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 beautiful day and the links!
Ron DeSantis officially launches 2024 presidential campaign with ‘Great American Comeback’ video
Twitter glitches disrupt Ron DeSantis’ presidential run announcement
‘This link works’: Biden mocks Ron DeSantis’ shambolic Twitter Spaces 2024 launch with donation page
Biden’s DOJ Expected to Indict Trump Over Classified Documents
Conservatives dispute warning of imminent default, noting June traditionally a big tax revenue month
Inflation Not Declining as Fast as Fed Would Like
College Enrollment Keeps Sliding Even Three Years After Lockdowns
Stores selling Bud Light for free as Mulvaney backlash continues
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I second your call your a public execution.
On a different topic, techncially we wouldn’t automatically default, unless the fed ignore the law requiring debt maintenence being prioritized over all that other wastage.
They have plenty of revenue to service the debt. They are simply lying.
But… but… NPR this morning said as soon as we run out of money all social security checks stop!
That’s after they did ANOTHER solemn remembrance of the victims of Uvalde (the worst school shooting in Texas history donchano).
We may see if Democrats prefer their new spending more than avoiding default?
At this point — I think they’re going with keeping the spending open combined with something stupidly unconstitutional (maybe the 14th, maybe some other hand waving) figuring that it will take so long for the courts to strike them down that either the House Reps will cave or they’ll at least get much more graft before they have to.
Since there won’t be any consequences even if the courts strike them down… why not?
“I can’t guarantee you the court won’t rule that we don’t have that authority but at least we’ll have the ability to, if we have to appeal, to keep this going for a month-at least. I hope longer.”
Robocalls and Do Not Call still allowed for politicians. Gee, who writes the laws again?
Ron DeSantis officially launches 2024 presidential campaign with ‘Great American Comeback’ video
meh I don’t like “comeback” as a slogan I think future focus works better
So don’t call it a comeback?
We’ve been here for years!
If he starts calling himself LL Cool D he’s definitely got my vote.
Ron DMC?
So you’re thinking a message around, say,“fundamentally transforming” America?
I’d love “the change you’ve been hoping for”.
I think the official theme should be “stop nominating old people.”
BUT IT IS THEIR TURN!
Re: DeSantis — I saw yesterday that OMWC watched the Stossel interview and came away in the firm no camp. Not to disagree with my presumed elder… and with the caveat that I didn’t watch it, just read his own summary… but honestly Stossel doesn’t persuade me.
Is it less than Perfect Libertarian to tell businesses they can’t harass their customers for medical information (vax status)? Yeah, I suppose so… but given the climate at the time and that I don’t think coercive contracts are really that “free” and all — I don’t regard it as “authoritarian” by any stretch.
We’ll see how the primary shakes out — but given his foot-in-mouth disease and that he really seems fixated on past slights (and I think harping on 2020 as much as I agree there were glaring [and as yet unresolved or made worse *cough* Maricopa County *cough*] issues is only going to drive away anyone not already firmly in OMB’s camp), I’m much more likely to vote for DeSantis in the general than Trump. Or at least more comfortable about it.
Anyway, morning Banjos… off to read the rest of the links now….
Most likely I’ll skip voting for president altogether.
That’s all right, someone will vote on your behalf.
I don’t live in a major urban area, so probably not.
Yep. Where I live there is no point in voting for president. KY is going Republican with it without me, and it’s not even going to be close.
The next governors election, however, is a different story. Beshear can eat ass after a fresh shit.
It’s rather refreshing being able to vote one’s conscience without having to worry about the consequences.
In a prez election, there is zero chance of 1 vote making a difference.
I live in Illinois – I can vote for anyone, and be sure in the knowledge we will have a TEAM BLUE legislative supermajority, Governor and all other Statewide offices.
Hello from NJ!
Aloha from Hawaii! The state with zero GOP members of the Senate. In the state’s history only the 1972 and 1984 prez elections went to the GOP.
I am sure I will vote for whatever loser the LP runs.
Maybe we will get Badnarik quality again and I can be happy voting.
And yes, I realize Badnarik got a very low vote total, even for the LP.
Was he the jackass that said his first act would be to lock up anyone that ever worked for the IRS or was that Brown?
I don’t remember that from either. So I dont know.
Badnarik was the one that wnated a high wall, wide gate on immigration. Make immigration easy, but treat anyone crossing the border illegally as a foreign invader and shoot on sight.
Sounds like Stossel agrees with you, for the most part.
Anyone is smarter than Biden, almost anyone is more stable than Trump…
Someday the US will get a President that combines both.
One of my big beefs with Trump is he would say something right, like we’re getting out and staying out of Syria, only to get talked out of it because he didn’t actually have any conviction about it, he just said shit to make the morons applaud.
In the case of that Syria debacle, I am pretty sure Trump told them to get the fuck out, but the military top brass lied to him and stayed there in violation of his orders. Blaming Trump for that is somewhat justified if your point is that he needs to follow through. Unfortunately he didn’t find out they were lying to him until they had stolen the 2020 election and put some idiot they could control in charge. If he had found out during his presidency and had done nothing, I would admit your point. But that is not what happened.
I haven’t watched the video yet.
Attempts in NH to prohibit private businesses from having vaccine mandates drop Reopen NH and the NHLA apart in some ways. The NHLA position was imposing on private businesses is wrong, and the way to solve the perceived problem is to lower barriers to entry on businesses so that folks that don’t want businesses mandating vaccines can start their own businesses. Reopen NH pointed out that much of the push for vaccine mandates at businesses, in NH other areas might be different, came from government coming through the backdoor of licensing, some which was at the behest of certain businesses (*), and getting rid of business licenses isn’t going to happen.
The NHLA’s position is my position, but, honestly, I can’t get too worked up over the position Reopen NH was pushing.
(*) in NH, Dartmouth-Hitchcock lobbied heavily for more Covid restrictions. When the tide turned and the Legislature started pushing back including considering prohibiting vaccine mandates at businesses, Dartmouth-Hitchcock suddenly switched to “MY RIGHTS! MY RIGHTS!”
The NHLA position, like many “pure(r)” libertarian positions, assumes a lesser level of government entwinement and interference with businesses than is actually the case.
From a philosophical perspective, my argument is that businesses had virtually no freedom to be infringed – the mask requirements by business were driven in one way or another by government, not their customers. Banning mask requirements is thus at most a de minimis infringement on freedom, generally.
