I got nothing for sports today. Just nothing. So, moving on to…the links.
Virtue noted!
Oh the humanity! Whatever will people do now that the benefits are ending over a “pandemic” that ended well over a year ago? I guess the people in charge will have to come up with a new vote-buying scheme.
Good enough for government work. This is the least surprising thing I will read today.
“You can’t put a barrier on the border. That’s our job. Now take down that barrier that we have no interest whatsoever in having and let people enter at their leisure.” How is this not a violation of their oaths of office?
Crack painting?
Seems legit. There’s no possible chance in the world this is a payola scheme.
Why does this idiot keep doubling down? I guess he doesn’t want to follow actual science as much as “the science.”
What the hell does diversity have to do with it? Wait, I forgot: they’re not serious people running that city.
OK.
What does it all mean? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. But probably nothing more than a rich guy fixing on something a little weird.
Yawn. Big, giant, fucking yawn. These people are never right.
Bonus link: no fucking shit. Now, what is society going to do about these acts of barbarism?
Here’s an underrated song. And it’s from one of the 20 greatest albums of all time. And I’ll stick with that album for the second track. Which is an absolute masterpiece. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this toasty Tuesday, dear friends.
That took me forever to read.
Six minutes.
My brain didn’t know to do with the “e”.
I haven’t read anything yet, I was arguing with microsoft.
They crammed another condescending suggestion bot into outlook that tried to tell you how to start responses, and I had to find where to turn that off. What is with them and reincarnating Clippy?
“It looks like you are writing a suicide note, maybe try Linux?”
Just because other OS’s have kill instead of taskkill…. 😉
`kill -9 wine`
Gives them a fig leaf excuse to harvest every bit of data in your workflow. “We’re just feeding the AI to help you work better! Not selling your online profile for ads and scammers! No sirree, Microsoft Bob!”
My work data won’t help them do that. Besides, they already have all the emails themselves thanks to some moron who decided a cloud solution was even workable.
Fuck. We’ve been going thru that. The powers that be mandated moving everything to the cloud by 1 June, with no plan on how to do it, and no expertise on solving problems.
We killed ourselves trying to translate 20 year old processes into cloud based microsoft 365 solutions , only to have them quietly move the deadline to July of 24.
Meanwhile we made the transition. Everything sucks. It is slow and buggy. If you lose connection while processing one of the hundreds of reports we generate every day, you end up with disjointed reports and multiple versions of various things.
All so that it is easier to do top down management. Fuck the users.
I was shocked that the defense contractor I worked for went to MS 365 as well as cloud based Teams.
DoD has joined the cloud insanity for the unclassified info system. Madness,
FWIW Azure has a separate infrastructure just for FedGov
Hey! Welcome to the club. It sucks.
Ok, Ms. Lewis
“What does it all mean? ”
Adult books, I don’t understand.
Why book when there is videos for free on the interwebs about everyone’s favorite step moms and such?
There’s a drunk in my past who swears each drink is the last.
“Now, what is society going to do about these acts of barbarism?”
The backlash won’t be good. Also, almost everyone is blaming the wrong people.
If the backlash is severe enough, it could be good.
But you’re probably right. It won’t be nearly as severe as it should be. Besides, we probably don’t have enough prison space for all the people who pushed and participated in the chemical and physical mutilation of these kids.
–Kosh
Are you saying it is time for us to get off our encounter suited butts and do something?
I’m slightly relieved that the proposed reboot appears to be dead. I would hate to see Nightwatch turned into space-MAGA/Q-ANON instead of the totalitarian leftists they were.
Neph nails it.
::high-fives Neph::
I recognized it without the attribution
If the backlash went after all the people who pushed and participated in the chemical and physical mutilation of these kids, who are the leftist gay orgs, gay press, the manufacturer of Lupron, medical corporations who built pediatric gender clinics, school boards, teachers unions, and the DNC, that could be good. Unfortunately, it seems people want to go after trans people, who have almost nothing at all to do with it.
who are the leftist gay orgs, gay press, the manufacturer of Lupron, medical corporations who built pediatric gender clinics, school boards, teachers unions, and the DNC
I don’t know any gay orgs who are pushing for genital mutilation and chemical castration of kids.
Unfortunately, it seems people want to go after trans people
But I do know there are trans/queer/NB adult activist groups who have been for some time now.
Having said that, I would be perfectly happy with the ire being focused exclusively on the drug manufacturers and medical professionals who have directly carried out the acts. I don’t want to stifle anybody’s 1A rights to advocate for stupid shit (because that is a slippery slope). But I’d sure like to see the people who participated in the acts held accountable in the most severe ways possible.
I’m quite comfortable with useful idiots and propagandists suffering professional and social consequences. They’ll never learn otherwise.
And, of course, por encourager les autres.
“I don’t know any gay orgs who are pushing for genital mutilation and chemical castration of kids. ”
HRC, GLAAD, GLSEN, Trevor Project, Stonewall, etc.
“But I do know there are trans/queer/NB adult activist groups who have been for some time now.”
Queer and NB aren’t trans, and are mostly political identities. Off-hand, I don’t know of an activist group pushing trans kids that is run by or mostly consists of trans people.
Trans Youth Equality Foundation and Stand With Trans are two I can think of off the top of my head.
https://www.transyouthequality.org/about-us
https://standwithtrans.org/meet-the-team/
Doesn’t look like it.
Yeah, only half the staff of the second group are trans/queer/NB. What was I thinking?
“Yeah, only half the staff of the second group are trans/queer/NB. What was I thinking?”
That lumping queer and NB with trans makes sense?
As far as I can tell, the only truly powerful trans people who are pushing this shit are Rachel Levine and Jennifer Pritzker.
To be clear: you think that T/Q/NB is not a coherent grouping. Do you think that LGBTI2SQQA is? Because conventional wisdom is that if you don’t think kids should be transed, you must want to kill gays.
This is getting too complicated.
“To be clear: you think that T/Q/NB is not a coherent grouping. Do you think that LGBTI2SQQA is?”
No, that’s my WiFi password.
Just to be more clear, the gay orgs moved on to trans kids after they achieved the their goals. What were supposed to do, pack up their shit and go home? Get real jobs?
Come to Washington. Everyone of them is “protect trans kids” and in support of gender affirming care – by which they mean hormones and surgery. They even tried to pass a bill that would have CPS take your kids if you denied them gender affirming care.
