No sports sucks. Hurry up, Spring Training. Moving on…
Delicious…and racist?
School does something good for students. School is forced to apologize. That was probably the best meal those kids were served all year. What a ridiculous reaction.
But this is the transportation of the future, right? Jeez, what a mess.
And now (finally), some good news. This is wonderful. I hope the kids are able to fully recover.
Petty tyrant
What a shitshow. If I had to guess, I’d say everybody involved is an asshole. But that’s just me.
Based on the law, these charges are interesting to say the least. And the bail being set is insanely high, especially since they have no idea what the details of the situation were.
Sorry, buddy. This isn’t nearly enough. Just cut taxes across the board and tell the pubsec unions they’re gonna have to fund their ridiculous pension programs and budgets some other way.
Chicago’s budget plan.
I have two solutions here: 1. They can sell the public land. (That’s the one I prefer.) And 2. They can negotiate a price with the landowners for easement rights. That’s it.
::shrugs:: Oh well. Maybe you should manage your city and cut down trees that could bring down lines. It’s not as if you haven’t had 5 years to figure shit out.
`Here you go. Such a classic. As is this. So much energy. God, I love that band. Enjoy their magic.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
To be fair, I’ve had messier apartments.
“No sports sucks. ”
Well, at least this past Sunday there was the greatest sports achievement of all time. What many thought was impossible. They made the Pro Bowl even more gay. Did you ever think you would live to see that?
Yet somehow, a Browns player still managed to get injured during it.
lol
Too much of a tight end to be a wide receiver?
Eli has proven he is the one true Manning.
“What a ridiculous reaction.”
The same thing happens every February. Like Groundhog Day.
It’s not like they served a chitlins and coon supper.
I need to ask some black people how offended they are by food stereotypes. They’re certainly not shy about repeating the “white people don’t use seasoning” trope. I suspect this outrage is stoked by wannabe Al Sharptons more than a grassroots reaction.
I don’t get why the “fried chicken and watermelon” thing is even a thing. Oh, they like food that tastes good, and that’s somehow a bad thing? Yeah, Brussel Sprouts are healthier if you can handle food that tastes like ass. As for me, I’ll go with Chik-Fil-A and some watermelon.
Blacks lived mostly in the South historically. They ate foods that grew in the South and were available to poor people. Pigs and chickens for meat, and the best parts would be sold but they’ve figured out how to make good barbeque out of what’s left. Okra, watermelon, and collards grow well there. And when populations migrate (in this case to northern cities looking for work) their foods linger on as a cultural memory. Mentioning this about any group is ok (for example Italian-Americans who can’t speak a word but still make their own sauce) except for blacks. Lefties will scream at you and call you racist for mentioning soul food in any context.
I was trying to describe how the descendants of Italian immigrants have lost the language after several generations but retained their love of the food.
“white people don’t use seasoning”
Columbus tried to sail to India for nothing.
One time at the beach with some friends my wife kept trying to force some watermelon on a black guy. She was unaware of the stereotype and in her culture you have to say no about 10 times if someone is offering you food before they take you seriously. The black guy had a lot of fun with it. “Watermelon? You brought watermelon? I love watermelon!”
Afterwards my son asked, “Does Walter really like watermelon? Or was he just messing with us?” Beats me. I was afraid to ask.
Ugh, watermelon pushers are the worst. I don’t like the shit, just leave me alone already! And then when they finally stop trying to force you to eat some, then they have to have loud orgasms while they eat it, as if you’re going to get jealous that they are eating something that you don’t like.
Bigot.
@NoDakMat is absolutely correct.
Mojeaux is right about NoDakMat being right
TIL that the guy who played Gabby Johnson played an asshole cop in First Blood (on the right, laughing); and that’s a young David Caruso next to him.
But Hillary Clinton carries a bottle of hot sauce in her purse, so she’s legit.
I was gonna be all “she doesn’t know what she’s doing” until I came to this:
I have no doubt that the department is as full of corrupt wastrels as any other so more power to her if she’s trying to clean out the dead wood.
But yeah, picking fights with ThE bRaVeSt probably isn’t going to end well for her.
Both are full of it – she should have stuck with the important stuff (clear the walking dead off the rolls, new equipment, etc). Build up the record of non-compliance, and make one chief an example, pour encourager les autres, then see what happens. But she went too hard without making the case first.
Poli Sci degree, political campaign work only…. hard to learn effective leadership that way.
Exactly right.
That judge trying to encourage “Shoot, shovel and shut up” on the border instead? Because given the AZ law cited (legal to defend your property against trespassing, much less your homestead), the elderly nature of the rancher and his wife and all… I can’t imagine a jury outside of the bluest of blue enclaves seriously thinking anything but “Justified” here.
The process is the punishment.
Or, you run this one up – get a Not Guilty in 5 minutes and then can shrug in future and say “See, I can’t prosecute these!”
This is infuriating.
As per usual, the news idiots get most of the facts wrong. It is not legal to use deadly force against a trespasser in Arizona, or anywhere else, absent a separate threat.
If the rancher can’t articulate what that deadly threat was, then he’s pretty well fucked.
I’ve seen “Trespassers will be shot” signs. No idea of their legality.
Deer and turkeys can’t read but that’s their problem, near as I can figure out.
The government has always been the enemy:
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/project-cumulus-and-the-tragedy-in
The rest of the article is about a cloud seeding experiment that went wrong and killed a bunch of people.
Ummm…what? There are no convincing arguments in favor of chemtrails.
Chemtrails maybe, but the article is about a cloud-seeding experiment that went very wrong.
That specific line was about contrails vs chemtrails.
The rest of that article is something I would tend to believe, but considering the source, less so.
Weird that this comes up. There was some odd “chemtrails” advocacy on Twitter yesterday.
There may be no convincing arguments for chemtrails, but there is interesting reporting on the people who believe in them.
cut down trees that could bring down lines
The DC area complained when utilities went on a trimming spree. I assume Austin has the same type of people who want the utilities to do something but don’t want them to ruin the view.
Here, twice a year there are crews going around pruning trees back from the power lines. It leads to some really strangely shaped trees, three quarters of it is normal, then there’s a rectangle missing where the power lines go. The city I live in has also realized if you want to keep the old oaks and maples around, there’s some work the city has to do to prevent people from realizing that cutting down the trees is cheaper in the long run. This means I can call the city to come out and snake out the house drains (from the city side) every six months to get the tree roots out of it.
I’m not sure who in my city is supposed to do this type of work. It probably is the utility but only with express permission from the city, which is why it doesn’t get done.
I’ve seen the local cooperative trim. They know the easement boundaries. They will cut a tree vertically at the boundary if necessary. My sister’s property has an easement near the front. It is a clear cut lane through the woods. I have underground wires so I only have a ground easement with the tree canopy growing over it.
Yeah, they don’t do anything in a way that an arborist would approve.
Which leads to odd situations. In my city, you can’t touch a tree without a permit, beyond “maintaining proper health”.
So when the power guys come by to violently prune my big black olive, I try to get them to at least prune back symmetrically and in a way that respects the integrity of the tree.
Nope.
Whack, vertical 90 degrees, right at their prescribed setback.
So I have to pay a licensed guy to come shape it up after.
I also have a huge sea grape. They grow really fast. It developed a side branch that shoots out toward the Power lines. The branch is over 2 feet in diameter. Massive.