Sure, you could try bundling it with massive deregulation and rolling back the corpo-fascist regime, but that will mean you are left with massive regulation, a corpo-fascist regime, and mask requirements.
Less than a year after the Dobbs decision, half of U.S. states have laws protecting life in the womb between conception and 12 weeks – those are a lot of words for “enslaving the wymminz”
As someone mentioned regarding reproductive rights: The government is not forcing or stopping you from reproducing.
The horror! How ever are we to know our moral center without government intrusion?
College Enrollment Keeps Sliding Even Three Years After Lockdowns – I assume men are to blame
It’s those white supremacists who are both scaring BIPOC into not going to college, and their refusal to be indoctrinated into wokeism!
Women are between half and two-thirds of undergrad population, so yes, men are to blame.
They’re all knocked up and making sammiches.
They only get knocked up so they can enjoy the glorious freedom an abortion offers!
The value of college has been (predictably) tanking for about 2 decades now so I’m only surprised it took this long.
Let’s not get too excited.
I’m assuming Christine Pushaw shot back with something along the lines of “Then it is the only thing in your administration that does”? Or probably better — she’s pretty brutal and on point with her comebacks.
Trumps issue was he kept the documents in paper form. If he had converted them to electronic form, no reasonable prosecutor would have filed charges.
Plus he could reprint them on something classier than government copier paper.
Oh come on, we have the classiest copier paper, the best facimilies.
A friendly reminder for everyone to remember their towels today, and don’t forget to wear the lilac.
–The call of the Glorious Revolution
Two had boiled eggs. Make that three hard boiled eggs
Don’t forget to bring a towel.
I need a better towel after using it too much in hand-to-hand combat and to sail a miniraft
snapping dude’s asses in the bath house is not “hand to hand combat”.
Re: telemarketers — I’m frankly surprised… I assumed they’d moved offshore for the VOIP farms so they were just untouchable by federal law, not that they’d be dumb enough to do it onshore. So stupid and evil… sounds like they’re perfect to shift into politics.
Even the offshore VOIP farms can be stopped, generally by blocking their IP block until they get a new provider. There’s been a growing crackdown (I believe under the pressure of the government) for the telcos to tighten up their standards for accepting calls. Quite a few customers I support have gotten hit when their calls started getting flagged as spam for sending out a TFN (Toll Free Number) for the outbound ANI (Automatic Number Identification; AKA the caller ID number). Most cell providers require you to either register the TFN with them, or have you send a local number as the ANI. And if the local number you’re sending isn’t valid, or doesn’t match your account, that’s a blocking/fining.
Now if we could just get a ban on robocalls drom political candidates….
And texts!
“Delete and Report Junk”
I have an NHL hockey since it is still polluting my nba news feed. I see things about “rat king” and I assumed it is a nickname for a specific player but some google indicates several players can hold the nickname depending on something or other. Anyone know what this is about?
Not Adahn — are you overthrowing King Chuck 3?
There is a yuuuge difference between a King Rat and a Rat King
Beware the rat king.
second linker is first loser
That’s a toxic position to take.
Gotta be Marchand but I thought Boston got knocked out already.
The hockey team Florida throws plastic rats on the ice when they win a playoff game. I’m assuming it’s related to that.
Last night they advanced to the Finals and look like an unstoppable juggernaut.
Perhaps it refers to forward Daniel Tkachuk who has just been an absolute beast this playoffs.
“Daniel Tkaczuk (born June 10, 1979) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former centre who played 19 games in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames. He is currently an assistant coach for the Springfield Thunderbirds of the American Hockey League. ”
No that can’t be it
Matthew, not Daniel
why are they all called Tkaczuk ?
His father is Keith Tkachuk who was also a beast in his day.
And on that note, I’m really enjoying seeing the kids of the players from the 90’s in the NHL now. This past year at one point the Blackhawks had 3 or 4 of them, and they did their annual dads trip for a game. It was like a 90’s who’s who. They had Tie Domi, I think Keith Tkachuk, and I forget who else, all in the press box.
Black fallow deer, photographed in Barycz Valley, Poland.
https://twitter.com/ThanatosArchive/status/1661392614694825986
Tutsi Nationalist TikTok – A Thread
https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1661503992801755137
The world is full of hilarious bigotry that I will never know.
Isn’t that older looking guy the one from that movie “The gods must be crazy” about some Coca Cola bottle thrown out of an airplane?
If anyone here has gotten a COVID booster or knows more about it’s documentation, can you check the COVID section of the forum? I have a question I posted yesterday I’m hoping someone can help me with.
I am in fucking tears laughing at the community note
https://twitter.com/uncle_deluge/status/1661124094358593536
I refuse to believe that “Tiff Shuttlesworth” is a real name.
Padden MeGroin wants a word with you…
Phil McCracken?
Joansen Forass.
Martin Amis too. RIP. Loved Ione Skye in the adaptation of The Rachel Papers.
+1 skid mark (well, not really)
I was thinking of giving my signed copy of London Fields to a wee free library. Guess I won’t now.
GL, I always thought you were in Oregon. 🤔
I am, traveling through the great state of Washington.
Ah.
You turned me on to a local (to me) news stringer on YT. Very informative.
Ron DeSantis officially launches 2024 presidential campaign with ‘Great American Comeback’ video
DeSaboteur strikes again.
‘This link works’: Biden mocks Ron DeSantis’ shambolic Twitter Spaces 2024 launch with donation page – and Trump says ‘My Red Button is bigger, better, stronger, and is working’
Because you are known for drawing a crowd online or elsewhere…
So the Biden and Pence indictments on improperly retaining classified documents will follow shortly, right?
The just us system is a joke.
With a nutpunchline.
Well for Pence, if he steps out of line.
I’m sure what they will be claiming is Trump didn’t cooperate with reasonable requests.
Fart sniffers who read “The Atlantic” will all agree.
Yeah the question will certainly be – what charges? The warrant was predicated on the Espionage Act – I don’t think even a batshit insane prosecutor would take that to trial. I imagine they want to claim obstruction of justice – but that would require a predicate crime for which the investigation was being obstructed. Hmmm.
I’m sure they can find a way to shoehorn something in. They did for “resisting arrest” when there was no predicate reason for arrest.
