Wait a couple days
No playoff hockey for a couple days as they get rested and ready for the conference finals. The Yankees got into a sticky situation last night. And that after Judge kept looking into the dugout over and over just before pitches came in the night before. Is something fish going on? The Astros are getting it together (I hope). And Inter Milan have moved into the UCL finals for the first time in 13 years. Their opponent will be determined today. And that’s it for sports.
Hypocrite
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! These are the same people who claimed DeSantis and Abbott were doing human trafficking when they moved people who voluntarily agreed to go to their Sanctuary City, right? I sure hope they can manage the influx that’s probably fewer people than Laredo is dealing with this week.
When France is beating us, we should be ashamed of ourselves. Sure, it’s only one year, but that’s better than the entire federal government apparatus covering shit up.
Uhhhhhhh, I think I’ll pass on this. And any of the other garbage based they try to pump into my system that’s based on that technology.
Uncancellable
Good for him. Let’s hope he’s right.
“The grooming must stop.” (I was gonna make an “8 year olds, dude” joke, but these kids are 9 and 10.) 9 and 10 year olds should be focused on the actual curriculum, not any of this shit.
What kind of miscarriage of justice is this? Get your shit together, Mexico. This lady deserves the key to the city, not a prison sentence.
Welp, that’s one way to rid the city of cars. It’s also a way to drive out residents. But those DEI programs and the bum shit-cleaning from the streets have to get funded some way.
It’s not a “treatment ban,” you disingenuous hacks. It’s a ban on physical and chemical mutilation. They can still get the mental health care they so obviously need.
Here’s an absolute classic. Just a beautiful song. And here’s another one for you. That might be my favorite of theirs, but it’s a tough call. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Treatment ban: Nope, if you don’t agree with the sexual mutilation of minors you’re a bigot, full stop. A real POS who probably ought to have their bank account frozen.
there’s really no middle ground. no reasonable center remains.
Are you saying the center cannot hold?
He saying there is no Middle Earth.
Shorter: “REEEEEE!”
Chrystia Freeland – an actual witch – wants access to saving accounts. ‘Wouldn’t it be a great tool to have?” she said. A person who speaks this way about looting people’s savings is a true domestic terrorist mental case. And Chrystia – who is prone to emotional outbursts – is definitely cra-cra.
“Gender affirming care” = hormone treatments, puberty blockers and sexual mutilation surgery.
We really need to insist on calling things what they really are.
And it doesn’t “affirm gender”, it feeds into a mental delusion. A man with feminine characteristics is not a woman, he’s a man with feminine characteristics. If someone believes they are a dog trapped in a man’s body, we don’t sew on floppy ears and a tail to provide “species affirming care”.
Not yet, anyway.
It does make you worry for the folks with the “my arm is wrong” type mental illnesses, doesn’t it?
A collective need to defy reality itself by a good chunk of the population — huh… come to think of it, is that where all the stupid “manifesting” crap on TikTok or whatnot for young women is coming from? (I don’t know how really widespread it is, mind you… I just watch videos sometimes that mock such TikToks, and that’s heavily in there). “My feelings can literally change the world around me!” Heaven knows, we thought reality would make it painfully obvious to these fools that it doesn’t work that way… but they seem dead set on making everyone pretend it does.
It amazes me that South Park’s episode with Mr. Garrison becoming Mrs. Garrison and Kyle’s dad becoming a dolphin was 2005.
The “Loretta” scene in “The Life of Brian” was 1979.
The redefinition of words the past several years has been something to behold. And the way it’s been used to manipulate people into supporting otherwise barbaric actions is terrifying.
Nobody would oppose medical treatments for those in need, would they? So they redefine “sex change surgery” to ” gender affirming treatment,” and people who don’t understand what’s really happening lens their support, which the people who redefined the words use to push the envelope even farther.
It needs to stop.
several years?
This is something CS Lewis wrote about, so it predates him, at least.
Carlin has a great bit on the changing of words.
It really has. They did the same thing with “white supremacist”. Everybody hates white supremacists, and it’s ok to punch one, right? But they stretch the meaning to include everyone who disagrees with them, even black people now.
I am so looking forward to the next time someone talks up Trump being racist – given he endorsed a black man for the KY governorship.
The black face of white supremacy is everywhere!
I look forward to the left calling his voters racist.
Malice wrote a good article on the subject:
https://observer.com/2016/08/no-amy-robach-is-not-a-white-supremacist/
How about something more succinct: modern genital mutilation?
“MGM” could be a winner.
*Roars*
No wonder they want to make it Universal.
It is of paramount importance to stop this shit.
The Fox is already in the henhouse.
I see BS.
Someone man the Lighthouse, there is a Swiss blowin in.
We need to draw a New Line in the sand.
It’s pathe tic
The Bill Gates, Soros Sr &. Jr, and other WEF types are actively trying to depopulate the planet. It’s truly horrifying to learn the lengths to which they’re willing to go to do it.
Making entire generations sterile or suicidal is all good for those mother fuckers.
Evil incarnate.
Like the Pax — there’s going to be a significant percentage of those affected that come out homicidal, so presuming they correctly identify who did this to them… they really should rethink this stupid plan. Certainly those of us not directly affected aren’t going to feel much sympathy if their victims do turn on them in a decade or so.
Making them crazy and homicidal is part of the plan. The more chaos, the better. It also assist their gun control agenda.
Question for anyone with marketeering knowledge:
I was up-blinging my CO mags and ordered a +2 Aluminum baseplate from Mec-Gar to see if the resultant mag would fit in the gauge (it does!)
Mcc-Gar dropped the following piece of swag into the shipment:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/MecGar-swag.jpg
Dafuq is this supposed to be? Initially I thought it was a keychain, but it’s too small (especially the split ring wire is too thin). Is this like a charm for a bracelet? Made of melted crayon?
It looks like you’re supposed to attach it as a charm on a real keychain.
People do that? I’m a little irritated that I have to carry so many keys in the first place; I really don’t want to add any bulk to the damn thing.
