Pack it up, pack it in!
The Lions beat the Packers. The D-backs lost to tighten the NL Wild Card just a bit. The Ryder Cup is underway. And everything else of import will happen after I finish writing this because I’m in Mexico and have to do them the night before. So for you children of the 80s, this will feel a little like rewarding the sports page from the morning paper only to realize what you were interested in was a west coast game and the paper went to print before it finished. Enjoy the nostalgia. Now on to…the links!
Yeah, no shit. Tell us something we didn’t already know.
Tasla’s new spokesman?
I’m willing to bet almost any sum of money that this is bullshit. But that’s what happens when your controlling owner doesn’t provide a communications platform to a US proxy during a war.
Good. Fuck em. We’re about to shut down the government (hopefully for a long, long time) and these dickheads are worried about Ukraine getting their payroll met by the US taxpayers? Tank about priorities being out of whack.
Wild as shit.
TAKE MY MONEY!!! If it ever gets off the ground (snicker), that is.
Why should she have to leave? She wasn’t the one fucking dogs.
Two separate justice systems. I wonder if the same standard would be applied to a civilian. Oh wait, cops are also civilians. Guess I should have said “to a normal person.”
Oh, Snap! Wonder howe much longer they’ll stay afloat.
Here’s a rocking tune. Still not sold on the drummer being fantastic or anything. Here’s another. And neither was one you’d have expected. Hope you enjoy them.
And I hope you enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Earliest lynx ever?
Someone was at home with the chicken pox when the class did the obligatory unit on Clock Arithmetic?
‘morning poptart.
I like it!
It is pretty early. Maybe Sloopy got himself going this morning by hanging out with Cracky.
I’m confused.
And dazed?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w772GXG5LnE&pp=ygUfZGF6ZWQgYW5kIGNvbmZ1c2VkIGxlZCB6ZXBwZWxpbg%3D%3D
No, just decaffinated.
https://youtu.be/wsgX-6z8CpQ?t=198
The job cut is tied to the firm shutting down a months-old department that made augmented reality tools for business customers, CEO Evan Spiegel announced in a Wednesday message to employees.
Kids. When I was a young reprobate, augmented reality required only a bong and some righteous weed.
Or a little piece of blotter paper.
Not to take away from the undoubtedly great links above, but I did want to mentioned something from Tonio’s yesterday.
“WOODCHIPPER AWARD: “A criminal trial for former Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler will head into its fourth day Thursday as he faces charges that he retaliated against a teacher for blowing the whistle on sexual abuse, and for cooperating with a special grand jury empaneled to investigate the school system following its coverup of a bathroom rape”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-his-criminal-trial-former-loudoun-county-superintendent-blames-sex-assault-victims
‘Evidence at trial showed that Brooks was Special Education Teacher of the Year in 2021, and got glowing reviews in early 2022 — only to have Ziegler recommend that the school board fire her, the only teacher he did that to.’
I knew that the school boards and teacher’s unions were evil, but this is still shocking to me. I feel real bad for the lady in question, and even for the kid, who was pretty obviously getting abused in some way. Guvmint schools tot he rescue…
“10-year-old autistic student would grab her genitals dozens of times a day while making sexual motions with his tongue”
Damn, whatever happened to expelling people?
Definitely one of the times it would have been warranted.
Who is teaching a ten year old about the recreational use of the tongue?
Kid is either being abused or has been introduced to porn, probably the former.
Isn’t the latter a subset of the former?
I’m betting porn. These kids are getting it young, free, and lots.
Gov’t schools?
She grabbed her own genitals and someone else was making sexual motions? That quote is breaking my brain.
I would assume that if the sentences above it were there, she = teacher, him = student.
The abusive male student would grab the female victim’s genitals and use his tongue to make sexual motions.
Of course, he’s on trial for being mean to a teacher, not for covering up rape and neglecting the welfare of the children he iis responsible for.
‘EEOC files federal lawsuit against Tesla, alleging discrimination, retaliation against Black employees’
What is the use of having all these rules and agencies if you can’t use them to go after political dissidents?
Given what passes for ‘racism’ these days I can’t help but take a heaping helping of salt with any such accusation.
I am surprised they are going after Musk. I thought African-Americans were a protected class.
Musk is African-Canadian, right?
“The existence of an EEOC violates the right to free association”
– a real court.
That boat sailed 2 generations ago.
The thing about boats is that they can return to port.
They need to put pressure on Elon to make sure he understands they will not tolerate him fighting their globalist agenda but don’t want to go all scorched earth on him yet like they have on Trump and his people.
They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore, either.
That’s right.
Imaging Elon taking it to the Supreme Court and getting the Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional.
I have a dream.
‘Looking at the totality of events,’
Totality of circs strikes again.
‘Judge Flood ruled that any reasonable police officer would have feared for his life. ‘
Okay, but what about a reasonable person?
I saw that, too. The double standard is explicit now, I guess. I’m a little surprised to see “reasonable” still in there, to tell you the truth.
A reasonable cop is apparently a deranged psychopath out to shoot anybody in his way, so long as HE gets home safely.
OT.
This garbage is on heavy rotation on local teevee:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R-xKCvgaBxU
“Covid-19 related ER visits are 3x higher than the flu.”
Sure. This couldn’t be because docs sent everyone who had a positive home covid test to the ER during the panic panicdemic, regardless of symptoms or lack thereof.
The skeptical comments are heartening.
This is why YouTube banned comments for a while. The comments were too honest. Those are great. Not a single supportive comment.
You’ll be shocked to know this person has a Ukraine flaf for their avatar.
“Long COVID is one example….we don’t have good treatments and it’s so disabling.”
As is typical of psychosomatic conditions.
But there’s going to be a blood test!
