Happy 4th of July to my Glibertarian family! I hope you all have a good one!
National Poll Says Biden is America’s Least Popular President in 70 Years
D.C. businesses rocked by explosions, suspect on the loose
Cocaine reportedly found at White House
Louisiana’s Edwards signs foreign farmland purchase ban bill
Obesity Linked to Mental Disorders
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
$400 is way too low.
It isn’t quite a surprise trip to the grocery store… but it sure is creeping up there.
Out here in “Dry Season is 10 months out of the year” land (ok… we did have a wetter winter.. but things have dried back out), getting through the week of the 4th without neighbors setting a grass fire is what I look forward to. They haven’t yet — but when I look out at my brown, brown back yard – I can just imagine one of their bottle rockets taking an unfortunate turn.
Enjoy the fireworks back on the “Actually gets some water throughout the year!” side of the country, Glibbies! Happy 4th — Good morning, Banjos!
Flying Shoes
one of the best couplets ever nails Texas:
Spring only sighed
Summer had to be satisfied
don’t let the brush build up near the house!
Good morning, Banjos! Happy Independence Day to you and yours!
You know, putting that lady’s picture (I assume she’s the CEO of the school mentioned below) at the very top of the article makes it look as if SHE’S the suspect.
Huh. Maybe she is…
Nah, that’s DC Mayor Bowser (I am not making that up).
Then maybe SHE’S the suspect!
At least she looks better than Ex-Mayor Beetlejuice.
Shoddy journalisming at it’s finest. This woman’s school is in SE DC (very much “the hood”) and the incidents happened in NE DC. Having only scant facts on the story the journo was casting around desperately for filler and decided to give this woman a platform for her agenda. I suspect that the Ashton story was already written and then conveniently grafted into this story to pad it out.
SE/Anacostia is still rough, but NE is the real hotspot for personal crime, due to the influx of stupid yuppies into the slightly revitalized U Street/Cardoza ‘entertainment district’.
These days — mental disorders… bad hair dye jobs… REEEEEE-ing at people….
But I’m glad they said “linked”, since I wouldn’t be at all surprised if a sizeable (heh) contingent of those who develop the more severe cases may have started eating as a “feel good” method or other eating disorders.
(And psstt… Banjos — did you mean to double up the first two links? I mean yeah – one would hope his unpopularity would affect the 2024 race… but given the Great Basement Campaign of 2020, I’m black pilled on that).
It won’t be Joe.
Get ready for Gruesome Newsom.
I’m already stuck with the evil sumbitch after he bribed the electorate to avoid recall. Really hoping the country isn’t that stupid / machined up. (Yes, I said hope not “expect”).
You can’t bribe people stupid enough to vote for you anyway. The real question is what the fuck is wrong with so many people?
This
Is
CNN
Propaganda works.
Really? The Warnock “Give us the Senate and you’ll all get $2000 checks” and Newsome’s “Hey… here’s $1400 each… aren’t a great guy!” just had no effect? That’s seriously your argument?
How effective was that on YOU? Did you vote for him?
1) Because obviously I’m every voter. You can tell from the quasi-libertarian utopia California has turned into since 2000 or so.
2) Because nobody might be on the fence and the idea of keeping the gravy train running (especially in the Warnock case) might sway them.
3) Because none of the voters might just be lazy as hell and wasn’t going to vote — but said gravy train and the prospect of more might motivate them to send in that mail-in ballot (or at least make sure to get it to their local harvesting grove).
Come on, man. You’re arguing that humans aren’t swayed by a monetary reward / the promise of more in the future as a class. Even if more of them were likely in the Free Stuff Brigade to begin with, not all and it affects turnout.
So the effect is marginal – I’ll agree with that. Nor am I worried about those voters – they’re mostly lazy. The ones that worry me are the True Believers.
That’s my prediction. Newsom for the nom, and then of course the Dem wins the general.
The only speed bump I see is that he’s a white guy. I’m not quite clear on how they will do-si-do Harris out of the way. It might be as simple as Joe picks Gavin as his VP running mate, and then steps out of the race.
Yeah, after a decade of anti-white propaganda you would think that would be a liability but it won’t be. If the hive mind wants Gavin, the left will vote for Gavin without so much as a thought given to his toxic, fragile, angry whiteness.
There’s got to be an assortment of anti-white male statements from the CRTers that can be tacked onto one of his photos for a Libs of Tik Tok style memes.
But yeah, who am I kidding. They voted for the oldest whitest guy in the race last time, and one with a history of no-shit racial insults to boot.
