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 incredible day and the links!
Bidens Offered ‘Safe Harbor’ to Hunter Biden, Messages Appear to Confirm Influence Peddling Scheme
Biden’s Debt Deal on the Brink as More Republicans Vow to Vote No
House ‘Taking Steps’ to Hold FBI Director Wray in Contempt of Congress
Democrats worry third-party candidate will hand 2024 election to Republicans
Joe Manchin Down Big To Republican Opponent
After John Durham bombshell, judge breathes new life into Clinton Foundation whistleblower case
Bud Light Sales Reportedly Keep Plunging As Dylan Mulvaney Fallout Continues
Virginia eliminates degree requirements for most state jobs
Alabama Expands Trans Athlete Ban to College Level
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with day.
“Biden’s Debt Deal on the Brink as More Republicans Vow to Vote No”
Yeah, the problem is that this thing doesn’t do anything at all to address the out of control spending in any serious way. Fuck the republicans for that shit.
No argument from me. Anything that doesn’t get FedGov back to FY2020 (or FY2019) as a bare minimum is stupid. COVID spending becoming baseline is JATO assisting that “car speeding towards the cliff” analogy.
We can all thank Trump for not vetoing the spending rocket of 2020. We went from 4.8T to 6.6T that year.
Take. The. Win. Biden got nothing out of the deal. Is it irresponsible? Yes. Has Team Red lost in the public view on debt ceiling every single time in the last 30 years. Take the sorta win and keep working on righting the ship. Dave Smith and his 500 clones aren’t getting elected to Congress next week.
Didn’t he? He got his raise, and a big enough one to carry through the next election. The emergency spending from the pandemic is now locked into the baseline. I haven’t heard that there are any actual cuts to anything. I haven’t been following in any detail because I think it’s a waste of time, but what’s the win we should be taking?
IRS expansion gets reduced, maybe, (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/business/debt-ceiling-agreement.html ) plus food stamps work requirements are slightly expanded.
It isn’t a win. The linked article suggests that spending increases will be capped, but we’re capping from the ridiculous heights of the pandemic, it is a total loss.
There is no righting the ship.
We’re screwed.
There was no righting the ship in 1985 when I was taught Social Security would be insolvent by the time I was retirement age. That ship sailed with LBJ and his war on poverty.
And yet…here we are.
I honestly don’t understand the squeeing about the debt ceiling. All they have to do is vote themselves an electron increase and add more zeroes to the computer.
The sandwich* is right. While the R’s, through house ownership, might have the power of the purse, they don’t have the bully pulpit. They need much more control of the narrative to push this.
* A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich.
The fact that America needs to be lectured from a bully pulpit is problem number 1.
You do know about the is/ought problem, right?
https://www.philosophy-index.com/hume/guillotine/
Only 6 Republicans need to vote for it. It’s passing.
I think the debt deal will go through — Massie voted to let it out of the Rules Committee and looks to be a “yes”, I think that will fracture the Freedom Caucus side enough – plus I assume some of the House Dems will sign on, should be enough.
House will find that DOJ will ignore Contempt of Congress, I expect. House should just defund the FBI (hell, put it in the debt deal). Not that they will. (Lump in the rest of the IC while I’m dreaming… corrupt to its core and think they run the country).
Poor Joe Manchin… who knew taking a stupid deal and being backstabbed by your own party so you look like a spineless weasel in a state increasingly against your party was a bad political move? (Oh… everyone else?)
Re: Target — problem is… I really don’t think Wally World and Amazon are any better (maybe just a little less blatant). So not a lot of alternatives out there to direct money to. Really wish there was a good marketplace for Made in America / Not pushing Socialism — but the minute there would be such a thing, they’d swing the finance and backend providers into gear to shut it down…
Morning, Banjos!
I haven’t tried it, but Public Square boasts to be the place to shop free of marxist BS.
Also Good Morning All!
Being blatant is the problem/issue/trigger. I don’t think most people would give a fuck about this if it had not been blatant as shit and exposed that the truth was these fuckers were also targeting kids. The thing is that the maniacs that want to sexualize kids wanted it blatant. This mafia wants to show people that won’t bend the knee that they are coming for kids, especially the kids of those that for whatever reason have a bone to pick with their agenda, and they wanted everyone to feel that they couldn’t do anything about that. Reality proved them wrong.
They went too far.
Now there’s going to be a backlash, particularly as the social moderates (I wouldn’t even call them socons anymore) figure out that they have some power. Being able to destroy a national brand and take a scalp of that size is an invigorating thing. This isn’t going away now.
Scruff is right. I have said it ad nauseum, but they just keep adding to the stack of small indignities, and people finally pushed back. It is costing Disney, Target, AB, and maybe The Dodgers real money, if not bad press at the very least.
Of course the deal will go through. “Biden” says the deal is acceptable and the rest of the Ds will do what they’re told. As long as ANY Rs vote for it, it passes.
Yes – pull the deal back and pass it with no budget for the FBI. They are literally a terrorist organization at this point – with funding and technology that the NKVD and Stasi could only dream of.
One step at a time.
“I really don’t think Wally World and Amazon are any better”
Eh, don’t really care. What matters is that somebody, anybody, pay a price for this groomer shit (and the rest of the DEI/CRT garbage). Pour encourager les autres. Unless the normies can start taking scalps, there’s no telling how far the Cultural Revolution will go.
Fair point.
I’ve read Massie’s reasoning a few times now and I must be missing something because I don’t get it.
Since he has shown to be competent in the past, I guess I still trust him, even if he is in congress.
I really hate the news articles that talk about a company losing %large dollar amount% when it was just the stock price going down. The company lost valuation, they did not lose that much revenue.
Companies that lose stock value risk catastrophic results as said stock is abandoned. Having low cash flow is certainly problematic, but having your stock in free fall is far, far more of a problem in any scenario. Ask GE how having their stock go from one of the top valuations to a shitshow worked out for that company that now can only stay in business doing the dirty green shit for the FedGov in return for tax payer lucre.
What’s even worse – all the executive stock options lose value!
This is a real problem. Exec contracts basically say they get paid as long as they do not tank the stock. Right now none of the Target execs will be getting paid cause they tanked the stock. and believe you me, that hurts them more than fucking over any and all stock holders, which is why the execs will do something to correct this disaster for them.
It’s already tough enough for a Harvard MBA to be Target CEO, but to be impoverished on top of that? The horror!
Getting by on a low seven figure salary is tough these days.
How are you going to stay in the billionaire’s circle of influencers if you lose your billions? Dropping down into the rank of the future serf class is a serious disincentive….
Agreed. Even then, what did the rest of the market do? what did their sector do?
