Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Itâs that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another lovely day and the links!
Trump pleads ‘not guilty’ to Georgia charges, waives arraignment
Judge rules ex-president’s case will be broadcast live – along with his 18 co-defendants
Gov. Brian Kemp Stands by Fani Willis, Dismisses Calls to Impeach Fulton County DA
GOP Looks To Pelosi Playbook Before Potential Biden Impeachment Inquiry
Biden apparently used pseudonym to discuss White House hire with Hunter, 2014 email shows
Capitol Doctor Says Sen. McConnell ‘Medically Clear’ 1 Day After Freeze-Up
JUDGE ADDS âTERRORISMâ ENHANCEMENT TO PROUD BOYS LEADERâS SENTENCE FOR TEARING DOWN FENCE
Professors Claim Incoming Students Can’t Do 9th-Grade Level Math After Pandemic Interruptions
Dollar General Shares Drop Due to Consumer Spending and Theft
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
The main page cat is just all of us in a nutshell. Morning, Banjos!
Mornin’
…And that’s why I find myself not interested in the particulars. It is clearly a kangaroo court the DA has got set up… just get through it already. And if we’re so screwed up in the TDS that the appeals court is going to go for it, let’s find out so we know just how bad off we are as a nation. Bleah. So ridiculous.
It’s worse than you can imagine…
“Judge rules ex-presidentâs case will be broadcast live â along with his 18 co-defendants”
They are so sure this circus will go their way that they don’t think it will make people decide the unelected state is broken and needs to be brought to heel? Wow…
After so many lines crossed I never thought would be crossed without at least serious unrest… they may well be right.
Ok, gorram it… I can’t be this black pilled this early in the morning. Counter agent..
Thanks, that is otterly adorable.
They carefully controlled the J6 hearings, even going so far as to hire someone from Hollywood to put together the video presentations. They won’t have that kind of control this time. Of course, The News will still pick and choose which clips to air.
Not watching unless there’s elephants.
Only elephants get prosecuted. Donkeys get either rewarded or quietly led off for disposal.
Our system is broken because it has split us into three groups> The powerful & elite, the serfs, and the enemies of the powerful & elite. The first group uses the system to commit massive criminal shit and get away with it while wielding the system as a weapon against their enemy. The serfs just get fucked over for threatening the rackets run by the powerful & elite. Our republic has reverted to “muh democracy” or as history has shown, another feudal system.
“Capitol Doctor Says Sen. McConnell âMedically Clearâ 1 Day After Freeze-Up”
The problem is that congress’ bar for being a member is so low a fucking rock would pass.
Or a lump?
Not on NPR it won’t. NPR has committed to never again airing live Trump russianmisnformationpropaganda. He’s such a lying liar that anything he says must first be reviewed and context/fact checking provided before it can be allowed to go out over tax-funded transmitters.
The thing that really worries me is that the NPR crowd actually never did a double take about being told this shit. Just like the CNN or was it MSNBC when it said people should not be allowed to do their own investigation research and just accept whatever the media tells them are the facts as gospel. How fucking dumb do you have to be to believe entities that say shit like this are not dangerous and to be avoided? Or is it all just evil people that prefer that lies be told to others and themselves, which would explain this shit. Never mind.
ABC pre-emptively cut out big chunks of its interview with RFK because “he wasn’t telling the truth and we couldn’t let his misinformation be spread”.
The serfs might see this shit and get the wrong ideas or something?
What is the point of having an interview with the guy if they won’t tell us what he said?
They can just say he lied (while citing peer reviewed scientific studies) – trust us.
To make him seem crazy through said selective editing.
That’s why Trump is always fidgeting and waving his hands when talking to somebody he doesn’t trust – makes it harder to chop the video.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E09/671386
“Dollar General Shares Drop Due to Consumer Spending and Theft”
You get more bad behavior if you don’t punish the bad behavior? Is this a new scientific discovery we should be talking about?
Trump pleads ânot guiltyâ to Georgia charges, waives arraignment
He’ll have a chance to prove his innocence. Because that’s how it works.
Look…. if he weighs the same… as a duck….
I wouldn’t be surprised that this court’s premise will be that they will tie 500 lbs of weight around the accused’s neck and throw em into a deep lake. If the accused manages to come out alive, they obviously were guilty. And if they just drown, well then they proved their innocence, and the court can just move on…
They can cite legal precedent going back to colonial days!
All Trump’s Georgia trial will be on TELEVISION: Judge rules ex-president’s case will be broadcast live – along with his 18 co-defendants
A show trial made for tv.
It’s Bread and Circuses Time.
Fuck… this came out back in 1990.
Hmmm… that seems a little strong. More like: “Kemp passes on calling special session on Fulton DA, says it is within the state constitution and up to the Fulton voters to take action.”
I don’t have warm fuzzies for the guy (I still think he and what’s-his-chile-pepper-name the Sec of State) did a shit job managing election law in 2020 and possibly 2022… but “I don’t think this merits a special session of the Legislature, it isn’t something I approve of — but is within her role in the Constitution” isn’t “Yeah! I support her! Don’t impeach her!” per se.
Kemp is an absolute coward.
No he is evil. He is bending the knee to the corruptocracy and it’s agenda. Whether he is doing so because they have blackmail material to make him do this shit or because he is coopted by the corruptocracy, is immaterial.
Manichean much?