Newsome has a snowball’s chance in Phoenix in the general, maybe even in the primary. He has no appeal outside of the west coast. He’s as likable as Kamala.
Not to mention that CA is seen as joke in the rest of the country, a joke that can get you killed.
But, then again, they re-elected Jerry Brown the shit clown when I was still living there. So, as they say at Disney Land, it’s anything can happen day, er, state.
Now he’s got the reparations hanging over his head plus a big budget shortfall. He’s sort of promised to too many people that are really going to be PO’d when they find there isn’t any or much and those that see they would be stuck with the bill. Either way I think Newsome is presidential possibility history
His hair is way more Presidential than Trump’s hair, and Trump has a ceiling of 30%. Independents aren’t going for him.
When was the last time voters in AZ had a say in who wins?
The possibility that 31% of people still have confidence in the government makes me sad and angry.
And the POS is so demented, he has no idea how much he sucks. He deserves to know.
Happy Disunited Banana Republic Day!
What’s the percentage that work for the Fed directly or very closely though indirectly (I’m thinking Raytheon, Boeing… probably sections of AWS/GCP that work hand in hand running the NSA’s servers siphoning the cloud…). All that might add up to around 30% these days. Don’t badmouth your income source and all.
Good point. As long as they get paid, their bodies and souls are for rent.
70 years back is Ike years. I’m assuming we’re talking about his predecessor. HST ranked kind of low, Ike was sort of like a grandpa and still a WW2 hero of sorts.
I have mixed feelings about the the people. I’m so often disappointed and even terrified by them: they’re quite irrational.. Should I care how the people who bought Starland Vocal Band albums think about anything? Based on their driving, Americans shouldn’t get a say in much of anything.
But we’re stuck with them, the best of the rest, and I’m not moving to Canada. HST33 left office at 32% and that’s still tenth best all time. WJC42 left at 60%, impeachments and all: he’d still be president if it weren’t for term limits.
GW01 ain’t coming through that door, so I must agree with Glibs who think that the only proper reaction to this shitshow is popping corn.
Happy national-divorce-from-England Day back at ya!
The ex isn’t doing so well these days is she? Stupid bitch.
Maybe she needs to go read about natural rights or something.
No one in the west is doing so well. The Russian hooker is showing how crazy she is, the German porn queen is taking a dump on live TV, and the French mistress is having electro shock thearapy for breakfast.
The Fourth of July – the day we celebrate with fireworks, where they are not banned by the government, overthrowing an arguably less tyrannical government than the one we have now.
I have to laugh at stopping furriners from buying er land, as though what, they’re going to dig it up and take to their homeland?
You laugh but something like that is happening in Arizona and other desert southwest states that have a lot of water sitting beneath the desert crust.
It’s illegal to take water out of the US, so the Saudis grow alfalfa in the desert using that groundwater, then export the alfalfa to Saudi Arabia where they feed it to their prized goats.
The result is that water that should be still beneath the surface is observed actively flowing to the alfalfa farms.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/in-drought-stricken-arizona-fresh-scrutiny-of-saudi-arabia-owned-farms-water-use
That’s bad reporting. All the water for ag in Arizona is Central Arizona Project, and the problem stems from any state or federal water project giving farmers the water for essentially free. So they can waste it any way they see fit.
Terrible article. The problem with “water mining” (and 3,000 gallons per minute per well is water mining) is that it lowers the water table for everyone in the area. Other articles on this have local farmers talking about their wells going dry since the Saudis moved in.
Groundwater (and water rights generally) don’t fit a pure property rights model well. Damming, diverting, or pumping water entirely on your own land can have major effects on others.
I think the current conspiracy theory is that foreigners are buying all our farmland and leasing it back to ag business. The theory then claims someday the foreigners will evict their tenants and we will all starve to death.
Bill Gates really is buying up a shit ton of land. Best way to get us to eat ze bugs, I guess.
I just really like the idea that America is an evil fascist imperialist nation. We’ll depose regimes and start wars to protect the petrodollar or the raytheon share price.
BUT when the inscrutable Chinese and their bagman Gates turn off the food supply, somehow America will just sit on its hands and sigh.
Where were you in 2020?
He may be the biggest owner of agricultural land, but it’s still something like 0.03% of all farmland in the US.
Hasn’t there also been speculation that the CCP has bought up a fair amount of land suspiciously close to US defense installations? Of course, they may not need to, since apparently they can fly their spy balloons wherever the heck they want with impunity.
Aren’t Americans going to be dead from seed oils long before that?
I thought it was impotent from Teflon or something now.
