In a world of BS where Glibs need proper reading tunes, Annie brings the TRUTH
Please go OT: this crap isn’t important at all. And don’t worry: I don’t want to do this every week any more than you want to read it,
but there are some over-rated football teams out there. America is first, is biggest, and makes the fastest and silliest mistakes. Accordingly, a little bit of good news makes undue impact. Enough pontificating…here’s the list:
Colorado ain’t 22d
Duke ain’t 21st
Tulane ain’t 24th
Florida State sure as shit ain’t 4th
Oklahoma ain’t 18th
Oregon State ain’t 16
Washington sure as shit ain’t 8th
North Carolina ain’t 17th
The AP might never repent of the silliness above, but, if they do, I’ll let you know!
We know who is First and not overrated.
I also wanted to comment some more on Alex Jones.
Guy admits he’s been wrong on some things. But it’s funny how people are going to condemn him when the things he’s been wrong on resulted in no real world harm. Speculating that Sandy Hook was a false flag hurt some feelings, but it didn’t result in dead children. You know whose lies did result in dead children? The US government’s on Iraq that were dutifully echoed by the mainstream media (until they turned on the Bush administration – then they just repeated the Democrats lies). The old media can be wrong time and time again with disastrous real world consequences for all of us, and even around places like this there is still some level of credibility afforded to them that they don’t deserve.
The modern media are stenographers for the intelligence community.
Alex Jones claims that on Sandy Hook, a CIA agent who had given him information before told him something was going on. Is Jones lying? Don’t know. What if he isn’t? His big mistake would be going along with a story he wanted to believe in. Hardly alone on that.
What if his source was only pretending to be a CIA agent? That’s exactly the sort of thing the FBI would do to discredit someone.
It’s entirely plausible to me that the government would run a psyops to discredit Jones.
These kinds of claims only seem to see light after the fact.
I want to know about these shadowy plots before hand.
Jones was told there, in his words, that there was a cover-up going on.
Jones can honestly say he predicted the globalist cabal releasing a virus and using it to enforce lockdowns and stripping away civil liberties. Pretty big thing to be right about, even if it was just dumb luck.
Predicted 9/11 too.
That Jones got curbstomped by the Sandy Hook families for something that is clearly protected speech, even if distasteful, just adds cloudiness to what should be an automatic dismissal of his claims. Particularly how those same families and their allies were happy to use their dead children to push their agenda.
Families that lose children like that are completely irrational. I can understand how their madness comes about. I dont say anything about it and I sure dont take their policy recommendations seriously.
Irrational litigants are why we have judges. The judicial system implementing a (purported? apparent?) Deep State psyop is a bad look.
Ah well, throw it in the bucket with “no standing to challenge elections until certified” and “challenges to elections after certification are moot”. And “opening the statute of limitations to allow claims from 30 years ago doesn’t violate due process”. Etc. ad infinitum.
What I can’t wait to see is a victim tries to use the new rule they used on the Donald and a judge say it doesn’t really apply here or they close the loophole back up.
I think they had a one year window to take advantage of it. Which has closed, naturally. I wonder if it was used on anybody but OMB.
Old media serves the regime so it’s alright if they’re wrong (actually complicit is a better word).
Don Escaped is back with his football roundup! Woo-hoo!
But football starts tonight…
Heh. I watched a Jr. football match last weekend but only because it was my alma mater and it wasn’t on ESPN.
Through the year, I’ll maybe catch one or two tOSU games (I didn’t go there, my dad did though). I’m just enjoying this brief best time to be a Browns fan. Everything is possible, everyone is going to make that leap forward, and this will be “the year”. It usually doesn’t last long.
Go Browns-Lions Superbowl!
You’re adorable.
Have some sympathy for those of us who haven’t even seen our teams in a Superbowl.
It’ll be interesting to see if the Chiefs play Kelce tonight, or rest him. I’m looking forward to going to the Bengals/Browns game on Sunday.
Don’t forget to watch the sure win over Franklin’s tPSU.
AFL finals started last night…
Yup. Caught the 2nd half of the first match this morning. That was more of a nail-biter than it should have been. Lucky for me ESPN doesn’t give a shit about footy.
it’s a fun time of year
sadly, only a few rankings were outrageous: not so much to bitch about
Haven’t paid any attention yet as it’s still hot outside and it’s been cupcake games so far.
Does USC have a defense this year or is #6 way too high? We’ll start finding out this weekend.
College football means nothing anymore.
What did it mean before? It was a bunch of jocks who mostly wouldn’t have made it into said school if they weren’t good at football being forced to follow a bunch of stupid old rules with, pardon me sounding like a progressive here, but a bunch of old white men making shit tons of money off it.
College football was repugnant to me before. Especially so when you have coaches who recruit these kids and then jump ship at the first chance usually before a biggest football games of their lives.