So I keep trying to get them to cut it all the way back at the trunk, so we don’t keep having to deal with it. (It is in a bad place to deal with large limbs without equipment)
Nope. They whack of a half ton log right at the line.
Leaving me with more than a ton of log to deal with.
Nice.
Ha. I live in the netherwilds where you pay a plumbing company a good chunk of money to replace all of your broken and battered root-filled pipes.
Yep. I may have one of the higher property taxes in the area, but snaking the plumbing from the city side pays for itself. Otherwise, there would be one less tree on my property every year.
Currently, the full grown ones are three maples and two oaks, with a fruiting mulberry tree as well. The city wants to keep the old trees around for the neighborhood. There were at least two other trees on my property at one point, as the areas the stumps were in is still noticeable.
Some Las Vegas neighborhoods are a problem. The homeowners go crazy when the power company wants to trim the palm tree they’ve been watering for 20 years. They also go crazy when power fails on a 100 degree windy day.
And of the 1800’s!
Impedimenta ergo, nunc impedimenta, semper impedimenta!
LOL you do know you’re talking to a proud “democratic socialist”, right?
At this point, could the pubsec unions even come up with a way to pay for their pensions? I think the current workers would need to contribute 100% (at least) of their pay to fund all the retirees.
Tax the rich!
Just what we need.
That doesn’t even make sense. Your state residency doesn’t determine whether you will be extradited.
Spreading peace, prosperity, and the fruits of democracy.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/06/after-earthquake-devastates-syria-us-shows-no-interest-in-lifting-sanctions/
Remember those “man on the street” interviews where they would take passages from Mein Kampf and young lefty types would say they agreed with the sentiment? I bet you could do something similar with rightwingers where you describe US foreign policy actions as something China did, and they would agree it was an act of unforgivable evil.
Aid they wouldn’t need but for the sanctions the US government imposes.
First, let’s subtract the weapons given to “moderate” rebels from the total and see how generous the US government really was.
“Ladies & gentlemen…ahh…from the flight deck. Ahhh…slight…ahh…change of plans”
https://ibb.co/s5dY32Q
Sorry, I’m trying to avoid artificial sweeteners.
I got an image.
Ok, me too. I did try several times before posting snark.
I was on a plane that did pretty much that. Some passenger was having a heart attack or something.
Be careful not to get diverted to NYC while transporting firearms.
Diverting is normal. Diverting to Iraq? Not.
Erbil is a very nice city well inside the Kurdish area. Since our 2003 invasions the quality of life is high and violence was very low. It was secure enough in 2008 even the US military didn’t openly carry weapons. I’d rather divert there than Phillie.
But this is the transportation of the future, right?
No form of transportation is 100% free from accidents. From what I’ve read, pipelines transport oil with fewer spills per mile than rail. For some reason “environmentalists” just make an angry NPC face whenever this fact is brought up.
But sitting on a bench watching trains pass is more interesting than watching a pipeline.
Just a reminder that there will be a Glibs Meetup today (Tuesday, Feb 7) at Gourmeltz restaurant in Fredericksburg starting at 4:00 PM. Mr and Mrs Hobbit will be there and hope to meet NoVA and DC Glibs.
Goumeltz is a popular libertarian hangout and noble resister of the lockdown and masking regime.
Goumeltz is a popular libertarian hangout and noble resister of the lockdown and masking regime. – hows the wine list
Non-existent.
Beer list is pretty solid though.
Wish I could be there, will be working instead.
The NY fire department article starts out implying that the new commissioner is flexing her muscles, demoting those guys just because she can, or maybe even because they’re dirty white males.
Then you read further and they point out that there is massive corruption and incompetence.
corruption and incompetence. – in New York? Impossible
Why not both?
Certainly possible.
Yeah, read the article as well. Her leadership skills aside, it seems as first glance that she’s trying to address the corruption inside yet another public sector, union based shithole. Not sure she deserves the petty tyrant tag just yet without more details.
Given we only have her statement as to what’s crossed her desk, I’d reserve judgement if I lived in NYC and hence, cared and all.
Chicken and waffles? On MEATLESS MONDAY???!!!?!?!?
meatless Monday is silly. Wednesday and Friday are Lent days.
Did you actually read that as meatless? It’s Meet Less. A holiday for introverts.
enjoyed your article last night, didnt get a chance to comment.
Only criticism, this was missing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnxkfLe4G74
I’ve never had chicken and waffles. I’ve had chicken. I’ve had waffles. I’m not seeing how combined they create a magical dish.
It’s a tasty source of much calories.
It’s put together and covered with maple syrup. If you have access to cholesterol reducing drugs you can enjoy fried chicken and waffles. I personally think it is gross and bloating. Would rather have good BBQ.
“It’s put together and covered with maple syrup.”
I’ve always used honey. Honey is good on fried chicken even without the waffles.
Syrup and buffalo sauce. And melted butter.
I personally think it is gross and bloating.
I like pancakes, but I have never had them for breakfast and felt great afterwards. The fried food plus waffle seems even worse.
It’s not bad but it’s not particularly great either. When presented with the dish, I happily eat it but it’s not something I’d ever order or prepare for myself.
Touring a Futuristic Glass Mountain Home During a Snow Storm!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6JI1rmvqdU
Property Address: 3853 E Rockport Ridge Road Park City, UT 84098
Listing Price: $29,000,000
Specs:
4 Beds 7 Baths
8,000 Sq Ft
5.61 Acre Lot
It sits privately on 5.61 view acres within Promontory and adjacent an additional 37.12 acre view corridor in Rockport Ranches to protect those amazing views of the Park City mountains.
I am sure a lot of work went into it, but it really is not my taste architecture wise, and too much stone in the interior design imo. The views are nice, but I mentioned before when it comes to mountain views I like heavily wooded, and that is not the case in Utah.
Looks like a maintenance nightmare
“And here you have the shed where the 55 gallon drums of Windex are stacked”
We’re gonna need more Flex-Tape to stop all these leaks.
This is just the daily supply?
Not enough architects are thrown in prison.
I like it, especially the roof line.
You are right, too much stone, not enough warm wood on the inside.
Soulless. Looks like a corporate retreat.
I’d be happier with a small cabin and that view. I look at that and think the heating bill must be outrageous. Very nice though.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Dog got wise after the first snowball couldn’t be found. Just humor the old guy by bringing back any snow ball.
“All the snowballs look the same to the old guy, he’ll never know the difference”
Sweet girl. Thanks, Holiness!
“Tove Lo puts on a raunchy display in a plunging gold corset with fake nipples as she takes to the stage in Nashville”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11721589/Tove-Lo-puts-raunchy-display-plunging-gold-corset-fake-nipples-attached.html
And a fake penis?
Who?
The guy that sang “Wild Thing”.
That style of tattoo that young women are getting is a crime against humanity. It looks like doodles that schoolkids scrawl randomly on their desks and homework margins.
Tattoos are a crime against humanity.
Or they’ve been a part of a great deal of humanity’s cultural traditions regardless the time or place since before the dawn of history, or whatever…
A lot of bad ideas have a long history.
Like spending countless hours painstakingly painting little figurines for no monetary gain? 😉
It keeps me out of trouble.
Like, working for the State for example. ; )
Tattoos are a good way to memorialize that you survived some bad decision. Like joining a biker gang, going to prison or enlisting in the service.