“Look… we rebooted, got all the Windows updates and ran antivirus… what more do you want from us? If it happens again, we’ll check Event Viewer…”
Fixed it for them.
Whenever I tell your average America hating lefty that they are correct that there still is systemic racism in America and that the two most visible institutions propagating that racism are the public school education system, which is designed to cripple the kids that are the competition of the current intelligentsia’s kids that attend private institutions of primary learning, and the higher level education system, where the liberal arts disciplines, once a gateway to higher level professions, now only serves to indoctrinate and turn out idiot marxist lemmings.
Man do they get pissed.
I think the biggest extant example of systemic racism is Planned Parenthood and their eugenics push of “winnowing the lower classes” with such vigor. And that the chardonnay-chugging suburban Karens are so damned proud of that never ceases to astound and confound me.
“We should have encourage people I don’t like to kill their children so there’s less of them..” Dickens at least let Scrooge have a bit of shame when he even got close to that.
Yeah. Universities in California had remedial math and English classes back in the 90s.
Universities in California had remedial math and English classes back in the 90s.
NJ says “hold my beer”. Rutgers class of 1976 had two notable firsts. Women were admitted to Rutgers College for the first time (600, IIRC) and English Composition was mandated for all incoming freshpersons, because by then basic writing skills were no longer required to acquire a high school diploma.
And I’m sure the Teacher’s Unions will clamor for Yet More Money soon as a result. Because adding 3x overhead in “administrators” has done everyone such good…. (well, it does seem to have sped up the programming… so I suppose they would think it has…)
Shouldn’t incoming freshmen have mastered simple arithmetic years before the plague? How did it make them regress?
There was not enough DEI/ESG shit pounded into their heads in leu of the 3 Rs, which is a waste of time according to the community organizer crowds?
I would hope “9th-Grade Level Math” would mean “Algebra 1… maybe simple Geometry”… so a little past simple arithmetic, but just barely.
The stuff I think should be teachable in 4th or 5th grade at least for the more math inclined kids…
The examples from the article were literally simple arithmetic.
Wait… we’re supposed to read the articles?!?
(Kidding… but that one was one I didn’t happen to read. Thanks for the details.)
Amazing that a human who cannot add negative integers or fractions considers himself college material – and the colleges accept them! (Well, I know why the latter happen$).
They had the right pronouns though.
And cash! (Well, not really cash, but a gov’t surety of cash.)
dumb/ass?
Sadly, not in California.
âThe bottom line is that in the state of Georgia, as long as Iâm governor, weâre going to follow the law in the Constitution regardless of who it helps or harms politically,â Kemp concluded. âAnd in Georgia, we will not be engaging in political theater that only inflames the emotions of the moment.â
Umm… it sure seems like some local DA is doing just that.
Morning Banjos. Since it is you doing the lynx this morning, I won’t complain about the lack of commentary on the Golden Rodents from THE U of M domination of Nerdraska.
I’m still offended by the Cornhuskers mascot. Sorry but if Chief Wahoo had to go, so does this guy.
Just don’t take away Stanford’s mascot.
Don’t those Minnesodans the pope is talking about worship a gopher? Talk about crazy mascots. They should get something classy like an orange or whatever you call people holding meat raffles…
A Golden Gopher.
Is that because that gopher is a constant target of them golden showers thingies?
See what happens when Moses isn’t around.
Did you just call Minnesoda that wasteland the people that failed the test to get into the promised land had to wander n for 40 years?
My family actually wandered through Wisconsin.
You don’t wander through Wisconsin. You stagger through Wisconsin.
Once you cross the border, the brandy wears off and you can begin wandering again.
A Golden Gopher beats a Banana Slug.
They already did, fifty years ago.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Nice. However, I was a bit disappointed not to see straff opening that beer bottle.
That was awesome.
Thanks, Jimbo
GOP Looks To Pelosi Playbook Before Potential Biden Impeachment Inquiry
*yawn*
Maybe the GOP could combine their efforts to repeal Obamacare with this new impeachment?
JUDGE ADDS âTERRORISMâ ENHANCEMENT TO PROUD BOYS LEADERâS SENTENCE FOR TEARING DOWN FENCE
Just so you know what the federal government thinks of you dissenters.
If you loot and burn to the tune of a a few billions, but your criminality and terrorism helps the unelected government entity get its way, you will be a hero and likely get tax payer funded payouts as compensation. But if you bad mouth, and definitely if you fight the machine, well, then you are going to immediately be accused of being the most dangerous type of terrorist and be sent to the gulag, erm jail.
The new criminal defense strategy. When they come after me I will tell the judge I have always identified as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body and that I too want women’s prison for my crime of objecting to the unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic corruptocracy coming after me. And I will sue and get millions when these crooks try to tell me I am lying and I call in all my Glibs to testify I have always identified that way!
The GOP will wait to impeach Biden until after the DNC convention.
That way there’s no way RFK can get in there.
This is where we are.
Professors Claim Incoming Students Canât Do 9th-Grade Level Math After Pandemic Interruptions
The scamdemic was not the interruption.
For the cat lovers here.
https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1697448043086229588
Regarding McConnell, this is what was left out of the article:
A video of the incident shows the Senate Republican leader asking the reporter to repeat the question twice before responding with “That’s a …” and pausing while staring …
at Satan holding up a picture of his upcoming cell for approximately 30 seconds.
I think you are wrong. All the work he did for Satan should get him a management position once he gets to his final destination…
SECESSIONISTS!!!
