Cue Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs…
Uno dos, one two tres quatro
Ay, wooly bully
Watch it now, watch it
Here he comes, here he comes
Watch it now, he get ‘cha
Matty told Hatty
About a thing she saw
Had two big horns
And a wooly jaw
Wooly bully
Wooly bully
Wooly bully
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Hatty told Matty
Let’s don’t take no chance
Let’s not be L-seven
Come and learn to dance
Wooly bully
Wooly bully
Wooly bully
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Wooly bully
Watch it now, watch it watch it watch it
Ay
Ay, drive, drive, drive
Matty told Hatty
That’s the thing to do
Get you someone really
Pull the wool with you
Wooly bully
Wooly bully
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Wooly bully
Watch it now, watch it, here he comes
You got it, you got it
Hey.
Isn’t there someone who shows up here who’s a yuuuuuuge fan of this guy? ::shrugs:: For better or for worse, I’ve never gotten in the habit of following any podcasts, so I don’t keep up with the ins & outs of “podworld.” I am admittedly not hip and au courant.
I have an old Army buddy whose last name is Shamy. Of course he was Sam the Sham. Still in contact after 55 years.
Wooly-Bully!
Dallas boy Sam the Sham was recorded at Sam Philips (of Sun Records greatness) by Stan Kesler who had written some of the early Elvis hits
…and Trini Lopez went on to make some real money. ’50s-’60s were a good time
right, another Dallas boy
his namesame Gibson doesn’t work for me, but it’s still popular
the original 335 is just such a yummy ax, why fuck with it?
Probably. There are a lot of pod-heads here.
I have no use for them, either.
I’ll note one probable exception, if this now counts as a podcast: I used to listen to the audio of Tucker Carlson’s Fox show on SiriusXM before he got canned, so now I kinda follow his new Twitter-cast (though not his most recent, with the interview with someone whose name escapes me at the moment.) He’s just so cute! 😄
He’s a walking page out of The Official Preppy Handbook. “Look, Muffy, a podcast for us.”
You guys are missing out. Econtalk is fantastic andThe Rest is History, Dan Carlins Hardcore History are first rate.
Thanks! Not entirely averse to the idea – just ignorant as to how to separate the wheat from the chaff and avoid the online equivalent of “shock jocks.”
I gave a lot more pods a shot than they deserved and quickly abandoned most: I continue to find the culture wars pointless, and few can stick to principle long enough to hold my interest. I’m looking for thoughtful analysis, but most of what is on offer is churlish and rambling at best and intellectually dishonest in general.
Worse, I find that I don’t much agree tactically even with the folks who are principled. Take for example the well-meaning neo-con: we might have very similar values about what is best for self and family but disagree seriously on 20%….foreign policy and the role of government. Normally to agree with someone 80% is excellent, but when the other 20% is about favoring institutions that will have too much control over me or will send my son to die in some stupid place for people I absolutely don’t care about, it gets to be the deal-breaker.
I don’t know why I love it, but I listen to every USSC argument session. I find the structure comforting, and I want desperately to believe in the American experiment.
“I continue to find the culture wars pointless”
And
“I don’t know why I love it, but I listen to every USSC argument session.”
Law is downwind from politics is downwind from culture. The culture war, in all its zanyness, is what leads to the comforting structure of the SCOTUS.
Yeah… one might claim to not be interested in culture wars, but they sure are interested in you.
indeed, good sir
I was born into the very depths of it and have not made much ground escaping same
Law is downwind from politics is downwind from culture
I know the trope, of course. What I enjoy from USSC arguments is the defense of founding principles . . . which were unknown to the people and thrust upon them by readers of the Enlightenment, the furthest thing from populism. What I endure are the exceptions that are hoped for and argued for.
When the Court endorses over-reaches, these are often wildly popular….making your point. With, for example, Thomas’s cop-slurping, the findings are both popular (this culture largely loves and demands more policing) and generally unconstitutional. Such are not my favorite part.
What I enjoy is the hope that the original principles will prevail even in the face of the fact that many times they don’t. I should have said I find the culture wars regrettable: they are certainly of value to some. I was clear: my enthusiasm is for the American ideals and the arguments to preserve them; I find it comforting that at least they still get a fair hearing.
Russ Roberts of econtalk is the exact opposite of a shock jock. He is a great interviewer who shows deference to his guests, even ( or especially) when he disagrees. He is harder on the guests who agree with him.