And you need to remember the mantra of the left with Trump: anything is possible, but only if you try.
“that would require a predicate crime for which the investigation was being obstructed”
Would it? I thought we were well past the point where the feds have to show an underlying crime before they charge for obstruction.
How are you obstructing if there was no underlying crime? Shit, I don’t think even Beria would run that gambit.
Obstructing is a pure “disobedience” crime. Like many crimes, the true offense is disobeying the State. It doesn’t matter if your disobedience violates anyone’s rights or causes anyone harm. Disobedience is not tolerated, and should be punished, in its own right.
The feds do convict people only of obstruction. The statute refers only to a “proceeding” that is obstructed, and there is no requirement that the accused have committed any (other) crime.
Kafka couldn’t have dreamed up anything that ridiculous.
See also: Local jurisdictions arresting people for resisting arrrest.
Mark Levin puts it this way: This is an administrative issue, not a criminal issue.
Bingo.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-biden-maga-codependency-debt-ceiling-jan-6-2024-desantis-28222b44?st=hm7be9hi7amym1l&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
On what planet is “defeating” Putin or Xi necessary for Biden’s political future?
I’m not reading it literally.
On a planet that doesn’t exist. The author is right though but only in the sense that political and ideological warfare and the apparatus that supports it has been turned inward here. All hail Dark Brandon.
Of course it wasn’t a reasonable assumption going in that Trump would win the 2016 nomination. Or the general election. So the smug assurances of smaht political types might not be worth all that much.
With all the good work they were doing.
Black Lives Matter’s national organization is at risk of going bankrupt after its finances plunged $8.5 million into the red last year – while simultaneously handing multiple staff seven-figure salaries.
Financial disclosures obtained by The Washington Free Beacon show the perilous state of BLM’s Global Network Foundation, which officially emerged in November 2020, as a more formal way of structuring the civil rights movement.
Civil rights movement?
A grift is a terrible thing to waste.
How many of the idiots, individuals and corporate entities, that paid that Danegeld will admit they were had?
Never pay the Danegeld.
They were warned.
I don’t think it was ever a long con.
“I gots mine.”
Considering the BLM crooks took in a couple of hundred million bucks of Kung Flu relief funds from the Biden crew, and relatively speaking, never did anything that cost money other than nepotistic graft, I am assuming the bulk of their funds went to secret campaign and election fortification efforts for the left. It being shut down tells me something went wrong there. Or is this an attempt to repurpose the whole racket by having tax payer money dumped into it at some future date.
And this one was a fucking gold mine in the weeks and months following George Floyd. Tens, if not hundreds, of millions squandered in less than 3 years.
Squandered? Dude – that was reparations!!!
It was hundreds. And most of it, as far as I know, still unaccounted for, even after the scamming and grifting of the front persons. I’m guessing siphoned off for other “fundamental transformation” projects.
I keep wanting to ask the owner of the company I work for if he is still “extremely proud” to have donated a sizeable amount to them, but I like my job.
An indictment of Trump could be problematic for the Biden administration since it was discovered that President Biden had classified documents in his possession dating back to his tenure as vice president during the Obama administration. Documents were found in his private office at the Penn Biden Center, as well as at one of his homes in the garage.
If Dems didn’t have double standards they would have none at all. I say go for the indictment on more trumped up horseshit. You cuntes are basically all in already.
Good enough for government work.
The government cannot account for more than $85 million in F-35 Joint Strike Fighter spare parts, a number that is likely far smaller than the actual total of untracked components, the Government Accountability Office has found in a new report.
But worse than the unknown number of “lost, damaged or destroyed” taxpayer-funded equipment is fact that the F-35 Joint Program Office lacks the ability even to be aware of what spare parts are out in the world, thanks to how the supply chain for the fighter is set up.
As with almost all aspects of the F-35, the supply chain arrangement is uniquely complicated by the international structure of the program. “Rather than owning the spare parts for their aircraft, the program participants share a common, global pool of spare parts that DOD owns and the prime contractors manage. These spare parts are held in over 50 domestic and international non-prime contractor facilities,” GAO explained.
So it’s a fucked system that will fuck us if we are involved in a major conflict.
So, “Mission Accomplished”, basically.
Because the F-35 was never meant to engage in actual, you know, combat. It’s a pork delivery vehicle, simultaneously distributing formerly-taxpayer $$ to connected contractors in 435 Congressional districts.
It’s common in industry to pay a vendor to manage spares inventory, and can make sense for uncommonly used spare items that have a fair number of users, but in a military context, that is pure fucking stupidity.
Natural causes
A coroner will determine the cause of death. Police say her injuries resulted from falling to the floor, not from the electric charge from the Taser-brand stun gun.
She was coming right at him.
Yeah, I posted that a few days ago and it just enraged me.
Did that article mention the walker too?
deadly weapon
Second prize is a set of steak knives!
So her fall just happened to be coincident with the taser strike, with no causal link?
causality can never be established
“She would have died from the fall anyways!”
/apologists who love cop cock as long as it’s dipped in fentanyl first
her injuries resulted from falling to the floor, not from the electric charge from the Taser
What caused her to fall to the floor I wonder…
Gravity.
Before gravity took over…
Her age. See, a healthy young male hopped up on meth would have kept his feet after the chick with the taser shocked him.
Bought liquor at Safeway last night. Don’t care if the tax was eye watering, so much better than the state sanctioned store.
The change in Washington demographics is readily apparent on freeways. The signs are still up saying left lane is for passing only, but no one seems to pay attention to them. I remember when WSP and other agencies would strictly enforce it.
The signs are still up saying left lane is for passing only
That lane to the left of the yellow line, right?
Oh, I see you’ve met the drivers around where I live? Only if the yellow is double.
And solid.
On what planet is “defeating” Putin or Xi necessary for Biden’s political future?
Planet Political Minstrelsy.
Did that article mention the walker too?
Yes.
And apparently Australia has adopted our tactic of responsibility-shirking. The nursing home staff called the coppers instead of just waiting until she fell asleep.
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Blossom Puzzle, May 25
Letters: A D G E R T X
My score: 320 points
My longest word: 12 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
And lo I say unto you — many will be the Meh’s and gnashing of teeth in those days!
Daily Duotrigordle #449
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 04:58.42
https://duotrigordle.com/
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m-w.com/games/quordle
You did pretty well though, Sean… congrats.
