Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
Supreme Court orders Trump’s tax returns to be turned over to House Democrats
Colorado Gay Nightclub Shooter Identifies as Non-Binary, Uses âThey/Themâ Pronouns
Biden Administration to Extend Student Loan Debt Repayment Freeze Amid Court Battles
McCarthy calls on Mayorkas to resign or potentially face impeachment inquiry
Another Day, Another Court Decision Against New York Gun Control
Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX Has Cash Balance of Over $1 Billion
Starbucks shutters another Seattle location citing safety issues
Supreme Court agrees to hear Jack Danielâs trademark case against dog toy company
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
DNC Continues to Cite 2005 Number on Illegal Immigration, Studies Indicate Real Figure Likely 3 Times Higher – we can make it 3x more US is underpopulated
Colorado Gay Nightclub Shooter Identifies as Non-Binary, Uses âThey/Themâ Pronouns – honestly I would as well to make sure I end up in women’s prison
Supreme Court orders Trumpâs tax returns to be turned over to House Democrats
The IRS couldn’t find anything but I’m sure the Dems can concoct something.
opposition research
Damage to the brand.
Over/under on them leaking to Dem friendly media? I say a day.
A full day? I’m thinking within the hour. And a selective leak to try to shape a narrative they want to promote.
Have to give them a little time to disseminate talking points.
Besides, you know it takes this stuff a while to ferment.
Damn near his whole tax history was leaked prior to 2020 anyway. Not sure what the big deal is, other than to make it an “official action.”
Sound bites & propaganda.
They’ve got a few weeks left.
Another Day, Another Court Decision Against New York Gun Control – you do not need guns in enlightened places like New York
You need nukes?
Colorado Gay Nightclub Shooter Identifies as Non-Binary, Uses âThey/Themâ Pronouns
So, IOW, a bigot, nazi, Trumpite.
Now, if I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d say this whole thing was fired up to take away all attention from the unraveling of the Paul Pelosi assault.
Yes, just like the Pelosi attacker, another right wing extremist nut job.
Well, now that this narrative is unwinding, we have a shooting in a Walmart that the left can use to flog their narrative.
Isn’t a shooting in a walmart just a day that ends in Y?
Twist: It was a manager there.
“If someone says ‘I want to speak to your manager’ one more time…”
Was Thee/Thou named Karen?
And already known to the “authorities”.
Funny how often that seems to be the case.
Funnier yet how none of said authorities ever lose their job over the demonstrable gross incompetence (in the most charitable interpretation).
Good work if you can get it, I suppose. Only costs your immortal soul apparently.
I’m pretty sure at this point that most of these “known” criminals were being egged on by the feds at this point to create a crisis to push an agenda. So it’s not incompetence in this case. The opposite actually.
Gov’t work means never having to say “My bad.”
Supreme Court orders Trumpâs tax returns to be turned over to House Democrats
It was actually just Roberts, who remains a piece of shit. What principle of law and the constitution allows for a fishing expedition through people’s personal records absent probable cause of a crime?
I dunno, how is being legally required to report all your find to the IRS not run afoul of the 5th and 4th amendments?
I would guess because an amendment was passed implementing the income tax, so that could plausibly be argued to provide the constitutional authority for such requirements.
Yeah, I thought that right after I typed it up. Our ancestors were really dumb for giving that away.
Worst sentence in the constitution.
Nope, the existence of the tax doesn’t supercede the 4th and 5th. And 13th, for that matter.
Now the assholes who wrote our byzantine tax codes get to comb through gigantic files of forms written by lawyers and accountants. Every “gotcha” will highlight what a mess Congress has made. The only thing Trump has to do with those forms is to pay the people filling them out.
This. And while I know the reason they go after Trumps taxes, propaganda, the end result is not going to find anything. Trump had and has legions of tax attorneys handle this. He never sees a W-2 or any other bit of this shit, he simple has money deposited into an account per the best reading of tax laws.
The law is written that way and Trump was trying to get a special exemption only for himself. Fuck that.
Really? Congress can just pore over someone’s tax records just for the hell of it? Is there a law that actually says that?
It’s technically a federal record. Unless the law says it needs to be destroyed, it’s subject to congressional review.
Technically, the request comes from the Chair of the House Ways and Means committee. And yes, they can request ANY tax return.
I always thought it had to be related to a legitimate investigation involving some sort of evidence of malfeasance, that it couldn’t be “just because”.
Supposed to be in service of crafting new tax legislation — which is a fig leaf sufficient for the Great Red Spot of Jupiter.
Nope, just like subpoena power they can call you in just cause.
But in that case you are under no obligation to provide any information or answers.
Your already have the government that info, as above. It’s not yours, it’s the government’s own documents.
I can typegud
Congress doesn’t so prosecutions of tax cheating, the Executive branch does, so no.
In theory it should be to support some legitimate legislative interest, so I’ll grant you that is lacking here – but the law doesn’t require it.
McCarthy calls on Mayorkas to resign or potentially face impeachment inquiry
*yawn*
The House may impeach, but the senate will not convict, so it’s all just theater.
The whole shebang is a game, all of it. And so you need to look to Game Theory to find the best method of navigation through the unwritten rules. In this case, when someone defects from the rules, as the D’s did with all that impeachment shit re trump, you do the same. Going after Mayorkas is a better method than going after Trump as you can point to real things as opposed to ‘Orange Man Bad” as you work it.
That whole game is to make the other side look worse, while making yourself look better.
United States District Court Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. granted a temporary injunction against a New York gun control barring the licensed carry of a concealed weapon on private property. …
Democrat lawmakers in New York responded to Bruen by passing more gun controls and restrictions, including a requirement that concealed carry permit applicants have their social media accounts scoured and an outright ban on concealed carry in places of worship.