With one exception…there was one guest who got upset with Russ for questioning any of his work and Russ kept pushing. I felt he should have pushed even harder, the guy was such an ass.
Some of Roberts’ best episodes are with people I disagree with, because lets them talk. I think the ass you are talking about is Jeffery Sachs.
Completely agree about Russ Roberts. Glenn Loury is in the same mold but with a different style. Glenn will bring on people with whom he clearly disagrees. They all get ample time to make their point and respond to Glenn.
I don’t do podcasts either. I get my political fill here then listen to music. I know there are probably non-political pod casts, but I likes my music.
I used to listen to one for German practice but then I stopped commuting so that was the end of that.
There’s a ton of non-political podcasts. I’m new to podcasts generally, but picked up some Hardcore History and Fall of Civilizations, and can recommend both.
L7 played the band “Camels Lips” in Serial Mom.
whaddup doh’- its nice to be home
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Welcome home, homey! 😃 Just in time for the soothing sounds of the Air Show overhead. 🙄🛫✈🛩🛬
FTFT.
I’m guessing the other countries’ leaders laugh and snicker behind Ol’ Joe’s back, wondering WTF is coming next?. Joe is an example of mandatory retirement. At least he’s not out on the highway driving, we have that going for us.
I’m just hoping the button on his desk doesn’t trigger anything more hazardous than another pudding cup. (Has that been established in the Joemala universe?)
I don’t know about the Joemala universe, but…
I KNEW I’d seen it somewhere! Thanks! 😃
So today marks one year does it?
They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us
There’s a lot of that going around.
And can’t understand why we might be offended at being treated as though we’re stupid.
Is there a more cringe-inducing word in the English language than “changemaker”?
My god, I’m a conservative.
Changemaker? Like a cashier in a grocery store? Manager of a Little League team?
“Curate”?
True, that is cringe.
But it doesn’t carry the same terrifying undertone of “we’re here to help”.
I, for one, have had quite enough of “influencer.” That is NOT a job title.
“media whore”
Every Kardashians’ ear perks up.
“Influencer” is Newspeak for “shill”.
Influenza.
Is that an Aussie influencer?
Last night I was perusing a post from a few months back and the comments thereon. I noted that one regular member of the Glib commentariat has been absent for a couple of months. Come back, Shirley Knott! All is forgiven!
I am not sure who you are referring to, but if it is me, worry not. I will be back. I have been lurking a lot and not commenting. It has been a big help to me, thank you all.
I just hit a. little bump in the road, that is all.
Take the time you need and glad to see you keep on keeping on.
Hey! Was calling out a Glib from rather further north, but it’s great to see you again! Don’t be
anya stranger! 😃Glad to see you are back 🙂
Good to see you again.
Was just wondering if you were okay Suth, as you hadn’t been commenting for a while. Hope you are doing well and the bump is smoothing out. Look forward to reading your takes once again.
I thought of her as we traveled thru Lansing last month.
And good to see you, Suthenboy!
He lives near me and I’ve got his info, I’ll check in on him
Wooly bully
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Wooly bully ← This one is behind a pay-wall
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Weird. I had to reboot (thanks, Windows) and now the paywall is gone.
Why did I read that idiotic crap? Blah blah blah uncomfortable creepy workplace. Speaking of people incapable of acting like grownups. Either you’re willing to put up with it or you’re not.
There’s the fucking door.
Critics of country singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That In a Small Town” music video say it pushes a message of gun violence and lynching.
Okay, fact-checker.
The leftist freakout over this song is hilarious. I especially laugh at how they counter Aldean’s claim that all the clips are from actual news footage with “Yeah, but it’s not all in the United States!” Never mentioned: Why that’s relevant.
Yeah, I couldn’t understand why that mattered.
The nice thing about this statement is that it applies to nearly any field of inquiry that the Left has been shamelessly lying about with growing intensity in recent years.
Music videos aren’t documentaries!?
The song takes place in front of a courthouse, and did you know something bad happened there once? That means he endorses that bad thing that happened before he was born!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such a strange article. And such an odd obsession. Now do ‘Cop Killer’ by NWA? No?
Oh people did and the pretzel shapes people put their minds into was amazing.
That is just a small sample from Rolling Stone
That’s just gibberish.
“That’s different! Because authentic culture or something or look over there or shut up!”