Unfortunately, it seems people want to go after trans people, who have almost nothing at all to do with it.
You’re still doing this huh.
Yes, what is so difficult to understand?
It’s the factual but not truthful bit. Yes, the very small population of “real” trans people (I assume we are defining that as those with actual gender dysphoria, who do not want to normalize the bulge) may get caught up in the backlash. However, there are still plenty of people who identify (and that’s all that really matters these days) as trans who deserve a backlash. The “real” trans people will likely be fine anyway, as they are accustomed to the hard work of actually presenting as the opposite sex.
How is it not truthful?
Well the “seems” and “people” bits render it a nullity, truth-valuewise. But beyond that to the extent that anyone is “going after” anyone else, they’re not going after transfolx, they’re going after trans-the-children advocates.
“Well the “seems” and “people” bits render it a nullity, truth-valuewise.”
What?
“But beyond that to the extent that anyone is “going after” anyone else, they’re not going after transfolx, they’re going after trans-the-children advocates.”
I don’t see anyone standing up to Big Gay. There are also plenty of people, gay and not, blaming trans people — even here. There is the “LGB without the T” thing that is gaining popularity. There is also all the anti-trans rhetoric in response to trans-the-children, prison policies, etc.
Legislatively, laws have been passed banning child transitions, but also things such as trans bathroom laws at the same time.
Legislatively, laws have been passed banning child transitions, but also things such as trans bathroom laws at the same time.
You gotta start somewhere. Good for them.
The X logo is only the first stage. Next will be lines extending from the tips at right angles.
Forming four enclosed diamonds? Isn’t that the microsoft logo?
I’ll be shocked if I don’t read that written in earnest by some progressive by the end of the week.
Nah. They’ll just say the X is a dog whistle that evokes the swastika to those who know what to look for (which for some reason includes themselves, but they’re good people).
Of course they are good people! They agree with all the dogmas of the cult and hate all the right people and things. That’s how you define good people.
Twist: Musk converts to the Nation of Islam, claims the X is in honor of the Sixties activist, adds the clinched black fist logo as an underlay behind the X but makes it white so the X stays visible.
Chattering Class collectively goes insane trying to parse it all out.
The white face of the black face of white supremacy.
The African face of white supremacy?
IF you can hear the dog whistle, you are the dog.
I just figured Elon spent way too many nights playing XTrek in the CS lab like the rest of us 90s CS oriented geeks and misses the old X logo/icon.
Maybe he’s embraced the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
These Covid-19 pandemic-era relief programs are expiring soon
We need to shovel money as quickly as possible to get as many people as possible addicted.
Millions of Americans are expected to lose their Medicaid coverage this fall as states continue reviewing residents’ eligibility and disenrolling those who no longer qualify. States had been barred by Congress from winnowing their Medicaid rolls since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
The horror.
How can the feds legally prohibit the states from determining their own Medicaid eligibility standards? Sounds like a gigantic tenth amendment violation to me.
The 9th and 10th amendments are deader than freedom of association.
It’s a state-federal program and unless the feds write specific legislation barring the states from establishing eligibility requirements, then it’s up to the states. They can’t change that temporarily by EO.
Man, can this Supreme Court kill Chevron please?
Be careful how you phrase things — I’m sure there’s a chunk of the court that would literally like to shut down Chevron (and Exxon, etc.)
Have you not been paying attention to the left’s move of consolidating all power in the executive while diluting the other 2 branches? To do power authoricratically right, you know to protect muh democracy, you need a monarch, emperor, or first citizen make edicts.
Not the executive, the unaccountable entrenched bureaucracy — the massive alphabet soup of agencies.
Those are all executive departments.
On paper, but in practice they are a fourth branch of government.
“Trust Us” from the Pacific Legal Foundation is a good documentary.
This court, you mean the one that didn’t kill affirmative action and routinely turns away obvious violations of their own 2A decisions? This court, reign in the administrative state?
I mean, I guess anything’s possible, but . . . .
White House spokesman Abdullah Hasan defended Biden’s border policies in a statement, arguing Abbott’s “dangerous and unlawful actions are undermining that effective plan.” Hasan said such actions were “making it hard for the men and women of Border Patrol to do their jobs of securing the border, and putting migrants and border agents in danger.”
Man, if Tapioca Joe’s immigration plan has been effective, I’d hate to see what an ineffective plan looks like.
I don’t know how anyone can say Joe’s plan is effective without being struck by lightning.
It’s pretty simple: their definition of “effective” is very different from yours and mine.
I’d say it’s been effective beyond the Left’s wildest dreams, myself.
Well, I can go into churches without bursting into flames, so I think you might be relying a bit too much on actual Divine Retribution.
Depends on the goal, which is to traffic illegal aliens people into the country, not prevent illegal immigration.
I have a bone to pick with the contention that “Our society’s ‘top brains’ have gone mad — and dysfunctional politics is the result“. The problem is caused because these people all were brainwashed into idiocy by our education system, and especially higher learning academia, where nobody ever has to face consequences for not only being wrong, but being evil.
Reality-tests in Warby’s words – in places, like academia and govt bureaucracy there are very few reality-tests, and thus you never get bad ideas killed.
“The first committee meeting on health and human relations was led by Alderwoman Rossana-”
I read that, had a flashback, and knew it was SNL re-visited. Turned out I was close. Chicago will never change…
Question for the Glibs at large – how well (or poorly) does an air fryer do at getting the skins of chicken wings crispy?
Mrs F displaced her air fryer with a countertop oven. Haven’t seen the air fryer for a couple years, it’s here, with all her stuff, somewhere.
Yeah, but I’m not as good a cook, so I’m wondering if that sort of appliance might work for me.
Air fryers are useless. Just bake them and then put it on broil for a minute on each side when you’re about done.
Eh, wouldn’t go so far as to call them useless. My parents only use theirs to bake potatoes, but it does a magnificent job of that. Faster too, and of course less energy/heating of the house.,
Yup…. I got my mom one after her normal stove went on the fritz (the range top works fine, the oven literally won’t shut off… they’re very much retired and don’t need to cook much and don’t want the hassle of changing it, and I’m on the other side of the country / not there to supervise such work). Granted I got one a little fancier than the El Cheapo ones that explicitly called out baking options — but she can use it to air fry or as a small convection oven, and to my understanding she uses it all the time for cakes, biscuits, meats, etc. One of the best things I’ve bought them at this point, imho.