Minneapolis is so fucked if suburbs can start leaving the county.
“Minneapolis is so fucked
if suburbs can start leaving the county.”Fixed that for ya.
“…feels like we’re just an ATM..”
Ive been told that you never go Ass-To-Mouth
You might get some rumours spread.
Love it.
This will absolutely happen. No way HenCo lets them leave.
In USSA we have though-crime.
A 25-year-old man has been charged with criminal mischief and a âhate crimeâ after he removed and damaged a number of LGBTQI+ pride flags placed on a fence in New York Cityâs West Village neighborhood in June. Patrick Murphy is alleged to have engaged in a âcriminal mischief patternâ alongside two other men by the cityâs authorities after pride flags at the Stonewall National Monument were vandalized. Despite the months-long effort to locate and charge Murphy, the damage saw around only a dozen small LGBTQI+ and trans flags thrown onto the floor and several flag sticks broken.
One wonders where they think is all going.
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1697388907459952778
How dare he make us look bad for demanding his state accept the horde while we grandstanding about being a sanctuary city cause we never expected to be impacted by that horde!
Except it is LA, so that’s a little odd. It isn’t like California doesn’t get border crossings either (not as much as it sounds like Texas is getting, granted….). Portland, Seattle, NYC, Minneapolis… those make sense for whining about “Don’t make us live up to our posturing!”… but LA or San Diego should have plenty to deal with already. shrug
Maybe Abbott is handpicking some really bad dudes to bus to LA. They don’t mind the nice local illegals from TJ, but when a bus full of hombres named MaĂz Gaseosa show up…?
From what I recently read a huge number of the horde’s membership these days are from countries not in our hemisphere or something.
Corn Soda?
Corn Pop…. they call it pop in the backwards lands…
*clears throat*
Excuse me? Pop is sweetened carbonated beverages. Soda is carbonated water.
The thing about being a sanctuary is, you donât really get to stay on your high horse if you start picking and choosing.
Shouldnât be hard for Abbot to find plenty of quotes about how they accept all migrants, blah blah that amount to a waiver or estoppel of whatever they are griping about now.
I am pretty sure that he didn’t force anyone onto the buses, either. Just asked “who wants to go to LA, or NY or Chicago, where you already have relatives?”
Why sue? Just pass a bill of attainder.
Why don’t the kings men just ride forth and slay that dragon?
I mean, that is what they really want.
“Will no one rid Texas of this turbulent governor?”
Watching the mayor of NYC celebrate the “sanctuary city” while simultaneously begging the Feds for cash to pay for it is one of the most richly rewarding displays of hypocrisy this year.
Sure is.
Today in weird Romanian folk music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkoqwE14oD0
Like a lot of J-Pop… utterly no idea what they’re singing, but yeah… sounds pleasant enough. Like the hand keyboard, I suppose if you have the lungs that’s easier than a full squeeze box.
That is a melodica, I think. The Hooters were famous for using one.
So did Peter Murphy in Bauhaus.
What could go wrong?
The F-22 and F-35 are two of the most cutting-edge and capable war machines in America’s arsenal. They also cost $143 million and $75 million a pop, respectively. Facing increasing pressure from China, which has accelerated its conventional weapon procurement efforts in recent months, the Pentagon announced Monday a program designed to build out America’s drone production base in response. As part of that effort, the United States Air Force has requested nearly $6 billion in federal funding over the next five years to construct a fleet of XQ-58A Valkyrie uncrewed aircraft, each of which will cost a (comparatively) paltry $3 million.
The Valkyrie comes from Kratos Defense & Security Solutions as part of the USAF’s Low Cost Attritable Strike Demonstrator (LCASD) program. The 30-foot uncrewed aircraft weighs 2,500 pounds unfueled and can carry up to 1,200 total pounds of ordinance. The XQ-58 is built as a stealthy escort aircraft to fly in support of F-22 and F-35 during combat missions, though the USAF sees the aircraft filling a variety of roles by tailoring its instruments and weapons to each mission. Those could includes surveillance and resupply actions, in addition to swarming enemy aircraft in active combat.
We already know.
Tinman is gonna bomb the Russians in the Pacific?
ECM is going to be interesting if they depend on these so heavily. Personally, I don’t expect it will go well or like they think.
Modern warplanes are fly by wire anyways. ECM wonât be much fun for Maverick either.
each of which will cost a (comparatively) paltry $3 million
They have still lost all sight of the economics of modern war.
Plenty of videos on the internet of Ukrainian Patriot batteries being overwhelmed with Iranian-made drone that cost $20k a piece.
You can’t use million dollar missiles to go after cheap drones. The military is fielding EMP, Microwave, and even laser dazzlers to counter these drones, in addition to cheaper missiles and missile systems, but they wouldn’t send those to the Uke because they do not want the other side to see them in action, and worse, they need to keep spending on the expensive stuff.
Raytheon disagrees with you.
You mean they agree with my belief they would love the US military to waste multi million dollar missiles against cheap drones, but that the military should stop that shit?
A lot easier to get drones to fire on deplorable people.
“Texas becomes FIFTH US state to detect ‘most infectious Covid variant ever’ BA.2.86”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12467845/Texas-FIFTH-state-detect-infectious-Covid-variant-BA-2-86.html
No.
