An epic match
Alcarez gutted out one hell of a win over Djokovic in London. I think Nole started showing just a bit of his age as the youngster had him gassed for the last several games. The Astros roller coaster continues with some late heroics on the heels of a late collapse the night before. They need to get their shit together. And it’s British Open week for the golfers. Which always leads to some extra early mornings. And that’s it for sports.
Spoiler?
Lol. LMFAO, even. Yeah, it’s the high cost of human teachers that did it. It has nothing to do with the government pumping a fortune into guaranteed loans, or Title IX compliance, or even the overzealous hiring of multiple admins to oversee “diversity, equity, and inclusion” on campus. It’s because it suddenly costs a fortune to pay people to teach lest they bail out for the private sector. Got it.
This could make things interesting. I’m still curious if Biden will make it to the general election. But this strikes me as something that could throw a monkey wrench into 2024.
Yeah it’s called “summer.” And sometimes it gets hot in a lot of places at once. In the winter, it happens the other direction. Crazy huh?
Jackass
Man, I just can’t with this guy. He’s either completely retarded or he’s deliberately obtuse. And I simply don’t know which one it is.
That’s some crack military intelligence. Nice job, guys. Nice job.
I wonder how much of a grifter the new guy is. Because he’s got bog shoes to fill in that respect.
He’s got an uphill battle in front of him. Nobody he’s gonna talk to is interested in peace, sadly.
Yeah, no shit. Anybody who knows anything about baking knows it was bullshit. Which os why the media reported it as the gospel truth.
Here’s a lovely song. I know this will be a controversial musical pick.And here’s another gem. Dude was solid. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this sweltering hot day as we start another summer week, dear friends.
My heart goes out to the generation of male players who’ve yet again seen their chances at winning a slam some day vanish in a puff of air.
Get better.
LMFAO indeed. Never change, CNN.
Yeah, I’ve told the story here before that when our family was filling out the financial aid forms in 1990, the college determined how much the family could pay, and made up the rest in the form of scholarships, loans, work-study, and the like. It was quite obvious that if the amount of financial aid increased, we’d still have the same family obligation, and the extra money would go into increased prices for everyone else.
Most of my financing was loans, but I did eventually notice each period had a $1,500 ‘Grant’ from the university itself. I realized that they calculated the amount of aid and family contribution came within a margin of error of the official price, so they slapped a fictitious grant on there that never represented real money.
Thankfully, I made so little money that I still paid $0 in taxes on it.
I graduated from a small liberal arts college in 1996. Since then the base tuition has tripled. It also went from having a pre-med program that boasted acceptance rates to med school just over 90% because the program was that rigorous. Now they just say it’s an above average acceptance rate. The computer science program was axed and the science hall no longer does the research and such that it used to. No need to worry, they still have grievance studies. One of my majors was English and I watched the program begin to change from professors that worked with Faulkner and Welty to all the post-modernist hires. Student body is two-thirds of what it was yet they just keep building more amenities to attract students. Oddly, alumni donations have fallen sharply. Who knew?
These people are scum. Not only has the cost of college gone up at orders of magnitude higher than inflation, but the return on investment has dropped precipitously to a point most degrees are not worth the fucking spend.
How do these racket runners get away with charging the fortunes they do to teach these kids nothing but how to become unemployable?
The administrative bloat started a few decades back, DEI is just another straw.
Man, I just can’t with this guy.
Perhaps the state should leave our kids alone.
And that is the issue, isn’t it? The state – or better yet a mediocre and absolutely inept, supposedly elite class of people unable to do the most basic rudimentary things without fucking it all up – has lost the ability to control information (the old legacy media capture), and it now finds itself needing to break up the family unit as fast as possible to be able to capture the new generations. Hereditary aristocracies don’t come by themselves unless you first turn the people into serfs.
Don’t forget, you have massive bureaucracies that are not made up of any kind of elite, but as long as their tenure is assured, they’ll go along with the neo-aristocrats.
They all are dumb enough to believe they will be part of the in crowd once the revolution plays out. My experience has been that even the lowliest idiot thinks they are part of the machine. Unfortunately laughing at them when they too are put up against the wall will not be a big consolation prize.
Alvarez gutted out one hell of a win over Djokovic in London.
I didn’t know Canelo took up tennis.
Blame Apple for persistently autocorrecting me.
You could always turn off the auto-correct.
Would we be able to understand anything he typed?
We all understand long strings of “AHHHHHH RAGE, AHHHH Rage”
In which Muslims learn that they are lower on the victim stack than trannies.
I kind of like this squabble.
Let the left try to square the circle with their claim that Muslims are all lovey-dovey with the fact that they are actually pretty fucking intolerant.
^This.
Seconded.
Nothing will kill this multicultural fantasy quicker than this fight.
The progs expect the Muslims to quietly accede to their craziness in the same way that Christians did in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
What they do not recognize is that Progressivism grew out of Christianity and so the two share more common ground, common ground that Progressives will not be able to exploit with Muslims.
It is kinda like the fight between Reformed Judaism and Orthodox Judaism. Once the split happened, there was no putting back the pieces, not with any ease.
What? You think Muslim reality is going to change the minds of the idiot-class? Not until they get their faces punched.
Or their heads sawed off…
Yes. And to me it’s pretty racist, or something-ist, to say that these beliefs were caused by white people, and not by something that was doctrine for hundreds of years.
At this point, it is all they have. Gotta keep everyone on the plantation.
It reminds me of when 4channers put up signs saying “Islam is right about women.”
The booklet was released in hopes that the ideas will help popularize a centrist third-party White House run.
“We see our two major political parties dominated by angry and extremist voices driven by ideology and identity politics rather than what’s best for our country,” the introduction to the platform argues.
Washington establishmentarianism and bad ideas, swimming in treacle.