What brand/model?
I think it was an Oster… when you’re visiting on a transcontinental trip, “Best I can find at Walmart” becomes an option. But it worked out very well — something akin to this, though I think hers is chrome on the front. Definitely the split front doors, two shelves, etc.
Scratch that — this one looks right. I think the controls were digital… sorry, been more than a year since I bought it for her.
Thank you.
Two words – cheese curds. They taste alright out of the oven, but the air fryer really does them right.
Isn’t an air fryer just a simplified/glorified convection oven? I haven’t put wings in ours. It does well for reheating items you want to recrisp and cooking sweet potatoes, baked potatoes, fries, etc.
Yes. It gets hot and moves the air quickly so that insulating layers don’t form around food. That’s also why it needs an oil layer around food, so that can get >212 F.
My wife has a technic where she parboils the wings to cook and puts them in the oven to crisp up.
After years of experimentation is results in juicy wings with crispy skin.
Sous vide the wings (in whatever sauce/spices you are using). Finish under the broiler or on the grill. Best wings you’ll ever have, and it’s not even close.
Quite well. I wouldn’t use an air fryer for anything that’s battered (as it would just make a mess), but for getting close to a deep fryer without needing to fuss with the oil, they’re good.
Very well. It is how I cook them these days. Also does a great job with thighs, imho.
Two words: Convection. Oven.
Makes me wonder why we ever ask questions here to a group of contrarian assholes…
But anyway, IMO, an air fryer is great at making crispy chicken wings. I have even done it with frozen wings and while it takes longer you can still get them nice and crispy.
Because I know I will get a variety of opinions, and people might be convinced to provide additional information to support their position if there’s debate.
That is indeed a great album, Sloop.
Who Sampled for that album ends up being a great rabbit-hole:
https://www.whosampled.com/sample/2530/Beastie-Boys-Looking-Down-the-Barrel-of-a-Gun-Incredible-Bongo-Band-Last-Bongo-in-Belgium/
That website is awesome. I’d forgotten the address, so thanks for the link.
KEXP Seattle did an entire day of programming where they played all of the songs sampled on Paul’s Boutique…
https://www.kexp.org/breakdown/paulsboutique/
Absolutely is a fantastic album, and I am not a huge fan of the Beasties.
Last Bongo in Belgium is a great fucking song. The guitar solo is one of my all time favorites, just absolutely rips.
a “pandemic” that ended well over a year ago?
It’s a respiratory illness. They spread like wildfire and are unavoidable. It was over before it was announced as a pandemic.
The expiration of these programs, which were created by Congress in the early years of the pandemic, will strip away economic assistance that millions of Americans have received for years and still rely on.
Never should have existed in the first place because gov’t-is-assho should not have levied “pandemic” restrictions.
Much like the current summer cold. Everyone here got it within two weeks.
I have it now. Lady friend got it worse. I started taking extra vitamins when she got symptoms. She still has it worse than me.
Same. Daughter and wife got it bad. I hesitate to say I am immune. My symptoms have been very slight.
We need to keep paying people to sit on their ass for an indeterminate number of years because equity.
Sigh… close tags, idiot.
“Biden’s dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s nearly two-year-old German shepherd Commander bit seven people in a four-month period after former first dog Major was ousted from the White House over similar aggressive behavior, according to internal Secret Service communications reviewed by The Post.
The shocking spate of incidents involving Commander — none of them previously known — mirror attacks involving Major, who the White House says was given to family friends after biting many Secret Service members in 2021.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/biden-dog-commander-bit-or-threatened-10-people-sent-one-to-hospital/
Sounds like the dog isn’t the problem.
“Wait, you’re telling me I own a dog?”
-Joe Biden (probably)
DR. Jill (while holding tub of peanut butter purchased at CostCo): Oh, we definitely do!
It’s finding all the hidden baggies of coke.
There are no bad dogs, just bad owners.
/Every pit bull owner I’ve met
Justice Department sues Texas over a floating barrier in Rio Grande intended to deter migrant crossings
The civil suit comes days after the Justice Department notified Texas of its intent to sue unless the state took action to remove the buoys by Monday afternoon.
The TX border with Mexico is not just a national border, it is a TX border. They should control it as they see fit and tell the feds to fuck off.
is not just a national border, it is a TX border
God willing, those two will be one and the same someday.
Purely academic, I know, but the Constitution actually has interesting phrasing around immigration.
As in, it doesn’t mention it. It talks about naturalization (granting citizenship), but that’s about it. From a purely textual read, it’s not hard to get to the conclusion that immigration is one of the powers reserved to the states. Of course, it gets weird when, say, NM lets half of Central America in, and then they want to cross the internal border to Texas or Arizona.
Wouldn’t it fall under foreign policy?
It’s not relations between governments, so not directly.
it gets weird when, say, NM lets half of Central America in, and then they want to cross the internal border
That would be a problem. Dual sovereignty is dual.
Bonus link: https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/operation-hydra-montgomery-county-sting/285-66f12da1-d479-48de-9366-16f8f20b9a71
I couldn’t find this during my milk run for links this morning but thought it needed to be mentioned. That’s my county, btw.
Seems like after Katrina, bad things happened around Houston.
I hear that from a lot of lifelong Houstonians. And that after Harvey it spread to the outlying areas.
I think we’re insulated out here on the lake, but I feel for my old neighbors in Spring. It’s definitely gotten north of Beltway 8.
Access Denied
I did not know you owned a county .
Isn’t there a “civilized country” setting on your VPN?
no such vpn on my work computer
“They also said that 19 children who had been sexually abused or exploited were “rescued” over the 12-month operation,”
Interesting use of scare quotes.
Obamas’ chef Tafari Campbell dies in paddleboarding accident
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66297450
That’s so sad. I’ll never understand why somebody would paddleboard without a life jacket on. And when they can’t swim well it’s even more of a head-scratcher.
“Hillary in the Kitchen with a Paddleboard!
*Wins Clue
Nah… my paranoid brain jumps more to “What did he find out about Michelle?”.
Let the Wookie win, indeed.
Penis?
I swim fairly well overall, but I generally don;t like life jackets when on boats and only wear if mandatory…
Boating ≠ paddleboarding.