Ice T, dude. You know, the guy who has made a comfortable living after his rap career fell flat by playing cops on TV.
Thank you. Let’s also remember his efforts with Body Count (which I really like).
Cop Killer was Ice T w/Body Count. NWA did Fuck tha’ Police.
Risk calculus
Extreme heat appears to be killing people in America’s national parks at an alarming pace this year, highlighting both its severity and the changing calculus of personal risk in the country’s natural places as climate change fuels more weather extremes.
More people are suspected to have died since June 1 from heat-related causes in national parks than an average entire year, according to park service press releases and preliminary National Park Service data provided to CNN. No other year had five heat-related deaths by July 23, park mortality data that dates to 2007 shows, and the deadliest month for heat in parks – August – is yet to come.
HOLY FUCK! All the way back to 2007?
What? They don’t have records back 120,000 years like they do for temperatures?
died since June 1 from heat-related causes in national parks than an average entire year
Nice manipulation (potential) of statistics. I’d venture to guess that essentially all heat deaths in US national parks occur between June 1 and Sept 1, but this is framed to compare a small time segment of current year to a full year – even though most months in the full year ‘denominator’ are 0. Additionally, roughly 50% of all years will exceed the ‘average’ – what’s the year to year variance? If we have a stddev of 10 deaths year-to-year and we have even as high as 20 more this year, that will happen roughly 6% of the time by pure chance. I’d venture to guess the deviation is even smaller than that.
No other year had five heat-related deaths by July 23
How many had 3? How many had 4? How about, as you imply, in the last 30 years? You certainly have the data.
Shorter – disingenuous crap designed to skew perception. It may very well be significant, but given the way the data are framed (and we don’t get actual numbers), I going to guess it bullshit and we’re being manipulated for clicks and, more importantly, an agenda. Shocking, I know.
CNN, so of course.
Is it just me or is their hysteria growing? Might be a sign that average people are tuning it out, finally.
They are, and that is what will lead to a shift in panicreporting. Some new climate “related” boogaboo will become the talking point. This is how we have gone from global warming, to anthropogenic global warming to climate change to, well, whatever comes next they can use to scare school kids and liberals.
But, this is interesting:
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-democrats-agenda-has-a-green?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=239058&post_id=135295727&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Fill in the blank with anything.
A buddy called to report recently of such a tragedy in the Big Bend. It’s such a beautiful and rare place that I hate to think about the raw facts of its history, but job one out there is respect it or you’ll get your Christmas cancelled.
I’m not sure of the data, but I’ll stipulate that maybe deaths are up, and why wouldn’t they be: more folk travel, and that means more marbles get launched into the darwinian slot machine of life.
The Big Bend is as good a place to die as any, and I might sign off from there if I have any choice in the setting. As for the FIL who came up snake eyes, he’s a better man than me to even try to run for help. If I killed some girl’s son, you’d find my heap right beside his: no way I’m going home and trying to explain that shit to her.
“No! No one was alive then.” –peak Eddie Izzard
In 2022, the National Park Service received 312 million recreation visits, up 15 million visits (5%) from 2021. While not as high as 2018 and 2019 (318 million and 327 million recreation visits, respectively)…
More people visiting…more potential issues. I would also wager less education about being in the outdoors
Anyone hiking in the desert in 115+ is crazy.
And the lure of getting attention on social media.
The horror – the right is appealing to voters in Spain!
Expect “Unregulated mail-in votes allowed the far right to steal the election in Spain!” shrieking from socialists.
They needn’t worry, more votes will show up at the post office at 3am.
Yeah, there won’t be any shrieking from socialists if they’re doing their job right.
A recent report from Climate Central, a non-profit research group, found that the Southwest heat wave in the first half of July was made at least five times more likely by human-caused climate change.
OH
MY
GOD!
according to my models …
“According to our model…”
I really need to refresh before posting 🙂
Which has never been proven anywhere at any time so GFY.
Extreme heat can trigger heat illness in as little as 20 to 30 minutes for people doing anything strenuous outdoors, like hiking, because heat acts as a “perfect storm,” which overloads the body until it eventually short-circuits and shuts down, Dr. Matthew Levy, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told CNN.
Listen to the man. He’s an expert.
Don’t forget ever increasing obesity…or (arguably) the prevalence of clot shots.
Extreme heat combined with taking away electricity will make everyone skinny. Isn’t that a good goal? Is it not worthy?
