Scourge of the soccer world?
Brooks Koepka rolled to another major win. I wonder how much shot-talking will happen between LIV and PGA Tour players after that. Both NHL conference finals series are 2-0, but Florida is going home with that lead and Dallas are returning home down. Man City won the EPL championship, as usual. When are those FFP decisions gonna start happening ? And the final weekend will at least have a little drama as three teams try to avoid the last two relegation positions. And that’s it for sports.
Scourge of Europe?
Can people start beating these assholes to a pulp? It can be the police or somebody else, I don’t really care. But they have it coming.
But they have strict gun control. How could this happen?
Fine by me. They can either cut spending or let it happen.
Scourge of humanity?
Ugh. Cyclists. They need to calm down.
He’s really improved since becoming a girl. It’s California. I hope the real girls who complain aren’t kicked out of school.
So now Musk will be accused of being a Jihadist apologist, right? He gets tabbed a Putin apologist every time he criticizes the continued efforts to fund the Ukrainian meat grinder, so I assume the complaints from the left will be coming soon.
I respect this guy. You expect this kind of thing to get quietly covered up.
Good. They need to do this in every state. Diversity at those schools happens anyway and this is pissing away taxpayer money.And Equity in and of itself is nothing to crow about.
Here’s a good song. He’s not my favorite artist but he had a handful of good ones. And this is probably my favorite. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
Kitty-kitty Bang-Bang!
I thought OMWC didn’t meet up with NPR ladies this weekend….
The pic on this post has a cat shooting up the house..
OMWC’s dating was not my target, although I will be rooting for him to score with the NPR crowd if only for the fact these ladies need someone to pay attention to them and their craziness.
Hold on, isn’t that on the wrong side of the hot/crazy boundary?
From my experience it could very well be.
“Can people start beating these assholes to a pulp? It can be the police or somebody else, I don’t really care. But they have it coming.”
Brainwashed morons looking for attention and thinking they will become the new prophets & martyrs of Gaia’s religion.
You should watch the video. Those aren’t econuts, just hoodrats who can’t drive a car.
Oops, wrong comment placement.
Yes, beat the econuts.
Couldn’t they have accidentally drowned while performing their act of vandalism or take one for Gaia and performed a James Jones ritual?
So one of those mass “die-in” things but they actually go through with it?
“Ugh. Cyclists. They need to calm down.”
If this guy had ran them over we would be looking at another early Christmas shopping event a.k.a. riots & looting.
So, there’s a guy named Kim and he didn’t show up with a shotgun? How the mighty have fallen…
I liked the belt-brandishing detail.
I’ve heard of motorcycle gangs, but bicycle gangs? Sheesh.
And that’s it for sports.
Both nba conference finals are 3-0 … Should be done in 4 or 5…
I think the league wanted a celtics lakers finals but it does not seem to be the case
I’m sure the entire 84 and 85 Lakers-Celtics series are available on youtube. Stick with those for drama and enteraintment.
I grew up a Laker fan in the 60s, when they lost to the Celtics in the finals repeatedly. The ’85 Finals were a thing of beauty to me; Kupchak coming on to push McHale off the court. Now though, you could play them every year and I wouldn’t give a shit; the NBA is dead to me.
Grew up a Celtics fan. Those 80’s rivalries had me on the edge of my seat. Now I don’t care and can’t be bothered. The game has been completely ruined.
Lakers fan in the ’40–50s when George Mikan/Jim Pollard/Vern Mikkelson/Slater Martin/Bud Grant owned Mpls/St Paul.
Saw Bud Grant et al play at the Mpls Auditorium about 1950. Better he stayed with football.
Damn.
“Charcoal in the water of the Trevi Fountain,” they tweeted Sunday. “1 out of 4 houses in Italy is vulnerable to floods. How much longer do we have to wait for those in government to take concrete action?”
Have you tried not building houses in flood zones?
Stop talking crazy!
And they should be more worried about earthquakes. All Italian houses are vulnerable to that.
Earthquakes… volcanic plumes… lots of fun.
“Typhoons! Hurricanes! SMOG!”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12089445/Skeletons-Pompeii-reveal-deaths-earthquakes-not-just-volcanic-eruption.html
It’s Italy, they should worry about angry gods .Saturn doen’t take kindly to unruly children!
