Another easy win
The US thumped Trinidad and Tobago to win their Gold Cup group. NASCAR hosted a shitshow in Chicago. The all-star game rosters are out. Rickie Fowler finally won a tournament he was contending in on a Sunday. And Max Verstappen kicked sand in everybody’s face in the Austrian Grand Prix, building up such a large gap that he was able to stop with two laps left to go for, and get, the fastest lap. And that’s it for sports.
That’s not how it works, buddy. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you don’t get to control what people watch.
Best of luck. There’s a stream of people heading in to town from down south that are gonna be happy to take your jobs.
Retarded Fuckup
Welp, we’re fucked. This Uncle Fester cosplayer has no fucking idea what’s going on.
He really cocked that up. What a dick.
Dreaming of better beer
Maybe they can start bottling something else. Piss would be a step up. And that’s not a political statement. It’s a sober analysis of their product.
Shut the whole thing down. Inflation is an excuse. The whole enterprise is an inefficient shitshow.
They were mostly peaceful anyway. Oh wait, that’s CNN’s line.
Bye. Have a great time. Hope you enjoy your new progressive utopia.
Here’s a fun little tune. Those horns work so well. And here’s another good one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely holiday-esque Monday.
Early start to the day there, Sloopy! Good morning — like the main page eagle.
On the plus side, I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this yutz in anything… so as far as I’m concerned “Ok… your terms are acceptable.
I never heard of the guy. I’m going to assume he’s some hollywood yutz who thinks we care what he has to say.
I just skimmed the article – but it mentioned Sopranos and Goodfellas. So a real wise guy, eh?
He was poor slow Spider in Goodfellas.
His finest work.
I hate that show.
Uncle Fester is the one actually running the administration right now.
Hmmm… hospitality industry when a recession is looming — sure, I really expect more people to be traveling and vacationing and all… and LA hasn’t been in the news for out of control crime or anything, no sireee…
Perfect time to demand a 40 percent wage increase! (boggle)
I can’t even get a 4% raise.
Then you’re probably not a union member.
Unfortunately, I am. The state runs a closed shop, and has long ago captured the Union. When the membership rejected a contract because it was godawful, the union didn’t go back to the negotiating table, it harangued, harassed, and badgered the membership and went for a revote on the same garbage contract.
The one currently before the membership offers the highest raise I’ve seen in any year I’ve worked here: 3%.
*The rejected contract incident was a few contracts ago, early in Andy’s administration.
I thought I was making a joke about your being in a union. The one you’re stuck in must be particularly useless–to the rank and file members anyway.
I’m pretty sure its function is to funnel my money to democrat pockets.
I’m afraid you’re right. I had to belong to unions a couple of times: Teamsters when I was a part-time cab driver and Something Brotherhood Hod Carriers Something when I worked a railroad construction job. The dues were surprisingly high (for my 1960s wages anyway) and the union rules were ridiculous, but not rigidly enforced, so we were able to haul passengers or lay track.
To carry over from dedthred:
“Assless chaps” is a perfectly cromulent expression, indicating a style of dress just like a dinner jacket does not change if you’re wearing it to a cocktail party.
It’s a redundant waste of words for the sake of crudity.
People who don’t like crudite only know of sad carrot sticks and ranch.
You would prefer les chaps sans pantalons?
“Cause “assless” seems like fewer characters than “over bare skin” or “without lower body outerwear.”
Just put your pants on.
Actually I think I would like that.
It sounds “cultured.”
I think that’s why the current alphabet soup community is so against lesbians in their Pride Parades these days. They don’t want to double up on things by getting chapless asses.
Question: Why do people say “assess” chaps and not “crotch less” chaps?
Usually the wearer is wearing some sort of thong.
I’ve always taken it as a little poke (heh) at the wearer and assumes they are a bottom.
Particularly if they’re wearing a thong or jock, although that might be dictated by local ordinance, ABC board, etc.
At this point, what vans deferens does it make?
Why would you get a vasectomy on only one side?
“I can knock you up with one tube tied behind my back!”
Did he have a retarded nut?
That was my question – I’ve never heard of a half-vasectomy before.
Seems like an unbalanced decision…
Yeah but you’ve heard of half-assed, and how exactly is that supposed to work?
Badly.
Macron is blaming the riots on social media and video games.
It’s easier than pointing to the real cause of having two incompatable cultures stacked on the same land.
Mass immigration without assimilation can only end in war.
The Democrats do like to provoke a good civil war.
It’s the French’s fault for not being more accepting and welcoming of their huddles masses.