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, May 25
Letters: A D G E R T X
My score: 358 points
My longest word: 12 letters
💐 🏵 🌼 🌹 🌺 💮 🌸 🌷 🌻 💐 🏵 🌼
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
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The media blue-wall cracks!
Yes, there was a story (and interview) on CBS This Morning.
They cover it. Once. On a Wednesday morning.
If it was Don Jr, it would be round the clock for 4 years.
Watch the news tomorrow afternoon, something good usually drops at the start of a 3 day weekend.
How about some Asian style road rage?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/13qoq6i/just_inpickup_almost_forced_out_of_elevated/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
o.O
Ah, i see both are grads of the Cha Bu Duo School of Driving.
Cancelling the soul
A culture of censoriousness is stifling our civic life
https://thecritic.co.uk/cancelling-the-soul/
Yet the largest, most insidious, and most deeply submerged expanse of that same iceberg is surely the soft-ostracisation that someone who questions things today often undergoes. Soft-ostracisation works not in the formal and material domain of career and livelihood, but in the informal and tacit domain of our day-to-day interactions and friendships.
This is where you find that old school friend who quietly unfriended you on Facebook after you railed against the “indignant London bourgeois” on the day of the Brexit referendum result. This is the domain of that colleague whom you regularly went for coffee with, before she read some of your reservations about decolonising the curriculum. This is just living with the fact that someone whose daily small talk in the office is always amusing and enjoyable, now struggles to compute how you can be so affable yet not have pronouns in your email signature.
The powers that be are pissed they can’t control the narrative with ease anymore.
The ostracism or censoring is a relatively mild symptom of tribalism. It will only escalate as the economy grows worse and strife is encouraged.
Yet we need to make sure to ostracize friends and family who did unthinkable things, like voting for Trump, not getting a vaccine, and misgendering your dual spirit queer infant.
From Juris’ link:
“For a couple years, we’d been noticing these deviations in the investigative process. And I just couldn’t, you know, fathom that DOJ might be acting unethically on this,” he said.
Something something SHOCKED, I tell you!
Southwest Airlines boarding is like communism: It promises strict equality via rigid ordering, but devolves quickly into the most ruthlessly competitive mayhem which makes you pine for the hierarchical aristocracy of flight status.
…
Announcement over the speaker:
We have a family with three children, one a lap baby, so we need a row to volunteer to give up their seats.
A whole chaotic restack is going on.
We’re now on the chicken bus in rural Peru.
https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1661524623689908225
I thought small children were priority boarded
“I thought small children were priority boarded”
Only if they are in dog cages.
Jeez, even Greyhound (bus) has assigned seats now.
They need to know exactly what seat you’re in so that the agents can proceed efficiently to the correct spot when they remove you for questioning, with a minimum of disturbance to the other passengers.
One of the creepiest things that has happened to me is, back in 2013, when I was on a flight from Shanghai back home to the US, the airplane started taxiing, and then turned back around…the announcement was that someone had to be removed from the airplane. Evidently, the CCP didn’t want someone leaving the country.
I’ve yet to see that happen on a Southwest flight. I prefer them as the boarding process seems to go smoother than the assigned seat boarding where people sitting in the front of the plane get to board the plane before those in the back to hold everything up.
I have heard the stewardesses announce that all that was left was middle seats, so stop passing them up, and pick one.
Agreed. When there are assigned seats they keep putting me in the back row and wanting me to pay to move up. Southwest will let disabled people go on the first group, and that’s worked great for our team.
The ordered chaos method that SWA uses I think was tested by MythBusters. I believe they proved that it was more efficient to allow passengers to pick their seats as they tend to have more incentive to move quickly.
Of course, near the end like you said regarding only certain seats left is where the hold up may occur, but face it, they waited that extra 30seconds past the 24 hour mark to check in, so they deserve it. Other variables such as people that cannot understand their zones for boarding, people who think their gigantic carryon doesn’t deserve to be checked at the gate, etc contribute to a longer boarding time.
Honestly though, 15-25 minutes to heard 160+ passengers is not that long.
The quickest way was the way we did it in the Marine Corps.
All the E-5 and below would be put in the back while holding their carry-ons.
Then the higher ranks would spread out and claim a row each.
After that everyone would put their bags away.
I still don’t grasp the concept of checking in somewhere that I’m not present. And the pricing structure that encourages people to drag a steamer trunk into the cabin of a plane makes me crazy.
Yes, I’m old and cranky.
And the pricing structure that encourages people to drag a steamer trunk into the cabin of a plane makes me crazy.
Airline execs a decade or so ago sitting around a boardroom:
“How can we gouge the customers just a little bit more AND make flying more miserable?”
Bright young new hire in the back of the room:
“Put all the bags from the cargo hold up in the cabin!”
CEO: “Brilliant!!”
Well SWA allows you to check 2 bags, so those that still drag on the steamer trunks are just alsos.
I’m getting to where I absolutely loath flying because of the alsos. It showcases very clearly to me that we’re at any given point in time one missed meal away from zombie movie style violence. Every time I’ve flown in the last couple years I see at least one act of assholery that probably should be met with a punch in the mouth.
Seriously. The country is on a knife edge unlike anything I’ve seen in my life.
As someone who took advantage of that, they are.
Families with children are boarded after the A group but before the B group.
And southwest is pretty orderly these days, you get an order # and that is the exact order you get in. If you are C28, you are in the back of the plane in a center seat.
I’ve ranted about this on here recently but it’s the assholes who “save seats” who ruin it. The last few times I’ve flown southwest I’ve been in or adjacent to a row where someone refuses to let other people sit in their row because their friend/spouse/whatever is in C boarding group and they stake seats out for them. These people are assholes. The internets tell me that it’s written SW policy for Flight Attendants to not interfere with this practice.
Phonics works
https://twitter.com/SagerDM/status/1660703196744916993
as a Romanian I am not sure I understand what phonics is even though I read the Wikipedia article
It’s the concept that letters represent sounds, and thus can be translated into words so as to facilitate reading.
It’s imperfect because of all of the exceptions, but it is a much stronger foundation for learning to read than the garbage techniques the public schools keep crushing students with.
I mean Romanian is a phonetic language, but what other techniques are there in English ?