Questo? https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bb/a9/af/bba9af1a3fa1a47ad460e752c0fa0aef.jpg
My linx, they is bad.
Sounds more like lying with numbers.
“Vulnerable to floods” sounds like the sort of weasel words that would let them include anyone who might be subjected to flash floods running down the many slopes in Italy’s interior.
Have you tried not building houses in flood zones?
Venice would like a word.
“I respect this guy. You expect this kind of thing to get quietly covered up.”
Women drivers, amrite?
“Good. They need to do this in every state. Diversity at those schools happens anyway and this is pissing away taxpayer money. And Equity in and of itself is nothing to crow about.”
I used to defend free speech for even the KKK and the fucking marxists academics, and when I see shit like this, I am wondering if I made the mistake in letting marxist be free to say anything.
Climate change activists turned the blue water of the Trevi Fountain in central Rome black with diluted charcoal on Sunday.
I thought you were against fossil fuels.
Narrator: The water is actually clear.
Bad. Kick the Diversity grifters out on their asses.
Good. Wean them off the federal funds and mandates.
Probably gauce of me — but this is my favorite of his (prompted me to buy the only album of his I own, after all).
On the other hand – this OS is probably still my favorite, even though I don’t run it any more. Don’t really see how you’ll get Elvis’s song past UEFI, Sloopy… but you do you.
My favorite OS was BeOS.
Loved using it.
But they have strict gun control. How could this happen?
Indiana is only 1,400 miles away.
We will also load your trunk for you, and we have buy 1 get 7 free fireworks.
The CCP mafia’s lending practices have consequences for the third world nations that fell for the scam….
Adjustable rate loans from China? Hate to think caveat emptor… but seriously… read the contract and realize this isn’t the US folks, they’re completely serious about wanting their ROI. (Or pieces of your country ala Panama Canal Zone before Carter gave it up like an idiot, is what I expect they’ll acquire.)
China’s Belt & Road program was clearly about making idiots financially beholden to them so they could then call the shots in those countries. People that pointed that out were targeted and lambasted for daring to make that case. But here we are today with China literally fucking over these nations in Asia, Africa, South & Central America, and even in Europe. The pimp is nice to you until it is time for him to tell you that it’s trick turning time to pay him back, bitchez.
Because the IMF and World Bank have been a net positive for those countries?
Not my point at all, but neither the IMF nor the World Bank are going to fuck you over as hard as the CCP will.
Really?
https://www.reuters.com/world/no-china-no-deal-bid-break-sovereign-debt-logjams-gets-weary-thumbs-up-2023-04-13/
Functionally, the Chinese want the IMF and World Bank to take a haircut on their debt too. The CCP may be predatory, but the entire Western system of finance to the developing world has been the same.
I am not sure I see your point. Are you saying that shitholes that borrow money and then piss it away shouldn’t have to pay back the loans? My point is that the belief loans from the CCP came without the problems from other lenders was not just dumb, but not even close to reality, and the CCP will be far more proactive in making sure Beijing gets it pound of flesh. Also note that me pointing out China is definitely a predatory and abusive lender doesn’t excuse or say anything about the other crooks in this business.
You were drawing attention to the Chinese loan system as somehow being uniquely predatory. It isn’t unique in any shape or form.
What the Chinese are doing though is pointing out that the Western financial system and its proponents are full of shit. The CCP will take a haircut on their loans if the IMF and World Bank do the same. The Western “rules-based order” is balking and throwing the propaganda machine into overdrive.
What starts out as a cause, becomes a business, ends up a racket.
The “rules-based order”, or post WWII, post-cold war adventurism, was and is no different.
Lock the doors and never stop in Los Angeles if things look sketchy. I thought everyone knew that?
I lived there for a few years right after Reginald Denny made that mistake. The whole place is much sketchier now than it was 30 years ago and drivers still don’t get it?
The president opened a press conference in Japan by urging Republicans to “move from their extreme positions,” which he criticized as “frankly unacceptable.”
I am sure you can detail the “extreme” positions.