STEVE SMITH SAY RELAX! HIM SEED OIL GIVE LIFE! BY LIFE, MEAN…
SEED OIL IS RAPE SEED OIL!!! STEVE SMITH LIKE SEED OIL!!
I am now singing ‘Relax’, by Frankie Goes to Hollywood in STEVE SMITH voice.
I think I have a condition.
What condition is your condition in?
Of all the stupid shit our governments do, this is down near the bottom of the list of things that give me pause.
If the CCP is gobbling up agricultural land, you can be certain there is some nefarious reason behind it, even if it isn’t obvious yet. The US might not consider them an “enemy” but they sure as hell see us that way.
I’d like to know why so many military age Chinamen are coming across the border.
rhywun gets it.
4th of July Morning Links
Independence Day
You mean, June 19th?
November 3, 2020.
National Poll Says Biden is America’s Least Popular President in 70 Years
Nonsense. He was the most popularly elected president evar with the most
ballotsvotes evar. Clearly, Democrats need to work on their messaging.Metropolitan police said that in all three incidents, it appears the suspect targeted commercial establishments but it did not appear the suspect targeted any members of the public.
White-supremacy strikes again.
Americans are getting poorer as expenses climb and savings dwindle, according to a new survey from LendingClub Corporation, the parent company of LendingClub Bank, a digital marketplace bank.
Listen, fat. Inflation is only up an inch. You can’t cross a hotdog potato on a greasy [unintelligible] on me, Jack.
Mornin’, reprobates!
White House staffers reportedly discovered cocaine in the building on Sunday and made a hazardous materials call to the fire department
Fire department? Last time I checked, cocaine was not an accelerant. Also, why call the locals when the SS is on the job?
Among the other G7 countries, Germany ranked the highest with 61% of its citizens having confidence in its government
Never change, Germany.
consumers’ stated ability to afford a theoretical $400 emergency expense
$400 is now my deductible for an ER visit. Replacing the boiler was a bit more. Oh, just spitballing here, but if you can’t handle a $400 emergency, what happens if you are out of work for a little while?
“Also, why call the locals when the SS is on the job?”
Maybe, just maybe, some White House staffer is tired of Hunter having everything covered up by the SS.
We’ll find out tomorrow, I’m sure SugarFree is on top of this. My money is on Finnegan.
You’re forgetting that KJP had a chunk of Rocky.
I was thinking Finnegan would be the whistle blower. KJP would be the perpetrator.
“followed by Canada 51%.”
Uh-huh.
I think they found a bag of white powder, which because of the relentless anthrax attacks over the last 20 years (or something) is universally regarded as a WMD. I don’t think I’ve seen how much of it there was. A gram? A kilo. A giant talking rock?
Usually when you find a large quantity of cocaine in your house, you invite people over for a party, not evacuate the place.
Maybe they have Joe doing bumps before meeting the press? Is that how they get him semi-lucid?
“She added, “I had never had my academic credentials questioned. I had never had anyone question whether I was intelligent — until I got to Harvard. And it was a defining point of my experience there. It was one of the many reasons I was miserable there my freshman year. You felt completely out of place. People kept telling me, ‘You shouldn’t be here.’ And yet, some of the people I went to school with were far less smart than me or the other Black folks there.” ”
Um.
Big fish in small ponds sometimes learn from their experiences in the wider world.
Not this one, it seems.
What she misses is that once she got into Harvard, they were never going to let her fail out. And once you get a Harvard degree (or any of the senior Ivies), you will never lack for job opportunities.
So the belief by the small pond fish that she is worthy of being a big fish in the ocean is never challenged.
She’s a token and doesn’t accept or realize it.
She takes for granted she’s ‘intelligent’ and belongs.
These days. The way things are set up. The cream doesn’t rise to the top.
Just rancid shit.
If she accepted or realized it, then she would have to accept that everything that has been handed to her was due to tokenism.
And that would be too hard of a reality to face.
Rufus!!! 😃
::narrows gaze:: Shouldn’t you be working?
Working on getting a stand for this sweet Cinzano umbrella I bought.
And yet, some of the people I went to school with were far less smart than me or the other Black folks there.
This actually makes sense, the legacies of the Kennedys, Bushes, and the rest of the “elite” fill the halls of the ivies. Low bar, but she may be right.
I like the awareness that she got into college due to affirmative action but the blissful ignorance that her entire career is solely due to affirmative action
That paragraph is just loaded with own-goals and she’s too stupid to realize it.
Even the Special Olympics kids know the difference.