I never wear a jacket on the boat or when I’m swimming from it. But I’d probably wear one if I were on a SUP just because I saw that Brady Bunch episode where they went to Hawaii and Greg was surfing with the tiki doll around his neck that Bobby found while inexplicably being allowed to wander a construction site unsupervised. The board hit his head and he almost drowned. I wouldn’t want that to happen to me.
to be fair never paddleboarded myself
It’s not nearly as much fun as being paddleboarded by someone else.
There was a family that paddleboarded from mainland Wisconsin to Madelline Island a few years ago. None had lifejackets. All but mom (dad and 2 kids) drowned.
Don’t mess with big water.
Yikes!
Yep. Every year there’s several local stories about people drowning, usually no lifejackets, alcohol (and other drugs), and not that far off coast. That’s not getting into the idiots who cause the East bank of the Flats to go through a shutdown every decade or so because they decide that swimming across the Cuyahoga in the dark, after drinking, while barges move through, is a better idea than waiting for the free ferry across the river.
The fire should provide enough light.
I heard?read? a while back that the vast majority of boat drownings in Minnesoda, the victims had unbuttoned flies. They were trying to take a leak over the side of the boat and fell in.
It’s called a bailing can. And don’t stand up.
Absolutely. If you hate the big bulky ones, at least wear something that can self-inflate. I hate big water. That means big waves, and nobody ever thinks about that. Doesn’t matter how well you swim if waves pop up.
Oof, looks like at least 2 miles of open water. That’s not for the unprepared.
They are made in yellow or orange, easier to locate the victim
Obviously global warming. Soon the entire Obama compound will be underwater.
You know, Hunter does have a bit of artistic talent but on the other hand I once bought a very similar painting at a local Goodwill for ten bucks and I was kicking myself for not talking them down to five. It’s an influence peddling scheme, no doubt.
“Biden Administration’s Next Target: Your Water Heater”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-administrations-next-target-your-water-heater
Keep your damn hands off my water heater you corrupt corksuckers.
There he goes sticking it to the super rich again.
I like his blow jobs.
Isn’t that more of a learned skill kind of like plumbing or automotive repair?
“Kentucky ‘queen of chaos’ goes viral for celebrating mugshot portfolio on Instagram”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/former-kentucky-coed-rayanna-belle-brock-goes-viral-for-mugshot-portfolio/
hot/crazy?
doable but not hot enough
Definitely. Isn’t somebody here about to move to Kentucky? Instant girlfriend.
Checks link…hmm Ill get back to you on the outcome.
Upper-right quadrant of the matrix.
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
She sounds like the kind of chick you’re having a blast with and then you’re all like “No wait what the fuck are you doing? Oh shit oh shit oh shit I gotta go…”
See — she’ll help you get rid of evidence!
Yup, she helped Hunter get rid of that evil gun.
Good looking enough…I think I could fix her.
Wishes Stinky a fond farewell. It’s been nice knowing ya’
No one who wears an argyle sweater can be all bad.
Exactly, I’m thinking it indicates she secretly harbors a desire to relax around the house while reading intellectually stimulating books but she just hasn’t met a guy who’ll let her do that yet. I wonder if whatever institution she’s currently/will soon be in has a prison pen pal program.
Anyone remember this character from My So-Called Life?
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/476748310539958328/
Yipes – no remorse detected in any of those photos. Run!
Schwing.
Two can play at this game
https://twitter.com/CapX/status/1683786736424321024
Students—Including Most Conservative Ones—Now Want Their Professors Censored | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/studentsincluding-most-conservative-onesnow-want-their-professors-censored-opinion-1814966
I think this may be broadly in line with the right trying to bet the left at their own game… Then again conservatives have not been that pro free speech.
Students are dumb. That’s why they’re students.
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”
CPI(M) Puducherry ☭
@pycpim
“The working class is the only class capable of achieving a socialist revolution.”
#CPIM #JoinCPIM #JoinCommunistParty #Socialism #Communism
https://twitter.com/pycpim/status/1683353566889517056
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CPM is hand in gloves with the bourgeoisie, to the extent that they don’t even form a left front and always align with congress…
Workers have been deceived by you guys the most…”
Not the real commie party it seems. Always double check your commie parties before joining.
The Bolsheviks beg to differ.
So that’s why Real Socialism(tm) has never been tried.
I’m holding out for the Judean People’s Front, thank you very much.
splitter.
Funniest thing I have seen in a while
https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1683461607911747584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1683461607911747584%7Ctwgr%5E351801f6d2cc0366096932555ae5615ca209aa1e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F596946%2F
And a BB gun would have solved this, but, well, wankers.
Ha! I had the same idea. 5 minute job for a guy with a pellet gun.
Of course, even if there was a real guy in that group of ninnies, the Brit govt wouldn’t let him have anything as dangerous as an air rifle.
The most hilarious part was them trying to get that ladder in place.
Just leave the balloons alone, one day they’ll come down by themselves. BB guns would be faster though
They are meeting in a church, like most religions.
Health officials and city leaders discussed Monday what’s needed to get Chicago on the right track in terms of mental health.
Escape Chicago.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Every once in a while, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety releases a chart of the most dangerous makes and model of cars, broken down by segment. This year’s has a but of additional info: deaths of other drivers in a collision. In other words, what models are not only driven by knuckleheads who are likely to off themselves, but what models are likely to take out innocents as well. Pretty fun chart to play with.
The results are unsurprising. Turns out that giving copious horsepower to groups not known for sound decision-making is a recipe for mayhem on the roadways. Big Altima Energy is borne out by numbers.
Reminds me of the Grand Tour French episode. Apparently the French have Big Altima Energy on a national scale.
https://youtu.be/x44reNb0GDg
Really interesting. Thanks, Shpip!
I wonder what the deal is with Ram 1500s. The other driver death rate is insane!
Yusef drives a killing machine . . . .
Kia Optima 80 (45-115) 134 (86-182) 2019-20
Ford Mustang coupe 59 (31-86) 66 (35-98) 2017-20
Ford Mustang GT coupe 77 (45-109) 59 (32-86) 2017-20
Ford Mustang convertible 97 (41-153) 46 (7-84) 2017-20
Chevrolet Camaro coupe 110 (76-145) 88 (58-117) 2017-20
Chevrolet Camaro convertible 113 (34-191) 69 (10-127) 2017-20
Nissan 350Z sports car 48 7 2006-09
The Z is too low to the ground to hurt anyone one. It’ll wind up underneath anything you hit.
