So the youngest got him own room recently and we offered to paint the room in a color of his choice. Took care of that over the weekend except…my daughter wants the same thing.
Fine, except the part of the house we stored all of her bedroom furniture is the room I work. There’s an Ikea armoire between me and the AC duct and its really freaking hot in here. Yes, I changed out my filter recently.
Nevertheless…¡Enlaces !
Four team red lead states send their respective National Guard to capture Pancho Villa. Meanwhile, asylum requests to Mexico are apparently up for some reason.
The estado surrounding Mexico City ends a 94 year long streak electing the a governor from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Before I say there might be hope for team blue run shitholes like Detroit—they elected a governor from AMLO’s Moreno party.
So this is how they roll in Miami? Cool.
Oh no. Tell ya what, let’s make that today’s music link.
“If you’re not from here, we’re going to kill you,” said Leo, a community leader who granted the AP access to the Turgeau neighborhood so that journalists could see how the neighborhood is responding to the gangs estimated to control 80% of Port-au-Prince. He did not provide his last name to protect his family.
I want to see if Leo takes out the Red Cross volunteers in light of the earthquake.
Guatemalan politician floats El Presidente Dudebro’s policy. Not Bitcoin, the putting gangs in prison policy.
As promised, the Girl From Ipanema.
You did it 🙂
Did what? Was therereally any doubt?
I don’t know who that is on the right, but I approve.
I was assuming Astrud Gilberto (re: Girl From Ipanema singer).
I doesn’t look like her.
Um, “It”.
You probably don’t either.
On the other hand, if you do, post pics.
You don’t look like her, either.
Part of a series from some Frenchy photog:
https://loicdorez.com/the-girl-from-ipanema/
“BLACK AND WHITE IMPROVISATION ON THE ICONIC BEACH OF RIO DE JANEIRO WITH TOPMODEL THAIS MONTEIRO”
Your Google Fu skills are impressive.
I’m here for you.
Thais Monteiro
https://veongalore.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/thais-monteiro-by-jesse-untracht-oakner/
Huh. Well it’s supposed to be her.
I gotta say, I’m not at all mad about the picture selection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSJ5xZci9mI
Joao Gilberto e Tom Jobim reunite in this video. The room is full of love, towering respect for these masters who make any musicians second-guess his own ability and dedication. A hat tip to the long-gone Moraes is matched by a hokey visage edited into the video, but it’s all sincere. The prologue speaks for everyone, and then the song can begin: don’t give up on them before they can even begin. I can imagine paying $1,000 a seat just to be in that room; I might be afraid to drink for fear of missing something or not remembering every note.
It’s probably my second favorite song, but no woman should sing it: the tone should be that of devastated male observer, a man so awed and crushed by beauty that he is stupefied and can’t even access his lust because of the art of her elegance transcends and supersedes the base urge.
Norman Gimbel of “Killing Me Softly With His Song” fame wrote the English lyrics, but that’s really a different song: he knew his craft, but no thank you.
She only sang it in that session with Stan Getz because she was the only person in the studio that day who could sing it in English.
yes, of course you care correct; not news to me: that’s certainly the record (pardon the pun); for me it is beside the point
I’m glad to emphatically reiterate my disinterest in that effort forever; it is exactly as if someone from Cleveland decided to put Velveeta on a marsala
that senhora cannot sing about that garota
I posted this this morning, but you might like it. Music theory-heavy with some bossa nova history. https://youtu.be/OFWCbGzxofU
Well, SOME women could sing it. Just sayin’.
Another song a woman can definitely sing.
Good.
Haitian police don’t keep reliable crime statistics. But gang-related killings and kidnappings have dropped because of bwa kale, say human-rights activists, who also worry about the gruesome violence, and that innocent people could be killed.
I think that “innocent people being killed” is why the vigilantes sprung up in the first place.
Besides, it seems like the bwa kale have some semblance of safeguards in place to prevent that.
That Haiti video reminds me – I need to buy a machete. Probably won’t use the street to sharpen it.
Weslander Al Cégaire, a cook in the southern city of Les Cayes with a round face and easy smile, told the AP that his cousin was recently killed by bwa kale participants while riding with a motorcycle driver who was targeted.
Fly with the crows…
Gated communities. It’s the future.
I was promised burbclaves.
Step 1: gated community
Step 2: autonomy
Burbclave!
I’ll bring up walling us off at the next HOA meeting.
I’ve spent too much time over the last couple of years trying to figure out how our rural development could wall ourselves off.
Moat with crocodiles?
There are a wide variety of defensive hedges that can be grown from seed really quite cheaply.
Tank ditches or GTFO!
If there are tanks rolling across the corn and soybean fields in Iowa, then we are ally truly good and fucked.