Oh, I believe it… because that’s what viruses do. More infectious (spreads better) and less debilitating/fatal (doesn’t kill the host so can spread more, host doesn’t know they have it for longer… so again, can spread more) is the evolutionary pressure, after all.
So — “What else did you expect, morons?” leaps to mind here. This is just going to be the normal flu within a couple of years if it isn’t already (for most folks).
General rule of viruses…as they become weaker they become more infectious. So…duh?
Or… what robc said. I’m just damned wordy.
I thought the wordy first paragraph was good. The 2nd paragraph could be covered with a single word.
Also, what SDF-7 said. Although I think “duh” covers it better.
We can have the most deadliester, most infectioustest super cootie bugs ever so many times and past some point it doesn’t really matter. What now? We can catch it just by hearing about it on the news?
I’m waiting for one of our Health Experts to get on TV and ominously tell us that the reason this new variant is so dangerous is because “people may not even know they have it” and end up secretly spreading it even more.
No one will ask them why we should be so scared of an infection that is so benign that you don’t even know you have it.
Shouldn’t the schools have noticed the obvious drop in standardized test scores and just not accepted them?
Enlightened schools don’t look at SAT / ACT scores anymore, because racist.
No money made in rejections.
Both of the above.
Esp. in light of the SCOTUS ruling this year. Colleges are desperate to “diversify” and many of them don’t ask for test scores anymore. And remember, that is not at all nakedly racist.
Your mistake is believing these schools see preparing the poor inmates they mistreat for gainful employment and to be intelligent members of a good society. They see these kids as idiots to be brainwashed into marxist lemmings.
College is the new High School.
Except for sports, that is full pro now, far exceeding the NFMLBALGBBQ.
The now is hilarious.
“We may not make a university student out of him, but if we can teach him to read and write, maybe he can work at the post office rather than as a garbage man when he gets through with his athletic career.” — uga’s lawyer, during the Jan Kemp trial.
Yes, this was the actual argument a University’s [sic] lawyer actually made, during a trial over firing a teacher who exposed athletic/academic shenanigans. This was 40 years ago.
College sports, with the UCLA decision the other day, is NOW, and only NOW, a pro activity. That was the final straw. As long as you still had divisions relating to the schools (and academic standards applied as much then as at any time) you had college sports. NOW, with the break up, it is over. Not before.
“Has RĂłisĂn Murphy been cancelled already? Two of Moloko frontwoman’s gigs are axed in London as record label refuses to promote new album and hands proceeds to trans lobby amid row over her post about puberty blockers
Two RĂłisĂn Murphy gigs have been cancelled at short notice after a social media pile-on by trans activists following the Irish singer’s comments about puberty blockers.
The Sing It Back artist’s record label is also reported to have ceased promotion on her new album, Hit Parade, which is scheduled to come out on Friday, September 8, and will donate all proceeds to trans-supporting charities.
The former frontwoman for top ten hitmakers Moloko, who has since had a successful solo career, issued a grovelling apology this week after an online pile-on by Twitter users claiming to be LGBTQ+ allies.
Murphy was barracked by activists after branded puberty blockers ‘f******’ on her private Facebook page and appearing to call trans children ‘little mixed-up kids’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12469639/Roisin-Murphy-cancelled-London-gigs-new-album-trans.html
She said they were “fucked”??
Anyway, puberty blockers are simply bad medicine.
I read that statement a dozen times. I still have no idea what it means, or who did what. I can say that the Moloko had their money stolen by a record label and will have an excellent lawsuit against them. Pretty soon no recording artists are ever going to sign with a record label again. They are no longer trustworthy. Queue collapse of the record industry as the next domino after Hollywood.
I will enjoy a glass of champagne and watch.
And Dinosaurs Will Die.
Indeed.
They had their uses before the tranny craze but yes, when used to further confuse kids with a mental illness – bad.
I can’t even. The cult is so strong it feels like it will never go away.
Trans activists are mentally ill fascist scum.
I have had a crazy week at work and last night I took my dog to the hospital because he hasn’t eaten in 3 days and was throwing up after drinking water.
He is home and we’ll see how he does, so far he can drink water, but refuses all food.
I am currently working on the Stoic post and will have it done soon.
đ Poor doggie.
Damn, ron. So sorry to hear that.
Are you trying the boiled ground beef and rice?
Prayers for the pupper.
The Dr. had us buy the EN chicken and rice but he won’t even smell it.
Water is staying down, so I’m not as concerned, we’ll see how he is tomorrow.
He’s only 5 and has been ridiculously heathly and active, so it’s very strange to see him with no energy and a droopy tail.
Here’s praying it isn’t dog bloat. I assume the vet checked for that.
The stomach doesn’t feel swollen and rubbing it doesn’t cause pain.
The Dog is more important than Stoicisim. Take care of the beast.
Nothing I can do for him right now, he’s laying on the front porch watching the road like he likes to do in the mornings.
Hope the doggie recovers quickly.
Sorry.
No kidney issues?
Daily Quordle 585
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Meh.
Blossom Puzzle, September 1
Letters: E I M T N S V
My score: 424 points
My longest word: 17 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
*flex*
Daily Quordle 585
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, September 1
Letters: E I M T N S V
My score: 442 points
My longest word: 15 letters
đź đş đľ đ đ¸ đš đť đˇ đŽ đź đş đľ đ đ¸ đš
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 585
8ď¸âŁ4ď¸âŁ
7ď¸âŁ3ď¸âŁ
fucking rhyming words
Better late than never.
