Sorry to disappoint, but SugarFree had to go out to buy pants today to wear to a work meeting. This seems unfair because he has such spectacular calves, it seems a pity to cover them up. Nonetheless, me being a perennial bench warmer, the manager told me to get my ass on the field.
And speaking of getting one’s ass on the field, birthdays today include an anti-vaxxer who had a close shave; a guy who was more archetype than stereotype; a guy who was brave and worldly; a woman who pre-dated Dick Martin; one of FDR’s useful idiots; the live action Betty Rubble; Don Imus’s spirit animal; my nemesis when I had a young child; my favorite pitcher to watch when I was a kid; a guy who made a stunning proportion of my favorite movies; a guy who, every time I hear him sing, makes me wonder, “Why, exactly, is he famous?”; one of my teenage celebrity crushes- intriguingly large mouth and stunning legs; a chick who, true to TMBG, wants a prosthetic forehead on her real head; and a guy most famous for not fucking Mena Suvari.
Onward and Linkward!
Was it COVID or global warming?
So our newspapers aren’t the only ones talking about this ain’t-ever-gonna-happen idea.
Some people really should not have been allowed to reproduce.
“Universities are places of learning, not of indoctrination.” Uh huh, sure.
It’s amusing that the American Progs have picked up on this and are using it as their latest excuse for antisemitism. Of course, this is EXACTLY what they advocate for the US Supreme Court. Irony meter is pegged.
Blues on an oud. Yeah, the Old Guy does have some weird tastes.
What about Jewish wine?
“I wanna go to Miami!”
My nose is too big!
“This seems unfair because he has such spectacular calves”
Has anyone seen Jesse?
“and a guy most famous for not fucking Mena Suvari”
and recently acquitted.
That was boys. Easy to resist.
Easy to Resist would make a good name for a bluegrass song.
TBF, you’d have to overcome the forehead and that is a tall order.
Heh, had to Google it and you’re right-still would though.
Could be worse, she could get Tara Reids boobs.
Probably find them in a pawn shop by now.
A little TOK trivia: In nearby Hammond, IN (the inspiration for “Hohman” in A Christmas Story), they have the Jean Shepherd Center. Mrs. TOK’s roller derby team used to play there, but the rubber floor there was deemed to grippy and dangerous after several skaters broke ankles.
Don’t bother reading it, just go ahead and sign at the bottom
At times, the judge appeared almost upset that she believed she was being asked to act as a “rubber stamp” on the deal. The parties will now reconvene at a future date to hammer out the terms and provide Noreika more information, which could be within the next six weeks.
She thinks she’s in charge?
Well it was supposed to be a rubber stamp. So I expect a dead judge in the near future
This isn’t the Clinton crime syndicate, this is the Bidens – they’ll buy her off. “You know, you’d make a terrific appellate court judge”.
Response “I may be a woman, but I am not black.”
“A student rides a bicycle on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, March 5, 2013”
Off to a great start.
“The link should be unmistakable — the more educated our citizenry, the more successful our democracy.”
Then they would know correlation is not causation?
“Yet it seems our democracy is under attack.”
Of course, it is known.
“From the fringe of the right, we see open hostility to the traditional hallmarks of democracy: the free press, free and fair elections, and the peaceful transfer of power.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Depends how you define fringe I guess.
I will say, as someone who’s written one or two similar essays for academic publications, you really have to do some of the “on the one hand, on the other hand” to get published. It may sound like a cop out, but if you want people to even think about their presuppositions, it must be done.
I was wondering how the “fringe of the left” stuff got in there.
They are so fringe, so far out there that they have turned the corner, and are now on Left Street.
“From the fringe of the left, we see attacks on freedom of thought and speech. Rather than using rhetoric and debate to prevail, some on this side have decided it is easier to deny the opposition the right to be included in the discussion. A rigid dualism prevails where there are only right and wrong ideas, and the “wrong” ones should simply never be allowed to be heard. And, most concerning, we are now seeing this anti-democratic behavior take hold on many college and university campuses.”
By “fringe” you mean establishment?
The fringe on that one sleeve is a lot thicker than the other one.
Pictured
“Universities are places of learning, not of indoctrination. Campuses that overtly hold themselves out as liberal or conservative — and there are plenty of each ”
There really aren’t.