The gun controls also included the prohibition against carrying on private property.
The fuck?
Didn’t you know? According to the legislature, as of this past september, it’s a felony to carry a firearm on private property unless the owner conspicuously posts signage stating it’s OK.
Or it was until the court injunction against that crap.
It means you can’t carry on someone else’s private property, such as a store, mall, gas station, etc.
Parking lot, sidewalk, etc.
Someone in the legislature was paid off by Big Sign.
I remember the days when the libs would get mad at states that tried to come up with ways to limit abortion. “The SC has spoken! Stop trying to weasel around their decision!”
Ok, I thought it meant ones own private property. I know the cuntes are gun-grabbing tyrants, but that would be next level. Never mind the other stuff already being completely absurd, especially considering the thumbing of the nose at the Bruen decision.
The way it’s worded, it might actually include your own property.
This was not a well thought out regime by any metric, it was a “how loudly can we say fuck you to the court” bill.
Not well thought out? It was dropped pre-written on the legislators’ desks and approved the next day.
Being in the drawer ready to go does not equal well thought out.
But they were able to pass it so quickly! They still don’t have enough data to decide if bail reform was a good idea or not!
It’s about reform so it has to be good.
The Judge did it his way.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
too soon
Yeah, I imagine the squeezy toys are taking a shitload of the market from Jack Daniels’ booze sales.
Those dogs would be buying a dozen bottles each if they didn’t have those darn toys!
It is making it hard for me to train my retriever properly.
Do you know how frustrating it is when you get home from a hard day’s work and your dog brings you a squeezy toy instead of a bottle of overrated bourbon?
Is it wrong that I’m expecting your next line to be about Tatiana or Toilet Duck now?
I’d never joke about dog training. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid
But it isn’t bourbon.
It’s the Jameson’s of American booze.
Pass.
The HHS report details policies to combat the Chinese coronavirus, which has now been around for almost three years. One of the recommendations includes the reintroduction of masking, contending that it will assist those suffering from lingering effects from their infection.
âThe lifting of mask mandates and indifferent attitude toward masking and social distancing typical in many public and private places further isolates people with Long COVID,â the report stated, recommending those in government âencourage or mandate policies and protocols regarding masking and social distancing in public spaces.â
Covid is over. In fact, it’s been over since before it was announced as a pandemic. The only way out of this medical tyranny is non-compliance.
Fuck those assholes, someone who is immune compromised is responsible for their own risk management, the rest of the world doesn’t need to adjust to accommodate their special needs.
+1 peanut allergy
Of course, whatever Long COVID is, its not an infection by the virus, so this is 100% pure-quill signaling.
Long Covid is the biggest bunch of crap since fibromyalgia.
Where are YOU on the political spectrum?
https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1595057137000087558
que?
Maybe it is a joke? The idea that an “EXTREME TRUCK RALLY ^W^W Libertarian” government would only change the percentage stolen by about 2% shows that the politics is orthogonal to Leviathan or something?
Otherwise, I got nothin’.
I’m lost as well. Whatever statement or joke the poster meant to make just passed me by.
The joke must be in metric.
Yes, because it’s about the UK.
The old female PM was accused of being an extreme libertarian for reducing taxes too much, which tanked the pound(which I always suspected was a ploy by traders to get her out). The new government is fixing this by apparently increasing taxes.
Must suck getting ruled by your own ex-colony. I wonder if this is how Greece felt like after Rome took over.
No, but I bet it is how Greece felt after it joined the Euro.
An oldie but a goody
âChina might have already passed the point of no return, as itâs unlikely to achieve zero Covid again without another Shanghai-style hard lockdown,â Hu said in a report Tuesday. âWhat policymakers could do now is to slow the spread of virus, i.e. flatten the curve, by tightening the Covid controls for the time being.â
A policy of proven success.
The purpose of the Chinese lockdowns, and ours, is to keep the population scared and controlled. Looked at it that way, the lockdowns are a proven success.
Don’t forget a pretty fundamental shift in election fuckery.
You’re right. That’s a big part of it.
I suppose it is time for Dems to do a gun control push that they can blame an R controlled House for obstructing.
A Walmart manager killed six people at his store in Chesapeake, Virginia, last night before being shot dead himself in a pre-Thanksgiving rampage.
The suspect has not yet been named, and it’s unclear if he killed himself or was brought down by someone in the store.
He opened fire in the break room of the store in Sam’s Circle at 10.10pm on Tuesday night while shoppers were carrying out last minute Thanksgiving errands.
Police said the gunman was dead when they arrived on the scene but did not confirm whether he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound – though a Walmart employee claimed the shooter turned the gun on himself.
Alternatively, enough cuck RINOs will go along with “sensible gun-safety”.
Going postal is not proper management technique.
Good thing WalMart banned AR15s as well as intermediate- and pistol-caliber ammo!
I scored some good deals when they did that.
I’m sure Mitch is ready to be bipartisan again.
Hell — I’m half expecting them to ram through some insane crap during next month’s “lame duck” session that ole Mitch will go trotting along with, because “You can’t risk the US defaulting!”
And having been a Wally World department manager ages ago — the stress making someone snap (at the time, all the shit I had to deal with was merited by a whopping $0.25/hr raise! woo!), so workplace violence being relatively rare is more of a surprise.
Well that’s a new take on Black Friday.
Tuesday night is not “last minute”.