I hate it when I have to agree with Bro.
I don’t watch football, my son is visiting and he’s wearing the TV out with college ball. He’s UTexas Austin alumni and 61 years old.
His takes aren’t that bad, unless we’re talking about *redacted*.
I can’t tell you when it ended, but I still remember Thanksgiving Day, 1971.
How could a coach ever take another job, or even retire, if he has to stay loyal to all the recruits in a four or five years pipeline?
The scam is less concealed now. Schools sold off their old traditions and rivalries for better TV deals while paying players.
I’d rather watch the game played by tots in the picture at the top.
“And don’t worry: I don’t want to do this every week any more than you want to read it”
“Colorado ain’t 22d”
Agreed. That said, I’ll be in Boulder tomorrow experiencing the madness after decades of watching games through eye holes cut in a brown paper bag. The Colorado and Nebraska fan bases should be thoroughly disgusted with each other by 8 am.
I heard the Gilded Rodents beat Nebraska last week 13-10. *Yawn*
Good luck navigating the madness. Game days are truly a zoo.
Oops, I should’ve included my response to…
“And don’t worry: I don’t want to do this every week any more than you want to read it”
I do.
Me too. I don’t follow college ball much, but his writeups are caustic and fun.
oh no: I was hoping not to put that much effort into it and hoped I had no standard to live up to
but, yeah: sardonic bastard is probably my favorite gear
Useless fact of the day: Pittsburgh is the only city in the United States in which all professional sporting teams share the same colors.
It makes it easier to transfer the disdain to the whole city instead of just a single team.
Go Steelers!
Go Penguins!
Do we have a baseball team?
Not since Willie Stargell.
Stargell’s Pirates made me hate a song. I mean, I probably wouldn’t even remember it otherwise, but instead I hate it.
Ahem
Bidenomics: aka National Socialism
Last week, the ILWU and the PMA ratified a contract after more than a year of negotiations that prompted the Biden administration to get involved. The contract is set to last for six years and was approved by 75% of union members who voted. It included increased pay and benefits for 22,000 workers across 29 ports on the West Coast.
“The contract finalized last week represented a prime example of Bidenomics at work, reflecting workers empowered and bargaining together for the wages, benefits, and quality of life they deserve, and company owners recognizing those unions’ right to organize,” a White House official said in a statement.
Chronic worker slowdowns plagued the ports as negotiations lagged on, in some cases diverting shipments and leading to temporary port closures.
Big Labor, Big Business and Big Brother. Working hand in glove to fuck us over.
“Big Labor, Big Business and Big Brother”
Like a bundle of sticks, no?
Mike?
https://twitter.com/Funnynewshub/status/1699407325776248950
That is a big bear.
Dumbass.
With the help of liquid courage?
Hold my bear.
I’ll hold my S&W .44 Mag
That guy was really pushing his luck.
Kind of dumb, but also, alpha af.
Yeah, that’s how I looked at it.
My wife and I are going to Yellowstone for our anniversary. She keeps asking “will I get to pet a bear?” I’m pretty sure she’s kidding.
Since you can’t fly with bear spray, you have to procure the stuff when you get there. Since you can’t take it home either, “rental bear spray” is apparently a thing.
(With apologies to Bill Engvall)
Think it’s a good idea to shoo off an apex predator unarmed? Here’s ursine.
OK that was a good one.
Actually partly on topic!
Gatorade’s newest drink: Water
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/business/gatorade-water-launch/index.html
That is a clear break from the Idiocracy timeline.
Is that good or bad?
Good, I hope. Otherwise Brawndo has the vitamins plants crave.
Bottled water is such a big scam. As a kid I don’t remember anyone hydrating “properly”, other than a drink from the hose or a cup of Kool Aid. And none of us ever had a health scare from dehydration. /Old man off
And our piss was dark brown, but we survived.
Minerals are important. Most bottled water is just filtered tap water. And since the war on salt I would guess the vast majority of people are deficient.
Filtered water with supplemented minerals (electrolytes) is probably the way to go.
This shit ain’t it.
But is says it is water with electrolytes.
Sure, but I’ll bet it ain’t much. LMNT has some really interesting info at their website about electrolyte needs, especially for active people.
Aquafina and Dasani are nothing but municipal water from whatever region’s bottler produced them
The idea was that they could use the same production line that uses purified municipal water for various flavored sodas and also produce a bottled water.
The issue is that the purification creates “flat” low mineral content water that nobody would willingly drink. In turn they simply add back various minerals and salts and create a manmade mineral water.
Nothing wrong with it if you have need for water on the go or are dealing with poor quality local water on the road or vacation.
Our well water sucks. It’s fine for cleaning stuff, but it’s not particularly tasty for drinking or brewing. So, we do buy lots of locally produced “drinking water”.