Yeah, but that’s not as cool.
A good tank ditch will take care of local problems as well.
Heads on pikes every 20 feet.
I’m leaning more toward a pyramid of skulls on each side of our entrance gate.
Biohazard and superfund site notices.
He are is a idea from the 1990’s to mark nuclear waste sites.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/789678115927448045/
It’s like a Shrike tree
Nah. 15 minute cities.
Human rights advocates have broadly criticized what they call an erosion of due process in El Salvador. Carolina Jiménez, president of WOLA, a Washington-based nongovernmental organization focused on human rights in the Americas, sees the measures promised by Bukele’s Guatemalan admirers as creating an illusion of security.
Washington-based NGO — why am I not surprised?
“Illusion of security” — cutting the homicide rate by 60% seems more than illusory. Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?
RIP Astrud.
Really interesting article about her – thanks for that!
Pretty decent internship!
“Military whistleblower says US has recovered ‘dead pilots’ from craft of ‘non-human origin’ – and that world powers are involved in an ‘arms-race’ to reverse engineer crashed UFOs”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12165669/Military-whistleblower-says-recovered-dead-pilots-craft-non-human-origin.html
So you are saying it was aliens?
No, they’re saying to pay no attention to the anonymous whistleblower with evidence Biden took money from a foreign government while he was VP the FBI said is going to get killed if his identity is made public.
I thought it was the accused Israeli arms dealer – feel free to add quotes around whatever part of that you deem necessary.
“Deadly bacteria that kills up to 50% of patients now ENDEMIC to US gulf coast, CDC expert says – just a year after it was first detected in the country”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12165835/Deadly-bacteria-kills-50-patients-ENDEMIC-gulf-coast-CDC-expert-says.html
No.
Florida Cold?
At this point, an infected person would need to drop dead in front me before I believe the CDC.
At the point I would still question the cause of death.
“Up to 50%” includes everything below 50%, including 0.001%.
“Leo, a community leader”
I actually knew a Leo there who was our body guard during some research I was doing after the earthquakes in 2009(?).
“More than 200 LGBTQ groups demand Target RESTOCK ‘tuck-friendly’ swimsuits and take a stand against ‘anti-LGBTQ+ extremists’ within next 24 hours – as supermarket faces dual backlash after shedding $14b after debacle
More than 200 LGBTQ groups are demanding Target restock its controversial Pride merchandise and take a stand against ‘extremists’ within 24 hours.
The Human Rights Campaign, along with GLAAD and the controversial GLSEN released a statement Monday, asking the retail giant and other businesses, including Bud Light brewer Anheuser-Bush, to ‘reject and speak out against anti-LGBTQ+ extremism going into Pride Month.’
Over 200 other progressive organizations also signed the statement, arguing that showing support for the community is good for business. It is not clear what action the coalition will take if Target fails to back the LGBTQ+ community within 24 hours.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12166413/More-200-LGBTQ-groups-demand-Target-RESTOCK-tuck-friendly-swimsuits-Pride-merchandize.html
Misleading headline. (also Target is not a “supermarket”.) Regardless, neither of those three groups are run by trans people. They just ran out of gay and lesbian things to complain about.
How much of a market is there for “‘tuck-friendly” swimsuits? MTF are rare, and can tuck their junk without one.
I was under the impression it was tuck-friendly swimsuits for children that got Target shoppers exercised.
They say only adult sizes were offered, but then what age were you when you started wearing adult sizes?
Extremists!!
I’ve yet to read the truth here and don’t care to research it.
Target claims these are adult only.
Various conservative outlets claim they were in the children’s section.
They could be lying, they could be stocked in the wrong section or Target could playing fast and loose and offering them in adult sizes including xxxs.
My understanding is that the pride merch was all together, so if there were some children’s non-clothing items close to the tuck-friendly stuff, it might be misinterpreted as being in the children’s section.
I seem to recall a vid of somebody in the children’s section holding up a tuck-friendly suit that was stocked there. Could be a plant, could be frame-up, but given a choice between believing Target’s management trying to row back a PR disaster and some random woman with a cellphone, I’ll take the latter.
Target operates as much as a supermarket as WalMart does.
I wouldn’t call Walmart a supermarket either.
Target and Walmar were department stores that added groceries becoming “Superstores”
The grocery area at WalMart and Target are larger than most of the Trader Joe’s I’ve been in.
There are some tiny Trader Joe’s.
Walmart isn’t a supermarket, but ours have a food section at least as big as, say, Fareway’s.
In Europe, such stores would be called hypermarkets.
Interesting dilemma. One one side you have the threat of actual paying customers ceasing to be paying customers, and on the other side you have a bunch of loud mouths on social media.