/cues up scene from the Thing
Fuck this shit. They are just looking for an excuse to con people into letting them fortify the 2024 election in case they can’t get Trump out.
I actually doubt that. They don’t need another pandemic to gut election security. Nothing’s been changed since last time, so why bother?
They’re just pushing it for (a) pharma profiteering and (b) control boners.
Extra insurance. They learned that lesson in 2016. They thought they had that all fortified, and then the serfs wrecked it for them. They do not ever again want to find themselves in that situation where the serfs actually have a choice to circumvent their agenda.
Except, you’d have to bust out the COVID panic waaay in advance of knowing if the election hadn’t been sufficiently fortified, and this time masses of people are alert to that con.
Sign of the times.
Skipped right past pumpkin-spice season?
Who makes pumpkin-spice nog?
Starbucks at a wild first guess. Pumpkin Spice everything else — why not nog?
I saw some at the liquor store last year.
Christmas decorations on sale are already in full swing in KY.
They must be canceling Thanksgiving because of the indigenous abuse of them pilgrims…
I saw here in Ohio as well.
Elon seems to be heading towards the black pull.
Yesterday he posted from the border
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1707565081750290910?t=m-UNLSPo0S68sY4rlCoQLA&s=19
And he specifically called out government officials for “caring more about the border in Ukraine that the US border”.
He also pointed out that the quaint little town of Eagle Pass (a town of 26,000) has some 19,000 illegals transiting it at the moment. He hosted the mayor talking about the hospital being overwhelmed (ya think?) and residents having trouble getting service.
I’ll point out that New York is at the breaking point over 60,000 total illegals. If they had Eagle Pass levels they would be seeing some 8 million in the greater metro area.
Also retaliation…. Elon told us that the next launch of starship was being held up because of damage done to 7 bobwhite quail eggs on the last launch.
Over and under that the game played by the machine is trying to remove Elon from Space X, because the war machine needs Space X and Elon’s satellite company too.
That article seems to be designed to point out that Musk is uniquely dangerous if he doesn’t toe the lion.
TOW the lion. Geez.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1evM5B0gg8
In fairness… I was on the pot and the wife was yelling questions at me at the time.
Jesus… they’re not full on pigeon-roof-rats common, but quail were running all over the place when I was growing up (haven’t really thought about them in ages). I’m sure these were the “pseudo-speckled tail bobwhite quail” they could nitpick into being special somehow to justify it (like the Delta smelt or something). Show me the unclean, and I’ll find the crime indeed.
Something people who own a shotgun might have looked at and called “breakfast”
quail are gone from most of the South
in 1980 I would kick up a covey 200 yards from my parents’ front door
but in the last 30 years of hiking all sorts of back country from Colorado to Florida: nothing
I suspect its chemicals or disease; there’s plenty of turf for them still, but they ain’t there
Chemicals and disease are not the main culprits. Changes in farming practices are. They like edge habitat, and the old pattern was smaller farms, each of which tended to have several smaller fields with mixes of cultivated and pastured ground, with fences in between. Lots and lots of edge. Now they’re on average larger, way fewer fences, far less variegated patchwork of tilled/grass/woodland. Less burning of the woods, etc.
So it’s mostly about practices. They aren’t crazy about turf – mostly preferring bunch grasses or open dirt.
No-till or strip till (enabled to a great degree by GMOs and better chemicals, actually) are one of the modern practices that’s quite helpful to bobwhites.
you don’t answer my main argument: they aren’t where they were 40 years ago, where there is no farming at all
I agree with everything you say about farming: it is certainly not news to me. But why are even unfarmed preserves losing their birds? Any Glib hiked more trash acreage or backcountry mileage than I have in the past four decades? They’re not out there; no tractors, but no quail. There is something going on in backcountry or they’d be there.
Disease or invasive species (or both) most likely.
Dunno. In my mind I always associate bobwhites with farmland, not “back country”. If I had to guess, I’d say fire suppression.
They like early-succession habitats, and so a good underbrush fire sets them up for several years. Once you get past that “few years”, with the particular definition of “few” depending on the ecosystem, then it’s useless to them. And it goes without saying that smallish, frequentish fires are the way to go, not rare and great-big ones. Anyway, get past that “few”, and you can crash a population pretty fast. Get way past that “few” and you can get the population to zero and then there’s no remnant to rebuild from.
That’s a guess, though. Ymmv.
To answer Don’s question/observation, 40+ years ago you didn’t have the extent of coyotes that we now do or all raptors being protected via the regulations to preserve eagles. The predator population has expanded greatly.
In North Texas, quail numbers were way down (may still be, not sure). It was generally blamed on fire ants spreading through quail habitat.
OTOH, I have around 40 or so gigantic blue quail come around my bird feeder every morning in Tucson, so I’ve got that going for me.
I’m picturing quail larger than the house visiting the feeder.
Delicious!
Around the size of white doves (pigeons). Twice the size, I swear, of the bobwhites we would hunt in Texas.
Visited my brother up in Alturas earlier this month – his place is lousy with mountain and valley quail.
It is fire ants. Any ground nesting birds eggs are going to be vulnerable.
I have watched dramatic declines in turkey and quail in my lifetime.
Fire ants are fucking relentless. And once they’re established, no getting rid of them.
Blaming a space shuttle is openly letting no good manufactured crisis go to waste.
Here in North Country we’re seeing an invasion of turkeys. They were introduced in the southern part of the county 30 years ago, now they are here in the northern part and beyond. Ruffed grouse, OTOH have mostly disappeared. Foxes/coyotes?
To be fair, NYC has promised to feed and shelter them until their fake “asylum” claims are heard – to the tune of $12B over the next few years.
Process them into Soylent Green for the next batch of invaders.
