Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
FBI Whistleblowers Reveal ‘Serious Abuses,’ House Report Finds
Alarm grows over whistleblower claims that FBI scooped up Americans’ bank records without subpoena
American Household Debt Surpasses $17 Trillion for the First Time
Marjorie Taylor Greene Files Impeachment Articles Against Joe Biden and Admin Officials
US Rep. Cori Bush proposes $14 trillion in federal reparations
Ex-Biden Nuclear Official Sam Brinton Arrested As ‘Fugitive From Justice’ For Luggage Theft
8-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies in Biden Admin Custody — 2nd Child Death this Month
The “NYC Hospital Karen” Was Probably in the Right
Disney announces its huge Star Wars hotel will close just a year after opening
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“US Rep. Cori Bush proposes $14 trillion in federal reparations”
CWAC
No, seriously. It should be 14 googazillions PER PERSON PER COLOR!
I suppose on the plus side the ensuing inflation would trivialize the national debt. Sucks for the rest of us, of course (Make Wiemar Wheelbarrows Great Again!)
Zimbabwe smiles, buys dollars with trillion pound note.
I think that about sums it up, yeah.
That will buy a lot of lottery tickets.
American Household Debt Surpasses $17 Trillion for the First Time
I’ve been told the solution is increasing the debt limit.
Unlimited credit is only for our “betters”. We lower classes are expected to pay our (and their) bills.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!
Half of the nation replies: “No shit, Sherlock.” Unfortunately the other half says “Huh? MSNBC isn’t telling me anything — don’t know what you’re talking about. Nothingburger.”
Black pill sun… won’t you come…
You forgot the “the ends justify the means” crowd.
They’re lumped in with “No shit, Sherlock…” just tack on “… because we need to to stop the icky people!”
You forgot By Any Means Possible!
Derp.
It’s worse than that. MSNBC are reporting that they are insubordinate employees and deserve whatever fedgov has in store for them.
MSNBC is worse than Pravda at this point. At least the Soviet outlet worked with the threat of a gulag or a .32 bullet behind the ear if they didn’t toe the line. The MSNBC people are all in.
True Believers
True Believers
I don’t think you appreciate all the wonderful things the FBI does to protect you from, uh, dangers…
Like links apparently.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-concerned-jan-6-footage-would-expose-undercover-agents-informants-whistleblower
Beat me to it.
Undercover agents have no right to concealment when they are actively involved in cases where the defendants face the threat of punishment. The careers and livelihoods of the undercover officers are of no importance compared to the innocence/guilt of the accused.
And in this case, the accused are about half the country.
I remember when that was a mainstream media story and not a ZH ‘conspiracy theory’.
8-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies in Biden Admin Custody — 2nd Child Death this Month
Are they giving these kids COVID shots? Just wondering.
I’m wondering about dehydration or heat exhaustion after the crossing and too overloaded / overworked to get kids processed.
Thanks, fucking Brandon administration — you assholes. (Insert standard rant for the gates should be broad but tall and all… I don’t want amnesty on principle (back of the line, cutting assholes!), but fix the gorram legal process if you want people in and make sure you properly vet/process them, keeping everyone else out. And shut down the stupid H1B indentured servitude program while you’re at it… stop making it take 10 years for talented people to come here in the first place).
grumble bitch moan complain
The problem is we’ve dumbed down refugee to be someone fleeing mean words.
Even the fucking RepubE and Fox News calls them immigrants.
From the other day, how the fuck does a local school district have 1000 H1B’s on staff?
Nice song, Banjos… if no one has tossed it up around here before, I have to say I’m surprised… if we were to have a site anthem, that might be it (though my headache can’t take too much of the guitar this morning). When I saw the title, almost expected a cover of this, but obviously not….
I’d lean towards Fuck Authority (also by Pennywise), What’s Your Plan (by the Interrupters), or the Plan (by NOFX).
I won’t hold my breath waiting for the NY Post to apologize for printing breathless exposes of Racist Karen on the front page every single day since this happened.
Somehow black people can’t be racist because only white people have “power”, yet a pregnant white woman who basically had her paid-for bike stolen by a group of black people is automatically assumed to be in the wrong and is punished for it. So who are the real racists here?
She should have just let him have it, he needed it to feed his family. She’s clearly the racist here and at no point did she even offer to wash his feet. #fail
It’s one of the most pathetic and slanderous stories I’ve ever seen capture the public’s imagination. Considering the unambiguous language many outlets used to describe her actions and how she was in the wrong she might actually end up being a rich woman because the truth appears to be precisely the opposite.
Except the lawsuits would be heard by a Manhattan jury…
So, someone will Bragg that it was Trumps fault?
Just cause the lady has a clump of cells in her hooha doesn’t give her special rights, nor negate her White Privilege. Give up the bike as part of your 200 billion in reparations.
Nobody is going to pay for a Twi’lek until they can get the head tentacles correct.
The article says some claim Disney is closing it to upset Desantis.
Sure.
You charge $1,200 per person per day at a hotel and business is booming but you want to throw a fit.
Or – your business plan sucked because most families can’t afford $5k a night for lodging.
Disney was investing $18 billion more in Florida and the spin yesterday was Desantis cost his state a billion of that (he didn’t actually. It’s unlikely he had anything to do with it)
“He says Comrie has since been put on leave by NYC Health + Hospitals after the encounter was caught on tape – but added the interaction was ‘incomplete and lacking facts.'”
Rush to judgement. Doesn’t anyone ever learn?
Hell, some moronic Congresscritter was still trotting out the CBP “whipping of migrants” the other week… so “No, no they don’t”.
(black pill sun… )
They learned they can get away with lying.
There are a lot of people that like being lied to – it’s what they want to hear. That’s the real problem. And it is by no means confined to one side of the political aisle.
obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlMBs_HUcxQ
Lacking what facts? Black v. White is the only relevant fact.
