I have a lot going on this morning, so I’m just going to drop links like hot fire.
Did I do that right?
You know how they have hurricanes? What if they did like, double hurricanes? Good, maybe they’ll hit Phoenix. Fucking hot out.
Remember Gloria Alvarez? She’s still complaining about communism.
You know El Presidente Dudebro is a threat, when they are calling his supporters a cult, and writing big brain think pieces about what other autocrats are learning from him simply by putting bad hombres in jail. Soon they’ll toss out conspiracy theories like he wants to unite Central America…
…Damnit. That isn’t even new.
Climate change, women and minorities hardest hit.
Unfortunately, if Lula dies they’ll just replace him with an equally useless Marxist. Sort of like here.
Some crazy things went down this week in Ecuador. You know, the country where we get the term “banana republic”.
I’m feeling vaguely folkish 90’s alterna-rock today.
“I forgot I had this one”
These things happen.
Femoral pain? That can’t be good.
Not typically lethal?
College kid sucker punched me in Korea right as I was leaving last May. I fell and cracked my femur. Against my titanium shunt that goes down about six inches.
That was exceptionally painful. I can’t imagine breaking the whole thing. Biggest bone, most painful to break. Makes sense.
I suggest avoiding it.
The United States of Central America?
Estados Unidos Centroamericanos EUC! EUC! EUC!
Dammit… that’s what I get for replying to links as I go before reading comments when early on. Sigh.
Just be glad it isn’t Americano Organizacion Central…. someone would immediately think she was Evita-For-Life.
You were a minute earlier. I also went with “United Central American States” instead of “United States of Central America” to align with usage by Mexico.
You know who else wanted to unite a continent?
Oooh! Oooh! I know… Hirohito?
Cecil Rhodes?
Nice one.
Henry Parkes would also work.
Napoleon?
Nah… he was just tired of his dessert being upstaged by Beef Wellington.
Bolivar?
Monroe?
Doctrinally correct.
Booo!
It is rumored that some guy named Joe has some concern over his continence.
Chilly Willy?
Alfred Wegener?
Genghis Khan?
Honestly sounds like a good idea, but I can only imagine the amount of parochialism present there.
Updated 3:30 AM EDT, Fri September 9, 2022
Published 8:52 PM EDT, Sat September 17, 2022
Maybe no hurricanes?
There’s a hurricane tonight.
That’s what she said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yP1tcy9a10
I thought it would be an ad for Pat O’Briens
Also, I thought storms forming in the Pacific are typhoons, or is that only the Western Pacific?
yes – typhoons are west pac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Iniki
United States of Central America – seven times the opportunities for corruption than standing alone!
“In Honduras, the changing climate is undermining traditional agriculture. That’s particularly difficult for women and girls, who depend on farming.”
Men and boys don’t eat food.
Well, either they depend on the drug trade, or have moved to the United States.
There is an “and” option as well.
“Since the start of 2021, U.S. immigration authorities have encountered more migrants from Honduras at the southern U.S. border than any country except Mexico, and climate change is one reason why.”
Please, do tell. I’m on the edge of my toilet.
Dude!
No phones in the bathroom.
Climate change is one of the grifts pushing the leftist activists to program the education system.
Programming the education system helped get PPP’s Basement Campaign through the 2020 election cycle. (Is one reason why).
President Poopy Pants made it clear he was swinging to a fully open border, asking Central America to come on in.
Hence, more migrants from Central America — and climate change is one reason why. QED.
I read a lot of history, including ancient history such as that of the Sumerians and, even earlier, human (and humanoid) migration over the earth.
Guess what? The climate has changed a LOT over thousands of years, and not just in one direction. It’s been colder, hotter, wetter, drier, darker (volcanoes), etc. Sometimes people have to move to get out of climate change pressure, sometimes from cultural conflict, sometimes we aren’t even sure why they took off in droves.
It’s the human condition. We adapt the Earth, and we adapt to the Earth. The idea that this is something new since 1970 or even since the industrial revolution is either redacted or deliberately mendacious.
The world must conform to my fantasy is the dominant paradigm of degeneration in our society. It is a complete and absolute break with reality.
I read a smattering of history as well — I think there are a lot of kernel programmers who do so.
That why you have to watch out for the C Peoples….