The one I have heard being used most often is a garbage technique called “sight words” where you force the rote memorization of complete words as patterns until the poor brains can’t remember any more, with the de-emphesis on the meaning of the letters, they become discrete complete symbols in of themselves, and limit the actual degree of literacy that can be attained.
this seems strange as there are too many words in English, more than 1 mil as far as I remember
Since when is public school meant to be effective?
I think you are confusing two things…”sight words” are used with phonetics for those words that break all the fucking phonetic rules.
I think what you are describing is called “whole words” or something. Anyway, its crap, as you said.
There’s whole word which was the trend when my niece was going through school. It’s easier to teach, and has faster results, but provides a weaker foundation in the language, as well as problems when you encounter a word you’ve never seen before.
–Anonymous
It’s easier to teach – Unions for the loss, again
It’s stupid – children learn to speak before they learn to read. Phonetic languages have a logic to them, naturally union teachers want to avoid students developing logic skills so it becomes harder for the students to figure out on their own that the teacher is stupid and useless.
I was taught how to read – phonetically – by a 9-year old and a 10-year old. I can count on one hand how many teachers I had in grades 1-12 that were capable of teaching me anything I didn’t already know – and the majority of them were math teachers. The others other relied on rote – which is regurgitation, not learning.
I like the quote. It was years before I realized the name Penelope was the same name Penelope I had read in a book, which clearly rhymed with Antelope.
I taught myself to read with the help of Sesame Street, the Electric Company, and children’s books. My parents laughed at me when I was reading them Sam and the Firefly, who spelt out words such as ther-moe-meet-her (thermometer).
That quote has always stuck in the back of my mind after I stumbled across it once.
One of the stories my oldest tells on himself as a homeschooler is when he first pronounced the word “yacht” out in public. He’s an avid reader, so he’d read it but never actually heard the word pronounced. So it came out as “yakht” – with the first part being pronounced like “yak”, with some hackage thrown in at the end.
You meant a Yaat is a Yacht?
/6-yo me
Reading Hardy Boys books as a kid, I could never figure out what hasten/hesitate meant, or if they were in fact different words.
The earliest of those books are now public domain.
Amazing how long they stuck around culturally as a cheap industrial product. I was an adult before I found out Franklin W Dixon was a psudeonym shared by several people.
Are the Hardy boys the ones that had a clubhouse that was an RV in a junkpile?
No, that sounds like a different series.
I have a vauge memory of reading that when I was young and somehow thought they were the Hardy boys.
Just googled it and it’s the Three Investigators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators
I don’t think I ever rread the Hardy Boys then.
You’re thinking “The Three Investigators”, with Hitchcock’s name attached.
It took me a long time to learn that hyperbole was not pronounced hyper bowl.
Sometimes when I see it that pronunciation still pops into my head.
“Octopodes.”
I still read it as hyper bowl, I just don’t speak it that way.
I would dearly love for you to greet The Hyperbole on Zoom that way.
The one that got me – as a college graduate – was “paradigm.”
The shame never leaves you.
On the other hand, I once set a college classmate straight on how to pronounce “chaos.” Pro tip: It does NOT rhyme with the city in New Mexico.
Somebody besides me can go find it, but there’s a pretty good “I Love Lucy” bit with Ricky trying to get threw (ho ho) a children’s book.
bough, cough, through, rough, and/or tough?
bow co throw row and tow
boff coff throff roff and toff…
All my kids learned from Dr. Suess and that seemed to be a better system than anything the school was teaching.
Beginning first grade they marked my youngest as deficient.
When I questioned the teacher, she said that they have to show improvement and he was already at a second-grade level.
Have I mentioned I hate teachers?
I’m assuming they also learned Japanese?
Learning kanji (Chinese derived characters) sucks. It’s full on memorization. At least native or bilingual children aren’t learning the word, its meaning and pronunciation at the same time.
The oldest one is bilingual, the next one speaks some Japanese and the third one only understands what my wife speaks to him sometimes.
I have a hypothesis that lingers in the back of my mind that sticking to that writing system helped ossify the structure of the chinese bureaucracy, as it raised the barrier to entry to literacy and thus the imperial administration. I also suspect that it impeded further advancement as conveyance of ideas was stuck with the gatekeepers who had an investment in the status quo.
TW – Woke Medium article.
But the history it speaks about is true. Hiragana developed because women wanted to write and weren’t taught kanji.
https://medium.com/pomme-de-terre/the-sexist-history-behind-the-development-of-hiragana-e9f5676ab1f9
I got dinged in Kindergarten because I was writing in mixed-case letters and I was only supposed to use capitals.
In college Calculus III, I got dinged for “failing to show my work”. My response, “the answer was obvious, I didnt have to do any work”.
The problem was an intersection of a line and a plane. The answer was something like (1,0,6).
So that is what I wrote down.
He gave me 0 points on it. When I questioned it (see above conversation), he followed up with “How do I know you didn’t cheat?” I just started at him for about 5 seconds and he said “Yeah, okay, I will give you 1/2 credit.”
Its weird what your brain retains for 35 years.
yep. I live in a neighborhood full of Tiger moms. If you weren’t 2 grade levels ahead, you were behind. Teachers can fuck off.
I see where you fail to grasp the purpose of the garbage techniques: to churn out illiterate indoctrinated idiots that are easier to manipulate.
My first grade teacher refused to spell my name properly (it is not an uncommon name). Best introduction to the uselessness of public school teachers one could ever have.
I dont no fonics but i larned to reed good
Essentially using common patterns of letters to determine pronunciation and thereafter the ability to read the word.
Problem is that English has more patterns and pronunciations with the same spelling. So it was deemphasized.
My understanding is the same spelling multiple pronunciation is less common in Romance languages. I can tell you Japanese has only one way to pronounce hiragana. So “sounding out” a word (and any word can be written in hiragana) is basically trivial. Whereas an English dictionary is also going have a pronunciation section.
English spelling sucks ass.
Because English is a mongrel language.
Not really. It’s a natural byproduct of standardized spelling. Pronunciations of words change over time, but spellings do not. At some point the 2 begin to diverge.
Also because English is so hospitable, we allow foreign words to retain their native spellings and pronunciation (within reason).
Too accommodating, they keep trying to replace perfectly good english words with their foreign counterparts.
It’s Kiev, dammit.
I don’t either but I think it’s just jargon for the way reading was always taught before Ed school eggheads got their hands on it a decade or three ago and pushed “progressive” strategies that don’t work.