Extreme heat cooks the body just like humanity is cooking the planet. We only have ourselves to blame, really.
LOL
War on affordable housing
Elephant Rock’s woes are part of a larger problem at Colorado’s 800-plus mobile home parks, where water and private wells have been under-tested for decades, said state legislators who have regularly received complaints about smelly, discolored water that tastes bad and could be hazardous to residents’ health.
While no data is available to show how widespread the issue is, some legislators said the complaints they’ve received make them believe many mobile home parks don’t meet federal drinking water standards. Until recently, the state didn’t require testing.
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Records from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment show that residents from about 15 mobile home parks have filed 37 complaints since tracking began in March 2020. The complaints cite illness, discoloration, bad taste and failure by park owners to notify residents of poor water quality.
Parks where residents have complained include Mountainside Estates in Golden, Peak View Park in Woodland Park and Elephant Rock.
A survey conducted last year by Voces Unidas de la Montanas, a Colorado-based Latino advocacy group, found that 40% of Latinos who live in mobile home parks in the state don’t trust the water.
“How do we still have these communities where these environmental injustices are happening?” said Alex Sanchez, the group’s president.
“That place sucks. I’d rather see you living under an overpass.”
Meth labs make for bad drinking water.
trust
it’s a weird trend that most want to poll what people feel instead of study and report actual facts
Better headlines.
And, really, that’s all that matters.
“What To Do With Climate Emotions?”
The ironic part of this being that after the guy in Seattle visited 3rd world countries, he became *more* anxious about stupid 1st world problems instead of being thankful for all the comforts and advantages he has. Propaganda’s a helluva drug.
https://archive.is/XJ07a
Slutty Sunday.
It preys on people. A horrible thing. I have had to talk my daughter out of it. The propaganda is everywhere. Malthus had a hell of a reach.
At Apple Tree mobile home park outside Aspen, resident Danule Feichko, 21, said the landowners don’t seem to care about the 900 or so residents who are forced to contend with yellowish tap water.
Park manager Henry Hendrickson declined to comment and referred questions to owner Investment Property Group, which didn’t respond to several phone and email messages.
“I haven’t drank the water in three years,” said Feichko, adding that he plans to move because of the water. “We have the worst water that you’ll ever see.”
And there are a thousand people willing to take over that guy’s spot. I’m just surprised Pitkin County Planning and Zoning hasn’t run those people off before now.
That’s what they are trying to do by turning their water gay or whatever.
My mom had a double-wide with terrible water that I refused to drink but she didn’t seem to mind it. 🤪
Our “clean” water is an anomaly in the overall span of humanity.
beer and fried foods undercredited in the advancement of man
https://teefury.com/products/tee-mens-basic-stupid-fighter?variant=40362034593858
Tempting.
To address the growing concern, the state Legislature this year passed House Bill 1257, which will allow the health department to test the water at the hundreds of mobile home parks in the state over the next five years.
“People deserve dignified living,” said Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, a Democrat from Glenwood Springs and a primary sponsor of the bill who grew up in a mobile home park. Her district in western Colorado includes about 300 of them.
The law, which Gov. Jared Polis signed last month, also requires park owners to remediate any contaminated water found by the testing.
And when the trailer parks are replaced with self storage facilities, the do-gooders will tut tut and blame blame teh capitalism.
Isn’t any residence a “self” storage facility?
Many years ago Michael Moore had a regular TV show somewhere. One episode he proposed putting homeless people in self storage facilities. He was being sarcastic, but I thought he was on to something.
What is the source of water of those places? I’m guessing not a city hookup.
What is the source of water of those places? I’m guessing not a city hookup.
Private wells.
Wanton destruction
Elon Musk said Sunday he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
In a post on the site at 12:06 a.m., the social media platform’s billionaire owner added: “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make (it) go live worldwide tomorrow.”
Musk posted an image of a flickering “X”, and later in a Twitter Spaces audio chat replied “Yes” when asked if the Twitter logo will change, adding that “it should have been done a long time ago.”
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Under Musk’s tumultuous tenure since he bought Twitter in October, the company has changed its business name to X Corp, reflecting the billionaire’s vision to create a “super app” like China’s WeChat.
The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Twitter’s website says its logo, depicting a blue bird, is “our most recognizable asset.”
“That’s why we’re so protective of it,” it added.