Given the amount of stupid TRX videos I see, that might explain why other people are getting hit. If they were to split out TRX from regular RAM 1500’s I’m sure the rate would be even higher, but also check out the very large trucks.. Ram 3500’s are almost double that rate of other deaths.
Could it be the bumper height? Fy F-150 seems to sit quite a bit lower.
Could it be the bumper height?
Yes.
https://www.seat.com/car-terms/s/side-impact-protection
Due to the virtually non-existent deformation zones on the side of the car, occupants are particularly vulnerable in a side crash. Since the bodywork at this point offers, unlike the front and rear sections, very little scope for absorbing energy by means of crumple zones, the sides must be designed with maximum stability, so that the passenger cell is deformed as little as possible. SEAT uses different protective mechanisms in the side of the car, which sustainably reduce the risk of injury:
Side impact bars increase the rigidity of the doors and distribute the energy in the event of a side-on crash.
Full-size pickups and SUVs tend to ride over the top of the side impact bars in a collision, thus crushing/killing any occupant on that side (in a passenger car struck in the side).
Manufacturers have been lowering/extending the front bumpers on pickups and SUVs to make sure they contact with side impact bars in passenger vehicles.
A decade or so ago, soccer moms across the country were outraged when they bought full-size SUVS to protect their kids (because they are “safer”) only to find their insurance rates went up dramatically.
Insurance is for when you cause an accident, and when you hit a passenger vehicle broadside with a full-size SUV you are way more likely to kill someone.
What does it all mean?
If only someone could x-plain.
Vo!
I thought a “wildfire” was started by nature such as a lightning strike. If the gov’t does it, it’s just arson.
Portions of Galveston will fall below sea level as waters rise due to climate change
I’m going to go out on a limb here and vehemently disagree.
, according to a new interactive map design.
“My model says…”
Did anyone check to see if Obama’s mansion will still be above ground? Or will it be protected by a levee of abandoned paddleboards?
Obama just walks out onto his porch every morning and commands the seas to retreat from his property.
Obama, bathrobe hanging open, paunch protruding over pastel-plaid boxers, with coffee mug in one hand, steps onto porch. The rising sun on his jug ears casts deep shadows around the nape of his neck. He raises his free hand, channeling Charlton Heston-as-Moses, and intones: “Pea .. ” *cough* *spit* “Peace, turbulent waters.” He pauses, long enough to imagine that he has had some effect, turns back towards the house. “She doesn’t like it, she can come out and command the damn waters.”
https://twitter.com/dyingscribe/status/1683536936755970079
Hey hey, suitably irreverent but not overly mean. A solid B+.
Just another GOP welfare queen state.
Wyoming has been criticized by some for a perception that the state takes much more from the federal government than it pays because of its low tax rates.
A new report from the Rockefeller Institute says the Cowboy State actually ranks in the top 10 in federal taxes paid per capita.
The study of 2021 federal revenue figures, featured in The Washington Post, finds that Wyoming pays the seventh most taxes per capita to the federal government. It also pays the most taxes per capita of any Republican-majority state at $14,260.
A concept of basic economics and the proper role of government?
As of today, it’s been 14 years since the $7.25 federal minimum wage was last raised.
@POTUS
supports raising the wage to at least $15.
MAGA Republicans have repeatedly blocked an increase.
What do they have against millions of working families making more?
make it 30
Maybe because it isn’t working families? It’s starter job income. If a person never progresses beyond starter job income, that person is a loser.
Perhaps you, like me, were curious about this Buck Hoover who spent 100 straight hours awake sustained by Coca-Cola alone. Turns out he did a bunch of promotional stunts, also including driving without sleep for days (!) and roping steers from airplanes.
https://twitter.com/harrymccracken/status/1683674273007931392
Was it the original formula maybe? We really should start putting cocaine in it again.
That’s why all those old-timey peeps were skinny.
“It’s a cover-up! Florence Pugh’s topless scene in Oppenheimer is censored in Middle East and India with star’s body covered up by a computer-generated black dress
While the uncensored version showcases Pugh lounging topless in a hotel room chair, audiences in the Middle East and India were presented with a discreetly placed computer-generated black dress covering her body down to the thigh.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12334895/Florence-Pughs-topless-scene-Oppenheimer-censored-Middle-East-India-Brit-stars-body-covered-computer-generated-black-dress.html
I have no idea why she is an upcoming star, other than showing her tits all the time.
Just remember, Actors are prostitutes with less dignity.
She doesn’t even have much going on in that dept.
That qualifies her to be in a Ginger Dead Man sequel. Does not equate to fame.
Chubby, middling actress with a nose ring and shitty haircut.
Gee, I’m so interested and turned on.
You forgot the dead eyes, prominently on display at the premier.
Other than the fashion choices of the day and age, she is a decent looking girl. Looks much better with vintage styled hair than the “I need to shock my mum” chop and dye job, but who doesn’t.
These days, isn’t the chop job that shocks your mum something else?
I remember running out to get Paul’s Boutique and being disappointed listening the first time through. Then the 2nd time through, something clicked. It remains my favorite or 2nd favorite album by them, depending on the mood. Check Your Head was also damn near perfect. Not a bad song on either album. I have all their albums and think they’re great, but those 2 albums stand out for me.
I could use one of these.
The war in Ukraine has attracted a wide range of Western volunteers to the country, from frontline soldiers to aid workers delivering critically needed supplies.
But an Instagram influencer from Houston, Texas, who moved to Ukraine as the war raged, is the only one describing herself as an “emotional support stripper.”
Every airline should employ these for those times you are stuck on the runway for more than 2 hours.
Buttihead needs to get right on it.
Rebel with his govt assigned emotional support stripper
We could use one of those around here. Someone get Lobster Girl on the phone.
“Koung has used her social media presence to create an OnlyFans account that is free for Ukrainian soldiers, volunteers, and the occasional local civilian who she thinks could use some cheering up.”
Just set your VPN to Ukraine?