Most of the EU will get more.
https://apnews.com/article/eu-poland-hungary-migration-refugees-relocation-cf75417b7a9490c3a41216478200c9e0
I can see the EU cracking up over this.
Unless the assholes in Brussels end up on the gallows, it’s insufficient.
The EU leadership wants chaos in order to destroy the middle class. That is their enemy. They’re nothing more than the old landed aristocracy who want their rightful place in society back and the middle class stands in their way.
They’re hiding behind organizations like the WEF and the EU and need to be outed.
The only thing with destroying the middle class is, it destroys the general prosperity that the elite enjoys the greatest benefits from. This whole argument is the elite cutting off their nose to spite their face.
What do you do with the guy who owns the house and wants to burn it down with you in it?
Ah, the Tipper Gore line of reasoning.
Since when do vasectomies only get performed on a single vas deferens? Does someone only want to somewhat reduce their fertility?
Florida Man’s version of Russian Roulette? “C’mon baby… there’s only one in the chamber….”
Ok, I’ll stop now.
His left nut produces better offspring?
I really need to make sure I watch all the F1 before reading links on a Monday, dammit. (I kept falling asleep at the start of the F2 sprint, much less the Feature races and just figured I’d watch later this week)…
Thanks for keeping the spoilers to the obvious / expected at least, Sloopy. I dreaded another Max yawn-fest… but I’m not surprised.
Aren’t spoilers standard on the cars in that race format?
boooooooo! 😉
The Max part was a yawnfest, but there was plenty of action going on down the list, and a lot of whining by Hamilton.
Did Hamilton find a noose somewhere?
Maybe start with not replacing the whole fleet with electric vehicles? Or did PPP just have Congress pay for that? (I’m inured… so can’t be bothered to track it down to look).
The head of the Post Office didn’t want electric vehicles; Congress mandated that half of them, or some fraction, had to be electric.
People keep talking about shutting down the Post Office, but there are dozens of government agencies that cost more money and abridge more liberties than the Post Office does. The PO was at least strongly hinted at in the Constitution.
“That’s not how it works, buddy. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you don’t get to control what people watch.”
Sounds like he was joking.
I watched the Sopranos back in the day despite that guy.
He thinks he is cleverly making a “point” with his toddler-logic.
A more accurate comparison would be refusing to perform lines written by … who am I kidding, Hollywood expunged conservative voices ages ago.
Not Gary Sinese or Kelsey Gramher.
James Woods, on the other hand…
David Mamet?
John Milius? https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587518
They’re already throwing Republicans out of DC restaurants, so…
For sports: Derry, Dublin, Kerry, and Monaghan won their quarterfinals. It’s Dublin-Monaghan and Kerry-Derry in the semifinals.
At least indicate which sport you’re reporting on.
Looks like the Irish Games.
Sports: Talor Gooch is easily the best golfer in the world right now.
Speaking of spoilers, compare/contrast NASCAR with Bud Light:
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/03/1185740781/flooded-roads-in-chicago-force-nascar-to-cut-short-a-downtown-street-race
One of these companies is trying to expand their customer base, the other is trying to replace theirs with a better one.
Why would you run a road race through downtown streets? That just sounds like a nightmare for everyone – residents, drivers, spectators, logistics.
It actually can be one of the cooler races if done right. (The Castle section particularly).
Didn’t watch Chicago, so don’t know how they did it or why they did it. I still say if NASCAR wants to bring back street racing — clear some of the back roads from NE GA up to KY or so, and run it at night with no lights… except for 5 randomly chosen cars that get to be the revenue agents. Go back to your roots!
My Moonshine Run idea was going back to the roots where the only rules on car design were splitting the race by weight category, having revenuers trying to intercept the racers, not setting a course but simply having a start and end point, and measuring victory by gallons of ethanol delivered per unit time.
I’d be on board for that.
Never meanin’ no harm.
“EXCLUSIVE: Bikini-clad Kari Lake swaps Mar-a-Lago for the Bahamas and a family vacation before her book tour next week and a likely Senate run in the fall”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12223671/Bikini-clad-Kari-Lake-swaps-Mar-Lago-Bahamas-family-vacation-ahead-Senate-run.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqbk9cDX0l0
She’s still on vacation? How many does she take?
It’s an article from a week and a half ago.
“Pete Buttigieg excoriates DeSantis for ‘competing’ with Trump to ‘make life harder’ for LGBTQ community – and says it’s strange to ‘prove your manhood’ with ad showing him next to ‘oiled up shirtless body builders'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12256431/Buttigieg-excoriates-DeSantis-competing-Trump-make-life-harder-LGBTQ-community.html
So far, it doesn’t sound like a good campaign.