“It’s time for Republicans to accept that there is no bipartisan deal to be made solely solely on their partisan terms,” he said. “They have to move as well.”
That’s some mighty fine projection.
Biden and McCarthy’s staffs are set to reconvene at 6 p.m. Sunday to discuss remaining issues, according to a White House official.
I hope this was productive since we’ve never defaulted before, except for the few times we’ve defaulted before.
Going anything that the dnc crime syndicate wants is extremism…
Going against…
Meanwhile, the White House is planning how to inflict maximum pain when they decide they would rather default then cut spending.
Given that as I understand it, most of it is “FY2022 spending levels (which would lock in COVID-era spending)” and “claw back unspent COVID funds to cut the deficit slightly”, I’m firmly in the “nowhere near ‘extreme’ enough” camp… but at least it would be a start. Granted, we’re not privy to exactly what his staff is pitching… but it sure seems more like the jackass play is “give me everything I want or you’re extreme (lots of thigh pockets and wild hair incoming? X-TREME Congressmen!)” which is just crap. Singing. Choir, I know.
“I wanted you to hear it from me first,” Sonoma County sheriff Eddie Engram posted. “Last night my wife was involved in a DUI crash. Her car hit a house, causing damage, and the one person inside the home was injured. As was appropriate, she was arrested and is facing DUI-related charges.”
No way a mere county elected official could sweep this under the rug. Maybe if he were the junior senator from his state riding on the coattails of the ghosts of three famous brothers…
Ted wanted to one-up his PT boat commander brother and be a U-boat commander.
Ugh. Cyclists. They need to calm down.
They are just about to shift gears to become productive members of society.
This man knows of what he spoke, no shift in his positions.
I imagine Swissy will be by shortly to derail this thread.
Swissie may be too tired to be concerned about what is being pedaled.
He’ll rise off the seat to crank out a narrowed gaze.
This was the wheel deal, not some go-around to get-around.
Did somebody bust a deal?
Careful. You’ll get Swiss to ride in here and derailleur position.
Sounds a little Campy.
Can people start beating these assholes to a pulp? It can be the police or somebody else, I don’t really care. But they have it coming.
Just hold them underwater for a few minutes.
A transgender athlete has been slammed after placing second across a field of high school girls – and even prevented one from securing a state championship place.
Athena Ryan, who transitioned from male to female, had been running in the boy’s team for Sonoma Academy until 2021, when she switched to the girl’s team.
The people allowing this should be flogged.
You’re being too lenient. At minimum they should be flayed.
They’re not just allowing it. They’re celebrating it and telling these real females to STFU or face the consequences.
Some people are starting to realize that no matter how this shit plays out, the gay movement will be the hardest hit.
That was a great read. I see now this is all part of “deconstructing society” a la critical race theory.
Marxism 101.
“Athena Ryan, who transitioned from male to female”
Hold the phone. This is a minor we’re talking about. I thought they didn’t “transition” minors.
Did he legally change his name?
Tucking is not transitioning!
“I’m a girl now” is all that is needed – the “affirming” drugs and surgeries can come later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgHtBxOs4qw
She vaulted from sixth place in her last 1,600-meter race to second ahead of a field of senior high school females.
Fuck off with this DM.
Wait, is this running or pole vaulting?
No, let xem run, and run fast. Take Susie’s scholarship, and Julie’s too. Smash the high school records and then go to college and do the same. Twist Title IX into an unrecognizable mess. Only then can the fever break.
THIS.
Only second place?
That dude sucks at being a woman.
So now Musk will be accused of being a Jihadist apologist, right?
Jihad…IN SPACE.
The Socialist Party
@OfficialSPGB
“why could Lenin not feed his people”
Because he brought STATE CAPITALISM to the Soviet Empire — not Marxist “socialism” (see https://worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1970/1970s/no-788-april-1970/state-capitalism-russia/
).
“Why are Cuba/Venezuela such failures” Because they too have capitalist economies under state control which is NOT socialism.
https://twitter.com/OfficialSPGB/status/1660302160339320834
They just need a link that blares out “No True Socialism has been tried” and respond with that to every criticism. It would save time.
Wasn’t Rob Roy tried, and found guilty?