“On the site, she refers to herself as a “globe-trotting girlfriend, now volunteering in Kharkiv.” She added that she makes content about “everything from free emotional breastfeeding to soldiers and volunteers,” to collecting donations to distribute to volunteers.”
WTF is free emotional breastfeeding?
“Currently, the OnlyFans model is dating a Ukrainian drone operator, a power plant worker, and two information technology workers.”
“dating”
Party foul. You’re not supposed to lick the muzzle.
Now it needs to be oiled again.
“Now Elon Musk joins backlash against Barbie film’s portrayal of anti-man feminism saying: ‘If you take a shot every time Barbie says the word “patriarchy” you will pass out before the movie ends'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12334741/Now-Elon-Musk-joins-backlash-against-Barbie-films-portrayal-anti-man-feminism-saying-shot-time-Barbie-says-word-patriarchy-pass-movie-ends.html
They actually use the word “patriarchy”.
Good morning, Sloop!
Bullshit. This article points to a different culprit: The Truth About Western Wildfire
Yeah, it’s government.
Worthwhile read, though.
MPR has a story on the evils of driving while high.
It is actually an interesting question. How do you know that a person is high while driving shitty? There isn’t any objective test for THC the way there is for booze. Of course the govt is taking a terrible approach:
Why not pretend that the drug dogs can tell if a person is high? I have just as much confidence in that “science” as I do the DRE.
Hmmmm…. I’d like to become a DRE trainer. $2600/day/student sounds like a good deal. Rent out a hotel meeting room for 2 weeks and fill it up with a couple hundred cops.
But if you want to be a doctor of DRE, you have to learn it on the streets.
I wonder how many of those training hours are for when to use force against a suspected pot head?
Beats by DRE
“$2600/day/student”
Wow
That is $3000 too much per student day.
Actually, you’d have to pay me a lot to sit through that crap.
“Trader Joe’s recalls signature almond cookies because they may contain rocks
Stones or pebbles are more likely to contaminate food products during harvest season, according to SafeFood360.
Rock contamination is most common in items that use raw material from fields, such as nuts, fruits, and vegetables, the food safety company explained.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/trader-joes-recalls-cookies-because-they-may-contain-rocks/
Even worse, almonds grow on trees.
Living near almond orchards (they’ve driven the dairies almost completely out of the Central Valley, but there’s still some orchards) — I know that they actually shake the nuts out of the trees and harvest from the ground. So no surprise there’s a chance of rocks. Needs better processing to separate them apparently.
Well, OK.
Pistachio harvesting seems much more civilized.
/still have a mondo pistachio butter addiction.
Obama body count?
The body of the former White House sous chef who worked for ex-President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle was recovered Monday in the waters near their Martha’s Vineyard estate, Massachusetts police said.
Tafari Campbell, 45, known as one of the chefs who brewed White House honey ale beer while Obama was in office — using honey from Michelle Obama’s famous South Lawn garden — went to work for the former first couple when they left the White House.
How this will be covered in DNC controlled media talk shows: “Slanderous white supremacists are suggesting
Chef Campbell was murdered by the sainted Obamas. The public needs to stop this kind of nonsense and report only the truth. We suspect Chef Campbell was depressed because he had to leave the White House in 2017 because HitlerTrump refused to continue with Campbell’s services as WH sous chef. How many more great Americans will HitlerTrump be allowed to kill if he is re-elected?”
This is wholesome and hilarious.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/15921fj/dad_fakes_a_interview_to_see_daughters_reaction/
LOVED IT!
Anyone want to bet that unemployment rates will jump up now that the Rona Welfare benefits are running out?
I have no data, but I wonder how many lazy bastards have just been sitting on the couch collecting them and now that they are gone, will go down to the Welfare office to keep the money coming. Then they will get added to the unemployment rate stats.
That assumes that the gov’t is putting out truthful numbers.
I would bet that it is more like that we see Covid deaths go up.
This will not curry favor with the people.
India’s rice export ban has triggered panic buying at US supermarkets, causing the price of a 20-pound bag to surge from $16 to almost $50 in some stores.
The south Asian country, which accounts for 40 percent of world rice exports, ordered a halt to its largest rice export category, non-basmati rice, on Thursday to calm domestic prices, sparking fears of global shortages.
Videos and reports shared on social media over the weekend show Indian-Americans standing in long lines or panic-buying rice in Texas, Michigan, New Jersey Alabama, Ohio, Illinois and California.
Ha! I have my giant bag of jasmine rice for emergency purposes. Finally, I did something right!
Texas rice growers are about to cash in.
Fake news. There is no water in Texas, thus no rice.
/climate scientist
I would have thought Eastern Arkansas (I swear everything visible along I-40 from Memphis to Little Rock is a gorram rice field) would suffice.
We’re producting too much rice.
Eastern Arkansas is indeed the biggest rice producer in the US. Texas has quite a few fields still, but nowhere near what we used to. For those familiar with the SE side of Houston, Baybrook Mall sits on former rice fields.
In totally unrelated news, I’m cheering this on so that my bonus goes back up next April.
I’m Sikh of these turbanulant markets!
MAa Basmati!
Perhaps mail-in voting just should not be a thing.
In May, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) launched a new offensive to seize control of the USPS Board of Governors with the goal of transforming the $81 billion organization into the world’s biggest mail-in ballot collector. APWU protesters gathered outside the board’s quarterly meeting in Washington, D.C., to harangue Postmaster General Louis DeJoy—a Trump appointee—and demand Biden replace the DeJoy-friendly board with a “progressive” majority bent on firing him and expanding vote-by-mail.
Their agent of choice: Former Rep. Brenda Lawrence, the recently retired Democrat representing Detroit. Lawrence is a former postal worker and member of both APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers. The other likely candidate is former Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who passed the $57 billion Postal Reform Act of 2022 (with DeJoy’s help), expanding mail delivery services and postal worker healthcare benefits.
Burn it all down.
LOL could they be any more transparent?
I laughed at the journo claiming Musk was ousted from Twitter, like WTF. Handing the teins over to someone else in YOUR company in no way means you’ve been ousted.
Now do Patrice Cullors. I slay me.
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/07/24/bundy-rodriguez-and-groups-ordered-to-pay-52-5m-in-damages-for-idaho-hospital-harassment-jury-rules/
According to my model…
The heat waves stretching across North America and Europe this month would have been “virtually impossible” without the human-induced climate emergency, according to a new scientific study.