Not waiting for Swiss on this one… [a gaze narrower than the strait of Glibaltar]
U People…
“That’s apparent in the sudden devastation caused by two hurricanes that struck the country in late 2020”
OFFS!
Pardoy is dead.
Or, you know, parody.
Poor Pardoy. Presumed to be Parody until he Perished.
Poor, poor Pardoy. He was the best of his sort.
Poor Paddy
Gentlemen, this is no death to jest about.
Good song.
↖ points at Sean’s avatar
It is creepy. But still good.
One of those songs I heard on MTV a zillion times and remember liking but had no idea who it was or what it was called.
And I probably won’t remember after today.
Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.
I came of age on Possum Kingdom lake, apparently “boat rides ain’t free”.
LAKE SMITH?
Sounds appropriate since that’s probably what would happen if I went and ate authentic Mexican food….
But think of the potential lawsuit!
Chipotlaway!
Drop it
Authentic Mexican food isn’t that spicy, not like Hunan Chinese or Thai.
Is that an emergency state of emergency in Ecuador, or just a standard state of emergency?
It is emergency turtles all the way down….
Don’t we have like a dozen of them running in the US at any given time?
We’re at Defcon Orange, Threat Level 3. Or it may be the opposite.
What the world’s budding autocrats are learning from El Salvador
How to imprison gangs?
The brash young autocrat has won legions of fans throughout the region for a sweeping crackdown on gangs that has dramatically lowered violent crime. That his “mano dura” policies draw scorn from human rights and democracy advocates seems to only feed his cult-like status as a renegade willing to get things done, whatever the cost.
Does the left want cartels to rule the streets? ///rhetorical
As long as the cartels wet the beak of the leftist rulers.
Estados Unidos de Centroamérica — EUC? USCA? Either works for me.
Of course, we just call Estados Unidos Mexicanos “Mexico” so I’m sure we’ll come up with something.
Probably make us go ahead and annex Canada so we remain the big dogs… then China will invade Anchorage in search of dwindling oil supplies (while the Deep State Enclave sets themselves up in an off shore refinery…). All on schedule.
Meh, it’s been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Republic_of_Central_America
But think of the barenaked ladies!
Federal republics are for losers. This time it will be a unitary state to ensure it can keep liberty in check.
The Federation of United Central States?
Look, we’re not due for nukes until 2077.
War never changes.
You want them to suck up to your majestic presence?
Maybe just waking in its glow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTa0nv-127E
Yes
“A few weeks ago on a particularly drunken Zoom”
Is there another kind?
Sure, the state of emergency drunken Zoom.
Could President Dudebro’s autocratic ambitions really be any worse that what’s been going on in Central America for, well, my entire life?
I heard some good things about Costa Rica a few years back but other than that it’s been one disaster after another. That’s why they’re all coming to the U.S.
The first person who can set up a stable government and functioning economy there will have struck absolute gold. It’s some of the most beautiful land god dropped on this rock. I often wonder what social and cultural factors created the conditions whereby the level of dystopian autocracy in government seems directly proportional to the beauty of the natural environment. The only places modern civilization can seem to thrive are the bleakest, northernmost shit holes where it’s colder than pluto with a similar view.
I’d rather have a better functioning economy up here where the weather doesn’t suck balls.
I have a crackpot-sounding semi-hypothesis that’s partially derived from Snow Crash, and it’s language-based.
Not just the standard milieu of culture, religion, race, and history (though all of those play interrelated parts), but language itself as a filter for cognitive processes.
You might be thinking of this. Frank Herbert was influenced by it and you find traces in Dune.
Never heard of it, but will check it out sometime. And I’ve never read Dune at all.
I’ve never read Dune at all.
Glib-card revoked!
(you should give it a whirl – mostly beloved and deservedly so)
Ignore slumbrew, you’re not missing much.
You’re in the minority, UnCiv. Regularly on Top 10/Top 5 SciFi book lists.
Maybe everybody else is wrong. Or perhaps…
Perhaps I will not be badgered into towing the lion.
I could never get into it. I’ve finished more UCS than Herbert.
No accounting for taste really
I’ve finished more UCS than Herbert.
Hmmmm… I think I have too. But still doesn’t change the fact that Dune is a masterpiece.
De gustibus and all that.
I knew “never read Dune” would trigger y’all.
Places that can suck, will suck. It’s evolution.