The local grocery store has the machine that does reverse osmosis and chemical filtering. I buy 4 to 6 five-gallon jugs of it at a time for brewing purposes.
For drinking we buy bulk packaging from Sam’s Club.
In my youth in this area it was considered a grave sin, not just against social norms, to deny anyone who asks for water to drink.
The gas stations and stores all had drinking fountains.
Yes, drinking fountains were everywhere when I was growing up.
Megacorp pulled out all the drinking fountains during the COVID shutdown.
Not clear if they are going to put them back now that they are calling the remote workers back to the office.
I have three- five gallon buckets. First bucket is sandbox sand. Second bucket is activated charcoal. Third bucket is this: https://www.sawyer.com/products/international-bucket-system
Throw some ditch water in it and it comes out better than anything you get out of a tap or bottle. I toss a pinch of sea-salt in after the last step just for fun.
I also have a testing kit.
This is where we are at?
Artisanal, homemade drinking water.
Our well is quite deep. We get good quality water from the aquifer. It’s deep enough we generally don’t need to worry about farm chemicals leaching into the water supply.
That being said, we have a lousy mineral profile. We have a multi-stage filter system that includes a green sand filter to get the sulfur out of the water. Even with that we have to run every tap in the house as well as running empty cycles through the dishwasher and washing machine to purse the faint rotten egg smell from the pipes in the house after going away for more that a few days.
Sean, our water system is over 50 years old. The pipes are old, nasty and leaky. It is frequently turned off for a few hours to a few days in order to replace the duct tape and chewing gum holding it together. Thus the water filtration.
I have two sets of those filters, each one claiming to be good for 1,000,000 gallons. It works well and comes in handy.
Kinnath, you might take a look at Berkey filters. We have one (three gallon countertop) and it seems to do a good job of cleaning up our tap water (which has uranium, lead, who knows what else, not to mention some exotic chemicals from the air base.
https://www.berkeyfilters.com
Suthen, I’m just snarking, but I appreciate the explanation.
I’m still waiting for the Hyperbole to announce his foray into making his own artisanal pickles.
RC, see my link lower in the thread about Berkey.
Thanks R C. I will check them out
I saw someone go down due to hyponatremia in the field. His squad leader and platoon Sgt thought it was not staying hydrated of course.
I find that if I do a good job with salt/potassium/magnesium, I drink less water on hikes – even when it’s hellishly hot.
I did the Dream Lake hike last Saturday. My wife was recovering from being sick all week, so we didn’t go on to Emerald. That night, I got a leg cramp, I didnt drink enough water, I spent too much time making sure she was hydrated. I ate a banana and it was gone before I finished.
Even my wife thought there were too many people on that trail, so we will go back to doing more obscure hikes in RMNP. I really like the hike from the park&ride up to Bierstadt Lake. I think its like 3.1 miles each way. Its shorter from the Bierstadt trailhead, but we didnt want to wait on the bus when we did it.
It’s much better later in the fall, anyway. Don’t forget about Lake Haiyaha. The trail starts with the walk to Dream but branches. A fraction of the people.
We finally hit St. Mary’s Lake and glacier. Easy hike but holy shit was it beautiful. People were still skiing the glacier!
A banana and/or a 1/2 tsp of salt is my go-to for cramps.
Yeah, we were talking about doing Emerald and Haiyaha next time we go that way.
We were thinking of going back in October. It was interesting, over the holiday weekend, English might have been a minority language on the dream lake trail. Spanish and Hindi leading the way. Plus an idiot japanese lady trying to catch a chipmunk in her hat.
Yep. That’s pretty normal.
I’d definitely go back in October or November.
Louisville Water Co has entered and won bottled water competitions with their tap water.
I don’t know if that says something good about the filtered Ohio River or bad about bottled water.
Hell, in sports they used to warn us against drinking water in excessive quantities to avoid cramping or some bullshit. Nah coach, I really am thirsty because it’s 98 F and you just made us run suicide sprints and crab walk up that steep, dusty slope in full pads.
Most times I see bottled water as a substitute for soft drinks and such for folks on the go. I don’t drink sodas, fruit drinks, etc., so when I’m at a function I grab a bottle of water because I don’t carry a clunky Nalgene bottle around 24/7. I also drink bottled water in places I visit where the tap water tastes like the underside of a wharf.
/raises hand
I did have a dehydration scare as a kid. Do not recommend.
Never had one, but I’ve seen plenty in the Marines.
They look scary.
A guy in my battalion ended up fucked up for life when our brilliant command ordered them to go out for a day of land nav with no water. How the fuck that happens, I don’t even know.
And then nothing else happened.
Reality I think is Jones just takes globalist organizations and leaders at their word. So when they publish white papers talking about lockdowns and things, he pays attention. I think he’s become more discerning in what he says over time and as reality has kind of become more fucked up it’s become easier to attract to attention. He doesn’t have to be that outlandish because the conspiracies are reality.