A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazisâ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday.
The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having âsupported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,â prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the suspectâs name.
He is charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to murder between July 1943 and February 1945. The indictment was filed at the state court in Hanau, which will now have to decide whether to send the case to trial. If it does, he will tried under juvenile law, taking account of his age at the time of the alleged crimes.
Find and charge the janitor as well.
Helps to scare people off from the AfD, I guess.
Most likely the reason for it.
AfD is polling over 20% these days.
“A glamorous California equestrian is accused of trying to kill her estranged millionaire husband in a murder-for-hire plot after a court ordered her to slash her spending from $50,000 a month to $12,000.
Tatyana Remley, 42, was taken into custody by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department on August 2 during a sting operation at a Starbucks in Solano Beach.
Tatyana, who filed for divorce in May, is accused of offering a mutual friend $2 million to kill Mark Remley, her husband of 12 years. The friend later informed Mark of her plan…
Mark claims she set fire to their $5 million home on Rancho Reposo in swanky Del Mar just days after she allegedly tried to solicit a hit on him.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12466561/Tatyana-Remley-arrested-hiring-friend-kill-estranged-husband-Mark-Remley-2-million-murder-hire-plot.html
She seems nice.
Them is definitely crazy eyes…
Wasn’t that an episode of Justified in the first season?
Solana.
Dem thighs doe.
This is one of the many intended consequences of all the lawfare against the populists and their chosen candidate….
You homotarians are not eating enough ice cream!
https://patch.com/new-york/upper-west-side-nyc/big-gay-ice-cream-appears-be-evicted-uws-storefront
Is big gay ice cream made with man goo instead of milk?
Transwoman breast milk
“Double Nut Cream Explosion”
I can’t see that being any more successful than “Caucasian Straight Guy Ice Cream.”
With three flavors… vanilla, french vanilla… and cracker!
Well, at least no one put the chocolate in with the peanut butter.
Voici: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2WDx-tMhbQ
I’d say, watch it turn into another Duane Reade or Rite Aid but those are closing too.
What’s left? Starbucks?
Good morning, Banjos!
Man, everything is kind of shitty, isn’t it?
It’s weird that I still feel pretty damn good.
Love that song, too. I gotta rewatch that movie soon.
Have a great day, y’all!
Give that kid a cookie!
https://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1697409109203501162
Someone’s parents are about to be audited.
Would have been fine if he remembered to call her DR.
DAAANNNNGGGG!
Priceless.
TPTB:
The Stoic post has been published for review.
This is how you do it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/100s-ulez-cameras-destroyed-vigilante-group-following-wider-london-roll-out
Brings a tear to your eye.
Resistance is not futal.
And then what? The security services love this. Destroying cameras won’t end the scheme. It’s a cult.
I guess you could just go for an armed overthrow of the whole government.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
— Now on another list . . . .
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
TALL BIRTHDAY CANS!
Im home for the weekend, and today is yet another 365 days around the sun
Happy b-day Tres. May some big girls shake them tiddies for ya!
I’m already soliciting pics from Jugsy’s friend…
Happy birthday, Tres!
Happy Birthday dude!
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Happy Birthday, Tres!
https://youtu.be/lISBP_fPg1s?t=148
Happy birthday!!!
Happy Birthday
I really should click on all links, PoN ya bastage.
Happy Birthday!
The people at Reason are getting the story partially right when they point out that the crooks want to avoid any responsibility for the impact their decisions had on schools and schooling children, but the issue I have is that the crooks are trying to avoid responsibility for ALL the horrible choices they made everywhere. And there were a lot of those.
Not only do they not want to apologize or take responsibility, but they want us to not be able to call them out or resist them when they make more bad decisions as they intend to. And it’s not just about avoiding consequences for the ills and evils they did. They have an ongoing agenda. And admitting they are fallible and wrong would impact their ability to foist more shit on us. And have no doubt they have plans to do it again. Whether it is another virus crisis or the new darling about climate change killing us all, they want to make those of us they don’t kill off as part of their depopulation agenda into compliant serfs.
But the school closures started when Trump was president!
“The government failed to raise my child, we need to government harder!”
Magic hat economics, ch 7,302
The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said Friday, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths.
While such regulation has been sought for decades by allies of older adults and those with disabilities, the proposed threshold is far lower than many advocates had hoped. It immediately drew ire from the nursing home industry as well, which said it amounted to a mandate that couldnât be met.
With criticism expected, a promise made with fanfare in President Joe Bidenâs 2022 State of the Union speech had its details revealed as many Americans turned away from the news for a holiday weekend.
âEstablishing minimum staffing standards for nursing homes will improve resident safety,â Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement. âWhen facilities are understaffed, residents suffer.â
If the President wishes it, it must be so.
Record nursing home closures ..3..2..1.. Media – Evil health companies are throwing grandma to the street….
We have a friend who is a traveling nurse in various nursing homes. She’s way overworked, they are chronically understaffed and just can’t keep staff. But I’m sure a declaration by Joe from Scranton will fix all of that.
They should be paid a million dollars an hour. That will solve any staffing issues.
systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths.
You mean when Phil Murphy, Cuomo, Wolf and his cross-dressing Admiral sent active covid cases to nursing homes – then covid ran through them like wildfire?