I think part of it is that most Central American countries took a quicker route to demgaogy than places like the US and Australia took. One of the problems revolutionaries identified in the nineteenth century was that there was no cultural heritage of local government coupled with low literacy rates. The idea was that fully representative government would have to be delayed until literacy increased and people could be educated in civic government. Unfortunately, before they got to that stage, factions among the revolutionaries got into pissing matches (like the French Revolution). This destabilized most states and led to caudillos. The caudillos appealed to common people that they could bring stability. Since most of the caudillos were revolutionary heroes they got a lot of support.
Costa Rica is pretty nice, but it’s getting expensive. Also petty crime is a serious pain in the butt. You can’t leave a single thing in your car, you have to live in a gated community with a guard, etc. I never felt physically unsafe, but I didn’t like having to be on my toes the whole time. They make a big deal about not having an army, but in reality, the police perform the same function as the army, and they set up random checkpoints on the road like any banana republic army does.
Pass. Not the lifestyle I would choose for myself.
Valid point. A lot of the criticism seems to be that he’s not a leftist autocrat. Which makes him especially bad and dangerous, unlike the leftist autocrats, who mean well and just want to help people.
and just coincidentally loot the country.
But they did it well-meaningly!
That’s pretty much it.
omg. The linked articles in that one.
“El Salvador’s millennial president is a man with one vision: Power”
“They left gangs and found God. But they weren’t spared in El Salvador’s crackdown”
“As El Salvador’s president tries to silence free press, journalist brothers expose his ties to street gangs”
“In response to killings, El Salvador’s bitcoin president attacks civil liberties”
Listen, child. They just makin’ up history to perpetuate white-supremacy. Isn’t that crazy?
Hey. Welcome back, you know, we’re still without writers and stuff, and so trying to get through everything that’s happened over the weekend and what’s all the insanity going on in the world, like, Wednesday Florida’s Board of Education approved what they’re calling standards for African American history.
I feel like they didn’t talk to any African Americans because we could have told them about the history, and nor have any — anyone seemingly gone to the Smithsonian to find out anything. You know, there are all of these former slaves who have given their testimony. You can go to the Smithsonian and hear them, but they must think it’s a lie.
You know, when you talk about enslaved people and the — just the horrible things that happened to slavery, what we often forget is that slavery continued. Right?
“I feel like they didn’t talk to any African Americans”
Well if that’s how she feels, then it must be true.
Whoopi is a special kind of dumb. Like in a category of her own.
Part of me really wonders if actors / actresses who play “wise” roles don’t come to think they really are wiser than the rest of us.
I mean, all actors seem to forget that they’re just spouting someone elses words and playing pretend — but those seem to take it to a new level.
All them eager actors gladly taking credit for the lines created by the people tucked away from sight
Is just a window from the room we’re bound to
If you find a way out, oh, would you just let me know how?
Being dumb on The View is like being fat in sumo wrestling.
Just to re-re-iterate – the cruise is scheduled for TWENTY TWENTY FOUR (2024), not 2023.
2024 – a bit over a year from now.
Thanks for your and shipip’s work on this. 👍
Yeah — son will still be in high school, not something we can pull him away from. And not old enough to leave on his own for that timeframe — plus I’m an antisocial curmudgeon and all (I know, rare around here)… plus plus my vacation time is pretty much booked for checking in on / visiting my parents when possible.
So y’all have fun, but I’m going to be a pass.
So it’s later this year, right?
/ducks
🖕 😂
Sorry. I have plans this coming October.
🖕 😂
😘 🤣
If I would have meant this Wednesday I would have said this Wednesday! It’s a week after this Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1683883774743048192
There’s video.
Apropos of nothing, domesticated turkeys can no longer naturally breed, and must be artificially inseminated by farmers.
Job Title: Turkey fucker.
Pultry Procreator.
I’ll take your turkey note as an opportunity to point out that English Bulldogs are also bizarrely mis-bred freaks that can’t reproduce or do anything else right.
Interesting, I didn’t know they couldn’t reproduce naturally.
[insert obvious sports related joke here]
I find breeding flat nosed dogs to be almost cruel.
I would adopt a rescue though, especially a pug. Little clowns.
Like I said, almost. I would certainly adopt.
But do the turkeys consent first?
No, They’re just another victim of the patriarchy.