Have y’all considered this as a solution?
A PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ENGLISH SPELLING
by Mark Twain
http://guidetogrammar.org/grammar/twain.htm
That was amazing.
Heh.
There have been several, slightly more serious attempts at “reform” but gee, they never catch on.
Just let the progressives mandate it. Problem solved!
readers vs writers
https://twitter.com/WilliamAEden/status/1661452881575415808
How about some Asian style road rage?
The flashing lights triggered him.
Labour willing to force pension plans to invest in £50bn ‘growth fund
https://www.ft.com/content/03593281-2a22-4e9a-919b-cc346384e455
“Labour is prepared to force pension funds to invest in a proposed £50bn “future growth fund”, as the party aims to boost the amount of capital available for fast-growing UK companies.
Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, said she did not believe Labour would need to mandate retirement schemes to invest in the new fund because of the goodwill in the sector, but added: “Nothing is off the table.”
Speaking to the Financial Times on a three-day visit to the US, she said she also wanted to accelerate the merger of smaller UK pension funds so as to consolidate a fragmented market.
Reeves, who visited the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, said she wanted to change the culture of Britain’s savings industry, unleashing homegrown funds that could persuade UK companies to list in London.
She also wants pension funds to work alongside the state-owned British Business Bank to improve the UK’s “start up, scale up” landscape, with Labour warning that the country is trying to do “capitalism without capital””
paywall but the conclusion is vote Labour or the fascist win
Nothing says “anti-fascist” more than consolidating large pools of capital so the state can direct who and what it is invested in.
That’s just equity. I mean, I’m sure those funds will have an I over representation of BIPOC owned companies that make nothing of value other than their frequent political grandstanding.
Speaking to the Financial Times on a three-day visit to the US, she said she also wanted to accelerate the merger of smaller UK pension funds so as to consolidate a fragmented market.
They sure do hate fragmented markets.
Centralized control makes it easier for the controllers to do real shady shit.
Someone is afraid of an appeal to a judge who’s balls Katie Hobbs does not have in a vice.
Maricopa County Attorney @Rachel1Mitchell, R, seeks sanctions against Lake and her attorneys: Lake and her counsel engaged in a program of intentional and repeated fallacious misstatements of fact to mislead this Court.
Obviously when a judge dismisses your case after setting an impossible standard of evidence you should be sanctioned so you never dare to challenge obvious election inconsistencies again.
On that note, I have seen several examples of signature match verified ballots that were clearly not matched. Elections are fake. Your vote does not matter. There is no legal recourse.
Wait, her mouth is a vice?
Lockjaw?
Those made-up numbers aren’t big enough
On May 11, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its proposed new rules designed to further reduce emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal and new gas-powered power plants. They would rely on existing technologies for implementation, and are designed to reduce emissions through 2042 by more than 600 million metric tons of CO2 (equivalent to roughly 50 percent of the current emissions from automobiles in the U.S.). Estimates of the expected net direct climate and health benefits exceed $80 billion over the same time period.
These benefits are, however, significant underestimates, because they do not account for obvious co-benefits that would be derived from reductions in other unhealthy pollutants.
Take, for example, the damages caused by the growing list of enormous wildfires across the country. They are mentioned without detail or fanfare on page 46 of the rules document: “Wildfire smoke degrades air quality increasing health risks, and more frequent and severe wildfires due to climate change would further diminish air quality, increase incidences of respiratory illness, impair visibility, and disrupt outdoor activities, sometimes thousands of miles from the location of the fire.”
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Detection of these fires was easy, of course, but so is attribution to climate change. Each of the triggers listed above are signatures of climate change, and the causal link has been established with very high confidence. Because they happened simultaneously, their impacts were compounded.
Stop whining about the costs. According to my model, the benefits are infinite.
“Detection of these fires was easy, of course, but so is attribution to climate change.”
Just ignore the lack of any actual correlation of wildfires with CO2 levels or temperature.
That’s what makes attribution so easy.
Or the fact that recent wildfires which are mainly the result of eco-kooks demanding mis-management of forests have wiped out all the “green” efforts in California over the last few decades.
obvious co-benefits
Pay close to attention to my hands as I wave them in the air vigorously!
Wildfires grow when they’re deliberately not trying to extinguish them.
Something something incitement.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal: There will be “a huge backlash…in the streets” if the White House agrees to spending cuts.
ANTIFA getting ready…
Our pallets of bricks should arrive any day.
GIMME FREE SHIT EVEN WHEN IT HURTS EVERYONE, OR ELSE!
And there were countless breathless nightly news reports on how this hyperbolic statement will lead to riots right?
Of course, good governance consists of buckling to the demands of violent mobs.
Here’s a fun little story
Colton Herta, second generation IndyCar driver, found out the car his dad, Brian Herta, won his last race in was for sale, and bought it, and gave it to him for his birthday.
My favorite part: as they’re looking it over, somebody says, “Look how simple it is!”
That was great! Thanks, Brooksie!
this lobby bar is actually black and blue
https://twitter.com/blamelessjay/status/1661482385509330945
I do not think the referred clause of 14A means what you think it means.
This is the whole reason why the 14th Amendment exists, and we need to be prepared to use it. We cannot let these reckless Republicans hold the economy hostage.
Florida Man strikes again.
Labor theory of value for the win!
I actually like Thunderbunny. It would look good in one of those open field parks, like Mt. Royal in Montreal.
This whole article is one steaming pile of dishonest horseshit.
Both the UK and Australia solved their gun violence issues through a buyback program that required the government to confiscate guns. Our Second Amendment may prohibit the confiscation of all guns, but the automatic weapon killing machines that are primarily responsible for the heinous violence we are seeing in mass shootings could be solved by a program that requires taking such guns off the street.
Recreational hunting or home protection does not require a military weapon capable of killing dozens of schoolchildren in seconds. The Supreme Court may have ruled in a tortured reading of the Second Amendment that the Constitution allows Americans to personally own guns and that the right to carry such guns in public cannot generally be infringed, but it has not ruled that such protections extend to the ownership of killing machines intended for military use.
1) By, you know, reading it.
2) I believe the employed term is “shall not”.
3) Everyone knows muskets, which the founders were obviously referring to, were never used by militaries.
automatic weapon
Oh I see. Well, you’re an ignoramus, so there’s no point in giving a hearing to anything you have to say.