#BelieveAllPeopleWithHigherIntersectionalityPoints
She does seem really annoying, even if she is right and paid for the bike.
I mean, she IS a New Yorker after all.
Conservatives are going hard defending her…
six-months-pregnant physician assistant
Pregnant with what?
“Get off me! Get off me, you’re hurting my fetus,” the woman then shouted as she pushed the man away.
It’s the logical result of identity politics. She’s going to lean on the thing that gives her special status because she knows it’s not about right and wrong, it’s about the relative positions on the progressive totem pole.
“She will have a chance to prove her innocence.”
Sure. They learned that facts don’t matter and the media will tarnish their reputation unless they “make the problem go away”.
Maybe she sues the employer too and they settle by offering a free gender affirmation once the clump of cells hits age 10.
Typical bad journalism, Brinton was hired into the Senior Executive Service, which is a non-appointee level. That is supposed to be non-political, so not an Administration type, but permanent like Civil Service. Except of course he wasn’t actually qualified to be an SES – which is itself then prima facie evidence that it was a political appointment and a violation of SES rules to do so. He’s a gift from the QUILTBAG that keeps on giving.
“If the dress don’t fit you gotta acquit”
I think Sammy has adequate seamstressing skills.
“This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl…”
“Scantily clad woman accused of drugging her Miami date’s drink and stealing $600,000 in jewelry including diamond-studded Rolex is hunted by cops”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12101989/Scantily-clad-woman-accused-drugging-Miami-dates-drink-stealing-600-000-jewelry.html
Her date was gay?
“Date”. Uh-huh.
Definitely
‘Orning ‘ordles — almost chumped both rounds. Worse than Meh… we’re in Bleah town today. (LR really sucked in that not just the seeds, but little else I did gave much there… frankly thought it would chump me).
Daily Duotrigordle #443
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 03:26.01
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 480
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Blossom Puzzle, May 19
Letters: A E N L O R S
My score: 299 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌹 🌻 🌷 🌺 🌼 💐 💮 🏵 🌸 🌹 🌻
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Same.
Daily Quordle 480
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Daily Quordle 480
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yikes
“EXCLUSIVE: Clintons in the crosshairs…again! Republicans demand new probe into Bill and Hillary after report reveals FBI top brass shut down FOUR criminal investigations into millions of dollars in foreign donations and speaker fees”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12098863/FBI-shut-FOUR-investigations-Hillary-Bill-Clinton-2016-Durham-report-reveals.html
This is my shocked face.
Yeah, but “and nothing else happened.”
Oh, there could well be some folks shooting themselves in the back of the head twice and managing to throw the gun 300 yards before they die or something.
No reasonable prosecutor…
…without a death wish.
My prediction: Their reasoning is that they didn’t want to affect an election. So they just double down on that, say they shouldn’t have investigated Trump either, but the people in charge of that are no longer in charge, we’ve revised our procedures, and case closed.
Because why should the potential criminal activity of a candidate affect their electability, amirite?
This is mainly for Fourscore, but everyone is welcome to read it : International Bee Day, celebrating bees and other pollinators. Not sure if it’s today or tomorrow, (I’ve seen different days listed) but whatever.
This video is kind or rambling, but so am I: A short history of beekeeping.
World Bee Day is tomorrow.
Splitters!
So today is World “Aaaay!” Day?
I See what you did there.
Thanks. I celebrate the local Bee Day every morning with a spoonful of honey on my oatmeal.
I hate to ask serious questions, but…
NPR has now run multiple stories about the “Nakba” and taking its existence and wrongness as a given. At what point is this antisemitic dogwhistling?
You know, if the Palestinians would just stop trying to annihilate the Jews and become peaceful citizens, everything would be fine.
“‘Empire Strips Back’ review: ‘Star Wars’ burlesque is a strange nerd fantasy
“I love finding out who the Jar Jar fans are,” he said. “Because then I know who’s on drugs!”
A newly feminized C-3PO sheds her bronze armor piece by piece; Darth Vader gets sexy with Stormtrooper background dancers in their signature white armor; Two Twi’leks (Jabba the Hutt’s green slave girls) have a serene duet; Boba Fett is a bounty stunner; Greedo even shows up for a bit….
For a production that is in no way endorsed by Lucasfilm or Disney, the costumes, masks and set pieces are impressively detailed and will leave even the pickiest of fans satisfied….
A ripped Han Solo dramatically breaks free from his carbonite prison and goes full Chippendales with Chewbacca as they groove to a medley of songs including Run-DMC’s “It’s Tricky” and the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way.”
He proceeds to get practically nude, stripping down to a blue bodysuit with vulgar appendages. Not yet finished, he straddles a Death Star-shaped disco ball and is hoisted into the air to Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball.””
https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/empire-strips-back-review-star-wars-meets-burlesque/
Surprised they haven’t been sued.
NO ROBOSEXUALS
What about Summer Glau in the Sarah Connor Chronicles?
Cyborgs don’t count
Number 6 FTW
I’m not a Patrick McGoohan type of guy, but you do you.
Well, somebody needs to go number two!
Don’t Date Robots!
I was waiting for Billy EveryTeen to make an appearance.
Well done, sir, well done!
Take the kids!
Is it just me, or should Greedo be the club owner?
See this kind of thing would have saved that Disney resort.
Star Wars hotel: It takes a special kind of incompetence to make Star Wars a radioactive intellectual property. Congrats Disney, you’ve done the next to impossible.
Even if they hadn’t tainted Star Wars, how many people can afford ~$5,000 for two nights?
True that…13 grand for a week’s stay does seem a bit excessive. For that kind of coin there’d better be a Leia chained to Jabba lookalike waiting for me every time I walk into the room.