Because that beacon of competency in office and a well run campaign Mayor Pete said so?
Frankly, if he isn’t happy — I’d take that as a compliment. He’s barely one step up from “Steals from Airports” dude at this point.
“Because that beacon of competency in office and a well run campaign Mayor Pete said so?”
No, not at all.
He took time away from vacation to make a statement?
I have no idea what any of that is going on about.
It’s a stupid headline. DeSantis is trying to make Trump look bad for being pro-LGBT.
Am I missing something or is there no evidence in that article that the ad actually came from DeSantis?
Because it sure seems in really poor taste, almost calculated to make Trump look better.
So a fake DeSantis ad?
“The “DeSantis War Room” Twitter account shared the video on Friday — the last day of June’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month — that features footage of Trump at the Republican National Convention in 2016 saying he would “do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.””
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2023/07/01/an-anti-trump-video-shared-by-the-desantis-campaign-is-homophobic-says-a-conservative-lgbt-group/
“Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign shared a bizarre, meme-filled video Friday celebrating the governor’s anti-LGBTQ record and attacking Donald Trump’s 2016 pledge to “do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens.” The video, which was posted by the DeSantis War Room account and amplified by DeSantis influencers, has been widely condemned as homophobic, even by some Republicans.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/desantis-campaign-backlash-anti-lgbtq-ad
So, is “The DeSantis War Room” actually run by DeSantis? Because that hasn’t been clarified.
I’m betting as authentic as the Lincoln Project.
That seems ill-advised.
It wasn’t made by DeSantis, but it was posted on the “DeSantis War Room” twitter account, which is apparently run by his campaign.
bottling something else
nothing wrong with free markets, of course
Manufacturing is somewhat fungible, though, so these things have a way of working themselves out. I’ve worked on projects where the client had a global footprint and had to launch multiple sets of tools because that’s more cost-effective that shipping some things some distances, and, get this: production was awarded to direct competitors but in different zones. There is a whole network of suppliers involved here, and the water is just going to slosh around the tub for a few minutes before settling out at the old level.
The other side of the coin is what are the righteous drinking instead of Bud Light? And where is that brand getting its extra bottles? Don’t be surprised if the current suppliers aren’t arranged in a perfect logistical network to best supply: bottles are regional because they’re mostly glass and the products they serve, drinks, are also regional because you build regional supply (or lease it or farm it out) instead of shipping beer from Milwaukee to LA.
And bottles are easy to tool: it’s cavity molding where, especially now with net-weigh filing, the interior dimensions are far from critical. My guess is that, say, 96 bottle tools could be built in two weeks and validated on a new line in one week after that.
Moving tools and swapping supply just isn’t that hard. Maybe in the depths of virus kabuki the delay would be exaggerated, but straight-forward tooling of commodities isn’t a problem now. I can get any steel I want in 24 hours; I can get any motor size I need in 48. Already this year I had one project where I sold, designed, built, shipped, installed, wired up, and validated a complete, large, two-stage conveying system from the ground up, nothing but sheet metal, motors, and bearings bought, in under three months, which is to say, faster than ever before.
The future of Glibdom?
The best line: “The kooks are becoming the normies and the normies are becoming the kooks.”
Part of why I think humanity needs a frontier for those who disagree with the current social contracts / consent of the governed but are outnumbered by the please-rule-me set.
That was the role of the U.S. for 150-200 years.
“In 1998, another Republic group schemed to kill President Clinton with a cigarette lighter that shot cactus thorns dipped in HIV and rabies.”
You gotta give them points for creativity…
You’re not going to get a lot of range on such a device. You’d still need to be inside the secret service cordon for it to work. And there’s no guarantee either of those diseases will be fatal in any useful span of time.
Eh, the “good” thing about Lyssa is that if you show symptoms, you’re already far enough along to have a terminal case.
I’m pretty sure Clinton’s immune system would have shrugged it off. Just imagine the training it had up to that point….
The CIA tried to kill Castro numerous times with devices as wacky as the thorn-shooting Zippo.
And the only one that was effective was the time ray that made him age one second per second for decades.
Oh, OK then. Would you like a cocktail with your meal this evening?
So does Michael Imperioli think he should have to star in a movie produced by the Westboro Church? If they agree to meet his usual asking price, then if he refuses that’s discriminating and excluding people he doesn’t agree with, right?
Mammary Monday pours one out for the homies.
https://archive.is/OI5FC
Good morning, Sloop!