Plus the TSA would probably confiscate it if you fly.
Ha!
I keep an old-fashioned style key on my keyring as a charm. I also use it to break the seal on new bottles of windshield washer fluid.
I know people who have other useless items hanging from the rings.
Clearly NA does not have teenage daughters that drive.
I keep a Proto keychain driveron my key chain, a brass tag with my name, and a leather strap.
Because the COVID shots worked so well for so long.
Why do you hate hope? You libertarians are so mean.
Hate Hope? No way… she was one of the nicest people I knew back in high school.
Yup — those would be an absolute “No way” from me. I’ve never been an anti-vaxer by any means… but even pre-‘VID the pushing of the HPV vax (they really push you on it, way before it should matter.. like it started when my son was 7 or 8) bugged me — and now, given the immense trust the medical community has shown they deserve… I’m hoping no one in my family needs another stupid shot for the rest of our lives. Because I can’t believe they have our best interests in mind any more.
Until quality control gets a shitload better (something approaching 100%) the mRNA products basically amount to injecting completely random proteins into your body.
Yeah… 12-13 year olds, maybe… though I don’t think sex ed needs as much of a hands on “how to” mindset, personally… focus on “this is how you knock her up, this is the various diseases evolved to take advantage of you idiots who can’t keep it in your pants” type stuff… but I’m a fuddy-duddy, I know. (can’t say old one around here.. 😉 )
Sex Ed is best learned from the gutter, the old-fashioned way. Sure a few things may be incorrect but one eventually gets things figured out. Trial-error
Worked since the beginning of humanity, why change it now.
*blech*
That is an easy root for Inter.
Even the Ukraine is beating us.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/your-tax-dollars-at-work-ukrainian-supreme-court-chief-justice-arrested-for-accepting-2-7-million-cash-bribe/
He didn’t realize he was supposed to set up a few LLCs and funnel it through family members. Piker.
He left out the 10% for the big yy.
Or else somebody had a grudge and set him up. But yeah, he went a little too old-school. On the other hand, that place is drowning in American tax-payer supplied dollars and everyone is grabbing them while it lasts.
‘Orning ‘ordles — Main event was okay (for me at least).. DuoTri was probably the best I’ll ever do, though it didn’t feel like it when I was doing it. I’ll take ’em both at this point.
Daily Duotrigordle #441
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 02:36.65
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 478
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Given the squirrels are getting nutty again — would reiterate that a non-paypal (will mail a physical check if needed) donation mechanism is desired. I didn’t cancel that account just to let them back in! 😉
Meh.
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, May 17
Letters: A B C G I L N
My score: 262 points
My longest word: 9 letters
💮 🌼 🌺 🏵 💐 🌷 🌹 🌸 🌻
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 478
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another day toeing the line
Daily Quordle 478
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Blossom Puzzle, May 17
Letters: A B C G I L N
My score: 320 points
My longest word: 9 letters
💐 🌼 🌸 🌺 🌻 🌷 💮 🏵 🌹
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Sorry, my brain tripped over that.
Sounds like human sacrifice is still a thing in Mexico.
This sounds like something a femputer would say.
What about romanticide?
The Vagenda is still active in Mexico.
“The grooming must stop.”
Is there a Statler school too?
Shit…
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-update-on-the-emilia-romagna-grand-prix-at-imola.14xk8GLh2Lr8wBGdJqhxnO.html
What happened? Godzilla attack?
Flooding in the area. It’s pretty bad.
Climate change dude. Place had never, ever flooded in the past.
Flooding from what I can tell from the article. So Godzilla peeing all over Italy.
Given F1 lately — surprised they didn’t blame it on climate change… but agree with Sloopy, that is a shame both from a race fan perspective (though Imola is not one of my favorite tracks to drive in the video game, have to say…) and for the people there… since it must be pretty bad to make F1 cancel a race.
I read the article and still had no idea. Had to google the region to find out it wAs severe flooding
WRF happened to journalism?
There are no journalists anymore, there are activists with bylines.
In defense of the website, it is the F1 official site, so it’s more of a press release than a news article. Also, Domenicali does mention flooding in his quote.
Damn, I was looking forward to a good race weekend.
I eat pieces of seconders like you for breakfast.
Eating number twos eh? Why doesn’t that surprise me.
Until the Fedaykin surpassed them, the most powerful fighters in the universe hailed from Salusa *Secundus*.
Shooter McGavin
My dog tries to eat poop, too.
Speaking of driving people out of the cities. New York edition:
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/new-york-to-track-residents-food?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=400535&post_id=122022888&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
What’s the scoop here my NY friends?
These people are seriously insane are they not?
This kind of shit is why they want to get rid of cash, so they can track what you’re buying.
Of course he’s a vegan and thinks he should impose it on everyone else. CWAA. (Ok, pescatarian or whatever the stupid word is for his sorry butt). I hope everyone gets out of NYC now and leaves him Mayor of the Ruins.
You are not a vegan if you eat fish. The reporter can’t even get that right.
Adams is a self proclaimed vegan, but he got busted eating fish.
I need to just tap out on commenting today. Too busy to read properly.
By the Vegan Police?
https://youtu.be/dLpCZ8g5uK8
No idea how they claim to be able to do this, but yes, I will be gone before it happens.
Peter Luger’s will be the seat of the resistance!
More steaks for me.
One of the biggest lies that doesn’t get pointed out enough – they call what they do to people with gender dysphoria life saving care, yet the suicide risks remain just as high if not higher after transition. What you have are medical providers eschewing treating people with mental illness. They instead play along with their disorder, and push them into costly procedures that have no real benefit to the patient.
What’s that old Hippocratic Oath thing say the role of doctors is again?
That oath was eradicated once COVID and the shots came along.
Get as much cash as possible from government giveaways and liberal insurance companies as possible?
The new oath is “I like money”.
The evidence clearly indicates a new approach for treating these people is needed, but:
1. Whatever they come up with likely be far cheaper than mass transitioning them
2. It would go against current narrative
All evidence that this shit doesn’t work, isn’t work, and won’t work must be hidden or blamed on society as a whole failing to treat them with the respect they deserve as humans. There is no population, no matter how persecuted, who demonstrates the instability of the transgendered.