Just looking at their stock price in isolation does not allow you to draw any particular conclusion.
WalMart’s stock price dropped about $5 per share in the last two weeks. Amazon’s has gone up by about $3 per share in the same time frame. Target’s dropped by about $28 per share.
That doesn’t mean shit.
It means I lost a lot of money. I have had Target stock since 2002… 🙁
It’ll go back up.
Yes, I’m sure that’s exactly the sentiment on Target’s board of directors.
$/share is meaningless unless you know the absolute share price. Target has lost about 15% recently, Walmart 5%.
Yahoo Finance chart: https://tinyurl.com/2y42rf7m
Indeed. Especially with stock prices (and indexes), the count (dollar value) is practically meaningless to evaluate performance. It’s the percentage gain/loss that matters.
If you want to look at this the way “pros” do.
Pull up a chart and add an appropriate index. Usually the S&P500. Throw in some comparables. In this case Walmart for example.
You really want to look at the under or outperformance relative to the broader market. If you do that you will genuinely see a divergence right around 5/26. Now on a longer series of time this could easily be noise. So I’m not pretending this is some fundamental change in Target’s value.
TLDR – could be fundamental change or it could be noise.
If you do that you will genuinely see a divergence right around 5/26
Thank you for enacting my labor.
I agree to an extent. How many of those shareholders are dumping their stock because they were loyal shoppers that are now dumping the brand though and will no longer shop there? Future revenue drops (or gains) will answer that question and also see if this is a short term blip or a long term trend. Either way, as a publicly traded company, playing politics is always a bad idea.
“Bidens Offered ‘Safe Harbor’ to Hunter Biden, Messages Appear to Confirm Influence Peddling Scheme”
In a nation of laws, where the will of the people was actually valuable, we wouldn’t have a legal system that not only turns a blind eye to blatant criminality by those on one team, in the process, when forced to address something they can’t ignore anymore, resorting to total gaslighting to keep the people confounded, while making up crimes about the other team and using the law as a means to go after those people, even if they have to completely and utterly destroy and abuse the legal system.
Nothing can happen to Hunter Biden, just like nothing could happen to Hillary Clinton, because it would hurt their patron and the real Capo. In Hunter case it’s the big guy, and in Hillary’s case that Capo was Obama. Obama was the one that weaponized the system already made rife for abuse by those that came before him in order to destroy the system that allowed America to be the land of opportunity to those willing to sacrifice for later rewards.
whadup doh’
Hi Tres. Sup whichoo ?
“Democrats worry third-party candidate will hand 2024 election to Republicans”
Why? Because they can’t fortify hard enough to overcome that deficit as well?
That’s kinda true, isn’t it – they don’t believe they have nothing to worry about.
This is absolutely true. Remember Regan’s victory? They cannot have that, as they know that they cannot cheat that hard in that many places. It is why they always go on and on about the “popular vote” even when they pick up a victory, Clinton the first, using that method.
Important sporting news that Sloopy never covers:
Woman wins UK cheese rolling race despite being knocked unconscious
Its one of the top sporting events in existence.
Not everybody is on board with WW3.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jamie-dimon-visits-china-says-no-decoupling-and-world-will-go
I fully expect the media heat to be turned up on Dimon now.
Dimon is one of the many bought & paid for by the CCP. Wall Street is owned by the CCP because the CCP holds onto trillions of dollars that Wall Street claims is their money but the CCP will never let them repatriate out of China. Of course he wants to go on with business as usual, for as long as it goes that way. And I am sure he would even be content to be one of the mandarin class in the US when that time comes as long as he gets to live large & in charge.
So unless we go to war with China, the CCP wins?
I never said we need to go to war with China, but the reality is that at this point it simply seems China will start that war at some point whether we want it or not. Read Thucydides’ trap. China is a rising power, and one with some sever and serious internal troubles that will force the current leadership into adventurism to distract the people from the coming disaster. China also has a problem that all the IP stealing still has left them with a technical gap when it comes to high precision engineering that they can’t overcome. Especially in the military grade and high end system processing semiconductor space. The problem is CCP leadership believes they can close that gap in time to mitigate a lot of their coming economic problems of their previous policy’s making, if they take Taiwan and take that industry capability from them.
I remind you that all you need is for one side to believe conflict is worth the risk, and you will get conflict. Ask Nevil Chamberlain how all his attempts to avoid war gave him one.
Throwing out Neville Chamberlain every time war with China is brought up isn’t an argument. China isn’t Nazi Germany and isn’t invading Western Europe.
Taiwan isn’t our responsibility. China isn’t sending over transports to invade America. There doesn’t have to be war with China, even if they expand in the Asian sphere. It certainly wouldn’t be any worse than the multitude of invasions the US has launched over the past several decades.
‘. It certainly wouldn’t be any worse than the multitude of invasions the US has launched over the past several decades.’
There is no particular reason to say it would be worse, but I don’t see how you can say it certainly wouldn’t be worse.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans enslaved and sent off to fight and die in Vietnam and Korea to enrich DC. Many died and trillions of dollars stolen over the past two decades in the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
America is currently fighting in 80+ countries around the world to keep our empire intact and money flowing to DC. 80+ countries. The death and destruction is widespread. I think it’s fair to say to China isn’t going to do worse than our track record of over the past several decades.
I feel your pain and agree with it, but I suspect your anger at this is blinding you to the reality that letting the CCP become the top dog will not only not make things here in America any better, but will guarantee they get worse because the whole world will get worse.
“Throwing out Neville Chamberlain every time war with China is brought up isn’t an argument.”
Really? Cause the point was the guy was so desperate to avoid a war with an evil fucker that wanted a war that the weak actions taken made war all but inevitable.
“China isn’t Nazi Germany and isn’t invading Western Europe.”
No, China is just fucking with everyone in the Pacific Ocean, and getting ready t do that invading. Is your point that we should wait until they are invading Western Europe or us?
“Taiwan isn’t our responsibility.”
If we want to keep the alliances, economic and otherwise that we have made in the Pacific and keep the peace, it certainly becomes an unavoidable problem.
“China isn’t sending over transports to invade America.”
That’s a naïve view of reality. They don’t need to do that to fuck us over in today’s modern world. They already have already successfully compromised our political, bureaucratic, and economic class and have more control over what happens here than the American people. The CCP already exercises an inordinate of control on our future, and they can achieve their end goal without ever having to put a single military force on our soil.
“There doesn’t have to be war with China, even if they expand in the Asian sphere.”
You really believe that? Do you realize the reason war between the US and Imperial Japan happened precisely because Imperial Japan wanted to “expand it’s Asian sphere” and that made war inevitable even though we tried to ignore it all.