Great songs. We’re headed up to RMNP today, so I think it’s 80s playlist time!
Have a great day, y’all!
Many relationships don’t survive past the “getting a train run on you” stage; hopefully you beat the odds.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22899742/boyfriend-drunken-sex-him-mates/
“Part II: At High School Debates, Watch What You Say
Kids are losing high school debates because of their personal tweets, reveals James Fishback in a new exposé.
The NSDA has allowed hundreds of judges with explicit left-wing bias to infiltrate the organization. These judges proudly display their ideological leanings in statements—or “paradigms”—on a public database maintained by the NSDA called Tabroom, where they declare that debaters who argue in favor of capitalism, or Israel, or the police, will lose the rounds they’re judging.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/personal-tweets-lose-high-school-debates
Sad.
Sounds like a lot of NSDA judges need to be fired for failure to perform their duties properly.
The NSDA has allowed hundreds of judges with explicit left-wing bias to infiltrate the organization.
on a public database maintained by the NSDA called Tabroom
Allowed is a strange word choice by the article. Seems like encouraged, promoted, or collaborated would be more accurate.
Actually, I’m ok with this. They’re being open about it and essentially advertising NSDA as an ideologically controlled organization turning “debate” into a virtue signaling contest. Students go in with full knowledge and it opens the opportunity for competing organizations (like the one mentioned by the author at the end). Much better than pretending like you are neutral.
As more and more of these organizations come out as being pro Woke, more and more people are standing around going WTF, and starting to push back. See all the people standing up in school board meetings for example, which led to real change in VA, or the Bud Light boycott, again with real change. We, as people with at least a libertarian bent, might not like the exact pushback, but that is always the case. No matter, pushback has started.
Then change the FUCKING NAME from debate to Virtue Signaling.
“Any organization that is not explicitly right-wing will eventually become left-wing.”
As I recall, high school debaters didn’t get to choose which side of an issue they would defend. I had to defend “that the U.S. remain in the UN” one time. And my side won.
“Should Trump voters be executed or just imprisoned for life?”
“he prison boundary should be coterminous with the borders of the United States, and needs a tall wall to keep the inmates in.”
Apparently this is an org that I used to compete in back in the beforetimes under a different name (National Forensics League).
However, in those days debate was just one of the activities under that umbrella — I wonder what’s happened to the other categories. Even back then, a woman performing a sob story in Standard/Original Oratory or Monologue was almost always guaranteed a win over any dude. I wonder which jokes are permissible in the humorous categories now.
That’s not what I think of when looking at the name “National Forensics League”. I get that words can carry more than one meaning, but I expected something related to gathering physical evidence.
But that’s not what “forensic” means in “forensic evidence.” It means the same thing as in debate — “evidence used to argue/prove a point.”
It’s picked up new meanings in the vernacular.
So has Cunte.
Better than banging your students I guess.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/we-were-paid-poorly-teachers-30267903
Better for whom?
Eeew.
Bristol is less dirty than manchester. Also a lot fewer homeless. The cask ale is mostly the same. The weather is windy but fortunatly no rain.
Manchester is the East Berlin/Detroit of England.
Shitshow? I thought that race was pretty entertaining. Every race track should have sprinklers. The track was a lot better than I expected. Van Cinsbergen did a really impressive job of staying out of trouble until the end.
Strangely enough, there were no Bud Light ads, and only one for Bud Heavy; something about some kind of veterans’ charity. Maybe Bud Light is going to focus on the golf fans, or Antiques Roadshow.
I never watch live so I’m still watching the race
So far I’m not entertained
I like rain racing and I like road course racing in Nascar but the problem with this track is its way too narrow for stock cars and there is nowhere to pass cleanly.
This needs to be a one time event. The way the Next Gen has been running mile and a halfs I’d rather they go back to racing at Joliet
And just finished
Surprise winner was really the best part of the race
I was surprised it was as clean as it was, only one big cock up during the race.
Moving the restart zone no doubt helped but starting in the wet is probably what really kept it from being a series of restart disasters since they did single file restarts all race.
Still think this is a don’t do it ever again sort of thing
The US thumped Trinidad and Tobago
Two for the price of one.
Michael Imperioli forbids ‘bigots and homophobes’ from watching his work following Supreme Court ruling
His characters in said films would disagree with him.
Thousands of hotel workers in Southern California are on strike, demanding better pay and benefits
They could always go back to Mexico, or wherever.
Good question. It’s almost like they count on colleges to make the problem go away or something.
Social signaling is counter to a good education.