You’re interacting with a retarded person.
Ain’t it awesome how as a marxist you can pretend the problem was that all merxist experiments failed not because marxism is evil and will never work, but because of capitalism…
Friend, have you ever heard of libertarianism?
The truly stupid part is that the argument is irrelevant, even if you take their claim at face value. So a place that is 90 percent commie, or 95, or 98 is a hellhole and then you get to 100 and it magically is a land of justice and plenty for all? Meanwhile a place that is 50 percent free is way better off than commie hellhole, a place that is 60 or 80 percent free is unbelievably better, and a place that is 90 percent free would be crazy peaceful and prosperous.
We had a planet wide experiment for 100 years with different countries trying differing degrees of state ownership and control. The results were obvious to anyone with eyes.
That’s the really hysterical bit – that this is SCIENTIFIC socialism! In science bitches, when the experiment doesn’t produce the predicted results, you rethink the theory.
Tell that to the neocons.
They don’t claim to be scientific do they? Aren’t they just a bunch of babbling moralists?
ReAl CoMMUnisM hAsen’T BeeN trYed!
Sounds like someone has trouble telling which is cause and which is effect.
A ban on Texas public universities’ diversity offices inches closer to becoming law
Texas could become the second state in the country after Florida to ban diversity, equity and inclusion offices in higher education.
One million progressive voices cried out and were suddenly silenced.
Oh, they won’t be silenced. The whining will heard through the vacuum of space forever.
“We take the debt ceiling seriously as a constraint on our ability to pay bills that are coming due,” she said. “And my assumption is that if the debt ceiling isn’t raised, there will be hard choices to make about what bills go unpaid.”
To tie this to another link today, how ’bout we start with the federal grants to universities that require a commitment to “diversity, equity, and inclusivity” issues?
The climate nutcases in Germany
https://twitter.com/JackieMeek6/status/1660361268002275329
LOOK AT MEEEE!!!
Fucking idiots all of them.
And it doesn’t escape me that these fucking idiots always are people that are financially well off and don’t care if scarcity prices them out, because it rarely would.
Granted there are plenty of people that still hold these idiot beliefs even when they will be the hardest hit, but that reminds me of the idiots that believed the Obamacare lies and later got pissed they had to pay for it.
Is that even a climate protest? This is Germany, after all. That could just be the queue to get on public transit.
good point
I have no doubt these people are being paid by marxists to do that. Even if you are nuts, you wouldn’t think that is a valuable protest.
Flagellant cult.
‘Orning ‘ordles… Chump to Meh… just a typical Monday…
Daily Duotrigordle #446
Guesses: X/37
Time: 04:38.24
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Blossom Puzzle, May 22
Letters: A C L I N P R
My score: 265 points
My longest word: 10 letters
💮 🌻 🏵 🌸 💐 🌼 🌹 🌷 🌺 💮
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Meh.
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My idea to solve the problem is slightly different.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams just unveiled his new plan to combat skyrocketing retail theft in the city.
These are not serious people.
Actually, you do a disservice when you say they are not serious. They are dead serious in their stupidity. Adams actually believes this shit he proposes is the way to go and somehow will make things better.
Liberalism, be it marxist or fascist in nature, is a mental disorder. These people consistently and constantly refuse to accept the laws of nature or human behavior can not be ignored in favor of some fantasy of a better world.
They need to continue being vocal about this. Maybe it will lead to a severe backlash.
Is his plan to force the retail establishments to shutter so that they cannot then be robbed?
Seems about right.
Stop capitalism… Government will give you what you need…
Don’t laugh…
This morning local NPR had a thing about Hochul “looking into” using SUNY campuses to house migrants and the SUNY admins losing their shit over that idea.
I can imagine. The ego and elitism of the SUNY administrators is legendary. They wouldn’t want such people on “their” campuses.
That would be hilarious.
She is full of bright ideas.
Well, that’s one way to increase your diversity numbers on campus.
A university in my town has a whole parking garage filled with migrants.
Retail theft is a public health emergency, ergo NYC can lock down all its residents. Covid proved you don’t need businesses to survive, you can just order stuff online! This will eliminate retial theft!