Manatee sized slugs are an odd kink, but you do you.
#insert Jabba laugh here
His kind of scum…unfortunately for Stinky Wizzleteats, Jabba seems focused on keeping things Solo.
You would get Luke pretending to be Leia.
They could just sell off one of their inbox original figures.
This.
Yeah, the theming wasn’t really the problem with the hotel. It was overpriced, and there simply aren’t enough people willing to pay big money for that kind of experience.
I’ve been complaining about this for years. The park experience is getting worse, and the price tag keeps going up. You really feel like they’re trying to see how much money they can squeeze from guests. Looks like they found their upper limit.
A year and a half ago a bunch of us went to Disney World for my 50th birthday. I figured it would be great because it was also Disney World’s 50th anniversary. I’ve been going since the 70’s, and this was the worst experience there I ever had. It cost us $5k for four of us for a week. Mrs. TOK wants to go back, I’m done unless they make major changes.
I grew up near Disneyland. It was a regular family outing from the days of ride tickets. There were plenty of off days for locals to enjoy the park. An annual pass in the 90’s cost me $99 + $25 for parking.
I took the family about 10 years ago. The single day price was over $100 per person. The place was so crowded by mid afternoon that we left. Every time my wife brings up a Disney World trip I remind her it would be like our trip to Disneyland but with worse weather.
As a side note, Cedar Point announced that they were lowering admission prices this year.
A bit far for me. The family has passes to the local Cedar Fair park.
That was Bob Chapek’s strategy, squeeze guests for every penny, while spending less to maintain and update the parks and letting them get run down. Michael Eisner did the same thing, before Roy Disney finally stepped up and got him pushed out. We went during peak Eisner (and vowed not to return unless things changed), and then again a couple of years after Eisner was pushed out. The difference was night and day.
“Jeff Bezos’ $500M yacht appears to have figurehead of girlfriend Lauren Sanchez”
https://pagesix.com/2023/05/19/jeff-bezos-500-million-yacht-appears-to-have-a-sculpture-of-lauren-sanchez/
LOL
Dude went full-on Russian oligarch.
Except the Russkies usually have better taste in women.
Racist.
Is she a dirty Sanchez ?
Why would you not?
Meh… if you have the money, why not? Shouldn’t take much to alter it to be more generic if they break up.
Wish those crazy kids all the best… but have to say, those pictures really make her seem like she has a strong case of RBF to me…
Alter it? Put it on display in your “Hall o’ I fucked that”
And of course, all of these statues would be entombed with you in your pyramid to serve you in the afterlife.
Meh… if you have the money, why not?
Because it is a little gross.
Mildly tacky.
Less tacky than his penis rocket.
“I am so rich I no longer have to care about good taste.”
The whole point of having fuck-you money is to demonstrate that your bad taste can be elevated whether people with real taste agree or not.
Or what NA said.
Whipped
Wait, was it Bezos with the rainbow Rolex? Did she pull a runner?
* Adds “Mega yacht figurehead sculptor” to list of next careers
BUZZ! Figurehead fail since it isn’t bare breasted.
That household debt number just proves how strong the economy is.
bread lines = good bread
That’s the way it works for cronuts.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
Headache powders? Morning, Tres.
sloopy not doing the links means he didnt fail to cover the big soccer story from yesterday.
Wednesday overcame a 4-0 loss in the first game of their League One Promotion playoff semis to advance to the finals. They won 4-0 in regulation, gave up an own goal in extra time, evened again, and then won on penalties.
Biggest comeback in promotion playoff history.
Go Notlob, er, Bolton!
I have no particular love or hate for Bolton or Barnsley, but still prefer Wednesday to beat either.
Flayed-Man Bolton or Warstache Bolton?
I just have a soft spot for them because Monty Python and because they were in the Premiere League when I first started paying attention.
I used to play One-Nil (early 90s DOS soccer management game with the graphics quality of nethack) as Sheffield Wednesday. I had better success in that game than playing as Everton for some reason.
sloopy not doing the links means he didnt fail to cover the big soccer story from yesterday.
He didn’t want to cover Newcastle winning to basically close the door on Liverpool in Champions league.
They can still catch ManU for the 4th spot.
Its an easy call for me, but which is worse is a tough call for a neutral.
Well they can still technically catch both, but Newcastle was more likely with the Brighton game. I don’t see MU slipping.
The Brighton loss also helps Spurs possibly still catch that last Europa spot *blows small party horn*
The Europa Conference is working out well for West Ham.
They will even get a spot in the Europa League next year, if they can win the final.
I am a Spurs fan robc, they would get to the conference league final and then lose in a new hilarious way.
Sounds about right.
All these leagues are yours — except Europa. Attempt no matches there.
Sevilla owns that fucking thing.
LOL
And speaking of Sevilla…they sent Spurs Gil for Lamela and cash. Then loaned Gil back. And are in Europa final.
I’ll put money on Spurs losing on the last day to Leeds.
If it truly is Harry Kane’s last game, it will either be glorious or embarrassing.
Hold on – isn’t that the Spurs standard?
Wait.. anyone expected Katie Hobbs to give a flying crap about election integrity? The only person who ran a campaign more in the basement than PPP and still magically won? :eyeroll:
PPP?
President Poopy Pants.
You know who else had poopy pants ?
Crinklers?
The world ending demon / pillar of Reality’s Destruction formerly known as K’Z’K for one.
Winston’s mom, with a surcharge, of course.
Eva Braun?
Sounds like a lot of protectionist claptrap that libertarians tend to oppose.
And what do you do if there are no voting machines that comply with the law and have ‘all components sourced and manufactured in the U.S.’? Stop having elections
Use paper scantron ballots like the old days that worked just fine?