Catching up on old threads I saw some talk of a Starlink review. We got it in August after suffering through Frontier for over a decade. We have some trees that interfere and I need to take care of, but overall itâs awesome. Faster than dsl and havenât had any outages. Biggest issue is the component pricing (mounts, cables, etc) is boutique level, but there are workarounds on the internet for some things.
We’d love to see that in longer form if you’re so-inclined.
+1 – We’ve tried both AT&T and Google Fiber. Both suck.
Our Internet is constantly on the fritz.
I also saw KK’s thread too late. KK which carrier are you using for your cellular internet? some do a hard data limit, others a soft limit.
I have two of the Starlink systems at different locations, one Round one Square. System 1 has been online since Febuary 2021.
In short, they work, are great for streaming and general use. Some claim it is still too sensitive for clean zoom presentations or interactive gaming. I use a combination of Starlink and Cellular to make VPN, Zoom, and all critical systems perfect.
https://imgur.com/dctb1Jp
You need the open view of the entire sky, with trees being generally outside of the view limit. The phone app will give you a pessimistic evaluation of your site.
Tonio, I’ll see if I can write something up.
under the alias ‘Dick Delaware’
Hunter is that you?
His stage mane is “The Scranton Scrotum.”
“Not Adahn on November 23, 2022 at 6:47 am
Didnât Plato suggest that everyone be ruled by Philosopher-Kings?”
Yes, I remember reading it and realizing he was basically advocating for the worst form of government ever devised. I don’t understand why anyone thinks highly of ‘the Republic ‘ except that it is an early example of logic, and significant for the historical development of philosophy.
Kind of funny that people read The Republic and don’t seem to have the connecting thought… “Heeey… wasn’t Plato a philosopher?”
I mean, if I put out a book advocating strange women lying in ponds distributing swords…
*cough* *cough*
I meant — a book advocating kernel engineers as the most suited to lead us all to a bright future, it would be kinda fucking obvious in comparison and all…
Linus for god-king!
We could, and have, done worse.
But only old f-bomb in the coments Linus.
I think it’s a case of nobody actually read the book, but heard it was great and insightful, so they parrotted it to fit in and the reputation developed a life all its own.
First edition of Gravity’s Rainbow.
I’m afraid I don’t get the reference.
A book everyone talks about but hasn’t actually read because it’s fucking impenetrable.
Hey, I’m definitely going to read that someday. Right after I finish Ulysses.
Yeah, I have to get done with Principia Matematica first.
After reading Annals of the Former World, I’m sticking to lighter stuff, like War and Peace.
At least I was able to finish House of Leaves.
That reminds me. I have a copy of And God Created the Integers that I should take with me when I’m getting the car worked on.
I have read both “Foucault’s Pendulum” and “Infinite Jest” so I’m good.
We’ve tried government by the strongest, the most ruthless, the smartest (play along for now), the most educated (diddot) and so many other “my group should rule.”
Maybe we should try government by the hottest?
So what you’re saying is, you just want to be metaphorically fucked by more attractive people than you are now.
At least I’d be getting something out of it.
Plus the campaign posters and mailers would be entertaining.
‘Maybe we should try government by the hottest?’
Given that good looks are often proxy for good genes and some other good traits (if I’m remembering the research correctly) there are probably worse systems out there.
And it will have a built in-term limiting function. Unless we elected Elizabth Hurley.
A Hurley-Union ticket, presitators for life.
If only we could change human nature we could have benevolent dictators.
Huh, that is basically the premise.
I remember reading Plato and thinking “I really don’t like this guy.”
The witch-hunt must continue.
Cases involving former President Donald Trump are playing out in four different courtrooms Tuesday, underscoring the legal challenges he faces as he mounts a third run for the White House.
Four days after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the entirety of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified materials after leaving office, the Justice Department was expected Tuesday to ask a federal appeals court in Atlanta to remove the special master — the independent arbiter appointed to review the materials — from the case.
The special master had been appointed by a federal judge in Florida to review materials seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to determine which, if any, were protected by executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.
So ridiculous how terrified of him they are.
What part of “we have to save democracy” do you not understand?
âTrumpâs handling of classified materials after leaving officeâ
Didnât they recently admit their raid on Mar al Lago turned up nothing?
Which surprised me. I was sure they would plant something.
Worse, the FBI leaked to WaPo that they think it was just ego, not profit or damaging national security at the root of Trump’s ‘collection’. The damage to national security is a critical element in making an Espionage Act case.
They were probably going to, but Trump’s people refused to turn off the security cameras as ordered.
They could plant stuff back at HQ, too. But that might raise questions about who had access to what they took, starting with âHow many of your agents have the required security level to look at stuff you claim might be absolute top secretâ (I forget the acronym).
“Didnât they recently admit their raid on Mar al Lago turned up nothing?”
Did they?
Not in so many words but began the prepare the rabid base for a soft landing if the special master or DOJ finds they have nothing to really go on especially after hyping up espionage.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/14/trump-motive-mar-a-lago-documents/
Woo hoo!
…anyone know where that is?
Europe, southeast of Germany.
How was your corned beef and kohlrabi?
It was brisket, so there was still too much intramuscular fat. (Why is corned beef round so difficult to come by?!)
I forgot to cook the green beans, so I’ll probably make them tomorrow.
The mashed potatos were fine.
Just FYI, corned eye of round is avaialble at the BJ’s and Market 32s here.
My locals only have briskets.
I’m in a food desert I tell you!
The closest strudel shop was already out by the time I walked up there today (pre-order pickup for the rest of the day only), I had to go to a second strudel shop, and they only had a limited selection. Thankfully, I didn’t need to fall back on the third or fourth strudel shop option.
I don’t have strudel shops either!
Errr, Prague.