Nearly our entire medical and scientific community has bought into this. Does anything undercut scientism more than this crap?
The evidence clearly indicates a new approach for treating these people is needed
What if we first tried giving testosterone to gender dysphoric boys/men?
Anorexics think they are fat. Can the get gastro bypass surgery too?
It would be “body affirming care” if we applied the trans logic.
People get painful and expensive surgeries that require lifetime followup and they also realize that it didn’t make them happy or feel fulfilled. An unbiased study would show a spike in suicides in those who have had surgeries without adequate screening, I guarantee. What’s being done to these people is sad and is as much of a travesty as the lobotomy craze.
Parents pushing back on trannies and draggies reading time are being tagged as ‘domestic terrorists’. Here in Canada, they get arrested for protesting it.
Monsters!
“Republicans’ “Limit Save and Grow Act” is a spending reduction bill that would cut 2024 federal discretionary spending to fiscal 2022 levels…”
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/bidens-budget-vs-house-debt-limit-bill-spending-deficits-taxes-2023-05-15/
Who would’ve thought we’d long for the days of fiscal stability of the Obama years?
The wailing in FedGov during the Obama (mildly) austerity years was epically fantastic.
Listen dude, the only reason anybody wanted budget cuts was because they were racist.
/dianereem
Now, as I further recall, those were also years that no budget ever passed and so we operated on continuing resolutions. So apparently we only get spending discipline when Congress is completely dysfunctional as an institution.
RESET THE BASELINE!
Well, that at least (continues to) lock in the temporary emergency COVID spending.
These people are not serious.
Oh, they are serious, and that is a YUGE part of the problem.
When France is beating us, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
Now is not a time to lose one’s head.
Parents at the progressive Waldorf School of Garden City, Long Island, are angry and some are threatening to pull their kids out school because of new mandatory sex education for fifth graders that teaches, among other things, oral and anal sex and masturbation — with illustrations.
5th grade sex-ed is supposed to be learning about the puberty you are about to experience…
The Texas House on Monday granted final approval to a bill that would outlaw gender affirming care for transgender youth in Texas. The legislation will now head back to the Texas Senate for final approval of changes made in the House before landing on Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk to be signed into law.
You misspelled “physical and hormonal mutilation.”
I really don’t know why there is even a debate here. And I really don’t know why or how the trans cult has infected literally everything.
The how is because they control the institutions – mass media, universities, and tech companies. That sets the tone for the cultural discussion. The why is a blend of well-intentioned folks not wanted to cause offense, activists that continually need a struggle to engage in, grifters, marxists that want to tear down everything, and foreign actors that want to take the US down a peg or two.
‘I don’t get cancelled because I do stage shows…People think to themselves, “I like him, so I’ll buy a ticket”,’ he said.
Yep. I paid to see Cleese at FreedomFest.
Re: Treatment ban – it’s usually a deranged single mother that is the one that needs the mental health treatment when a child is pushed into transitioning, at least when you have a 5-8 year old “trans” child. Some of the teens are obviously doing it on their own as a form of attention seeking, but again, if you look at the parenting in that household, I bet you’ll find a loon for a mother most of the time.
Revenge on the father / ex-husband probably a motivation in many cases.
We used to call it Munchausen by proxy.
Often a loopy cunte trying to anger her ex even further.
The monolith appears to be cracking.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1658801792811950082
I’m guessing the Ukrainian threat to blow up the Russian oil pipeline to Hungary had an effect on their decision.
The EU telling Hungary last week that they have to accept vast numbers of third world immigrants doesn’t help either.
As per usual, the batshit crazies in Kiev shot themselves.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hungary-blocks-eu500-million-eu-weapons-funding-ukraine-after-kiev-sanctions-hungarys
sloopy covered minor soccer news from yesterday, but in the important game, Luton Town defeated Sunderland to make the playoff finals for the 3rd promotion spot into the EPL. Luton was last in the top division the year before the Premier League started. In the 31 years since, they fell out of the league entirely, to the 5th level National League. If they win the final, it will be their 4th promotion in the last 10 years.
And unlike Man City’s falling two levels then shooting to the top of the world, they didn’t do it with by outspending everyone. Luton has one of the lowest budgets in the Championship this year.
I think Middlesbrough are going up, but I’d really like to see Luton Town get to the PL. They’re a great story.
I remember minorly rooting for Sunderland back in the day.
Luton Town?! That would be nuts.
Not entirely, they were top division for about 5 years in the 50s and about 10 years early 80s to early 90s.
They won the league cup in 1988.
They also have a new stadium seating 23,000 set to open in 2024.
Holy crap, current stadium is 10k or so?
“The planned move has been a long time coming – the club has been looking for a site to replace Kenilworth Road since 1955.” – BBC article
Fine. But I wasn’t paying attention 31 years ago. 😛
I latched onto Sunderland due to their nickname (Black Cats); I was hopeful when they won the first match 2-1.
But the Luton story is a good one.
For Sunderland it would’ve been two promotions on the bounce, and then they would’ve spent all of next season in a relegation fight. It was a stretch for them to even be in the promotion playoff this year.
Dafuq is this supposed to be? Initially I thought it was a keychain, but it’s too small
Zipper pull for your range bag?
Zipper pull on a geezer’s pants?
/Looks in the mirror
So the school does not want it released?
On Monday, lawyers for The Covenant School filed a motion to intervene in lawsuits calling for the writings of shooter Audrey Hale to be released. Over the last few weeks, the National Police Association (NPA) and Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA) have each filed suits against the city calling on the writings to be released publicly.
The suits came at a time the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) was reviewing the writings, also referred to as a manifesto, for potential public release. The lawsuits have paused MNPD from taking further action given the legal status.
Covenant School’s motion called for an order in both suits granting the school intervention in the case given release of the information “could cause security and safety issues for the school, its employees and students.