On the one hand, Hillsdale College and Liberty University, on the other hand, every other post-secondary institution of learning. BOTH SIDES!
Are rhetoric or symbolic logic taught anymore? They were very useful courses to me even at my PCU.
Love the music link
You’re a man of taste.
and wealth
But not honesty.
Pleased to meet you — hope we guess your name?
New Minglewood Blues
The link should be unmistakable — the more educated our citizenry, the more successful our democracy. Yet it seems our democracy is under attack.
The republic is under attack by college “educated” leftists.
“Campuses that overtly hold themselves out as liberal or conservative — and there are plenty of each — do a disservice to their students, cultures and the future of our democracy.”
I agree with first phrase and the final phrase. I’d be curious if he really thinks there are “plenty” of overtly conservative campuses or if he just through that in there to try and appear even-handed.
Idiots believe some stupid shit but only the overeducated believe the really stupid shit.
More than 50 whales have died in a mass stranding event in Western Australia as officials and volunteers race to save dozens of others stuck in shallow waters, authorities said Wednesday.
The Spirit of John McAffee was too much for them.
This family of four living in suburban Florida are packing up to leave the state, because their 17-year-old trans daughter no longer feels safe.
Bye.
Israel’s Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it would hear appeals against a controversial new law that curbs its power, setting up a showdown with the government over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s divisive plans to weaken the judiciary.
Sounds like a conflict of interest to me.
Old Guy Music is good.
As an example of how screwed up the Israeli situation is, the extra-parliamentary opposition tried to force Netanyahu not to work to get the reform laws passed because he’s facing trumped-up charges.
FILE – A student rides a bicycle on the campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, March 5, 2013.
He should be riding a unicycle while rating a bowl of ice cream with chopsticks.
Ice cream isn’t vegan, and chopsticks are cultural appropriation.
Pay close attention!
How to Pronounce Hashi: Chopsticks, Bridge, and Edge in Japanese
There are tasty substitutes like cashew milk, no consumer suffering involved. If you’re like me and not too fussy at the Piggly Wiggly.
Is holding up both chopsticks a 2 or an 11?
“Sadly, 51 whales have died overnight after a mass stranding at Cheynes Beach,” the agency said, adding that staff and hundreds of volunteers were trying to save 46 other whales by returning them to deep water.
I’m not going to blubber about whale suicide.
Eh, blow it out your hole.
I don’t believe that article. Cetacean needed.
*Opera Clap*!!!
Those who identify as cetaceaerotic will have to clean up a lot of sperm.
Call me
IshmaelJohn McAfeeSounds like someone is getting too big for his breaches.
Given that they are stranded, wouldn’t it be “too big for his beaches”?
Are you sure they stranded themselves on porpoise?
They were trying to get to French Polynesia to have an audience with the Dolphin.
In the whales deflense, who could have seen it coming?
Mmm hmm, fat phobic.
Was it COVID or global warming?
Is it ironic that they were Pilot whales?
So that’s why the airlines are complaining about shortages.
I thought this was going to be the Sinead O’Connor link.
Talented, but a total train wreck of a human.
No; it’s magic.
Ironic would be ten thousand pilot whales when all you need is a fin whale.
Some people really should not have been allowed to reproduce.
Well if it’s any consolation, the family line stops here.
Should be easy to sell the FL house and buy in a blue state.
U-Haul is also less expensive.
Someone in a blue state might even pay to help them escape.
And throw in a free surgery.
It’s all true. Trans people are being hunted down in the streets. If you say gay, you’ll be beaten or worse. Children are taught that black people loved slavery, and all of the bookstores and libraries have been shuttered. Fields are left fallow, crops rotting on the ground, because there’s nobody to pick them. Nobody has electricity because the state refuses to embrace the green economy. Grocery stores are empty, and people are surviving on swamp water, insects, and gator leavings, in 120 degree weather. The few remaining living, somehow spared by the constant climate change driven hurricanes, envy the dead.
Surely, there’s still a good supply of meth though?
Don’t call me Shirley.
This frankly sounds like an improvement over a lot of Florida that I’ve seen – ugly subdivisions full of retirees on what used to be perfectly nice pastures, orchards, swamps, or gator holes.
That is not far off from the earful I got from grandma after her new husband dragged her down to Punta Gorda against her wishes.
