I got nothing for sports. Thank God The Open begins tomorrow. Now on to the links.
Boo hoo, asshole.
Murder goes mostly unpunished. That’s the real headline. I’m sorry, but killing a fetus at 8 months is definitely deserving of more than home confinement.
Blah, blah, blah. Sorry you chose a risky, contract-based profession. Best of luck getting along with each other.
This is a shame. They should have left it in the curriculum. Hell, they should expand it and explain how he was a child rapist.
::chirp::
“Let’s buy some votes.” That’s what’s happening here. Also, if this happens I hope the program includes replacing batteries in smoke detectors. For the lulz.
Equal protection is dead. “Executive privilege” does not exist here and they know it.
If it’s come to this, I’d just pack up and leave. Let the city government take care of everything. It’s not worth it.
There goes another one. It sounds like the whole purpose of these companies is to raise money from investors, sit around for a while, and then shut down.
Let the reeeeeeeeing commence. This system is going to be interesting. But they have no choice but to try something new. Their schools were largely failing and simply throwing more money at it wasn’t going to fix it. I wish them luck.
Here’s a good one. Oh yeah. The videos from that era are awesome. And here’s an even better one. Teri was smoking. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely, hot Wednesday dear friends.
They don’t make station wagons anymore?
No. The environmental standards killed them.
It’s crazy, wagons (and vans) are way more functional and efficient than SUVs. Once car manufacturers skirted around economy regulations with SUVs they were able to convince (market) the idea that a RAV4 is cooler to drive than a Sienna.
But SUVs could be sold under the truck standards, while wagons were grouped with sedans.
I know, I’m saying they pulled it off to such an extreme that most people are driving vehicles completely unsuitable to their needs.
Except the ladies — from what I’ve observed and been told, they like the higher road height significantly over the sedan/station wagon models.
Please, explain to us what everyone else’s needs are.
Not you, you are a rational shopper.
SUVs have gone through convergent evolution and what is now passed off as “CUV”s are station wagons. I have a Toyota Highlander. It’s a frickin’ station wagon. And there are millions of them on the road. Just about every car maker has something very similar.
No, crossovers are not station wagons.
If you compare them to cars in the 40s and 50s, they have the same height and functionality as a station wagon. Once you got to the 1960s station wagons evolved into something new, a very low, wide and long transport. That all ended by the 1980s due to stupid regulations.
What about this is not a station wagon?
https://www.toyota.com/highlander
I won’t argue with Toyota
https://www.toyota.com/suvs/
My point exactly. An “SUV” category for regulatory purposes can now accommodate a real-world station wagon, due to convergent evolution.
You are the first person I have ever met that is trying to argue a Highlander is a station wagon. I’m not entirely sure why, but go ahead.
IMO, based on MO, a station wagon should be 60″ or under in height. A Highlander looks like it is 68″ tall.
It’s got four doors and no separate trunk area, with a sorta squared off rear roofline. Calling it an SUV or a station wagon is basically a discussion about skirting the fed’s taxes on MPGs depending on what the vehicle is called.
If my argument was that car purchases are more emotional than rational, I have not been convinced otherwise. If that was my argument.
In any event, a Toyota Highlander is a good vehicle!
There can be only one.
I’ll allow the Ford Flex to be considered a wagon.
They do. But none as cool as the ones in the 70s.
Volvo 240 came out in 78?
*glances at sidebar*
Meh. The 70s fascination with rectangles and I do not get along.
The Pontiac Safari could carry a full sheet of plywood.
We had a ’77 Pontiac Safari with a 400 4bbl and posi rear end. That thing hauled ass. We replaced it with another ’79 Safari that only had a 301. The difference was staggering.
Didn’t they make a 454? I had a 79 Chevy with a 305 (307? It’s all the same block, GM) that was pretty fast.
They’re just called SUVs now.
“Hell, they should expand it and explain how he was a child rapist.”
Yikes!
If their campaign to normalize pedophilia succeeds, they may.
” Also, if this happens I hope the program includes replacing batteries in smoke detectors.”
Joy Reid hardest hit.
My smoke alarms went off randomly a couple of times on Monday. I assume that was the fault of Canada.
Somebody need to put Canada out.
Maybe they should try sacrificing Trudy and their parliment to the fire gods.
If it’s come to this, I’d just pack up and leave.
What, and forego the insufferable smugness of living in the most perfect place on earth?
You joke, but a good friend of mine moved back there after his divorce from LA. He was born in San Jose, grew up in San Fransisco, and thinks that living anywhere else is a sign of failure. Which is weird, as he isn’t someone who cares what others think, generally.
When I lived there, there was one news channel that literally plugged “the best place on earth” constantly. Kind of nauseating.
I built a theremin, then I sold it. I could play it rather well. I just didn’t see the point in keeping it.
We’ll all be more impressed when you build your own interocitor.
I don’t know what that is because I don’t do YT here.
Fine.. Or just go watch MST3K — The Movie.
Not a velocipede?
I got it, if that helps any.
simply throwing more money at it wasn’t going to fix it
BURN THE HERETIC!!!!
+1 handmaidens and shit
LOL never change, CNN.
Wasn’t the Victorian era the “Wild West” in the U.S.?
Only in that they happened at the same time.
So “yes” in the language of both countries.
Nonsense, they’re totally different time periods due to geographic separation.
/damn lies
“England and America are two countries separated by the same language!” – GB Shaw
Proudman told CNN in June that the Offences Against the Person Act is “ancient,” emphasizing that it was “written at a time when women didn’t even have the right to vote” in the UK.
What does that have to do with the morality of an 8 month abortion?
Because men wanted to keep women in chains duh. Women, who are all pro-choice, got the vote and broke those chains.
…. further in…
8 months!?!? Holy shit, that’s fucking evil. No question of viability there… that’s just infanticide. Great that UK is going to be compassionate towards followers of Moloch now. Guess they could bring back Aztec rituals or reverse that old saying about “You have your traditions, we have ours” with just “We think you don’t kill enough people!”
Sick.