One of my teammates used to work for Republicans in DC and is still in touch with a lot of people there. He put it to me this way. It used to be that candidates catered to their bases in the primaries, and then tacked toward the middle in the general. Now, they cater to their bases in both and force everyone to choose one extreme or the other.
I think the current divisiveness and polarity is beneficial. The last thing American citizens should want is compromise by the “reasonable” politicians who know what’s best for them.
I’d have to guess the majority of the most damning, freedom-ending legislation to pass within the last 120 years was done through a bi-party compromise of reasonable politicians. The Patriot Act comes to mind in recent times. Perhaps the NFA as another. Prohibition as a constitutional amendment. War on Drugs. etc. The middle ground has been the slow march towards killing the republic.
The reason they are both tacking to the fringes and then staying there is that all of the ideas, from both sides, are playing out and this is the natural end of that. Gun Control is the way forward? This is the rational push back. Abortion at all costs? Again, the rational push back. The teams have all chosen their players, and now the match has begun.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Awesome!
That might actually get me back to the game.
Now do football!
That is just utterly fantastic. I need a Banana Ball team at Fenway.
If she tried baking bread like that in AZ it would have been mummified before it ever rose,
They have no hungry critters and insects in AZ?
When We Get Back Home was a humorous Japanese occupation-era comic series depicting what American soldiers would do when they returned from their time in Japan.
The series is an excellent glimpse into how Americans viewed Japan.
Here’s a thread of some of my favorite panels.
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1680298565501874176
Those are great!
You Americans owe us Eastern Europeans reparations for this global heat wave you have caused. I accept bottles of rare whiskey.
You have to come here to pick it up in person.
No delivery.
Yep, just fly into Bardstown.
I am sure they is a direct flight from Bucharest.
Pie can turn into a bat and fly directly.
He has to fly ahead of the dawn.
Tradition says in a box full of the home soil on a ship full of
fooddead people.*points to Canada*
Hit up those hosers.
but i don’t much like Canadian whisky, though they do not send us their best
“Summer”
Yeah, seems like every Summer is a new record setting Summer. It always sort of cracks me up when people come to Myrtle Beach for vacation and are surprised by how hot it gets in July. But than again the dumbest people in America seem to congregate here.
Well this one is hotter than most round here… Not the hottest but up there (in my recent lifetime off course)
Is that a feel or stats? Cause I think most people talk themselves into things (or get talked into things) that are not true.
Compared to last summer this one has not been so bad. My electric bill, despite it costing almost 20% more than a kWh did last year, says my AC has not been guzzling as much power as last year to keep the house cool.
Based on temps mostly, I have a good memory for temperatures and two weeks above 36C is not something we had recently. Not temps over 40 yet, but long period of 37 38
It’s the Summeriest Summer that ever Summered!
Upstate SC seems to be slightly less hot, but much more humid than last summer – according to my vague failing memory.
much more humid
It made me want to get back in the car and drive back to Richmond.
KY has been a mild and damp summer. I’m not sure we’ve busted 95, but we’ve had heat indexes well into the triple digits (warm and very humid).
Our problem is how dry it has been. Temps have been pretty reasonable, but we could use a lot more rain.
Indeed. All the rain went to India.
Yeah, but they felt the rain in Africa.
“Can you even cook bread…” – can journalists get any dumber?
I propose a toast.
I bet a crusty old journalist would have gotten to the bottom of that story.
Or at yeast given it the ol’ college rye.
Journalists were just loafing.
Doh!
Did you really knead to say that?
Ingore Jimbo, He’s trying to get a Rise out of you
Quiet! I’m on a roll.
What a heel.
It was a crumby thing to say.
No need to get sour, though.
I’m guessing that she just wanted to make a little extra dough.
Yes, they most certainly can.
Well, they also bought her BS story about how she “proofed” it in the mailbox. Sure she did. 🙄
They always expect the check to be in the mail.
It wasn’t always this way. After adjusting for currency inflation, college tuition has increased 747.8% since 1963, the Education Data Initiative found.
And between 1980 and 2020, the average price of tuition, fees, room and board for an undergraduate degree increased by 169%, according to a report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
Easily explained by increased productivity.
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
The lack of self-awareness is grand.
Authorities On Hunt For Arsonist Who Just Burned Down Three Presidential Campaigns
Following links:
https://babylonbee.com/news/this-is-an-oldie-but-a-goodie-says-worship-leader-about-song-from-2021
The Bee is at its absolute best when mocking worship bands.
https://babylonbee.com/news/strange-female-pastor-gives-hellfire-and-brimstone-sermon-once-every-month-or-so
Reverend Flo?
Yeah but the idiot Pence did the campaign equivalent of leaving a frying pan with fresh bacon grease on a hot burner and burned it down himself. He had the worst answer to a question I’ve ever seen. I don’t think much of politicians but I didn’t realize he’s that stupid.
It was glorious.
What was even more self-destructive is after that gaff how he attempted to save himself by going all-in on America can do everything!
I’ve been out of the loop. What happened?
Pence stepped on his dick.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1679917795402985472
Gracias. I think I’ll go back to working. What a maroon.
Gonna have to be more specific, he’s been constantly stepping on his own dick for a while. Ever since he molted out into his inner RepE persona.
Mike’s new campaign poster.
I want to run for office once just so I afterwards can tell people “Those of you that didn’t vote for me: FUCK YOU!… And those that voted for me, FUCK YOU TOO!”
But that shitshow ain’t worth it.
LOL
Ummm…do the No Labels not realize that taking a name from Thomas Paine for an opposition to extremism is pretty silly? Paine was a freakin’ anarchist. Common Sense was an extremist document.
You’re assuming they’ve read it.
I am assuming they havent.