I just don’t see it changing anything. People have solidified their positions and insulated themselves from allowing outside information to crack their preferred politician’s narrative on issue.
I got to see this first hand, stuck in a waiting room last night.
Colbert was on… reruns. He was doing straight propaganda trying to discredit Tucker’s reporting on the Q shaman guy. Straight propaganda in which he repeatedly called “Maga extrimists” nazis. Repeatedly called out Trump as a Nazi who attempted a coup and still had faced no consequences.
Transition to another room where msnbc is on. They cover the “despite having no evidence at all, Republicans are proceeding with their impeachment” hearings. They transition to talking about the strength of the Biden economy and put on an analyst who confidently tells us that the Republicans have no agenda and only want to divide Americans. “As long as we continue to stick together and we keep repeating that, we will win the next elections”
Yeah. Someone looked up the definition of fascist.
Also in Colbert’s rant from months ago… an attack on Musk and Twitter for “destroying Twitter” because it suffered an outage and “destroying democracy” by not censoring people.
The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking.
And Colbert… what a disgusting garbage person. Go back to the dancing syringes, you fucking tool.
You mispelled “progjection”. Though I suppose it could be both.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1707557290008584345?t=3Ou88DbfFopmJ72REJb14A&s=19
“Why do so many American politicians from both parties care 100 times more about the Ukraine border than the USA border?”
Because they’re paid to do so.
63.9 million views in a day.
CNN and MSNBC assure me that he has killed Twitter.
It at least signals to me that people seem to give a shit about this whole border thing. Or maybe desk workers have finally tired of cat videos.
And, a fucking 15-minute video masquerading as a tweet.
He is trying to push “citizen journalism” via livestreaming with this post. The other night he was supposed to do a promotion as a twitch competitor by posting a speed run, but he ended up delaying and then postponing as his work day extended beyond midnight.
So there are layers.
He also posted a sort of town hall with various Jewish leaders in which he defended Twitter, challenged the ADL and offered up a bet for anyone who could counter his evidence that antisemitism had been reduced in reach since he took over.
In that he mentioned that there still were lists of demonitization words that needed trimming. Someone posted proof that “police” is one of those words.
Meanwhile, Nate the lawyer did a live interview on YouTube with a kid who was falsely accused of rape and kicked out of Yale. He announced that they had been demonitized in real time.
Kurt (uncivil law) related that he had been demonitized on YouTube for covering title 9 cases in which the male won, but not when he covered cases in which the female won.
If you’re not cops, you’re little people!
I pity this fool!
Ride that moment of glory!
Of all the shots not to miss….
He’s old, I don’t blame him.
Tank about priorities being out of whack.
Best typo ever.
He’s staying on track, that’s for sure.
GS appears to be lining up with JPM to push back against the WEF bullshit.
On the other side we have BOA and Citi.
Member of the group that demands inclusivity and tolerance of some of the most insane shit says those that don’t have the right thought are not to be included or tolerated….
The wave of American marxism has produced some of the most evil fucking people you could imagine.
Uhhh, not sure she counts as a woman either.
Being fugly doesn’t stop you from being a woman, does it?
Once you abandon “XX chromosomes = women”, you can make the word mean whatever is convenient at that moment.
“The wave of marxism always will produce some of the most evil fucking people you could imagine.”
There, that is better. It always does.
The Daily Ray of Sunshine today is that one of the Altar Boys is getting married.
Looking forward to having a new member of the congregation.
I am afraid to ask what the religious rituals are going to involve, but congratulations. Make sure they get a prenup.
Congrats. Hope they have a long and happy life together, your holiness.
Congrats! Grandpahood to follow?
Someday. But not the reason for the marriage
What?
Now what will you use as an excuse to buy a new shotgun?
Congrats to your son.
Congratulations!
Wonderful news!
Congrats to you and the fam, Holiness!
When’s the big day?
Today
Awesome! Have fun!
A big step for AltarBoy and his NewMissus. Congrats to the couple, since you were not directly involved.
I expect to see both of them, come September 2024. They can sit at the head of the table.
Congratulations!
Congrats! Next time I’m out your way we need to smoke cigars.
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article31060046.ece/ALTERNATES/s510b/1_Screenshot-2023-09-29-at-102058.jpg
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/golf/2023/09/29/TELEMMGLPICT000351269826_16959825146330_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqA7N2CxnJWnYI3tCbVBgu9T0aesusvN1TE7a0ddd_esI.jpeg?imwidth=960
shitty shitty cap alert
Their petty vindictiveness has killed the event.
Forgot if it was Russell Brand or Tucker who described the war in the Ukraine as a “thinly veiled money laundering scheme”. A scheme that takes freshly printed American dollars, converts them into dead Ukrainian mean, and converts them into military-industrial profits and politician bribes.
Both have pointed this correct interpretation of the debacle.
The Ukraine war was all but inevitable since Obama and his crew helped Soros overthrow the government of that shithole back in 2012/2013 in order to take over the criminal money laundering enterprises the country provided. The people looting the sinking Titanic can’t lose that lifeboat.
This whole rotten mess (dating back to Obama and his war-monger if Secretary of State Hildog) is the scandal of the century.
The repercussions will last decades, centuries. And it’s not just affecting Russia, Ukraine, and the US.
Shrillary was only one of the harpies of war in Obama’s admin – the others being Samantha Power and Susan Rice.
People here get get pretty black-pilled when it comes to the judicial system, elections, open borders, and this war.
I see our “strategy” in the Ukraine as the people destroying the U.S. and Western Europe literally reaching out and trying pull Russia and the few other European hold-outs (Hungary, Poland, Belarus, and Serbia) down with us. They are enraged at their refusal to participate in the suicide of the West.