The bird was temporarily replaced in April by Dogecoin’s Shiba Inu dog, helping drive a surge in the meme coin’s market value.
The company came under widespread criticism from users and marketing professionals when Musk announced early this month that Twitter would limit how many tweets per day various accounts can read.
The daily limits helped in the growth of Meta-owned rival service Threads, which crossed 100 million sign-ups within five days of launch.
He bought the place just so he could burn it down!
Also- They mention Threads’ spectacular growth, but not the rapid fall-off. Strange.
Merely an oversight!
This woman is a menace.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-plans-water-heater-standards-200336408.html
How she holds a cabinet position is beyond me…didn’t she get caught playing stock market while making rules and violated the Hatch Act?
This will surely drive down the cost of living.
It gets better. This is going to kill people.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-administration-rule-would-ban-nearly-all-portable-gas-powered-generators
High crimes
In either case, the right secured by the Constitution or federal laws would be the right to vote. Somewhat surprisingly, the right to vote is not explicitly found in the Constitution. However, the Supreme Court has recognized, there is a right to vote and have your vote counted in federal elections. In addition, the Supreme Court and other lower courts have held that Section 241 applies to the “right of the voter to have his vote counted.”
How, specifically, could Trump have violated this right? For one, Trump attempted to send fake electors to vote in the Electoral College. This would have nullified the votes of millions of Americans who cast their ballots for Joe Biden. This appears to fit neatly within the Supreme Court’s conclusion in 1974 that the law at issue applies to a conspiracy intended to “have false votes cast.” Further, when Trump pressured Georgia officials to “find 11,780 votes” to allow him to win, that would invalidate the votes of millions who voted for Biden. Indeed, if Trump’s scheme succeeded, it would have harmed every voter who cast a ballot for Biden, not just those who voted for Biden in the states at issue.
All Republican votes are false.
This case will heavily damage the electoral college just as they hope.
Disenfranchising Black voters, who were key to Biden’s victory,
Didn’t Slow Joe receive a smaller proportion of black votes than either Obama or Hillary?
“He got every single African American vote cast! The dark-complected people who didn’t vote for him ain’t really Black!”
See, the “you ain’t black” threat works!
See, Dem vote counters don’t need to be told how to win. They just do what needs doing by instinct.
From OBE’s link:
The proposal would require the most common-sized electric water heaters to achieve efficiency gains with heat pump technology and gas-fired water heaters to achieve efficiency gains through condensing technology.
The standards, to take effect in 2029 if finalized, are expected to save nearly $200 billion and reduce more than 500 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over 30 years, about equal to the combined annual emissions of 63 million homes, or approximately 50% of homes in the United States, the DOE said.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the proposal “builds on the unprecedented actions already taken by this administration to lower energy costs for working families.”
*outright prolonged laughter*
What are the upfront costs? Don’t worry about it.
I don’t object to the technology, of course: I object to the coercion.
The heat pump has its place as part of a larger clean-sheet housing design; I heated a home with one once. Retrofitting for water heating is quite another animal, expensive and unlikely to well-fit hardly any homes (ergo its weak appeal so far).
Often the benefits of such equipment is celebrated without a full accounting. For example, backup systems like resistive or NG are required when temperatures fall and heatpumps can no longer deliver the power needed.
Quit helping me.
A group including water heater maker Rheem, environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council and efficiency and consumer advocacy organizations issued a joint statement welcoming the new standards.
No shit, Shirley?
Smith and his team have brilliantly cited a post-Civil War statute that provides a clear roadmap to criminalize Trump’s conduct. This allows Smith to charge Trump’s actions taken to prevent the transfer of power without having to rely on the Incitement Act and the First Amendment challenges that could raise. Congress designed the law referenced in the target letter as a way to punish those who used terrorist tactics to prevent formerly enslaved people from voting. It is a depressingly appropriate match for what Trump, allegedly, attempted to accomplish in 2020.
The world inside your head is an ugly place, lady.
Post-Civil War statute.
The buildup to the civil war has bee replaying for years. How ironic that a statute from that time is called upon.
The whole thing is absurdly dangerous.
Any old US attorney can bring charges against the President now?
Impeach or GTFO. Oh wait, that’s right, they tried that.