Is there really a sizeable segment of people who want companies to “take a stand”? It seems to me that most people would rather be left alone to shop at someplace neutral. Maybe I’m just projecting my preferences on others.
Activists of all stripes want companies to take a stand. Regardless of whether those activists are actually patrons of those companies.
Indeed they do. Of course, “take a stand” includes “fuck off, you useless gits”. Which is a stand I would heartily endorse.
*casts vote for R C Dean for board seat*
Unfortunately, yes from research I’ve read.
But usually on less controversial social issues.
People want to feel good about their consumption. Hence free range gluten free fair trade recycled coffee.
I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that the only sane thing to do is to hibernate for the month of June from now on.
Uncle Tom of Finland strikes again.
(Really, that was gold, rhywun).
Tell me again about how the transpedos haven’t captured the quilt bag civil rights movement
Re: Lula
“But rich countries also need to do their part. They were the ones who over the centuries devastated forests the most.”
We have more forests than ever, you dumb bitch.
‘putting gangs in prison policy.’
Aka human rights violations, if you’re a little slow.
Would you prefer a helicopter toss?
Those are for commies!
More than one commie guerilla group got into the drug trade, so . . . .
No talking about God in public.
https://youtu.be/NXbzrxEuL54
https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1666155809963638808
OFFS!!!
Sodom and goddamn Gomorrah complete with over 600 5 star reviews. What the fuck?
They’re owning the rethuglicans, you see.
Hah…
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/conservatives-block-bills-protect-gas-stove-feud-mccarthy-debt-deal-rcna87982
Gaetz kind of looks like the rich jock that loved giving nerds swirlies but I kind of like the guy. He’s one of the few willing to tell the lameass Republican leadership to fuck off and he finds clever ways to do it.
During the testimony from Taibbi & Shellenberger, the Democrats actually managed to make Gaetz look serious and statesmanlike. Can you fucking imagine that?
Kind of buried in the story, but every Democrat supported the banning of gas stoves by an unelected agency, yet it won’t cost them one single vote.
That is the case but that’s a meaningless feel good vote that’d die in the Senate anyway or on the President’s desk if it made it which it wouldn’t. As for the Dems, they’re of the mind that it’s all a conspiracy and isn’t really happening but if it is happening it’s a good thing anyway.
Fake news. We’ve been assured by the media that nobody is coming for our gas stoves.
Sec. Granholm said something like “Not a single gas stove is going to be affected by these rules. Half of them comply anyway.”
Ponder that for a moment.
There is a proven track record of regulation creep on any other area touched. So regulation will turn into a ban anywhere it is permitted. The only proper response is to tar and feather those trying to impose a ban, and dump them in the gulf of ghana.
Make that the Gulf of Guinea. I understand the sharks are more plentiful there.
Their justification is that no existing gas stoves will be effected, so it’s true that the Stove Police won’t come through your door. But if you try to replace your stove, you’ll be SOL. Or as they tried to do in my town, if you apply for a permit for a kitchen renovation, you won’t be able to install a gas stove.
WASHINGTON — A band of 11 House conservative rabble-rousers
Has NBC News ever referred to “the squad” or the House Progressive Caucus as “a band of leftist rabble-rousers”? If not, why not?
That’s different because shut up.
They could have, but it would have been with the connotation of loveable rogues.
“BREAKING: House GOP leadership just confirmed my resolution to block the ATF’s unconstitutional pistol brace rule will come to the House floor for a vote next Tuesday.
I will hold them to this promise.
And I will never back down in the fight to defend our natural rights.”
https://twitter.com/Rep_Clyde/status/1666185607888920582
“This is AMAZING NEWS!
Your calls, emails, & voices did NOT go unheard & the fight to stop Biden’s Pistol Brace Rule is ongoing.
Our injunction for current GOA members, while a step in the right direction, does not provide relief for enough Americans & we will continue the fight until this rule is defeated.”
https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1666189038724734989
I saw only ~250,000 out of an estimated 30-40 million brace owners registered. Less than 1% compliance rate.
That’s on par with the SAFE act registration.
Fudds, the lot of them.
Click for the most 2023 headline ever.
They oughta hide her away for a long time.
Tucker episode 1
Dang, they weren’t kidding about the air advisories. It’s nasty out there.
Damn flappy-headed maple-suckers! Why is the light orange?
You know it’s a bad fire when you can smell the pine and maple burning. JFC I thought I was back in Shanghai this afternoon.
The dammed fires are a full days car ride away at least.
I laugh at you from the Northwest. Try living in a bowl in the jet stream.
The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced its plan to eliminate deforestation by 2030 as part of an international pledge to protect the environment.
2030? I smell bullshit.