You can’t parody the evil idiocy of these people.
The question is is she playing dumb, is she a lying evil cunte, or both? Embrace the power of both, I say.
She can’t join DiFi in the cold, dark realm of Hel too soon.
Re: Knee Play #5, the first time I heard it was on a recording, and I thought the line was “two numbers sat on a park bench, holding hands.” I prefer that more surreal version.
The back story for that lovely little finale is sweet. Mr. Johnson, one of the singers in the original production, offered it when Wilson and Glass were trying to figure out how to bring EitB to a satisfactory close. IMNSHO, he had a better voice for it than the man they got for the remounting of the opera. But I still want to hear James Earl Jones intone it.
Gold fever overtakes COVID?
Bob Menendez hardest hit
An idea to help New York’s economy.
So I was thinking the other day about NYC’s rat problem and realized that if they just commercialized rats, they could jump start their slumping economy in a short stint. With all them bums and illegals, someone should start paying them to bring in rats for a new and poche restaurant industry where people get told to eat rats (if they can peddle eating bugs, why not rats?). You put the bums and the illegals to work and make them less dependent on handouts, you create a whole new massive government bureaucracy to supervise rat meat, and then you have an entire industry of rat meat sales (stores, stands, restaurants, and so on). While it wouldn’t fix that shithole, it might just serve to give it a lifeline…
Any Glibronis have ideas of how to market this to the NYC crime lords?
Eating rat is sustainable and green…
But I need a $2 million grant* to do community engagement and study anti-rat attitudes among dislocated youths.
*Inflation is a bitch
Can you imagine the CRT and DEI angle racket from the government’s bureaucracy around this? and the power to pick winners & losers? The marxist are all furiously playing with themselves thinking of all the boot stomping they can do..
Show them Demolition Man?
Best rat burger I’ve had in years.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-bL9BWEtLpM&pp=ygUbQmVzdCByYXQgbWVhdGJpJ3ZlIGV2ZXIgaGFk
So quick poll which is the most accurate dystopian depiction of where we’re headed.
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Brazil
Harrison Bergeron
Demolition Man
Idiocracy
All of the above…
The new marxist movement considers all these “How to” manuals.
I have to agree. All of them have correct scenarios. I think a blend of Brazil and Idiocracy is the end game. Sounds like a move post.
Headed? Isn’t 1984 already here?
I will add A Deepness in the Sky to the dystopian list. The failing planet with the ubiquitous* surveillance**, in particular.
*my first attempt was only off by one letter!
**otoh, same as above.
Need an updated version:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cc/21/16/cc21161ea605d349bd288749a612fb67.jpg
Cosplaying idiots aside, we are nowhere near The Handmaid’s Tale.
NOLA tried this with nutria. I don’t ever see on the menus when I go there.
This is only a modest proposal?
“Commercial rat farming on the increase, no explanation available”
Speaking of “if you’re not cops, you’re little people,” I just got an invite to shoot that “Blue Line Top Shot” course from last weekend. It will be interesting to see how I stack up v. the local constabulary.
Also, Massad Ayoob on “competition shooting will get you killed on the street!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utTNX5S5uME
John Wick movies are fun to watch – but doing speed reloads instead of taking cover while fighting off waves of attackers is a bad idea in real life.
If you have waves of attackers coming for you, something has gone terribly wrong. Ditto if you need to reload.
reload
rule of three
Sounds like a riot.
The entire premise of John Wick movies is a really smart guy periodically making brain dead decisions that inevitably and obviously result in armada of attackers with zero understanding of odds getting mowed down.
I think picking a fight with a vast criminal network probably counts as “something has gone terribly wrong.”
Fully loaded out, I carry a total of 40 shotgun shells, including what’s in the gun, on the sidesaddle, and on my belt. There is no conceivable firefight that I will both (a) need that much armo or and (b) survive.
I’m going to my deerstand with a single shot pistol and 10 rounds. Hopefully that 9 too many.
You see evidence of this in police video of shootings. How many have we seen with some panicky cop in the back holding his pistol overhead and blindly firing over the group?
The calm and efficient use of a weapon is the exception. And you can usually see the training and muscle memory on film.
That Somali cop who was fast-tracked onto the Minneapolis police force and then panic-shot (and killed) an innocent Australian visitor who’d called 911 to report an assault she’d witnessed is a prime example of that.
Some people aren’t mentally capable of dealing with tense situations and should not become first responders, especially armed ones.
That Irizarry shooting in Philadelphia that was mentioned here the other day was that kind of panicky firing. It was pure luck that the cop didn’t also shoot his partner or any innocent bystanders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xjpvDWlmM
The killing of Jose Guerena comes to mind. Man, over 20 years ago.
How many dogs do you have to shoot to prove your bonafides?
That’s one of the major differences between US and UK cop shoes — on “New Tricks” the main character was ridiculed and demoted for shooting a dog.
How many dogs do you get to shoot? Does the Police Academy have dog shaped targets to practice on?
They do have a progressive plate rack* which is basically three plate racks in front of each other, the plates ger smaller as they go back.
*add your own joke here
I’ve always worried that I’ve spent too much of my life taking a fine bead with targets and game; I need to spend more time on getting multiples into center mass.
You learn with targets; you have all day; you’re trying to pure the center; the target doesn’t shoot back.
uspsa.org
Dooo eeeet.
Good morning, Sloop!
I can’t believe the Lions are in first place. Bizzarro world.
I enjoy the flying car vaporware stories. This is far and away the ugliest one so far. And electric to boot. I’ll pass.
Great song choices. I really liked them and haven’t listened for awhile. Still not sold on the drummer being fantastic or anything. She’s not, but she was the right person for the job.
Have fun on vacation!