Haven’t you been paying attention? Extremist Anarchy is somewhere in the middle now.
That might explain why Americans’ confidence in higher education has dropped to a record low, according to a Gallup poll released this week. The June poll found that just 36% of Americans have confidence in higher education, down more than 20 percentage points from eight years ago.
“While Gallup did not probe for reasons behind the recent drop in confidence, the rising costs of postsecondary education likely play a significant role,” said Megan Brenan, a research consultant at Gallup.
It has nothing to do with the industrial strength stupidity constantly being shoved in our faces.
It couldn’t be people noticing the poor quality of graduates from these institutions.
They come with a ton of attitude, but very little knowledge or competencies. And man do they knew all the proggy buzz word salad shit,
Reminds me of a second lieutenant.
You mean the sort of just minted officer, fresh out of OCS, that believes they know it all and goes on to ignore his NCOs and their advice so he can prove he can lead? Yeah, I knew better than to buy that idiocy and my chief was the one with some 20 years of service and all the know-how.
OCS Lts are ex-EM, they bring a lot of experience to the game. ROTC, on the other hand…
/Old OCS grad
Some colleges cost $95,000 per year, and they’re only getting more expensive. Here’s why
It wouldn’t have anything to do with federally funded loans to students. I.e. the colleges get the money and the students are saddled with the debt and there is no incentive to cut costs on the part of the colleges.
The bubble is going to pop hard when it does.
Not only is there zero incentive to cut costs and to pare back the administrative behemoth that is responsible for all the bullshit zero value spend, but you can deliver a shit product, and the students don’t even realize they were fucked over in most cases.
And the real irony being, the colleges cut back on faculty (less tenured, more associates/lecturers/grad-students) while pumping stupid amounts of money into the administrative side. A trend that eventually was mimicked in the primary education sector.
I can confirm this. I used to work for a company that sold student management software. When we went on site visits, the biggest and nicest buildings in each school district were the administration buildings. All full of people who pushed paper and had great benefits.
There’s a whole section about how colleges compete for the richest families by driving up their prices. It’s absurd.
This is a big part of why I hate humans – the fucking status drive.
We learned it from the birds.
These are my only status symbols.
Thank you for introducing me to something I will never consume unless I go all Yellen in China.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/janet-yellen-consumed-psychedelic-mushrooms-china-report
It makes sense. They’re not selling a Civic. They’re selling an ultra-luxury SUV. It’s a status symbol, not a tool.
“Higher education is primarily produced by skilled workers — faculty and administrators,” she said. “Their price in the economy has gone up.”
Please
stop.
“Yeah, no shit. Anybody who knows anything about baking knows it was bullshit. Which os why the media reported it as the gospel truth.”
I would have been more inclined to believe this shit if they had said she baked that bun in her bonus hole.
“He responded, “First of all, there is an awful lot of misinformation and disinformation out there [from] people on social media, particularly fueled by the American right-wing are spreading a lot of untruths about what is actually… in the curriculum.””
That’s almost Vice-Presidential.
Obviously Canada doesn’t have a right wing.
That’s why they have to borrow ours.
You are correct, it is the whole center of the country. Not BC, not Montreal.
Much like Kamela, Justin understands that if you control the narrative, you can painlessly ignore the people calling you out on your nonsense.
Funny comment on today’s music links.
Early 90s, driving home in Madison one night, I heard some song on the radio. My first thought was “I don’t know who this candyass is, but Clapton should sue the hell out of him for what he is doing to Layla.” And, yes, I know you can’t sue over a cover.
Of course, it was Clapton’s accoustic version of Layla. So my thought changed to the ghost of Duane Allman needs to beat the shit out of Clapton.
Candyass needs to comeback as an insult.
It went away?
Blame MTV Unplugged.
At least it was music on a music channel.
And I think some of the Nirvana unplugged is great.
But Layla has a “power?” to it that needs electricity.
Clapton’s performance was fueled by the death of his son, and overall that was a pretty good unplugged.
But that version of Layla makes me want to stick an ice-pick in my ears.
I am glad I am not the only one who thinks that way.
The Derek and the Dominoes version is pretty close to a perfect song.
this strikes me as something that could throw a monkey wrench into 2024.
I’m gonna need popcorn because Dems will lose their minds.
Tawana Brawley 2.0 sans Sharpton involvement?
“Elderly man stabbed in the head with a sharp stick while walking on NYC street”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/elderly-man-stabbed-in-the-head-with-a-sharp-stick-while-walking-on-nyc-street/
We need common sense stick control.
We need to nuke NYC from orbit?
Where is the Matador?
If only he had been taught how to defend himself against a pointed stick…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlroOdP8p2Y
I thought you had gone with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGEiK9StSfQ
Also good!
The right one
“REVEALED: Secret Service REFUSED to interview any of 500 suspects in White House cocaine scandal – claiming it was a waste of public resources and infringe civil rights”
The whole Hillary Clinton Comey defense all over? “We read their minds and found no reasonable prosecutor would file and pursue charges!” Yeah, right.
This was a fucking coverup as usual. We are being ruled by an idiot criminal class tat no longer even feels the need to pretend they are competent.
Thank you for undermining the entire war on drugs.
Seriously, why are lawyers not suing to get any and all clients in the system out based on the fact these people just hammered their own ball sack with a ballpeen hammer with this ludicrous argument?
They know they are protected by tribalism and corruption so why hide.
Those public resources are better used to investigate something Trump did.
“These kinds of discussions about whether this ‘college cost disease’ could possibly continue, they existed 50 years ago too, with people saying, ‘oh, it couldn’t possibly go above $30,000. It couldn’t possibly go above $40,000,’” said Hill.
“On some level, if incomes continue to rise the way that they’ve been rising, I think it will go on for a while.”
“You can’t cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break, and never smarten up a chump.”