Morning, Sloopy… thanks for pissing me off first thing there. ;P
I like how they try to wave the law away because it was written over 100 years ago. That doesn’t change the fact that an 8-month fetus is a viable human being and this piece of shit woman is a murderer.
I wonder why the entire article is filled with pro-abortion comments by activists and not a single one from a doctor who can explain the viability timetable so readers can understand what she “terminated.”
But they managed to boo-hoo about the so-called mitigating circumstances surrounding the killing. And while I don’t believe for a second she thought she was 7 weeks pregnant when she killed here child, they still printed that obvious bullshit. Because there’s no way on God’s green earth that a woman 8 months pregnant isn’t gonna know she’s further along than 7 weeks.
–Newsish headline
As a point of order, I knew at least one woman who was 8 months pregnant who didn’t know it. Obesity played a role.
Damn.
I miss Newsish.
I really wouldn’t weep if all of them became unemployable and the studios collapsed. Cleansing fire for new growth and all.
I would celebrate. Let that rotting carcass be buried at last.
I would sat that is already happening.
Look at what YouTube is doing to the TV and entertainment world. As soon as the olds die off, cable is done, and networks/studios are already dying.
I think most of them have “Pray to get bought by a bigger company for your IP and cash out” in mind… if the IC cash runs out first, that’s when they shut down.
Their mistake was actually having a product/service and not just producing vaporware and bullshit.
Or not putting it in Texas.
Or not putting it in India.
OFFS leave the kids alone. I get it; he’s like a superhero to you guys but JFC eleven-year-olds do. not. care.
Well, that’s old enough to stick money in a drag queen’s g-string, you fascist.
Touché.
Whycome you hate the gays?
[insert orson welles clap here]
Uncle Tom of Finland
(That still makes me chuckle)
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Yup… knew what that one had to be. Love that tune.
Been a long while since I watched the video… her problem is she didn’t realize grey suit boy wants to sleep with that soldier much more than her, methinks.
Nobody cares.
I hope it includes more free ghetto bus routes, also for the lulz.
Or hell, anything. This whole initiative is so full of comic potential, the mind reels at the possibilities.
That moist slapping sound you hear is Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.is/GmTwW
Moist?
Q is into swamp ass?
Sweaty on this summer day?
The kids don’t want to learn. Until you address the problem that everyone is trying to ignore, nothing will change. Not with this stupid idea, either.
I don’t believe that kids don’t want to learn. Every kids I’ve interacted with has absorbed information like a sponge. The school system just isn’t designed to actually allow them to learn. In fact, it seems designed to impair that ability.
They might want to learn, but they don’t want to be challenged. At least, not enough of them. And this is the reason that you need charter schools. Sure, they will pick and choose, but that is how you get kids who want to actually discover new things, and not be worried about being called out for acting white.
The kids 25 miles north want to learn. The kids 20 miles west want to learn. What makes the kids in HISD so much different from the kids in The Woodlands and Katy, who comparatively do well on standardized tests and the other metrics?
Their parents and educators who are fully bought into the “work the system to get ahead” instead of “better yourself with hard work.”
That would be my guess.
Somehow this is controversial, but it’s largely cultural and self-reinforcing. Once the “good” students and families start believing that a school district is bad and move, it becomes a cascade effect. Those that have the means and the motivation will move also. You’re left with a district in a death spiral with broken and dysfunctional families that don’t inculcate the type of values at home conducive to learning or even really functioning in the world. Their values revolve around entitlement, victimhood, disrespect for authority and gaming the system.
Notice that none of this is racial; there are tons of poor white families that fall into the exact same trap.
Yep I’ve seen this happen locally. And it’s even more fucked up because otherwise good students simply cannot function when critical mass of shitty students is reached.
I dunno where that even is but I attended enough “ghetto schools” to see a pattern of fatherless kids that would rather hang out on the street than open a book. Charter schools and private schools seem to do well with kids raised in a culture that does not value education but it is a herculean effort and good luck fighting the teachers unions on that.
“Journalist” goes off script, Biden decides to take it on with predictable results.
https://twitter.com/mazemoore/status/1681489880600158211
Good lord.
It’s pretty sad, in like a really pathetic way.
It just makes me angry because I know he’s going to be inflicted on us for another four years through a bogus “fortified” election.
And with 40 million more “votes” than last time.
It won’t be Joe.
The only thing standing between Newsom and the Big Chair is his white maleness. On the plus side, he gives them a way to get rid of Harris – can’t have both the Prez and VP from the same state, and all.
It will absolutely be Joe in 2024. Where have you been the last 3 years?
I’ve read plausible arguments that it will be Michelle or Hillary.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
It is gonna be Puddin’ Head Biden running in ’24. If they back down, then they are either tacitly admiting that he has jello for brains, or openly admiting he has jello for brains, and they cannot paper over it with the public. They are struggling to much with the people right now.
What I don’t get is why it matters.
Puddinhead can gracefully retire and get fawning press for doing so; meanwhile the Dems can run the village dogcatcher and still win because the votes don’t count.
I disagree. Joe will be shuffled aside under some pretext, and someone (probably Newsom) will get the nom, likely at the convention. At that point, Harris is toast as the new candidate will pick their own VP.
Fortification needs something to work with, after all.
Just remember, even before the dementia set in the man was a fucking idiot.
All I heard from his response is that 2024 will be extra fortified. You know, to save democracy or some such.
Jeebus. 2024 will be so fortified that it will make Omaha Beach look like the German army was welcoming the 1ID to a garden party.
“Establishing a reference range for penile length in Caucasian British men: a prospective study of 609 men[…]The mean penile length [was][…]stretched length 14.3 cm (SD 1.7 cm) [5.63 in]”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/23091630/girlfriend-complains-penis-small-sleeping-best-friend/
I’m not sure what this says, but it says… something.
Everybody put in a buck. The man who’s got the biggest tool. He’s the one who wins the pool.
Jeez, cheating idiot… buy a clue. Your best friend is a woman who you want to boff and who wants to boff you. So you’re compatible on multiple levels… break it off with your hot-dog-in-a-hallway girlfriend and build a long term relationship with your best friend who you’d obviously rather be with.
Moron.