This is probably where it is clear I’m not a true libertarian… just conservative with libertarian leanings… I have zero problem keeping enough domestic for national independence (defense, some manufacturing, power grid, food, fucking medicine [anyone else remember finding out that China had us by the balls in 2021 when it came to most medicines and medical equipment? stupid!] etc.) I think it is really really stupid to depend on other countries who have their own self interest for necessities. Globalism is fine to a point… but it shouldn’t be a suicide pact to steal the proggies’ phrase.
‘Use paper scantron ballots like the old days that worked just fine?’
^this
“national independence (defense, some manufacturing, power grid, food, fucking medicine [anyone else remember finding out that China had us by the balls in 2021 when it came to most medicines and medical equipment? stupid!] etc.) ”
I am torn on this- I think it is a good concept, but you see things like the shipping laws- there is no real shipbuilding industry just because you’re meant to use US ships between US ports.
That is the problem…the difference in real national security vs laws masquerading as national security.
You know what I want from elections? Six-sigma certified techniques plus by-hand auditing.
Every precinct should have X percent of random races counted by hand. If numbers don’t match exactly, EVERY race in that precinct should be counted by hand.
My thought on voting machines:
Touch screen selection that prints out actual candidate names. No scantron problems like Minnesota with Lizard People or butterfly ballot issues or whatever. You can verify that it printed the correct results. It also prints a barcode that the counting machine scans to count votes. The hand count audit is done by the printed names.
If the audit matches the machine, results are reported. Otherwise, the machine is ignored and a handcount takes place.
Almost anything would be better than hoping a computer is working correctly and not getting hacked, etc. Seems like most states just hope the election works without putting in the actual work needed to ensure results are accurate.
Election results should be correct, not necessarily accurate, Lack.
They should be both accurate and precise.
Precision requires multiple measurements…hence my hand audit suggestion.
If there are going to be computerized voting machines then the software needs to be open source, and not have network connections.
This. and This.
Stop having elections
You’re going to give progressives a boner that lasts longer than 4 hours with that kind of talk.
Four more years?
Right…
You want a simple auditable system, not one with all kinds of “features”.
👆👆👆
Simplicity helps prevent fraud. Even if computerized voting systems are currently legit, they do not inspire confidence or trust.
It’s telling how much money the government and other parties are willing to spend to try to convince you of their desirability.
“And right here I guarantee the results but you can’t look at our methods because they is pro-pri-etary”
And courts have treated those non-disclosure agreements and claims of trade secrets as if they create a privilege against discovery.
Which isn’t the way it works for everyone else.
obligatory
He’s right.
The Alt text in the image is good as well.
Rather than going with voting machines at all, given their potential for shenanigans, why not do the scannable paper ballots and call it a day? It doesn’t solve every problem, or even the major problems (probably) with our elections, but it would solve one of them.
But there will be no election reform in AZ. Zip, zero, nada. The leftists, in time-honored fashion, have gotten to their stop on the election train, and are getting off.
Didn’t the Repubs have a shot at fixing everything, but mysteriously didn’t? I think Razorfist made a video on it.
Yup. They controlled the legislature and the governor for two years after the 2020 election. And did absolutely nothing. Now they are locked out of statewide races. Because they were stupid and weak.
Bleah… probably coming soon to a company near your — HR database mandating pronouns and hooking into the SMTP or Exchange servers… https://townhall.com/videos/2023/05/18/veteran-reporter-stunned-by-mandatory-pronouns-at-the-state-department-n8304
Next we’ll have mandatory fetish declarations.
Im happy to let anyone who’ll listen know Im into fat broads with small t0ts. Try finding that unicorn.
Twin Peaks at 8 and Haggerty in Michigan. At least, that was the case 14 months ago.
No the mandatory part is the fetish you are assigned by the fetish committee.
No.
Or,
You can call me “you” to my face, and I don’t give a shit what you call me behind my back.
Just musing: if someone wants to be a “they”, then shouldn’t the first–person pronoun be “we”, in Queen Victoria style?
Justice Gorsuch bringing it: https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/05/18/the-supreme-court-dismissed-arizonas-suit-to-retain-title-42-but-the-story-is-in-how-justice-gorsuch-did-it-n748154
‘The question at hand was whether states could sue the federal government to force it to retain the policy in place. However, as the Biden White House ended the COVID National Emergency on May 11, the Supreme Court’s order returned the case to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit with directions to dismiss it as moot.’
I was wondering why they dismissed the COVID ’emergency’, this explains it.
I pretty much agree with him that COVID restrictions are not how you manage immigration.
But it is interesting that the Court allowed COVID restrictions across the board that were directed at US citizens, but somehow can’t stomach the COVID restriction that was directed at illegals.
OK Sam Brinton’s middle name is Otis. Otis.
Please, like everyone didn’t already know he was an SOB.
Burn.
Born of idiot parents, if that’s his birth name.
He does a disservice to all his names.
Otisburg? OTISBURG?!?
That was my immediate thought!
I had a dog named Otis who I named after the drunk on the Andy Griffith Show. He never made it past mid level management though.
Who? The dog? Or the drunk ?
Did he let himself in and out of his kennel?
So apparently that arrest was for a third luggage theft, this time at Reagan. He skated on the first two (I think, I know he skated on one). Ya gotta wonder how much longer he can cut deals without jail time now that he’s a known habitual offender.
Unfortunately, I don’t think this arrest will trigger his 180 day suspended sentence, since he didn’t steal this one after he was sentenced.
Too bad nobody searched his home after teh first one was discovered. I suspect they might have found evidence of lots more. By now, most of the security footage that might nail him has probably been overwritten – I don’t know how long airports keep that footage.
Pretty sure he’s never bought a piece of women’s clothing his entire life.
How much you want to bet that the payments to the defense contractors for these weapons will not be clawed back to match the new valuations?