Incomes are rising?
My income has went up 25000% in the last 45 years as well.
My allowance was $5.00 week back then though.
I got a divide by zero error trying to work out my income increase ove the same time period.
Yeah it’s called “summer.”
I was at the beach last week. It was hot, humid and there were too many people. That’s a trifecta of things I dislike.
The center of the heat wave is expected to spread eastward Monday, with extreme temperatures continuing through at least next weekend
The only thing extreme is this reporting.
Add in some biting insects and that’s pure hell.
He’s either completely retarded or he’s deliberately obtuse. And I simply don’t know which one it is.
He is just dishonest.
I’ll go with both, also he’s an asshole.
It seems to me I have been seeing stories about some sort of solar phenomenon causing the northern lights to be visible in unusual places. Could this solar radiation also manifest itself as heat?
That’s right wing crazy talk
HERETIC!
THE SUN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW WARM THIS PLANET GETS!!!!
The cultists on the left will not care that they were lied to by this scumbag…
They will never hold the bureaucracy accountable – that is now a right-wing point of view.
She’s so oppressed.
R&B singer and actor Jill Scott blasted America by changing the words of the National Anthem into claiming it is an oppressor state during a live performance on stage.
Jill Scott was performing on the second day of the Essence Festival on the perceived systemic racism in America, saying the country is “not the land of the free.” …
The lyrics said:
“Oh say can you see by the blood in the streets / That this place doesn’t smile on you colored child / Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands / But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased / Oh say, does this truth hold any weight / This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slaves!”
I don’t even like that jingoistic crap, but she should fuck right off.
Her 15 minutes are ticking away.
Who?
Adding something about college application processes that some of y’all may not know, since it’s so different from what it was when a lot of us went through:
You have to try – very hard – to AVOID your kid ending up with a loan. As in, at least in our experience so far, they are REQUIRED to apply as part of the college application process, including income data, etc. And then the default answer is basically “you have to go through this extra effort to opt out”.
I have 5 from 14-22 so we’ve been navigating this for several years, and pretty much know how now. But it’s one of the most irritating things in the world to me. Our base plan for years has been to do 529s and make smart choices – basically avoid student loans at all costs. And even for somebody who knows how and has the resources, it’s still a lot of work to keep your kids from getting that thing tied around their necks. Friends who stumbled into it have been pummeled. It’s really an evil, evil system.
I just went through that with my youngest. We are having her pay her own way after scholarships. Fortunately it looks like she’ll have to borrow about $1500 per year. I’m fine with that. The surprising thing to me was that students can only get $5k in government loans as a freshman, $6 next year and it tops off at $7k per year. They have to take out private loans for the rest. All those $95k per year loans are private.
Those “private” loans are then promptly sold to the “independent” Sallie Mae and – presto changeo! – they’re now government loans. To be forgiven my executive action at some point.
I wanted my kid to have some loan activity, mostly as I wanted a way to ensure some skin in the game. I wasn’t going to pay cash for his choice of major, and he wasn’t going to be eligable for a free ride (and this took the winds out of his sails for going to Berkley school of music). But, going to a good state school, working the whole time, and actually paying attention to what he was doing and knowing that he is on the hook for it, worked pretty well.
Hey all. I’m leaving for my medical prison in a half hour. This will be interesting.
Time to nut up or shut up.
Nut up.
Best of luck, get well soon.
best of luck, keep a stiff upper lip and get through it
Have a good stay and get clean.
This.
We’ll leave a light on for ya.
The troops must be gay, black and trans in order to function best for the regime.
Kirby suggested that it would be “very difficult” to imagine Biden signing such legislation, but did not appear to rule it out entirely.
“It’s very difficult to see the president supporting legislation that would make it harder for Americans to serve in uniform and to not be able to do so with dignity, would not be able to do so with the proper care they need, both medical and mental care,” he declared. “It’s very difficult to see that the president would ever, ever sign legislation that would put our troops at greater risk or put our readiness at risk.”
They’re so far past the line at this point that you now can easily identify the psychopaths who will say anything for a paycheck.
Sadly, I don’t even think it is the money. I think it is the power and status that they get from being a big wig in the FedGov. They will say anything so they can have the big office (with all new furniture bought by taxpayers).
The Ru Paul special forces brigade?
“You can’t start the mission, my make-up isn’t done”!
“National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed that the left-wing policies Republican lawmakers condemn are actually essential for military readiness Friday.”
Ready for what?
Never being capable of winning a never ending war that allows the crooks to rip off the tax payers?
Whose ass did this thing crawl out of?
The story starts here, in Ashridge Commons and Woods. Looks beautiful, doesn’t it? Yes – too beautiful!
As part of the Habitats Regulations Assessment under their new Local Plan, the local council commissioned a “recreation impact assessment” of the Chilterns Beechwoods conservation area, which Ashridge sits in.
The report is VERY long. But what it basically claims is that too many are visiting the area. And that if you built more houses nearby, more people might visit still.
First, it banned all new houses within 500m of Ashridge and nearby Tring – even though at Tring, “most of the site was not unduly impacted by recreation, but isolated instances of littering or dog fouling were recorded”
Next, crucially, it imposed a “Zone of Influence” 12.6km in radius around the sites. If you wanted to build houses within this circle, you would have to engage in “mitigation measures”.
But what where these mitigation measures? Here’s the problem – they didn’t say.
https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1680540765116669954
More immigrants less housing and blame evil landlords. That will solve problems.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented Harrison Bergeron as a cautionary tale
Government: At long last, we have created Harrison Bergeron from classic sci-fi story [Don’t Create] Harrison Begeron
https://twitter.com/joelgrus/status/1680271862201298944
this may have been covered but it is frankly insanely stupid as a strategy.