“I had never had anyone question whether I was intelligent — until I got to Harvard.”
Welcome to Harvard, toots. My experience – every single person there has a massive ego, and they aren’t afraid to let you know it.
That said, I seriously doubt anyone ever said to her “You shouldn’t be here.” Faculty and administration fully understand that Harvard is in the business of cultivating donors and influential connections, not educating students. You don’t do that by running people off.
She’s making the case against AA in her statement here. If there was no AA, she would know 100% that she belonged at Harvard, even more so than probably a lot of her legacy classmates. But deep down she knows that without AA, she wouldn’t have ever gotten into Harvard to begin with.
more so than probably a lot of her legacy classmates
see all children of staff
A lot of people at Harvard probably feel like they don’t belong there. They come from schools where maybe they were the smartest person, and now they are surrounded by people who are just as smart if not smarter than they are. Shoot, a good friend of mine went there and felt bad because he didn’t graduate in the top 1/8 of his class. It didn’t help that his brother was a year ahead of him and had better grades.
I feel like that’s nore surprising and disappointing. Justin Castro Trudeau is head of government in Canada, they had a horrendous response to COVID, they’re infringing natural rights more and more all the time, and the flappyheads still believe in it by a majority.
It’s waaaaaayyy worse than that.
It’s a never-ending stream of scandals. For example, recently, notorious murderer Paul Bernardo was permitted to leave max. security to go to medium security. The Chinese basically can do what they want here but the media (and soon the government) will declare ‘American right-wing extremism’ to be a threat to national security. But we have only the White House to blame for that.
I’ve never seen a more corrupt and incompetent bunch of insidious and insufferable buffoons.
Canada’s #1 national sport is ice hockey.
Canada’s #2 national sport is America-bashing.
Welcome to the club.
In which ‘American right-wing extremism’ I suppose is defined by maybe, possibly objecting to amputating 11 year-old girls’ breasts.
Too old to give a shit any longer
The where’s-my-fainting-couch reactions are hilarious.
inorite
I had to tap out from all the 🙄🙄🙄
Isn’t that the entire point of affirmative action and diversity? To give better careers to people claiming “oppression”? Why is it so horrifying to say that out loud?
Fucking awesome
Red, White and Blue babes for Independence Titty Tuesday!
https://archive.is/IuG1q#selection-1963.0-1963.47
You’re linking Smurfette now? Or that stupid Swims-With-Smurfs sequel…
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!
“‘I guess Barbie is made in China’: Texas Senator Ted Cruz slams new Margot Robbie movie for ‘pushing Chinese propaganda’ – after it’s banned in Vietnam for map with ‘nine dash line'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12261395/Texas-Senator-Ted-Cruz-slams-new-Margot-Robbie-movie-pushing-Chinese-propaganda.html
China is also.
Yes, your husband likes 21 year-olds. If you dump him, your next husband will like 21 year-olds. It’s the way things work, deal with it.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22901588/husbands-vr-headset-watch-immersive-porn/
NB: There are other uses for VR besides porn?
Video games?
Given what Steam keeps throwing in my Discovery queue… they seem to be converging. No, I don’t want the 4000th hentai “story rich” game you’re pitching, assholes. Find me a 4x turn based that doesn’t turn into a Excel marathon (looking at you, Paradox) or just suck and where the designers don’t follow the Civ “AI must start next to you, it is more exciting that way!” so you can actually explore….
You can change preferences to stop showing games that are almost entirely sexual. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
don’t be so sure!
his search history doesn’t necessarily mean your husband wants to have sex with other younger women in reality
Wants? Quite probably. Is going to act on even given an opportunity (hah! And pizza delivery guys / plumbers always find the randy coeds)? If he’s a decent guy, no.
Of course, being Catholic — if the thought has even crossed his mind he’d better get to confession. Being the Sun, probably CoE — so I’m sure Henry VIII was down with it and loosened things up for them.
We know how the current head of the COE feels about it.
She should be alarmed if he was watching 46 year olds. You know actual competition for her and attainable. Not the 21 year old co-ed across the street that isn’t even aware he exists.
So this is a really good piece, relevant to those prone to believing a good story.
Excellent. Thanks for the share.
Cults and conspiracies sure do seem like two sides of the same dysfunctional coin.
Well you have to start somewhere. I’ve been told the difference between a cult and a religion is political power. But to have political power a cult needs cash, and lots of it. I guess MAGA is approaching religion status.
That was interesting. One nitpick though”
FTFH
They do tend to be white and educated. Remember back in the 80’s, Take Back The Night targeted the Ivy League.