A victim of big turkey baster, even.
Brainwashed by Gobble’s Big Lie, hmm?
That’s where they manufacture that fast fashion crap they sell at the rebranded Gap stores?
Back when they sold outdoor gear and got stuff from around the world, it was a totally different store.
Indeed. Still have a few pieces.
https://www.secretfanbase.com/banana/cover-gallery/
Back when they sold
cooldorky “photographer’s vests”so cool
(16 year old slumbrew thought so, anyway)
“Excellent condition, very light and brief use”
*snork* I bet. vests are cool
I wanted to buy their photographers vest but never did.
“No
capesvests!”I’m rewatching Seinfeld and Elaine just went to work for J Peterman. Holy shit it makes me nostalgic.
He wore a classic horseman’s duster…
I liked that catalogue too but never ordered. Triple-digit prices, whoa.
I thought that was Old Navy?
Them too, and Athleta. Gap, Inc has itself a little spending spree back in the ’90s.
Sweet, salty tears.
Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.
Their plans to centralize more power in the Oval Office stretch far beyond the former president’s recent remarks that he would order a criminal investigation into his political rival, President Biden, signaling his intent to end the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence from White House political control.
Could you imagine if someone ever did that?
Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him.
Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.
Seems to me that the chief executive has always had authority over executive agencies.
The framing is telling.
The Presidents wants authority over the agencies, which from a constitutional point of view, he should have absolute control over.
The agencies want to rule the roost, Democracy be damned. If Trump has any sense he will frame it as the agencies against the voters, which is what it really is.
Yeah, I don’t know why it’s controversial that the President, the head of the executive branch, should have control over agencies that are part of the Executive Branch.
We should grant an exception to Fauxahontas though — she really wanted the CFPB to be answerable to no one.
This. The enemy is the bureaucracy. Anybody trying to create an(other) unaccountable agency is also my enemy.
A lot of those agencies should actually be under the control of Congress much like the GAO is. But they don’t actually want to write law/regulation.
And that would be an improvement, but right now the only real hope for reining them in comes from the Oval Office.
Congress isn’t going to do shit.
Of course not — can’t have something on the record for your opponent to bring up. Plus, it cuts into valuable fundraising time!
Better to let the aides steer through the “Do Good Stuff Act” that authorizes the DGS agency to write whatever regulations are needed for Good Stuff(tm) and all.
Plus, you can then whine that your party needs more power so the Good Stuff(tm) is done right next time!
Trump wants to seize power to regulate ham radios and TV stations all to himself!
My God, they’re saying the man wants the President to be in charge of the ENTIRE executive branch! Every bit of it! This is completely unconstitutional!
Furthermore, if they are so worried that the President can have so much power, maybe Congress should stop ceding so much power to the Executive Branch, and maybe they should stop centralizing so much power in the federal government.
Whoa now, let’s not lose our heads here.
Yeah, I’m probably on a list for suggesting that one.
After they all stopped laughing hysterically.
Ecuador has announced a state of emergency in three provinces after a shooting left two people dead, including the mayor of a major city.
Watering the Tree of Liberty?
Thanks for the lynx, MS!
Nice picture. Why do thots need to stick their tongues out, though? It’s dopey looking.
El Salvador becoming the most stable country in Central/South America was not on my radar. We live in a weird time.
I’m feeling vaguely folkish 90’s alterna-rock today.
Everything about that song/video is excellent. Great choice!
El Salvador becoming the most stable country in Central/South America was not on my radar. We live in a weird time.
This will preview my FreedomFest 2023 write-up.
At the Latin America panel, during the Q&A, someone asked the panel which country was the best hope for freedom for Latin America.
The immediate first answer was Miami.
Then the panel discussed Uruguay. Fairly stable country, right-leaning government. Uruguay’s president is openly critical of Lula and Maduro.
“An influencer with long blonde hair and blue eyes is taking the internet by storm, but the 19-year-old Finnish girl is not all she appears to be.
Milla Sofia has more than 7,000 followers on her verified X account, over 31,000 on Instagram and 90,000 on TikTok, where she posts images of herself soaking up the sun in Greece, Bora Bora and on million-dollar yachts.