But a tattoo that you didn’t “earn”? That is stupid.
When I first read that, i read it as she’s opening for Slayer. I had to give that a second pass.
“Mother who ‘loved being outside’ is trampled to death by a herd of cows while walking her beloved cockapoo
The inquest heard that there is an average of one death a year in the UK relating to a member of the public being trampled by cattle.
During 2021 there were five fatalities but this was during Covid lockdown when more people were going out for walks.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11720349/Mother-loved-outside-trampled-death-herd-cows.html
A stampede of dairy cows?
If only the UK had enacted some common sense bovine control this could have been avoided.
In all seriousness though I was surprised when I visited Scotland at the number of free range cattle around residential areas. It’s something you don’t see here in the US. I didn’t mind it.
Oh sure, it is all fun and games until you run into a man-eater…
I thought “Man-Eating Cow” was the new Cher cover band of angry obese lesbians…
Because Hot Tuna was already taken?
Hold on there Cochise! Just because someone is accidently killed by a cow, doesn’t mean that there are legitimate uses of cows. A good guy with a cow is what we all need.
Denny Crane: mad cow.
The sheer size of cows makes them dangerous if you are not careful working around them. Doesn’t have to be a stampede… the woman could have just stepped in a hole, fell down, and then been stepped on. Or the herd was spooked by her dog and ran over her. Limousin are beef, so I’m guessing the bull was around a ton and the cows 1500 lbs.
My Jersey bull is somewhere between 1200-1500 lbs. He regularly throws 700lb round bales of hay into the air with his horns. Incredible power. Although very friendly, he’s quite capable of unintentionally killing me while being playful if I’m not careful working around him.
When I was a yoot, in one of my grosser acts of stupidity, some guys I was with and I, when the stock tank had no fish and we had an hour or two before our ride showed up, decided to try riding cows.
Amazingly, no one was hurt, let alone killed.
It is classified as a mooving violation.
Only bovine intervention will save you from Swiss and his narrowed gaze.
See Swiss doesn’t mind… but his cow… His cow doesn’t like people laughing.
Gets the funny idea they’re laughing at her….
Cows can be quite aggressive at times. Once as a kid of around twelve or so, I went fishing at one of my grandfather’s cow ponds. Two of the smaller ones were next to each other with only a thin, raised walking path separating them. I wasn’t paying attention when I started down that path before I noticed that a calf had strayed behind its mother and the rest of the herd ahead of me. The mother looked up, saw me between her and her calf, and went ballistic. Next thing I know, the entire forty odd head of cattle was chasing me across the pasture. Luckily I had about a fifty yard head start and had time to dive through the barb-wire(ouch) and get to safety. If not, I could easily have been trampled to death. Keep in mind those cows were quite familiar with me, even helped feed them at times. Didn’t matter. Once perceived as a threat they all went into protect mode.
The photo of the Holstein milk cows wasn’t what killed her – Limousin are tough, high-strung cattle that are aggressive at defending their calves. I had a neighbor that owned a registered herd – they had to sedate the cattle to do any kind of chute work.
It was probably the dog that did her in – they are more likely go after mid-size to large dogs, particularly if they aren’t familiar with them. The do was agile enough to get away, the poor lady wasn’t.
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Meh indeed — LL can die in a fire in NYC. One of those “It is probably this stupid trick… but have to try a couple of the other possibilities given I have no hints and lots of possible letters to narrow things down”… had just enough guesses to not chump.
Daily Duotrigordle #342
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Merde.
According to a report by OnX and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, “6.35 million acres of Western state lands are entirely landlocked by private lands, preventing legal access for outdoor recreation without permission from a neighboring landowner.” The report is particularly critical of the lack of transparency in record-keeping; it says that of 37,000 U.S. Forest Service easements, only 5,000 have been digitized, leading to incomplete and difficult-to-access information on private land.
The battle for open access to public lands is a familiar one to Bay Area residents. Since 2008, there’s been an ongoing legal battle between billionaire Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla and San Mateo County locals over Martins Beach. After buying property nearby, Khosla closed the only road that gave access down to the beach. A series of lawsuits has closed and reopened the beach to the public.
And this Martins Beach example will be used as a wedge to pry open gates elsewhere, for the benefit of literally dozens of people.
Meanwhile, abuse and destruction of private access has caused landowners to close off what once were access points.
Reminded me to check up on the status of White’s Ferry. Still no eminent domain to get the ferry running again.
That’s gotta sting…
Japan Ends Multibillion-Dollar Bid to Enter Passenger-Jet Market
I never understood why they wanted this particular size segment either.
It was mostly regulatory and union roadblocks rather than technical issues. But, not to worry, they’ve got government money coming in:
“The company said some of the passenger jet’s engineers would move over to the military project.”
Man, this fighter has the worst armrests!
Remember the little ashtrays?
My 1st leave after AIT I got to ride in the back of the plane and smoke cigs…
Summer of 1997, in a Luftwaffe C-130 flying from Ramstein AFB to Sarajevo….German NCO comes back to our area and lights up. All the Americans that smoke look surprised, grin at the German, he shrugs and suddenly I am sitting in a cloud bank of cigarette smoke.
Yeah – artificial size constraints at regional carriers per the article.
No idea what the US issue was with the wiring design. I’m sure it was something that protects entrenched entrants.
It was an underserved segment at the time that smaller companies not named Boeing or Airbus could still compete in. See Bombardier and Embraer, among others.
Coincidentally, or not, my MRJ coffee mug broke last weekend.
OT: Amazon JP has some screwed up shipping right now. Insanely expensive for small items but large bulky items are dirt cheap. Less that 4000JPY for a kotatsu where before it was 20k+JPY for shipping.
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/zzehl5/amazon_jp_major_shipping_cost_increase/
Yes, but do I really need a kotatsu?
OTH, a dakimakura.,,
(LOL – spellchecker in my browser has no idea what a kotatusu is but dakimakura is just A-OK.)
Just tell your family central heating is too expensive so it’s being turned off.
The MRJ’s were doing flight testing right here in Bumfuck, WA. They were nice enough to donate all of their testing equipment and tools to the local A&P school a year or 2 ago. I’m surprised they are just getting around to making it official.
A middle school in New York and its food vendor, Aramark, apologized after students were served chicken and waffles, along with watermelon on the first day of Black History Month.
The lunch menu offered on February 1 at Nyack Middle School in Rockland County was “inexcusably insensitive and reflected a lack of understanding of our district’s vision to address racial bias,” David A. Johnson, the school’s principal, wrote in a letter to parents.
“We are extremely disappointed by this regrettable situation and apologize to the entire Nyack community for the cultural insensitivity displayed by our food service provider,” Johnson wrote.
I don’t see the problem. And I never got these things while in school.
The incident is the latest example of how Black people continue battling misguided stereotypes about their fondness for certain foods and racist tropes against them.
Maybe chicken and waffles is just chicken and waffles.
BUT THE SUBTEXT!
Would it help if they made it a BIPOC only meal?
Or maybe if the forced all white people to eat only chicken and watermelon?
These anti-racist initiatives are confusing…..
Make the meal BIPOC only, and white students are forced to eat boneless skinless unseasoned chicken breasts while getting ridiculed by the black students for their lack of rhythm.