How about if you make them VTOL as well?
Flying Taxi Plant Set for Ohio; $500M Investment Planned
Feinstein has died.
What tests have been performed to make sure the is not a zombie like Pelosi?
Anyway RIP.
True. I shall hold my thoughts and also say rest in peace. Forced to work at 90. Horrible.
She wasn’t forced to do a damn thing. She got off on the power right up till her dying day. Just like McCain and the rest.
How could they tell?
All I’ve got.
Good fucking riddance
RIP. Too bad they didn’t let her spend her final months just hanging out in the flower garden. Elder abuse. Or maybe I’m giving her too much credit.
The vultures who’ve been circling can now swoop in and battle for her seat.
Gah i hate commiefornia.
I don’t mind there being a California
I mind that they have a say in my life
our republic is retarded
What republic?
“…as long as you can keep it.”
Spoiler alert: we couldn’t.
Ben Franklin is the one dude who leaps to mind anytime the hypothetical question of “If you could go back in time and meet someone, who would it be?”
Engineer, publisher, thinker, statesman. Bawdy author.
I’ve also imagined Franklin being dumped by sci-fi magic into our present time, and while I think he’d be fully capable of understanding and coping with modern things, he’d be sad about America today.
People like Feinstein are kept around because they can be counted on to do the bidding. The circling vultures are probably the same, but a chance that maybe not.
What is with the file picture from 1950?
I don’t see why her official death would be any impedance to her ability to serve her constituents as she has been for the past few months.
‘He has said he would appoint an interim Senator in the event of Feinstein’s death.’
Is that something you can do?
Yes, Governors get to appoint someone to a vacated congressional office from their state.
Centuries of unfilled Senate seats came and went before 17A when the states would forget to send a brace of Senators to Washington. Of course this was before air conditioning when most reasonable people would have thought being sent to DC was an internment, not a posting.
Today it’s nice to stay in good stead with your national party, but I suspect that the reason seats never go unfilled is that governors would never in this day miss a chance to curry favor, repay a fellow traveler, and expand influence.
I noticed in a recent documentary about USSC justice confirmations how often the votes totaled fewer than 90.
It also sets up whoever gets the interim seat to have a leg up in the next election for that Senate seat.
Seats never go unfulfilled because the stakes are exceedingly high and there is immense negotiating behind the scenes between all kinds of parties, including three letter agencies, for power.
1718?
Senatus Populusque Romanus.
I’ve just never heard it called ‘interim’. Doesn’t seem like the right word.
And now she has one more thing in common with a bunch of her voters!
It’s California, so it won’t be hard for Newsome to find someone worse to fill her seat.
*Newsome in the graveyard with a shovel and a battery
More like “Newsome appoints first openly pink-haired, nose-ringed, transgender florposexual Senator”
Probably still will be better dressed than Sen. Slob.
He can appoint his wife, it’s probably been done before
Someone found her phylactery.
One more reminder why losing those two Georgia senate seats was a real blow.
In non-political but way to local events, I wire wrapped a big circuit yesterday to drive 6 laser diodes that will trigger 6 high voltage thyristors. I did a trial wire wrap board earlier in the week to allow us to characterize the laser diodes (we had three conflicting documents so we needed to find out for ourselves), and that showed us that our crack “controls” team had woefully underpowered the diodes, thus leading to premature death of the thyristors they were meant to trigger.
So yesterday I camped out in the lab and wire wrapped a version that drives 6 diodes to trigger 2 stacks of thyristors simultaneously.
Assuming I didn’t screw up a wire, today we will test it, and if it goes well, we will order multiple PCBs. Could have tested last night but it was 8:30 pm and I was mentally DONE.
Let us know how the test goes.
One of my profs mistakenly wired 30 transistors, each worth about a grand, in reverse.
It was fun watching $30k pop in under a second when he threw the switch.
Huge truck company blew up a bunch of my compressor clutches before they figured out their new wiring harness delivered reverse polarity. They didn’t blame me, but for a moment they were pushing that I supply jumpers to fix it: nope, I’m not spending the rest of my life dealing with there being two solutions in the field; if they want some goofy crap out there, they can do it without me: I’m delivering one thing that is known to work.
“Electronics don’t work if you let all the smoke out of ’em.”
“Magic smoke” – one of my favorite expressions.
I always heard it was “Magic Blue Smoke”.
There is a distinctive scent to freshly crisped electronics.
Fun fact: G10 (AKA FR4) gives off cyanide gas when burned.
Will the lasers eventually be installed on sharks?
I am really getting tired of the white guy always being the bad guy. OTH, American imperialism is on point…
‘The Creator’ Review: On the Run in a Sci-Fi AI Empire
I watched a trailer for that last night and thought it looked really good.
Gosh, think they’re going for the Chinese market?
The groomers are relentless.
This is gross.
I find it incredibly telling that the people peddling this stuff always have to tell the kids “Don’t tell your parents/other adults”. When I was a kid I was told the people that told you that were perverts and that you SHOULD tell an adult so they could be dealt with. Now our progressive entities do it and you are the bad guy for calling them out.
I used to teach religious ed at a Catholic church, and they had us do anti-abuse training. I also have to do something similar for hockey. In both cases, they consider isolating a kid and having them hide things from parents as grooming.
100%, any adult telling you to keep a secret from your parents used to be automatically considered a predator.
Absolutely right. One of the first things we taught our kids when they were little is that anybody who tells them to keep a secret from us is a liar, and that they could always tell us anything without getting into trouble or hurting us.
I get “This page is down”
Uh huh.
Can you sum it up for us?
“That’s not happening it is all just a right wing nazi white supremacist conspiracy theory!!!