AWFLs are a thing. Created by, and sustaining, that network of social aggression.
“How booming Puppy Yoga trend beloved by influencers puts dogs at ‘serious risk’ of harm: Calls to ban wellness craze after investigation found animals are being denied access to water, sleep and worked for hours at a time”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12261999/How-puppy-yoga-trend-beloved-influencers-featured-TOWIE-puts-dogs-risk.html
CWABOA
It’s been done
So it sounds more like the people not the ‘yoga’ is bad. Punish the business not the model, but we don’t like to do that here. Ban it all apparently
Mistreating dogs goes against the “not harming” tenet of yoga.
“Georgia Subway under fire for Titan disaster-themed sign: ‘Our subs don’t implode’ ”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/04/georgia-subway-under-fire-for-titan-disaster-themed-sign-our-subs-dont-implode/
LOL
Jared begs to differ.
The discovery of cocaine at the White House prompted an evacuation of the premises over the weekend
Land of the free. Home of the brave.
Are you saying that they will blow the whole thing?
To high heaven.
Your annual reminder: the school year in academic medicine starts on July first, and low man on the totem pole gets to work on a holiday.
So if you decide to have a mishap involving fireworks, boat propellers, or anything involving the phrase “Hold my beer,” and your buddies drag you to a teaching hospital, the person attempting to reattach your limb / stitch up your lacerated artery / etc has been on the job for three days.
It is a Known Thing in hospitals – the worst time to be in a teaching hospital (which means any hospital with residents) is July, because that’s when the first yer residents show up. Sure they know everything, when they actually know nothing useful.
It’s also when they are supervised most closely. Later in the fall/winter and the shackles come off is when things get more interesting.
Mike S, I just texted you with my new number!
High costs and tight supply; the inexplicable conundrum
For many workers, recent increases in hourly pay are not keeping up with inflation-driven rent hikes that can reach as high as 10% in parts of L.A., as outlined in the state’s Tenant Protection Act. That law protects most, but not all, rentals in the state. Newer apartment buildings and many single family homes, for example, are not included. Many individual cities in L.A. County have stricter controls on rent increases.
Why can’t people find affordable housing? It’s a mystery.
One reason for a lack of “affordable” housing might be small profit margins in building cheap housing. I don’t know; what do any contractors or real estate financers have to say about it?
Zoning laws and local politics are a good fit.
/Power is a helluva aphrodisiac
Good morning and Happy Independence Day!
Happy independence day.
Ribs, shrimp skewers, cauliflower puree, grilled corn and also smoking some bacon too. All things considered, still the best damn country to live in
cauliflower puree?
Jealous?
High tech Gypsies
The EBT card is equipped with the same level of technology as a “glorified hotel room key”
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The scope of the problem has drawn in the US Department of Homeland Security, which formed a group of Secret Service agents focused on benefits skimming. Investigators suspect that people are traveling from Europe with specific intent to defraud food and cash benefit programs. “You see a large number of Romanians that have entered the country illegally, and they’re largely going to California” to skim, says Jarred Medenwald, a Secret Service special agent who’s been looking into Romanian organized crime for five years.
The task force includes members of the Romanian National Police, though it hasn’t pointed the finger at a specific crime ring from the country. Investigators say the fraud is being carried out by small, loosely coordinated teams, and that they’re investigating the problem broadly. “There’s not a clearly defined hierarchy of one organized crime group doing all of this skimming in the United States,” Medenwald says.
Your tax dollars at work.
Common to trade EBT for cash because the amount of benefits regardless of what they claim as too low is even too much for the poor so they trade out remainder for hard cash.
It’s no different than sharing meds with family,
Antibiotics, pain medication and such.
Back when I worked at a 7-11 in the ghetto, you would see on a constant basis food stamps that had been used as trade fodder for who knows what. New ones would come in a booklet, and you tore them off as you used them. But when you would see a stack of soiled ones, no booklet, you knew they had been traded around.
Ghetto cash.
whaddup doh’
Just had breakfast with Version 2.0, got some ribs for the grill, and plenty of Cold Gold.
Im so patriotic I could make Abe Lincoln puke all over George Washington’s tits.
TALL INDEPENDENCE CANS!
Drugs? Ass?
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/07/mid-week-in-pictures-special-july-4-edition.php
Phoenix City Council Votes Unanimously to Donate Hundreds of Firearms Valued at Roughly $200,000 to Ukraine.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/just-phoenix-city-council-votes-unanimously-donate-hundreds/
Is that even legal? Are they just going to put them on a plane?
45mm.