Wally nods sagely.
I assume they add electrolytes.
It’s what plants crave.
I only drink water.
Hyponatremia and hypokalemia follow dehydration.
After I was hospitalized for dehydration, I will never again make fun of a celebrity being unable to perform due to dehydration. Couldn’t drink water after a surgery. I kept throwing everything up. I was thirsty all the fucking time, but throwing it up. I was getting ragged but thought it was a side effect of surgery. Finally went to the doc. Had me pee in a cup. It was drops’ worth and very dark. They had me in the hospital in a trice with saline running and a banana bag or six. They wouldn’t let me have ice in case I needed surgery. They sent me back to the doc who did the surgery. Ihad some sort of free floating abscess in my innards and was on antibiotics for 3 weeks through a PICC line.
FUN!
Anyway, thirsting to death is an excruciating way to die, just sayin’.
‘I had some sort of free floating abscess’
Sounds like they dun fucked up, but you paid the price.
They did indeed, but nothing I could prove or sue for.
Speaking of filtered water:
The EPA has decided to go after a water filter manufacturer because they claimed to filter bacteria and that makes the filter a “pesticide.”
https://twitter.com/davevsgoliath1/status/1699827420524613663
Needless to say, I despise the EPA.
Christ on a crutch. There’s a number of water filtration companies, many of them targeting camping and backpacking, that have been selling filters that get bacteria out of water for years.
And since when are bactericides regulated as pesticides? There are warehouses full of bactericides, and no telling how many homes and businesses that use them. I mean, if you’re going to say a germ is an insect, why go after a filter rather than the actual stuff that kills germs like pesticides kill insects?
One wonders if this is just a wayward piece of shit bureaucrat or a broader strategy.
FDA vs EPA
Once implemented they will go after iodine, alcohol… triple antibiotic salves….anything that kills bugs. I dont think removing bugs from water is the same as a pesticide which actually kills bugs.
The malthusians are obviously very serious about murdering the human race. That is some sick shit.
Really?
Should be interesting times for all those camping water purification systems.
Surprising nobody, but people located in Berlin and Brussels.
Germany’s Economic Rut Gets Deeper
Higher energy costs, Chinese competition and cooling global demand for goods are hobbling Europe’s industrial powerhouse
https://www.wsj.com/economy/global/feeble-german-economy-faces-fresh-contraction-as-factories-falter-5e4aeeaa?st=skvp7ju6pf8tlw6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
And yet the Bund is not budging.
http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/bond-historical-data/germany/10-years/
When it finally pops, it’s going to be spectacular.
Are they not budging because they can’t?
That industrial production graph is scary.
Yields on the Bund should be climbing, but they’ve been slamming against a ceiling of 2.7% for over a year now.
Somebody is holding yields down, probably LaGarde at the ECB. She’s going to run out of juice to do so at some point.
The EU and ECB are desperately hoping somebody overrides Powell and cuts the Fed’s rates.
There’s a lot of powerful, ruthless people who are extremely unhappy with his policy. I wonder what his security looks like.
Its wild. He’s literally reshaping the world order and he obviously has no fucks to give.
Meh, I see total production down by <5%.
I would love to see more context (longer data trend).
Nowhere in that article is a mention of NordStream and the disaster that is for the German industrial base.
Other than the chart that mention how energy intensive industry is faltering more than the rest.
Chinese competition? Maybe 10 years ago, but these days Chinese exports are down as they struggle to compete with the new wave of low-cost manufacturing countries.
It’s the fucking energy policy, period. But can’t say that in polite company.
Eating lunch in the break room and wondering how long the weather channel has been the Climate Change channel? I’ve yet to hear the weather forecast – just stories about pollution and global warming.
My workplace has CNBC. I actually think you have it marginally worse.
CNBC is pretty awful, though. It’s one saving grace is that you know the guy who says “Shut up, Rick Santelli is on” probably understands your perspective, even if he doesn’t share it.
+1 SJIM
https://www.crameretfs.com/sjim
I haven’t watched in years. They used to have a bunch of cuties.
For almost fifteen years now. The guy who sold it to NBC hates it.
I use Weather Underground and an app called Storm Shield. That way I avoid such things. I am pleased that this Texas summer is coming to an end, finally, as of Monday. Looks like rain all week then. Fantastic.
Weather Underground is good. I wish it had a different name.
Indeed. Who knows what the business owner was thinking.
Probably thought they were cool.
Right before they sold out to IBM.
Nerfherder is correct, 15ish years. We used to play the weather channel for background noise…..on the screen was a series of rotating weather measures and predictions with light jazz playing occasionally punctuated with ads. That’s it.
I dont think we have turned it on once since they started paying bobbleheads to puke up the AGW lies.
Sounds like someone is ready for another climate change storm.
Ooh more hurricane porn!