Friday Funbags needs remedial courses.
https://archive.ph/jeNG5
After the Democratic president elevated the issue in his State of the Union speech, advocates were initially elated, expecting the most significant change for residents since the Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987. That changed after a copy of a new CMS-funded study on the subject was inadvertently posted this week, claiming there is âno obvious plateau at which quality and safety are maximized.â
Advocates were bereft, saying they felt betrayed by administration officials they thought to be allies. As word of the proposal became public early Friday some were even more blistering.
Richard Mollot, who leads the Long Term Care Community Coalition, called it âcompletely inadequateâ and a blown chance of âa once-in-a-generation opportunityâ that âflouts any evidenceâ of what residents need and fails to make good on the heart of Bidenâs promise. He begrudgingly acknowledged the 24/7 RN rule could bring small improvements to the worst facilities, but he otherwise was withering in his criticism.
Calling the move âheartbreakingâ and ânauseating,â he said it would do more harm than good, putting a government imprimatur on poorly staffed homes and imperiling wrongful-death lawsuits.
âIt is a tremendous dereliction of duty,â he said. âWe are continuing to allow nursing homes to warehouse people and to rip the public off.â
Katie Smith Sloan, the head LeadingAge, which represents nonprofit nursing homes, said it was meaningless to create a rule requiring facilities to hire additional staff when the industry was already in a workforce crisis and âthere are simply no people to hire.â
We’ll just make working in a nursing home a requirement for student loan forgiveness.
A guide to movie posters, regardless of genre.
“I make hundreds renting out one side of my bed â but âhot beddingâ requires boundaries
Welcoming strangers into her bed every night has become a profitable practice for one sexy singleton, who tucks in an extra $600 a month by renting out the unoccupied side of her mattress â where her ex-boyfriend once slept for two years.
Her hot side hustle is part of the âhot beddingâ trend.
âHot bedding is excellent for people who are able to detach emotionally and sleep next to another person in a completely respectful and non-strings-attached manner,â Monique Jeremiah, 36, an entrepreneur from Queensland, Australia told CatersNews.”
https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/i-make-hundreds-hot-bedding-by-renting-one-side-of-my-bed/
Not every stupid made up thing is a trend.
Hot Bedding sounds like one of those things you look up on Urban Dictionary.
It comes with a Dutch Oven.
Oh, that fucker is definately a bug. I just reconfigured the entire innards of my tower to fit a giant honking 4070 into the case (had to move some drive bays so that there was room past the PCIe slot where the end could continue. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of airflow) And it still claims my video card doesn’t meet requirements.
That is….odd
The windows update that was supposed to have fixed it still listed as not installed and sitting at “Downloading 0%”
*grumble*
Now it’s 7%
Ugh.
It takes a long time to install all those government trackers.
*Holds up Raspberry Pi4 running Mint Linux
*Music swells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Y8tFQ01OY
So you have a gov tracker prime.
61% installed. It had better work this time.
Welcome to your first Bethesda bug!
It never happened before Microsoft bought them. Now it’s an OS issue too!
No bug found yet just…not feeling the story. Maybe I am too early into it. In their other games they set you up to feel an urgency to jump into the main story line, but you can wonder around if you want. Here it’s like…cool see ya later.
I didn’t feel the nagging undertones of “I should probably get back to the main story”
So they fixed the main flaw in the previous titles.
I’m sure it gets better after 300 or 400 hours. đ
“Back in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriffâs deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon Baileyâs home in Rapides Parish, La., with their guns drawn, ordered him onto his knees with his hands on his head, and arrested him for a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
The SWAT-style raid was provoked by a Facebook post in which Bailey had made a zombie-themed joke about COVID-19.
Although a federal appeals court recently ruled Bailey could pursue civil rights claims based on that incident, a judge initially blocked his lawsuit, saying his joke created a âclear and present dangerâ similar to the threat posed by âfalsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing panic.â
Bailey jested that the Rapides Parish Sheriffâs Office had told deputies to shoot âthe infectedâ on sight, adding: âLord have mercy on us all. #Covid9teen #weneedyoubradpitt.â
RPSO Detective Randell Iles, who was immediately assigned to investigate the post, claimed it violated a state law against âterrorizingâ the public.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/man-arrested-for-a-covid-joke-gives-a-much-needed-lesson-on-free-speech/
OFFS!!
So when I showed Corona Zombies, was that a terroristic threat? If so I’ll show it again when masking starts.
https://tubitv.com/movies/561609/corona-zombies
Heck, I’ll put it right here.
That is it. COVID exposed the very authoritarian nature of a supposed free people.
You would think a judge of all people would know the origin of that phrase, and how it was misused to stifle legal dissent. Well, maybe he does, and he’s just one of the bad guys.
Where’s the money?
Hurricane Idalia is over, but the rebuilding effort has just begun.
Residents in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas can access federal, state and local assistance, as well as aid from nonprofit and charitable groups, to help them contend with storm damage to their homes, vehicles and other property.
However, although President Joe Biden on Thursday approved Floridaâs disaster declaration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency has pre-positioned strike teams on standby to survey and assess the damage, it can be tough for survivors to obtain help. The applications and required documentation can be onerous â issues that may be magnified in the rural stretches of the Southeast where the hurricane hit, experts said.
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Not everyone can access federal assistance, particularly help provided by FEMA, equally. Also, because aid is based on losses, not on need, it can end up being inequitable, Meyer said.