Don’t care, the public has a right to know. She probably had a screed about bullying that occurred at the school in there or some other stupid justification for doing the indefensible.
They are good little gun controllers, I’m sure, and all in on transing children as well, I’m also sure. Just playing their part as the vanguard of the, err, something.
Nah, RC, I’m thinking that’s quite wrong.
My guess is that it’s got several pieces of either PII or actual names called out, and Covenant’s trying to keep their peoples’ names out of the news, not associated with wild accusations, etc.
Could be. But I’m also sure that opposing it fits with their managerial class priors, which plays into it. I wonder if they would be intervening like this if the shooter was a neo-Nazi.
From a purely technical perspective, nothing the shooter writes is protected by (or violates) any privacy laws. Even if he did name names, those are easily redacted if there is a good reason to do so.
Well, I haven’t looked deeply into it at all, but I think they’re PCA-affiliated, and *generally* for a PCA school in a place like Nashville, you wouldn’t bet on many Proggie tendencies.
Their position in it is a bit unique in that the manifesto may be loaded with deranged accusations and attacks against students and staff, by name, and Covenant is THE nexus of all of them. And some perhaps against them as an institution.
Agree on the technicality piece, and also that it should be released – maybe the redaction could only solve the personal pieces and not the institutional libel – dunno.
They don’t want to be exposed as a hive of villainy and scum – you know of conservative social and religious values.
You could well be right, PT. My working assumption/priors are that any educational institution has been marched through and the people running it are good members of the managerial class who view it as their solemn duty to advance the Current Day Narrative every chance they get.
Meet El Hemi, the Dodge Challenger That’s Been to Venezuela and Back
https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-el-hemi-the-dodge-challenger-thats-been-to-venezuela-and-back-40641f78?st=s3689q19r49ujvd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Great story and neat classic!
That is awesome. Thanks!
Think of the children.
Obama wants America to be like Australia:
“In Australia, you had one mass shooting 50 years ago and they said, ‘No, we’re not doing that anymore.’ That is normally how you would expect a society to respond when your children are at risk.”
Save the children because they are needed for grooming, I suppose.
One mass shooting 50 years ago? Yep, that’s a lie but one that can be dishonestly parsed if someone calls him on it.
I wonder how many mass shootings there have been in Australia since (using one of the current definitions that runs up the score here in the US), and how their rate compares to the US (which is much bigger). I’m sure we have more by count and rate, but I wonder what the gap is, and how the trend lines compare.
Or, we could just make tens of millions of Americans into felons by anecdote.
Spit balling here…but I wonder if cops have been given the order to kill a mass shooter to tack on that extra number to ensure its the statistic they want…nah, we are noble and just nation.
Hey Barry, why is that the vast majority of gun homicides are black on black?
Mass shootings aren’t even a blip in the statistics.
Obama wants America to be like Australia:
Australians are subjects, not citizens.
Go die in a fire, Obama.
“subjects, not citizens”
Until we get some things sorted out if we ever do so are we. Didn’t use to be that way but things haven’t been going well on that front for a while here either.
Good morning, Sloop!
Cleese is great:
Ridicule these fucks mercilessly. It’s the only way.
Difficult to pick a favorite song, but those are both right up there. Perfect band.
All your children are belonging to us.
Florida 5th grade teacher who showed students an LGBT-themed Disney movie: “Ignorant” of parents to complain.
Your “rights as a parent, those rights are gone when your child is in the public school system”
She claims they [DeSantis] is trying to strip all diversity and fit one common agenda while doing exactly that in her classroom. Funny that.
It’s funny how CNN cut her off after that. Not supposed to say the quiet part aloud there, Karen.
Remember they have the power to destroy your lives.
https://twitter.com/boreskes/status/1658580390053924866
Lordy lordy…now do Fetterman.
Now, in a twist few in the industry anticipated, the green-diesel boom has tanked the market for California’s credits, which are now trading for about $84 per metric ton, down from over $200 at the beginning of 2021.
Really, few expected the green boondoggle to struggle?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-green-fuel-program-gets-too-popular-for-its-own-good-dedfb89?st=z9z427j2t3rx8w5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They really fucked up legalizing pot, electricity deregulation, water storage and delivery – how could you ever expect Sacramento to get anything right?
But their Board of Tourism puts out some exceptional ads.
Rediscovered a blogger I used to read 5+ years ago but had quit. Sadly otherwise quite intelligent guy calling out corrupt local and state politicians but still can’t see the wool in front of his eyes. Thinks national politics is a struggle between normal people and “right wing autocrats”. Also love love loves Fauci, thinks he’s a savior and the hero of the AIDS crises.
You mean Balko?
No, more local. But Balko fits too.
“The silence is deafening: Flagship CNN shows Anderson Cooper 360 and Primetime make NO mention of discredited FBI probe into baseless Trump-Russia allegations network previously claimed were ‘corroborated'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12092285/Flagship-CNN-shows-Anderson-Cooper-360-Primetime-makes-NO-mention-discredited-FBI-probe.html
Most of the print articles (eg. AP) bury the lede.
As always, the Bee nails them.
Thing is that they aren’t admitting they lied.
We have to politicize the court to depoliticize the court.
Planned Parenthood says courts have been ‘fully captured’ by conservatives, calls for court packing and term limits to stop ‘dangerous agenda’
You can still get you abortions. I don’t understand your position here.
They keep saying that they are on the right side of history, that abortion rights are POPULARLY supported. Why the worry then?
In Ohio, the Republican controlled legislature started working on upping the threshold to pass a constitutional amendment from 50%+1 to 60% of voters (this is the last step of the state amendment process). They’re doing it for petty reasons (specifically calling out the groups that want to put an abortion up to birth amendment in the state constitution), but I’m on board with making it harder to amend the state constitution.
The articles decrying it are calling it a slap in the face of democracy, and taking the voices away from voters. If your ideas are as popular as you claim, 60% isn’t that hard of a threshold to pass.
