting early in the evening. Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion’s car was also pelted with rocks on his way to a Sukkot event in east Jerusalem.
Fiery but mostly peaceful, I take it.
My favorite MSM phrase from the riots was “The peaceful protest intensified”.
Anything to avoid telling the truth.
Good morning, Old Man.
Maybe it’s lack of sleep, but sweet Jesus those are depressing lynx.
Great song, though.
And a great backstory.
*waggles eyebrows*
The news has been damned depressing for at least a couple of weeks now — or so I find it. I may have to take a mental sabbatical soon just to avoid spiraling downward into a Nine Inch Nails video… um, into a bout of rage and depression. Or I should just walk more. One of the two.
Well back in old romania. Palma was nice bit i think i was just not in the mood for it… Now i need to see what happened at work during my absence as this was not a good time for time off
I spent to much money and probably drank to much wine. Mallorca wine is ok not great. The local grapes produce light wines without much complexity of any.
Spud and I are going on a major Georgian binge tomorrow.
You’re going to eat Stacey Abrams’ ass?
Jesus Christ, I thought SugarFree was disturbing.
Seconded…. *barf*
The Donner Party could have survived all winter on that ass.
lulz
But would it have been worth it?
Heroic Mulatto would not have found that comment stimulating
damn!
Old Romania?
*furiously checks maps*
Well where the heck is New Romania?
Moldova?
Never change, CNN.
So compelling there is no reason to allow opposing testimony.
“Compelling”, they said without evidence.
That 100% inflation in the cost of food? Pish-tosh! Silly Trumpers.
Hey, but thanks to Brandon we’ve recovered all the jobs lost due to Democrat lockdowns.
Or they’ve just fallen out of the unemployment metric and will never be recovered.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-population-ratio.htm
“There is no truth to the ugly rumors that this was Heroic Mulatto.”
Unless that tattoo reads: “eat ass like a King’ I don’t believe it is him.
When you see someone with tattoos like that, it must be because they just got out of prison., and are looking for a way to get back in.
Is HM still around? Haven’t seen him post in a long time.
That sounds to me like a reason to vote for Trump.
I hate printers.
They ought to be the simplest, most reliable computer items around by now, but they still suck after 50 years of development.
I’ve had the same home laser printer for… so long I can’t remember when I bought it. The darn thing has even lost parts that I can’t really identify when I battered it, but still prints just fine. the biggest of its bells and whistles is duplex printing.
Perhaps you’re buying the wrong printers?
I just need a dead simple laser printer that has MICR toner available for check printing. They’re either hyper expensive or junk or they come with 18GB of bloatware.
You’d think some third party would make MICR toner for just about every printer.
Well when you start having specialized functionality requirements most users don’t, you’re going to have that issue. It’s not the fault of the printer that so few people even use checks, let alone need to print them.
The MICR part makes it difficult to find. Special check printing toner with special printer requirements. Ugh.
PC LOAD LETTER?
Damn it people. PC stands for Paper Cartridge. Load Letter means it’s out of letter sized paper. When you only had 2 rows of 8 characters you couldn’t exactly write even a Hemingway short story on the display. The meaning of the error would also be obvious if you RTFM.
Except nobody calls it a Paper Cartridge. And “Out of Paper” would fit in the same space.
The printer manufacturer, and the manual referred to it as a paper cartridge. And most of those printers could be configured with multiple cartridges of different sized paper. Now, including the bay of the cartridge that would need to be refilled would probably be more detailed, I doubt people would prefer Bay 1 Load Letter.
Including which tray it thought was empty would at least have included useful information.
Yes, but early HP network printers frequently randomly defaulted to A4.
You had get up and tell the damn printer that the currently full cartridge was full of Letter size paper. After which your job would print.
I’m assuming this is where the joke came from in the film.
So, it was poorly designed all around.
They suck on purpose. No company wants to sell a printer that just works or they would go out of business. Even with planned obsolescence it’s a tough piece of equipment to make a buck selling.
Back in the day, most inkjet printers were sold either at cost, or at a minor loss when they were first released. The money was in the cables and (more importantly) the ink. That’s why the printer companies fight against the refill kits so hard, even to the point of putting microchips on the print cartridge to just say it’s empty after a certain duty cycle.