So what happened to the 119 other Pragues?
That’s useful!
Ok, it took three days to get from Uhersky Brod to Prague…
*checks maps on internet*
..oh dear. They must be transporting it by peasant hand-cart.
I thought you were joking about not knowing… I would have told you otherwise.
Uh-huh
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw… (Sorry, stuck in my head.)
Glad you’re feeling well enough to comment, UCS.
(Have been unwell myself recently, Little Miss Never-Gets-Sick. Ha.)
I hope you’re feeling better.
That was some time ago, but thank you all the same.
“Have we learned nothing from Covid? Why are you letting a Prague shipment into the US?”
– My wife
120 is the first 3 digits of the zip code in Prague.
‘Orning ‘ordles — Just plain sucked.
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“The suspect’s original name, however, is Nicholas Franklin Brink before he changed it to Anderson Lee Aldrich in 2016 ”
Are you kidding me? They let people change their name and put ‘Lee’ in the middle?
100% was going to be a shooter right there.
He should have gone with “Bobby Ray” and become a car mechanic.
Or “Bobby Sue” if he’s going to stick with the whole Mx. thing they’re spinning now….
Tangentially, we were watching a Bobby Flay show last night and somehow I connected that with Ricky Bobby, which ended up “I wanna cook fast”.
Now I’m hearing Alton Brown on classic Iron Chef:
Brown wasn’t on classic Iron Chef. That was a bunch of Japanese guys and some voice over artists.
“The Egg Battle is Ova!”
Prior to Iron Chef USA, they had a few special episodes with the original cast and Food Network peeps.
The transitional specials are so difficult to find that I haven’t seen them.
Ok, ok… I meant Classic Iron Chef USA obviously — as opposed to Next Iron Chef or the current reboot or whatnot.
*grumbles* bunch of autistic ackshually nitpicking razzle frazzle…
(Joking.. I do that kind of correction too, I know…)
Wait, there’s a series after ICA?
Ther’s a Neflix Iron Chef that is actually better than the Food Network’s
And still not nearly as good as the original Japanese one.
That or Bobby Flay calling out his sponsors as he cooks – “I wanna thank Agnotelli brand calabrian chilis for their contribution to this dish”.
I got Bobby Flay mixed up with that British chef that’s famous for yelling at people. Gordon Ramsay? I forget. I can just imagine him calling out a sponsor ingredient in a dish for making it taste like shit.
He loves the shake ‘n bake.
Was he the quiet kid that sat in the back of the classroom? You know, the one with few friends and no one noticed?
âBeijing has recently shown early signs of willingness to reopen, and it has rolled out some fine-tuning measures, but the reopening may be a prolonged process with discomfort,â Lu said in a separate report this week.
He said Vietnamâs unwinding of its Covid restrictions since fall last year could shed light on the path forward for China. He noted how the Southeast Asian country saw âno immediate surge in infections after the pivot,â while its GDP rebounded.
Local authorities in China have faced the difficult task of trying to make Covid measures more targeted, while controlling infections.
As of Monday, about 412 million people were affected by lockdown measures in mainland China, according to Nomura estimates. Thatâs up from 340 million the prior week, the report said.
That’s some pinpoint accuracy.
FTFY
Krying kunte Kinzinger threatens a meme account.
Literal evil. If I met you in person it would not end well⊠for you. Sicko
Trolls who have never done a thing in their life pretend to be patriots and laugh at real warriors.
Get a load of this tough guy.
Isn’t he TOS’s favorite republican?
I think he was also fooled by the Sam Hyde as Ghost of Kiev memes too.
How is it that in so many packaging products, the perforations are so much stronger than the material around them?
They hate you and they want you to diet?
“Counter to narrative. Does not compute.”
CNN panel in a state of confusion after the Club Q killer’s lawyers say he’s “non-binary” and uses “they/them” pronouns: “I don’t know what to say about that”
Trump’s anti-LGBTIQA@s+ hate rhetoric was so overwhelming that it drove xem into a spiral of self-loathing and autoannihilation.
That ridiculous narrative was so much the exact opposite of the truth it really drove home the point that the truth doesn’t matter, people will just believe the narrative. Trump was actually in favor of gay marriage while Obama was still claiming to be opposed to it, and they even held up a rainbow flag at a Trump campaign rally before Trump was president and it was greeted with enthusiastic applause. But none of that matters.
Petulant idiot-child stamps foot, pous
During questions after the White House coronavirus response team updated reporters on the administration’s vaccine efforts, Daily Caller White House correspondent Diana Glebova attempted to ask a question regarding what Fauci has done to investigate the origins of COVID-19. But Jean-Pierre shut Glebova down and rebuked her for speaking out of turn.
“We have a process here. I’m not calling out on people who yell. And you’re being ⊠disrespectful to your colleagues, and you’re being disrespectful to our guest,” Jean-Pierre said. “I will not call on you if you yell, and also you’re taking time off the clock because Dr. Fauci has to leave in a couple of minutes.”
When Glebova objected, Jean-Pierre said she was “done” and was “not getting into a back-and-forth with you.”
Then Today News Africa journalist Simon Ateba spoke up and said her question was valid and should be asked.
“You need to call people across the room. She has a valid question, she’s asked about the origin of COVID,” Ateba said.
“It is not your turn,” Jean-Pierre shot back. “I hear your question, but we’re not doing this the way you want it. This is disrespectful ⊠Simon, I’m done. Simon, I’m done. I’m done with you right now. You’re taking time away from your colleagues.”
You tell ’em, Bossy.
Sounds like she’s pretty easy to troll. I think that with a concerted effort by a few of the press corps working together, they could cause a complete meltdown.
