“And here’s where you could put your links.”
“Just look at this Incredibly Millennial Shit”
“All the Dune: Part Two news that’s been revealed so far”
“It’s mostly Monster Hunter and Persona.”
“Executives are consistently held responsible for the agencies whose leaders they choose.”
Is the realtor guy in the picture wearing a two-piece yoga suit?
I wouldn’t let that guy sell me anything, much less a house.
WTF is wrong with your pants?
And where are your socks?
You all keep referring to xir as a “guy”. Aren’t you pre-assuming their gender? How hateful can you be?
How dare you! 😠
Yeah, I’d have a hard time not just socking him in the face on principle.
Serious question: Does somebody, somewhere, think that picture looks good and right?
It looks like it’s snagged from something realtor/salesman-ish, and not something created as a joke. I know we’re all old curmudgeons here, but there is no reality in which somebody dressed that way should be considered respectable.
Cheap stock photo house.
Highwater pants are currently fashionable for the young folks.
It’s part of emasculating men. Make them wear capri pants and flats with no socks.
Barf. I want a real man.
SOW, congrats on the Reno-vation, HS!
Yeah! Six inch heels or GTFO!
I’d have been fashionable when I was 16, by that definition
Rockers or Mods, I forget which, England, circa 1960
“I’m a mocker.”/Ringo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1gZkf_-UyI
Not David Naughton, cute though he was.
Mmm hmmm. Had no idea he was involved with Dr. Pepper.
Are you a Mod or a Rocker? 😉
jinx. I owe you a Coke-o-Rama.
Can we make it a Dr. Pepper instead? I’m a Pepper. 😁
…or better yet, ginger ale! 😄
¿De veras?! Michael Jackson is a Pepper too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSt3PU1A7KQ
An English acquaintance of mine found it “profoundly artificial”. Hmph.
+ quadrophenia
damn it, I meant to linky link the link….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K5AgYw97cY
¡We are the Mods!🎵
I would have preferred to have stayed out of it.
Teddy Boys?
There was a hilarious thread I saw once on “Bad Science in Stock Photos” where there are pics of random people sometimes in a lab coat or goggles doing random things with vaguely scientific stuff.
Talk about bad modeling…
There’s a good one with a guy fretting behind the nut on a guitar too.
He had it since he was 12.
I don’t plan on moving before the apocalypse, so i don’t care about the mortgage thing.
This is really going to screw people if and when rates drop and people start refinancing.
As for the apocalypse, funny how you can say that now and nobody bats an eye. A whole lot of people can sense that we are hurtling towards a cliff.
Well, next week the invasion from Mexico is scheduled…
To bad that nothing
canwill be done to stop it by the country that spends more on their military and government in general than any 3 other countries combined.Micheal Yon has been in Panama watching what’s happening at the Darien Gap. It all sounds like crap we should be trying to prevent. So, of course, our government is helping to make it happen in as many ways as possible.
I’ve tried Monster Hunter, and just don’t get drawn into it. I understand the gaming loop, it just gets tedious to me.
Another good song about pants courtesy Howard and the White Boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6T9gYsocLU
Let’s keep going with the Big Pants Dance.
And of course there is Lonely Island
Another “classic” from the Bob & Tom Show.
Not for the kiddos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136cNGNd7Yg
I lived in Indy for a brief period and listened to Bob & Tom in the car every morning. Good stuff.
They were decent about 2 decades ago. So was Stern. Now I just tune-in to hate listen and shake my head and what Tom has done to the mess.
Exit gracefully, guys. Bob was smart enough to bail out. Tom’s ego just wont let him quit.
I wonder where they stand in the arbitron (if thats still a thing). So many stations have them as the morning drive, and you dont have many options.
Yeah, I was listening to them in the mid-90s. Forty years on the radio is probably enough.
We have them here, and most of the time I find them pathetic, although I have only heard them recently.
“We call these gangs the Executive Branch of the US government…”
I arrived home carrying steaks and rum.
I’m not ready for the weekend, what did I forget?
Potatoes and coke?
And weed and hookers.
You forgot blackjack!
Cheese & bacon.
You’re probably the closest. I’m running low on cheese.
government cheese?
Jesus and Tequilla?
Gum syrup and limes?
TV dinners!
https://youtu.be/PKi_7U6Jj1Y
Ammo?
Fried chicken
related to previous threads — I just saw a picture of Doctor Jill with Princess Kate in the UK and yes – Jill is wearing her standard Old Lady flower print dress. If the media were really doing their job, there should be a front cover Vanity Fair article on the First Lady’s tragic fashion. Embarrassing that she’s representing the USA looking like a sofa.
Michelle’s fashion was equally tragic in a different way. She could not wear a color that didn’t make her look like a cadaver.
Be thankful she broke tradition for Wookiee fashion.
I’m assuming somebody dressed her in that too.