Should have drank more water last night.
Nothing in sports? Why, we’re in the middle of the inaugural season of Major League Cricket. There’s even a Texas franchise and most of the games are being played there:
https://www.majorleaguecricket.com/
British Open Day 1. Place your bets.
Is VandeVelde playing?
I wasn’t sure where to space his name, so just didnt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV8Qj91T3o0&t=318s
“His golfing brain stopped about 10 minutes ago.”
It’s Dublin and Kerry in the All-Ireland Football finals on the 30th. Go Kerry.
When did the final move up from September?
2022
I see there’s even more tinkering going on. Bah.
I had no idea. Damn, there’s some big names on that list of players. Sadly, they’re playing in Grand Prairie instead of the cricket complex in Prairie View. If it was closer, I’d go out and watch.
I’m still coming to grips with Major League Rugby.
I was flipping through cable at the hotel. There is major league frisbee football.
“I joined because Major League Quidditch was just too gay.”
Frisbee are for Ultimate
I found out about this a month or so ago, because a former coworker is a part-owner of the Houston franchise, and another former coworker’s wife is one of the coaches. They invited a bunch of us out to a game, so I went. I honestly can’t tell you too much about it, because there was a 3 hour lightning delay, and there was free beer in the parking lot during the whole delay…
SF Unicorns?
“A new app allows shoppers to scan items in grocery stores to check if the brand supports woke values.
Veebs, a free app on the App Store, says it ‘has the brands that align to your personal values settings and offers replacement suggestions for the ones that don’t.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12312613/App-shoppers-scan-brands-check-woke-rating.html
How long before Apple pulls it?
It will be bought by a larger company and then degraded to uselessness. Much like Public Square.
This sounds like a modern twist on Better Business Bureau grift.
Why would Apple pull it?
Yeah, there’s nothing stopping people from using it to find companies that align with Apple’s values.
But people might use it to align with the wrong sort of values. Can’t allow that.
That was my first though, use it to screen for woke. If woke, pass on the product.
I didn’t think of that.
“PICTURED: US soldier, 23, who ran into North Korea after being released from South Korea prison for kicking a cop car – as his mom says ‘I can’t see him defecting’: Pyongyang launches missile”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12313451/PICTURED-soldier-defected-North-Korea-whisked-away-van-released-South-Korea-jail-kicking-cop-car-mom-slaps-claims-fled-just-wants-come-home.html
I hate when that happens.
Two months in the pokey for kicking a cop car? Seems a little harsh. Don’t do dumb shit in foreign countries. Unless there’s more to it, seems like the DOD could have done more to get him out and just brought him home.
Seems like a lot of effort for a shitbird moron. They were probably glad to be rid of him for 2 months (forever now).
Getting him out of the country and shit canning him at the get go seems like a better result than what they have now.
Agreed. Who knew he was dumb enough to run across that border?
Agreed.
OMWC to the white courtesy phone.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/i-love-having-sex-old-30500604
OAPS?
Old age pensioners.
Thanks 🙂
As opposed to young pensioners?
OAP
by Cardiac B. and Meghan Thee Horseglue.
Paywall
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/dining/restaurant-review-mischa-pete-wells.html
Reviewer ate to much and is vomiting up their word salad….
Needs to throw that hot dog down a hallway.
“The hardest part of her job is ‘having to have sex every day’ although ‘you don’t really have to if you know how to use your mouth’.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/i-earn-1k-day-prostitute-30500635
Truer words were never spoken.
Sorry hon, if you actually wanna get paid you’re not getting off that easy.
Guys with a Raggedy Ann fetish?
the hardest part of digging ditches is all the digging…
“A transgender man in Michigan says he was the victim of a transphobic attack in which he was shot in a pellet-gun attack while traveling along the sidewalk in a wheelchair.
Andrew Blake-Newton, 30, said he was shot five times over the weekend from a car full of people who mocked the disabled man and yelled anti-transgender slurs before laughing as they drove away.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12313499/Disabled-transgender-man-shot-five-times-pellet-gun-drive-transphobic-attack-traveled-Michigan-gas-station-snack.html
It sounds unlikely, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
There was just a report of a pellet gun “drive by” in local news. Perhaps it’s the new trend.
Yes, the world’s full of assholes but it’s also full of people who are willing to gain clout from fake victimization. Who knows what’s really the case with this one.
From the sidebar: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12310887/Young-North-Carolina-woman-sues-doctors-testosterone-age-17-saying-needed-therapy-not-double-mastectomy-latest-blockbuster-detransition-lawsuit.html
I hope she wins millions.
Poor girl, she was a cute kid before she was mutilated, allegedly of course, by those two.
“Mosley said she ‘mutilated’ her body to stop being suicidal”
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885&utm_source=mandiner&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=mandiner_202101
“The overall mortality for sex-reassigned persons was higher during follow-up (aHR 2.8; 95% CI 1.8–4.3) than for controls of the same birth sex, particularly death from suicide (aHR 19.1; 95% CI 5.8–62.9)”
For those who don’t speak science journal, that means long term follow up revealed that transgender individuals are 19.1 times more likely to commit suicide AFTER reassignment.
19.1 TIMES.
Most likely because the subjects knew they were messed up and the possibility of surgery gave them hope for the future but after they received the surgery they realized that wasn’t root of the problems AND they were physically messed up. It really is a sad situation.
It’s sick.
Your kid is likely gay – stop trying to turn him or her into a pretend heterosexual.
There’s a video going around of some doctor talking about how we don’t know what these people will be like in 5-10 years, and they’re excited to find out. This is probably not what they had in mind.
Dr. Mengele?
Detroit is MAGA country.
That guy was a hot mess long before deciding to go trans. He didn’t get to 500 pounds overnight. I doubt trans had anything to do with it (he made it up), nor do I believe strangers would use anti-trans slurs against a dude in dude clothes with a beard.
I do believe he may have gotten shot with a BB gun. Probably not a pellet gun, repeating pellet guns cost a lot and aren’t readily available to kids. BB repeaters cost nothing for young vandals.
I think it’s a chick with a beard.