If that thing hits DC I might have to see a doctor for an erection that lasts more than 4 hours.
Same. And I know it is still early but it seems to be tracking like Isabel did back in the day. Same strength around the same time of development too (I think). We’ll see if or which way it turns.
Don’t worry, our devoted public servants will have long since left for some tropical locale before the storm gets within 400 miles of DC.
I see warnings for Atlantic Canadian areas.
Were it to land there or near there we will have to listen the usual lies…..”This has never happened before! Doom is upon us!”
Uh huh. Try again Sunshine.
https://aambpublicoceanservice.blob.core.windows.net/oceanserviceprod/hazards/hurricane-tracks960.jpg
Where one makes landfall depends on activity in the Trades and Westerlies. Aside from decreasing numbers of hurricanes nothing much has changed in recorded history.
This chart is clear proof why we need troops in Africa.
Love the purple line track. Goes towards PR and is like nah dawg, even I wont go there.
They’ve always been in the business of fear mongering, so it’s a perfect fit.
“Note the Michelin CrossClimate2 all-season rubber Ford fits around the trim’s distinct 19-inch wheels.”
The perfect tire for your rally car EV.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45023569/2024-ford-mustang-mach-e-rally-revealed/
$65k? OFFS.
Amortized over 7 years when your battery gives out.
Minus $7.5k of inflation reduction from Uncle Joe.
And Murphy here will add $4.5k and no sales tax.
Win for taxpayers who don’t want to kill the earth!
The war alone isn’t to blame. While higher costs since Russia’s full-scale invasion have lowered output from energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, German manufacturing has been in a downturn since 2018, coinciding with the start of a global backlash against open international trade.
Yeah. Free trade hardest hit.
The sanctions on two/thirds of the world had nothing to do with it.
” Oregon State ain’t 16
Washington sure as shit ain’t 8th”
Correct. They should be ranked #1 and )#2, in order.
It’s a real shame that the NCAA took money over actual intent of college ball, hardly surprising though, considering that they are flying (Carbon Miles!) to crap confrences with deep pockets.
RIP Pacific Athletic Conference.
And here I thought it was Stern’s new wife that turned him into a sniveling bitch.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1699821486335311946
https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/neurotic-paranoid-howard-stern-says-his-fear-of-covid-is-causing-fights-with-wife-beth-ostrosky/
He’s always been a neurotic germaphobe. Not surprising that Covid pushed him over the edge.
It’s a shame that there aren’t shock jocks who shit on each other anymore, because if this were the 90s Imus and Mancow would be calling Stern a pussy all day. And that’s how freak behavior was corrected back in the day: you were called a pussy until you stopped acting like one.
*ahem*
It’s “bonus hole” now.
I really don’t get how the trans freaks think they can get away with that. It’s literally the “standard” hole.
The asshole is a universal vagina through which femaleness can always be accessed… Getting fucked makes you female because fucked is what a female is.
-someone won a Pulitzer for writing that.
Cumia will have fun with him later this afternoon. Of course he, like anyone remotely ‘shocking’, has been relegated to podcasts.
As I said yesterday, we are living in two different worlds. In one world people still believe the propaganda that every strain of COVID is deadly to everyone. And in the other world, people realize it’s behaving like any other virus, mutating to become more contagious and less dangerous, and they’ll probably get it multiple times a year and not even notice.
Day 2 of my Covation. Just trying to decide if I should play a video game or start installing my SSD…
Yesterday afternoon I got a headache, sinus congestion, and a little nausea. It might be Covid. Or it might be my sinuses going crazy due to a big weather change or high pollen. I have no interest in taking a test to find out.
To be fair, she made it worse.
The perfect tire for your rally car EV.
Today, in “answers to questions nobody asked”…
Is it just me, or are EV owners the vegans of the automotive world?
Hey now…
The smugness does intersect with natural outliers such as yourself.
Getting off easy if you ask me.
A court document filed on Tuesday has revealed that Department of Justice prosecutors are seeking a 120-day sentence for InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, who did not enter the Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
The Biden DOJ claimed that Shroyer “spread election disinformation paired with violent rhetoric” to viewers in the months leading up to January 6, and that on the day, “Shroyer took to a megaphone before leading a crowd to the Capitol” and said “The Democrats are posing as communists, but we know what they really are: they’re just tyrants, they’re tyrants. And so today, on January 6, we declare death to tyranny! Death to tyrants!”
What is the freedom of speech?
“I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be…”
Oh wait, that was someone else.
I am no lawyer but….technically it seems to fit one of the exceptions to the first amendment (fighting words).
I would add that there are times when those words are if not legally justified they are morally justified.
What he did was foolish.
If you are going to take a shot at the king, don’t miss.
Nah, that’s hyperbole and no shots were taken. Did he make himself an easy target for a corruptocracies’ BS prosecutors? Yes. Did he break the law? No.