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/05/18/pentagon-error-overvalued-weapons-sent-to-ukraine-by-3-billion/
This is a straight-up end run around congressional limitations on further funding to Ukraine. Everyone involved should be imprisoned.
Scruffy hates democracy.
Soon we’ll be talking about real money here.
I’m reminded of a local school district that ran into an issue when an independent accountant found a $2 million discrepancy. After they got that sorted out, they realized they were short money, and tried to ask for a levy. They’re up to four failures at the ballot for that levy. People (especially in blue collar areas) don’t take it well when you fuck up your budget, and ask them to pay for it.
Fire district here fucked up the tax rate certification and certified at a lower rate to the assessors office. Upon discovering the mistake, months after the property tax was due and paid, did the board fire the employee who fucked up biggly, fire the fire chief, resigned themselves for failing to oversee the district? Of course not, they just had the assessors office send out a supplemental billing for the correct rate due in 60 or 90 days from the mailing.
That probably isn’t legal- usually those rate notices are binding.
At least it wouldn’t be legal here in FL, YMMV.
“It’s my money and I want it now!”
-J.G. Zelen$kyy
“Accounting error”
The Biden administration made an accounting error in assessing the value of the military support that the US has given to Ukraine to date, freeing up approximately $3 billion more in aid, an amount likely to mitigate the need for Congress to pass an additional assistance package before the end of the fiscal year in September, multiple congressional and administration officials told CNN.
The error – which lawmakers and congressional staffers were briefed on Thursday – triggered frustration from Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees. They believe the mistake reduced the amount of US support that went to Ukraine leading up to the counteroffensive.
“The revelation of a three-billion-dollar accounting error discovered two months ago and only today shared with Congress is extremely problematic, to say the least. These funds could have been used for extra supplies and weapons for the upcoming counteroffensive, instead of rationing funds to last for the remainder of the fiscal year,” wrote House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul and House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers in a statement Thursday.
It’s like finding a three billion dollar bill in the pocket of a pair of pants you hardly ever wear.
And then setting it on fire and burying the ashes.
Scientific American goes full retard.
“White-throated sparrows have four chromosomally distinct sexes that pair up in fascinating ways
P.S. Nature is amazing
P.P.S. Sex is not binary”
https://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/status/1658952315032698883
At least the replies are taking her to the woodshed.
And that’s when she only allows her followers to reply.
And so fucking what? They’re birds.
It is relevant, but only at the edges of any debate.
I was trying to identify some mushrooms that were sprouting in some containers I had plants in. Get to the wiki for them, and in the first couple of sentences the page lets me know that this species of fungus has over 140 different sexes.
“These Leaders Are Standing up for Transgender Care
Legislators, families and advocates are fighting to protect access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth and adults nationwide”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/these-leaders-are-standing-up-for-transgender-care1/
https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1658870245442846735
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
‘their true selves’
Sorry, but if you need surgery or drugs… that isn’t your true self.
^So much this. Hatred of nature (or reality, if you prefer) seems to be baked into this cake.
My bet is on reality (as stated yesterday). Get enough people used to denying it, and you can do whatever you want through redefinition.
Male seahorses give birth, therefore people = seahorses.
SCIENCE!
Male seahorses give birth the same way incubators do.
Scientific American went full retard years ago.
Scientists are entitle to invent their own truth just like everyone else.
An otter ray of sunshine…
Awww
“Marjorie Taylor Greene Files Impeachment Articles Against Joe Biden and Admin Officials”
I can’t tell you how strongly I agree with this. Between the corruption and the weaponization of three letter agencies against the people and political rivals, there hasn’t been a president that has deserved it more in my lifetime.
He should be impeached but without control of the senate there’s no point and it’s just a political stunt. Do the administration officials have to be convicted by the senate too? If not those might have some merit.
Yes, yes they do.
Yeah but it needs to be done.
Tie up FedGov for months if you have to.
Running Biden out won’t change any of the problems that are more deeply embedded in the federal rathole. Plus you get Harris stepping up.
You don’t think it would send a message that this kind of shenanigans aren’t allowed?
It might take multiple rounds of impeachments, but eventually it would be useful to do so.
Eh, impeachment was cheapened by the Dems going after Trump, it’s not that big a deal any more. You might almost think they planned it that way to protect Dem Presidents, but I don’t think they’re that smart.
‘Running Biden out’
You need a successful conviction and removal at this point, not just impeachment.
Agreed. Unfortunately now it just looks like tit for tat, so even the process of investigating isn’t going to move any needles.
The other problem is that the Democrats are so much in lock step you’ll never peel off a single one of them no matter how strong the evidence. Unlike Republicans going after Trump.
Took Reagan’s advice.
The briefing to the Hill comes after the White House told CNN that it is not currently planning to ask Congress for new Ukraine funding before the end of the fiscal year at the end of September, which pit administration officials against some lawmakers and congressional staffers who are concerned that the funds could run out by mid-summer.
But now that there is more funding available, congressional sources said they are less concerned about the immediate need for a new funding package for Ukraine. They believe it is likely that the newfound funding will carry the US support to Ukraine through the end of the summer.
The accounting error occurred because when the US transferred weaponry to Ukraine, they counted the value of replacing the weapon instead of the value of actual weapon, defense officials explained. That drove up the cost of each package – because new weaponry costs more than old weaponry – and resulted in the false assumption that more of the funding had been used.
Asset value manipulation/ Heads will roll.
Eugenics really making a comeback in Canada it seems I suppose we should be happy the progs are getting back to their roots. Their evil, evil humanity hating roots.
Good morning, Banjos!
Wow, how about those Panthers? I tapped out after the first OT, but that was some fun hockey.
It’s nice to have the distraction, though. Because things are looking a little grim in the Land O’ The Free.