However, she is purely a creation of artificial intelligence.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12336293/Stunning-blonde-19-100-000-social-media-followers-taking-internet-storm-scantily-clad-portraits-tell-whats-wrong-photos.html
“The gadget that will blow your mind: Sex toy uses brain waves to help you masturbate just by thinking
Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) headset and the Autoblow AI+, a masturbation device, participants imagine moving different body parts to activate specific functions, such as starting, slowing, speeding up, or finishing.
The mind-controlled fellatio gadget is designed to eliminate the need to operate a handheld device, which could be a game changer for those with mobility issues”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12336005/The-gadget-blow-mind-Sex-toy-uses-brain-waves-help-masturbate-just-thinking.html
These things will soon be combined.
Apparently, AI knows we prefer chicks in a chilly room.
No more fake than most online influenzas. Would.
Even if it goes full SHODAN… still more sane than your average TikTok user.
Thanks for reminding me that I’ve got the remake sitting in my backlog…
These fakes are getting better. And I agree, not that much different from taking a real photo and running it through a bunch of filters.
You can get a vaccine for online influenza now.
she is purely a creation of artificial intelligence
You can tell there is something uncanny about the pics.
Sex toy uses brain waves to help you masturbate just by thinking
Hard pass.
I was going to say the same thing. It makes me really wonder about zoomers that they seem less able to detect that sort of thing. Makes me wonder if early childhood experiences being glued to a screen instead of interacting with actual human beings has something to do with it.
It’s social media. They have little experience with unaltered photos like us older folks. Everything they put online is run through filters, so they’re used to everything looking fake.
“You can tell there is something uncanny about the pics.”
They look (heavily?) filtered, but without really studying them (ahem) its hard to pick out obvious “tells”. The one where she is holding the flowers, she has an extra finger, but that’s about all I could spot. There are still some very subtle things that look a little off – her proportions in the miniskirt pic, say.
Overall, though, nice work by the AI.
The extra finger thing is really creepy.
That’s pretty mild compared to the body horror AI often comes up with.
In Mighty Mac news:
“Save your loonies and toonies folks, it’s only dollars on the Mighty Mac starting in October.”
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/25/canadian-cash-mackinac-bridge-authority/70463760007/
We used to accept Canadian cash at many of the various wage-slave jobs I worked in Buffalo. I bet that’s long gone.
Animal bringing the articles to RedState…
My guess is he was just pissed off about his gambling losses. Happens all the time.
I also heard he was white supremacist adjacent.
Maybe if we kept our dick out of that part of the world, we wouldn’t feel guilt-tripped into letting such folks in.
Not sure how else you prevent cases like this (no record, no known jihadist ties, etc.) from going rogue, other than not let any of ’em in.
PPP evidently thinks his anti-cancer initiative worked now….
JFC that rictus is going to give me nightmares for years.
See, that pic of Biden looks faker to me than the AI Finnish Thot.
He’s starting to look like The Joker.
Now what he MEANT to say was… /Fact Check
That cut is pretty abrupt at the end. I cede the field to no one in my disdain of Amtrak Joe, but I’d like to see the whole clip. Sounds like “we ended cancer as we know it” but could be “the end of cancer as we know it”.
/everyone is trying to manipulate us
I’m feeling vaguely folkish 90’s alterna-rock today.
Pie’s theme song.
“Biden Creates New ‘Permanent’ Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, Laying Foundation for New Round of Medical Martial Law
Last week on Friday, July 21, the Biden administration quietly announced the creation of a new permanent office within the White House called the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, or OPPR.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/biden-creates-new-permanent-office-pandemic-preparedness-response/
No.
OPPRess
Or WOPPR
Shall. We. Play. A. Game?
Is this one of those executive branch agencies that should be able to function independently of Trump, should he win?
“Eric Swalwell campaigned with New Hampshire’s first trans state rep who faces child porn charges”
https://thepostmillennial.com/eric-swalwell-attended-campaign-events-with-new-hampshires-first-trans-state-rep-who-faces-child-porn-charges
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/07/18/tyngsboro-daycare-case-feds-charge-former-new-hampshire-lawmaker-stacie-marie-laughton-with-receipt-of-child-pornography/
CWAA
To be fair, Swalwell is an idiot.
I just got off the phone with my real estate agent, and it appears I have finally managed to make an offer on a property that didn’t get queered at the 11th hour by something an unscrupulous seller failed to disclose. Third time lucky. Looks like I’m going to be a Texan. Sorry, Don.