Wonder what’s on the menu in the middle of March or the beginning of May? I bet turkey is served around thanksgiving.
Link to this schools lunch menu
No outrage for fiesta nachos? And the lunch on the 17th is particularly awful.
The whole thing looks terrible. Mozzarella sticks as an entree?
Spaghetti and veiny meat sauce, or mystery meat (also with plentiful veins) in a gelatinous brown “gravy” was what we got. And those were among the better offerings. Most students just used their lunch money to buy the fund raiser candy bars kids were always selling.
Next year they should serve hog jowls and collard greens.
in Europe we call them pork cheeks not jowls.
I make some dope collards.
Bacon grease?
What kind of hot sauce?
I use a stovetop pressure cooker.
Separate the stems from the leaves, slice up. Roll the leaves and slice into ribbons.
Into the pressure cooker (mine is a 5 qt PRESTO thats about 60 years old and holds around 1 1/2 “bunch”) with a cup or 2 of chicken broth/stock.
1/2 onion (to taste) sliced. 3-4 cloves minced garlic (to taste), 1 tablespoon of bacon grease. About 1/3 lb smoked cottage ham butt sliced.
Slam on lid, bring to pressure, reduce heat until the weight is moving slowly.
About 20 minutes later and the house is stinky, you got some greens.
You don’t eat the stems?
My ex wife was a student at NC A&T for a while (an HBCU).
For homecoming they have chitterlings (pronounced chitlin’s). The whole campus is a festival of football, and there are pots of the odiferous offal cooking away everywhere.
I am not in the area any more… I wonder if they have canceled themselves?
It doesn’t get much more 90s than this!
30 years ago today, 2Unlimited went to number 1 in the UK Chart with No Limit
https://twitter.com/AbsoluteRadio90/status/1622947120503304194
“the demotions by Kavanagh, the FDNY’s first female commissioner, were designed to flex her muscle at the 150-year-old Big Apple department”
GRRLBOSS!
Today in propaganda…..
This morning i had an eerie feeling that this is what it felt like in the Soviet Union. Not the propaganda machine itself, but dealing with other people.
The wife loves Today and Savannah and Hoda. So this morning they covered the Chinese Spy Balloon and the Trump administration and I got to watch parallel realities form. Yesterday everyone reported that the Trump administration had let 3 spy balloons go over the US and had done nothing! DOD officials gave an “on background” briefing to select members of the press, and this was the talking point of the day.
Propaganda works. And our propaganda has gotten quite advanced.
This was a great example
https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1621980643608363008?t=ea0HvtiZCWzqtAraGZuf8w&s=19
The useful idiots are terrifying. As in, “off to the gas chamber” level terrifying.
This guy went from “no big deal, leave it alone” to “shooting it down was heroic” in a half an hour.
A half-hour people.
In writing.
In public.
Think that guy wouldn’t happily and proudly march people like us into a hastily prepared trench somewhere?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s paid.
https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/harry-sisson.html
Maybe not, but he’s a prime candidate for it, like BrooklynDadDefiant.
I can only hope Id be around to see the look on his face when it’s his turn in the trench.
Useful idiots in that sort of regime have a limited shelf-life.
And grinning while he does it.
This was quickly denied by Trump administration officials, which was met by an army of blue check marks calling them liars and posting memes about how Trump was the most dishonest president ever and they all lie….
And that lasted a couple of hours until the current administration admitted that the Trump white house may have never known about it. There is a wonderful clip of the White House press secretary trying to handle a question about that.
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1622696260401565703?t=rHkU4F_QUWhLIlRiq49YOQ&s=19
The last I heard on that was that the DOD hid it from the administration and DOD political appointees. (sounds like a big story)
So, I was interested to hear where the propaganda machine would end up with this story. Enter Today on NBC.
They mentioned the spy balloon and said that pentagon officials have said that 3 Chinese spy balloons “briefly entered US airspace during the Trump administration”. They then reported that “Trump officials have said that they didn’t know anything about that”.
And the final spin?
The White House has offered to brief Trump administration officials on what happened with the balloons.
Brilliant!
So, the story is now that Biden bravely shot a spy balloon down – but compassionately waited a week until it had traversed the entire country in order to avoid risking american lives. The Trump administration was not able to handle 3 such incidents, and were so incompetent that they need to be tutored by a generous Biden administration.
No mention of Generals hiding important security information from the elected officials who need that information to make proper decisions. No mention of the “secret briefing” given to the press in order to deflect and create a “fake news” story about the prior administration. Just…. here ya go. Trump was incompetent, but the grownups are back in charge.
And this is the reality that a major chunk of america lives in. They don’t come to places like this. They don’t read political stuff on Twitter. They just catch the local news, or maybe catch the news in the car. The propaganda reality is the only reality for them.
One particular conversation at a kids baseball game turned really angry when I pulled up FBI statistics on the topic. The folks on the other side didn’t even want to see it. This challenged their reality, and they weren’t having it. I have no doubt that the same people now believe that police shoot people for being black on a daily basis in america, and no police are ever shot.
So that is what we face. It is kinda surreal. We watched the creation of a hoax and the revelation of dangerous dysfunction in the military chain of command… and the world pretends it didn’t happen.
So it didn’t happen.
Well, on the plus side, I can now read histories of the Soviet Union and other repressive regimes and totally understand how the population went along with it all.
The same people still believe in the Russian piss hookers who stole the election from Herself.
They can’t be helped.
And I don’t think there is any solution that doesn’t involve things getting really ugly.
It’s not that people go along with it. You see how people push it.
The folks on the other side didn’t even want to see it. This challenged their reality, and they weren’t having it.
The natural state of man.
“The Nogales, Mexico resident’s identity was later confirmed because of a Mexican voter registration card he carried.”
Also valid for democratic primaries.
The incident is the latest example of how Black people continue battling misguided stereotypes about their fondness for certain foods and racist tropes against them.
And the kid in the back of the room says, “But I like chicken and waffles. Better than that crappy pizza they torture the Italian kids with.”
Dave Chappelle had a great bit about that early in his career.
What’s on the menu for Saint Patrick’s Day?
Non-alcoholic beer with green food coloring, cabbage boiled to death, the fatty webbing from overboiled salt brisket with a few meat strands, oh, and mashed potatos from a box.
The fatty webbing with bits of meat was disgusting.
My wife makes Guinness stew and soda bread.
That is why I look for corned beef rounds and use the pressure cooker instead of boiling.
Brisket is not a versitile cut and has to be cooked slowly to render out all that fat.
Do you have a the recipe for the soda bread?
My wife has the recipe.
I use a crock pot.
Having visited Ireland, I can confirm that this holiday is on point.
Well, except they only drink one beer. And they will happily fight if you don’t join them
Black History MonthDelicious Food Month
Love will find a way (this romantic story was almost a Ray of Sunshine)
So glory holes are not just for gay bars.
Living up to his name.
Best Japanese Maury Povich episode evah!
あなたは父親です
+ 1 ダース ベイダー
The zoo loudspeakers kept playing Pablo Cruise.
honey ☭ 🔜 furvana ‘23
@honeythemonkey
never joining cpusa sorry guys
https://twitter.com/honeythemonkey/status/1622673257102200833
it seems commie furries favor violent revolution
“the autistic monkey furry 22f ML indigenous, punk, ☭ she/it DNI: bootlickers, bigots, blue lives. 18+ NSFW by default. acab blm landback ” – sounds stable.