I await my triple Nobel in Economics, Medicine and Peace.
Dynamite!
🤣😂
Are those emojis for the vendor of the kiosks, laughing all the way to the bank?
We should do that as a GlibProject to fund the site. We have programmers and hardware specialists here.
“They’ll steal the kiosk if they could sell it for parts”
Then we’ll sue the kiosk manufacturer for making it too easy to steal!
The TV guys seem to be figuring out that there is plenty of audience and talent and audience for the PGA and LIV to co-exist. And when players from the two leagues meet up in a major, it makes for extra drama.
Others not so much. Saw an interview with Davis Love III last week where he said in a roundabout way that he won’t be putting any LIV players on the Ryder Cup team because he’s still mad that they left.
I’m horning in on Sensei’s gig, but this is too priceless.
Luckiest moron alive right here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/13nev3g/how_you_gon_brake_check_someone_on_a_bike/
Yikes
Stupid is as stupid does…
Blocker-blocked
Interesting. It’s over 18 which used to be completely blocked if you didn’t sign on.
Now it just blurs it.
And Scruffyyy – feel free to post ’em. I love a good idiot when I’m dealing with he or she.
High schoolers + cars go together like oil and water!
When else are you supposed to learn to drive?
My insurance guy said he was thinking about just opening a claims office at the local HS. Another buddy’s kid had two accidents in the parking lot. Sad!
The EU and the ECB are broke.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/meta-slapped-record-13-billion-fine-over-eu-data-transfers-us
Now they’re just resorting to highway robbery.
As if they give a shit about the NSA. If it was a criminal transfer of data, throw an exec in prison.
They think they were immune to the NSA before that data got to U.S. shores? BWAHAHAHAHAHahahahaha
It’s just a lousy excuse to justify the financial extraction.
Five Eyes
https://reason.com/2023/05/20/dont-mix-rare-bourbon-with-state-power/
Basically how things work in commie countries.
there should be some perks of being the king’s men
Next ENB column: “Why Trump Proves the Need for State-run Liquor Stores.”
One party state, in essence. It is no wonder that we have/had a dirty Sec of State, dirty governor or three, unconsitutional laws being passed, etc.
Here in Ohio, they do bottle “lotteries” for the rare bottles. Free to enter, and the winner selects which nearby liquor store they’d like the rare bottle to be delivered to, where they then can buy it at retail. For the uncommon bottles, they’ll announce the locations where they’ll be released a couple of weeks before they’re released.
I like what the liquor stores do here, and is common in many places.
You get lottery entries based on purchases (one entry for every $100 or something). They do a quarterly drawing of X winners based on having X specialty bottles. If you win, you get to pick a bottle to purchase from the group of X.
So the specialty bottles go to the regulars at reasonable prices.
And the store has a way to encourage you to use your loyalty card.
I like that better than what I normally saw in KY, which was the store would hold back the specialties for regulars to purchase, but it wasn’t clear at all how you became a regular.
The purchases gets you lottery tickets system is much clearer.
Miss Destination Daytona Finals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf3QY6qwgWQ
Democrats still love segregation.
The University of California Berkeley proudly hosts a “black only graduation ceremony,” where participation is based on race, contradicting the very laws established during the Civil Rights movement, which vehemently outlawed racial segregation.
Vehemently?
It’s like when a lawyer strenuously objects in a courtroom and the judge reconsiders.
Is that how it’s done?
No wonder grandma wants out.
Hmm… terminal diagnosis for the grandmother. Frankly, I’m not going to criticize there — while I’m all for the state not encouraging it, I’m also okay with folks seriously mulling it over and deciding when they want to check out (I’ve thought more than once that I’d rather go peacefully than be in the “change my vegetable brain body’s messes, etc.” if it comes down to it. Says the guy hopefully nowhere near it.)
And the comment below stating that it may well be more of a coping mechanism for the grandchild rings true for me as well. So not going to heckle.
The state should neither support nor prohibit it. That is the state’s proper role.
Well sure — if you want to state things clearly without droning on and on in a overly verbose fashion and all.
droning on and on
Well, someone can let the politicians speak, as long as we get to ignore them and they don’t get to put their words into action.