As it currently stands, the election to see about raising the threshold is scheduled as a special election on August 8th (so that the fall election would fall under the new threshold). There’s a lawsuit trying to prevent the special election, and get it on the same fall ballot (so the election would have the new threshold, recreational marijuana, and [most likely] an abortion amendment on it).
I agree, constitutions should be relatively hard to amend.
And my personal issue, any criminal act should require something like a 90% vote of the legislature to pass (and 50%+1 to get rid of). If we are going to punish someone for something, it should be something that has near unanimous support, not some whim of a particular party.
Why you hate democracy bro?
Speaking of Planned Parenthood, they just released a commercial showing women “celebrating” their abortions and calling for “normalizing” abortion. I don’t remember them being so forthright about it before.
Was Satan or Moloch in the commercial thanking them for the sacrifices?
Hard to square when they claim it barely is part of their business model or profits
Everything goes from being tolerated to celebrated and you are a horrific bigot if you fail to celebrate the current thing.
There were billboards with that here in Ohio several years back. They were not well received.
“Safe, legal and rare” has become “on-demand up to (and possibly after) birth funded by taxpayers”.
They’ve been celebrating and normalizing for years. “Safe, legal, and rare” went out with Bill Clinton, nearly a generation ago.
Yeah but they literally said “celebrate!” That seems a new tack to me.
I’ve heard that for awhile around abortions. Probably really got traction when Adolf Trump seized the White House and ruled with an iron fist, etc.
Related to yesterday’s morning links, Kathy Ireland is worth about $500 million and is anti-abortion.
According to that stupid bint at Miller/Coors, she is a victim of the patriarchy who was forced to submit to the male gaze. Better if she was a barista at Starbucks, so long as she was making the same as her male counterparts.
And Japanese companies are increasingly unwinding cross-shareholdings, or stakes they hold in each other, to boost returns to investors. These cross-shareholdings depress returns on equity and hence valuations. About 54% of companies in the Topix index are trading below book value, compared with just 7% in the S&P 500, according to Jefferies. Earlier this year, the Tokyo stock exchange urged companies that trade below their book values to come up with plans to improve capital returns.
That’s because investors realize that the stated asset values aren’t accurate. Japan continues to refuse to write down assets and essentially lets companies continue this fiction. It’s part of the reason why many US portfolio managers continue to underweight Japanese companies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffett-likes-japanese-stocksmaybe-you-should-too-918712c8?st=5ypr3rew2yxhrix&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Pwnd.
Elon Musk like a boss.
David Faber appears quite weak here.
‘I will say what I want.’
The headline on CNN at the gym this morning:
Elon Musk says he will say what he wants, even if he loses money.
You would think CNN would understand.
*zing*
Swiss, I sent you an email yesterday at your non work address. Did you get it?
Watch the ticker, Tesla up $1.80.
No one ever asks wealthy progressives/CEO’s if voicing their political opinions is bad for business. Funny that.
Bloodthirsty vegans.
Ted Nugent dropping truth bombs:
“If you really want to kill the most things, be a vegan.”
Some hot/crazy gonna be on the market soon…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12091155/Rep-Lauren-Boebert-files-DIVORCE-husband-Jayson.html
But love this totally believable tidbit
So you are saying she is available.
Is she 4’11” or are all of her kids and husband giants.
The internet says she is 5’0”, so you’re close.
She is tiny
Just in time for riot season.
No.
Power is a hard thing to let go of.
It’s rarely let go, it generally needs to be taken away.
Mpox instead of monkeypox? They aren’t even trying anymore.
Marsupialpox? Manateepox? Marcelpox?
MMMPox
https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1658843100855300110
many “right wingers” are not right wing, they’re just 90s liberals with Aspergers who expect the system to follow the publicly posted rules
DJT is basically a JFK Democrat.
Trump is a Clinton (Bill) democrat.
Exactly. I always wished he would just dust off one of Clinton’s speeches on, say, illegal immigration, and give it verbatim, wait for the uproar, and then break the news to all the good Dems that they just accused Bill Clinton of being a racisty bigoted fascist.
Long Stossel interview with Vivek R.
I enjoyed it. Video isn’t necessary so you could just listen on your commute or while doing dishes, etc.
https://youtu.be/eiqjXnmIcQs
Vivek started off with some good stuff, and since then has gone way off the rails.
He’s a mixed bag at best.
MN’s soon-to-be new gun law includes this provision:
“Creating an Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls”
Sounds racist, doesn’t include the Indigenous, Asian or white communities. Sorry
Sounds like they’ll be hunting escapes slaves. Or just those who try to escape the cities.
Luckily for him, Prince has already checked out.
King Walz (*spits*) is sure to sign it. It includes Universal Background Checks (AKA Universal Gun Registration) and Red Flag Gun Confiscation.
I might need to go boating down the rapids soon.
Elon Musk says he will say what he wants, even if he loses money.
*puts on rewrite hat*
Elon Musk says he will say what he wants, even if the Right People don’t like it.
Scrolling down through one of those twatter threads, there are a couple of photos of the Capitol flag being flown inverted.
Doctored or not, it’s funny.
“About your return,” the reporter said.
“I haven’t been gone,” Feinstein said. “You should … I haven’t been gone. I’ve been working.”
“You’ve been working from home is what you’re saying?” the reporter responded.
“No, I’ve been here. I’ve been voting. Please, either know or don’t know,” Feinstein allegedly said back.
Feinstein then went by in her wheelchair and didn’t answer further questions.
The country is in the best of hands.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-feinstein-tells-reporter-havent-been-gone-after-three-month-medical-absence-report
Was she watching Star Wars movies? She sounds like Yoda but looks like Palpatine.
Appropriate.
“Her refusal to either retire or show up is causing great harm to the judiciary — precisely where [reproductive] rights are getting stripped,” Ocasio-Cortez said earlier.
That wold be anti-reproductive rights.
Looks up in thread…*cries*
“Movie studio Lionsgate hires Dylan Mulvaney to promote struggling Judy Blume adaptation ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ after it flounders at box office, earning just $16M in three weeks”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12091613/Lionsgate-hires-Dylan-Mulvaney-promote-struggling-God-Margaret-film.html
I’m sure that will work.