I did a consulting stint at Best Buy back in the late ’90s. We were excited because we qualified for employee pricing. We were sure that we’d all get sweet deals on new PC’s (this was back when a new PC was $2-3K). The people we were working with at BBY just laughed and said we might get $100 off the price we saw in the stores.
They made nothing on the PC. The money was in cables, floppies (yes, they were still a thing), CD’s and other accessories.
The need to keep selling ink is the reason that the only innovation printer companies made was to add checks to make sure you were only using Brand X print cartridges and not some generic knock off. Or worse yet, refilling a cartridge with ink.
I worked retail at OfficeMax back in the day. One of the supervisors had the brilliant idea to put a little red dot sticker on the price tags for the high margin items in the computer/electronics department. Made it real fun when the customer asked why all the cables had little red dots on the price tags. No employee discount at OfficeMax, other then twice a year you got a certificate for 10% off a single item (it may have been 25% off non-computer items). Once for Christmas, and once for Back to School.
Don’t they still do that? I bought my HP printer about four years ago for $40. It has a top feeding scanner, touch panel, wireless, even built in fax.
If it doesn’t use that error message ironically, they’re missing out.
I hate printers because in the Bad Old Days, the #1 complaint I would get from clients was that the web page didn’t print “correctly” for one of their customers. I would try to explain that there really is nothing you can do to make web pages print as nicely as catalog pages.
My clients were in the apparel business so they were used to having pixel perfect layouts in a catalog. They couldn’t understand why the same couldn’t be done on a dynamic web page.
Every time I’d finally get badgered into looking into some “problem” for an important customer, they’d have some crazy ass printer or they’d have manually set up 5″ margins for any print job.
I eventually just started charging them extra for any ticket involving a printer. That ended it. Turned out print quality wasn’t really that important.
The Treasury gets all the good printers.
CPI just came in 2bps higher than expected. Prepare for the usual market reaction…
Boom. Glad I went short yesterday,
“My fear is that you’re going to see like what you see in Russia right now,” Cohen added in an interview with ITK this week. “All of these individuals flying out of windows or mysterious deaths of suicide. Donald has a very long list of — we’ll call it an enemies list — and I’m certain that I am definitively on it.”
Now do the Clintons.
I went through last night’s FreedomFest post and responded to a bunch of comments over there.
I didn’t get up early enough to make the gym. I overslept. But, I think I can get breakfast in before my early work meeting. Gym at lunch if all goes well.
Training in the early afternoon is most efficient anyway
Doesn’t work with work.
Just do deadlifts during the meeting.
Wifi at the gym sucks.
Official inflation in romania is 16% . I wonder what it will be this winter with energy prices…
Fuck… 16% is the official number? I assume your government cooks the books as much as possible, so the real inflation is higher, or would that be a mistake?
I would think at least 20
Does it include food and gas? I think ours doesn’t which is why it’s BS.
The working poor spend a higher percentage of their pay on food/gas than the comfortable middle class/upper class, so when gas doubles in price in a year and food goes up 20-100% depending on the item, it really fucking hurts.
How Not to Punish the Saudis on Oil Prices
It seems consistent with most ideas out of the WH. I’d expect no difference with regards to Saudi Arabia.
That’s gotta be a bluff.
“We stopped selling to the Kingdom. These days we sell directly to the King”
With the exception of trying to use antitrust litigation against OPEC and state owned petro companies, I don’t see anything else I don’t like.
I’m baffled by the strategy. Are we not going to keep selling them military hardware – which they’ll just buy elsewhere?
Exactly. And we control the all important spares.
They control the all important oil. I bet they could work a deal with the Chinese or Russians for 5th Generation fighters.
It’s all bully all the time from the USA for foe, sorta friend, and friend alike. We really are sowing the wind with all of this stuff.
BRICS is the response to all our bullshit. It doesn’t seem to get talked about in our business news but they are in serious talks about not just a trading partnership but also creating a new reserve currency. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are seriously talking about joining while our administration is being asshole to the world.
It was just revealed also that they asked the Saudis only to delay this oil output reduction until after our elections.
In other words, they don’t really give a shit. Just want to win the next election.
I didn’t know you saw Don Hutson play. I mean, I know you’re old, but not *that* old.
I always thought I’d never see a better wide receiver than Raymond Berry. The Fred Biletnikoff came along. “OK, I’ll never see one better than that!” Then a few years later… surprise!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
*This story should have focused way more on the couple that found the dog. They are the ray of sunshine. To step up when you realize you know the perp is good.