Things are looking up for your unlucky-in-love KK…
Ooh, do tell. Does he like dags?
did you just assume gender?
Yes, given her stated history.
reality is fluid never presume
Yeah, someday she might even fancy you.
It wasn’t an assumption.
ok boomer
*haughty sniff* I am firmly GenX, tyvm.
Glad to hear it, KK — may you receive all the frequent caulking or other manly deliveries you desire.
Oh, now don’t leave us in suspense! ::pulls up a chair::
So when are you going to introduce him to us?
Next Wednesday at noon.
If she wants him to run away screaming….
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don’t want to jinx nuttin. Perhaps if I get extra drunk on Zoom tonight…
OFFS — Hope you have some sort of plan or get power from Niagara without it being drawn off OMWC / WebDom. https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/18/just-so-were-clear-new-york-has-no-plan-b-for-the-power-plants-theyre-shutting-down-n551843
Shutting down 50% of power production within 7 years is as brilliant as Germany’s last stab at this. Especially in New York… not like y’all have inclement weather often or anything, after all.
Just divert all of Niagara Falls through our power plants. Most the tourists go to Canada anyway.
“It’s for your own good.”
Really, this lunacy can only go so far. It is literally impossible to do what they want so the only question is how long will the voters put up with it.
How long did the voters of Michigan put up with the delay tactics and shenanigans over the municipal water supply?
Until it was too late, right?
Yeah… Imma go with that.
Arguing on twitter.
(who doesn’t like Corgis?)
Me… I’m just not fond of little yapping dogs, barring toy weiner dogs. Those are still lovable scamps. But I’m in the “dogs should at least remind you of their wolf ancestry” side of the fence… so mid to large dogs by preference.
They seem to be mostly cheerful, although I have never known* one well. Can be barky or howly in an echo-y vet waiting room.
*I know of one who lives next to a park and walks himself.
There are lots* of them at the park. Few are friendly.
*There must be a corgi club that has meetings there.
“Any dog less than 50 lbs is essentially a cat. And cats are useless.”
-Ron Swanson
Plus you get Harris stepping up.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
On the FBI whistle blower story… The retaliation is unbelievably brazen. The one guy who got transferred across the country and then put on unpaid leave the day he and his family and all their stuff arrived? And then revoking their clearances and keeping them in limbo so they cannot work?
It just seems crazy.
Then I learn that they may not have any protection against this retaliation because the law that provides whistleblower protection exempts the FBI from much of its reach.
It really feels like we have turned a corner… Like people are not even pretending that they are being honorable and honest any more.
Without consequences, actual tangible consequences for violating the rules, there’s no reason for the FBI to not do this.
The reality is the entirety of the FBI leadership should have been put on the gallows years (really decades) ago.
That is nasty. I haven’t been following it that closely- amazing how the FBI got exempted, possibly the most important agency besides CIA to require proper whistleblower protections.
It really feels like we have turned a corner… Like people are not even pretending that they are being honorable and honest any more.
I’m not really sure if even the pretense of honor really factored into the equation in the case of the FBI, even at the start. J Edgar Hoover was corrupt from top to bottom. It’s an institution that NEVER should have existed.
And yet they pretended to be men of law and order, truth, justice and the American way.
These guys are just waving their bits about daring anyone to say anything about it.
I watch a lot of Pluto and many of the commercials are for one cop-sucking CBS drama after another – there are so many of them I couldn’t count them – including one for the FBI. Really?
Boy, that worm has turned.
The FBI used to be the universal good guy. Cops too. Even as the anti-hero schlubs, Barney Miller showed the cops to be the good guys. Even if the story involved “bad cops”, they were always corrupted by the mob. It wasn’t the institution itself.
Now it is really crazy, because the Dems are demanding define the police while demanding more power to the feds and pretending that objecting to FBI abuses is “defund the police on steroids”. (Yes, that was a quote from yesterday’s hearing)
Also unbelievably brazen is the Dems attacking these witnesses. There are stories out there about how these witnesses were “paid by the GOP”. Digging deeper, seems some Republican somewhere gave one of them money while they weren’t getting a paycheck.
The Dems need to protect their Gestapo.
*lights the Tres signal*
Thanks for the warning
Seriously though, I didn’t think it was legal to block the aisle.
Wider aisles would mean narrower seats.
Much like the 4 lane/bike path discussion yesterday.
Panama Canal could be widened so..bigger ships…
Not if the airlines put only one extra wide seat on each side of the aisle. Then the obese will bitch about the greedy airlines when the fares double for everyone. The free market has a solution: TubbyAir for those who like to fly with huge seats; ScaryAir for those who want to board a plane with no security checks; GourmetAir for those who demand a Michelin 3 star meal on flights over 2 hours; GlibAir where Q worthy attendants care, ahem, for your every need.
I need to see her face.
Let me know when it tips over
New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found.
The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate, according to researchers.
This sinking is exacerbating the impact of sea level rise which is accelerating at around twice the global average as the world’s glaciers melt away and seawater expands due to global heating. The water that flanks New York City has risen by about 9in, or 22cm, since 1950 and major flooding events from storms could be up to four times more frequent than now by the end of the century due to the combination of sea level rise and hurricanes strengthened by climate change.
“A deeply concentrated population of 8.4 million people faces varying degrees of hazard from inundation in New York City,” researchers wrote in the new study, published in the Earth’s Future journal.
Needs more radioactive sea monsters,
Despite the sinking and the rising water, Manhattan keeps getting bigger and bigger. Interesting, I wonder what the factor is that overcomes the other two?
“The water that flanks New York City has risen by about 9in”
Is that true?
Wouldn’t any change in sea level be global?
I blame the Dutch. By definition, blocking off the sea raises it everywhere else. Maybe they are trying to reconquer New Amsterdam?