“It certainly wouldn’t be any worse than the multitude of invasions the US has launched over the past several decades.”
Now look at that from the perspective of the people that didn’t want those invasions but could do nothing to prevent the US from having its way, only now it will be the CCP’s China doing them and doing far, far worse.
That’s a naïve view of reality. They don’t need to do that to fuck us over in today’s modern world. They already have already successfully compromised our political, bureaucratic, and economic class and have more control over what happens here than the American people. The CCP already exercises an inordinate of control on our future, and they can achieve their end goal without ever having to put a single military force on our soil.
It looks like is the crux of your argument about why need to go to war with China. If the CCP is so powerful that they can control the US without military conflict, I’m not seeing how military conflict is going to solve that. Perhaps the better solution would be for the US to look internally to repair the political and economic corruption and allow the country to compete with China on a playing field that doesn’t end in nuclear exchange.
The founding fathers cautioned to avoid entangling foreign alliances and standing armies. That guidance is still spot on centuries later.
“It looks like is the crux of your argument about why need to go to war with China. ”
I am not saying we need to go to war with China, and have repeated that, but you keep putting words in my mouth. I am saying that unless the US is willing to go the way of the British empire and fade into even greater shittitude, the CCP will bring that war to us. You seem to believe we can avoid the war with no consequences, I don’t. I can tell it will happen. The choice is ours to make it happen when we have things more in our favor or later, when we will not only have the war, but lose it.
You seem to believe we can avoid the war with no consequences, I don’t. I can tell it will happen. The choice is ours to make it happen when we have things more in our favor or later, when we will not only have the war, but lose it.
I don’t intend to put words in your mouth. This sounds like you are saying that the US will need to go to war with China.
No, again, I am saying that China will bring the war to us. There is a distinction even though you refuse to accept that. There is no avoiding that clash unless the US just gives up and become their serfs without a fight. If a bully attacks you, whether you want to or not, you are attacked.
Britain and US handover should be studied in regards to Thucydides trap. Of course, that is a very unusual set of circumstances (two very similar nations, to start)
Correct. This was considered the one outlier to the historical pattern. It was not at all obvious that it the transition could happen without tension, but considering the US was birthed from the British empire and we had a lot of commonalities with that existing empire, the British decided to accept it. The British simply assumed a US led world wouldn’t be a big change or problem for them, and that their status would not be impacted in a too adverse way. History says otherwise.
We have absolutely nothing in common with the CCP (even though our leadership class would love to be more like the CCP in its ability to abuse its citizens), and the world that would come from them being the lead will not be one which would make it impossible for any nation to maintain any sovereignty or freedom.
Bland platitudes. Of course nobody thinks, or wants, every single ship hauling Chinese goods to turn around at 11:59 a.m. on June 1 and go back to China, which seems to be what he means by “decoupling”. He acknowledges that the volume of trade with China will go down, which pretty much everyone, including the Chinese, expects.
I want every single ship hauling chinese goods to throw them overboard and seek different ports of call, with the mechantmen permanantly boycotting chinese ports.
Hard to do when a huge percentage of tankers and merchantmen fly the PRC or Hong Kong flag on their sterns.
Rampant high seas piracy.
“Over time, there’ll be less trade,”
There will be less trade with western countries and far more with the rest of the world. Countries are lining up to join BRICS because that’s the future.
Let Brazil, Russia, and China form a trading block. Three corrupt, marx-ish countries. That will end well.
India, Saudi Arabia, probably Turkey, Egypt and others.
Sure they are marx-ish and corrupt. But not more so than the U.S. and EU. They are growing, so corruption is less necessary right now. They also do not buy into the green cult and aren’t going to cripple their economies on behalf of mother gia.
Russian and Chinese seem to expect a certain level of corruption. Once that level is exceeded, people start flying out windows or taking vacations to camp concentration.
Yeah, China and India snuggling together. They are in a low level hot war with each other near Tibet, and India is aggressively courting businesses away from China and the ol’ Belt and Road, or Belt and Noose, or whatever the “become a satrapy of China” program.
China and Russia used to have border skirmishes too. Eventually they sat down with maps and stopped the nonsense. Since India is the “I” in BRICS and both are now very friendly with Russia, the same thing will happen sooner or later. Too much money on the table and both are alarmed with where relations with the West are going.
Except China’s CCP considers India as a nation the only real threat to its ambitions. India will not accept a second banana status. Especially now that its own economic growth has taken off, and it will historically just from the numbers and choices of economic areas of focus sooner than later surpass China. And Russia for all intents and purposes is making itself Beijing’s bitch because they were pushed into that. India won’t need to do that.
With the exception of India and Brazil, those other countries will be the past, not the future.
India and Brazil are to be determined, they don’t seem to be able to escape the middle income trap because they lack good governance… Though you can certainly argue India and a lesser extent Brazil isn’t even there yet.
And right on cue, a fresh accusation with only verbal proof.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/epstein-pal-jes-staley-throws-jamie-dimon-under-bus-setting-stage-massive-legal-battle
If it weren’t so predictable.
I have heard that it’s difficult for anodizers to match colors, but I didn’t realize it was going to be this bad:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mismatch-scaled.jpg
On a related note, what’s the best way (without physical alteration like engraving) to mark brass? Paint? Bluing? Nail Polish? And does it stick better if the brass is freshly cleaned or if the paint is applied over a patina?
Being a chemical process, anodizing colors depend a lot on the substrate alloy and its constituents.
What are you trying to achieve with the brass?
Labelling the baseplates as a way of keeping track of magazines should one malfunction/need maintenance.
They come with dimples (typically six like so: https://czcustom.com/cz75-mec-gar-base-pad-brass.html) which look like they’re supposed to be filled in. Not sure what sticks to brass/brass patina tho.
If you want to paint it, self-etching paint primers for brass are available. But they do alter the surface somewhat.
I’m not worried about altering it, just didn’t want the answer to be “stamp/engrave it!”
I take it you’re opposed to laser marking as well then.
This may be your best bet then. Meant for model trains.
https://www.walthers.com/scalecoat_model_rr_paint
Thanks!
Cover it all with black electrical tape?
True story:
Last nationals I worked, there was a competitor that had magazines that just barely fit inside the gauge. And then he put some tape on them, making them just barely too big to fit. Which is too big.
This sort of thing happens because most matches don’t make you actually measure you gear. But nats does.
A Sharpie paint pen works fine.
It just thought you wanted an accent color to really make things pop!
Embrace the fact that your gun now comes in four colors, instead of only a measly two. I mean, if you didn’t want it flashy, you wouldn’t have gotten those grips, right?
There is a lunchtime post tomorrow about those grips.