“Yeah, every once in a while, I pop up during the week. With no warning.”
Impressive, at your age.
I have scared some of the coeds.
Mispelled scarred
Toe-may-toe, Toe-mah-toe.
Profiles in Courage
Sadly, not groveling at the feet of the homeless and passing them off to another govt body (with deeper pockets) actually is better than most.
Does the county really have more money than the major city? That would be highly unusual.
“The county has the pocket strings for housing. We have a very small budget here as a city.”
Probably not more money overall, but I’d bet the county has a great deal more money left on the table (i.e., not taxed and with the citizen’s) compared with the city and Vetaw viewsall money as the government’s money.
There is a city near me that has a tax rate 400% that of the county bordering it. I’d bet the city’s budget is much higher but they are insolvent. The city council wants the county to absorb the city, raise taxes on county residents, and use that money for the city. It’s become a massive battle. I’m guessing the city council members think they will replace the county board in elections when the city residents can vote… or at least it’ll be rigged that way. Similar things are happening in other relatively nearby areas.
“You are bankrupt, the council members who voted for spending that money are now personally liable for it. Oh and you’re no longer allowed to spend any money.”
Close. The reality is more like “You are bankrupt. The council members are spending hundreds of thousands on consultants to look for solutions. Since the county wants nothing to do with this shitshow, the council members are also spending even more on lawyers to sue the county to force them to absorb the city.”
Looks like the county is around $2.2B and Minneapolis is $1.6B.
Minneapolis isn’t as big as most people think. The city is surrounded by a lot of suburbs. I live in a suburb, but when asked by anyone from more than 50 miles away, I tell them I live in Minneapolis.
On top of County and City govts, there is the Met Council (Tundra’s personal fave). That is a govt body that covers 7 metro counties that somehow can levy taxes and spend funds but is 100% appointed. None of us have ever voted for any of those jackasses yet their budget is $1.3B.
Now do Taconite Redistribution Tax
I’ll gladly pay any amount of tax to keep the Rangers on the Range.
If we turned off the handouts, they might start migrating out into the rest of Minnesoda and ruining it for everyone.
Nah, they’re not leaving, they’re waiting ’til the mines open back up and the high paying union jobs return.
If we end up with American Juche, they may end up being right!
How in the world do homeless people survive outside in Minnesota in the winter?
Don’t know about Minnesota but around here there are HVAC vents on some large buildings that put out a lot of heat. I think it’s the excess from a steam plant heated structure. The spaces heated by these are always occupied.
Same as in NH. Both Nashua and Manchester have camps where the homeless live year round.
Heroic Mulatto: What are you talking about? I did a quick document search for ass eating and got not a single hit.
Didn’t ww impeach Trump for this very thing?
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/10/13/it-sure-looks-like-joe-biden-is-trying-to-blackmail-saudi-arabia-to-interfere-in-the-election-n642509
Not that the current congress will do anything
I should add that I have no problem with the US president putting pressure on other nations to achieve our national goals and interests.
There’s some good news out there.
Can humiliate those that have no humility to begin with though
She’s a shill, but not an establishment shill. I think it hurt a little.
And the DNC leaders will take note.
Hurt like the Pear of Anguish?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear_of_anguish
Sadly probably not.
I don’t expect anything from AOC. What I hope is that the yahoos who think she’s awesome will see this and be shocked to discover that AOC is a hack. And I don’t even expect any of them to not vote for AOC again. Maybe 1 or 2 might wake up.
I’m just happy to see her be discomfited in public.
Good. We need pressure from the Left and Right in order to end this. The political middle, the common sense centrists, are the damned enemy right now.
Being concerned about possible nuclear conflict is a radical position you Putinsucker.
Huh. The Left around here are still very much in favor of The Current Thing.
This is one of those issues where the crazies on the extreme Left/Right are the ones who are making sense. Maybe they don’t agree on why we shouldn’t be funding a war that could lead to nuclear weapons being used, but they do agree we shouldn’t do it.
The middle are the dangerous ones here. The ones who think we can stick our dick into yet another wasp nest and not get stung because we are the USA (or something).
I’m sure I disagree with 90% of those people shouting. But they are using the word “accountable”, and challenging her to denounce the establishment party, and I’m all for that. Whether it comes from the left or the right.
This is the most important thing right now. I will make common cause with anyone on it.