The US Commission on Civil Rights last year published a report that recommended FEMAâs recovery and mitigation process focus on survivors with the greatest needs, particularly people of color, low-income residents, those with disabilities, immigrants, LGBTQ communities and other marginalized people. The agency should also create clearer guidelines to apply for aid and provide a sufficient number of staff fluent in the languages spoken in the affected areas, the report said.
Maybe they should declare war on Russia.
Obligatory
âbecause aid is based on losses, not on need, it can end up being inequitableâ
What a complete idiot. Losses can be quantified. âNeedâ, not so much.
Unless, of course, you are going to put a hard cap on the total amount anyone can get.
âThis will buy you a tent. Thatâs all you need. Good day, sir.â
Depressing, but hard to argue.
Look you need to send a strong message to the enemies of The People
enemies of The People
That would be the government.
Somehow we have morphed into a slightly kinder, gentler but just as incompetent mid-late stage USSR.
Right now, the major concern for me is WW3.
Raising interest rates has put the commie thieves in a bind. Europe is desperate, Davos is desperate, their representatives in the US are desperate.
They need the USA to fail in order to survive the collapse of their banking system. Because if the US survives, capital has somewhere to flee to. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that they’re staring at a century of Dark Ages.
Of all our competitors on the planet, nobody has more incentive to see us fall and their influence is deeply embedded in our political system. Soros spent $350M on an election. Wyss has spent $450M on dark money groups. FTX was a money funnel. The CCP can’t hold a candle to the sway these people have.
Combine that with the depravity and desperation of the Uniparty Deep State and neocon bloodlust and you’ve got a very dangerous situation coming up in 2024.
Yep – I’d be willing to vote for a commie gun-grabber like RFK if it would keep my family alive.
âNothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.â
â Goethe (Born on this day in 1749)
https://twitter.com/OutlawsPoetic/status/1696221862630445287
| Judge rules ex-presidentâs case will be broadcast live
Maybe itâs my natural optimism, but I donât think this is gonna go like the Dems expect it. I think Donnie Two Scoops is going to get a fair bit of sympathy, especially from blacks, for the state persecution he is currently enjoying. That mug shot that they so desperately desired may just come back to haunt them.
Should he win, he should use that as the Presidential Portrait in every government office.
Under Administrator Deanne Criswell, FEMA has made several changes to address some of the disparity issues. For instance, the agency simplified its application process for individual assistance and expanded the types of documentation survivors can provide to verify home occupancy and ownership, said agency press secretary Jeremy Edwards.
âThis change has allowed FEMA to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance to survivors who would have been previously ineligible otherwise,â he said.
Coming soon- Inspector General report on fraud and misuse of funds.
Quite the UK GDP revision today – hugely higher level – almost 2% up
– ONS found stockbuilding down the back of the sofa in 2020
– and foud wholesale and health services much stronger than expected in 2021
Means the UK is not a global outlier any more..
https://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_/status/1697540066493579639
“Trans activist Sarah Jane Baker found not guilty of encouraging violence with âpunch a Terfâ speech”
As Tony Dowson points out below, the same magistrate who sent a man to jail for four months for sharing a George Floyd joke in a WhatsApp group
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1697517436738674819
One the one hamd one should not go to jail for a speeech. On the other is is much less of a thing to tell a joke than make a speech.
Mayhaps we should introduce hanging judges, and by that I do not go by the original meaning but the literal one
Printer go BRRRRRRR
The White House is asking Congress for an additional $4 billion in emergency funding to help cover the costs of recent natural disasters in Hawaii, Florida and other parts of the country.
Last month, the White House told Congress the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief fund needed $12 billion. But on Friday, the White House said that wasn’t going to be enough, and increased the request to a total of $16 billion, citing the fires on Maui and in Louisiana, flooding in Vermont and Hurricane Idalia slamming into Florida.
“We know that every American expects FEMA to be there if they are experiencing a disaster,” Liz Sherwood-Randall, President Biden’s homeland security adviser, told reporters on Thursday.
Your move, Mister Powell.
The thought of reallocating budget money never even crosses their minds.
Also, pretty interesting that it is now being reported that Musk likely bought Twitter and had his political awakening largely due to his trans son becoming estranged from him due to the âwoke mind virusâ he contracted at the fancy pants private school he was being sent to in SoCal that turned him into a commie.
Elon has talked about that before. Certainly that is one piece of it. The treatment of the Babylon Bee, and the closing of Parler also were big on his decision. He interviewed with Babylon Bee, quit a good talk.
I knew those other reasons, but that was the first I had heard about his son turning commie as a reason behind it. Iâm sure his son is still pretty set up as without a doubt Elon paid out his ex wife a shitton in the divorce, but wonder if he has written him out of his trust as he no longer claims to be related to Elon.
âThis is a huge issue,â Maria Emelianenko, who chairs the George Mason University math department, told The Associated Press, âWeâre talking about college-level pre-calculus and calculus classes, and students cannot even add one-half and one-third.â
And yet the school still accepted those students.
They or parents were capable of signing checks.
The request for FEMA funding is part of a larger emergency funding request, now totaling $44 billion â money the Biden administration says it needs above and beyond what Congress has already approved to spend to address critical challenges.
That request includes $24 billion for costs related to the war in Ukraine and $4 billion for costs related to migrants and the southern border.
Whatever it takes. Conjure it out of thin air.
Tax cuts are the cause of deficits.
The ACC should expand beyond the planned 18 teams until it is large enough to form its own division.
I don’t like this new world we live in.