The irony is that this kind of shit is how you get actual Nazis. Not that these dumb fuckers know history
Wallet, Keys, Cellphone . . . Narcan?
There are an AEDs in my NYC office on every floor by the elevators, I’ll be waiting for the Narcan for when my deskmates slump over.
There’s been a push here in Ohio (we decriminalized Narcan a while back, more recently fentanyl test strips were decriminalized as well) to include it as part of first aid kits, and to carry some around with you.
But are you carrying it right now?
Because between COVID and an opioid OD you or someone next to you could be dropping this second!
(I absolutely think it’s reasonable to have in a public first aid kit.)
First aid kits are finite in capacity, and need to be filled on the basis of (i) what will fit that (ii) I am likely to need. Unless you are rocking a pretty good size kit, I wonder if Narcan really fits the bill outside of a paramedic or cop, I, for one, won’t be carrying it around in my pocket or my first aid kits (which are already jammed).
I’m thinking more of the big ass industrial size first aid kits.
Nothing I’d be carrying in my car or on hike.
I think it would make sense for a first aid kit in bars/restaurants, and potentially in a house with teenagers.
Why would those things be illegal in the first place?
They shouldn’t be, but the reasoning is they could facilitate abuse.
i.e. denatured alcohol.
Denatured alcohol and acetaminophen added to narcotics are crimes against humanity
Because some people think that allowing drug users to survive an overdose just encourages them.
Well, if they don’t survive, they won’t do it again.
Both were classified as paraphernalia. Because it’s too hard to catch people with drugs, so you need to catch them with drug adjacent items.
A troubled guy that had come to work for my firm chose to OD at work.
We were told that he got two doses/pens in the bus to the ER. Can that be true?
He was back at the shop by the end of shift so we could fire him on the same day.
He didn’t fall off the smokestack to his death when he overdosed?
Yes.
Screw that. I’m not assuming the liability for injecting OD drugs into random people who collapse in my vicinity.
Well, it’s a nasal spray, not an injection. And harmless even if they aren’t overdosing.
same here
good samaritan laws generally protect first aid providers, but in this stupid world you’d ring up $40k in attorney’s fees just to get a simple case summarily dismissed
so I just walk right past a lot of render aid situations anymore
Yeah, piss off.
I don’t have much patience for junkies anymore.
Agree it might as well be in first-aid kits, but I’m not a walking first-aid kit. Oh, and it doesn’t work on tranq – the hit new flesh-eating drug additive!
My checklist – wallet, cell, cigarettes, keys, PISTOL, SPARE AMMO and I am set to go.
No knife? Sad!
Also “other knife”.
How many people are you stabbing that you need a drop knife?
None, but my literal answer is that, as Rule #2 is “always have a knife”, I keep one on my keychain also. So that, plus a regular pocket knife, keeps me at 2.
That’s not a knoife.
It stays clipped to my pocket all of the time so pants and knife go together as one. As long as I have pants on I dont have to check for it.
I See Feinstein died.
What a horrible, evil woman she was. Palled around with Jim Jones to get into office and spent the rest of her career trying to disarm the citizenry.
Goodbye, bitch.
California senators are like brothers-in-law: every time my sister marries, the new guy is somehow even worse.
My wife, paraphrased and no fan of Feinstein, “it’s a shame she had to suffer and be used by those around her in her decline instead of enjoying her remaining time with family”.
Me – “It’s a shame about what happened with Hitler in the bunker, I hope he didn’t suffer”.
Silence.
LOL
Yeah, it wasn’t much of a honeymoon for Mr. and Mrs. Hitler was it?
I’m willing to bet almost any sum of money that this is bullshit.
Because it is. The weaponization of the gov’t continues apace.
Whew…closing day. Laying down our roots in KY begins today.
Careful, there’s a lot of caves under the ground, if your roots go too deep, you might fall in.
That is why we couldn’t have a basement in Bowling Green.
In the part of the state he is in, its not a problem.
Closing day is here
Congratulations.
Enjoy. Say hi to everyone for me.
Except SF, avoid that guy.
We’re about to shut down the government
But are we? I seem to recall the feds shutting down open air parks at a greater expense than just leaving them be during the Obama regime.
It’s all Rand Paul’s fault! (For not printing another $6 billion to be laundered in the Ukraine)
https://summit.news/2023/09/29/rand-paul-issues-ultimatum-withdraw-ukraine-billions-or-face-government-shutdown/
Yay, Rand! Just keep it going. Maybe four more years of shutdown?
TAKE MY MONEY!!!
Pass.
Now let’s not be hasty here. If you don’t want it, I’ll take his money.
Good luck CA Glibs. Be prepared for rich assholes driving the freeway at 40 MPH in whatever random lane the AI chooses.
Mercedes-Benz Introduces Hands-Free Driving. How Does It Compare to Tesla?
That’s below the posted minimum speed of a number of highways around here. You’d get ticketed for going that slow.
I’ve not read the specifics of what happens once traffic opens up.
In the bumper to bumper traffic we have here you could go for miles at below 40 MPH.
Once the vehicle can travel faster does it alarm or does it just continue at 40 MPH?
I wonder what finally did her in.
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has died at age 90, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Friday.
Feinstein, a Democrat, was the oldest member of the Senate. She had the longest tenure of any woman in the chamber, and any senator from California.
Her death ends a boundary-pushing political career that spanned more than half a century, which was studded with major legislative achievements on issues including gun control and the environment.
You misspelled “tyrannical cunte that assisted in the continuing demise of our country.”
Perhaps the biggest reason: Saudi Arabia self-interest. The kingdom knows that if prices get too high, people will be forced to drive and fly less. Plus, $150 oil would fuel investments in clean energy, accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels.
“Extremely high prices destroy long-term demand for Saudi barrels,” Struyven said.