Brilliant!
I wonder if they’ve given any thoughts to just making good movies?
Alternate headline:
“Lionsgate hires alcohol promoter to advertise movie to children.”
I am not, and never was, a teenage girl, but my impression is that that book is a multi-generational staple for adolescent girls. The audience for a film adaptation, for nostalgia if no other reason, should be enormous. But they managed to fuck it up?
We appear to be over a generational break.
White people hunt them for sport
Research has long shown that Black people live sicker lives and die younger than white people.
Now a new study, published Tuesday in JAMA, casts the nation’s racial inequities in stark relief, finding that the higher mortality rate among Black Americans resulted in 1.63 million excess deaths relative to white Americans over more than two decades.
Because so many Black people die young — with many years of life ahead of them — their higher mortality rate from 1999 to 2020 resulted in a cumulative loss of more than 80 million years of life compared with the white population, the study showed.
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High mortality rates among Black people have less to do with genetics than with the country’s long history of discrimination, which has undermined educational, housing, and job opportunities for generations of Black people, said Clyde Yancy, an author of the study and chief of cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Black neighborhoods that were redlined in the 1930s — designated too “high risk” for mortgages and other investments — remain poorer and sicker today, Yancy said. Formerly redlined ZIP codes also had higher rates of Covid infection and death. “It’s very clear that we have an uneven distribution of health,” Yancy said. “We’re talking about the freedom to be healthy.”
White deviltry.
Black people should stop killing each other.
“cumulative loss of life” in that context is an interesting metric and a new one for me.
Is there perhaps an urban/rural split in those numbers? Or are we going to pretend that doesn’t matter?
I’m sure it pained them greatly to leave out the number of aborted fetuses from their body count, since it’s my understanding black women get abortions at a higher rate.
“High mortality rates among Black people have less to do with genetics than with the country’s long history of discrimination, which has undermined educational, housing, and job opportunities for generations of Black people, “
You might want to stay in your lane, doc.
The redlines were removed long ago. So why did things get worse, not better?
CNN – “Prince Harry and Meghan involved in ‘near catastrophic car chase’ involving paparazzi in NY”
Near catastrophic… OTH, unlike his mother maybe he was wearing a seatbelt while the non-contact occurred.
Maybe Charles is thinning out the would-be usurpers.
He (the Royal He) already got rid of Diana. I mean, you can’t have the mother of the future king of England banging an Arab.
Appropriate.
I take the *zing* that was granted to me, and apply it here!
Meh….the whole thing was a set-up. “Stop looking at us! We want to be left alone! We have the Today show interview in the morning.”
“The pair, together with Meghan’s mother, were followed for more than two hours by a half-dozen vehicles with blacked out windows after leaving the event.”
Uh-huh.
The South Park episode about them was solid.
That South Park episode was perfectly on point.
“non contact” but it identified as a head-on. Hence the media pandering.
Got a question for all you farming Glibs out there. I’m getting ready to plant my garden, and I’ve decided to try black plastic as a weed block. We’ve tried various landscape fabrics, cardboard, and grass, and all of that failed. Has anyone used plastic, and if so, what type and thickness? There’s a lot out there not marketed for gardens, but I’m not sure if it’s safe or if it will break down in the sun.
I’ve got some black plastic down this year as I’m trying to rehab a raised bed garden that wasn’t used the past several years. Any of the fabric or other coverings I’ve tried to use in the past get ripped up by deer running over it, chipmunks digging through it, or the like. I’ll see if this does better than the others. I went with the thin cheap stuff this year (as I’m covering it up with mulch as well), but I saw some that was thicker than a standard garbage bag and would probably hold up better.
I would expect any of them to last a season at most.
Do you know what kind of plastic? Like stuff you’d use as a drop cloth from Home Depot or something? For thickness I was looking at 6 mil.
This was in the aisle at Home Depot by the landscaping fabrics and the like. I don’t have the receipt or packaging anymore as I put it down over the weekend. Sorry man.
My mother used slave labor (us). Worked great!
You have kids – use them!
Funny you should say that. The older two have decided to leave the house involuntarily, and the remaining one is working a lot but also screams in the presence of any kind of insect. Plus all the people who say “Oh let me know when you have vegetables!” never show up. So we’re cutting the garden in half and planting flowers and sod in the other half. Just too much work for (mostly) me.
Instead of flowers or sod you could try alfalfa.
As opposed to being forced to leave voluntarily? 🤔
I prefer flowers. If the shit hits the fan I’d rather hunt anyway.
Ideally, you want something that blocks light but lets air and water through. You also have to consider pH and soil temperature. It also varies by what you are growing. For strawberries I would use straw, for tomatoes I wouldn’t use any mulch at all.
You also want to turn over your garden before you plant so most of the weed seeds get buried too deep to grow.
My neighbor has already brought his John Deere with the plow attachment, and tilled down at least a foot for us. I have used fabrics before, for years they worked great but then suddenly they started breaking down in the sun and didn’t last half a season.
Why do we have soldiers in Nigeria?
Gunmen attacked an American convoy in Nigeria on Tuesday, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said. Nigerian police said the attack, which took place in southeast Nigeria’s Anambra State, left four people dead. Three others were abducted.
“It does look like a U.S. convoy vehicles was attacked. What I can tell you is that no U.S. citizens were involved. And therefore there were no U.S. citizens hurt,” Kirby said at a briefing.
“We are aware of some casualties, perhaps even some killed, but I don’t want to get too far ahead of where we are right now. It just happened and the State Department’s looking into this,” Kirby added.
“No U.S. citizen was in the convoy,” Nigerian police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu confirmed.
The list of places we don’t have soldiers is shorter.
Did we stand up a Foreign Legion?
I was trying to square “US convoy” with “no US citizens” as well.
From yesterday’s discussion, the study on those 3 basic economics questions said that for each additional one got right leads to about a $16k increase in wealth. And we know there is a connection between wealth and longevity. And there was a racial divide on the answers to those questions.