Made her go outside and play shuffleboard?
Like all proper nawtherners, she could not abide the hot, humid weather. And boy could curse up a storm and that was before the dementia took over.
“Why, exactly, is he famous?”;
Because all the Rolling Stones had to do was be better than the Beatles.
Sinead stretched on her own grave now?
https://youtu.be/N8mU8kBvSnI
An old roommate had this cd. Good bass-check song and I liked the chanting style.
Great track
I had that CD too. It did not make the move to digital for me.
Also, I am somewhat surprised she make it five years longer than the other alternative Irish rock star chick with a fucked-up life.
CDs were my move to digital.
My wife was talking to a guy about a new sound bar. I asked him how you plug in the CD player and other peripherals. He looked at me like I was speaking gibberish.
You are of course correct.
I guess I meant bits, not round discs.
I know – I just can’t be bothered to make the next step when I have a perfectly functional stack of CDs I like.
For decades now the first thing I do after getting a new CD is to rip it as MP3 and put it on my home storage. I can then stream it from my copy, and have them organized and labeled how I like.
Rip to FLAC for archiving, transcode to lossy.
The link should be unmistakable — the more educated our citizenry, the more successful our democracy. Yet it seems our democracy is under attack.
Define “educated”.
Should read “certified”.
the more
educatedinformed and intelligent our citizenry, the more successful our democracy.Fixed it.
Edjukated ain’t gawt nuffin to do wiff it!
Note the irony that the Founders were so lacking in college educations.
See! Even more reason to discard the Constitution. It’s bad enough that some of them owned slaves, but they didn’t even go to college!
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suddenly stopped speaking during a weekly Republican leadership news conference Wednesday afternoon, appearing to freeze, and then went silent and was walked away.
Receiving a message from his home planet?
Until today, nobody would have ever described Mitch as “Presidential”, but now it’s fitting.
*golf clap*
Like a car engine seizing up.
AKA “The Biden Piss-Break“
“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suddenly stopped speaking”
Maybe if he received plaudits for this it would encourage others to shut the hell up.
Firmware update. Sometimes you gotta reboot.
Slow page file — copyin() buffer stalled the kernel.
Defense mechanism to protect himself from predators.
He just couldn’t quite bring himself to be like the cool kids.
Update from my post yesterday about commonwealth news services and “disinformation.”: Radio New Zealand has another story on this, “Has misinformation infected mainstream politics in New Zealand?”
Of course, the answer is yes, but probably not the way they think.
It’s nice the way the intelligentsia seamlessly went from using relativism to undermine the very notion objectively discernible truth itself, to hysterically screeching about “disinformation” and our need for a single source of state-regulated and state-defined objective truth.
There is no right way to teach history, but there are some wrong ways.
Not the way they think, or not the way they want?
My buddy and I used to love tripping balls to that album, and particularly this song.
That is all.
There have been significant changes since Jefferson’s time, in both our universities and our democracy. The right to vote has expanded to include women, people of color and those who don’t own property, while access to universities has rapidly expanded. In 1940, only 4.6 percent of adults age 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree; now that number is in excess of 35 percent. The expansion followed the pattern of the vote, opening the door to college more widely for lower income students, women and students of color.
The link should be unmistakable — the more educated our citizenry, the more successful our democracy. Yet it seems our democracy is under attack.
Complete non sequitur or mere stolen base?
From the fringe of the right, we see open hostility to the traditional hallmarks of democracy: the free press, free and fair elections, and the peaceful transfer of power.
Citation definitely needed.
A few politicians appear to believe that they can save face and maintain standing with their supporters by brazenly denying election outcomes if they lose.
Enough about Hillary. It’s been nearly seven years, fer Chrissakes.
Where’s George Costanza when you need him?
“The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.”
Ded.
Ultimately, the aim of a college education is only partially about the course content. Yes, students should learn a lot in their major and be exposed to everything from physics to Plato. But, the wider design is to develop the critical thinking skills and character we will need in the future leaders of our cities, states, and nation. This gargantuan imperative is too important to allow the petty politics of the nation to infect our campuses.
Are his students sufficiently well prepared to recognize that as vapid whim-wham?
I guess if you define “critical thinking” as “unquestioning and slavish devotion to leftist orthodoxy”, then maybe?
yeah, critical thinking = giving up non-prog views.