That poor car. 🙁
In a speech in April, Yellen outlined three economic priorities for the U.S.-China relationship: securing national security interests, fostering mutually beneficial growth and cooperating on global challenges like climate change and debt distress.
They do not take us seriously. So good luck.
New Yorker returning to its roots.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/the-perils-and-promises-of-penis-enlargement-surgery
“That’s not my bag, baby.”
I refuse to read this unless Dorothy Parker returns from the grave and weighs in on the subject.
girls seldom gargle
on guys with enlargements?
GT, from the top rope.
Something something laid end-to-end? I dunno, I must be drinking decaf.
I like six inches
Eight at the most
ten is quite painful
12 makes a ghost!
👏
In a speech in April, Yellen outlined three economic priorities for the U.S.-China relationship: securing national security interests, fostering mutually beneficial growth and cooperating on global challenges like climate change and debt distress.
The senior administration official told reporters that Yellen’s visit will underscore those objectives.
The Chinese need a good laugh.
I do not understand people.
Source: Sony’s poor redaction efforts.
How can anyone spend so much time on such a monotonous gameplay loop? Have they really made the Skinner Box that well-tuned?
The riots, which seemed to be easing overnight into Monday, were driven by a teenage backlash in the suburbs and urban housing projects against a French state that many young people with immigrant roots say routinely discriminates against them. In all, 99 town halls have been attacked in the violence, along with other public buildings, according to the Interior Ministry.
Then return to you country of origin.
Most if not all of them were born in France.
They don’t understand, the French state doesn’t really like French people either.
A senior administration official told reporters that the trip is intended to “deepen and increase the frequency of communication between our countries moving forward and to stabilize the relationship, avoid miscommunication and expand collaboration where we can.”
Translation: Yellen is selling out the country to the ChiComs.
They already sold the country out. She is just reassuring the ChiComs that the administration will stay bought.
2nd bus carrying asylum seekers from Texas arrives in Los Angeles
You misspelled “illegal aliens”.
“Asylum from what?” is my usual question.
Not getting the benefits of handouts from a broken welfare state that hasn’t completely drained the lifeblood of the host nation.
Working?
They are coming here to work.
Bullshit.
Maybe once upon a time there was something to that assertion, but it’s fewer and fewer every year.
The Nicaraguans that replaced my roof are clearly here to work.
Did you check their visa status?
During the Ellis Island immigration days, an immigrant had to have a job and a sponsor. They would check up on it, and if an immigrant wasn’t working, it was back on the boat.
And there was no welfare state to take care of their families and kids. It was completely sink or swim on your own.
This. I would be much more understand of the pro-alien position if they weren’t living for months or years on my dime while awaiting their “asylum” rulings.
That’s still the rule, unless you know the magic words* to qualify for the asylum exception that has now consumed the rule.
*”Yo quiero asylum” seems to be sufficient, especially if you ditch all your paperwork before you cross the border, per your instructions from misc. NGOs.
Where do you get this?
And where do you get the idea that NGO guided caravans waving borrowed and stolen children at border guards while brandishing the flag of their home country are coming to work?
Because that’s how poor people make money.
Having come from a poor neighborhood, I can tell you it was hands out for hand outs among anyone who was shameless enough to do it, and that number grew fast over the time I was stuck there.
This country has done it’s damndest to kill the working poor as a class, not to mention incentivising the indolent to come and take part in the same dependency.
Aren’t all our jobs about to be replaced by AI? What are all of these new residents / we going to be doing in 10 years?
Correcting the work product of AI because it produces garbage.
Tough guy
Vladimir Putin’s response to the armed Wagner rebellion was “weak” and the Russian President is losing control of his own people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN in an exclusive interview.
Putin faced the greatest threat to his authority in two decades last month when the head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, launched a short-lived uprising, claiming control of military facilities in two Russian cities and marching toward Moscow before he agreed to stand down.
“We see Putin’s reaction. It’s weak,” Zelensky told CNN’s Erin Burnett in Odesa, in an interview taped on Sunday.
Zelenskyyy would just have shot all the mutineers.
Adding extra Y’s to Z man and deleting S’s from Odessa. I’m going to need a new dictionary.
Zylynskyiy in Kieyyyv?
All I know is that the O’s have become I’s for some reason. And I guess the E’s are now Y’s.
That’s nobody’s business but the Tuyrks
Free Byzyntyum!
This is standard propaganda techniques. The Brits perfected it decades ago.
It’s not Kharkiv, it’s Kharkov. It’s not Keev or whatever they’re calling it today, it’s Kiev.