An influencer is coping with grandma’s death by creating content around it. Respect the hustle.
I think the cover image on the homepage may be photoshopped
I don’t know… I think what u-get is what u-zi.
I talked to my middle daughter last night. (This is the one that cause the hullabaloo at Easter). For some reason we started talking about using pronouns, and she said “ugh”. I reminded her that she was all into the trans stuff at one point, and she said yes, but it’s all over the place now and it’s tiresome and cringy. So at least to her, it sounds like it was a fad and she’s over it. I hope the American short attention span kicks in, and there are many people like her.
It sounds like the people who are REALLY into the pronoun thing are doing it in the same way that kids did goth, or whatever else was used to Shock the Normies.
Fad, indeed. I just hope it isn’t too late for my friends daughter.
So the tuck undergarments are the tattoo sleeves of the current generation?
A lot of this is driven by TikTok, and because of that it won’t last forever. The problem is still the adults in schools and clinics indoctrinating kids and trying to turn this into a long term thing.
Yep. People who should know better are driving this clown car. As someone has said, the gay rights movement has been hijacked by cultural Marxists, and they don’t GAF about making things better.
That was like so five minutes ago, dad!
My niece was into the goofy shit too, I think she said she was pan?
Anyway, now she’s married to a marine with a kid and going to church again (only 23).
Ive explained to Tres V 2.0 when he tells me “Dad, you wouldnt believe how many girls in my class are lesbians (he’s about to be a junior)”, “son, in 10 or 15 years they’ll be married to a dude with a kid or 2.”
As hard as those clinics are trying, biology will eventually win out.
Sex drive, its what’s for culture.
Been telling my kid that (same age) since he had a girl tell him she was lesbian.
In the 6th grade.
Now at least 1/2 the girls in his class (small private school) say they’re something other than straight. All of them will be married in 10 years with a kid and living large.
China’s Xi Mimics Mao’s Crisis Response in Sweeping Indoctrination Drive
That should should pacify the rubes.
Hello, ordinary person! Tell me, are you satisfied with your lot in life? Please, feel free to speak, you have nothing to fear here! As long as you say exactly what I want you to, that is.
Good morning, Sloop!
Lots of footage of people getting the shot kicked out of them by a mob. Not sayin’ it’s an op, but…
I think drowning those fuckers in the fountain might serve as a better deterrent. I can’t abide destruction of beauty.
Nice song choices today. I listened to Armed Forces over the weekend – it definitely holds up beautifully.
An overlooked Elvis Costello masterpiece: When I was Cruel.
ESG is a weird drug.
Satanists are always the dumbest of the bunch.
“We don’t actually believe in Satan! It’s just a metaphor!”
Then what’s the point? What do you believe in? Grow the fuck up.
There’s a cranky Irish Catholic lady over at Scott Alexander’s blog that calls Satanism “artificially flavored atheism.”
That’s good.
They believe in pissing off others…..
It’s just kneejerk antisocietal norms, including the good ones like not grooming and banging kids, thrown in with some twisted antiChristian stuff for good measure. In other words, it’s incoherent argle bargle.
Yeah, but grifters gotta grift.
He believes in you.
That was a good movie, better than The Devil’s Advocate as a Reeves vehicle. Not that I’d take it as anything other than Hollywood.
Sequel may be coming. It’s actually part of the DCU.
You need Satan more than he needs you
The Party of the First Part.
Has the NAACP issued an advisory to black people about going to Chicago?
How are they gonna grift off that? Chicago is a shithole because the NAACP pushed the people that run that place into making it so…
whaddup doh’
Since Im off tonight (this is my Friday evening)…..TALL CANS!
Propping up the dominoes
The United States and Papua New Guinea have signed a new bilateral defense cooperation agreement – a move that has sparked controversy in the Pacific Island nation and comes as Washington and China jostle for influence in the region.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Papua New Guinea (PNG) Prime Minister James Marape signed the pact and a maritime security agreement on Monday during Blinken’s visit to the capital Port Moresby.
Advance text of the agreements were not released by either side, but the new defense cooperation was expected to expand US access to military and other facilities in PNG, bolstering Washington’s security ties in the South Pacific.