Conclusion: better financial education in public schools will partially close the gap between black and white longevity.
heh, I brooksed my reply to Brooks.
So I was offline all yesterday, and that sounds intriguing. What were the questions?
Here you go, you won’t be impressed.
1. Suppose you had $100 in a savings account and the interest rate was 2% per year. After 5 years, how much do you think you would have in the account if you left the money to grow?
More than $102
Exactly $102
Less than $102
Do not know/Refuse to answer
2. Imagine that the interest rate on your savings account was 1% per year and inflation was 2% per year. After 1 year, how much would you be able to buy with the money in this account?
More than today
Exactly the same
Less than today
Do not know/Refuse to answer
3. Please tell me whether this statement is true or false. “Buying a single company’s stock usually provides a safer return than a stock mutual fund.”
True
False
Do not know/Refuse to answer
NOTE: Correct answers are (1) “More than $102,” (2) “Less than today,” and (3) False.
SOURCE: Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
In question 2, the answer should be “Less than today – I moved the money into the account from question 1, so there’s nothing in the 1% account.”
or it will be “B – I am not allowed to spend money from the savings account”
There was a story, linked here I think, recently about a high school class on personal finance. It was an elective, and students were auditing it even if they didn’t get in. The need for such classes obvious, and the demand for it is strong.
“Remember when taking your child to a drag show to not forget their penis sippy cup.
Parents deserve prison for this”
https://twitter.com/AshleaSimonBF/status/1657762969789317122
WTF??
Buzz Lightyear approves.
Oh sure, criminalize bad parenting, WCPGW?
I’m guessing the kid in the stroller who is all dolled up is actually a boy who will be put on stage to perform for the adults.
I’d be okay with tarring and feathering the parents.
Better tar and feather the grandparents as well – after all, they raised those parents.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I had the opportunity to volunteer at the Special Olympics in Chicago (at Soldier Field), but work got in the way. I need to do that next time. I hear it’s a great event.
I remember that!
What an absolute chad!
“How A Left-Wing Activist Group Teamed Up With Big Pharma To Push Radical Gender Ideology on American Hospitals
The Human Rights Campaign’s Healthcare Equality Index, bankrolled by Pfizer, is changing our medical care
The Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index became a flashpoint last month when commentators posited that the scorecard was behind Bud Light’s decision to air an advertisement featuring the transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney. Well, it has a sibling.
Meet the Healthcare Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign’s scorecard for hospitals that purports to measure the “equity and inclusion of their LGBTQ+ patients.” The index, which uses a 100 point scale, is funded by Pfizer and PhRMA, the trade association that lobbies on behalf of large pharmaceutical companies. And, Rempe noticed, it awards points for all of the policies Children’s National implemented.
To earn a perfect score, hospitals must display LGBT symbols, solicit and use patients’ preferred pronouns, and conduct trainings on LGBT issues approved by the Human Rights Campaign, according to the scoring criteria. They must also provide the same treatments for gender dysphoria that they provide for other medical conditions—meaning a hospital that uses puberty blockers to treat precocious puberty cannot withhold the drugs from children who say they’re transgender. And though the index does not mention medical conscience exemptions explicitly, it does penalize hospitals for allowing “discriminatory treatment that is in conflict with their non-discrimination policy.””
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/how-left-wing-activist-group-teamed-up-with-big-pharma-to-push-radical-gender-ideology-on-american-hospitals/
Racial disparities in health are so entrenched that even education and wealth don’t fully erase them, said Tonia Branche, a neonatal-perinatal medicine fellow at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago who was not involved in the JAMA study.
Black women with a college degree are more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women without a high school diploma. Although researchers can’t fully explain this disparity, Branche said it’s possible that stress, including from systemic racism, takes a greater toll on the health of Black mothers than previously recognized.
SCIENCE!
Stress fucking — bareback!
Hawt
Would rampant poor health in particular communities have a deleterious effect on pregnancies? No? Carry on, then. Racism it is!
When I was on the road today, I got an ad that was looking for me to become a doula for the black community in the Akron/Canton area. They were offering training, certifications, and starting pay of $20/hour.
I think that was a poorly targeted ad.
Levelling the playing field here, boss
The European Union is ushering in a new era of international trade that could help rein in climate change. Lawmakers for the group of 27 countries adopted rules for taxing imports based on the amount of carbon dioxide that companies emit making those goods. Experts say it’s the first time a major economy has married climate and trade policy, and that it could lead other countries to do the same.
By putting a price on emissions from some of the stuff it imports — like steel and aluminum — the EU is giving companies around the world an incentive to clean up their operations.
Well, that’s one way to look at it.
“We call it the ‘Fuck China’ tax.”
BWAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA!
*breath*
BWAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!
Comedy gold.
If the media would stop perpetuating or giving credence to this shit, it would go away. Your show sucked and your husband is a cuck.
The “anti-hate” hate industry creates the tribalism it claims to fight, and the only beneficiary of all the hate it creates is the hate industry itself.
Where are all these white supremacists?
Some of them in Egypt no less!
If you don’t know who the white supremacist is, then it’s you.
Multiple morons. I feel bad for the trucker.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/13j6z62/to_save_a_turtle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Good lord people…
Bravo.
Years ago I had to drive around a woman who had stopped her car on railroad tracks to shoo a turtle across the road.
Save the turtles!
I don’t. Everyone, especially the trucker, was going too fast and not looking ahead. Obstructions happen even not caused by idiots. Pay the fuck attention to what’s going on.
TMITE: https://www.newsweek.com/john-fettermans-question-senate-hearing-leaves-witness-speechless-1800726
As much as I despise some of these CEO of banks they should drop all their operations and books in the lap of Fetterman and say “Have at it buddy boy”.
Have you seen the video? That’s not even close to what he said. Becker didn’t respond because, how do you respond to gibberish?
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/05/16/we-sale-your-bank-wapo-reporter-rewrites-disastrous-fetterman-word-salad-as-a-quote-n1695897
Pravda was more believable than our current crop of propagandists.