Congrats!
Deets, please!
Thanks, to you and the others.
Basically, I started property hunting back in late April and had two deals fall through because of discoveries made during inspections. In one case, a completely FUBAR septic system on a property that the listing, listing agent, seller’s disclosure, and seller claimed was on public sewer (among other things). In the other, a completely FUBAR roof, drain lines and water heater on a property that the seller had recently been landlording and had to know damn good and well needed those fixes rather than the “minor cosmetic TLC” they stated in the listing and ticked “no known issues” on the seller’s disclosure…
The property I’m about to vacate just went through the probate process and is scheduled to close 2 days after the one I’m purchasing, so it came right down to the wire.
Nice timing!
Are you close to any of the Glibs? I think Trashy bailed but I know we have a bunch.
Originally I was planning on being in east TX around the Tyler-Longview corridor, which would have put me fairly close to the DFW glibs, but I actually ended up much further west in the Abilene area. I think mine will be the first glib flag out there.
Once you get settled, head down to Buffalo Gap and have a meal at Perini Ranch Steakhouse. Excellent.
Thanks! Looks like around a 35 minute drive, so not too bad at all.
Nice. I lived in San Angelo until about 10 years ago. I grew up in Vernon (also not far from Abilene), so West Texas feels comfortable to me. I hope you like it.
I was actually going to email you about that, I remember you mentioned that being a nice area.
“In one case, a completely FUBAR septic system on a property that the listing, listing agent, seller’s disclosure, and seller claimed was on public sewer (among other things)”
That’s not illegal in TX?
I honestly don’t know. The seller on that one was a flipper who hadn’t occupied the property personally, so even if I had wanted to pursue something there they could plausibly plead ignorance (I guess. As if they renovated the place without running a sink or flushing a toilet…) For a sub-$100k property, it would have cost me more than the 600 bucks I spent in inspections and option fees just to file in small claims.
Generally speaking, making an affirmative misrepresentation like that is fraud. Ignorance is not a defense, once you open your yap.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Come on over the weather’s hot as balls! But you never have to shovel heat!
*pours bucket of AC drippings*
Texans have mastered the esoteric mysteries of the drain line.
NA: regarding your question at the end of the last thread, the impression I received second hand was that the person you asked about is gone permanently.
This was a week and a half ago out here in the Mojave. On the other hand, humidity above 10% is going to feel like a swamp.
You’re going to need more thermometer.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vintageroadtrip/4950034690/
May not be too bad if you are well west of I-35. Oh, the mosquitoes are hell in the humid part.
I was originally looking in the deep east, which would have been a rough transition. I’m going to be just west of Abilene, so it’s dryer.
Yeah but you’re still in tornado country, so there’s that going for ya.
Heh, they actually had a tornado touch down just north of Tyler a couple weeks before I made an offer on a place over there. There’s no good weather in Texas.
You’re in Nevada, right?
Yeah, you’re looking at a lot more than 10% from what I’ve heard. You have been warned.
Aye. Everywhere feels humid compared to here. When I moved back up to Washington state for a few years the summers that I used to love felt like the tropics.
I have to run the AC at 71 degrees because the fucking humidity is in the 90s as so often.
Congratulations
Congratulations!
Sensei or Scruffy, what the fuck is going on here?
Dunno. Will have to look into it.
I assume they were holding a bunch of zero interest treasuries but who knows?
I was wondering about CRE.
This is evil.
Even the crazy fucking lefties were up in arms when the Taliban cunts blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Erasing our history is nbd, though.
That’s messed up.
I figured that would be the result when I heard where they were going.
Put on fast-forward by old-fashioned Marxist outfits like BLM.
Pure evil. And it’s been obvious from the start.
Question: why do permitless carry states still offer CC permits? Headed up to WY and it looks like my MN permit is unnecessary but I’m still curious,
Reciprocity with unconsitutional states.
Reciprocation.
Ah, of course. Thanks, guys.
No more background checks purchasing from the local death merchant.
That’s only in certain states.
My NH permit is not good for that.
Hello, all. All is well over here in terms of my sobriety. I have an in/outpatient appointment tomorrow to see what may be up.
Saw Oppenheimer and have many thoughts, but hard to express both pros and cons as I see them to the flick. Ambitious as fuck, no question.