Displaced by Kramer and all the others swimming in the East River?
Hank Johnson is writing for the Guardian now?
So Nuggets kept home court advantage. If they steal one of the next two they should be good.
Also my nba bleacherreport app sneaked in a figure skating news item. Is 4 OT unusual in stick and puck figure skating? Who are we rooting for in that contest?
no it’s highly unusual for hockey to go that long but unlike they play until someone wins.
However I am a fine of a surviving Western Conference team and would like to see it go 7 games. Unless we lose this round. Then I don’t care.
jesus my phone sucks
I thoroughly enjoyed watching LeBron try to orchestrate a fancy, showboat dunk on an all-alone breakaway, and then fumble the ball out of bounds.
I’m surprised he bothered.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-addresses-saudi-hosted-arab-league-summit-why-they-should-stand-against-putin
Zelensky is smoking the good stuff if he thinks the Arab League is going to back him over Russia at this point, particularly Assad.
“Zelensky is smoking the good stuff”
Obama runtz?
‘While news of the axing of the Star Wars hotel comes on the same day that Iger pulled the plug on the company’s new $1 billion housing complex for staff in Orlando, in a move that many see as a possible slight against Gov. Ron DeSantis.’
Disney fucking up and not making money = DeSantis is in trouble.
Okay, pull the other one.
XY currently getting his nose fixed from an unfortunate incident in which he put his nose between a young male punchER and an older female punchEE.
chivalry gets you nowhere. But a broken nose builds toughness and character. Is he suing? Get a little money out of the deal?
lolno
I concur. Mine has been broken 3X. Two of those times were done for me. The third was a combination of too much vodka, a slippery floor, and gravity.
Ouch. Did you reschedule the interview?
Yes, I was able to do that.
Did you consult the bus stop for a qualified Personal Injury attorney?
Can’t get blood out of a thug turnip.
Well good for him.
And though it sounds like he won’t get any money out of it, he’ll get a story. And he might not know it yet, but that’s a pretty good thing to have.
This trend is being magnified by the sheer bulk of New York City’s built infrastructure. The researchers calculated that the city’s structures, which include the famous Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, weigh a total of 1.68tn lbs, which is roughly equivalent to the weight of 140 million elephants.
How much is that in baboons?
African or Asian elephants?
I Don’t Know That
Jinx.
It was kind of obligatory.
But now you owe me a soda!
What? I don’t know that……..
How many football fields has the island sank so far?
The tall buildings are all built on Manhattan Schist, and the weight of the buildings is like a flea on an elephant’s ass regarding the bedrock beneath the city. The buildings are not pushing the bedrock down, causing Manhattan to “sink”.
So, we should saw off the top of the island and turn it around then?
A man decks a Just Stop Oil protestor and throws the social media guy’s phone across the street… leaving it smashed to pieces
https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1659506240655851522
This is the Way.
Shame nobody stepped up to help him.
I don’t understand why police around the west are tolerating this sort of protest.
The one that immediately springs to mind is the interstate highway where the guy is going to be late to work and it will result in a parole violation. Not only do the protesters not move and the police not make them move, the arrest the commuter for attempting to disrupt the illegal protest.
This isn’t an accident. They want these violent confrontations. They want people trying to drive through so they can get footage and charge people, casting ordinary folks as some sort of violent faction.
With the smokescreen provided by the propaganda machine, it is hard to see if the average American sees what is happening. I sure hope they do.
The key is to kill them all in the first strike so that the video does them no good.
Because people around the west are immensely fat, rich, and happy.
Cop in Philly fired and prosecuted for pepper spraying a couple Floyd demonstrators who were sitting in the middle of a busy downtown expressway and refused to move.
That seems completely reasonable.
Biden is in Japan. It’s not a completely zero possibility that his handlers leave him in the suicide forest.
Alphaville – Big In Japan (Official Music Video)
Using a song about drug addiction to mock poor old strung out Joe and his family?
Pretty much otherwise it was going to be
Lost In Translation (2003) – For Relaxing Times, Make It Suntory Time
+1 Loja Muoh
My money is on a Chris Farley like header into a Koi pond.
“He also testified that individuals who had previously purchased a firearm with a BoA product were elevated to the top of the list provided by BoA.”
Nice.
I cancelled all my BOA accounts over that BS.
Never forget
Think about the crazy covid stuff people did simply because the government told them to:
Narrator: We won’t. Otherwise there would be politicians and “scientists” swinging from lampposts already.
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
I’ve had my hummingbird feeder out for a bit over a week, and the first customer decided to check it out just as I was standing right next to it, so he flew away 🙁
They’ll probably become less shy with time.
I had good attendance for years until they just stopped coming, even though I kept the feeders clean.. OK, one less task, boiling nectar.
It’s weird. Tucson has a bunch of hummingbirds, especially when they are migrating. I’ve tried probably 4 or 5 different feeders in different locations, and never had more than one or two occasionally use them. We do have a number of flowering plants they like, and I do see a few on those sometimes. We just don’t seem to have that many around where I live.
Tucson also has a lot of bats, which will drain a hummingbird feeder every night if you leave them out. I’ve about given up on trying to feed hummingbirds.
Good stuff from Taibbi’s burgeoning empire.
“Why the FBI And Democrats Are Attacking Whistleblowers
FBI says it won’t release Jan 6 surveillance video because it would show too many undercover government agents and informants….”
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1659365162430902272
Is that dangerous or just embarrassing?
They won’t even release it to criminal defendants. On that basis alone every conviction should be thrown out and charges dropped unless and until they make it available.
The fact that the courts signed off on this based solely on the FBI’s say-so that there wasn’t anything exculpatory tells you everything you need to know about the death of due process.
^^^ THIS
Our bank account has been shut down. No explanation given.