Somebody is holding yields down, probably LaGarde at the ECB. She’s going to run out of juice to do so at some point.
I assume the ECB is propping up the euro bond market just as the Fed propped up the Treasury market. One of these days the buyer of last resort is going to run out of money.
The difference being that Powell has announced that he has no interest in propping up the Treasury market.
Of course, the US has more room to do so than the EU.
WHAT A FIRSTER GOTTA DO TO GET A TABLE DANCE? SAY WHAT WHAT!
$20?
Same as downtown.
The difference being that Powell has announced that he has no interest in propping up the Treasury market.
To the great anguish of Janet Yellin.
I like how UGA got a downgrade for not beating their hapless opponent as bad as Bama beat their hapless opponent. I don’t recall that ever happening to Bama when the reverse was true.
I wish strength of schedule weighed heavily
Today, in tragic unforeseen consequences
Immigrant workers from across the US raced to Florida to help rebuild after Hurricane Ian devastated the region.
But now, nearly a year later and days after another major hurricane hit, some of those workers say this time they’re staying home.
Saket Soni, whose nonprofit Resilience Force advocates for thousands of disaster response workers, says there’s one clear reason behind the shift: Florida’s new immigration law, which Gov. Ron DeSantis has championed.
In a survey Resilience Force conducted over several months this summer, Soni says more than half of the nonprofit organization’s roughly 2,000 members said they would not travel to Florida to help with hurricane recovery efforts because of the law. And in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, he says, many remain concerned.
“They felt very fearful,” says Soni, the organization’s executive director. “No amount of money would be worth it if it meant they would be incarcerated or deported.”
Normally, Soni says Resilience Force workers wouldn’t think twice before heading to a disaster zone.
The group is made up largely of immigrants, many of whom are undocumented, Soni says. And much like migrant workers who follow harvest seasons and travel from farm to farm, they crisscross the US to help clean up and rebuild when disaster strikes. Soni says many of them see the skills they’ve honed over years of responding to major storms as a calling, in addition to a means of supporting their families.
As soon as they set foot in Florida they will be rounded up and deported.
Yeah… the state can’t arrest or deport people for being illegal immigrants, and I’m sure this person is aware of that.
As a citizen of Florida, I can safely say that immigration to the state, illegal or otherwise, is as rampant as ever.
I’m sure the 2,000 illegals in this advocacy group are totally representative of your typical day laborer and that this writer did not simply seek out some advocacy group to generate a story that they desperately want to be true.
There are more than enough low quality roofers in Florida to handle the clean-up.
Fuck off.
WHO’s Tedros says: “The increase in hospitalizations and deaths shows that COVID is here to stay and that we will continue to need tools to fight it.”
Exactly what increase? Is this another HOSPITALIZATIONS HAVE DOUBLED (from 15 to 30)?
Pretty much. The entire state of Arizona now has fewer hospitalized COVID patients than my one hospital had during the peak of the pandemic.
Did anyone here expect the ‘rona would ever go away?
Us? No. We realize it’s entirely too useful for making money and expanding government power to just go away.
Like all viruses it is a permanent fixture.
Long story short as possible:
Back in the day I wrote a small paper on viruses. I contacted a woman in Tx who had done a lot of important work on viruses. She was happy to share info because when she asked the charlatan claiming to have discovered the HIV virus he denied her access to his collection of viruses. She had set about to get her own collection and in the end it surpassed his collection.
In her search for viruses she collected a number of samples from deep ocean water and discovered that the number of different viruses there far surpassed those in shallower water and on land. Many of those viruses had no discoverable hosts. She hypothesized that the host critters for those viruses were long extinct.
Viruses tend to stick around forever. So what?
In local news:
Someone tried to steal the ATM in our small town (pop 800). They wrapped a chain around it and tried to pull it out of the ground with their pickup. When that didn’t work they abandoned the truck. They were probably too stupid to steal a truck so the Sheriff is probably on the way to the owner’s house.
You can tell it’s a small town because you said they tried to steal THE ATM, not AN ATM.
We have two, count’em, two banks with drive up ATMs and several convenience stores with inside ATMs.
We are big time in comparison.
Sounds like You live in the city.
Was it next to THE Walmart or THE Kroger?
I thought you were supposed to use nearby construction equipment.
Around here that would be a framing hammer and a Skilsaw with a couple of teeth missing from the blade.
Missing from the blade? Or from the perp?
The town south of me has exactly one traffic light. A few years ago, someone stole THE police car and crashed it.
Our small town added another stop sign on the main drag. I now have to stop twice on the way to the freeway.
When I was a kid, a local frat boy lost control of his jeep and slammed into the front of a house two doors down, smashing through the wall. And when he backed out to get away, tore off what was left of his fender, including the license plate. Didn’t take long to find him.