I’ve been trying various extended baseplates for next month’s match in OH. In this case I wanted to see if the company that made the grips also made extendos that fit in the magazine gauge and also matched the grips. They are short enough to be legal, but obviously the lack of matching means they’re not worth the price premium over the MecGar polymer ones. However, I’ve got a ridonculously heavy brass one (3oz!) on the way from Taylor Freelance that might wind up the winner.
https://taylorfreelancestore.com/cz-75-5-basepad-brass/
Crayon!
That is what you use for dice, true.
“House ‘Taking Steps’ to Hold FBI Director Wray in Contempt of Congress”
Disband the FBI.
And the ATF!
Or at least don’t build them an huge new HQ building. How did that not be part of the debt ceiling deal?
I am starting to feel that this debt ceiling fight is all kabuki because team red won’t cut the spending either. They need to loot the valuables off the Titanic before their fault for driving it straight into an iceberg and dooming it to sinking becomes unavoidably clear to the passengers so far distracted by the deck games.
If you needed a red flag that this is all, all of it, just kayfabe for the rubes, that’s it. The FBI openly defies Congress, there is a nice piece of low-hanging fruit for Congress to take away from the FBI right there on the regular agenda, and . . . Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada.
We can’t do that, disbanding the FBI would do serious harm to network TV’s ability to come up with new cop shows.
Are you serious? A show about a ragtag band of defunded FBI types that need to solve cases on a shoestring budget would fit right in.
The F-Team?
Cops of fortune traveling the country to stop schools from using Native American team names?
F-Troop has already been taken by BATFE. I like the general idea though.
Where did all the private investigator shows go?
You don’t want the next exciting season of Department of Education: S.W.A.T.?
Daily Ray of Sunshine TOK Special
Thank! My favorite one so far (of course)! I have had abled bodied friends and family try (including Mrs. TOK once), and they all love it. We are allowed two abled bodies players on our teams. Two of our coaches are playing now, partly because we need the players and partly because they enjoy playing.
I used to play hoops with some guys at the Courage Center and before us was a group playing wheelchair hoops. When their game was over, half of them would stand up and walk off the court. Same deal, they just wanted to play with friends.
Looking forward to seeing you again this weekend.
That is the beauty of these sports. They aren’t dumbed down, they are challenging and fun.
Also looking forward to seeing you! Text me when you know which game you’re going to, I’ll look for you.
I don’t know how many of you clicked through to the Lovecraft-squee mashup anime trailer that Derp linked in the late night post yesterday, but “That’s What I’m Fhtagn About” had me crackin’ up.
Uffda. Minnesoda DFL leader has an interesting plan for Minnesoda.
Sure, sure. That’ll get people to move.
It might not be a lot of people, but it will be the right kind of people.
Grifters, losers, and idiots?
Yes, reliable voters.
So you’re going to get a lot more poor people coming in who want free abortions and more wealthy people leaving for Texas and Florida. In short, you will be the California of the upper Midwest. Fortunately the winters will probably keep the homeless population somewhat under control.
The thaw is going to take on a whole new meaning.
I think everyone thaw what you did there!
We had a $17B surplus and they still raised taxes. The hard core proggies are miffed because they didn’t get a new higher tax bracket on the super rich.
“In short, you will be the California of the upper Midwest.”
Illinois is jealously guarding that title!
Fortunately the winters will probably keep the homeless population somewhat under control.
“Somewhat”?
/looks at Boston area homeless and growing homeless population in NH
Hmm….
Probably not. Anchorage has a considerable
homelessstreet bum problem.They can move here to not have children! It’ll be great for our future!!!
They plan to groom other people’s kids to replace themselves?
At heart, they’ve turned into nihilists and solipsists – nothing beyond themselves.
But they desperately want that external affirmation.
I’m with JI on this, and they aren’t even really thinking through the implications for themselves in the future.
Hold on there JD. We aren’t just all about abortions for everyone all the time. Nope. We’re also a safe haven for kids who want gender affirming care! We will let kids lop anything they want off without getting all shitty about requiring a parent’s consent.
OB/GYNs go to where the babies aren’t. Everybody knows that.
Between you and me, I think an OB that moves just so she can perform abortions is an OB you don’t want anyway.
Yep. The fact is, only about 15-20% of them will do it under any circumstances, and most of those only in medical situations that would often also be allowed in an anti-abortion state.
I don’t know that a Republican would do much better than Joe Manchin. Thoughts?
Do what?
Manchin went to the Ukraine a few months ago to kiss the ring and promise infinite American money and equipment. Not as fanatic as my idiot Senator (Graham) but bad enough.
Exactly. Any Republican would do the same. And he helped pass spending bills, and will probably raise the debt ceiling. So what’s the difference if it is him or a Republican? Who cares?
Thank you.
I don’t know anything about Justice – other then he kind of looks like Boss Hog.
The Republicans are a mixed bag on the endless foreign wars.
Justice was a lockdown governor, though as I recall his lockdown hand was one of the lighter ones.
We went to the Greenbrier at the end of 2020 during “lockdowns”. We had a nice time.
I’ve heard him speak in person several times. His slovenly appearance and “I’m a good ol’ boy conservative but also gonna bring home all that federal pork and make WV great again” could not be a more perfect personification of West Virginia politics.
A Republican would vote for a better class of judge.
Joe Biden can no longer lie his way out of this.
Of course he can, and will.
He doesn’t need to, he has a team to do that for him. Until the time comes when he’s no longer useful.
We are barreling towards unlimited debt in this country….
The government has grown 40% since COVID.
It is time to cut off the Swamp and return to pre-COVID spending
How quaint.
What we need is more debasement of the currency.
A majority of Americans – 54 percent – would prefer a partial government shutdown until federal spending reduces than avoiding a shutdown by authorizing higher levels of government spending, according to a recent survey by Rasmussen Reports.
The majority comprised more than a third of Democrats – 36 percent – and almost two-thirds of Republicans – 74 percent.
A total of 57 percent of Democrats and only 17 percent of Republicans would prefer increased spending would prefer more spending.
Yeah, the partial shutdown excludes the parts of govt they like.
House ‘Taking Steps’ to Hold FBI Director Wray in Contempt of Congress
*yawn*
They are going to write a strongly worded letter. STRONGLY WORDED!
Why, I was so upset, I ALMOST SAID SOMETHING!
♪♫ “It’s just a jump to the left, then a step to the right…”
Joe Manchin Down Big To Republican Opponent
This actually makes sense. Not sure how he has maintained so long in WV.
The old union vote
The last of the white working class vote.