I can’t go into a lot of detail here, but I saw a letter from a guy in a science discipline who basically said, “if I can teach course X which focuses on rigorous science, I believe I can change the voting patterns of [this region].” They truly believe that they are critical thinkers and anyone who disagrees with them is not. Just ignore opposition to nuclear power and GMOs.
I know someone who never changes brand OR political loyalty, doesn’t notice the decline in either. There’s the demographic, I suppose.
e.g.: Good: Dems, Coke, Reese’s cups, despite noticeable declines in each
And the converse….
As usual – wait a few minutes (and pay) and the WSJ gets to the crux of the matter.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-biden-plea-deal-in-jeopardy-ff556d70?st=2wmm62t5x1nou55&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This was mentioned in the other article, but not as occurring consecutively as the WSJ implies here.
The articles I read posit that the original plan was to let him skate but leave the investigations “ongoing” so they could continue to stonewall Congress. Having to clearly say the investigations were done or not scuttled things.
Just speculation — but have to say it makes a good deal of sense.
I’m quite happy at the skepticism to the gun charge deal too. That was far more outrageous than the tax shit or the FARA.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/07/26/world/russia-ukraine-news
Pentagon officials say “main thrust” of Ukraine’s counteroffensive has begun.
Just keep thrusting.
Doesn’t seem to be going that well.
https://twitter.com/Chronology22/status/1684172693862580227
They were just lulling Putin into a false sense of security. Now it’s time to spring the trap!
The walls are closing in.
untz untz untz
It’s a tipping point. The walls are closing in.
Dammit!
They just need another hundred billion or so in arms and cash to seal glorious victory!
Remember the good old days when the anti-war left was deeply concerned about the then-$700B spent on Iraq and Afghanistan over a 10 year period?
They were never anti-war, they were just anti-Republican presidents.
Plenty of them were anti-war, but they stopped being useful tools when Obama started “fighting the good war”.
+1 Operation Noble Anvil
“Has misinformation infected mainstream politics in New Zealand?”
Let’s ask Jacinda Ahern.
unficted ?
sorry;
🐴 🦷
esprit d’escalier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg 🎵
Well, after the discussion earlier this week, I decided to get an air fryer, since I’ve long thought I could make use of a toaster oven/air fryer type appliance. Yes, I have an oven, but sometimes it’s overkill.
Right now, it’s drying after following the instructions to wash the sufraces and interior components. I haven’t even plugged it in yet.
What do you plan on making first?
chicken wings. I plan to apply a dry rub mostly of harissa spice mix (possibly with some other) and see how well it cooks.
I just wanted to tell you good luck…
Works well for that. You can get them crispier without drying them out, compared to a conventional oven. Just don’t pack them in too tight.
Need to flip over at least once.
I’ll keep that in mind.
Just pick up the air-fryer and shake it.
Someone made a air-fryer suggestion today that sounded pretty good.
Cookie dough, marshmallow, and chocolate for a S’More cookie.
“Right now, it’s drying after following the instructions to wash the sufraces and interior components.”
That’s odd.
Like most of this crap, it’s made in china, so there’s probably toxic waste coating everything.
Look at you, 10 years from now you will finally buy a creami.
You lost me.
I think it makes Chinese ice cream.
The Jacket interviews Matt Taibbi. I actually liked this.
https://www.racket.news/p/video-interview-with-reason?r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Seem to remember Readings about this on some Sundays…. didn’t seem to work out all that well.
Still, I suppose being dragged off to Babylon is a bit less likely.
He should definitely go with the “Too dumb to know better” defense
The prosecutor’s request comes after the government said last week that Bankman-Fried gave some of Ellison’s personal correspondence to The New York Times. This had the effect of harassing her, prosecutors said, and seemed designed to deter other potential trial witnesses from testifying.
Earlier this year, Kaplan had suggested that jailing Bankman-Fried was possible after prosecutors complained that he found ways to get around limits placed on his electronic communications as part of a $250 million personal recognizance bond issued after his December arrest that requires him to live with his parents in Palo Alto, California.
In February, prosecutors said he might have tried to influence a witness when he sent an encrypted message in January over a texting app to a top FTX lawyer, saying he “would really love to reconnect and see if there’s a way for us to have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other.”