Cambridge Public Schools eliminated advanced math in middle school with the aim of reducing disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some families and educators argue the decision has had the opposite effect
Same in California.
China laughs its ass off.
I don’t think Mike will be doing anymore interviews with Tucker.
Tucker Carlson is refraining from taking a victory lap over Mike Pence because it was like “beating a 5-year-old in ping pong.”
There won’t be a need to since Mike’s political career just ended.
https://youtu.be/i0BTdo6qGwo
Posting this just to let the server squirrels know that there are alternatives that they might not like so much.
I got a message claiming my browser is out of date.
IOW they did not investigate.
The Secret Service announced this week that the agency has finished its investigation into the mysterious baggie of cocaine that was found in the White House earlier this month with finding the culprit. …
It was determined by the agency that because the cocaine amounted to around 0.007 ounces, meaning it would only be a misdemeanor offense in the District of Columbia, it would be a waste of public resources to interview 500 people.
You really only needed to interview one person. And we all know who that is.
If you confront him with the evidence and he snorts it, it there any evidence?
“And we all know who that is.”
Do we? Assuming it was Hunter is just too perfect.
The point is to lie, have us know they lie, rub our noses in it, and accept the lie as truth.
That concept is/was one of the most important premises of marxist ideology: you tell such blatant lies that nobody can see them for anything but lies, but then they have to not just go along with the lie, but pretend the lie is truth. That’s how you break people and make them drones in service of the powerful.
Just for you Alex, since you are so stuck on Marx.
If you understand Marx’s ramblings you know all marxism is, is a system where some sort of revolution allows one group of evil fucks to replace another group of evil fucks, but with the new evil fucks claiming a veneer of legitimacy, because they pinky swear they will run the state to favor the serfs.
You have to try – very hard – to AVOID your kid ending up with a loan. As in, at least in our experience so far, they are REQUIRED to apply as part of the college application process, including income data, etc. And then the default answer is basically “you have to go through this extra effort to opt out”.
[insert exclamation of surprise]
The state owns your children.
A federal judge in Sacramento ruled that California is not violating parents’ rights by requiring public schools to accept students’ gender identities and to let them decide whether to inform their families, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The state has a legitimate interest in “in creating a zone of protection for transgender students and those questioning their gender identity from adverse hostile reactions, including, but not limited to, domestic abuse and bullying,” U.S. District Judge John Mendez wrote in a ruling dismissing a constitutional challenge to the state law.
Parents should know if their children are having mental issues or are being groomed by unfuckable, pink-haired gender-nazis.
It takes a village of groomers …
If you disagree with your child’s decision to cut his dick off that’s domestic abuse.
I do see a problem with the use of “groomers”. They aren’t really creating a usable sexual being; if anything this is worse than puritanical, because there won’t be any sex at all for those who are transformed.
Wait. Don’t we all have the non-bonus hole?
Woodworker Uli Kirchler developed a process of carving multi-story towers that telescope in and out of the wood with the flick of a wrist
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1680839257294880769
Looks like a poop pizza
no appreciation for craftsmanship
Burger King comes out with pink burger as tie in with Barbie movie. Pink burger? All I can think about now is how Taco Bell missed the boat on this one.
Who thought this was a good idea?
Is “Pink Burger” another aphorism for “Bonus Hole”?
The only pink should be the pink in the middle.
You don’t like some nice pink rosbeef lining it all?
What uppity behavior is this?
This could have been your local Taco Bell
Smells like fish, but tastes like chicken?
Taco Bell already had a pink tie-in, Pepto Bismal.
Good morning, Sloop!
I hope you had a good weekend and that the unprecedented heat wave doesn’t kill you as you shake out the race car today.
As a matter of fact, let’s all be careful. We have appeared to anger Gaia. UNPRECEDENTED!
Yes, controversial is right. Not an EC fan but I much prefer him in the background with Winwood doing what he does best.
Commies gonna commie.
Wu, the first woman and first person of color elected mayor of Beantown, admitted the list had been put together, but cited safety reasons and a request from Boston police, through a spokesperson.
‘The list was made in response to a request from the Boston Police Department after the Mayor had been harassed and physically intimidated by individuals for several months outside her home, at city functions such as the annual neighborhood parks coffee hours, and at other public events,’ Ricardo Patron said in a statement.
Notable names on the list of 15 people include several local restauranteurs who have sued Wu’s administration alleging that she’s biased against Italians and white people.
Shana Cottone, an ex-Boston police officer fired over her opposing of vaccine mandates and also failing to do her job providing a security detail to Wu during a protest, was also named.
Being critical of this selfless public servant is literally a death threat.
You have to admit that it was a brilliant move by the left to categorize anything they want to keep out of the public arena as hate speech, violence, fascism, and punishable.
This shit needs to be wrecked as soon as possible by those of us that know this is just marxism 101.
The irony being, when you treat criticism as equal to a death threat, the sanction against the death threat is actually minimized.
In Africa, Wagner Is Not the Only Game in Town
Dozens of private military companies operate on the continent, and the shake-up in Russia over its infamous mercenary group has opened the door for others to compete
https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/in-africa-wagner-is-not-the-only-game-in-town/
It’s very difficult to see the president supporting legislation that would make it harder for Americans to serve in uniform
Except for heterosexual white men who are motivated by love of country. We definitely do not want them.
Especially the ones who go to the gym and prioritize fitness.
King of Spain at the final day of Wimbledon. This looks great.
Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let’s talk about some of the reasons why it’s great.
https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1680871501824917504
The dude is wearing a suit. I expected knickerbockers and and gold-trimmed cape or something.
Admittedly, he does look downright dapper.
Which commenter was it at the old site who’d critique gentlemen’s tailoring and overall fashion sense?
Gilmore.
👍 Thanks!
Kinda miss that.