Not wanting a nuclear war makes up for all the other things I disagree with them on.
I don’t know what she was talking about before the clip starts, but I’ll just assume it was green new deal. These guys are right, her dumb ideas that they probably agree with don’t matter if we’re all nuked.
They wanted to destroy the world much more slowly with the Green New Deal.
“Common diabetes drug has become a get-thin-quick therapy for the rich and famous: Stars turn to $900-per-month injection off-label for weight loss
The right and famous are turning to the diabetes drug Ozempic as a quick-acting weight loss solution.
Everyone from Hollywood stars to tech moguls are turning to the injectable drug to stay slim.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11308899/Elon-Musk-stars-using-900-injection-label-weight-loss.html
The right and famous?
“Michael Cohen says he fears for his safety if Trump becomes president again”
I remember when Trump won, and there were people on FB saying they “literally feared for their life” because they were gay and Trump and his supporters were going to do… something. Which of course never happened. There are of course things to criticize him about, but all of the actual fear has to do with “what he thinks” or “what he wants to do”, not on any actual evidence or facts. He is the boogeyman for adults.
The gay stuff with Trump was always laughable because he was publicly down with gay rights way, way, way before any of the Dem politicians were.
The attacks were simply, “Trump is the GOP guy and the GOP has always been anti-gay, so Trump hates gays”. Forget that Obama ran and won twice for President while supporting the Defense of Marriage Act.
It’s also part of the litany: “racist, sexist, homophobic.”
the actual fear has to do with “what we imagine he thinks” or “what we imagine he wants to do”
A lot of it is also “what we would do if we were in power”.
Yes, precisely. Ask anyone why they hate Trump, and that’s what they’ll tell you. Very few people can cite actual things he did that they didn’t like.
It was never about any of that.
It was about “he says unseemly things and is not ‘presidential'”. IOW, they found him embarrassing.
Which is pretty rich given the current occupant.
He once killed three men in a bar… with a pencil?
But reports of hate crimes surged after Trump’s election! The San Francisco Police Department even started having undercover cops dressed as gays (whatever that means) to act has honeypots for hate crimes (my new band name). Strangely, there were no follow up articles in the local media about the results.
“US to ban sales of ALL Huawei and ZTE products over national security concerns: Five Chinese firms to face new restrictions
Not only would the ban harm China’s leading tech companies by limiting their sales remits, but it also indicates increased suspicion over its spying practices.
It comes after a worrying report which exposed hundreds of secret Chinese police stations around the world, including one in New York City.
Their purpose is to locate dissidents and ‘persuade’ them to return home.
The report by Safeguard Defenders claimed as many as 200,000 Chinese nationals have been ‘persuaded’ to return home as a direct result of the secret police stations.
The FCC ban would be the first time the FCC has outlawed a product over national security risks.
Huawei and ZTE were first sanctioned by President Trump in 2019.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11311463/US-ban-Huawei-ZTE-products-national-security-concerns.html
“Biden erroneously says Beau ‘lost his life in Iraq’ as he declares Colorado’s Camp Hale a national monument: President’s son lost his life to brain cancer in US – six years AFTER he was deployed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11309707/Biden-claims-son-Beau-lost-life-Iraq-declares-Colorados-Camp-Hale-national-monument.html
That’s a lie, not an error.
Was Beau hit by a drunk driver while out on patrol in Iraq? That is what I heard.
The story Biden tells about his wife being killed by a drunk driver is the worst (in my opinion). Imagine being the driver of that truck. Bad enough you killed someone (who pulled out in front of you), but then to have a politician tell everyone you were drunk?
But Trump is the one with no class.
That bullshit story should have buried him. It was morally reprehensible to defame that driver after he was dead. As I recall, the trucker’s family sued Biden to get him to stop.
Yeah, and that was before his brain had gone to mush. So he absolutely knew he was lying about it.
It’s not a lie… if you believe it.
Today in middle-aged supermodels and their mid daughters.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11310561/Christy-Turlington-daughter-Grace-Burns-match-black-W-Magazines-50th-anniversary-party.html
Turlington has always been a bombshell.
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Meh.
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Funky one today
Yeah — I blew 2 guesses in the preliminary round because I only had a good chance at one word… I had the last 4 letters and “Even if I’m wrong, at least I’ll get another letter in play… oops… well, surely it is *that*… Um, nope…” At least I stopped myself before I blew the whole thing – but I had to really think hard about every guess thereafter, and my time reflects it.