At a February hearing, the judge said prosecutors described things Bankman-Fried had done after his arrest “that suggests to me that maybe he has committed or attempted to commit a federal felony while on release.”
The defense complained they weren’t given advance notice of possible custody until trial. Gee, I wonder why.
“a $250 million personal recognizance bond”
What a fucking joke that is. As far as I know, no cash was put up by anyone (hence the “personal recognizance” instead of “bail”). And there is no possible way to collect the $250MM. The court basically just grounded him until trial.
What a moron. — “Hey, the President of the United States got away with admitting to a crime on video… would you like to confess to members of your team breaking the law of your home country before you go back there just to stroke my ego?”
Don’t worry. What happens in the southern hemisphere stays in the southern hemisphere.
https://palmettostatearmory.com/cz-shadow-2-9mm-black-blue-pistol-91257.html
$929. Are you kidding me?
Must resist…
Working 5 minutes away from a PSA store involves resisting a lot of temptation.
I bet.
They’ve had some blem Colt Pythons for the past couple days that have been speaking to me.
Dooo eeeeet.
Concur. Replacing those hideous handle scales should be easy enough.
“The gift of life: Medical breakthrough as baby boy in Alabama becomes ‘first in the world’ to be born to a mom with a transplanted WOMB she received from organ donor”
A ‘miracle’ boy in Alabama has become the first baby in the world to be born from a transplanted womb outside of a clinical trial.
The child was born in May via C-section at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
His mother, Mallory, who prefers to keep her full name anonymous, was born without a uterus, making her infertile and fully diminishing her chances of conceiving a child naturally.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12340181/The-gift-life-Medical-breakthrough-baby-boy-Alabama-world-born-mom-transplanted-WOMB-received-organ-donor.html
Wow
+1 Loretta
+1 Gestation box
+1 Axolotl tank
The US Army pays for this procedure for their trans soldiers, right?
So did the dad commit adultery? I mean dumping his seed in another woman’s uterus is against the marriage vows.
I seriously doubt he touched the other woman’s naughty bits (tissue?), so I’m going to say, technically not.
“outside of a clinical trial”
So, not really the first at all.
Still pretty cool.
Pay no attention to the industrial policy behind the curtain
Larry Summers, the former Obama and Clinton official, slammed parts of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda as “increasingly dangerous” this week, saying it could end up causing higher prices for Americans.
“I am profoundly concerned by the doctrine of manufacturing-centered economic nationalism that is increasingly put forth as a general principle to guide policy,” Summers said on Tuesday while speaking virtually at an event held by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Specifically, Summers took issue with the administration’s trade stance, efforts to prop up US manufacturing and its antitrust crackdown. The former Harvard president argued this approach could prove to be inflationary.
“It is wrong to suppose that manufacturing-based economic nationalism is a route to higher incomes or better standards of living for the middle class,” Summers said.
The White House did not comment in response to the criticism from Summers, who was early to speak out in 2021 about the looming threat of inflation.
Biden has made reviving American manufacturing a central part of his economic agenda. Biden signed into law legislation that incentivizes domestic manufacturing around clean energy, computer chips and other areas.
The White House has hailed a surge in private investment in American manufacturing under Biden’s watch.
“It used to be: find the cheapest market in the world, send the job overseas, and bring the product back. Not on my watch. Right here, we’re doing — we’re creating jobs in America, and we’re exporting American products,” Biden said during a speech about “Bidenomics” in Philadelphia last month.
Remind me. Why did all those corporations abandon domestic production?
“Larry Summers, the former Obama and Clinton official”
And, I’m out.
“She added: ‘This is the first time anyone IRL (in real life) has treated me as if I am not a woman… decent people accept the rule of self identity. If in doubt then find a polite way to ask, don’t assume’.
It is not clear whether Ms Coombes was staying as a guest at the hotel, but she said she later went back down to ‘ask that the person in question is sent on a diversity, equality and inclusion course’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12333323/Furious-trans-woman-blasts-hotel-spa-staff-asked-wanted-use-unisex-changing-rooms-says-experience-spoilt-day.html
CWAA
“Anne Coombes alleged staff had ‘assumed’ she wanted unisex changing rooms ”
OMG, I can’t even. The horror.