DFL vice chair says she was violently carjacked, calls for tougher juvenile penalties
Oh, so NOW you’re worried about what the rest of us have been bitching about for almost a decade?
Fuck you, twat. It’s people like you who wrecked my favorite city.
Receipts.
Twat.
Karma.
Foreseeable consequences are sometimes unintended.
Sorry RC Dean.
Have mercy, the size of her jaw:
https://dfl.org/leadership/shivanthi/
Not a photoshop apparently-it’s downright SchwarzeneggerIan.
There are just some things that will linger in your dreams that turn them into nightmares and this…this is one of them.
Move over, Leno and Witherspoon.
GAH!
I need eye bleach.
https://i.imgur.com/9C3mYne.jpeg
O M F G
Jesus.
She looks much better after the beating.
It’s like crime in the yuppie parts of any city (literally the only parts of urban America that rioted and said ‘defund police, bro’). You’d be hard pressed to find anyone in Staten Island who cares that hipsters are being shot-up in Williamsburg or anyone in Englewood in Chicago caring that trust fund trash babies are getting car jacked in Lincoln Park or River North. You are getting what you asked for and it would take a heart of stone to not laugh at your problems.
Someone tried to steal the ATM in our small town (pop 800). They wrapped a chain around it and tried to pull it out of the ground with their pickup. When that didn’t work they abandoned the truck. They were probably too stupid to steal a truck so the Sheriff is probably on the way to the owner’s house.
This reminds me of a story somebody told me a long time ago. A couple of geniuses found out how much a roll of sheet steel was worth, and decided to nab one off a loading dock. They backed their pickup to the edge of the dock, and somehow or other actually rolled this giant spool of steel off the dock onto the back of the truck. That’s when they found out how much it weighed. It mashed the truck just about flat.
Inda about to render all “dot/feather” clarifications obsolete:
https://apnews.com/article/india-sanskrit-name-bharat-modi-g20-72782ba81aa67dcf7e197a98fec9b5f5
In the same vein, I was reading not too long ago that the shah of Iran wanted Europeans to stop calling his country “Persia”, but the English, particularly Winston Churchill, refused. The US was one of the first countries to say “Alright, Iran it is”, but everyone else was slow to act. Which is funny because Iran (land of the Aryans) is more ancient and accurate than Persia.
“They argue that the name India was introduced by British colonials and is a “symbol of slavery.”
It should be noted that the English never enslaved India and actually helped end a lot of barbaric practices there including the caste system (at least legally), widows killing themselves upon the death of their husband, and, ironically enough, slavery.
I’m not an Anglophile, but people are ridiculous when it comes to history nowadays. I was watching a show where a black Nigerian character is asked what Chritmas means to him and he said “colonialism”. Isn’t it relevant to mention that the British colonized Nigeria because it was a slave kingdom that refused to end the practice?
A few years back the Chinese found caucasian mummies in the Gobi desert. Some of them were old women with their hats. They are black felt hats with a wide round brim and a tall pointy top.
I thought “Ahhhhh….so that is where the witch’s hat comes from. We all know what a witch’s hat looks like but no one knows why or how we know. The mummies are about 5K years old.
Once culture sticks on a people it sticks like hell. Culture shapes politics. I say anyone that bitches about western culture as it exists today should knock themselves out and return to their roots and to their lands. Dont come here and tell us how to do things. Go cook your pot of shit somewhere else.
Isn’t Bharat a lentil dish with a light curry sauce? Love that stuff…
No.
My response to anyone pushing divisiveness by mangling language or changing the meanings of words or names: “Blah blah blah blow it out of your ass somewhere else Cupcake.”
My diplomacy skills are imeccable.
My response is I know you have a native name for my country etc. and I don’t demand that you alter your language for my convenience so kindly fuck off.
Oh wait, that got a little less diplomatic at the end.
You said “kindly” so you still have a future in the diplomatic corps.
Doesn’t matter to me
“It will always be Burma to me.”
NYC on the ball as always!
The first day of classes kicked off in New York City on Thursday as schools grapple with the influx of migrant students, with some buildings turning away kids as 21,000 children seeking asylum inundated already jam-packed classrooms.
The line to get inside Newcomers High School in Long Island City stretched around the block early Thursday as frustrated teachers vented that the building had already hit capacity, pushing students at Gotham — a different school inside the building — to a facility across the street.
“It’s a capacity issue,” a teacher told The Post. “They should have worked this out two days ago!”
https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/nycs-first-day-of-school-sees-influx-of-migrants/
The hoist for NYC’s petard wraps around several blocks too.
I thought you had to register to go to school.
Is that over now? First come, first serve kind of thing?
WTF is going on?
I don’t think anybody here knows WTF is going on anymore.
I love the pic of the (presumably) “asylum seeker” children, well-fed, nice clothes and backbacks, walking past the homeless natives sleeping on sidewalk grates.