Daily Duotrigordle #225
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 12:25.61
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Given LR (which I found odd… and which of course I guessed a different 50/50 word which made more sense!), I’ll take it. But Meh.
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Not bad after 4 hrs. sleep, I’ll take it.
There’s a tom turkey on the patio looking through the window at me. At this point it’s a standoff but at least I’m inside and warm
I bet you have a place in your kitchen where he could get VERY warm.
Market says “Whoops”, ain’t liking the news.
I had no idea that news of an emboldened Turkey would scare the markets so much. Especially a turkey way out in the sticks of Minnesoda.
The Armenians better look out.
That bird has a mean streak a mile wide! … Look at the bones!
“don” –> “dona” dangnabbit.
What’s he gonna do, nibble your bum?
Shit, it’s going go below 29K, isn’t it?
“DOW 30,000 by 2008: Why it’s Different this Time”
https://www.amazon.com/Dow-2008-Different-This-Time/dp/1893958701/
Dr. Grande (featured in my last YouTube post a few weeks ago) uses his full snark powers on the cop that shot the burger-eating teenager
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EZNPBwbUPA
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Lower right… WTF?
Seriously.
It’s garbage day. Agree on LR.
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Might as well ask for a gazillion.
Radio host Alex Jones should pay $965 million to people who suffered from past false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, a jury in Connecticut decided Wednesday.
The only appropriate response on the part of AJ.
The House committee investigating last year’s attack on the Capitol will assemble Thursday for what could be its final public hearing ahead of the midterms, promising to delve into former President Trump’s state of mind in a presentation designed to tie up a host of loose ends before the panel dissolves at the end of the year.
*yawn*
Tatum is indeed piano god. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Cs_zb4q14
goddammit, my phone did an update, and now the interface sucks more.
Devs – STOP FUCKING WITH THE INTERFACE, you suck at it!
Sigh… my phone’s GPS interface recently updated. Now, instead of showing progress on a clear, easy to read map, it shows progress on a cluttered, patched together photographic representation. I’m sure I can switch it, but that’s 5 – 10 minutes I’ll never get back.
Android? Check the layer that’s selected in the Map application. Of course, then you won’t see the satellite pictures of the trees.
The interface team must add value constantly or be disbanded!
But they’re not adding value.
It doesn’t matter if they add value to end customers. It only matters if they appear to add value in the eyes of their management. This is a common issue.
Who doesn’t want to end customers? They’re so damn annoying.
The CPI came in hot – Prices climbed 8.2% on an annual basis.
That is transitory. It won’t stay at 8.2% for long.
True, >8.2% is not staying at 8.2%…
When it cools down, we’ll just be left with these higher prices forever.
No worries!
Social Security recipients get 8.7% cost-of-living increase, the highest in more than 40 years
*looks at latest grocery receipt, exclaims “Bullshit!”*
It’s scary how quickly the housing market collapsed here. We closed on our new home in August our house sold day one in July. Our old neighbor with the same layout listed recently. They’ve been on market for 3 weeks and took a $50k price cut.
Ouch.
I made an offer a couple months ago on some unimproved land at ~1/3 of the asking price because that’s what I paid per acre for my own. The seller’s agent laughed at me and never called me back after presenting to the seller. I’ve since seen they’ve dropped the listing by 25%. I took a look at some other land sales and am realizing that I should have offered 1/10 of the asking price.
I’m expecting the realtor to call me back in a few months saying they’ll accept my offer. Then it’ll be my turn to laugh and present a much lower offer. No one is going to buy this land with the stock market in freefall and interesting skyrocketing. They shouldn’t have been greedy.
*interest rates skyrocketing
I’ve been thinking of putting up a 9 acre piece at some outrageous price but now I’d be laughed at but one never knows. I had it listed at 50K a few years ago with no interest by anyone. Now I’d double the price and negotiate a little. What little land has come on the market has been selling at 10K an acre, so I dunno.
There are several parcels around me listed at $7-10k/acre, but none are selling. The closest I can find for actual sales are closer to $800/acre.
“Yeah, I am,” Trump’s former personal lawyer said when asked if he’s worried about his well-being should the 45th commander in chief return to the Oval Office.
“Actually, I’m worried for your safety, too,” he said, “and everybody else in America.”