[Press] Why would we ever want to do that?
A fine example of a completely incompetent diversity hire.
And she’ll stay there as a continuing fuck you.
Isnât she the black face of white supremacy for shutting down an African reporter?
Just the opposite, the reporter is the black face of white supremacy for supporting the white man against their black sista
CNN panel in a state of confusion after the Club Q killerâs lawyers say heâs ânon-binaryâ and uses âthey/themâ pronouns: âI donât know what to say about thatâ
Maybe he was wearing a rainbow Trump hat.
O M G! Now that’s the best thing since the rainbow jihad.
the CNN panel keeps referring to Mx. Aldrich as “he.” CANCEL THOSE BIGOTS!
Make America Gayer Already!
“he just took on this persona to blend in with his victims.”
-CNN probably
One of them said he might be doing it to avoid hate crimes charges. Yeah, I’m on the hook for 5 murders, but I’m really worried about that hate crimes charge.
“Balenciaga apologizes for bondage-themed campaign featuring a child and excerpt from SCOTUS ruling on child pornography – fashion house vows to sue photographer behind it
Perhaps even more bizarrely, a Twitter user discovered that one of the photos in the shoot contained an excerpt from the 2008 US Supreme Court opinion in United States v. Williams, which upheld part of a federal child pornography law, which Twitter’s own fact-checkers confirmed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11459901/Balenciaga-apologizes-blames-photographer-disgusting-campaign.html
Now shoe is in the DailyMail, LOL.
‘fashion house vows to sue photographer behind it’
I don’t believe you don’t have editorial control over your own ads. /Judge
Obviously just a public relations gimmick, but still dumb.
“Twitterâs own fact-checkers confirmed.â
*Eye twitches*
Uh oh. Now Musk knows thereâs a few fact checkers he hasnât fired yet.
https://katu.com/news/local/mike-schmidt-justice-is-unavailable-hundreds-of-cases-dismissed-in-multnomah-county-due-to-lack-of-public-defenders#
Poor Schmidt. Forced to dismiss hundreds of cases that he never wanted to really prosecute in the first place.
Still a heckuva of third baseman, though.
Ugh, reading the shooter article, the use of plural pronouns for an individual is so stupid. Why are we screwing up everything in a fruitless attempt to make nutters happy? (That is more of a rhetorical question, it’s all part of the demoralization process)
I was muted in a meeting about how to address some stupid question about the gender field in one of our programs only having the real values and what to do about employee complaints.
I so wanted to say “Not our problem. Close the ticket and direct the user to OMH* for treatment placement.”
*Office of Mental Health
“Woman, 28, allergic to nuts was left with a ‘burning’ vagina after having sex with partner: Medics say traces of nuts in his semen was to blame”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11460989/Woman-allergic-nuts-suffered-reaction-husband-ejaculated-inside-her.html
So much for no nut November.
Did she crush up his into fine particles before they started? Or is that not how it works?
I thought the nut was the point of the interaction.
Having traces of nuts in your semen is the very definition of a micropenis.
Busting a nut a little too literally?
Her mounds brought his almond joy.
I snickered.
I missed whatever’s going on, but at least today’s Payday. I’ll take some solace in that.
Whatchamacallit is gonna drop in soon with the gaze
Toblerone done gone.
Is it going to be 100 grand?
Lol.
So the NYS comptroller is a big time partisan dem, but polite enough to not be obnoxious about it.
Anyhoo, he’s discovered that the NY Department of Labor inappropriately/illegally disbursed AT least $11 billion in bogus unemployment/various covid programs etc. And then DoL tried to cover it up and refused to participate in the audit (because I guess you can do that if you’re a NYS government agency?)
When reached for comment, a DoL spox was outraged and offended that Comptroller did not recognize, acknowledge, and give special thanks to the heroic employees who heroically performed heroes work during the pandemic by heroically (if perhaps illegally) shovelling billions of taxpayer dollars at people while refusing to be encumbered in their heroic work by red tape.
I am not surprised.
They were so eager to process the requests that they asked for volunteers from other agencies (mine included) to help out. I doubt these “volunteers”* had a whole lot of training in verification, or gave much heed to possible fraud. The metric was almost certainly “How many applications can we shovel through?” since that was the number they were bragging about later.
*still paid their normal job rate, just doing out of title work that normally pays much less
The chutzpah on display is positively Trumpian.
The man is a product of his environment.
Heros all the way down.
Good morning, Banjos!
I’m gonna be laughing about ‘Dick Delaware’ for the rest of the day. Hard to believe the kid was screwed up. How on earth are they gonna ride this one to a gun ban?
Fuck Jack Daniels. Lame-ass IP foolishness.
‘gun ban?’
Dads with big guns result in shooters for kids?
Limit penis size, for the children.
Getting down to the nitty gritty
Michelle Bond, a failed far-right Republican congressional candidate and prominent cryptocurrency advocate, received at least $400,000 in consulting fees from FTX Digital Markets â the Bahamas-based FTX entity where her boyfriend Ryan Salame is co-CEO.
The consulting payments are listed in Bond’s congressional candidate financial disclosure report, and were originally reported in August by cryptocurrency trade publication The Block. They state Bond earned $200,000 both this year and the preceding year from FTX Digital Markets. Bond did not respond to requests for comment on what the consulting work entailed.
Misappropriation of funds! Fraud! Self-dealing! MAGA!
… And this is right from the Dems playbook of supporting people they don’t think will win election.
So? Is consulting illegal?
The Colorado murderer’s father looks like the pictures when you look up the word “douchebag”.
You’re not wrong.