Would a kid with a BB gun driving by know that? I say no.
Nope. For some reason it’s easier for chicks to “pass”.
Anyway I don’t believe that angle of the story at all.
Testosterone is powerful stuff.
The firm plans to hunt for “alternative sources of capital and means of reducing expenses” in order to stay afloat. But the filing’s final lines could cause concern among shareholders: “However, there is no guarantee that the Company will be able to raise additional capital, or that the plan of termination and related workface reduction will be sufficient to permit the Company to continue operations.”
Maybe they can get a loan from Silicon Valley Bank.
How my peepz continue to vote D in large number absolutely mystifies me.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rashida-tlaib-says-thinking-of-the-holocaust-provides-her-a-calming-feeling-shockingly-claims-palestinians-created-safe-haven-for-jews
CWAC
What? You don’t get that a large part of the electorate are assholes?
True, but voting , over and over again, for somebody who explicitly wants you and everyone like you dead and your culture wiped from the earth, is hard to understand.
They know what they are voting for, and until they are punched in the face by reality, they’ll keep voting that way. When reality does punch them in the face, they still won’t get it – for the most part.
Survivers guilt, writ large.
::snicker::
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12312215/Id-drink-urine-Bud-Lights-social-media-accounts-slammed-abuse-resuming-regular-posting-Dylan-Mulvaney-backlash.html?ico=related-replace
I’ll repeat: I don’t avoid Bud Light because of tranny controversy, I avoid it because it sucks.
I do my best to avoid AB-InBev, MillerCoors, and Heineken products. But I do that to help support the independent breweries more than to stick it to the big guys.
I avoid Bud Light because I have indoor plumbing.
Water in, water out is a problem? Sounds like you need to call a plumber.
Regardless of my opinion of Bud Light as a beer, the technical skill, knowledge, and quality control behind it are damned impressive. They know what they’re making, and they have it dialed in to an amazing level. Having dealt with quite a few (now mostly defunct) breweries that have had QC issues, it is something to be respected.
I prefer to be a beer geek rather than a beer snob.
No one said sex in a canoe is easy.
Its a crappy product made to exacting standards.
There is reason some of the best craft breweries were founded by former BMC employees.
I have mentioned it before, but friends of mine own a metal works shop and make lots of distilling and brewing equipment. AB was (and is) a big client. When Busch would come to visit (the Father of the one who sold them) everything in the shop had to be meticulous. He would throw a fit if a ladder was left on the shop floor instead of put away. And they were just a vendor.
I was talking with a local NoCo distiller and I asked who made his equipment. I then told him who I was friends with and his response was, “Yeah, I don’t have that kind of money.”
I was an account manager (in a very different field) long enough to know that when you have a big enough customer, you make sure that they enter and leave happy.
I usually just go to the local brewery, and pick up a couple that match my mood. Just don’t drink enough anymore to worry about it more than that.
I’ve never drunk that or any other “Light” beer. What the hell is wrong with people?
I was at a baseball game with $1 light beers (Bud I think). I finished 1/2 of 1.
When it is 104+ out, a cold light beer is a decent option over heavier independent beers.
Saison does nicely in those conditions.
Ommegang Hennipin is my lawnmower beer.
When it is central valley/Texas temps, light beer is the awesome. When you are at the river or lake all day, light beer is the awesome.
American Sours are cool, but you can’t drink a 12er by yourself.
Let the public school system continue to commit suicide. Fine by me.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/transgender-secrecy-policies-at-public-schools
Government schools. Change the language, win the battle.
Except half the country loves big government and half of the rest is indifferent.
Our celebrity spokesmodel for black pills today is . . . Rhywun!
Everybody loves big government when it’s fucking over the other guy. When it’s fucking over your kids, maybe not so much.
Utter madness. I can’t even believe we are here.
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/masters-of-the-universe-movie-dead-netflix-1235673281/
By the power of Greyskull!
Maybe after Masters of the Universe: Revelation they realized no fans of the original would care about anything produced by Netflix again?
Kevin Smith turning him into an emasculated little pussy cuck side character on his own show probably didn’t help the brand.
You mean He-Man without He-Man isn’t a winning idea?
She-man. Get it right, shitlord!
Someone’s been flogging this project since 2007? Holy moly guys it wasn’t a good show during the original run, why spend so much time and effort on a feature adaption?
There was already a feature adaptation in the 1980s. It was an entertaining 1980s film with Dolph Lungren. Case closed. This is only re-opening because Hollaywood has no original ideas, and refuses to turn to independents for new ideas. Good. Die quickly Hollywood, and let a new era of independent film arise.
There’s also the heavy dose of nostalgia. Lots of people have fond memories of the Saturday morning cartoons they grew up on. Very few of those people have gone back and tried to watch any of them in the past ten to fifteen years.
I understand that my standards for entertainment when my age was in the single digits is different from my standards of entertainment today.
As such I avoid rewatching childhood favorites, because I don’t want to ruin the memories.
I just introduced my daughter to original Scooby Doo. She likes them.
I own Dungeons & Dragons and Thundarr on DVD.
I have D&D in the little brown books.
When they make the movie, Cecil B Demille should direct it
Trump has already been indicted in a case in Manhattan arising from a hush money payment to an adult film actress and separately over his retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump’s defense against every charge – that he’s the victim of a politicized bid to keep him out of office – threatens to further damage the critical institutions of legal accountability that underpin American society.
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Yet an indictment over the twice-impeached Trump’s unprecedented bid to break the chain of peaceful transfers of power would be the most profound of the legal accusations against him. Smith has not tipped his hand over what charges Trump could face. But glimpses into his work hint at an investigation of vast breadth and scope covering the effort to overturn the election in key swing states, alleged attempts to thwart the process of awarding electoral votes, and also the former president’s actions on January 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters invaded Congress in a bid to halt the certification of the election.