Justice is a spry 72 years old too.
the restart of student loan payments can’t come soon enough. unbelievable that they kicked that can all the way into the next presidential election.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the student loan payments never restart. I think the politicians will seize upon this to provide “free” college education like Europe but without the gatekeeping. Another possibility is that they’ll delay restarts for government/non profit employees and those under a certain income cliff. The middle class will continue getting soaked as suckers.
I was unaware of this bit of irony about Elizabeth Holmes.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-prison-where-elizabeth-holmes-could-serve-her-sentence-a4e27ca?st=zemfbkytynfz00c&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
She had 2 kids while being prosecuted and knowing there was a likely prison sentence on the other end, just a question of how much.
She should have moved to Minnesota.
Never gets old
https://archive.fo/Ajkoz
Paywall – https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-interview.html
Yeah, she’s a sociopath. She had those kids specifically to try to influence the outcome of the trial.
Even more interesting is the father.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/billy-evans-elizabeth-holmes-partner-6fa2d46f?st=bc2awvnewor8zr5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Serious people, doing serious things
Republican and Democratic members of Congress from Alabama submitted a draft House bill late last week that would block funding for the continued growth of U.S. Space Command’s temporary headquarters in Colorado, according to documents reviewed by NBC News.
Two congressional officials said the bill would prohibit SPACECOM from spending money on constructing, leasing or modernizing facilities until the secretary of the Air Force formally selects and publicly announces the location of its permanent headquarters, which the Trump administration said would be in Huntsville, Alabama.
NBC News reported this month that Biden administration officials have signaled privately to Defense Department leaders and lawmakers that they are considering reversing the planned move to Alabama over concerns about the state’s strict anti-abortion laws. Since the Trump administration announced in January 2021 that the headquarters would be in Huntsville, there has been a series of reviews and investigations of what has become a fraught, politically contentious process.
Undoing Trump’s evil deeds, and pandering to the all abortion all the time mob; what could be better?
Nobody gives a shit about effective use of resources.
After John Durham bombshell, judge breathes new life into Clinton Foundation whistleblower case
Which will go nowhere if he wants to keep breathing.
I’m not sure they have the media cover.
Daily Quordle 492
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Blossom Puzzle, May 31
Letters: D E I T P S U
My score: 290 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌻 💐 🏵 🌼 🌹 🌷 🌺 💮 🌸 🌻
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 492
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LL is an also
That’s the first one I got.
Target loses 12B in 14 days,
Heard on MSNBC: Boycotting Target is “literally terrorism”
StochasticEconomic terrorism!War is peace…
I’m unconvinced that Target is losing much in the way of actual sales.
I’m sure the number of social conservatives on social media ranting about this is high, but I don’t see suburban Americans not shopping because they sold tuck swimsuits to crazy parents. Like every store in Americas
Bud Light was an easier target (hey-o) because the effort to just drink a different light beer is so easy. Is it that much different for Target? Every Target is close to a Wal-Mart, or other stores that sell the same crap. What is exclusive to Target?
Wal Mart has the identical policies as Target. I understand you need to pick one to go after, big I’m not convinced that conservatives are really that pissed about them selling the tuck bathing suits. I think that’s a few people on social media.
Let’s see the actual sales here. I’m not buying this one yet.
At least around here, the Wal-Marts are generally sloppier, less well stocked, less helpful employees, worse parking lots, and longer lines to check out. One of them is known (locally) as the worst Wal-Mart in the US.
How many social conservatives shopped at Target before this incident?
How many social conservatives drank Bud Light before their incident?
In other words, social conservatives probably have much more pull with Bud Light than Target.
Duh. You said part of what I said. I should pay more attention.
that too
I’m unconvinced that Target is losing much in the way of actual sales.
And you base this on what data exactly?
Windstorm patriotic guy has really let himself go.
That’s really sad and hard to watch.
I agree. Used to be a stranger would try to see what was wrong and at least try to help. Now it’s just another chance to whip out the “smart” phone and hit record
So you guys are going to assassinate him like you did Kennedy.
Cooper asked, “Given the career you have had in the FBI, when you see the former president, now the frontrunner again for the Republican nomination, how big a threat is that?”
Comey said, “A very serious threat to the rule of law, almost an existential threat if he were to become president again. He has tried to take a flamethrower to the FBI, to the Department of Justice to stop them investigating.”
Cooper said, “You believe Donald Trump is an existential threat to the rule of law?”
Comey said, “I do, yes. Were he to become president again, I don’t think America has ever seen and is ready for what he would try and do to the system of justice.”
Go to hell, you dishonest cunte.
Comey is trying hard to make me like Trump again.
It’s a doomsday cult: 200,000 cows to be culled in Ireland in order to meet climate targets
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1663509462437462016
WTF??
Well cows are killing Gaia
Humans should not have anything that can lead to food security. That’s how you show you truly love Gaia!
These people need to be stopped, now.
We should ban veganism and vegetarianism…
Nah. But they shouldn’t have any say in what I want to eat.
And where is Target headquarters? It all makes sense now, doesn’t it?
*Hangs head in shame*
I am actually enjoying this. I have done work for clients who did business with Target and the fact is that they are just as ruthless as Walmart. For years, though, they have been the proggies darling alternative to Walmart.
I just assumed that was because the Waltons are crypto-nazis or something.
Icky poors shop at Wal-Mart. The wine moms can safely shop at Target.
The Bee, as expected.
“Tar-zhay”
“Race activists in West Oakland, California, demand reparations for ‘climate justice’: Residents claim rising sea levels will bring contaminated soil caused by historic industrialization to the surface and endanger their health”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12141815/Race-activists-West-Oakland-California-say-rising-sea-levels-not-fault-demand-reparations.html
How silly does this thing have to get?
Americans love to gamble, and if there is even a sniff of a payoff.
I don’t think there is a limit.
I don’t think it works that way.
West Oakland, also know as south Berkeley.
That sho’ ain’t the Deep East.
The Feds got out again this weekend.
Travelers in Alabama driving on Interstate 65 to parties and barbecues on Memorial Day might have seen messages on digital road signs honoring veterans who died fighting for the United States.
But that’s not what some drivers near Clanton, Ala., saw on Monday. Instead, motorists reported seeing a sign that was apparently hacked to display the words “Reclaim America,” a white nationalist slogan, and “Patriot Front US,” referencing the white supremacist group that was involved in the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
“How does this come about?” wrote Sarah Hughes, a motorist who captured photos of the sign and posted them on Twitter. “Weird as hell.”
““Patriot Front US,” referencing the white supremacist group that was involved in the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.”
They were?
Funny how nobody seems to know who they are.
Happy World Parrot Day!