“Wherever possible”
Commies hate Titty Tuesday so do your patriotic duty and salute the tits.
https://archive.ph/S2KyD
Atração Especial – Desfile Moda Íntima: Bésame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt2PD7zpkjo
Gesundheit.
Regarding the kidnapped children. I want to know how the nutbag mother was supporting herself. She was apparently living in AirBnB places with the children; those places cost money. Assuming she wasn’t (legally) employed due to outstanding kidnapping warrant. Were her family supporting her? Does that make them accessories to kidnapping?
crypto
What’s Superman’s dog have to do with anything?
He’s trying to protect people from Supergirl’s Horse.
Based on the law, these charges are interesting to say the least.
Dude is going to get railroaded because of an illegal alien trespassing.
The Models Are OK, the Predictions Are Wrong | Dr. Judith Curry | EP 329
Jordan B Peterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q2YHGIlUDk&t=1s
I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here’s How It Works.
Sabine Hossenfelder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqu5DjzOBF8
After scheduling two hours of sick time for my annual checkup, I only needed half an hour – and that included a trip through Tim Hortons’ drive-thru.
This new doctor is entirely too efficient. 😒
half an hour seems like enough time,. women are never happy.
I just didn’t necessarily want to get to work that quickly.
Your Timbits disagree with your assessment, GT.
Opted for the omelette bites instead. They were OK but underwhelming.
50 Timbit Bucket or else!
With countless individual roads and easements in California mixing public and private property, there are no clear solutions to the problem, said Ben Ryder Howe, a freelancer for the New York Times.
“A checkerboard pattern is basically a guarantee of future conflict,” Howe said.
Obviously, the solution is state ownership and control of all lands.
Oh for fuck’s sake… Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is being a dumbass again.
The DC courts are such a complete shitshow all around…
In a functioning legal system, she’d be thrown off the bench for trying to hijack the case.
I hope any jury that is empaneled for this case uses the the same 13 amendment argument.
See, the period of time when a woman is birthing a child is called labor, and we can’t force people into labor against their will, hurr durr.
Unless they’re conscripted. That’s perfectly okay. So is corvee.
And I thought they had their hands full processing all the political prisoners Joe is throwing at them.
No RedState Trigger Warning?
“Looking back on the coverage of Trump
Seven and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country’s forty-fifth president—first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of ratings and clicks).
No narrative did more to shape Trump’s relations with the press than Russiagate. The story, which included the Steele dossier and the Mueller report among other totemic moments, resulted in Pulitzer Prizes as well as embarrassing retractions and damaged careers. For Trump, the press’s pursuit of the Russia story convinced him that any sort of normal relationship with the press was impossible.
For the past year and a half, CJR has been examining the American media’s coverage of Trump and Russia in granular detail, and what it means as the country enters a new political cycle. Investigative reporter Jeff Gerth interviewed dozens of people at the center of the story—editors and reporters, Trump himself, and others in his orbit.
The result is an encyclopedic look at one of the most consequential moments in American media history….”
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-ed-note.php
Very long, but perhaps worth reading if you have the time.
I have recommended it everywhere. It is an extremely self-serving piece that bends over backwards to shield his buddies in the press* from the real implications of what we have learned.
But it is still damning, nonetheless.
And the timeline he puts together is useful.
* as you can see from the promotional blurb, he assumes that everyone involved is acting in good faith and is just biased. This is no longer a sustainable position.
I see it as three categories: true believers, sociopaths, and the terrified.
And the bail being set is insanely high
I’m sure the lefties from the Bail Project will be there with a check directly.
Extinction Rebellion Horsham
@XRHorsham
Good data here. Global North must cut CO2 emissions faster than 1.5C pathways suggest, since impossible for some Global South countries to transition faster than is actually possible.
https://twitter.com/XRHorsham/status/1622865032110305280
Maybe NY-ers just aren’t that smart?
I have hunted out of Sydney, MT and it is a nice place (not as swanky as nearby Glendive, but still nice).
I can actually see that tripping up an inexperienced traveler.
Mind you there are plenty of other warnings signs. It doesn’t say if he flew out of metro NYC or not, but domestic and international are pretty clear.
The price might have been another tip-off.
Or the fact that there are no nonstop flights and he had to change planes multiple times, plus it was listed on his itinerary.
I’m calling bullshit on the thing. I think it’s an attention seeking stunt. Or he’s trying to get a free/discounted trip to Australia.
Sounds more plausible than “I figured it out as we were landing”
I’ve known a lot of New Yorkers in my day.
We’re morons.
I recall years ago hearing of an instance where someone (American) intended to fly to Oakland, CA, but ended up in Auckland, NZ.
See?? I keep telling you all that it doesn’t pay to travel by air!
Portlands seem to get confused with regularity.
TBF, the one in OR was named after the one in ME.
Was he NYPD?
There’s a chain of stored called Ollie’s that sells overstock stuff cheap. There are two near me. One is pristine, the other looks like that cover photo.
I think I may be black pilled.
I am so cynical now, I mistrust everything from the state.
There was a story this morning that they arrested a “couple” who intended to attack the power grid in Baltimore. They said they were motivated by racist extremism. (Literally the words used)
I instantly found it suspect, based only on that short description.
1. It is a couple? Meaning just 2 people. I am assuming they are a romantic couple and live together. Yet the FBI discovered their 2 person plot and foiled it?
2. “Racist extremism”. Can’t be just extremists. Or racists. Gotta describe them as racist extremists? You had a single paragraph to get out the bullet point on the news, and that was the critical favt?
I immediately and with no justification beyond having lived through the past decade assumed that some FBI informants had put them up to it after the substation in the Carolinas.
I think I may be black pilled. – that can be defined in different ways
I am so cynical now, I mistrust everything from the state. – this should be standard
It’s not cynicism – it’s recognition of reality. It is an impossibility to be cynical about government.
Yup — mentioned here yesterday I believe and comparisons to the Michigan militia and other glowie induced idiocy immediately sprung up.
I’m black pilled much of the time, too. I’ve lately been saying that anything that seems like a conspiracy theory is not only true, but 10x worse than it looks.
The Twitter files proved this.
I don’t think anyone had “the deep state operating out of the FBI and dozens of other agencies is controlling the press and the big tech companies” as their explanation for the growing propaganda machine.
I asked many times, particularly at Reason, “waht is the command and control mechanism?”, expecting some journo-list style group of the press and think tanks and the DNC. I did not have “the CIA is running a psyop through the FBI” on my dance card.
racist extremists
I just call them progressives.
For the past year and a half, CJR has been examining the American media’s coverage of Trump and Russia in granular detail, and what it means as the country enters a new political cycle. Investigative reporter Jeff Gerth interviewed dozens of people at the center of the story—editors and reporters, Trump himself, and others in his orbit.
What did we learn? People see exactly what they bare looking for, and believe precisely what conforms to their preconceptions.
Worse, we learned that a major chunk of people will continue to believe lies they were told, even after the lies have been revealed and admitted in public. Even highly educated people.
Example: Judge Sullivan. DOJ handed him proof that Flynn was framed and he refused to allow him to go free.
Admitting fault or mistakes is verboten.