In China, meanwhile, an intense period of scorching heat — that saw temperatures soaring above 52 degrees Celsius (126 Fahrenheit) in mid-July — was roughly 50 times more likely as a result of global warming, the study found.
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Ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions mean these events are not rare anymore, the study said.
“Totally unsurprising but important result,” Friederike Otto, a scientist and senior lecturer at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change in London, who contributed to the research, said via Twitter.
Nothing affects weather but CO2. There are no self-correcting factors in the atmosphere. Sciencetism is our only hope.
It never got hot in the summer until humans discovered fire.
Our model that makes assumptions proves the assumptions. #science
(Still not as hot as 1936, but we’ll just ignore that.)
“Whatever will people do now that the benefits are ending over a “pandemic” that ended well over a year ago?”
Follow-up on that:
https://www.denver7.com/worry-sets-in-as-federal-student-loan-payments-are-set-to-restart
Scripps goes out and finds the most ludicrous edge cases…
“Cummings is a Special Education teacher outside of Baltimore. She is 60 years old. And she has $180,000 in student loan debt from her doctoral program.”
_____________________________________
“Susan Vincent is among those stressing about finances. The 78-year-old retired science teacher owes $30,000 in federal student loans.”
OFFS!
“Cummings is a Special Education teacher outside of Baltimore. She is 60 years old. And she has $180,000 in student loan debt from her doctoral program.”
_____________________________________
“Susan Vincent is among those stressing about finances. The 78-year-old retired science teacher owes $30,000 in federal student loans.”
I don’t care. Fuck you.
No shit. Don’t go for the doctorate unless you have a good ROI. Her bad decision.
Yep. I think most special ed teachers are doing just fine with a bachelors degree.
She wanted to be just like Dr. Jill! 😞
Maybe she should have taken some money management classes along the way.
“But I thought Biden was gonna pay it off for me, so I racked up all these fees and interest, not my fault at all.”
Leftists invent a new term to manipulate the masses.
In one of the most chilling developments in our history, the left has come to embrace the authoritarian language and logic of segregationists in calling for defiance and radical measures against the Supreme Court.
In a recent open letter, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and San Francisco State University political scientist Aaron Belkin called upon President Joe Biden to defy rulings of the Supreme Court that he considers “mistaken” in the name of “popular constitutionalism.” Thus, in light of the court’s bar on the use of race in college admissions, they argue that Biden should just continue to follow his own constitutional interpretation.
Never mind that what they describe is neither popular nor constitutional.
And here’s a term to describe term: insurrectionist authoritarians.
Fucking commies.
Sean, how’s The Ram in Perkasie?
Never been.
The Perk is excellent though.
Wear a condom. Communism is contagious.
What could possibly go wrong?
The analysis by World Weather Attribution used peer-reviewed methods to identify the fingerprint of the climate crisis in major events. It has not yet undergone a formal academic review process.
The researchers, from Imperial College London, the Dutch national weather service and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, said that in all assessed regions, a heat wave of the same likelihood as the one observed through July would have been “significantly cooler” in a world without the climate emergency.
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“Unless the world rapidly stops burning fossil fuels, these events will become even more common and the world will experience heatwaves that are even hotter and longer-lasting,” the study said.
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The world has already warmed by around 1.1 degrees Celsius, scientists say, after over a century of burning fossil fuels as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use.
Aaaaand there it is.
“Therefore, in order to stop human carbon footprint, we are going to hold a press conference on July 27th, at which time we will commit suicide for all the world to see. Please join us in drinking the kool-aide if you are concerned about the future of Gaia.”
The merging of the climate and social justice goals tells you all you need to know.
It’s a gigantic grift.
It’s always communism with these green marxians.
Well blow me down
Students with parents in the top 1 percent income level are overrepresented in elite colleges, according to a study released Monday by Opportunity Insights.
The study looked at the eight Ivy League schools, plus Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke and the University of Chicago, to find that after accounting for other application factors such as test scores, wealthier students were still overrepresented at the colleges.
The study conducted by Harvard economists showed those in the top 1 percent were 34 percent more likely to be admitted than the average applicant, while those in the top .1 percent were 50 percent more likely to make it in even with the same ACT or SAT scores.
The top three reasons researchers found this to be the case were schools’ preferences toward students with family members who have gone to the school before, recruited athletes and nonacademic ratings for students from private schools.
Nonacademic ratings are based on a student’s personality and extracurricular activities. Those in the top 0.1 percent are 1.5 times more likely to have higher nonacademic ratings than the middle class.
[insert expostulation of surprise]
The focus on legacy admissions and colleges’ admission of wealthy students has become a hot topic following the ruling from the Supreme Court that banned consideration of race in college admissions.
“Importantly, our findings reveal that class-based affirmative action (favoring students from more disadvantaged backgrounds) is not necessary to increase socioeconomic diversity at such colleges; simply removing the admissions advantages currently conferred to students from high-income families (or offsetting them with corresponding advantages for students from lower-income families) could increase socioeconomic diversity by an amount comparable to the impacts of race-based affirmative action on racial diversity,” the researchers concluded.
The nail which sticks up must be hammered down.
The American College of Pediatrics article was good news. Unfortunately we’ve learned in the past few years that The Science is usually determined by one unelected bureaucrat with major conflicts of interest.
Was it insured?
A Russian fighter jet flew “dangerously close” to a US drone over Syria and damaged it with flares, according to the US Air Force, in the latest in a series of incidents between the two militaries in the Middle East.
On Sunday, Russian jets closed to within a few meters of a US MQ-9 Reaper drone that was taking part in an anti-ISIS mission over Syria. One of the jets began dropping flares in front of the US drone, severely damaging its propellor, the Air Force said. The drone’s crew was able to control the aircraft and fly it back to its home base.
“The Russian fighter’s blatant disregard for flight safety detracts from our mission to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS,” said the commander of Air Force Central Command, Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich.
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Encounters between Russian fighter jets and US drones operating over Syria have become increasingly common. The two militaries both operate in the country, but for different purposes: the US military is part of the ongoing campaign to defeat ISIS, while the Russian military supports Syria’s Assad regime.
Last week, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said US analysts are examining the potential reasons behind the uptick in aggressive Russian actions. Some of the incidents over Syria have lasted as long as two hours, US officials said.
Inexplicable.