An indictment over such matters would effectively amount to the United States for the first time charging an ex-president over an attempt to destroy constitutional institutions and the foundational principle that voters get to choose their leader. Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday that any potential indictment relating to election interference ought to be viewed as a particularly historic stain. “It should concern him more because it will be a legacy-defining decision far greater than the Mar-a-Lago offenses,” Cobb said. “This is one of the great constitutional insults of our time. The country owes it to itself to reassert the rule of law and demonstrate that at least the vision of America is something we are willing to protect and hopefully deter (future threats to that vision) through punishment of Trump if he is convicted.”
Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, a renowned conservative legal scholar, reacted to signs Smith may indict Trump over his attempts to invalidate the 2020 election by saying any other attorney general or special counsel would do the same.
“The former president has left Jack Smith no choice but to bring charges, lest the former president make a mockery of the Constitution of the United States and the Rule of Law,” Luttig said in a statement.
The ultimate battle between Good and Evil.
The Democrats do this shit secure in the knowledge that the Republicans are too weak and feckless to respond in kind.
The GOPe would be happy to see him gone. They hate him.
They want a return to being fully controlled opposition
Jordan will hold some hearings, get in some soundbites, fire off some strongly worded letters and contempt threats, and then will do basically goddamn nothing. What kind of cretin falls for this shit anymore?
The author intoned, without a trace of fucking irony. They are playing a dangerous game here; the installation of dictatorships tends to spill a little blood along the way.
Trump’s unprecedented bid to break the chain of peaceful transfers of power
Democrats challenge every election they lose and use every legal (and illegal) mechanism to do so.
attempt to destroy constitutional institutions
Incidentally that is what the left is doing now.
the foundational principle that voters get to choose their leader
The president is the president of the states and the states elect the president.
I remember the riots on January 20, 2017.
The memory holing of that is astonishing. Just try finding pictures showing that DC was on fire during Trump’s inauguration. They have just vanished from the internet.
One of the Big Lies is that “the Internet is forever”. No, it fucking isn’t. It is quite malleable, in fact.
For those who don’t speak science journal, that means long term follow up revealed that transgender individuals are 19.1 times more likely to commit suicide AFTER reassignment.
As I asked not long ago, what are the odds any of those sex change guinea pigs will live to see their 30th birthday?
They only commit suicide because of transphobes and bigots not accepting them, or this is the talking point I heard.
d,e,i and BELONGING!
Grayskull Castle was one of my most prized possessions as a child. It was the common after work/play hangout for my He-Man, Lion-O, and Junkyard Dog figurines.
Southern California school board rejects curriculum that mentions Harvey Milk
The controversy centered over a three-paragraph mention of the gay rights figure in supplemental materials.
The left is going to milk this transgression for all it’s worth.
Hell, they should expand it and explain how he was a child rapist.
I don’t recall the movie I saw including this.
But Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy – who once said Trump bore responsibility for the January 6 insurrection but has long since hitched his career to the ex-president – offered what is likely a more authentic view of many Republican voters’ sentiments regarding a possible new indictment of Trump.
“If you notice recently, President Trump went up in the polls and was actually surpassing President Biden for reelection. So what do they do now? Weaponize government to go after their number one opponent,” McCarthy said.
Plenty more of Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill, despite not knowing what charges he could face in this case, characteristically leapt to his defense on Tuesday, accusing the Biden administration of weaponizing justice against him.
But if Trump becomes the Republican nominee while fighting to clear his name in any of these cases, voters would also be presented with the extraordinary dilemma of whether to put someone who could be a convicted felon into the Oval Office and whether to entrust him with the nation’s most vital secrets, national security and democracy.
What difference, at this point, does it make? Gaslight harder.
So the author is upset that partisans come to Trump’s defense despite not knowing what charges he could face?
Well, since everything thrown his way so far is bullshit, and since they would have fired their killshot if they had anything of substance, I’d say it’s a fair bet that any additional charges are either outrageous over the top horseshit, or garden variety ticky tack stuff that the opposition will attempt to blow up into something much bigger than it is while simultaneously ignoring a parade of high profile individuals on their side that did the same thing.
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is promoting reparations in a bid to curb health and wealth disparities of black New Yorkers — but the effort is being met with accusations that it’s “sowing racial divisiveness,” The Post has learned.
That’s a feature, not a bug.
As someone who believes NYC glibs are not taxed enough, I support this
The GOPe would be happy to see him gone. They hate him.
Bring back the glory days of Bush Senior.
Flashy combat wins against second rate armies and puking on Japanese ambassadors? Plus Dan Quayle? Where do I sign up?
No, no, it’s time to move on to a third generation Bush imbecile.
That guy got slapped down hard.
Confidential Biden DOD memo reveals “transgender” service members can skip deployments and receive indefinite physical fitness/standards waivers
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1681355980976852992
physical fitness standards are ableist
Diversity is our military’s strength. Even if it means many of our troops are too emotionally and physically weak to perform the most basic tasks of the job.
Do try to keep up.
In fairness it’s very difficult to lubricate and dilate one’s neovagina in a foxhole.
That is what CLP is for!
That should enrage every other enlisted out there.
It should, but they will shrug and carry on, as is their way. Protected groups have always had the ability to dodge lousy assignments, whether it was W in Vietnam, or the rash of women that got pregnant to avoid deployment to Iraq.
Glamour model who calls herself ‘Luscious Lorna’ dragged teaching assistant to ground, headbutted her and pulled out her hair after victim accused the mother-of-five’s children of bullying
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12314425/Glamour-model-calls-Luscious-Lorna-dragged-teaching-assistant-ground-headbutted-pulled-hair-victim-accused-mother-fives-children-bullying.html
“Glamour” model….
That is just nasty. I can smell the herpes through my monitor.
That’s a rough 33.
“We learned it from you, Mom!”
Of course, no jail time for felony assault.
Based on the pic, I would have put her in her 40s. Looks strong like bull, though.
Is Soros bankrolling judges in the UK now?
if you read this whole thread
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1679028356052918274
it seems so…
Little girl showing her friends at school her new prosthetic leg
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1681416880291028992
That’s how you do it.
Good Daily Ray there, Pie.
Yes. Love that one.
Exactly!
Wonderful.
A third indictment would also further fuse Trump’s legal campaign and political one. While he proclaims he’s running to save America, part of his motivation appears to be to save himself, since if he wins the presidency again, he’d have the capacity to potentially wipe out some of the pending cases against him.