“Elon Musk reveals plans to replace Twitter’s iconic bird logo with an ‘X’ as soon as MONDAY – as he inches closer to renaming the platform”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12328653/Elon-Musk-reveals-plans-replace-Twitters-iconic-bird-logo-X-soon-TOMORROW.html
WAKANDA FOREVER!
Didn’t Slow Joe receive a smaller proportion of black votes than either Obama or Hillary?
This proves the existence of systemic suppression of black votes!
“EXCLUSIVE: My eight-year-old son is a wannabe hacker who ordered an AK-47 from the dark web. I only realized when it showed up on our doorstep
Barbara Gemen, a human resources expert in the Netherlands, revealed her horror after an AK-47 appeared on her doorstep.
She said her son, who she wants to keep anonymous, was ‘very, very excited’ to have managed to get the package — which was routed through nearby Poland and Bulgaria to avoid customs checks — after using the dark web.
But the horrified mother handed the weapon to authorities. The police and his school took no action, she said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12299349/My-eight-year-old-son-ordered-AK-47-ammunition-dark-web.html
Doubt.
Cool! He needs to write a how-to.
Assuming that’s the lady’s real name, she’s not keeping her son anonymous.
his school took no action
The heat pump has its place as part of a larger clean-sheet housing design; I heated a home with one once. Retrofitting for water heating is quite another animal, expensive and unlikely to well-fit hardly any homes (ergo its weak appeal so far).
We’re dealing with people who think replacing every internal combustion engine with an electric motor is not only feasible but an objective improvement.
Tap… tap… tap…. is this thing on?
Links of Mourning? One year past for SP? Or something else?
I’m back in NH from my FreedomFest road trip. If you are in Memphis, Don is a great host. Central BBQ, High Cotton, and Flying Saucer are all good places.
Next weekend will be one year since the gathering in “Butlerville,” so I think the anniversary would be for something else?
Spud’s wife?
“Juul asks FDA to approve its new high-tech vape that has a PARENTAL LOCK – after company was accused of starting a childhood ‘vapedemic’
Juul’s new technology will connect to a web or smartphone application that uses third-party verification to confirm users of its products are adults”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12324407/Juul-asks-FDA-approve-new-high-tech-vape-PARENTAL-LOCK-company-accused-starting-childhood-vapedemic.html
No.
“A Georgia Lowe’s employee attempted to stop shoplifters making off with $2,100 amount of merchandise, leaving her unemployed and with a black eye.
Donna Hansbrough, 68, saw three people loading up a shopping cart at a store in Rincon, about 30 minutes north of Savannah, and then leave without stopping to pay, police said.
The veteran employee then grabbed onto the cart allegedly being pushed by Takyah Berry — who slugged the older woman in the face three times, according to authorities.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/22/lowes-worker-gets-black-eye-loses-job-trying-to-stop-thieves/
Is there any solution here? I don’t remember anything like this four years ago.
Catalog stores.
Indeed. Service Merchandise rebrand as Home Depot Merchandise.
Clarence Saunders is credited with inventing self-serve retail: customers roaming the inventory was largely unknown until its introduction to pre-war grocery.
In the short run, I suspect we all just pay more to cover the higher shrink rates. As ever, the innocent pay for the guilty and the enabler alike.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9a/4a/68/9a4a683fc1b52bc1d942c89e5d9d662a.jpg
+1
I’m not more concerned about the situation tan Lowe’s is
and don’t know why the employee was: she’s probably not being paid well enough to take a punch
Some people have this crazy notion that stealing is wrong.
not news to anyone, of course; I object to theft on principle
so now please answer directly, sir: why should a senior citizen take that punch?
Nobody made her.
She shouldn’t.
There was a video recently of a farm tractor that uses AI and lasers to zap weeds. Maybe something similar could be done to zap shoplifters.
Gas guzzlerz!
The Environmental Protection Agency has taken a partial step with a proposed rule that could boost zero-emission vehicle sales to 67 percent in 2032. Unfortunately the EPA failed to demand any improvements for the tens of millions of new gas guzzlers that make up 93 percent of current sales and will continue to command substantial sales through 2032.
The administration should fix that and strengthen the rule before it’s finalized in the coming months.
Strong auto rules do more than protect our climate. Combined with purchase incentives to drive electric vehicle sales, these standards cut air pollution, save gas, and help us win our share of the EV market and related jobs. And strengthened protections mean less drilling and less reliance on oil from untrustworthy “oiligarchies.”