“In a separate interview with CBS News, Kraus said that Aldrich admitted to using heroin and said that they were addicted to opium.”
Guns and angle dust don’t mix.
Neither do guns and angle grinders.
So I need to get rid of my angle grinder?
Just don’t use it on your gun. It’ll fuck up the heat treatment.
Angle grinders come in handy when rebuilding certain demilled kits.
But as Bankman-Fried became a powerful backer of Democratic candidates and effective altruism charities, Salame, his co-executive for one of FTX’s key subsidaries, was charting a different path. Bond and him began making inroads with MAGA Republicans and spending vast sums of money attempting to get Bond into Congress.
Bond, who was running to represent New York’s First Congressional District, lost the Republican primary this August to Navy veteran Nick Lalota. During her campaign, she was endorsed by Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Senator Ted Cruz. Bond tweeted a photo in July of her and Salame out to dinner with Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle, who she referred to as “friends.”
Bond also courted far-right voters with complaints about drag events in schools and appeared on the podcast of a Long Island anti-government group that organized hundreds of people to attend the Stop the Steal rally on January 6, 2021.
Bankman was using money for good. Those two were spreading hate and bigotry.
âeffective altruism charitiesâ
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Don’t you even anti-malarial bed nets bro?
It’s right there in the name. What more fact do you need?
So we’ve named one of the people involved. Suprise! It’s our political enemy
Today I had to estimate angular distances in radians.
I finally used that part of my trigonometry class!
As the bankruptcy proceedings unfold, the company’s new CEO John J. Ray stated in a filing last week that he had never in his career seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and concentration of power in the hands of a small group of individuals. Ray previously oversaw the Enron bankruptcy.
What? The company isn’t the CEO’s private sandbox?
It was until after the midterms. Now it, and they, are disposable.
Neither do guns and angle grinders.
But this shotgun is too long to hide under my coat!
Ok Lt. Reese… get back to finding Sarah now.
(yeah yeah… he used a hacksaw blade, I know…)
Lathe. Or band saw if you absolutely must.
Where my .380 peeps at?
https://aimsurplus.com/products/sergeant-major-munitions-380acp-95grn-fmj-ammunition-50rd-box-copy
$260/1,000 free shipping.
A caliber you never have to worry about over-penetration.
I have a Ruger .380 (which has been a disappointment so far). I’ll never get close to a thousand rounds through it as long as I live.
I am looking for .223 / 5.56 deals this week. Best I’ve seen so far but I’ll see what Friday brings.
https://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/igman-223-remington-fmj-55-grain-500-rounds?a=2239931
Regarding Anderson Lee Aldrich, I’m not seeing any mention of when he decided he was non-binary. His name change was to distance himself from his father. So it seems that identifying as non-binary is a post-shooting ploy. It’s going to be interesting to see the reaction of the QUILTBAG+ movement to that since their policy is to support all identity decisions and to deny that anyone would ever claim a different identity to gain some sort of advantage.
A petard to be hoisted upon.
Considering exactly how fast other peoples’ social media gets colonoscopied, the fact that we weren’t hearing reports about Mx Aldrich’s within minutes of the shooting meant to me that xey didn’t have any (possible, but unlikely considering xer age) or that those social media accounts didn’t provide the kind of stories they wanted to write.
Non-binary is bullshit anyway.
It’s bullshit heavily invested in by the people who really, really need this shooting to be a Trump-fueled hate crime.
FTX US’s donations to Bond are somewhat out of step with the rest of its contributions, which generally have gone to candidates that focus on Bankman-Fried’s preferred issues such as pandemic planning. Bond, on the other hand, campaigned on an anti-immigration and anti-abortion platform and appeared on the podcast of a group that opposes vaccine mandates.
Bond joined a July 18 episode of the antidemocratic group Long Island Loud Majority’s podcast, where she promoted a number of right wing grievance campaigns that included suggestions that schools were overrun with drag events and critical race theory.
“We have these schools accusing five-year-olds of being racist,” Bond said.
Long Island Loud Majority broadened from a pro-Trump group into what the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated an antigovernment group, which promotes conspiracies of stolen elections, anti-vaccine falsehoods and anti-trans rhetoric. Bond also tweeted a photo of herself next to two members of the group, who wore t-shirts with its logo, at her campaign headquarters.
“The group has organized protests, convoys, and even led about 300 people to D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, joining the crowds near the Capitol,” Joe Wiinikka-Lydon, a senior researcher at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, told Insider.
Shocking. Appalling.
If we ever wanted to have a higher profile here, SPLC designation would do it.
Those notorious libel merchants? They can fuck right off.
See – we are a hate group!
Itâs going to be interesting to see the reaction of the QUILTBAG+ movement to that since their policy is to support all identity decisions and to deny that anyone would ever claim a different identity to gain some sort of advantage.
#BELIEVEIT
Not quite as shocking as Saudis over Argentina, but Japan is about to beat Germany.
Well there go two of my predictions.
I think the Japan vs Germany must be a bloodbath.
I keep hearing the announcer scream “GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!”
Africa is doing well vs Europe. Tunisia and Morocco drawing Denmark and Croatia.
Senegal…not so much.
Like with Argentina, Germany scored first and choked it away.
like who cares?
Which group is Romania in?
Group K
Just checked, yall only missed the playoff by 1 pt. But really, worse than North Macedonia?
I did not follow football at all, but I understand we are horrid.
That’s a special group.
I didn’t realise Zelensky was another 5’7-er. Just like Rishi (and Putin) Macron is a whopping 5’8″
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1595349537434091521
It’s because Europeans don’t eat enough.