Once the narrative is set, it must be adhered to lest someone important be embarrassed or a bureaucrat lose their job. Accountability is completely unimportant compared to the prestige and authority of the SYSTEM. Just ask Sam Harris or Neil deGrasse Tyson.
If people realize the SYSTEM is bullshit, what happens to people like Tyson and Harris? Their importance is directly related to the integrity of the system. If people realize that the stamp of approval they have gotten from the system means nothing, they may also realize that these guys are not deep thinkers at all. They are just people who are good on TV who also happen to have a Phd.
Media Intellectuals will be the most vehement defenders of the status quo.
Tyson is a midwit who got lucky, an asshat with a credential and some popularity.
Harris is a scary SOB who would rationalize the extermination of political dissenters in order to preserve the system that made him.
It’s why governments with democratic elements are doomed to failure. People will believe the moon’s made out of green cheese if you propagandize them enough and the intelligence agencies have figured that out. Oh, and the highly educated ones are lying.
Alternative take. The truth doesn’t matter. The system is corrupt. You are trying to explain to people about rules in a game that no longer exists.
We’re watching the death throes of dying empire. The sole concern of the people at the helm is simply looting as much as possible while still possible.
And I’ll add the disclaimer that accepting the system is irreversibly nonredeemable doesn’t make me black pilled, nihilistic, or depressed.
People see exactly what they bare looking for
I hate those boring small minded people. What a bunch of nudeniks
NY doing its part to provide housing for the middle class in NYC.
New York Rent Regulation Is Upheld by Appeals Court
2. “Racist extremism”. Can’t be just extremists. Or racists. Gotta describe them as racist extremists? You had a single paragraph to get out the bullet point on the news, and that was the critical favt?
Some kinds of extremism are perfectly justified. Like Democratic Socialism, or hating Trump with every fiber of your being.
Old and busted: Integration
New hotness: segregation
Principal in an elementary school in @OlympiaSchools created a “safe space” race-based club which meets during school. The club is only for BIPOC students and excludes white students. https://mynorthwest.com/3796233/rantz-elementary-school-bans-white-students-from-safe-space-club/
Again… if they seriously want to get society to the point of “Here’s a ticket to Liberia and some starting cash. Now go the hell away and I never want to hear from you again.”, I can’t think of what they’d be doing differently.
I really miss the late ’90s / early ’00s when it really felt like most people (okay, Compton, Detroit, etc. were obviously not this way) didn’t give a rat’s behind about race. Thank you inflaming grifters.
State school? Unconstitutional. Sue.
Happy Black History Month kids, enjoy your gefilte fish and borscht. Do something that relates, you’re screwed; don’t acknowledge it, you’re screwed…to hell with all of it.
I don’t celebrate ____ Month for any value of ____.
What I think of every time I hear Black History Month.
If I were black, I think I might be insulted by just getting a month when black history happens every day.
Even Top Man Walter Russell Mead at the WSJ is becoming disappointed.
The World Rejects the Wilsonian Order
Now there is somebody who believes his own bullshit.
Centralizing government increases liberty don’t you know.
I think there’s a very strong case to be made that WWI would have ended better all around if Wilson hadn’t stuck his stupid nose in. At least Congress was smart enough to tell him to go fuck himself on the League.
Really wish the whole stupid “we must have colonies (no matter how worthless) for national prestige!” thing hadn’t happened. Us in Cuba / Phillippines… Germany causing friction over overseas colonies and feeding Tirpitz / Wilhelm on the whole navy thing that pissed England off… all for crap that was never going to feed resources back to the homeland as if it was Spanish North America again. Sigh. What a fucking waste.
It had been going on further back. No colonies, but we sent a delegation to the Berlin Conference.
*flails around in indecision because no roolz*
At least the commenters aren’t buying all of it.
But a lot of them are. Interesting that people still believe the IMF is something other than an economic weapon.
I’ve been reading some cold-war era political biographies lately, and it’s quite horrible how much everyone used to hang on Wilson’s nuts…
No idea what the US issue was with the wiring design. I’m sure it was something that protects entrenched entrants.
“That’s how they did it on the B-29, goddammit.”
Maybe the problem with chicken, waffles and watermelon was too many students gorged themselves until they got sick?
I wish somebody’s insult me with some fried chicken and waffles. I’m starving.
Heh… that’s a good one.
It’s insurrection then.
A mob of #trans activists took over the Oklahoma Capitol building to try & stop the state’s Republican lawmakers from passing bills that would outlaw the transitioning of minors & require teachers to inform parents if students identify as trans.
Trespass, disrupting an official proceeding, entering and remaining on restricted grounds, disorderly conduct, seditious conspiracy, etc.
Oh, who am I kidding? These people have the “correct” politics.
Move to California.
How about just an arrest and fine for disturbing the piece or trespassing or some shit just like it should have been for the people involved with The Day That Must Not be Named.
The voting patterns in Oklahoma indicate they are definitely a minority.
https://results.okelections.us/OKER/?elecDate=20221108
It is very irritating that they are allowed in to disrupt like that, considering what happens to people on the other end of the political spectrum. The protest should have been outside.
were they furries?
EVERYBODY on Twitter jumped on that obvious comparison. I saw it mentioned 100 times before I saw the news, and every one had that exact take.
When I looked this morning, the counter offensive was just beginning. They will not let this obvious joke stand.
“We apologize for the unintentional insensitivity shown on February 1, the first day of Black History Month. While our menu was not intended as a cultural meal, we acknowledge that the timing was inappropriate, and our team should have been more thoughtful in its service,” the company said.
I used to love the soul food in the college dining halls every February, and the workers loved that this big white boy loved their cornbread and collard greens.
Hm….I could go for some Hoppin’ John.
But soul food does not have enough protein
It does if you use it as a means to flavor ham.
Have you ever actually had soul food?
Well if you mean made in the US obviously no. But fried foods are bad for squatting
That’s what the fried chicken livers are for.
And I know folks know — but stating for the record, the non-elite southern caucasians love this stuff too. Not exclusively black by any means — one obvious hint was the propensity to fry stuff… not like Scots-Irish are known for that or anything after all….
Yeah… blackeyed peas and collards are a staple for my dad. I never did learn to eat blackeyes or pinto beans. Not my thing.
But collards, okra, fried… well, anythjng…. yeah. That is southern food. It ain’t just a CP thing.
We have a local soul food place. We got some takeout a few weeks ago. I was the only white guy in the place. The food was great.
reading european archaeology from 10 years ago. you read things like “so and so argues that the battle axe culture and pitted ware culture were not ethnically different, they just expressed different lifestyles of the same people.”
now we know they were genetically totally diff
https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1622771878975750144
I though doing genetics in archeology was totally problematic and not ok.
Oh no! My Congressman is a wage thief!
I don’t know if I’d be bragging about how I inherited $80M and the best I could do is a couple coffee shops.
Better Penny’s coffee shops than Sheldon’s. They’ll only serve you a hot beverage if you’re upset.
What you did there was seen.
Japan-based company Takikou Sewing introduced its new onion-shaped goofy beanbag that’s designed to let wearers relax anywhere, anytime
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1622945774815289344
Obese people have this built in.
Holy shit.
That would be my niece.
Better than thinking she’s a boy and demanding a doctor chop her breasts off, I guess.
‘Anxiety’…
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity.