As soon as he is inaugurated, Trump will shut down the Department of Justice, padlock Congress and the Supreme Court, and declare himself President For Life!
Do we even export bananas?
Federal investigators have reportedly seized the phones of advisors to 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as part of an investigation into the events of January 6, 2021.
According to the New York Times, the phones of Boris Epshteyn, described as “an in-house counsel who helps coordinate Mr. Trump’s legal efforts,” and campaign strategist Mike Roman, who was director of Election Day operations for Trump’s campaign in 2020.
The phones of John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark were also seized. Clark’s phone was seized as part of an investigation into alternate electors.
Didn’t they know just to wipe them and shatter them with hammers? Silly persons!
Geez, even the lowest scum drug peddler has heard of burner phones.
It used to be that even the lowest scum prosecutors didn’t go after the accused lawyers, too.
Does Michigan even export bananas?
Michigan’s attorney general on Tuesday criminally charged 16 so-called “fake electors” for former President Donald Trump, accusing them of a fraudulent effort to reverse President Joe Biden’s victory in the state’s 2020 election.
The 16 people each face eight charges, including conspiracy, election law forgery, and uttering and publishing, state Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a video announcement.
Nessel called the alleged plan a “desperate effort” to “undermine democracy.” Several of the accused are active in Republican politics.
Nessel has not ruled out potential criminal charges against additional defendants, her office said.
I’m pretty sure alternate electors have always been a thing. And Dems challenge every election they lose.
Interestingly they are being charged with fraud. I guess there is no fraud unless it is useful to the Demo-Bolshevik Party to silence opposition.
Statement from the cunte AG.
Today,@MIAttyGen @dananessel announced felony charges against 16 Michigan residents for their role in the alleged false electors scheme following the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Far as I can tell:
They were the electors of the Republican party…so not fake.
They sent in what they thought was their winning candidate to the secretary of state…so not fraud
Its a pure power move to criminalize both State and Federal constitutional practices.
Our favorite neighbor moved out, and the new neighbors are moving in. Turns out the “kid” who bought it is 27 and went to school with my oldest. His brother’s helping him move, and he went to school with my middle one. The older one was a Marine, and the younger one just got out of the Air Force. My kids can hardly hold down a job and somehow this 27 year old just bought a $550k house. This is giving Mrs. TOK a little bit of hope for that generation.
The older one was a Marine – sounds like an enabler of capitalist oppression. I hope all nice liberal arts educated girls stay away from bad men like this.
The impact of place-based policies on regional inequality
Enghin Atalay Ali Hortacsu Mustafa Runyun Chad Syverson Mehmet Fatih Ulu /
19 Jul 2023
Place-based industrial policies are a widely used tool to spur economic activity, promote strategic sectors, and reduce spatial disparities in economic opportunities. This column discusses a set of place-based and industry-specific subsidies introduced in Türkiye in 2012. The new subsidy policy had a sizeable impact on firms directly exposed to the policy. However, due to spillovers through domestic trade and migration, many of the beneficiaries of the policy included firms and residents outside of the targeted areas. As a result, the policy was only modestly successful in achieving one of its main aims of reducing regional income inequality.
Revisiting the China–Japan Rare Earths dispute of 2010
Simon Evenett Johannes Fritz /
19 Jul 2023
The poster child for concerns about weaponising trade is China’s apparent refusal to ship Rare Earths to Japan in the third quarter of 2010. Drawing upon an analysis in the recently published Global Trade Alert report on critical raw materials, this column revisits the evidence about this salient episode. The findings highlight that in times of intensifying geopolitical rivalry, there is value in checking whether salient narratives have any basis in fact.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/revisiting-china-japan-rare-earths-dispute-2010
“It is a case that calls for compassion, not punishment, and where no useful purpose is served by detaining Ms. Foster in custody,” Sharp stressed.
Maybe protecting human life? Nah, that’s just silly.
“The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), an abortion care facility that provided the woman with the medication in 2020 believing that she was about seven weeks pregnant, said on Tuesday it is “delighted with the decision.”
“We echo the judges’ statements that this is a case that calls for compassion, not punishment,” Clare Murphy, the chief executive of BPAS, said in a statement.”
Bullshit, based on this reaction they probably knew
““The Court of Appeal has recognised that this cruel, antiquated law does not reflect the values of society today. Now is the time to reform abortion law so that no more women are unjustly criminalised for taking desperate actions at a desperate time in their lives.
“We urge Parliament to take action and decriminalise abortion as a matter of urgency so that no more women have to endure the threat of prosecution and imprisonment.””
Why get Parliament to change the law when the judges will do it for them?
…
TFW society from 150 years ago was more morally advanced.
To continue with the Larry Tribe insanity of recent. Two days ago, it was “the first amendment protects government’s speech, not yours.”
Today, it’s: https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1681268001406943232
I ‘m beginning to think somebody has pictures of him with some dead boys.
Maybe he’s inadvertently correct as the deep state would rather be king of the ashes than give up power.
Entirely possible that a 2024 third-party candidate could, intentionally or not, tip this nation toward a fascist Presidential autocracy.
Says someone who I assume supports the current fascist autocracy.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT!!!
It makes perfect sense when you understand that the “our” refers to the Deep State itself and its burning desire to be free of accountability and answer to no one.
Why should AI be the only industry with zero regulation? Unlike food, medicine, cars, airplanes, nukes, etc?
https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1681513976679604224
so we all agree several industries require deregulation?
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the party of science.
Rachel Levine: “What if you’re going through the wrong puberty? What if you inside feel that you are female, but now you’re going through a male puberty?”
I’d suggest Risperdal.
Take it up with humanity’s evolutionary biology, though I doubt it will much care.
What if you feel inside that you are Don Juan but outside weigh 350 pounds and look like Shrek?
Levine is such a huge hypocrite.