Americans eat and they get wider not taller
That’s only after we top out in height. I’m a short American at 6’3″.
I assume those are to different measurements
In silly measurements, it’s 190.5 cm
two different goddamn it I ruined my joke
Are you just messing with our poor Pie? 6’3″ isn’t anyone’s idea of short. Maybe for a Nilote or a Dutch?
Of course I’m messing with Pie.
Trying again he is 6 foot and ehm 3 inches
Bah. George Washington was 6’20”.
I’d forgotten about that. I actually play it on July 4th as part of my musical rotation of patriotic songs.
Putin’s 5′ 7″ like Mike Bloomberg is 5′ 7″.
Meta AI presents CICERO â the first AI to achieve human-level performance in Diplomacy, a strategy game which requires building trust, negotiating and cooperating with multiple players.
https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1595075884502855680
I’ve been reading the published paper on that this morning. Some caveats to the bot they used:
1) It only played in blitz games (5 minute negotiation rounds)
2) While the paper says it placed in the top 10% of users who played in multiple games, they did not include the point cost of the game, nor the WebDip scores of the players
3) The also limited the bot to only plan for the current turn, so no long term negotiation or planning
I’d be curious to see that bot placed into a series of gunboat (no negotiation) games and see if it performs better or worse.
I remember the glib diplomacy game I messed up negotiations in
WebDiplomacy has a forum thread discussing the story as well. My favorite quote:
Hello, fellow human.
Who dis? Do not trust.
Europeâs Cities Are Getting More CrowdedâThatâs a Good Thing
The sprawling mass of suburbia has been a disaster for the environment. But now smaller, denser cities herald a renaissance in city living.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/europe-cities-populations?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
meh having a bit of a garden is nice
Cities, historically, have had a higher death than birth rate, feeding off of excess rurual population. They’re supposed to be a storehouse for the extra people until disease takes them.
Yep, until modern medicine, cities had a negative internal growth rate, only grew thru immigration.
Oh, great! Now they DON’T want us “social distancing.” đ
Once you’re in your tiny apartment, you can just stay there indefinitely and enjoy the wonders of the Renaissance in city living.
Portuguese X Romanian – Similarities and Differences [English subtitles]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dokL0U7fIPI
EWWWWW
For the presidents under whom Nancy Pelosi served as Speaker of the House, it was her work that made their legacies possible. She isnât just the most consequential and accomplished speaker in American history. Presidents come and go, and she has been a partner with them all, Republican and Democrat alike (except for Donald Trump who is too self-focused and belligerent to understand how to work with her). But in every other case, including both of the Bush presidencies as well as Clinton, Obama and most recently Biden, Speaker Pelosi made each of them more successful and effective. The sum of her career achievements and impact on the process of government is greater than any single one of the presidents with whom she worked. The extent to which they worked with her and heeded her advice made them more effective. Their legacy was made possible by her legislative skills.
The good news is she will stay with us, teaching and mentoring the next generation of Democratic leaders. And of course, being an active member of Congress.
That’s quite a tongue bath. You’d need a 55 gallon drum of Listerine (or maybe Pine Sol) to get the taste out of your mouth after going down that hard.
Pelosi… going down…
retch*retch*retch*retch
Good god man, that’s far worse than SF has ever inflicted on us.
Bah, I’m sure it’s been coated in polyurethane to make it low-maintenance long ago.
For the presidents under whom Nancy Pelosi served as Speaker of the House
FFS, the Speaker doesn’t serve under the President, Congress is a separate and equal branch of the government.
That battle is lost.
âFor the presidents under whom Nancy Pelosi served as Speaker of the House, it was her work that made their legacies possible.â
Including Trump?
Nah they covered that base
“…except for Donald Trump who is too self-focused and belligerent to understand how to work with her”
except for Donald Trump who is too self-focused and belligerent to understand how to work with her
Actually one of her biggest failures if you asked me. If she would have told Donny that history would judge him the greatest president ever if he only signed gun control bills, climate control bills and whatever else the Dems wanted he would have gone for it.
Instead of using his ego to get everything they wanted, the Dems decided to go scorched earth Hitler Russia and got nothing.
Totally agree.
‘For the presidents under whom Nancy Pelosi served as Speaker of the House’
Way to get it wrong right out of the gate, the speaker isn’t under the president.
Happiness is an empty black tank
(THAT’S RAYCISS!)
sounds like hobo stuff to me
đŻ
Tis my birthday today. I donât think I share it with anyone of note. Also, today I have a stomach bug or maybe food poisoning. đ
Happy gastric distress… wait, that came out wrong.
When I lived in San Diego I was downtown for jury duty, and the local restaurants always had signs out for whatever convention happened to be in town. That particular week the signs in the restaurants read “Welcome Gastrointestinal Disorders”.
*Free chili dog with every sale*
If no one did that i am sad.
Happy pukey birthday TOK!
Happy Birthday TOK!
Happy Birthday
Ok so Billy the Kid, Boris Karloff, Snooki, and Miley Cyrus share my birthday.
HBD đ
GWS
Hope you feel better ASAP so you CAN have a happy birthday!
That means you can have your cake and eat it too? HBD and get well.
Get well soon!
Happy Birthday!
I donât think I share it with anyone of note.
Au contraire, birthday boy!
How They Made The Metabarons | The masterpiece of Juan Giménez and Alejandro Jodorowsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFu80BfO3C8
Agency direct just sent out your generic holiday-themed all-agency email. I did note, however, the prudent act of disabling “reply all” on the email.
I know that could have been an epic reply storm had someone decided to react to the message.
+100 emails saying ‘stop replying all!’