We have machines that automatically kill weapons? Has someone told the Ukrainians about this?
Wait. So states with tough gun laws can prevent guns from leaving to states with more relaxed laws, but those same tough gun laws don’t stop guns from entering their states? Sorry, you can’t have it both ways, dumbfuck.
“Conversely, New Hampshire, with its relatively lax gun regulation, has lower gun deaths than other similarly regulated states because of the tough laws of those states surrounding it.”
That’s retarded.
That wins the dumbest news article of the day award.
Don’t let illiterate grade schoolers write your editorials, Newsweek. It’s just a bad loom.
Not all writers are cut from the same cloth.
People here have a warped sense of humor.
You really shouldn’t weave puns into your comments.
That damages the fabric of our community.
Swiss better hurry before this completely unravels.
And your article will end up all jacquered up.
Top hat sold separately.
Guess he learned why you don’t want to call the police unless absolutely necessary.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/24/us/mississippi-police-shooting-11-year-old-boy/index.html
This is how you know the cop fucked up:
There is also sure to be a “technical” malfunction of some kind as well.
Stop your cheap fucking around.
That said, the MBI is on the job, so you can forget about the cop being held accountable.
NPR wants you to know
Did runaway spending by President Biden and congressional Democrats leave the U.S. on the brink of default?
In a word, no.
The U.S. can currently borrow up to $31.4 trillion, and political leaders need to urgently raise or suspend that debt ceiling or risk leaving the country unable to pay its bills.
But the current national debt has been building up for years, and carries plenty of fingerprints – from both Democrats and Republicans. The reality is that the U.S. needs to borrow money to pay its bills given that the government hasn’t balanced its budget since the Clinton administration.
Two unfunded wars, three recessions, a global pandemic and three rounds of tax cuts all contributed to the tide of red ink.
In fact, of the total debt on the books today, 16% was added during the eight years George W. Bush was in office, 30% was added during the eight years Barack Obama was in office, 25% was added during the four years Donald Trump was in office – and 12% was added since President Biden took office.
Rate of change? What’s that? And besides, every penny of that spending (except by Republicans) was absolutely necessary for the survival of the Union.
“Joe Biden: It’s mostly not his fault” doesn’t sound like a great campaign slogan.
“three rounds of tax cuts all contributed to the tide of red ink”
Just ignore the YoY increases in actual tax revenue.
You know the first three were superfluous, the only real culprit was tax cuts.
Another example of the progressive take-over of institutions.
*Swallows entire bottle of black pills*
The marxists demanded the right to speak freely, but once the took over these institutions they made sure nobody else would ever be allowed to challenge them. Go fucking figure.
My recollection is that the sides of a debate are assigned, not chosen. So the proggies are randomly choosing the winner based on a coin toss.
That article hurt my brain.
I had to stop reading it.
I guess that explains the speaking-in-tongues gibberish that debating devolved into a few years back.
Next to debate, a Scientologist-Jewish-Zoroastrian!
When you can no longer debate the issue with words, the argument will still be resolved using alternative methods.
I hope Lila has readied herself for that inevitable outcome, because that is what she is advocating for.
Your labor enacted.
Oh sweet Jesus…
At least their coaches are sufficiently diverse.
C’mon, Lila Lavender – that wasn’t what you expected?
Lila Lavender had a bad day fishing.
Usually when they’re lip-hooked you can’t land ’em.
What about the war in Ukraine? Did that contribute to the national debt?
It was neglibible at best.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, the U.S. has devoted more than $76 billion dollars to the country, including humanitarian aid, financial assistance and weapons.
While that dwarfs the amount of aid the U.S. sends to other countries, it’s a smaller fraction of GDP than some allies have contributed to Ukraine.
It represents less than 5% of this year’s projected deficit and just 2/10ths of 1% of the government’s accumulated debt.
Peanuts. We’re saving the world from autocracy and fascism for pennies a day.
The Supreme Court may have ruled in a tortured reading of the Second Amendment that the Constitution allows Americans to personally own guns
Wheeeeeee!
“By tortured we mean ‘actually read'”
But pulling out a partial portion of a sentence in the 14th Amendment gives God-King rights to the president to the power of the purse.
Rare shooting and stabbing attack in Japan leaves three dead
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/asia/nakano-shooting-central-japan-intl-hnk/index.html
“When officers rushed to the scene, the man fired something resembling a hunting rifle, striking four people, before fleeing the scene and barricading himself in a building, he added.”
I’m wondering if the rifle is going to turn out to be an airsoft gun. I’m trying to imagine shooting four people with a real rifle of size without killing somebody
The Michael Malice podcast last week with Andy Ngo was awful.
The Michael Malice podcast with Dave Smith & Konstantin Kisin discussing Ukraine is really good. It wasn’t a debate, but if it was Dave won.
I’ll have to check that one out. Kisin is decent on some stuff, but he’s got a raging hard-on for Russia. I heard him state that dissenters on Ukraine should just shut up in a previous interview with Malice.
The Ngo interview was just boring. He tries too hard to not offend.
Good morning!
Did I miss anything?
Quick! Fix the narrative!
2-days ago “A law enforcement source told CBS News the suspect is a U.S. citizen. After driving onto Lafayette Square, he made threatening statements aimed at Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the source said. ”
Today? “WASHINGTON — The man accused of ramming a U-Haul truck into barriers near the White House earlier this week isn’t a U.S. citizen, authorities said Wednesday.”
Whoopsie…never let a anonymous random statement get in the way of reporting honestly.
Why would they fix it?
All they have to do is ignore it.
True, I forget that is what the news is now from time to time.
Next thing that will be quietly buried is that he was “undocumented”.
THAT DOESN’T MEAN HE ISN’T A dark-skinned WHITE SUPREMACIST!
Irony.
“Disrespectful, entitled, unappreciative”
Controversy has erupted around a video by the owner of Rustic Mountain Living, a Jamaican cottage rental business. The woman says she will no longer allow short-term rentals for black Americans.
Stupid Americans…
Heh
What was that about salting the banana and letting the cows in?
These euphemisms are getting more obscure.
Such a nice boy
Rebecca Heinsen, a lawyer with The Legal Aid Society who is representing Semrade, said her client has never been in trouble with the legal system prior to this tragedy.