So here are a few random Australian parrots to celebrate these amazing creatures
https://twitter.com/SandyHorne61/status/1663744590548189184
Cooper said, “You believe Donald Trump is an existential threat to the rule of law?”
Comey said, “I do, yes. Were he to become president again, I don’t think America has ever seen and is ready for what he would try and do to the system of justice.”
Woodrow Wilson and General Palmer laugh heartily.
Anthony Comstock pouts.
Beware the Dark Shepherd!
I’ve said this before and I know I’m preaching to the choir but, for me, once Obama assassinated a US citizen with no legal process, to the general approbation of the ruling class, then they can all GTFO with their claims of lawlessness.
“Target’s diversity chief says ‘white women’ should take action against systemic racism and call out ‘transgressions’ in the post-George Floyd world – as retail giant tanks $12.5B in value amid botched Pride merchandise
Keira Fernandez has been leading Target’s Racial Equity Action and Change initiative to accelerate the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, especially following the death of George Floyd in 2020.
The retail giant promised to increase the amount of black employees they have, as well as spend more than $2billion with black-owned brands by 2025.
Fernandez, who has worked at the company for 22 years, said: ‘One of the hardest things in the world to be every day is Black…
The retail giant describes Fernandez as: ‘A dedicated diversity advocate who sparks, inspires and challenges the lens in which we view and practice diversity, so we can all grow the circle together with shared accountability and responsibility.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12143995/Targets-diversity-chief-says-white-women-action-against-systemic-racism.html
OFFS!
Well, there’s one executive who doesn’t seem to care about her stock options.
And when I read this “One of the hardest things in the world to be every day is Black…”, why am I reminded of the saying “If everyone you meet is an asshole . . . .”
I too blame white women for most issues in the world.
the post-George Floyd world
The what?
Trans terminology update:
non-conforming -> genderbender
non-binary->genderblender
has latest fashionable identity->gendertrender
with high disposable income->genderspender
Scottish->glender
in a car accident->genderfenderbender
https://twitter.com/IanBlandThatsMe/status/1663552404317675523
Leave Kayleigh alone, idiot.
Trump labels his former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh “Milktoast” McEnany
He is burning bridges as fast as his short fingers can flick the lighter on.
Question: should Target not change their name in this time of right wing extremism as it is a ehm trigger word which alludes to violence in general, gun violence in particular? I sat boycott target until they change their name to goal.
Targeted, ovs.
https://twitter.com/Arwenstar/status/1663244543389466627
Can’t say I disagree
One is a real thing that once was labeled a crazy conspiracy theory. The other is bullshit made up to scare idiots into letting the thing we now know is real happen.
It’s Targay now.
BIKINI TRY ON HAUL | GABRIELLA ELLYSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDPzTCjYgI
thicc?
If she wants more views she should do the changing into the bikini live…
I am sure she has an onlyfans for that, YouTube is generally just advertising
Performance outrage
While attaching the pipeline to the must-pass legislation has delighted West Virginia lawmakers, environmental groups are furious that Congress stepped in after they had successfully challenged the pipeline in court. As recently as last month, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit had struck down permits for the project on the grounds that they violate the Clean Water Act.
“Literally, they are changing the rules as we are playing the game,” Crystal Cavalier-Keck, co-founder of indigenous environmental justice group 7 Directions of Service, told reporters on a Tuesday call.
Environmental groups excoriated the effort to carve out exceptions for the pipeline as “immoral” and “unconscionable,” and some heaped blame on President Joe Biden’s administration as well as congressional lawmakers.
“For this administration to profess that it cares about environmental justice, and then greenlight Mountain Valley Pipeline while gutting the National Environmental Policy Act, is abhorrent and wrong,” Tennessee state lawmaker Justin Pearson, a Democrat, told reporters Tuesday.
The planet will be a lifeless cinder in a matter of months.
This is the game, that moves as you play
-X
Citra hops: Some people think they are awesome, others think they smell like cat piss.
I am in the intersection of the two circles in that Venn diagram.
I have nothing against them depends on the beer had plenty of palatable citra beers.
You saying you into awesome piss robc? What’s next? And admission you like “water sports”?
Simcoe was always the cattier one to me, but I still loved me some of the triple Simcoe IPA’s that were made when that was the trend.
I don’t remember Simcoe being very catty, not like Citra anyway.
For single hop beers, Centennial is still my fave. But amusingly, I don’t care much for Cascade.
New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
That is the smell of green bell peppers, right?
Here is all you need to know about the Shitlords@Target.
When they opened their new HQ in downtown Mpls, I was going their pretty often as a consultant. Cooling my heels in the main lobby was awesome. There were herds of young ladies walking through the lobby in various states of undress. It was amazing how unprofessional those gals were dressing. Short skirts, yoga pants, lots of cleavage.
Then one day, some big wig got a bee in her bonnet (I’m assuming it was an older exec who couldn’t compete with the young gals) and a new dress code was issued. Business formal (suit, tie) or khaki pants/red shirt only.
The lobby was no longer fun to sit in.
I also knew a lot of guys working in the IT department there and they were miffed about the dress code. They all wore the khaki/red shirt uniform and were often mistaken for workers in the retail store that is on ground level of the HQ.
Business casual has a sad.
A small company I worked for had a very tight business casual dress code. There was a VP who was uptight about it, so jeans were not allowed generally. But god-forbid you wear a tie, or even worse, a suit. He would immediately ask, “So you have an interview today?”
Generally a great guy, but he had a stick up his ass about the dress code. On one of his employees last day, the entire company (except the VP, we didnt tell him) wore jeans. He didnt say anything, but I am pretty sure his eye was twitching.
This was late 90s, btw. 1997-2000 I worked there.
By about 2005 they had switched to jeans being acceptable.
That’s still the joke at my office. Or would be if I went there. All the execs are in a different office so when someone dresses up, you know why.
Coworkers making the joke is totally okay. The #2 guy in the company making it is different. “Nope, funeral” did shut him up.
In sporting news that I briefly covered yesterday, GT plays Florida in Mens NCAA golf finals today.
GT beat Pepperdine in the QFs and UNC in the SFs yesterday.
Florida beat Virginia and FSU.
GT has only one NCAA sanctioned team national championship. It was in Women’s Tennis about 2010ish. We have 4 football national titles, but those aren’t NCAA sanctioned. We have been close in golf so many times, we need to finally win one. And we have got this far with our top ranked player being absolutely awful at Nationals. He lost his two matches yesterday 4&3 and 6&5. Despite being ranked #6 in the nation, he finished T40 in the stroke play portion. He needs to show up today.
2007 for women’s tennis.