They didn’t assume she wanted to use the unisex changing room. They put you there because they didn’t want you in the women’s changing room because you are really just a dude wearing a dress.
You should have taken the hint.
Or they couldn’t guess if it was a dude or not.
Maybe that’s what “genderfuck” is – keep ’em guessing.
So… everyone he interacted with before was fucking blind?
“ decent people accept the rule of self identity”
Then I am not decent. Expect to be treated in accordance with my manners.
Now fuck off, you syphilitic stain.
I remember that meme
Summers said he agrees with a “large part of” what the administration has done, including the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS Act, which sought to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
“I believe those two signature items of Biden policies were appropriate steps,” Summers said.
Sure, Larry. That makes total sense.
Transgender Women’s Soccer Player Outed On Free Kick
Oh, Bee. How the hell do you do it?
Heh…
https://babylonbee.com/news/mccarthy-says-783rd-impeachable-offense-by-biden-will-be-the-last-straw
and
https://babylonbee.com/news/has-your-baby-secretly-been-watching-jordan-peterson-videos-heres-how-to-tell (Number 3 will shock ^W amuse you!)
Animal continuing to bring it to RedState.
Personally, my money is on PPP just being a mean bastard and not treating the pups right. Which is a damned shame for what probably started off as good dogs.
GSD’s are a challenge. Best dogs ever, but they require a lot. None of which he’s getting from those fuckwits, I can promise you.
Poor buddy, he deserves better than them.
Some of you will like this.
“A Brazilian transsexual influencer and her boyfriend were taken into custody Tuesday after they were accused of allegedly torturing and robbing a businessman she met on a transvestite dating app.
Vitória Guarizo, 25, and her partner Gabriel Meneses allegedly stole more than $8,669 from the victim who was lured to her São Paulo apartment back on May 18…
The victim visited Guarizo’s home in the southern São Paulo neighborhood of Moema and was pummeled by two men, including Meneses, when he walked into Guarizo’s room.
The man was drugged and tortured with hot knives and a blowtorch. He was hit multiple times on the head as he was instructed to hand over passwords to his banking accounts.
The suspects transferred $105 to Guarizo’s account and $4,017 into Meneses account. The other suspect, who has not been arrested, had $4,439 wired into his account. The rest of the money was distributed among several other people.
The businessman eventually fell unconscious and woke up inside his car that was abandoned somewhere in the city.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12340279/Brazilian-trans-influencer-Vit-ria-Guarizo-million-followers-model-boyfriend-arrested-drugged-tortured-robbed-man-met-dating-app.html
Play stupid games…
It’s a sad day when you can’t trust sketchy internet sex meet ups.
I think she is innocent. It was her boyfriend Gabriel Menses who did it. Period.
That was just bloody awful.
Just keep ragging on everyone.
Careful. Swissy is going to show up here and tamp on our puns.
Hannity doesn’t do so well with a live audience. He can’t control the interview and just shout down his target in his typical manner.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hannity-visibly-frustrated-rfk-jr-dismantles-ukraine-talking-points
It’s pleasant to see that midwit get schooled.
You could have stopped at “Hannity doesn’t do so well”.
He is the dumbest motherfucker. His audience has almost completely flipped and he’s still deepthroating neocon cock.
I didn’t realize he always wears a CIA lapel pin. What a twat.
Here comes the pain. Detroit v2.0 is arriving.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/i-see-wave-coming-assessed-value-baltimore-city-office-tower-nearly-halved-amid-cre-panic
“ The first is the 30-story office tower at One South Street in downtown Baltimore was sold in June for $24 million, a 63.6% discount versus the tower’s 2015 sale of $66 million. ”
And the tax base collapses . . . .
Yup. It will be interesting to see how Johns Hopkins protects itself as it will be underwriting the entire city at this rate.
Pack up and move?
Wake Forest moved out of the city of Wake Forest.
And for those who think the Fed will be the first to fall, I submit this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bank-englands-qe-driven-losses-worsen-expected-hit-ps150-billion
“ In the short term, the BoE expects the Treasury to transfer about £40bn in each of 2023, 2024 and 2025.
This is equivalent to about 4 per cent of gross domestic product, and about £10bn more each year than the BoE was anticipating in April, suggesting the government will face additional pressures on the public finances in the run-up to the next election.”