The US is less sophisticated about it, French Fries became Freedom Fries.
Someone needs to do Downfall Z man talking about how weak the Russians are.
Wagner is lucky the column was not assploded from the air.
While the thrust of Kyiv’s efforts have focused on recapturing territory in the south and east of Ukraine, Zelensky told Burnett that his ultimate goal was to liberate Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014 in violation of international law.
“We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea. And while Crimea is under the Russian occupation, it means only one thing: the war is not over yet,” he said.
Asked whether there was any scenario under which there could be peace without Crimea, Zelensky said: “It will not be victory then.”
“We will fight until we have exhausted your resources. Send more pallets of cash.”
Zelensky told Burnett that his ultimate goal was to liberate Crimea
Not going to happen.
in violation of international law.
*laughs in Russian*
“It will not be victory then.”
You are dangerously delusional.
It is definitely the Year of the Rabbit here. I see groups all over the neighborhood. There were 5 hanging out in my yard the other day including a yute. It must be all the clover.
Well, if the house is owned by a rat, they figure there’s no cat.
A surprisingly large number in my yard too.
There’s also something called the Tour de France happening. This year’s theme is “Thumbtack Terrorism”
Oh jeez!
Do they scatter thumbtacks across the course to add some variety to the crashes?
not exactly rare, I’m afraid, and deliberate stupidity of this sort is not without direct and indirect consequence: imagine that a flat tire sends a biker over a rail and to his death….that’s manslaughter at a minimum in even the most lenient jurisdiction
Omi, Opi! unintended stupidity is also not rare
I’m aware. Having watch the Tour de France for ~40 years
Daily Quordle 525
7️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, July 3
Letters: C D E O M N R
My score: 339 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌷 🌹 🌼 💮 🏵 🌺 🌸 💐 🌻 🌷 🌹
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 525
4️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
guessed wrong on the coin toss for upper right.
boring today.
Daily Quordle 525
6️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
Ugh.
Daily Sequence Quordle 525
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Better.
Blossom Puzzle, July 3
Letters: C D E O M N R
My score: 394 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌷 🏵 🌹 🌸 💮 💐 🌼 🌺 🌻 🌷 🏵
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
That’s not how it works, buddy. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you don’t get to control what people watch.
The Twitter model where you can block people from reading what you publicly post.
Her peeps
“This is a serious moment and fundamental issues are at stake,” Vice President Harris told NPR’s Michel Martin in her first interview after the court decisions at the Essence Festival. “And I do believe that there is a national movement afoot to attack hard won and hard fought freedoms.”
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“I have three degrees. I come from a home where I did not have $500,000. I did not have parents paying for my education” Tomayia Colvin of Houston, TX to NPR at the festival. Colvin said she graduated with a doctorate in educational leadership, a hefty investment. “We took out these loans, right, with the idea that having a college degree would give us a better life.” Now she worries about what comes next.
Festival attendees, like Jame Jackson of Brooklyn, New York wanted to know what the Biden-Harris administration is doing to protect marginalized groups. “We’ve had a lot of attacks,” she said in anticipation of hearing Vice President Harris speak. “First of all, this is like one of the worst Pride months on record as far as, like, attacks against the LGBTQIA+ community. So I’m really interested to see what her thoughts are and how we can continue to cultivate and also support marginalized voices.”
“I like her because I feel like she’s getting out there,” said Dwayne and Camille Hodges who host a show in Davenport, Iowa called Wake Up in Praise. “She’s not sitting behind a desk. She’s getting out in the communities, and you know, finding out what’s going on and meeting people and talking to them,” said Camille. Her spouse believes Harris is starting to address various thorny issues, which impresses him. “She’s not shying away and not talking about them,” said Dwayne Hodges.
NPR, leaning in hard for the Kamala ’24 ticket.
And- A doctorate in educational leadership; how many box tops did she send away for that?
She’s the sort of fucking moron running educational institutions, too.
I have three degrees.
I have one
I come from a home where I did not have $500,000.
Neither did I
I did not have parents paying for my education
Neither did I
I became an engineer. What the fuck have you done?
hear hear, sir: huzzah
This country has done it’s damndest to kill the working poor as a class
I know UCS isn’t on the wrong side of this, but it’s important to observe that not only are native Americans rising from abject poverty to the heights of industry and government, but immigrants are routinely creating successful business and lives from nothing more than simply going to work every day. What is lacking in the main is effort.
we need fewer PhD in basketweaving and more rooftop Koreans
“First of all, this is like one of the worst Pride months on record as far as, like, attacks against the LGBTQIA+ community. ”
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
“We took out these loans, right, with the idea that having a college degree would give us a better life.” Now she worries about what comes next.