Vital security interests. We’ll need those jungle airfields in WWIII.
I look forward to PNG troops being deployed to repel an invasion of the US.
Hey, someone has to help Guam from tipping over!
Hank knows not to say the M-word too.
More likely to assist in putting down an insurrection.
Bilateral and unidirectional!
In a statement Saturday, PNG framed its agreement with the US as an opportunity to advance its infrastructure and capacity for national defense at a time of growing global security concerns.
“Papua New Guinea does not have enemies but it pays to be prepared. Territorial dispute is (imminent), as in the case of Ukraine-Russia,” the statement said.
“This agreement is not about geopolitics but rather recognizes the country’s need to build its defense capabilities because border disputes are inevitable in the future,” it said, adding it did not preclude the government from “working with” other countries, including China.
Ten billion bucks is ten billion bucks.
The entire announcement could have just been shortened to “it pays”.
Leaked Policy Exposes Fox News Stances on Woke Ideology
Interesting strategy.
Bold even.
Well, I presume these are adults, which most have fewer issues with.
They must also be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns in the workplace.
Ok.
BBC News has unveiled BBC Verify to address the growing threat of disinformation and build trust with audiences through transparency.
The BBC’s Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring had more details on #BBCBreakfast
https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1660536033572794369
Unless it marks broad swathes of the BBC’s own content as politically biased misinformation, I’m going to assume it’s just another propaganda tool.
Fox News employees are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender. They must also be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns in the workplace.
How else are you going to attract the cream of the crop? Those Columbia School of Journalisming kids aren’t going to come work for a bunch of cigar-chomping troglodytes.
Headline says, “If Us Defaults on its Debts”
What if US redirects new spending to debt service? What if, instead of shipping pallets of cash to places like Ukraine and Papua New Guinea, the Treasury pays interest due on bonds which have been sold in the past, and stops issuing new debt? What would NPR call that?
Haha, I crack myself up?
It is entirely up to Biden whether the US defaults on debt payments.
The always valuable Peter St. Onge lays it all out.
tl;dw: GOP is asshoe!
Why do these guys always seem to have the same tchotchkes in the background like a globe and a telescope?
Same mind, same tchotchkes.
Extreme right wing rhetoric
Fighting recessions and inflation has become a lot more complicated lately. Beginning with the Great Recession, Washington’s discretionary fiscal policy took on a lead role in economic stabilization. In this role, it has not done well. While debates rage over when the Federal Reserve should stop its interest rate increases, the evidence is now overwhelming that Congress and the president need to get out of the stabilization business and stop trying to use the federal budget to spend our way out of future recessions.
From a budgetary perspective, attempts to provide stimulus during the last two recessions, primarily through new spending programs, have caused an unprecedented surge in the national debt—pushing it from $10 trillion to more than $30 trillion over the past 15 years. Furthermore, the timing and magnitude of the stimulus has been a problem. The most severe example was in 2021, when legislation created much more stimulus than the economy could handle, resulting in the highest inflation in over 40 years. This decision continues to be extremely costly and serves as a reminder that economic policy needs to be much more intelligently exercised.
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The third reason we avoided the use of discretionary fiscal policy prior to 2008 was that monetary policy appeared to be an effective means of economic stabilization. It provided quick stimulus through lowering short-term interest rates and other tools. That stimulus could be easily withdrawn when a risk of inflation appeared. It was easy to fine-tune when conditions changed. Combined with the effects of the automatic stabilizers, it seemed to be able to provide what was needed. We were having just one recession every 10 years and they were becoming milder and shorter over time.
The conventional view changed thanks to the historically low interest rates of the last decade and a half. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, we faced a dilemma: the Fed had lowered short-term interest rates to essentially zero and could go no lower. The only way to add additional stimulus was through federal spending. We understood federal debt would greatly increase, especially with inefficient discretionary stimulus. Some experts—for example in a Brookings Institute estimate of the effects of the American Rescue Plan of 2021—warned that so much spending could overshoot the target and set off a rise in inflation. These predictions were, of course, correct.
This turned out to be a terrible misuse of discretionary fiscal policy, and we will keep incurring the price until it stops.
It’s a one way street. Full steam ahead.