Police were forced to remove protesters from a talk at the Oxford Union by Kathleen Stock, as the leading gender critical feminist told students some universities were becoming “propaganda machines for a particular point of view”.
https://twitter.com/SpeechUnion/status/1663817596284616705
“some universities were becoming “propaganda machines for a particular point of view””
Some?
“CUNY prof sounds alarm on ‘far-left lunatics’ running school after commencement speech”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/cuny-prof-claims-school-run-by-far-left-lunatics/
So these idiots broke these kids with the constant fear mongering about the evils of race/gender and the global coming climate calamity, while at the same time telling these kids they could have self-esteem without ever accomplishing anything of worth, and now they are having to reap the seeds they sowed? Go fucking figure.
“Hate speech … should not be confused with free speech and has no place on our campuses or in our city, our state or our nation,” said a statement by CUNY Board of Trustees chairman Bill Thompson, vice chair Sandra Wilkin and chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez.
They still don’t get it, do they?
Oops, need to refresh more often.
Merchants of death
The United States sanctioned more than a dozen Chinese and Mexican companies on Tuesday, accusing them of shipping or selling equipment that makes counterfeit pills, as it cracks down on imports of illegal fentanyl that fuels America’s deadly opioid epidemic.
The sanctions were directed at seven entities and six people based in China, as well as one entity and three people based in Mexico, according to a statement from the US Treasury Department on Tuesday.
These targets are directly or indirectly involved in the sale of pill press machines and other equipment used to impress counterfeit trade markings onto illicitly produced pills, often laced with fentanyl, which are frequently destined for US markets, the department said.
“Treasury’s sanctions target every stage of the deadly supply chain fueling the surge in fentanyl poisonings and deaths across the country,” Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson said in the statement.
“Counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl constitute a leading cause of these deaths, devastating thousands of American families each year,” he said. “We remain committed to using all authorities against enablers of illicit drug production to disrupt this deadly global production and counter the threat posed by these drugs.
Thousands?
This equipment has no alternative legitimate use.
U.S. Tax Court Judge David Gustafson has already once before denied an IRS request to dismiss the whistleblower case, first brought in 2017. And three years ago, he ordered the tax agency to reveal whether it criminally investigated the foundation, citing a mysterious “gap” in its records.
I expect nothing will happen.
Link fail?
Interesting read about the border. We have a good friend who’s in Border Patrol. We saw his parents this weekend, and his mom is terrified about him running into the cartels.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/05/31/with_private_american_patrols_in_the_smuggler-blighted_border_badlands_of_arizona_901343.html
NEW REPORT: Are “white people” morally deviant?
We asked over 3,000 Americans about the impact of European settlers (Part 1), racial minorities’ ability to succeed in the U.S. (Part 2), and whether it’s shameful to be white (Part 3).
https://twitter.com/SkepResCenter/status/1663646529364566016
who are these conservative people who though before europeans that native americans were living in peace and harmony?
Ignorance reigns supreme.
But god-forbid you wear a tie, or even worse, a suit. He would immediately ask, “So you have an interview today?”
“Sentencing hearing.”
“Date. By the way, what’s the quickest way to your mom’s house?”
This is funny.
In Japan, a woman starts a relationship with her professor when she was 23.
She then claims this was “grooming,” tries to MeToo him. The man’s wife sues her for adultery, wins $20K.
NYT shocked at a country that treats women like adults
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1663330491150516225
My oldest is 26 and still on my health insurance. So I’m not surprised by the response.
I’m shockingly (to me) okay with this. XX can’t get health insurance and she needs it. XY needs it as much as (maybe more than) she does, even though he’s not 18 yet (by only a few months). I remember all those years going without health insurance and barely able to get antibiotics when I had bronchitis and/or BC pills to control my cycle (which it did not, in fact, do). I can’t imagine what I would have gone through if I knew I needed to be treated for depression and ADHD (possibly bipolar) too, but couldn’t.
The American healthcare system is shit. No, I don’t think the answer is universal healthcare because people still would only get their basic needs met maybe possibly if the ER wasn’t too backed up. But my kids don’t have to struggle right now the way we (husband and I) did.
The article is spectacular in only the way the NYT can be. It’s also totally consistent with the authors’ other articles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/world/asia/japan-sexual-harassment-women.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
It was an initially non-consensual 10 year non-consensual relationship. She’s now 38, he is 63 and his wife is 74. Also he got canned from his job so It’s not like he didn’t suffer for his indiscretions.
“10 year non-consensual relationship”
Why am I reminded of the joke where the bear asks the Hunter “You’re not really coming out here for the hunting, are you?”
well done with work 5 day weekend ahead
What holidays are you celebrating?
1st of june is international children’s day and 5th is the day after the orthodox Pentecost
Nearly 4 Million Kia Cars Have Potentially Explosive Air-Bag Inflators, Document Shows
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nearly-4-million-kia-cars-have-potentially-explosive-air-bag-inflators-document-shows-3043ca63?st=y8k87szwy33c0mj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’ve noted this before. What is interesting is that FedGov is demanding a supplier and not a manufacturer do a recall. The supplier is saying it has no evidence to support such an action. Basically it is telling the Feds “no”.
GM has caved, naturally… And is doing its own recall. It will be interesting to see what Kia does.
Err, every airbag inflator is explosive. It’s basically like having a blank 12 gauge shotgun shell aimed at your face.
The Chinese Embassy in the United States condemned the US move late Tuesday.
“The US itself is the root cause of its drug problems,” the embassy said in a statement.
“The US sanctions against Chinese companies and citizens will add more obstacles to China-US counter-narcotics cooperation,” it added.
Capitalist degeneracy, FTW!
Somebody learned from the opium wars.
https://pagesix.com/2023/05/30/donna-derrico-looks-unrecognizable-in-rare-makeup-free-outing/
Ooof!
I miss the days of beer commercials being all hot girls and Rodney Dangerfield.
Yes. And even Bob Uecker.
It was a better time.
The Church of Interminable Outrage
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and franchise cornerstone Clayton Kershaw announced he is resurrecting a team-sponsored Christian Faith and Family Day in a direct response to the club’s Pride Night inclusion of the charitable group of performance artists known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Earlier this month, the iconic troupe of queer and transgender activists was benched from the Dodgers’ 10th annual Pride Night following a conservative pressure campaign led by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue. However, the Dodgers’ decision to give in to Rubio and Donohue — relayed in a since-deleted statement on Twitter — was condemned by politicians, celebrities, activists and fans on social media, amassing thousands of responses in a matter of hours. The Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles Pride and the ACLU of Southern California pulled out of the event in solidarity with the Sisters; Anaheim Mayor Ashleigh Aitken also wrote in a tweet that she planned to invite the group to join her for Angels Pride Night at Anaheim Stadium on June 7.