They’re leaning hard on the UFO angle today.
https://twitter.com/ChrisKMellon/status/1684310535007870976
It’s hilariously maddening that people are admonishing Congress to use its powers to get to the bottom of this issue and pressure the executive on it.
It’s important!
The ’90s X-Files fanatic in me wants this to be made a top priority, to be honest.
If this is top priority, the government won’t have time to peddle windmills and digital currency. Good.
So was SInead offed by some radical Catholic who couldn’t accept her ripping up a pic of the Pope?
I never got why ripping up that pic was so outrageous. Sure it is tacky and sort of a dumb way to make an argument, but is it really something you need to mobilize Pitchfork Nation for?
Granted, I’m not a very religious guy, so maybe I’m missing something.
It was prior to the pedo priest scandals. I didn’t have much appreciation for it then, but in retrospect she was courageous to stand up an organization that held immense power.
Even is she had ripped up a pic of Obama or any other “leader” who cares?
Are you joking? She would have been crucified for that.
Meh. She hated her Catholic mother.
Sinead was a very, very fucked up girl.
I always understood it to be a protest of the Catholic orphanages in Ireland, which became notorious for abuse that the Church ignored.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101605/quotes/?item=qt0310994
I love that movie.
bleck, proad 👍
Who the fuck knows. From the article I linked:
At the time, O’Connor said she had torn up the photo to protest sexual abuse of children by the Catholic Church. However, she later revealed that the story goes much deeper.
And this:
Yeah, I think this went a little deeper than theological differences.
Well that’s fucked up. I would hope it weren’t true, but people are shitty.
I suspect poor (but there’s worse!) weather plus strict old-fashioned Catholicism can do terrible things to a soul over the years. I was there a tiny bit during its Celtic Tiger (de papier) transition and it wasn’t easy.
en papier
“Granted, I’m not a very religious guy”
Well, you are the Pope 😉
OFFS
@RepOgles
: “Is any indication that these UAPs are interested in our nuclear technology and capabilities.”
Witnesses: “Yes.”
#UFOhearings
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1684249806300905480
They want to be taken to our leader so they can buy some F-15s. Then they will take over earth and, with Trump’s help naturally, set up a one world alien supremacist government.
This is one of the things that makes me think a lot of this is BS. If your civilization has mastered interstellar travel, it’s unlikely nuclear weapons are of much concern.
It’s all bs. It’s kabuki theater to distract from everything else. Everyone who participated should be forever tainted by it and shamed out of polite society.
If there are aliens, then drop a corpse in the middle of Congress or fly a UFO over the White House and prove it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
In the meantime, Ukrainians continue to get themselves killed in our proxy war, Yemenis are starving under a blockade we’re enabling, the pharma companies are getting away with mass murder, the Biden’s have sold themselves to every bidder, the economy is teetering, the neocons are trying to start a war with China, they’re mutilating kids in the name of something, and everything is generally fucked up.
UAPs? Unidentified Alien Proctologists?
Unlubed Anal Probes
EIGHT HOURS!!!!
https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1683974836341596162
“ Rep. @GregCasar ends his thirst strike after over 8 hours without food or water on the House steps”
Good doggie.
He just wanted some sun!
I know when I’m making a decision involving hundreds of thousands of dollars and the uprooting of my family, it’s because of a mentally-ill teenager’s feelz.
Yo-yo in both the hello and amazing, positive change in emotion.
Evan! How you, you vilde chaya?
(That is, hail fellow, etc.)
No worries. I speak jive.
Chump ask for help, chump get de help?
You can’t really go wrong with not drinking.
(errr, chump *don’t get de help)
i just got back to MY apt. after 3 days at parents’, a week in medical jail, then another day w them. i just got all my shit back up here and just sat down w everything but a drink. i had a weird epileptic moment. it was one of happiness and chill-i-tude. I’ve had them before. maybe like once or twice or something. extremely rare. it was just an epileptic ‘flash,’ really.
i pretty much have some errands to do ’round here, including talking to the front desk about getting out of my lease. but damn. I’m even thinking more of a week or two extension if I can…Cuz that’s some motivatin’ shit right there. i do have to go back and live with them for a while. and do in/outpatient. But really, I’m going to start looking for work instead. that would be by far the best care for me. just something to fucking DO. instead of being in detox and constantly being shuffled between docs and crew.
just don’t fucking drink this time, ev. starting part-time is fine to start. Quite upset with myself, cuz I feel like I honestly need a vacation. One away from work, from which I hardly had a day off once a week for ten months, and then the detox, and then moving again w parents/finding a job/going to in/outpatient/ and doing so while having pretty serious depression and notable medical shit besides my shattered skull and the missing chunk of my brain.