Someone didn’t carry the one.
The Pentagon has overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by at least $3 billion — an accounting error that could be a boon for the war effort because it will allow the Defense Department to send more weapons now without asking Congress for more money.
The acknowledgment Thursday comes at a time when Pentagon is under increased pressure by Congress to show accountability for the billions of dollars it has sent in weapons, ammunition and equipment to Ukraine and as some lawmakers question whether that level of support should continue.
Setting the stage for Pride month?
The psy-ops are coming fast and furious now. OMG DOMESTIC TERROR!!
In high school I worked at an orphanage (never too early for a Glib to collect orphans) in that town in Mexico that just had that massacre. The shooters might have done it out of boredom because there is nothing there.
Just in case you were unclear on his priorities.
It’s a PAC. He has no control!
/sarc
Is there anyone left who is unclear?
I’m still opaque.
I don’t think anybody was mistaking him for Ronald Reagan.
I saw a headline and didn’t bother with the article, but it indeed mentioned those two and the contrast in their styles.
I guessed it was an NR link.
Never disappoint.
Uber Puts Diversity Head on Leave After Worker Backlash Over ‘Don’t Call Me Karen’ Events
TW – Gizmodo.
As we all know – if you are white everything is just peachy all the time.
Why is a company that makes money even doing that? All of it is irrelevant to making a buck. I know, I know. Preaching to the choir.
The far left loves this diversity shit, and everyone else hates it.
I was talking (ok, drinking beer) with a good friend of mine who isn’t really political, and even he was seriously annoyed by this crap. Walked out of a fire chief presentation due to someone focusing on this crap as opposed to the actual business of fire prevention, and apparently he wasn’t the only one. These are gov’t employees who tend to buy into all of this junk, as it means promotions, but nobody thinks it is worth a damn. We will see how it plays out.
Karen hates being called Karen. No film at 11.
It’s not even Memorial Day
Chicago police report that two people have been killed and at least 20 others have been injured in shootings so far this weekend.
A 17-year-old was fatally shot Friday evening in the 300 block of West 51st Street, according to authorities.
Police say the teen was discovered lying between two houses just after 7 p.m., having suffered a gunshot wound to his head.
They should ban guns.
Double plus ban on teenagers with guns!
Nah, just ban teenagers.
So maybe, and I’m just spitballing here, don’t consider “peer reviewed published (bullshit) research” in your admissions criteria.
The Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a “Peer-Reviewed” Author
Citing TikTok posts as “peer-reviewed publications” may raise a red flag or two.
Ive already demonstrated that Im a “published author” based on my CL posts. Not to mention winning “best of craigslist”
Jugsy and I will have our 10 year anniversary this August.
I don’t know – that may be all that peer review is worth anymore.
Anything to avoid standardized tests.
While they aren’t perfect by any means, they really do have a decent correlation with college success. At least for STEM majors. Who knows for others, but I bet there is a decent correlation for real liberal arts majors too.
As these differentiators recede and the number of applications soars, colleges are grappling with the latest pay-to-play maneuver that gives the rich an edge: published research papers.
“A Fresh Look at an Old Classic. Huck Finn was Transgender.”
We know how the child will identify before conception!
Medical school professor says parents must implement gender ideology for babies: ‘It… starts at birth’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/medical-school-professor-says-parents-must-implement-gender-ideology-for-babies-starts-birth
Heh. Remember Baby Einstein? Baby Motzart? That you should be pumping smart people talk into the womb as soon as a bun is in the oven?
This shit is the grift that keeps giving.
Medical school professor says parents must implement gender ideology for babies: ‘It… starts at birth’
Ban ultrasound?
The far left loves this diversity shit, and everyone else hates it.
There’s just something special about a “free and open conversation” which involves one party
talkingpreaching, and everybody else shutting up and doing as they are told…Jugsy and I will have our 10 year anniversary this August.
You’re a Craigslist scam artist.
I hate this station. It’s large and confusing and PITA to get out of.
Woman randomly shoved into NYC subway downgraded to critical condition: cops
Given the way he is dressed and coffee cup I’m assuming words were exchanged elsewhere. Part of how civil the new NYC has become.