Russian occupation of parts of Ukraine=Wrong
USA occupation of parts of Syria=A-OK
I love having such a coherent foreign polity.
Which parts of Syria have we declared as newly-annexed US territory?
How much of Iraq did we annex? Should we have been there?
I was trying to see if you were downplaying Russia’s actions or exaggerating the US’s. Thanks for clarifying.
Everything is worse when we do it.
We haven’t had time for the plebiscite yet.
Russia is in Syria with the agreement of the Syrian government. USA is in Syria for many years with no end in sight with the goal of overturning the sovereign Syrian government.
“USA is in Syria for many years with no end in sight with the goal of overturning the sovereign Syrian government.”
So, a near-perfect mirror image of Russia in Ukraine. Except for the whole multiple armored divisions and annexation thing, of course.
Yanno, considering the cost differential, next time that happens just accidently nudge the drone’s course a bit and see if the Rooskies stop wasting their fighters.
“Rubbin’ is racin’”
Doesn’t the Syrian government welcome the Russian planes? I’m pretty sure Assad has welcomed Moscow’s help in doing whatever they’re doing.
I’m not so sure they’ve done the same for the US’s “mission” over there. But I may be wrong.
And on July 14, a senior US defense official said another Russian fighter jet flew near an MQ-9 Reaper drone over Syria in an unprofessional manner.
Harrumph!
Maybe playing watch the birdie?
Next those dastardly Russians are going to buzz the tower when the pattern is full.
“Instead, I saw a film that showcased how little girls imagine a world where they can be anything through play—until they get older and the patriarchal system into which they were born does its damndest to sever them from those possibilities by ridiculing and diminishing girlhood. Ben saw this as anti-male…
The film’s director, Greta Gerwig, didn’t pull it out of her ass; every woman in the theater seemed to “get” that the mores of Barbieland were a reflection of the way that kids engage with Barbie dolls—minus the Barbie-on-Barbie scissoring many of us did (which I imagine Mattel wouldn’t go for in a movie).”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/barbie-seems-to-have-destroyed-ben-shapiro
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1683660458677637120
Interesting. I wonder if his goal is to create a cancel-proof financial platform.
CNN: “Heat waves in US and Europe would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, new report finds”
Running true to form.
OMG. Spare me. Have these people only been alive for ten years?
What heat waves?
It’s been a mild summer so far.
Its hot today, maybe thats a wave?
All I know is our reserviors are full due to the heavy rains this spring and the extra snowfall in the mtns over the winter, so that is good.
It’s 79 here today. For late July, that’s not bad.
Today is going to hit 96. Which isn’t as bad as 96 in places with humidity.
It’s a little overcast, too. Makes a huge difference.
Denver averages 40 90+ degree days a year. We’ve had probably 10 this year, and didn’t get the first one until Almost July. In 2020 it was 75 days.
Huh, strange. Just a short while ago I was reading articles about how permanent drought was the new way of things, and we better get used to it.
Which perfectly explains, by using climate marxists own data, why the planet has been warmer and cooler at different points in history regardless of the existence of humans…
Yeah. That’s been all over my newsfeed this morning (from other sources running with the CNN headline as well). Never mind the fact we haven’t hid 100 yet this year, and are getting up to the 90’s. While that’s hot, that’s well within the normal range of summer temperatures here.
Politics is poisoning our government
Partisan culture wars are boiling over on House spending bills touching on even the most mundane agencies — complicating Congress’ efforts to keep the government operating past September.
Republican policy riders seeking to limit diversity efforts, drag shows, Pride flag displays and promotion of critical race theory are rife throughout the House’s dozen proposed annual spending bills, including those that would fund the national parks, pay for roads or maintain U.S. embassies abroad.
The cascade of social issues turning up in the must-pass bills is noteworthy for how it’s pervaded this year’s appropriations process — and for how the GOP concerns have spread far beyond top-tier conservative causes such as limiting abortions and gender-affirming care.
And liberal groups are keeping score: Of the 12 bills moving through the House appropriations process in recent months, policy riders targeting agency diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have appeared in 11, according to tracking from Human Rights Campaign. Language seeking to ban “discrimination” against people who do not believe in gay marriage appeared in 10. Eight sought to block funding for Pride flags and gender inclusive care. Three took aim at drag shows.
Limitless spending is in everybody’s best interest. Stop this petty obstructionism and quibbling.
Things the right wants are just playing politics. Things the left wants are just common sense.
The bill that would fund the Interior Department, including the national parks, would prohibit spending on “eco-grief counseling” and critical race theory, and would prohibit any non-“official” flags from flying over the department’s buildings — a response to GOP complaints about Pride flags.
Now try to stay with here. What if those could just possibly be considered non-essential uses of resources?
The Gadsden was an “official” flag, was it not? For some values of “official”? https://web.archive.org/web/20230215223816/https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/short-history-united-states-flag
prohibit any non-“official” flags from flying over the department’s buildings
Like transing children, why is this even up for debate? Federal buildings should only have the federal flag on them.
prohibit spending on “eco-grief counseling” and critical race theory
Because these things are so in the purview of the interior dept.
LeBron James’ son just suffered cardiac arrest during a basketball practice at USC.
I wonder if we will ever get the truth admitted about those shots by the health bureaucrats.
You don’t really wonder about that, do you?
Folks, I’m back on Twatter at @TheGreatLander. Shoot me a follow if you want. I’ll reciprocate. I’ll be rebuilding my contacts there over the next few weeks.
Did you nuke AM?
In addition to the culture war riders, the spending bills on the House side would make steep cuts across the board. The Senate, on the other hand, is advancing largely bipartisan bills that include tens of billions of additional emergency dollars.
The push on social issues is an unusual turn for the House Appropriations Committee, which has historically dodged the brunt of the partisan battles raging elsewhere on Capitol Hill. But Democrats on the committee say that’s changed this year.
“We just are continuing to spiral downward with more and more partisan rancor,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), an 18-year veteran of the committee, during a markup of the transportation, housing and urban development spending bill last week.
Monsters. Why won’t they just get out of the way and let the Democrats run things?
steep cuts across the board
They probably don’t. But we do need to slash the federal government by at least 90%.
advancing largely bipartisan bills that include tens of billions of additional emergency dollars.
What emergency?
said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
A notoriously non-partisan person…