I doubt Dr. Jill makes wardrobe decisions on her own.
She’s dressed by the same person who writes Kamala’s speeches.
Makes sense
Imagine we had a First Lady that was a model. The fashion magazines would never stop putting her on the cover.
Yes, and gushing over the fancy White House Christmas decorations!
Don’t forget cruelly destroying Rose Gardens!
That would never happen. They’re all frumps.
Except for Jackie O
This kind of verification and analysis ion any subject s something I always find really interesting.
Pollution Reveals What Russian Statistics Obscure: Industrial Decline
Satellite detection of atmospheric pollutants offers an independent look at what is going on with Russia’s economy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pollution-reveals-what-russian-statistics-obscure-industrial-decline-cdd7103e?st=ynkjla2z0iqvkoy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s also interesting as you they tried to look at specific geographies and specific industries. For example, I’ve read the Russia is having trouble with a lack of high quality ball bearings impacting railroads and tank manufacture. That might account for the run-up while stores were exhausted. I’m surprised China hasn’t been able to fill in here, however.
Obligatory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTI_S8xETSI
Did the study correlate measured pollution with verified production data over some interval?
Russian reported compared to pollution over pre war period to current.
Thanks.
Never change CNN.
Jordan Neely, the man killed in chokehold on NYC subway, is remembered as an entertainer shattered by his mother’s murder
He was just about to turn his life around.
What college was he about to apply to?
He was a shoo-in for Harvard or Yale.
Where is the picture of him as a choir boy at his grandmother’s church?
What Scruffyy said – vandals.
That’s an interesting way to spell “panhandler”.
So, to cope with the loss of his mother, he took to the streets and harassed the living shit out of everyone within screaming distance.
And got put in jail for 4 whole months for kidnapping and dragging a child down the street. And punching some old lady only last year. and another 30 – 40 other arrests, but sure he was just a misunderstood, gentle young man mourning his mother.
It’s a weekend, and one where I’m home and without plans, so I present the Zoom/Happy Hour/Vacation recap link which will be kicked off at 2000 Eastern.
one where I’m home and without
planspants/to carry on the pants theme
Margaritas & chihuahuas!
I’ve even got a fancy new shirt that I’m wearing that came back from Vegas with me.
I wouldn’t let that guy sell me anything, much less a house.
Oh, come on. I bet he pours a fabulous latte.
Oh my. Another offender of the gender-assumption.
Whether women can follow the package’s instruction label and take the medication correctly seemed a chief concern of the FDA scientists, who doubted whether the pill maker had provided sufficient data.
But having a person in a white coat say exactly the same thing makes it prescription only. Amazing the timing on making another go at this…
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/otc-birth-control-fda-appears-skeptical-switching-prescription-only-rcna82858
The nation is saved
With Thursday’s criminal convictions of five Proud Boys, including leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a third jury has stamped history’s judgment on January 6 as an organized, violent uprising meant to overturn the 2020 election. In courtrooms, it’s now established beyond a reasonable doubt that the Capitol siege was not spontaneous, but rather a planned assault by force on our democracy. Four defendants — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Tarrio — were found guilty of the top charge of seditious conspiracy. (A fifth defendant, Dominic Pezzola, was found not guilty on that charge, but guilty on other charges, including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers.)
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Today’s verdicts, which include convictions for multiple other serious crimes, are sure to bolster federal prosecutors in Washington and local prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, who are considering charges against former President Donald Trump in connection with events before and during Jan. 6.
Conversely, any other trial outcome would have emboldened the nation’s militia movement and congressional firebrands like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green and Jim Jordan. To date, Jordan’s attempts as House Judiciary Committee chair to attack prosecutors and the FBI have flopped. Had the Proud Boys been acquitted, however, those previous political stunts would have looked like warmup acts for future theatrics alleging the Justice Department was prosecuting innocent Americans.
Dissent is treason.
Some guy who got shot in the head had a quote about these kinds of situations…
Great, now we just round up the people adjacent to these people, and people adjacent to the adjacent people, and people adjacent to the adjacent to the adjacent people, throw them in jail, and our democracy is saved!
Jail would be harsh. They should be sent to a camp where they all can concentrate on what they did wrong.
After six degrees of separation, no one will be left to lock the cells.
OFFS.
something something who writes the history something
“In courtrooms, it’s now established beyond a reasonable doubt that the Capitol siege was not spontaneous, but rather a planned assault by force on our democracy.”
I’m still waiting for one of my progressive friends to explain to me the mechanism by which the Jan. 6 morons would have got Trump back into the Oval Office.
I’ve heard of this idea. Obviously not from progressives.
Interesting. It makes sense.
I don’t have enough tin foil for the hat needed to cover that one. But at this point, why can’t it be true?
The Hat really isn’t great at planning things out.