I transcribed it on Twitter and leftoids went bananas.
https://twitter.com/sloopytexas/status/1658566124320051237?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
“Current Concerns About Gender-Affirming Therapy in Adolescents”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00358-x
Authorities won’t start collecting the tax for another few years, but the idea already seems to be catching on. In the United States, where climate change is often polarizing, Democrats and Republicans in Congress have begun talking seriously about what a similar policy in the U.S. might look like.
Could these sorts of policies actually help bring down carbon emissions? And what are the odds that U.S. lawmakers could be inspired to negotiate a similar deal to limit global warming?
As long as these protectionist tariffs raise prices, what difference does it make?
Get China and India to go along and then come back to me about this shit.
I won’t hold my breath.
https://twitter.com/eclipsethis2003/status/1658851653905178627
“Target needs a Bud Light lesson.”
Multiple morons. I feel bad for the trucker.
I hope he at least managed to squash the turtle.
That reminds me of the time some moron tried to block 38th st by the Eagle Creek Airport in Indianapolis so some baby hate birds could cross the road.
Bad news, F1 fans.
The Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix has been cancelled this weekend as Imola deals with deadly flooding.
Wild footage.
Make a list.
Top 10 Job Prospects of BuzzFeed employees:
1.
…
10.
LOL
Good luck with that
✊ 🍆 💦
Something about code?
Funny, I couldn’t care less either.
NSFW: Candy O Vargas was pretty good. So were the Cars, for a time.
Fuck. Still NSFW: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/The_Cars_-_Candy-O.png
The link is there…you just have to hunt for it.
Pengie, did you get my email? Lots of my emails going astray.
Again.
Exhibit #2101203455 that journalists are just activist.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/05/17/wapo-reporter-makes-up-fetterman-quote-to-obscure-the-senators-incoherence-gets-roasted-and-deletes-n747147
According to Stein, this is what Fetterman said with the vocal pauses removed.
In reality, this is what Fetterman said. If you look really closely, you can spot the difference.
Someone might get the idea that Fedderlump has a room temp IQ, or at least the expressive abilities of such a person. Might even start wondering about the rest of the bag of senile geriatrics and psychopaths.
Damn them. They could have at least credited me for transcribing the word salad.
Shit just got real.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1658820361129979906
Chuckie is about to find out who’s in charge, and it ain’t Yellen.
OK, the usual deal, as I understand it, is the Treasury (Yellen) issues Treasury bills and bonds, a lot of which are bought by the Fed (Powell), including whatever doesn’t sell at auction for a given price.
What happens if Powell just says “No, we are buying this many and no more”? What happens to all the unsold securities? Presumably, they have to be sold for what the actual market will bear. Who knows what kind of discount Yellen would have to give to move a huge oversupply of Treasuries?
Chuckie is about to find out who’s in charge, and it ain’t Yellen.
“I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” is losing its charm.
What devilry is afoot? Has the Secret Service finally caught up with SugarFree?
He’s still doing research.
Remain calm!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vse0fS5mrMc
I guess I’ll be reading SugarFree on a full stomach.
Good prep for a 1 PM meeting.
Off to lunch…..
Okie dokie, folks. I have a job interview at 1p (I think; might be noon; I didn’t pay attention to time zone). It’s the second round. I thought I’d flubbed the first round, but I guess not. This one is with a team and over Zoom, so my hair is down and my makeup is on (how do I hate makeup? Let me count the ways). I’m thinking of changing into a yellow shirt for an extra glow. My office shelves behind me are about as straight as they’re going to get. This job is for legal proofreading. I’m already starting to yawn, but I’ve recently discovered how unsustainable medical transcription really is.
Best wishes!
I thought you were moving into medical coding?
I’m not finished with my course yet.
That said, I really don’t like the medical coding. It eats my brain. I also know that getting a job as a brand new coder is a long, drawn-out process and I need better income now.
So for now, I’m just going to get a better job, finish my coding course, look for a coding job, and see what happens.
Good luck! An old friend of ours used to do something along those lines – I think she had a whole team of folks working for her, some doing the transcription, others doing “scoping” (maybe the term they use for proofreading?)
Good luck!
Thank you again for the reassurance of starting (and continuing) therapy. Coming to the end (natural wind down & therapist is retiring so works out well) and while I’d say still have more to work to do, it has been very helpful (more so than I realized) and got me back from what I thought was an untenable place.
You are SO welcome! My therapist and I are down to twice a month, but we’ve transitioned from my crises into an ongoing problem (weight loss), which is not necessarily urgent. The problem is, I don’t mood-eat. I eat when I’m bored and I eat out of habit, so we’ve got to break some habits.
The German elites must be scared of AfD, as they should be since they’ve destroyed the country.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/5-go-on-trial-in-germany-over-far-right-extremist-plot-to-kidnap-health-minister-topple-government
Pure bullshit agitprop to swing popular opinion.
And also, Dude and I are having dinner with @Shpip tonight! We’re taking him to the vinegar/pepper BBQ place instead of the vinegar/Paprika BBQ place we took @DEG and @Ozymandias to.
Be sure to wear your kidney blocker 2000.
You never know with these shifty libertarian types.
I’ve recently discovered how unsustainable medical transcription really is.
Predatory training programs!
Nah, it was a good run while it lasted there in the early 00s. I made bank. It’s just a dying industry and now I’m making half what I made then.
What happens if Powell just says “No, we are buying this many and no more”? What happens to all the unsold securities? Presumably, they have to be sold for what the actual market will bear. Who knows what kind of discount Yellen would have to give to move a huge oversupply of Treasuries?
It’s the Fed’s job to prop up the Treasury market!
But she replied: ‘Never in my life have I seen a man use a coupon,’ and added: ‘They will literally make their own brewery before using a beer coupon.’
Bud Light resorts to giving its beer away for FREE: Embattled brand is mocked for offering $20 rebate on unsold cases worth just $19.98
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12094171/Bud-Light-giving-beer-away-FREE-mocked-offering-20-rebate-cases-worth-19-98.html