“At this current time, we ask the public to refrain from drawing hasty conclusions based on sensationalized reporting in the press,” she said in an email.
Semrade, who was remanded into custody during Wednesday’s hearing, is due back in court on Friday.
Who is the real victim here?
He looks to be Turkish too. Maybe an Erdogan hit?
“Report: Homeland Security is funding college programs that compare Christians and Republicans with Nazis to fight “terrorism””
https://notthebee.com/article/biden-and-dhs-are-using-taxpayer-dollars-to-fund-university-programs-that-conflate-christians-and-republicans-with-nazis-all-under-the-guise-of-fighting-terrorism
To be fair, it’s not any worse than that food pyramid.
Kekistanis = Nazis confirmed.
Commies sure hate the Church. I wonder why?
One wonders if “they hate you and want you dead, but will settle for your submission” becomes “they hate you and want you dead.” in the near future.
James Lindsay is in a pretty big kerfuffle with the new right people over this right now. He insists that this Christian Nationalism routine is a trap intended to justify major crackdowns. The righties insist that Lindsay is a gay atheist or something – and that they won’t deny their Christian faith. Or something.
Dumb fucks should read about the Spanish and Russian civil wars. Lots of dead Christians. When the commies tell you what they’re gonna do – you best listen and believe them.
Having listened to Lindsay on Malice’s podcast a few weeks back I thought he came off as a red pilled neo-lib, but still a neo-lib when it comes down to it. That being said I have no context for whatever the kerrfluffel is over
/shrug emoji
He can still be a neo-lib and be correct about not falling for an obvious trap. There is no such thing as a Christian nation. Christianity isn’t a political framework, ffs.
And the only group that better fulfills robc’s second Iron Law more than libertarians are Christians.
Since they weren’t going to get my submission, it was simplified for me from the get go.
I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging. . . . I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments….
Facts and logic are the weapons of our bourgeois kkkapitalist oppressors.
Expecting people to do your fucking job and leave your personal beliefs at the door is racist/fascist/sexist/transphobic/and I forgot what the other ones were.
Jokes on you. Commies don’t have jobs because they are incapable of producing anything of value. They expect to be paid for showing up with their good intentions and superior understanding.
Ain’t that the truth.
I think my brother lives near here:
https://nltimes.nl/2023/05/22/utrecht-student-assoc-fire-ring-toss-game-involving-strippers-anus
Does your brother have an unusually dexterous anus?
You have a very different family dynamic than I do.
I watched a stripper puff a ciggie with her…regions.
I saw ping pong balls launched from a region once.
Darts from a blow gun sailing across the bar and popping balloons.
US Supreme Court smacks down EPA.
Thank you for that excellent news. The work day is going quite shitty, this makes up for it.
Good news right there.
WAPO running it was 5-4…lol excellent work
Noice.
Of course the NYT has a deliberate lie in the headline – this had nothing to do with water pollution.
“The decision was nominally unanimous, with all the justices agreeing that the homeowners who brought the case should not have been subject to the agency’s oversight. But there was sharp disagreement about the majority’s reasoning.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/supreme-court-epa-water-pollution.html
I’ll leave it to the legal glibs how this is possible. But yes, technically it is 9-0. It would be nice if one of the news sources would do its job and explain BOTH.
Murry told CNN that the father of another of her children arrived at her home at 4 a.m., “irate.”
“Take a number and wait your turn, bub.”
Some good news from SCOTUS: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/94-year-old-grandmother-big-win-supreme-court
Sorry, Roberts, I owe Caesar nothing.
Double noice.
Alright, what the hell’s an “also”?
Auto-correct changed “asshole” to “also,” everyone rolled with it and a new Glibism was born.
It wasn’t auto-correct. If you notice, I often leave out words too.
Much obliged.
A small thing that makes this place great and help us know the outside groups!
Shibboleth!
Don’t blink or you’ll miss it.
I love border collies.
Pink has won in the past. She is a good girl.
My PON did agility, and he was pretty good, but Pink would have easily lapped him. She’s amazing.
They are great dogs.
We had one that would get the cows, all I had to do was walk him to the field, give the command “Away to me” and then get the barn ready.
The cows would be in the holding pen by the time I was finished.
So fun. Makes me want to have livestock just so I could justify getting one!
Paranoid delusions
House Republicans are relighting the flames of their gas stoves culture war.
GOP lawmakers will use a subcommittee hearing and committee vote Wednesday to step up their attacks on the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate the kitchen appliances, portraying proposed efficiency standards from the Energy Department as federal overreach.
President Joe Biden, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have all disavowed any desire to outlaw gas-fired cooktops, although multiple Democratic-led cities and states have sought to do just that for new buildings.
“Nobody’s taking my gas stove. Nobody will take your gas stove,” Granholm testified this month.
But that’s not dimming the fervor of Republicans, who have previously cried foul at federal efficiency standards for light bulbs, showers and toilets — the last of which was a particularly favorite cause of former President Donald Trump.
They note that DOE has proposed a significant expansion of efficiency regulations on gas stoves, an effort that would make them more fuel efficient and curb the burning of planet-warming methane, as well as reduce emissions leakage. Meanwhile, the consumer commission has opened an inquiry into the stoves’ emissions and health effects.
Why overtly ban what you can just regulate to death?
Out of all of the horrible alsos employed by Biden, Granholm might be the worst. *
*It is a tight contest though.
The only person in power that I am personally acquainted with. She was in my 1L section in law school.
Thank your lucky stars she was born in Canada, or she would either be President now or running for President very soon.
How long until we find out in her portfolio she has stocks in electric stove manufacturers?
Efficiency advocates say the attack on DOE’s proposed rule — which includes no outright ban on gas stoves — is based on a willful misunderstanding of the facts.
“The manufacturers of the product who are seeking to avoid regulation have fanned the flames of controversy over what’s really a very modest standard that requires slight incremental improvements to gas stoves — and electric ones too, by the way,” said Andrew deLaski, executive director of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project.
Slight incremental changes which will have no effect on cost or effective operation, you whiners.
“It’s not some war on gas products or gas stoves or your kitchen or anything like that,” said Joe Vukovich, an energy efficiency advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “It’s a program that saves consumers money and is good for the environment.”
Haha, good one just like those light bulbs which cost ten times as much and save you 23 cents per year on your electric bill.