FYTW.
Must have been getting too close to the truth.
He’s an interesting dude, but he’s got a huge blindspot on Ukraine and gets quite belligerent about any criticism of that Western project.
I think he’s finding out that the system doesn’t give a shit if he toes the line on that.
Where is he from?
Born in Russia (or maybe Belorus) and raised in the UK.
Operation Choke Point is all grown up.
Banks.. then credit cards… Then PayPal.. then go fund me… Whatever means you use to access the financial system…..
Now tell me again that the psh to digital currency is free of any corrupt motives at all.
Wanna read a scary story?
http://www.deepthroatipo.com/how-to-wreck-a-big-old-gsib-bank/
That’s dumb. China destroying $60 trillion of its own wealth to hurt us? Yeah no.
The Weat and China are best buds joined at the hip because of stuff like this although the upside is there’s not gonna be a war.
Goddamit it. I need an edit button.
How intelligent do you think the neocons and congresscritters are? How blinded by naked ideology and/or ambition are they?
I think for the most part they are shit for brains. They don’t get elected because they’re smart. They get elected because they fool people.
I’m surprised he doesn’t have string connecting all of that.
Yeah. People need to realize China and the United States are secret friends with deep financial interests in one another.
From time to time, some Americans will pretend to care about.. I dunno.. totalitarianism or concentration camps or whatever. They don’t.
Then China will respond with points about how the U.S. is a racist and gun loving country. They don’t really care.
It’s just a game to seem tough politically.
If China took Taiwan, the U.S. would wag their finger and then do nothing.
The U.S. is not a country or a people that stand for anything at all.
It ain’t our job to protect Taiwan. Period.
Sure I understand the libertarian position on this.
I don’t even think of it as libertarian. There is simply NO obligation. And it conforms to our founding stance.
I’ve seen multiple analyses trying to estimate how much China’s official GDP numbers are inflated. “Up to 60%” seems to be where they land. They start with a rock solid premise – that the CCP is lying, and go from there to try to use data that is hard to fake. In any event, China is hugely overleveraged. For them to vaporize that many of their foreign assets would blow back on them bigly through all that leverage. I’m sure even the CCP doesn’t know what their GDP is, and consequently what their debt ratio is, but I’m sure they know the former is lower, and the latter is very high. If China tries some kind of “first launch” financial nuclear strike against the West, it will most definitely take them down as hard or harder.
I agree that this is a MAD financial weapon.
It’s the first I’ve run across this particular argument, but it seems worth noting that they probably have more than enough cash parked in foreign banks to trigger runs thanks to our own greed and stupidity.
https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1659365162430902272?s=20
Shellenberger has an interesting set of claims. A big one: the FBI says it won’t release the Jan 6 tapes because there were too many undercover agents and informants present.
Pretty telling. Obviously they aren’t worried about agents and informants who were just in the crowd, doing nothing.
Didn’t they claim there were no agents in the crowd?
Not sure about that, but they did claim there was no “involvement.”
I seem to remember that was justification (protecting CIs and/or undercovers) early on for not releasing all of the video.
This was their justification:
From Taibbi (subscriber only)
I bring this up to once again refute the love for Gramsci on the right.
That claim came out in the hearings yesterday. One of the people interviewed mentioned a request for the footage, and the official response was no, there *may* be assets or informants on camera. Which means there are, because otherwise why put up a fight?
“So, if I understand you, you are refusing to release the footage because there may or may not be assets on camera? Apparently, you don’t know. And if you don’t know, then I really don’t see how we can suppress this footage based on your ignorance. I see no limiting principle here, as I would imagine your ignorance is boundless if you don’t even know whether the FBI had infiltrated this major event.”
“We already know what Ray Epps looks like.”
I think it means more than that. Why would they be worried about “assets and informants” who are just happen to be part of the crowd? No, they’re almost certainly worried because some were involved directly in the riots and capitol building breach.
Thread here:
“1. New internal internal #TwitterFiles help explain why privileged reporter hate @elonmusk and Twitter 2.0.
Musk denied access to Twitter’s formerly “trusted reporters” and allowed inside entree to more independent journalists.”
https://twitter.com/thackerpd/status/1658812586073153539
No surprise. It names names, but I doubt it will matter.
Uh, wut?
How about parasols?
¡Mask violation! 👉
Just more money down the equity shithole.
The broad in blue is a solid WOOD.
Hubba x2.
In the continuing attempts to update the Ohio Constitution, the official ballot language has been written and approved. The Democrats (and their NGO groups) are saying that the language is confusing and will mislead voters. The change is from requiring 50%+1 votes to 60% of votes for amendments to pass. The confusing language:
The part that they’re saying is confusing is that it doesn’t list the current requirements, nor does it specify what exactly is changing.
“My [Republican] colleagues have brought in these former agents, men who lost their security clearances because they were a threat to our national security,” said Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.), the ranking member of the House weaponization subcommittee. “Who out of malice or ignorance or both have put partisan agenda above the oath they swore to serve this country.”
That is fucking hilarious, coming from a member of Congress.
She isn’t even a real member of Congress. CWAC
No more meetings today w00t
Lucky bastard.
I believe this is my last day of training. So I’ve got two more meetings of listening to a tier 1 support engineer go through their troubleshooting process, and hoping they picked something different than one of the other six or seven other tier 1 engineers have gone through. All going until 1830 Eastern.
Too bad I have some license upgrades to do between 1900 and 2200. I wonder if I can leave work three hours early.
Eh, you’ve got over 175 years to finish that.
The part that they’re saying is confusing is that it doesn’t list the current requirements, nor does it specify what exactly is changing.
“This Amendment, if passed, will effectively end democracy and result in the enslavement of women and people of color.’
*votes “yes” as hard as I can*