Garbage in, garbage out
The wisdom of giving men a boost in this way is contested. On the one hand, it’s unfair to girls who are penalized rather than rewarded for outperforming boys. On the other, schools may have good reason to prop up men. If a school reaches a too-female “tipping point,” fewer students of both sexes want to enroll. While this self-serving justification may be underlined with misogyny, the interest in gender balance at college could stretch beyond the schools themselves and to society. Because people tend to marry people like themselves, college gender imbalances can have implications for marriage and fertility rates. Perhaps most concerning is that higher education will become so associated with women that attending college itself becomes a sex stereotype.
Whatever the merits of affording boys a leg up in admissions, the real-world consequences of the court’s decision are clear. Without the ability to use race in admissions, a university’s preference for men will often be a preference for white men, as Justice Elena Kagan seemed to appreciate. During oral arguments back in October, she posed this question: “Colleges now, when they apply gender-neutral criteria, get many more women than men. … Could a university put a thumb on the scales” to “ensure that men continue to be … roughly in the same ballpark?” She made clear that this “thumb on the scale” would often end up being for “white men.” Because Black boys lag white boys in school, the likely result of the court’s decision is exactly as Kagan suggested: an assist to white boys and men.
Rambling “equity” obsessed nonsense. The inescapable horror of choice.
Guess who is wildly over-represented as villains in Title IX complaints – young black men!
Don’t Be THAT Guy
https://monsterhunternation.com/2023/07/12/dont-be-that-guy/
“This advice is because I saw a post on a friend’s page, today who is a professional gun builder and worked in the industry in various capacities for probably three decades now, and some dude was telling him about how he routinely and easily uses his Yugo AK to hit soup cans at 200 yards… with iron sights. “it’s called practice dude”.
Now, is this doable? Sure. Just not on demand repeatable, because that soup can (why is it always a soup can or soda can with these guys?) is probably less than half the size of what even an exceptional example of that gun with the best possible 7.62×39 ammo is capable of hitting on its best day, and that front sight is covering up an area about 10x the size of the target at that range.
…
Which brings us to part two of this specific subcategory of nonsense. The inflated round counts. My Brand Y is just as good as your Brand X and I’ve put TEN THOUSAND ROUNDS through it!
..
A little while back I saw where a newb put up a picture of his 10 yard pistol target, and it looked about like what you’d expect a newb’s 10 yard pistol target to look like. No shame in that. We all started somewhere. But along comes some random internet asshole, saying that’s trash, and how he could totally shoot a ten shot group that could be covered by a QUARTER, at 25 yards, FREEHAND, on demand, every time, using his Smith & Wesson Model 36… I shit you not.”
Sounds like Larry is bitter he can’t shoot good like these internet guys
I am going to be a different that guy…
I still have a problem with the Monster Hunter books (okay, I only read the first one). It was a good story, but they are too hard to kill. It makes no sense that modern weaponry struggles against them yet they were getting killed in the middle ages. No, they would have totally wiped out humanity.
I think even Larry himself says he got much better as a writer from the first book. I also only read the first…
Yes – those books improve as they progress.
That tends to happen.
My issue was more the James Bond level male fantasy bullshit.
Because they are cheap and ubiquitous. A typical household will have a good number on hand waiting to be shipped out as waste product.
If we generate 3 or 4 such cans in a week, I’d be surprised.
Well, ain’t you the fancy eater.
Daily Quordle 541
🟥5️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
There’s a fucked up collection of words
But along comes some random internet asshole
Somebody more organized and entrepreneurial than I am should make and sell tiny “When I Grow Up I Want to be a Random Internet Asshole” t-shirts.
I’d prefer Random Drunken Asshole, but both could be good.
Things more enjoyable than listening to The Beatles:
1) receiving a hot oil massage from @joebiden
;
2) giving a hot oil massage to @HillaryClinton
;
3) going on a blind date with @HHS_ASH
;
4) being stuck in an elevator with @GretaThunberg
for 24 hours whilst she screams at you that you’ve ruined her childhood because fossil fuels;
5) injecting Ebola into my eyes.
https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1681484518979411969
They’re overrated but they’re not that bad.
Its possible they are the most overrated band in history and still the best band in history.
Not my favorite, but I can see it.
Well, they were more popular than Jesus at one point.
So were The B Sharps. It was even the name of their second album.
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Bigger_Than_Jesus?file=D8321e29036042879100a54959bda669.jpg
its a great gag.
“Hell, they should expand it and explain how he was a child rapist.”
They could expand it a bit more and explain how SF Democrats were huge supporters and receivers of votes and money of Jim Jones. Milk kept up his support of Jones even after he started his compound in Guyana. He wrote an official letter to Carter months before the Flavor-Aid got passed around begging him to stop any Congressional investigations of Jones and leave him and the men, women and children stuck down there with him alone. The letter is easily found, it could be included in the textbooks.
https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=114444
“Discredited in the news”
That line must have still worked in Jimmy Carter’s day.
It is hard to avoid the upside-down nature of a decision that ends up privileging the very group that has historically been most advantaged. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson condemned the “perverse” nature of the SFFA decision, which reads a part of the Constitution aimed at correcting racial injustice as barring a policy that does just that. A recent challenge to Harvard’s legacy admissions policy is also premised on the backwards aspect of a decision that bans express accounting of race while permitting consideration of far less worthy traits.
Fucking gibberish.
Colleges have suddenly been stripped of any ability to establish (purely subjective) specific criteria for admissions and must rely on… what? Students’ ability to pay the costs of their education? To successfully complete the requirements for a degree? What a horrifying dystopian nightmare.
a decision that bans express accounting of race while permitting consideration of far less worthy traits.
Is she saying that skin pigment is all that matters?
yes
All this uproar is just bullshit. The decision didn’t actually change the rules at all. SCOTUS was crystal clear that it was applying the historical rules allowing affirmative action, but they didn’t permit the level of outright racism on display in universities these days.
Libs are wailing because they’re (fundraising) drama queens. Cons are scoreboarding because they so desperately need some wins that they will make them up if need be.
TV station helicopter commentator, broadcasting a live police chase on multiple platforms, noting that people on the street keep approaching the vehicle being chased: “how do so many people know about this?”
You watching the most boring car chase ever too?
Dude is doing 30mph tops and cops trying to put out spike strips…
There is no shame.