The Biden administration distributed “Black Resistance” flyers to U.S. Border Patrol agents that celebrated the Black Lives Matter movement and anti-American activist Colin Kaepernick, causing a stir among officers who criticized the agency’s promotion of groups that hate law enforcement.
The agency circulated a poster that features the words #BlackPower, #BlackLivesMatter, and “Abolitionist,” as well as watermarked images of Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) and Kaepernick, according to a copy of the flyer obtained by Townhall. The flyer infuriated officers, who say the agency is promoting people who “hate” them.
I would say I don’t really get why this would be provided, but the point is to perpetually push the proggy/leftists racial narrative.
The people who promote that crap truly believe that they’re winning hearts and minds. They’re idiots.
Guess what guys, the current administration hates you too.
Read the room much?
Also irrationally cynical… this south carolina murder trial.
The wife, being a middle aged woman, loves crime drama. So she is all over this case. There was a documentary and everything.
I didn’t follow it at all.
So yesterday she recounts the tale, telling me of this scumbag lawyer who stole millions from his partners and from the kids of his housekeeper who died falling down the stairs. He is a prosecutor in a long line of prosecutors, with significant wealth and power in a corrupt system.
There are more details of corruption, but you get the idea.
So his wife and son are murdered. Execution style. They have video from the kids cell phone of dad and son having a great morning, just minutes before the murder.
The state says dad murdered them because his lawfirm just found out he was stealing and that made him murder his family.
I immediately went “huh?” That makes no sense at all. Apparently he executed them with 2 different guns? Shortly after having a great time with no signal of any friction?
“Dude is mixed up in organized crime and they want their money back” was my immediate gut reaction.
Then I hear that the judge is letting in all sorts of stuff about financial crimes. That sounds shady.
But court TV didn’t say that, so I am crazy.
Hours later, check with the LawTube guys. They all seem to think the whole story and case is shady. They agreed that letting in financial crimes evidence (especially stealing the settlement from his housekeepers kid) was clearly prejudicial. They say “this judge clearly wants a conviction”
This, even though the dude is going to get life on his financial crimes.
Odd that you have to go to Rickeita and company to hear a straightforward legal take.
Strange, we seem to be married to the same woman. I haven’t bothered to look it up after getting the 10 minute summary when I got home last night.
I do like how every psychopath murder story becomes a reference whenever we have relationship difficulties. Doesn’t color perceptions and assumptions at all.
Do you have an iron anti-decapitation collar?
/Samurai
Coincidentally i saw an article about the gender divide on true crime entertainment. Like 90% of the viewership of that stuff is women. Both the documentaries and the drama like Law and Order.
Im not defending anyone, but with the PRC “spy balloon” floating over the US, could we have played our own disinformation game by fucking with it’s telemetry, jamming signals, or maybe when it was over ICBM sites sent them pictures of Lena Dunham ?
That is funny stuff.
Also, not funny. Nobody needs to see that.
Also, also… every time it comes up it bears repeating… she bragged about molesting her sister. And a major chunk of the left celebrated her bravery.
Hmm, I’m sitting in a meeting at a local government building and that web page is blocked.
Sad. Mutual love of BLAM! wasn’t enough to overcome political differences.
On the upside, now that Brownells is ceasing to do business with Karl “all MAGATs should be shot” Kasarda, their WWSD builds and parts are 30% off, so get them while you can (unless you live in NY or CA).
Kasada was always a giant tool. I have no idea why Ian hooked up with him…
It lead to a good AR being available for 30% off, so it wasn’t all bad.
Complete lowers out of stock. 🙁
Epsom College deaths: Teacher and daughter shot by husband, police believe
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-64544884
The head teacher of Epsom College was shot dead by her husband, before he killed their daughter and took his own life with the same gun, police believe.
George Pattison, who had a gun licence, is believed to have killed Emma Pattison and seven-year-old Lettie at the family home in school grounds.
I do not want to sue a tragedy for a political point, but this shows that gun licensing does not work and a total ban is needed
Don’t get all salty about it.
*narrows gaze*
When it rains, it pours.
I sea what you did there.
BBQ is muh-racisms.
Who knew Townsend was a white-supreme?
Slow cooking meat was totally an invention of American slaves.
Yup… Cro-magnons were well known for their fast cooking convection ovens, after all. :eyeroll:
saw that when it came out… the author looks like someone investigating food.
You white devils need to stop appropriating the foods of the oppressed. Stick to Wonderbread and whole milk.
At least we’re not limited to only crackers.
I knew this would happen. Nothing has made me hate government more than working for one. I should have listened.
I still think this is an opportunity for personal growth.
Take a deep breath, cover yourself in syrup, then surround yourself with fried chicken. If any white people ask questions just scream RACIST!!! at the top of your lungs until you receive that promotion.
b a s e d
Bravo!!!
You have the right attitude. I am in a similar situation, working government adjacent.
Nothing has made me hate government more than working for one. – that is because you didn’t graft enough
There was a graft window that closed around 2010. I’m now in a buying position where I can’t be bought. Sucks.
The first photo of the unconquerable Salman Rushdie since his stabbing in August: In the new issue of the @NewYorker
https://
https://twitter.com/OrenKessler/status/1622618847437094912
UK Prime Minister
@10DowningStreet
United Kingdom government organization
🆕 With the approval of His Majesty The King, the Prime Minister has announced the creation of four new departments.
These departments will ensure the right skills and teams are delivering for the British people.
https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1622913698061746177
exactly what the UK was missing more government departments. Also the first one is an oxymoron
So they’re trying to make Brazil a reality.
I’d love to see a government seriously take on energy security (netzero is a matter of opinion… in this house, we obey the second law of thermodynamics!). Serious look at gridded small scale reactors, etc… if feasible, grease the regulatory gears and get them a’building. Actual spent fuel storage and/or reprocessing (depending on what fuel, what’s usable, what’s economic, etc.) contracts up front, etc. Lock it all in so the lawsuits can’t derail it.
And tie all the flying pigs to the windmill, because it is just as flipping likely. Sigh.
The appointees give it all away.
Kemi Bandenoch seemed to be the most pro free marked of the UK conservatives in the last leadership election iirc.
Good morning, Sloop!
God, I love that band. Enjoy their magic.
Me too. And I do. Great antidote for the lynx!
In case people missed it, the ECB said last week that they were going to start buying ESG corporate bonds.
Blackrock is going to get bailed out in the near term, but the long term prospects for the EU look like dogshit and I will celebrate when Larry Fink is unemployed.
when in conversation with some friends I mentioned the phrase “ECB balance sheet” all I saw was blank stares. No one had any idea what that was. And these are fairly young educated people who work in tech. So you would expect they have some idea.
They’ll get an idea once those tech companies can’t find funding anymore.
“Yes, we can give you a loan…at 29.99%”
Re: Chicken & Waffles, I’m going to use this excuse to (again) post a clip from my favorite John Cusak/Tim Robbins movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnBZMngx97o
Grouse Point Pluck?
Related.
My favorite Cusack/Robbins collaboration is High Fidelity. Robbins getting clobbered with an air conditioner makes it worth him being in the movie at all.
The “incel” moral crisis
Don’t meme violent criminals into existence
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-incel-moral-crisis/
Just about every culture on the planet has some amazing food. That kind of cultural exchange makes people less racist. But the people in charge aren’t interested in less racism, are they?