Sure why not.
*bends over slightly further*
*looks back to 15 years ago as a single dad scraping together supplies, hand me downs, old ass binders, half used notebooks. Going to the church hoping for some supplies and on and on*
It really tests my general feeling of wanting to be kind to my neighbor and fellow man.
Stop giving out free shit and this ends tomorrow.
The word is out now to the global “asylum seeker” cohort that NYC is free to all comers – it’s going to be a fucking tsunami. We haven’t seen anything yet.
This is so unfair to NYC. The should ship all those people to small towns in Texas where the can be better accommodated.
Was it DeSantis or Abbott who did that first? Whoever it was, it was an absolute stroke of genius.
Abbott.
DeSantis saw how well it worked and followed up. I believe he did come up with the Martha’s Vineyard group, however.
LOL that was epic.
I think it was Abbott. It did make the point in a way you couldn’t with words.
Lori Lightfoot Teaches Harvard Course On How To Catch Raw, Wriggly, Delicious Fishes So Tasty Sweet, Yes Good Precious
I love that. I LOL’d.
Biden drained the strategic gas reserve to keep prices low. It’s empty. Prices are going up. It’s going to get pretty crazy. Items at the grocery store are suddenly twice the cost. Gas, of course, went up by 60 cents so far. Olives for my martinis are now close to ten dollars a jar. I am having to get baby olives instead.
I put them on salads, and the prices have been steadily climbing. 🙁
When did olives become rich people food?
Dunno, but the garlic and jalapeño stuffed ones from Costco are like heroin for me.
I am looking at just queen size, pimento stuffed olives. The good stuff is over ten dollars. At Kroger. Not at the liquor store. Imma gonna have little BB olives in my martinis this next week. Biden can suck it.
When people started using olive oil in lieu of vegetable oil.
I may plant some olive trees – but curing them sounds like a big pain in the ass.
Noooooooooo! Dont do it!
They are invasive as hell. Once you get them started they are almost impossible to get rid of.
Really – I had no idea. I’m in zone where they are supposed to be barely survivable. Figured they be expensive firewood if it got too cold.
Considering olives are ten dollars a jar for queen size…. And investment in indestructible trees?
Relevant
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/were-primed-for-a-spark/
Optimistic article at The Libertarian Institute
Seconded. An excellent piece.
I am around that demographic a lot and I think he’s on to something. Also, when the shit hits the fan, those who can do stuff will have a lot of power.
I don’t know if I would call that optimistic.
I see the other side of it. There are so many over educated dipshits that the working class can never overcome it. Even worse, most of the over educated dipshits work for the government and will forever be against the interest of the common man.
Good luck to the educated dipshits on keeping the lights on.
Yes. And that will happen.
I would agree, that summary is bleak. The only optimism present is eventually some one will tap into that sentiment and exploit it. It could be for better or to make things worse. There are fewer and fewer possible outcomes possible the longer this type of spark goes unfueled.
It does seem an awful lot like the usual “60% of Americans have Libertarian leanings” statement.
It’s only optimistic if a better Trump comes along to harness that energy and turn it into votes.
Otherwise, it’s just tinder for the fire that is coming.
The fire is coming, better Trump or not. Suppose Trump, in spite of all of their desperate efforts, wins? They will burn the country down. They will leave no structure standing in spiteful revenge for the deplorables electing their nemesis. They are already starting. They are taking a big steamer on the rule of law. They are pissing all over the culture. They are taking a hammer to the economy.
Things will get worse before they get better.
The cities will burn. The poor will starve.
The suburbs may burn as well.
I think rural America will survive (that may be wishful thinking since I live in rural America).
I think the point is that these dudes are largely outside of the bubble. Wild cards, if you will.
LP has been saying much of this for fifty years and their warnings have been blown off. We’ll see in 2024 if Joe Everyman wants a change or allows Biden and Trump to suck all the air out of any movement toward reigning in the authoritarian state.
Whoa.
Good one.
Sugarfree worthy
https://twitter.com/BenStanton77/status/1699871193090678991
OMG
Damn. Real life is outpacing Sugarfree.
That was awesome
Your reminder that Obama as Black Jesus was very much not an exaggeration.
https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1699765968086372850
Venice. 🙄
Who could forget that creepy, creepy cult shit. Just thinking about it makes me want to shower. Uuuuuugh. *shivers*
Glenn Beck’s Piss Obama was glorious. Obama action figure in a jar of Mountain
https://assets1.bigthink.com/system/idea_thumbnails/48532/headline/glenn_beck_obama_in_pee_pee_art.jpg?1354537407
sorry I missed this: I dashed it off since the site needs filler, and, as Neph says, football is the last way to be safely parochial and bigoted about anything anymore (or words in that general ballpark)
I would rather argue about who has the hottest coeds; does Playboy still do those Girls of the Pac-8 anymore?