These measures also save billions at the pump since they encourage automakers to use cost-effective technologies to slash gas consumption and reduce emissions. EV owners will save $6,000 to $12,000 over the life of the vehicle.
Yet instead of improving efficiency, automakers continue to manufacture giant gas guzzlers, many of which haul little more than lattes home from Starbucks.
These heavy, inefficient SUVs and pickups will be polluting our neighborhoods and damaging our climate well into the middle of the century. GM recently killed off its affordable Bolt sedan while investing $2.3 billion to keep making SUVs into the 2030s because they generate huge profits.
The automakers whine that they can’t walk and chew gum—improve gas-powered vehicles and make EVs—at the same time. Why? Because they want to continue to reap the fat profits from SUVs and pickups.
But the technology to cut pollution from gas vehicles today is cheap and widely available. This is auto mechanics, not rocket science.
Components such as improved engines and transmissions, hybrid systems, and high-strength, lightweight materials, are sitting on automakers’ shelves and cheaper than the gas they save. Yet without strong federal standards pushing them to do better, most car companies will continue to leave them on the shelves.
Fucking marginal gains- how do they work?
We must use the might of government to crush personal preference.
Central BBQ, High Cotton, and Flying Saucer are all good places.
Flying Saucer? Is that related to he place in Fort Worth of the same name?
*I was there twenty years ago
yes, Flying Saucer a chain
Memphis draws in the sidewalks pretty early on a Monday, so I couldn’t show DEG to all the best breweries. He is excellent company.
I regret that I no longer remember the ranch for which the Fort Worth location was originally name; the chain was wise to snap up that location
8.0 was the name of the predecessor
but it was owned by the same folks all along
I think the old Flying Saucer on Lower Greenville is long gone. The one in Fort Worth is the nicest I had been in. That was eight years ago, I think. Time is moving quickly.
Carmakers are replacing sedans with huge electric SUVs and pickups. They may not run on gas, but these new EVs can still be energy hogs and commit us to running power plants more and using more minerals than EV sedans, which are lighter, more efficient and need smaller batteries.
Earth may have just experienced the hottest week ever. Fears of the hottest year on record are challenging our leaders to act strongly to prevent cascading devastation from an overheated planet. Now is the time for auto rules that attack every aspect of the problem.
The president must act boldly to slash our need for oil and gas. During this scorching summer, Biden must strengthen the EPA’s rule to take the biggest single step of any nation to cut the carbon pollution cooking our planet.
Electric Isettas for everyone!
Did you see David Tracy’s review of the electric Isetta on Autopian? I voted that he should review that one, it was the most interesting. Thumbs down, even though it looks great.
https://www.theautopian.com/the-microlino-electric-bmw-isetta-is-a-huge-piece-of-crap-but-i-still-love-it/
these new EVs can still be energy hogs
I laughed at an Austin buddy who planned the perfect environmental home for a decade before building it in Austin. I never could get him to see that his designs were at best incremental improvements over his previous domicile: significant reductions in resources would require community living and forgoing many conveniences, comforts, and preferences. I could not convince him that he was entitled to enjoy what he could afford and that his obsession was cultish and largely unproductive.
He built the house. He lived there two years before its inconvenience drove him out.
The EV religion is like the scheme it replaced where Jesus was a car that got 25.1MPG and Satan was one that got 24.9
“In the film, Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy, 47) and Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh, 27) are engaged in sexual intercourse until Jean walks over to a bookshelf and grabs a copy of “Bhagavad Gita” and asks Murphy to read from it.
“Oppy” then reads the line, “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds,” as the duo resumes sexual intercourse…
“It has come to our notice that the movie ‘Oppenheimer’ contains a scene which makes a scathing attack on Hinduism,” tweeted Uday Mahurkar, an information commissioner for the Indian Government, to the film’s director, Christopher Nolan….
Mahurkar added that he does not understand the “motivation and logic behind this unnecessary scene on life of a scientist,” and regards it as “a direct assault on religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus.”
The scene, the commissioner concluded, “amounts to waging a war on the Hindu community and almost appears to be part of a larger conspiracy by anti-Hindu forces.”
The letter sent by Mahurkar accused Hollywood of being more sensitive to depictions of the Quran and Islam and wants that same courtesy extended to Hindus.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/23/oppenheimer-sex-scene-draws-criticism-from-india/
Becoming ever less so since Modi.