Gilmore?
I’m almost tempted to sign up for Twitter to see the whole thread. Almost.
That’s a great jacket. Note the surgeon’s cuffs (actual functional buttons – you often leave the last one unbuttoned to quietly brag about that).
The Queen of Spain is always turned out exquisitely, even better than Kate Middleton, and that’s saying something.
I wish we had some of that extreme weather. We have upper 70’s/lower 80’s, not quite enough to keep the pool warm and not hot enough to make the tomatoes turn red. What we do have is plenty of that Canadian wildfire haze.
WTF, Canada?
The logic has been sufficiently tortured.
A federal judge has ruled Oregon’s voter-approved gun control measure – one of the toughest in the nation – is constitutional.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ruled that banning large capacity magazines and requiring a permit to purchase a gun falls in line with “the nation’s history and tradition of regulating uniquely dangerous features of weapons and firearms to protect public safety,” Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
Or you are simply lying.
The legislation also bans the sale, transfer or import of gun magazines with more than 10 rounds unless they are owned by law enforcement or a military member or were owned before the measure’s passage. Those who already own high-capacity magazines can only possess them at home or use them at a firing range, in shooting competitions or for hunting as allowed by state law after the measure takes effect.
Large capacity magazines “are not commonly used for self-defense, and are therefore not protected by the Second Amendment,” Immergut wrote. “The Second Amendment also allows governments to ensure that only law-abiding, responsible citizens keep and bear arms.”
These provisions must be written on the back of the Constitution in invisible ink that reacts to heat and citrus.
Large cap mags not commonly used for self defense? The judge is a retard (yeah I know, not so much retarded as lying).
are not commonly used for self-defense, and are therefore not protected by the Second Amendment
Ridiculous. The amendment says nothing about self-defense. I’m guessing this is an attempt to stretch the focus on self defense in Heller, to justify bans on anything not involving self defense.
Yep, I remember the compromise that gun owners agreed to in Oregon back in the day – universal background checks for shall-issue CCW. Funny who was never satisfied with that compromise.
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weird collection of words today
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, July 17
Letters: C E I O N S T
My score: 446 points
My longest word: 15 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
New high score.
Late to the party as usual.
Daily Quordle 539
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Blossom Puzzle, July 17
Letters: C E I O N S T
My score: 478 points
My longest word: 13 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
It’s just summer, dude.
Scientists have predicted a climate of extremes in report after report as Earth warms because humans continue to belch fossil fuel pollution into the atmosphere.
And now, it’s here — with a dizzying slew of broken records and heartbreaking scenes.
The images — a smoky Central Park in sepia, kayaks floating on the streets of Montpelier, Vermont, and packed cooling centers in Arizona — still provide a shock, even for those expecting them.
“All of this is entirely consistent with what greenhouse gas warming does and is in line with the trends we expect,” Ben Zaitchik, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, said of the extreme events. “Still there’s something that feels surprising — emotionally surprising — when you see these things happening with increasing frequency and severity.”
The only thing surprising to me is the level of dishonesty in climate science.
Researchers have not yet calculated how much climate change has altered the odds of the specific weather events causing disruptions this summer.
Because this is not quantifiable.
It must be bad. Look at how many stories I keep seeing about it!
We scoured a 10-million-square-mile continent for some bad/uncomfortable weather, and found some.
Chaotic systems produce localized extremes — news a 11
Speaking of broken records…
If you had the money to send your kid to Harvard essentially out-of-pocket, why wouldn’t you just hire a fleet of tutors?
*I told my brother, when his younger son was about to graduate from high school, “Instead of sending him to college you should buy him a backhoe.”
You’re not going for the education – you can get the equivalent elsewhere for less. You’re going for the connections.
It’s going to be in the 70s most of this week. Another brutal summer in Iowa.
because humans continue to belch fossil fuel pollution into the atmosphere.
They claimed, without evidence.
The problem is that I would accept the premise that pollution is bad and should be worked on. Where I draw the line however, is this bullshit that man made CO2 is changing climate, and thus, to mitigate that, we don’t need engineering solutions like nuclear to go zero carbon, but marxist bullshit that culls most of humanity and then leaves the survivors living at a 18th century standard of living in a new incarnation of the old feudal system the lords in charge so love. note that the lords have zero plans of living at tat same 18th century standard. that’s just for the serfs so the serfs know they are serfs.
Researchers have not yet calculated how much climate change has altered the odds of the specific weather events causing disruptions this summer.
They’re beavering away on new improved models.
Not fair
Russia on Monday said it had suspended a humanitarian corridor to deliver key Ukrainian grains to global markets, hours before the agreement’s expiry.
First inked in July 2022, the U.N.-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative has been repeatedly elongated in short increments, amid increasing discontent from Russia over perceived restrictions that limit the full dispatch of its own grain and fertilizer exports. Russian head of state Vladimir Putin reiterated these complaints over a weekend call with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, saying — according to a Google-translated report from the Kremlin — that the key objective of supplying grain to countries in need, including those on the African continent, had not been achieved under the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
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“Only if concrete results are received, not promises and assurances, will Russia be ready to consider resuming the ‘deal’,” the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a Monday statement on Facebook, according to a Google translation. It stressed that the agreement expires on July 18 and was only “directed to serve the narrow self-interests” of Kyiv and its Western allies.
Peskov said that Moscow’s objection to prolonging the grain deal was communicated even before an explosion on the Crimean bridge that reportedly killed two and halted traffic — which Russian-backed officials have called a “terrorist attack” and blamed on Ukraine.
The European Union has condemned the Kremlin’s withdrawal from the agreement.
Those Russian crybabies.
I don;t understand grain markets. If it is a good year the farmers complain. If it is a bad year the farmers complain. They complained plenty bout Ukrainian grain. You would think there is plenty demand
The Netherlands will pick up the slack.