Just about every culture on the planet has some amazing food – except the Irish
Hey, I like corned beef and cabbage…
See? There is some gross stuff out there, but usually something great as well.
The Irish are the inspiration for “white people don’t use seasoning.”
I will beat you to death with boxty!
Biden’s State of the Union Prep: No Acronyms and Tricks to Conquer a Stutter
Paywalled. Love that Team Biden is trying to get out ahead via its friends at the NYT of how Biden is likely going to mess something up.
archive.fo is your friend
I see they’re still pushing the idea of a “stutter” to cover his incoherent gibberish.
Those boots won’t lick themselves, friend-o!
His mild aphasia is as clear as day. It’s so common and unremarkable that any doctor that doesn’t point it out is lying by omission.
First I’ve heard of that.
Why do I get shades of “whoever isn’t clapping the loudest gets a bullet in the head” when I hear that Joe is about to say something.
Woody Woodpecker hard at work…
Picture shows incredible find in house’s walls
This is what pellet guns were invented for
I hate when woodpeckers use my gutters to signal their territory. It’s better than a previous house where they used the chimney cap.
Could be that Woody is smarter than we are and knows something we don’t.
Mystery
Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the federal government Monday to investigate why Californians are seeing unusually high natural gas bills this winter. In a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the California Democrat requested that the agency assess “whether market manipulation, anti-competitive behavior, or other anomalous activities” are driving elevated prices in the Western U.S. Families across California are opening up their utility bills to discover eye-popping charges. Wholesale natural gas prices are up 63% since October, according to Bloomberg.
While an early burst of cold winter weather contributed to the jump, Newsom said that it “cannot explain the extent and longevity of the price spike.”
We don’t know whose fault it was, but we know whose fault it wasn’t.
When you tell somebody their days are numbered they don’t tend to invest for the long term.
Pink Floyd Feud Spills Out Into Public As Roger Waters, David Gilmour Go At it
Want to see my shocked face? Meanwhile anybody here in my office under 30 is like, “Who?”
Sounds like Gilmour needs to keep his wife on a leash.
She’s not wrong, however. But the UK has some pesky libel laws. Should be fun.
It’s been “spilling out into public” for a couple decades. Asshole v. Douchebag
The Democratic governor has launched a campaign to impose a penalty on oil companies when their refinery profits rise above a certain threshold and to use the revenue to provide consumer rebates. Newsom called for a special session last year to tackle the proposal but lawmakers have not yet made any substantial progress.
Governor Robin Hood.
Robin Hood stole from the tax collectors.
Because that new cost of business will bring the cost down.
“He has identified himself in court as a rancher, but also appears to dabble in self-published fiction about ranch life in the border region ”
Which glib is missing?
Scholarship
Many people think of commuting as a chore and a waste of time. However, during the remote work surge resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, several journalists curiously noted that people were – could it be? – missing their commutes. One woman told The Washington Post that even though she was working from home, she regularly sat in her car in the driveway at the end of the workday in an attempt to carve out some personal time and mark the transition from work to nonwork roles.
As management scholars who study the interface between peoples’ work and personal lives, we sought to understand what it was that people missed when their commutes suddenly disappeared.
In our recently published conceptual study, we argue that commutes are a source of “liminal space” – a time free of both home and work roles that provides an opportunity to recover from work and mentally switch gears to home.
During the shift to remote work, many people lost this built-in support for these important daily processes. Without the ability to mentally shift gears, people experience role blurring, which can lead to stress. Without mentally disengaging from work, people can experience burnout.
We believe the loss of this space helps explain why many people missed their commutes.
I don’t doubt that this is true, for some people, but this just smacks of a wider institutional desperation on the part of academics to impose some sort of contrived order on random shit.
In the same vein, they had a story this morning on the radio news. The CDC says that the shift to working from home led to mass migration from cities. A new study finds that living in a rural setting increases heart disease.
In our recently published conceptual study, we argue that commutes are a source of “liminal space” – a time free of both home and work roles that provides an opportunity to recover from work and mentally switch gears to home.
I’ve been working from home for over a decade – there’s certainly something to having a buffer period between work and home. I do sort of miss it a bit (it was just 4 stops on the T, with a very short walk on either side). I read more, if nothing else.
We worked from home a couple weeks at the start of the scamdemic. The only commute I miss is the one from the bedroom to my home office while in my underwear 5 minutes before I had to log in and work.
We have a lot of military expertise floating around here.
Anyone have an opinion as to why they used a missile on that balloon instead of cannons? Seems like cannon would have been better to bring it down in one piece (since a missile is going to target the payload). An F-15 should have been able to perforate that balloon pretty well.
Also… anyone have an opinion as to why you shoot it down after it leaves US soil? Seems an odd choice at that point.
Canada shot down an escaped weather balloon and it took six days to descend. Another glib noted low pressure high volume so such leaks don’t cause big losses of He.
They shot it down within US territorial waters. I’m assuming they wanted the least chance of hitting anybody or anything on the ground.
Lots of related things. You really want one big hole instead of lots of little ones that may never add up to enough ventilation for it to come down where and when you want it. Get it done all at once instead of having to try again and again. Missile gives you range to work with since you have such a high closing speed. Etc.
Short version – either political panic, or the IC is lying and we’re exploiting the drone as we speak.
Ahh.
The ’80s were a special time.
Hey Tundra, I sent you an email about this weekend, hope I still have the right address.
Yep! Just responded.
There’s my girl.
A new study finds that living in a rural setting increases heart disease.
It’s all the fried chicken, and bacon and eggs.
Unreal.
https://www.energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/480700/scottish-power-wind-farm-turbines-diesel-generators/
Daily ray of sunshine
Boeing is planning to slash around 2,000 jobs this year, primarily in finance and human resources, to simplify its corporate structure.
The U.S. planemaker confirmed to FOX Business Digital on Monday that the job cuts will come through a combination of attrition and layoffs.
“We have and will continue to communicate transparently with our teams that we expect lower staffing within some corporate support functions so that we can focus our resources in engineering and manufacturing and directly supporting our products, services and technology development efforts,” a Boeing spokesperson said.
I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside when I read about HR job cuts.
Me too!
“Idaho Satanists plan ‘gender affirmation ritual’ to protest ban on surgeries for children: ‘I praise myself'”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/idaho-satanists-plan-gender-affirmation-ritual-to-protest-ban-surgeries-children-i-praise-myself
I wish I was surprised.
Why do those guys always look similar?
Overt satanists are harmless. I worry more about the ones in positions to actually do something.
If and when the reactionary wave comes, I won’t lift a finger to help those who have been pushing the child abuse and mutilation.
Like this guy?
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/106/861/127/original/33595db5aa8c39f8.png
Yup.
“I hate Idaho Satanists.”
Elon saying more Elon stuff
So I was thinking “a 35mm film canister would be perfect for this. Too bad nobody uses film anymore. Hmmmm, I wonder…”
*searches amazon for “35mm film canister”*
woot!
Cool, though I don’t see any of the metal screw-top ones we made mini-survival kits with when I was a scout.
EBay.
I never knew they made metal screw-on ones. You old guys have seen so much!
I used to keep weed in them.
We now have 3D printers for that.
Some of us wish to continue the old ways, whippersnapper.
Yep, just like these:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/144839194139?hash=item21b916b61b:g:xCkAAOSwXflji-xl