CNN reached out to the Energy Department on this story, which declined to comment.
Maybe the Saudis have decided America is more trouble than it’s worth. No matter what the UN says, oil isn’t going anywhere.
“Extremely high prices destroy long-term demand for Saudi barrels,”
No it doesn’t. Also we aren’t the Saudis only customer. Increasingly we will be a smaller fish in a big pond. Stupid, stupid US government.
Shift to selling to China, which has no problem using coal and oil (even as they pretend they’re into green energy). China will use that oil to fuel mining for rare earth metals, which they can sell to the idiots in the US for electric cars and solar panels. Everybody makes money, except the US taxpayers.
Price elasticity?
Keep dreaming.
What high prices do is crush the EU and hinder DC.
Retail price for #2 Fuel Oil is $4.23 per gallon here today. About 10-15% higher than when I last bought it in March.
Winter is coming.
Can you install a wood burning stove? I know a guy with excess watermelons and firewood.
I have a wood fireplace. And plenty of downed trees.
What is the BTU content for watermelons?
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has died at age 90, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Friday.
Did somebody spill a glass of water on her?
Ding dong.
Good news, everybody! The usaid dot gov website has been deemed “critical” and will remain up-and-running during the shutdown! I’m sure you’re all breathing a sigh of relief
We got a notice that parts of our insurance business may be impacted. Impact away! My fishing rod is in the car. My type of plans would not be touched, I don’t think. I wonder what this will do to open enrollment starting on the 1st?
Department of Money Laundering and Bribes.
Dude isn’t completely out of the water yet, but he should be able to stay out of a cage. Worst bit is that I doubt the asshole he shot will change his ways.
A delivery driver who shot a YouTuber who was pranking him said it was justifiable self-defense — and a jury agreed
Bullet recipient deserved it.
Agreed. Hard to argue that he should have just physically confronted him.
I have the urge to shoot him based on that picture of him alone. That’s a Backpfeifengesicht at minimum.
I’m puzzled as to how a shooting can be both (a) lawful self-defense and (b) unlawful discharge of a firearm.
Unless the jury wants to slap his wrist for not finishing the guy off.
I’m getting the impression the Jury was of the mind that “He wasn’t downright criminal, but we don’t want to let him off scott-free either.” so they gave him the lesser charge as something that was in between throwing the book at him and release.
Jurors tend not to be legalistic thinkers. I can see some emotive reasoning in there.
And cynical prosecutors will use the split-the-baby compromise instinct to win undeserved convictions on lesser included offenses.
Or, a defensive attorney will flat out tell you to find her client guilty on the lesser included charge.
That happened in my one jury duty. It worked too, as we found him not guilty on the felony, but guilty on the lesser misdemeanor (and another misdemeanor).
I think we, or at least about 3 of us, were legalistic thinkers (to UCS’s point) at least on guilty/not guilty. For the penalty phase, we pretty much just split things down the middle. More emotive there, including me.
We gave him 1 year on one misdemeanor and $1000 fine on the other. We could have gone up to 1 yr and $1k on each. Which one guy wanted to do, but no one else seemed interested in that. Honestly, the perp didn’t care, not getting hit with the felony was the big win.
Another example of Play Stupid Games…
Niel, you dishonest cunte.
Cavuto not impressed with the Biden impeachment inquiry:
“None of the witnesses provided any proof for impeachment.”
Snarky retort: “If totality of circumstances is good enough for our heroic police …”
More snarky:
Well, not if you are just going to lie and pull an officer Barbrady.
I made a few comments on Twitter yesterday that got a lot of likes and retweets. One was: “They keep saying “no direct evidence”. So what evidence would they need to see to change their mind?”
They are definitely living out that Dave Chappelle skit about the R Kelly trial…
“I would say… did they have a video of him doing it?”
I would say that they have declared their intention to never change their mind.
What they are saying is, all of the elements of the crime aren’t in one single document or witness statement. The hard part for bribery is usually (a) the official act (b) in exchange for the money. The money is clearly documented (and no, it makes no difference that it didn’t go directly to him, although they pretend it does) and because Biden is a moron, he documented the official act as well (getting the Uke prosecutor fired). Which, we have recently learned, was not, in fact, the Obama administration’s policy.
Naturally, evidence of the elements of a crime in different pieces in different places is no impediment to conviction.
It’s as open and shut a bribery case as you will find.
dishonest, sanctimonious, tyrannical horseshit.
President Joe Biden issued a dire warning Thursday that Donald Trump and his “extremist” MAGA allies are a serious threat to American democracy. And he urged Americans not to ‘sit on the sidelines,’ but instead engage to save the nation.
“Democracy is threatened by people voting.”
We’ll be left defenseless
Over the recent past, continuing resolutions have become something of a norm. They have resulted in slowing down or postponing program initiatives, which, with a few minor exceptions, are not permitted in a continuing resolution. This outcome has hit the Defense Department especially hard, as it has delayed and sometimes nullified new research, development and procurement programs — which are urgently needed to ensure that America maintains a credible technological lead over its potential adversaries, notably China and secondarily Russia. Yet the effects of a shutdown would be even worse.
It is true that many of those serving in the national security departments will continue to carry out their functions — though without pay — until a shutdown ends. Nevertheless, many important, though perhaps not essential, support activities in those departments will cease. And morale will suffer even among those continuing to serve. Indeed, depending on how long a shutdown continues, many talented but frustrated military and civilian officials may choose to opt out of government service altogether.
Moreover, the impasse in the Congress not only reflects the bitter political divide, indeed the chasm, that afflicts the American public; it has also infected the military. Officers report a significant increase in the number of military members who trumpet their political afflictions on their hats, T-shirts and other paraphernalia. Given the critical importance of unit cohesion in combat, this development is troubling. It raises the worrisome question of whether those who resent supporters of the opposite political party would come to their comrades in time of need.