Huh, China’s AI wargaming guy got hit by a truck. Was only in his 30’s, too.
https://twitter.com/gigafelon/status/1680943620092772358
Must have pissed off Xi.
CCP couldn’t find an open window in his apartment?
An AI driven truck?
Fantastic retort.
https://twitter.com/Bengals/status/1679908328246214658
valid training or functional bullshit?
Mrs. TOK’s deadlift form is much nicer than that.
Functional bullshit. Trainer should be fired, as the very least.
Commence mudslinging
A pretrial conference Tuesday to discuss procedures for handling classified information will represent the first courtroom arguments in the case before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon since Trump was indicted five weeks ago. The arguments could provide insight into how Cannon intends to preside over the case while she also confronts the unresolved question of how to schedule Trump’s trial as he campaigns for president.
Those issues would be closely watched in any trial involving a former president. But Cannon could face additional scrutiny in light of a much-dissected ruling she issued last year that granted the Trump team’s request for a special master to conduct an independent review of the reams of classified records removed by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago estate. A three-judge federal appeals panel reversed her order, rebuking Cannon for a ruling it said she lacked the legal authority to make in the first place.
Cannon’s ruling, in a lawsuit Trump brought against the Justice Department, elicited criticism from legal experts who saw her as overly preferential to the former president. It also focused public attention on her limited experience as a judge, particularly in hugely sensitive national security matters, given that she was appointed to the bench just three years ago by Trump.
The only thing you need to know about a judge is who appointed her.
^ 100% this. It’s in EVERY story.
national security mattersEmotion-laden show-trial.
Remember when the MSM was aghast when Trump pointed out that one of his EO’s was shot down by an Obama appointee (and Mexican)? How could anyone think that a judge wouldn’t strictly rule on the merits of a case?!?!!!
That was different, dude.
Ford slashes the price of the F-150 Lightning EV pickup
The Lightning price cuts hit every trim level. The entry-level Pro work truck is now priced at $49,995, down from $59,974. The XLT trims received similar treatments, with their price cuts ranging from $9,479 to $8,479. The top trim level, the Platinum Extended Range package, saw the smallest price reduction of $6,079, dropping the vehicle’s price from $98,074 to $91,995.
“Shortly after launching the F-150 Lightning, rapidly rising material costs, supply constraints and other factors drove up the cost of the EV truck for Ford and our customers,” said Marin Gjaja, chief customer officer, Ford Model e. “We’ve continued to work in the background to improve accessibility and affordability to help to lower prices for our customers and shorten the wait times for their new F-150 Lightning.”
Right. Negative reviews and slow sales have nothing to do with it.
I say buy two, one for backup
“$91,995”
Wow.
I’m not going to spend more on a truck than I paid for my house.
I suspect everyone who wanted an EV has one. There was an article last week about how many EVs are stacking up on dealer lots, so this news is unsurprising.
Stay tuned for more mandates and creative ways to force people to buy them.
Buy an EV and get a free Covid booster shot!
You must buy an electric car. Oh, also, we’re implementing a “road diet” in the city where you live so that the traffic is so unbearable that you’ll give up driving altogether.
Well, our overlords forced businesses to go all-in on electric cars. The promise was that these would sell like hotcakes, and the market would go for it. Federal level incentives would ensure it. We have yet to see electric cars break past 9% of the market. These things are trash, and will never sell. Companies can choose to go bankrupt following the government lead, or break ranks and sell gas cars again.
The final straw is states like California saying stupid shit like “we ban all gas vehicles in 2030.” Yeah, right assholes. You mean you strand everyone in the state, and starve the poor to make room for wealthy elites? Be honest. That is the end goal.
Rant ended.
That’s only seven years from now.
I really don’t understand the push to leapfrog hybrids. Hybrids don’t have the monstrous current limitations of EV’s, but they could help build out the technologies and infrastructure needed to make EV’s really work.
You could produce more and stop sending it to Ukraine.
The weapons stockpiles of the United States and its NATO allies are becoming “dangerously low,” with no “short-term” solutions, according to a top U.S. Air Force commander.
Why do I get the idea it’s a lie?
Looks like someone is trying to drum up business.
Dismantling these nation-states and borders and uniting them under one caliphate will solve 99% of the problems of Muslims. Argue with the wall if you disagree.
https://twitter.com/AyishaMuhamad/status/1679553056957157377
Abandoning Islam would take care of 100% of Muslim issues.
Lol. Yes, that went so smoothly in the past.
The tweets under that one are disgusting.
But predictable.
The next Crusades are gonna be exciting.
BREAKING: The Financial Times reports that millions of US military emails have been misdirected to a web operator in Mali through a ‘typo leak’ that exposed highly sensitive information, including diplomatic documents and personal details of officials.
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1680909566442373126
We’ve decided to go offline and get rid of our Nest thermostat. It keeps doing stupid shit, like turning the heat on in the morning when I have it set to “cool” mode. And in the evening the house temp is 74, it’s set to 68 for the night, and the air conditioning doesn’t turn on until you walk up to it and turn the dial. I’ve heard a lot of similar stories from other people. On Saturday we bought on old-fashioned $29 Honeywell that is not online, and only has “day” and “night” settings. In the next few days I’ll install it. Hopefully it doesn’t attack me like in Airplane 2.
Mine did similar things, in fact it turned itself down to 73 while I was away, leaving the house with an unrecoverable 78 degree interior while the outdoors was 106. Pisses me off. I may do the same. Nobody touched those thermostats. It did it by itself.
You exceeded your cooling allotment and got rationed.
I have a “smart” thermostat – but it’s not connected (directly) to the internet, and the only way to get to it is through VPN in to the house, and logging on to a separate system. It doesn’t do anything I don’t want it to do (though admittedly, I don’t do a lot with it).