I’d probably smell bullshit regardless of the target year.
*cue tiny violin*
Stopped at OReilly auto parts to grab some 10 g wire. Eight feet, $12.-. A buck and a half per foot.
Don’t worry though, we can easily pull another fifty million electric vehicles out of the magic hat. No problem.
I really thought he was going to run for President.
After months of high-profile media interviews and insider speculation, Gov. Chris Sununu announced Monday he won’t be entering the 2024 GOP presidential primary. Instead, his focus will be preventing his party from nominating Donald Trump for a third time.
“I will not be seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024,” Sununu wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Monday. “Our party is on a collision course toward electoral irrelevance without significant corrective action. The stakes are too high for a crowded field to hand the nomination to a candidate who earns just 35 percent of the vote, and I will help ensure this does not happen.”
“If [Trump] is the nominee, Republicans will lose again,” Sununu added. “Just as we did in 2018, 2020, and 2022. This is indisputable, and I am not willing to let it happen without a fight.”
Not enough room in the clown car.
“You want some help counting the votes? I’m your man.”
What’s his plan? Sit on Trump?
Ensure the election of a Democrat?
Fuck him, that fuckin’ fat fuck. How about actually ensuring a Republican has a chance in the election? Where’s WesternSloper when you need a decent stream of invective.
Are you thinking of Christie? Sununu isn’t _that_ bulky.
TBF, both ‘Chris’, both governors in the northeast…
Fuck em both for good measure!
👍👍👍
There was talk in NH that Sununu had voted for Biden.
Though Sununu has claimed that his guy didn’t win.
And the charging stations and ancillary infrastructure to keep them running.
Mammary Martes and Tetas Tuesday!
https://archive.is/3yjKn
@juris just read the previous post; thanks for the contribution
I could spend all day yammering about military contracting, but I basically bowed out early: no to the specs, to the testing, to the contract terms. At Tier1, military is big biz for the heavy truck guys, but fuck ’em. But you HAVE TO comply and support the program!111/1!!! No, you can buy what you want on my spec and warehouse whatever you wish but I’m not letting that DFARS horseshit derail my plant and my business. When it comes time to take me over and fuck me over, unapologetically come through the front door like the fascists you are and just do what you will without my fucking signature.
So you’re saying maybe?
Me: it sez here I’ve got to test each compressor; that’s infeasible. We have validated a capable process, so the product will be good, and we’re glad to copy you on continuous compliance test results conducted at the intervals that the statistics deem necessary.
GOVT: yew HAFT toooooooooooooo test every one!!!!1!1! Each and every USG product must be tested before being purchased and placed into service.
Me: really? how exactly do you test a bullet?
GOVT: on people who won’t comply.
And some idiot was condemning you blathering on about “the profit”.
My brother, who lives in Seattle, has 2 properties here in Kansas City, both of which are under the control of a property manager who has ghosted him. AirBnB won’t let him into the account on one property, and he has no idea where the rent money from the second one is going. I see property management in my future if he (and by he, I mean me) can wrest control back.
I wonder if the first thing to do would be to make certain the property manager hasn’t been monkeying around with the titles. 😳
I spent some time pulling up deeds and tax account summaries.
👍🏼👍🏼 Everything still looks OK on the county’s website as far as the deeds are concerned?
Yes, it’s all kosher there.
I have no idea how to do a title search, though. I don’t know if that will be necessary or what.
Declare a breach of the management agreement (shouldn’t be hard), terminate it, and hire another company or [coff] a reliable person to run the properties. I find that a letter from a lawyer tends to cut off a lot of frivolous folderol. There’s nothing like a flat statement from lawyer that the contract has been breached and is terminated, paired with a brief statement that cooperation in transition to the new manager will, of course, be forthcoming. The trick is to to keep it short and somehow convey the sense that a rabid pit bull is on a leash made of single strand of dental floss. I find blatantly insincere statements that “naturally” a “respected” blah blah will blah blah can be a fruitful approach, but the letterhead itself serves as a sort of skull and crossbones flag.
Thank you! I just sent this to him.
I’m halfway through the latest Hindenburg Research report and it’s hilarious.
https://hindenburgresearch.com/tingo/
Brace yourself: it turns out that a Nigerian company is not totally on the up and up.
Oh the humanity.
Poking around, I see that Tingo has responded, albeit with a blanket denial that, to my eyes, is reminiscent of Baghdad Bob. Of course, the headline is “Tingo refutes Hindenburg”, chronicling yet another word whose meaning has been lost.
“ The issues in Tingo’s financials are glaring enough that we’d expect they could have been spotted by any semi-conscious finance undergrad with severe vision loss.”
😀
Deloitte Israel is in troubleeeeee.