No one does.
I think with the collapse of cable tv, the next round of contracts are going to be MUCH lower. And breaking back up into regional leagues will make sense. Right now TV is driving everything. ESPN throws a life raft to the Bay area schools, because of carriage fees for the ACC Network in California (and Texas for SMU). But Fox and ESPN aren’t going to be throwing the big bucks around in the 2030s.
Streaming won’t pay as much, because only people who care will be paying.
Streaming wonât pay as much, because only people who care will be paying.
Yeah…
Desperate plea for relevance
But despite the clear signs of a summer surge, the US has been living in a âfantasy worldâ where people pretend Covid-19 is ânot relevant,â Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response Task Force coordinator during the Trump administration, told ABCâs âStart Hereâ podcast.
âWe wanted to make it like flu because that was easier, but itâs never going to be like flu,â Birx said, explaining that Covid-19 comes in more frequent waves, makes people sicker, kills more people and can have longer-term complications such as long Covid. âSo letâs just all agree itâs not flu. It will never be flu. Following it and surveying for it like we do for flu will never be adequate in this country.â
Precautions like masking and staying up-to-date on vaccinations are especially important as this rise in Covid-19 carries into the broader respiratory virus season, experts say.
Listen to me!
Eat shit and die, Birx.
“Score one for Pornhub: A federal judge ruled Thursday that a Texas law requiring pornography sites to institute age-verification measures â and add prominent warning labels about the alleged dangers of porn â violates the U.S. Constitutionâs First Amendment prohibition against free-speech restrictions.
A lawsuit seeking to overturn the Texas legislation was filed Aug. 4 by the Free Speech Coalition, a group that included Pornhubâs parent company, adult industry advocacy groups and an adult performer (referred to in filings as âJane Doeâ).
Under the Texas law, which was set to go into effect Sept. 1, 2023, porn sites would have been required to use âreasonable age verification methodsâ to âverify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older.â In addition, pornography sites would have been forced to display a âTexas Health and Human Services Warningâ in at least 14-point font â one such warning was specified to read, âPornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornographyâ â along with a national toll-free number for people with mental health disorders. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed H.B. 1181 into law on June 12.”
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/pornhubs-texas-age-verification-law-violates-first-amendment-ruling-1235709902/
I don’t know about prostitution, but it does not increase demand for child exploitation and child pornography.
Yeah, they need to show their work. I’m sure they have all kinds of models.
Just a reminder of the fact that both sides like to ban and control stuff.
What’s the ban side here? We live in a world where companies are required to basically say “DON’T USE OUR PRODUCT!” (cigarettes), beer companies can’t have ‘child friendly’ labels, etc. I’m my world, none of that would exist, but why the exception for this law which doesn’t even stop the ‘speech’.
What gets to me is that this is just another case of the asymmetry of the weaponization of the law and the courts. The 1st amendment is explicitly about political speech, yet we turn it on it’s head. I agree that the 1st Amendment protects pornography – I suspect the people who wrote it wouldn’t, but that’s just speculation. The point is, it is being turned into a weapon, just like everything else, and twisted to not protect the things it was actually explicitly supposed to but to protect things that could arguably be considered to weaken social structures outside the state. You can’t stop us from teaching 5 year olds to fuck each other, but we can throw you on a list and exclude you from the discourse if you petition your local school board.
It’s one of the reasons I give somewhat short shrift to the ACLU protecting the NAZI marchers; yes, they did the right thing, but I’m pretty sure it was because that act (NAZI march) was disruptive to social norms, so served their purpose at the time – they had very little concern for free speech, it just served their purposes at the moment.
It was at a time when they were worried about government restricting their speech. They aren’t concerned when they believe the government will only go after their enemy’s speech.
I also wonder how many people would have called that toll free number thinking it was phone sex.
Every toll free number is a phone sex line if you try hard enough.
Shut up and send more money
Ukraine told critics of the pace of its three-month-old counteroffensive to “shut up” on Thursday, the sharpest signal yet of Kyiv’s frustration at leaks from Western officials who say its forces are advancing too slowly.
Since launching a much vaunted counteroffensive using many billions of dollars of Western military equipment, Ukraine has recaptured more than a dozen villages but has yet to penetrate Russia’s main defences.
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“Criticising the slow pace of (the) counteroffensive equals … spitting into the face of (the) Ukrainian soldier who sacrifices his life every day, moving forward and liberating one kilometre of Ukrainian soil after another,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told reporters on Thursday.
“I would recommend all critics to shut up, come to Ukraine and try to liberate one square centimetre by themselves,” he said at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Spain.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told CNN that Ukrainian commanders deserved the benefit of the doubt.
“Ukrainians have exceeded expectations again and again,” he said. “We need to trust them. We advise, we help, we support. But… it is the Ukrainians that have to make those decisions.”
Everything is proceeding according to plan.
“A tenured professor fired less than a month after seeking the scientific evidence behind her public university’s COVID-19 policies and challenging the legality of its vaccine mandate will get to continue her First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against the University of Maine System.
Patricia Griffin has sufficiently alleged “the subject matter of her speech pertained to a matter of great public concern and was outside the scope of her duties as a professor of marketing” at the University of Southern Maine, U.S. District Judge Jon Levy ruled last month, clearing the way for trial on that issue while dismissing Griffin’s other claims.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/professor-fired-challenging-science-behind-covid-mandates-can-sue-university