I’ve got about 12 hours of non-medical jail and non-appointment time. Cubs are playing the White Sox at 8. That will be tremendous therapy, no joke. I haven’t been able to watch a Cubs game for about two weeks or so. Weird how some things take over your free-time personality. Everyone’s like that, though, with their own thing.
I’ll be ’round readin’.
Hello.
Glad it’s still going. Appreciate the update, hard to tell what’s going on with others.
It’s good to hear you’re out and doing well. Hang in there. Routines like baseball therapy can be exceptionally helpful.
Good to hear. Others have said it, but you are the one who will make it happen.
Every fucking day.
Enjoy the game!
Hullo!
You sound euthymic and not traumatized, or so I gather.
Thanks, guys.
Hardest bit: I’m perfectly fine and dependably sober when I have eyes on me. On my own…That’s the primary reason I had to resign from the paper. That and no schedule and being a rookie and stress and epilepsy and….yada yada.
Accountability and structure. Necessary for me.
That’s a big realization.
Glad to hear the good news.
Evan!!! 😃
Obligatory. ⚾🧢
*Narrows gaze *
I hate that song with such, such passion. Duh, I love the meaning and flying the W.
But jesus fucking mother of fucking asswiping fuckstaining shitfuck….that song is absolutely dreadful.
This was actually my first choice. Didn’t want you to take it the wrong way, though. My understanding is that he only wrote “GCG” because the organization asked for something a wee bit more…positive. 😉
How about this (not Cubs specific): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq3hEMUeBGQ
My musical taste is so gay this was the only baseball-related song I could think of off hand
Musk should re-name the company “Xwixxer”.
Isn’t that the disposable dusting/mop thing?
Gloria Alvarez argues that populism is the means used by Latin America’s left to achieve the objective of socialism.
She talked about this at FreedomFest.
Rat – just saw your post on Animal’s post from last night this afternoon.
Seward Military Resort is up there: https://www.sewardmilitaryresort.com/ – looks pretty good – hope to try it sooner or later if I make it up there.
It’s run by the same folks who run Kilauea Military Camp – which is a real blast and a real bargain if you’re military/vet/etc.
😵🥴
tomorrow, today will be yesterday
It’s a resort now. Accommodations look better than the Quonset huts when I was there.
You know El Presidente Dudebro is a threat, when they are calling his supporters a cult, and writing big brain think pieces about what other autocrats are learning from him simply by putting bad hombres in jail. Soon they’ll toss out conspiracy theories like he wants to unite Central America…
FreedomFest had a Latin America panel. One of the panelists knows Bukele personally and claimed Bukele is nowhere near as bad as some media portray him.
What I do know is that DC’s and the corporate media’s opinion of him is irrelevant to me at best.
I am shocked.
A pretty good vid on what led to the El Salvador crackdown for anyone interested:
https://youtu.be/T5rlWi_Lc1Y
A rough solution but those types don’t respond to kindness unfortunately.
That was another thing Gloria Alvarez talked about. Initiation into these gangs completely dehumanizes the members, stripping away any human niceties from their personas.
Don’t do it
The nation’s central bank is gearing up to make its next big move this week, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is worried.
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve will decide whether it will raise interest rates again, or maintain the pause on hikes it implemented in June. Market participants expect the Fed will once again hike rates by 25 basis points — the CME FedWatch Tool, which analyzes various derivatives prices to estimate probabilities for changes to interest rates, predicted a 98.9% chance the Fed will make a 25 basis point increase.
But Warren is cautioning Fed Chair Jerome Powell against another hike.
“Already, we’re seeing warning signs – including a rise in unemployment for Black workers – that the Fed resuming its aggressive rate hike campaign could be devastating for our economy, and disproportionately harm marginalized communities,” Warren told Insider. “Chair Powell must maintain the Fed’s pause on rate hikes and avoid further rate increases that threaten our economy and risk throwing Americans out of work.”
We have come so close to destroying the dollar. Don’t save it now.
If you raise rates, you are a racist.
Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper also sent a letter to Powell in January urging him to pause the hikes, saying that they “will only make it more expensive for small businesses to fund their operations. It will also put a drag on consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the economy.”
Isn’t Hickenlooper some sort of tech or venture capital guy? That would explain his thinking operating expenses should be funded by borrowing.