Another 100 emails explaining how not to reply to all
You can do that??? Is that powerful magic achievable by mere mortals??
Yes and Sort Of. You may need elevated privileges to do it.
Woo hoo! I haven’t tried sending it yet, but I created the form! đ (And I’ve used custom forms before.) Thanks!!
I see no reason to return to
government indoctrination centers public schools.All students and school staff at DC public schools must test negative for COVID before returning to campus after Thanksgiving break.
The tests are required despite COVID-19 vaccination being mandatory for students ages 12 and older and âhighly encouragedâ for younger students. Staff are also required to be vaccinated.
The school district is urging families to pick up COVID tests at their schools from November 17 through November 22.
Families are being told to test students on November 27 and upload their results to a school district website.
Strike fail…
This is where keeping a photo from either a previous test or one found floating on the socials would do some good. I know I have one cause of the FAAs new testing policy.
I find this doubtful. The jab rate for adults is nowhere near where they want it, and even less for teenagers.
Conclusion: It is not actually mandatory nor or are they verifying anything.
30 November and 1 December are public holidays and I am still undecided if I want to take 2nd as time off to make it a 5 day weekend. On the one hand I have 8 days of vacation left this year, on the other I am not going anywhere so I could work from home, then again I need to use up the days by March 21st anyways
“seamless transition from “he was inspired by the right wing” to “he is a victim of right wing bullying.” no hesitation whatsoever.
also, note the info cited in pic #2 and #3 was available (“thoroughly documented”) when #1 was tweeted. an actual reporter would have looked first.”
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1595392219715964929
How many name changes did this nutter go through?
“Brink’s harassment by edgelords online was thoroughly documented on the hate site Encyclopedia Dramatica, which outlined a harassment campaign repeatedly calling Brink a pedophile. They accrued some of those posts, and mocked Brink’s grandmother’s GoFundMe to send Brink to Japan.”
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1595266345448398848
“The senior NBC misinformation reporter went on national tv and accused “Brietbart News” circa 2008 of murder and now he’s like “well that’s not true, it was AKSHULLY Encyclopedia Dramatica who bullied him 7 years ago into killing people.””
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1595319999538745344
“NBC News senior reporter @BrandyZadrozny blames @libsoftiktok and @TuckerCarlson for the mass shooting over the weekend
“It starts from some smaller accounts online like Libs of TikTok, it moves to the right-wing blogosphere, and then it ends up on Tucker Carlson.””
https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1594778966384119809
“This absolutely not true and if you had a shred of legitimacy youâd delete and correct. I wonât hold my breath.”
https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1594786366961123328
It’s literally on video.
“it starts…”
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
You know where “it starts”? With the fucking shooter.
Including Trump?
Don’t be fatuous, R C.
I thought fatuous was a glib requirement
Facetious. Not the same thing.
Silly Pie is facetiousness that is the requirement
*Shakes fist at Not Adahn*
Firstuous too.
“McCarthy has no plan. The Republican Party has no plan. They do nothing except political stunts,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday.
She’s right about the political stunt bit. With the Senate being Democrat controlled, impeachment of Mayorkas will go nowhere.
The store is located near the former Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Why did this not surprise me?
No, but it will be fun watching that POS squirm.
Interesting.
Dinesh D’Souza
We donât hear much about Democrats and leftists being let back on Twitter. Why? Because they were never kicked off in the first place. Their lies and misinformation simply escaped all scrutiny. Censorship has been deployed as a one-way operation against conservatives @elonmusk
Elon Musk
Replying to @DineshDSouza
Correct
So the CoSprings shooter claiming to be non-binary dove-tailed with something I was thinking about this morning. I had an early morning procedure and my little wristband listed me as male. For places doing actual medicine, can they even consider non-binary as an option? I mean, there are certain procedures that depend on the actual sex/gender you’re born with.
I’m sure some of the people selecting a fake identity will die, but that’s a sacrifice the ideologues are willing to make.
Fortunately, you won’t have to carry it arounf in a wheelbarrow (or a dump truck)
Cathie Wood a long-time crypto bull stands firm in her forecast that Bitcoin (BTC-USD) will be valued at $1M per coin by the year 2030. If Woodâs estimates are to be true, Bitcoin would need to rally roughly 6,000% over the next eight years.
Wood stated in a TV interview with Bloomberg that the latest failure from FTX and other crypto organizations lends support to Bitcoin as it further helps to âbattle testâ the âinfrastructure and the thesisâ of the digital currency.
Wood also highlighted that from all the talk on the crypto landscape, Bitcoin has come out of this âsmelling like roses.â
Hyperinflation will make us all billionaires.
Woohoo!!!!!
NH Recount update: Manchester Ward 6 Republican Larry Gagne, NHLA endorsed, has a seat. This is a two person district. I think earlier in another post on this recount, I said it was a three person district, if I did I was wrong. It’s two person. Initial results were that Gagne had a seat, then a recount said he lost the seat, then the reopened recount said he won the seat. Based on what I found on the Secretary of State’s website, the Democrat is appealing to the Ballot Law Commission with the appeal set for Nov. 28th. The linked article says it is unclear at press time if the Democrat would. Unless the Ballot Law Commission overturns the latest results, it’s 98 NHLA endorsed state reps and state senators.
Democrat seethe and cope
If there are only two people living in the district, how is the recount taking so long?
/deliberatley obtuse.
Did that guy have any comment about the Dem stalking a woman?
He said it again? Someone didn’t tell him it was a stupid ass line?
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/watch-biden-covid-minion-tells-americans-god-gave-us-two-arms-multiple-vaccines
They’re still not answering “Who gave us Covid?”
Hint: It wasn’t God this time.