Mine hasn’t developed a mind of its own yet, but I’m still thinking about switching to a Zigbee/Z-wave thermostat, since I have local automation (Hubitat.com)
Why do I find it irksome when people refere to Bede without the honorific “The Venerable”?
because you are one o dem reactionaries ?
If anyone would like to see a good documentary on central planning, “Trust Us” from the Pacific Legal Foundation is on YouTube, etc.
VDM in SLOW MOTION | Part 4 | Miami Swim Week 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqvzL2M5ag
“Lay Down, Sally” is a good song, not sure why it should be controversial.
About the time it came out, I knew a girl named Sally May. And she would have, too, and 40+ years later I kick myself every time I hear the song.
“44% Of Millennials Support Making “Misgendering” A Criminal Offense: Survey
A new survey commissioned by Newsweek has found that almost half of millennials between the ages 25-34 believe that misgendering a transgender person should be a criminal offense. Misgendering refers to using the correct pronouns associated with a persons birth sex instead of those associated with their self-declared gender identity.
The study was conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on July 6 and examined 1,500 eligible voters in the United States, asking them their views on preferred pronouns. Of those surveyed, 44% of millennials revealed that they believed that “referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun (he/him, she/her) should be a criminal offense.””
https://www.newsweek.com/misgendering-should-crime-according-millennials-1813178
https://www.thepublica.com/44-of-millennials-support-making-misgendering-a-criminal-offense-survey/
What could possibly go wrong?
I can’t possibly top the stupid. Just bask in its warming glow.
More honest headline: Study Shows Indoctrination from Schools, Media is Successful
I’m sure if I said my pronouns were Brave/Redskin, the same idiots would refuse to use them. Just because.
Ecotourism
This week’s visit by U.S. climate envoy John Kerry to China after years of diplomatic disruptions could boost cooperation between the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas polluters on the key issue of methane emissions.
Kerry arrived in Beijing on Sunday for talks aimed at reviving efforts by China and the United States toward curbing climate-warming emissions. Experts have said any move to cooperate on methane – a greenhouse gas responsible for roughly 30% of global warming – could provide a way forward.
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Xie said China had drafted a plan with concrete measures to curb methane emissions from energy, agriculture and waste. China has yet to make the plan public.
Sources in contact with Kerry’s team said the United States hopes China will unveil the plan before the U.N. climate conference, COP28, in December in Dubai.
“It’s the opening salvo to be able to sit down and have some more serious discussions about methane in China,” said Jonathan Banks, global director for methane prevention at the Boston-based global nonprofit Clean Air Task Force (CATF).
China is aiming to bring carbon dioxide emissions to a peak by 2030 and achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by 2060. But it has yet to set targets for methane and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases, and is still working out how to measure them accurately.
The administration of President Joe Biden aims to decarbonize the U.S. economy by 2050. The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act imposes fees on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry starting in 2024, and the Biden administration has proposed a rule to crack down on the pollution, including a “super emitter” program requiring operators to respond to reports from environmentalists and others of large methane leaks.
Xie acknowledged last year that China’s ability to control methane remains “weak”, as the country was first focusing on monitoring efforts.
An April report from the Beijing-based Innovative Green Development Program think tank suggested that China’s rising methane levels were putting its non-CO2 climate emissions on track to increase 50% from 2015 levels by mid-century. This would make carbon neutrality impossible, it said.
Saving the planet, one luxury vacation at a time.
Looks like North Dakota wants to join the Big Leagues
I hope the Fargo cops actually investigate and release the info. Not try to cover up motives if they turn out to be inconvenient to the narrative.
Fargo is the one place that may actually tell the truth.
https://youtu.be/fv9XtSiqEDA
Makes me want to watch it again. Did they ever come out with a 4K version?
Fingers crossed. I hope you are right and the folks up in my old stomping grounds are still all right.
Maybe. The city council is solidly liberal. Not sure about the police chief. I’d assume there are enough sane people in the various government agencies that the truth will come out regardless of narrative.
Two big sources of methane emissions growth in China are livestock and rice production, neither of which are included in the country’s climate plans. The agriculture ministry last year recommended new farming practices, such as paddy irrigation management and low-protein diets for livestock, as ways to bring down methane.
The Chinese might balk at a re-introduction of government imposed famine.
Striking a blow for Gaia
Two climate activists vandalized an American heiress’ $300 million superyacht in Ibiza on Sunday, bathing the vessel’s stern with red and white paint.
The pair used fire extinguishers to spray paint on the Kaos, a megayacht owned by the billionaire Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie, then held up a sign that read: “You consume, others suffer.”
The yacht appeared to be leaving port when the activists doused its rear, and boat staff could be seen immediately attempting to wash away the paint with hoses, according to footage tweeted by Futuro Vegetal, a Spanish organization lobbying for climate action.
But what were they wearing?
They should have started using the hoses earlier.
Is it OK to shoot eco-terrorists in international waters?
It is OK to shoot them anywhere.
🤣😂 Who is falling for this crap?!
Narrator: The only “plan” China has involves continuing to build more coal plants as fast as they can.
The Kaos is a 361-foot luxury yacht owned by Walton Laurie, the youngest daughter of Walmart cofounder James “Bud Walton.” She is worth more than $7.7 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Her vessel, which flies under the Jamaican flag, has four decks and can accommodate 31 guests and 45 crew, per the yacht-enthusiast website Yacht Bible.
It hosts 16 guest cabins and at least 24 staff cabins as well as an elevator, a steam room, a gym, a cinema, and an indoor beach club.
It costs from $20 million to $30 million every year to keep the Kaos running, according to Yacht Bible.
Flaunt it, baby!
So her name is Walton Laurie Walton?