NYC woman pepper-sprayed, called a ‘Karen’ after confronting subway turnstile-jumpers
A 68-year-old straphanger was pepper-sprayed in the face and mocked as a “Karen” after confronting a group of young women for jumping the turnstiles at a Manhattan subway station, police said Tuesday.
The victim was on the downtown 1 Train platform at the 66th Street-Lincoln Center station on the Upper West Side around 3 p.m. Monday when she chastised the fare evaders, according to cops.
That’s when the attacker, who wasn’t part of the group, stepped in, police said.
https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/nyc-karen-pepper-sprayed-after-subway-turnstile-confrontation/
” called a ‘Karen’”
Ah, statists move to appropriate another term that criticizes them and turn it against their enemies.
“Also, if this happens I hope the program includes replacing batteries in smoke detectors. For the lulz.”
Heh, I just learned about this theory recently.
I don’t get the reference – what is it about?
Same
Mister President, we cannot allow an A I gap!
Tech leaders and AI experts on Tuesday warned that the U.S. military needs to move quickly to harness its military data and invest in emerging technology if it wants to compete with the Chinese in an era when artificial intelligence is upending global conflict.
“The country that is able to most rapidly and effectively integrate new technology into war-fighting wins,” Alexandr Wang, the CEO of Scale AI, told lawmakers on a House Armed Services subcommittee. China is spending three times more than the U.S. on developing AI tools, Wang noted. “The Chinese Communist Party deeply understands the potential for AI to disrupt warfare, and is investing heavily to capitalize,” he said. “AI is China’s Apollo project.”
Wang, who runs a San Francisco-based generative AI startup, pressed for the Pentagon to centralize data to train AI models and upgrade its workforce to compete. He was part of a panel testifying before the HASC’s Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Subcommittee, which was created in 2021 to focus on artificial intelligence and the future of warfare. The hearing was the latest in a growing number of public conversations about how Congress can catch up with the quickly evolving technology.
Let me guess. More research grants are needed. What did I win?
You win a bag of White House branded coke!
A 68-year-old straphanger was pepper-sprayed in the face and mocked as a “Karen” after confronting a group of young women for jumping the turnstiles at a Manhattan subway station, police said Tuesday.
It’s a shame more people don’t take advantage of public transit. A tragedy, really. Once they make it prohibitively expensive to enter Manhattan in a private vehicle, ridership will improve, and life in the city will be grand.
Now I really feel old and out of touch.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1681657263784869889
I have no fucking idea what I just saw.
Starting to think Pol Pot has some good ideas.
People will masturbate to just about anything
No.
Added to the list. A fine Thursday film.
Is that Alex Stein?
Experts and entrepreneurs in the burgeoning field have become sought-after translators for an aging Congress. Wang, 26, dropped out of MIT at 19 and built Scale AI by focusing on data annotation, outsourcing the human task of labeling images and videos to train AI programs. ScaleAI relies on more than 240,000 workers in countries including Kenya, Venezuela, and the Philippines. The company, now valued at more than $7 billion, has made him the youngest self-made billionaire in the world.
Wang has also cultivated ties to lawmakers, especially those who share his hawkish views on China. “If they win this competition,” Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican who chairs the committee, said of China at Tuesday’s hearing, they “will likely use that technology for evil as a way of perfecting a repressive, totalitarian surveillance state as well as exporting that model around the world.”
We have to get there first!
“The Daily Beast published one of the most high-profile criticisms of the song its article, “Jason Aldean Catches Heat for Racist, Pro-Gun Lyrics: ‘a Modern Lynching Song.'”
Aldean addressed the controversy Tuesday on social media.
He said he was “accused of releasing a pro-lynching song” that expressed his displeasure with the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
“These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it- and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage,” Aldean, a supporter and friend of former President Donald Trump, wrote.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/jason-aldeans-try-small-town-music-video-banned-cmt-song-tops-charts
Good morning!
That’s all I’ve got.
Oh, and Berlin was a fantastic band.
“Unchecked consolidation threatens the free and fair markets upon which our economy is based,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement.
Legit LOL.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/biden-administration-mergers-potential-changes-ftc-doj/index.html
Top fucking men.
So…. Let Microsoft, Google and Facebook alone, and terrorize smaller companies point forward? Sounds par for the course.
“Unchecked consolidation”
Excellent. I look forward to the de-consolidation of the federal government. Perhaps get rid of most of the AG office in DC as a start?
Jackbooted thugs
In late May, a group of young, male neo-Nazis converged outside a bookstore in Bozeman, Mont., to protest a drag queen story hour. Later that day, they hit another similar event in Livingston, Mont. The second weekend in June, the groups targeted the Lewis County Pride Festival in Centralia, Wash. A week after that, it was the Wind River Pride event in Lander, Wyo. And the following weekend, they were at Oregon City Pride, not far from Portland, Ore.
These men, dressed in tactical gear and masks, were members of so-called “active clubs” — a term that may be relatively new to American audiences. They are a strand of the white nationalist movement that has grown quickly during the last three years and that has recently taken their message of hate into more public view. These decentralized cells emphasize mixed martial arts training to ready their members for violence against their perceived enemies.
Stephen Piggott, a researcher with the Western States Center, a national civil rights organization, has closely tracked their evolution in the Pacific Northwest.
“They are really focused on a couple of things,” said Piggott. “One is centering, organizing and trying to recruit people through combat sports … but also, preparing for political and racially motivated violence.”
“Similar event in Livingston”? Sorry I missed it.
All part of Trump’s robot army, as we all know. For some reason that mask-wearing business just screams false flag provocateurs. But what do I know?
“Western States Center, a national civil rights organization”
Hmm, wonder who that is.
From their website:
“One is centering, organizing and trying to recruit people through combat sports … but also, preparing for political and racially motivated violence.”
Except for where they look for recruits, how is this not a description of antifa?
Antifa is just an idea.
also, preparing for political and racially motivated violence
Presumably instigated by Antia/BLM.
mask-wearing business just screams false flag provocateurs.
Next you’ll tell me that Patriot Front is a psy-op.