It’s not the small businesses he’s worried about, that much I can assure you
Interesting weirdness at a congressional hearing:
https://youtu.be/HC28zL1RZD0
Lesson learned: Don’t let the speechwriter that stayed up all night taking Adderall to write your speech sit behind you in chamber. Either that or she’s well rested but demon possessed. The power of Christ compels you and whatnot.
Reminds me of the psychic in The Others. (Spoilers, if you didn’t catch that one in the last 22 years).
I’m kind of liking the X.
I was curious about the obscure runners in the GOP presidential race, so I looked up Tim Scott. Didn’t know he’s unmarried. Seems totally irrelevant, but a bunch of GOP old-school types are convinced he can never win as a single dude.
Weird.
It’d be wild if the first gay president ended up being a black Republican.
He and Lindsey should hook up. I don’t know if they’d conquer the world together but they’d certainly try.
Well that’s odd.
Tin foil?
After Covid? Please…I’ll even give hollow earthers a fair listen now.
Or maybe the wind whips through said areas spreading fires easier?
Didn’t see any posts about this but some some clips on twitter and some great commentary. This performance by one of the NEA (teachers union) leaders is positively…..wild.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/our-righteous-fight-for-freedom-teachers-union-president-goes-full-dwight-schrute-in-unhinged-speech/ (not Randi Weingarten, but another one like her).
Charlie Cooke had a good segment on her on his podcast yesterday – great coverage. Optics…like the Dark Brandon stuff last year…are really something else.
You know who else gave speeches in that manor?
Hitler. Hitler did.
I’m not sure he ever made it to Orlando. And it was probably at a convention center anyway.
😑
Did you see how Cathy Young did Charlie dirty?
No; I don’t pay attention to Cathy Young.
Yeah….just unhinged (via twitter, etc).
Bad news foir Bidenomics
He is one of millions of people in the United States who participate in the so-called “gig economy,” a term that has grown in popularity over the last decade to describe the rise in freelancing work through apps like Uber, Lyft, Doordash and Instacart.
Government data on this group of workers is elusive. The last time the Bureau of Labor Statistics officially tracked workers with alternate job arrangements was 2017. But workplace experts say the number of gig workers is growing, and and their impact is being felt throughout the economy. It could even be distorting government economic data, they say. For example, easy-to-access work through mobile phones may be keeping the national unemployment rate lower than it would be without the rise of these workers. It may also be a factor helping more people avoid bankruptcies, providing a fallback option for those who have been laid off from work in recent years, they say.
“People who have access to the gig economy borrow less money than people who don’t. You can think of it as an alternative to debt for some people — as a way to get through volatile times,” said Louis Hyman, a professor of labor and business at Cornell University. “Society needs to account for these different kinds of experiences.”
Millions earn money from online platforms
During the Covid pandemic, newer, digital-first work platforms like DoorDash and Uber Eats surged in popularity as millions sheltered at home and turned to online delivery. Recent data indicates that the number of people working with these platforms has grown, too. A paper published by the University of Chicago in May that tracked earnings through tax filings found that the number of people who report income from platform-based gig work to the IRS has exploded in recent years from just over one million workers to nearly five million — a clear indication of just how many more people use tech platforms to help earn a living.
These people must be forced into unionized fixed-workweek jobs as employees.
Really hope we see a solid challenge ASAP since Biden’s labor nominee Su is never going to be confirmed – need to void any policy that goes into effect since there’s no approved leadership there.
Despite the fact that many gig workers don’t have access to benefits like workplace-provided health insurance or retirement benefits, which come from a traditional 9-5 job, there are some advantages to online gig work.
Lies and disinformation!
Retirement benefits? They really think people get retirement benefits from lifetime employment with one company? How fucking detached from reality can you get?
Maybe they’re thinking of 401(k) matching and the like.
Suggested attack ad #4:
A split screen of this and this.
With the Corn Pop speech, do you really even need the split screen?
Fair point. I was trying to juxtapose his ridiculous tough-guy posturing with an actual act of bravery.
Suggested attack ad #5:
This song for this clip.
Good luck.
I have 0.00% expectations that freedom will increase after the 2024 elections.
Suggested attack ad #6:
This <a href="https://youtu.be/aJNs2i7dT-w?t=69"clip with Spanish Flea as the background music.
The wife is booking our October Shpip-cation now.
Fuck yes