I can’t seem to convey to them that concept. I laid some pretty good groundwork today. Hrm.
“shattered skull and the missing chunk of my brain”
Yikes! Sorry 🙁 How did that happen?
(Ahem: scooter accident in Asia IIRC)
Oh, OK, thanks.
Yep. September 22, 2019 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. On a scooter and got smoked by a car. Apparently, according to my ex, I wasn’t in the wrong, other than being dumb enough to scoot through an Asian town, even a small one. *Raises hand* Yep. On me.
I honestly hope I left a decent dent in that vehicle. I sincerely hope I left a mark. Instead of a baseball “seamer,” I want to have left an evaner.
In re Gibcruise, are any of the ports of call more libertarian in their laws? I expect San Juan is even worse than the mainland, but maybe the others will let you stock up on fun goods?
When I was there, San Juan was like NYC with palm trees. You can find anything you want.
I’m sure you could probably find what you wanted shoreside, but remember that cruise ships operate under federal jurisdiction, and there’s no easier way to be bounced from your cruise than to be caught with malum prohibitum pharmaceuticals onboard.
That said, you could probably get away with gummies in your cabin, but cannibis vapes or actual MJ — you’d be taking one helluva chance.
I thought he was talking about .50 caliber belt fed machine guns. What’s all this talk of gummies?
Coup in Niger. Developing story.
Niger, please
So, a Wednesday?
JK. I don’t know anything about that country but it doesn’t seem all that surprising.
Seems there have been a lot of them lately. And so far, all have gone Russia’s way. Interesting thread here on the topic.
https://twitter.com/WaywardRabbler/status/1640926792574988289
TLDR: We’ve been training and arming African soldiers that then rebel against the government and align with Moscow. Because we’re that incompetent now.
Fuck. Say what you will about Gaetz, he’s pretty goddamn good,
There is more of that going on around the world than I would have thought. Hell, it seems like everyone who isn’t specifically NATO.
Holy shitballs, if this is true…
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1684296116383145985
“ FIX WAS IN: While supposedly prosecuting Hunter Biden, Delaware prosecutor Alex Mackler shows up in Oct. 16, 2018, message on Hunter’s laptop:
“[W]as wondering how life is on your end. Last you told me you were out in LA. Gimme a call sometime we can catch up. Love you brother””
Wow. Unfortunately Twitter is still on lockdown.
Jesus, tater. Just set up a burner.
Not good enough…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/long-time-biden-ally-prosecutor-us-attorney-weiss-office-hunter-probe-called-him-a-brother
Just because he works the office doesn’t mean anything. It would be different if it was Weiss.
“Prosecutor Told Hunter Biden He Loved Him During US Attorney’s Investigation Into First Son
According to a report from Fox News, a thorough examination of Chief Deputy Attorney General of Delaware Alexander Snyder-Mackler, his association with the Biden family, and the investigation into Hunter Biden brings to light a concerning web of relationships that demands closer scrutiny.
Mackler’s long-standing ties with the Bidens cannot be overlooked, having served as Joe Biden’s legal counsel during his vice presidency and as a press secretary during the former senator’s tenure between 2007 and 2008.
While the specifics of Mackler’s involvement in the probe remain elusive, his prominent position in the office investigating the president’s son raises legitimate concerns about impartiality.
ntriguingly, emails retrieved from Hunter Biden’s laptop, verified by Fox News, depict a close relationship between Mackler and Hunter Biden, with Mackler signing off one email with “Love you brother.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/prosecutor-told-hunter-biden-loved-us-attorneys-investigation/
US embassy in Ireland warns tourists to avoid walking alone following attack on visitor from NY
Now that’s good PR. Rather than sweep the filth from your city, put the onus on the people who pay the bills.
NYC says “hold my beer!”
The visitor was from Buffalo. They don’t have street smarts there.
“I’m Rick James, bitch!”