He’s more of an idea chapeau.
ding
Federal prosecutors have now convicted nearly 500 defendants for their roles in the Capitol violence, including a perfect record with those who have gone to trial. You can be sure that those judgments played a part in why we saw no repetition of violence around the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment of Trump.
With these latest foot soldiers’ convictions, the baton now passes to special counsel Jack Smith and to Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis to complete the task by bringing accountability to the very top. History has been made. There is more to come.
This is not a personal vendetta. All we want is justice.
… including a perfect record with those who have gone to trial.
Definitely not the sort of thing you’d see in a banana republic.
The turgid prose is the verbal equivalent of punch-face. At this rate the writer is going to blow his wad long before the prison doors slam shut on Donald.
He’ll put you back in chains!
Lots of people have offensive and conspiracy-minded beliefs. But not all of them are running, as Robinson is, to be governor of North Carolina.
And to people who don’t share Robinson’s views, the problem is that it looks like he could win – furthering the Republican party’s years-long lurch to what was previously rightwing fringe politics.
“Mark Robinson would be the most extreme gubernatorial candidate but also governor that we’ve ever seen in our history,” said Anderson Clayton, the chair of the North Carolina Democratic party.
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With a Republican in the governor’s office – particularly a governor like Robinson – there would be no one to hold back a wave of rightwing bills.
“We have bills right now going through our general assembly to ban gender affirming care for trans youth. We have a ban against trans athletes or young people competing in sports right now. We have a lot of discriminatory, just persecuting-our-own-citizens-type of legislation happening in our state,” Clayton said.
“And Mark Robinson is only going to be the person who’s going to make that worse.”
Maybe he’ll shell Fort Sumter.
Guess what, soyboy?
With each passing day I become less concerned with your plight.
Why did I know that the “rightwing fringe” positions were all going be tranny stuff? And positions that were uncontroversial before five minutes ago.
Nomenklatura Apologia
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/fighting-power-with-power-the-administrative-state-as-a-weapon-against-concentrated-private-power/826A7B803D67E5B171A905D99C269CC5
You gotta read it to believe it.
Of course, private power is bad, the government wants in on all that loot.
“We’re a serious scholarly journal. You’re going to need to use the term “heuristics” a couple of times in the abstract to connect with the readers.”
No. I need a weekend free of it. Had to sit through a DEI presentation this week already. No more threats to my liberty.
This is old fashioned “Why we should rule over you” stuff
I’m not going to read it since I don’t need an aneurism, but I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the article fails to address what happens if private and state power realize it’s in their best interest to collude. As if it’s not an obvious inevitability.
I’m kind of curious about what a “too small administrative state” would even look like. It’s Never Been Tried Before, right? We should try it just to see.
A too-small cleracy allows “dominant groups to further expand their social and economic advantages through decentralized means” apparently. Which implies that centralization in an admin state impedes that, but I don’t see why that would be a given. It can, perhaps, if that’s what it’s made to do (I would guess he means Racial Quotas and/or Redistribution, depending on his flavor of marxism), but it certainly can also be used to expand those advantages in a centralized means as well. And perhaps worse, since he even concedes that the admin state is unaccountable – so what would keep it from doing that?
BREAKING NEWS: Full Tape Of Trump Deposition In E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit Released—Watch Now
FULL TAPE! Except, it’s edited…
Fully edited!
Headline in local fish wrap this morning was “Trump Blasts Accuser.” Them, buried in the article, it is stated that “Trump calmly laid out his objections to his accuser’s testimony.”
I bet the DAs office is quickly moving to find out who leaked the video
It then articulates a set of heuristics for the design of public and administrative institutions, which aim at minimizing the risks of capture from both public and private sources. By following these heuristics, it claims, we can successfully employ the administrative state as a weapon against concentrated private power, rather than allowing it to serve as a tool of dominant groups.
tl;dr- a fairytale
I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the article fails to address what happens if private and state power realize it’s in their best interest to collude.
Regulatory capture may have occurred in the past but we’ll do better this time!
And by better mean STEVE SMITH’s favorite activity.
173 hours is a long game?
Paging Q to the courtesy phone.
Be foreign.
Speak good Japanese.
Have a nice figure.
Profit.
5.3m views on a brief video of a Thailand vacation.
https://youtu.be/qTdsW5tiADE
The no breast version of her buying Resident Evil 4 has 2.6m views (and Eng subs)
https://youtu.be/qTdsW5tiADE
I don’t get it, but good for her!
Sorry Resident Evil here
https://youtu.be/TLbAb3bkwLc
I like how she adjusts her bottoms doing a plumber without adjusting them. Classy.
While commenting embarrassingly about doing so.
The age old axiom….Sex Sells
Kamala Harris named AI Czar. Can anyone verify?
The AI is leaking out of the ass like drugs used too
Having mastered Natural Stupidity, and being in the Biden administration, she needed contact with some kind of intelligence.
Al Czar?
I’ve never been afraid of AI…
… until now.