As a response to the backlash, the Dodgers reconsidered and made another announcement a few days later: The Sisters would be reinvited to the event to accept a Community Hero Award during the pregame ceremony on June 16, as originally planned.
Stick to baseball, you fucking retards.
“Doctors gave Layla Jane puberty blockers and testosterone when she was only 12.
They cut off her breasts one month after her 13th birthday.”
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1663672754443538432
https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1663667877973753859
Is helicopter rides for every adult involved too harsh?
Parents were probably pressured. Doctors are being sued.
Oh, well, if they were pressured, that’s OK then. I would consider leniency if they were directly threatened with having CPS seize their child to surgically mutilate her.
“I would consider leniency if they were directly threatened with having CPS seize their child to surgically mutilate her.”
Hardly impossible, and if I recall, that has actually happened.
Not even clicking. That makes me ill.
Well, there is a teaser for a documentary. Nothing graphic. Just two young women talking.
Founded in San Francisco in 1979, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a longstanding charitable organization that produced some of the world’s first fundraising events in response to the AIDS crisis and went on to become a philanthropic powerhouse, using subversive performances, religious imagery and the art of drag to promote their mission of community service.
Oh.
I miss the days of beer commercials being all hot girls and Rodney Dangerfield.
Me too. Don’t forget Bob Uecker.
They understood their customers back when. Now we live in a woke world where you have the beat your customers over their heads w/ shit they might not approve off, and the idiots doing that are surprised when eventually the customers say “Fuck that, I have had enough”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOSejS1SSY
It was even possible to target a niche audience.
What about the guy with the “You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay…” schtick?
Please, lady, tell me more.
CWAC
“My Dad, who wasn’t a black man, made sure I knew that I was a black woman.”
Uhhhh….
Me, me, me…
Approximately 1,900 employees worldwide are expected to walk out at 3 p.m. ET, with about 900 of those workers gathering outside the Spheres, the massive glass domes that anchor Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, according to employee groups behind the effort. The walkout is being organized in part by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an influential worker organization that has repeatedly pressed the e-retailer on its climate stance.
The group said employees are walking out to highlight a “lack of trust in company leadership’s decision making.” Amazon recently initiated the largest layoffs in its 29-year history, cutting 27,000 jobs across its cloud computing, advertising and retail divisions, among several others, since last fall. On May 1, the company ordered corporate employees to start working from the office at least three days a week, largely bringing an end to the remote work arrangements some employees had settled into during the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/31/amazon-workers-plan-to-walk-out-over-lack-of-trust-in-leadership.html
1,900 people just volunteered for the next round of layoffs.
(IRL, they’d sue for retaliation and probably win. 🤡 🌎)
User fees?
such a program could help ease up traffic in the heavily congested region.
Metro is considering the program called congestion pricing, which suggests motorists pay a fee on highways. The cost could depend on how far a commuter driver and entry to certain neighborhoods or business districts.
The next step would be seeking input from the public and use that feedback to help design a pilot project, come up with ways to give people better travel options and low-income assistance programs.
In an independent report on the matter, the UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies estimated that 13% of households might be unduly burdened by freeway tolling in California due to low incomes and travel habits.
Michael Manville of the institute said funds from such a program would raise a lot of revenue that “can and should” be used to help low income drivers and travelers to make sure they aren’t adversely affected by the tolls.
It’s wealth redistribution, all the way down.
rhywun on May 31, 2023 at 9:25 am
Business casual has a sad.
One of the best Homestarruner ever.
It’s that time of year
Three young children died in recent days after they were found unattended in vehicles in Washington state, Texas and Florida, authorities said.
The fatalities boosted the number of hot-car deaths for children this year to six, double the number at this time last year, according to Jan Null, a California meteorologist who tracks the incidents.
Police in Puyallup, Washington, a city just southeast of Tacoma, were investigating the death of a 1-year-old who was left in a vehicle parked at a hospital while the child’s foster mother worked, they said Tuesday.
Bolt your kid in the back seat, where s/he’ll be safe from harm.
There are actually multiple electronic gizmos that detect kids and alert kids. Some autos have some features that detect occupants.
But what is needed is some one size fits all federal automotive mandate.
Or some more reasonable suggestions I’ve read people do such as put one of their shoes with child or your briefcase or bag in the back.
Let your kid hold your weed.
Kids killed by horses is way down!
I’m still trying to piece this story together. I get that a doc might have multiple phones for personal and work, but it looks like at least 4.
Richard Forsyth said John Forsyth’s passport, wallet and two phones, along with his RV and car keys, were still inside the Infiniti.
Forsyth had also left the RV unlocked with his laptop and two additional cellphones behind when he left, which Richard called “very uncharacteristic.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-er-doctor-who-vanished-3-days-after-proposing-to-fiancee-found-dead
It’s going to wind up as documentary or docudrama on Lifetime and/or Discovery.
Do all four work? I mean, you search my house and you’ll find something like six phones, some of them don’t work anymore.
Yeah, I’ve got at least 5 in my desk drawer here. None are currently operational.
Do you keep your old/inoperable phones in a vehicle? Because that’s where his four (4) phones were.
“Are Walmart Heirs Forsaking the Left? Arts Center They Fund Cancels Drag Shows for Kids”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/26/are-walmart-heirs-retreating-left-arts-center-they-fund-cancels-drag-shows-for-kids/
The best preventive measure, experts say, is to develop routines that always take children into account, even if they’re out of school, overseas or at a grandparent’s house.
Null recommends placing a teddy bear on the front passenger seat when children are in the back. And he said drivers should place items such as briefcases and bag lunches in the back seat so they’ll have to look there when they arrive at work.
You wouldn’t want to be able to just put the kid in the front seat. That would be crazy.
For anyone following the saga that is my winter wreath, the bird’s nest now has 6 eggs in it!
Euphemism?
Nope. When a mommy bird and a daddy bird love each other very much…
A pair built a nest in my outdoor wreath and have laid eggs. One more appears every morning but I thought she was done at 5.
“Bud Light Sales Reportedly Keep Plunging As Dylan Mulvaney Fallout Continues”
Target and The North Face following. I’m surprised it took a marketing gimmick to take partially down (a few billions) Bud Light, who the fuck drink that mule pee anyway!
“Bud Light Sales Reportedly Keep Plunging As Dylan Mulvaney Fallout Continues”
Target and The North Face following. I’m surprised it took a marketing gimmick to take partially down (a few billions) Bud Light, who the fuck drink that mule pee anyway!
There’s a huge market for cheap, lightly hopped beer with some rice or corn further blanding the taste. Go figure.