Cry about it, you corrupt cunte.
No one is above the law.
The Biden administration has been under heavy criticism as Joe Biden’s Justice Department targets peaceful pro-life Americans for protesting abortions in such as a way that they blocked access to an abortion center.
The Justice Department has charged 11 more pro-life activists with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act for blocking the entrance of an abortion clinic in 2021. The 11 activists were charged with FACE Act violations stemming from their 2021 “blockade” of an abortion clinic in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
New information about one of the pro-life advocates arrested recently shows she is an 87-year-old woman who is a concentration camp survivor.
A federal indictment alleges that the pro-life defendants “engaged in a conspiracy to prevent the clinic from providing” and patients from receiving abortion services and violated the FACE Act by “using physical obstruction to intimidate and interfere with the clinic’s employees and a patient.”
I wonder if they were really “blocking” anything. As in, was one single person prevented from entering. Because I am skeptical.
My guess is they are liberally interpreting holding hands in prayer as blocking.
Well… those we don’t like aren’t above the law.
Protesting outside Supreme Court justices’ houses continues to be fine… and no peep of any interest in looking into Jane’s Revenge or anything.
All Animals are Equal…. but Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.
Imagine the pride the FBI agent spoke with when relating that he had arrested an 87 year old Holocaust survivor for sitting on a sidewalk!
He, and all his fellow agents, returned home safely.
It’s important to be seen as cracking down on those opposed to abortion before the election.
Now do college campus activists when a conservative shows up to give a speech.
Back before we could print limitless amounts of fake money, there used to be economic considerations to warfare. Now we are sending interceptor systems to the Ukraine with missiles that cost $1 million each to shoot down Iranian drones with lawn-mower engines. The Russians won’t just send a dozen cheap drones to circle the sites until the run out of missiles?
Supposedly the Iranian drones cost $20K a pop. You’re right, that’s not really cost effective is it?
Hopefully this lightens up this otherwise awful day for the market. Rs 82 lakh = $100k. The Indian site had the most info.
Content creator asks followers for money after claiming she ‘accidentally’ bought a couch for Rs 82 lakh
Reasons to not fly number 1,001.
Shocking moment furious woman hurls bottle at airline passenger and launches foul-mouthed rant at flight stewards when they ask her to take her DOG off knees on Atlanta plane to JFK
And never change Daily Fail. I want one these new trendy “wattle bottles”.
She was carrying it for the jive Tom Turkey above, obviously.
I am disgusted when I have to sit next to some asshole with a dog in their lap on the train or bus. Even I can remember when the airlines weren’t just flying buses.
A 24-year-old California tech employee who was fired after posting a TikTok with her company’s meeting in the background says ‘rejection is redirection’
“I cried for maybe five minutes, I think. But I mean, ultimately, I was just so shocked that something so minuscule would lead to them firing somebody who just got a raise a couple weeks prior,” Serna said, adding that her performance at the company was never brought up as an issue.”
I don’t like generation labels but it seems like I see and deal with stupid shit like this on a monthly basis with Gen zers and I’m not even in HR.
Stupid is as stupid does.
This is this one of the many pitfalls with social media.
It reads like she has some hellish morning meeting that she had running in the background while she made herself a cup of coffee. Something fairly normal – mute your mike and make some coffee. Coffee maker puked and she decided to make a TikTok about it.
Here the problem begins. She’s working. Nobody is going to freak out about makin the coffee, but suddenly the “content” was made on work time and also contains the meeting. Not smart.
But to her this was no different from you or me snapping a picture of a coffee mess. Something work wouldn’t have freaked out about.
“An Idaho mom says she’s blacklisting Joann Fabrics after a now-fired employee told her 7-year-old son he shouldn’t be wearing a dress”
https://www.insider.com/mother-employee-jo-ann-fabrics-terminated-comments-son-wearing-dresses-2022-9?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=
She got someone fired AND she’s fucking up her son. Way to go you bitch.
Whoops, misthread…oh well
I wonder just what (and who) led him to that.
If, as I suspect, his mother is behind his cross-dressing, then I have no doubt she thinks it makes him happy.
So THIS is how I get my psycho mom off my back. Now I am happy.
Piper Phillips, 37, a dressmaker of four years who also goes by @Palousedressco on TikTok, took her 7-year-old son to their local Joann Fabrics store in Moscow, Idaho, on September 7 to pick up materials for his dress.