What comes next is you get a job, and start paying off your loans.
No, no, that can’t be right. That sounds like work!
. “We took out these loans, right, with the idea that having a college degree would give us a better life.”
“So now I want to force other people to pay for my stupid choices.”
“She’s getting out in the communities, and you know, finding out what’s going on and meeting people and talking to them,” Sure she is. That’s why Harris attended the Moms for Liberty event, and always makes sure she isn’t just preaching to her choir of hard-left toadies. /sarc
“And I do believe that there is a national movement afoot to attack hard won and hard fought freedoms.”
Speech, firearms, and due process certainly are on the chopping block thanks to the left.
Yeah, I got a chuckle out of that, too.
Red meat for the NPR set. What a world.
But… aren’t they vegan?
Red meet.
Yanno, like the commie coffee klatch.
Sounds better than pallid seitan.
“Pallid Satan” is my latest Black Metal album.
Yesterday, guy at church was denouncing “extremist” organizations. I felt compelled to remind him that, back in the day, the Judaic Law Review Council had denounced Jesus’ followers as an “extremist cult” and that on Tuesday we would be celebrating the victory of an outlaw militia denounced by The King George III Royal Law Committee as “extremists.” For some reason, he didn’t get the point.
Just wash your hands of the whole affair.
And what, attend church on auto-pilate or something?
That or get out of the backwater of the empire.
They never do.
But ultimately, for a lot of these issues, look, we have three branches of government. The court took rights from the people of America. Congress can put those rights back in place. We cannot through executive action. Congress can. So part of the point, including when I was talking on the stage here in New Orleans, is reminding people of the power of their vote to elect people into the United States Congress who care about the importance of putting back in place in law the protections of Roe v. Wade.
Rights are created and granted by the government, based on political expedience.
putting back in place in law the protections of Roe v. Wade.
Scotus said this wasn’t a federal issue. So do what you want at the state level.
I think McGregor is officially black-pilled.
https://futuredefensevisions.blogspot.com/2023/07/i-dont-think-well-ever-get-to-2024.html
Could well be right. The crack-up isn’t far over the horizon.
I think he’s wrong about not having 2024 elections. Since the elections are already a sham, there’s no reason to not continue holding them to give the veneer of legitimacy. Even strongly autocratic nations like Venezuela find the charade useful. And I don’t see the US descending to Venezuela by any metric within the next 2 years.
I think Ukraine is going to lose catastrophically
So far as I know, while there is fighting, the lines remain relatively stable. But that can change in a very dramatic and fast manor.
we’re going to end up in a situation where we find out the banks are closed for two or three weeks, and nobody can get into them.
Make sure you all have food/water/etc.
the problem with this track is its way too narrow for stock cars and there is nowhere to pass cleanly.
Somebody forgot to tell Van Ginsbergen. I noticed Larson was making his way back to the front, as well.
I have no data or opinion on Chicago
but there is zero chance I’m watching Monaco
Street courses do seem rather constrained, although I heard somebody say that the Chicago course was no narrower than some road courses (at least as far as the pavement is concerned – the walls make it different!).
I was in Chicago last night for practice. The rain sucked but I actually got there pretty quick. Did not see anything to do with the race. But looking at the highlights… that looks really cool. Reminds me of a racing video game. I like it.
The Chicago track looked like an interstate compared to Long Beach or that abomination in Nashville.
whaddup doh’
Its good to be back.
EDT TALL CANS!
Morning.
They got the motor right, anyway
For your possible amusement. If you can tolerate blabbering nitwits (I had to fast forward out, after a while), a better than average Cobra build. I don’t care for the “modernized” bodywork gewgaws or the mile wide tires, but the flat crank Mustang motor is definitely the way to go.
My favorite thing about the SCOTUS affirmative action decision is how it’s brought the glaring racism of leftists into the light of day. It’s glorious to behold.
My favorite this morning is Strawberry proclaiming the vast right wing conspiracy to recruit Muslims against trans and trans policies in schools.
Recruit, like they aren’t just against it from the get-go.
Those crafty conservatives!
I find this interesting, because it exposes how the left sees groups of people as props to push their world view. Muslims are great if you can add some women in burkas to a photo to show how diverse you are. But just assume they have the same leftist world view, don’t bother to understand what they actually believe.
Though what is truly sad is they will all pull the lever for their overlords come election day
One hour left on this less than stellar workday.