We obviously need a more powerful political component to military training.
They surely do not want their democrat compatriots to come to the aid of their non-progressive brothers in arms
Remember the Biden ideological purge of the military and national guard? Pepperidge farms members…
though perhaps not essential
Then they should not have federal employment anyway.
F*ck that guy.
“Dov S. Zakheim is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and vice chairman of the board for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He was undersecretary of Defense (comptroller) and chief financial officer for the Department of Defense from 2001 to 2004 and a deputy undersecretary of Defense from 1985 to 1987.”
BEcause Dems would never stoop to such a low.
Nancy Pelosi on Impeachment of Joe Biden: “If you have a difference of opinion, you just can’t be impeaching … This is a fake distraction”
Nancy Pelosi must’ve been too tipsy to remember she tried to impeach Trump TWICE…
Once for asking about Biden taking bribes.
And once for an “insurrection” that she clearly played a larger role in than Trump did.
You say insider trading and taking bribes is bad, I don’t. It’s just a difference of opinion.
Fake distraction sounds like a double negative.
I’m puzzled as to how a shooting can be both (a) lawful self-defense and (b) unlawful discharge of a firearm.
It would be fascinating to see the jury instructions. My guess is they were told any right to self defense is purely theoretical.
You have the right to self-defense. The law,however, forbids you to save your life in certain ways, so we’ll charge you on that.
If you think the hodgepodge of laws we have are consistent, you haven’t thought through the perverse incentives for politicians.
Comfort is a matter of perspective.
Be like water my friend –
Bruce Lee
In my many meetings with foreign officials, analysts, journalists and ordinary citizens, the most frequent question I am asked is, “What is happening to your country?” The usual follow-on question invariably is, “What happens under the next administration?”
These concerns reflect a fear that America is no longer the leader of the Free World that it once was. A shutdown will reinforce that fear. Equally, if not more dangerously, it would signal to America’s adversaries that the U.S. does not have the internal strength and cohesion to face them down in a crisis, much less a conflict. Put bluntly, a shutdown would further undermine an already weakened American deterrent.
Cut out the mamby pamby fake bipartisanship and mutual respect. Let’s have some good old fashioned iron fisted authoritarianism. That’s how you keep democracy strong.
Lol… that’s funny!
….
….. oh, wait….. no it isn’t.
These concerns reflect a fear that America is no longer the leader of the Free World that it once was.
Holding hundreds of political prisoners in bad conditions (among other things) tends to do that.
a shutdown would further undermine an already weakened American deterrent.
But having a woke military that focuses on DEI instead of killing the enemy is just good strategy.
I mentioned an old Colbert rerun above.
On it he gleefully celebrated the 1,000th Jan 6 arrest as his audience cheered. He branded it as jailing nazis.
Raskins is such a cunte.
The history-making vehicle was not flown at the annual event — Alef is still roughly two years away from starting production on the first flyable car.
I can’t wait to see how well the average driver does when having to navigate in three dimensions instead of two.
1 hour flight time isn’t much. Waiting to see what happens when those batteries die.
Hope your parachute opens.
Really hope I’m not under the dead battery when it crashes to earth.
My truck has a little propeller up front, for landing and stuff.
In other news, Senator Feinstein has gone to her reward.
For some reason, I keep hearing munchkins singing.
Just merge with the DNC and get it over with
Ratings for the second Republican presidential debate Wednesday are in — and the 26 percent decline is not a good sign for candidates not named Donald Trump.
Around 9.5 million people tuned into the debate, which was broadcast on Fox Business Network and simultaneously played on Fox News, where most people tuned in, and Univision, the network said Thursday. In comparison, almost 13 million people watched the first debate, which Fox hosted at the end of August.
The falling viewership comes alongside seemingly tepid appetites from Republican primary voters to choose anyone other than Trump, who despite facing dozens of criminal charges has stood head and shoulders above the rest of the field in polling. The former president has refused to show up for the debates and has run counterprogramming for both of the events so far — he first chatted with Tucker Carlson on X, and then he visited automobile workers in Michigan this week.
The Republican party is is just a telemarketing scam, at this point.
Just as well. Choosing a candidate based on their debate performance is like choosing a candidate based on a rap battle.
I think you are on to something with that idea…..
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Upper left is horseshit
Oddly awkward
Speaking at Drake Enterprises, which oddly enough is non-union parts maker, Trump said he supported the UAW’s goal of securing higher wages, but that in the end it would not really matter.
“It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference what you get because in two years you’re all going to be out of business,” Trump said to an at times oddly silent audience.
Trump said union leadership was selling the auto workers out, claiming that the White House’s forced transition to electric vehicles was going to kill good paying auto jobs. “They’re going to be closing up and they’re going to be building those cars in China and other places. It’s a hit job in Michigan, and on Detroit,” Trump said.
Nonetheless, Trump still wanted the UAW’s backing and mentioned his desire for it several times during the speech. “Tell your UAW leaders — no problems with them — but they have to endorse Trump,” he said.
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign issued a statement during Trump’s speech, condemning his attacks on Biden’s initiatives such as the Inflation Reduction Act and incentives for EVs.
Nobody who’s anybody gives a fuck what the “the people” want.
True. Hell, Obamacare didn’t have a majority approval rating when it passed. Tough shit, plebes.
Ford also confirms that talks are ongoing. “Negotiations continue. Our focus remains on working diligently with the UAW to reach a deal that rewards our workforce and enables Ford to invest in a vibrant and growing future,” the company said in a statement.
How long ’til Ford is a penny stock?