Dressmaker’s young son loves dresses, what are the odds. I’m sure it happened naturally and wasn’t pushed by her at all. 🙄
Now show what happens if that store clerk was a fairly devout Muslim.
the “content” was made on work time
Strike one.
and also contains the meeting
Strike two.
Depending on the content of the meeting that she broadcast to the world, termination may be justified. Or, maybe this was the last straw by a crappy employee
Considering her lack of contrition and the fact that she initiated a story be written about it I’d say they made the right move.
She uses TikTok. Strike three.
I would also fire the employee who saw and reported the video. No one with a Tik Tok account should have a job.
That’s entirely possible too. I definitely defend the right of employees to have religious beliefs. I will say that – my general observation has been that excessively vocal religious employees do the worst work. It’s like a cover for incompetence.
When I worked for a big German company, none of the laptops had video cameras on them. Company policy was to have no cameras on during webex meetings. The reason given was that some colleagues had done a webex meeting with Client B with their cameras on and in the background was a whiteboard with some stuff on it about Client A’s big new Product 2.0 launch in six months.
Client B saw it and cancelled an order for millions of Product 1.0 from Client A. And when asked why, blabbed about seeing the notes/features in the webex meeting.
So there may be a lot more to this story than just some grumpy old fogies.
That is a good policy. There is no reason that anyone needs to see your face other than some happy horseshit that HR probably feeds to management.
It’s a legitimate gripe. I don’t allow my team to work in coffee shops. A client would fire us immediately if we ever had a teleconference in a public setting.
“Cohen — who pleaded guilty in 2018 to nine federal crimes including tax fraud, lying to Congress and paying off two women who threatened to go public with their alleged past affairs with Trump just before the 2016 presidential election — details his fears of another Trump presidency in his new book, “Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice Against His Critics,” released Tuesday.”
Oh yeah. Trump sure did weaponize the bureaucracy. They complied with every last command.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
oh, wow
OFFS!!!!
Progjection Exhibit A.
It just goes to show what venal creatures infest DC. Imagine all your friends/colleagues doing a complete 180 like these assholes do routinely.
So in other words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDTwO0TlwOU
Is everyone just going to let that lie there?
Was Bill Clinton involved? In the Oral Office?
Some things, I don’t want to know.
“Buzzfeed wrote that the Fetterman interview will cause people to go out and commit violence against disabled people.
You cannot comment or question on Fetterman’s mental acuity because it will cause violence. So that’s where they are at.”
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1580520628418859008
One of the talking heads was claiming he’s deaf.
I can only SMDH at the chutzpah.
‘Violence’ meaning mean tweets?
This is the same crap the Dems run over and over again. If you criticize Obama you’re racist. If you criticize Hillary you’re misogynist. If you criticize Buttigieg you’re homophobic. If you criticize Fetterman you’re ableist. And if you are any of those you are promoting violence and people will die!
“Putin’s war accelerates the EU’s fossil fuel detox
The Russian president has inadvertently sped up Europe’s Green Deal.
By launching a bloody invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has done more than almost any other single human being to speed up the end of the fossil fuel era.
Immediately after the February 24 invasion, EU countries rushed to cut their dependence on imports of Russian coal, oil and gas, replacing them with gas from elsewhere and a significant short-term increase in coal-fired electricity. That’s why Putin was named the most influential person in POLITICO’s Green 28, the first ranking of those putting a stamp on the EU’s green policies — for good or ill.
But beyond that, a surge in green energy and energy-saving measures is emerging that marks a permanent shift in momentum for EU climate efforts…”
https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-war-ukraine-accelerates-eu-fossil-fuel-detox/
Doubtful. They probably just sped up Europe’s realization that green energy sucks.
The green utopia has arrived!
I think I’ve reached stupid overload for today. JFC.
Europe is about a month away from truly discovering the glories of green energy.
Soylent Green energy?
https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana/status/1580299656181207040
UNLICENSED ROOFING!!!!!!!!!
The Charlotte County sheriff’s office is a wretched hive of scum and villainry. As are most other sheriff’s offices in my beloved state.
It’s already hard enough to find qualified workers after a hurricane, and they go after this guy? Thanks a lot, assholes.
And if companies and people licensed in other states aren’t being allowed to work in hurricane affected areas, then why not? It’s been done before, and it worked great.