At least I’ve got nectarines anda NY Strip waiting for me at home. I’ll probably have to mop the kitchen floor first, since something spilled on me when I was taking the trash out this morning. Doubtless it got on the floor too. That pretty much set the tone for the day so far.
WooHoo! Good Riddance to Rajiv’s Baby. Every time that piece of garbage came up in his meetings, I was sickened by the concept. At least it’s going away (and better still, nobody wanted to use it anyway)
Wow, I forgot about that clusterfuck of graft.
“But we sure knew how to keep throwing money at it.”
Half-day? Nice.
I am so bored. All my meetings are canceled. I have no open tasks. I’m resorting to reading notes on how to migrate from IIS to kubernetes and none of it is making any sense with my eyes half open.
Work is just as dead here. I’m trying to figure out an upgrade process using scant documentation.
Good to see state governments are on par with us FedGovs
I have meetings until 1600. Included in there is a 90 day evaluation… which should be interesting since I’ve had about one hour of actual work assigned to me since I’ve started.
I’ve spent more time having people read PowerPoints at me in the guise of “training” for tools that I haven’t had the opportunity to use.
Well of course you can’t use the tools – you haven’t been trained on them yet!
Which government entity did you go to work for?
None. Private companies can make bad decisions as well. The company does have government contracts, but those aren’t what I’m working on.
And they pushed the evaluation until Wednesday… just a couple minutes before it was supposed to begin.
Lol those who know…know. *checks WBT queue*
My wife is Jonny-on-the-spot today, the one who has to be instantly available. But, it is quiet, much like you guys.
Certain doom
The massive shipping industry is responsible for transporting nine-tenths of our goods around the world.
But it doesn’t yet have a goal for cutting emissions to “net zero”.
A UN summit starting on Monday hopes to change that.
Reaching “net zero” would mean that any remaining shipping emissions were matched by actively removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Some delegates want this to happen by 2050 and for emissions to be halved by 2030.
Campaigners say this would be the climate “deal of the decade”.
For years, the shipping industry, governments and environmental groups have wrangled on how to make the transport of goods by sea greener.
The issue was deemed just too difficult to be included in the 2015 Paris climate pact to keep down global warming.
It matters because around 90% of the products and goods the world consumes travel by ship.
These vessels often burn highly polluting fuels which contribute as much as 3% of the world’s global carbon dioxide emissions, roughly the same amount as that of Germany or 243 coal plants.
If they would just agree to make some empty promises, we could all pretend to have accomplished something.
Return to the age of sail!
Don’t joke about that, SailCargo is a thing.
The climate cult is out there. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
John?
I forgot
I think Ukraine is going to lose catastrophically
If our lords and masters ever finally get sick of Zelenskyyy’s bullshit, it will probably be over in a matter of days.
The shipping industry’s current plans only envisage a halving of emissions by the middle of this century, a commitment that scientists say is far out of line with the Paris climate agreement.
I thought “scientists” dealt in hard facts and objective reality.
These are climate priests, don’t ever mistake them for anything else.
Nukes anyone?
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/ukrainian-nuclear-war-2023-and-its-aftermath
I think it’s more likely that Putin will wait for the outcome of the NATO summit on July 11th and then eliminate the Ukrainian government in missile strikes if it doesn’t go the way he wants it to.
He also now has some of the meanest and nastiest fighters in the world sitting in Belarus, not very far from Kiev.
If anything has been demonstrated by Russia it is that their vaunted military is anything but.
Which makes sense for a country with an economy about like Spain’s.
true now
wasn’t this essentially true during the entire cold war?
we ruined our economy and threw away our constitution because a spider sat down beside her?
You’re working from the presumption that Russia wanted to destroy Ukraine or even capture it in one fell swoop. Moscow didn’t want a long-term ethnic conflict on its border or hyper-nationalist Ukrainians as a pain in its ass for decades or more. That was the goal of the neocons and the Brits.
Putin greatly underestimated the resolve of the West (and Kiev) to turn this into a clusterfuck of death and destruction. I think that he has no illusions about that now. He could just listen to Graham for how DC thinks.
The wildcard is the Brits. They’re quickly losing their main objective, which is to plunge NATO (US) and Russia into full-blown war. And the Bank of England is under immense pressure. There’s no telling what they might do.
An interesting article (of fiction) from the November 1992 edition of Omni magazine. I came across it when doing an internet search of the song “Gravity’s Angel,” originally by Laurie Anderson and covered by Black Tape for a Blue Girl. I was an SSC Fellow back when the SSC was still a thing, so this brought back some memories.